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Finding a Niche in Local Theater — and Seeking More
Rick Pender
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In recent columns I surveyed Cincinnati theater companies that came and went during the past 20 years. Some stumbled because their founders had more passion than management expertise; others simply lacked the focus to keep audiences coming back. The truth is it's hard to identify a niche and settle into it
Theater on the Horizon
Rick Pender
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Several slots for the 2013-2014 season have been filled in by local theaters as the current season finishes.
Jon Kovach Still Lighting up Area Stages
Harper Lee
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As the Sitwell's Coffee House crowd buzzes around him, Jon Kovach calmly ticks off his lengthy list of commitments for the approaching summer.
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Stage Door: Finishing Up Fringe
Two more days of the 2013 Cincy Fringe remain. In its 10th year, this year's festival has provided consistently high-quality offerings. If you're serious about the full range of theater, you owe it to yourself to catch a couple of them. I can't go into everything here, but you can check out my column from the current issue of CityBeat here or go straight to CityBeat's hub for web coverage where you can read coverage of all the shows, thanks to our dedicated corps of reviewers.One further recommendation: Make your way to Know Theatre after 10 p.m. on Saturday to mix and mingle with the lively crowd and be among the first to learn which shows have earned "Pick of the Fringe" honors. There's no charge for admission; buy a drink or two and tip the bartenders generously. This is a volunteer-driven event, so you might also say thanks to anyone wearing a volunteer T-shirt. Even as the Fringe sails off into the sunset, there's still plenty of theater onstage locally. For instance, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company opens its revival of its hit from last summer, The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Find CityBeat's review of last summer's CSC production here.) A three-man cast plays all the characters in a very funny take on the classic Sherlock Holmes tale. The actors, a trio of Cincy Shakes' best (Jeremy Dubin, Nicholas Rose and Brent Vimtrup), have been staged by the always inventive Michael Evan Haney, the Cincinnati Playhouse's associate artistic director and perhaps our finest local stage director, who manages to squeeze every possible ounce of entertainment from this hilarious script. The show had a sold-out run last July, and you can expect a similar response this month; the run continues through June 30. Tickets: 513-381-2273, x1. Another option: Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, at Falcon Theater in Newport. It's a funny script by Mitch Albom (the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven) about two bumbling Alabama duck hunters who think they've shot an angel. The story lands in a New York tabloid and explodes from there. Through June 15. Tickets: 513-479-6783. For something more serious, I suggest Showbiz Players production of Spring Awakening at the Carnegie in Covington, the winner of eight Tony Awards (including best musical). It's a tale of teen angst and emerging sexuality, a powerful piece with a driving Rock score. Onstage through June 8. Tickets: 859-957-1940. And there's still time to catch Shipwrecked! on the Playhouse's Shelterhouse stage (through June 16). It's a fantastic and family-friendly tale about adventure and storytelling, told imaginatively using three actors and a lot of clever sound effects and adaptation of everyday things to create exotic settings and dangerous moments, rescued by heroism or happenstance. (CityBeat review here.) A good show for the whole family. Tickets: 513-421-3888 Finally, a reminder: The Tony Awards, recognizing Broadway's best shows, will be be broadcast on Sunday evening on CBS, starting at 8 p.m., hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
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Tenth annual Cincy Fringe Festival going strong in Over-the-Rhine
0 Comments · Thursday, May 30, 2013
Welcome to CityBeat's 2013 Fringe Festival ongoing coverage. Find performance reviews, commentary and mad Tweets about the festivities.
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Rising Stars
LCT singles out great theater productions and performers for 2012-2013
I wrote my Curtain Call column before the League of Cincinnati Theatres held its Monday night awards gala at The Know Theatre. So I thought you might want to learn the results. I'm glad to report that the LCT voters and I agreed about the season's best shows: I thought that Know Theatre's When the Rain Stops Falling was the best theatrical production, and that CCM Musical Theatre's production of Parade at the Carnegie was the most satisfying musical — and those are the productions that LCT cited, too.LCT employed social media to identify audience favorites: Untethered Theatre's Red Light Winter won as the favored play, NKU's production of the musical Legally Blonde got the nod. I'm sure these were both fine productions, and it's nice to see Untethered, a new company, receive this recognition. But it's also apparent that some theaters lobbied supporters to vote for their productions, which is part of this game. So take such results with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, recognition is recognition, and that's what the awards are ultimately about — bringing good theater to the attention of the theater-going public.There were some nice touches to LCT's program this year, including an "audience service award" that singled out people who serve audience members — box office managers and bartenders, for instance. Sue Bolger, who runs the ticket operation at NKU was named the winner, but all of these folks make going to the theater a pleasure — Brenda Berger at the Carnegie, Cal Harris at Cincy Shakes, Barb Marino with New Edgecliff and John Simpson, who runs the bar at the Playhouse.LCT annually recognizes outstanding theater educators: This year's honorees, Mike Sherman from Colerain High School and Chad Weddle from Anderson High School, both gave grateful speeches thanking parents and hard-working kids for making it possible. These guys (and everyone who puts together high school productions) are heroes in my book: They instill a love of theater in kids, some of whom go on to careers, but many more who just come to love theater and enjoy a lifetime of happy audience membership.Speaking of heroes, Cincinnati Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Michael Evan Haney received a standing ovation from the crowd of 200 or so when he was presented with the Rick Steiner Award for Excellence. Haney is marking his 40th year in professional theater, having spent more than 20 years staging shows for the Playhouse (including 20+ iterations of A Christmas Carol, a show he first appeared in as Bob Cratchit), as well as work at other local theaters including Ensemble Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare.Four Rising Stars were also named, performers under age 25 who are on the front end of promising careers. Ellie Jamison (CCM Drama), Drew Blakeman (NKU), Jon Kovach (Miami) and Sydney Kuhlman (an Ohio Northern grad who has been a stage management intern at the Playhouse) each received a $1,000 check to get them started. The full list of LCT winners (as well as other nominees), can be found at leagueofcincytheatres.info.
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The Cincy Fringe Festival returns to Over-the-Rhine in all its fringy glory
Rick Pender
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My first tip: Don't think you can outwit the Fringe. I like to say that the festival is best described as theater roulette. Give the cylinder a whirl, pull the trigger and see what comes at you. Sometimes it might be what you expect, but more often than not you'll be surprised.
