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Movie review: "The Loved One" (1965)
May 30, 2013 2 Comments
TCM featured "The Loved One" recently. The novel (by Evelyn Waugh) was strange enough, but the movie is stranger still. It was billed as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone." Listen to this cast list: Milton Berle, Rod Steiger, Robert Morse, John Gielgud, Jonathan Winters, Liberace, Robert Morley, Tab Hunter.
Summary: an innocent young English poet-wannabe (Morse) comes to America in the 1960s to visit (and sponge upon) his successful uncle (the fey John Gielgud), who's working in the movie industry. Uncle is fired from his studio and commits suicide. Nephew has nothing to fall back upon, and goes into the pet-cemetery business. His girlfriend (Anjanette Comer), who happens to be an embalmer at a high-class cemetery –
Well, you should really see the movie. It's too funny and odd and outrageous.
Waugh's novel is bitter enough, but the movie is far darker. It's a bitter movie about the movie industry and the artificiality of Hollywood. Americans are shown to be shallow and stupid, but the British colony in Hollywood (led by the insufferably stuffy Robert Morley, an actor who plays "prime ministers and butlers") is portrayed just as badly.
And the moral is: human beings are a bad lot. Bring on the replacements.
(Postscript: I couldn't help counting up the name of gay actors in the cast: Gielgud, Liberace, Tab Hunter, Roddy MacDowell. It was a pleasure seeing them all together here. I hope they all got together after filming, and had a drink and a good laugh.)

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Until about November, we were saying, "Buy two sizes bigger than the waist size you generally wear. But we started using a logical sizing chart below instead.
I designed this leather belt as simple and strong. I wanted a belt that would last for my whole life, but I couldn't find one anywhere. So I asked for Heavy Steer hides from the US and had them tanned at the tannery. That leather is unusually thick because of hormones and whatnot from becoming a steer. No thanks. It usually comes between 5mm and 6mm, which is pretty thick. Most leather belts are half as thick. It doesn't need to be that thick, but I really like it like that. It's pretty much unnoticeable unless you set it next to your brother's lesser leather belt. Then it's noteworthy. Not only is it thick, but it also has all of the grain (full-grain leather). Some factories take off the top part of the hide (all the grain) to get rid of the scars so they don't have to throw as much away when making leather belts. But we didn't. It's the toughest part of the hide. So these are full grain leather belts.
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When Google first told the world about its Tensor Processing Unit, the strategy behind it seemed clear enough: Speed machine learning at scale by throwing custom hardware at the problem. Use commodity GPUs to train machine-learning models; use custom TPUs to deploy those trained models.
The new generation of Google's TPUs is designed to handle both of those duties, training and deploying, on the same chip. That new generation is also faster, both on its own and when scaled out with others in what's called a "TPU pod."
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Self-driving car race ramps up as Delphi buys NuTonomy
Self-driving cars are still at an early stage, but the industry is rapidly shaking out. In the latest alliance, Delphi Automotive, one of the world's largest auto-parts suppliers, on Tuesday said it would pay $450 million for NuTonomy, a small Boston company that makes software for self-driving cars.
"This will allow us to accelerate," NuTonomy CEO Karl Iagnemma said in an interview. "Delphi has really strong vehicle engineering expertise; long-term relationships with the (carmakers) of the world; the ability to sell to every (carmaker) globally. When we thought about the best way to get our technology deployed at scale, we realized it was by partnering with a company like Delphi."
Delphi, a public company spun out of General Motors and based in the United Kingdom, has more than 160,000 employees worldwide, including about 100 working on self-driving cars. That number will double with NuTonomy's 110 employees, 70 of whom are scientists or engineers.
NuTonomy had raised $19.6 million in venture capital. "As a stand-alone company, you are always constrained by resources and the ability to fundraise, which takes a long time," said Iagnemma, who co-founded NuTonomy in 2013 with fellow MIT robotics researcher Emilio Frazzoli. "Within Delphi we can focus on building technology."
NuTonomy was the first to deploy autonomous ride-hailing cars for the public in September 2016 in Singapore along with Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab. It has about 20 self-driving cars there.
This year, NuTonomy and San Francisco ride-hailing service Lyft said they planned to test robot taxis with passengers in Boston soon, but they didn't specify a target date.
"We're still really excited about the work with Lyft, and it's still part of the plan," Iagnemma said. "We have to take a breath and think about timelines, but the engineering work is still ongoing."
By the end of the year, Delphi and NuTonomy will have some 60 self-driving cars operating on three continents — a number that will rise to 150 by next year.
"For a global software system that has to work in a lot of difference places, not just one, the ability to collect data in different geographies is pretty powerful," Iagnemma said.
Delphi chief technology officer Glen De Vos said he sees commercial vehicles, such as ride-hailing cars, as the obvious first deployment for self-driving technology — with consumer purchases of robot vehicles further down the road.
"While we were really happy with the assets that we have, we recognize that to win in the market, we need to move fast," De Vos said on a conference call. "We're getting larger fleets deployed earlier — we see that as a critical enabler."
Bloomberg News contributed to this report.
Carolyn Said is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @csaid


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The Hungarian regulator NMHH has drafted a document on the construction and operation of a national DTT network.
In a statement, it says that the contract of the current service provider Antenna Hungária (AH) expires in the autumn of 2020 and it has invited comments and opinions from market participants by March 26. According to its plans, the winner of the tender must ensure that public service TV and radio channels, free of charge, must remain available in good quality after 2020 at no additional cost.
NMHH notes that AH has held the right to operate a national DTT network in Hungary since 2008. There are currently five DVB-T networks operating between 470-790 MHz in the UHF band, offering 12 free TV and 47 pay-TV channels, as well as four public service radio channels.
Although the operational rights for the existing networks will expire on September 5, 2020 and the related subscriber contracts will be aligned to this, NMHH will start the tendering process one and half years before this in order to ensure the least disruption to the prospective service provider and viewers. The winner of the tender will be able to build and operate five networks from September 6, 2020 for 12 years.
NMHH notes that it will still be able for the provider to operate five networks despite some of the spectrum being allocated to 5G services. Furthermore, three of the networks will employ the DVB-T2 standard.
Unlike the two existing DVB-T networks, these three DVB-T2 ones will have to be in operation within six months of September 5, 2020.
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Families can choose extended school year and extended school day
The South Carolina State Legislature recently passed a bill giving 4K program providers the ability to offer an extended school year and/or school day based on the needs of the families being served. As a result, Thornwell has chosen to offer the following three options for families enrolled in their 4K program during the 2017-2018 school year:
Option #1
The first option is a 180- day school year running from August 22, 2017 through June 6, 2018. The school day will begin at 7:30 am and end at 2:30 pm. Afterschool care will be available from 2:30 pm until 5:30 pm with a charge of $30 per week.
