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Fences Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller, Mill Valley; www.marintheatre.org. $37-58. Previews Thu/10-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 7pm. Opens Tue/15, 8pm. Runs Tue and Thu-Sat, 8pm (also April 19, May 3, and May 10, 2pm; April 24, 1pm); Wed, 7:30pm; Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through May 11. Marin Theatre Company performs August Wilson's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama, with an all-star cast of Bay Area talent: Carl Lumbly, Steven Anthony Jones, and Margo Hall.
Smash Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City; www.dragonproductions.net. $30. Previews Thu/10, 8pm. Opens Fri/11, 8pm. Runs Thu-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through May 4. Dragon Theatre performs Jeffrey Hatcher's political comedy.
Tribes Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison, Berk; www.berkeleyrep.org. $29-99. Previews Fri/11-Sat/12 and Tue/15, 8pm; Sun/13, 7pm. Opens April 16, 8pm. Runs Tue and Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 2pm); Wed and Sun, 7pm (also Sun, 2pm). Berkeley Rep performs Nina Raine's family drama about a young deaf man who comes of age.
Bauer San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post, SF; www.sfplayhouse.org. Tue-Thu, 7pm; Fri-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 3pm); Sun/13, 2pm. Through April 19. San Francisco Playhouse presents the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's drama about artist Rudolf Bauer.
E-i-E-i-OY! In Bed with the Farmer's Daughter NOHSpace, 2840 Mariposa, SF; www.vivienstraus.com. $20. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Through May 10. Vivien Straus performs her autobiographical solo show.
Every Five Minutes Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna, SF; www.magictheatre.org. $20-60. Tue, 7pm; Fri-Sat, 8pm (also Wed/9, 2:30pm); Sun, 2:30pm. Through April 20. Magic Theatre presents the world premiere of Linda McLean's drama about a man's homecoming after years behind bars.
Feisty Old Jew Marsh San Francisco Main Stage, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $25-100. Sat, 8pm; Sun, 7pm. Extended through May 4. Charlie Varon performs his latest solo show, a fictional comedy about "a 20th century man living in a 21st century city."
Foodies! The Musical Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter, SF; www.foodiesthemusical.com. $32-34. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Open-ended. AWAT Productions presents Morris Bobrow's musical comedy revue all about food.
The Habit of Art Z Below Theatre, 470 Florida, SF; www.therhino.org. $15-25. Wed/9-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 3pm. Theatre Rhinoceros performs a "very British comedy" by History Boys author Alan Bennett.
Hundred Days Z Space, 450 Florida, SF; www.zspace.org. $10-100. Thu/10-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 7pm. Married musical duo the Bengsons (Abigail and Shaun) provide the real-life inspiration and guiding rock 'n' roll heart for this uneven but at times genuinely rousing indie musical drama, a self-referential meta-theater piece relating the story of a young couple in 1940s America who fall madly in love only to discover one of them is terminally ill. As an exploration of love, mortality, and the nature of time, the story of Sarah and Will (doubled by the Bengsons and, in movement sequences and more dramatically detailed scenes, by chorus members Amy Lizardo and Reggie D. White) draws force from the potent musical performances and songwriting of composer-creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson (augmented here by the appealing acting-singing chorus and backup band that also feature El Beh, Melissa Kaitlyn Carter, Geneva Harrison, Kate Kilbane, Jo Lampert, Delane Mason, Joshua Pollock). Playwright Kate E. Ryan's book, however, proves too straightforward, implausible, and sentimental to feel like an adequate vessel for the music's exuberant, urgent emotion and lilting, longing introspection. Other trappings of director Anne Kauffman's elaborate production (including an inspired set design by Kris Stone that echoes the raw industrial shell of the theater; and less-than-inspired choreography by the otherwise endlessly inventive Joe Goode) can add texture at times but also prove either neutral figures or distracting minuses in conveying what truth and heft there is in the material. Ultimately, this still evolving world premiere has a strong musical beat at its core, which has a palpable force of its own, even if it's yet to settle into the right combination of story and staging. (Avila)
I Never Lie: The Pinocchio Project Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason, SF; www.99stockproductions.org. $15. Thu/10-Sat/12, 8pm. 99 Stock Productions performs Meredith Eden's bold fairytale retelling.
Lovebirds Marsh San Francisco Studio, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-50. Thu/10-Fri/11, 8pm; Sat/12, 8:30pm. Theater artist and comedian Marga Gomez presents the world premiere of her 10th solo show, described as "a rollicking tale of incurable romantics."
Painting the Clouds With Sunshine Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson, SF; www.42ndStMoon.org. $25-75. Wed-Thu, 7pm; Fri, 8pm; Sat, 6pm (also Sat/12, 1pm); Sun, 3pm. Through April 20. 42nd Street Moon performs a world premiere, a first for the company: Greg MacKellan and Mark D. Kaufmann's tribute to songs from 1930s movie musicals.
Pearls Over Shanghai Hypnodrome Theatre, 575 10th St, SF; www.thrillpeddlers.com. $30-35. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Through May 31. Thrillpeddlers present the fifth anniversary revival production of its enormously popular take on the 1971 Cockettes musical.
