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A 5 varietal wine during Christmas turned wine for this winter season and what has been making these chilly days and nights somewhat tolerable!
The Monster Red Blend from Ninety+ Cellars is the most heavenly Monster I have ever encountered. This impeccable red wine is made with 5 classic grapes; 30% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Petit Verdot, and 10% Malbec. Is that not the most incredible Monster you've ever seen (and tasted)! The gorgeous dark ruby color of this wine sets the scene for a beautifully plated and very indulgent night. Flavors of coffee, dark fruits, dark chocolate with very nice tannins at the finish make this wine a very powerful monster yet 'impressively well poised' (could not have said it better)! I was introduced to this wine by Mr. 90+ himself and my first try was at the Christmas dinner table where we all were with 'mouths dropped' when pairing the wine with a juicy rib roast (and saved what was left for dessert ;)).
Since then I have been using this wine to get me through these snow storms and relive that incredible moment when this wine first hit my lips. Pure genius! Now, if only we knew what winery in Columbia Valley, WA this came from???
This is a must for the wine fridge and I have already stocked up. A staple for a spectacular dinner party and good to have on hand!
A few stores that carry Lot 100:
Clarendon Wine and Spirits (Back Bay)
Jobi Liquors (Beacon Hill/West End)
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Landmark Wine and Spirits (167 West 23rd Street)
Gramercy Wine Cellars (236 3rd Ave)
42nd Street Wine Loft
Mark's Wine & Spirits (53 Mott Street)
Fulton Wine and Spirits (110 Fulton Street)


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Six years in the making and due for public release on Tuesday, the strategy will recommend national priorities for prevention and treatment of the leading cause of disability in Canada. Mental illness costs the economy an estimated $51 billion annually in health care and lost productivity.
The strategy is also expected to address the psychological health of employees in the workplace and call for a more integrated system to improve access to treatment and services across a person's lifespan. Only a third of adults and one in four children who need mental-health services in Canada actually receive them.
"The system can become significantly more efficient and effective without having to spend a whole lot more money, which is not to say it doesn't need money — it does, because it's under-serviced," former Liberal senator Michael Kirby, who recently stepped down as chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, told Postmedia News.
Kirby declined to discuss specifics of the commission's strategy. But he said that, "Even if you only attack those two areas (children and youth and workplace mental health) and if you focused on making the system more efficient by stopping some of the duplication and by getting much better coordination on the ground, you could have a very dramatic impact."
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 20 per cent of Canadians will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. Yet public health spending on mental health is lower in Canada than in most developed nations.
"The worst part of the system is the children and youth system, and that's for a whole variety of reasons — not the least of which is the stigma and therefore the reluctance of some parents to try to get their children help and admit that their child has a mental-health problem," Kirby said.
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"If you can't afford that, your child doesn't get treated, you wait for a child psychiatrist and you wait, in most places in the country, on the order of a year," Kirby said.
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Railers drop opening game at the Schnucks Holiday Classic
By Jeff Benjamin
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[December 28, 2012]
COLLINSVILLE -- For the second
year in a row, the Lincoln Railers dropped their opening contest of
the Schnucks Holiday Classic in Collinsville. However, on Thursday,
unlike last year, they watched a seven-point lead with two minutes
left evaporate into an overtime loss to the Oakville (Mo.) Tigers
A jumper from Oakville's Ervin Sarajlic with 5.5 seconds
tied the game at 47. After Will Podbelsek's lay-in with two minutes
to go put the Railers up 42-35, it did not seem possible Oakville
could climb back in, but climb they did.
In the early stages of the contest, the Railers lived solely on
the 3. All of their first-half points came from behind the arc.
That's not to say they did not attempt anything inside; it's just
that those easy shots did not go down. The first quarter was a
seesaw affair with 3s from Podbelsek, Tyler Horchem and Edward
Bowlby. After the Tigers tied the game at 9, Lincoln closed out the
quarter on shots from Horchem and Podbelsek to take a 15-9 lead into
the second quarter. The one trouble spot for the Railers was early
foul trouble from Gavin Block, who was on the bench at the 3:47 with
his second foul.
Whatever was not working well for Oakville (5-1) in the first
started in the second. The Tigers used an 11-0 run to race out to a
20-15 lead. Max Cook brought the Railers closer with his first 3,
but was whistled for an intentional foul with 45 seconds left in the
half after trying to chase down Oakville's Tristan Buckhalter on a
layup. Fortunately, it only cost Lincoln one point as Buckhalter
split the free throws and the Tigers were unable to capitalize on
the ensuing possession.
Down 21-18 at the half, the Railers had to feel good as they had
shot only 27 percent in the first half while Oakville was hitting on
50 percent of their shots, including 5 on 9 from 3-point range.
Lincoln made one more first-half 3 but on seven more attempts.
The run by Oakville continued to start the second half as a quick
5-0 push stretched the Lincoln deficit to 25-18 (a 16-3 run
altogether). The critical play for the Railers came at the 3::41
mark of the third, when Oakville's 6-foot-10 man in the middle,
Austin Gillmann, picked up his third foul. Not sure if his absence
from the court sparked a renewed confidence, but whatever it was,
Lincoln began their comeback behind junior guard Cook.
Cook scored five in a row to quickly pull the Railers to within a
basket at 25-23. Oakville was able to answer, going on a 7-2 run,
with the two Lincoln points being free throws from Cook. Three out
of four free throws from Block and Podbelsek got Lincoln closer
again at 32-28. The Railers got a buzzer-beater from Austin Krusz to
bring the third-quarter score to 34-30 in favor of Oakville.
