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Madison Oaks Inn & Gardens is a beautifully restored 1905 Neoclassical Revival Mansion, located 1/2 mile from the historic town square of Madison, Georgia. While exploring the town famous for escaping destruction during Sherman's march to the sea, stay in accommodations befitting the rich history, architecture, gardens, and antiques of Madison.
Madison Oaks Inn has also earned the reputation as a premier wedding and events venue. The property lends itself to intimate parties or grand occasions for as many as 350 guests.

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Family and Consumer Sciences (F&CS) provides the bridge needed by all students to deal with major societal issues such as work-and-family, health care, child and elder care, family and community violence and crime, global economics and politics, and technology usage. F&CS Education is a catalyst to bring these issues into action-oriented, skill-building educational programs. The Indiana F&CS Education program provides a platform for students to move into a new era by gaining a strong foundation of the knowledge and skills needed for successfully living and working in the 21st century.
Family, Career and Community Leaders of American (FCCLA) offers teacher-developed and student-tested project-based learning strategies and materials that center the responsibility for achieving F&CS standards on students through in-class and co-curricular chapter programs and projects.
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F1? No, it's Formula E as electric racing cars hit the track
Waving the green flag
Electric motorsport is finally getting some of the attention given its internal combustion engine brother with the first day of testing of the new Formula E taking place at Donington Park Racing Circuit in Derby.
It will be a while before we see an actual race in the UK, though. That's not going to be until 27 June 2015, and despite the Metropolis Street Racer style video above, it will take place in Wandsworth, not Westminster, with Battersea Park the pick for the London location.
The first race of the 10-race season takes place in Beijing in September with another in Monaco in May. The cars use a McLaren-built 200kW electric motor with a race mode of 133kW and 67kW push to pass. The cars weigh a minimum of 800kg, of which 200kg is the batteries from Williams. This translates to a 0-60mph (0-97kmph) time of three seconds. The top speed is limited to 225kmph (140mph).
For the first year, the 42 cars are identical. The Spark-Renault SRT_01E has a chassis designed by Dallara. The carbon fibre cars are built by Spark in France.
In the first day of testing, the fastest driver was Sebastien Buemi, who raced Formula 1 for Toro Rosso, the Red Bull test team that's leading LMP1-H. However, it's hard to use his time to compare performance with other forms of motorsport as the circuit has been redesigned.
The job of Formula E is to excite people about the thought of electric cars.
While 6 billion people have mobile phones and spend on average $12 a month, there is very little spent by the mobile industry on Formula 1, let alone F-E. Telefonica, Truphone and BlackBerry have all signed small sponsorship deals, but it has been a long time since we saw Orange and Vodafone as big name sponsors. The one exception is Claro, part of the America Movil group, which currently sponsors the Sauber F1 team.
For sponsorship, Formula E has turned to Qualcomm, which sees the races as a way to promote the Qualcomm Halo wireless charging standard, which will initially be used for static charging.
Qualcomm sees this progressing to a system where cars can be charged on the move and wants it to become a global standard. To make this happen we can only hope it will be as open with IP as Tesla has been.
Halo will not be used in Formula E cars themselves, but will be used by the race safety cars from that well-known Croatian manufacturer Rimac Automobili. Although perhaps the most interesting technology in the video here is that which causes someone to get into a car as a young woman and get out as an older man. ®


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New York state of mind
(buy this gorgeous photo here (sans wording)).
One of the only good things about having a husband who travels a lot is that I get to travel with him. A lot. And the insane miles and points we live off of.
So this morning I'm off to New York for a couple nights, narrowly missing the fashion week mayhem.
And New York is one of my favorite places to visit. It's just electric... it's always in motion and colorful and feels special and exciting. At least for me. I've never been sure about living there but I am 100% in love with visiting at regular intervals.
Here's my mini-guide to some of what a 'beauty' person does when in town.
Along with nails, hair, waxing, meeting with PRs and all that other stuff, I will...
Visiting my favorite coffee place here and juice place here.
Stop here, here, here, here, and here and a few others.
See this brand in this gorgeous shop.
Maybe pick a new scent from here.
Perhaps meet up with a brilliant makeup artist friend.
Stop here to pick up some of their skincare, newly launched in the US.
Eat dinner here.
Love this series of illustrations a little bit more with each visit.
Try (*gulp*) this.
Stay here so we're close to the Hub's work.
And... breathe.
I think that's all I'll have time for in a 48-hour window. If I don't sleep.
Have any New York travel tips or secret addresses? Share them!
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Olympic Hockey 2014: What Went Wrong for Team USA?February 22, 2014
No gold. No silver. And now, no bronze.
A disappointing 2014 Sochi Olympics somehow found a way to become more so for Team USA on Saturday.
Finland blitzed Team USA for two goals in 11 seconds during the second period and cruised to a 5-0 victory in the bronze-medal game, sending the Americans home without a medal after winning silver at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Once Finland scored those two goals, it was as if Team USA would have preferred to have been anywhere else in the world. After being outclassed by Canada in a 1-0 loss in the semifinal on Friday, Team USA showed up for the first period against Finland, but checked out once things went wrong.
It was an embarrassing loss for a team that had such great expectations.
"I think it started yesterday," Team USA captain Zach Parise said during a postgame interview on NBCSN. "We didn't show up to play a tough team in Canada and lost that game. And just today, once we gave up that first goal, it kind of deflated. They played like they had something to win, and we just shut it down.
"It's kind of disappointing, a little bit embarrassed for what happened, especially today. It wasn't a good effort by us."
This was a team some believed was good enough to win gold in Sochi and bring an end to a 34-year gold drought for the Americans. The yearly reminders of the 1980 Miracle on Ice team in the form of Mike Eruzione telling the same stories he's told every year, like an over-served uncle at Thanksgiving talking about the time he scored four touchdowns in a high school football game no one wants to hear anymore, would fade into the shadows.
Instead, on the 34-year anniversary of that 4-3 win against the Soviet Union at Lake Placid, N.Y., Team USA showed just how far it is from Olympic gold.
It's probably going to take a miracle for NHL players to participate in the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, so this was very likely the last chance at gold for this group of Americans.
|Team USA at the Olympics since 1998
|Finished 6th, won 1 of 4 games
|Salt Lake City
|Lost gold-medal game to Canada
|Finished 8th, won 1 of 6 games
|Lost gold-medal game to Canada
|Lost bronze-medal game to Finland
It hardly matters. Unless the United States annexes Canada in the next four years, Team USA won't even be the top team on its own continent.
How did it go so wrong in Sochi?
It started well enough. A 7-1 win against Slovakia appeared to send a message to the rest of the field that Team USA was a team on a mission, and that the questions about general manager David Poile fielding a roster lacking in offense wasn't going to be an issue after all.
But as the tournament progressed, the victory became more and more hollow. Slovakia exited without a win in four games, and Team USA was dominated by the tournament's best teams.
T.J. Oshie's shootout heroics against Russia in the group stage won't soon be forgotten, but it distracted from a deeper problem that could not be ignored as Finland buried the Americans in the bronze-medal game.
Against Russia, Canada and Finland, Team USA had zero even-strength goals.
Patrick Kane missed on two penalty shots against Finland and had zero goals in six games.
"No excuses," Kane said to the Chicago Sun-Times' Mark Lazerus. "I wasn't good enough. I wasn't good enough to help the team win a medal. Obviously, I was expected to do a lot more. When you come over here and put zero goals and four assists in six games, that's not the numbers you want to see. Definitely disappointing."
For a team that believes it's on the same level as the world's hockey powers, Team USA looked more like a team that just picked up the sport a few weeks ago.
Or, more accurately, it looked more like a team whose country only discovered hockey in 1980.
It's tough to peg the defense with much of the blame for this medal-less trip to Sochi. An 11-second hiccup from Ryan Suter and Ryan McDonagh against Finland is hardly enough to impugn the overall performance of the group that held Russia to two goals and Canada to one.
But when you're a squad like Team USA where the margin for error is razor-thin, one mistake in judgment can be the difference between playing for gold and playing—if that's what you can call what took place Saturday—for bronze.
