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The Feminist Spectator ruminates on theatre, performance, film, and television, focusing on gender, sexuality, race, other identities and overlaps, and our common humanity. It addresses how the arts shape and reflect our lives; how they participate in civic conversations; and how they serve as a vehicle for social change and a platform for pleasure. It's accessible to anyone committed to the arts' political meanings.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Rise and Shine and The Closer
I'm usually quite a big fan of author Anna Quindlen. I read her op-ed columns "Life in the 30s" and "Living Out Loud" in the New York Times in the 80s and 90s, and remember feeling so heartened when she was appointed the managing editor. Her columns were full of self-reflexive, humane and even feminist thinking, usually about difficult subjects like the ethics of journalism and a reporter's place, interviewing, for instance, a family who'd just lost a child in a violent death. I looked forward to her insights, her humor, and her rather quotidian humanity, which her words always elevated to an exemplary level.
I've also been a fan of her fiction since she left the Times to write fulltime. One True Thing and Object Lessons, her first novels, were excellent reads, if a bit melodramatic and predictable. Black and Blue was a vivid depiction of an abused woman running away with her son. And Blessings, her most recent novel, was a lovely story about an unlikely couple raising a child unexpectedly left in their care. So despite rather tepid reviews for her latest novel, Rise and Shine, I read the book.
The story concerns two sisters, one a famous television talk show host on the level of Katie Couric, the other a social worker who heads a non-profit that serves women and children in the Bronx. At the story's opening, the highly successful Megan gets into trouble by cursing a morally suspect guest on her show. Thinking her mic is off, she calls him a "fucking asshole," since he's left his wife to marry the surrogate they'd hired to carry their child.
Much of the book illustrates how one false move can topple even the most miraculous career. The media circus around Megan's mistake prompts her to retreat to Jamaica, where she stays in a remote but comfortable home with a view of the ocean, nursing her wounds and (theoretically) getting in touch with her true self.
Her sister, Bridget, who narrates the story, is younger and was once washed up, until Megan insisted she pull herself together. After some time as an artist and a waitress, Bridget finds her calling working with abused and homeless women and children of color.
When Megan leaves town, Bridget takes Megan's son Matt under her wing, and he, too, finds his higher self with Bridget's organization, driving women and children to appointments. Working with little black kids who come to love him, Matt is the young white hope. Close to the end of the story [spoiler alert], he's shot by an irrational and soon repentant African-American teenager jealous of Matt's relationship with an African-American girl from the projects where they live.
The shooting, of course, brings Megan back from her self-imposed exile in Jamaica, and resuscitates her career, since the shooter asks her to come meet him in the projects and bring him to the police. She delivers him with aplomb in front of national television cameras—even though he nearly killed her son, and in fact left him a paraplegic—and insists that he not be hurt, which turns her into a martyr and returns her to her status as a must-watch "it" girl in the bottom-feeding culture of wealthy Manhattan.
On the level of literature alone, the novel disappoints. The dialogue sounds stilted and self-conscious, with none of the warmth and truth that Quindlen's characters usually display. The awkward talk could be a result of the first-person narration by a character who's ultimately not that interesting; it could be the Manhattan setting, which might be too close to Quindlen's own milieu to let her stand back and see it artistically. While parts of the book want to critique the social-climbing back-stabbing fickleness of rich and famous New Yorkers, the book also seems enamored by this culture, and never really launches an incisive analysis.
As a result, even the "good" characters appear blind to their own excesses—or rather, blind to everything in the city that's not about them. Bridget, for instance, works alongside and with almost exclusively women of color. But rather than drawing out their characters, these women remain wholly subservient to the white women's story.
Tequila, the most egregiously colorful character of color, is a caricature of the large, hands-on-hips, self-righteous, big-hearted, effective, and sassy middle-aged African-American woman. She listens in on Bridget's phone calls, and manages to find information not available to other people. But although Tequila has her talents, she has no real life in the story, except when she's assisting Bridget, who's her boss.
When Megan flees to Jamaica to lick her wounds, she's cared for by local people of color, who drive her around the island and cook for her, then eventually follow her back to New York to work for her there. Megan's old servant/assistant is passed along to her sister when Bridget has twins. People of color in this story are narrative chattel, exchanged to further the lives of the white people in whose power they bask but never share.
Even Matt, the tragic, selfless white boy, finds his own soul by working with the cute African American children who climb on his shoulders and cling to his pant leg. That he's shot by those he thinks he's helping could have been played as a difficult racial irony; instead, Quindlen portrays the incident as somehow inevitable, as though it's a given that a black man Matt's age would fire at him senselessly on one of his trips to the projects.
The white people in this novel are the only ones who grow emotionally, intellectually, professionally, or spiritually. The people of color only get to change jobs, working for an interrelated line of white people who can't see them as anything but people who do a great job answering the phone and driving Miss Daisy around town.
Too bad Quindlen lost her progressive touch with Rise and Shine, and capitulated to New York City as people think it is, rather than how it might be, if fiction were used to imagine other ways for white people and people of color to interact.
Second, The Television Show
On The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick plays Brenda, an Atlanta-born detective who's been transferred to the LAPD to work under a long ago ex-boyfriend who's now the Chief of Police. Heading the Priority Murder Squad lands Brenda a promotion to Deputy Chief, which her colleagues (many of them men) resent. Over the course of the first season, they grudgingly come to admire her work, and offer their allegiance and respect.
