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Smart 401(k) Investing—Managing Income in Retirement
Retirement Income Basics
- Required Withdrawals
Retirement Income Basics
The two big decisions you have to make are the timetable for taking money from your tax-deferred retirement account and the amount you should take at each withdrawal. The questions are:
- Should you begin when you retire or should you postpone withdrawals until they're required?
- Will your money last your lifetime?
Retirement Income Considerations
If you need to withdraw from your 401(k) to live comfortably when you retire, there's no reason to wait. But if you have other sources of income, or if you expect to be earning money from another job or a post-retirement career, you may want to wait as long as the law allows. Since there's the potential your account value will increase, it may make sense to allow your tax-deferred accounts to continue to accumulate untouched as long as possible.
You can anticipate your post-retirement living expenses by analyzing what you're spending in the year or two before you retire. You may feel comfortable estimating that you'll need 15 percent to 20 percent less after you retire. But be sure to consider the possibility of increasing medical expenses, insurance costs, local taxes and other regular bills.
Then add up what you expect to receive from Social Security, any defined benefit pension you qualify for, your spouse's income if you're married and any income you'll be earning. You might also add dividends and interest from your taxable investment accounts, or the possibility of taking capital gains. If that total is less than you'll need, that may be a signal to begin withdrawals.
Time to Roll?
Remember, in some cases, your employer may require you to begin drawing on your assets at retirement. If immediate income fits in with your plans, there's no issue. But if you prefer to wait, that may be a reason to roll over the assets into an IRA.
Systematic Withdrawals
One way to receive income from a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account (IRA) is to arrange for a systematic withdrawal, sometimes called a periodic withdrawal. You do have to be certain, though, that this is an option your plan or IRA offers.
You can generally choose to receive:
- A regular, fixed dollar amount on a specific schedule
- A specific percentage of your account value on a specific schedule
- The total value of your account in equal distributions over a set period of time
You select a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual schedule. But systematic withdrawal arrangements are usually flexible, which means you can adjust the withdrawal arrangement by notifying the plan administrator or your IRA custodian. You can generally stop the payments, readjust the amount you receive or choose another withdrawal method.
Systematic withdrawals can make it easier to budget, since your money arrives on schedule. And you don't have to make the decisions about what to liquidate or when to sell. A professional handles those details. That includes ensuring that your withdrawal meets the required minimum distribution after you turn 70½. The one potential drawback of systematic withdrawals is that you could use up your assets during your lifetime. If your money is paid out at a faster rate than your account is growing, you'll be receiving principal as well as interest and dividends, reducing the amount available to accumulate additional earnings. Eventually your account value could be zero.
Immediate Annuities
In relatively rare instances, you may be offered the option of liquidating the assets in your 401(k) plan and purchasing a lifetime annuity. The annuity pays you income for your lifetime or for the joint lifetimes of two people—you and the person you name.
This alternative, sometimes known as annuitization, closely resembles the way that a defined benefit pension plan pays its retired workers. The chief advantage is that you can't outlive your assets, something that many people fear. The drawbacks are those of other annuities: potentially high management and insurance costs and lack of flexibility. In most cases, once you have annuitized you can't change your mind or you can do so only after paying a substantial fee.
If you annuitize, you may be able to choose between a fixed annuity and a variable annuity. With a variable annuity, your income depends on the investment performance of the funds you select from among those offered by the annuity company. A fixed annuity provides the security of regular income but exposes you to inflation risk. A variable annuity offers the possibility of larger payments in the future, but carries the risk that your payments could shrink.
Another Annuity Choice
You can rollover your 401(k) and buy an individual retirement annuity. For people who want to make sure they have income for life this may seem like a good option. However, before investing, you may want to consider their potentially steep fees, lack of flexibility for making unscheduled withdrawals and the financial condition of the insurance companies that stand behind them.
Strategic Planning
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Your employer may provide lots of advanced notice about the details of arranging retirement income, but it's your responsibility to meet the deadlines. It's often a good idea to plan ahead and to get professional advice.
You don't want to be forced to make decisions in a hurry, since once you've done certain things—such as a lump sum withdrawal—you can't change your mind.
Start by finding out from your plan administrator what your distribution choices will be, since not all plans offer all the possible alternatives. Figure out the date you'll want to start receiving retirement income and find out how much advance notice the administrator needs to meet that deadline.
Your account has to be valued to determine how much it is worth. Every plan values each employee's account on a regular schedule. But no plan does a separate valuation for account holders who want to move their money or begin distributions. You have to wait until the next regular valuation. In addition, 401(k) plans may hold your money for up to 60 days after valuing your assets. A plan doesn't have to wait the maximum amount of time, but it can and sometimes does.
Expert Guidance
Working with an experienced retirement planner can help you avoid some of the pitfalls of making inappropriate withdrawal decisions. It can also make you more confident about making the whole series of choices that are part of retiring and withdrawing from your 401(k) plan.
Through your employer, you may have access to someone who knows the ins and outs of your plan, and how other employees with similar situations have handled the issues you are facing. And, if you already have a good working relationship with one or more investment professionals, ask them if they are qualified to guide you on retirement decisions or if they could recommend a colleague with that experience. Using an investment professional with whom you are comfortable working can make your life simpler.
One area in which you may need help is in looking at the big picture. Rather than assuming you will—or should—withdraw all of your 401(k) assets before you die, an adviser should consider your retirement savings in the context of your estate plan. The larger your account balance and the more other assets you have, the more important a comprehensive plan becomes.
You'll have to provide your adviser with a copy of your 401(k) plan document. Its terms have a direct impact on the decisions you can make, and on what will happen to your assets at your death.
When you're choosing an adviser, be sure to ask how he or she is paid, and how much you should expect to pay each year. Some advisers charge a flat fee determined by the assets in your account. Others may charge a commission for each transaction. Be sure you read and understand the adviser's fee structure before you hire him or her.
Also, ask about the adviser's background. If an adviser has a credential, ask what it means and what's required to earn it. If advisers are brokers or investment advisers, you should check their background.
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The Lying Game: Good luck figuring out what's what in the NFL
An Alex Smith trade is "effectively complete"?
Matt Barkley won't get past the Arizona Cardinals at number 7 in the draft?
Unfortunately, a day after Ben Affleck delivered the only genuine acceptance speech of the whole Oscar telecast, my internal B.S. meter is a little out of whack. Too bad. This time of year it comes in handy.
Information. Misinformation. Misdirection. Flat out lies. You read or hear an NFL rumor this time of year and it requires not only a grain of salt, but a whole shaker. Separating fact from fiction can be as tough as separating conjoined twins, but since these two rumors directly involve the Arizona Cardinals and their quest for a QB, we'll give it a shot.
To the best of my knowledge, Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports was the first to report that an Alex Smith trade was basically done but can't be announced until March 12. Where he's going and what the Niners are getting in return aren't known.
I won't lie, for whatever reason, LaCanfora has never been my favorite source of rumors. To me he's the Django Unchained of NFL reporters. Good movie, but best picture good? Nah.
I can see a teeny bit of legitimacy to this story and so the B.S. meter isn't totally pegged out. Is it possible? Of course. But if it's true, it seems we would have heard more on the what-they're-getting and where-he's-going parts of the story. Without those details, the story is unusual.
More likely to me is that, with more than two whole weeks before March 12th, this report has been floated to stir the chili. Maybe there aren't enough teams bidding. Maybe they're not offering enough. The Niners aren't in a huge rush to move him just yet; there's no harm in waiting just a little bit longer to make sure you're getting the best offer.
