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} There's no Champagne shortage Nor is there any shortage of marketing strategies By Michael Collins, CBS MarketWatch Last Update:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- You've probably seen the story by now ... in newspapers and on TV? "The Real Y2K Party Bug -- Bubbly in Short Supply."
"There simply isn't going to be a shortage of French Champagne." Rich Cartiere Wine Market Report
Yes, The Great Millennium Champagne Shortage. It's the kind of holiday story those of us in the media often can't resist. In the midst of a slow news week, somebody picks up an industry publication, pumps up the headline, ignores the careful counterarguments, and presto -- the perfect New Year's story.
A cynic might suggest we're often taken in, or at least helped along, by the marketing minds at clever companies. After all, do you really think they couldn't have made more Furbies, since the toy maker virtually announced they were going to be in short supply before a single one was sold? And how difficult would it have been to sew and fill a few more colored bits of cloth so desperate parents wouldn't be spending hundreds of dollars for the latest must-have Beanie Baby?
But Champagne shortages? This is serious! These aren't little stuffed toys we're talking about. This is life's nectar! How do you expect us to get past the Y2K computer bug if you can't even give us enough of the bubbly to pretend we're rich, at least for one night?
Drink up
Relax. The vintners will find enough to sell if you want to buy. The bottles may be more expensive because of the "shortage," but I can't imagine they're really going to run out.
The latest round of fiction about the Millennium Bubbly Bug appears to have bubbled up from an accurate story in Richard Cartiere's Wine Market Report, a respected trade newsletter. Cartiere's detailed report, based on extensive industry research, projects strong growth in sales of California premium sparkling wines (outside the legal restrictions in Europe, California sparkling-wine makers call their bubbly Champagne even though the French insist only wines from the Champagne region can really use the name), but it predicts that demand for the really good stuff will be bigger than the supply.
OK, but isn't that normal? The really good stuff is rarer than the run-of-the-mill, and that's why it's more expensive. So where's the shortage? Answer: in all the newspaper and TV headlines, but not in the Wine Market Report. In Cartiere's story, most of the references to a "shortage" are in quotation marks. In fact, Cartiere told CBS.MarketWatch.com one of the points of the article was to partly debunk the stories we've been seeing from Europe about a shortage of French premium Champagne at the end of next year.
He says bluntly, "There simply isn't going to be a shortage of French Champagne" unless people hoard it because of the news stories. The shortage story was first put into circulation, he said, by people who wanted to expand what could be called Champagne vineyards.
Abigail Sawyer, editor of Wine Business Monthly, says the "shortage" could result from a perception of a shortage. "I could see people getting very competitive over the best stuff, kind of like the Cabbage Patch [doll] craze," says Sawyer, whose publication tracks the stocks of publicly traded wine companies as well as general wine news. "And if the retailers think they can raise the prices and get away with it, they will."
A very good year
Of course they will. Whether the shortage is real or imagined, it's bound to be a very good year for those who make and sell premium sparkling wine. Most of the big wine producers say they're ready for the increased demand, and their advertising campaigns will be encouraging it.
Korbel, a private company that is one of the biggest premium sparkling-wine producers in California, plans to add 200,000 cases to its usual sales of 1.2 million cases.
"I don't see us running out of the good stuff," said Trevor Lawrence, Champagne category manager for Seagram Chateau and Estate Wines Co., the part of Joseph E. Seagram and Sons (VO) VO, +1.07% that owns Mumm and Perrier Jouet in France and Mumm Napa Valley in California. Lawrence pointed out that the premium California sparkling wine coming on the market in 1999 will be from the 1997 harvest, which produced an abundance of high-quality grapes.
More bubbly
Lawrence predicted there would be about 20 to 25 percent more premium California bubbly available in 1999 than 1998, but she also sees prices rising "as a rational means of ensuring the wines are there when people want them." And she says people are already buying vintage sparkling wine to put aside for next New Year's Eve.
That's the advice you hear over and over. Buy now and put it aside, just in case. Heck, you might even be able to sell a bottle or two to your friends and neighbors at a profit. But remember, the people giving this advice want to sell wine. And if you're anything like the Gadfly, having a case of bubbly around leads to the temptation to bring a bottle or two out for impromptu celebrations throughout the year, making it necessary to buy more at higher prices later in the year, when the "shortage" hits.
Before you rush out to buy Seagram's stock or LVMH Moet Hennessy (LVMH) LVMH, +1.37% ADRs, hoping for a spike from millennium-celebration purchases, keep in mind the relative position of premium bubbly in their product lines. And Lawrence says Seagram is still in talks about selling its big French Champagne houses, although it would keep distribution and trade rights.
