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It has been awhile since my last column. To no one's surprise, I have still been wrestling every weekend. In fact, I return to Toronto on Aug. 12 for the Heavy T.O. Heavyweight series, an event at which I look forward to seeing all my hardcore Canadian fans and my Kingston Whig-Standard supporters. Remember my exclusive newspaper deal: bring a copy of one of my columns to an event and I will give you a free autographed 8x10 and pose for a picture.
I also recently shot a cool horror film called Self Storage, starring Eric Roberts (Pope of Greenwich Village, Expendables, Batman Dark Knight), Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and Michael Berryman (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, The Hills Have Eyes and my favourite Motley Crue video -- "Smokin' In The Boys Room").
It is my second film and I have others on the way. I really enjoy acting and I was honoured to have Roberts compliment me on my acting skills and believability. He went out of his way to help me. It amazes me how people believe wrestlers can't do other things. We do live theatre every week on TV, after all, with little to no margin for error. Acting is natural for us. I, for one, am glad that someone took the chance on me.
The bigger news is that I am finally throwing my name into the wrestling promoting business. I've always wanted to run my own show, so I figure there is no better time than the present. After all, I am not getting any younger and all the chips fell in the right places. It's not new territory for me, either. I ran hundreds of shows in Extreme Championship Wrestling, did a few for World Wrestling Entertainment and one in Total Nonstop Action. They were all successful, but in the end, were for someone else's benefit. Yes, it is a risk financially, just like starting any business, but one I have to take for many reasons.
It all begins on Oct. 6 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (which would be a roughly 500-kilometre drive from Kingston for my fans there).
This is how I see things, straight from the mission statement on my website (houseofhardcore.net).
All great things begin with two combustible elements -- passion and work ethic. With one, a competitor may make it far, but risks the chance of crashing and burning. With both, however, all great warriors are destined for greatness. That is the origin of the term hardcore and the very backbone of the House of Hardcore, when it debuts at the last historic wrestling venue still standing and unchanged, the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.
The term "hardcore" in professional wrestling has been perverted over time and has come to be synonymous with the more violent elements of the business. However, while that gritty aspect may be an element of hardcore, it's not what true hardcore wrestling is only about.
House of Hardcore is about work ethic. I have chosen the men and women who will compete in House of Hardcore to wrestle on this first show for that reason, work ethic. Hardcore isn't about blood, barbed wire and tables. It was always and will always be about a competitor giving everything they have physically, mentally, emotionally in their match. It is about the passion of what you do, what you give of yourself in the ring. Hardcore is about giving your heart and soul to the fans. That is the backbone of what House of Hardcore is about.
That mission statement has been the mantra of my professional wrestling career, both behind the scenes and in front of the eyes of the fans. I've fought the wars, won the world championships and suffered the agony of defeats. I've overcome injuries, faced desperation and trials and anguish. Through it all, with each fall, I've risen back to my feet, ready and willing to fight again, my spirit unbroken. Now, it's time for the broken spirit of professional wrestling to rise like a Phoenix out of the politics, the sideshow, the haze that has hindered its evolution, its honour and its passion. It's time for the House of Hardcore to rise. It's time for a place where wrestling fans can find the wrestling they desire, with no catches.
Without the fans, quite simply, there is no Tommy Dreamer. I am forever in debt to all of them for letting me live my dream. When I left WWE, I said the fans were my family and I mean that. They are my family and they've fed my family. Now, it's time to give back to them. We have the chance to entertain the fans the only way I know how, wrestling, in the last historic building left. The others are gone, gutted or renovated or destroyed. So, we make our stand in Poughkeepsie, for the fans. This is my money, my reputation and my quest to give my family, the fans, an event they will remember for a lifetime. I can remember being there for so many special moments as a fan and being part of so many as a wrestler. I want those moments to happen on Oct. 6. Via social media, my website and from speaking to fans at events and in airports, I've heard everyone's pleas for there to be something different. So, I am going to risk it all to show the world that change can be made. Pro wrestling can be great again -- and it should be great.
It has been a journey decades in the making, literally a lifetime, birthed out of the love of professional wrestling I have carried in my heart seemingly forever.
I have prepared for this day most of my life. Since I saw my first match as a child, I have loved professional wrestling. Some wrestlers will distance themselves from this, but I am proud to say I am still a fan. I can recall my entire journey with great vivid detail. Taking red marker to my Star Wars toys while imagining they were Tommy Rich and Mr. Wrestling 2 in the heat of battle. Going to the wrestling matches with my dad. Buying every wrestling magazine and merchandise I could fine. Slapping hands with Bob Backlund -- my favourite at the time -- before he wrestled. The excitement of my first autograph, Arnold Skaaland. Buying the first 8x10 photo of my hero, a bloody Dusty Rhodes. Wearing my first wrestling T-shirt "Barry Windham's The Kid is Hot Tonight" until it fell off. The joy of Hulkamania. The sadness of waking up Christmas morning and not getting tickets to the Omni's Christmas Day spectacular. The joy of riding the escalator into the first WrestleMania. Getting up the courage to meeting Ricky Santana in a gym and telling him I would be a professional wrestler. My first day of training. The welts under my arm pits and across my back. My body hurting so bad from the first bump. Setting up the ring. Carrying jackets to the back. The joy of my first match. My first trip on the road. Signing my first autograph. Wrestling my first big star, Tony Atlas. Being flown to a show the first time by a promoter. Finding the ECW Arena. Making the business my life 24/7. My first WWF tryout. My first WCW contract offer. Living and dying by ECW -- in the ring, in the studio, in life. Being a part of something so groundbreaking. Designing shirts. Running locker rooms. Winning the ECW World title. Booking shows and angles. My first action figure. My first video game. The lowest part of my life when ECW went under. Getting hired by WWE. Being on the opening of Monday Night Raw. Wrestling in Madison Square Garden that first time against Perry Saturn. Working in the WWE office. Helping others achieve their dream. Writing a WWE pay-per-view. Getting to see ECW return to life and be recognized for what it was. Wrestling at WrestleMania. Receiving another shot as a talent in the ring when I was written off. Winning the ECW title again. The sadness of choosing to leave WWE. My farewell night. Going to TNA. Writing a successful PPV there. Leaving TNA. Returning to the indies. Preparing for life after wrestling. There have been so many memories. All of them, good and bad, happy and angry, have prepared me for this.
But why now? Why the House of Hardcore?
I have done it all. It's cliche, but it's so true. I've seen it all -- so much of it great and sadly, so much of it bad. I see the state of wrestling and it kills me, as someone who loves it. I needed to do something about it. I needed to prove to the world, and especially myself, that pro wrestling isn't based on politics and that the person in charge shouldn't determine your career path. The paying customer should decide who they like and want to see. Talent should be the reason a competitor rises to stardom. Fans want to come to a wrestling show to cheer, to boo, to hold up signs and scream and basically, to be entertained. They don't want BS. They don't want politics. They just want great wrestling. On Oct. 6, my journey takes me to a place where we can give fans that great wrestling.
