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Grievance and Arbitration: Tools for Building Relationships
Skolnick, Rochelle G., International Musician
NOTE: This article should not be construed as legal advice. If you have a legal question, you should consult an attorney.
With the headlines splashed with dire news about orchestra managements seeking concessions from their players, attempting to avoid pension obligations, suspending operations, and filing for bankruptcy protection, an orchestra musician might be forgiven for wondering whether questions related to grievance handling and arbitration are superfluous to the essential business of maintaining and growing symphony orchestras. In my opinion, nothing could be farther from the truth.
First of all, those dire headlines tell only a small part of the story. We all know that there are many more orchestra boards and managers who have worked hard to weave their institutions deeper into the fabric of their communities, expanding authence and donor numbers, and nurturing institutional health. We have also seen that, even as certain orchestras struggle, their boards and managers strive to honor the commitments they've made to the musicians whose labor is at the heart of the symphonic enterprise.
More importantly, those institutions best weathering today's economic challenges are those with strong relationships among union, musicians, managers, and boards. In other words, good labor relations. Good labor relations are not magically bestowed upon an institution, nor do they simply materialize with a certain alignment of the stars. A beneficent CEO, who always accedes to the union's demands (should such an exotic creature ever be found), would not make for good labor relations any more than a union president who refused to challenge the employer's most flagrant contract violations because he didn't want to make waves.
No, as with any relations, what makes for good labor relations is a healthy measure of mutual respect, communication, and hard work. And just as functional families discuss and resolve their disputes and misunderstandings around the kitchen table, workplace disputes and misunderstandings are most effectively discussed and resolved at the bargaining table, which should not be reserved for use only during contract negotiations! In labor relations, the vehicle that brings the parties to the bargaining table between contract negotiations to discuss and resolve their differences is the collective bargaining agreement, and, specifically, the grievance and arbitration provisions.
Mention the words "grievance" and "arbitration" in a room full of orchestra musicians and someone can be relied upon to express the opinion that filing a grievance, let alone processing it to arbitration, is "too adversarial." Such statements betray an unfortunate and fundamental misconception about the role of grievance and arbitration in the collective bargaining context. Contractual grievance and arbitration mechanisms arose as an alternative to the tool unions historically used to obtain what their members wanted and needed from their employers: the strike. To understand the implications of this development, one need only consider for a moment the chaos that would ensue, if the only way in which employees, whose employer refused to voluntarily remedy a workplace wrong, could obtain such a remedy was to withhold their labor until the remedy was granted. Work stoppages would be commonplace, productivity would decline, and harsh economic consequences would follow for both employer and employee alike. Although courts (and the labor movement) initially took a dim view of grievance arbitration, that began to change during World War II, when the War Labor Board recognized that using arbitration to resolve disputes in the collective bargaining context was a way to ensure uninterrupted wartime production.
The role of labor arbitration was solidified in 1960, when the US Supreme Court issued the three decisions that have come to be known as the "Steelworkers' Trilogy." In those decisions the Supreme Court made several important holdings. …


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Just last week E! News learned exclusively that Kim Kardashian already has her wedding dress picked out. What exact designer she's chosen is anyone's guess (and believe us, we're guessing).
And yeah, wedding gowns are a tad more exciting than wedding tuxedos (sorry, guys), but in this case, we're pretty interested in what the groom will wear. It is Kanye West, after all.
Kanye is a front row fixture and a designer himself. Not to mention labels like Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have found their way into his rap lyrics.
So what does someone like Kanye wear on his wedding day? We've got a few designers we think are major contenders. Keep reading and decide for yourself: What will Kanye wear?
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1. Givenchy
What You Need to Know: Riccardo Tisci has been the creative director of Givenchy womenswear since 2005, but in 2008 he took over menswear, as well. Givenchy was also on our list of designers we think Kim will wear. And it wouldn't surprise us if they both choose designs by the same label.
Kanye's Connection to the Label: Well, Kanye is basically besties with Riccardo. The designer referred to Kanye as his good friend in a recent February 2014 interview with Elle, and he famously created Kanye and Kim's Givenchy outfits for the 2013 Met ball.
Likelihood Kanye Will Wear Givenchy: Pretty High. Kanye and Riccardo clearly have some major mutual respect for each other, and what way to show his appreciation of his best designer friend than wear the label on his wedding day?
