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Lüderitz Speed Challenge - 2011
The « Lüderitz Speed Challenge" has been held in Namibia since 2007, and is a World Record Attempt in Speed Sailing that has produced more than 40 World & National Records to date. The organisers, Sophie Routaboul and Sébastien Cattelan have constantly innovated in their attempt to push the limits, and have recently obtained authorisation to dig a new channel away from the Second Lagoon shoreline, which has been used thus far.
This is necessary to make it possible to break the 60 knot barrier (over 500m), which is the new challenge (115km/h under sail).
Last year, the famous hydrofoil boat "L'Hydroptère" held the Outright Record with 51.36 knots (95km/hover 500m), but was beaten during "The 2010 Lüderitz Speed Challenge" by the kitesurfers who established the World Record in Speed Sailing with 55.65 knots (103km/h over 500m).
This has been a large scale and difficult project to undertake, which made these two driven extreme sports enthusiasts decide to officially test the newly built channel before taking on the responsibility of organising a fully-fledged event. A full scale event is planned for 2012 where numerous international competitors will be invited.
As the stakes increase and the speeds achieved are pushed higher, the organisation of each event has become more challenging in itself. The consequences of this recognised official record attempt are far reaching. This event combines an environmental aspect together with the efficiency of wind power, and the human, tourism and commercial aspects, while bringing to the front stage an African country: Namibia. This is where kitesurfing (while still in its infancy), has been propelled into the headlines as being the world's fastest craft on water.
Will this incredible and daring feat allow them to beckon in the dawn of a new playground for the windsurfing community, and give them access to the exclusive 50+ knot club? The results speak for themselves: over the past four years everything possible has been done to increase the potential of this unbelievable site, which has made the constant climb of speed sailing records possible.
The answer will be revealed between 20th October and 17th November 2011, which are the dates of the event during which windsurfing and kitesurfing performances will be done…. with the kind support of the sponsors : LM Wind Power, Genetrix and his Team, SunPass Cream, The agency Chaffron Insurance, Kitaddict and the Lüderitz Community.
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Heaven is a place,
a place where nothing,
nothing ever happens." - Talking Heads
I'm not trying to be smug, but I predicted it would turn out like this. I knew it. I think we all did. It didn't happen all at once, but gradually the sloppiness and laziness of this much anticipated season became obvious. There was the wrong date on Aaron's sonogram, then Kate's name not being on the cave ceiling even though it supposedly was on the cave ceiling, the pointless Temple subplot, the Stargate Lighthouse, finally the awkward, stiff, so bad it made me cry scene where Michael was trotted out to give the lamest possible explanation for the whispers.
This scene was when it hit me. I can pinpoint it as the exact moment in time when I knew that this grand finale season was going to suuuuuuuuuuck. I didn't want to accept it just then but as the weeks went by, there was no escaping the reality.
As LOST's finale season careened to its dreadful clusterfuck of a conclusion, carrying the reputation of a once great series on its back, even The Darlton tried to warn us away from hoping for too much. They started to say stuff like this:
"We're going to get killed," said executive producer Damon Lindelof.
They'd been all but screaming from the rooftops that we wouldn't be getting any goddamn Answers. It was all about the characters, yo. Those stupid questions were all red herrings! Not just the big ones, like Walt and Aaron and the Numbers. All of them!
We actually really just set out to make a show that we thought was kind of cool and entertaining, and we never imagined that people would get wrapped up in the intricacies of it to the degree that they have.
At times they got downright insulting about it:
Lindelof: It's like when you spend time with a 3-year-old, you quickly find out that one question just begets another — there's a "why" in the wake of every "why" — and the only way to end the conversation is to say, "Oh look, a Chuck E. Cheese!" The show is doing its best to say, "Oh look, Chuck E. Cheese!" For example, we've now given the viewers as much as we're willing to say about the numbers, and we're moving on.
The famously funny.
The infamously awful.
The controversial
And the sublime.
Obviously the boy wonders knew everything LOST had ever been was hanging in the balance on May 23. Carlton Cuse himself described the metric by which he knew they'd be judged.