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Stage Door: Weekend Choices
You still have several weeks to see Cock (aka "The Cockfight Play" for journalism wimps) at Know Theatre. (It's onstage through May 11.) It's an oh-so-contemporary piece of theater about a gay man — or rather a man — who thought himself to be gay until he breaks up with his boyfriend and takes up with a woman. (CityBeat review here.) The play involves the tense dance of indecision he becomes part of as his lovers fight over him. It's about 90-minutes of fiercely acted theatrics, staged in a setting that looks like the arena where cockfighting happens. Definitely for mature audiences who appreciate shows that don't pull punches. Tickets: 513-3
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Stage Door: Bounty of Choices
There's a bounty of theater choices to keep you entertained this weekend, with productions on venues all over town — including on several university campuses. Here are a few you might want to check out. New Edgecliff Theatre, which has presented shows at the Columbia Performance Center on Cincinnati's East Side for quite a few years, has been itinerant this year while they seek a new home. They're completing their fifteenth season with a production of David Auburn's Proof at the Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theater, which looks like it's where they'll land for their next season. (I'll be writing more about NET in my next CityBeat "Curtain Call" column on April 24.) I attended the show's opening on Wednesday, and it's a solid production of a very engaging play, the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. Greg Procaccino, NET's former artistic director, has returned to stage a simple but effective production that features Rebecca Whatley as Catherine, the anxious, self-doubting young woman who has been a caregiver for years for her father, a renowned math professor whose mental instability has been a factor and a threat in his daughter's life. The show has several gripping twists and turns, as well as a satisfying resolution. Through April 27. Tickets: 513-621-2787. Last week I was at the opening of Cock, a regional premiere and Know Theatre's second production of the season. (CityBeat review here.) It's the story of a man falling out of a gay relationship and into one with a woman; he's torn by indecision and doubt about which way to go. The show is staged (by director Brian Robertson) like a cockfight, with the characters "pecking" at one another emotionally. It's also presented in an unusual setting, bertween two rows of bleachers (like a cockfight arena), so you're close to the action and able to see how others are responding. It's a fight to the finish, and you can never be certain of the outcome. Strong acting and a very contemporary, well-written script by British playwright Mike Bartlett. Through May May 11. Tickets: 513-300-5669. This is the final weekend at the Carnegie in Covington for the hard-hitting musical Parade by composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown and playwright Alfred Uhry. (CityBeat review here.) It's based on the true story of Leo Frank, unjustly accused of murdering a young teenaged girl working in the factory he managed in Atlanta in 1913. A Jew from New York, Frank was the target of profound anti-Semitism and never had a realistic chance to defend himself, although his wife tried mightily to expose the prejudice. It's a powerful production, featuring a cast of musical theater talent from UC's College-Conservatory of Music, directed by Dee Anne Bryll and Ed Cohen. The show is not easy to watch, but it's deeply moving. Through Sunday. Tickets: 859-957-1940. Every two years since 1981, Northern Kentucky University has presented the Year End Series Festival — shortened to the "YES," ten days of presentations of three world premieres. This year's shows are a murder-mystery farce, Heart Attack with a Knife by Oded Gross; David L. Williams Spake, a drama set in Siberia; and a comic fable about fame and friendship, Furbelow by J. Stephen Brantley. YES is a gargantuan undertaking, and it represents how NKU prepares its drama students for careers in the theater. Shows are presented in rotating repertory, so you should check the Web site for specific performance dates. Tickets: 859-572-5464. At other area universities this weekend: At the Cohen Family Studio Theater at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, you can see a production of Emily Mann's Execution of Justice (UC's College-Conservatory of Music, through Sunday, 513-556-4183), a new docu-drama about the trial of Dan White for the murder of Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay Supervisor and Mayor George Moscone. It's staged by retiring UC drama professor Michael Burnham. And for musical theater fans, you can see Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's popular fairytale musical Into the Woods at Miami University (through April 27, 513-529-3200).
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Fringe Has Sprung
Tenth annual event begins May 28
Sure signs of springtime in Cincinnati: The Reds are playing (and winning), trees in Over-the-Rhine are covered with white blossoms — and Know Theatre has announced the lineup for the upcoming Cincinnati Fringe Festival. 2013 is a significant year for the Fringe: It's marking the 10th anniversary of the annual celebration of weird creativity. Last evening a big crowd gathered at Know Theatre's Jackson Street facility to hear what's in store for the May 28-June 8 festival. Eric Vosmeier, Know's producing artistic director, shared the news that, building on a decade of success, the Fringe received a record number of applicants for 2013, with 70 percent of the applications coming from brand-new producers. That's one of the best parts of the Fringe, the fact that a new jolt of energy arrives annually from performers that haven't been seen locally. Sixty-three percent of the 2013 applications were from out of town, including several from international producers. There will be 35 productions in all, by 17 local groups and 18 from out of town. There will be 19 plays, seven solo shows, two dance pieces, two musicals, and five multimedia/variety pieces. Vosmeier said that it was no easy task for the Fringe selection committee to assemble this lineup. The group was made up of theater professionals from Greater Cincinnati: Heather Britt, Michael Haney, Dave Levy, Miranda McGee, D. Lynn Meyers and Torie Wiggins. "The quality of applications continues to get stronger and larger each year," he said. "I'm so happy to have these amazing leaders of the local theatre community as a part of our jury, and we're grateful for their time in deciding the 2013 lineup." The official CityBeat Fringe Kick-Off Party takes place Tuesday, May 28, at Know Theatre. This year's event will also be a 10th birthday celebration, with many of the festival's founders in attendance. The evening, which kicks off at 6 p.m., will feature Indie rock group Bethesda and food from a half-dozen local eateries. The evening (suggested donation: $5) is an opportunity to meet Fringe artists, staff, volunteers and other audience members.The full Fringe schedule will be published in CityBeat's May 15 edition, but you can get some information at the refreshed website: www.cincyfringe.com. I'm looking forward to return visits by Wonderheads (from Portland, Ore., who did some amazing work with masks in last year's Grim and Fischer; their new piece is titled LOON), Four Humors Theatre (from Minneapolis, whose always creative troupe will be staging Lolita: A Three Man Show) and Tanya O'Debra (from New York City; whose Radio Star was a much admired work in 2012; this time she's in a two-person piece, Shut UP, Emily Dickinson). Performance Gallery, based here in Cincinnati and a regular annual presence every year is staging Mater Facit, "an absurd look at motherhood, nationalism, war, sex and sacrifice." Tangled Leaves Theatrical Collective, another Cincinnati-based group popular with local audiences, will produce Vortex of the Great Unknown. Of course, the real fun of Fringe is being surprised by new material and performers, and this year's lineup offers plenty of that: Poe and Mathews: A Misadventure in the Middle of Nowhere (Los Angeles); Questions of the Heart: Gay Mormons and the Search for Identity (Bloomington, Ind.); The Bubble and Other Displays of Moral Turpitude (from Cincinnati-based North American New Opera Workshop); The Elephant in My Closet (New York City); and a production of Cincinnati playwright Catie O'Keefe's The Space Between my Head and my Body (by Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company). I could go on and on — Know's announcement news release is 20 pages! Based on a decade of Fringing, I like to say that the festival is "theater roulette": You never know what's going to happen when you show up for a performance, and serendipity is the only predictable element. That's what makes it fun. I don't want to wish away springtime, but is it May 28 yet?
