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Gerritt Wittmer is that crazy motherfucker who I saw play with Paul Knowles at the Black Pus / Sissy Spacek show. He also runs the incredible Misanthropic Agenda label. He's made some insano harsh noise records and his performance with Knowles was intense to say the least, but his new album Vessel is an exercise in restraint & tension, with LOTS of silence.
I've read that the only sounds contained on this record are from Wittmer's mouth. Digitally altered occasionally, but still everything is supposedly sourced from his voice & breathing. The A side starts out with some bumbling around, like you're carrying a mic while looking through a dark attic for a flashlight. Then, nothing. Wait, no, there's someone here. Hiding in the corner. Definitely, some creepy murderer is doing his best to control his breathing and it's not working. You can totally hear him. WTF. Why is there someone hiding in your attic? FUCK. It's pitch black, you can't see a goddamn thing, and you have no way to defend yourself. So you do what's only right & natural. You start making creepy mouth noises back at him.
Duck squawk? Duck squawk. Constipated straining? Constipated straining. Silent cat yowls? Silent cat yowls. This guy becomes your mirror. Everything you do, right back at you. Then you start goin CRAZY together. A fucking choir of anti-harmonic dying frogs, ghosts with porcupines in their throats, demonic tea kettles, rewound mouse farts. If anybody walked in on you right now they'd shit their pants in terror and call an exorcist.
The B side is a bit more subdued, but also a bit shorter. No cacophony, no release & eruption from silent tension. It's ALL tension. Waiting, uncertainty, disgusting sloppy slurps and punctured dog lungs. The long voids of nothing seem interminable, the only clue that time is passing is the vinyl crackle. If you focus all of your attention, the abyss becomes an actual thing, an entity all its own. Pulsing, breathing, but still motionless.
Wittmer is doing some crazy shit on Vessel. I'm not sure if he's experimenting, or if he's using this cathartically, or just further refining his obviously fine/performance sound art. Whatever he's doing, it works. It feels like you're holding your breathe the entire length the record. Muscle ache is an immediate & inevitable byproduct of listening to it. Maybe pop some pain killers beforehand.


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This artist's concept shows Gamma Cephei, a star system that consists of two stars and at least one planet (foreground). University of Texas astronomers are studying the layout of Gamma Cephei and other planetary systems to learn whether they are laid out in the same way as our own solar system, with all of the stars and planets aligned roughly in the same plane. [Tim Jones/McDonald Observatory]
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Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets in other star systems. Now they're trying to use those planets to find out how all planets are born.
One thing they want to know is whether all planetary systems are laid out like our own — whether the planets orbit their parent stars in the same plane, as though they were all rolling around a table top.
A team led by Texas astronomer Fritz Benedict is using Hubble Space Telescope to study the layout of several systems. One of them is Gamma Cephei. It consists of two stars, plus a planet orbiting the larger star.
BENEDICT: All my theoretician friends say, 'Oh, pooh, Fritz, you shouldn't even bother because it has to lie on the same tabletop, otherwise this system is unstable — it wouldn't last for longer than 10,000 years or something.'
Even so, the astronomers observed the system from 2008 to 2010. They were looking for a tiny "wobble" in the position of the larger star, caused by the tug of the planet.
But the wobble is tiny, so isolating it is quite a chore. For one thing, Gamma Cephei is moving across the sky as it orbits the center of the galaxy. For another, it's quite close — only 45 light-years away — so as Earth orbits the Sun, the star shifts position with respect to the background of distant stars. And for yet another, the star also moves as it and its companion star orbit each other. In fact, measuring that orbit has proved to be a big headache. We'll explain why tomorrow.
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Craft beers may be giving big brewers a run for their money, but the top-rated beers worldwide in terms of taste come from all over the map, according to one product research site.
Pacifico and Negra Modelo from Mexico, Smithwick's Ale from Ireland, Windhoek Lager from Namibia and Affligem Blonde from Belgium are among the top 10 beers worldwide, according to rankings from FindTheBest, which gathers and filters consumer and expert reviews from across the Web.
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"The most important quality of a beer is how it tastes. However, the experience of drinking a beer also involves several secondary elements, including appearance, smell and texture," said FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor.
And while beer drinkers outside of the United States might consider Budweiser a premium imported beer, it's not on FindTheBest's list of the 10 best beers across the globe. Instead, Michelob Ultra and Michelob Ultra Lime Cactus make the list and Bud sits at 316th place.
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And while all of the top 10 beers worldwide have five-star ratings, Budweiser, a highly-marketed staple beer, has just 3.5 stars, according to FindTheBest.
