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Dr. Robert Willis, retiring Rockford Public School District 205 Interim Superintendent was in attendance.
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The Story So Far: In what is surely one of the most extraordinary design challenges in years, scenic designer Derek McLane will design six Stephen Sondheim musicals to run in repertory this summer at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The repertory is divided into two parts: Sweeney Todd, Company, and Sunday in the Park With George, followed by Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, and A Little Night Music.
This is the second in a series of articles that traces McLane's work, from the initial assignment to opening night. In the first installment, he discussed the early meetings with Sondheim and the directors (Christopher Ashley, Sean Mathias, Eric Schaeffer, and Mark Brokaw), his own complicated schedule, and how the events of September 11 threw the entire project off course. In this installment, taped in February, he discusses his design concepts for the productions.
models by Derek McLane
McLane: Although it's enormous, it's quite simple. There are very few moving parts. The ground plan functions very much the way it did originally on Broadway. The materials are more hardcore industrial, however. On Broadway, it was all wood, while this is made almost entirely of metal. The idea is to make it seem really dangerous. The moving cube unit turns one way to become Sweeney's barbershop, then it turns and becomes the bake house. The space is very, very deep. There will be a translucent drop placed all the way upstage. Sweeney Todd will make his entrance down that long ramp. The set is influenced by a book called Blast Furnaces, by Bernd and Hilla Bercher—a book which is nothing but pictures of blast furnaces from Germany—it's all based on that. Chris Ashley is directing. Costumes are by David Woolard. Howell Binkley is lighting all six productions. Incidentally, Sweeney Todd was the first show I saw on Broadway.
set models by Derek McLane
McLane:The set is designed from Bobby's point of view, which is complete panic and nausea over the marriage question. It's as if he's looking off the side of a building, looking down—what we'll see all the way upstage is a blur of moving traffic, with tail lights and headlights; that image will be a projection—I don't know who's doing them yet. Also, that rear view changes, at times, to, among other things, a reverse perspective, looking up at the sky, and a variety of much more abstract images. There are platforms that roll out, and we'll have the odd sofa and other furniture pieces—actors will probably move them around.
Sean Mathias, the director, had been talking about doing the show with big white flowers—it was a period idea, a very simple, abstract thing. I was experimenting with that idea, then I went to the Billy Rose Collection and saw the Boris Aronson model [of the Broadway original]. It's a great model; it kind of depressed me, it was so good. I couldn't sleep that night; then I said, wait a minute, I know what to do. I did a doodle of this idea, and showed it to Sean. He said, "Of course, that's what we have to do."
McLane: In this design, we never really leave George's studio. The first thing you see, it's covered with a white dustcloth in the back; the easels are covered with dustcloths, too. During the first chords of the opening, when Seurat speaks about composition and design, all these dustcloths get whisked off magically. That reveals the first version of the park: these studies of the painting—they're all bits of the painting that he's working out. These track off, during the play, and are replaced by a larger, more realized, piece of the painting ["Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte"]. They track in, so the whole set becomes the painting. The portals are made up of blank white canvases. The floor is meant to be a slightly abstracted version of his studio floor. In the scenes where Seurat is actually painting, we fly in a scrim version of the painting; he's on a ladder, working, and Dot is sitting at a vanity downstage—that's almost identical to what they did on Broadway.
In the second act, we're going to have a serious amount of video and projections almost at the speed of an MTV video. During the number "Putting It Together," we'll have multiple images of George on the video screens. We are using the original Broadway costumes. The Chromalume [George's second-act modern art piece] will be unseen, in the audience. As a piece of scenery onstage, the Chromalume has always been disappointing so we'll have the cast onstage, staring at it out in the audience. When we get to the modern version of the park, it's this original space again, but it will have these severe, arty, high-contrast, black-and-white photographs of brick buildings flying in, like trees. Then we go back to the original park for the end of the show.
set model by Derek McLane
We begin the show in California, with a graphic drop, plus a white piano and a bar. [At the top of the show, the lead character, Franklin Shepard, is a film producer]. From there, we go to New York, and the first scene in New York is a collage of Times Square and other buildings. There's an apartment on Central Park, with a piece of furniture or two, and a photographic drop—all the scenes are very, very simple. The courthouse [for the end of the first act, when Franklin is getting a divorce] has a little circus trick built into it, where the entire cast comes out of this little door unit. The second act is more of the same—there's a brownstone unit that spins around to become a greenhouse, then goes back to the brownstone. There's a glitter curtain for the cabaret scene. It's all very simple and very spare until the very last scene; when this rooftop unit tracks down for the last scene, and a sea of other rooftops slide on, with a big New York City sky, and for the first and only time in the show, we have a big, fully realized set.
models by Derek McLane
McLane: This is simple as well, with very few moving parts. It's a distressed, white, shuttered room. [The location is a remote military outpost in Italy, in the middle of the 19th century]. The shutters can go up and down, in different configurations. There's a landscape drop behind them, and various pieces of furniture come onstage—some of them come up from below the floor. The train compartment comes up on the lift. For the very last scene, the entire back wall flies out and it looks like we're on the edge of the world. This is Sondheim's favorite design.
set model by Derek McLane
McLane:[Based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of the Summer Night, the setting is late 19th–century Sweden]. In the first act, before we go the country, there are these portals. They're translucent and they have these Magritte-style birch trunks on them. Various pieces come on- and offstage—bedrooms, sitting rooms. At the end of the first act, when we go to the country, the portals fly out, and the country house appears, surrounded by a forest of enormous leaves. The house's windows light up, and it has a human-size door [even though it is a half-height unit]. In the second act, the house changes positions a number of times, sometimes going all the way offstage. Desiree's bedroom is a large canopied bed. There are a couple more units—garden architecture—that come downstage in different combinations, as we move to scene to scene. For the banquet scene, a really huge chandelier comes in, all the way down to the floor, with tables and chairs set up in front of it. My favorite part of this design is the giant photographic leaves.


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You've probably heard of some variation of the Slow Movement, a trend which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace. There are subcultures devoted to Slow Food, Slow Gardening, Slow Travel — even Slow Church. But what we really need, especially in religion reporting, is Slow News.
While "slow news" day is generally something to be dreaded by news junkies, I think Slow News could help solve one of the media's biggest problems: the diminishment of context. As the historian C. John Sommerville wrote in an article titled, "Why the News Makes Us Dumb":
What happens when you sell information on a daily basis? You have to make each day's report seem important, and you do this primarily by reducing the importance of its context. What you are selling is change, and if readers were aware of the bigger story, that would tend to diminish today's contribution.