As badly as things had gone through the first three quarters, the
Railers found another gear to start the fourth. A 3 from Horchem cut
the lead to one, and when Cook scored on an inbounds play at the
6:10 mark, Lincoln had the lead at 35-34, their first since being up
15-12 early in the second. Cook then hit another 3, followed by a
pair of free throws from Block to move the Railer advantage to six
at 40-34. After a Gillmann free throw for the Tigers, the Railers
went for an oldie but a goodie. Block's touchdown-like pass to a
wide-open Podbelsek led to a layup and foul for the senior. Up
42-35, Podbelsek missed the free throw, but with two minutes to go,
this was going to turn out OK anyway, right?
The Tigers were able to slowly creep back into the contest by
trading 3 for free throws. A 3 from Oakville was answered by free
throws from the Railers. After Cook had converted on 3 of 4 free
throws, the Railers were up 45-41, but another 3 from Sarajlic
brought Oakville to within one. Block stepped to the line with 16.9
seconds to go and sank both free throws, giving the Railers a
three-point lead. However, it was Sarajlic once again, this time
over a double-team of Bowlby and Podbelsek, hitting from the right
wing to knot the game at 47 with 5.5 seconds remaining.
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Lincoln did not get an opportunity to answer as Block mishandled
the dribble crossing the time line and was eventually called for
double dribble. Oakville's last-ditch efforts with 0.4 left did not
materialize as the inbounds pass hit the rim and was knocked away,
sending the Railers to their third overtime game of the season.
At that point, we welcomed overtime, but the coaching staff had a
bad feeling about the extra session.
"They had all the momentum going in," Alexander said. "If you
play this game long enough, you can get a feel, and they made the
last basket in regulation and it carried over into overtime. We just
did not show up in the overtime."
After Buckhalter's basket put Oakville up, Block tied the game
with another set of free throws at 49. From there, all Oakville,
scoring the last seven points of the game. It seemed Lincoln just
ran out of gas. While the Tigers were running their offense to get
shots, Lincoln seemed anxious and put up shots that were, at times,
out of control and forced. In the end, Oakville came away with the
win 56-49.
Lincoln finished the game shooting just 33 percent (13 of 39)
while Oakville hit on 51 percent of their shots. Rebounding
destroyed Lincoln on Thursday as the Tigers held a 37-11 advantage,
with Gillmann having more rebounds than the entire Railer team. If
it weren't for Oakville's 21 turnovers, this game may have never
reached overtime as the Tigers did all they could to keep the
Railers in it.
So, what's next? Well, there is still a chance to win the
consolation championship and go 3-1 at Collinsville. Who will decide
that? "The kids," Alexander stated. "They've got to come out ready.
We didn't want an early game, but we do and they have to be ready."
The Railers were led by Cook's 18 points, 15 of those in the
second half. The junior also had a team-high six steals and four
assists. Podbelsek and Horchem each had nine, with Block scoring all
eight of his points from the free-throw line. Bowlby hit a 3 in the
first quarter for his only points of the afternoon, while Krusz
finished with two.
The Railers will be back in action on Friday at 10:30 as they
take on Urbana. The Tigers dropped a 65-39 decision to East St.
Louis. If the Railers win, they will advance to a consolation
semifinal on Saturday afternoon at 1 against either Riverview
Gardens or Belleville Althoff. A loss drops them to a Saturday
morning contest at 9.
This one's in the books. Opportunity is here for three wins down
here. Starting Friday, let's go get them, one at a time.
Cook 5-11 5-7 20, Podbelsek 3- 9 1-3 9, Horchem 3-8 0-0 9, Block
0-5 8-10 8, Bowlby 1-4 0-0 3, Krusz 1-2 0-0 2, Dunovsky 0-0 0-0 0.
Team 13-39 14-20 47. 3-point field goals 9-25 (Cook 3-7, Horchem
3-8, Podbelsek 2-5, Bowlby 1-3, Block 0-2).
Erv. Sarajlic 20, Gillmann 14, Elv. Sarajlic 9, Buckhalter 6,
Munsell 3, Carv. Robinson 2, Breunig 2. Team 19-37 9-13 56. 3-point
field goals 9 (Erv. Sarajlic 6, Elv. Sarajlic 3).
Scoring by quarters:
[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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When Video Gaming Replaces the Classroom
In China, the future of foreign language education may be online. About 1,000 primary school children in China's coastal area of Fujian are paying to play online games and learn English. WSJ's Eva Tam takes us to 3-D English Adventureland.
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- BIM - Building Information Modelling
- MEP - Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing
- Aus - Australia
Frustration with BIM
Many Australian Mechanical Contractors had grown frustrated with BIM (Building Information Modeling) and the additional costs that implementing BIM often led to. BIM was intended to be an integrated process for sharing key physical and functional characteristics digitally that was going to allow professionals to deliver projects faster and more economically. Integration was the keyword, with BIM helping to enable supply chain integration as part of an integrated project delivery (IPD) approach that leveraged technological advances. But in the experience of many industry professionals that was not happening.
Their experience was that even though the same consultant produced BIM models with very basic parameters, as soon as these models were introduced to the BIM architecture from contractors and suppliers, things went wrong. The consultant's models and the contractors' models could not integrate with one other. The result was that the whole BIM model had to be reworked, with extra expense to follow. There was no common standard for the creation of BIM models.
"It was like 5 people designing the different parts of a car's bodywork using different parameters, without talking to each other, then expecting the production line to fit all the parts together."
Ben Leigh, CBS Regional Business Development Manager, Grundfos Asia Pacific Region
Enter BIM-MEP Aus
This is where BIM-MEPAUS comes into the picture. BIM-MEPAUS is a collaboration between many of the major players in the Australian construction market. With the AMCA (Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors Association of Australia) behind the project, major contractors, design consultancies, other associations, standards committees and larger suppliers to the industry such as Grundfos also came on board.
BIM Pump Model Standard
Grundfos Australia was invited to become involved in a pump working group with other manufacturers. The aim was to develop one of the first model types for BIM MEP Aus. This involved drawing-up and adopting common specifications, standards, models and workflows.
