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I have a one acre hilly lawn(and only a push mower) and this year we decided, given the price of gas and the effort it took to mow, to just stop mowing some of out lawn and see what it does. We just don't need so much manicured grass!
We left a swath that was about 1/5 of an acre "natural" and it ended up looking cool! The grass grew tall, and a few natural flowers grew and bloomed. We will be doing this next year. I was thinking, I could pick up some packs of bulbs from Van Engelen, so far I was thinking of the Crocus Species Grand Collection and the Naturalizing Large Cupped Narcissi collection, and plant them out there to bloom before the grass gets too tall. I would also be tossing out some seeds for some "wildflower" type plants. I have accumulated a few packs of "wildflower mix" seeds over the years and I hope that these would provide interest after my spring bulbs fade. Although, this year even just the grasses and "weeds" were interesting to look at. Questions:
2- Other bulbs I should consider? I was thinking about maybe some Darwin Hybrid tulips? 3- Any other ideas for my "natural area" in my lawn? This is just something I am mulling over so it is all open for suggestions. This area is in nearly full sun, slightly sloped, and has excellent, lovely soil. There are three apple trees in a the middle of the area so it is shady right under them when they leaf out. Bulbs seem to do really well at my place, so I am hoping this will be a low maintenance (except for initial planting!) way to have a cool feature in my yard. I realize it will take a few zillion bulbs to fill in that much space, but I think if I put in a few bags of the big bulk packs every year, it will come along nicely. |
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- Posted by donnabaskets 7b, MS (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 17:39
I have no experience with a meadow, but it sounds like that's what you are doing here. Maybe there's a meadow forum? Anyway, as long as you allow the foliage to turn brown before cutting or mowing, the bulbs you list will do fine out there, and probably will naturalize too (barring voles, squirrels, etc.) You could also plant muscari and Snowdrops (galanthus). Don't expect more than one, maybe two years of bloom from the tulips, and it's almost certain that Darwins won't naturalize. Do some research, though, for there are some "wild" tulips that very well might as far north as you are. |
I think that daffodils would look great under the apple trees. They might even bloom at the same time! I'd start with those and add on from there. Crocus would be nice too but might be too small to notice, until you have a couple thousand planted! If bulbs do well in your soil, there might be a bunch of things you might try that wouldn't normally naturalize.... like the wild tulips, or lilies or a ton of other bulbs.... butdaffodils would be the best bet to start with. |
- Posted by greenmulberry 5-Iowa (My Page) on Mon, Sep 8, 08 at 22:35
Thanks for the advice, and you are right, there IS a meadow forum here! A long ago previous owner had planted Snowdrops in a few places and they are still going strong, so I may give some of those a try in my meadow as well. kato b I think you have a good point about the crocus being small and I think I will focus more on the daffs. I think this is a good idea to try. Hopefully I have my camera fixed come spring. |
Sounds like a good place for lots of Bachelors Buttons with the Dafs. The mixed wildflower packs are usually full of them, along with lots of other things that will work well. THanks for the inspiration. I plan to try it myself on a small scale in the perennial border. |
- Posted by irish_rose_grower z7 LI NY (My Page) on Fri, Oct 17, 08 at 21:17
I have a great idea that I saw here on long island. This year they tried something new on the highway on and off ramps. Usually the land has just plain old weedy grass and they mow it. This year they mass planted wild flower seeds -- it was spectacular! It is like something out of a painting. Right now there are thousands of cosmos (I think, i see it from a distance) blooming and I thought - If i had a large piece of land that is what I would do. Maybe you can do this with a portion of the land. They grow very high, about 3' |
- Posted by treegirl30 3 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 18, 08 at 14:54
I have had excellent success with daffodils in zone 3 where I live. I have used pink charm and a yellow trumpet mix. The pink charm do require a bulb food but they look beautiful next to the yellows. I also have pink impression tulips but I find them to be spotty and in need of replanting each fall to ensure I get enough of them. |
Just a personal bias from a prairie restoration I did in Cedar Rapids during high school in the early 1980's. Tall grass prairie is very low maintenance, attracts wildlife and has flowers that adapted to the area, blooming over a longer time than daffs and tulips. http://www.reflectiveimages.com/IowaPrairiesSplendorintheGrass.htm The Iowa DNR is willing to help. http://www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/privatelands/index.html |
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A 10-member Joint Parliamentary Delegation from Bhutan left for New Delhi, yesterday on a visit to India from 5-10 August 2012 at the invitation of Honorable Speaker of Lok Sabha, India. Led by H.E. Lyonpo Namgye Penjore, the delegation comprises Leader of Opposition of National Assembly, Members of National Council and officials of the two houses.
While in India, the delegation is expected to call on the President of India, Prime Minister of India, Speaker of Lok Sabha, Chairman of Rajya Sabha and other dignitaries. They will also visit Goa from 6-7 August 2012 and meet the Chief Minister and Speaker of Goa Assembly.