"'Best' can be different things for different groups of people," O'Connor said.
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Since FindTheBest's rankings depend on reviews, consumers and experts need to have access to a beer before reviewing it, and that's not always possible for some of the truly delicious but hard-to-find beers out there.
"The reality is most of these [beers with big marketing budgets] aren't very good at all," O'Connor told "Big Data Download." "Our data shows that when people actually taste lesser-known beers and compare them to the most popular ones, they often prefer the small-brewery option," O'Connor said.
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FindTheBest, which lists some of the top brands under several categories, including smart phones, bicycles and web-hosting services, is just one of many resources that beer lovers can use to find new beer suggestions. Mobile apps like BeerCloud, BeerStat, Beer Universe and iBrewMaster are some of the more dedicated beer research resources.
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Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year
A definitive guide to the 2014 elections from our new columnist.
F or the last decade, Larry J. Sabato has been forecasting elections and analyzing the results—correctly predicting 98 percent of Senate, House and governor winners in, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Starting with this column, Sabato, a university professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, joins Politico Magazine as a regular contributor. Twice a month, he'll be sharing his insights on how the 2014 midterm races are shaping up—and the factors that really matter.
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Another midterm election beckons, and over the next 10 months we'll see headlines about a thousand supposedly critical developments—the "game changers" and the "tipping points." But we all know there aren't a thousand powerful drivers of the vote. I'd argue that three factors are paramount: the president, the economy and the election playing field. And, at least preliminarily, those three factors seem to be pointing toward Republican gains in both houses in the 2014 midterms.
1. The president. His job approval numbers are perhaps the best indicator of the public's overall political orientation at any given time, a kind of summary statistic that takes everything at the national level into account. In a large majority of cases, the president's party does poorly in midterms, especially the second midterm of a two-term administration. It's a rare president who doesn't make enough mistakes by his sixth year to generate a disproportionate turnout among his opponents—thus producing a political correction at the polls. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, Lyndon Johnson in 1966, Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford in 1974, Ronald Reagan in 1986 and George W. Bush in 2006 all experienced significant corrections in their sixth-year elections.
Still, this doesn't always happen. Presidents Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 and Bush in 2002 managed to gain a few House seats, but this was in their first midterm. The Democrats lost no Senate seats and actually picked up a few in the House in 1998, President Bill Clinton's second midterm.
President Barack Obama might take some heart from the Clinton example, but only up to a point. Like Clinton in 1994, Obama was unpopular enough by 2010 that Democrats lost the House in a landslide. That and partisan redistricting—a tactic engaged in by both parties but currently tilted to the GOP—reduces Republican chances for a House seat sweep in 2014 because there simply aren't many additional seats available for Republicans, barring a tidal wave of voter anger even larger than 2010.
But Obama's popularity has sagged badly in his fifth year. While some unforeseen event in 2014 might add some points to his job approval average, the odds are against a full restoration; it's just as likely Obama's polling average, currently in the low 40s, will decline further—though Obama may have a relatively high floor because of consistent backing from minority voters and other elements of the Democratic base.
As 2014 begins, the environment for the Democrats in this election year is not good. The botched, chaotic rollout of the Affordable Care Act is the obvious cause, but it is broader than that: the typical sixth-year unease that produces a "send-them-a-message" election. Fortunately for Democrats, the GOP-initiated shutdown of the federal government in October has tempered the public's desire for a shift to the Republican side, too. "None of the above" might win a few races in November if voters had the choice.
2. The economy, but mainly if it's bad. Eisenhower's 57 percent approval rating couldn't prevent Republicans from losing 47 House seats and 13 Senate seats in 1958 because of a shaky economy. GDP growth had contracted by an astounding 10.4 percent in the first quarter of that year, though it rebounded later in the year. More recently, there was the 2006 election; while most analysts thought the Democratic takeover of Congress that year was mainly about Bush's war in Iraq, the economy wasn't performing on all cylinders. GDP growth in the second and third quarters of 2006 was an anemic 1.6 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. The economy, still reeling from the 2008 economic near-collapse, was also the root cause of the Democrats' 2010 debacle.
But in politics the converse does not always prove the rule; in fact, a good economy doesn't seem to help the president's party much in many midterm elections, with 1950, 1966 and 1986 being strong examples. So while economic hard times are likely to hit a president's party hardest, it may be that restless voters shift their concerns and unhappiness about a president to other topics in the absence of economic woes. So even if the economy continues to improve, Obama and the Democrats might not reap an electoral benefit.