The pump working group would also draw up a blueprint and workflow for how other industries could be brought together to develop common standards for BIM. Supply chain integration is seen as a key factor in moving towards better IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) practices.
Investment in the world of BIM
Grundfos has already created a number of models which will now be hosted and maintained on the BIM-MEPAUS website. For Grundfos, supporting the BIM-MEPAUS project is an important element in making doing business with Grundfos easier for customers – and doing business in the world of BIM will be easier once common standards are in place.
How to develop a pump standard
The working group that Grundfos Australia was part of begun the process by selecting a suitable pump. They choose the ISO 2858 and DIN EN733 end-suction centrifugal pump as the best place to start. This pump was selected mainly due to generic dimensions between all manufacturers and as the basic pump had been used in Australia for the last 25 years. A limited generic range of BIM models would therefore be required to cover the range of manufacturers, making it an ideal candidate for creating workflow processes and content development.
Next steps
Having decided on a pump model, the next step was to agree on the required model attributes. These had to include fixed and manufacturer variable dimensions, as well as agreement on the level of model detail to be included. Making use of industry best practice input, the variables that needed to be attached to the model in BIM-MEPAUS were also determined. These included the design schedule; performance schedule; installed pump data; and commissioning schedule. With these schedules in place there would be complete life traceability of the project from design to completion attached to the building documentation.
Reference point
In a BIM-MEPAUS project the design engineer will fill out the design schedule with the required information for flow, pressure, speed and electrical data. The next step is that the mechanical engineer completes this data by entering manufacturer specific data once the pumps are actually installed. The final stage is the loading of commissioning data so that this can be referenced at any point in the future to ensure that the buildings facility managers can ensure the building is still running according to design specifications.
Delivery of the BIM-MEPAUS project will benefit consultants and contractors in the Australian construction industry. A BIM solution that works across the board will reduce drafting and modelling costs and reduce waste, duplication and reworking, while securing the quality of information and documentation. It will also improve co-ordination, saving time and money on new construction and retrofit projects alike. Finally, improved commissioning and maintenance data will help optimise building operation and also lower costs here, making life easier for Grundfos Australia's customers.


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'Green' is everywhere these days— note the terms eco green, sustainability, low carbon footprint, and more. So it seems that it's time for us in the 'green industry' to make a greater impact in this this direction.
Many landscape contractors across the country are already offering organic or chemical-free services to their clients. Maybe you've thought about adding a green division to your operation, but you just can't see a good reason to make that leap; not right now, anyway.
You might want to reconsider.
There are many good reasons. For one, it'll generate an additional revenue stream. It's also a terrific P.R.
and marketing tool, and you'll be able to spread the word via your company's website, and through social media. The best reason of all though, is that customers are asking about it and want it now.
Oh, sure—your competition will still be out there, continuing to maintain their client's properties in the conventional way. You, however, will have a distinct advantage over them, because in addition to traditional methods of maintenance, you now have the ability to put them on a 'green' track.
Even though a green approach may be a bit more expensive, homeowners who want a smaller carbon footprint are willing to pay a little extra for it. "More and more consumers are interested in making sure that they have a healthy yard and space around them," said Jenna Messier, program manager for the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Organic Land Care Program, in Greenwich, Connecticut. "It's a good way for people to be environmentally conscious at their own homes."
Being a green consumer goes beyond simply avoiding chemicals. People in general are becoming more aware and concerned about the planet. They still want to live in beautiful settings, which is why we're in business. If they can and be environmentally compliant at the same time, consumers feel they have the best of both worlds.
Water conservation plays a big part in this. If you read all the headlines about drought in many of our states, you know that this resource is becoming more precious, as well as more pricey. In many places, rising water bills reflect this. Homeowners are motivated to save water out of concern for both the planet and their pocketbooks. They want to reduce penalties for overuse and capitalize on incentives for using less.
"The trend is going towards using less water," said Ty Davis, irrigation manager for Austin, Texas-based Clean Scapes. "It will keep going that way because it has to. Any place that is running out of water has to push conservation." The manufacturers of irrigation equipment have been very cognizant of this fact and are focusing on water-conserving products. Many of the newer irrigation products on the market have much lower precipitation rates than before.
The eco-green movement is about more than just conserving water, however. It's also about using organic and natural materials to fertilize turf and shrubs. It's about using biological controls for insects and diseases rather than chemical ones. And, it's about turning away from fossil fuels and towards cleaner alternatives such as propane, natural gas, biodiesel and battery power.
Some landscape contractors find themselves getting more referral business than ever once they go green. "It gives people something different," said Shirley Kost, head designer at Unique Garden Environments in Long Beach, California. "When people see you doing something differently, they're more likely to hire you. Most of my jobs have come from the city's Lawn-to- Garden program, but I'm getting more and more referrals from people who've seen what I've done, and said, 'I'd like to have something like that, too.' I think going green really gives you an advantage."
Cut the chemicals One of the easiest and simplest ways to start going green is to ditch the pesticides. The problem with these chemicals is that they kill beneficial insects, like ladybugs and pollinators along with the bad guys.
While the disappearing bees are old news by now, scientists say pesticides may be to blame, and we won't know the long-term ramifications for years to come. But the headlines these days continue to bombard us about the dangers of all the chemicals in our environment. Also, many homeowners with children and pets simply don't want chemicals around. Fortunately, there are lots of organic alternatives.
Herbicides, fungicides and chemical fertilizers are next on the to-go list. The concern with these is mainly the chemical runoff that pollutes waterways. Again, there are natural alternatives. The simplest might be to pull weeds instead of poisoning them, if the area is small enough. If there are too many to pull, or the space too large, a limited use of herbicide may still be necessary, preferably organic.
