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The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) makes its La MaMa debut December 4 to 13 with a cabaret-style re-imagining of its 2008 production, "Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls," an evening of the music and dance associated with Anita Berber, the iconic actor/dancer/poet who epitomized for many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin. The piece is conceived and directed by Ildiko Nemeth. Texts are written by Mark Altman. Choreography is by Julia Atlas Muz and Peter Schmitz.
Weimar cabaret goers pursued glamour and pleasure compulsively, as though excess might grant liberation from the perils of their time. Weimar show girls became iconic symbols of this escapism, representing both protest and surrender. Novelist Jerry Stahl described their effect in his introduction to "The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin" by Barbara Stahl, writing, "Even as Death, smiling like a sadistic Domina, lowers her high-heeled boot on your face, you can smile, and grind, and know that, for one tragic and ecstatic moment, release is yours. And you can forget about the obliteration to come ... The Girls of Weimar Berlin could make anybody forget."
Anita Berber, Weimar's best-known showgirl, performed in the nightclubs and casinos, naked except for a sable wrap and a pet monkey hanging from her neck. Her body was thin and androgynous; her bright red hair was cut in a rebellious bob and a silver brooch filled with cocaine usually hung around her neck. A pioneer of modern expressive dance, using the music of Debussy, Strauss, Delibes, and Saint-Säens, she was at first taken seriously, but eventually her artistry was overshadowed by her scandalous personal and professional lifestyle, as performances grew increasingly macabre. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis while touring in Lebanon in 1928, and died shortly afterward, at age 29. With original and classical music, dance and striking stage design, "Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls" recreates some of Anita Berber's cabaret-styled performances, including much of her "repertoire of the damned."
The La MaMa production of "Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls" will be a cabaret distillation of a musical theater work which New Stage Theater Company presented in November, 2008 at Clemente Soto Velez. That production was inspired when Ildiko Nemeth, Artistic Director of New Stage Theater, read "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber" by Mel Gordon. Nemeth was struck by parallels between the Weimar period and our own and found the figure of Berber particularly affecting. Nemeth explains, "Some may argue that inhabitants of every age feel themselves at a precipice. Whatever we feel about the singularity of our own time, Weimar was unique. Its prevailing desperation and euphoria make it a symbol of every human life, finite and urgent."
To adapt her play to a cabaret venue and a late-night time slot, Nemeth will completely restructure her work for La MaMa, refocusing the production onto its salient dances and imagery and reducing its running time to about an hour.
Reviewing last year's production, Time Out (Adam Feldman) wrote, "Ildiko Nemeth's stylishly morbid dance-theater piece is nostalgic for a time when sleaze was decked out in corsets and feathered masks. It is a world of arty death-dances and morphine hazes, of repressed baronesses and their nubile, sexually curious daughters. And in the middle of this costume orgy drifts Anita Berber (Sarah Lemp), the real-life scandal queen of 1920s Berlin, numb from years of shocking. The show is at its most effective when it gives itself over to the spirit of risqué fun."
Richmond Shepard, writing in Lively Arts, praised "Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls" as a "powerfully engaging evening" with "the sexiest choreography in town by Julie Atlas Muz and Peter Schmitz." Lauren Wissot, writing in TheaterOnline.com, praised its "thrillingly inventive costumes" by Javier Boné-Carboné and its "dark, sparkling set" by Jason Strum. Lisa Ferber, writing in nytheatre.com, called it "one terrific show" and a "well produced, highly watchable night of indulgence."


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The three taxis bore them, just a few minutes apart, out of the city center, then, swooping decorously downhill between traffic lights, through a species of suburb that seemed more remote from their present lives than anywhere they ever went on holiday. The sleepy, wide road was lined with limes, then flowering cherries; they passed a little brick-built library, a church, discreetly evangelical. Infantile knee-high white-painted gates opened onto bungalow gardens smothering under the pink and white foam of their shrubs and beds, weigela and flowering currant, waterfalls of clematis; the semi-detached house fronts were festooned with nostalgic wisteria. Four-by-fours were drawn up off the road, on asphalted drives. The sun shone unfalteringly, embalming everything; seeds and pollen drifted sidelong in the motionless air. What it brought back was not so much their past as a past beyond their past. By the time these three had come, as children, to visit their godmother here, their more fashionable parents had already decided that the suburbs were dreary: places to joke about, not to aspire to. Their parents were doing up, in those days, spindly dilapidated eighteenth-century houses, bought cheap, in the city center. Susan's mother still lived in one of these, now worth a great deal, and Susan had spent the previous night in her childhood bed. In her taxi, she was hardly thinking of the meeting ahead—except to wish that she weren't going to it. She was obsessing over jagged old irritations, roused by a conversation with her mother that morning.
