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Great title for a post, right? I thought so!
The last time I posted a story about my life to this blog, I had gone shopping with Monica. Well, Monday morning, bright and early (by which I mean, like, 11am), my computer crashed.
It made me SO happy.
So I opened my laptop, per usual, to check my email and my facebook and listen to music while I was getting ready for class, and everything was fine at first. The internet is always really slow here, so the server that I use, Safari, freezes a lot. Something about the compatibility with American systems and foreign internet or what-have-you. So anyway, the little rainbow wheel of doom, as I call it, that always appears when an application freezes, popped up. So after a while, I closed down Safari, and reopened it. Well, it froze again, so I tried to shut it down, and the whole computer froze. Naturally, this did not frustrate me at all, so when I shut it down, I wasn't really annoyed (I hope you're catching all the sarcasm here). When I restarted it, the startup noise played and the little apple insignia appeared, but the wheel that indicates that the computer is loading wouldn't stop spinning. So I left it and made something to eat, but when I got back it was still spinning. So I shut down the computer again, and when I restarted it for the second time, there was just a gray screen, and a file folder with a question mark blinking on the screen.
Of course, I freaked out. I haven't backed this thing up in a long time, if ever. And also, the computer is only 2.5 years old, so it shouldn't have been acting up like this. Luckily, I brought my iPhone along with me, so I was able to look up the problem on the internet. Apparently the computer wasn't recognizing the hard drive anymore (of course, 2.5 years I've had this thing and been between DC and New Jersey, both of which have very accessible Apple Stores, and where all of my software discs are, and it decides that my semester abroad is a good time to crash on me), and people were just kind of saying, "I hope you've backed up all your stuff."
Once again, I hadn't.
So I freaked out and got in touch with Leah, wanting to know if she knew where I could find an Apple Store. Turns out there's one by the Opera.
How does she know this?
Sunday night, she spilled tea on her Macbook, and it died (or drowned). So I packed up my computer and met her there, and the first thing she said to me was, "We really are the same person." Then she told me that she made an appointment to take her computer in, but she had gone when the store opened and managed to drop it off before all their appointments for the day filled up.
Meanwhile, I'm just kind of like, "appointments?! There are such things as appointments at Apple Stores?" Maybe Atlantic City isn't a real-enough city that one must make an appointment before taking one's computer in for work, but I was basically flabbergasted. Every time I've visited the Apple Store in AC for something, I've always been helped really promptly, and told to come back and pick up my computer in, like, an hour or two. (Atlantic City, you're doing it right!)
So Leah and I go in, and Leah helps me explain to the employee in French what my problem is, but by that time it was around 3 and I had missed out on my chance to weasel my way into an appointment like she did.
There are actually two Apple Stores in Paris - the one at Opera, which had no available appointments for a really long time, and one at Louvre. It's in le Carrousel du Louvre, where the inverted Pyramid is located:(I didn't take this one- I googled it!)
Anyway, their earliest available appointment was Monday, March 20 at 2:20pm. So I booked it, but decided that on Wednesday morning, my day off, I would go there and see if I could drop off my computer earlier.
Long story short, it was a no-go. I had to wait for my real appointment, after the weekend.
It was a bummer, mostly because the time for the junior/senior housing lottery and class registration for next fall were creeping up on us (for the rising seniors, these things were a week apart). So really not an optimal time to be out of touch with possible roommates, the course list for the fall, and advisors.
However, the weather had started to get really warm. So after my computer was rejected Wednesday morning, I bought a crepe for breakfast (which I had skipped to try and get to the Apple Store earlier), and ate it by the fountain at the main entrance of the Tuileries. They have chairs there, so I laid back in one of the lounge chairs and soaked up the sun for a good hour or so. It was a little chilly because of the wind, but it was so sunny that I didn't care.
Afterwards, I headed back to the apartment, and afterwards, met Ebonee and her friend Michaela for lunch and to hang out for a while. So we went to this place in St-Michel that they really like. It's a gyro place, and I'm not a fan of gyros because I don't like lamb, but Ebonee explained to me that these are cheater gyros because they make them with chicken, which is way cheaper than lamb. And therefore, I liked it a lot!
Afterwards, we spent the afternoon walking all around Paris. We walked from the Seine all the way to le Marais (where I went to the craft and vintage markets), then from there to the Bastille, and to the office of the place where Michaela and Ebonee work. After that, I parted from them and met up with Leah on the Champs-Elysées for a little while.
Thursday morning, I had class with Leah. We have the class with a French girl named Ingrid. She and Leah became friends last semester, and now she has become my friend too. The reason I tell you this is because I am obsessed with the Hunger Games, I got Leah obsessed with the Hunger Games, and Ingrid is also obsessed. So we were talking about that night, because Leah and I had tickets to l'avant-premiere, or the advance showing, of the Hunger Games movie. And the cast of the movie was going to be there. Ingrid couldn't get tickets, but she was still going to see the actors and actresses when they arrived.
After class, I went down to the 15th arrondissement to see Ebonee. I was borrowing a pair of shoes from her, and needed to pick them up. So we decided to get lunch, and where did we end up? McDonald's (or McDo's, as they say here).
Now, you would think that when you walk into McDonald's you pretty much know what you want. Well, not this time. We stood there staring at the menu for a good 10 minutes. The people working behind the counter were very clearly judging us, and people kept giving us weird looks when they would ask if we were in line. But, as Ebonee said, "The Chicken Mystique is throwing me off!"
After we finally ordered, we went upstairs to where all the seating was, and found this high table with high chairs that was behind this weird wooden plank. I guess it gave us privacy or something, but it was odd. Anyway, we proceeded to be pretty obnoxious and loud, like those Americans, because literally everything we said to each other ended up being absolutely hilarious. It was worth it, though, and since McDonald's is McDonald's, I regret nothing.
So after the McDonald's extravaganza, I returned to the apartment, and before long I was meeting Leah at my metro stop. We took a walk around my neighborhood for a little while, then went back to the apartment and got ready to go. It was still pretty early, they had told us to be at the premiere at 7:30, an hour before it started. So we left at around 5, maybe a little after, and were going to go to the pizza place next to the movie theater and just sit there for until 7:30.
Well when we got to the Champs, there were people lining the arrival area for the celebrities, and the red carpet was out, and they had a bunch of plants and fancy things (for the record, this picture was taken probably at around 7:45 or so, when they had started letting everyone in. But this shows you the madness! Those bright lights are where the red carpet was). We decided to ask where we were supposed to go before we went to get pizza. So we asked one of the employees of the theater who was standing outside, and he pointed to this line.
This really, really long line.
So we go walking down to the end of it. There had to have been around 200 people in front of us. We were really confused, because when we waited in line for two hours on that rainy Saturday morning, there had been maybe 50 people waiting for tickets with us. But this was insane.
So we stood there for a good two hours as the line got longer and longer and finally wrapped around the block (and the blocks on the Champs are biiiig).
For the record, I look like I'm crying, but for some reason my eyes were just really watery that day.
Anyway, they finally let us go inside. We had to turn in any cameras or things that could take pictures (any phones or ipods or whatever) so that no one could film anything. Then they ushered us into the theaters. For the record, the seats were really comfortable. And we ended up at a really good vantage point. And they gave us free posters!
We got to watch the movie stars arrive and give interviews on a live feed from the red carpet. Leah and I also saw Ingrid, front and center at the barriers, getting the autographs of everyone! Afterwards, they brought them around to all the theaters, and did a brief introduction of each of actors, and then ushered them out.Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket), and the director Gary Ross (who introduced everyone in French. If you can imagine French in a kind of Texas-esque accent, that's what it sounded like).
And roughly an hour after it was supposed to start, they finally started playing the movie. I really enjoyed it, and so did Leah!
We were still kind of disappointed, though, because we didn't realize that they were going to open up all of the theaters for the premiere. We thought it was going to be the kind of thing were they have a certain amount of seats in the same theater as the cast and crew and everyone and that we would be watching the movie with them. But I don't think they even stayed to see the movie (which is understandable, they have to go to basically every major city. I'd get sick of it too). It was a really, really cool experience, but had we known that it was going to be like that, we would've stood outside with Ingrid to get autographs and just gone to see the movie when it came out in theaters on the 21st, like 5 days after the preview.
So by the time we were out of the theater, it was getting close to 12, and we still had to take the Metro home. Neither of us had eaten, so we wanted to get pizza (the place stays open until like 3am), but I had to get up early so we decided it would be better to head out. Plus the Metro closes down at around 12 on week nights, and we would've been stuck!
