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NEA Big Read Grants Announced
The following organizations received grants from the NEA Big Read to plan programming around Silver Sparrow. Dates and times will be posted on this "Appearances" page.
Black Storytellers of San Diego, Chula Vista, California
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
Chatanooga State Community College, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Essex County Library Directors, Newark, New Jersey
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Jones Reviews Irving in NYT
"A writer of great imagination, Irving can sell the reader on nearly any plot twist no matter how incredible — from a murderous statue of the Virgin Mary to a pride of anthropomorphized lionesses to a pair of (possibly) paranormal, (definitely) kinky bibliophiles. Under his spell, all of this seems perfectly and irresistibly plausible." — Tayari Jones on Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving.
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Tayari Jones Reflects on Book Tours in the NYT
In "Stories From The Road," Tayari Jones, along with Junot Diaz, Sloane Crosley, Nell Zink, Gary Shteyngart, speak about the relationship between writers and readers.
In Georgia, we have an expression that speaks to our limited human understanding of our own actions and motivations. We say "I call myself." In that tradition, I can say that I called myself writing my first novel, "Leaving Atlanta," in order to remind the world that in the early 1980s, 30 African-American children were killed in my hometown; two of them were students at my elementary school. I believed myself to be banging on the door of History, demanding that my memories be let in.
But as we also know in the South, what you call yourself doing and what you are called to do are often two different things. — Tayari Jones
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Is Lisbon too far? Let's Work Together in New York
This summer, I am teaching a fiction workshop in Lisbon, Portugual as part of the DISQUIET workshops and I am also teaching a workshop a little closer to home. Please join me at the Manhattanville Summer Writers Week just north of NYC.
Manhattanville College's MFA program in pleased to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of its Summer Writers' Week from June 24-28, 2013.
Summer Writers' Week offers writers an opportunity to spend an intensive week working closely with some of the country's finest writers and teachers of writing. Enjoy workshops in Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction (Memoir/Autobiography), and Children's/Young Adult Writing.
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Fiction & Fashion In Park Slope
I admit it. I love clothes. And my favorite boutique in the world is COZBI in Park Slope. When ever I want to look my best, I look to Cozbi Carbrera's designs. When I was preparing to go on a fifty city book tour, I knew Cozbi would hook up the perfect outfits– gorgeous fabrics & eye catching designs that a real woman can wear.
This weekend, I would like to invite you to experience COZBI. There is a special sale all weekend long– Friday to Sunday. On Saturday, February 2 from 11am-7pm, I will personally be at COZBI signing all three of my novels and also trying on clothes and enjoying the amazing sale. Please come and join me.
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(and here's a video we did together. yes, i was excited.)
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Are you Working Too Hard? #NaNoActTo
I know I work to hard, but I am trying to learn to live/work/love differently.
"It's not Worth The Grief" by J. Victoria Sanders on Feminist Wire really struck a chord with me. For a long time, I thought working extremely hard was a way of showing self love. After all, the only way I was going to reach my goals was to work for it, right? Were these books going to write themselves? Who was going to update my mailing list? Apply for these grants? Have you seen the VIDA numbers? And besides, when I was working– writing, teaching, improving my apartment, whatever– it was something that I was doing just for me. It was the rare time that I wasn't laboring for the benefit of someone else, to meet someone else's goals of what I should be doing with my life. But guess what– too much work is just that, too much work.
Here is what J. Victoria Sanders wrote:
I, too, am a hard worker and my mother before me has always worked hard. I don't think I have had any model of a woman who didn't work and work and work. My childhood memories of my father are of him in his basement office working and writing. There was no room in our world for princesses. By and large, these lessons have served me well. When Silver Sparrow was in the final editing stage, I was also teaching full time and it was the end of the semester AND I was preparing my tenure packet. I had my daily schedule calibrated down to every fifteen minutes. One item on the list: "Call parents. Assure them that I'm fine." The hard work has paid off, but I have also paid for it.
For women it's a double edged sword. "You work too hard," is often thrown out as an insult by people who may resent your success. I have always taken it to mean– be a lady; stop trying to be somebody. I always want to say, "If you think think I am working too hard, why don't you help me?"
The challenge for me is learning not to work even though there is no help on the way. When I take time off, I come home to zillions of emails, interview requests, deadlines ticking like bombs. When I don't work, there are consequences. There are opportunities that I may not be able to be able to take advantage of because I didn't hope right on it. Deadlines will be missed and people will be disappointed. (And of course there is the fear that I will ruin it for the black woman that comes behind me because I wasn't perfect.)
For single women who don't have children, it's even harder to say no to work. When a colleagues says she is not taking papers home because she wants to spend time with her kids, everyone says "awww…" But if a single person says she is taking weekends off to chill, then it seems selfish. So I always take time off to write. It's my passion. I love it. But it's not time off. And for the women with children, taking your kids to soccer isn't time off either. And a week off work because of Hurricane Sandy– that's not time off either.
I am not saying that we should all walk off our jobs tomorrow at noon, ringing phones be damned, or that we should drop the kids off at the pool and never come back. But let's try small. Find two consecutive hours this week where you just chill. If you have to leave the house to do it, then do that. Go have a coffee or take a walk– a leisurely walk. No phone. No iPad. A book, but no reading for work or for school. I imagine it will take a couple of tries to keep your mind in the moment. You will visualize the emails, hallucinate the little tone that says more messages are coming in. But let's try to learn to shut the door to all that. Baby steps are still steps.
