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10 Mardi Gras Wedding Ideas!
Laissez les bon temps rouler (Translation: Let the good times roll!). It's Fat Tuesday, so we're indulging with over-the-top Mardi Gras wedding day style!
Fleur de Lis Invitations
This stylized lily is Louisiana's official state symbol, so this motif is a must have on your stationery suite.
Purple Bridesmaid Dresses
Pair bridesmaid dresses in a saturated purple hue with sunflowers for a stylish nod to the wild event.
Masquerade Inspired Cake
The truly die-hard Mardi Gras lovers would feature a king's cake, but this purple, green and black cake is still fit for a king!
Not ready to go all out Mardi Gras style? Purple shoes add just a hint of festivity.
Mardi Gras Bead Motif Escort Cards
Instead of tossing beads, incorporate a bead design onto the escort cards.
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The Robin Hood in Clacton-on-Sea is a country pub & dining oozing rural charm and rustic character. Our picturesque surroundings provide the perfect backdrop for savouring the hearty, seasonal pub-food on our menu, and the carefully nurtured cask ales and fine wines gracing our bar.
Book a table online and enjoy a spot by our roaring log-fire. Or make the best of the British summertime by eating alfresco in our pretty beer garden.
A little pub history
The site on which the inn stands was the Brooker farmhouse, which was originally known as a building called 'Feveralds' or 'Brewers' which had belonged to the Reynolds family 300 years ago. The date the building was constructed;1823, can be seen engraved into the stone above one of our fireplaces today.
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A new season of fine wines turns a visit to a Vintage Inn into a voyage of discovery.
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A parent's guide to immunization information on the Internet
The Internet has a lot of information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases—but there is also misinformation, and some of it can be harmful if used to make health decisions.
Evaluating immunization information on the Internet: What can I believe?
Asking a few key questions can help you decide if you can trust the information you find online. These questions can also help you evaluate other sources of vaccine information such as newspapers, magazines, radio, pamphlets or books.
1. Does the website say who is responsible for the information and how to contact them?
The website should:
- Clearly identify the person or organization that produced it and how to contact them. Look for an "About us" or "Contact us" link.
- List any sources of funding or sponsorship.
2. Has the site been developed by a trustworthy source such as a government organization, professional association, or respected non-profit organization? Does it seem likely that the people who wrote the suggestions have medical training?
Some special interest groups publish information that isn't based on evidence, or that focuses on the organization's opinion of an issue.
- Experts should be identified, including their credentials (degrees, current positions, etc.).
3. Is there a date showing when the information was posted on online and/or last revised?
- If yes, is it current?
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- If yes, the site should provide sources (e.g., articles from trustworthy medical journals) for the claims (e.g., studies, reports, statistics).
- Remember that not all "studies" or "reports" are necessarily reliable. The CPS has more detailed information on how to judge medical claims on the Internet.
5. Is the site certified by the Health On the Net Foundation or the World Health Organization?
- Health On the Net (HON) Foundation is a Swiss not-for-profit organization that helps Internet users find useful and reliable online medical information. HON has developed guidelines for health sites. Websites that meet the criteria can use the HON seal. The HON site also has a checklist to help users judge if a given site would meet the criteria. Both this site (www.caringforkids.cps.ca) and the Canadian Paediatric Society's professional site (www.cps.ca) are certified by HON.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has compiled a listing of websites that provide information on vaccine safety and follow good information practices. This site (www.caringforkids.cps.ca) follows the recommended criteria and is on the list of trustworthy resources.
6. What are some signs that a website might not have a balanced point of view?
A number of studies have reviewed websites with anti-vaccine messages. These sites had many things in common:
- They made claims about vaccines that have not been proven in scientific studies.
- They all had links to other anti-vaccination sites.
- Many promoted alternative therapies—such as homeopathy, naturopathy and chiropractic—as being better than vaccination for preventing infections.
- Many provided stories about children who had reportedly been hurt by vaccines.
- Parents—not people with medical training—were the main source for stories about the alleged dangers of vaccines.
It's a good idea to talk about the information you read on the Internet with your child's doctor before making any health decisions.
Source: Your Child's Best Shot: A Parent's Guide to Vaccination, 4th edition (2015), Canadian Paediatric Society
Reviewed by the following CPS committees:
Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee
Public Education Advisory Committee
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The ups and downs of Ice climbing
In terms of excitement and exhilaration there can be few sports as thrilling as ice climbing, the daring and innovative pursuit of scaling colossuses of frozen water.
