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For Immediate Release
Patricia Kiernan Johnson;
New York, NY — OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, announces the next five sessions of its ongoing
Making Connections
series, a professional development and networking program nurturing the next generation of performing and creative artists.
Making Connections
is geared toward early-career artists, including singers, composers, librettists, designers, directors and others who work in or would like to work in the field of opera.
During the course of the full 2008-2009
Making Connections
season, which runs from September through May, OPERA America will present a total of 18 different sessions. Each begins with an hour-long panel discussion followed by an informal reception where attendees have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the panelists, providing a unique networking opportunity.
"One of the most exciting aspects of
Making Connections
is this direct exchange between the participants," stated Marc A. Scorca, president & CEO of OPERA America. "In the increasingly competitive arts community, often it's not only what you know, but who you know that can make a difference. Through
Making Connections
, OPERA America is able to foster a real dialogue between aspiring artists and decision-makers in the opera community."
In the next session,
Public Speaking
, on Tuesday, January 27, all artists will benefit from tips on the art of speaking in front of an audience from OPERA America's President & CEO, Marc A. Scorca. This session will provide helpful techniques for making presentations, facilitating group discussion, running effective meetings and making spontaneous remarks when called upon unexpectedly.
Vocologist and New York University Professor of Voice Brian Gill and Dr. Doonam Kim will present
Maintaining Your Health amid a Hectic Schedule
on Wednesday, January 28. They will share their ideas about creating a balanced lifestyle, dealing with anxiety and finding the resources for maintaining one's health on the road.
Learning a Role Inside and Out
on Tuesday, February 24, Lenore Rosenberg, director of the Lindemann Young Artist Program at The Metropolitan Opera and Valerie Beaman, opera acting coach, will discuss creating strategies for learning a role and methods for finding resources and research materials for opera singers.
In a program especially designed for budding composers,
How Companies Commission Opera
will take place on Wednesday, February 25. In this session, panelists will share why opera companies commission new works, how operas and creative artists are chosen and best practices for creative artists to reach opera companies.
For those artists attending music school or heading toward it,
Making the Most of Your Degree Program
on Wednesday, March 4 will be particularly useful. Panelists in this session will discuss taking the fullest advantage of one's education, managing time and gaining essential skills outside of degree requirements.
In addition to these five sessions, OPERA America's
Making Connections
program will present four additional workshops from March through May 2009.
Making Connections
sessions take place from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and are held in the OPERA America offices at 330 Seventh Avenue at 29th Street. Following each panel discussion, casual receptions give attendees an opportunity to network with experts. Admission is $5 per session for OPERA America members, $10 for non-members. For additional information on individual sessions and speakers, contact OPERA America at 212-796-8620 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Those interested in attending any of the sessions may register online at www.operaamerica.org/makingconnections.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Upcoming OPERA America
Making Connections
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Public Speaking
Speaker: Marc A. Scorca, president & CEO, OPERA America
Workshop: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Maintaining Your Health amid a Hectic Schedule
Speakers: Dr. Doonam Kim, MD; Brian Gill, vocologist and New York University voice professor
Moderator: Megan Young, OPERA America
Workshop: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Learning a Role Inside and Out
Speakers: Valerie Beaman, opera acting coach; Lenore Rosenberg, director of the Lindemann Young Artist Program, The Metropolitan Opera
Moderator: Jonah Nigh, OPERA America
Workshop: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
How Companies Commission Opera
Workshop: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Making the Most of Your Degree Program
Workshop: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Reception: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
Artistic services help opera companies and creative and performing artists to improve the quality of productions and increase the creation and presentation of North American works.
Information, technical, and administrative services to opera companies reflect the need for strengthened leadership among staff, trustees and volunteers.
Education, audience development and community services are designed to enhance all forms of opera appreciation.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America's worldwide membership network includes nearly 200 Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and more than 16,000 subscribers to the association's electronic news service. In 2005, OPERA America relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York as the first step in creating the first-ever National Opera Center. With a wide range of artistic and administrative services in a purpose-built facility, the Opera Center is dedicated to increasing the level of excellence, creativity and effectiveness across the field.
OPERA America's long tradition of supporting and nurturing the creation and development of new works led to the formation of
The Opera Fund
, a growing endowment which allows OPERA America to make a direct impact on the ongoing creation and presentation of new opera and music-theater works. Since its inception, OPERA America has made grants of nearly $11 million to assist companies with the expenses associated with the creation and development of new works.

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Property Management Kit for Dummies
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text: Subscriber susanheatonchasteenlovesartandu2 0 Posted May 30, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted May 30, 2017 I am just going to re-share what I just posted on the U2 fan page for Soldier Field Chicago. My blood is boiling that I've been told, repeated times, that no one can help me. It's saddening to me as a fan that U2 would not have backup for these situations, like Pearl Jam does. It appears as though this going to suck; My first show on this tour in my town... the juggling around, the people to watch my kids, the planning, the saving of money.. seems to all be going down the crapper as I get angrier and angrier at my continued and failed attempts, in addition to ZERO support to have my ticket problem solved. "ANGRY IN A CHICAGO SUBURB" and slowly the excitement about this show is turning into anger, frustration, and a very bad taste in my mouth. Read my story about how I'm screwed without a kiss... simply because I had my original bank card, which I used to purchase my tickets) lost and then stolen. Since I had to replace that bank card in Feb.... I'm screwed...and from the lady at Ticketmaster who I just spoke with? Apparently it's all U2's fault. She blamed them and told me there is nothing she can do. U2 CREDIT CARD ENTRY ANNOUNCEMENT - for anyone in my situation. I have spoken with 3 people at Ticketmaster, in addition to emailing the required proof and documents. I purchased my GA tickets through the fan club on my Chase Bank/Debit card. I lost that card this past Feb... had to cancel it and get a new card. I have been given nothing but the "run-around" from Ticketmaster. I just got off the phone with yet another TM employee. She explained to me that there is absolutely NOTHING TM can do and that the ONLY people that could help me would be "Guest Services" at Soldier Field on the day of show. She also explained to me that Guest Services apparently doesn't open until 1 hour before the show. I told her there must be another way. I have also called Soldier Field, but have only received an option for voice mail. The TM employee told me there is ZERO possible way that my new, updated card number will work. No duh. Additionally, she told me that I cannot get the problem fixed until about an hour before showtime and that TM had nothing to do with it, but it was ALL U2's doing. Lol... o.k. yeah... but nice way to dodge helping. So if you are in the same situation, I suggest trying to take care of it ASAP! "Nice work" once again, U2 for absolutely NOT having this very common problem, worked out. Once again, I suggest they really put their money where their mouths and hearts apparently are and hire the staff from Pearl Jam - who runs the best fan club ticketing system in the world. If I were calling Ten Club right now, or if I had this problem come up? It would've been taken care of and not leave a dedicated fan on a lost island with ZERO answers or options. My blood is a bit over-boiling. I think U2 has failed terribly here and I have slammed the way they tried to update their ticketing, last tour. They aren't protecting real fans. Scammers will still get their tickets with the 1 time credit cards they use and then give away. However, someone like me who is 100% legitimate, can't even get this problem fixed; Even when I have provided TM for the info they required - My bank statements from the purchase, my old card number, my new card number, my ticket order numbers, etc. This is flipping bullshit. Boo hoo hoo... not that anyone cares, but this is my town, my first show on this tour, etc. I am working hard to get this corrected and there is absolutely NO ONE who can help. I am actually thinking of buying a single ticket from another fan who is entering early (like I had planned to) just so I don't get screwed and can't enter until ..... well... about show time. I am also a huge fan of the Lumineers and frankly do not want to miss them at all. Good luck! This has been my last few days. It has made me not very excited, pissed as hell, and angry that the band didn't have these little glitches worked out, yet again. I have found NO ONE who can help me... and I mean NO ONE. I'm f'd without a kiss.... the one the future needs... a BIG kiss. Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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Firing up your grill for a barbeque this summer is going to cost you significantly more than it did last year.