It became clear as the tournament progressed that Brooks Orpik was miscast on this team. He's tough and physical, but he simply did not have the foot speed to compete on the larger ice against the world's best players. Canada's one goal in the semifinal game was the result of Orpik being a stride late to cover Jamie Benn, and it cost Team USA in a game it didn't deserve to win anyway.
Would Keith Yandle have been better suited for this team? It was hard to argue against that when the roster was unveiled Jan. 1, and it's even harder to argue against now.
An Olympic tournament requires a lot of things to align in order to win gold. Sometimes there are unlucky bounces or unfortunate matchups or a hot goaltender ends your tournament quicker than you deserve.
That wasn't the case for Team USA in Sochi. Canada was better in the semifinal and deserved to win. Finland was better and deserved to win, especially after Team USA clearly packed it in after 40 minutes and spent the final 20 minutes taking enough undisciplined penalties to make the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers shake their heads.
Team USA has taken a lot of strides forward with its development program since 1996, but the rest of the world hasn't been standing still. If there's anything to take from Sochi, it's that the Americans haven't closed the gap nearly as much as some believed.
If Team USA wanted to win gold in a future Olympics with NHL players, it may have to take, well, a miracle.
Dave Lozo covers the NHL for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @DaveLozo.


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School Finance in Dayton: A Comparison of the Revenues of the School District and Community Schools
March 26, 2004
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This report, prepared for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute by Public Impact, compares charter school funding and district school funding. It finds that charter schools are under-funded compared to their district counterparts, even after accounting for differences in students and grade levels. These findings should be taken seriously by those who argue that charter schools drain funds from district schools.
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Auction Report
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Leica fans focused on the July 13 sale at Christie's South Kensington as various vintage models hit the block. A Leica III g with a Leitz Summicron f/2 5-cm lens in the maker's ever-ready case sold for $1,585 (est. $900$1,200)*. A Leica III f in chrome and black scale, with maker's box and Leica instruction manual, snapped up $1,410 (est. $300$600). In the subminiature and detective camera category, a Ticka silver camera, designed to resemble a handsome pocket watch but fully functional as a "waistcoat pocket camera" and hallmarked "London 1906" made $3,348 (est. $3,000$4,500).
Patriotism was on the upswing at Christie's East (New York) July 10, when a historic Civil War presentation model 1850 staff and field officer's sword, engraved with the names of 21 battles fought in by its owner, sold for $32,900 (est. $20,000$25,000). Another Civil War artifact, a fine cased elaborate historic presentation officer's sword first owned by Col. Joseph R. Cokerill, who commanded the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, sold for $25,850 (est. $8,000$10,000). From other eras, a historic first-model Long Land Pattern Brown Bess musket, circa 1775, found after the Battle of Brandywine by an ancestor of the consignor, shot to $21,150 (est. $8,000$12,000). A rare historic Texas Rangerused .45 Colt single-action Army revolver dating from 1884 brought $23,500 (est. $15,000$20,000). (Descriptions of "rare" and "historic" are auction terms distinguishing the lots from more common property.)
Enthusiastic bidding greeted Christie's South Kensington's July 10 auction as the sale's cover-lot painting, The Bunker by Charles Edmund Brock from 1894, fetched a swinging $56,400 (est. $18,000$27,000). Vintage specimens of antique golf balls attracted fierce competition as a feather-filled sample stamped W. Robinson soared to a record $42,000, going to the Valderama Golf Club in Spain (est. $10,500$15,000). Club prices also exceeded expectations, as evidenced by a Scared Head long-nosed putter by John Jackson of Perth, Scotland, that sold for $12,337 (est. $2,250$3,000).
The summer stream of motor car and related automobilia sales began on July 24 at Christie's London, with a 1959 OSCA Tipo S 750 Sports Racing Two-Seater on the block. With coachwork by Morelli and painted in a bloody shade of Italian racing red, the racer made $139,277 (est. $129,000$152,000). A 1927 Bentley 3 Litre Speed Model Sports Tourer, with coachwork by Vanden Plus and outfitted with a red leather interior, sold for $109,220 (est. $91,000$106,000).
On August 5, RM Auctions' vintage car sale at Meadow Brook Hall at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, registered some hefty prices. The top lot was a custom-built 1933 Duesenberg Model SJ Mudd Coupe (named after its original owner, Dr. Seeley J. Mudd) that sold for $1.21 million (est. $1.25 million$1.5 million), just ahead of a ravishing 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Aravis Drophead that made $1.1 million (est. $800,000$1 million).
At Brooks Quail Lodge's sale in Carmel, California, on August 19, a 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta raced to $3.08 million (est. $3 million$5 million), and a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Comp/61 Special accelerated to $1.37 million (est. $1.2 million$1.5 million).
Stunning results greeted Christie's $26.5 million Pebble Beach motor car auction on August 20, with a 1966 Ex-Scuderia Ferrari 330 P3 accelerating to $5.6 million (est. $5 million$7 million), a 1928 Maserati Tipo 26B/M 8C 2800 hitting $1.65 million (est. $1.5 million$2 million) and a 1932 Maserati 8C 3000 Grand Prix two-seater racing car zooming to $1.08 million (est. $1 million$1.5 million).
A 1969 ex-Steve McQueen Porsche 917, used in the film Le Mans, brought $1.32 million (unpublished estimate), and an ex-Carroll Shelby 1964 Cobra Daytona coupe rocketed to an awesome $4.4 million (unpublished estimate) at the Monterey Sports Car Auction, organized by RM Auctions that same high-horsepower weekend. For slower-minded folks, a 1966 Volkswagen 21-window microbus chugged to $34,100 (est. $34,000$42,000).
Phillips struck gold in London on July 4 when Jean Francois de Troy's recently rediscovered eighteenth-century French painting La Retour du Bal hit a record $3.63 million (est. $600,000$900,000). The painting was found in a cupboard, packed in cardboard under the stairs of the consignor's home. A picture of a fancily dressed group of late-night revelers returning home after a gala party, the work last appeared in public in 1769, when it was sold at a Paris auction. Its companion work, La Toilette pur le Bal, hangs at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Less dramatic but steamy was Francois Boucher's Venus Disarming Cupid and Cupid Caressing Venus that sold for $992,250 (est. $900,000$1.2 million).
A seventeenth-century Dutch painting featuring figures skating on a frozen river, A Winter Landscape, by Adam van Breen, hit a record $397,500 (est. $90,000 $120,000). Another Dutch overachiever, A Dune Landscape with Travellers, by Esais van den Velde from circa 15901630, brought $173,250 (est. $30,000$45,000).
Olympic fever rose at Christie's South Kensington's July 6 sale when a trove of gold and silver medals, plaques, badges and silk shorts from the late British Olympian sprint champion Harold Maurice Abrahams sold for $12,337 (est. $12,000$18,000). Some of Abrahams's victories in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris were relived in the popular 1981 film Chariots of Fire. From other Olympiads, an aluminum Olympic torch studded with the famed five-interlinked rings from the 1948 Games realized $9,693 (est. $3,000$3,750) and a colorful linen-backed letter-press poster from 1896 titled "Jeux Olympiques A. Athenes" and featuring a pack of racing cyclists sold for $564 (est. $450$750). A framed and separately autographed black-and-white photo of Olympic great Jesse Owens doing the long jump brought $1,144 (est. $900$1,200). Owens won four gold medals at the controversial 1936 Games in Berlin, dashing Hitler's hopes for an Aryan-dominated Games.
Bonhams's London sale of fine picture frames on June 20 was honeycombed with striking examples, ranging from a Spanish seventeenth-century gilded molding frame that sold for $450 (est. $375$525), to an English eighteenth-century carved-and-gilded frame that made $3,600 (est. $450$1,000). A Provincial French Louis XIV carved-and-gilded frame with stylized leaf brought $1,950 (est. $600$900). Neophytes to this rather arcane field need a good glossary to interpret typical catalogue descriptions of the profusely decorated frames, as evidenced by the description of the English example cited above: "...with plain sight, centered raking gadroon, plain hollow, and centered pin and ribbon-twist below centered raking gadrooned top knull."
