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Burgundy, 2010 vintage
by Natasha Hughes, 01/12
There's been a lot of interest (not to mention column inches) recently surrounding the release of the Burgundy 2010 en primeurs. The hype should come as no surprise - the en primeur system is designed to get wine lovers revved up enough to buy as-yet-unbottled wines that they may not even have tasted.
So, what's the inside scoop? Is 2010 really as good as the merchants' sales teams would have you think? Or is the buzz all sound and fury, signifying nothing?
2010 in brief
Overall, I'd say that 2010 has provided consistently good-to-great wines across the spectrum of Burgundy, from Chablis in the north to the Maconnais in the south, and from generic-level wines right up to grand cru level. Having said that, as ever with Burgundy there are caveats. A hailstorm just before harvest in Chassagne and the southern end of Puligny didn't help much: some producers in these communes ended up with botrytis. This isn't true across the board, but it pays to choose your wines from these appellations carefully. Meursault was more consistent, showing both good depth of fruit and enough acidity to add backbone to the appellation's usual textural richness.
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The white wines of southern Burgundy - the Côte Chalonnaise and the Macon - were generally of a high standard, although individual producers made wines that ranged widely in style. Up in the north of the region, the wines of Chablis really shone: this was a vintage that played to Chablis' strengths, producing wines with a purity and freshness that was lacking in the ripe 2009s.
Reds were generally good, with some impressive fruit showing through on many of the wines. As with the whites, acidity levels were generally high, and tannins were largely silky and refined (albeit, perhaps, not as big and firm as they were in many 2009s).
Are these wines for the long haul? Perhaps the grace and delicacy of many of the 2010s will fare better in the medium to long rather than the extreme long term, although the thread of bright acidity and the ripe, pure fruit should stand them in good stead. The flip side, though, is that many of the wines (especially those from 'lesser' appellations) were already pretty approachable in their youth.
There is, unfortunately, some bad news. Yields were very low in 2010, which means that many of the best wines were all pretty much sold out by the time last week's tastings rolled around. Unless you've already got a great, long-term relationship with your wine merchant, you're unlikely to get your allocation of DRC, Clos de Tart or any of the other big names. On the other hand, there's much pleasure to be had from the following selection of wines, all tasted at the London en primeurs during the week of 9-13 January 2012.
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There are four sections: white wines under £400, red wines under £400, white wines over £400 and red wines over £400. These prices are per 12-bottle case, in bond. Many of the wines are available from several merchants, and prices can vary from merchant to merchant. The merchant and price named in brackets refers to where that particular wine was sampled.
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Whites under £400
Domaine William Févre, Chablis Grand Cru, Les Preuses 2010
(£392, Fells). Domaine William Févre consistently makes some of the best Chablis around (not to mention the widest selection of Grands Crus). The pick of them in 2010 may well be the concentrated, complex Les Preuses. Balancing power with precision, the wine is still tightly coiled but should unfold over the course of the next few years to reveal an intense streak of minerality as well as flavours of lemons and dried herbs. 93/100.
Domaine Long Depaquit, Chablis Grand Cru, Les Blanchots 2010
(£270, Laytons), Les Vaudesirs, Chablis Grand Cru (£275, Flint Wines). Blanchots is always a delicate, linear Cru, and this tendency has been enhanced by sensitive winemaking at Long Depaquit to create a very pure, penetrating wine with notes of white blossom, lemon and chalky that linger on the palate. 91/100.
Domaine Bernard Defaix, Chablis 1er Cru, Côte de Lèchet 2010
(£128, Flint Wines). It's no surprise that Bernard Defaix's Côte de Lèchet is a big on-trade favourite. For relatively little money, it delivers classic, linear, precise Chablis, with hints of struck match on the nose, opening up on the palate to reveal lemon zest-flavoured fruit of terrific intensity. The long finish is like sucking on a piece of chalky stone. 91/100.
Domaine Moreau-Naudet, Chablis 1er Cru, Montèe de Tonnerre 2010
(£149, OW Loeb). Although it may be the modern label design you notice first about a bottle of Moreau-Naudet, it's the quality of the wines that will stay with you long after you've finished the bottle. The Montèe de Tonnerre is a smoky, peaty, mineral-driven wine with a core of ripe, crisp fruit. Tight, linear and powerful. 91/100. The same producer's Chablis 1er Cru Montmains (£138, Lea & Sandeman) shows a touch of the same smokiness, along with juicy, expressive peach stone and pink grapefruit flavours and a leesy mid-palate richness. An incisive, elegant wine with a long, stony finish. 90/100.
Domaine Vincent Dampt, Chablis 1er Cru, Côte de Lèchet 2010
(£170, Corney & Barrow). Pure and crisp, with a yoghurty character derived from lees contact and a trace of stony minerality. The fruit is all lemon zest and orange blossom, although there's a hint of honey on the elegant finish. An elegant wine. 90/100.
Domaine Arnaud Tessier, Meursault 1er Cru, Genevriéres 2010
(£378, Flint Wines). A rather restrained nose, but the palate hints at layers of buttered toast and nuts, with ripe, fleshy citrus fruit. Good concentration and length. 90/100.
Bret Brothers, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Les Quarts 2010
(£210, Berry Bros). Vibrant, tightly coiled pineapple, quince and citrus fruit. Ripeness held in check by bright acidity. May need a year or two to settle into its stride. 88/100.
Domaine Patrick Javillier, Bourgogne Blanc, Cuvèe Oligocéne 2010
(£150, OW Loeb). Javillier's Cuvèe Oligocéne, made from grapes grown in a vineyard that straddles the border between the appellation of Meursault and generic Bourgogne vineyards, is a consistent, reliable Burgundy. It's not fancy or hugely complex, but it has a rich, creamy texture, pleasing peach and pink grapefruit flavours and a delicious streak of acidity. 86/100.
Domaine A & P de Villaine, Rully, Les Saint-Jacques 2010
(£175, Corney & Barrow). The family-owned domaine of DRC's co-director Aubert de Villaine consistently delivers great value at moderate prices. This Rully shows very clean and pure, with a linear structure driven by crisp acidity. The subtle fruit is tinged with lemons and dried flowers. It's quite Chablis-like, albeit with a tad less minerality and a shade more fruit. 86/100.