Retail prices for many ingredients essential to a barbecue — everything from burgers to bacon to fruit salad — are going up. Indeed, overall, retail food prices have increased 2.5% over the past year (that's higher than average for all consumer goods) and a seasonally adjusted 0.5% from last month (that's the largest jump since at least November), according to CPI data released this month. The cost for eating at home in particular has skyrocketed -- jumping a seasonally adjusted 0.7% -- the highest increase since July 2011. Many of the hardest hit foods are classic grilling staples like burgers and ribs, as meat, including beef, poultry and fish, rose a seasonally adjusted 1.4% from last month and a whopping 7.7% from last May. What's more, Don Close, an economist with Rabo AgriFinance, says that food prices for many items like certain meats are likely to remain at current levels for the next couple of months.
Consumers may have noticed at the grocery store that pork products like bacon have ticked up in price. Indeed, from April to May pork prices climbed a seasonally adjusted 2.4% and from March to April they climbed 4.1%. Bacon and bacon-related products saw the biggest jump at 5.1% from April; now a pound of sliced bacon costs more than $6 (that's up from less than $5 early last year). The prices are jumping because of what's called Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, which kills young pigs. "This clearly had an impact on newborn pigs over the winter, but we don't know how severe this was and there are broadly contrasting views throughout the industry," says Close. "It's a big wildcard."
Another big shock that consumers hoping to host a barbecue see is in the price of beef, as already, retail beef prices hit an all-time high this year. What's more, ground beef prices climbed 0.1% from April to May, 2.6% from March to April and 2.2% from February to March, according to May CPI data. And "prices should stay high throughout the summer," says IBISWorld analyst Antal Neville. The reasons for these sky-high beef prices include cattle herds recently having been at near 63-year lows and the droughts throughout the west.
Even if you stay clear of meat, you're still going to experience sticker shock when it comes to your other ingredients. Overall, fruits and veggies have increased in price a seasonally adjusted 1.1% from last month, according to CPI data; this is largely due to the drought in California, says Neville. Some of the worst hit items are apples, up 2.5% from last month, and citrus fruits (up 0.9%) — all key ingredients in popular fruit salad sides. Pair that meal with a cocktail, and you could be talking even more money.
To save money on your barbecue, Maura White, a deal pro for Savings.com and the founder of HappyDealHappyDay.com, says that most of the deals on meat are found on Wednesdays likely in the evenings, though for specific deals at your grocery store you should ask the butcher when they plan to put meat on sale or ask about some less expensive cuts. She also recommends trying to combine coupons and in-store sales and then stocking up on the items and freezing them for later use. To save on produce, she says that you should look to items that are in season and grown locally to save. Consumers should also consider grocery-saving apps like Grocery IQ and Favado.
This article has been updated from an earlier version.
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What's News: Blackstone is open to keeping Michael Dell as CEO. Twitter could make $1 Billion in ad revenue in 2014, says eMarketer. Supreme Court justices challenge federal gay marriage law and the high court rules in favor of Comcast. Photo: AP
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Magdy El-Shafee is an Egyptian comic artist. Interested in comics through the work of Robert Crumb and the French magazine Charlie Mensuel and Hara Kiri, he spent the 1990s working as a marketeer in the pharmaceutical industry before switching to comics in 2001. His series 'Yasmin & Amina' was published in Alaa'Eddin weekly from 2003. In 2008 he published 'Metro', which is thought to be the first graphic novel for adults in Arabic. Dealing with subjects like poverty, political corruption, and socio-economic injustice, the book was seized by the Egyptian authorities.


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General Colin L. Powell
Brigadier Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
General Daniel "Chappie" James
Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
Admiral Michelle J. Howard
Lt. General Frank E. Petersen Jr.
Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.
Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne
Admiral David L. Brewer III
By Yussuf J. Simmonds
The Generals
"They stood on the shoulders of many including the Buffalo soldiers and the Tuskegee Airmen"
When the names of Black generals of the United States military are discussed, the names that mostly come to mind are Brigadier General O. Davis, Sr., the first African American general in the United States Army; General Daniel "Chappie" James, the first African American, four-star general in the U.S. Army; and General Colin L. Powell, the first African American to be appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (The title of general in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps is equivalent in rank admiral in the Navy). However, since the dark days of the Buffalo soldiers and the Tuskegee Airmen, and the signing of Executive Order 9981 which outlawed discrimination and segregation in the U.S. military, there have been many generals and "sub" generals that have dotted the military landscape including major generals, rear admirals, lieutenant generals and so on. The following are a few of the heroes and "sheroes" in unform.
Not only did General Colin L. Powell achieved the highest position in the military – the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – he also achieved one of the highest positions in government as a civilian; he was the 65th Secretary of State of the U.S. His parents were Jamaican immigrants and he grew up in the Bronx, New York. Just after earning a bachelor's degree at City College of New York, Powell joined the Reserved Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and later described it as one of the happiest experiences of his life, where he received a commission as a second lieutenant. He was one of the military advisors sent to South Vietnam in 1962, the same year he married Alma Johnson. From being an advisor, it evolved into a tour of duty for which he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
After a second tour in Vietnam, where he was wounded after rescuing fellow soldiers from a burning helicopter, Powell received the Soldier's Medal. He received 11 military decorations in all including the Legion of Merit and went on to earn an MBA at George Washington University just before being promoted to Major. Powell was a professional soldier for 35 years and held numerous assignments in several administrations including the Office of Management and Budget (Nixon); National Security Advisor (Reagan) at 49, and was then promoted to the rank of general at 52 by President George H. W. Bush.
