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My fave hot beach songs …
Having grown up a mere 2 km from beach, I am always fascinated by seaside. Lacking entertainment, beach became our daily refuge in school summer vacation times. Besides it came free, or cheap with humble little packets of Chennai beach food 'sundal.' Thenga Manga Pattani Sundal to be precise. It is our popular street food – no, just beach cuisine (!) made with soaked and boiled (dry) peas, seasoned with coconut and kacha mango scrapings and salted light. A twist of lime juice sprinkled on top makes it heavenly yummy. Sold by urchins carrying it in uniformly squared steel tins, handed to you in old newspaper cones for as less as 10 paise in those days (3-5 rupees presently), there is no delicacy on earth to beat our beach 'sundal' – just ask any Madarasi!
Lighthouse, beach, the adjoining walkways, the beach road – all used to be pretty deserted in our younger years. Now the crowds are a direct testimony to India's population explosion. The seashore has become crowded and early morning jogs have to be with 1000 more men and women thronging the sands in the daybreaking hours, denying you breathing space and solitude you may generally seek from a spot as scenic and calming as at the edge of an ocean.
I grew up loving and lapping the sea as much as possible. Now living in central Madras, even those few kilometers of space between us and the sea makes it impossible for us to go and meet with the waters as often as we would like to.
I am listing here some romances filmed on our beaches & seaside, special to me always.
From the film "Alaigal Oivadhillai' (waves don't rest) – a Bharathi Raja romance. The director is known for his rural touch although a couple of his plots revolved around beach scene in the '80s. When this picture was released in the year 1981, my mother was still around. My parents went to see it in cinemas but refused to take us kids along as it was certified 'A.' Later my mom was bitching how vulgar the movie was and kept cursing the director who she said had a perverse mind! She was grateful we girls did not get to see the picture. It was off-bounds by 'Doordarshan' standards in those days for graphic (i mean hot) scenes. Finally only by the turn of the century did our desi tv grow up, perhaps having had to compete with private tv channels. Or perhaps the film is still off limits for DD who knows?! I got to watch the picture in VCR in the '90s and then ofcourse many, many times in tv.
Music is composed by Ilayaraja. Look at his 'mridangam' play. This was before computerized synchronization became fashion and then eventually routine and taken for granted like it is with today's A R Rahman or anyone else. There is no other kind of music in the world in the present than mechanized noise and synthesized sounds – you can work just with a keyboard the way some new composers are already doing in Tamil film industry (the classic case being Iman who scored music for the picture 'Kumki' – a superhit). Whereas in Raja's '80s masterpieces, you can pick out each and every single musical instrument with its delicate nuance individually – be it the veena or mridangam or violin or guitar or tabla or 'morsing' or 'kanjira' or whatever. And flute ofcourse.
'Morsing' & 'Kanjira' – do we get to identify them in today's music scene (Tamil filmy gana)? Carnatic stage is their last bastion for survival:
After M S Viswanathan, Ilaya Raja gave a long lease of life to these native, traditional instruments whose earthy tones are already muffled in the heavy beats of western music – such a tragedy.
The second 'saranam' part of the song can be found here: I like it more for its sensitive and soul-searching verses.
Jency lent her voice for female and Ilayaraja sings the male part. The entire film was shot somewhere in southernmost Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu known for its pristine beaches and quaint fishing villages.
Next is from my all time fave K Balachander's film 'Sindhu Bhairavi.' This film was released in 1984-85 when I was in standard 11. Heavy theme. Both Sindhu and Bhairavi are 2 different 'raags' in Carnatic classical music form of south India (and also in Hindustani of north with slight variations) and they are also popular names given to girls. In the picture, the names are borne by 2 women typically. The story is of a hi-profile Carnatic vocalist who has already made a mark in the field of music. His extra-marital affair with a rebel threatens his marriage and therefore our censor board deemed it fit to award 'A' certificate to the film I guess! How naive India was even in '80s!!!
It was still before the advent of the cable tv era. No hope for us school girls to catch the picture in cinemas. My mom would have loved it. Its exactly her kind of film. Ofcourse, what is VCR for. We got to the see the picture within 2-3 years of release which was a record, thanks to video piracy peaking high in the late '80s.
A melodramatic carnatic outburst which playback singer K J Yesudas has poured his heart into, the rendition touches raw nerve in listeners. Chanceless number. I love the 'mridangam' play in this one as well. Actor Sivakumar plays the vocalist to the hilt and does justice to the high-strung emotion brought out by Yesudas in the song. A beautiful combination of direction, acting, singing, camera …. and the surging waves seem to capture the boiling senses of the actor, as he tries to rein in his self-control. Today we are seeing very many pictures on taboo subjects, but hardly get to see such a decent treatment to the script.
A special word: Hats off to mrindangist! Whether its violinist or guitarist or mrindangist in Raja's troupe, they were all aces! Any and/or every one of them could have gone for easy 'thani aavarthanams' in my opinion. (In modern days we know similarly of 'Drums' Shiva who plays for A R Rahman, a celebrity and prodigy in his own right).
I think the Tamil music directors that way did a tremendous job, infusing in us '80s kids a vibrant interest in classical music. Classical was fused with romantic sentiments and the package was most alluring than plain, flat, over-sweet songs of those times. Even today they stop you in tracks because the carnatic connection gives the solos/duets an ethereal, eternal quality that tugs at your hearts strings and makes them timeless. This is why 20, 30, 40 years after the songs were first composed, we still are held spellbound by their innate magic.
(Although the following song is not pictured in seaside, as the plot is played out mostly in the shore along southern Tamil Nad, I include this one which is another fave of mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYi9Tb_cGoE )
The heroine in this film is Suhasini Manirathnam who married the director a couple of years later. Cast is exceptional in the picture. An unbeatable combi of even the side-kicks (sorry supporting actors).
Which brings us to Tamil film industry's most celebrated director-screenplay writer Mani Ratnam who has some Bollywood films to his credit including Roja, Bombay, Dil Se, Guru and Ravan. My next song is from one of his films.
Music is again scored by Ilayaraja.
This film was released in my school days: 'Agni Nakshatram' meaning 'star of fire.' Yeah, very hot!
How come K J Yesudas (who has also rendered many Bollywood/Hindi songs including for the film 'Chitchor' got to sing all the hot songs?!) He sings the number and may be around this time was also singing 'Kahin door jab dil dal jaye' I guess because listening to this haunting Hindi melody in the '80s is also a vague memory. 'Agni Nakshatram' was a super-duper hit and Karthik became our heart throb for a while. Look how the same Karthik looks in his first picture 'Alaigal Oivadhillai' (the first song in this post). In 'Agni' made in late '80s in my college days, he matures into most eligible bacherlor guy in Madras of those times!!! We college girls were swooning about him – and I think this was a little time before Arvind Swamy made his debut also under Mani Ratnam banner for the Tamil (dubbed into Hindi) film 'Roja' in the year 1992-93. Its funny when I think we Madrasi girls also at the same time were into Bollywood pictures: Aamir Khan, the babyfaced chocolate hero made his debut as well around the same time. Next followed Salman Khan but I think I had graduated by then.