The Scion Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-60. Thu-Fri, 8pm; Sat, 5pm. Through April 18. In his latest solo show, Brian Copeland (Not a Genuine Black Man; The Waiting Period) explores an infamous crime in his hometown of San Leandro: the 2000 murder of three government meat inspectors by Stuart Alexander, owner of the Santos Linguisa Factory. The story is personal history for Copeland, at least indirectly, as the successful comedian and TV host recounts growing up nearby under the common stricture that "rules are rules," despite evidence all around that equity, fairness, and justice are in fact deeply skewed by privilege. Developed with director David Ford, the multiple-character monologue (delivered with fitful humor on a bare-bones stage with supportive sound design by David Hines) contrasts Copeland's own youthful experiences as a target of racial profiling with the way wealthy and white neighbor Stuart Alexander, a serial bully and thug, consistently evaded punishment and even police attention along his path to becoming the "Sausage King," a mayoral candidate, and a multiple murderer (Alexander died in 2005 at San Quentin). The story takes some meandering turns in making its points, and not all of Copeland's characterizations are equally compelling. The subject matter is timely enough, however, though ironically it is government that seems to set itself further than ever above the law as much as wealthy individuals or the bogus "legal persons" of the corporate world. The results of such concentrated power are indeed unhealthy, and literally so — Copeland's grandmother (one of his more persuasive characterizations) harbors a deep distrust of processed food that is nothing if not prescient — but The Scion's tale of two San Leandrans leaves one hungry for more complexity. (Avila)
She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange Thick House, 1695 18th St, SF; www.crowdedfire.org. $15-35. Wed/9-Sat/12, 8pm. Crowded Fire offers a fine West Coast premiere of a clever if less than satisfying satire of the nouveaux riche and pauvre by American playwright Amelia Roper, in which two married couples meet on the grass of their neighborhood park and unravel their tangled, starkly childlike relations and dreams. Amy (a sharp and spirited Zehra Berkman) is a smart and restless woman who knows what she wants and can get it too, but without the slightest idea of how to sit comfortably still and enjoy a sunny Sunday morning. Her husband, Henry (a droll, unfussy, good-natured George Sellner), is clearly the antidote to the corporate jungle Amy works in, an agreeably boyish nurse and nurturer, who alleviates the stress of his own workweek in a children's cancer ward with a scoop of strawberry-flavored ice cream on a cone. Soon they are sharing their modest picnic blanket with a bounding, slightly older couple, well-pampered housewife Sara (Marilee Talkington, alternately splendid and deflated in a beautifully modulated performance) and bank-owning breadwinner Max (an equally dynamic Kevin Clarke, outwardly suave yet reveling in Ubu-esque paroxysms of infantile yearning). Against a backdrop of post-pastoral suburban ease (succinctly evoked in scenic designer Maya Linke's dangling mobiles, a lovely abstraction of dappled light and trees), we see the couples first commiserate then trade places, like pirate ships on the high seas of finance capitalism. Yet their viciousness has a gentleness around it too, like children playing pirates. In their jockeying, they seem both utterly willful and beyond their ken, while the triumphs and possibilities of a bygone innocence reassert themselves in unguarded moments like a lost Eden. If anything, the play hits its themes (including this sandbox metaphor) a little too forcefully even for satire, and its fleet 80 minutes get only so far in producing a sense of personal and systemic exhaustion as well as transcendence. The play's agile humor and director M. Graham Smith's strong and astute cast make the going a pleasure, however, even if we leave wanting a deeper excavation of that pristine lawn. (Avila)
Shit & Champagne Rebel, 1772 Market, SF; shitandchampagne.eventbrite.com. $25. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Open-ended. D'Arcy Drollinger is Champagne White, bodacious blond innocent with a wicked left hook in this cross-dressing '70s-style white-sploitation flick, played out live on Rebel's intimate but action-packed barroom stage. Written by Drollinger and co-directed with Laurie Bushman (with high-flying choreography by John Paolillo, Drollinger, and Matthew Martin), this high-octane camp send-up of a favored formula comes dependably stocked with stock characters and delightfully protracted by a convoluted plot (involving, among other things, a certain street drug that's triggered an epidemic of poopy pants) — all of it played to the hilt by an excellent cast that includes Martin as Dixie Stampede, an evil corporate dominatrix at the head of some sinister front for world domination called Mal*Wart; Alex Brown as Detective Jack Hammer, rough-hewn cop on the case and ambivalent love interest; Rotimi Agbabiaka as Sergio, gay Puerto Rican impresario and confidante; Steven Lemay as Brandy, high-end calf model and Champagne's (much) beloved roommate; and Nancy French as Rod, Champagne's doomed fiancé. Sprawling often literally across two buxom acts, the show maintains admirable consistency: The energy never flags and the brow stays decidedly low. (Avila)
The Speakeasy Undisclosed location (ticket buyers receive a text with directions), SF; www.thespeakeasysf.com. $70 (gambling chips, $5-10 extra; after-hours admission, $10). Thu-Sat, 7:40, 7:50, and 8pm admittance times. Extended through May 24. Boxcar Theater's most ambitious project to date is also one of the more involved and impressively orchestrated theatrical experiences on any Bay Area stage just now. An immersive time-tripping environmental work, The Speakeasy takes place in an "undisclosed location" (in fact, a wonderfully redesigned version of the company's Hyde Street theater complex) amid a period-specific cocktail lounge, cabaret, and gambling den inhabited by dozens of Prohibition-era characters and scenarios that unfold around an audience ultimately invited to wander around at will. At one level, this is an invitation to pure dress-up social entertainment. But there are artistic aims here too. Intentionally designed (by co-director and creator Nick A. Olivero with co-director Peter Ruocco) as a fractured super-narrative — in which audiences perceive snatches of overheard stories rather than complete arcs, and can follow those of their own choosing — there's a way the piece becomes specifically and ever more subtly about time itself. This is most pointedly demonstrated in the opening vignettes in the cocktail lounge, where even the ticking of Joe's Clock Shop (the "cover" storefront for the illicit 1920s den inside) can be heard underscoring conversations (deeply ironic in historical hindsight) about war, loss, and regained hope for the future. For a San Francisco currently gripped by a kind of historical double-recurrence of the roaring Twenties and dire Thirties at once, The Speakeasy is not a bad place to sit and ponder the simulacra of our elusive moment. (Avila)
"Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness, SF; www.nctcsf.org. $25-45. Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through April 27. New Conservatory Theatre Center performs short plays about marriage equality by Mo Gaffney, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Paul Rudnick, and others.
Top Girls Gough Street Playhouse, 1620 Gough, SF; www.custommade.org. $15-35. Thu/10-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 7pm. Custom Made Theatre Company performs Caryl Churchill's celebration of powerful women.
The Two Chairs Bindlestiff Studios, 185 Sixth St, SF; www.performersunderstress.com. $10-30. Thu/10-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 2pm. In this world premiere by Performers Under Stress of its co-founder Charles Pike's play, two chairs, per title, come matched with two cameras projecting two angles on two characters — He (Vince Faso, alternating nights with Duane Lawrence) and She (Juliana Egley, alternating nights with Valerie Fachman) — who sit at right angles to one another in a series of terse, vaguely clinical encounters. Introduced and concluded each time with cheeky inter-titles (à la Beckett) and the sound of a buzzer (à la Beckett — pretty much everything here is à la Beckett), their interactions unfold as progressive variations on a theme, freighted with references to the Goldberg Variations and other pretentious class markers (belied somewhat by the characters' less than wholly sophisticated demeanors). Each mysterious not to say unorthodox session also concludes with a limp slap and the exchange of an envelope, as a banal male heterosexual masochist fantasy is jokily and tediously pursued to the point of He's final erasure. Directed by PUS's Scott Baker, the production adds a generational variation too across the alternating casts. But at least with the younger cast (Faso and Egley), the exploration comes across as glib and lifeless, and Pike's self-conscious regression to an old-school avant-garde style feels too ersatz to be persuasive. (Avila)
Venus in Fur Geary Theater, 415 Geary, SF; www.act-sf.org. $20-120. Wed/9-Sat/12, 8pm (also Sat/12, 2pm); Sun/13, 7pm. American Conservatory Theater performs a new production of David Ives' 2012 Tony-nominated play.
The World's Funniest Bubble Show Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $8-11. Sun, 11am. Extended through May 25. The popular, kid-friendly show by Louis Pearl (aka "The Amazing Bubble Man") returns to the Marsh.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison, Berk; www.berkeleyrep.org. $29-99. Tue and Thu-Sat, 8pm (no show April 18; also Sat and April 17, 2pm); Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through April 20. Berkeley Rep presents comic actor Steven Epp in Dario Fo's explosive political farce, directed by Christopher Bayes.
Arms and the Man Barn Theatre, 30 Sir Francis Drake, Ross; www.rossvalleyplayers.com. $13-26. Thu/10, 7:30pm; Fri/11-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 2pm. Ross Valley Players perform George Bernard Shaw's romantic comedy.
