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News & Updates
Browse news stories on local climate and energy action in California, or updates relevant to California local governments.
San Francisco Government Closes In On CO2 Reduction Goal
SF Gate
Forward-thinking San Franciscans might not like to admit it, but in at least one area, City Hall bureaucrats have them beat.
Back in 2004, officials vowed that within eight years, San Francisco would reduce greenhouse gas emissions so much they would measure 20 percent less than the 1990 level. The bad news? The city as a whole isn't going to hit the target. The good news? City government probably will.
Green Power Partnership Helps Cities Choose their Shade of Green
American City & Council
As local governments continue to pursue ways to reduce their carbon footprints, many turn to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership (GPP) for advice on choosing the most suitable renewable energy options for their operations. In some cases, direct green power purchases are inaccessible or insufficient, so cities and counties are choosing to support alternative energy through Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).
Nearly 1,300 organizations, including more than 100 cities and local governments, are part of GPP, says the program's director Blaine Collison. "The questions we get most often are not, 'What are the technologies?' but rather, 'How do we get them?' and 'From where?' We help them to understand the landscape of options available," he says.
U.S. Can Reduce Transporation GHG by 65%, Report Says
Environmental Leader
"Reasonable actions" in the realms of technology, policy and consumer behavior could deliver up to a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation by 2050, a report says.
The report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change lays out three plausible scenarios of actions that could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the transportation sector, which is responsible for more than a quarter of U.S. GHG emissions.
Los Angeles Bus Fleet Now Cleanest In The Nation
The city still known for its smog will not have its buses to blame - the last of its diesel-fueled ones retired Jan. 12 in a celebration. All but 7 of the 2,221 buses will be compressed-natural-gas powered; electric and gas-electric the remainder.
LA can rightfully boast having the cleanest bus fleet of any major transit agency in the nation. There are "a couple of dozen smaller transit agencies, including those in Oxnard and Santa Barbara, that have already replaced their entire fleets."
New Buildings in California Now Required to Be More Efficient
Green Biz
SACRAMENTO, CA — New buildings in California must now be more environmentally responsible under provisions of the state's Green Building Standards Code that took effect with the new year.
CALGreen is the first statewide green building code in the country and contains voluntary as well as mandatory provisions. The required measures set a threshold for green building in the state and the voluntary portions provide parameters for higher standards of green building. The rules are the latest version of California building code provisions that began as entirely voluntary measures. Adopted in 2008, the provisions took effect in 2009 with a timetable to convert the baseline standards to mandatory measures.
California First State to Adopt New National Efficiency Standard for Light Bulbs
The Sacramento Bee
Californians will see the light – and a resulting energy cost savings – earlier than the rest of the United States.
The California Energy Commission says Golden State consumers will be the first in the nation to save money under a federal law improving the energy-efficiency standard of light bulbs.
More U.S. Cities Dimming the Lights
USA Today
The push to turn down the lights in American cities is gaining broad support from several unlikely allies — from conservationists and builders to city planners and the military.
Dark-sky legislation — laws requiring such measures as shielding outdoor lighting to reduce light pollution — has been embraced by about 300 counties, cities and towns.
CA Leads Way on Global Warming
Washington failed miserably to take action on climate change this year. The nation's best hope is California, which made a historic leap forward last week when its Air Resources Board approved a broad-based cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases.
It was no simple task to get here. After the Legislature passed AB32, the state contended with enormous pressure to scale or roll it back.
CA Landmark Climate Regulations Embrace Forests as Key Tool for Reducing Carbon Emissions
Red Orbit
The Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) commends the California's Air Resources Board's Dec. 16 adoption of a set of regulations that will govern the state's landmark cap and trade system. The board's nine-to-one vote brings the state one step closer to implementing the first economy-wide cap on greenhouse emissions in the nation, by creating a cap and trade program. The program is a key component of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, otherwise known as AB 32, which requires California to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to 1990 levels by 2020.
California is creating the first compliance carbon market in the world to include projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through improved forest management as a source of carbon offsets under its climate plan. Such offsets – also called carbon credits – can provide a portion of the carbon reductions required by the adopted regulations.
The Other Effect of CA's Clean Air Laws
KQED News
Pollution reduction measures that were aimed primarily at reducing California's notorious smog problem and improving public health, also helped cut emissions of black carbon — a key global warming agent — according to a new study published Tuesday.
Black carbon, more commonly referred to as soot, is an atmospheric particulate that scientists have shown to be a significant contributor to global warming. It is an attractive target for emissions reductions because relatively cost effective technologies to reduce it already exist, such as diesel particulate filters for trucks, and because unlike carbon dioxide (CO2), which stays in the air for decades to millennia, black carbon only remains airborne for days to weeks.
San Jose, CA Bans Plastic Shopping Bags and Free Paper Ones
A growing number of cities and states around the world are taking on the blight of plastic shopping bags, but San Jose, California has just taken things to another level--passing a new ordinance that bans giving out free single-use carryout bags altogether.
The new ordinance, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, bans most-retailers using single-use plastic bags and mandates charging for paper bags. Provided paper bags have at least 40% recycled content, customers will have to be charged ¢10 initially and ¢25 starting in 2013. Food stamp and other welfare recipients will get paper bags for free. The fine for violating the ban ranges from $500-1000.
San Francisco Eyes Goal of 100% Green Power by 2020
The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO -- Outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) last week launched an initiative that he says will result in 100 percent renewables to meet this city's power demand within a decade.
Newsom, who becomes lieutenant governor of California next month, announced the program during a speech commemorating the completion of the Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, which at 5 megawatts is the largest municipal solar facility in the state.
Nearly $66 Million in Federal Funding Available for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
December 2010 - Nearly $66 Million in Federal Funding Available for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
This message announces the availability of nearly $66 million in current or upcoming funding opportunities for state, local, and tribal governments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that can be used to support climate and energy initiatives, including energy efficiency, regional planning, and community education. For full eligibility and application details, please visit the links provided below.
*** USDA Rural Community Development Initiative - $6.3 million
Application Due: December 22, 2010
Eligible Entities: State governments, local governments, Indian tribes, non-profit organizations, and others
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requests proposals for the Rural Community Development Initiative. This initiative supports organization capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural area. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, programs that support micro-enterprise and sustainable development, and programs to assist recipients in completing pre-development requirements for housing, community facilities, or community and economic development projects by providing resources for professional services, e.g., architectural, engineering, or legal. For more information, including state contacts, go to: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=58143.
*** USDA Solid Waste Management Grant Program - $3.5 million
Application Due: December 31, 2010
Eligible Entities: Public bodies, federally acknowledged or state-recognized Native American tribe or group, academic institutions, and private non-profit organizations
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requests proposals for the Solid Waste Management Grant Program. This program supports projects that assist communities through free technical assistance and/or training geared toward reducing or eliminating pollution of water resources in rural areas, and improving planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas. For more info, contact LaVonda Pernell at email@example.com or go to: http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/SWMG.htm.
*** EPA Integrated Assessment of Greenhouse Gases and Climate Impacts- $2 million
Application Due: January 7, 2011
Eligible Entities: States, local governments, territories, Indian tribes, international organizations, public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or private non-profit institutions. For-profit organizations are not eligible.
EPA has announced the availability of funds and is soliciting proposals to advance comprehensive, integrated modeling and assessment of multiple greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Proposals should also provide ways to enhance understanding of climate change impacts and their economic implications in order to assist decision makers and the public in effectively responding to the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change. For more information, view the funding announcement at: http://www.epa.gov/air/grants_funding.html.
*** NOAA K-12 Environmental Literacy Grants - $8 million
Application Due: January 12, 2011
Eligible Entities: Institutions of higher education; other non-profits; K-12 public and independent schools and school systems; and state, local, and Indian tribal governments in the United States
The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, requests proposals for Environmental Literacy Grants for Formal K-12 Education. This RFP will support K-12 education projects that advance inquiry-based Earth System Science learning and stewardship directly tied to the school curriculum, with a particular interest in increasing climate literacy. $8 million is expected to be available; up to 10 awards are anticipated. For more information, contact Carrie McDougall at email@example.com or go to: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=56016. Refer to Sol# NOAA-SEC-OED-2011-2002608.