Many may consider the participants mad, or even worse, but the pursuit of achieving something difficult, dangerous and downright stupendous is why ice climbing has such a great following.
Ice climbing came about as mountaineers often found their route to the summit involved traversing an ice flow high up the mountain; the need to ascend this tricky feature became part and parcel of climbing a mountain, and the attraction of climbing ice structures closer to the ground became appealing.
Using ropes and harnesses for added safety, ice climbing is something that represents the very best in sporting achievement, as man against nature must be the most compelling battle of all.
The climbing of mountain ice is known as alpine ice climbing, but perhaps the more interesting aspect is the standalone version known as water ice climbing: it is so called because it involves ascending frozen water in the form of waterfalls and similar features, and is considered the most difficult and skilled type of ice climbing.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Five different Crusaders scored a goal as the Holy Cross men's hockey team defeated Army, 5-3, in Atlantic Hockey action at the Hart Center on Friday evening. With the win, the Crusaders improve to 7-14-5 overall (6-10-4 Atlantic Hockey), while the Black Knights fall to 9-13-5 (8-9-4 Atlantic Hockey). These two teams will conclude their two-game regular season series on Saturday at the Hart Center at 7:00 p.m.
The Black Knights took a 1-0 lead at 9:26 of the first period when Owen Meyer fired a slap shot past Holy Cross freshman goalie Thomas Tysowsky (Amherst, N.Y.) on Army's first shot of the game. The Crusaders capitalized on a two-man advantage power play with 1:34 left in the period when sophomore Luke Miller (Andover, Mass.) netted his fifth goal of the season. Freshman Rob Linsmayer (Winnetka, Ill.) sent a pass to Miller who was waiting right in front of the goal as he then buried the puck in the net. Sophomore Matt Clune (Toronto, Ontario) also had an assist. For the period, the Crusaders outshot the Black Knights, 11-8, while Holy Cross went 1-3 on the power play and Army went 0-2.
Sophomore Matt Gordon (Perth, Ontario) netted the only goal of the second period when he scored on a rebound off a shot by Clune. The assist was Clune's second of the game, while Tysowsky also earned an assist. The goal was Gordon's second of the season. Holy Cross outshot Army by a 17-11 margin, while the Black Knights went 0-1 on the only power play of the period.
At 4:31 of the third period, Meyer scored his second goal of the game when he lifted puck to the upper right corner of net while on the power play as Army tied the game at 2-2. The Crusaders jumped back out to a one-goal advantage at 8:43 when sophomore Kyle Atkins (Brockville, Ontario) floated a puck through a screen and past Army goalie Jay Clark for his first goal of the season. Gordon and junior Everett Sheen (Lethbridge, Alberta) were credited with assists. Just 1:25 later, junior Jordan Cyr (Winnipeg, Manitoba) stole the puck and then scored the eventual game-winner to give Holy Cross the 4-2 edge. The goal was Cyr's eighth of the season. At 12:42, the Black Knights made it a 4-3 contest with a power play goal by Marcel Alvarez. Army pulled its goalie with 1:16 left in the period, but just two seconds later sophomore Jay Silvia (Burlington, Mass.) found the back of the empty net for his seventh goal of the season for the 5-3 final. Atkins earned his second assist of the game on the goal.
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A reader who recently started his own animation studio sent me a few interesting questions about the different promotional strategies:
- What are your thoughts on agents/reps? Most people claim they don't help, but most of the successful studios have them.
I think they can help but since we are at an early business stage, we are keeping expenses very low. Just using our own contacts and networks is keeping us busy at the moment. We already have a few prospects on our plate for the coming weeks. They are not real contracts yet, but we are working on it…
- What mix of direct mail, advertising, cold phone calling do you have planned?
If by advertising you mean placing ads in Cinefex, again the cost issue is holding us back. It might be a fine idea for established companies, but I have doubts for start-ups. There are other ways to promote your studio. You can join one of the many film or FX studio associations, especially if there is one in your region; with their help you can gain some extra exposure and new contacts.
As for direct mail and cold phone calling, yes we are doing a lot of that for the first few weeks. You will not get immediate results but it does not cost a dime and you can at least get your name into new places.
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Every event of any kind! Getting to new clients is the hardest part. We've already met new interesting people just by going through our list of contacts, so that's a start. Even outside professionals such as accountants and lawyers can have connections in your industry. As I've mentioned before, talk about your biz to all your friends and their friends as well.
