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The Rebels of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
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EDWARD RUTHERFURD was born in Salisbury, England, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. His bestselling novel Sarum is based on the history of Salisbury and Stonehenge. Russka, his second novel, recounts the sweeping history of Russia. London tells the two-thousand-year story of the great city, bringing all of the richness of London's past unforgettably to life. His novel The Forest is set in England's ancient New Forest. His last novel, The Princes of Ireland is the companion to The Rebels of Ireland covering the first eleven centuries of Ireland's history. Edward Rutherfurd divides his time between Dublin and New York. more
The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd's magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest.
Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children's fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland's 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the "Flight of the Earls," when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell's suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the "Wild Geese." In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan's Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O'Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.
A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion. less
Random House Publishing Group; December 2007
896 pages; ISBN 9780307424082
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Title: The Rebels of Ireland
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
896 pages; ISBN 9780307424082
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Title: The Rebels of Ireland
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
Octor Simeon Pincher knew all about Ireland. Doctor Simeon Pincher was a tall, thin, balding man, still in his twenties, with a sallow complexion and stern black eyes that belonged in a pulpit. He was a learned man, a graduate and fellow of Emmanuel College, at Cambridge University. When he had been offered a position at the new foundation of Trinity College in Dublin, however, he had come thither with such alacrity that his new hosts were quite surprised.
"I shall come at once," he had written to them, "to do God's work." With which reply, no one could argue.
Not only did he come with the stated zeal of a missionary. Even before his arrival in Ireland, Doctor Pincher had informed himself thoroughly about its inhabitants. He knew, for instance, that the mere Irish, as the original native Irish were now termed in England, were worse than animals, and that, as Catholics, they could not be trusted.
But the special gift that Doctor Pincher brought to Ireland was his belief that the mere Irish were not only an inferior people, but that God had deliberately marked them out–along with others, too, of course–since the beginning of time, to be cast into eternal hellfire. For Doctor Simeon Pincher was a follower of Calvin.
To understand Doctor Pincher's version of the subtle teachings of the great Protestant reformer, it was only necessary to listen to one of his sermons–for he was already accounted a fine preacher, greatly praised for his clarity.
"The logic of the Lord," he would declare, "like His love, is perfect. And since we are endowed with the faculty of reason, with which God in His infinite goodness has bestowed upon us, we may see His purpose as it is." Leaning forward slightly towards his audience to ensure their concentration, Doctor Pincher would then explain.
"Consider. It is undeniable that God, the fount of all knowl-edge–to whom all ages are but as the blinking of an eye–must in His infinite wisdom know all things, past, present, and to come. And therefore it must be that even now, He knows full well who upon the Day of Judgement is to be saved, and who shall be cast down into the pit of Hell. He has established all things from the beginning. It cannot be otherwise. Even though, in His mercy, He has left us ignorant of our fate, some have already been chosen for Heaven and others for Hell. The divine logic is absolute, and all who believe must tremble before it. Those who are chosen, those who shall be saved, we call the Elect. All other, damned from the first, shall perish. And so," he would fix his audience with a terrible stare, "well may you ask: 'Which am I?'"
The grim logic of John Calvin's doctrine of predestination was hard to refute. That Calvin was a deeply religious and well-meaning man could not be doubted. His followers strove to follow the loving teachings of the gospels, and to live lives that were honest, hardworking, and charitable. But for some critics, his form of religion ran a risk: its practice could become unduly harsh. Moving from France to Switzerland, Calvin had set up his church in Geneva. The rules governing his community were sterner than those of the Lutheran Protestants, and he believed that the state should enforce them by law. Following their strict moral regime–and reporting their neighbours to the authorities for any failure to live according to God's law–his congregation did not only seek to earn a place in Heaven, but also to prove to themselves and to the world that they were indeed the predestined Elect who had already been chosen to go there.
Soon Calvinist communities had sprung up in other parts of Europe. If the Scottish Presbyterians were known for their somewhat dour adherence to the doctrines of predestination, the Church of England and its sister Church of Ireland had nowadays a Calvinistic air. "Only the Godly are part of the Church," its congregations would declare.
But could it be that certain among the community might in fact not be chosen to go to Heaven at all? Most certainly, the Calvinists would concede. Any moral backsliding might be an indication of it. And even then, as Doctor Pincher put it in one of his finest sermons, there remained a great uncertainty.
"No man knows his fate. We are like men walking across a frozen river, foolishly unmindful that, at any time, the ice may crack, and buckle, and drop us down into the frozen waters–below which, hidden deeper yet, burn the fiery furnaces of Hell. Be not puffed up with pride, therefore, as you follow the law of the scriptures, but remember that we are all miserable sinners and be humble. For this is the divine trap, and from it there is no escape. All is foretold, and the mind of God, being perfect, will not be changed." Then, looking round at his disconsolate congregation, Doctor Pincher would cry out: "And even though, if God has so ordained, you may be doomed, yet I beseech you, be of good cheer. For remember, no matter how hard the way, we are commanded, always, to hope."
Might there, perhaps, be hope for some of those not in the Calvinist congregation? Perhaps. No man could know the mind of God. But it seemed doubtful. In particular, for those in the Catholic Church, the future looked bleak. Did they not indulge in popish superstitions and worship the saints as idols–things specifically prohibited in the scriptures? Hadn't they had opportunity to turn away from their errors? To Doctor Pincher it seemed that all followers of the Pope in Rome must surely be on their way to perdition, and that the natives of Ireland, whose bad character was so well-known, were probably in the devil's clutch already. And might they not yet be saved if they converted? Could not their case be remedied? No. Their sin, to Doctor Pincher, was a clear sign that they had been selected to be damned from the first. They belonged, like the pagan spirits that infested the place, deep underground. Such were the thoughts that had strengthened the keen resolve of Doctor Pincher as he crossed the sea to Dublin.
Yet what of his own fate? Was Simeon Pincher sure, in the secret places of his heart, that he himself was one of the Elect? He had to hope so. If there had been certain sins, indiscretions at least, in his own life, might they be signs that his own nature was corrupt? He turned his face from the thought. To sin, of course, was the lot of every man. Those who repented might indeed be saved. If sins there had been in his life, therefore, he repented most earnestly. And his daily conduct, and his zeal for the Lord, proved, he hoped and believed, that he was, indeed, not the least amongst God's chosen.
It was a quiet day, with a light breeze, when he arrived at Dublin. His ship had anchored out in the Liffey. A waterman rowed him to the Wood Quay.
And he had just clambered onto the terra firma of Ireland represented by the old quay when, quite suddenly, something happened and the world turned upside down.
The next thing he remembered, he was lying facedown, conscious of a great roar, and that something had given him a huge blow in the stomach so that he could hardly breathe. He looked up, blinked, and saw the face of a man, a gentleman by his clothes, dusting himself off and gazing down at him with concern.
