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Get rid of these old relics and put something new in their place. THAT is what's best for Milwaukee. Keep Milwaukee new. Get rid of the old.
Remodel, don't bulldoze preservation ordinance
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Milwaukee's historical society should be razed itself. Worthless buildings that have zero value saved by a corny group of nerds only because the buildings are 'old'.
Get rid of these old relics and put something new in their place. THAT is what's best for Milwaukee. Keep Milwaukee new. Get rid of the old.Hide replies
You, sir/madam, are extremely short sighted. You obviously have never been to Europe or England, where magnificent hostorical buildings are still being used. Does your attitude of "get rid of old stuff and replace it with new stuff" also apply to people? You, too, will also eventually get old.
Judging from your name, are you one of those trolls that replies to articles on JSOnline just to rile bloggers up for your amusement? If so, do you personally get into people's faces just to rile them up? I think not. Cowards antagonize by hiding behind a keyboard.
Go to Mequon, Brookfield, or some ugly place like that. Plenty of ugly new buildings for you there. Just like the other lookalike suburbs full of chainstores, stripmalls, and franchise restaurants.
Walktime: Agree. A WalMart looks the same whether it's in Milwaukee or Phoenix. Local flavor and history, who needs 'em. Let's just make everything look the same.
Milwaukee is not "Europe". I've been to Europe three times. Beautiful architecture there. Here? Not so much. Why would my wanting to raze old buildings apply to people?!?!?!!! People are not buildings. I hope when I'm old I spend my last days in a brand new building. :)
Milwaukee is just too small to have every building noted as a historical landmark.
Mequon and Brookfield are ugly and Milwaukee is beautiful? Wow. Oh, and by the way, I never wrote that those places were fantastic. Another goofball putting words on another's fingertips.
Well, yes, I guess when you get old, a new hospital is better than an old one. End of life care facilities are a choice. My mother chose a hospice that was a refurbished farm house because the old architecture was a comfort to her. Better than a sterile box. I was just a small child when the knock down everything and build new box structures out of cheap materials was going strong in Milwaukee under the guise of "urban renewal." These nice new improvements over the old Milwaukee solid craftmanship are now falling apart less than 40 years later. Plus, they are just plain tacky looking.
I see it a different way...we're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair the historical architecture in the downtown condo I own. Why? Because the old stuff is rotting away.
Old is great? Not so much.
Logic kills liberals. :)
Why did you purchase a condo in an old building if you are so against preserving old buildings? Or did you develop your anti preservation opinions after you purchased your condo? Just curious.
I was a freshman at Marquette when the Plankinton mansion came down. The university pulled a sneak attack by moving in a cat and starting demolition shortly before a vote to save the structure could be held. Most of the student body seemed horrified. I still have a slate shingle from the roof that I saved as a souvenir.
Unique and beautiful historic structures like this are landmarks that deserve to be preserved. Communities that don't recognize their value are generally run by people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I can't tell if your joking, so for arguments sake I'm going to assume that you are not.
I am also going to assume that you have never stepped foot in the Historic Third Ward and never walked down any of the beautiful historic streets in countless Milwaukee neighborhoods. I have to believe that most people in the city do not share your short sited, rash opinion. Historic preservation is not about saving old buildings because they are old. From an economic development standpoint, it is about creatively using these buildings because they are from a time when successful urban places were a product of natural evolution - not contrived design. These buildings facilitate a character and lifestyle that people increasingly want to return to - density, variety of use, quality of materials . . . I could go on, but I won't because Mary made the case quite well.
It would be vastly better for our city if preservation and development could realize that their coexistence and collaboration is mutually beneficial - and come up with a thoughtful program to facilitate it.Hide replies
I lived in a condo in downtown Milwaukee for five years, and yes, I've been to the third ward. See, the third ward has beautiful USEFUL buildings that are filled by employers or tenants. No need to raze the buildings because they are being used. Raze the old empty ones nobody wants and has no useful purpose. Regarding your "density, variety of use, quality of materials" comment...you've never been to a condo association meeting where we discuss the hundreds of thousands of dollars in problems that occur from living in a hundred year old building.
The roofs of the "old empty ones," are perfect places for solar panels generating electricity. If you combine it with hydrogen storage (see url below)
it's a great way to store, release and utilize energy. With a hybrid charge controller/inverter system you can wholesale green electricity back into We Energies' grid.
You really don't get it. Solar panels are great, but there ain't enough solar panels to put a dent in the electricity needs of buildings today.
Why do you think Solara Energy went belly-up? It ain't because more and more people want solar power.
And this article isn't about "green" electricity. It's about preserving historical buildings. I guess when you get crushed in these blogs you just move on to another ridiculously stupid point, huh?
Logic kills liberals. :)
Wounddown, some bad news. If you want Wisconsin to import coal, you're no conservative. Genuine conservatives value independence, which only comes through self-reliance. Google former Republican Gov. Warren Knowles, a real conservative.
WRT Solara, they went belly up in part because of the massive subsides the People's Republic of China gives to Foxconn. How do you think Apple made all their money?
From Electrical Engineering Times: "Apple reveals increasing Chinese child-labor problem" http://tinyurl.com/3j5f2d4
From TIME Magazine: "Another Slavery Scandal in China" http://tinyurl.com/3fbytyf
From the Wall Street Journal: "Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad Made in China" http://tinyurl.com/6ewg4pd
Another contributing factor was this "Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill on Tuesday to end tax deductions enjoyed by companies that close their U.S. plants and move overseas."
The truth is that there's next to no daylight between GOP and Dems on exporting jobs.
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George W. Bush was absolutely right about hydrogen powered vehicles.
Is he now a "lib?"
What W. underestimated was the difficulty of isolating pure hydrogen without fossil fuels. If you had bothered looking at the url I left, you'd see that we're are making significant head way with de-centralized solutions. "De-centralize," is a key conservative value. It's a much better risk management strategy than the highly centralized generation of coal/nuclear plants.
Hydrogen storage has the potential to turn all the renewables into base load replacements for coal. In different formulations, hydrogen can also replace natural gas. We can use the natural gas pipeline to move it.
The root of the word conservative is "conserve." Please, educate me. What's remotely "conservative" about tearing down a structure made out of GRANITE?
Tearing down any building simply adds cost. Tearing down a STONE building without a really good reason is wingnut stupid.
Logic kills Wingnuts. :)
Tragically, this commission and preservation ordinance are broken. It can be easily circumvented by an aggressive Alderman with an agenda and a campaign contribution. Examples: The Historic Hide House in Bay View where they demolished a structurally sound, albeit not sound enough for their trumped up engineering needs, historic tannery building replaced by a talentless apartment complex that doesn't even fit within the remaining tannery buildings next to it (supported by Ald. Zielinski against neighborhood desires)(The building they removed had 16" concrete floors, brick walls and supported forktrucks from the railroad) Example Two: Former Maritime Savings Building on the Historic Intersection of Howell, KK, Lincoln- AKA downtown Bay View. This was a well maintained, structurally sound building torn down for a coffee shop/bakery/warehouse and factory. Supported by Ald. Zielinski, fought by the neighbors and circumventing attempts to preserve the integrity of an historic civic center. Example Three: Just up KK is a four storey stick built architecturally insignificant apartment building that replaces an original Greek revival side-by-side townhouse that was in great condition. Also fought by neighbors and fast-tracked by the local alderman with minimally advertised and quietly held "public" hearings. It is the new version of how we kill the Plankinton mansion. We have empowered Aldermen who make this happen all the time. Who's investigating this? Who's stopping it? What is next? What is Tony going to tear down next? What's coming down "legally" in your district?