As a side note, if you are looking for wine-company stocks, Wine Business Monthly expects more California wineries to go public in the next year. It says eight major investment banks attended an October Wine Industry Financial Symposium, and the growing strength of the industry could lead more wineries to follow the example of Robert Mondavi (MOND) mond , which began the trend in 1993, and the 1997 IPO of Beringer Wine Estates (BERW) berw .
Hey, with the "shortage" and all,it's bound to be a good year in the wine business.

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March 25, 2009
Mexican officials in Nuevo Laredo have destroyed more than 35 statues dedicated to a "Death Saint" popular with drug traffickers.
The statues, most depicting a robe-covered skeleton resembling the Grim Reaper, lined highways and roads in and around the Mexican city on the border with Texas.The Catholic Church doesn't recognize this "saint". However, it's an interesting example of local traditions and Catholicism blending together.
This link has a very good video on the subject. The embedded video (below) is a trailer from a documentary.
March 20, 2009
A judge ruled that an Oregon church can use a hallucinogenic tea for its religious services.
The church, which blends Christian and indigenous religious beliefs in Brazil, uses tea brewed from the ayahuasca plant in their services. The tea contains trace amounts of the chemical dimethyltryptamine or DMT.The ayahuasca's Wikipedia entry has instructions on how to extract DMT from the plant.
A church in Arizona wasn't as lucky.
July 9, 2006
Members of the Church of Cognizance in Pima, Arizona, deified the use marijuana until federal authorities charged them with possessing 172 pounds of their leafy green sacrament. Church founders Dan and Mary Quaintance say they smoked, ate or drank marijuana daily as a way of becoming more spiritually enlightened.
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EDH Banned List 19th June 2012
EDH Banned list 19th June 2012
Griselbrand is BANNED.
Sundering Titan is BANNED.
This is an interesting update of the EDH banned list.
In my point of view, what the committee are worry is the EDH games become not fun.
Sundering Titan
Let's talk about Sundering Titan.
At first, this doesn't look like a card that deserved the banned list.
Having a little discussion with my friend. I intent to make this a mathematical point of view.
A bad case situation is that Sundering Titan is destroy some of your basic lands. A player definitely plays a color at least. General that isn't colored… well… is extremely rare.
So if both players are play mono color, no basic land manipulation cards are in play. Enter and leave play the Titan gives the caster -1 card disadvantage.
Ok… I think it is best I give an example:
Player A is playing mono blue. Player B is playing mono-black.
Player A is the Owner of the Titan, and his Titan enters and leaves play (in regardless of the time frame) .
So A will lose 2 islands and Titan itself, B will lose 2 swamps.
Player A net loss -1 card.
In another situation, let's say there are 5 players, all of them play different mono-color.
Player A is the Owner of the Titan, and his Titan enters and leaves play (in regardless of the time frame) .
Player A will lose 2 basic lands of his respective color, 4 of his opponents lose 2 each (8 basic lands)
Player A has destroy 8 lands for the cost of 2 basic lands and 1 Sundering Titan.
Player A net +5 card profit.
Of course the best situation is this manner:
6 players, all of them play different mono-color, except Player A and B (they share the same mono-color)
Player A is the Owner of the Titan, and his Titan enters and leaves play (in regardless of the time frame) .
Player A will lose his Titan only while 5 of his opponents lose 2 each (10 basic lands)
Player A has destroy 10 lands for the cost of 1 Sundering Titan.
Player A net +9 card profit.
This is long winded, but these example show that Player A can only lose max of 3 cards if he play mono color.
So to make things easier to everyone… I think I make a table for Titan.
|Caster/Owner of Titan
|Colors of opponent's
|Owner net profit
|Same color
|-3 to -1
|-1 to 3
|1 to 5
|5 to 7
|-5 to -3
|-3 to 1
|3 to 5
|5 to 7
|-7 to -5
|-3 to -1
|1 to 3
|5 to 7
|5 (all same colors)
I try to use the Excel sheet to give a formula… in the end… I count manually… however the results show a surprising figure.
The more colors a player using, the Profit Factor for the player is lower. The player that benefits most from Sundering Titan, is mono-color decks. Because the worst case situation is he only loss 1 card.
Now, does this warrant a ban? That depends what happened to tournaments… there isn't much tournaments reports online… which I can't establish how many tournament players using mono-color decks in ratio to multi-color deck.