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Gaza: Of media wars and borderless journalism
Issue 7, Winter 2009
Zeina Awad reports from Gaza. Image courtesy of Al Jazeera English under a Creative Commons license
Yet again, the disconnect. Yet again, American and Arab viewers are seeing two vastly different conflicts play out on their television screens. Yet again, the media has become a weapon of war.
Add Gaza to Afghanistan, Iraq, the sieges of Jenin and Ramallah, and Lebanon; another conflict that Arabs and Americans see through completely different lenses. More fodder for the stereotypes. More reason each side fails to understand the other. More reason to hate.
As with the 2006 Israeli war with Hizbullah, I spent the first two weeks of this conflict on a family vacation in North America. The domestic U.S. media was, once more, reporting from behind borders built of pre-conceived notions, simplistic explanations and an Americentric view of the world.
Put simply, Gaza was background noise. Yes, it generally made the front page of the newspapers and the main newscasts, but – particularly on television – the humanity, the scale and the context of the conflict were AWOL. Arabs and Israelis were at it again; now let's get back to Obama, the economy and New Year's Eve.
And the carefully-scripted talking points of the Israeli spokespeople who dominated the airwaves made it clear that, yet again, the Arabs deserved what they were getting. Driving through Washington State, I listened to a fawning half-hour interview with an Israeli consul general on a Seattle talk show. In San Francisco, I saw another Israeli official on TV fielding marshmallows from a local anchor. On CNN, it was more of the same. And for the most part, U.S. politicians were working from those same talking points, as a montage on Comedy Central's Daily Show made so clear. Arabs, or those presenting their perspective, were few and far between.
All the retroactive journalistic soul-searching over official media manipulation, lack of balance in the selection of "expert" interviews in the lead-up to Iraq, self-censorship "because of concern about public reaction to graphic images" in the early phase of that war, and "misguided moral equivalence" in the 2006 Lebanon conflict was, yet again, forgotten.
As in 2006, I returned to the Middle East to find a very different conflict playing out on my television screen. To find Arabs enraged; yet again. To hear people asking how Americans could sit back and ignore the carnage; yet again. More demonstrations against Israel and America, more name calling, more people shaking their heads asking, "Why don't Americans understand?"
America's public diplomacy chief offered part of the answer. "Americans are big supporters of Israel, that's just a fact," he told a group of Egyptian bloggers in a briefing in the virtual world Second Life. But the other half of the reason is that Americans were not seeing the same images that were bombarding Arabs 24/7; the kind of pictures that would melt the heart of the most diehard supporter of Israel. Which was precisely why, according to the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli media weren't showing them to the their own public either.
"Our media is systematically covering up the suffering in Gaza, and there's only one opinion present in the TV studios – the army's," liberal Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy told the German magazine Der Speigel.
The world's television news organizations were all taking the same feed from the Palestinian video agency Ramattan TV; the difference came in how they edited the tape.
As in Afghanistan and Iraq and Lebanon, U.S. coverage leading up to the January 19 ceasefire mostly consisted of impersonal wide shots of bombs exploding, interspersed with the occasional fleeting images of bodies wrapped in burial shrouds. Here in the Arab world, television was dominated by heart-wrenching close-ups of dead and horribly maimed infants and young children.
But Arab coverage was not monolithic. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have sought to prevent Hamas from scoring political gains at the expense of the more secular Palestinian authority, while Qatar is leading a Gulf block that equates support for Hamas with support for the Palestinian people. The fault lines have produced a media war in the Arab world. "What journalism we have today!" a leading Saudi columnist declared in print, charging his colleagues with "marketing the idea that any anger at the Israeli bombardment is unjustified and that any support for resistance is incitement for terrorism."
The rift is most evident on the broadcasts of the region's bitter television rivals. Al Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, has focused on vivid images of bloodshed accompanied by commentary thick with moral outrage. Rival Al Arabiya, owned by Saudi interests close to the royal family, has chosen to avoid the most graphic footage and take a more measured tone. The contrasting approaches reflect both the very different perceptions of the role of Arab journalism in the two newsrooms and the political rift between their respective patrons.
"Our coverage was closer to the people," Al Jazeera's news chief Ahmed Sheikh told me. While he said the channel was "impartial" in that it gave airtime to Israeli officials, "we are not neutral when it comes to innocent people being killed like this. The camera picks up what happens in reality and reality cannot be neutral," he said, adding that, as with U.S. network coverage of Vietnam, Al Jazeera showed graphic images to turn public opinion against the war. "The goal of covering any war is to reveal the atrocities that are carried out."
"We belong to two different schools of news television in the Arab world," countered Al Arabiya news chief Nabil Khatib, the target of death threats on Islamist websites for refusing to allow the word shahid (martyr) to be used on the air to describe Palestinian dead.
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That's right, hide behind the innocent children pablum. I don't see a whole lot of coverage of Hamas hiding behind the children. I dont' see pictures of the victims of the 5000 rockets strikes Israel has endured of the the past three years. I don't see regret for the children Hamas has killed (two more from a failed rocket attack just last week).
Journalism has been ABSENT for many years, now. Your credibility is gone. You've been caught in too many lies and it is easy to find your bias.
Spare me your hand-wringing over the "poor innocents". THose poor innocents freely elected a terrorist organization to run their country. How much sympathy are we expected to show?
Those of us with computers know full well the magnitude of the Israeli brutality levied against the Palestinians.
Most of us are far from indifferant.