"You are not hurt?"
"I do not think so," Pincher answered. "What has happened?"
"An explosion." The stranger pointed, and, twisting round, Pincher saw that, in the middle of the quays, where he had noticed a tall building with a crane standing before, there was now a broken stone stump, while the houses in the street opposite were blackened ruins.
Pincher took the stranger's proffered arm gratefully as he stumbled to his feet. His leg hurt.
"You are just arrived?"
"Yes. For the first time."
"Come, then, Sir. My name, by the way, is Martin Walsh. There's an inn close by. Let me help you there."
Having left Pincher at the inn, the obliging gentleman went off to inspect the damage. He returned an hour later to report.
"The strangest business. An accident without a doubt." It seemed that a spark from a horse's shoe upon a cobble had ignited a keg of gunpowder, which had set off a large gunpowder store by the big central crane.
"The lower part of Winetavern Street is destroyed. Even the fabric of Christ Church Cathedral up the hill has been shaken." He smiled wryly. "I have heard of strangers bringing bad weather, Sir, but an explosion is something new. I hope you do not mean the Irish any further harm."
It was gentle banter, kindly meant. Pincher understood this very well. But he had never been very good at this sort of thing himself.
"Not," he said with grim satisfaction, "unless they are papists."
"Ah." The gentleman smiled sadly. "You will find many of those, Sir, in Dublin."
It was not until after this Good Samaritan had conducted him up to Trinity College and seen him safely into the care of the porter there that Doctor Pincher discovered that Mr. Walsh himself was of the Roman faith. It was an embarrassing moment, it couldn't be denied. Yet how could he have guessed that the kindly stranger, so obviously English, so clearly a gentleman, could be a papist? Indeed, as Walsh had warned him, he was soon shocked to discover that many of the gentlefolk and better sort in Dublin were.
But this very discovery only showed, he was also to understand, how much work there was to be done.
A midsummer evening. Martin Walsh stood with his three children on the Ben of Howth and stared across the sea. His cautious, lawyer's mind was engaged in its own careful calculations.
Martin had always been a thoughtful soul–old for his years, people used to say. His own mother had died when he was three, his father Robert Walsh a year after. His grandfather, old Richard, and his grandmother had brought him up and, used to the company of older people all the time, he had unconsciously taken on many of their attitudes. One of these had been caution.
He gazed fondly at his daughter. Anne was only fifteen. It was hard to believe that he must already make such decisions about her. His fingers clasped the letter in the hidden pocket in his breeches, and he wondered, as he had been wondering for hours: should he tell her about it?
The marriage of a daughter should be a private family affair. But it wasn't. Not nowadays. He wished his wife were still alive. She would have known how to deal with this. Young Smith might possess a good character or a bad one. Walsh hoped that it was good. Yet something more would be necessary. Principles, certainly. Strength, without a doubt. But also that indefinable and all-important quality–a talent for survival.
For people like himself–for the loyal Old English–life in Ireland had never been more dangerous.
It was four and a half centuries since the Norman-French king Henry Plantagenet of England had invaded and, taking the place of the old High Kings of Ireland, bullied the Irish princes into accepting him as their nominal lord. Apart from the Pale area around Dublin, of course, it had still been Irish princes and Plantagenet magnates like the Fitzgeralds–who were soon not much different from the Irish– that had ruled the island in practice ever since. Until seventy years ago, when King Henry VIII of England had smashed the Fitzgeralds and made plain, once and for all, England's intention to rule the western island directly. He'd even taken the title King of Ireland.
A few years later, the disease-ridden English monarch with the six wives had been dead. For half a dozen years his son Edward, a sickly boy, had ruled; his daughter Mary for another five. But then it had been Elizabeth, the virgin queen, who for nearly half a century had remained on England's throne. They had all tried to rule Ireland, but they hadn't found it easy.
Governors were sent over, some wise, some not. English aristocrats, almost always, with resonant names or titles: Saint Leger, Sussex, Sidney, Essex, Grey. And always they encountered the same, traditional Irish problems: Old English magnates–Fitzgeralds and Butlers–still jealous of each other; Irish princes impatient of royal control–up in Ulster, the mighty O'Neills had still not forgotten they had once been High Kings of Ireland. And everyone–yes, including the loyal Old English gentry like the Walshes–only too glad to send deputations to the monarch to undermine the gover-nor's authority wherever the governor did something they didn't like. If they came to turn Ireland into a second England, this was not only supposed to be for the benefit of the Irish. With them came a collection of fortune hunters–the New English, they were called–hungry for land. Some of these rogues even tried to claim they were descended from long-forgotten Plantagenet settlers and that they had ancient title to Irish property.
So was it surprising that the English governors found that Ireland resisted change, or new taxes, or English adventurers trying to steal their land? Was it surprising that during Martin Walsh's childhood there had been more than one local rising, especially down in the south, where the Fitzgeralds of Munster felt threatened? There was more than a suspicion, however, that some of the English officials were deliberately trying to stir up trouble. "If they can provoke us into rebellion," some Irish landowners concluded, "then our estates are confiscated and they can get their own hands on them. That's the game." But it was at the end of Elizabeth's long reign that the big rebellion had come.
Of all the provinces of Ireland, Ulster had the reputation as the wildest and the most backward. Ulster chiefs had watched the progress of the English officials in the other provinces with disgust and increasing restlessness. The greatest of them all, O'Neill–who had been educated in England and held the English title Earl of Ty-rone–had usually managed to keep the peace up there. Yet in the end it had been Tyrone who led the revolt.
What did he want? To rule all Ireland as his ancestors had done? Perhaps. Or just to frighten the English so much that they'd leave him to rule Ulster as his own? Also possible. Like Silken Thomas Fitzgerald, sixty years earlier, he had appealed to Catholic loyalties against the heretic English and sent messages to the Catholic king of Spain asking for troops. And this time, Catholic troops–four and a half thousand of them–had actually come. Tyrone was quite a skilful soldier, too. He'd destroyed the first English force sent against him up in Ulster, at the Battle of the Yellow Ford, and people had rallied to his cause from all over the island. That had only been a decade ago, and no one in Dublin had known what was going to happen; but in due course Mountjoy, the tough and able English commander, had broken Tyrone and his Spanish allies down in Munster. There was nothing Tyrone could do after that. At the very moment that old Queen Elizabeth had been on her deathbed in London, Tyrone, last of the princes of Ireland, had capitulated. The English had been surprisingly lenient; he was allowed to keep some of the old O'Neill lands.
There was a new king, Elizabeth's cousin James, on the throne now. Tyrone's game was over, and he knew it. Yet was Ireland any safer?
