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No Burger Bliss at Bohemia Bagel in Prague, But At Least the Fries Are Good
Editor's note: Today's burger review comes from AHT reader Lizy Yagoda, a junior at Vassar College who is currently studying abroad in Prague. When she's not hitting the books, she's scoping out the burger scene. Will she find a decent burger? You can follow her Prague adventures at her blog, An American in Praha.
Bohemia Bagel
Masná 2, 11000 Praha 1, Czech Republic (map); 224 812 560; bohemiabagel.cz
Short Order: Passable burger, however dry and bland. Bacon and cheese a must
Want Fries with That? Yes. And please figure out what that spice is for me!
Prices: Hamburger, 135kc (approx. $6.75); cheeseburger, 145kc ($7.25); bacon cheeseburger, 155kc ($7.75)
Notes: Mon. to Fri., 7 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sat. to Sun., 8 a.m. -11 p.m.
In honor of Obama's recent inauguration, I decided to begin my burger tour of Prague. I had surprised my friends and family by deciding to spend the spring of my junior year in Prague—not so much because of the language barrier or the remnants of communism, but because of the assumption of the lack of decent burgers. Although I had prepared myself to spend four months without a decent burger, my recently bolstered patriotism inspired me to find the taste of America.
After one of my Czech classes last week, I set out for Bohemia Bagel with two classmates. Bohemia Bagel was founded in 1996 because, according to the website, "[the founders] had a feeling that more health-conscious offerings would appeal to the Czech people and would be appreciated by the huge influx of tourists arriving in the 'Golden City' after the Velvet Revolution of 1989." Walking in, I heard the familiar sounds of unaccented English; the shop was filled with Americans. According to my companions, this was the only place in the city where one could get a decent bagel. If Bohemia Bagel could make a good bagel, a feat unachieved in many American restaurants, I imagined they would serve a passable burger. Bohemia Bagel also seems to pride itself on its burgers, with posters claiming they serve the best burger in Prague.
Bohemia Bagel offered three options: a hamburger, a cheeseburger, and a bacon cheeseburger. The menu made note of the use of American cheese, which set my burger senses tingling. The burger comes with a side of salad or french fries. In keeping with my renewed faith in America, I chose fries. I was not, however, asked how I would like the burger done. Oh no. While I am rarely asked how I want my burger done at any establishment, it did not bode well.
The Patty
The patty was basically flavorless. It had obviously been frozen at some point in its tragic life, and now had been cooked through and through, sapping all the innate beefiness that a burger should possess. This poor slab of ground beef had been killed twice. It did have a nice char though, which provided its only flavor.
I always prefer my burgers done rare—I will often ask it to be cooked the shortest time allowed by law. So, naturally, I was disappointed by the lack of pink. It was even more distressing that the disk was dry and uniformly gray.
I returned to Bohemia Bagel a few days later and noticed another patron who had ordered a burger. After she took a bite, I saw that her burger had been cooked to medium rare. I felt surprised and betrayed. Should I have specified the degree to which I wanted my burger cooked, or was their method of cooking extremely varied?
The Bun
The bun was quite good; it tasted flavorful and fresh. When the burger first arrived, I noticed how tall and fluffy the bun was, but it squished down quite easily and delightfully. My only qualm was that it seemed to be a bit too toasted, which, combined with the dry patty, created a stacked sandwich rather than a burger.
I ordered my burger with American cheese and bacon. The burger also came with lettuce, onions, and tomatoes. Now, I hate tomatoes more that any food in the world—it's something about the texture. As soon as I got my burger, I removed the tomatoes. Or so I thought. When I took my first bite, I felt something liquidy spill out the back of the bun. In a moment of hope, I imagined beef juices seeping out of the burger, soaking the bun. But no; it was the leftover tomato water. That water and the water from the lettuce (which really should have been patted down) provided the only moisture in the burger.
The thick, flavorful, and chewy bacon was incredibly awesome. It sat between the patty and the cheese, which made the bacon even more succulent. However, the distance between the cheese and burger deprived the patty of even more taste.
While I was initially put off by the excessive salt in my fries, I soon noticed a subtler layering of flavors that made the fries memorably good. When I asked what they were flavored with, I was told it was simply salt and pepper, but I suspect there was a main spice that I just couldn't place.
Final Notes
Walking away from Bohemia Bagel, I was struck by how decidedly average the burger was, reminiscent of what I might get at a college dining hall. My companions enjoyed their meals (a breakfast sandwich on a bagel and a chicken Caesar sandwich on a bagel). It seems that the presence of a burger on the menu was simply to cater to the ex-pat clientele.
When I returned another time, looking for a quick bite before a tour, I ordered a bagel with butter. It was far better than the burger. While I may not have found a burger to satisfy my desires, I at least found a lovely bagel place.
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Emilia E. Bloms
Emilia E. Bloms, 89, Minot, passed away Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 at Trinity Homes, Minot, N.D.
Emilia Elizabeth Kraft was born April 16, 1923, in Karlsruhe, N.D., to Fred and Agnes (Niess) Kraft. She was raised and attended school in Karlsruhe.
Emilia married Arnold Bloms on July 31, 1945, at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Karlsruhe, N.D. Following their marriage they made their home in Minot, where they raised their family.
After their children grew up, Emilia was employed at the Elks Lodge in Minot for 19 years, where she was a fabulous cook. Her husband Arnold passed away on March 11, 1991.
Emilia was a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Minot. She enjoyed baking, doing embroidery, gardening and playing cards. She enjoyed watching the Lawrence Welk Show and All-Star Wrestling and the Minnesota Twins on television. She especially loved spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Those who shared in her life were children, Pat (Blaine) Erie, Mesa, Ariz., Kathy (Tim) Meuth, Watford City, N.D., Roger Bloms, Frederick, Colo., Jan (Rick) Lawrence, Scranton, Pa., Pam (Paul) Slauter and Sandy (Tim Ryan) Bloms, all of Minot; nine grandchildren, Brian (Lora) Erie, Paula Erie and her fiancé, Dale Kuefler, Jenny (Paul) DeBoer, Patrick (Wendy) Meuth, Sarah Bloms, Jed Bloms, Hannah Bloms, Chris Slauter and Katie (Nick) Kondos; seven great-grandchildren, sisters-in-law, Irene Bloms and Florence Bloms, both of Minot; numerous nieces and nephews also survive.
Emilia was preceded in death by her husband, Arnold; son, Timothy; sisters, Catherine Strong, Barbara Volk, Anna Black, Mary McCutcheon and Agnes Kraft; brothers, Fred and Paul Kraft.