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By Gary Southwell, director of IPTV and Multiplay solutions, Juniper Networks
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For many years, the edge of the IP network has been the traditional service delivery point where most of the network intelligence resided, whereas the core was not as active in controlling the services that traverse the network. Until now, having the majority of service intelligence reside at the edge has been an adequate paradigm for many traditional applications.
The massive growth in high value traffic changes the current approach to core network design. This traffic takes the form of video—both on-demand streaming connections and real-time broadcast, as well as other content-heavy applications (such as storage) and of course voice. Since a positive user experience is a necessity for these services, it becomes incumbent on the core network to be able to scale and differentiate the high value traffic. The alternative, a core with no service awareness, results in either dissatisfied users (ultimately killing the service), or a need to over-engineer via bandwidth and infrastructure capacity to accommodate these services.
Requirements for Service Awareness across the Next-Generation Network Core
Service providers have recognized the need for change in service delivery and have called for their equipment suppliers—through initiatives such as IMS, TISPAN and IPSphere Forum—to provide an architectural model that enables scale to deliver profitable new services as they become available. The following table illustrates this model.
Table 1. Functional separation in a layered architecture
Specifying functional separation into layers with defined open interfaces, these architectures promise to link services with users and the network. However, the primary focus of these architectures has been on admission control and service policy enforcement in edge platforms, with very little done to leverage this service information across the routed core network.
Looking forward, experience-based, bandwidth-intensive services, such as video on demand, are driving the need for the network core to dynamically adjust to meet the changing subscriber and application demand. To achieve service awareness, it is clear that the Next-Generation Network (NGN) core needs more packet processing agility—and the ability to actively link network behavior with user, service and application requirements. This service awareness in the core prevents the costly mistake of leaving the user experience to chance, and avoids high operations involvement whenever a new revenue opportunity comes along.
NGN core solutions need to solve the fundamental challenge of delivering services cost-effectively and at scale. The current core infrastructure itself presents some challenges here. Across most installed systems, capacity is limited to a few 10 Gbps interfaces, which is insufficient to handle core growth rates of 80-100 percent per year very far into the future. In the highest traffic environments, the challenge of scale requires intelligent 40 Gbps interfaces that support over a terabit in a single network node.
Finally, this router intelligence must be available at multiple levels of scale. It should preserve current investments, and be available as an in-service upgrade to existing systems rather than as a 'forklift" upgrade.
The challenge of delivering scalable service control on the packet handling level, and policy enablement in the control plane, must be designed from the start. This is a new frontier in core network router design, and retrofitting this level of sophistication is not possible as an afterthought once inadequate systems are deployed.
The immediate assumption is that a system providing service control at scale would cost more than plumbing-only counterparts. But what if this service control and scale was available with the same level of investment to the service provider? The advantages would be faster time to market for assured services, differentiated services with premium margins for guarantees, higher availability, and higher brand quality.
Enhanced service control across the core means not only rapid service delivery and resultant revenue increases, but also huge financial savings (in both CapEx and OpEx) from the optimized utilization of existing core resources. Additional architectural changes can be implemented: Video servers can now be more centralized, with content more efficiently replicated and delivered across the service-aware core to end users.
Enabling Technologies for a Service-Aware NGN Core
Today, service tunnels (enabled through label switched paths or LSPs) are built across core networks to provide traffic engineered paths for specific QoS, availability and advanced service processing requirements. But these service tunnels are essentially static connections, and cannot be easily or quickly changed or adjusted. While this approach has been sufficient for relatively predictable best-effort service, emerging services like video on demand are changing traffic patterns and increasing quality requirements. The ability to dynamically modify paths through the network core (see Figure 1) will have a huge positive impact on provider's ability to deliver these new services efficiently, cost-effectively and reliably.
In the case of a video serving network, a user request for a high-bandwidth, high value service would result in the dynamic adjustment of network resources between the subscriber and the video serving location. These policy changes would be initiated by an interaction between the content application and the providers' service-aware policy manager. The policy manager will first check the edge Broadband Services Router and make appropriate admission control decisions and policy changes. If needed, the policy manager resizes the LSP throughout the network core and either uses bandwidth available on existing service tunnels or creates a new path.
Of course, in some cases, the policy manager may deny the request, thus guaranteeing performance across the core network. Essentially, a Call Admission Control (CAC) decision is made to the application request—yes or no as to whether the request will be granted.
It is imperative that core networks do not change state too frequently— therefore the policy manager maintains a table of bandwidth allocated per LSP and only makes changes when a threshold is reached and requests are made for large increments of bandwidth.
For even greater efficiency advantages, increased service control can also be leveraged to optimize the transport of broadcast video across the core. With broadcast video, the issue is how to handle a problem that is intrinsically a point-to-multipoint issue, but to solve it in a way that does not lead to complex state management in the core network. Most multicast techniques such as PIM are mainly enterprise focused and are not suitable for large scale deployments in SP networks.
The solution is a similar policy-based approach to accommodate the dynamic nature of the service, coupled with intelligence such as point-to-multipoint (P2MP) MPLS services. Effectively, traffic in a P2MP LSP is replicated in MPLS: unicast LSPs are merged at rendezvous points within the MPLS network to create a "leaf and branch" delivery mechanism for multicast traffic. Being MPLS in nature, P2MP LSPs offer the following benefits:
Service Awareness and Policy in NGN Cores
In both the unicast (VoD) and multicast (broadcast video) cases, the service awareness and advanced packet handling control results in increased network efficiency and increased service quality by mapping the best possible paths between subscribers and content sources. The key is in the policy layer, which must be able to look at the applications being served (IPTV, web services, voice, fixed-mobile convergence including IMS, etc.) as well as the state of the network resources. Using open interfaces such as SOAP/XML and DIAMETER, policy functions can be linked (northbound) to applications and services, and (southbound) to the network elements.
In addition to the above examples, there are several other areas in which policy can be used to improve service delivery across the core, taking advantage of key functions designed to scale a core efficiently. These include having policy interwork with DiffServ TE and QoS-based service tunnels for flexible classes of service, optimized resources, and fault tolerance.
Service-aware policy can also be used in conjunction with hierarchical LSPs, which allow the scaling of huge numbers of tunnels across the core. As providers deploy IP and MPLS further towards the edge, the result is a large mesh of thousands of service tunnels built across the core. LSPs sharing a common route can be bundled together into a "parent" LSP, preserving resources and greatly scaling the total number of tunnels.