I don't want people to think this show is about Tommy Dreamer. It's about me giving back to the fans and everyone who made Tommy Dreamer so that a new crop of wrestlers can live the dream that I lived. This is my way to thank my parents for supporting me with my wrestling habit. To thank Dusty Rhodes for being my hero. To thank Johnny Rodz for training me. To thank Paul Heyman for believing in me and mentoring me. To thank Terry Funk and Mick Foley for making me Hardcore. To thank Joey Styles for making me legit. To thank Jim Ross for hiring me and never, ever lying to me. To thank John Laurinaitis for supporting me and helping get ECW off the ground in WWE, growing from a pay-per-view to a new show. To thank Shane McMahon for fighting battles for me in the corporate world. To thank Vince Russo for letting me have creative freedom. To thank Dixie Carter for making me have passion again about wrestling and to thank Vince McMahon for being the most influential man in my life beyond my father. Vince's life journey and decisions have really made my career and life path. Every person who worked in pro wrestling has to admit that.
Most of all, this is a thank you to every wrestler, both male and female, with whom I have worked, travelled, bled, sweated, laughed, cried and shared so many amazing moments. I am blessed to have met you all. You have all made my life better knowing you. But, above all else, this is my thank you to the wrestling fans, my family. I was lucky enough to cross over the guard rail, but I never forgot my roots. I never will.
On Oct. 6, professional wrestling returns to its roots as the sport of kings, where men fought for glory, for vengeance, for gold and for honour.
Tommy Dreamer is a legendary and influential pro wrestler and a father and husband who has worked for World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action. His column appears in the Kingston Whig-Standard and on SLAM! Wrestling. Follow him on Twitter @THETOMMYDREAMER and check out his website at thetommydreamer.com. He can be booked for live appearances through his website. Check out his new, custom-designed T-shirts and merchandise on his website as well.


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Over the five years that I've been writing about food and drink in Toronto, Jamie has been one of my most well-known colleagues. Undoubtedly, that's partly because he's a friendly, gregarious person, but it didn't hurt that starting in early 2011 he became known for being the guy with the video camera asking you to put a piece of treated paper in your mouth while he recorded your reaction. (more…)


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PASADENA – A private fund-raising group aiming to plug the Rose Bowl renovation's $20 million financing gap has received $5.7 million in pledges so far, the campaign director said this week.
Only $500,000 of that amount has been received in hand so far, said Andrea Van de Kamp, campaign director of Legacy Connections.
Van de Kamp said she also hopes to announce a $5 million fund-raising project of the campaign by the fall.
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Legacy Connections first had to focus on coming up with naming opportunities and price points that all partners agreed with, which took significant time, she said.
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Joe Torre has left the door open to managing again and would be interested in talking with the Wilpons.
"I am curious," Torre said yesterday. "When the season is over, I hope the phone will be ringing… I don't really anticipate managing again, but I think it would be unfair not to listen just out of curiosity to see if something excites me."
In this case, one plus one must equal two.
I am a Torre advocate, and believe he would immediately change the culture around this stagnant organization. Future Hall of Fame managers aren't readily available and if this one is interested the Mets would be doing themselves and their frustrated fan base a disservice if they don't explore the possibility.
The man has four World Series rings on his resume as a manager, which I believe is four more than Wally Backman and Bobby Valentine. He knows how to win and knows the pressure that comes in winning in New York.
For all the talk about building with youth, Torre knows how that's done as it is how the Yankee dynasty under him was built. One cornerstone at a time: Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada.
And, nobody commands respect like Torre. If there's a crisis, I'd rather have a guy who has known he can handle it over a guy who has never managed on this level. You also won't catch him sitting in the dugout with glasses and a fake moustache.
And please, let's not talk about his laid back personality. He has his players' attention. I've said it before, his is an iron fist in a velvet glove.
Torre would immediately bring respectability to the Mets, give them a credibility they have long lacked.
Let's also not talk about him being 70 years old. He keeps himself in great shape and the Mets would provide a challenge to keep him interested. The Mets are a .500 team, that with a little tweaking, adding and luck, could improve on that next season. The aura of what Torre would bring to the table would automatically improve the Mets.
Torre would change the atmosphere in his first year, and in his second, after the books have been cleared of Carlos Beltran, Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez – and possibly Francisco Rodriguez – his reputation would undoubtedly attract free agents who previously might have shunned the Mets.
Don Mattingly will manage the Dodgers next year after working under Torre. If the Mets are indeed grooming Backman, wouldn't it be better for him to learn under Torre than to throw him to the wolves now?
David Wright spoke the other day about changing the attitude, the culture of the Mets and Torre would do that unquestionably. He brings the dimension of winning to the table that few other candidates can provide.
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Animation Project - Blender vs Carrara
I am about to start my first serious animation project a 3 or 4 minute short. My goal was to use it as a learning project about animation in Carrara. which I bought from Evovia just before it was acquired by Daz. However, I am having second thoughts and may do the animation in Blender instead.
I admit I love using content and Genesis but the animation tool set is a little more robust in Blender. I have been using Blender more and more. In fact, I have done maybe twice as many animation in Blender then I have in Carrara. However, all of my sets are content and the outdoor scenes would be much easier to in Carrara.
I could bring them in as objects and I already have a couple of characters that I modeled and rigged in blender, but they are not as good as what I can get from Daz
Blender's dynamic hair, dynamic cloth and the particle system are better than what is available in Carrara (or I don't really know how to use them as well) and I am not sure if Daz is really going to invest the development time into improving those parts of Carrara.
But Blender does not support content and I truly love the versatility that brings
I guess my dilemma is do I invest the several months working on this animation into Carrara or Blender. If I use blender, I will have to do a lot more modeling and rigging and that will extend the time that it takes to finish and I am not sure I can really get the look that I want.
I have not had much luck moving things from carrara to blender.
tylerzambori Posts: 77
I wonder how well the Mdd plugin could work for that......I've been thinking about that
MDD plugin lately.
Kevin Sanderson Posts: 1,298
This artist is using the animation tools in Carrara pretty well in this video. Makes me think of the videos of people using messiah, which is an awesome animation tool. I don't understand French so I'm not sure of the usage of Puppeteer in this way but it sure looks good.
MDD might be a good option. BVH is another. I was thinking of using those with messiah to get animations into Carrara if I run into problems with Carrara. But I too am looking to Carrara for animation of content. If only content was more readily handled by other packages. Blender has some neat effects capabilities, but they are involved to setup.Post edited by Kevin Sanderson on
Hmmm, I wonder how well mdd would work. Another thing that Carrara has going for is its shader system is much easier to use.
But, I really like Blenders dynamic cloth and hair.
Either software that I use is going to create trade-offs in the final product.
Wendy_Carrara Posts: 19,241
I have Messiah too but never use it, one of those impulse buys, I did however get Genesis in dynamic cloth animated into it via Animate2 mdd plugin for Daz studio.
I have gotten mdd exports out of Carrara into Blender too but Blender is even more beyond my small brain, oddly I can also via collada export get stuff I and others have rigged in Carrara into Blender as a dae import but not Daz figures, they mangle up when animated.
I cannot get Blender stuff out rigged, bought the Sintel box set and tried quite a bit but so far the skeletons do not remain attached or only partly.
tylerzambori Posts: 77
They're also working FBX import in blender now - hopefully that could work too.
wendy♥catz said:... Carrara into Blender as a dae import but not Daz figures, they mangle up when animated.
I cannot get Blender stuff out rigged, bought the Sintel box set and tried quite a bit but so far the skeletons do not remain attached or only partly.