Chris's and Susan's taxis pulled up outside 33 Everdene Walk at the same moment; Amanda had got there before them, and the front door stood open to what seemed, to their foreboding, a seething blackness, in contrast to the glare outside. Who knew what state the house would be in? Susan was quicker, paying her taxi off; Chris was always afraid that he would tip too little or too much. She looked away while he probed in his change purse, then they politely pretended to recognize each other. He tried to dig back in his mind to their old acquaintance: how hadn't he seen that the invisible, unremembered Susan might grow into this slim, long-faced, long-legged dark woman, somewhat ravaged but contained and elegant?
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|Dec 13, 2012, 05:14 AM
Macbook Air for school. 11 vs 13
Firstly I know, I know. Their have been many threads on this topic but my situation is slightly different.
Early this year I decided to set off on a Hackintosh project, thinking i'd be gaming a lot and doing a lot of powerful tasks. It was really handy for a couple of big projects, but it frankly isn't as stable as i'd like it to be. So i'll sell it sometime soon to buy a Air. I've read over numerous threads and tried both (sizes) out in stores and I can't decide which to choose. So reluctantly (because of the amount of threads on this topic) I decided to write this post and gauge opinion from the friendly forum folks!
My workflow is pretty basic most of the time. As standard I always have Reminders and Twitter on my desktop and EVERYTHING else running in fullscreen. So I usually have...
This is what I spend 90% of my computing time doing. I tried out both machines in stores by opening a few documents and webpages to compare screens (full screen of course). The screens both seemed very similar and the extra real estate didn't seem like THAT big of a deal. From what I saw web browsing would be the most troublesome thing, what's your opinion?
For the past few years i've happily been using a 17' 1280x1024 screen and i've had no issues. Just to point out, the SD card reader is kinda pointless for me, but the battery life in the 13' may be useful. I'd take this to school everyday for note-taking. This would be my only machine and in terms of power it's fine.
If anyone owns an 11' Air and was willing to waste time to help me could you please post a screenshot of Safari fullscreen-ed on stuff.co.nz or youtube.com or apple.com to give me an example of what i'll be dealing with?
In the store the 13' really did seem a lot bigger and considering i'd be carrying it around with me all the time it's a big factor
Thanks for any opinions!
|Dec 13, 2012, 05:44 AM
Try googling or this.
The difference in screen real estate can be pretty significant. I personally went with the 11" air because I wasn't very particular about the disparity in vertical screen height. Also, while the palm rest is smaller, it is still sufficient for me to type comfortably on. The 11" air also tucked away nicely in a compartment in my bag.
|Dec 13, 2012, 05:54 AM
If it's for Safari, iTunes, Mail, Messages & taking lots of notes during school, I'd get an iPad.
Note taking and stuff like that will be fine on an 11" and when you need to do some serious stuff hook up an external monitor.
For me, I wanted something that wasn't a compromise and could do everything everywhere hence I went for the 13". The 11" resolution was just to low for what I do which is a pity - the resolution is a 16.9 version of a iPad mini.
It felt like I was using a netbook, constantly scrolling.
For some living with the lower resolution and battery life is worth it, but for the sake of a couple of inches (they are the same thickness) you get it all with the 13".
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|Dec 13, 2012, 06:02 AM
impractical for my life.
Just need somewhere quiet, and I don't always have that - I wish...
|Dec 13, 2012, 06:15 AM
Thanks for the quick set of replies! On the iPad front: I considered for a couple of months before ultimately scrapping the idea, things are getting close to tablet era for me (as in, I wouldn't need a traditional computer ever again), but sadly for the odd flash site, true multitasking and some apps, I need a laptop (for now). iOS isn't REALLY that developed as of yet for to truly use it as full machine, but come 2015 and i'll likely get one!
The palm rest is a fine size on the 11' for me, along with the keyboard and trackpad.
If only Apple could jam a bigger screen into the 11' form factor! I don't think size would be too much of an issue, i'd just use it closer to my face. Vertical height difference I thought would be huge (this is based off a few minutes in the store) but it seemed actually wasn't.
