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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Earth and wine in Champagne
Champagne is not dead!*
It is fairly telling that a tasting organized by a group of like-minded young Champagne growers and held on a sunny spring day in the town of Aÿ would drape itself in this rebellious slogan:
One day, eighteen growers, pouring vins clairs and finished wines. Coming from all corners of the region, from Merfy, north-west of Reims, all the way down to Les Riceys, some 200km south, and all the way west to Crouttes-sur-Marne, almost abutting the Paris region: these were the vignerons of Terres et Vins de Champagne. If their vineyards were relatively far-flung, a shared spirit of revolt united them, however.
Revolt. The word is important. It snaps off the tongue; it is a banner and a flag of pride for the group: a front united by friendship. Ask anyone, even wine geeks who like champagne, and you're likely to hear that it is the most "artificial" of wines; that it bespeaks its terroir the least; that it is a marketing entity; that the landscapes of the region are dead.
To a large extent, commercialism and the lucre-seeking tactics of some big négociants have made this true.
But Champagne is budding. This new guard of growers—and what is equally exciting is that I can think of many others who are doing similar things in a similar spirit—believes in place. Believes in both tradition and the earth.
I was struck when Aurélien Laherte told me that his cuvée Les Clos, which is a field blend of all of the 7 authorized grape varieties in Champagne (chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot meunier, arbanne, petit meslier, pinot blanc and fromenteau) was not a wine that had been calculated with such and such a percentage of each to create a technical marvel. It was done as a "kind of archival act," he said, of conserving roots in the past, keeping alive those little berries that had their use (petit meslier keeping up the acidity in a warm year when the pinot meunier might get too flabby). "Who knows, if we have another vintage like 2003"—the heat-wave year—"we might be saved by petit meslier."
Some of the growers have ungrafted vines, like Chartogne-Taillet's Les Barres and Tarlant's Vigne d'Antan, both distinctive, and deep. Some forgo sulfur, such as Benoît Lahaye in his excellent cuvée Villaine. Many opt for low or no dosage, which ripeness allows for. We are worlds away from technical laboratories and vast quantities of wan juice tricked up with sugar and a little bit of old wine so that they taste the same from year to year.
These growers are aware of the land, the soils, the climate, and what their practices are doing. Pascal Doquet has been converting his vineyards to organic farming over the past decade, and he said with startlement that very quickly, the roots of the vines went from being spread out almost horizontally very shallowly beneath the soil to plunging downward—here, with the gesture of a hand, he showed the roots no longer rebuffed by the tight, unbreathable soil in which everything had been killed by pesticides.
But of course, the cool thing is that this is not just talk. Tasting the vins clairs showed the stuffing of what would be elaborated into finished champagnes. And those champagnes. They are so good. This is why we care.
At the end of the day, all I had in front of me was a comfortable train ride from Epernay back to Paris. How could I not beg a glass of Pascal Doquet Vertus here, or René Geoffroy Pureté or Bérèche Vallée de la Marne Rive Gauche there?
I did so. I drank them down, and every drop was real good.
*By the bye, this lovely picture of vines in Vertus was taken by Pascal Doquet.
3 comments:
- The Wine Mule said...
Vive le récoltant! Down with "sur latte"!
(All this Bouzy talk of revolt makes me Dizy)
- April 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- eric wine coolers said...
i do feel Champagne is a product of expert marketing. there is something prestigious and valuable about the word Champagne, the name Champagne but wine is much more deep and pure.
- May 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- red wine said...
Nice post, thank you for sharing. You have really imparted useful knowledge on
- August 2, 2011 at 6:40 AM
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Glazed Short Ribs
|Vegetables, Berries, Meat
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Source: Recipe from Chef Kenneth Oringer
A tantalizing blend of seasonings, including star anise and lavender, grace these short ribs with flavor. The ribs are cooked until tender and served with a reduction sauce.
8 short ribs of beef, 16 oz. each, plus extra bones, roasted
Salt and pepper
4 tbsp. olive oil
6 carrots, coarsely chopped
6 celery stalks, coarsely chopped
4 onions, coarsely chopped
1 cup port
2 cups red wine
4 juniper berries
2 tsp. coriander
1 tsp. fennel seed
2 cinnamon sticks
2 whole star anise
4 bay leaves
1 tsp. black peppercorns
2 1⁄2-in. piece fresh gingerroot
12 thyme sprigs
1⁄4 cup parsley leaves
1 tsp. lavender
2-4 cups chicken stock
12 cloves
1. Season ribs with salt and pepper. In a large pan, heat oil and sear until brown.
2. Add carrots, celery, and onions to the pan and lightly brown. Add roasted bones and deglaze pan with port.
3. Add remaining ingredients and cover pot with foil. Simmer until tender, about 2 hr. Remove ribs from pot and set aside.
4. Strain liquids through a sieve. Degrease remaining liquid, and reduce until liquid has a sauce consistency.
5. Glaze ribs with sauce and serve immediately.


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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Our honeymoon!
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Oh that makes me so nostalgic! I grew up in Maine and Monhegan Island is a place I adore. My father was a banker and had to go out for some business once and I got to go with him- it was a long boat ride but so memorable. I remember our boat had to wait because the tide was so low, we didn't know if we would be able to leave.ReplyDelete
Looks like an awesome honeymoon!!
Just came across your blog - great pics! I grew up on Monhegan and was married out there in June, 2002. I now update a Monhegan site - ironically I just posted about island weddings and rain. Feel free to comment on your island honeymoon and / or post some of your lovely pictures if you are willing to share them...
Monhegan is wonderful. I spent a summer in Maine doing a marine biology internship and we went out to the island for a day. It was one of the highlights of my stay in Maine. I totally agree about the water being too cold to swim. I'm from Arknasas and the entire time I was up there I basically froze.ReplyDelete
aw jill, sooo nice.ReplyDelete
Awesome pics to capture the wonderful honeymoon. You look like a very in loved couple.ReplyDelete


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With the fiscal cliff looming in less than three weeks, the defense budget is on the chopping block. NASA's funding has already been slashed and its highest-profile program of the past several decades--the space shuttle--is gone.
But one enterprising American, John D. of Longmont, Colo., has proposed what he suggests could be the solution to the defense budget conundrum: the construction of a Death Star.
John D writes:
We petition the Obama administration to: Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016
Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016.
By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.
We the people petitions have one month to a achieve a threshold of 25,000 signatures, and John's hit its goal with a day to spare.
As much as science fiction nerds of all stripes might love to see a Death Star come into reality, the likelihood that the government will build a superweapon the size of the moon is unfortunately nil.
So how might the White House reply?
A handful of similarly unlikely, bordering on absurd, petitions have made it past the 25,000 threshold.
A slew of state secession requests cropped up after President Obama won reelection, including one for Texas that garnered almost 120,000 signatures, and one that pressed for Obama's impeachment that pulled in more than 40,000 signatures.
Neither of those--nor one that suggested the U.S. deport anyone who signed the various petitions to secede--earned an official response.
In fact, the White House doesn't seem to have much humor about any of the petitions, no matter how ridiculous, but there are exceptions.
Citizens successfully convinced the administration to publish the recipe for the White House kitchen home-brewed beer after the president was spotted handing out bottles on the campaign trail.
Another pressed the White House to "formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race" and though it got an official response, no big ET reveal was forthcoming.
The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye.
However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth...
A last point: Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life.
Many have also noted, however, that the odds of us making contact with any of them—especially any intelligent ones—are extremely small, given the distances involved.
But that's all statistics and speculation. The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.
They also sometimes just decline to comment.
Still, we can always hope they'll have something good to say about the potential construction of a superweapon (hopefully without a thermal exhaust port vulnerable to X-wing attack).


