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When I'm studying Shakespeare text, I try to start from a neutral place, as much as possible. This is a challenge, given how loaded words are. I am far from objective, and words are evocative. But I do my best to step back and look at the words on their own terms before making big decisions about them.
In his excellent book 'Shakespeare On Toast', Ben Crystal talks about what he calls the "false friends" – words Shakespeare used in the 1600s and which are still used today, only the meaning has changed. And the change, I've noticed, is often a negative one. There is a downward pressure on language, as if the words, like humans, are giving in to gravity. A downward pull to an adverse place.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'rhetoric' as the art of using language to persuade. But today, that word is mostly used to describe empty, meaningless talk meant to confuse, obfuscate, or deceive. How did it go from being a valuable skill set to simply a fancy word for 'lies'?
Or, take a word like 'doom'. It pops up often in Shakespeare's plays. Romeo asks the Friar, "what is the Prince's doom?" Cleopatra says she will kneel "Till from his all-obeying breath I hear / The doom of Egypt."
One's doom was one's fate. It could also mean a decree, judgement or decision. Yes, some of the Shakespearean examples turned out to be pretty serious, but that wasn't necessarily built into the word itself.
In current times, we don't separate the gloom from 'doom'. We say the failed relationship "was doomed from the start", or "that spells doom" when things look really dire. The word is now synonymous with disaster.
Changed meanings can be subtle yet powerful. The word 'sad' used to simply mean 'serious' or 'solemn'. Two people "in sad conference" were just people having a serious talk. No weeping required.
The small, seemingly innocuous words are especially fascinating to me. 'Should' is an auxiliary or helper word for verbs, and not nearly so important as the verbs themselves. It's doing its job in a statement like "I should like to meet her" – it's about liking and meeting (and her, probably). In the Taming of the Shrew, when Kate says she is "as heavy as my weight should be," Petruchio picks up on that 'be' and responds with "should bee? Should buzz." It's the "be" part that makes a pun.
But modern actors often emphasize "should"s in their texts, adding a sense of obligation or of being compelled. That might be appropriate in, "I SHOULD do my homework though I'd rather play outside," but in many other instances, it colours the thought with a feeling of being constrained or doing something against one's will. And that's a downer that Shakespeare's characters might not need.
In a world of inflation (economic, academic, ego), we respond with linguistic deflation. When 'amazing' has become a synonym for 'good', and 'awesome' is really just 'fine', does joy have any meaning? Words are products of their time, and a robust language like English is constantly changing – that's good. Through the centuries, meanings can start to slide around a little – that's natural. But what does this hopeless slide say about us?
May we never lose our ability to feel the raw power of words. As James Hillman says in 'Culture and the Animal Soul':
"By means of speech we enact what animals do in
behaviour. With speech we warn, claim territory, challenge
and destroy. With speech we court and seduce a mate, and
by means of speech we instruct our offspring and organize
our group disciplines... Like tigers losing their stripes, like
beached whales and blind eagles are we without our
rhetoric.. "


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Bagsider / Flip Sides/
For the Golden Days Festival this year the theme was The B-sides of History so, for this exhibition, the curators at Statens Museum for Kunst took that literally and present the backs of paintings and drawings in their collection.
And it is fascinating.
The exhibition is relatively small and shown in an almost-square gallery space just off the Sculpture Street with views out over the park so there is pleasant natural light and it is well worth spending time here to look at the works and read the well-written and thought-provoking labels and information panels.
A number of paintings and drawings are shown in double-sided display cases - so that you can examine both sides - but most are turned face to the wall and they are grouped under four themes:
process, technique and conservation
back or front?
traces and signs
The first group looks at materials used to make a work of art and it is fascinating to see how considerable craftsmanship went into producing the ground for the painting or drawing particularly for paintings here on panels or on planks of wood but there are also examples of important studio techniques like pricking holes in an initial drawing so that pounce or black powder could be used to either transfer the outline or to reverse the image.
Several works show how a drawing or painting could be abandoned and the other side used for a different work.
In a few examples the view of the back shows that both sides of a work were in fact to be seen - particularly for doors that covered an altarpiece that would have an image to be seen when the door was closed and a second image that was revealed when the door was open and it flanked the main central panel. However several works play clever games with that idea so a work by Cornelis Gijsbrecht is the solid door of a cabinet but painted as if it was glazed and with the contents of the cupboard as an image and with some items painted as if they were stuck to the inside of the glass. The back of the door has a painting of the back of what was stuck to the glass. One work, also by Gijsbrecht, shows what appears to be the back of a unpainted wooden frame held with wooden pegs and with nails and the back of the canvas but the whole thing is painted.
For the social historian or simply for anyone curious about how paintings can be dated and their attribution confirmed, then the back of a painting can reveal huge amounts of evidence from plausible to incongruous techniques that do or don't tally with what the painting on the front is telling us to makers labels for the panels or canvases the artists bought ready made to the labels from auctions or the labels and notes pasted on the back by collectors or by galleries.
the exhibition continues at Statens Museum for Kunst until 10 March 2019
The reverse of a Dutch painting - a half-length portrait of an old man painted in the late 17th century on two planks of oak. The planks include sapwood, which is unusual and the curators conclude this suggests the at the panel was not of the highest quality. Note how the edges are bevelled to hold the panel in slots on the inner edge of the frame.
If a work is to go to an exhibition with several venues so might need a more controlled environment, then the gallery produces special frames where the work is sealed in a 'micro climate'.
A painting of Board Game Players by Pieter SymonszPotter (1597/1600-1652). On the back is a drawing of a castle or manor house and the seal of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf with the name of the artist.
Labels on the back record that the painting by Carpeaux was shown in exhibitions at the Petit Palais in Paris and the Musees de Nice.
The label on the back shows that A View from the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis from 1844 was painted by Rørbye on millboard from Robert Davy, a London frame maker and restorer, but as Rørbye is not known to have visited London then the board may have been bought from a foreign dealer and possibly while he was travelling.
A trompe l'oeil by the Flemish painter Cornelis Gijsbrecht with what appears to be a canvas in a frame but all painted.
Painting of working horses cut down and used for a new work.
Untitled work from 1945 by Asger Jorn (1914-1973) The artist had returned from Paris and his style of work was going through a period of transition so, in effect, abandoning a work to paint a new work on the back might be seen to reflect this. The photograph on the left shows the painting on the front.


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I am painting part of this view in a larger
painting and I needed to work out a few
problems so I decided to work them out in
a blog painting. This is an outside window
view. The window needs work and that
creates character! Nice old wood bucket
inside offers a focal point. The larger painting
will be at my open house.
I proofed my prints today. Which in printing
terms means I went to see that the color registration
was correct. It is the first step and I am required
to approve it. Looks great! I want a match in color
to the original so that is what I am approving.
Other than that I just painted. Ok, I did go on an
early morning ride but other than that I am chained
to my desk!
I had a free weekend but looked at my checkbook
and decided I better find a show! So anyone in the
Leesburg, VA area come out and see me.
Leesburg Court & Market Days from 10-4 on
Saturday 10/18 FREE!!
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"Rohingyas are a Muslim people living in the Arakan region. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar. The United Nations says that they are one of the most persecuted minorities of the world. As a result of systematic discrimination they have endured over the past years, many of them have migrated to Bangladesh and Malaysia and currently 300,000 Rohingya Muslims live in Bangladesh and 24,000 in Malaysia.
The persecution of the Rohingya Muslims dates back to the early World War II when the Japanese forces invaded Burma which was then under the British colonial rule. It's said that on March 28, 1942, about 5,000 Muslims were massacred in Minbya and Mrohaung Townships by the Rakhine nationalists. According to Amnesty International, the Rohingya Muslims have long suffered from human rights violations and as a result, scores of them immigrated to neighbouring Bangladesh for better living conditions.
One instance of discrimination against the Muslims of Rohingya is that they are denied the right of citizenship by the government. Many of them have escaped to Bangladesh and as many as 111,000 of them live in the Thai-Myanmar border.
According to the website of Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO), Rohingya Muslims require government permission to marry, are forbidden from having more than two children per family and are subjected to modern-day slavery through forced labour. Because the national government denies them the right to citizenship in their homeland, many Rohingyas have their land confiscated and they are restricted from travel. The Human Rights Watch considers the denial of the right of citizenship the most important problem the Muslims of Rohingya face. The government of Myanmar considers the Rohingyas to be "resident foreigners." This lack of full citizenship rights means that the Rohingya are subject to other abuses, including restrictions on their freedom of movement, discriminatory limitations on access to education and arbitrary confiscation of property.
Some independent sources have told the Human Rights Watch that the government authorities continue to require Rohingya Muslims to perform forced labour. According to HRW, those who refuse or complain are physically threatened, sometimes with death, and children as young as seven years old have been seen on forced labour teams.