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Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Please read Luke 7:36--49 in your Bible.
As I was sitting on a van waiting to be taken to the airport, I overheard a conversation that might be of some help to all the men who read this. These two women were talking about this couple they knew who were in new relationship. One of the women said, "I can't believe he's talking baby talk to her. Why is he doing that? You really know you have a man whipped when he'll talk baby talk with you." There it is. Remember that.
That whole conversation caused me to think about relationships and how much too often they are unhealthy. One person wants to dominate the other. One person wants to be in control of the other. This can take the form of maybe getting the other to talk baby talk, restricting other relationships, controlling the other's time, or even more abusive behaviors. Why do we want to be in charge so badly?
This leads me to consider our relationship with God. Does God want us to be whipped? Does God want to dominate us? I really struggled with this. Immediately I thought of the prophet Hosea and how God commanded him to marry a prostitute to show God's faithfulness to the people of Israel. God was shown to be as a lover wooing the people to fall in love with him. I thought of the beginning of the Ten Commandments where God says, "I am the Lord your God." Then the "do's and don't's" are listed. I read through the Song of Solomon, but really didn't find a good description of our relationship with God there either. The problem had become that I had this preconceived notion and was looking for a scripture passage to support.
In our relationships with each other we are equals, and treating each other as equals is how it should be. I was trying to work it out in my head somehow that we are equals with God in our relationship to God. The Bible kept me honest, however. We are not equals with God even when it comes to our relationship with God. The woman who kept weeping and washing Jesus' feet with her hair knew this.
Her sins had been many. She had lived a life filled with wrongs, but Jesus, God among us, loved her anyway. This broke the woman. All she could do was show her gratitude. All she could do was weep at Jesus' feet. Jesus had her whipped, right? Jesus could have left her there in complete adoration of who Jesus is. Jesus could have kept her under his thumb. But that is not the relationship God wanted with her. Jesus tells her, "Your sins have been forgiven; your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Jesus didn't want her left paralyzed at his side so he spoke the words we all long to hear, "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has saved you. Go in peace." Jesus sent her out to tell others of the great love of God. Jesus sent her out to show the same kind of love to others that had been shown to her. That's the relationship God wants to have with all of us. God doesn't want us whipped into submission. No! God forgives our sins and sends us out assured of God's love and full of Good News for others. We are not God's equals. God is in charge, and God sends us out in peace gratefully forgiven and miraculously healed.
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Aug 27, 2006
New HiTechnic Compass
HiTechnic obviously knew about the announcement, because they kindly rushed me one of their new production compass sensors! Nice surprise! I'm playing with it now and will post more details about it tomorrow (hopefully), but here is a picture of my DogChaser robot with the compass attached. You'll notice that the compass is parallel to the ground - it needs to be horizontal to work properly. It was easy enough to simply connect it with one connector so I could pivot it - the rest of the bot is at an angle and that just won't work :) The compass is housed in a real LEGO housing - that's it to the right of the red ball.
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It also look very close to the servo. Any interference from the motor?
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Yes. It took some playing around, but I've finally got it working by mounting it above the Brick... I'm hoping to publish some info/results later this evening.
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IT'S your body, and you like to think you've got it under control. But underneath the calm exterior lurk unruly instincts and urges that are struggling to escape, putting you at risk of embarrassment or ridicule. These disreputable behaviours – the likes of the fart, hiccup, itch and yawn – are familiar to us all, yet they are also decidedly curious. Although they have been the source of folklore and puzzlement since antiquity, they have largely been overlooked by scientists. After all, where is the scientific grandeur in such ignoble acts? I take a different view. Where others see forbidden areas, I find unexplored territory and new frontiers of research. So I have made a point of studying our curious behaviours. What I have found sheds new light on our body, our mind and our evolution as a social animal.
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Wow... what a debacle of a thread...
And to think that this thread started off by asking - where are the Nat'l riders? This might have been an interesting topic. As a
Nat'l (event) organizer, pro level minder and support rider, I have been surprised by the attendance levels at recent Nat'ls.
The pics of the terrain at the AZ Nat'l look amazing and appear to be much prettier than the AZ National I rode a few years ago near the petrified forest. It's unfortunate that more were not able to participate in this event.
Personally, I stopped riding Nat'ls, in large part, because the Support class presented too much risk for my skill and age.