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NH man witnessed JFK ceremonies perched high in the Capitol DomeBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hamsphire Union Leader
November 22. 2013 12:44AM
As John F. Kennedy's casket was brought to the nation's Capitol two days after his assassination, a New Hampshire resident took photographs of the somber procession from an unlikely perspective — a catwalk halfway up the Capitol dome.
North Conway resident James Westhall, an aide to then-U.S. Rep. Louis Wyman, R-N.H., was the only one of seven people on the catwalk with a camera. The day was a Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, and a horse-drawn caisson brought the assassinated President to the Capitol building to lie in state.
"It was high. Behind a flagpole is where I was standing," Westhall said Thursday. "I thought is this possible? This is like a bad movie. It didn't seem real."
Westhall shared his exclusive photographs with the New Hampshire Union Leader this week.
They capture the mood of dismay that fell upon the nation.
One shows the Kennedy casket delivered on a horse-drawn caisson, with a riderless horse behind it. Trees are bare, the lawn has turned its November brown, and hundreds of mourners are grouped in an arc on one side of the plaza, others in a line on the other.
Westhall said he heard only the muffled hooves of the horses before taking the photo.
"It was just a quiet picture, a quiet scene. You didn't hear anything; it was stark silence," said Westhall, an author and retired tennis tournament promoter.
Westhall took another photo once he stepped back inside. Still halfway up the dome, he shot down upon the Capitol Rotunda, where the casket lay in state. He had no flash, so the brightest spot of the photo is the flag-draped casket.
Shadows otherwise dominate the moment. Dignitaries form an imperfect circle around the casket. And the casket rests off-center from a cross formed by shafts of light that bisect the semi-circle.
Westhall landed on his perch thanks to a fellow congressional aide, Pennsylvania native Gerry Schiappa, who at the time worked for a Pennsylvania congressman whose office was across the hall from Wyman's. Westhall said Schiappa, who became a lifelong friend, befriended everyone in the Capitol. So when the Kennedy procession arrived, Sciappa grabbed Westhall and five others and they made their way to the dome walkway.
"Unlike today, we just walked by everybody," Westhall said. "They said 'Hi Gerry.' He responded to them and we walk up the steps."
Sciappa later worked for Wyman as well. Westhall said Sciappa's widow spends part of the year at a family summer home in Wolfeboro.
Westhall said he was up in the dome for about an hour. None of his fellow observers said anything, and he was the only one with a camera — a Zeiss Ikon Contina, with which he took 35mm slides.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Nov 2010 10:46 UTC
The US is really ramping up its war on intellectual property infringement, a war which I'm sure will be just as successful, cheap and supported by the people as the wars on drugs and terrorism. The US has started seizing the domain names of various websites through ICANN - not because owners of these sites were convicted of anything, but merely because complaints have been filed against them. Anyone want to take a guess how long it will be before the US government blocks WikiLeaks? Update: The blocks function outside of the US too. In other words, the US is forcing its views upon the rest of the world once again.
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The
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Richardson, Samuel
Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761, English novelist, b. Derbyshire. When he was 50 and established as a prosperous printer, Richardson was asked to compose a guide to letter writing. The idea of introducing a central theme occurred to him, and he interrupted his task to write and publish his novel of morals in letter form, Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded (2 vol., 1740). The novel tells the story of a virtuous young maidservant who so successfully eludes the lecherous assaults of her employer's son that the young man finally marries her. The guide, known now as Familiar Letters, came out in 1741, just before Vol. III and IV of Pamela. Richardson wrote two more long, epistolary novels, Clarissa Harlowe (7 vol., 1747–48), the tragic story of a girl who runs off with her seducer, regarded today as his best work, and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (7 vol., 1753–54). All Richardson's novels were enormously popular in their day. Although he was a verbose and sentimental storyteller, his emphasis on detail, his psychological insights into women, and his dramatic technique have earned him a prominent place among English novelists.
See his correspondence, ed. by A. L. Barbauld (6 vol., 1804 repr. 1966) biographies by T. C. D. Eaves and B. D. Kimpel (1971) and J. Harris (1987) studies by J. W. Krutch (1930, repr. 1959), J. J. Carroll (1969), M. Kinkead-Weekes (1973), C. G. Wolff (1973), and W. B. Warner (1979), C. H. Flynn (1982), and M. Doody and P. Sabor, ed. (1989).
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Get out and explore over 200 years of canals that built New York and the nation.
The immediate success of the Erie Canal in 1825 started a canal building frenzy which would shape New York into the Empire State. Now almost two hundred years later there is much to see and do across the state for everyone. For the boater there is the current Erie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayuga-Seneca Canals to explore. For the festival enthusiast there are dozens of events across the state celebrating each towns' history and the importance of the canals. For the history lover there are many canal museums and parks preserving the past for years to come. And for the explorer, there are many things that have been lost to the past and are waiting to be re-found and cherished for years to come.
Boating on the Erie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayuga-Seneca Canals
The Current New York State Canal System, formerly referred to as the Barge Canal, connects all the major waterways in and around New York State. The canals connect the Hudson River, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Champlain, Oneida Lake the Finger Lakes and many other areas around New York State. While on a cruise through New York, boaters are treated to the great hospitality that the New York State Canal System is known for.
In the recent years as commercial traffic has turned towards truck, rail and ships, but the canal has reinvented itself as a destination for the recreational boater. The Canal Cooperation has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on reviving the canal-side towns that once were prosperous from passing commercial barges, they are opening up their town docks and walls to recreational boaters, with many providing free docking, and a good percentage with power, water and other services. This effort has made the canal a world class destination for a short weekend getaway or an entire vacation.
Rich History: A State Built by Canals
The Erie Canal is often the first canal that comes to mind when one thinks of the canals across New York, but it is only one of the more than thirty navigable canals that were built across New York in the past 280 years. The first canal, dug on the Mohawk River near Utica, dates back to 1730 ([1]), 95 years before the Erie Canal and 58 years before New York joined the Union!
The Little Falls Canal, opened in 1795, was the first major canal and started the groundwork for the Rome Canal and eventually the Erie Canal. Following the lead of the major success of the Erie Canal, residents from across the state petitioned the state to build a canal in their neck of the woods. Nearly all of today's major cities and villages across the state once had a canal through it which would connect to the Erie Canal and the world, or was directly benefited by such canals.
Explore by Boat, Bike, Car or Foot
Exploring the waterways of New York means many things to different people, but the canals of New York will leave no one disappointed. For those looking for a controlled experience, there are many museums and parks across the state to guide one through history and adventure. For those looking for an off the beaten path adventure, there are many sites that have been forgotten about and are waiting to be rediscovered.
Weather you are travelling by boat on one of the remaining canals, peddling on one of the many bike trails that crosses the state such as the Canalway Trail or just taking an afternoon adventure by car or foot, you will find something that sparks your interest.
Activities, Festivals & Music
Nearly all summer long and in every town along the entire canal system communities celebrate their heritage through festivals. These offer something for everyone, from boat rides to craft fairs and music to fireworks. See the Annual Canal Events page for festivals near you.
The canal also lives on today in popular songs that were once sung by canal digger and boaters. The most famous song is the Erie Canal Song Low Bridge and is sung by thousands of students across New York every year in classrooms and school performances. The song was written just as modern metal tugs were replacing the mule drawn wooden barges of the past.
2016 Boating Season Information
The canal boating season runs roughly from May 1st though November 15th annually, weather permitting. A detailed time of when locks and lift bridges are operated is given below:
|2016 Dates
|Lock Times
|April 27 to May 25
|7:00 AM to 5:00 PM
|May 26 to September 7
|8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
|(Additional hours below for certain locks)
|September 8 to November 20
|7:00 AM to 5:00 PM
|November 21 - April 30
In addition to the schedule listed above, the following locks will operate from 7:00am to 10:00pm from May 26 to September 7:
|2016 Extended Lock Hours
|7:00am to 10:00pm • May 23 to September 11
|Lock C-1
|Lock E-7
|Lock E-23
|Lock O-1
|Lock O-2
|Lock O-3
|Lock E-24
|Main Street Lift Bridge
|Lock E-32
|Lock E-33
|Spencerport Lift Bridge
|Adams Basin Lift Bridge
|Park Avenue Lift Bridge
|Main Street Lift Bridge
|Holley Lift Bridge
|Hulberton Lift Bridge
|Ingersoll Street Lift Bridge
|Main Street Lift Bridge
|Eagle Harbor Lift Bridge
|Knowlesville Lift Bridge
|Medina Lift Bridge
|Middleport Lift Bridge
|Gasport Lift Bridge
|Exchange Street Lift Bridge
|Lock E-34/35
|Lock CS-1
|Lock CS-2/3
|Seneca Falls
|Lock CS-4
A canal pass is required to transverse the locks and lift bridges. The price of the pass is determined by the duration of the pass (two-day, ten-day or full season) and the size of your vessel. Kayaks, canoes, and other similarly powered craft navigate the canal free of charge, and do not require a pass. The fee structure is as follows:
|Vessel Length
|Two-Day Pass
|Ten-Day Pass
|Seasonal Pass
|Under 16 ft.
|16 ft. – 25 ft.
|26 ft. – 39 ft.
|Over 39 ft.
For the latest canal conditions and notice to mariners, call 1-800-4CANAL4. Also, to contact any lock use marine radio channel 13 (preferred) or find their phone numbers here. Times subject to change at anytime by the New York State Canal Corporation.
|Major Canals & Popular Pages:
| Erie Canal • Oswego Canal • Champlain Canal • Cayuga-Seneca Canal • Other Canals of New York
Oneida Lake • Lake Champlain • Canal Links • Canalway Trail • Annual Canal Events


