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Monday, 12 September
Mena and Kostas had us overnight Sunday-Monday at their country house in the village of Nea Syllata.
We arrived there in the early afternoon, after church and a brunch. It's only a couple of blocks from the bus stop to their house, and we only had two very small, very light bags with us, so of course we walked.
Mena and Kostas have fixed it up since I saw it last; all the floors are tiled, which is the main thing. The formerly bare walls are now painted. The bathroom has a distinct shower instead of simply a corner of the bathroom you stand in. Furniture has been re-arranged to make the most of the space, and there are several designer touches: light fixtures and curtain rods with flair, an oil painting in the living room that matches the colors of the chimney and the floor, and in the guest room, a fanciful arrangement of the curtains. Mind you, they are only sheers, which with shutters is all one needs, but how they are arranged! Both panels are hung together on the same clip-on curtain rings, the one in front of the other. But the bottom left corner of the top curtain has been brought to the top left and is held there by the leftmost curtain ring, so it has a draped effect; and the bottom right corner of the same (top) curtain has been tied into an artistic knot.
"Pantelis!" I said under my breath. He's their son-in-law, an interior designer. I recognized his style, all rectangular and very modern. Plus, he's obviously still in his Shades of Gray Period; the plastered chimney has been painted gray and the large floor tiles are a brownish gray.
Sure enough, when I asked, Pantelis (short for Panteleimon) had designed everything. Mena says his paint crew did the painting at a very reasonable price, too, and we should ask him when we get ready to pain our own apartment, which we hope to do this year. We shall, of course, although we will not have any gray paint. In fact the existing paint in our flat, pastel blues and greens, is already far too full of gray for our taste; we want to lighten it up, and we want any accent colors to be cheerful.
The first thing Mena asked me, after how are you, was, "Shall we go for a swim?" which was exactly what I'd been hoping to hear. So we changed into our swimsuits and off we went, leaving the men to talk politics. "Talking politics," I said, "is fine, but saying the same things over and over again, that's what I don't understand." We agreed it seems like some sort of disorder.
The water, in my opinion, was perfect: clear, with waves so small even a baby wouldn't be frightened by them. I mean so small they didn't even make any surf, or any sound as they rippled onto the sand. Mena said the sea wasn't as clear is in previous days, or as calm, so she apologized!! It seemed quite clear to me, and I prefer big waves, actually, to these wee undulations.
I feel I have almost a mystical relationship with the sea; I've always felt that way, as though I were her child, as though I were a mermaid of a dolphin or something. In the sea I feel utterly natural and utterly free; I can even move in ways impossible on land. I always embrace the waters very joyfully.
So Mena and I splashed around for 45 minutes for so, then got out and came home without even drying off first. That was because she wanted to get supper going. (And neither of us cares for sunbathing.)
Supper was sardines, grilled outside until crispy and yummy. Litsa and Vasilis were there, too with their two children; Vasilis being Kostas' and Mena's son. Litsa made a salad and while I was grilling the sardines, Mena fried us some potatoes. So it all made a lovely summer meal.
After the meal, the cleanup, and a short nap, I played with the children, Konstantinos, 7, and Christina, 2. I was the teras, the monster, who chased the children; and the fate that awaited them, whenever I caught them, was to be tickled and kissed. My only trouble was, they began roaring back, and so, pathetic monster as I was, I had to run away and cower behind their mother and say things like, "Oh, no!" and "Help me!" Once I threw a little sheet over my head, trying to hide from them, but they interpreted it another way. "Phantasma!" they shrieked. So I turned from a cowardly monster to a ghost.
I wore out before they did, as usual. I remembered last time I saw Konstantinos and I showed him a magic trick, making a marble disappear. I showed that trick to Alexandros in England, Elias' son, using a grape, and I was about to make the grape re-appear when he said, "You can't; I ate it!" which both spoiled the second half of the trick and gave away the first half.
We were all sitting out on the balcony to catch the breeze when a car pulled up, about 9:00, and out came Ioannis, the lawyer and cantor. Well, being a lawyer was only a way to make a living until he retired; being a Psaltis (cantor) is his true vocation. There were greetings with hugs and kisses all around, and warm words of welcome from Ioannis, who then sat down beside Demetrios and launched right into a deep discussion of Byzantine music. Demetrios says his knowledge of the subject is profound.
If you want to be entertained, Ioannis never disappoints, because his speech is laced with Scripture; everything you can say reminds him of some passage, which he will quote or, if possible, sing; and (yes, I timed it), it took less than 15 minutes for him to begin singing little excerpts of Psalms and other hymns to illustrate his points. (He has a good voice, too, deep and rich.)
We asked about his trip to Constantinople, to the Patriarchate, but he had little to say about it except he did not feel he was received quite as he ought to have been.
Mena said she'd heard Charilaos, considered the greatest Psalti of his generation, was about to retire, and this upset Ioannis tremendously. Apparently this rumor has reached Charilaos himself, who was quite hurt by it, and Ioannis' loyalty to "the Teacher" is such that he was equally upset or more so. I also think part of what he loves so much about Mena is the shouting matches they get into. Kostas joined in as well, even standing up to emphasize his point. (Ioannis emphasized his by grabbing Demetrios' arm from time to time.) I just sat there wondering what the neighbors were thinking.
A kitten was crying pathetically somewhere in the dark very near us. It was a tiny, black creature; I was going to find a scrap of sardine for it but Ioannis said the kitty was too young for fish; at that age, what it wanted was milk. Cow's milk isn't actually the best thing for a cat, but I went along and put some out for the poor thing. (I dreamed later that I had caught that kitten, but when I opened the trap, it wasn't a domestic cat that emerged; but to my delight, a tiny lion cub. Imagine how disappointed I was to wake up and find it was neither!)
Around ten o'clock, another car pulled up and Myrta and Elias arrived. (Different Elias from our friend in England.) Yes, ten o'clock, about the time things get started in Greece. Mena, planning to return to Thessaloniki in the morning, had already served all the food she had, so to supply her necessity, Ioannis disappeared and returned in 15 minutes with two ripe melons from his garden, which we cut up and served.
Myrta, who had stopped smoking last time we were here, has begun again, although Elias has not. Apparently her doctor told her stopping was causing her as many problems as the smoking had, so she might as well go back to it. That's my understanding of Myrta's understanding of it, anyway.
People left before 1:00, except Ioannis, who although he stood up, had a lot more to say before he could depart.
We didn't sleep well in the unfamiliar bed, so it was 9:30 before Kostas knocked on our door to get us up. He and Mena had already packed up everything, put the house the way they wanted to leave it, and loaded the car.
Kostas went out to buy us all some pastries for breakfast while we got dressed.
Breakfast was on the balcony, where it was coolest. As we ate, I could hear the priest's voice across the street in the schoolyard, intoning prayers, and when I looked, there was a small crowd gathered in front of him. When I asked what was going on, well, it was the first day of school, and the priest was giving the blessing.