Integration of policy with other OSS (provisioning and monitoring) systems is a key facilitator to these advantages. Changes made in the provisioning system to alter the network are passed to the network resource policy layer, which is interoperating with applications and the routed network.
Applied at the policy layer across the edge and the core, service-aware policy managers make the network intelligent—improving efficiency, speeding time to revenue for new services and increasing customer satisfaction.
Agility and Openness as the Foundation for Customizable NGN Services


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See what people are saying about BookBrewer in the news:
Denver Business Journal: "We chose BookBrewer because it's easy to use and works well for e-publisher platforms..." - Mario Ruiz, The Huffington Post.
Fast Company: "BookBrewer's other offering is more intriguing: Its service allows a blog (via an RSS feed) to be quickly transformed into an e-book format, so it can also be sold through the same channels as more traditional texts. It's a kind of reversal of thinking about digital publishing, almost like printing out your Facebook friend pages as a paper-and-ink book. Yet it's also strangely powerful."
ZDNet: "Powered by BookBrewer, a multi-platform digital publishing solution, writers should be able to format and publish their titles within a few days ... there will be a lot of stuff that major publishers would have passed on for good reason. But there also might be some gems out there that might have been ignored or lost otherwise."
ReadWriteWeb: "Borders throws its hat into the ring with a partnership with the Boulder-based startup BookBrewer, offering a service that will let independent authors publish and sell their eBooks via the Borders' eBookstore."
Engadget: "We guess that Barnes & Noble can't have all the fun, huh? You'll soon have another option for self-publishing your wildly fantastical (and wonderfully fact-free) rants.
GigaOm: Borders has joined forces with a service called BookBrewer to provide a simple service that allows bloggers or anyone else with an idea to publish what is effectively an e-book, and get it distributed through all the major e-book platforms.
PC Magazine: "We know many book lovers are also writers or aspiring authors who want to share their stories but do not want to invest the time and money to self-publish in print," Mike Edwards, chief executive of Borders, said in a statement. "'Borders Get Published,' powered by BookBrewer offers the perfect solution – authors can quickly and easily load, format, and publish content, which will then be available for sale within a few days on Borders.com and other major e-book outlets."
MediaBistro: "Borders has entered the self-publishing fray, competing with Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Smashwords with the new Borders Get Publishedprogram for eBooks. The program will be driven by the BookBrewer publishing platform."
Publishers Weekly: "BookBrewer is a startup firm that has developed software that allows anyone to publish across a variety of mobile device platforms. Using the new service, a writer can upload content from a blog or website; or copy and paste a text file into BookBrewer's online form and then edit or rearrange the document into final form."
Beta News: ""Everyone has a story to tell, pictures to share or advice to give. It turns out that those are exactly the kinds of things people want to buy and read as eBooks," said BookBrewer CEO Dan Pacheco in a statement today. "We're thrilled to have the opportunity to work with an iconic brand like Borders, which not only has an incredible customer base, but also has a great local community focus."
Silicon Angle: "The BookBrewer service promises to transform a blog into an e-book in minutes and certainly appears capable of delivering on that promise."
TechCocktail: Simple self-publishing with BookBrewer. "[Our service] lets people turn blogs and documents into e-books within a few minutes," says Dan Pacheco, co-founder and CEO of BookBrewer. Not only is ebook publishing easier than ever, but their recent partnership with Borders, allows for excellent exposure as well."
We're extremly excited to announce that Borders has selected BookBrewer to power its eBook publishing platform!
We will be providing additional details shortly, but users of BookBrewer.com should know that the BookBrewer service will continue to operate and grow. Our Borders relationship is just the first of many partnerships we plan to roll out over the next few months. But it's certainly the biggest, and we're dedicated to making Borders a success in the eBook self-publishing movement.
Here is the official press release:
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Borders® today announced that it has teamed with BookBrewer to launch BORDERS – GET PUBLISHED™ Powered by BookBrewer. The co-branded publishing service empowers independent authors to publish and sell eBooks through the Borders eBook store, powered by Kobo, as well as other eBook retailers. BORDERS - GET PUBLISHED™ Powered by BookBrewer makes it seamless for any writer or blogger to format, display and sell their content across a number of technology platforms including a variety of tablets and eReading devices. The service will be available at borders.bookbrewer.com beginning Oct. 25.
"We know many book lovers are also writers or aspiring authors who want to share their stories but do not want to invest the time and money to self publish in print," said Mike Edwards, CEO of Borders, Inc. "BORDERS – GET PUBLISHED™ Powered by BookBrewer offers the perfect solution — authors can quickly and easily load, format and publish content, which will then be available for sale within a few days on Borders.com and other major eBook outlets. We're excited to give new writers and bloggers an opportunity to reach an expanded audience as they make their foray into digital."
Users can develop and edit content regardless of length, set their own suggested price within bounds set by retailers, and publish via BookBrewer in the Borders' eBook store. Customers are provided with the option to purchase, download, and instantly read blogger and independent author content on several leading devices, including the iPhone®, iPad™, Android™-powered tablets as well as a variety of eReaders, notably the Kobo™ Wireless eReader, Kobo™ eReader, Aluratek Libre Pro and Velocity® Micro Cruz™ Reader.
Creating an eBook can be done in a few simple steps using the intuitive BookBrewer tools. Authors can add content by typing or copying and pasting it into an online form, or they can feed in their content from an existing Web site or blog. With the click of a button, they can arrange and edit content as they wish. The content is saved as an ePub file — the format most eBook stores require to sell a book.
"Everyone has a story to tell, pictures to share or advice to give. It turns out that those are exactly the kinds of things people want to buy and read as eBooks," said BookBrewer CEO Dan Pacheco. "We're thrilled to have the opportunity to work with an iconic brand like Borders, which not only has an incredible customer base, but also has a great local community focus."
BORDERS – GET PUBLISHED™ Powered by BookBrewer gives authors a choice of two publishing packages: the $89.99 basic package and the $199.99 advanced publishing package. Under the basic package, BookBrewer will assign the book an ISBN (a $125 value), and will make it available to all major eBook stores at a price set by the writer. Royalties will be based on sales and will vary with each retailer. Authors who choose the advanced package will receive a full version of their ePub file, which they will own and may share with friends, family or submit on their own to eBook stores.