Television toys made their second appearance as a collectibles category at Christie's South Kensington on July 20. "Action Man Space Capsule," in its original box, and with the astronaut-costumed figure outfitted with deep-sea diving equipment and other thrilling accessories, sold for a dramatic $2,460 (est.$300$450). A Batman Corgi gift set, including Batmobile, Batboat and trailer, and another Batmobile containing a secret instruction kit, all housed in their original boxes, zoomed to $1,581 (est. $300$450). Another Corgi gift set, based on the 1960s British hit "The Avengers" and featuring John Steed's vintage red Bentley and Emma Peel's white Lotus Elan (with two umbrellas, of course) in its original box, sold for $739 (est. $300$450). From another BBC cult favorite, a replica red-and-silver Dalek, a kind of robotic warrior from a Raymond Cusick design for the program "Dr. Who," rolled to $2,109 (est. $750$1,200).
AMERICANA On November 29, Sotheby's New York offers the Americana library of collector Laird U. Park Jr., a staggering trove assembled over a 50-year period and chock-full of books, letters and manuscripts, largely by or about Benjamin Franklin and early Philadelphia. One gem is a letter written by Franklin on February 19, 1776, to Gen. Charles Lee, introducing his friend Thomas Paine as "the real author of Common Sense" (est. $120,000$180,000). Speaking of Paine, another letter, from George Washington to James Madison, dated June 12, 1784, discusses a fund to help the down-and-out writer (est. $200,000$300,000). The collection is estimated to fetch between $4 million and $6 million. Viewing is at Sotheby's on November 25 and 27, 10 a.m.5 p.m., and November 26, 15 p.m., with the auction on the 29th, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Contact: Selby Kiffer at 212/774-5322.
AMERICAN PAINTINGS On November 28, history painting comes alive at Phillips New York with Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe, featuring the British commander lying mortally wounded as his troops vanquished the French on Quebec's Plains of Abraham on September 13, 1759 (est. $180,000$200,000). The viewing is on November 2124 and 2627, 10 a.m.5 p.m., and November 25, noon5 p.m., and the auction is on the 28th at 2:30 p.m. at Phillips New York, 406 East 79th Street. For more information, contact Lyle C. Gray at 212/570-4830.
AVIATION Billed as the largest single-owner sale of its kind, Butterfields' November 14 auction at its San Francisco headquarters features some 1,000 items of First World War aviation memorabilia from the collection of Floridian Norm Flayderman. Gems from the collection include a rare, shot-glass-sized engraved silver trophy cup that the Red Baron (German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen) commissioned after each kill (est. $10,000$15,000) as well as documented fragments from his downed Fokker triplane (est. $400$600). Viewing: November 1013, 9 a.m.5 p.m, auction: November 14, 10 a.m. at Butterfields, 220 San Bruno Avenue. Contact: Greg Martin at 415/503-3341.
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Literary lions take over at Christie's New York on December 14, led by a rare first edition of Edgar Allen Poe's 1843 Prose Romances, which contains literature's first detective story, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (est. $120,000$180,000). An extensive selection of Walt Whitman material includes a first edition of Leaves of Grass (est. $50,000$70,000). James Joyce's previously unknown first draft for Ulysses' "Circe" chapter leads the twentieth-century entries. It takes the book's Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus through Dublin's red light district (est. $600,000$900,000). On the political side, a 1792 letter written by George Washington to an aide about the new federal city of Washington and the dismissal of French-born architect Charles Pierre L'Enfant from the project offers a fascinating window into that time (est. $250,000$350,000). Viewing: December 912, 10 a.m.5 p.m.; December 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m.; auction December 14, 10 a.m. at Christie's New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza. Contact: Chris Coover at 212/636-2669 or Thomas Lecky at 212/636-2666.
CONTINENTAL FURNITURE AND ANTIQUE SWORDS A rich armada of property de-accessioned by the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization founded in 1783 by Continental officers of the American Revolution, goes on the block at Sloan's Auction Galleries in Washington, D.C., on December 5. Items include a sword once belonging to Jean Lafitte, the storied eighteenth-century pirate and mercenary (est. $25,000$35,000). Furniture includes a Louis XIVstyle carved giltwood marble-top center table (est. $12,000$18,000) from the late nineteenth century. Proceeds will benefit the society's permanent collection. Viewing: November 28, December 12, 10 a.m.5 p.m.; November 2930, 10 a.m.9 p.m.; December 3, noon5 p.m.; December 4, 10 a.m.4 p.m., with the auction December 5, 10 a.m., at Sloan's, 4920 Wyaconda Road, N. Bethesda, Maryland. Contact: Colin Clarke at 301/468-4911.
FILM AND ENTERTAINMENT Christie's South Kensington plays Hollywood and beyond on December 12 with a wardrobe of vintage props and costumes, including a raspberry-colored two-piece Givenchy suit worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 romantic thriller Charade (est. $4,500$7,500). For sheer entertainment, a circa 1912 poster of Harry Houdini depicts the padlock-bound showman hung upside-down in a water-filled tank performing his "Chinese Water Torture" act (est. $3,000$4,500). Viewing: December 10, 14 p.m., December 11, 9 a.m.7:30 p.m.; auction: December 12, 11 a.m.2 p.m. at 85 Old Brompton Road, London. Contact: Sarah Hodgson at 44/20-7581-7611.
FIREARMS A sale of firearms dating from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries from the noted collection of William Keith Neal, the late British antique gun authority and historian, takes place at Christie's London on November 9. Highlights include a German double-barreled over-and-under pistol dated 1548 (est. $37,500$45,000) and a pair of flintlock carriage pistols in pristine condition by H.W. Mortimer, London, circa 1795, in their original case (est. $18,000$22,500). Viewing: November 5, 25 p.m.; November 6 and 8, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.; November 7, 9 a.m.8 p.m. at 8 King Street, St. James, London. A New York City viewing will be held October 1314 and 16, 10 a.m.5 p.m., and October 15, 15 p.m., at 20 Rockefeller Plaza. Contact: Howard Dixon at 44/20-7389-2022.
FOUNTAIN PENS Bonhams will stage an online auction of modern limited-edition pens in mid-December. Items include a blue marbled Parker Duofold Centennial from the 1990s (est. $150$225) and a jet-black Montblanc "Agatha Christie" piece from 1993 (est. $300$450). Contact: Alexander Crum Ewing at 44/20-7393-3950 or Julie D'Arcy Evans at 44/20-7393-3919.
ROCK AND ROLL The beat changes at Bonhams on November 8 with a rare trio of 1960s concert programs from soul man James Brown (est. $300$450). For Elvis aficionados, an ashtray pinched from the Imperial Suite at the Las Vegas Hilton in the 1970s, along with two butts from Hav-A-Tampa cigars that the King smoked there, is bound to draw interest (est. $300$450). Viewing: November 5, 11 a.m.3 p.m., November 67, 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m., November 8, 910:30 a.m. at Bonhams, 65 Lots Road, Chelsea/London. The auction starts at noon on November 8. Contact: Niki Roberts at 44/20-7393-3952.
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Science-minded auction action begins on November 1 at Bonhams London with a lacquered brass microscope with ground glass lenses from the 1860s by Andrew Ross of London, one of the best-known microscope makers of the nineteenth century. It comes with accessories and its original mahogany case (est. $1,500$2,250). Contact: Alexander Crum Ewing at 44/20-7393-3950. Viewing: October 29, 11 a.m.3 p.m.; October 30 and 31, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.; auction: 9 a.m.10:30 a.m. at Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge, London.
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART AND DESIGN On December 6, Christie's London mounts its first-ever sale devoted exclusively to Italian paintings, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts of the twentieth century. Offerings range from a Cubist-styled Nature Morte, a 1913 oil painting by the Italian Futurist Gino Severini (est. $300,000 $450,000), to the 1980 "Tramonto a New York," a foam-cushioned sofa that resembles the New York skyline at sunset, by Gaetano Pesce. Viewing: December 16 by appointment only; auction: 7 p.m. at Christie's London, 8 King Street, St. James. Contact: Brett Gorvy at 44/20-7839-9060 (paintings) or Simon Andrews at 44/20-7321-3236 (design). --JT


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Back on July 11, the iPhone 3G launched in 22 countries. Along with much fanfare, hippie attention seekers, lines that would stretch out for weeks on end, and constantly crashing servers. But since Apple sold about a million of the hot new handsets that weekend, you just knew they were going to do it again.
