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Community Coffee Co. says it has begun selling single servings for customers with single-cup coffee brewers.
The new single-serve cups, available in grocery stores and online, will be offered in Dark Roast, Café Special and Breakfast Blend.
Community Coffee Chairman Matt Saurage tells The Advocate the "K-cups" -- named after Keurig, which popularized the single-serve systems -- are the fastest-growing segment for home consumption of coffee. Saurage says the single-serve cups account for around 20 percent of the dollars spent on coffee consumed at home.
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A chance meeting in May between a group of Lander University students and a survivor of the Invasion of Normandy recently resulted in the appearance of a new tree on Lander's front lawn.
The students were in France with the "Battlefields/Battlefilms" tour led by Dr. Jean Paquette, professor emeritus of history, and Dr. Misty Jameson, assistant professor of English and film studies.
The veteran's name is John Smitherman, and the meeting took place on Utah Beach, 66 years after Smitherman and the rest of the 4th Infantry Division came ashore during the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
"One memory I have is the walking stick he had, and watching him point with it to the spot on the beach where he believed he had come ashore. That was pretty neat," said Jonathan Smith, a senior political science major from Fountain Inn.
The 4th Infantry Division was the first Allied unit to land during what became the largest amphibious assault in history. Initially, losses were light, but the 4th Division's luck would not hold.
"The next day, we had to take [the gun emplacements above them] out because they were giving the ships so much trouble," writes David Roderick, a sergeant with the 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division and author of "Utah Beach: Story of Fourth Division and Support on D-Day." "We lost a lot of men attacking the fortifications."
By May 2, 1945, when the 4th was deactivated, it had suffered 22,454 combat casualties, the most of any American division in the European Theater of Operations.
Former Greenwood County Sheriff Giles Daniel's older brother, James Lawrence, and his best friend, Vern Holley, were 3rd Army soldiers attached to the 9th Infantry Division. They also landed at Utah Beach, four days after Smitherman.
Holley and Lawrence Daniel, whose wife, Mayo, had written to tell him she was pregnant with their first child, were not so fortunate as Smitherman. On July 18, near St. Lo, Lawrence Daniel was wounded. He died the next day. Within 24 hours, Holley had been cut down, too.
Former Sheriff Daniel was a sailor serving aboard the U.S.S. Hornet in the Pacific when he was informed of his brother's death.
He remembered his brother's prewar vocation, running the "dope wagon" that brought cokes and sandwiches to employees of Greenwood Mills, and learning to drive in Lawrence's '36 Ford.
"He was a good brother," said Daniel, now 85. "He was a mighty fine person."
James Lawrence Daniel Jr., of McCormick, who was born December 20, 1944, never knew his father. "I only had stories about what kind of man he was and what kind of personality he had," he said.
He was fortunate in one way. "I had several uncles, and they took up time with me," he said.
Like Smitherman, he was drawn to the place where so much blood had been shed, and in 2001, he brought his mother, who remarried in 1948, to the American Cemetery in Normandy to visit the graves of his father and Holley.
"Neither she nor I had ever been there," he said.
His mother died two years later.
Jonathan Smith, one of the students who came up with the idea to dedicate a tree to Smitherman, said the veteran from Alabama told him and the others from Lander that it was his first trip back to Normandy, too.
Smith characterized the meeting with Smitherman as the "highlight" of the Lander students' trip.
Gene McDaniel, a local veteran with 38 years of service, applauded the impulse that led the students to recognize Smitherman, calling it "a great idea to plant a tree in his honor."
Dr. Paquette, whose trip made the meeting with Smitherman possible, remembered how the students "got so excited that here was a guy who was in it and actually survived."


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No. 8 UCLA Blanks No. 9 UCSB
Jan. 19, 2009
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Despite another solid offensive outing by Jeff Menzel, the ninth-ranked UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball team will have to wait at least a week to pick up its first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) victory as it was swept in three sets at No. 8 UCLA Friday. Scores went 33-31, 30-28, and 30-28 in front of 701 fans at Pauley Pavilion.
As he's done in all five of UCSB's (2-3, 0-2 MPSF) matches this season, Menzel, a sophomore outside hitter, posted a team-high in the kills department, this time with 24. His 24 put-aways, which was also a match-best, came with just six errors in a tiring 43 swings, good for a season-high .419 attack percentage.
The Gauchos held advantages in several statistical categories, including attack percentage (.350 to .347), digs (31 to 29), and blocks (7.5 to 7.0). Kills were even (50), as were assists (48). However, Santa Barbara once again had problems from the service line, giving up 21 points on errors. In three of their five matches, the Gauchos have recorded 20 or more gaffes from the line.
UCLA (2-3, 1-1), which dropped from No. 2 to No. 8 in this week's national poll, was paced by Garrett Muagututia and Brett Perrine, who had 14 and 13 kills, respectively. Muagututia hit .414 (14-2-29) and posted a match-high 10 digs.
UCSB got strong hitting out of outside Blaine Nielsen (.667, 7-1-9) and middle Scott Slaughter (.545, 6-0-11). Outside Mike Runkle and libero Andy McGuire each tallied eight digs and middle Sam Moisenco had five blocks.
For Menzel, it was the fourth time this season he's slammed 20 or more kills. With 226 total attacks, he by far leads the team in swings as the next Gaucho on the list is opposite Jake Rosener with 135.
The match was the 142nd meeting between the two rivals. The Bruins hold a commanding 113-29 lead in the series and have won the last two match-ups. The Gauchos will try to salvage a season split when they host the Bruins at Robertson Gymnasium on Friday, Mar. 13.
UCSB is off until next Friday, Jan. 23 when it travels to Cal State Northridge for another MPSF match. The Matadors recently won UCSB's 45th Annual Elephant Bar Restaurant Collegiate Invitational and are ranked fifth in this week's poll.


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Only 29 percent of special education students in Louisiana are graduating from public high schools, and how the state supports them needs to be overhauled, state Superintendent of Education John White said Friday.
"We are not where we want to be," White said.
He said that, under current methods, special education students have less than a one in three chance of leaving high school with a diploma.
"That is a civil rights crisis," White said.
The superintendent unveiled his plan to the Special Education Advisory Panel, which includes educators, parents and others who advise the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, called BESE.
Any bid to make changes in special education aid could be a key topic when BESE next month debates its annual funding request to the Legislature. The regular legislative session begins April 8.
White was peppered with questions and concerns on Friday during an hour-long briefing for special education advocates.
The national graduation rate for students with disabilities is unclear.
However, the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs has said the rate is usually around 57 percent.
Louisiana's overall public high school graduation rate was 71 percent in 2011.
The state has 82,376 special education students, which is about 12 percent of the public school population, according to the state Department of Education.
About $313 million per year is spent to aid children with a wide range of disabilities, including speech or language impediments, various mental disabilities, hearing issues, deafness or vision problems, and autism.
White said the key problem is the state spends the same amount of money for all special education students — 150 percent of what rank-and-file students get — regardless of their disabilities.
"The money is the same for every strategy," the superintendent said.
He said there is also insufficient oversight on how local districts educate those children and how they fare in the classroom.
White said the new rules would link state aid to:
- Specific disabilities.
- Where and how the student is educated.
- Academic performance.
Under the proposed overhaul, one-third of the funding equation would be based on the needs of the child, which could range from a speech or language impairment in the lowest category to autism or brain injuries in the highest category.
White said such an approach would recognize that different disabilities require different levels of spending.
The plan would also base funding in part on the level of expenses associated with educating the student, including time in classrooms, hospitals, residential facilities or other locations.
Finally, one-third of state aid would be based on how special education students fare in the classroom, including whether they meet or exceed annual state academic improvement targets.
