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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland transportation secretary Beverley Swaim-Staley will step down from her post July 1.
Officials announced Monday that Swaim-Staley, the first woman to head the state's transportation department, is leaving the job after 25 years of state service.
It is unclear what Swaim-Staley's next step will be, said Jack Cahalan, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Transportation.
There is no specific reason for her departure.
"In her mind it's time," Cahalan said. "It's just the right time."
Gov. Martin O'Malley named Swaim-Staley secretary in 2009.
"Throughout her tenure, she has solidified her reputation as a skilled and forward-thinking executive," O'Malley said in a statement. "With her strong background in both finance and transportation, Beverley guided our transportation efforts during the most difficult economic downturn this country has faced in generations."
Swaim-Staley recently underscored the state's transportation funding woes, pointing to the need for revenues to fund projects across Maryland.
She served on a commission that recommended the legislature increase the tax on gasoline by 15 cents over three years to pay for road improvements and other projects. Neither that proposal nor a recommendation from O'Malley to apply the state's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline was approved by the legislature this year.
Previously, Swaim-Staley served as deputy transportation secretary and oversaw changes in security at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In his statement, O'Malley credits Swaim-Staley with guiding projects including a public-private partnership at the Port of Baltimore and the opening of the Intercounty Connector, a highway connecting interstates in the Washington suburbs.
Discussions about Swaim-Staley's replacement are just beginning, said Takirra Winfield, an O'Malley spokeswoman.
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An Actor Channels His Inner Journalist to Play a Marine
Jonny Orsini's passionate preparation for his latest role
"I wanted to become a journalist before I became an actor," says Jonny Orsini. "I think I approach roles the way a journalist approaches stories."
That means he does a serious amount of research for every part he plays. Take his work in Almost Home, a new drama by Walter Anderson that's now at Theatre Row in a production from The Directors Company. Orsini plays Johnny Barnett, a Marine going back to the Bronx after serving in Vietnam. The character not only confronts his own guilt at being called a hero, but also grapples with the expectations of his family and mentors, some of whom have shady ulterior motives.
For Orsini, who's too young to remember what Vietnam veterans faced when they came back to America, books and films have been essential to his preparation. Even more importantly, he's had long conversations with Anderson, who fought in Vietnam himself. "Walter didn't necessarily experience everything in the play, but a lot of it draws from his life," the actor says. "So to have him in the room was incredible. And he had the best suggestions about what to read and what to watch."
The research, though, is only part of Orsini's journalistic impulse. "I was always interested in learning about people and things that weren't necessarily widely known and then bringing the story to light," he says. "If you've gone through something and you feel alone, then seeing it in a respectfully told story can make you feel less isolated. Anything I can do to make people feel less alone is very much what I want to do with my life." [Read more →]
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This Time Around, The Play's a Big Deal
For its return to New York, John Cariani's Almost, Maine is a proven hit
Extreme, near-Arctic cold can be an isolating purgatory–or, if northern Maine native John Cariani is right, it can be a valuable organizer of priorities.
"I don't think you can survive there very well with a bleak worldview," says Cariani, an accomplished character actor and playwright whose Almost, Maine is currently in revival at the Gym at Judson in a production from Transport Group. "You have to learn to manage your pain in a place where it's very difficult to make a living. You make things work. You don't spend a lot of time complaining about it. There's a lot of complaining here in New York. I admire the lid that Mainers keep on it: Whenever there's a problem, you know, the solution is to get to work to solve the problem."
Indeed, Almost, Maine–an anthology of vignettes about various current, former, and would-be couples on a fateful night in the fictional title town–was itself the solution to a problem.
"When you're a character actor, you always end up helping the main guy get the girl, or main girl get the guy—you don't get a whole lot for yourself," says Cariani, who starred on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof and has reams of acting credits on TV and in regional theatre. "I just found it very interesting that non-hot people don't get to have love in movies and plays. So I thought it would be fun to write scenes for my friends who are character actors."
There was another deficit Cariani hoped to redress with his first play: "Most of the work generated in New York is about urban people, in urban settings. I was disappointed there weren't any great plays about rural people that didn't make them seem stupid or pathetic, or more awesome than they are."
New York didn't seem to appreciate the favor: The initial 2006 run of Almost, Maine at the Daryl Roth Theatre got mostly dismissive reviews and closed after a month of performances, losing its entire $800,000 capitalization.
But a strange thing has happened in the years since: Published by Dramatists Play Service, and included in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays" anthology that year, the show has since become one of Dramatists' most-produced titles, with productions in several languages around the world and hundreds of high school stagings.
Practical as ever, Cariani attributes the play's popularity in part to "cast size. And there's a lot of room—a lot of ways to interpret the play." Indeed, he's flattered not only by the quantity of productions, but also by their quality: "It's astonishing what people have done with the play; it's the highest compliment when people think hard about something you've created, to have great minds wrap around something you've written." [Read more →]
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I'm Rich and Crazy for a Reason
The careful chaos of the Rude Mechs' Stop Hitting Yourself
Even if they never talked to us or invited us to strip naked for money, the Rude Mechs could still make a point with their latest show.
Now premiering as part of Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 program, Stop Hitting Yourself wonders if it's possible to be truly generous in a wealthy society. On the most literal level, it asks this question by following a contest in a queen's palace. The queen is so wealthy that everything in her ballroom is made of gold and her fountain spews a bubbling stream of queso dip, and by promising to grant the contest winner a request, she dangles the dream of similar luxury. After all, who wouldn't want to be a nobleman or own a queso fountain of their own?
The status quo is subverted, though, when a "wild man" enters the game, startling everyone with his tangled hair and earnest love for plants. If he wins, he says, he'll ask the queen to take better care of the world, which seems to create a tidy contrast between the selfish rich and the generous poor.