I love the picturization of this particular beach song that I find extra-ordinarily sensual. Without bordering on vulgarity. Nirosha, the heroine is a dark damsel, yet she's considered pretty hot in Tamil films.
If my mom thought Bharathi Raja was a bad influence on '80s kids, she didn't wait around to watch Mani Ratnam pictures that all projected women as bold, seeking creatures. Yes, in his films, it was mostly women who went after men, chased men. Hahaha. It felt good really though at times I have also felt like slapping Mani for the same. A revolutionary as viewed by some, the director seems to have evoked some dormant senses in us women that we felt embarrassed to admit to until then. With him we girls grew up to admit, we had every right to seek pleasure after all! Mani happened just before the computer era began in India. We were the last pre-computer generation but learning to get familiar with the machine. The younger gen after us already had computer labs in schools. My batch missed out by a whisker, that's all. Soon things were set to change, and if any, Mani Ratnam films of those days (tamil) were a harbinger of things to come. Computerization followed shortly and software boom shook India and rest is history.
Soon Mani metamorphosed into rebel screenplay writer with films like Roja and Bombay, bilingual in Tamil & Hindi. Gone was his aggressive female stories where bold women were only in pursuit of men they wanted. The new Maniratnam woman as we saw in 'Roja' was finally the real heroine we wanted to see. I liked this representation of Indian Nari better really. The director came of age with 'Roja' – without offending any quarter, played to brilliance. Ofcourse Roja had a predecessor – 'Nayagan' starring Kamal Hassan remade into Hindi as 'Nayak' I guess with Vinod Khanna & Madhuri Dixit, spoiled in the experiment. Perhaps Nayagan marked Mani's departure from hot romances to matters with substance.
Now I want to revert back in time to add some beautiful melodies shot on beach sands of the city under different composers. The tunes are pleasing to our ocular sense and etched in memory forever.
The violin treat in 'Pattina Pravesam' (Entry to city/urban life), another K Balachander picture, is brilliant accompaniment to S P Balasubramaniam's nector voice in this song composed by M S Viswanathan. Verses are by poet Kannadasan, one of the best philosophical thinkers Tamil literary world ever produced even though the lyricist mostly limited himself to film songs.
The film is about the trials and tribulations of a family that shift base from village to city in search of a better future. They are in for disappointments and betrayals which force them back into their rural retreat in the end. The romance is subtle in the picture as is reflected in the lingering melancholic rendering. SPB's voice has since then undergone a sea change I guess – it was like this until he sang for 'Ek duje ke liye' and 'Sadma.' After this early '80s phase, his voice rather got better-off, silky smooth and too perfect without any 'pisuru' (as you may call in tamil). But back then, a slight hesitation, a not-so-easily detectable huskiness was there in his voice. It is not huskiness, it is like, the voice of a man in his late '20s (as probably SPB was then or perhaps in his early '30s). As he aged, SPB matured like a fine wine 🙂 I like both of his voices. Both are pleasant and I have not found anyone matching him who can sing with such a 'shudh' shruthi like he does – so cut, clean & crisp and silky smooth given that his is male voice – including in Bollywood. I rate SPB over and above K J Yesudas that way. Having listened to also Kishore Kumar from the same time, after Rafi and a host of Bollywood playback singers, I am still of the opinion, SPB's voice clarity is matchless in entire India. But his hindi voice is not good as I have noticed in 'Hum aapke hein kaun', 'Saajan' and a few more pictures. He overdoes, I don't know why. SPB is one more artist who can get the deep emotion of the movie character into his singing. You can relate to the character through his voice. And thus he was a readily acceptable choice for playback singer for any hero in Tamil film industry of his generation: be it Kamal Hasan or Rajni Kanth or Karthik or Mohan.
In this song specifically that is shot in noon sun in Mahabalipuram beach, 40 km from city limits, 20 km from toll, I simply love the silver sands and the clear blue sky and sea. Chennai as I remember used to be this beautiful. No more, sad to say.
Rounding off the post with the popular Surya, Jyothika film song from the cop story 'Kakka, Kakka' after which the two tied the knot and are today proud parents of 2 adorable kids. Tamil audience's pet celebrity couple. Look at their chemistry! Wow! The picture was super duper hit even if we knew that director Gautam Menon was in habit of lifting ideas from Hollywood. Music: Harris Jayaraj another intelligent copycat (this time of music).
The drive through ECR and the dream beach house: Love Jo's short kurthi & contrast pants even if I am the last person to comment on fashion sense!


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Breaking down the Union 2019 schedule
As we endure the cold and dark of the off-season, it's a good time to dream about the warmer days to come and think about watching our hometown club play some soccer. As such, it is an appropriate time to look at the schedule and how it breaks down.
MLS Schedule Format
Fo 2019, Major League Soccer made some changes in how they build the schedule. The league decided that they would prefer to have the MLS Cup earlier than the first week of December that they have been using. It's a wise move considering that some MLS cities can be quite cold by then (as experienced with the 2017 MLS Cup Final in Toronto). The league also didn't like how the October FIFA international break broke up the last few weeks of the regular season as many teams are making their push for the playoffs.
To accommodate this, they compressed the regular season by adding more mid-week matches, so now Decision Day will be the first Sunday of October rather than the last Sunday of that month. The playoffs will now start right after the October FIFA international break. The post-season will take a shorter amount of time as well, as they eliminated the home-and-away rounds and replaced them with knockout rounds. This not only shortens the time it will take to get through the playoffs, but it also adds importance to the regular season matches, as teams will want to have as much home field advantage as they can in the postseason.
The regular season is still 34 games, and is still unbalanced as teams only play teams in the opposite conference once. But with the addition of Cincinnati FC as the 24th team, it allows the intra-conference schedule to be balanced. Each team plays all the other teams in their conference twice, home and away.
Union Schedule
Thanks to the unbalanced schedule, some teams will have an easier season than others. The Union have the tenth most difficult schedule in the league. With 24 teams, that puts the boys in blue close to the middle. It could be better, but it could be worse too.
The Union start their 2019 season on Saturday March 2 at Talen Energy Stadium against Toronto FC. The boys in blue will be challenged in that first month, with the opening game followed by matches against Sporting KC, MLS Cup champs Atlanta United, and Columbus. If they can win two or three of these, they will be well setup as the season gets into full swing.
Most the Union home matches are at 7:30, but mercifully they scheduled this one for 1:00 PM, as it is likely to be still be quite cold in the Philadelphia region then.
Following that potentially chilly start on March 2, 12 of the remaining 16 home matches will be at 7:30. This is a change from last year where many of the matches started at 7:00. The biggest impact of this will be felt in the midweek matches, as it allows extra time for fans to arrive after a work day.
Two home matches have start times to be determined: Saturday March 23 vs Columbus Crew SC and Saturday July 6 vs Orlando City. Also, that second home match is the first of back-to-back matches against the Lions (the second being at Orlando City Stadium), which should be a good mid-season opportunity to get some points.
Despite the compressed schedule, the Union are only going to have two mid-week games at home: May 1 vs FC Cincinnati (Cincy's first visit to Chester ever), and May 29 vs Colorado Rapids. There are no Friday home matches, so these will be the only days Union fans will have to rush from work to get to Chester. Of course, these are only MLS matches; it remains to be seen how the new, compressed schedule will affect how the US Open Cup matches are scheduled.