Hmmm I wonder...
|Dec 13, 2012, 06:24 AM
if you have a PC/Mac already, then change the screen to something x 768 and live with that for a few days. If it's fine then go 11"
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|Dec 13, 2012, 10:33 AM
If you're buying from Amazon, as you should, the difference in price is less than $200 to go from an 11" to 13". Not only do you get a larger screen, but you get twice the storage. It's really a no brainer to me if you're already spending $950.
The 11" is more portable, but given the price points it just doesn't make sense. If the 11" was $750, like it should be, there would be more of an argument.
|Dec 13, 2012, 10:49 AM
I don't have an answer for this but if you plan in using it for a few years and selling it to upgrade maybe check around to see whether 11 or 13 tend to sell for a better price compared to purchase price. I assume both would be in demand by different types of people, but maybe the 13 a little more as it does have a larger battery, SD card reader and more useable screen. If you don't care about resale ignore what I said.
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Get the 11" and try it out for a few days... then you will know what to do.
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|Dec 13, 2012, 01:41 PM
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|Dec 13, 2012, 02:20 PM
I never considered getting the 11" one, I'd always get the 13" Air. I think it has the perfect size and when I go to university it's a no brainer whether I take it with me or not. I don't know how often I went shopping after school carrying it in my bag.
Also, like said, before the battery lasts longer and I think that's one of the most important things on such a portable device.
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|Dec 13, 2012, 02:31 PM
If weight, size and price isnt a factor then comfort should be what should decide your purchasing decision.
13-inch is nice.
|Dec 13, 2012, 04:05 PM
I was thinking about the same, but know I'm happy that I got the 13".
It's worth it price. 11" is just too small in my opinion.
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|Dec 13, 2012, 09:41 PM
Seems (despite my hopes) that the 13' is the way to go. I was hoping to save the $100 and get 8GB of ram but if i'm being true to myself the 13' probably is my best bet
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|Dec 13, 2012, 11:22 PM
I use the 11" Air in school for note taking, browsing, itunes, etc. Never has the battery got lower than 45%. I think it will last 5+ hours straight working a medium load, no problem. If you're taking classes one after another and need a laptop in each and need to work on it for 5-6 hours straight between charges, you pretty much need the 13". I use mine quite a bit like I said. In the end though you just have to add up the pros can cons, check what your gut is telling you can commit. If you make a bad choice, you have 14 days to rectify it.
Also, the 13" is small, portable and easy to carry but the 11" just disappears inside a bag or purse. I write and I like to have something handy at all times to write on and the 11" can go anywhere and everywhere, and places the 13" might not go as easily. You get used to the screen. If you can use an Ipad, you can use a 11" Air.
|Dec 13, 2012, 11:51 PM
I have a dream that one day iOS users, Android users, and Windows Phone users will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
|Dec 14, 2012, 12:23 AM
|Dec 14, 2012, 02:13 AM
I've been using an 11" MBA since late 2010 and I'm not feeling like ever going back to a larger computer. It's just that 11" is big enough for everything I do on my laptop, that is browsing (forums, YouTube, and similar stuff), reading PDFs, listening to music, programming in Netbeans.
I'd really recommend you to get an 11" MBA, try it out for a week and then keep it or exchange it for a 13" MBA.
|Dec 14, 2012, 06:29 AM
If you are a student, I wouldn't suggest compromising with the 11". Having to go buy an external monitor, keyboard and mouse seems really annoying. 13" is an all-in-one and like apple, it just works (without peripherals).
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Nov 28, 2012
'Our future is now': Communities in Liberia meet this week to discuss options after large-scale land grab
Between 2009 and 2010 the Government of Liberia allocated more than a million acres of land to transnational palm oil producers Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Liberia without consulting or securing the consent of those living on and using the land. Following the launch of a groundbreaking report from the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)/ Friends of the Earth Liberia, Uncertain Futures, the affected communities are holding a major conference this week to demand that their voices be heard in decision making.
|The 'Our future is now' conference will take place in Bopolu City,
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communities affected by Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Liberia.
The SDI report highlights how, as over a quarter of Liberia's land area is now given over by the Government to rubber, oil palm and logging companies, Liberia risks becoming a land 'lost in concessions' with an uncertain future for the communities who are the original custodians and owners of the land.