"Today" brings phase 2, where 21 more countries are supposed to come online with the iPhone 3G. (Officially Aug. 22nd, which may or may not be "today" to you depending on your timezone). How are things going so far? Reader Anton was gracious enough to send in this report (thanks Anton!):
Now it's midnight in Estonia and I'm at the iphone launch event. No special frenzy, about 1000 people in one supermarket, a couple of DJs and a lot of light. There's just two plans offered: us$55 and $89. First one includes 100 minutes, 100 SMS and 100 Mb; the other one - 250 of each. Every extra megabyte will cost $.25 and $.21 respectively. The phone itself is $267/8Gb and $396/16Gb with $55 plan and $149/8Gb and $278/16Gb with $89 plan.
Ouch! When will telcos worldwide realize what Henry Ford did almost 100 years ago. Mass pricing leads to mass adoption which leads to mass profits. Sheesh!
So are you standing in line right this very minute, ready to get your shiny new iPhone today? Is your carrier up? Is iTunes activating? Let us know how things are going!
And if your market still doesn't have the iPhone 3G, just remember that Apple promised another 30+ countries -- a grand total of 70+ -- for 2008, which is now set to include Russia via MTS. That pretty much leaves China standing alone as the last major market sans carrier deal... for now.


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Paul Berliner
Arts and Sciences Professor Emeritus of Music
- Ph.D., Wesleyan University 1974
- M.A., Wesleyan University 1970
- B.A., Antioch College 1969
Berliner, PF. Thinking In Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation. The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Berliner, PF. The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Berliner, PF. The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. University of California Press, 1981.
Berliner, PF. The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. The University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Berliner, PF. "photograph of mbira performance techique." appears in Christine Lucia's book, Music notation: A South African Guide. Unisa Press, 2010.
Berliner, PF. "Grasping Shona Artworks: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Mbira Music." Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing and Other Improvisations. Ed. H Becker, R Faulkner, and B Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 126-134.
Berliner, PF. "Thinking in Jazz: Improvisation as Composition." Challenges in Norwegian Jazz Research. Trondheim, Norway: Institututt for Musikk, NTNU, 2002. 65-73.
Berliner, PF. "Las Vicisitudes del Solista/Les Viciissittudes du Doliste." Doce/Notas Preliminares. 2002. 91-108.
Berliner, PF. "The Collective Aspects of Jazz Improvisation." Creativity in Performance. Ed. K Sawyer. 1996.
Berliner, PF. "The Relationship Between the Mbira and the Mbira Player." Art in Small Scale Societies: Contemporary Readings. Ed. KL Field and RL Anderson. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993.
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Berliner, PF. "Thinking in Jazz." Jazz Changes 1.2 (1994): 16-27. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "Composing in the moment." Jazz Educators Journal 26.4 (1994): 28-36. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "Crips, Licks and Jamming: The Implications of Traditional Jazz Learning for the University." Fanfare Magazine (March 1982): 6-10. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "The Artistry of John Kunaka, Master Mbira Maker." African Arts 14.1 (November 1980): 61-67. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "Political Sentiment in Shona Song and Oral Literature." Essays in Arts and Science 6.3 (March 1977): 1-29. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "The Poetic Song Texts Accompanying The Mbira Dza Vadzimu." Ethnomusicology 20.3 (September 1976): 451-481. (Academic Article)
Berliner, PF. "Vocal Styles Accompanying the Mbira Dza Vadzimu." Zambezia (March 1975): 103-104. (Academic Article)
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Betrayal: E-mail can do you wrong
Last week I met my boss face-to-face for the first time. I've been working with him for more than two years– via phone and e-mail. I had never seen him, but I had a general idea of what he looked like because over time he had tossed me clues about his appearance. At least I thought he had.
I spend a lot of time writing about appearance and its impact on career success. I've been known to say things like this: People judge you in the first three seconds they see you; good-looking people make more money than unattractive people; going to the gym regularly improves your chances of success.
Invariably, in response to such columns, my boss will send me a self-deprecating e-mail. He's a funny guy, and to his credit, his e-mails about his looks are usually funny. For example, in reference to the column about good-looking people getting raises, he wrote: "Now I understand why I am making peanuts."
Or something like that. It is not a direct quote because I didn't save his e-mails. In fact, based on the messages he sent to me, I thought I would be getting a new boss shortly because he implied he was so incredibly obese that he might die of a heart attack any day. My mental image of him grew more extreme with the arrival of each successive e-mail.
By the time I met my boss at lunch last week, I had begun to envision him as so enormous that he needed a special chair. So you can imagine my surprise when I found myself greeting someone who is physically fit and (it turns out) plays tennis regularly. Clearly, he's not obese, he's just funny.
He was sending humorous e-mails that I was misreading. This is what happens in e-mail relationships: People create pictures based on their best guesses. (Or their most desperate guesses. If I was thinking of dating my editor, perhaps I would have imagined him as really good looking.)
The lesson here? Be careful what you write about yourself to someone who never sees you. This goes beyond discussing your looks.
For example, suppose you're an over-achiever, but you make jokes about slacking off. Your recipient doesn't know that you work your tail off and you're only being self-deprecating. There's a fine line between being self-deprecating and being revealing, and it isn't visible in e-mail.
As soon as I realized that I had been misreading my editor's e-mails, I started discovering other e-mail nuance problems.
My brother, an investment banker, is working on a large client's overseas business deal that's been widely publicized in the business press. He received a message with the subject line, URGENT!!, from a staff administrator. So he opened it nervously, thinking the deal had collapsed. It turned out that the administrator needed to know how much of his American Express bill would be charged to this particular client.
Now this company is so large it could pay every AMEX customer's bill for several months without severely affecting its bottom line. Obviously, the client wasn't worried about my brother's charges. And my brother wasn't in trouble. But by using the URGENT!! subject line, the administrator inadvertently tipped every one off that she was in trouble for not getting this information sooner. A more astute way for her to address her problem would have been to say in her e-mail, "Please get back to me with this information by the end of the day today."
Inappropriate e-mail addresses constitute another harmful nuance category. The address email@example.com is ridiculous in business. Only use a joint address for business correspondence if you and your spouse/partner are applying for a job you'll do together. Other hideous e-mail addresses people have seen on resumes: keggerboy and even youwantapieceofme.
Surely, if you are reading this column, you are beyond using keggerboy on a resume. But analyze your e-mail address critically, paying heed to both sides of the @ – email@example.com is just as bad as firstname.lastname@example.com.
E-mail nuances can betray you in the halls of corporate America as easily as verbal nuances. They can turn otherwise well crafted communications into undermining menaces. Even worse, your seemingly clever e-mails may become a company joke and end up serving as fodder for columns like mine.


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Preparing for the next election is a never-ending cycle.
Preparing for the next election is a never-ending cycle.
Nadeen Manzonio, Pike County election technician, and Janice DeFebo, Pike County registrar, are currently building the ballot for the May 21 primary.
To do this, they contact school boards, townships and boroughs and ask what vacancies should be placed on the ballot.
This year, the sheriff and all tax collectors are up for election. Those positions are all four-year terms.
Candidates wishing to get on the ballot must circulate a petition and collect signatures from registered members of their own party, unless they are cross filed in both parties, then they may collect signatures from both parties.
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Township and borough candidates need 10 valid signatures, and anyone running for a county office must get 100 signatures, Manzonio said. Most candidates get extra signatures in case some of the signatures are not valid.
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Cloonen Meets With Crime Prevention Organization
State Representative Kate Cloonen met with Tim Carpenter, State Director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois, Kankakee County State's Attorney Jamie Boyd, Grundy County State's Attorney Jason Helland, and Kankakee Police Chief Larry Regnier (Ring-E) to discuss the vital roles early childhood programs and access to quality childcare play in preventing crime.