Sedgwick plays Brenda as an unflappable, smart, if rather scattered, working woman. She thinks about several things at once—often, in fact, the murder in question on any given episode is solved when Brenda's engaged with someone who figures in the subplot rather than the central narrative. Her ability to multi-task and think on her feet is her chief asset as an investigator, hampered only by her tendency to lose personal things and to eat, almost constantly, sugary, high fat foods.
It's refreshing to watch a female television character who actually eats, let alone to watch one compulsively eating things that no health-conscious, weight-obsessed middle-age woman would ever go near. Brenda's donuts and cookies and candy, strewn across her desk or flowing out of her purse, seem to help her think; she uses them the way TV characters once used cigarettes. Of course, Sedgwick is slender and pretty—the food she consumes in character doesn't seem to affect her slim waistline. Unfortunately, under the conventions of the show, this character would never work if she were overweight.
Brenda's munching is a source of bemusement to her squad, a ragtag group of mostly men in ties who represent the racial and ethnic diversity of LA (and who seem much more weight conscious than she does). Her next in command is an African-American man, having a not-so-secret affair with the only other woman on the squad, who also happens to be African-American.
Two of the other men are white, rather crusty old hands who've been there and done that but find themselves constantly surprised by Brenda's antics and impressed with her results. The last two men are an intellectually curious Asian-American with a penchant for technology, and a taciturn Latino. To a person, they struggle with how to look up to such an unlikely boss, yet each week, find themselves affirming and admiring her skill.
The Closer is one of the few television shows I've ever watched that seems aware of how it's using gender relations. Brenda is portrayed as feminine (Sedgwick is beautiful without really trying) but professional and sadly lacking in fashion sense. Rather than the effortless allure that other female detectives achieve (think, for instance, of Poppy Montgomery's character on Without a Trace, or even Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush on Cold Case) and need to work against to be taken seriously, Brenda wears overly flowery, flowing dresses and sweater sets, and looks quite out of place in the hard boiled LA environs she investigates. She's sexy in an awkward, unself-conscious way that's much more real than how younger, more purposefully calculated women detectives are usually drawn.
Mostly, Brenda is good at what she does and she knows it. Her interrogation style uses her gender to catch her suspects unawares; her femininity is a tool in her box, rather than something defining. She can turn her feminine wiles on when she needs them to make progress, but the script makes sure the audience knows that she's making a choice, not falling back on biological destiny. And she makes choices that work against her gender just as often, shouting down suspects and intimidating them as well as any of her male colleagues.
When her very long ago affair with the Chief of Police is rudely announced to her squad by his ex-wife on a recent episode, the moment is mortifying not for the typical melodramatic reasons, but because Brenda worries that her gang will think she got her job only by sleeping with the boss, not on her own merits. This is still women's concern in the 21st century: that no matter how good we are at what we do, we're still measured and judged in relationship to men, whether sexually or professionally, or in that episode, both.
Although the multi-cultural face of the squad room might be calculated, the men who surround Brenda are fully drawn characters, each with his own idiosyncrasy, but with something of a heart instead of just a caricatured sketch on which to hang his actions. These people are likable, unpredictable, funny, and smart, and their respect for Brenda is refreshing because the show never takes it for granted. In fact, Brenda earns their esteem anew each episode, not because she's trying, but because she's very good at what she does.
That's a show I can get behind. I was disappointed that Sedgwick didn't win an Emmy for last season's work, but perhaps this time around, Emmy Award voters will recognize the layered complexity of the character she's created and reward her for creating a professional woman whose life seems real.
In reading and viewing pleasure,
The Feminist Spectator
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- Anonymous9/26/2006 11:27 PM
The theatre collective I work with, The Rude Mechanicals, is currently hard at work devising our fall show "Have You Ever Been Assasinated?" The play is about a group of vaudeville performers on a fictional last day of vaudeville. As we did research about popular performance at the turn of the century it became evident that we had to investigate racial representations that were central to vaudeville. I was inspired by Robbie McCauley's response to a question during her visit to UT in the spring. She said that the next story that needed to be told is the story of white supremacy. We are focusing our efforts on depicting how whiteness is constructed through creating and demeaning otherness. Jill, in your piece on "Rise and Shine" you write, "People of color in this story are narrative chattel, exchanged to further the lives of the white people in whose power they bask but never share." Part of the story that is told in our script is of someone that is excluded from the group based on his otherness. One of the questions that we constantly come back to is the same that you ask in response to Rise and Shine: Why repeat racisms when we can "imagine other ways for white people and people of color to interact?" I think that part of imagining a better future is learning about how derisive identities were and are shaped through cultural production. But I wonder how our work can be different than Anna Quindlen's novel? We struggle with presenting racist representations onstage in a critical way rather than reifying them. On the other hand, we don't want to allow the audience too much critical historical distance by simply telling the story of a group and Their racisms. And finally, how do we get our audience to confront racist stereotypes that shore up the category of whiteness and avoid the assumption of a white audience?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/17/2006 8:46 PM
There seem to be a lot of shows on television now that have strong female characters (or try to anyway). I'm especially interested to hear what you think about Ugly Betty.ReplyDelete
Just a note to say that I'll be writing about UGLY BETTY in an upcoming entry.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all your comments. I'm happy to respond to more personal comments off-blog. Email me at email@example.com.
