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I'm glad. Diaz never deserved the fight to be named #1 contender anyways.
There are only two possibilities for Condit. The first one is Shields. This is the fight that makes most sense rankings wise, timeline wise (given that Shields doesn't have an opponent) and he is coming off a big win against Maia. However, I have a feeling that UFC recognizes that Shields' style doesn't draw fans and doesn't want him to play spoiler.
The second option is that they pull Rory out of the Demian Maia fight and match him up with Condit. It would make sense timeline wise and rankings wise but Rory just lost so it doesn't make much sense for him to fight for the #1 contendership. However, way worse title shots have been given in 2013 to Diaz, Sonnen and Frankie who were all coming off losses before fighting for the title. At least Rory would have to beat Condit to get a shot and plus their rematch is highly anticipated.
I have a feeling they are going to go for option #2, especially given that they were going to give it to Diaz who deserved it way less as he is coming off 2 losses.
EDIT: realized that Shields does have a fight scheduled with Lombard
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Firas Zahabi: GSP had mixed feelings about future before Carlos Condit fight
"I think before the (Johny) Hendricks fight, he had mixed feelings," said Zahabi. "Before the (Carlos) Condit fight, he had mixed feelings. He went back-and-forth. But the problem is, I was always cutting him off because I didn't want to talk to him about it in camp. He had three fights in 18 months (actually 12 months) so we didn't have time to have a deep discussion on it."
There were all kinds of hints and mixed messages before the Hendricks fight. Zahabi himself got talk going by hinting at a possible St-Pierre retirement. Kristof Midoux, St-Pierre's first trainer, returned to his camp for the fight and outright said he hoped St-Pierre would retire when it was over. St-Pierre denied any rumors, noting he had just personally purchased an expensive octagon for the Tristar Gym, his home camp in Montreal, asking why he'd make such a purchase if he wasn't going to fight again.
Zahabi said his own remarks were because he's got a pat answer when questions about retirement come up and he was just saying what he will always say.
"I get asked the same question often and I have a staple answer," he said. "My staple answer is if a guy isn't motivated, I don't want him to do the camp. If he tells me, `Yes, I'm hungry," then I'm more than happy to do the camp. As a trainer, you know motivation is the first step. If the guy doesn't have the motivation, going through a camp is the worst thing you can go through."
Based on that feeling, Zahabi said St-Pierre needs the time off.
"Does he have the motivation to fight? Right now he doesn't. Right now he has the motivation to take care of his personal issues. If he doesn't, he's going to end up depressed, alone. The guy has to balance his life. His life is to the extreme and you can't be a soldier forever. The guy has been fighting for too long, missing too many birthdays, too many weddings, too many life experiences. He wants to balance his life out. If you were to spend a day with Georges, you'll be exhausted. There is so much going on it's ridiculous. It's crazy."
As far as what Zahabi knew, he said he got the word at the same time as everyone else, when Joe Rogan was talking to St-Pierre inside the cage after his controversial decision win over Hendricks.
"Right after the fight when he said he thought he was probably going to be taking time off," said Zahabi when asked when he first found out St-Pierre's future plans.
In the interview, Zahabi described St-Pierre, the UFC's biggest drawing card of the past three years, as someone who needs something, whether it be a sport or something else, to be passionate about. But he felt that unless St-Pierre finds a new sport or hobby that he can be competitive in, that at some point he would return. He was very careful not to even intimate a time frame.
"He'll come back stronger, I hope. He's a trainers' dream and a promoters' dream. I'm going to let him be. If he comes back, it'll be his own decision," Zahabi said.
But while he had a different time frame from when the issues started than White did, Zahabi did agree with White that the unspecified personal life issue was still the crux of the matter.
"I don't want to get into his personal life," Zahabi said. "But that's the foundation of all this. I want to keep it superficial. He's been putting his life on hold. His social life is deteriorating. His family life is deteriorating in terms of his spending time with his loved ones. He's lived a military life, lots of preparation and the preparation is extreme. There is no time off for enjoyment or personal time. Then you look back and ask, `What's happiness in life?' Is it winning fight after fight, or is there more to it? If winning fights made you happy, Georges would be the happiest guy on Earth. Things aren't that simple."
Zahabi talked like St-Pierre would be coming back, but stressed that nothing is for sure.
"Well, maybe it's just what I'm hoping," he said. "I love Georges. I'd love for him to come back. If he finds something he's really passionate about, if he finds something else, plays another sport, or whatever, he may get addicted to whatever and I could see him jumping into something. But he's not going to be happy watching TV. He needs a lot of action. But he also needs some down time."
Zahabi said that he couldn't see the new thing being a combat sport, and dismissed the idea of St-Pierre competing in Olympic wrestling. Three years ago, St-Pierre spoke in an interview about considering the idea of attempting to make the Canadian Olympic wrestling team and competing in London in 2012. At the time he talked of it as a very serious decision he was considering, which would require him to take a leave of absence from MMA for 18 months, to do so and focus completely on wrestling.
But a few weeks later, he dismissed the idea. St-Pierre would be 35 at the time of the next Olympics, an age few can compete at a high level, and those that do are not people who came late into the sport, like St-Pierre, who has never competed in the sport at a high-level.
"This is just my personal opinion. I think if he gets really obsessed with something else, like Olympic lifting, he might forget about competing (in MMA). But I think eventually he'll get hungry again," Zahabi said.
While Zahabi admitted there were things having to do with the drug testing for the Hendricks fight that disappointed St-Pierre, that was not the catalyst for his decision to step away.