*** EPA National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program FY 2011 Request for Proposals- $32 million
Application Due: January 13, 2011
Eligible Entities: Regional, state, local or tribal agencies or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality, and certain non-profit organizations and institutions
EPA's National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program is soliciting proposals nationwide for projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced and diesel emissions exposure, particularly from fleets operating in areas designated by the Administrator as poor air quality areas. Eligible diesel emission reduction solutions include verified emission control technologies such as retrofit devices, cleaner fuels, and engine upgrades; verified idle reduction technologies; verified aerodynamic technologies and low rolling resistance tires; certified engine repowers; and/or vehicle or equipment replacement. For more information, view the funding announcement posted at: http://www.epa.gov/air/grants_funding.html.
*** EPA Upcoming Request for Applications for Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants Program - $4 million
Application Due: January 14, 2011
Eligible Entities: Local governments, Indian tribes, non-profit organizations, and others
EPA solicited comments through September 13th, 2010, on the new FY2011 Grant Application Guidelines for this funding opportunity. The RFA announces availability of grants for helping eligible entities deliver environmental workforce development and job training programs focused on hazardous and solid waste management, assessment, and cleanup activities. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 13 environmental workforce development and job training cooperative agreements from this competitive opportunity. For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/applicat.htm or access the draft grant application guidelines at: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/proposal_guides/fy11guidelinesdraft.pdf.
*** EPA Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Funding Assistance Program - $4 million
Application Due: January 27, 2011
Eligible Entities: Regional, state, local, or tribal agencies or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality, and certain non-profit organizations and institutions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requests proposals for the Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Funding Assistance Program. This RFP will support projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced and diesel emissions exposure, particularly from fleets operating in areas designated by the Administrator as poor air quality areas. Eligible diesel emission reduction solutions are listed on the Emerging Technologies List at: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/diesel/prgemerglist.htm. For more info, contact Michael Wolfe at firstname.lastname@example.com or go to: http://www.epa.gov/air/grants_funding.html.
*** EPA SmartWay Program - $6 million
Application Due: February 10, 2011
Eligible Entities: Regional, state, local, or tribal agencies or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality, and certain non-profit organizations and institutions
EPA's SmartWay Program and National Clean Diesel Campaign are announcing the availability of funding assistance to create finance programs, such as low-cost leases or revolving loan programs, to achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions throughout the United States. The SmartWay Finance Program is soliciting proposals for projects that reduce diesel emissions through the creation of national, tribal, regional, state or local finance program(s). Finance programs include, but are not limited to, those that provide the loan recipient a specific financial incentive (i.e., longer terms or lower rates) to purchase or lease eligible retrofitted vehicles or equipment. The proposed finance program should maximize the total project funds available for financing eligible diesel emission reduction solutions and be sustainable to maintain the program.
Eligible diesel emission reduction solutions include verified emission control technologies such as retrofit devices and engine upgrades; verified idle reduction technologies; certified engine repowers, and/or vehicle or equipment replacement.
State and local officials interested in additional information about developing and implementing cost-effective climate and energy strategies that help further environmental goals and achieve public health and economic benefits may visit: http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate
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California Climate Law Details to Get Grand Unveiling
Solve Climate News
As politicians around the nation become increasingly hesitant about taking action against global warming, California is pushing ahead this week with two much-awaited steps that will have broad implications for climate policies at home and elsewhere.
The decisions by state regulators in separate meetings Thursday amount to the grand unveiling of California's climate strategy after years of debate and exhaustive policy-crunching.
From California, a Game Plan on Climate Change
New York Times
As the push for national and international policies to arrest climate change was running into one obstacle after another, a separate discussion was coming to the fore: how to adapt to it.
New York State and California are creating blueprints for how governments should plan, and pay for, a wholesale retreat from the shoreline in anticipation of a possible rise in sea level of three or four feet or more by 2100.
Program to Help Central Valley Cities Address Climate Change
UC Merced
Release Date: 11/05/2010
Media Contact: James Leonard
Great Valley Center's Green Communities Program to develop greenhouse gas emissions inventories for Valley city governments
A new program organized by the Great Valley Center — a partner of the University of California, Merced — will offer free assistance to local governments in the San Joaquin Valley to help them develop an inventory of their greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately offer recommendations on how each city can reduce the amount of energy used in its own operations.
The Green Communities Program, funded by PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission and implemented with the help of ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability, will pay interns from UC Merced, University of the Pacific and California State University, Stanislaus, to work with staff members in participating cities.
Thus far, cities that have signed on to participate in the Green Communities Program are Modesto, Turlock, Ceres, Patterson, Oakdale, Riverbank, Hughson, Waterford, Newman and Livingston. Stanislaus County and the cities of Los Banos and Sanger are also looking into the program.
The Great Valley Center interns will use meter information to assess energy use while also interviewing city staff members about solid waste management, sewage treatment, landfill emissions and even commuting practices. They will then offer customized recommendations based on the findings.
"The Green Communities Program works to equip local governments with information to make better decisions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions as they reduce energy consumption," said Dejeune Shelton, interim executive director of the Great Valley Center. "The cities that are a part of this program will be able to use the data to implement their greenhouse gas reduction goals effectively, which will have a positive effect on their community's quality of life."
Many large cities in the Valley, including Sacramento, Stockton and Fresno, have already started planning for climate change. But smaller cities often lack the financial resources or staff time to commit to these programs or hire consultants.
In addition to helping those cities plan for climate change, the program also gives cities an opportunity to become leaders in sustainability, setting an example for their residents and neighboring towns.
"This will be an extremely valuable program for these smaller cities in our Valley," said Tim Fisher, the Great Valley Center's energy program manager. "In addition to revising development patterns, city governments can lead by example and take steps to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions from vehicle fleets, landfills, wastewater treatment plants and administrative buildings."
The program also furthers UC Merced's overall sustainability goals, which include raising awareness, understanding and knowledge of sustainability within and beyond the UC Merced community by enabling elected officials to incorporate sustainability in their decisions and policies.
With the final list of participating cities nearing completion, Fisher said the interns are likely to begin working with city staff members next week.
Quick Facts
- The Great Valley Center's Green Communities Program will use paid interns to inventory greenhouse gas emissions for local governments in the San Joaquin Valley.
- Cities that have signed on for the program so far include Modesto, Turlock, Ceres, Patterson, Oakdale Riverbank, Hughson, Waterford, Newman and Livingston.
- In addition to helping cities plan for climate change, the program also gives them an opportunity to become leaders in sustainability, setting an example for their residents and neighboring towns.
Schwarzenegger Launches New Climate Change Group
Los Angelos Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday launched an international organization to tackle climate change with leaders from regional governments in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia and the United States.
The failure to achieve an international climate pact in Copenhagen last year left many people discouraged, Schwarzenegger said, addressing several hundred delegates to a "climate summit" at UC Davis. But now, he added, "The sub-nationals should do their work.... The green revolution is moving forward full speed ahead without the international agreement."
Richmond, California's Green Victory
The Huffington Post
While the recent elections were seen as a setback for environmental advocates nationally, for the small city of Richmond in San Francisco's East Bay it marked a tidal shift in a seven-year battle to protect Point Molate, the last large undeveloped headland on the bay from a mega-casino. Here at least the election demonstrated that poor communities can assert their right to control their own shorelines and perhaps their own destinies despite outside pressure.
On the winning side were local activists of Citizens For a Sustainable Point Molate and the Richmond Progressive Alliance that includes the Green Party Mayor of this low-income predominantly African-American and Hispanic city of just over 100,000.
Schwarzenegger Pushes for Regional Climate Change Pact
USA Today
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — In the year since an attempt for a global climate-change treaty failed, California has been trying a different strategy to reduce greenhouse gases worldwide.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing state and regional governments around the globe to act, saying the effort must be led locally in the absence of national and international momentum.