Best, FS
Just a quick note to say I'm behind on UGLY BETTY, which I'm looking forward to watching in full over the holidays.ReplyDelete
And to Thomas's astute comment in response to my entry on Quindlen's RISE AND SHINE: I think the Rude Mechs' show grappled with how to address race in responsible and complicated ways. It seems to me there are no right answers to how to tell the story of white supremacy, as Robbie McCauley suggested. Most important, I think, it that white people participate in that narrative as ethically as possible, examining in more depth even what we think are well-meant, liberal instincts. I'm sure Quindlen thought she was being progressive by telling a story of a white woman working for a progressive social service organization. But racism goes much deeper, into the systemic structural aspects of cross-race relationships that liberal gestures can't always address. But it doesn't mean white people should stop working at this knot. Keep up the good work, Thomas. Thanks for writing.
My best, FS
- Anonymous11/09/2008 10:33 AM
I really enjoyed reading the part of your article related to The Closer. I am actually writing a Feminist Analysis of some sort of text in one of my classes at University, and I chose to write it on The Closer, so your article has been of a lot of help to me. Thanks!ReplyDelete


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My very favorite block so far is the Swallow block. I love the fabrics, the contrast, the asymmetry. A close second is the Sawtooth block.
Have you fallen under the spell of any of your craft projects? I'd love to hear about it :)
Love your blocks. Your swallow block is my favorite too. Can you tell me what fabric line your used for the background? I am very inspired by your fabric choices....Maybe I will give these a try too?
i especially love the chickens and the mermaids. (but they're all lovely, and i know i said this already, but man-oh-man do they all look good together!)
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Lovely blocks! I just got the book but so far I've only been reading the letters and joined the flickr group... not sure if I'm ready to jump in yet. I love the mermaids on your Sawtooth block, but my favorite is the Friendship Star... LOVE that cursive alphabet fabric!
I love all your fabric choices! Especially the Friendship Star :) And the Sawtooth too. I love mermaids.
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Every single block is gorgeous! I think those are my favorites, too :)
These are looking *amazing*! I love the way you're combining fabrics, and the blocks all look wonderful together too (I commented on your big group shot in flickr). Yummy! I have to get back on the stick/spade and make some more blocks :)
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"Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off."
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Jacques Ibert – Piano Music
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Jacques François Antoine Ibert (August 15, 1890 – February 5, 1962) was a French composer of classical music. He studied under Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatoire and won the Prix de Rome in 1919 for his cantata Le poète et la fée. From 1937 he was director of the French Academy in Rome, and from 1955 to 1957 directed Paris' Opéra-Comique. He died in Paris.
Ibert's music is considered to be typically quite "light" in character, often witty, colourfully orchestrated with attractive melodies. Although he was not a member of Les Six, his music shares some characteristics with theirs. His best known work is probably the orchestral Divertissement (1930), based on his incidental music for Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat). In the course of the work he comically quotes many pieces, including Mendelssohn's Wedding March. Other prominent pieces include Escales (1924) for orchestra, the symphonic poem La Ballade de la geôle de Reading (based on the poem by Oscar Wilde), his concerto for flute and Concertino da Camera for saxophone and Histoires for solo piano. He composed a number of operas, such as L'Aiglon (The Eaglet), and the operetta Les Petites Cardinal, some together with Arthur Honegger. His ballet Le Chevalier Errant (épopée choréographique, 1951) was premiered by Georges Tzipine with the ORTF. Among his film scores is the one for Orson Welles' version of Macbeth (1948). In 1956 he wrote the work Bacchanale to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the BBC Third Programme. Its premiere was given by Sir Eugene Goossens.
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Recorded in September 1991 and originally issued in 1992 on Naxos' costlier sister label Marco Polo (as 8.223409), here is a second chance to sample this rarely heard repertoire. And perhaps to sample is indeed the best way to enjoy this survey of Ibert's pianistic output – to take a couple of free-standing pieces, then perhaps one of the larger collections as the mood takes you. At over 70 minutes, a straight run-through can become laborious, even given such dedicated playing as this. Chang is alive to the various discernible influences, principally Debussy and Poulenc, and also demonstrates an admirable and entirely apt sense of restraint – only occasionally (for example, the first movement of the 'Petite Suite') does she become over-literal.
The disc begins with six miniatures (of which one, 'Francaise', was originally written for guitar). 'Le vent dans les ruines' ('The wind over the ruins') of 1915 is particularly effective, a delicate sister to Debussy's Prelude, 'Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest'. The opening 'Scherzetto' is wittily quirky, whilst the brief (58 seconds!) 'Toccata sur le nom d'Albert Roussel' provides a spiky contrast. Of the three sets, 'Les rencontres' ('Encounters') is the most interesting. This was written in 1921-4 and is subtitled, 'Little Suite in the form of a Ballet' (it was used as such by Nijinska in the following year). Ibert's pianistic imagination seems particularly fertile here, 'Les mignardes' ('The precious girls') especially successful in its Debussian evocations and dynamic swells.
The 'Petite Suite' in 'Fifteen Picures' is more variable – the opening 'Prelude' is rather drab, 'Parade' is somewhat uninspired, and yet 'La machine a coudre' ('The sewing machine') is charming and the concluding 'Danse du cocher' ('Cabman's Dance') is playfully Stravinskian – Chang at last lets her hair down here. 'Histoires' ('Stories') is the laongest collection, running to nearly 22 minutes. 'Le petit ane blanc' ('The little white donkey') is likely to be the most familiar movement, and is certainly the most frequently excerpted. Of interest also is the Hispanically-titled 'Bajo la mesa' ('Under the table'), strikingly close to de Falla.