But what brought to light the deplorable situation of the Rohingya Muslims once again was the "2012 Rakhine State riots" which led to the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims who were murdered by a Rakhine mob of 300 while on their way back from the country's former capital Rangoon. It said that three Rohingya youths allegedly raped and killed a Rakhine woman and as the government sentenced two of them to death, a self-directed group of extremist Rakhine nationalists attacked a bus of Rohingya Muslims and killed ten of them. According to a group of UK-based NGOs, 650 Rohingya Muslims were killed from June 10 to 28, 1,200 went missing and more than 80,000 others were displaced as a result of rioting, arson and rape.
As reported by Associated Press, 1,336 homes belonging to the Rohingya Muslims were burnt during the unrest. However, The Platform, a UK-based human rights organisation puts the number at 6,000. The Burmese army and police were accused of playing a leading role in targeting the Rohingyas through mass arrests and arbitrary violence.
Due to a media blackout in Myanmar and the lack of direct access by the independent journalists to the region, it's impossible to verify the number of those who have been killed or the homes which were destroyed in the recent riots; however, what is clear is that the Rohingya Muslims are undergoing intolerable hardships and should be paid due attention by the international community.
In the recent weeks, the Burmese opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi made the headlines when it was announced that she finally delivered her Nobel acceptance speech at Oslo's City Hall two decades after being awarded the prize and almost two years after being released from house arrest. Suu Kyi, however, unpardonably ignored the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and never spoke a word about the hardships and injustices that have befallen them.
In a blatant act of censorship, the Western mainstream media have also stayed away from the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, showing their strong anti-Muslim bias and their duplicitous attitude toward the concept of human rights.
The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are living under extremely appalling circumstances. The dictatorial government of Myanmar has deliberately neglected their ordeal and the international community is overlooking their suffering. Is it in compliance with our human values to remain indifferent and apathetic to this unspeakable tragedy? The Western mass media are run by a number of Islamophobes associated with the Israeli lobby. Isn't it our duty to stand up and protest their indifference to the suffering of Myanmar Muslims? "
– Kourosh Ziabari [Iranian freelance journalist and writer for The Nation.Com Pakistan]
The video clip below sheds light as to why the world is silent to the massacres of Muslims that is ongoing in Myanmar. It is sheer hypocrisy that those nations that yell the loudest about democracy and human rights are the very ones that are allowing the genocide of Muslims around the world.
Advocates for Peace and Social Justice decries the hypocrisy and evil intent of the United States, and other Western nations, to aid and abet the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar via their silence and urges Muslims (and people of good conscience) everywhere to boycott the products and services of ALL nations that are aiding and abetting the genocide of thousands of Muslims in Myanmar.


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Not so long ago, it was a side of the industry that waswidely seen as over-stretched, cash-strapped and scrambling to stay afloat.
Distributors were invariably to be heard fretting overaccess to screens, or grumbling about crippling P&A costs and unsympatheticreviewers, or complaining about how difficult it had become to sell their waresto television. However, last October, when Lionsgateacquired British distributor Redbus (the company thatbegan life in 1999 in founder Simon Franks' spare bedroom) for a reported $35m,it became apparent that the old image no longer held entirely true.
The Optimum deal adds to growing evidence of a newbreed of indie British distributor who is aggressiveand entrepreneurial.
Optimum Releasing, like Redbusset up in 1999, has enjoyed a spectacular rise.
It has had eyecatchingtheatrical successes (Amores Perros,Fahrenheit 9/11, Howl's
But, right from its launch, it has also been snappingup library titles, building a robust DVD business.
The question 'why would anyone want to acquire a
"I'd reverse the question and ask why not'" says WillClarke, Managing-Director of Optimum. "All I can say is that outside the
DVD is extremely buoyant. Price points are down butthe volume is very much up. Television isn't great but it's growing in terms ofthe BBC's increased commitment to film. I can see why other countries wouldlike a gateway to a very strong production base, albeit one that is slightlydamaged at the moment."
There is an obvious logic to a deal between
As Vincent Maraval of Frenchdistributor Wild Bunch puts it: "they (StudioCanal)have a strong video catalogue, especially an English catalogue with manyEnglish classics. Optimum is very (strongly) performing in the video market,"
In the mid-1990s, the French company purchased the Carolco Library (including such titles as Basic Instinct and Terminator 2.) At around the same time, Canal + acquired UGC DA,the largest catalogue of films in
As Clarke realised when he wasfirst building his business, vintage library titles like The Third Man and A Bout De Souffle (both re-released by Optimum) are relativelycheap to acquire, generally critic proof and still attractive to audiences onbig screen and small screen alike.
Maraval describes Optimum as "the best performing"
"We have worked a lot with them. They are very goodbusinessmen."
"Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa (founders of Redbus in1999) and Will Clarke and Danny Perkins (founders of Optimum) have donesomething that is pretty amazing considering the market over the last 10years," agrees an admirer.
"They've both built successful, long-term distributioncompanies from scratch and made them attractive to outside buyers wheneverybody said they couldn't do it."
Nonetheless, Maravalcautions that the
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Navy Federal asked us to get young adults to start saving. So we created Reward Your Boards, a feature that turns saving into a ritual by leveraging normal online behavior.
( Fitzgerald & Co Summer Internship Project 2017)
Feature Breakdown
Reward Your Boards connects a member's Pinterest and bank accounts and turns their habit of pinning into a habit of saving.
User Journey
Promoted pins and targeted banners will advertise the feature.
They lead to a landing page where members can sign up.
Once synced, the member's savings account will include their connected boards and show their savings progress.
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Sashi the Scared Little Sheltie
Sashi the Scared Little Sheltie
Sashi chases everything that moves - exactly what a Herding Dog should do. Her original owners don't understand and don't want her any longer. She suddenly finds herself at a shelter - very scared and alone. She is helped by Sheltie Rescue and adopted into a "forever home", where she is loved and trained to be the awesome dog she was meant to be.
Based on the true story of Sashi the Sheltie.
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LocationDuluth, MN
4956 Miller Trunk Hwy.
Duluth, MN 55811
Used 2016 Keystone RV Sprinter 353FWDEN
This Keystone Sprinter fifth wheel features a wide body design with quadruple slides which increases the size even more when all slides are fully extended. You are sure to love the den area with the rear entertainment center and fireplace.
Enter model 353FWDEN and head up the steps on your right to the front master bedroom and side aisle bath. The bathroom offers a residential shower, toilet, sink, and linen cabinet. The private master bedroom at the end of the hall features a slide out residential queen size bed. There is also a dresser opposite, and full front wall wardrobe and closet for all of your clothing storage needs.
Heading towards the kitchen area you will find a dinette with booth seating along the curb side wall and three chairs on the opposite side. Along the interior wall is a double sink with counter space on both sides plus overhead storage for your dishes and things. The kitchen continues to provide everything you need to prepare and cook food for your family with a slide out three burner range, 18 cu. ft. residential refrigerator, and a pantry for your non-perishables.
Continue towards the rear of this model to the den area to find theater seating for two facing the rear wall entertainment center, 55" TV, and a fireplace. There is more seating and sleeping space with the dual slide out tri-fold sleeper sofas on each side of the room, plus so much more inside and outside this Sprinter.
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Some may joke that parents need a vacation from their vacation when they travel with kids. Any parent knows how challenging it can be to travel with children. There is all the gear you have to bring (and carry), kids in their tantrum years, the cost of needing more space and more food and more tickets… traveling with kids is just more difficult. There, we said it. But it can be easier.
As a mom of two kids, and eventually a mom in a blended family with five kids, as well as the former editor-in-chief of two highly publicized family travel websites, I have learned a thing or two about traveling with little ones. My daughter was 6 months old when I took her on her first trip (and she developed a fever, so it did not go smoothly!), and a single mom while my kids were 4 to 12, and finally, I have five teenagers to travel with (that's them, above), so I've seen and done it all. Here are some tried and true tips that have worked for me:
• Stick to a schedule. Until kids are teens, they rely on schedules, and maintaining a schedule is the No. 1 secret to staying sane when traveling with kids. If your child takes a morning or afternoon nap at home, return to the hotel for a morning or afternoon nap. Give your kids snacks at the same time they are used to having a snack. And, definitely, put your kids to bed at the same time as they do at home. The breakdowns and tantrums you see on the road are children who are overtired, overstimulated and hungry.
• Understand this is a different vacation. You may have been a couple who loved to travel and see absolutely everything you could possibly see when visiting a new place, but with kids, you need to change your travel ways. Kids can't keep up with a whirlwind vacation, and they don't want to. You may enjoy spending hours at a museum but your kids would be happier just spending time with you on a beach or at a park. When traveling with kids, be sure to relax and go with the flow. Although I just told you to stick to a schedule, don't stick exactly to an itinerary. If something catches your child's eye, go do it! And if your child just wants to splash in the hotel pool instead of standing in line at the amusement park, give in (and save yourself the cash).