Funeral: Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Minot.
Vigil Prayer service: Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. at Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot.
Visitation: Sunday, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Thompson-Larson Funeral Home.
Memorials are preferred to Bishop Ryan Catholic Schools, or Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Food Pantry, both in Minot.
Those wishing to sign the online guest register or share memories of Emilia may access the online obituaries at http://www.thompsonlarson.com/

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Madonna brings darkness and light to sold-out show at Toyota Center
Much has been made in recent weeks about the dark side, so to speak, of Madonna's MDNA Tour. And indeed, there are some bare, brutal moments in the two-hour show. The first segment, which includes new tunes "Girl Gone Wild" and "Gang Bang," finds her obliterating a group of masked assassins with a fake firearm, blood splattering across the huge screen backdrop.
"Bang, bang/Shot you dead/And I have no regret," she whispered above the droning beat. The high-def bloodbath drew several cheers from Wednesday's sold-out crowd at Toyota Center. (There are still some tickets available for tonight's show.)
And there's more. She's political! She does too many new songs! She supports gay rights! And feminist punk band Pussy Riot!
"What's the matter, you don't like my ass?" Madonna asked after a striptease to "Human Nature" revealed "Obama" stamped across the small of her back and drew a smattering of boos. (Cheers eventually won out.)
"Don't take democracy for granted," she told the crowd. "I keep saying this, and I'm gonna say this everywhere I go. We need to appreciate what we have. I don't care who you vote for. Just vote."
But most unforgivable (at least to those who haven't attended a single show) is the start time. Madonna took the stage around 10:45 p.m. Late, to be sure, but hardly unusual if you've seen her on recent tours. DJ/producer Martin Solveig opened the show and was joined by David, Madonna's youngest son. Few people seemed to mind the wait.
In fact, it was fun to watch the parade of pre-show fashions: pink and purple wigs, "Virgin"-era bangles and bows, feathered headdresses, leather harnesses, even sequined football shoulder pads. There were sparkles and tight pants and lots of makeup (much of it on the boys). More than 2 million fans will have seen the tour by the time it wraps in South America, and the party atmosphere only adds to the luster.
The show opened amid a swirl of smoke and chants, dancers dressed as monks and gargoyles congregating around a giant thurible. Madonna appeared, gun in tow, moving to the slinky electro strains of "Girl Gone Wild." Risers went up and down. Images flashed on the screen. And then, the violence, which segued into an equally ominous segment featuring "Papa Don't Preach" and "Hung Up." But it was less real-life and more Russ Myers, with Madonna as the perfectly coiffed heroine/villainess in leather.
She looked fit and danced hard, often in heels, through almost every number. The show is designed to pop at every angle, with almost no lag time between numbers. A harrowing video montage set to "Nobody Knows Me" (from the "American Life" album) featured dedications to gay teens driven to suicide by bullying, including Asher Brown, who attended Hamilton Middle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.
Plenty of lesser pop tarts have passed through the same venue, but none wield Madonna's nervy mix of confidence, charisma and attitude.
In many ways, the MDNA Tour is a study in contrasts. The feverish opening gave way to a jubilant, joyous sequence that included a clever mash-up of Madonna's "Express Yourself" and "She's Not Me" with Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." (Cattiness is a diva prerequisite, especially with such an obvious swipe.) Majorette Madonna was joined by a thundering drum corps, onstage and suspended in mid-air, during "Give Me All Your Luvin,'" and it was impossible not to be swept up in the exquisite staging.
Basque folk trio Kalakan brought a gypsy flair to "Open Your Heart," which featured a cameo from Madonna's 12-year-old son Rocco; and "Masterpiece," the show's only true ballad, was a heartfelt highlight. "Vogue," still pop perfection, was left virtually untouched. But "Like a Virgin" was reworked into a mournful waltz.
The final stretch was full-on pop majesty, from the thundering disco of "I'm Addicted" to the house-lights-up, tent-revival-frenzy, thousand-voice-chorus of "Like a Prayer." Show closer "Celebration" was just that – a fizzy cap to an evening of love, death, redemption and free-to-be expression.


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Mr. Deity! I'm an ExMormon too - got fully emancipated from the cult late 2011. And it's so nice to see you here. :D
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Madelin Talbert
|Charlotte, N.C. (South Mecklenburg HS)
|Elementary Education
2015 Track and Field: Finished fourth in the 3000m Steeplechase at the NCAA East National Prelims with a time of 9:50.57...Placed 13th in the nation in the 3000m Steeplechase after posting a mark of 10:14.25 at the National Finals...Ran a time of 17:10.34 in the 5000m at the NCAA East National Prelims to finish 44th...Was the conference champion in the 5000m at both the Indoor and Outdoor A-Sun Championships after posting times of 16:48.27 and 16:37.40...Also conference champion in the 3000m Steeplechase at the Outdoor Championships after running 10:00.01...Named the Outstanding Performer at the Outdoor Championships...Placed second in the 3000m at the Indoor CHampionships with a time of 9:42.31...Earned three A-Sun Runner of the Week honors...Won the 3000m Steeplechase at the Alabama Relays with a mark of 10:35.25...Finished 8th at the Mt. Sac Relays with a time of 16:20.52 in the 5000m...
2014 Cross Country: Won the A-Sun Cross Country Championship with a mark of 17:36.0...Named the A-Sun Runner of the Year...Finished 16th at the NCAA South Regionals with a time of 20:20.5...Earned three A-Sun Runner of the Week awards over the course of the season...Posted a time of 17:19.1 and finished 12th at the Greater Louisville Classic...Ran a 21:21.0 in the 6K at the ISU Pre-National Invite, placing 33rd in a deep field...
2014 Track and Field: Placed third at the Samford Multi and Invitational in the 5000m (17:25.96)… Finished third at Hoosier Hills in the 4x4 (4:07.85) and second in the 3000m (9:58.82)… Finished second in the distance medley relay at the Atlantic Sun Indoor Championships with a time of 12:01.15 and second in the 3000m with a time of 9:48.98, posting a personal best... Finished first at the Rhodes Open in the 4x800-meter relay (9:32.86) and third in the 800 meters (2:19.63)… Took home first at the Shamrock Invitational in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:29.26… Won the 1500 meters at the Georgia Invitational (4:32.02)… Won the 5000 meters (16:58.24) and the 3000-meter steeplechase (10:28.76) at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships… Picked up personal bests in the 800 meters (2:16.84), 1500 meters (4:28.26), and the 5000 meters (16:39.88).