The Coast of Utopia Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby, Berk; www.shotgunplayers.org. $20-35 (three-show marathon days, $100-125). Part One: Voyage runs through April 17; Part Two: Shipwreck runs through April 19; Part Three: Salvage runs through April 27. Three-play marathon April 26. Through April 27. Check website for showtime info. Shotgun Players performs Tom Stoppard's epic The Coast of Utopia trilogy, with all three plays performed in repertory.
East 14th Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. $20-50. Fri, 8pm; Sat, 8:30pm. Through April 26. Don Reed's hit autobiographical solo show returns to the Marsh Berkeley.
Geezer Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. $25-50. Thu, 8pm; Sat, 5pm. Through April 26. Geoff Hoyle moves his hit comedy about aging to the East Bay.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro, SF; www.theatreworks.org. $19-73. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm; Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 2pm); Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through April 27. TheatreWorks performs Stephen Canny and John Nicholson's comedic send-up of Sherlock Holmes.
Johnny Guitar, the Musical Masquers Playhouse, 105 Park Place, Point Richmond; www.masquers.org. $22. Fri-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through April 26. Masquers Playhouse performs the off-Broadway hit based on the campy Joan Crawford Western.
Sleuth Center REPertory Company, 1601 Civic, Walnut Creek; www.centerrep.org. $33-54. Wed, 7:30pm; Thu-Sat, 8pm (also April 26, 2:30pm); Sun, 2:30pm. Through April 26. Center REPertory Company performs Anthony Shaffer's classic, Tony-winning thriller.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College, Berk; www.berkeleyplayhouse.org. $18-60. Fri, April 24, and May 1, 7pm; Sat, 1 and 6pm; Sun, noon and 5pm. Through May 4. Berkeley Playhouse performs the Tony-winning musical comedy.
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping Beauty or Coma Live Oaks Theater, 1301 Shattuck, Berk; www.viragotheatre.org. $28. Thu-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through April 19. Virago Theatre Company performs Charles Busch's outrageous double bill.
Wittenberg Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison, Berk; www.auroratheatre.org. $32-60. Previews Wed/9, 8pm. Opens Thu/10, 8pm. Runs Tue, 7pm; Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through May 4. Aurora Theatre Company performs David Davalos' comedy about reason versus faith.
BATS Improv Bayfront Theater, B350 Fort Mason Center, SF; www.improv.org. $20. "Super Scene," Fri, 8pm. Through April 25. "Spring Musical," Sat, 8pm. Through April 26.
"The Big Gay Comedy Show" Marines' Memorial Theater, 609 Sutter, SF; www.richmondermet.org. Sun/13, 7:30pm. $35-70. Benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation with Bruce Vilanch, Marga Gomez, Shann Carr, Ali Mafi, and others.
Caroline Lugo and Carolé Acuña's Ballet Flamenco Peña Pachamama, 1630 Powell, SF; www.carolinalugo.com. Sat/12, April 19, 30, May 4, 10-11, 17, and 25, 6:15pm. $15-19. Flamenco performance by the mother-daughter dance company, featuring live musicians.
"CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music" Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF; www.brownpapertickets.com. Fri/11-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 7pm. $27. "Week One: Moving Forward" with Alafia Dance Ensemble (Haiti), Alayo Dance Company (Afro-Cuban), Cunamacué (Peru), Duniya Dance and Drum Company (West Africa), Las Que Son Son (Cuba), Las Puras (US), and Nicole Klaymoon's Embodiment Project (African Diaspora).
"Dream Queens Revue" Aunt Charlie's Lounge, 133 Turk, SF; www.dreamqueensrevue.com. Wed/9, 9:30pm. Free. Drag with Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, and more.
Feinstein's at the Nikko 222 Mason, SF; www.feinsteinssf.com. Fri/11, 8pm. $60-75. Joan Collins in "One Night with Joan."
"Invidious" Private Mission District home, SF; www.brownpapertickets.com. Thu/10-Sun/13, 6:30 and 9pm. $40. Contemporary dance company FACT/SF performs a new, site-specific work.
"The Life You'll Never Have" Stage Werx Theatre, 446 Valencia, SF; www.foulplaysf.com. Wed/9, 7pm writing party; 8pm performance. $20. The audience crafts each evening's soap opera-inspired play at this interactive, immersive performance by Exquisite Corpse Theatre.
"Magic at the Rex" Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter, SF; www.magicattherex.com. Sat, 8pm. Ongoing. $25. Magic and mystery with Adam Sachs and mentalist Sebastian Boswell III.
"Mischief" Skylark Bar, 3089 16th St, SF; www.hunnybunnyburlesque.com. Fri/11, 8pm. Free. Burlesque and variety show.
"Mission in Motion" Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, SF; www.brava.org. Sun/13, 3pm. $5-10. Mission Academy for the Performing Arts presents a showcase and benefit for Brava youth performing arts programs.
"Mortified" DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, SF; www.getmortified.com. Fri/11, 7:30pm. $21. Also Sat/12, 8pm, $20, Uptown, 1928 Telegraph, Oakl. Fearless storytellers share their most adorably embarrassing childhood writings.
"Rotunda Dance Series" San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place, SF; www.dancersgroup.org. Fri/11, noon. Free. This month, the Tiruchitrambalam School of Dance performs classical Indian dance.
"San Francisco Comedy College" Purple Onion at Kells, 530 Jackson, SF; www.purpleonionatkells.com. $5-10. "New Talent Show," Wed-Thu, 7. Ongoing. "The Cellar Dwellers," stand-up comedy, Wed-Thu, 8:15pm and Fri-Sat, 7:30pm. Ongoing.
"Shotz: EarthTax" Tides Theatre, 533 Sutter, SF; www.amiosnyc.com. Tue/15, 8pm. $10. Seven plays, five minutes each, created in less than a month, and united under the theme "EarthTax."
Terminator Too: Judgment Play DNA Lounge, 373 11th St, SF; www.dnalounge.com. May 1, 9pm. $25-50. The creators of Point Break Live! take on James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi classic, with an audience member picked on the night of the show to embody Schwarzenegger's iconic role.
"Yuri and Friends presents Thai Rivera" Punch Line Comedy Club, 444 Battery, SF; www.punchlinecomedyclub.com. Tue/15, 8pm. $15. Stand-up comedy.
AXIS Dance Company Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice, Oakl; axisdance.brownpapertickets.com. Fri/11-Sat/12, 8pm; Sun/13, 2pm. $10-25. The company performs Yvonne Rainer's iconic Trio A.
Diablo Ballet Hillbarn Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale, Foster City; www.diabloballet.org. Fri/11-Sat/12, 8pm. $45. The company's 20th season continues with Emotions into Movement.
"IMPACT" Odell Johnson Theater, Laney College, 900 Fallon, Oakl; www.destinyarts.org. Fri/11-Sat/12, 7:30pm (also Sat/12, 2pm). $13-30. Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company celebrates the youth arts and violence prevention organization's 25th anniversary with this world-premiere show, a mix of dance, theater, spoken word, rap, and song.
"MarshJam Improv Comedy Show" Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. Fri, 8pm. Ongoing. $10. Improv comedy with local legends and drop-in guests.
"A Month in the Country" Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby, Berk; www.shotgunplayers.org. Tue/15, 7pm. $20. Staged reading of Ivan Turgenev's play presented by Shotgun Players.