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2. Cifonelli
What You Need to Know: Is the name Cifonelli not ringing any bells? Don't feel out of the loop if you haven't heard of this Italian suit label. Cifonelli started all the way back in the late 1800s in Rome. The brand is known for its exquisite tailoring and its history-making clientele, like Josephine Baker, who famously wore a Cifonelli suit.
Kanye's Connection to the Label: Whispers that Kanye would choose this brand for his wedding tux started when he visited Cifonelli at their Paris-based location earlier this spring.
Likelihood Kanye Will Wear Cifonelli: Medium. Just because Kanye had a suit-fitting with a brand doesn't mean he'll necessarily wear it on his wedding day. But Cifonelli has such a legendary past that we could see this Italian label making the Kanye cut.
3. Kanye West
What You Need to Know: Kanye has been a creator in the fashion industry for years now, so it is possible that he may wear a Kanye-designed wedding outfit. He first released his own shoe for Nike, the Air Yeezys, in 2009 and he also designed shoes for Louis Vuitton, Bape and has collaborated with shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti. In 2011 Kanye showed his womenswear fashion line DW Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week, and then in 2012 he showed again at Paris Fashion Week. Most recently, he's got a collab with Adidas that will launch this June.
Kanye's Connection to the Label: Um, it's Kanye.
Likelihood Kanye Will Wear Kanye: Medium. Kanye has designed menswear before, collaborating with A.P.C., but those designs were more streetwear and not so formal. Plus, creating your own wedding tux takes a lot of time and Kanye is a busy guy, but maybe he'll accessorize with something he designed—like his new Adidas shoes? Who knows?!
So, what do you think: What will Kanye wear?


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Pope John Paul II's singular mark on history has provoked countless words in praise and commentary as observers try to explain his immense popularity among non-Catholics and even the non-religious. The night is still young, but I haven't yet heard mention of the one word that may hold the key to the riddle: Father.
He was, of course, the "Holy Father." Il Papa. But he was more than that. He was the transcendental father figure. The symbolic Man. Adam in 21st-century flesh. Leader, teacher, disciplinarian, protector of hearth and home, he embodied all the traits of the uppercase Father.
I realize this is all very old-fashioned in an era of feminist theology, but then so is the Vatican. Do we really wish it otherwise? As a non-Catholic, I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I kind of like the idea that somewhere, someone is holding the line taut, setting human ideals above our easy reach.
Pope John Paul II exuded father-ness, which is not to diminish his importance on loftier planes. He bore the lessons of Christ's sacrifice with intellectual agility and physical grace. But in his person, carriage, attitude, tone and appeal, he also satisfied the profound human hunger for affirmation from a male authority figure that, historically, fathers - now increasingly absent or marginalized - have provided.
Certainly, John Paul II caused rifts within the church and arguments beyond the pulpit, as commentators have often reminded us during the past week or so. Many of those reporting from Rome ceaselessly reiterated the disclaimer that the pope's version of Catholicism was "very doctrinaire" and "very orthodox," as CNN's Christiane Amanpour repeatedly put it.
What's missing amid this compulsive footnoting seems clear: The pope's orthodoxy is at least partly why he was so revered. We're not like him, most people easily concede. But do we want a pope who is like us? No more, I suspect, than we want a president who is just a guy.
John Paul II's allegiance to principles related to marriage, sex, birth control, homosexuality and other topics that keep the cultural machinery in perpetual spin cycle wasn't his flaw, but rather his strength. Whether some of us might disagree individually was not his concern. He didn't rely on focus groups or polls.
In his role as quintessential father, the pope was willing to lay down the law even if it meant listening to the foot stomping, wailing and gnashing of teeth from the little darlings. As the Lord did not say, "If it feels good, do it," neither did John Paul II. There is much to admire there, even if there is also much to resist.
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"Underused Herbs You Will Want To Grow" will be the next Amateur Herbalist program on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Lebanon Valley Agricultural Center classrooms, 2120 Cornwall Road, North Cornwall Township.
Guest speaker Kathy Musser of Cloverleaf Herb Farm will talk about underused herbs that are worthy of attention, and garden space. She will share how these herbs are grown, their uses and will have plants available for purchase at the end of the program.
There is a $15 registration fee for the program, and pre-registration is required. Call 717-270-4391 to register and for more information.
The Amateur Herbalist is a special-interest study group organized to study the growing, harvesting and many uses of herbs. The group is a project of the Lebanon County Master Gardeners. It is open to anyone interested in learning about herbs in the kitchen, decorative herbs, herbs in cosmetics, and craft uses of herbs.