Once these buildings are gone they are gone for good - they just can't be made that way anymore. We need to see ourselves as stewards of these structures and preserve them for the countless future generations that will enjoy them and benefit from how they display Milwaukee's unique architectural heritage. A lot of effort by great people went into building these structures, and their pride for Milwaukee showed as a result. At the very least we could show the same pride by merely keeping them out of the landfill.
I think the proposal of doing a city-wide survey to identify those structures that are worthy of saving as well as those that are not is a very good idea. Get the dialogue going well beforehand and also give an estimate in some cases of how much estimated shelf life a particular structure has before it is either restored or may need to be demolished for public safety.
Who knows, it might inspire someone simply by bringing once forgotten structures and districts back on the radar.
I for one remember when the third ward was once identified as the place that one alderman suggested should be the location of Milwaukee's version of Boston's red light district. I think that it was about the same time that governor Tony Earl suggested a state prison where commerce street now houses a bustling residential area along the river.
Say what you want about John Norquist but it was under his tenure that Milwaukee went from becoming a near ghost town in the 80's to again being a lakefront destination and we saw for example the third ward and the long debated river walk come into fruition among other things.
Let's face it, there are still people in the area and throughout the state, even governors (anyone remember Tommy Thompson's "Let's stick it to Milwaukee!") that would rather see Milwaukee whither and die on the vine. I for one have been delighted to see the City of Milwaukee come back to life...
I remember seeing sewer repairs in Europe. Workers hauling up huge old stones to do sewer work below. Americans spend millions each year flying over there to see the results of respect for history - their old buildings and walkable cobbled streets - and escaping the ugly results of their own zeal to tear things apart and pave them over. People pay big money to be around historical structures.
There is a topic here worthy of a series of articles.
If for no other reason to explain to the unenlightened why connections to the past build strong futures.
The short answer is those who have no place for history, will not try to make any for the future.
If all you are interested in is take the money and run? You will fail because you end up with junk so poorly designed it does not even serve out it's intended life span.
Do we really need to look for examples in a city with debacles like The Transit Center and O'Donnell Park. To understand why pride in what you do not only creates beauty. It creates durable and safe for the public at large, as well as useful. Not ill thought out garbage just put there because someone had a few million bucks rotting in their pocket, or needed a new tax dodge.
The HPC has possibly served it's initial purpose this far into it's life.
Trekking around the old part of the city one sees the landmark designations which have identified spots we should preserve. If not at all cost, certainly with due consideration that what we might place there has to minimally be as good as what is already there.
New is not automatically just as good as what is there.
We razed historic structures to make way for what we all regret is on the lakefront now.
This does not always play out overnight.
Once something is gone, it is gone.
The thing which replaces it must inspire awe in those who admired the old, as well as provide (profit mostly) for those who would build new.
The article latches onto something.
Preserving property as a fluid principle. Not simply an afterthought when interest is raised.
Gallun Tannery along the downtown north edge is a classic example of blight by neglect.
Other examples not left to rot showcase how historic and new merge effortlessly. If only old was simply maintained.
The HPC may best serve our needs as "building police". Making sure nothing ever falls that far into disrepair in the first place.
The frenzy to create jobs by obliteration of our history is only short term wisdom, and arguably not even that. It's another version of deferred maintenance, only the thing we are not maintaining is our collective soul. Boom towns also go bust. Walk the streets of Houston some time. Feels like Mall of America.
Witkowski is getting a little scary with his mobocracy approach to problem solving -- say it loudly, get everyone whipped into a frenzy, and shout down the opposition. I hope this is not the direction Milwaukee government is taking. Barrett is shamefully limp in these matters. His actions just feel like pandering for votes. Where's the vision, Mr. Mayor?
ALSO -- The argument that maintaining old buildings is too expensive is weak. In almost every case, the millions spent razing and in new construction FAR outweigh the costs of maintaining what was already there.
I have 6000 SQ FT in the corner of a giant old 3rd Ward warehouse, and nothing new can come close to the feeling of heavy timber construction, with cream city brick walls. Those buildings have a personality and just spending time inside is an experience. The drywall boxes they build today are a pale substitute.
Best article since Whitney left. Congratulations Mary Louise, you have found your voice. Excellent use of the word, "futzed," by the way. Probably the first time that word has ever appeared in these pages.Hide replies
joe: I love the "shamefully limp." As good as "futzed."
The Historic Preservation Commission is totally competent. The members turn the other way when "money for development walks in the front door". The City of Milwaukee, known around the country and the world as "The Brewing Capitol of the World". has recently lost three of the oldest remaining brewery structures in Wisconsin on the watch. They are more focused on the type exterior material use on a garage is some up scale neighborhood, than protecting century old historic structures. Case in point: The Gipfel Brewery, The Ogden Avenue Brewery, The Obermann/Jung Brewery, three of the oldest structures at the former Pabst Brewery...."all lost on their watch". And now, the soon to be demolished Brew House at Schlitz Park. Shame on them.......
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YAGP Gala 2007
Posted 30 April 2007 - 08:31 PM
I hope I have the number of !'s right. During her fouettes in the evening ending Corsaire, I believe that is how many turns she completed in one of her interpolated multiple pirouettes. Her outstanding partner was Thiago Soares (think ABT's Gomes). She is altogether a WOW!, and an endless roar of booooooooos to the Met for not bringing her and The Royal to NYC in years.
Unfortunately, I suppose there wasn't time to print an insert of winners, and the MC was not a master at pronouncing names. Part I of the Gala featured standouts from the competition. Three circa 12-year-olds got things off sensationally. But what I assume was the men's winner came next to last. The youth-filled audience began screaming as his intro started and they were right. I don't think any of ABT's men could approach some of his tricks; the only man I could imagine duplicating his feats would be Ivan Vasiliev.
Part II was for the professionals. First up were the Parisians, Aurelie Dupont and Manuel Legris. Camera flashes, late seatings and yapping made it hard to appreciate, but the wretched choreography -- Petite Mort -- already had done them in. Sure, they danced it better than ABT does... Later they gave the penultimate dance, another less than empty piece of drivel, Neumeier's Dame aux Camelias. One could admire her pointe work, including her ability to express emotions with her pointes (a little like Fonteyn, but she had a, THE, choreographer). So he pulled down her dress, and mounted her for a couple bars of Chopin (literally, the alluded to petite mort of their first piece) -- Chopin went on and so, too, the creative choreography.
The gulf between American and European ballet taste is a veritable ocean.