But the Rude Mechs, a theatre collective from Austin, Texas, are never that simple. They create their shows themselves, which gives them the freedom to detonate our expectations of what a story is supposed to do. In Stop Hitting Yourself, for instance, the tale of the queen's contest gets interrupted by tap dances and odd little pop songs and explanations from the Wildman about what's going to happen at the end of the show.
More importantly, the plot gets sidetracked when the performers drop their characters and speak as themselves. Sometimes, they step to the front of the stage and tell personal stories about times they were wasteful. Sometimes, they put audience members through increasingly embarrassing paces to see what they'll do for money.
These detours are vital to the show. "It's very important that we have those moments where we break out and are just ourselves, so we can acknowledge that we are in the space with you," says Lana Lesley, a performer in Stop Hitting Yourself and one of the company's six co-artistic directors. "As we're talking about money and wealth and greed and the idea of charity, we can really examine ourselves." [Read more →]
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Putting a Face on a Military Tragedy
Charles Fuller's One Night confronts sexual assault in our armed forces
Last year, the military prosecuted approximately 300 cases of sexual assault or impropriety, but that's nothing: Roughly 3,000 cases were reported, and it's estimated that 26,000 instances of unwanted sexual conduct actually occurred.
"If you don't know anybody in the military, do you really care about that?" asks playwright Charles Fuller. "We really don't want to look at the fact that people are being mistreated. Or if we do look, we don't look long."
That's partially why Fuller wrote One Night, which is now at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a co-production with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The play follows an ex-servicewoman named Alicia who's forced into a seedy motel room after a fire consumes the homeless shelter where she lives with a troubled fellow veteran named Horace. In the midst of her present crisis, she's also haunted by flashbacks of what happened when she served: After being sexually assaulted by three fellow servicemen, she pressed charges against them, only to have her case mishandled by her commanding officer.
Fuller knows this is not an easy story for an audience to hear, but that's his point. "The play was written in my heart of hearts because somebody had to say something about this in a way that would make us understand [the problem] easier than we do when it's simply statistics."
When Fuller first heard about the mounting nightmare of sexual assault in the military, he was astounded. This was a different army than the one he knew when he served in Korea. "When you serve with somebody, that's your buddy, that's your comrade," he says. "You look to that person to save your life if your life is in jeopardy. How dare you think that you can rape them? How dare you think you can mistreat them in the matter in which these women and men have been mistreated since they've been in the military? That's horrifying. To me that goes against all the values and rules of what soldiering and what being in the military is supposed to be about." [Read more →]
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The "Boy" Is Back After 65 Years
Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy finally returns to Broadway
Terence Rattigan spent a decade as one of the most celebrated playwrights of the 20th century, writing hits like Separate Tables, The Deep Blue Sea, and The Browning Version before the 1956 advent of John Osborne and kitchen-sink drama made his well-made plays seem old hat. Despite the odd film or stage production, his work was largely forgotten decades.
Recently, however, he has returned in force, with major revivals in the West End and last year's critically lauded film adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea bringing him to renewed cultural prominence. The Roundabout has also been part of the mini-movement. They revived Rattigan's Man and Boy in 2011, and from now until December 1, they're presenting one of his first major hits, the 1946 drama The Winslow Boy.
On Broadway for the first time since its initial run ended in 1948, The Winslow Boy follows a 14 year-old who is expelled from military school for stealing a five-shilling postal order in 1917. Convinced his son is innocent, the boy's father (Roger Rees) takes the matter all the way to the House of Commons, suing the Crown for a fair trial.
All of this could be deadly for American audiences unfamiliar with either the era's rigid codes of honor or the British judicial system, but Lindsay Posner's production finds the actors casually tossing off complicated legalese with clarity and precision.
That level of comfort with the material is all the more remarkable given that this is mostly an American cast. They're the only all-new component of a production that was originally presented at the Old Vic. Even the sets are recreated from that staging, with only a door slightly moved to fit the stage at the American Airlines Theatre. And though Posner had some trepidation about fitting new actors into a previous production, he quickly overcame his concerns.
"I deliberately put the [Old Vic production] out of my mind," he says. "You have a kind of sense memory when you work on a play, but this was just a normal process. We spent the first days sitting around a table talking about lines of dialogue, and then once everyone stands on their feet, they know they're working to something." [Read more →]
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What can I do if my husband won't help with the baby or the housework?
I'm grateful that I can stay home with our 6-month-old, but my husband doesn't realize that while his job is Monday through Friday, mine is seven days a week. It's like pulling teeth to get him to watch our 6-month-old for half an hour so I can take a shower or just get a breather. He won't change a diaper unless I ask, and then he gives me a hard time about it. The same goes for feedings or even giving the baby attention. I can't get him to clean, cook, or help with the laundry either. I'm exhausted and I never have time for myself. What can I do?