Here's how the Union home schedule breaks down by day of the week:
- Two Wednesday matches
- Two Sunday matches
- 13 Saturday matches
The road schedule is a little more diverse by day of the week:
- Three Wednesday matches
- Eight Saturday matches
- Six Sunday matches
Only one of those Wednesday night matches are on the West coast: September 25 at San Jose. If the Union aren't in playoff hunt, there won't be many people staying up for a weeknight match that starts at 11:00. All the other late night games are on Saturday nights.
The Union will have only two bye weeks, each corresponding with a FIFA international break. The first will be in June, corresponding with the group stage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, and the second in the first week of September.
The schedule is mostly balanced as far as home and away matches go. But there are two three-game homestands and two three-game road stretches. The first Union three-game homestand is in late May (all against Western Conference clubs), which is the midst of nice eight match stretch where the boys in blue will play at home of six of them. It will be bad if they don't take advantage of that because it will be followed another eight game stretch which will have the Union traveling for six of them including a three-game road trip.
That takes us into August where the Union get another three game homestand, which is in a five game stretch in which they'll be home for four of them.
They need to take care of business in August because they have a brutal end to the regular season, as three of their last four matches are on the road which includes that tough midweek visit to San Jose. Like last season, they'll face off against New York City FC on Decision Day, but this time they'll be home.
As far as the broadcast schedule goes, the Union aren't getting much respect from MLS's national television outlets. They'll get one match on Fox Sports 1 (August 4 @ DCU), and nothing scheduled for ESPN or Univision. Most matches will once again be televised locally on PHL 17, with three matches on 6ABC and two on LiveWell network (one of 6ABC's subchannels). I have mixed feelings about the PHL 17 arrangement. While its good to have games available on free over-the-air TV, I think not having any presence on NBC Sports Philadelphia hurts the club as far being recognized as one the region's major sports clubs. Just look at Twitter where many Philly fans describe themselves as being a "Four-for-four" fan. To those people, the Union might not as well even exist. And one reason is that they don't on our main regional sports network.
It will be easier to make the playoffs this year, because MLS expanded the field from six to seven teams per conference. To do this, only the first place team in each conference will get a bye instead of the top two. It's wishful thinking to imagine that the Union would get that first place bye, but if they can't finish in the top seven, the season would only be able to be described as a disaster (and would almost certainly end the Jim Curtin era in Philadelphia). But just making the playoffs shouldn't be the goal. The team needs to shoot for fourth place at a minimum so they can get home field advantage for the first playoff round at least and attempt to score their first ever playoff win.


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A decade-by-decade look at how Avondale came back after the 1968 riots
Fifty years ago this week, after the April 4 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., parts of Cincinnati seethed with anger, teetering on the brink of violence for four days.
Some cities – Detroit, New York, Washington, D.C. – convulsed immediately but it was not until April 8, the Monday after Palm Sunday, that local events would lead to a full-scale eruption.
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About 1,500 people were attending an outdoor memorial service in King's honor in the Avondale neighborhood. A speaker with the civil rights group the Congress of Racial Equality blamed white America for King's death and urged African-Americans to retaliate.
As the crowd filed into the streets after the memorial, a rumor spread that a white police officer had shot the wife of an African-American jewelry store owner in the neighborhood.
The rumor wasn't true. Jewelry store owner James Smith had struggled with robbers, who were also black, when his gun misfired, striking and killing his wife.
It didn't matter. Some African-Americans in Avondale and other parts of the city loosed their rage. In Mount Auburn, a group of eight black men pulled Noel Wright, a white student, from his car and stabbed him to death. They beat Wright's wife.
Seventy fires, many of them major, lit the night sky in the Avondale business corridors of Reading Road and Burnet Avenue.
By the night of April 9, some 1,500 National Guard troops had been brought in and a curfew imposed. Before order was restored, two people had died and the city had sustained $3 million in property damage, the equivalent of almost $22 million today.
Coming on the heels of rioting the previous June – in which 63 people had been arrested and $2 million in damages incurred – the vibrant, self-contained Avondale, previously filled with stores and restaurants, was in disarray, edging close to what many supposed was wholesale abandonment.
Many white and black families with the financial means fled, following the Jewish migration of a generation earlier, north to Roselawn and new and established suburbs.
The Avondale they all left behind, it seemed, was a plywood-encased shell of its former self.
Today, Avondale is in the midst of what its boosters call a renaissance. Several hundred units of housing have been built or rehabbed in the past few years. The outdated Avondale Town Center is being rebuilt, and a medical clinic is rising to its immediate north on Reading Road. The academic scores of students at the neighborhood's two elementary schools – Rockdale Academy and South Avondale – are improving. So is child health.
It wasn't magic.
Chapter 1: 1968-1977
Aside from the racial unrest, the public looting and the self-immolation, the initial problem was that many people who could afford to leave Avondale started to move out.
Dr. Luther Lemon stayed. He kept his family home on Rockdale Avenue and his medical practice three blocks away on Hearne Avenue. He'd already been displaced once, almost two decades earlier, from the West End by the construction of Interstate 75. He wasn't moving again.
He understood that all of the professionals couldn't leave. If they did, he knew the neighborhood would absolutely fall apart.
"We never thought of leaving Avondale," said his daughter, Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, publisher and editor of the African-American weekly newspaper The Cincinnati Herald.
Avondale lost almost 14 percent of its population from 1970 to 1980. The white population fell 24.4 percent. The black population decreased 12.5 percent. By 1980, a neighborhood that in 1950 had been home to more than 30,000 people – 60 percent white – was down to fewer than 20,000, 92 percent of them African-American.
Lemon knew the numbers as well as anyone. Yet Avondale was where he and his family belonged.
"It was wonderful growing up in Avondale," said Lemon Kearney. She and her older sister, Norma, rode their bicycles down Rockdale to Burnet, where they'd get hamburgers. The girls walked with their father down the street to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
Lemon practiced family medicine. He made house calls. He delivered babies and cared for the elderly. He built a swing set in the backyard of his office. He paid for YMCA summer memberships for neighborhood children so they could take swim lessons.
He sent his children to the public school across the street from the house. If Rockdale Academy was good enough for neighborhood children, it was good enough for his daughters.
Lemon backed up his belief in his neighbors with his wallet. He made the first donation to the medical clinic run by Cincinnati Children's Hospital staff at Rockdale. (A plaque in the lobby today memorializes his sizable contribution.)
He kept fighting for the children and families of Avondale after his retirement from medicine in 1993. He joined the Avondale Community Council. At 80, though he was a major zoo patron, he joined a picket line to protest the zoo's effort to turn a neighborhood park on Dury Avenue into a parking lot.
Lemon stayed in Avondale until his death at 88 in 2003.
Chapter 2: 1978-1987
The next immediate problem was no one from the outside wanted to move to or invest in Avondale. For several years after the riots, Reading Road and Burnet Avenue were still lined with abandoned and burnt building shells. While the community had some solidly middle-class and professional streets –Forest Park Drive, for example – safe and sanitary housing was in short supply.
In 1978, the Avondale Redevelopment Corp. was founded, growing out of the neighborhood's community council. Jim King, former council president, was hired as executive director.
