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Actor-writer-comedian Donald Glover, who also goes under the rap moniker "Childish Gambino" sounded off on Instagram Monday with a series of deeply personal handwritten notes about his fears, frustrations and uncertainties with his future career changes.
The former stand-up comedian and "30 Rock" writer gained exposure in 2009 with his breakout role as college student Troy Barnes in the NBC comedy "Community." Earlier this year, the 30-year-old triple threat scaled back on his acting work, signing on for only five episodes of the upcoming fifth season. Despite assumptions that Glover left "Community" to focus on his budding music career, he proved to be elusive on all fronts, limiting his music tour dates and removing his pensive, yet witty social media presence that was responsible for much of his following.
Glover addressed his stepping back from the show in his posts, saying, "I didn't leave Community to rap. I don't wanna rap. I wanted to be on my own." On seven pages of Marriott hotel stationary, Glover penned an open letter of personal admissions, answering many questions of where he went this past year. "I've been sick this year, I've seen a bunch of people die this year. This is the first time I've felt helpless. But I'm not on that," he wrote.
"The label doesn't want me to release in December 'cause its not a holiday record and I'm not a big artist," he added, referring to his highly anticipated new album titled "Because the Internet," his first since 2011's "Camp."
This type of candidness is not new to Glover, whose work as rapper Childish Gambino has been critically acclaimed for its "emotional rawness," and characterized by subjects like troubled relationships, social ostracism and alcoholism.
While his upcoming album awaits a release date, Glover is reported to be producing and starring in a new music-comedy show on FX titled "Atlanta." His attempt to get a semi-autobiographical series off the ground last year fell through.
But as Glover put it in his last note: "You're always allowed to be better. You're always allowed to grow up. If you want."


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Mother Nature must be punishing me. She knows that I hate being hot! Here we are in mid-September, still simmering because she just won't turn the burners down on her stove. This weekend we were sweltering in triple-digit degrees.
It was pretty darn hot when concertgoers began to arrive at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia for last weekend's Pasadena Pops concert, all 3,000-plus of them.
I know many of our local residents are not fond of peafowl, but the Arboretum does have an on-premise flock of these beautiful birds. Yes, the plumage of the male peacock is quite spectacular and iridescent. The peahens, however, are more subdued, with only a bit of color on their long necks and understated feathers of beige and brown on their bodies.
For the first time the other night at the Arboretum I did see two of these lovely ladies proudly showing off their offspring, known as peachicks. Each peahen had only one chick and they were tiny, probably not more than 3 inches tall. Each peachick stayed very close to its mom. Even with all the commotion of cars and people, neither the mom nor her chick seemed to be stressed. The peahen regally strolled along the path and her chick scurried to keep up with her. She was very protective of her young one.
The resident peafowl have been known to add their own voices when the music starts playing, but that evening not one of them made a peep.
The JPL Chorus made its second appearance at the concert under the direction of Donald Brinegar, who also brought along some of his singers from the PCC campus.
It was such an exquisite evening of the music of Ira and George Gershwin. The chorus blended their voices with Gershwin favorites such as "Foggy Day" and "I Got Rhythm."
The orchestra was under the direction of Larry Blank. Blank's career was mentored by the late Marvin Hamlisch, who was the principal conductor of the Pops before his death in August.
Featured soloist was pianist Kevin Cole, who was also mentored by Hamlisch; over their eight-year professional relationship they became the best of friends. Cole spoke poignantly about becoming almost like family with Marvin and his wife Terre. He said that Hamlisch called him either "Babe" or "Kid."
Cole introduced to the audience and the world a song that he wrote upon hearing that Hamlisch had died. It is a moving song and Cole wiped his tears away at the conclusion of the song. He mentioned earlier that he had called Terre Hamlisch to sing the song to her after he wrote it.
Cole also performed a medley of Gershwin show tunes, a portion of "Concerto in F," "Porgy and Bess," and of course George Gershwin's famed "Rhapsody in Blue."
A back story that Cole told was fascinating and certainly not well known. He relates that "Rhapsody in Blue" almost didn't get written at all. Cole said that one evening the Gershwin brothers met Paul Whiteman at a Manhattan cocktail party. Whiteman said that he was thinking of doing a concert where he asked major songwriters of the era to contribute new works that would blend symphonic music with jazz. He wanted to know if George Gershwin would like to contribute. Gershwin said, "Sure." Evidently he forgot all about this conversation and did not get to work on a composition for the concert.
According to Cole, Gershwin's memory was jogged one day, months later, when he was playing pool with some friends. His brother Ira was reading a newspaper and came across an article that reported Whiteman was opening his concert later that month. He quickly told his brother that he had "better get cracking."
George called Whiteman and said he couldn't write a concerto but asked if a rhapsody would do. Whitman reluctantly said yes. So within two weeks, writing day and night almost without stopping, Gershwin came up with "Rhapsody in Blue." Wow! It was a good thing that brother Ira was reading the paper or the world would have missed out on a beloved piece of music.
On Saturday, Sept. 22, the Pasadena Pops will present a free concert celebrating the life and legacy of Marvin Hamlisch on the steps of Pasadena City Hall called, "Music under the Stars." The concert, with Larry Blank as conductor, will begin at 7 p.m. Actor Jason Alexander will be the emcee.
The pre-concert activities for the entire family will begin at 5:30 p.m. There will be a musical-instrument petting zoo, children's entertainment, food trucks, and more. Bring your own chairs or blankets.
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Being Aware of Fall Turnover.
Instead of a Q & A for Ponds & Lakes today, I wanted to make everyone aware of what Fall Turnover is and the steps you can take to protect your fish. Around this time of the year we receive quite a few phone calls from customers waking up to find a pond full of dead fish. Hopefully, I can shed some light on this subject that can help you prevent an event like this from happening.
What is Turnover? With no aeration present, the pond's water is stratified (aka has a thermocline). Meaning that the water at the top is warmer and full of oxygen while on the bottom the water is cooler, nutrient rich and contains no oxygen. This causes the fish to habitate towards the surface of the pond. As the seasons change from the hot summer to the cold winter, the pond goes through a process known as "turnover". This is when the cooler,
un-oxygenated water at the bottom of the pond, mixes with the warmer oxygenated water at the pond's surface. Since the rising cooler water contains no oxygen, the fish lose the ability to breathe in a sufficient supply of oxygen. Shortly after, the fish begin to die.
Aeration to the Rescue! You've probably heard me talk about aeration in many Q & A's over the past couple months and are probably sick of hearing about it. But it really is that important and really is a solution to a majority of a pond's problems.
By properly aerating your pond, the oxygen will be saturated throughout the pond, thus eliminating the thermocline and eliminating the chance for future fish kills caused by "turnover".
You can also under-aerate a pond as well. Please read the following Q & A for more information.
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Pleasant memories, such as that first birthday party with your friends, or that trip to Yellowstone National Park, and even bad memories, are linked to the autonomic nervous system and the brain stem. Endorphins, a class of neurohormones, act by modifying the way in which nerve cells respond to transmitters and are associated with feelings of pain and pleasure.
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Early in the 1970s, several small peptides were isolated that appeared to possess natural analgesic properties, and these were collectively termed enkephalins and endorphins. The modification of neural transmissions by these biochemicals now appears to be responsible for the insensitivity to pain that is experienced by individuals under conditions of great stress or shock.