When he had finished, we heard another familiar voice addressing the children: Ioannis was giving a speech. He's in charge of something like the town planning commission for Nea Sylatta, so it was probably in that capacity he had been asked to speak. We couldn't hear what he had to say, but the children and their parents (and a few grandparents) cheered at the end of it. Then there were some other speeches and then the priest distributed something; I couldn't see what; and at last the school children went to their classrooms, while their younger siblings, parents, and grandparents milled about the grounds.
We were home in Thessaloniki by 11:00, tired but happy.
Demetrios went downtown to a political meeting in the afternoon while I stayed home designing a new knitting pattern I want to try out. We both slept most of the late afternoon.
Friday, September 16, 2011
A Visit to Nea Syllata
Monday, 12 September
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Hate speech is a form of vandalism. It defaces the environment, and like a broken window, if left untended, signals to other hoodlums that the coast is clear to do more damage.
But unlike the proverbial broken window, which urban police departments and criminologists urge us to repair to maintain the aura of social order, nobody seems to be in much of a hurry to nip hate speech in the bud. That's because since the ill-fated attempt by several universities to regulate hate speech in the 1980s and 1990s, any discussion of reining in racist taunts inevitably degrades into charges of political correctness and ends abruptly with the invocation of the First Amendment.
America's future depends on how well we learn to manage our diversity. Yet when it comes to hate speech, we pretty much adhere to the advice we give elementary school students to defend themselves against bullies: Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt you. Or, as a First Amendment lawyer might say in a haughtier tone, because regulating speech could erode our freedom to criticize the government, hateful rhetoric is the cost of democracy.
But the cost of democracy isn't exactly being borne equally by all Americans. Despite, or perhaps because of, the social and political gains by minorities, nonwhites seem to be facing a barrage of invective these days that, if left unchecked, could damage our democracy in the long run. Even conservative cultural critics like Charles Murray are acknowledging the emergence of a disenchanted white lower class, and the Republican Party in particular is leveraging this group's disillusionment to its advantage. Some of this resentment is expressed in racial terms and goes well beyond politics.
Last week, a blatantly racist anti-Obama bumper sticker went viral on social media. Not long before that, a federal judge in Montana admitted having emailed a joke about the president that compared interracial sex to bestiality. During a recent NCAA tournament game, members of the Southern Mississippi pep band hounded a Latino point guard for Kansas State with chants of, "Where's your green card?" And Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Morain wrote recently about a heckler who told the U.S.-born mayor of Los Angeles to "go back to Mexico."
A decade ago, I would have made a sharp distinction between discrimination and prejudice. I understood and agreed that while the law could prohibit discrimination — that is, the denial of opportunity based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. — it couldn't do much to keep people from feeling and expressing prejudice toward others. But nowadays, with racist rhetoric rising, I've decided we aren't taking the social effects of this type of vandalism seriously enough.
I'm not worried about anyone's hurt feelings. What I am concerned about is the extra burden nonwhites (and other minorities) are expected to bear when entering the public square and the way tolerated hate speech may keep them on the sidelines and weaken our democracy.
Political scientists proved a long time ago that negative campaigning depresses political participation. Sociologists have argued that the decline in all kinds of civic engagement is a consequence of individual citizens becoming alienated from the larger community. Surely there's nothing like a public square awash in racial invective to foster such alienation. Although concerted attacks on a minority could mobilize its members in the short run, it stands to reason that a steady barrage of hate will force them out of civic action in the long run.
In his forthcoming book, "The Harm in Hate Speech," New York University political philosopher Jeremy Waldron calls racist rhetoric a "slow-acting poison, accumulating here and there, word by word, so that eventually it becomes harder and less natural for even the good-hearted members of the society" to engage all the members of the community. He argues that hate speech is calculated to undermine the "good standing" that everyone in a diverse democracy must have for it to function smoothly.
It's that good standing, by which he means dignity, that enables citizens to engage "on a straightforward basis with others ... in public, on the streets, in the shops, in business, and to be treated — along with everyone else — as proper objects of society's protection and concern."
I'm not ready to say that the United States should take steps to follow Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Denmark and Germany in adopting laws to regulate hate speech. But we also can't afford to continue pretending that this rhetorical vandalism isn't the kind of broken window that represents a serious threat to an orderly society.
Gregory Rodriguez is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where this article originally appeared. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Examine the sky in the Nebra Ark visitor centre in Saale-Unstrut-Triasland Nature Park, where the Nebra sky disc was discovered, and go on a fascinating journey back in time to the universe of the Bronze Age.
The story behind the sky disc is as mysterious as the universe itself. It was discovered in 1999, somewhat accidentally, during an illicit excavation to search for prehistoric artefacts using a metal detector. The disc, which, as it turns out, is one of the most important artefacts from the Bronze Age, was found on the Mittelberg plateau near Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt. Some of the mysteries surrounding the sky disc are yet to be resolved. But its surprisingly abstract depictions seem to make reference to a precise observation of the sky that ultimately gave rise to the Bronze-Age belief that the sky curved around the Earth like a dome.
Nowadays, with flights to the moon, Mars and outer space, our perception of the sky above us has changed. But we are just as fascinated with it now as we were back then. Those wanting to explore the universe and let their dreams run wild in the Nebra Ark visitor centre in Saale-Unstrut-Triasland Nature Park can do so at the "Himmelsauge" (sky's eye), where the sky disc was found. Take a look at the ground here, as the reflective surface enables visitors to simultaneously look up to the universe. The Himmelsauge site forms a connection between the sky and Earth, at the spot where an image of the starry sky lay hidden in the ground for 3,600 years.
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VICTORIA -- Looking back on a campaign that began with leadership change in the main parties two years ago, what proved to be the winning strategy was anticipated in a briefing delivered at the New Democratic Party convention in late 2011.
The speaker was Michael Balagus, political strategist for the NDP government in Manitoba, then fresh from having secured a fourth term of office.
He talked about reaching out to people who don't follow politics because they are too busy with their own lives. Discovering their concerns.
Then defining a campaign that would motivate them to "get off the couch" and vote for your party and/or against the other party.
But the part of the briefing with particular relevance to B.C. was his discussion of how his opinion-poll trailing government rose to the challenge of getting re-elected against an Opposition preaching "time for a change."
"We redefined change as risk," said Balagus.
The effort started well before the election, with advertisements that targeted the would-be agents of change, Opposition leader Hugh McFadyen and his Progressive Conservatives, over their record in government in the 1990s, defining them in negative terms before they could define themselves.
"Relentless," was the way Balagus described his party's plan of attack. The ruthlessness generated a backlash inside a party that prides itself (however justifiably) on its high-mindedness. But as Balagus observed, a party cannot afford to play the boy scout when fighting for its life.