This is part of the on-going Parliamentary Exchange Programme between the two Parliaments. A similar visit from India was received in May 2010 led by Her Excellency Shrimati Meira Kumar, Honorable Speaker of Lok Sabha. Such exchange of visits is expected to foster greater interaction between the parliamentarians of the two countries and thus contribute towards further strengthening the close relations between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of India.
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This open air chassis is built from 0.8mm cold rolled steel. The floor, motherboard tray and mounting clips are all made of steel for the innards, while the exterior is made from reinforced plastic. The plastic outer shell is painted grey and has had a texture applied, dulling the look of the chassis. The front I/O, housed in this frame, consists of two USB 2.0 connections and two 3.5mm jacks for audio. The chassis only supports mITX motherboards and 2.5" storage drives. There is no way around those two factors. The Mini does still allow room for a full sized, 5.25" optical drive, though. With its small size and relative light weight, there should be no issues finding some space to house this Mini Skeleton.
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During the 1960s, when Sean Gallagher was 16, his mother took him fishing for steelhead on the Skagit River in northern Washington State, on the Canadian border. In the young Gallagher—now a retired teacher living in the shadow of Mount Rainier—the experience ignited a passionate pursuit of the giant sea-run rainbow trout.
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Aldo Leopold, The famous 20th century wildlife biologist and conservationist, summed up perfectly the lure and lore of ruffed grouse: "There are two kinds of hunting. Ordinary hunting and ruffed-grouse hunting." Leopold knew. He pioneered modern wildlife management in Wisconsin, where this beautiful bronze creature of the forest edge is known as the king of game birds.
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This week, Google has added scores of interactive-panoramic images of popular Hawaii visitor attractions to its Google Street View gallery.
A post on Google's official blog notes that its expanded Street View of Scenic Hawaii, which now zooms in on everything from beach parks to volcanic lava fields and historic landmarks to shoreline resorts, aims to take viewers on a "virtual vacation to paradise."
We checked out the imagery, which covers six islands, and found it handy for exploring the visual layout of everything from walking paths edging Oahu beach parks, such as the south shore's Sans Souci (also known as Kaimana Beach), to a visitor outlook area near Kilauea volcano's Halemaumau crater in the Big Island's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Google's Street View, which got under way five years ago, now features 360-degree virtual tours in 39 countries — at street-level and beyond. Viewing footage is gathered by way of high-tech cameras fitted to vehicles and pedicabs. A Street View Trike, which leaves the street to snap shots along the strolling grounds of attractions, such as Pearl Harbor's World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, started pedaling around Hawaii about three years ago.
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THEORY AND DATA: invitation to a training event in linguistics
To celebrate the launch of the INSTITUTE FOR LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDIES, the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of the University of Manchester wishes to invite linguistics postgraduates from all over the country to a one-day training event on the theme of
24 April 2009
10.00 - 18.00
(University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester:
10.00-16.00 room 3.204, 16.00-18.00 Lecture Theatre A)
Guest Speaker: Professor Peter Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics, SOAS.
The sessions will reflect the variety of theoretical approaches and language specialisms covered by the Institute:
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- 10.00 Nigel Vincent & Eva Schultze-Berndt, Introduction
- 10.10 Yaron Matras, Toward a theory of language contact: The place of diachronic, typological, and conversational data in an integrated model of grammar.
- 10.55 coffee
- 11.20 Guido Seiler, Why dialect geography matters.
- 12.05 Yuni Kim, Intonational variation in Huave.
- 12.50 lunch
- 14.10 Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Possessed property concepts in Ulwa: Why morphological syncretism matters and how to deal with it (based on research conducted with Itamar Francez, U. Chicago).
- 14.55 Iris Bachmann, Situating linguistic data: Investigating language and the media in Brazilian television.
- 15.40 tea
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- 16.05 Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Do 'literal' meanings play a role in actual communication? An empirical study.
- 16.50 Professor Peter Austin, If you don't speak lots of languages, then what do you linguists do?
- 17.50 close
- 18.00 wine reception
Each session will consist of a 30-minute talk plus 15 minutes of debate led by a discussant.
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7 He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. | 7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. |
8 And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; | 8 And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" "A plumb line," I replied. Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. |
9 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo'am with the sword." | 9 "The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam." |
10 Then Amazi'ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo'am king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. | 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: "Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. |
11 For thus Amos has said, 'Jerobo'am shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'" | 11 For this is what Amos is saying: " 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' " |
12 And Amazi'ah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there; | 12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. |
13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom." | 13 Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom." |
14 Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, | 14 Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor a prophet's son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. |
15 and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' | 15 But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' |
16 "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' | 16 Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, " 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the house of Isaac.' |
17 Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'" | 17 "Therefore this is what the LORD says: " 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will certainly go into exile, away from their native land.' " |
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An ostrich rancher in southwest Colorado was sentenced to five years in prison for growing 270 marijuana plants in a hidden basement. John Mark Willden, 41, was sentenced in April following an investigation by the FBI and the Southwest Colorado Drug Task Force. No word on the tipsters, but the birds reportedly kept their heads in the sand.