Regarding the digression that this thread took... the top National classes do not necessarily correspond to local classes. Most local clubs would consider themselves lucky to have a single Nat'l Pro or Nat'l Expert level rider and to build a line for Pro would be to build a line for one rider. The Nat'ls are the opportunity for those top riders to compete against others with similar skills - something that they can not usually do at the Local level.
Expert is a class for "old" Pros that want to step down or for future Pros that are not quite ready to step up to Pro. All of the other classes are basically there to allow the National event to succeed on a financial level, i.e. it's financially challenging to host an event for a few (1-2 dozen) Pro and Expert level riders. I believe that the addition of the Clubman class was, in part, to help shore up flagging attendance and maintain revenue...
it is sad that this thread became a vehicle for personal attacks. The personal attacks are not helpful in the least and they are, IMO, very misplaced and completely inappropriate. Please stop.
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I'm working on a TV show. As we were fleshing out the concept the other day, the agent said something brilliant…
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He was suggesting that in some cases, innovation is best when it is an extension of something people already know and love. Studios will be more likely to invest in such projects because the concept is proven. And audiences are more likely to watch as they can instantly relate to the show. There is a reason why there are so many TV show spin-offs (CSI, NCIS, Law and Order, The Jeffersons), movie sequels (Iron Man, Spider Man, Lethal Weapon), movie remakes (Total Recall, The Hulk, Father of the Bride), or derivative shows (America's Got Talent, X Factor, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol – which, by the way, are all modern-day versions of The Gong Show).
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Who Could've Foreseen The Highly Unlikely Scenario Of Terrorism At The US Consulate In Benghazi?
Posted by KingShamus on September 14, 2012
Not the US State Department, apparently.
According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.
Eight Americans, some from the military, were wounded in the attack which claimed the lives of Mr [Chris] Stevens, Sean Smith, an information officer, and two US Marines. All staff from Benghazi have now been moved to the capital, Tripoli, and those whose work is deemed to be non-essential may be flown out of Libya.
Hilary Clinton got the proverbial 3:00 AM phone call and promptly mashed the 'hold' button.
And she's supposed to be the adult in the Zero Admenstruation.
I mean, everyone knows that when you need somebody to lead a nation's foreign policy team, the obvious choice is a former hack lawyer/First Lady/socialized health care legislation writer/serial adultery enabler/one term junior US senator.
But let's not pick on Hill-Dawg. This is her first try at being Secretary of State. In the upcoming Biden presidency, Madame Clinton will do better at playing dress up in the big girl pants suits.
Instead, why not take a look at the empty chair in charge of this calamity?
Remember when Pantscrease Obama promised America smart diplomacy back in 2008?
"Smart' must be only having four local clowns manning the security detail at your consulate. In Libya.
U.S. officials told reporters on Wednesday that the Benghazi consulate had "a robust American security presence, including a strong component of regional security officers." And indeed, one of the four Americans killed was a former Navy SEAL, Glen Doherty, who was "on security detail" and "protecting the ambassador," his sister Katie Quigly told the Boston Globe. Also killed was an information management officer, Sean Smith. The fourth American who died has not yet been identified. Yet Baja described a very different picture from his visit on Tuesday morning, even remarking at how relaxed the scene was when he returned to the consulate building a short while after leaving Stevens, in order to collect the mobile phone he had accidentally left behind. "The consulate was very calm, with video [surveillance] cameras outside," Baja said. "But inside there were only four security guards, all Libyans—four!—and with only Kalshnikovs on their backs. I said, 'Chris, this is the most powerful country in the world. Other countries all have more guards than the U.S.,'" he said, naming as two examples Jordan and Morocco.
This is officially where the wheels come flying off for President Zero.
Shitty economy at home, dead Americans abroad and nothing–NOTHING–to show from our obsequious scraping to the wretched stinking scum of the Earth. Nothing has been gained from the Obama Admenstruation's foreign policy except the laughing contempt of the Islamo-fascists.
By the way, just in case you buy into Obama's nonsense, the followers of hardline Islam will never stop hating us. Never. Why? Because our culture represents nothing less than an existential threat to shari'a. The economic dynamism, technological superiority, military might and frantic boisterous culture of America is the death knell of 7th century Koranic zealotry and the adherents to this ideology know it in their bones.