"If you've been in the organic business for a long time, you're not going to have many problems with your lawns because they'll be nice and healthy," said Scott Walker, owner of Pleasant Green Grass in Durham, North Carolina. "Weeds are an indicator that something is going wrong in the soil, such as not enough organic matter, too much water, or not enough. If you can get those things figured out, you'll cut back on the number of weeds."
The best way to keep turf and plants free of disease and insect attack is to keep them healthy and strong. "Most of the time, insects attack plants that are growing out of balance," said Walker, "like getting too much fertilizer, or using synthetic nutrients for sustenance. If you're growing them right, then they'll grow up strong and be overlooked by disease and insects, which will go for more susceptible plants."
You may be asking, "If I can't use chemical fertilizer, then what do I feed plants?" The answer is mulch and compost. "I compost all my green waste at home," said Kost, "and I try to do it for my clients, too. It's good to add organic compost as a top dressing to all the beds. It has a lot of worm castings in it, and that helps with both the nutrients and the soil." There are also some organic fertilizers available. The green approach may cost more in added labor, but this may well be offset by the savings you'll realize by not buying chemicals.
There is a learning curve to this. The sooner you get started, the better you'll be able to stay ahead of your competition.
Use alternative fuels
Changing the fuel you put into your mowers is another great way to go green. You can do this gradually, replacing old, worn-out mowers with new propane-powered ones. Or, get adapters that allow gas-powered models to run on propane. Depending on availability in your area, natural gas (CNG) might be a way to go.
If you have diesel mowers, consider biodiesel. You can even produce it yourself, as Walker does; he built his own processor to refine the used vegetable oil he acquires through a winwin arrangement with a local restaurant chain. He gets their fryer grease waste; they get reduced-cost landscape services. Or, you can purchase biodiesel from an increasing number of producers. You can go ahead and use it in your existing diesel mowers with little or no adjustment.
There are lots of advantages to biodiesel. For starters, it burns much more cleanly than petroleum diesel does. Some users claim that because of that, it's easier on engines, so you may even get more usable runninghours out of your expensive commercial mowers.
Battery power isn't quite "there" yet for the demands of professional turf care mowers. But it is for other tools, such as blowers, chainsaws, string trimmers and hedgers. Using them in lieu of gasoline-powered units cuts both air and noise pollution.
Conserve water
These days, drought is on everyone's mind. In many areas, there are higher water costs and penalties for overuse. On the positive side, there are rebates from many water agencies for reducing water usage. Because of this, customers are demanding lesswasteful alternatives.
Reducing turf areas or changing them out for more drought-resistant grasses is one answer. Besides being less thirsty, these species are better able to heal themselves. Because of the way they grow, they fill in their own holes or patches very quickly and effectively. In landscape beds, choose native plants and shrubs that are adapted for the area and have survived past droughts.
Change the way you water. If you're not using smart, weather- or soilmoisture-based controllers already, it's time to play catch-up. Look into low-volume micro and drip irrigation; this technology cuts water use by at least 30 percent by delivering water directly to the root zones of plants. Very little is lost to evaporation and wind, and there's no runoff or overspray onto driveways or into the street. Because these methods keep plants healthier, they can fight weeds, pests and diseases that much better.
"These methods not only provide savings in water, but ultimately, savings in money also," says Davis. "It's definitely more specific than just broadcasting water over everything. You're not spraying what doesn't need to be sprayed."
Putting in a new irrigation system may cost a bit more at the outset. You'll need to educate your customer about the fact that they'll be saving money in the long run.
In cases where customers balk at the cost of going to lower-flow products, they may go for retrofitting. It's less expensive than a new system and relatively easy to change a conventional irrigation system over to low-flow or drip. It's done by simply capping sprinklers and running dripline from one of the old stems. This will save water, even if it's only done in the landscape beds.
Recapturing water that would otherwise be wasted is another great way to cut usage. Look into rain barrels, rain gardens and gray water systems that recycle kitchen and bathwater to irrigate the landscape.
Providing different irrigation choices gives your clients more options, and who doesn't like that? It sends the message that you are sensitive to your customer's concerns, and will do everything you can to help them achieve their conservation goals, now, and in the future. This can only be good for your business.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and reap rewards
"Recycling" is probably something you already do, to some degree: grinding up yard trimmings for mulch, for instance. But you may not have considered recycling the nutsand-bolts materials of hardscaping.
Next time you remove someone's old backyard barbecue pit, instead of throwing the debris in a dumpster, see if any of that material can be repurposed for new projects. Could some of the old tile be turned into stepping stones? Or the bricks in a new retaining wall? "Most of the contractors I know recycle," said Kost. "Whenever we pull out cement, we reuse it in a landscape rather than putting it in a landfill."
Reusing material has advantages beyond saving money; it's a chance to show off your creativity. Take before-and-after pictures and post them on Instagram, your company's Facebook page, or use them in your marketing materials.
The eco-green movement is no "flavor-ofthe-month," trendy fad that will go out of fashion soon. Rather, it's here to stay, a growing avalanche that started small, but is picking up momentum and mass as it moves forward. As the millennial generation approaches homebuying age, they'll probably want chemicalfree, water-stingy, small-carbon-footprint landscape services. Will you be there to reap the benefits?


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PORTSMOUTH — When a Salvation Army bell ringer arrived in Market Square Tuesday morning, set up a donation kettle and began ringing for donations, Sarah Hamilton-Parker called the police.
PORTSMOUTH — When a Salvation Army bell ringer arrived in Market Square Tuesday morning, set up a donation kettle and began ringing for donations, Sarah Hamilton-Parker called the police.
"I listen to this for 200 hours a year," said Hamilton-Parker, who works in a downtown shop near the annual bell ringers. "This is my fourth year and I can't take it anymore. I'm so sick of it."
She said the bell ringing starts in the morning, clangs all day long, then continues into the night. According to her calculations, she listens to 40 hours of Salvation Army bell ringing every week, for five weeks a year, or 200 hours a year.
