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Friday, 30 October 2009
Barnsley man fails in quest to revolutionise pub, but gets credit anyway
Moral panic and shameful distortion
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Cape Verde
Cape Verde is made of compacted cigarette ash, it's covered in flies and the beer tastes of wet cardboard.
That's all you need to know.
No, really.
OK, I'll expand a bit.
In weeks to come, the thought of a mere six days out of sight of land would seem like nothing but a brief hop. But at the end of that first week on board, the excitement of seeing land again was enormous. We all loved being on Europa, but the idea of some other stimulus – different people, different food, something new to look at and hear and smell – made us giddy from early afternoon that first Saturday.
There's always a faint haze where the sea meets the sky, even on the clearest days, and land doesn't just peek gradually up from under the horizon. It suggests itself as a grey outline, a rubbed out sketch, and you dismiss it as cloud if you notice it at all. Then you look again minutes later and it's there, a silvery-olive hulking lump full of possibility.
There were two islands rearing up before us, and as they gradually took on definition, developing like a photograph, revealing cliffs and rocks and beaches, our mobile phones came out of hibernation. I was pleasantly surprised by how few people rushed to grab them when they realised we had a signal, but I was one of the two or three, desperate to call Liz. A week without speaking seemed like ages.
We sailed between the islands, ragged and volcanic in close-up. I was eager to see what this remote tropical island community looked like, and to start with, my reaction was… quizzical. We were making for Sao Vicente, the biggest island. Ruined, Biblical houses perched high on its grey cliffs, flat, square and monochrome with windows like eyeless sockets. Eventually the cliffs and houses gave way to Mindelo, a wide harbour dotted with rusting container ships and Second World War motor torpedo boats dragged from retirement to serve as coast guard vessels. Incongruous beside these, a few luxury yachts dawdled nonchalantly.
We moored at the very end of the concrete harbour wall, as if for a quick getaway. Ten minutes later, every surface on the ship was covered in a fine grey dust which must have been volcanic in origin, but looked and felt exactly like cigarette ash. Sheltered from the sea breeze, the air was suddenly hot and sticky. Workers rushed to help with ropes and then stood staring at the masts. It seemed to take an inordinate number of customs officials to clear us, and once everything was in order they hung on, as unwilling to leave as Alberto had been on Tenerife. This is what it must feel like to be going out with a supermodel, I thought – men staring at her wherever you go. I was proud that I was with her, accepting that I was invisible to others who desired her.
The harbour wall was a mural of different ships and the sentiments of their crews. American war ships had left bulldogs, giant eagles of fire and huge cannons, "War ready to preserve peace," a tiny, permanent invasion with spray paint. Crews from countless other nations were content to leave their names and depictions of their ships, and messages no more warlike than "Welcome to Russia."
In the sunset we could see a few palm trees planted on the sea front where it curved round the bay away from us, suggesting a little more affluence, the only break from grey earth tones. It struck me that whoever named this place Cape Verde was obviously suffering from colour blindness – the entire island was the colour of the ash that now coated Europa like ugly snow. But as I was about to discover, the very name of these islands was simply the greatest example of their favourite national pastime: lying.
Night fell quickly. We dressed properly for the first time in almost a week and struck out for the town. I fell in with Paul, Paddy, John and Cosmic Joe, strolling down to the port entrance self-consciously. We didn't know where we were going or what we would do when we got there, but we were new friends on shore leave, giddy for dry land, eager to discover whether or not we would still be able to walk straight without swaying.
Outside the harbour gates local men were waiting for us. One immediately fell in step beside us. "I take you bars? You want see city?"
"No thanks, we're fine on our own, thank you."
"OK," he replied, walking alongside us.
"No really, we're fine."
"Yes, I know. We go bars yes?"
Most of us being English, there was nothing else we could do at this point apart from allow him to take us to a bar, give him some money and hope he would be gone by the time we re-emerged.
To be fair, it was a fine bar. Upstairs a wooden balcony overhung the street and we colonised it, uncomfortable, wondering if we could feel our sea legs after all or whether the balcony was really swaying. We watched girls tottering past on stilt-like heels and men loping up the street carrying freshly caught dorada by the gills. The crumbling colonial architecture and big old cars made it feel like most people who have never been to Cuba imagine it to be.
The local beer, Strela, was fine served cold, but it only came in fun-sized portions – 25ml bottles that seemed to evaporate in the heat of the moment. After two rounds the bar had none left, so we moved on to Sagres. This Portuguese beer usually earns a little more respect than most of the world's interchangeable lagers, but in Mindelo it really did taste like wet cardboard, and we couldn't finish it.
We went in search of more Strela. Klaas had recommended we look for the yacht club, which sounded alluring, but we couldn't find anything that looked as classy as the name suggested. In fact, we couldn't really find much of anything at all. The whole town seemed to be deserted apart from the few people we'd seen earlier. Eventually we discovered another bar on the harbour front. It was empty, and the waitresses seemed surprised to see us.
We spread out across the empty seats, and talked about Europa. None of us were booked on for the Antarctic voyage, and I was now starting to think that this might be a great trip to do. It reminded me of a story one of Liz's friends told me not long after we were together, and I couldn't resist sharing it. Liz once saw a nature programme, or someone told her about it, which pointed out a new crisis for Antarctica's penguins, as if they didn't have enough to cope with already. An increasing number of planes are flying over the Antarctic, and because the penguins have never seen them before they look up to watch them go past. But they're not accustomed to looking up, and often they fall over on their backs. And once a penguin falls on its back, it can't get up again. OK, seeing it written down the story looks less than convincing. But Liz is the most compassionate person I know and immediately resolved to go to the Antarctic to help up penguins who had fallen over while looking at planes.
Everyone laughed except Cosmic Joe, who seemed troubled. "Ah, but they are a nuisance, you know?"
"Penguins? A nuisance? How's that Joe?" asked Paul.
"In Cape Town, it is full of penguins. They are everywhere, tearing up gardens. They are destroying property prices. They are a menace."
Cape Town? In South Africa? Penguins?"
"Yeah. They are menace. It is very bad."
I tried to work out if there was a word in there that Joe had misunderstood, and then a fail-safe mechanism kicked in to prevent me trying to think like Joe did. It could be dangerous. We ordered another round of drinks instead, but with our first one we'd drunk this bar dry of Strela too.
From here we wandered back in the direction of the ship. There was nowhere else to go. There was one more bar to try, promisingly named Club Nautico, but it turned out not to be the yacht club as we had hoped. Locals glared at us, and my pubsense told me we were sitting at their regular table. Anton strode by, determinedly, on some kind of lone quest. Cosmic Joe drifted away. Five minutes later, he was back, telling us that the mythical yacht club was just across the road, and everyone else was there.
And so they were. The entire crew of Europa (except Anton) sat along the bar and took up half the floor. Even Val had stopped working. Everyone was dressed in their smart clothes, looking uncomfortable, as if at a school disco.
