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Ken Weibel, one of the local developers, says that turnover in the city administration -- the town has had three planning directors and three city managers over the past four years -- and rising impact fees have contributed to the uncertain climate for construction. The allocation system has helped, he says, but so has the pre-selling of water taps, which has allowed him to double the number of permits he's obtained for his 69-home project.
"There's no way I could have started with just the 25 permits I had under the cap," Weibel says. "Most bankers don't want to put the money up to buy raw land if you're not sure you have the permits to complete the project."
Revenues from building permits are only a small percentage of the town's budget. Both sides agree that the town needs more retail and commercial development, boosting sales and use-tax revenues, but Hindman's group contends that the town needs more housing to attract major businesses such as Safeway, which has been considering building a store there. Their campaign literature stresses "growth management" rather than a growth cap, arguing that the "negative perceptions" associated with a cap may be more critical than how much building it actually allows.
"The cap gives lenders the feeling that Berthoud is totally anti-growth," says Tom Patterson, a former town board trustee who's working with Hindman on the repeal campaign. "As a consequence, you're not going to get a favorable loan if you want to open a business in Berthoud. If you want to start a subdivision, the fear is you won't be able to amortize your investment. Perception is reality."
Only six permits have been pulled so far this year in Berthoud. While dozens of more homes may come on line, town planner Wayne Reed is reluctant to predict how many of the projects will actually get done soon. The cap has forced builders to compete for a limited number of permits, but the number of homes getting built isn't the only consideration for the planning staff.
"I spend a lot of time crunching numbers that could otherwise have been devoted to quality issues," Reed says. "The growth cap alone has not made staff look at other tools to manage growth."
But supporters of the cap say that it was never intended to be the town's only tool for controlling development and that annihilating it won't magically lift Berthoud out of its current slump. Its removal, though, could invite more large-scale projects that will end up straining town services even further. "If you look five years out, there could be substantial growth," Stockley says. "There are 500- and 700-home developments waiting to come in if the cap goes away."
Hindman counters that larger projects are the best way to ensure quality and affordability of housing: "The larger chunk of land you're planning, the better."
Hindman, Patterson and other former town leaders involved in the repeal effort are urging their neighbors to have more confidence in their elected officials' ability to manage growth. But Berthoud's confidence in its leaders has taken a few hits lately. Last year, months after voters rejected the proposal to exempt the McWhinney project by the highway from the growth cap, Hindman and other town board members granted the project an additional 100 permits a year anyway. It wasn't enough to keep the McWhinneys from de-annexing their property and flirting with Johnstown; now, however, the developers are talking to Berthoud officials about another annexation, an elaborate mating ritual that may yet allow the town to control its I-25 gateway while getting the project out from under the cap at last.
"I see the McWhinneys putting their houses in and maybe putting in commercial development in twenty years," Stockley says. "They're drawing up their own development agreement, writing their own development codes. They want to make their own rules. I think it's crazy that Berthoud would let them do that, but it looks to me like the town board is leaning toward that."
The board has put off a final decision on the McWhinneys' latest annexation proposal until after the May 20 special election. Stockley believes there's a political motive for the delay: If voters know that 4,000 homes are going up along the highway, she reasons, they'll be less likely to vote to repeal the cap. But her greatest concern is whether people will bother to vote at all, after having to revisit the cap issue in one election after another.
"The development interests keep bringing it back over and over again, until they wear you down and you end up saying that growth is inevitable," Stockley says. "We don't have an answer for the voters, except to get angry and get out and vote again."


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Darryl Peck has been working with Apple since the 1980s, developing award-winning software for Macintosh computers in the 1980s and 90s and selling software and accessories on-line on one of the first internet retail web sites in existence.
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"There are a lot of places that are desperate for an Apple presence," said Peck, noting that the location of the closest Apple Store is at Lenox Mall in Atlanta. "peachmac sells 1,300 items, we do trade-ins, customers don't need an appointment, we do out of warranty service work, offer one on one training with PeachPlus Training and will also offer two to three free workshops a week."
"We're the Apple resource for the community," Peck added. "We live and breathe this stuff."
The object for the Pecks was to get their new stores opened by the holidays because it is believed that 2010 will be an iPad Christmas. The iPad is 95 percent of the tablet market and products like iPods and Macs are also very popular, spanning generations.
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"Apple just keeps hitting one grand slam after another," Peck said.
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Visit www.peachmac.com and get your code, one per customer, and when you go to the grand opening, you will be asked to enter the code in a computer. One lucky winner will take home a MacBook and another will win an iPad. There will be a host of other prizes given away and the first 200 customers in the store will receive a free t-shirt.
peachmac in Peachtree City will start with 10 employees and a few more will likely be added by the holidays. Peck is excited to be opening a store in Peachtree City and has heard a lot of great feedback from the community as news of their opening has begun to spread.
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I hope your store does well. I also hope your staff and clientele will be less pretentious than the Apple "company" Stores I've visited.
There's an Apple store at Ashley Park, in Newnan. That's considerably closer that the one at Lenox, mentioned here as the next closest store.
It was explained to me that there are "Apple" stores and "Apple Authorized" stores and the Newnan and Peachtree City stores are the Apple Authorized. You will still have to go to Lenox to line up for a new release item.
You're wrong...the article is right, closest Apple Store is at Lenox. You may be right, there may be a store in Newnan that sells Apple products, but even Best Buy sells some Apple products.
Welcome to PTC. Nice store. I think they will do well here.