That has been my experience for the most part.
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PhilW Posts: 4,830
I've used MDD a lot for moving animations into and out of Marvelous Designer which I use for cloth animation. I have also had some success in using lo-res proxies to improve hair animation. As a long term Carrara user, Blender would be a big learning curve for me, so I would do it in Carrara but it has to be a personal choice.
I used Carrara in doing an animation for a music video (which I did around six months ago but has just been released!):
The animation kicks in around 4:00 (but I recommend watching it all!)
3DAGE Posts: 3,298
What about using the best of both, by rendering out animation sequences with alpha channel backgrounds, and then compiling in a video editor.
you can make a plane in carrara, and have a sequence of images applied to that. (like a sprite) so, you could combine stuff in carrara from blender or any other software,...also, backgrounds or set's rendered separately, combined with animated figures or sprite's in blender could get you round some content handling issues.
Carrara is about the only 3d software that I have really used except for Blender and I have only been using it since 2.5 I love Carrara but I wish the developers would try to improve some of the non-content features like hair, particles, soft body physics and the animation timeline.
Blender is much more powerful in these areas and with 2.5 blender is not that hard to use. Plus Blenders animation tool are better and in many ways easier to use then the ones in Carrara. My modeling and rigging skills are okay but not in the same league as what I can get from content creators.
Don't get me wrong, I would have been very disappointed if Carrara would not have added support for Genesis. The flexibility that Genesis gives is just unbelievable. I love using content
I will probably use Carrara and if Carrara lags in development in the future most of the skills I learn with this project will be transferable to Blender. I might have to rewrite the script a little.
3DAGE said:What about using the best of both, by rendering out animation sequences with alpha channel backgrounds, and then compiling in a video editor.
you can make a plane in carrara, and have a sequence of images applied to that. (like a sprite) so, you could combine stuff in carrara from blender or any other software,...also, backgrounds or set's rendered separately, combined with animated figures or sprite's in blender could get you round some content handling issues.
Hmm, that thought crossed my mind but I have not done much with composting scenes so it would definitely add to the learning experience
Kevin Sanderson Posts: 1,298
Compositing could save you tons of time and frustration. The way Andy (3DAGE) suggested will save you even more time as you can see where effects are going and they can be enhanced with lights, etc. in Carrara. As good as Blender fire looks, it's still not as good as the real thing, so I've been planning on adding things like that into scenes in Carrara as needed. There are some very good affordable stock footage VFX collections around (especially the ones at Video Copilot). And you can easily animate lights to make it look like the fire is casting flickering light and more tricks like that. You can put sprites into the Carrara particle generator that will really enhance what it can do. I don't think many use it as well as it could be used. I think Age of Armour has made the best use of it so far. I have so many ideas but so little time working a split shift.
I'm experimenting with hair in the coming weeks and I'm thinking of trying it on geometry that has morphs so it can be moved that way for more control. There are many ways of doing things and sometimes it's better not to let the software package do everything.
PhilW Posts: 4,830
Doing it in multiple passes can be useful even if only working in Carrara (or Blender). For the music video animation, I rendered out the backgrounds first, containing the moving water surface (from the underside), shafts of visible light (using an animated light gel) and particles for debris in the water. I then used this in the Backdrop when I added the characters, and more particles for bubbles. It made setting up the animations easier without so many elements all in the same scene, and sometime I was able to re-use a background sequence so it didn't have to be rendered twice.
BC Rice Posts: 590
Something I learned about using Carrara for 12-24fps character animation (and this may only apply to me), is that I can either use it in conjunction with mocaps (gfa, BHV, etc) or I can animate robot people -- androids, cyborgs, transformers, etc. But if I'm animating living, breathing organic life without the aid of any motion capture, I'm not sure Carrara is best suited for this kind of animation.
A little OT perhaps, but I think at the stage you're at (development) it's really important to know exactly why you're creating the animation you want to create.
For instance, my main objective is to tell stories, so I'm able to get creative in the presentation. I'm not stuck in a fixed mindset that I need to create an animation that move and looks like a Pixar animation.
If story is your main objective, I personally believe compositing is in fact the most important tool you can have at your disposal. Whether you use Carrara or Blender or both, learning how to composite and manipulate images is key. I cannot use Carrara without After Effects or Flash.
If your objective is to showcase your abilities as an animator, that's a tougher position, because if you're looking to be hired by a studio, they're not hiring people to animate in Carrara or Blender. And I'm not certain that practicing in either of these disciplines will help you to animate in, say, Maya.
If you don't have it, I would suggest grabbing a cheap copy of PS (or whatever program you'd like) and start fiddling around with PNG sequences. AE and PS are essentially the same program when it comes to compositing.
You can composite just inside Carrara and Blender, but I still think the workload is too intense if your objective is to just tell a story.
Even something like Rosa which was a huge achievement by a single animator relied heavily on Mocaps and, while some of it was done in Blender, obviously DAZ content was used, as well as a ton of compositing.
The main purpose is to tell a story using animation and to learn as much as possible especially in the area of character animation. This is strictly a personal project to push my 3d knowledge.
Carrara, Blender, DS Studio and Poser 7 are the 3d apps that I own and I am not planning on buying anything else, but I want to get decent results using these products.
I currently teach graphics design and animation in a public high school, so I have access to the entire Adobe suite through adobe creative cloud ($30 a month)
BC Rice Posts: 590swordvisions said:The main purpose is to tell a story using animation and to learn as much as possible especially in the area of character animation. This is strictly a personal project to push my 3d knowledge.
Carrara, Blender, DS Studio and Poser 7 are the 3d apps that I own and I am not planning on buying anything else, but I want to get decent results using these products.
I currently teach graphics design and animation in a public high school, so I have access to the entire Adobe suite through adobe creative cloud ($30 a month)
So your learning process is primarily about telling your own stories, not to utilize it as a reel in order to get a job animating in the studio system? If that's the case, then I say go forth and use the products at your disposal. No need to invest in anything further.
But I'd reiterate the focus on compositing.
I look at something like Star Trek: Aurora which is just such a massive achievement by a single animator. It took him 5 years to finish it, he used motion capture for a lot of the animation, and while the animation is not distracting, it's still limited in some areas as are some of the aesthetics. Aurora is a MUCH larger feat than was Rosa, but because Rosa had layer upon layer (upon layer) of composited effects, to me they're not even in the same league -- which doesn't take anything away from the accomplishment of Aurora (it inspires me frequently), but it certainly speaks to the importance of compositing.
I'd even take the Rosa/Aurora comparison a step further and point out that the characters in Rosa were android-esque while the characters in Aurora were human folk.
Even with motion capture and a devout focus to a project, I still think that a single animator animating a CG rig is going to have struggles selling the humanity of the character. Especially if you're not working with something like Maya. There's just so many hours upon hours of tweaking that goes into a single moment to sell *life*. Traditional animation has it much easier because it's organic from beginning to end. The rig is a rig is a rig no matter what it's posed as.
So just some food for thought. Any opportunity for your characters to not be *alive*, I think, takes an incredible (possibly insurmountable) burden off the individual animator, especially when using inferior animation software. I personally refuse to animate living things unless it's motion capture, and even then the project I'm working on now is meshed with a lot of compositing to disguise the fact that I'm using less-than-stellar animation software and am a single animator doing it all myself.