So I got back to the apartment, and was trying to find my key to get inside, when EVERYTHING fell out of my bag. Really loudly. And I was trying to be quiet, because I figured that Natalie and Sam would both be asleep, but nope - Sam opened the door for me because he "heard me struggling," and all the lights were on. He asked me if I was drunk, and I said no, because I obviously was at a movie premiere and not out drinking, but I was struggling so much he very clearly didn't believe me. And Natalie wasn't even home yet! So much for trying to be quiet….
So I quickly packed everything for the morning, and went to bed.
Where was I going in the morning, you ask? To Vienna! My first out-of-country trip since I've been here!
Friday morning I got up bright and early, double checked all of my stuff, and headed down to the metro. I transferred at Les Halles, the closest stop to me in which the metro and the RER trains (they go everywhere the metro doesn't, including the airport!) intersect.
So I knew that to get to Charles de Gaulle, I had to take the RER straight to the airport. But the RER is weird, and kind of complicated, and I had never taken it before. I probably should've practiced or researched or something beforehand, but I didn't. All I know was that Ebonee and Michaela said that sometimes it takes a good hour to get to Charles de Gaulle on RER B, and my flight was due to leave at around 12:30, so I wanted to be at the airport by 10 or 10:30.
Since I'm not a complete idiot, I was able to follow the signs to the RER. And I made it to the platform, but I wanted to double check that I was in the right place, so I asked this older woman if this was the train that was going to Charles de Gaulle. Now, she was a pretty cool old lady. She had on a bright red coat, and she had this shade of violet eyeshadow on her top lids, and like a really heavy smattering of lavender eyeshadow under her eye. It was pretty wild.
She explained to me that on the board (you know, "train arriving now", "next train in 5 minutes"… that thing), the destinations of the train would light up, and not to get on right away. She said that sometimes you could end up waiting for a train for quite a while.
So while we were waiting, she asked me where I was from and what I'm doing in Paris and where I was going for the weekend. She also told me that my French was pretty good (yay!). Then she explained to me that RER B goes to the different CDG terminals. The thing about this airport is that it's huge. Massive. And it's all really spread out. The RER makes two stops at the airport: Terminals 1 and 3, and Terminal 2.
Well, I had written down my booking code and all of my information for the weekend and everything (not printed it, since I don't have a printer), but nowhere in the information Austrian Airlines emailed me had it indicated which terminal I should go to. This seemed to distress the lady, because I literally had no idea where I was going (another reason why I wanted to get there super early - I was going to ask where I needed to go, and if I was at the wrong terminal, hop on the bus that goes from terminal to terminal.
Finally, the right train came (I really had only been waiting for maybe 5 or 10 minutes), and the lady said goodbye to me and wished me "bonnes vacances" and a good semester, and I got on the train. Then, just before the doors closed, she held up two fingers (for terminal 2), and waved goodbye (for the record, whoever said the French were snobby and unhelpful, it's not true!).
I was planning on going to terminal 2 anyway, because both my and Allegra's flights on January 26th had come into terminal 2. I figured that was the main terminal for international flights. The ride to the airport was maybe a half hour or 45 minutes or so, and I got off at the last stop, Terminale 2.
Now, apparently you have to have a special ticket to get into the airport. I have my Navigo Pass, of course, which gets me around wherever I want to go on the metro, but they have these big, glass, un-jumpable doors that you have swipe your tickets or your pass with to actually get into the terminal.
Well, I came by metro, and then got on the RER. Nowhere was it indicated that I needed any kind of special ticket. And there was nowhere to buy one on the train platform, or at the gates. And there was no way to get through. Everyone was going through and on their merry way, but I couldn't get through. So I rang the bell for assistance, but no one came (and I think I probably lucked out with that, because they probably would've ended up fining me 50e or something). So of course I began panicking and worrying that I would be stuck here forever and end up just having to get back on the RER and going home. So I started asking people for help. No one was sure what to do, so they would apologize and just go on their way.
Finally, this nice American woman who was leaving the airport took pity on me. I was almost in tears at this point. She was trying to give me suggestions - and I was even ready to give her 10e to go get me a ticket just to get through (the tickets cost like 9e… it's ridiculous!) - and finally a guy came from one of the trains, and she was like, "just follow him through." So I followed really close behind him so that the sensors would think it was just one person, and I ended up getting through. So I thanked the woman (probably around 5 times) for helping me, and then I went into the airport.
At the top of the escalators, there was an information booth, so I went to find out where my flight would be leaving from. Luckily, it was leaving from terminal 2, so I had come to the right spot.
Since I didn't have any bags to check, I got through check-in very quickly. Then I had to go through security, obviously, but it wasn't crowded at all. I was patted down for the very first time at the security gate because even though I didn't have any metal on me, I kept setting of the metal detector. So that was pretty interesting.
Then I just hung out until it was time to board. And let me just say - best. Flight. Ever. AirFrance, whatever you're doing, you're doing it right. Delta could learn a thing or two from you (although I flew over on American Airlines and it wasn't awful. But, for the record, European airlines are definitely way better than American ones).
Since the flight was only around 2 hours, they had us on one of those mini airplanes, not the full-sized ones that you take across the Atlantic. I really wanted a window seat, but nope - I was in the middle. However, it was totally ok because I was in the emergency row, and they actually removed a row of seats, so I had a ton of leg room.
I was also sitting next to the flight attendant. She was really, really nice to me, and was interested in where I came from and where I go to school. We only spoke in French, but she told me that she had gone to a French-English school in Oregon (fancy that, right? Who would've thought Oregon would have French-English schools?). She also told me that I had a very pretty French accent. That really surprised me, because I always thought that I sounded the same as Arnold Schwarzenegger would if he tried to speak French. So I'm either a whole lot better than I thought I was, or she was just being nice.
Anyway, AirFrance gives you lunch and a drink. They even have free booze! Now, I had a coke (I have a caffeine deficiency problem, and I didn't have time for coffee before I left), but I just want everyone to know that free booze is an option.
So we landed at the Airport in Vienna, and I settled down by baggage to wait until Kara's flight got in two hours later. So we bought bus tickets that would take us to the train station, Westbanhof, near our hostel, Do Step Inn (I googled this picture):
Anyway, we checked in, and we were offered free Welcome Wine! Of course we said yes. We actually stayed in a building of theirs that was just around the corner, because their main hostel was full. Parts of it were under construction, but the place was beautiful. Super clean, really new, really nice. I definitely would recommend it to anyone traveling to Vienna. Here's a picture of Kara in our room:
So after we chilled for a little while, we decided we were starving. So we stopped back in the office of the main building to ask the girl a place she would recommend for dinner. Well, she recommended a place to us, she told us it was traditional Austrian food, but we got about halfway there (in our defense, it was a really long walk) and figured that we were going to collapse right there, on this massive, busy shopping street in the middle of Vienna and wither away into nothing. So we went to the first place we saw, which was an Italian place.
Needless to say, it wasn't very Austrian, and I'm sure Kara didn't want to go to Austria for Italian food that she can get in Italy (she's studying in Rome this semester), but we were starving, so it didn't matter. And it was delicious. And Kara said it tasted pretty authentic. So we were happy.
After a nice, long, slow dinner, where we did a lot of catching up, we headed back to the hostel. I showered, and after my shower, we started looking up places we wanted to see the next day (Saturday, if anyone is timeline-lost).
Luckily, almost everything we wanted to see was in the Old City. For the record, Vienna is massive. It's a huge, huge city. But luckily, almost all of the really touristy things (the Opera, the Spanish Riding school, Mozart's house, etc.) are in the Old City. So we decided to go there. Kara needed to do some sketching for her class (for those that don't know, she's an architecture major, and is obviously studying architecture in Rome), and I just really wanted, more than anything else, to see the Spanish Riding School where they train the Lipizzan Stallions (the ones that do the tricks and the acrobatics). Since Kara knows that I'm just a little bit obsessed with horses, she agreed to put up with my antics and tag along to the school with me.
So the next morning we got up, and were out of the hostel by about 11. Even though both the metro and the tram run through Vienna (although neither go all that close to the Old City), we decided to walk. It was pretty straightforward, just along that shopping road that we had been on the night before, but it was pretty far. About halfway there, I started to feel the effects of not having coffee (it's a problem), so we started looking for cheap-looking coffee shops (not restaurants or cafes). Well, there weren't any, but there was a McDonald's. So we went in to get some coffee and some breakfast.
This was seriously the most beautiful McDonald's I've ever been to. In fact, here's a picture:Seriously, it looks like it could be a 5-star restaurant. The plates were glass. And when we were finished eating, someone came by the table and took our trays for us. We were kind of shocked.
So after McDonald's we continued on our way. It was actually pretty hot in Vienna. Kara had her peacoat with her, and I had my new jacket, but neither of us needed them. When we each checked the weather, it had said that it was going to be in the 30's (Fahrenheit). But no, it was probably in the 60's. Crazy warm.