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NHIAA Boys' Basketball: Free throws the difference for WestBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 16. 2017 12:51AM
MANCHESTER — You didn't need a high basketball IQ to spot the difference in Friday night's Division II opener between Manchester West and Goffstown. The Blue Knights made most of their free-throw attempts, and the Grizzlies did not.
West was 14 of 20 from the free-throw line, including 6 for 6 in the game's final minute, and came away with a 66-58 victory.
"I was glad at the end when we talked about slowing down, which is not something we typically will do, they were able to slow down, pull the ball out and make the free throws at the end," first-year West coach Justin Gorham said. "That's what was able to win the game. Take the fouls, and make the free throws. And we did that."
Goffstown missed 16 of its 29 free-throw attempts.
"We missed too many good looks inside," Goffstown coach Mike Gasper said. "If you don't convert them against a good team it comes back to haunt you. And 16 (missed) free throws is ridiculously poor. We work on them (free throws) a lot in situations where they've run or they've worked hard and now they're breathing — so we work on them in game situations. I can't explain it."
Despite its poor night from the line, Goffstown led by one after three quarters, but was held to seven points over the final eight minutes. It was 56-56 with 4:27 to play, but West finished the game with a 10-2 run.
West's Marion Ross and Gob Gob each tossed in a game-high 16 points. Ross made five of West's 10 3-pointers.
"We will rely on that (making 3-pointers) sometimes, but getting to the basket at this point is what we need to do because we don't have that many shooters right now," Gorham said. "In the fourth quarter they might have gotten a little tired. We weren't really tired I don't think."
The Grizzlies had three players score in double figures: forward Teagan Collins had 15, guard Connor Hujsak tossed in 11 and guard Mathieu Eberhardt finished with 10.
An 11-0 run handed Goffstown a 32-26 lead with 2:21 to play in the second quarter, but West pulled within two points, 36-34, at halftime. Goffstown's eight-point advantage was the largest lead either team had in the game.
"It comes down to you're on the road against a solid team and if you're lead is one when it could have been eight you're climbing up a hill," Gasper said. "You know they're going to get the energy, the adrenaline because the crowd's behind them.
"It's hard to put it on one thing, but if we made free throws ..."