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I've had both worlds. My 1st hubby did nothing but yell at me and tell me how worthless I was. I had a new baby, went back to full time nursing school when she was 5 days old, and back to full time work on top of school when she was 5 weeks old. Thank God for grandma!!!! My 2nd hubby does everything around the house. He cooks, cleans, does laundry, feeds baby, changes her, gets up with her during the night, the whole nine yards PLUS. This time around and I am a stay at home mom and it's much harder than working outside the home. I've only had a couple of times to go out and about by myself without the kids and I forgot how "simple" it is. If it doesn't get better, put your foot down. I heard this saying and it so applies to my 1st hubby. "Any man can be a father, it takes someone special to be a daddy." LOL my 1st hubby wasn't even a father, I just referred to him as the sperm donor. I divorced him when our daughter was 2 1/2 and he didn't do anything for her until she was 9. She's almost 12 and FINALLY being a dad. My 2nd hubby and I will be married for 2 years in April and he's done more for me in the first week than my ex did for me in the 7 years we were together. Thank God for 2nd chances.posted 01/28/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
I feel your pain!! I am in the same situation. My hubby works 3rd shift, so it's pretty much like I'm on my own most of the time. I have to TELL him to watch our son or do whatever. It's often like pulling teeth. He has come around a little, but it's still very difficult. He works 6 days a week, and I know he gets tired. BUT, my job is 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. So, I know it is very difficult. You probably feel you have no "me" time and get that sort of "caged in" feeling. It's normal given the circumstances. Just hang in there and hopefully he will come around. You just will have to talk to him ALOT. Men are pretty thick skulled and have no concept of what it takes to take care of a baby. I enjoy every second I have with my son and love being a mother. But it is a hard job and everyday brings on it's new challenges. It would be easier if our husbands could be more understanding and helpful. But, we are women and we are strong and always somehow find that strength to move on and take care of what needs to be done. You just hand in there!!!!posted 01/28/2007 by MommieToPhoenix
I am in a similar situation only I have been working from home trying to wrap up an illustration contract started before our early arrival. I'm averaging 3 hrs sleep a night, no naps during the day cuz when baby sleeps, I WORK! Weekends? Its 11am and he's still sleeping. I've been up most of the night and am currently burping baby, working...and now looking for advice! Help!posted 01/20/2007 by chloecat06
according to me, I think when you have NB in the house it takes little time for both of you to adjust in the new eviornment. wait and see if your husband come along with it his own, or for short peroid of time put on the act that you are having health problem because of the lot of stress looking after baby as well as the chores around the house. act like you are running the one man show around the house..my advice do everything for him to get him in your hand.. by putting on the tired act, he'll come around and offer you help or if not have a healthy talk with him atleast you dint miss your part running the family so he wont have anything to say but help you at the end...posted 12/18/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
My husband is the same way! to the T. except when he's home he's outside smoking. He goes out and parties 6 days out of the week and won't come home until after midnight! I left him last week. Nothings changed. He doesn't want children. But we have an 9 mth old son.posted 11/13/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
To be honest, a REAL mother can be a SAHM or a WM, both jobs can be both fulfilling and hard/stressful depending on the individual situation. I'm a WM, mainly because I enjoy working and being able to contribute to my family's income and because I was a single mother for nearly ten years. I give props to ALL parents (both moms and dads) who do their best to maintain a stable household. It's a hard job , but if we do it right the reward can't be beat.posted 09/11/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
I think all you SAHM's need to give your husbands a break. Yes I know that taking care of a baby is work but a dad who has to financially support a family all by himself has worries that the SAHM can't truly understand until she has been the sole source of income for a family. Being the only breadwinner is a tremendous amount of pressure. And you SAHM's need to also realize that your job is one that you can never get fired or laid off from. Not so for a working parent! I've known working dads with stay at home spouses who have had to work many hours because the type of job they have requires it and if they don't do what is required they won't have a job and therefore no way to support their family! It's not easy to have that kind of pressure.posted 09/10/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
Annonymus, You are crazy to think that a mom who works all day and DUMPS her kid off on family or daycare is great! The hardest job is staying at home! Working is a COP OUT! LAZY MOMS! Anyone can make ends meet to raise thier children. Move to a smaller house and get a cheaper car! What's more important?? MONEY? or BABY? Lazy, & selfish people drop their kids off all day! YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT IT's LIKE!posted 08/27/2006 by july25wed
I think your husband will do what YOU LET HIM GET AWAY WITH! Don't hog the baby and let him feel as if he is a part of it. I didn't do that with my first, but when my second came he was all his. He is actually a GREAT DAD! He is able to take both of my kids and handle them a lot better than me! Don't let him tell you that he works all day, that is not an excuse to not be there for you or the kids. EVERYONE works! My husband works night shifts(12hrs), Day shifts(12hrs, 24 hour shifts, and is Medical Director at a nursing home. He WORKS PLENTY HARD, but not as hard as I DO! GIVE THEM A CHANCE, hand over the kid and WALK OUT the door. I bet you that the baby will be fine when you come home and he will have more confidence the next time you leave. TRUST HIM! YOU MARRIED THE GUY! GIVE IT A CHANCE.posted 08/27/2006 by july25wed
Oh, one more thing anonymous... If you are a woman then obviously you are a working mom. And you have no idea what it is like to be at home all day with a baby. You obviously send your child to daycare. Being at home all day with a small child is very draining. Being at home with your child all day and having absolutley no time to yourself to pee or take a crap can get you down and then your husband walks in the door and plops down in front of the TV and doesn't give you a break to be alone for 5 minutes. You have to be able to take care of yourself to have a good relationship with your husband. last night my son sat in my lap while I took a sh*t because I had no where to put him and no dad to take him because he was busy talking on the phone as he usually does and taking one of his million smoke breaks that last hours. You feel really alone when you have no help with your child. So please, keep your rude comments to yourself. You don't have a clue.posted 08/24/2006 by MrsBW
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Saturday lunch near Lenox
We're meeting friends in a few weeks to listen to a Saturday morning rehearsal program at Tanglewood, then on to lunch.
So I'm looking for suggestions. We'd probably prefer something in West Stockbridge/Stockbridge/Lee to Lenox itself, but I'm open to anything. What about Great Barrington? Too far?
I've found these so far:
Shaker Mill Taven
Sullivan Station
Salmon Run Fish House
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78 Main St, Lee, MA 01238
Your options in downtown Lenox are Alta (gets good reviews) The Heritage (local "sports bar",good burgers, spotty service), Firefly (consistently awful) , Bistro Zinc (pricey tourist trap), the Village inn (resonably priced,outside dining) Spoon (haven't been), Betty's Pizza shack(fair pizza) and a couple of ice cream joints.