It's well past time for us to recognize extremist Islam's obstinate refusal to join the civilized world. The last ten years have made this obvious. The last twenty four hours merely confirms what we all know. Rationalism, free inquiry, dissent, religious freedom, women's rights, the free market, meritocracy; these concepts may as well be from an alternate universe for the ardent Islamist.
Muslim extremists, unlike the Sanity-Based Community, often pray for their own death.
Perhaps it's time for the men and women of the American armed forces to grant them their wish.
The problem is that Barack Obama cannot or will not see what he needs to do.
Sniffing the Muslim Brotherhood's jock, letting Iran's Green Uprising come and go with a bored yawn, giving Israel the hot tongue and cold shoulder treatment; all that was supposed to buy the United States a whole bunch of new friends in the Middle East.
Instead, we've become a goddamn joke.
On the campaign trail, when Joe Biden is pumping his working class guy drag act, he likes to bust into the "General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead!" chant. I for one think it's great that Mister Big Fucking Deal gets to spike the football. It gives the vice president something to do besides shove play-dough up his nose and get lap dances from random biker scabs.
Since Team Barry likes pithy slogans, here's a new one to roll out on the campaign trail:
Chris Stevens Is Dead And Islamic Terrorism Is Alive.
How did I do, Obamsters?
MORE: Watch the video the State Department made about Chris Stevens to introduce him to the people of Libya.
I would probably not agree with Chris Stevens' politics. I get the feeling that he was probably a liberal. In light of what has happened, partisan differences are irrelevant.
What shines through the video, and what many people who knew him attest to, is his desire to spread goodwill. He cared deeply about his mission. He ardently wanted to help the people of Libya during a chaotic time in their history.
What did the Obama Administration do to support Chris Stevens? What did they do to create the conditions for the ambassador to succeed? The Obamatons sent this educated, cultured gentle man into a nest of vipers armed with little more than a stern countenance.
Let that sink in.
Our government sent one of our best and brightest–a person dedicated to peace–to his death. For what? On a wild goose chase to find pockets of humanity in a sea of terrorists, radicals and human putrescence.
I challenge anyone to find a thousand Libyans worth one Chris Stevens.
RIP, Chris Stevens.
8 Responses to "Who Could've Foreseen The Highly Unlikely Scenario Of Terrorism At The US Consulate In Benghazi?"
September 14, 2012 at 8:29 am
It's time to wash our hands of the region, take our billions of money we usually give to these dogs and go home. Let the cesspool that is the Muslim world live in 7th century filth and backwardness.
No wait……that would be raaaaaaaaaaaacist.
September 14, 2012 at 8:59 am
The Dancing Vaginas will crush you for your sexist avatism!
Seriously, though, this entire episode stinks not just of Islamic terrorism's continued determination to destroy our culture but of this administration complete failure to understand the rest of the world outside of their own fantasy construct. Guys with RPGs, Kalashnikovs, mortars, IEDs, and rabid ideology don't give a pile of camel dung about the Golden Rule.
September 14, 2012 at 9:58 am
There is this tid bit as to the Egyptian fiasco and if it doesn't register on even the most mind dead liberal hack as the ultimate bullshit scenerio in a country that hate us, then we are indeed fucked!! No fucking bullets, not even on 9/11?! @#$%%#!%^^
"She [US Ambassador to Egypt Ann Patterson] did not permit US Marine guards to carry live ammunition, according to USMC blogs. Thus she neutralized any US military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy. In this respect, she did not defend US sovereign territory and betrayed her oath of office. She neutered the Marines posted to defend the embassy, trusting the Egyptians over the Marines".
September 14, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Beirut 1983 anyone? Bueller?
- September 14, 2012 at 12:49 pm
September 14, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Many of us on the Right predicted this outcome back when the so-called Arab Spring began. We are where are today precisely because of the policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Those two own this Arab Spring and are ressponsible for everything that has happened, is happening, and is going to happen in that region of the world. While they own the Arab Spring, we Americans and many others are the ones who will pay the price of their arrogance. Our country is in the hands of fools.
September 16, 2012 at 6:47 pm
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Wong, B.L.W.; Blandford, A.; (2001) Situation awareness and its implications for human-systems interaction. In: Smith, W. and Thomas, R. and Apperley, M., (eds.) OZCHI 2001: Usability and Usefulness for Knowledge Economies: Conference Proceedings. (pp. pp. 181-186). Edith Cowan University: Perth, Australia.
