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Broadcast Digital Awards 2016
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The Black Lesbian Handbook nominated
The Black Lesbian Handbook was nominated today for the new Best Non-Scripted Online Short category in the Broadcast Digital Awards. It is up against David Attenborough, BBC3 and Vice. Winner announced at the end of June. It is the only All 4 original show nominated. A good one to go out on regarding me, Channel 4 and awards.
I got a particular kick when the series was nominated at the Banff Rocky Awards recently (Digital Unscripted Series category). The shortlist read:
- Cosmos
- I Was There: Boston Marathon Bombings
- Secrets of the Vikings
- The Black Lesbian Handbook
I believe they call that bathos.
(especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
Clean Sweep – Broadcast Digital Awards 2012
C4 and BBC4 triumph at Broadcast Digital Awards
21 June, 2012 | By Catherine Neilan
Channel 4 made a clean sweep of the multiplatform categories at the Broadcast Digital Awards on Wednesday [20th June 2012], with four wins.
Indie-made projects for C4 won Best Game (The Bank Job), Best App (Facejacker), Best Website (Sexperience), Best Multiplatform Project (Live From The Clinic).
C4 also landed a fifth award, for Best News or Current Affairs, for the Sri Lanka's Killing Fields website.
{extract published courtesy of Broadcast}
Dreaming the Dream
Some great news just in at Channel 4 HQ – the Big 4 sculpture on the doorstep of the Richard Rogers designed home of C4 has been given an extension of 5 years by the planning department of Westminster City Council.
The public artwork – a 50-foot-high metal '4' – was originally constructed in 2007 to celebrate both the Channel's 25th anniversary year and the launch of the Big Art Project and was granted planning permission for one year, during which 4 artists were to decorate it. The installation is based on the Channel's on-air identity, with metal bars forming the logo only when viewed from a particular angle and distance. It is basically a framework over which to date photographer Nick Knight, Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner, Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui and recent art graduate Stephanie Imbeau have added a skin.
Nick Knight, known for his work with Kate Moss and Bjork among many others in the realm of fashion & music, covered it with bare chest skin of various hues, adding the sound of a beating heart at its core. I recently did an Amazonimpulse and bought Knight's new book, imaginatively entitled 'Nick Knight' – at £32.50 one of the most expensive tomes I've ever shelled out on. From an Allen Jones-like Suede album cover to exquisite nude shots of Kate Moss, it's a lively spectacle.
Mark Titchner skinned the Big 4 with panels inspired by trade union banners and advertising, the slogans questioning the on-going role of television: Find Your World in Ours, Find Our World in Yours. He came in one lunch time to talk to C4folk about his work, shades of The Waterboys' Mike Scott about him. My second encounter with him was a great rum cocktail-fueled chat with at the Tate Summer Party this year. Guardian photographer Vicki Couchman took a top class photo of me in front of Mark's Big 4 for a Guardian piece on the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards in 2007 (which Big Art Mob won).
El Anatsui paneled the 4 with metallic newspaper colour printing plates. What I remember most about when El (as he's known to his friends) came in to chat about his career in The Drum, the basement space beneath the Big 4, was his generous championing of young, emerging artistic talent from Africa like Nnenne Okore.
Stephanie Imbeau won a competition to provide what was to have been the final iteration. Her Shelter saw the Big 4 fleshed out with umbrellas of a myriad colours. This is the version currently in place – it's best viewed at night when it is illuminated from within [see below]. The umbrellas all come from London Transport Lost Property Office so no pissing away of public money there then.
The Big Art Project from which the Big 4 sprang started life as a regular, if very ambitious, TV documentary series. In the original visually rich proposal for the project from Carbon Media a space was left for the cross-platform treatment. Into that space went the Big Art Mob and a bunch of interactive ideas I put together inspired by the wonderful public art works that punctuated the proposal. The Big Art Mob was born of my messing about for 18 months with Moblog's mobile picture blogging software after an initial encounter with Alfie Dennen in the basement of Zero-One in Soho. I was on the look-out for the right project to which to apply Moblog and Paint Britain which evolved into the Big Art Project proved the one – the first use of moblogging by a broadcaster and one of the first uses of Creative Commons licensing by a UK broadcaster (the first use was PixNMix, a VJ project I commissioned in 2004).
Besides the TV, web and mobile stuff, at the core of the Big Art Project was the creation of six actual works of public art, seed funded by Channel 4 and the partners we gathered. One of these was Dream by renowned Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, located high up on the site of the old Sutton Manor colliery overlooking St Helens, a 20-metre-high north-western rival to Gormley's Angel on the opposite side of the country. It is the head of a nine year old Catalan girl with her eyes closed (I found that out by asking Plensa directly at the capping off ceremony, he was very cagey about who she was and reluctant to reveal much in that particular respect). Dream was Plensa's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and other members of the local community. Initially he came up with a huge miner's lamp but the miners themselves pushed him out of his comfort zone or at least nearer his true self
Dream most deservedly has recently picked up a couple of major prizes. Last month it won the prestigious annual Marsh Award for Public Sculpture which is given to a work of permanent public sculpture erected in the UK or Ireland. The definition of public sculpture is loose, but the location must be openly visible to the public without having to enter a building or gain prior permission. The award was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Plensa also picked up the British Creativity in Concrete Award for 2009 for Dream at a special ceremony at Southwark Cathedral. This award is presented each year to an architect, designer or artist in recognition of a particular achievement for the creative use of precast concrete. It's difficult to convey the photograph-like subtlety of the face, no more than a pale reflection in photos like above.
The moment I walked round the corner of a forest path and first saw Dream in April was one of the high points of this year and indeed of my career at Channel 4, and made every second spent on the Big Art Project over the 5 year lead up worth it. It was a moment shared with my former colleague Jan Younghusband (ex-Commissioning Editor of Arts at C4, now Head of Music at BBC) who proved so open to the multiplatform dimension. It was indeed a dream come true.
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Landshare wins RTS Innovation Award
Last night Landshare won the RTS Innovation Award for User-generated Content. It was one of only six such awards given out (other winners included BBC iPlayer at over 100 times the budget of littl' ol' Landshare).