Option #2
The second option is a 180-day school year running from August 22, 2017 through June 6, 2018. The school day will begin at 8:00 am and end at 4:30 pm. Afterschool care will be available from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm with a charge of $15 per week.
Option #3
The third option is a 220-day school year beginning on August 22, 2017 and will include 8 weeks (40 days) of school during the summer months. The school day will begin at 8:00 am and end at 4:30 pm. Afterschool care will be available from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm with a charge of $15 per week.
"We believe the State Legislature has given us the opportunity to better serve and meet the needs of the families and children in our 4K program," said Brooke Robinette, Thornwell Child Development Center Director. "These options allow our parents the ability to enroll their child in a high quality Early Childhood Education program while also meeting the childcare needs of their family."
Thornwell is licensed to serve up to 80 children in the 4K program. Applications are being accepted now, and the program is filling up quickly.
"We encourage all parents interested in enrolling their child or those wishing to learn more about our program, to call us or stop by the school office soon," said Norman Dover, Thornwell VP of Educational Services. "We welcome the opportunity to give families a tour of our facilities and to answer any questions they may have concerning 4K."
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The Problem with Experts
Say you had a group of 100 people who put themselves forth as experts in estimating the number of gumballs in jars. Divide that group of 100 into 2 groups of 50, and asked each person within the two groups to estimate the number of gumballs in a jar. With one group of 50 treat their estimates individually, 50 individual estimates of how many gumballs are in the jar. With the second group take the 50 estimates and average them together, so you have only 1 estimate. All together you now have 51 estimates of the number of gumballs. Out of these 51 estimates, which will be closer to the actual number of gumballs, the 1 averaged estimate or one of the 50 individual estimates? The answer is that most often one of the 50 individual estimates will be closest and the average estimate will often consistently be the second, third or fourth best estimate. Close but no cigar. So now we look at the person who made the best individual estimate and crown that person "the" expert in gumball estimation. If we now run this experiment over and over, what you would find is that you are crowning a different "expert" each and every time. So there is no real expert, only an element of chance that causes one of the 50 to be crowned as a gumball estimation expert in that round of the experiment.
Estimating the number of gumballs in a jar is a complex problem. If you approached it methodically you would have to estimate the total volume of the jar and the total volume of each gumball. You would have to take into consideration the way the gumballs are placed in the jar. Are they tightly packed to the brim? Or is there airspace in the jar because of how they are sitting? If they are slightly irregularly shaped that will change the number of gumballs that can fit vs. if they are perfectly round. Estimating these kinds of variables visually, with our eyes, is not something humans are particularly suited for. Now we are smart enough that we can devise means that can determine precisely the number of gumballs in the jar, but visual inspection with our eyes, often from a distance, is not the way to go. Yet because of our inherent biases as humans (e.g. 95% of us are certain they are in the top 50% of drivers, 25% of us are certain they are in the top 1% in terms of leadership skill, and of course at Lake Woebegone all the children are above average), there are those among us who are pretty sure they can estimate the number of gumballs in the jars using that visual inspection approach.
Now, back to our one-time gumball estimation expert. What we tend to do is take the winner of one of our estimation rounds and put that person on TV as a talking head and ask that person their view points on various gumball estimation problems. Will the economy go up or down? Will Iran agree to a negotiated nuclear settlement? Which stocks should I pick to make the most money next year or will the bond market lose or make money? What will happen to inflation? Does that recent scandal eliminate any chance of electoral victory? What is the underlying cause of social unrest? What causes a person join a protest or engage in civil disobedience? We will be greeted as liberators or as oppressors when we march into Baghdad?
The underlying problem with those who answer these kind of questions, is that they attempt to identify a single or a small handful of underlying causes, (and assign them weights) based on their expertise, to complex problems. They may be using various assessments or may often be using measurement instruments, (remember the visual inspection for gumballs) that are simply not up to the task. And because of human limitations, they get past these short-comings by using rules-of-thumb or heuristics to take a question, that has a multitude of complex issues and boil it down to a simple answer. Answers that are more likely to be wrong than right.
For instance, the number of variables of what causes a Baltimore to erupt are immense and they are related to each other in extremely complex ways. The variables that affect human behavior are intricate and defy simple explanation. It is beyond rocket science. That is not to say that we should not work to understand and remedy issues. But the errand to put simple labels on socially complex issues is a fool's errand, can result in gross mischaracterization and is easily debunked by other "experts" those who can point to other simple labels that they develop.
Now there are true experts out there. I will be the first one to run to a doctor or emergency room if I break a leg or have a heart attack. I will use a civil engineer to design and a qualified construction company to build my new bridge. I listen to climatologists about what is happening to our planet and attempt action. I listen to food experts when, based on the scientific method, it is known that GMOs have no harmful effects (every piece of food you eat has already been genetically modified from its original state). And I will have my children vaccinated against all the harmful diseases that used to be the scourge of our society.
There are huge differences between those using the scientific method to determine cause and effect, to improve the lives of people everywhere on this planet and so-called "gumball experts". But part of the reason we have some of the issues we face as a society is because we don't always distinguish between the two.
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I have addressed this issue before.
I find that sadly that my husband's way of dealing with my ataxia is to make believe its not happening. For example, now he's away for 1 month. He harrumphs when I say I cant accompany him somewhere. He has developed his own medical condition which is minor (in my opinion). He refuses to take me by car to most places,saying, instead, "take a taxi." He has stopped talking to me; forget about intimate relations. In short, he seems to be angry at me, for insufficient exercising (he says). He is generally compassionate but not to me. He seems embarrassed that I no longer work. He doesnt seem to want responsibility 4 me. Not helpful is his mother who is a busy body and goes around saying that I am "crippled".
My PT said that generally family members are not good at this sort of thing . Is this true?


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New Delhi, July 20 (ANI):Dharambir Singh, who became the first Indian in 36 years to qualify for the 200 metres event for Olympics, on Wednesday said he is looking forward to improve his performance in order to enhance his chances of reaching the finals at next month's Rio Games. Dharambir, who hails from Ajayab village in Rohtak district of Haryana, sealed the Rio spot by clocking 20.45 for a national record in the Indian Grand Prix held in Bengaluru earlier this month. Reflecting on the same, the athlete insisted that it was a big achievement for him as he has been working really hard from last 10 to 12 years. "My preparation is good. I will try to do better than before. Aim is to reach finals or maybe I can win medal,"Dharambir told ANI. India will be sending its biggest ever contingent in the Olympic Games with more than 100 athletes having already qualified in 13 sporting disciplines. The previous highest was 83 that the country sent in the 2012 London Olympics. The Rio Olympics is slated to be held from August 5 to August 21. (ANI)


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In 2016/17, the total cost of workplace illness and injury in Great Britain was £15.0 billion. Of these costs, £9.7 billion accounted for ill health, and £5.2 billion for work-related injuries. £8.6 billion of these costs were absorbed by individuals, £3 billion by employers and £3.4 by the government.