"Stand-Up Sit-Down" La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck, Berk; www.lapena.org. Fri/11, 8pm. $15. Comedy and interview show with Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan.


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The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature Circo Aereo on Friday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 26, at 1 p.m. in the DeWitt Center main theatre.
The "Le Monde" newspaper of France has said that Circo Aereo's "intelligence and skill ensure that the stage is filled with magical cameos - half circus, half cabaret."
Circo Aereo is an international contemporary circus group from Finland. Active since 1996, the group has visited several distinguished festivals and theatres in approximately 30 countries.
Circo Aereo's projects are characterized by artistic exploration in all aspects of the performance and the collective input of the entire artistic workgroup into the work. Working in the field of circus as well as object and movement theatre, dance and music, the group has been invited to perform at a number of circus, dance, music and theatre festivals.
Circo Aereo will be performing "Espresso," a Finnish-French co-production in which the different styles of circus fuse into a free flow, a combination of traditional circus art, sidewalk performance and contemporary circus based on movement. Four artists create scenes and stories, earthbound and in mid-air, through the art of juggling, dance and aerial performance.
Individual tickets are $18 for regular admission, $13 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and may be called at (616) 395-7890.
Additional information about Circo Aereo may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/gps.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., facing Columbia Avenue at 12th St.


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Mike, how did the pics. of the dogs in the truck turn out?
Season has been great so far we've shot a boat load of pheasants and a few ducks. Deer season not so good I pasted up a five point the first day and a six point the second even passed up about a 400 lb. bear I shot a bear three years ago and last year I don't need another bear for a while. Haven't seen a legal buck since that's the way it goes I have some really nice bucks on trail cam just not showing up. This weekend were either duck or pheasant hunting next weekend their stocking hens in Elmsport's game lands so were headed there? Then the following weekend heading back to cabin for muzzle loading season. Lots of hunt but as usual not a lot of training. How are you doing see any big bucks? How did you make out with double T and where are you now with your pup?
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I got pretty good at typing my full name, address, and the occasional birthday. Some forms required me to check some boxes or answer one or two opinionated survey questions like "Have you ever tried "specific brand" before?" or "Are you willing to submit feedback after trying "specific product"?"
Not a big deal, and since I can type over 80 words per minute, this morning routine of mine, rarely took more than 5 minutes or so to fill out three forms.
As I normally do, every once…ok, once a week, I go to check my mail, not getting my hopes up, of course, because as far as I know, these sites are just scams anyway…
So one afternoon (9/20/2013), I check my mail and there was a little black & neon pink box. I open it and found 3 U by Kotex Tampons. I laughed out loud and took a picture for my "archive" of samples that I receive. Thinking this would be the one lucky sample that actually made it to my mailbox. I decided to designate one of my Winco grocery totes for my "Free Samples" and kept it in my living room, so if I got any more, I could keep track of what I received.
After a glimpse of the possibilities, I decided I'll start checking my mail EVERY day, just to make sure that I could keep track of the day a sample arrived (if there were anymore, that is). A couple of days passed, still no samples. I shrugged it off and continued about my normal life as a stay at home mother.
Then on 9/23/2013, I checked my mail, and found 2 Different Perfume Samples. One was Rogue by Rihanna and the other was called This is Brit. I didn't want to get excited yet, because let's face it, you can get free "perfume samples" in a magazine page, by peeling it back and sniffing it like a scratch n' sniff sticker, only it smells halfway like perfume and halfway like magazine ink. So I took a photo in my car, because I drove to my mailbox on the way home from somewhere…
Again, the same thing happened. Went a few days with no sample in the mail. 9/25/2013 rolls around and I open my mailbox to find a sample of Zarbee's Naturals Seasonal Relief tablets. Now, I don't have seasonal allergies or congestion, but I have family members who do, so this sample upped my anticipation of receiving more of these samples in the mail.
I thought to myself, this is pretty neat…and who doesn't love FREE right?
So the next day I was even more excited (9/26/2013), because I got a free sample of Finish Quantum Dish Detergent Tablets. At this point, I called my mom and told her that I was getting free samples in the mail and that she should try it too, because I love sharing awesome life findings with the people I love (half of the reason I'm writing a blog on this, the other reason is because I didn't know what to blog about, haha).
To put it in short, after typing a bunch…The answer is YES. You REALLY DO GET FREE STUFF IN THE MAIL THROUGH FREEFLYS! I honestly wish I had known sooner…Ok, I suppose I've heard of it online, but I need to see it to believe it. Today is November 1, 2013 and I haven't yet checked my mail today, because its only 10:31 am, and my mail doesn't usually arrive until noon, even though I live right next to the post office. But as of today, I have received well over 40 samples/free stuff in my mailbox, usually more than one item per day, not counting Sundays. I will keep this blog updated as I receive items, with photos and the dates they were in my mailbox.
PS-I guess you could consider this to be a "FreeFlys Review", but I don't want to call it that. Consider this to be a Mythbuster sorta thing haha. FreeFlys hasn't paid me or even asked me to review them. This, I have done all on my own.
Here are all the items
U by Kotex Tampons – 9/20/2013
Rogue by Rihanna Perfume – 9/23/2013
This is Brit Perfume – 9/23/2013
Zarbee's Naturals Seasonal Relief – 9/25/2013
Finish Quantum – 9/26/2013 Depends – 9/27/2013 Viva La Juicy Noir Perfume – 9/28/2013 Tums Chewy Delights – 9/30/2013 Personalized Grocery Tote from York Photo
(Free after code, but I paid $3.99 shipping, because it was an awesome deal & has pictures of my kids) – 10/3/2013 Maybelline New York FitMe Foundation Powder – 10/3/2013 American Baby Magazine – 10/4/2013 Tená Serenity Pads & Liners – 10/5/2013 Eucerin Smoothing Repair Dry Skin Lotion – 10/5/2013 Accordian Coupon Book from CouponCliqueNW.com – 10/7/2013 Advil – 10/8/2013 Poise Hourglass Pads – 10/9/2013 Modern Muse Perfume – 10/10/2013 Atkins Starter Kit with Protein Bars – 10/10/2013 Killer Queen Fragrance by Katy Perry – 10/11/2013 Tums Freshers, Tums Chewy Delights, Colgate Total Toothpaste, Colgate Total Mouthwash (all in one box) – 10/15/2013 Arm & Hammer Sensitive Toothpaste – 10/15/2013 Tums Freshers (Again) – 10/15/2013 2013 Honda Little League Trading Pin – 10/17/2013 Nectresse Sweetener – 10/17/2013 Cascade Platinum Dishwasher Detergent Packets – 10/17/2013 Gain Fireworks Laundry In-Wash Scent Booster – 10/17/2013 Pantene Pro-V Expert Collection Shampoo & Hydration Masque – 10/17/2013 P&G (Procter & Gamble) Coupon Booklet – 10/17/2013 $10 Starbucks Gift Card – 10/17/2013 Venus Embrace Razor and Cartridges – 10/21/2013 U By Kotex Pads & Liners – 10/21/2013 Herbal Essence Body Wash Body Burst – 10/25/2013 MegaRed Krill Oil Supplement – 10/25/2013 Chewable Airborne Tablets – 10/26/2013 Centrum Flavor Burst Multivitamins – 10/26/2013 Simple Replenishing Rich Moisturizer – 10/28/2013 Garnier Fructise Triple Nutrition Shampoo, Conditioner, & Deep Conditioner 10/28/2013 Planters Peanuts Lunchbox & Peanuts – 10/29/2013 Nordic Naturals Children's Fish Oil & Multivitamins – 10/29/2013 Twinings Tea (3 bags) – 10/30/2013


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The Central Connecticut volleyball team earned a three set victory over Hartford on Friday afternoon at Detrick Gym. The Blue Devils (6-5) topped the Hawks (3-10) by set scores of 25-23, 25-21 and 25-18.