The effectiveness of analgesic opiate derivatives such as opium, morphine, and heroin is an accidental side effect that derives from the ability of these substances to bind to neurohormone receptors despite their very different structure. Four distinct groups of endorphins have been identified to date. They have been termed: alpha-endorphin, a polypeptide with 16 residues or amino acids; beta-endorphin, a polypeptide with 31 residues; gamma-endorphin, a polypeptide with 17 residues; and sigma-endorphin, a polypeptide with 27 residues. The name endorphin, coined by Choh Li of the University of California at Berkeley, refers to "morphine within", and was given to the endogenous morphine-like peptides that also originate from the pituitary hormone.
Experiments with mice in anaphylactic shock, due to allergic reactions, show significantly improved survival rates with an injection of gamma-endorphin, but exacerbation of the shock condition when beta-endorphin is injected. Endorphin research suggests a link between the emotional state of well-being and the immune system's health. Neurotransmitters such as gamma-endorphin are flooded into the bloodstream during stressful, as well as good times, and can be felt physically as a queasy or nervous feeling in the stomach (explaining the so-called "butterflies" and the expression a "gut feeling"). The placebo effect is also attributed to endorphin and enkephalin releases, explaining the emotional component of receiving a sugar pill. Massage and hydrotherapy help release endorphins and enkephalins.
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For February I wanted to:
- Start work resourcing BASCOM line. I currently have 162 images left to add to my database with correct source citations. I could probably finish them all this month, but since this line has tons of my beginning research, I know there are some holes to fill with better research. So I think I will keep my goal of finishing this line by the end of March. I was able to finish this line which means the entire project is done!
- Complete 3 years of the Vevay Newspaper Index. Completed 3 years (1889, 1890 1891).
- Work on Ohio county, Indiana death records when FHL film arrives. My film finally arrived and I found many deaths including my brick wall, George E HILLIS. Unfortuneatly it did not contain his parents' names. I still need to add this information to my tree and make sure found all the records that I needed before the film goes back to Salt Lake.
- Clean up Ancestry hints. I started going through these yesterday and found a few things that I need to add to my database or discard. Done, except they keep generating!
- Work on some cousin connections through Ancestry. I've found some people with extra research on my ancestors and have been putting off contacting them. Contacted two researched, but only heard back from one. Great info from her though!
- Register for the Ohio Genealogical Society Conference. Done!


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Thomas Jefferson was a revolutionary gardener and Monticello is renowned for the beauty and function of its gardens. Our farm and garden collection has what you need to go from seed to table. We have an extensive selection of heirloom seeds and plants. Find garden tools, pots, planters and trellises. Add style to your outside space with our outdoor benches, bird houses, and garden and outdoor dťcor.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Hamas security forces announced on Tuesday that during raids over the past week they had captured five Gaza residents accused of assisting Israel in its anti-terror operations.
Those accused of helping Israel combat Palestinian terrorism will be dealt with severely, warned Anwar al-Baradawi, head of Hamas' campaign to round up "collaborators."
"We will strike without mercy anyone who tries to compromise the homeland's security and public safety," al-Baradawi told reporters.
Hamas is giving local Palestinians who have helped Israel until July 10 to voluntarily turn themselves in for reduced sentences.
Two Gazans were executed in April after being accused by Hamas of assisting Israeli security forces.
The Palestinian Authority based in the so-called "West Bank," despite being labeled "moderate" by the international community, also regularly executes local Palestinians for aiding Israel in its fight against terror.
The practice of arresting, executing or otherwise punishing Palestinians who help Israel violates the spirit of the peace agreements signed with the Jewish state, which obligate all Palestinians to root out anti-Jewish terrorism from their society.
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TLILIC2001 Licence to operate a forklift truck [LF]
Course Delivery
FACE TO FACE - at our site in Wetherill Park (see our course calendar for scheduled dates)
FACE TO FACE - at your site (providing you have adequate training areas, resources and participants)
Course Duration
3 days (2 days training & 1 day assessing)
Course Cost
$495 per person gst-free
[A SafeWork NSW HRW licence fee is additional and payable by each applicant at Australia Post Office]
Course Prerequisites
Participants must be over 18 years of age, be able to speak and understand English; understand technical concepts and provide adequate 100 points of identification (including a NSW address) as per SafeWork NSW requirements. If a participant fails to bring 100 points of identification a re-booking fee of $100 will be charged for assessment to be re-scheduled.
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This general public forklift course is delivered face to face, at our Wetherill Park training facility in small groups (we train a maximum of 6 people per group) and includes structured theory and practical training on a counterbalanced forklift and high reach forklift.
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- Operate the forklift truck and move loads safely, including driving and manoeuvring, picking up and placing of loads at various stack heights and driving forklift truck with load in forward and reverse, maintaining visibility.
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Nickelback's Mike Kroeger Talks Current Tour, 'This Means War' + More
Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger was the special guest with host Mike 'Sandman' Sanders on Loudwire Radio this past weekend. Kroeger talked about the band's current tour with Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days, as well as a number of other topics. In case you missed the show, here's Sandman's full interview with Mike Kroeger below:
Alright, a special interview this week on Loudwire, I'm honored to have on the phone Mike Kroeger of Nickelback. He's the bass player and brother of frontman Chad — I guess that's something you get tired of hearing — "brother of Chad," huh?
No. I've been hearing "brother of Chad" since long before all this started, its okay. He's been hearing "brother of Mike," too, so it's okay. We don't mind.
I can tell you this, I worked in a market back in 1999 were you guys came in and played a free radio show — I mean, you've come a long way since then—we charged $4.95 at the door and they got a 'nickel back' which was a wooden nickel, that had your logo on one side and the radio station's logo on the other.
I remember that.
Do you really? Yeah? It's been awhile.
Well, we haven't dealt with a lot of wooden nickels, it hasn't happened, believe it or not. You would think it would be something that happened a lot but it really hasn't.
We were just overly creative at the time, I think, maybe.
Yeah, yeah, clearly.
That was 1999 when you guys had just released 'The State' and 'Leader of Men' and, you know, it's been a long time since then. 'Here and Now,' the new album, appropriately titled, you guys are out on tour in support of that album. How's the tour going so far?
So far, so great. Turns out there's still fans out there and we're having a good time, we're having a really good time. We've been systematically working our way down the Eastern portion of the United States and then we're going to finish that up and head to the middle and the West and pretty much just take over.
How much writing do you guys do while on the road? Or do you keep that kind of separate from the tours?
We do not. We keep it separate now. Yeah, we don't write on the tour ... I almost said 'anymore' but … at this time, you know. You never know, we could start writing on the road again, but we haven't been lately, writing on the road.
Talking to Mike Kroeger of Nickelback and the tour includes Seether and also Bush and My Darkest Days. Got to be pretty cool having Bush on the tour, I mean, you guys probably were listening to them maybe around the time you guys were getting started too, I guess.
Even before, really. Yeah, it's cool. It's just a big rock festival, you know? We're enjoying having a real solid rock package out there. I think it's the tightest one on the road right now.
It's go to be the biggest tour of the summer, I would think; especially having all four bands together. But you have My Darkest Days on a lot of those dates as well and Chad, your brother, appeared on their very first single 'Porn Star Dancing.' You guys have a relationship with that band beyond being just out on tour together. Are you guys buddies, or..?
M: Oh, yeah, we're pals. We've worked with them before and we generally become friends with everybody we tour with. We're also friends with Seether because we've worked with them before and now we'll become friends with Bush as well, you know? We like to have a friendly relationship with everyone we work with.
You guys are so hugely successful and cross so many different radio formats. Anytime you're that big, you're bound to have some detractors. And I know you guys have a great sense of humor about the 'haters.' But, does it ever kind of get to you?