"I don't get a break," she said. "It makes my blood pressure go sky high."
Hamilton-Parker said she's complained to the Salvation Army every year for the past four years and asked that the bell ringers be moved across the street to the front of the North Church. But nothing has changed, she said.
She's also researched the city's noise ordinance which bans excessive noise and said she thinks the fund-raising bell ringers qualify as noise under that definition. But Police Capt. Mike Schwartz said the noise ordinance "doesn't apply" because city officials grant permission for the bell ringers to shake their bells in that location on an seasonal basis.
"I recognize her concern, but it's something the city has given permission for," he said. "They don't even let me pick out my own clothes, so I don't have a say in it. But you do have a voice in city government. These are not back-room decisions."
Hamilton-Parker said she's tried to convince the Salvation Army that its bell ringers would be better located in front of a coffee shop, for example, where people do cash business, instead of in front of downtown jewelry stores where people typically make credit card purchases.
"I've looked for every reason to make it go away," she said. "I've got two sets of earplugs - one for me and one for my employee. I have my earplugs on for five weeks. It's just ridiculous."
Hamilton-Parker said she also discovered, through trial and error, that playing autoharp music inside her store best masks the ringing bells because the music is "bell-like."
"It makes me hate Christmas," she said.
The downtown store clerk said if she can't get the bell ringers to move across the street, or to ring their bells at rotating locations in the downtown area, she'll write a letter of complaint to city officials.
She's also toyed with the idea of drafting a petition and bringing it around to other downtown businesspeople.
"I don't think it's an unreasonable request that they move across the street, or move around," she said. "I'm a reasonable person. I just don't think it's fair."
According to the Salvation Army's national headquarters, the "kettle campaigns" are run locally.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Pat James, from the Salvation Army's Northern New England Division in Portland, Maine, said she'd look into the local complaint and try to find a solution. James said if the Market Square location is a good one for raising money, the ringers may be given a "dead" non-ringing bell.
"The kettle effort is such an important program to help us help other people," she said. "The money raised is critical for our services."
The Salvation Army is a Christian-based charitable organization and its first known fundraiser using a kettle to collect cash was in 1891.


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Sunday, 9 October 2011
Philharmonia/Maazel - Mahler, Symphony no.8, 9 October 2011
Mahler - Symphony no.8 in E-flat major
Sally Matthews (soprano, Magna Peccatrix)
Ailish Tynan (soprano, Una pœnitentium)
Sarah Tynan (soprano, Mater Gloriosa)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano, Mulier Samaritana)
Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano, Maria Ægyptiaca)
Stefan Vinke (tenor, Doctor Marianus)
Mark Stone (baritone, Pater Ecstaticus)
Stephen Gadd (baritone, Pater Profundus)
The Choirs of Eton College (precentor and director of music: Tim Johnson)
Philharmonia Voices (chorus master: Aidan Oliver)
Philharmonia Chorus (chorus master: Stefan Bevier)
BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Stephen Jackson)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
Following Lorin Maazel's lifeless first movement from Mahler's Tenth Symphony (reviewed here, with Das Lied von der Erde), I could not believe that the Eighth would prove worse. It did – considerably so.
The 'Veni, creator spiritus' opened in strong, muscular fashion, yet ominously, not only was it metronomic but one could hear every beat, just as in the previous concert. Then there came an extraordinary slowing down, or rather grinding to a halt and staying there, for the entry of the soloists, who, cushioned by a Philharmonia Orchestra reduced for some time to the level of mere accompaniment, sounded more like a Verdi ensemble than voices in the heavenly firmament. The solo voices, moreover, were weirdly positioned: not just in the sense of being behind the orchestra (though raised), but also placed antiphonally at the uppermost two corners of the stage, as if the conductor or management were worried where co-educational singing might lead. The soloists coped variably: Stefan Vinke's voice stood out, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, amongst the men, whilst Sarah Connolly proved strongest from the opposing camp. Sally Matthews often sounded strained – though who would not at such a tempo? – whilst Ailish Tynan occasionally contributed an unpleasant edge to proceedings. Even when the pace sped up dramatically, only rapidly and arbitrarily to slow a little later, there was no sense of what any of the words, let alone the music, might mean. It all sounded very hard work, certainly not ecstatic, or even joyful. Whilst the Philharmonia played well in purely technical terms, the orchestra had forced upon it, especially during the development section, an inappropriately fierce attack, a fair aural reflection of Maazel's stabbing beat. Even string pizzicato sounded as though it might slice one's hand off. A painful horn fluff in the lead up to the double fugue can be readily forgiven, but the vulgarity with which Maazel directed the brass thereafter cannot: even Solti would surely have blanched at such a loud, brash, artificially 'exciting', indeed deafening, noise. And so it went on and on, recapitulation without end.
The Introduction to the second part took us back to the painful audible micromanagement of the Tenth's 'Adagio': every subdivision of every beat bludgeoned into the collective consciousness, every note a thing-in-itself, apparently unconnected to any other, everything taken very, very slowly. There was no sense of line, let alone of landscape – and that in this most extraordinary of aural canvases. It felt like an unpleasant visit to the dentist rather than a view of the forest, let alone a voyage into a world of metaphysics. Though the strings sounded resplendent here, one could only regret the sad waste of their talents. Later on, it became increasingly apparent that, the skill of the players notwithstanding, both orchestra and hall were simply too small. In a decent performance, that might have mattered more.
Back, then, to the slow progress of the second part. The chorus – and there was little or no fault to find in any of the choral singing, always impressive in tone and heft – entered to the most rigid of conducting, as if at rehearsal speed. When Pater Ecstaticus responded, at something akin to a reasonable tempo, that inevitably sounded disconnected from what had gone before. Stephen Gadd, a late replacement for Brindley Sherratt, sounded somewhat threadbare as Pater Profundus: whatever his vocal type (he was listed as a baritone), 'profundus' was not the first description to come to mind. Tempi continued to veer arbitrarily, though more often than not they continued to be eked out, sub-division of beat to next sub-division, a test of endurance that did not quite correspond with my understanding of the work. The Mater Gloriosa seemed less to 'float' into view than to crawl. He-si-tant-ly.