Just an observation. The line Sat. went across the entry to Mirko Pasta. Did anyone see anyone from Mirko's out there working the line to attract diners in to their restaurant? I didn't. Their outdoor dining area was totally empty.
And yet, how many were approached by the rep. from The Avenue to fill out information for a giveaway and were given a coupon for $5.00 off at Ted's Montana Grill? I was. Their outdoor dining was packed.
This is often the difference between successful and unsuccessful local establishments. Ted's and The Avenue used this to market and generate more business. Mirko's, unless I missed something, did not. Here's hoping they all thrive, but I think a huge opportunity was missed.
And kudos to The Avenue security staff and peachmac employees for the work put in to organize the long line and keep things moving in an orderly fashion. Finally, thanks to Mother Nature for giving all of us such a beautiful day!
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Ian Holloway has left his position as manager of Crystal Palace by mutual consent after less than a year in charge at Selhurst Park.
Holloway, 50, guided Palace to the Premier League via the play-offs last season after joining in November, but had won only one league game this term.
A 4-1 defeat by Fulham on Monday left the club five points adrift of safety.
"Ian felt that a new approach might help keep us in the division," chairman Steve Parish said.
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"It's a completely different challenge for Ian and a completely different challenge for us at the club.
"Ian's been very noble and he's come forward and said: 'I can't do it.' I've spent three days trying to get Ian in the frame of mind that he can do it."
Assistant manager Keith Millen will take temporary charge for the game against Arsenal on Saturday.
Although the club lost star player Wilfried Zaha to Manchester United, Holloway was allowed to bring in 16 players during the summer.
"I have pride in the job we've both done," Holloway said.
"We need to shut up shop in this division. At the minute we've got a whole new group there.
"I have to hold my hand up and say we didn't keep the spirit that got us up.
"We changed too much too quickly."
He added: "This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out."
Palace won 3-1 against fellow strugglers Sunderland on 31 August, but they have lost their seven other league games this season.
Palace are 19th in the Premier League table and speculation had surrounded Holloway's position following a meeting with Parish after the Fulham defeat, despite the chairman telling BBC Radio 5 Live before the game his job was secure.
Parish said he would consult Holloway when it came to appointing a new manager and that the club needed someone with more top-flight experience.
"I've never seen Ian Holloway like that before. He cut a lonely figure. He's normally very effervescent, he's up and at them and enthusiastic.
"He's got to the position where he's said to Steve Parish: 'You've got to move this on.'
"I think it was honourable and noble. Watching it, I felt sorry for him."
"We've got a whole group of people who are only really used to the Championship and dropped them into the Premier League," added Parish.
"I think we both realised we need someone with more experience at this level."
Holloway ended a three-year spell at Blackpool - who he guided to promotion to the Premier League in 2010 before being relegated back to the Championship the following season - to join the Eagles, succeeding Dougie Freedman.
Palace were fourth in the Championship table when Holloway arrived, but held onto a play-off place thanks to an 89th-minute winner from Mile Jedinak in the final game of the season against Peterborough.
After beating Brighton in the play-off semi-finals, an extra-time Kevin Phillips penalty secured promotion against Watford at Wembley.
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Comment number 330.
23rd October 2013 - 22:54I decent human being in a sea of sharks. All power to you Ian and will look with interest for your return to the game after a rest.
Comment number 329.
23rd October 2013 - 22:41Chairman, Owners and Managers are too greedy for success and the wealth it brings. It's evolution not revolution which brings longer term success. QPR, Sunderland and Palace need I say more...
Comment number 328.
23rd October 2013 - 22:36Although hindsight is great, we should have kept the likes of Garvan, Ramage, Moritz and Dobbie in the 25. I rather go down fighting as a team than 11 individuals.
There's way too many new faces and IH didn't help things by changing the team and formation pretty much every game. The injuries to GM, YB, JW and JP haven't helped.
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Comment number 327.
23rd October 2013 - 22:34Well, rather than marking me down, meet my comments head on?
What is the deal? Crystal Palace were always going to face a heavy challenge this season. There is no one better to lead them than the manager from last season with belief is his heart until the end.
Lordy sake, who else is realistically going to come in and do any better with a huge bunch of players they do not know. -
Comment number 326.
23rd October 2013 - 22:34I have great respect for Ian. He was an inspiration last season and a real human being to the team and club. I agree, too many changes and the spirit dies. Hope it comes back and wish Ian every success in the future. Good luck.
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Obama, Biden and Guns
Everyone agrees that the Second Amendment
to the US Constitution guarantees, "the right to bear arms." What many seem not to understand is
that there has been no proposal by the Congress, the US President or by any State to
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reason and direction to our rights themselves.
Concerning the First Amendment, in
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when "promoting immanent lawless action." We have concluded, as a people, inciting riots is not a good idea nor is it a right to protect. Contemporary community standards also apply to the freedom of speech
with respect to obscenity in such cases as Miller v. California. Furthermore, personal threats, child pornography and
speech owned by others all create barriers in our judicial system, concerning speech rights.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees, in cases
of arrest, the right to a speedy and a public trial. It also guarantees the right to a jury composed of peers,
being informed of crimes when arrested, and the right to have witnesses
testify. However, the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of 1863 paid little mind to amendment number six
when the common good (saving the Union) was in jeopardy. What about "military combatants" held
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? American Citizens are in that federal prison today without being informed of crimes committed or granted trials, overlooked by peers or juries.
The Patriot Act was also enacted
when the United States was under attack by Al Qaeda.