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Vintner Marc Mondavi with Kay Burke, who chaired the event with her husband, Jim. Photo by Chris Yaros, Special to The Denver Post
Marc Mondavi may have been born into one of the world's best-known winemaking families, but he certainly wasn't handed the keys to the vineyards and allowed to have at it.
In Denver for a tasting put on by the Denver Center Alliance, Mondavi recalled that his role in the family business began when he was 10 years old and assigned to tasks that paid 25 cents an hour. Today he is the president, CEO and chief ambassador for CK Mondavi Family Vineyards headquartered in California's Napa Valley.
He represents the third generation of Mondavis to run the winery that his grandfather, CK Mondavi, bought in 1943. He takes particular pride in the fact that "We farm sustainably and organically. We'd be 100 percent organic, but there's a pest that afflicted some of our vines and so we're under mandate by the state to spray so that it doesn't spread."
Mondavi also lifted a toast to the end of the 2009 harvest, which yielded grapes that were "well above average in quality."
Seventy people attended the event chaired by Kay and Jim Burke and held at Ed and Gayle Novak's downtown restaurant, The Broker. Gayle Novak is president of the Denver Center Alliance.
Seven varieties of Mondavi wine were offered for the tasting: a cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, merlot, zinfandel, pinot noir, pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc. A buffet of heavy hors d'oeuvres and desserts accompanied the wines.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Braves second baseman Dan Uggla is scheduled to make a rehab start for Triple-A Gwinnett as he comes back from eye surgery.
Uggla will start from the G-Braves on Monday night when they host the Norfolk Tides in suburban Atlanta.
When he went on the disabled list Aug. 13, Uggla was hitting only .186 with an NL-leading 146 strikeouts. He battled eye problems all season before deciding to have the Lasik procedure.
Tyler Pastornicky initially replaced Uggla in the lineup, but he lasted only two games before a collision with outfielder Jason Heyward left the infielder with a season-ending knee injury. The Braves then claimed Elliot Johnson off waivers from Kansas City to fill the void until Uggla returns.
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Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer. University of California Press, 392 pages, $39.95.
Reviewed by Monica Szurmuk
Almost a decade ago historian Natalie Zemon Davis wrote about the differences in the "hunger" to know about the past, positing a conflict between the descendants of those who had suffered a traumatic experience and the curiosity of the professional historian, who came to the same material with different questions. Aware of this emotional gap, historians and cultural critics have been grappling with finding ways to tell compelling stories that are true to the archive and the hard facts but also evoke the individual experiences of those who were part of the past. As a result, academics have been bringing their own empathic responses into their texts, telling stories that are not only true to their sources (in the case of history) but also interesting to read as literature. For many historians, spinning stories is as important as researching them.
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's monumental book "Ghosts of Home" is a stunning marriage of intellectual curiosity and personal search. In the process, Hirsch, a literary critic, and historian Spitzer stretch the limits of academic writing. This volume, along with their recent works "Family Frames" and "Hotel Bolivia," have been explorations into embodied cultural history, cultural studies at its best. While most academic writing still relegates the personal to the acknowledgment page, Spitzer and Hirsch have been making their readers privy to some of their family history for over a decade.
We know that Hirsch and Spitzer are a married couple, children of European Jews who escaped the Holocaust, Spitzer's in exile in Bolivia, Hirsch's in Romanian Cernãuti. We already know some of their family history and have seen personal family photographs that acquire importance in the context of "Ghosts of Home.". In this work, they bring the experience of previous research – Hirsch's work on photography and memory; Spitzer's on exile and memory and German culture – into material that both allows and requires a more personal involvement as well as thorough library and archival research.
The idea for "Ghosts of Home" came during a trip with Hirsch's parents to Czernowitz, the city where they lived the first part of their lives, as children of emancipated Jews in the easternmost German-speaking metropolis of Europe. Lotte and Carl Hirsch guide their children through the city where they were born, a place where Jews had been awarded possibilities and status within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a political entity, Czernowitz ceased to exist in 1918, but it remained alive in the memories and the writings of the German-speaking Jews who called it home. After First World War, the city fell under Romanian authority, and after WWII under Soviet rule. It is now a part of modern day Ukraine but it is still holds different layers of history, languages, and memories, a place where in the words of Czernowitzian poet Paul Celan, people and books lived.
"Ghosts of Home" reads with the poignancy of memoir, yet in a collective voice. Spitzer and Hirsch wrote the book together and their voices merge and mingle into each other. The overarching authorial voice is nuanced and reflective but also informed. The researchers embark on four different trips to the city: the first one with Hirsch's parents in 1998, and the last one in 2008 for the celebration of Czernowitz's six-hundredth anniversary. During one of the visits they also visit the region of Transnitria where Jews were deported during the Holocaust. The research on the Vapniarka camp is amazingly detailed and throws light on the special characteristics of the Holocaust in Romania, and on the distinctions between extermination and work camps.
An interesting tidbit in the book is the analysis of one of photographs of the Hirsches during the war. In one of them there is a spot on Carl Hirsch's lapel that the writers think might be the Star of David that Jews were required to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe. Hirsch and Spitzer do extensive research on the use of the Star, interview different survivors, read memoirs, and keep enlarging the photograph until it is a blur, an approach reminiscent of the obsession of the translator-photographer in Julio Cortázar´s brilliant short story "Las babas del diablo." The spot never reveals itself unequivocally to be a Star or not. The haunting ambiguity about the past – what was, what could have been — is present throughout the text. We all know that memory is selective, capricious, fastidious. Some elements are forever lost, while others endure and are passed on.
"Ghosts of Home" is a testimony to Czernowitz and its inhabitants, but also a homage all the Jews at the turn of the twentieth century who embraced modernity and civic life with ardor and passion in Europe and in the Americas. It shows the nuanced ways in which emancipation marked a generation, and defined its life, before, throughout, and after the Nazi terror. But it is also a book about buildings, about books, about the theatre, the opera, and political activism. It is a fascinating reconstruction of a place throughout the twentieth century, with a special emphasis on the power players who dominated it – from Austro-Hungarian Czernowitz to Romanian Cernauti, Soviet Chernovsty, and Chernivtsi in the Ukraine. Above all it is a book about home, family, and loss.
Mónica Szurmuk is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City. She is the author of "Mujeres en viaje: escritos y testimonios," "Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives," "Memoria y ciudadanía," and co-editor of the "Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos."