Residents of an assisted-living center in Littleton began looking forward to visits by Pisco, a llama. The animal is one of eight certified llama therapists in this country.
Two decades ago, cattle mutilations were the talk of Colorado. This year, a string of baffling pet mutilations -- cats, rabbits and the occasional squirrel -- have stretched near and fur in the Denver area. According to authorities, someone -- or something -- has been surgically removing the animals' internal organs, then leaving the carcass to be found near its owner's home. So far, canines have escaped the carnage. "Either they just don't like dogs, or they can't catch 'em," said one Aurora animal-hospital worker.
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Joining in what's become a national frenzy, about thirty parents started fighting at a youth hockey match at the Family Sports Arena in Arapahoe County last January. The scuffle broke out during a game between fifteen- to seventeen-year-old kids, after one "slashed" another on the ankle and that boy's parents complained. The verbal exchange led to a brawl too big to contain in the arena's penalty box.
The Jesus Run, organized by a Highlands Ranch ministry of the same name, sent out a call for world-class runners for a June race in Denver. As a further inducement, race director Rob Sigmon promised to establish a marathon and 12K Jesus Run Israel around the Sea of Galilee. But problems bedeviled the local event from the start. One runner complained that the course was confusing, and others ratted off participants for running distances other than what they signed up for. And a top competitor, who said he was promised prize money for finishing second in a half-marathon, claimed he never got his $500 prize. Jesus Run ministries has since laid off its paid staff. It the race makes a comeback, it will be a miracle.
For the first time in the history of the 24-hour Aspen ski race, the December event tested solo racers rather than pairs of skiers taking turns as a team. So ex-Olympian Casey Puckett and other athletes took their whacks at Ajax -- again and again and again. As winner of the race, Puckett pocketed $10,000 and came away with a new appreciation for endurance skiing. "I think anyone who enters this race is absolutely nuts," he told the Rocky Mountain News minutes after completing the torture session. "I just don't get it."
It was a joyous year for Gary Barnett, coach of the CU Buffs. No, not on the gridiron, where the team fared well until it faced the really tough eleven from Oklahoma and decided that the best way to riot-proof the campus was to fold. But off the field, barnstorming Barnett -- who ditched Northwestern for Boulder -- was granted a five-year contract extension worth $8 million. Citing CU's current penny-pinching state, one English professor got out his thesaurus and proclaimed the decision "obscene." Responded CU Board of Regents chairwoman Susan Kirk, "The issue is not whether it is appropriate to be paying that amount of money to a football coach when your mission is education." Give that woman an incomplete in logic.
Rocky, the city's highest-profile sports mascot, was jailed on allegations that he'd harassed his ex-wife. The popular mascot with the lightning tail was sidelined for three Nuggets games (leaving the team without its best performer) until he was reinstated by management. Rocky's alter ego, 36-year-old Kenn A. Solomon, faces a formal arraignment in Arapahoe County in January on one felony count of trespassing and one misdemeanor count of harassment.
The team he works for could be charged with more serious offenses.
Gone but Not Forgotten
Linda Boreman, who as Linda Lovelace starred in the porn classic Deep Throat, died in a car accident near Highlands Ranch. At the time of her death, Boreman, 53, had repudiated the movie and become a crusader against smut, saying an abusive husband forced her to make the film.
Neil Murdoch arrived in Crested Butte in 1974 and quickly earned a reputation as a visionary for pushing the sport of mountain biking. His ability to transform old Schwinn bikes into fat-tire machines with ultra-low gears that could conquer ski terrain became the stuff of legend. But something went flat in 1998, when a sheriff's deputy found that Murdoch was using the Social Security number of a Pennsylvania man. Soon after, Murdoch and one of his cycles disappeared in the Four Corners area -- and two weeks later the town threw him a going-away party in absentia, enshrining his mug in the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame. In September 2001, a U.S. marshal tracked Murdoch down in Taos; he's been wanted since 1973 for jumping bail in Albuquerque after being caught with 26 pounds of cocaine. Last spring, the 61-year-old Murdoch -- whose real name is Richard Bannister -- pleaded guilty to federal charges of trafficking cocaine and failure to appear. Those fat-tired bikes can get you out of tough places, but not Murdoch's current fix.


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Welcome to our autographed NHL 13 game cover giveaway contest draft. A couple weeks ago, we told you that we would be giving out 12 autographed NHL 13 game covers to people that followed and RT'd a tweet from our Franchise Mode Twitter account. We got a ton of retweets, and have compiled a list of everybody that entered, so now it's time for the Draft. (Note: these are for the game covers ONLY. No game or case is provided)
Everybody that entered gets put into a random draw, and then we'll choose 12 people. It's then a first come, first served method: we'll contact the winners and they tell us which of the remaining covers they want. You'll know which covers are remaining by checking out the image above. If the cover is greyed out, unfortunately it's been claimed.
