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Political Crossover: The Troubling Emergence of "Black Reaganism"Colin Jenkins I Politics & Government I Commentary I June 20th, 2013
During the 1976 Republican Presidential Primaries, then-candidate Ronald Reagan coined the term "Welfare Queen" as he detailed the story of an African-American woman from Chicago who was arrested after using multiple identities to collect over $150,000 worth of welfare benefits. Reagan's story had a purpose: to establish a connection between the "evils of taxation" and the consequences of "illegitimate" welfare programs that "rewarded laziness," and to relay this to an American electorate poised to identify a scapegoat for what they viewed as a "dying nation." The engine behind this message was the Republican Party's overtly racist "Southern Strategy," which formulated a conscious effort to "appeal to racist whites" who Republicans believed "could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for Blacks." Reagan's implication, while purposely misleading, was ripe for the taking and tapped into America's deep-seated culture of white supremacy, misogyny, and classism - prompting a public discussion over social welfare programs and the need for higher levels of "personal responsibility" from those who relied on such.
Fast forward thirty-two years - a period that witnessed the unveiling of neoliberalism, historic welfare drawbacks at the hands of a Democratic President (Clinton), and a disastrous eight years under the George W. Bush administration - to the election of America's "first Black President." For a nation whose history is littered with the horrors of genocide, slavery, and Jim Crow, Barack Obama's ascendancy to the highest office was an incredibly symbolic victory over a shameful past - a seemingly giant leap over the obstruction of institutionalized racism. While not specifically elaborated on, one could not help but recognize the campaign motto of "hope and change" as having a firm foundation in bridging the country's racial divide. To many Americans, electing a Black man to the white house equaled a proverbial cutting of the ribbon - the official opening to a "post-racial America," ready for the business of not only bridging this divide, but also of finally addressing the collective disenfranchisement of a Black population still feeling the effects of a horrible past.
It is no secret that Reaganism, in its original form, was especially unkind to the Black community. "The Reagan legacy is replete with examples of disrespect and outright hostility towards African-Americans," writes David Love in The Grio. "As governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford Act , which prohibited the public carrying of firearms. The law was passed specifically as a direct response to the Black Panther Party." On the campaign trail, Reagan courted openly racist Dixiecrats in the South, championed the States Rights platform which was responsible for Jim Crow, and even referred to the historic Voting Rights Act as "humiliating to the South." While in office, Reagan "stepped up the war on drugs, which was really a war against people of color; waged an assault on labor unions ; cut programs of importance to African Americans; slashed low income housing under HUD and social programs such as Medicaid and food stamps that disproportionately impacted black people; attacked the government's civil rights infrastructure; sought to gut the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action; and waged war on the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada. Reagan even befriended the white supremacist government in South Africa, and vetoed a bill to impose sanctions against the apartheid regime."
It would seem far-fetched to attempt to establish a connection between the Reaganism of the 1980s and the emerging Black leaders of today. However, in reality, Reaganism never really left - it merely flowed through the pipelines of neoliberalism, gaining a near-omnipresence within America's socio-political structure. Considering its permeation through the 1990s into what was once considered the opposition - the Democratic Party - it only makes sense that this process would eventually reach outlying components of the former center-left. Symbolic victories don't always translate into real change. An Obama presidency, unfortunately, has proven to be no exception. In true Reaganesque fashion, Obama immediately "brought corporate executives into the White House, reached out to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and made compromise his new watchword. He also signed a surprise $858 billion tax cut that would have made Reagan weep with joy, and huddled with Reagan's former White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein for lessons learned when the Gipper governed amid economic troubles." Besides appointments and policies, Obama has never shied away from his admiration for the former President. In a January 2011 op-ed in the USA Today, Obama lauded Reagan for "his leadership in the world," his "gift for communicating his vision for America," and his ability to "recognize the American people's hunger for accountability and change." In a 2010 speech, Obama told a newspaper editorial board in Nevada, "I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not (by tapping into) what people were already feeling, which is - We want clarity, we want optimism."
While Obama spent time immortalizing Reagan, Black Americans - fresh off their symbolic and historic "victory" - remained stifled under the mounting
economic crisis. Today, in the fifth year of the "first Black presidency," the results are in:
Black unemployment remains double that for whites.
The median income gap between white and black households has hit a record high.
Blacks have half the access to health care as whites.
The gap in homeownership is wider today than it was in 1990.
African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to have suffered foreclosure.
Net wealth for Black families dropped by 27.1 percent during the recession.
One in 15 African-American men is incarcerated, compared with one in 106 white men.
Blacks make up 38 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons.
Although only 13.8 percent of the U.S. population, African-Americans represent 27 percent of those living below the poverty line.
African-Americans are the only demographic group with higher unemployment today than when Obama took office. White unemployment dropped from 7.1 percent in January 2009 to 6.8 percent in February 2013. Hispanic unemployment dropped from 10.0 percent to 9.6 percent. But African-American unemployment rose from 12.7 percent to 13.8 percent during that time.