As you can see, compensation costs for illness and injury at work are no small matter. Even a small injury can cost more than you think—a lot more. This is the same with near misses. These costs come directly off the bottom line, so they substantially affect your profitability.
Consult RIDDOR to Cut Costs
Remember that reporting workplace illness and any injuries promptly can cut costs dramatically. Of course, you don't need to report every one of them, just report the more critical ones. How do you know which incidents to report? Savvy managers consult RIDDOR.
The acronym stands for the Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, a 2013 statutory instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. When it comes to reporting any illnesses or injuries efficiently, RIDDOR can be an enormous benefit.
Below are answers to six frequently asked questions about RIDDOR:
Why is RIDDOR important?
RIDDOR can help you decide if you need to report an incident or not and who to report it to at the right authority. The statute requires businesses, the self-employed, and those that manage or control business premises to report injuries and illnesses to relevant law enforcing authorities, keeping a record of any work-related deaths.
According to RIDDOR, managers and employers, must report incidents "if they're out of, or in connection with, work." Of course, just because an accident occurs on the premises this doesn't mean it's work-related. The activity itself needs to contribute to the incident.
RIDDOR states that an accident is work-related if it is the result of:
- the way that work was carried out
- any machinery, plant, substance, or equipment used for the work
- the condition of the site or premises where the accident occurred, contributing to the event.
Report any incidents that occur in Scotland, Wales, and the English communities to Health and Executive Safety (HSE). Report incidents that occur in Northern Ireland to HSE NI.
What RIDDOR regulations are most helpful to employers/managers?
The most helpful regulations for employers and managers are 4, 5 and 6:
- Regulation 4 addresses specific injuries to workers and injuries resulting in worker incapacitation for more than 7 days.
- Regulation 5 accounts for injuries to non-workers who have to receive hospital care or specified injuries to non-workers that occur at a hospital.
- Regulation 6 addresses the death of any person.It accounts for the death of a worker or member of the public due to an incident in a workplace, including a worker who is physically attacked at a site.
Regulation 6 doesn't include a suicide at a worksite. Regulations 8 and 9 address diseases that stem from work-related activities.
What are some examples of reportable RIDDOR incidents?
Some specific injuries occurring in the workplace which are covered under RIDDOR include fractures, amputations, injuries resulting in the loss or diminishment of sight, any scalping that requires hospital treatment, occupational diseases, dangerous occurrences, and gas incidents.
Employers and managers also need to report injuries that extend over seven days within 15 days of the incident. If a worker is unable to come in over three days after an accident occurs, this needs to recorded, but not necessarily reported.
Employers and managers do not need to report incidents if they just feel someone should be taken to hospital as a precaution, or there's no apparent injury. Of course, it's worth keeping a record of any incidents occurring, for your own protection.
Who should report incidents?
People that need to report incidents include the responsible members of a business, the self-employed, and those that oversee work on-site. Other parties that need to report incidents include:
- Members of the public, employees, injured persons, and their representatives
- An employment agency
- A gas supplier
- A gas engineer
- People responsible for mines, wells, quarries, pipelines
- Those responsible for offshore installations
For specific details on reporting procedures after an offshore incident you can contact HSE Energy Division.
What records does RIDDOR require you to keep?
RIDDOR expects you to keep a record of any injuries that are reportable, an injury lasting over three consecutive days, a disease, and any dangerous occurrence. If you use HSE's online form, you can print it out, save a copy to your computer, or both.
If you don't want to keep a copy of your online form, at least keep records that include the date and method of reporting; the date, time and place the incident occurred; people's personal information; and a short write-up of the event, disease, or dangerous occurrence.
If any incident occurring was an accident, employers that must keep an Accident Book (B1510) under Social Security law. This can be used for recording any injuries, but you'll need to use a different method to record disease cases. Also, remember that any information that you provide HSE with not passed on to insurance companies.
What are RIDDOR timescales?
Any responsible workers must report to the enforcing authorities without delay, for most incidents for most incidents that occur straight away, while using the correct reporting procedure (Schedule 1).
You can report these incidents online here. But you can also phone in fatal/specified and major incidents at 0345 300 9923 (opening hours are Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 5:00 pm.)
For more information on the timely reporting any incidents that occur, go here. You can also make amendments to RIDDOR notifications once made.
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Everyone wants their workers to be safe, but accidents always happen. When they do, they can be costly. The cost of dealing with any compensation claims can significantly affect overall profitability.
The immediate reporting of any injuries that occur can cut costs dramatically. However, how do you know what incidents to report? Just consult RIDDOR. The statute provides detailed guidance on any injuries to report, how to report them, and when to report them, among other things.
RIDDOR also provides you with guidance on which records to keep, who should be reporting the incidents, and other details to clarify the whole situation for you. Generally speaking, you can report most incidents using HSE's online form.
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For dog lovers, dogs are not just pets. They are a part of the family. They spoil their dogs with all the good stuff including all types of foods. However, pet owners should be responsible fur parent. They need to know what foods to give to their dogs and what not. Unfortunately, some human foods are not safe for dogs and we are going to discuss them below.
Chocolate and caffeinated foods/beverages
foods containing chocolates and caffeine are toxic to dogs. They contain methylxanthines, which is known to cause ill effects on dogs. When taken in large amount could lead to death. So, keep your chocolates and coffee with you.
High Sodium Foods
Too much intake of salty foods will lead to your dog's urinating more than the usual. As a result, your dog feels thirsty and the risk of dehydration and sodium poisoning are high. As much as possible, you should limit giving chips, pretzels, and other salty foods to your dogs.
Grapes and raisins
If you are used to giving raisins and grapes to your dogs, then now is the time to stop doing so. Intake of grapes and raisins, especially in excessive amount can lead to kidney failure.
Bread and Complex Carbohydrates
We are used to giving bread to our pets but don't you know that some bread causes bloating and twisting in dogs' stomach? Pet owners should also avoid giving raw dough as the ethanol content of the yeast causes the dog to become drunk. If you are going to give bread to your dog, make sure that it is safe for dogs.