• Utilize kids' clubs and babysitting services. My first trip to a resort with a kids' club was an eye-opener. I put my kids into a morning club so I could enjoy the spa. And the entire time I was getting my massage I felt guilty. What type of mom leaves her kids to get a hot stone treatment? As soon as it was over, I beelined to the kids' club to take them out and spend time with them. They saw my face and instead of running into my arms, ran the other way yelling, "NO! We made friends! We want to stay!" I couldn't believe it. They were actually having a ball. So I let them stay for the afternoon and found myself free to go for a quiet bike ride and sit by the adult pool. We each got what we wanted and came back together for dinner and discussed our day. If you're a couple, definitely take advantage of services that allow you to have a romantic dinner at a nice restaurant at least one night during your trip. Happy kids make happy parents, and vice versa.
• Travel light. This may sound like an oxymoron when traveling with kids, but travel light. There is nothing worse than trying to manage all of your gear and excited kids darting in all directions. If you are going away for an extended period and have young children who need high chairs, diapers, bottles, etc., consider having items shipped or turning to rental services like Baby's Away. Many hotels offer amenities to assist you, or can have items stocked in your room upon arrival, as well. If you simply must bring everything, check as much as you can so you have your hands free and aren't bogged down at the airport. If your kids are old enough to carry a backpack, have them carry their own carry on, as well.
• Get a place with space. When kids are going to bed at 8, you don't have to go to sleep, as well. Book a suite that provides separate sleeping and living space so you can pop open a bottle of wine and talk while the kids sleep. If a hotel doesn't have suites, look for hotels with connecting rooms. More and more hotels are offering family rooms to you have room to spread out, which also comes in handy if a toddler needs a nap or you, like me, are traveling with five teens.
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Surviving and thriving in the food industry on the East End isn't easy. Rents are high, customers are demanding and competition is fierce. Restaurants and specialty food stores seem to go as quickly as they come, with the landscape changing every season. Mainstays are the exception, not the rule.
And then there's the Golden Pear.
Owner Keith Davis opened the first Golden Pear cafe on the corner of Main Street and Nugent Street in Southampton Village in 1987. Since then, the business has expanded to three other locations—East Hampton, in 1991, Bridgehampton, in 1996, and Sag Harbor, in 2006—all while becoming one of the most popular spots on the East End, year-round, to grab a cup of coffee, eat breakfast or enjoy a gourmet lunch. Mr. Davis, his family and his employees are celebrating 30 years in business this month.
Mr. Davis, who grew up in Moriches and now lives in Hampton Bays, started off in the food industry at the bottom, washing dishes as a 14-year-old. He studied engineering in college, but his passion was always for food. He was working at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems when a friend, Michael Goodison, invited him to come work at a new cafe on Main Street in East Hampton—Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa. He became the No. 2 guy to Mr. Goodison, entering the food industry for good.
He was working at another gourmet food store—The Prime Concern on Jagger Lane in Southampton—when the Southampton restaurant Le Chef vacated its corner Main Street property and moved to its current location on Jobs Lane. Mr. Davis jumped at the opportunity to fulfill his dream of opening a gourmet cafe, buying the business and installing the Golden Pear in the location where it remains today. He said he recalled people telling him he was "crazy" for opening in November, but he had faith, and said he simply couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Before sitting down to talk about the 30th anniversary of his business at Golden Pear's Sag Harbor location earlier this week, Mr. Davis was busy chatting with employees behind the counter, and ducking in and out of the kitchen with the industriousness of an employee rather than owner. Mr. Davis is animated when speaking about the Golden Pear, his passion coming through clearly as he speaks proudly of the growth and expansion the business has enjoyed over three decades.
He points out that his four top chefs have worked for him for more than 20 years, and that many of the employees who are second in command in the kitchen have shown the same kind of loyalty. He remembers the exact date he hired one outstanding pastry chef, in particular—Anne Adams, who became his wife less than a year later. The couple, who have been married 29 years, raised three children together—Sarah, 27, Emily, 24, and Keith, 21. Now a senior at the University of Albany, Keith Davis manages the Bridgehampton cafe when he is home for the summer.
His father, also named Keith, said that it's possible his son might follow him into the family business, but noted that he is still considering pursuing his master's degree. Regardless, Mr. Davis doesn't seem ready to step away from the business anytime soon, and he's committed to keeping the business in touch with the latest trends in marketing and technology. The company recently launch a Golden Pear app that allows customers to view the entire menu and place orders ahead of time for pick-up in the shop. The app currently allows customers to use that feature in the Southampton store, and Mr. Davis said he hopes it will be launched in all Golden Pear locations by December.
Making it in the Hamptons restaurant industry while raising three children was challenging, Mr. Davis recalled, explaining that the business can be "crazy" at times. Still, he does not hesitate when asked how he's made it work.
He first mentions his Christian faith, saying he believes that God "opened doors" for him, but also says his passion for food and drive to succeed have been significant factors as well. A strong core of loyal employees has also been a key to his success, he said.
"Having a good team that respects you and will go to battle with you is very important," Mr. Davis said.
The restaurant industry is often characterized as having high employee turnover, and restaurant owners and managers—particularly in those businesses that typically operate at night for dinner, which the Golden Pear does not—can often have unsavory reputations. It's another example of how the Golden Pear stands out, Mr. Davis says, and several of his employees agree.
Alfredo Morales is the head bakery chef and also in charge of the kitchen at the Sag Harbor cafe. He came to work for Mr. Davis 28 years ago, after working in the restaurant industry in the city. He's been happy at the Golden Pear for several reasons, he explained.
"Because I love food," he said. "I love the place and I love what I do. I like to meet the customers; they know me, I know them. That's why I'm still here."
Mr. Morales added that the business provides a great atmosphere for its employees.
"We work like a family," he said. "[Mr. Davis] is always there for us, and we're always there for him."


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Malloy lukewarm about Connecticut border casino proposal
HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he's willing to learn more about a legislative proposal allowing up to three border casinos, but warns Connecticut shouldn't see the plan as a revenue generator.
The Democrat's lukewarm reception came Tuesday, the same day the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribe testified in favor of a bill they claim is needed to combat competition from casinos in neighboring states and protect Connecticut jobs.
More than 100 workers from the tribes' Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, joined by three of the top four Democratic legislative leaders, rallied outside the state Capitol in support of the legislation.
Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequots, said the bill is a proactive way to protect the state's economy. The state currently receives 25 percent of the tribes' slot machine revenues.


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2018 Annual Award Winners Announced
2018 Small Business of the Year Winner: Suzanne's Studio, Woodstock
2018 Large Business of the Year Winner: Lowe's of Woodstock
2018 Nonprofit of the Year Winner: Blue Ridge Hospice
2018 Citizen of the Year Winner: Libby Rocco
See all of the Annual Awards Party Photos Here
Welcome to our 2019-2021 Board of Directors
John Boor - John is the Owner/Operator of the Curtain Call Coffeehouse Cafe in Mount Jackson. He's also working on restoring the Nelson Theater connected to the Cafe. John has been a member of the Chamber since his business opened earlier this year. He would like to represent and work with small business owners throughout the County.
Timothy 'Kip' Brannon - Kip owns Brannon Consulting working with Howell Metal in that capacity. Kip lives and works in New Market. He's been a member of the Chamber since it's inception. Kip is a Board member of the Shenandoah Valley Workforce Development Board. He would like to improve existing businesses via workforce development and improve Adult Education.
Patty Fadeley - Patty is the Community Provider Liaison for Blue Ridge Hospice for the past two years. Previously working in the assisted living environment for Dutch Haven and Greenfield. Patty participates in the Chamber's Nonprofit Council and Chairs the Aging In Place Council. Her goal is to encourage participation in the Chamber's Councils. Patty is a member of the Leadership Shenandoah County Class of 2019.
Tammy Gasper - Tammy is the Vice President at Valley Health Shenandoah Memorial Hospital and VP of Medical Staff Services for the Southern Region of Valley Health. She has been with Valley Health for 23 years, ten of those in executive leadership roles. Tammy is a member of the Leadership Shenandoah County Class of 2019. She has experience in identifying and driving strategic goal initiatives and this would be beneficial as the Chamber continues to grow.
Allon Lefever - Allon is the President and owner of the Hampton Inn & Suites in Woodstock and other business ventures. He's been a senior executive in the Agriculture, Manufacturing and Internet industries. Allon recently published Launching The Entrepreneur Ship and serves on bank, insurance, and technology Boards. He looks forward to contributing innovative ideas on membership and revenue streams for the Chamber.
Pat Moore - Pat has been a small business owner in the Shenandoah Valley for 15 years. She focuses on protecting and helping businesses grow through LegalShield and IDShield. Before becoming a business owner, Pat was a Vice President for a company in the Employment and IT Services Industry.