Again, the soloists proved a mixed bunch. Vinke's intonation wavered, which is perhaps putting it mildly. (His voice seems to have deteriorated markedly since the first occasions I heard him in Leipzig, where he truly seemed a new Heldentenor hope.) Connolly again proved the most interesting and vocally refulgent of the women, assisted by baleful trombones, which, in a rare moment of musical insight, seemed to transport us back to the Second Symphony. Anne-Marie Owens, however, was tremulous, and blurry of diction. Ailish Tynan proved bizarrely lacking in purity of tone: an impetuous Gretchen is as bad an idea as it sounds. The first syllable of 'Hülle' (as in 'der alten Hülle sich entrafft') varied between at least three, probably more, different pitches. As for her closing attempt to present Gretchen as diva, one can only respond wearily that that is not quite what Mahler, let alone Goethe, had in mind. Sarah Tynan, however, delivered her lines with palpable, winning sincerity from one of the boxes.
Immediately after those words from the Mater Gloriosa's, there came, sadly, the only moment with true power to disconcert, to trouble. An unfortunate double bass player fell from her chair and apparently knocked over her instrument, having to be helped from the stage by other members of her section. It was a highly unnerving accident, but the show, alas, went on. Whatever redemption might be, Maazel's performance lay beyond it. The conclusion to the 'Chorus Mysticus', it will not surprise anyone to learn, was dragged out mercilessly, quite negating occasional signs of life at its opening.
I am not someone who usually notes, or indeed notices, durations of performances, but there was something of a discrepancy between the programme's anticipated timing (eighty minutes) and a 7.30 p.m. concert, which, whilst admittedly starting six or seven minutes late, came to an end slightly after 9.15. The first movement alone must have lasted half an hour. Slow tempi can often be revelatory: consider Klemperer. And then try not to consider Maazel. Nevertheless, the moment Mahler was finally put out of his misery, some members of the audience began to holler loudly and rose to their feet. It was time to catch the bus home.
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- Orpheus said...
Just a brief thought on placing of vocal soloists in concert performances. There is an argument that if you put the soloists behind the orchestra you are allowing the orchestra to hear and accompany them as they would in an orchestra pit in an opera house, rather than allowing them to feel disconnected (with the likely result that they will play louder). It can be a good idea in concert performances of opera, for example if there is a choir area that can be used as a makeshift 'stage' (e.g. Haim's "Poppea" at the Royal Albert Hall in, I think, 2008). But I think I agree that for something like Mahler 8 that is meant as concert music it's not.
- 10 October, 2011 11:38
- JPH said...
I understand that reasoning but in practice I don't think it works - you can't deny that the lack of a pit means that the balance is affected. The orchestral sound seems to be 'in the way', and the audience's potential sense of connection is reduced.I'm a singer and I always find it a bad idea when a conductor suggests this kind of arrangement; I think it has more to do with conductors' desire for control.
- 10 October, 2011 19:20
Mahler had this configuration in Munich but the hall was smaller, more resonant and the soloists were raised much higher
- 10 October, 2011 21:52
Sorry to hear this - only wondering why you went to Maazel's Mahler 8, when soloists from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra were playing just next door? Tonight, with Abbado, the orchestra's playing was simply beyond words. I just can't wait to hear them again tomorrow evening. Also fantastic to have Abbado back in London and looking so well. I hope you will have at least made it to one of their performances..
- 10 October, 2011 23:48
- Mark Berry said...
Sometimes one makes bad choices... Yes, I'll be there on Tuesday.
- 11 October, 2011 03:08
I first heard the 8th on the Sony recording with Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic - and although not my favourite Mahler Symphony - I always enjoyed it very much. (I should mention at this point that I am a lapsed trombone player with lots of enthusiasm for listening - but no musical training and clearly nothing of the expertise and high expectations of 'Boulezian')
The performance on Sunday was slightly strange in some ways - there were a couple of moments in Part I when the music became almost unrecognisable compared to the recording of Maazel (from the 80s I think) - and perhaps this was due to the very slow tempi in the quieter sections. As Boulezian mentioned there was a bad split from the horns - but these things happen - more worrying was a very messed up entry (I think) from one or more of the double basses close to the beginning of Part II - it looked as if they weren't able to follow Maazel's directions. Suffice to say that there was a bit of a glare in that direction - in fact the maestro didn't look very happy at any point in the performance - least of all when all hell broke out in the double basses again towards the end.
All that said - for someone like me who doesn't get to go to that many concerts (I've seen this piece once before at the Proms) - there were still moments of real exhilaration. The finales of both parts of the symphony are as close as you can get to a 'wall of sound' without electric amplification - it makes me think of the musical equivalent of a battering ram hammering away at the gates of heaven. I do wonder whether the current popularity of Mahler (I had one spare ticket and almost started a riot when I sold it to a Latvian student at the back of the queue for returns) reflects an unsatisfied spiritual longing in our largely post-religious society.
A final comment on the orchestra - I do rate the Philharmonia very highly. Perhaps they just don't have a great relationship with Maestro Maazel. I saw them with Salonen about a year ago playing Symphonie Fantastique - which I had gone off a bit over the years - and they absolutely blew me away with the drama and excitement of the playing - it was like hearing it for the first time.
- 11 October, 2011 22:00
- Robert said...