No one on Capitol Hill was hollering about Fourth Amends guarantees, which is
meant to guard against unreasonable searches and seizures. As a matter of fact the NSA was
directed, by the White House, to listen in on our phone calls, inquire on library books checked out, spy on our emails and
even list the groups one might have affiliations with.
Could one argue that the practice
of "immanent domain" is a violation of the Fifth Amendment? The deprivation of property without the due process of the law is illegal under number five. This amendment did not stop the
US Government from creating the National Park systems. This was done in spite of Native
American tribes living in those areas of course. However, collectively we agreed on protecting the environment.
The Eighth Amendment guards against
cruel and unusual punishment, even as thirty-three states, the US military and
the federal government violate this amendment while keeping capital punishment
on the books. The US intelligence
community and the White House also allow for rendition and torture and as a matter
of US policy.
The Ninth Amendment is also
regulated constantly, which guarantees rights not listed in the Bill-of-Rights (the enumeration clause). Concerning gay marriage, women's access to abortion, universal health care, the right to employment or
not to go hungry are constantly attacked by state and federal legislatures.
The Tenth Amendment guarantees state
authority in a federalist system; however, this amendment is steamrolled by
the US Government in matters of state legalized marijuana or when governors cannot recall
National Guardsmen home from overseas deployments. Even Cap-and-Trade limit states and their respective industries
as well. One could even argue the initial
Interstate System violated this amendment.
So why would a country, which
allows all these compromises, regulations and interpretations on our Bill-of-Rights, scream bloody-murder when the Vice President of the United States might propose background checks on people seeking to buy fire arms and implement
ammo limitations. The White House
is not calling to repeal the Second Amendment, federal agents are not being
directed to invade your house and take your guns and no one is restricting
Quite simply it is astounding that
in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook killings, before investigators were even finished counting the
bodies or finished investigating the crime of murdered children, people like Rush Limbaugh,
Sean Sanity and several other Tea Party demagogues where only concerned with
buying more guns, attacking the left-wing's positions and threatening more
violence. Where was all the sympathy, or even a moment of silence, for the dead children in the American right-wing movement?
Nothing is absolute in this world
not even the Second Amendment. The
possible White House proposals seem rather reasonable in a country, which glorifies
(even worships) violence, guns and death.
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One of our most famous endurance breastfeeders, if not the most famous endurance breastfeeder, Mayim Bialik, has decided to retire the boob. Her 4-year-old son Fred has officially weaned.
As she writes over at Kveller:
Fred isn't going to nurse on his way down the wedding aisle or at his high school graduation. I didn't need to break him of a "habit" and teach him "who's in charge." I didn't need to set boundaries you thought I should have set when I didn't want to set them.
Because we did it: Fred weaned.
As you might imagine, Mayim got a lot of criticism for being a strict devotee of attachment parenting, family co-sleeping and allowing her children to self-wean and all. When she titled her book on the subject "Beyond the Sling," she really wasn't kidding.
Bloomberg's new plan for encouraging breastfeeding by way of restricting the distribution of formula in hospital maternity wards has incited a lot of resistance. And rightly so. There are better ways to help women choose breast over bottle than limiting their options or shaming them into it.
At Slate's Hanna Rosin writes:
The question here is not whether breastfeeding is better or worse, we can all agree that breastfeeding infants is somewhat better than not breastfeeding them. The question is, as I have written many times before, that we do not want to feed into a culture that has made the failure or lack of desire to breastfeed seem like a shameful and even criminal affair.
Forward contributor Lenore Skenazy writes at the Daily News:
The mayor's idea, of course, is that since breast-feeding seems to be the healthiest choice, why not discourage the alternative? But then maybe he should discourage women from having babies at a later age. After all, those kids are more likely to have health problems. Or maybe he should discourage parents from ever driving their kids anywhere? After all, that is the No. 1 way kids die — as car passengers. Or maybe he should just stop us all from ordering a large soda …
When I saw last week's much-discussed Time magazine cover with its provocative mom-breastfeeds-toddler photo I groaned, worried that the debate over attachment parenting and breastfeeding would bring with it another chapter in the "mommy wars."
When it comes to parental choices, such as staying at home vs. going back to work, breastfeeding vs. bottle-feeding, it seems that even some of the most die-hard feminists struggle to apply the rhetoric of reproductive justice — that every choice is unique to the woman who is making it and can't be understood unless we're in her shoes to the choices we make after birth.
But the media's focus on the "mommy wars" ignores the real issue: Without policies that support families, no moms (or dads) can make those parenting choices that are so hyped up by the media. The folks at MomsRising are starting a campaign to ask Time to change its focus on covering families. They write:
What makes TIME's decision to focus on trying to fan the flames of outdated, false "mommy wars" so utterly shameful is the fact that there are so many real and pressing issues facing America's mothers right now that aren't being covered. Issues like the fact that childcare costs more than college in many states, that 80% of low wage workers don't have a single earned sick day, that women (particularly moms) face rampant pay discrimination, and that over 176 countries have some form of paid family leave, but the U.S. doesn't.
These facts are stark. We remain the only country in the industrialized world without paid sick leave or mandatory paid parental leave. We have pitiful and costly daycare options, and there is little support for single mothers, poor mothers and others. Bryce Covert recently wrote a piece at the Nation about how new mothers are being driven into debt. She interviewed several women who had complications that led to their being driven deep into debt, or on a razor's edge.