This Amendment change passed at our Annual meeting and will be added to the Chamber's By Laws:
Article XI, Amendments, A. Revisions Section:
These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the Board of Directors present at any regular or special meeting, provided the proposed action be presented in writing at the regular meeting to the Board preceding such vote.
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 Businesses of the Year:
Left to right: Jason Torchia, Kelly Good Singleton and Mike Thorne with Bowman Andros Products accept the Large Business of the Year Award; Linda Kurtz and Sara Darnell with Dutch Haven accept the Small Business of the Year; Ingrid Thompson, Bill Moyers, Cena Hubbell and Cindy Hunter with ShenPaco accept the Nonprofit of the Year; and Mike Ashley, pictured with his wife Heather and award presenter Rich Church, accepts the Citizen of the Year Award.
Bowman Andros Products continues with double digit growth in its products that it sells throughout the United States. The commitment of its employees is a large part of that success and Bowman Andros Products looks forward to continuing the growth here in the Shenandoah Valley. The company has added more than 125 new associates in 2017. In July 2017, Blue Ridge Area Food Bank named Bowman Andros Products a HUNGER HERO for donating 434,950 pounds of food. The Bowman Andros Products team participated in the Shenandoah County Relay For Life and was the top fundraising business team and second overall fundraising team raising over $12,000 for the American Cancer Society. Bowman donated products to local area programs such as Luke's Backpack, Charterhouse School, Lions club, Pregnancy Center, Police Department National night out, area schools and churches last year. Their Buddy Fruits brand was very active in the FEMA relief efforts from the two hurricanes that hit Florida and Puerto Rico, shipping more than 3.2 million pouches to FEMA.
Dutch Haven has been in the Shenandoah Valley for 25+ years! This country Chic community of 48 beds provides great care to those in need of regular assisted living or memory care! Dutch Haven is very involved in the community by offering free educational events for seniors through an event called Senior Choices. Senior Choices started 4 years ago and has raised over $6,500 for the Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging. SAAA shared that the funds raised through this event are vital in providing senior's meals at the Senior Center and through Meals on Wheels. The 2017 donation came at such a good time as their funding had been cut here in the County. Another nominator shared that Dutch Haven is a hidden gem providing quality care to our community. The staff is passionate and truly cares about the residents and treats them like family. Dutch Haven is active in community outreach as their goal is to arm families with information that helps with the aging process. They have hosted and sponsored several events for veterans. Their events are free to attendees. Dutch Haven Assisted Living takes pride in offering the highest-level care for residents throughout the Shenandoah Valley at an affordable price.
Shen-Paco Industries, Inc. is a community based organization providing day support and employment services to adults with disabilities. Shen- Paco started out small, serving less than 10 individuals in a small building located in New Market. Today they serve over 120 individuals between two locations, Shenandoah and Page Counties, and employ 49 passionate employees. Shen-Paco continues to meet the needs of many individuals within each community and the surrounding counties. They provide a number of licensed services which consist of: Group Day Support, Intensive Group Day Support, Organizational Employment, Janitorial, Supported Employment, and Community Engagement- Which focuses on building skills and building relationships with community members. Shen-Paco also provides Residential Services with two homes in Shenandoah County and one home in Page. Shen-Paco works closely with the local schools helping students transition out of the school setting either into the community or into the day support setting. Shen-Paco is a very active community based organization, providing many opportunities to those with disabilities. Shen-Paco sees the Ability in disability!
I've had the privilege of working with this individual for the past 10 years and in that time he has actively volunteered on numerous committees and Boards such as the Shenandoah County Public School Business Advisory Committee, Shenandoah County Water Resource Board, Town of Woodstock Zoning and Appeals Board, Autumnfest and the Route 11 Yard Crawl. He has served as President for the Mt. Jackson Chamber and founding board member and President of the Shenandoah County Chamber; he's volunteered at the Shenandoah County Fair and chaired the 100th Anniversary Fair Parade and Woodstock Christmas parades for many years. He is a coordinator and preparer of the VITA tax program for People, Inc, spending many hours helping those in need prepare their taxes at no cost. He is currently volunteering with the school system as an instructor for Junior Achievement. These are just a few comments we received from his nominators: "We have been friends for over 15 years and recently my husband has become very sick with brain tumors and Mike comes running whenever we need him to help with our car washes or personal help. He has run our 4 businesses, come when there are emergencies, disasters and thefts. He has never asked what's in it for him. I have watched his leadership as he progressed through organizations we are involved in together. He has been very instrumental in bringing new ideas and energy to any organization." "I'd like to nominate Mike because he is always helping somebody. Whether it be a neighbor, organization, or a group. He is always involved. He checks on me morning, noon and night as I'm homebound and he always explains to me what happened during the day. He has always been very community oriented and he never expects any recognition." "I have known Mike since we started volunteering at age 13 at the fire department. He volunteers and works with multiple organizations here, for the State and nationally. He voluntarily gives business expertise free of charge to those in need through his car wash business and investigative business. He recently volunteered his investigative skills to a nonprofit and a family that were going through some problems. He is always that person who tries to help in any way he can. He does many things without having anyone know and he says he does it because it is just the right thing to do." The Chamber is pleased to recognize and honor Mike Ashley as Citizen of the Year.
Large Business of the Year Nominations:
Bowman Andros Products
Carmeuse Lime & Stone
George's, Inc.
Small Business of the Year Nominations:
Dutch Haven Assisted Living
On Second Thought Consign & Thrift
Nonprofit of the Year Nominations:
Family Promise of Shenandoah County
Shenandoah Community Foundation
Shenandoah County Thrift Store
Shen-Paco Industries, Inc.
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Pope Francis INAUGURATION MASS LIVE STREAM on iPad on Demand.
Searches for Pope Francis live streaming of inauguration mass live is now flooding the internet today, March 19, 2013. Is there really an apps for iPad, iPhone and Android for Pope Francis Inauguration Mass? This is only one of many questions by thousands or even millions of internet users around the world. So guys, you can try some of the links I provided below which you use to watch the live broadcast of Pope Francis Inaugural Mass.
You can Watch Papal or Pope Francis Installation mass live on the Voice of Russia website: See url below:
Live Video Sites:
Time of Live Broadcast or Live Streaming Video at 12:30 p.m
Pope Francis Inauguration Mass Full Video Replay Will also be posted here.
A blog that shares information about the 2013 Inauguration Day of President Barack Obama. From the list of Activities, Souvenir Items, Tickets, Photos, Video and The Live Streaming Coverage.


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Just had a customer blatantly lie to an ASM about what I told them about there laminate install. Customer had a detail done and thought the price was too high.(quoted for 2 bedrooms upstairs, 2 hallways,and a LR downstairs.) Came in on a Saturday and I just happened to be covering flooring. They decided to just do the upstairs bedrooms and the hall outside the bedroom that leads to a set of stairs. Asked me if the installer could do the stairs as well. I told her that the only way they could do the stairs is if they buy new treads and the installer would then have to glue the laminate to the treads and then take out the old treads and then install the new treads which would be extremely expensive. They decided to just buy the extra material and have someone do that part for them. Sold the install.
Flash forward 2 weeks and I was just pulled into the office and my ASM asked me what I told the customer about installing laminate on stairs. I explained to her what i told this customer. My ASM said that is not what the customer told me you told them. They said you told them the installer would just glue the laminate down on the existing treads. I looked at her and said who do you believe?
The customer was demanding they do the laminate on the stairs
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Experience with Cisco Nexus and Catalyst devices, Load Balancers, Backbone and Edge Routers.
Consulting experience.
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I take my dog on a variety of walks including footpaths on a roads where I always pick my dog's waste up (in public), but when I go via the back of my house through the fields I usually let my dog go and leave it, as long as it's not along the main public footpath.
Additionally the field is already full of cow pats and sheep droppings... However I was challenged by a lady the other day who stated cow/sheep poo is very different to dog waste so I should pick it up, even if it's off the supposed beaten track. She stated that it would affect the milk, even though I responded with the cows in the back of the fields behind me are all heifers (male)...She then said it would affect the taste of the meat when sold, which I thought was total rubbish.


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By selecting the 'Account' tab, you will be able to select which account you are currently accessing, view all of your account values, view your account history and select whether you want to display Margin or Leverage. From the 'Account' screen you will also be able to logout of your account.
Account Values
Below the account selection, you can view your account status. By tapping the 'I' icon, a tooltip will be displayed that shows a detailed explanation of each field. Please see the following explanations.
Cash Balance
The Cash Balance displays your realised cash balance for the account in your base currency. When a trade is closed, the resulting P&L will be displayed here.
Open P&L
The Open P&L value displays the cumulative P&L of all of your open positions in your base currency.