It's pretty hard to take it seriously. Besides, we're too busy having a good time doing what we do to really give that much attention. We're pretty busy, actually. So that really doesn't come into our lives for the most part.
Yeah, I was going to say, anytime anything is 'so big' it's going to have critics. Anything that's out in the public eye that's that big. You guys do a good job of keeping a good sense of humor about it.
You've got to. You've got to.
I definitely commend you. You guys are — you know, I was reading up on you on Wikipedia, and I know those things aren't always accurate but I noticed just how charitable the band is too. You guys gave, like, $50,000 to a children's hospital in British Columbia last year, is that philanthropy part of the Nickelback philosophy?
Yeah, it is. You know, generally speaking, we try to keep that under the radar. We don't really like to advertise that sort of stuff. I don't know how that got on that Wiki page but we try to keep most of it under wraps just because it sort of feels like its private and we don't generally prefer to use that as a marketing angle, as it were. But, yeah, we do help out. We help out all over the place.
I just think it's great that you guys are willing to share the success and good fortune that you guys have experienced. That's very commendable and in the world of rock, it seems like it's rare.
Well maybe it may just be rare to hear about it. I guess it's everybody's own personal journey on that. When I see people jumping up and down talking about all the charity and philanthropy they do it kind of, to me, it cheapens it and makes me think it's more of a PR stunt, you know. So, those people that you're not hearing about, they may be doing it, you know, maybe they don't want to be publicized as well.
Absolutely. Like I said, the album 'Here and Now' is doing really well along with the tour. The second single from the album, at rock radio, is a big hit, as was [first single] 'Bottoms Up'. 'This Means War' -- could you maybe give me a little back line story on that song?
Well, it's that, we didn't even realize it until we started talking to international publications but it is kind of an expression in the English language that we didn't know that other languages didn't have it. So, I was talking to Brazil a little while ago, somebody in Brazil, and they were like "So, is this about the Afghanistan war?" And I was like "Oh boy, okay, I've got to explain something to you, man…" Just so, you know, they don't think that we're super pro-war flag wavers, just to explain to them, I had to say, "This is about recognizing that you're being challenged in some way and fully embracing the challenge and completely being willing to lock horns and roll."
The song rocks hard and it's a big hit and I think we should play it.
It's Mike Kroeger of Nickelback. Thank you so much for taking time out today to talk to the Loudwire audience. We got to crank up that new song 'This Means War.'
Alright, thanks man. Let's do it.


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Travis Wilkerson makes his directorial debut with the experimental documentary An Injury to One. This austere project investigates the exploitation of the Anaconda Mining Company workers in the city of Butte, MT, during the early 20th century. The battle between management and labor led to the still-unsolved murder of Frank Little, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. Employing both video and filmed archive footage, the images are accompanied by superimposed intertitles and lyrics to traditional mining songs. With no direct sound, the audio consists of a single narrative voice and the music of Will Oldham, Jim O'Rourke, Dirty Three, and Low. An Injury to One made its U.S. premiere at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide


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Reuters is reporting that AT&T sold 200,000 iPhone 4S' in the first 12 hours of it being available on pre-order. They said it was in "extraordinary demand".
In the next paragraph they report fans were "underwhelmed" by it. Obviously not enough to hurt sales.
No word yet on Verizon or Sprint, or Apple's own numbers.
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Thomas Siebel does philanthropy differently from other donors. As the founder of the software company Siebel Systems Inc., he is one of a handful of philanthropists who have the resources to devote substantial time and money to charity. His approach and the results he has achieved, however, dramatically distinguish him from most of his peers.
In 2005, while spending time on his Montana ranch, Siebel became concerned about the rampant local use of methamphetamine, or "meth." Meth is a highly addictive and physically destructive drug, and it is a particularly acute problem in rural America. In 2005, Montana had the fifth worst level of meth abuse among all U.S. states. Half of its inmates were imprisoned for meth-related crimes. The direct cost to the state was estimated at nearly $300 million per year, and the cost in human lives and suffering was far greater.
Rather than writing a check to a local nonprofit, Siebel took the time to find out why people become addicted to meth. After learning that first-time users were typically teenagers who were unaware of meth's risks, Siebel created the Meth Project to change teenage perceptions about the drug. He brought together experts and hired a major San Francisco advertising agency to develop a hard-hitting campaign that would reach 80 percent of Montana teens with at least three ads every week.
The ads were world-class: With production budgets of $500,000 to $1 million each, they were directed by leading Hollywood figures such as Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of the Academy Award nominated film Babel. The ad campaign has won 43 awards in national and international advertising competitions.
The ads were gut-wrenching: Tested in focus groups to capture a teenager's attention, they were far more brutal than anything the community had seen on television before. The 30-second spots begin with an ordinary teen whom kids can relate to, and end by showing the badly scarred and disfigured ravages that come from using meth. Teens are shown attacking and robbing their own families, prostituting themselves, or dying from an overdose. In one ad, a boy describes how his mother has always been there for him, while the screen shows him stealing her purse, hitting her, and kicking her away as she screams and desperately tries to grab his leg while he runs out the door.
And the ads were pervasive: Because Montana is a small media market, Siebel's $2 million annual advertising budget generated more than 45,000 television ads, 35,000 radio ads, and 1,000 billboards in the first two years. The Meth Project became the largest purchaser of advertising in the state. The results have been stunning. Between 2005 and 2007, meth use in Montana dropped 45 percent among teens and 72 percent among adults, while meth-related crimes fell 62 percent. The percentage of teenagers who were aware of meth's dangers increased from 25 percent to 93 percent, and teenagers have even begun to dissuade their friends from trying meth. Montana's ranking among U.S. states in meth abuse fell from fifth to 39th.
Siebel has continued the campaign, using teen focus groups to develop new advertising campaigns every nine to 12 months. He has convinced other funders to support the campaign and encouraged schools and community organizations to sponsor anti-meth events. Siebel has also personally lobbied Congress to combat the meth problem. Six other states have adopted the Meth Project's program.
Siebel's success in fighting meth abuse stands in stark contrast to the modest and often indiscernible results that most philanthropists have achieved, whether individually or collectively. Between 1980 and 2005, U.S. annual charitable giving in constant dollars grew by 255 percent and the number of nonprofits more than doubled to 1.3 million. Today, per capita giving in the United States is three times greater than any other country in the world. Yet, during this same 25-year time period, the United States dropped from second to 12th among the 30 countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in basic measures of health, education, and economic opportunity.
To be sure, philanthropy cannot be blamed for the persistence of childhood poverty and failed schools that result from much larger political and economic forces. Without philanthropy, conditions would likely be even worse. Yet whatever benefits philanthropy may provide, it is not delivering the kind of social impact Siebel achieved. If philanthropy is to become an effective way of solving pressing social problems, donors must take a new approach.
Siebel is one of the exemplars of this new approach, but there are others. These exceptional donors—whether foundations, corporations, or individuals—do not write the largest checks, but they do act differently from other donors. They have expanded the toolkit of strategic philanthropy beyond even the most recent thinking of venture philanthropists and social entrepreneurs, creating a new approach to bringing about social change that I call "catalytic philanthropy." Before turning to a discussion of the practices that distinguish this new form of philanthropy, it is important to understand why the conventional approach so rarely produces measurable impact.
Limitations of Traditional Philanthropy
For most donors, philanthropy is about deciding which nonprofits to support and how much money to give them. These donors effectively delegate to nonprofits all responsibility for devising and implementing solutions to social problems. Despite the sincere dedication and best efforts of those who work in the nonprofit sector, there is little reason to assume that they have the ability to solve society's large-scale problems.