The Black teen jobless rate hit a staggering 39.3 percent in July 2012.
The reasons for these horrid realities are vast. However, if you were to listen to the President, they most surely come from a lack of "personal responsibility." Piggy-backing on Reagan's three-decade-old message, Obama has gone on a tour of the American landscape, carrying this very message. His most recent stop was Morehouse College, where he spoke to the nation's most prominent historically-Black graduating class. "We've got no time for excuses," said Obama, "nobody is going to give you anything you haven't earned." "You're graduating into an improving job market," he claimed. "You're living in a time when advances in technology and communication put the world at your fingertips. Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike any generation of African Americans that came before it." In other words, Black youth (or anyone for that matter) have no viable excuse for not making it in America. An antiquated and powerfully conservative message indeed - one that, while seemingly positive and motivating on the surface, is delivered on the false premise that individuals truly control their own destiny. An absurd notion to a working class that, despite working more hours at more jobs than any other time in history, is still waiting for that "trickle"; and laughable to Black members of that working class who have long been trapped under the shallowest of glass ceilings.
Obama's latest speech was viewed by many as condescending, elitist, and out of touch. When placed alongside his policy initiatives, or lack thereof, it was flat out insulting. And these allegations are nothing new. In 2008, during the Presidential race, Jesse Jackson made similar remarks regarding Obama's "tone" when speaking to Black audiences. "I said it can come off as speaking down to black people," said Jackson. "The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. There is a range of issues on the menu." And as Ajamu Nangwaya points out, Obama's words ignore deeply embedded issues of racial inequality, including those faced by college graduates in the job market: "Many of these African men do not have control over events within the labor market. There are entrenched racist, gendered and class-related employment barriers that are resistant to personal effort and responsibility on the part of these prospective racialized, despised and stereotyped job-seekers." A point supported by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, which reported that "African men in the United States with a bachelor's degree earned only 82 percent ($41,916) of the median income ($51,138) of their white counterparts."
The President is not alone in channeling Reagan while addressing predominantly Black audiences. On the campaign trail in late 2011, Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain proclaimed that black voters were "brainwashed" and incapable of "thinking for themselves," concluding that "if you don't have a job, you should blame yourself!" Political commentator Juan Williams has made a career out of preaching "personal responsibility" to Black men, suggesting they could "get ahead" if only they were willing to "work hard" and stop wearing their pants "hanging off their asses." In a recent speech at Bowie State University, the First Lady teetered on the "personal responsibility" mantle by openly criticizing black children for what she perceives as a narrow-minded obsession with becoming "ballers or rappers," and for "sitting on couches playing video games and watching TV," as if that's merely a "Black problem." In a June 10th op-ed in the NY Post, a notoriously conservative newspaper, Bill Cosby gave his two cents on "what's wrong" with African-American communities. In it, Cosby pointed to a lack of "personal responsibility" on the part of Black children for being unnecessarily "loud" and "angry," yet "apathetic." And this is not the first time Cosby has made such remarks. In a 2004 speech to the NAACP, Cosby referred to Black youth as "knuckleheads" for not being able to "speak English," ridiculed hip hop culture and style for its backwards hats and sagging pants, and reduced the entire Black population to "women who have eight children with eight different husbands," millionaire athletes "who cannot read or write two paragraphs," and "someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids," while ending his speech with the disclaimer of "we cannot blame the white people any longer." Ironically, all of these charges come at a time when African-American voters participated at a higher frequency than white voters for the first time in history; "Occupy the Hood" movements are gaining traction around the country, grassroots alternative organizations like the Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners are surfacing, and Black-centered labor movements like "Detroit 15" have garnered national attention.
Considering barely half of whites believe that racism against Black Americans still exists, and instead actually believe they are subjected to racism at a higher rate, it is no surprise that Cosby's comments (as well as the others) caught on like wildfire through the mainstream media - the product of millions of White Privilege-deniers seeking confirmation: "See! A Black man/woman is saying it, so we must be right!" This ultra-conservative approach to historic problems facing African-American communities, especially when coming from those who are viewed as leaders and representatives of that community, is problematic to say the least. In response to Michelle Obama's speech, Jamelle Bouie succinctly wrote , "That too many black students live in poor neighborhoods, attend segregated schools, and don't have much access to the outside world has nothing to do with their effort or their priorities. Michelle Obama is a native of Chicago. I have no doubt she knows this history. Ignoring it, and focusing on the daydreams of teenagers as the real problem, is a considered choice, and a bad one at that." A bad choice indeed - and one typically reserved for those operating under the banner of the Southern Strategy.