However, I re-read the comments given by the community, let me quote him. (from http://mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12073)
"Sundering Titan has long been a card on the edge. The decision to get rid of it came from the combination of two points. One, it simply created undesirable game states. It was too easily both intentionally abused and unintentionally game-warping, especially since its ability triggers on both entering and leaving the battlefield. Two, there has been a fair amount of community distaste for the card, and we agreed that the card overwhelmingly creates a negative experience for players. Listening to the ever-growing and ever more-involved community is important to us."
Based on what Sheldon said, I believe that the committee wish a good state of playing EDH where it is fun. Cards that threaten to make the game stale are in the target list.
Well… there are a lot of questions in my head. What about Land destruction decks? What about counter magic decks?
Another possibility the committee is trying to do is they are promoting multi-color decks.
After a few games with my friends, then it struck me. Sundering Titan itself could be not the issue. The issue lies in with the many cards interaction with Sundering Titan.
One of the example I can come out with is Sundering Titan with Decree of Pain. After animating or casting Titan and destroying the lands, caster should have no issue with casting Decree of Pain to destroy all creatures and draw 1 cards for each creatures and plus destroy the lands that Sundering Titan can target.
This result in caster gaining in a lot of card advantage plus some mana denial.
I am sure there could be more interactive combos exits out of my current state of imagination.
But to banned those cards that interact with Titan seems to be very impractical. Reanimation cards, Mass creature destruction, Creature sacrificial cards etc etc.
Titan has a wonderful place in EDH to generate all sorts of mana denial and indirect card advantage.
Oh well… In this new insight. I guess… maybe it is worth the banned. Maybe it doesn't. EDH is all about massive effects, epic spells, and affect all players in the game. I guess we will be seeing more and more cards been banned in the future.
Oh well… he is almost a Yawgmoth's Bargain.
Cards like Ivory Tower helps you recover your life if you were to choose to draw these cards before it trigger. Which means you can draw 35 cards at the cost of 4 lives…
As Edward suggested in his review. Another suggestion I believe is extremely good is using Empyrial Plate. Hitting a player with a creature potentially able to become 42/42 or more. A 1 hit kill.
No question asked… this card can be easily abused.
Well… is the banned list fair?
Mathematical point of view, they have reasons to be banned.
Do they removed the fun factor? Well… fun is relative, it does depend on the players.
In my point of view, that shouldn't be the job of the Committees. I may play according with the rules but if I hurl insults to my opponents while playing, that doesn't make the game fun.
In my point of view, Committees' job is looking out for cards that make games boring. Cards that make players willing to buy the card at any price to ensure they have an competitive edge when playing.
Do Sundering Titan and Griselbrand warrant this ban? Griselband really does have a "ban me" on his forehead.
Oh well… Sundering Titan, I guess he is just a great card that has so much combination to play with. It is sad for me that isn't going to be used.
There are other cards to use. I am sure of it. But we just lose a good card to tinker with.
- The following is the official banned list for EDH games. These cards (and others like them) should not be played in the game unless all players agree with it.
Additionally the following legends may not be used as a General:
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In 1814 and again in 1818 and 1820 he served in the United States Congress.
In 1822 he was appointed by the Secretary of War as a Visitor to West Point.
In 1826 he assisted in organizing the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Sciences and published his "Cestrica" being a catalog of plants growing around the Borough of West Chester. Behind his residence on South Church Street can be seen the cedar of Lebanon which he planted nearly 100 years ago and was caught on canvas by local artist John Supplee. In 1828 he helped found the Medical Society of Chester County and was immediately elected as its head. That organization still exists and has taken the responsibility of maintaining his grave site. Aside from his medical and botanical efforts, he was very active in the commercial world. He headed the company which built the West Chester Railroad. In 1830 he was elected President of the Bank of Chester County which he had helped organize in 1814. During all these activities he continued to publish botanical works and practice medicine until the end of his life. Dr. Darlington received the degree of Doctor of Law from Yale College and Doctor of Physical Science from Dickinson College and was an elected member of more than 40 literary and scientific associations including the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia and the Botanical Society of the Netherlands.
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Unfamiliar is an interactive performance installation about legacy, language biases and survival. You're invited to a ritual of breaking blocks and building blocks. Are you brave and curious enough to generate something new?
We, theatremaker Victor Esses and visual artist Yorgos Petrou, have never collaborated before. We have been together for four years. We both love popcorn and Lebanese food. We both grew up in a belief system that denied our legitimacy and made us feel unworthy. And we both secretly enjoy listening to Justin Bieber.
Recently, we decided to bring our processes together into an empty space. Drawing upon interviews with members of queer and other less conventional families, relevant visual material and pre-recorded conversations on parenting, our personal lives and the politics of queer existence, we will negotiate lines and ideas to make something…. something that could change our lives forever.