Account Value
The Account Value displays your Cash Balance including your cumulative P&L in your base currency.
Margin Available
Available Funds to place new opening trades or orders (in the account base currency)
Margin Used
The Margin Used field displays the cumulative Margin Requirement of all open positions and orders in your base currency.
The Liquidity field displays the health status of your account. A figure greater than 100% represents an overall profit; a figure less than 100% represents an overall loss. If your account reaches a liquidity value of 0% all open positions on your account will be automatically liquidated.
General Settings
At the bottom of the Account screen, you will be able to choose whether your accounts values are displayed as Leverage or Margin. Select which one you would like to view and these values will persist and be displayed upon your next login.
Account History
By selecting 'Account History' you will be able to view a full account history displaying your Trade History, Order History and Transaction History.
Once you have accessed the Account History screen, you will be able to specify a date range.
Once you have selected the date range, you will be able to select the entries you would like to view when the report is generated.
Trade History – The Trade History report displays all filled orders and executed trades. It shows all opening and closing trades with any subsequent P&L as a result of a closing trade.
Order History - The Order History report displays all orders that have been placed on to an account. This will display Market Orders, Orders to Open, Stop Losses and Take Profits. This report displays all orders no matter if triggered and filled or not.
Transaction History - The transaction history only displays ledger entries that affect a clients Balance. The transactions displayed in this report are as follows: Trade Result, Bank Wire, Credit/Debit Card, Credit/Debit Card Fee, Correction, Bonus, Overnight Financing, Dividend, Commission, Conversion, Transaction Fee and Borrowing Charge.
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It was a hot, sunny day in early September and the lawn around me was a sea of colorful banners and signs advertising debate clubs and Ultimate Frisbee teams. Like many college freshmen, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of clubs at the annual student activity fair.
I was also a little overenthusiastic: I signed up for any club that promised free pizza, including the student-run Catholic newspaper. Although I'd never written for a school paper, it seemed like a very collegiate thing to do. (Along with eating all that free pizza, of course.)
But that was just choosing a club. For young people today, discerning our vocation and taking steps toward it can feel overwhelming. As we graduate from school, find jobs and start families, the difficulty finding work and the alienating effect of technology only worsen the problem.
Pope Francis articulates another issue that compounds the problem: "The horizon consists of options that can always be reversed rather than definitive choices," he writes. "Young people refuse to continue on a personal journey of life, if it means giving up taking different paths in the future: 'Today I choose this, tomorrow we'll see.'"
At least in my corner of the world, we've got so many choices open to us that we can easily be paralyzed in front of all of the options. It's a much bigger version than a college student fair, and the stakes feel a bit higher.
More than ever, young people need a framework to help us determine our vocations. But amid what Pope Francis calls the "noise and confusion" in the world, how do we figure out what we're called to do?
During college, the best advice I received on how to think about vocation was that my vocation wasn't really about me at all. At the Jesuit university I attended, students weren't asked, "What are your skills?" but instead, "How will you use your skills to serve others?"
A well-known Boston College theology professor, Father Michael Himes, best articulates this other-centered framework for thinking about vocation. In his "Three Key Questions" talk, Father Himes asks young people to consider three questions: What gives you joy? Are you good at it? Does anyone need you to do it?
While young people around the world have different challenges and experiences, we share the same restlessness: a desire to live our lives fully and well. These three fundamental questions get to the heart of our restlessness. By thinking of vocation as self-gift, suddenly the horizon of endless options narrows. We can move forward with purpose and pour our energy into concrete actions.
By my second year of writing for the newspaper, I had started wondering if writing was more than just an extracurricular activity. Could I do it after graduation? Father Himes' third question immediately came to mind. Catholic writers like Dorothy Day model a way to channel faith and writing into service to others, drawing public attention to social injustices through their writing. Maybe there was a way forward for me here, too.
The church doesn't tell young people what their specific vocations are. But it can be a compass, guiding and accompanying us on our journey of discernment. By framing the search for vocation in terms of self-gift and love, the church can help young people "recognize and accept the call to fullness of life and love" as we go forward with courage and make our choices with love.
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Shannon is my older sister.
She is the person who...
1. encouraged (dared) me to jump off a 2' high ledge when I was 3 years old.
I broke my arm. I cried about it for hours.
|The Stinson's, pre-Leslie. 1978?
2.) when I was 6, gave me an education on The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, & Santa Claus all within 5 minutes. I cried about it for days.
|The Stinson's, in all our 1980 glory.
3.) sat with me and said "Yeah, I can do your hair for you. It will look cool and winged back like the guys on TV." I'm still crying about this.
|The Stinson's, with special guest: Shawn's hair. 1986?
4.) who might kill me for sharing all these pictures.
She is also the person... who looked out for me, laughed with me, encouraged me, and gave me guidance and advice when I needed it. I'm thankful for her and all the great times we've had together.
Oh yeah, she's also the person who turned 40 today!!!!
So maybe, she'll give me guidance on how to survive that when I get there ....a looong time from now.
Happy Birthday, Shannon.
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How to Adjust the Default White Balance on the Sony A6000
In my previous article on using a custom calibration for the Sony A6000 in Lightroom, I mentioned that it can also be helpful to tweak the in-camera white balance defaults. A few people have asked me what I mean by this, so I've decided to do a very short tutorial on how to do it (it's not very complicated.)
So what do I mean by tweaking the white balance settings? Well, many cameras let you change the default white balance for settings such as "Daylight", "Cloudy" and so on. You do this by offsetting the normal value and making it either warmer or cooler, or add more magenta or green. You can also add an offset to the auto white balance settings too.
On the Sony A6000 this is fairly easy to do.
Step 1
Start by bring up the function menu, by pressing the FN button on the back of the camera. Move the curser to the white balance setting, and then press the centre button to select it.
Step 2
This will bring up a list of the white balance presets. Select the one you want to change (or use the currently selected one) and then press the right arrow button on the camera's rear dial d-pad.
Step 3
This will bring up a colour square with a cursor dot in the middle. This is the offset, and you can move the centre point by using the arrow keys on the d-pad. If you want the white balance setting to be warmer, then move the point to the redder side of the box. If you want it cooler, then move it in the opposite direction. To tint the image green, move the curser up, and to tint it magenta, move it down.
Step 4
Once you're finished, press the rear dial centre button again to save the changes and exit out. Make sure you do this before pressing the shutter button, as otherwise it won't be saved.
That's all there is to it. It's pretty simple. You should only ever need to move these by a point or two, and to reset them, just go back in and move the cursor back to the centre. Obviously you can make these tweaks in post production if you're shooting raw files too, but if you find that you're always offsetting the white balance, then setting it in camera can be useful too.
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Newsletter 2
Welcome to our second newsletter and the first one of 2018! We've been keeping busy with some great repertoire, and have plenty of exciting projects in the pipeline – hope you enjoy reading, and do come along to a concert!
Chamber Residency at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
In February we embarked on a chamber residency at Snape Maltings, and spent almost two weeks making music together in the extraordinary surroundings of Benjamin Britten's Suffolk. We were really delighted to be part of the Aldeburgh Music chamber residency series, and very excited to have the opportunity of working intensively as a group and receiving coaching from Ashley Solomon.
We spent the first week working on a programme of seventeenth-century Spanish dances including our own improvised suite of dances that had been banned at various points in Spanish history: the Jácárás, Ciacona, and Sarabanda. At the end of the first week we gave a lunchtime concert to a wonderful and tangibly friendly audience at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh (where Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream was premiered on 11 June 1960) before enjoying some excellent fish and chips at 'The Upper Deck' and walking along the bitterly cold beach.
The weekend of coaching with Ashley started with some French baroque chamber music and L'Espagnole from François Couperin's Les Nations. This ordre (self-contained collection of pieces in the same key) is comprised of a seven-movement sonade en trio followed by 10 dances that culminate in a mighty Passacaille.
We spent Saturday working on this piece in the Holst Library, looking at specific aspects of French style such as ornaments, vibrato/flattement, and inégalité, as well as how to establish and communicate the essential character of each dance, and how to find a French goût or flavour within the sound we all make as an ensemble that is different to the sound world of, say, Bach or Telemann. On Sunday we continued with our Couperin immersion but also found time to work on the first of J.S. Bach's Organ Trio Sonatas (BWV 525) and Jean-Marie Leclair's Deuxième Récréation de Musique. We finished the week feeling exhausted but also inspired – not only to rehearse better and work harder but also to pay more attention to our on-going development as chamber musicians, creating time and space to get excited about music and keep exploring new repertories and interpretations.
We continued our second week by staying mainly in the eighteenth century, and left Snape feeling enthused and reinvigorated (and not just because of the freezing weather) - huge thanks to everyone who helped us to have such a wonderful residency!