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Praise for the Bestselling Novels of EDWARD RUTHERFURDThe Princes of Ireland:
"A giant, sprawling, easy-to-read story told in James Michener fashion." —Maeve Binchy
"A sweeping, carefully reconstructed portrait of a nation . . . Leaps through the centuries." —New York Times
"Spellbinding . . . [A] page-turning Dublin saga . . . Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within the digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events." —Booklist
"Remarkable . . . Grand." —New York Times
"Hold your breath suspense, buccaneering adventure, and passionate tales of love and war." —The Times (London)
"Fascinating . . . A sprawling epic." —San Francisco Chronicle
"A tour de force . . . Breathtaking." —Orlando Sentinel
"Bursts with action, encyclopedic in historic detail . . . supremely well crafted and a delight to read." —Chicago Tribune
"A richly imagined vision of history, written with genuine delight." —San Francisco Chronicle
"An example of how a skillful historical novelist can illumine the present by dramatically re-creating the past." —Houston Chronicle
"Rutherfurd literally personifies history." —New York Daily News
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"As entertaining as Sarum and Rutherfurd's other sweeping novel of British history, London." —Boston Globe
"The Forest is Michener told with an English accent." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Invites Communuty Leaders to San Onofre Discussions
Friday, May 31, 2013
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today it is sending invitations to community leaders to participate in small group discussions on the future of the idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
The letters are going out to dozens of state and local government officials around the state, environmental groups and business leaders, who would meet with NRC staff, according to an agency blog post.
The discussions will focus on the processes and activities used by the agency to evaluate a possible restart of San Onofre's Unit 2. The reactor was undergoing scheduled maintenance in January 2012, when a small, non-injury leak occurred in the other unit. Neither reactor has operated since.
"The NRC is offering these small group meetings as opportunities for productive discussions on how the NRC fulfills its regulatory mandate for protecting public safety and the environment,'' agency spokesman Victor Dricks wrote in the blog post. "Those invited to participate are recognized as community leaders, who could then share the information with their constituency and the public at large.''
Dricks said the small group discussions, which will be closed to the public, will focus on process issues concerning the NRC's review, rather than specific areas of the staff's technical analysis.
The NRC has promised a separate public meeting in Southern California before a restart decision is made, which will occur after NRC inspections and technical evaluations, he said.
Rosemead-based Southern California Edison, the majority owner and operator of the facility on the northern San Diego County coastline, has proposed restarting Unit 2 for the summer months at 70 percent power.
According to SCE, that power level does not cause vibrations that resulted in premature wearing of steam pressure tubes in the reactors -- found to be the cause of the leak.
The restart is opposed by the anti-nuclear group Friends of the Earth and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who contend that Edison executives were not forthright in how they characterized replacement steam generators installed in 2009 and 2010.
Opponents have released a series of communications they believe demonstrate that Edison officials knew the generators were of a radically different design than their predecessors, which they think should have undergone tighter regulatory scrutiny.
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This aging faulty nuclear plant needs to be shut down forever and cleaned of the radioactive waste. Go to utsandiego com and search San Onofre for many shocking articles including the recent ruling by the Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) ruling that mandates an adjudicated public hearing on Southern California Edison's (SCE's) scheme to restart the dangerous, damaged Unit 2 at San Onofre. They call it an "Experiment"... Please don't Experiment with millions of lives Edison.


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This week's news includes:Art Lassagne, founder of The Gold Bug (producer of AniMap software), died on 29 September 2008 at his home after a long battle with lung cancer; Ancestry.ca has published the Canadian Passenger Lists (1865-1935); the Godfrey Library (www.godfrey.org) of Middletown, CT, announced that its product, the online American Genealogical Biographical Index (AGBI), will no longer be available at Ancestry.com after the end of this year, but it will be available at the Godfrey Library and at World Vital Records (www.worldvitalrecords.com) beginning in January 2009; Northern Hills Software (www.northernhillssoftware.com) announces Pocket Genealogist Version 3.3 for Windows Mobile devices which includes support for multimedia; Summit County Ohio Probate Court received a grant to digitize and index to birth, marriage, and death records, and those records will be available at their website and those of their partners, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, and the National Association of Government Archive and Records Administrators (NAGARA); the St. Petersburg Times in Florida has brought up it digital archives of more than 100 years of its newspapers (May 1901 through August 2007) and it is available at news.google.com/archivesearch (Users should type "St. Petersburg Times" before they enter their query terms.); Dick Eastman, of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (blog.eogn.com), has announced the addition of Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck to the writing team at the enormously popular online publication [George also writes a weekly column for Dick]; and the free 12th annual Central Florida Family History Conference will be held on 25 October 2009 in Orlando, and more details are available at www.familyhistoryconference.org.
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I just returned from Bordeaux where I had attended En Primeur, a week long tasting for international fine wine journalists to taste the new 2009 vintage. I had the good fortune to catch up with Chateau Brane-Cantenac owner and oenologist Henri Lurton, whose grandfather bought the second-growth estate in 1925.
All week long, I overheard other fine wine journalists raving about Brane-Cantenac — not just this vintage, but as the "first of the seconds" and that many of them collected it in their cellars. After the 2009 Margaux blind tasting, I discovered I too had given it top marks.
So naturally I asked Mr. Lurton about the vintage …
Mr. Lurton, the new vintage of Brane-Cantenac is showing very well and got very high scores from me in a blind tasting. What, if any, challenges did you have during the growing season?
It has been an easy vintage. The most challenging for me was to find the best moment for picking. We had to find the moment when the skins were perfectly ripe without losing the freshness of the fruit.
Did you learn anything during the growing season this year that will help in the 2010 vintage?
We learn every vintage! 2009 was a dry year and for some parcels — young ones mostly — it was very interesting to notice their ability to resist the dryness and even if was too soon for them to go into the first wine, they are still very qualitative. In addition, our newly planted Carmenère was impressive.
Do you see some dramatic shifts in the market this year? For example, is Asia buying more Brane-Cantenac and America more Baron de Brane?
The market, and mostly Europe or America, will buy more Baron de Brane. The quality is very high, it's a wine that will be able to age for many years and the price is very fair. I think also in those markets, buyers will want to have some Brane-Cantenac in their cellars. The price of Brane is always reasonable and will surely be so this year for a top château in this vintage. But you may be right, the demand in Asia will make it more difficult.
During the week, I overheard many journalists (who are also collectors) speaking very highly of Brane-Cantenac, especially in terms of its ability to mature and how it is showing right now. Their comments seemed directed not at this particular vintage but your brand in general. Would you attribute this to any one element — for example, extreme selection and care in the vineyard?
The care in the vineyard is really our top priority. The selection is extreme because I want to make the best wine possible. There is another reason: the quality of the soil of Brane. The ability to mature and the aromatics qualities have been linked to Brane since the 18th century. And the reputation of the Château and the prices made it very close to the first growth during two centuries. In addition, the quality of our team is yet another great factor.