Here is another reviewer on the same performance' reflecting far more closely what I heard:
As far as this No.8 was concerned, his phenomenal conducting technique enabled the detail of Mahler's huge score to speak in a way that served the spirit of the music. Sure, his approach was analytical, but only in the way that he secured the extraordinary range of connections that music makes – and that needs a clear head so that the symphony's teeming emotional world can sing for itself. To see Maazel's extreme economy of gesture and to hear the quality of response from the players was totally compelling and involved us in the strange, symbiotic process of re-creation.(Peter Reed.)
I thought the 'slow movement introducing Part II was beautifully paced and phrased, far better than the recent Prom performance of Mahler 8. The mater gloriosa section was wondefully conducted and played. The final climactic ending was thrillingly done.
- 12 October, 2011 13:24
- Robert said...
I seem to have been at a different concert. Look to this alternative review posted by Peter Read:
As far as this No.8 was concerned, his phenomenal conducting technique enabled the detail of Mahler's huge score to speak in a way that served the spirit of the music. Sure, his approach was analytical, but only in the way that he secured the extraordinary range of connections that music makes – and that needs a clear head so that the symphony's teeming emotional world can sing for itself. To see Maazel's extreme economy of gesture and to hear the quality of response from the players was totally compelling and involved us in the strange, symbiotic process of re-creation.
I agree. Some particular highlights were the beautifully paced and articulated 'slow movement' introduction to Part II, the ethereal playing of the Mater Gloriosa section, and the build-up of the final thrilling climax.
A great performance.
- 12 October, 2011 13:30
- Mark Berry said...
It just goes to show how differently one can hear the same performance. I agree re the disappointing Proms rendition (also reviewed on here), though I suppose we should not have expected any more from the BBC SO's mostly absentee principal conductor. From the four live performances I have heard (also Gergiev, in St Paul's, which was impossible to hear properly on account of the venue), only Boulez in Berlin has convinced me: http://boulezian.blogspot.com/2007/04/berlin-mahler-zyklus-april-2007.html. (I was lucky enough to hear him rehearse the work too.)
I'm afraid I do not understand Peter Reed's reference to Maazel's 'extreme economy of gesture'. Whatever the musical results, the visual impression was anything but economical, more redolent of Bernstein-like grandstanding, albeit without Bernstein's passionate commitment and re-creative qualities.
- 12 October, 2011 13:51
- Stephen Rex said...
I'm with Boulezian on this one. I was singing in the chorus and the tempi were agonising. But I did enjoy more of the soloists than you - I thought Sally Matthews did a fantastic job given the lugubrious (or rather non-existant) phrasing, and though I agree Ailish Tynan wasn't exactly innocence incarnate I thought her tone and expressiveness never faltered.
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Reader Question: How do you read technical books (.pdf/.chm/.html)?
E-books have come a long way. And e-book adopters often voraciously consume technical books. You know the sort of title I mean - "Maxternactive Parsing Systems for Dummies" or "Contravantous Sprinicking for Profit" or even trivial stuff like "RISC Processor Optimization for Linux Job Queing Algorithms".
We get involved in learning a new technology, and want to carry that book around everywhere. Plus, free .pdf and .html books on software development and topics like Linux are available all over. But without the right e-book device, it can be near impossible to read those e-books. In desperation, we end up buying paper versions. Or we are even read tiny fonts after converting the document to the Sony Reader with one of the nifty conversion programs available at MobileRead.
Some of the wiser among us with a few extra dollars knew from the beginning that only a bigger e-ink screen would do and got an iLiad. Or we read on a smaller device and live with the trade-off, happily focusing mostly on novels, which are reasonably pleasant to read on most any device, even down to tiny smart phone screens.
So here are the questions for you technical book readers:
* What kind of device do you read the technical e-books on?
* What original formats do you use, and how do you prepare/convert them?
* Are you happy with your solution? What would be better?
* Does your solution require perfect eyesight?
* Have you given up and decided to read the paper versions for now?
Let us know your failures and successes, but if you have a plan that works, be sure to share!
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* What kind of device do you read the technical e-books on?
A regular PC.
* What original formats do you use, and how do you prepare/convert them?
PDF is the main format. Since most of them come from the outside I am at the mercy of the company preparing them. CHM is the most problematic format for me.
Those documents that are prepared here are mostly in PDF including a Tech User Manual for one company in Sony Reader format. We have used special PDF format and LRF format. The jury is still out.
* Are you happy with your solution? What would be better?
For 95% of the documents, yes. They are reference so search is a requirement. While I would like more material on the Sony Reader that is not an option at this point.
* Does your solution require perfect eyesight?
No. I wish I had it. Most of the people I work with need glasses to read (OK, there is one; but I suspect that she has LASIX surgery and took the one near and one far option.)
* Have you given up and decided to read the paper versions for now?
No, not an option. To get a paper version of most of the material would mean to print the PDF. Few of them are available in hardcopy.
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Great question, Bob. I'm very interested in seeing other people's answers.
For me, a PC until about 10 weeks ago. Now, I'm experimenting using my Sony Reader. For that, I have more or less successfully converted with PDFLRF from either original PDFs or Word documents that I first convert to PDFs.
Am I happy? Well, they are still pretty hard to read sometimes. Some of it is due to my lack of spending time to play with formatting options. So figures and tables get cut in half and I end up flipping between pages trying to see it. If I'm really lazy with formatting, yes, eyesight's an issue.
But maybe more difficult for me is my frequent need to flip between different portions of the document or even different documents. Even a perfectly formatted ebook won't help that. As an example, I've been trying to review a calculus ebook to help my daughter and I find it pretty frustrating to read a problem at the end of a chapter, look back in the text for the relevant equations, look elsewhere to review the examples, and also look at the back of the book for reference equations in the appendix (hehe, or for the answers!). It's too hard to do that on my Reader well even with well planned bookmarks and it's much too slow. Maybe it's asking too much in this case. It's much better on a PC (larger screen to see more and also it's easy to flip between multiple open windows). But it's really trivial with a paper book: a few sticky notes and you can go back to learning and stop fooling with the medium. Still, it's been fun to try. And you gotta love the incredible portability of it. Terrific for productivity - if it was just a bit more practical.