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The other day I went into a supermarket and, after some deliberation, I picked out a film-wrapped fillet of fresh salmon. It was a hearty chunk of fish, and it would make a fine meal. When I took my selection to the cash register the checkout person—a pleasant-faced young woman—inspected it solemnly.
"What is it?" she asked.
What is it? I wondered if she was presenting a koan, but I responded graciously. "It's a fish," I said. "A salmon fish."
"But where are its eyes?" she wanted to know.
Her direct question threw me off. "I mean it's a salmon fish steak."
She looked puzzled.
"You've never tasted salmon?" I asked, wondering if she had recently wandered out of the Ozarks hills after having been weaned on chitlins and redeye gravy. I leaned over the counter to see if she was wearing shoes.
"Salmon is delicious," I said. "It's a salt water fish."
She looked at me intently. "Are you a sailor?" she asked.
Another straightforward question.
Fish … water … sailor. I presumed she was making some sort of association. Or maybe she was posing a spiritual problem. Perhaps she was demonstrating truth directly, without recourse to logic or reason. I reflected on her words.
"Not just now," I said. "But I have been."
Fish in hand, she gazed at me and I readied myself to launch into a collection of salty yarns from my days before the mast.
"Well, you look like one," she said. I assumed she meant sailor, not fish.
As Pogo Possum used to say, reason reeled. I was wearing black shorts and a green T-shirt. I wondered what sort of seafaring books she'd been reading.
The nymph and I stood there for a long moment, both of us calmly regarding the salmon. After a while she rang up my purchase, slipped it into a plastic bag, and handed it to me.
"Well, have a nice day sailing," she said.
I thanked her.
"And enjoy your whatever," she added.
Rationalism had fled. "Plum tree in the garden," I answered.
Intellect and logic had been blown out of the water. Was I having a spasm of awakening? I remembered a story.
Once a fish asked another fish, "I've always heard of ocean, but what is ocean?"
The other fish answered, "You are surrounded by ocean. You move, live, and have your being in ocean. Ocean is all around you. Ocean is within you."
The first fish looked confused, so the other fish went on.
"You are ocean."
"Huh?" the first fish said.
"You originated in ocean, and you will end in ocean. You and ocean are one."
Now the first fish was really bewildered.
"You've given me no answer at all," it said. "I'll have to go somewhere else for an answer."
The other fish said, "The only real answer is the one you find in yourself."
I carried my fish to the car and sat there for a few minutes, trying to find a real answer in myself. All I came up with was another question.
Why, I wondered, do I attract such weird moments?
After a while the world settled into place, so I headed for home.
That night I broiled the whatever with dill butter and served it with a baked potato and a side of corn pudding.
The meal was delicious, and I became one with it.


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text: PR PROGRAMME TO BE HELD IN TU Members of the Executive Committee of Public Relations Society (PRSI) Guwahati Chapter taking part in a meeting in the city on Saturday.PRSI to hold programme on Public Relations in Tezpur University in AprilGUWAHATI, MARCH 22: The Executive Committee of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) Guwahati Chapter held a meeting on Saturday to review its performance during the foregone year and draw up a plan of action for the current year. Madhuchanda Adhikari, Chairperson (NRL), Jumita Saikia Phukan (NEDFi), Bimal Krishna Sarma (Govt Film Institute) , Juhi P Pathak (IDOL Gauhati University), Hamad Berlashker (Tangent PR), Amlan (Dainik Janashadharan), Suchira Nandi Purkayastha (DS Group), Chandrakala Choudhury (DD NE), and Nurul Laskar (ANREM) attended the meeting.While reviewing the performance of the Chapter, commendation was showered on the editorial team of the journal 'Seven Sisters' which was adjudged as the best in the country at the last national PR Conference held at Jaipur in December 2014. Juhi Pathak, the newly inducted Editor of the Chapter, informed that articles for the next issue of the journal would be received till May 9, 2015.The Chapter decided to hold a joint meeting of all the Directorates of Information & PR of the eight North Eastern States in the near future to chalk out a joint strategy for skill building in PR for the stakeholders of the region.Following the National Public Relations Day programme to be hosted on April 21, 2015 a joint programme in collaboration with Tezpur University will be organised at the University where various aspects of Public Relations such as scope and employment opportunities in PR, crisis management, corporate gifting, media management, corporate social responsibility etc would be analysed for the benefit of the student community and PR practitioners.The Committee also decided to undertake a vigorous membership drive to induct all PR practitioners from corporate bodies, industries, hospitals, educational institutions, PSUs etc to energise the Guwahati Chapter and thereafter initiate efforts to set up new chapters in all state capitals of the North East. March 23, 2015 by Editor Comments are off 1719 viewson Current AffairsShare this post Facebook Twitter Google plus Pinterest Linkedin Mail this article Print this articleTags: #nurul islam laskar, PR, prsi, TEZPUR UNIVERSITYNext: NORTHEAST DAUGHTER AT FEMINA MISS INDIAPrevious: HORSES FOR COURSES


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There's a pop-up Made by Google store in New York City at the moment, and it is giving Pixel owners little knitted holiday sweaters…for their phones. The sweaters look like every other holiday sweater, except perhaps for the large G knitted in the middle, but they're miniature size. Slip your phone inside and make it feel special in an ugly-holiday-sweater sort of way.