"We need to get (the message) out," he said. "If we don't believe there's a difference, if we don't tell people there's a difference, they're not going to get it. People vote for something; they also vote against something."
Sound familiar? Some B.C. New Democrats surely thought so. They also recognized that the circumstances in Manitoba were reversed here, so far as New Democrats were concerned.
There the party was battling "time-for-a-change" to retain office. Here the party was touting the slogan as a way of gaining office. That, in turn, meant that the winning strategy described by Balagus could be turned against the party in B.C.
"We don't want you going to the Liberals and giving them any hints on how to define us," as one B.C. MLA put it, only half jokingly. As she spoke, a Liberal staffer was furiously taking notes on everything Balagus said from a post in the observer's gallery at the back of the convention hall.
The Liberals' successful drive for a fourth term here in B.C. included defining change as scary, the NDP as a party that could not be trusted based on its record in government, and the leader as "Risky Dix."
Not to say that the inspiration came from directly from the Balagus briefing. Only that the New Democrats did not appear to have absorbed the lessons of what happened in Manitoba half as well as the Liberals.
Fast forward one year to the B.C. Liberals' own convention in the fall of 2012. Again, delegates heard a briefing from out-of-province strategists who'd recently been involved in re-election bids in their respective provinces.
Don Guy hailed from Ontario, where that province's Liberal government had fought its way back from a huge deficit in the opinion polls to come within one seat of a majority. Stephen Carter was behind the Progressive Conservatives' big win in Alberta, then (though no longer) the outstanding example of a government making a mockery of professional prognosticators en route to re-election.
The duo spoke to delegates in private but some of what they had to say leaked out, via a combination of up-to-the-moment social media and old-fashioned eavesdropping.
The most widely cited line was Carter's characterization of pollsters, pundits and political scientists as the "holy trinity" of know-nothings.
But there was also an emphasis on the volatile nature of the electorate in these increasingly uncertain times. Many voters don't pay attention to politics between elections. Many don't make up their minds until a week or two before the election. Some decide as they are marking their ballots.
How do we know these things? Thanks to those same opinion polls that the delegates were advised to discount, except when they should not do so.
Overall, the strategists reiterated the importance of laying out both a positive vision and a plan of attack well before the election, then sticking to it. One thinks of the Liberal jobs plan and the campaign against the NDP, both already in place in the fall of 2012, both decisive in the election.
None of those observations were all that dramatic or unprecedented. Still, for those of us in the hindsight division of the news media — a much easier pursuit than the crystal ball side of the business — the Liberals would appear to have absorbed the available lessons from Ontario and Alberta far better than the New Democrats.
Indeed with the big win in B.C., the strategists behind Liberal Campaign 2013 — they include Mike McDonald, Don Millar, Patrick Kinsella, Dimitri Pantazopoulos and the aforementioned Don Guy — must have established themselves as the new turnaround experts in Canadian politics.
Presumably they'll be called on to lend advice and provide inspiration next time a government is in trouble and headed for an election.


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HouseValues cuts 60 jobs
Amid a slumping real estate market, HouseValues Inc. is cutting 12 percent of its work force and closing its online lead generation business for mortgages.
Sixty employees are losing their jobs, all of them at the company's Kirkland headquarters.
HouseValues also announced Wednesday that President and Chief Operating Officer Clayton Lewis will be leaving the company, joining a parade of executives -- including Mark Jancola and Jun Choo -- who have left in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Barry Allen, a former top executive at Cendant Corp.'s Move.com, has been named chief financial officer and executive vice president. He fills a position that was vacated last fall when John Zdanowski left for Linden Lab, the San Francisco creator of Second Life.
In a memo to employees, HouseValues Chief Executive Ian Morris said that the company has encountered a number of challenges due to a "steep decline in transaction volume in many local real estate markets."
"Today is a truly difficult day. And the departure of friends and colleagues is very painful for all of us," Morris said in the memo. "But the decisions we have made -- to focus 100 percent of our energies on the success of our real estate agent customers -- are the right ones and they will enable us to profitably grow HouseValues in the future."
HouseValues, which was founded in 1999 and went public at $15 per share in late 2004, helps real estate agents connect with homebuyers and sellers. It has struggled recently, posting a net loss of $1.5 million for the third quarter. In the past 12 months, the stock has lost 65 percent of its value, closing Wednesday at $5.24 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Meanwhile, real estate professionals also are dropping the HouseValues service at a higher rate than in the past, with the monthly churn rate hitting 7.6 percent at the end of the third quarter. At the same time, the average revenue per customer dropped to the lowest level in 18 months.
A HouseValues employee, who was not involved in the layoffs and asked not to be named, said that "morale has been very low and a lot of people have been quitting from all departments." As of September, the company employed 590 people. But the employee count has drifted lower in recent months as people have left for other jobs.
In an interview, Morris said, "Announcements like this are tough on everybody." But he said that he has been "extremely impressed" with how employees are handling the situation.
"People feel strongly that this is the right move for the company," he said. Morris declined to say whether the layoffs would push the company back to profitability. Morris admitted that HouseValues did not grow as fast as anticipated last year. But he also blamed the company's troubles on the overall real estate market, which he said peaked in 2005.
"When you see the transaction volume slow down and the time on market grow, it is harder for many agents to step up and invest in marketing services and lead generation," he said. "We still have thousands of people who have signed up and there is a lot that is good as well, but it does put some pressure on real estate agents and that affects us."
Morris said the company decided to close its mortgage unit, which it entered in late 2005 through the acquisition of The Loan Page, because it was a different business that required a lot of investment and focus. The Loan Page was established to help mortgage brokers find leads.
The company's sales and customer support operation in Yakima was not affected by the layoffs. HomePages.com, its consumer online real estate service, also was unaffected by the latest move.
Morris -- who has seen a number of new players enter the online real estate market in the past 18 months -- said he remains bullish about offering marketing services to real estate agents.
"The company is in a very strong position. We have $80 million in the bank, we are one of the largest players in the space and we feel very good about the plan we have going forward as far as servicing our customers," he said. "I think we are on track."


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Thorofare to Upper Priest Lake
Priest Lake is linked to Upper Priest Lake by a narrow waterway termed the Thorofare. The 2.5-mile channel meanders through some of nature's most spectacular forested scenery. The entire length is protected from human development since it lies within the boundaries of the Upper Priest Lake Scenic Area.
All watercraft traversing the Thorofare are restricted to "no wake" speed. This speed restriction makes the Thorofare an ideal waterway for canoeists and kayakers. The shallow, crystal clear water affords an unrestricted view of the channel bottom. The large trees that have fallen into the Thorofare over the years seem to come alive and create a surreal effect as you pass over them.