In many ways, information technology has made it faster and easier for reporters put news story into a broader context. Yet the speed at which news is published by most media outlets makes it nearly impossible for journalists to do even the most basic of contextual research. Take, for example, the "Messiah" born in Tennessee story that Bobby Ross mentioned last week.
A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ." The AP was among the first to report on the story on August 12. That article was rather bare-boned, but later that day they put out a more in-depth feature.
A more detailed version, as Bobby pointed out, was produced by Godbeat pro Bob Smietana, who explained that baby Martin is just one of hundreds of Messiahs: 762 were born in 2012. Admittedly, the first AP story noted that "Messiah was No. 4 among the fastest-rising baby names in 2012." But taking the time, as Smietana did, to actually nail down a number (762!) helps to put the story in a broader context. It also helps to show that the real story is not about unusual religion-themed baby names but about the religious freedom to give your baby such a name.
The New York Times' Mark Oppenheimer took an additional four days to weigh-in — an extensive delay in our second-by-second news culture — which seems to have given him the time not only to explore the religious freedom angle in more depth, but to provide some cultural context:
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Perhaps for some, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ provides a profound spiritual experience, as it painstakingly details the agony Jesus went through in the final 12 hours of his life. Gibson seems to feel, as do a number of viewers, that by concentrating on the physical effects of scourging, limb dislocation, and nails piercing flesh, that the sacrifice at the root of Christianity is made palpable, made unforgettably visceral. I was initially compelled by the use of subtitled Aramaic and (ahistorical) Latin, and my Baptist Sunday school upbringing always gives me a measure of curiosity about how this familiar story will be played out. But I found the experience of watching the film to be progressively numbing, so that by the end I felt completely abstracted from the spectacle of torture. Any sort of emotional reaction was unthinkable, except a desire to get outside for some fresh air.
I won't weigh in on the controversy over Passion's purported anti-Semitism; that discussion is more knowledgeably conducted elsewhere. I will say, however, that Gibson's failure or refusal to supply a historical context to the squabbling between the Romans and the Jewish high priests over Jesus' fate can lead you to draw any conclusions you may wish. That old 60s chestnut King of Kings provided far more in the way of political background. Above all, I think, Gibson, who co-wrote the script with Benedict Fitzgerald and entirely funded the $30 million film out of his own pocket, is making a horror film, filled with borderline-trashy satanic apparitions, slow-motion violence, rattling percussion, and such non-Biblical touches as a raven plucking an eye from one of the crucified thieves flanking Jesus on Golgotha. DP Caleb Deschanel certainly proves himself a master of light and shadow in the movie, but the cited visual inspiration of Caravaggio seems a bit lofty—Caravaggio by way of Hammer, perhaps.
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Production designer Francesco Frigeri recreated ancient Jerusalem on the Cinecitta backlot in Rome, and at the rocky, 2,000-year-old nearby town of Matera. The sets, which are rarely revealed in much scope (Gibson prefers to keep the camera focused on close-in shots of wounds and dripping blood), seem a bit generic, but not distractingly so. Maurizio Millenotti's costumes for Caiaphas and the other priests have the rough, somewhat ragged look of authentic fabrics, although the soldiers who arrest Jesus in Gethsemane at the beginning of the film appear to have gotten their wardrobe from an opera touring production. The utmost care was apparently lavished on the makeup effects, credited to Keith VanderLaan and Greg Cannom. VanderLaan reportedly did quite a bit of research into the anatomy of crucifixion, but the most baroque effects are saved for Jesus' lashing by the Romans with spiked cat-o-nine-tails whips. What a role for lead actor Jim Caviezel! A few lines of dialogue in Aramaic, a few brief flashbacks to pre-martyrdom days, and the rest of the time serving as a canvas for the reduction of a human being to hamburger. The Passion of the Christ may or may not damage Gibson's career, but it sure as hell won't do much for Caviezel's.--John Calhoun
Seen in Brooklyn: Pericles is not one of William Shakespeare's most often-performed plays, but it was recently seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a rather interesting production. Directed by Bartlett Sher, Pericles marked the BAM debut of Theatre for a New Audience, an itinerant theatre company based in New York City. The production was what I call modern-classicism, that is to say the overall feeling is of a " period" that is not exactly the present, yet not bogged down in heavy, historical accuracy. All the more interesting, with touches of Peter Brook and Ariane Mnouchkine – but not too derivative. The scenery and lighting by Christopher Akerlind had to work hard to help indicate the numerous Mediterranean and Asian locales, as well as moments on land and at sea, as Pericles is thrown from shore to shore. The pre-set featured an open stage with a blue floor, and a bright blue band of neon running horizontally along the upstage wall (representing the horizon?) with a solo cellist in a pool of light, and low-intensity blue light from the overhead rig. Other musical instruments were set in the side boxes. As the action begins and the young prince Pericles hopes to win the hand of a beautiful young princess, a pipe flies in with death masks of those who had failed to solve the riddle her father demanded be solved to win her in marriage. A pair of long curtains in a pale green move in various configurations throughout as the scenes change and each new location is indicated by furniture and props. Large bamboo poles serve as masts when Pericles and his men take to the high seas. The costumes were designed by Elizabeth Caitlin Ward, with the men in long coats (some reversible as the actors play multiple roles) worn over trousers and shirts. The color palette ranges from princely gold and white to dark blues and black. Thaisa, the beautiful princess that wins Pericles' heart (played by Linda Powell, Colin Powell's daughter) appears in a striking red gown. Four knights who joust to win her love are dressed as jesters with brightly colored costumes and funny pointed caps. And actress Brenda Wehle, who very convincingly alternates between the aged male narrator and a nurse to Pericles' daughter, wears a long blue robe and skullcap. The sound design and musical score, by Peter John Sill added to underscored the narrative. Many of the audience members (myself included) admitted to never having seen Pericles performed before. This production was a perfect "first" with a clarity in the design and direction that helped make a difficult play all the easier to enjoy. —Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
Pericles at BAM. Photo: Richard Termine
Seen in Manhattan: Playwright Charles Mee might not be everyone's cup of tea. But the recent production of his play, Wintertime was designed and directed in an attempt to create a comedy, well okay, a black comedy. Produced by Manhattan's Second Stage Theatre in a transfer from The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ, where it was seen on their main stage last fall, Wintertime lives up to the coldness of its title. Yet the Act One set by Andrew Liberman is truly hilarious. To begin with it is totally white with the outdoor landscape of faux snow covering the indoor landscape of a country house. The entire set is encased in three walls of faux fur — white of course — and the furniture is all white. It's like being inside a snow globe of a ski house with white birch trees on the lawn. Tiny white footlights illuminate the snowflakes. The actors arrive through the snow, on foot, on snowshoes, through traps in the set, popping up in a rapid succession of "what are you doing here" as a mother, father, and son, with their various lovers, all arrive for New Year's Eve, assuming the house will be empty. Costume designer David Zinn started with the basics: underwear that is, as everyone eventually strips to a wild assortment of boxer shorts, briefs, bustiers, and brassieres. Kevin Adams designed the lighting, which has some special moments of its own, including shifts in color and intensity when the action shifts from the skewed reality of the play to operatic numbers that underscore the emotions of the actors at that moment. The light also shifts to pink as one actor (Micheal Ceveris, who steals the show as a French lover) performs a rather odd striptease wearing a women's pink, fur-trimmed peignoir. Don't ask. Unfortunately, things take a more serious turn in Act Two that is performed in front of black curtains that mask the white winter wonderland, and the actors sit stiffly on a row of silver chairs. Once the punch line of the play is revealed, Mee attempts to return to the gaiety of the first act, but it is too late. The audience has stopped laughing in the realization that underneath this black humor is a rather serious look at friendship, freedom, and fidelity, not to mention love and jealousy. A tall order for a somewhat slight play. —ELG
Charles Mee's Wintertime
Seen On Broadway: The souvenir shops that hawk theatre memorabilia should consider printing up T-shirts reading "I Survived Drowning Crow." Reports of audience members streaming out of the Biltmore Theatre at intermission are, I can attest, quite true. I stayed largely out of sympathy for the actors, stuck in a dreary-bad, rather than a fun-bad, flop till April; from the stage, the theatre, pockmarked with numerous empty seats, must look like a largely devoured corn cob with just a few stray kernels left.