You'd never describe the yacht club as stylish or glamorous, but I was starting to realise that Mindelo wasn't the place to come if that's what you were looking for. It was busy and lively, and that was good enough. Our crowd occupied the entire space in front of a stage in one corner. Two guys played guitars and sang a mixture of Cape Verdean and Brazilian tunes and old jazz standards, and very good they were too. Cosmic Joe stood swaying on his own, eyes closed, grin splitting his face, dancing in a trippy style of his own making, possibly to the music being played on stage, or perhaps to another tune only he could hear.
Margriet was also enjoying herself. Her holiday reading was an encyclopaedia of jazz, and her most treasured possession was an antique saxophone. She carried a picture of it with her, and showed it to us like a baby photo. The band started one number, which she later informed me was a famous international jazz standard from the 1950s.
"Oh, I love this one!" she cried when she recognised it.
A local man sitting near her leaned across. "Ah, you like this? This is a very popular Cape Verde tune. My nephew wrote this!"
Dieter, wankered off his tits after two small beers, decided it was time to demolish the myth about Germans and their sense of humour once and for all. He approached Margriet and me and announced, "A man fell down a flight of stairs. He turned to his wife and said, 'I've lost my hat.' She said, 'Oh, I thought you said you had lost your head.'"
We waited a few seconds to see if there was any more of the joke, but that was it. I thought I must have misheard, or missed some of it, but a few days later I was talking to Janet and Peter and they told me they'd had the same joke inflicted on them too, and that was definitely how it went.
After we'd drunk the yacht club out of not just Strela but all its beer, and the band had packed up (to catch a plane to play a gig at Madison Square Garden, I'm sure) we decided to head back to the ship. It was midnight as we boarded, and straight away Val started applying rubber sealant to the planks on the main deck, without even pausing to change out of her party clothes. The poor girl hadn't worked for at least two hours.
With no watch necessary, the rest of us went to bed for a full, uninterrupted night's sleep. Or so I thought.
I woke up at 4am unable to breathe. The air was so hot it felt like the oxygen had been burned out of it. I staggered up to the deck and collapsed onto a seat in the deck house, where I was a little cooler. I dozed, and woke up three hours later covered in flies.
Sunday morning in Mindelo is dog washing day. The children of the town marshal the surprisingly healthy-looking mutts that run free in the streets and drag them determinedly into the sea to be scrubbed (some more willing than others). I paused to watch for forty five seconds, and just as it occurred to me that Mindelo is much more attractive when you have your back to it, Umberto sidled over for a friendly chat.
"I show you Mindelo?" he asked after telling me his name.
"I've seen it, thanks."
"I take you to bar? To girls?"
"No, I have to go back to my ship now. I know the way. It's right over there, look. Anyway, nice talking to you. Goodbye."
I set off down the promenade, and Umberto fell in step beside me. "There are no jobs in my country," he began. And for the next twenty minutes he talked in a spiral, weaving a Gordian knot from a mouthful of deceptively simple strands. First came his visits to England: "I've been to London, Belfast and Brighton. People do not believe me when I tell them I have been to Brighton. But I say to them, you know the large container port near the pier? You come out of there and there is a big disco on the left. Then they know I tell the truth."
Second, he was at pains to point out his honesty, so unusual on these islands: "I want to earn money, I want to feed my babies. I no rob you, I'm not like that."
And finally, back to his one-man efforts to promote Mindelo as a pleasant tourist destination: "If only we had met last night, you would have had a good time. I show you things. I show you all of Cape Verde. And maybe girls? Some people take you to see girls, and while they are there, they rob you. Not me, I'm not like that. I tell you, I am honest."
We neared the harbour. "I've got to get back to my ship, sorry. I know the way, it's right down here. I'll be fine from now, thanks."
"You want to drink some beer?"
Oh, why the hell not?
"I tell you my story," said Umberto.
Fine. I wanted to know a little more about life here. I had an hour to kill (not that he knew that), I could use a beer in the heat, and maybe if I asked the right questions, I might learn something interesting.
We entered the ferry terminal that serves the passages between the islands. On the fly-blown tarmac outside, a few women sold odd pieces of fruit and anything else they could lay their hands on. Inside, a bar selling not just drinks, but also chocolate, biscuits, shampoo and razors, provided us with the first draught beers I'd seen since leaving Oceana. "Can I have a cigarette as well?" asked Umberto. I nodded. Seconds later, he was back from the bar with a packet of twenty Marlboro. "Thanks," he said, waving the packet before pocketing it.
I tried to persuade him to elaborate on his rote speech. He repeated that there were no jobs on the islands, and said most of the money in Cape Verde comes from handouts. I struggled to understand why the islands campaigned for independence from Portugal. There's nothing here on which to base a free-standing economy, apart from ash and flies. I realised this is where tourism comes in. "Have a look at the property out there," Liz had told me, "all the magazines say it's a great place to buy holiday homes as an investment." That can only be because the government here are being very persuasive in making such a case. They must be desperate. I couldn't believe that Lamb woman off the holiday programmes had fallen for it. They must have sent her a better liar than Umberto.
"I left Cape Verde when I was eighteen, nineteen. I followed my brother onto the ships, and on my first voyage he died!"
"That's terrible," I said.
"I still wanted to work on the ships. I went to Greece, to Marseilles, to England. I went to Belfast, London and Brighton. You know the big container port in Brighton?"
And we were off again, the same few lines. I tuned out while Umberto talked and smoked.
"Where are you going on your ship?" he asked suddenly.
"Brazil," I replied.
"Ha. Brazil. Cape Verde is better. We have more beautiful women here. And more beautiful beaches."
"You have beaches here more beautiful than Copacabana and Ipanema?"
"Of course!"
We finished our beers and Umberto insisted on walking me back to the harbour gate. I gave him all my change, the unwanted Portuguese escudos that the old mother country had no use for after the introduction of the euro. There was the equivalent of about six euro worth, which I thought was a decent half hour's work for him given how hard I had tried to explain I didn't need walking back to the harbour, then bought him not only a beer, but a packet of Marlboro. But Umberto disagreed. He tried to push the change back on to me, saying, "No, no, you keep this as a souvenir of your time in Cape Verde. You give me paper money. I want notes. Haven't you got any paper money?"
No I fucking well hadn't got any paper money. Actually, as a matter of fact, I knew I had one 2000 escudo note left in my wallet, (about 20 euro). But I'd had enough. I decided to keep that as a souvenir of my visit to Cape Verde instead. "I walk to your ship with you. I come in with you," Umberto was saying. The guard looked at me and I shook my head. Seconds later, I was on one side of a barred gate and Umberto on the other. A pro to the last, he actually had the gall to look affronted by my cold, parsimonious behaviour.