"I don't think it had anything to do with him retiring, but I do think he was hurt by the criticism," Zahabi said. "He's a natural world champion. He really is 100 percent natural. I've never given him any kind of a substance. He wanted to prove to the world that you can do it naturally. It's health first. These products can make you sick, die young, get a heart attack, get cancer. He is trying to prove to the world that he's clean and a world champion, but a lot of people jumped down his throat."
St-Pierre did extensive drug testing prior to the fight and offered to pay for Hendricks to do the same with VADA, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association. Hendricks agreed to drug testing, but wasn't willing to do it on St-Pierre's terms, nor pay for it in another form on his own. Zahabi said he had no ill will regarding Hendricks not agreeing, saying it ended up being two different groups who were preparing to fight who had to agree on terms and it fell apart for those reasons. He said he thought if both were to sit down now when a fight wasn't approaching, things would end differently.
But in Zahabi's mind, he felt if the close decision in the Hendricks fight had gone the other way, everything would be different, albeit temporarily.
"I think he would have done another fight," he said. "But there's always another fight. After he fought Condit, he had to fight Diaz. After Diaz, he had Hendricks. That fight was close, so then you have to fight him again. You're always ducking or doing something wrong. There's always another guy."
Zahabi said, despite all the bruises, St-Pierre wasn't hurt at all in the Hendricks fight and has been back training, only this time for fun.
"Georges is right now the happiest I've ever seen him. His mood is better, he's sleeping better, he's gaining weight, muscular weight, not fat," Zahabi said. "The stress was making him weaker, miserable, he was suffering. He didn't have peace. He had too much stress in his life. Now we're doing jiu jitsu and wrestling for fun."
Rousey, Silva respect GSP's decision
Anderson Silva has been fighting in the UFC since 2006 and as a professional since 1997, so he likely understands Georges St-Pierre's recent decision to take a hiatus from the sport. Silva commented on the situation to MMAFighting:
"I think that everyone knows their right timing and the moment they're living," Silva said in a Tuesday media teleconference. "You have to respect Georges St-Pierre for everything he's done in the sport. If he feels like this is the correct time, we have to respect him. Everyone knows their time they have to retire or take a moment to step away, so, you gotta respect it."
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UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey has only been fighting professionally since 2011, but has been a professional athlete much longer and she also respects the decision St-Pierre made:
"Georges had just passed the record for most time ever spent in the Octagon," Rousey said. "He just broke the record. No one spent as much time as him ever in the Octagon before, so can you really blame him for really feeling like he was done? No one reached that point yet. I don't think it's reasonable to expect him to do more. If he wants to do more, awesome, go for it. But if he expects him to be done, he's done, that's fine. Go rest. You deserve it. You don't have to risk your life for anyone."
This was from a poster on yahoo sports. Genuis!I heard the CPS may move down to 170. He could be the only fighter to ever hold 170, 185 and 205 titles at once. AS clearly verbally submitted as that blistering spinner went by his head. JBJ and his nearly severed toe cried mercy. That is a plain fact. So, the taker of souls, the breaker of spirits, the King of Costa Rica, Chael P Sonnen moves on to WW. Dark skies ahead 170-ers. Happy holidays indeed. USA!
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Swamp Cabbage - the ultimate camp food for Southern States. - Writer's Corner: Recipes - Epinions.com
Essentially called "Hearts of Palm." Comes from our sabal palm trees down here in the south east. You can buy it canned, but not as good as the fresh cut.
Advantages of living down here in the swamps . We have a whole vegetable garden here and all kinds of critters too eat if you get lost.
Disadvantage is some of the critters can eat you if you aint careful.
Meat and fish, in a survival mode is good. But probably a good idea too learn what nutritious veggies are in your a.o..
Their out there, if you know which ones too eat.

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Review: Marie AntoinetteSaturday, October 21st, 2006
Kirtsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette
Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is simply brilliant. Read on:
Marie Antoinette is a film that some people will enjoy and others will not. But virtually none of them will have any idea how to explain or qualify why. Part of this is due to its strange clash of classic and modern ideas; director Sofia Coppola transforms what would otherwise be described as a costume drama into a subtle dissertation on the vagaries of our too-much-too-soon culture. But at the same time, Coppola's general approach to moviemaking seems to produce this kind of confusion, or maybe just the stimulating sense that things aren't quite so easily categorized.
With Marie Antoinette, Coppola proves that she is still one of the most talented, adventurous and exciting filmmakers of the modern era. Like an exhilarating union between Terrence Malick and Baz Luhrmann, she combines the immediacy of contemporary cinema with the studied professionalism and patience of previous decades, creating a masterpiece that is both faithful to its time period and vividly rendered in dimensions that modern audiences will relate to.
Rather than examining the French queen's life in a strictly historical context, Coppola looks at the trajectory of her experiences in much the same way she did Charlotte's in Lost In Translation — namely, by exploring the motivations and emotional underpinnings that produce Marie Antoinette's behavior. Kirsten Dunst (Elizabethtown) portrays her as exactly what she was — a young girl caught up in events she could no better understand than control or change — and gives the film a heroine whose problems feel identifiable. While so many period movies dryly chronicle the broad strokes of so-called "universal" issues, Dunst and Coppola's collaboration blows the dust off of the entire "period piece" ethos, and turns the historical figure's travails into something sharp and evocative.