There was some great dancing of great choreography too. Ashley Bouder, partnered superbly by San Francisco Ballet virtuoso Joseph Phillips, was her very human superhuman self in Stars and Stripes. Fabulous technique with carefree ease. You can tell they've danced together before, as every new contact in the adagio flowed and even melted. The variations were thrilling. Her 11th dance in seven days. Isabella Boylston and David Hallberg were lyrically terrific in a PdD by Ben Milliepied, a world premiere titled Quiet Music. She just flowed in beauty and he had the gravitas of a Premier Dancer. A pair from the Stuttgart, Alicia Amatriain and Jason Reilly danced a modern piece, Itzik Galili's Mono Lisa (not Mona). The very unruly audience was quiet at the beginning, but the first of dozens of mass screams erupted when she began to dance. Remember the comic book character Plastic Man? I've never seen such a flexible dancer. Svetlana Zakharova is a 19th C. ballerina compared to Ms. Amatriain. Yet it was totally right in this little ballet. It would be fascinating to see her in a classical role (she is a Principal).
Posted 30 April 2007 - 08:52 PM
Posted 30 April 2007 - 09:26 PM
I arrived at City Center at about 6:00 to find signs that the Gala was sold out. I picked up my tickets and sat in Au Bon Pain until curtain time. Now, this was the first time that I had been to City Center in years, and I could not remember what the place looked like inside. My seat was in Rear Mezzanine - very disappointing with the curtain closed, but a little better once the curtain opened. It seeemd that I was so far away from the stage when I first sat down.
The audience was very rowdy (a lot of screaming) and there was a lot of rudeness going on. A lot of talking during the performances - a lot of WALKING AROUND during the performances - and someone to my right kept taking flash pictures during the performances, despite numerous warnings - even from Desmond Richardson.
Speaking of Desmond Richardson - he was a very charming host for the evening. BUT - could someone have gone over the pronunciation of names with him before the gala? Sorry if I'm being over critical here, but the behavior of the audience put me in a very grumpy mood.
The first Act was very enjoyable. I was captivated right from the beginning - the young man from Japan and the young lady from Mexico were brilliant! The three young ladies from Japan with the chairs were very interesting and I especially liked the couple who did the pas de deux from "The Pharaoh's Daughter." The ensemble number with all 250 competitors brought the first act to a rowsing finale. I don't think I have ever seen so many dancers on stage at the same time!
I guess there was no way to list all of the performers in Act I, but it would be nice to know for the future, in case any of the dancers that we saw makes the big time!
On to Act II. The audience was still coming in when the lights were dimming and it seemed that a big party was going on in Center Mezzanine - they would not sit down. Aurelie and Manuel started to dance. One woman walked in and just stared into space for about a minute and a half. Someone sitting behind her screamed out - SIT DOWN! Later on, to my right I heard - PLEASE STOP TALKING! PLEASE STOP TALING ON YOUR PHONE! See what I mean about a rude audience - and they all seemd to be with me in Mezzanine.
Act II began with "La Petite Mort" with Aurelie Dupont and Manuel Legris. I have to admit that this was the whole reason I was attracted to this gala - I wanted to see Aurelie Dupont! This dance, with music by Mozart and choreography by Kylian was very intense and dramatic. What Aurelie and Manuel did was show their years of experience of danicing together by seeming to melt into each other's bodies. They were all over the place - Aurelie gave herself completely to every move and position - but they kept the dramatic intensity going during this number. They were the only couple to do an encore. They came out next to last and did "La Dame aux Camelias" with choreography by John Neumeier and music by Chopin. This was another intense number - more romantic in nature - and the audience gasped when Manuel took Aurelie's black dress off of her. Here's something to think about - I was waiting after the show by the stage door when out comes Manuel - jacket and dress pants - and Aurelie - the glamorous etoile - in jeans, a sweat shirt and black high-top pro keds. You know what? She still looked gorgeous!!!
Cecilia Kerche and Vitor Luiz of Ballet Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro did the pas de deux from "La Esmeralda" with music by Pugni and choreography by Perrot. This was very charming and joyful. I was not too familiar with this - I remember watching a pas de six from this ballet on a Kirov tape that I had. The tambourine was brought out as a prop and then quickly abandoned.
Next up was Sascha Radetsky and Stella Abrera doing Jabula - I don't think they performed tonight. I am looking at the program and I am racking my brain trying to remember this and nothing is coming to mind! Maybe another poster can confirm this - I hope I didn't skip a groove or something!
Xiomara Reyes and Gennadi Saveliev danced to "Spring Water". I saw this on a DVD I have of Great Pas de Deux. Big complaint - the recording of the music was terrible! The dance itself was beautiful. I remember that this number ends with a lift and I'm not sure if they did it or they made a a mistake and the lights were dimmed very qucikly.
MOMIX - I didn't like it! Four women (with fezzes on their heads??) dancing and bouncing with exercise balls.
Contemporary Complexions Ballet - world premiere of Choke - didn't like this either! Forgive me!! - Modern dance is not my thing!
Paloma Herrera and Nikolaj Hubbe danced "Rubies" from Jewels. I saw this a couple of years ago with Diana Vishneva and Andrian Fadeyev at a Stars of the 21st Century Gala. As soon as the dance started I saw that they looked a little shaky and then Paloma fell. To her credit, she got right back up, didn't let it faze her, and finished strong.
Isabelle Boylston and David Hallberg danced to "Quiet Music". This was another World Premiere. I liked this better than Choke, but there was nothing very memorable about this dance for me.
Ashley Bouder and Joseph Phillips danced to "Stars and Stripes Forever". I was very excited to see Ashley again after seeing her this year at the Stars of the 21st Century Gala. This was a super difficult dance! There was that great part when Ashley is dancing offstage when Joseph runs over grabs her and glides off with her. Both dancers excelled together and in their solos.
Mono Lisa introduced us to the very-flexible Alicia Amatrian and her partner Jason Reilly. The music sounded like a typewriter. Like "La Petite Mort", this needed a lot of dramatic intensity to keep it going and it seemed that the two dancers kind of fell off at the very end. But of all the premieres (this was the New York Premiere), this was the most enjoyable.
Last up was Marianela Nunez and Thiago Soares in Le Corsaire. I saw Marianela dance the Lilac Fairy last summer at the Kennedy Center and I saw Thiago dance a beautiful Thais with Leanne Benjamin at the Ashton Centennial a few summers ago. Thiago looks a little like Marcelo Gomes. The Le Corsaire pas de deux is always a showstopper and what a great way to end the night. Marianela did either a quadruple or quintuple pirouette during her solo number - I am not sure. But this was a spectacular ending for the night.
Posted 30 April 2007 - 09:57 PM
Now, every detail tells a story, every gesture sings, every step is luminous with emotion. The result is sublime, and Soares and Nuñez have contrived a happy ending which will surprise no one who has seen them dance together. They've announced their engagement, and are getting married as soon as their respective schedules permit.
Posted 01 May 2007 - 01:07 AM
Posted 01 May 2007 - 06:56 AM
But what I assume was the men's winner came next to last. The youth-filled audience began screaming as his intro started and they were right. I don't think any of ABT's men could approach some of his tricks; the only man I could imagine duplicating his feats would be Ivan Vasiliev.