Along the banks of the Thorofare, the wonders of nature can be observed close-up and personal. Wildlife of all varieties is a common sight, and you will likely observe numerous fish pass beneath your boat. Be on the lookout for bald eagles, ospreys, numerous duck species and the occasional moose - which may decide to swim across the channel in front of your boat!
Enjoying the solitude and beauty of boating on the Thorofare is truly a unique nature adventure that should not be missed


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Apple yesterday appealed a decision by a federal judge who ruled the Cupertino, Calif. company must be monitored by a watchdog for two years after conspiring to fix e-book prices.
In July, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of violating antitrust laws by plotting with major publishers to set industry-wide prices.
The verdict resulted in an injunction that prohibited Apple from disclosing deals it struck with one e-book publisher to others -- a way to prevent it from again colluding on prices -- and required that its behavior be overseen by an on-site compliance officer for 24 months. Cote will decide on what damages Apple must pay in early 2014.
Previously, Apple had vowed to appeal Cote's ruling.
"Apple also hereby appeals from any and all orders and rulings that were adverse to it, whether or not subsumed within the September 6, 2013 Final Judgment, including -- without limitation -- this Court's July 10, 2013 Opinion & Order as well as other rulings on liability, admissibility of evidence, and certain discovery requests," the company's lawyers said in a notice of appeal filed with the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.
Appeals in that district are handled by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which is located in New York City.
The case began in 2012 when the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Apple and five major U.S. book publishers of conspiring to raise e-book prices two years earlier, part of an effort to stymie Amazon.com from selling bestselling electronic books for just $9.99.
Although the publishers -- Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster -- settled out of court before the trial began in June, Simon & Schuster also filed a notice of appeal today.
The DOJ was not available for comment, since its offices have been closed as part of the federal government shutdown.
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Pop a cork! Getting a taste for the bubbly
Weddings, anniversaries, romantic candlelit dinners– champagne is definitely the drink of choice for special occasions like these. Like caviar and fine chocolate, we tend to associate this bubbly beverage with out-of-the-ordinary celebrations, and would rarely consider "wasting" a precious bottle on a typical Tuesday or a casual Friday. Talk about a faux pas.
But if Didier Simonin has his way, in a few years Charlottesvillians will be popping open bottles of champagne at the drop of a hat. The French owner of the local import house Simon N Cellars, Simonin is the closest thing we have to a champagne ambassador.
"In France everyone keeps bottles of champagne in their fridge in case friends drop by," he says. "One of my goals is to promote the versatile possibilities of champagne here in Virginia."
Simonin is responsible for bringing some of the best and hardest-to-come-by French wines to restaurants and markets around Virginia and D.C.- Metro, Fleurie, Ciboulette, The Inn at Little Washington, and Citronelle, to name a few.
"If you want chardonnay or merlot, I can't do anything for you," Simonin says. He'd surely say the same about Veuve Clicquot, Piper Heidesieck, and Dom Pérignon.
A sign of the growing importance of small producers in today's micro-climate, Simonin imports only one French "Premier Cru" champagne– Vve Fourny & Fils of Vertus, France. A family-owned and -run business producing (organically) a mere 8,300 cases of champagne a year– from the fresh, modern Grand Réserve to the more traditional Cuvée "R"– Fourny is already one of the top champagnes in France. Thanks to Simonin– who buys up the majority of the exported cases- Virginia is now the top consumer of Fourny champagne in the U.S.
Thirsty yet? If so, this may be the week to slake your appetite for champagne. Why? Because Fourny champagne makers and brothers Emmanuel and Charles-Henry Fourny will be coming to Charlottesville to talk about champagne and small winery operations and, of course, to pop open bottles at two separate tasting events– the first on October 13 at Tastings, and the second the next day at l'étoile restaurant.
This is Emmanuel's first visit to Albemarle. He was here three years ago as a consultant to help Patricia Kluge and local winemaker Gabrielle Rausse create the Kluge Estate SP, a sparkling white wine made with chardonnay grapes in the traditional méthode Champenoise. (Only sparkling wine made in the Champagne region of France can be called champagne).
If you can't make it to these tastings, why not order a glass– or a bottle– the next time you're out to dinner? As Charlottesville's champagne ambassador, Simonin depends heavily on local restaurateurs to help make champagne more of an everyday indulgence.
He certainly has a strong advocate in Vincent Derquenne of Metro, Bang! and Bizou fame. "Champagne is sexy, festive, and fun," he told Dish, "because of its high-acidity and versatility, it is also one of best wines to drink with food. People need to stop thinking 'special occasion' and just enjoy it."
To prove his commitment to bubbles as inducers of relaxation and pleasure, Derquenne says he underprices champagne at places like Bang! where the asian-fusion cuisine just screams "champagne!" Designer cocktails, beware.
Pale Ale's now golden
In other local beverage news, Starr Hill Brewery certainly has a reason to celebrate this week. Starr Hill's Pale Ale took the gold at the 2003 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver- which is, I'm told, like the Olympics for beer.
Master Brewer Mark Thompson was there to accept the award for the beer he crafted. This actually marks the third gold (and the 7th award) for the four-year-old brewery – Amber and Stout were '99 gold winners.
Thompson appears to be the leader in a local beer Renaissance, continuing in a tradition started by Jefferson himself. "We are the only brewery in the state to win a GABF award," he says, "and this gold will help us give Charlottesville the gift of great beer."


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Joan of Arc by Charlene O Brien
She is an international eco textile designer who combines raw organic fibres, hand spun silks, recycled remnant, organic Australian merino wool and luxurious sustainable silks, fused with various constructive and embellished techniques by hand and by machine. Recently re-located to a studio in the hills, Western Australia, Charlene practices low impact environmental production by creating her atelier, a pure and safe workplace using solar energy, rainwater, handcraft skills and techniques, carefully collected botanicals from her dyers garden for hand solar dyeing. Charlene launched her new eco luxury signature label at the Ethical Fashion Show, Paris, October 2007 and participated again October 2008. She is successfully marketing her eco luxury label to high end Parisian galeries. My ultimate aim is to create clothes that are comfortable to wear. My mandate is that they must be good for both the person, meaning that they are free of any harmful dyes and chemicals, as well as good for the environment and economies.