By the time we were ready to cast off, a thirty-knot wind was barrelling through the straits between the islands, sending breakers crashing over the sides of a battered old cargo freighter anchored out in the strait. As soon as we were clear of the protective harbour wall Europa heeled over, every sinew straining, singing in the wind. Getting the sails up this time was a serious, tightly controlled operation. While I was working on the main deck, a wave hit me square in the back and swept me across the planks, and we all realised we needed to be careful.
Once we were in front of the wind we shot forward, peaking at eleven knots, only two below Europa's maximum recorded speed. Our jet-propelled escape seemed to lift the spirits of everyone on board. We all felt dirty. Everyone wanted a shower.
The sky was thick and steamy, and as the sun sank the light took on a solid hue. The whole sky turned a pale, golden straw colour, and the sea was purple.
It took a week to get rid of the flies from the deck house.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Pete's Pub Etiquette: no.3 in an increasingly rare series
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Danger: ale drinker on the loose
The earth didn't move. But that's OK
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
New Beer Club
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Inside Beer, and inside my book
More good beer stuff in a national newspaper
How to sell barley wine
The best book on marketing I ever read was called Positioning: the battle for your mind. It was the best book because it contained one simple idea. It repeated this idea over and over again, with countless examples, until you got it. And it's an idea that can help you sell anything worth selling.
Basically, the idea is this: the way the human brain works, when we are introduced to a new thing or idea, we automatically try to make sense of it by filing it in our brains next to things we already know. We understand it by relating it to things we're deeply familiar with. The first cars were known as horseless carriages. Television was like radio, but with pictures. And Seven-Up launched in the United States as 'the uncola'. In each case, the product is defined – positioned – against a product that's already familiar.
Think about when we write tasting notes for beers – the best way to describe an American IPA to a wine lover is to compare it to a Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc. Imperial porters are "vinous". And who can say they don't regularly describe the combination of hops, barley, yeast and water as chocolatey, fruity or biscuity?
The term 'barley wine' is a classic piece of positioning thinking – we know what wine is. It's made of grapes. This is wine that's made from barley. Of course, technically its beer, not wine, but if a potential drinker, never having heard of it before, hears this phrase, they can decode a lot of product information from it. It's going to be strong in alcohol and in flavour. It should be sipped and savoured from a small glass, not drunk in pints. It's going to come in a 750ml bottle, designed for sharing, that's going to look great and cost a lot of money and be suitable on a dinner table and… oh hang on.
It's quite interesting to see where the analogy breaks down, isn't it? The very name, barley wine, sets accurate expectations about what the product will deliver. But not about what to expect from how it will be packaged and sold.
And there's another problem: if you say 'barley wine' to older drinkers, they have another concept in their heads which means they don't actually get to wrestle with the metaphor of the name to unlock those rich associations. To them, barley wine is rocket fuel, cheap and nasty, something that was around in the seventies. To win them over, you need to do something that breaks the association between the term and the drink they used to know.
The solution to both is simple enough: a different approach to presentation and packaging.
If you package a very strong beer in the same type of bottles in which you package ordinary beer, give it a similar name and labelling, and sell it at a not too dissimilar price point, people are going to think that it's like other beer – carrying the same associations, to be drunk in the same fashion. This is why people think of an 8% beer as insanely strong when they're perfectly happy to drink 12% wine in similar quantities. Present it in a different way, a more premium way, and people will think of it differently.
Drinkers have two sets of associations in their heads: beer, and wine. Barley wine can and should play with both. A clichéd advertising proposition for barley wine would be "the beer that thinks it's a wine". You can immediately see the associations that conjures up. But you have to do it justice. Think about quality. Presentation. Ritual. When you get a bottle of barley wine that looks like it's worth paying seven quid for before you've even picked it up, you've probably got it nearly right.
You might not like the fact that we're using wine as a benchmark of quality. But you have to work with what's already in people's heads. And it is called barley wine.
The business of beer
Friday, 16 October 2009
Getting grumpy about beer provenance
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Festivals and that
Friday, 9 October 2009
Cask Report update
England Ukraine update
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Things I should have posted over the summer no.1: Adur Brewery
Monday, 5 October 2009
Losing the plot
Britain's National Drink - the new Cask Report launches today
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Tokyo* Supermarket Sweep
- One £330 ml Tokyo* contains 6.1 units - at £9.99, that's 0.61 units of alcohol per £1
- Blue WKD is in Asda - three four packs for a tenner. Even with the alcohol level having been recently lowered to 4.5%, that's 1.4 units per £1
- The standard price in Tesco for 24 x 284ml bottles of Stella is £10. At 5%, that works out at 2.39 units per £1
- Promotional prices on Stella over the last 12 months have reached as low as the equivalent of 67p per pint. That's 4.5 units per £1
- Tesco Currently has a really nice offer on a lovely-looking Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc - six bottles for £23.52. The wine is 12.5%, so that's 2.84 units per £1.
- Morrisons is currently flogging Grants Whisky for £12.99 a litre. At 40%, that's 3.07 units per £1
- Even Carling - hardly a drink that's going to get you smashed in a hurry - gives you more bang for your buck - Sainsburys is flogging 15 x 440ml cans for £10 - at 4.1%, that's 2.7 units per £1.


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LinkedIn University Page launches for Baylor alumni, students
In recent years, Baylor alumni have been able to connect to their alma mater (and one another) through a growing number of online tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Now you can add another site to the list: LinkedIn.
Last month, the social networking site for business — think Facebook, but more focused on business connections than friends — debuted University Pages, aimed at alumni, current students, even high school students researching potential colleges.
On Baylor's LinkedIn page, you'll find some pretty interesting information about what Baylor graduates are doing professionally. Visitors can see a breakdown of where Bears live and work — not only geographically, but also by field, employer and graduation year. Drilling down within any of those areas provides a list of alumni who have indicated on their LinkedIn profiles that they fit that demographic — say, business graduates working in New York City, or Austin-area grads skilled in community outreach. You can then see a list of those people with limited information on each (based on your level of LinkedIn membership).
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Federowicz demoted to Triple-A Albuquerque
SAN DIEGO -- The Dodgers optioned catcher Tim Federowicz to Triple-A Albuquerque after Tuesday's 9-3 loss to the Padres to make room for Chad Billingsley, who will be activated off the disabled list to start Wednesday night.
Federowicz's fate has been sealed since Saturday, when the Dodgers acquired veteran catcher Ramon Hernandez from the Rockies in a trade for Aaron Harang. Hernandez became backup to starting catcher A.J. Ellis and Federowicz became expendable, even though all spring the Dodgers insisted he would be Ellis' backup.
Billingsley will be making his first start five days after a Minor League rehab start for Class A Rancho Cucamonga. He was disabled with a bruised right index finger suffered while trying to bunt in Spring Training.
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LOUISVILLE Mercie D. Lehman, 87, Louisville, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, March 1, 2013.