The overwhelming majority of the 1.3 million U.S. nonprofits are extremely small: 90 percent of their annual budgets are under $500,000 and only 1 percent have budgets greater than $10 million. Each nonprofit is capable of helping hundreds or even thousands of people in need, and many of them do so in creative and highly effective ways. Despite their often-heroic efforts, these nonprofits face severe limitations.
Each nonprofit functions alone, pursuing the strategies that it deems best, lacking the infrastructure to learn from one another's best practices, the clout to influence government, or the scale to achieve national impact. A majority of the very largest nonprofits that might have the resources to effect national change are hospitals, universities, and cultural organizations that focus primarily on their own institutional sustainability. Collaboration throughout the sector is almost impossible, as each nonprofit competes for funding by trying to persuade donors that its approach is better than that of any other organization addressing the same issue. Very few systematically track their own impact.
However generous the donors or hardworking the nonprofit staff, there is no assurance—nor even any likelihood—that supporting the underfunded, non-collaborative, and unaccountable approaches of the countless small nonprofits struggling to tackle an issue will actually lead to workable solutions for large-scale social problems. The contributions of conventional donors and the good work of effective nonprofits may temporarily improve matters at a particular place and time, but they are unlikely to create the lasting reform that society so urgently requires.
Four Practices of Catalytic Philanthropy
What is needed is a new approach to philanthropy, one that catalyzes the kind of social change exemplified by Siebel's Meth Project. Over the past decade, the consulting firm that I cofounded, FSG Social Impact Advisors, has studied many examples of this new approach to social change. We have distilled what makes catalytic philanthropists so effective into four distinct practices: They have the ambition to change the world and the courage to accept responsibility for achieving the results they seek; they engage others in a compelling campaign, empowering stakeholders and creating the conditions for collaboration and innovation; they use all of the tools that are available to create change, including unconventional ones from outside the nonprofit sector; and they create actionable knowledge to improve their own effectiveness and to influence the behavior of others.
Each of these practices stands in distinct contrast to the practices that most donors, foundations, and corporations follow today. To understand why these four practices are important, each will be considered in turn.
1. Take Responsibility for Achieving Results Two years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation asked FSG to explore why some donors are more effective than others. We interviewed several dozen wealthy donors of different ages and backgrounds, all of whom had been identified by their peers as highly effective, and we found a surprisingly common theme. When these donors first began giving away money, they followed conventional philanthropic practice, responding to those who asked them for funds with little awareness of what impact they actually achieved. They gave large sums to many different organizations and were viewed as prominent philanthropists in their communities, but had not yet distinguished themselves as highly effective donors.
After some time, these donors became involved in an issue of great personal significance: A donor's child was diagnosed with a rare disease; a wilderness preserve a donor hiked in as a child was about to be sold to a developer; or a donor went on a trip to a developing country and was exposed firsthand to a level of poverty and disease that she had never imagined. The urgency of the cause and the intensity of their commitment compelled each of these donors to take an active role in solving the problem.
These newly energized donors became deeply knowledgeable about the issue and actively recruited collaborators, sometimes even creating a new nonprofit to further the cause. The donors stopped thinking about which organizations to support, and started to think about how to solve a specific problem, using every skill, connection, and resource they possessed. The donors formulated clear and practical goals that enabled them to identify the steps needed to succeed. Above all, the donors took responsibility for finding solutions to the problem instead of waiting for the nonprofit sector to approach them with a proposal. Like Siebel's campaign against meth abuse, the difference in impact was remarkable.
Consider the example of Bob Pattillo, an Atlanta real estate developer who had a small family foundation, the Rockdale Foundation. On a church mission to Cuba, he encountered impoverished families who had benefited from microfinance and wondered why so little microlending was taking place in the Middle East. (In 1999, there were only 40,000 Arab microfinance borrowers, compared to millions of borrowers in Asia and Latin America.) Instead of waiting for a nonprofit to approach him, or asking "Whom should we give money to?" Pattillo focused on creating a solution by asking "What infrastructure would need to be in place for microfinance to flourishing Arab regions?"
The answer to this question led Pattillo and the Rockdale Foundation to take a number of steps. The body of literature about microfinance had never been translated into Arabic, so they hired translators. There had never been an international conference on Arab microfinance, so they organized one. The lone coordinating organization in the region had a single staff member, little revenue, and no business plan, so they nurtured its growth and development. The major funders of global microfinance had overlooked the Middle East, so Pattillo commissioned research about the need and opportunity, then personally brought it to their attention. In short, Pattillo pieced together the disparate elements needed to catalyze the change he sought.
The results were dramatic: In seven years, with an average annual expenditure of only $400,000, the number of Arab microfinance borrowers grew from 40,000 to 3 million. More than 50 new microfinance institutions began serving the region, supported by 18 major foundations. The leading global microfinance investors contributed an influx of debt capital, and the coordinating organization flourished. The Rockdale Foundation more than met its goal of increasing microlending in Arab regions.
Our research suggests that if donors want to solve a problem, they must decide to do so themselves. This doesn't mean that they need to create their own nonprofit or that they should ignore the efforts of others. It does mean that funders have a powerful role to play that goes beyond merely supporting existing nonprofits. Private donors, foundations, and corporations have the clout, connections, and capacity to make things happen in a way that most nonprofits do not. By becoming directly involved and taking personal responsibility for their results, these donors can leverage their personal and professional relationships, initiate public-private partnerships, import projects that have proved successful elsewhere, create new business models, influence government, draw public attention to an issue, coordinate the activities of different nonprofits, and attract fellow funders from around the globe. All of these powerful means for social change are left behind when donors confine themselves to simply writing checks.
Catalytic philanthropists, however, must be as cautious as they are bold. Considerable havoc has been wrought, and billions of dollars wasted, by donors whose success in business or other fields has convinced them that they can single-handedly solve a social problem that no one else has solved before. Philanthropists cannot catalyze change by acting alone or imposing a solution, convinced that they have the answer before they begin. Instead, they must listen to and work with others, enabling stakeholders to develop their own solutions.
2. Mobilize a Campaign for Change In "Leading Boldly," an article that Ron Heifetz, John Kania, and I wrote for the winter 2004 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, we suggested that many of the problems foundations tackle are adaptive in nature: The people with the problem have to become engaged in solving it for themselves. Teenagers, for example, need to dissuade other teenagers from using meth. In other cases, effective solutions may already be known but cannot be externally imposed on the existing system. It is well known, for example, that better qualified teachers produce better educated students, but the systemic changes needed to act on that simple solution are mindbogglingly complex. The obstacle isn't that no one knows any answers, but rather that the uncoordinated actions, narrow constraints, and conflicting incentives of different stakeholders and different sectors of society perpetuate the status quo.
Catalytic philanthropy cuts through these divisions by stimulating cross-sector collaborations and mobilizing stakeholders to create shared solutions. Building alliances that create the conditions for a solution to emerge and take hold is a very different pursuit from the usual grantmaking process of trying to direct funds to the one organization that offers the most appealing approach. Systemic reform requires a relentless and unending campaign that galvanizes the attention of the many stakeholders involved and unifies their efforts around the pursuit of a common goal.