This is the 2nd of these annual awards. Last time out it was even better – Big Art Mob won the Mobile category, an inaugural winner alongside Flash Video (yes, the whole darn technology).
This year Landshare was nominated alongside Sexperience (in the same category), so I liked them 66% odds.
What the judges said: "The judges felt that the award should go to a project that they feel reinvents the viewer/user/programme maker relationship and which is making a fundamental difference to the way key issues of the moment can be addressed. A project whose success demonstrates as one judge put it "how television can make a difference"."
Straying away from my own oeuvre, another very worthy winner was BBC Children's marvellous Bugbears – think Monsters Inc meets Creature Comforts, used as a way to help children address&express difficult emotional subjects. It's the work of Marc Goodchild (who was at our table – the Table of Triumph with its unique double gong status) and my old muckers Joe Elliot and Anthony Lilley of Magic Lantern (among others). I first saw it this time last year at Sheffield DocFest when I was doing a speaking gig on interactive documentary chaired by Paula LeDieu. Japhet (whose second name slips my ravaged mind) from Marc's team at cBBC demoed it and I was instantly charmed.
Other awards went to the amazing BBC R&D bods who have such a world class heritage in broadcasting/media innovation, pretty much second to none. An honour to be among them.
Update 19.xi.09 BIMAs
Tonight Landshare won the BIMA (British Interactive Media Award) for Community Social Media (as well as being nominated in the Special Achievement Award: Viral Spread category). It follows in the footsteps of MindGym (97) and Embarrassing Bodies (08).
Digital Britain: grit in the oyster
With the publication of the Digital Britain report today it's an apposite time to reflect on the role of Channel 4 in Britain's Public Service landscape. After listening to former BBC Chairman Christopher Bland asserting (this morning on Today) that the UK can only afford one public service broadcaster and after reading a spiky response from BBC Trust Chairman Sir Michael Lyons jealously guarding the BBC's cash, I reflect on last night's RTS Education awards. I went along with The Sex Education Show presenter Anna Richardson and the Sexperience team from Mint Digital and Cheetah. During the evening I caught up with Tanya Byron who was presenting the awards and served on the Digital Britain steering group (I worked on the DB Being Digital / digital media literacy work group, whose outputs Tanya polished. I also helped her a little with her government Review of Children and New Technology last year and have been busy trying to get it implemented this year via the UKCCIS). At the end of the ceremony she spoke of how she had been inspired by watching all the nominations with her family and picked out Sexperience, Chosen and Troubled Minds for special mention.
Just playing the numbers game, the BBC with its pots of cash for education scored 2 awards. Littl' ol' Channel 4 bagged 5. And some 5…
For Educational Impact in Primetime Chosen (True Vision for More4) – three courageous men disclose the abuse they suffered at school. Turned down by 17 commissioning editors before More 4 had the balls. Talking of Balls, one of the three protagonists, Tom, drafted a set of recommendations taken up almost in their entirety by Secretary of State for Education Ed Balls when he reviewed this area in the wake of this film. The jury said: "A revelatory and dignified film… which explored paedophilia by allowing three highly articulate middle-aged men to tell their own stories of having been groomed and serially abused by teachers in the same public school as they were growing up."
For the 11-16 Years category KNTV Sex produced by Tern Television (whose trusty leader Harry Bell – he knows a good Rioja when he sees one – I caught up with in the bar afterwards) – a lively, funny animation (punctuated with weird archive from Eastern Europe) tackling tackle and other forbidden subjects. The jury said: "A witty and uncompromising look at a subject of great relevance to its target audience. It uses first-class entertainment devices and characters to deliver tough content. An engaging and fun watch with real take-home for the viewer."
For Campaigns Jamie's Ministry of Food (Fresh One for Channel 4) – love him or loathe him, you have to admire Jamie's commitment. I was lucky enough to work on Jamie's School Dinners which in many ways set the gold standard for mainstream Public Service TV. The jury said: "The winning series was utterly brilliant – it truly enriched the lives of the people involved and gave the viewer a rare insight into other people's lives."
For Factual Education 7/7: The Angels of Edgware Road (Testimony Films for Channel 4) – driven by one committed film-maker, a story of people who risked their lives to save others. The jury said: "not only a deeply moving account of the appalling events on the London Underground in 2005 but challenged its audience to consider their own responses if faced with the dilemma of whether to save themselves, or try to save others."
For Educational Impact in Primetime (Series) Can't Read Can't Write (RDF Media for Channel 4) – teacher extraordinaire Phil Beadle (who I worked with on The Unteachables) again teaches the 'unteachable', this time adults who have never grasped reading and writing and had given up. Now two of the featured contributors have written books! The jury said: "powerful storytelling and memorable sequences within this important series which highlighted the shockingly high numbers of British adults who cannot read or write. The jury was genuinely surprised by the extraordinarily brave characters whose stories were at the heart of the series, finding them engaging, surprising and honest." Compare that one for example to BBC RAW for flair, passion and imagination.
Sexperience lost out for Innovation in Education to the BBC's School Report which marshals the whole BBC machine – BBC News, Radio 4's Today, the network of local radio stations, the Full Monty/Aunty – to encourage children to try out news journalism. Laudable and solid. But an exact replica of Channel 4's Breaking the News for a different audience (Newsround age as opposed to 14-19) which won an Education RTS in 2005, a year before School Report was launched. Yes, a strange choice given Raw's Battlefront was the other nominee.
All of this illustrates how Channel 4 is the grit in the PSB oyster. The BBC would be even Blander (scuse the pun) without the boundary pushing of C4 and its discovery and nurturing of talent. On BBC Jamie cooks and makes a dish, on C4 he campaigns around food and makes a difference. (He was discovered of course by an ex-C4 PA who followed her passion straight out of Charlotte Street to become a highly successful exec producer, Pat Llewellyn.) Digital Britain has highlighted and backed C4's place in British media and started rolling an exciting updated remit:
Championing and promoting creativity and new talent across all digital
media, by:
●● Investing in a wide range of original, innovative, high-quality audiovisual
content, including film, which provides alternative perspectives
and reflects the cultural diversity of the UK.
●● Providing audio-visual services and programming that can stimulate
learning and which will inform, challenge and inspire people, particularly
older children and younger audiences.