She was born June 9, 1925, in Orrville, to the late Orie and Goldie (Byler) Conrad. She was a member of Beech Mennonite Church in Louisville, and was a retired school teacher, having taught at both Plain Local and Wayne County elementary schools.
Mercie was preceded in death by her first husband, Warren D. Miller; her second husband, Ervin Linder; her third husband, Willis Lehman; sisters Eileen Gingerich and Marvel Schrock; and a brother, Lester Conrad.
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rowyourboat wrote:there is sutta not found on the internet (SN) where the buddha visits a lay person and he says he has put aside greed and distress with reference to the world using satipattana- the buddha proclaims him a non-returner.
Jechbi wrote:Can you provide a more specific reference than just SN? Thanks.
Macavity wrote:Jechbi wrote:Can you provide a more specific reference than just SN? Thanks.
I think he probably means the Sirivaddhasutta. It is somewhere in the SN's Mahavagga. Sorry I can't be more specific.
rowyourboat wrote:there is growth and development in the faculty of sati/mindfulness
at an early weak level it is swayed by everything which is going on- one cannot even say that the faculty (indirya) of mindfulness exists here - only the potential of it
at the next level we can be aware of things with out getting caught up in it -some of the time at least- here there is space to look on with wisdom, patience
at even higher levels of it's development it can weaken defilements- I read somewhere that it was equivalent to dropping a drop of water on a hot saucepan at very high levels- maybe it could be said to be one of the 'powers' (bala) here
degrees of development could also be explained in terms of degree of detail detected by sati and/or by duration it can be maintained without dropping it
note that the Buddha calls the four foundations of mindfulness the path to the purification of beings, getting rid of evil states etc so it must be able to do this either via samadhi and/or panna that it generates.
Manapa wrote:just curious what is everyones prefered method mentioned in the satipatthana sutta?
and what method do you use for this practice
is it commentary or sutta based ?
TheDhamma wrote:Hi Manapa,
I love this chart from Ven. Soma:
So I have found the mental contents or Dhamma objects to a good meditation for me.
Macavity wrote:Manapa wrote:is it commentary or sutta based ?
No, just kilesa-based.
Manapa wrote:I have seen this chart somewhere recently? or atleast something similar?
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Cavere wrote:well right now in my area the only course open is a public park with 12 holes so I generally put in 24-36 a day. When I get into something I go all out especially when I tend to have some natural ability.
The pain is more on the front top of the shoulder and it's not horribly sharp, more pulsing when it gets over worked. I'm still guessing it's just overworked from not throwing anything for a long time to hucking a disc 400' over and over.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida Senate committee will discuss Medicaid expansion under the federal health overhaul to offer insurance to an estimated 900,000 low-income residents.
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Research Associate Professor Joan Alker says if Florida does not expand Medicaid, it will create a coverage gap for those who earn too little to qualify for tax credits to buy insurance from the online exchange but too much to qualify for Medicaid coverage under the state's low income guidelines.
She also noted a decision not to expand Medicaid will have a substantial indirect impact on the state's health care providers, hospitals and overall economy.
"It would be much better to give these people preventative and primary care upfront," Alker said. "They won't have to bankrupt themselves and hopefully they won't get as sick and wind up in the hospital."
She testified before the committee in Tallahassee on Monday.
The savings could be as high as $100 million a year. The predication is based on the expansion offsetting other state costs like mental heath services, substance abuse programs and emergency room visits.
"We are spending some taxpayer dollars on these folks already, so we think the state should take a careful look at its budget, see where these costs are today, pick up the federal dollars to cover those folks primarily at federal cost and give them better care on the bargain," Alker said.
The study fingers prevention as the main source of the costs savings. Still opponents aren't ready to bite just yet. They say even though Florida may save money, the federal government will still have to borrow to pay the state.
Gov. Rick Scott has expressed concerns about the high cost of Medicaid expansion to Florida taxpayers.
Florida has the highest percentage of uninsured adults in the nation. Counting children, there are nearly 4 million people in the state without coverage.
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Radio personality Matthew Biggs wowed a green-fingered audience at Woodborough Garden Centre last Thursday.
Mr Biggs, best known as a panellist for BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, spoke about the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where he studied.
Visitors enjoyed wine and nibbles as Mr Biggs gave his talk and the evening finished with a question and answer session and book signing.
Mr Biggs will also be speaking at the Marlborough Gardening Association's (MGA) meeting on April 9.
He will give a talk on The Back Gardens of Britain based on his visits to more than 150 different locations.
Tickets cost £10, £5 for MGA members from MGA on (01672) 519207 or from Quality Stationers in Hughenden Yard.


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Sweet! Can't wait!
This feature was actually available when FaceTime came out, it's called 3G unrestrictor or my3G
May make it more of a usable feature on non jailbroken iPhones! Or for people to tight to pay for the tweaks that allowed this!
With my phones always jailbroken, I forget what features do or don't exist on stock iOS. It's nice to see Apple is finally implementing something that had been accomplished via JB long ago, but like everyone else said it sucks bc carriers have eliminated unlimited data plans. I can only imagine how many people without unlimited data will avoid using FaceTime over 3G.
facetime has been available over 3g for years. it's called yahoo
I made my first video call in 2003 - my second in about 2006 and then again when Facetime first came out.
I might make another one in a few years.
Like everyone had picture mail for years before AT&T would let the iPhone have it.
MMS is quite useful - bit video calling is not something I am interested in.
But Apple do wait and get things right.
Pointless. One video call and you're over your data cap. I have "unlimited" and I can't go over 3gb or I get throttled. There is no way to win. Now, I they counted it as cellular minutes instead, they'd get big points. It'll never happen though.
Now that unlimited data plans are a little less rare than unicorns or empty taxicabs on a rainy Friday night in New York City, this might actually happen. The carriers would easily recoup their added costs in overages. Either that, or Apple just updated their error message to reflect the possibility that official FaceTime over 3G might happen somewhere, someday.
It's cool that apple is again stealing ideas from the jailbreaking community though. Free R&D by those that are jailbroken and then implement!
this is ridiculous. cellular companies are definitely not losing money, and they aren't afraid of infrastructure limitations. there are no limitations! new networks can always be built. they could, however, extend profits by cutting back on advertising. there hasn't been a good cellular commercial since "can you hear me now?"


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1. All Esso Cup players
The players put on a great show all week long in Charlottetown, bringing the crowds at CARI Complex to their feet time and time again with the high calibre of hockey they played.
2. Lauryn Keen (F) - West
Lauryn Keen (Manitou, Man.) was a force to be reckoned with on the ice for the Pembina Valley, scoring a highlight reel-worthy goal and adding two assists to help the Hawks soar to their first Esso Cup gold medal.
3. Brett Campbell (F) - Pacific
With the game tied 1-1 through two periods, Campbell came through in the third for Edmonton, scoring twice and assisting another goal in the last 20 minutes to propel the Thunder to bronze honours, their third medal and four years at the Esso Cup.