Like "Big Bang Theory" actress Mayim Bialik, I am an observant Jew, and had my first child while completing my Ph.D. (Mine was in experimental psychology; the actress' was in neuroscience.) And like Bialik, I endorse and practice many aspects of 'attachment parenting': breastfeeding and late weaning, baby-wearing (using a sling), bed-sharing and positive discipline. So I thought I'd be a big fan of her new parenting book, "Beyond the Sling."
And, indeed, there is much that drew me to her book. For example, I like the idea of being part of a community of parents struggling with how not to bribe their kids. But there are also aspects of "Beyond the Sling" that pushed me away.
Bialik explains in her book that she achieves her high-touch, high-attention parenting without the nannies or babysitters or personal chefs that you might expect from a TV star. But the author seems oblivious to the fact that her version of attachment parenting requires families to forgo a second income and to have either one parent who works a flexible schedule (like her husband did when their children were young) or outside help. And she bypasses altogether the reality of single parenthood.
About a month ago, I was nursing my son in the waiting room at the pediatrician's office. A young girl who looked to be about 10 or 11 noticed a pair of little feet sticking out from under my blue floral nursing cover and innocently asked me what I was doing, and I responded that I was feeding my baby. Her eyes widened incredulously as she asked, "How do you feed a baby without a bottle?" Now, her mother was right there, and if there's one thing I've learned in the 8.5 months that I've been a parent, it's that "backseat parenting" is just not cool, so I quickly mumbled something about asking her (mortified looking) mother and left it at that.
The incident got me thinking. I felt sad for that little girl that nobody had thought to explain to her one of life's most beautiful biological processes; I also felt dejected about the prospects of raising this country's appallingly low breastfeeding rates.
Whenever these kinds of conversations come up, someone inevitably remarks that feeding babies is about choice, and we should not shame mothers who choose to bottle-feed. I agree. The problem is: How often does it truly come down to choice — and not a "cultural booby trap"?
Things were starting to look up earlier this week when both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres spoke out against the exclusion of women. It was also announced that the Knesset task force was meeting to discuss sanctions against businesses that discriminate against women.
…But then only one government minister, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, bothered to show up at the meeting.
At the meeting, the IDF's human resources chief Major-General Orna Barbivai told attending Knesset members that "halachic considerations cannot override the considerations of army commanders," in reference to recent demands to excuse religious male soldiers from military ceremonies in which women would be singing.
On the "modesty" front, 20 shops and businesses in Sderot, including some national chain stores, have signed a modesty agreement. Businesses making sure that their employees dress according to religious modesty standards get a "kashrut" certificate from the Torah-oriented Mimaamakim organization.
How does a mother-to-be choose a pediatrician for her baby-to-be?
My mother recently reminded me of her awful experience with my first pediatrician, when she became a first-time mother. Underslept and anxious, my mother had some difficulty with breastfeeding, as happens to so many new mothers. I gained no weight during that first month, which concerned my mother. The pediatrician's helpful response was to tell my mother that she was causing me brain damage. Luckily, my mother replaced this doctor with Dr. Lazarus, another pediatrician who had both sterling medical credentials and human skills. Under the care of this second doctor, the breastfeeding began to work, and I became an increasing presence on the office scale.
Three decades later, as motherhood approached, I wanted to find my own Dr. Lazarus. Late in my pregnancy — I gave birth in May — I asked local parent-friends for referrals, ran doctors' online profiles by my doctor-sister, and arranged to interview a handful of the finalists. Interviewing pediatricians is one of those rituals you don't know exists until you're pregnant.
Oh, Blossom. I hate to be critical of one of my favorite actresses who is an "out Jew" to boot, but your recent article in the online Jewish parenting publication Kveller, just raised too many alarm bells for me not to comment here. In the article, titled "I Breastfeed my Toddler, Got a Problem With It?" actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik writes about exclusively breastfeeding her 2½ year old son. He eats no solid food.
Yes, it's an uncomfortable image. When our first babies were newborns, some friends and I took a post-partum exercise class, and we exchanged stunned looks when, at the end of class, the instructor's preschooler came in, plopped down in her lap and lifted her shirt to nurse. But I live in the Park Slope area, a Brooklyn neighborhood where attachment parenting is so much the norm that family beds are conventional and people bring their babies with them into bars. So being unconventional isn't the issue. It's two other things that Bialik wrote that give me pause.
Her 2 ½ year old son isn't yet verbal, she writes, unable even to ask in a basic way to nurse (he indicates interest in sign language), but Bialik doesn't offer any explanation for his lack of speech. She also writes, "I have not slept more than 4 hours in almost 6 years." She continues, "My son, however, is healthy, happy, and independent, and I see no reason to wean him."
In the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, attempts to ban women from the main street during Sukkot has prompted protests.
The "lactivist" community is calling for a boycott of Old Navy because the retailer is selling "Formula Powered" onesies. As Deborah Kolben points out on Kveller, Jewish tradition "recognizes that breastfeeding is both a burden and a blessing."
Beginning this week, federal regulations require health insurance companies to provide free preventive health services — but those preventive services do not include free birth control, at least not yet.
The world's grooviest lactation consultant – Freda Rosenfeld – who also happens to be a religious Jew, was profiled in this story by former Forward staffer Elissa Gootman in Sunday's New York Times.
The story, titled "The Breast Whisperer," is a nice, ahem, soft feature about the woman who is a godsend to many new moms in New York City, when she arrives at their post-partum side to advise about that most basic, and yet oft-times trickiest, of maternal duties: breastfeeding.
I worked with Freda myself almost exactly 16 years ago when, quite unexpectedly, I had no milk just after my first child was born. I'd never heard of anyone not producing milk after childbirth, and it is no exaggeration to say that when we called her, I was desperate for help.