Starting Monday, the outgoing Republican governor hosts his third and final California climate summit, at the University of California, Davis, just outside the state capital. Schwarzenegger is hoping states and provinces from more than 20 countries will launch a program that is intended to secure financing for carbon-cutting projects in both industrialized and developing nations.
Vice President Biden Launches Home Energy Scoring Program
U.S. Department of Energy
November 9, 2010
Also releases new workforce guidelines for home energy upgrades
WASHINGTON - Vice President Biden joined U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today to announce the launch of the Home Energy Score pilot program. The Home Energy Score will offer homeowners straightforward, reliable information about their homes' energy efficiency. A report provides consumers with a home energy score between 1 and 10, and shows them how their home compares to others in their region. The report also includes customized, cost-effective recommendations that will help to reduce their energy costs and improve the comfort of their homes.
DOE today also released the Workforce Guidelines for Home Energy Upgrades, a comprehensive set of guidelines for workers in the residential energy efficiency industry. The guidelines will help develop and expand the skills of the workforce, ensuring the quality of the work performed, while laying the foundation for a more robust worker certification and training program nationwide. Vice President Biden made the announcements today at a Middle Class Task Force event, highlighting the progress that has been made on implementing the recommendations of last year's Recovery through Retrofit report.
"The initiatives announced today are putting the Recovery Through Retrofit report's recommendations into action - giving American families the tools they need to invest in home energy upgrades." said Vice President Biden. "Together, these programs will grow the home retrofit industry and help middle class families save money and energy."
"The Home Energy Score will help make energy efficiency easy and accessible to America's families by providing them with straightforward and reliable information about their homes' energy performance and specific, cost-effective energy efficiency improvements that will save them money on their monthly energy bills," said Secretary Chu.
Under this voluntary program, trained and certified contractors will use a standardized assessment tool developed by DOE and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to quickly evaluate a home and generate useful, actionable information for homeowners or prospective homebuyers. With only about 40 inputs required, the Home Energy Scoring Tool lets a contractor evaluate a home's energy assets, like its heating and cooling systems, insulation levels and more, in generally less than an hour. That means a homeowner can see how their home's systems score, regardless of whether a particular homeowner takes long or short showers or keeps their thermostat set high or low.
A score of "10" represents a home with excellent energy performance, while a "1" represents a home that will benefit from major energy upgrades. Along with the score, the homeowner will receive a list of recommendations for home energy upgrades and other useful tips. For each specific improvement, the estimated utility bill savings, payback period, and greenhouse gas emission reductions are included. To see a sample copy of the Home Energy Score and get more information on how it is calculated, visit HomeEnergyScore.gov. View an example PDF (702 kb) of a score and recommendations.
The Home Energy Score initially will be tested with local government, utility, and non-profit partners in ten pilot communities across the country, located in both urban and rural areas that cover a wide range of climates. During this test phase, the Department and its partners will gauge how homeowners respond to the program, and whether the information encourages them to get energy improvements done on their homes. After the pilot tests conclude in late spring 2011, DOE expects to launch the Home Energy Score nationally later next year, based on the findings from the initial programs.
The following states and municipalities are participating in the pilot program: Charlottesville, Virginia; Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Minnesota; Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska; Indiana; Portland, Oregon; South Carolina; Texas; and Eagle County, Colorado. Learn more about each of the testing locations along with details on how to participate in the Home Energy Score program.
In addition to launching the Home Energy Score, the Department of Energy announced the release of the new Workforce Guidelines for Home Energy Upgrades. Energy improvement programs can adopt these guidelines to increase the consistency and effectiveness of energy upgrades, and training providers can use them to improve course curricula and training materials. These guidelines were developed through a collaboration between energy efficiency contractors, building scientists, health and safety experts, technicians and trainers in the weatherization program, and other professionals in the building and home energy upgrade industry.
The Workforce Guidelines include standard work specifications required for high-quality work, a reference guide for technical standards and codes, analyses of the job tasks involved in completing various energy efficiency improvements, and the minimum qualifications workers should possess to perform high quality work. Identifying the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform efficiency upgrades represents an important step in developing a nationwide framework for training program accreditation and worker certification. The guidelines will be available for public comment through January 7, 2011.


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Tag:MotleyKrill vs All Ugglas
Posted on: September 18, 2008 5:25 pm
First CBS fantasy baseball playoff
Down to the final week. It is Thursday. My opponent, the All Ugglas (Grundoon) has a 22 point lead. I have better starters left but less starts by one. His hitting is in synch, mine is slumping. I may lose this thing. Cinderella comeback for him if he wins.
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Memphis, TN (SportsNetwork.com) - Reggie Jackson bailed out the Thunder.
On a night Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook struggled shooting the ball, Jackson supplied a playoff career-best 32 points, including eight in overtime, to boost Oklahoma City to a 92-89 win over Memphis to even their Western Conference quarterfinal series after four games.
Jackson was averaging five points over the first three contests of the series, but stepped up big in the third straight OT contest in this set. He went 11- of-16 from the floor and pulled down nine rebounds.
"Offensively he attacked the defense and opened it up for everybody," Durant said of Jackson.
Durant had 15 points and 13 boards and Westbrook totaled 15 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, but the duo combined to shoot 11-of-45. Serge Ibaka provided 12 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for the second-seeded Thunder, who shot 36.7 percent.
"Shots weren't falling, but that wasn't the whole game," Durant said. "(I was) trusting in my teammates and they knocked down some big shots tonight. We just have to keep trusting in the process. We found a way to win."
Marc Gasol had 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Grizzlies, who had a chance to tie the game at the end but Mike Conley missed a 3-point shot. The seventh-seeded Grizzlies had a 15-game home winning streak broken.
Conley had 14 points and 10 assists, and Tony Allen ended with 14 points and 13 rebounds in defeat.
Game 5 of the best-of-seven set is Tuesday at Oklahoma City.
"I don't anticipate they will turn it over 21 times again nor will Durant and Westbrook go 11-for-45 again," Memphis coach Dave Joerger said.
OKC led by six points with just over five minutes left in regulation, but the Grizzlies scored nine in a row to grab a 76-73 lead following two Conley free throws with 3 1/2 minutes to go.
Memphis widened the gap to 80-75 following a Gasol jumper beyond the foul line with 1:20 left, but the Thunder scrapped to get the game to OT. Jackson drained a 3-ball with 59.2 seconds left, and Durant came up with a steal, which led to Jackson's floater in the lane to tie the game with 30.6 on the clock.
It was a wild finish to regulation. Gasol missed a foul-line jumper, and Allen got the offensive rebound, but Ibaka came up with the block under the hoop. Jackson then got the loose ball and had plenty of time to dribble down the court, but shot early well beyond half-court and the ball went out of bounds as time expired.
OKC used hustle plays to even this series with Jackson at the center of the effort. He dove for a loose ball on the floor with 1:08 left in OT. Durant then was fouled on a drive to the bucket and made two for an 88-87 edge for the Thunder with 62 seconds left.
Conley missed high off the glass, but he came back with a big steal. Westbrook missed a jumper, got his own rebound and tried to dribble the ball back out, but Conley stole the ball and called timeout with 30.9 on the clock.
Conley's jumper was then too strong and Jackson made two from the charity stripe with 12.2 seconds left. Conley then drove in for an uncontested layup with 3.8 seconds to go, but Jackson made two more foul shots less than a second later.
Zach Randolph was limited to 11 points for the Grizzlies, who made 37.2 percent from the floor.
"We have to do a better job of getting the ball to Zach closer to the basket," Gasol said.
Memphis led 18-15 after one quarter, but trailed 42-35 at the break. Durant had just three points in the first half, but Jackson had 11.
OKC widened the gap to 52-39 early in the second following an Ibaka layup and it became a 14-point difference on a Durant bucket in the final seconds of the period. Mike Miller then made two foul shots to close the stanza with the Thunder ahead, 64-52.