So we reached the Old City at the Museums Quartier. Here's a map of the old city (although we didn't stay at the Best Western. That has nothing to do with anything, except I think it was their map): Down where it says "MUMOK," that's where we came in. Mariahilfer Strabe was the name of the street we took.
So those two buildings facing each other were a natural history museum and, I think, an art museum of some sort:
So then we walked through this gate……and into the complex. On the map, the entire complex is that one weirdly-shaped building, and all the rest. Look for where it says "Hofburg." This is the weirdly-shaped building, by the way:
So in this complex, one can see the Treasury, which is home to the Crown Jewels, among other things, and the royal apartments, and all kinds of stuff. It all sounds very interesting, but Kara and I decided that we were more interested in actually seeing the city than in doing museum-y things.
Also, there are tons of horses in Vienna. They do lots of Cape May-style carriage rides:We asked, but it was way too expensive for us. I was tempted to find out how much it would cost to just take the horse, but I figured that wouldn't be allowed. But here are two more pictures of horses:
So we went walked through the complex, and to the Spanish Riding School (for the record, all of this stuff is one giant building). It turns out that to see a performance, you have to book well in advance through a travel agency. You can watch them train, but it's also rather expensive. We didn't have the time or the money, so I'll have to save it for my next trip to Vienna, but we did get to see the stallions:And we got to see the stables!
So this is what the Lipizzaners do. What makes them so special (for the record, these are all googled too): Yes, that horse is supposed to be doing that, unlike other horses who may or may not do that when they aren't supposed to. But anyway, I promise that these are the last horse pictures I'll put up in this post. Probably.
So we walked out of the complex and into the city. The building behind me is the back of the Hofburg, and the part of the building to my right (my right! in the picture I'm looking at you! - for all you directionally challenged people out there. Mom.) is the Spanish Riding School. Then we continued walking down that street (the one to my right, through that little arch that you can barely see). Actually, the stables are over by that arch, not in the school itself!
So we were heading toward the Opera (if you look back at that map, the Opera is just underneath "Albertina" and next to "Staatsoper."). That was the other thing I really wanted to see.
Along the way, we came across this little Pinocchio in front of a clock shop:
And finally, we came out on the other side of the Hofburg complex, over by where the Opera is. There was some kind of film museum over here, with all these stairs going up to a terrace, so Kara and I climbed them. They gave us a beautiful view of the area, including of the Opera and of the Buurgarten. Here's Kara on the stairs:
So here was the view:
We also had a view of the roof of the botanical garden at the front of the Buurgarten, and there is a restaurant called the Palmenhaus in the greenhouse, where Kara and I actually went for dinner:
Here's Kara and I with the copper roof behind us:
So we went to the Buurgarten to make dinner reservations, and then went back out and to this little food cart that sold Weinerschnitzel. Neither one of us were particularly hungry, but we both wanted bottles of water.
Then we walked over by the Opera House. I really wanted to go inside, but unfortunately, there was a show there or something, so we couldn't go inside (not like the Opera in Paris, that you can go tour).
After we saw the Opera, we decided to go try and find the Holocaust Memorial that Kara's professor recommended she see. When we couldn't find it, we decided to head back to the hostel to get ready for dinner.
On our way, we came across this guy. I think the trick was in his cane, which he never let go of, but it was still really cool!There was also this uber-goofy sign that I absolutely loved:That's the back of the Spanish Riding School, and on the right side of that arch in the bottom right corner (it's actually a tunnel for traffic and carriages) are the stables.
So we walked the whoooole way back to the hostel, which is very far, and freshened up and relaxed for a little while, before leaving again to walk the whooooole way back to the Buurgarten for dinner. I mean, from our hostel to the Hofburg Palace was probably about a mile. However, instead of going through the Complex and around the back, we cut around the front and hoped that we ended up in the right spot.
Luckily, we did! So we ended up at our restaurant, the Palmenhaus (I took one during the day, and one at night!):
There's Kara and I during dinner. The couple sitting next to us spoke enough English to ask if we wanted our picture taken:
Kara ordered some steak thing with a garlic mashed potato crust, and I got sea bass with a ginger-soy-chili marinade. Neither were Austrian, although in the guide book it said this was a traditional Viennese restaurant, but it was suuuuper delicious so we didn't care:
And here was our delicious chocolately dessert:
So after our delicious dinner, we decided to walk around the Old City at night for a little bit, and to try to find the Holocaust memorial again. The city is, I think, prettier at night than during the day. Whether it was because it was less crowded or maybe because everything was all lit up, I'm not really sure, but I liked it better at night.
So because I have an awesome sense of direction (it's one of my few talents hahaha), I managed to find the Holocaust memorial for Kara. If you go back to that map that I posted, I think that little building above the Best Western sign is the memorial. I'm not sure that that's what it's supposed to be, but that's exactly where the memorial was, so I'm going to assume it's the memorial.
It's actually made of library shelves turned inside out so that the spines of the books are hidden and the titles and contents are forever unknown. It's a really cool concept, and it commemorates the 65,000 Austrian Jews that were killed during the Holocaust.
So after that, we walked back to the Riding School part of the Palace through the complex:
Since it was St. Patrick's Day, we had thought about trying to find an Irish bar to stop have a celebratory beer, but we were both completely beat, and every bar we saw had people spilling out into the streets. So we decided it wasn't worth it.
I actually figured that we walked around for a total of 7 hours on Saturday, not including time at the hotel or at the restaurant. That is insanity. Insanity! And I had really big blisters in really painful, awkward places on my feet to prove it!
So when we finally made it back to the hostel, I decided to take a shower. Well, while I was in the little shower room, someone tried the door. I mean, I locked it, so it was no big deal, but then a few minutes later, there was this really loud pounding sound, like someone was trying to break in. So I was just kind of like, "what in the world is going on?" When all of the sudden there was this really, really loud sound, and the little vent at the bottom of the door popped out (I think I shouted something really obscene, too). Well I was freaking out at this point, because all I was thinking of was that movie Hostel. I mean, I haven't even seen it, but I know it involves some kids who go to a hostel and because it's a horror movie, scary things happen and then some of the probably die. So I bolted out of there as soon as I could and ran back to our room and told Kara that an evil leprechaun tried to break into my shower. A little dramatic, sure, (and I mean, I was joking, obviously. It was St. Patrick's Day, after all), but really, the whole thing was pretty freaky. I don't know what the heck was going on, and I don't know if I would've been less freaked out or more freaked out if someone hadn't just tried the door a minute or two before the loud noises started, but I've come to the conclusion that the downstairs bathroom is haunted, and if you stay there, only use the upstairs bathroom. Problem solved.
So Kara and I made plans for Sunday morning before we went to bed. We wanted to go to the Great Belvedere, a palace-turned-art-museum. It's a museum that now houses the works of George Klimt, whom I had never heard of before Vienna, but with whom I'm pretty familiar now (because they're obsessed).
We got up, packed, and headed over to the main Do Step Inn building to check out. After that, we walked over to Westbanhof Station to check out the bus schedules and to get some coffee and breakfast. We had researched the metro beforehand, so we decided to attempt. We got our tickets, and got on the metro.
It's a smaller system than even DC's metro, but it is, like, really fast. Really, really speedy. So we got there pretty quickly, and walked down to the Great Belvedere. Here's the front yard:
And the backyard:
It was a pretty quick visit, and we didn't have time to go inside (and you had to pay), but I was really happy that we had time to go see it.
So then we walked back to the metro, which took us back Westbanhof. Kara's plane was due to take off at 5:15, and mine at 5:30, and the bus trip to the airport was 45 minutes, so we wanted to leave no later than 2:30. Neither of us had bags to check, which makes things easier, and we got back to Westbanhof at around 2. The buses left every half hour, and we could've made it, but we decided not to rush.
When we got to the airport, we both checked in, and printed our tickets. The weird thing about this airport is that, instead of going through security to get into the terminal, you go through security right at your gate. All you have to do to get into the terminal is swipe your ticket.
So we got through, looked in some of the shops, and finally got some coffee and a snack from the Starbucks in front of both of our gates (luckily enough, our gates were about 100 feet apart).
When they opened the security check for Kara's flight, we said goodbye, and she went through. Not 10 minutes later, they opened my security check. It was no biggie in Vienna like it was at Charles de Gaulle, and I was one of the first through, so I didn't have to wait in line. Then all I had to do was sit in the waiting area at the gate until they started boarding my plane.
No window seat, again - this time it was an aisle seat (but apparently they don't charge you if you want to change your seat, like they do in the States). But I was sitting next to a really nice older couple, although neither of them spoke much English. Or French.
On this flight, they gave you cake. And again, they had free booze. Which I took advantage of (and the flight attendant teased me about. "Oooh good choice. Cake and beer!"). And then I followed it up with some coffee (it's an addiction).