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The Hypocrites at the Den Theatre. Written and directed by Sean Graney. With ensemble cast. Running time: 12hrs; seven intermissions.
Theater review by Kris Vire
Though the bar in the Den Theatre's striking new street-level mainstage had brunchy Bloody Marys and mimosas on offer before the 11am start of the Hypocrites' All Our Tragic Sunday morning, I stuck to water and a $2 "bottomless" coffee until the piece's final intermission, 11 hours later, when I allowed myself a beer. Yet even a teetotaler would surely feel a little happily drunk on sheer storytelling ambition by the culmination of Sean Graney's stunning achievement, adapting all 32 surviving Greek tragedies into an eight-act, 12-hour, often surprisingly funny and totally singular experience.
Three years ago, Graney staged an impressive adaptation of Sophocles' seven extant plays, titling it Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses. Almost immediately afterward, he began work on folding in the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides as well to craft a single narrative piece.
All Our Tragic takes shape as four movements, we'll call them, of two acts each; they're introduced by a chipper trio of "Odd-Jobbers" (Erin Myers, Lauren Vogel and Kate Carson-Groner) who also provide musical accompaniment in the form of folk songs and lullabies: "All the Pretty Horses," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," "Shenandoah."
The chorus gives each movement a p-word name. The first, "Physics," establishes the origins of Graney's world, in which Phèdre (Christine Stulik), Médée (Dana Omar) and Agave (Emily Casey) are among a storied family of seven sisters crucial to the dawn of Athens; they age at half the rate of regular mortals and are prophesied to die in the order of their birth. Herakles (Walter Briggs) performs his labors and tries repeatedly to free an unwilling Prometheus (Geoff Button), while Theseus (Ryan Bourque) kills the minotaur and becomes king.
Part two, "Politics," covers the squabbling and scrambling among the royal family of Thebes Graney chronicled in Seven Sicknesses, leading into the third movement, "Patriotics," which encompasses the Trojan War. Part four, "Poetics," follows Agamemnon back home to continue and finally conclude the curse on the House of Atreus.
As in Seven Sicknesses, Graney shows greater concern for the spirit of his source material than for its letter. He works in contemporary vernacular and sets his retellings somewhere outside of time, with the adapter and his designers cleverly cherry-picking artifacts from across two and a half millennia. Briggs's Herakles is inspired by the Little Golden Book of heroics he carries in a pocket of his cargo shorts; when we meet Kreon (Ezekiel Sulkes) at the top of part two, he's a bespoke-suited, Starbucks-clutching political operative. Helen (Casey again), the youngest of the Seven Sisters and the spark of the Trojan War, is a gum-smacking socialite reminiscent of Rachel Zoe who prompts Hector (Danny Goodman) to ask with exasperation why she "talk[s] to everyone like you're their kindergarten teacher?"
Briggs may play Herakles (and Pentheus the Gaunt and Agamemnon), but all 23 cast members perform a Herculean task here. The 14 core actors each play three or more full lead roles, with many turns so strong it's impossible to single anyone out for special merit. Luce Metrius essays both a sweet-as-pie, tortoise-toting Haemon and ultimate badass warrior Achilles; Lindsey Gavel is a female Tiresias, the blind seer who's revealed to have a romantic past with Kreon, as well as both Iphigenia and her sister Elektra. The main cast is supported by a sextet of "Neo-Titans," who enact much of the kinetic, blood-splattering battle scenes choreographed by Bourque, along with the musical chorus.
It's possible to see each of the four movements individually at Friday and Monday night performances. But the marathon on Saturdays and Sundays is the way to go. The 12-hour running time may sound daunting, but it includes multiple intermissions, including long breaks for lunch, dinner and dessert, with vegetarian fare from Sultan's Market included in the price of your ticket. None of the individual acts runs longer than 80 minutes, and the whole day seems to go by faster than some self-contained one-acts I've sat through.
There's something staggering about the sheer build of story upon story in watching All Our Tragic unfold over the course of a day: seeing the long arcs of characters like Goodman's Philoktetes or John Taflan's Patroklos; recognizing the recurrence of totems like Herakles' bow, Agamemnon's trident of leadership or Orestes' stuffed toy, Bearistophanes.
But equally important is experiencing the whole thing in the room with the same group of fellow audience members. The encouragement to try out different vantage points throughout the day, the frequent breaks, the shared meals, the sheer durational audacity of the project—they all foment a palpable shift from the individual experience to the communal.