●● Maintaining a strong commitment to distinctive national and
international news and current affairs.
●● Enabling through partnership the development and reach of other public
service content from British cultural organisations.
●● Developing new services and applications to support its overall role,
embracing the potential of all digital media to connect with audiences
in new ways and to encourage the wider take-up of and participation in
new digital media by audiences.
I got biorhythm
The old biorhythms seem to be zinging a bit this week. Nice Kiss & Tell piece in the Guardian yesterday about a new commercially-oriented dimension to my work, to complement the public service projects I mainly commission at C4. Hot Cherry are a cool outfit when it comes to getting the dirty job done in digital PR and marketing.
And the day got off to a fine start with a TV BAFTA Nomination for Embarrassing Bodies Online for the one&only interactive category – imaginatively entitled Interactivity. The other nominations are all BBC, but our odds have improved. Last year little old Big Art Mob was up against iPlayer which cost more in millions than BAM cost in thousands. This year we're only up against Olympics 08. And Merlin. Let's see if they can spot real magic…
Global Warming
What an incredible year my colleagues at Film4 have had since Last King of Scotland picked up an Oscar (and two BAFTAs). Last night at the Golden Globes of the 14 movie awards 6 went to Film4 productions:
- BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA Slumdog Millionaire
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY Colin Farrell, In Bruges
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
- BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
- BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE Slumdog Millionaire
- BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE Slumdog Millionaire
Add to that movies like Hunger which already has picked up a shedload of silverware (20 so far including the Camera d'Or at Cannes, which I acknowledge is not technically silverware) and Garage, a landmark in Irish cinema. Irish and Waiting Around has been something of a theme this year (Garage, Hunger, In Bruges). And let's not forget A Complete History of My Sexual Failures made by Chris Waitt, an alumnus of 4Talent.
Film4 may not be huge but they're perfectly formed, add a great deal to the UK film industry and – like Channel 4 as a whole – punch well above their weight. "Our organization is small, but we have a lot of opportunities for aggressive expansion."
…which brings us neatly from a great night to a Dark Knight: I have to agree with Maggie Gyllenhall's analysis of Heath Ledger's win in the Best Supporting Actor category: "Our movie I think is great, but I think he elevated it to a completely different place." Without a doubt, performance of the year.
UPDATE 15.i.09 08:15
BAFTA nominations just announced. Film4 picked up 3 of the 5 nominations for Outstanding British Film (In Bruges, Slumdog Millionaire, Hunger); Slumdog got most nominations (equal with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button); and, of course, Slumdog is up there for Best Film and Best Director.
Good to see Kate Winslet pitted against herself in Best Actress category – you can see the speech already: "I'm so sorry, Anne, Meryl, Kristin, …oh god, who's the other one? Me!"
Now THAT speech, it bears some anaylsis… "I'm so sorry [unconvincing (for such an experienced actress) self-deprecation] Anne, Meryl, Kristin, …oh god, who's the other one? [what a bitch, eh? sub-text: I know full well who the other sexiest one is] Angelina! this is… ok… now, forgive me …gather [sub-text: I've been to drama school]. Is this really happening? OK, erm… I'm going to try and do this on the cuff, ok [so OFF the cuff I get the phrase wrong] – Thank you so much. Thank you so much! [sub-text: I really do need a good script-writer, I've nothing substantial to say myself] Oh god! {applause} Please wrap up, you have no idea how I'm not wrapping up! [sub-text: stop clapping, I need to wrestle control back, I'm not fucking finished!] Ok, gather…"
UPDATE 17.i.09
I've just gotten round to watching the end of The Reader. Having given Kate Winslet a hard time above, I have to confess it is an excellent performance, well worthy of awards. But the film itself has left me with nagging doubts, two in particular. Most of the UK critics praised it highly but I noticed two exceptions, strangely enough by two people I went to school with. Pete Bradshaw of The Guardian expressed strong doubts (from memory, the review I read on the way back from Ireland after the new year gave it one star). Mark Kermode subsequently spoke of his reservations on the weekly film review show he does with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 5.
The implication of the film – in the trial of Hanna Schmidz – is that she left Siemens to join the SS because she had been offered a promotion which would have exposed her illiteracy. The same happened to her at the tram company after the war – she runs away when a promotion to office work is offered. What is this saying? The film comes to (and this is no easy feat) create a degree of sympathy for Hanna, a guard at Auschwitz for the SS. Is it saying because she was illiterate, disadvantaged, perhaps a touch simple it explains her role in the war? That reminds me of an experience I had in Austria in the 80s.
I was on a scholarship studying the artist Egon Schiele (to whom my attention had first been drawn by David Bowie on the radio). I went to the small village on the outskirts of Vienna to find his studio. I knew it had been up a small lane but had difficulty finding it. I asked an old man I met on the street and first he hushed me, indicating that the name Egon Schiele was still a dirty word in the village 70 odd years after his 'artistic' behaviour had scandalised the place. Then he brought me into a bar, bought me a white wine and launched into an apology (in the sense of 'explanation') for Austria's take up of Nazism. We were poor, hungry, illiterate…
It didn't wash then and it doesn't in the film either. The other thing I didn't buy was that the daughter who had been in Auschwitz as a child with her mother would keep a memento (Hanna's tin) of a concentration camp guard, least of all by a photo of her murdered family. There's something being underestimated there.
Now I'm not sure what comes from the David Hare screenplay and what from Bernard Schlink's source novel (Der Vorleser) but the tin and the flight to the SS from the Siemens promotion both give me the impression that Schlink (or Hare, but I suspect the former) was letting Germany off the hook too easily – ignorance is no excuse and forgiveness doesn't come that easy.
For all that, it's still a very well made and compelling movie. Ralph Fiennes' performance is on a par with Kate Winslet. Ironically the one time I met and spoke to him, in the bar at the Almeida in Islington, he had just played the fiendish Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. David Kross who plays Fiennes' character, Michael Berg, when young is also excellent. The film was part-shot by my old boss Roger Deakins (who shared the gig with fellow Brit Chris Menges) and it certainly looks great too. Well worth watching but there's something dubious to be read between the lines.