For film fans, Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Luchino Visconti's The Leopard will immediately come to mind as visual and overall aesthetic references, but the film shares much more in common with the works of the aforementioned Malick, whose most recent work The New World similarly purported to document a bygone era via atmosphere and emotion rather than historical accuracy. Marie Antoinette is an impressionist's view of what life must have been like for the teen queen: conjuring the texture of her world and the minutiae of her absurdly regimented daily life, Coppola finds the human truth in Marie Antoinette's boredom, her loneliness, and eventually, her decadent self-destruction.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Weekends, as I have explained before, are market day for us: Saturdays we wend our way to La Place de la Petite Hollande, Nantes' marché populaire, to find inexpensive fruits, vegetables still wearing their dirt, sometimes pre-cooked foods and, of course, a beautiful roasted chicken from the Chicken Lady. This Saturday was no different, especially as we had a date to walk down to the Hangar à Banane on the Loire and watch the launching "à l'ancienne" of the replica of Jules Verne's (a child of Nantes) boat Le St. Michel. So a skip, hop and a jump found us buying a gorgeous roasted chicken, some cheese and salad and then home.
Sundays we normally head out early for Marché Talensac, Nantes' indoor market, a bit more chi-chi, where we buy seafood fresh off the boats, chilled bottles of white or rosé wine, huge, dense, fresh salads and vine-ripened tomatoes, bulging heads of purple garlic and bouquets of tender, crispy radishes from our favorite vegetable lady, a loaf of bread and the occasional lasagne for the boys from the Italian "traiteur".
But this Sunday, disaster struck in the most innocent of places! Instead of going to the market and just lazing away the day, as the weather was so beautiful JP decided to take Marty and Simon to the forest about an hour outside of Nantes for a long, leisurely hike. That's when it happened: throwing caution to the wind, Marty started doing his truffle pig imitation and snuffling up every mushroom he could detect and then, unlike those pigs, scarfing them down before JP even noticed what was happening. And as Marty has never done his homework, refusing to read the mushroom manual "How to Tell the Difference Between the Yummy Mushrooms and the Deadly Mushrooms", of course he was poisoned. Horrors! Watching a small dog deathly ill and in pain all day, all evening is a sight that no one wants to behold. And I can assure you that Marty was as sick as a … well, as a dog….
Unbeknownst to me, I carried on merrily, packing up more cartons, emptying kitchen cabinets, folding away the winter sweaters into suitcases and thinking about lunch. What would go beautifully with leftover roasted chicken, to be eaten cold, something quick to make, healthy to boot and delicious. Ahha! I had thin, delicate French green beans and thicker yellow wax beans in the fridge and a wonderful recipe for a cold sour cream-horseradish sauce which would just hit the spot. Now in which box did I pack this cookbook…..?
After rifling through a mere 5 boxes labeled "cookbooks" I found the two volumes of Recipes from a Kitchen Garden by Renee Shepherd, founder of Shepherd's Seeds and now owner of Renee's Garden, and Fran Raboff, two slender volumes full of delightful, tasty recipes using vegetables, fruits and flowers from her garden including many heirloom varieties, and I was off to make this easy-as-pie sauce, perfect over steamed green and wax beans or as a dip for vegetables.
CREAMY HORSERADISH DRESSING with green and yellow beans
1/3 cup sour cream
1 Tbs prepared white horseradish
½ tsp Dijon or Dijon-style mustard
2 Tbs vegetable oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Using a fork, spoon or whisk, blend all the ingredients together in a small bowl or right in the measuring cup and chill for about an hour before serving.
Steam until tender enough green beans for 4 – 6 people served as a side dish. Refresh the cooked beans under cold running water to stop the cooking and drain well.
I added freshly-sliced juicy, ripe tomatoes for a bit of contrast in both color and flavor, arranged the beans on the plate and drizzled the thick, cold, creamy Horseradish Sauce over it all. And served it with cold chicken. Perfect for summer, and see how quick?
We ate with one communal eye on the Marts and I am happy to say that he was starting to mend by the end of the evening and got a clean bill of health from the vet today. And I do believe that that is his last run in the forest this summer. Back to the safety of the vineyards.
And I want to thank Karen of Domestic Muse for my fabulous apron she sent me for my entry in the Everything Old Is New Again Vintage Recipe Contest. I received it in the mail this week and boy did it cheer me up. Look how perfectly it fits! And I love the cupcakes! Thanks a gazillion Karen and I can't wait until next year's EONA Vintage Recipe Date!
17 comments:
- asiangrrl said...
Goodness, I am so glad that the little chocolate tartlet is ok! I couldn't even really focus on the yummy green beans and sauce until I read that Marty was ok. Marty! No more truffles for you!
That apron is so cute on you. Nice, um, cutlery, too, by the way.
- June 29, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I'm glad Marty is feeling better now... That must have terrified you!
I love this dressing! Delicious with summer vegetables.
What a pretty appron! So cute!
- June 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM
- Heavenly Housewife said...
I really love the taste of horseradish. It adds a certain colour to everything. Great for sauces with fish or red meat too. Very cute little apron :)
- June 29, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Sippity Sup said...
Why can't I be you? GREG
- June 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Sorry to hear about your doggy! How sad! The beans look so fresh and tasty!
- June 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Jamie said...
I'm glad to hear Marty's feeling better. Our Boston's love to eat everything in the backyard.
Your sauce sounds really good with those wonderful looking vegetables.
- June 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- girlichef said...
Oh my gosh...that apron is so cute (but what happened to your head! LOL)! Poor Marty...glad he's feeling better...and drool! This looks so fresh and summery and delicious :D
- June 29, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Mary said...