Allen's layup provided the hosts with a 74-73 edge with 3:54 left in the fourth. It was Memphis' first lead since early in the second quarter.
Prior to the game, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced former Memphis
Grizzlies majority owner Michael Heisley died Saturday. Heisley, 77, was
hospitalized last year after suffering a stroke shortly after returning from
the NBA All-Star Game ... Memphis went 13-of-23 at the foul line ... Durant
and Westbrook combined to shoot 2-of-13 from 3-point range.
Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September has altered the date of the Penn-Villanova football game.
Kyle Busch won Sunday's road course race in Sonoma, California, but he still has a long way to go to become eligible for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
NFL players have a very short shelf life to make significant amounts of money so it's tough to fault anyone who has outperformed a contract when they go knocking on the door to ask for more.
Pete Mackanin will remain interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies for the remainder of the season, the team announced Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have reportedly retained restricted free agent forward Kyle Singler with a five-year contract extension.
The Detroit Red Wings signed veteran forward Brad Richards a one-year contract on Wednesday.


text: Making his senior debut and 15 appearances in 2014, Della Valle was named MVP in Italy's gold medal run at the 2013 U20 European Championship in Estonia and also featured at U16 and U18 levels. He is a product of the junior system at Casale Monferrato but spent two years at Ohio State University before turning professional at Reggio Emilia in 2014, helping them to win the EuroChallenge in his first season. His father Carlo made 37 appearances for Italy (1985-86).


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Soul Searchers Akshara Prakalpa program of 2 years to be inaugurated in Bengaluru, Karnataka by His Holiness Maitreya Ru
His Holiness Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji, Founder - Soul Searchers, will inaugurate the 2-year Akshara Prakalpa program on Friday August 01, 2014 at Vikasa High School, Bengaluru, Karnataka at 3 PM. This program focusses on wholesome development of the students along with their regular academics to become better Citizens of Tomorrow.
PressReleasePointHis Holiness Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji, Founder – Soul Searchers, will inaugurate the 2-year Akshara Prakalpa program on Friday August 01, 2014 at Vikasa High School, Bengaluru, Karnataka at 3 PM.
The program will benefit about 60 students studying in Standard 8 and it will nurture them till they finish their higher secondary school in the next two years.
For nearly five years now, Soul Searchers Akshara Prakalpa has worked closely with the students and teachers of Vikasa High School in Bangalore. Happy with the results of the work, the school's principal Ms. Revathi agreed to formalize the Akshara Prakalpa training program for her students. (Hear Ms. Revathi, Principal – Vikasa High School talk about it at - http://youtu.be/eLRX3rb4sA4
Akshara Prakalpa 2-year program for schools
Soul Searchers Akshara Prakalpa program is designed by His Holiness Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji. The 2-year program focuses on wholesome development of the students along with the regular academic training that they get. It lays the foundation in students' lives to truly become Citizens of Tomorrow by training them to -
- focus better,
- overcome their fears and anxieties,
- learn spoken English,
- gain vocational experience and confidence
- community awareness,
- think laterally and creatively with meditation and yoga.
Book Launch and Spiritual Workshop
Soul Searchers Founder H.H Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji will be in town from August 01 – 03, 2014 to launch new edition of His popular book, Soul Searchers – The Hidden Mysteries of Kundalini and a talk on August 01, 2014 at Montfort Spiritual Center, Old Madras Road, Bengaluru at 6 pm. The celebrated author and spiritual Master will conduct 'Kundalini Kriya Yoga Workshop' at Devanahalli's Ancient School of Wisdom at 6.30 pm on Sunday August 03, 2014. Prior booking for the spiritual workshop is required.
About Soul Searchers
Founded in 1996 by His Holiness Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji, Soul Searchers is a registered non-profit socio-charitable and spiritual organization working towards community development.
About Soul Searchers
Founded in 1996 by His Holiness Shri Maitreya Rudrabhayananda ji, Soul Searchers is a registered non-profit socio-charitable and spiritual organization working towards community development.
To know more details, you can call Sreekumar at 9880008265. You can visit www.soulsearchers.co.in for more information.
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We'll be taking the tandem for a long-weekend trip to Shiloh National Military Park. We may end up car-camping just off the Natchez Trace in MS. Can anyone recommend day rides in these areas? Is the Trace the best riding in the area? We've driven the entire trace before and it obviously seems like a great route for a 400 mile multi-day tour. But a 40 mile out-and-back day ride might be a little boring.
This doesn't really seem to belong in the touring forum - but the road-bike forum seems racing oriented, and the 'family and recreational' forum seems a little more for "around the block" cyclists.
Am I missing a forum for day-touring, sport-riding, etc?
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GM Suspends Shreveport Truck Output on Japan; Shares Fall
General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend production at its Shreveport Assembly in Louisiana for the week of March 21 because of a parts shortage resulting from the crisis in Japan.
All other GM plants in North America will continue to run normal operations, the Detroit-based automaker said today in a statement on its website. GM has enough vehicles to meet customer demand, and production at Shreveport will resume "as soon as possible," the company said.
GM is suspending production earlier than expected, said Tracy Handler, a production analyst at researcher IHS Automotive. Chrysler Group LLC said yesterday it could take four to six weeks for Japan's disaster to affect its supply chain.
"We didn't expect for this ripple to hit quite this fast for North American plants," said Handler, who is based in Northville, Michigan.
GM fell 34 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $31.44 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading after earlier climbing as much as 1.9 percent. The shares have dropped 4.7 percent from their initial public offering in November.
The Shreveport facility has 923 employees and makes the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups, according to GM's website. Canyon sales in the U.S. last year fell 21 percent to 7,992 vehicles, and Colorado deliveries dropped 24 percent to 24,642. GM sold 2.22 million vehicles in the U.S. last year.
Redirecting Supply
GM may be suspending Shreveport production earlier than it needs to in order to redirect parts supply to better-selling vehicles, IHS's Handler said in a telephone interview.
Deliveries of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup rose to 370,135 last year, more than 11 times the combined total of Canyon and Colorado sales, according to Autodata Corp. in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
Kim Carpenter, a GM spokeswoman, declined to specify which parts are in short supply. In response to questions about GM's production strategy, she referred to the statement, which said the automaker will "supply the most critical operations" in responding to the events in Japan.
Chrysler, which hasn't had its production disrupted by last week's earthquake in Japan, is getting a daily report from the region and there is a risk that production could be lost because of parts not coming from Japan, Dan Knott, senior vice president for purchasing, said yesterday in an interview at the automaker's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan.


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Rural Intelligence Gets Smarter: Introducing The RI Mobile App
Not to toot our own horn, but we hear it time and time again: "I really rely on Rural Intelligence." Lest you think we simply rest on our laurels (and thank you for the most satisfying feedback, by the way), we take that comment seriously. It's made us extra cognizant of the fact that we have a responsibility to bring the most interesting, most rurally intelligent people, places and events of the region to our readers.
But our mission isn't just to offer the information; it's also to provide it in the way that makes the most sense for you. And for some, that's an app. That's why we're so excited to announce the launch of the Rural Intelligence Guide to the Berkshires And Beyond app, available — free — for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
It's the brainchild of RI's publisher Mark Williams, who realized that it's been years since any print travel guide in our region has been published, and that the ones that are out there are somewhat out of date. An app travel guide seemed to be needed …and who better to provide one than Rural Intelligence?
So, whether you're a new visitor, a weekender, a second homeowner or lucky enough to be a full-time resident of the RI region, this app is for you. We created it to help you explore the area, to find a special bed and breakfast, a top-rated restaurant, the cultural venues that make our towns famous, where to shop, get fit or take the family on a fun experience. Best of all, because it's an app, this guide is as mobile as you are.
We especially like that everything is mapped out (Google maps, we love you), and that there's a direct link to our popular events calendars, which we curate and update daily on our website. You can find out more about the app's features in our new "RI App" section. Or skip the details and go straight to the download here.
There's a lot of information in the app, and we plan to keep adding to it. If you have a local business that would be appropriate to list in a travel guide, please let us know. (Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll encourage you to upgrade your listing so you get the benefit of all the bells and whistles.)