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geli.holte_53070dbc82 Posts: 0swordvisions said:The main purpose is to tell a story using animation and to learn as much as possible especially in the area of character animation. This is strictly a personal project to push my 3d knowledge.
If you want to learn character animation from scratch, Carrara is not so bad.
Especially the clearly arranged timeline in Carrara is a great advantage.
Maybe the fully automated animation tools in some other programs are very helpfull, but if you can use Poser and DAZ Studio for create for example walkcycles for DAZ content characters, you can save many time, because the modelling of characters is very time-consuming.
Some helpfully tools for character animation in Carrara are Sparrowhawkes "The Jiggle Deformer" plugin and Fenrics "Pose Helper" and "Carrara Enhanced Remote Control".
If you want to use BVH-Data for animation, you should watch this video:
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If you want to use BVH-Data for animation, you should watch this video:
I have not decided if I want to use bvh data or not but thanks for the link. It was helpful
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HI Swordvisions :)
BVH is "still" probably the most abundant animation format available,. most motion capture systems kick out BVH, as does Poser and DS
and with Fenrics plugin .... so does Carrara,. :)
You can get BVH editors but,... using something like DS / animate2 to Edit down "chunks" of animation from the Carnegie Mellon collection can be an interesting way to build more useful animations from what are essentially a bunch of (free) "test" motion capture files.
I also agree with LamaGeli that posers Walk designer is really useful for making basic walks to use in other programs , whether you save them as Animated poses PZ2, or export them out as BVH.
with poser (or DS) you can also import the BVH onto a figure,and save as PZ2 to use in Carrara.
I also use Fenrics BVH/PZ2 exporter to export walks (which I've made in poser),. then brought into Carrara, to add the forward motion, ..then export them out again,.. so that I can use them in Endorphin to make more complex animations using endorphin's dynamic physics.
You can obviously convert any of the animations to Carrara NLA then you have the ability to use several in different tracks and limit what clip animates which figure part.


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Julius(and all others about to read this), may your Halloween be chock full of your favorite candies, and hopefully the only eggs you see are in the fridge(not your door) and may your trees be toilet paper free.
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Phoenix Man Pleads Guilty to Stalking a Woman in Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland - David Charles Richards, age 49, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty today to stalking a woman in Maryland.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to Richards' guilty plea, from December 2006 through November 2011, Richards used the internet, telephone, electronic mail and the U.S. mail to stalk a woman in Maryland, including threatening to kill the woman. Richards and the woman had a prior romantic relationship, which the woman described as both troubled and violent.
According to Richards' plea agreement, after not having any contact with the victim for almost 15 years, in June 2006, Richards contacted the victim's sister telling her that he still loved the victim but wanted to hurt her. Beginning in July 2006, and during each subsequent year, the victim sought and was granted protective orders forbidding Richards to contact her. On December 11, 2006, the victim discovered that a website had been created in her name, which included a countdown clock to the expiration of the protective order the victim had taken out against Richards and other threatening material. In March of 2008, Richards attempted to purchase a firearm in Arizona, but failed to disclose that he was subject to a protective order. He was denied purchase of a firearm by ATF due to his prohibited person status. In December 2009, Richards mailed a threatening note, along with torn and shredded pieces of the protective orders that had been served upon him, to the victim's home. Through January 2010, Richards left the victim at least eight voicemails totaling one hour and 40 minutes in length. Richards continued to post threats on websites directed at the victim, including as recently as November 2011. Richards' long campaign of harassment and threats placed the victim in fear of death and serious harm.
Richards faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for stalking. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander has scheduled sentencing for June 24, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Richards remains detained.
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I've noticed that when a modern political party loses more than once to the other party's presidential nominee, it tends then to nominate a candidate who shares an important personal characteristic with its tormentor.
Ronald Reagan trounced the Democrats twice. Eventually they nominated (and won with) an exceptional communicator. Bill Clinton defeated the Republicans twice. They responded by nominating (and winning with) a candidate who could speak the language of compassion. After George Bush won for a second time, the Dems found success through a candidate who shared Bush's likability advantage.
This is a sensible way for parties to react to defeat. It enables them to copy one important aspect of the other side's success without giving in on substance.
So how will the Republicans react to President Obama's success? The obvious answer is to nominate someone who shares his youthfulness. And it is likely that our next nominee — be it Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, or someone else — will be relatively young.
A second option is to nominate a candidate who shares Obama's glibness and willingness to take serious liberties with the truth. Fortunately, we avoided this temptation following the Clinton presidency, but will we do so a second time?
If not, the beneficiary will be Marco Rubio. Rubio isn't as unprincipled as Obama. Whatever one thinks about the merits of his immigration stance and about his tactics, the Florida Senator has taken a political risk by aligning himself with the Democrats on this hot-button issue. Obama was more of an opportunist.
Throughout the immigration debate, however, Rubio and his team have demonstrated an alarming lack of candor. They have also mimicked Team Obama to some extent in their willingness to use Chicago-style tactics against conservative opponents.
Candidate Obama and potential candidate Rubio have much in common. Both are/were young, fresh-faced minorities who made their name by speechifying, and thus have enormous confidence in their ability to talk their way out of a jam. Both receive plenty of slack because of who they are and what they represent. Both are prepared to put that slack to use by twisting the truth when necessary.
Obama is better at this than Rubio. But even if that were not the case, it would be a mistake for Republicans to nominate a presidential candidate who mimics Obama to that extent. We simply could not trust such a candidate.
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The Wassaic Project in Dutchess County, NY, opens its doors to the public this weekend, and as part of their community-focused, multidisciplinary arts agenda, the exhibit Sea Change aims to push the boundaries of environmental art photography and investigations of controlled settings. Rural Wassaic is an ideal stage for this three-day festival that explores our engagement with the natural world and one another. Sea Change, curated by Alison Zavos, is a group photography exhibit that will closely examine our relationship with the fragile environment and the animals that populate our world.
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In the wake of the BP oil spill tragedy, it seems urgent to open up the doors of every community space in small town America in order to get to the bottom of what ails and endangers us. Curator and photographer Alison Zavos, who also is the editor of the online photo journal Feature Shoot , has done just this by bringing together 25 emerging and established photographers (most of whom are based in New York) for a thought-provoking line up that also references our ability to 'see change'.
Highlights of the show include Nadya Wasylko's image of sunbathers fighting for space along the bank of the polluted Dnipro River in Ukraine; Katie Shapiro's 'Malibu Sandbags' series, which documents a last ditch attempt by residents to save their properties from rising sea levels; Katharyn Addcox's photographs of women involved in sustainable farming; Kate Kunath's documentation of beekeepers, signifying the rise of a more conscious 'back to the land' approach; and Mark Mahaney's entrancing image of a mother and fawn frolicking on a manicured lawn.
Sea Change is on view from August 13-22, 2010 and will be installed on the beautifully decaying walls of seven rooms in the old Greek Revival Hotel section of Maxon Mills. Having grown up in the Hudson Valley, just one town over from Wassaic, it is exciting for me to see this former agricultural ghost town experience a renaissance through cultural and artists endeavors such as this. Metro-North trains now serve the area, but given the decades long struggle to re-invent this former grain hub and distribution center, it is promising to see green farming valleys being reseeded with creative enterprise.