The Barkley rumor? Scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla...don't waste my time. The B.S. Meter is way in the red here, it's just a question of what shade. USC or Cardinal.
Darren Urban, Cardinals beat writer extraordinaire already did a fine job chronicling the layers of nonsense on this one.
Could I buy that the Cards were impressed with Barkley in the one-on-one interview? Absolutely. But enough to decide, on February 24th, that he'll be the 7th pick in a draft two months away? You'd have a better chance of dragging me to "Les Miserables" than convincing me of that. I just can't see it. The rumor or the movie.
I'm much more intrigued in why this rumor exists. An agent trying to boost the value of his client by creating demand in the marketplace makes sense. The Cardinals are certainly desperate enough, which makes for an easy target. I suspect that's what happened with the Andy Reid rumors. I suspect that's what's happened here.
But an alternate theory was proposed by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk; one that suggested the Cardinals were behind the rumor to serve as a smokescreen to obfuscate their real target: Geno Smith. Mind you, I like this theory not because I like Smith. But I very much like the idea of the Cardinals playing the game instead of getting played by it.
Seems hard to believe the Cardinals could be so nefarious. But hey....we live in a world where Ben Affleck is now one of the most talented directors working in the movies. Anything can happen.

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Science Matters
Parking Lots: Letting It Soak In
EPA researchers are experimenting with "green" parking lot designs and permeable pavement as a way to reduce runoff and improve water quality.
This past winter brought a thick blanket of snow to much of the country. Big piles lined our driveways. Gigantic, dirty-white mounds claimed parking spaces from lots in New England to the Mid- Atlantic. But things are starting to warm up.
The big melt is here.
When the snow that once covered a parking lot or other paved surface melts, the resulting water flows toward the nearest storm drain, entering the local watershed. And as snowmelt and other runoff flows over paved surfaces, it accumulates contaminants such as leaked motor oil, road salt, and hydrocarbons deposited from motor vehicle exhaust.
A team of EPA researchers are exploring how parking lots designed with permeable pavements and rain gardens can help.
To get started, EPA replaced a 43,000-square-foot section of parking lot at the Agency's research lab and offices in Edison, New Jersey with three different types of permeable pavement, and planted several rain gardens with different types of vegetation.
Over the next decade, EPA researchers will evaluate the effectiveness of each pavement type and the rain gardens in removing pollutants from stormwater. They will also measure how each type of permeable pavement helps water filter back into the ground.
Throughout the project, scientists will compare changes in surface performance with standard parking lot maintenance, and track temperatures under each surface to detect patterns. Monitors will measure the water quality for at least ten years, to establish changes associated with time and seasonal patterns.
The research will be conducted without taking up parking spaces, as the lot will be functional during the study. This way, researchers can accurately evaluate how the different types of pavement handle traffic and vehicle-related pollution.
This is the first real-world experiment to determine if permeable pavement reduces pollutant runoff. The measurements and analysis EPA scientists make will answer some key questions about how effective permeable pavements are at reducing both the volume of stormwater and the amount of environmental pollutants flowing off parking lots and into nearby streams and rivers. This information will be a big help to municipalities and land managers across the country.The project is part of EPA's Aging Water Infrastructure Research Program, which address the nation's critical water infrastructure needs through research and innovation.


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Altvater: Golf Channel announces big changes to 'Morning Drive'Written by Fred Altvater | | email@example.com
The Golf Channel announced sweeping new changes for its popular "Morning Drive" golf news show to begin on Feb. 4.
"Morning Drive" will be expanded and aired seven days per week from 7-9 a.m. ET. It will feature golf news and information about every golf tournament from around the world.
Current regular show hosts Holly Sonders, Gary Williams, Damon Hack and Matt Ginella will handle the broadcast duties Thursday through Monday.
Kelly Tilghman, Lauren Thompson and Ahmad Rashad will fill in on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rashad has made guest appearances on the show over the past year. During his NFL playing days he was a member of the Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks and Minnesota Vikings. He has had extensive sports broadcast experience with CBS and ABC covering the NFL and NBA. He is a dedicated golfer and is close friends with both Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.
Tilghman was a former touring professional and joined the Golf Channel at its inception. She is the first female lead golf announcer and has partnered with Nick Faldo to handle the Golf Channel's announcing duties.
Thompson has held various roles at the Golf Channel including the "Top Ten" and "Golf Now." She will handle the lead-ins for Tilghman and Rashad, as well as provide brief news updates.
Other Golf Channel personalities that will continue to make appearances will be Rex Hoggard, Tim Rosaforte, Brandel Chamblee, Todd Lewis and Charlie Rymer.
The size of the set has been more than doubled and will allow more room to move about the studio for special features and interviews.
Currently "Morning Drive" is only aired Monday through Friday with special weekend broadcasts during major tournament weekends.
The expansion of "Morning Drive" demonstrates the success of the Golf Channel's popular golf news program.
Fred Altvater offers golf tips and videos at www.toledoohiogolflessons.com. Email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @tolohgolfr.
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- The competition effect in business cycles : [Version 21 März 2012] (2012)
- How do changes in market structure affect the US business cycle? We estimate a monetary DSGE model with endogenous rm/product entry and a translog expenditure function by Bayesian methods. The dynamics of net business formation allow us to identify the 'competition effect', by which desired price markups and inflation decrease when entry rises. We find that a 1 percent increase in the number of competitors lowers desired markups by 0.18 percent. Most of the cyclical variability in inflation is driven by markup fluctuations due to sticky prices or exogenous shocks rather than endogenous changes in desired markups.
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- This paper characterises optimal monetary policy in an economy with endogenous firm entry, a cash-in-advance constraint and preset wages. Firms must make pro fits to cover entry costs; thus the markup on goods prices is efficient. However, because leisure is not priced at a markup, the consumption-leisure tradeoff is distorted. Consequently, the real wage, hours and production are suboptimally low. Due to the labour requirement in entry, insufficient labour supply also implies that entry is too low. The paper shows that in the absence of fiscal instruments such as labour income subsidies, the optimal monetary policy under sticky wages achieves higher welfare than under flexible wages. The policy maker uses the money supply instrument to raise the real wage - the cost of leisure - above its flexible-wage level, in response to expansionary shocks to productivity and entry costs. This raises labour supply, expanding production and rm entry.


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July 16, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. --- Twenty-six athletes, one coach and one administrator with ties to the University of Georgia will be participating in the Olympics in London July 27-Aug. 12.
"We could not be prouder of these young men and women," UGA Director of Athletics Greg McGarity said. "We'll all be watching the Olympics with a keener eye knowing that so many Bulldogs will be competing. I think it's great that we have current, past and future student-athletes participating in the Olympics, and there's no question they will share a unique bond in London. It shows how special the Georgia programs represented are in terms of their foundation, their tradition, and their success in their arenas."
Here are the sports involving current, former and/or future Georgia student-athletes:
- Men's tennis (July 28-Aug. 5): John Isner, United States.
- Swimming (July 28-Aug. 10): Andrew Gemmell, Kara Lynn Joyce, Allison Schmitt, Shannon Vreeland and Amanda Weir, United States; Troyden Prinsloo and Wendy Trott, South Africa; Yousef Alaskari, Kuwait; Matias Koski, Finland; Brittany MacLean, Canada; Sarah Poewe, Germany; and Ediz Yildirimer, Turkey.
- Women's volleyball (July 28-Aug. 11): Elizabeth Reid, Great Britain.
- Women's gymnastics (July 29-Aug. 7): Brittany Rogers, Canada.