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Church Street Cafe?
Church Street Cafe
65 Church St Ste 201, Lenox, MA 01240
re: BerkshireTsarina
I agree - Once Upon a Table is wonderful It is tiny though, so if you don't get there early excpet to wait. I also like Church Street for lunch in Lenox.
Church Street Cafe
65 Church St Ste 201, Lenox, MA 01240
re: wincountrygirl
Church Street Cafe's ownership and chef have changed, no reviews yet though.
Church Street Cafe
65 Church St Ste 201, Lenox, MA 01240
Agree with Once upon a Table and Alta. Would cross Sullivan Station and Michael's off your list.
Only you can say if Great Barrington is too far, but it takes about 20 minutes from Tanglewood. If you consider it, suggest Cafe Adam, Xicotencatl, or Bizalion.
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I heard Fin is not doing lunch this year --- haven't checked it out yet, but so far, no sign of life at lunchtime.
re: BerkshireTsarina
you're right... i was just in town and Fin is closed:(
re: rhoneranger
I totally agree with Rhoneranger! But didn't think Fin was now open for lunch.
I do nt know what all these people know about Once Upon a Table that I do not and have NEVER figured out. Nobody has mentioned Cafe Adam--arguably the best restaurant in Great Barrington. It is before downtown Great Barrington and has its own parking lot; the food is creative, wonderful, locovore, and reasonably priced.
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Re: Once Upon a Table --
Charming? Friendly service? Interesting food, sometimes rising to heights? Not overpriced? (Quite a trick these days when prices are soaring) A little funky? Fun? My comments, but evidently shared.
Cafe Adam is a different ball game, an expensive exceptional restaurant. Dinner is when it's outstanding, lunch less so. And it demands (and repays) TIME.
Both of these are really good picks, as is Alta.They're all different, so it's kind of what you want, and what you want to pay.
If Rouge were open for lunch it would be another good choice, but I don't think it is.
Cafe Adam
325 Stockbridge Rd Ste 4, Great Barrington, MA 01230
re: BerkshireTsarina
I disagree about Once Upon A Table...the few times I have eaten there, it has been fairly mediocre. About prices...I think people are totally out of touch with food costs and are taking it personally. From what I have gathered, it is becoming harder and harder for those operating in the genre of choices mentioned above to make a living. You want expensive (for what you get)?...I'll give you expensive. I had a sandwich recently at Rubi's...one slice of bread, cut in half, each half with a slather of goat cheese and a slice of piquillo pepper...8.50 for half a sandwich?
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Rubi's, IMHO, has always been a total ripoff AND the service is abysmal at best
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I completely agree with your review of Rubi's. The food is mediocre at best, WAY overpriced and not worth it. I understand from some of the locals that Rubiners used to be part of a larger market/cafe in Richmond and the food there was terrific. My guess is none of that same staff is cooking in the Great Barrington location.
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And one more thing I just thought of about prices...a good number of these restaurants buy as much locally as possible...farm to table ALWAYS adds to a restaurant's food costs. About Rubi's--had it been a WHOLE sandwich and maybe a tiny side, I would have been okay with it. But, a half sandwich with cheese and a slice of pepper--well, I will not do that again any time soon.
re: BerkshireTsarina
With you all the way, Tsarina. Sadly, Rouge is not open for lunch--opens at 5.
Try the Morgan House in downtown Lee,Ma.
Huge portions,really good food, in an old Inn atmosphere.
We prefer to sit at the bar where there is always a lively conversation going on.
I had fish andchips over the weekend and there was one huge portion of lightly-battered cod served not the usual heavily-breaded small chunks of cod found most elsewhere.
Also the prices are very reasonable compared to some of the other places mentioned here.
re: catnip
Last week I had a very good lunch at Cafe Adam. This is run by someone (Adam?) with integrity and not in it only for the revenue. I had the smoked salmon (smoked in the smoker behind the restaurant) and whipped avocado on two open baguette slices accompanied by a bowl of gazpacho. I'm going back a few more times before the summer is out.
The old stand-by Red Lion Inn (the main dining room) is dependable. I almost always have clam chowder and roasted real turkey with a decent amount of dark meat along with mashed potatoes. The restaurant is very civilized with a decent wine list (tilted towards America) that isn't overpriced.
After these two, it looks to me like a drop to the next level with your life in your hands. The Aegean Breeze, very close by to Cafe Adam, is likeeable. Portions are generous and the food reasonably fresh. The whole fish is okay, but undoubedly farmed (but ask about it as there could always be an exception or two).
Red Lion Inn
30 Main St, Stockbridge, MA 01262
Aegean Breeze Restaurant
327 Stockbridge Rd, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Cafe Adam
325 Stockbridge Rd Ste 4, Great Barrington, MA 01230
re: Robert Brown
.sorry double post!
re: Robert Brown
Boy, I really disagree about red Lion and Aegean Breeze; I would avoid both at all costs!
Aegean Breeze Restaurant
327 Stockbridge Rd, Great Barrington, MA 01230
re: magiesmom
I agree mm! Red Lion Inn may be 'civilized', but the food is poor at best, tired and mediocre. Also agree with the review of Rubi's, too dear and costly for what you get. I would avoid Great Barrington anyway.
Pittsfield is only 7 miles from Tanglewood and has a great variety of ethnic and local choices. i would go to Cafe Reva for the best lunch (breakfast too), Brix Winebar is great, don't know if it's open for lunch in the summer.