About BookBrewer
BookBrewer is a subsidiary of Boulder, Colo.-based startup FeedBrewer, Inc., which creates multi-platform publishing solutions for mobile devices. You can follow BookBrewer on Twitter at twitter.com/bookbrewer or on Facebook at facebook.com/bookbrewer, and experiment with its eBook publishing tools at bookbrewer.com. BookBrewer is a graduate of the Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), a startup accelerator launching hundreds of companies per year in over 10 cities worldwide.
About Borders Group, Inc.
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., through its subsidiaries Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) is a leading specialty retailer of books as well as other educational and entertainment items. The company employs approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders® and Waldenbooks® stores. Online shopping is offered through borders.com. Find author interviews and vibrant discussions of the products we and our customers are passionate about online at facebook.com/borders, twitter.com/borders and youtube.com/bordersmedia. For more information about the company, visit borders.com/media.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. One can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "expected," "planning," "possibility," "opportunity," "goal," "will," "may," "intend," "anticipates," "working toward" and other words of similar meaning. One can also identify them by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are likely to address matters such as the company's future financial condition and performance (including earnings per share, profitability, liquidity, cash flows, debt levels, market share growth and other sales information, inventory levels and capital expenditures), its cost reduction initiatives and plans for store closings, and the expansion of product categories, including eBook content and eReaders. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and plans to differ materially from those included in the company's forward-looking statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, consumer demand for the company's products, particularly during the holiday season, which is believed to be related to general economic and geopolitical conditions, competition and other factors; the availability of adequate capital--including vendor credit--to fund the company's operations and to carry out its strategic plans; adverse litigation results or other claims, the performance of the company's information technology systems, the anticipated impact of our Borders Rewards and Borders Rewards Plus programs; and, with respect to eBook content and eReaders, the availability to the company of anticipated content levels and a variety of competitive devices.
The company's periodic reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission contain more detailed discussions of these and other risk factors that could cause actual results and plans to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements, and those discussions are incorporated herein by reference. The company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements.
If you received a message saying your BookBrewer account was deleted, it wasn't, so DON'T PANIC :-) This was a bogus notification that went out to some users based on some other work we were doing. You should be able to log in at BookBrewer.com the way you always have before.
Apologies for any confusion this caused.
BookBrewer is now officially out of beta, right on time for yesterday's DEMOgala event. Anyone can now register and use BookBrewer to create and publish eBooks that can be read on the Amazon Kindle or several apps available for the iPad and iPhone. If you have author or blogger friends who have "bookable" content, send them our way. We can't wait to see what they publish! Click here to get started.
One big change from beta is that you can now send your eBook into several online stores, including Amazon.com, Borders.com and soon Barnes & Noble. We charge a small $89.99 fee in exchange for keeping a 25% royalty from sales (after what retailers charge, which is usually around 30%). That means that for a book priced at $9.99, you'll make around $4-$4.50, depending on the terms of each retailer.
If you prefer to submit your eBook to stores yourself or even sell it directly from your Web site, you can get a full version of the ePub file to do with as you wish for just $199.99.
On the horizon: we plan to announce the first of several exciting partnerships that will be great for author, so stay tuned!
We didn't start BookBrewer to win awards -- our sole focus is on our amazing authors -- but it's always a good sign when you get recognition from complete strangers. That happened last night at an event called CrowdPitch by Funding Universe.
Five companies were selected to give a 4-minute presentation to a crowd of about 50 people, plus a panel of finance/investor types. At the end of the pitches, attendees got to dole out Monopoly money to the companies they liked most. And they chose ... BookBrewer!
We were totally surprised by this, as some of the other companies, like Sand-Off, had great businesses. We take it as yet another sign that average people identify with the concept of self-publishing eBooks. We're looking forward to heping all of you out there in "the crowd" become best-selling authors.
Thanks to Edward Reynolds and Shane Van Cott for running such a fun, informative event. Our only regret? We couldn't take the monopoly money home to give to our kids.
We'd like to introduce you to the next BookBrewer Charter Author: Mark Scott-Nash. He describes himself as "a mountaineer, runner, mountain biker, traveler, writer, rescuer, inventor, EMT, philosopher, amateur pop psychologist, funny guy, dirtbag and scalawag practicing hooliganism."
Mark's book is called The Insolent Guide to Northern Colorado Mountains. You can buy it on Amazon.com for the Kindle and Kindle apps, and soon also on Borders.com.
In Mark's own words, this hiking book is "not simply a book of directions, but also a compilation of essays expressing why we are addicted to the primordial mountain wilderness experience. Containing something for everyone, whether you are a beginner or extreme athlete, this is your guide to year-round adventure!"
What else do we like about this book? It's the perfect type of reference content to literally have in your pocket. We at BookBrewer live and work out of the Boulder area and ofen find ourselves driving through a beautiful part of the state of Colorado wondering, "Are there any good hikes around here?" Now we can pull out our Kindle app on the iPhone and bring up Mark's book. It's also searchable ("Where was that hike with the waterfall? Tap, tap, tap ... there it is ...") and you can add your own notes ("Head right at mile 2 for a great view!").
We're happy to introduce you to BookBrewer's first three charter authors!
They've been working on their eBooks in the BookBrewer system for the last few weeks (but really, months and years of writing before that). Last night they clicked the Publish button, and BookBrewer sent their books into the Amazon.com store.
We're really proud of what they've accomplished, and we think you will be too. Do them a favor and download sample copies of their eBooks, then buy the full versions if you want to read more. Because they're our first authors, they will make 100% of the post-retailer proceeds. If you don't have an Amazon Kindle, you can also use the following programs and apps:
Without further adieu, here are links to the books:
State of Emergency by Nate Braden is an historical drama about a failed coup attempt on FDR: http://amzn.to/aAcLp6
Bryte's Ascent by E. Rose Sabin is the 4th fantasy novel in a series (previously all print): http://amzn.to/cwWRaf
The Dating Dad by Eric Elkins (http://twitter.com/datingdad) is a best-of rollup of 6 years of blog posts: http://amzn.to/ahYCXD.
Thanks also to FeedBrewer's designer Don Hajicek for creating such appealing book covers for State of Emergency and The Dating Dad. We plan to offer more book design in the future, with Don one of several designers you can choose from. And thanks also to our CTO Andy Lasda, who created the interface and code that makes BookBrewer work.
Next step: publishing into Borders.com. Stay tuned!
As we get closer to our public launch, we're adding video tutorials that can be viewed within the BookBrewer tools. Here's the first one. It shows how to use the Build Your Book page to add chapters, text and photos, and organize them in a table of contents, and then how to preview your eBook.