Participating photographers include: Alexander Diaz, Annick Rosenfield, Billie Mandle, Charlie Engman, Elizabeth Weinberg, Eric White, Eva Fazzari, Geordie Wood, Jacqueline Di Milia, Kate Kunath, Katharyn Addcox, Katie Shapiro, Lexi Adams, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski, Mark Mahaney, Marten Elder, Nadya Wasylko, Niv Rozenberg, Rachel Barrett, Rob Hann, Robert Warren, Stanislav Ginzburg, Steven Brahms and Timothy Briner.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is concealing pharmaceutical companies' violations of the law that have made members of the public "guinea pigs," a health insurance watchdog group said yesterday.
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) inspections conducted by the FDA earlier this year of pharmaceutical manufacturers found that many drugs had been manufactured in a way that failed to comply with what had been described in their marketing authorizations, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Chieh-ju (陳節如) said.
The inconsistencies are in violation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (藥事法), the Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations (藥物優良製造準則) and the Regulations for Registration of Medicinal Products (藥品查驗登記審查準則), and the firms and the FDA have placed patients at risk due to inadequate safety and quality of the drugs produced, Chen said in a joint statement issued with the National Health Insurance Civilian Surveillance Alliance.
The alleged changes, without seeking the approval of the regulator, have been made to package inserts, packaging and the excipient used, the group said.
However, the most dangerous of the violations has been the failure to provide bioequivalence (BE) test reports, or reports on clinical trials and whether, by monitoring the differences in blood levels, a potential to-be-marketed generic drug product is bioequivalent to a reference brand-name pharmaceutical, it added.
"As of this March, the FDA found at least 3,841 items that failed to comply with the regulations. We have no idea how many of these drugs did not have BE reports, since a request to the FDA for the relevant information has been denied by the authority, which cited the Personal Information Protection Act," Huang Sue-ying (黃淑英), convener of the alliance, told a press conference at the legislature in Taipei.
The FDA has not asked firms producing these substandard products to suspend manufacturing nor have the products been withdrawn from the market. The list of products and the relevant information has not been made public, which means patients and healthcare providers cannot avoid using these drugs, she added.
What has enraged the group is how the drug companies' actions were exposed. The FDA made an announcement on March 28 saying that for drugs without a BE report, but which have been on the market for at least five years and thereby have a long-term clinical experience, "their clinical experience can substitute for the required BE test if no serious adverse effects or therapeutic inequivalence have been reported."
"This is no different to exploiting patients, allowing them to become the manufacturers' guinea pigs at the NHI's expense," alliance spokeswoman Eva Teng (滕西華) said.
What is more, drugs that were manufactured and marketed after Jan. 1, 2009, and which therefore do not meet the five-year requirement, have been granted a two-year probationary period to complete BE tests without a suspension of sales of the drug during the testing period, Huang said.
"The BE test reports done by the these manufacturers are only subject to random spot-checks by the FDA," Huang said.
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After 6 years on Broadway the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q will play its final performance on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th, 2009. It will have played 2,534 performances and 22 previews, surpassing THE PRODUCERS (on August, 17th), ANNIE, OKLAHOMA!, and PIPPIN, among many others to become the 20th longest running show in Broadway history.
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The Packers drafted Ha Ha Clinton-Dix in the first round this year, but they may not be done adding at safety.
Former Bills, Ravens, Jets and Broncos safety Jim Leonhard wants to continue playing this season and the Wisconsin native told WQOW that he has spoken to his home state's team about donning their uniform.
"It would mean a lot, but we've had a lot of conversations with teams, Green Bay being one of them," Leonhard said, via CheeseheadTV.com. "They're a great organization, I'd love to play for them but it hasn't worked out up to now. You never know what can happen in the future, but we'll see. They're a great organization and it's always fun to see the fans and have a lot of family that follows them closely."
Leonhard played all 16 games for the Bills last season, starting seven times and picking off four passes. The Packers have Morgan Burnett back from last year to go with Clinton-Dix and Micah Hyde, who has made the move from cornerback, so there's not a particularly pressing need for another safety. That explains why nothing has worked out up to now and why Leonhard, who is also an experienced punt returner, may have to look elsewhere if he's going to play in 2014.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State sorority is shutting down a little more than a year after a photo of members wearing sombreros and holding offensive signs circulated on the Internet.
One of the signs held by Chi Omega sisters said "will mow lawn for weed + beer" and another said "I don't cut grass I smoke it." Some of the women pictured wore fake mustaches.
The sorority was shut down Tuesday. It had been placed on probation in December 2012.
The national organization said its governing council had worked with the local chapter to keep it open but many members "did not adhere to the mandated requirements."
Chi Omega national president Letitia Fulkerson said the chapter was closed because "concerns continue to persist."
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As a glasses-wearer, and I have been since the third grade, I'm always fond of anyone who wears glasses in TV shows. Thinking about it, not too many people wear glasses on TV. How many can you list? Here's all I came up with.
- Steve Urkle
- Dexter (from Dexter's Laboratory)
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- Harry Potter
- Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down'
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No matter how well the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Blue Devils play against other schools, the Agnes Irwin softball team always seems to have their number.
The 2012 Girls Inter-Ac campaign ended with SCH in second place with a 9-3 record that included a pair of defeats at the hands of the Irwin Owls, who took the league title with a mark of 11-1.
Last Wednesday the visiting Owls completed a 2013 season sweep of SCH, accumulating just enough runs for the mercy rule to kick into effect at the end of five innings, when the tally was 10-0. Back on April 5, Irwin took a 10-1 decision from the visiting Devils in seven innings.
The outcome of last week's rematch left SCH with a record of 2-6 in league play and 5-7 overall, while the Owls went home at 5-2, 9-2.
Hosting the game at Houston Playground in Andorra while their new campus field is under construction, the Blue Devils actually outhit their guests, 5-4, but they walked 11 Owls batters and at the plate they left eight of their own runners stranded on base.
Junior pitcher Katie Wenger picked up the win for Irwin, striking out six while giving up three bases on balls. Freshman Madi Saltzman logged one strike-out as she went the distance in the circle for SCH.
Owls senior shortstop Lauren Fortunato, a fifth-year varsity player headed for Skidmore College, walked to lead off the game, then a hit batter gave the visitors another baserunner. That set the stage for a two-run hit by Wenger, who drove the ball directly over second base.
With another walk, a passed ball, and a stolen base, the Owls had runners on second and third, and then one of them scored on a ground-out to short. After a pop-up for the second out, three straight walks loaded the bases and then forced a run home to make it 4-0. Coming up a second time in the inning, Fortunato popped out to end the Devils' ordeal.
In the first turn at bat for SCH, freshman Ashley Lubisky had a hit to right field, but couldn't advance beyond second base. After Irwin added a fifth run in the top of the second on a hit by Emily Speakman, the Devils were much more composed when they returned to the batter's box. Wenger, for once, seemed a little shaky.
SCH sophomore Brigit McDermott started it off with a walk, but was tagged out trying to steal second. Her classmate Kathleen Foley singled, dropping the ball in behind first base inside the foul line. Junior Emily Miller-McGlone slapped a ball to the left side which AI's Fortunato knocked down and then picked up, but her toss to second was too late to nail the leader runner, Foley.