I Just Wanted To Be Writing, a #WRITELIKECRAZY guest post by Tiphanie Yanique
Sometimes when you let go and just listen to your story, the rest will take care of itself. I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did. — Tayari
by Tiphanie Yanique
When I left graduate school I just knew I was going to have a book immediately. I had an agent, I had a novel that had just been picked up, I had all this drive, and wasn't I talented, too? Well, maybe all of that was true, or maybe not. Either way my agent had a baby and then retired from agenting; my novel was taken by a press, and then that press closed its Caribbean line without publishing my book; I moved to New York and being a full time tenure track professor had sucked out all my drive…and maybe I wasn't that talented. I appealed to friends. More than one said, "It took me ten years!" At a writer's retreat a very successful author held up the rejections from her first book that went on to be a best seller and corner stone of American literature. There were more than thirty rejections.
Again and again, when they weren't commiserating with me, my friends said, "Just keep writing." This was hard. I felt betrayed by fiction and the whole system of publishing. I felt betrayed by readers who bought used books, or who didn't buy books by writers of color at all. I was watching really talented friends tank and less talented ones soar. I liked to believe I was amongst the talented tankers, but who knew? And what did it matter, if you couldn't get published?
I'd always been a poet even before I decided to take an MFA in fiction, and now poetry became a kind of salvation for me. It kept me writing when I didn't trust prose. And since I teach fiction, I could read poetry and feel I was doing it just for myself, for the pure pleasure of it. I kept writing poems and then, every now and then, when I could stand it, I edited stories in a collection of which I had a draft. I wasn't writing with a mind towards publication—I knew the novel was the ticket to publication, not poetry or stories. I was writing because I just wanted to be writing
Almost a year later, Fiona McCrae of Graywolf called me. I knew she had already felt my novel wasn't right for Graywolf. We had sent it to her when I'd made the mistake of giving it to the other press that then canceled its line. Still, I was hoping, maybe, she'd help me take it to another level before I started sending it out again. When we met her at her office she said that she had read my short stories. My short stories. Not the novel. The only problem was that there weren't enough stories to make a collection.
I peered over her shoulder. "But you only have about half of the collection. I've written more."
"Well, that's great news," she said.
The collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, was published by Graywolf Press on March 2, 2010.
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Writers Block/Procrastination Remedy: Start the Night Before #WRITELIKECRAZY
This is a repost of a entry that I wrote last year. I'm still on vaycay– I don't know how much access I will have to internet, but I promise I am still #WRITINGLIKECRAZY. Full report when I get home.
Like many people, the biggest impediment to my writing is a failure to sit myself in the chair and try. I recently whined to someone that my writing hasn't been "going well" for the last week or so. I know the person thought that I have been sitting at my typewriter, staring sadly at the glass keys, waiting for the words to come. But no. My writing didn't go well last week precisely because I hadn't been staring at those keys.
The remedy is obbvious– I need to sit myself in that chair and have at it.
And as all of you know, whether we are talking about writing or exercising, or cleaning house, or whatever. Starting is the hard part. (Sidebar: Have you ever watched this awesome video? It's the mother of all peptalks.)
But on a less touchy feely plane, here is a simple tangible suggestion: Prepare your writing area the night before. Clean off the desk. I don't mean just organize the clutter. I mean CLEAN IT. Wipe it down. Then arrange all your tools just so. Sharpen those pencils. Do you drink coffee when you write? Load the pot, so you only have to press "ON" when you get up. If you have a special writing outfit, set it out, too. (For me, that would be my fluffy robe.) Then go to bed.
I find that is I get the process going at night, I wake up already in the mode to write. And with everything set out before hand, I won't get distracted and start cleaning up or something and them lose the mood to write. And besides, a clean and lovely writing space is so inviting. You will entice yourself as you entice your mood.
The picture you see here is my writing space in my place in New Jersey. Looking at the photo makes me realise how much I miss it. My lucky lamp! And the envelope you see is a letter from a reader, encouraging me to finish up Silver Sparrow. The desk is has a glass top and I windex it down at night so it gleams in the morning. Just seeing this picture makes me want to write. Seriously.
What I am suggesting is a simple fix. Try it. And while you're at it, buy yourself a couple of flowers. Set them on your desk. You deserve it. And then, go write that book.
xo, t
A Healing: A #WRITELIKECRAZY guest post from Remica Bingham
I was looking through the archives of this blog looking for posts that would be inspiring to us as we #WRITELIKECRAZY and I stumbled upon this peace by Remica Bingham. I know that one fear that can keep a lot of us from writing our story is fear of alienating our family. In this post, Remica writes about how her parents came together to design the cover of her first book.
A Healing by Remica Bingham
It's a strange thing to find your father where you never thought he would be. So when I found my father pouring through the rows of poetry on my bookshelves I was a bit taken aback. He wasn't reading any poems, just looking at spines and covers, examining each book, its texture, style. This was July 2006, after I found out I'd won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and that my book, Conversion, would be published, in a matter of months, by Lotus Press.
When Lotus Press asked me if I had any input as to what I'd like to see on the cover of the book, I knew this was the right press at the right time. I told them my father was an artist and that I'd like him to do the cover art. Not only were they agreeable, but they seemed fond of the idea as well, without even knowing our story. I suppose they had read the book, though, since they'd chosen it for their book prize, and did get to glimpse into our past. My father takes a bit of a thrashing (as do many others—myself included) in the book. I tell so much about the dark times in his life, in our lives. My father and mother divorced when I was twelve and remarried when I was twenty. After many years of turmoil and distance, they found their way back to each other, older, wiser and more open to the possibility of happiness, of trust.