White repeatedly said any revamp would be phased in and would not have any dramatic impact on overall funding levels.
He said he plans to discuss the issue with public school superintendents and others in upcoming weeks.
But several members of the special ed panel said any reduction in state aid for special education students, even if it is aimed at better targeting needs, could cause problems.
"I don't think if they get less money they are going to think differently," Susan Vaughn, a member of the 17-member committee, said of local school officials.
Cindy Arceneaux, co-chairwoman of the panel, told White that current problems go beyond funding levels. "It's much more than the amount of money," Arceneaux said.
Holly Boffy, co-chairwoman of the panel and a member of BESE, said complications associated with any redesign of how the state aids special education students should not keep it from being considered.
The issue stems in part from a special education bill last year that was sponsored by state Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge. Claitor said Friday the issue needs study because of the spectrum of disabilities.
He said the state "ought to be cognizant of that" so that resources for students are allocated fairly.


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UC Hastings' top-ranked Moot Court team is in the midst of another sizzling season, racking up trophies across the country.
Byron Huang '14 and Joy Siu '15 took home the National Championship at the Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition in Kansas City on Nov. 9, 2013. According to The Mootster, the team dominated by "barbecuing the competition and impressing the judges" through five rounds of oral argument. Joy and Byron also took home the award for the Best Brief in the nation.
This year's Thomas Tang teams had incredible bench strength. UC Hastings sent three teams to compete in the Tang's Regional Rounds, in San Francisco and Seattle, who stunned the crowd with "their creative arguments and calm demeanors." At the Regional Competition, Hastings' Tang teams won the Regional Championship in San Francisco and Best Brief awards in both San Francisco and Seattle. Look for additional details in the upcoming issue of The Mootster.
Nationals, and National Exposure
Sponsored by the New York Bar Association, the National Moot Court Tournament is one of the oldest and most prestigious appellate advocacy competitions in the nation. For the first time in four years, UC Hastings qualified for the National Rounds of the competition in New York City by winning the Regional Tournament in November.
These recent wins come during a heady season for the Nationals team. U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. offered tips and tactics to the team as it prepared for the National competition during a daylong visit to Hastings on Jan. 29.
Solicitor General Verrilli served as a distinguished guest judge at one of the final team practices for Michael LaFond '14, Nicholas Yu '14, and Sean Juarez '14. Verrilli's feedback contributed to the team's finish as National Quarterfinalists at the New York National Final Rounds, one of the top eight of 139 teams in the country.
Specialty Competitions
Some Moot Court competitions are organized around a particular area of law. UC Hastings excelled at this year's National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition at Pepperdine. Brett Corbett '14 and Greg Michael '15 won the National Best Brief Award, and finished the competition as National Finalists. Brett was named Best Oral Advocate in the Final Round.
Teams focus on groundbreaking legal issues. At the John Marshall Law School's International Moot Court Competition in IT & Privacy law, this year's competition dealt with Google Glass. Matt Lusich '15, Paige Pembrook '15 and Barbara Tolbert '15 received some of the highest scores in the preliminary and final rounds. One judge described the UC Hastings representatives as "advocacy machines."
At the Whittier National Juvenile Law Competition, the team of Lauren Coleman '15 and Jonathan Myers '15 finished as National Semifinalists. Soha Jafarzade '15 and Leah Kaufman '15 finished as National Quarterfinalists.
Out of the Classroom, Into the World
The Hastings Appellate Project is entering its fifth year with a new slate of pro bono representation at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Allison Harms '14 and David Chang '14 are representing a Chinese refugee whose wife was subjected to multiple forced abortions. Allison and David will be arguing before the 9th Circuit on March 14. Patrick Burns '14 and Jamie Cheng '14 are representing a Chinese labor protester appealing the Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of asylum. Patrick and Jamie will argue before the 9th Circuit in April. Reilly Stoler '14 and Helen Luu '14 represent a lawful permanent resident subject to removal for a misdemeanor. Helen and Reilly will also be arguing before the 9th Circuit in April.
Great Start to the Season
"UC Hastings Moot Court had a great start to the 2013-14 season!" said Chang, Moot Court Board Co-Chair. "Our team members' hard work and commitment to making every practice count translated into significant hardware for Hastings. Special thanks to all of the faculty, alumni, and Moot Court Board members who contributed to our team's early season success!"
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A toxicology report on late KFDM anchor Bill Leger indicates that he had a blood alcohol level of .26, three times the legal limit of .08 allowed by the state of Louisiana, according to Trooper Stephen Hammons, public information officer for Louisiana State Police.
KFDM Channel 6 has reported that veteran anchor and news reporter Bill Leger died in an early morning car accident in Louisiana on Saturday, Dec. 22. For more details, including a bio written by Leger himself, visit the link below.
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Levity Entertainment Group plans to leverage its comedy offerings overseas through a partnership with Belgium-based distrib PIAS Entertainment, licensing 10 of its hour-long standup shows for distribution across Europe, South Africa and Australia.
Deal builds on Levity's existing relationship with PIAS, which helped establish a following for Levity-managed comics Jeff Dunham and Pablo Francisco via TV, DVD, mobile and broadband exposure in foreign markets.
The arrangement allows Levity to repurpose programs produced for Comedy Central in the U.S. — including Jim Breuer's "Let's Clear the Air," Pete Correale's "The Things We Do for Love" and Gabriel Iglesias' "Hot and Fluffy" — with the goal of building the artists' profiles abroad.
Levity Entertainment Group is already exploring ways to create awareness for its clients online through the use of its proprietary E-Comic Branding service. As the relationship with PIAS evolves, Levity intends to help promote European and Australian comics in the States as well, with further details expected after the Montreal and Edinburgh comedy fests.


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'American Hustle' delivers on laughs, characters and fashions
Darleen Ortega | 12/31/2013, 10:17 a.m.
Director David O. Russell has, in previous films, shown a talent for capturing scenes of interpersonal chaos; he clearly finds people endlessly fascinating and knows how to capture explosions of a kind more commonly experienced than those you'd see in a typical war or violent crime movie.
It is, to my mind, a problematic gift; the opportunity to watch someone display mad acting skills may not feel like enough reason to subject audiences to family dysfunction or mental illness, especially for those of us whose families already give us access to more than we can tolerate for free. Russell's films are always watchable, but his last two derailed a bit; "The Fighter" set up a very perceptive story about persistent and destructive family dynamics and then solved them too easily, and "Silver Linings Playbook" exploited its insights about mental illness by devolving into a romantic story that suggested that crazy can be downright cute.
Finally, though, Russell has found exactly the right balance. "American Hustle" is a positively rollicking blend of comedy, outrageous characters and fashions, an entertaining sort-of-true crime story, and some very astute observations about what motivates human behavior and about American society. It's destined for my list of the best films of 2013.
The story is built out of the elements of "Abscam," a famously outlandish FBI sting operation from the 1970s, in which a small-time con man helped the feds take down a cadre of corrupt politicians with an elaborate scheme involving a fake Arab sheik.
"Some of this actually happened," the film asserts early on -- but Russell and his co-writer are not aiming for a strictly historical account. For them, the guts of that story serve as a vehicle for exploring the idea of the con as a ubiquitous aspect of American society. In this story, everyone is scamming everyone else, including themselves.
No one understands this better than Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale, packing an additional 50 pounds for the role). As portrayed here, Irving is a successful con man because he has made a study of dissembling and can see it happening all around him. He works every angle with the care and confidence of a professional, and he understands the importance of noticing what people want to believe, and of keeping his operation small.