3. The electoral playing field. How many vulnerable seats are there in the House for the president's party? This is mainly a result of prior elections. A presidential victory with coattails (think 1936, 1948, 1964 and 2008) results in a party winning lots of vulnerable seats that can be swept away when the tides change in subsequent midterms. The Democrats lost their weaker members in 2010 and failed to add many seats in 2012; these disappointments protect them from drastic House losses this coming November.
The Senate is a different story. There is no such thing as a typical Senate election. These high-profile contests are idiosyncratic, driven by distinctive circumstances, sometimes quirky candidates and massive spending. A hidden determinant is the division of the Senate into three classes—one-third is elected every two years, making the combination of competitive Senate seats unpredictable and ever shifting, unlike in the heavily gerrymandered House. One party is usually favored to gain seats from the outset, thanks to the pattern of retirements as well as the structure of the Senate class on the ballot.
So: How many Democratic Blue or Republican Red seats are there in an election year? How many incumbents are running, and did any senators holding seats in states favoring the opposite party step aside? How strong has the candidate recruitment been in both parties? Generally speaking, this year's Senate slate strongly favors the Republicans.
At this early stage, the combination of these three factors suggests a good election year for the GOP. The president is a Democrat and his approval is weak. The economy may be improving, based on GDP growth ( 4.1 percent in the third quarter), but voters still don't believe their personal economy, at least, has picked up much. Instead, the major national issue of the moment is Obamacare, which at this point is a loser for Democrats. The structure of the election in the House and Senate also bends in the GOP direction.


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It's always great to see when a ballplayer has a good head on his shoulders and maintains a grounded perspective.
Chase Headley and his wife, Casey, display just that with their new "Headley's Heroes" initiative.
Headley spent part of his day Friday at Rady Children's Hospital, visiting with kids in the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders unit.
"Headley's Heroes" officially kicked off Sunday at Petco Park when Headley and the Padres hosted four-year-old leukemia patient Boyd Stockmeyer for a dream day at the park. This included getting to hang out in the dugout and meet players before the game and field-level tickets.
"We're playing a game for a living and these kids are going through some tough things. Anything we can do to help, is great. It's a great thing to be a part of," Headley said. "It's a little way of saying thank you, a way to give back and a way to integrate ourselves with the San Diego community."


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SS. Peter and Paul Church, Strasburg
"SS. Peter and Paul Church, Strasburg." Emmons County Record, June 1948, 3, 4.
Peter and Paul's Parish, Strasburg, Emmons County, will observe the Golden Jubilee of their parish and also the Sixtieth Anniversary of the arrival of the first settlers in Emmons County by a two-day celebration, June 22-23. A religious celebration will mark the observance on June 22, and a civic celebration on June 23.
The religious observance on June 22 will begin with a Solemn Pontifical High Mass, celebrated by Most Rev. Vincent J. Ryan. A sermon in the German language will be preached by Right Rev. Abbot Guthbert Goeb, O.S.B., and a sermon in English by Bishop Ryan. The Most Rev. William T. Mulloy, Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, will grace the occasion by his presence in the sanctuary.
Catholic Action meetings will mark the observance in the afternoon. These will be divided into two sections, a section for the adults and a section for the young people. Among the speakers who will participate in the afternoon programs are Most Rev. Vincent J. Ryan, Most Rev. William T. Mulloy, Right Rev. Abbot Guthbert, Very Rev. George P. Aberle, and Rev. Blaine Cook.
There are three Strasburgs. The ancestors of the people who settled in the area of what is now Strasburg, North Dakota, in the 80's of the last century originated from the Strasburg area of Germany, now part of France. From Germany they migrated to south Russia, in the days of Empress Catherine about 170 years ago, where they built a city and called it Strasburg. A century later their descendents came to Emmons County and gave to their new home the name Strasburg.
The first settlers arrived in the neighborhood of what is now Strasburg in 1888. Five sturdy young men made up the party of trail blazers who were the first ones to visit the then wild region of Emmons County where the little city of Strasburg is now located. Their names were Joseph Baumgartner, Joseph Burgad, Sebastian Bauman, Joseph Feist, and Joseph Kraft. All have departed from this life, but their widows are still living and are to us a reminder of how close we are to the days when the first furrows were turned in Emmons County.