I had the honor of having dinner at Chateau Brane-Cantenac last summer during Vin Expo, with Mr. Lurton acting as guide for the visiting journalists. As he led us through the estate and vineyards, I felt such a sense of wonderment. The terroir is as it has been for hundreds of years … yet the winery had been of course modernized. Still, the letters of the year the family acquired it, 1925, were engraved on the cellar interior.
The estate was first founded by the Gorce family in the early 18th century. The reputation of the wines attracted the Baron of Brane, and he bought the estate after selling Baron-Mouton in 1833. The vineyard area is 90 hectares (222 acres) and the grape varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon 65%, Merlot 30%, Cabernet Franc 5%. The date of the harvest is decided based on phenolic ripeness, technical ripening tests, and by tasting the berries. When the grapes are harvested they are weighted and sorted once again before being de-stemmed and crushed. The must is pumped into vats, and after each batch the pipes are flushed with compressed air to ensure complete separation of grapes from one plot to another. Oak vats are used for Cabernet and Merlot from the plateau of Brane, and for the others fermentation is carried out in stainless steel tank or epoxy-lined concrete tanks.
The must undergoes a pre-fermentation cold masceration, and is punched down to accelerate the extraction of pigment and flavor compounds. After fermentation (20 – 28 days) the wine is aged on the lees for two months. Blending is done by the end of February and 60% of the wine is then aged in new oak. The barrels used in Brane-Cantenac are made of fine grained French oak from several coopers.
I found the Brane-Cantenac 2009 having very concentrated fruit, smooth, well balanced, and with good integration overall. And I really appreciate how Mr. Lurton respects the terroir and devotes himself to letting the wine really express its sense of place. He is extremely generous with his time, and I'm glad he was able to give you his thoughts about this vintage.
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It's a joke as old as the product itself: long after humankind is gone, the Twinkie we leave behind will still be edible. Come July 15, that joke is going to be a little more accurate. When Twinkies return to grocery store shelves on Monday, the sugary Methuselahs will have nearly twice their former longevity, CNN reports.
Early last November, Hostess retooled the Twinkies formula, extending the snack food's shelf-life from 26 days to 45 days. But back then, the change was overshadowed by the announcement two weeks later that Hostess was shutting its doors due to bankruptcy and a bakers strike.
In the meantime, the hole left by Twinkies' absence from the shelves was filled by brands like Grupo Bimbo (GRBMF) offering imitations of Hostess products, but the $410 million purchase of Hostess by Apollo Global Management (APO) and C. Dean Metropoulis & Company in March cleared the way for Twinkies' return.
In addition to the 19-day extension, Hostess spokesperson Hannah Arnold said that one tenth of all Twinkies will be shipped frozen to participating stores, who can then thaw the Twinkies 45 days before an expiration date of their choosing.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 21, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I can't believe the City of Palo Alto solution to negotiating with the fire fighters is to keep firestation 8 closed. The only ones being harmed are the residents west of 280 and the +/-3000 acres in Palo Alto foothills.
No other neighborhood would put up with 20 minute response times. Wild Fires can happen any day not just high fire days.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 21, 2007 at 9:20 pm
The council is just using the firefighters as an excuse - they wanted to use the money instead on the new "environmental coordinator" position, which will cost $150,000 - an amount of money that is very close to the cost of staffing the fire station.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 21, 2007 at 9:39 pm
This demonstrates just how much the City of Palo Alto, the regional open space distric and the committee for green foothills cares for the region West of Hwy 280 to Skyline Blvd.. The entire area should be closed to the general public until the rainy season arrives..
a resident of South of Midtown
on Jun 22, 2007 at 9:03 am
Palo Alto doesn't want to spend the money to staff Station 8 but then neither does Los Altos or Los Altos Hills. Lets face it, it would be the residents of Los Altos Hills who would benefit most from having Station 8 staffed. Why don't they continue to contribute?
Palo Alto should negotiate terms for staffing Station 8 with both Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Los Altos should provide at least one firefighter and Los Altos Hills should contribute at the very minimum one-third of the cost. Why should Palo Alto pay for fire protection for Los Altos Hills - they can afford to help?
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 25, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Did this station respond to today's Stanford fire?
a resident of Barron Park
on Jun 25, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Hanover and Page Mill would be the closest Fire Station, then the Stanford Fire Station, then the Arastradero Road Fire Station.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 26, 2007 at 9:50 am
With what looks to be a deadly California fire season ahead, the LAST thing we need is cuts to fire services.
a resident of another community
on Jul 2, 2007 at 7:59 pm
To answer Mr. Wallis' question above: no, station 8 did not respond to the Dish Hill fire last week because station 8 is closed once again this year. They most certainly WOULD have responded if open. That fire should be a BIG wake up call to Mr. Benest and the City Council. We got lucky that it was not close to homes this time.
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Mumblecore star Greta Gerwig collaborates with her "Greenberg" director Noah Baumbach to deliver an affectionate, stylishly black-and-white portrait of a still-unfledged Gotham gal.
You gotta love Greta Gerwig: Even as the radiant mumblecore star's Hollywood stock continues to rise, the actress remains true to her dramatic roots. In "Frances Ha," Gerwig collaborates with co-writer/director Noah Baumbach to create a character whose unexceptional concerns and everyday foibles prove as compelling as any New York-set concept picture, delivering an affectionate, stylishly black-and-white portrait of a still-unfledged Gotham gal. With Baumbach's help, Gerwig seems to have found the right vessel for her voice, capturing the spirit of a generation in a film whose appeal should resonate well beyond the demographic it depicts.