Watch Environmental Crimes: Following the Palm Oil Trail (In English with French subtitles)
These concessions are part of Liberia's attempt to attract Foreign Direct Investment in the natural resource sector. Large plantations are promoted as a means to create jobs, bring development, and increase the government's budget. However, they also risk the entrenchment of systemic economic and social injustices against poor and marginalised communities.
Large-scale land allocation to foreign corporations can give transnational companies enormous political power which can subvert local democratic decision making. At the same time as corporate power silences communities, the associated dispossession of rural people from their land contributes to increased poverty in rural areas, widens the gap between the urban elites that benefit from these business transactions and the rural poor who suffer the impacts, and entrenches inequality across Liberian society.
Both the Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Liberia plantations are clear examples of this. According to the SDI report, 'the situation facing communities impacted by the expansion of Sime Darby's plantation in Garwula District, western Liberia is dire: the plantation is on their doorsteps, and their farms and farmlands are being swallowed up by it. There are very few alternative livelihood options.' According to locals interviewed for the report, Sime Darby did not pay compensation for farm lands taken by the company. They also claim that compensation paid for crops that had been destroyed was inadequate and that forest areas used for cultural practices had also been destroyed and planted with oil palm.
SDI campaigner Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor points out that 'the situation on the Sime Darby or Golden Veroleum Liberia plantation is about much more than the impacts of a single company.' He warns that 'allocating large swathes of fertile agricultural land to foreign companies for several decades is dangerous because as these companies expand their plantations, communities' ability to cope will be stretched to the limit. It will push people further into poverty, as their income generating activities are curtailed and earning capacities become limited.'
During the course of the three day conference community representatives will have the opportunity to discuss this issue. More than 150 delegates from the counties affected by Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Liberia Sinoe, Grand Cape Mount, Bomi, and Gbarpolu counties will be in attendance, along with a number of Monrovia-based civil society groups and international experts on agriculture, land, and community rights.
Led by local leaders, participants will be offered the opportunity to break into small groups to discuss their perspectives on the issue. At the end of the conference, community representatives will draft and adopt a document that details what they expect from palm oil concessionaires and the government.
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Uncertain Futures (PDF)
An open letter to governments and their negotiators
By Bill McKibben founder of 350.org, Nnimmo Bassey Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth Nigeria) & Coordinator of Oilwatch International, Pablo Solon Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, former Bolivian Ambassador to the UN and former chief negotiator for climate change
To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves
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Doha Day 2: Youth letter to the UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Young Friends of the Earth Europe: Over the last two days, much is happening in Doha and the youth are a huge part of it. On the second day of COP18, a group of young people from around the world sent an open letter to Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, calling for fossil fuel corporations to be removed from the UNFCCC process due to their intentions being incompatible with a 2 degree world, and their long history of using their significant financial resources to undermine global climate policy.
The letter was signed by a variety of organisations including The Canadian Youth Delegation, Earth in Brackets, Young Friends of the Earth Europe, Push Europe, The UKYCC, PowerShift Belgium, and others. It was also endores by Bill McKibben from 350.org.
You still have a chance to sign on the letter here!
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Dear Christiana Figueres, (Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
As young people, we write today with both grave concern and powerful hope.
Unfortunately, our concerns are beginning to outweigh our hope more and more each day. We were raised in a world nearly 1 degree warmer than the pre-industrial average; where disruption of the climate system has become increasingly visible in the few years since we were young children.
In this strange new world, we have already witnessed unprecedented Arctic ice melt, rampant wildfire, droughts that have crippled farmers and consumers, flooding, hail storms, and most recently, a super- charged hurricane that has devastated communities from the Caribbean to New York City. Extreme weather is becoming the new normal.
The UNFCCC process which you oversee is designed to protect us from these harsh disruptions and to achieve the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner."
Taking a hard look at climate politics today, it appears the UNFCCC is failing to meet that mission, therefore failing to live up to its mandate. The math just doesn't add up.
The member states of the UNFCCC have not decided much, but they have been very clear that global average temperatures must not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.
At present, we are on target to hit this terrifying target by 2030 and to suffer upwards of six degrees of warming by the end of the century. Major international bodies, from the IEA to the World Bank, have warned that even over the medium-term, the costs of allowing emissions to rise at their present rates will come in the form of hundreds of millions of human lives and economic costs capable of driving the world economy into prolonged global depression.
According to the best science we have, there is room for 565 gigatonnes more CO2 in our atmosphere before we lose any chance of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees and preventing the enormous damage associated with such a rise.