One final thought: While we seem to have the web magazine formula pretty well figured out, the RI Guide to the Berkshires and Beyond app is, admittedly, a work in progress. Listings will get more robust as businesses and organizations enhance their entries. We know there will be glitches to work out. But we fully intend to stick with it until we get the app to run as seamlessly as possible— and we hope you'll stick with it, too, as we navigate this next foray into the media universe.
—Lisa Green, editor
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Posted by Lisa Green on 06/23/15 at 02:42 PM • Permalink
A Pittsfield Milestone: Hotel On North Opens
Lisa Green reports from Pittsfield. How long did it take to get to this point? The answer to that might be up for debate, but this much is known: A blend of Berkshire roots and cosmopolitan style, the fabulous boutique Hotel on North officially opened on Thursday, June 4 with a welcome party in which guests were encouraged to roam the former Besse-Clark department store building, explore the spacious and gracious rooms (no cookie cutter guest rooms here) and bask in the skylight atrium on each floor. Remarks by the principal players in the design and construction of the hotel turned emotional as they gave thanks to the employees and community for helping to make the enterprise come to fruition. "This was an interesting and joyful project," said Nancy Fitzpatrick, owner of the Red Lion Inn and Main Street Hospitality Group, which manages the hotel. "We plan to deliver one of the best hotel experiences in New England — dead center in Pittsfield." Above, Bruce Finn, COO of Main Street Hospitality Group, and Lindsey Struck, general manager of Hotel on North.
There's plenty of room for a bar scene; The principal players: Lindsey Struck, Bruce Finn, Sarah Eustis, CEO, Chef Brian Alberg, Nancy Fitzpatrick, Laurie Tierney and David Tierney, who built the hotel.
Rachel Parzick, manager of Mission Bar & Tapas, Chris Vecchia of Blue Q and Jess Conzo, director of Alchemy Initiative; the third-floor atriium.
Meaghan Tierney, Carla Child, who served as project manager, and Hope Boyer, her assistant.
OLLI's Megan Whilden, Shire City Sanctuary's Crispina ffrench and Deanna Boucher, and Peter Lafayette; Gallerist Cassandra Sohn, Maurice "Pops" Peterson and Rural Intelligence publisher Mark Williams.
The Library isn't finished yet, but it's the room everyone is going to want to book; hotel owners David Tierney and Laurie Tierney during the remarks.
Ralph Fontaine and Melissa McCarthy; Nancy Fitzpatrick.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 06/08/15 at 12:17 PM • Permalink
You Thought You'd Have Your Mom Forever. And You Do.
by Martha Holmes
Martha Holmes, who lives in Gallatin, NY, worked on Madison Avenue for 30 years. Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to their weekend home full time. This essay, which she read on NPR's 51% in 2005, elicited more requests than any other. Holmes has graciously allowed us to share it with our readers.
Mothers are supposed to live forever, but they don't. Like bedtime stories and softball games, mothers have endings, and when yours comes to that end, no matter how or why or when, your heart falls splat to the floor and you look down at it through flooded eyes and yell FOR CRYING OUT LOUD and then you notice that the voice wailing in your ear is your own and you wonder how you'll ever get your heart back into that chasm in your chest where it was supposed to remain for the whole of your lifetime, beating non-stop from your first wahhhhh to your last oh my. Your mommy's gone, just like she said she'd be one day and you cry your babybawl until the awe wears off and then you bury her as best you can, accepting that life has an end and even she told you so. For a moment you're at rest. But then up she comes with a Mother's Day, or a photograph, or a sewing needle you remember in her hand, or a lipstick just her color, or on the lyrics of a song heard from a room away –-let me call you sweetheart by the light of the silvery moon when you were sweet sixteen—and you're awash in the whole of her as you never were when you could have called her up. So you look upward, not to see her in God's lap but to keep the tears from hopping off your lower lid and onto your shirt, where everybody would see them.
As she told you SO many times, she'll be right back. And she is; among the fireflies just after dusk when mothers' voices arch over the trees and right past the screech of swings and the barking of dogs, calling your name. To come home. For dinner. Something she made that you liked or didn't, ate or didn't, thanked her for or probably didn't. And now it's so many years later and, still, she'll be right back. When you think of her hand, how dry it had become where the blue vein moved through the brown-spotted crepe of skin, where the knuckles had swelled with time, and still you thought you'd have her forever.
And you realize you will never see your mother again, except anyplace you put her—in her chair by the TV, or next to you in the car, or walking ahead of you in the wind, her hand reaching back for yours. And there she sits at the family dinner table again, in her seat nearest the kitchen, leaning forward to pass you a bowl of something she thinks you'll like. You can almost hear the clank of dishes, the ping of forks, the laughter, the arguments, the songs. Or there, waving through your window as you drive away, as she did when you last saw her, looking at you, her child, keeper of her future.
And when you hear yourself in the night, waking with a squawk from a dark dream, you blink into the black and remember that's it's okay, there there, just a dream. And you almost wish those arms could reach down from the ceiling and give you a hug like you used to get in exchange for these nightmares, a snug hug with a scratch on the back, a rumple of your pajama top, a kiss on the forehead and goodnight. Instead, you punchfluff your pillow and turn on your side and pull up the blanket around your shoulders, tucking yourself in again.
One day you open a box and something she owned is inside, something you didn't care enough about to use but didn't throw out, and up she comes, her fragrance arriving like a fine howdy-doo, and you ask her to please come closer, maybe touch your hair again, or else to please go away so you don't have to long so hopelessly for more of her.
And then you hear, in your brother's laughter, hers. Or you see, there on your sister's face, her smile.
Hold her down if you can but don't be surprised if she's everywhere. You are, after all, her hereafter. And where you once came from deep inside her body, she now comes from you.
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Gutsy Gals Wanted: Women in Film Honored
By Nichole Dupont
Like the skies over the region, the recent Oscars was a dismal affair punctuated by political outbursts of truth (thank you, Patricia Arquette and John Legend) and abysmal-even-for-Hollywood underrepresentation of women across the board. Writer/director/actor and pretty much everything elser Cathryn Michon [in photo, right] knows the hard numbers by heart. And they ain't pretty.
"Four to six percent of films are directed by women. Something like fifteen percent of characters with major speaking roles are women," Michon says, referencing several articles from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight.com statistics blog. "Things were better for us in 1939, think about that. There were 10 films nominated and five of them followed a woman's story line. Now it's a fear-driven business where they care more about the 'common wisdom.' It's a herd mentality, they're not looking at how the world is shifting."
Part of that seismic shift will be felt this weekend in the Berkshires, when Michon and other women in the film industry will be honored in the first ever Gutsy Gals Inspire Me film awards. The awards ceremony and a screening of Michon's film 'Muffin Top: A Love Story'—a gut busting RomCom which she wrote, directed and starred in—will take place at Simon's Rock campus on Saturday, March 21 as part of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, now in its fifth year. The awards ceremony will be hosted by director Karen Allen and by Gutsy Gals founder Deborah Hutchison, who is no stranger to the old (white) boys' glass ceiling of Tinseltown. A longtime casting director and director (and member of the Directors Guild), Hutchison says that she was inspired to move in a different direction from Hollywood when she acquired a watercolor manuscript of the story of Berta Benz.
"I was looking through these pages, reading this story about the first long distance automobile drive in history," she says. "Berta defied her husband, she defied authority, she was compelled. That's when I had the meltdown. Just think, there were women way before Berta who had done the same thing. If I had known about women like that when I was a girl…can you even imagine? That's the moment Gutsy Girls came into being."
Cathryn Michon, Deborah Hutchison, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who co-stars in "Muffin Top."
Hutchison went on to transform the pages of the Berta Benz book into a short animated film while building momentum for Gutsy Gals, which recognizes strong female role models and designates awards in the categories of Education, Business, Entertainment, Charitable Work and now, Film.