As tempting as it may be, it's probably wrong to blame Darlton. After all, it was our own choice to keep watching. We decided all on our own to imagine that we were playing some kind of puzzle. No one told us to expect that! Why would we think that a story about six magical numbers that were magically connected to cataclysmic events, or a story about an island where diseases are cured but pregnancy kills, or a story that wove intersecting timelines into a vast interdimensional web of coincidences and fate - why would we think any of that was meant to be a puzzle??? We must really be stupid!
It was our own free choice to gabble away on message boards these last few seasons talking about wormholes and string theory and exotic matter and Schrodingers goddamn cat. We did it long after it became obvious that these two guys weren't able to write that kind of story. It was obvious they weren't quantum physicists. Or even the kind of guys who passed physics in high school.
You know who these two really remind me of now? The two con men who pretended to be tailors in Hans Christian Anderson's The Emperor's New Clothes. They convinced the dopey Emperor he was getting a new set of gorgeous threads, but really he just ended up walking down the street with everyone laughing at the pimples on his butt. The Emperor, it turns out, was us.
The consensus was unanimous:
But how did the finale fare out in the land of media, both old and new? Did they stick their landing or did they ...
If you were looking for explanations for every twist and turn, you didn't get them. (Some viewers won't be satisfied until the producers churn out a multi-volume island manual that answers questions that were never actually posed.)And as expected, both "I live next door to Damon" Kristin dos Passos and Cheerleader in Chief Jeff Jensen dissolved into predictably soggy heaps of teary satisfaction.
"The End" was an emotionally draining epic that had me crying with almost every single "awakening" and has left me mulling the true significance of the Sideways world, which was revealed to be a Purgatory-like realm created by the souls of the dead castaways themselves. (Purgatory! The irony!) I was so happy The Island was saved. I was so moved by Jack's heroism and sacrifice and the glorious significance of ending where he began, as well as that Doubting Thomas allusion there at the end. … I loved Ben's contrition. I loved Locke's forgiveness. I loved it when Ben told him to stand up and walk again, and Locke did.
But you have to think that the gauzy, vaguely religious, more than a little mawkish ending of 'Lost' – "Touched by a Desmond" — will not sit well with a lot of the show's fans. ... The "Sopranos" finale was ambiguous and a bit of a shrug, but not puzzling; to me the "Lost" finale, in the immediate aftermath, felt forced and, well, a bit of a cop-out.
Across six seasons, it's true, we learned endless facts about the island — about its geography, its inhabitants, and what had happened on it across decades and centuries. But we never learned the whys behind the facts. And with the final season in the books, there's good reason to think that we never learned them because the show's creators never had a well-thought-out "why" for their story in the first place. The island wasn't a real mystery — it was just a MacGuffin.
Once upon a time, there was a television show about a bunch of people on an island. For six years it was one of the most fascinating things on TV. And then it ended, in the worst way possible. ... Lost ended tonight, and with it the hopes and dreams of millions of people who thought it might finally get good again. SPOILER ALERT: It didn't. What did we learn? Nothing. We learned nothing from two-and-a-half hours of slow-motion bullshittery backed with a syrupy soundtrack.
"The End" didn't so much answer the long-dangling mysteries—Why do pregnant women die on the island? Why was the character of Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) special? What is this island? What was with all of the Egyptian hieroglyphics? What was the character of Desmond's ultimate purpose on the island?—as it did ignore them altogether....Considering how much time viewers have spent trying to figure out the relationship between the island timeline and the Sideways one, it is also frustrating that it turned out that there is none—or more precisely, that what happened in the Sideways timeline didn't affect what happened on the island at all.
Aside from coining the pithiest descripiton of the finale - "a prom of the dead in a chapel of love where everybody is farting rainbows" - Chadwick Martin of Slate nailed one of the finale's main flaws:
There are second chances in life, but there are no do-overs. At least all the time travel, the donkey wheels, the smoke monsters were vehicles to explore the human condition. They were as fantastical as purgatory, yes, but they were also grounded in the terrestrial realities of life, death, and the pursuit of happiness. The show's purgatorial clusterfuck is not. It is a venue for wish-fulfillment. Thus, the finale wronged not just me, but the show itself.