Irving has achieved modest success with this method, assisted by his girlfriend, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams). She's his soulmate, a former stripper who appreciates Irving's genius and adds her own astute spin. The two sell stolen and forged art and nonexistent loans to desperate folks, with Sydney posing as Edith Greensley, an Englishwoman with banking connections and distractingly low necklines.
But when the two are busted by an ambitious loose cannon, FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), he forces them into a more elaborate scheme to snag prominent targets like the mayor of Camden and several congressmen. The scheme depends on Irving's expertise, but violates all of his methods for setting up a good con.
The film opens with Irving assembling his elaborate comb-over, a hilarious and symbolic demonstration of the care involved in Irving's method. Indeed, hair and clothes are especially vivid throughout the film, a bonus that comes with the story's setting in the garish, hair-obsessed 1970s. Sydney's long, flowing ginger hair is part of a distractingly luscious persona that dazzles people into parting with their cash. DiMaso, overestimating his smarts as much as his charm, wears his in home-permed curls as tightly-wound as his persona. And Irving's loose-cannon wife, Roslyn (Jennifer Lawrence), works her chaotic sex appeal with a blond bouffant as unruly as she is.


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September 30, 2016: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 551, Dr. Mark Reynolds (University of Michigan) informs us that the cataclysmic variable GDS_J1701281-430612 will be observed by the HST/COS on
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Imaginative LES MISERABLES & THE AVENGERS Mash-Up Art For LES AVENGERABLES
by Pat Cerasaro - May 21, 2015
LES MIZ meets THE AVENGERS at last! (more...)
Claude-Michel Schonberg Attends LES MISERABLES UK Cast Change Rehearsals
by Pat Cerasaro - May 14, 2015
LES MIZ welcomes its composer back! (more...)
Cameron Mackintosh On Enduring Success Of LES MISERABLES: 'It's The Material'
by Pat Cerasaro - March 25, 2015
Cameron Mackintosh on the secrets to his success! (more...)
LES MISERABLES UK Unveils Several Stunning New Posters
by Pat Cerasaro - March 2, 2015
LES MIZ shows off its artistic side with some sensational new promotional posters! (more...)
LES MISERABLES UK Proclaims 'Je Suis Charlie' On Marquee
by Pat Cerasaro - January 12, 2015
LES MIZ joins the 'Je Suis Charlie' political movement! (more...)
BWW Reviews: Houston Family Arts Center's Production of LES MISERABLES is an Absolute Masterpiece
by Nyderah Williams - July 22, 2014
Houston Family Arts Center's production of LES MISERABLES is a riveting masterpiece! It evokes the spirit and themes of compassion, revenge and above all human transformation. (more...)
Peter Lockyer & David Thaxton Talk New LES MISERABLES Roles
by Pat Cerasaro - July 11, 2014
Long-running international smash hit mega-musical LES MISERABLES recently introduced two familiar faces to the franchise in new roles, Peter Lockyer and David Thaxton, and a fascinating chat with the two stars is now available to view. (more...)
Throat Virus Hits LES MISERABLES Cast Before Premiere at Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2014
Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne has had to postpone the premiere of Les Miserables. According to Herald Sun, a throat virus has hit the cast members. This Sunday's 6:30pm performance has now been shifted to 8pm on July 27 in order to ensure recovery. (more...)
BWW Reviews: Impressive New Regional Production of LES MISERABLES Debuts in La Mirada
by Michael L. Quintos - June 10, 2014
First to take on this brave task of bringing a regional production of the hit musical LES MISERABLES to the L.A./O.C. area is McCoy-Rigby Entertainment, that regional theater powerhouse that has consistently and successfully put on some magnificent, Broadway-caliber productions at their home base at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. In this theatrical company's very capable hands---particularly the pair attached to the production's Ovation Award-winning director Brian Kite---this impressive, locally-gestated LES MIS is confident, gutsy, and even quite rousing. (more...)
Theater Fans Petition to Bring LES MISERABLES to Manila
by Oliver Oliveros - March 27, 2014
In August last year, about 700 Filipino theater fans' Facebook-based petition to bring the smash Broadway musical 'Wicked' to Manila was deemed successful; the 'Ozian' stage spectacle opened at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) five months later, which ran 42 performances. Apparently, these fans are at it again: a newly created Facebook-based petition page to bring the critically-acclaimed reimagined production of Sir Cameron Mackintosh's LES MISERABLES to Manila is up and running--engaging every visitor to like its cause! (more...)
VIDEO: SESAME STREET Parodies LES MIS with 'Les Mousserables'
by TV News Desk - March 7, 2014
'Sesame Street' continues to be on top of its pop culture references, and this time it's taken inspiration from the Broadway musical LES MISERABLES -- which is returning to the Great White Way this season. In the clip below, 'Jean Bon-Bon (Cookie Monster) is a very sad French guy in pursuit of cookies in the streets of Paris. He must figure out a way to survive and help his fellow Parisians find cookies.' Click to watch the spoof! (more...)
La gira de 'Los Miserables' pasar� por el Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
by Juan-Jose Gonzalez - February 25, 2014
Ya están a la venta las entradas para esta parada de la gira en Barcelona del 25 de julio al 3 de agosto. (more...)
BWW Reviews: NC Theatre Scores Big with LES MISERABLES
by Larisa Mount - February 15, 2014
North Carolina Theatre is taking on an iconic work of musical theater with their current staging of LES MISERABLES. Such a piece is quite a feat to put on, and to do it well is a great undertaking, but NC Theatre manages to accomplish something spectacular by combining the best talent of the Triangle with amazing New York actors. The result is a production which does justice to the cultural monolith which is Les Mis. It's a perfect production for die-hard fans and first-timers alike. (more...)
Drayton Entertainment Announces LES MISERABLES as 2014 Season Flagship Production
by Toronto Newsdesk - February 3, 2014
After months of rampant public speculation, Drayton Entertainment's Artistic Director Alex Mustakas today announced Les Miserables as the organization's flagship production for the 2014 Season. The coup is the result of Mustakas trying for years to secure the rights to one of the biggest and most successful productions in Broadway history. The epic musical will take centre stage at the Dunfield Theatre Cambridge June 11th to August 2nd, and theHuron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend August 7th to August 30th. (more...)
BWW Recap: A Look Back at LES MISERABLES in Toronto
by Alan Henry - February 1, 2014
A look back at the Toronto sit down production as it comes to a close, with three of our very own stars Broadway Bound! Ramin Karimloo, Cliff Saunders, and Melissa O'Neil are all headed to the great white way in the new broadway revival! (more...)
Rehearsals for Broadway Revival of LES MISERABLES with Ramin Karimloo & Caissie Levy Begin Monday
by BWW News Desk - January 10, 2014
Rehearsals begin Monday, January 13 in New York for Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schonberg's Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece LES MISERABLES, which returns to Broadway beginning Saturday, March 1 at the Imperial Theatre. The official opening night for LES MISERABLES is Sunday, March 23. The cast of the new LES MIZ features Ramin Karimloo (West End and current acclaimed Toronto star of LES MISERABLES, and The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies in London) as Jean Valjean; Will Swenson (Tony Award-nominated star of Broadway's Hair and Priscilla Queen of the Desert) as Javert; Caissie Levy (West End and Broadway star of Ghost and Hair and Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked) as Fantine; Nikki M. James (Tony Award winner for The Book of Mormon) as Eponine; Andy Mientus (who captured the hearts of TV viewers with his portrayal of Kyle Bishop on the NBC series 'Smash') as Marius; talented newcomer Charlotte Maltby as Cosette; acclaimed Canadian actor Cliff Saunders (The 39 Steps) as Thenardier; Tony Award-nominee Keala Settle (Hands on a Hardbody) as Madame Thenardier and Kyle Scatliffe, (the West End production of The Scottsboro Boys) as the revolutionary Enjolras. (more...)