And what a film it is. 'Muffin Top' literally strips away the relentless layers of pressure and hypocrisy and double-standardism that accompany being female in American society. Suzanne, the main character played by Michon, is facing a crisis on several fronts, not the least of which is her declining fertility coupled with her expanding waistline. Yet, she is a professor of feminist culture—a supposed lion of women's rights who ends up on a surgeon's table begging for lip injections while getting liposuction. The film is hilarious and does not sacrifice the authentic details for the sake of being more palatable for the male set. Granted, there are no menstruation jokes, but nearly everything else is up for grabs; Spanx welts, unwieldy Bumpits, mortifyingly tight yoga pants.
"Everyone, everywhere feels insecure about how they look. There is no escape from it," Michon says. "I do yoga with actual supermodels and even they look critically at themselves in the mirror in the little locker room. No one can get away with feeling good about themselves. The only way we can defang that kind of thinking is to laugh at it. Laugh really hard at it."
Michon has toured more than 30 cities with her film, which was funded largely by a Kickstarter campaign. And while the audience reactions have been over-the-top rewarding (especially the but-gusting laughter), no part of making and promoting 'Muffin Top' has been a cakewalk, right down to rolling and unrolling the red carpet for each screening at each location. But if that's what it takes…
"You have to be multi-talented," she says, rattling off names such as Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer and Nicole Holofcener. "Consumers are getting more activated. Smart money will flow. This isn't just an entertainment story, it's a business story. In the end, 52 percent of potential ticket buyers worldwide are women…so…you do the math."
Gutsy Gals Film Award and "Muffin Top: A Love Story" Screening
Saturday, March 21, 7 p.m.
Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock
84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA
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Posted by Nichole on 03/16/15 at 11:23 AM • Permalink
10 Ways To Survive A Snow Day In The RI Region
We invite you to peruse the nearly eight years' worth of Rural Intelligence archives. It's a good time to make a list of the restaurants you still need to try or the stores you haven't yet shopped. Not feeling it? Consider some of the options we've curated for you to make waiting for a spring a bit more bearable.
1. Jumpin Jammerz Retro Monkeys Drop-Seat His-And-Hers Onsie
On a snow day, you can stay in your pajamas as long as you like, and you might like to in these adult footed pajamas with a drop seat and front pockets, made from 100-percent polar fleece. Interesting factoid: On March 11, 2012, in Austin, Texas Jumpin Jammerz threw the World's Largest Footed Pajama Party ever…and made it into the Guiness Book of World Records. Why not have a party of your own? $49.99
2. Electric Forced Air Shoe Boot Glove Dryer
The first intelligent boot dryer on the market, says the ebay seller. Foehn, the manufacturer, has clearly put thought into the design: it comes with three sets of collapsible tubes, one of three settings that runs air without heating — useful for odor elimination — even a keyhole on the back for wall mounting. And — hurray — it's made in the U.S.A., where we need things like this because air drying is so old school. $75
With its handle and tong-style operation, you don't even have to get your mittens all wet. "I really love the perfect snowballs this makes," said one reviewer. And, hey, it's from L.L. Bean, so you know it's a quality item. $9.95
4. Chloe Lighting Three-Panel Eden Fireplace Screen
How many days can you stare at burning logs before it starts getting a bit ho hum? Put some pizzazz in front of the blaze with a Tiffany-style fireplace screen. This one is called Eden, and features a tree of life motif, handcrafted with quality materials in real stained glass. "A masterpiece for any fireplace," says Wayfair. This is just one of many colors and styles. $326.99
5. Snowflake Cookie 4-Piece Decorating Set
Sure, you can make chocolate chip cookies anytime. But we're doing a theme here, and this snowflake cookie decorating set fills the bill. You get a copper snowflake cookie cutter, white edible glitter, sugar crystals and snowflake candy sprinkles. It's "the perfect answer for indoor winter fun," says the company that's been making handmade copper cookie cutters since 1984, and indoor winter fun is just what we're going for. $17.49
6. CozyWinters Battery Heated All Purpose Thin Gloves
You can get those hand-warming heat packs at the Dollar Store now. But these gloves are in a whole other category, containing a well-concealed Lithium-ion battery cell that will keep your hands and fingers warm for up to 10 hours. With three heat settings and power indicator lights, they're even environmentally friendly: the battery is rechargeable. This pair is is $199, but there is an array of styles and prices (check out the heated motorcycle gear and battery-heated socks) and other body-warming gear you've probably never thought of.
7. Wrought Iron Snowflake Snow Gauge
Why risk frostbite taking a yardstick outside when you can determine snow depth from your window? This snow gauge has easy-to-read large numbers. It "easily presses into your soil by stepping onto the sturdy foot bar at the bottom," but at this point, just go ahead and stab it into the snow. Two-feet and three-feet options. We wish. $62.95-$64.95
8. TableTopics Do-It-Yourself Therapy Cube
We're not saying that cabin fever makes you totally crazy, but just in case, here's a fun way "to help you and your friends get down to what makes you tick, twitch and laugh at yourself." The 135 question cards (examples: What parents did you wish you had? Which of your mother's silly instructions do you still obey? If you had multiple personalities, what would they be?) are intended to add levity, though we can't honestly guarantee that. $25
9. Super Plush Faux Brown Bear Rug
The fire is lit, and now you've got the time to enjoy your very own bear rug. Made in France (under strict EEU environmental standards), the soft pile is guaranteed not to mat down, shed or fade. Best of all, no animals were sacrificed for your pleasure. And just $89 from Hollywood Love Rugs.
10. Video: How To Build An Igloo
How to Build an Igloo by Douglas Wilkinson, National Film Board of Canada
You don't even need Netflix for this. Produced in 1949 on behalf of the National Film Board of Canada, this old-style documentary follows two Inuit men in Canada's Far North creating an igloo using only snow and a knife. It's actually kind of fascinating, and will use up 10 minutes of an enforced snow day. After watching it, you could even try making one yourself. (Wait, who are we kidding?)
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For Gibson Buffs, OK Guitars Is The Sound of Dreams
By Robert Burke Warren
Charlie Gelber makes dreams come true.
A semi-retired NYC film editor and director, Gelber collects and deals stringed instruments, specializing in the shapely Gibson ES-335 electric guitar. From his Kent, CT store, OK Guitars, he sells them, mostly to men aged 48 to 68 who desire the instrument made famous by players as diverse as rock god Eric Clapton, bluesman B.B. King, jazz legend Larry Carlton, and even stadium rocker Dave Grohl. The 335, introduced in 1958 for $335 (roughly $2700 today), can set a guy back some serious coin, but Charlie Gelber makes sure it is money well spent, because he's been on the other side, as a player, a buyer, and a dreamer.
"You want the thing you wanted as a kid," he says, "but you couldn't afford it. Now you're older, you've got some disposable income, so you go for it. It's a guy thing; in 13 years of business, I've sold one guitar to a woman. And it's mostly men of a certain age. I've joked that I should have a prostate exam table set up!"
That would be difficult, for various reasons. Aside from the obvious, OK Guitars is tiny, housed in a charmingly up-cycled train car, and packed with approximately 30 gorgeous instruments. Gelber likes it that way; he's been collecting since he was a 14-year-old kid in 1966, surrounding himself with guitars as he worked for decades as a film and TV editor. "When I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan," he says, "I had to have a guitar. My dad bought me a [cheap] Kay. But I always wanted an ES-335. The first one I saw was a red one played by Johnny Rivers on Hullabaloo, and I just loved it. But they were expensive. I didn't actually own one until 1980." (To date, he has owned more than 500 guitars.)
When the Gibson guitar company introduced the ES-335, they affixed "ES" to it to differentiate it from the very popular Gibson Electric Hawaiian – or "EH" – slide guitar. Hawaiian music was all the rage, alongside this newfangled fad called "rock and roll." Because the guitar shape we all know is Spanish in design, "ES" stands for "Electric Spanish." The semi-hollow ES-335 offered a cross between an acoustic guitar and an electric, with exquisite workmanship, making it pricey but ever popular. According to Gelber, it is the only guitar model never to have gone out of production, and vintages in particular are extremely valuable.