All together, the global oil, coal and gas industries are planning to burn over five times that amount, roughly 2,795 gigatonnes of carbon. Indeed, their share prices depend on exploiting these reserves and you are surely aware of the enormous sums they have spent to prevent governments from protecting the habitability of our planet, thus reducing the value of their assets. Their business plan is incompatible with our survival.
Frighteningly, there are also states, parties to the convention, with the same plan. Canada, for example, has signed onto the Copenhagen Accord and committed to allowing no more than 2 degrees of warming. However, in direct conflict with this commitment, Canada has also publicly admitted that its position at the UN is to defend the oil sands industry whose projects alone would increase global emissions by three times the world's carbon budget. States like this are blocking progress in the name of an industry with the potential to break the planet.
Ms. Figueres, we know that you are a person of conviction with a genuine desire to see the UNFCCC meet its mandate. We believe that you want to see a fair and ambitious global climate accord that keeps us below the 2 degree threshold. We know you've done the math. This is your climate legacy, and our generation's inheritance.
You have the power to fix this process, to move us towards real climate progress, but it means being willing to call out those who stand in the way of a safe and prosperous future. The secretariat needs to acknowledge that there are groups at the UNFCCC whose goals undermine the mission and mandate of the convention. Observer organizations can be penalized, and even removed from the convention if we violate the protocols for participation. Perhaps there should be a similar process for observers and parties whose mandates fundamentally contradict the convention.
Simply put, we have a choice in front of us, we can have a healthy planet and safe climate, or the oil, coal and gas industry can have a healthy pocketbook. We can't have both, and its time for you, and for the UNFCCC to decide what is more important; the lives and livelihoods of people, or the balance sheets of Exxon, Shell, and Chevron.


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Illinois State is showing signs of life after a head-scratching 0-6 start to league play.
Picked second in the Missouri Valley Conference's preseason poll, the Redbirds appeared to be in good shape after going 9-3 in nonconference play. Then the bottom dropped out for them, especially on defense, in giving up an average of 74 points in their first six league games.
They've rebounded to win their past three, including victories over third-place Indiana State and fourth-place Evansville. The Purple Aces' 62 points are the most Illinois State has allowed during its winning streak.
"We've gotten back to what we were committed to earlier in the year," Redbirds coach Dan Muller said. "We've gotten better defensively, and that's given us a chance every night."
Muller's team, which returned all but one key contributor from last season, is still struggling offensively at times. He said that's understandable, given the amount of practice time recently devoted to improving on defense.
"When you don't spend time on a certain part of your game, it's going to affect it," Muller said. "Our offense has slipped. We're missing shots that we normally make."
Players of the week
Overall: Illinois State forward Jackie Carmichael.
The senior from Manhattan, Kan., averaged 20 points and 11.5 rebounds in two wins last week. He also blocked six shots.
Newcomer: Missouri State forward Gavin Thurman.
The freshman from Wichita, Kan., averaged 15 points and five rebounds as the Bears split a pair of games. He scored a career-high 21 points against Wichita State.
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Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, upon learning his team was 14th in this week's coaches poll: "That's pretty high cotton, as we say in South Carolina."
Bits and pieces
� Bradley center Will Egolf missed the Braves' loss to Wichita State and is listed as day-to-day after aggravating a knee injury. Egolf, who has torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee twice, has not practiced since tweaking the knee in loss last Wednesday to Evansville.
� Wichita State is one of 11 teams to win 100 games since the start of the 2009-10 season. The Shockers picked up their 100th victory by beating Bradley last Saturday.
� Northern Iowa's Marc Sonnen is shooting 57.6 percent (38 of 66) from 3-point range in his last 14 games, and ranks third on his school's career 3-point chart.
� Southern Illinois could exceed last season's win total (8) with a victory at home Wednesday against Drake.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes Since the fifteenth century, men and women have left their property to the Hospices de Beaune. The Hospices de Beaune area is so built as a reflection of the generosity of the Burgundians and the multitude of the greatest terroirs of Burgundy.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "Dont' miss: An elegant and impressively layered nose features notes of lemon, lime, stone, floral and green apple aromas. The full-bodied flavors are concentrated, powerful and muscular with plenty of size and weight yet for all of the size, there is nary a trace of undue heaviness or..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A stunning effort, with aromas and flavors of dried pear, apple crisp and candied citrus that are reminiscent of fine white Burgundy. Powerfully spicy, showing crystallized ginger, dried sage and tarragon notes. Seductively creamy on the refined and intense finish."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "One of the big stories in 2006 is the resurrection of this once very good Pomerol estate now that it has been purchased by Catherine Pere-Verge, who has done so much to raise the level of quality at Chateau Le Gay. From a vineyard well-situated between Le Pin and Trotanoy, La Violette's 2006 is a..