King had lived with his mother in Avondale from 1963 to 1966. Then he went into the Air Force. He served at Okinawa until 1970. He didn't recognize the Avondale he came home to.
"It was devastating to see nothing that was here before," said King, now 72. "The Kroger on Forest Avenue, everything was gone."
Between 1970 and 1990, 800 buildings in Avondale had become vacant. The council organized a petition drive. More than 300 Avondale residents signed it, asking the city to demolish dozens of abandoned buildings.
King and his board went to work. Their formula was to use public money to leverage private investment.
In 1981, the redevelopment corporation finished its first building at the corner of Reading and Windham and moved its headquarters there. With its distinctive cornice, the building was one of the few in the immediate area to survive the riots and their aftermath.
In 1983, the 40,000-square-foot, 11-store Avondale Town Center opened at the corner of Reading and Rockdale. Despite its spotty history, marked by tenant turnover and the comings and goings of grocery anchors, the new construction symbolized the return of commercial activity.
And, in 1987, work began on the 28-unit Reading Green Condominiums complex between Prospect Place and Maple Avenue. The tax-abated 1,900-square-foot units sold for $85,000. The selling plan targeted households earning between $18,000 and $35,000. Down payment assistance was available.
They sold out in seven months.
"That first decade we were in business, we were able to stabilize the neighborhood," King said. "Our plan was to build housing on all that vacant land. We were naive. We thought we could get it all done in five years."
Reading Green was a major victory. Yet losses came with the wins. A proposed Reading Green II complex to the north of Prospect – today a parking lot for the Greater Cincinnati Urban League – was never built.
Chapter 3: 1988-1997
The problem now was that progress was slow and people needed caring for.
The Rev. Clarence Wallace was 29 when he came to Cincinnati in 1978 to become pastor of Carmel Presbyterian Church in the center of Avondale. He came from South Carolina, where he worked as an addiction counselor. That sensitivity would show up soon in his Carmel ministry with a long-standing and robust Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
There was a need for an AA group, Wallace said, and it was the church's responsibility to provide it.
In 1983, the same year the Town Center opened on the other side of the Carmel parking lot, the church's 200 members voted to stay and remodel the sanctuary instead of leaving for suburban Forest Park.
Wallace created a summer program in which Avondale youths interacted on service and leadership projects with teens from Indian Hill Episcopal-Presbyterian Church.
Wallace created a soup kitchen, pantry and men's clothing ministry in the church.
"He was never one to tell you what to do," Carmel member JoEllen Grady said. "He'd ask you, `We have this problem. What do you think we should do?' "
The community's need for food assistance grew into Sunday morning breakfasts and a fellowship lunch after the 11 o'clock service. Carmel sponsored summer academic enrichment programs for youths.
"You stay involved," Wallace told The Enquirer about his philosophy of social action.
Another need Wallace saw was to boost the sagging Avondale Town Center. It had fallen into disrepair and without an owner after the original developer, the Oscar Robertson Co., which held the lease and mortgage, dissolved in 1987.
In November 1996, Wallace was one of four neighborhood ministers in the Avondale Coalition of Churches who bought the center. Wallace, who did not seek the spotlight, however, agreed to take the coalition presidency. (Its first president, Southern Baptist Church pastor the Rev. James Milton, had died the day before the coalition closed on the Town Center loan.)
The coalition was able to land a grocery store, Aldi, to fill the vacant anchor tenant space.
Chapter 4: 1998-2007
The problems in Avondale were always bigger than buildings. Many children were not thriving, and too many were dying before their first birthday. Yet, at the turn of the century, an old problem screamed back into the forefront. Violent crime.
A landlord was gunned down while renovating his property. Armed robbers pistol-whipped their victims. Another victim had his gold-capped teeth snatched from his mouth. Elderly residents were afraid to step outside of their apartment, even into hallways, where, they feared, criminals waited.
And all the while, babies were dying in Avondale and other urban neighborhoods at a Third World rate.
The number of babies who died there before their first birthday in Avondale was 21 per 1,000 live births, roughly the same as the rate found in Guatemala and Mongolia.
Indeed, across the country, as the new century dawned, African-American babies were twice as likely as white infants to be premature, to have a low birth weight and to die at birth.
In 2006, Dominique Love lost her first child. The daughter she named Domika Heavenly was stillborn. She had hydrocephalus, an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. The baby, delivered at 25 weeks, also had a buildup of fluid in the chest.
Enough was enough. Wallace and his Carmel Presbyterian Church formed a partnership with Cincinnati Children's Hospital to house a program for at-risk first-time mothers, Every Child Succeeds.The program had existed across the region but had no physical home.
It did now, opening in November 2006 in Carmel's basement.
Yet housing this program wasn't enough. Wallace saw the need these low-income mothers had for basic baby supplies. So in 2007 Carmel established the Avondale Caring Network Pantry, which provided free formula and diapers.
In other neighborhoods, Every Child Succeeds' home visitation program reached 25 percent of eligible mothers. In Avondale, within the first two years, 85 percent of eligible mothers were receiving services and home visitation.
Love found her way there in 2011 when she became pregnant again. She received home visits. She attended classes at Carmel on child development, parenting and nutrition. She was part of a mom's group. (Carmel also was the site of dad's group.)
Love delivered a healthy baby boy, Kelijah, in May 2012. He was one week overdue and was born at 7 pounds, 6 ounces.
"I met all the right people and developed a huge support system and network," she said. "I learned so much and was more confident."
During that decade, because of Every Child Succeeds and other prenatal and home visitation program in Avondale, the infant mortality rate there dropped to 8 deaths for every 1,000 live births. Other indicators of infant health, including full-term births at 37 weeks, also have increased dramatically.
Chapter 5: 2008-2017
The problem was the lure of the streets. Growing up in Avondale was tough for many teenagers. Too much poverty. Too many shootings and drug deals. Too much idle time. Too little supervision and structure.
In 2006, the Avondale Youth Council was created to provide neighborhood children structure and incentive and keep them busy. Founded by two Avondale men – one was a military veteran, another was an Indiana University law graduate – the council bloomed by 2008.
It was a place where kids belonged, where grown men meted out love and discipline, where mothers believed that change could happen. And because, at first at least, the kids were paid to show up.
Twice-monthly meetings were the foundation for field trips, personal development classes and mandatory community service. Members, between the ages of 12 and 18, had to wear a uniform of a golf shirt or youth council hoody and a baseball cap.
If members maintained a C-average in school, they were paid $5 an hour for community service work, $2 of which went into an account they would receive at graduation. Some members received as much as $1,000 a year toward college. The council's $30,000 annual budget came from a variety of source, public and private, including Chase Bank, the Model Group and the Uptown Consortium.
About a half dozen of those first youth council members have come back home to live. Daniel Watkins, 25, a Northern Kentucky University graduate in organizational leadership and sports management, inherited a house from a family member on Harvey Avenue.
"When you're out there picking up trash and working to make things better, you develop a lot of pride in where you're from," he said.
Rasalyn Williams, 26, is planning to come back to Avondale. She lives Downtown. She has worked for six years as a health unit coordinator in the Emergency Department at University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Turns out Luther Lemon and other professional families had the right idea 50 years ago in those shaky years after the 1968 riots. If he stayed in Avondale, it would be worth coming back to.