The Blue Devils earned a 25-23 victory in a tightly contested first set behind five kills from sophomore Heather Trueman. Sophomore Makenna Lommori posted nine assists to boost the offense. On defense, the Blue Devils totaled three blocks with Trueman's two block assists leading the way.
In the second, CCSU posted five blocks with freshman Brooke Schwab's three block assists leading the group. Freshman Cassidy Stankowski also registered three total blocks in the set, including CCSU's only solo block.
CCSU's biggest margin of victory came in the third set, 25-18. The Blue Devils were again strong at the net with five blocks. This time it was senior Rachel Dunlap leading the way with for block assists.
Trueman finished with 12 kills to lead CCSU. Stankowski (9), senior Veronika Ban (6) and Dunlap (6) also had strong matches. Lommori finished with 30 assists in the match.
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Eight CCSU players recorded a dig, but none reached double-digits. Senior Amalia Ashley playing libero had a team-high 8 digs.
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Last night's Torchwood had two things we love: Dystopian insanity, and a deep, ancient, pulsating horror. Check out this totally excellent clip, where Jilly Kitzinger travels deep into the heart of the mystery of the Blessing.
After a while in which Torchwood Miracle Day seemed to be in a holding pattern, last night's penultimate episode got things moving again, and at last we grew close to the center of the horror of worldwide immortality. Spoilers ahead...
Torchwood took a page from one of the final episodes of Dollhouse (and Doctor Who's "Last of the Time Lords," and jumped forward a couple months at the start of last night's episode. That was a pretty gutsy move, which enabled the show to display a more advanced stage of the world's slide into chaos. Now, instead of seeing a world where everybody is freaking out, we get a world where people have just sort of accepted that everything is fucked. It's a worldwide Depression, China has closed its borders, the insurance companies have gone under, and there are rumblings that the United States is going to be under some kind of martial law. And the Overflow Camps are still there, but nobody's fighting them any more.
The most sardonic moment in the episode is this scene between Rhys and Gwen. The cops keep showing up and trying to take Gwen's catatonic dad away, so they can put him in the ovens with all the other Category One people. And it's getting harder and harder to save Papa Cooper from immolation — Mama Cooper has to hold him down with all her strength and stop him making a sound. But then Rhys reveals that he's been offered a job driving people to the camps — not quite all the way to the ovens, just to the camps. And Gwen sort of agrees that they have to consider it, because they need money that badly. And then the power cuts out and they immediately switch from contemplating becoming complicit in mass murder to having a bit of blackout nookie. Because what else are they going to do? Hey, maybe they'll make another baby and help contribute to the world's fatal overpopulation.
Eventually, of course, the cops do find Gwen's dad and cart him off, and life goes on. For everybody else, anyway. Soon after Gwen's dad is carted off, everybody's back to figuring out how to get into China. (And it's slightly weird that Gwen faces no consequences herself for hiding her dad all that time, since she was warned over and over that she needed to "take care" if she was harboring a Category One person.)
Meanwhile, back at the CIA, Rex has been butting his head against a wall for two months, and the whole place is turning into a kind of nuthouse with piles of crap everywhere. I loved Rex casually harrassing his subordinates and generally being the lovable asswipe he always is. Rex cleverly figures out a new lead on the mysterious Three Families, which almost works out — except that he's stymied, yet again, by his coworker Charlotte, who's secretly a family member. I kind of like Charlotte, especially after she gave Rex the finger in this episode, so I'm looking forward to seeing the two of them have it out next week.
In general, the conspiracy-wrangling got kicked up a notch in this episode. The Three Families are revealed to have been responsible for the destruction of the Manhattan Central Repository, which could have held documents on their secrets. And meanwhile, Jilly Kitzinger has been busy filtering news reports for "Harry Bosco," which is an old intelligence term for censoring the news via slight mistranslation of foreign sources.
Oh, and even if you haven't been a fan of Rex up until now, as I have, you'd still have to enjoy the byplay between Rex and his new boss, Q. Like when Q says he wishes he was the mole, so Rex could shoot him and he could get some sleep. "I'd like that very much, sir," Rex says absolutely deadpan.
Also, the scene where Gwen and Jack deal with the guy who has been spying on Gwen's house is pretty awesome, what with Gwen calling and asking if he's seen her car keys, and then Jack getting the drop on him.
The plot really starts to move forward when Oswald Danes shows up at Gwen's house disguised as the food delivery guy, and wants to see Captain Jack — who's been off having all his blood siphoned off by Esther, because that's one of the few kinks Captain Jack hasn't tried yet. (Or maybe because she has some hunch that Jack's blood is important, and it might be a weapon, which seems a bit of a leap in logic.) Oswald has a lead on the causes of Miracle Day, because he's been spying on Jilly Kitzinger.
The scenes where our heroes confront Oswald are pretty fascinating. Gwen and Rhys nearly beat the tar out of him — Gwen pauses to clean and wipe off the saucepan before whacking Oswald in the head with it — and later, Gwen asks him about the thing he said at his trial, "She should have run faster." Oswald admits he said that, with a smile. And Gwen says that she's known other pedophiles, when she was a cop, and they were "alone and damned and wretched," and Oswald is nothing like that. He's a monster. (A side note: did anybody else find Rhys just unbearably obnoxious in this episode? Way more than usual?)
Which makes me wonder what will happen when, inevitably, Oswald looks into the same monstrous crack in the Earth that Jilly Kitzinger looks into in this episode. Supposedly the Blessing shows you yourself and you confront whatever terrible secrets you've been keeping — but Oswald has no secrets. He's completely open about who he is. Will the Blessing spare Oswald? Will Jack and Gwen and the rest be in more trouble from the Blessing, because they're more conflicted and more full of self-deception?
All along, Torchwood: Miracle Day has been about an event that transforms humanity — mostly by making us immortal, and thus prone to slow, horrible decay in massive numbers. But what if the ultimate meaning of Miracle Day has to do with changing the human race in another way? The people who've looked at the Blessing are the new rulers of the world, the new elite, and there's a weird selection process going on where only the people with no compunction are spared. At least, Jilly, who seems to have no conscience whatsoever, is shown that "I'm right." And from what we've seen of the surviving members of the Families, they seem like a pretty cold-hearted bunch as well.
