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Aby Wolf, K'naan, and P.O.S. top Artists of the Year '09
City Pages' Artists of the Year issue is our annual thank-you to the artists of the world, the imaginative souls who inspire us with their creativity and show us how to see life in a different way.
So why, you're wondering, is Brett Favre on the cover of this year's issue? Athletes aren't artists, you may say, so why are we giving so much space to some sports guy who already gets more than his share of publicity?
You may say that—or you could just lighten up.
Artistry comes in many forms, and anyone who has seen Favre painting the field with his passes, dancing from the grasp of a blitzing linebacker, or singing out audibles at the line knows that a true master is at work. As a quarterback, Favre is a poet, renowned for his creativity, and by leading the Vikings to an 11-3 record so far this year he has helped Minnesota sports fans, at least, see life in a different way.
So we have given Favre pride of place in our 2009 Artists of the Year issue, but we also pay copious tribute to traditional artists—the poets, painters, dancers, writers, and musicians who have made our lives unimaginably richer, and have done so usually without the adoration of millions or, for that matter, a paycheck of millions.
Yeah, we hear you saying, but why couldn't you at least put a real artist on the cover?
Didn't you hear us? The Vikings are 11-3! —Matthew Smith
Aby Wolf
By TD Mischke
I'm a sucker for any young woman slinging a guitar over her shoulder and stepping out into the windy world looking to say something new, looking to stir something up, looking to place that haunting, smoky glow on the hard edges of things. With eyes as clear as her voice is strong, skin as smooth as the sweet delivery of those achingly soulful notes, she is a reminder of the loveliness still pulsating in the midst of a worn and ragged world.
Meet Minneapolis artist Aby Wolf. She sings and I slip effortlessly into an otherworld, a place so far removed from the angst of a fretful day that, for a moment, I wholly surrender to the honest purity in things.
She could pass as a twin sis to French actress Marion Cotillard, with those same dark, penetrating eyes that tell you what she's about to sing is simply true.
She hails from the rolling Mississippi bluff country of northwest Illinois and names it, not other songwriters, as her greatest influence. The serene simplicity she knew there is the quiet energy she channels into her most potent songs. She is a painter, and she writes like one. Her imagery appears as clear, broad brushstrokes of oil, until her guitar and those angelic harmonies meld and it's all sent tumbling into a watercolor sea of heart and soul.
Songs are mysterious, ephemeral things that ought not be written about in too much detail. Instead, go to Aby's MySpace page and take in the video of her singing "Keara" at the Cedar. The next day, round about the same time, that song will find its way back into your head, and you'll soon wish everyone you met spoke with the same clarity and depth you witnessed in those eyes.
TD Mischke is a City Pages columnist and webcaster who can be heardweekdays from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at www.citypages.com.
Tony Kushner
By Quinton Skinner
Perhaps it was mixed feelings about the size of the Guthrie Theater's influence over the local scene that spurred such a range of reactions to its Kushner Celebration. Indeed, on the opening night of The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (a world premiere commissioned by the Guthrie), a whiff of schadenfreude was in the air after word came down that Tony Kushner was revising the thing deep into rehearsals.
There were those who wouldn't have minded seeing the Big Blue Battleship steer itself right into a reef of hubris and ambition. Luckily, though, a solid majority was more interested in seeing a good play or two, and the trilogy of works by Kushner was a revelation. It would be hard to imagine three works more different from one another, yet still beating with the same wounded heart and searching intellect.
Caroline, or Change arrived first, an operatic musical about a washerwoman in the 1960s Deep South. Gaudily virtuosic, it drew together metaphors of race, loss, and suffering. In the process, it established local actress Greta Oglesby as nothing less than a star, her Caroline riding currents of regret, frustration, and stoicism that made the big numbers feel as though the earth was falling from beneath our feet.
Up in the Dowling Studio, Tiny Kushner, a series of short plays, was delivered by an ace local cast that elevated what could have been disconnected oddities into a funny, brainy, satisfying night.
It was Intelligent Homosexual, though, that had the country buzzing. It was a big, sprawling work that, incongruently, deployed an unexpected naturalism in telling the story of a family wracked by aging, infidelity, lost ideals, and general hypercharged nuttiness. Kushner seemed to lack total faith in it at the time, rewriting amid bet-hedging that it would appear in New York in a different form.
Whatever happens to it, Intelligent Homosexual as we saw it was a passionate, engaging, challenging work that stacks up against anything in American theater. It validated both Kushner's stature as a writer and the Guthrie's faith in him (as well as its brass balls in filling three simultaneous stages with his work).
Quinton Skinner is City Pages' theater critic.
Padgett Powell
By Melissa Maerz
Some wise old Chinese guy once said that a man who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, but a man who never asks questions is a fool forever. If that's the case, Padgett Powell must be a genius: The guy never stops asking questions. Every single sentence in his latest novel, The Interrogative Mood, is a question, and every last one is hilarious and sad and political and personal and ridiculous and capable of making your imagination explode like a lizard in a microwave. Like: "If you could have feathers instead of hair, would you?" And: "If you could see a large-animal trainer mauled...would you prefer to see the mauling done by a lion, a tiger, or a bear?"
Now, this book might sound like a great parlor game for stoners—and it is—but it's so many other things, too: a refutation of the idea that a novel must be a narrative, a war on ambivalence, a celebration of reckless open-mindedness, a reminder that the simple joy of wonder can still light up your brain like a spaceship. Some questions are great absurdist jokes. (My favorite: "If you were to be executed and, by standard practice in executions, were offered anything you wanted as a last meal, and instead of ordering lobster...you said, 'I want boiled kittens and puppies, and I want them boiled alive, like crabs,' do you think there would be amusement, and do you think they would comply?") Others test your capacity for empathy. ("Will you believe me," asks the nameless narrator, "if I tell you that I am a little fragile, psychologically speaking, and that there is an eagle over the woods outside my window, and every day that I see him gliding around...gives me a small but palpable lift, and not being him a small quickening of depression?") Even the most banal questions ("Are you going to be happier in the future?" "Is there any hope?") feel like precious little hand mirrors, reflecting your deepest hopes and fears back to you.
As for answers, there are none. That's the whole point: The possibilities are endless—in the book, as in the real world. Somewhere in those open-ended questions is a plea: Don't fear uncertainty. Dream bigger, dream weirder. Life has so much more to offer. All you have to do is ask.
Melissa Maerz is a New York-based writer and former music editor of City Pages.
By Andrea Swensson
Much has been written about Stef Alexander's banner year—his success playing before the masses everywhere from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Hamburg, Germany, plus glowing praise from Spin, MTV, Pitchfork, and more. But those accomplishments are only a gilded frame around the real cause for celebration: having a forward-thinking artistic mind capable of crafting albums like this year's accurately named Never Better.
It's hard to say if there is a "Minneapolis sound" anymore, but if there is, it might sound something like Alexander's tracks on Never Better. It's a love letter to the city, with shout-outs to fixed-gear bikers, the Triple Double Tuesday DJ nights at the Triple Rock, his friends who helped him along the way—all sung and recited over a mash of snare drum beats, heavy electric guitars, distortion, twinkling organs, plastic cups, sniffles, and whatever other noises and moments Alexander happened to capture and splice into song. Part indie rap, part punk rock, and part playful, no-holds-barred experimentation, Never Better pushes P.O.S. even further out of the confines of traditional hip hop and toward something groundbreaking and undeniably fresh.