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College to host author: Diana Butler Bass, author, speaker and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Plant Symposium announced: Waynesboro Parks and Recreation Department will host a Shenandoah Valley Plant Symposium from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 27. This event offers something for everyone from the novice home gardener to experienced horticulturist. The cost is $95 before March 15 and $105 after March 15. For more information, visit www.waynesboro.us.us or call 942-6735.
Vanpool formation meeting announced: RideShare will host a vanpool formation meeting at 10 a.m. March 9 at the Waynesboro Public Library. The meeting is for commuters that live in Waynesboro, Staunton, Harrisonburg, August County or Rockingham County and work in Charlottesville. The meeting does not obligate you to join a vanpool. To RSVP or more information, call 885-5174 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
VFW announces bingo: VFW Post 2216, 212 Frontier Drive, announces its Bingo every Saturday. The doors open at 3:30 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. All regular games pay $100, two $500 Jack Pots, Lucky 7 and Red, White and Blue Progressive games. Food will be available. The public is invited. For more information, call 885-7892.
Blood drive announced: The American Red Cross will host a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Staunton Gypsy Hill Park Gym. Call 1-800-RED CROSS to confirm dates and times before attending.
Diabetic medication management classes offered: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Salem VA Medical Center (VAMC) will host an outreach event at the United Way of Greater Augusta, 1020 Jefferson Highway, on the first Monday of every month. Classes will be monthly for 6 months ending June 3. The next scheduled class is from 10 a.m. to noon March 4. The classes are offered at no cost to the participants. For more information, call (540) 855-3460 or (540) 855-5066.


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In addition to the Nationals having interest in Lee, so too do the Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Padres, Orioles and Athletics, Sports Illustrated 's Jon Heyman writes .
Lee, 35, hit .260/.347/.428 with 19 home runs and 80 RBI for the Cubs and Braves last season. His output in everything but homers, increased when he went to Atlanta.
Lee lives in California now and is native of the state, so he would seem to be a fit for the West Coast teams.
In the same article, Heyman says the Diamondbacks are interested in signing outfielder Xavier Nady, who played for new D-Backs GM Kevin Towers in San Diego.
Nady appeared in 119 games with the Cubs last season, hittingg .256/.306/.353 with six home runs and 33 RBI.
-- C. Trent Rosecrans
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Funeral Services for Lena Mae Lambert, age 84 of Monroe, will be held on Tuesday, March 4th at 10:30am at Coburn Funeral Home, with burial following at Silent City Cemetery. The family will greet friends following the service at Monroe American Legion. Memorials may be directed to the Monroe Fire Department and online condolences may be left at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com [1]
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Jim Martin said he lost everything before he made the decision to get help. Now, he wants to help others change the direction of their lives.
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It wasn't all that long ago that Jim Martin was in the same difficult place in his life as the men he is 100 percent devoted to today. Not even five years ago, the now 53-year-old former homeless man took his last drink - today, his life is leaps and bounds better than when alcohol and drugs were his mistresses.
He unfortunately lost everything he held dear before finally deciding to make a change. His wife, his children, his job, his dignity, his hopes and dreams - all gone via a downward spiral of alcoholism, drug addiction and bad choices.
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Mules of brown/oxblood suede. The shoes are designed with rounded, open toes. The toe-box/instep is formed of brown/oxblood suede with two diamond-shaped cut-outs across instep, with gold kidskin bands across narrow points between openings. The high French heels are covered with same suede. Retailer's stamp inside right shoe: "Neiman-Marcus / Dallas"
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Hat of black, white, red, and ocher silk styled as a Garrison Cap (aka Side Cap, or Wedge Cap). Influenced by military headgear, this hat is constructed as a flat envelope, which opens along long edge to form a wedge-shaped crown. The cap is dyed in the Shibori technique, forming intricate designs outlined in white and filled in with red or ocher dots. Lined in black silk. Designer's label inside: "3410 Oak Lawn / Bernie A. Cahn / Dallas, Tex."


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News about Exxon Mobil Corporation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
In Guyana, a Land Dispute With Venezuela Escalates Over Oil
Venezuela has long insisted it owns everything west of the Essequibo River, including the Guyanese town of Bartica, in a battle that intensified after an oil discovery.
November 19, 2015, Thursday
Hallazgos de petróleo intensifican disputa territorial entre Guyana y Venezuela
En una riña que se remonta más de cien años, Venezuela afirma ser el legítimo propietario de todo el territorio al oeste del río Esequibo.