There's a perfectly good explanation for the pic's title, but to give it away would spoil the last in a series of organic surprises that constitute "Frances Ha." This modest monochromatic lark doesn't present a story — or even a traditional sequence of scenes — so much as it offers spirited glimpses into the never-predictable life of Frances, a 27-year-old dancer still navigating the topsy-turvy post-collegiate ordeal of reconciling crazy boyfriends, flaky roommates and crushing career disappointments. That same period has fueled at least two decades of self-reflexive storytelling, from Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan" to Lena Dunham's "Girls" (to name two New York examples), and here brings a revitalized Baumbach back to his snappy "Kicking and Screaming" roots. Neither Frances nor best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, Sting's daughter) ever picture themselves getting married. As it is, the two tentatively coupled straight white girls are quite content cohabiting in Brooklyn and living "like an old lesbian couple that doesn't have sex." But when Sophie decides to move to her dream Tribeca apartment with another friend, Frances is left to find a new place for herself — a fitting metaphor for the big-picture transition the barely independent young lady is facing in her life at large. According to Gerwig, in the year 2012, 27 happens to be that critical age when not-yet-adults cross the "shadow line" into maturity — a notion the well-read actress lifted from a Bildungsroman by Joseph Conrad. She and Baumbach, in designing their plausibly messy heroine, illustrate the malleability of Frances' yet-unformed identity by shadowing her through at least half a dozen different residences. Though Gerwig toyed with a similarly rocky adjustment in rebound comedy "Lola Versus," this livelier and more fully rounded character study benefits from the perspective a slightly older-and-wiser director brings. Along with producer Scott Rudin, Baumbach has been one of the biggest industry champions for the mumblecore set, and here, he collaborates with Gerwig (whom he first directed in "Greenberg") on the vital detail so many of those DIY projects lack: a script. Otherwise, "Frances Ha" feels in sync with the raggedy yet sincere semi-autobiographical films surfacing these days at Sundance, SXSW and other U.S. fests. But Baumbach pushes beyond sincerity in search of truth, drawing from such stylistic forebears as the French New Wave, Woody Allen and Andy Warhol's Factory films to capture a reality that has eluded him on his more polished dramedies. Here, it helps that he has not only chosen a lead who's likable in spite of her flaws, but also opted to shoot this relatively inexpensive production in black and white, thereby making it that much easier for auds to consider the pic's potentially mundane situations through the lens of Art. As the allegedly "undateable" Frances drifts from one apartment to the next — staying with a pair of rich-kid creatives (Michael Zegan and Adam Driver) one month, flying home to Sacramento the next, and even allowing for a spontaneous weekend trip to Paris — she encounters other personalities that allow the film to more fully reveal hers. "Frances Ha" isn't a plot picture, but a portrait, after all. Where other performers act, Gerwig manages to just be, making her precisely the right young star to carry such a genial glimpse at a character who doesn't even seem to realize she's trying to find herself.
Film Review: 'Frances Ha'
An RT Features presentation of a Pine District, Scott Rudin production. (International sales: United Talent Agency, Los Angeles.) Produced by Noah Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub, Rodrigo Teixeira. Executive producers, Fernando Loureiro, Lourenco Sant'anna. Co-producers, Oscar Boyson, Eli Bush. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Screenplay, Baumbach, Greta Gerwig.
Camera (B&W), Sam Levy; editor, Jennifer Lame; music supervisor, George Drakoulias; production designer, Sam Lisenco; sound, Gillian Francis, Colin R. Alexander; re-recording mixer, Paul Hsu; casting, Douglas Aibel. Reviewed at Telluride Film Festival, Sept. 1, 2012. (Also in Toronto Film Festival -- Special Presentations; New York Film Festival.) Running time: 85 MIN.
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Charlotte D'Amboise, Adam Driver, Hannah Dunne, Michael Esper, Grace Gummer, Patrick Heusinger, Josh Hamilton, Cindy Katz. Maya Kazan, Justine Lupe, Britta Phillips, Juliet Rylance, Dean Wareham, Michael Zegan.


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The only thing Android needs, is the Droid at Sprint/T-Mobile within 6 months. The current stuff they have is just not going to cut it for me power wise.. the 3G is killing me softly right now with how slow it is.
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People are trying to compare the android OTB to the Jailbroken Iphone. When you buy the android, you need to "Root" the phone which is android jailbreaking and then install one of many custom "roms" which are customized versions of the OTB OS. This is where you will find the many custom themes, the ability to add many custom themes without a third party app like winterboard, tethering is already part of the cyanogen mod (custom os) so no need for any "hack" to enable tethering.
Today, most developers take the stock android OS and modify it like we are doing today with cydia. Then they deploy the custom os for download so there are not "25 custom icons on your springboard to get you phone to look and act the way you want to. It's all imbeded as part of the OS and managed through setting.
Oh, did I mention that you can download the custom roms through google and or through the android market which is the google equivalent of the appstore? Imagine that, phone makers and carriers supporing third party downloads which customizes not only the look but the functionality of the phone. Well, it has arrived on the android. Not to mention that the themes are much nicer looking then on the iphone and I don't have to feel like I am breaking the law by downloading a theme from the android marke because my cell phone carrier allows it.
Why people still even own an iphone I will never understand. The earier post about the paperweight, that was the g1. The new mytouch is extremely light. My lighter then the iphone not to mention sleaker.
Also the andriod has customized "widegets" that go with themes that are awesome. You guys have that sorry excuse for a weather widget called IBNWeather while we have one much more elaborate with a "flip click" that automatically recognizes your location and displays the weather. No having to adjust .cs files. Who really wants to spend the time manipulating code to have your phone display the weather properly on your theme. Just download and go I say.
All this is on the android market folks. No need for cydia. I bet Saurik is shaking that his beloved cydia will be nothing more than a fond memory like the atari 2600 was in about 9 months time. Sorry for all your hard work Saurik but you have no one to blame but yourself for developing on a platform that is owned by someone who does not embrace what you are doing where on the android platform, you'd be celebrated by people like google, tmobile, htc, etc. Probably is the form of loads of $$$.
But, chase after that cheerleader who you'll never go out with and wants nothing to do with you and see who ultimately prevails? Not to mention all the headaches and stress that go along with chasing.
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Last week, the Illinois Supreme Court settled the question of how interest should be calculated on property tax refunds when it ruled on General Motors Corporation v. Pappas. This follows the Illinois General Assembly's amendment to the interest provisions specified in the Property Tax Code which became law in August 2005. For property tax refunds involving taxes paid prior to December 31, 2005, interest will be calculated at 5% through the end of 2005. From January 1, 2006 forward, interest on those refunds will be calculated at the lesser of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Increase (CPI). Additionally, those taxpayers in Cook County who challenged the Treasurer's use of the CPI interest rate for all years on refunds paid after January 1, 2006 are entitled to an additional judgment interest rate of 6% on the difference between the interest they would have been entitled to under the ruling and what they received from the Treasurer. The Court's ruling affects property tax refunds from all sources, including valuation and tax rate objections, PTAB appeals, and certificates of error.
As we published in a July 10, 2009 FR Alert reporting on the Appellate Court ruling in this case, the 2005 amendments to Section 23-20 of the Property Tax Code changed the interest rate on property tax refunds from 5% per year to "the lesser of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index" for the calendar year preceding the levy year for which the refund was made. The effective date of the amendment was January 1, 2006 regardless of when those taxes were paid. The Cook County Treasurer interpreted the amended statute to apply retroactively so that all interest would be calculated using the CPI rate for any refund issued after January 1, 2006. The objectors took the position that interest should be calculated at 5% per year for every year in any objection in which taxes were paid before January 1, 2006, arguing they had a vested right in the higher interest rate. The Circuit Court adopted a hybrid approach, ruling that interest should be calculated at 5% up to January 1, 2006 and then at the lower CPI rate after that date. The First District Appellate Court then upheld that ruling in its 2009 decision.