The Families want Jilly — excuse me, Lucy — on board because she's a "storyteller," whose whole appearance and manner tells a story. And they want her to "write history," because as we've seen over and over again in this series, there's a great power in changing how people view the past. New human race, new history. And Jilly, the completely unscrupulous manipulator who relished selling us a pedophile as our new prophet, is going to be the one who writes the new human history.
So the Blessing is something deep underground, connected to two fissures on opposite sides of the globe, in Shanghai and Buenos Aires. And it's somehow alive, and trying to communicate via the feeling of great dread that it communicates to anyone who comes near. Somehow, activating the Miracle involved setting fire to two blood banks, one in each city. And Jack's blood is connected somehow — and it's drawn to the Blessing as if by a magnet.
It may have taken us a bit too long to get here, but Torchwood: Miracle Day is once again giving us a compelling story, and I can't wait to see how it ends.


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A Good Furniture design example, the Fungus Cafeinus is a creative End Table design. Fungus Cafeinus was designed in 2010, and here is a how it is described by its designer: The Fungus Cafeinus end table was inspired by mushrooms and flowers, the object has quite an organic shape, the bottom part has additional weight to increase the balance.
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Patrick Pitches Transportation Plan At Stockbridge Station
Gov. Deval Patrick called for an increase in the income tax to pay for his proposed investments in infrastructure.
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick called for an "investment in the future" on Friday as he stood in the historic Stockbridge Station.
Patrick traveled across the state to the historic Stockbridge Station on Friday to rally support for his proposed transportation plan, which calls for $113.8 million to rehabilitate rail tracks from Pittsfield to New York City.
The rail is eyed to be a major boon to the Berkshires' tourist economy by providing 2 million passengers a year, enabling many New Yorkers to vacation here. His plan also calls for increased funding for roads, bridges and regional transportation funding.
But, in order to support all of his plans, the governor says the income tax will have to be raised.
"The days of promising things without a way to pay for them are over. We have proposed a way to pay for it and it's going to require new revenue in terms of higher income taxes and lower sales taxes," Patrick said.
Berkshire Visitors Bureau President Lauri Klefos said a study from two years ago has shown that one in four potential visitors from New York claimed they would take the train to get here, which would answer the "No. 1 question" she is asked by out-of-state residents. The study showed that more than 2 million people would take the train here each year.
"The economy not only flows east to west but it flows north to south," said Secretary of Transportation Richard Davey, calling investment in rail as going "back to the future."
Davey said the rail plan is a "down payment" on infrastructure; the state would have to work with Connecticut and find an operator before the project would come to fruition.
"Step one is upgrading this track," he said.
The Berkshire Regional Transportation Authority could also see an increase of $3.2 million in funding with the plan, which would allow it to expand services.
The plan has a multipage list of bridges and roads that would be repaired if the bill passes.
"I can't wait until they come off the train and my buses can pick them up," said BRTA Administrator Gary Shepard.
Shepard said increased services would allow more people to get to work whereas right now, he can't get people to work on Sundays, for the third shift or home after a second shift. While rail would provide more jobs, increased BRTA funding will allow people to get to them.
"We know public transportation is economic development," said state Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, who has taken transportation funding as her primary push in the Legislature. "If we want a future, we have to invest in it."
Beyond rail and public transportation, the plan identifies a number of bridges and roads in the county which would be improved.
"It's a very specific plan. It is not a long wish list of pie-in-the-sky things. It is a very specific plan about meeting some long unmet needs and making some targeted expansion plans," Patrick said.
North Adams Mayor Richard Alcombright and Pittsfield Mayor Daniel Bianchi both spoke about how much the various projects — from increased Chapter 90 funding to rail to roads and bridges — would mean to the county's two largest municipalities.
"We can continue to make mediocre investments or we can make major investments," Bianchi said, adding that the bill would "put thousands of people to work."
While local officials are behind the project, taxpayers will still have to pay for it. Patrick called for a statewide conversation among citizens on how to "build the future." He believes investment in infrastructure now is the state's hope for a stronger economic future.
"Instead of doing what we always do in American politics, which is to retreat to our usual rhetorical corner and not have a conversation based on fact about how we build our own future, instead of doing what we usually do, let's turn to each other and engage on the facts that we are proposing to choose growth. Leaving things as they are is a choice, too, and I believe that is a choice of no growth or low growth," Patrick said.
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Online Privacy and the Commerce Clause
I fear that with the PATRIOT Act on the brain, I've been remiss in continuing the colloquy on behavioral ads and privacy regulation that I'd been having with Jim Harper—who flattered me by responding in a long and thoughtful essay a couple weeks back. Because there's so much interesting stuff there, I hope he won't mind if I restrict myself to the first part of his reply here, in the interest of making this all a bit more digestible to those whose fascination with the topic may not be quite as consuming as ours. I'll consider briefly the constitutional issue Jim raises, and turn to some of the specifics of the issue—and the relative merits of the common law alternative—in another post.
So like every good dorm room bull session, we begin in the weeds of policy and quickly find ourselves breathing the rarefied air of constitutional theory. Supposing for the moment that we thought it were a good idea on policy grounds, would it be within the power of Congress to set ground rules for online advertisers who gather personal data from Web browsers? Recall that there are two particular rules that I've said I'd be tentatively open to, but which Jim rejects: a requirement of notice when information is being collected (say via a small link from the adspace to a privacy policy) and a rule establishing that privacy policies are enforceable, so that individual users can sue for damages if a company knowingly violates its stated policy (thus far, courts have not generally found these to be binding). Does this fall within the power to "regulate commerce ... among the several states"? I think so. I'll start with what I hope will be some uncontroversial arguments and go from there.
So first, let's grant that there's one type of "original intent" that everyone ought to care about, whatever their more general interpretive stance: what Ronald Dworkin calls the linguistic intent of the Framers. That is, if words like "commerce" and "regulate" had narrower meanings in 1787 than they do today, we must, of course, read them now in that light: "Commerce" means actual interstate traffic in goods and services, rather than economic activity more generally, and "regulation" is centrally about establishing uniform rules and procedures. With these appropriately narrowed readings in mind, I think it's still a slam-dunk that online ads are covered.
There are, in fact, at least three different senses in which behavioral ads might be classed as interstate commerce. First, the purchase of the ad space itself is obviously a commercial transaction—frequently though not necessarily between entities in different states—and there's a reasonable question of whether a host site with posted privacy policy is implicitly committed to applying that policy as a condition on ad space sold to third parties. The ads themselves will typically propose a commercial transaction, and in a more direct way than other ads are, can plausibly be seen as the first step in the transaction itself, as clicking on the ad will often bring you directly to a page where you can complete the purchase it recommends. Finally, the personal and behavioral user data collected is itself a valuable commodity, and many sites function with a pretty explicit informational quid pro quo: You will receive access to our content in exchange for registering and providing us with certain data. Since the Internet is borderless, most sites will be getting most of their traffic from people located in different states or countries, and even narrowly state-focused sites are likely to have substantial border-crossing traffic. So on a pretty straight reading of the constitutional language, I find very little reason to doubt that Congress may set uniform default rules for these interstate transactions, rather than leaving it to a patchwork of state rules.