They also had tv's that were playing some kind of prank show, almost like Candid Camera (I really hope I'm not the only one who remembers that show!), but it was in German. However, you don't need to know the language to understand the pranks, so it was pretty entertaining. They also played classical music before the flight took off, and during the landing, and just after we touched down, the music got really dramatic. I hope they planned it that way, because it was really funny.
The older couple told me that they had a flight out of Charles de Gaulle at midnight, and were headed for Rio. I know I already said this, but they were really nice!
So I went back through the airport, and headed to the RER. I knew that I needed to waste money on a ticket this time, so I went and bought one (luckily I got to the ticket window just before it closed). There was a train leaving in one minute, so Idiot Mary got on it before looking at where it was going. And I didn't realize that I had done this until after the train was already moving. Oops.
So I'm sitting on the train, trying to decide what I should do if we don't stop at either of my stops (Gare du Nord, which is two stops away from me in one direction, and Les Halles, which is four stops in the other direction). We sped through stop after stop after stop. I was beginning to freak out because I still had to get on the metro, and I was hungry and wanted to shower and to go to sleep. So I was pretty annoyed with myself.
Luckily, though, we stopped at Gare du Nord. So I went to the metro, and ended up having to wait, like, 10 minutes for a train. Now, this hasn't happened since I've been in Paris. I mean it was like being in DC again. There are never any trains in DC! I've gotten spoiled. Well, the train finally came. Now, heading on the 4 towards Porte de Clignancourt: I'm at Chateau d'eau, then you head north towards Gare de l'Est, then Gare du Nord. So it's two stops. That's a 5 minute trip at the most, if the metro is running a little slow.
Well it was running like molasses.
We got to Gare de l'Est, and waited for a good 10 minutes there. There were a million people on the train! So you couldn't move or sit or change the song on your ipod. After an exhausting weekend, with big blisters and a weekend bag and a day of traveling, there was nothing that I wanted less than to be stuck on a train in a metro station. So of course, I was thrilled. And it doesn't help that I'm the most impatient person alive.
However, before too long, we were moving again, and 30 seconds later we had finally made it to Chateau d'eau, and I booked it back to the apartment because I was so tired of traveling.
I got back and dumped my stuff. I hadn't packed much, so it didn't take long to unpack, and Natalie had just made dinner. So I made a plate and joined her and told her about my weekend, and she told me about hers.
So I finally got my shower, and got to bed, and I got to sleep in! And at 2:20 I was at the Apple Store at the Louvre, with my computer.
I explained to the guy what happened, and he plugged it in to his system, tried something, and not 2 minutes later told me they needed to replace the hard drive. It's two and a half years old! Apparently this is like kind of a freak thing, but I guess it's not freak enough. Then he asked if I had all my stuff backed up. And I replied, "not recently." He just kind of gave me a sympathetic look.
At that point, I had pretty much made peace with the fact that all my stuff was gone. Worse things happen, and the majority of the pictures that were important to me (except a bunch I took of Molly) are on facebook. My important documents are in emails that I've saved. Really it's just the music… I lost a good 2000 songs. A lot of it is on CDs, but they're at home. And I can't update the music my ipod or iphone again until I put it all back on the computer when I get home, or everything I have on there now will be erased. Big headache. That's what it is.
It's also a big reason why a) I haven't posted in so long, and b) why I haven't put up the pictures I promised from Strasbourg. They're on my facebook, but they're no longer saved on my computer, so I can't upload them. I could take them directly from facebook easily enough, but that's time consuming and I have a bunch of homework and am trying to keep the blog updated, so it ain't happenin. Sorry! I might post a few more pictures from Vienna, but I wouldn't hold your breath - I got most of the good ones into this post, and all 370-something are on my facebook.
Now, it's 1:40am here, and I've been working on this for hours (to be fair, though, I was mixing it in with homework, dinner, laziness, etc. - I haven't exactly been writing up a storm until the last two hours or so…), so the next week and a half that I need to catch up on will have to wait.
If I finish this one paper tomorrow, I might post the rest of the stuff. Not sure! In addition to all the homework, I have a pretty formidable tower of laundry that I've been studiously ignoring, but it's not going to do itself, so I have to get on that soon. I'll try and not do anything else fun, though, until I have completely updated this blog!
It shouldn't be hard, though, because I've placed myself under homework house arrest to try and get as much work done as possible before spring break (which starts, for me, Friday, April 13). However, the whole "house arrest" thing is really a "do homework until I make plans or having something more fun to do" arrest. But I've been pretty good at staying in and doing homework. Or at least trying. I tend to procrastinate, as you all know, and I get pretty easily distracted. It's because everything is due in a month, I don't have the panic of this-is-due-really-soon to drive me. But I'm trying. I should be finished with a paper tomorrow, and I have a schedule made for my other stuff. I can do it!
Look out for "lots and lots of stuff has happened part 2." Coming to a computer near you. Eventually.


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Corporate Communications Account Manager
AF Selection Birmingham£32,000 - £35,000 benefits
Fantastic opportunity to join a financial services organisation as Corporate Communications Account Manager as they go through some exciting changes and expansion!
Our client has been a stalwart of the financial services sector for decades providing niche lending solutions. They are now undertaking a further period of expansion into new markets and have some really superb products which they need your help to market! As Corporate Communications Account Manager you will have a very varied role which will include writing press releases, features and blogs on many of their key brands and being responsible for all external corporate communications, but will also encompass internal comms (a bi-monthly magazine and project work), support for the investor relations team, and working alongside an external lobbying agency.
The key requirements for undertaking this role, aside from a very strong communications background, are flexibility and adaptability within your role; you will cover b2b and b2c work, and will often find yourself moving between the two. Naturally a financial services background would be a big advantage, however, strong media relations gained from either in-house or agency would be considered, and internal comms knowledge would also be really useful.
If you are interested in this role please send your CV for the urgent attention of Emma Tee to firstname.lastname@example.com or call on 0121 355 0955. An initial deadline for applications has been set for Friday 30th August, although this may be extended.
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Activities and Amenities
|Within Facility
Monroe Reservoir spans 10,750-acres and is the largest lake in Indiana. There is an overlook on Hardin Ridge Road that is spectacular in any season and gives visitors a high vantage point of the lake, colorful marinas across the water and a vast expanse of forest.
The entire area is forested with hardwoods and is well-shaded to give visitors the feel of being in the deep woods. In spring, the dogwoods and redbuds bring bright color to the forest and in fall, the foliage offers colors in vibrant hues of yellow, orange and red.
A 300-foot swimming beach on Lake Monroe offers a place for children to play and swimmers to sunbathe and enjoy the water. The beach offers a combination of sand and sun, with a shady grass-covered hillside above. There are no lifeguards on duty. No glass containers or pets are allowed in the beach area.
The Hardin Ridge Trail is a 2-mile hiking and bicycle trail that runs from the day use area to the various campground loops. This trail roughly follows the main campground road and provides a safe surface for families to hike or bike, as well as a scenic overlook.
Fishing is allowed anywhere along the lakeshore within the recreational complex, but several quiet inlets provide secluded fishing holes along the lake's banks. Popular catches include blue gill, striped bass, large mouth bass and crappie.
On the Ted T. Turtle interpretive trail, visitors can travel 1.2 miles through a scenic hardwood forest, along a small creek and down to Lake Monroe and back. On the trail, visitors have the opportunity to learn about the history, geology, and wildlife common to southern Indiana.
For visitors interested in boating, the lake has a 3-lane launch ramp that is open year-round. A 75 vehicle/trailer parking area is also available as well as a fully accessible loading dock provided at the boat ramp. Pedal boats are available to rent.
There are 203 camp sites at Hardin Ridge, 36 of which are walk-in sites. With the exception of Eads and Southern Point loops, the areas have electric hookups at about half the sites (walk-in sites to do not have electric hookups). Centralized water, flush toilets and showers are provided.
In addition to the campground loops, there are 40 picnic sites and three shelter houses, two of which overlook the lake. If the shelters are not reserved, they may be available on a first-come, first-served basis. There is ample space in the fields around the picnic sites for games.
The Hardin Ridge Recreation Area has two primitive cabins available for rent. The cabins each offer 6 bunk beds, one of which is a double bed, for a total sleeping capacity of 7 people. The cabins are located on the shores of Lake Monroe, right next to the boat launch and swimming beach. There is a picnic shelter nearby and a shared toilet between the two facilities.
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A lot has happened this week. The Indians released Chris Perez, re-signed Jason Giambi, and traded for Colt Hynes. Naturally, it stands to reason that I would probably ask the staff about any one of these topics for this week's Wroundtable discussion. Well, that would be wrong, mainly because I came up with the question well before any of that happened. Instead, I asked them all to weigh in on the other major news of the week – the renaming of the Akron Aeros to the Akron Rubber Ducks. Here's what they had to say.