The President has called upon his own "biracial" identity many times in an attempt to reach across "racial and cultural divides" and to symbolize America's diversity and multiculturalism. However, as Nangwaya suggests, the way in which he has used these identities since being elected is particularly telling. While he seems to feel comfortable utilizing his "Black side" to lecture Black Americans about so-called "personal responsibility" and their perceived "shortcomings," he never once has utilized his "white side" to lecture white folks about their collective role in perpetuating societal problems like classism, racism and xenophobia. In other words, as Nangwaya asks, why does the President not call on his "white identity" to tell a "largely white graduating class that they should stop blaming immigrants for taking away "their" jobs, or stop blaming social assistance and welfare recipients for high taxes?" Ultimately, by embracing Reaganism, the President has assumed a license to operate under a double-standard while in office; a double-standard that went global in 2009 when he told African nations to "stop blaming colonialism for their problems." As Ta-Nehisi Coates writes , "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills that afflict Black people - and particularly black youth - and another way of addressing everyone else. I would have a hard time imagining the president telling the women of Barnard that 'there's no longer room for any excuses' - as though they were in the business of making them. Barack Obama is, indeed, the president of 'all America,' but he also is singularly the scold of 'Black America."
The right-wing populism that carried Reagan through two successful presidential campaigns and a mythological place in American history was no surprise. Promises to champion privilege and end "white guilt" attracted the upper classes in droves, and strong condemnations against the "weakness" of liberalism and the "corrupt welfare system" for which it supported stroked the highly-reactionary and racist egos of a conservative American middle class that had been patiently waiting to strike back against the radicalism of the 1960s. Three decades later, the emergence of "Black Reaganism" points to the enduring strength of neoliberal corporatism as much as it exposes the transition of white supremacy from the rural landscapes of the Old South to the executive offices of the modern political elite. And the perpetuation of the "personal responsibility" myth is as telling as the seemingly conscious omission of structural failures that continue to relegate a disproportionate number of Black Americans to poverty and prison. "(W)hen you look at the prison industrial complex and the new Jim Crow: levels of massive unemployment and the decrepit unemployment system, indecent housing; white supremacy is still operating in the US, even with a brilliant black face in a high place called the White House,' explains Cornel West. "He (Obama) hasn't said a mumbling word about these institutions that have destroyed two generations of young black and brown youth... It's not about race. It is about commitment to justice. Maybe he couldn't do that much. But at least tell the truth... He's just too tied to Wall Street."
Ultimately, as Obama and the purveyors of "Black Reaganism" have proven, it is not merely racism that creates this unaccountability, it is the tie that binds racism - as well as misogyny, homophobia, jingoism and other oppressive mentalities - to the alienating effects of capitalism, and vice versa. In this sense, it is not Obama who has chosen to be a "good Reaganite" by remaining indifferent to systemic deficiencies that continue to plague the inner-cities and urban ghettoes of America - it is the duty for which he has been chosen to carry out. As Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report concludes: "The Age of Obama, now in its second and final quadrennial, has largely succeeded in divorcing African American politics from the historical Black consensus on social justice, self-determination and peace. What remains is play-acting and role-modeling, an Ebony magazine caricature of politics that leaves the great bulk of Black people with, literally, no avenues of resistance to the savage depredations of capitalism in decline."
If Black Power is "a range of political goals designed to counteract racial oppression through changing and establishing social institutions," then "Black Reaganism" is its antithesis - a co-opting of Afrocentric direct action and a rebranding of white privilege and corporate culture. Although many would just as soon move on from "racial politics," with all of its potential downfalls, the fact remains that America's social structure still operates from a foundation built on racial inequity. "Blaming the victim" through hollow calls for "personal responsibility" is not the solution - because one cannot "pull themselves up from their bootstraps" if their bootstraps were taken from them long ago.


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A federal judge this morning found six people guilty of trespassing for entering the Fort Benning Army Base in Columbus, Ga., during the annual School of the Americas Watch vigil and demonstration Nov. 23.
The six are:
— The Rev. Luis Barrious, 56, chairman of the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and an associate pastor at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in New York.
–Theresa Cusimano, 40, director of Colorado Campus Compact at Regis University in Denver.
— Kristien Holm, 21, a student at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
–Ursuline Sister Diane Pinchot, 63, professor of art at Ursuline College in Cleveland; she also teaches ceramics to homeless women.
— Al Simmons, 64, a preschool teacher in Richmond, Va.
— Louis Wolf, 68, staff member of Rock Creek Free Press newspaper in Bethesda, Md.
Judge G. Mallon Faircloth had sentenced everyone but Cusimano and Wolf as of mid-afternoon. The others received two-month sentences in federal prison. Rev. Barrios and Holm also were fined $250.
The trial has become an annual ritual in the west Georgia city. It also has been a way for School of Americas Watch, founded by Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois, to focus attention on the institute's training methods, which activists believe include practices that can be used to violate human rights.
U.S. Army officials deny the charge, saying the school, known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation since 2001, promotes democracy and preserves freedom while serving to professionalize the military in neighboring countries.
The school has been the focus of an annual protest/vigil by a largely Catholic movement since the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador.
UPDATE: Late this afternoon Cusimano was sentenced to two months in prison and fined $500 while Wolf was sentenced to six months of house arrest and a $1,000 fine.

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Sunday December 31, 2006
I decided since there isn't much going on in this game excpet for milestones and a Steelers win and they knock the Bengals out of the playoffs, that I would do things a little different. So here are the things to keep your eyes on:
- Can Willie top 1500 yards on the season? 140 yards to go...