When I asked my father if he would paint something for the cover of my book, he was a bit reluctant. He's so humble and protective of me. I could see his worry already dawning. Eventually, he would say 'yes', but it would have to be perfect. He set a lofty goal for himself, especially with such a close deadline (we had less than two months to get the painting to the press), but he was on board. I must admit, I was nervous, too. I wasn't concerned at all with his skill (I still keep the portraits he painted for me when I was a child), but I had no idea what I wanted, and therefore, couldn't give him any instructions, not even a slight lead.
Sometime in July, after I'd caught him ravaging my shelves for ideas, my father and I went to Sunday breakfast (a weekly tradition) and I told him about a dream I'd had the night before. I saw a woman's face and colors, lots of bright colors. I had no idea what it meant or if it meant anything at all. I must have sparked something for my father though, as he'd been reading and re-reading my book and said the dream was all the inspiration he needed. It all fit together for him somehow, and the cover was born.
I never dreamt my first book would turn out better than I'd let myself imagine. It is pure color in a sea of green. The eyes I dreamt of are there and the textured sun. People are standing in praise, every bit the Conversion I'd hoped for. My mother, father and I went out to celebrate after he'd put the finishing touches on the painting and my father and I talked endlessly about the book's set up, where his name would go, whose blurb I was still waiting on. We went on so long that my mother finally interrupted us and asked, "Well, what am I going to get to do?"
My mother is my biggest supporter, she was a single-parent for so long, I think she felt a bit left out, and rightfully so. This book was the first real project my father and I had worked on since he painted my peacock mask for animal day in the fourth grade, so we'd begun to exclude everyone else, even her, from the conversation. But her question stopped us in our tracks. "The picture!", I replied, "Mom, will you take my picture for the cover? Then all of our names will be there."
And she did and they are.
Lotus Press and the cover designer, Leisia Duskin, did such a great job with the book that we couldn't help but marvel at out work, all of our singular efforts becoming one, when we finally got the book in our hands.
When I hung outwith Tayari in February 2007, the book had just come out and had made its way to the shelves of Busboys and Poets—a trendy hot spot in Washington, D.C. When we all went over to peruse the shelves, Tayari asked me about the book, the cover, the author photo, the press. When I told her my Dad painted the cover and my Mom took the photo on the back, her immediate reaction was, "You have to write about this for my blog. People would like to hear that story."
I'd never thought about it that way, as something that would make any kind of difference to perfect strangers. I am just beginning to understand her interest now, as I'm writing this. That's the true power of words and why so many of us make the continual trek to the page: we go there for a healing. That's what I find looking back at the miracle that became my book, the story of my parents and I. There such forgiveness in the story—we all forgave each other for past mistakes, for anger and distrust. The poems, the photo, the cover, all of it was a healing for us, a welcome home.
visit www.remicabingham.com
PS Her new collection of Poetry, What We Ask of Flesh is availble for pre-order.
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The two remaining members of The Who, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, have announced plans to play their rock opera Quadrophenia at a series of shows in the UK.
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The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-Virender Sehwag rift may have been denied vehemently by the team management, but the divide between the two is very much an open secret. However, far from being unique, discords such as this have been commonplace in the history of the game. In this series by CricketCountry, Arunabha Sengupta looks at some of the most famous feuds of cricket.
Sectarian rifts in Australian cricket
When cricket addicts talk about rifts and chasms in teams due to diverse backgrounds, they tend to think of the vast length and breadth of India from where players come into the national team with various languages, cultural backgrounds, religions and food habits. They may also think of Pakistan — a country blessed with the unique ability to manufacture differences, factions and bitterness out of virtually nothing. Or of the West Indies, which after all, is not a single country — with each island carrying its own identity, lobby and baggage. In the present day, even Zimbabwe with its political problems and South Africawith remnants of a quota system may enter the discussion.
However, if one thinks of the mighty Australians, the prevailing picture is of the ideal team, the very definition of camaraderie, where one stands up for the mate. And hence, it may come as a huge surprise to learn that this great sporting nation once had the team slashed into two distinct halves, their one for all and all for one musket turned on each other. And if we add that the driving cause of this divide was religion, it may sound unbelievable. But that was how it was.
In the 1930s, when Australian cricket was riding the crest of the Don Bradman tidal wave, the issue of sectarianism had created a chasm within the great side. On one side were the Masons — including Bradman himself, Bill Ponsford, Bert Oldfield and others. On the other hand were the Catholics, including Jack Fingleton, Bill O'Reilly, Stan McCabe, Leo O'Brien and Chuck Fleetwood-Smith.
According to Greg Gowden, the biographer of Fingleton, it is not coincidental of the most bitter feuds among the Australians of this generation existed between Bradman and members of the Catholic group.
In fact, a small but blistering anecdote underlines the truth of this proclamation.
During a match at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), Bradman came to know that Fingleton, who opened the batting, had had his bat sprinkled with holy water by a Catholic bishop. Such superstitions too, as one can see from history, are not restricted to the subcontinent.
Fingleton was soon dismissed. As Bradman, at No 3, passed Fingleton on his way to the middle, he said to him: "We'll see what a dry bat will do out there." The master, of course, scored his usual century.
Compounding the religious divide, was the other major issue that most of his teammates felt that Bradman thrived on the popularity and that made the game more of a one man show, was aloof towards the other team members and often became greater than the game itself.