The pop-up store is located in NYC's SoHo neighborhood on Mercer Street. It's too late to visit today, but you can head over tomorrow starting at noon (running through 6PM) for your chance to get the Pixel sweater or one of a couple other goodies. Of course, you'll need a Pixel to do so.
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It seems you'll need to show up with your Google Pixel phone, at which point you get to spin a prize wheel. Depending on the wheel's ultimate resting point, you get either one of the small Pixel sweaters, a full-size knitted sweater to wear yourself, or a somewhat anti-climatic cookie.
Some lucky individuals, though, will win a Pixel handset itself, or may even win more than one item, or it seems, maybe even all of them. Though you probably shouldn't get your hopes up about that, it is a fun way to spend the afternoon, so go check it out if you happen to be in SoHo. The event will be lasting through December 23. You can find photos from the pop up store on Twitter here.
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I wish the delegates had done their homework. I assigned the chapter "Romantic Intermezzo" in H. L. Mencken's amiable, autobiographical "Heathen Days." Reading it would have melted the hardest Democratic heart. Reason has already induced the Democrats to provide the appearance of unity, but emotion would have made the unity lovely and profound. Instead of itching to fight like tomcats in a burlap bag, they would have embraced one another in a display of unity guaranteed to give them total triumph in November. They would have waltzed their way to the White House. All they would have needed was to read Mencken; and it would have been Mencken at his mellowest.
"Romantic Intermezzo" is his account of the most charming and delightful of all political conventions -- in fact, the only charming and delightful one he ever went to. It was the Democratic National Convention of 1920 -- held, in case you haven't guessed, in San Francisco. He was a connoisseur of conventions, attending them every four years, sweating and complaining at them, but reporting on them in so witty and urbane a prose that nobody has ever equaled it. If this particular report was tinged with male sexism and love for old-fashioned liquor, we should remember that he was writing in 1920.
The prime source of the convention's success was a kindly, solicitous predecessor of Dianne Feinstein, Mayor James Rolph. He ordered not only excellent accommodations for the convention, ranging from elegant hotel rooms to a pristine convention hall; he also ordered nectar for every delegate willing to sip it. It came, according to Mencken, in the form of "a carload of Bourbon whiskey, old, mellow and full of pungent but delicate tangs." This was at the onset of Prohibition, when most of the illegally available drink was a mix of rum, turpentine and rye with odd things floating in it.
Daily the bourbon was escorted to the delegates' rooms by comely Democratic ladies of the hospitality committee. The result was that the convention proceedings were, at the worst, as courtly as a conference of ambassadors. At the best, the proceedings were aglow with human warmth. The cause for that, besides the bourbon, was the convention band.
Full of the ripest of harmonies, the band saluted every speaker with an appropriate tune. It greeted a congressman from Indiana, for example, as he went to the podium, with "On the Banks of the Wabash." It happened that 1920 was the first year that female delegates attended the convention. The first to speak was a very attractive woman from Massachusetts. When she reached the platform the band played "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," and the male delegates rose to their slightly unsteady feet and cheered. The next female delegate to address the convention was a lady from West Virginia, an ex-actress who, as Mencken put it, "knew precisely how to walk across a stage and what clothes were for." When the band played for her, the cheers could be heard as far off as San Jose.
When the governor of New York, Al Smith, made his appearance, the band swung into "The Sidewalks of New York." By the time the second stanza was reached, some delegate started singing the words. The result was magical. A hundred delegates joined in. Encouraged by this outburst of song the band segued into "Little Annie Rooney," then into "The Bowery," and then into other sprightly tunes, all in waltz time. Soon a male delegate, blood brother to the one who'd started the singing, seized the nearest female delegate and began to waltz her along the aisles. After the first half hour the only delegates not pirouetting were some Baptist fundamentalists from Mississippi, plus a one-legged war veteran.