As did Laura Miller at Salon :
A series like "Lost" doesn't need to solve all of its riddles, but it does need to address the right ones.... The comic-book paraphernalia and texture of the island -- its secret bunkers with their code names, Jacob's migrating cabin with its creepy paintings, the ersatz normality of the Others' compound ringed by those sonic pylons and the fantastically mechanical grinding and dragging sounds that used to accompany the appearance of the smoke monster -- were not peripheral to the heart of "Lost." They were the very essence of its appeal.
And the message of the Hero Quest in mythology is certainly not the gauzy, happy, angels-at-the-doorway one "Lost" fans had to settle for last night. Once Jack stepped into the church it looked like he was walking into a Hollywood wrap party without food or music -- just a bunch of actors grinning idiotically for 10 minutes and hugging one another.
Scott Mendelson's fine essay, republished at The Huffington Post, decided that the finale was so bad that it managed to nullify the series almost as a whole, although he - like me - hopes it will still be possible to enjoy the first three seasons before this series started its sad, end date driven decline:
By leaving everything unanswered right up to the end, and then pulling a narrative switcheroo instead of finishing the story that was being unveiled, Lost basically mocked those who bothered to watch from the very beginning, as such rabid viewership proved entirely unnecessary. Thus, the finale of Lost rendered the entire series run relatively pointless and effectively killed any and all rewatchability of the prior episodes. So, in the end, Lost ended for me with season three.
With all that and so much more being said, is there really any point in me writing anything else about this sad spectacle ? Is there anything left that really needs to be said? I'm over it. I could live without never giving LOST another thought. I'm literally itching to erase it off my dvr. But I promised I'd do this. Inquiring minds seem to want to know what it all meant to me. So, here we go, one last time, for old time's sake.
I think others have pretty much covered the shameful way we were taunted with questions that were never intended to be answered, even as recently as the run-up to this season. They were running full speed ahead right up until late April, not only implying that we'd be rewarded for our detective work, but throwing new questions at us! Of course everyone was excited to see what the answer to the puzzles would be. And then we got this:
My guess is because Damon had stupidly bragged about it back in 2007:
When all is said and done, people are going to point to the skeletons and say, ''That is proof that from the very beginning, they always knew that they were going to do this.
We could tell that Mama Clegg was not the Island's Eve. She was only another interim hermit guardian, just like Jacob. Someone came before her, maybe the people that carved the cuneiform marks into the big stone plug. Someone before Momsy built the light sealing contraption inside the big shiny hole. Who was that person? Why did they do it? We never really learned why the Island was special, what was the source of its power, what its power really was. We never learned why the Smoke Monster had to be contained on the Island, what would have happened if he'd escaped. We entered the final battle of the story without knowing the stakes.
The story never created any meaningful metaphor for the Island. It was the "warmest, brightest light you've ever seen or felt." It was a little piece of "something that's inside of every man." The enemy was "evil incarnate". It would all "only end once", except that - since Hurley became Jacob - it didn't! It was a myth that was never told, a myth, if we can even call it that, that never coalesced into anything more than mawkish abstractons. It meant nothing. It was just pretty pictures.
But all this ground has been covered, and better, by others. Few disagree that in the end the LOST "storytellers" failed in their central mission - to pull together a coherent and satisfying end to the mysteries they themselves had chosen to create. But I was surprised to see how many, at least in the immediate aftermath, seemed to think that the finale succeeded in a different area - that of giving resolution to the characters. It became like the one good thing people could say about LOST - that it was a terrible ending, but at least the characters all got "satisfying resolutions". I don't know where they're seeing that. Maybe people just need to convince themselves that it couldn't possibly be as bad as it all really, really was.
not everyone was fooled. But far too many were. If I have to pick what I consider to be the Number One Inconvenient Truth about the LOST Finale, it would be this:
Let's start with a somewhat minor, but nonetheless pivotal, character. Claire and her baby, who she'd been apocalyptically warned must not be raised by another, seemed to be mystically connected to the Island.
But then Claire dropped Aaron in a cabbage patch. He got raised by another anyway. And Claire became a crazed axe murderer.