One of the most interesting comments about Bradman was made by O'Brien just before his death in 1997: "He had an inferiority complex, except when he had a bat in his hand."
It happens that another of Bradman's teammates, a 1948 Invincible, privately expressed the same view — "It was the small-man syndrome that drove him to excel."
Bradman Fingleton rift
Bradman and Fingleton added a world record 346 for the sixth wicket in the Ashes Test match at Melbourne in 1937, but that did not really indicate that they were the gelled well off the wicket.
Fingleton's rift with Bradman is one of the most long-lasting conflicts in the history of the game, and it kept them far from speaking terms right up to the former's death in 1981.
Fingleton, a decent opening batsman, bore Bradman quite a few grudges, including the belief that it was The Don who kept him out of the Test side during the 1934 tour of England. Biographer Gowden discovered an extraordinary letter that Fingleton wrote to Bill Woodfull, the Australian captain and selector, complaining about his omission, noting that certain Australian players "probably don't want me as a teammate".
The biggest issue between the two was the infamous Adelaide leak during the Bodyline series.
Australian captain, Bill Woodfull, had been struck over the heart by an express Harold Larwood delivery during the Adelaide Test of the notorious series. Later in the afternoon, while Ponsford and Vic Richardson were at the crease, English team managers Plum Warner and Richard Palairet paid Woodfull a visit in the Australian dressing room to express their concern over his injury.
Still under considerable pain, and aghast at the English attitude of making a mockery of his very idealistic views of sporting spirit, Woodfull was not too eager to entertain the officials. From the massage table, he said the words that have become immortal with time, and was paraphrased to some extent 75 years later during another infamous Test at Sydney by Anil Kumble.
"There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket. The other is making no attempt to do so."
For an Englishman hailing from the early days of the century, this allegation of not playing cricket was crushing, and there are reports that Warner was in tears when he returned to his hotel.
The damage, however, became irreversible, when this incident — including the quote — was leaked to the press, kick-starting the Bodyline controversy, soon becoming the biggest crisis cricket has ever faced.
Fingleton, who had a day job reporting for a Sydney newspaper, was the prime suspect. Warner went as far as to say that the story had been leaked because one of the Australian players in the dressing room was a journalist.
Fingleton, thus, got the blame but believed that Bradman was the culprit and should have owned up. According to Gowden, this "fatally poisoned" their relationship.
In 1947, in his acclaimed Cricket Crisis, Fingleton alleged that it had actually been Bradman who had leaked the news to Claude Corbett of The Sun. By then, Fingleton had retired from cricket, but Bradman was in his last couple of seasons, gearing for a glorious swansong.
Of course, Bradman rubbished the claim and blamed Fingleton for the leak, and the two hardly ever spoke again. Fingleton did author another book based on Bradman's final tour of Australia with the Invincibles, Brightly Fades the Don. While second to none in his admiration of Bradman's batsmanship in the book, it did not patch things up between the two because in many parts, Fingleton was severely critical of the personality of the greatest batsman who ever lived.
The O'Reilly-Bradman problems
In 1995, after O'Reilly and Fingleton had both passed away, Bradman wrote: "With these fellows out of the way, the loyalty of my 1948 side was a big joy and made a big contribution to the outstanding success of that tour".
It is strange that Bradman should prefer not having on his team the bowler whom he often referred to as the best he had ever seen. However, the Irish Catholic background and easy beer dipped social ways of the champion leg spinner did not quite agree with the abstemious Protestant grounding of the great batsman. It is hard to believe, but Bradman's vindictiveness prematurely ended the career of the "Tiger".
In fact, O'Reilly summed up his feelings when he complained to a board member, "You have to play under a Protestant to know what it's like".
O'Reilly followed Fingleton's footsteps to become a journalist, and kept following them further while criticising the great man relentlessly. Funnily, the two anti-Bradman friends were in the Press Box together when the master was bowled off the second ball by Eric Hollies in his final Test innings, and they have been reported to have become hysterical with laughter.
Nevertheless, O'Reilly claimed that he was silent about his deepest feelings about Bradman. "You don't piss on statues," as he put it.
However, Bradman's genius with the bat shone through even through the most unpalatable bitterness. O'Reilly did go on to say that compared with Bradman, batsmen like Greg Chappell and Allan Border were mere "child's play".
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Bill Rogers - Posted - 07/23/2008: 20:31:07
I see that the Uncle Dave Macon Days has crowned a "national" old-time banjo champion. Hmm. I have no disrespect at all for Jim Holland, and winning that banjo contest is a great feather in his cap. That said, I think it's arrogant in the extreme for the Uncle Dave Macon Days to claim its banjo contest is some sort of "national" championship. Without some sort of widespread series of eliminations from the 50 states and various regions of the country culminating in a national play-off among the regional winners, no contest anywhere should have the temerity to claim it is a "national" championship. I doubt that such could ever really be organized. Too much expense and very difficult logistics. You'd have to start with coordinated state contests having the same judging criteria, in, say, early June, then maybe 5 regional contests with the five winners then playing off in a national championship in Washington, D.C. on July 4. Until pigs fly and such a contest occurs, the various gatherings around the country should be content to proclaim their contests as their own championships--nothing more.Bill
KE - Posted - 07/23/2008: 20:38:30
As I looked at the website while thinking about going, I came across this information:"In 1986 the US House of Representatives proclaimed these competitions to be the National Championships in Old-Time Banjo, Old-Time Clogging and Old-Time Buck Dancing. In 2008, the House of Representatives recorded Murfreesboro as a designated National American Music Center for Traditional American Music.Apparently, the designation is by an Act of Congress. You may need to take it up with them. And now this is probably a political thread. If so, my apologies.