The draft is over! Here are all the winners:
- Winner #1: @theseanfarrell. Pick: P.K. Subban, PS3
- Winner #2: @ManginaUnited. Pick: P.K. Subban, XBOX 360
- Winner #3: @James_Rosay. Pick: Henrik Sedin, PS3
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- Winner #5: @mottysco. Pick: Jordan Eberle, PS3
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Santa Cruz, CA
Thrill-seekers flock to the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Beach Boardwalk amusement park, but Santa Cruz has a surfeit of other attractions: Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, surfers at Pleasure Point (and the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum), and frolicsome seals at Natural Bridges State Beach.
Stay: At the Casablanca Inn, most rooms have ocean views (and a handful have fireplaces, for when those NoCal nights get chilly). The restaurant looks out on the awesome expanse of the Pacific.
Eat: Center Street Grill is the go-to restaurant for salads, pastas, homemade hollandaise sauce, ahi tuna, and freshly squeezed lemonade and orange juice on the outdoor patio.
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Early in Jonathan Tolins' "The Twilight of the Golds," David Gold, a young gay man who has been unsuccessful at getting his family to share his love for Wagner's "Ring," declares, "When art is at its most outrageous, when it cannot be believed, that's when it most resembles life."
This is a promising premise for a play that tries to create parallels between Wagner's mythical world and a middle-class Jewish family, both careening toward self-destruction. Tolins, however, rarely follows his own advice.
He begins imaginatively by breaking through a living room wall to reveal a Wagnerian landscape lying just beyond it, but little of what then happens has the scope to make the parallel convincing.
At this point I must confess I'm not a "Ring" fan. The reason it is dramatically unsatisfying (note, I said dramatically, not musically) is that its characters always succumb to fate. Even the most powerful god, Wotan, is helpless before ineluctable destiny. Wagner's tortuous plot is a kind of cosmic foreshadowing of the line, "I was only obeying orders."
The Golds, on the other hand, have free will. But the choices they make, as Tolins has drawn them, are invariably dumb ones. Contempt for one's middle-class origins is at the heart of much recent art, but to make effective drama out of this hostility, one must at least depict the enemy fairly. To make the Golds tiresome vulgarians is not really fair or accurate. Upwardly mobile Jews like the Golds have always been involved in culture - why else would the garment industry have clustered around the Old Met?
The play hinges on a scientific discovery that makes it possible to determine the sexual orientation of a child during early pregnancy. When Suzanne discovers her unborn son is gay, she and her dull husband contemplate abortion.
If there were any real question about the decision, "Twilight" might have been an interesting play. As it is, the outcome is all too predictable. The real parallel between the gods and the Golds is that they embrace extinction too willingly. (Even this, as Jewish history indicates, is unfair to the Golds.)
The play's best moments - apart from its sharp humor - are monologues Tolins gives each character. His writing is more assured when the Golds address the audience directly than in their often pat exchanges with one another.
Because the characters are written in so meanspirited a fashion, virtually nothing the actors can do gives them much breadth. The most appealing, of course, is David, and though Raphael Sbarge has an openness and sweetness that makes him sympathetic, he has an annoying set of accents that pop up too often. Jennifer Grey makes Suzanne a plausible, pouty Jewish princess, but she cannot rise above the pettiness of the writing even to suggest the deep affection she once had for her brother.
Judith Scarpone and David Groh are effective as the parents; Michael Spound strong as the dreary husband.
The earthbound nature of the project is reflected even in John Iacovelli's set designs, which capture middle-class settings smoothly but fail to suggest the magic of the Wagnerian world beyond.
Have you noticed how much moral issues seem to depend on other people's morality and your own stand on those very same moral issues? Of course, immorality is something that normally only happens to other people. People without our standards.
Plays have never been good arenas in which to ventilate moral problems - such weighty matters being more appropriate to Phil Donahue than Bill Shakespeare. Plays are best confined to character, motive and incident, not to mention poetry - with moral judgments, when appropriate, left to the observer, as they are in life.
Jonathan Tolins, who is offering a very simplistic, mildly homophobic, conundrum plays "The Twilight of the Golds," which opened at the Booth Theater last night, would like to persuade us otherwise.
Tolins has a problem - one of those "what would you do if" questions - that he is anxious, even desperate, to pass on to us.
Suzanne Gold-Stein (Jennifer Grey) is pregnant. Her husband (Michael Spound), a doctor (as in medicine) and a bio-technologist, specializing in the genetic structure of DNA, to boot, is delighted.
The entire Gold family - her father and mother (David Groh and Judith Scarpone) and her gay brother David (Raphael Sbarge), a young opera queen and set designer, who works at the Met and talks mischieviously about Wagner and Appia - is also delighted.
Until...(the playwright now takes us on a sci-fi trip into the not-quite-known zone, for the play is based on what is not yet accepted science)...it is discovered through amniocentesis that because of the genetic constitution of the male fetus' DNA, it is 90 percent certain that the boy will "turn out like David." Oops!