That was her character arc. We never saw how she went crazy. We never saw what happened when Aaron got his Mad Mama back. We missed every interesting thing that Claire's story could ever have been about. All we know is that Claire eventually died and re-birthed Aaron in her self created purgatory while she waited for her big brother Jack to arrive, so she could spend eternity with Charlie - the guy whose death she never even mourned.
Ok, maybe you say Claire's a bad example, because she wasn't an important enough character. Let's take the great John Locke then. Because no one can say Locke wasn't an important character. How did this great character get his resolution in the finale?
Until Jack came to fix him.
Like so much of the audience, Locke got screwed. Sorry, John, you were just road kill on the Highway to Jack's Heaven.
But don't worry. Be happy! It's not like there's anything we can do about it now. Except maybe this ...
Sun and Jin's "resolution" came at the end of three long seasons wherein they both did, collectively, nothing.
Sadly no. They were serious about this shit. See, Sayid didn't really love the woman he'd devoted his life to, the woman his entire story had been about. He only wanted what all men want in Geekland - a blonde American babe.
Hurley apparently lived out his roly poly life on the Island, maybe for centuries, with Ben. Although that might have made a great season of LOST all by itself, we never got a glimpse of it.
Instead we learned that the only great thing in Hurley's extremely long life was Libby, the girl he once almost went on a picnic with the day before she got shot. Nothing else. So once he finally died, he - like everyone else - waited for Jack, and then finally, I guess, he got to have a girlfriend, even if they were both dead.
Sawyer's story ended in Season Four.
We had watched his evolution, one of the most beautiful in the show,
And that was it for poor Sawyer. He got to scream and cry while Juliet died ... over and over again ... then he sat on his ass until it was time for Jack to save the world. Then he did absolutely nothing for all the rest of his life until it was time for the most anticlimactic and uninspired cup of coffee in tv history. And then he hugged Jack, and he too got to pass through the pearly gates.
This is where the poor character development leads straight into The Second Inconvenient Truth About the Lost Finale:
Well, technically, they had to wait for JACK to die before they could live again.
If we accept that the gang in the church had to be there together because they were the only people that truly mattered to one another, we have to realize that all these people lived HORRIBLE lives here on earth. Think of all those who didn't matter to them:
Hurley didn't want to be with Grandpa Tito or Mami Carmen or any of the people who loved and raised him.
Juliet had no place in her heaven for the sister and nephew she longed to see for so long.
A dharmachakra, an aum, a menorah, a Ganesh ... I guess they couldn't find space to shove in any voodoo chicken feet or Rasta spliffs or Wiccan wands.
Damon Lindelof: This is the critical mystery of the season, which is, "What is the relationship between these two shows? ... Where's Libby? Where's Ana Lucia? Where's Eko? These are all the things that you're supposed to be thinking about.
Got that? The only question Darlton cared about answering in their finale season, the ONLY one, was this: What was the Sideways universe? The Sideways that didn't even exist until this season. And what was the big revelation about the Sideways? That it was a completely separate, non intersecting, non connecting afterlife that the characters "created for themselves" while they waited to enter Heaven, or the light, or what the fuck ever. After swearing for years their story wasn't about Purgatory, they made their finale season all about ... frigging Purgatory! Haha! Gotcha!
Why wasn't Michael allowed into Jack's heaven? He blew himself up with a bomb just like Sayid did. Why did he have to be trapped on the Island as a whisper? Was it because he didn't have a Schmoopie?
And what about poor Walt? Not only wasn't he special in any way, but none of the other 815-ers wanted him in the heaven they created for themselves. Can you believe it? They wanted Libby there, but they didn't want Walt! They wanted Penny there and most of them didn't even know who she was! Boy, they really, really held that puberty thing against him, didn't they?
See? Look! It was an Apollo candy bar! And Number 23! Holy moly! My mind, she is blown! Darlton, you iz geniuses!
So the whole Sideways/Purgatory/Bullshitland that the characters "created" for themselves after death was not about Redemption (except for Jack.) And it wasn't about Free Will, one of the other alleged "themes" of LOST. The characters may have created this place, but they didn't know they were doing it, and they didn't know why they did it, and most of the connections they unwittingly created for themselves meant absolutely nothing in the final denouement, just like all the connections built into the pre-crash flight and the off Island world meant absolutely nothing.