Many others of the German-Russian group followed the pathfinders, and in a few short years there was a sizeable community in the neighborhood of Strasburg. Father Bernard Strassmeier, O.S.B., already in charge of the Indian Mission of Fort Yates, which was to serve so zealously for over fifty years, heard of the new colony across the river and some twenty miles away, and paid them a visit the following year after their arrival. He offered the first Holy Mass to be said in the area in the home of Frank Baumgartner in the year 1888. Father Bernard and his assistant, Father Francis Gerschweyler, were to serve the new colony during the next three years. As there was no church, mass was offered in the homes of the settlers.
The State of North Dakota was organized as a diocese in 1889. Bishop John Shanley, the first bishop of the new diocese, which was called the Diocese of Jamestown, arrived in the state in 1890. The following year the care of the Strasburg community was assigned to St. John's Parish. McIntosh County, to which Father Henry Smith was appointed as the first pastor. St. John's, McIntosh County, is rightly called the mother church in the area.
In 1893 the first church was erected in the Strasburg area. It was located 2½ miles east of the present city of Strasburg. This mission church was attended as a mission of St. John's until 1899. Father Benedict Peter, O.S.B., from St. Gall's Priory, Devils Lake, was named the first pastor of SS. Peter and Paul's Church. He took possession in 1899. Shortly after his arrival, the first rectory was built adjacent to the Church.
The present SS. Peter and Paul's imposing brick structure was started in 1909 during the pastorate of Rev. Aloysius Strigl, O.S.B. It was completed the following year by his successor, Father Max Speckmeier, O.S.B., and the first Mass was celebrated at midnight, Christmas 1910. The church was consecrated by Bishop Wehrle, June 29, 1916. Among the former pastors of SS. Peter and Paul's Church were Rev. Joseph Thuille, Rev. Justin Schweitzer, Rev. Anton Nussbaumer, Rev. Clemet Dimple, and Rev. Augustine Fox—all members of the Benedictine Order. The present pastor of the parish, Rev. Charles Daleiden, O.S.B., was appointed to the parish by the Most Rev. Vincent J. Ryan on August 10, 1947.
Sisters at Strasburg
The people of Strasburg owe a debt of gratitude to the two communities of sisters, the Ursulines and the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who have served the parish in the capacity of teachers. These two communities of nuns have made a great contribution to the educational, cultural and religious life of the people in Emmons County.
The first Catholic school at Strasburg dates back to November 7, 1910. It began in the basement of SS. Peter and Paul's Church, six weeks before the superstructure was completed. Four Ursuline nuns from Calvariensburg, Germany, were the first teachers. Mother M. Seraphine, the sole survivor of the first group of Ursulines now in the Diocese, is still living and resides at St. Agnes Convent, Kenmare, where she quietly celebrated her golden anniversary a few years ago. The old church was converted into a convent to house the sisters and it still serves this purpose.
In a short time the number of pupils became too large to be provided for in the basement of the Church. In 1918 the present school building was completed and named St. Benedict's School. Two years later a complete high school course was added. The parish is now planning on extensive improvements in the school building, including a substantial addition.
In 1942 the Ursuline nuns, who were the first sisters at Strasburg, found it necessary to withdraw their sisters from Strasburg in order to found a new motherhood in the diocese of Belleville, Illinois. It was difficult to find sisters to take their place, for the demand for sisters everywhere is much greater than the supply. The School Sisters of Notre Dame, who are located at Mankato, Minnesota, finally agreed to furnish sisters for the school. At the present time the enrollment of the school is 232.
Three priests now working in the Diocese of Bismarck came from
Strasburg – Fathers George P. Aberle, Wilfred Fischer, and
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from the very-predictable deptOne of the more amazing things over the past decade or so is just how clueless legacy content companies are when it comes to the realities of DRM. For years, content creators have misunderstood the issue of online infringement entirely -- assuming that the effort had to be focused on somehow "protecting" works and ratcheting up infringement, rather than giving users more of what they wanted. The dirty secret of DRM is that it does exactly the opposite of what the content companies wanted: rather than protect works, it basically hands all the power in a market to a single tech provider, stripping much of the content companies' abilities to control their own markets.
We saw this in the music market first. Even as Steve Jobs was clear that he thought DRM was a stupid idea for music, he was happy to give the record labels what they "wanted" in the early years: building DRM into the early version of iTunes. Of course, this did absolutely nothing to stop infringement. Because all you need is a single copy to get out in the wild, and then all DRM is completely useless on that particular piece of content. So Apple's DRM did absolutely nothing to stop file sharing... but it did make Apple the most powerful player in the music market. Because the DRM locked people into Apple's platform, and there was no significant competition at the time, once people started using Apple, they were pretty much locked in. And the labels hated it, even though it was their own damn fault in demanding DRM. Eventually, of course, the labels agreed to give up DRM, by which point Apple was already so dominant that no one really challenged their position, though alternatives are finally starting to get more serious.