Some Bones
Dogs are known for their love of bones. However, not all bones are safe for dogs. Some bones like chicken and ribs break off easily, which can potentially lead to choking and irritation of the throat. If you are going to give bones to your dogs, you have to make sure they are especially for chewing on such as the ones found at the pet store.
Onions and Garlic
These are common ingredients in almost all dishes. However, they can be extremely bad for your dogs. What these ingredients do is destroy your dog's red blood cells when consumed in high amount. It increases the possibility of anemia in dogs. It can also lead to poisoning.
It contains a substance called persin, which is commonly found in the seeds, leaves, bark, and the fruit itself. Persin, if taken in high amount, can be extremely toxic in dogs. The level of persin in ripe avocado is low, which does not really cause harm to your dogs. However, if your dogs happen to eat unripe avocado or have taken a lot of ripe avocados, it could lead to stomach upset. When giving avocado to your dog, you have to make sure you remove the harmful part, especially the pits.
Just because the food is safe to you does not necessarily mean it is safe for your dogs. If you are unsure as to whether the food is safe or not, the best thing to do is to not give it at all. Always do your research or ask your vet before introducing new foods to your beloved dogs.


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Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker could be out for up to five months with a knee injury. The German centre-back suffered the problem during Friday night's friendly against Lens and was left out of Arsenal's pre-season tour of the United States.Arsenal are yet to confirm the news but we understand an announcement will be made in the next 48 hours.
Mertesacker, who was Arsenal's vice-captain last season, was favourite to be named new club captain at the Emirates following Mikel Arteta's departure to Manchester City in the summer.
Arsene Wenger's side have problems at centre-back with Gabriel Paulista struggling with tonsillitis and Laurent Koscielny allowed an extended break after reaching the final of Euro 2016 with France.
That leaves Calum Chambers as Arsenal's only fit senior central defender but new signing Rob Holding could partner his England U21 colleague in the US.
Arsenal play an MLS All-Star team on Friday and finish their tour against Chivas on Monday.
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September 30th, 2015
As I mentioned in class, please do not be too concerned about some of your test scores. As long as you are working hard at home, following the correct studying strategies and using test taking skills, you will show improvement. Every year I see many students frustrated in the beginning of the year, this can be a difficult class. I have attached the message that my old friend left us about your progress.
Review Weekend
I am reposting the studying guide for Tuesday's test. From the review class today, it is apparent an overwhelming majority of students have not been using this study guide. I am also including a link to the Jeopardy review game I created for the test. Since most students were not prepared for the review, from this point forward I will only be posting the Jeopardy game online before a test and not taking a class period to play the game. Instead we will be doing a more focused chapter review where I can reteach topics.
EOC review/ new video
In yesterday's class we reviewed a PPT on some material we learned earlier in the year. This review format is something we will do throughout the year. I have attached the PPT.
Also, here is a video regarding material we are learning. Remember to pay close attention to the words of this parody.
New Test Date
As I told you in class I pushed back the test date to Spetember 29, it is a Tuesday. I am attaching a study guide. You need to let me know if you need help on a particular area.
We will be paying attention to Libertys Kids to help us understand some information in class. Here is the first episode that most classes saw in class.
This week we will be learning about Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence.. The following video is a good review of the basic problems between the Colonists and England.
Unfinished work
For those who did not finish in class here is an example of student work. You can use pages 98-105 in online text to help.
Home Study
Students should be familiar with Chapter 4, Lessons 1 and 3 in the workbook. Here is a copy of work we did today in class.
Also, the first portion of this online game deals with the material we are covering.
Finally, here is the study sheet for next Friday's test. The only part of this study sheet we have not yet covered in detail regards the Continental Congress meetings and the Declaration.
As all students are aware, we have a quiz on Wednesday. This is a short quiz that will involve matching terms we discussed last week.
1. People: Hobbes and Locke
2. Documents: Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact and Common Sense
3. Terms: social contract, natural rights, philosopher, The Enlightenment
Our test will be Friday, Sept. 25th and a study guide will be available this Friday giving you a full week to review the material.
Chapter Summary
I was thrilled to meet so many parents last night. Here is the chapter summary and some information on Chapter 4 that we have begun studying. Our chapter test will be around Sept. 25.
This week in Civics
First, we will thoroughly the test from last week and look at some test taking/studying strategies.
Next, we will begin the chapter on Colonial Influences. We will be studying documents like the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights and the Mayflower Compact, as well as discussing the philosophies of Locke and Montesquieu. These ideas shaped how the first Americans were thinking when they created our government.
This class starts moving quickly, so if you are not understanding anything you must speak up. I hope to see many parents at Curriculum Night where I will discuss the organization of the class as best I can in a ten minute timeframe.
Let's Learn and let's have fun!
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Hi everyone!
A few months before coming to Alberta I read somewhere people saying about the heat in Edmonton during the Summer, can't deny my own thought:
"They do not know what a hot summer is like!"
I must take it back! So they were right! It is hot up here! The fan is on all day long.The only difference is that at night the temperature falls down a bit, and we get to sleep.
At times I do not feel like crocheting, I end up spending the days cooking, doing housework, or even some light reading, as I watch my daughter up and down playing with her friends, sometimes inside the house, or in her small poll in the yard.
There are some wild birds merrily chirping as they come by to gladly find their preferred food my husband daily feeds them, I already counted 17 little ones at once the other day. It is quiet, up here. Opposed to my life August last year in São Paulo. Of course it won' be like this for long, as soon as her vacation is over I have some projects in mind. Should be fun, to say the least.
So as I said little projects like this is what I have been doing, the very same rose I posted here, and the very same leaf I once gave you the pattern, I sewn them in a hair band and my daughter wears it a lot! Hope you like it and do the same for your little ones too! I used handicraft and hook 5,00 m.
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Finally Home: Judah's Cayman to Campus Journey
For Judah Ebanks, Williston serves as much more than just a school. It's the first time he's felt truly accepted.
"Growing up in the Caribbean was a really homophobic community I didn't know it was okay to be proud of yourself and it was okay to be yourself," Judah, 17, said. "I didn't know it was okay to be gay until I came here."
Growing up on Grand Cayman Island, Judah often felt like an outcast because of his sexuality. It took until he came here to realize being gay isn't something to be ashamed of.
"I've never ever experienced this much love and kindness because of my sexuality," he said. "I've always received so much negativity because of it."
He assumes some people on campus know him only as "that gay guy," Judah said, but "now that I'm here I actually feel like I'm accepted and actually feel like these are people that care about me."
Judah feels comfortable being his outgoing self and make as many friends around campus as possible.