Domaine Daniel Barraud, Pouilly Fuissè, Les Crays 2010
(£201, Lea & Sandeman). Chalky and restrained, with minerality fleshed out by juicy peaches and crunchy red apples. The oak is sensitively handled. Sinewy, lithe structure. Flavour builds on the finish. 90/100.
JP Fichet, Meursault, Les Chevaliéres 2010
(£395, Genesis Wines). A lovely smoky, toasted nose. The palate is rich, but not overblown, with a pleasing streak of lemon and limes and the added weight of judicious toasty oak. Racy acidity supports a long finish. 91/100. For slightly less money, Fichet's Meursault, Meix Sous Le Château (£305, Genesis Wines) provides slightly simpler, but still limpid lemon and lime blossom fruit allied to shiny, bright acidity. 88/100.
Domaine Fernand & Laurent Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru, Vide Bourse 2010
(£318, Lea & Sandeman). Proof that not all the Chassagnes were tainted by hail damage. A rich but restrained wine, showing layers of spicy, oak-tinged fruit with some real minerality and focused pineapple and citrus fruit. At the moment it's very tight, and the oak is somewhat gawky - everything needs time to settle into place. Not cheap - is the name some kind of ironic post-modern joke? - but some class. 93/100.
Domaine Rèmi Jobard, Meursault, Chevaliéres 2010
(£321, Lea & Sandeman). Smoky, toasty aromas. The palate has some creamy richness and fruit is balanced by nicely judged oak. Quite a savoury style. Concentrated and focused. 88/100.
Reds under £400
Lignier Michelot, Bourgogne Rouge 2010
(£115, Genesis Wines). Fancy scoring yourself a good everyday Pinot Noir? If so, you won't go far wrong with Lignier Michelot's entry-level Bourgogne Rouge, which displays juicy, ripe raspberry and strawberry fruit and supple tannins. Not complex, but fresh, lively and good value. 85/100.
Domaine Jean Guiton, Pernand Vergelesses 1er Cru, Les Vergelesses 2010
(£185, Flint Wines). There's a very pure core of focused cranberry and mulberry fruit here, along with hints of autumnal leaves. Brisk acidity and crunchy tannins provide a good framework. 89/100. If you're on a budget, the same producer's Bourgogne Rouge (£95, Flint Wines) provides lovely, bright cherry and redcurrant fruit draped around some slightly chunky tannins. Not the most concentrated or complex wine in the world, but easy to drink and great value. 85/100.
Domaine de Montille, Beaune 1er Cru, Perriéres 2010
(£297, Berry Bros). A vivid, fruit-driven wine with plenty of bright strawberries and cherries on the palate. Crisp, refreshing, albeit somewhat simple. 85/100.
Domaine Hudelot-Noellat, Chambolle Musigny 2010
(£275, Flint Wines). A very pretty wine, with a palate full of Chambolle's characteristic floral, raspberry and redcurrant fruit, supported by a trace of spicy oak. The tannins and texture are both silky. Very accessible now. 89/100. If you're after something a bit more concentrated and long-lived, but with the same graceful style, Hudelot-Noellat's Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru, Les Charmes (£590, Flint Wines) should do the trick. 91/100.
Dujac Fils et Pére, Chambolle-Musigny 2010
(£265, OW Loeb). A large (60%) proportion of whole bunch fermentation (very much the house style chez Dujac) has created a pale wine with heady aromatics of rose petals and strawberries with dollops of earthiness. Silky, charming and long. Racy acidity brings it all into focus. 90/100.
Domaine des Lambrays, Morey-Saint-Denis 2010
(£350, OW Loeb). While anyone in receipt of a City bonus might be well advised to invest in the seductive, complex and long-lived Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru (£990, OW Loeb), 97/100, mere mortals may have to 'settle' for the Morey-Saint-Denis. Not that it's any hardship when the wine shows many of the same aromatic characteristics of its more expensive sister: silky tannins and smoky strawberry fruit, with a slight woodsy note on the finish. Not as concentrated or as complex as the Grand Cru, but great value, relatively speaking. 88/100.
Domaine Pascal Prunier-Bonheur, Pommard, Les Trois Follots 2010
(£205, OW Loeb). Attractive nose of cherries, spice and flowers. A big wine, but so generously fruited and fleshy that you hardly notice its firm framework. Nicely balanced. 92/100.
Domaine Simon Bize, Savigny-lés-Beaune 1er Cru, Les Vergelesses 2010
(£325, OW Loeb). Plenty of nervous tension here, with bright, concentrated raspberry, cherry and floral fruit caged in by relatively firm tannins. Perfumed length. Needs time to settle but will be very attractive in its maturity. 90/100.
Domaine François Lumpp, Givry 1er Cru, Clos Jus 2010
(£186, Lea & Sandeman). All the domaine's wines seem to flirt with the idea of only-just-ripe-enough-ness. If you like that style, you'll enjoy this wine, which reveals very pure, crunchy fruit and a hint of minerality on the surprisingly persistent finish. Pretty and perfumed, but not powerful. 88/100.
Domaine Comte Armand, Auxey Duresses 1er Cru 2010
(£216, Lea & Sandeman). Not the most concentrated wine in the world, but pure and linear. Chalky tannins and fresh acidity provide a structural thread for the bright raspberry, redcurrant fruit. There's a twang of minerality on the finish. 88/100.
Domaine de la Douaix, Côte de Nuits Villages, Vielles Vignes 2010
(£177, Lea & Sandeman). Great value for this amount of concentrated dark cherry and damson fruit bound up in firm, fine-grained tannins. Lively acidity brings the long, earthy finish into focus. 93/100.
Domaine Huguenot, Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru, Fonteny 2010
(£372, Lea & Sandman). Somewhat reductive at the moment, but the beautifully silky texture suggests an elegant future. Lively, delicate red fruit and elegant tannins. The oak needs time to integrate fully. A graceful wine with a poised, perfumed finish. 91/100.