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A question asked of me by klcrace earlier inspired this article.
Black Holes and Density.
Here is a good source of information on black holes:
Our atoms are mostly empty space, lots of room for things to fit into. Normally, the fields/forces around atoms keep them relatively far apart and the spaces in between remain mostly empty. All mass have gravitational effects on surrounding masses and the more mass the higher those effects, but as long as the density remains below a certain point there is no black hole. It is not so much the mass that makes a black hole but the density – mass in a tiny space.
As a star gains mass, it's outer mass compresses the inner material but the internal pressure keeps the atoms apart and the interior spaces empty. When a star grows too much or its internal pressure decreases because its fuel is depleted, it can collapse and when the density reaches a certain point, it technically becomes a "black hole", one in which the gravitational pull is too great for light to escape. This is often accomplished by a stellar explosion that implodes the mass toward the center of the star, greatly increasing its density.
The mass is still the same but it is concentrated in such a small space (essentially zero space) that the density is enormous (essentially infinite), and the space around it is so severely warped that light does not get out. The density is self sustaining because the gravity of the masses within it is high enough to keep it together, except after much evaporation.
It is thought that much smaller masses can also be compressed by outside forces to the point that the small mass achieves black hole density, but none are known to exist. It would take enormous energy to accomplish this.
For example if you were able to compress a baseball enough, it would become a micro black hole. But it would have to be compressed so much that its outer radius would be essentially zero (much smaller than an atom). The mass would still be that of a baseball, but the density would be so high that light could not get away from it. Space would be severely warped around this very tiny black hole, but only very very near its center, probably too small to be detected. Gravity from such a source at the distance you would normally pick up the ball would be no more than for a regular baseball because the mass is still a baseball mass. If you could weigh it, (a real problem) it would weigh the same. It is the ratio of the mass to the radius that is important. Make the mass high enough and/or compress to an extremely small radius and you have a black hole.
Known and predicted black holes contain mass greater than our sun. Sometimes thousands and even billions of times greater. Yet the size of the space occupied by the mass in the black hole is still essentially zero. The gravity around such large masses is extremely high and will capture all light out to a certain radius, the event horizon. The event horizon can be far from the central mass depending on the amount of mass. The capture range is usually further out than the size of the central mass, and grows as the black hole captures more and more mass while the central region does not grow measurably, if at all.
Black holes can evaporate and if there is no nearby mass that it can capture to replenish itself with, a black hole could evaporate to a smaller mass than what was required to establish it. Smaller in mass than our own sun.
Black holes do typically have very high gravitational pulls, proportional to the mass inside and inversely to the distance to the center. But a micro black hole could theoretically be floating around a lab that created it (such as with a high energy accelerator) and never be noticed as it would likely evaporate before it hit anything and even if it did encounter a part of the lab, it would be so tiny and have such small gravitational pull at atomic-size distances that it would not capture more "stuff" needed to grow. Likely it would just poof out of existence unnoticed.
At least I hope so.
What I want to emphasize it that any given mass has a certain gravitational pull at any given distance, black hole or not. Super-massive black holes at say 1000 light years away have the same gravitational effects as that of a group of stars of the same total mass that are close together (but not close enough to be a black hole) at the same 1000 light year distance. The difference is the black hole has much higher concentration of mass, occupies much less volume, and also warps space much more tightly than the group of stars with the same mass. The stars shine brightly and the black hole is, …well, black.


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By Bruno Federowski
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A strong outlook for global economic growth is likely to guide Latin American currencies safely through the recent turmoil in global financial markets, the latest Reuters poll showed.
Strategists and economists polled by Reuters either strengthened or maintained their forecasts for five of the six regional currencies, even as world stocks suffered their biggest selloff in six years earlier this week.
The two main currencies in the region, the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso , are set to trade at 3.35 and 18.6 to the dollar in a year, respectively, unchanged from the January poll.
That underscores the view that the ructions in equity markets have had very little impact on the much larger global bond and foreign exchange markets.
The currencies of Chile , Colombia and Peru are all expected to trade at slightly stronger levels than previously forecast, according to the Feb. 1-6 Reuters poll.
This suggests that sharp losses seen last week are unlikely to hold as economic growth strengthen both at home and abroad.
"At the end of the day, faster growth is the main story, much more than the debate over whether U.S. rates will rise two, three or four times this year," said Banco J. Safra chief economist Carlos Kawall.
Data last week showing a solid annual rate of increase in U.S. wages, driven by higher paid workers, kindled a jump in U.S. Treasuries yields that helped trigger a global stock market rout.
Higher U.S. rates could drain funds away from emerging markets, which tend to offer higher yields. Still, moves in Latin American currencies have been somewhat limited.
In a report, Morgan Stanley estimated that the Brazilian real, the Mexican peso, the South African rand and the Turkish lira have historically weakened around 2 percent for each 4 percent decline in the S&P 500 <.SPX>.
But Brazilian and Mexican currencies lost only slightly more than 2.3 percent while the S&P 500 dropped 6.1 percent between Friday and Monday, a disparity that Morgan Stanley attributed to a "stronger fundamental position of EM macro."
An improved outlook for Latin American economies, as highlighted by a recent Reuters poll, should cushion their currencies from major volatility ahead of major elections in the region. [ECILT/LTAM]
Voters will decide in Brazil in October on President Michel Temer's successor. Temer, whose approval rates have tumbled due to corruption accusations, has pledged not to run, casting a shadow on the continuity of his austerity efforts.
Temer's administration has struggled to gather support for a bill cutting social security spending, which investors see as key to curbing growth of public debt and boosting long-term growth. But it could increase the burden on his successor.
Should the new president unwind Temer's measures to cut red tape and privatize state companies, Brazil's real would trade closer to 3.50 to the dollar, said Jason Vieira, chief economist at Infinity Asset.
Still, Vieira does not expect that to be the case, particularly after an appeals court upheld former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's conviction for corruption.
Lula, who has sharply criticized Temer's policies, has been leading voting intention polls but could be barred from running.
Meanwhile, nationalist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues leading polls in Mexico, stoking concerns of increased tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration as trade talks drag on.
A recent Reuters poll showed the peso would take a bigger hit if Trump killed the North American Free Trade Agreement than from an election victory for Obrador. A combination of both would drive the peso to near record lows, the survey showed.
(Other stories from the February Reuters global foreign exchange poll:)
(Reporting by Bruno Federowski; Additional reporting by Hernan Nessi in Buenos Aires, Nelson Bocanegra in Bogota, Ursula Scollo in Lima and Felipe Iturrieta in Santiago, editing by Larry King; Editing by Ross Finley and Jeffrey Benkoe)


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Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group to Have First Meeting in October
The Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group (SWMOSSUG) is dedicated to providing SQL Server Education and Career Guidance for IT professionals. While the group focuses on DBAs, T-SQL Developers, and BI Professionals, anyone who works with SQL Server is invited to attend. Membership is free.
SWMOSSUG is a chapter of… Read more
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At the End of One Chapter and the Beginning of a New Chapter
I have been told by hundreds of DBAs that I have the best DBA job in the world as Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software. And this has been very true. In the five plus years I have been with Red Gate I have traveled over 500,000… Read more
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July Question: If you could pick your manager, what ideal qualities would he or she have?
I think all of us have had poor, good, and great managers at one time or another in our career. So this month's question is "If you could pick your manager, what ideal qualities would he or she have?" Not only tell us what you think a manager's ideal qualities… Read more
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Exceptional DBA Awards 2012
Reprinted from my editorial in the Simple-Talk Newsletter.
It's hard to believe, but it was five years ago that Red Gate Software started sponsoring the Exceptional DBA of the Year Awards. The award, which was inspired by my book: How to Become an Exceptional DBA, has uncovered a number… Read more
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Do You Document Your SQL Server Instances?
When I was a novice DBA, I spent little time documenting my SQL Servers. But as I became more experienced, I realized the importance of having complete, up-to-date documentation for all of the SQL Servers I manage.