The bedraggled Drowning Crow, which relocates The Seagull to the Gullah Islands off the coast of contemporary South Carolina, begins with Constantine Trip, a tormented performance artist, rising from a chalk outline drawn on a raised platform. No such luck, however, for much else about playwright Regina Taylor's pillaging of Chekhov, though the fumbled evening is likely to remind viewers of a crime scene. As the other characters, with their romantic and spiritual ills, are messily introduced—a synopsis is provided to help the terminally baffled—C-Trip (Anthony Mackie) tries, haltingly, to get a hip-hop play off the ground.
Why do we know that C-Trip is a nakedly honest, angry young man of the theatre? Because he tells us so, over and over and over again, exhibiting a disease of repetition that is the one thing he has in common with his rival, esteemed writer Robert Alexander Trigor (Peter Francis James), who's lost in the gilded ghetto of the UPN network. [Their only other commonality, as you may have guessed, is their awkward rap-generation names]. For good measure C-Trip also savages the state of the contemporary theater, represented by his loved and hated mother, the preening actress Josephine Nicholas Ark (Alfre Woodard, in an ill-fitting dramatic debut on Broadway). This is an unwise move on Taylor's part, as a) no ticket holder wants to be lectured to, and b) well-intentioned but maddeningly inane plays like Drowning Crow are the problem and not the solution. The bare outline of Chekhov's plot can be discerned as Drowning Crow wanders off into long and pointless sequences where the characters sing "Mona Lisa" and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" while stomping and shimmying, interspersed with confused romances and, yes, more speechifying (unleavened by wit, save for a few stray howlers like "I'm gonna tear out this love…tear it out by its nappy roots."). When the soul-searching of Trigorin—whoops, Trigor—reached a hurricane level of chatter, you could hear the Playbills thudding to the floor as weary audience members slumped over in their chairs, comatose or, quite possibly, dead.
"Those words; they're turds," Josephine says of C-Trip's half-baked play-within-the-play, which alas encapsulates the whole of Drowning Crow. That said, director Marion McClinton fares better with the design of the piece than with its concepts. C-Trip's fevered imaginings occasionally spill out into spectacularly vivid video segments designed by Wendall K. Harrington, a relief from the surrounding tedium. These play across spare, Chekhovian setpieces created by David Gallo, given texture by the adroit lighting of Ken Billington. The costumes by Paul Tazewell address the gulf of generations: Rapper attire for C-Trip and his friends, more classically southern wear for the Gullah group, and bosom-hugging ensembles for Woodard, vain and vampy for a change but constrained by the dialogue and situations.
Drowning Crow at the Biltmore. Photo: Joan Marcus
The designers are constantly bailing out the play from its limp ideas. Take the typically silly scene where C-Trip, having failed to commit suicide with a bullet to his head, is willed back into consciousness by the local gospel-singing shaman, Jackie (Ebony Jo-Ann). This reads unpromisingly. But it takes place behind a scrim, on which Harrington's oceanic projections ripple and cascade. C-Trip, bathed in blood-red light, slowly revives, as a thunderous Dan Moses Schreier soundscape swells. This one moving moment in the play belongs to the designers, though they're still prey to the overall incoherence. Toward the play's end Gallo unveils a stunning plantation house set for the increasingly unbalanced C-Trip, entirely painted black (even the books and the fireplace) and covered in stark white graffiti. Like the video segments it's a better representation of his fragile psyche than any of Taylor's verbiage…but why would his friends and family gather in such a haunted, despairing place for an evening of Bingo? An even greater mystery: Why has the Manhattan Theatre Club restored the Biltmore to its present loveliness for tenants as unworthy as The Violet Hour and Drowning Crow? — Robert Cashill


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Police in Prince William County have now released the names of the mother and daughter who drowned Thursday night in Lake Montclair.
They are 40-year-old Grace Darlene Shields and her 6-year-old daughter Raina Shields, both of Royal Crescent Court.
Montclair is a Prince William County community of more than 5,000 homes. Some of them are waterfront properties on man-made Lake Montclair, which is used for fishing, boating and swimming, especially during the warmer months.
The home where this tragedy happened is in a Montclair neighborhood called "The Island," and that home did have a waterfront dock, as many here do. A mother and two daughters had moved in just a couple of months ago, according to two neighbors.
Around 8:30 p.m., neighbors noticed the older daughter, who is nine and who is developmentally disabled, was outdoors alone and in apparent distress. Kristina Tkac's parents organized a neighborhood search for the missing mother and younger daughter.
"I know they searched around the neighborhood, [and] called around the neighborhood," said Tkac. "They went in the house [and] they searched. I know they called somebody on the mother's cell phone. They found the cell phone in the purse in the house, and that's why they knew she wasn't gone [from the area]."
The neighborhood search was unsuccessful. Prince William County Police were called. They canvassed the neighborhood and Fairfax Police sent their helicopter for a night-time aerial search. Still no success.
A police SCUBA team went into Lake Montclair around dawn.