Brighton Early Music Festival & Live Music Now
We're really enjoyed being part of the BREMF Live! Scheme, and in March we visited some schools in Brighton as part of the festival's outreach programme. We went to Elm Grove and Coombe Road Primary Schools, where we presented workshops that explored improvisation and included a Tambourin courtesy of Leclair. Some highlights included improvising a Romanesca with over 80 children across the day, and being asked whether you could eat gut strings (let us know if you've tried this). We're also very much enjoying the variety of people we get to engage with on the Live Music Now scheme. Over the next 10 days, for example, we're presenting concerts at a special needs secondary school, a residential care home, and a dementia-focused community centre.
1pm, Thursday May 10th
Lunchtime concert at St George the Martyr Church, Southwark (Borough High St, London SE1 1JA) Chamber music by François Couperin and J.S. Bach alongside improvisations - FREE ENTRANCE
3pm, Sunday May 10th
Improviso at the Foundling Museum (40 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AZ)
Inspired by Handel's operas and the museum's Giulio Cesare exhibition - FREE ENTRANCE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
1pm, Monday May 21st
Lunchtime concert at St Michael-at-the-Northgate Church (Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3EY)
Chamber music by François Couperin and J.S. Bach alongside improvisations - FREE ENTRANCE
4pm, Sunday May 27th
Plumstead Peculiars concert series (Ascension Church, Timbercroft Lane, London, SE18 2SG)
Chamber music from the 17-18th centuries alongside improvisations -FREE ENTRANCE


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Sept 13 stars the dynamic diva from Broadway's Disaster!, Lacretta (Book of Mormon), six-time MAC Award winner Jim Caruso (Liza's At The Palace, "Jim Caruso's Cast Party"), the wicked funny Elizabeth Findlay (Story Pirates, Improv at The Pit), the dreamy & delightful Austin Miller (Trip of Love, Days of Our Lives), the always-sassy featured BuzzFeed comedian Maureen Toomey (Bragging Rights, Up Above and All Around), and the capriciously multi-talented Robert Gonzales Jr. (Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer on Broadway, Fools in Love).
You'll laugh your (BODY PART)______ off! A Time Out NY Critics' Pick written by Billy Mitchell, Villain: DeBlanks is the uproarious improvisational comedy where the cast says words you put in their mouths. The audience provides nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. (the wilder, the better), and the actors provide the laughs—uncensored and unrehearsed—as they enact the story of Philip DeBlanks' untimely demise. It's "Clue" meets adult "Mad Libs," and it's never the same show twice!
A portion of proceeds from each show will benefit the good folks at Animal Welfare Institute (A+ rating).
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Shifty villains indeed abound in All Kinds of Shifty Villains, Disgraced Productions's delightful if rather two-dimensional film noir spoof, now playing at the Kraine Theater. So does a silent, affable, rubber-limbed circus clown in a red nose. But is the clown a villain? And are the villains of the noir world – the femme fatale, the ambitious maniac, the cops and robbers – actually a carload of sad clowns? All Kinds of Shifty Villains, scripted by Robert Attenweiler and directed by Rachel Klein, asks these questions, none too seriously. The answers they come up with are more fun than a phone booth full of Maltese Falcons. This is the kind of noir story that opens with a hardboiled, womanizing private eye, Max Quarterhorse, gamely played by Joe Stipek. As the San Francisco fog lifts, Quarterhorse is trying to quit smoking and drinking because, among other reasons, the local police precinct has banned these pastime. The cops don't want it to "turn into a graveyard" or "a drunk tank." While they're worrying about atmosphere and sobriety, a lunatic is planting bombs around the city, a femme fatale has a secret, Quarterhorse's secretary, "the kid," desperately wants him to realize that she's a woman, and a matronly arms dealer's pair of thuggish sons face an agonizing decision: cereal for breakfast, or whisky?
As deftly directed by Klein, the physical comedy is broad, balletic, and reminiscent of the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin. Each member of the ensemble cast has developed a specific body language for his or her character, which makes up for the deliberately cardboard characterizations.
Attenweiler's dialogue is often raucous with whimsical absurdism. "You came here for something," one of the thug brothers accuses Quarterhorse, "and something can turn into prison bars, just as cereal can turn into whisky." Some jokes, however, are tired and predictable. The woman who wants to be kidnapped because it's the only way to indulge her rope fetish isn't surprising at first, and gets less interesting the longer the gag (no pun intended) is played out. When Attenweiler gets the absurdities of the noir genre right, he gets them very right. "Max is sure" that a bomb "is on the roof!" one cop shouts at another. "Right!" the other cop replies, "We'll check the rest of the building!"
Lisa Soverino's lighting design aptly creates the dim spaces and chiaroscuro of the films. Emily Taradash's costumes look like Halloween costume knockoffs of classic 1930s-40s attire. The costumes impressively survive what must be the considerable stress of circus-style performance.
Noir is built on suspense, and sometimes this play is too silly and too loosely structured to have any. The action goes on for quite some time after the last bomb threat is neutralized, and the characters are not fully developed enough to incite anxiety as to whether they will find fulfillment as well as safety. This is largely the same kind of trouble that weakens Broadway's otherwise brilliant and funny vintage-film spoof Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Like its bumbling cops, All Kinds of Shifty Villains doesn't look into anything too deeply, but is certainly amusing.


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LYNN — Jarid Clapp couldn't believe his luck when he and his wife landed an apartment at The Vault, the downtown's newest luxury building.
"It was like a gift from God," he said. "The price was right and the location, near mass transit, was perfect."
But four months into their tenancy, the 37-year-old auto mechanic who moved to Lynn from the west coast, is having second thoughts.
Tenants say problems with the heat, hot water, drafty windows, mice, security, and trash removal have plagued the building since it opened over Labor Day weekend. The management company and the developer said they are taking the complaints seriously and working to solve them.
Clapp leased a two-bedroom penthouse unit with ocean views, stainless steel kitchen, in-unit washer dryer, and an "energy efficient" individual heating and air conditioning system for $2,200 per month.
But amid a host of problems, the couple discovered their first electric bill topped more than $140 and given the frigid temperatures they expect their December bill to triple. The reason: the apartment is heated with inefficient electric heat the tenants pay for, Clapp said.
"If it's $140 for mild fall weather, what will it be when the December bill comes," he said. "Management offered to seal the windows, but we can't see how that would do much."
The couple is not alone, others in the 47-unit property have similar complaints.
Chad Santorilla, 37, moved from New York to take a job at a digital media company in Lynn. He leased a one-bedroom, 600-square-foot unit on the fourth floor for $1,700 sight unseen.
"The first thing I noticed when I moved in was the management office is in Boston and there's no one on-site," he said. "Strangers hang around the building trying to get in, security cameras are not in place, tenants had to fight to get the elevators to work and trash picked up."
Like Clapp, he is worried about the cost to heat and cool the apartment. In September, his electric bill was $75, in October it rose to $106, his November bill soared to $323 as the cold New England weather set in.
"Given the frigid temperatures this month, my December bill will top $400," he said. "When you add in the outrageous cost of the utilities, it's costing me closer to $2,300 to live here and I am not satisfied. I will not pay my January rent unless I see repairs."
The MG2 Group, a Boston developer, bought the 103-year-old property at Central Avenue and Willow Street in 2014 for $2 million. The former bank building underwent a $12 million facelift and most of the units were leased before the building opened in September.
Joseph Donovan, vice president of MG2, said he got a heads-up last week about heating system complaints and its cost last week from Charlesgate Property Management, the Boston manager of the 8-story building.
"The heating system is brand new and was designed for that property," he said. "We went back to the manufacturer, the engineer who designed it, and the contractor who installed it, and asked them to diagnose the extent of the problem."
The inspections were made over the weekend, he said, and Donovan is awaiting word on a fix.
On the drafty windows, Donovan said they are in touch with the manufacturer and installer on how to correct the problem.
"We are on it and we won't stop until it's fixed," he said.
Todd Mikelonis, Charlesgate's general manager, did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email to tenants, Charlesgate managing partner Michael DiMella apologized and said he understands there are problems that must be corrected, and are committed to correcting issues as fast as possible.
"Once the (heating) system is functioning as intended, the ownership is committed to reviewing any heating/electric bills that may have been higher than normal due to the heating system not functioning properly," the email said. "We will create a clear process to address the financial impact on the tenants as we move the repairs forward and heating issues are resolved."


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The longest running long distance windsurfing race in some of the toughest conditions imaginable!
A 40+ mile distance taking the formula boards and kiters out the golden gate and 8 times across the SF Bay, down to the bottom of the Berkeley pier for the SF Classic and back the the StFYC for the UN Challenge.
Seth Besse dominated both races in the 25 board formula fleet with an elapsed time of 1 hour and 46 minutes while kiters Johnny Heineken and Joey Pasquali each took the upwind and downwind portions of their race respectively but still were well off the pace of the top boards with best elapsed finish time by Chip Wasson in 2 hours and 2 minutes
The wind graph off Angel Island pretty much sums it up.