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No, all the links are valid, email return path is correct, and I confirmed I've received emails like this before. I log into my Amazon account and I see: Holy crap. I didn't order that. I click Cancel. Then I get this email a few minutes later: We weren't able to cancel the following item(s) from your order: Kindle Paperwhite 3G, 6" High Resolution Display with Built-in Light, Free 3G + Wi-Fi Looks like they are so efficient that they got the Kindle on the truck already. I check UPS. It's on the way to my house. I login to Amazon's "Manage Your Kindle" page, and sure enough, there's already 'Scott's 2nd Kindle' sitting there, ready to go. I deregister it. Hm? Why is this useful? Why do they want a Kindle sent to my house? At this point I call Amazon and explain the situation to a human. Sue is SUPER nice, SUPER knowledgeable and immediately I can tell she gets it, so someone give Sue G. a raise. She says she's taking it to Fraud and I should hear from them soon. I want to point out here that I'm talking to a human on the phone here. Sue looks through their details and says there are a series of chats with "Scott" using their Live Chat system. So, this is a social engineering hack, not a "password compromised" hack. The person has reported that "Scott's" Kindle is broken and has asked for a replacement, but then later tried to redirect the delivery. The customer rep says they can't redirect it. However, it appears the bad guy tried multiple support folks until they finally got the package redirected. More on that in a second. Note that none of this required anything more than my address and my email. They were able to get the Amazon Customer Service to accept that they were me without my password or any additional verification. I ask Sue to send me the chat logs. She talks to a supervisor and says she can't send them to me because the chat logs contain the address that the bad guy wants to redirect to. She does tell me the redirect address is in Portland, however. ASIDE: Amazon customer support also "brick" the Kindle for me. It's not just Deregistered (disassociated from my account) now, but it's remotely deactivated. However, I still don't want the bad guy to succeed. Sue also mentions that the bad guy asked that the customer representative "not bother to send a follow up email, as I never check my email anyway." The bad guy is consistent in this behavior, always asking to avoid the return emails so I won't see them. Of course, the automated system can't NOT send the follow up, which is why we're here now. If that automated email hadn't gone out I wouldn't have noticed this hack until I checked my Amazon Recent Orders at some point in the future. ASIDE: It's rather ironic that the bad guy's address has more privacy than I do. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend that Amazon implement a policy wherein they email the complete customer chat transcripts after the chat completes. Additionally, my chat transcripts are mine and should be available to me online. I figure it's done and I go about my day. Next morning I wake up to see a bunch of mails like this, all from different people at Amazon: Thank you for contacting Amazon.com about your inquiry. It was a pleasure to help you with your concern. I can confirm that we still expect to ship your order in time to be delivered to you by February 12th, 2013. We'll send you an e-mail when your order is shipped with your tracking number. Your order could ship any time between now and right before the estimated delivery date. Waa? What "concern?" I go to UPS and check the tracking number for the ill-gotten Kindle. Note the times. Someone is doing this when Amazon phone support is overseas, or when they (the bad guy) is overseas, or at least, up late. They are still trying to redirect the Kindle to another address, again with the web chat system and multiple times. This sure is a lot of work for a Kindle. I call Amazon again and re-explain what's up. I ask for the chat transcripts again but they won't send them. Simultaneous to this phone call I email Amazon Customer Support and ask for the chat transcripts (via email, just to be clear) and the chat transcripts show up quickly in my inbox. Doh. RECOMMENDATION: I'm reiterating here. Policies only work when everyone follows them. The phone folks at Amazon are very consistent, but the chat and email support is, in this case at least, demonstrably spotty. NOTE: The bad guy isn't "ordering" new stuff, but rather requesting a replacement of an existing product exploiting Amazon's liberal warranty replacement service, then redirecting the package. OK, now I've got chat transcripts. Here's the annotated and edited transcript. In case it's not crystal clear here, that's not me chatting here. Transfer Notes : May I check on my replacement Kindle shipment status that was placed earlier today? 10:11 PM Scott is off hold. 10:12 PM Scott : Hi [Name withheld] 10:12 PM Amazon Rep : Hello, Scott. 10:12 PM Amazon Rep : Could you please help me with the order number? 10:13 PM Scott : I do not have the order number with me right now. Could you please help look into my account? The order was placed earlier in the day. (ED: Note to Amazon, this is odd, as they are sitting at a computer) 10:13 PM Amazon Rep : Scott, I need the email address associated with your amazon account? 10:13 PM Scott : sure. 10:13 PM Scott : [my email address] 10:14 PM Amazon Rep : Please give me a minute to check that. 10:15 PM Amazon Rep : Before I can view your account I'll need to do a quick security check. Please confirm the email address, complete name, and billing address on your account. 10:16 PM Scott : [my address] 10:16 PM Scott : scott hanselman 10:17 PM Amazon Rep : Thank you for the information. 10:19 PM Amazon Rep : The kindle device which your referring to will be delivered to you by: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:19 PM Scott : do you have the tracking number for this shipment? 10:20 PM Amazon Rep : Yes, the tracking number is 1Z0ERxxxxxxxxxxxx 10:23 PM Scott : Thank you. 10:23 PM Amazon Rep : You're welcome! 10:24 PM Scott : Please hold on. 10:24 PM Amazon Rep : Sure. 10:25 PM Scott : May I know how can I change the shipping address? 10:25 PM Scott : I just contacted UPS, and was told to contact the shipper, which is Amazon, to change the shipping address. 10:25 PM Amazon Rep : This is the shipping address: Scott Hanselman [my address] United States (ED: Note that they included "United States." This tells me this was copy pasted. No one writes that.) Primary Phone: [my phone] 10:26 PM Scott : Yes, but I would like to change the shipping address. 10:26 PM Amazon Rep : I am sorry, the shipping address cannot be changed now, since the item has been shipped. 10:27 PM Scott : I understand, but UPS told me that this is still possible, but only Amazon can contact UPS to do so. 10:27 PM Scott : Are you able to transfer me to someone who is able to help out? 10:27 PM Amazon Rep : Please give me a minute to check that. 10:29 PM Amazon Rep : Thank you for being on hold. 10:29 PM Amazon Rep : I've contacted UPS and asked them to hold this package for you. 10:29 PM Scott : ? 10:30 PM Scott : I do not need UPS to hold the package for me. 10:30 PM Scott : Please confirm with me first before making any changes. 10:30 PM Amazon Rep : I understand that you want to change the address, but that cannot be done now since the package has been shipped. 10:31 PM Scott : Could you please help me call UPS to enquire? 10:31 PM Amazon Rep : Sure. 10:32 PM Scott : If you are not able to make any outgoing calls, please transfer me to a colleague who may do so. 10:34 PM Amazon Rep : Please give me a minute to do that. 10:34 PM Scott : Sure. 10:35 PM Scott : http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/service/delivery_change.html 10:41 PM Amazon Rep : Scott, could you please help me with the address to which you want the package to be redirected to? 10:41 PM Scott : Sure. 10:42 PM Scott : [Address in Portland with "NUM99999" at the end of the street] (ED: This US address is a "Shipping Portal into another country. More on this soon.) 10:43 PM Amazon Rep : Thank you for the information. 10:43 PM Amazon Rep : Please be on hold while I contact UPS regarding it. 10:52 PM Amazon Rep : Thank you for being on hold. 10:52 PM Amazon Rep : Could you please help me with your phone number? 