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Mexico City's fabled Estadio Azteca has been the backdrop for some of history's most unforgettable FIFA World Cup ™ moments. Pele's last sparks of invention on the world stage, a final glimpse of the old Jules Rimet Cup and Maradona's famous goals against England in 1986 all took place on the lush grass of the vintage North American gem. Known simply as the Azteca, it is one of the beautiful game's truly great gathering places - and the only one to host two FIFA World Cup Final matches.
Teetering 7,200 feet above sea level, the stadium has earned a reputation for Mexico's national team as a fortress of results. In fact, Mexico only saw their FIFA World Cup ™ qualifying unbeaten streak in the stadium end in 2001 when they lost 2-1 to Costa Rica.
The bowl's signature roof traps and amplifies noise from the massive upper level, filling the air with high pitch shrieks and a deafening, cacophonous din to make the Mexico City landmark, and home to domestic giants Club America, one of the loudest stadiums anywhere. Add to that its more notorious conditions, namely altitude and smog, and you have the most inhospitable of venues for visiting teams.
The perfect football stadium lines up the legends
Built in 1966 ahead of the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1970 FIFA World Cup, the cavernous, three-tiered bowl was designed to hold almost 115,000 fans. An over-the-top undertaking for the time, the Azteca is a vivid demonstration of Mexico's mad devotion to the people's game.
The full construction took nearly four years to complete. Architects Pedro Ramirez Vasquez and Rafael Mijares travelled the globe before breaking ground to catch glimpses of the finest football stadiums of the time. Trips to Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Paris, London, Moscow and Warsaw provided the duo with the inspiration they needed to design what many consider to be a faultless football stadium.
In addition to being an impregnable fortress for the Mexican national team, the Azteca has witnessed some of the most electrifying and immortal FIFA World Cup moments of the last 40 years. Pele said his goodbye to the international game with a peerless performance in the 1970 Final against Italy, inspiring what many call the greatest team of all time to a masterful 4-1 victory over an Italian side infamous for their cohesive defence.
The man many consider the greatest footballer in history scored a perfect low-and-hard header in the 18th minute from Rivelino's swerving cross. Leaving Albertosi with no chance, the celebration that followed involved Pele leaping into Jairzinho's arms and has since become one of the most recognisable snapshots in football history. After a 4-1 result, the Seleção, playing a languid, sultry brand of football never to be seen again, passed the Jules Rimet Cup around the brilliant Azteca grass for what would turn out to be the last time in 24 years.
Italy had a magic moment of their own en route to the ill-fated final. After finishing 90 minutes against West Germany even at one apiece, the semi-final's extra time period will go down in the annals of history as one of the most magnificent half hours of football ever played for a mass audience. A double from 'der Bomber' Gerd Muller and goals from Tarcisio Burgnich, Luigi Riva and Gianni Rivera saw a desperate attacking session fuelled by fatigue and the Azteca's extreme altitude.
Of all the moments of drama played out on the Azteca's manicured stage down through the years, Maradona's magic act of Mexico 86 stares down all comers. After surviving a massive earthquake one year earlier, the stadium barely withstood the earth-shattering orchestrations of El Diego.
Soon after the Azteca witnessed Manuel Negrete slam a scintillating side-bicycle against Bulgaria home to put El Tri in the quarter-finals, the towering ground got its first glimpse of Argentine genius Diego Armando Maradona at the quarter-final stage. When the Albiceleste locked horns with bitter old enemies England it was to prove a famous day in the folklore of the FIFA World Cup as both sides of the fractured star were on display for the shrieking Azteca to savour.
In the 51st minute, Maradona turned villain in the eyes of purists and moralists everywhere. Pouncing on the end of a horrid looping back pass from Steve Hodge, the diminutive genius rose to head over veteran goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Though the English captain and keeper was getting on in years, the possibility of him being out-leaped by the diminutive Maradona seemed unbelievable - and indeed it was. Replays proved what the England bench had suspected all along: Maradona had punched the ball into the net.
In a post-match press conference, the No10 cheekily attributed
the goal to divine intervention, labelling it
El Mano de Dios, or the Hand of God.
His second goal of the match settled the score at 2-1 and was voted the Goal of the Century by FIFA.com users in 2002. It will forever be immortalised by a statue of the No10 that stands outside the stadium.
Three minutes after punching home his first, in a moment of profound atonement and irresistible guile, Maradona collected the ball near midfield, spun like a top and began to race at a nervous English defence. Leaving six opponents behind him on a long sprint, Maradona rounded the wrong-footed Shilton to toe-poke home at the last possible moment.
The defiant Argentine heroics did not end there either. The semi-final against Belgium saw the skipper score two more. The first a delicate, almost dainty flick, and the second another defiant dribble through a terrified backline. And, as if there were any doubt, his telepathic through ball to Jose Burruchaga in the Final confirmed Maradona's reputation as the greatest player of the day - and of his generation.
Following the final whistle the Azteca crowd spilled on to the pitch to pay homage to football's gods. As Pele had been in 1970, Maradona was left shirtless and embraced by thousands high in the Mountains that surround Mexico City.