Combine his latest effort with his reputation for contributing to both the local punk scene (with Building Better Bombs) and rap scene (with Doomtree), and it starts to add up: Could we have ever guessed that our newest Rhymesayers breakout artist would show up on MTV this year, singing a note-perfect version of "Why Go" by Pearl Jam over a beat he made up on the spot? Well, yeah. We could.
Andrea Swensson is City Pages' music editor.
Michael Yonkers
By David Hansen
For nearly four decades, Michael Yonkers was quietly renovating the musical landscape, and no one knew it. Outside a cloister of avant-garde enthusiasts, Yonkers's work was the stuff of shadows and kept secrets. Hard to believe, especially after a Sub Pop reissue of his masterpiece Microminiature Love and soaring collaborations with local rockers the Blind Shake turned the Yonkers name into sacred syllables.
But as his cultural currency appreciated, his health faltered. Yonkers has suffered from an excruciating back condition since the 1970s, one that has him bedridden often, and which has turned his increasingly rare live appearances into ghostly overtures of physical agony. This summer, just as his latest release with the Blind Shake was preparing to drop, the announcement was made: Yonkers's condition had worsened. Even standing upright had become an impossibility. Yonkers was bedridden, nearly paralyzed with pain. His time on the stage, after almost half a century, was over.
There are great risks intrinsic to being a musical outlander. The promise of fame is gravely decreased. The chance for a life's work to go completely unheard skyrockets. But Yonkers is our champion example of the dividends such elusiveness can pay. He's beloved and revered as a technical craftsman, a performance virtuoso, and a musical thinker of the highest caliber, and his works are now canonical touchstones of discord, mansions of otherworldly elegance and fragility, and the listening lives of many thousands have been made stranger and more beautiful for his touch. Will Yonkers's retirement stick? It's unknowable—his life, much like his career, is a Rocky-esque, come-from-behind triumph. For now, Yonkers stands as a monument to the suspicion that becomes truer and truer the more one pays attention: Invariably, the finest work is done by the intellectual outlaw.
David Hansen is a Twin Cities writer. He is a regular contributor to City Pages and its music blog, Gimme Noise.
Matthew and Michael Dickman
By Steve Mcpherson
Matthew Dickman's poetry is in love with life and with all things living and, most specifically, you. You hear about poems being a "celebration" of this or that, but they ain't shit because anyone present at a Matthew Dickman reading featuring his newish poem "Your" will understand that this is not just a poem that's celebrating—it's a poem that wants to undress you slowly and have its way with you. "Your/Ankles make me want to party,/want to sit and beg and roll over," it begins, working its way up to an ass that "is a shopping mall at Christmas,/a holy place" and shoulders "each a separate bowl of rice/steaming and covered in soy sauce." By the end of his reading this past summer at St. Olaf the crowd was whooping and giddy: Every guy wished he could have written that and every woman was flushed. "This is why I never follow him," admitted his twin brother, Michael, who had read earlier.
If Matthew's poetry is fireworks and a big brass band, Michael's is the darkness lying down on the ground beneath the exploding sky, the empty street after the parade passes. "I didn't make my brain," he writes in "We Did Not Make Ourselves,"
but I'm helping
to finish it
Carefully stacking up everything I made next to everything I ruined
in broad daylight in bright
The poems in Michael's debut collection, The End of the West, are like that: carefully stacked from lines, many of them only a word long—a catalog made from the same Portland, Oregon, upbringing that inspires his brother's overflowing odes to everything from public parks to Jay-Z's Black Album in his debut, All-American Poem. For them, poetry isn't a dodge or a pose—it's life and flesh and blood. Perhaps poet Dorianne Laux put it best in her poem "Savages," inspired by the Dickmans and their friends: "They buy poetry like gang members/buy guns—for aperture, caliber/heft and defense."
Steve McPherson is a Twin Cities musician and writer. He is a regular contributor to City Pages, including his Gimme Noise blog column, Point of Departure.
Andrea Carlson
By Suzy Greenberg
My favorite artists are the ones who can't stand still. They are always driving their work to that next place. This year Minneapolis artist Andrea Carlson has driven her work all the way to cannibalism. With her flair for finding meaning within meaning, cannibalism isn't just a tasty snack—the work is layered with flavors. She speaks of cultural cannibalism as a "metaphor for the assimilation and consumption of cultural identity."
Carlson's own cultural heritage plays a large role in her art. The work often teeters between her Native American and European ancestry. She has a remarkable ability to portray a seemingly universal cultural style. Viewers always seem able to read their own cultural interpretation into her pieces.
In her current series of paintings, "VORE," objects and words float above Carlson's signature stylized backgrounds. Some pieces depict museum objects; others contain titles of cannibalism exploitation films. In Cannibal Ferox (named after the film), statues hold human "drumsticks" with mouths agape, ready to chomp.
In addition to taking on a fierce subject, this year Carlson made us proud by landing a show at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (New York) and booking upcoming solo exhibitions at the Plains Art Museum (Fargo), Tweed Art Museum (Duluth), and Bockley Gallery (Minneapolis).
In a year of freaks and geeks coming of age, it seems fitting that the cannibals should get their day.
Suzy Greenberg is executive director of Soo Visual Arts Center.
Piotr Szyhalski
By Diane Mullin
Always challenging our assumptions, Piotr Szyhalski has once again taken on our violent present and laid bare its dangerous absurdities. Earlier this year in a small gallery at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Szyhalski restaged his Theater of Operations in full force and new form. He called this iteration The Second Sonic Reenactment of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and he did more than reprise his 2008 project—he dug even further into his latest investigation of our perceptions of war.
Theater of Operations was first presented in the historic Allen Theatre in Cleveland. Throughout the vacant theater space, Szyhalski, an MCAD media arts professor, created a sonic installation that capitalized on the rich, cavernous lobby space, mining its aura of anticipation (as the entryway to the other world of the theater) and its utter emptiness. The sound piece, based on Erik Satie's composition for a theater lobby, pushes the unreal, or maybe the surreal, character of war, and it's a gateway to the video piece inside the theater itself. Installed behind barely raised curtains, the images on the screens placed on the stage floor were obscured from full view, drawing viewers to peek beneath the curtains.
As is his usual practice, Szyhalski used found images from the media, in this case movies of military operations produced by U.S. soldiers now available on YouTube. The soundtrack is a transcript of the videos read by a series of "actors," including the artist's colleagues, wife, and daughter. These non-soldier-like voices only add to the strangeness of the experience. At MCAD, Szyhalski seized on the tightness and coldness of the small gallery space to interrogate yet another ubiquitous and controversial image of war—the returning casket of the fallen warrior. He aligned a series of box-like video monitors alluding to a coffin and turned them face to the floor, forcing viewers to slide beneath the coffin/screens to watch the videos.
Szyhalski's work always fascinates—the seemingly endless layers draw us in and turn us around. If you missed his latest Twin Cities installation, you can make up for it next summer when he unveils his next work in the MCAD/McKnight Fellowship exhibition. It is sure to be eye-opening.
Diane Mullin is associate curator at the Weisman Art Museum.
Sally Rousse
By Linda Shapiro
A rogue ballerina who exposes her nerve endings to the world every time she performs, Sally Rousse floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. Her tiny body contains multitudes. She can deploy her pointe shoes as weapons, attacking movement like a commando, or flit with the protean grace and vulnerability of a wild forest creature. The speed and boldness of her dancing are matched only by her elegance and wit.
Rousse's voracious curiosity has led her to study aerial work, achieve accreditation in Brain Gym and reiki, and explore alternative dance forms like contact improvisation. A co-founder, artistic associate, and dancer with the James Sewell Ballet, this year she has also produced two major works of choreography, performed with the outré dance collective Mad King Thomas, improvised to poetry by Garrison Keillor, restaged a duet with cellist Laura Sewell for JSB, and hosted the 2009 Sage Awards.
