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2008-09 Conference Primers: #3 – ACCPosted by rtmsf on November 8th, 2008
Zach Smith of Old Gold & Blog and DeaconsIllustrated is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Predicted Order of Finish:
- North Carolina (28-2, 14-2)
- Duke (27-5, 13-3)
- Wake Forest (21-8, 11-5)
- Miami (20-9, 10-6)
- Clemson (20-10, 8-8)
- Virginia Tech (18-12, 8-8)
- Georgia Tech (17-12, 7-9)
- Maryland (17-13, 7-9)
- NC State (15-14, 5-11)
- Boston College (15-15, 4-12)
- Florida State (13-16, 4-12)
- Virginia (11-16, 4-12)
WYN2K. The ACC is still the ACC. I know many still long for the return of the days of nine teams (or even eight), but for better or worse a 12-team ACC is here to say, and it's still plenty enjoyable. It may not be the absolute best conference in 2008-2009, but it's dang good, and I have a feeling the majority of college basketball fans would still rather watch Duke play North Carolina play than Louisville play UConn. Everyone agrees UNC is the best team in the country (assuming they'll have Tyler Hansbrough back sooner rather than later) and Duke is right there in the top five with them. With high expectations and lots of potential, Wake Forest is also making appearances in preseason top 25 rankings, and Miami also came in at #17 in the preseason AP poll. Clemson doesn't appear to be far behind. I expect all five of those teams to make the NCAA Tournament this season, and I will not be surprised if Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Maryland compete for berths as well. If he comes back healthy, Hansbrough (22.8 ppg, 10.2 rpg) is likely to once again be the national player of the year, while Boston College's Tyrese Rice (21 ppg, 4.9 apg), Miami's Jack McClinton (17.7 pgg), North Carolina's Ty Lawson (12.7 ppg, 5.16 apg), and Duke's Gerald Henderson (12.7 ppg, 31 blocks) are all players to keep an eye on this season. Wake Forest boasts this year's best recruiting class, led by forward Al-Farouq Aminu, and people will definitely want to keep an eye on Georgia Tech guard Iman Shumpert as well.
Predicted Champion. This isn't a difficult choice to make this season. There's little doubt the North Carolina Tar Heels (NCAA #1) are the best team in the ACC this season, and I think just about everyone will be surprised if they don't win both the regular season and the tournament. Roy Williams has done an excellent job in his time at Carolina, and with both Tyler Hansborough and Ty Lawson deciding to return for another season, the Tar Heels have all five starters from last season back on the floor. No team in the ACC can match the talent, depth, and experience on this Carolina roster. They play fast and score quickly (88.6 ppg, .488 from the field last season) beat teams by the widest margins in the ACC (+16.1), and have an absurdly high rebounding margin (+11 – the closest team was +5). They also led the ACC in assists per game (16.8) and assist/turnover ratio (1.17). They don't always play the best defense in the conference, but with their offense they don't need to. It's going to take an excellent performance for anyone in the ACC to beat them this season.
Others Considered. I'd be lying if I said I seriously considered anyone else. North Carolina is just that good. I'm not saying Duke (NCAA #3) isn't a great team—they are—but I don't think they're quite there with Carolina this season. Duke is a pretty clear favorite to be runner-up this season, and for good reason. They return a talented base, including point guard Greg Paulus (11.4 ppg, 3.2 apg), shooting guard Jon Scheyer (11.7 ppg), forward Gerald Henderson, and center Kyle Singler (13.3 pgg, 5.8 rpg). They will also count on strong performances from new starter Lance Thomas, as well as bench contributions from Nolan Smith and freshman Miles Plumlee. They score almost as much as UNC (83.2 ppg), play even better defense (allowing only 69.4 ppg) and lead the conference in turnover margin (+4.8). The Wake Forest (NCAA #5) Demon Deacons get in this discussion based primarily on potential. They didn't graduate a single impact player, return two of last season's most talented freshmen in forward James Johnson (14.6 ppg, 8.1 rpg) and guard Jeff Teague (13.9 ppg, 1.83 steals), and bring in the ACC's best recruiting class of forward Al-Farouq Aminu and centers Tony Woods and Ty Walker. If Coach Dino Gaudio can maximize the potential in this team then they could really make some noise this season.
Other Likely NCAA Bids. Miami (NCAA #6) and Clemson (NCAA #12) should both be good enough to make the tournament this year. Jack McClinton (17.7 ppg) is the clear leader of the Miami team – a great shooter who has improved his entire game. Miami relies on a strong defense (second in scoring defense last season at 67.9 ppg) and will do so again this season, hoping to ride that into the NCAA Tournament. Clemson hopes to join them, led by Trevor Brooker who is both a great scorer and rebounder. In the past the Tigers have relied on a speedy trapping defense that creates lots of turnovers, but much of the talent that made that style of play work in the past is gone this season. They'll need Brooker and KC Rivers to step up and put points on the board this season. Virginia Tech (NIT) and Georgia Tech (NIT) are likely bubble teams this season. VT only lost one starter from last year's squad and returns lots of young talent, including AD Vasallo and Jeff Allen. Georgia Tech lost a lot from last year's team but brings back some young talent in a good recruiting class. Maryland (NIT) lost a great frontcourt and will rely on Greivis Vasquez to lead them to a potential NIT birth.
The Rest. NC State, Boston College, Florida State and Virginia are all likely to be staying home in March, although it is certainly possible for one or two to surprise and make some kind of noise this season and maybe grab an NIT birth. NC State lost its top three players from a season ago and will need lots of guys to step up this year. Boston College boasts a great player in Tyrese Rice, but lacks anyone to support him and I don't see who could step up and really fill that role. Florida State loses as much as NC State did, if not more, and probably has even less talent that could step up. Virginia, like these other teams, lost its top three players from last season and another to injury. For now, everything is on Mamadi Diane's shoulders and the prospects for this season are grim.
RPI Boosters.
- Kentucky @ North Carolina – ESPN 9:00 (11.18.09)
- Ohio State @ Miami – ESPN 7:00 ACC/B10 Challenge (12.02.08)
- Duke @ Purdue – ESPN 9:15 ACC/B10 Challenge (12.02.08)
- Indiana @ Wake Forest – ESPN 7:00 ACC/B10 Challenge (12.03.08)
- North Carolina @ Michigan State – ESPN 9:15 ACC/B10 Challenge (12.03.08)
- NC State @ Davidson – FSN 12:00 (12.06.08)
- Miami @ Kentucky – ESPN 5:30 (12.06.08)
- Duke @ Xavier – CBS 2:00 (12.20.08)
- Davidson @ Duke – ESPN 7:00 (01.07.09)
- Georgetown @ Duke – CBS 1:30 (01.16.09)
Preseason Tourneys.
- North Carolina – Maui Invitational
- Duke – Coaches Versus Cancer
- Boston College – Preseason NIT
- Virginia Tech – Puerto Rico Tip Off
- Miami – Paradise Jam
- Wake Forest – 76 Classic
- Maryland – Old Spice Classic
- Florida State – Las Vegas Invitational
The preseason/Thanksgiving tournaments should provide some good early challenges for these ACC teams, and the ACC/Big Ten Challenge usually provides some entertainment as well. Just about everyone has a couple of significant OOC games, and for some of the bubble teams these could be the RPI boosters they need to make a push into the NCAA Tournament.
Key Games. I've heard it said that every game is a big game in the ACC, and in many ways this is true. Obviously, though, some are bigger than others so let's take a look:
- Clemson @ Miami – FSN 7:45 (12.21.08)
- North Carolina @ Wake Forest – FSN 8:00 (01.11.09)
- Duke @ Georgia Tech – ESPN 7:00 (01.14.09)
- Miami @ North Carolina – ESPN 9:00 (01.17.09)
- Virginia Tech @ Wake Forest – ESPN2 7:00 (01.21.09)
- Duke @ Clemson – ESPN 9:00 (02.03.09)
- North Carolina @ Virginia Tech – ESPN 7:00 (03.04.09)
- Duke @ North Carolina – CBS 4:00 (03.11.09)
As I'm sure you can imagine, it's really difficult to just pick a handful of important ACC games, but these represent a smattering of some of the best teams and contenders playing each other. I promise, there will plenty of important and exciting games in the ACC all season long.
Did You Know. Tyler Hansbrough is the first AP National Player of the Year to return for another season since Shaquille O'Neal did it at LSU after winning the award in 1991. Pretty impressive, but maybe more surprising is that O'Neal returned – I'd be curious to know why he did. Also interesting, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski actually led a team to a gold medal for the second time over the summer. He had also been an assistant coach on the 1992 Dream Team. Unfortunately for him, coaches aren't actually awarded medals, only players.