Epilogue: 2018
The problem is that for decades the perception was that nothing good could come out of Avondale.
Now one of the best ideas Avondale ever had – its youth council – is being exported to a handful of Cincinnati's other predominantly African-American neighborhoods. The woman doing a lot of that work is an Avondale Youth Council alumna.
Jasmine Humphries explains that "the last thing I was going to do was come back." Humphries, a 2008 Withrow High School graduate and original youth council member in 2006, is now a community engagement specialist at the partnering center, which is part of the Greater Cincinnati Urban League.
Humphries, who has an economics degree from the University of Cincinnati and studied in China, is helping to replicate the Avondale Youth Council model in the West End, Walnut Hills, Winton Hills and Bond Hill.
According to some, this is the time for Avondale's rebirth.Town Center's progress is proof of that. The best and brightest young people are coming home.
Pieces are in place. People, too.
Dr. Lemon's house, for the record, is still there.


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Iran exported some 70 tons of caviar in the last Iranian year which ended on March 21, the
managing director of the country's fisheries company Mohammad Reza Hosseini said in this northern city on Thursday.
The exports fetched the Islamic Republic 100 million marks, he
said, adding that 80 percent of the product went to Europe, 10 percent
to Japan and the rest to other countries.
The country's total sturgeon catch in the period reached 800
tons, which produced 90 tons of caviar, Hosseini said.
Iran's Fisheries Organization, he said, has projected to export
80 tons of caviar by the end of March, 2001.
According to the official, Iran also exports some 100-200 tons
of sturgeon annually, which earns the country two to three million
Iran, along with Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan,
account for 90 percent of world trade in black caviar, which fetches
them 100 million dollars annually.
They are the five littoral states of the Caspian Sea and major
producers of black caviar. The four latter states pledged in June not to fish sturgeon this
year, after the standing committee CITES, the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species warned that the Caspian Sea
poaching had reached the scale of organized crime and amounted to 13
times the legal catch, putting the sturgeon population on the brink of
extinction. The committee exempted Iran from censure since it has in place a
functioning management system.
According to CITES officials, official catch levels of sturgeon in
the Caspian Sea have fallen from a peak of 30,000 tons in the late
1970s to less than a tenth of that figure today, as the old system of
joint state control of the caviar market by the Soviet Union and Iran
collapsed. Pollution, reduced river flow and the destruction of spawning
sites -- where the caviar, sturgeon's eggs, is produced -- have also
contributed to the fall, they said.
CITES officials were considering recommending a worldwide ban on
imports of caviar because of the lack of action by the four former
Soviet republics. Prices of legally exported caviar have skyrocketed and are set to
increase further if restrictions are put in place.
Iran exports 70 tons of caviar in a year
Iran exported some 70 tons of caviar in the last Iranian year which ended on March 21, the managing director of the country's fisheries company Mohammad Reza Hosseini said in this northern city.


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Sweets for My Sweet
October 8, 2015
Food is the specialty of the Crescent City— especially desserts. New Orleans is filled with a great variety of places to satisfy a sweet tooth.
No matter what time of the day it is, anyone can have that immediate sugar craving. When Loyola students were asked about their favorite places to go to satisfy their sweet tooth, this is what they had to say.
1. Sucré
For Kaylin Courtade, history sophomore, Sucré is her favorite dessert shop.
"They have absolutely amazing ice cream and the macaroons are to die for. They are so rich in flavor and are always so moist. Also, their cakes are always so fresh and delicious. During Mardi Gras, they even make homemade king cakes," Courtade said.
2. La Madeline's
Cate Tringali, philosophy and political science senior, said her favorite sweet shop was La Madeline's on St. Charles Avenue.
"They have this triple chocolate cake that is so delicious. I could probably eat it all day long," Tringali said.
3. Maple Street Patisserie
Maurice Huff, English film and digital media freshman, recommended Maple Street Patisserie.
"They have everything ranging from the classics, like brownies and cookies and croissants, all the way to really complicated and elaborate things like tarts and cobblers. My favorite dessert there is their brownie. It has cookie crumbs, walnuts, and chocolate syrup. It's really, really amazing," Huff said.
4. La Boulangerie
Amy Gonzalez, international business freshman, said La Boulangerie is her choice for sweets.
"They sell a lot of croissants with different things in them, so there's chocolate and pecan. They are so good. They have gelato also and it's really good," Gonzalez said.
5. Gambino's
Kristina Gambino, biology junior, said that Gambino's is her favorite place to get her sweets.
"It's my favorite because I love the sugar cookies they have there, and the Lookie Cookies, which are basically two chocolate chip cookies with a bunch of icing in between and a face on them made of icing," Gambino said.
So whatever your craving is, there's somewhere in this city of sweets to find it.
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Welcome to the Northwest Chapter of the River Management Society! Comprised of RMS members from the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming the NW Chapter is the largest RMS chapter averaging 150 members. Our goal is to further the mission of RMS by providing a regional forum for members to network, learn, and expand their knowledge of river management through participation and involvement in NW Chapter activities while also enjoying themselves. The chapter has a diverse membership, representing private, educational and governmental institutions and organizations.
Your chapter officers work hard to represent you and facilitate an active membership. Chapter Bylaws provide direction for the functioning of the NW Chapter. Chapter accomplishments are many and we hope upcoming activities will interest you. Join RMS now!
Any professional member is eligible to run for office; officers serve a 3-year term. Candidates should be informed regarding and Chapter Officer Roles be willing to be an active participant. Contact any Northwest Chapter officer to become involved in local or national RMS activities.
Northwest Chapter Officers (2019-2021)
Lisa Byers (WA): President
It all began in 2010, after I drove from Maryland to Northern California for a SCA river recreation internship with the Forest Service on the Klamath River. During that internship I worked alongside with Dave Payne, a Pacific chapter member, and he introduced me to the River Management Society by taking me to a River Ranger Rendezvous event held on the Rogue River. I was in complete awe with all of my new experiences that summer. I decided I wanted to continue to pursue land management work, specifically relating with rivers.
I have since worked as a River Ranger on the Rogue River in Oregon, the Payette River in Idaho, and the Situk River in Yakutat, Alaska. I continued to be active with RMS by attending chapter events, participating in a RMS internship, annually updating the online River Permit documents, and have volunteered at and attended the past 3 symposiums. Like many of us in RMS, I just have an extreme passion for rivers (well…all bodies of water) and I want to share this passion with others in a way that is hopefully beneficial towards the protection and management of our river systems. RMS has been an organization that has helped me grow tremendously as I move forward in my career path. I am very excited to be in a leadership role as President of the NW Chapter and I look forward to connecting with members and providing guidance along the way.
My favorite river is the South Fork Payette in Idaho, and a very close second is the North Fork Smith in California.
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Vice President: Vacant
Any professional member is eligible to run for office; officers serve a 3-year term. Candidates should be informed regarding and Chapter Officer Roles be willing to be an active participant. Contact any Northwest Chapter officer to become involved in local or national RMS activities.