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Donald M. Halvorson, age 81 of Sleepy Eye, died on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at his home.
Donald M. Halvorson , age 81, of Sleepy Eye, died on October 15, 2013, at his home. Visitation will be on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sleepy Eye. Memorial Service will be held at the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sleepy Eye, on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 11 a.m. The clergy will be Rev. Ted Lambert. Interment will be at the Home Cemetery, in Sleepy Eye with military honors by the Sleepy Eye Honor Guard. Memorials are preferred to St. John's Lutheran Church and School and New Ulm Hospice. Arrangements are with the Sturm Funeral Home in Sleepy Eye, MN. On line condolences may be left for the family at www.sturmfh.com.
Donald Marlin Halvorson, age 81, of Sleepy Eye, was called home to his Heavenly Father on October 15, 2013. Donald was born on November 2, 1931 in Sibley County near Gibbon to Orlan and La Verna (Fahrenkamp) Halvorson. He graduated from Fairfax High School in 1949. He served in the United States Air Force from May 1951 to March 1955. He married Laurie Jean Lambert on July 25, 1981 in New Ulm. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service in Sleepy Eye for fifty years. He was proud to be a member of the Sleepy Eye Fire Department for 30 years. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Sleepy Eye, the American Legion Post Number 7 and the VFW Post Number 800. Donald enjoyed working, gardening, camping, and spending time with family and friends. He will be dearly missed by his family and remembered for his one liners, words of wisdom, and his strong Christian faith. Special thanks to New Ulm Hospice for their kind and loving care.
He is survived by his wife Laurie of Sleepy Eye; daughter Emily (Scott) Moertl of McDonough, Ga.; son Christopher and fiancée Melissa Peloski of Maple Grove, sons Paul, Dan, Tim and Joel; sisters, Phyllis Halvorson of St. Peter, and Karen Ganske (Tom) of Sleepy Eye; brother-in-laws, Rev. Ted (Debra) Lambert of Silverdale, Wa. and Jerry Lambert of St. Louis, Mo.
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When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man.
Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz took the stage with a letter from their missing band mate: Adam "MCA" Yauch, who was too ill to attend. He was suffering from a cancerous salivary gland first diagnosed in 2009.
In the letter, which Horovitz read, Yauch dedicated the honor to his fellow B-Boys, "who have walked the globe with me."
"To anyone who has been touched by our band, who our music has meant something to, this induction is as much ours as it is yours," said Yauch.
It was typical generosity from Yauch, the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop and whose good-hearted nature led him to humanistic causes and made him beloved in hip-hop. One of his most famous rhymes was a sweet ode to women, which he called "long overdue": "To all the mothers and sisters and wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end."
When the news came Friday that earlier that morning, Yauch, 47, had died after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the words from his letter felt particularly apt. The outpouring of sadness at the loss, and celebration of the music Yauch helped created, was immediate and vast, shared across social media by those close to him, rappers influenced by "Paul's Boutique" and hip-hop listeners raised on Beastie Boys videos.
The rapper Q-Tip, a member of another major New York hip-hop group, A Tribe Called Quest, recalled that the Beastie Boys "showed us the ropes." Sean "Diddy" Combs called Yauch "a true pioneer and a creative force who paved the way for so many of us." The rapper Nas lamented the loss of a "brother": "MCA was so cool," he said.
For Eminem, Yauch was an undeniable touchstone: "I think it's obvious to anyone how big an influence the Beastie Boys were on me and so many others."
Yauch was an integral, founding member to the ever-weaving trio: three Jewish kids from New York who found widespread respect in a hip-hop world with few credible white performers.
In a span of more than a quarter century that covered four No. 1 albums and more than 40 million records sold, the Beastie Boys played both prankster and pioneer- a simultaneously goofy and groundbreaking act that helped bring hip-hop to the mainstream.
The demure, gray-haired Yauch wasn't the most boastful B-Boy; he was the thoughtful one and a steady source of the trio's innovative spirit. A practicing Buddhist, he led the group in performing concerts to benefit Tibet and, as a filmmaker, he helped create their imagery.
"The group's music crossed genres and color lines, and helped bring rap to a wider audience," said Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy. "Yauch was an immense talent and creative visionary."
Adam Nathanial Yauch, born in Brooklyn, formed the Beastie Boys with high school friend Diamond. Originally conceived as a hardcore punk group, they played their first show on Yauch's 17th birthday.
In the letter read at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Yauch recalled their early days at his parents' home in Brooklyn, "where we used to practice on hot Brooklyn summer days after school, windows open to disturb the neighborhood."
The group became a hip-hop trio soon after Horovitz joined and coalesced after Yauch dropped out of Bard College two years into his studies. They released their chart-topping debut "Licensed to Ill" in 1986, a raucous album led by the anthem "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)".
It was the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard chart, and while it remains popular, its irreverent rock-rap fusion bore few hints of an act with staying power.
"Adam was incredibly sweet and the most sensitive artist, who I loved dearly," Russell Simmons, whose Def Jam label released "Licensed to Ill," said on his website.
In the seven studio albums that followed, the Beastie Boys expanded sonically and grew more musically ambitious.
Their follow-up, 1989's "Paul's Boutique," ended any suggestion that the group was a one-hit wonder. Extreme in its sampling and thoroughly layered, the album (produced by the Dust Brothers) was ranked the 156th greatest album ever by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003.
The Beastie Boys would later take up their own instruments – a rarity in hip-hop – on the album "Check Your Head" and subsequent releases. Yauch played bass. Later, they would even release an album of instrumentals, which won one of their three Grammys in 2007.
On "Pass the Mic," he rapped: "If you can feel what I'm feeling then it's a musical masterpiece / If you can hear what I'm dealing with then that's cool at least / What's running through my mind comes through in my walk / True feelings are shown from the way that I talk."
For many, the Beastie Boys' lyrics – overflowing torrents of wit, humor and rhyme – were always the main draw. While other forms of hip-hop celebrated individualism, the Beastie Boys were a verbal tag team. Yauch once rapped, "on the tough guy style I'm not too keen."
Their popularity perhaps peaked with 1994's "Ill Communication," which spawned several of their most famous music videos, including "Sure Shot" and the Spike Jonze-directed "Sabotage" – a hit highlighted by Yauch's bass solo. (MTV, which played a key role in the Beasties' rise, hurriedly assembled an hour-long tribute show to Yauch on Friday night.)
Yauch used the group's growing fame to attract awareness for Tibetan Buddhists. He founded the Milarepa Fund to promote activism for Tibet in defense of what the nonprofit considered China's occupational government.
In 1996, Yauch and Milarepa produced a hugely popular benefit concert for Tibet in San Francisco, which was followed by more international concerts over the next decade.
"He was a goofball and behind a lot of their prankiness, but if you wanted to talk to him about what was going on in the world and social issues and everything, you got a totally different guy," said Rick Krim, executive vice president of music and talent relations at Vh1.
Introducing the group at the Rock Hall, Public Enemy rapper Chuck D said the Beastie Boys "broke the mold."
"The Beastie Boys are indeed three bad brothers who made history," Chuck D said. "They brought a whole new look to rap and hip-hop. They proved that rap could come from any street – not just a few."
Yauch also went under the pseudonym Nathanial Hornblower when working as a filmmaker. He directed numerous videos for the group, as well as the 2006 concert film "Awesome: I F—–' Shot That!" (shot entirely by fans given cameras) and the basketball documentary, "Gunnin' for that (No.) 1 Spot."
In 2008, he co-founded the noted independent film distribution company Osciolloscope Laboratories, named after his New York studio.
Yauch is survived by his wife, Dechen Wangdu, and his daughter, Tenzin Losel Yauch.
Yauch's illness, about which he first expressed hope that it was "very treatable," forced the group to cancel shows and delayed the release of their last album, "Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2." He hadn't performed in public since 2009.
But the enduring popularity of the Beastie Boys across some 28 years is one of the steadiest paths of success in pop music – a time remarkable for the constant, warm camaraderie between Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
"They are truly rock's most realized group – not hip-hop but all music, really," wrote Questlove, the drummer for the Roots, who toured with the Beastie Boys. "I mean, did we really expect the most thoughtful, mature, considerate act in music to be the same brats who gave us `Licensed To Ill'?"


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Windham 3-year-old is the purple belle of the ball
WINDHAM -- Every little girl dreams of becoming a "purple princess."
During a lavish party held in her honor, 3-year-old Melina Spinazola lived out that dream among family, friends and community members.
The Windham toddler, who suffers from a rare, genetic skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa (EB) danced inside the Castleton Saturday night during the gala fundraiser aimed at raising awareness of her condition as well as funds that will hopefully one day result in a cure.
Ladies wore evening gowns and gentlemen wore suits, with guests encouraged to wear purple, the official color of EB awareness.
Wearing a floor length, grape-colored gown, Melina's mother, Kerri Spinazola, who organized the event with the help of Melina's father, Ulysses, siblings Christian, 9, and Shayla, 6, and dozens of relatives and friends, said she'd "lost count at 223 guests.
"Plans for the benefit had been in the works for the past several months," Spinazola said, with dozens and dozens of area businesses and individuals donating items for a silent auction and raffle.
"We had over 150 donated items," she said. "There were so many items donated, we had to combine some of the prizes, otherwise we would have been pulling tickets all night long."
Also assisting in the event was Delahunty's Nurseries in Windham, which provided colorful table centerpieces, Matt McElroy, who provided DJ services, Joe Spanos Productions, who filmed the event, and Melissa Tarpy, who provided photography services.
Several days before the event, the family had raised nearly $2,000 toward the cause.
Sales of raffle tickets at the front door, as well as purple T-shirts, bracelets and earrings were expected to double or triple that number.
By night's end, more than $15,000 was raised for EB research, according to Spinazola, including more than $2,500 in donations from folks who were unable to attend Saturday's gala.
Often called the "butterfly disease" because victims' skin is as fragile as a butterfly's wings, EB has proven puzzling to the medical profession. In severe cases, the incurable condition can cause severe organ damage and eventually lead to cancer.
But modern research hints at hope for the future, Spinazola said, with organizations like Pioneering Unique Cures for Kids (PUCK) and the University of Minnesota leading the way in several possible treatment options.
Family friend Tanya Filadoro of Windham, who helped organize the event and sold raffle tickets Saturday night, recalled the day she met Melina for the first time. One word came to mind: "adorable."
Haverhill, Mass., residents Heather and Mark Rousseau, friends who also lent helping hands, said they were pleased with the evening's outcome. As the owners of Rousseau Pottery, the couple provided handmade "Cure EB" ornaments to serve as party favors.
"Melina is one lucky little girl," Heather Rousseau said. "She's got an amazingly dedicated family that's been so supportive of her through all of this. I'm just happy to be a part of it."
Those wishing to help with donations for EB research are encouraged to contact Spinazola through her fundraising website, www.cureebbelieve.weebly.com.