Yes - I noticed that this young man, who danced to Diana and Acteon, did a similar move to the "karate kick wheelbarrow" move (I still don't know what to call this!) that Denis Matvienko did at the Stars of the 21st Century Gala back in February. Matvienko also danced to Diana and Acteon
Posted 01 May 2007 - 06:59 AM
From everything I know, they have yet to marry... And yes, Marienela is known for her strength, warm dancing, and solid technique/turns....
Oh - Marianlea was such a beautiful Lilac Fairy last summer in Washington DC. While her dancing was so beautiful - it was her smile and warmth that seemd to set the tone for the Lilac Fairy - "Hey! Don't worry - everything is going to work out all right!"
She was so radiant last night in Le Corsaire -
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:17 AM
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:17 AM
Right, your description came to mind as I watched the young guy do it! But the corkscrew aspect of his "KKW" was tighter, faster than Denis's. Less Bolshoi, but classically cleaner.
...Yes - I noticed that this young man, who danced to Diana and Acteon, did a similar move to the "karate kick wheelbarrow" move (I still don't know what to call this!) that Denis Matvienko did at the Stars of the 21st Century Gala back in February. Matvienko also danced to Diana and Acteon
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:18 AM
The results would have been nice as well, but at least let the audience know who these youngsters are!
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:30 AM
I guess there was no way to list all of the performers in Act I, but it would be nice to know for the future, in case any of the dancers that we saw makes the big time!
Is anyone able to tell us the names of the competition medallists?
If I remember correctly, last year, the list of performers and their selections went up on the YAGP website a while (like, over a week?) after the gala.
I find it a bit disconcerting that a gala which is half dedicated to Stars of Tomorrow did not make it clear as to who those stars are....
The results would have been nice as well, but at least let the audience know who these youngsters are!
And thanks to all for your reviews!
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:35 AM
Posted 01 May 2007 - 07:50 AM
Have been checking that page from time to time since the announcement would have been made yesterday...we're interested in the NYC finals results.
Posted 01 May 2007 - 08:09 AM
The outstanding ballet photographer Gene Schiavone will post photos of the 2007 NYC Finals within about five days here:
Posted 01 May 2007 - 09:08 AM
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The most recently introduced somatostatin analogue, octreotide, is known to control hypergastrinemia and enterochromaffin-like cell growth in patients with hypergastrinemic atrophic gastritis, the authors note, suggesting that such analogues might prove effective in treating gastric carcinoid tumors.
Dr. Lucio Gullo, of S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy, and colleagues treated three patients diagnosed with type II gastric carcinoid tumors (i.e., accompanied by multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome) using intramuscular lanreotide (two patients) or octreotide (one patient).
Patient 1, a 50-year-old man, had 30 gastric carcinoid tumors ranging from 3 to 10 mm in diameter and an initial serum gastrin level of 10,500 pg/mL, the report indicates. The tumors decreased in number by 6 months and disappeared after 12 months, by which time the patient's gastrin level was 840 pg/mL.
Patients 2 and 3 had 10 to 15 tumors 2 to 10 mm in diameter, the authors report, all of which disappeared completely after 1 year. Serum gastrin levels for patient 2 fell from 1560 pg/mL to 110 pg/mL with treatment. For patient 3, treatment reduced the gastrin levels from 1475 pg/mL to 80 pg/mL.
All three patients continue to receive treatments with somatostatin analogues while the researchers attempt to determine whether treatment can eventually be reduced or discontinued.
"Since hypergastrinemia is an important factor in the pathogenesis of gastric carcinoid tumors in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, it is likely that the disappearance of the tumors is related to the decrease in serum gastrin levels," the authors speculate.
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SECURED GRANTS — Bethany Mayor Jay Eisenhauer, center, recognized Bethany Police Lt. Mike Bolen, left, and Bethany Police Capt. Darin Pizer for securing a $7,400 grant from the West Virginia Division of Justice and Community Services to obtain and install a computer system that allows the department to keep computer records of the incidents it responds to and share them with other law enforcement officials. -- Warren Scott
"Smaller departments were once permitted to submit incident reports on paper because of the smaller volume (of incidents they handle), but they are now required to submit them electronically," said Palmer.
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Beech Bottom Mayor George Lewis applauded Casto for his efforts in securing the grant, which required no local match from the village.
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Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet session in Jeddah this afternoon. The ministers began by reviewing a report on the most recent foreign contacts made by Saudi officials, as well as a summary of the latest regional and international developments. They expressed appreciation towards Chinese President Xi Jinping, who told visiting Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal of his desire to strengthen Saudi-Chinese communication and cooperation in order to contribute to regional peace and stability.
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"Merlin's beard" is a common wizarding expression used to show surprise. There are several coarser variants, including "Merlin's pants,"[1] "Merlin's most baggy Y-fronts,"[1] (Said by Ronald Weasley) and "Merlin's saggy left —" (Arthur Weasley interrupted Ronald Weasley before he could complete this last expression).[1] This might be more insulting than others because of Molly Weasley's reaction.
Amos Diggory, like many others, used this expression when he met Harry Potter. Professor Horace Slughorn used this expression when Professor Dumbledore stuck his wand into Horace, who was transfigured into an armchair in 1996.
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So matter [verb] into energy, and energy [verb] into matter. What are the correct verbs to use here? I am thinking that they are "energize" and "materialize", but I'm not sure, especially about "energize".


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I remember reading the same question, followed by the same reply in, if I remember correctly, different interview. In that context, Nureyev seemed to be alluding most obviously to his never-in-one-place-for-long jetsetting lifestyle, but there was plenty of room for inference. It's a brilliant answer!
"Why should I make some girl miserable?"
That's a very good answer to that question.
Julie Kavanagh's Nureyev Biography
Posted 26 August 2007 - 10:42 AM
Posted 26 August 2007 - 11:01 AM
Well, Kavanaugh's already gone into grand detail about Ashton's sex life, so why not Nureyev's? I mean, it tells us so much about what made him a great artist.
It makes one glad not to be famous.
I would like to know how Nureyev's sex life made him a great artist? I know it made him dead.
I took this to be Leigh speaking tongue-in-cheek, which he does so well.
Posted 26 August 2007 - 11:19 AM
When I posted the above I had just read Segal's article and I was extremely irritated by it, so much so that I missed the irony in Leigh's comment.
Well, Kavanaugh's already gone into grand detail about Ashton's sex life, so why not Nureyev's? I mean, it tells us so much about what made him a great artist.
It makes one glad not to be famous.
I would like to know how Nureyev's sex life made him a great artist? I know it made him dead.
I took this to be Leigh speaking tongue-in-cheek, which he does so well.
My apologies.
Posted 27 August 2007 - 10:42 AM
I also suspect that, whatever his views while he was still alive (he was a mixture of discretion and boldness, it seems to me) Nureyev would be tickled pink to know that all these years later people are still interested in his sex life.....
Posted 27 August 2007 - 10:53 AM
About that, at least, there can be no controversy.
Nureyev would be tickled pink to know that all these years later people are still interested in his sex life.....
Especially since we are also still very interested in, and fascinated by, his art.