Some of the benefits of documentation include: 1) It is easier and quicker… Read more
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June Question: Which DMV(s) do you most often use when managing your SQL Server instances, and why?
Dynamic Management Objects (DMVs and DMFs) are some of the most useful tools for the DBA. So this month's question is "Which DMV(s) do you most often use when managing your SQL Server instances, and why?" While the question uses the more generic DMV terminology, go ahead and tell us… Read more
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The SQL in the City US Tour
If you haven't heard yet, Red Gate Software is sponsoring a six city tour of the United States of its SQL in the City conference. This one day free conference will be held at the following cities.
- New York, NY: Friday, September 28, 2012
- Austin, TX: Monday,…
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SQL Server 2012 Certifications Revamped
Reprinted from my Database Weekly editorial.
Forget what you thought you knew about SQL Server certification, as Microsoft has completely redesigned the SQL Server 2012 certification program, making is more difficult, costly, and time-consuming to attain. In addition, whether you like it or not, not only will you… Read more
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SQLServerCentral.com Track Offered at 2012 SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas this Fall
As we have done for the last several years, SQLServerCentral.com will be offering its own track at SQL Server Connections (a part of the greater DevConnections event) in Las Vegas, NV, October 29 – November 1, 2012, at the Bellagio Hotel. This is in addition to the SQL Server tracks… Read more
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Enter the 2012 Exceptional DBA of the Year Awards
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Favorite DBA Books
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When Will You Upgrade to SQL Server 2012?
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SQL Server 2012 & SharePoint Connections to be Held in Kongresshaus Berchtesgaden in May
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April Question: What's your favorite DBA book, and why?
Over and over again, I get asked which DBA books I recommend. With this in mind, this month's qustion is "What's your favorite DBA book, and why?" Share with us your favorite book titles, authors, and why you like them. You can list more than one favorite book if you… Read more
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SQL in the City: Free SQL Server Event in London
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There is one thing every DBA knows with certainty, and that is that databases grow with time. MDFs grow, backups grow, and it never stops. The more data we have, the more work SQL Server has to perform in order to deal with it all; whether it's executing a query… Read more
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If you believe as I do that more than any other type of wine, rosé is a mood, then your average sparkling rosé represents a very good mood indeed.
Sparkling rosés are part of an ever-growing class of wines in pursuit of a cheery disposition, seizing on the built-in appeal of pink and adding the incomparable pleasure of effervescence, which can't help but brighten an already sunny experience. Like still rosés, a sparkling rosé aims to please rather than transport. So leave the cerebral whites in the cellar until Labor Day; put off the more ponderous reds until the next equinox. For a summer afternoon, for any party involving a grill, a picnic basket, a pool or a cabana, pink fizz is the way to go.
For all of rosé's styles and hues, the range of expression in its still form is relatively modest. That isn't true with the sparkling variety. If anything, fizzy rosés have a much broader stylistic bandwidth than their still siblings. Bubbles, of course, are the principle addition to this particular pink experience, providing a textural lift and clarity to most bottlings, an additional structural component upon which winemakers can build more flavor, more body, even more tannin, all in the service of refreshment.
We'll bypass rosé Champagnes for the moment. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but many regions produce pretenders — Champagne wannabes that bear a passing resemblance and use methods similar to those of the original article. Of these, for me the best are the French fizzes, most of which use the term crémant, designating wines made by Champagne methods outside of Champagne.
Many employ Pinot Noir (in the Loire, it's frequently Cabernet Franc) to pinken the cépage and bear a slightly richer texture than Champagne wines, with a bit less finesse — but happily, they come in at a fraction of the price. Crémant de Loire pinks have a pleasingly bitter foundation much like their still rosés, while the crémant wines of Alsace, such as the nonvintage from Lucien Albrecht (about $18), possess a crisp, slightly mineral line adorning a creamy texture.
Crémant rosés of Burgundy, a region that has mastered Pinot Noir perhaps better than any on Earth, are probably closest in character and finesse to Champagne. Crémants des Bourgogne such as the Louis Bouillot Crémant "Perle d'Aurore" can be had for as little as $15, but there's no reason to skimp: For about $22, you can grab the 2007 Parigot & Richard Crémant Brut, a firmly structured, salmon-colored pink with the fortitude for grilled white meats.
One delightful non-crémant, nontraditional French wine worth mentioning is the Cabernet and Petit Manseng Frizzante blend from the famed Languedoc producer Mas de Daumas Gassac, a delicious, finely effervescent wine the color of salmon flesh; it's completely frivolous and irresistible (about $25).
Elsewhere in Europe, regions known for sparkling white wines have strayed into pink territory, with offerings such as the somewhat untraditional Prosecco rosés that have trickled into the market. In these, juice from the Prosecco grape is tinged with a modest addition of a red variety such as Pinonero or Merlot. Sometimes the red component will add a modest Amaro-like bitterness, but mostly the variant amounts to a pleasant diversion.
I recently came across a charming new wine from Castello di Verduna in the Piemonte called "S-ciopet," a metodo classico sparkler made from the indigenous Pelaverga grape (about $45). It is a fine mousse pink smelling of earth and iron, redolent of fresh cherries and with enough structure and body to pair well with grilled meats such as chicken or veal.
In Cava, the principle sparkling wine region of Spain, you can find a modest range of rosé styles such as the suave Avinyó Reserva Brut (about $20), a smooth rosé of Pinot Noir the color of a desert sunset that's fine and well-balanced. But there's something about the traditional Cava blend of Parellada, Macabeo and Xarel-lo that lends itself especially well to a little red juice, such as the marvelous Cava de Nit from Raventós i Blanc (about $20). It adds 15% Monastrell (or Mourvèdre) juice to give the wine a marvelous, silvery pink hue and riveting strawberry flavors; in the crisp, lemon pith finish, the whites reassert themselves nicely.
I'd be remiss not to mention some of my favorite faintly fizzy rosés from the Basque region of Spain, the Txakoli Rosados of Gurrutxaga and Ameztoi (both about $18), derived mostly from an indigenous grape, Hondarribi Belza. Bright, floral, lightly effervescent, these refreshing wines possess a piney bite in their finish that the bubbles subtly lift and accent.
Portugal may not have much of a sparkling rosé tradition, but that hasn't stopped Bairrada enologist Luís Pato from making use of the sturdy indigenous variety Baga to create a robust, powerful bruto espumante. The 2009 Casta Baga (a steal at $13) is a deep pink with a fine mousse and scents of red apples and sea air; its bright mineral finish put me in mind of grilled sardines.
Within the realm of pink, there is a group of French sparkling wines that more or less defies categorization. They bear no resemblance to Champagne or to most rosé still wines, really, having more in common with such thirst-quenching staples as lager and pink lemonade. These are VdTs, or vins de table, mostly, wines that typically skirt the appellation system even as they inhabit regions on the outskirts of cru Beaujolais, say, or the foothills of the Alps, or the pocket folds between Loire appellations.
They're made from peculiar varieties or are combined in even more peculiar blends. They abide by no rules and are derived for their uncanny ability to quench thirst. They're fruit juice-sweet, but the effervescence, combined with modest alcohols and pleasing bitterness of tannin, more than offsets any perception of sweetness. And none of this comes close to describing the sheer, giddy fun of drinking them: They're like adult beverages that belong in sippy cups.
Take the 2009 VdT from Domaine la Grange Tiphaine in the Loire Valley near Saumur, which producer Damien Delecheneau calls "Rosa Rosé Rosam" (about $16). It's a bewildering blend of Cabernet Franc, Grolleau, Cot and Gamay, picnic-ready with a bottle-cap finish. This slightly off-dry sparkler has irresistible flavors of red cherry and strawberry, a touch of sweetness offset by an earthy core to the texture.
Jean-Paul Brun, the man behind the remarkable Beaujolais brand Terres Dorées, makes a sparkling Gamay Noir he calls FRV 100 (about $17), a bright, sweet cherry confection with festive bubbles and a fine bitter tang. I puzzled over the name at first, until I pronounced it aloud in French, whereupon the pun — "effervescent" (Eff-err-VAY-cent) — was revealed to me. Clearly, we're a long way from the appellation contrôlée.