Bill Rogers - Posted - 07/23/2008: 20:57:05
Well, there's nothing new about the House being arrogant. I suspect that august body was asked for the proclamation by the Macon Days folks or maybe the Representative from Murfreesboros's district; that's usually how such proclamations come about. Incidentally, a House resolution/proclamation is not an act of Congress--it's just the sense of the House. From what I saw on the Macon Days website, that's all they got. There's no joint resolution with the Senate and no act of Congress signed into law by the president. So I'll stand by my comments.Bill
Edited by - Bill Rogers on 07/23/2008 20:57:49
KE - Posted - 07/23/2008: 21:05:53
Bill, you must teach government: your distinction is correct, as is your description of how much thought goes into legislative proclamations.But still, it gives a bit more imprimateur to the title than just being the self-proclaimed National Championship -- perhaps even a bit more than the designation World Champions for the winner of MLB's World Series.
Bill Rogers - Posted - 07/23/2008: 21:24:06
Bingo, Ken. In fact earlier this summer I wrote my school district's curriculum guide for American Government. It was my undergrad major and I've been teaching it off and on for 25 years. And I agree with you that at least UDMD isn't solely self-proclaimed. You're right about the World Series. Starting in 2006 or maybe a year or two before, Major League Baseball finally grasped that. The winner is now simply the "World Series Champion." Now they need to call it maybe the "Major League Series." But I digress too much. Here's to Jim Holland and all contest champion old-time banjo players. They've gotten awards I'll never reach for sure.Bill
Sandy Rothman - Posted - 07/27/2008: 13:50:57
When I lived in Ohio, all kinds of things were dubbed "National"including such things as bluegrass festivals that might not have been known in the next county. FWIW.
TR Dockery - Posted - 07/27/2008: 14:03:07
Sadly, the same could be said of the National Banjo Picking/Guitar Picking/etc competition at Walnut Grove in Winfield, KS. No disrespect intended to any winner, but where were the "playoffs" leading up to these titles? More importantly, how do we fix this? An act of Congress, especially this Congress, gives these events anything but credibility.Regards,Randy in Germantown, TN"Always wear the white belt."Paul Hawthorne, Banjo Sen-Sei
Edited by - TR Dockery on 07/27/2008 14:07:56
Ronnie - Posted - 07/27/2008: 14:27:33
FWIW Mr. Holland did a fine job with his banjo. He was backed up by Pastor Harry on Guitar. During the late 1960's, early 70's. There was a "Tennessee State" contest where I won the banjo 1st prizeconsistantly. I never considered myself to be the state banjo champion as I am sure there were several other"state" contests at the time.www.bobbythompsonbanjo.com
jbalch - Posted - 07/27/2008: 15:42:46
I served and Chairman of Judging for Uncle Dave Macon Days for twenty-seven years. I am currently a member of the festival board of directors. Uncle Dave Macon Days has been established to preserve and promote traditional American music. A few years ago, the festival director sought to establish a National title event as a means of bringing more attention to the participants and the music. Uncle Dave Macon Days is a true not-for-profit organization. The organizers are unpaid volunteers. The motivation is simply a love of the music. The festival is a free gift to the community and the public. I can assure you that there is no arrogance involved on the part of anyone associated with this event. Im personally very offended by this thread.www.johnbalchmusic.comwww.myspace.com/johnbalch
Banjophobic - Posted - 07/27/2008: 15:48:33
Labeling someone "worlds best" anything in music is just for entertainment purposes. Many players live in the banjo 'contest' world. They have a group of tunes that they can obliterate and have focused on the contest aspect of banjo. Many times the banjoist of this mold are limited in other ways and have a narrow focus of thier talents. Music isnt about who is 'best'.If someone tends to put stock in a players abilities based on contests won, ribbons awarded, names on plaques,etc, then that person should get out more and really find out what makes a great player. Besides, you could win the "wrolds best" at the 'official banjo contest of the world', as not be as technically proficient as someone who lives down the road from the contest site, but never leaves the house.Music is much more than fancy licks and technical prowess. Its about groove,fell emotions and passionate playing along with great technique. Just my thoughts...
BanjoLink - Posted - 07/27/2008: 16:06:11
Quote:"I served and Chairman of Judging for Uncle Dave Macon Days for twenty-seven years. I am currently a member of the festival board of directors. Uncle Dave Macon Days has been established to preserve and promote traditional American music. A few years ago, the festival director sought to establish a National title event as a means of bringing more attention to the participants and the music. Uncle Dave Macon Days is a true not-for-profit organization. The organizers are unpaid volunteers. The motivation is simply a love of the music. The festival is a free gift to the community and the public. I can assure you that there is no arrogance involved on the part of anyone associated with this event. Im personally very offended by this thread."John:All of what you said is quite noble and apparently the festival is held, judged, and operated for all of the right reasons. I wish more festivals were the same. However, nothing you said has anything to do with Bill's point. Perhaps he chose the wrong word ("arrogant"), and in retrospect may not (or may) use it again. Likewise, I don't blame you for defending a festival that you are so invested in.I think Ken answers the question that Bill asks ("In 1986 the US House of Representatives proclaimed these competitions to be the National Championships in Old-Time Banjo ......................................). The real discussion should be how or why would congress single out one festival for such a proclaimation.