Now, Jim's reason for questioning this seems to be that the primary concern of the Framers was to prevent states from creating trade barriers. That may be, but if we skip ahead to Article 1, Section 10, we find that Congress knew perfectly well how to enact general and purely prohibitory bans on such shenanigans using more apt "no state shall" language. Instead, they used precisely the same language for interstate commerce as they did for international commerce, where history suggests that the Framers (many of them steeped in the mercantilist economic theories of the day) had been above all concerned to preserve the ability to erect protectionist trade barriers. So we're left with a choice between ascribing to the Framers a frankly stunning level of linguistic incompetence or supposing that the Constitution actually does grant the affirmative power that a facial reading suggests.
Needless to say, this does not require us to adopt the post–New Deal reading that places anything with the least potential influence on economic activity under Congressional purview. But we're pretty close to the core here. Indeed, one of the early cases I know Jim considers a lodestone for the "no trade barriers" reading, Gibbons v. Ogden, involves a congressional grant of a license to operate steamboats. The court found that this superseded the monopoly New York had sought to grant another steamboat operator, which fits Jim's point to an extent, but it's crystal clear from that (1824) ruling that the power of Congress here is a broad authority to grant or withhold a privilege to operate interstate vessels, and establish conditions on such vessels, including restrictions on ownership and personnel. It seems to me you'd have to get awfully creative to read the clause in a way that authorizes that kind of authority over an "instrumentality" of commerce (water navigation) but forbids Congress from specifying the kind of notice a merchant must provide when initiating an actual interstate commercial transaction.
A slightly more controversial suggestion: When the specific substantive intent of the Framers is not explicitly embedded in the Constitution's language—by which I mean, the specific use they thought a wise Congress would make of enumerated powers in light of contemporary economic theories, whether liberal or mercantilist—I am not inclined to give it very great weight. Or more bluntly, when the legal language is abstract, I don't think we're bound by an original conception of how or where it applied in specific cases—to the extent such a consideration is even intelligible when we're talking about Internet advertising. Manifestly, very few people at the time of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that the abstract guarantee of "equal protection" entailed a substantive right of black children to attend public schools the states restricted to whites. But insofar as what they wrote into law was the abstract guarantee, I don't think we're required to care what they believed. Our modern reading should be constrained by the original sense of the words used, and to some extent by the original structural purpose served (translated as necessary). But in specific application—whether privacy rules for online ads are encompassed within "regulation" of "commerce"—then even if you pulled out the Ouija board and got a personal verdict from James Madison, it would just be one more opinion.
Finally, and maybe most controversially: What kind of recommendations should we make in a world where our preferred interpretation of the Constitution lost the fight a long time ago? If the question is what we should recommend to judges, presumably we want to recommend that they start shifting back in the direction of a reading we regard as better justified. But what about when, as Jim imagines, we're advising legislators? Should we only recommend what we believe to be authorized by what we hold to be the best reading of the Constitution, or will it sometimes make sense to endorse legislation that is plainly allowed by the current regnant interpretation, but that might be outside the scope of the interpretation we regard as superior? I think it will, partly for theoretical, and partly for pragmatic reasons.
At a practical level, both legislators and citizens widely believe Congress to have broader policy discretion than most of the authors here. So very generally speaking, I don't think it serves limited government to refrain from weighing in on the relative merits of policy options that wouldn't be on the table at all if our arguments had fared better at the meta-level. (Recall the old joke about the principled pacifist answer to how to respond to World War II: Don't sign the Treaty of Versailles!) Now, on this particular question it's not a sure thing that Congress or the FTC will act, and maybe "hands off" is the best advice to give. But there are plenty of areas where there's no realistic chance that Congress is going to abstain altogether, even if we think that's what the best interpretation of the Constitution requires. In those cases, I think it's at least sometimes appropriate to flag the meta objection and then say something about the policy merits. Obviously there are limits—I don't expect I'll ever express a view on the "best" way to run a torture chamber—but there are plenty of issues where it seems perverse for the people most concerned with limited government to sit out the day-to-day debates and focus on getting Wickard v. Filburn overturned, glad as I am that there are folks hammering that.
That dovetails with the theoretical reason, which has to do with the broader question of why constitutional principles are binding on us at all. I assume it is not because the Founders, brilliant though they were, enjoyed some divine right of command that the inheritors of their institutions are compelled to obey. Partly it's that the principles embedded in the Constitution are good ones, but a substantial piece of the answer, I think, is that they provide a stable framework within which we conduct our political and private lives. Judges give weight to stare decisis even when they think the case at the fountainhead of a line of precedent was poorly decided, in part because the legitimacy and authority of law are to a great extent a function of its predictability, of the way it allows us to take actions and make agreements and know pretty much what the legal consequences will be, however much else may remain unpredictable. Constitutional restraints do this one level up, establishing (albeit roughly) a domain of legal variation over the longer term. This is not, for what it's worth, wacky postmodern Critical Legal Studies stuff; it's an extrapolation from Hayek. To imagine that you can remake a society's institutions wholesale—even if your guide is the best interpretation of a founding document, and even if you're pretty sure that interpretation held sway a couple centuries ago—is the fallacy of constructivist rationalists.
Now, I think the right account of why we should regard the Constitution as binding starts with considerations along these lines, but this has the (perhaps unfortunate) consequence that even if you had a super-awesome unanswerable argument for why the Constitution mandates libertopia, at least when read properly absent the accretions of precedent, you still wouldn't have an argument that judges, legislators, and government officials must all start acting on this understanding as of tomorrow. What you'd have is a good starting point for a much more gradual process of paring government back down. Not, to be clear, because I think the Constitution "means whatever the Supreme Court says it does"—that would be incoherent, since the court's practice is unintelligible, and its legitimacy illusory, unless we assume there's an independent meaning for them to strive toward. But an "independent" meaning can be located in a community of interpretation and practice that extends beyond the framing generation. By analogy: If I want to use language "correctly" to communicate, I don't get to just assign whatever meanings I like to words. It's even possible to make a strong argument that the majority of speakers at a particular historical moment are using a word—like "decimate" or "hopefully" or "brutalize"—improperly. But neither does it mean that the first person to coin the term gets to specify its legitimate uses forever. And, in fact, anyone who insisted on using "decimate" to mean only "reduce by ten percent" would probably find his attempts at communication misfiring badly. To say that meaning is necessarily public and independent—consult Hayek's cousin Wittgenstein here—does not require a baptismal view of meaning. Or at any rate, whether it does or not depends on the function your interpretive practice serves.
So yeah, that's all pretty far removed from our original discussion—and I'm hoping far enough below the fold that it doesn't put me on the wrong end of another dozen arguments with colleagues. I'll do another post later this week where I actually get to the policy question, and some potent objections that both Jim and Tim Lee have raised.


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Assalamualaikum and hello everyone.....
Jumaa mubaraq to all...