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Maison Albert Bichot, Criots Batard-Montrachet 2010
(£1,600, Genesis Wines). Bichot has really hit its stride in recent years, and on the evidence of this year's line up 2010 looks to be another good year for the house. Nevertheless, I found many of its whites to be too tightly coiled at the moment to do more than hint at their potential. The Criots Batard-Montrachet was one of the more expressive cuvèes, although it currently reveals far more on the explosive palate than it does on the nose. Layers of flavours and minerality promise great things to come, as does a sinewy, lithe structure and a rich, creamy texture. 95/100
Domaine Arnaud Ente, Meursault, Clos des Ambres 2010
(£594, Berry Bros). This is a serious wine whose tightly coiled, vibrant palate is currently dominated by racy acidity. Give it another couple of years to settle, though, and the opulent, mineral driven fruit and creamy mid-palate should come into focus. 93/100
Domaine Antoine Jobard, Meursault 1er Cru, Poruzots 2010
(£570, Berry Bros). Another wine that demonstrates why 2010 has been such a successful year for Meursault. There's toasted hazelnuts and buttered toast on the nose, but the palate is driven by an almost fierce minerality, with a seam of dried herbs and grapefruit hinting at the fruit to come. Concentrated and rich, but the bright seam of acidity prevents it from being at all overblown. Deliciously long. 92/100
Domaine Henri Darnat, Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru, Les Champs Gains 2010
(Ł410, Corney & Barrow). A solid, workmanlike Puligny 1er Cru. Bigger and bolder than many wines from the appellation, with a twangy, vibrant palate of ripe fruit and rich oak that needs time to integrate fully, but with a long, opulent finish that promises well. 89/100
Domaine Henri Boillot, Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru, Les Pucelles 2010
(£558, Lea & Sandeman). An intense, layered nose of hazelnuts and oak-derived vanillin. A limpid, focused palate with layers of lime and quince, interwoven with a smoky minerality. The oak currently stands proud, but over time should knit together seamlessly. Elegant but potent. Very long. Thoroughly delicious. 96/100
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Frèderic Magnien, Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru 2010
(£1,045 est, Genesis Wines). Although the fruit is still showing a bit shy, there's great energy and tension on the palate, with hints of wild strawberries, smoky spice and sloes on the palate. A silky and seductive texture, with slippery, fine-grained tannins and an aura of brooding intensity. A prolonged finish builds to a vibrant conclusion. 93/100
Domaine de Courcel, Pommard 1er Cru, Rugiens 2010
(£640, Flint Wines). A bit muted on the nose, but there's some ripe, almost sweet floral-tinged cherry and berry fruit on the palate. It's a powerful wine, but sinewy rather than chunky. Long and perfumed. 90/100
Domaine Confuron-Cotetidot, Vosne-Romanèe 1er Cru, Les Suchots 2010
(£530, Flint Wines), Echèzaux Grand Cru (£850, Flint Wines). Complex, concentrated palate full of meaty damson plums, violets and a hint of game and juniper. Great depth of ripe fruit enlivened by brisk acidity. Taut, grippy tannins. Thoroughly delicious. 93/100
Domaine de l'Arlot, Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru, Clos de l'Arlot 2010
(£495, Corney & Barrow) and Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos des Foręts (£495, Corney & Barrow). Do you like your Nuits-Saint-Georges pretty and silky, with charming red-berried fruit, or do you prefer it dark and earthy, with a more rigorous, powerful structure? If the former, the Clos de l'Arlot may well work for you, if the latter you'll probably prefer the Clos des Foręts. Both 89/100
Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Richebourg Grand Cru 2010
(£2,202, Lea & Sandeman). At the moment the nose reveals little, and even the palate is tightly coiled in on itself, hinting at layers of dense, dark fruit to come. However the plush, deep-pile velvet texture hints at a great future, as does the caress of fine-grained tannins. Very long. Powerful. Needs time to unfold. Expensive, yes, but the best costs. 96/100
Domaine Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru, Les Gruenchers 2010
(£630, Berry Bros). At the moment, taut, sinewy tannins dominate the perfumed fruit, but given time this should unwind to reveal some beautifully perfumed, slightly earthy fruit. Good concentration and length. 89/100
Domaine Sylvain Cathiard & Fils, Vosne-Romanèe 1er Cru, Malconsorts 2010
(£1,500, OW Loeb). An elegant wine that somehow manages to express both an ethereal quality and power at the same time. Ripe damson and liquorice fruit, earthy, draped around fine-grained tannins. Has that effortless quality of a truly great wine. 96/100
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I agree with what a lot of the other people have posted. You have to treat your "home office" as a true work space. We have a dedicated "kitchen office" that is used for personal business but my home office is solely for my work. I get up every morning - shower, get dressed, drink a cup of coffee and read the newspaper and get the kids off to school. After that it's just as if I was in a corporate office. I communicate constantly via IM, email, phone calls and I do my work. It takes some discipline. In the beginning I was prone to slack off a little during the day but you quickly realize that if you don't do your job (whether from home or in a corporate office) you're going to lose your job. I used to work with people that would say "I'm going to work from home today because I have to clean out the garage". That's not working! Just take the day off instead.
The bottom line is that you have to have separation between home and office when you work from home. For me that is a cut off time when I switch gears from working to being a dad that's at home when their kids get home from school. It's not for everyone but if you have the discipline to do so it's a great work/life balance.
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Here's compelling new evidence that hovering parents need to find a landing pad... and fast: Researchers at Keene State College in New Hampshire found that college freshman raised by "helicopter parents" were more anxious, less open to new things, and less likely to be ready to leave the nest.
How do you know if you're a helicopter parent?
Envision yourself dropping your sweet child off at college and then take this quiz:
· Would you contact your child's school to help them solve a school-related issue?
· Would you stay the night in town after dropping your child off at college -- just to make sure they were adjusted?
· If you didn't hear from your child for two days, would you contact him or her to check in?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you just might be a helicopter parent, at least according to Keene State researchers. They posed questions similar to these to 300 incoming freshman. They found that about 13 percent of girls and five percent of boys reported that their parents had a tendency to hover. Those students were also more likely to report being anxious, self-conscious, impulsive, and less likely to try new things when compared to their "free range" peers.
This study is small and only proves a correlation between the idea of helicopter parenting and anxious children, but it seems to support the idea that kids who are allowed freedom to take risks and make mistakes while they are young are better equipped to handle early adulthood. I'm not a card-carrying helicopter parent, but I'll admit that I hear the whir of the rotors every now and then, and it gives me something to think about.