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1. The 2012 Esso Cup volunteers
The volunteers at this year's Esso Cup have earned this honour, as it is their time, effort and incredible enthusiasm that have made this year's National Female Championship such as success. Thank you all!
2. Jessica Gazzola (F) and Michela Cava (F) –
These two forwards earned the second star of the day, as they both scored twice in the second period, including a shorthanded goal apiece, to lead the Thunder Bay Queens to a semifinal win – and a spot in the gold medal game.
3. Cassidy Carels (F) – West
After being held without a goal in the preliminary round of the Esso Cup, Cassidy Carels (Bruxelles, Man.) broke out in a big way for the Pembina Valley Hawks, scoring both goals and maintaining an aggressive forecheck to help her team book a ticket to its first Esso Cup gold medal match-up.
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1. Gemma MacDonald (F) - Host
Gemma MacDonald (Blooming Point, P.E.I.) was a thorn in Saguenay's side Thursday night, as her aggressive forechecking helped Capital District maintain pressure throughout the game against Saguenay.
2. Farrah Nicholl (D) - Ontario
A Queens rookie, Farrah Nicholl (Thunder Bay, Ont.) scored her first two goals of the Esso Cup in the second period against Pembina Valley, while also providing a strong defensive presence Thursday for Thunder Bay.
3. Jessica Sekulic (F) - Pacific
Jessica Sekulic (Edmonton, Alta.) stepped up her game at both ends of the ice Thursday, adding three assists offensively and maintaining responsibility defensively to help Edmonton shut out Halifax.
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1. Emy St-Jean (G) – Quebec
Emy St-Jean (St-Bruno, Que.) stole the show between the pipes Wednesday against Edmonton, making 47 saves in regulation and overtime before coming up big in the shootout to lead the Rebelles de Saguenay-Lac St-Jean (Quebec) to a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Thunder (Pacific).
2. Emma Martin (D) - Host
Emma Martin (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) played a stellar game at both ends of the ice Wednesday, getting herself involved in the play offensively, while doing her job defensively, by covering the Pembina Valley Hawks (West) attack and standing strong at the blue line.
3. Brianna Iazzolino (D) - Ontario
A veteran of Thunder Bay's 2010 Esso Cup winning team, Brianna Iazzolino (Thunder Bay, Ont.) stepped up her game Wednesday, making her presence known all over the ice, snagging a goal and an assist while also keeping top scorers from Halifax Metro Boston Pizza (Atlantic) in check through all three periods.
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1. Emma MacKinnon (G) – Host
The 2012 Esso Cup host team hasn't won yet, but Capital District Cyclones netminder Emma MacKinnon (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) certainly can't be blamed, as she made 28 saves despite a 4-0 loss to the Edmonton Thunder (Pacific), with fans in the stands at the CARI Complex cheering their hometown girl and the rest of the host team on Tuesday night in Charlottetown.
2. Stefannie Moak (G) – Atlantic
Stefannie Moak (Sackville, N.S.) was fantastic in the crease for Halifax Metro Boston Pizza, stopping 25 of 27 shots she faced and keeping the Atlantic representatives in the game with timely saves in key situations, even though in the end it was a 2-1 losing cause to the Pembina Valley Hawks (West) on Day 3 of the 2012 Esso Cup.
3. Michela Cava (F) – Ontario
Thunder Bay Queens captain Michela Cava (Thunder Bay, Ont.) was dominant on the ice for the Ontario representatives Tuesday afternoon, scoring twice and adding an assist to lead her team to an 8-1 win over the Rebelles de Saguenay (Quebec), and put herself tied for first in 2012 Esso Cup scoring, with 11 points total in three games.
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1. Jessica Gazzola (F) - Ontario
Jessica Gazzola (Thunder Bay, Ont.) scored three goals in the third period, and had four points total, to help lead Thunder Bay (Ontario) to an impressive 6-1 win over Edmonton (Pacific) on Day 2 of the 2012 Esso Cup.
2. Breanna Lanceleve (F) - Atlantic
Breanna Lanceleve (Sackville, N.S.) scored two goals and added two assists to lead Halifax (Atlantic) to its second win of the 2012 Esso Cup, a 5-2 victory over fellow east coasters, host team Capital District.
3. Emy St-Jean (G) - Québec
Rebelles de Saguenay goaltender Emy St-Jean (St-Bruno, Que.) made 38 saves, including several show-stoppers, despite her team's tough 4-0 loss to Pembina Valley (West).
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1. Brittni Mowat (G) - West
Mowat stood tall for Pembina Valley, making 33 saves and stopping all seven shots in a shootout to lead the Hawks to a 1-0 win over the Edmonton Thunder.
2. Samantha
Strassburger (F) - Ontario
Strassburger earned three goals and one assist to lead Ontario to a 12-1 win over Esso Cup hosts the Capital District Cyclones.
3. Laura Polak (F) - Atlantic
Polak led the way offensively for Halifax Metro Boston Pizza, scoring once and adding three assists to help her team to a 5-1 opening game victory over the Rebelles de Saguenay.
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After more than two full days of deliberations and multiple notes indicating a deadlock, an Oakland County Circuit Court jury convicted a Taylor man on two counts of second-degree murder in the Pontiac party bus double homicide.
Craig Lewis, 23, was also found guilty of larceny of a firearm, felon in possession of a firearm and a corresponding felony firearms charge.
He was found not guilty of armed robbery, as well as felony firearms charges related to the murders and the armed robbery.
Lewis was one of two men charged in the May 13, 2012 shooting deaths of Anthony Ellis, 28, and Shuntrice Sylvester, 19. Both victims were Detroit residents who were on board a party bus parked in front of Porky's bikini bar when gunshots were fired into the vehicle.
The shots were fired after some people aboard the bus audibly reacted to an armed robbery that occurred on the street.
Sylvester's family was pleased with the verdict, including the second-degree murder decision, which was a lesser offense than the felony murder charges Lewis faced.
"Me myself, I couldn't put the gun in (Lewis') hand, either, but I know he had something to do with it," Sylvester's mother, Mishun Sylvester, said.
"An innocent person wouldn't have waited 11 days to come forth and say anything about what happened or what they had seen happen."
Shuntrice Sylvester's aunt, Latasha Sylvester, was pleased as well.
"(There were) a few rough patches, but we've gotten through it and justice has prevailed," she said.
"The thing that bothers me is (Lewis') lack of emotion (and) disregard for life in any way -- anybody's life -- so the verdict was correct."
Mishun Sylvester said her daughter lives on in spirit.
"She was the apple of my eye, my life, what I live for," she said.
She lamented the fact that her grandson will never know his mother.
"I have so many memories," Mishun Sylvester said. She will never be gone. It's just -- I can't see her in the physical anymore, and that hurts the most.