Update 22.i.09:
This lunchtime this year's Oscar nominations have been announced and Channel 4's Film4 has received 12 (yes, 12!) nominations:
Slumdog Millionaire
· Cinematography
· Directing
· Film editing
· Original score
· Original song – "Jai Ho"
· Original song – "O Saya"
· Best picture
· Sound editing
· Sound mixing
· Adapted screenplay
In Bruges
· Original screenplay
· Original screenplay
That was the week that was
Not the easiest of weeks as I walked around half deaf and drowning in my own snot but here we are, Friday evening, made it. And it had its moments. Highlights included two awards ceremonies. Last night I presented the Multi-talented Award at the friendliest awards in town – the 4Talent Awards – to Oli Lansley who combines acting, writing and directing in the theatre and on TV in a way full of energy and promise ("that dirtiest of dirty words" – just been watching Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time, Holly Golightly is my beloved sister-in-law Bronagh, right down to the take-out cwofee). I judged this category with Dan Jones of Maverick TV – we have both been building 4Talent (formerly Ideasfactory) since the early days, over the last 6 years painstakingly developing it across the UK with James Estill and the dedicated crew to the point where it has the warm, creative vibe that was suffusing the room yesterday evening. Oli has a new series going out on ITV2 early next year called FM based on the Comedy Lab he did for Caroline Leddy at C4 in 2006. He also has a series in development at the Beeb with Matt King of Peep Show called Whites. On top of all that, he leads his own theatre company called Les Enfants Terribles who did a show entitled The Terribles Infants at Edinburgh this year and last, due to tour it in 09. So a multi-talented, multi-channel man to keep an eye on.
The 4Talent Awards were hosted with great aplomb by stand-up comedian Jack Whitehall, talented well beyond his 19 years, with fine comic judgment. Other entertainment came from the versatile jaw of Beardyman.
Winners were a rich mix ranging from Hollyoaks' Emma Rigby for Dramatic Performance to Rose Heiney for Comedy Writing, from Dan & Adrian Hon of Six to Start for Multiplatform to Robert Glassford & Timo Langer for Directing (this last presented by my colleague Peter Carlton of FilmFour with whom I had a lovely rabbit before the presentations, the two of us equally infectious so no danger of adding to overall global germ activity).
To start the week I had the pleasure of attending the announcement of this year's Turner Prize winner at the Tate. I arrived with Jan Younghusband, fellow Commissioning Editor for Arts & Performance TV, who introduced me to the ITN team that was shooting the event live for Channel 4 News. The looming gothic cowboy with the handle-bar moustache who walked by me with his looming gothic girlfriend was Nick Cave. He first entered my life with the Bad Seeds on The Firstborn is Dead over two decades ago now. On this night he passed by in the flesh like an extra from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (which I watched again recently – fabulous film, Kris Kristopherson was perfect as the Jim Morrison-style gunslinger-cum-rock messiah).
A while later another messiah, model for that humungous roadside crucifixion that is the Angel of the North, Antony Gormley introduced me to Grayson Perry who was wearing a fetching art student-designed post-it note dress. Not too often I get the chance to say stuff like 'Antony Gormley introduced me to Grayson Perry' or spout my theories about avant-garde art 1900-1970 to two luminaries of that world but we had a great chat and a consensus on how difficult it has been to innovate in the wake of that huge Modernist arc that went to the roots of every aspect of painting and art over those seven decades.
That was, of course, the Biggie but other chats included John Woodward of the UK Film Council (who agreed, through not quite gritted teeth, that FilmFour has had an awesome year with its string of Irish tales of waiting), and TV types like Roy Ackerman of Diverse and Michael Waldman (Operatunity). Art critic Richard Cork (The Listener – why on earth don't they bring it back?), Alan Yentob of BBC's Imagine (the Woody Allen of British TV, gets to make whatever he wants, quietly, no questions asked), Hans Ulrich Obrist of the Serpentine, were all swilling around. Enjoyed the walk home past the neon courtyard of the Chelsea College of Art and through the rainy backstreets of Pimlico
A final high point of the week takes us from art to architecture. I was having a meeting with RDF, who make Secret Millionaire, and Zopa, the interesting online finance service (interesting and finance – not words I often invite out to the same sentence). The fella from Zopa was asking about the Channel 4 building as we headed up the particular red of the stairs (the colour is lifted from the Golden Gate Bridge which is a delightful thing to think about every morning) – were Channel 4 the first occupiers? was it purpose built? etc. – I told him what a fine building it was bar a few flaws which I'd love to pass on to the bloke who designed it, like there's no Gents on the side of the floor I work on, two Ladies instead. The delicious irony was that the RDF rep was Zad Rogers, son of Lord/Richard, the architect of C4 HQ in Horseferry Road – we revealed this after a while of course as – as in that essay on Iago by WH Auden in The Dyer's Hand (Joker in the Pack) which velvet-jacketed Mr Fitch (RIP) drew our teenage attention to – there's no satisfaction in a practical joke without the final revelation.


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Blaine Merker and Liz Ogbu represented their joint team as one of three finalists selected from a pool of more than 50 nominated designers and artists for PXSTL, a temporary project commissioned by St. Louis's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts … →
Join Matthew Passmore of Rebar for a tactile and conversational exploration of urban prototyping. →
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On April 14th Rebar landed in Austin as part of Art City Austin, a half art festival half block party put on by Art Alliance Austin. The festival marked Bubbleware's first stateside deployment outside of San Francisco. Art City Austin … →
Rebar's Blaine Merker is a featured speaker at the Contemporary Jewish Museum's next gallery talk, Green City "Mix Tape", on April 5th at 6:30pm. (Rebar's "Nomadic Grove" is part of the Do Not Destroy exhibition, and can be seen in … →
Rebar will appear with Off the Grid founder Matt Cohen for an informal discussion and presentation about public spacemaking Thursday, June 23, 6-8pm at DEGW.