If Seven Sicknesses had a throughline, I wrote in 2011, it was about the inevitability of violence. That certainly shows up in All Our Tragic: It's there in the end line of "Politics," held over from the Sophocles show, promising "there'll be more." It's there too in Graney's suggestion that the Trojan War, like many other wars, was never really about what it was said to be about. It's there in any number of gory bloodlettings throughout the play, and it's certainly there when a disgusted Polyxena (Erin Barlow) observes, in the divvying up of human prizes at the close of the Trojan War, that "this isn't even the worst thing people will go through in history. This isn't even the worst thing happening right now."
But if there's one theme of going through All Our Tragic in a single sitting, I think it's the power of story itself. You find yourself talking with your neighbors about the astonishing beauty of Jared Moore's lighting, about the endurance of the actors to do this two days in a row every weekend, about the ways these versions of the Trojan War differ from The Iliad, about how they pulled off that stage trick of the arrow piercing Achilles' heel. During the longer breaks, some of the cast members will come out and mingle in costume or in their street clothes. By midday, you can feel a change in the air in the room; everyone is all in this together.
And by the day's end, when Graney flips a switch that turns Orestes' terrified flight from the Furies into an explicit examination of why we tell the stories we tell, you feel the collective experiencing an ultimate version of that classic Greek concept: catharsis.
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It was quite awful. I ended up walking out after enduring about 4 hours of it. The script was the worst part and a lot of good acting talent was wasted. The most galling part was just how juvenile the humor was. It felt like a college or high school production gone terribly wrong.
I agree with the other commenter that this was an awful production. I'm mystified as to why it is getting overwhelmingly positive reviews. The humor was asinine, the script terrible. A huge waste of a promising cast. I, too, left halfway through. Unfortunately for the people I went with, I'm told it only got worse. There are too many good theater productions in Chicago to waste your time and money on this one.


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RMA director retires after influential careerBILLINGS, Mont. — Doug Hagel might not be a household name, but his behind-the-scenes work has touched every farm and most ranches in the Dakotas and Montana in the past 20 years.
By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek
BILLINGS, Mont. — Doug Hagel might not be a household name, but his behind-the-scenes work has touched every farm and most ranches in the Dakotas and Montana in the past 20 years.
Hagel, 63, spent his last day at work on June 30, in Billings, Mont. As the regional director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency, he was the region's top crop insurance official through a historic policy shift in which Congress beefed up crop insurance to become much of the federal government's safety net. His region covers North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
Under his tenure, farmers in the region went from 60 percent crop insurance coverage to 70 and 75 percent levels. Many today are buying up to 80 to 85 percent coverage, but are covering optional units of individual crops by county.
Hagel says crop insurance has become increasingly important as the prairie pothole region — a wide band of land from central North Dakota down to Iowa — has become a riskier agricultural climate since it started getting wetter in 1993.
Big changes
If all the protections Hagel has helped implement had been in place 20 years ago, he might still be farming.
He grew up on a small grain and cattle farm south of Rugby, N.D. Then he got a business degree at Minot State University.
After brief stints in accounting and retailing, he returned to farm with his father in 1978. He bought the farm in 1980 and added land in 1982 — a bad time to expand.
Like thousands of others, Hagel was caught in rising interest rates, plummeting crop prices and drought.
In 1984, Hagel had started working for the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., as a contracted crop adjuster. In 1988, Hagel took an FCIC claims supervisor post in Carrington, N.D., and rented out the farm on shares.
In 1991, he moved to Williston, N.D., to manage an office for Northern Crop Insurance Co., which then processed $19.5 million in federal-only crop insurance policies. In 1993, Hagel led negotiations to turn over the federal-only polices to private insurance companies and their reinsurance backers.
Hagel went to work for the FCIC in Billings in 1993, first as a branch chief working in claims procedures and policies. He was in that post in 1993 and 1994 when Congress enacted policies that would include prevented-plant coverage, rather than simply having it as an option.
In 1996, Hagel bumped up to the director's spot at the time when the FCIC was made into an agency — the RMA — on a level footing with the FSA and other agencies.
In 2000, the Ag Risk Protection Act raised the subsidies and farmers were able to buy up coverage from 75 to 85 percent for certain crops.
"That really drove up participation in the programs — all the programs," Hagel says. Significantly, the act gave authority for private entities — especially commodity organizations — to submit applications for approval as new programs.