"She was only 19. I was getting used to the fact that she was going to go off and go to college, but now I have to get used to the fact that she will never come back home, and that's something I never prepared myself for."
Anthony Ellis' family was unable to make it to the courtroom in time for the verdict, but the Sylvesters knew they were there in spirit.
"I know the Ellis family feels exactly the same way," Latasha Sylvester said.
"Even though they're not here right now, they're here with us in our hearts and we share a bond together."
The Ellis family later spoke with The Oakland Press about the verdict.
"I felt like the weight of the world was off my shoulders," Ellis' sister, Pamela Ellis, said of her reaction to the verdict.
"I was excited. I'm happy. I thank God for today, because it meant a lot to me to hear that. All these sleepless nights and wondering what's going to go on and days sitting at the courthouse have really put a toll on our family, and today we're excited. We see that justice has been served and we can move on in a different direction and feel better about it."
Ellis' mother, Carina McDuffie, said even though she wasn't present when the verdict was read, she was still thrilled.
"Today, it was so uplifting," McDuffie said.
"I knew I had the victory before I got here, but I really didn't need to be here to hear it because it felt that good. It was just a long time coming."
Still, her life will never be the same.
"Every Mother's Day will be different," she said.
"They took a special one. He had wings on his back. He took flight May the 13th, Mother's Day. Rest in peace. I love you baby."
Ellis' cousin, Adrian McCullough, said Ellis was the type of man to resolve conflicts.
"I watched him grow up from a baby," McCullough said.
"He was a very respectable, well-mannered young man. He was always the one to be the mediator in any issue or problem that would get out of hand. He had a way of saying things that would make you get it together. For both families to go through this tragic, senseless incident, only God could have helped us and made this possible, for a verdict that was meant (to be), because if you do the crime, you do the time."
Paulette Michel, who represented Lewis, said her client still maintains his innocence.
"We consider this a small victory," she said.
"They did find him not guilty of the armed robbery and also all of the felony firearms charges associated with the murder, and they did find him guilty of the lesser (charge), which is second-degree murder."
Michel said the jury likely believed that Lewis assisted Myers that night.
"I do think that they believe that he did not have a gun that night, at least at the time of the shooting," she said.
"Obviously they used the aiding and abetting theory, and that's how they found him guilty of those charges."
Lewis will be sentenced at 8::30 a.m. June 13 in front of Oakland County Circuit Judge Nanci Grant. His former co-defendant, Lerrick Myers, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was initially scheduled to be sentenced later this month, though that date could be changed to match Lewis' sentencing date.
Contact staff writer Dave Phillips at 248-745-4631 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @dave_phillips1.


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The Bounty Hunter Lone Star Metal Detector was designed for a variety of applications including coin shooting, relic hunting, and general purpose detecting. The entire line of Bounty Hunter® metal detectors operate on two 9-Volt batteries and are designed to be lightweight and ergonomic for easy handling and comfortable use. Their standard motion all-metal mode detects all types of metal, while the progressive discrimination control eliminates iron and other unwanted items.
As the metal detecting coil nears a target, the Bounty Hunter Lone Star Metal Detector's three-tone audio feedback aids in distinguishing between valuables and undesirable metals. This model also comes equipped with a 1/4" headphone jack compatible with most headphones for privacy while treasure hunting. In addition, the Bounty Hunter Lone Star Metal Detector is equipped with a preset ground balance that neutralizes the response to mineral content in the ground.
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It's been four years since I first put together a list of my Top 10 pizzas on Long Island. Or, to put it another way, it's been four years since I antagonized scores of pizza partisans in Nassau and Suffolk. When the list was published, there were calls and emails questioning my judgment and sanity, and online comments whose number and tenor are usually reserved for articles about Obamacare.
Most Long Islanders, I've discovered, have a favorite local pizzeria whose honor they are prepared to defend to the death. In fact, there is not a slice of Long Island that is more than a short drive from a fine pizza. Every town has its own favorite dispensary of Neapolitan, Sicilian and grandma pies, and no one needs to tell you that if you live in New Hyde Park you should be patronizing Umberto's — or Emilio's if you live in Commack, Cugini in Mineola, Mamma Lombardi's in Holbrook.
But this list is composed of "destination pies." I am focusing on artisanal pizzas made with small-batch dough, fresh mozzarella (not "pizza cheese"), carefully sourced toppings. These pies are made to be ordered whole, not by the slice. Many hark back to the traditions of old New York (large, blistered pies baked in coal-burning ovens) or, further back, to the puffy, wood-fired pies of the Neapolitan pizzaioli who came up with the idea of pizza in the first place.
To me, the soul of a pizza is its crust. The crust is not merely a vehicle for the toppings, it is the most crucial element of the pie. Otherwise, you might as well have your tomatoes and cheese and what-have-you on an English muffin. A good crust is the product of good flour, long fermentation and little else. It has tender-chewy texture and a distinct flavor and is good enough to be enjoyed on its own.
This year, the list welcomes three new pizzerias, all of which make pies in the classic Neapolitan tradition: Naples Street Food in Franklin Square, Vulcano 081 in Rockville Centre and Wild Side Organic Bistro in Oakdale.
Here, in order of preference, are my picks:
10. Margherita pizza at Grimaldi's(Credit: Alessandro Vecchi)
Margherita pizza at Grimaldi's (980 Franklin Ave., Garden City): When Frank Ciolli bought Grimaldi's coal-fired pizzeria in Brooklyn in 2001, a dynasty was born. Ciolli and his partners have gone on to open Grimaldi's all over the country, but the one in Garden City, opened by Ciolli's late son, Russell, and now owned by his widow, Jennifer Ciolli, was the first East Coast location opened outside of New York City. As befits its parentage, the Margherita pizza here is classic New York, almost lavishly topped with chopped tomato and fresh mozzarella that would sink a lesser crust. But Grimaldi's rises to the challenge. More info: 516-294-6565, grimaldisgardencity.com
9. Pizza No. 3 at Massa's Pizzeria(Credit: Bruce Gilbert)
Pizza No. 3 at Massa's Pizzeria (345 Main St., Huntington): The nephew of Brooklyn's Patsy Grimaldi, Bill Massa is one of Long Island's coal-oven purists (no slices), but it's the inventive Pizza No. 3 that's the star of his Huntington pizzeria. It's topped with fresh mozzarella, scallions, pancetta, scamorza, cheese and truffle oil -- though I prefer it without the truffle oil. More info: 631-923-3473, massaspizzeria.com. For GPS directions, use 80 Gerard St. as address.