Roughly east of Beaujolais in the Alpine foothills lies the appellation Bugey, the source of Patrick Bottex's delightful méthode ancestrale Bugey-Cerdon "La Cueille" (about $20), a traditional sparkling rosé of the region even if that region only achieved a formal AOC status in 2009. Bugey's stony, pink rosés are made from Gamay and Poulsard, with a profile similar to that of FRV 100 — sweet, forward, light and fun — though, if anything, Bugey-Cerdon wines possess a touch more earthy depth for the category.
Possibly the weirdest, and probably the most complex of these was Philippe Bornard's 2009 VdT "Tant Mieux" from the Jura in eastern France (about $25), made with the indigenous grape Poulsard, in a clear bottle finished with a bottle cap. The clear glass allows you to see its rather odd color, a cloudy, orangey pink that looks almost infused with metal or minerals. The wine certainly tastes like it, the sweet orange rind and cherry flavors washing over a firm mineral grip. Skin contact gives the wine almost a Campari zing of bitterness on the finish, which will wake up your palate as you take your next gulp.
For that is what you do with these mood-altering wines, you can't help it — you down them in happy gulps.
Here's where to find some of the wines mentioned in this article:
Nonvintage Louis Bouillot Crémant "Perle d'Aurore" Brut Rosé available at Wine Exchange in Orange, (714) 974-1454, http://www.winex.com; Du Vin Wine & Spirits, West Hollywood, (310) 855-1161, http://www.du-vin.net; Topline Wine & Spirits, Glendale, (818) 500-9670, http://www.toplinewine.com. About $15.
NV Parigot & Richard Crémant de Bourgogne Brut Rosé is widely available, including John & Pete's Fine Wines & Spirits, West Hollywood, (310) 657-3080, http://www.johnandpetes.com; Larchmont Village Wine, (323) 856-8699; and the Wine House in West Los Angeles, (310) 479-3731, http://www.winehouse.com. About $22.
NV Lucien Albrecht Crémant d'Alsace Rosé available at Whole Foods Markets, the Wine House and Topline Wine & Spirits. About $18.
NV Mas de Daumas Gassac Frizzante Rosé available at Whole Foods Markets; Woodland Hills Wine Co. in Woodland Hills, (818) 222-1111, http://www.whwc.com; and El Vino Wines, Venice Beach, (310) 396-9705, http://www.elvinowines.com. About $25.
NV Castello di Verduna "S-ciopet" Brut Rosé is available at the Wine House. About $45.
2007 Raventós i Blanc Cava de Nit Brut Rosé available at Domaine LA, Los Angeles, (323) 932-0280, domaine547.com; and K&L Wine Merchants in Hollywood, (323) 464-9463, http://www.klwines.com. About $20.
2010 Ameztoi Txakoli Rosados available at Larchmont Village Wine, Domaine LA, Wine House and Woodland Hills Wine Co. About $18.
2009 Luís Pato Casta Baga bruto espumante available at Domaine LA and K&L Wine Merchants. About $13.
NV Terres Dorées FRV 100 sparkling rosé available at Domaine LA and Wine Exchange, Orange, (714) 974-1454, http://www.winex.com. About $17.
NV Patrick Bottex's Bugey-Cerdon "La Cueille" is widely available, including Wine Hotel in Los Angeles, (323) 937-9463, http://www.thewinehotel.com; John & Pete's; and Wine Exchange. About $20.
2009 Philippe Bornard VdT "Tant Mieux" is available at Domaine LA and at Palate Wine Merchant, Glendale, (818) 662-9463, http://www.palatefoodwine.com. About $25.
— Patrick Comiskey
If you believe as I do that more than any other type of wine, rosé is a mood, then your average sparkling rosé represents a very good mood indeed.


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When U.S. U-20 midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo steps on the field at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan, she will be continuing a family tradition that began 28 years ago. That is when her father, Angelo, represented the USA at the 1984 Olympics.
There are many factors that come together to produce an elite soccer player. Good genes are one of them.
And there is no doubt that U.S. Under-20 Women's National Team midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo has soccer in her DNA.
She is the daughter of Angelo DiBernardo, a star at Indiana University in the 1970s where he won the Hermann Trophy as college soccer's top player before going on to play for the Los Angeles Aztecs and New York Cosmos in the NASL in the early 1980s. He earned 20 caps and scored three goals for the U.S. Men's National Team, playing in World Cup qualification games for the 1982 and 1986 World Cups and in two matches for the USA in the 1984 Olympics.
But a player is not made of chromosomes alone, and like all of her teammates, DiBernardo had to mix the natural talent with hard work and mental fortitude to earn a spot on the 21-player Women's World Cup roster.
"She has a tremendous engine," said U.S. U-20 head coach Steve Swanson. "She can get up and down the field and she's a workhorse for our team."
Still, DiBernardo gives much credit for her soccer success to her dad.
"He's the most important role model in my career," said DiBernardo. "He's been my coach ever since I was little and he's the reason why I play soccer. He has certainly set a high bar with soccer success and I want to follow him if I can."
Vanessa has no brothers, just an older sister, so it seems that she was destined to carry on the family tradition.
"I'm like his little boy," said DiBernardo. "I think he wanted me to be a boy but he got two girls so I've been kicking a soccer ball as long as I can remember."
Vanessa admits to not seeing many highlights of her dad's playing days, but from what she has been told, the two have similar styles and she is more than happy to emulate him on the field.
Angelo grew up in Argentina in a family of Italian descent before moving to the USA when he was 16 years old, and Vanessa seems to have benefited from a mixture of those two world-famous soccer cultures (which have been made even more potent by the culture of excellence and competitiveness of the U.S. women's game). She's a wonderfully skillful player but also brings some grit to the U.S. midfield.
"I've heard he was skillful and quick," said DiBernardo, who will wear the number 10 shirt for the USA during the Women's World Cup. "I'm a more possession-oriented player and I like to keep the ball. From what I've seen from the videos, he had those qualities, as well."
Vanessa is quick to add that she also takes after her mom, Pat.
"I'd say I'm a mix," she said. "My mom smiles and laughs at lot, like me, but I'm stubborn like my dad."
Those qualities have endeared her to both her teammates and coaches on the U.S. team as there's rarely a time when she's not smiling. Even during a hard training session, she can be seen grinning from ear to ear while the stubbornness shows in her work rate. It's clear that she loves the game.
Vanessa says that while she's received great soccer advice from her dad over the years, it's gotten to the point where it's almost unspoken.
"Sometimes he'll have things to say after a game and other times he'll know that I know what he's going to say so he doesn't say it," said Vanessa. "But when I made this World Cup Team, he was really happy and really proud of me."
DiBernardo was called into her first national team camp in the summer of 2011 and followed that up with a banner sophomore season at Illinois. She scored 17 goals as a sophomore, the most for an Illinois player since 1999, and was selected as an All-American. That set the plate for her ascension into the U.S. team and more recently, a place in the starting lineup.
"She gives us a quality linking player," said Swanson. "She can distribute the ball really well, she can get out of pressure really well and she can make great penetrating runs from the midfield, which you don't see that often from players her age. She makes good decisions on when to go and is a great final passer of the ball."
DiBernardo says that it took a while for her to adjust to the level of play and the environment of international competition but that she is pleased at the place she is in now as a person and a player.
"The national team is of course very different than any other level we've played at," said DiBernardo. "The speed of play is faster, the physical dimension is raised and I think it took me until Panama (during CONCACAF qualifying) and then a few camps into 2012 to get comfortable and be able to play like I want to play. I'm a little bit of a shy person and maybe it takes me longer to get used to new situations than others."
"It's been great to see her over the course of this past year, getting more and more confident every camp," said Swanson. "I'm excited about her, not for just this tournament, but I think she's got great potential down the line."
Fortunately for the USA, DiBernardo is finding her groove at the right time, and when she stops for a moment to consider that she is getting to wear the jersey of her country, just like her dad, it does give her pause.