Michael Chaney: At first, I didn't really like the name. I can admit that. I thought it made the team sound like too much of a pushover (it would be difficult to be scared of facing the RubberDucks), and I was such a fan of the name "Akron Aeros" that I didn't want to see it changed (plus, I was a huge fan of the purple and black uniforms). But the more I hear it, the more I like it. Not only does it pay homage to Akron's connection to rubber and tires, but it's also an extremely unique name. "Aeros" was also unique, but I think that this can be mentioned among teams like the Modesto Nuts (A+ of the Rockies) and Montgomery Biscuits (AA, Rays) as one of the cooler names in minor league baseball. I'm also a huge fan of the logo (complete with tire tracks) and the color scheme of light blue and yellow. I'm sad to see that the Akron Aeros are no longer, but I'm excited to see the era of the Akron Rubber Ducks begin. I'm also excited to see a match-up of the Akron RubberDucks and Richmond Flying Squirrels (AA, Giants) this year in the Eastern League.
By the way, if you want to see a humorous reaction on the name change from a player's perspective, check out pitcher Kieran Lovegrove's Twitter account.
Jeff Mount: I expect to see ducks standing outside the Akron stadium on opening day carrying signs. Aflac may sign on as a sponsor, though. The fact that they are liable to give out squeaky toys at any game which will then be squeezed in unison will not make me more likely to attend games.
Ed Carroll: The RubberDucks name is growing on me. I'd like to see some uniforms before completely sounding off on the idea, but if they could find a way to work this in as their 8th-inning anthem (ala "Hang on Sloopy" for the Indians or "Sweet Caroline" for the Boston Red Sox), I might just buy season tickets.
Katrina Putnam: Calling themselves the Akron RubberDucks is completely ridiculous, therefore it's the perfect minor league team name. No one wants to be a RubberDuck, so it will inspire all the players to do whatever it takes to get promoted out of there.
In all seriousness, the logic behind it is a nice tribute to the city, and they actually came up with a very cool logo. Not to mention, it's kind of a sports writer's dream in terms of potential headlines. There are so many puns just waiting to be made. And it could always be worse — at least they're not the Rail Riders. Or the Sand Gnats. Or the Chihuahuas…there's no way to make a six-pound dog seem intimidating.
Brian Heise: I already laid out my opinions on the matter earlier this week, but for the sake of consistency I'll provide a recap. At first, I hated. I thought it was a terrible idea. By lunch time I was completely on board with the idea of the RubberDucks. The logo is cool, the colors are refreshing and way better than the purple abomination they were currently using, and the name is just the right amount of ridiculous for minor league baseball. I can't wait to see the uniform designs they decide to go with but I'm terrified that I'm going to be disappointed. All in all, though, it was a refreshing move and one that most people should learn to love over time.


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- Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
- ESRB: Everyone 10+
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Tim Robbins & The Rogues Gallery Band @LPR.
Director, producer, activist, musician and Academy award winning actor Tim Robbins was born in West Covina, California on October 16, 1958 and raised in New York City. He began acting in the early '80s and went on to star in such films as Bull Durham, Jacob's Ladder, The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, The Hudsucker Proxy and Mystic River. He won a Best Supporting actor for the latter, and was nominated for Best Director for 1995's Dead Man Walking. In 2010, Robbins rleased his debut album, Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band, a nine-track collection of self-described "raggle taggle and rousing gypsy Americana," produced by Hal Willner, which featured the talents of Kate St. John, Leo Abrahams, David Coulter, Roger Eno, Rory McFarlane, Andrew Newmark and Dudley Phillips.
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Center for Book Arts: Art Study Tours: Illuminating Fashion at the Morgan Library
Karen Gorst
July 28 , Thursday afternoon, 3pm
The Center is pleased to continue its series of Art Study Tours. Class will be taught off-site, behind-the-scenes at various institutions, collections, and artists' studios. This summer series will take advantage of the cultural resources in New York City and will focus on color and the uses and making of pigments. Consisting of 3 visits throughout the city this July and August, students may sign up for all three in the series or just for one class, each taking place on a Thursday afternoon.
Illuminating Fashion at the Morgan Library and Museum. Visit this special exhibition and discover the uses of color in medieval manuscripts with an expert in the field, Karen Gorst. Drawn from the Morgan's collections, over fifty illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books are featured in the exhibition. Join us and discover the difference between the depictions of contemporary fashions and the actual colors used in clothing of the time period. Students will discuss from a historical perspective the process of making paints and dyes. The exhibition will be used as a backdrop for a discussion on the different artistic techniques employed to produce the color in medieval manuscripts and on fabric from the medieval period.
The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep Artist's Talk.
Please join Asya Geisberg Gallery for the second annual Chelsea Art Walk on Thursday, July 28th from 5 – 8 pm.
At 6:15 pm we will host a wine reception and talk with the artists Thomas Bangsted and Allison Gildersleeve about the exhibition "The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep".
More than 125 galleries and institutions participating in Chelsea Art Walk 2011 will be open for extended hours, artist talks, receptions, and other special events to showcase the vibrancy of the summer arts scene in Chelsea.
To learn more about the Art Walk, click here.
To view images from the exhibition, click here.
White Hot @ Margaret Thatcher Projects.
July 7 – September 17, 2011
works by: Jaq Belcher, William Betts, Omar Chacon, Freddy Chandra, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Kevin Finklea, Adam Fowler, Teo Gonzalez, Susan Graham, Rainer Gross, Jus Juchtmans, Aric Obrosey, Joie Rosen, Analia Saban, Fran Siegel, William Steiger, Lars Strandh, Barbara Takenaga, Bill Thompson, Heidi van Wieren, and Venske & Spänle
Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the opening of w h i t e-h o t, an exhibition of works by 21 artists, co-curated by Erin Brown and Margaret Thatcher. The exhibition, which includes work in a wide range of media from artists both represented in the gallery's stable and guest artists, explores the visual and ideological possibilities of the color white.
Bas Jan Ader, Olaf Breuning, Jennifer Cohen, Scott Hug, Kevin Lips, Niall McClelland, Jesse McLean, Kristie Muller, Rbt. Sps, Brent Stewart
curated by Jamie Sterns and Joseph Whitt
Jul 28-Aug 27, 2011
SUPERCODA: FRIDAY 8-midnight. The Back Pockets on tour with Huntronik, Rifle Recoil @ CAFE ORWELL.
7/26 Tuesday (NYDS)
8 pm
Kamala Sankaram / Drew Fleming / Pat Muchmore / Jeff Hudgins
Kamala Sankaram (compositions, voice, accordion, electronics) Drew Fleming (electric guitar, voice) Pat Muchmore (cello, voice) Jeff Hudgins (reeds, voice)
The Summer Music Project: themes for imaginary cartoons, Bollywood noir, and other assorted weirdness.
10 pm
Miguel Frasconi and David First
Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics) David First (guitar, electronics)
Wednesday, July 27, 8:30 PM
Amy Helm, voice, mandolin; Elizabeth Mitchell, voice, harmonium; Daniel Littleton, voice, guitar; Byron Isaacs, bass; Ruthy Ungar, voice, fiddle
Confluence an exhibition of paintings by Jess Hartley @Chashama.
Opening Reception July 29th 6pm – 10pm
Gallery Open July 29th through July 31st
Painting: a process, a reflection, an expression.
With the series "Confluence," Jess Hartely explores all-over abstraction. She begins her work by creating a series of thin layers from which the painting begins to emerge and take on its own form. Depth and color develop as the painting is built up with each layer. She uses masonite board because it resists the water and does not absorb it like canvas would. This extended period of fluidity allows her to explore risk and uncertainty. For Hartley, abstraction is all about the experiment. The work in this series is rooted in Hartley's own imagination, but follows the rules of experimental process that she has developed.
Series: Strange NYC History Lectures@ BB.
A Rite of Return
Wednesday, July 27, 7pm, $10/$8 BHS Members
Out of an anonymous 1870 pocket-size diary bestowed on historian Ben Feldman, a fantastic story emerged, and a 100-year old rent in the cloth of a family's history was repaired. Feldman will share the tale of Henry Knight Dyer (1846-1911), Brooklyn born and bred, who rose from a modest Fort Greene home and his first job as an office boy in the Dennison Paper Products Co. to become president of that multi-national enterprise at the turn of the twentieth century. Dyer's daily scribblings in a cheap paper volume, as a single 24-year old living in Brooklyn and working in lower Manhattan, inspired Feldman's lengthy journey for the truth of this man's life and his wife's sorry end after less than a year's widowhood.