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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, L. Hanisch wrote:
What am I missing?Looking at cReceiver::AddPid, a receiver is not able to set the PID 0 (which is the PAT-PID), but PAT packets should be processed through a filter, right?
IIRC, you'll need to implement section filtering into your input plugin (implement virtual OpenFilter() and CloseFilter() methods and start/stop the actual handling by calling StartSectionHandler()/StopSectionHandler(). You can take a look at the IPTV plugin, how this can be handled in non-DVBAPI environment.
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Blogger: Lyn Robison
Enterprise IT isn't as cool as the Web, and here are some reasons why. The Web allows information to flow, and the Web also allows people to collaborate and build relationships with one another. Enterprise IT generally doesn't. Enterprise IT is stodgy because IT systems are most often implemented in nonflexible silos that were designed primarily to automate individual business processes. Silos in Enterprise IT are not designed to let information flow, and enterprise IT silos are most often not designed to let people collaborate and build relationships with one another. In short, enterprise IT is not cool because IT doesn't let information flow or people collaborate.
Enterprise IT is obligated to automate business processes. We gotta do that. The business expects enterprise IT to automate their work. But business process automation should not be all that we do in enterprise IT. The business needs more from enterprise IT than process automation. In fact, if process automation is all that we do in enterprise IT, the business will think we are stodgy, because we are.
To find information about how to let people collaborate and build relationships with one another, see the CCS blog.
Letting information flow in enterprise IT requires two things:
1. Lowering the level of information model pre-agreement
2. Managing identifiers
The Web is a terrific platform for sharing information because the level of information model pre-agreement is low. A web client and a web server need only understand the HTTP protocol and a few basic document types. Typical data integration between enterprise IT systems requires a high degree of information model pre-agreement, and that makes data integration difficult, and that makes enterprise IT stodgy. What many IT professionals fail to realize is that when you are integrating data that is to be consumed by humans, you can use the Web model, and you don't need to have this high degree of information model pre-agreement.
When identifiers are managed properly, enterprise IT gets less stodgy. For example, UPS and FedEx can easily track parcels, using tracking numbers. People with common names can be removed from terrorist "watch lists", because of the RFID tags in their passports. Automobiles are easily distinguished using their license plate and/or their VIN. And airplanes can be readily identified using their tail number. When enterprise IT manages identifiers improperly, which sadly is quite common, the business can never get a complete view of their interactions with a particular customer, because that customer is identified differently in different systems. The business can never manage any long-lived and valuable assets through their useful life, because each long-lived asset is identified differently in different systems. And businesspeople cannot find the information they need on a wide variety of vital business topics, because information about those topics is buried deep within silos and is irretrievable because it is misidentified. And this makes enterprise IT stodgy.
Let's fix IT's stodginess by enabling people to collaborate and build relationships, by lowing the level of information model pre-agreement, and by managing identifiers properly.


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Looking forward, seismologists estimated the likelihood of another quake stronger than the original 5.1-magnitude shock over the next seven days at 5 to 10 percent, according to the USGS.
"Most likely, the recent mainshock will be the largest in the sequence," the agency said in a written statement.
The chance of "strong" aftershocks — those with a magnitude of 5 or greater — over the next week was estimated by USGS seismologists at 10 percent.
Aftershocks with magnitudes ranging from 3 to 5 are expected to be relatively common over the coming days.
"Approximately three to 20 small aftershocks are expected in the same seven-day period and may be felt locally," according to the USGS statement.


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This is an issue that I've been having for a while, and it's really starting to bug me.
On my Blackberry Playbook - OS 2.0 - I sometimes have issues with subtitles. If there are two separate subtitles at the same time - for example, if two people are talking at once - the subtitles usually displayed at the top don't display. The same goes for translations of onscreen text. If I pause the video then play it again, these missing subtitles show up, and they'll continue displaying, but the problem comes back with the next set of problem subtitles. Playing videos in 720p results in all subtitles having this issue, making it to where you have to pause and unpause to see each line of dialogue.
I know the Playbook isn't high up on the list of important devices, but it would be sweet if there could be some sort of fix for this.
As a side note, this never happened before the OS 2.0 update, so it's quite likely that something was broken there and you guys can't do anything about it.
Finally! A fellow Playbook Crunchyroller! I watch a lot of my CR anime on the playbook because it's really fast and reliable, but the full screen - subtitle issue was pretty annoying.
What I do is that I just zoom in to have the show fit my screen every time.
Had an awesome time at the Love Live! Sleepover! Thanks so much for coming!
Have you guys tried using the android app instead of the web site's flash player? If you have OS2 or newer you should be able to install android apps.
The android apps still need to be converted to be Playbook playable, unfortunately, and I don't think it exists.
Had an awesome time at the Love Live! Sleepover! Thanks so much for coming!
Aaaahhh, I see. I thought the new OS update ran the app in a virtual environment. I wonder how hard it is to convert an android app to work on the playbook.
EDIT: A quick google search came up with the supposably easy and quick guide to convert an Android APK to a Blackberry BAR file. If I had a Blackberry I would convert the APK myself and just send it to any CR Blackberry users.
Hopefully this is something that won't be that hard or frustrating for you to do.
EDIT2: It doesn't seem to be a free work around either as it looks like you need both an Android and a Blackberry developer account which I think both require a fee.
*fistbumps panicstrawvberry*
I've converted the android app before and just tried converting the latest version, and while it works, it's pretty wonky. The browsing interface refuses to switch to landscape mode, browsing through the anime lists is laggy, and the videos appear to be stuck in SD with no way to change - on top of that, there's no way to activate the tablet interface.
Subtitles work, though the video quality isn't up to par for me. I can upload the file for others to deploy if they want to, but I wouldn't recommend using it.
Hi Just so your aware this is how the android app works its not a wonky convert you cannot switch to landscape on the browsing list on android devices either and it is sd only and was also laggy (up untill the new layout which has only been in the last week i think) so it probably converted ok its just thats how the app works lol
Here are the ported versions of the android crunchyroll apps in .bar files which can be installed on the playbook they are all updated and are the latest versions if the links are broken please post here and i fix the problem
Crunchyroll: 0.7.9http://www.mediafire.com/?q4x87n5w7sb4llv
Naruto: 0.5.6http://www.mediafire.com/?fk1g9493f8r9tt9
P.S. You'll need to know how to sideload apps on your playbook heres a link to a very good tutorial/method which i usedhttp://apps.goodereader.com/playbook/playbook-android-apps/?did=177
Anime for life


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's military leaders are welcoming a House Republican spending bill, saying it would ease some of the pain of budget cuts hitting the Pentagon.
Army Gen. Raymond Odierno told a House Appropriations panel on Tuesday that the spending measure that would fund day-to-day federal operations through September would mitigate at least a third of the service's problems.
The bill would leave in place automatic cuts of 7.8 percent to the Pentagon that kicked in last Friday, but it would boost funds for military readiness.
The head of the Navy, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said the difference for the service would be like night and day, with operations allowed to move ahead.
The military has complained about the combination of across-the-board cuts and the government operating at last year's spending levels.