Colm Wilkinson Discusses His Charity Guest Appearance in LES MISERABLES Toronto
by Pat Cerasaro - January 6, 2014
Iconic originator of the central role of Jean Valjean in mega-successful mega-musical LES MISERABLES, Colm Wilkinson, will make a rare return to the Toronto stage in a different guise at this Saturday's special performance of the new revival in Toronto and he discusses the noble reason why in a new interview. (more...)
A Peek Behind the Curtain into the World of 'Do You Hear The People Sing?' is My BroadwayWorld Highlight of 2013
by Jacqueline Bublitz - January 5, 2014
Headlined by Michael Ball and Lea Salonga, two of musical theatre's biggest stars, the chance to go behind the scenes of Do You Hear The People Sing? in Shanghai was an opportunity not to be missed. (more...)
BWW REVIEWS: Weathervane's Take on LES MISERABLES Delightfully Different
by Paul Batterson - December 30, 2013
One of the great things about the theater is that art is constantly changing, constantly evolving. If it isn't, even the best of shows become stale, bland and, God forbid, boring. (more...)
BWW Reviews: All the Tears! All the Stars! A Moving DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? in Shanghai
by Jacqueline Bublitz - December 6, 2013
All the tears! All the stars! as Lea Salonga and Michael Ball headline a moving Do You Hear The People Sing? in Shanghai. (more...)
BWW Reviews: New Jersey College Gets a Double LES MISERABLES Treat for Their Production
by Pati Buehler - November 29, 2013
Former Broadway Les Miserables cast members Deborah Bradshaw and Craig Schulman lend a hand in the Cumberland County College Theater Arts Department for their production of Les Miserables. (more...)
BWW Reviews: Miraculous LES MISERABLES Lights up Skylight's Stage
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - November 29, 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, is there a world the audience longs to see? A future world where dignity, harmony, freedom, love and peace can exist? Part of this future can be discovered when the Skylight Music Theatre presents their production of Les Miserables that runs through December 29 in the Cabot Theatre at Milwaukee's Broadway Theatre Center. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: LES MISERABLES Launches in Australia
by Stage Tube - November 7, 2013
LES MISERABLES Australia was launched on October 14th at The Chapter House. Check out the video below! (more...)
BWW CD Reviews: Jason Forbach's REVOLUTIONARY Tenderly Soars
by David Clarke - November 6, 2013
Most recently wowing North American audiences as Enjolras on LES MISERABLES' 25th Anniversary Tour, Jason Forbach played with the idea of revolutionary for his latest CD single REVOLUTIONARY. In creating the song, he pulled from his experiences on the barricades and wrote "Revolution" with Wesley King. He rounded out the CD single with a rendition of the iconic "Bring Him Home" from LES MISERABLES and an instrumental version of "Revolutionary." (more...)
BWW Interviews: Broadway's Craig Schulman Then and Now
by Pati Buehler - October 29, 2013
Broadway artists come and go. Some are talented enough to survive the Great White Way for a few years and some are fortunate enough to have an enduring lifetime doing what they love the most; performing. Craig Schulman is among those whose career spans some 25+ years. From his numerous performances as Jean Valjean in one of the world's most beloved theatrical productions to producing and directing projects and teaching young people in theatrical master classes and workshops, Craig has done it all. (more...)


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ALIGNING the goals of SMART, the Transportation Authority of Marin and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District provide opportunity to reduce congestion.
I am writing to support the "out of the box" thinking toward solutions to congestion, as described by transportation planner Walter Strakosch in his March 31 Marin Voice column.
Mr. Strakosch's creative suggestions include:
Extending the SMART train to dockside at the Larkspur Ferry terminal, providing a more accessible location to the ferry than is now planned. This is consistent with the SMART proposal when it was first proposed to voters.
Studying use of the parking lots in the Larkspur Landing area, including the parking lot at the ferry terminal as potential structured parking locations.
Improved and easy access for bicyclists to and from the ferry terminal, SMART train and the north-south bikeway system that parallels the 101 freeway, including more frequent connections to safe and separated bikeways as integral to the local street network.
These recommendations are consistent with the draft plan as proposed by the city's Citizens Advisory Committee to Larkspur's SMART Station Area Plan. The Larkspur City Council will be reviewing these recommendations at an upcoming meeting this year.
At the regional and state funding level, this approach is consistent with AB 32 greenhouse gas reduction goals and SB 375 implementation, especially the Association of Bay Area Governments/Metropolitcan Transportation Commission Sustainable Communities Strategy Principles for tying transportation funding to local area plans for reducing congestion and greenhouse gases produced by cars and small trucks as well as reducing barriers for all ages to use alternative modes of transportation.
It would be most constructive, in my opinion, to encourage, through the discussions of the TAM Greenbrae 101 Corridor Working Group, a new, more environmentally and cost/benefit sensitive alternative to the "build alternative" proposed, emphasizing many of the congestion reducing concepts as outlined by Mr. Strakosch.
This approach would align efforts in the Larkspur Landing Area, where: TAM, SMART, Golden Gate, ABAG, MTC and BCDC all have simultaneous planning projects in the same vicinity.
The opportunity for success in this effort exists because Marin has representatives (and the same few people sitting on multiple boards) with decision making power at these regional agencies regarding transportation funding. The money can be moved/used to study the direct train to ferry connection at the EIR and Specific Plan level and beyond to full implementation, if feasible.
Larkspur's citizens and council have a new shared vision for the future of the Larkspur Landing Area. The City Council is also working with our twin city, Corte Madera, to identify solutions responsive to expressed citizen concerns regarding 101 freeway corridor improvements, including more modest and less impacting traffic control alternatives.
Marin County's towns and cities have a long history of working together to resolve common problems. Let's continue this proud tradition as we move forward with the public decision making process in the Larkspur Landing/Greenbrae 101 Corridor area.
Dan Hillmer is the mayor of Larkspur and a member of the Transportation Authority of Marin Highway 101 Greenbrae-Corte Madera committee.


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Washington Township Fire Department conducts monthly checks of the 12 alert sirens located throughout Centerville/Washington Township.
The sirens are activated for tornado warnings and potentially used in the event of other emergencies. Siren testing takes place on the second Monday in July -- and requires approximately 15 to 30 minutes. Testing normally takes place the first Monday of the month, but has been moved due to the July 4th holiday.
If you live near a siren, you can help make sure it's working properly. Find more information here.
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The producers of saucy TV drama The Client List have 'sexed down' billboards promoting the show so as not to upset people who were offended by leading lady Jennifer Love Hewitt's assets last year (12).
Posters of the busty brunette wearing black lingerie and leaving little to the imagination caused controversy when they hit the streets advertising the last season of the show, and one censorship group went so far as to cover up the actress in their own versions of the ad.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer star explains, "There was one group of people, who were offended by the billboard and were not into it, so the next thing we knew... they covered me up and they actually made me a cup and a half (bra) size smaller... It was very strange."
To avoid a similar controversy this year (13), the marketing men have opted for a less sexy image for their billboards, which features Love Hewitt's character as a latter day Gulliver.
She says, "They were like, 'Well, we'll go somewhere in the middle and try not to offend people this time,' so they put tiny men crawling on me."
In the series, Love Hewitt plays a high-end masseuse who pleasures clients.


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Dual boot with Windows
This is a simple article detailing different methods of Arch/Windows coexistence.
BIOS Systems
Using a Linux boot loader
Using Windows boot loader
Another option is sort of the reverse of what is described at the beginning of this article where GRUB loads the Windows boot loader, which then loads Windows. Under this option, the Windows boot loader load GRUB, which then loads Arch.