November 19, 2015, Thursday
An Oil-Soaked Globe as Production Keeps Climbing and Demand Falls
The renewed collapse in crude prices is helping to again drive down gasoline prices for American drivers, and a surge in production has led to a global stockpile of three billion barrels.
November 14, 2015, Saturday
More Oil Companies Could Join Exxon Mobil as Focus of Climate Investigations
The start of an inquiry by the New York attorney general's office into Exxon Mobil's record on climate change could lead to additional legal actions involving other major energy companies.
November 7, 2015, Saturday
Exxon Inquiry Both Mirrors and Contrasts With Tobacco Industry Case
The tobacco industry largely hid evidence of the addictiveness of tobacco, while Exxon published peer-reviewed climate change research even as it raised doubts on the underlying science.
November 7, 2015, Saturday
The Limits of the 'Tobacco Strategy' on Climate Change
Creating identifiable villains like Exxon Mobil should help in the battle of public opinion, but it could also lead to further polarization.
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November 4, 2015, Wednesday
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The country's most-visited national park received 9.37 million hikers, campers and outdoors enthusiasts last year. That's up 83,000 visitors or about 1 percent over the year before.
Of the park's three main entrances, Gatlinburg was up 3 percent, Cherokee, N.C., was up 1 percent and Townsend, Tenn., was flat.
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Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair, Warm
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
NARS Sheer Glow was hands down the best foundation I've ever worn.
"Was" is the key word and it kills me to write that.
For neutral-to-yellow undertoned girls, NARS is killing it in offerings and is pretty extensive for pale folk to POCs. It's yellow without being orange and looks like actual skin colors. It is a comfortable foundation with medium coverage right out the get go (why it calls itself "sheer," I'll never know), but it gives luminosity without greasiness, and that is such a hard tightline to walk. It also doesn't contain SPF, which is great for photography.
So, why three stars? There's several reasons.
1. This foundation doesn't come with a pump, as you probably already know. For anything over $25, I expect you are going to put a pump on it or some kind of way to avoid allowing bacteria in and make it easy to dispense without having to potentially lose extra product. The pump through NARS is about an additional $6 USD, which brings the total up to $48 USD for the entire thing.
2. This foundation broke me out, badly. I didn't want to believe it, but this foundation gave me the worst and most painful break-outs I've ever had. I experimented with my skincare regime, different products, but it always came back to one constant thing: any time I would wear this foundation more than two days in a row, I'd always have a constellation of zits along my chin and eventually cheeks if I continued. After not wearing this product, my break-outs stopped and eventually went away. Sigh.
3. For someone with dry skin like myself, it can veer on the side of drying. During spring/summer/fall, it's not a big deal, but this product does require extra moisturization in the winter.
So, as much as I loved this foundation, it's clearly not for me, but hopefully it does work for you!
- Luminous without being greasy
- No SPF (great for photography; also most foundations don't include enough SPF to offer coverage anyways)
- Wide variety of shades available
- Great for neutral-to-yellow undertones without looking orange
- Medium coverage but doesn't feel heavy
- NARS does not do animal testing nor do any of their suppliers do it on their behalf (per http://www.narscosmetics.com/USA/customer-care.html#animaltesting)
- Not good for sensitive skin
- Not sheer (for me, this is a good thing, but the name is misleading for those looking for lower coverage)
- Have to buy pump separately for an additional $6
- Can be drying
- Pink undertoned ladies may struggle to find options
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Other, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Why do they call this stuff "Sheer" glow? The coverage is not sheer, when you apply this with a foundation brush even one light coat gives decent coverage, and it lasts very well too. The shade "siberia" is so beautiful and flattering, really porcelain-y. The best part is that it's non-comedogenic so in my time of using it my skin has actually cleared up a lot. HG status.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
I really don't like this product. It made my face look like a cake
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I do like the finish of this foundation , but all the shades pull yellow really bad. The lighting at sephora was much more flattering, but when i got home under truer lighting I looked like I had jaundice! Unfortntly, it seemed most their shades were geared a little more towards the yellowy tones. But besides that, really nice fresh glowy finish.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Finally a foundation that matches my skin tone!!!! i've tried a lot of asian brands and they are too light or yellow for me, I've tried a lot of drugstore (western brands) and they are too pink or orange. The Sheer Glow is perfect. It's buildable as well so i usually apply a thin layer at the start to even out my skin tone, then go on a second layer on my acne or scars to make the coverage a little higher. It is quite long lasting, I can still find most of the product on my face after an 8 hour shift without any touch ups. the only problem is the packaging, why do i need to buy a pump separately?! and even if the counter lady says i can reuse the pump, how do i clean it before i use in another bottle so the old product won't contaminate the new?? silly silly design.