Edited by - BanjoLink on 07/27/2008 18:38:02
DaveInCA - Posted - 07/27/2008: 16:20:33
Nothing new here about a regional contest proclaiming "National" status---the Weiser (Idaho) fiddle contest has for a long time billed itself as the "National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest" when it should really be something more like "The Northwest Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest". John, I can see why you might be offended as you likely feel that everyone's intentions were above-board, but perhaps you can see, in turn, why use of the term "National" might seem a bit disingenuous to some for the reasons that Bill so clearly stated in his first post, above. IIRC, the folks at Weiser defend their use of the term "National' because the contest is open to people from anywhere in the US (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter) and contestants often do come from distant states. Dave
Ronnie - Posted - 07/27/2008: 16:45:49
I enjoy the music, hospitality and fellowship of Uncle Dave Macon Days and the good folks of Murfreesboro and leave it at that.I am looking forward to attending next year.www.bobbythompsonbanjo.com
jbalch - Posted - 07/27/2008: 17:27:08
quote:Originally posted by Bill Rogers... I think it's arrogant in the extreme ...
Edited by - jbalch on 07/27/2008 17:40:17
Bill Rogers - Posted - 07/27/2008: 17:49:21
quote:Originally posted by jbalchI'm not going to argue this further...
supah_g - Posted - 07/27/2008: 21:29:34
Unfortunately, I have yet to make it to Murfreesboro, but I can only surmise that any kind of act by the US House of Representaives was a salutation, and a nod of approval for the fine work those folks are doing in preserving and embracing a certain aspect of our musical heritage. Being that banjo playing doesn't lend itself to the easily judged "higher, faster, stronger" criteria, and that any judgement of one's playing is totally subjective, perhaps we might ought not get too hung up on titles.I would take the gov't "approval" as an honour for the festival. Perhaps Bill Rogers might like to team up with Vince McMahon to start a more just & true banjo dueling construct. ...WWBF?g.
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All air-conditioned rooms feature phones and ironing boards. 42-inch plasma TVs come with pay movies, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Pillowtop beds grant a restful night's sleep, and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries.
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Guests of Excalibur Hotel Casino have access to a full-service spa, a casino, and an outdoor pool. Valet parking is offered for USD 13.00 per day. The front desk has multilingual staff standing by 24 hours a day to assist with dry cleaning/laundry and concierge services. Other amenities at this spa resort include a fitness center, a spa tub, and a sauna.
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Spa
- Casino
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to the renowned Tournament of Kings dinner, Excalibur Hotel Casino is home to The Steakhouse at Camelot, Dick's Last Resort, Buca di Beppo, Baja Fresh, and Drenched, the poolside restaurant. It makes a great place to eat well and relax as well as get in some gaming action at the casino.
The Royal Treatment Spa includes relaxation lounges, saunas, steam rooms, and spa tubs. Treatments include the Loofah Scrub, Eucalyptus Steam Wrap, Aveda Refresher Facial, and Aveda Therapy Massage. The spa's fitness center overlooks the pools. Use of spa facilities is available for a daily charge or complimentary with a treatment.
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Casino
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 3,981
- Number of floors - 28
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Shopping on site
- Arcade/game room
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Meeting rooms 8
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Poolside bar
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 15
- Sauna
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Arcade/game room
- Refrigerator (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Long-term parking (surcharge), Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
Air-conditioned accommodations at Excalibur Hotel Casino offer hair dryers and irons/ironing boards. Beds feature pillowtop mattresses. 42-inch plasma televisions come with pay movies.
Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries. This Las Vegas resort provides complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Housekeeping is offered daily and refrigerators can be requested.
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Pillowtop mattress
- Plasma TV
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
The Steakhouse at Camelot - This contemporary steakhouse serves prime-grade beef and fresh seafood for dinner. Features include subdued lighting, a glassed-in show kitchen, wine/cigar room, piano lounge.
Dick's Last Resort - Burgers, barbecue, seafood, and more are served in buckets and accompanied with bibs and hats. There is also live music. It is open daily for lunch and dinner.
Drenched - This restaurant has a poolside location.
Castle Walk Food Court - Dining includes Krispy Kreme, McDonalds, Pick Up Stix, Popeyes Chicken, Pizza Hut Express, Schlotzsky's Deli, Starbucks, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Cinnabon, Hot Dog on a Stick, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, and Big Chill. It is open 24 hours.
Buca di Beppo - Delicious entrees, pastas, salads, pizzas and desserts are all served family style with portions that each feed 2 to 6 people.
Octane Lounge - Located outside the Thunder from Down Under Theatre, offers drinks and music. Must be 21 or older.
The Lounge - Located on the casino level, offers drinks and live entertainment and music. Must be 21 or older.
The medieval-style Tournament of Kings dinner show (no dining utensils) includes jousting, horseback-riding skill demonstrations, hand-to-hand combat, beasts, fire, and pageantry.
Six or seven nights weekly, Australia's all-male strip revue Thunder from Down Under performs in its own theater. (Guests must be 18 or older to attend. Those 18–20 must be accompanied by an adult).
The Australian Bee Gees Show, A Tribute to the Bee Gees, has become the world's leading Bee Gees show. The group's unbelievable resemblance and sound of the legendary Bee Gees has garnered international kudos from media and showgoers alike. The 75-minute multi-media concert event is presented from a contemporary perspective with state-of-the-art sound, superb lighting, and giant screens featuring video clips, live camera images, and stunning graphics.