2013 Cross Country: Competed in seven cross countries races for the Lady Bisons... Placed seventh in the 5K finishing in 18:24.1s... Won third place at the Erik Anderson/Runners Soul XC Invitational locking in a time of 21:46.1s... Closed in a time of 18:13.7s to take sixth in the 5000K claiming a sixth-place victory.
2013 Track and Field: Collected two first-place victories during the indoor season, both in the distance medley relay finishing with times of 11:55.41s and 11:42.47s... Garnered a third-place standing in the 800m after posting her personal best-time of 2:18.32s... Picked up a third-place finish in the DMR during the Atlantic Sun Indoor Track and Field Championships crossing the line in 12:02.76s... Finished third in the mile at the A-Sun Indoor Championships locking in a time of 4:54.66s, her personal record in the mile... Took home second at the UNF Spring Break Invitational in the 1500m closing in a time of 4:41.54s... Collected a personal-best time in the 1500m during the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invite posting a time of 4:37.95s... Capped a personal best in the 5000m with a time of 16:49.54s at the Raleigh Relays... Placed first at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships in the 3000m steeplechase completing the race in 10:31.12s... Also at the A-Sun championships she took home second in the 5000m finishing in 17:34.81s... Qualified for the NCAA Division I National Championships with her time of 10:11.21s in the 3000m steeplechase, which also marked a personal record in the event.
2012 Cross Country: Second Team All-Atlantic Sun after finishing 11th in 17:59.70 at the A-Sun Championships… Helped Lipscomb secure a second-straight Atlantic Sun Championship… Named to A-Sun All-Freshman Team… Placed fifth at season-opening FGCU Invite in 18:26.90… Placed 60th at Toledo BubbleBuster in 14:14.30… Finished 33rd at Crimson Classic in 18:34.41… Placed 66th at NCAA South Regional in 21:36.60…
High School: Ran for Mame Emmrich at South Mecklenbug High School… All-State Cross Country in 2011… All-Region Cross Country 2008, 2010, 2011… Four-year letter winner in cross country… Three-time letter winner in track… Member of National Honor Society…
Personal: Daughter of Kathleen and Mark Talbert… Plans to major in Elementary Education…


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Hugh Aderholt dropped out of high school without his parents� permission in 1943 and tried to join the Merchant Marines but was denied. His second choice? The Army.
Hugh Aderholt spent nearly 15 months as a German prisoner of war.
�They didn�t beat us too bad as long as we worked hard,� said Aderholt, 88, of Morehead City.
Possible imprisonment was never even a thought in the months leading up to his deployment to Italy during the height of the World War II � and especially not when he first enlisted.
Aderholt dropped out of high school without his parents� permission in 1943 and tried to join the Merchant Marines but was denied. His second choice? The Army.
�The training was pretty rough,� Aderholt said. �It was six days a week and it rained a lot. (But) I�d rather go through it 100 times over than be a prisoner of war again.�
In August of 1943 Aderholt graduated infantry training and was immediately put on a ship that took him to Casablanca. He then was shipped across North Africa in a box car for nine days before being sent to Naples, Italy.
�We got there on a Sunday,� Aderholt said. �That night the Germans bombed us. You should hear those dang things. It was scary to hear them things coming down on you just screaming. You never knew where they was gonna land.�
After two weeks he joined his unit, the 34th �Red Bull� Division and participated in the battle of Monte Cassino.
�We marched into the city single file as the U.S. was shelling them,� Aderholt said. �It looked like the town was on fire. It was truly something amazing to see. Everything we had was being fired on that village.�
While searching a house a tank fired two main gun rounds through the wall. Aderholt and five others took cover in a bunker waiting for more incoming rounds. That was when the Germans found him.
�They took us to a house in the country and made us sleep in a shed full of hay,� Aderholt said. �Then we moved to a prison camp outside of Florence for a month.�
Over the course of his imprisonment he would stay at many different camps. As the Americans got closer, they uprooted the prisoners and moved to different locations, said Aderholt.
�We walked for two and a half months sleeping in sheep barns and fields,� Aderholt said. �We crossed from Germany into Belgium and a lot of guys got sick and died. We were skin and bones � everyone lost a lot of weight.
�It was the worst time of my life.�
But then in April 1945 the Americans got too close, and the Germans abandoned the U.S. prisoners and ran away.
�We just stood there and didn�t know what to do,� Aderholt said. �It felt so good to be liberated and to be free again. When the Americans finally picked us up and put us in the back of a tractor trailer it finally hit me � I was free.�
It was the first time in more than a year that he knew he was going to make it home, he said.
�It was not a good feeling being stuck behind barbed wire. and I was glad that feeling is behind me,� Aderholt said. �That was a tough war, old World War II.
�Good Lord, almighty, it was a hell of a war.�
The Daily News is looking for World War II veterans who would like to share their story. If you or someone you know served in World War II, contact Military Reporter Thomas Brennan at 910-219-8453 or email@example.com . Follow him on Twitter @ thomasjbrennan.


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I'll take it easy on you today. Some might not find this video very punishing. Then again, we are talking about Pilates, which is about as boring as watching flies screwing on a windowsill.
I clicked out at 0:20. It's only 1:15, but how much can you take?
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Ford's solar-powered electric car takes transportation off the grid – Quartz.
One day I hope to have a car that is 100% electric. But who knows, maybe eventually I'll even be able to be 100% off of the power grid.
Ford's solar-powered electric car takes transportation off the grid – Quartz.
One day I hope to have a car that is 100% electric. But who knows, maybe eventually I'll even be able to be 100% off of the power grid.
Show me a case where a toll highway, tunnel, or bridge is converted to a free thoroughfare. It never happens.
Incidentally, toll hikes were never contemplated in the original plan to build the Holland Tunnel, as tolls were to be rescinded after the initial costs of building the tunnel were recouped. But by the time this recoupment was close, PANYNJ had taken over the tunnel, and needed further financing for the construction of all the other Hudson River Crossings named after engineers (Goethels, Outerbridge) or presidents (Lincoln, Washington). PANYNJ is entirely non-profit, as it runs according to an interstate compact negotiated between New York and New Jersey. For PANYNJ to raise capital, it issues bonds, approved by the two states, which are backed by PANYNJ's toll and rental income. Long story short, when PANYNJ needs financing, they raise tolls.
The Slowening of Faster Devices
My Sharp HDTV suffers from this greatly.
It's miserable waiting several seconds per channel while I try to hit "channel up" from a low number to a high number to catch a show that's about to start.
It's also completely horrible to turn on the TV to a very loud station and have to wait several seconds before I can turn the volume down.