Viva was great when we ate there a couple of years ago, if they're serving lunch I would try them also
Shaker Mill Tavern recently lost its chef, so maybe it would be a good time to hit them for lunch. The food is probably better!
Cafe Reva
238 Tyler St, Pittsfield, MA 01201
40 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201
re: magiesmom
I'm with you completely, magiesmom. The Red Lion is high on atmosphere, though all tourists in season. However, the food is barely adequate. Friend and I both had inedible lunches (old, tasted spoiled) this winter at Aegean Breeze and would never eat there again.
re: magiesmom
I agree with you also about the Red Lion.
We never eat there anymore.
The food is way overpriced and ,like cowgirlinthesand said,poor at best.
We had a decent and elegantly served breakfast there last Winter but Haven in Lenox is the much better choice for breakfast imo.
re: catnip
I only order the clam chowder and the turkey at the Red Lion Inn. That's all I addressed. I like the ambiance. Management hasn't mucked it up.
Red Lion Inn
30 Main St, Stockbridge, MA 01262
re: Robert Brown
I agree that the ambiance is still great and I love drinking at the bar but the quality of the food is what we post about here and I think most of the food is mediocre as many have said here as of late.
I can remember when you got a great meal at a reasonable price at the Red Lion and that is what makes this all so sad;the quality of the food having slipped so much from what I can remember about the great food they USED to serve.
re: magiesmom
Agree that Red Lion Inn is lousy. Went to Aegean Breeze once and found the food OK, but pricey fish, and the decor quite depressing.
re: catnip
Is Morgan House really good? I had read such bad things about it.
re: City Kid
No, not good. I am not quick to complain, but the one time we went for dinner it was a pretty bad experience. A ravioli special consisted of (still) frozen ravioli - not only was it clearly not made by them but they couldn't even successfully heat it up. We ordered wine but it did not arrive until after we were done eating because the bar was "busy."
A year or so later we tried to stop in for lunch, and although there were plenty of tables the hostess told us we probably didn't want to eat there because a large group was coming soon and no one would be able to pay attention to us. So we didn't.
However I read something about new management or ownership or something so I guess it's possible it's different now.
re: City Kid
They have a new chef.
We ate there last weekend,at the bar,and the fish and chips were great imo.
Try it again and see what you think.
It reminds me of a local tavern in an old Inn.
Understand that we like to eat a a friendly bar with grea tbar food and the Morgan House fills that bill nicely imo.
Another suggestion...I keep forgetting about Orient Express in West Stockbridge...really wonderful Viet Namese...very good food...they ARE open for lunch daily in the summer.
Went today with husband to Once Upon a Table for lunch. (My own post reminded me of it!)
Had a delightful lunch, it's a charming place. Food at worst is okay, portions adequate if not very big (I don't like big portions anyway), and price is still reasonable. AND my crabcakes were delicious! Now that Alta has quit making the best in the world, I'm ranking these right up there.
AND AND --- I forgot to mention profiteroles for dessert. The BEST. Anybody has good ice cream to put in them, but the chocolate sauce --- more like hot fudge --- is SWOON.
AND AND AND if you're worried about calories, you can order a half portion (which is two cream puff profiteroles). It doesn't say so on the menu, but if you ask, they'll say yes.
I second the non-Aegean Breeze people, although it makes me sad. I want to like it, but the food just hasn't been good whenever I've tried it. (I do know people who like it.)
Don't think Brix is ever open for lunch ---
Also reporting on MISSION BAR AND TAPAS! (Goodness, long report) Went there for lunch at last, having heard good things for years. Sure enough, food was excellent. Potatoes Bravas a standout, interesting Spanish tortilla "of the day", so it changes. Wine, beer, tapas, what's not to love?
At night there's music, I know that, and I would assume it's a lively young (or young-ish) crowd, which isn't us. But we plan to do lunch again and investigate more tapas. Good welcome, too.
40 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201
re: BerkshireTsarina
We did Once Upon a Table for lunch over the weekend.
We loved their clam chowder.
The finely chpped clams were just great in that excellent chowder.
Like you said the prices aren't bad;we found the service excellent.
I liked their reubens also,but like yousaid,the portions are adequate not huge.
re: BerkshireTsarina
Mission doesn't get too crowded with the younger, partying folks till well after 7, so it's still a very comfortable place if you're having an earlier dinner. More specials at dinnertime too. Had cockles for the first time there this winter,
Great Barrington has many great choices for lunch. There is Baba Louies Pizza and their wonderful organic salads. There is the Coop with their extensive selection of foods prepared there. I recomend the Mediteranian box. There is Bizen excellent Japanese. Bizalion near the Big y plaza is fantastic if you have time. And Martins at the top of Railroad street has all the standards done well reasonably priced.
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The contemporary crisis of capitalism has made markedly visible the relationship between finance capital and property speculation, between the concentrated money-power of bankers and speculators and the shaping of the built environment in our towns and cities.
The years from 1995 to 2007 saw record levels of housing construction in Ireland. Construction output went up, land and house prices mushroomed and it seemed as if there was a never-ending bandwagon on which everyone was going to get rich by simply waiting for their pile of bricks to increase in value.
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A whole new lexicon of terms and vocabulary entered the everyday parlance – terms such as 'starter home', 'property ladder', 'first time buyer'; Newspeak phrases such as 'affordable housing' were bandied about. Houses and housing estates were advertised for sale by estate agents and property developers with colourful banner headlines and slogans such as 'live the dream', 'live the lifestyle' – it was almost explicitly stated that even the dreary Irish weather could be by-passed by buying an apartment or house in the latest development. It seemed as if the dream would go on forever. But in mid 2007, disaster struck. With the onset of the world- wide recession, Ireland's very own property bubble burst with a huge bang and left only destruction behind it. The dream turned to a nightmare for many people and the vocabulary was now dominated by terms such as 'negative equity', 'ghost estates' and 'price collapse'.