WIll i repurchase? not sure. It take a long time to go through one foundation bottle (or sometimes you never finish one bottle) and when i do finish it something better might be invented by then, who knows?
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I had this in Mont blanc, which is a very fair shade.
I have heard loads of warnings about it breaking people out, but on my dry skin that didn't happen at all. Instead, it seemed like an improvement to the foundation I was using before.
Although its called sheer glow, it is neither sheer nor particularly glowing. It gives a very heavy coverage, and manages to look rather skin like in a matte way. A little goes a long way, so a bottle lasts me a long time.
Its lasting power is great on my skin, it always seem to look as good when I get home after 8-9 hours in school. However, it requires a good cleanser to remove properly.
The only things I think it fails on is the lack of sun screen and the packaging. There is no reason why you should need to pay for a separate pump at this price. Apart from that, I can overlook it and use separate sun screen.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
They matched me to Punjab (medium 1), however, I found it too peachy and dark for my NC23 skin, which is light with a bit of yellow undertone. It is too late to return, so I have to keep it. Anyways, I decided to go out and pick up Ceylan (Light 6) which I find is the perfect match for myself. Note: The colour order is a bit odd as Light 5 is darker than Light 6. I am very glad that I purchased another one as it really gives my skin a very natural and beautiful glow, where I can get away without setting it with a powder in spring time as I am a dry to normal skin but sometimes combination. The coverage is medium, buildable and it feels light weight at least not heavy at all. and it lasts all day for me, it is just absolutely gorgeous. I just love this foundation.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
Not the right foundation for me, unfortunately...
On the plus side, I found the coverage to be really good and the lasting-power excellent. The shade 'Mont Blanc' was a great match for my cool MAC NW15 skin tone. I also found it easy and smooth to apply.
However, I am sure that something in this foundation breaks me out in lumpy spots :-( I stopped using it for a while and my skin definitely improved, then I tried it again and sure enough the spots appeared.
I found this could sometimes cling a little to drier patches on my face, nothing major but a bit visible nevertheless. I definitely had to load more moisturiser on when I used this foundation. Also, NARS states this is a 'glowing, natural radiant finish foundation', but I found it rather matte looking on me which wasn't really what I wanted.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I would like to start of by saying that I have purchased this product twice. The reason being is that the shade (Ceylan) is a very close match to my skin tone, which is really hard for me to find. I'm about Nc20 ( it's slightly orange on me) Ceylan is more yellowy/neutral tone which is why I like it. It also has my ideal coverage ( I'd considerate medium) It covers some light scarring. Although it says sheer glow, this is more of a demi matte finish on me. There is no SPF so it it isn't convenient for everyday use. (Need to put SPF on) But it will photograph well.
Unfortunately, this stuff looks absolutely horrible on my dry skin. Although this is an oil based foundation, this takes the moisture right out of my skin once it sets in. If you have pretty dry skin, I definitely wouldn't go for it. Also the lasting power on this stuff isn't very long. Maybe a few hours and that's it. I'm pretty sure this is the culprit to some spot breakouts. This is one of those expensive overly hyped products. I've found cheaper foundations that work much better then this one.
Will I repurchase?
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have combination skin: t-zone gets oily later in the day, dry to normal skin on my chin and cheeks.
Staying power: Nothing special, I have tried it with primer, powder and also urban decay all nighter setting spray and after 3-4 hours if I touch my face it comes off easily.
Color selection: pretty decent, I have warm undertones so there is a variety of cool to warm undertones available.
Coverage: very blendable medium but buildable. I use a beautyblender for lighter coverage and a brush for a heavier coverage
Packaging: Poor, no pump
Overall the foundation looks nice on the skin, there is a little bit of luminousity but after I put a setting powder on you could not tell there is any at all. Would not purchase again as I like a foundation that has a long staying powder since I put my makeup on at 7am and don't take it off unti 10pm.
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Another piece of what Jack likes to call Security Theatre last night in Ybor City:
We were drinking and playing pool with my cousin and her boyfriend at a friendly bikers' bar called the Dirty Shame around midnight, when suddenly we noticed that outside, one of the roaming herds of brown-shirted police had metamorphosed into a line that was retreating slowly up Seventh Avenue.