8. Marinara Pie at Wild Side Organic Bistro(Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas)
Marinara Pie at Wild Side Organic Bistro (1551 Montauk Hwy., Oakdale): When Jay Jadeja and Raquel Wolf moved their restaurant from Hicksville to Oakdale, they installed a wood-burning brick oven in the new space. Jadeja, whose fusion cooking style stems from his Indian heritage, spent the first few months mastering the Neapolitan art of pizza making, and he has proved an apt pupil. There are fusion pies here, one topped with his mother's chicken curry, but the classics rule. For his vegan customers, he has perfected the marinara pie, topped only with San Marzano tomatoes, garlic, oregano, olive oil and crushed red pepper. More info: 631-791-1800, wildside-cafe.com
7. Rosa Bianca at Grana(Credit: Randee Daddona)
Rosa Bianca at Grana (1556 Main Rd., Jamesport): In the summer of 2010, the North Fork finally got the artisanal, wood-fired pizzeria it deserved. It's the custom out there to use as many local ingredients as possible, and Grana in Jamesport does not disappoint. The supernal rosa bianca is made with thinly sliced local potatoes, local red onions and rosemary (when they're in season) and Parmesan cheese. A locavore-pizzavore's dream. More info: 631-779-2844, granajamesport.com
6. Mom's pizza at Saverio's(Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus)
Mom's pizza at Saverio's (929 Broadway, Massapequa): Saverio's is a tiny pizzeria carved out of A S Pork Store in Massapequa, where Sam Cataldo, one of the store's owners, started making pizzas in 2015 and hasn't stopped since. You'd never know from his pies that he's a relative latecomer to the pizzaiolo's art. All the pies are recommended, but the simpler pizzas put the spotlight where it belongs: on an elegant crust that has the well-developed flavor of rustic bread. "Mom's pizza" has no cheese, only a thin layer of sweet, onion-rich tomato sauce, made according to the recipe of Cataldo's late mother-in-law, Enza Giammarino. More info: 516-799-0091, saveriospizza.com
5. Margherita Napoletana at La Pala(Credit: Ryan C. Jones)
Margherita Napoletana at La Pala (246 Glen St., Glen Cove): When New Yorkers travel to Naples, they invariably find fault with the pizza there: the crust is too floppy and soft, they say, the topping is too soupy. But at La Pala in Glen Cove, Sal Apetino makes pizza the way it's made in Naples. The crust is puffy and light, the mozzarella and tomatoes meld beautifully -- if a bit soupily. Go ahead, eat it with a knife and fork. La Pala takes its name from the paddle used to get pizza in and out of the oven. You can see a lovely old "pala" hanging next to the wood-burning oven. More info: 516-399-2255, lapalany.com
4. Margherita at Vulcano 081(Credit: Daniel Brennan)
Margherita at Vulcano 081 (43 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre): When partners Michael DeSena and Michael Vigliotti opened Vulcano 081 in January, they named the restaurant after Naples' area code. DeSena presides over the dining room with a big smile and a natty suit. Vigliotti, who was one of the founding pizzaioli at Red Tomato in East Norwich, runs the gold-tiled oven that was imported from Italy. Unlike a lot of wood-burning ovens on Long Island, it has no "gas assist" and runs solely on wood. From a roster of almost 20 pies whose toppings range from spicy salami to bacon marmalade, my favorite is the classic Margherita. More info: 516-442-5858, vulcano081.com
3. Capricciosa at Naples Street Food(Credit: Daniel Brennan)
Capricciosa at Naples Street Food (970 Hempstead Tpke., Franklin Square): You wouldn't expect to find authentic Neapolitan pizza in a tiny storefront on Hempstead Turnpike in Franklin Square, but Naples Street Food specializes in confounding expectations. Gianluca Chiarolanza, born and trained as a pizzaiolo in Italy, actually managed to ship his wood-burning oven from Naples to Franklin Square, and it assumes pride of place at the front of the store he owns with Aurora Pagnozzi. It translates to "capricious," but the pizza capricciosa here is a complex yet harmonious assemblage of tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, artichokes, olives, prosciutto cotto, mushrooms and basil. More info: 516-673-4630
2. Vongole Bianca at Pizzetteria Brunetti(Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas)
Vongole Bianca at Pizzetteria Brunetti (103 Main St., Westhampton Beach): Little more than a wood-burning oven and two counters, Westhampton's Pizzetteria Brunetti may be the most modest pizzeria on Long Island. The pies are anything but. Lofty toppings abound, but simplest tend to be the best. The absolute pinnacle is the Vongole Bianca, "white clam" pie, topped with nothing more than fresh-shucked local clams, garlic butter and herbs. Ocean, meet pizza. More info: 631-288-3003, pizzetteriabrunetti.com
1. Sausage pizza at Salvatoré's(Credit: Michael Falco)
Sausage pizza at Salvatoré's (124 Shore Rd., Port Washington): When it opened in 1996, Salvatore's was Long Island's first coal-fired pizzeria. Founding brothers Fred and Marco Lacagnina are descended from New York pizza royalty -- the family tree includes both Patsy Lancieri (the original Patsy's pizzeria in East Harlem) and Patsy Grimaldi (the original Grimaldi's in Brooklyn Heights). In 2007, Fred opened The Pie at Salvatore's in Bay Shore to spread the gospel of coal to the South Shore. (Marco now operates two coal-oven pizzerias in Asheville, North Carolina.) At both the Port Washington and Bay Shore locations, the pizzaioli use an unorthodox technique for stretching the dough -- rolling pins instead of hand-spinning -- but what comes out of the 900-degree oven is my idea of a perfect pie. The crust is a dream, crisp but pliant, the topping is a balanced meld of fresh, milky mozzarella and chunky chopped tomatoes punctuated with blobs of crumbled sausage. Grains, dairy, vegetables, meat. Is there a more delicious balanced meal? More info: 516-883-8457, salvatorescoalfiredpizza.com
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ANAHEIM -- Endy Chavez has seen his playing time dip since Michael Saunders returned from the disabled list, but the veteran outfielder has still found ways to contribute.
Chavez, 35, went 3-for-10 in the first seven games of the current road trip, including a pinch-hit home run in the top of the ninth on Monday in Cleveland in a game the Mariners wound up losing in the 10th.
Chavez's home run was the first pinch-hit long ball to give the Mariners the lead in the ninth inning or later since Ken Griffey Jr. on Sept. 16, 1990, in Anaheim.
"I'm just trying to help the team get the winning run, so I was just trying to get on base," Chavez said. "But I got good contact on that one and I hit it out. Everything wasn't easy for the team after that, but I'm just trying to get on base and make it work for the team."
Chavez has started just four times since Saunders returned on April 29, but is still hitting .289 in 76 at-bats and has contributed as a defensive replacement in the outfield, as well.
"I just work and be ready physically, doing my exercises and work on the field," Chavez said. "I take BP like I'm playing and that's getting results. I feel good."
Manager Eric Wedge appreciates the veteran's readiness and approach.