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Root Canal TreatmentSurgery OverviewRoot canal treatment (also called a root canal) is done when decay will likely damage or has already killed a tooth. During a root canal, a dentist or endodontist removes the pulp from the center of a tooth and fills the pulp cavity. This can prevent the development of a painful infection in the pulp that may spread to other teeth. A root canal can also treat an infection that has developed into an abscessed tooth. This procedure can relieve toothache, stop infection, and promote healing. A general dentist or one who specializes in diseases of tooth pulp (endodontist) can perform a root canal.
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A Tunisian who works for the moderate Islamist channel Al Wihar met me yesterday and said: "Sudan is next, but not in the same manner." Several Sudanese opposition writers and politicians have also predicted a Tunisian or Egyptian style uprising in Sudan. Let us consider the causes of unrest and see if they fit the situation in Sudan. British and U.S. responses to events in Egypt are wide of the mark. Two examples illustrate this. The highly respectable newspaper The Guardian enumerated in an editorial (27 January) the grievances of the protesters " … sparked by self-immolation, unemployment and high food prices." What the editorial leaves out is equally important: it is kowtowing to the West and Israel. It was most insensitive to force the Egyptians to engage in the siege of Gaza at a time in which US and British officials denounced the Israeli attack on the Flotilla carrying aid. The U.S. Huffington Post provides another example. Marcus Baram wrote (29 January) that People in Egypt were disappointed in President Obama, especially in the wake of his June 2009 Cairo speech. He cited very relevant U.S. controversial policies like cutting funding for democracy and governance as well as funding […]
Cote d'Ivoire's delicate stalemate
Kenya PM Raila Odinga meets Laurent Gbagbo to discuss solutions to Cote d'Ivoire's political paralysis In Tunisia, street protests; in Ivory Coast, a call for a general strike meets limited success. In one country, a long-time president leaves power, in the other he's holding on…for now. Laurent Gbagbo became president in 2000 on the back of a popular street movement after disputed elections. At the moment it seems unlikely that he'll leave in the same way. The lack of a popular outcry after his widely-recognised election defeat (by more than eight percentage points) to opposition politician Alassane Ouattara has certainly helped strengthen his hand and confounded those hoping for an Ivorian solution to an Ivorian crisis. It probably comes down to a number of factors; bloody crackdowns on what protests there have been, a widespread fatigue after ten years of crisis, the concentration of Gbagbo support in Abidjan – the country's only major city – and the incumbent's control of the state propaganda machine. So, what next? Gbagbo has publicly said that talk of a military intervention to oust him makes no sense when you study the African political map and ask how many decent elections actually take place. You'd […]
Cí´te d'Ivoire: Democracy and civil war – Citizenship and peacemaking
The civil war in Côte d'Ivoire presents unique features with respect to the causes of civil wars and the nature of peace processes in West Africa. It is a conflict largely driven by concrete political and social grievances over citizenship. In addition, it is marked by a significant effort by the belligerents to take ownership of the peace process and negotiate directly. This article traces the civil war to the politicization of citizenship and ethnicity during the democratization process. It argues that the peace agreements engineered by the international community failed to end the conflict largely because they relied heavily on traditional peace formulas and paid insufficient attention to the underlying issue of citizenship. In contrast, the peace agreement forged by Ivorians has been relatively successful because it directly addressed the citizenship issue and restored domestic ownership of the peace process. This article focuses on the peace process and the intrinsic relation between citizenship and progress toward peace in Côte d'Ivoire. In addition, it connects the discourse on democracy in Africa with the salient issue of citizenship and underscores the fluidity of citizenship and democracy in African politics.
From Clash of Civilizations to Interdependence
Among the many issues which are being discussed in the aftermath of Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum, the "domino effect" which could be triggered in Africa and the rest of the world is one of the most worrisome. Analysts and journalists have warned that from Western Sahara to Nepal, from Zanzibar to Mindanao, secessionist movements and guerrillas could draw further strength from the success of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). As a matter of fact, the eventuality of a secessionist wave seems unlikely if we consider the situation with a more balanced attitude: fears of a domino effect have been a constant during similar events in the past, but the independences of Eritrea, Timor-Leste and Kosovo have not shaken the world as they were expected to do. The simultaneous combination between a weak government(1) and a strong secessionist movement, which seems to be the condition for a successful struggle for self-determination, does not seem to be present in any of the hotspots mentioned above neither in other "secession-risk" areas. But even though the political developments currently taking place in Sudan will not replicate themselves per se in other situations, the political discourse which is arising at the élite as well […]
Land Grabbing in Africa II
Why do so many individuals and organizations shy away from calling land grabbing what it is, and either put it in inverted commas or trot out such euphemisms as 'responsible land-based investment', 'commercial pressures on land' or 'large-scale investment in land'?
Why are researchers who have worked on land grabbing so apparently timid and complacent in their conclusions, so desperately eager to seek magic, painless 'win-win' solutions, and so quick to retreat to 'each case is different, the devil lies in the detail' formulations. Could it be that they fear to antagonize their donors?
Why Are The Nuba Protesting?
The indigenous people of the Nuba Mountains are extremely concerned that international concentration on South Sudan's independence referendum has meant other crucial aspects of Sudan's so-called Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) have been neglected. The CPA stopped the brutal civil war in the South, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, and as such was initially greatly welcomed by people of the Nuba Mountains, despite failing to recognise their claims and their aspirations. However, the CPA does not only apply to the South. Separate protocols call for a referendum in the disputed Abyei district and for "popular consultation" in the two contested areas, the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile. The Nuba had for long years been voicing their deep concern over their lack of collective rights, including the crucial right to self-determination. Despite repeated lobbying and advocacy with the key players in the international community, the Nuba's claims were ignored by the negotiators who concentrated their efforts on resolving the south conflicts, leaving the Nuba and other related issues to be dealt with later. The fact that Nuba were not present at the peace talks meant their claims were brushed away and compromised. For example, the historical name on the world […]
Chronicles of Darfur
Jerome Tubiana. Chroniques du Darfour. Grenoble: Editions Glénat, in partnership with Amnesty International, 2010. ISBN978-2-7234-7831-1. This is a unique contribution to the growing field of Dar Fur studies, which brings to bear on the war in Dar Fur the unique strengths and achievements of its author. Jerome Tubiana, the book's back cover tells us, did a Ph.D. in African studies, trained as a journalist, and initially worked as a free-lance journalist and photographer. He then served as a consultant for organizations such as Action against Hunger, Doctors without Borders, USAID, and the AU-UN Joint Mediation Support Team for the Darfur Peace Process, and worked as a researcher for projects such as Small Arms Survey and Darfurian Voices. He is also the son of two well-known French anthropologists with a respected and extensive oeuvre on the people of northwest Dar Fur, especially (but not exclusively) the Zaghawa. All these legacies inform this insightful, artistically and journalistically superbly illustrated, and moving book. Tubiana has written many perceptive shorter essays and commentaries about the changing situations in Western Dar Fur and Eastern Chad, for example in Dispatches and the London Review of Books. He also contributed a chapter on the land issue in […]
Does Africa need fair trade?