Of the four fasts commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, Tisha B'Av is the only one in which traditional rabbinic authorities don't widely exempt pregnant and nursing women.
In the following video, posted Tuesday on Web Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim Brovender — who is not a medical doctor — states that "there is really no reason today that a pregnant woman should not fast, if she's healthy and if the pregnancy is as it should be." However, he outlines special precautions for pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers who are fasting:
But an observant-Jewish physician friend of mine — speaking to The Sisterhood as a medical professional, not as a halachic authority — explained, "Twenty-five hours in the height of summer without fluids is not a good thing for a pregnant woman, especially if the woman is experiencing morning sickness and losing water. And for the first week or two of nursing, she needs to be drinking."


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I live in heat & humidity too, which I despise (whole other story)...
For me, using MMF + tylose + a microwave is the answer to cracking.
I honestly don't even notice the weather when I model something.
My fondant performs the same any time of the year.
(A member at Flickr posted pics of her pieces literally melting from the humidity...she was using gumpaste & fondant mixed...I've never had that happen either).
** great advice, I never would have thought of that until it was to late. just beginning my journey into modeling. Thanks!


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Pro Arte Quartet Makes Grand Down Payment on Centennial Celebration
One can't honestly say that the Pro Arte Quartet's centennial season has been overhyped. After all, sports teams and political turmoil typically dominate the headlines and water cooler talk around the state. But for any cultural fans who managed to grasp the import of an unprecedented 100th season for a group that has called Madison its home since 1940, it was a fair question: Could Saturday night's opening concert live up to such a historic occasion?
The answer was a reverberant "yes," and then some. From the opening languid phrase of Ernest Bloch's "Prelude" at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall, to the final flourish of Schubert's masterful String Quintet in C major a couple of hours later, the Pro Arte Quartet players of the last sixteen years fully lived up to their centennial motto: "Preserving a legacy, forging the future."
Of course the concert was only the climax to a series of celebratory events that began earlier in the week. On Saturday afternoon, guest lecturer and celebrated author Joseph Horowitz spoke in the Pyle Center, taking his subject from aspects of his book, Artists in Exile. (The relatively sparse attendance can be blamed in part on the beautiful late October weather, but as all the Centennial events, other than pre-concert dinners, are free, it is hoped that the future guest lecturers opine to full houses.)
Horowitz was joined at 7 p.m. on the Mills Hall stage by composer Walter Mays, whose "String Quartet No. 2" was the first of the four world premieres featured this season. Moderated by professor emeritus John Barker, the pair shared a number of insights into Mays' work and took questions from the audience.
It is a joy to report that long before 8 o'clock Mills Hall was very full; an unofficial estimate came in at something over 600, and equally encouraging was the diversity in age. Every work programmed this season has some connection to the Pro Arte's history (the aforementioned Bloch gem was composed after the Pro Arte's early benefactor, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, had helped the composer get established in the U.S.; the Quartet recorded all of Bloch's chamber music for strings in the 1980s).
The second work was the "String Quartet in B minor" of Samuel Barber—the composition that contains the original version of what has become one of the most performed works of our time: "Adagio for Strings." The Pro Arte Quartet gave the premiere of the work somewhat unexpectedly in 1936. The outer movements in the Barber original are rather brief, if engaging, and the central Adagio did not disappoint. Listeners who have only heard the version for orchestral strings may fear that the familiar searing climax cannot be replicated by a mere foursome. Well, it can't—but we gain when one hears an ensemble such as the Pro Arte bring out the subtly overlapping dissonances, building to an inexorable crisis; it is almost possible to forget that any other version exists.
A world premiere is like a Christmas gift in a box that changes size, wrapped in paper with a question mark motif: Will it be a great thing in a small package, something overwhelming—or a "white elephant?" Walter Mays' gift to the Centennial Season was wrapped in the subtitle "Dreaming Butterfly," an allusion to the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi's famous dream. Better still was the gift itself: music of mystery that evolves into captivating tone painting. First violinist David Perry was given the lion's share of the task of creating the butterfly motifs, while cellist Parry Karp offered a tour de force of pizzicato playing in the central movement. It might go without saying—but would be a criminal omission—to not state that second violinist Suzanne Beia and violist Sally Chisholm were every bit the gentlemen's equals. After all, every great quartet maybe a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but each player richly earns their due.
Mays has written for the Pro Arte before: His "String Quartet in G minor" was written for the same cast in 1998. This is purported to be quite a different piece; having only heard "Dreaming Butterfly," I can state that Mays passed the first test of a world premiere with flying colors—one is eager to hear it again. Happily, the work will, as with all the world premieres this season, be recorded for Albany Records.
As if it weren't enough to share such an august occasion among themselves, the Pro Arte invited a special guest to round out the celebratory concert. Cellist Bonnie Hampton not only has the artistic track record to collaborate on this occasion, but a true pedigree: She was a friend of Robert Maas, one of the earliest cellists in the group's history, and there have been other overlapping connections throughout her distinguished career.
The Schubert "Quintet in C" is arguably as beautiful and profound a work as has been composed in Western civilization, in any genre. It is not unusual for fine ensembles to enlist a solid assist for the work and make them feel at home; Madison's Ancora Quartet celebrated their tenth anniversary with Karl Lavine in a memorable performance last season, to name a recent example. But Hampton sounded more than at home; the resulting performance Saturday made it seem as though she has been a part of the group for a decade or so—just as the others have.