There is much talk in the play of hereditary, of Nazi breeding eugenics (these it seem even the play accepts as bad), and the "woman's right to choose." Should Suzanne have an abortion or not? As her husband says so wryly: "We'd have a lot of nature to nurture against."
Of course, who knows the extent to which science might, in the near future, change our commonplace uncertainties, and allow man to play, or at least understudy, God.
And I suppose there are parents who would regard the strong possibility of parenting a homosexual child as good and be proper grounds for abortion - most would-be parents are not so finicky, and are prepared to take and love what they have created.
Am I taking up a haughty moral ground? I don't mean to. Because I am not homophobic doesn't mean that people who are might not face problems here. But even if the child were suffering from hemophilia - or whatever! name it - I would need an awful lot of good writing to give me any interest in or sympathy for these puppets or their situation.
Tolins' people - continually dropping media names, and approaching the proscenium arch for tear-glinted, soliloquy-style communions with the audience - are universally as unlikeable as they are unlikely.
And the author trying - with the help of elaborate but rather ugly scenery - to point up similarities between his domestic sit-trag with Wagner's "Ring" proves pretentious and ludicrous.
Although it helps but little, Arvin Brown's direction is fine - it even keeps the scenery out of the way of the actors - and the actors themselves show every sign of sincerity. At times rather too obviously. But then, that's show business, as they may say on "Donahue."
"The Twilight of the Golds," Jonathan Tolins's calculatingly topical play, which opened at the Booth Theater last night, would like us to consider a multitude of big questions: eugenics, the true breadth of tolerance among self-defined liberals and the limits of family love. But the principal moral to be gleaned from it is of a different order altogether: If you're writing a small, facile comic melodrama -- which, in spite of its painfully lofty ambitions, is all this play is at best -- it's definitely not a good idea to drag in Wagner's "Ring" cycle as your central point of reference.
Weighted with this cultural baggage, what might otherwise have seemed merely slight becomes embarrassingly infinitesimal. And in the wake of similarly themed, more successfully ambitious plays, like "Pterodactyls" (let alone "Angels in America"), it shrinks all the more.
The play, directed by Arvin Brown, is framed by the recollections of David Gold, a gay set designer whose pregnant sister, Suzanne, learns through genetic testing (a fiction, since no such test yet exists) that the child she is carrying will probably also be born gay. The ensuing debate over whether she should have an abortion rips her family apart, and as an opera fanatic, David casts the struggle in the heroic terms of Wagner's masterpiece.
Accordingly, the walls of Suzanne's Manhattan apartment (designed by John Iacovelli) recede to reveal a Valhalla-like landscape, all empyreal sky and craggy mountains; Wagner's apotheosizing music swells, and David keeps annotating each new plot turn with increasingly strained Wagnerian parallels. And all the while, the play's five characters -- alternating between cute comic exchanges and arguments possessing all the heat and spontaneity of a high school debate -- seem to grow smaller and smaller and smaller.
The juxtaposition of ordinary lives undone by extraordinary circumstances and outsize musical fantasies can, in theory, be effective. (Think of the television version of Dennis Potter's "Pennies From Heaven.") But Mr. Tolins uses the device less to mark contrasts than correspondences. And because his characters, who also include Suzanne's husband and parents, seem so relentlessly shallow and predictable, the correspondences never adhere. Indeed, they are intrusively trivializing.
In creating his characters, Mr. Tolins has used a simplistic shorthand of identifying details that keep rotating through the play like mechanical ducks in a carnival shooting gallery: Suzanne's inability to deal with tough, life-changing issues is symbolized by her repeated references to the way she froze when she took her S.A.T.'s. The inability of David's family to accept his homosexuality is shown in the way they automatically shut down whenever he mentions his boyfriend.
The comic dialogue, in particular, seems canned and stale, often relying, all too appropriately, on references to television sitcoms and brand names to garner easy laughs. And even in the midst of passionate, soul-searching conversation, a hoary joke is likely to pop in like a prankster at a funeral. When David, who has recently learned of Suzanne's dilemma from his mother, wants to know if she would have aborted him under similar circumstances, he says, "The question is hypothetical." Referring to a gland believed to control sexual orientation, his mother answers, "The hypothalamus is the question."
For the play to have any emotional clout, one must believe in the strength of the Golds' familial bonds. But because the brand of stereotypical Jewish humor that defines their encounters seems far more imposed than organic, the bridge of sympathy between actors and audience can never be fully crossed.
The play's dramatic momentum, which is always fairly slack, is slowed even more by the series of monologues delivered by each of its characters. They are meant to obliquely illuminate larger issues with deceptively commonplace observations, but they often seem more like stand-up routines on an amateur comedy night. Suzanne, offering another example of her mauvaise foi, talks about her humiliating experience with a dating service. Her father wistfully recalls that when he was growing up it was the children, not the parents, who were the disappointments. And the mother tells the audience that we are suffering from a surfeit of information.