Using Windows 7/8 boot loader
The following section contains excerpts from http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/.
The remainder of the setup is similar to a typical installation. Some documents state that the partition being loaded by the Windows boot loader must be a primary partition but I have used this without problem on an extended partition.
- When installing the GRUB boot loader, install it on your
/bootpartition rather than the MBR.Note: For instance, my
/bootpartition is
/dev/sda5. So I installed GRUB at
/dev/sda5instead of
/dev/sda. For help on doing this, see GRUB#Install to partition or partitionless disk
- Under Linux make a copy of the boot info by typing the following at the command shell:
my_windows_part=/dev/sda3 my_boot_part=/dev/sda5 mkdir /media/win mount $my_windows_part /media/win dd if=$my_boot_part of=/media/win/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
- Boot to Windows and open up and you should be able to see the FAT32 partition. Copy the linux.bin file to
C:\. Now run cmd with administrator privileges (navigate to Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator):
bcdedit /create /d "Linux" /application BOOTSECTOR
- BCDEdit will return an alphanumeric identifier for this entry that I will refer to as {ID} in the remaining steps. You'll need to replace {ID} by the actual returned identifier. An example of {ID} is {d7294d4e-9837-11de-99ac-f3f3a79e3e93}.
bcdedit /set {ID} device partition=c: bcdedit /set {ID} path \linux.bin bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast bcdedit /timeout 30
Reboot and enjoy. In my case I'm using the Windows boot loader so that I can map my Dell Precision M4500's second power button to boot Linux instead of Windows.
Using Windows 2000/XP boot loader
For information on this method see http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html. I do not believe there are any distinct advantages of this method over the Linux boot loader; you will still need a
/boot partition, and this one is arguably more difficult to set up.
UEFI Systems
Both Gummiboot and rEFInd autodetect Windows Boot Manager
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi and show it in their boot menu, so there is no manual config required.
For GRUB(2) follow GRUB#With_Windows_Installed_in_UEFI-GPT_Mode.
Syslinux (as of version 6.01) and ELILO do not support chainloading other EFI applications, so they cannot be used to chainload
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Rita Milla felt a pang in her stomach last month as she began reading a thick church file related to her landmark sexual abuse case against the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
The Carson resident received the file on Jan. 29, almost 35 years to the day years of horrific sexual abuse by seven priests began when she was just 16. A judge had ordered the file and those of other abuse victims in Southern California released as part of a legal settlement against the archdiocese.
"The 28th of January 1978 was when I was first raped," said Milla, now 51, as she sat Thursday in the Wilshire Boulevard office of civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.
It was the first in-depth interview Milla has granted since the documents were made public.
"Every year on that day it kind of freaks me out," she said. "I started feeling like when I was 18 when this stuff was going on – the same feelings, the guilt and the hating myself." I became very depressed and for three or four days I just wanted to hide out. I just wanted to throw up.
"Things I had totally forgotten about, they were in there. So it brought back everything. A very horrible time."
One of the priests, who was sent to the Philippines to stay with his brother's family, impregnated Milla when she was 19. He was sent to the Philippines to stay with his brother's family, supposedly to study nursing. as cover – not even her parents yet knew the truth – She gave birth to his child in a life-threatening pregnancy and delivery.
At the time, the scope of the sexual abuse by parishioners suffered at the hands of supposedly celibate priests was largely unknown.
Her sensational accusations against the priests and eventually the hierarchy of the Catholic Church were made against the backdrop of an incredulous and sometimes hostile public.
But the allegations by a devout, yet vulnerable teenage Catholic girl made national headlines. The charges that she was callously coerced into submitting sexually to respected authority figures were the first in the nation to receive widespread attention, she said officials with the Center for Constitutional Rights told her.
The group has called for an investigation into cover ups around the world by high-ranking Vatican officials for what it believes are crimes against humanity.
"There were people who couldn't and wouldn't believe it," Allred said. "The secret was hurting so many people and destroying so many people. That makes it so significant that Rita had the courage to speak out and to break the silence and tell the secret.
"That helped to encourage and empower other victims, other survivors, to know that if Rita had the courage, and if she could take some legal action, that maybe they could too," Allred added. "So Rita inspired a tidal wave of other cases and the breaking open of this secret that the church was so determined to keep."
But it was more than that.
An initial lawsuit Allred filed on Milla's behalf was tossed after a judge ruled the statute of limitations had expired.
She did win a settlement related to a $6 million defamation action against a Catholic bishop who publicly claimed Milla was promiscuous in an apparent effort to discredit her. That provided a trust fund for her daughter, Jacqueline.
The priest who started the cycle of rapes in seedy motels and revered church rectories – Father Santiago Tamayo – publicly apologized at a 1991 news conference.
But Milla herself got no financial compensation for her ordeal from the church.
In 2002 Allred lobbied for and won a one-year window under state law that suspended the statute of limitations. That allowed abuse victims to file suit for long ago crimes.
It's a tactic other states have employed in their search for justice and others are still pursuing.
Milla eventually received $500,000 in 2007 as part of a record $660 million settlement against the church.
It was a legal battle that took almost a quarter century, Allred said, taking up 23 years of her 38-year law career.
Church officials had initially told Milla they would help her and her child.
"Instead of helping, they covered it up," Allred said. "And then they helped the priests, not you, because it was all about the image of the church, it was all about keeping the secret."
But the newly released records have corroborated the extent of the cover-up perpetuated by the archdiocese, Allred said.
There are letters of concern from church officials in Rome, asking what the publicity regarding Milla's accusations was all about. They suggested the background of priests should be checked more carefully in the future.
There and written exchanges between the accused priests and the archdiocese, which falsely claimed not to know their whereabouts.
In the letters senior Los Angeles church officials urged Tamayo to stay out of the country lest he expose himself – and the archdiocese – to a lawsuit.
They urged him to continue in the trusted role of priest in a new parish, potentially giving him access to new unsuspecting victims.
At another point they urged him to get a job outside the priesthood – and offered a recommendation.
And they continued to secretly pay him until he left the priesthood and married. Tamayo died in 1996.
The stalling, Allred said, was designed to ensure the statute of limitations ran out.
"They were trying to obstruct justice," Allred said. "There was a cover-up and (the files) substantiated it.
"They should have dealt with this from the beginning in an honest fashion. But they just deepened the wounds they had inflicted upon so many outsiders. There's just no excuse. And it went on for decades, we're not talking about a couple of years."
It was Allred, not the church, that eventually found Jackie's father and forced him via court order to take a paternity test.
Father Valentine Tugade never contacted Rita Milla or asked to see his daughter. He never apologized.
Jackie, who has three sons from a first marriage, recently remarried and now lives in San Diego. She declined to be interviewed for this story, in large part said her mother, because she remains angry at the church.
So does Rita Milla.
"I'm forcing myself to face it," she said of the old memories brought back by the release of the files.
"I'm forcing myself to see all theugliness in it," she added. "Throughout the years I learned how to bury it and …always knew there was something I wasn't coming to terms with, so I hope it will somehow help me."
Milla, who is married with a son and still works as a medical assistant, attended a recent news conference by SNAP – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Milla credits such groups with helping keep the issue in the forefront so other victims can find a degree of justice.
She said she talked to fellow abuse victims at the SNAP event about what they found in the recently released files. The conversations provided a degree of closure.
"It wasn't personal anymore, it was done to others (too)," Milla said. "It was their modus operandi."
Today, like other members of her immediate family, Milla no longer believes in a God.
A God whose earthly representatives would take advantage of those who believed in him – and them – is not something Milla can put her shattered faith in.