Fun Dungeon - The world-famous Excalibur arcade, where you can test your skills on a variety of your favorite games that challenged you as a kid or save the day on one of the latest arcade games. The Fun Dungeon offers over 150 games, including 16 Carnival Midways, 19 prize redemption games, 65 arcade games, 10 sports games and 83 redemption games! Make sure to try the Mega Stacker, Big Bass and Key Master!
The 100,000-square-foot casino includes a poker room and a race-and-sports book.
T-Mobile Arena is a 20,000-seat sports and entertainment venue that opened in April 2016 and is located just west of the Strip. The arena will host exciting, world-class events with something for everyone - from UFC, boxing, hockey, basketball, and bull riding to high-profile awards shows and top-name concerts.
The Park also opened in April 2016 and serves as the official gateway to T-Mobile Arena. It offers an eclectic blend of restaurants, bars, and entertainment with rich desert landscaping reminiscent of the Mojave.
Nearby Things to Do
2 heated pools and a 25-person spa tub are surrounded by sundecks. 1 pool, shaped like an arrowhead, is 125 feet wide. The other is a 175-foot-wide freeform pool. Between the pools, a massive rock garden includes waterfalls and two water slides.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25.00 per day.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Union Pay
No cribs (infant beds) available
Bed type is based upon availability for the Tower Room category and will be assigned at check-in. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Vehicles that are self-parked for more than one hour are subject to a parking fee. The self-parking fee is USD 5 for vehicles parked 1-4 hours and USD 8 for vehicles parked 4-24 hours. The valet parking fee is USD 8 for the first 4 hours (no grace period) and USD 13 for 4-24 hours. All parking fees repeat each 24-hour period. The parking fee provides registered guests with in-out privileges within the same parking type (self or valet) across all MGM Resorts destinations. For details, please contact the office using the contact information found on the confirmation received after booking.
The credit or debit card used to place the reservation will be required upon arrival to register. The hotel will place an authorization against this account to cover applicable charges for room, tax, and resort fees, as well as an incidental amount per day to allow access to room charging privileges. Additional authorizations may be placed should the guest's charges exceed the originally approved amount. For debit cards, unused funds are released upon check-out and made available after up to 7 days for domestic banks and up to 30 days for international banks. For details, please contact the office using the contact information found on the confirmation received after booking.
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per night
- Resort fee: USD 34.01 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Self parking fee: USD 8.00 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 13.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Early check-in fee: USD 25
- Refrigerator fee: USD 25 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25.00 per day
Hotel Name
- Casino Excalibur
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- Excalibur Casino
- Excalibur Casino Hotel
- Excalibur Hotel
- Excalibur Hotel Casino
- Excalibur Hotel Casino Las Vegas
- Hotel Casino Excalibur
- Hotel Excalibur
- Excalibur Hotel And Casino
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
Excalibur and Luxor - $35 Buffet
Book a stay in any room type and enjoy both the Luxor and Excalibur hotel buffets all day for $USD 35.
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Does anyone have a problem with that?
I've been going back and forth on it. On one hand, he's young and rich and basketball isn't his entire life. That's fine, right? I don't have a problem with him doing his business thing.
But, should he leave that stuff for the offseason? Should he have maybe passed this one time, considering how desperately the Warriors need him to be at his peak? Would Steve Nash or Kevin Garnett, players hungry for a championship, ever have done such a thing?
Plus, BD is the catalyst on the court. Not just because he's the best player, but also because he's the point guard. The Warriors lack of energy and urgency is some of his responsibility, too, because he sets the tone.
Then again, it's his own time. He didn't skip practice. He wasn't late to a game. He used his off day how he wanted to. The CC Times doesn't tell me how to spend my off days. Who is anyone to say what he should be doing on his day off, especially you can't be certain it hurts his performance.
You'll never be able to calculate if the excursion he took to Utah negatively impacted his play. There's no well to know if he would've made that lay-up had he not taken the trip. You can't reasonably say that if he stayed in the Bay Area and rested, he would have blown right by Marko Jaric on the previous possession instead of taking that fall-away 22 footer on the previous possession.
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Conclusion - Pros
- Excellent optical quality
- Very good macro capability
- Relatively lightweight for its class, but still generally solid build
- Low price
Conclusion - Cons
- Slow and noisy autofocus motor
- Somewhat clunky manual focus switchover mechanism
- Tendency towards slight misfocusing (at least in Canon mount)
Overall conclusion
The SP AF 70-200mm F2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro is certainly a very creditable effort by Tamron to produce a high quality, yet affordable fast telephoto zoom. Indeed if we look solely at the studio optical tests, it is a resounding success, as the technical quality of the images this lens can produce is superb throughout most of the range, matching or even outperforming the much more expensive Canon 70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM. It's slightly soft wide open in the middle of the zoom range (most visibly on the more demanding APS-C/DX sensor format), but stop down a little and the quality really starts to shine through. Resolution is excellent from corner to corner, chromatic aberration is generally very low, and vignetting about average for a lens of this class. The close minimum focus distance is very welcome, especially as image quality holds up pretty well, and the rendition of out-of-focus regions of the image is very pleasant; this may not be a substitute for a true macro lens, but it's not bad at all. About the only flaws are the slightly high distortion on full frame (unlikely to be a problem for most typical uses of a telephoto zoom) and occasional severe flare issues with strong light sources just outside the frame (which tends to be a weak point of fast telezooms generally).