General Powell served as commander-in-chief of the Army's Forces Command overseeing the Army, Army Reserve, and National Guard in the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. His last military position was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton where he managed the invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War. Though a soldier, he was usually reluctant to use or advocate military force choosing instead diplomacy, thus earning the nickname "the reluctant warrior."
According to his biographer, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. gave incorrect information about his age – stating that he was older than he really was – in order to be accepted in the military service because he knew his parents would not have given him their permission. His service dated back to the time of the original Buffalo soldiers and he moved up through the ranks even though most of the time he had been in charge of "colored" troops. After his initial deployment as a private in the 9th Cavalry Regiment 1898, he left the service to attend Howard University.
Returning to the army, Davis mounted the military ladder from Spanish-American War through World Wars I and II. In 1948, he retired after 50 years of service having received the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the French Croix de Guerre and the Star of Africa. But his greatest achievement was his pride in having a son following his footsteps in the military and destined to surpass his father. General Davis died in 1970 at the age of 93 and was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was the son of General Davis, Sr. who pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross as Colonel Davis, Jr. after he had commanded the 332nd Pursuit Squadron of the Tuskegee Airmen on a successful bombing raid of a German installation during World War II. Born in the military, young Davis traveled throughout the country with his soldier father and was well prepared for a career in the military. He literally stood on his father's shoulders and followed his footsteps through his military career and was uniquely prepared physically (6′-2″) and mentally (a keen mind) when he entered West Point Military Academy. He also earned the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Croix de Guerre and the Star of Africa. In 1945, Davis, Jr. was the first Black man to command an air base and did so in Formosa, Germany and Korea where he was the chief of staff for the United Nations Command. He retired from active duty in 1970 however, in 1998 he was appointed the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force. He died in 2002 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Daniel "Chappie" James was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. After graduating from high school, James attended Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) where he completed the civilian pilot training in 1942 and was commissioned the following a second lieutenant and trained pilots of the 99th Pursuit Squadron. Later on, he was a flight leader and during the Korean War, he flew 101 missions in P-51 Mustang and F-80 aircrafts. On returning to the U.S., he was promoted to Major and became the commander of the 437th Fighter Interceptor.
James attended the Air Command-Staff School in 1957 and was stationed in England and Arizona until he went to Vietnam where he flew 78 combat missions. He was then promoted to Colonel and in rapid succession to Brigadier General, was named base commander of Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya. In 1970, he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and in 1974, with the rank of Lieutenant General, he became Vice Commander of the Military Airlift Command. The following year, James became the first Black to become a 4-star General. At that time he was named Commander of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), with responsibility for all aspects of the air defense of the United States and Canada.
During his career, he received many military and civilian awards including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. General James died at age 58, three weeks after his retirement from the Air Force, and was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
General James's son, Lieutenant General Daniel James III also served in the United States Air Force and in the Texas Air National Guard. In the latter, he was the first African American to serve as the Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard and as Director of the Air National Guard from 2002 to 2006. He retired from the United States Air Force after 38 years of service, on active duty and as an Air Guardsman, at the rank of Lieutenant General.
Hazel W. Johnson-Brown capped a distinguished career in 1979 when she became the first Black woman to become a brigadier general in the U.S. Army. She served in the Army Nurse Corps for 26 years including posts as a staff nurse in Japan; chief nurse in Korea; assistant Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing; and director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing. Johnson-Brown is also professor of Nursing emerita and as brigadier general, she was the 16th chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
Michelle J. Howard was the first Black woman to command a U.S. Navy Ship in a long line of "firsts" as a Black woman. Born to an Air Force master sergeant, she graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and became the first woman admiral from that academy. Howard also has a Master's Degree in Military Arts and Sciences from the Army's Command and General Staff College. Her initial naval tours were aboard the USS Huntley and the USS Lexington. While aboard the latter, Howard received the Navy League Captain Collins Award for outstanding leadership. She served as chief engineer on the USS Mount Hood during the Persian Gulf War. In 2006, she was selected as a Rear Admiral (lower half), followed by an appointment as deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Division. In 2009, Howard became a Rear Admiral (upper half) as commander of the Expeditionary Strike Group Two.
Frank E. Petersen Jr. retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a Lieutenant General after 38 years of service as `the senior ranking aviator in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy with the titles of "Silver Hawk" and "Gray Eagle." He was the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps general. He started in the Navy in 1950 as a seaman apprentice and then became an electronics technician before graduating from the Naval Aviation Cadet Program as a second lieutenant.
Petersen served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars with the Marine Fighter Squadron 212 and flew over 350 combat missions. After serving in various command positions in Marine Corps aviation, he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1979. He was advanced to Major General in 1983 and to Lieutenant General in 1986 where he served as Commanding General, Combat Development Command and as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He received the Distinguished Service Medal prior to his retirement.
As the first Black man to become an admiral, Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. was a pioneer in the U.S. Navy. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to be commissioned an officer, the first to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship and the first fleet commander. He spent much of his life as a pioneer blazing the trail for others. Starting at Virginia Union University, he was a member of the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans before enlisting in the Naval Reserves in 1942, where he began as a Fireman Apprentice. The following year, he participated in the Navy's officers training program attending the University of California in Los Angeles, Pre-Midshipman School in New Jersey, and Midshipmen School at Columbia University. In 1944, Gravely successfully completed his training, becoming the first African American to be commissioned from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. He retired in 1980 and died at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2004. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Lillian E. Fishburne was commissioned an ensign after graduating from the Women Officers School at Newport, Rhode Island in 1973. She was assigned as the Personnel and Legal Officer at the Naval Air Test Facility and then to the Navy Recruiting District as a recruiter. After receiving her Masters Degree in Management in 1980, Fishburne was placed as the officer in charge of the Naval Telecommunications Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. This led her to the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where she earned a masters degree in Telecommunications Systems Management.
Her naval training was centered on computers and the communications systems, and her assignments reflected that training. Throughout her career, she was assigned to the Command, Control, Communications Directorate of Naval Operations; Joint Allied Command and Control Matters Branch; the Naval Communication Station, Japan; and the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Florida. Next she then graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1993 and was assigned the following year to the Joint Staff in Washington, D.C. as Chief, Command, Control Systems Support Division. Four years later, Fishburne became the first Black woman in the Navy to become Rear Admiral. She has received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal and the Navy Achievement Medal. Fishburne retired in 2001.