I'm glad Marty recovered in time to have his picture taken. He looks contrite. Your apron is indeed beautiful. I love your vegetable preparation and hope to follow course really soon. Have a wonderful day.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
So glad the pup is doing better .... gadfry it's just always something.
Ooooo those beans look gorgeous, horseradish sauce would be so perfect.
The apron was just made for you! That is terrific; such drama on the back!
- June 29, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- Junglefrog said...
Ooo, good to hear that Marty is ok!! I had to quickly read through to the end to see that he was doing fine.. Why don't dogs have a build in warning signal if something is poisonous!
Love that you're going to the place of small Holland (or whatever that would translate too) :))
- June 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Jamie said...
@Greg (Sippity Sup) : I wish you could be me at least until after the move!
@girlichef : Yeah, cute, right? Thought you'd love something so girly! And I lost my head in the packing!
@Mary : LOL Marty is never contrite! Bored maybe?
@Junglefrog : Love Holland!
@Everybody : thanks for the worry about Marty. Warms a mom's heart. And, yeah, isn't it always something?
- June 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- Sophie said...
What a lovely been salad & what a yummie dressing! i totally want to eatthe plate, now!
Congrats on winning that lovely apron! It surely fits you well!
- June 30, 2009 at 5:06 AM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
The creamy horseradish dressing sounds excellent with summer veggies! Glad to hear that Marty is ok!
- June 30, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- Chef E said...
I love horseradish, and also glad to hear Marty is doing better!
What is an apron? lol, in my house they are tucked away in my catering closet...
- June 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- Jamie said...
@Chef E - but wouldn't you wear an apron more often if it was as cute as this one?
- June 30, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Maris said...
Your dressing sounds great! I love any kind of dips or sauces for veggies - in the summer sometimes that's all I need for dinner!
- July 4, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Ana Powell said...
Hi Jamie
As always your work is great.
All delicious and well presented.
Have a great weekend x
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As for the opponent, will be good to see Rousey respond to adversary, now that her Cardio isn't being questioned, hopefully McCann will do that.
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UFC 170: Ronda Rousey's trainer says Sara McMann is not ready for a 'Rowdy' title fight
According to Edmond, he hasn't seen anything from Sara that proves she has what it takes to share a cage with Rousey. And come fight night, Team Rousey plans to prove it by besting Sara in all facets of the fight game.
His words:
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Luckily for us (and you!), this summer's films are jam-packed with some of the most malevolent evil characters imaginable, ready to face off against the hottest heroes and heroines from May to August. Tom Hiddleston reprises his Thor role as power-hungry extraterrestrial Loki in this week's The Avengers, while Flight of the Concords' Jemaine Clement breaks Will Smith's stride as an easy-riding alien by the name of Boris in Men in Black III. Closer to home (and to your childhood nightmares), Queen Charlize Theron goes after Kristen Stewart's heart (not in the romantic way) in Snow White and the Huntsman, while Eva Green does the same to Johnny Depp (in both the romantic and evil way?) as smitten witch Angelique Bouchard in Dark Shadows.
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Not that every villain has to be locked in life-or-death combat, mind you. Some of them are just maniacally vain. Sacha Baron Cohen's General Aladeen in The Dictator, anyone? Catherine Zeta-Jones' high-strung Patricia Whitmore will also be inflicting all the damage she can against the demon that is rock in Rock of Ages, while Adam Sandler only accidentally ruins his son Andy Samberg's wedding/marriage/life. That being said, if you somehow get your only child to throw up on his fiance's wedding dress … yeah, you're the bad guy.
Finally, we have to give props to those villains who don't even come in a humanoid package. We are dying to see what the surprisingly awesome-looking Battleship aliens look like under their masks (Weird eyes? Check! Four-fingered hand? Check!), and we're all ready to take our hats off to the Piranhas 3DD piranhas. Not only are they blood-thirsty, they are also responsible for Ving Rhames' character having machine gun legs. What aren't villains good for? Which big bad has your ticket-buying hands shaking with anticipation this summer? Check out our gallery of villainy, and cast your vote. Just remember: When it comes to picking a favorite archnemesis, there is no wrong choice.


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Pavia - Pro Sesto
Pro Sesto won their last meeting 2 - 0 and have a pretty ok form. But Pavia are struggling and are at the bottom of the Serie C1.
Pro Sesto to win.
Sangiovannese - Sassuolo
Sangiovannese won their last meeting 0 - 1. But they have a very poor form, while Sassuolo have good form and have a great form to win this match.
Sassuolo to win.
Venezia - Pisa
Their last meeting ended in a goalless draw but this time I believe Pisa has a great chance of winning the match with the form they have shown.
Pisa to win.
Padova - Grosseto
Grosseto is at the top of the table. They won their last meeting 3 - 1 and are showing pretty good form. But I believe this could end in a 1-1 draw.
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I would love to hear/play something by Steve Reich
Definitely in favour of a piece of music that would never be heard on a contest stage.
I thought you would have moved each post on a little!
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BBb bass, Hadleigh Temple Band
Alto sax, Salvation Army Symphonic Wind Ensemble
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The title of this thread is 'composers not YET lost to brass bands'. I took that to mean composers who haven't yet written anything but might yet be persuaded, rather than composers who are merely still alive. My worry is that if upcoming composers don't want their music subjected to the contest treatment, and bands don't play their music in concerts, then they will quickly move from the 'not lost' to 'lost' category despite still being alive. And that' s where I felt things were heading when I listened to the discussion between Lucy Pankhurst, Gavin Higgins, Peter Meechan, Andy Scott and Dan Price at the RNCM festival. I see Mr Meechan is monitoring this thread - I wonder if I'm summing up fairly?