Rebar's Blaine Merker will be giving a talk at the Department of Landscape Architecture on Wednesday, April 6 at 12PM in the Atrium of Building 7, College of Environmental Design. If you're in the LA area, drop by and say … →
If you are in San Francisco this weekend for the massive and extensive Noise Pop Festival, consider stopping by the Culture Club event on Saturday afternoon at Public Works. Rebar's Matthew Passmore will lead a workshop on temporary urban transformations … →
Rebar has been invited to present at a conference in Denmark. "Contemporary Art, Play and Temporality" in Copenhagen. The conference is organised by landscape architect Bettina Lamm, University of Copenhagen department of Forest & Landscape in collaboration with curator Charlotte Bagger Brandt, … →
Rebar will be represented on a discussion panel at the Just Metropolis conference, 9:00AM-10:30AM, at the University of California Berkeley this Friday. There is a full slate of conference topics ranging from ecology to decoding military landscapes, so it should … →
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A couple of Apple patents have given us a glimpse into what could lead to the design of the iPhone 6 or iWatch. If this is not another of those patents the company wishes to have under their belt, then they could be planning to produce a bendable battery, which could mean that future iOS devices could have the much rumored flexible display.
There's been so much talk about the display technology that could allow for curved displays in smartphones and tablets, but if other technology is not compatible then it could make things much tougher. However, if the likes of Apple and their rivals have already planned for future bendable devices, then they would have already thought about this.
Now, I know what you are thinking, there are already round batteries on the market, which we use to power a multitude of products, such as kids toys, but the batteries used in mobile devices are different, otherwise Apple would not have filed for a patent.
It's hard to know if there will actually be any outcome to this latest patent, but you cannot ignore the fact that it leads to a curved iOS device, such as the iPhone 6, or even the possibility of the iWatch.
We know there will be an iPhone 6, but as you would imagine are unsure of its design; as for the iWatch, the evidence is mounting up, and maybe we could hear something during WWDC, because we know Apple need to do something big as our faith in them has faltered, as it seems they have stopped innovating, something that made them stand out in the crowd.
There are two filing patents, here and here, both of which were filed on October 28, 2011. They wish to manipulate the battery cells during the production process, so they can be used in thin mobile devices.
It was Apple Insider who suggested that Apple could be working on a curved iOS device based on these patents, and while most people like myself thought of the iPhone 6, I thought the iWatch deserved some thought as well.
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- 3 large egg whites
- One 12-ounce can evaporated skim milk
- 1/4 cup coarsely ground coffee
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a small heavy saucepan, cook 2/3 cup of the sugar over moderately low heat without stirring until melted and deep golden, about 12 minutes. Working quickly, pour about 1 tablespoon of the caramel into each of four 2/3-cup ramekins. Drizzle the remaining caramel over the parchment and let stand at room temperature to harden.
In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the egg whites and the remaining 1/3 cup sugar until combined. In a small saucepan, warm the evaporated milk and coffee over moderate heat until steaming, about 3 minutes. Let stand for 1 minute. Whisk the steamed milk into the egg mixture, then whisk in the cream and vanilla.
Strain the coffee custard, then pour it into the ramekins and set them in a baking dish. Add enough cold water to the dish to reach three-quarters of the way up the sides of the ramekins. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until the custards are almost set. Let cool in the water bath. Cover and refrigerate the crème caramels until chilled, at least 2 hours or overnight. (The caramel pieces can stand at room temperature, covered, overnight.)
To serve, dip the bottom of each ramekin in hot water, then run a knife around each crème caramel and invert onto individual plates. Break the reserved hardened caramel into large pieces and arrange them decoratively around the custards.


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I've been reading about strong women lately. Linda Crill is definitely one of those, but maybe she had to be reminded. "Blind Curves" is a wonderful book detailing how Crill learned to ride a Harley and ride 2,500 miles from Victoria, B.C. to Mendocino, California as a novice. Blind Curves is a metaphor to the fear that bubbles up inside every one of us when we approach a blind curve in our life and what it feels like to reach the other side. Blind curves for Crill didn't just happen on a Harley. She faced them prior to turning 57, when her husband got cancer and died.
Crill writes, "One of the problems for many people my age is how to keep the passion in their lives. After decades of following the pack, raising children, volunteering, doing community service, and pouring hearts and minds into jobs, satisfying clients, colleagues and bosses, we suddenly find ourselves needing new mountains to climb with fresh challenges and surprising vistas. Many of our old behaviors, which served us so well, no longer make sense."
Yes, some of her friends questioned her decision to ride along with a negative voice from inside of her, but she triumphed. She tells us that the joy we feel when we round the blind curve "radiates inside our bodies" and we experience "…an inner feeling of connectedness."