Track List:
01. Scherztto (2:50)
02. Pièce Romantique (5:54)
03. Toccata sur le nom d'Albert Roussel (1:00)
04. L'espiègle au village de Lilliput (1:00)
05. Française: 'Guitarre' pour le piano (2:37)
06. Le vent dans les ruines (2:58)
07. Petite suite -I- Prélude (1:46)
08. Petite suite -II- Ronde (0:42)
09. Petite suite -III- Le gai vigneron (0:49)
10. Petite suite -IV- Berceuse aux étoiles (1:44)
11. Petite suite -V- Le cavalier Sans-souci (0:58)
12. Petite suite -VI- Parade (1:19)
13. Petite suite -VII- La promenade en traîneau (0:58)
14. Petite suite -VIII- Romance (1:17)
15. Petite suite -IX- Quadrille (0:36)
16. Petite suite -X- Sérénade sur l'eau (1:06)
17. Petite suite -XI- La machine à coudre (0:34)
18. Petite suite -XII- L'Adieu (2:09)
19. Petite suite -XIII- Les crocus (0:58)
20. Petite suite -XIV- Premier bal
21. Petite suite -XV- Danse du cocher
22. Histoires -I- La meneuse de tortues d'or (3:41)
23. Histoires -II- Le petit âne blanc (2:03)
24. Histoires -III- le vieux mendiant (3:03)
25. Histoires -IV- A giddy girl (1:24)
26. Histoires -V- Dans la maison triste (1:51)
27. Histoires -VI- Le palais abandonné (2:07)
28. Histoires -VII- Bajo la mesa (2:03)
29. Histoires -VIII- La cage de cristal (1:26)
30. Histoires -IX- La marchande d'eau fraîche (2:09)
31. Histoires -X- Le cortège de balkis (2:00)
32. Les rencontres -I- Les bouquetières (3:08)
33. Les rencontres -II- Les créoles (4:04)
34. Les rencontres -III- Les mignardes (3:01)
35. Les rencontres -IV- Les bergères (3:39)
36. Les rencontres -V- Les bavardes (2:18)
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Hae-Won Chang: piano
Chang Hae Won was born in Korea in the city of Seoul and started to play the piano at the age of six, completing her professional studies at Ewha University in Seoul in 1963. From 1964 until 1968 she studied at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule with Professor Leopolder on a German government scholarship and was awarded her diploma as a concert pianist. On her return to Korea she was appointed professor of piano at her old university.
In Korea Chang Hae Won won various prizes, including first prize in the Korean National Piano Competition. Her career as a concert pianist began three years earlier, in 1957, when she played Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she has enjoyed a busy career as a teacher and as a performer in Korea, in other Asian countries, in America and in Europe, with annual concert tours and engagements at home and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras and in recitals with Ruggiero Ricci, Christian Ferras, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Aaron Rosand, André Navarra and others. She has performed as a soloist at numerous music festivals, including the Paris Château de Breteuil Festival, the National Music Festival in Korea and the festival for the opening of the Sejong Cultural Centre and of the Goethe-Institut in Seoul. She has served on the Vianna da Motta Competition jury in Lisbon. In 1985 she was acclaimed by the Music Critics' Circle of Korea as Musician of the Year, and won high praise in the German press for her technical accomplishment and musicianship. She has recorded for Telefunken, Camerata Tokyo, Hong Kong Records and Marco Polo.
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Independent Spirit of Bath – Off licence
There is something about standing in amongst a load of booze that makes me feel at home. It possibly has something to do with the fact that my home is always full of booze, but I've always loved a good off licence. The anticipation of the evening you are buying the booze for, the dimmed lighting, the wooden shelves full of different coloured redolent liquids from around the world and the fountain of knowledge sitting behind the till awaiting a nudge or comment so that he or she can whirr into action like the silver painted "robot" buskers of Covent garden awaiting a coin.
This is perhaps why I got so exited when I heard about a new off licence opening up just down the road from me in Bath. Independent Spirit of Bath is to booze, what the very successful Mr B's Emporium of reading delights and Toppings and company book shops are to books. Namely its a very well run, independent off licence that shies away from the commercial mass produced to favour the well made and the small and to champion the excellent over the banal or over hyped.
I caught up with Chris, one of the owners and asked him a few questions to get more of a feel of the shop that I will be giving much of my hard earned royalty cheques to.
You were both barmen originally is that right and do feel that has helped you get to know what booze your customers might appreciate?
I started off in bars 14 years ago and specifically cocktail bars, travelling to Edinburgh my eyes were opened to single malt whisky through the SMWS (Scotch Malt Whiskey Society). I found very quickly that a passion for quality and education about specific types of alcohol naturally attracted like minded people. It was far, far removed from branding and assumed styles and categories associated with whiskey and discovering new things became the norm for me. What sparked an enthusiasm in me became infectious as I sought to educate and entertain the members.
Customers have preconceived ideas about what they like, I found challenging them to try something different could be enough to give them a spark and let them go off and want to know more themselves.
There are plenty of online booze shops, what do people get from you by coming into your shop that they won't get online?