Martin Hudson (WY): Secretary
I became enamored with flowing water at the young age of about 4 while frolicking in Clear Creek near Winslow Arizona. Many river, backwater and ocean paddling experiences later, I earned an AA Degree in Fish and Wildlife Management in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Following 8 exciting years of work with the South Carolina Natural Resources Department, I returned to college and received a BS Degree in University Studies, Wildland Recreation Resources Management at the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. I escaped from studies at every opportunity to explore the many fine rivers of Arkansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin. After graduation, I journeyed to SW Oregon to work.....? as a BLM Recreation Technician on the Rogue River. After numerous BLM assignments, including a short stint with the USFS and 3 glorious years in SW Oregon, my wife Dayle and I settled in Ely, Nevada. As an Outdoor Recreation Planner with the BLM, I fell in love with the peaks, streams and history of the Great Basin. After 8 years of fleeing the Basin to float rivers destined to flow to the sea, we migrated to Pinedale, Wyoming. I worked as manager of the BLMs recreation program. Dayle and I guided our two kids through the wilds of Wyoming and on to early adulthood. My passion for free-flowing water is but one of my extracurricular pursuits. I enjoy Triathlon, Nordic racing, birding, fishing, bird hunting and volunteering for the Lions Club.
Currently, I'm exploring the pathways of retirement after BLM. As a lifetime member of RMS I feel indebted to reinvest a bit of what RMS and my career has given me. The personal relationships and good work experiences draws me to maintain my connection with RMS. It's an honor to continue my commitment as the Secretary of the NW Chapter of RMS. Thank You!
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Joni Gore (WA): Events Coordinator
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, I earned my Bachelor of Science in Hydrology at University of California Davis. While earning my degree, I became a Class III whitewater rafting guide on the American and Klamath Rivers in California through the university's outdoor program.
After graduating, I moved to Washington State and became a Wild and Scenic River Fellow with the National Park Service in Seattle, Washington. In Fall 2019, I returned to school for a Masters in Applied Geosciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
I am incredibly excited to not only explore the rivers in the Pacific Northwest, but also to engage others in river management. As the new Events Coordinator, I am totally stoked to bring Northwest Chapter members together--on and off the river!
My new favorite Northwest river is the Skykomish River, a state scenic river that runs year round.
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Northwest Chapter Events
All events have been canceled in the Northwest Chapter for 2020. We are hopeful and look forward to planning events for the 2021 season. We miss you all!
Lower Salmon River Trip, hosted by BLM Cottonwood Field Office (September 27-30, 2019)
The Northwest Chapter experienced a plethora of weather on their 4 day Lower Salmon Idaho trip during the end of September. Nevertheless, the group was nothing but smiles, laughter, chatter, and thrilled to be assisting the BLM with river ranger duties along the river. Tires and other trash debris were collected from the banks and camps and the group stopped at Eagle Beach to chat about projected/in progress projects the BLM is working on, such as boat ramp improvements, road improvements, and interp signage along the river. Keep an eye out for a more detailed article about the trip in the upcoming RMS Journal.
Mon Oct 5, 2020Eleven Point Wild and Scenic River CRMP Update Workshop
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YDERABAD: A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Telangana government to place before it the report of the committee that was instrumental in identifying and declaring various mandals in the state as drought-hit. The bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B Bhosale and Justice P Naveen Rao was passing this direction in a petition filed by Congress MLA T Jeevan Reddy ofJagtial Assembly constituency in Karimnagar district. The MLA was challenging the decision of the state government for not including some mandals in Karimnagar district in the drought-hit mandals list in spite of recommendations of district collector. Senior counsel Sarasani Satyam Reddy, appearing for the Congress MLA, pointed out that though the district collector had recommended for inclusion of 40 mandals in the district as adversely drought-affected, the state included only 19 mandals in the list. About 21 mandals which were reeling under the ill-effects of the drought were left out. In fact, parameters like less rainfall and reduction in extent of crop and production were all there in these mandals but the state government failed to take them into consideration, he noted. The senior counsel further said that except for Katalapur mandal, entire Jagtial sub-division which was severely affected has been left out and gross injustice was done to Karimnagar district when compared to districts like Nizamabad and Medak, where the entire district was declared drought-hit. If these areas were included in the list, the drought-hit farmers would get benefits like crop damage compensation in the form of input subsidy, rescheduling of crop loans etc., he added. When the bench pointed out what was the basis for declaration of drought-hit mandals, the Telangana state counsel submitted that the government has constituted a committee to study based on their recommendations they declared drought-hit mandals in the state. The bench directed the counsel to place the report before the court within two weeks to examine whether the committee has considered all the aspects or not in recommending the government in declaring the drought mandals. While posting the matter after two weeks for further hearing, the bench directed both the parties to furnish photos in support of their claims.
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Lawyer Who Fought DOMA Seeks To Intervene In Michigan Marriage Appeal
Statewide LGBT group teams up with Roberta Kaplan, who defended Edith Windsor in her challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, to fight Ohio's same-sex marriage ban.
WASHINGTON — The lawyer who successfully fought Edith Windsor's case against the Defense of Marriage Act on Thursday alerted a federal appeals court to her disagreement with a legal move by lawyers for same-sex couples in Michigan and Ohio and her plan to seek to intervene in the appeal.
In a letter to the clerk of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Roberta Kaplan announced that her firm, Paul Weiss, is representing Equality Ohio and the Equality Ohio Education Fund and will seek to intervene in the ongoing marriage and marriage recognition appeals cases pending before the court.
The move by Kaplan — an Ohio native who lives in New York — marks the second time that she has sought to intervene in one of the marriage cases that has followed the Supreme Court's decision striking down DOMA in Windsor's case.
The 10th Circuit denied her request made earlier this year in the case challenging Utah's amendment banning same-sex couples from marrying.
In this attempt, lawyers for the state of Michigan asked the 6th Circuit earlier this month to hear the case en banc — or, by the whole court — rather than by a three-judge panel of the court, which is the normal path an appeal would take.
The lawyers for Michigan same-sex couples who succeeded at the trial court level opposed the request in a filing on April 11, writing that a "hearing before a 3-judge panel rather than hearing en banc will be most likely to expedite this Court's consideration of the case." The lawyers called the state's other arguments for en banc consideration "seriously flawed."
Earlier this week, lawyers representing the Ohio plaintiffs in the marriage recognition case there filed their own brief, also opposing Michigan's request for immediate en banc consideration.
In the letter filed by Kaplan on Thursday, however, she writes, "[O]ur clients, in contrast to the gay couple appellees in [the Michigan case], would support the granting of en banc review, but for very different reasons than those proffered by the State of Michigan."
Specifically, she writes that an en banc panel would be required to reconsider the prior decisions of the circuit about what level of scrutiny should apply to "laws that discriminate against gay people."
Previously, the circuit has applied rational basis, the lowest level of scrutiny, when considering whether laws that classify people based on sexual orientation are constitutional. Kaplan argues that "a heightened level of scrutiny should apply" — the same argument advanced by the Obama administration and many LGBT rights advocates — and that sending the case immediately to en banc consideration would allow the 6th Circuit to revisit the question of what level of scrutiny to apply to such laws.
The letter, which notes a plan for the groups to file a motion to intervene in the appeal "as soon as practicable," was sent to the court, according to Kaplan, because the motion for en banc review is currently pending before the 6th Circuit.