- Track and field (Aug. 3-11): Hyleas Fountain, Reese Hoffa and Kibwe Johnson, United States; Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Shaunae Miller, Bahamas; Andras Haklits and Martin Maric, Croatia; Sultana Frizell, Canada; Jenny Dahlgren, Argentina; and Levern Spencer, St. Lucia.
- Men's diving (Aug. 6-7); Chris Colwill and Assistant Coach Dan Laak, United States.
Former women's basketball star Teresa Edwards will serve as the United States Olympic Committee's Chef de Mission. Edwards is a five-time Olympic medalist, and she will provide overall leadership to Team USA and will function as the liaison officer between the London Organizing Committee, the International Olympic Committee and other National Olympic Committees at the Games.
The Olympics will be televised daily by NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and NBC Universal. For listings and more information, visit NBCOlympics.com.


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And 155th Annual Meeting and Lecture of the Moravian Historical Society
This conference explores Moravian history and music in a worldwide context from the 15th to 20th centuries through lectures, concerts, art, film, food and drink in the historic Moravian community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Edward A. Leskin, Images from Home and Abroad: A 24-Year Photographic Journey: Leskin was born in Allentown, PA, in 1965. A lifelong student of politics and fine arts, Leskin double-majored in Political Science and Studio Art at Moravian (Class of 1988). During his last year, he acquired an intense interest in photography. He attended Pratt Institute, where he received an MFA (Photography) in 1991.
Artis'ts statement: My work mostly addresses issues bigger than the individual. Subjects over the years include the rise and fall of Bethlehem Steel and its impact on the community, the impact and legacyof the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington D.C., the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the politics and social conditions in Russia, as well as many other issue of human significance. The camera offers an opportunity to express complex interpretations of real time events and issue that affect us all in some way. It is the act of pure creation from the soul motivated by events and themes that form hard time on many individuals.
Jane S. Noel, Tag Sale and Other Stories: The home is an archive of memories. But each family member has their own catalog. What happens when the family home is disbanded and the archive is no longer intact? In December, Noel's mother moved from the home where she had lived for 47 years. It was her task to clear what remained, a job most often done alone.
Artist's statement: I had the honor of studying Photography with Judith Joy Ross and graduated from Moravian in 1978. I continued my studies earning an M.A. from George Washington University and an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Art. I primarily investigate the concepts of identity, gender, and contemporary issues. My medium of choice is photography but I am familiar with a variety of tools and will use whatever the project requires to complete the work. In my installation and community work, I try to create a context for interaction.


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TEMPLE, Texas -- Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Paul Sadler likes to point to his record of bipartisanship as an influential member of the Texas House for 12 years.
But the Democrat left the Legislature nine years ago and in today's political climate, a willingness to work with the other side may be a liability.
Still, Sadler says that obstructionism by conservative officeholders is to blame for congressional gridlock. He says that's not what Texas voters want, even if a Democrat hasn't won statewide office here since 1994.
Sadler says "when you do good things together, good things happen."
That's a far cry from his opponent, Ted Cruz, a tea party darling calling for a great conservative awakening.
Cruz is the prohibitive favorite to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in next month's election.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
the perfect piece for our times
Yes, you see, there is apparently some sort of cultural phenomenon out there that wants you to believe that you are wicked if you start and don't finish a book. I read an awful lot, I study writing and publishing, I frequent literary circles and try to remain plugged in, and until Tim Parks informed me, I was blissfully unaware that you could be judged for such a thing. Personally, I like to finish books I start. Reading is a private, personal thing, and I'm motivated by my own desires, and I keep my own counsel on my reading habits. So should you. So should Tim Parks. If you never finish a single book you crack, and that's fulfilling for you, go for it. Unfortunately, though, Tim Parks lives his life in a slightly different way than I do, so according to the mores of a fraudulent age, he must judge me to reject the implied judgment of my different behavior.
Tim Parks doesn't read books all the way to the end, and he feels guilty about it. That is his pathology and should remain his own. But because he cannot stand the minute possibility of judgment-- because even the existence of alternative behavior suggests judgment-- he has to create this whole bizarre mythology about what reading a book all the way through necessarily means, and how that meaning is somehow enforced by our culture. I mean, you can't turn on network television or read a copy of US Weekly without people shitting on your for not finishing The Tale of Genji, am I right? And since he's so afraid of this attitude being perceived as middlebrow, he's got to deride those who read books all the way through as inherently juvenile. Because, you see, if you do that, you're just doing it for self-confidence, and if you seek self-confidence through reading books, you are not the archetypal man of letters than super-genius Tim Parks is. The possibility that some people might read differently or for different reasons than Tim Parks is, of course, a foolish notion. I know it's odd to call masturbation solipsistic, but holy shit.
What a pathetic, child's vision of confidence, to be such a shaking flower that you need all of your choices in your life affirmed by symmetry in the behavior of those around you. But that status is encountered all across the Internet.
Do you feel guilty about anything in your life? Anything at all? Is there a single part of yourself that you find suboptimal? Never fear: there is some enterprising blogger or essayists who's right now crafting a piece that exculpates any and all guilt you might ever feel. Everything that you do is good. Whole careers have been built on this notion. You're good! Other people are bad! Are you some overeducated Brooklynite "arty but not in a pretentious way" wheel watcher who hates her job and devotes an inordinate amount of time writing "witty" commentary on celebrities and writers in an attempt to divert attention from the slow death of whatever emotional life you once had? Fear not. Gawker will mock anyone who doesn't exist in precisely your proportions. Are you a video game fan who not only thinks that video games are art but that they are the best art and anyone who doesn't think gamification can solve every problem in creation is an asshole and by the way gamers are an oppressed minority? Don't worry, the Internet is rife with writers who want only to assure you that you are the greatest. Are you the kind of yuppie technocrat who hates other yuppie technocrats despite the near-perfect similarity in your habits, consumption, demographics, style, taste in music and television, and endlessly lame jokes? Farhad Manjoo is currently working on yet another piece where he assures you that you are better than the identical asshole on the other side of the cubicle.
You know what the Internet has taught me, more than anything else? It's this: nerds are, like Jesus, perfect and yet perfectly oppressed. Having lived as your typical self-hating Internet obsessive for, oh, 7 years now, I can report with great confidence that the most important message out there on the Web is that nerds are God's most precious creation, but like the chosen people of Judaism they must suffer in a hostile and ignorant world. You see, nerds like thing so much better than you or I, so much more deeply and fully and passionately. You might think you love some piece of media, but if it isn't a comic book or sci-fi or a video game, trust me, you don't really love it. If you suggest that you like a novel by some fruity European writer as deeply as Buffy fans love that show, you are a regressive fandom-hater and probably a pederast. But once upon a time, one guy said that maybe Dr. Who was a little bit childish, and since then not a day has gone by without someone publishing a lecture about how genre fiction is every bit as good as any other kind and how if you don't admit that you like Spiderman more than Hamlet you simply must be a roiling sack of self-deception and anhedonia. I endured a little bullying as a kid, but I never faced anything like the goddamn self-pitying, whining, entitled, childish martyrs who have appointed themselves keepers of the flame of nerd power.