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From an interesting profile on Dr Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, who also did autopsies for Robert F Kennedy and Sharon Tate:
When he's asked how Marilyn Monroe looked in death, Noguchi, who has a fondness for poetry, quotes the Latin poet, Petrarch: 'It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying. For death looked lovely in her lovely face.' At the time, though, it's safe to assume that Petrarch was not uppermost on his mind. 'Of course, I felt pressure, but I remember thinking very clearly that I must make sure I was not distracted by who she was.'
[Telegraph, h/t Caitlin Doughty]


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AMARILLO, TX - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today praised the Texas Medical Board for adopting new rules requiring that the signatures of the abortionist, a parent, and the minor girl be notarized on parental consent for abortion forms. The rules were drafted in response to a parental consent for abortion law passed by the Texas legislature last year.
"The obvious intent of the Texas legislature was to ensure that parents are involved in their minor daughter's abortion decision, a decision that could drastically alter many lives," said Fr. Pavone. "Abortionists cannot be trusted to do the right thing. These new rules will help verify that the legislature's intent is carried out, as it should be."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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By Liam Twomey
In an age where football is striving to become more scientific, squad rotation remains very much an art. There are no set rules, only the endlessly particular circumstances of each game, and navigating them invariably separates the good managers from the great ones.
Sir Alex Ferguson's weekly tinkering with one firm eye on the strategy of a season has become a legendary virtue. For Claudio Ranieri, however, it spawned a sneering nickname which has dogged him ever since. It can be inspired or misguided but, win, lose or draw, it is very often telling.
Immediately following Chelsea's shock home defeat to QPR on Wednesday, Rafa Benitez knew he would be questioned by the hordes of assembled journalists about the wisdom of benching Juan Mata and Eden Hazard for a match in which his team looked desperately short of imagination.
His hand was forced, he claimed, by fatigue. "We cannot carry on with the same players, and if you play against a team at the bottom of the table at home, you have to trust your players," he insisted. "The main thing was we were a little bit tired, and you could see we didn't have the intensity on the ball we were expecting."
Admittedly Chelsea have a right to be tired. The QPR loss was their fourth match in 11 days, and their 10th in just over a month – a run which also included a wasted 12,000-mile round trip to Japan. The festive schedule is always punishing, but the Blues have had it harder than most.
Yet a glance at the fixture list might have suggested that Saturday's FA Cup Third Round tie away at Southampton was a more suitable moment to bring in fresh legs. The oldest domestic cup competition in the world is big on history and prestige but, in the modern game, England's top clubs routinely keep their over-worked stars benched until the latter stages.
The fact that Benitez chose not to wait until the weekend is significant, not only because it exposes an alarming ignorance of just how important beating Chelsea is to QPR, but also because, if the big guns are restored to the team for the clash with the Saints, it offers an interesting insight into the Spaniard's true aspirations for his temporary reign at Stamford Bridge.
Wednesday's costly slip-up leaves the Blues 14 points behind Manchester United in the Premier League, albeit with a game in hand. Before the Club World Cup expedition, any talk of the title was considered optimistic at best. Now it could be viewed as a sign of madness.
With United making a habit of scoring their way out of trouble, none of the chasing pack could afford a stumble, let alone defeat at home to the league's bottom club. Benitez knows this as well as anyone, so the fact he still took the risk of shuffling his pack suggests getting Chelsea back into the title race is fairly low on his list of priorities.
This may sound strange, but the Spaniard is merely playing the percentages. After a patchy and disrupted first half of the campaign, the Blues were always unlikely to challenge the Manchester giants for the Premier League crown. Success in the FA Cup – a competition the club have won a remarkable four times in the last six years – is a much better bet.
Ever-present in the back of Benitez's mind is the knowledge that, regardless of how this season transpires, he is unlikely to remain at Stamford Bridge beyond the summer. The fans are simply too hostile, and Roman Abramovich too enamoured with other, more glamorous names, for him to have a long-term future – if the concept even exists at Chelsea anymore.
In reality, then, the 52-year-old is setting himself up for his next job, and trying to shake the stigma of a disastrous and damaging spell at Inter. The most effective way of doing this is by winning trophies, no matter how big or small. This is why he fielded full-strength sides against a clearly inferior Monterrey in the Club World Cup, and Leeds in the Capital One Cup.
Self-interested it may be, but then Benitez has always been a man especially motivated by his own reputation.
As his reign at Liverpool stagnated, he proved as capable a propagandist as a tactician, using the chaotic ownership of Tom Hicks and George Gillett to mask his own failings with Reds fans. At Inter, he insisted he was fatally undermined by a squad still in the thrall of his old nemesis Jose Mourinho, without ever acknowledging his own aloof and confrontational style as a factor.
But the Spaniard has also undeniably been conditioned by his environment at Chelsea. He has been appointed interim boss of an interim club where immediate success is king.
This vision is not necessarily conducive to enduring the peaks and troughs of a title challenge, particularly when allied to an apparent fondness for sacking the manager on average every six months. It is no coincidence that since Mourinho left Stamford Bridge, seven Chelsea bosses have won six cups, but only one Premier League crown between them.
Attacking the cups with full strength has become club tradition in the Abramovich era, and it is one Benitez is likely to honour at St Mary's on Saturday.
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The delivery of the two Zodiac Hurricane® ZH-558 IO is the consecration of a project submitted by the Armed Forces of Malta to the European Union External Border found (EBF) in 2011. To upgrade the surveillance capabilities of the two patrol vessels, this Zodiac Hurricane® was developed to be launched from a platform at the aft of the boats. A similar technology already exists on the Adroit, a French patrol vessel also equipped with two Zodiac Hurricane® RIBs.
The ZH-558 IO Jet drive furnished to the Armed Forces of Malta are equipped with a jet propulsion system and their aluminum hull allows them to operate in heavy seas. These boats can intercept an investigate boats crossing in the Mediterranean sea launched from the mother ship everywhere Malta's presence is required.
Discover the ZH-558 IO Jet in action with the video made by the Armed Forces of Malta:


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A new practice facility, a completely renovated arena and a Top 5 recruiting class have Michigan ready to defend its Big Ten title. A blossoming all-American point guard, a freshman 3-point machine, two stud NBA legacies and a team that goes 11 deep has the Wolverines primed for Big Ten dominance and a national title run. Kevin Wallace, Old Town, @kwallace23
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