Consider the example of Strive, a nonprofit founded in late 2006 by Nancy Zimpher, then president of the University of Cincinnati. Zimpher believed that her university could not succeed in its mission unless the entering students, drawn largely from the local school systems, were adequately prepared. Recognizing that educational success was the result of a long and often fragmented process that begins with preschool and ends with career placement, Zimpher approached the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation to help form a community-wide initiative to reform the entire continuum. More than 300 organizations and institutions in the Greater Cincinnati area now participate in Strive, including school districts, universities, private and corporate funders, civic leaders, and nonprofits with combined budgets of $7 billion.
The organizations are grouped into 15 networks, each of which focuses on a single educational component, such as preschool education or college readiness. Each network is developing a common set of goals and progress indicators to be tracked throughout the region. They employ only evidence-based solutions that have demonstrated progress on the agreed measures. The leaders of the organizations in each network meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss their progress. Participation is voluntary and does not include any additional funding. Instead, organizations learn from each other, reach agreement on performance standards, and find ways to collaborate that increase the effectiveness of all participating organizations. Many changes are simple—letting teachers know which of their students are being tutored, and aligning classroom and after-school curricula—but these small improvements throughout the region collectively improve the effectiveness of the entire educational system. No single intervention attacks the root cause of educational failure. Instead, the entire system is gradually becoming more coordinated, informed, and effective. After only two years, Strive is already reporting positive progress on a majority of its measures of educational success.
Mobilizing and coordinating stakeholders is messier and slower than funding a compelling grant request from a single organization. Systemic change depends on a sustained campaign to increase the capacity and coordination of an entire field, together with greater public awareness and, often, stronger government policies. Catalytic philanthropists have the wherewithal to heighten awareness, raise expectations, and coordinate the many disparate efforts of other funders, nonprofits, corporations, and governments.
3. Use All Available Tools The prominence of the U.S. nonprofit sector and the tax deductibility of donations have lulled people into thinking that IRS-sanctioned philanthropy is the only way to solve social problems. Donors have the freedom, however, to complement traditional grantmaking with a wide array of other tools from outside the nonprofit sector, including many that can influence social, economic, and political forces in ways that traditional charitable giving cannot.
Siebel employed an unconventional tool by hiring world-class advertising talent and purchasing prime-time advertising for his anti-meth campaign, rather than accepting the less effective tools of donated public service announcements. Other catalytic philanthropists have used a variety of unconventional tools for social change, including corporate resources, investment capital, advocacy, litigation, and even lobbying, as demonstrated in the following examples.
Corporate Resources. General Electric Co. (GE) has helped low performing high schools located near major GE facilities, committing $150 million over five years to five urban school districts to improve math and science education. In addition to cash contributions, GE and its employees have provided intensive tutoring, mentoring, summer employment opportunities, scholarships, and management advice to school administrators, and have donated technology. Within four years, 100,000 students in these school systems improved their standardized math test scores by an average of 30 percent.
Investment Capital. The F.B. Heron Foundation has invested more than 25 percent of its endowment in investments that further the foundation's mission. One of these investments is a subordinated loan to strengthen the balance sheet of the Minneapolis-based Community Reinvestment Fund (CRF). CRF has purchased more than 2,100 loans worth almost $1 billion from community development corporations and other community development lenders whose portfolios are not large enough to attract institutional investors directly. Since its inception, CRF has provided liquidity for loans that have generated or retained more than 35,000 jobs, financed almost 600 women or minority-owned businesses, and built more than 16,000 housing units.
Advocacy and Litigation. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has supported grantees that use advocacy and litigation to profoundly influence educational policy in California. The 2004 settlement of a lawsuit against the state of California brought by the ACLU and Public Advocates, funded in part by the Hewlett Foundation, led to $1 billion for school repairs, instructional materials, and extra support to low-performing schools. A separate lawsuit in 2005 brought by Public Advocates and Californians for Justice, also funded in part by the Hewlett Foundation, required that the state revoke the credentials of more than 4,000 underprepared teachers and provide them with additional training before they could be considered "highly qualified" under the No Child Left Behind Act. Other Hewlett grantees worked to raise public awareness and to educate policymakers through bipartisan legislative seminars on options for education reform, and tours that brought legislators and their staff into the schools to see conditions firsthand. These efforts helped generate a $1 billion bond set-aside for facilities improvements in overcrowded schools, created new longitudinal data systems to track student and teacher performance, and required the public disclosure of teacher salaries that unmasked major inequities within school districts, the first such transparency requirement in the nation.
Lobbying. Several years ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts converted from a private foundation to a public charity, enabling the foundation to engage in lobbying. The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency, for example, was instrumental in getting Congress to pass a bill in December 2007 that raised average fuel economy standards for U.S. automobiles for the first time in 32 years. Pew coordinated the work of a diverse coalition of interest groups, gathered independent research findings, created high-quality polling data, and marshaled testimony from Fortune 100 CEOs and military leaders. In the three weeks leading up to the Senate vote, the campaign placed 85 editorials and paid advertisements in critical congressional districts. By 2020, when the full impact of this legislation is felt, it is projected to be the equivalent of taking 28 million cars off the road, saving $23 billion in consumer fuel costs and 190 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
4. Create Actionable Knowledge Most donors rely on their grant applicants and recipients to provide them with information about the social problems the nonprofit is tackling, focusing their inquiries narrowly on the program to be funded without researching the issue more broadly. Catalytic philanthropists, by contrast, gather knowledge about the problem they are tackling and use this knowledge to inform their own actions and motivate the actions of others. Making knowledge actionable requires more than just gathering and reporting data. The information must also carry emotional appeal to capture people's attention and practical recommendations that can inspire them to action.
GreatSchools.net, for example, is a Web-based reporting tool that makes available public school performance data (including rankings by parents) on a consistent basis throughout the country. Funded by the Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Robertson Foundation, the site receives 35 million unique visitors each year, an estimated one-third of U.S. families. Similar information, compiled by Standard & Poor's and funded by the Gates Foundation, is available at the Web sites SchoolMatters.com and SchoolDataDirect.org. Making reliable school performance data publicly available will influence the behavior of many stakeholders and help create the conditions for solutions to arise.
Actionable knowledge can also have an impact on government spending priorities. In 2004, Pew commissioned a study showing that extending preschool to the 4 million children under age 5 living below the poverty line would produce a net benefit to the economy of more than $511 billion—a $16 return from higher earnings and fewer welfare payments for every dollar spent. This study enabled advocates to make a compelling case for increased state spending. Between 2005 and 2008 total state spending in the United States on prekindergarten programs grew by 66 percent from $2.9 billion to $4.8 billion; seven states have pledged universal preschool for all 4-year-olds, and three other states have promised preschool for all children in low-income families.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation used data in a different way. The foundation hired local residents to gather and report data about their own communities. This increased civic engagement and empowered community members to hold local nonprofit service providers and government agencies accountable for their performance. In Des Moines, Iowa, for example, the residents used the data they had collected to recover $2.5 million from four predatory lenders and to lobby successfully for passage of a statewide lending disclosure law.
Actionable knowledge is not limited to compiling and analyzing data. Jeff Skoll, first president of eBay Inc. and founder of the Skoll Foundation, created a for-profit film production company, Participant Media, in 2004 to produce major movies that could inform and engage the public on social issues. With projects such as Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth, and Good Night, and Good Luck—Participant has been a commercial and artistic success, producing enviable box office revenues and multiple Academy Award nominations. Participant partners with nonprofits to create social action campaigns for each film that it releases, such as benefit screenings and educational curricula for schools. The social action campaign for An Inconvenient Truth, one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time, led directly to more than 106,000 tons of CO2 off sets, nine countries incorporating the film into their curriculum for high school students, and four bills on climate change introduced in Congress.