Three years ago, we noted that book publishers were bizarrely making the exact same mistake with Amazon. Publishers, just like the labels, were so focused on the fear side that they were adamant about having DRM. And, once again, all this has done is lock people into the Kindle platform, and made it (by far) the most dominant player... which people can't really get out of.
I was reminded of this after reading Joe Wikert's call for the end of ebook DRM, noting that all it had really done was give all the power to Amazon:
That Charlie Stross piece is also a great read, and makes the point pretty explicitly that the publishers created their own problem by insisting on DRM'd ebooks:
I often blame Napster for the typical book publisher's fear of piracy. Publishers saw what happened in the music industry and figured the only way they'd make their book content available digitally was to tightly wrap it with DRM. The irony of this is that some of the most highly pirated books were never released as ebooks. Thanks to the magic of high-speed scanner technology, any print book can easily be converted to an ebook and distributed illegally.
Some publishers don't want to hear this, but the truth is that DRM can be hacked. It does not eliminate piracy. It not only fails as a piracy deterrent, but it also introduces restrictions that make ebooks less attractive than print books. We've all read a print book and passed it along to a friend. Good luck doing that with a DRM'd ebook! What publishers don't seem to understand is that DRM implies a lack of trust. All customers are considered thieves and must be treated accordingly.
The evil of DRM doesn't end there, though. Author Charlie Stross recently wrote a terrific blog post entitled "Cutting Their Own Throats." It's all about how publisher fear has enabled a big ebook player like Amazon to further reinforce its market position, often at the expense of publishers and authors. It's an unintended consequence of DRM that's impacting our entire industry.
As ebook sales mushroom, the Big Six's insistence on DRM has proven to be a hideous mistake. Rather than reducing piracy, it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers. And unlike pirated copies (which don't automatically represent lost sales) Amazon is a direct revenue threat because Amazon are have no qualms about squeezing their suppliers — or trying to poach authors for their "direct" publishing channel by offering initially favourable terms. (Which will doubtless get a lot less favourable once the monopoly is secured ...)What's truly amazing about this was just how obvious it was years ago when we (and many others) pointed this out. I mean, with the music execs you could kind of understand the mistake, because if you really don't think through a few steps out, you could be forgiven for thinking that DRM makes sense as a protectionist measure. But if you're a Big Six publisher, you didn't even have to think ahead a few moves. You just had to look at the monster the labels created by demanding DRM in iTunes (something they'd already started to move away from just as the Kindle was ramping up) and realize that demanding DRM would create the same situation with Amazon. But what's even more amazing is the fact that the big publishers still haven't figured this out so many years later.
If the big six began selling ebooks without DRM, readers would at least be able to buy from other retailers and read their ebooks on whatever platform they wanted, thus eroding Amazon's monopoly position. But it's not clear that the folks in the boardrooms are agile enough to recognize the tar pit they've fallen into ...
If the big publishers end up failing, it's their own damn fault for being perhaps the least perceptive strategists around. I can only imagine how bad they are at playing chess.
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The once-promising outlook for contract talks between the American Federation of Government Employees and the Transportation Security Administration soured Tuesday as the union expressed frustration negotiating for independent third-party reviews of employee grievances and disputes.
AFGE President John Gage called his meeting Monday with TSA Administrator John Pistole "very discouraging," particularly on the "key point" of allowing an independent third party to adjudicate employee disputes.
"It's a fundamental collective bargaining right. It's what makes the world go round. It's something that every employee in [the Homeland Security Department] has, it's something that even the management of TSA has," Gage said during a press conference Tuesday. Since winning exclusive representation of more than 40,000 TSA airport screeners in June, AFGE has urged TSA to meet its definition of a "third-party" or independent review process for resolving employee disputes.
Gage called TSA's current review system a "kangaroo court," and said an employee cannot face an accuser, bring witnesses, conduct cross-examination, or do "anything that has become standards not just in federal government, not just in unions, but in America."
Pistole has told Gage through lawyers that TSA would have a fair and neutral dispute resolution process, Gage said, but "that you simply go to a manager." This system "just doesn't pass the smell test on independent fairness and neutrality," he said.
TSA pledged to work with the union. "TSA is committed to ensuring that all employees are given full due process rights and looks forward to continued discussions with AFGE related to these important issues," the agency said in a statement.
Other issues AFGE plans to pursue further in its negotiations with TSA include the agency's pay system, which Gage said discriminates against older employees, women and minorities. Transportation security officers from several union locals were at Tuesday's press conference and explained their concerns.