"That's my favorite thing to do, is meeting people," he stated. "I love getting to know people and the start of the year is my favorite time because that's when we get new students and I get to make new friends."
In addition to all the incredible relationships he has made in his time at Williston, Judah said one of his best relationship he has made here has been with his roommate.
"My roommate Thomas [Thibault '19] is one of my favorite people ever," Judah said. "He has become my older brother, and for him to be so accepting of me, the stereotype of him being a jock, a football player, and me, the gay guy, those stereotypes butt heads, but we literally became like brothers."
On campus, Judah is one of the heads of the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA), as well as a member of the Multicultural Student Union (MSU), and the Wildest Cats.
Judah's goal this year is "getting accepted into my dream college, or getting accepted to college in general." Judah said it would "make his year" to be accepted into New York University.
Judah's love for social interaction finds a way to shine in other aspects of his life, not just in his free time.
"I may not be the brightest, I may not be the top of the class all the time, but I do put in the effort, and where I don't shine in academics, I shine in the social environment. I've been told my presence can be seen around campus. People may not know my name, but they know of me."


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The Central Catholic Jr. High cross country team competed at the 36th Annual Culver Academies Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, September 23.
In the girls race Emily Milks paced the Lady Knights with a time of 14:47. Shannon Dineen was next at 15:37, then Phil Gillen and Claire Potter finished together at 18:20.
The boys team finished in 23rd place out of 35 teams. Calvin and Kipp Pickerill were the first Knights to cross the finish line; both runners finished in 11:56. Rob Burton was third to finish for the Knights in 12:18 then John Rafacz in12:28. Then Nathan Bapst and Max Siemers finished together in 13:36. AJ Elsner (13:54) rounded out the top seven. Other Knights in the race were Billy Owens (13:59) Logan DePew (14:26) and Ryan Elsner (15:18). Congratulations to Josh Rogers who ran in an earlier race and posted a 14:06 for the 3K course.


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Manchester city were last night heading towards a rejection of Corinthians' improbable £35.3m bid for Carlos Tevez, with comments from a director of the Brazilian club heightening anxieties that they will simply not be able to pay for the striker.
City were in talks to discuss the offer last night, but Corinthians' vice-director of football Duilio Alves earlier said the price being asked for Tevez was "an absurd figure, unviable for the Brazilian football market" and suggested a loan deal.
City, who feel that the financing of any such transfer would be complicated, are highly likely to dismiss the idea of a loan. There is also uncertainty at City about whether the bid is entirely Corinthians', or rather that of Tevez's representative Kia Joorabchian, who once owned the club.
Corinthians implied they had been quoted a £49m price for Tevez, a figure the club's vice-director of football Duilio Alves said was too high.
"It would have to be a loan. We cannot buy him," Alves added. "His intention exists. If one day it is possible, Corinthians are interested. It is not impossible. It is a dream we are trying to make true."
The statement Tevez's representatives issued last week, outlining his desire to leave, has prompted City to search for a replacement and as discussions with a leading agency took place late last week, Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero emerged as a target.
But there have been no moves for the 23-year-old Argentine. Aguero wants to stay in Madrid, making Real Madrid favourites for his signature.
Time is not on Corinthians' side with the Tevez deal: the club know they have until July 20 to wrap up a deal for the player, as the Brazilian transfer window closes that day.
The notion of anyone in Brazil matching Tevez's £250,000-a-week salary was dismissed as ridiculous by sources in the country yesterday, but the Corinthians move is not entirely far-fetched.
There is a mass of money washing around Brazilian football because of the huge shirt sponsorship deals, which have seen the sponsors paying players to return from Europe.
Ronaldinho went to Flamengo from Milan on a salary believed to be £100,000 a week, mostly paid for by sponsors.
The huge prescription drugs firm Unimed enabled Fluminese to bring Fred back from Lyons, and Juliano Belletti and Deco from Chelsea. At Corinthians, Tevez's reduced wages would be paid for by Neo Quimica, a pharmaceutical giant.
The multi-million dollar commercialisation of the Brazilian game has been fulled by a booming economy.
A total of 20,000 fans gathered to welcome Ronaldinho home to Flamengo and the Brazilian love of an idol would make Tevez an even bigger draw at Corinthians, who boast the second biggest fan base in a country of almost 200 million people. (© Independent News Service)
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Who Is Billy? Coppola Winery's Comical Short Film Has Two Wildly Opposing Theories
Rodrigo Saavedra's 'The Red Stain' screened at Sundance
Director: Rodrigo Saavedra
Production Companies: The Directors Bureau, Think | Cattleya, Landia
Executive Producer: Roman Coppola
Executive Producer: Sue Yeon Ahn
Producer & EP, Think | Cattleya: Martino Benvenuti
Junior Producer: Alice Chauvain
Director of Photography: Pierre De Kerchove
Colorist: Fernando Lui
Production Designer: Francesca Di Mottola
Costume Designer: Laura Di Marco
Editor: Carla Maimoni
VFX: Mosh VFX – Bruno Vianna
Sound/Music: Antfood – Lou Schmidt, Wilson Brown, Pedro Botsaris
Billy – Francesco Di Raimondo
Claudia – Daniela Igliozzi
Luca – Gianfranco Mazzoni
Monica – Giulia Di Quilio
Garbarov – Kyle Portman
Boxer#2 – Emanuele Barbalonga
Monica's husband – Marco Nobili
Bet collector – Enrico Maria Ferrante
Commercials and film director based between Los Angeles and Brazil. Represented by the Directors Bureau (USA), Landia (Spain and Latin America), Henry (France) and Think Cattleya (Italy)


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ADAM That was, like, three-hundred percent. I don't know if it was good, but it was compelling. I mean, wow.
BETH I agree. I thought it was beautiful. I thought that the illustrations were really lovingly done.
ADAM The computer stuff looked really gorgeous, even though it was totally gratuitous.
BROOM Which computer stuff are you talking about?
BETH Like, the fog and lighting.
ADAM The swooping-over-the-crowd scenes.
BETH Lots of swooping through the bells.
BROOM I know that they were proud of their system for creating crowds with the computer, which was new technology at the time, and I remember being really focussed on the little people in the background when I saw it in the theater. But this time I just took it for granted. I think The Lord of the Rings and things like that have really numbed me to the effect. But I do agree that the CGI was used tastefully.
ADAM To be clear, this was terribly ill-conceived, and I can't believe this got green-lighted. But it was just so passionate.
BROOM It couldn't be more misbegotten.
ADAM Just a wrong property to make into a lush animated musical.
BROOM It boggles the mind.