- Can Ward get his 1000 yards receiving? 76 yards to go...
- Can Ben go over 3500 yards passing on the year? 267 yards to go...
- Will Coach Cowher return next year?
An intersting note... if Ben can throw 5 TD's he will have 22 TD passes and 22 INT's on the year (Assuming he doesn't throw anymore). Also, Ben needs 122 pass attempts to equal his total attempts from his first 2 years in the league
The Steelers have some injuries to deal with but if they didn't this week then the season just wouldn't be complete
Join us this Sunday here in the gameday thread as we talk about the game and cheer our Steelers to a victory!!!!


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Warren Spector is probably most acclaimed for his work on Deus Ex, but his experience has spanned many studios. From Origin, to Looking Glass Studios, to Ion Storm, Spector has made his mark, especially in terms of interactive story and depth of character immersion. Now, with his new Houston-based studio Junction Point (taking the title from a cancelled Looking Glass game), Spector plans to take all of that a step further, with a brand new intellectual property. In this exclusive interview, we spoke with Spector about his stance on MMOs (preview: he doesn't like them), writing in games, dynamic storytelling, and the potential of the medium.
Gamasutra: What's going on with Junction Point now?
Warren Spector: We're working away on a project that I can't really talk about too much, but it's pretty exciting. We're creating an original IP, and we'll be talking more about it at GDC, but for now we're keeping the specifics of the project under wraps. Anything else you want to talk about is fair game.
Gamasutra: Can you say if this was the game you were talking about for Steam some time ago, or is this something new?
WS: Well, I left Ion Storm, which was an Eidos studio, back in 2004. I had a non-compete that kept me unoccupied for a while. What I really wanted to do at first was find a new business, distribution, and funding model. I worked quite a while on that, and while I was doing that I hooked up with Valve and another publisher and did a bunch of concept work. We also created an original concept for Majesco, that we've since re-acquired the rights to, and I'd like to come back to that one day. While all that concept development was going on, we were in the background looking for our long term game deal – what we're doing now has nothing to do with Valve at all.
Gamasutra: Did you manage find a suitable new business model?
WS: Well, I probably shouldn't put it this way but the reality is that we got crushed. I wanted to find film financing and find a non-publisher source of funding. We wanted to do some direct distribution stuff. I think the whole episodic/direct distribution model is a big part of our future. It has a lot of advantages for developers, publishers, retailers and gamers. For all the talk about episodic stuff, I don't think anybody is approaching development in the best way to do things episodically, or distribution, or design. I had a whole plan put together for episodic direct distribution with alternate funding projects and everybody I talked to said "it's five years to early for this." Maybe if I had the clout of Valve or Turner with GameTap, it might have been different, but the reality of this industry is structured around a specific publisher/developer business model, and that's where we've ended up.
Gamasutra: Did you consider different structuring for the development side? When you said film funding it made me think of the business model that Alex Seropian is using with Wideload.
WS: What Alex is doing with Wideload is very interesting. Certainly, from a development standpoint, there's a couple of ways to approach things. First, there's the big publisher route where you build 300 person teams. That fills me with dread and I don't even want to do that. Then there's what Alex is doing, which is a really radical outsourcing solution. What I want to do has 2 components. Get 45 or 50 people, keep it relatively small for a game team nowadays, and stock it with people whose responsibility is to conceive the game, create the pipeline for getting assets into the game. Build the first character model, chair and cut-scene, build the first level and figure out how the game system's going to work. Then have other people actually generate the other 27 chairs, 150 characters and other assets you need. Then have the core team of 40-50 people build the game from those assets. That's a hybrid of what Alex is doing now and what the bigger publishers are doing.
Gamasutra: How many people do you have now?
WS: We're at 23 right now.
Gamasutra: Did you gain any employees from the dissolution of Origin? I know there's a lot of flux in that region.
WS: Origin has been gone for a long time. I left Ion Storm before EIDOS shut down that studio, but once it did shut down, Ion Storm's dispersement seeded the growth in the Austin development community. I got about 10 people from Ion Storm who I really wanted to work with. Midway Austin picked up a bunch of people. There was a studio called BreakAway, that recently broke up, that had a lot of Ion Storm people. Ion Storm's development seeded new development. It was sad to see it go since I built it, with the help of a lot of other people, but I picked up some people I really wanted to work with again.
Gamasutra: What's the origin of the name "Junction Point?"
WS: When I was with Looking Glass, the last thing I worked on with them on was a concept that I came up with along with Doug Church and some other guys. It was a very different approach to multiplayer online games called Junction Point. I loved the name and concept. I'm not revealing anything too dramatic since we're not doing the game, though I'd love to some day, but the name spoke to me more as a name for a studio than a name for a game. A junction point is where a lot of things come together and that you can go in a lot of different directions. If you think about the kind of games I like to work on and play, it's a lot of genres coming together. If you look at Deus Ex, we still win best role playing, action and story game awards [even today]. I love the fact that we confound the marketing people, frankly. Junction point expresses that. The games I like to make are all about players choosing directions, paths and play styles. A place where a lot of things come together and offer a lot of places to go... what better name could there be? It's also nice that it abbreviates to JPS, which rolls off the tongue.