Housing is one of people's most basic needs. Yet it is a need that the 26 county state [1] has consistently failed to supply to a significant number of its people. It seems that the Irish housing crisis is permanent, becoming more severe from time to time, but never disappearing. Despite the Celtic Tiger economy and the building boom, waiting lists for social housing continue to lengthen. Over 37,000 people are currently waiting. Are we to believe that this lack of housing is inevitable, that it is impossible to build houses quickly enough to satisfy the demand?
Decades of lack of investment in social housing and the growing housing crisis in Dublin means that Dublin city council now appear to be considering building temporary slum housing. That's not of course what they are calling it but Assistant chief executive and head of housing Dick Brady has revealed a plan to house families in prefabs on derelict sites.
The madness that is Dublin housing bubble being rapidly re-inflated need to be opposed, not celebrated. Unlike estate agents & the media we recognise rising home prices are not good thing. Unaffordable homes are going to make things much harder for those in lower paid employment in particular. And with almost no protection from landlords for tenants and rising rental prices this means many being stuck in insecure poor quality accommodation for years to come.
House prices in Dublin have increased by almost €200 per day every single day for the past year (and by €220 a day in the past month). Figures released by estate agents DNG reveal that the average cost of a home in Dublin is €349,000 – an increase of €71,000 since this time last year.
Even more frighteningly, prices at the lower end of the market (less than €250,000) are increasing at a faster rate than more expensive houses. This clearly affects people in lower paid employment and those struggling to buy a home disproportionately.
Over the years, Dublin's working class has organised to fight landlords, developers and politicians in search of decent housing and well-being for all. This panel at the 9th Dublin anarchist bookfair considered how some of these earlier campaigns and direct actions can inform today's struggles.
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Today (Weds) was very quiet; there was no eviction attempt. We were prepared for the worst, but no cops called around, nobody claiming to be the owner, nothing.Just to recap, we are preparing ourselves to resist eviction because previously, on Friday, two people claiming to be agents acting on behalf of a company, which they claimed own two of the houses, came to illegally board them up. When we weren't letting them do so, they called the cops. The cops decided not to do anything because they did not have the paperwork or legal authorisation to evict us[1]. However, the "owners" and the cops did say that they'd be back on Wednesday (today) with "papers".
A group of political squatters in Dublin are facing eviction from a row of empty, unused, rotting houses in Lower Grangegorman. We got a chance to speak to them and hear their side of the story. They are calling for people to come and help them resist eviction from Wednesday onwards.
-- 300,000 empty houses in Ireland, 5,000 people homeless --
Around lunchtime on April 15th we received word that there was an anti-eviction protest underway on Manor street in Dublin outside a house that had been squatted. A Garda had called at the door that morning and after being refused entrance had said he'd be back later with more Garda. The building had been squatted on and off a couple of times in recent years and was recently re-occupied.
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Though I've been good at keeping my emotions under control at work, it's a different story everywhere else. I cry in the morning while driving to work. I cry on my way home from work. I cry at home.
My mother died on July 9, and I'm having a hard time dealing with it.
I cried when I canceled her newspaper subscription and cable service. I cried when I kept calling my cellphone from her home phone just so I could hear her ringtone and see her photo pop up on my screen.
I know I'm pouring salt into my own wound. But it's hard to stop.
I try to keep my emotions under control, though, when I'm around my grandchildren -- Tilleigh, 7; Evie, 4, and William, 23 months. I don't mind them knowing that I miss her desperately, but I don't want them to see me crying all the time.
And, admittedly, being around them helps keep the tears at bay.
They miss her, and, sometimes, they cry, too. Evie cried at art camp last week. We don't know what triggered her emotional outbreak, but thankfully, an instructor was sympathetic to her tears. Turns out, the instructor was Evie's age when her own grandmother died. Her words of wisdom calmed my baby girl.
The girls also got very emotional one night last week as they wrapped themselves in a quilt of Mother's while watching TV. In unison, they said, "This smells like Nannie."
We cried.
But the great thing about kids is that they can go from feeling low one minute to feeling great the next. We were holding one another, all of us wrapped in the quilt, and crying when the movie we rented started to play. The girls soon jumped from my embrace, sat back and started watching the movie. I most likely would have kept on crying for awhile, but they showed me that it's OK to stop crying and enjoy life.
My mother would not want me to cry all the time, but she knew that I would. She worried about me. That's what loving mothers do. Just days before she died, she told me to take care of myself. I need to listen to my mother. Always.
I'll be OK as time goes by. I'm not sure when I'll stop crying, and I know I'll never stop missing her, but I will enjoy life and continue to devote myself to my family. After all, it's what she taught me to do.
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From what little you wrote, it sounds like the typical "little brother annoys me" and "my older sister is bossey".
That's very,very (I repeate) very normal.
All you can and should do is to calmly "call them both" when it happens. Is little brother thinking of others when he takes the last piece of pie or whatvever? Is big sister right to get into his face about it?
You are the parent, not your daughter. When it happens, you step in and take control.
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Chelsea Manning Given Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, Oxford, Feb. 19, 2014, a set on Flickr.
Last Wednesday (February 19), I was delighted to travel from London to Oxford to attend the presentation of the Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea Manning — or rather, to Chelsea's old school friend Aaron Kirkhouse, who received the award on Manning's behalf. Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) was, of course, given a 35-year sentence in August for the largest ever leak of classified documents, including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians and two Reuters reporters in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the Guantánamo files, released by WikiLeaks in April 2011, on which I worked as a media partner.