So here's another Inconvenient Truth that we learned from the finale:
I always did love the visual imagery of LOST, but you can't just throw random symbolic elements onscreen and call that a story.
"We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up. And by "things" I mean lots of people dead."
"We really like gratuitous explosions."
I kind of wish, as an American, that people like Damon wouldn't speak for what "we Yanks" appreciate. I'd just like to let the global audience out there know that not all Yanks tell their kids to shut up and eat cheese and not all Yanks are proud of being stupid and unimaginative.
Cuse and Lindelof have dropped plenty of guideposts along the way. Several characters are named for authors or philosophers (Locke, Milton, Rousseau, the Zen master Dogen) whose concepts play into the story, and classic works of literature sneak into key scenes. The writers say they use these references as "a tip of the cap" to their influences, as Lindelof puts it, "as opposed to saying, 'Hey, we came up with this idea for the first time."
Killer the dog WAS. Now Killer was born to a three-legged bitch mother. And he was always ashamed of this, man. And then right after that, he's adopted by this man, Tito Liebowitz. He's a small-time gunrunner and, uh, rottweiler fight promoter. So he puts Killer into training, next thing you know Killer's GOOD! He is DAMN good! But then, he had the fight of his life. They pit him against his brother Nibbles. And Killer said, "No, man, that's my brother, I can't fight Nibbles!" And he made him fight anyway. And then Killer, Killed Nibbles. And Killer said, "That's it!" And he called off all his fights, and he started doing crack, and he ffffffff-FREAKED OUT. And then in a rage, he collapsed, and his heart... no longer beat. Wow.
"I read an article recently saying that 80 percent of American poll respondents said they thought Harry wouldn't survive the final book. As is the case in many polls, there's probably a degree of wish-fulfillment here. In other words, we want the little bugger to die."
Fuck you all, dirty whores. Yes I'm talking abotu real people because you suck and fail at life. I loathe you all haters, you deserve all the spit and shit on your faces as you can get for all those years trolling the internet. Our fandom doesn't have any respect? STFU you son of a bitch you! Keep fooling yourselves that Skate was eyefucking the whole season. You're only embarrasssing yourselves, even some decent skaters can see. Yes, there are sane skaters out there who appreciate them sanely.
These are your fans, Damon. You own them now. Don't look now, but they may be all you got left. We've learned now that fanmail campaigns and obsessive poll rigging pay off when the writers have neither balls nor any kind of plan. Sure, you managed to destroy your show's reputation and legacy, and sure, your name will be mud to any LOST fan who ever tried to follow the show on an intelligent level, but you did manage to satisfy geniuses like the poster quoted above. So, uh ... Congrats?
From statements the producers of "Lost" have made over the past five years, they developed a dynamic with die-hard fans (and disillusioned fans and skeptical non-fans) that was infinitely more complex than any of the personal relationships among the series' characters. Could it be that in resisting the geekiest, nitpickingest, most Aspergerian demands of their audience they swung too far in the opposite direction, dismissing as trivial everything but the cosmic (the tedious and largely unnecessary Jacob-Smokey background) and the sentimental (making sure that every character receives his or her designated soul mate or therapeutic closure of the most banal Dr. Phil variety)? If so, "Lost" may be the quintessential example of a pop masterpiece ruined by its own fans.
I juust had my friends sister email me about the finale. She works on the set if LOST She told me that in the finale that Kate tells Jack she loves him Uve now given up on this show after the Juliet kiss scen
They are sending me scans tomorrow. And they will send to dark UFO tomorrow as well I promise I am not lying and this is real I wish it was not: (((((((((
LOST is over, MaryAndy. Suck it up. You have to go out and get a job now.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that most nerds wouldn't know Romance if it jumped up and kissed them on the mouth. That's part of what makes them nerds, after all. Sci Fi and Fantasy genres have never been a romance friendly milieu. Romance, when it appears at all, is generally very stilted and unrealistic, and caters to the male sensibility exclusively. Most women in this genre are blond. All women are beautiful, although beauty is completely optional for the male half. It is common, and preferable, in Nerd Romance, that the female abjectly worship her mate. Strangely, though, Nerd Romance rarely features ... s.e.x.