Service and a range that can move faster and be more specifically relevant to suit both the needs of our regular clientèle who visit us a few times a month and hopefully for special occasion purchases; as well as the visiting customer base who want something local, of outstanding quality and that they can't get back home or in duty free.
Online booze shops throw a wide net by targeting nationwide or even further afield. Through our regular tasting events and drop in sampling sessions we get to interact with our customer base in a way that ensures that we can build a regular audience for our products. Because of our backgrounds the way we interact with our guests is a cross between hospitality and retail which we hope makes a trip to the shop memorable.
Running a shop like this has got to be the dream of most people, do you pinch yourselves or is it actually a bit of hard work?
I have had a very steep learning curve over the past few years and the retail aspect I fell into by chance. I happened to establish myself quite quickly while working in Edinburgh. It is fun and you get to talk to people who genuinely are interested rather than the 3am drunk. The hard part is mostly over for us, setting up office systems, worrying about budgets stressing about solicitors. As far as we are concerned this is when the fun begins. Looking at stock lists its like being a kid in a candy factory, we always have to be aware of normal business protocol, cash flow and all that but this makes it worth it.
The shop you've moved into used to be a Video shop, one of the types of shops that 20 years ago seemed to be part of the impenetrable fabric of daily life; yet within a few years a sustained onslaught from digital in the guise of streaming, piracy, on demand services and DVD's by post killed it off. Is the love of good beer just a trend and to what extent are you future proof?
Supermarket pricing, rents and rates being liable to the whims of local authority, increased legislation from an out of touch government and of course the other associated costs in having a physical, as opposed to an online, presence means the UK on-trade on-sale has always been up against it.
The large chains that disappeared had many problems they had money tied up in stock and property and were unable to keep up with trends to name just two major ones. Oddbins (for example) as a chain built itself on its products and its staff. The staff went because the products went and the family atmosphere went and they took their training with them. These guys are now the small independent traders around the UK.
Love of good beer is a passion, its something you share, you savour, most importantly you support it. Its the people who make it, be it the brewers down the road who started up the brewery in a shed as a few friends or the Belgian breweries still in family hands. If there is no passion, no enjoyment then you deserve to go the way of the chains; its more than just a job to us.
The best thing about it is we will never stop learning, we talk to home brewers and breweries. They buy beers from competitors, they buy the Belgian, British, German beer that they first fell in love with.
In your opinion what qualities does a good purveyor of beers, wines and spirits need to have?
Enjoy it and know how to interact with your guests. If people tell me they don't like something I challenge them to try it again. Finding out what our guests needs are is part of our ethos and part of the reason we decided to go it alone.
What percentage of your beer stock is British, in your opinion is Britain keeping up with the rest of the world when it comes to choice in beer?
Certainly the bigger range of our beer is Europe and America just now, but we have split the display area into 2 to facilitate a 50/50 split long term. We are sourcing our suppliers right now and are finding quite a movement to try and showcase the variety and creativity of both local ingredients and flavours and unusual combinations of brewing styles. British brewers are right up there with the best of them but I don't think its recognised because the UK as a whole doesn't support the industry, the small producer or encourages it as an exportable marketable economy. For example the LCBO in Canada are among one of the biggest purchasers of alcohol in the world and they welcomed in Innis and Gunn and had them create a canadian whisky cask finish just for them, theres definitely a market for out there but no sign of support in or out of the UK.
If you were allowed three desert island beers, one British, one American and one Belgium what would you choose and why?
British: It would be from Scotland, a brewery that isn't open yet. Anything from Top Out brewery when it opens, I know Michael who is starting it and anything he brews is pure gold. If his commercial brews are as good as his cupboard brews I'd be a happy man.
American: It would be North American, Canadian in fact. I spent a year working in a brewery in Canada. It would be Steam whistle which isn't anything special but very well done. They know how to look after people, put back into the community and are quite forward thinking with their environmental strategy's. Sometimes you just want something refreshing and uncomplicated.
Belgian: Delerium nocturnum just because I can. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Winter Camp Message
Good morning winter campers! I wish I could be with you, but shoveling since 5:00 has not brought me much closer to getting loose here. I should have planned last night the way Mr. Fredericksen did the night before he was going to have to leave the home he and Ellie had shared all their lives, and flown this rectory UP from Lynbrook to Camp DeWolfe! Mr. Fredericksen made a decision that we all might make if we were able. Given the choice between UP and DOWN, most of us would choose UP. I would rather be feeling up than down. I would rather be looking up than down. The snow comes down from the...Read More
Meet the Summer Staff 2016 – Part 8
1. What's your name? Hi, my name is Amoy McKenzie. 2. Where are you from? I am from London which is in England. 3. What university/school do you attend? What major? I studied at the University of Greenwich, and graduated in October 2015. Gained a degree in Youth and Community Work. 4. What's your favourite Country/state? My favourite country is Jamaica because that is where I was born and I love travelling there. 5. What's your favourite camp activity and why? My favourite camp activity is anything that involves being physical such as rock climbing, swimming. 6. What are you most...Read More
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This NFL season, Camp DeWolfe campers, retreat guests and staff are participating in the Souper Bowl of Caring! The Souper Bowl of Caring's mission statement is: "Using the energy of the Super Bowl to mobilize youth in a united national effort to care for people in their local communities who are hungry and those in need." Their vision statement is to: "Transform the time around the Super Bowl into the nation's largest celebration of giving and serving." (www.souperbowl.org) Camp DeWolfe's chosen local charity will be Island Harvest – the...Read More
Meet the Summer Staff 2016 – Part 7
What's your name? Hello, my name is Amy! Where are you from? I am from a county called Northamptonshire in England. What university/ school do you attend? What major? I go to the University of Worcester in England and study Human Geography. What is your favourite country/state? My favourite country is France because the streets are so pretty and the weather is hot (which is rarely the case in England in summer!) What's your favourite camp activity and why? I love swimming and any activity involving water so activities like kayaking and paddle boarding would have to be my favourite! What...Read More
Only 6 months until summer!