The icing on the evening's cake was literally a dessert reception in the Mills Hall lobby, but the real treat is that this party is far from over: Installment #2 arrives on November 19. Mark your calendars.
Photo courtesy of the Pro Arte Quartet.


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Police officers from across Illinois gathered in Springfield Thursday to honor colleagues killed in the line of duty — including one killed in 2012.
On the Monday after Thanksgiving, Illinois State Police Trooper Kyle Deatherage was patrolling on his motorcycle on Interstate 55, about 30 miles south of Springfield. He pulled over another vehicle when the driver of a semi-truck is alleged to have hit and killed Deatherage. The driver has been charged with reckless homicide.


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manicdotes, melmoth, mmo June 18th, 2012It's in the Diogenes
"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere."
— Sherlock Holmes in The Greek Interpreter.
A club which, it struck me, seems evident in many MMOs, and to which I must confess I have occasionally found myself a member.
Episodic levels
I took to listening to episodes of the Cabin Pressure radio comedy show whilst pottering around in Dungeons & Dragons Online. So far I've finished two whole series, and still haven't made it from level seven to level eight. It may be the case that I'm 'doing it wrong', but with a Lesser Tome of Learning (permanent XP gain boost) and a knowledge of the dungeons I was running, I think that perhaps two series of a comedy show is too long per level. I'm more of a three-episodes-per-level sort of chap, or perhaps two reasonable length podcasts.
I'll be interested to see how many Cabin Pressure episodes it takes to gain a level in Guild Wars 2, especially as I believe that the claim was made that each level in Guild Wars 2 should take about the same amount of time. Eighty levels, at three Cabin Pressure episodes per level, sounds like… a lot of comedy, still. Perhaps one for the MMO examination board?
Question 14. If an MMO has eighty levels and takes a minimum of three episodes of Cabin Pressure per level, at what character level will the player be able to recite the entire first three series verbatim whilst drunk at an MMO guild BBQ? Show all working out.For a bonus mark: How many episodes of Monty Python would be equivalent?
Note: You may use the standard unit of Mighty Boosh to convert between episodes, but must show your working out.
If you like a lot of schadenfreude on your biscuit.
Upon finding myself a member of the Diogenes Club in an MMO, one of my pet hates is players who seem to follow you around for no apparent reason other than to nab whatever mob or gatherable item you are after. Sometimes it seems like deliberate griefing, and other times you're simply the victim of the harmless coincidence of MMOs requiring every unique and special heroflake to be original and different in exactly the same way, in exactly the same location.
I was playing an MMO recently and had been suffering the attentions of one of these folks; I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that it was neither naive innocence nor a noble desire to come to my aid which was driving their actions. I trotted down the road to put a distance between myself and this other player, and happened to notice a glowing canister lying on the ground. In my curiosity I decided to click it, and got a message that
"This can of gasoline will detonate in 3 seconds… 2 seconds…"
I quickly ran away from the object and looked back in time to see Mr Me Too! run up to the same canister (ignoring all the other glowing canisters in the area), whereupon it promptly detonated, taking fully half his health bar away. He stopped following me after that.
And now I'll forever be disappointed in any MMO where I can't booby trap the clickies and gatherables.
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pjharvey Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 12:04 pmSpy vs. Spy the MMORPG. ISAGN.
Melmoth Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 12:20 pmSubscribe!
And perhaps consider petitioning one of the CCP devs to allow booby traps in jetcans.
bhagpuss Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 2:12 pmCabin Pressure is very good.
I have been watching the levels in GW2. I do not believe it takes the same time to do each of them. It would be hard to be sure, however, unless I was to do exactly the same during each of them. Which is unlikely to happen.
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June 18th, 2012 at 2:51 pmIt was m'colleague who put me on to Cabin Pressure. And many a merry "Hey, Chief. I could be wrong…" has been uttered in MMO dungeons ever since.
Must remember to use 'Jelly babies to manual' more often, though.
I'm not sure where I heard that GW2 factoid, or whether it is even true. It does seem like a splendid idea to keep the time between levels more constant; obviously a more exponential levelling curve will extend the average subscription time, assuming the developer can provide content which is compelling enough to keep the majority of players climbing the curve.
Pai Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 7:29 pmThe leveling curve of GW2 is of course not based on 'time to level' because that varies per player. It will, however, require the same -amount of exp to level- after level 15 or so (I forget the exact number, but it evens out fairly early on).
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June 22nd, 2012 at 4:37 pmI say! Sometimes you have to admire the EVE community, or segments of it, at least.
And only a few 'booby' comments too, and those were amusing, at least.
Nice to see it get a positive and constructive response!


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Lucy Pope, Operations Manager at Alderwood Education, is taking part in Centrepoint's Sleep Out on Thursday 10 November 2011. Lucy is participating as part of a team of seven from the Women in Welfare networking forum. The team are aiming to raise over £2,000 for this great cause and have already achieved 40% of their target.
The event is being held in London's Exchange Square where over 650 people will take to the streets to sleep on cardboard boxes for the evening in order to raise money for Centrepoint.
Centrepoint is the national charity helping homeless young people. Whether they have run away from neglect or abuse to sleep rough, or been thrown out at 16 to fend for themselves, young people are vulnerable on the streets and need help. Centrepoint offer safe accommodation and a chance for people to turn their lives around with counselling, education and training for life.
If you would like to offer your support please visit their Just Giving page: http://www.justgiving.com/WomenInWelfare


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Aaron Bennett, exec chef of Bácaro Venetian Taverna: Don't come in five minutes before we close -- and don't order well-done steak!