The two Blue Devils stole ahead to second and third before sophomore Emily Chicchi drew a walk to load the bases. Unfortunately for the home fans, nobody reached the plate as a strike-out and a pop-up retired the side.
In the third frame, SCH kept Irwin from adding to its lead, and in the bottom half the Devils had a glimmer of a two-out rally when Saltzman singled between third and short and McDermott drew her second walk from Wenger. The Irwin hurler rebounded with a strike-out to dispel the threat. The hosts had now left six runners on base over the first three innings of the game.
Fairly quiet in the second and third, the Owls' offense sprang back to life with five runs at the top of the fourth, helped along with three straight walks at the outset. Speakman's sacrifice fly scored a run, then Lauren Fortunato's fellow triplet, Georgia, whacked a two-run double to left center. The other two runs scored on a single by Alex Pew and a fielder's choice.
Springside Chestnut Hill went down in order in the bottom of the fourth inning, and the visitors did the same at the top of the fifth, when Lauren Fortunato led off with a towering shot to center that was tracked down by the Blue Devils' Foley.
The lone senior starter for SCH, shortstop Michelle Cybularz, led off the bottom of the fifth with a single to left field. Following a pop-up, she went to second on Lubisky's base hit to the same side. Saltzman's grounder to short was initially bobbled, but then controlled, by Fortunato, who still had time to get the force-out at third base. With a subsequent strike-out, the game ended as the 10-run mercy rule took effect.
For now, the Blue Devils still suffer from their Irwin jinx, but that could change next spring, when the young SCH squad returns three more starting players than their Rosemont rival. However, the locals will still have to generate hits at the right time to score against Wenger.
PC PITCHER PERFECT – In another Inter-Ac contest last Wednesday afternoon, visiting Notre Dame couldn't get anything going at all against Penn Charter pitcher Kayla Quinn, as the sophomore recorded two strike-outs en route to a perfect game. In the Quakers' 7-0 victory the other member of the PC pitching staff, senior Jess Drossner, picked up one RBI with a bases-loaded walk, then tripled in another run later on. Charter remained the undefeated leader in the Inter-Ac, with a 7-0 record.


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Merchants of Doubt Deny Climate Change Connection to Hurricane SandyRead time: 3 mins
Steve Horn | November 1, 2012
By Steve Horn • Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 09:43
Many serious, thought-provoking post-mortems have ensued in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which recently tore through the heart of the financial capital of the world. The disaster will cost the city roughly $60 billion to repair, according to an Associated Press report.
Figures such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, former President Bill Clinton, writer and activist Bill McKibben, environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard, and numerous others all have connected the dots between the tragedy in New York City and its excerbation at the hands of climate change.
On the other side of the spectrum, no matter how bad the tragedy, it seems, climate change denial will continue apace by the "merchants of doubt." Hurricane Sandy was no exception this time around.
Patrick Michaels of the Koch-funded Cato Institute - who recently authored a report described by Greenpeace USA's Connor Gibson as a "Counterfeit Climate Report to Deceive Congress" - denied any connection between climate change and Sandy, going so far as to raise the specter of "global cooling."


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This Date In Royals History – October 28, 1996
Because the Major League Baseball postseason has become a bit longer there hasn't been nearly as many 'off-season' moves made during the month of October in the last decade or so. In fact the last major league trade completed by the Royals in the month of October came way back in 1996 and it involved a future Royals Hall of Famer.
On Monday October 26, 1996 Royals righthander Mark Gubicza was traded along with minor league pitcher Mike Bovee to the then California Angels for OF/DH Chili Davis. Now that was a tough one because 'Gubbie' had been so good for the Royals in his first six seasons (double figures in wins each year from 1984-89) in Kansas City before injuries started to take their toll.
Chili Davis would only play one year in a Royals uniform before moving on to the New York Yankees as a free-agent. But that one year in Kansas City was one of the better offensive campaigns of his 19-year career. Chili had 350 career major league HRs, but 1997 in Kansas City was his lone 30 HR year (.279 with 30 HRs and 90 RBI).
Just A Bit More: The trade was a clear win for the Royals as Mark Gubicza would continue his injury battles and only appeared in two games for the Angels (two starts and a total of 4 2/3 innings pitched). Those would be his final two big league appearances. Mark went to Spring Training with the Dodgers in 1998, but retired when he did not make the squad.
We won the trade, but seeing Mark's career come to an end in Kansas City was hard for Royals fans. He was the last member of the Royals 1985 World Championship team still with the ballclub – that team officially past into history on this date 13 years ago.
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)


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Naomi Ward Praised for Course Design, Drive for UW Student Success
Turning traditional course design upside down, her enthusiasm for teaching and her drive for students to succeed are among reasons assistant professor Naomi Ward has received the University of Wyoming's highest teaching honor.
The John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award was established in 1977 by businessman John P. "Jack" Ellbogen to "foster, encourage and reward excellence in classroom teaching at UW."
Other recipients this year are Peter Parolin, associate professor in the Department of English; and Doug Russell, associate professor in the Department of Art.
Ward, who has a split position between the Department of Molecular Biology (75 percent) and the Department of Botany, is in her sixth year as a UW faculty member.
"Naomi is simply a gifted teacher," says Anne Sylvester, a molecular biology professor and director of UW's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ESPCoR). "She excels not only in content delivery, but in designing courses that are relevant and rigorous."
Pamela Langer, associate professor in molecular biology, agrees. Ward designed the microbial diversity and ecology course to have a relatively small amount of lecture and a large lab component.
"The course was designed to address the need to enhance student critical thinking through problem-based learning and student achievement of learning goals by using a backward-design approach," says Langer. "She first identified the intellectual and practical goals that she wanted students to achieve and then designed a course to accomplish this."
The course also combines field trips around Wyoming with cutting-edge analysis of field samples.
"Such hands-on learning experiences promote reasoning skills and practical knowledge -- these are essential topics that add rigor to science curricula, but are currently lacking in universities nationally," says Sylvester. "Naomi should be commended for detecting this need in the UW and national science curriculum, and for single-handedly and creatively designing a course that fulfills the highest of scientific teaching standards."
Ward received her doctorate from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom; and her bachelor's degree from the University of Queensland, Australia.
She exudes enthusiasm for her job as an educator, says Gerry Andrews, UW Department of Veterinary Sciences associate professor.
"As director for the university's inter-departmental undergraduate microbiology program, I receive unsolicited comments about many of the courses from students in the program on a regular basis," he says. "In every case, the student comments about Dr. Ward's microbial diversity and ecology course have been stellar."
Molecular biology master's student Jacob Greenlee of Powell says he felt fortunate to have taken two of her classes.
"Her evident fervor for the course material also makes learning from her fun," he says.
Greenlee also noted Ward's willingness to spend time outside the classroom for supplemental instruction and the availability of the information on the course website.
"In addition to Dr. Ward's advanced teaching methods, there is one more quality that she exhibits that qualifies her among the university's best: her old-fashioned, genuine drive for her students to succeed," says Stephen Denton, a molecular biology major from Parker, Colo. "Dr. Ward would be so excited and knowledgeable about each lecture that I was excited to learn it."