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He played cops, he played gangsters, and he played them all well.
The Sopranos cast pays their last respects.
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1 in 3 Physicians Plans to Quit Within 10 Years
Of those physicians who said they plan to retire or leave medicine this year, 56% cited economic factors and 51% cited health reform as among the major factors. Of those physicians who said they are strongly considering leaving medicine in 2012, 55% or 97 physicians, were under age 55.
"That's what we were most surprised about; that the majority of the folks that were considering leaving medicine or planning to leave medicine this year were under 55 years old. The key takeaway is that they're not retiring; they're quitting," Sorrell says.
The online survey was conducted between April 19-27, before the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While most physicians in the survey panned the ACA, they often did so for different reasons.
"They are upset on both ends of the political spectrum," Sorrell says. "There is a certain amount of doctors who feel like the ACA went way too far with the government stepping in between them and their patients. And the other group says we didn't go far enough. We need a single-payer system in this country if we are going to address the challenges of medicine. You see both contingents and they are equally displeased. It's implement and improve versus repeal and replace."
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to Mike 21 : Mike, can I ask you how much school and training have you completed to get a job at the health care company ? How much have you studied and paid in tuition fees, compared to a doctor ? How exactly would your company increase profits, so that you can get a raise ? The only way for a health company to increase profits is by cutting reimbursement to doctors and limiting coverage to patients. Am I wrong ?
Elissa G (8/22/2012 at 1:16 AM)
We also can see patient burnout when patients are spending hours waiting to see a referred doctor and getting an intern. Then getting referrals to specialists, then referred for physical therapy where you are in a factory learning to pull a rubberband and squat twice and repeat. Getting better can be frustrating for clients who have multiple medical issues and limited financial means and ambulatory difficulty. Multiple requests for repeated mri's and more tests that patients don't even understand and then we have the medications. The long list of pills that have side effects and then more tests. When do the physicians have the time to coordinate treatment call the specialists and read reports? Getting to treat the whole person is what doctors go into medicine for and what about the psychosocial component. Do they have the time to assess the stressors the fear of having a chronic illness? painkillers are like tic tacs these days and sometimes the moments that a healer can give to explain all options and patients choices are good medicine as well as a smile and a calm bedside manner and common sense. How about the clients who have side effects from antidepressants that trigger tardive dyskinesia who then go for Parkinson's disease treatment. The patients who take fibromyalgia meds or antipsychotics and then gain weight and swell ger referred for breast reduction or gastric bypass surgery? Physicians that are not concierge physicians have a hard time and managing symptoms and complete assessments need time. I salute the physician who cares and can maintain balance in their lives and continue to provide well rounded care and follow up to sick people who can be really difficult due to fear and pain.
Mike21 (8/6/2012 at 4:11 PM)
Where are these physicians going to work? The USA has the highest paid physicians in the world. There are only so many positions in research or working for a health plan. So if they are going to retire early, then they must be paid enough! I work for a healthcare company and we have not had a raise in three years. They should quit complaining and do what the rest of us do. Be happy you have a fulfilling job!!
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The headline reads, "John Smith Accused of Financial Improprieties." "Oh, no!" you think—and you (and many other customers) quickly withdraw any money you've invested through John Smith.
Later in the week, in a small box on page 5, the newspaper prints a correction. The person who has run afoul of the law is John Smythe. Few readers ever notice the retraction, though, and John Smith's reputation is seriously damaged.
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Words have power. That's why I decided to address this positive story in the same large-font headline as my original complaint, rather than just letting the Frito-Lay spokesman respond to my blog post in the "Comments" section.
I know that many of my readers made their voices heard regarding the over-the-top Pepsi commercial titled "Feed Your Flock." And I know that PepsiCo and Frito-Lay responded quickly, assuring their critics that this was not a Pepsi-generated commercial, that it was not one of the finalists in their contest, and that it would not be shown on Super Bowl Sunday.
Well and good. Some friends noted that the carefully worded text ("we're sorry IF you were offended…") places the blame on the hypersensitive viewer, rather than on PepsiCo; but if I were the p.r. guy charged with deflecting criticism and placing a positive spin on this, I'd probably take that approach, too.
Personally, I'm glad the commercial will come to an ignominious end on the cutting room floor. At the same time, I've gotta give some points for the sheer professionalism of the ad: lots of character actors, yet a clear focus, good angles, crisp product placement. Too bad all that talent was expended on a commercial that was so politically incorrect.
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Now, Part 2: What Is the Right Thing to Do? There's been some spirited discussion on the part of my friends over at the Cocktail Party of the Ethernet (aka Facebook), and I'd like to weigh in.
First, some things on which we agree:
- We agree that the First Amendment protects our "right" to say things which may be perceived by some as offensive.
- We agree that denigrating or making fun of African-Americans with watermelon jokes or demeaning epithets, Jews with money jokes, or Polish-Americans with jokes about their heavy accents may be hurtful, and therefore, not appropriate in polite society.
- We agree that even if it's not funny, you have the "right" to tell said joke.
- We agree that it's not politically expedient to exercise said "right" in the public square, and we would not consider telling the offensive stories in our offices, workplaces, or houses of worship, for fear of the negative reactions of others.
- We agree that we would not want our tax dollars to go toward a campaign of blatant discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender.
- Likewise, we agree that corporate sponsors legally may—but prudentially should not—use the profits gleaned from sales to us and to our fellow Americans to support organizations or ideas with which we strongly disagree.
- And we agree that citizens have the corresponding "right"—if they disapprove of how a corporation is spending its profits—to take their business elsewhere.
With so many points of agreement, then, I was surprised at the level of disagreement regarding the Pepsi contest entry.
I want to clearly differentiate between being "immune to criticism" and being "deserving of respect." The U.S. Bishops, for example, may be criticized for their naïveté in listening to the psychologist "advisors" who told them pedophilia could be "cured," or for their cautious handling of the crisis in the months following disclosure. They do, though, deserve our respect; they must be respected as representatives of Christ here on earth.