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A very unique wine as this Burgundy vineyard is owned and operated by an American family!!
Owner and winemaker, Christopher Newman uses 100% organic viticulture and cellar practices.
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A brooding but notably ripe nose of dark cherry and pungent earth aromas slides gracefully into strikingly rich and tautly muscular big-bodied flavors that possess praiseworthy concentration. There is plenty of underlying tension and energy to the mouth coating and very serious finish that..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2008 Brunello di Montalcino Annata is quite pretty in this vintage. It displays a classic profile of underbrush, tobacco, smoke, licorice and black cherries. The tannins are firm but nicely balanced. I expect the 2008 will drink well with minimum cellaring. It is one of the more open Brunellos..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "An earthy and admirably pure nose speaks primarily of red currant and cherry liqueur nuances that lead to rich, concentrated and expansive medium-bodied flavors that possess a velvety mid-palate yet the supporting tannins are clearly Nuits St. Georges in character. The focused and linear finale..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "I love Ornellaia. Amazing aromas of currants, blackberries, and hints of vanilla cream. Licorice too. Full bodied, with soft and velvety tannins and an amazing depth of fruit. Balanced and super long. I can't get over the wonderful texture to this young red. It touches every inch of your palate..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The spellbinding 2009 Clos Martinet is a blend of 65% Garnacha (including some Garnacha Peluda), 18% Carinena, 11% Syrah and the rest a mixture of Cabernet and Merlot... The palate is medium-bodied with firmer, more masculine tannins compared to the Cami Pesseroles. There is a sublime symmetry at..


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Neighbors of Jason Viestenz broken up over news of his deathFargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Neighbors of Jason Viestenz tell us tonight they are broken up over news of his death.
By: Kevin Wallevand, WDAY
Neighbors of Jason Viestenz tell us tonight they are broken up over news of his death. They all recall a young man who was proud to be a father, and who demonstrated it every night.
Jason was a father who loved spending time with his son - camping, fishing, and especially playing catch.
Jackie McFarland – Jason's Neighbor: "He was dedicated, he never missed a night of them two playing catch in the street - never."
Brain McFarland – Jason's Neighbor: "His focus was his boy."
This is a tight neighborhood in South Fargo. Ask Brian and Jackie McFarland.
Brain McFarland – Jason's Neighbor: "I tell you I 'm really honored to have known and called Jason a friend."
They lived next door to Jason and Eli. Eli is a popular polite boy who was as devoted to his father as his father was to him.
Brian McFarland: "A couple of Saturday's ago, we had a fire up here, and we were doing marshmallows and that type of thing, just a great neighbor."
Neighbors tell us the reason Jason was driving his motorcycle with his son that day is the fuel pump had gone out on his car. Meanwhile, neighbors and friends have set up a special fund for the family. Donations are being accepted at United Savings Credit Union.
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Col-Mas (Scott)
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:13 pm
Post subject: helmet question
I am working on modding an old APH6-B helmet into an X-wing helmet. I am planning to build up layers of craft foam to form the mohawk. I have some stuff that is thin and flexible, so it should be easy to work with. What I'd like to know is:
1. How wide should the mohawk be?
2. How tall is it? (both in the front where the visor cover is, and in the back)
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:15 pm
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Ohh, nice!
Congratulations! I would be lying if I said that I wasn't jealous of you.
Will you be casting your mohawk in fiberglass? I think that there is at least one other person in the Rebel Legion who could be interested in buying a cast if you would be willing to make them.
I estimate that the strip on top should be less than 2 inches wide, maybe 1 3/4". The height over the visor cover no more than 1/2" in the center - that may sound as if it is too small, but you should take into account that the visor cover is curved and that the sides are sloping slightly.
The helmets used as base for the movies were a size Large. If your helmet is smaller, then you might want to make the mohawk even smaller.
Remember that you will also put a endcap on the front, which will be larger. In my opinion, both RA and DI make mohawks that are too high and wide. Even DI's latest improved sculpt. I guess that they had eye-balled their measurements by looking too much at the endcap.