Moving Forward
Social change is a messy process in which the willpower of a determined and influential person can often tip the balance. Donors who are serious about solving social problems must take a catalytic role, mounting a campaign and knitting together the pieces of a solution in ways that the fragmented nonprofit sector cannot do for itself.
This is not to suggest that catalytic philanthropy is appropriate for all donors, or that other types of philanthropic engagement are ineffective. Most individual donors have neither the time nor the resources to do more than contribute to deserving organizations. Conventional philanthropy serves an essential function in supporting major nonprofit institutions, enriching many lives, and providing assistance to countless individuals in need. Venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship also play important roles by helping effective organizations and talented leaders expand the scale of their impact. The variety in types of philanthropy is one of the reasons for the nonprofit sector's vitality, and society would be dramatically worse off were it not for the billions of dollars in annual charitable contributions from conventional donors.
We should not pretend, however, that conventional contributions will change the status quo. Instead, the much smaller set of donors who have the desire and opportunity to achieve change—whether professionals at foundations and corporations or individual philanthropists with the time and resources to become personally involved—must step forward to become catalytic philanthropists. If they do, they will begin to see measurable impact from their efforts and the potential to change social conditions meaningfully. Philanthropy is indeed a powerful tool for social progress, but only when donors make it so.
Mark R. Kramer is the cofounder and managing director of FSG Social Impact Advisors. He is also the cofounder and the initial board chair of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and a senior fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Kramer is the coauthor of three Stanford Social Innovation Review articles: "The Power of Strategic Mission Investing" (fall 2007), "Changing the Game" (spring 2006), and "Leading Boldly" (winter 2004).


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While many other teams resorted to new, and often unorthodox, creations at this year's Paris-Roubaix, Team CSC went with a time-tested setup in its quest for a third consecutive cobblestone trophy. The team couldn't quite pull off the win in the end, but their only slightly modified Cervélo R3 machines proved themselves once again.
O'Grady's Cervélo R3 was a near carbon copy of the bike that carried him to victory at last year's queen of the classics with only minor changes in componentry. Just as before, the frame's rear end was extended by 1cm to deliver a slightly smoother ride and more stable handling. Rake on the accompanying Alpha Q GS-10 fork was similarly increased to 50mm to retain overall weight balance front-to-rear but otherwise there were no special concessions made to increase tyre clearances at either end.
Some of this consistency may have to do with the frame's built-in design attributes: the front triangle and chain stays are appropriately massive for snappy reflexes but, as always, the R3 seat stays are almost impossibly spindly for a smoother ride over the cobbles.
Much of last year's equipment carried over as well, including the traditional box-section tubular rims laced to standard Dura-Ace hubs front and rear with stainless steel spokes in a three-cross pattern. Nearly all of the remaining componentry wore the Dura-Ace badge as well, save for the carbon FSA carbon crankset, and Vittoria once again provided the corresponding 27mm-wide tubular rubber. Pedals were the familiar specially modified Zeros from Speedplay.
In fact, virtually nothing on O'Grady's bike was new relative to 2007. Lone exceptions included a new Scratch TR carbon-shelled saddle from Prologo and the ARX Team stem and Ergosum Pro bar from new sponsor 3T (although the shape of the latter bore a striking resemblance to O'Grady's FSA bar from last year).
Call it boring or unimaginative if you like but O'Grady's Cervélo was one of the lightest Paris-Roubaix bikes we handled; actual weight was just 7.5kg (16.5lb). Regardless, the results speak for themselves. O'Grady ended up in fifth place only nine months after his horrific crash at last year's Tour de France and 2007 Paris-Roubaix winner Fabian Cancellara continued his incredibly successful spring campaign only one step down from Quick Step's Tom Boonen.
Was CSC's Cervélo R3 rerun boring and unimaginative? Perhaps, but it was also undeniably effective.
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PARIS, FRANCE--(Marketwire - June 19, 2011) -PARIS AIR SHOW - Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is powering the first indigenous turboprop civil certified aircraft in Africa with the unparalleled P&WC PT6A engine. Aerosud, an established leader in the South African aviation industry, has developed a new, low-cost yet highly advanced aircraft optimized for reconnaissance and surveillance roles. Pratt & Whitney Canada is a United Technologies Corp. company (NYSE:UTX).
"P&WC takes considerable pride in powering the first indigenous turboprop civil certified aircraft on the African continent with our high power PT6A-66 turboprop engine," stated Michael Perodeau, Vice President, Corporate Aviation and Military Programs, P&WC. "The performance, reliability, and versatility of the PT6A engine family continue to earn the confidence of customers worldwide."
Aerosud's long and significant expertise in major aircraft design and modification programs, combined with the dependability of the PT6A engine make for a winning combination.
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The PT6A engine family remains the world's most popular engine in its class and is one of P&WC's greatest success stories. Experience gained from the PT6A has helped spawn many of the engine families that have made P&WC a world leader in the gas turbine engine market. Dependability and versatility have been the hallmarks of the PT6A and continue to be the foundation of the many new PT6A models incorporating the latest advanced technologies. New aerodynamic and material technologies have enabled the PT6 engine to gain more power without significantly increasing in size.
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There are currently more than 47,000 P&WC engines in service on over 27,000 aircraft operated by some 10,000 operators in 198 countries. The most extensive support network in the industry, which includes more than 30 company-owned and designated service facilities, supports this global fleet. P&WC has been taking front-line services to the next level with its Customer First Centre (CFirst). CFirst brings together a multidisciplinary and multilingual support team to resolve issues so that customers can return to service quickly. CFirst handles more than 100,000 contacts every year.
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Jojo, back again from Vancouver, called for a dinner at Red to try out two top Syrah's side by side: Torbreck's RunRig and Guigal's Ex-Voto. Of course everyone else brought a bottle as well so we had a good selection of reds. Unfortunately, the coordination of who would bring what didn't go too well so no white wines were brought. I did make sure to bring bubbly and dessert, though.
As soon as a good number of us were present we opened the champagne to get us in the mood. Although I prefer some age on my champagne, this time I brought a youngish Laurent Perrier Brut Millesime 2004. I believe this is the current release. I wanted to try this to find out if I should get more. This was a fairly rich, fleshy style, and quite forward. Friendly and already drinking well, it shows white chocolate and lemon rind on the finish. Very good now but no doubt has the stuffing to age. Definitely worth buying more of this.
Laurent Perrier Brut Millesime 2004 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
While waiting for the menus, Greg's magnum of burgundy, Louis Lequin Santenay 1er Cru Clos Rousseau was served. This had a somewhat Rhonish, dried herb character on the nose. This was mixed in with a bit of toffee. This has good, sweet fruit but is already very soft. It also seems a bit hollow. Either that or it's just really light. This doesn't seem like an ager and is probably at peak now.
Louis Lequin Santenay 1er Cru Clos Rousseau 2006 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
The remaining reds were then arranged into two flights by Daniel Blais, Red's sommelier. The first flight was for Rhone/Syrah/Shiraz and the second Bordeaux/Napa.
First among the Syrah/Rhone flight was the Guigal Hermitage Ex Voto 2001 – This was the inaugural vintage of this wine. Cocoa powder and earth, sweet fruit and sweet spices as well. Quite soft. I don't feel this has reached peak yet as the fruit is still dominant but I think it's pretty close. Soft tannins make this a pretty enjoyable wine to drink now, though.