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Andy wrote a piece for Fodens, 'Battle of Barossa' - what a fabulous piece! Whilst not written as a 'test-piece' I am certain that it would be a corker if used. It is a demanding piece and would test most bands, but hasn't been written for that purpose. It is, though, very listenable to and full of wonderful sounds. The 'Hymn to Barossa' is just part of the piece and has been played independently of the rest of the work at concerts.
Having heard the UK premiere of her Percussion Concerto yesterday in Glasgow, I'd like Sally Beamish to dip her composing toes into the brass band genre.
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Come to think of it - what would it take to get Dave Payn to compose something for band, as opposed to the myriad of qulaity arrangements he has down?
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Or potentially look at restructuring the format of contesting altogether to allow the bands themselves to select more adventurous works?
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Not sure who's actually on the panel that selects test pieces, but I would hazard a guess that there are some old war horses there. I'm not knocking them, but I would go as far as to suggest inviting the likes of Lucy, Andy, Peter et al to add a more contemporary outlook on these decisions.
I can't remember for the life of me the name of the composer - don't think it was Bob Lennon though (who used to play euph for me at Yorks Co-Op - we pemiered his tribute to 9/11 called Fallen Citadel ten years ago)
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Women chatted over their teacups, saucers and scones, while holiday carols were sung at the Aiken Women's Christian Connection Holiday High Tea at Woodside Plantation Country Club from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Tuesday's event, offering early Christmas cheer and fellowship, was organized with the help of tea aficionados Sedley Roach and Connie Gantt, who both believe one cup of tea a day keeps a person healthy and happy.
Every teacup, plate, silverware and teapots came from the private collections of Roach and Ganntt. Each lady drank from an unique cup – some painted and filigreed with birds and flowers.
Between the scones, finger sandwiches and cookies, local musician Vicki Rutland led the Aiken Christian Women's Connection in singing "Deck the Halls," "Silent Night" and "Jingle Bell Rock."
Then, guest speaker Marynell Wallace presented her speech "What in Heaven's Name Are You Doing?"
Wallace, the youngest of four children and the only girl, said she never felt she was good enough when it came to school, relationships or other facets of life.
Her mother and she were at constant odds with one another, and Wallace often heard the question, "What in heaven's name are you doing?" Her answer often was, "I don't know."
"As an adult, I continued to try to be good enough. From the time I took my first drink, I knew I could be good at this," Wallace said. "I drank to feel something, to try to fill the emptiness in my heart. At least the alcohol deadened the whispers of, 'You're not good enough.'"
Even after waking up in a lake after a blackout, Wallace continued drinking until a friend called her on it. She completed a recovery program and has been sober for 33 years.
But, she said it wasn't until she turned over her feelings of rejection to God at a retreat that she realized "God doesn't love people because we're good, he loves people because he's good."
"God is with me no matter where I am. I want everyone to know I am living for his glory, not my own," she said.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correctly name the private collections the teacups, plates, silverware and teapots were from. The Aiken Standard regrets the error.
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I had a target coupon in passbook, went to target and was expecting it to notify me. Nothing happened. I did my shopping and as I was checking out I let the cashier scan the coupon and again nothing happened. It's as if she didn't even scan the coupon. She had to manually take off the discounts for me! Complete failure on my first try.
Regarding Passbook
I joked today that Passbook was this year's Newsstand. I meant that on several levels. First, it's an app that people seem to be struggling to use. Second, it's an app that depends on being fed content that's out of Apple's control. Third, because of those two factors, it's an app that could have done with some better hand-holding and partnership placements at launch.
Rewind. Passbook was introduced, along with the rest of iOS 6, at WWDC 2012 in June. Apple Senior Vice President of iOS, Scott Forstall explained it as "the simplest way to get all of our passes in one place" -- a single, easily accessible repository for all the gift cards, coupons, tickets, and other assorted passes that were previously scattered among a myriad, less easily accessible apps. He explained it as the solution to a well defined usability problem.
In his subsequent demo, Forstall showed Passbook pre-populated with content from several well known brands, including Apple, Starbucks, Target, United, MLB, and the W Hotel. Forstall also showed gate updates, Lock screen notifications, and shredding passes when they were no longer needed. He did not, to the best of my recollection, show the process of acquiring a pass or actually using it.
Immediately after the WWDC keynote, I spoke to other members of the media and their reaction, like mine, was optimistic and positive. The QR codes that would serve as the bridge between the passes and the retailers seemed antiquated, of course, but many of us simply assumed they were a placeholder or stepping stone towards what would eventually be a more elegant mobile transaction-based solution.
As the iPhone 5 event approached, many people, myself included, began speculating about what else we might see. Apple typically has a couple of unique demoes at the iPhone events, which often coincide with iPhone TV commercials that follow. Passbook seemed like a good candidate. It seemed like something Apple could really show off. A couple of key partnership announcements, like a Starbucks or Target, and a demo of a pass being purchased and used seemed perfectly possible. Passbook, some of us thought, could even be a candidate for this year's Santa-themed iPhone ad, following up the FaceTime and Siri ads from previous years. Santa buying some last minute toys with Passbook powered gift certificates -- what could be better than that?