Her Paramount to My Footage, commissioned by Walker Art Center and the Southern Theater, was a foray into audacious autobiography. An airborne Rousse slammed herself repeatedly into a movie screen, which later featured video footage from her life behind sumptuous dancing. Fueled by a Fellini-like mix of fantasy, farce, and intimate revelation, Paramount was smart, gutsy, and hugely entertaining. Her ballet Petrouchka for JSB, a re-imagining of Mikhail Fokine's 1911 production for the Ballet Russes, enhanced the tragic puppet's emotional range by strapping him into an aerial harness that sent him literally flying, crumbling, plunging into despair.
Rousse, a multitasking mother of two, also writes about dance with intelligence and enthusiasm. An introspective artist with celebrity allure, she is forging a style of her own while launching (and sometimes hurtling) classical ballet into the 21st century.
Linda Shapiro is a freelance writer who writes about dance and performance.
Chad Daniels
By Bryan Miller
The crowd goes quiet, eking out a few begrudging chuckles when comedian Chad Daniels asserts, "I don't think fat people should get to use wheelchairs." Undeterred by the cold reaction, he adds, "Stare all you want—I'm not taking it back."
This exchange, captured on his sharp new album, Busy Being Awesome (recorded at Acme Comedy Co. and released by Minneapolis's own Stand Up! Records), perfectly encapsulates Daniels's take-no-prisoners style of comedy. The Fergus Falls native is not interested in Minnesota Nice. With his onstage swagger and arsenal of incisive, uproarious material, he practically bullies the audience into loving him.
"With the crowd and me, it's an 'I'm not going to take your shit, you're not going to take mine' deal," he says. "Let's just agree that we're going to hate each other a few times during this show."
Daniels's aggressive comedy has earned him some of the most coveted achievements in the industry—not only a major-label CD but his own Comedy Central half-hour special and, most recently, a spot on The Tonight Show, the big brass ring of the standup world. His set on Conan O'Brien's show was a prime example of what sets Daniels apart from the pack: Plenty of comics have jokes about marriage and children, but few speak about the experience with such uncompromising honesty. "My dad abandoned our family when I was 15 and my sister was 10, and now that I have a boy and girl of my own, I look at them every day and I think, 'How in the hell...did it take him that long?'"
It's this acidic material, cut with underlying sweetness and served up with a knowing smirk, that makes Daniels not just one of the top artists of the year but one of the funniest men in America. Busy being awesome, indeed.
Bryan Miller is a Minneapolis-based comedian and writer and a regular City Pages contributor.
Dan Chouinard
By Kevin Kling
We are blessed with so many talented artists in Minnesota, gifted souls who could easily prosper in any other city but due to family, friends, or sense of community choose to live here. On purpose. One such artist is Dan Chouinard. He plays keyboards, piano, accordion, and organ. One night he's onstage with Peter Ostroushko, the next night it's torch songs with Prudence Johnson and Ann Reed or opera with Maria Jette or playing Tom Waits with Robert Berdahl or underscoring a reading by Patricia Hampl or conducting a service at Joan of Arc church.... He's everywhere—part of our cultural fabric, our Zelig of the ivories. I get the feeling that's important to Dan, to be part of his community.
He has wonderful theatrical sense and an endless repertoire. It's been said that genius isn't knowledge but the capacity for knowledge. If that's true, Dan not only has it, he remembers where he put it. If the Martians visited and left behind sheet music, I'd bring it to Dan. And there's more: He is also a master storyteller, reminiscent of Steve Allen on a roll—funny and clearly the smartest guy in the room. My favorite, however, is when he combines his gifts for his shows at the Fitzgerald: Mambo Italiano and The Sing-Along Show. Between Dan and the skyways, it's easier to explain to others why we live here. On purpose. Recently he was performing in northern Wisconsin. After the concert he played out in the lobby into the wee hours, singing along with my mom and her pals.
Okay, that did it. That's an artist of the year.
Kevin Kling is a Minneapolis playwright, author, and storyteller. His commentaries can be heard on NPR's All Things Considered.
By Peter S. Scholtes
For all the crate-diggers who thought somebody should sample the Ethiopiques series, K'naan appears to be the first rapper to actually do it. His choice of Ethiopian soul from the '70s on his 2009 CD Troubadour could be nostalgic, since he's old enough to remember a peaceful Somalia, and that mysterious funk preceded the wars that have pitted those countries against each other ever since. But when K'naan loops the horns-and-guitar intro of Tlahoun Gessesse's "Yene Felagote" he makes a whole new world, layering organ, beats, and harmonies over a playful lyric about sending cash to, or receiving it from, loved ones back in Africa.
"15 Minutes Away" isn't a jingle for Western Union any more than Cast Away was an ad for Federal Express—it's about the nature of connection, purpose, and habit. The song's repetitiveness becomes hypnotic: You can imagine the Toronto singer recalling time spent in Minneapolis in the late '90s, still daunted by the United States and processing violence back home, jotting down his first song ideas in an apartment near Chicago and Lake:
This month has been the hardest
I couldn't afford some omelets
I'm broke like an empty promise
Sometimes when I'm in a meeting
And everyone else is eating
I feel so awkward asking
So I pretend like I am fasting
K'naan's is the immigrant song of many Minnesotans in 2009, which is partly why he played here twice this year. His wry chuckle at the end of that last line, like so much of Troubadour, suggests a proud humility that's rare in rap: Having nothing left to lose isn't the same as having nothing left to give. He's a masterful performer—his great album is still the one you walk away with in your head after a show—and he has been a voice of sanity on U.S. policy toward the Horn of Africa.
But comparisons to Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, and Fela (to whom he's paid tribute on recent downloadable mixtapes) would be laughable if he weren't simply a great maker of pop songs that transmit his sometimes traumatic experience into Eminem-sized bites for your emotional memory bank. For now, that's enough.
Peter S. Scholtes is a Twin Cities writer and teacher.
Stanley Tucci
By Ella Taylor
If ever there was a career that affirmed the variety, longevity, and sheer fun of being a character actor, it's Stanley Tucci's. Tucci has the sharp features and pursed lips of a born villain, which brought him a steady living in his youth playing thoroughly bad lots in film and television. In his prime Tucci, who looks like Peter Sellers (oddly enough, he played Stanley Kubrick in a biopic about the late British actor), has strayed fruitfully all over the characterological map. Like Sellers, he juggles saturnine, bovine, and impish seemingly while barely moving a muscle.
Tucci's scene-stealing turns in The Devil Wears Prada, as the gay fashion designer and mentor to Anne Hathaway—a kindly pussycat disguised as a world-weary industry player—flexed new acting muscles. This year Tucci stretched himself anew in two supporting roles that ran the gamut of naughty and nice. In Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, the actor dyed his hair and mustache blond to play a suburban pedophile with his own private underground slaughterhouse. Tucci hints at rather than flags the dark heart of this mild-mannered good neighbor, and he plays both sides of the role with perfect sincerity. Against the grain, he's the only actor not overdoing it in this hyperventilating fantasy.
More than most, Tucci understands the power of restraint—but he can cut loose as needed, too. This summer he was a gas as the adoring, much shorter husband of Meryl Streep's gigantic Julia Child in Julie and Julia, the kind of male helpmeet so rare in Hollywood movies, who takes genuine pleasure in her successes, sticks around through the failures, and is willing to follow her to the ends of the earth if that would keep her happy. Enjoying themselves without reserve, Tucci and Streep come off as the improbable, utterly adorable couple of the year.