The firmware is upgradable, so I hope that Sharp somehow magically hears my plea for an upgraded experience.
If we don't have something original to say, we won't.
— Newsweek's editor, Jon Meacham
A Tribute to Fallen Sodas | Gunaxin
Out of this list, the ones I most miss are Josta, Surge, and OK. The ones I miss least are dnL (though I loved the concept) and Pepsi Blue.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com
A fascinating and lengthy in-depth look at some of the photographs that best defined George W. Bush's presidency. I just read through the whole thing.
In the last couple years, I have started reading several books, but finished very few. It would seem that my appetite for new knowledge doesn't have a very long attention span.
Meanwhile, I spend night after night reading as much as I can from my feed reader, which right this instant clocks in at 501 subscriptions, with 1295 unread articles. I have yet to discover anyone who is subscribed to more feeds than I am.
Now I know that sounds staggering, and it should, but I don't read everything. Indeed, it would be pretty much impossible to do so. But I do make quite an effort, and in doing so I have initiated the reading of countless streams of never-ending text. Yet more books I will never finish.
One thing I did recently finish, in one sitting, is Patrick Combs's story from 1995 about cashing a junk mail check for over $95,000. Not sure how long it would be as a book but it would certainly take more physical pages than the 10 or so webpages that the story is split into.
The other day at work I printed out a page of Google API documentation that I was reading, and it came out to about 36 pages. I had already pretty much read the whole thing by the time I hit "Print", so I was taken aback a little bit at just how much I must read in any given day without skipping a beat.
I'm even starting to read books on my iPhone. Right now I'm reading Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland as part of the fun little Classics application. So there's yet another incomplete reading.
So I guess the point is that I read a lot. My hunger for knowledge cannot be satiated.
So how do you occupy your time? Video games? Some sort of physical activity? Let me know in the comments.
The Stoopid Student: Top Ten Nicest College Dorms
This blog post didn't get Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering's name right, but the random Flickr photo they decided to link to is the common room from my 6 person suite senior year. That's my Oklahoma flag!
Moonset & Apocalypse from mbsrules on Vimeo.
The El Pelon Taqueria (which I ate at once) burned along with several other independent restaurants in Boston yesterday. A stop-motion photographer happened to capture it all.
A new webcomic about a hapless fellow.


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Tonight, Nick Saban makes his triumphant return to Miami, where he coached the Dolphins for two largely unpleasant and unmemorable years in 2005 and 2006. Saban's clearly a good coach—he bookended his 15-17 Dolphins stint with a 48-16 record at LSU and a 62-13 record at Alabama—but he never seemed comfortable in Miami. In late 2006, he assured the pro press corps that he had no interest in the Bama job, but then he took it two weeks later. Everyone wound up better off with things this way: Miami won a division title two years later under Tony Sparano, and Saban terminated Alabama's lost era under NCAA sanctions and rough coaches (Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, Mike Shula). But we remained wondering why exactly Saban took the Dolphins' job in the first place. The New York Times's Greg Bishop apparently has, too, and he may have gotten an answer:
"I'll say this about him: I don't think he really wanted to take that job," said Gil Brandt, a longtime N.F.L. personnel executive, Sirius analyst and a friend of Saban's.
The story Brandt heard, a story others involved with those Dolphins teams said circulated widely, is that H. Wayne Huizenga, then the owner, flew to Louisiana and presented Saban's wife with a check that contained a number and at least five zeros.
Huh. That sounds nice.
Strangely enough, it was also Terry Saban who gave the most illuminating statement on Nick's potential NFL future. In December, she told ESPN 97.3 The Zone in Birmingham, "As far as jobs go, this is it for us. I don't mean to be presumptuous. I would have to talk this over with Nick, but as far as I'm concerned, this is it." This is an admirably strong marriage. The Sabans wedded over 41 years ago. Presumably Nick recently filled his back with a caricature of Terry in a Greg McElroy jersey.
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Two arenas where burly, white-haired Forrest Knox was most comfortable could hardly be more different.
One was the golf course. Knox was, with all due respect to Loveland golf legend Don Fox, the city's Mr. Golf.
The other was the City Council dais, where for eight years of sweeping change in the city he helped knit together a council divided on issues related to growth.
Knox died Thursday at 82.
Council colleagues in late 1999 elected him mayor pro tem, a largely ceremonial honor but one that reflects a collective confidence.
"I think Forrest deserves this honor," council member Kurtis Loomis said at the time.
He never served with Loveland councilor Daryle Klassen, the former Larimer County commissioner who was elected to the council five years after Knox's departure.
But he played literally hundreds of rounds of golf with Klassen, and shared a microphone with him broadcasting Loveland High School sports in the early 1970s.
'Color Guy'
"I always did my own play-by-play, football and basketball," said Klassen, who met Knox when he bought AM radio station KLOV in 1970. "He was my color guy."
Also in 1970, Knox made national news, with Klassen writing the Associated Press wire story that put him in that spotlight.
It happened on the 18th hole of Loveland's Olde Course, during the third round of the Loveland Invitational.
"He was in a foursome," Klassen said. "The first guy hit a tee shot close to the pin. The second had a hole-in-one. Then Frosty (Knox's nom de golf) got up, and followed with a hole in one. Two swings. Two holes in one."
Knox sought and won election to the Loveland City Council in 1993, and held a seat for two terms.
During those years, Loveland emerged as a true city, its population growing by a third from about 37,000 to more than 51,000.
Knox was in the middle of the growth, and the policy that guided it.
Growth Centrist
In 2000, when city planners were considering development proposals that called for 17,000 new homes in the city, Knox joined a council majority in supporting a moratorium on new building permits.
While the moratorium was for a mere two months, it gave the city some breathing room while a comprehensive master plan was developed.
Four months later, Knox joined other councilors in opposing a citizen drive that would have capped the number of building permits issued in the city at 2 percent annually, a growth-control step that Knox found too chilling.
Knox shared the dais for all of his tenure with former Loveland Mayor Kathy Gilliland, who on Monday recalled him as a valued friend and colleague.
"Even though we didn't always agree, he was willing to listen and we were able, with Forrest, to make some really good things happen for the city of Loveland," she said. "He was a very nice man, and he had a big heart. It was a good time, for a lot of years."
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CONWAY, S.C. -- Liberty coach Dale Layer doesn't care how many losses it took to get his players to the NCAA tournament.
The Flames became just the second 20-loss team to reach college basketball's marquee event, beating Charleston Southern 87-76 Sunday to win the Big South Conference title. Liberty opened the season with eight straight losses and had never won more than three in a row until this week. Yet, it joined Coppin State in 2008 as the only schools with 20 or more defeats in the field of 68.