Is there anyone out there who hasn't read the same fucking "there should be, like, no such thing as a guilty pleasure, man" essay fifteen fucking times? How many times can people write that essay and still pretend that it's a novel idea? And where is this supposed guilt? Do you detect this guilt? It's funny, all I read are people denying that anyone should feel guilty about any cultural attachment they have, and yet everyone so sure that our culture is just full of people feeling guilty about liking Real Housewives. I mean, thanks, Dan Kois, for informing us all that the problem with movies these days is that they're too mature and subtle. Has that man ever actually been to a movie theater? Has he not seen the lines for Transformers: Totally Aggro Edition? I get it, dude: you really are deeply hurt that there might be people out there who make slightly different consumptive choices than you, and especially that some tiny shred of humanity might think that those choices are somehow better than yours. Find the strength to carry on. Dig deep within yourself, explore the deepest wells of personal fortitude, and remember that you are literally never going to be forced into an argument about a Win Wenders movie, but if you didn't ejaculate violently during The Dark Knight, you will be set upon by the nerd police viciously.
Holy shit, what is wrong with writers who live in New York?
What are the fucking odds that you're going to turn on Facebook today and have someone make you feel guilty for not reading Ulysses? Seriously. Has that ever happened in the history of the world? What planet do people live on where they imagine that there's some such thing as high society, and that these people are into opera and ballet, and they have some sort of cachet or cultural capital, and they sit around and adjust their monocles and sneer down on the rubes who like Halo and the Walking Dead? Guess what: ballet and opera could cease to exist in the next 50 years. PBS is never going to be anything like as successful as whatever new channel Nickelodeon put together to stoke your nostalgic ego. The world is not bursting with young writers of challenging fiction, and if any exist, Jonathan Franzen is probably right now paying to have them assassinated, because he's the goddamn difficulty in writing police. I simply do not exist in the same universe as people who believe that there's too much pressure on them to watch an Eisenstein movie or read Wuthering Heights. That is pure projection, some shred of half-remembered cultural information that is totally powerless, and even that is too much judgment. I promise, Dwight Macdonald is dead, figuratively and literally.
If I admit publicly that I don't watch Jersey Shore, I'll be dragged outside and murdered. Please, find me someone who will sneer at you if you've never read Proust. Search high and low.
You know, maybe the problem with this sick fucked-up culture is precisely that people don't feel guilty, that everyone is so endlessly proud of their pathology and narcissism, that Seinfeld taught everyone that the people on that show were cool and smart, instead of miserable, horrid creatures crawling around and treating each other terribly. Maybe you should feel guilty. You know that neighbor who donates a lot of money to the homeless and volunteers at the shelter? Maybe, instead of waiting for some smartass piece of shit to write the inevitable "but are people helping the homeless really helping," you should say to yourself, that person is doing something I could and perhaps should be doing. Maybe you actually should feel guilty about buying the electronic doodad that required some 11-year old boy getting chemical burns to manufacture. Maybe a little bit of guilt is just what the doctor ordered, guilt about behavior and about culture and yes, guilt about the fact that you're 34 years old and you still put on a fake spacesuit and pay hundreds of dollars for plastic tchotchkes.
Maybe what we all need is some counteracting effect to an advertising machine that has told us our entire lives that we are the single most important thing in the history of the entire universe. Maybe the reason people are slowly driving themselves insane with Twitter and comments on the AV Club and cranking out the Yelp reviews is because they've lost any semblance of the notion that there is such a thing as a moral duty, a duty to more than whatever limp desire crawls across your lizard brain at any particular moment. Maybe the reason books with titles like Everything Bad is Good For You exist is not because what they say are generative, moral, or true, but because people like being told to do whatever makes them feel good, and so they will pay back the writers who say so with money and pageviews and notoriety. Maybe we are so endlessly shitty to each other because we have given up completely on the idea that behaviors have differing values and absent a God, we need to create and enforce standards among ourselves even when that doesn't make us completely happy.
Christ. I need to lie down.
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Sometimes I think there ought to be one of those campaigns: "We're Here, We Like 'Difficult' Art, Get Used To It!" but on the other hand it would be used as PROOF that there are snobs out there oppressing the good honest lovers of pop culture. Just as the very existence of gay people is seen as PROOF of an anti-straight-people elite. In any case, it has sometimes seemed like not a day goes by when I don't read that nobody actually likes all this art that I like, and if I claim to, it's only to sound cool. Might be noise music, might be Virginia Woolf, might be Cubism, might be anything.
It would be great if we'd just take people at their word when they state their opinions on art. (Maybe it would be nice if everyone didn't feel the need to share their opinions so much, but I think it's human nature.) Just trust me. I fucking love that part in Solaris that's 5 minutes of driving on the highway. I'm not saying that to be cool. I really like it. I swear to God.
I could probably rant and rave for as long as you did in the post but let me just say: I'm with you.
- March 18, 2012 at 2:03 AM
lol, I love you man ... this seriously might be the archetypal L'Hote post
- March 18, 2012 at 2:57 AM
It's funny--when I was in grad school, immersed in lit/crit, among peers who dug cool films and books, I was the happiest I've ever been. The slow, arduous death to that love only began when I finished and began teaching. Mind you, this was in the mid-nineties before web 2.0 blossomed into a narcissistic shithouse.
I guess "self-hating" is a tell, but might I naively suggest limiting your connectivity, at least to the bilge you seem to consume online. God knows there'll be plenty of time for misery when you finish your studies.
- March 18, 2012 at 4:42 AM
You may not realize it yet, but this piece is a vast improvement on The Resentment Machine and I think that if you ever take off in the blogosphere, people will look back on this essay fondly.
- March 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Freddie said...
Also, if anybody takes this post too too seriously, don't.
- March 18, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Mysterious man from the Shadows said...
This comment is about the "nerd" section of this piece.
Okay look, I think I'm one of the people you're talking about. Here's the deal: in my experience: it's always been implicitly assumed that "Hamlet" is better than "Spiderman" intrinsically; *even if you like "Spiderman" better*, "Hamlet" is still great art and "Spiderman" is, by its nature, not.
Now, I happen to agree with this particular argument, but I have my own preferences. For instance, I personally find the work of game designer Chris Avellone to be deeper, more meaningful, more thought-provoking and more moving
than any other piece of literature I have encountered.
I once wrote on my blog "I would gladly sacrifice the works of Shakespeare to save the works of Chris Avellone." Was that kind of mean of me to write? Well, yeah, I guess it was. But it's the truth.
The vibe I always get from my fellow gamer nerds is "well, [some game] is not great art, but it speaks to us, anyway." And that annoys me; because the people I know are basically saying "this isn't as good but I'm content with it."
My reaction is "no, dammit, the simple fact is that I think KotOR II is better than Hamlet". Now, am I being an arrogant jerk by saying this? Yes, probably, and I'm sorry. But when you it seems like you're the only one who feels this way, it's kind of frustrating. Am I being a bastard by trying to impose my views on other people, or belittling those who disagree? Yes, I am, and again I'm sorry. but when you perceive something a certain way, and no one else agrees, you sort of automatically think "their perception is off."
Well, that was a nonsensical rant, and frankly I wouldn't blame you for deleting it, but just so you know: I'm one of those people.
- March 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Wow. Great post.
I understand that this is a frustrated rant and maybe I'm taking it too seriously; I'll comment anyways.
I see two problems with your "people should feel more guilt/shame" response to the noxious shit you've identified. One: people who aren't already heavily burdened by guilt and shame wouldn't act like this. Ego-bolstering "you're not doing anything wrong and who you are is OK" messages are useless to anyone who isn't constantly terrified that who and what they are isn't OK. That these messages take the form of "other people aren't OK" adds some poison, but maybe isn't the main point.
Two: shame and guilt make people useless. We're only susceptible to this dynamic because we're already burdened by them. Adding more makes things worse. It's better to figure out why we're like this and start to work our way out from underneath it so we can get back to acting well.