David L. Brewer, III was the vice chief of Naval Education and Training, and when he left the military, he was appointed superintendent of the Los Angeles School District (LAUSD). Brewer began his naval career as an Ensign, having graduated in the first Naval ROTC unit at Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black University. Brewer methodically moved through the ranks of the Navy in an array of assignments including Electronics Warfare Officer, Combat Information Center Officer, Weapons Officer and Engineering Officer, and has commanded the USS Bristol County, USS Mt. Whitney and has earned numerous awards. As Rear Admiral, he was commander of U.S. Naval Forces Marianas, Guam, Micronesia and Palau; then commander of Group THREE. He recently resigned as superintendent of the LAUSD.
Major General Charles Frank "Charlie" Bolden, Jr., USMC (retired), (born August 19, 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina) is a retired U.S. Marine Corps major general who served from 1981 to 1994 as an astronaut in the United States' space program. A 1968 graduate of the United States Naval Academy (USNA), he became a Marine Aviator and test pilot. After his service with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he became Deputy Commandant of Midshipmen at the USNA. Bolden is the virtual host of the Shuttle Launch Experience attraction at Kennedy Space Center.[1] In early January 2009 some speculation arose that Barack Obama may name Bolden as NASA Administrator to replace Michael D. Griffin.


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Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a technique that could make quantum cryptography significantly cheaper to implement, moving it nearer to possible commercial acceptance.
The technique, outlined in a paper to be published this month in the journal IEEE Communications Letters, is aimed at cutting the cost of equipment needed for quantum key distribution (QKD), designed to distribute cryptographic keys using a secure system based on the principles of quantum mechanics.
Such systems are typically based on the distribution of photons through a fiber-optic network, with information encoded in the polarization of the photons.
They are designed to allow an absolute level of security, with any attempt to monitor the system by a third party, for instance, necessarily disrupting the system.
However, such systems are expensive to implement, with the most common polarization-based protocol, known as BB84, requiring four single-photon detectors, costing US$5,000 to $20,000 each, the NIST said.
The new method, called detector-time-bin-shift (DTBS), shifts photons into two distinct "time bins."
This means a set of two detectors can be used to sequentially record the two sets of photons, rather than requiring four detectors to simultaneously record all the photons, the NIST said.
In their work on a protocol called B92, the researchers reduced the required number of detectors from two to one, the NIST said.
Further work carried out since the completion of this month's paper further reduced the number of photon detectors needed for the BB84 protocol from four to one, the NIST said.
The arrangement detailed in the paper cuts transmission rates by half, but the NIST system still works at broadband speeds, it said. The organization said its experimental network can encrypt and decrypt webcam-quality video streams in real time using DTBS.
In 2006 the NIST managed to shift quantum-encrypted information at a "raw" throughput of 4 million bits per second across a 1 km-long fiber link.
This was at least twice NIST's previous record, which has been rising since the agency announced it had broken the 1 million bits per second barrier in May 2004. At such transfer rates, it becomes practical to use QKD cryptography to secure a video stream.
In 2005 Toshiba Europe reached the demonstration phase of what it claimed was the first system to use quantum cryptography to secure a real-time video and voice data stream, developed by a 30-person team of scientists working at the company's Cambridge Research Laboratory.


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July 25, 2010
They are showing Bernie Williams's fucken band during the rain delay, and shit, they fucken suck. They're like a misbegotten offspring of Al Jarreau and Zamfir.
UPDATE: OK, now Bernie's playing motherfucken TMOTTBG like James Taylor on fucken 'ludes. STOP! JUST STOP!
UPDATE II: Finally, they're taking off the fucken tarp.


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The folks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were just trying to be cute (ha, what a weird opening line) with this post on surviving your wedding day. (Which every lady knows is THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF YOUR LIIIIFE.) But the piece, tagged under "natural disasters," perpetuates every single sexist wedding stereotype in the book:
You never know when Bridezilla might pop up. When dealing with an emotional bride, try to remember your loved one is probably stressed out and will soon return to her caring self after the wedding is over. Be supportive and have some bottled water from your emergency kit and a box of chocolate on hand. And remember there's safety in numbers; divide the bride's demands to other bridesmaids, groomsmen and family members to help ease your own stress.
I get enough wedding-centric bullshit from magazines, television, movies and my grandparents. Do I really need to get it from the government, too?
CDC's Wedding Day Survival Guide [CDC]
Image via Lane V. Erickson/Shutterstock.


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Five lessons from MyDavidCameron
By Clifford Singer
On 30 January I spoke at a packed session on "new media and the election" at the Progressive London conference, alongside Alex Smith, Helen Gardner, Sunny Hundal and Andy Newman. There were strong contributions from all my fellow speakers and from the audience. This, more or less, is what I said.
MyDavidCameron is the third of a trio of websites I've set up in the last 18 months which try to do politics a bit differently. The first, Bubblewrapped, was a response to the banking crash, and its entire audience comprised of two economists in Canada.
The second, the Other TaxPayers' Alliance, is still doing a pretty good job of annoying the TaxPayers' Alliance and other neoliberals hiding behind the banner of neutrality. It mixes more serious political commentary with an element of mockery, such as an online generator which supplies journalists with realistic TaxPayers Alliance quotes, because they always say the same thing anyway.
But MyDavidCameron has gone much bigger. In the three weeks since it launched, it's received 160,000 unique visits and, more significantly, its reach has extended beyond the usual politicos into countless discussion forums such as Mumnets, all sorts of football supporters networks, music and clubbing websites, and mainstream entertainment sites like Popbitch.
One way in which MyDavidCameron differs from most political sites (besides the fact that it's funny) is that it has a limited shelf-life. Drag it out too long and it will become the Oasis of viral campaigns. With this in mind I've distilled five lessons learned from creating the site, which may help others launching websites and campaigns.
1. Concept is everything
With a viral campaign concept is everything. It's too easy to get caught up in the technology – how do we use this widget to connect to Facebook or Twitter – and to forget about the basics of having something that's funny or useful or fascinating.
Rather embarrassingly – given that I work in new media – MyDavidCameron is the most lo-tech site I've built for years. Essentially it's a single, static page with lots of images. Even our DIY template required the user to have Photoshop – the clever automatic generators came later, as did online voting.
Since the success of MyBarackObama.com there's been a tendency to do a kind of Obama-by-numbers. First you're asked to support some kind of online action – maybe a petition to your MP. Then you're taken to another screen asking you to enter 10 friends' names so they can be contacted. Sometimes you're left wondering whether the original action had any significance at all, or whether it was just a convenient hook to harvest more contacts.