The Flames' .429 winning percentage (15-20) is the lowest for an NCAA tournament team since Oakland (Michigan) had a 12-18 record (.400) in 2005.
"That's awesome," the fourth-year coach said of his team. "We've got the hats, right?"
Yes, you do, Coach.
The Flames finished their best stretch of basketball this year, winning their fifth in a row -- and their fourth game since Tuesday -- to take their first Big South tournament crown since 2004. John Caleb Sanders led the way with 27 points and tournament MVP Davon Marshall had 20 off six 3-pointers.
Marshall and Sanders got things going in a hurry over top-seeded Charleston Southern (19-12) with 3-pointers in the first 90 seconds -- and the Flames barely lost their outside touch. Marshall was 6 of 7 from beyond the arc and Liberty finished 9 of 18 on long-range baskets.
The performance ended a hard-to-imagine run through the field where Liberty defeated home-standing Coastal Carolina and both Big South divisional winners in High Point and Charleston Southern. Sanders said the team began to believe when they topped the Chanticleers 78-61. "When you can beat Coastal by 20 on their home floor, we knew we could beat anybody in this tournament," he said.
That played out over the week at the HTC Center with the improbable run.
"We've played four of our best games in these four games of the tournament," Sanders said. "Talk about peaking at the exact right time."
Count on Liberty being near the bottom of the 68 NCAA seeds and a likely candidate for the tournament's first-four contests. Sanders says he and the Flames don't care which opponent they face.
"I feel like if we do us, we can give them a game," he said.
Saah Nimley had 18 points to lead the Buccaneers, who as the Big South's regular-season champs will play in the NIT.
The Flames and their cheerleaders rushed the court when the game ended, the players piling on top of each other in celebration. And why not, since Liberty was among the longest of longshots to be cutting down the nets in this one?
Liberty will try and pull off a Big South tournament double later Sunday when its top-seeded women's team takes on Longwood for that NCAA berth. The Flames women have won 14 of the past 16 Big South tournament titles.
The Flames fell behind for a final time, 40-37, on Arlon Harper's 3-pointer with 18:10 lead. That's when Sanders' jumper started a 17-7 run the next six minutes to take control. The charge was capped by Marshall's long 3-pointer that put Liberty ahead 54-47. The lead eventually grew to 14 points as the Bucs could not match Liberty's success from the field.
Charleston Southern was just 9 of 28 from behind the arc and Nimley, who made the all-Big South Conference team, was just 1 of 7 from three. The Bucs finished with five players in double figures.
Buccaneers coach Barclay Radebaugh said he told people after his team's 79-75 victory at Liberty on Jan. 26 that he wanted no part of what the Flames were building a second time.
"I think they're lying in wait," he said. "That's a scary team. They've got size, they've got depth. They're guards are good. They're strong."
Charleston Southern came in the tournament's top seed and would have hosted this final under the Big South's old home-court format. The league began a three-year deal to play at the recently opened, $35 million HTC Center on the campus of Big South member Coastal Carolina -- about 10 miles or so west of South Carolina's Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach resort area.
The Buccaneers hadn't been to a Big South final since 2005 and last won in 1997, also the last time they advanced to the NCAA tournament. They got to the championship by defeating Winthrop in the tournament opener and rallied from 5 points down at the half to oust VMI, 71-65.
Charleston Southern had gone from nine victories in 2009 to back-to-back 19-win seasons the past two years. Both their leading scorers in Nimley and Harper are sophomores so Radebaugh believes the Bucs aren't done contending for Big South crowns. First things first, though.
"I'm really looking forward to the NIT," Radebaugh said. "It's not going to be a show up game for us."
Liberty was next to last in the Big South's six-team North Division. That's when the Flames found their game, topping host Coastal Carolina in the opening round before knocking off one of the tournament favorites in High Point, 61-60, in the quarterfinals. The Flames led throughout against High Point, taking a 19-point lead and holding on.
Liberty kept the run going on Saturday with a win over Gardner-Webb.
The Flames didn't let up against Charleston Southern. Sanders, the team's leading scorer this year at 13 points a game, nearly reached that mark with 12 points in the period while Marshall added 11.
Tavares Speaks hit a bucket as the halftime buzzer sounded that put the Flames ahead 35-34 heading into the break. Speaks ended the game with 18 points.
Layer previously led Colorado State into the NCAAs back in 2003. He said it was difficult to compare experiences and chooses to concentrate on his happy players, snipping away at basketball nets to take back to campus.
"It's life changing. I'm just looking at their faces and trying to soak in every moment," he said. "That's what you're doing this for."


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What Are We Waiting For?
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson was on The Daily Show last week, talking to Jon Stewart about the EPA's proposed rules to limit mercury, acid gases and other toxic pollution from coal plants. She spoke about the harm mercury does ("destroys our children's brains, oftentimes before they're born") and how many lives would be saved each year ("up to 17,000 premature deaths each year").
EPA hearings on mercury from coal-fired power plants took place in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. (Photo credit: Sarah Landini.)
And this week, Americans had a chance to weigh in on the rule at public hearings held by the EPA in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. And weigh in they did -- from moms with strollers to clergy to fishermen to pediatricians. Their message was simple: We've got to stop poisoning our children. We've known about this problem for decades. We know how to fix it. What are we waiting for?
Good question. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran pro/con opinion pieces on the day before the hearing there. Dr. Yolanda Whyte, who has treated "hundreds of children whose health is compromised by pollutants in our air and water," made the case for adopting mercury controls. Then Chris Hobson, the "chief environmental officer" for Southern Company (one of the biggest and worst polluters on the planet) had the job of arguing that we should keep dumping tons of a potent neurotoxin into the environment each year. It's "a complex issue," he wrote. But the phrase that jumped out at me was "nonmeasurable reduction in risk."
Exactly. How do you measure the value of a child's life? How do you quantify the anguish of parents whose child is born severely disabled? You can't, and there's nothing complex about that.
What's truly astounding is that some (not all) of the companies that burn coal to generate electricity are still arguing against putting pollution controls in place. As Lisa Jackson pointed out, this rule has been 21 years in the making. Waiting another year, another month, even another day -- is too long.