All of this is to say: I love Pepsi. Not Pepsi Max, the subject of this advertisement, which pumps me up, then throws me into a tailspin; but plain ol' Pepsi. However, if three cents of every dollar I spend for their product is used to mock my faith, well, then I start feeling just a little sensitive—and I have the "right" to spend my junk food dollars elsewhere. That's purely business, and a smart entrepreneur will not want to risk his corporate profits just to protect his "right" to make a tasteless joke.
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With her chart-topping album and always-packed concerts, to her fragrance and first-ever clothing line, Rihanna grossing lots of green — cash, of course. The Bajan beauty banked a reported $53 million, which not only put toward a $12 million Pacific Palisades mansion but also to adorn herself in high fashion and gorgeous gems.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:04 Written by admin Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:04
Windows Phone 8 users can head to the WP Store to grab the Seasons flavor of the old time favorite birds vs. pigs bonanza. Angry Birds Seasons is available for download for just $0.99. Link.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:02 Written by admin Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:02
You wouldn't expect Microsoft's CEO to be using an iPhone, would you? Watch the video embedded below, and you'll get an introduction to Steve Ballmer's very own Windows Phone device. Apparently, Bill Gates is "number 1 on the speed dial," just in case good old Steve needed some advice.
The question now is, if you weren't ready to embrace Windows Phone, is Steve Ballmer's WP ad enough of a catalyst to make the jump? When was the last time when you asked yourself, what would Ballmer do?
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Microsoft is once again aiming to speak directly to end users with its latest version of smartphone operating system. Windows Phone 8 debuts after a number of releases, including upgrades and major updates, that have so far failed to make any real inroads against Apple iPhone and Google Android devices. Time will tell if Windows Phone 8 is going to have a different destiny, but one thing is clear, competition is as intense as possible, and Microsoft's rivals are by no means resting on their laurels. Well, Apple might be, since the iPhone 5 has to qualify for a bit of a disappointment. A disappointment that will sell millions, granted, but still, I don't know how long will Apple be able to continue tricking its user base to upgrade to a slightly improved product, year after year.
The Redmond company is saying that users have over 120,000 apps at their disposal in Windows Store, with more on their way, including "Angry Birds Star Wars," "Cut the Rope Experiments," "Disney's Where's My Water," "LivingSocial," "Temple Run," and "Urbanspoon".
Another novelty is the addition of Live Apps. WP owners are undoubtedly familiar with the concept of Live Tiles. I said that Live Tiles are revolutionary compared to traditional icons, and I'm glad to see that Microsoft is investing into differentiators and exploring concepts that can easily set it apart from its competitors.
Microsoft also reveal details about Windows Phone 8 devices:
- Nokia. The Nokia Lumia 920 offers state-of-the-art photography that fits in your pocket, and it is the world's only smartphone to include Optical Image Stabilization. The Nokia Lumia 822, 820 and 810 offer a ClearBlack display and removable back exchangeable shells in a range of vibrant colors.(3) Both the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 offer wireless charging.
- HTC. The Windows Phone 8X by HTC was designed with sleek lines and radiant colors to match Windows Phone's new Live Tiles. This phone also breaks new ground in optics with 1080p video recording, f2.0 aperture and a dedicated HTC ImageChip on the main 8-megapixel camera and an ultrawide-angle lens on the front camera that lets you fit up to four people in the frame for a premium Skype experience. The 8X and its smaller sibling, the 8S, both boast a killer music experience with Beats Audio and exclusive built-in amps that pair perfectly with Xbox Music.
- Samsung. The Samsung ATIV S brings the biggest screen to Windows Phone, with a bright 4.8-inch touch screen and large battery for extended battery life. Wrapped in brushed aluminum, the ATIV S balances high-end materials and technology with a hairline design and light weight. The ATIV Odyssey was announced today as the latest Windows Phone from Samsung with more details to come.
Here is some extra info about Windows Phone 8 features:
- Kid's Corner. Exclusive to Windows Phone 8, Kid's Corner is a worry-free way to share your phone with your kids, so they can play "Angry Birds" without texting your angry boss. Parents can now hand over their phones to the kids without worrying about deleted photos, misdirected emails, unapproved purchases or accidental phone calls. After a simple setup, parents can activate a specialized place on the phone for kids to play — complete with their own customizable Start screens — where they can access only the apps, games, music and videos picked by parents.
- Sometimes you want to share and chat with one group, not your entire social network. Rooms allow you to create private groups of people who have Windows Phone 8 — like your family members best friends or fantasy football league — and easily connect with just them. Chat, share calendars, shopping lists or photos in an ongoing conversation where only those invited can join in. You can share some aspects of Rooms with friends and family on other smartphones as well.
- Data Sense. This new feature helps you surf more and do more — without worrying about going over your data limit. Data sense helps conserve your data allowance by compressing Web images, deferring data tasks to free Wi-Fi and automatically adjusting your usage as you get closer to your plan limits. Data Sense also shows how much data is used per app. As you approach your limit, Data Sense notifies you so you can get the most out of your plan. Data Sense will roll out to select mobile operators this holiday and additional partners next year. Verizon will be the first to offer Data Sense in the U.S.
- Wallet and near-field communications. Windows Phone 8 brings together the best of new wallet technologies, including payments via near-field communications (NFC).(1) The Wallet can also store your debit, credit, loyalty and membership card information on your phone.
- Always-on, premium Skype experience. With the new Skype app, coming soon to Windows Phone 8, you can make and receive Skype calls just like a regular phone call. Simply tap a friend or family member's contact card in the People Hub, or just pick up when the phone rings. Skype is always on and available so you can choose how to connect with people.
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Overestimating AIDS
The Boston Globe reported in late June that estimates of the number of people in many countries with AIDS have been dramatically overstated because of errors in the statistical models used to estimate the number and other factors. The Globe said that analysts are cutting the estimates of those infected with HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) in many nations by half or more. Rwanda's figure is being cut from eleven to five percent, and Haiti's from six to three percent.
The newspaper candidly reported that any finding that the epidemic may have been overstated will not be welcomed by activists who have devoted their careers to fighting HIV and do not want to see any HIV money diverted to meeting other needs. I presume that the thousands of HIV researchers and the multinational pharmaceutical companies that sell the expensive drug cocktails honestly believe what they say, but there are more than enough billions at stake in the estimates to motivate a tendency to believe the worst, which is actually the best if you are thinking in dollars.