10:53 PM Scott : No worries. 10:53 PM Scott : Sure 10:53 PM Scott : 425-406-xxxx (ED: I called this. It's a disconnected VOIP number) 10:53 PM Amazon Rep : Please give me a minute. 10:55 PM Amazon Rep : Could you please help me with your country code? 10:56 PM Amazon Rep : Thank you. 11:01 PM Amazon Rep : I am sorry for the delay. 11:01 PM Scott : No worries. (ED: Conjecture: People comfortable with English say this. This isn't something you hear a lot of non-natives say.) 11:01 PM Amazon Rep : I have requested for a delivery change of the address to the UPS carrier. 11:02 PM Scott : Thank you. May I know when is the scheduled delivery date? 11:03 PM Amazon Rep : You're Welcome. Yes, it will be delivered as scheduled. 11:03 PM Amazon Rep : Here is the link, you may view the details: http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest? 11:04 PM Scott : Thank you so much. You do not need to follow up with an email to me as I hardly check my emails. Would that be okay? (ED: Seriously?) 11:05 PM Amazon Rep : You're Welcome. I am sorry, I'll need to send you an follow up email. 11:05 PM Scott : Oh. You do not have to do so actually. 11:06 PM Amazon Rep : I understand your concern, but as per our policy I'll need to send you an email. 11:06 PM Scott : An auto generated email to complete the survey is fine. 11:06 PM Amazon Rep : Okay, sure. 11:07 PM Scott : I will complete the survey when I have the time, but you don't have to include other details in the email. (ED: Not cool, Amazon.) 11:07 PM Amazon Rep : Sure, Scott. I'll do that. Amazon Fraud will handle the IP address tracking and deal with the bad guy, but now I have an address. I get a website and phone number from the address. It's a global shipping logistics company. The weird number at the end of their address is a Virtual Routing number. An address with a number after it allows folks to have a package mailed to them in the US, then the package is transparently forwarded overseas. This number points to an account they have with a post office in a country in Southeast Asia. They received packages from all over, consolidate them, then ship them on masse. This allows governments and companies (and apparently bad guys) to order stuff from companies inside the US, then pay the international shipping and tariffs as a large shipment when it's sent overseas. I call UPS with Amazon and we initiate an irreversible Return to Shipper. Amazon Fraud is on it, police contacted. This event is done. UPDATE: Looks like the use of a Domestic Remailer company also hit Chris Cardinal. Someone tried to have a product mailed to an address in Portland, to a different "logistics company" that forwards mail overseas. Buy why? Why all this work for a Kindle? No rock solid idea. Perhaps: Practice? If they can do one they can do 10, then 100? Kindles, especially 3G Kindles, are preregistered to an account that may have One Click Ordering turned on. With a Kindle registered to me, someone might be able to use it to order a bunch of stuff before anyone is on to them. I've said before that a Kindle is "There's a single click between my Wallet and Jeff Bezo's Wallet." This is truer than ever in my mind now. How does Amazon fix this? Here's my recommendations to Amazon on how to fix this. The IP address that the chat happened from was clearly not mine, nor was it likely in my neighborhood. Amazon, like a bank, should notice if a chat or request happens from an unknown location and enforce secondary protocols to check identity. Everything was done over web chat without the user being logged in. No order change should EVER happen anonymously over web chat. Authenticate the user the way you already know how - by making them log in. The bad guy was saying clearly suspicious things. They asked the rep NOT to send emails. That behavior is not normal. Train customer service reps to watch for obviously sneaky behavior, and re-authenticate. The chat transcript wasn't emailed to me. I was notified about an interaction, but not given the context. All chat transcripts should be emailed to the account owner after they are concluded. Chat transcripts should be available to me from my account pages. A half dozen attempts were made in a short period. It appears that the customer reps didn't read the previous interactions and notice that this person was effectively phishing the reps themselves, trying to get satisfaction. The UPS shipping redirect was allowed without authorization. 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Groups Targeted by I.R.S. Tested Rules on Politics
When CVFC, a conservative veterans' group in California, applied for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service, its biggest expenditure that year was several thousand dollars in radio ads backing a Republican candidate for Congress.
The Wetumpka Tea Party, from Alabama, sponsored training for a get-out-the-vote initiative dedicated to the "defeat of President Barack Obama" while the I.R.S. was weighing its application.
West Fertilizer Co.'s Insurance Policy Was Just $1 Million Before Deadly Plant Explosion
The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage, lawyers said Saturday.
Tyler lawyer Randy C. Roberts said he and other attorneys who have filed lawsuits against West Fertilizer's owners were told Thursday that the plant carried only $1 million in liability insurance. Brook Laskey, an attorney hired by the plant's insurer to represent West Fertilizer Co., confirmed the amount Saturday in an email to The Associated Press, after the Dallas Morning News first reported it.
"The bottom line is, this lack of insurance coverage is just consistent with the overall lack of responsibility we've seen from the fertilizer plant, starting from the fact that from day one they have yet to acknowledge responsibility," Roberts said.
Roberts said he expects the plant's owner to ask a judge to divide the $1 million in insurance money among the plaintiffs, several of whom he represents, and then file for bankruptcy.
He said he wasn't surprised that the plant was carrying such a small policy.
Move Over, Koch Brothers: A Bigger, Darker Rightwing Funder Is Out to Destroy Public Education
It's "the most powerful organization in America that no one seems to know about."
That's how Scot Ross, executive director of the progressive think tank One Wisconsin Institute, describes the Bradley Foundation.
The Bradley Foundation, headed by Governor Scott Walker's campaign co-chair Michael Grebe, has underwritten a massive, pro-privatization propaganda campaign, including "a systematic and relentless campaign to turn public opinion against the public school system."
Unlike David Koch of the Koch Brothers, whose cover was blown when a gonzo blogger named Ian Murphy (editor of the Buffalo Beast and a frequent contributor to The Progressive), impersonated him ina prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Donors Trust: The ATM for Climate Denial
According to Mother Jones and The Guardian newspaper, over the past decade, a little-known group called Donors Trust has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy contributors to a host of right-wing organizations, advocacy groups and think tanks. MJ's Andy Kroll dubs it the "dark-money ATM of the right" because of all the conservative campaigns the group had bankrolled. He writes:
Antonin Scalia: State Of The Union Is A 'Childish Spectacle'
WASHINGTON -- While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union.
He doesn't go when a Democrat is president. He stays away when the president is Republican.
"It has turned into a childish spectacle. I don't want to be there to lend dignity to it," Scalia said, with a certain amount of mischief.
The 76-year-old justice has previously made clear his disdain for the event, but Tuesday may have been the first time he did so at nearly the same time as the speech.
The occasion was a talk sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates and moderated by National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, one of many public appearances by the justices during their winter recess. They will meet in private on Friday and return to the bench on Tuesday.
Lest anyone think the timing of his talk was anything other than a coincidence, Scalia tried to put those thoughts to rest.