The days passed in happy abandon. When the convention hall grew a bit confining, the delegates moved outside into the salubrious San Francisco sunshine. They adjourned temporarily over a weekend, but that was so they could explore the rest of California while clutching their bourbon bottles to them.
When the delegates left for home at last, they took with them nothing but lovely memories. They blessed Jim Rolph, who remained in office the next 11 years and then became governor of California.
However, I have a confession to make. Honesty compels me to report that the presidential candidate picked by that delightful convention turned out to be the highly forgettable James Cox, who was trounced in November by Warren Gamaliel Harding. The electoral count was 404 to 127.


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THR's Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: Hollywood Mentors, $200K Scholarship Fund Unveiled
Graduates of the program have already gone on to UC Berkeley, UCLA and dozens of other elite colleges; this year's class includes a teen with a year-old baby.
This story first appeared in the Dec. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
It's the end of a long morning on Nov. 16 at City Honors Preparatory charter school in Inglewood, Calif., and for the past four hours, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles' Sylvia Martinez and I have been interviewing girls in 15- to 30-minute increments. Nearly all are juniors, and all are finalists for the fourth year of the Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program, a collaboration between THR and BBBSLA -- pairing highflying inner-city girls with top-level female executives, each mentor and mentee committing to spend an afternoon together every two weeks for a year. Past mentors have included such major industry figures as Anne Sweeney, Abbe Raven and Dana Walden -- who was honored at this year's BBBS gala for her work -- and word has spread through schools like City Honors of this rare opportunity.
Today's girls have been whittled from dozens of applicants; each must have at least a 3.0 GPA and write a lengthy essay about why she should be chosen for the 12 slots we have in L.A. (along with five in New York). They live in neighborhoods riddled with gangs, study in overflowing classrooms and often deal with economic hardship -- especially those whose families are in the U.S. illegally. Hollywood is about as far removed from them as Mars.
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One girl worries about getting her green card; another helps care for a mentally challenged sibling; a third says she just got a glimpse of her father, with whom she has had no contact in years, at the mall -- recognizing him from a photo she has kept -- but was shattered when he didn't acknowledge her.
Often these teenagers are having their first semiprofessional encounter in this room, and some break down in tears during the process. But now we have pretty much locked in the final 12 and are starting to discuss which girl would work best with which mentor -- from a stellar group that includes such high-powered women as Columbia Pictures' Hannah Minghella, NBC Entertainment's Jennifer Salke and Paramount's Megan Colligan -- when there's a knock at the door, and a very timid and wan Latina girl pokes her head in.
She goes to school in Compton and has applied for the program, but because there have been so few candidates from her school, we've decided not to conduct interviews there. Despite the difficulties in reaching us, she has found her way across town, waiting all morning outside the classroom we're using.
This teen girl already has a year-old baby. All of our instincts say this can't work: With school plus a baby, and practically no cash for either, how can this young woman add the challenge of the Mentorship Program? But she has shown the drive to come here, forcing her mother and aunt to bring her -- and her baby. We speak with her, then with her family, and finally, after contacting a mentor who seems she might be open to the unique challenge, Sylvia and I decide to take the plunge. She is now to be the 12th member of the Women in Entertainment mentorship class of 2013.
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The benefits are clear: Four girls in our pilot group now attend UC Berkeley; others are aiming for Stanford and Amherst. Nearly all have been supported by women taking great time and care amid unbearably pressured days.
The new mentees will be helped even more thanks to a scholarship fund created by Lifetime TV and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, which will be unveiled Dec. 5 at THR's annual Women in Entertainment breakfast. The EIF/Lifetime Scholarships will provide a remarkable $200,000 a year, divided among girls who successfully complete the yearlong mentorship and aiding them substantially for college.
Will this slight young girl with her baby playing nearby make it that far? It's impossible to tell. But she has done everything in her power, and surely she deserves a chance.
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There were coloured chairs everywhere I went during this year's festival, but the best were also the simplest – there was a great buzz about H Furniture's WW Chair Colour Series (the WW standing for Windsor and wire) which were designed in collaboration with Brighton-based Studio Makgill.
LDF inspires amazing installations around the city, including this year Alison Brooks Architects' cross-laminated 'The Smile' tulipwood structure, in collaboration with The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Arup and LDF, outside Chelsea College of Art. But my favourite was the British-based design-duo Glithero's 'The Green Room', a kinetic installation of neon silicone cords hanging the length of the six-storey stairwell in the west wing of the V&A.
The Green Room by Glithero, supported by Panerai, LDF 2016 and British Land. Photo credit: Ed Reeve
Beauty & the Beast
The bad boys of textile design Timorous Beasties were back at Decorex with their spectacular 11 panel Winchester wallpaper panels, designed initially for a solo show earlier in the year, and now available in four colourways, inspired by old wallpaper found in a dilapidated house in Scotland, marrying the beauty of nature and wildlife with the Beasties' recurring darker undercurrent themes of death and decay.