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Lot 598: The Charles Bartlett London 1908 Olympic Games 100km Cycling Champion
Sporting Memorabilia
by Graham Budd Auctions
07 November 2016
London, United Kingdom
Live AuctionDescription: The Charles Bartlett London 1908 Olympic Games 100km Cycling Champion Collection, comprising: i) a London 1908 Olympic Games gold prize winner's medal for the 100 kilometres cycling event by Bertram Mackennal, manufactured by Vaughton of Birmingham in hallmarked gold, two young maidens are crowning a winning athlete, the reverse with St George slaying the dragon, the rim inscribed 100 KILOMETRES. WON BY C.H. BARTLETT. WORLD RECORD, PRINCE OF WALES CUP, with later chain ii & iii) The Prince of Wales's Challenge Cup, a silver two-handled cup & cover by Carrington & Co., London, 1908, the body inscribed CHALLENGE CUP, PRESENTED BY GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES [LATER KING GEORGE V], OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON 1908, 100 KILOMETRES BICYCLE RACE, C.H. BARTLETT, height 46cm., width across handles 35cm., weight 2,672gr., on an ebonised plinth, the underside with original paper label inscribed manuscript PRINCE OF WALES OLYMPIC CUP; and with accompanying plaque inscribed 100 KILOMETRE, OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIP CUP, PRESENTED BY H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, WON BY, C.H. BARTLETT iv) Charles Bartlett's Great Britain competitor's vest badge, white cloth with silkwork Union Jack flag and inscribed OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON, 1908 v) Studd Trophy silver medal presented to Charles Bartlett by his cycling club, Polytechnic, to commemorate his Olympic achievement, the obverse similar to the Olympic gold medal with a design of St George slaying the dragon and the motto THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH, the reverse inscribed PRESENTED TO CHARLES H. BARTLETT, WINNER OF, THE STUDD TROPHY, 1908, OLYMPIC GAMES CHAMPIONSHIP, 100 KILO [stet] CYCLE RACE, IN RECORD TIME, 2 HOURS 41 MINUTES 48 3/5 SECONDS Charles Henry Bartlett was born in Southwark, London, 6th February 1885. He was affiliated to Polytechnic Cycling Club in London when he won the 100km track race at the White City during the London 1908 Olympic Games. A remarkable achievement not only because he was the youngest competitor in the race, aged 23. As the cyclists set off it was raining very heavily which left parts of the track under water. The weather began to clear after 30 minutes or so but the track remained in a hazardous state and there were many falls and also punctures. One significant retirement from the race was the reigning 100km world champion, Britain's Leon Meredith. The eventual winner Bartlett himself suffered a fall with 30km to go and by the time the judges allowed him to remount with a new machine he was nearly a lap behind the leaders. He somehow found reserves of energy to chase down the field and then maintain a full sprint in the last mile to claim a memorable victory by two lengths from fellow Brit Charles Denny, with Octave Lapize of France claiming bronze. Bartlett's brave and determined performance lasted long in the memory of all who were there. As well as being awarded the gold medal, Bartlett was awarded the magnificent Prince of Wales Cup. This was one of eight challenge prizes awarded at the 1908 London Olympic Games, and the only one with Royal provenance. For the record the other prizes were the Brunetta Statuette for Rowing, the Brunetta Trophy for Swimming, The Football Associations Trophy, The Gold and Silversmiths' Cup for Wrestling, The Hurlingham Trophy for Polo, The International Cup for Fencing and Lord Westbury's Cup for Clay Bird Shooting. Charles Bartlett took up cycling at the age of 16 in 1901 with the Prince Alfred CC and won several club championship titles before moving to Polytechnic. Away from the Games, he won the NCU 50 miles tandem-paced title in 1908 and again in 1909 and broke several tandem-paced and motor-paced records. After his retirement, Bartlett built up a successful packing business but maintained an active interest in cycling and served as President of the Pickwick BC, England's premier bicycling club. He died in Enfield aged 83 30th November 1968.
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1A small tropical American bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed, ovenlike nests of mud.
- 'Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in the New World, with about 1,100 species, nearly all of them in South America.'
- 'In 1996 ornithologists announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical ovenbird, the pink-legged graveteiro, within the rustic cacao farms of the state of Bahia, Brazil.'
- 'Their closest relatives are the ovenbirds (family Furnariidae).'
- 'Playing the louder calls on the ground increased visits by predators there, he found, but playing the relatively soft begging calls of ovenbirds from tree nests did not.'
- 'On a spring morning several years ago, I saw a tiny ovenbird that was walking north on Park Avenue, probably exhausted by its migratory flight from South America.'
- 'Suboscines are particularly well represented, with vocalizations of more than 350 (!) species of ovenbirds, antbirds, tyrant flycatchers, and the like.'
- 'Nonetheless, the West Indian thrashers and tremblers are so distinctive that early workers grouped them variously with the ant thrushes, ovenbirds, wrens, and thrushes.'
- 'As we stroll on, we hear ovenbirds, see a towhee in the brush, and, down at Lake Perez, see a wood duck, tree swallows, a pair of spotted sandpipers, an osprey, and quite possibly the fattest robin I've ever seen.'
2A migratory brown North American warbler that builds a domed, ovenlike nest on the ground.
- 'Some species of ovenbirds are migratory, others are sedentary.'
- 'Research in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia shows that forest birds like the American redstart, hooded warbler, Kentucky warbler, worm-eating warbler, ovenbird, wood thrush, and veery are all vulnerable to deer overpopulation.'
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
And Now a Few Words From Mr. Frost....
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Well my visit with you this morning made me laugh, smile, and nearly choke on my tea. Small town life, yes, I lived in a rural small town for 24 years. I loved every second of it, but yes, people knew me better than I knew myself. And sometimes, I didn't even know what they were talking about.
I've perused the last few posts and loved them. I adore your part of the world. Try to explore there when we drive from our home in California to our beloved cottage on an island in Maine.
This is fun and I thank you for starting my day with a big bang.
All joys,
Sharon Lovejoy Writes from Sunflower House and a Little Green IslandThere is something about that poem that people really connect with, isn't there? I guess we have all faced forks in the road, big ones and small ones, and whether to look forward without regret or to keep looking back and rethinking the choice is a shared human dilemma. (I tend to look forward because I can't remake the choice.)
ReplyDeleteoh ! if only i knew which way to go. a wonderful entry. moving. please have you all a good wednesday.
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If he had "stretchy pants" and a cape he could demand more for it.
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^Rider weight limit? I'd have to say about 125lbs!
That Impaler looks dangerous, there are cracks in th road bigger that front wheel.
Got a flat tire and lost interest. Back to the couch for some Call Of Duty.,,,,BD
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Needs a tire tubestubes? What's a tubestube?
Wow. Really? Mine must be worth at least $600 then, even with all the rust and missing parts. On that note, I am going to go for a single speed ride, then fishing for a couple of hours,,,,BD
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I've not seen a stem installed this way before.
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$225 for one brake caliper? Granted it is a graphite Croce de Anue but still $225?