"They found the mother and the daughter -- the 6-year-old -- hugging each other right by the dock, their dock, in the water. And they were both dead," explained Tkac.
Neighbors and police say the father in the family is an American service member currently posted in Korea.
For the time being, the surviving daughter is in the care of Child Protective Services.
Police continue to investigate the deaths, but because of the surviving daughter's inability to communicate, it may never be known precisely what mishap led to the drownings of the 40-year-old mother and the 6-year-old daughter.
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News: 50 Cent Doesn't Envision Award For Weight-Loss Movie Role, "It Would Be A Surprise [To Win]"
Saturday, May 29, 2010 9:17AM
Actor/Rapper 50 Cent recently talked about his weight-loss for the upcoming Things Fall Apart movie and if he could see himself being recognized for his dedication to portray a cancer victim.
From Fif's perspective, he would be surprised to win an acting award despite forcing himself to lose over 50 pounds for the role.
He said he doesn't anticipate winning awards for his acting role. "Well, you know, I haven't received accolades that comes with the success that I've had in music," he said. "It would be a surprise" to win any acting awards, he said, noting that it's already a reward to have people aware of the role. (Billboard)
50 said he did his background research on weight-loss from the Internet.
"Yeah, it was a lot for me to actually get there. After the second week, it was crazy. They say it takes 30 days to make a habit, but man... I was on the Internet and I was looking at Christian Bale, while The Machinist was out, he almost killed himself. I was feeling like maybe I'm overdoing it and I'm dropping 54 pounds, but I was in such a good physical state prior to me deciding to go down on the weight." (Rap-Up)
G-Unit's Tony Yayo recently said 50 was determined to shed pounds for his flick.
The MC is apparently taking his bulking up seriously, ordering a "cheeseburger all the way" and French fries in a restaurant where he stopped for lunch, according to the paper. "He was a real gentleman," the manager said. G-Unit's Tony Yayo told MTV News earlier this month that he admires his boss' resolve when it comes to acting. "50 doesn't party, he doesn't drink. For his new film, the guy was, like, 130 pounds," Yayo said. "He was running from the airport to the hotel. And I was like, 'Man, he has the three D's: desire, determination and [direction].'" (MTV)
50 said his discipline was inspired by a friend who experienced cancer.
"[Things Fall Apart] is about a Heisman hopeful who could possibly be going to the league and everyone is assuming he's gonna make it and then he's hit with an illness," 50 explained in an interview. "I had a friend of mine who actually experienced cancer and it's what motivated me to write this screenplay. You don't have to make everything personal, but that project was. That's why I committed to playing a role where I lost 54 pounds. I had to discipline myself enough until I achieved it but... I got it. (Cleveland News)
A release date for the film has not yet been revealed.
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Had the filet mignon andbthe osso
bucco. Both eere wonderful, especially the filet mignon, which was cooked to perfection (medium). Delicious eith excellent srrvice from John."
Dined on 7/19/2014
We got stuck in a corner away from
everything. I felt like we had the plague."
Dined on 7/19/2014
First of all I want to say that we
received excellent service. The waiter really went out of his way to explain the portions and quality of food so that it was an enjoyable experience. It began with a small bowl of sausage soup which was excellent. I ordered a small beef tenderloin and pasta; and my wife ordered chicken Marsala and we were very satisfied with our food. The restaurant was very busy and as is the case with quality, our order took about an hour to come out. After dinner our waiter surprised us with a small anniversary dessert and champagne which was a very much appreciated end to a great meal. I would recommend Fiorenzo's for its quality of food and attention to great service. Thank you."
Dined on 7/16/2014
Def fit for foodies. Unique,
delicious and well thought out. Our server may have well been the best waiter in the world."
Dined on 7/12/2014
We are locals and have been dining
and entertaining customers at the former Capriccio Grill restaurant for over 20 years. The atmosphere, food and service has always been superior. Laura and Mary Ann have been our servers for many years and are requested each time we go as we know we will have an awesome experience. Laura was our server this time and everyone at our table was very impressed. We are very happy to see that Fiorenzo's holds the same "Gold Standards" in all three areas. We will be back."
Dined on 7/10/2014
My waitress was good and
friendly.Outside of that not much else good to report. For the price paid for the steak I expected better. Overcooked, dry, and really salty. The hostesses seemed quite ditsy. Very cold too."
Dined on 6/16/2014
The name "Fiorenzo Italian
Steakhouse" is a misnomer. It is an eclectic restaurant with a number on entrees that are not steaks. The freshly caught wild Alaskan halibut that we had was a special treat and not often seen on other Orlando menus. From the food quality to the ambiance to the service, everything was excellent. Our server ,Zena, was knowledgeable, attentive and very patient with us. We really appreciated the fact that she didn't rush us, so our entire dining experience was very relaxed and just what we were hoping for. When I didn't see anything on the desert menu that I cared for, I asked her if there was any cake that could be found. She suggested several off-menu cakes, and one of them turned out to be very good."
Dined on 6/8/2014
The service was mediocre. There
were three of us and my two companions ordered soft drinks. I ordered the Beef Tenderloin cooked medium, one companion ordered Halibut & the other ordered Lamb Chops cooked medium. It took 30 minutes or more for our food to come. The Halibut was bland and dry from overcooking. The Lamb Chops were cooked correctly & tasted fine. When the waitress brought my Beef, she didn't stick around to see if it was cooked correctly. I cut a piece off of it and it was cooked medium rare. I sent the Tenderloin back & when it came back the piece that I cut was gone & it still wasn't cooked correctly. I asked for a new piece of meat. The manager, Chad came over & the service got better. For us, it isn't a do over."
Dined on 5/31/2014
I never write reviews. However
this was one of the worst stake houses I have eaten at. The chief does not know how to cook. Food quality is poor. And management does not know how to take care of problems "
Dined on 5/23/2014
Steak was perfect. Sides were
great. Service was very good. Would definitely recommend and go back."
Dined on 5/20/2014
We returned to Fiorenzo after we
used a Travelzoo voucher two weeks before and had a wonderful meal And were not disappointed once again on our second visit"
Dined on 5/4/2014
Read many reviews and have been to
many Orlando restaurants so decided to try somewhere new for a small business meeting. The host/seater was not cleanly dressed and wandered in to the restaurant not checking to see if our party was with him (we were not). The server was the wrong type of attentive - not at all in tune. The server also was not well, if at all, versed on the menu, gave vague if not evasive answers and was overall not very helpful. The food was acceptable but nothing special. "Special" steak fries were served with insides raw and weren't special even when recooked. Pizza was a bit underdone. People don't come from all over Orlando for steaks here nor is this restaurant widely known.. nor should it be unless things change. "
Dined on 4/29/2014
We had the filet mignon and
scallops as well as other filets and all were done to perfection. You could cut it with a butter knife!! The asparagus is a MUST buy!! The appetizers were amazing (the fried ravioli was spectacular!!).....The wine list was extensive but very expensive (most bottles were over $70 that you can get at a supermarket for $25. The dessert menu was a little lacking; they only had 6 or 7 options; they were OK but nothing special or memorable."