Floral Fantasy
Keeping to the old made new theme, Sandberg's new wallpaper Signatur collection, launched at the London Design Fair in the Truman Brewery, is a resurrection of long-lost patterns by female artists working in the golden era of Scandinavian design. My favourite, Särö, by Joy Zandén (at 94, she is the only surviving artist of the group featured in the collection), reflects the richness of the local flora remembered from her childhood in the 1920s and 30s, growing up near Gothenburg.
Flower Power
For the first time, Liberty's iconic prints, like 'Quirky B Flowers of Thorpe Summer Garden' pictured here, are now available as carpets woven on axminster looms in Salisbury thanks to a collaboration with Alternative Flooring.
Woven Wonders
I was lucky enough to sit next to Sebastian Cox at this year's prestigious Heal's Dinner with the Designers, always a highlight of the LDF calendar. I greatly admire Cox's approach to using sustainable materials (harvested from sustainably managed woodlands, he himself is a master of coppicing) with the beauty of streamlined, elegant design. At this year's festival he expanded upon his successful Bayleaf collection with a dressing table and sideboard and collaborated with Trentino on an adaptable storage unit.
Eco Elegance
Australian designers Totem Road hit the UK market at London Design Fair, on the naturally flood-lit top floor of the Truman Brewery, with its collection of sustainable, solid oak pieces including this Luna bed (greenery optional!)
Meet the Makers
London's fashion and interior design worlds collided during LDF as Burberry joined forces with The New Craftsmen to create Makers House, housed in the former old Foyle's building off Charing Cross Road (scheduled for demolition next month). Undoubtedly the most talked highlight of this year's festival, The New Craftsmen brought in extraordinary makers, like calligrapher Rosanlind Wyatt, embroidery experts Aimee Betts and Jessica Light, upcycling artists Jamesplumb, sandcaster Grant McCaig and sculptor Thomas Merrett to bring alive the magic of making, taking their cues from Christopher Bailey's 'show now, buy now' AW17 collection for Burberry, influenced by Virginia Woolf's Tudor time-travelling Orlando and the American socialite and decorator Nancy Lancaster (co-owner of Colefax & Fowler and grande dame of many 20th Century English country houses, including Ditchley Park).
Celestial Inspiration
Porta Romana launched its 'Cosmos' Collection further as part of Focus 2016 at the Chelsea Design Centre – at its heart, three key themes of Moon, Atmosphere and Space Punk, experimenting with decorative finishes including hand painted details, rolling blown glass in crushed glass to create crystalised finishes and laser cutting.
British born, Australian raised, now New York based fashion and interiors photographer Martyn Thompson has turned his attention to translating the beautiful light-filled, poetic moments of his imagery into textiles – based in the lower ground nook of one of Brompton Design District's outposts, Thompson's 'Secret Garden' installation debuted 'Rockpool', a shimmering ode in jacquard woven cotton to the Ionian Sea and the movement of water across its rippling ocean floor.
Photo: Martyn Thompson
Optical Illusions
This LDF, Lee Broom brought the magic he created in a parked van at Milan Design Week in April to his showroom in Shoreditch, perfecting one large immersive optical illusion with his latest collection Opticality.
Photo: Luke Hayes
British Revivalist
With the help of new Creative Director Carmel Allen and award-winning furniture designer Matthew Hilton (famous for the 90s Balzac chair, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year), new life is being blown into bespoke furniture specialists Linley with a sexy revamped showroom on Pimlico Road and the 'Savile' collection of tables, chairs, sideboard and shelving units which make the most of Linley's expertise in marquetry inlay and wooden veneers.
Glow, baby, Glow
Hand-blown glass lighting designer Esther Patterson's glamorous Curiousa & Curiousa continues to go from strength to strength – at Decorex, new collections dazzled like the baroque-inspired braid and Swarovski trimmed Caravaggio Lights and its Cloak & Dagger range which teams nickel, copper and a leather-look finish with streamlined shap
Sea Change
Julie Bishop brought the inaugural London Design Biennale at Somerset House to a security standstill when she whisked by, post lunch with British PM Theresa May, to visit Australian designer Brodie Neill's installation for the Australian Pavilion. His 'Gyro' table, a contemporary rendition of a 19th century specimen table top, was not only strikingly beautiful but thought-provoking as well, made from a terrazzo-style composite of small fragments of washed-up plastic sourced from ocean pollution.