Ella Taylor is a Los Angeles-based critic who writes for NPR.org, Village Voice Media, Elle magazine, and other publications. She is a frequent contributor to City Pages.
Stephen King
By Kerri Miller
Yeah, yeah, I know: Stephen King needs more gushy praise like Tom Petters needs more whistleblowers. The guy's a bazillionaire with enough clout to frighten off even the best editor. His latest novel, Under the Dome, is 1,072 pages! Need I say more?
But King surprised me when he came to the Fitzgerald Theater to be interviewed for the Talking Volumes author series in November.
First, I thought he'd be creepy. Not hair-on-the-palms-of-his-hands creepy, just off somehow—too accustomed to living in the half-gloom of his aberrant imagination. He wasn't. In the green room before the show he munched on a big slab of berry tart while we talked about dogs and books and where he'd go for a late supper. Compare that with James Ellroy, who confessed to me before the show that he does little else in his life but write and make love.
I had also expected King to exhibit a certain kind of been there, done that ennui. After all, he's one of the few authors in the world who can tell the publishers to stuff it when they start making noises about a book tour. Yet he told me backstage that he was grateful that we had "gone to all this trouble." Did he really not know that we could have sold out the Fitz three times over? People flew in from Kansas and Toronto for that show.
But most of all, I didn't think he'd be so much fun. Offstage, he dished some pretty interesting dirt on the publishing biz and certain authors (enough said about that). Onstage, he let me gently mock him when he told the story of running out to buy his wife the romantic gift of a hair dryer to celebrate the sale of his first novel. And when the conversation turned to music, he lit up, revealing that when he retreats to his writing shack in the woods each day, he gets in the mood by blasting the daylights out of Judas Priest and Metallica.
Sinister clowns and nightmarish ghosts aside, that's a guy you gotta love.
Kerri Miller is the host of Mid-Morning on MPR from 9 to 11 a.m. and of Talking Volumes. The next Talking Volumes show is in May with Monica Ali.
Nico Muhly
By Rod Smith
Unlike a slew of other countries, the U.S. rarely celebrates classical composers hard or long enough to turn them into full-blown celebrities. Our last was Leonard Bernstein. Sure, Phillip Glass's film work is making his music ubiquitous. But how many of the people who know the 72-year-old, minimalist role model from, say, the Watchmen soundtrack could pick him out in a lineup? And how much does Glass care?
His assistant is another matter. Already prime media fodder in New York, Nico Muhly has all the requisite attributes for nationwide household-name status: charm, good looks, an easy way with audiences, killer conducting style, willingness to travel (and to work his perineum off). Whether or not the 28-year-old wunderkind becomes our next Bernstein remains to be seen, but he is already the face of Classical 2.0—no small feat given the field's crowdedness.
Speaking of 2.0, Muhly enjoys a ton of advantages Bernstein never dreamed of. He blogs with perceptiveness and style, tweets like a demon, boasts a massive YouTube presence, and even owns the means of production. His Bedroom Community label, co-founded with frequent collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson, serves as a vector for much of Muhly's work and for releases by like-minded souls from all over the musical spectrum.
Plus, he's a compelling instrumentalist and utterly fearless composer, willing to try anything from writing a short opera around William Strunk's Elements of Style to working with the likes of Björk, Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), and Grizzly Bear—who he played with at All Tomorrow's Parties weekend in England days before his Minneapolis debut last April. The crowd at that packed Southern Theater show—featuring Muhly alongside his equally youthful muse and interpreter of choice: viola monster Nadia Sirota—encountered the composer at his energetically laid-back best, using his laptop and MIDI controller as much as the piano, and spontaneously cracking a multitude of jokes. As for our feelings about a classical dude who wears makeup and says "fuck" onstage? In the 21st century? Uh, how could we fucking resist?
Rod Smith is a Minneapolis-based writer, educator, composer, and DJ.
Greta Oglesby
By Marianne Combs
I first saw Greta Oglesby perform several years ago in King Lear with Ten Thousand Things. She was Kent, a nobleman loyal to Lear, who spoke his mind freely and bluntly. Even though I saw this play in a men's prison, with the lights up full, Oglesby had me convinced of the solidity and strength of her character throughout. I've been a fan of her work ever since, and have enjoyed seeing the breadth of her talent onstage in such productions as Crowns (at the Guthrie) and The Piano Lesson (with Penumbra Theater). But it wasn't until this year that I saw her perform a role that put to use all of her abilities—dramatic, comedic, and musical—in one powerful package.
In Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change, Oglesby gave what Kushner himself said was the definitive performance of his character. Caroline is a woman weighed down by her worldly burdens while trying desperately to stay true to her values. Oglesby's portrayal took audiences on a roller coaster of emotions, from the heights of her indignity down to the most nuanced notes of her tenderness. Never before in my years of theatergoing have I been part of such a unanimous standing ovation, as more than a thousand people rose to their feet in what felt like a single motion. Greta Oglesby is an artist of the year not because she suddenly became more than she already was, but because she finally got the part that allowed us all to see just what she's capable of.
Marianne Combs reports on the arts for Minnesota Public Radio. She also writes "State of the Arts," MPR's blog exploring everything from theater and dance to fashion and architecture.
Tamara Ober
By Caroline Palmer
Tamara Ober is full of surprises. As a member of Zenon Dance Company, the radiant Sage Award-winning performer has proven many times her ability to interpret works from a variety of choreographic perspectives, but this year she fully revealed her own with the solo performance Pipa, a Fringe Festival favorite (not to mention a first runner-up for best English-language production at the Montreal Fringe).
Ober wrote the text, composed the music, and danced in this original work about a young girl's fantastical journey through fear and wonderment, with only hand-drawn maps from her mother to guide the way. This was tricky subject matter—Pipa could have ended up as an overly precious reflection on growing up, but Ober's subtle portrayal of the tension between brightly colored childhood daydream and darker adult reality was altogether believable for its balanced blend of optimism and disillusionment.
Although she spoke in Pipa, Ober's body really told the story. She is a robust and muscular dancer with a keen sense of her relationship to the ground, but in this work she imbued her movement with the antsy awkwardness of a pre-tween, tormented by curiosity and impatient to consume as much information about the world as possible. As Ober's character tried to tame her restlessness (while learning the hard way how others might take advantage of it), we saw an artist who can effortlessly transform a spare stage into a fascinating, if sometimes perilous, wonderland, as seen only through her wide-open mind's eye.
Caroline Palmer is a Minneapolis attorney, dance critic, and frequent contributor to City Pages.
Raye Birk
By Peter Rothstein
Raye Birk is an extraordinary actor with an open heart, a brilliant mind, and a gift for nuanced, transformational performances. The past season he gave us one phenomenal performance after another, beginning with his transcendent portrayal of an old Viennese voice teacher who survived Nazi Germany in Old Wicked Songs at Theater Latte Da, followed by his fourth year as Scrooge in the Guthrie's A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is an incredibly demanding role, which Birk tackled with zeal for hundreds of performances. He closed A Christmas Carol and immediately stepped into Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, where he was brought in as an emergency replacement and was in front of another Guthrie audience after only four days of rehearsal.
It was a remarkable achievement. Even without a rehearsal process, Raye brought to his role the extraordinary level of detail and the emotional honesty he is known for. He went on to the Guthrie's When We Are Married as part of a powerhouse ensemble and closed a triumphant year there with Faith Healer, demonstrating the tremendous range and charisma of this Twin Cities treasure.