Yesterday was a very hectic day for me with such tight schedule. I was on my feet, the moment I opened my eyes in the morning right up till my bedtime! Still, my list-to-do doesn't seem to get shorter! I guess that's my punishment for wasting so much time when I was much younger, during college life to be precise. Wasting time in the sense that I don't benefit time to study hard, instead I just enjoyed my days, cleaning my room, listening to music and those sort of things. I hardly get out of campus area even on weekends. I was in ITM Shah Alam for 2 1/2 years and the number of times I went outing with friends, if I am not mistaken, was less than 3 times, that is excluding the trips to the bus station in Klang, to catch a bus back to Malacca. I am a homely kind of girl... and still am, if given a choice! *wink*
And yesterday, managed to prepare the brownies ordered by Yan and posted to her before 3 pm., before the collection time of Poslaju. Hope the brownies will reach her the way I had sent them! Thanks Yan. Pleasure doing business with you. I'll be right here waiting for the feedback. Meantime, I hope you'll enjoy those browmies as much as I had enjoyed baking them for you.
Around 3pm, dropped the kids to the tuition place and off to Selangor Specialist Hospital to get my first Cervarix dose since my papsmear result is clear. Alhamdulillah. Reached home around 5.30pm, managed to sweep the house and out again, to fetch the kids home. After Maghrib, out to send Syahmi to his tuition place and fetch him around 9.30pm. At home, the big pile of laundry was waiting to be folded! Endless endless.....but yeah... I'm happy... and that's what counts....
Anyway, let me leave you now with this new recipe that I've tried last week for Syahmi's lunch. Dug the recipe from Allrecipes. Thanks to Joan for sharing the recipe with us and I'll repost the recipe here, the way I had done it.
Source : Joan Zaffary of Allrecipes
Ingredients :
2 tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic ~ chopped
1 tablespoon chili paste
450g minced meat
1 onion ~ chopped
1 ripe tomatoes ~ diced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons butter
enough water
Method :
1. In large skillet melt butter over medium-high heat. Add in garlic. Fry till fragrant.
2. Add in chillie paste.
3. Add minced meat and tomatoes. Cook until the meat changes color.
4. Stir in chopped onion.
3. Stir in salt and black pepper. Add water to cover, and simmer until water is absorbed, stirring frequently, 10 to 15 minutes.
Till we meet again, take care and have a nice day!


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Can't Stand Being a Mom
If only they'd never had children, these moms think they'd be surfing in Hawaii, at the top of the career ladder or at least not feeling such regret ... and they're not afraid to let their kids know it!
"It is no secret to my children that I consider myself to be carrying out a prison sentence and I'm counting the days 'til I am free."
In her worst moments she feels she's dangerous, hates her children and can't control them. She wonders if her kids would be better off spending less time with her.
Since the death of her mother over a year ago, Andrea resents being a mother to her own kids. Andrea didn't get the time she wanted with her mother before she died, and blames her family.


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Thursday, September 10, 2009
How to Have a Happy Harvest
--some very busy little girls-- --and a finished total of 16 pints of diced tomatoes with basil:On the whole, now that my very first experience in canning is over, I'd say that the process is way easier than I'd thought it would be--if I can do it the first time with no major mishaps, then it's DEFINITELY easier than I thought it would be--but it did require a major fight with my spouse (who agreed before we started that he would not try to tell me how to do anything while we were canning, on account of I have read and watched probably a dozen tutorials on canning and he has read/watched none, and who did not last half an hour before breaking that promise and being asked to go spend some time reading comics at the bookstore), an unplanned trip to Wal-mart on a weekend night to grab more wide-mouth mason jars, and waaaaaaaay more hours than I thought it would. I mean way more, like midnight more.
I've been researching canning and getting advice from real-live people who know how to preserve their own food (thanks, Cake!) for months, now, but this tutorial on canning diced tomatoes and this canning tutorial video were especially super-helpful, and both short enough to look over several times on the day itself. I also was able to follow the instructions that came with my brand-new pressure canner for how to can tomatoes, and thus I was pretty much all set.
I had sort of hoped that the girls would be uninterested in the canning, and would prefer to entertain themselves independently all day while I worked--this was naive. And thus I am now also the expert on how to let a three-year-old and a five-year-old "help" one preserve food. The trick? Have them hand you stuff. They handed me tomatoes from the cold-water bath so that I could peel them, and then they put each skinned tomato into a bowl (and then, sometimes, from that bowl into another bowl...). Or give them scissors and a bowl and let them go mangle your basil plants. And then they can wash the basil, and the tomatoes. And then they can use the scissors to cut the basil. They can stir the pot in which the diced tomatoes with basil needs to boil for five minutes. They can hold the ruler and measure the half-inch headspace in each mason jar as you pour in the hot tomatoes. They can wipe up the ridiculous amount of tomato juice that you spilled. They can carry all the tomato peels out to the compost bin, and help you fill the dishwasher. See? Helpful! And it probably only adds an extra hour or two to the total time you'll spend canning!
So that's one winter's worth of vegetarian chili taken care of:
Now, anybody have a good recipe for a nice, versatile tomato sauce? Cause I bet the farmer's market will have canning tomatoes again this Saturday...
7 comments:
- cake said...
i am so proud of you! and, i see you wisely used a pressure canner. one of my books says it is a bit risky to only use a boiling-water bath for canning tomatoes, but that is all i have, and what we used last year, with no problems. if anything is high-acid, it's tomatoes, right?
i am also impressed with your ability to let the girls help. i will follow your suggestions next time.
- September 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Unknown said...
I always use a water bath for canned tomatoes and never have had a problem. The pressure canning makes me nervous, but I did it last year with green beans. They were the best. I can hardly eat a store bought canned green bean now. I have a really good recipe for bread and butter pickles if you get a bunch of cucumbers. Or, if you like relish for your hot dogs I have an excellent recipe that uses oversized zucchini that you can't tell that it is not cucumbers.
- September 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Anna said...
Well done! I'm pretty sure Molly has made the relish/sauce/chutney from Animal Vegetable Miracle. (http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Relish.pdf) And here's the plain old sauce recipe: http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Tomato%20Sauce.pdf
- September 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM
- julie said...
I have to see what else sells at bulk prices at the farmer's market this year, since I certainly didn't get any bumper crops of cucumber, beans, or zucchini on my own. I was so busy on the craft fair side yesterday that I didn't visit the farmer's market at all (although I did send Matt over to get another box of tomatoes!), but my friend told me later that she'd seen a stand with boxes of "ugly peaches"--I figure they'll be there next week, too, and then I can can me some peaches!
The pressure canner worked perfectly, but I was terrified the first time--you should have seen me and the girls peeping around the doorjamb to watch it, wondering if it was supposed to be making all that noise. I actually remember my Mama doing something with a pressure cooker sometimes, but I don't think she canned ever, so I don't know what she was using it for. Beans?
- September 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Pot roast. Mamma used it to cook roast and potatoes for Sunday lunch. Cooks it really quick and makes it really tender. She did a lot of freezing of vegetables and fruits. Nana was the canner of the family. Maybe that is where we get it.
- September 13, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- julie said...
I remember that pot roast now! I was delicious the next day on Wonder Bread with Miracle Whip.
I also remember that Mama did strawberry freezer jam (unless that was Nana?) in little margarine tubs, and pimiento cheese, also in the little margarine tubs. So yummy.
- September 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- Unknown said...
Mamma did the strawberry jam. Daddy still makes the pimento cheese. The best.
- September 13, 2009 at 11:00 PM