"He's done a nice job for us," Wedge said. "Endy is a big leaguer. He's going to go up there and give himself a chance to hit, he's got a little bit of pop and he's a good player. He's been a great pickup for us."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bedlam's SAINT JOAN Revival to Return Off-Broadway at Access Theater, 3/6
Access Theater will present a 4-week encore engagement of Bedlam's critically acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's rarely produced 1923 masterpiece SAINT JOAN. In this bold, environmental staging directed by Eric Tucker, Shaw's play is performed in its entirety using an ensemble of only four actors to play all 24 roles. Performances begin March 6 at Access Theater where it will play in repertory with a new production of HAMLET as performed by the same four actors.
SAINT JOAN tells the story of Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who claims to have heard voices of angels instructing her to raise the siege of Orléans, to push the English out of France and place the dauphin Charles VII on the throne at Reims. Shaw paints Joan not as a saint, a witch, or a madwoman but as a farm girl who is an illiterate intellectual, a true genius whose focus on the individual rocked the Church and State to their core.
The cast of SAINT JOAN stars Andrus Nichols, Tom O'Keefe, Ted Lewis, and Eric Tucker. The production team includes Heather Arnson (stage manager), Samantha Steinmetz (assistant stage manager), Katherine Goodland (dramaturge).
Eric Tucker's directing credits include Hamlet starring William Hurt, Macbeth (nominated for Best Overall Production and Best Direction by LA Weekly), Pinter's Mirror (Berkshire Theatre Critics Top 10 Director and Production of the Year, 2009) at Shakespeare & Company; and Belle of Belfast at The Cherry Lane. Tucker received his MFA from Trinity Rep Conservatory, and is founder of the Trinity Shakespeare Summer Project.
Bedlam is a company committed to the immediacy of the relationship between the actor and the audience. With large ideas and modest budgets, the company creates theatre in flexible, raw spaces that always includes the audience. The company believes that innovative use of space can bring the audience into direct contact with the dangers and delicacies of life--inciting laughter and chaos, exciting thinking and recreating the thrill of lived experience.
SAINT JOAN runs March 6 - April 6. Schedule varies. Access Theater is located at 380 Broadway at White Street -- three blocks south of Canal, accessible from the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z subway lines at Canal. Tickets are $30 available at 866-811-4111 or www.theatreBEDLAM.org.


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Rihanna who?
Chris Brown and aspiring model Karrueche Tran are still going strong after about five months together -- and Tran, 23, made a point of publicly reconfirming the romance via Twitter and Instagram on Monday.
In an intimate, romantic pic, Tran and the "Forever" singer, 22, kiss passionately, with idyllic backdrop of the beach right at sunset behind them.
"Head over heels," Tran wrote beneath the pic.
No response -- yet -- from Rihanna, who warred with Tran in early March via Facebook and Twitter. "We Found Love" singer Rihanna seemed to kick off a feud with a March 3 TwitPic that could be interpreted as a racist jab at Tran, who is half-Vietnamese: A bag of rice cakes with gold earrings and black shades, along with the caption, "Ima make u my bitch."
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(Source told Us Weekly that Rihanna and abusive ex Brown, who recently collaborated on two remixes together, had been secretly hooking up again for over a year.) Tran retaliated with a reference to the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Aniston love triangle. "I'm Angeline [sic], you're Jen. C'mon you see where Brad is at," she sniped.


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This British band follow up their fun, somewhat disposable debut album of trashy, Cramps-style garage-rock with a much more serious and shockingly good 2nd album that takes a very different musical approach, combining elements of '80s post-punk, goth and shoegaze into epic rock songs rich with brooding atmosphere and high drama. Produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Primary Colours is one of the biggest and best surprises of 2009. 4/24/2009 - Don Yates
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In what one official worried could become a fish story without an end, Marin County supervisors sent hotly contested creekside land regulations back to the drawing board Tuesday.
Officials said the regulatory net fashioned by planners was flawed by planning policies it sought to enact.
Agreeing with a procedure advocated by Supervisor Steve Kinsey, a committee of officials will work with planning staffers to come up with a plan that meets the needs of property owners as well as aquatic life.
Board president Judy Arnold appointed Supervisor Kate Sears to work with Kinsey and planning staff to come up with a new program involving review of changing countywide plan policies and accommodating concerns of property owners while nurturing aquatic habitat.
The committee will consider seeking an interim plan that enables lifting a building ban in the San Geronimo Valley while also easing policies requiring setbacks near creeks as well as "ephemeral" streams that exist only after rainstorms. Officials cited concerns about not knowing where all such temporary streams are located.
In addition, officials seemed inclined to dump a "one size fits all" program applying to properties across the county's unincorporated areas, and instead study plans or stipulations customized for individual watersheds.
The board did not vote but was in unanimous agreement after four hours of review including testimony from 39 speakers, many of whom condemned an ordinance proposed by planners. It was the second time in two years that top officials have punted creekside regulations amid a community furor, with a tough tree and brush law scrapped two years ago.
"I don't want to see this turn into a never-ending story," said Supervisor Susan Adams.
"Eventually we're going to send this to the Planning Commission," Arnold said.
Supervisor Katie Rice said language of the county plan was too "prescriptive," compelling results that were unpalatable.
"There are different approaches to this issue our own staff was not able to take advantage of because of the language of the countywide plan," agreed Supervisor Sears. "All parts of our county obviously differ," she said. "To me, this is a little bit of the cart before the horse problem."
Kinsey, expressing gratitude to the crowd for a passionate debate that remained civil, said the county is committed to protecting the watershed, and has spent more than $7 million on fish restoration projects, sediment control and related habitat programs. But language in the county plan resulted in an ambiguous ordinance that treated property owners unfairly. "It should be clear as to what is expected and how to get there," he said.
Adams noted that "one size doesn't fit all" and officials should consider "regional watershed needs." Arnold also called for review of rules "on a watershed basis."
The ordinance as proposed would apply to more than 3,000 creekside properties across the county's unincorporated areas, including creeks without any fish.
The plan spells out rules for building, or altering the landscape, near creek banks and establishes exemption, site review and special permit procedures. Restrictions vary according to proximity to creek banks, vegetation growth and city or rural locale. In rural areas, it requires setbacks of 100 feet regardless of lot size, jeopardizing use of small lots.
A parade of groups, activists and homeowners lined up to recite familiar views.
The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network called the ordinance too weak. The San Geronimo Valley Stewards and Sleepy Hollow Homeowners Association called it too tough. The San Geronimo Valley Planning Group and Marin Audubon Society urged adoption of the plan, while the Marin Association of Realtors and Marin Builders Association urged its rejection. Property owners called the plan a land grab that would curb property values.
One man urged the crowd to organize "a lot of lawsuits" if the measure was enacted. "Sue! Sue! Sue!" he declared.
Supervisors lauded staff efforts but said more work is needed.
Community development chief Brian Crawford, who had urged the board to approve the creekside ordinance, didn't have much to say as officials called for another round of staff work and commission meetings.
"That's politics," he noted.
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