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This is part one of my interview with Aaron Bennett, exec chef of Boulder's Bácaro Venetian Taverna. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow.
Aaron Bennett's career in the kitchen began when he was thirteen. Like most teen boys, he was intrigued by cars, knew he wanted to hit the pavement the day he turned sixteen, and understood that if he wanted to cruise, he needed to save some dough -- a lot of it. "I started washing dishes five nights a week after school as soon as my parents told me that they'd match what I'd saved," recalls Bennett, now the executive chef of Bácaro Venetian Taverna. "I worked at a restaurant on Lafayette, saving just about every penny I earned."
He eventually got the car, and while dish duty was simply a means to an end, he continued to work in Colorado kitchens, doing time on the line at the now-gone Karen's Country Kitchen in Louisville, where he worked his way up from dishes to the omelet station after the regular egg dork didn't show up for his shift. "At that point, I'd really taken a liking to cooking, and I've been doing it ever since," says Bennett, who moved to Denver when he was eighteen to take a gig as the deli supervisor at a former Alfalfa's Market, where he quickly found himself creating dishes for the hot case. "It turned out that I had a natural ability to cook without recipes," he recalls, "and I didn't just like cooking; I was really good at it, and I knew that I wanted to stick with it."
He began applying to culinary schools, but found the tuition prohibitive and instead turned to the American Culinary Federation's Chef Apprenticeship program, a three-year curriculum that requires students to find a certified executive chef sponsor to take them under the knife. Bennett enrolled and landed an apprenticeship at the Brown Palace. "I know that it was the best place at the time to do my apprenticeship, but the chef really didn't want to take one on, so I called him two or three times a week for three weeks -- bugged the shit out of him -- until he relented on the condition that I promised to stop bothering him," remembers Bennett.
"It was the best thing I ever did," he adds, noting that he worked every station in all three restaurants -- Palace Arms, Ship Tavern and Ellyngton's -- and was the first apprentice there to run the grande dame's private dining club. Bennett completed the program, and after "spending three years at some of the best restaurants in Denver, I wanted to work for the best hotel in the state," he says, so he trotted up to Aspen, where he became the chef de tournant at Montagna in the Little Nell. "It was a super-challenging job, super-busy and super-high-quality," says Bennett, who left when he spotted an ad for a sous-chef position at the Ritz-Carlton in Aspen Highlands. Not long after, at the age of 26, he was promoted to executive chef. "Right after I got the job, I had to host the Best New Chefs dinner at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic, and it was incredibly daunting," he remembers. "It was absolutely manic, and everything was total trial by fire...but it was also one of the best times I've ever had."
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Lindsay Lohan has history with the rehab center which she'll call home for 90 days -- her dad dried out there in the late '80s, and we're told he and the rehab owner are thick as thieves.
TMZ broke the story ... Lindsay will be moving into the Seafield Center at Westhampton Beach in New York for her court-ordered rehab. Turns out a coked-up and boozy Michael Lohan checked into the joint in 1989, and became tight with Executive Director Mark Epley.
Michael tells TMZ ... Mark knows the "family dynamic" of the Lohan family. Michael says the goal is to force Dina Lohan to agree to family therapy -- with Michael and Lindsay -- to deal with their laundry list of woes.
Here's the problem -- Michael got sober at Seafield, but he fell off the wagon pretty quickly thereafter.
Michael says he wanted Lindsay to go to Lukens Institute in Florida because the facility is small and stylized to the patients, but he still likes Seafield a lot.
Michael Lohan
Magna Cum Sober Degree
From Lindsay's Rehab Joint
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Posts Tagged 'Lady Gaga'
Everyone knows that MTV made the decision a long time ago to ditch actually showing music videos in favor of greased up guidos and about 300 shows about what it's like to be a rich and/or pregnant teen. Hell, they even got rid of the "Music Television" tagline on their logo this year.
But wait, there is hope once again!
The New York Post is reporting that the seminal MTV show Beavis and Butt-head will be returning to the airwaves with all new episodes! The new episodes will still feature the boys as high-schoolers, but instead of flinging their cynical and moronic critiques at music videos from the 80s and 90s, their old cracked television will now feature current videos.
Some people might say that Beavis and Butt-head was the first step in MTV's movement away from featuring music videos. That's fair and it may be true. But couldn't it also then be the first step in reversing that trend and leading the station closer to its origins? MTV is never going to be a 24/7 music video station again – the economics just don't support it. But I'm sure they can get away with showing some, and if so, the return of Beavis and Butt-head is a sneakily awesome move in that direction.
And can you imagine what kind of comments those two will have while watching the "Alejandro" video?
Sixth-grade talent shows are usually pretty painful events – full of ear-bleeding recorder solos, boy band dance routines, and a magic show or two.
But this kid absolutely owns his performance – of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" no less. And I'm not even saying this is good in the "It's good for a sixth-grader" way. No, this is actually good good. Like this little guy should seriously think about pursuing this talent. And aside from the amazing singing voice, he's got all the confidence in the world in his performance. And I'm sure that has to be at least a little hard when you're a guy singing a Lady Gaga song to a bunch of your sixth grade classmates. Think of the potential beatings that could entail!
But no one can really make fun of him after that performance. Just watch the girls' faces in the background. Once they realize what song it is, they're all like "Oh no he isn't!" and are ready to laugh him off. But he's got them in the palm of his hand by the end and gets an appropriately enthusiastic applause. And keep an eye on the blond in the back row. You can literally see her falling in love with this kid by the second.