35k at Point Blunt.
I did not sail to win.
I sailed to survive.
Multiple blow ups on the way downwind and upwind had me thinking about about stopping to retire at Treasure Island at least a few times as that was our designated safe spot- guaranteed for a ride back to SF with the RC.
Each time, however, I was able to dig a bit deeper and hang on a little bit longer.
It was a respectable 5th for me in the SF Classic and just happy to have made it back home across the finish line for the UN Challenge.
Ive sailed in 8 or 9 SF Classics and can say this was one of the windiest and most challenging Ive ever done.
My muscles are still sore thinking about it.
Anyways- here's my recollection of how things staked up.
With a 2pm start- it still looked manageable with 15-20k at the start set just off Crissy field.
I lined up prepared with my fastest set up- NP 9.5 rig, ML10 and 67 kashy fin.
I'd been running the top half of the course the last few days and felt comfortable - even fast but wasn't pushing 100% with my back still recovering from over training a few weeks back.
I got off the start brilliantly on port tack- getting almost up to the bridge only to realize it was a general recall. I high tailed it back and just made the restart- getting a decent position off the line on starboard tack.
I flopped over taking advantage of the shore lift and set up for the long the first of many grinding legs. Ben Bamer was gunning from the start but over stood the top mark while Seth called it perfectly tacking under the bridge and straight out to the red nun buoy set west of the south tower of the golden gate bridge. I lost Xavier here over standing as well but was in the hunt in the top 4 with Wells, and Purcell in hot pursuit towards the next mark- set just inside the north tower. We gybed in a messy stew of vodoo chop, current and boat wake and in no time were off to the presidio shoal buoy set just off the old coast guard station in from Ft. Point.
This can sometimes be where the race is won or lost as there's a huge opportunity for separation as the wind is much lighter set in the lee of Presidio just out from the wind line.
I was able to overtake Xavier as he showed a moment of weakness coming into the mark high as the rest of us put some money in the bank and heated it up as it got lighter
Seth wasnt able to make a break yet but had a good lead as we headed back upwind to the red nun for the 2nd time.
photo credit: seirra photosXavier and I were batteling it out for 3rd grinding upwind as Tom Purcell held his own in 2nd with Well and Bamer not far behind.
Once more out the gate and across to the north tower saw things stay heated up and finally we were off downwind to Anita rock with Seth in first, Tom in 2nd and me holding onto 3rd with Wells and Xavier breathing down my neck.
I let the 2 of the get by me the next leg as Xavier went high Wells went low to Harding rock set across the Bay on the western edge of Angel Island.
As we gybed and made out way down to Blossom rock, things really heated up
The swell below Alcatrez was big and the breeze building to 25k+
I went from running in the double chicken strap to running with my foot in the leeward strap just for control. The next thing I knew I was blind sides by a wave the took my feet out right from under neath me. A quick water start but Wells was able to slip by.
Blossom Rock was a feat to maneuver around with my cams still fully inverted fighting for control as I made a conservative gybe trying not to explode
The next leg was pure hell with no comfortable way around it.
Somewhere between a beam reach and a close reach on a formula board is pretty much the most uncomfortable position you would ever want to piut yourself in. Add 4-6' breaking swell and the wind now gusting above 30k.
I made it around Point Blunt only to encounter more of the same on the way to Blossom Rock set west of Treasure Island.
At that point it was a blur of some of the hairiest sailing I have ever done on the Bay.
Im not sure when Eric went past me as I didnt even see him till we got in.
I tried to reel David in on the way down to R4 and R2 set below Alcatrez and Angel Island but was fighting just for survival. I missed the opportunity to gain more as David extended his lead by sailing well past R2 before gyning and finding some flatter water for better control.
I gybed immediately and stumbled upon the top of the pier.
At that point I was hurting but had enough momentum to keep pushing as Sylvester was now with in striking distance behind me.
I held on the last 2 legs going to the Olympic circle X mark and finally down to the bottom of the pier unable to catch Wells for 4th as top 3 squeezed in a good 2 minutes in front of me. Besse, Eric and Xavier took the honors.
There was a bit of confusion as the finish boat that's normally at the bottom gap in the pier was stationed in the middle of the pier but in any case we were back grinding upwind for the long beat home and the Ultra Nectar Challenge.
With Sylvester hot on my tail and slowly gaining I looked down to see a good patch of sea grass trailing from my fin. A quick back down let Steve get by me but the real test was coming ahead.
Port tack seemed an eternal punishment for all the bad things I had done in my life.
I was getting pounded never able to put the hammer down.
Wave after wave- the board was flying well out of the water across the top of the 4-6 swell.
In hindsight its easy to look back and say- yea another 1" forward on the mast track would have quieted things down. Picking the right direction upwind and staying out of the big stuff would have been another step in the right direction but I was getting all the punishment that was coming to me.
Just as I was making up some distance on Wells in front of me, I got slammed several times and ended up in the eddy behind Alactrez fighting against myself as I got too close to the shore.
50' later it was blowing 25k and I couldn't even get to it.
The fishermen around me must have though I was quite a spectacle, cursing the gods above, uphauling and falling in multiple times in the swirling eddy.
I thought to myself- keep it together and just finish the race.
10 minutes later I made it across the the finish line but well off the pace of the top boards who made the journey in 41 minutes.
Sunday was a blur with my head never in the game for course racing.
Choosing the right sail would have at least got me in the top pack but I struggled with a hangover and being underpowered with the 9.5 rig in what seemed like a mild day of racing in 12-17k.
Besse pulled another string of bullets.
I came ashore and collapsed after 4 races.
1 week to recover before doing it all again for 5 days of racing on the city front for the 2010 US Windsurfing National Championships.


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Mike Conway and his friend Dr. Scott Paynton are embarking on a wonderful journey and opportunity this May. As surfers, they are increasingly conscious of the environmental impact all surfers have as the drive up and down the coast looking for surf. As a result of this awareness, Mike and Scott are spending two weeks this May bicycling (500 miles) and surfing down the coast of California to surf in an environmentally friendly way. Through the journey, they hope to bring attention to others regarding the many environmental issues that face our coast. They will be self-sufficient on the trip, meaning they will carry all of their gear and tow their boards behind their bikes. All of their surf gear is made from the latest in sustainable materials. Mike and Scott have been fortunate to have many eco-friendly companies donate eco-friendly gear to help them succeed on their journey, and to use to educate others about consuming in environmentally friendly ways. At this time, they have been sponsored by Teva (www.teva.com), Simple Shoes (www.simpleshoes.com), Home Blown eco-friendly surfboards (www.homeblownus.com), Chrome (www.chromebags.com), Finisterre (www.finisterreuk.com), Pacsafe (www.pacsafe.com), DocksLocks (www.docklocks.com), ArmorBags (www.armorbags.com), Wave Tribe (www.wavetribe.com), Endura (www.endura.co.uk), Matunas Eco wax (www.matunas.com), Quiver Kaddy (www.quiverkaddy.com) Camelbak (ww.camelbak.com), Hobie Sunglasses (www.hobie.com), Princeton Tec (www.princetontec.com) , Walkabout Travel Gear (www.walkabouttravelgear.com), Matuse Wetsuits (www.matuse.com), Equinox Trailers (www.equinoxtrailers.com), Logon Business Systems (www.logonsystems.com), and Big Sur River Inn (www.bigsurriverinn.com). They are excited to use their eco-friendly equipment as a tool to educate others. If raising environmental awareness was not enough to accomplish in two weeks, they are also using this opportunity to raise money for the American Cancer Society by participating in Humboldt County's Relay for Life event. Given that human activities not only impact the environment, but have also been shown to harm human health, they are asking friends, family and those they meet on their journey to donate money for each mile they ride, or to pledge a flat amount. In part, their efforts are to raise money in honor of Mike's father who passed away last year from cancer. They will then participate in the Relay for Life event in July where they will give 100% of the money we raise. Mike and Scott are excited about their upcoming adventure and hope they can take you along in some way. They plan to make this an annual biking event that will include East coast tours. They have information, pictures, etc. about the trip on a myspace account and webpage. Please check out the "blog" section regarding all of the information for how to pledge money for the American Cancer Society in connection with our trip. Please check out the Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/bikeandsurfcalifornia or the website: www.bikeandsurfcalifornia.com. When? May 15th, 2008 to May 27th 2008 Where? Starting: Fort Bragg California Ending: Santa Barbara, California. The tentative schedule: 15-May Fort Bragg Guralala 16-May Gualala Bodega Bay 17-May Bodega Bay Ocean Beach - Mark's 18-May Ocean Beach Santa Cruz 19-May Santa Cruz Big Sur 20-May Big Sur San Simeon 21-May San Simeon Pismo Beach-Grover 22-May Pismo Gaviota State Beach 23-May Gaviota Santa Barbara Who? Dr. Scott Paynton: Surfer, Cyclist, Professor of Communication at Humboldt State University. Mike Conway: Surfer, Biker, Musician, and Activist. Bachelors in Communication from Humboldt State University, Former Director of Development for Surfrider Foundation Santa Barbara Chapter. Goodwill Ambassador to Africa for McCune Foundation. What can people do to help? 1) Go to www.myspace.com/bikeandsurfcalifornia and join as a friend. 2) Pledge your donation to the American Cancer Society by visiting their website at www.bikeandsurfcalifornia.com. 3) Send your donation (check made payable to the American Cancer Society) to Mike Conway, 1426 Bath St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Forward this email to, and tell, everyone you know! Mike and Scott will provide pictures of the trip and any information to you for media publication. Please contact them at: Mike Conway: 425-647-5355, email@example.com Dr. Scott Paynton: 707-616-1114, email@example.com Websites: www.bikeandsurfcalifornia.com www.myspace.com/bikeandsurfcalifornia We plan to make this an annual biking event that will support many non-profit organizations.