I want you to leave tonight still confused! Why? Because I do not think there are yet strong enough grounds for a sure, caveat-free line on fair trade. It certainly often doesn't do what it says on the label. It has created some benefits. There is a risk that fair trade diverts attention from prioritising what really reduces poverty, which is dramatic structural change.
Fairtrade not the whole answer for chocolate nations
Orla Ryan is a journalist and author of Chocolate Nations: living and dying for chocolate in West Africa Visit any sweets counter in a UK supermarket and you are quickly overwhelmed by choice. Organic chocolate from the Dominican Republic? Dark chocolate from Venuzuela? Or handmade Belgian confections? Chocoholics face a dizzying array of bars. Many want not just a tasty treat but reassurance that farmers are well looked after. They look for Fairtrade or other sustainable labels that promise to pay producers a decent wage. But does it make that much difference to farmers which bar of chocolate you buy? This is a subject I have given a lot of thought to. In 2005, I accepted a job with Reuters in West Africa. As part of my work, I wrote about the cocoa crop. It was a shock to realise that even though Ghana is the world's second-biggest producer of these beans and Cote d'Ivoire the world's biggest, farmers had little to show for their hard work. Many lived in simple mud dwellings without running water or electricity. Their villages lacked schools. Their holdings were small, often just a few acres. I wondered why farmers remained so poor and what […]
Wikileaks – China, the US and Africa
China's relations with Africa hit the headlines again recently with the publication of what seemed to be sensational revelations in a dozen or so of the Wikileaks cables. We've read that the U.S. State Department's top Africa expert believes that China is a "pernicious economic competitor" with "no morals" in its African dealings. US embassies report that Chinese nationals are implicated in cases of counterfeit products and environmental damage and at least one alleged incident of bribery. Many Chinese-run companies operating in Africa have poor labor relations and safety standards, and their tendency to bring in large numbers of Chinese workers goes over poorly in African countries with high unemployment. We read that the Chinese remain engaged in countries with human rights abuses: Sudan (where the West has imposed sanctions) and Zimbabwe (where the West has actually imposed almost no economic sanctions).


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Pine tree forestry is the easiest kind because their are growth numbers for your area that include things like soil type mainly. Everything is already mapped out for them and they have to do no work.
Yes it is. Growth/yield tables are easily accessed for each area. They come with density per age graphs. Soil types are readily accessible for each area, which show potential growth for each species in that specific area. They are normally as precise as 10-50ft. Just have to figure out what type of timber, where to sell it, and what loggers to put on the property. Sometimes you want slow loggers and sometimes you want fast loggers. Just all depends, but the tree information is already taken care of.
quote:You do know that they are area-specific, right? It tells you stocking density, age, growth potential, etc. Not much easier than that. They are based off of a multitude of factors for that area. They have them for each species of tree, pine, hardwoods, MHP, etc.
growth and yield tables are nice tools
quote:by bringing in new soil? Only thing you can do is fertilize, and that is standard for your area
maximize the potential of your site
quote:seedling producers have choices in what you want out of trees. Want high yield? get those. Want straight seeds to make poles? get those.
plan accordingly using the proper seedlings
quote:It is a pine hardwood stand. Not everything can grow there in every spot. Chemicals are standard across the industry
proper competition control
quote:all given from growth/yield tables. Just go out and look at the property to determine if it is in fact at that point
thinning schedules
It isn't that hard, trust me. Frankly, I think pine tree forestry is boring as shite and would quit if I had to stick to that. Hardwoods are where it's at
quote:Doesn't, but it certainly impacts the property value. If you have piping run everywhere, you are gonna have to get the company to come out and set up where they can log and drive or set mats.
I have natural gas on the land and some oil. How does this impact the prices of trees?
quote:I was, but our timber production/management was for the gubment. If you are a forester, you know how much of a PITA that is.
i'm glad you aren't into pine management too, because all the rest of the foresters would be out of a job, since it's no work and all
I was, but our timber production/management was for the gubment. If you are a forester, you know how much of a PITA that is.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired left wing Harry Zolnierczyk from the Anaheim Ducks on Monday in exchange for defenceman Alex Grant.
Zolnierczyk was acquired by the Ducks from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for left wing Jay Rosehill in April. The 25-year-old appeared in nine games with Norfolk (AHL) following his acquisition, scoring two goals. Zolnierczyk began the season with Adirondack (AHL), earning 17 points and 54 penalty minutes in 52 games. He also played seven games for the Philadelphia Flyers this season, collecting one assist and 36 penalty minutes.
Grant appeared in 46 games for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) this season. The 24-year-old blueliner earned 20 points with 73 penalty minutes. He helped lead Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to the Eastern Conference Final in the Calder Cup playoffs, collecting four points in 13 games.
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A tasty neo-noir from the James M. Cain school of lust-driven dirty dealings, "The Square" reps a promising debut by Aussie stuntman-turned-helmer Nash Edgerton.
A tasty neo-noir from the James M. Cain school of lust-driven dirty dealings, "The Square" reps a promising debut by Aussie stuntman-turned-helmer Nash Edgerton. Potboiler about a suburban schlub and his mistress planning to swipe hot cash and live happily ever after is smartly assembled and cleverly plotted by scripters Matthew Dabner and Edgerton's thesp brother, Joel. Male protag's sketchy psychological profile detracts slightly, but in most respects, pic gets it right. Solid local biz looks likely on July 31 release following its world preem at the Sydney fest. Selected offshore markets could also bite.