My summer here at Camp DeWolfe has definitely been one of the biggest learning experiences of my life. As soon as I arrived at camp, I instantly felt part of the camp family. The bonds and friendships I have made here have been so strong – I am confident I have made amazing friends for life. Camp DeWolfe will always have a special place in my heart, as here I developed my faith in God and have been involved in such a strong community of friends who genuinely care about each other. Natural setting is my favourite core value at camp. It has been a really eye opening experience for me to be...Read More


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Hello pumpkin banana muffins :-) yum
This will hopefully keep me on top of things through the holidays. I really want to lose the last of these pregnancy pounds along with firming up the good ol tummy.
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Title: The Leaves of the Tree
Venue: Winchester Cathedral
Dates: 12 April - 18 May, 2018
Theme: A diverse exhibition of calligraphy work and botanical paintings by Winchester Cathedral Scribes and invited artists highlighting
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Can you please tell me if the Netherlands, Germany and Italy are hosting a worldwide botanical exhibition in May 2018. And if so the location.
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Sexual Harassment is defined as unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature including, without limitation, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, intrusion into another's sexual seclusion or privacy and other unwelcome verbal, nonverbal, auditory, visual, recording, transmission or display of sexual matters or materials or physical conduct of a sexual nature. A sexually hostile environment exists when Sexual Harassment is so continuous and pervasive that it interferes with or limits a student's ability to participate in, or benefit from, the University's educational program.
Sexual Harassment also includes the act of making sexual contact with the intimate body part of another person without that person's consent, including as the result of sexual coercion. Intimate body parts include the mouth, the sex organs, the anus, the groin or buttocks of any person, and/or the breasts.
For purposes of this policy, Sexual Harassment includes, but is not limited to, invasion of sexual privacy, audio or video recording or photographing of any type (webcam, camera, Internet exposure, etc.) without knowledge and consent of all persons, going beyond the boundaries of consent (such as letting another person hide and watch you have consensual sex without the knowledge of the other party), engaging in unconsented voyeurism, exposing one's genitals or breasts in non-consensual circumstances, coercing another against their will to expose their genitals or breasts and prostituting another person.
Sexual Exploitation
Sexual Exploitation is defined as sexual misconduct that occurs when a person takes unjust or abusive sexual advantage of another for his or her benefit or for the benefit of anyone other than the exploited party; and that behavior does not otherwise constitute sexual assault. Examples of sexual exploitation include, but are not limited to, invasion of sexual privacy, videotaping or photographing of any type (webcam, camera, Internet exposure, etc.) without knowledge and consent of all persons; going beyond the boundaries of consent (such as letting another person hide and watch you have consensual sex without the knowledge of the other party), engaging in voyeurism, exposing one's genitals in non-consensual circumstances; coercing another to expose their genitals, prostituting another person.
Consent is defined as the unambiguous and willing participation or cooperation in act, behavior or attitude that is commonly understood to be consistent with the exercise of free will. Consent requires participants who are lawful adults, fully conscious, equally free and legally competent to act, have clearly communicated their willingness, cooperation or permission to participate in the specific sexual activity engaged in, are positive and clear about their desires and are able to cease ongoing consensual activity at any time. Refusal to consent does not have to be verbal; it can be expressed with clear gestures, body language or attitude. Prior sexual history between the Complainant and Respondent, by itself, does not constitute Consent, nor does consenting to sexual activity with one person imply consent to sexual activity with another person.
- Consent is not freely given if:
- It is obtained through the use of force, through the fear of or the threat of force, through the abuse of a power position over another (such as employment status or position within an organization) or by kidnap; or
- A reasonable person, in the position of the alleged perpetrator at the time the alleged conduct occurred, should have known that the other person was unable to give consent for any of the following reasons:
- The individual is unable to make an informed decision as a result of the use of alcohol, drugs or other substances (including but not limited to predatory drugs or prescribed medications); or
- The individual is unable to consciously respond for whatever reason including lack of consciousness, sleep, illness or shock; or
- The individual is under the age of eighteen and therefore legally incapable of giving consent; or
- The individual is known by reason of impairment, mental condition or developmental or physical disability to be reasonably unable to consent.
- The individual has acted or spoken in a manner which expresses a lack of consent or a refusal to consent.
Domestic Violence
In accordance with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, Domestic Violence is defined as a felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under California law or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person's acts under California law.
Dating Violence
For purposes of this policy and in accordance with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, Dating Violence is defined as violence committed by a person:
- Who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
- Where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined by the victim with consideration of the following factors:
- The length of the relationship.
- The type of the relationship.
- The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.
- The existence of a social relationship is based on the "Complainant's statement" with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved. Dating violence does not include acts covered by the definition of domestic violence.
Dating Violence includes sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse.