"We were promised the world," said Alan Jackimowicz, a TSO from Detroit. "A young organization, and you would just rise to the occasion and you would get everything you ever wished for. But that's not what happened. This was supposed to be 50-50. . . look how many women supervisors you see. You see very few."
Stacy Bodtmann, a transportation security officer at Newark Liberty International Airport airport, said that women officers who must conduct pat-downs on female passengers are stretched too thin, leading to discipline issues with management.
"If you question management on, 'Why do I have to run to a different terminal?' there's a discipline that follows," Bodtmann said. "You can be disciplined and be completely innocent, but because of the peer review and all it is, is a manager, your supervisor and peers, it's about, 'Well, can we discipline you for this?' "
"Whereas, a third party would understand that this is about whether you did the right or wrong thing," she said.
Gage said that negotiations in Congress on the payroll tax cut extension could give transportation security officers "the worst of both worlds" if they included an extended federal pay freeze or provisions increasing the amount they must contribute to their pensions.
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MEXICO CITY — When the threatening phone calls demanding $20,000 in protection money began in December, Dr. Roman Gomez Gaviria shrugged them off, believing his clinic on the outskirts of Mexico City couldn't possibly be of interest to criminal gangs. A few months later, his sense of security was shattered when three armed men barged into his office screaming "Dr. Ramon, you bastard, where are you?"
"They tried to tackle me, to take me out of the clinic, when I saw that each one had a pistol tucked into his belt," said Gaviria, recounting the ordeal. "They thought that, because I'm a doctor, I wasn't going to resist."
Such shakedown rackets have long targeted businesses in the most violent corners of Mexico. Now the practice is spreading. One anti-crime group estimates that kidnapping across the country has jumped by one-third so far this year compared to 2012.
And as the extortion industry expands, it has drawn both experienced criminals and imitators.
Experts say the increase is a byproduct of Mexico's crackdown on the nation's drug gangs. As authorities nab cartel bosses and break up chains of command, hundreds of lower-level gunmen and traffickers are desperate for income and looking for income in new places.
Targets include everything from multinational businesses to corner pharmacies and unsuspecting holidaymakers. The gangs are less organized, but more ubiquitous than the drug cartels, affecting broad swaths of the country.
"It affects all economic activity. It discourages investment," said security expert Jorge Chabat.
In the first eight months of 2013, there were 5,335 reported extortion attempts nationwide, equal to the number for all of the previous year. If the current pace continues, the total could surpass 8,000 this year, almost twice as many as in 2007.
The tourism industry, Mexico's third-largest source of foreign revenue, has been one of the hardest hit. Largely untouched when the U.S.-backed drug war began in late 2006, the state of Oaxaca had quietly become the turf of the Zetas cartel.
In recent months, guests of at least a dozen hotels in scenic, colonial Oaxaca city have started receiving calls from strangers saying they would be kidnapped if they didn't pay between $380 and $1,500, hotel industry and security officials said.
"The way they operate is to call the hotel, ask to speak to a particular room and then start threatening" the guest, said Joaquin Carrillo Ruiz, an assistant state prosecutor in Oaxaca. Many of the tourists, all from Mexico, reported the crime instead of paying up, but that hasn't calmed worries in Oaxaca, where tourism is a vital source of outside income.
"We have to stop this in its tracks," said Juan Carlos Rivera, the head of the Oaxaca Hotel Association. "If we don't, it could escalate."
As if to prove his point, a group of Spanish musicians were hit by a telephone extortion scheme in Mexico City this month, though none was kidnapped or harmed.
But even authorities acknowledge that the vast majority of extortions go unreported — as many as 92 percent according to a survey of crime victims by the National Statistics Institute. The same survey from April indicated that extortion is now the second most common crime after street robberies, with 7.6 percent of those surveyed in 2012 saying they were extortion victims, up about two percentage points from the year before.
President Enrique Pena Nieto's government says the rise in extortions is a paradoxical effect of its success in the anti-drug fight. As such, it mirrors a trend in Colombia, where smaller-scale extortion rackets have mushroomed since security forces in the past decade broke the backs of Marxist rebels, paramilitary groups and major drug cartels with a national presence.
"When cartel activity diminishes, house-break-ins, muggings and other crimes increase," federal security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said.
Sanchez said he doesn't know whether reports of extortion have increased because there are more such crimes, or whether people feel more comfortable going to police as previously lawless areas are brought under greater government control. What's not in doubt is the crime's lasting damage.