Loved the criss-crossed, mismatched functionality of these Kyoto benches by Morgan Studio – inspired by Japanese gardens and bridges, the system of linear benches interlocking to create adaptable informal seating is a great idea in public spaces or the work place, but I could even see one of these at home. Always good to have somewhere to sit and pause for thought.
Eastern Romance
A recent visit to Oman earlier this year inspired Welsh-born, London-based Bethan Gray in both the making and decoration of her new Shamsian collection – a collaboration with the marquetry mastery of Iranian artist Mohamad Reza Shamsian, key pieces included this Nizwa cabinet, named after an Omanian fort, made from hand ombré colour-stained birdseye maple veneer and brass inlay.
Punk Express
Abstract pattern was all over LDF this year, from designers like Nic Parnell at London Design Fair to Blackpop at Decorex – Blackpop's designer Maxine Hall packed a punch with her new 'Vanguard Vibe' textile and wallpaper design, part of the new 'Homage' collection, inspired by the 1940s New York's jazz club scene. As to her design motivation? "I see walls as empty canvases waiting to be brought to life."
Man's Best Friend
One of London's leading lighting specialists Camron Peters branched out on their own this festival to produce these very cute, beautifully crafted, wittily designed and affordably priced Nelly table lamps. Its frosted lamp base, sporting a coloured-glass 'hat', was designed by BrogliatoTraverso, handmade in Venice by NasonMoretti, and named after Camron Peters' founders Cheryl and Peter Younie's dog Nelly.
Rock Star
There's nothing a girl could want more than a huge rock adorning her dressing table – Katharina Eisenkoeck took this one step further at the new Luxury Made design destination, located in the picturesque Pillar Hall (next door to 100% Design at Olympia), with her Tension Mirrors made with chunky bases of rough cut onyx or alabaster.
Upstairs Downstairs
Barber & Osgerby, the designers behind this year's British Pavilion at the London Design Biennale, were also involved with the new Below Stairs exhibition as the recently restored Sir John Soane's Museum, where they displayed new editions of their iconic B&B Italia Tobi-Ishi table and Port Vase for Venini to help create a dialogue about the history of the kitchen and its role in contemporary society.
Photo: Gareth Gardner
On a Roll
Gainsborough Silks, one of the UK's last remaining traditional mills, working with 100-year-old looms (creating fabrics from the likes of Paul Smith to Christian Dior), is being given a new energy with the help of creative director Russell Sage and former Cole & Son design director Karen Beauchamp – scouring the archives, Beauchamp has pulled out classic patterns such as paisley, blazer stripe and Sorrento damask to resize and recolour for a contemporary twist.
Photo: Alun Callender
Couture Covers
Proving that inspiration for new collections can come from anywhere, New Yorkers Bernhardt Design have collaborated with haute joaillerie designer Anabela Chan (whose outpost is nestled amongst the chic boutiques of Ham Yard Village in London) to create a collection of textiles influenced by the storytelling of butterflies, feathers, gemstones, opals and pearls she incorporates into her exquisite, exotic jewellery.
There was a big show of graphic geometrics throughout the festival, led by Bert & May's Lee Thornley whose graphic patterns in handmade encaustic tiles have now been translated into textiles. Working with Scottish mills, "it took 18 months to get the right imperfect patina of hue," he says.
Laidback Cool
For this year's London Design Festival, Italian furniture manufacturer Natuzzi asked distinctive British designers like Eley Kishimoto and Patternity to customise its iconic Re-vive chair, the world's first performance recliner, to dramatic effect.
Mind the Bend
Wood was a key theme during the festival, particularly pieces with a sculptural, sensuously curvy appeal like Angus Ross's Ribbon desk with Unstable stool in Scottish Oak OR Y Dresser with Unstable stool in Scottish Ash and Object's 'S' chair.
Bold Bedding
With the launch of its new showroom in London Frette have collaborated with Ashley Hicks, son of iconic British decorator David, for the 'Salvadori' collection of embroidered graphic motif bedlinen collection, inspired by an antique piece of Italian fabric Hicks has reworked as part of the textile company's ongoing Frette Creates programme.
On Ice
Australian designer Glen Baghurst, now based in Sweden, has worked with traditional bell makers M&E Ohlssons Klockgjuteri to create the 'Champagne Table' – cast in solid brass, cantilevered on a marble base, it can store two bottles of champagne. Photo: Gustaf Johansson & Oscar Wettersten.
Retro Modern
There was something charmingly midcentury modern, but contemporarily crafted, about trained restorer and furniture maker Simon Day's Nocturne lighting, handmade in wood, brass and aluminium, shown this year at designjunction.


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