Instead, at the iPhone 5 event, we got a re-demo of Passbook from WWDC. No partner announcements. No transactional demos. Admittedly, a lot of the apps that could potentially feed Passbook were and remain dismal -- little more than websites in thin app wrappers with inexcusable interfaces and frustrating transactional experiences. And scanning a code is positively, primitively, unsexy ( especially compared to what other platforms are doing with rapid, touch-and-go data exchange technologies like NFC). Not the stuff of great iPhone event demos.
There was also nothing like FireMonkey and Real Racing 3, however, nothing where Apple brought some hip, marquee retailers to Cupertino -- those who did have great looking apps and existing pass systems -- and gave them some special attention, and helped them make something truly brilliant to show off at the event.
Still, developers, including major retailers who already had apps in the app store, or had websites or even marketing mail that could deliver Passbook passes, had had from June until the iOS 6 release date of September 21 to work with the various betas and get something amazing ready. After all, while big ships turn slowly, they still turn, and 3 months is a fair amount of turning time to create a way to push resource files, a bit of JSON, and existing scan codes.
And if three months really wasn't enough time to get app development done, scanners installed, and staff up to speed to support Passbook passes, Apple themselves just happen to be a hip, marquee retailer with an existing pass system (Apple Store Gift Cards), a great looking app, and the ability to scan codes. Forstall even showed an Apple Store gift card off during the Passbook demos. So I held to hope.
Then iOS 6 was released, and Passbook immediately got off to a rocky start. First, the Passbook app started users off with an empty shelf (or in this case, wallet) experience. Sure, Music.app starts off empty of music, but digital music is an old, established, understood paradigm and, since the Store button was integrated, an easy one to engage.
iBooks on the other hand, which is a more recent addition, cleverly started off with a free Winnie the Pooh book. It created a comfortable path of entry for users. Immediately upon launching it iBooks, it gave users something recognizable, something they could play with, something they could use to learn about the iBooks experience. It de-stressed the process and brought users quickly up to speed on the feature set. "Hey, here's something you can play with and if you like, here's how to get much more!" is inherently a better usability, after all, than "hey, here's a big empty thing that you can go figure out how to get stuff for and then figure out how to us!"
Passbook presented itself like Newsstand -- empty but for directions to the App Store. And worse, for some users, the App Store portion took hours if not days to start working following the release of iOS 6. Like it or not, first impressions matter, which is why Apple is usually so purposeful and so clever about nailing them. Users will try something new once, twice, maybe a few times, and if it doesn't work, or if it's confusing, they'll soon stop trying and give up on it.
As much as people take issue with Apple's controlling nature, they complain even more when things don't work, and often the things that don't work are the things outside Apple's control. When the iPhone launched, and for many years thereafter, it was bad carrier service in the U.S. Last year it was old media empires that were ploddingly slow and technologically inept when it came to producing Newsstand content to begin with -- and that was after Apple and Fox held a special event to show off The Daily as a launch title.
Passbook didn't even have that. No Winnie the Pooh. No pre-populated Apple Store pass. No comfortable path of entry.
I've now used Passbook several times, and successfully so. I downloaded the Cineplex Mobile app and have used it to buy a few movie tickets. It is, as I feared, a website in a thin app wrapper with an inexcusable interface and frustrating transactional experience. Ugly and imprecisely, I've been able to purchase tickets using my Paypal account and get passes generated and loaded into Passbook. From then on, from the moment Passbook and Apple took over, the experience has been great. I've been alerted. I've been updated. I've been able to shred.
Everything has worked fantastically well -- as well as Scott Forstall showed off at WWDC 2012 and again at the iPhone 5 event. But when I've had to have the Passbook passes scanned at the movie theater and get the actual tickets (because the passes aren't the actual tickets, they're the thing you use to get the ticket...(?!)), it's been unsexy, and its been a part of the process entirely outside of Apple's control.
With Newsstand, Apple didn't go the iTunes or iBooks route, didn't establish a specific format and present the content is a consistent manner. They outsourced to publishers, and the experience suffered. With Passbook, Apple didn't offer the iTunes transaction system, didn't establish a specific process in a consistent manner. They outsourced to retailers, and the experience suffered.
When I joked that Passbook was this year's Newsstand, a bunch of people immediately replied that at least they could hide Passbook in a folder, unlike like Newsstand (which is a folder). That's not the sentiment you want to hear.
If Apple had gone with the Winnie the Pooh model from iBooks, they could have pre-populated Passbook with an Apple Store card. Some have suggested including a nominal amount of credit on it, since it would be returned to the Apple Store anyway. But even absent an existing balance, it could have been used to show how Passbook works, how money could be added to the card using a great app like the Apple Store app, and a great transactional service like iTunes. It could have provided users with an excellent first Passbook experience and excellent first impression. Even if other Passbook feeder apps were abysmal, that experience would have balanced the scales.
A year later, I'm still waiting for Newsstand to get better. Or, preferably, for Apple to Ping it and replace it with "iNews". I'm not sure if I'm waiting for Passbook to be replaced with a more consistent, more controlled "iWallet". I expect it to eventually, though not immediately. Right now I'm waiting and hoping for Passbook to get better. Matt Brian of The Next Web has shown how Apple is promoting Passbook using iAd, which may help, and Matthew Panzarino, also of The Next Web has shown how Apple is pushing Passbook passes from OS X Safari to iOS. Those are good steps.
Siri, which was announced as a beta, struggled with uptime and reliability at launch, but Apple has stuck with it, improved it, and extended it. That's not surprising, because natural language interface is a hugely important part of the future. Mobile transaction payments are just as important, so it won't be surprising if Apple sticks with Passbook, improves it, and extends it as well.