It's the online equivalent of the Socialist Worker sellers in your high street who have a different petition for you to fill in each week, when it's just a strategy to sell papers and recruit members.
2. Twitter matters
The second lesson we've learned is that while it's true that Twitter users represent only a small part of our audience, that doesn't make Twitter less important. Why? Because those Twitter users are a gateway to a wider audience.
We launched MyDavidCameron by tweeting about it to our Other TaxPayers' Alliance Twitter account - with a modest 400 followers. But very quickly the number of Twitter hits was overtaken by Facebook, and then Facebook was overtaken by direct visits. In other words those Twitter users had spread the message to Facebook and then both sets of users had spread it to the wider online world via good old fashioned email. Some might even have told others verbally.
And that has remained a consistent pattern. We announce new posters in Twitter and Facebook and that triggers a growth in visitors outside of those platforms. It's essentially what enabled us to contest a £500,000 Tory advertising campaign at zero cost.
3. Crowdsourcing is good
Twitter has also been our main tool for crowdsourcing, and if stating that online collaboration and crowdsourcing are good sounds a little obvious, I should add that it almost didn't happen for us.
Our DIY poster template was very much an afterthought. But it was that that made users engage. People started sending posters to each other. They uploaded them to Twitpic and Flickr, and this created a buzz. And every time we publish a poster, the person who created it tweets and emails their friends to tell them it's up.
Even the automatic generators were crowdsourced. LabourList supplied the first one, but when that crashed under too much bandwidth pressure, other volunteers provided their own. Now the tables have turned. The generators get so much traffic that they send us visitors rather than vice versa.
4. Crowdsourcing is bad
Collaboration and crowdsourcing, however, can also be bad. When we appealed for posters, what we wanted was high-minded satire about deficit reduction. What we got were hundreds of images of Cameron saying, and sometimes doing, unspeakable things. Some were funny, most weren't. And so we abandoned plans to upload them all, in favour of keeping a bit of good old-fashioned editorial control, which is what kept the quality so high.
5. Political satire is difficult
Political satire is a very difficult thing to do well. Even the best-known attempts, from Spitting Image to Mock the Week, tend to be fairly hit-and-miss.
Take the portrayal of Cameron as a toff. It's not so much Cameron's wealth that's the issue as the fact that 17 of his shadow cabinet colleagues are also millionaires (which in turn relates to a wider problem of the lack of working-class representation in Parliament). And it's not so much Cameron's background that's the problem as whose interests he represents: the rich over the poor.
So that's why we must beware of too many top hats and crass caricatures. We saw how Labour's clumsy attempts to harness this issue backfired during the 2008 Crewe byelection. And although there's now a wider gap between Labour and the Tories on issues of class and inequality, at the time it just looked opportunistic as New Labour was also on record as being – in Peter Mandelson's words – "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich".
And so our line of attack on this issue is to keep it funny but also to try to say a bit more than "Cameron's a toff". Some of the posters we've featured have done this brilliantly, such as Beau Bo D'Or's multi-layered "I love the BBC so much I want to cut it up into little pieces and give it to all my friends".
It's also the case that something that works well on a billboard in Hackney - "Fuck off back to Eton" – can end up looking shrill repeated in countless variations on a website. Therefore, far from being the "vicious" attack site painted by some Conservative critics, we've pulled our punches when it comes to language and personal abuse.
But we've also had to be careful not to go too far the other way. A few of our posters are funny but not very political at all – such as "Little Boots, actually". Taken alone, they could strengthen the case made (in very different contexts) by Ian Dale and Paul Richards that the viral campaign helps Cameron by putting him centre-stage. This view is presumably shared by the pro-Tory "Davefacts" website, which puts out ridiculous and sometimes amusing (but always apolitical) statements about Cameron.
Could we fall into the same trap? Perhaps, but only if we got rid of our posters proclaming "Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich", "Tough on jobs, tough on the causes of jobs", "We can't go on like this. I'll cut my taxes but not yours", and many others. As it is, I think there's a strong argument that Cameron needs more scrutiny not less, and we should not be overly concerned with the "all publicity is good publicity" argument. Ian Dale's commentators certainly didn't agree with his view that the Tory poster campaign had been a success.
The gap
One issue that's emerged is the glaring online gap between the populist satire of MyDavidCameron and those sites with a more politically committed audience, such as Liberal Conspiracy and Socialist Unity. We wanted to ensure that MyDavidCameron included links to more overtly political sites for those who wanted to find out more. But those sites had to be clear and accessible to a relatively mainstream audience, rather than aimed at activists or academics. We had trouble finding any.
This is not an either/or debate: we need sites dedicated to serious political analysis, discussion and theory. But we also need to think much more about how we get our message across to that elusive, wider audience.
Posted 2 February 2010, 2.20pm
Easy on the airbrushing, yeah?
Posted by Ian at 04:09pm on 3 February 2010
Thanks for sharing this. Irrespective of the target, these are some great lessons for all sorts of campaigns - including the third sector's harnessing of supporters and fundraisers. I've shared (on twitter of course) with my networks.
Nice work. Rob
Posted by Rob Dyson at 04:25pm on 3 February 2010
Good points (and a great site).
So that's why we must beware of too many top hats and crass caricatures. We saw how Labour's clumsy attempts to harness this issue backfired during the 2008 Crewe byelection.
True, although I found the poster with the top hat and Eton reference to be one of the funniest. If it's done with a sense of lightness and without hate, I think the wealth/class thing works. It's not just about who the Torys represent, it's also that someone with a wealthy background is unlikely to appreciate the difficulties faced on a daily basis by most people - in paying the rent, the electricity bill, being on welfare, etc.
Although the wealth/class thing may backfire on the New Labour party, this spoof poster project isn't representative of Labour - it's what members of the public come up with, no? It's an important distinction. If contributions reflect worries about the "toff" background of a potential leader of the country, and do so with humour, then it seems a valid expression, and may communicate something which isn't coming across in the media. There's no risk of this website losing an election, so why worry about this?
Posted by Bruce at 05:19pm on 3 February 2010
The failure of the Crewe and Nantwich campaign was manifold:
It was a tory seat, as the late Gwynneth Dunwoody must have told almost every Labour Party audience in the country at some point. Contested in mid term.
Choosing her daughter to be our candidate pitted apparent nepotism against the snobbery of the tories in selection an old Etonian as their candidate. Neither is al that attractive and the tories were wise to leave voters to draw their own conclusions.
Dressing labour folk up in fancy dress to make points never makes the point desired, it invites ridicule for its resemblance to advertising for children. In fact such antics characterise labour as the party of antics.