The mohawk follows the same curvature over the back portion over the helmet.
A curious thing about the original helmets is that the edge trim was included in the cast - including the thicker edge trim in the back. This means that the mohawk flares out along the back edge.
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What size is your APH? Mine's an XL, if you want me to break out the calipers and go to town on mine I will.
Just a warning. These are sooooo much heavier to troop with than a Richies or Dreadnaught.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:49 pm
Post subject:
I am looking at doing this too. The helmet I picked up is a medium to large. and fits my noggin just fine. But the Mohawk and how to sculpt it is currently my main issue. I was thinking of making it from clay then making a mold of silicone rubber for it then casting it in resin. We will see how that goes. So yeah, any measurements would be appreciated.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:05 pm
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Wow...sculpting and creating a helmet out of an actual pilot helmet must be so incredibly cool. I envy everyone that does that.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:17 am
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I recently scored an APH-6B (size Large) flight helmet as well, and I plan to make 3 different mold versions of it.
1. In it's original form to be used as a "blank" for the DIY'ers.
2. As a X-Wing Pilot kit.
3. As a Tie Fighter Pilot kit.
So some mohawk dimensions would be very useful!
(HEY TROY!!! I'm gonna be in Melbourne in a coupel weeks... woo hoo!!)
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Wow...sculpting and creating a helmet out of an actual pilot helmet must be so incredibly cool. I envy everyone that does that.
Don't. Those helmets are @#$% heavy!
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:36 pm
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Heh... those aren't heavy compared to a full Infantryman coombat load with body armor and a K-pot! (Kevlar helmet).
Serioulsy, I don't think thery're heavy, it's just a thin fiberglass-type shell.
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Stomper wrote:
Serioulsy, I don't think thery're heavy, it's just a thin fiberglass-type shell.
When the man who's trooped with one for over two years says "Hey, they're heavy" they've probably got some heft to them.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:58 pm
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Thanks for the advice everyone
Tigerantilles wrote:
What size is your APH? Mine's an XL, if you want me to break out the calipers and go to town on mine I will.
Just a warning. These are sooooo much heavier to troop with than a Richies or Dreadnaught.
I think mine is a large. That's what the label under the visor shield says.
As for being too heavy... Well, I had a little problem with my TIE bucket. From what I read about them, they easily warp in the heat, like a hot car. Many pilots reinforce them with fiberglass or Bondo or something. Well, I went a little crazy with that and my first TIE bucket ended up weighing 7 pounds. On the plus side, it's the only bucket that can stop a bullet.
Anyway, I wore that at a few parades and cons before completing my second TIE bucket. I know that my X-wing helmet won't be nearly as heavy as my first TIE.
Here is a link to my TIE:
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:02 am
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Tigerantilles wrote:
Stomper wrote:
Serioulsy, I don't think thery're heavy, it's just a thin fiberglass-type shell.
When the man who's trooped with one for over two years says "Hey, they're heavy" they've probably got some heft to them.
My original APH-6B comes in at 3-lbs. 7-ozs. (not too heavy), but I can see where after adding the Mohawk (with all that entails) it could be close to double that wieght. So yeah, when compared to an ABS shell kit, they would be heavier... Point taken!
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:28 am
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Right now my APH6-B weighs just under 3 pounds. I don't have the ear cups or liner in mine. So even when I add the mowhawk, I'm not worried about the weight.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:02 pm
Post subject:
I forgot to say: There are some
detailed reference pictures
over on starwarshelmets.com. They got to take photos of two screen-used helmets from many angles.
The real TIE-fighter pilot's helmets were made from two X-wing helmet halves + a stormtrooper face plate (and other things).
If you have one of the better TIE helmets, then you could use it to get inspiration for how to sculpt a few details.
The height of the mohawk is in the helmet halves so it is the same, but because the stormtrooper face plate is so wide, the plastic strip on top of the mohawk (joining the two helmet halves) had to be made wider than on an X-wing helmet, making the finished helmet wider than an APH-6 helmet.
My own helmet was based on a plastic kit that was damaged/warped in the back where the mohawk flares out along the neck rim, so I choose to resculpt that detail to not flare - The mohawk goes (almost) straight down in the back, and I use thick rubber edge trim as on a real APH helmet.
I guess that it would be tempting for anyone converting a real APH helmet to sculpt it the same way because it looks easier to do, but if you do so, you should know that you would limit your options for how to paint the helmet later on.