65 Team Era. By nearly every objective measure, the ACC has been the best league of the last quarter-century: the best overall NCAA record (234-116, .669), the most #1 seeds (21), the most titles (6), the most F4s (22) and the most S16s (63). These numbers are all driven by the fact that UNC and Duke have arguably been two of the top several programs in the nation during this time period. What if we removed these two from consideration – how would the ACC compare? After removing 130 wins, 19 #1 seeds, 5 titles, 18 F4s and 33 S16s, you're left with a conference that would look a lot like the Atlantic 10 or CUSA in its best years. It's pretty amazing just how dominant those two programs have been over the years, and will continue to be.
Final Thoughts. It's going to be another fun year in the ACC this season. I grew up outside ACC country, but having been here for several years now I can honestly say there's nothing quite like it. I was skeptical at first, but I've been convinced. I'm looking forward to another great season. The top tier of teams is excellent, and the conference has enough depth to be exciting from nearly top to bottom. Despite North Carolina's unanimity at the top, I don't believe it is impossible for someone else to knock them off. Duke could certainly do it, as could anyone else in that next tier of teams. It will also be interesting to see how Tyler Hansbrough's injury affects the Tar Heels and the ACC as a whole.


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EXCLUSIVE: Global Screen closes deals on new animation Richard the Stork [pictured].
German sales outfit Global Screen has closed a trio of pre-sales on new 3D animation Richard the Stork ahead of the Cannes Marche.
Deals closed with Bona Entertainment for China, Woo Sung Entertainment in Korea and Kino Swiat in Poland on the title which is currently in production and set for a 2016 delivery.
Directed by Toby Genkel and Reza Memari, the feature tells the story of a sparrow who is orphaned at birth and raised by storks and spends his life trying to fit in.
For full production credits visit
Memari's script was nominated for Best German Animation Screenplay at the International Animation Film Festival in Stuttgart.
Producers are Memari and Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur. Co-producers are Hamburg-based animation outfit Ulysses Films. Rise FX are among the animation and VFX producers.
Global Screen and Ulysses previously collaborated on Niko & The Way To The Stars and its successor Niko 2 – Little Brother, Big Trouble. The two will also team on recent Global acquisition Ooops, Noah Is Gone.


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Solitude, glorious solitude
If you want to understand Sylt, it's best to leave the island to others in the summer. Sylt reveals its true soul when the beaches are empty and the North Sea winds rage. Our author went to the island – and met a couple of accomplices
Seventeen years have passed since my first trip to the largest of the North Frisian Islands. It was early October, and raining. My girlfriend Swantje met me at Westerland station. She was beaming, and when she planted a welcome kiss on my cheek I could smell hot cocoa on her breath. Then she showed me my bicycle. We rode for ages, cycling in the twilight until we got to Keitum, where Swantje's family was waiting for us. My legs were burning, and half my vacation wardrobe was hanging off me in wet, baggy bulges. I was exhausted, but in an oddly pleasant kind of way. Swantje just laughed at me.
Black tea was already steaming on the wooden table next to the fireplace. I soon warmed up, sinking into my armchair in a state of languid and sublime contentment. Her parents must have taken me for a good-natured deaf-mute. "Don't worry," said sunny Swantje, "it's just the Sylt feeling."
It's based on a simple principle: First, you have to go outdoors, because the island's clear air makes you happy – even when it's raining or so cold that your breath comes out like cotton candy. And then, after an hour or two, you have to go back in to a cozy heated room, with numb fingers, a streaming nose and shining eyes, until you start feeling the warmth that begins in your toes and then slowly works its way up to your scalp – and that makes you feel happy, too. Then you repeat the process all day long: hot and cold and hot and cold … This feeling is the reason I keep coming back to Sylt in fall and winter. These days, I stay at little guesthouses, which are becoming increasingly scarce, and rejoice in every pub and restaurant that doesn't make me feel as if my appetizer is financing the landlord's next SUV.
And there you have it: the Sylt cliché. There's no getting round it. There are two options: Firstly, you can lament the fate of an island groaning under the weight of too much prosperity. Bestseller author Meike Winnemuth sums it up splendidly: "I want to love Sylt, really I do. And there's no denying it's great: the dunes, the heath, the beach, the winds, the clouds. But the people. The wretched people. The men in their red pants and frantically casual shirts. The women so blond, so smooth of brow, so dripping with jewelry. And all too tanned. And too loud."
Alternatively, you can take the bull by the horns, like Sylt cabaret artist Manfred Degen. People love his stories of "money, greed and vanity" and about how insanely life on Sylt has changed in the last 25 years, and tears of laughter roll down onto the polo shirts and college loafers of his listeners.
I love it when the wind whips the sea, preferably when it's dark and dramatic
Now Degen is standing at Rantum harbor, gazing raptly at the mudflats. The sky is blue, the wind is whistling, and Degen is puzzled. "They never think I'm talking about them," he says, "not even when they've just parked their Maybach outside and their pug is strutting its stuff in a mouflon vest." He's on his way to the club house of the old-established North Frisian Sailing Club Rantum, where he's been a member for years. There's no doubt this former railroad worker loves his adopted island home, in spite of the sometimes difficult visitors, in spite of everything. As it turns out, Degen's ambivalent relationship to Sylt is part of a widespread pattern. Almost all the islanders I meet over the next few days feel exactly the same. They love Sylt, but in the high season – July, August and around New Year's
Eve – they would prefer not to leave their own four walls at all.
"It's the solitude of Sylt that appeals to me most," says Indra Wussow, who is something like the island's unofficial minister of culture. She heads a foundation by the name of "kunst:raum sylt quelle," invites artists and writers from all over the world to Sylt and publishes South African literature. She herself only spends about three months of the year on the island nowadays, and only ever in the off-season. "I love it when the wind whips the sea," she says, "preferably when it's dark and dramatic. Walking along the beach by yourself, it makes you reflect on what's really important to you, what drives you."
I spend the next few days walking and jogging in the lonely places of Sylt. Not a single gathering place for rich vacationers in sight – no crowded Kupferkanne, no trendy Gogärtchen or Sansibar. Instead, just the Ellenbogen, an elbow-shaped sand spit near List. The white cliff between Munkmarsch and Braderup. The Kliffkante restaurant in Wenningstedt. Only a scattering of people and lots of unspoiled countryside. I can still hear Swantje's voice from all those years ago, reassuring me before my first
visit to the island: "The great thing about Sylt is that you never have to worry about the weather."
Fondly, I think of that now as I brace myself against the wind that's filling my jacket out like a parachute. On days like this, you can't hear your own panting for the noise of the crashing waves. The paths between Rantum and Hörnum on the southern tip of Sylt are some of the most beautiful I know. They lead past dunes, little thatched cottages and the peat-brown puddles of the Wadden Sea, past the designer prefab of a vacation resort and the Budersand, a no less modern but far more attractive version of a luxury hotel in the midst of the Sylt countryside. You see a lot on a walk like this – and get a sense of everything that constitutes Sylt's appeal: its clear air, its vastness, its freshness. Sylt blows the cobwebs away – be they physical or mental.
Christoph Knorr understands. The 34-year-old from Hesse remained on the island after completing his alternative civilian service here. "The landscape, the surfing," he says, almost groaning at the thought. Because it would have been much easier to set up shop if he'd fallen in love with a different island – maybe Amrum or Pellworm. But Knorr, together with his wife and child, found an apartment on the nearby mainland instead, from where he now commutes to Sylt to pursue his business idea.
He brews his own beer, Sørfers – the craft beer trend has arrived on Sylt too. For the time being, Sørfers is more of a hobby than a business: Knorr is forever setting up and dismantling his "brewing laboratory" on an organic farm in Braderup, depending on whether the space is needed for other purposes. Now Knorr is hoping for a sympathetic investor. "What we're missing here is a brewhouse restaurant like the Altes Mädchen in Hamburg," says Knorr. "Charmingly furnished and with good products – a totally different story to the usual Sylt bling-bling." In a place like that, he could brew and serve his beer and put on a bit of a program for young people. "But there's no affordable space for that kind of project on Sylt." So why does he stay? Well, I've seen that wistful look on his face before – when I met Manfred Degen and Indra Wussow. It must be love.
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The perfect wintertime hotel: The Severins boasts a spa, a pool and a cozy fireplace.
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Haut Future
On a stiflingly warm afternoon in June, Prince Robert of Luxembourg and his wife, Julie, sit down to lunch with a table full of perspiring guests in the small dining room at Château Haut-Brion. There is history at Haut-Brion, and unequalled terroir, and an ongoing reputation as one of the world's finest wines. There is, however, no air-conditioning.