Peter Rothstein is a Twin Cities stage director and the founding artistic director of Theater Latté Da. His upcoming projects include Violet for Theater Latté Da and M. Butterfly for the Guthrie.
Mary Karr
By Michelle Orange
Both credited with and blamed for triggering the confessional memoir avalanche that buried the last decade in all sorts of "it happened to me" human muck, Mary Karr returned to the fold this year with Lit. Her 1996 debut, The Liar's Club, has not had a true equal since its publication, and her 2000 follow-up, Cherry, solidified Karr as not only a singular raconteur but a masterful stylist. As the form became more and more tarnished by shoddy workmanship, exploitative fare, and then flat-out scandals, new memoirs were being greeted with something just short of derision: Oh, really? Another? When it was announced that Mary Karr would be coming out with her third memoir, this one chronicling her descent into—yes—alcoholism and subsequent redemption through poetry and prayer, even I, one of her biggest fans, was given pause.
In fact no entry could be more perfect for the post-memoir, perpetual present moment we now find ourselves in. Lit, the longest of her three books by far, presents Mary Karr as an artist working along a kind of biographical continuum; it is her first book to deal with her life as an adult, and it picks up, as Cherry did, where her last book leaves off.
There is nothing either disposable or particularly sensational about this part of her story. Karr writes a memoir about finding her way out of solipsism and self-absorption (traits often associated with the form), excavating the time during which she wrote The Liar's Club—it's a memoir of a memoir. The Herculean strength of her prose alone (she writes of alcohol- and exhaustion-induced slumber as "black-brained sleep"; of her sudden wish to have a child she says, "I carry in me the feverish craving of a woman wanting to lodge some luminescent bubble of baby in my middle") certifies Lit as a giant book. Her ability to craft true art—not simply biography and not what we have come to call memoir—from her life raises Karr above her peers this year and for many to come.
Michelle Orange is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebook, a story collection published by McSweeney's. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.
Michael Jackson
By Dessa
Dancing and singing are special kinds of art. You don't need gear. Or money. Or instructions. You just need a room with air in it. Watching a Michael Jackson performance is watching a man turn calories and oxygen into something so entertaining that people lose consciousness. They're just physically incapable of being more entertained. In fact, hulking men are paid to find the over-entertained, lift their limp bodies above the crowd, and carry them to safety.
I've heard that the first time Michael Jackson moonwalked on TV, viewers thought it was a trick—thought he'd rigged his socks with mirrors. A skinny grade-school girl at the time, I remember leaning toward Michael's image onscreen. Afterward, I danced on the carpet till I accumulated enough static electricity to shock myself on the doorknob.
I'm from a pretty cerebral family: Dad was a broke lute player, Mom earned her master's in Elizabethan stagecraft. The general understanding was that our bodies existed to carry our heavy minds from place to place. Michael Jackson rattled that worldview. He made it look good to be a body, good to be an animal. He made it look like we weren't the soft, slow creatures who conquered the planet on the technicality of an opposable thumb.
Jackson has been as confounding a celebrity as we've had. We're partial to binary thinking, to yes-or-no answers. And along comes Michael singing like a girl, interviewing like a child, and looking lighter every year. He re-brands the common zombie as a sex object and, strangely, we love the idea. He becomes a self-styled humanitarian, then arouses concern about his conduct at home. He pairs outrageously sexualized dance with an irresistible smile and pretty tame lyrics. In doing so, he retains his position in the industry as a family entertainer. He complicates our ideas of maleness, of blackness, of heterosexuality, of gloves.
I don't know what to think about Michael Jackson, not exactly. But sitting in the darkness of a theater, watching This Is It, the film of rehearsal footage from the London concerts he was about to perform, I got exactly the same feeling I'd had 20 years before. His every syncopated flourish made me want to get up and try it myself. Rocking in my chair, I thought, There is nothing like this on the Nature Channel. This is something that only our kind of animal can do.
Dessa is a writer, rapper, singer, and member of the Doomtree crew. She is the author of a short volume of essays called Spiral Bound. Her upcoming full-length album is A Badly Broken Code.
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AP Source: James wins 3rd NBA MVP award
Published: Friday, May 11, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
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MIAMI — A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that Miami's LeBron James will be announced Saturday as the NBA's MVP, the third time he's won the award in the past four seasons.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the results have not been released. James is expected to be presented with the trophy Sunday by Commissioner David Stern before Miami hosts Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Indiana.
James will become the eighth player to win the award at least three times, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Moses Malone. He'll be the first to win as a member of the Heat. James' previous MVP awards in 2009 and 2010 came when he played for Cleveland.
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A Personal History of the Church of England
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Atlantic Books, $32.95, 224 pp.
According to Roger Scruton, religion has been an embarrassment to the English since the seventeenth century—one of the topics, like sex, that you just don't discuss. Ever since fervent Protestants left England to set up their city on a hill in America, England—exhausted by the religious conflicts of the Civil War—has settled for peace rather than ardent belief. The difference in religious fervor between the two countries never ceases to amaze both the British and Americans. Anglicanism has molded and reflected a people who are slightly embarrassed and skeptical about religion, and for whom religion is more a social matter than a relationship with God. The English, who "know in their hearts that faith is in large part a human invention," prefer compromise to zeal, and want the transcendent only in small doses.
In addition to being England's foremost conservative philosopher, Scruton is organist at his local Anglican church. His "thoughts at one remove from faith," Scruton rightly puts himself in the noble line of skeptical Englishmen from the seventeenth-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the eighteenth-century essayist Joseph Addison to George Orwell and Philip Larkin, perhaps the greatest poet of religious nostalgia, and "for whom this strange form of holiness [Anglicanism] has been the best that can be done in the matter of religion."
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When I try to edit a post I can't switch to Visual. I tried emptying my cache using W3 Total Cache, and it did not work.
When I try to edit a post I can't switch to Visual. I tried emptying my cache using W3 Total Cache, and it did not work.
Check under your User profile and make sure that the disable visual editor box is UNchecked.
If so, then try deactivating all your plugins, resetting the plugins folder (using FTP rename the plugins folder) and switching to the default theme.
Thanks but I don't know how to reset the plugins folder as you described.
Here's a better explanation -
Make sure you are clearing any browser and site caches. Also what browser are you using? You may want to try a different one just in case.
I did all of that and I am still having the same problem.
Link to your site?
That doesn't look like the default theme with no plugins - that's really the only way to troubleshoot this kind of problem.
Hi, I switched it back. I will switch it out again.
Have you tried another browser? What browser are you using?
I tired both firefox and IE. Same problem.
And you DID look under your users profile? (sorry, just doublechecking - these things can be annoyingly troublesome :). )
Yes I did. It's unchecked. Thank you.
Try the fix in this thread -
You could also try reinstalling WP manually by -
- re-uploading all files & folders - except the wp-content folder - from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.
Bummer. That is a bit out of my skill-set.
Hmm, yeah, that's a bit daunting, I agree. Unfortunately, I'm really not sure what else to suggest. These kinds of problems seem pretty random and can be a real pain.
But going back to your first post - you said you have W3 Total Cache? That plugin can be pretty troublesome, so if that's the case, you may want to completely delete it and any files it's added to your site.
Thanks. I added W3 after the problem ocurred so that I could delete my cache.
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Ulcerative Colitis (cont.)
What Increases Your Risk
You have an increased risk of ulcerative colitis if you:
When To Call a Doctor
Call a doctor immediately if you have been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and you have:
If you have any of these symptoms and you have been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, your disease may have become significantly worse. Some of these symptoms also may be signs of toxic megacolon. This is a condition in which the colon swells to many times its normal size. Toxic megacolon requires emergency treatment. Left untreated, it can cause the colon to leak or rupture. This can be fatal.