"The person who is a victim of extortion lives in a state of permanent kidnapping," Sanchez said. "They live in fear."
Gaviria now has police officers stationed outside his clinic following his close call on Feb. 6. But men he believes to be members of the gang that stalked him still lurk outside his office, and he believes they are being protected by corrupt police officials.
"From that day on, my life has been an imprisonment in my own home," said the 53-year-old Colombian-born physician, who managed to break free from his kidnappers, grab one of their guns and shoot two of them to death at close range.
Dr. Oscar Zavala, president of the National Union of Pharmacy Owners, a trade group of about 5,600 small drug stores, said that almost one out of four reported being hit by an extortion demand in 2012. The real number is probably double that — almost half of independent drug stores — because people are too afraid to report the crimes, he said.
Gangs usually call up and demand an average of $2300 per month, saying "'put the money in my account, or I'll kidnap you,'" Zavala said.
"Before, we pharmacists were spared, because we are such a legal business," he said. "Now, the criminals are hitting everyone."
In early October, the Monterrey-based newspaper El Norte reported that armed bandits stopped one of its delivery trucks and beat its driver at gunpoint while demanding he pay them 3,000 pesos ($230) a week for the right to deliver newspapers on their turf. That's more than the driver makes in a week.
At the other end of the country, in the state of Michoacan, everyone from market vendors to cattle ranchers and lumber mill operators have reported being assigned fixed monthly "quotas" by the Knights Templar drug cartel, which has become so bold that in 2012 its gunmen attacked facilities belonging to the Sabritas snack company, a Mexican subsidiary of PepsiCo.
For those refusing to pay, punishment is as certain as the sight of burned-out delivery trucks and warehouses that dot the Michoacan landscape. More recently, armed vigilante groups funded by business have emerged to kick the extortionists out, though so far with mixed success. The army has also been sent into some areas, but even that hasn't prevented the cartel from threatening truck drivers trying to deliver fuel to holdout towns.
"We've got the federal government and the military here, and despite that, we can't get a gas truck in," said Ramon Contreras Orozco, the local government representative in the village of La Ruana. "These guys don't give a damn about any of that."
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For the residents of the United Arab Emirates, Friday is like Sunday in the west – a quiet, lazy day of rest. On the first day of the weekend, restaurants try to outdo each other with delectable gourmet brunch buffets. Oysters served on shaved ice, crab, lobster and crispy Peking duck are among just some of the delicacies offered. Decadence is a virtue, as it is after all the most festive meal of the week.
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ACT I. Scene 1. The widowed Madame Larina and her servant Filippyevna listen as the Larin daughters, Olga and Tatiana, sing. Peasants come from the fields celebrating the completion of the harvest with songs and dances. Olga teases Tatiana for avoiding the festivities; pensive Tatiana prefers her romance novels. When the peasants leave, Olga's suitor, the poet Lenski, arrives with his worldly friend Eugene Onegin. Lenski pours out his love for Olga. Onegin strolls with Tatiana and asks how she manages not to get bored with country life. Unnerved by the handsome stranger, Tatiana answers with difficulty. The two couples go inside for dinner as night falls.
Scene 2. In her bedroom, Tatiana persuades the reluctant Filippyevna to tell her of her first love and marriage. Tatiana admits she is in love and asks to be left alone. She sits up the entire night writing a passionate letter to Onegin. When day breaks, she gives the letter to Filippyevna for her grandson to deliver.
Scene 3. A group of women sing as they work in the Larins' garden. They leave, and Tatiana appears, nervous, followed by Onegin. He asks that she hear him out patiently. He admits that her letter was touching but adds that he would quickly grow bored with marriage and can only offer her friendship. He coldly advises more emotional control in the future, lest another man take advantage of her innocence.
ACT II. Scene 1. Some months later, a party is underway in the Larins' house for Tatiana's name day. Young couples dance, while older guests comment and gossip. Onegin dances with Tatiana, but he is bored by these country people and their provincial ways. Annoyed with Lenski for having dragged him there, Onegin dances with Olga, who is momentarily distracted by his charms. Monsieur Triquet, the elderly French tutor, serenades Tatiana with a song he has written in her honor. When the dancing resumes, Lenski jealously confronts Onegin. Madame Larina begs the men not to quarrel in her house, but Lenski cannot be placated, and Onegin accepts his challenge to a duel.
Scene 2. Lenski waits for Onegin at the appointed spot at dawn. Lenski reflects on the folly of his brief life and imagines Olga visiting his grave. Onegin finally arrives. He and Lenski admit to themselves that the duel is pointless and they would prefer to laugh together than to fight, but honor must be satisfied. The duel is marked off, and Onegin shoots Lenski dead.