Ultimately, "Twilight" offends not because of its subject matter but through the uneasy mixture of flippancy and self-righteousness with which that subject is treated. The play's melodramatically ironic conclusion -- in which poetic justice is dealt resoundingly to those who would tinker with nature -- is a truly objectionable liberal version of a Christian fundamentalist's theory of divine nemesis.
As the Jewish princess Suzanne, Jennifer Grey, who has been a charming actress on screen, provides what can best be described as a performance in miniature. Her range of inflections and gestures is tiny, and in grief she seems merely robotic. As her husband, Rob, a research scientist who initiates the prenatal test, Michael Spound is burdened with the play's medical exposition, which he delivers like an instructor in a military training film.
David Groh and Judith Scarpone, as the parents, and Raphael Sbarge, who plays David with a perplexing hint of an Irish brogue, all struggle doggedly to bring some heartfelt emotions to the proceedings. There are even scenes in which all of them actually appear to be crying.
But if these valiant actors are able to believe in the genuine grief their characters are undergoing, any audience for "Twilight" will have a much harder time doing so. This is one of those unfortunate instances in which one feels sorry for the actors, not the characters. The only time I experienced a twinge of empathy for one of the latter was when Suzanne, listening to her brother's ongoing recitation of the plot of "The Ring," looked impatiently at her watch.
The "Twilight of the Golds" ought to have a run on Broadway, not because it's great -- it's not -- or because it promises unforgettable acting in choice roles -- it doesn't. This play by newcomer Jonathan Tolins is a trashy, manipulative, sentimental morality tale that could do for the stage what "Indecent Proposal" did in the movies: Provoke arguments about an issue that goes right to the heart of what binds families together or rips them apart.
Here's the setup: Rob Stein (Michael Spound) is a doctor involved in biotech research whose company has developed sophisticated chromosome analysis that can be performed very early in pregnancy. When his wife, Suzanne (Jennifer Grey), becomes pregnant, she agrees to undergo the experimental testing. The results show 10 fingers, 10 toes -- and a 90% likelihood that the male baby will be gay. What do they do? What, the play asks by extension, would you or I do?
Suzanne's gay brother David (Raphael Sbarge), an underling in set design at the Metropolitan Opera, is shocked that there's even a question.
Rob, along with Suzanne's very involved parents, Phyllis (Judith Scarpone) and Walter (David Groh), are into a heavy passive-aggressive thing, making it clear they want her to have an abortion without ever actually coming out and saying so; after all, look how tough it's been to have David in the family.
The outcome devastates everyone. But first David gets to deliver several winningly tacky monologues drawing parallels between their predicament and the story of Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy, complete with musical excerpts.
Merged with this path to tragedy is a traditional matinee comedy with lots of set pieces and one-liners. "I must have dressed you funny," Phyllis tells David, drawing a big laugh that grows bigger when she adds, "If only I hadn't taken your temperature that way."
"Twilight" flaunts enough Jewish stereotypes to offend anyone who stops laughing long enough to listen. Worst is Suzanne, a vacant, indecisive, gift-mongering cipher typed as a Jewish American Princess straight out of "Goodbye, Columbus" (which is mentioned, lest anyone miss the point). Grey is so good at conveying those qualities that it's hard to know whether Suzanne is supposed to be utterly unlikable or the actress hasn't found a route into Suzanne's soul. Either way, the result is a standoff between actress and character.
The rest of the acting, with the exception of Sbarge, is as stock as the writing, all posture and no grace. Sbarge, as likely a member of this family as Bill Cosby, nevertheless brings an ingratiating naturalness to the role of David.
The technical elements are uniformly mediocre, and special mention should be made of the extremely ugly wardrobe Jeanne Button has provided Grey, who also has entirely too much going on with her hair, highlights-wise.
But truthfully, none of this should matter. Arvin Brown has staged "Twilight of the Golds" exactly as it ought to be staged, with its consternation triple-underlined and its jokes italicized. As with "Indecent Proposal," no one will come out of this play remembering much more than the scary question at its center. In a just world, that would be enough to get 'em lining up at the box office.


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omarfeliciano wrote:I would definitely buy it!
Thanks, Omar!
viridiancat wrote:Steam punk and Art Nouveau, what's not to like?Great design!
Thanks, Viridian! I'm usually terrible at drawing women. I tried to get this one right.
Re: Butterfly Effect
I had the idea for this design previously, and this new theme lended itself for making the design this week. Hope you enjoy it, and always remember: Prevent hurricanes by stopping the butterflies...
Re: Mort-vivant
Great design, and nice title choice!
Re: Robo Nouveau
Reminds me of Tron...
dirtdirt wrote:Why I decided to draw a robot for an art nouveau derby is beyond me.
We're on similar wavelengths, I thought THE EXACT SAME THING but I did it anyway. I like his expression. :D
Re: Nouveau Rebirth
Re: Yggdrasil Tree
I love, love, love this design but I am complete murder on a white t-shirt. Of course, I don't know that it would be a striking on another color so if it wins, I'll just have to wear it when I am not anywhere near food or beverages.