At 35, Prince Robert has thinning hair and a high forehead. He reaches for the small bell that has been placed beside his plate and shakes it firmly. It summons a server in a starched shirt and a jacket who arrives bearing a bowl of chilled pea soup and a silver ladle.
As he does, two white wines are poured at the table, a 1999 Haut-Brion Blanc and a 1990 Laville Haut-Brion. Robert glances up at Jean Delmas, until last year Haut-Brion's winemaker, who is sitting across from him, then takes a sip of the 1999 and nods with enthusiasm. "We don't always eat like this, be assured," he says. "But when we do, we enjoy it."
It's difficult to find a chronicle of Haut-Brion that doesn't begin with the distant past, with references to Jean de Pontac, born in 1488, who built the château. Diarist Samuel Pepys recorded Haut-Brion's "good and most particular taste" for posterity after tasting it in 1663. Thomas Jefferson, while serving as ambassador to France in the 1780s, bought the wine for his private cellar. The 1855 classification of Bordeaux marked Haut-Brion, along with Lafite-Rothschild, Margaux and Latour, as one of four original first-growths.
But the Haut-Brion that exists today, the producer of perhaps the most consistently excellent red wine in the world, has its origins in two far more recent dynasties, one of aristocrats and one of laborers. Since the first third of the twentieth century, the Dillon family has owned the estate and the Delmas family has made its wine.
American businessman Clarence Dillon bought Haut-Brion in 1935 and found Georges Delmas ensconced there. Clarence had a son, Douglas, who gained fame as the U.S. secretary of the treasury. Douglas's daughter, Joan, would marry a Luxembourgian nobleman and give birth to Prince Robert, who today manages the company that oversees the château. Despite a world war, the upheavals of the late 1960s, the advent of the euro and the European Union, it has remained in the Dillon family.
During the same time, the Delmases were on a parallel course, growing grapes and making wine while raising a family of more mundane bloodlines. Georges's son, Jean, was born at the château. And in 1969, a few months after Prince Robert was born, Jean had a son of his own, Jean-Philippe.
Now it is as though a crank has been turned and a generational shift set into motion. With Jean Delmas retired and Joan Dillon spending less and less time at the winery, Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Jean-Philippe Delmas have emerged from the shadows into the light. "We are the third couple," Jean-Philippe says now, making reference to the generations of Dillons and Delmases before them.
For this hired hand, part farmer and part chemist, and his aristocratic boss, the mandate is clear. Preserve the heritage, from silver ladle to exalted wine, but guide it into the young century. Continue to change, in order that Haut-Brion can remain the same.
Château Haut-Brion is enclosed by the streets of the Bordeaux suburb of Pessac, making its panorama rather less glorious than that of the spectacular châteaux of the Medoc. But to a viticulturist, for whom beauty is hidden within the soil, perhaps no setting in Bordeaux is as spectacular. When vines were first planted around Bordeaux centuries ago, the stony sand of Graves was held in the highest esteem. Haut-Brion's site was considered the best of the area.
"It is nothing but pure white sand, mixed with a little gravel," the English philosopher John Locke wrote of Haut-Brion in 1677. "One would imagine it scarce fit to bear anything." And that, in large measure, is the point. What makes Haut-Brion unique is not the provenance of its rootstock or the age of its vines——they are no older than those of an average Bordeaux property, and younger than many vineyards in Australia, Spain and even California——but that the soil has been under vine for the better part of a millennium. "Some parcels of the vineyard," Prince Robert says, "can be traced back continuously to 1425."
Keeping land under vine for year after year is the opposite of the technique known as crop rotation. It depletes the soil, leaving it barren of nutrients. "Because of the stress of the vines on it for such a long period of time, you have a very strong wasting effect," Jean Delmas explains. "The soil becomes very poor."
This forces the vines, whatever their age, to dig deeper into the subsoil in search of life-sustaining nutrition. Vines stressed in that manner will produce less fruit, but the fruit they do produce will have an intensity of flavor that cannot be replicated by natural means—or unnatural ones for that matter, such as the reverse osmosis machines scattered throughout the Medoc and beyond that extract water from the grapes, intensifying flavor.
In such a way is truly great terroir constructed. Enjoyable wines can be made from young vines in young soil if a winemaker is talented enough, but the best wines of the world have a nobility that can come from nowhere but the earth itself, fortified by nothing but time. It is a question of the provenance of the land, a geological history spread over centuries of time that is as distinct as the lineage of the royal families of Europe. Prince Robert of Luxembourg, related by birth to the Bourbons who once ruled most of Europe, can well understand.
During the time of the Dillons and the Delmases, the selling of the best Bordeaux wine has become big business. It wasn't always so. When Clarence Dillon journeyed to southwestern France in 1934 bent on purchasing a prominent winery, he was offered an 80 percent stake in Château Margaux and the entirety of Château Cheval Blanc before he settled on Haut-Brion, in large measure because the property was far closer to the city of Bordeaux and therefore more easily accessible. The finest wine estates in the world were available then, and for good reason. Making fine wine was a gentleman's game, and only the wealthiest families, such as the Rothschilds and the Dillons, could truly afford to play it. The others managed as they could, but in the lean years that followed the Second World War, the lack of improvements in their properties began to show. Oak barrels, originally purchased new, were used for an extra vintage, and then another. Open-vat fermentation tanks, scheduled for an overhaul, continued to store the freshly pressed juice, year after year. Spoilage became rampant, but in the aftermath of the war's desolation, no money existed to replace them.
Those who managed to make good Bordeaux in the 1950s and 1960s could only wonder at how glorious the wines might have been with enough money to carry out the desperately needed upkeep on the equipment, let alone to experiment with some of the newer techniques and technologies that were coming into use around the world. But Jean Delmas didn't have to wonder. Fortified by Dillon wealth, he was the first winemaker in Bordeaux to replace his old wood fermentation tanks with stainless steel vats, in the early 1960s. Computers came to the property as long ago as 1981. Now Jean-Philippe works with second-generation vats that are bifurcated into upper and lower compartments for primary and secondary fermentation.
Paradoxically, the modern equipment has helped maintain Haut-Brion's classic style. In the estate's viticulture, computer science has replaced guesswork. With precise information available about the sweetness level of the grapes throughout the vineyards, each sector can be picked when the fruit is fully ripe. It is not necessary to overextract the flavor during the wine-making process to compensate for the greenness of unripe tannins, as many properties do.
Perhaps as a result, Haut-Brions rarely close down in the bottle and become inaccessible for years and even decades, as some wines—even those considered great—are prone to do. Each vintage of Haut-Brion is typically the first of the first-growths to release its charms, yet the wines live as long as any. In 1997, for example, Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado's sister publication, rated the 1929 Haut-Brion at 97 points.
The consistency of the wines has been sustained by continuity. Nearly a decade ago, Jean Delmas attempted to resign from Haut-Brion and begin a consulting business with his son. He thought it would be simple, an employee giving notice to his employer. At the time,
Jean-Philippe was not officially employed at the château, so in Jean's mind, the consulting business would have been a way for a father and a son to create a new business together with the future in sight.
The outcry for Jean to stay at Haut-Brion stunned him. "My name is linked to Haut-Brion, and it became clear that my departure is bad for Haut-Brion and for me," he said at the time. Soon after, Jean-Philippe was officially added to the employee payroll. Now the succession is orderly, unlike those taking place at many Bordeaux houses these days as the international conglomerates move in, sniffing easy profits.
The region's winemakers well understand what Jean was able to accomplish. "He didn't do more than he had to do to the grapes, so his wines age very, very well," says Count Stephan von Neipperg, the proprietor of several right-bank Bordeaux estates, including Canon La Gaffliere and Clos de l'Oratoire. "They drink well young and they drink well old. Year after year, they have that harmony that all of us want to find."
Prince Robert understands it, too. Recently, he came across some bottles of the 1991 Haut-Brion at auction. "They were going for a ridiculously low price, so I bought them," he says. "They're drinking terrifically well now, a decade after their release." The more exalted vintages of Haut-Brion, the 1985 and 1986, the 1989 and 1990, are drinking well now, too, but it would be a shame to drink them up and lose them for the future, Robert knows. "Many years, decades and decades," he says, when asked how long those benchmark wines of Jean Delmas's tenure will last. "Quite long. I couldn't begin to say how long."
Jean's hair is white now, his hands lined with age. At the end of 2003, having turned 68, he was forced by French law to retire. Jean-Philippe's face is a modern version of Jean's father's. Georges Delmas was a man who had enough steel in his eyes to prevent the occupying Germans from drinking up stores of old vintages during the Second World War. Yet the most prominent aspect of Jean-Philippe's personality is his charm. It alleviates the steel the way ripe fruit can envelop and soften the tannin in a glass of young Cabernet.