Posted 27 August 2007 - 11:04 AM
Posted 27 August 2007 - 11:51 AM
The last time I checked the membership list, Lewis Segal wasn't on it, so I think we're safe
That sort of goes without saying, at least as far as BTers are concerned, I should think. (I trust I dont have to supply an 'Im Interested in the Art' disclaimer every time the subject arises.)
Posted 27 August 2007 - 12:57 PM
In the end, Mr. Bridcut said, working on Nureyev: The Russian Years was not so different from working on his music films. It deals with the same excitement and problems of artistry â the degree to which real artists have to focus intensely on their own work at the expense of those around them, he said. This self-absorption â self-obsession, even â can be hard for those close to them. Benjamin Britten is a classic example, and yet those who were caught in his flame, even if they were burned, still have a great love for him, which is quite remarkable. The same is true of Nureyev.
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Posted 04 September 2007 - 09:19 AM
When I posted the above I had just read Segal's article and I was extremely irritated by it, so much so that I missed the irony in Leigh's comment.
Well, Kavanaugh's already gone into grand detail about Ashton's sex life, so why not Nureyev's? I mean, it tells us so much about what made him a great artist.
It makes one glad not to be famous.
I would like to know how Nureyev's sex life made him a great artist? I know it made him dead.
I took this to be Leigh speaking tongue-in-cheek, which he does so well.
My apologies.
Someone's sex life does tell us about what makes them a great artist when it is obviously libido that goes into all kinds of artistic artistry, and there is not even always even any gap in someone like Nureyev between aspects of their sexuality and their art. Other dancers too, he was just more flamboyant, I think that's cool enough and that his wildness of sexuality should have been part of what made him unique. In any case, it's not possible that it would not. Of course, details of it are unnecessary for that art and this then forms a new more pornographic field. I believe it is in Suzanne Farrell's 'Holding on to the Air' that she says something about how neither she nor Balanchine were especially interested in sex. So the libido gets redirected effectively--this doesn't mean Farrell didn't come across as very sexy sometimes, but it was a different sort of sexuality one would see with a dancer like her than with someone like Nureyev who did go to the Eagle's Nest and did go to the piers on the Hudson. So what? I did too.
But Bart is right about the way everybody in the Arts knew about Nureyev's sexual adventuring in the 70s--at least in New York. There were photos bandied about, he was seen frequently in racy places (by me among others), this was all even more well-known to me through friends of Nureyev by about 1973 onward in a good bit of detail, and even before that people talked about it. I haven't read these articles, and don't see Nureyev especially as a 'sociopath' or 'psychopath' even if all or most of the details written about his sex life are true. But I see little reason to expect new documents on any famous people to be discreet and tasteful, that's not what they're about, they're about selling to current tastes for gossip, of course.
On the other hand, things like Norman Mailer's 'Portrait of Picasso as a Young Artist' shows you a way of dealing with this kind of genius celebrity-artist that also does not cover up his faults. Picasso was clearly an incredibly selfish person in some of his actions even early on, and I haven't gotten to his middle and later years. What he did in terms of his cowardice in terms of Apollinaire is quite as reprehensible as possible. It is a peculiar contradiction that sometimes the greatest artists' ruthlessness may be what makes their particular art possible, it is all definitely a part of what goes into the art. It is possible to try to overlook this because of an artist's greatness, but this is more wishful IMO than anything else, because you don't find out the full range of what went into making this exceptional being. It is necessary to accept that one has to live with the uncomfortable, unresolved contradictions. Mind you, not that I think the contemporary way of explicating every single drop of sweat and cheap pop-song synthetic-romance baubles is admirable, but I don't take it as seriously as some do. Ultimately, the Mailer books on Monroe and Picasso are higher-toned versions of the same thing. It's probable that most of us involved in the Arts think that artists deserve some special privileges and immunity from intrusion. I often feel this, but do know it is pretty much unrealistic, simply because that immunity has been steadily eroding and anyone can get arrested for almost anything, much less gossipped about.
But I think the healthiest way to look at Nureyev's promiscuity is to see it as a part of his adventurous artistry: People going on endlessly about his 'animalism' and 'raw sensuality' didn't pull it out of nowhere; to say otherwise is only to repudiate something very fundamental about Nureyev's very character, but which is to me a mostly positive kind of energy, but this is often done with sex when it gets into some of the less conventional practices (I don't mean homosexuality so much as public sex and promiscuity--and these don't work at all outside very free zones). Now someone on this board mentioned, during that discussion of Simone Clarke and the BNP, that Nureyev had 'knowingly infected partners with HIV', but without any proof of this. If that part is true, then that is a different story, as no one can really expect such to be excusable. Personally, I don't believe that is probable, and don't think Nureyev would have done this. I asked a few people who might have known, and they agreed--however, I can't say that I know for sure about this. I do think that in the early 90s, people still were not as highly tuned to carefulness as they have steadily become over the years since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and that there are periods in which people are more careful vacillating with other periods of greater strictness.
Posted 17 September 2007 - 12:50 PM
"Did Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn have an affair or didn't they?"
Reading this excerpt made me think about three things....
1. Should a biographer practice restraint with using the material they gather? I believe, yes.
I found the statements about Fonteyn's abilities as a lover quite disturbing. They are what you would expect to find in the tabloids rather than a scholarly work.
2. The key point for me is Ashton's statement:
When the choreographer Frederick Ashton and his Norfolk neighbour Keith
Money, the ballet writer, discussed the matter, each was "adamantly certain"
that nothing took place; and when questioned in his eighties, Ashton had not
changed his mind. "I don't think that he awakened in her any sexual thing.
You always love the person you dance with for that moment, and something
must emanate from you that communicates itself to the audience."
Surely a tremendous amount of excitement is generated during rehearsals and performances from moments of creative synergy. My feeling is that these two artists of consummate artistry had the ability to "flow", (using Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's word), together.
3. Did they sleep together?
Who really cares?
Posted 17 September 2007 - 02:56 PM
I believe it is in Suzanne Farrell's 'Holding on to the Air' that she says something about how neither she nor Balanchine were especially interested in sex.
Going off topic, but what I think she meant to say was that although once they had been lovers of a sort, ultimately their connection was something quite other and beyond (although not necessarily superior, I dont want to appear to denigrate sexual bonds, which can be as intense and meaningful as any other kind). Balanchine was certainly very interested in sex that was, finally, the reason she had to leave the company when she did. Im amazed and impressed that such a young and unworldly woman was able to resist the psychological pressure applied to her by her boss -- and her mother.
innopac, I agree, for the most part. Kavanagh probably got the line you quote in no. 1 from Meredith Danemans biography of Fonteyn, and it is regrettable that she elected to repeat it, when I should have thought that once was a good deal more than enough. However, if a given subject had a general reputation as a great lover, or the reverse, that is worth a mention in moderation.
As for whether a writer should discuss whether Fonteyn and Nureyev had an affair -- yes, in a biography of either party that aims for completeness and is not solely artistic in focus that is a question that should addressed, even though its been hashed over repeatedly. The issue, for me, is how much space should be devoted to the matter (in my view, very little), and whose opinions are sought and quoted, and the biographers approach generally. Daneman went on for pages. I hope Kavanagh spares us that.