Asked why Equality Ohio took the unusual move, Executive Director Elyzabeth Holford told BuzzFeed that rather than disagreeing specifically with the other lawyers, the plan to seek intervention is "more about just being sure that everything possible is being considered and that we represent all the needs that we can of LGBT Ohioans. ... It's just another way of looking at it."
From a broader perspective, she added, "All marriage cases in the 6th Circuit are of critical importance to loving, committed LGBT couples and families in Ohio, and Equality Ohio is therefore advocating to ensure that LGBT [people] are represented at every judicial level possible as we're moving forward with marriage equality."
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A French television station has been forced to withdraw an advert designed to promote its female friendly credentials – because the ad was deemed to be 'sexist' by feminists on Twitter. The ad campaign, which was scheduled to run for three weeks, will now never be aired.
Publicly-owned France 3 prides itself on its embrace of gender equality and track record for employing females, so commissioned an advert to boast of its success. The resulting 40-second film shows a series of household chores being left abandoned – a shirt catching fire as an abandoned iron sits on it, an oven smoking thanks to the neglected food inside, a child's bedroom in disarray.
Finally, a well known French 70s pop song poses the question: "where have all the women gone?" As the camera pans back from a neatly arranged wardrobe full of shoes, a message on screen reads: "they are on France 3. The majority of our presenters are female."
La majorité de nos présentateurs sont des présentatrices ! https://t.co/iXTEwFNWlh
— France 3 (@France3tv) October 2, 2015
The station tweeted the advert, commenting: "More different, more modern, more feminine! France 3 affirms its values with this new campaign showcasing our presenting!"
If it thought the advert would win it plaudits from the feminist community, it was sadly mistaken. Instead it was panned on social media.
Prenons La Une, a collective of female journalists, told 20 Minutes the advert "feeds cliches rather than deconstructing them. You get the impression that the people who made this video start from the principle that a woman is always behind her ironing board, that she has a massive shoe collection."
Feminist blog Balle de Sexisme tweeted that France 3 "wants to promote feminisation of its workplace, and serves us a heap of clichés," together with the hashtag '#sexisme'.
.@France3tv veut promouvoir la féminisation de son effectif et nous sert un ramassis de clichés sexistes… #sexisme https://t.co/fVzxowOGbr
— Balle de sexisme (@balledesexisme) October 5, 2015
Even Pascale Boistard, France's minister for women waded in, tweeting that the campaign "does not seem to be a good way to highlight professional equality" among TV presenters.
La campagne «femmes» de @france3tv ne me paraît pas être 1 bonne manière de valoriser l'#égapro chez les anim. TV, chère @DelphineErnotte
— Pascale Boistard (@Pascaleboistard) October 5, 2015
Delphine Ernotte, the new head of France 3 immediately ordered the campaign to be pulled, while her entourage quickly moved to distance her from it, telling media that she had not seen the advert before it was released and that it "was not close to her sensibilities."Boistard tweeted her approval shortly afterwards. None of the critics have suggested how the channel could have alluded to the lack of a female presence without resorting to easily accessible and recognisable clichés or stereotypes.


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By traveling, you get to see exciting places, while learning about other cultures. But, many people forget that traveling can be costly. This below article provides some advice so that you can save as much of your money and time as you possibly can when traveling.
Write down all the important information you will need when going overseas. Know where your embassy or consulate is and how they can be reached should you need to get into contact with them. You will need to contact the embassy if you have any trouble. This will help with the troubles that you get into.
When traveling with children, carry a color picture of them with you at all times so that you can use it to identify them were they to get lost. Losing your child can be a scary prospect. Sometimes these kinds of things happen. If you have a good quality photograph to show the people at your location, or the police, it can make getting your child back that much easier, and faster too.
If you're going to a destination that requires you get vaccinated, be sure to carry your vaccination certificate with you. You may need it when you leave or enter the country, and possibly when you are traveling between cities. If you don't have this certificate, authorities may quarantine you and prevent you from traveling.
When your travels bring you to a local airport, look at their website to see which airlines offer flight service to the airport. A lot of minor airports are served by charter airlines; these don't appear when you search for rates, and there is a chance you can get a better price.
If you are driving to a port city before leaving on a cruise, always find a hotel that offers free parking and arrive the night before. Ask the hotel's staff about any parking deals they may offer.
Watch your important belongings when traveling. Don't let your purse dangle off your shoulder. Avoid choosing a bag that is easy to open, as they will be easier for a thief to open and steal your valuables. Make sure to consider this advice when purchasing a dependable travel bag.
A motorcycle can provide great transportation for day trips, but only if the driver has a motorcycle license. Motorcycles are gas efficient, and enjoying the ride can put you on the right track. Motorcycle traveling can be lots of fun.
When you begin planning your travel, check with major airlines to see if they offer e-newsletters. These newsletters are often the best way to get exclusive offers and discounts. The savings you get from these newsletters make the extra email worth it.
You should now be able to use the advice form this article to help plan your next trip. Whether your destination is to a neighboring town or a foreign country, you are now better prepared. Travel is fun, fulfilling, and highly entertaining. There are adventures to be found around every corner.


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While its population is only around 11,000, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky is home to two Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries, Four Roses and Wild Turkey. This post will serve as a recap for those two places.
Four Roses
Prior to researching the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, I had never heard of Four Roses. It shouldn't come as that big of a surprise since for more than 40 years, Four Roses was unavailable as a straight bourbon in the United States market for more than 40 years and obviously its name would not have been as widely circulated as that of Jim Beam, for instance.
As I've mentioned previously, most of the bourbon distilleries are owned by larger companies. In the case of Four Roses, it's owned by the Kirin Brewery Company of Japan. (On a side note, we learned that the biggest bourbon consumers outside of the United States are Australia and Japan; the latter especially surprised me.) The brand was established in 1888 and while there are conflicting stories as to where the Four Roses name comes from, the one we were told is as follows: The founder of Four Roses had a sweetheart who he'd asked to marry multiple times and each time was rebuffed. Finally the girlfriend relented and the Four Roses founder gave her…four roses.
My favorite part about Four Roses is its architecture. It was built in 1910 in Spanish Mission-style and is actually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although rural Kentucky is all around you, here is this beautiful patch of buildings that look like they belong somewhere in Latin America. The architecture definitely complemented the brand's name.
Tours are free and are offered on the half hour. They begin with a 15 minute movie which details the bourbon making process from start to finish. I'll admit, the movie wasn't that interesting since obviously it's something you could watch in a YouTube video. But our tour guide did "bring life" to the bourbon making process when we started going from building to building. She also offered information on the company and its founders which the movie hadn't gone into.
You could Four Roses say has had a roller coaster time of it. It was the top selling brand of bourbon in the United States in the 1930s through the 1950s; however, despite its immense popularity, Seagram, (which had bought the brand in 1943) decided to discontinue the sale of Four Roses Bourbon (and all other straight bourbons within the United States) in order devote its efforts to the sales of blended whiskey there. It also shifted its marketing tactics to Europe and Asia, which were rapidly growing at the time. The fact that Four Roses was unavailable as a straight bourbon left it unpopular and unknown to many. It wasn't until Kirin discontinued the sale of blended whiskey to focus entirely on Four Rouses Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey that it started to regain a favorable opinion once more by the bourbon drinkers of the United States.