In fact, the prevailing sentiment in AIDS research is that it is reprehensible to say or do anything that might cause the public to doubt the severity of the epidemic, because any doubts may cause people to risk unsafe sex, to neglect to take the nausea-inducing medications that are supposed to extend their lives, and, although this is left unsaid, to lose some of their enthusiasm for funding AIDS programs generously.
A Sweet Racket
When the biennial International AIDS Conference convened in Bangkok this past July, there was no mention of revising estimates of HIV prevalence downward, despite the consensus of experts reported in the Globe. These international conferences, supported by the pharmaceutical companies, have an ambience typical of United Nations conferences on peace or poverty, with delegates competing in the stridency of their denunciations of the United States and their demands for more money.
The delegates behave as if they know they have a sweet racket going and don't want to call attention to anything that might spoil it. The only news of importance revealed at the 2004 conference was that researchers are almost ready to give up on ever developing a vaccine.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, American health authorities announced the discovery of the virus (HIV) they said was the probable cause of AIDS, and predicted that a vaccine would be available within two years. Neither the exposure of the long-suppressed doubts about the validity of the scary statistics nor the failure of the vaccine trials has motivated the researchers to consider the possibility that there might be something wrong with their understanding of the epidemic.
As predictions fail and anomalies pile up, the AIDS experts cling to their theory as dogmatically as they have done since 1984. If anyone ever wonders, "Could we have made a mistake?" the unwelcome question never appears in the mass media or in the scientific journals. The World Health Organization and UNAIDS say that 42 million people around the world are infected with HIV, and that nearly 22 million people in Africa, the continent most severely affected, have died in the prime of their lives, leaving countless AIDS orphans.
The impasse in AIDS research suggests two questions. One is whether the HIV infection and mortality numbers have been inflated, either inadvertently or deliberately, in order to keep the money flowing. If they have been, the second question is whether the necessary statistical corrections reflect merely a somewhat reduced epidemic of the same general nature, or whether the statistics are wrong because the official understanding of the underlying syndrome is wrong.
The validity of the statistics is tied to the validity of the underlying virus theory because the horrific death totals are not derived by counting diagnosed bodies in hospitals or morgues, but by extrapolations delivered from a computer located in Switzerland. Here is how the Epimodel program works.
Every year, all over Africa, blood samples are taken from small numbers of women at pregnancy clinics and screened, not for the virus itself, but for proteins thought to be indicative of antibodies to HIV. From the premise that the presence of the antibody equals incurable infection, the Epimodel program calculates an estimate of the total number of African women infected by HIV. If so many women are infected, it follows that a like number of their husbands and lovers must be infected also, and, according to the underlying virus theory, all these will sicken and die at a predictable rate.
When these estimates are extrapolated to the general population, the computer modelers can arrive at seemingly precise tallies of the doomed, the dying, and the orphans left behind, with no need for anyone to verify the figures by counting bodies on the ground. Do the funded researchers regularly perform searches of mortality records to check if their estimates are accurate?
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No. The HIV-scientists have so much confidence in their model that they see no need for corroborating the figures it generates, so any verification is strictly pro forma. Continent-wide verification is impossible because no reliable mortality records exist in most of Africa. The primary exception is the Republic of South Africa, where a modern bureaucracy has kept reliable records of deaths for many years.
To my knowledge, the only serious effort to check up on whether the Epimodel's estimates are consistent with deaths actually recorded was performed by South African journalist Rian Malan, writing in the English magazine The Spectator in December 2003. Malan reported that wherever the computer-generated estimates can be checked against actual recorded deaths, the estimates turn out to be grossly exaggerated. Areas that are supposedly being decimated by AIDS show no increase in mortality, but rather are steadily increasing in population.
Malan's articles have been ignored by the HIV research community and by the elite newspapers, which continue to report the estimates as facts, facts that governments and foundations use as the basis for their programs. I am not reporting Malan's detailed analysis of the mortality and population figures here because my purpose is merely to prove the need for an authoritative critical appraisal of the numbers by impartial experts, experts independent of the pharmaceutical industry and also of the government and international bureaucracies, whose funding is dependent on maintaining public belief in a worldwide pandemic that is ever increasing and dwarfs all other health concerns in Africa.
The need for an audit becomes particularly apparent when we consider that AIDS in Africa has a definition (officially termed the "Bangui definition") so completely different from the definitions of AIDS used in North America and Europe that it is altogether a different condition, unique to Africa. Few people are aware of this discrepancy of definition because, as with anything that might induce skepticism toward the official story, the mainstream media do not report it.
In Africa, unlike America, a diagnosis of AIDS does not require even a single antibody test or proof of any specific AIDS-defining disease. Any person with such common conditions as persistent fever, coughing, and weight loss can and will be diagnosed as a doomed AIDS sufferer. These symptoms are characteristic of both malaria and tuberculosis, which are very common throughout Africa, as well as other diseases associated with malnutrition, polluted water, poor sanitation, and other deplorable conditions that prevail throughout the continent.
If the mortality estimates are far too high, as there is good reason to suspect, something must be seriously wrong with the assumptions that produced those estimates. There is no doubt that Africans suffer in great numbers from terrible diseases, especially malaria and tuberculosis, which is hardly surprising in a continent so afflicted with the miseries of poverty. If the developed nations are providing only HIV drug cocktails to deal with the endemic diseases of poverty, we are not only wasting many billions—which is the least of my concerns—we are utterly failing to provide the kind of assistance that would truly help Africans.
One Hope
Will there ever be an impartial inspection to see if we have been making a ghastly mistake? There will be no audit if the AIDS careerists can prevent it, because their credibility and standard of living depends upon maintaining the status quo, which requires not looking in places where you may find something you do not want to see.
There is one hope. South African President Thabo Mbeki has read the scientific literature, including articles by scientists who dispute the nature of the health crisis that threatens Africa, and he has become skeptical, as most people do when they have an opportunity to study the facts that the official sources do not report. The major international media showered him with bad press when he questioned the AIDS orthodoxy several years ago. He seemed to retreat for a while, but earlier this year his party triumphed decisively in elections, and now he is in a much stronger political position to mount a challenge to the conventional wisdom if he chooses to do so, as many expect he will.