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Church of Scientology Sponsors Red Ribbon Week Forum on Strategies to Reduce Drug Demand
Honoring Red Ribbon Week and its message of prevention and education, The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office in Washington, D.C. co-hosted the first annual anti-drug forum of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World on October 22.
Held in Chestnut Hall in the new National Affairs Office in Fraser Mansion at Dupont Circle, the forum focused on effective strategies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs. It was chaired by Jesse Morrow, Social Reform Director of the Church of Scientology National Affairs Office.
Red Ribbon week is a national drug prevention and education week, held in the last week of October each year to honor the memory of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who was tortured and killed in 1985 by drug traffickers while working undercover in Mexico. October is also National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, as designated in 2011 by President Obama.
The panel featured John Redman, Executive Director of Californians for Drug-Free Youth (CADFY), the group that created the first statewide Red Ribbon Week Campaign in 1985; Peggy Sapp, President of the National Family Partnership (NFP), the organization that initiated the first national Red Ribbon Week and sponsors the campaign; Courtney Bennett, Community Organizer for Wards 5 & 6 of the DC Prevention Center; and Imani Walker, Executive Director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights.
The consequences of drug abuse affect everyone at all levels of society, whether or not they or their friends or families are directly involved. For example, drug abuse kills more than 37,000 Americans each year, more than the number of annual traffic fatalities. Teen deaths from drugs doubled in the first decade of this century. This year, the National Drug Control Policy Office reported that illicit drug use in America contributed to $193 billion in crime, heath-related costs and lost productivity.
In his presentation, Redman pointed out that much of the public discourse on legalization misrepresents the issue. He debunked myths that promote drugs as harmless, showing they are far more potent now than in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bennet's presentation concerned synthetic marijuana, far stronger and more dangerous than marijuana. She covered its accessibility, the alarming effects of its use and its increased popularity among D.C. youth.
"Any successful drug prevention endeavor must include factual drug education at its base to empower individuals with the knowledge to decide for themselves," said Morrow, "Once they have that knowledge, they make the right choice."
The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office, opened Sept 12, 2012, at Fraser Mansion at Dupont Circle, was established to promote solutions to society's greatest challenges. The historic building is configured to host a wide range of functions, from human rights symposiums and drug education workshops to panel discussions, press conferences and awards ceremonies.
Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "The planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress—drugs and other biochemical substances. These can put people into a condition which not only prohibits and destroys physical health but which can prevent any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being."
The Church of Scientology sponsors one of the world's largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention campaigns. It has been conclusively proven that when young people are provided with the truth about drugs—factual information on what drugs are and what they do—usage rates drop commensurately.


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Whitecliff Vineyards: A Hidden Treasure in New York's Hudson River Valley
Wine production in America has long been dominated by the West Coast. Ever since the 1976 "Judgement of Paris," the wines of California have thrived on the international stage, and the wines of Oregon and Washington were quick to follow in their footsteps. Together, these three states have combined to produce a West Coast centric view of American wines, with the wines of New York State serving as the only evidence that quality wines could be produced on the East Coast. Sadly, faced with distribution challenges, small scale production, and myriad sources of competition in an American wine market that is becoming ever more globalized, most New York State wines have remained an undiscovered treasure for most wine consumers.
However, the exposure being afforded to New York wines has expanded rapidly in recent years. This development is not surprising, as Vitis vinifera vines were not planted in New York until the late 1950's, when Dr. Konstantin Frank demonstrated that Riesling, and subsequently other noble grape varietals, could be grown in New York's cold climate. Prior to that time, viticulture in New York had been largely limited to Vitis labrusca grapes (e.g. Concord and Catawba) which are native to the region. When compared to California's viticultural history, where the growth of Vitis vinifera vines can be traced to the 1860's, it is easy to see why New York's evolution as a world class wine producing region has only recently begun to be recognized.
Much of the publicity surrounding New York's wines in recent years has focused on the Long Island and Finger Lakes regions. Lettie Teague, of the Wall Street Journal, and Eric Asimov, of the New York Times, have each written articles praising the emergence of both regions' wines - red and white. Although Riesling has historically been the signature grape of the Finger Lakes, and to an extent, of New York wines in general, other grape varietals, including Gewurztraminer, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, and Lemberger (Blaufrankisch), are rapidly emerging as New York varietals to take note of. Yet, with all the attention that has been focused on Long Island and the Finger Lakes, another historic New York region has been largely overlooked.
New York's Hudson River Valley is one of the four major wine regions in New York (Lake Erie is the other). It is home to the oldest vineyards in the state (planted by the French Huguenots in 1677), and to the oldest continually operating winery in the United States (Brotherhood Winery, established 1839). Yet due to the fact that the region doesn't receive a plethora of critical attention, on my first visit earlier this year, I had little idea what to expect.
I arrived to the Hudson River Valley on a Saturday night, as part of a Memorial Day Weekend trip to visit my girlfriend's family, but it wasn't until Monday that I realized that I could make wine tasting a part of the trip's agenda. Due to the tight timeframe, my girlfriend and I decided to visit a few of the wineries close to her hometown of New Paltz, as we figured that there would be plenty of future visits to explore the remainder of the twenty-plus wineries in the region.
Geographic convenience was the driving factor behind the itinerary of wineries that we visited, but we could not have been more fortunate that Whitecliff Vineyards was located 15 minutes away, in the nearby town of Gardiner, New York. A small family run estate, founded in 1979 by Michael Migliore and his wife, Yancey, Whitecliff Vineyards was far and away the most impressive wine tasting experience that my girlfriend and I enjoyed during that Memorial Day Weekend trip to the Hudson River Valley.
While I was taken with the winery's small family atmosphere, the stunning views of the nearby Shawangunk Cliffs that loom over the vineyards, and the overall tasting lineup, I was most impressed by the winery's 2010 Pinot Noir during my initial visit to Whitecliff. Given the relatively cool climate in the Hudson Valley, I was somewhat skeptical about the region's capability to produce quality Pinot Noir. Yet, as I put my nose to the glass, I was greeted with bright, vibrant aromas of red cherries, balanced by notions of earth and smoke. The wine was similarly impressive on the palate - elegant, lithe, and light-bodied, with flavors of bing cherry, mineral notes, and good acidity. It could have easily been confused for a leaner red Burgundy from the Cote de Beaune, or a slightly more robust Cru Beaujolais.
I returned to Vermont that evening, toting a bottle of Whitecliff Pinot Noir that I planned to enjoy later that summer. In September, we opened the bottle to celebrate my girlfriend's return home from a week long business trip, and it was every bit as delicious as it had been in the tasting room. As we sipped the wine, I wondered if the Pinot Noir had been produced from estate fruit, or if it had been sourced from a neighboring region, like Long Island, or the Finger Lakes. Pinot Noir is notoriously difficult to grow, and although I had read that top-quality Pinot Noir was emerging from New York, a small part of me wondered if the grape could thrive in a cold, northerly climate, without the moderating effects of a lake or ocean. Was the Hudson River Valley really capable of producing top-flight Pinot Noir? I wondered. I decided to contact the winery to find out.