Tuesday night the 26th at Freddy's Back Room,
a Trio concert at 8:30pm with
François Grillot, contrabass, compositions
Catherine Sikora, saxophones, compositions
Andrew Drury, drums, out of this world percussions
$10 admission.
And at 10:00 Duo concert with Sabir Mateen & Ingrid Laubrock
Freddy's Bar
627 5th Ave
Brklyn, N.Y. 11215
Arcade, Hosted by Kill Screen
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
PopRally invites you to Arcade, an interactive evening of games selected by Kill Screen and inspired by the exhibition Talk to Me. Guests can play games in a variety of spaces throughout the Museum and the Sculpture Garden, including Bit Trip Beat, Canabalt, Limbo, and a new motion-based Kinect project from Ryan Challinor and Matt Boch of Harmonix, creator of the hit music game Rock Band. Heathered Pearls (Ghostly International, ISO50) provides the soundtrack for the evening. more…
BOMB Magazine: Issue 116
Wednesday, July 27, 6:30–9 PM The powerHouse Arena 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Please RSVP: firstname.lastname@example.com
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine and the contributors to the summer issue for an evening of readings, performances, and chilling out by the water in DUMBO. There will be raffles, poster giveaways, and other surprises!
Have a drink with BOMB staff and enjoy the literary stylings of writers Nicholas Elliott, Sarah V. Schweig, and Simon Van Booy. With a special theatrical piece directed by playwright and director Richard Maxwell starring Obie Award–winning actor Scott Shepherd.
Nicholas Elliott was raised in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and lives in Woodside, Queens. His plays have been performed in Luxembourg, France, and Denmark. He is a correspondent for French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and the company manager for the theater company New York City Players. His poems appear in BOMB's summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. He is the artistic director of New York City Players. A volume of his plays from 1996–2000 has been published by Theatre Communications Group. His most recent play, Neutral Hero, premiered in May at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and recently toured Europe. Maxwell interviewed actor Scott Shepherd for BOMB's summer issue.
Sarah V. Schweig's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award. Her chapbook, S, is available through Dancing Girl Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems appear in BOMB's summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Scott Shepherd is a New-York based actor. Most recently, Shepherd took on the roles of two characters in The Wooster Group's production of Tenessee Williams's Vieux Carré. His performance as Nick Carraway in Elevator Repair Service's acclaimed Gatz, for which he delivered most of the narration in the nearly seven-hour production, earned him a 2011 Obie Award. Shepherd was interviewed by playwright and director Richard Maxwell in BOMB's summer issue.
Simon Van Booy is a New York-based novelist and short-story writer born in London and raised in rural Wales. He has published two collections of stories: The Secret Lives of People in Love (2007), and Love Begins in Winter (2009), which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He has also edited three books of philosophy: Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don't Matter. His novel Everything Beautiful Began After is just out from Harper Perennial. His conversation with author Siri Hustvedt appears in BOMB's summer issue.
Founded in 1981, BOMB Magazine is celebrating 30 years of delivering the artist's voice. Check out The BOMB Digital Archive at BOMBsite.com and don't miss daily features about art, music, fiction, poetry, film, and dance on BOMBlog.
Living Dolls: The Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum
A live automata demonstration and illustrated lecture>by Jere Ryder, Conservator of the Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum
Date: Friday, July 29th
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $10
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
The Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey is one of the finest collections of automata–or moving mechanical toys popular in the 18th Century and 19th Centuries–in the world. Compiled over 50 years by heir to the Guinness beer fortune Murtogh D. Guinness (1913-2002), the collection features scores of immaculately preserved historic automata–many of them produced in 19th Century France–with subjects ranging from snake charmers to magicians, singing birds to anthropomorphic monkeys, Cleopatra in her death throes to a waltz-playing Mephistopheles; it also includes a number of mechanical musical instruments and a variety of programmed media ranging from player piano rolls to pinned cylinders.
PAPACOOKIE: Flight of the Fancypants w/ ENID ELLEN (+many more.)
High above the lusty and lo-hanging midnight mist, we'll gather like usual on floor number 8 but this time for something altogether different. Tonight Papa-C is a strange place. A spiritual place. A resplendent place. A haunted place. A place of sad, seductive glamour. Velvet. Sincerity. Lips. Pathos. Pretension. Rococo Red froufrou finery. It's summertime so wear something appropriate—like a 2-piece bathos suit with a dead poodle pattern and a locket around your neck. Lots of sunscreen, too!
Anna Calvi @ LPR
Chelsea Art Walk
The Maria Bamford Show + Grey Gardens @MAD.
Summer, Sex and Spirits (PLANNED PARENTHOOD BENEFIT.)
GodByeBlueMonday: Mon Jul 25 11, 08:00 PM Retrospek, Tyler Rivenbark, la bruha desi la, tba 4 Tyler Rivenbark/Retrospek /la bruha desi la/tba4 & PROTOTHIEF, Beecher's Fault, Michael Lafuentes, tba 4, BACKYARD – TUESDAY Plus Wed Jul 27 11, 08:00 PM Butcher Boy, Dane Terry, Pamola, The Waldos Dane Terry/tba2/Pamola/ Butcher Boy/The Waldos
Screening, Discussion, and Book Launch / The Beach Beneath the Street, with McKenzie Wark, Ali Dur, and D. Graham Burnett (Cabinet Magazine.)
Beijing Welcomes You by Tom Scocca @Powerhouse Arena.
What We Know About the Moon@Jalopy.
Sam Owens @Pete's Candy Store.
The Soundtrack Series w/ Dana Rossi @LPR.
Painting Urbanism: Learning from Rio @Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Henry Chung @ RHV.
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The Architecture of Devotion
June 24 – July 3, 2011
Closing Party Saturday at 5:00pm – Sunday at 12:00am
Show starts at 7pm
The Architecture of Devotion group show continues this Friday, July 1st with a night of great music by returning players: Apocalypse Five and Dime, Morgan O'kane, and Crooks and Perverts. These guys put on an amazing show with us back in April with moments like these:
Apocalypse Five and Dime will be releasing their new album "Ballads for the End Times" on July 1st, this is your first chance to get your hands on it!
If you missed the show last weekend or just need a healthy dose of seconds, come on out and join us!
Performances begin at 7pm.
Free Sangria from 6-8
$10 admission after 7pm
The Architecture of Devotion is a large scale group art, music and performance event hosted by the Gowanus Ballroom.
The exhibition transforms the cathedral-like Gowanus Ballroom, a nineteenth century steel mill and current home of Serrett Metalworks, to interrogate various representations of the sacred and profane.
Works including stained glass, paintings embellished with gilt adornment, modern reinventions of medieval retables, a cabinet of curiosities, and an enchanted grotto form an installation that explores themes of spirituality, mysticism and religion. Revisiting historic interpretations of divine presence through a contemporary lens allows artist and audience to reconsider what might at first glance appear mundane.
Federico Ughi Quartet/Killer Bob
Friday, July 1st.
9 pm
Kae Reed Ensemble/Brad Balliet
Saturday, July 2nd. Exotic Post-Classical Magic Spells and an Electronic Bassoon.
8:30 pm.
JULY 1 ZARDOZ, dir. John Boorman. 1974
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Dumbo Arts Center's current exhibition is (The Missing Library). This summer, artist Annie Shaw has invited five artists (Jen Kennedy & Liz Linden, Marie Lorenz, Michelle Rosenberg and Angie Waller), an architect (Lori Brown) and two librarians (A.G. Graham and web-specialist Nate Hill) to turn DAC into a civic, non-commercial public space in the form of the Dumbo neighborhood's first library. The project encourages contemplation on how libraries' function, physical space, and role within communities is changing as the content libraries have traditionally housed migrates to a digital form.
MONDAY JULY 4th
PABLO MALAURIE. Pablo Malaurie hails from Buenos Aires playing original folklore on banjo and ukelele, songs that are sweet, timeless and oddly global. Soaring melodies evoke geisha girls and Buddy Holly in equal parts. He scored a Romanian film that premiered at this year's Cannes, Loverboy, and released El Festival Del Beso in Japan. Pablo's voice can pierce through you in a painful tremelo and then soothe your broken heart with a pleasing, unexpected harmony. KCRW's Jose Galvan says, "Malaurie combines both Japanese and South American folk rhythms with a minimalist approach. Some songs recreate traditional Japanese melodies simply using a mandolin banjo and a haunting falsetto. Others integrate rhythms more akin to indigenous music of the Andes. Add to that introspective lyrics and his affected Argentine accent and you've got the perfect soundtrack for a road trip in the Japanese countryside a la Motorcycle Diaries."
Rob Curto's PE DE SERRA ALL-STARS.