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Curated by Raechell Smith, director of the artspace; Mark Bessire, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art; and Diana Block, director at the University of North Texas Art Gallery
One of the most important artists to emerge from China in recent decades, Gu was active in the Chinese avant-garde before emigrating to the U.S. in 1987. Since then, he has mined tradition and pursued innovation in works that deal intelligently with globalism and transculturalism to present an idealized unification of humanity. Best known for a worldwide art project entitled "united nations," in which Gu created a series of monumental, site-specific installations from human hair gathered from across the globe. The installation "united nations," which measured 7561 kilometers, was created specifically for this exhibition. Other works in the exhibition, created between 1993 and 2003 included biological ink, carved stone, green tea paper and ink painting.
April 11 through May 17, 2003
Organized by Heather Lustfeldt and the Artspace
New work by more than 100 emerging artists graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute majoring in art history, ceramics, creative writing, fiber, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary arts, new media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
February 1 – March 26, 2003
This exhibition explores the affinities of description and observation in the last several generations of creative photography, featuring contemporary works by national and international artists and historical works, emphasizing the relevance of historical precedents to some of the most notable concerns of today.
Artists: Andreas Gursky, Doug Hall, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Rineke Dijkstra, Elger Esser, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marc Rader, Edweard Muybridge, Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Art Sinsabaugh, Harry Callahan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Judith Joy Ross, Nicholas Nixon, Dorothea Lange, August Sander, Richard Avedon, Ken Ohara, David Levinthal, Harry Callahan, Lewis Baltz, Nicholas Nixon, Joe Deal, Robert Adams, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, and Tod Papageorg. Curated by Raechell Smith, director, Artspace and Keith Davis, Fine Art Programs Director, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
October 26 – December 18, 2002
Kansas City Art Institute's 2002 biennial faculty exhibition featured work by 26 faculty members along with selections from their private collections and objects that influence them as artists. Artists: Deborah di Blasi, Cary Esser, Tyler Galloway, Lester Goldman, Tom Gregg, Leeah Joo, Dr. Milton Katz, Jim Leedy, Richard Mattsson, Steve Mayse, Karen McCoy, Marcie Miller Gross, Hugh Merrill, Tim O'Neill, Jason Pollen, Jack Rees, James Reittinger, Jim Sajovic, Judith Sanazaro, Shirley Luke Schnell, Jane Shellenbarger, Gary Sutton, George Timock, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, James Whitworth, and Michael Wickerson
September 7 – October 16, 2002
An exhibition featuring large-scale works by national and regional artists including Louise Bourgeois, Deanna Dikeman, Alexa Horochowski, Julie Moos, Amy Myers, Kate Shepherd, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, May Tveit, Kara Walker, and Andrea Zittel. Curated by Raechell Smith, director.
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March 21, 2014 — In a familiar rite of March, college basketball fans across the country are filling out their brackets for the N.C.A.A. tournament beginning this week. And one of those fans, Dennis Baker, SJ, says he is prepared to make a different sort of wager.
"If you hand somebody a bracket and say, 'Circle the Jesuit schools in this tournament,' hardly anyone would be able to do that," said Baker, a Jesuit in formation or training who is working on a study of college athletics for the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, or AJCU. He bets that people will know the names of competing Jesuit schools, but not the inspiration behind them.
The 34-year-old Jesuit would like to see more people talking and learning about Jesuit higher education, and he thinks the athletic notoriety could be one way of leveraging the good news. This year, March Madness includes five Jesuit colleges and universities — Creighton, Gonzaga, St. Louis, St. Joseph's, and Xavier — along with some other Catholic institutions. Altogether, 68 teams were selected on Sunday for the single-elimination tournament.
Part of Baker's message is that Jesuit schools ranging from Gonzaga in Washington State to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. (which won't be gracing the brackets this year), aren't just about basketball, or even getting a degree. "These are places that change people's lives," said the Jesuit, a big man with thick, reddish blonde hair and an easy laugh.
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A former student athlete with years of experience as a coach and team chaplain, Baker is well suited for this role.
"I've just always loved sports. I've always loved competition — I hate losing at anything," he said with a self-deprecating chuckle, in what amounts to a confession for a Jesuit. He spoke in an interview at a Jesuit residence near Boston College, where he is studying at the graduate School of Theology and Ministry.
Growing up near Buffalo, New York, Baker heard from an early age about Jesuits and sports. During the 1930s, his paternal grandfather went to the Jesuits' Fordham University in New York City on a football scholarship. Len Baker played on the team known for the "Seven Blocks of Granite" — the legendary offensive line that included Vince Lombardi. His mother graduated from another Jesuit college, Le Moyne, in Syracuse, New York. His father worked at Niagara University, a Catholic though not Jesuit school.
At Jesuit-run Canisius High School in Buffalo, Baker played varsity basketball and baseball, and for a year he ran cross-country. He says the Jesuits at Canisius broadened his horizons and made him intellectually curious. "The world got pretty big, pretty fast, because of the education I got there," he recalled.
Baker went on to major in history at Fordham. After graduating from there in 2002, he taught the subject at his alma mater, Canisius, while coaching baseball and basketball. Then, he took a further leap of faith by entering the Society of Jesus, two years after college.
Being a Jesuit in formation (which normally lasts about a decade) hasn't kept Baker off the field and out of the clubhouse.
While doing his graduate studies in philosophy at Fordham, early in his Jesuit training, he served as chaplain to the university's baseball team. When not pondering Aristotle or ministering to a shortstop, he was often seen shagging fly balls in the outfield before baseball games or sinking half-court shots at halftime of Fordham basketball games.
Before coming to Boston College in 2012, Baker spent three years teaching history and global studies at Xavier High School in Manhattan (a typical assignment during Jesuit formation). There, he also resumed coaching basketball and baseball.
Connecting God and Game
Currently he is in his second year of studies for the Master of Divinity degree, which will pave the way for priestly ordination, a year from now. He also writes essays about sports for The Jesuit Post, an online publication. And, he is compiling his report for the AJCU.
Baker spent last summer visiting about a third of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide. He met with coaches, athletic directors and those who concern themselves with the Jesuit identity of these schools (for example, people in offices that go by the name of "Mission and Ministry"). He was looking to see how much interaction there is between these groups, and his general impression was that there needs to be much more of it.
For instance, do the schools run programs for coaches to learn more about the Jesuit educational mission? Are student athletes at all familiar with this mission, which includes nurturing "men and women for others," as the Jesuit saying goes? These are the kinds of the questions Baker is tackling in his report due in May.
That aside, he says big-time college sports give Jesuit schools a big opportunity. Through media exposure, the schools could use athletics to tell a larger story about their distinctive brand of values-driven, liberal arts education. And that's where March Madness bounces back into the picture.
The Jesuit says his "pipedream" would be for Jesuit schools to hold their own basketball tournament or have a set of weekend games each year. That would be a dramatic way of drawing attention (from prospective students, among others) and putting Jesuit higher education in the spotlight, he notes.