ACT III. Several years later, a magnificent ball is being given in the Gremin Palace in St. Petersburg. Onegin appears, reflecting bitterly on the fact that he has traveled the world seeking excitement and some meaning in life, and all his efforts have led him to yet another dull social event. Suddenly, he recognizes Tatiana across the ballroom. She is no longer a naïve country girl but is sumptuously gowned and bearing herself with great dignity. Questioning his cousin, Prince Gremin, he learns that Tatiana is now Gremin's wife. The older man explains that he married Tatiana two years previously and describes Tatiana as his life's salvation. When Gremin introduces Onegin, Tatiana maintains her composure but excuses herself after a few words of polite conversation. Onegin is surprised to realize he himself is in love with Tatiana.
Tatiana is distressed the next day after she receives an impassioned letter from Onegin. He rushes in and falls at her feet, but she maintains her control, asking whether he desires her only for her wealth and position. She recalls the days when they might have been happy, but that time has passed. Onegin repeats his love for her. Faltering for a moment, she admits that she still loves him, but she will not allow him to ruin her. She leaves him regretting his bitter destiny.
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93) became in his lifetime and has remained Russia's most celebrated composer. In Eugene Onegin, the fourth of his nine operas to reach the stage between 1869 and 1892, he created an intimate work. The verse novel Eugene Onegin was written by Aleksander Sergeievich Pushkin (1799–1837). Onegin was the prototype of the "superfluous man," that seemingly cold man of the world detached from life's immediacy by self-imposed social and moral codes, developed later in the novels of Lermontov and Turgenev.
Eugene Onegin was more a personal than an artistic success at its premiere, a student performance at Moscow Conservatory on March 29, 1879. Two years later, the work had its professional entry at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
America first heard the opera in a concert reading conducted by Walter Damrosch at Carnegie Hall on February 1, 1908, in English. The first Met Onegin (in Italian) did not appear until March 24, 1920, with Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe De Luca, Giovanni Martinelli and Adamo Didur, conducted by Artur Bodanzky. Eugene Onegin opened the Met's 1957–58 season in a new production by Peter Brook, sung in English, with Dimitri Mitropoulos pacing George London, Lucine Amara, Richard Tucker and Rosalind Elias. The house first used the Russian text during the 1977–78 revival, with Sherrill Milnes, Teresa Zylis-Gara, Isola Jones and Nicolai Gedda, conducted by James Levine. The current production, by Deborah Warner and directed by Fiona Shaw, was unveiled on September 23, 2013. The first-night cast was headed by Mariusz Kwiecien, Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Oksana Volkova and conducted by Valery Gergiev.
David Brown's excellent four-volume study of the composer, issued in the 1980s and '90s (Norton), has been augmented by Brown's one-volume Tchaikovsky: The Man and his Music (Pegasus). Tchaikovsky: Letters to his Family, edited by Galina von Meck (Tchaikovsky's grandniece), offers the composer's own insights on Onegin (Cooper Square Press). There are many English-language editions of Pushkin's "novel in verse." Easily available are translations by James E. Falen (Oxford) and Charles Johnston (Penguin); less orthodox, but still fascinating, is Vladimir Nabokov's "literal" rendering (Princeton).
Dmitri Hvorostovsky delivers a suitably poetic anti-hero in Semyon Bychkov's 1992 recording, based on stage performances that same year at Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet (Philips); the baritone's impressive colleagues include Nuccia Focile, Neil Shicoff and Olga Borodina. Shicoff is also on the cast list for DG's lush reading, paced by James Levine, with Thomas Allen and Mirella Freni as Onegin and Tatiana. Naxos's CD transfer of the historic 1937 Bolshoi recording is superb; also valuable is the 1955 Bolshoi Onegin led by Boris Khaikin, with Galina Vishnevskaya its incomparable Tatiana. Anna Netrebko sings a knockout performance of Tatiana's letter scene on her Russian Album (2006), conducted by Valery Gergiev. Mariusz Kwiecien includes well-considered, stylish accounts both of Onegin's principal arias on his Slavic Heroes disc (2012).
On DVD, Mark Ermler conducts Bolshoi forces in a vintage-2000 recreation of the company's beloved 1944 production (TDK). Graham Vick's attractive Glyndebourne staging is led by Andrew Davis (Kultur). Valery Gergiev paces Renée Fleming and Hvorostovsky in a 2007 HD transmission of the Met's then-current staging by Robert Carsen (Decca).


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