The big problem with this lens, however, lies in the focusing systems. The autofocus motor is relatively slow and noisy, which puts it at a major disadvantage compared to its ultrasonic motor-equipped competitors, simply because AF performance impacts strongly on many of the typical uses for a fast telezoom lens. The slow speed of the motor means focus tracking simply isn't fast enough for sports or action, or even children running around playing; it's also a distinct problem in low light or with low-contrast subjects, where the lens can take what feels like an eternity to achieve focus. This is compounded by the noise the motor makes, which could be a real problem in situations such as wedding or event photography for which the user wishes to remain unobtrusive; discrete it is not. Also the Tamron lacks a focus limiter switch, so has a tendency to hunt back and forwards through its entire range when it fails to lock focus first time. But perhaps the biggest problem we encountered was a tendency for the lens to mis-focus, seemingly at random and disturbingly frequently, such that F2.8 shots in particular were often not critically sharp (although it must be pointed out that this may be specific to either our test sample, or the Canon mount version).
However it's not just the autofocus system which is an issue, and the manual focus isn't perfect either. The use of the push-pull clutch on the focus ring to engage manual is a good idea in principle, but not perfectly implemented in practice; the action is remarkably noisy (in context, the click-clunk noises on switching between AF and M are substantially louder than the shutter release on any current DSLR, including the top-end professional models such as the Nikon D3 and Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III), and the focus ring has a bad habit of sticking in an intermediate position in which the gearing isn't correctly engaged, and manual focus doesn't work properly. Also, it's not possible to use autofocus to pre-focus on a specific point then switch to manual, as the focus distance can often be thrown in the switchover. Finally, the manual focus ring is just a little too highly geared, with relatively short travel between infinity and the close focus of 0.95m, making critically accurate manual focus difficult to achieve (certainly outside of live view).
Now it must be acknowledged that we've only tested this lens in the Canon EF mount, and we can't assume it will behave in exactly the same way on other mounts. We'd presume that the Nikon version shares the same AF motor system, so will likely be just as noisy and probably as slow, but may well not suffer from the accuracy problems we observed with Canon bodies. It's also fair to say that the body-driven Pentax and Sony versions may behave rather better all round. Of course users of these two brands will then have to put up with the irritation of needing to select manual focus using both the body switch and the focus ring clutch, but that would be a small price to pay for the prospect of having these excellent optics benefit from a faster and more consistent autofocus system, especially on a body with built-in image stabilization. (Indeed on that point; it's a pity Tamron couldn't have incorporated the impressive stabilization system from their 28-300mm VC lens into the 70-200mm, at least for the Canon and Nikon mount versions.)
So ultimately what we have here is a flawed gem, a lens which fully capable of delivering excellent images, but also frustratingly capable of missing focus on that once-in-a-lifetime shot, either through mis-focus or simply being too slow. And this is a real pity, because the optical quality of this lens is genuinely superb. Now if you shoot mainly outdoors in bright light, the focus speed and noise issues probably won't be a great problem (especially if you're not trying to track fast moving subjects), in which case this lens could well be ideal. However if you shoot frequently in low light, need to track erratically moving subjects, or demand quiet operation, then the relatively unrefined autofocus will leave you frustrated. Also, whilst the mis-focusing issues we observed can certainly be mitigated by taking multiple shots if you have the time and opportunity, that's simply not always possible. Because of these issues, the Tamron 70-200mm F2.8, despite its stellar optics, just fails to take our top award.
Detail | Rating (out of 10) |
Build quality | 8.0 |
Ergonomics & handling | 8.0 |
Features | 8.0 |
Image quality | 8.5 |
Value | 8.5 |
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When he finished filming "The Avengers," Clark Gregg figured he was done playing SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson for good.
That, of course, turned out not to be the case. Gregg is front and center in ABC's new, "Avengers"-adjacent series "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" in the fall, and the pilot episode explains, at least to some extent, how Coulson survived the events of the movie.
Sunday (Aug. 4) at the TCA summer press tour, Gregg related how he learned of Coulson's rebirth. Here's his full answer:
"My next-to-last day on 'The Avengers' involved this certain Asgardian fellow impaling me, quite convincingly. I was surprised how emotional it was to me to give up the character and the long-term job. I made jokes like, 'Is there going to be a rewrite coming from the governor at any point?' 'Do you want to shoot one where he just grazes me a little bit?' There were a few kind of pathetic, sad — no. It was really clear that I was dead, you know?
"I had a great run, and I thought what ['Avengers' writer-director] Joss [Whedon] did with the character was such a magnificent kind of resolve of it, and I loved what happened in 'The Avengers.' Somebody sent me a tweet that they heard Coulson's funeral was going to be in 'Thor 2,' and that [hurt]. I thought I was cool, but I was messed up, and I sent an e-mail to [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige saying, 'I have to do business with this, don't I?' Because they had made a couple of jokes like, 'It's a comic-book universe, how dead can you be?' But then I heard that, and I'm pretty sure the Asgardians do that thing where they burn guys on top of the thing — I didn't think I was going to be coming back from that.
"Kevin didn't respond, and then a couple of weeks later — this is probably four or five months after 'The Avengers' — I got a call from Joss, and we talked about how much we wanted to have whatever reason Coulson had for still being alive and walking around not be anything that undermines the reality of 'The Avengers.' When he explained to me a little bit more than what you saw in the pilot, the stuff that Coulson doesn't know, I hung up the phone very deeply on board."
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My son is having serve pain in his bladder area. It`s usually when he has been holding his urine for along time. How can I relieve his pain. And what is the cause of the bladder spasm. I took to John Hopkins 2yrs ago for the same thing and they said it is bladder spasms.
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