- March 18, 2012 at 10:07 AM
- Freddie said...
I would never delete such a fine comment, Mysterious Man, and I appreciate your pushback. Thanks, also, Charles, and you're likely right on both counts.
I hope what comes across is that I am expressing legitimate frustration in an intentionally hyperbolic way, both for effect and for kicks.
- March 18, 2012 at 10:13 AM
For sure. I meant to mention that I actually LOLed at the last line. Perfect ending.
- March 18, 2012 at 11:40 AM
- Josh said...
Yeah, man, this was an entertaining post and true to a point, but I'm glad you added the qualifying comments, because I don't see Parks saying what you say he's saying at all. Anyway...
- March 18, 2012 at 11:54 AM
i only like difficult art, and i know that all people who don't are inferior
- March 18, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Freddie said...
To me, the sci-fi/comic book/fandom thing feels almost exactly the way it felt to be an American male kid who didn't care about sports.
- March 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM
- Frankel said...
I think that you're wrong about there not being social pressure to dislike movies such as transformers or twilight. Anyone who spends time or works with the "well educated" will get plenty of ridicule for liking these mindless movies. Wen I told som coworkers that I liked transformers 2, they were in disbelief.
Right now on my Facebook page there are several statuses where people mocking the hoi Polloi for getting excited about the hunger games. And I don't run in any kind of super fancy crowd (no ivy league or overly artsy folks or anything, just regular college or grad degrees working as service professionals).
Not to mention all these critics and publications that keep reminding everyone with their "top whatever" lists that grapes of wrath is better than Harry potter even though hardly anyone would believe this if not for professional critics. So yes, in the real world, there is pressure.
- March 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Freddie said...
I don't know. The selfsame people who mock Twilight love Harry Potter and Batman. So it's not just about high/middle/lowbrow.
- March 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Frankel said...
Yeah you're right that it's more than just a question of high/middle/low brow. Harry potter is kosher but twilight isn't. Same with apatow vs. sandler or bay vs. nolan. But either way, there is definitely social pressure to like or dislike (depending on the crowds you run with) certain movies or books.
It reminds me of that site "stuff white people like", where comedians like Dane cook, while more popular then say louis ck, are still off limits since they are enjoyed by " the wrong kind of white people"
- March 18, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- PEG said...
With this awesome, epic rant, you've earned back my esteem. That was most excellent.
- March 18, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Drew said...
See, also: everything written about politics, ever.
- March 18, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- Freddie said...
Thanks, PEG! Truce.
- March 18, 2012 at 7:04 PM
But once upon a time, one guy said that maybe Dr. Who was a little bit childish, and since then not a day has gone by without someone publishing a lecture about how genre fiction is every bit as good as any other kind and how if you don't admit that you like Spiderman more than Hamlet you simply must be a roiling sack of self-deception and anhedonia.
Can you point me to some? I'm not snarking, I'm genuinely interested in what see as exemplifying the genre.
- March 18, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Currently on an Amtrak train. Just listened to a silver-haired gentleman explain to a giggling, fawning college student that the USAF probably killed Bin Laden in 2002, which is why POTUS couldn't show us the body when he pulled off the stunt that will help him get re-elected. Following this, a discourse regarding the excellent job we did in Iraq despite Obama's overseeing the end of it: we're leaving them in such excellent shape!
My only point being that scrambling for whose esthetic sense is more sophisticated is, unfortunately, hardly the worst of our problems. Christ, now I need to lie down.
P.S.: Posted from my fucking iPad. Heh.
- March 18, 2012 at 9:31 PM
- PhantomStranger said...
I think people who want to argue that Spiderman is superior to Hamlet have a very high barrier to surmount, but I don't quite understand the argument that people who trash Twilight also watch Harry Potter--both middle/low brow entertainment, I'm assuming--are making a mistake because, ultimately, they're really quite similar. The narcissism of small differences, I suppose. But why should we regard work by such broad characteristic? I think Harry Potter fans can reasonably argue that Twilight is rubbish compared to other "genre" work, in spite of the fact that both works are fantasy and not "high brow" in the same way Hamlet has claim to.
- March 19, 2012 at 1:51 AM
Try this sentence on: "I'm currently working on an intellectual history of the "hidden dialog" between first-person shooters and reality TV, focusing in particular on the moment of origin of these discourses in the broader social malaise of the 1970s...."
Look, you may or may not be aware and.or beholden to some social/intellectual mafia that mocks people for there shitty aesthetic choices; but there damn well ought to be.
- March 19, 2012 at 4:54 AM
- Freddie said...
I don't quite understand the argument that people who trash Twilight also watch Harry Potter--both middle/low brow entertainment, I'm assuming--are making a mistake because, ultimately, they're really quite similar.
Didn't mean to suggest that. Of course, there are quality differences inside of genre fiction, and again, I'm someone who thinks genre fiction is capable of greatness. Totally. I'm just saying that the hatred of Twilight isn't necessarily due to its genre.
Phil K., here's one from Michael Chabon from the last month:
- March 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM
- Freddie said...
The comments of that post are particularly classic, too.
- March 19, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Michael said...
If opera, ballet, or symphony orchestras ceased to be functioning cultural utilities as long as our culture persists, however artistically backward they are (and have been such already for fifty years), it would be a tremendous loss. I don't look down on anyone who doesn't appreciate these art forms, but I do feel bad for them that they don't know what they are missing but still are missing it (orchestral music and much opera more than ballet).
But boradly, I agree with the thrust of this piece.
- March 19, 2012 at 8:42 AM
- bcg said...
Freddie, this was A++-would-read-again material.
- March 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Chabon is talking about a particular experience in writing seminars though. He's making a valid point. You can't hold him responsible for a bunch of other people's insecurities.
I was a big sci-fi reader in my early teens and I have no problem admitting that most of the genre is garbage. But that doesn't mean that the genre doesn't have some unique advantages to offer really good writers.
- March 19, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Ethan Gach said...
Maybe it's just me, but Tim's piece seemed more about exploring what makes a story complete, and how a reader goes about getting that completeness, than about any personal justifications.
Perhaps I just have a way of filtering that out (read: skim over) but the main point of the post dealt with what endings mean, what they accomplish, and why we take them so seriously and how maybe we shouldn't.
Sure, it was probably padded with a bunch of personal baggage (isn't that what make it blogging?) but I didn't associate it with the Gawker/A.V. Club/Pitchfork mentality of classificationary and exclusionist commentary, which I acknowledge and abhore as much as the next person (even if I have a penchant for slipping into it).
I didn't really take him to be saying that those who finish books are juvenile, but only that it arise from early education and that we often go ahead in life unreflective of why we finish books, and are thus often without good reasons for doing so (in the cases where we might, on second though, decide against it).
He just didn't seem to be pulling a sneeches with stars thing, and trying to rebrand his own rationalizations as superior.
- March 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM
- Freddie said...
Heads up: a commenter asked me to delete his comments, so I did.
- March 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM
- ABtMS said...
Absolutely love this post. It makes my own misanthropic tendencies seem so much less abnormal. :)
Seriously though, people suck. All of us.
- March 19, 2012 at 8:42 PM
I love this piece, and I agree with it completely.
I also realized, upon finishing it, that it does actually have the effect of assuring me that I am smart, above average, and savvy, in part through a mechanism that has assured me of my goodness by pointing out the sad small ugly people that I am better than.
If I were a [genre-fiction] robot I might be screaming "DOES NOT COMPUTE" and exploding.