SUNDAY JULY 3rd
Accordionist Rob Curto's band plays Northeastern Brazil's traditional "forró pé de serra" with a style born out of New York City's diverse and dynamic musical culture. Forró is the accordion-based party music of the sertão, the dry interior of the Brazilian Northeast. Accordion master Rob Curto leads this ensemble which combines the classic brazilian Northeast forros of Luis Gonzagua and Jackson do Pandeiro with original compositions and improvisation rolled into an amazing dance party
Migration: MIN HYUNG, EUNAH KIM, MERIDITH PINGREE, GENEVIEVE WHITE
June 23 – July 30, 2011The life of an artist can be a nomadic one, for any number of reasons, amongst them financial, emotional and spiritual. In many instances, artists find more support and camaraderie in large urban areas, and for quite a few all roads eventually lead to New York (or London or Berlin). The four artists comprising "Migration", the summer show opening June 23rd at Freight+Volume, are no exception.
Dates: July 1 – 3, noon – 6 pm
Flux Factory is proud to present Specter Flux , an interactive environment and performance by artist-in-residence Peter Edwards, aka casperelectronics. The installation consists of three suspended orbs that glow at varying hues according to the sounds of its surroundings, including the ambient noise of the space and those made by the viewer. Its interior mechanism – a hybrid circuit using both digital and analogue electronics – transforms sound into an evolving display of multicolored lights. The performative element includes a constructed pyramid centered around a complex sound and light synthesizer that the artist plays. Viewers are invited to interact with the machine throughout the show.
Saturday July 2 4pm
This day-long event explores the practical, philosophical, and playful applications of the term "hacking." Presentations and workshops will cover topics such as circuit bending, culture jamming, dumpster diving, email encryption, and the repurposing of waste items into useful tools. The symposium is geared towards providing visitors with foundational information in order to become hackers themselves. Hackposiumis part of Flux Factory's Summer School program and is curated by Jaime Iglehart via New Age Beverages, in collaboration with Pete Edwards of Casper Electronics.
Demos of hacked objects and freegan snacks start at 4pm.
Talks and presentations start at 6 pm, and are followed by musical performances.
La Mama
June 23 – July 10, 2011
"A highly stylized adaptation of Hamlet performed in Korean, Hamyul feels like a traditional drama that could have been performed in the ancient Korean court." – nytheatre.comThursday – Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Hamyul/Hamlet is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The play is set in one of the ancient dynasties in Korea. The original Prince Hamyul, a Korean adaptation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare was presented to Western audiences in the United States and Europe in 1977. Adapted and directed by Minsoo Ahn, Prince Hamyul was the first Korean theatrical production ever performed outside Korea, making an indelible mark on the history of Korean theater thanks to the late Ellen Stewart at La MaMa.
Michael Attias's CLINAMEN ORCHESTRA@ THE STONE
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HRD-92-23: Published: Jan 23, 1992. Publicly Released: Feb 3, 1992.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) progress in improving health care services for female veterans, focusing on: (1) VA progress following a 1982 GAO report; and (2) the remaining barriers that restrict women's access to health care.
GAO found that: (1) since 1982, VA has made significant progress in ensuring that female veterans' access to health care is equal to that of male veterans; (2) VA created an Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and appointed a women veterans coordinator at each medical center, which resulted in increased emphasis on identifying and correcting problems; (3) physical examinations, including cancer screening for female veterans, continue to be sporadic; (4) VA medical centers are inadequately monitoring in-house mammography programs to ensure compliance with the American College of Radiology's standards; (5) centers have inadequate procedures to ensure that patient privacy limitations affecting female patients are identified and corrected during renovations; and (6) it could not identify any programs that were unable to accommodate female patients.
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Disability Compensation:Review of Concurrent Receipt of Department of Defense Retirement, Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation, and Social Security Disability InsuranceGAO-14-854R: Published: Sep 30, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 30, 2014.
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Land-Use Agreements:Department of Veterans Affairs Needs to Improve Data Reliability and MonitoringGAO-14-501: Published: Aug 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 17, 2014.
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Veterans Affairs:Better Understanding Needed to Enhance Services to Veterans Readjusting to Civilian LifeGAO-14-676: Published: Sep 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2014.
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Veterans Affairs:Data Needed to Help Improve Decisions Concerning Veterans' Access to Burial OptionsGAO-14-537: Published: Sep 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2014.
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VA Dialysis Pilot:Documentation of Plans for Concluding the Pilot Needed to Improve Transparency and AccountabilityGAO-14-646: Published: Sep 2, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 2, 2014.
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VA Disability Claims Processing:Preliminary Observations on Accuracy Rates and Quality Assurance ActivitiesGAO-14-731T: Published: Jul 14, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 14, 2014.
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VA Spina Bifida Program:Outreach to Key Stakeholders and Written Guidance for Claims Audit Follow-up Activities NeededGAO-14-564: Published: Jun 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2014.
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VA Health Care:Further Action Needed to Address Weaknesses in Management and Oversight of Non-VA Medical CareGAO-14-696T: Published: Jun 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 18, 2014.
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Health Care Access:Improved Oversight, Accountability, and Prioritization Can Improve Access for Native American VeteransGAO-14-489: Published: Jun 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 10, 2014.
Jun 9, 2014
Military Sexual Trauma:Improvements Made, but VA Can Do More to Track and Improve the Consistency of Disability Claim DecisionsGAO-14-477: Published: Jun 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2014.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 02/01/13 -- Attention: Business Editors
Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp. (the "Company") (TSX: PZA) and Pizza Pizza Limited ("PPL") today announced that effective January 1, 2013, the pool of restaurants (the "Royalty Pool"), on which royalties are paid to the Company by PPL, has been adjusted to reflect restaurant openings and closures.
Effective January 1, 2013, 21 new Pizza Pizza restaurants and one new Pizza 73 restaurant were added to the Royalty Pool. There were 18 non-traditional locations closed and removed from the Royalty Pool. Of the 21 new Pizza Pizza restaurants opened during 2012, ten were traditional restaurants and eleven were non-traditional locations. The one new Pizza 73 restaurant was a non-traditional location opened during the period from September 2, 2011 to September 1, 2012. Of the 18 non-traditional closures, 17 were Pizza Pizza locations and one was a Pizza 73 location.
After this annual adjustment, the 2013 Royalty Pool increases by a net of four restaurants to 694. In exchange for adding new restaurants to the Royalty Pool, PPL will be compensated in equivalent shares using an agreed-upon formula which includes estimating future royalties to be paid to the Company based on the new restaurant sales. Additional details about this formula are provided in the following paragraphs.
Annually, on January 1 (the "Adjustment Date"), the Royalty Pool is adjusted to include the forecasted system sales from new Pizza Pizza restaurants opened on or before December 31 of the prior year, less system sales from any Pizza Pizza restaurants that have been permanently closed during the year. Similarly, on the Adjustment Date, the Royalty Pool is adjusted to include the forecasted system sales from new Pizza 73 restaurants opened on or before September 1 of the prior year, less the system sales of any Pizza 73 restaurants permanently closed during the prior calendar year. These Pizza 73 forecasted system sales may also be reduced by any decrease in system sales attributable to certain Pizza 73 restaurants whose territory may have been adjusted during the year (an "adjusted restaurant" as defined in the License and Royalty Agreement for the Pizza 73 Royalty Pool restaurants).
PPL holds Class B and Class D units of Pizza Pizza Royalty Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), which are exchangeable for a number of Company shares ("Shares") based on the Class B and Class D Exchange Multipliers (the "equivalent Shares"). At each annual Adjustment Date, the Class B and Class D Exchange Multipliers for the coming year are determined in accordance with the Partnership's limited partnership agreement. This, in turn, affects the number of equivalent Shares held by PPL. The formula for determining the Exchange Multipliers is based on the Determined Amounts which are calculated using the forecasted system sales from new restaurants less system sales from any closed and adjusted restaurants, multiplied by the applicable royalty rate, divided by the yield of the Shares, and discounted by 7.5%.
Beginning with last year's Adjustment Date on January 1, 2012 and going forward, the Determined Amounts are multiplied by a number equal to (1-Tax%) where "Tax%" is an estimate of the Company's effective entity level tax rate for the year. This maintains the accretive effect to shareholders of the annual Royalty Pool adjustment. This estimate of the effective tax rate will be subject to an adjustment when the year's actual tax rate of the Company is known.
From January 1 Adjustment Date, PPL is entitled to receive 80% of the calculated, additional equivalent Shares and distributions thereon resulting from a change in an Exchange Multiplier. The final equivalent Shares entitlement is determined following the year-end when the restaurants' actual sales performance is known with certainty. At that time, if the actual system sales exceeded 80% of the forecasted system sales, PPL would be entitled to additional equivalent Shares to reflect that difference. Conversely, if the actual system sales are less than 80% of the forecasted system sales, PPL must return a calculated portion of the equivalent Shares with which it was previously credited. In any given year, the calculated Exchange Multipliers cannot be less than at the end of the previous year.