Baker is convinced about at least one fundamental point: Athletics is good for the soul, at any university.
He points out that when student athletes are asked about the best part of their collegiate experience, the answer is almost invariably, "My teammates." As he put it, "It's not the X's and O's. It's the Jimmys and Joes. You don't get any more Ignatian than that." He was alluding to Jesuit founder St. Ignatius Loyola, who held that relationships with others and with the world are the clearest way to understand one's relationship with God.
"It's always the people you remember," the Jesuit added. "I keep in touch with every good coach I ever had, every good teammate I ever had. And I think that's true for student athletes across the board."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy hopes that Buster Posey can increase his catching workload this season.
The calendar is one factor in Posey's favor. He's another year removed from the horrific left leg injuries he sustained on May 25, 2011. Last year, Posey caught 114 games, starting 111. He also started 29 games at first base and three as a designated hitter while appearing in 148 games overall.
Posey started his 14th game as a catcher Saturday against San Diego. That put the National League's reigning Most Valuable Player on pace to catch 126 games this season, a significant jump from 2012.
Bochy's remarks reflect the Giants' intent to use Posey where he can help them the most, which should silence the buzz about his potential switch to a corner-infield position. The Giants didn't sign him to a nine-year, $167 million contract extension last month to squander his skills.
"I think when it's all said and done -- knock on wood, he stays healthy -- you'll see he'll catch more games this year," Bochy said. "But at the same time, we want to keep him fresh and take care of him."


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Editor's note: The following was sent to Montana's congressional delegation on behalf of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.
Because there is much discussion among gun owners of Montana about proposals by Sen. Diane Feinstein and others for Congress to enact various types of gun control, I though you would appreciate knowing what I hear from Montanans about this.
I speak to you as a person intimately familiar with firearms, with public policy about firearms, as a person accepted in state and federal courts as an expert on firearms, firearms safety and use of force, and as the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, Montana's primary organization asserting the right to keep and bear arms, also affiliated or associated with the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Amendment Foundation.
On behalf of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, I wish to express our unequivocal opposition to any ban on any class or type of firearms, any new registration requirements on any class or types of firearms, any restrictions on manufacture, sale or possession of ammunition feeding devices of any configuration or capacity, and any government intrusion into firearm transfers between private citizens. Any congressional actions in any of these areas would be an infringement upon the rights the citizens of Montana have reserved to themselves.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article II, Section 12 of the Montana Constitution — these sections of these foundational documents are not government permission to keep firearms. They are statements whereby the people have reserved these rights to themselves specifically from government interference.
These statements do not create any rights, but simply recognize preexisting "natural rights" which are restricted from government interference. As you consider whatever "gun control" (actually people control) may be offered by Sen. Feinstein or others, I hope you will keep these facts clearly in mind.
"Gun-free zones" are a terrible failure of public policy. Virtually all mass shootings, including the one in Connecticut that has sparked the current wave of media hysteria, happen in places where public policy has incorrectly assured people that they are safe, but where the policy has actually created risk-free zones for madmen, and pools of defenseless victims conveniently offered up for slaughter by failed policy.
Former police officer Ron Avery says, "The only way to check violence in progress, where the victim can neither hide nor flee, is by equal or greater force in a timely manner." If Congress feels compelled to "do something" in the wake of the Connecticut shooting, it should repeal the pretense of all federally-mandated or federally-inspired "gun-free zones."
For any inside the Beltway who actually believe in the effectiveness of "gun-free zones," I recommend that the White House, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, the U.S. Supreme Court and all federal courthouses be declared "gun-free zones," and that all armed guards and protective personnel in those places be removed. If "gun-free zones" are effective for our kids, they're good enough for our servants.
Various gun bans, licensing or registration schemes, and/or bans or restrictions of ammunition feeding devices will fail. I won't bother you with discussion of the fact that any such restrictions will have no effect on criminals or madmen. I believe you already know that.
I do hope to inform you about how strongly the gun owners of Montana feel about their right to keep and bear arms. I have asked around among a considerable number of friends, acquaintances and contacts in Montana. I have not learned of anyone who would comply, for example, with a new federal law requiring them to register or surrender their semi-auto rifles to authorities.
Let me be very clear: Montanans will not comply with any new federal restrictions. The most any such restrictions would do would be to create a huge, new, armed, outlaw class of citizens. And I very much doubt that most Montana law enforcement personnel would cooperate in enforcing any such federal restrictions.
Clearly, the vast numbers of citizens who have bought new firearms in the past month, especially the hundreds of thousands of expensive semi-auto rifles, did not buy these new firearms simply so they'd have them available to surrender if Congress should pass a law demanding they do so.
Since Montana law enforcement personnel are unlikely to enforce any such restrictions, the effect of passage of such restrictions would ultimately be for federal officers to come to Montana to enforce them. Because most Montanans will simply not comply with any new federal restraints on a right they have reserved specifically from government interference, the obvious result would be armed conflict between Montanans and federal enforcers. (I offer this not as a threat or a challenge, but simply as an observation.)
I certainly hope you would not set Montana on the path to an armed conflict with federal enforcers by aiding or supporting passage of any new federal restrictions. That would not be in the best interest of your constituents.
Instead, if you feel compelled to pass some actually corrective legislation in response to the media hysteria over the Connecticut shooting, I highly recommend that you get rid of those dangerous and illusory "gun free zones."
Gary Marbut, of Missoula, is the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.


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Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing, has publicly said he's quit Instagram because it has too many people. Is this a valid reason, or is this Apple's way of expressing sour grapes that Facebook swooped in and gobbled up one of the iOS's biggest apps?
Schiller wrote in response to an e-mail about him closing his Instagram account about the time the app launched on the Android platform, according to 9to5Mac.
Instagram is a great app and community. That hasn't changed.But one of the things I really liked about Instagram was that it was a small community of early adopters sharing their photographs.Now that it has grow(n) much larger the signal to noise ratio is different.That isn't necessarily good or bad, it's just not what I originally had fun with.
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This isn't really "trashing the service," as Mashable called it, but it could be construed as Schiller saying the service was considered better when it was only on the iOS. At least that's what 9to5Mac seemed to think.
Perhaps Schiller had too many apps and Instagram did become too much for him, or maybe he was annoyed that Facebook picked up the app before Apple could buy it. Either way, we think Schiller's words, "Instagram is a great app" kind of disproves the theory that Schiller was badmouthing the app.