Beautifully executed!! +1
Re: Yin-Yang (re-sub)
I have now altered this so that it does not have the lines/design of any existing car.
lyonscc wrote:I have now altered this so that it does not have the lines/design of any existing car.
I like the concept, but what did you change?
Re: Painterly
The linework doesn't seem to have translated to the smaller shirt comp view, so here is a larger version.
Hey buddy, CD and I have something similar in the works that I've been drawing up since yesterday. No zombies though. I wanted to just give a heads up so there are no hard feelings. You piece looks great by the way!
Yeah, you got my vote with the subject matter, but where's Nilbog or whatever chewing on the roots?
Nicely done! I'm a redhead and would definitely wear this +1
paigerdoodlefaire wrote:Reminds me of Tron...
I assure you that Tron had nothing to do with this, and this has nothing to do with Tron. ;D But while we're on the subject (kind of), I went through a few color schemes. One was a reddish-orange, which stood out nicely, but I thought the aquamariiiiine tealy color was way better.
cdrewlow wrote:Great design, and nice title choice!
Thanks for the suggestion! I got le ball rolling.
The details here slay me. As usual, excellent work.
cwarfield82 wrote:I like the concept, but what did you change?
In the original, I had melded two cars from recent years. In this one, I purposely altered the aerodynamic shape and some of the interior lines so that it was no longer even close to the models. I had already worked these up last night, because I wanted the two cars, together, to be much more round (like an actual Yin-Yang symbol), though I ended up choosing the (now rejected) design, because I liked the overall shape a little better. The cars are now much shorter, no longer really aerodynamic (as a real car would be for driving), but they now make the yin-yang much better, because together they are round (instead of an elongated oval).
Drakxxx wrote:Hey buddy, CD and I have something similar in the works that I've been drawing up since yesterday. No zombies though. I wanted to just give a heads up so there are no hard feelings. You piece looks great by the way!
No worries! This is a pretty literal interpretation of the theme, so I'm not surprised that you came up with something similar. I actually thought about you guys while I was drawing it.
Also, I pulled out some images of vintage bugs (which are a little more rounded), and they don't come close to matching this, because they have attached bumpers, and more exaggerated wheel-wells.
cwarfield82 wrote:Nicely done! I'm a redhead and would definitely wear this +1
My little brother is as red as they come. I sympathize with your cause.
This looks awesome. I was too chicken to try submitting something with a person on it, but you did it beautifully.
DianaSprinkle wrote:"Cat Nouveau" Just a black cat done in the art nouveau style.
There's no such thing as "just" a black cat ;)
Simple yet beautiful. Great work.
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We wanted to try an experiment. Our first design is cute cartoon animal heavy - featuring an owl as the detail. This design is more realistic and more artistically in theme. The experiment is to see which one generates more votes. Here's the full sized image.
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Horizontal style.
Note that the resubmitted design is much shorter than the new bugs or the old bugs, and that no VW Bug is as round, and even the older, rounder ones have much different lines to them: Newer: Older:
Re: Cranes Nouveau
When I was younger, I spent many weekends in Northern Wisconsin camping. I attempted to catch the beauty and grace of the crane in this one color design. I hope you enjoy it and please vote.
Re: Cat Nouveau
SO happy to see at least one awesome design that's not on grey, brown, or black. Thank you for thinking colorfully. I think it looks great!
lyonscc wrote:Note that the resubmitted design is much shorter than the new bugs or the old bugs, and that no VW Bug is as round, and even the older, rounder ones have much different lines to them: Newer: Thanks for the pics - they make the differences much more obvious! Older:
OOOOOooooo - Ramy! I was working on a similar design. Gah, you beat me to it. Great job and good luck. +1
johnmizzer3 wrote:Very cool. I really like this design!
Thanks JM3! I didn't know you were a wooter! Very cool.
nerdgirl985 wrote:I love, love, love this design but I am complete murder on a white t-shirt. Of course, I don't know that it would be a striking on another color so if it wins, I'll just have to wear it when I am not anywhere near food or beverages.
Yeah, I just can never buy a white shirt. Too many ladies, like myself, avoid them for a reason ;-)
This is awesome!
Re: Perils of Space
Happy that I was able to come up with something for this weeks derby. I've missed you shirt.woot.
Wish I could vote 10 times for this entry!
Re: Papilio Nouveau
This is excellent and I'd definitely wear it. :D
viridiancat wrote:This is a very elegant and wearable design. I like the color scheme.
Thank you very much - I really toyed with the palette until I settled on the brown shirt.
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Photos of the Day: Boulder streets, Jeffco's Coal Creek Canyon underwater
Earlier today, we shared startling videos of Boulder-area flooding that's already taken one life and resulted in closures throughout the city -- and indeed, CU-Boulder has already closed the campus for tomorrow, too. You'll understand why after checking out the photo above and a slew below from the City of Boulder. They're followed by shots of another area that's sustained significant damage: Coal Creek Canyon in Jefferson County. Pics from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office will let you know why a big stretch of Highway 72 is closed at this writing. Check them all out below.City of Boulder
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... moreWhen a decision was made to build a new bridge, it was decided to retain one abutment on the south side of the 1897 structure-the only bridge at that point able to withstand Brisbane River in flood. Leaving the neoclassical-styled remnant also fulfilled the Brisbane Greek community's wish to maintain the memorial plaque for Hector.