Apple just needs to do it quickly and compellingly enough that iPhone users don't stick Passbook in a folder and forget about it.
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What about after you add one pass to the Passbook app, you loose that link to the app store. So then if you want to download more passbook enabled apps, how do you find them?
What would be great is the ability to snap photos and add your own coupons, QR codes, and cards to the app.
The app is a mess. The worst that Apple has to offer.
you mention other technologies like "touch and go and NFC" saying scanning codes is "unsexy." I just wanted to throw my opinion out there. That's this, i don't care what technology they use. Take when i use my starbucks card on my phone. either way i still have to reach my hand out and present the phone. now whether i have to touch something, or scan a code makes no difference to me. As a consumer i do the same thing. I reach my hand out and it get's deducted. The technical method is not something i care the slightest bit about. The method isn't what matters.
Now Passport, i'm with you, it's launch has been horrible. If Apple can't get their own store working you know there's an issue of incompetence going on their now. The other thing is i've for a year now used the Delta phone app to recieve boarding passes. And not like your movies. It's my actual boarding pass. I don't even print off a paper copy of anything anymore. You'd think Apple would have the sense to get them on board at launch to at least update the app to send the boarding pass out of the delta app into passport at the least considering they already get the boarding passes.
The other problem is simply some stores don't have scanners, and account access and such for such a thing. one of my grocery store has a rewards card program and scanners but the scanners are old and can't read off of phones because of the glass.
As for movie tickets. As long as they charge an extra dollar service charge for buying over the internet they can kiss my backside, i'll buy in person and save my dollar. regardless i hope it improves. i wouldn't use it a ton but i would use it for, starbucks often, grocery store rewards, coupons, costco, gift cards. As it is i carry only id and a credit card.
I'd like to be able to add my own stuff to Passbook like the PDF I used the other day to enter the Dutch Instrumentation Fair in Amsterdam. I actually forgot to bring the print and retrieved it on my iPhone, blew the barcode up to full screen and it proved scannable. The lady at the desk was surprised that it worked out. Passbook would be a great place to keep that kind of stuff.
You can use the Gyft app to enter your physical gift cards. Gyft is compatible with passbook.
While I agree that they should have had more partners at launch, and that there are certain ways the app is lacking, I've had a pretty good experience with two of the apps that are available. I can't speak for Cineplex but using the Fandango app I buy my tickets, transfer them to passbook and when I get to the movie theater it pops up and the ticket taker actually scans my phone screen. Pretty seamless. The walgreens app works great too. Go to the register, scan my discount card, pay, and be on my way. Again, seamless.
That's not to say that it doesn't need improvement. I really hope Starbucks jumps on the bandwagon because I use their app to pay at Starbucks all the time. It'd be better to just have it pop up on my screen when I arrive. On top of that, they need way more partnerships in order to improve it. Partnerships that are as effective as Fandango, Walgreens, and Starbucks have been for me. Three, for now two, things in passbook, just doesn't cut it.
Starbucks said they'd have passport support by the end of the month. will they make it? who knows but that seems to be on the way. My guess is it will basically be the same functionality as the starbucks app. I think they are updating both because starbucks just changed their reward system to not send physical postcards but just store them on the card. i'd bet one of the additions to a future app will be to track how many free drink cards you have. that would have to be added as it's not their now. i'm hoping we get that and passport support in the next release.
I was lucky to have a Lufthansa Flight the day after I updated to iOS6.
In the beginning I was wondering too how this will work. But after figuring it out (and seeing the "add to Passbook" Link in the Lufthansa App) everything was fine.
Currently LH doesn't support time and gate changes so it was just another container. But I can see the potential in it and I like the design ... and I even hadn't seen the shredder at this time ;-)
Using the pass at the gate was without any problems.
I think passbook is a one of the ideas that needs some time from now but as I said ... I like! :-)
It is a bit of a surprise that Apple didn't get behind this new feature and do more to educate developers about the potential or curate more initial partners, but I don't think it will be the next News Stand. It solves some very real problems for iOS developers. I know we are working on some very cool iterations that will change the way users interact with city services and small businesses.
Good article Rene.
I find Cineplex doesn't get the whole electonic / Passbook thing. I find it very annoying to buy my ticket online and still need to go scan my phone to get my ticket printed. The whole electonic method is to avoid the line and paper. So for me, until Cineplex change his way, i'll keep buying my ticket on my Mac and print it at home.
I still remember, many years ago, when Cineplex was starting to offer ticket online and were charging 1$ fees for it. Not acceptable.
I stuck it in a folder on day two.
Passbook does not offer much over the status quo -- it is a solution largely in search of a problem. I could already purchase tickets in dedicated apps, and have them scanned. Passbook does not help with the former, and, as for the latter, the only convenience it offers is having them appear automatically on my lockscreen as opposed to opening up the app, and that does not even work all that well. In the future, for users with dozens and dozens of gift/membership cards, I suppose it would offer the added feature of getting to pull our your phone rather than your wallet, but, since you have to pull out your wallet anyways to pay, the added value of this is dubious.