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text: winesburgohio: yes. also, i haven't forgotten that emily made this point in her interview with ny mag: "If a woman writes about herself, she's a narcissist. If a man does the same, he's describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it's like, well, who's the narcissist?" thingsiatethatilove: "From the very start, art critics saw Hannah [Wilke]'s willingness to use her body in her work as an act of "narcissism" ("A harmless air of narcissism pervades this show …" The New York Times, 9/20/1975). This strange descriptor still follows her beyond the grave, despite the passionate efforts of writers like Amanda Jones and Laura Cottingham to refute it. In his review of Intra-Venus, Hannah's posthumous show, Ralph Rugoff describes the artist's startling photos of her naked cancer-ridden body as a "deeply thrilling venture into narcissism." As if the only possible reason for a woman to publicly reveal herself could be self-therapeutic. As if the point was not to reveal the circumstances of one's own objectification." [ …] "In an amazing text written in 1976, Hannah proved to be her own best critic … 'Rearranging the touch of sensuality with a residual magic made from laundry lint or latex loosely laid out like love vulnerably exposed … to make objects instead of being one.'" — Chis Kraus, I Love Dick (emphasis mine) Meg WachterApril 30, 2010Comment Facebook0 Twitter Tumblr 0 Likes


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Recording an Album!
Yes yes… finally putting down songs on "tape". It's been a long time coming but here we go!
The album will consist of all original music written over the past 10 years (like I said, long time coming)
If you'd like to donate to the cause (recording ain't cheap!) you can preorder the album here:
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In Mississippi, a revolutionary change for LGBT Episcopalians
The bishop of the Episcopal Church of Mississippi sent parishes across the state a letter last week allowing priests to marry -- without the need to petition for permission in advance -- same-sex couples or those who identify as part of the LGBT community.
The John Maury Allin Episcopal Diocesan House in Jackson confirmed the letter was sent to church parishes -- including congregations in South Mississippi -- on Friday.
Church members from parishes across the state had asked Bishop Brian Seage for resources to foster discussions about same-sex marriage at a January Diocesan Council meeting in Biloxi, Seage said in the letter.
Seage promised resources would be available by Easter, though he missed his own deadline by nearly three months.
But rather than just give literature, Seage also recommended action -- the liturgies he offered to Mississippi's congregations in his letter "permit marriage in church for all couples legally entitled to marry," Seage said.
Prior to the release of the bishop's letter, parishes were required to submit to Seage a petition requesting approval to perform same-sex weddings.
Now, priests -- if they so choose -- are able to marry LGBT members who wish to have a church wedding.
According to the Episcopal Marriage Canon, a clergy member has the discretion to decline to solemnize or bless any marriage.
Seage said he acknowledges some clergy members are not willing to officiate at gay marriages.
"My only request is that you refer, to me, any same-sex couple seeking marriage so arrangements can be made to offer these services of the church," Seage told members in his letter.
"I am aware that any change brings anxiety, but I'm also aware of the grace-filled way our church has walked together and supported the differing viewpoints that exist," he wrote.
Seage said his decision to allow same-sex marriage without petition was "beyond" what was discussed in Biloxi five months ago, but it is a result of soul searching about what he believes is best for the church.
"I spoke openly and honestly at the diocesan 'walk-abouts' and other venues about my support for marriage equality and the LGBT community," he wrote. "I did not get to this point in my faith journey 'lightly or unadvisedly.' I arrived here after a lot of prayer and discernment, as well as engagement with the Holy Scripture, the traditions of the Church and human reason."
Seage said the Episcopal Church should welcome all people and encourage diversity under their church roofs. He has even started a social media campaign, #being1church, that "promotes unity among its membership while simultaneously reaching out, in the name of Christ, to the world at large.
"Our baptismal covenant calls each of us to welcome, respect, and value those who are different or hold different opinions from us while expecting the same in return."
Rob Hill, Mississippi state director for the Human Rights campaign, said Seage's letter is encouraging for the LGBT community in the state.
"As a former Methodist minister, I know far too well that LGBTQ people of faith are frequently forced to choose between who they are, who they love and what they believe," Hill said. "Bishop Seage's inspiring leadership on marriage equality continues to put the Episcopal Church of Mississippi at the forefront of creating fully-inclusive congregations across our state."
Hill said he hopes Seage's initiative will inspire other faith communities to affirm their LGBT members.
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Meghan Lind, 23, has been an Episcopal all her life.
The Kiln native is a lifelong member of Christ Episcopal Church in Bay St. Louis, and she said she has always been proud of Episcopalians' support for the LGBT community.
"I grew up with many gay couples that are very close with my family," she said. "I'm glad to see that Bishop Seage is continuing to encourage parishes to perform same-sex marriages, just as the previous (bishop) did."
Lind said she has worked in her church's nursery and attended youth-group sessions. She's also volunteered at the Mississippi Episcopal Church camp, Camp Bratton Green.
She said most Episcopalians she knows support the LGBT community.
"Three weeks ago, we celebrated the marriage of an older gay couple that has been attending church since before I was born," she said.
Her priest, the Rev. Ted Dawson, performed the marriage, she said.
She said Dawson conducted the ceremony at the couple's home and had to get permission from the vestry and Seage before performing the ceremony.
Lind's sister, Lindsey Richard, 29, said she also supports Seage's decision. Richard serves as her church's wedding coordinator, and she is the Mississippi Diocese president of Episcopal Church Women.
"This is an ever-changing society, and we are trying to keep up with the time," she said.
Richard said several LGBT couples attend church with her on Sundays, and Christ Episcopal has a very diverse congregation.


text: Share: Comments Print March 8, 2008 at 12:34 AM Strange bedfellows Posted by Bob Condotta Two years ago this month, the Huskies and Utah State met in San Diego in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Today, they might meet in the lobby of the University Inn in Moscow, Idaho on their way out the door. One of the unique aspects of the Palouse is that there are two universities within eight miles of each other. And sometimes, that means opponents bunking in the same house, as is the case here this weekend with the Huskies in town to play the Cougars and Utah State here to play Idaho a few hours later on Saturday night. Each is staying here at the University Inn, located across the street from the University of Idaho. Also here is the Kent State baseball team, in town for a weekend series with the Cougars. The Huskies got the better of the Aggies when the two met two years ago, a 75-61 win that helped lead UW to the Sweet 16. But at 22-9 and second in the WAC, it's the Aggies who may have more to brag about this March. Comments


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The Iberian Pig
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- Valet parking (weekends only)
- Dress code: Casual
- Full bar
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- Romantic setting
- Take-out available
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The Iberian Pig Restaurant Review: The Iberian Pig exhibits lots of wood and warm lighting, and noise levels can get somewhat intense when the place fills, so we suggest going early. Ask for a table in the small enclave in front of the windows. As for the menu, pork appears as sweet, tender cheeks braised and paired with a poached egg and truffle or filling a taco. We like the veal shank-stuffed ravioli and the suckling pig-stuffed tortelloni. Try the wild boar meatballs and the classic patatas bravas, too. Meanwhile, the hanger steak was a good, heftier dish, and the kitchen was able to swap out queso fresco (which is Mexican) for tangy Cabrales from Asturias. On a previous visit, the jamón de Bellota was disappointing, but on this visit it was sweet, fat-flecked and tender. A few items make use of blood sausage, morcilla and Spanish cheeses. For dessert, get the flan or the churros with their side of hot chocolate. The wine list features Spanish labels, mostly reds, but there are options from other parts of the Hispanic world. If you're looking for a fino or Manzanilla sherry as an apéritif, you'll find them noted with dessert wines. Sangria (red or white) and craft cocktails are also on offer.
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