All I can say is that he better have won first place.
Haven't done this in awhile, so I figured now is the perfect time to start it up again. Today's Quickies are a collection of links and blurbs I've come across that are rather interesting (to me).
You know Eminem is trying to make a comeback when you start hearing about controversy in his upcoming tracks. In his latest, Em has ripped into NFL star Ben Roethlisberger. The track is titled Despicable and in it, Em says, "I'd rather turn this club into a bar room brawl, get as rowdy as Roethlisberger in a bathroom stall."
There's a Jersey Shore soundtrack in the works. And while I'd LOVE to talk about the show itself, I must focus on an upcoming track on the album to get excited about. Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull on the lead single, I Like It.
The pride of Puerto Rico, Daddy Yankee, has released a new album. And it is awesome.
I Gotta Feeling, by the Black Eyed Peas, has become the most downloaded song in history. While I do enjoy the song, I worry about what future generations say about some today's music.
Britney Spears recorded Telephone before Lady Gaga and there's a leak version of it floating around the internet. But Brits passed on the song after recording the demo. And as you all know, Gaga picked up the track (she originally wrote it, though) and recorded it with Beyonce.
Let's face it, getting on Chatroulette is like playing Russian roulette only with schlongs instead of bullets.
But somewhere amidst all the flabby middle-aged creepsters wanking it for the world to see are some truly creative people just looking to have fun. And that's really when Chatrt shines – when people get creative with it.
Case in point: Ben Folds whipped out…his computer during a recent show, got on Chatrt, and started playing freestyle piano ditties about all the people who lucked into landing on him. BAM on the can is my personal fave. Check it out:
Another great Chatrt video after the jump:
Too Much Lady GaGa?
Ever since the pop-artist, Lady GaGa hit radio and Top Ten lists, it seems like every other band has covered at least one song. Bands ranging from We The Kings, Of Mice And Men, even Daughtry have put their own spin on one of GaGa's top hits. At first glance, the covers all sound similar and aren't worth much of a listen (Unless, of course, you're one of those hardcore fans that have every song ever by your favorite band). Sure, credit is given where credit is earned, and some artists show great creativity when they're able to take a song, completely turn it around, and still make it sound good. But then again, what if that creativity was channeled into something more individual, and in the long run, productive?
It's discouraging to see so many bands flocking to the same routine, blending in in a time when it's preferred to stand out.
Lady Gaga + Heavy Metal = Awesome
Let's face it, most cover songs blow chunks.
This one doesn't.
In fact, it's quite awesome, particularly because the band doing the covering (The Demonstration) are having fun with it. There's a certain sense of irony to begin with when you have a metal band covering a pop superstar like Lady Gaga, and they understand that and just run with it.
It also doesn't hurt that "Bad Romance" is a pretty killer song to begin with so the foundation is strong.
New Face of Polaroid
Polaroid is taking on a major overhaul to try to resurrect itself. Polaroid recently signed Lady Gaga in hopes to making the once iconic company popular and trendy again.
Gaga has signed a multi-year deal to be the creative director of a speciality line of Polaroid products. "The core of the brand is that it's real, it's unedited, and it captures the moment," said Stephen Miller, chief executive of Polaroid.
In a statement released by Lady Gaga, she stated:
"The Haus of Gaga has been developing prototypes in the vein of fashion /technology /photography innovation — blending the iconic history of Polaroid and instant film with the digital era – and we are excited to collaborate on these ventures with the Polaroid brand."
Gaga Craze
NME.com has a short, but good, blog post regarding Lady Gaga's quick rise to popularity and fame.
It's almost impossible to fathom that just one year ago, Lady Gaga was opening for New Kids On The Block and Natasha Bedingfield at L.A.'s Nokia Theater. This week she returned to the scene, but as the headliner of a super-sold-out three-night Nokia stint…and really, NKOTB and Natasha would be lucky to open for her now.
There's no denying Gaga's impact on mainstream pop music this year. And as such, she was recently named MTV's Woman of 2009.
Source: "L.A. Goes Gaga At Lady's Monster Ball" (NME.com)


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HPS205 - Brain, Biology and Behaviour
Unit details
Year | 2015 unit information |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online) Trimester 3: Cloud (online) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | Mark Rogers |
Incompatible with: | HPS675, HPS775, HSE207, HSO207 |
Contact hours: | Trimester 2 Campus: 1 x 2 hour class and 1 x 2 hour seminar per fortnight Trimester 2 and Trimester 3 Cloud (online): 1 x 2 hour seminar per fortnight |
This unit explores contemporary neurobiological explanations of human behaviour. Individual, social, ethical and practical implications are examined in the context of topics including: neural structure and function, psychopharmacology, biological methods, sensory systems, emotions, motor activity, sleep, mental disorders, language, memory and learning.
Assessment task 1: Examination (2 hours) 60%
Assessment task 2: Team presentations 30%
Assessment task 3: Reflective piece (700 words) 10%
Fortnightly team presentation will take place in practical classes (in class for campus students or online (via eLive) for cloud (online) students). Cloud (online) students will require access to a computer-compatible microphone. Students - campus and cloud (online) - unable to participate in practicals may be eligible to receive an alternative assessment in which they submit a recording of their presentations.
Prescribed texts
Kalat, JW 20013, Biological Psychology, 11th edn, Thomson/Wadsworth, Belmont, CA.
Unit Fee Information
Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
$769 | $769 | $2847 | $3039 |
* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.


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