I hope he does not try to dispute the orthodoxy altogether, as he did in 2000, because the subject is too complicated to debate in the media. The smart strategy is simply to mount a thorough survey of the deaths that have actually occurred in South Africa, as opposed to those estimated by the computer model. If the discrepancy is anywhere near as great as I expect it to be, that should be enough to spark a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the assumptions that were responsible for the error.
The Boston Globe story can be found at www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/06/20/estimates_on_hiv_called_too_high.
The Spectator article can be found at www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?table=oldßion=back&issue=2003-12-13&id=3001.
Phillip E. Johnson is Professor of Law (emeritus) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Darwin on Trial, The Wedge of Truth, The Right Questions (InterVarsity Press), and other books challenging the naturalistic assumptions that dominate modern culture. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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|Wed, 08-01-2012 - 6:31pm
My 4yo son has been in OT for 1.5 years to work on dyspraxia and related sensory processing issues. I'm thinking ahead to kindergarten and am starting to freak out. Would anyone mind sharing their experience with how their dyspraxic kid handled school (at any age)?
* Use a 504 plan to get them accommodations?
* Use an IEP to get them services?
* Send them to a special needs program specifically for dyspraxia (we actually do have one at a local elementary)?
* Did you eventually pull them out for homeschooling?
* Private school with a smaller class size?
So many options- that's why I'm looking into it now...
Thanks for your time!
~ Heidi
|Thu, 08-30-2012 - 9:43am
My oldest son was dx'd with dyspraxia and sensory integration dysfunction in first grade. We tried to make school work for a year and a half. Even with an IEP, it just didn't seem to make school more endurable for him. He couldn't write at all, and didn't seem to get enough accomodations for that. He had social problems and his teacher was not very patient with him. He just hated school. I pulled him out and homeschooled him all the way through high school. His writing is still very illegible. The transition into adulthood has been hard for him. I wanted him to get spec. ed. accomodations at college but he refused. He ended up dropping out after the first year. He's been in the hospital for suicidal depression. I'm not sure if keeping him in a school that he hated would have been better than the choice we made. School is a lot different for my younger sons (both with aspberger's dx's). At least in the district we are in now, special education has come a long way in the last decade. If they aren't happy or I have concerns, the staff addresses it promptly and it gets fixed. Also, I'm older now and I go into an IEP meeting respecting the expertise of their teachers and therapists, but also asserting that I am the expert on my child. Maybe when I was younger, I didn't assert myself and advocate for my child as well. Also, I was younger so probably less respected by the school staff. I hope that my two younger boys will end up with a happier life than their older brother has.
|Mon, 08-13-2012 - 9:35am
Yes, thanks! (From another mom of a pre-schooler with a dx now narrowed down to either mild CP or dyspraxia).
|Wed, 08-08-2012 - 1:04am
|Wed, 08-08-2012 - 1:01am
He started speech at 3, then at 4 started OT. He got the worst teacher for kinder (his sister had her - she was evil - told a kid in speech 4 times a week to not talk like a baby. In front of mom. Kid didn't talk in class for the rest of the year.) So, when it came to kinder and he got the teacher, I pulled him to homeschool as I was starting to homeschool his older sister that year too.
We do homeschool with charter schools, and he still gets speech and OT, at age 10. We moved when he was in 2nd grade. I got him evaluated by a psychologist, who said he had various muscle delays and more importantly to him, ADHD. We chose not to do meds. The week after we started vision therapy. It turns out the uncoordinated muscles in his face and hands, also meant that he couldn't focus his eyes together. Most of the time he was seeing two of everything unless he moved. Reading was really hard, I had to point to the words for him as he couldn't even keep his finger under.
After vision therapy, things really improved. Now that he could see, he could also learn to write - cursive works best.. He now reads way above grade level. But...his ability to write his own thoughts are way below grade level. So we had that tested and he does have expressive issues (which as he does a whole word stutter type of thing, makes sense.) So the OT got a device called a Fusion. It does word prediction and reads back to him. And has spell check. Which works pretty well, but we are finding it is not the finger movement, it really is getting the words down.
The Fusion is supposed to be allowed on state tests. But when checking last year, the teacher thought it sounded like the state person thought that it shouldn't be allowed - that it was an unfair advantage. I wish she could have seen my son work - it took him 3 hours to do two 4 sentence paragraphs - but if you talk to him, his giftedness stands out. If they take out that option, we will not do state testing any more.
Specifically to your questions:
IEP - keep it as long as you can. If he isn't making progress, but isn't up to grade level, see if they can move services to once a month so that when he is more mature they can bring it back up so he can catch up.
Special class: If they have it, I would say yes. If you can this year, go and sit in on the special ed class and see how it is working. (If you do it in the fall you will have a better idea of the starting points where your son will be entering.) Also go and sit in on a traditional kinder. See what they both do.
Homeschooling: yes. I knew that with the teacher he got that he would be a very unhappy kid by the end of the year. The teacher did not like special needs kids, and made fun of and belittled kids as ways of controlling the class. He really wants to please, being told he is bad by a teacher would be very demoralizing. Had he gotten any of the other three teachers, we would have done kinder, then pulled for 1st grade to be with his sister. Just didn't work out for him. This certainly is NOT the case for everyone. We just had some bad situations with a bad school and a bad teacher.
Private school: most private schools send kids with IEPs to the local public school to get those services. Which would be during the school day and you would have to provide transport. In the public schools the OTs have what is sometimes called "Push-in" where the OT works with the kid in the classroom so the teacher can see how to do work with the kid the rest of the time. My son gets services at the local school, which he would as an independent home schooler as well. His school does "consult days" when the speech therapists and OTs go in once a month to the classrooms. I get a few extra minutes at the end of each session so homework and techniques can be explained to me instead of the once a month thing.
I hope this all helps some. I know that there are a number of homeschoolers with special needs at the homeschooling board, and a few in with the gifted board. (One gifted homeschooled teen there uses an iPad I think for his writing and testing - but he is in Canada, so rules are different.)