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Tilly necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 277 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
XLGameplay or XLGameplay.com
YouTube partner channel that focuses on XBOX Live games, reviews, and news. You can see the channel at http://www.YouTube.com/xlgameplay to get an idea of the content.
Online gamers, usually between the age of 15-30 male that view videos online.
I would like a logo that portrays "online", "gaming", and / or "videos" intergraded into the logo. Think a gamer playing looking at you and talking through a headset mic with XLGameplay or XLGameplay.com somehow tied into the character, cleanly. I would like the logo as a whole to be undoubtedly about "online gaming" and possibly "video or film" incorporated into the design. An example would be a guy holding a controller in one hand and then in the other he is hold a camcorder up to his eye, recording his gameplay. I would like the facial expressions to be somewhat aggressive, or just show emotion. Not looking for a "animated" style character that could be confused with a "hello kitty" guest star. The character should be edgy, have emotion on his face. This character could be human, alien, robot, unquie shape. Try to think outside the norm.
I like when letters in a logo flow together. I am looking for something professional but still attractive to gamers. No real color requirements but a starting base would have "XBOX Green" in it, but as mentioned above it doesn't have to be this color as long as it's appealing to the eye.
I will be rating and reviewing logos multiple times per day.
Thanks in advance to all the designers that are working on this contest!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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In the ongoing feud between Apple and Adobe, Adobe's founders have posted an open letter, "thoughts on openess" and Adobe has begun rolling out a new ad campaign on Engadget -- and presumably other geek-rich online sites -- declaring their love for Apple, and then telling users how saintly Adobe, users like us, and little puppies are being hurt by Apple's evil ways.
It's smart, at least much smarter than Adobe's initial responses to -- and complaints to the federal government about -- Steve Jobs' "thoughts on Flash", although it still pretends that Adobe isn't as self-interested, controlling, and out for money and market share as Apple -- which they absolutely are.
If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive — but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force.
We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.
Interestingly, Adobe's open letter contains three registered trademark symbols (™), including one on Flash. Steve Jobs' contained none.
Flash is Adobe's. Tell us how popular it is. Make a phenomenal mobile version that does things so well it makes HTML5 cry in its standards-based containers. Win the case that Flash is better and too important to ignore. But continuing to pretend Adobe and Flash are open and end-user interests are what Adobe is fighting for is insulting.
Smart users know better. They've used Adobe products. Words aren't going to make a dent now; it's time for deliverables.


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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
One Book One Island!
sunny, warm, beautiful day - temps 24
Actually, a very slight nip to the air, but very, very nice. Very peaceful. And most of the black flies, that had been plaguing us, seem to have left.
The writing's going much better now - over the difficult patch. What a joy it is to get to sections that just flow quickly...hard to type as fast as the words want to come out. As you can see, it's not always like that...but when it is? Bliss.
Speaking of bliss, I wanted to show you two photos I took when I'd finished writing. Michael and I walked through the woods to the guest cottage and came across that wild apple tree, in full bloom. Magnificent.
And, at home, the lilac are in bloom...I cut lots of blossoms today and spread them in vases through the home. In this one I also put some allium and some white bleeding hearts, on the kitchen table. I wish this was a scratch 'n sniff blog (though often I'm very grateful it isn't)....I think the scent of lilac and peonies are just amazing. if heaven tastes like posset, it smells like lilac and peony. The peony are in bud, but not bloom. I'll torment you with photos of those once they pop.
Well, I've managed to keep mum for months, but finally it was announced that Prince Edward Island has chosen STILL LIFE as its One Book One Island selection this year!
the entire province will be reading (or at least encouraged to read) the book, in English or French.
I am beyond thrilled!! This is, essentially, a province-wide book club. Events will be organized throughout the summer, inspired by STILL LIFE and then it will all culminate when I visit on September 13th and 14th!
Have you ever been to Prince Edward Island? It is a gem. A real hidden jewel. I say 'hidden' though of course it isn't hidden at all, it just isn't as well known as it should be. Mostly I think it's known internationally as the home of the Anne of Green Gables books - which I adored as a child.
But PEI is so much more than that. Miles and miles of red sand beaches. peaceful, beautiful, unspoiled - but throbbing with culture. Great art, great theatre, great music - and cuisine. I am almost sick with excitement at the idea of visiting!!
but mostly, I'm so thrilled at the very great honour of having my book selected for their One Book One Island initiative.
Here's a link to information about the programme.
The English URL of the One Book site is http://www.library.pe.ca/onebook, and the French URL is http://www.library.pe.ca/unlivre.
I'll be doing interviews tomorrow morning on both the English and French CBCs. And just finished one with the Charlottetown Guardian.
Hope you're all well - speak soon!