If Robert can't help but seem distant, Jean-Philippe is eminently likable. "We still know comparatively very little about making wine," he says now as a 1990 Haut-Brion is poured with the main course. Then he raises a glass to his lips and tastes it. "We do know a few things, however," he says, and the whole table can't help but smile.
While Jean-Philippe Delmas is a Bordelais, born and raised, Robert talks with that peculiarly modern accent of a man who is stateless, or perhaps belongs to too many states. Born in Luxembourg in his grandmother's castle, schooled in England and Luxembourg, he spent his youth shuttling between his family's various homes in Europe and America, vacationing in Maine and Florida, seeing the world.
As a young man, Robert loved writing screenplays, partnering with his wife to bring characters to life, but he also had other responsibilities. He'd jet between Los Angeles and Bordeaux, where his mother lived with her second husband, the Duc de Mouchy. Since his eighteenth birthday, Robert had served as a board member of the company that runs Haut-Brion, Domaine Clarence Dillon S.A.
From the beginning, Prince Robert had an almost soulful connection to Haut-Brion, and he came of age drinking the wine. Yet for several years following the end of his schooling at Georgetown University, his connection to the château he had known since his earliest days was peripheral. "I visited and took an interest in the wine," he says. "But I never took it for granted that I would oversee the estate."
As youth gave way to maturity, Haut-Brion beckoned. In 1997, with Joan getting on in years, the family asked Robert to turn his attention to the centuries-old château. Not long before, Robert and Julie had sold their first screenplay, about the legendary Spanish lover Don Juan. Together, they had a bright future in Hollywood. Nevertheless, he agreed. "It was the family business," he says, "though I had a lot to learn."
When Prince Robert arrived at the château in 1997, he found Jean-Philippe. Robert knew the terroir as his birthright, but Jean-Philippe knew it as a child knows a playground. He had wandered its paths for hours, played in its crannies. Most important, he had farmed its soil.
It might have seemed awkward for the owner's son—and a member of European royalty, at that—to sit at the feet of a paid worker for a tutorial. Yet that's exactly what happened. "He asked questions, a lot of questions," Jean-Philippe says. "Questions about the terroir, the wine making, the commercial aspects, the communications. He never hesitated to ask a single one, and I respect that very much." Seven years on, Robert is still asking. "But he asks less and less," Jean-Philippe says, "because he knows more and more. His knowledge about the technique is more than very good. I can come to him and talk about technical matters, and he knows what I am saying. And if I come to him saying that we have to make changes, he will understand exactly why." When lunch ends, the party moves to a parlor for coffee. At exactly three o'clock, Robert rises. As if on cue, everyone else does, too. Hands are shaken and the group walks outside into the heat of the afternoon. A car is waiting in the driveway to take Julie and the three children to the airport, and from there to London. The youngest are safely buckled inside, but six-year-old Alexander doesn't want to leave. He sits beneath a tree in the garden just beyond the vineyards, his hands gripping the very terrain that his family has sunk their roots into so deeply.
Robert strides across the driveway and gently lifts his son to his chest. He carries him to the car, whispering in his ear as he walks: a descendant of the Bourbons doing the duty of fathers everywhere. The scene is both magisterial and commonplace, a moment as elemental as the soil, yet as rich as the finest wine. That, too, is Haut-Brion. v
Bruce Schoenfeld often writes about wine for Cigar Aficionado and recently authored The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton (HarperCollins).


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Many experiments have been done to find out how the brain interprets stimuli and how animals develop fear responses. The emotion, fear, has been hard-wired into almost every individual, due to its vital role in the survival of the individual. Researchers have found that fear is established unconsciously and that the amygdala is involved with fear conditioning.
By understanding how fear is developed within individuals, it may be possible to treat human mental disorders such as anxiety, phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Neuronal fear pathwaysEdit
In fear conditioning, the main circuits that are involved are the sensory areas that process the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, certain regions of the amygdala that undergo plasticity (or Long-term potentiation) during learning, and the regions that bare an effect on the expression of specific conditioned responses. These pathways converge in the lateral amygdala. Long-term potentiation (LTP) and synaptic plasticity that enhances the response of lateral amygdala neurons to the conditioned stimulus occurs in the lateral amygdala. As a result, the conditioned stimulus is then able to flow from the lateral amygdala to the central nucleus of the amygdala. The basal and intercalated masses of the amygdala connect the lateral amygdala with the central nucleus of the amygdala directly and indirectly. Pathways from central nucleus of the amygdala to downstream areas then control defensive behavior (freezing) and autonomic and endocrine responses. Recent studies implicate the prelimbic cortex in fear expression as well, possibly by way of its connections to the basal and then to the central nucleus of the amygdala.[1]
Role of the amygdalaEdit
- Main article: The role of the amygdala in learnt fear
The amygdala is a key brain structure in the neurobiology of fear. It is involved in the processing of negative emotions (such as fear and anger). Researchers have observed hyperactivity in the amygdala when patients who were shown threatening faces or confronted with frightening situations. Patients with a more severe social phobia showed a correlation with increased response in the amygdala.[2] Studies have also shown that subjects exposed to images of frightened faces, or faces of people from another race, exhibit increased activity in the amygdala.
The fear response generated by the amygdala can be mitigated by another brain region known as the rostral anterior cingulate cortex, located in the frontal lobe. In a 2006 study at Columbia University, researchers observed that test subjects experienced less activity in the amygdala when they consciously perceived fearful stimuli than when they unconsciously perceived fearful stimuli. In the former case, they discovered the rostral anterior cingulate cortex activates to dampen activity in amygdala, granting the subjects a degree of emotional control.[3]
Suppression of amygdala activity can also be achieved by pathogens. Rats infected with the toxoplasmosis parasite become less fearful of cats, sometimes even seeking out their urine-marked areas. This behavior often leads to them being eaten by cats. The parasite then reproduces within the body of the cat. There is evidence that the parasite concentrates itself in the amygdala of infected rats.[4]
Behavioral basisEdit
It has been observed that fear can contribute to behavioral changes.[5] One way this phenomena has been studied is on the basis of the repeated stress model done by Camp RM et al.(among others). In this particular study, it was examined that the contribution fear conditioning may play a huge role in altering an animal's (Fischer rat's) behavior in a repeated stress paradigm. Behavioral changes that are commonly referred to as depressive-like behaviors resulted from this model of testing. After setting a control and a valid experimental design, Fischer rats were exposed daily to different stressors in a complex environment. After four days of stressor exposure, both exploratory behavior and social interaction were tested on day 5 in either the same environment or a new environment. The rats showed much decreased exploration and social interaction when tested in different contexts compared to control rats.[6] To further make a correlation to the biochemistry (as mentioned below), chronic infusion of propranolol (beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist) prevented the behavioral changes following repeated stressor exposure thus halting long term potentiation. Some physiological changes also occurred including the decrease in body weight gain and adrenal hypertrophy observed in animals exposed to stress. Overall, the conditioned fear responses can contribute to behavioral changes in a repeated stress paradigm. This can be extended to correlate to other animals as well but with varying degrees of responses.[6]
Molecular basisEdit
Molecular mechanisms that have been linked directly to the behavioral expression of conditioning are easier to study in a clinical setting as opposed to mechanisms that underlie long-term potentiation (LTP), in which synaptic plasticity is induced by electrical or chemical stimulation of lateral amygdala circuits. LTP is important for fear processing because it strengthens the synapses in neural circuits.[7] These strengthened synapses are how long-term memory is developed and how fear is developed.[8]
Hebbian synaptic plasticityEdit
Synaptic input can be strengthened when activity in the presynaptic neuron co-occurs with depolarization in the postsynaptic neuron. This is known as Hebbian synaptic plasticity. This hypothesis is especially appealing as an explanation for how simple associative learning, such as that taking place in fear conditioning, might occur. In this model of fear conditioning, strong depolarization of the lateral amygdala elicited by the stimulus leads to the strengthening of temporally and spatially relative conditioned stimulus inputs (that are coactive) onto the same neurons. Experimental data has been shown to support the idea that the plasticity and fear memory formation in the lateral amygdala are triggered by unconditioned stimulus-induced activation of the region's neurons.[1] Thus, unconditioned stimulus-evoked depolarization is necessary for the enhancement of conditioned stimulus-elicited neural responses in this region after conditioned-unconditioned pairing and pairing a conditioned stimulus with direct depolarization of the lateral amygdala's pyramidal neurons as an unconditioned stimulus supports fear conditioning. It is also clear that synaptic plasticity at conditioned stimulus input pathways to the lateral amygdala does occur with fear conditioning.[1]
NMDA-Type ionotropic glutamate receptorsEdit
Hebbian plasticity is believed to involve N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and are located on postsynaptic neurons in the lateral amygdala. NMDARs are known to be coincidence detectors of presynaptic activity and postsynaptic depolarization. Auditory inputs are NMDARs in the lateral amygdala and use glutamate as a transmitter.[9] Furthermore, it was tested that when the region's neurons that received auditory inputs also received unconditioned stimulus inputs and broad spectrum NMDAR antagonists in the lateral amygdala resulted in the disruption of the acquisition of fear learning. Therefore, these receptors are crucial to the metabolic pathway of processing and eliciting for the percept of fear.[10]
Monoamine neuromodulatory-dependent mechanismsEdit
It is believed that monoamine transmitters such as norepinepherine and dopamine that are released in emotional situations function in regulating glutamatergic transmission and Hebbian plasticity. The modulation of all of the different types of plasticity is called heterosynaptic plasticity. Homosynaptic plasticity is also prevalent which consists solely of the Hebbian plasticity. In a variety of model systems, it has been shown that monoamines modulate plasticity underlying memory formation such as a heightened percept of fear.[11] Neuromodulators also contribute to fear conditioning.[12] The Hebbian mechanisms contribute to plasticity in the lateral amygdala and fear learning. Other modulators apart from the Hebbian mechanisms include serotonin, acetylcholine, endocannabinoids, and various peptides (such as gastrin-releasing peptide, NPY, opiates, and oxytocin) but the role of these compounds are not fully understood.