After a few rounds of phone tag, and email exchanges, I was able to connect with Tristan Migliore, Whitecliff's Wine Club Manager, and son of owners, Michael and Yancey. Tristan wasn't sure of the percentage of the Pinot Noir that was estate grown, but he assured me that a good percentage of the grapes used in the wine were grown at the estate. Tristan told me that Whitecliff attempts to grow as many grapes on site as was possible, and then augments the estate grapes with grapes from a combination of vineyards that they manages in the Hudson Valley, the North Fork of Long Island, and the Fingerlakes. Tristan explained that the varied growing conditions with each vintage influenced the amount that could be grown on site.
"The percentage of grapes grown on site varies year to year and from varietal to varietal and we always try to grow as much as we can on site," Tristan said. "In general, I'd say that anywhere from 40%-60% is grown on site."
"We grow a large variety of different vines on site and plant more almost every year," Tristan continued, noting that Seyval Blanc, Traminitte, Noiret, Pinot Noir are the most widely planted varietals among the twenty-plus that are currently planted at Whitecliff.
The first three are hybrid grapes, which are common in cold climate wine growing regions, as they are bred to withstand the cold conditions. However, given the nature of Northeast winters, I was surprised and extremely impressed by the fact that significant estate plantings of Pinot Noir not only existed, but were thriving at Whitecliff. When determining what grapes to plant in the Hudson Valley climate, the Migliore family's decision is based in large part on trial and error.
"We usually plant small portions of new varietals and see how they do in the winters and spring. If they can handle the weather, then we plant more!" Tristan said enthusiastically.
Though not all the grapes are grown on site, a trip to the Whitecliff tasting room is ample evidence to conclude that significant winemaking expertise exists at the estate. In September, my girlfriend and I returned to the Whitecliff tasting room, to find that the 2011 vintage of the Pinot Noir had been released, and the 2010 Pinot Noir had sold out. The Pinot Noir was young, but showed the promise of its predecessor from 2010. In addition, a new wine, a Merlot-Malbec blend from the 2011 vintage, now graced the tasting room table. After one sip, my girlfriend and I looked at each other, and knew that we'd found something special. Warm aromas of honeyed red fruit, and floral notes wafted from the glass, while vibrant flavors of fresh black cherry coated the palate. I grabbed a bottle of each to take home, as Whitecliff wines are not currently distributed in Vermont.
Until Whitecliff wines obtain broader distribution - Tristan assured me it was something the winery was looking into - my girlfriend and I will continue to be content to visit the tasting room on trips to New Paltz, and buy a few bottles to take home to Vermont. The drive from Burlington is only about 4 hours each way, making it two hours closer to Vermont than either the Finger Lakes, or Long Island. Those regions may get the lion's share of publicity when it comes to wines from New York State, but the wines from Whitecliff present a compelling reason not to forget the Hudson Valley. In addition to their stellar reds, Whitecliff also produces a lineup of white wines which are definitely worth exploring, and include the winery's best selling wine, the Awosting White. A blend of Seyval Blanc and Vignoles, it is named after a lake and waterfall in the nearby Minnewaska State Park Preserve, home to fabulous scenery and hiking. Combining a hike at Minnewaska, followed by a tasting at Whitecliff, makes for a great day for any lover of great wine and natural beauty.


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Armistice Centennial | Saturday, November 17, 2018, at The Vets in Providence
The Providence Singers will perform Dona Nobis Pacem as guests of the Rhode Island Philharmonic in a concert marking the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I in November 1918. Christopher Warren-Green, guest conductor, will lead the performance. Also on the program: Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 and the Elgar Cello Concerto, with cellist Colin Carr.
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Dan Forrest: Requiem for the Living
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|The Shuttlebus, in R2D2 livery, awaits its first customers
The research intensive universities of Fundermental Towers, Ebbsfleet White Horse (Unrampant), and Snodhurst, together with Deangate Ridge Golfing Academy, will form a strategic alliance to explore and identify opportunities where their combined research strength can more effectively address global challenges, as well as getting an impressive discount on stationery costs.
Professor Gymslip Plimsole, Vice-Chancellor of Fundermental Towers University and former contestant on ESRC's T Factor, welcomed the news. 'This is an exciting day for the wider Rochester area, and the impact will be felt right the way from The Esplanade in the West to Tinker's Alley in the East. Together the 'R2D2' collaboration of universities is more than the sum of its parts. With a total turnover in excess of £7.83(sterling), these four royal and ancient seats of learning will create an unstoppable critical mass of ground breaking research.'
'We have already commissioned a 'shuttle service' between the universities', continued Plimsole. 'I have had my son Kevin, our Transport Officer, source and purchase a 1983 Ford Sierra which is ideal for the job. We hope to paint it in the colours of all four institutions. When combined these come out as a rather fetching puce-brown. Fortunately most Sierras of that age came in that colour, so there may be no need for a repaint. See? This collaboration is already saving us money!'
'Whilst we are all excited about the bright new Sierra-fuelled dawn ahead of us,' concluded Plimsole, 'there are still a number of details to iron out. The most important of these is the biscuit selection for our intra-R2D2 meetings. I know Snodhurst have a penchant for jammie dodgers, but we at Fundermental Towers have more refined tastes. For us, it's custard creams or nothing.'


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February 02, 2010
LOS ANGELES -- Richard Roll, Japan Alumni Chair in International Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year (FEOY). Renowned for his extensive academic and professional achievements, Roll will be presented with the 2009 FEOY Award on February 4, 2010 at the New York Stock Exchange. The IAFE/SunGard FEOY Award recognizes individual contributions to the advancement of financial engineering technology.
"It is extremely gratifying to receive this award, which has been given before without exception to financial scholars that I greatly admire," said Richard Roll. "I am truly honored to be included in their company."
In 1968, Roll's doctoral thesis won the Irving Fisher Prize as the best American dissertation in economics. In addition to serving as a Professor and the Japan Alumni Chair in Finance at UCLA Anderson, he has served on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University, The European Institute for Advanced Study of Management in Brussels, and the French business school, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, near Paris. Roll has published more than ninety articles in technical journals; he has won the Graham and Dodd Award for financial writing three times and the Leo Melamed Award for the best financial research by an American business school professor.
Nominations for the annual IAFE/SunGard FEOY Award are submitted by a nominating committee of approximately 100 people, consisting of all the IAFE governing boards. They are then reviewed in a two step process by a selection committee of 25 members, including the IAFE board of directors and senior fellows.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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Scarjo gets the Met
Is that how it works? Because Blake Lively is a regular at this event. And she didn't show. Oh I'm sure there's an official reason that works for everyone, a reason that doesn't involve petty gossip. But still. And yet. Blake considers herself a fashion girl. The fashion girls were all in New York. Love matters more though than a pretty dress. I guess that means Scarjo, at least this year, gets the Met Gala in the divorce. Is it irony that in 2008, Scarjo showed up at the Met Gala showing off her engagement ring in Dolce & Gabbana just hours after confirming that they would marry? Click here for a refresher.
Scarjo was in D&G once again last night as she's the face of the label. Not feeling the skirt on this at all, but having just looked at Leighton Meester's Marchesa, it could be worse and besides, the upper embroidered part of Scarlett's dress kinda saves it. There's also something about her tousled hair, and the wanton expression, that seems a throwback to a Scarlett we may have been missing. Like she's fresh all over again, and there's something she's reclaimed. Maybe that's what a giant f-cking box office does for you.
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