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Daig... nobody told me Maxternactive Parsing Systems for Dummies was out!
But seriously, folks, I would love to have my work-related texts in digital files, but so far, all of them are still on paper. This is one reason why I'd like my next reader to be a small laptop, tablet, or UMPC, for its larger screen and color capability. Being able to take that back and forth to work, instead of lugging around my textbooks, would be great.
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Maybe the more interesting question is:
what sort of technical documents does it make sense to read on a separate device?
As a sidenote, I had a user guide for yu-gi-oh game which I really could have used on my sony reader. full of graphics, regular 8 1/2 by 11.
I tried converting, but that was painful.
I ended up using my laptop when playing with my child, but my youngest was pulling the plug several times and almost caused the laptop to topple over.
Has anyone in the ebook world considered that use case ?
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Technical books
* What kind of device do you read the technical e-books on?
* What original formats do you use, and how do you prepare/convert them?
I have a number of PDF books, mostly from Pragmatic Programmers, and all but one is DRM-free. Some I have in paper form too, and just use the PDF for reference. The shorter ones (like on Subversion) I've read entirely on my laptop.
I use Preview on a MacBook Pro to view the PDFs. It's worth playing with the options in the View menu. Like "Automatically resize" so you can simply enlarge the window and the font comes with it. Usually I've been using "Continuous" with page breaks, which lets you keep on scrolling. I recently got an external LCD, so I am trying Book mode.
Another program I've tried is called Tofu, which does some reflowing, but haven't really used it. Interesting concept.
I have a bunch of documentation in HTML form that was either provided downloadable, or I scraped from the web with DeepVacuum. This is more reference material than e-books, and I just have a Docs folder in Safari's bookmarks for all the local documentation.
I've tried Safari Bookshelf, but found it to be too slow, and at least when I tried, the somewhat pricey downloadable PDFs weren't indexed/searchable.
* Are you happy with your solution? What would be better?
It works alright. Sometimes I take notes or key in the examples as I go, so I'd like be in front of my computer anyway.
It would be nice to have a sort of "library" of these books... right now it's pretty disorderly. I suppose Adobe Digital Editions would do something like that. Of course there is source code and such to manage too.
* Does your solution require perfect eyesight?
No. But I imagine an iLiad or something would be better on the eyes. I could only justify buying one if I was for-certain going to develop for it as well. But right now I'm not to excited (nor ready) to jump into Linux/GTK programming.
* Have you given up and decided to read the paper versions for now?
See above.
@hapax: Apple has, that's why the power cable is magnetic, so the laptop stays put when someone trips over the cable. At least a partial solution, which wouldn't be necessary if your battery is charged and will last as long as you need.
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I convert for PRS-500
I download PDFs, like RFCs, and resize with ghostscript and gv for reading on my PRS-500. With this method, you can zoom in just enough to read a letter size page without going blind.
Basically, you want to find a window around the text body, smaller than the page, and just large enough to see the important text; and create a new PDF focused on that window. gv displays coordinates under the cursor, so that's a good choice for measuring the window, then you make a new postscript file like this:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 [/Author (AUTHOR) /CreationDate (DATE) /Title (TITLE) /DOCINFO pdfmark [/CropBox [XLL YLL XUR YUR] /PAGES pdfmark /_begin_job_ { /tweak_save save def /tweak_dc countdictstack def /tweak_oc count 1 sub def userdict begin }bind def /_end_job_ { count tweak_oc sub{pop}repeat countdictstack tweak_dc sub{end}repeat tweak_save restore }bind def [ /Title (BOOKMARK) /OUT pdfmark _begin_job_ (PDFFILE) run _end_job_
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.CHM support is one of the main reason I'm selling my Sony Reader, and switching to the Cybook Gen3. (If they get around to releasing it). it's not supported out of the box but will be available as a firmware update.
Mobipocket creator does quite a good job with CHM files also.
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2. Pdf/Djvu - take them as they come
3. Acceptable; cannot think of better to deal with formulas (I read mostly math or physics books)
4. Not particularly; anyway I spend my working day in front of 5 monitors, so reading on them is not a problem with eyesight, it's a problem of convenience
5. I occcasionally read the paper version because of better navigation, but I am ok with the pc reading too and I do not feel the need to print things out often
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I should add that sometimes I'm just reading to learn something new and having paper and pencil with me is sufficient. But most of the time that I'm working with technical documents I need to do something more than that - I need to do calculations, create retrievable notes, write stuff, etc. In the latter cases, I really need a PC and having the document on my Reader is almost a nuisance, not a benefit. I can't copy and paste, for example. I think I've pretty well concluded that I need an ultralight tablet PC if I'm going to do much more than just read simple stuff.
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* What kind of device do you read the technical e-books on?
Either my tablet PC or more recently an Illiad
* What original formats do you use, and how do you prepare/convert them?
In the main PDFs. So far I've left them in the original format
* Are you happy with your solution? What would be better?
The tablet PC is a good size, backlit and of course full colour. It has a maximum 2 hours battery life which is poor, it occasionally runs Vista, it takes an age to boot, gets hot and isn't easy to read for long periods. It's my preferred reading method at home due to the search function and multiple windows.
The Illiad is not a bad size, fine for the text documents, needs some zooming for the technical diagrams and data tables. The battery life is great for work (ok it needs a charge every other day) I leave it turned on for quick access. Needs a search function to allow for quickly finding relevent data in a hurry
* Does your solution require perfect eyesight?
Not really, just the occasional use of zoom
* Have you given up and decided to read the paper versions for now?
Nope. The digital copies are automatically updated and carrying all my documents would need a small van and not the travel bag I use at the moment.
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