Norepinephrine is a huge player in fear memory formation. Recent studies have demonstrated that the blockade of norepinephrine β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs) in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala interferes with the acquisition of fear learning when given pretraining stimuli but has no effect when applied posttraining or before memory retrieval. In contrast to effects of β-AR receptor blockade on other forms of learning, this effect is specific to only acquisition, as opposed to the posttraining processing or expression of fear memory.[13] The activation of β-ARs in the LA synergistically regulates Hebbian processes to trigger the neuron's associative plasticity and fear learning in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala. One theory suggests that the mechanism of β-AR involvement in the acquisition of fear learning is that they act on GABAergic interneurons to suppress feed-forward inhibition and enhance Hebbian plasticity. β-ARs are found on GABAergic interneurons as well as in the lateral amygdala's pyramidal cells. The process of activation of β-ARs start off by coupling to G protein signaling cascades, which then activate protein kinase A (PKA). This activation can elicits the phosphorylation of NMDARs as well as the ser845 site on GluA1, which could facilitate AMPAR insertion at the synapse. In addition, activation of β-AR and PKA reduces calcium-activated potassium (SK) channel activity, leading to increased excitability of neurons and enhanced long term potentation, and this could also occur during learning. It has also been observed that norepinephrine release may also inhibit plasticity in fear circuits via activation of α1 adrenoceptors.
Dopamine receptor activation (both D1 and D2 receptor subtypes) in the amygdala contributes to the acquisition of fear conditioning. D1 and D2 receptors are G protein coupled and inhibit adenylate cyclase (Gi-coupled) and stimulate adenylate cyclase (Gs-coupled), respectively. Just like β-ARs, dopamine receptors may modulate Hebbian processes directly by reducing feed-forward inhibition. They may also act in a parallel fashion with Hebbian mechanisms to implement synapses in the lateral amygdala and promote plasticity and fear learning through their respective signaling pathways.[14]
Metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated neuromodulation duringEdit
Plasticity and learning can also be modulated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). The proteins mGluRs likely serve a modulatory function and do not participate directly in Hebbian processes. This is because due to the fact these receptors do not contribute to depolarization during synapses. They are also not activated by receptors that participate in Hebbian processes. Finally, they do not detect pre- and postsynaptic neural activity. However, the activation of group I mGluRs in the LA and basal nucleus enhances the acquisition, reduction, and amplification of fear conditioning by provinding an influx of calcium ions.
Fear circuitryEdit
Fear recognitionEdit
Research studies have shown that damage to the bilateral amygdala[15] effects mostly the recognition of fear. In a specific study conducted by Andrew J. Calder and Andrew W. Young, they had subjects classify morphed images of facial expressions ranging from happiness to surprise to fear to sadness to disgust to anger. While control subjects classified these images to the nearest expression, subjects who had damage to the bilateral amygdala had problems with this task, especially with the recognition of facial expressions that show fear. The subjects with the damaged bilateral amygdala had no problems differentiating happiness from sadness, but they could not differentiate the expression of anger from fear.[16]
However, in an experiment conducted by Ralph Adolphs, it elucidated the mechanism of the impaired fear recognition. Adolphs found that his main subject, who had a rare bilateral amygdala damage, could not discern fear expressions because of her inability to look at the eye region of the face. When the subject was instructed to look directly at the eye region of faces with expression, the subject could recognize fear expressions of faces.[17] Although the amygdala does play an important part in the recognition of fear, further research shows that there are alternate pathways that are capable to support fear learning in the absence of a functional amygdala.[18] A study by Kazama also shows that although the amygdala may be damaged, it is still possible for patients to distinguish the difference between safety cues and fear.[19]
Conditioned stimuliEdit
There has been a substantial amount of research done on conditioned stimuli, where a neutral stimulus, such as a flash of light, is paired with a shock is given to a rat. The result of this conditioned stimulus is to provoke the unconditioned response, fear. The once neutral stimulus is given again to see if the rat would show the responses of fear. However, because fear responses involve many behaviors, it is important to see which behaviors are exhibited when the conditioned stimulus is given.[5]
Visual and auditory stimuliEdit
Initially, the visual stimuli is first received by the visual thalamus and relayed to the amygdala for potential danger. The visual thalamus also relays the information to the visual cortex and is processed to see if the stimuli poses a potential threat. If so, this information is relayed to the amygdala and the muscle contraction, increased heart rate and blood pressure begins, thus activating the sympathetic neuronal pathway. A presentation of a neutral visual stimuli has been shown to intensify the percept of fear or suspense induced by a different channel of information, such as audition.[20] From Le Doux's research, it shows that sound stimuli are not directly relayed from the auditory thalamus to the central nucleus.[15]
The perception of fear is elicited by many different stimuli and involves the process described above in biochemical terms. Neural correlates of the interaction between language and visual information is well studied by Willems RM et al. The study consisted of observing how visual and linguistic information interact in the perception of emotion. A commom phenomena from film theory was borrowed which states that the presentation of a neutral visual scene intensifies the percept of fear or suspense induced by a different channel of information, such as language. This principle has been applied in a way in which the percept of fear was present and amplified in the presence of a neutral visual stimuli. The main idea is that the visual stimuli intensify the fearful content of the stimuli (ie. language) by subtly implying and concretizing what is described in the context (ie. sentence). Activation levels in the right anterior temporal pole were selectively increased and is believed to serve as a binding function of emotional information across domains such as visual and linguistic information.[21]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (2003). The Emotional Brain, Fear, and the Amygdala. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 23 (4/5): 727–38.
- ↑ Studying Brain Activity Could Aid Diagnosis Of Social Phobia. Monash University. January 19, 2006.
- ↑ Emotional Control Circuit Of Brain's Fear Response Discovered. Retrieved on May 14, 2008.
- ↑ Berdoy M, Webster J, Macdonald D (2000). Fatal Attraction in Rats Infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B267:1591-1594. PMID 11007336
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 (1992). The Role of the Amygdala in Fear and Anxiety. Annual Review of Neuroscience 15: 353–75.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 (2012). Fear conditioning can contribute to behavioral changes observed in a repeated stress model. Behavioural Brain Research.
- ↑ (2012). Enhanced Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation and Fear Memory in Btbd9 Mutant Mice. PLoS ONE 7 (4): e35518.
- ↑ (1997). Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala. Nature 390 (6660): 604–7.
- ↑ (2012). Neural substrates for the distinct effects of presynaptic group III metabotropic glutamate receptors on extinction of contextual fear conditioning in mice. Neuropharmacology.
- ↑ (1992). Extinction of Fear-potentiated Startle: Blockade by Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist into the Amygdala. The Journal of Neuroscience 12 (3): 854–63.
- ↑ (2012). Post-training unilateral amygdala lesions selectively impair contextual fear memories. Learning & Memory 19 (6): 256–63.
- ↑ (2007). Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: A cellular mechanism of fear learning and memory. Neuropharmacology 52 (1): 215–27.
- ↑ (2000). Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature 406 (6797): 722–6.
- ↑ (2005). A direct brainstem–amygdala–cortical 'alarm' system for subliminal signals of fear. NeuroImage 24 (1): 235–43.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 (1990). The Lateral Amygdaloid in Fear Conditioning Nucleus: Sensory Interface Amygdala in Fear Conditioning. The Journal of Neuroscience 10 (4): 1062–9.