- March 26, 2012 at 7:02 AM
Love this post. The constant reference to "guilty pleasures" I hear around me is odd – it is today a truly empty phrase in a culture in which no aesthetic pleasure is guilty and no one looks down on anything.
Speaking for myself, I've about had it. As a card carrying Proust and Schumann fan, I say let's start being more overly judgemental. This culture needs more classism and less equality.
The downside of classism is unproductive and unperceptive prejudice. The downside of equality-above-all is widespread dumbing down, crassness and the elimination of all aspirations outside of the material.
- March 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM
There is a great distinction between elevating aesthetic and intellectual virtues and "classism," which is by definition tethered to position rather than worth. We have more than enough classism in this society, thank you very much.
- March 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM
'There is a great distinction between elevating aesthetic and intellectual virtues and "classism," '
AK - I'd say that elevation of certain aesthetic & intellectual virtues is a subtype of classism. I disagree with you about whether we have too much classism in the US today. Nonjudgementalism is particularly apparent in the area of aesthetics.
By 'worth', I assume you mean moral worth.
- March 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Sergio Repka said...
I wonder if part of what is happening is not due to the breakdown and relativisation of cultural hierarchies being quite helpful to the cultural industry where it comes to churning out ever-increasing quantities of product. (Mind you, I'm not suggesting this is by design, more that the breakdown and relativisation, quite easy to understand from a historical perspective, did come in handy.) And, of course, infantilised, solipsistic people are much better consumers (again, no sinister conspiracies, just that businesses clocked a trend - maybe even unconsciously at first - and realised it was profitable).
Po-faced "analysis" above done with, thanks for the hilarious, refreshing post - lucky I wasn't sipping my tea when I got to the Jonathan Frantzen line.
- April 4, 2012 at 11:19 AM
You know, I had this long critical comment about the various disagreements I had with this article, the last paragraph of which contained the words "and if it's self-referential on purpose then I tip my hat to you, but (...)".
Then I read the comments and realized you and others had already brought up all my criticisms so I decided not to comment.
Then I finally noticed the article's title, and I decided I really should tip my hat to you...
Consider my nonexistent hat internet-tipped ;)
- May 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- amabel87654 said...
I wonder, how ya all do??
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I love the holidays. Halloween comes and goes swathed in orange and black, tiny fondant jack-o'-lanterns and chocolate skeletons dancing across supermarket shelves and shop windows. Thanksgiving arrives sharp on its heels in a burst of cooking energy; a cornucopia of seasonal fruits and vegetables just making their reluctant appearance on market stalls give themselves up to casseroles, cakes and side dishes; table tops strewn with crisp fall leaves in burnished gold and sepia and red the color of the evening sky where tiny Pilgrims stand in wooden severity. Then swoosh we are swept away in a Winter Wonderland of sparkle and brightness, swags of tiny colored lights and the twinkle of stars against inky black; the crinkle of shiny paper and the romance of plump bows lure and entice, flames dance in windows amid festive songs and Champagne cheer.
It is funny that I should love this season so much when we don't really celebrate the holidays. Halloween inspires impatient sneers and stirs up violent discussions of a cross-cultural takeover; Thanksgiving is simply forgotten, faded into hazy dreams of one single long-ago celebration. Christmas is seen by some to be a bewildering cross between a burden of familial expectations, consumer madness, religious indifference muddied with doubts and the joy of gift giving, while Hanukkah… yes Hanukkah in the warm glow of candlelight, the vibrant sizzle of latkes and the gentle hum and rhythm of filial and brotherly love, we are each swept away with enthusiasm. The spirit pervades and carries us along for five, maybe six of the eight days of festivities until someone voices skepticism, begins wondering aloud at the insanity of giving so many gifts so many nights in a row and the other three feel the holiday teetering on the precipice, the fragility of mood and sensibility looming, hoping that qualms and dubiousness will whither away in the utter beauty of one more candle's blaze.
But happily we rush into Christmas and New Year's Eve when the Champagne flows and the food is abundant, even if just for the two or the four of us. The ambiance returns, albeit quietly, to mirth and good cheer. Outright bellyaches and grousing fade into nuanced grumblings as we debate the degree of hoopla and revelry; we analyze how our year went, trade barbs and opinions on how everyone behaved, making our own list in much the way Santa does, judging degrees of naughtiness and whether this one or that deserves a gift or two. Strolling hand in hand through the glittering city, my every "Oooh! Pretty!" is met with icy silence, every "Ahhh! Look! I love that!" is matched with a sharp "No!" Each "Beautiful! Can we?" is parodied with a "But you're Jewish!" Our budget is deliberated, desires contested, activities negotiated and we somehow, each and every year, meet in the middle, arrive at a compromise on shopping, decoration and meal. And enjoy ourselves heartily.
Now please don't get me wrong and think that I am accusing anyone of being a Grinch. No snarling "I must stop this whole thing!" nor a Scrooge-like "Bah, Humbug!" in sight, but simply a low simmering discontent, enough to keep the over-planning at bay. But I will be fair. I will admit that if we were surrounded by family and friends, if holidays meant ringing doorbells and crowded rooms, if a dozen or so smiling faces gathered around our laden table, forks dancing happily above plates, the tinkle of busy cutlery and the clicking of wine glasses in toast after merry toast, well, maybe some of us would be singing a different tune.
Yet I love the holidays; the spirit invades, the jingle of bells excites, the tinny notes of piped-in carols thrills as I bounce down the city streets singing along with old, forgotten tunes and praying for snow. Although there is no Thanksgiving celebration, no holiday meal per se, I adore the sweet fresh smell of pumpkin, the weight and heft of knobbly sweet potatoes, the earthy mystery, the hideous beauty of mushrooms, from creamy white to delicate fawn to elegant woodsy browns lined up in wooden crates, gnarly or smooth, deep chocolate-colored figs nestled snugly side by side, together expressing autumn's amusement and vibrancy, inviting us to laugh and shop and cook. Whole rabbits and geese still bedecked in feathers and pelt, pyramids of chestnuts and garlands of greenery have the power to woo and I am left breathless, excited, lighthearted and completely, irrevocably in the mood.
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The others, those of my childhood have long been lost, scattered forever like the thousand million tiny petals of fuzz blown off of the head of a dandelion with a poof, snatched up and carried off by the wind. And never has one single Thanksgiving meal been served to my family in Europe and to tell the truth, it is never really missed. All alone, surrounded by no family or friends, we make our own celebrations, prepare festive meals just how and when we like. But I never hesitate to search out special recipes for seasonal treats, pumpkin and sweet potato pies, apple cakes and stollen, gingerbread macarons and the like. All autumn and winter long.
A fondant to some is that sugary sweet icing rolled out and delicately layered over wedding cakes or cookies. To the French, a fondant is an ethereal cake-like delicacy, meltingly smooth on the tongue, its immediate burst of richness fading away leaving a delicate essence, a flavor that lingers. This Fondant au Chocolat et Marrons, Chocolate and Chestnut Fondant, inspired by an image, a recipe seen in a cookbook, is less cake than truffle, so dense yet surprisingly delicate. A deep chocolate flavor with a hint of chestnut, the fondant is just perfect as it is, better than any gooey, decadent brownie could ever hope to be. Yet with that very first mouthful I knew that I had to make this again adding a couple of tablespoons of Cointreau, Grand Marnier or even rum for a sensational complex new layer of flavor and the kick of alcohol. And I'll make it a third time using all salted butter for that glorious salty zing I love with chocolate. Astonishingly simple to make, four easy ingredients, this Chocolate Chestnut Fondant makes for one dramatic, spectacular holiday dessert.