Guigal Ex Voto Hermitage 2001 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
Next up was the Torbreck RunRig 1999. We rarely drink Barossa anymore, let alone mature Barossa so this was eagerly anticipated by all. The RunRig is actually a Cote Rotie copy as it has some Viognier. In this case, this is 95% Shiraz and 5% Viognier, with the Viognier vinified separately and added to the Shiraz just before bottling. This is in contrast to its younger sibling, The Descendant, where the Viognier is co-fermented with Shiraz. The RunRig was still quite dark and youthful, with a nose of blueberry jam. The wine is quite sweet and the 100% new French oak certainly makes a statement with a bit of vanilla coming through. Black fruits dominate on the palate and the tannins are already very soft. Another excellent wine but this is probably as good as it gets.
Torbreck RunRig 1999 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
Last in this set was the Telegramme 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape , the second wine produced by the famous estate of Vieux Telegraphe. Mostly Grenache and made from grapes sourced from vines of about 25 years old, this certainly lacked the heft to stand up to the two previous wines. This was quite light in color and body, soft, juicy and showed more of a strawberry/raspberry character. This is a wine for easy drinking.
Telegramme 2010 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
We proceeded to the Bordeaux/Napa set straightaway with the Le Petit Cheval (second wine of Cheval Banc) 2002 leading the way. Still pretty dark for its age. I found this very dry and slightly acidic. Daniel informed us that 2002 isn't generally considered a good year for Bordeaux and it seems the Right Bank fared slightly worse than the left so that might explain the rather lean structure.
Le Petit Cheval 2002 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
In contrast the Chateau Pape Clement 2005 was much fuller and fleshed-out. Big-boned and polished, this was rich and spicy. Despite its youth, it is quite good to drink now. This was my favorite in this flight.
Chateau pape Clement 2005 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
Lastly we had the Joseph Phelps Insignia 1998. The Insignia is important as it was the first Bordeaux blend produced in California, although Cabernet Sauvignon dominates. The wine was sweet and very soft. My impression is that it's already starting to decline although it still makes a pretty good drink.
Although the focus was clearly on the wines, I thought the quality of the food was pretty good. We just ordered from the menu and I chose to start with a Marinated Portobello mushroom with eggplant fritter, lentils de Puy and smoky tomato foam. This was very good and a fine choice if you are having red wines. My main was a 300g US Angus Sirloin with peppercorn sauce. This was cooked properly to my specifications (medium rare).
Marinated Portobello with eggplant fritter, lentils de Puy and smoky tomato foam by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
US Angus Sirloin by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
We decided to skip dessert and instead had some cheese to go with the Chateau Suduiraut 2005. Gorgeous, classic Sauternes nose. The mouthfeel of this wine is so plush and silky, not at all aggressive or heavy. Beautifully balanced with flavors of honey, candied orange and pineapple, this isn't as sweet as some other Sauternes out there but this is a style I prefer. This is just put together so well that it's quite easy to drink a lot of it; and you'll want to drink a lot of it. Outstanding stuff.
Chateau Suduiraut 2005 by jaylabrador.winesteward, on Flickr
As many in the group will be off for summer, we decided to get together again at the end of the month for another wine dinner. For added fun, it will probably be a blind tasting contest by two teams. We haven't done this in a while but it's always great fun so I'm definitely looking forward to this.


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Flames' Berra beats Blackhawks in first startby Brian Hedger
CHICAGO – Reto Berra felt the nerves building prior to his NHL debut Sunday night against the defending Stanley Cup champions at United Center.
The 26-year old rookie goaltender had just been called up from Abbotsford of the American Hockey League to join the Calgary Flames and coach Bob Hartley decided to toss the talented 6-foot-4 rookie straight into the fire against the Chicago Blackhawks.
After calling Berra a "thoroughbred" following the Flames' morning skate, Hartley looked pretty smart. Berra made 42 saves and earned his first win when Kris Russell scored 1:32 into overtime in a 3-2 victory.
"Honestly I had a lot of thoughts," Berra said, while wearing the Flames' fire helmet given out to each game's hardest worker. "Everything went through my mind. Right after lunch I always sleep, but today I couldn't sleep. I was really nervous. But right before the game, when I was just sitting in here, I just thought, 'Go out and play your game and have fun. You have nothing to lose.' I put the excitement and nerves into a positive energy."
It was a force that was bolstered even more by the traditional singing of the Canadian and U.S. anthems. Berra said he was forewarned about how stirring the American version is in Chicago, but still wasn't quite prepared.
"Crazy … awesome," he said, when asked to describe his emotions standing in front of the Flames' net. "I almost cried and, like, my hair stand up. The guys, they told me a little bit what to expect, but when you're out there as a goalie, on the ice, it is really, like, unbelievable."
Some of the saves Berra made in stopping the Blackhawks' 18 first-period shots were also pretty remarkable. He stopped 29 of the first 30 he saw and helped the Flames thwart a 5-on-3 situation late in the third for 1:42 before Marian Hossa's well-placed one-timer tied it 2-2 during 5-on-4 play.
Russell's blast from the blue line 92 seconds into overtime gave Calgary the second point in the standings and Berra his first win, not to mention the fire helmet award. Acquired by Calgary in the trade that sent defenseman Jay Bouwmeester to the St. Louis Blues last season, Berra declined to play another season in the Swiss League and came to North America with the NHL in his sights.
After playing nine games in the AHL, he's now expected to stick around in Calgary to share playing time with Karri Ramo and possibly work his way into the starting role.
"I'm very proud for Reto," Hartley said. "He played tonight the same way as I've seen him play for a full year in Switzerland. Obviously, it's not the same caliber [of competition], but just the poise that he showed throughout the game … he never got rattled and was in perfect control on every shot. The two shots that beat him were perfect shots."
The Blackhawks found out why Hartley is so excited by Berra. Patrick Kane, who played with Berra in Switzerland during the lockout last season, scored with a great wrist shot early in the second to give Chicago a short-lived 1-0 lead.
Curtis Glencross, who had the primary assist on Russell's game-winner, tied it 1-1 a little more than two minutes later and Mike Cammalleri gave the Flames (6-6-2) a 2-1 lead 2:16 into the third. That led to Hossa's game-tying goal at 15:41 of the final period, which he one-timed past Berra from the right circle off a feed by Kane.
"Well, I think you look at [Berra] a little bit before the game and he's a big guy and you're going to need traffic to beat him," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "We did put pucks [at the net], but we didn't get enough rebounds and we didn't get enough traffic. He was pretty good controlling those rebounds tonight, as well."
Berra was also good enough to help Calgary snap a 10-game regular-season losing streak at United Center.
"He made some big saves early trying to get us in the game and that was huge," Russell said. "It's a spark … I thought we should've come out a little bit better for him, but that's the reason he's here. He made some good saves early and helped us out."
The new goalie also instilled confidence in his teammates with a number of stops that left the Blackhawks shaking their heads or banging sticks on the ice out of frustration. Hartley hopes that "positive energy" Berra referred to carries over into what's likely to be his next start on Tuesday against the Minnesota Wild, in the second leg of a four-game road trip.
"When you feel like your goalie is on [his] game and every shot's not an adventure, the players feed of this," Hartley said. "You could tell from the bench. It's a game of mistakes and as much as you don't want to make mistakes there will always be some. But guys were very focused on the bench. Everyone was under control, and I think it started with Reto."
As for the Blackhawks, the 2013 Cup champs will put the final capper on their title Monday by flying to Washington, D.C., and visiting the White House. They'll leave knowing they had a chance to sweep their third back-to-back set of 18 on the schedule, snapping a three-game win streak in the process.