Instead, she sought more practical considerations for herself and other victims from a church that exploited believers and attempted to evade accountability for so long.
"They totally underestimated Rita and her will, her courage in getting to the truth and inspiring others," Allred said. "Rita has made history. She is dedicated to seeking justice not only for herself and her child, but for so many others.
"She just wanted the truth to come out. And most of it has."
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That is why there are those that post the reviews and those that do not, despite pretending to know. (At least one guy comes to my mind, who is no longer here).
However, I might add that just because someone has strong personal opinions, a fragile ego, or a need for attention, does not necessarily make them bereft of knowledge or strong observational skills.
A review is a spur of a moment-what you think about the given absinthe right here and right now-hence, I have added the double review of Veuve Verte to show it more clearly.


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The following activity occurred Monday, Nov. 12, to Sunday, Nov. 18, as reported by the Lewiston Police Department. LPD reported a total of 83 responses were logged during this period.
Monday, Nov. 12
•3500 block of Ransomville Road, mental health response. LPD on location to assist Niagara County Sheriff's Office. All OK.
•1700 block of Saunders Settlement Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 23, placed under arrest for aggravated unlicensed operation. Uniform traffic tickets issued for Lewiston Town Court. Vehicle towed; report filed.
•700 block of Raymond Drive, suspicious person complaint. Patrol spoke with homeowner who reported an elderly male, possibly lost at a wrong address. Patrol handled.
•3800 block of Creek Road, shooter complaint. Patrol assisted NCSO on a check of the area.
•North Seventh Street, neighbor problem. Handled by patrol.
•Saunders Settlement and Miller roads, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 35, placed under arrest for aggravated unlicensed operation, third. Uniform traffic tickets issued for Lewiston Town Court; vehicle removed by a family member.
•5700 block of Townline Road, unwanted person. LPD on location to assist NCSO on a possible burglary. All secure.
•700 block of Cayuga Street, alarm response at a bank branch. All secure; no key holder.
Tuesday, Nov. 13
•5900 block of Ward Road, gas leak. Strong scent of propane reported in area. Gas supplier contacted, located a main tank valve leak and addressed same.
•West Street Elementary School, suspicious vehicle. Patrol located a male, 57, who claimed to be lost. Subject assisted/advised by patrol.
•5900 block of Garlow Road, assist. LPD on location with EMS responders for a male, 63, violent diabetic, who collapsed prior to patrol's arrival. Subject OK after regaining consciousness.
•LPD office, harassment complaint. Patrol spoke with a male, 63, who reported an ongoing issue of receiving harassing phone calls.
•700 block of Center Street, neighbor problem. Patrol spoke with a female, 47. Investigation to continue.
•1200 block of Swann Road, recovered stolen property. Patrol reported the arrest of a male, 47, from the call. Suspect arraigned at Lewiston Town Court and released on his own recognizance.
•Upper Mountain Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 27, placed under arrest for aggravated unlicensed operation. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•Niagara University campus, disturbing the peace. Unidentified party picked up by mother.
•5000 block of Susies Lane, unwanted person. Subject gone on arrival; all OK.
•2400 block of Upper Mountain Road, missing person. Patrol spoke with a male, 63. Female, 63, listed as victim/missing. Area searched with negative results. Investigation to continue.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
•Locations on the 2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road and on the 2400 block of Upper Mountain Road, two follow-ups on the missing person search. LPD reported ATVs, LPD K-9 unit and air searches conducted. Subject eventually located on Upper Mountain Road and returned home.
•5900 block of Williams Street, assist. LPD on location with NCSO to serve an order of protection.
•1200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, shooter complaint. Patrol advised the parties.
•4500 block of Washington Drive, open burn complaint. Patrol found no one around and the fire almost out.
•300 block of Upper Mountain Road, fireworks complaint. LPD assisted NCSO; nothing found.
Thursday, Nov. 15
•5800 block of Garlow Road, animal problem. Patrol dispatched a raccoon.
•4600 block of Creek Road, Lewiston-Porter High School, harassment complaint. Investigation to continue.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, aggravated harassment. Statement taken from a male, 26 regarding a female, 20, listed as a suspect.
•1700 block of Ridge Road, warrant execution. Male, 25, turned himself in with lawyer. Arraignment at Lewiston Town Court and subject released on his own recognizance.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, follow-up. Female, 20, from above aggravated harassment complaint placed under arrest for aggravated harassment, second. Appearance ticket issued for Lewiston Town Court and suspect released on her own recognizance.
•North Fifth Street, four-vehicle accident in a bank parking area. Statements taken and MV forms issued. Two vehicles towed. Report filed.
•200 block of South Third Street, attempted burglary. Complainant reported garage door damage in the lock area. Checks of area requested.
•5800 block of Garlow Road, two-vehicle accident. Statements taken from the drivers, report filed.
•700 block of Center Street, larceny. Male, 47, and female, 45, listed as suspects. Patrol reported a larceny in progress. Suspects in vehicle fled east on Center Street and were stopped at Ridge Road and Cayuga Drive. Suspects arraigned at Lewiston Town Court; bail of $250 each assigned and suspects remanded to custody of NCSO. Property reported as $62 worth of items, recovered and placed in evidence. Report filed.
Friday, Nov. 16
•NU campus, intoxicated female. Subject taken to EM-Star at Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center.
•Ridge Road, west, reckless driver. Plate number logged; negative results on patrol's search.
•NU campus, criminal mischief. Female, 20, reported broken side mirrors on her vehicle.
•1900 block of Mount Hope Road, electrical fire. Patrol assisted Lewiston No. 2 Volunteer Fire Co. on location. All OK.
•North Fifth Street, suspicious persons. Party located, advised of soliciting regulations and dispersed. All OK.
•1500 block of Ridge Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 60, placed under arrest for aggravated unlicensed operation. Suspect released on uniform traffic tickets to Lewiston Town Court; vehicle to a licensed driver. Report filed.
•1000 block of Sweet Home Road, mental health response/domestic. Female, 81, listed as complainant and male, 16, listed as person involved. Male reportedly pushed the complainant down to the ground and urinated on her leg.
•5300 block of Military Road, unwanted party. Patrol listed a female, 46, as a complaint; a male, 21, as a suspect; a female, 21 as a person involved, and a male, 50, also as a person involved. Male suspect placed under arrest on charges of harassment, second, and disorderly conduct. Arraignment at Lewiston Town Court; bail of $250 assigned and suspect remanded to custody of NCSO. Report filed.
•Kiwanis Park, suspicious vehicle. Patrol located and sent on its way.
Saturday, Nov. 17
•2300 block of Upper Mountain Road, suspicious person. Female complainant stated someone knocked on her front door; suspected individual to be her ex living across the street. Patrol confirmed; all else OK.
•Black Nose Spring Road, suspicious vehicle. Patrol reported the arrests of a female, 19; a female, 18; and a male, 20 - all on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana. Appearance tickets issued for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•1000 block of James Drive, neighbor problem. Patrol spoke with a male, 54. Call involved a dispute over cut tree branches. Other party involved unavailable at this time.
•Garlow and Stoltz roads, vehicle/traffic stop. Female, 22, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court; vehicle to a licensed driver. Report filed.
Sunday, Nov. 18
•1300 block of Ridge Road, one vehicle rollover. Elderly male taken to Mount St. Mary's EM-Star by Lewiston No. 1 Volunteer Fire Co. EMS. Report filed.
•North Eighth and Center streets, juvenile problem. Male driver, 18, reported a group of approximately five juveniles refused to move out of the roadway and then threw an unknown object at his vehicle. Patrol located two of the individuals and advised subjects to stop. No charges wished by complainant.