I have faith in my son he will catch up. It may not be 12, 15 or 18. But he is smart, and if needed there is technology out there for him. When he needs it, I push for it, and he gets it. Hopefully he will not always need it and it will be a choice to use or not. But, as long as civilization stays good, (which I think it will) using technology will become the norm, handwriting the exception, except in schools.
|Thu, 08-02-2012 - 5:51pm
My 4yo son has been in OT for 1.5 years to work on dyspraxia and related sensory processing issues. I'm thinking ahead to kindergarten and am starting to freak out. Would anyone mind sharing their experience with how their dyspraxic kid handled school (at any age)?
* Use an IEP to get them services? My son had an IFSP for "developmental delays" and received speech, OT and PT (as well as some sensory integration tools like the Wilbarger brushing, weighted vest etc), from 18 months on. At age 3 he entered the local preschool for services. At age 5, he went to our local elementary school. He had a partial aide in K and I, and continued to receive speech, OT and PT. His primary diagnosis was and is under the speech category.
In third grade, he "graduated" from OT and PT. He continues an IEP for speech. He is now 12 and entering 7th grade.
Overall, we are THRILLED with his progress!! Academically, he is in a gifted program at middle school and thriving. I will say, in the early years, it was often hard for us to "show" that he was smart. His clumsiness, his poor articulation, and his general way of speaking (he has some expressive language deficits) had the unfortunate effect of making teachers think he wasn't that bright. Not to mention, fitting in a pull-out gifted program was tough when he was receiving so many other services in elementary school...
He is still a bit clumsy, but he did track last year (okay, one of the slower kids, but still), does orchestra (bass turned out to be perfect for his big hands and didn't seem to require the "fine tuning" of the smaller instruments) and has pretty much outgrown all his sensory issues. His body awareness is still a little "off" but not in any great way. It's more little things (we recently tried contacts, and that was a disaster). He played soccer for five years and never scored a goal, and he only learned to ride a bike when he was 9 or 10 (he loves it now). He tied his shoes pretty late (gotta love velcro) and his drawing tops out at stick figures! But, I guess all those things were minor compared with the biggies - which were that he loved school and he learned a lot.
We were also lucky that he had the same SLP, who was also his case manager, for six years (K-5) and that helped tremendously! She advocated tirelessly for him and helped with the small things. Even in middle school, the case manager has stepped in for a few minor things (like a new gym locker, since he was just unable to open his - user error not an issue with the lock). Public school overall has worked out great for us. Every year has gotten better and better.
What specific concerns do you have about your son, and what would the dyspraxia program entail? My only concern with special programs is that they sometimes (though certainly not always) have low expectations for the academics. We had to make accommodations for my son (when it came to writing and other fine motor) but we wanted to make sure they still challenged him. As far as homeschooling, honestly, I felt like I couldn't provide what the school did. His therapists were great and the classroom experience was really good for him. Classmates were generally very, very sweet (though many were jealous of his exercise ball seat, lol!) and he was okay with the crowd (although he's always best when he can have some quiet, alone time).
Good luck - I remember being overwhelmed and discouraged when my son was starting school; he just seemed SO far behind. But, with a lot of work, he's made amazing progress. I can still tell he has a speech problem and I see the OT deficits, but most people don't know or notice.


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Chicago-born composer John La Montaine, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1959, died April 29 at his home in Hollywood, Calif. He was 93.
Mr. La Montaine received the Pulitzer Prize for his First Piano Concerto, Op. 9, subtitled "In Time of War." It had its premiere by acclaimed pianist Jorge Bolet with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Mitchell, in 1958. Bolet also played and recorded the work for the Voice of America with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra the next year.
The recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, Mr. La Montaine also wrote "From Sea to Shining Sea," the opening overture for John F. Kennedy's presidential inaugural in 1961. It was the first classical piece ever commissioned specifically to celebrate the inauguration of a U.S. president.
In 1972, his symphony, "Wilderness Journal," Op. 41, opened the second season of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In the 1960s, Mr. La Montaine composed three Christmas pageant operas for the National Cathedral in Washington. One, "The Shephardes Playe," was televised nationally by ABC on Christmas Eve in 1967.
Opera great Leontyne Price sang the premiere of Mr. La Montaine's 1948 song cycle, "Songs of the Rose of Sharon," Op. 6. It was later performed by Eleanor Steber and Jessye Norman, who sang the work with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in concerts at Orchestra Hall in May 1975. Other champions of his work included the late Chicago pianists Ramon Salvatore and Sheldon Shkolnik and retired CSO violinist Arnold Brostoff. Gerald Arpino set Mr. La Montaine's "Birds of Paradise" as a ballet, "Nightwings," for the Joffrey Ballet in 1966.
Born in 1920, Mr. La Montaine grew up in Oak Park and graduated from Oak Park-River Forest High School in 1938. He attended the prestigious Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied with composers Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers, on a four-year scholarship, graduating in 1942. After service in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, he had a career as a pianist, accompanying opera divas Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte in recitals during the late 1940s, and doing the same decades later for Jessye Norman.
In 1950, he joined the NBC Symphony as a pianist and celesta player under conductor Arturo Toscanini, who also mentored him as a composer. In 1955, he studied in France with composer-conductor-pedagogue Nadia Boulanger.
In addition to his orchestral, vocal, piano and chamber works, Mr. La Montaine, who disdained self-promotion, achieved a new popularity in later years with solo works for flute and piccolo. His close friend, co-publisher and fellow composer Paul J. Sifler, died in 2001 at 90. His survivors include a nephew, Peter Coster, of west suburban Riverside.
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It's getting hot outside – and when the temps rise, the tastiest way to cool off is with a Popsicle or some ice cream. But you don't have to hit the store to buy a box when you've got The Quick Pop Maker at home! This is the very first product from Zoku, a company providing products for the home.
This easy-to-use pop maker is great for any family that loves a delicious frozen treat – especially one where you've picked the ingredients, so you know what you're getting every time.
You can use juice, yogurt, fruit, pudding and ice cream to create your very own flavorful pop. Don't use artificial sweeteners or diet pop in the maker.
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- Pour the juice, cream or pudding of your choice into each mold and wait. It will take seven to nine minutes for the pops to freeze. If you're adding more than one layer, don't do this all at once! Wait until each layer of juice freezes before adding another. No need to stick the pop maker in the freezer for this process – you simply leave it on the counter.
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