Dined on 4/12/2014
We were at a convention in
Orlando; this was a much better dining option than the usual touristy chains that are found locally. The food was excellent, the service was good, it was easy to reserve. I would return if I need to go back to this area for any reason."
Dined on 4/10/2014
We dined here because it was in
our hotel and was close. We now know that we will be back! The staff was attentive, the food delicious. I asked for something prepared in a manner different than the menu, and the chef accommodated - and it was DELICIOUS!!! The decor was beautiful, and the restaurant was quiet and relaxing. Ahhhh......"
Dined on 4/2/2014
My boyfriend and I were
celebrating our 1 year anniversary. Our server was very accommodating and friendly and made us feel special because she mentioned our anniversary before we ever said anything! Great attention to detail. Before entering the restaurant, however, the gentleman bartender was not so friendly, he did not smile and was stern and pretty unwelcoming. Either way, our food and server were outstanding. This means a lot because I work at a seafood/steakhouse on restaurant row, so I know good food and service when I experience it. Thanks again :)"
Dined on 3/29/2014
We enjoyed our dinner at Fiorenzo
Italian Steakhouse. My filet earned five stars, but they oyster appetizers were chewy and the flavor wasn't very good. My wife had Chicken Francese and thought it was very good, but I prefer it to have more lemon flavor, while she liked the buttery taste. The atmosphere was very elegant, and the Wine List was good, but not over the top. Service was right on the spot."
Dined on 3/15/2014
My husband and I have been here
many times, when the hotel was The Peabody. The food continues to be very good. We were staying at the hotel even though we live in Orlando, and invited my sister to join us. The shrimp cocktail was outstanding, as was the mixed grill, the grouper, and the chicken, Asiago cheese and spinach pizza. We didn't have room for dessert. It's a lovely place to eat."
Dined on 3/1/2014
Booked a reservation for
Valentine's day. The staff was warm and inviting. The atmosphere was clean and romantic. We went with their Valentine menu. It was delectable. Fresh and delicious. Definitely plan on going back. Strongly recommended if you have the opportunity."
Dined on 2/14/2014
Food was very good, atmosphere a
bit more casual than a typical stuffy steakhouse which was welcome. Mixed grill was a nice choice. Priced like a classic steakhouse however."
Dined on 2/4/2014
My husband and I dined there on a
Saturday night. The waitress was not very friendly or enthusiastic. Very matter of fact and almost chilly. I had steak which was cooked to order and tender bu had no real flavor. My husbands pork chop was marginally better. We both had lobster bisque which had a piece of what had the taste and texture of a sea scallop rather than a piece of lobster in it. A terrible value for the $$ spent. Would have done better at Outback"
Dined on 1/18/2014
Amazing, amazing, amazing, there
is no other word for it."
Dined on 1/10/2014
The food was great and the service
as well. Great atmosphere! Highly reccomend it."
Dined on 12/7/2013
AWSOME dining experience in a
hotel. Wonderful food, amazing menu. we ate there 3 nights out of 4 while attending a conf. in Orlando staying in that hotel... each night a wonderful experience in its own right. I was with my 10 yr old son, who loved it as well. VERY professional staff to boot!"
Dined on 11/4/2013
For a hotel, this was a good meal,
but not distinctive. The service was excellent, our waiter, Johnny was terrific. The wine was very good and a reasonable value. The steaks were good/okay, just not special or up to the top quality of restaurants like Mr. John's in New Orleans, or even the Capitol Grille chain across the country. Even so, if I were staying at the Hyatt again, I would return to this restaurant."
Dined on 10/25/2013
Enjoyed quite a bit the meal with
my wife. We wanted to dine there one more time while still part of the Peabody Family before becoming a typical chain. Glad we did... server was excellent and felt good walking out of there."
Dined on 9/28/2013
The Peabody Hotel has undergone
some beautiful new construction and we were hoping the restaurant would match the amazing new design of the exterior. To our disappointment, the Capriccio Grill did not nearly measure up. There are so many nice restaurants to choose from in the I Drive area... the Capriccio Grill really needs to step up their game."
Dined on 9/27/2013
Even though this restaurant is
right around the corner, we have never tried it out. Our mistake! Magical Dining got us there, and we will be back soon to enjoy one of our new favorite Orlando restaurants!"
Dined on 9/24/2013
The employees greet you as you
walk past the podium, through the bar and dining rooms, and on the way out. So nice! it is a beautiful dining room and area! the Bartenders greeted us even though it was clear we were being lead through by a hostess. such a nice welcome! Our Server could have been just a bit more personable and gracious. He was nice, but too quick to say "no" when i asked for a wine recommendation that would be both sweet and a nice red option to please both guests."
Dined on 9/21/2013
Ordered the pappardelle with
seafood. The dishes were full of sand. To me this shows a real lack of care in cleaning the seafood. I will not return."
Dined on 9/14/2013
we were in a large group, and
somewhat early in the evening, but when we walked to our table every employee, from the chef to the manager, welcomed us. The food was nice, there were great menu ideas, but it didn't stand out, it was just good. The service was excellent! we went to Morton's the previous evening, and let me tell you cappricio grill had 3 times the service. We were attended to regulary, our glass was never empty and both waiters were attentive but no pushy. Overall a great evening."
Dined on 9/10/2013
The lasagna was very good ( a
different spin on traditional) The noise level was a little high at first but quieted as it got later. Go ahead and valet- they validate both valet and garage but it's a Much shorter walk to valet."
Dined on 9/5/2013
We went right when they opened, so
it was a little quiet, but the restaurant is very pretty inside. Our server was amazing. Very attentive without being intrusive. Food was cooked exactly as we had specified and was all very good. Would definitely recommend this place if you like steak, good service and a nice atmosphere."
Dined on 9/2/2013
We went for the Magical Dining and
settled on items from the fixed menu. Everything was good but not good enough for a return visit. If you are interested in trying this spot we would recommend doing it during September because for less than the regular price of one main course you can now try three [and the three are all on the regular menu in case you like them]."
Dined on 9/1/2013
Have been eating here since 1986.
Always a great food selection and I have never been disappointed. Love the service and the location."
Dined on 8/23/2013
We never miss a trip to Capricio
during the ZUMBA convention, or when I stop in with my family! Love it!"