•700 block of Cayuga Street, loud party. Patrol reported a loud party and music and advised two residents to shut down for night.
•NU campus, intoxicated female. Subject picked up by parents and taken home.
•4800 block of Eddy Drive West, suspicious person. Female complainant reported hearing two males outside her sliding glass door on a balcony discussing which one would enter first. Subjects left after she turned a light on. Patrol reports finding footprints on the balcony and reported the incident was the second such in a week. Area checked; subjects GOA.
•4100 block of Calkins Road, domestic. Female, 47, listed as complaint and male, 49, listed as suspect. Domestic Incident and Report and patrol's report both filed.
•700 block of Cayuga Street, suspicious vehicles. Two males, both 18, listed as persons involved. One male arrested for criminal possession of a weapon, fourth; the other male arrested criminal possession of a controlled substance, seventh. Both issued appearance tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Both vehicles towed from scene. Report filed.
•4900 block of Perry Court, suspicious vehicle. All OK; patrol sent a scraper found in the area on his way.


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There was Dago Red long before there was Two Buck Chuck.
More than 136,000 cases of Dago Red wine were sold in the mid-1980s. That's miniscule compared to the more than 50 million cases of Charles (Two Buck Chuck) Shaw wine sold so far by the Franzias' Bronco Winery.
Numbers aside, Dago Red is a far more compelling story than Bronco's economic assault on bulging wine tanks during the miserable economic plight of the California wine industry in the early 2000s.
Dago Red was an admitted desperation idea two decades ago of crafty, veteran California wine grape grower Joe Carrari of Los Alamos, Calif., who refused to fall prey to measly winery grape prices.
When grape prices are low, there is always the debate among growers, vintners and wine merchants about the wisdom of custom crushing. Although wineries and wine merchants say it is a bad idea, many growers do it. However, what about times like now when prices are the highest they've been in a couple of decades? Does it make sense to custom crush to meet what seems to be a growing wine grape shortage for at least the next few seasons?
Carrari, the 78-year-old son of an Italian immigrant, has won the custom crush gamble more than once, and he would no doubt do it again, if he felt like it made economic sense. However, he'll tell you it's not for the timid.
Carrari is a gregarious, wily, calculating grape grower whom his wife Phyllis claims was born under a grapevine. Joe denies it, although he is not sure about conception. He will confess to picking his first wine grapes at age five.
He whet his wiles growing up in the sand hill vineyards of San Bernardino County, once the largest pre-Prohibition wine grape growing region in the U.S.
Carrari, christened Ferruccio when he was born in 1934 in Alta Loma, Calif., is easily likeable. He has a joke-a-minute and has a remarkable memory with one tale after another about his six decades in the wine grape business and one year of going broke growing corn in Argentina. He ends almost every narrative with a gravelly chuckle.
Although his grapes have become wine behind hundreds of wine labels from wineries big and botique, Carrari will never adorn the cover of a glossy wine aficionado magazine.
However, you will find his craggy mug in American Farmer, a pictorial depiction of hundreds of men and women who farm America. Joe doesn't particularly care for his likeness there. It's an artistically darkened black-and-white photo that makes his well-weathered face look like a Texas Farm to Market road map. Nevertheless, it's definitely the portrait of proud farmer Joe Carrari, who is as adept in a machine shop as he is in a vineyard or on the phone marketing his grapes or bulk wine.
Indomitable Carrari
Carrari's farming career has taken him from Southern California to Argentina to farm and back to the U.S. to work for some of the biggest names in the industry — Paul Masson and Rene DiRosa's Winery Lake Vineyards to name two. He has consulted with Jekel, J. Lohr and several wineries/grape growers in the Paso Robles area. He has also been a consultant for grape growers in New Zealand and delivered grapes to Mexican wineries in the Guadalupe Valley. When he was farming in Cucamonga, he delivered grapes to the only winery in Santa Barbara County at the time. Today there is a winery on just about every corner in the county.
He has planted 6,000 acres of grapes and installed more than 400 Ford industrial engines on well pumps through his company, Videco. His stake driving count is in the hundreds of thousands.
You can read Winkler's "General Viticulture" from cover to cover several times and consult with the viticultural elite and still go broke producing premium wine grapes.
That is where Carrari found himself about 30 years ago in Los Alamos, Calif., — losing money. He refused to sell his Santa Barbara County premium red wine grapes at prices lower than it cost him to produce them. His obstinate Italian nature left him awash in bulk wine. An acre foot — 326,000 gallons — to be fairly specific.
"I refused to take what wineries were offering and lose money. I worked too hard to do that. Production Credit was taking wine as collateral on loans back then, so I crushed the grapes myself," said Carrari.
His stubbornness extended through four vintages of Zinfandel, Merlot, Petite Sirah and Cabernet Sauvignon from the late 1970s until the mid-80s. The grapes came from parts of his 250 acres of vineyards. They were crushed at San Martin Winery and later moved to the Paul Masson winery in Soledad, Calif., when San Martin sold.
The wine grape economy continued to flounder from an overplanting of grapes, and storage fees were eroding Carrari's chances for turning a profit on his bulk wine gamble. "I was paying $7,000 per month in storage fees and had to do something, even if it was wrong," laughs the indomitable Carrari.
He blended the varietals in the proportions he had in storage into a California red wine and then had an artist create an art deco black-and-white checkerboard label and called it Dago Red. It sold retail for $1.99 per bottle. "I was way ahead of Two Buck Chuck. It made a helluva wine. I liked it, and I had other people taste test it before we bottled it. Nine out of 10 who tasted it agreed with me. Everyone liked it. We even sold it by the case in Los Alamos for $1 per bottle," he chuckles.
Dago Red became a wine phenomenon. It was very popular in California, particularly in the Central Valley. It even won a gold medal as a California Red at the Orange County Wine Festival. That led to the sale of 1,200 cases to a wholesaler in New York ("that put me in business"). He poured it at a California congressional wine reception to rave reviews.
Why Dago Red?
Why Dago Red? "I am Italian. My father immigrated to California from Italy during the Depression. What else would I call it," roars Carrari.
Dago is from Diego, which was Christopher Columbus's son's name. Diego Columbus was the first viceroy to the West Indies, but the local natives could not pronounce his name. They called him Dago.
History aside, the name did not sit well with fellow Italians on the East Coast. He even got in trouble with the Italian Anti-Defamation League. "This fellow called me from Washington, D.C., to complain about the use of Dago on my wine. I responded to him in Italian. He did not understand a word I said. I told him to call me back when he learned to speak Italian and hung up," howls Carrari.
He later altered the label, putting a photo of the gold medal over the word Dago on the label in deference to his fellow Italians.
Dago Red sold so well Carrari came up with spin-offs from that using white wine grapes from his vineyard.
"It took me 10 years to get rid of all that wine, but in the end I made a $1 million profit after all my expenses," he said.
Dago Red was not the only time he turned a sour wine deal into a bouquet of money. A prominent North Coast winery contracted for grapes at 22 sugar. The weather turned hot, and the grapes started ripening quickly. He called the winery, but the winery was not ready to accept them. He was told to wait a few days to pick. He waited and when the grapes arrived at the winery, the loads were downgraded for being too high in sugar.
Carrari was angry and left the grapes on the truck and hauled them back to the coast for custom crushing. It was a 250-mile round trip.
"The trucker was really good about it and did not charge me for the back haul. I had worked with him over the years at other vineyards," Carrari explains.
He eventually sold the wine bulk to Beringer for $3 per gallon. "I made more money that way than had I had them crushed at the winery where they were going to dock me," he laughs.