At that point Chameleon's front bench was much more nearly full of genuine toffs - like himself, his Geo Osborne, and his farther in law - than now. Now we have a wannabe plutocracy - 18 millionaires (at least). Then there were Old Etonians and if we were to use that against the tory candidate we needed to point to how disgracefully unrepresentative he and the Tory front bench were, not just have a pop at him in Crewe. And we needed to stress egalitarian policies alongside that.
I'm looking forward, as a byplay in the campaign, to people campaigning for a fairer deal for potential Tory Shadows, like Alan Duncan, and others of even less elevated backgrounds, who are more deserving of promotion in the Chameleon Tory party.
Dave Davis, anyone?
Posted by Quietzapple at 10:28pm on 3 February 2010
Point of order: davefacts isn't pro-tory, in fact I understand the site designers are non-partisan lefties from my neck of the woods some of whom may or may not work for a state broadcasting organisation and whose bosses know who they are and what they do.
Posted by Oranjepan at 10:39pm on 3 February 2010
We need a poster picking up the decimal point error the Tories made about teenage mothers. It's real giveaway. They quoted 5.4% (the actual statisatics) as 54%
I suggest:
5.4% of girls from poor families get pregnant before the age of 18. I think that's nearly half. Breeding like rabbbits
But I can't make the upload work.
Posted by Tony Crofts at 12:33pm on 16 February 2010
Pshaw! Have I got this right? All poor girls are 54% pregnant?
Posted by Quietzapple at 12:39pm on 16 February 2010
Many thanks for all the comments - and sorry for taking so long to reply. Would it make me sound too much like a politician if I said I agreed with everyone? Well I do. Except maybe Oranjepan, who seems to know more about Davefacts than me, but I offer this: http://www.oxfordspring.com/2010/01/lengths-some-people-will-go-to-for.html
Posted by Clifford Singer at 02:05pm on 21 February 2010
Well Clifford, I suspect you are agreeing with everyone who you would agree with anyway. Ever heard of the Rorschach test or cognitive bias? People most often see what suits them.
I think the important question you have to ask about DaveFacts is whether you think promoting the view that your party leader is a superhero inspires confidence in the membership, or whether it subjects to ridicule the self-affirming mindset of any group which would promote that view as not grounded in reality.
For my own part I think you are naturally inclined to assume DaveFacts is pro-tory because its' own specific political motivations against opinion and opinionators are hidden by the subtlety with which they are deployed and this obviously clashes with your view of a more overt tribal politics polarised along partisan lines.
If I were you I wouldn't be quite so quick to judge… it does occasionally help to know some actual facts - such as who designed the site.
Posted by Oranjepan at 03:49am on 22 February 2010
I also thought the top hat/eton joke was the funniest, in fact I printed it off and stuck it on my A level politics folder!
Posted by Will Hazell at 12:14am on 14 March 2010
Personally I find DaveFacts on Twitter anodyne and likely to sanitise the undertow of Chameleon. Recently 'he' has suggested peeps lobby for a mention on a local radio station.
The other Chameleon spoofs on twitter are less obtuse in their intentions, and more pointed imho.
Intentions are not the most important part of any story.
Posted by Quietzapple at 12:45am on 14 March 2010
Taking on vested interests
David Cameron, Saturday, March 20th, 2010 .
There's a very simple choice at this election: five more years of Gordon Brown, or change with the Conservatives.
I think this means we should vote for his vested interests and can you believe this is what he wants us to blog about. I think what he means is five years of Michael Cashcroft where they will look after our money in the shape of give it all to us.
Is this man deranged or what. Or does he think we are deranged that we would want to read such alot of nonsense.
Good luck to you David and if we are all deranged it could just be your day.
Posted by Pat at 10:35pm on 21 March 2010
When HMQ's seventh cousin gives the keys to CCHQ to Britain's 37th richest billionaire who claims dual British citizenship, who's evaded £127m Income Tax while donating many millions to the Tory Party and takes his jet round the WIndies with his Shadow Foreign Secretary I think we all know who is really taking the piss.
Posted by Quietzapple at 10:56pm on 21 March 2010
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A North Vancouver father scored a major victory for learning-disabled children Friday when the country's highest court ruled that a public school district discriminated against his dyslexic son by failing to teach him to read.
Rick Moore, who began his legal battle more than 15 years ago, said his family was thrilled with the Supreme Court of Canada's decision and believes it will have a profound impact around the province, even though the court did not find evidence of systemic discrimination.
"The fact that we won against one district means that all districts have to pay attention to the needs of these kids," a jubilant Moore said in an interview, referring to children who have normal intelligence but require specialized instruction because they learn differently.
In a unanimous ruling, the judges said special education "is not a dispensable luxury. For those with severe learning disabilities, it is the ramp that provides access to the statutory commitment to education made to all children in British Columbia."
Moore's lawyer Frances Kelly said the decision sets a national precedent and sends a message to all public schools. "This is a warning to them that they have to comply with their duties under the human rights code to ensure that students with learning disabilities have the same access to education as other students."
Education Minister Don McRae issued a statement saying the decision is under review but he is pleased the court did not find that the Education Ministry had discriminated against Jeff. He also said services for special-needs students have improved over the years.
Jeff was in Grade 3 and still unable to read when a psychologist recommended he attend the North Vancouver district's Diagnostic Centre, which provided specialized services for a small number of severely learning disabled students. But the district, in a financial crisis, had just closed the centre to save money.
Rick and Michelle Moore concluded they had no option but to withdraw Jeff from his neighbourhood school, Braemar elementary, and send him to a private school catering to learning-disabled children - while mortgaging their house to cover tuition and transportation costs. They will now recoup those costs, approximately $100,000, and Jeff will receive about $10,000 in damages.
Moore insisted the case was never about the money but rather the needs of learning-disabled children, especially those whose parents could not afford to pay private-school tuition and have been languishing in the public-school system.
The school district said it was reviewing the 42-page decision with lawyers and wouldn't be able to comment on its impact until next week. "While we are disappointed with the result, we of course respect the decision of the court," it said.
The district was criticized by the court for closing the Diagnostic Centre when it had other options. While acknowledging the serious budgetary shortfalls from 1991-95, it said the spending cuts were disproportionately made to special-needs programs, without any assessment of the impact on students.
At the same time, the board of education retained some discretionary services, including the Outdoor School.
Friday's judgment restores a 2005 decision by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal after 43 days of public hearings. That ruling had been overturned by the B.C. Supreme Court and the B.C. Court of Appeal, both of which sided with the district on the grounds that Jeff had received the same or better services than other learning-disabled students.
That wasn't good enough in the view of the top court.