Inspired by guitar transactions on eBay, Gelber began selling, "mostly for fun" in 2002. He started his collector business online, expanding it in 2010 with an engaging blog, www.es-335.org. (He has a degree in English and it shows.) Here, he dives into the geeky minutiae of his beauties, but also offers accessible anecdotes, passion-fueled descriptions, and fetching photos that'll make you want to hold – or better yet, buy – a fine electric guitar.
Gelber's weathered a lot since he started, including the economic downturn. Nevertheless, while continuing as a film editor (mostly on documentaries) he and his wife moved from Manhattan to Kent in 2012, and he opened OK Guitars. Since then, things have started looking up; apparently, the collectible guitar trade is an accurate bellwether for the financial health of the U.S. economy, and he's happy to report business is good, and getting better, especially as his reputation has grown.
OK Guitars allows Gelber to share his expertise and love of guitars in real time, three days a week and by appointment. From behind his burnished wood counter acquired from a cigar store, he's had some Antiques Roadshow-type moments with people seeking appraisals.
I had a Gibson 1913 mandolin come in," he says. "It was fun to tell the owners it was worth $4,000 and see their jaws drop. But also, because some 335s look vintage to the untrained eye, people sometimes think they have something really valuable when they don't. But they've still got a great guitar." Just not one that'll put their kid through grad school. Gelber has seen 335s valued at $50,000. (Eric Clapton's sold for $1 million.)
Unlike many brick-and-mortar business owners, Gelber has nothing bad to say about the Internet. OK Guitars, in fact, depends on it. "It's 90 percent of my business," he says.
But the store is where he has the most fun. Because he recalls from his youth fussy guitar shop owners forbidding him from playing their merchandise, he freely allows anyone to take down one of his guitars and strum away, even local schoolkids, who get the rare pleasure of holding a fine instrument that some men never stop dreaming about.
OK Guitars
11 Railroad Street, Kent, CT
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MASS MoCA Announces A Mind-Boggling Expansion
By Jeremy D. Goodwin
Sometimes bigger really is better.
We already knew that MASS MoCA was one of the biggest contemporary art facilities in the country. So it's mind boggling to consider that its new expansion project will double its existing gallery space.
That's not a fudged number or a bit of PR-speak. The converted factory complex already has a gallery the size of a football field and 120,000 square feet of total gallery space. When it's done with its truly epic expansion, that number will shoot to 240,000.
This much we already knew, after the commonwealth of Massachusetts chipped in $25.4 million dollars in August to help things along. But this week, MASS MoCA called all hands on deck for one of the biggest announcements in its history. For the first time, we found out what's going to go in all that new space. And when the new bits open in 2017, it's almost going to be like a whole new museum, which anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary art (or forward-thinking performing arts) will feel the strong urge to make a pilgrimage to.
When MASS MoCA partnered with the Yale University Art Gallery in 2008 to renovate a three-floor factory building and install a mammoth installation of wall drawings by Sol LeWitt on a 25-year loan, it hit upon a winning formula. Building on that model, the new gallery space — chiefly a rambling building adjacent to what's known these days as the "big gallery," with an acre of floor space on each of its three levels — will be home to other long-term loans, in partnership with artists and other outside foundations.
Laurie Anderson. Photo by Lucie Jansch
Laurie Anderson, the legendary fixture on New York's hip art scene (and widow to the late rocker Lou Reed), will create a visionary sound and light installation, plus a multimedia studio where she'll invite the public in as she creates new work. (Specific plans are still being worked out.)
"This is really, really, really forward thinking stuff," Anderson in an interview after a packed press conference that saw Governor Deval Patrick trumpet the plan. "I'm still really stunned. Where else is this going to happen? Where else could something this huge, ambitious and crazy happen?"
Some other heavy hitters were announced, of course. There will be paintings by the late, great Robert Rauschenberg, plus rotating pieces by other artists curated by the foundation devoted to his work. Louise Bourgeois' marble sculpture will be on view —including some that's never before been available to the public — as will immersive light installations by James Turrell (including a new commission), and projections by Jenny Holzer.
Work of Jenny Holtzer. Photo by Attilio Maranzano
Deepening its long-term relationship with New York City's new-music innovators Bang on a Can, the museum will also make the oversized instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck available for visiting musicians and the public.
Additional elevated-walkways (like the cool one that leads to the LeWitt building now) will help complete a full loop around the campus for the first time.
"The public will be able to recognize this as a complex in a way that they never have before. Even though it's a doubling of our exhibition space, it's going to feel like a quadrupling," museum director Joe Thompson told the assembled press, "or an order of magnitude larger, as an expansion of the experience of this complex and the way the buildings work together."
Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
MASS MoCA will also build up the infrastructure surrounding its burgeoning side business in top-shelf music festivals. When Wilco has its Solid Sound Festival, Jeff Tweedy will have a finished green room to hang out in. More visible to the public, there will be a vending arcade that opens up onto the Hoosac River, which winds its way across the campus.
The world is noticing. MASS MoCA's big news has been covered everywhere from the New York Times to the Washington Post. And even though the museum has been a fixture of the region since it opened in 1999, in a couple years it'll feel like we have a whole new cultural centerpiece on our hands. And isn't that big news?
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My Turn As a Tourist: A Day With Behold! New Lebanon
By Lisa Green
Behold! New Lebanon is a living museum of contemporary rural American life. There are no ladies in bonnets spinning wool a la Sturbridge Village. These people are the real deal, willing to open their lives to share their skills and experience of rural living as a step toward creating their own sustainable future through tourism. [See full story here.]
I chose to "take" two events on the first day, and while I enjoyed both of them immensely and learned a huge amount, I found that part of the fun was not only the give-and-take with the presenters but with my fellow "visitors" as well. The two-room Visitor's Center is part gift shop (offering New Lebanon-made products and Behold! New Lebanon merchandise) and part sign-in desk. But furnished with rocking chairs, filled with sunshine and a light breeze, it is a welcoming gathering space where locals greet one another and the rest of us meet them and each other. On the bus ride to the events, the anticipation is palpable – what are we going to see and learn? — and on the ride back, oh my, it is a voluble, good-natured competition about whose experience was better.
At "Hitching the Horse to the Plow," we met 23-year-old farmer Even Thaler-Null, who runs Abode Farm CSA with his partner, Sarah Steadman. A first generation farmer from Westchester, Thaler-Null farms the former Shaker land (which before was Mohican land) using two plow horses and somewhat ancient but working farm equipment. The couple's mission is to provide more food for New Lebanon, so they attempt to keep their 150 varieties of crops affordable through their CSA. It's one thing to know that farmers work hard, but it is another to witness Thaler-Null's commitment to this labor of love.
My afternoon event was "Going Once! Going Twice: Auctioneering 101" to meet with Dolores Meissner of Meissner's Auction Service. I have attended these auctions in the past, and have walked out a bit dazzled by the speed, efficiency and humor with which the auction items are dispatched. But I didn't know how Dolores and her late husband, Keith, built up their business, how she "reads" a crowd, learned the patter, where the merchandise comes from — and how she is coping with running the business without Keith. When it was time to get back on the bus, I was finally able to express my condolences to Dolores on the tragic loss of her husband just last December. "Now I need to give you a hug," she said. And did.
I have beheld New Lebanon, and I will be going back.
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Taking the Muzzle Off: WAM Theatre Invites Change Makers
By Nichole Dupont
No matter where we are in the world, the rapid-fire barrage of social media and hard news headlines finds us: Child marriage in Jordan, school girls kidnapped in Nigeria, U.S. women among nation's poorest, no public laughter in Turkey. The stories range from horrifying to ridiculous, yet the subject (or, I should say, the object) always lands squarely on the "fairer sex." It's hard not to feel a solid lump of hopelessness knowing what faces women and girls across the globe, every moment of every day.