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Buy the Continental or it's history
[h=2]1960 Schwinn Continental Men's April of 1960 All/Part (Tustin)[/h] http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...a16f901ee3.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...00bac61953.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...dd25741af4.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...7d95141a06.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...4e6aba11c1.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...4e6d671f53.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/3K73Ma3...a16f901ee3.jpg Copper color, seat rotted, no head badge, otherwise 100% original including tires and metal stem tubes, plus lock and toe clips. Bicycle trade possible, needs restored, will ride with tire/tubes/service, everything turns, chain not rusted solid, rare and vintage first year original 10 speed Schwinn Continental. bicycle trade possible open to all, looking for high end back packing tent and gear. seven 14- (348) 11-16 or reply to this ad. If you are reading this it is available. This is the last call for the complete bike. If you want it complete, contact me. Frame and fork------$200.00 Front wheel----------$65.00 Rear wheel complete----------$125.00 Front shifter---------$65.00 Rear shifter----------$50.00 Rear derailer---------$65.00 front derailer--------$ 65.00 Head set ------------$25.00 Stem-----------------$75.00 Handle bars---------$45.00 Brakes----------------$45.00 |
T [h=2]Schwinn mens Road BICYCLE - $90 (SE Aurora (tower + iliff))[/h] http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...ad7ae91f22.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...6ddff21a71.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...76d8871198.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/thumb/3...9faf31146a.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/3K13m13...ad7ae91f22.jpg This bike is in good shape (paint has scratches and foam on handlebars is old) , ready to ride. Bar end shifters, 15 speed, Chicago made, 23" frame, 33" stand over. 720-988-0287
And the CL one has bar end shifters, a rack and bag to boot. You could pick it up and make a 900% profit selling it on ebay.
http://i.imgur.com/hG5MxJB.png Anyone need a pile of scrap metal? I love ads like this because you just know that bikes like that awful Huffy road bike in the foreground of the first picture are what this guy considers an "expensive and collectable antique." |
Di2 upgrade kit boxes for sale - $75 (Allston) Upgraded my commuter bike to di2, selling the empty boxes off. st-6700r/l box (shift levers) rd-6779-ss box (rear derailleur) fd-6770-f box (front derailleur) ew-sd50 x4 boxes (di2 electric wire) sm-bmr1 (battery mount) sm-jc (juntion a) sm-btr1 (battery) sm-ew67-a-e (junction b) $75 obo. Perfect to add to your collection of vintage bicycle component boxes- throw those old campy boxes out and replace them with the future! Location: Allston it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests |
^Pretty lame sales pitch...
This may or may not be the place to rant but...
I am ABSOLUTELY TIRED of seeing "Disney Princess" bikes for sale on my local CL. That is all. |
??????? Great starter road bike 58cm - $225 (North Raleigh) http://images.craigslist.org/3E83Lb3...28f5bf1d42.jpg Giant (Kronos) road bike in good condition. Durable bike with Aluminum frame. I spoke with the guys at Performance Bicycle and they said the frame will last as long as you own the bike. I've used this bike to train for and compete in 2 sprint triathlons and it has been very good to me. Comes with a computer. I'm selling this because I've decided to take the next step and purchase a more expensive and higher performing bike. http://images.craigslist.org/3I43la3...b79f1a19fa.jpg Did you catch it? |
The aluminum frame, or the saddle that's worth as much as the bike? Both of them are kind of funny. It reminds me of sellers at the flea market, saying a bike was aluminum because it was so light. I guess they couldn't wrap their head around steel = light.,,,,BD
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Power|Play: China's Empress Dowager
Overview Explore the Exhibition: Throne Diplomacy Private Moments Tableaux: The Power of Play Cixi's Popular Legacy
Movie poster for The Empress Dowager, 1975
Soon after their production, copies of Cixi's photographs were sold in the streets of Chinese cities. Qing officials may have encouraged their distribution, or they may have been unable to prevent them from leaking out. In any case, the portraits did little to improve Cixi's reputation. In the West, the image of a female ruler in theater garb merely confirmed the suspicion that the Qing court was too out of touch to endure in the modern era.
Film still from 55 Days at Peking, 1963.
Cixi fared even more poorly in cinematic works. Chinese films, such as Sorrows of the Forbidden City (1948), depicted her as a scheming harridan who suppresses the emperor and murders innocent concubines. In Hollywood, over-the-top characterizations of the Empress Dowager as a wicked Asian "dragon lady" became a staple, culminating in such performances as Flora Robson's "yellow face" rendering in the 1963 film 55 Days in Peking.
Theater poster for Deling and Cixi, 2006.
Popular culture is still struggling with the historical image of Cixi. Only in the last few decades of film, theater, and television has a more complex version of the Empress Dowager emerged. In the darkly haunting cameo by Lisa Lu in the Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor (1987), viewers are presented with a still-menacing but more humane Cixi. In Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch (1991), she is a nuanced and even sympathetic figure. Though still portrayed as xenophobic and selfish, Cixi now is seen with a vulnerable and empathetic side as well.
Related film series: Power Moves: The Empress Dowager Onscreen
Discover how China's Empress Dowager has been depicted on film throughout the decades. This series is guest-curated by Cheng-sim Lim.
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Camille Pissarro, Drawing: Paysanne au Puits
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An original Camille Pissarro Drawing .
(Peasant Woman at the Well)
c. 1890
Charcoal drawing on translucent tissue-weight tracing paper.
Signed with the artist's monogram stamp in grey ink lower right (Lugt 613c, extremely faint).
Accompanied by an authenticating letter of expertise from Dr. Joachim Pissaro dated November 22, 2011.
9 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches
Sheet Size: 12 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches
The drawing Paysanne aux seaux relates to an oil painting and two subsequent prints Pissarro made based on the earlier painting's composition. Pissarro painted La Mère Presle portant des seaux dans la cour de la maison de Piette à Montfoucault in 1874, (no. 369 in the Pissarro & Durand-Ruel Catalogue Raisonné), and revisited the subject in two etchings of 1891 titled Paysanne au puits (no. 100 & 101 in the Loys Delteil Prints Catalogue Raisonné). The oil painting, La Mère Presle portant des seaux dans la cour de la maison de Piette à Montfoucault, depicts the well that stood in the courtyard of Ludovic Piette, a close friend of Pissarro's who lived in the small hamlet of Monfoucault. The same well is also visible in another oil painting, Cour de la maison de Piette à Montfoucault, of 1876 (no. 471 in PDR). Pissarro and his family stayed at the Piette house on six separate occasions between 1864 and 1876. The peasant woman depicted in front of the well, known as Mère Presle, posed for Pissarro on a number of times when the artist was in Monfoucault. Although Pissarro ties to Montfoucault loosened when Ludoic Piette died in 1878, Pissarro revisited some favorite motifs from Montfoucault in his studio later in his career.