"Comparing J (Jeff) only with other special needs students would mean that the district could cut all special needs programs and yet be immune from a claim of discrimination," Justice Rosalie Abella said in writing the decision. "If J is compared only to other special needs students, full consideration cannot be given to whether he had meaningful access to the education to which all students in British Columbia are entitled.
"This risks perpetuating the very disadvantage and exclusion the Code is intended to remedy."
The B.C. Teachers' Federation, which has long lobbied for better services for special-needs students, said teachers are grateful to the Moores for their "tireless and courageous" legal battle. "Their perseverance and commitment these long years has been inspiring. No family should have to fight so hard to get their children the education they deserve," president Susan Lambert said in a statement.
Jeff, now 25, graduated from Grade 12 at Fraser Academy in Vancouver, attended post-secondary and is now employed full-time as a plumber. For Rick Moore, his son's success despite his early struggles, was always a silver lining during their legal odyssey.
Find the ruling here: http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/12680/1/document.do


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- 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon Hungarian sweet paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 1/2 pounds bison or beef short ribs or 2 1/2 pounds boneless chuck, cut into 2-inch cubes
- 1/3 pound rindless slab bacon, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices
- 2 tablespoons (or more) olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup peeled chopped carrot
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 cups dry red wine (such as Syrah)
- 2 2/3 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup canned crushed tomatoes
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh sage
- 10 ounces pearl onions
- 1 1/2 cups 3/4-inch cubes peeled parsnips
- 12 baby turnips, trimmed, peeled
Mashed-Potato Crust
- 2 to 2 1/4 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, quartered
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large egg, beaten to blend
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
Recipe Preparation
Whisk first 4 ingredients in large bowl. Add bison; toss. Heat large pot over medium heat. Add bacon; cook until crisp. Transfer to paper towels. Add 2 tablespoons oil to pot; increase heat to medium-high. Working in batches, cook bison until browned, adding more oil by tablespoonfuls as needed. Return to same bowl. Add chopped onion, carrot, celery, and garlic to pot; cover and cook until vegetables soften, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add wine; bring to boil, scraping up any browned bits. Add broth, tomatoes, bay leaves, thyme, sage, reserved bacon, and bison. Reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer until bison is tender, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours (beef may take 1 1/2 hours).
Meanwhile, cook pearl onions in large saucepan of boiling salted water 2 minutes. Transfer to bowl of ice water; trim and peel.
Transfer bison to rimmed baking sheet. Cut meat off bones; cut meat into 3/4-inch cubes. Add parsnips and turnips to pot with bison sauce. Simmer until tender, stirring occasionally, 10 to 15 minutes. Add pearl onions; cook 5 minutes. Return meat to pot. Season with salt and pepper.
Mashed-Potato Crust
Cook potatoes in large pot of boiling lightly salted water until tender, 18 to 20 minutes. Drain. Heat milk, butter, and cream in medium saucepan until almost boiling. Rice potatoes into large mixing bowl; add milk mixture, 1 teaspoon coarse salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and whisk until smooth and slightly cooled, about 2 minutes. Whisk in egg.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Spoon bison filling into 3-quart (13x9x2-inch) baking dish. Spoon mashed potatoes over; smooth top to cover completely.
Beat egg and 1 tablespoon water to blend. Brush over potatoes, then sprinkle cheese all over. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
Bake pie until top is browned and filling is heated through, 30 to 40 minutes (50 to 60 minutes if chilled). Let rest 10 minutes.


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Does York deserve ranking as one of most dangerous cities?
Police chief says study uses data incorrectly
With just a few clicks through neighborhoodscout.com, you'll find York a few inches from the most dangerous city in the country. Below Philadelphia, below Harrisburg, below Baltimore, York is number 18.
"So of course it makes us look worse. I think they're just using the data incorrectly," said police Chief Wes Kahley.
Kahley said he knows this data well. He reports crimes to a state website and the FBI. He said that you really have to get into it and play with it a bit.
Neighborhood Scout took the number of violent crimes in York from two years ago and then divided it by the city's population.
"The site, the raw data they had was correct, but the way they utilized it, the information is what is methodically wrong," said Kahley.
In a city that's 5 square miles, with 40,000 people, Kahley thinks the math is unfair, especially when comparing York to larger cities he says have neighborhoods with more crime.
"It's not something simplistic. In America, we look at easy answers to things and we think we pull up the crime data and we can make a determination as to the state of the city but that's not the only thing people should be looking at," said Kahley.
State data details 442 violent crimes in the city last year, a 10-year low according to Kahley.
"We've never made the claim. We're where we need to be and that gets lost in the message sometimes. There's more work to be done," said Kahley.
The work will improve York's safety and its image online. Crime statistics are available on the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting website.


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Sunday, January 29, 2012
|The library before the Four Horsemen
(fire, blood, flood, and bookalanche) arrived
Yesterday I went to put a book back in the library, and found myself sloshing through a substantial amount of water. After an initial moment of panic in which I believed that our septic system was backing up, I discovered that in fact I had simply broken the washing machine, which was now pumping its entire supply of sudsy water across the floor of our house.
In telling this to D much later, I summarized: "So, thus far, I have set the kitchen on fire, bled with Jacobean abundance from hands and feet all over the ground floor, and flooded the library. Basically, I am the End of Days for this house."
"Have you considered sitting down and just, um, not doing anything for a while?", D asked.
"I'm Apocalyptic!" I replied, laughing low and not a little maniacally.


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My back room is down to the low 40's. There's 3 inches of new snow on the ground under a bright blue December sky. Time to make the beer! Or more specifically, time to make the lagers! The brewer's natural, seasonal calendar tells me that six months from now it'll be mid-June, there'll be no snow, and it'll be much warmer than it is now. Which means I will need an appropriate beer in hand. How about a pilsner? Don't mind if I do.
A few months ago, the Market started carrying a Bavarian beer called Arcobraü Zwickel Lager. Described on the bottle as a a traditional unfiltered lager, I realized, after the first couple bottles, that there was retrievable and usable yeast in the bottom… Little by little, bottle by bottle, I built up a pint or so of dregs which I fed and cultured to nearly a quart of yeast slurry. It is indeed a tasty beer, so I had to brew an appropriately tasty homebrew in which to pitch the saved yeast. This is not a clone of the Zwickel Lager, although it may end up pretty close.