Posted 17 September 2007 - 03:57 PM
Balanchine was certainly very interested in sex that was, finally, the reason she had to leave the company when she did. Im amazed and impressed that such a young and unworldly woman was able to resist the psychological pressure applied to her by her boss -- and her mother.
Yes, it's stunningly impressive, and one journalist described her later as having left NYCB 'with great eclat'. While it's actually sad in terms of Balanchine himself being unable to see this as he would later (and as she recounts in 'Elusive Muse'), I'm afraid I'm a little amused at the way she rebuffed her mother... Of course it's true what you say about Balanchine, I was basing some of this on things Maria Tallchief said about some of those areas of activity--I got the idea it was of more symbolic importance than in any way obsessive as uncontrollable libido (with Nureyev's appetites being the extreme of something like that), but others will know more about this than I do.
Posted 17 September 2007 - 04:03 PM
Also in Elusive Muse, she tries to explain that they got much physical gratification out of working together in the studio. She ends by saying, "It was great!" with the most wonderful smile. What productive sublimation! Freud would have been proud.
Tallchief has also said and written many times that Balanchine had chosen her as a key dancer for his new company, and has said several times that he wanted to be married her to keep her loyalty to him. Just like he said, "Don't be angry, save it for the work," I would think that this would apply to all other non-ballet-focused expenditures of energy and focus. Given how she struggled to balance her career with the passionate romantic life she had after her marriage to Balanchine ended, I would say that was good strategy.
Posted 17 September 2007 - 05:01 PM
Farrell was young and a practicing Catholic. She's said and written that this was an issue for her. She also said in Elusive Muse, that there were times when she was ready for a full relationship with him, but he was feeling guilty about Tanaquil Leclerq, and times when he was ready, and she was feeling guilty about Tanaquil Leclerq.
Very true but I wonder. I could be wrong about this but I think it wasnt until her book came out that she began talking about her amorous feelings for Balanchine, and in light of her quite normal interest in young men of her own age (the Roger in her autobiography) I wonder if she really felt a genuine physical attraction or if shes mostly being tactful and protective of Balanchine. (The age difference and her religious affiliation wouldnt necessarily have mattered, I think, if Farrells own character and psychology had been of a different stamp.)
Moving away a bit from what Mary Astor refers to in The Palm Beach Story as Topic A, I was interested in this quote from the Times link:
Overnight she [Fonteyn] changed her mind: she would dance with Nureyev. She felt the alternative was to risk becoming an absolute back number, a nothing................Fonteyn decided to bet her professional future on Nureyev after a discussion with her husband, who had every reason to encourage her to prolong her stage career.
I hope that in the book itself there is a mention in this connection of the pivotal role of Ninette de Valois in the making of ballets most famous partnership. I saw no mention of her here.
Posted 25 September 2007 - 05:47 PM
The book is, like all biographies these days, way too long, but Kavanagh will set the standard in RN biography, I suspect.
I'll post a link when I write the review.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo is expecting 220 student leaders from all areas of campus Aug. 25 for the college's second annual Student Leadership Symposium, which will focus this year on effective communication and social skills. Residence hall assistants, captains from athletic teams, student government officers and leaders from Greek and other organizations will be among those participating in the symposium to kick off the academic year. Classes begin at Geneseo Aug. 29.
The keynote speaker for the symposium will be Matt Mattson, co-founder and president of Phired Up Productions, an education firm providing recruitment services and social excellence training to colleges and universities.
"Matt Mattson has a strong reputation for developing social excellence skills in students and we are looking forward to the contributions he will make in helping our student leaders sharpen their communication skills," said Tom Matthews, director of leadership education, development and training at Geneseo. "Our student leaders all have specific leadership roles on campus and all will benefit from the symposium conversations about effective communication and social skills."
The student leaders also will have the opportunity to choose among 17 Geneseo Opportunity for Leadership Development (GOLD) workshops, all focused on communication. GOLD programs are available to all Geneseo students throughout the year to complement their academic studies.
A key session during the symposium for the student leaders will be bystander intervention training. Geneseo's award-winning Stand Up for One Another program has been recognized by a number of organizations within higher education. The program educates students on the dangers of substance abuse, empowers them to make right choices and to look out for each other's welfare.
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The Derawan islands must be everyone's dream of the perfect tropical paradise: warm, isolated islands with soft white sand beaches fringed with waving palm trees, pristine seas that change color from green to deep blue, and an amazing underwater life of giant turtles, dolphins, manta rays, dugongs and barracudas, stingless jellyfish and sometimes, whales Derawan is indeed one of world's richest areas in bio-diversity. Small wonder that the Derawan Islands are considered the third best dive destination in the world.
Located just away from the mainland of East Kalimantan in the district of Berau, the Derawan archipelago comprises 31 islands, most well known among these are the islands of Derawan, Maratua, Sangalaki and Kakaban. Here is Indonesia's largest nesting site of the rare and endangered giant green turtles and hawksbill turtles, where one can daily watch turtles lay their eggs in the sand or swim to sea with the turtles. The entire marine conservancy region covers a total area of no less than 1.27 million hectares.
Here, you can find 460 different species of corals, ranking this area second only to the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua. The Nature Conservancy and a team of international experts also found more than 870 species of fish here, ranging from tiny pygmy seahorses to giant manta rays. On some days, groups of up to 50 manta rays have been seen feeding together in Derawan's waters, says the Conservancy.
While on Kakaban, you can find the world's largest and most diverse jellyfish lake, including four unique species of stingless jellyfish one of which can swim upside down. It is for this reason that Kakaban is considered for UNESCO nomination as a World Heritage Site.
The Derawan resort provides transportation and diving equipments. For accomodation, the resort offers Kalimantan-style cottages facing the sea. There are also simpler accommodation and restaurant facilities available on Derawan and cottages on other islands.
You can also book liveaboards (boats designed for people living aboard them, usually for long journeys) to Derawan from Bali.
To reach Derawan, SilkAir flies from Singapore to Balikpapan in East Kalimantan.
Or you can take a flight from Jakarta, Surabaya or Denpasar to Balikpapan or Tarakan by Garuda Indonesia or Mandala Air. Then take a connecting flight by either KALStar, Deraya airlines or DAS to Tanjung Redeb in Berau. From here, boats will take you to the islands.


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The 5 Most Embarrassing Failures in the History of Terrorism
Terrorism isn't exactly rocket science. It's something pretty much anyone can do. You wake up one day and decide that you'd rather like to explode in the middle of a crowded shopping center, and BAM! There you go. You're a certified terrorist.
But, incredibly, people manage to fuck up even that. And if we can't laugh at terrorists, who can we laugh at?
#5. The Fort Dix Incident
Terrorists are basically camwhores with guns instead of tits: they're always videotaping themselves, they desperately crave attention and rarely have anything interesting to say.
If you need proof look back to 2007, when six would-be terrorists embarked on a plan to attack the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. Rather than practicing their covert plot, you know, covertly, they got a bunch of guns together and went down to a public shooting range with a video camera, where they proceeded to shoot at targets while screaming about their radical agenda. So now they've got their damning footage of them screaming, "WE'RE GOING TO DO TERROR! WOOOO!!!!"--but they weren't sure what to do with it (they didn't know how to get it off the camera). So to get it converted to DVD, they took it down to... oh God, really?