In accordance with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, Stalking means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person(s) that would cause a reasonable person under similar circumstances and with similar identities to the Complainant to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.
The individual(s) who file(s) a Student Conduct Code complaint with the University. In some instances the University may serve as a Complainant.
Hostile Environment
Any situation in which there is harassing conduct that is sufficiently severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it limits, interferes with or denies educational benefits or opportunities, from both a subjective (the Complainant's) and an objective (reasonable person's) viewpoint.
Preponderance of the Evidence
Preponderance of evidence means such evidence as when weighed with that opposed to it has more convincing force and the greater probability of truth.
The individual(s) against whom a Student Conduct Code complaint is made.
Any adverse non-permitted action taken in response to an action or injury by another party towards the actor or by the actor on account of actions toward a third party.


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Hi Chameleon Experts,
Further to my earlier post, I just read your "Dating Software Option" on Video Chat Enabled.
"Video Chat enabled – Enables the powerful Video Chat engine for all the ABK-Soft AbleDating 2.4 Dating Software powered website members. The ABK-Soft AbleDating 2.4 Dating Software host server does not allow video data transmission due to limited bandwidth you will want to turn this feature off. Check the box to enable ABK-Soft AbleDating 2.4 Dating Software Video Chat."
Currently, in my Admin Page under Site Options, the video chat box is already checked.
However, the Video Chat still does not work on my Chameleon's dating website.
Please advise.
Thank you,


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A New York balcony with panache! Eclectic and well balanced, this outdoor room is surprising inviting. Although this look appears to be jammed to the hilt, the space has been effectively utilized with areas to sit and eat, kick back with your favourite read or just enjoy the view of the urban jungle. This oasis has an air of informal yet simple elegance. An eye catching vintage finished early American sideboard with paned glass doors filled with objet d'art stands tall beside a woven lounge chair and footstool. Small clean-lined metal and glass tables seemingly haphazardly placed provide surfaces as needed. Lush green tropical plants effectively bring life to the space while the bonsai and Foo dog demonstrates an Asian design inspiration. Clearly a home outside the home, this balcony is the epitome of how beautiful and personal your outdoor room can be.
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- Saccharomyces Boulardii is a probiotic, non-colonising yeast species closely related to Brewer's yeast and not related to the yeast group to which Candida belongs.
- It aggressively displaces problematic yeast species in the Gastro Intestinal tract and has been used in Europe to prevent post-antibiotic diarrhoea.
- Saccharomyces Boulardii taken orally produces lactic acid and some B vitamins as it becomes established, and crowds out the unfriendly strains of yeast.
- During use, friendly probiotic bacteria are allowed to colonise in the Gastro Intestinal tract, supporting micro-ecology.
- Saccharomyces Boulardii has been shown to increase levels of secretory IgA and research has shown it to be effective against specific unfriendly microbes.
- Dietary supplementation with potent probiotic cultures assists the host in maintaining a healthy probiotic balance.
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Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro
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Cost: £15.00 in Advance
Martin Harley is a supremely talented acoustic roots and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter with a burgeoning global reputation.
The new studio album 'Static In The Wires' was released in February 2017, it was produced by Martin & Daniel Kimbro and recorded in Nashville. It follows the critically acclaimed 'Live At Southern Ground. A 'Spellbinding 50 minutes' as The Observer put it. It is Martin's 7th album to date and the 2nd to feature Daniel Kimbro as well as 14 time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas (Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Dolly Parton), Derek Mixon (Chris Stapleton, Sam Lewis) and Micah Hulsher (Alabama Shakes). The album was tracked live at Wow & Flutter Studios in East Nashville over four days. Engineered and mixed by analogue guru Joe V McMahan making use of every corner of the space. The drums sounded great in the kitchen and if you listen carefully you can hear the freight trains rolling past.
The two musicians met through a mutual friend Sam Lewis at Hippie Jack's music festival in Crawford Tennessee. After a brief backstage rehearsal, the two took to the stage for an hour of largely improvised music. A few weeks later they were cutting a record at Zac Brown's iconic Southern Ground studios. Their live shows seek to bring aspects of blues, Americana and folk to the table. Martin plays a 100 year Weissenborn (Hawaiian acoustic lap guitar), Daniel plucks beats, scratches and bows his double bass to create and an unexpected array of textures and sounds.
Recently Martin has headlined Music City Roots in Nashville, performed on the Cayamo Cruise with Chris Stapleton, toured coast to coast with ZZ Ward, Delta Rae and opened for Iron & Wine, Bruce Hornsby, Five for Fighting, World Party, Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa amongst many others. His music has features on hit TV shows such as the Vampire Diaries, Banshee, America best Bars and VH1's Morning Buzz. Last summer in Canada he and Daniel played Winnipeg, Vancouver, Canmore and Calgary Folk Music Festivals as well as shows in the Caribbean, the US and Europe.
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Bucket List: Surviving Berlin's Spiciest Currywurst
Bucket List: Surviving Berlin's Spiciest Currywurst
According to Wikipedia:
Scoville Scale: a measurement of the pungency (spicy/heat of pepper) of chili peppers, or other spicy foods, as reported in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a function of capsaicin concentration.
In other words, this is the way you measure how spicy something is. The higher on the scale, the spicier. To give you an idea of the extremes, a bell pepper has a SHU of between 0 and 100. Sriracha has a SHU of 2200. Tabasco has a SHU of 3750. But that's nothing. A habanero pepper has a SHU of 200,000 and a ghost pepper takes it up to the 1 million mark. Shit is no joke.