12 comments:
- Andi said...
We loved PEI and its smallest harbour in the world! Had three great days there about 10 years ago.
- 25 May 2011 at 16:04
My mother was born on PEI and I spent many summers on my uncle's farm there. I have visited there many times since then. The last time was four years ago. I've been wanting to go again. The site of my uncle's farm is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It's in Orwell Cove. A remote location even for PEI.
In honor of this great occasion I'm going to re-read "Still Life."
- 25 May 2011 at 16:26
- MargaretJ said...
Everyone should read the Anne of Green Gables books and visit PEI (after they visit Nova Scotia!)
- 25 May 2011 at 16:46
- H. L. Banks said...
How wonderful you will be visiting down are way. I hope to get a chance to meet you in person. PEI is so beautiful. I think Regis and Kelly helped put it on the map as well.
- 26 May 2011 at 03:38
Love PEI and how clever of them to have selected your book. Now I'm in the mood for mussels and it isn't even 9AM!
- 26 May 2011 at 05:39
- Melody said...
Congrats on the news on one book one Island! Prince Edward Island is a place I'd love to visit. I agree with you on the Anne of Green Gables comment.
I'm glad to hear writing is going smoothly. I would love to be able to write books.. It was always in the back of my mind that it would be heaven to be an author..but instead I have chosen to stay close to the book/literary world by being a Librarian. I do love my job... It is even richer with authors creating books like yours.
Thank you.
- 26 May 2011 at 06:17
- Katie said...
Hi Louise, Katie here from PEI. We have a Twitter account for One Book One Island at www.twitter.com/IslandbookClub as well as Facebook!
Love for you to check it out and thanks for all your praise of PEI!
- 26 May 2011 at 08:15
- lil Gluckstern said...
I am smelling lilacs in my mind. How very lovely. Have fun with all your adventures.
- 26 May 2011 at 10:31
- Liz said...
When I get a whiff of lilac at this time of year, I'm instantly back to being a 6-year-old carrying a bouquet of lilacs to school in Ottawa for my Grade One teacher (can't remember her name). Same with peonies, ants and all. Just love this time of year.
- 26 May 2011 at 18:09
- darlene said...
Gee, Louise, I feel like a techno-geek! An hour ago I couldn't have told you what an RSS feed is, but now I do, thanks to your blog. Wow! (I know I'm a Luddite.:) )
Interesting that Vancouver peonies are just in bud and lilacs just in bloom, too, because of our lack of spring and warmth. I'm going to cut some lilac before the rain destroys it all. Love that scent.
What a lovely thing for PEI to honour Still Life as their special book. Congratulations!
- 27 May 2011 at 10:09
- Judy said...
No lilacs in bloom here yet, still waiting for the sun to burst through the fog...week 6! Hope you can make it NS when you're down this way, would love to have you visit with us. Looking forward to book 7.
- 27 May 2011 at 12:21
- Barbara said...
I've been to Nova Scotia twice and both times I ran out of time before I got to PEI. Well, there's always next time. Congratulations on their brilliant choice of Still Life. Sept. should be beautiful there.
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There are packages like, Combinatorica in Mathematica, GA, SA, PSO can be comparatively easily done in MATLAB, C++ has boost, Java has JGraphT and so on and on. My question is,
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- Do they use a combination of many sporadic resources? Like use something that is good at plotting, then use some other thing that is good for numerical solutions etc?
- Where from you get Hard-Instances ?
Background: I'm assigned to work on a GT problem named 'Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree'. I want to study, implement and compare current algorithms. As I've been studying, I come to observe most of the algorithms are : Heuristics, Distributed Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Linear Programming (Narula-Ho) etc. Some uses methods called 'Particle Swarm Optimization', 'Simulated Annealing' and 'Ant Colony Optimization'. As far as I know MATLAB has built in routines for GA, SA, PSO, ACO etc but don't have any graph theory package. Combinatorica seems very good package but I don't have any access to it's accompanying book 'Computational Discrete Mathematics'. I don't know MATLAB or Mathematica.