Effective January 1, 2013, the Class B Exchange Multiplier is adjusted based on the 2013 forecasted system sales of $6.6 million from the 21 new Pizza Pizza restaurants, less sales of $3.4 million from 17 permanently closed Pizza Pizza non-traditional restaurants resulting in net, forecasted Pizza Pizza system sales of $3.2 million added to the Royalty Pool. The Class D Exchange Multiplier will not be adjusted at this time since the 2013 forecasted additional system sales from the one new Pizza 73 non-traditional restaurant, estimated at $100,000, is offset by $100,000 in sales from one permanently closed non-traditional restaurant, resulting in no estimated sales being added to the Royalty Pool.
In exchange for adding the forecasted Pizza Pizza system sales to the Royalty Pool, PPL has received 163,054 additional equivalent Shares (through the change to the Class B Exchange Multiplier). These represent 80% of the forecasted equivalent Shares entitlement to be received (203,817 equivalent Shares represent 100%), with the final equivalent Shares entitlement to be determined when the new restaurants' 2013 actual sales performance is known with certainty in early 2014.
On January 1, 2013, PPL added no Pizza 73 system sales to the Royalty Pool due to one non-traditional Pizza 73 restaurant opening and one closing. Therefore, PPL has received no additional Class D equivalent Shares. Final Class D equivalent Shares will be determined when the new restaurant's 2013 actual sales performance is known with certainty in early 2014.
After giving effect to these additional, equivalent Share entitlements at January 1, 2013, PPL now owns equivalent Shares representing 27.1% of the Company's fully diluted Shares.
Table 1 - Summary of the Company's Outstanding and Fully-Diluted Shares, including an analysis before and after the 20% entitlement holdback:
Issued & Outstanding Issued & Shares, Outstanding Equivalent SharesShares outstanding & issuable Shares, and and Holdback of on December 31, 2012 Equivalent Shares Equivalent Shares-------------------------------------------------------------------------Public float 21,818,392 21,818,392Class B equivalent Shares held by PPL 6,338,554 6,338,554 (1)PPL Additional Class B equivalent Shares - 20% Holdback as of December 31, 2012 - 66,205 (1)Class D equivalent Shares held by PPL 1,547,131 1,547,131 (2)PPL Additional Class D equivalent Shares - 20% Holdback as of December 31, 2012 - 940 (2) -----------------------------------------Fully-diluted Shares 29,704,077 29,771,222-------------------------------------------------------------------------Percentage of fully-diluted Shares available for exchange by PPL at December 31, 2012 26.5% 26.7%-------------------------------------------------------------------------Shares outstanding & issuable after January 1, 2013 Annual AdjustmentPublic float 21,818,392 21,818,392Class B equivalent Shares held by PPL 6,404,759 6,404,759 (1)Class D equivalent Shares held by PPL 1,548,071 1,548,071 (2)Additional PPL Class B equivalent Shares as of January 1, 2013 (80%) 163,054 163,054 (3)Additional PPL Class B equivalent Shares - 20% Holdback as of January 1, 2013 - 40,763 (4)Additional PPL Class D equivalent Shares as of January 1, 2013 (80%) - - (3)Additional PPL Class D equivalent Shares - 20% Holdback as of January 1, 2013 - - (4) -----------------------------------------Number of fully-diluted Shares 29,934,276 29,975,039-------------------------------------------------------------------------Percentage of fully-diluted Shares available for exchange by PPL at January 1, 2013 27.1% 27.2%-------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) The final calculation of the equivalent Shares entitlement related tothe six net Pizza Pizza restaurants that were removed from the Royalty Poolon January 1, 2012 was completed and independently reviewed in early 2013,and became effective as of January 1, 2012. Actual Additional System Salesof new restaurants for 2012 were greater than Forecasted Additional SystemSales. As a result of the true-up, PPL's Class B equivalent Shares increasedby 66,205 and 2012 distributions thereon were paid to PPL in January 2013from the Partnership effective January 1, 2012.(2) The final calculation of the equivalent Shares entitlement related tothe one net Pizza 73 restaurant that was added to the Royalty Pool onJanuary 1, 2012 was completed and independently reviewed in early 2013, andbecame effective as of January 1, 2012. Actual Additional System Sales ofthe new restaurant for 2012 was slightly higher than Forecasted AdditionalSystem Sales. As a result of the true-up, PPL's Class D equivalent Sharesincreased by 940 and 2012 distributions thereon were paid to PPL in January2013 from the Partnership effective January 1, 2012.(3) Additional Class B and Class D equivalent Shares available January 1,2013 are shown in the table. The final equivalent Shares entitlement will bedetermined in early 2014, effective January 1, 2013, once actual sales ofthe restaurants are known. Note that forecasted Pizza 73 system sales addedto the Royalty Pool were zero due to one non-traditional Pizza 73 restaurantopening and one closing. Therefore, PPL has received no additional Class Dequivalent Shares on January 1, 2013.(4) A preliminary calculation of the 20% holdback of equivalent Sharesentitlement was done as of January 1, 2013 using the net, positive,forecasted sales from the addition of 22 restaurants to the Royalty Poolless the closure of 18 non-traditional restaurants subtracted from theRoyalty Pool on January 1, 2013. The final Class B and D equivalent Sharesentitlement will be determined in early 2014, effective January 1, 2013 onceactual sales of the restaurants are known.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release, including those concerning forecasted sales performance of new restaurants and related adjustments to the Exchange Multipliers, may constitute "forward-looking" statements, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
When used in this press release, such statements include such words as "may", "will", "expect", "believe", "plan", and other similar meaning in conjunction with a discussion of future operating or financial performance. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance of the restaurants added to the Royalty Pool and speak only as of the date of this press release. Material factors or assumptions reflected in the presentation of Forecasted Additional System Sales include: demographic and competitive studies, historical sales performance of similar stores and economic forecasts for the retail industry. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The following are some factors that could affect the forecasted performance of these restaurants, causing actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or underlying such forward-looking statements: competition, the store owner's performance, changes in demographic trends, changing consumer preferences and discretionary spending patterns, changes in national and local business and economic conditions, and legislation and governmental regulation. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive and should be considered in conjunction with the other risks and uncertainties described in the Fund's 2011 Annual Information Form. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward looking statements, except as required by applicable securities laws.
Pizza Pizza Limited
Curtis Feltner
Chief Financial Officer
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text: If you think of Greece currently you might perhaps think of sunny islands, funny people and ouzo all over the place. Greek region besides all those things have a great electronic scene and Mihalis Safras is definitely one of its most important representatives.The calibre of Mihalis's studio output uniquely fall's in‐between these two and since his early studio outputs, his elongated, aching yet versatile and percussive tech-house tracks have made their way onto the most hyped labels on the techouse. While having collaborated with a variety of well known artists, Mihalis has exercised room‐filling soundscapes determined and driving techouse combined with the most moving of musical melodies. Hailed as the Material head honcho – also encompassing equally well regarded sub labels Mr. Carter, Playmobil & Materialism – Safras employs a talent that stretches far beyond the 4/4, referencing the likes of Jean Mitchell as a foremost influence, Mihalis' output is an expression of sound that veers into the dark depths of techno and onto the soulful highs of house. After a long stint in techno capital, Berlin, during in which Sven Vath championed his single "Interafrica" for no less than 3 months solid, over charts/sets & playlists alike, and Apple picked up on "La Sambra" for their 2010 product campaign, Safras returned to Greece in 2013 to further his career with UK tech house mainstay Toolroom Records and launch a partnership with longstanding dance label, Skint Records. With the return to his home, Safras delivered a string of singles that took to the heart of club land whilst also continuing to work on (and releasing) his long awaited debut album on Mark Knight's, Toolroom. With the success on the production side, Mihalis was also able to enjoy his pride and joy of vinyl DJing to serious degrees of triumph, at some of the most well regarded clubs and events over the most important territories there is. Leading UK dance festival Global Gathering, Miami WMC and Ibiza's Ushuaia were just a few of the life long ambitions to be ticked off the 'to do' list. Worth mentioning that many of his productions have been used for the official worlds famous complication of Loveparade, Pacha, DJM, Space Ibiza and even Apples iPhone campaign. Furthmore as from 2013, Mihalis started a Radio show on 88.6 FM Radio station, former NRG FM. Stay tuned for more news on the News Section. Wikipedia article states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihalis_Safras http://www.mihalissafras.comSelected discography Mihalis SafrasDiscogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mihalis+Safras Catalog: http://www.beatport.com/artist/mihalis-safras/33398