Dined on 8/16/2013
Sorry but I had the toughest rib
eye I had ever had. Sides and Services were great, but I would not recommend this as a steak house."
Dined on 7/30/2013
Seldom if ever have I had lobster
tail that had to be cut with a steak knife, but got it here. Lobster Mac and cheese had large pieces of undercooked bacon in it. Overall, not a good dining experience."
Dined on 7/8/2013
This was by far the absolute worse
dining experience ever. From the rude "greeting" from the bartender , the hostess was not at her station, to being offered a series of terrible dining Table options even though the restaurant was maybe 40% of capacity to a flip, to a waitress that brought a lot of attitude to work.. My wife ordered the "slow roasted" prime rib medium rare. When it was finally served after a substantial wait it came out well done. It was placed in the broiler and was over cooked. the next ten minutes trying to get the attention of our wayward waitress. When she finally put in an appearance at our table, she told us that she basically was to busy to check in our needs. My wife promptly told her to take her dinner hack"
Dined on 7/2/2013
I ordered the filet medium rare
and it was dryer than my husband's skirt steak. Although the service was beyond fantastic, the food (and what they're known for) did not meet up to my expectations."
Dined on 6/27/2013
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Carrot juice, tomato salad, green leafy vegetables, spinach, drum sticks – all the vegetables are rich in vitamin A. Among the juices, papaya, mango and apple are good.
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The entrance sign at Houston County High School was vandalized this week, and the culprit is still on the run.
According to the Houston County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page, the sign was vandalized on July 31.
The Stewart Houston Times reports, the damage could cost thousands of dollars to fix.
If you have any information about the vandalism, contact the criminal investigation division at (931) 289-1243.
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A Phase II Study Of Tetrathiomolybdate, An Anti-Angiogenic Agent, In Women With Breast Cancer At High Risk Of Relapse
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Background: Breast cancer (BC) recurrence risk is proportional to tumor size and number of lymph nodes(LNs) involved at time of diagnosis. Stage 4 BC is considered an incurable disease even if a complete remission with chemotherapy is obtained (Stage 4 NED). There are few additional treatment options after completion of adjuvant therapy for high-risk patients(pts). For pts who are Stage 4 NED there is no standard treatment approach. It is hypothesized that relapse in both situations is a direct result of sub-clinical occult disease. As relapse is associated with activation of an angiogenic switch, the consensus opinion is that if anti-angiogenesis strategies are to be effective, they will need to be utilized in a minimal residual disease state environment (ie. no overt disease). Copper is an essential co-factor in the angiogenic process hence one approach has been to induce a relative copper-deficient state as an anti-angiogenic strategy. Preclinical and phase I data suggest that tetrathiomolybdate (TM), an oral anti-copper agent used in Wilson's disease, might be an effective approach in reducing both overt and sub-clinical tumor load. Objective/Hypothesis: 1.Copper stores will be safely depleted to the level that cellular function can take place but tumor neo-angiogenesis will be impaired. 2.TM will decrease the number of pro-angiogenic marrow derived endothelial and hematopoietic progenitors and overall plasma angiogenic activity. Specific Aims: 1.To assess the safety and tolerability of tetrathiomolybdate in pts with BC at high risk of tumor recurrence. 2.To evaluate the effect of tetrathiomolybdate on the circulating surrogate markers of angiogenesis Study Design: Phase II trial of TM in 50 BC pts at high risk of recurrence. Eligible pts include those with greater than 4 LNs involved with cancer and Stage 4 BC NED. Pts would orally ingest TM daily for 2 years. They would be evaluated with physical exam and routine laboratory studies on a monthly basis. Imaging studies would be performed every 4 months. Second, we will evaluate circulating surrogate markers of angiogenesis at baseline, one month and every 6 months for the duration of the trial. All of this work will be performed in the laboratory of Dr. Shahin Rafii. Plasma angiogenic activity will be evaluated several ways including a plasma angiogenic assay and assessment and quantification of circulating endothelial and pro-angiogenic hematopoietic progenitor cells. This includes: (1) quantification of number of circulating CD133+VEGFR2+, CD34+VEGFR2+, CD133+CD146+, CD133+CD105+, CD133+CD34+ endothelial progenitors and VEGFR1+ pro-angiogenic hematopoietic cells and CD133+VEGFR3+ (lymphangiogenic progenitor cells) performed by flow cytometry (2) Quantification of VEGFs (A,B,C,D) and PlGF by western blot and ELISA (3)Apoptotic status of circulating progenitors (TUNEL) and level of activation (ICAM-1, VCAM-1,E-selectin) (4)The overall plasma angiogenic activity will be evaluated using an in vitro functional assay by culturing aliquots of patient's plasma with cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Potential Outcomes: The prevention of the "angiogenic" switch could prolong tumor dormancy indefinitely which would result in an increased cure rate.
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Breast cancer recurrence risk increases with increasing tumor size and number of lymph nodes involved with cancer at the time of diagnosis. Stage 4 breast cancer is considered an incurable disease even if a complete remission with chemotherapy is obtained (also called Stage 4 with no evidence of disease or Stage 4 NED). There are few additional treatment options after completion of adjuvant therapy for the moderate and high-risk patients. For patients who are Stage 4 NED there is no standard treatment approach. The observation that has always puzzled researchers is why a patient can relapse with cancer after many years of being cancer-free. Similarly, in patients whose cancer has spread, why can a treatment that removes all visible traces of breast cancer recur again? Multiple lines of evidence point to the fact that cancer cells lie dormant awaiting for a "signal" to start growing. It is believed that a crucial part of this "signal" is the ability to recruit blood vessels to the dormant tumor cell so that it can lay down blood vessels to feed itself and spread. This signal has been termed the "angiogenic switch". There are many compounds being tested that might affect the turning on of this "angiogenic switch". These are called anti-angiogenesis agents. It is well known that copper plays an essential role in the angiogenic process hence anti-copper strategies have been employed to try to halt this process. Experiments in laboratory animals and people with advanced cancer support this concept. In our study, we propose to study the effects of a copper-reducing compound, tetrathiomolybdate (TM), on the pro-angiogenic factors we believe are important in this process. Our study will be conducted in fifty women with breast cancer who have completed standard treatment but because of their high risk of recurrence are looking for additional experimental treatment options. Women who are eligible for this trial must have at least 4 lymph nodes affected by breast cancer and have no overt evidence of cancer (includes Stage 4 NED). They will ingest TM pills daily for two years. We hypothesize that TM will reduce these blood vessel stimulating factors so that the "angiogenic switch" never gets turned on. Over the course of the study, they will have imaging studies and physical exams to evaluate their cancer status. Second, we will evaluate angiogenic markers in the blood that we believe might affect the activation of this "angiogenic switch". We will measure these before TM therapy, at one month and every 6 months for the duration of the trial. Plasma angiogenic activity will be evaluated several ways including a plasma angiogenic assay (HUVEC co-cultured with patient plasma and evaluated with a functional grading schema) and assessment and quantification of circulating endothelial and pro-angiogenic hematopoietic progenitor cells by flow cytometry and TUNEL assay. Plasma VEGF-A, VEGF-C, VEGF-D, Thrombospondin-1, histidine-rich glycoprotein will be evaluated at the same time points. We hypothesize that TM will decrease the number of pro-angiogenic marrow derived endothelial and hematopoietic progenitors and overall plasma angiogenic activity. This type of research is targeting a group of patients we know are at high risk of relapse, ie. high risk of having dormant cancer cells. We believe that we will be able to prevent the "angiogenic" switch from being turned on and for the angiogenic cascade to start. We also believe that we will identify predictors in the blood that herald a relapse and if so, can target it with a treatment such as the one described.