"I didn't set this up tonight just to upstage the president," he said. "The State of the Union is not something I mark on my calendar, like Easter or Yom Kippur."
Obama Presidential Voting Commission To Be Announced (UPDATE)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will announce a bipartisan presidential voting commission to focus on improving the Election Day experience, The Huffington Post has learned from two sources outside the White House with knowledge of the plans.
The commission is one of a number of efforts the Obama administration is making to address the problems that plagued voting on Election Day 2012. The commission, which will focus specifically on Election Day issues and not broader voting reform, will likely be co-chaired by one Republican and one Democratic lawyer, according to one of the sources.
The White House announced Tuesday that 102-year-old Miami resident Desiline Victor will be a guest of first lady Michelle Obama during the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, during which Obama is expected to discuss voting reforms. Victor is a naturalized U.S. citizen who stood in line for three hours at a local library on the first Sunday of early voting until workers told her to come back later that evening. A crowd of thousands of people erupted in applause when she emerged with an "I Voted" sticker, the White House said.
NY Fracking Scandal: Seven Groups Demand Conflict of Interest Investigation of Cuomo Administration
New York could soon become the newest state in the union to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the controversial technique used to enable shale oil and gas extraction. The green light from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo could transpire in as little as "a couple of weeks," according to journalist and author Tom Wilber.
That timeline, of course, assumes things don't take any crazy twists or turns.
Seniors and Vets to Crash 'Fix the Debt' Party Hosted by Honeywell CEO
Seniors and disabled veterans are planning today to crash a "Fix the Debt" party in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote. Fix the Debt, an organization comprised of many of the country's richest and most powerful CEOs, pushes the case for cutting Social Security and Medicare as well as lowering the corporate income tax rate.
As such, the organization—and subsequent party—caught the eye of the anti–corporate tax-dodging group US Uncut and the new group Flip the Debt.
"We wouldn't have to make these cuts, and we could invest in putting America back to work, if only [corporations] pay their fair share. So we say, rather than 'fix the debt,' let's 'flip the debt' and put responsibility where it belongs. Hey 1%! Pay your damn taxes," Flip the Debt states on its website.
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires
A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.
Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption.
The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.
Cops Blame James O'Keefe for Sinking Their Investigation into His Voter Fraud Sting
There's no publicity in the follow-up. Conservative activist James O'Keefe earned praise for secretly taping Virginia Rep. Jim Moran's son Patrick seemingly giving advice on how to commit voter fraud in October, but three months later law enforcement has closed their investigation because, they say, O'Keefe wouldn't cooperate.
RELATED: Believe It or Not, People Are Praising James O'Keefe's Latest Scheme
Federal Judge Approves Minnesota Law Banning Campaign Lies
Minnesota's law prohibiting lying in political campaigns has been upheld by a federal judge.
The Minnesota Fair Campaign Practices Act made it a gross misdemeanor for someone to intentionally prepare, disseminate, or broadcast political advertising or campaign material "that is designed or tends to elect, injure, promote, or defeat a candidate for nomination or election to a public office or to promote or defeat a ballot question, that is false, and that the person knows is false."
The statute was challenged five years ago by the 281 CARE Committee and the Citizens for Quality Education, which campaign against ballot initiatives that raise taxes or fees for school district funding.
The plaintiffs claimed the law violated their free-speech rights and restricted their ability to participate in political debate. They lost their first trial before a federal judge in Minneapolis. But the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in May 2011.
That sent the matter to U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery, who ruled in favor of the defendants, two county attorneys and the state attorney general.
OFA demands the firing of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz
The top Republican and top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent a joint letter late Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder posing pointed questions about the prosecution of Internet pioneer and political activist Aaron Swartz.
Swartz committed suicide this month after fighting federal hacking charges for two years. The letter from Issa and Cummings is the first clear bipartisan response to Swartz's prosecution, heavily criticized by computer and criminal justice experts as unwarranted and excessive. Swartz would have faced up to 35 years in prison if convicted of hacking charges stemming from mass downloads of academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR. Although Swartz had legal access to all of the articles, he was accused of violating the database terms of service by downloading so many at once. JSTOR had opposed his prosecution.
Businessman Tied To Dark Money Group Elected Arizona GOP Chair
An Arizona businessman tied to a dark money group that tangled with California's campaign finance watchdog last year has been picked to be the next chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.
Robert Graham had picked up a number of key endorsements from state Republicans, and received 1,000 votes to beat out Doug Little, who received 430.
Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel
A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee to be secretary of defense, saying he would make the United States "a weaker country."
Another freshly minted and anonymously backed organization, Use Your Mandate, which presents itself as a liberal gay rights group but purchases its television time through a prominent Republican firm, is attacking Mr. Hagel as "anti-Gay," "anti-woman" and "anti-Israel" in ads and mailers.


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Cops: RI man killed ex-girlfriend's parakeet
Dorian Moron faces charges
Police in Rhode Island have charged a man with killing his ex-girlfriend's parakeet during an argument at her home last week.
North Providence police told The Providence Journal they charged 27-year-old city resident Dorian Moron with malicious injury to an animal, assault, vandalism and disorderly conduct.
Police say Moron and his former girlfriend got into an argument last Friday and he smashed a birdcage with two birds inside. Officers say Moron slapped one of the birds when the woman tried to pick it up.
Authorities say Moron also stole the woman's television and
her cellphone.
Moron posted bail and is due in District Court on Thursday.
Moron couldn't be reached for comment Thursday. There's no phone listing for him and it's not clear if he has a lawyer.
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Making decisions
Respecting individual choice
Making decisions about our own lives is important for all of us. People with dementia also want control of their lives. But the ability to make simple or complex decisions for someone with dementia varies greatly and will depend on her personality and the extent of disease progression.
If you have dementia
A diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease does not mean that you must immediately stop making decisions. But as the disease progresses, your ability to make decisions will change. Your caregivers can continue to offer you options and give you the chance to make decisions on your own, whether they are simple day to day decisions, or decisions about your future care and support.
For family members and caregivers, substitute decision-makers and health-care professionals
People who provide care may not be aware of strategies that help make it easier for people with dementia to make many of their own decisions. Or caregivers may find the strategies time-consuming. It is critical to remember how important decision-making can be to maintaining a person's confidence and self-esteem.
- Recognize abilities and keep her involved in making decisions
If you are making decisions on behalf of someone with dementia, use the person's wishes as a guide, not your own interests.
Recognize that she still has abilities that should be respected and encouraged. Support her to make her own decisions and involve her in decision-making while she can.
Feelings and emotions remain intact long after words have lost their meaning, so look for cues in facial expressions, tone of voice and body language.
- Plan for the future
Most people are not comfortable about making plans for a time when they will be unable to make decisions and have control of their own lives. Discussing personal values in relation to illness and death, finances and living arrangements, for example, is difficult. But silence on these issues means that you may not know his wishes about his own care, and have more difficulty making decisions. Knowing his values and wishes gives support and reassurance to you and other substitute decision-makers.