Image Size: 9 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches
Sheet Size: 12 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches
Framed Size: 25 x 20 3/8 inches
Artist or Maker: Camille Pissarro
Medium: Drawing
Date: c. 1890
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Former child star and one-time scandal magnet Drew Barrymore had her first teenage role in this offbeat thriller with comic overtones. Charlie Cross (Matt Frewer) is vacationing with his 15-year-old daughter, Joleen (Barrymore). Charlie and Joleen are stranded in an Arizona trailer park when they run out of gas, and...more
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Lot 270: DATES INDUSTRIES CO. LTD
Auction No.57 of Antique Stocks & Bonds
by Boone Shares - The Scripophily Center
29 October 2016
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Concrete Damage
The City of Newark works hard to maintain an urban forest to enhance our environment, unfortunately along with an extensive urban forest there comes some concrete damage.
If you have a tree that is causing extensive concrete damage in front of your home or business, please contact the Maintenance Division at 578-4806.
Maintenance will schedule a review of the site and determine the next steps. Next steps can include grinding the trip hazard, inclusion in the root barrier project or the concrete replacement project and/or tree removal.
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Practical Tips for Making Outdoor Learning a Reality (Guest Post by Emily Plank)
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Thanks for a lovely guest post Emily. I always begin by thinking about what is special about being outside... we need activities that make the most of the multi-sensory nature and opportunities do discover, explore, investigate and play in a different way to indoors. I also believe in the involvement of children in the development of an outdoor space through ongoing dialogue and ideas expressed by the children which are then acted upon.
ReplyDeleteI have chooks in my yard. I like the idea of young children learning to respect and care for other creatures.


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What's New: Around the base of the mountain, Gore has maintained 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) of cross-country trails since the early 60's. This year these trails were regraded to make them more user friendly. On the mountain, many trails were widened and regroomed.
For youngsters 2 to 6 years old, an all-day Dino-mite program has been expanded to include rental equipment, lunch and supervised play for $51.
The snowboard program, introduced last season, has been expanded and includes a demonstration center with 50 K2 and Burton boards to rent plus instruction.
SKI WINDHAM Post Office Box 459, Windham, N. Y. 12496
518-734-4300; snow reports, 800-729-4766; lodging, 800-729-7549
Cutting Costs: To attract more skiers during midweek periods, Ski Windham in the northern Catskills has created several new packages under the title Weekday Advantages. The Business Ski Escape, for instance, is a lift ticket, one and three-quarter hour group lesson, buffet lunch, apres-ski drink and use of the Commerce Club, an office with business services in the base lodge, for $37 a day. The same items bought individually would cost $60 to $65.
A Ladies' Day with similar features and a 50 percent discount for one nonskiing child to spend the day in the Children's Learning Center costs $36. Ordinarily the fee for a nonskiing child in the center, which is for youngsters aged 1 to 7, is $40 a day; the price for a skiing youngster at the center is $55. Couples' Day offers two-fers on breakfast, Nastar (national standard race) runs and apres-ski drinks with the purchase of two lift tickets.
The Weekday Fun Pack with one night of lodging, two days of skiing, one group lesson and a coupon book for use in the region is $80 a person, in double occupancy, versus $128 when bought individually. The Weekend Stretch is three nights lodging and three days of on the slopes with the coupon book for $157 or $187 a person, low or high season. The Weekend Pleaser is two days of skiing and two nights lodging with one group lesson of one and three-quarter hours and the coupon book for $116.
On nonholiday weekdays, people over 65 can ski at half price, while children 12 and under ski free. Regular prices for lift tickets are $25 and $22 for juniors during peak season (mid-December to mid-March) and $20 and $18 during nonpeak periods. From Jan. 22 to 25, Ski Windham will celebrate its 10th anniversary by rolling lift-ticket prices back to 1981 levels -- adults will pay $14 and juniors $12.
What's New: The 72,000-square-foot base lodge, new last season, has been fine-tuned with decorating and changes in service features. Additional computer stations, for instance, will speed ticketing, rental operations and lesson assignments. Snowboarders will have their own slope for lessons and practice, and a half-pipe, or U-shaped slope of snow, will be built for acrobatic tricks.
The Children's Learning Center, which had ski-instruction programs for 3- to 7-year-olds last season, will offer a Mogul Masters program for children 8 to 13 this winter. The full-day program with two two-hour lessons, lunch, lift ticket and supervised indoor activities costs $55, while a half-day with one lesson, lift ticket and indoor activities is $33. PENNSYLVANIA MOUNT TONE Mount Tone Ski Area, Lake Como, Pa. 18437 201-276-0998, information and reservations; 717-798-2707, snow report
Cutting Costs: This small area in the northeast corner of the Pocono mountains is offering a $79 a person weekend package that includes two nights' accommodations in either a chalet or lodge, Continental breakfast, complete dinner on Saturday night (in the ski area's restaurant) and lift tickets for Saturday and Sunday. The package also offers free lesson and rental equipment. A weekend Learn to Ski package at $18 comes with one-day lift ticket, 50-minute lesson and rental of skis, poles and boots.
Friday night lift tickets for 6 to 10 P.M. have been reduced this year for adults and juniors to $5. Adult day lift tickets cost $13, and $10 for juniors every day. Half-day lift tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for juniors. Twilight skiing from 1 to 4:30 P.M. and 6 to 10 P.M. costs $13 and $10 for juniors.
Equipment can be rented at the base for $10 on weekends and midweek and $5 at night. The ski school offers group lessons for $8 and private lessons for $18. Passes for seven miles of cross-country trails are $5 r and $4 for juniors; cross-country rental equipment is $5, lessons are $8.
A Swiss-style lodge and 36 chalets on the North mountain overlook a lake and the South mountain.
What's New: This year both the North and South Mountains will offer 100 percent snowmaking. There are 10 trails served by a triple chairlift, T-bar and two rope tows. VERMONT BROMLEY MOUNTAIN Post Office Box Box 1130, Manchester Center, Vt. 05255 802-824-5522; resort lodging, 802-824-5458; town and area lodging, 800-677-7829
Cutting Costs: Because Bromley is run jointly with neighboring Magic Mountain (R.F.D. 1, Box 32, Londonderry, Vt. 05148; 802-824-5566) skiers have a choice of either mountain for the price of one lift ticket -- weekend, holiday and multiday tickets. In addition, the resort offers several lift-ticket packages.


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