My first thought was that they had simply decided to try a new formation during their lonely ramblings—that out in the middle of the peaceful, humid Florida night they were making up cheerleader and marching-band moves to entertain themselves. But no, they were reacting to a real menace—the worst threat Tampa had seen since the March of the Nine Dehydrated Anarchists that afternoon.
One might have thought from their reaction on this, LBJ's birthday, that the officers were retreating before some snarling, Chicago-style mass of enraged Yippies and Weathermen. Instead, it turned out to be fifty or sixty protesters. Jack thought they might be Ron Paul supporters, several of whom we had seen running around the streets near the security perimeter, holding up signs for their candidate. I thought they tended more to the left, mostly because they were carrying a small, golden, papier-mâché elephant with a chain around its trunk. It wasn't possible to tell for sure—we could barely hear their halfhearted, uncoordinated chants.
Regardless, the marchers, like the anarchists, were quickly surrounded by a mass of brown-shirted security forces who clearly outnumbered them. Quickly and deftly, the police moved the demonstrators down a side street, away from the dozen or so scattered spectators watching quietly from the sidewalks. As they all marched off together, they struck me as something akin to a historical recreation, a Colonial Williamsburg–style pantomime of protest that referred vaguely back to a misplaced past.
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Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
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I couldn't participate because of work committments which I'm gutted about. I listened to the replay as soon as I could. What a performance from Jim O'Neil! His lack of knoweldge about financial arrangements he'd negotiated was astonishing and his general arrogance and lack of respect for shareholders was striking.
They basically re-read the press release and then defended accusations about the deal. What wasn't discussed or challenged was the viability or feasibility of the deal and how it's even possible for them to repay the loan. There was no real, good information about operations and I didn't catch the permit being mentioned.
I wasn't sure what the situation was. I was left with the distinct impression that O'Neil was brought in as Waterton's man on the inside. I'm holding because at these levels it's hardly worth selling... and I think we're gonna see developments; the level of righteous anger by shareholders was heartening. I suspect the deal could be overturned but what bothers me greatly is that even a positive outcome could be done over by the time it'll take to get it. Who pays the upkeep of the mine?
Either way, it seems to me that the viability comes down to their performance over the next 6-12 months and whether they survive or "fail" to meet payments. Other than providing cash, have Waterton got any operational obligations whatsoever? If not, and it certainly looks that way, the deal could never be justified as being in shareholder interests - what an enormous conflict of interest. What a predicament...
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Did not love the smell. Not offensive or smoky, probably just whatever thy use to clean
The staff were all very nice. I even got a note from housekeepingin response to a note I left for a request. The location was a little out of our way, for Carlsbad Cavern, but not so far that it was a problem. The rooms are clean.
The beds were a bit soft for our liking but thats a small detail. The breakfast was good except I've noticed that like many hotels they have gone to this paper thin bacon that just not appetizing. That and the pool closes which I find silly.
I stayed in the 2 bedroom suite. It was so spacious I was a little creeped out. I only stayed one night but if you have a family and your starting a day or two, then you have a nice, 1000 square foot apt.
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FILE - This April 5, 2013 file photo shows Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Matthews Band performing at the NCAA Final Four Big Dance Concert in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Ga. Court documents say Getty Andrew Rothenberg pleaded guilty Tuesday, July 23, embezzling at least $400,000 from Tinsley. The documents say the 39-year-old Richmond man embezzled the money while working as Tinsley's personal assistant and financial manager. (Photo by Dan Harr/Invision/AP, File)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who was a personal assistant and financial manager for Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley has admitted embezzling at least $400,000 from the musician.
Getty Andrew Rothenberg, who had been friends with Tinsley for about two decades, pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud in federal court in Charlottesville, court documents showed.
Rothenberg, 39, was initially paid $50,000 a year to pay Tinsley's personal bills and expenses and direct investments for him. He also handled various personal and financial arrangements for Tinsley's wife, court documents said. Rothenberg's salary was later increased to $60,000.
Rothenberg routinely padded the bills and took the excess money for personal use from 2009 through 2012. He also withdrew cash from several accounts controlled by Tinsley, wrote checks to himself and accessed lines of credit established in Tinsley's name.
In one transaction Feb. 21, 2012, Rothenberg obtained $45,596. He got $41,388 in another transaction on Oct. 11, 2011. Other amounts ranged from about $1,200 to more than $14,000, according to court documents.
Rothenberg faces up to 30 years in prison. Sentencing is set for Sept. 17.