Strategies include
- While he is able, talk about what he values and how he defines quality of life. Make sure other family members and substitute decision-makers know the results of these discussions.
- Make a plan for the time when he will not be able to make independent decisions. Discuss openly and frankly future health care, personal care and financial decisions.
- Complete legal paperwork to ensure that his wishes are recorded and a substitute decision-maker is named.
- Laws about advance directives and substitute decision-making vary between provinces and territories.
- Adjust to changing abilities
As the disease progresses, identify the abilities she still has, break down complex tasks and decisions into more easily managed options, and respect her choices.
- Reduce the number of options at any one time. For example, ask, "Would you like to have your bath now or later?" rather than, "When do you want a bath?"
- Give step-by-step guidance by asking about one thing at a time and only going on to the next question after each one is answered. "Would you like to go for a walk now?" Then, "Would you like to wear your blue or red sweater?" And then, "Shall we go to the garden or park?"
- Learn to recognize and be sensitive to the meaning behind facial expressions, tone of voice and body language. Someone with dementia can communicate meaning to anyone who learns to read the emotional signals conveyed.
- Respect a person's values and wishes
When she can no longer make decisions, follow her expressed wishes. If you do not know her wishes, make the decision based on what you think she would want. You may have to weigh the risks and benefits of the decision, and assess how it will affect her quality of life and well-being.
Substitute decision-makersAs a person loses the ability to make decisions, decision-making will involve others, such as family members, substitute decision-makers and health-care professionals. Making decisions on another person's behalf can be difficult and highly stressful, especially when the values and wishes of the person with dementia are unknown, unclear or impossible to follow.
In choosing substitute decision-makers, consider their availability to take on the role, understand and respect the values and wishes of the person with the disease, ability to work with others, and ability to resolve conflicts.
Substitute decision-making can be the responsibility of one person. Or, it could be one person for health-care decisions and another for financial decisions.
Once the substitute decision-maker is chosen, the person with the disease and the substitute decision-maker may want to talk about how disputes might be resolved if they arise.
Laws about substitute decision-making vary in different provinces and territories. Contact your local Alzheimer Society for more information.
- Advance directive, living will, enduring or durable power of attorney
You can write down the person's values and wishes in an advance directive, a document that records her wishes about the preferred type of future care. If she can no longer make decisions, the advance directive will provide direction.
Other terms used for an advance directive in Canada include living will, or enduring or durable power of attorney for health care. Laws about advance directives vary in different provinces and territories. Contact your local Alzheimer Society for more information.
- Competency assessment
If you have difficulty assessing his ability to make decisions, you may begin making decisions on his behalf too soon. Of if you have difficulty confronting him about the loss of decision-making abilities, you may avoid the issue even though you know he is making poor decisions.
For some major decisions, you may need to have experts assess his ability to make that particular decision. Regulations governing competency assessment vary in different provinces and territories. Contact your local Alzheimer Society for information about the relevant regulations in your province or territory.
- When decisions become difficult
When asked to make a decision, substitute decision-makers must follow as much as possible the expressed wishes of the person with dementia.
The wishes of the person may conflict with those of the substitute decision-maker, family or society. For example, a person could express a wish to live at home, but unsafe smoking could put that person and neighbours at risk of fire. Also, if several caregivers are involved in decision-making, they may not be able to agree on what the person's wishes are.
If conflict develops, or if the person's wishes are not known, unclear or impossible to follow, review the decision based on:
- Values of the person with dementia
- Risks and benefits of the decision to the person, caregivers, family members and others affected
- Effect on the physical and emotional well-being of the person
- Effect on the quality of life of the person, caregivers and family members.
You may also want to consult an impartial, trusted third party to help resolve the issue. With some decisions, a resolution may take time.
Topics for discussion about the futureFuture health care What kind of treatment would he want for other major health problems, such as heart disease or cancer? Would he consider elective surgery, such as cataract removal? Decisions should take into account the effect the treatment would have on both his physical and cognitive health.
The following chart outlines different approaches to treatment that need to be understood when making decisions for care in the later stage of the disease. Knowing her wishes in advance for these difficult situations can ease the burden of making decisions. However, health-care professionals may not offer choices if they would be ineffective or may cause more harm than good.
End-of-life care
Levels of care
|Approach to treatment
|What it means
|Aggressive medical care
|Goal: To prolong life using all available types of treatment.
This could happen either in the hospital or at home. For example, using tube feeding when swallowing is no longer possible, or keeping a person on a respirator when no longer able to breathe independently.
|Conservative medical care
|Goal: To maintain or improve current health status.
Care that is considered routine or usual practice. For example, using blood pressure medication to treat high blood pressure, giving insulin for diabetes or antibiotics for an infection, or setting a fractured hip.
|Comfort or palliative care
|Goal: To provide active and compassionate care when a cure is not the goal.
The priority is symptom and pain control, as well as meeting the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and cultural needs of the person and the family.
FinancesPerson responsible: Has someone been named to look after her financial interests? This may or may not be the same person responsible for decisions relating to health and personal care.
Financial documents: Are financial and legal documents, such as wills, insurance policies and bank accounts, gathered together in a safe location?
Financial priorities: Have financial priorities been set? For example, a person with Alzheimer's disease might indicate that the top priority for financial resources be the person's comfort and well-being.
Language: What language should be used in communicating with the person with Alzheimer's disease?
Personal care
Food: Does she want to follow a specific type of diet, such as vegetarian or kosher?
Hygiene: Is keeping well-groomed important? Does he want specific routines to be followed, such as hair dyeing or beard trimming?
Clothing: Does she want to wear specific clothing, such as a favourite sweater, prayer shawl or head covering?
Daily routines: Are there daily habits to be followed? Is he a morning person or a night person? Examples: having tea before breakfast, watching the news every evening.
Health routines: Does she want to follow specific health practices such as taking daily vitamins or having special dental care?
Activities: Does he want to continue to pursue certain activities such as daily walks, golf, quilting, music?
Fears: Is she especially afraid of certain things such as dogs, storms, loud noises, spiders?
Provision of care: When extra help is needed, are finances available to provide this? When living at home is not possible, what type of care facility would he prefer? Examples: small, large, culturally-specific.
More information and resources
- For more information, check out the full brochure: Conversations About Decision-Making: Respecting Individual Choice.
- Contact your local Alzheimer Society for province/territory-specific information on:
- Substitute decision-making for health care and finances
- Advance directives
- Competency assessments
- Let Me Decide. William Molloy et al, Newgrange Press (Canada), May, 2000. For ordering: 905-628-0354.
- The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer's Disease. Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (2nd ed.). Stephen Post, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. For ordering: www.press.jhu.edu.


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