"But there are women who are standing forward, and good men who are standing forward and good things are being manifested through the energy of women," says actor and activist Jayne Atkinson. She is talking via cellphone from the Baltimore set of House of Cards—which is packed with strong female leads—where she is in the thick of shooting the series' third season. "Put in the hands of women, look at the amazing changes we have seen in our world."
Atkinson is a strong supporter and advocate for the Berkshire-based WAM (Women's Action Movement) Theatre, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary with Change Makers, a high-profile panel discussion to be held on August 24 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The event will be hosted by Marsha Norman and Sarah LaDuke and panelists include author/actor Jessica Blank, award-winning playwright Winter Miller, veteran photographer John Stanmeyer and Academy Award-winning (Berkshire-based) documentarian Cynthia Wade [above]. The panel discussion will address some of greatest challenges facing women (and men) in the world. Proceeds from the event will benefit WAM's fall production of In Darfur, written by Miller, who was inspired by what she saw as a researcher for The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof at the start of the genocide in Darfur in 2004.
"I'm not capable of unseeing things," says Miller [right] about the heavy content of most of her plays. "I try to figure out 'how can I share what I've seen with people who may not have seen it.' I have this goal of inciting curiosity; what they know versus what they think they know about a situation."
Miller has written several plays (both commissioned and personal) about high-profile situations that we think we know about including the Trayvon Martin case, the Steubenville rape, gun control and sexual identity just to rattle off a few. And yet, no matter how many full-length productions or one-act workshops she writes, Miller still remains somewhat stupefied.
"It's perplexing to me," she says. "How is it that gay rights has rocketed ahead of women's rights? Things have not panned out the way many people thought it would. Yes, there is sheer outrage and the desire to shout 'everybody wake up!'"
Inciting action has been WAM's purpose all along according to artistic director Kristen van Ginhoven, who says that at first "the whole endeavor felt like a gamble."
"It's so hard to raise the funds simply to produce an event, and then also we were going to donate funds? We really had no idea if it would work, and I often say it's because we're based in the Berkshires that it has worked. And it's only through lots of hard work, incredible mentors, tons of support and many accomplishments that now I feel so much more comfortable in my role as 'artistic director.' I feel proud going into meetings to ask for support because I know WAM is a good investment."
Certainly good enough to draw an eclectic panel of passionate champions for humanity who, as van Ginhoven puts it "all…desire to use our art for action. More specifically, to use our art to create positive change around social justice issues."
John Stanmeyer [left, photo by Rob Becker] sees women's issues (though he is hesitant to call them that) through an entirely (literally) different lens. Having travelled across the globe to destinations which are typically viewed as especially hostile towards women, including parts of Africa, East Asia, India and the Middle East.
"I completely 'get' how males get to dominate borders and cultures. And I completely understand the weight and measure [of the movement] to empower women," he says. "But I don't believe in gender differences. It's the weakness of humans, what we've done to humanity, that's caused this inequality. Education is paramount. We do need to support greater empowerment for women in developing countries, and in our own country."
He pauses, shaking his head. We are sitting in his photo gallery/café in West Stockbridge, MA. Just outside the window, his daughter, dressed in bright purple and orange, is fishing in the Williams River with her two older brothers.
"I can't even fathom the notion that some bozo in a room would actually consider not paying someone fairly because they're female. It blows my mind," he says. "I just want human beings to function in their greatest and most prolific way and be driven by brilliance."
WAM Theatre: Change Makers
Sunday, August 24, 7 p.m.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
14 Castle St., Great Barrington, MA
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The Clark Art Institute Gala: A Truly Grand Re-Opening
Lisa Green reports from Williamstown.
On Saturday, June 28, the gala to celebrate the opening of the expanded Clark Art Institute was commensurate with the endeavor and investment that went into the creation of the magnificent new campus. More than 700 guests (and, it seemed, an almost equal number of earpiece-wearing catering crew and iPad-toting museum staff) milled around the capacious outdoor terrace and its stunning reflecting pool. Several open bars and a jazz trio kept the crowd occupied until the official opening remarks began.
Jazz trio members Andy Wrba, bass, Andy Jaffe, keyboard and Bill Chapman, drums, performed early in the evening, and later were joined by famed saxophonist Charles Neville; Christy Abel and Rob Abel with Jane Stuebner, a member of the host committee, enjoyed the perfect summer evening.
Michael Conforti, The Clark's director, welcomed the guests and thanked the major players, community and staff for their efforts in the completion of the new facility.
Gov Deval Patrick praised the project (and quickly left for another event), and Peter Wilmott, president of the Board of Trustees, also spoke. Then, as the doors to the new Clark were opened at last, Conforti invited guests to follow him into the newly transformed Museum Building.
It was clear from conversations overhead that leaders in the museum and gallery worlds were present to assess, enjoy and compare notes.
Andrew Spindler, an antiques dealer from Gloucester, chatted with Mathias Waschek, director of the Worcester Art Museum; Melinda Wingate and Ealan Wingate, who is the director of the Gagosian Gallery in New York, strolled the Impressionist Gallery.
Marc Gotlieb, director of the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College, talked shop with Brent Benjamin, director of the St. Louis Art Museum.
The visionary architects and designers were on hand, including Tadao Ando of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, who designed the new Visitor Center.
Lisa Giersbach with Elizabeth Randall and Eric Kramer from Reed Hilderbrand of Cambridge, the firm that conceived the dramatic landscape design; Annabelle Selldorf, the architect who reconceived the original Museum Building, and Rachel Judlowe.
The gala engaged all the senses. There was music inside, carefully chosen to complement the galleries and The Clark's ever-growing international stature. In the Impressionist Gallery, the flutist Alex Sopp performed Debussy's "Syrinx" and Colin Jacobsen, violinist and Eric Jacobsen, cellist, played Ravel's Duo for Violin and Cello.
Colin Jacobson and violist Max Mandel performed in the Glass Box; The Knights, an orchestral collective, performed contemporary works by Chinese composers and a bit of Mozart, a perfect blend of east and west, in the new special exhibition gallery.
As Director Conforti said, the project couldn't have been completed without the support of the community, and many of them were present at the gala. At left, Massachusetts State Representative Gail Cariddi of the First Berkshire District and her colleague, State Representative Paul Mark of the Second Berkshire District, expressed their admiration for the new Clark.
George Ahl, a board member of MASS MoCA and Tracy Finnegan of Williamstown; Robert Lach, a member of the Class of 1990 History of Art program at Williams, with Ghetta Hirsch, a painter and museum supporter.
The evening brought out members of nearby cultural organizations. At right, Eric Kerns, director of Marketing and Development at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kate Morris, Molly Kerns and Hans Morris, chairman of the MASS MoCA Foundation Board of Trustees.
The new gift shop was filled with buyers; Susan Lowry and Vicky Lowry live in New York, but still consider themselves Williamstown "townies."
Henry Flynt (seated), who knew the Clarks, lived across the street from the museum and watched as the first building went up. "This is a very special day for him," said Suzanne Flynt, his daughter-in-law (standing behind him). David Kriegel and Cynthia Flynt also shared the event with him.
It's possible the opening was most meaningful to The Clark's staff, who, it must be said, handled the massive gala celebration with aplomb (and the ever-present iPads and walkie-talkies). The event's design was courtesy of David Stark Design & Productions. The food, served buffet style (much of it locally resourced), marked the debut of The Clark's new catering service by Stephen STARR events, which created, among other shot-glass jewels, a to-die-for white chocolate pudding. Above, Ralph Colaizzi, Merritt Colaizzi, campaign director, Terri Boccia, Acquisitions librarian and Karl Mullen.
Museum Director Michael Conforti with his children, Peter Conforti and Julia Conforti; Laurie Marrs and Lydia Ross, both of the Advancement office.
The spectacular end to the evening? Not really — an after party followed at the Stone Hill Center.
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Cyber-security company Kaspersky Labs has just exposed a U.S. spying program. According to Kaspersky the NSA is making hard drive manufactures WD and Seagate embed backdoors straight into the hard drive firmware. This lets the NSA directly access raw data, agnostic of partition method (low-level format), file-system (high-level format), operating system, or even user access-level.
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