- ↑ (1996). Facial Emotion Recognition after Bilateral Amygdala Damage: Differentially Severe Impairment of Fear. Cognitive Neuropsychology 13 (5): 699–745.
- ↑ (2005). A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage. Nature 433 (7021): 68–72.
- ↑ (1999). A Subcortical Pathway to the Right Amygdala Mediating 'Unseen' Fear. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (4): 1680–5.
- ↑ (2012). Effects of neonatal amygdala lesions on fear learning, conditioned inhibition, and extinction in adult macaques. Behavioral Neuroscience 126 (3): 392–403.
- ↑ (1997). Impaired auditory recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions. Nature 385 (6613): 254–7.
- ↑ (2010). Add a picture for suspense: Neural correlates of the interaction between language and visual information in the perception of fear. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 6 (4): 404–16.
Further readingEdit
Key textsEdit
- Funkenstein, D.H. (1955) The physiology of fear and anger, Scientific American, May.
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Novitsky lives in the San Francisco area with her husband and their two children, ages 9 and 10. In addition to her work with Big Tent, she teaches at the School of Engineering at Stanford University, is a former board member of the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, and volunteers extensively at her children's school. How does she do it all? She credits her husband, John. "He is my huge support system."
You have a degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University -- pretty different from venture, marketing, and entrepreneurship! Tell us about the career path that took you from engineering to Big Tent.
It's been a lot of years. From Industrial Engineering, I got a job in Europe and worked there for a couple of years, and then I went to business school in the Boston area. From there, I got a job working for Sun Microsystems. That actually is not an unusal job for an IE major, although they did call it "Imaginary Engineering!" IE, as it was taught at Stanford, had a lot of economics and finance and marketing, and a lot of different discussions in addition to the engineering side of it; it wasn't hardcore computer science, more like applying technology to real-world siutations.
I was at Sun for about six years, during really the high-growth age of the late '80s, and worked with a lot of great people. From there, I went to my own start-up, Clarify, an eneterprise software company. We didn't have a product, we didn't even had a demo -- we had a dream: $100 million and 500 employees and a public company over 7 years. It was truly living the silicon valley dream. I was married at the time, but had no kids -- we put all of our effort into that company! And then I had my son in 1998, our daughter 1999. It was time for a change; I needed a job with more flexibility so I could be a mom. I wanted to raise my own kids. But work was really important to me, it's a big part of who I am. At this point was when I tried to figure out how to balance. So, I changed jobs, went to work for Mohr, Davidow Venture as a venture partner. I was there for about 8 1/2 years. ...


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I am a photographer. In my search for found backdrops and interesting locations over the years, I have dissected Los Angeles. Over and over I look at the streets, the signs, the new and the old buildings. Every day I look for something I may have overlooked. In L.A., the beautiful and the ugly are spread out before you like an enormous garage sale. If you are curious about becoming a photographer, or you just like to take pictures, I'm writing this to remind you that you will never know your city. You will develop patterns, and like a well-behaved racehorse you will go round and round your designated track, but I want you to look sideways and upside down. I want you to find the secret life of the landscape of your city.
What surrounds the things you see affects your opinion of them. If the oranges were sold next to the bleach and the toilet paper in your supermarket you probably wouldn't want to eat the oranges. The oranges as an object would be redefined. Look at your city that way. Separate every building from its background in your mind and then see if that changes your viewpoint. Get closer and see if the details are different when you isolate them. Think about the light and the time of day—do the shadows change your world? Do your memories need to be included in the story or cast out?
I grew up in Los Feliz, where Mickey Mouse was born. There are many spooky forgotten spots here.
I find that I always go back to the places that I visited as a kid and as a teenager. I like to try to recapture my memories in some abstract way. I shot the observatory this way because it reminds me of the days my friends and I would ditch school and wander through the hills surrounding this building.
I went to Lake Tahoe with Kate and Laura Mulleavy (of Rodarte) and Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice. We stopped in Truckee on our way to the Donner Party museum. Kate and Laura are the best tour guides—they do massive research on any area we are visiting and a plan is quickly formed. We stop a lot along the way to our destinations. I recommend you always document the journey, not just the destination. When you are editing later, you may find that one photo along the way really helps explain the emotions you felt when you got there. The lace curtain in this little building behind the mortuary in Truckee helps express the feeling I had when I was walking around the Donner Party museum later that day. It is the kind of abstract connection that I am usually very drawn to in my storytelling.
I've worked with Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice separately for many years on various projects of theirs. They are partners in music and in life. Jenny and I really like the creating photos that look like scenes from a movie that was never made. This photo was taken from a kitchen window. I wanted it to feel voyeuristic. I wanted them to look like they thought they were alone. I wanted it to seem somewhat ominous. This is a colorful photo, so I intentionally looked for a mood that was dark and passionate to thread through it. Look for opposites when you shoot. It can be really interesting to try to transform the meaning of a location based on the way you direct your subject.
I used to hate palm trees and now I am completely fascinated by them. Growing up in L.A., I realized that all my memories of making out when I was a teenager have palm trees in the distance. Through a window, behind a parking lot, in a park. Try putting a personal memory into a photo that is the least noticed part of the photo. It can lead you to interesting places.
I photograph a lot of power lines. Power lines are like snowflakes. No two spots are exactly the same. Over the years I will have collected a lot of these photos. This is something that I photograph long term. What do you keep going back to? How will you chart your memories over the years?
I took this photo for a look book for Peter Jensen. I love red, white, and blue and find ways to combine those colors in a lot of my work. Megan is standing on a high stack of apple boxes. How does the angle you shoot affect the image of the person? How do your obsessions leak into your work?
This was for a fashion story for Paper magazine. Spider-Man was trying to get in my shot, or sabotage it, I'm not sure. I switched my focus to him, but kept Lucia large in the frame. Somehow this made it funny and dreamy at the same time. I love opposites—things that don't belong sometimes perfect the moment.
The orange in the distance made the foreground more beautiful to me. Strong color in a monochromatic setting is another thing I hunt for.
I found this sign and knew I had to shoot Beck there. Some people know how to complete an idea. If I give Beck a piece of the puzzle, he knows exactly where to put it. Try shooting all your friends, if they'll let you. You might find that one person really knows how to tie themselves to an abstract idea. Photographing someone for many years can lead to a creative shorthand that is very fulfilling. I have been shooting Beck for 15 years. He is a muse for me.
The details on this fountain bring back a lot of memories for me. I skinned my knee here when I was 7, I kissed a boy here when I was 19.
Ugly can be beautiful. Beautiful can be ugly. Bring your camera with you wherever you go.
This painting is what you see before the ride starts. I love this ride with all my heart. What is the one detail that reminds you of how you feel about a place? Does that feeling transform when you shoot it in black and white?
I took a Polaroid in 2000 of a mural that was near my old junior high. I showed it to the singer-songwriter Elliott Smith and we decided to shoot there. It became the cover of his album Figure 8. The funny thing is that for years I used to pass that mural every day and think, That is the ugliest mural I have ever seen in my life. It was next to a McDonald's where the kids in my school that were in gangs would meet to fight off-campus. That was where the showdowns were, especially the girl fights. They were bloody and brutal. Next to this bloodbath over burgers was a stereo repair shop with this obnoxious mural painted over the entire wall. The whole block looked like hell. Over time I started to become obsessed with it. I couldn't explain why, but I felt compelled to show it to Elliott. Maybe the brutality of the fights I witnessed next door snuck into the story of that photo. Something was so wrong that eventually it was right.
Autumn de Wilde is know for her documentary and portrait work in music, fashion, and film. Her fourth book, BECK, comes out next month from Chronicle Books.
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Tavi – I could watch an endless amount of documentaries on the subjects that I'm obsessed with, so I think I might like hearing about people's process too (Geek like you <3).


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Public safety agencies find themselves in the center of a digital storm that will disrupt every aspect of their operations. The question is whether they will emerge stronger–or significantly weakened–as a result.
The technology capabilities of citizens and criminals are increasing at an unprecedented pace. Some agencies have made significant advances with emerging technologies such as analytics, but most are struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation and relentless impact of digital disruption.
But the temperature is rising - public safety agencies can no longer delay embracing emerging technologies. Inactivity and hesitation risks not only giving criminals the upper hand, but also reducing levels of citizen engagement and satisfaction.
This bold industry paper draws on Accenture's 2016 Public Service Emerging Technologies research to explore the opportunities for public safety agencies to embrace digital to disrupt their operations or risk being disrupted themselves.
Public safety agencies can only meet their current challenges by weaving people, processes and emerging technology together.
A majority of public safety agencies are aware of emerging technologies and ready to makes changes to accommodate them. Far fewer, however, have made the workforce changes needed to implement the technologies.