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7 oz (200 g) dark chocolate – I used half bittersweet Lindt Doux 70% + half swemisweet Nestlé Dessert
11 Tbs (160 g) butter – I used half unsalted + half salted butter
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17.6 oz (500 g) Crème de Marron (sweetened chestnut cream)
1 gently rounded Tbs flour
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter the bottom and sides of an 8 or 9-inch baking dish.
Break the chocolate into smallish chunks and place in a heatproof or Pyrex bowl with the butter. Melt in the microwave on high for about 1 ½ minutes. Remove from the oven and stir until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture blended and smooth. Return to the microwave for quick zaps if need be. (I always remove melting chocolate and butter from the heat, whether microwave or bain-marie, before one or the other (or both) are completely melted in order to avoid burning the chocolate or overheating…. The heat of that already melted will help melt the remaining chunks while beginning the cooling down process.)
Allow the butter and chocolate to cool to room temperature or at least tepid.
Place the eggs in a medium to large mixing bowl and whisk or beat well until blended. Whisk in the chestnut cream. Gradually pour in the butter/chocolate while continuing to whisk, being careful not to splatter. Whisk in the flour.
Pour into the buttered baking dish and bake for about 30 minutes, depending upon the size and shape of your baking dish as well as your oven. The fondant should be puffed, set in the center and cracking a bit. The surface will look matt, almost like the surface of brownies.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature before serving. This is a very rich dessert and is best served in thin slices. And those who wish will be free to request seconds!
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Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Featuring Artistic Director Dan McCleary in the title role with an ensemble that includes TSC favorites Johnny Lee Davenport, Paul Kiernan, and Caley Milliken, TSC's haunting production of Richard III takes full advantage of Halloween (All Hallow's Eve) and the recent unearthing of the painful remains of King Richard's skeleton, here given modern life and re-tried by a cast of everlasting Souls.
DATE: October 31, 2014
VENUE: Germantown Performing Arts Center/Duncan-Williams Performance Hall
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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Treated as a holiday festival in an intimate music hall, Shakespeare's musical comedy joyously pushes the boundaries of role and gender reversal when Viola shipwrecks in Illyria, dresses in drag as Cesario and falls madly for Count Orsino, who is heartsick for Lady Olivia, who is the apple of the yellow cross-gartered Malvolio's eye. Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek, and the singing Feste never let the love story get too serious. Celebrate the winter solstice and the festival of light with Shakespeare's most charming comedy.
DATES: December 12, 16, & 17, 2014
VENUE: Dixon Gallery & Gardens/Winegardner Auditorium
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Settle into the deepness of the autumn season in this healing afternoon retreat combining the nourishing practice of restorative yoga with the gentle, upright presence of Zen meditation.
The transition from summer to autumn can be unsettling for the nervous system, with new beginnings and increased demands in the midst diminishing sunlight and cooler temperatures. Inviting the mind to realign with our present experience of body and breath, we will explore a variety of gentle movement sequences and supported postures to encourage relaxed and supple tissues, effortless breath, awakened spine, and deep rest for the nervous system. From the ground of relaxed body-mind, we will transition into seated meditation practice during the second half of our retreat, learning to use props effectively to support a balanced and vibrant posture. Our retreat will finish with tea and encouragement towards maintaining balance as we return to the fullness of our daily lives and prepare ourselves for the darker seasons.
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Erin Merk is a Zen priest and teacher of yoga. She received priest ordination from Eijun Linda Cutts in 2005, and served as "head student" at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in 2012. Erin first came to San Francisco Zen Center in 1999, following her graduation from Stanford University's Teacher Education Program. After two weeks as a work study participant at Tassajara, she fell in love with Zen practice and put her teaching career on hold to explore monastic practice.
Erin has lived and practiced at City Center, Tassajara, Green Gulch Farm, and No Abode, spending much of her time chopping vegetables and washing big pots and pans. Since 2006 Erin has been a faculty member at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, directing the school's Body-Mind Education program and teaching yoga, mindfulness, and health classes to teens. A practicing yogini and yoga teacher for many years, Erin recently graduated from the Advanced Studies Program at Yoga Room Berkeley and earned certification as a Relax and Renew™ trainer from Judith Hanson Lasater. She is currently delighted to be exploring Egoscue™ and Yoga with Patricia Sullivan.


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PRESTONSBURG - Floyd county got a visit this week from Kentucky Sports Radio as the duo of Matt Jones and Ryan Lemond broadcast live from Stonecrest Golf Course Monday morning.
Jones and Lemond kicked off the groups five week tour of live broadcasts from the beautiful backdrop of Stonecrest Golf Course during its two hour broadcast Monday.
Jones said that during the tour, the group will be giving away basketball tickets. During each stop there will be an opportunity for callers or those in attendance to win two basketball tickets for the upcoming University of Kentucky basketball season.
"Someone is going to win tickets to see UK and Louisville," said Jones during the broadcast. Jones laughed and added that, "Of course, somebody is also going to win tickets to see the Mantevollo exhibition game."
Prestosnburg native Steve Newsome won the first set of tickets. Newsome won the tickets during the Monday show to attend the December game against Belmont.
During the broadcast, Jones and Lemond were presented with the key to the city by Prestonsburg Mayor Jerry Fannin, whom Jones called the most fit mayor he's ever seen. "If there is ever a mayor battle royal, I'm taking the Mayor of Prestonsburg."
KSR will be traveling around the state through the summer on a twenty stop tour. Other locations where the group will be broadcasting from include:
June 25: Williamson, WV - Historic Coal House
June 26: Paintsville - Arby's
June 27: Whitesburg - Pine Mountain Grille
June 28: Pikeville - East Ky Expo Center
July 1: Columbia - Burger King
July 2: Jamestown - The Cove Steakhouse
July 3: Somerset - Mr Gatti's
July 4: HOLIDAY
July 5: HOLIDAY
July 8: London - Weaver's Hot Dogs
July 9: Monticello - Conley Bottom Resort
July 10: Augusta, Ga - PEACH JAM
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July 12: Augusta, Ga - PEACH JAM
July 15: Bowling Green - Wright Implement/John Deere
July 16: Morgantown - Final Finish
July 17: Madisonville - Hudson Toyota Chrysler
July 18: Morganfield - Verlie's Restaurant
July 19: Owensboro - Don Moore Toyota
July 22: Glasgow - Glasgow Country Club
July 23: Danville - Bluegrass Community Bank
July 24: Maysville - Big Rock ATV Park
July 25: Lexington - Lexington Legends
July 26: Louisville - Safelite Auto Glass
During Monday's show, Jones discussed topics ranging from summer workouts on UK's campus, to old stories of former UK head basketball coach Billy Gillespie. Gillespie was fired from UK in 2009 after two unsuccessful seasons. Jones also discussed reports of summer improvement in sophomore Alex Poythress, as well as reports of incoming freshman Dakrai Johnson's prowess.
Kentucky Sports Radio can be heard daily airing on WKJK 1080am out of Louisville, or through their local affiliate WPRT 960am in Prestonsburg.


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I Kissed That Guy's Ring.Wednesday, October 02 2013
EJ and Sami go to battle, Caroline gives solid advice, Theresa has a new job, and Kayla's anger gets the better of her.
Gabi approves of Sonny's Oktoberfest pamphlets at the club. Cameron arrives. She knows Sonny pushed him to ask her out. He denies needing prodding. Sonny watches, smiling, as the pair hits it off.
Chad arrives at Abigail's while she's reading Jack's memoirs and crying. They discuss the book and kiss.