I had been invited by Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and prominent peace activist, who I met for the first time in Berkeley, California in October 2010, as part of Berkeley Says No to Torture Week, and by Todd Pierce, a recently retired military defense attorney, who worked on a number of Guantánamo cases involving men facing military commissions trials, and who has been a friend for many years. Also speaking at the event for Chelsea Manning were Ann Wright, former US Army colonel and former State Department official, who was one of only three US officials to resign over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and who I had also met in Berkeley in 2010, and two people I had not met before — the former British ambassador Craig Murray, and MI5 whistleblower Annie Machon.
It was a powerful event, presided over by Ray, who made us all feel at home in the Oxford Union, and introduced the various speakers prior to the presentation of the award to Aaron Kirkhouse on Chelsea's behalf. Read the rest of this entry »
Six weeks ago, on June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, initiated by the United Nations in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of the the day that the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force, I posted the first half of a newly released documentary film, "Culture of Impunity," for which I was interviewed along with the law professor and author Marjorie Cohn, the professor, author and filmmaker Saul Landau, the author and activist David Swanson, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch and Stephen Rohde of the ACLU.
The documentary, which looks at the many ways in which the most senior figures in the Bush administration — including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld — have escaped accountability for the crimes committed in the "war on terror" declared after the 9/11 attacks, was produced by Alternate Focus, which describes itself as "working for peace and justice by offering the American public media which shows another side of Middle Eastern issues," and I was interviewed for it in April.
The producer, John Odam, has just sent me a link to the second part of this powerful documentary, on YouTube, which I've made available below, along with the first part. It features all of the experts interviewed in the first half, as well as Stephen Zunes, a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »
On Wednesday evening, I spoke to RT about the verdict in the trial by court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, following his conviction on 20 charges, including espionage and theft, which was announced by the judge in his case, Army Col. Denise Lind, on Monday. My five-minute interview is available below, via YouTube.
Significantly, Judge Lind refused to convict Manning on the most serious charge — that of "aiding the enemy," which the prosecution had tried to claim proved that Manning had "general evil intent" when he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents, including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians and two Reuters reporters in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the Guantánamo files, released by WikiLeaks in April 2011, on which I worked as a media partner.
However, that was the only good news on Monday, as Manning still faces 136 years in prison based on the other charges, which is a horrendous situation. Asked about it, I explained that it is an unacceptable ruling for whistleblowers, motivated, as Manning was, to make available information that is in the public interest — about war crimes, for example — that the US government wanted to keep hidden, and I also pointed out how the mainstream media evidently agreed, having used what he leaked to sell newspapers and attract viewers for news programs for many months in 2010 and 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, just before the defense rested its case in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, I was delighted that my book The Guantánamo Files was cited as a significant source of reliable information about the prisoners in Guantánamo — more reliable, in fact, than the information contained in the previously classified military files (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) leaked by Manning and released by WikiLeaks in April 2011, on which I worked as a media partner.
The trial began at the start of June, but on February 28, Manning accepted responsibility for the largest leak of classified documents in US history — including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians and two Reuters reporters in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the Guantánamo files.
When Manning accepted responsibility for the leaks, the Guardian described it as follows: "In a highly unusual move for a defendant in such a serious criminal prosecution, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges out of his own volition – not as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution." The Guardian added that the charges to which Manning pleaded guilty "carry a two-year maximum sentence each, committing Manning to a possible upper limit of 20 years in military prison," but pointed out that he "pleaded not guilty to 12 counts which relate to the major offences of which he is accused by the US government. Specifically, he denied he had been involved in 'aiding the enemy' — the idea that he knowingly gave help to al-Qaida and caused secret intelligence to be published on the internet, aware that by doing so it would become available to the enemy." Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, as the trial of Bradley Manning finally got underway at Fort Meade in Maryland, nearly three years after the military analyst was first arrested for the biggest leak of classified documents in US history, I was asked to take part in a radio show on Voice of Russia, the radio station whose UK studio is in St. James's Square in central London.
The show was entitled, "Bradley Manning and the nature of intelligence," and involved guests in three studios — in Washington D.C, Moscow and London. It was 45 minutes in total, but the London segment has been made available as an audio file, and can be listened to, or downloaded here.
I appeared in London alongside John Gearson, Professor of National Security Studies, and Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London, and our host was Hywel Davis.
I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about the importance of Bradley Manning's whistleblowing, and to explain why I believe that, although he obviously disobeyed the rules governing the behavior of US military personnel, the attempt to claim that he was "aiding the enemy" is absurd, and the military — and the Obama administration — should, at most, have settled for the 20-year sentence that is the maximum punishment for the crimes to which Manning has already agreed. Read the rest of this entry »
On Monday (June 3), three years and one week since he was first arrested in Kuwait, the trial by court-martial begins, at Fort Meade in Maryland, of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower responsible for making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classified documents ever leaked to the public, including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians and two Reuters reporters in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the classified military files relating to the Guantánamo prisoners, which were released in April 2011, and on which I worked as a media partner (see here for the first 34 parts of my 70-part, million-word series analyzing the Guantánamo files).
To highlight what the Bradley Manning Support Network describes as a trial that "will determine whether a conscience-driven 25-year-old WikiLeaks whistle-blower spends the rest of his life in prison," an international day of action is taking place on Saturday, June 1. See here for a full list of events worldwide.
At Fort Meade, the day of action will begin at 1pm — see the website here, and sign up on the Facebook page. There will be speakers at 1.30pm, a march at 2pm, and more speakers at 3pm. Speakers "include Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower; Ethan McCord, the soldier who saved the children attacked in the 'Collateral Murder' video released by WikiLeaks; Col. Ann Wright, the most senior State Department official to resign in protest of the Iraq war; Sarah Shourd, hiker imprisoned by Iran turned prisoner rights activist; and Lt. Dan Choi, prominent anti-Don't Ask Don't Tell activist featured on the Rachel Maddow show." Read the rest of this entry »
A Year of Protest – The NHS, Disabled Rights, Guantánamo, Bradley Manning and the Occupy Movement, a set on Flickr.