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1. LaMadone Gamay sur Volcan AC: Cotes du Forez/Loire (Organic grapes; 11.5%) EURL Gilles
Bonnefey 2007: Med.light color; rather earthy/dusty strong strawberry/Gamay/spicy/cinammon quite
attractive nose some like Bone-Jolly w/ slight brett/smokey character; light bit tannic/hard pretty/
strawberry/Gamay rather earthy/dusty flavor; fairly long hard/tannic pretty/Gamay/strawberry some
earthy/dusty finish; quite an attractive nose but somewhat agressive tannins on the palate; nice enough
Gamay for $8.00 (WoP)
2. RobertGilliard Dole des Monts (12.8%; PinotNoir+Gamay) Valais/Suisse NV: Rather light color; slight
bretty/horsecollar/sewer gas slight volatile some strawberry/Gamay/earthy/dusty bit funky nose; tart
light very bright/strawberry/Gamay/spicy slight earthy/dusty rather attractive flavor w/ light tannins;
med. bright/light/strawberry/Gamay some earthy/dusty racy finish w/ little tannins; a bit funky/unclean
on the nose but quite pretty/attractive on the palate; way/way overpriced. $42.00 (BWM)
3. Chateau Feuillet DOC: Valle d'Aosta Torrette (PetiteRouge or Picciourouzzo + 10% Mayolet; 13%) 2005:
Med.color; light bit earthy/dusty quite Pinotish light toasty/oak rather attractive nose; fairly tart
some earthy/loamy very Pinotish light toasty/oak flavor w/ light tannins; med.long some earthy/dusty/
loamy quite Pinotish finish w/ light tannins; a lighweight pleasant enough wine that speaks of Valle
d'Aosta or Swiss Pinot. $22.00 (WE)
4. InstitutAgricole Regional Cornalin DOC: Vallee d'Aoste (13.5%) 2007: Med.color; very attractive/pretty
strawberry/Gamay-like slight earthy/dusty spicy/candied/peppermint very nice nose; light bright/cherry/
strawberry/Gamay-like slighht earthy/dusty peppermint candy flavor w/ light tannins; med.long bright/
cherry/strawberry/candied/pepperminty light earthy/dusty finish w/ light tannins; this is what Loire Gamay
would be if it could; quite a pretty/drinkable Gamay-like red. $18.00 (vRT)
5. JeanOrliac LeLoup dans la Bergerie VdP du Val de Montferrand Rouge (www.EuropeanCellars.com; 40% Syrah/
30% Grenache/30% Merlot) Herault 2010: Dark color; some blackberry/grapey bit toasty/oak rather artificial
bananna slight loamy nose; soft strong blackberry/boysenberry/Syrah-like fairly smooth/polished some toasty/oak
flavor w/ a bit of a tannic bite; very long bit tannic/hard strong blackberry/Syrah-ike some toasty/oak
finish; a rather attractive wine in an international style at a very good price. $13.00 (BWM)
6. Bibich R6 Riserva Croatia/NorthDalmatia (34% Babich/33% Plavina/ 33% Lasin; www.BlueDanubeWine.com) 2009:
Med.light color; slight volatile rather raspberry/plummy/spicy somewhat Zin-like slight funky/earthy/
dishwater nose; fairly tart rather raspberry/plummy/Zin-like/spicy bit minty/menthol slight funky/unclean/
horsecollar rather pleasant flavor; med.long bright/zippy/raspberry/plummy/grapey very Zin-like/spicy finish
w/ light tannins; slightly funky/unclean but a very Zin-like red. $19.00 (VintageBerkeley)
7. MorrisonLane Cinsault WallaWallaVlly (Black Malvoisie; 12.8%) 2009: Med.light color; rather attractive plummy/
black cherry/cherry cola aromatic some toasty/oak light earthy/loamy nose; soft light toasty/oak strong
plummy/black cherry/black cherry cola bit earthy/dusty/loamy attractive flavor; long strong plummy/black
cherry/cola/boysenberry light toasty/smokey/oak finish w/ modest tannins; a rather attractive/interesting
red. $30.00 (vSC)
8. MorrisonLane Counoise WallaWallaVlly (12.9%) 2005: Med.color; very heavy vanilla/dill/Am.oak/pencilly some black
cherry/earthy/minty nose; soft very strong vanilla/dill/Am.oak slight earthy/black cherry/cola/minty flavor
w/ some tannins; med.long bit tannic very strong dill/Am.oak/vanilla/pencilly some black cherry/earthy/
loamy finish; underneath an interesting wine but the oak seems to dominate everything. $30.00 (vSC)
9. MorrisonLane Sangiovese WallaWallaVlly (14.2%; www.MorrisonLane.com) 2005: Med.color; very attractive cherry/
Sangio/spicy rather dusty/root cellar bit earthy some toasty/oak nose; rather tart bright/spicy/cherry/Sangio/
cherry cough syrup some toasty/oak flavor w/ modest tannins; long rather tart earthy/dusty quite spicy/cherry/
Sangio/cherry cough syrup/cherry cola finish w/ modest hard/tannins; bit more lean and angular than the other
MorrisonLanes; speaks strongly of Sangio; quite an attractive rendition of Sangio. $30.00 (vSC)
10. MorrisonLane Nebbiolo ColumbiaVlly (14.3%) 2004: Med.color; lovely floral/violets/Nebb/lilacs light toasty/
oak some spicy/herbal/rosemary/thyme/cinammon slight tarry/pungent rather interesting nose that speaks of
Nebbiolo; rather tart bit tannic/hard somewhat floral/violets/lilacs/Nebb bit herbal/rosemary/thyme/dried herbs
flavor; med.long some herbal/rosemary/dried Italian herbs pleasant/floral/violets/lilacs slight pungent/tarry
fairly hard/tannic finish; some very attractive floral aromatics but classic Nebb tannins and needs some age;