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Ivor Guest is keen to stress that he has no desire to recreate the aristocratic way of life of his forebears – and it's a claim that rings entirely true. A raven-haired, bearded composer and music producer in his early 40s who works and lives largely in London, the 4th Viscount Wimborne has an endearingly gentle and questioning manner, and, as far as his country home is concerned, he is far more excited by the notion of combining 'contemporary minimalism with classical elements' as a backdrop to entertaining friends from around the world than he is by any kind of ancestor worship. He worries, for example, about the appropriateness in this day and age of the Venetian busts of blackamoors flanking the drawing-room's stone fireplace, harking back as they do to the days when black Europeans were at best servants – or slaves.
All of this makes his decision in 1998 to buy back the family home at Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire, even more intriguing. He lived here until he was six, when his father sold up and moved to Paris, marking the beginning of a peripatetic life for young Ivor – in France, England and America. Finding himself in the neighbourhood some 20 years later he went for a walk in the grounds. 'Everything was derelict,' he says. 'Someone from the village who was also trespassing recognised me – goodness knows how! – and told me that the house was in the hands of the receivers and coming up for sale.'
The dining-room was added by Lutyens in the 1920s and is accessed through double doors from the Stone Hall. It is designed in a minimal Tudor style, with cubic shapes and a large canted bay window. The dining-table is a family piece from Dowlais House in Wales (Pic: Tim Beddow )
Thus, more by accident than design, Guest found himself buying the very pretty shell of his childhood home. 'I never really planned on keeping it,' he says. 'I'd gone through a hard time in my 20s when my dad died, and buying the house was a way of figuring out what it meant to come from the kind of background I did. I didn't grow up in that kind of environment, so I had no sentimentality about it, but I started to restore the house.'
And what a house. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the ancient Manor House at Ashby St Ledgers was home to the Catesby family from the 14th century. It was here that the 1605 Gunpowder Plot was planned, under the leadership of Robert Catesby. To mark its 400th anniversary, Guest restored the Tudor gatehouse, which was the plotters' HQ.
The Stone Hall, added by Lutyens in 1909, was restored to its full height. A gallery at one end is hung with a 19th-century tapestry (Pic: Tim Beddow)
In 1903 Guest's great-grandfather and namesake Ivor Guest (the oldest sons of the family have been called Ivor for generations) began to rent the house as a hunting estate, later buying it. The following year – and for the following 34 – he engaged Sir Edwin Lutyens to expand it. 'There's a bit in the Arts and Crafts style,' Guest says. 'A bit of classical and Tudor, and even a bit of neo-Norman, as in Lutyens's designs for Castle Drogo.' Building of all periods is in gorgeously mellow gingerbread stone.
Restoration took two years. Guest had three simple rules: 'First, to strip out the crap that shouldn't be there. Second, to restore what should be there. And third, to paint it all white.' He now finds it, in his own words, 'beautifully understated'. 'There's not much in the house,' Guest says. Some of the antique furniture was inherited, in particular the long, many-leafed dining table, which, like the family, originated in Dowlais in Wales. Guest bought the comfortable sofas and had some beds made. 'It was all done 15 years ago,' he says.
'I think it still works.'
The rotunda: a bust of Guest's great-great-grandfather as a boy is displayed in a Lutyens-designed panelled rotunda next to the bathroom (Pic: Tim Beddow)
'We go to the Manor House whenever we can,' Guest says. 'We' now means not only him and his Latvian-born wife, Ieva, but also their baby, Greta, two. Luckily Ieva loves the countryside, and Guest is keen that the house should be more widely enjoyed, so he is starting to rent it out for weddings and other events. As Guest found when he wandered in the grounds more than a decade ago, it's a place of enchantment that gets under your skin.
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I need to pick the collective genius of the CAD family on a concept for a Junior Cornerstone course for higher ed students. Briefly, cornerstone courses are team taught, interdisciplinary, and cross-curriculum. The courses are generally a full semester long and intended to challenge students to stretch beyond their particular major/minor area of study. Note: the institution is Belmont University with a strong music, music business, and entrepreneurial business programs. Here is the concept. A class/community of students would do research on the history of ceramic musical instruments, select instruments (i.e. (drum,flute, udu, rattle, water whistle, etc.) to construct, actually build/fire their ceramic instruments, compose a musical work using only their projects, and would either record their work or perform it publicly (or both). The rubric for the course would evaluate the research (writing), technical skill (building the ceramic instrument - recording the work), creativity (the instrument & the musical score), musical composition (the score), and the individual and/or collective recorded music. The likely textbook would be Barry Hall's From Mud to Music. My questions: Does this sound (no pun intended) like a fun/challenging course? What would you add to the course to make it more interesting? What challenges would you anticipate,particularly the ceramics process? Is there already a course syllabus that someone is using at another institution? Thanks all! Paul


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Anna Karenina (adapt. Edmundson)
Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina, is a meditation on the nature of love. It was first performed by Shared Experience at the Theatre Royal, Winchester, on 30 January 1992 at the start of a nationwide tour.
Married to a provincial governor, the punctilious Alexei Karenin, Anna revolts against her life of compromise when she meets the charming officer Count Vronsky. She embarks on a scandalous affair, which completely destroys her family life and brings her to the brink of destruction. Interspersed with Anna's tragic downfall is the story of Levin, an idealistic landowner striving to find meaning in his life – a character often seen as a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. Edmundson's adaptation illuminates the story's grand pattern: how the adulterous Anna travels towards disintegration and death, while the young landowner, Levin, travels toward maturity and a sense of wholeness.
Edmundson frames the action of Tolstoy's novel within an imagined dialogue between Levin and Anna. She brings Anna and Levin together in the opening scene: 'This is my story,' says Anna. 'It seems it is mine too,' replies Levin, and for the remainder of the play scenes are set and emotions summarised through the imaginary exchange of their confidences. The device allows Edmundson to distil the novel down to a carefully curated selection of episodes; she is able to translate almost a thousand pages, and a cast of nearly as many, into an intimate chamber drama.
In an author's note in the published text, Edmundson explains her decision not to cut the Levin strand of the novel, as many adaptations do: 'Without Levin, Anna Karenina is a love story, extraordinary and dark, but essentially a love story. With Levin it becomes something great.'
The Shared Experience production was directed by Nancy Meckler and designed by Lucy Weller. The cast was Annabelle Apsion, Katherine Barker, Tilly Blackwood, Gregory Floy, Max Gold, Richard Hope, Nigel Lindsay and Pooky Quesnel. The production then toured to Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Leicester, Taunton, Salisbury, and finally to the Tricycle Theatre, London, where it opened on 10 March 1992.
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