Thanks to our friends at Bumpertunes.com for the background music!
Our beta launch is complete! Now anyone can register to create eBooks at http://bookbrewer.com. Please try things out this weekend before we begin larger promotion in the next couple weeks. And have a great Labor Day!
Next step: pushing content into eBook stores. If you applied to the Charter Author Program, you will also soon hear from us about an author agreement that spells out all rights, royalties, etc. so that we can make your content available for sale.
Click here to register for a user ID. You'll get an e-mail telling you that you're in the queue, but don't worry. We'll approve you quickly. This is just a precaution to make sure we can carefully control server load as traffic ramps up.
We're excited and honored to be chosen to present at CSIA's DEMOgala event on October 7 at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado. With more than 1,000 attendees, DEMOgala -- an event run by the CSIA -- is the largest technology conference in Colorado. It brings together business and community leaders from across the region to meet and learn from the "who's who" of technology.
Read more on the FeedBrewer blog.


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Groove Armada join Chili Peppers & Pixies at Phoenix Festival
Photographer: Craig ArthurAndrew Future on 14 April 2004
More open Eire action!
Groove Armada have been added to the outstanding line-up at the Phoenix Park on Saturday 12 June with headliners Red Hot Chili Pepers and special guests Pixies and The Thrills.
Tickets are priced 9.50 and are on
sale now here.
The Phoenix Park Festival is set to be the biggest concert in Ireland this year!


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Residents forced to evacuate by the oncoming Hurricane Irene and requiring shelter will be bused to Red Cross shelters out of town, local officials said Thursday night.
A scheduled work session between the Town Council and East Greenwich Fire District Board of Commissioners turned into an emergency planning conference as they discussed plans to deal with what could be Rhode Island's first direct encounter with a hurricane since Bob pounded the area in 1991.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆō With a Category 3 hurricane expected to hit Southern New England by Sunday, South Kingstown officials gathered at the police department on Kingstown Road to discuss emergency plans Wednesday afternoon.
The Weather Channel said Wednesday Hurricane Irene threatens to become the strongest hurricane to hit the Northeast in a decade and South Kingstown did not waste any time making sure they were ready.
While the prospective new tenant of Boesch Farm has won over some of his previously skeptical new neighbors, other remain worried about the transition of the 85-acre farm from organic vegetable growth to the raising of small animals and livestock.
HOPKINTON - The State of Rhode Island has submitted an application to the federal government to install toll booths on both sides of Interstate 95 in between Exits 1 and 2 in Hopkinton.
By MARTHA SMITH
Special to the Standard
NORTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆō ItŌĆÖs safe to say that Dave Payne, executive director and board president of the Quonset Air Museum, is like a kid awaiting Santa Claus.
For Payne and other devotees of aircraft history and warfare, this coming weekend will represent a sort of snapshot of World War II. Six vintage planes owned by the Texas Flying Legends Museum will arrive on Friday and stay for the weekend.
School is less than a week away. You know what that means: homework, bagged lunches, hallway gossip, sports and more. But before the school year starts, you need to get there. Pick up a copy of Wednesday's The Narragansett Times before it's off the stands for the Narragansett school bus schedules. See Friday's issue for the South Kingstown bus schedules.
In case Hurricane Irene knocks the Rhode Island coastline, South Kingstown has posted an updated evacuation map. See Friday's newspaper for more information on evacuation and hurricane preparation plans or check back here at ricentral.com


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Too late Kar, they are just about finished roasting but I cut them in half per the recipe so I think they will be all right.
Treetrimming is tonight, yes.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/23/2012 4:25 PM EST
Too late Kar, they are just about finished roasting but I cut them in half per the recipe so I think they will be all right.
Treetrimming is tonight, yes.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/23/2012 9:01 PM EST
Tt, so glad you are still off the hook for a gathering, but so happy you're that much better! Indeed, with poor Lilly sick, that's all you'd need. I hope you get your mozzarella.
pingo, that flu Christmas sounds abysmal! At least you had the wherewithal to freeze everything so it could be enjoyed later...when everyone could get dressed! Hope you are enjoying your family after such a late night of arrivals.
hats, how did the sprouts come out? I hope they were yummy; I love a good Brussels sprout dish.
I've not had a very good day. Woke up with a pounding headache that I still have. Found out that the downstairs fridge where I put the turkey to thaw two days ago had been turned off. Didn't know that was even possible. So, had to count that a loss and to get a fresh turkey since now I don't have time to thaw one. Managed to make garlic mashed potatoes and the butternut squash tonight. I like both of those reheated, and that leaves pies to be made tomorrow and the stuffing, turkey, and beef to be done Christmas Day. All the cleaning will be done tomorrow, too, hopefully before BIL gets here.
My walking friend will be dropping off lenox holiday pattern dinner plates to match my new tablecloth. I got a few pieces this year, but no place settings...too expensive to do all at once.
Going to bed soon - see you tomorrow.
Good night,
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/23/2012 10:06 PM EST
Good night, Kar. So sorry you had such a bad day. Hope it will better tomorrow.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/23/2012 10:12 PM EST
Kar, turkey disaster stories are so comon - we told ours tonight at our party. So annoying! but I bet you will love the taste of your fresh turkey. How many people are you having?
The sprouts came out well, one guest who just had a no-thank you helping said they were surprisingly good. We won't be home for meals for a couple of days so another set of guests took them home - they loved them!
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posted at 12/24/2012 6:53 AM EST
Thanks, ladies! After a fabulous night's sleep thanks to Advil PM, I awoke refreshed and ready (as I'm gonna be) for the festivities. :)
I'm actually happy for the turkey debacle, since now I will KNOW the center is defrosted and can better estimate the cooking time. And, I was able to get a 15 rather than a 22 lber, which since I have a roast big enough for one more person than we have (7) we'll have more than enough. The turkey is essentially a side dish (imo) to the beef, lol.
So glad the sprouts came out delish even for the person who thought they'd not be so thrilled (love that phrase you used, was it, "no-thank you portion?" hilarious!).
Off and running. We're doing presents momentarily so we won't have more of an audience than Gracie.
I'll be on here and there before tomorrow, but
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posted at 12/24/2012 7:54 AM EST
Just want to get on this morning and wish everyone a "Merry Christmas". Hope all the planned dinners are as delicious as they sound, and that guests are "merry".