pretty classic Nebb in character but not of Barolo/Barbaresco. $30.00 (vSC)
11. Arnot-Roberts Syrah NorthCoast (12.9%; Nellessen/ClaryRanch/AlderSprings/OldLakeville vnyds) 2011: Med.dark
color; rather strong roasted/Rhonish/peppery/smokey hot dog rather herbal/cranberry/blackberry/Syrah/dusty
some complex nose; very tart/lean some roasted/Rhonish/peppery some herbal/blackberry/cranberry/Syrah/dusty
somewhat hard/tannic flavor; med.long hard/tannic very tart almost schreechy some herbal/blackberry/Syrah/
dusty finish w/ some gritty/chalky tannins; needs some time in btl. $35.00
12. CowanCllrs Syrah MoaveniVnyd/BennettVlly (13.2%; 50 cs) 2010: Very dark color; lighht toasty/charred/oak
strong blackberry/blueberry/Syrah/spicy rather perfumed/floral/violets slight peppery/cold-climate very
attractive/perfumed nose; fairly tart strong blieberry/Syrah/blackberry bit peppery/pungent very spicy bit
tannic/hard slight toasty/oak flavor; very long very spicy strong blueberry/Syrah/blackberry some floral/
violets bit tannic/hard light toasty/oak finish w/ fair tannins; needs some age yet; a bit like SteveEdmunds
Syrahs w/o the earthy component of ElDoradoCnty; quite an interesting Syrah at a more than fair price. $26.00
13. MorrisonLane Syrah WallaWallaVlly (15.6%) 2005: Very dark color; very strong floral/violets/blackberry/Syrah/
boysenberry very perfumed/aromatic/spicy some toasty/oak bit alcoholic/fumey nose; soft intense blackberry/
boysenberry/Syrah rather floral/violets/perfumed bit licorice/Oz-style light toasty/oak flavor w/ modest
tannins; very long intense blackberry/boysenberry/framboise/Syrah light pungent/licorice bit toasty/oak
some floral/violets finish w/ smooth/modest tannins; more floral/high-toned notes than most WashState Syrahs;
quite a lovely Syrah and my favorite of the MorrisonLanes. $30.00 (vSC)
14. Slight of Hand Levitation Syrah ColumbiaVlly (14.8%) 2010: Black color; intense blackberry/Syrah/boysenberry/
framboise/spicy some toasty/oak huge fruit slight earthy/WashState plummy quite attractive nose; soft bit tannic
huge fruit/blackberry/boysenberry/Syrah/plummy slight earthy some toasty/charred/oak flavor; very long huge fruit/
intense blackberry/Syrah/boysenberry/earthy/plummy some toasty/charred/oak finish w/ some fine-grained tannins;
can use several yrs yet; big huge fruit but not over-the-top our out of balance. $42.00
And the usual bloviations from TheBloodyPulpit:
1. MorrisonLane: Run by Dean & Verdie Morrison, long-time farmers in WallaWalla. A wnry I had never heard of until I
got a request to add them to our NEB (Nebbiolo Enthusiasts & Believers) e-mail list. I asked a friend who travels
up to WashState often to check them out. He visited their (very retro) tasting room in WallaWalla and liked what
he tried and ordered some for us to try. They focus a lot on some fairly unusual varieties (for WashState). Alas,
their WebSite (www.MorrisonLane.com) is a bit lacking in information...like prices and availability.
Overall...I liked their wines. Solid/well-made/interesting wines that reminded me a bit of some of the (late)
McCrea wines. The Syrah was my easy favorite. I also thought the Nebbiolo, of particular interest to me, was as
good as any I've been tasting from Calif. Definitely a wnry I need to keep track of.
2. Arnot-Roberts: This is a wnry that is a darling of all the hip/big-city Somms because they are lower in alcohol
and "wines of balance". This Syrah was clearly less ripe than most Calif Syrahs. Appears to be made w/ a lot
of whole-cluster fermentation. This reminded me a lot of an EricTexier St.Joseph. It is quite an interesting/
atypical Calif Syrah. A "wine of balance"??? I suppose if your definition is a wine that is lower in alcohol,
then I suppose it is. But I certainly wouldn't describe it as "balanced". The acidity was almost screechy on
the palate. The tannins were lean/hard/gritty...almost like a young Nebbiolo. One can only hope that this wine
will come into balance w/ bottle age. I suspect it will be very interesting Syrah somewhere down the road.
Sometimes you just gotta believe. Sometimes...your guesses/instincts are totally wrong, though. We shall see.
3. Cornalin: A variety indigenous to the Valle d'Aosta and now almost extinct there, with only 1 ha in plantings.
More plantings in the Swiss Valais where it's known as HumagneRouge. This btl came to me from RobTebeau.


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It's been 15 years since you first took the controls of your blaster ship and fried the aliens attacking your end of the web in the original Tempest™. Now you're back--this time with more firepower. Tricks up your sleeve, a trusty A.I. droid, and a slew of new enemies who want nothing more than to convert you into space dust. Dazzling special effects set to a techno-rave soundtrack keep this 3D-style galactic battlefield fast-paced and quite deadly.
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