ADAM But it has sort of a really period wrongness. The way that you picture, like — what was the Elizabeth Taylor movie set in ancient Persia?
BROOM Cleopatra?
ADAM Not Cleopatra — she did something, like, even moreso.
BROOM I didn't even know about that. [ed. I still don't know.]
ADAM I saw it said in one of her obituaries that "she brought down studios." And that's sort of the level of craziness of everything about this.
BETH I can't imagine a child watching this.
ADAM Where he, like, masturbates into her scarf, and then casts it into hellfire? What's wrong with that?
BROOM Did he not plunge to his death clutching, like, a giant demon phallus?
ADAM Yeah. I'm sorry — casts it into hellfire while surrounded by a chorus of faceless red-robed monks of death.
BETH A truly scary image.
BROOM I remember thinking that was the best sequence, in 1996, and it totally is.
BETH Oh, it is.
BROOM By a longshot. Because it's deeply inappropriate for a Disney movie, and they go all-out.
ADAM That's like what that Leni Riefenstahl scene in The Lion King was trying to be. But wasn't, because it didn't have the inappropriate sexual overlay.
BROOM So Beth, you saw Tosca recently. Was he not just like the guy from Tosca?
BETH Oh, he was kind of like the guy from Tosca, yeah. Although I don't really remember it.
BROOM Now, I don't know what the plot of the real Hunchback of Notre Dame is. Is there a lustful chief of police? Or whatever he was — what was he?
BETH He was some clergy…
BROOM Ah, but he wasn't!
ADAM He was a civil official. I think.
BETH But he lived in… ?
ADAM He lived in the Palace of Justice.
BROOM Which was like an anti-church.
ADAM I think he's like the chief prosecutor and also judge.
BROOM But his song is all about, you know, the fires of hell, and sin, and God, and religious imagery. And he can't deal with his own sexual impulses because of his hypocritical faith. But he actually has no faith during the rest of the movie, so it was sort of a bait-and-switch.
ADAM No faith except in himself, in his own rectitude.
BROOM Except at the very beginning, when as the jester said, for a moment he feared something bigger than himself. When he sees the eyes of the statues staring at him. So… Quasimodo is the offspring of gypsies?
ADAM He's a pure gypsy.
BROOM He didn't have the skin tone.
ADAM He didn't look like a gypsy, yeah. Because that would have made it… I don't know, too obvious.
BROOM And what were his parents trying to do?
ADAM Come into the city.
BROOM They weren't supposed to enter because he was trying to keep gypsies out.
BETH Yes.
ADAM I think the second most effective song is… well, first of all, I think the songs are the least effective thing about this, because they're so discordant.
BROOM Except for the hellfire song.
ADAM Yes. But I think that God of the Outcasts is a pretty good song…
BETH Really?
ADAM … because the other parishioners are singing, like, "give me wealth." That woman's singing "give me love!" and reaching out for it. That sort of pricked my conscience a little bit.
BROOM All right, well, they got you!
BETH With all of the songs, I was just imagining them imagining how it would play on Broadway.
BROOM Or in the Broadway of our minds.
ADAM Well, that's over. This is the last one that's like that, I think. The next one's Tarzan, right?
BROOM Hercules.
ADAM Oh, all right, but Hercules is not Broadway, it's moving into pop-y. This is really the last one that feels like, you know, Neil Patrick Harris would be doing the whole thing.
BETH Yeah, it's so much that, though. They really went all the way.
BROOM They were trying to do an epic melodrama. This is their, like, Sweeney Todd, you know? I mean, it was their Les Misérables, to be more on point.
ADAM I mean, it was good. I liked it!
BROOM I can't summon the word "good." I don't think I can say that.
ADAM Yeah, it wasn't "good," it was… memorable.
BETH It was compelling. My barometer is how frequently I look at the clock to see how much time has passed, and I wasn't doing it very much.
BROOM I felt its length weighing on me in the second half. Several times. It definitely had flair… but let's just talk about some things that were bad about it, because I feel like it needs to be pointed out that it was bad. The presence of the gargoyles at all, and then especially the song that they do: embarrassing.
ADAM Isn't it good that they get his hopes up, then to be cruelly dashed? I mean, that's the thing: he really is terribly ugly, and the movie doesn't really pull that punch.
BROOM You're saying that… he can't ever find love? I really don't know what the point of the original story is.
ADAM No, me neither.
BETH It doesn't matter!
ADAM We can leave that by the side of the road. This is a self-contained artifact. It's stands with Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter.
BROOM It really does, actually. They're of a piece and they're from the same era. I was thinking of that when she was up there at the stake.
BETH Her eye color was bizarre.
BROOM She was very poorly animated compared to the rest of it, I thought, and that actually affected my experience. I couldn't take her character seriously. I thought it was interesting that her sexy dance was done with weird shading effects on her body.
BETH I really didn't notice that.
BROOM Her dress, when she was dancing and igniting the fires of lust in Frollo's loins, was animated with a different technique; it looked like a continuous special effect. To signify its mysterious power over him, I guess.
ADAM We've already seen… what's his name? Prebus?
BROOM Phoebus.
ADAM We've already seen his exact facial features somewhere else.
BROOM No, you've seen them in Tangled, but we haven't yet.
ADAM Oh, I was going to say, the first third of this totally is Tangled, but they do a much better job there. You're going to see this again twenty years later, and it's going to be better.
BROOM I thought that the conception of some of the songs was wishful thinking. I was just working on a job where people were trying to work out the dramaturgical mechanisms of songs in a show to make it work, and I felt like we were just watching that kind of thing play out, here. It was the sort of stuff where I try to keep in mind someone like you, Adam, who thinks this stuff is embarrassing, and always to remind myself that this sort of thing doesn't actually work. Like the opening number: we were all snickering at it because it was so contrived. Here's the sound of bells! — now we swoop down into Paris! — now there's a jester and he's got puppets of all the characters and he's saying "don't you want to know how the story began, well I'll tell you!" — and then there's a flashback narrated in song!…
ADAM That's exactly how Aladdin starts.
BROOM There it's just a jokey frame. It's like: "Who am I? Who knows! Who cares? Now the story starts!" Here it was actual important exposition, and he has some kind of jester attitude, who knows what it was…
BETH That confused me, so I was just picturing an eight-year-old having no idea what was going on.
BROOM But by the end of it, when Adam said, "did you follow that?" and you said "I think I did" — it was from the visuals, and I think an eight-year-old would understand that the mommy died and that this guy's bad, and yet for some reason he's keeping the kid alive, and the kid grows up to be "Quasi"!