Rothenberg's lawyer, Tom Bondurant, said during Tuesday's hearing Tinsley discovered the missing money and confronted Rothenberg in 2012, media outlets reported.
Bondurant said the two men had been friends for about 20 years.
"Andrew Rothenberg is a good man. He got caught up in some unfortunate circumstances," Bondurant said. "He knows what he did is wrong."
U.S. Attorney Timothy Heaphy commended Tinsley for coming forward.
"This was a case he initiated — that when he discovered the fraud, he came forward," Heaphy said.


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What sets off Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine from other celebrity cookbooks is its careful attention to recipes suitable for anyone living with diabetes. Working with coauthor Laura Randolph Lancaster, LaBelle has turned her own struggles with diabetes into a book full of help and inspirational advice for anyone burdened with the same affliction. To accomplish this, the book records dozens of recipes with reduced fats and sugars. Chicken is skinless and ground turkey stands in for ground beef as appropriate. Sugar substitutes make sweet desserts possible. Every recipe has a full nutritional analysis as well as a listing of diet exchanges for diabetics. Mark Knoblauch
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Analogue: A Hate Story: A Review I Maybe Shouldn't Have Done
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I like games that try to make an active appeal to the inner writer in me. Typically, that appeal isn't made through the gameplay, although there are some interesting and hilarious exceptions to that. Rather, as one would typically expect, it tends to happen in the writing, ideally the type that sets up a framework and justification for not only the story I'm exploring, but even the gameplay systems I'm playing around with. It's the reason why I'm probably one of the few people who will actually take a closer look at some games if, say, the right localization team is working on it. Naturally, it usually takes an inherent interest in any game for me to actually go out and play it, but when I find out that such a game has passed through a company like Atlus USA, 8-4, or Nintendo Treehouse, it gives me a sort of reassurance that I'll actually be playing a game whose writing was actually handled by someone who knows their stuff. (Doubly so if the source material itself isn't even all that well-written, which is often the case.) Of course, that's equally true for games that are natively produced in English. I would have still loved Bastion for its gameplay, but knowing that Greg Kasavin was the one greasing the wheels behind the narration was a very appreciated bonus, for instance. A lot of people would probably agree with me on that specific and admittedly increasingly typical example, but it's still a very powerful and legitimizing example of the place good writing can and should have in video games.
In the end, though, most writing in video games have to take an inherent backseat to the gameplay. This is to be expected and is the way it normally should be. I appreciate the part of video games that lets me be proactive in the experience, whether it's linear, nonlinear, or something else entirely. Likewise, though, it means that, a lot of the time, I have to make my interests in seeing good writing a secondary matter. As much as I might like strong writing in video games, very rarely are they able, nor should they be able, to throw gameplay by the wayside and still come out as a positive experience through the sheer power of words alone, a lesson that I was very vividly reminded of while playing the highly contentious Nier. I got some chastising for throwing that game in particular under the bridge like "all the other reviewers" and for not seeing the light that regular "plebian gamers" apparently noticed as plainly as daylight, even if the writing quality itself, which I certainly liked in places, was never the target of criticism in that particular review. I did criticize the fundamental premises of the game itself, but that's not exactly something a localized edition should ever be expected to alter and was therefore a different matter entirely in that review. It was a game that, from what I could tell, tried hedging its bets on its writing and let the rest of its part suffer too greatly as a result. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose, given the game's reception.
It feels a bit strange, then, to put my weight behind Christine Love's latest game, Analogue: A Hate Story, in the form of a review. Much like her previous games, most notably Digital: A Love Story and Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, the crux of Analogue's experience lies in its narrative, which is told entirely through text. While many people mistake some of her games, particularly Don't Take It Personally, as being visual novels when they, in actuality, share more of a direct lineage with text adventure games, especially the keyboard-input sort that have long since fallen out of vogue, it doesn't change the fact that Love created those games with text first and foremost in mind. There is gameplay, yes, but your main modus operandi for reaching the end of her games is by doing a whole lot of reading. It's good reading, often very good reading as I hope my Analogue review makes at least somewhat clear, but it's more reading than "playing," like one would expect with other video games outside of its genre. It's hard to divine a whole lot to talk about outside of the plot in a regular video game review-style critical piece on a game like that without having it delve into book review-esque territory. I know that's certainly what I experienced while writing the review for Analogue, even if it otherwise took less time overall than most other standard reviews do. I don't even know if it's particularly successful as a review, as I tried going so far out of my way to avoid doing either a video game review or a literary review that the quality of the end result eludes me, even if I liked the change of format.