The current generation of emerging technologies promises to liberate rather than displace. For example, much policing work remains manual, and the next waves of technology automation (eventually powered by artificial intelligence) will streamline case management and investigative processes. Analytics can enable the rapid provision of actionable information about individuals to officers on the street. Robotics, can not only help with case processing but also provide information and support to citizens. And emergent technologies such as blockchain have the potential to transformation the security of transactions and evidence continuity.
This may sound futuristic but some public safety agencies are actively piloting emerging technologies already.
West Midlands Police in the U.K. use analytics to analyze information to better predict risk and threats and take action accordingly.
The use of video analytics and automation technology by France's National Police Force has been used to enhance safety at major events.
Advanced analytics have been trialed in Singapore to help manage public safety in large crowds and respond to incidents in real time.
Wearables and embedded sensors are enabling real-time monitoring of incidents in San Francisco where firearm violence has reduced by 35% since streetlight sensors were deployed.
Community policing can be greatly enhanced by emerging technologies.
Public safety agencies told us that achieving an improvement in citizen engagement is a key expected benefit of investing in analytics or other emerging technologies. In addition to helping prevent crime, advanced analytics can help police officers understand citizens' needs and expectations. Effective use of mobile technology, social media tools and citizen portals can expand communication channels and enable greater citizen cooperation in policing.
All of this helps to reduce not only crime but also the fear of crime.
When public safety technological innovation projects flounder, legacy systems often get the blame. Indeed, public safety agencies across the globe cite legacy as the dominant barrier to the implementation of emerging technologies. Platform and data-sharing technologies, however, have advanced to the stage where legacy systems are no longer a barrier for using advanced analytics, mobile and other emerging technologies. The value of legacy systems is largely in the data they contain. And now, it can be extracted, stored in a data warehouse or moved to the cloud to be readily searched.
Cultural resistance to change is a genuine impediment to innovation, but it too can be overcome. One way is by leveraging external assistance. For example, partnerships with universities, research institutes and the private sector can bring outside expertise to bear in solving technology-related problems. Accenture's Innovation and Integration Partnership with the West Midlands Police in the U.K. is one such example. Similarly, Accenture's Analytical Innovation Lab in Singapore acts as a hub for public safety agencies to master emerging technologies and connect with other experts from around the world.
Agencies can also call on online communities to help solve what to technologists are extremely interesting public safety challenges. Seattle police recently conducted a public hackathon to work out how to redact video streams from officers' body-cameras. Israel's National Crime Unit took part in a similar event, bringing together more than 100 officers, security and technology experts to devise solutions to cybercrime.
More targeted recruiting and development of people is another way to support cultural change. Young tech-savvy specialists are often interested in the exciting challenge and mission with purpose that public safety offers. Agencies must adjust to a world of fluid talent recruitment and devise flexible employment models to attract and retain the right people.
Public safety agencies do need to understand emerging technologies and how they can be applied, but they do not necessarily need to be ahead of the adoption curve. With restricted budgets and limited scope for taking risks, agencies can be "fast followers" – leaning from early adopters in all sectors and adapting their implementation approaches accordingly.


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It's not business as usual at Saturday's Fayette Fall Fest. This year's 12th edition has some new features to draw the interest of visitors.
Need to get rid of some frustrations? Head for the parking area next to Fayette Auto Parts, pick up a sledge hammer and let loose on an old car. The Volley for a Cure group is using a "car bash" to raise funds for the fight against breast cancer.
What's a town festival without a corn hole tournament? It's become a popular event at several area festivals and the Fall Fest is joining in. It's a simple game that most anyone can play, although it's also taken very seriously by some people, noted Amy Mitchell of the festival committee.
The tournament is scheduled on Fayette Street by the supermarket.
There's been a street dance in the past, Mitchell said, but this year it's moving inside to the American Legion. Sponsored by the Fayette Firefighter Explorers, the dance is scheduled from 8 to 11 p.m.
It's been a few years since carnival rides were offered at the Fall Fest, but they're back this year—well, sort of. The arrangements were made late and the rides won't be part of the downtown festival. Instead, they will be set up inside the running track.
The carnival owner might also bring some game trailers.
The car and truck show is back in the Methodist Church parking lot after missing last year, and several other events are back for their annual appearance.
The Legion and fire department members will work together on a pancake and sausage breakfast served from 7 to 11 a.m. at the fire hall. The firemen's annual chicken barbecue will begin at noon.
A pie baking contest will feature apple, pumpkin and pecan. Entries must be turned in by 10 a.m. Saturday.
On the food front, members of the Fayette Christian Church will sponsor their annual bake sale. Members of the Church of the Nazarene will bring back their booth for caramel corn, caramel apples and Hawaiian ice.
Also look for Don Stiriz's bean and ham soup, the Fine Arts Council's sausage and hamburgers, the Lion's Club milkshakes and food from Amigo's Pizza and the Buckboard Inn.
The younger set will want to visit Kiddieland next to D&R Hardware, operated by the FFA Club.
For entertainment, performances are scheduled on the Village Green by Phyllis Page, Steve and Tina Snider and "Big Al" the singing DJ. Pies from the baking contest will be sold at auction on the Green.
Visitors will be able to shop from a large selection of crafts, flea market items, produce and fall flowers.


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The Holland Jazz Orchestra, Hope College Jazz Arts Collective and Hope College Mainstream Ensemble will perform in concert with composer-in-residence John Cooper and vocalist Edye Hyde at Hope on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
John Cooper's "Baecker Jazz Worship Service" is a work for jazz orchestra and vocalist in seven movements. The movements include "In the beginning," "Gospel: John 21," "St. Anthony's Light: Hymn," "Offertory," "Doxology," "Communion" and "This Little Light of Mine." The line-up includes a wide variety of styles from New Orleans strut to modern swing.
John Cooper is director of jazz studies at Western Illinois University as well as a member of the Hopper Faculty Jazzlet. Cooper began his musical career by completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Wayne State University in jazz studies and then obtained his master's degree in music composition from Bowling Green State University. Cooper is an active composer/arranger and bandleader as well as a published reviewer of new music for the International Association of Jazz Educators. He has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to present jazz concerts at Western Illinois University and is a trumpet artist/clinician for Conn-Selmer.
Edye Evans Hyde, an instructor of vocal jazz at Hope, has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more than 20 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education, has taught K-12 vocal music and has served as the assistant director of admissions at Grand Rapids Community College. Edye has shared the stage with world renowned blues singer Linda Hopkins, pop singer Michael Bolton, actress Connie Stevens, the late Ray Charles and Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. She has also appeared with The Grand Rapids Symphony and The West Shore Symphony performing songs from her acclaimed CDs, "Girl Talk" and "Lady with A Song." Her stage performances have included principle roles in "Dream Girls," "Ain't Misbehavin'" and more, and she plays Ms Lucy in the West Michigan-produced children's television show "Come On Over!"
The Holland Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to the performance of the great jazz ensemble repertoire both historic and contemporary. The group is comprised of professional, semi-professional and community members. The music director is Brian Coyle, who is director of jazz studies and chair of the department of music at Hope, and the manager is Paul Wesselink.
The Hope College Jazz Arts Collective is the premier large jazz ensemble at Hope College. Directed by Coyle, the collective places a creative focus on ensemble communication and improvisation. Comprised of a rhythm section and flexible wind instrumentation, the select group performs compositions and arrangements from across the full spectrum of music. The collective's repertoire ranges from the great historical jazz composers such as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, to works by modern jazz masters like Vince Mendoza, Jim McNeely and John Hollenbeck. The group also frequently performs commissions, works by emerging young composers, and originals by Hope College faculty and students. The ensemble also collectively reinterprets and re-imagines the music from the 20th century classical repertoire.
The Mainstream Ensemble is one of six jazz chamber ensembles at Hope. The ensemble has recorded four CDs, with its fifth scheduled for release on Friday, Oct. 15. Under the leadership of Rob Hodson, associate professor of music, the group recently had a successful concert tour of Japan, with performances at Meiji Gakuin University, Ferris University and an Alumni Association-sponsored event at Miles' Cafe in Ikebukuro, which is in the center of Tokyo.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Commonwealth Games 2018: The closing ceremony
Yes, Kurt Fearnley carried the flag and athletes did attend the closing ceremony. For a while.
Hindsight is a wonderful things and after social media lit up with criticism, organisers have apologised for a "stuff-up".
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation, Peter Beattie admitted speeches were "too many and too long" in the ceremony on Sunday night, and said he should not have talked at all during the event.
"Did we stuff it up? Yes. Should [athletes] have been a part of the actual ceremony that was broadcast? Of course. We got it wrong. I can't be more honest about it than that," Mr Beattie said on breakfast TV the morning after.