ADAM "Hey, Quasi!" Yeah, those gargoyles.
BROOM Named "Victor," "Hugo," and "Laverne." I mean, that's funny! But only as an "obviously we won't actually put that in the movie" kind of joke.
ADAM Played respectively by Niles Frasier…
BROOM No, it wasn't. It was the guy from Murphy Brown, Charles Kimbrough.
ADAM Oh, of course! Blast from the nineties.
BROOM And George Costanza, of course. And the other woman I didn't know.
ADAM Woman? Laverne was a woman? That whole time?
BETH Yes.
ADAM I thought that was just a lot of drag going on. I thought it was just a crotchety old dude, like a Hal Holbrook type.
BROOM It did seem like that, but it wasn't. But their song was so, so embarrassing to me. You didn't feel that way?
ADAM It was the same thing as always. It was Be Our Guest. I mean, whatever. All this is — it's like playing "Memory," you know? There's only so many elements; they just reuse them in different ways.
BROOM But if they have the vision to put in a song about "hellfire!," couldn't they also have taken the leap and said, "hey, I don't think this one needs sidekicks."
BETH Well, I think it did — Quasimodo needed someone to talk to.
BROOM He needs to talk when he's alone, yes. But he had those dolls! Those would have been more appropriate.
ADAM Can you imagine how psychologically disturbing this would have been if he'd had no sidekicks? It would have just been him going crazy up in the tower!
BETH Or if he'd been talking to dolls that didn't talk back.
BROOM We would feel his loneliness with him! It would actually be very affecting. Remember in The Lord of the Rings when Gollum talks to himself in the puddle of water?
ADAM Or he could have been talking to Wilson.
BETH It would have been incredibly creepy, though!
BROOM This movie was creepy!
BETH It was, it was, but think how much more creepy it would have been…
BROOM If it had just been Wilson?
ADAM I thought it was really effective! And it had the atmospherics of, like — you said "Les Mis," or "Phantom," or "Robin Hood." I wish there had been a little more pomp and mystery about the Cave of Wonders… the Court of… whatever.
BROOM Yeah. It basically turned out to be some assholes in a sewer. And we're supposed to think of them as the good guys, but they were about to hang our heroes too. I mean, Frollo is more or less right: the world doesn't accept him. I thought it was interesting, the philosophical balance they struck between "it's a lie: if he goes out he will find acceptance" and "no, it's not a lie: people really are cruel." Because people are cruel! But not wholly cruel. It's an interesting moral.
BETH Mm-hm.
BROOM But I just don't go for that atmosphere you were talking about. It's the same reason I don't like Batman movies: you can't tell me that it's epic, just for the sake of its being epic.
ADAM It also feels very nineties, in terms of being a movie about cultural moralism, and outcasts. It wasn't so much a movie about gays, although I guess you could claim that if you wanted; it felt more like a movie about illegal immigrants. It felt resonant to contemporary political problems.
BROOM It would be very easy to claim that it's about coming out of the closet. Come on!
ADAM I know, but I don't want to be a stereotype of myself.
BROOM You squeezed it out when it's not there; here it's actually easy.
ADAM It was about gays coupling with illegal immigrants to create a united front against the religious right. It does feel like a Lewinsky era movie, though.
BROOM The reason that the hellfire scene was the best was because it had mystery and atmosphere and didn't fully explain itself; it just showed us imagery that was effective. The rest of it was very diagrammatic.
ADAM And that scene set up a very compelling reason why he's being such a fanatic. The villain in Pocahontas is just a fanatic because he's kind of a douchebag. There's nothing really compelling about that. You really believe that this guy would burn down the whole city to find her. And every time you saw his face, with that glittering digust/lust….
BROOM It was an interestingly-designed character.
BETH I actually really liked his face. I thought it was well done.
BROOM They didn't make him look like a cartoon of evil; they just made him look like some actor who might play that guy.
BETH Who did he look like? I felt like he actually looked like a guy, like a real actor.
BROOM Unlike Esmeralda, who just looked like big eyes.
BETH She looked a little bit like a darker Demi Moore. Her chin was sort of square in the same way.
BROOM A little, but I thought it was pretty lazy.
ADAM Quasimodo was really ugly, in a way that was hard to wave away.
BETH I feel like they tried to make him a little bit cute at the same time.
BROOM I thought they did pretty good job of solving that. He was sort of the E.T. type of ugly-cute. With the eyes spread out and a flattened head.
BETH Yeah.
BROOM Here's my big point. I always have to have one, and this is it: Broadway-style storytelling is useful on Broadway because it's up on a stage far away; they need to shout everything at you to get it to the back of the house, and you can't see any detail. So it's very demonstrative and telegraphs everything. But in animation, you can bring people into… a cave of wonders! So to have everything be shouted, essentially…
ADAM Ahhhh ahhhh ahhhh!…. [imitating grandiose choral voices]
BROOM I meant metaphorically shouted, but yes, that too, to have a giant chorus singing the intro and ending of every song… it's a waste! It's a misuse of the medium.
BETH Will they figure this out? Is that what you're saying? This is the last one and they stop being this way?
BROOM They go in other directions, but I don't think they figure out what I'm saying. I'm saying the old movies had their own movie-rhythm and movie-feel. But look: yes, a well-crafted one of these, given that they should never have done it in the first place.
ADAM And I think it was probably a big flop, right?
BROOM I mean… it's such a mess!
[we read the New York Times review]
ADAM Sure, it is very derivative, but having seen thirty-four of these… even the ones in the so-called Golden Age seemed derivative, you know? So that doesn't strike me as all that surprising. It's just part of the loving pattern of the thing.
BROOM I think there's a difference between "consistent" or "of a piece" and "derivative."
ADAM This is a little more obviously or aggressively derivative than the others, and I guess that stood out to Janet Maslin.
BROOM When she said that each song these days seems to serve functions laid out by prior songs, that's the essence of it, to me. It's not that I want to see something that I've never seen before; it's that it feels like this is happening because it's the formula. I've been saying that for ten years' worth of these movies, now.
ADAM I mean, they're all the same story, about someone being kept behind walls and wanting to break out into the wide world.
BROOM That's what they're all about now, but they used to be about all kinds of things. You know… a fox and a hound… Robin Hood… a bunch of mice rescuing a little girl… mice rescuing a little boy…
ADAM … Donald Duck going to South America…
BROOM … Donald Duck going to South America again… Almost none of them was about someone wishing for the fresh air. What's the first one that's like that?
BETH Snow White.
BROOM No! She's happy in living in her palace. She has a lovely life; she just wants someone to love her.
ADAM Cinderella is kind of like that.