In the park, JJ tells Bev Daniel figured out that they partied at their place but won't tell. Bev doubts it. He asks to stay with her tonight but he can't. Her dad's hovering.
Daniel calls a locksmith from home but has to hang up before making an appointment to attend to Parker. Parker asks about Jennifer and Daniel tells him that Jennifer's son needs her right now so they won't see her for a while.
At the hospital, Jennifer and Kayla are shocked and Jennifer bursts out laughing when Anne says she found a new job for Theresa in hospital security. Theresa assures Kayla she won't blow it this time. Later, Anne tells Theresa she's off to work on her special project, and goes to 'Jenny's' office and puts her on notice. Jenny says that will require discipline and focus. Theresa has neither. She shows her the door. "And it's Jennifer. Always." Theresa goes to the hub and Anne trains her a little on security but says her number one job is to make Jennifer's life miserable. Daniel arrives and with Jennifer watching, Theresa flirts with Dan and then rubs it in.
Caroline greets Lucas, Johnny, Allie and Sydney at the pub. They tell her they're going to Chicago with their parents.
At the mansion, Sami learns they cannot move out as part of Stefano's terms for getting her out of jail. She cries a little. She doesn't want to live there but EJ gave his word as a DiMera. "I grovelled for you," he tells her when she doesn't get it. "I kissed that guy's ring. For you," EJ yells. She's incensed and wants to leave. He orders her to stay, which peeves her off. She can't do this for 'some stupid Gothic oath ceremony' and doesn't know what to think. His word means more to her than her and their kids. EJ doesn't think she's listening. She wants him to go with her but he can't. She tells him she'll send for her things, and leaves. Chad shows up with his belongings, ready to move in. EJ's not ecstatic because Samanther moved out. Chad can't blame her and assumes EJ made a deal with Stefano in order to get Sami out of jail. It was like 'all of a sudden the cops busted a piñata and all this stuff came falling out'. He gets it. Stefano had him. EJ's thankful someone understands him. They discuss it further and Chad says it's not over yet. EJ argues that Sami stormed out. Chad points out that Sami storms out of supermarkets. She couldn't have meant it. Chad advises to go after her. He doesn't want to live there without those kids around.
Kayla sees JJ in the park. He asks if he can stay with her and Joey for a few days. Kayla loves him but can't get in the middle of it. He accuses her of not giving a damn about him and blames Daniel for turning her against him. He calls Daniel's scum and goes on and on about how he doesn't hold a candle to Jack until Kayla snaps and says his father was no saint. She knows that better than anyone! She eats her words.
Abby arrives at the club and Sonny tells her about Gabi and Cameron's date. She stares, and when Gabi leaves Cameron says hello. She asks why he lied to her.
Sami goes to the pub and Caroline can sense something's up so she sends the kids to the kitchen to make ice cream while Sami tells her and Lucas about how she has to live at the mansion with Stefano. Sami says if EJ loved her, he'd never ask her to do this. Lucas tells her not to let EJ bully her. She should stick to her guns. He remembers himself and tells her to forget about guns. Lucas leaves and Sami spills the truth to Caroline about Stefano having the evidence that set her free. Caroline sides with EJ. He gave his word and that has to mean something. Doesn't she want to know he can keep a promise? Sami worries EJ will get sucked back into that life.
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Welcome to a revolutionary dining experience in the heart of Niagara Falls! Windows by Jamie Kennedy breaks new ground in the heart of the Niagara Falls Hotel tourist district, by championing the rich local bounty available right in it's own backyard. A recipient of the prestigious CAA/AAA Four-Diamond Award and 2015 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence, Windows presents a menu inspired by Niagara's beautiful farmland, skilled artisans, and renowned vineyards. At long last, visitors and locals alike can savour the local culinary abundance in the midst of the exciting surroundings of the Falls Avenue Resort. No chef in Canada is more respected for his devotion to local, seasonal, sustainable gastronomy, and his relentless pursuit to define and celebrate Canada's unique regional culinary character.
Jamie Kennedy has been at the forefront of Canada's farm-to-table, slow food, and local food movements. In this journey, he has helped to nurture and strengthen the community of like-minded producers, chefs, and consumers, and moreover he has inspired others to join him in following this traditional, yet revolutionary, philosophy. Chef Kennedy brings this passion and experience to the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, where on the 14th floor, diners will enjoy not only the finest in local cuisine, but one of the world's most spectacular views. Windows by Jamie Kennedy will feature a seasonally-based, evolving menu featuring the richness of the region, accompanied by the region's most extensive wine list. Join us at Windows by Jamie Kennedy, Niagara's finest dining destination.


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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Berkeley High School Athletics Hall of Fame officially introduced its 2013 class of inductees at its second annual golf tournament on April 25 at the Berkeley Country Club.
Nine inductees were announced by BHS Athletic Director Jeff Cruce in January and introduced prior to the tournament's shotgun tee off.
The BHS Athletics Hall of Fame Class for 2013 are: Albert "Snookey" Boyt Jr., Mike Brown, Ben Fleming Sr., Rodney Mack, Allen Watson, John Rivers, Marsha Williams, Rusty Williams and Rufus Wofford Sr.
Many of this year's inductees, or family members representing inductees attended this year's tournament.
"It's great to see all the support given by Berkeley High School for this Hall of Fame. I'm sure Big Rufus would have been proud to be here," said Rufus Wofford Jr., son of inductee Rufus Wofford.
"These are all deserving Berkeley Stags legends," Cruce said. "We have a very deserving class in this year's inductees. All of these inductees could have been with the first class."
More than 20 teams participated in the best-ball tournament and Cruce called the gathering of Berkeley's past legends an honor and a thrill.
"It's a great chance to bring together the rich past of Berkeley Stags' athletics and honor some very deserving athletes," Cruce said. "This tournament is what funds everything with the Hall of Fame and it is the first opportunity for the new class to be formally introduced."
Members of the 2012 inaugural Hall of Fame class were represented by Watson Mims, Ryan Stewart and Mike Dingle.
"It's a great day to get out and have a little fun and be a part of this great Stags tradition," Mims said.
Also playing in the tournament was former U.S. Congressman Henry Brown.
"It's nice to get out and see everybody again," said Brown, a member of the Stags football team from 1950 to 1953.
Cruce also announced the awarding of a scholarship to a Berkeley Stags student athlete to begin with the 2014 Hall of Fame Class. The scholarship will be funded by proceeds generated from each class induction and will be awarded to a graduating senior student athlete.
"This is a very exciting time for Berkeley athletics," Cruce said. "Any time you can reach the past and let the present see what the past did for them … this is all it's all about."
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Find hidden secrets in New Zealand satellite imagery - With the recent upgrade of Google satellite mapping imagery for New Zealand the Gadgetophile blog points us to some hidden gems for various locations around New Zealand. Gadgetophile takes you on a very detailed tour of places such as the famed Cape Reinga lighthouse. The description reads: "...The Âspiritual northernmost point of New Zealand. If you look at the map, the physical northernmost point is across to the east a little way, but the lighthouse at Cape Reinga is the most readily accessible area, and quite often referred to as New ZealandÂs northernmost point."
Previously mentioned Google Maps mashups and tools for New Zealand:
- New Zealand street and placenames - Look up specific names and find them on Google Maps (a missing feature from Google Maps currently)
- New Zealand Explorer - A mashup of Land Information New Zealand and Google Maps
- New Zealand Speed Camera Search - Find and map speed cameras
- Do some "online sightseeing" with these maps: Wikimapia, GoogleSightseeing, Interesting Satellite Views and Tagzania


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