Mr Beattie appeared on Seven's Sunrise program on Monday to apologise, having issued tweets earlier in the day.
"The reality was that the athletes came in as part of the preshow, but that wasn't shared with viewers," he said.
"That was clearly a stuff-up. I am sorry, and if I get a chance, I will apologise to Kurt this morning."


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By Clark Groome
Richard Hart was the only lawman within 300 miles of Homer, Nebraska. He was widely respected, so much so that when President Calvin Coolidge was going to visit, "Two Gun," as he was known, was invited to be one of his bodyguards.
But Hart had a past that he wanted to forget. Born in Brooklyn to an Italian family, he left to take up his role as a lawman in what was then a still wild part of the Midwest.
When Al Brown, a self-described antiques dealer from Baltimore, drives his state-of-the-art Duesenberg to Nebraska to see Hart, much of both of their secrets is revealed.
Their encounter makes up local playwright Bruce Graham's latest, "Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown," which is getting a strong world premiere production at Malvern's People's Light and Theatre Company, where it will play through Aug. 19.
The play is set in a historian's study in the mid-1960s with flashbacks to the action outside of Homer in 1929. I have to be careful here because there are some plot twists and surprises that can't be revealed without spoiling the play's impact.
"Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown" takes a while to get going. The historian (Peter DeLaurier) is telling a visiting Ph.D. candidate about what happened more than a quarter century before. We see the interaction between and among Hart (Christopher Patrick Mullen), Brown (Richard Ruiz) and Ambrose Healy (Michael Doherty), a young reporter whose commitment to the truth and determination to tell Hart and Brown's story almost gets him killed.
The PLT production is mounted on a fine Matt Saunders set that also serves as a screen for the historic and classic western movies that the local historian so loves and which play a part in the story. Many of those movies starred William Hart, the man after whom Two Gun legally changed his name.
Director Pete Pryor has staged the piece with a steady hand. The other members of his design team — Scott Anderson (costumes), Lily Fossner (lighting) and Christopher Colucci (sound) — do admirable work.
The play itself, like so much of Graham's work, captures its characters in a most believable way, even in those moments when what they're doing and saying is somewhat hard to believe. The story is based on the real-life relationship between Hart and Brown. It is an ultimately impressive investigation of the relationship between violence and reason. It also takes a look at just what the true meaning of being part of a family is.
The acting is, for the most part, quite strong. DeLaurier was superb. Ruiz, Doherty and Mullen were all very good in spite of the few occasions when their acting was just a bit overwrought.
For tickets to the world premiere of Bruce Graham's "Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown," playing through Aug. 19 at People's Light and Theatre Company in Malvern, call 610-644-3500 or visit www.peopleslight.org


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10 Ways To Treat Sweaty Hands And FeetMarch 27, 2017 18:13
The hottest season of the year is here and it is a challenging time for those, who have a problem of sweaty hands and feet. This makes something as simple as shaking hands with someone a huge embarrassment.
If you are looking for ways to deal with the sweating problem, here are few effective home remedies, you must try.
1. Baking Soda
Baking soda is alkaline in nature and it can prove to be an effective remedy for sweaty hands and feet.
Mix 2 to 3 tablespoons of baking soda in warm water and dip your hands/feet for about 20 to 30 minutes. Keep rubbing them with the solution. Afterwards, pat them dry.
2. Rose Water
You can purchase organic rosewater from stores or make your own rose water by boiling rose petals in water and straining it.
Use a cotton swab to apply the rose water on your palms and feet. It has a cooling impact on your skin.
3. Cold Water
It is the simplest way, you just dip your sweaty hands and feet in cold water for 15 to 20 minutes in a day. This will relieve the problem to a great extent.
4. Talcum/Cornstarch Powder
Both Talcum and Corn starch work in the similar way as they help keep your skin dry. Just dust them on your palms and feet.
Try to use non-perfumed talcum powder, as it is better and more natural, making it safe for frequent usage.
5. Lemon
Lemon can be used in three ways to control the problem of sweaty hands and feet.
1.Take lemon and orange peels and dry them. After they turn hard and brittle, powder them. Dust the powder on your hands and feet. Store the powder in an airtight container.
2.Mix lemon juice with vodka and rub it on your hands. Leave it for 15 to 20 minutes and then wash it away.
3.Mix lemon juice with salt and rub it on your hands. After it gets dry, wash it away.
6. Tea Bags
Tea bags can also used to rinse or wipe sweaty hands and feet to control the problem. Alternatively, put 3 to 4 black tea bags in hot water and soak your palms or feet in it every day for 30 minutes.
7. Apple Cider Vinegar
Apply apple cider vinegar on your hands and feet and leave it to dry. Then, wash it away with water. It keeps the skin pores tight and helps to lessen sweating. Do it every day.
8. Sandalwood Powder
Sandalwood paste has always been used by people on their foreheads to keep it cool. It is known to lessen perspiration and due to this property, it is an effective remedy for sweaty palms and feet.
Mix the powder with water, lime juice or rosewater. Apply it on the sweaty patches, let it dry and wash it off.
9. Tomato Juice
Drink tomato juice every day or dip your hands/feet in tomato juice, as it has a cooling impact on the body. Tomato juice also contains sodium, which helps to keep the palms and feet dry.
10. Potato
Take potato slices and rub them against your sweaty hands and feet. Let the juice stay for some time and after that, wash it away.


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CHICO — Four of the seven seats for City Council are up for a vote this year.
Ann Schwab and Bob Evans are seeking re-election. Current City Councilors Andy Holcombe and Jim Walker have chosen not to run for another term.
The Chico Enterprise-Record editorial board sat down with the 11 candidates last month, questioning each for 30 minutes.
All candidates said pension reform was important to trim the city"s long-term budget. Other areas of common ground included keeping the budget lean during tough economic times and appreciation for the town overall.
Profiles of the 11 candidates based on those interviews begin today in the Enterprise-Record. One or more will run — in alphabetical order — each day for the next several days, as space is available.
To listen to the entire 30-minute interviews, go to http://www.chicoer.com/election. These profiles will also be posted there.


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Inman Announces the Signing of Three Touted Athletes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Head coach Larry Inman sports two three-star athletes and a two-star post player for his Lady Tigers' 2018 class. Tia Wooten (Memphis), Michelle Cox (Denver, Colo.) and Samantha Palma (Dayton, Ohio) will add to the future of TSU women's basketball.
"This is another piece to the puzzle," said coach Inman. "We have added more depth to some positions and it allows us an opportunity to grow as a program."
Wooten has been a big part of Memphis Central High School success. She has guided MCHS to three consecutive Tennessee State Championships, including the title as a freshman in 2011. Wooten has been given an 85 scout grade and is a three-star athlete who has been ranked 72nd in the country at her position. The 5-11 wing/post player played her AAU ball for the Memphis Elite and is currently with the Memphis Elite.
"Tia could be regarded as the Memphis player of the year," Inman said. "She is a great athlete and a great player. We are very fortunate to get her. She is coming off an injury, but they are expecting great things out of her this year. And we expect great things in her four years at TSU."
Cox is a three-star athlete with an 83 scout grade who is ranked 99th at the point guard position. Cox guided Denver East High School to a 20-5 record and a perfect 8-0 conference record as she averaged 9.0 points per game and 5.7 assists. The 5-8 guard tallied 18 points with six assists and eight rebounds in the Colorado State Tournament's round of 32. Denver East was eliminated in the sweet-16 as Cox scored nine points with six assists and three rebounds. She will complete her high school career at Highlands Ranch High School.
"Michelle is a true point guard and will give us a little more size at the point," Inman said. "Despite being a bigger guard, she is still extremely quick. If you look at her accolades as a player, she's one of the most outstanding players in that part of the country. She is a good shooter, passer and an excellent student. She brings a lot of promise to our program."
Palma is the 58th ranked post and a 78 scout grade. The two-star athlete plays for Wayne High School, as well as the Dayton Lady Hoopsters. Palma's competed in 22 games, starting in 15, as a sophomore at WHS and averaged 4.1 points per game, 5.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. Her top performance came against Sydney High School as she recorded her first double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds, while swatting away five attempts. Palma's numbers increased during her junior campaign averaging 11.7 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game. The 6-2 post player registered seven double-doubles and highlighted her season with a 24 point, 15 assist and eight block performance in December of 2012.
"Sam is a 6-2 post player who can run and jump," said Inman. "She can even handle the ball for someone her size. She is an outstanding who fits our needs. We need help in the post area and she brings all the tools needed."
Inman's second signing class will join his first class of seven for the 2014-15 season. The two groups are part of the vision of creating an Ohio Valley Conference Championship contender.
"The problem is, we will still be young," Inman commented. "It will take a little time and some development to get where we want to go."