They took it to Circuit City.
How It Went Wrong:
Despite what Best Buy would have you believe, not all Circuit City employees are terrorist sympathizers. The "DVD Converting Guy" did some ace detective work and happened to notice that the entire videotape was chock-full of guns, rage, anti-American tirades and dudes talking about how they were totally going to charge the Fort Dix military base and knock it over. He quickly notified the authorities.
The FBI investigated and the terrorists were promptly arrested, easily convicted and taught the same lesson inadvertent amateur pornstars have been learning since the invention of the internet - whether it's you dancing around in women's underwear or just pinky-swearing to blow up America, don't film it unless you want people to watch it.
#4. The Plot Against the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center
The Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center was almost the victim of the Sistine Chapel of retarded terrorist attacks. Located in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, the cultural center seemed a prime target of U.S. authority abroad, and so in January of 1991, two terrorists, part of an as yet identified terrorist cell with loose ties to Saddam Hussein, plotted their attack on the building.
The center is in there somewhere.
Most terrorists aren't exactly artists. There's no Dennis Hopper-esque elaborate clockwork devices and multistage plans, they usually just put something that explodes on top of something that doesn't want to explode and then clap their hands together in expectant glee.
This case was no different: they attached explosives to a timer, loaded it in a canvas bag and set it next to the cultural center. The simple plans are the hardest to screw up, right?
How It Went Wrong:
Ahmed, the bomber, who apparently got most of his training from Terror at the Improv, decides to actually arm the bomb at the center. At night. In the dark.
Not thinking to even bring so much as a flashlight, he starts wiring up the explosives by...
Wait, really?
...the dim flame of a pocket lighter.
His partner, Sa'ad, probably nagging him like an irritated housewife, stands a few feet away nervously watching. Ahmed finally gets the timer working, somehow not igniting the thing with his Zippo, and settles back with pride. He's got 5:00 minutes to get out of there.
Wait, now it's... h:00 minutes? H isn't a measure of time, is it? Now it's E:00 minutes. Did he... did he somehow set the timer to the alphabet? How is that even possible? Suddenly, it starts to dawn on him. Ahmed, whose last name is presumably "E. Coyote," has set the timer... upside down.
The bomb explodes, disintegrating Ahmed and showering his partner Sa'ad with retard bits. A few minutes later, a passing taxi driver notices a dazed and confused man covered in blood wandering the empty streets. Being a Good Samaritan, he takes the shocked man to the local hospital, where the police coax and comfort him for a while, assuming him to be a victim, until they put the pieces together and arrest him.
Authorities report that Sa'ad had apparently tried to escape but somehow inadvertently ran out into thin air, where he mysteriously stood suspended, defying gravity. After looking about curiously for a while, Sa'ad ultimately glanced down and realized there was no ground beneath him, at which point he plummeted to earth holding a handwritten sign that simply "uh oh."
Just kidding! No but seriously he went to prison and probably got raped forever.
#3. The USS The Sullivans Incident
In the year 2000, Al-Qaeda operatives found a tempting target in a port city of Yemen: the most awkwardly named boat in the world, The USS The Sullivans.
The second Al-Qaeda saw that naughty ship, they just knew she wanted it. Wanted it hard. So they licked their lips with anticipation, maybe high-fived a little bit, or listened to some "Eye of the Tiger"--whatever terrorists do to get revved up--and started loading bombs onto a life-raft.
It was a simple plan: small boat explode, big boat fall in water. Chaos would ensue, people would die, Al-Qaeda would get a boner, yadda yadda yadda.
They've got all the equipment, they've got plenty of well-made bombs and they're ready to go.
How It Went Wrong:
The boat took off on its journey toward destiny. The driver was reconciled with his own impending death, and his comrades bade him sad farewell from the docks - saluting his noble sacrifice. But the severity of the moment (along with everything else) was somewhat dampened when the boat immediately sunk into the bay.
The explosives were too heavy.
In their haste to initiate plan "Explosives + Boat," they failed to take the whole "Boat" factor into consideration, opting to just really focus in on the "Explosives" part. Sure, elaborate plans can fail and the random nature of the universe will throw a wrench into the most well-laid of plots, but your entire plan consisted of two points and you immediately, horribly failed at one of them. You missed 50 percent of a two question test. That's an F.


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I have plans to write a game in Python and probably some SQL. I'm concerned about how versatile my program will be when I finish it, ideally I'd like it to run on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone... however I have a feeling the phones would be off-limits for this sort of thing. How would I go about writing a program that runs on multiple platforms? Is this even feasible for a beginner programmer?
Python is pretty portable in itself (runs on many platforms), but you have to take into account the following:
Overall, Python is not an easy fit for mobile platforms, because of lack of support. Here are three workable alternatives:
PyGame says this in their About page:
Python itself is extremely portable, and easy enough to port to new platforms (assuming someone hasn't already done it for you). Things will get "interesting" whenever you need to access some platform-specific bits, which is where PyGame can help you, if it supports the platforms you're looking at, or you can port it.
A semi-related issue is that some distribution methods (app stores) might not allow applications that can run unknown third party code. You'll have to lock down your Python and its scripts so they can't access anything outside of the application, and possibly prevent it from running scripts that you didn't provide as part of the game.
I'm not sure about Android, but Python can't run on iPhone. Currently the best tools for deploying a game on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone would be to use HTML5 or Unity3D. There are a bunch of other tools that are lesser known and thus less vouched for, like Ideaworks Gamestudio.


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(Back Row – Left to Right) Julian Van Winkle of Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, J.J. Kingery of Wild Eggs, Dallas McGarity of Marketplace at Theater Square, Joe Castro of General Electric, John Varanese of Varanese, Ghyslain Maurais of Ghyslain Chocolatier. (Front Row) Mike Beasley of Southern Wine & Spirits, Mike Cunha of Sullivan University, Kathy Cary of Lilly's, Dean Corbett of Corbett's: An American Place and Equus & Jack's Lounge, Laurent Geroli of The Brown Hotel, John Castro of Winston's Restaurant, Shawn Ward of Jack Fry's and Anthony Lamas of Seviche. (Not Pictured) Peng Looi of Asiatique and August Moon Chinese Bistro, Jim Gerhardt of Limestone Restaurant, Agostino Gabriele of Vincenzo's, and Anoosh Shariat of Shariat Catering.
What happens when you ask 16 of the area's most renowned chefs to – collectively – create a seven-course meal? Attendees of the Friends of James Beard Benefit Dinner will find out when they attend the event on Friday at The Brown Hotel.
The dinner, which is sponsored by The Voice-Tribune and other businesses, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the James Beard Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to nurturing and preserving America's diverse culinary heritage and future. Proceeds will also go to the scholarship fund for Sullivan University's National Center for Hospitality Studies.
The seven-course meal will feature a collusion of creativity. Here's a "taste" of what guests can expect.