In the movies, the cast neck trim-flaring was always painted in the same color as on the mohawk's sides. On Luke's helmet there is even a yellow stripe on each side of the mohawk that turns a corner and goes forward along the cast neck-flares. You might not be able to find edge trim in the color you want and many types of rubber are hard to paint.
Before I got my kit, I was trying to convert a motorcycle helmet (yeah, I was crazy
I was going to build up the mohawk using trapezoids of styrofoam taped to the helmet shell, fill the gaps with clay and then clad the entire thing with a thin layer of clay.
I had made the visor cover by laying fiberglass on top of a clay sculpt. That was not a very good idea... The top layer of clay reeked of polyester afterwards so most of it had to be tossed. Also, I had to fill and sand the piece a whole lot. I think it would be much better to make a clean, smooth clay sculpt and then cast a
from which to make the final cast. That would also be lighter.
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:00 pm
Post subject: X-Wing Helmet
I must be crazy too, because I'm also trying the motorcycle helmet method. I've worked up full scale layouts of an old ATV helmet in CAD, so hopefully most of my mistakes will happen on the computer. I think I'll end up adding a 50mm wide strip down the middle of the helmet to widen it up a bit. I have some automotive foam board I'm going to use for the mohawk profile parts. I want to use a visor from an old Don Post helmet, and have a functioning visor that slides up underneath the visor shell. I've got a visor shell from an APH helmet. With all the rumblings about R/A and D/I I might have to look to Australia for my helmet as well. I still want to try my hand at a scratch built helmet though..
Wish me luck!
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Post subject:
Grey Jedi wrote:
cyranodb wrote:
Wow...sculpting and creating a helmet out of an actual pilot helmet must be so incredibly cool. I envy everyone that does that.
Don't. Those helmets are @#$% heavy!
Well I troop with an actual tricked out British Sterling with my TK.
Good lookin helmet Col-Mas! Your in my area, let me know if you need help or anything.
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Personally I would have liked it if you just selected a character and proceeded to build up the character, giving you a sense of accomplishment in beating all those who would dare to stand against you and your mighty racket. Overall there is not a whole lot of difficulty either. In fact the way the game makes up for the lack of AI is by giving them insane turning shots, a lot of which come off the serve and are really hard to hit. To me this cheapens the game because you spend the opponent's serves letting aces fly by your head, only to destroy them in the next game by placing them in spots where they can not return the ball. Another way the game tries to slip one by on the challenge is by forcing you to use the lower tiered while taking on some of the more powerful opponents, which will put you through your paces as your slower, and weaker character struggles against the powerhouse.
The actual number of shots you are given is limited to seven and you make use of the analog stick to place where you want the ball to go. This would be great if you weren't already moving to get to the ball, so to snap the analog stick in the opposite direction requires very specific timing, and unfortunately trying to lob back a tough shot will more often than not land right where your opponent can smash it back. Perhaps if the aim were placed on the shoulder buttons with each one depicting an area of the court, then things might be a touch easier. But alas they are not, so it really is up to how you set up a serve and place the opponent as far to the left or right as possible and then try to abuse that method of play. This will wind up taking out the highest tiered opponents, which is really quite sad.
Once you've gotten your fill of the Hot Shots Challenge you can mosey on over to the Fun Time Tennis which is your basic multiplayer function. And should you have only yourself to enjoy a good round of tennis with, well you can always put a computer in the place of that friend who just happened to be out walking the dog or doing something else to save them the boredom of this. Or say for whatever reason you've never been able to get a firm grasp on the game of tennis. There is a Training Mode for that, and it will guide you through all the different aspects of the game, from teaching you how to serve to how to place your shots on the grass, or clay.
All in all, Hot Shots Tennis feels like a cheap imitation to games like Virtua Tennis or even Rockstar's Table Tennis. With both of those games you had a better sense of control, and they both look better to boot. Granted that's not what Clap Hanz is going for with this kind of a game. But with a weak AI, this game isn't a whole lot of fun to play on your own. If you are desperate for some new tennis action then wait for this to go down in price or split it with a friend and make sure you play it together. Because with the way this game plays, you'll both be over it before you even get a chance to play the multiplayer. Again I applaud Clap Hanz for trying to get out of their Hot Shots Golf mold. But they fell in to a trap when trying to use so many of their formulas that don't translate well over to tennis.
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