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Bryn Renner hit raises questions about safety
Renner said after the game that he wasn't given tests like he was a year ago, when he suffered a mild concussion against N.C. State. The sideline reporter on the ESPN3 broadcast said Renner passed his tests, including reciting the months of the year backward. UNC coach Larry Fedora said after halftime that he thought Renner "was fine." The team mentioned in the days following that Renner had the wind knocked out of him and was never hit in the head on the play, but Fedora said during the ACC teleconference that Renner went through the tests and was aware. And now Renner has claimed he passed two tests -- one after the play and one after the half. Something isn't right here. Great article by our very own Martin Rickman on concussions and the Bryn Renner hit


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Without Pat Neshek, the Oakland Athletics probably wouldn't have made up a 13-game deficit in the standings, leaving them in position to ace out the Texas Rangers for the A.L. West flag on the last day of the regular season.
Neshek, a veteran submarine relief pitcher, joined the A's on the 3rd of August, and in 24 appearances he posted a sterling 1.37 ERA, winning twice. Tuesday, though, he left the club to be with his wife Stephanee in Florida, where the couple awaited the birth of their son.
Later that evening, their son Gehrig was born -- Pat Neshek is passionate about baseball's history -- and the Athletics beat the Rangers to grab a share of first place.
Wednesday, the A's beat the Rangers again, this time to capture the division title. Just a few hours later, Neshek dispatched the terrible news:
Please pray for my family.Tonight my wife & I lost our first & only son 23 hours after he was born with no explanation.— Pat Neshek (@PatNeshek) October 4, 2012
News about Neshek's future pitching plans will undoubtedly wait for another day.


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Being a freelancer has its priveleges. Sure, there's the piles and piles of unfiled reciepts to keep up with the tax man and the 1099s and all that, but there's also the luxury of making your own schedule when your team opens the playoffs on the east coast. 3:30 start time? No problem!
Not too many of my friends are baseball fans, so that leaves me with a few options to ponder. Do I watch the game on television from my couch, alone until the wife gets home? Or do I mosey down to the local sports pub where there's 900 huge flat screens and sure to be Angels fans? Or better yet, do I go to The Longboard on Main St. in HB which is obsessively a New England/Bahston bah? That could be fun...if we...I mean...WHEN we kick the snat outta dem dam chowda hads!!!
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Last fall, Vancouver got burned with being labelled by MSN Travel as the 3rd Worst Dressed City in the World. What it came down to was our love affair with Yoga pants. According to MSN:
There is one reason, and one reason only, why we've decided to include Vancouver on this list of the sartorially damned: yoga pants. We blame you, Vancouver, birthplace of a certain, insanely popular yoga gear brand which will go unnamed, for spawning a street trend dreaded by all women with wobbly bits and fat deposits in the wrong places. Really, what gives with the whole wearing of bum hugging workout gear to every other place except the gym? On behalf of women with hips and thighs everywhere, who like their pants to have buttons and zippers thank you very much, and who are of the opinion that yoga pants are a ruse worn by lazy pseudo-fashionistas, we beseech you: unless you plan to do a downward dog within the hour, spare us the yoga pants and put on some real trousers.
Now, as a mom of two and someone who lives an active lifestyle, I really, really appreciate the virtues of yoga pants. They are comfortable and most people consider them flattering (still up for debate – you really need to click here and here to see what I mean – trust me).
Here's my two cents: Yoga pants are called "Yoga" pants for a reason…they are for, you guessed it, YOGA! In Vancouver we embrace our outdoor lifestyle. We love our hikes, snowboarding, kite-surfing, Pilates and yoga. There are many places here where it is totally acceptable to wear casual, workout-style clothing to work. Some employers actually encourage "dressing down" and, if it fits with the corporate culture, fair enough. If this is the case at your place of work, so be it – go for it! Embrace your inner yogi and stay super comfortable all day long while you get the job done (I, by the way, am very envious!).
But, if you work in a professional environment, where you meet with clients and executives – take heed! It is usually expected (and I'm not sure when this became a grey area) that you dress appropriately. Take a look around your workplace. The old "When in Rome" adage is probably a good place to start. If your colleagues are all dressing casually and wearing flip flops and t-shirts, it is likely part of the corporate culture and, hey, that's cool. However, if your workmates are dressed in sweater sets, blazers and dress pants…well, you get the picture.
People…unless you get the okay from your employer, work-out clothes should be for working-out. And…please, please don't try to compromise by pairing your Lululemons with heels!! Seriously….are you f#%@king kidding me?by


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Watching Brett Lawrie play this series, and having watched Alcides Escobar in the one before last, made me wonder what the team would be like if we didn't make the trades. But then something occurred to me. Without the trades we probably don't have 2008 or 2011. In fact in the 5 years of Prince/Braun combo we had two playoff berths, winning one playoff series, and coming within two wins from the World Series. That doesn't happen without the CC trade, or without getting Greinke/Marcum last year. Some pretty amazing stuff. In fact, ignoring the Cardinals, the Brewers have done more in those five years than many of our NL Central competitors.
Since 1990, the Cubs have the playoffs four times, getting to within a game of the World Series in 2003. Otherwise no wins in the other three NLDS. To put that in perspective, we have as many wins in the playoffs since 1990 as the Cubs do, and all theirs came in 2003.
The Pirates haven't made the playoffs since Sid Bream broke their hearts and Barry Bonds bolted in 1992.
The Reds, who will probably start to write their new history this year. But since their last World Series win in 1990 have also only made the playoffs twice, and have a grand total of three wins, all in the NLDS win in 1995.