People with ulcerative colitis usually know their normal pattern of symptoms. Call your doctor if there is a change in your usual symptoms or if:
Watchful waiting
Watchful waiting is not appropriate when you have any of the above symptoms. If your symptoms are caused by ulcerative colitis, delaying the diagnosis and treatment may make the disease worse. And it can increase your risk of other problems.
Even when the disease is in remission, your doctor will want to see you regularly to check for complications. Some of these problems can be hard to detect. It is always a good idea to call your doctor's office for advice.
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Health professionals who can diagnose ulcerative colitis include:
For the treatment and management of ulcerative colitis, you are likely to be referred to a gastroenterologist.
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Getting firsthand information from an actual car owner is one sure way to get an idea of car performance once it leaves the lot. Autobytel features real consumer reviews that give the unbiased experience of a car.
Pros: power
Cons: torque steer
Advice: Unless you want the prestige of an Acura or Infiniti or etc.The only 2 less than stellar aspects of this car are (1) fairly boring (and a little odd) styling and (2) torque steering that can be severe. The plus side to issue number one is that the car can be picked out in a crowd... (+ or - ... you make the call...). The plus to item 2 is that the Maxima is one of the fastest sedan/sport sedans on the market. My other car is a Miata. While the Maxima handling is not nearly as responsive as the Miata, it's far superior to both the Camry and Accord, and easily in the same league as the Infiniti I35 and Acura TL-S. The only sport sedan I drove that had discernibly better handling characteristics was the BMW 328i... For MANY thousand more dollars. An added note: The first car I drove at the Nissan dealership was the 2001 Maxima GLE. Frankly, the car was less than inspiring. The 2002 model is a distinct step up in several areas. OK... One more note: I drove the new Altima, maxed out. Power and handling are comparable to, but, IMHO, not quite up to the Maxima standards. While it listed for a couple of grand less than the maxed out Maxima, the salesman couldn't discount it as much because Altimas are selling so well. Just my opinion... If you're offered the same dollar deal between these 2 cars... The top of the line Altima is not nearly as nice (especially the interior!!!) as the top of the line Maxima.
Pros: Handling and ride.
Cons: No mute button on the stereo.
Advice: Do your homework and be prepared to be surprised.The ride is wonderful. The acceleration is not to be believed. Went from a 2000 Malibu LS to this car and will keep this car until it falls apart. I got the SE for the firmer ride, but liked the comfort of the GLE also. Love the braking. Recently saved me from a bad accident, someone turned in front of me and at the speed I was going, if I had been driving the Malibu I would have destroyed both cars. Have had it 3 months and fall more in love with this car everytime I get in it.
Pros: Looks
Cons: interior plastics
Advice: Buy it!!The car looks great! Drives like a luxury car. handles like a sports car. I love my Altima. If your in the market for a midsize sedan such as a camry or an accord. Test drive an alitma!!
Pros: the tail lights
Cons: the cheap interior
Advice: dealers won't haggle to much on the priceI was very impressed with the vehicles outside appearance, but after getting inside and looking around I would say Nissan has a long way to go as far as the interior is concerned. The dash and controls are very 'plasticy' and cheap, I was very un-impressed overall with the vehicle.
Pros: 7 speaker stereo
Cons: nothing
Advice: After test driving a new Toyota Corolla and/or Honda Civic - the new Nissan Sentra is BY FAR the BEST CAR of the Corolla and Civic put together! You get more BANG for your buck with the Nissan Sentra.The Nissan Sentra was redesigned a couple years ago and is now a better competitor for the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic. I still have my '94 Corolla with 130,000 miles on it because it's been so reliable. But after researching and test driving all three newer models of Toyota, Honda and Nissan I found I was still getting a very reliable vehicle with the Nissan Sentra for far less than Toyota AND the Sentra has LOTS more extras and better comfort overall.
Pros: The manual transmison
Cons: i paid around 26000 for it
Advice: get the 5 speed manualwith the supercharger its a nice SUV
Pros: Speed
Cons: N/A
Advice: Too much of a high PriceExcellent Car. It was cheated out of the car of the year for 2002.


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Yep. That's. How. It. Works.
If I have the energy tonight after work, I'll respond with a diatribe on why on the fair tax isn't as simple as it seems. I gave it a chance and looked past the regressive element that initially turned me off. I'm against the idea for much different reasons today. I'll elaborate later...already wasted enough work time on the Huddle today.
I look forward to reading it
If it works I would prefer it much more than the confusing clusterfug we have now.
I look forward to reading it
I'm serious.
Uh oh...he's serial.
Yayyyyyyyy......one more hand in my frickin' pocket! Workin' to support the govt....awesome.
Does anybody know how much the total collective savings of all the US citizens are out there?
Who didn't see this coming? And it's not just some wild idea, this is going to happen.
Posted May 28, 2009
Do they plan to eliminate other taxes to implement this one?
Why of course they do.
This is not surprising. When Clinton was elected, I remember him looking at 5 new things to tax. Things that had never been taxed before. Back then there was enough opposition in the congress to stop it. Right now we are phucked. It will be a while before it changes. I say just hunker down for a long, bad ride.


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Austria Must Act to Avoid Hypo Alpe Capital Call, Nowotny Says
Austria must split off the bad assets of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International AG by the end of March or face another capital injection for the nationalized lender, the central bank governor said.
"We need a quick solution, in this quarter," Ewald Nowotny, the head of Austria's central bank, told journalists in Vienna today. "If that doesn't happen, there's the risk that there will be more capital needs," he said. "It remains a risk for the budget."
Austria's government, which spent 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) of taxpayer money on Hypo Alpe since its bailout, will soon decide on how to set up a "bad bank" for the lender, Finance Minister Michael Spindelegger told journalists in Brussels yesterday. The choice is between a vehicle that's wholly state-owned or one that brings other banks on board, Hypo Alpe Chairman Klaus Liebscher has said.
Four years after Hypo Alpe's rescue, Austria is still debating who should carry the cost of the bank's ill-fated transformation from a provincial lender into a financier for the former Yugoslavia. The government has dismissed plans to require bondholders to take losses, leaving taxpayers with 18 billion euros of problem assets, including delinquent property loans and seized collateral ranging from Adriatic hotels and shopping malls to yachts and cars.
The liabilities of a state-owned bad bank, like Germany's FMS Wertmanagement AoeR, would be added to the Austrian government's debt, pushing it beyond 80 percent of gross domestic product.
'Budget Cosmetics'
Setting up a vehicle majority-owned by Austrian banks, similar to Ireland's National Asset Management Agency, would avoid that complication, according to the European Union's Maastricht debt rules.
"What's important is to keep the actual costs as low as possible," Nowotny said. "This shouldn't be just budget cosmetics to the tune of the Maastricht rules."
The wind-down vehicle shouldn't have a banking license and should be separated from units that are to be sold, Nowotny said. Without a license, the bad-asset unit would be freed from capital requirements that the central bank would otherwise be forced to impose, he said.
"The longer I postpone this move, the higher the additional capital requirements will be," Nowotny said.
The six Austrian lenders that will be supervised by the European Central Bank and are undergoing its asset quality review have already cut assets and raised capital in preparation for the exam and won't need state aid, Nowotny said. That includes Oesterreichische Volksbanken AG, he said, denying a report in Austrian daily WirtschaftsBlatt yesterday that the partly nationalized lender may need as much as 200 million euros of aid.