"Not a lot of girls get to play in a World Cup at any level, so this opportunity is special," said DiBernardo. "But considering that my dad played in the Olympics and now 28 years later I am getting to represent my country and follow in his footsteps, that's something I'll always cherish."


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'Jem' Fans Complain About All-Male Film Production Team, Creator Christy Marx Speaks Out
We were all more than excited to hear that Jem and The Holograms was making its way to the big screen (actually still REALLY excited), but we'd be remiss if we didn't acknowledge some of the criticism that's already making its way around the interwebs--namely that as of now the project has no women involved and that includes Jem creator Christy Marx. (The trio currently at the helm of the project include director Jon M. Chu and producers Scooter Braun and Jason Blum.)
Let's be honest--Jem was "truly outrageous" because of the team behind-the-scenes and we'd love to see some of that spirit make its way into the big screen adaptation!
So what does Christy Marx have to say about the newly announced film version of her baby? She opened up on Facebook; Marx says:
Not surprisingly, I'm being inundated with inquiries about the Jem movie. Here's what I have to say about it.
I'll answer the obvious and most frequent question first: No, I had no inkling that the movie was being developed or had reached this stage until a couple of days ago. Someone high in the Hasbro PR department thoughtfully reached out to me to let me know about the movie and the impending announcement so that I wouldn't be blindsided by it. I appreciated that gesture.
That same afternoon, John Chu also reached out and called me and we had a long, wonderful talk. I greatly enjoyed talking with him, sharing our love of Jem, and becoming acquainted.
Many people wonder how I feel about it. I don't think I can hide that I'm deeply unhappy about being shut out of the project. That no one in the entertainment arm of Hasbro wanted to talk to me, have me write for it, or at the very least consult on it. I wouldn't be human if that failed to bother me.
My other unhappy observation is that I see two male producers, a male director and a male writer. Where is the female voice? Where is the female perspective? Where are the women?
Now, as far as not bringing me on-board, that's the reality of franchise IPs. It's their property, they can do whatever they want with it, and they have no obligations whatsoever to me. Was it a smart decision? You decide.
Finally, I want to say good things about John Chu. He treated me with honesty and respect. He is sincere, passionate, and filled with a desire to make the best Jem movie he can make. He wants to reinvent Jem for a current audience. His take is somewhat different from the approach I wanted to take, but that just means it's different, not that there's anything wrong with it. I urge everyone to judge the merits of his work on the result and I hope he delivers us an excellent, truly outrageous movie.
We think her statement's pretty classy.
What do you think, Instincters? Should Marx be brought into the fold? Does Jem need a female perspective to succeed? (And who says it has to be just one?!)
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My biggest fear is that this movie won't have the same heart that the show had. Already from the premise that was presented, my confidence isn't very high. Who knows, it could be a great movie, but I think changing the motivation for Jerrica creating Jem and the Holograms is not a good idea. This was a show where 4 female protagonists, SISTERS, used the technology that Mr. Benton created in order to save his record company (from Eric Ramond and the Misfits) and their mother's foster foundation, Starlight House. Taking Jerrica and making her a fame-seeking teenager instead of a philanthropist business woman takes away SO MUCH from the original premise (I mean, HELLO that's one hell of a role model for young girls, I should know since I was 5 when the show first came on), and that makes me extremely skeptical.
Without Christy Marx, there would BE no Jem. Hasbro basically showed her pics of the doll prototypes, told her their names, and said "Run with it." And, run with it she did. Synergy, Starlight House/Music, Eric Raymond....all HER ideas. To NOT include her, to get her input, her ideas on how to update Jem for today....would be inexcusable. I have been a loyal Jem fan since 1985, when she first hit TV (and store shelves). To see Jem, a beloved franchise, turned into yet ANOTHER movie fiasco like another beloved Hasbro franchise was *coughG.I.Joecough*, would be....truly disgusting. Truly, truly, truly disgusting.
Yes Christy Marx is the person who turned Jerrica , Kimber , Aja and Shana to Jerrica and Kimber Benton, Aja Leith , and Shana Elmsford. She gave Pizzazz, Roxy and Stormer their non stage names! She created Eric Raymond!! She literally wrote the Jem Bible which set the rules for the Jem universe and character interaction. She is desperately need if this movie has any hopes of being successful


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Lila Mae Kay was born March 4, 1924. She joined her Heavenly Father and her husband LaMarr in heaven on Nov. 15, 2010. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Lila was born in Silvis, Ill., to Henry and Laura Kay. She had one older brother, Nathaniel, and sister Evelyn, and two younger sisters, Virginia and Pauline. She grew up in Montrose, Colo., and graduated from high school there in 1943. While in high school she ran for the school track team and won many ribbons.
She remembers a hard life of raising animals and a garden so they could eat. After graduation she rode a bus to Ogden, Utah, to live with her friend Ellen. It was her first time away from home. She got a job at the Ogden Arsenal as a file clerk, helping to send supplies to the troops overseas. One day in 1944 she was in the cafeteria at the Ogden Arsenal and was introduced to a young man who became her husband, D. LaMarr Hansen. They were married on Jan. 14, 1945.
Lila is survived by her two sons, Gary and Garth Hansen; five grandchildren, Robert Hansen, Drew Hansen, Holly (Dusty) Whited, Heather (Chris) Fehringer, Hailey (Rob) Giesbrecht and seven great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Virginia and Pauline.
She was preceded in death by her husband, LaMarr; her parents; brother, Nathaniel and sister, Evelyn.
Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave., Blackfoot.
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Creeping through the house in the predawn darkness, the iPhone serves
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Creeping through the house in the predawn darkness, the iPhone serves
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Hah! I do that all the time with cell phones. Haven't had a chance to upgrade yet. Must be our common problem of not waking the kids when leaving for a shift.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/03/2008 1:57 PM
the mylite application! it slices, it dices, it basically just makes the screen all white with max brightness for use as a flashlight.
Also will put up a picture of a lighter for rock concerts and the like.
Link will pull it up in the app store.
- Anonymous10/03/2008 2:06 PM
"Can it be used as a flashlight?" is the first line of consideration that Apple uses to decide whether an app can be registered in the App Store, according to this image:ReplyDelete
I've used my Treo as a flashlight. :)ReplyDelete
Haha - I have done that with my iPod at night. I listen to podcasts when I go to bed so it is on my nightstand. I have picked it up and used it as a flashlight to go exploring if I hear a creak or if the power goes out.ReplyDelete


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Amid the hoopla as the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of Species approach, it is good to be reminded of the contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace, who also formulated the idea of evolution by natural selection. "Wallace's story is complicated, heroic, and perplexing," as David Quammen writes in "The Man Who Wasn't Darwin" (published in the December 2008 issue of National Geographic).
Judge John E. Jones III, who presided over the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, was interviewed by Jane Gitschier for PLoS Genetics.
The fourth issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal aspiring to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now available on-line.
The popular film critic Roger Ebert reviewed the creationist propaganda movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed in a December 3, 2008, post entitled "Win Ben Stein's mind" on his blog on the Chicago Sun-Times website — and he pulled no punches.
Kevin Padian, who serves as president of NCSE's board of directors, is continuing to speak and write in enthusiastic defense of the teaching of evolution.
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Here the HTML / CSS themeplate of a compact site for you business or small internet service company.
It contains a fully designed website, including the following pages:
- Home page With big showcase to show latest developments or steps in your service
- About us A simple and clean page to tell more about your company.
- Services overview A overview of the offers services or area's of your company
- Services page A page that explains more about a service or owrk area.
- Blog overview A page with the latest post and a vertical showcase slider for more blog entry's
-Blog post A page with the complete blog entry.
-Contact pageSimple and clean page with a contact form
The download features 2 complete sites in 2 different colours
update 6-7-09
Problems with custom scrollbars resolved.
Special features
The template contains sevaral Jquery plugins
- JFLow for je homepage showcase
- JScrollpane for customized vertical scrollbars
- JCarousellite for the horizontal en vertical showcases
- PNGfix for png files fixes for IE 6
- A separate javascript file for custom javascript
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