So there is a place in Berlin called Curry & Chili. This demonic little shack is a dangerous place for two reasons.
First, they serve a hot sauce that goes up to 7.7 million SHU (the legal limit to be serving to normal people, who aren't signing some kind of death waiver in a chili eating competition).
Second, they are located right next to a god damned train track.
The Curry & Chili Club
What's A Currywurst?
A fast food dish of German origins that consists of a steamed, and then fried pork sausage that is sliced up and served with curry ketchup and topped with curry powder.
On my way back home from Dubai, I decided to stop by Berlin to check out the city. My friend Max came up from Stuggart to hang out and wanted to show me some classic German cuisine.
Shortly after be introduced to Berlin's currywurst, we stumbled across a little stand called Curry & Chili that innocently advertised various spicy currywursts. Upon a closer inspection of their simple enough menu, I learned that you can order your sausage with a sauce that varies in degree of spiciness on a scale of 1 to 10. Simple as that. If you manage to eat all 10 sauces in a year, you join the exclusive Curry & Chili Club. I hate food challenges, because I can't walk away from a challenge, and I love food.
Max asks where we should start (pointing out that I am Asian and like spicy food). The man at the counter eyes me up for half a second, and tells us to start at #5 (250,000 SHU). I am partly offended and so I partly give him a stink eye.
"How hot is 250,000?" I ask, not aware of what the Scoville scale translates to in real life spiciness. "Tabasco is about 5,000," he responds with a bit of a smirk.
Since I was with Max, we ordered #5 and #6 to start along with 2 bottles of chocolate milk.
The photo above is the last time you'll see me smiling for the long time.
Scream and Pepper King
Every sauce has a name and Scream and Pepper King are the names of #5 (250,000 SHU) and #6 (400,000 SHU) respectively. I dived in head first and put a full slice of the sausage in my mouth and started chewing. Nothing. I kept chewing and just a split second before I swallow, the sauce came to life like a startled porcupine and just ripped at my entire mouth. I remembered I was being filmed and composed myself, very glad I had sunglasses on to hide the first tear that came out. My face immediately flushed a light crimson and I felt the heat signature in my face rise at a disproportionate rate to my body.
Still it wasn't that bad and I took a tiny sip of the chocolate milk, almost in a triumphant and mocking gesture to the sauce. Max went next and had a similar enough reaction, at least with his sunglasses on as well.
The Pepper King was next. The porcupine was gone from my mouth, but it had created some fresh wounds. Sauce #6 went straight for those exposed areas and I quickly found myself chewing in a way as to keep my tongue as far as away as possible from the sausage and my teeth. Imagine those wind-up chattering teeth toy and that was me. The King has caused me to start sweating. We each finish our bite, but we did not want to suffer needlessly and decided to abandon the rest of the sausage to move on to #7 and #8.
C&C Silver and Mad-Dog mit Jolokia Pulver
So #7 and #8 didn't have as marketable names, but at 777,777 SHU and 1,000,000 SHU, we bought another two bottles of chocolate milk just in case. At 1,000,000 SHU, the owner of the Curry & Chili explained, "it's like pepper-spray".
I take a much more cautious approach to #7 and take a tiny taste of the sauce from the fork before going for a full bite. It was the 2nd smartest thing I would do that day. We still had #8 to go so I couldn't bail out now. I put the bite of currywurst in my mouth and tried to chew it as fast as I could. Every 2 or 3 chews, I would have to spit out a new batch of saliva gushing from my mouth and chase it with a mouthful of chocolate milk. My ears are heating up so fast it felt like I was standing way too close to a furnace.
Max is filming me and I'm not even sure what I was seeing anymore beyond the few millimeters separating my eyes and my sunglasses. After about a minute, the burning in my mouth began to subside. I had one bottle of chocolate milk left.
#8. I don't know what Jolokia Pulver means, but I'm guessing asshole pepper. When we had recomposed ourselves, I took a toothpick and dipped into the sauce. Just the tip (that's what she said). I licked it and waited. Strange. "Nothing, Max." Maybe that was not enough. I remember the next sequence of events very clearly.
"I'm not tasting an——" Just as the sauce hits my tongue, I cough.
Cough. Cough. That first cough seemed to have knocked a tiny bit of the toothpick's sauce to the back of my throat. Cough.
I feel an invisible force choke at my windpipe and reach for the milk. I start chugging and then spitting. Then chugging. Spitting. I'm out of milk and reach for Max's. Saliva is refilling at the same rate as I'm spitting it out and my face breaks out in a full sweat. I want to reach for my eyes, but stop myself. That would be the smartest thing I did that day. I'm up now and disregarding any protocol for how to act in public, I walk away from the table and keep spitting. I scrap at my tongue with my teeth and continue to spit. I'm completely unaware of my surrounding just as a train rushes by a mere feet or so from my face.
"Why the fuck is this place right next to a train track?" is what I would have said if my mouth was working properly at this point.
That brush with death seemed to bring some composure back to me and I sit back down at the table and blow my nose. Max and I look and each other and decide we're going to save #9 and #10 for another time. Like never.
Like I said, if you somehow manage to eat all 10 sausages in a year, you join the exclusive Curry & Chili Club, or as I now know from experience, a group of people who are both idiots and absolutely brilliant for being to pull off such a feat.