Zwickelish Lager
5 gallons, all-grain
- 8 lbs. Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner malt
- 1/2 lb. melanoidin malt
- 1/2 lb. 30°L crystal malt (or Cara-Hell)
- 8 aau's Saaz hop pellets
- 1 oz. whole Hallertauer hops
- Arcobraü Zwickel Lager yeast (recultured)
- 3/4 cup corn sugar (for priming)
Crush grains. Heat 14 quarts water to 164°F. Mash in grains and hold 90 minutes at 153°F. Heat another 13 quarts water to 168°F. Begin runoff and sparge, collecting 25 quarts of sweet wort. Bring to a boil, add the Saaz hops. Boil 55 minutes, add the Hallertauer hops. Boil 5 minutes, remove from heat. Chill to 75°F, take a hydrometer reading, pitch yeast. Seal and ferment at 60°F for 48 hours then move fermenter to a 45°F area. Rack to secondary after two weeks (as long as active bubbling has stopped), condition cold ("lager") for five to six weeks at as close to 38°F as possible. Prime with corn sugar, bottle and age four weeks (one at 60°F, three at 40°F). Serve well chilled.
IBU's: 36
Further reading: Dave Miller's "Continental Pilsener" in the AHA style series, although a little dated now, perhaps, has a lot of great information about water, mashing and lagering in general, with several very usable recipes.
Note on style: Zwickel is best translated as "sample" – a zwickel is a small spigot on Bavarian lagering tanks, from which a brewer can pull a sample to test, taste and pass around. The style itself is rare outside of Franconia, Bavaria. It's undoubtedly more like a Continental Pilsner than a Munich Hell or Bohemian Pilsner.
Note on sparging: This sparge temp is lower than usual, to avoid starch contamination in the wort, which would detract from the color and clarity of the beer.
Notes on yeast: If you can't or daren't use the Arcobraü yeast, probably any Bavarian lager yeast will do the trick.


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Rigby soars into Palace Theater
Cathy Rigby is still flying high and she doesn't plan to come back down to earth anytime soon. Since the time she garnered honors as the highest-scoring American gymnast in the 1968 Summer Olympics at the age of sixteen, she has been an American sweetheart. Now at the age of sixty, she is still young enough in heart and spirit to continue to capture the essence of that never-grow-up kid "Peter Pan."
This purportedly shy young lady, just retired from gymnastics due to an injury, at twenty years of age, was offered this role that has now become synonymous with her name: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan. Grab some fairy dust and head over to the Palace Theater in Waterbury for four performances Friday-Sunday, Feb. 15-17 to see this high flying gal who promises to stay young forever.
Join hands with the Darling children, Wendy, Michael and John, as they are spirited out of their London townhouse by an adventurous lad named Peter and taught how to fly, fly all the way to the magical place called Neverland. There Wendy will quickly become a surrogate mother to a whole troupe of Lost Boys, befriend a tribe of Indians, meet an enchanted fairy named Tinker Bell, and come face to face with a band of fierce pirates headed by the scariest of them all, Captain Hook. There is even a crotchety crocodile.
J. M. Barrie's classic tale will come magically to life as Cathy Rigby, who has been capturing the role since 1990, soars through the air to ever higher and higher heights.
Before the Friday, Feb. 15, production, a dinner will be held at 6 p.m. at the Poli Club upstairs. Catered by Emily's Catering Group, the three-course dinner will cost $62.50 per person, including tax, service fees, coffee and tea. A cash bar will be available. Call the box office for reservations.
For tickets ($50-70), call the Palace Theater, 100 East Main Street, Waterbury at 203-346-2000 or online at www.palacetheaterct.org. Performances are Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.


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Tembo Engages Torrey Hills Capital for U.S. Investor Relations
February 01, 2013
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- Tembo Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:TEM) (OTCQX:TBGPF)(FRANKFURT:T23) ("Tembo" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has engaged San Diego Torrey Hills Capital, Inc. ("Torrey Hills") to provide investor relations services through investor road show meetings, public relations, and online media.
Torrey Hills is a leading investor and financial public relations firm specializing in small and micro-cap companies, primarily in the natural resource sector. Torrey Hills will increase awareness of Tembo through presentation meetings with investment professionals, investment advisors, and money managers focused on the microcap market space.
Torrey Hills will also profile Tembo on its website, www.babybulls.com, which showcases and provides exposure for emerging micro-cap companies to an audience of proven micro-cap investors.
Torrey Hills has been engaged on a month-by-month basis at a monthly fee of US$5,000 and will be granted stock options to purchase up to 200,000 common shares of Tembo for a period of three years at a price of $0.50 per share. The Options shall be subject to the terms of the Company's stock option plan and will vest in accordance with the provisions therein and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.
The appointment of Torrey Hills as an investor relations consultant of Tembo and the granting of the Options remain subject to regulatory acceptance of applicable filings with the TSX Venture Exchange.
About Torrey Hills Capital Inc.
Torrey Hills is a leading financial investor and public relations firm focused on small and micro-cap companies which trade in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Their marketing activities articulate their clients' key investment attributes, strategic direction, and financial expectations, all of which combine to ensure that their market value fully reflects past achievements and future opportunities. Torrey Hills focuses on a limited number of companies in order to provide comprehensive coverage, including unique investment related features not available anywhere else.
About Tembo Gold Corp.
Tembo is a Canadian publicly listed mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and development of gold projects in Tanzania and the rest of Africa. The Company currently has a 100% interest in the Tembo Gold Project that is located adjacent to African Barrick's Bulyanhulu Mine in the prolific Lake Victoria Greenstone belt in Tanzania. The company is led by a highly experienced team with a proven history of developing, financing, and operating mining projects in Africa.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors of Tembo,
David Scott, President & CEO
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information set out in this news release constitutes forward-looking information. Forward looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "intend", "could", "might", "should", "believe" and similar expressions. In particular, this news release contains forward-looking statements in respect of the use of the net proceeds from the Private Placement, the completion and timing of additional closings of the Non-Brokered Private Placement, the payment of certain finders' fees and the listing of the Common Shares on the TSXV. Forward-looking statements are based upon the opinions and expectations of management of the Company as at the effective date of such statements and, in certain cases, information provided or disseminated by third parties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, and that information obtained from third party sources is reliable, they can give no assurance that those expectations will prove to have been correct. With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this news release, the Company has made assumptions regarding, among other things, the ability to develop the Company's properties, the economic climate in the jurisdictions where the Company carries on operations and commodity prices. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements contained in this document, and the assumptions on which such forward-looking statements are made, are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements included in this document, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not occur, which may cause actual results in future periods to differ materially from any estimates or projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, a significant drop in the price of gold, political turmoil in Tanzania and other risk factors set forth in the Company's continuous disclosure. Readers are cautioned that this list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive. These statements are made as at the date hereof and unless otherwise required by law, the Company does not intend, or assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements.
Contact Information
Tembo Gold Corp.
Marc Cernovitch
Director & VP Business Development
Apex Capital Inc.
Brett Allan
Torrey Hills Capital
Jim Macdonald


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