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I'm trying to import a DB from .sql file, but it's impossible, cause like I said is over 6GB with a lot of records in it and I hit the limit of max_allowed_packet. I use my cPanel user to login in mysql via PuTTy, but it requires SUPER privileges to set this variable(max_allowed_packet).
You could split the file at the end of each group of SQL statements and then import one after the other.


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Greg Sargent: SCOTUS Sides with Federal PowerRoundup: Media's Take
Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant -- what you might call "opinionated reporting" from the left. He joined the Post in early 2009, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. He lives in Maryland with his wife, son and daughter.
...In the broadest possible sense, this can be seen as the start of a third era in which the Court wrestles with questions surrounding the expansion of federal power — each era different from the other, says James O'Hara, a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
During the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to expand the federal government's management of the economy to cope with the Great Depression. While the court initially dealt Roosevelt plenty of setbacks, the era as a whole can be seen as a ratification of Roosevelt's broad contention that the crisis merited expansive federal intervension.
During the Warren Court, a liberal era, questions surrounding federal authority were different — and were more directly concerned with the battle between federal power and states' rights. The Court frequently upheld the federal government's authority over states on matters ranging from civil rights to voting to education....
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Outcome: Case Dismissed
Description: Client arrested in New York County and charged with three felony narcotics violations including Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree. The initial bail requested by the prosecutor was $7,000. The judge set the bail at $2,500. Defense counsel convinced the prosecutor not to present the case to the grand jury based upon the weaknesses in the case. CASE DISMISSED.


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I like to know what software do you use to take notes using a tablet input device like the Genius G-Pen 4500. The software must run in Windows. This tablet comes with a built in software that those exactly what I need, but the problem is that is incredible bad at performance, after a couple of minutes the RAM that it use goes to 1.9 GB and then it crash.
The features of this software is that open a white page from where I can write what ever want, press a button to create a new empty page, save the pages as jpeg images, undo every change I made (reason for what I think that eats up all the RAM), change the color of the pen, and other formatting options.
I'm testing now OneNote from Microsoft but I can't find a way to input text with my device.
Note: I don't want to translate the text or the formulas that I'm writing, I just need write what ever I want in a comfortable note taking way.


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Alvina Svercl, age 72, of Carrington, N.D., died Thursday, October 25, 2012, at Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd in New Rockford, N.D.� Alvina Marie Nelson was born on October 7, 1940, the daughter of Olaf and Alma (Tweeten) Nelson at Brocket, ND. She was raised and graduated school in Brocket. Alvina attended college at Mayville State College in Mayville, ND and received a teaching degree. She taught one year in Carrington in 1962-63.� On June 9, 1963, Alvina was united in marriage to William Svercel in Brocket. They made their home in Carrington.�She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Ruth-Rachel Circle and was a bible study leader. She enjoyed baking, cooking, sewing and reading.� Alvina is survived by her husband; two daughters, Darlene (Russell) Krapp, Buchanan, ND, and Linda Fulcher, Kerrville, TX; one son, Kenneth (Holly) Svercl, Cornville, AZ; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.�She was preceded in death by her parents.� Visitation:� Sunday, 1:00� – 8:00 PM at Evans Funeral Home, Carrington, ND�Funeral Service: Trinity Lutheran Church, Carrington.
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Casual Fridays
I'm not a fan of Korina Sanchez or any of her shows, but her outfit last Friday on TV Patrol caught my eye. The shorts with a blazer combo might not be for everyone, but I thought it looked refreshing and was a nice change from her usual stuffy, uber-corporate get-up.
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A day before giving birth
I knew that having and delivering a baby will take its toll on my body, but I never thought that it would change it this much. About two days after I gave birth, when I saw my naked body for the first time post-operation in front of a full-length mirror, all I could think was: We have a lot of work ahead of us.
To keep things on track and to serve as my guide, this is what I need to accomplish to bring back the glory of the pre-pregnancy Jill (humor me will ya? :).
Say Hello to Baby Ace!
Just a quick post to introduce all of you to the reason for my absence these last few days. The sexiest man in Asia, my son Ace :)
Everyone meet Ace, Ace meet everyone.
Hair Color for a First Timer
Hello Ms. Jill!
I am 17. And my hair is still a "virgin", meaning it has never undergone any chemical processes and treatments, it's never been rebonded, bleached, dyed, etc. My hair's black and straight ( but is somewhat wavy at the ends). Now, I'm kind of bored with my hair, and I wanted to do something new with it. I am thinking of having a new hair color.
There's a small voice in my mind saying "No, don't dye your hair! Your hair will be damaged. Your hair has been very healthy for 17 years, NOOO DON'T! You should maintain its healthiness!"
But then another voice shouts, "You look so boring with your hair! You want to look prettier, right? Try to experiment! Don't be afraid girl! Go out of your shell! Look at those gorgeous girls, they may have damaged hair due to overstyling, but duh! They're still pretty! Go go go!".
So yah, that's my dilemma right now. Should I dye my hair? And if yes, is it better if I go to a salon? Because my sister offers to do it herself, and I trust her since for many years, she manages to style her hair on her own. And any special hair care tips?
I hope you could help me.
Miss Piggy is My Role Model
The title might have raised a few eyebrows but think about it, Miss Piggy always speaks her mind, is brimming with self-confidence and will karate chop anyone who dares to go against her. Ok, so the last is not something we should emulate (no to violence!), but really, after the Dove commercial put to light how women generally have low self esteem, it's refreshing to find someone who thinks the world of herself.


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Musings on Soundwall's journey from a holiday hack project to a shipping product
David Hose is a serial entrepreneur who's been in the tech industry since 1980 – from writing software to taking companies public to a prolific angel investor and startup advisor.
Soundwall is quite possibly the most beautiful object in the internet of things: an innovative speaker that is also a work of art. Literally – it looks like a large format framed poster. Soundwall hangs on your wall, connects to your network, and plays music wirelessly from your phone, iPod, or computer. The outside is an art gallery quality brilliant print in a beautiful black frame. The inside is powered by a Raspberry Pi with custom software and a powerful 100w per channel digital amplifier.
does it get the music?" (From your phone or iTunes on your computer.) "Can I provide my own image?"(Yes, you can pick one of our images or supply one of your own when you order.) These questions, and more, take on a unique tenor for hardware products especially novel ones. Your prospective customer can't just go to a website and try it out. They have to experience it and for us that means physically hear the product. That's when we get the "how cool is this and I want one" responses that make us so excited about Soundwall.


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Obama hails bakery clan's sweet story
SAN FRANCISCO Thirty-four years ago, Binh Ly, his brothers and 140 other refugees were jammed into a 9-foot-wide, hand-built boat fleeing Vietnam for Malaysia, half terrified and the other half too seasick to feel more than misery. Ly was the cook for his family. All he had was rice and water.
After four hellish days on the ocean, during which pirates stole virtually everything, they reached land. Next was more than a year in a refugee camp.
"We were always hungry," recalled Ly, now 67.
No chance of that now. If sweet success has a face, it is that of the Ly family – and the $60 million Sugar Bowl Bakery empire the clan built once it made it to San Francisco with nothing but dreams of a new life.
President Barack Obama singled out Ly and his brothers this week in a San Francisco speech advocating an immigration overhaul, calling their story "amazing." The president praised the family as the embodiment of "what America is about … the place where you can reach for something better if you work hard."
The Lys were farmers and bakers in South Vietnam. After Saigon – now Ho Chi Minh City – fell in 1975, they began what became four tries to escape communist rule, finally succeeding in 1979.