The bourbon samplings were extremely generous and if I remember correctly, three different bourbons were offered for tasting. The fact that the tour was complimentary and the architecture unique and stunning, makes it a worthwhile place to visit, especially since its location was convenient to visiting other distilleries on the trail.
Wild Turkey
I learned that while doing the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, you need to keep a flexible schedule. Nothing can be written in stone (i.e. lightning can delay a distillery tour from starting on time). So while originally I had had plans to drive into Lexington after visiting the Woodford Reserve distillery to tour Henry Clay's estate, after having our morning delayed by lightning at Woodford, I decided to head straight to Four Roses instead. And so a visit to Wild Turkey kinda just appeared in my head. I had given D the option of picking one of the two Lawrenceburg distilleries; he opted for Four Roses as bourbon drinking friends of his had advised it. Therefore, when I nixed the idea of more driving by going into Lexington, I thought, why not, we'll just go to Wild Turkey and visit one more.
You can't love them all but I really didn't care for anything about the Wild Turkey experience. Although Four Roses was also off a country road, it gained points with its beautiful architecture. Wild Turkey was a whole lot of big corporation. The cutest thing about it was its visitor center, as that was housed in a log cabin-like structure. But visitors are bused to its facilities which are across the road and up a ways. One building was a major warehouse which looked to be from the 20th century. Although I can't fault Wild Turkey for this since they weren't alone, the fact that they weren't in production only made the feeling of visiting some impersonal factory ring that much more true.
Our tour guide, though, was definitely the gem of the visit. He was on the younger side but had a slew of funny stories and other tidbits to share with the group. I don't know whether it was Wild Turkey or just our tour guide, but he was extremely generous with the samplings. Everyone was allowed to taste two from around 10 bourbons to choose from.
If you're anxious to visit all seven distilleries on the trail, then obviously you will still visit here. If you're in the area then yes, it certainly makes sense. If you're unsure about visiting here or one of the other distilleries, I'd probably say pass. But that's just my two cents since what one person finds so so, another may love.
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I had a first look at the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 a few weeks ago at Microsoft Singapore office. Let me just state first that this is still not the final built. But I guess the final released version will be more or less the same. And also, I don't have any information about the hardware yet. I only know that the phone we tried is a LG phone with a landscape slideout keyboard. Oh well, the focus is on the OS anyway.
Firstly, the Windows Phone 7 is a complete rewrite from the Windows Mobile 6.5. There is no similarity between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile 6.5. (No more START button. Yippie!!!) Which is something good. Microsoft made the right move by reseting the entire mobile OS. Windows Mobile 6.5 belongs to the PalmOS era. The Windows Phone 7 is able to let Microsoft compete better with other mobile OS like iOS and Android.
The home screen consists of "live tiles" which are dynamic icons. Interface is pretty straight forward and easy to use. Microsoft does not allow phone makers to slap another layer of user interface on top of the existing Windows Phone 7 interface. I don't really mind that since the Windows Phone 7 interface is pretty good. But I wonder how are phone makers going to compete against each other if they can't customize the home screen.
Microsoft also make it a must for all Windows Phone 7 maker to include 3 physical button on their phone. These 3 buttons are Back Button, Window Button and Search button. Phone makers can, however, add more buttons if they wish to. I'm expecting lots of phone makers to have the dial and hang up button too. But honestly, I think the Back, Window and search button is good enough. Oh ya, the camera button is also a must for all Windows Phone 7. WAIT! Does that means all Windows Phone must come with camera? Hmmmm….. Let me get back to you on this.
There is quite a bit of facebook integration on the Windows Phone 7 platform. You can synchronize your contact book with facebook contacts. Strangely, there isn't any integration for Twitter yet. But not to worry, I'm sure someone will write an app for that. And yes, the Windows Phone 7 does come with an app store. That's the default thing for most smart mobile OSes. Right? I didn't get a chance to look at how the App Store looks like. There is also no information on whether Singapore will have paid apps or not during Windows Phone 7 launch. I'm praying that there will be. It's always good to have a wide selection of free and paid apps.
Office suite comes installed on all Windows Phone 7. I'm pretty impressed with the One Note which allows you to take note easily. There is also Word and Excel on the Windows Phone 7. There is also a Zune music player. From what I understand, the interface is the same as the Zune MP3 player. Users can synchronize and transfer music and audio files between their phone and PC using the Zune PC software as long as there is no Digital Rights Management restrictions. I don't have information on whether Singapore will have Zune Marketplace. My guess is no. It's just like iTunes Store. We just don't get it here in Singapore.
I didn't get a chance to try out the Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 because it was not ready when I test out the phone. But there is already a long list of games that Windows Phone 7 users can expect to see on their phone. You have Bejeweled LIVE, Fruit Ninja, Guitar Hero 5, Mini Squadron, Real Soccer 2, Star Wars: Battle for Hoth etc etc etc…… There's too many for me to list everything down here. If you are interested, hop over to Microsoft's website for the full list. The Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 will also offer try-before-you-buy demos, Xbox LIVE leaderboards, turn-based multiplayer modes and achievements.
Windows Phone 7 is looking pretty exciting. Can't wait to see the first phone running Windows Phone 7. It would be interesting to see Microsoft using Windows Phone 7 to compete with other Mobile Phone OS like iOS, Android and BlackBerry. We should be expecting to see Windows Phone 7 be out in the market by end of the year.
Been busy lately. Will try my best to resume the usual blog entries soon. Lots of gadgets and tech news I wanted to blog about but don't have the time.
Anyway, Tech65 had a small party over the weekend to thank all our friends and supporters. Here is the video we made for the party. Enjoy.
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Singha Beer has recently joined the F1 Redbull team in the race to win the coveted trophy. As a partner of the team, Singha will be sending a lucky winner and a companion to the F1 race in Japan, accompanied by the Singha Beer ambassadors – Oli Pettigrew and Linda Black.
All that is required is to purchase a 6-pack of Singha Beer, submit the cutout coupon at the bottom of the pack and stand a chance to spend 5 days and 4 nights in Japan with Oli and Linda and to watch the F1 Japan Grand Prix with exclusive VIP Paddock Passes. Not only that, there are many other prizes to be won, including a pair of Gold Grand Stand tickets to the F1 Singapore Grand Prix.
So Cheers!!!
Oops, almost forgot about this. Happy Belated Birthday Windows 95!
Windows 95 was launched on 24 August 1995. It is a significant change from the older Windows 3.1. I still remember using Windows 95 for the first time in my Secondary School's library. Took me some time for me to figure out how to use it. Before that, I was using MSDOS and Windows 3.1. Little did I know that 15 years later, some of the things that were on the Windows 95 are still seen in the latest Windows 7. Like start button and recycle bin.
I wonder who is still using Windows 95 now. Personally, I prefer Windows 98 which is much more stable than Win 95.
Happy 15th Birthday Windows 95. You still haven't reach the legal drinking age yet. Haha.
Oh, here is some promotional videos done by Microsoft 15 years ago. They look kinda cheezy now. Maybe it is popular back then. Or maybe it's already considered cheezy back then.
I don't know about you, but somehow this reminds me of the Window 7 party video. Some things doesn't change.