The Chefs
Host Chef John Castro
Winston's Restaurant at Sullivan University
Host Chef Laurent Géroli
The Brown Hotel
Kathy Cary
Joe Castro
S. Dean Corbett
Corbett's: An American Place and Equus & Jack's Lounge
Mike Cunha
Sullivan University
Agostino Gabriele
Jim Gerhardt
Limestone Restaurant
J.J. Kingery
Wild Eggs
Anthony Lamas
Peng Looi
Asiatique and August Moon Chinese Bistro
Ghyslain Maurais
Ghyslain on Market
Dallas McGarity
The Marketplace Restaurant at Theater Square
Anoosh Shariat
Anoosh Shariat Restaurant Group
Julian Van Winkle
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery
John Varanese
Shawn Ward
Jack Fry's Restaurant
The Menu
Hors d'Oeuvres
Assortment of Canapés
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery 10-year 107 Proof Bourbon & Peach Cocktail
Honolulu Fish Hawaiian Ahi Tuna Tartare with Pickled Watermelon, Blackberry–Jalapeño Emulsion, Heirloom Tomatoes, Micro-Cilantro, Fried Quail Egg, Avocado and Soda Cracker.
Stags' Leap Viognier 2011
Napa Valley, California
Seared Oceans Fleet Fisheries Diver Scallops on Weisenberger Grits with Autumn Tomato Jam, Bourbon Cream and Crispy
Newsom's Prosciutto.
Nobilo Icon Sauvignon Blanc 2011
Marlborough, New Zealand
Prime Beef Filet Mignon and Oxtail with Vegetable Salpicon and Poivrade and Bordelaise Sauces
Beaulieu Vineyard Beaurouge 2009
Napa Valley, California
Bourbon Barrel Foods Kentucky Sorghum–Glazed Manchester Farms Quail with Chayote, Sun-Dried Cherries, Grateful Greens Arugula and Walnut Slaw.
Doña Paula Estate Malbec 2010
Menzoza, Argentina
Eden Farms Pork Tenderloin Two Ways: Southern-Style Confit of Pork with Smoked Fingerling Potatoes and Buttermilk-dressed Sprouts; Cantonese-Style Char Siu with Edamame-Wasabi Purée.
The Calling Rio Lago Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Alexander Valley, California
Housemade Ricotta with Honey, Truffles, Candied Pecans, White Cheddar Popcorn Powder on Crisp Green Apple and an Assortment of Kentucky Fresh and Cave Ripened Cheeses including Kenny's Unwashed Rind Awe Brie, Barren County Blue Cheese and Sapori d'Italia Toma de Capra Goat Cheese with Gethesemani Fruit Cake Crisps and Marcona Almonds.
Fontana Candida Luna Mater Frascati Superiore 2008
Lazio, Italy
Yuzu–Lemon Curd with Coconut Dacquoise and Pineapple Compote.
Château Ste. Michelle Horse Heaven Hills Late Harvest Chenin Blanc 2006
Columbia Valley, Washington
Friends of James Beard
Benefit Dinner
6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14
The Brown Hotel


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The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray for $35 + free shipping
The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray ($79.99 list price). The nine disc collection includes:
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Free shipping and free returns.The Mel Brooks Collection. This nine-disc set spans one of the most prolific careers in show business, that of actor, director, and writer Mel Brooks. In addition to classics such as Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs, the collection includes trivia, commentaries, and the special effects behind King John's roving mole. Six Blu-ray exclusives round out the collection. FeaturesCollection of beloved Mel Brook's filmsSeven featurettes and six Blu-ray exclusive featurettesFour trivia tracks Five isolated score tracksCommentaries, interviews, documentaries, still galleries
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I need to go find a sh!tload of dimes!
This occasionally dips under $30 on sale at Amazon, including once in the Gold Box at $26. Great movies and well worth either price, but if you're not in a hurry it will probably be on Amazon again for less.
FYI- Sometimes it takes a while to get Groupon Goods. check the delivery time before purchasing.
This is still a great price, but to echo starblind I bought this a month ago for $26 on Amazon. But for 9 movies on blu-ray this is a great price.
I heard that the packaging is awful, that they are in a cardboard sleeve style thing. Have they fixed that yet?


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Let M be a smooth manifold and $C^{\infty}(M)$ the smooth functions on it. Some authors are calling $C^{\infty}(M)$-multilinear mappings: $T:\mathcal{X}(M)^s\rightarrow\mathcal{X}$ Tensor fields of type (1,s).
(One can think for instance about the riemannian curvature tensor)
I think there is maybe an Isomorphism between both spaces. But I'm wondering, why some people are stressing this all the time? Do you have an idea??


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Gems are Dragonvale's premium currency. There are some awesome looking dragons I could get, but I don't have enough Gems.
Is there an in-game way to earn Gems? Or do I just have to buy them for real world money/get them as gifts?
Gems are Dragonvale's premium currency. There are some awesome looking dragons I could get, but I don't have enough Gems.
Is there an in-game way to earn Gems? Or do I just have to buy them for real world money/get them as gifts?
The only ways to get gems are to:
If you just started: At several points, the tutorial will give you gems and tell you to use them. Ignore the prompts, and you'll get to keep the gems.
There is no limit on how many gems you can receive from friends, but every player can only gift 3 gems per day (6 if they have the Dragonsai Gifting Tree). So generally you can get a maximum of 3/6 gems from friends daily - unless you can find someone willing to give you gems for nothing in return.
When you complete in-game objectives called "goals", most message pop-ups will have Facebook/Twitter sharing buttons. Use both to receive 2 extra gems. Some goals themselves also have a small gem reward attached to them.
The Colosseum will win you 0/2/5 gems per day. You can enter one dragon a day, and at most you'll get 5 gems per day back as a reward.
Winning the race gives you a spin of the prize wheel - rarely, you may win some gems. Entering the race is relatively inexpensive and frequently rewards gold, so entering hundreds of times per day is not out of the question, assuming you have enough time to devote.
Every month a rare dragon is available for breeding which matches the birthstone of the month. These dragons can only live on gemstone island. When upgraded to level 10, these dragons produce gems at a rate of 1/week. By default you can have at most 12 dragons on your gemstone island, 3 per island. As Shadur notes in the comments, you can also upgrade each section of the gemstone island for 25, then 50 gems, each upgrading allowing each "quarter" of the island to hold one more dragon. You can get 12 gems a week with a fully stocked, non-upgraded gemstone island, or up to 20 gems a week with a fully upgraded gemstone island. (Note it takes a whooping 300 gems to upgrade all island slots).
Note gems are mostly for extras; speeding up actions, upgrading certain buildings (the nursery) or buying special buildings (the extra breeding cave).
Well , In order to get gems you must do these things:
As said earlier by Ben - purchasing, coliseum battles and friends can get you gems.
However there is a recent addition to the game. Racing which you can interact and race the dragon you choose. When you win first, second, or third you get to spin a wheel to find out the prize you receive.
If you win first place multiple times gems will start to be a prize to show up on the wheel. I have only seen 1&2 gems on the wheel and have personally only won 1 gem at a time from spinning.
You can also get food, money, or experience from winning first, second, or third.
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