They wound up in San Francisco. Nobody could speak English. They had no jobs lined up.
"We all worked at whatever we could," Binh Ly said. "We worked at cafes. One of my brothers delivered newspapers. Then we decided we should do a business. And we should do it as a family, because that's what we do."
In 1984, the brothers pooled together $40,000 to buy the tiny Sugar Bowl Bakery coffee shop in the Richmond District. They sold mostly hamburgers and doughnuts, then began delivering pastries to small stores across town.
"I'd been a baker, and my brother Andrew studied business," Binh Ly said, "and so we thought, 'OK, we'll run one coffee shop with our five families.' It grew from there."
And how. The Sugar Bowl Bakery exploded into an operation that at one point had six coffee shops and baking plants in San Francisco and Hayward. After the recession, the Lys sold the coffee shops and consolidated production in Hayward, where they turn out baked goods for 7,000 companies, including Safeway and Costco, in a dozen countries. It is one of the biggest family-owned businesses in California.
Annual revenue has increased 50 percent in the past five years, to $60 million, said General Manager Michael Ly – Binh Ly's son.
"We found that becoming more streamlined and being really great at a few things, instead of being spread out, was better," said Michael Ly, 39.
He and his sister, Laura Ly, 34, marketing manager for the bakery, were inspecting the production line Tuesday. They stopped in front of the madeleine operation, where 75 million of the puffy, cakelike goodies are pumped out each year.
"Look at this," Laura Ly said, pointing to a wide conveyor belt packed with madeleines. "When the Chinese came to America, they thought the streets were lined with gold, and this reminds me of that."
She took in a deep whiff of madeleine and grinned.
"This is still the land of opportunity," she said. "I feel my family and I have lived that."
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There were 13 minutes to go in the fourth quarter when an announcer called for a stop in the action, and to clear the field. Life Star would be landing, the announcer told the crowd.
The fans in the stands did not know why. The boy, a student at Northwestern Regional, had been found, but he could not be seen by the crowd watching the game.
Sgt. Brian Fox of Winsted Police Department confirmed a juvenile male attempted suicide. He is not a Winsted resident, Fox said. Fox said he believed some of the boy's friends found him during the game against Sports Medicine Sciences Academy, a charter school in Hartford.
It was not clear what led them to their shocking discovery, or in what state their friend was when they found him.
Life Star wound up not landing at the football field. Emergency responders decided to take the teen, who was still alive, to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital's emergency room at Winsted Health Center, and from there he was taken to a Hartford hospital.
The game was stopped for 45 minutes while emergency crews attended to and attempted to revive the student. Police and officials at the scene declined to comment. Northwest Regional School and Gilbert School students play on the team.
Both teams decided not to continue with the rest of the game. Gilbert-Northwestern won, 35-0.
"Both coaching staffs and the administration made the decision. There are bigger things in life than football," said Scott Salius', Gilbert-Northwestern coach.
No one knew what was happening at the first announcement, but word quickly spread, said Chris Perrault of Winsted, a Gilbert senior who was at the game.
After the emergency crews cleared the field, the crowd held a moment of silence for the boy.
His condition was unknown late Friday night.
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This is not only traumatic to his friends and loved ones, but it can have a damaging effect on teens in our area.
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However, to those students who also feel desperate, this, like school shootings, can be a way to get empathy in death. "See, all the people will now know and feel bad for how they treated me." Whenever there is a teen suicide there is added risk of more in that community. When it is very public? That risk multiples.
The basic facts can be reported when something like that publicly happens and people want to know why Lifestar was going to land there. (Makes me wonder about the decisions to begin with, when so close to the ER-- why wouldn't that have been the plan all along rather than lifestar landing dramatically in the middle of a HS football game??)
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Although Brandon knew he was not licensed, she says she was eager to listen to him because he told her that increasing her ability to function was more important than integrating her personalities -- something she wanted to hear. "He told me to give the various personalities time and let them do whatever they wanted. This was not good therapy. But he made it all sound so good."
Relying on the online "psychoanalyst," Brandon says she didn't get the professional help she really needed. Eventually, confused and depressed, she took an overdose of a tranquilizer. It wasn't enough to kill her, but the experience led her to check into a mental hospital where she finally began to get effective treatment.
Local police began an investigation of the self-proclaimed "psychoanalyst," but he left that state before it was completed. The entire incident infuriated the online community of people with multiple personality disorder; one person posted a web page dedicated to exposing the unlicensed analyst.
In his discussion with WebMD, this man offered glowing references from other people he had helped. He pointed out that he doesn't charge for his therapy. And he has continued to offer counseling on his own web site.
Incidents like these show that chat rooms are clearly not the place to go for therapy, says Storm King of the International Society for Mental Health Online. Seriously depressed or ill people like Brandon need intensive therapy, face to face. "It's okay to try online therapy and see if it fits for you," says King. "But don't assume it's going to always work real well."
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The ability to make a split-second decision is a skill police officers must master.
"It's rare that we have to pull our weapon, but when we do, we have to be ready for anything," said Officer Brian Horner.
Horner and 21 other city policemen sharpened their reaction skills during a week-long police officer training course provided by the Ohio Attorney General's office and the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy.
The training exercise included an interactive shooting simulator that tested judgement and decisiveness under various circumstances. The video game-like module had nearly 400 scenarios that
included domestic violence calls, burglaries, agitated motorists and school shootings.
"All these scenarios have actually occurred or they are based off a similar situation police have encountered," said Frank Chung, a law enforcement training officer with the attorney general's office.
Chung administered the training session to Horner and Officer Michael Banic. The two acted as partners during the simulation. During each scenario Banic and Horner responded to a particular call for service. After learning the nature of the call, they shouted commands to the subjects on screen before deciding whether to escalate their use of force.
In one scenario, Banic and Horner came upon a pharmacy being burglarized. After finding and ordering one suspect to the ground, another suspect came onto the screen and starting shooting at the officers. Both Banic and Horner quickly incapacitated the shooter.
After completing each scenario, Chung questioned them on their motives and reasons for action. He also told them other options at their disposal.
"It's not my job to tell them if they were right or wrong," said Chung. "This is for them to better their judgement and decision-making skills."
As in real situations, the simulated situations forced officers to decide whether to use non-lethal or lethal force, or just talk someone down. While some of the scenarios resulted in officers shooting at the suspects on screen, many of them ended with a verbal command.
"We want officers to know that a majority of the people they deal with are compliant," said Chung. "This training is to make sure they are ready for anything."
Chung, who was a full-time officer for 13 years in the Olmstead Falls police department, travels throughout northeastern Ohio administering the training to departments looking for training without traveling and encumbering costs to their budgets. The free training is provided at the request of the department.
"This puts into practice everything they've learn to enhance their judgement," said Chief James Taafe. "And we get to train for free."
While the training is not a state requirement for departments, those participating thought it was worth their time.
"We got a lot of it today," said Banic. " Most of the things we saw in the simulation we don't normally see, so it's good to keep our senses sharp for anything we might see in the future."
There was a psych study test i forget who did it either Harvard or Yale, the subject was given a light gun, and put before a projector screen much like this. They were shown one of 4 possible scenarios. A white person with a non lethal object, a white person with a lethal object, a black person with a non lethal object, a black person with a lethal object. They found that white subjects were faster to shoot the black person whether they were armed or not, the truly fascinating discovery was that the black subjects were just as fast shooting the black person over the white person.
Draw what conclusions you will. I found it fascinating. The results do not however imply what the casual factors are.
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