All I plan to do today is make a batch of scones for tomorrow morning. Cheerio is low on litter and I was going to run out, but decided against it. I'm sure she can make do til Wednesday.
Enjoy your day, ladies, and your preparations for the big day.
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posted at 12/24/2012 8:01 AM EST
Good morning everyone. tt, so nice to see a long post from you. Glad you are feeling better. Pingo, glad all your family is home and you are all are busy getting into the holiday spirit. Icer, your sprouts sounds great. I love them, but I'm the only one at home that does, sigh. Kar how many guests are staying over night? Amber, hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your DD and he BF.
We got our prime rib on Saturday and I just can't wait to get it going. I have a couple of DS' gifts to wrap but I will do those tonight, since he goes to his dad's, but he'll be back with me for lunch/dinner. I'm here until 2 today and then I will go home and make the chicken, ziit, and broccoli and a buffal chicken dip for tonight's festivities.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone if you don't make it on later.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 8:25 AM EST
Happy holidays to all.
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posted at 12/24/2012 9:17 AM EST
Merry Christmas everyone!! I wish you all much happiness in the coming year.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 9:17 AM EST
Had a call this morning from G.T., making sure I felt well enough for them to stop by with his MIL on their way to Christmas in the morning. Perfect. He wants to bring my stocking so I'll at least have something to open on Christmas Day. Someone to share my scones, apple crisp, and bread pudding with.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 9:54 AM EST
Good morning and MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays to all!
Good to hear from you, Amber. I guss no news, or you would have told us. I hope the new year will bring you some.
tt, I am so happy to hear GT and family will stop by to see you (would they take you along, if you felt up to it?) You will have a nice morning with them; that is good. Being alone on Christmas is so sad.
A turkey plus a prime rib for 7 people, Kar? DH's family must be big eaters or you will have lots of left overs. Too bad about you turkey mishap. I am glad to hear your headache is gone.
Hats, I can just imagine you and your friend sharing turkey stories last night. There are plenty of them. While we were still dating, DH had invited several friends for TG, and asked me to cook the turkey - the night before TG mind you. So off we went to the grocery store to pick up a turkey. I had never had turkey, never mind cooking it. Little did I know, it takes 5 days to defrost a frozen turkey. It was a disaster. One of his friends placed the frozen turkey on the table, while we ate the sides. That became the turkey day w/o the turkey. We still joke about it every TG.
Busy day for me in the kitchen. May not be much on here, but you will all be in my thoughts. Have a merry and blessed Christmas.
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posted at 12/24/2012 10:05 AM EST
Yup, they are huge meat eaters. And, I selfishly wanted leftovers, too, so I won't have to cook much in the next few days since I'll be preparing for Christmas # 2 on the first.
I think every family has a "still frozen turkey" story! My grandmother has the honors in ours.
I'm really signing off this time - totally stressed at this point thinking about all that needs to be done...
love and holiday warm wishes to all!!!
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 10:37 AM EST
Merry Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year to you all.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 10:45 AM EST
Another call from youngest son who is going to stop by with the kids this afternoon - so a batch of wowie cupcakes in the oven. Quick and easy, and I'll whip up some frosting and be all set for little fingers.
Merry Christmas all.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 11:02 AM EST
Glad you are having a few guests today tt. I'm already thinking about lunch. Looks like I'll be going to Chipotile for a burrioto in a bowl.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 12:21 PM EST
They can't stay away from you TT! And to hear of you whipping up a batch of cupcakes means you are TT again.
MM and Amber - I hope next year will be better. BG and MM - so sorry that you can't be with us.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 12:46 PM EST
Intown son stopped by with my cheese and said they are planning on stopping by in the morning, maybe with little pumpkin and his mom - I might as well have kept the original plans! He laughed, saying, we'll all be here and there'll be nothing to eat or drink, no tree, no decorations - I told him the baskets are going to have to wait until a Sat when we can all get together and I have had a chance to finish them. He was here while I was frosting the cupcakes, so sent him home with half a dozen - cherry frosting. Have any of you tried the frosting flavor paks from Duncan Hines? They are meant to add to their frosting, but I make my own and then add just a little of the cherry vanilla flavoring - delicious. You use so little that you get 3-4 uses out of one dollar packet.
Winter, my lunch today was a bulkie with shredded lettuce doused with italian dressing, and ham and cheese plus a ginger ale.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 1:03 PM EST
tt,your lunch sounds good. I haven't tried the frosting flavor packs, but I may give it a go next time. I'm in the home stretch here, there is an hour left. We are the only company in the building today.
Re: December 2012
posted at 12/24/2012 1:10 PM EST
Well winter, hope you get to go home and have a good holiday soon! It's so beautifully sunny! Must enjoy it!
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posted at 12/24/2012 1:37 PM EST
Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. I will be here on Wednesday, but then will be off Thursday.
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posted at 12/25/2012 7:31 AM EST
Merry Christmas friends!!! Thinking of you all!
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posted at 12/25/2012 9:04 AM EST
Merry WHITE Christmas!
Had a lovely Christmas Eve. The ducks were the best we ever had. So full of meat and not much fat; they were so tender and juicy. I am going to write a note to the butcher at S&S. Praise has to be given, when they deserve it. I am sure they have a lot of complaints every day.
I was nice this morning waking up and see the white grounds. Especially as we don't have to go anywhere.
Hope you all have a wonderful day.
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Christmas evening greetings, everyone. We have an empty house after a disaster of epic proportions... Gracie jumped on/attacked dh's eldest brother's elderly dog (dumb mistakes were made that set the situation up), and now he's at Tufts with signs of major problems. I'm fearing he'll have to be put down. Ironically, it was the best dinner I'd ever cooked. Sent half of it home with their nephew who stayed with his own car. So, everyone is gone, I was just finally able to eat something after crying all afternoon, Gracie is none the wiser, and we're heartsick...
So, hoping you all had much merrier Christmases than we did.
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posted at 12/25/2012 7:13 PM EST
merry christmas
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posted at 12/26/2012 6:16 AM EST
Kar - I'm so sorry of your ordeal with the dogs. I know sometimes it just comes out of nowhere.
Christmas Eve turned out very nice. I was so exhausted, but still glad that we had everyone over. It was nice to spend the time with the family. Yesterday we went to my brother's then my BIL's.
Not sure what's up for today. Not going near any stores though!


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