In the 2008 farm bill, Congress allowed FCIC board of directors to approve subsidizing up to half of the development costs of a new crop insurance program.
The regulator
Fraud is always a concern for crop insurance programs, and can give the program a black eye, as perceived by the public and policy-makers.
The RMA is often under pressure because insurance companies promote more generous policies so they can sell and earn more.
"That's where we come in as a regulator," Hagel says. "We try to have a program that's balanced in three ways — fair to the producer, the delivery system and the taxpayers. It's a delicate balance and we try to keep that balance."
Dishonest players often require more onerous regulation, which means policy manuals are 900 pages long instead of the 200 pages they were when Hagel started with the agency.
"That makes it harder for the honest person because it makes them go through the same knothole" that was needed for the dishonest player.
The agency provides rules and procedures for figuring losses, but adjusters have to make calls in the field. Fraud cases can be pursued based on insurance records, but much of what is decided is based on oral conversations. Hagel says much of the work on fraud is handled through a compliance office in St. Paul, Minn.
In Billings, Hagel led a regional staff of seven or eight people. He says the agency would probably need 300 to 400 people to closely supervise all of the potential fraud cases. It can take up to five years to pursue a case, but by the time it's completed, the guilty party could be off to another way of cheating someone else. And the reality is that with the high amount of resources to prove fraud, the government is able to pursue cases more vigorously when they're worth more than $500,000 to $1 million.
"We work on the big fish, and unfortunately a lot of the little guys fall through the cracks,"Hagel says.
Political milestones
Looking back on his career, Hagel says a shift toward crop insurance was a political milestone in this region. It was a challenge to overcome southern state politicians who had long preferred the ad hoc disaster programs — passed when needed, and aimed primarily at problems in the South.
Another big development was the RMA's Livestock Revenue Protection Program, which subsidizes feed and locks in futures options.
"Prices are high now, so they aren't using it so much," Hagel says.
He also is proud of the Personal Transitional Yield program, started as a pilot in 2007. It has since been expanded and is under consideration at the national level. It allows farmers to plug personal yields into all of their units to have coverage reflective of what they can actually grow for a given crop.
Former U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., a former North Dakota insurance commissioner who was instrumental in passing crop insurance reform in Congress in the 1990s, says he worked closely with Hagel when building policies that are precursors to what is in place today. He says crop insurance companies and others often brought ideas to Congress that Hagel could see would be too generous.
"We had a lot of grand proposals thrown at us (in Congress) over the years, but some of them wouldn't work," Pomeroy says. He says Hagel's experience helped lawmakers see where there were problems in enforcement, so people could fleece the programs.
But he says Hagel was important in developing concepts that allowed farmers to be covered by not only the volume of production, but also price protection.
Pomeroy likened congressional actions on crop insurance to "surgery with a meat ax," while government officials such as Hagel need to be a surgeon with a scalpel to make them work.
Pomeroy only half-jokes that he would have liked to have seen the regional office in Bismarck instead of Billings because of the high participation in insurance programs in the Dakotas, compared with Montana.
"He did a lot of driving to meetings in North Dakota," Pomeroy says.
A farmer's insight
Pomeroy says Hagel's experience as a producer made him aware of the farmer's financial risk exposure and how important it was for a meaningful insurance policy to cover it. He says Hagel met with commodity groups to look for better coverage opportunities, but he wasn't a pushover.
"Policing against fraud was also a major component of his concerns for building a good crop insurance program," Pomeroy says.
Dale Ihry, a veteran Farm Service Agency specialist at the state office in Fargo, N.D., who has also worked across several administrations, says Hagel was especially effective because of his history as a farmer and his "feet-on-the-ground, nose-in-the-head-of-the wheat" experience.
"You have to run the program based on how Washington provides it to you in regulation and policy," he says. "You need to follow the black-and-white, but locally you have to get into the gray areas."
Ihry says Hagel was able to relay to officials in his headquarters locations in RMA — both in Kansas City and Washington, D.C. — how the programs fit local conditions.
Pomeroy says Hagel's work coincided with academic focus from Cole Gustafson, the former North Dakota State University agricultural economist who died in a 2012 harvest accident. He says that kind of sustained attention is what has significantly improved crop insurance.
"I think Doug's work on issues have related to some of the success we've had in North Dakota, allowing farmers enough coverage so they could move into new crops without risking everything," Pomeroy says.
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