A year ago yesterday, I embarked on a huge and ongoing project — to photograph the whole of London by bike. A year and a day later, I have taken around 13,000 photos, and have published nearly 1,700 on Flickr. As it happens, my time has been so consumed of late with my ongoing campaign to close Guantánamo — where the prison-wide hunger strike, now in its fourth month, has finally awoken the world to the ongoing horrors of the prison — that I have not had time recently to publish photos from this project, although I have continued to take photos on an almost daily basis. I am currently organising the photos by area — largely, in fact, by postcode — as I work out how best to show them and to market them, but to mark the anniversary I will soon be posting a selection of photos from the first year of the project – and if anyone has any good ideas abut how to take tis project forward, then please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
In the meantime, I realised that today — May 12 — is the first anniversary of an event organised by the worldwide Occupy movement (inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York), and that I had photographed the event that took place in London, and so, to coincide with that anniversary, I've put together a selection off photos from the various political campaigns and protests I've been involved in over the last year. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE MAY 7: It has just been confirmed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will now be taking part in this event, via video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy, from 7.30 to 8.15pm.
It's almost three years since Pfc. Bradley Manning, who had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested by the US military and imprisoned in Kuwait for allegedly making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classified documents ever leaked to the public, including the "Collateral Murder" video, featuring US personnel indiscriminately killing civilians in Iraq, 500,000 army reports (the Afghan War logs and the Iraq War logs), 250,000 US diplomatic cables, and the classified military files relating to the Guantánamo prisoners, which were released in April 2011, and on which I worked as a media partner (see here for the first 34 parts of my 70-part, million-word series analyzing the Guantánamo files).
In July 2010, Manning was transferred to the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, where the conditions of his confinement began to cause international concern. I first wrote about his case in December 2010, when he was being held in solitary confinement, in an article entitled, "Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of "Enemy Combatant"?" and I followed his story into 2011, and his transfer to less contentious conditions of confinement in Fort Leavenworth on April 20, just five days before WikiLeaks released the Guantánamo files.
In the last two years, I have largely deferred to other writers, researchers and activists, dedicated to Bradley Manning's story, to cover developments in his case, particularly relating to a series of pre-trial hearings. His trial begins on June 3 (preceded by an international day of action on June 1), and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to revisit his story this Wednesday, May 8, at an event in London organized by Naomi Colvin and Katia Michaels, at which I am honoured to be sharing a stage with Chase Madar, the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning, and Ben Griffin, a former SAS soldier and conscientious objector. Read the rest of this entry »
Two years and two days since his arrest in Iraq on May 26, 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning still awaits the start of his court-martial, as his lawyers and other sympathizers try to take the government to task for its secrecy regarding the 24-year old, who faces 22 charges, including "aiding the enemy," a charge that, in theory, carries the death penalty, although prosecutors have said that they will not be pressing for his execution, if he is convicted.
Manning, a former US intelligence analyst, is the alleged whistleblower responsible for leaking thousands of classified US government documents to WikiLeaks, dealing with the Afghan and Iraq wars, and the prisoners in Guantánamo, as well as hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables. Held in damaging isolation for the first eleven months of his detention — in Kuwait and then at a military brig in Quantico, Virginia, he was then moved — after pressure was exerted by his many supporters, and by legal experts — to the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remains. His Article 32 hearing, preparing the way for his trial, took place last December, and he was referred to a general court-martial by the judge, Lt. Col. Paul Almanza. He was arraigned on February 23 this year, when he declined to enter a plea.
Now, as the Guardian reported last week, with hearings taking place prior to his court-martial, possibly in August, a coalition of lawyers and media outlets, led by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, "has petitioned the Army court of criminal appeals calling for the court-martial against Manning to be opened up to the press and public," claiming that his military trial "is being conducted amid far more secrecy than even the prosecution of the alleged 9/11 plotters in Guantánamo." Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Professor Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, spoke about the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower, telling the news agency AFP, "I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in Quantico."
This was a reference to the US military brig near Washington D.C., where Manning was held after his arrest in Kuwait, and before he was moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas (on April 20 last year). when his treatment noticeably improved. I wrote about Manning's ill-treatment at the time, in my articles, Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of "Enemy Combatant"?, Psychologists Protest the Torture of Bradley Manning to the Pentagon; Jeff Kaye Reports, and Former Quantico Commander Objects to Treatment of Bradley Manning, the Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower. In addition, as I noted in an article last November, after Manning had been charged, and when a date was set for his first hearing:
Among the disturbing details to emerge was information about his chronic isolation, and about the enforced use of nudity to humiliate him, all of which provided uncomfortable echoes of the Bush administration's torture program, as used in military brigs on the US mainland on two US citizens, Jose Padilla (who lost his mind as the result of his torture) and Yaser Hamdi, and US resident Ali al-Marri. Read the rest of this entry »
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Woods a 1-3 favorite to win FedEx Cup
Just a quick odds update for Tiger Woods:
Woods is a 1-3 – no, that is not a misprint – 1-3 favorite to win the FedEx Cup starting this week at The Barclays, according to Golfodds.com.
Next closest is Phil Mickelson at 10-1, Geoff Ogilvy at 20-1 and then Anthony Kim, Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan at 30-1.
Going into 2010, Woods' odds in the majors were:
7-5 to win one major, 11-4 to win two majors, 10-1 to win three majors and 25-1 to win all four.
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