"I thought the last three games were the way we had to play," Quenneville said. "I thought we had a little drop-off in our game, but we knew going into the game it was going to be a hard game. They play with a purpose and offensively they make plays around your end and around your net … they make you play a hard game."


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Banner Elk, NC - Chelsie Dillard, from Danbury, NC, has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) with Lees-McRae College in the sports of women's cross country and track and field.
Dillard, a standout athlete at North Stokes High School, was the 2005 1A State Champion in 800m. She has been All-Conference for four years, All-Region for three and All-State for three.
"Chelsie has a lot of talent and we are looking forward to developing it even more," said Coach Craig McPhail. "She can be very special at our level and in our conference."
Chelsie is the daughter of Jimmy and Stacey Dillard.
Chelsie is going to major in Pre-Health at Lees-McRae.
Lees-McRae College is a four-year, coeducational college of liberal arts and sciences, located in the fame high country of Western North Carolina, near the base of Grandfather Mountain between the Beech and Sugar Ski Resorts.


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I was born in London UK to Spanish parents. The name Uriarte is my Basque heritage and can be traced to the picturesque seaside village of Plencia in the province of Vizcaya in northern Spain. My calling for creative expression came late and my only claim to any formal training was my attendance at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence Italy for a two week workshop in 2008/9 & 10, taught by the Maestro Michael John Angel. Its a school I would highly recommend.
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The Essential Knots
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Which are they?
Basic Knots: The Basic Knots should be known by anyone using knots. These knots represent an essential minimum – the basis of many other knots. The section also explains the difference between some common knots: Half Hitch, Half Knot and Overhand Knot.
Fishing: The Fishing knots are in alphabetical order. The various knots serve similar purposes but have advantages in different circumstances. Essential introductory knots might include: Blood Knot (Barrel Knot), Clinch, Double Surgeon's Loop, and Palomar.
Boating: The Boating Knots are also listed in alphabetical order. Which ones are vital? We would love it if every person we took sailing knew how to tie a mooring line using a Round Turn with Two Half-Hitches. They often don't! The following are also on our essential list: Bowline, Cleat Hitch, Clove Hitch, Figure Eight Knot, Rolling Hitch, Sheet Bend, and Square (Reef) Knot.
Climbing: Similarly the Climbing knots are also in alphabetical order. For beginners it would be a start if a student knew at least the Double Fisherman's Knot (Grapevine Knot), Figure Eight Knot, Figure Eight on a Bight, Figure Eight Follow-Through, Safety knot, and Water knot. However, serious climbers would add the Alpine Butterfly, Triple Fisherman's, Double Overhand Stopper, Klemheist, Munter Mule, and Prusik.
In both the Boating and the Climbing sections, these knots would seem to be worth learning: they serve different functions; none of them should jam; and none should be too awkward to untie - at least when the load is off.
Arborist: The Arborist knots were mostly based on the "Must Know" knots listed in Knots at Work by Jeff Jepson.
Scouting: The Scouting knots and lashings are also in alphabetical order. The knots have been selected from lists published by different Scouting Organizations in various countries. They meet the published requirements for Advancement and Merit Badges – with a few additional useful knots.
Search and Rescue: The Search and Rescue knots are also in alphabetical order. The various knots serve different purposes and were selected by consulting S&R experts.
Horse and Farm: The Knots for Horses and Cows are also in alphabetical order. The various knots for Horses mostly serve as Quick Release knots.
Splicing: The Splicing knots are grouped by type of splice. The rope material and the purpose of a splice govern its importance..
Household: The Household knots are once again in alphabetical order. They were included on the basis of personal and practical daily activities.
Quick Release: The Quick Release knots allow a hitch to be released just by pulling on the free end.
Decorative: The Decorative knots are grouped by the objective: mats, sinnets, knots using a rope's strands, etc.
Rope Care: The Rope Care knots are grouped by the objective: whipping, coiling, etc.
Disclaimer: Any activity that involves ropes is potentially hazardous. Lives may be at risk - possibly your own. Considerable attention and effort have been made to ensure that these descriptions are accurate. However, many critical factors cannot be controlled, including: the choice of materials; the age, size, and condition of ropes; and the accuracy with which these descriptions have been followed. No responsibility is accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.


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My shirt is new though! Thank you to my dear friends P and F who got this for me from Mango in Hong Kong. They also got me an equally rocking bracelet! I don't know why, but they seem to enjoy giving me stuff and I must say, I am very happy and grateful to be on the receiving end of their undying affection! Kisses to both of you, hope you like how i wore it! =)
ps. For Philippine readers: this just in! government says this summer's gonna be a wet one with more than 11 typhoons this year so if you haven't got your rainboots yet, this is the best year to invest in a pair! was in Tory Burch yesterday, they have really pretty ones but if you're on a budget try readyforrain.com or SM dept stores =)


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Cherries are countable. There are not many cherries on my plate.
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Hello everbody and dear teachers,
I want you to answer my question :
" There is not much cherries in myplate." or " There are not many cherries in my plate."
Which one is correct? I am also an English techer but sometimes I can not decide whether it is true or not. I claimed that: Normally fruits are countable but if it is presented you in a plate , you should emphasize the quantity of it by using "much". Could you please help me find the correct answer? Thank you in advance.
Cherries are countable. There are not many cherries on my plate.
"There is not much cherries on my plate" Is it completely wrong or grammatically wrong? In other words does it make a sense when it is said like that?
Thank you everybody.But one more question, sorry for taking your time
Well,, assume that There is an orange on your plate but you ate half of it. In this case can we use " There is not much orange." or how can we emphasize the quantity of it ?
You could say cheerfully 'There's still half an orange left on my plate', or gloomily 'There's only half an orange left on my plate'.
So, using "much" with fruits is wrong in a way. Thank you again for sparing your time. C u another grammatical rule.


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Full name: 2003 Hexamer Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling Spatlese*
Doing an annual check of this screwcapped wine that I bought in a full case. Contrary to professionally published reports the wine was not overwhelmed by sulphur (unlike a 1999 Prum and 2004 Gunderloch I had the other night that smelled like Hades for 30+ minutes), and was not particularly reductive. About 10 minutes in the glass had this wine showing off lots of peach, red apple and pixie-stix lime. Lush on entry but not mouthcoating in its sweetness, the wine packs a finishing burst of acidity that cleans everything up nicely while leaving a pleasant peachy glow. I would normally have expected a wine like this to be slightly shut down by now, but it really is showing identically to the first bottles I had from the case nearly 2 years ago.
Next bottle - early to mid 2007. We'll see if the wine is changing at all by then.


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Nearly two years after Snowden's revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.
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A majority of Americans feel that their privacy is being challenged along such core dimensions as the security of their personal information and their ability to retain confidentiality.
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Lipscomb's Bisons said farewell to Florida Monday night with a 71-66 loss to Stetson in Atlantic Sun competition.
The Bisons led 28-25 at the half, holding Stetson to 32 percent shooting.
Stetson rallied in the second half, overcoming a 10-point lead by the Bisons. Lipscomb held the 10-point advantage with 6:58 left in the game. Stetson's defense kicked in down the stretch, holding the Bisons without a field goal for a six-minute stretch.
The Bisons placed three players in double figures. James Poindexter scored 19 points, tying for the game high. LaBrian Lyons and Eddie Ard each added 10 points.
All of Poindexter's points were scored in the second half.
The Bisons are 8-6, 3-4 in the A-Sun. Stetson is 6-9, 4-4 in the conference.