These are just two of the tales Carrari likes to spin from more than 60 years of growing grapes and marketing wine not only in California, but throughout the U.S. "I shipped a lot of bulk wine to wineries in other states to get started," he said.
He learned his viticultural prowess from his father, who was adept at nudging 4 to 5 tons per acre from head-pruned, dryland farm Zinfandel vines. The average rainfall at Rancho Cucamonga is 17 inches per year, just 6 inches more than in Fresno, Calif. Dryland farming wine grapes on less than 2 acre feet of water will make you resourceful for life.
From the 1890s into the mid-1950s, the Cucamonga-Guasti-Ontario Wine District was considered California's largest wine-growing and wine-producing district. Much of the valley's grape and wine property was owned by Secundo Guasti, who founded the Italian Vineyard Company in 1883 and built it into a gigantic wine enterprise prior to Prohibition. Guasti farmed the largest contiguous block of wine grapes at the time, 6,000 acres, and Carrari's father managed some of those vineyards.
Failure brings opportunity
Joe and his father later farmed on their own. Eventually, their vineyards reached 1,400 acres. One of their vineyards was planted in 1906 and was farmed continuously until 1984.
"We shipped grapes all over the U.S." One year the Carrari family shipped 4,500 tons of grapes to home vintners.
Joe made spending money in high school delivering grapes to Southern Californians for homemade wine. He once rented a stall at the Los Angeles produce market where he sold 145 tons of grapes one season, all hand-picked in lug boxes.
His father was born in Argentina, and Joe tried his hands at farming there after leaving the Cucamonga area in the mid 1960s. That was a disaster. He came back to the U.S. broke with a wife and four children. Fortunately, his viticultural skills quickly landed him jobs with some of the 1970s pioneers, as the state's grape industry was evolving into a new era.
He was working for Masson when the Central Coast wine grape planting boom of the 1970s began. He was involved in both the successful and the failed. It was a failure that opened the door for him to start his own vineyard management and consulting business and plant his own coastal vineyard.
He became involved in a proposed 2,200-acre vineyard development/bulk wine marketing project that went bankrupt. Carrari stayed with the project for another year afterward to work with creditors. "We eventually paid off unsecured creditors 90 cents on the dollar. That's unheard of in a bankruptcy." That established Carrari's credibility and helped him obtain credit to plant his own vineyard in Los Alamos and bolster his fledgling Videco farm management business.
His company was one of the first to mechanically harvest grapes on the coast. He also owned a nursery that supplied rootstock for new plantings.
Carrari loves to tell stories about the people and projects from his six decades in the business, but at heart Carrari is a grape grower. He beams when he talks about his vineyard adventures.
Vineyard adventures
It put him in good stead with many grape growers.
Like the time he interviewed with Paul Masson at Soledad, and he was asked what he thought about grafting over 75 acres of Pinot Noir to Chenin Blanc because the Pinot Noir was not producing.
"I never did like Pinot Noir. It is hard to set a crop, and it ripens very quickly. Birds love it," explains Carrari.
Nevertheless, he did not necessarily agree with the decision to graft over the Pinot as Masson's management was considering.
"I did not think I had all the facts. I asked Vince Petrucci (California State University, Fresno viticulture professor) to come over to take at a look it," he says.
The duo recommended it be spur pruned rather than caned pruned. It was pruned to two spurs and 15 tons of manure was spread. The result was two canes per vine and 6 tons per acre.
"It went from nothing to 6 tons per acre in 13 months," he says. "You cannot be expected to have all the answers in this business, but you should be expected to know where to get the answers."
He found himself farming a block of Muscat that was faltering for no clear reason.
"The spurs looked like toothpicks. The vines were ready to die," Carrari. He had various clues as to what might be the problem, but nothing was obvious.
"I suspected salt build-up. Muscats are very sensitive to salts, and we were irrigating with a well with 8.2 pH water," he said.
Carrari decided to create 18-inch wide French drain 6 feet deep down every other row and apply 5 tons of gypsum per acre. "The vines developed luscious growth the next year, and we got 1 ton per acre. I called it my chemotherapy treatment," he laughs.
Over the years, Carrari developed a two-row hydraulic stake driver as well as propane burners for leaf thinning and weed control.
Birds are a perennial problems and Carrari's mechnical prowess tackled that issue with a unique solution. He bought several large mobile, mechanical air compressors. He positioned in them in the vineyard to cycle compressed air through overhead sprinklers used for frost protection to scare the birds away.
Hawk kits, cannons and foil streamers never work, according to Carrari. The air spitting intermittently from the sprinklers did. "We went from 20 percent bird damage down to 4 percent. The only damage was on the edge of the vineyard."
The 78-year-old Carrari has slowed down. He sold his vineyard a few years back. He still consults and his 1973 Chisholm Ryder grape harvester still harvests a few grapes. He also keeps busy making sure the irrigation systems are working properly on the 400 acres of vegetable ground he leases on the 3,600-acre ranch he bought when he sold his vineyard.
The rest of the ranch is foothills where cattle are grazed.
He sits often on the porch of his remodeled 1918 ranch house with his dog Angel overlooking the vineyards below. He doesn't miss the backbreaking labor of farming, but still has that entrepreneurial spirit that has been part of his almost eight decades.
"Wine grape prices are on the upswing. There was a short crop last year and big demand for grapes this year. If someone wants to plant a vineyard, now is the time to do it," he says.
Not only is the coast doing well, but "they are doing a great job with the wines from the valley and getting good prices for their grapes."
However, he does not expect to see large coastal vineyard plantings like there were in the in past decades. It's too expensive and water availability has become an issue. New plantings likely will come from the pullout of older, less desirable varietals. Or from vineyards that have been grafted over a couple of times and need to come out.
And, the industry has matured and learned from past experiences when too many grapes were planted for the demand.
Joe believes the newer Rhone style varieties recently planted or grafted will be the next big California varietal story. Whether the likes of Sangiovese, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Pinot Grigrio will make it as big as Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon remains to be seen, but they are gaining in popularity. He planted them in his vineyard and coastal winemakers are embracing them.
Gallo down the drain
Everything seems positive for California wine grape growers today and Dago Red would likely not be necessary in today's market, but no doubt Carrari would like to do a sequel.
The wine with the ancestral insult is his legacy. He can talk about it all day and bellow at every story of the decade-long Dago Red saga. It resulted in one of his favorite stories he tells often about dealing with a fellow Italian by the name of Julio Gallo.
E and J Gallo Winery is the California wine behemoth. The family is noted for holding on to pennies hard enough to make Lincoln weep.
Joe tells first-hand about one of his dealings with Julio. Dago Red was already a hit, and Gallo knew Joe still had bulk wine in storage.
"Julio called me and said he had heard I had some good red wines in storage. 'I do' I said," Joe recalls.
Gallo asked for some samples, and Carrari happily sent them to Modesto, Calif., Gallo's headquarters.
Gallo called back and said he was willing to pay "top dollar."
"I told Julio I like the sound of that," Carrari says. Gallo offered Carrari 92 cents per gallon.
"When he said that I started calling him Mr. Gallo. I said 'Mr. Gallo, why don't we meet at the winery.' He responded that it was not necessary to meet to make a deal. We could make the deal on the phone.
"I told him, 'Who said anything about making a deal? Mr. Gallo I want you to come to the winery and watch me open the valves on the tanks and let the wine go down the sewer before I sell it to you for 92 cents a gallon, and I hung up. He knew I had a lot more in the wine than that." Not many people have hung up on Gallo.
And of course, when Carrari gets through telling that story, he roars with laughter.
Regrets from six decades of wine grape growing?
"Only regret I have is that it took me so long to learn anything" with another trademark Joe Carrari howl.