What should worry us as iPhone fans about Passbook is not the actual shortcomings of the app itself, but what it suggests about Apple's development process. Rene has written several editorials about Apple over the years postulating that what separates Apple from competitors is that while it may not release often, it releases only when the product is fully baked. With tentpole features like Passbook, Maps, and Siri, this is certainly no longer the case. For each, you can cast around for some rationale ("its the retailers' fault", "they had to rip off the band-aid", "voice processing requires a public beta") to give them a pass, but the fact is Apple is now releasing products where granting such a pass is necessary, and that negates the "fully baked" claim that used to differentiate Apple. And even those passes do not explain releases like Podcasts, which puzzlingly degrades an experience and stops interoperating with the rest of their ecosystem, for no benefit I can fathom.
That is the real concern regarding Passbook.
I have mixed feelings. I went on line and bought tickets and parking for Knott's Berry Farm in California. As part of the process I was asked if I wanted to print out the tickets which I did. An email later I was informed if I had Passbook I could log on to their web page and the tickets would be added to my iPhone. The tickets and the parking pass appeared without fail ready for the next day. At Knotts the parking attendant appeared confused and did not know how the process worked. She did take the printed e-ticket without fail and apologized that her scanner didn't work with the iPhone. At the Guest Center I was told that they were ready for Passbook at #1 & 4 turnstiles. As I found the right entrance the process was fast and without any problems. I love the convenience of the use of Passbook and hope it will get better. Funny I used Apple maps turn by turn to get there and it worked without fail. Both worked but I can only hope they will get better.
(a week later) After the experience with the amusement park I thought I'd try PassBook again. Received a gift card for Target and thought it would be a great addition for Passbook. How to add the card to Passbook? Good question. I ended up using Gyft, a free app that takes gift cards and stores them on your iPhone and then transfer them to Passbook. It is a easy app to use but when at the counter at Target the sales clerk was able to scan my phone's bar code but needed the original gift card for the "Event" number :( What's the point of needing the card to use Passbook?) Again a good idea gone bad. Is anyone having a good experience with Passbook?
Every time I go to this website Rene is writing something about passbook. Don't see the reason for all the hoopla, this app has major issues along with maps. If that is all we can talk about as far as innovation is concerned then IOS is in trouble. The OS is stagnant. Get off the Court House Front Stairs and get your asses in the lab and start innovating. The I-Phone 5 has some issues. I had to put it down, it was a real letdown. I was hoping for something new and exciting but I think they didn't put the time or money into it. They three LTE into it and made the screen a little bigger. Everything else is fail.
I agree that this feels like a half step. The iBooks analogy is apt. I understand Apple saying that NFC is not fully baked, but let's not forget Thunderbolt. A year later and there are still no reasonably priced peripherals available. I think NFC has more immediate and long-term potential than Thunderbolt and Passbook. Passbook touted as the opening volley to NFC with some NFC road map might have been more helpful but as it is one can't help feel that it is going to struggle. As Rene points out, it is dependent on forces outside the Apple ecosystem. That experience can not be controlled. I applaud Apple for creating a portal for such services but the delivery seems very weak by Apple standards. I guess we will all rediscover this app a year or so from now when they do NFC and rename it iWallet.
Already stuck it in a crap folder probably never to be used.


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After months of lingering low temperatures, summertime in Toledo has "been a long time comin'," and The Bradberries are celebrating the new season with its "Generic Summer Song."
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The trio includes Bury on drums, Scott Ballard on fiddle and guitar and Tom Kemper on bass. All three are veteran vocalists who have known each other and played in bands together for more than 20 years.
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About a year and a half ago, the three friends decided to form a band. Today, they perform nearly every weekend.
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Jimmy Thackery will be 'in the zone' for show at MainstreetWritten by Matt Liasse | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Jimmy Thackery often has more than one guitar on stage at a time.
"Different guitars have different sounds and are useful for different things," Thackery said. "Depending on what you're playing … you might switch [for different sounds]. Any guitar and its player are in a love-hate relationship most of the time anyway. If you get in an argument with her, sometimes you pick up one of her girlfriends."
Thackery said he treats his guitars as beings, not as inanimate object.
"They seem to have a soul and a personality of their own," he said.
Thackery said he gets into a zone when playing guitar.
"Ideally, if you're doing it right, you kind of transcend everything that's going on around you and get on a wave," Thackery said. "It doesn't always happen but it's something you strive for. When you're a musician, you try to get so deep into the music that you're playing that everything else is just kind of superfluous and turned off and that's the only thing you're concentrating on."
He said he was 12 years old when he learned how to play the guitar. He said his first memories were of his musical ambition. He remembers watching television shows with catchy theme songs.
"I've always sort of blamed it on being a child of the '50s," he said. "Back in those days, the television shows had great musical scores."
He said the passion was instilled in him very young by his musical parents. He says the passion is still alive in him as he grows older.
"I love it more now than I did back when I was a kid," Thackery said. "When you reach the age of 60, it becomes more difficult to get around than we used to. Back when we were in our 20s and 30s we were ten feet tall, bulletproof and gas was cheap. It's a different equation now. You have to be a little more judicious of the gigs you play and the schedule you keep."
Thackery will perform at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 at Mainstreet Bar & Grill, 141 Main Street.
Thackery has been on the road non-stop for most of his adult life. Over time, Thackery founded bands like the Nighthawks, the Assassins and the Drivers. He said being in a band has challenges.
"You're actually taking an indiscriminate group of people that have one thing in common, which is that they play music, and throwing them into a truck and putting 100,000 miles a year on those people in a pressure cooker," he said. "Yeah, there's going to be conflict. But, if you want to play you have to weed through that."
Thackery's schedule stays full these days with playing, producing and appearing in reunion shows with former bands. Since then he has released and produced two of his own records, "We Got It" and "True Stories."
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