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Server-based computing with the free X2Go terminal server
Staying Thin
The open source X2Go project is rapidly approaching version 3, which adds features such as new clients and seamless windows.
X2Go [1] is a free, fast, and flexible terminal server for any client that supports modern authentication technologies, such as card readers, USB tokens, centralized user management via LDAP, and authentication tools integrated in the KDE system management system.
The X2Go project was inspired by the Sun Ray product line [2], which has impressed thin client fans since 2006. The second Sun Ray release included lean devices that lets users log on using a smartcard to work on a centralized terminal server [3] [4].
In addition to the multimedia extras and security features integrated into the Sun Ray products, a session management system, dubbed "Hot Desktop Mobility" or "Hot Desking" by Sun, was probably the sexiest feature.
When user A removes his chip card from the internal card reader, the software automatically interrupts the session, freeing up the thin client for the next user. If A then inserts his smartcard into the reader on any other machine, the server immediately offers him the interrupted session.
Of course, Linux users were very much interested in a similar all-round system that, in contrast to Sun Ray, did not rely on special hardware, and it was just a question of time until the open source community delivered the goods.
Oleksandr Shneyder and Heinz Gräsing, system administrators with the City of Treuchtlingen, Germany, spent much of their leisure time developing a free terminal server that supported laptops and arbitrary clients, in contrast to Sun's model. Thanks to an intelligent combination of GPL'd software and their own developments, the team came up with a convincing answer: X2Go.
Integrated Tools
The developers integrated tools such as PXE boot and Debootstrap [5], NoMachine's free NX libraries [6][7], and tools like FUSE [8] and SSHFS [9] with desktop utilities and extensions for Gnome and KDE. PAM libraries add smartcard support and USB stick-based authentication to X2Go (Figure 1).
Thanks to the NX server's ability to suspend and resume sessions, version 2 was the first to support Sun Ray-style sign-on.
World Traveler
X2Go is now deployed on the clients and servers developed for Linux4Afrika [10] in Tanzania and Mozambique and Linux4Paraguay in Paraguay, as well as in many German schools (see the "Linux4Afrika and X2Go" box).
Linux4Afrika and X2Go
In Spring 2008, the Linux4Afrika [10] project, by the Freiburg, Germany-based NGO FreiOSS.net, moved from Edubuntu to X2Go. Hans-Peter Merkel, one of the project's leaders explains the move:
"The new X2Go version of the Linux4-Afrika sample server has put the association in a position to support networks larger than the typical classroom solution. LDAP integration is a very good solution for extending our project from schools to universities. Additional authentication tasks occur here in daily operations. Physical Linux clients can now log on to the Linux4Afrika LDAP server; packages from the standard repository allow for this with just a few configuration changes. Of course, deployment in this kind of environment necessitates operations in a heterogeneous operating system landscape. For this reason, the developers are currently working hard on integrating Windows clients.
"With most of our users preferring the Gnome desktop, Heinz Gräsing's team responded quickly to requests and implemented modifications for local device support in Gnome.
"The latest offshoot of the Linux4Afrika project in South America, Linux4Paraguay, will be the first to benefit from X2Go technology. At the end of 2008, Mozambique and Ethiopia will be the first to receive the new sample solution."
Brand New: Version 3
Version 3 will probably be available for production use by the time this issue hits the newsstands. The project is Debian oriented, so the X2Go developers are waiting for the stable version of Lenny before they go stable.
Four new features on the list outshine the numerous bug fixes and detail improvements: Besides Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, they now have a mobile client for the open source Maemo [11] platform for Nokia phones and the long-anticipated Gtk client, including Gnome integration. The fourth addition is the ability for users to run individual applications without a desktop (Figure 2), just as on Citrix.
Although the Qt client supports all the new functions, the developers are still smoothing off some rough edges. For example, the newly implemented USB authentication is not quite finished. If you need this, you might want to wait until the developers have completed security features like timestamps, client IDs, and changing tokens before you update.
The next item on the to-do list is a web service for individual X2Go modules that will allow users to access files, sound, applications, or the complete desktop of a Linux machine over the Internet.
As the X2Go developers revealed at Ubuconf, they envisage a kind of private cloud computing dubbed Pccloud some time in the future; the cloud would use profile data to synchronize the session with the individual environment, including applications and data from online storage.
An X2Go USB stick is also planned as a portable Windows application.
X2Go seeks to create an open – but complete – terminal server environment, which explains the many software additions to the distribution. Additions include mechanisms for distributing the client filesystem via PXE boot, a login manager, administrative plugins for the KDE control center, and tools. NX compression methods allow for sessions over low-bandwidth links.
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