BROOM Cinderella is the first one. Unless you count Pinocchio, but his desire is different. He just wants to grow up.
ADAM That's similar. I don't think it's orders of magnitude different.
BETH I would count Pinocchio.
BROOM But it's a morality play. When you go out into the world, you better watch out for the tempters.
ADAM This was sort of like that, too.
BROOM No it wasn't.
ADAM The world is a dangerous place for him, and he learns to overcome it, just as Pinocchio does.
BROOM Is that really what happens in this movie?
ADAM Bambi is not that movie. And The Lion King is not exactly that. Well, I guess in The Lion King he does want to explore the elephant graveyard.
BROOM I don't think that's the theme there.
ADAM It is, a little bit. He does want adventure, and then it's thrust upon him in Hamlet fashion.
BROOM But the arc of The Lion King is that he has this fate put on his shoulders and he has to decide to accept that responsibility.
ADAM It's actually about coming back home.
BROOM It has the "leave me alone!" scene that recurred in this one. When Quasimodo is chained up and the gargoyles say "come on, get out there!" and he says "Leave me alone." I thought, this is something we've seen frequently.
ADAM We saw that with the genie in Aladdin also.
BROOM I guess the Beast gets that way too. Belle never does. Women don't go through that kind of thing. But all the male heroes, of late…
ADAM … have a sulky interlude.
BROOM I would call it the "leave me alone" scene. "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"


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The Schuylerville varsity wrestling team was among the top performers at the Class CC Tournament at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School on Saturday, Feb. 7.
- Orion Anderson, a 99-pound freshman, pinned Brandon Mogul of Ravena, the third ranked wrestler in Section II, in 33 seconds in the finals.
- Anthony Cardinuto, a 113-pound junior, beat Connor Paige of Hudson Falls, the fifth ranked wrestler, 8-5 in the finals.
- Tyler Green, a 170-pound junior, beat Zac Cooper of Cobleskill, the third ranked wrestler in Section II, in the finals.
- Charles Weaver, a 113-pound sophomore, went 3-2 on the day to take fourth place.
Anderson and Cardinuto became two-time Section II Class CC Champions. Green is ranked first in Section II, Anderson is ranked second and Cardinuto is ranked third. All four wrestlers will compete Feb. 14-15 at the Section II Tournament at the Glens Falls Civic Center.


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Noted Sommelier Trades Fine Wines for Rare Chinese Teas
January 13, 2018
Joe Muscaglione Launches Tea Import Business with Exclusive North American License to Sell Rare Chinese Teas.
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- Trading grapevines for tea leaves, wine tastings for tea ceremonies, and Bordeaux, France, for Daba Mountain, China, noted sommelier Joe Muscaglione knows a thing or two about providing rare beverages to an emerging market.
Having spent the past 30 years developing beverage programs at Babbo NYC, where he worked closely with owner Joe Bastianch; Winebow, a premier Italian wine importer; and TAO, Las Vegas, one of the most successful restaurants in the United States, Muscaglione surmised a unique parallel: low-yield harvests produced not only sought after wines but teas as well.
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History Wants More Ad DollarsIn Its Future
RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: AETN Takes New Name -- A+E Networks -- And New Slogan
When A&E Television Networks— which is changing its name to A+E Networks— holds its upfront event on May 4, the star of the show will be History.
The once stodgy network's ratings have jumped by more than 20% in most demos, and it now ranks among the top 3 cable networks in adults 18-49 and 25-54. That growth is attracting marketers such as Ram Truck, which is doing a big sponsorship of History's Civil War Week.
AETN runs A&E and Lifetime, but "History Channel is really the amazing growth story, and the amazing thing is they're up even more against 18-34. You would never think History could begin to compete in the 18-34 category," says Todd Gordon, senior VP and managing director for national broadcast at media agency Initiative.
The young-demos growth has opened new doors for the network. "They're able to compete for budgets they never would have had a shot at before," Gordon says.
In the upfront, History is looking to turn those new viewers into ad dollars. "It's very hard to monetize ratings points when you're growing that fast. But with History, we were able pretty much dollar-for-dollar to get the value," says Mel Berning, executive VP of national ad sales for AETN. "The male skew of History makes us extremely attractive, and all sorts of people discovered History as it moved up the ranks last year."
Part of the pitch in this year's upfront to get big advertisers to spend more with History is to convince clients to think of it as the kind of network they want to do major marketing programs with. And History's more contemporary approach to programming under president Nancy Dubuc is creating a better environment for advertisers looking to reach consumers.
"The goal now is to be more of a marketing partner and have them see the power of the brand on the scale of a Nickelodeon or ESPN, some of the networks clients like to do much bigger initiatives with," says Peter Olsen, senior VP, ad sales for History.
Ram Truck is doing that kind of marketing deal in May during History's Civil War Week. Ram is sponsoring Gettysburg, produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, and a Civil War-themed episode of Pawn Stars. As part of a multi-layered effort, History is creating a series of custom vignettes that will run in the shows that connect Ram's "Guts & Glory" marketing message to the life of John Burns, a civil war soldier who showed perseverance and personal conviction.
With Gettysburg told from the soldiers' point of view, "it's going to be much more emotional and the stakes are going to be higher….Seeing it from this very gritty perspective is what really appeals to their campaign," Olsen says.
"The brand is resonating more than ever with viewers, and I think clients are beginning to understand there's a much more contemporary take on the history programming now," Olsen adds. "That's a big reason why more and more clients are coming on board. They're seeing a much better environment for them to run their campaigns."
"Creating content around the Civil War is a bit of a prototype of where we're going with our upcoming bigger events and the way we're handling some of our franchise series," adds Jamie Cutburth, VP, History Partnerships. Big events next season revolve around 9/11 and the Vietnam War.
A&E has also been doing well, following up its best year with the best first quarter in its history. And Lifetime, which has struggled, will be announcing plans to increase its original programming, doubling the number of scripted shows next season to four, growing its unscripted roster and doubling the number of movies between Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Channel.
"We even have a couple of advertisers who are looking at us this year to buy across the three networks, kind of reviving the old concept of roadblocking on particular nights, and generating the same kind of audience mass and reach as you can generate on the broadcast networks," Berning says.
Advertisers say AETN has a good track record revitalizing A&E and History. As for Lifetime, "I think we're going to have the proper skepticism til we see results," says Initiative's Gordon. But with History's Dubuc now running Lifetime, "there's a lot of reason to believe they'll figure out that puzzle, too."
Berning adds that AETN is looking to program LMN, History International and Bio. "We've got the big nets staked out. Now we're calling out the cavalry," he says.
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