Knowing that, a lot of other people would probably have understandably simply opted to discuss Analogue within the constraints of a blog, free of the worry of review scores and the like. I probably even just raised a lot of red flags by saying I even attempted to go beyond that sort of coverage for Analogue in opting for a review. After all, even if I have the critical thinking skills necessary to subjectively evaluate it, again, I can't exactly do it on the same sort of playing field I normally would for most any other game. I could have said, "Analogue is a game that takes places on a desolate Korean space freighter hundreds of years in the future, tasked with piecing together the story of how things got so quiet with the assistance of two AIs, *Hyun-ae and *Mute, that are less than amiable towards each other, doing so by reading abandoned logs a plenty, talking to the AIs, and even interacting with the ship's computer interface directly." (At least I finally got that requisite synopsis out of the way.) I could have also discussed the graphics like I usually do and say something like, "The art style works well for what the game is trying to achieve, even if there isn't a whole lot of variety to it." (I do think this.) I could have dissected the sound design and music and said, "Likewise, the aural experience of Analogue is sparse, but ambient."(Also my opinion.) But doing a review that way would have been brazenly missing the point and that's reason enough for a lot of people to take it to the blogging format and discuss it in a more free-form matter. That much I understand.
I still went through with the review, though, because it all goes back to my inherent appreciation for good writing in a video game. The video games I like best are the ones where I can instinctively tell from the get-go what its intent and mission is and executes on all of that well. In Analogue's case, that mission was to take a good, thought-provoking narrative, and walk the player through it word by word. You have to provide some input to make progress in specific places, but it's very tangential. As I wrote in my review, Analogue lives and dies by its text. In doing so, I feel that the game is so respectful (perhaps "indulgent" is a better word) to my personal expectations and beliefs about the power of writing that, in my mind, it was sufficient enough to discuss it in a more concretely critical format. If the game's mission was to get me to take its narrative seriously with just the power of reading, which it certainly did, then I felt it was okay to take it more seriously and break it down through a review of some sort. That's just what I do when I either enjoy or was otherwise sufficiently provoked by a game.
Not that the review itself is all that detail-oriented, or at least not in the ways that I typically write them. There is a score there, which I do feel that the text does enough in justifying both its existence and its value. It's probably less meaningful to a lot of people since the review and my handling of it is so different, but it still has meaning for me. It got me to think about just how much of impact Analogue's story really has made on me and just how well it compares to some of Love's other games. (If you want a brief synopsis I don't even provide in the review, I liked it a lot, but not quite as much as Digital. The score was hardly just the result of that relationship, though, especially considering I've never even reviewed any of Love's other works.) There's also a lot of written dissection conducted over the primary drivers behind Analogue's experience. I wrote that review a lot like I would a more conventional essay or, as some people are probably thinking, the blog I should have probably written instead of this. I feel like the review approach works, though, as it makes me more concretely commit to an opinion on it, much like the game was committed to take its writing seriously and, in turn, getting players to take that quality seriously. It's ultimately a matter of semantics, I suppose, since it's not as though a blog is inherently worth any more or less than a review. But I enjoy the hubris behind it and, admittedly, I have a knack for attracting more attention to myself through my reviews than my blogs, if ones such as this are any indicator. So there's that factor, too, and it's just as true of this blog.
Most of my actual thoughts on the game itself that I feel like conveying are covered in the review itself. I almost got overly personal in breaking down specific character-related issues that I thought I had, but held back on those after some additional contemplation that made me realize I might have been a bit quick to jump to conclusions. Like Digital and Don't Take It Personally, Analogue has a knack for getting you to think about its plot and characters after you've completed it. But this post is still here because the process of that review itself got me to think a lot about how I should be approaching reviews in general and I wanted to share that with this site. For a while now, I've been trying to experiment with how I handle my review formatting since they still, to me at least, feel overly formulaic and writing one on something a lot of people would probably (but disagreeable) argue is a bit of a non-game in some respects went far in outright forcing me to shake things up. Whether I succeeded, I'm not even sure. That review is filled with a whole lot of pretentiousness and writer-ese and is so deliberately ambiguous in places about the specifics of Analogue that I wouldn't be surprised if it's not really considered much of a success. It doesn't really matter either way, though; much like playing Analogue, there's something to be said for just going through the motions, regardless of how you come out in the end. In my case, I actually like how both things turned out, but you can sure both of them will still be on my mind for a while to come. The end has been reached for both the game and that review, but it's not the end.


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