Edgerton strides confidently into the big leagues, following a string of well-received short films made in between stunt duties on just about every big-budgeter shot Down Under in the past decade ("Superman Returns," "The Matrix" trilogy). Serving chases and shootouts on the side, the helmer grapples in muscular fashion with the demands of a tricky, character-driven crime tale. Supervising the construction of a honeymoon resort near Sydney, married man Ray Yale (David Roberts) is trysting in cars and chintzy hotels with flighty hairdresser Carla (Claire van der Boom), his much younger neighbor. Showing time-honored femme-fatale smarts, Carla, whose found a bag of loot hidden by her criminally connected husband Greg (Anthony Hayes), needles weak-willed Ray into acting on his promise of "being together when the time's right." Her plan: Snatch the dough and throw Greg off the scent by torching the house. Scheme goes haywire when Ray's last-minute cancellation call fails to reach arsonist Billy (Joel Edgerton), resulting in the death of Greg's elderly mother. Precision-tooled script heats up nicely as the couple attempt to cover up and fend off Billy. Blackmail demands start arriving from a surprise source, and a host of vividly drawn minor characters, including shifty concrete-truck operator Barney (Kieran Darcy-Smith) and scuzzy electrician Leonard (Brendan Donoghue), are suddenly thrust back in as major players. Elaborately mapped events reach a bloody and satisfying climax, leaving those alive hardly better off than the corpses. Only real hitch is Ray's underdeveloped background. Little is revealed about his relationship with wife Martha (Lucy Bell); he's neither a sympathetic henpecked husband nor an outright rotter. That said, unheralded character actor Roberts does just fine and is backed up by spot-on support perfs. After a slightly wobbly first few scenes, van der Boom fires impressively as the demanding Carla. Brad Shield's widescreen visuals are clean, with several standout scenes in torrential rain at the construction site. Composer Francois Tetaz hits the right moody notes, and the rest of the tech work is sharp.The Square
A Roadshow Films release of a Film Finance Corp. Australia presentation, in association with New South Wales Film and Television Office, of a Film Depot production, in association with Blue Tongue Films. (International sales: Pathe Pictures Intl., London.) Produced by Louise Smith. Executive producers, Nash Edgerton, Joel Edgerton, Matthew Dabner. Directed by Nash Edgerton. Screenplay, Joel Edgerton, Matthew Dabner.
Camera (color, widescreen), Brad Shield; editors, Luke Doolan, Nash Edgerton; music, Francois Tetaz; production designer, Elizabeth Mary Moore; art director, Angus MacDonald; costume designer, Sally Sharpe; sound (Dolby Digital), Peter Grace; assistant director, Drew Bailey; casting, Kirsty McGregor. Reviewed at Sydney Film Festival (competing), June 16, 2008. Running Time: 105 MIN.
David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton, Anthony Hayes, Lucy Bell, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Brendan Donoghue, Lisa Bailey, Peter Phelps, Bill Hunter.


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Before Nancy Meyers, before Sofia Coppola, before Julie Delpy and Kasi Lemmons and Nicole Holofcener, there was Nora Ephron.
She was a rare woman writing and directing in what was (and still is) the male-dominated industry of filmmaking. Ephron staked out her spot on the cinematic landscape with a distinctive voice and formidable wit. Now, she leaves behind a legacy of classic moments and quotable lines after succumbing to leukemia Tuesday at age 71.
The very mention of her name calls to mind a certain kind of movie, something you can't say about many filmmakers, regardless of their gender. They were romantic comedies, yes, but ones for smart women, about smart women, with characters who had both bite and vulnerability to them. Maybe they were a tad too hyper-analytical or neurotic but they were always highly verbal and, more often than not, destined for the kind of happy ending they deserved.
Meg Ryan forged and reinforced her status as America's Sweetheart with roles in movies Ephron either wrote or wrote and directed: The best of these was 1989's "When Harry Met Sally … (directed by Rob Reiner)," followed by "Sleepless in Seattle" in 1993 and "You've Got Mail" in 1998, both with Tom Hanks in winning form as Ryan's likable everyman co-star.
Decades later, you can still say the line, "I'll have what she's having," and everyone will instantly know what you're talking about. That's how lasting Ephron's work has been and will remain.
Back in the late '80s and early '90s, Kathryn Bigelow was a rare fellow female filmmaker — and since has gone on to become the only woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for "The Hurt Locker" — but she's focused on action pictures. Barbra Streisand also tried her hand at directing around this time with "Yentl," "The Prince of Tides" and "The Mirror Has Two Faces." But Ephron continued on and endured, for better and for worse.
If we're being honest, some of her later work didn't come close to the level of her best-known and best-loved films. "Hanging Up" from 2000, which she and sister Delia co-wrote and star Diane Keaton directed, felt shrill and slapsticky. "Bewitched" (2005), a big-screen version of the 1960s sitcom which she directed, wrote and produced, seemed like a gimmicky strain.
But her final film, 2009's "Julie & Julia," ended her career on a stronger note. Ephron directed Meryl Streep to one of her 17 Academy Award nominations for her joyous, pitch-perfect portrayal of pioneering chef Julia Child. And it was Streep who would play a version of Ephron herself in one of the earliest films she wrote, 1986's "Heartburn," based on her own scathing novel inspired by her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein.
Ephron herself was a three-time Oscar nominee for the screenplays she wrote or co-wrote for "When Harry Met Sally …" and "Sleepless in Seattle" as well as for her first produced script, for 1983's "Silkwood," directed by friend and frequent collaborator Mike Nichols and again starring Streep in the real-life nuclear drama.
Looking back on the A-list names listed in this piece, it's a real testament to her talent that high-quality actors and filmmakers were drawn to her and wanted to be associated with her again and again. And we haven't even mentioned Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher, Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, Steve Martin, the list goes on.
It's that kind of singularity of voice and vision that sets an example for filmmakers to come — both male and female.
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Entertainment Weekly (p.97) - "'She Is,' a country-tinged collab with Tim McGraw, serves him well....Smooth and casual..." -- Grade: A-
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Photographers: Steven Gomillion; Dennis Leopold.
R.E.D. (as in "realizing every dream") is Ne-Yo's fifth album and first for Motown -- a revitalized label that, earlier in the year, named the artist its Senior Vice President of A&R. It also follows Ne-Yo's featured appearances on two of the year's biggest radio hits, Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" and Young Jeezy's "Leave You Alone." The album's "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" features songwriting input from Sia Furler, while Ne-Yo's Compound Entertainment associates Phatboiz, fresh from their work on Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream, chip in with some productions. Ne-Yo continues to embrace dance-pop while maintaining his connection to R&B.


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In order to better understand judges' community outreach needs, the Judicial Division administered the Judicial Outreach Network survey in June 2002 to collect information from judges about how they reach out to their communities and how the JD can assist in making their outreach experiences easier and more effective.
The following are some interesting findings from the survey:
- 86% of respondents said that, in the last three years, they have been involved in judicial outreach, defined as "an activity in which he/she talks about his/her experiences as a judge or discusses the judicial process with members of the community."
- A high percentage of respondents credited local contacts for getting them involved in community outreach: colleagues & friends, courts, local bar associations, and local schools topped the list.
- Respondents felt that "collaboration with other individuals or groups" and "member involvement" were the two most important factors in successfully planning outreach.
- 82% of respondents concluded by saying they would like to learn more about the Judicial Outreach Network. And 66% said they'd like to share their outreach experiences with others.
Survey Results: Survey Report - August 2002