The Astros did incredibly well from 1997-2005. But if you look past the 2004-2005 years, they have very little. Obviously the talent on those 2004-2005 teams is pretty ridiculous if you look at them (Berkman, Biggio, Bagwell, Oswalt, Pettitte, Clemens, Lidge).
So while it would be nice to still have Michael Brantely, Brett Lawrie, Alcides Escobar, and maybe even LaPorta or Cain, it is great we had a GM willing to give up something to get something. I don't know when the Brewers will make the playoffs again, but at least we can look back and realize that they did go for it gave us great memories in the process.


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Arete on the right side of the Killer cave. Hard bouldering to the fourth bolt, probably v8ish with the hardest part getting to the 4th clip. Falling here would require an attentive belayer to keep you off the large boulder at the base. There is another 13a crux pulling over the overhang onto the main part of the arete between bolt 6 and 8. Decent shake to the left of bolt 9. There is a 5.12 move a few bolts higher where you could definitely fall off on the redpoint burn.
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Didn't stretch when I played basketball earlier this afternoon. I didn't have the time, this was somewhat comforting. PS I was able to do some warmups so the evidence is for what I did! hehehe!
More negative evidence on stretching
For Dr. [Stephen] Thacker's paper "The Impact of Stretching on Sports Injury Risk: A Systematic Review of the Literature," he and his colleagues pored over nearly 100 other published medical studies on the subject. Their key conclusions: stretching does increase flexibility; the highest-quality studies indicate that this increased flexibility doesn't prevent injuries; few athletes need extreme flexibility to perform their best (perhaps just gymnasts and figure skaters); and more injuries would be prevented by better warmups, by strength training, and by balance exercises, than by stretching.
via The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: More negative evidence on stretching.
Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada
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From Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: Dr. Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border.
I already linked to this from the sidebar, but on reflection, I have a little more to say.
First, it's worth noting that comment #2 to the Boing Boing post observes "And now the inevitable 'we don't know the whole story so we shouldn't pass judgments but he probably did something to provoke them' comments can commence." Indeed, there seems to be a kind of person who makes it their business to hover around at sites like Boing Boing or Consumerist to explain that probably the police had no choice but to beat up that guy, or that we don't know that Wal-Mart abused that customer, since after all it's her word against theirs. And indeed, comment #5 shows up right on schedule: "It's my observation that most of these cases begin with a person who becomes belligerent when asked to do something he doesn't want to do (get out of the car, step away from the car, etc.) These officers may very well have overstepped their bounds, but I doubt very seriously that Watts is completely innocent."
For what it's worth, I don't know exactly what happened, but a couple of things seem pretty evident to me. One is that this wasn't a routine border search. Rather, American border guards in Port Huron, Michigan demanded to search Watts's car as he was leaving the US for his native Canada. This is very squirrelly. We're conducting exit searches now?
via Making Light: Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada.
This is nothing. If you see a checkpoint here and a car similar to yours in model is flagged one wrong move and you'd get sprayed with bullets or drugs get planted on your car.
Hope people can think more clearly. We give law enforcement people more power to combat something without stopping to consider that we are only helping enemy we are fighting. To foster a society without trust, full of paranoia and other fucking attituted related with fear and insecurity. We cannot let the terrorist win.
The Right to Know, Right Now! network urged the Senate to sustain the momentum by immediately approving the bill on third reading. The network said it is important for both Houses of Congress to name their respective representatives and convene the bicameral conference committee to finally pass the measure for signing by President Arroyo.
According to the network, the right to information has been held by the courts to be executory, but it is difficult to enforce in practice. The Freedom of Information Act will make the Constitutional right to know and the state policy of full disclosure of transactions involving public interest fully operable. It provides a standard procedure in dealing with requests, and clarifies the exact scope of the right. It provides implementing mechanics for the automatic disclosure of key government transactions. It also puts in place effective sanctions to deter or make accountable the violation of the right.
"The Freedom of Information Act, if passed into law, will be a significant and lasting contribution of the 14th Congress to political and governance reform in the country, to benefit our generation, and the generations to come", said the network. – PCIJ
via Senate lauded for passing Freedom of Info bill on 2nd reading – Nation – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News.
Had a discussion with a former professor about the freedom of information act as practiced in the Philippines. The problem has always been about practicality, though in essence a law like this is unecessary we have a society that necessitates it. I pray that the Freedom Of Information act pave the way for a more involved polity.
I have my misgivings, of course. If GMA has showed us, with executive privilege that Mr. Neri used to hide what was said between him and the President, laws are really only as good as the people who serve under it, in some respects the law is still useless as long as we elect people who have no respect for it.
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Diehn Concert Series Features Pianist Andrew Willis
Pianist Andrew Willis, who performs in the United States and abroad on pianos of every period, comes to the Chandler Recital Hall stage at 8 p.m. Monday, March 19, for Old Dominion University's Diehn Concert Series. He will be accompanied by the ODU Orchestra in a Mozart concerto as part of his performance.
Willis' recordings include the "Hammerklavier" and other Beethoven sonatas for claves. He has recorded early German lieder cycles on period instruments with Georgine Resick, soprano, "Visions Intérieures," and his recordings of Schubert lieder and Rossini songs with soprano Julianne Baird are available on Vox, Newport Classics and Albany records. He has also recorded music of Rochberg, Schickele, Ibert and others with flutist Sue Ann Kahn.
Willis studied at Cornell University, where he received a D.M.A. in historical performance. He also studied piano at the Curtis Institute of Music with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and at Temple University with George Sementovsky and Lambert Orkis. For many years, he participated in the musical life of Philadelphia, serving as keyboardist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for several seasons.
He appears frequently with period-instrument ensembles such as the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the Mozart Society of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, the Magnolia Baroque Festival and the Apollo Ensemble, and he is a past president of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society.
Tickets for the Diehn Concert are $15 for general admission and $10 for students. To order tickets call 3-5305 or visit http://al.odu.edu/al/about/ticket_events.shtml.
Willis will also be on campus Saturday, March 17, to judge the 25th annual Harold
Protsman Classical Period Piano Competition at 2:30 p.m. On Sunday March 18, he will give a master class for winners of the competition at 3 p.m.
This article was posted on: March 12, 2012
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ARL to distribute free pet food to cat, dog owners in need
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The Berks County Animal Rescue League is giving cat and dog food to pet owners in need.
Pet owners can stop in at the ARL in Cumru Township next Monday through Saturday.
One bag of dog food or one bag and 12 cans of cat food will be distributed for every licensed pet.
The giveaway will continue while supplies last.
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