Basically, the way Romance ended up being depicted on LOST, the uglier a romance was,
the less sensual it was,
the more weird and shallow and gimmicky it was
With this predictable, but disastrous, narrative choice to focus on only one character above all the others, Lost managed to destroy the last hope that LOST could ever have been a great story with a message that was universal or transcendant. The strength of LOST had once been in the variety of its characters, in the way, that each one of them represented a slice of humanity, a slice of heroism, a slice of each of us. If there had been a truly humanist vision behind the LOST story, each of us could have seen ourselves in some incarnation within the story. We could have come away with some unifying vision of what it means to be human and to be connected to other humans. I think this is what many of us had hoped for. I know I wasn't the only one who imagined that's what we were witnessing. This TIME Magazine article gives a great interpretation of what LOST could have been, what so many of us thought it would be, but what it sadly decided it didn't want to be:
But Lost has not a single protagonist but a huge ensemble of heroes and antiheroes with checkered pasts. The loser, the con artist, the arrogant doctor, the fugitive, the junkie: each has his or her part in the quest, which has less to do with good beating evil than determining how to be good, less to do with getting the happy ending than finding out what it means to have a happy ending. Collectively, they are — to borrow the title of Joseph Campbell's classic study of myth — the Hero with a Thousand Faces, or at least a dozen or so. It's a concept of heroism for our complicated, connected world, where problems are too complex for a single savior.
LOST's problems weren't too complex for Jack. He solved them all, all by himself. Locke tried to save everyone but only ended up giving the Monster a body to use. Desmond thought he could do it, but he couldn't. Sawyer, Kate, Sayid, Sun, Jin, Charlie, Claire, Hurley, Ben – they may have moved the problems along, but none of them helped to solve or fix a damn thing. It was Jack, all Jack, only Jack.
But then I slap myself and realize – I don't have to think about this shit anymore! Ever! And that's good, because finally it's safe to admit what many of us suspected, but never wanted to say: It was all bullshit.
Is there anything good to say about LOST in the wake of this debacle? Well, the music of Michael Giacchino was always stirring and emotional. The visuals of this show were magnificent. All kudos to the Art and Cinematography departments of LOST. The acting was often stellar and I hope to follow many of the actors into bigger and better careers. And of course, I've made some great friends, some of the smartest and wittiest people on the internet, and we made a home at Fishbiscuitland, which is staying open for business. But that's about it. This was the kind of finale that nullifies a series, that ruins it forever, that renders any rewatch moot. And that's not an easy thing to do. That kind of failure comes around only once every few decades. So I guess Darlton can claim that distinction. However, I really don't think they should ever show their faces at another Comic Con.
But as for myself? I always enjoyed sprinkling quotes on my LOST recaps. How about this? LOST was ...
... a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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Some farmers may have relaxed a little when they saw the payment limit section of the preliminary discussion draft the House General Farm Commodities Subcommittee released June 14.
After months of pounding on farmers and farm programs by OxFam, environmental and "taxpayer" groups and the national news media, the draft contained a smattering of payment limit verbiage about direct attribution of benefits.
While the provision limiting payments to a single person or social security number could be problematic for some cotton and rice producers, the draft's other language was not nearly as draconian as OxFam and the Environmental Working Group have been demanding.
Before producers get too relaxed, you should realize the draft the subcommittee was scheduled to take up on June 19 is probably only the opening salvo in a war that could get brutal before its over.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said the commodity title draft would not be the last word on the farm bill. The Minnesota Democrat indicated he would have additional changes to the commodity title when the full committee meets June 26.
"I think it's safe to say we will have payment limit reforms in our bill," he said. "This isn't something I've wanted to do, but I think the handwriting is on the wall. It isn't sustainable to go to the floor without some changes in payment limits."
Just how difficult the debate could become was indicated by the response from the "cottage industry" that has sprung up around the farm bill debate. The Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, an umbrella group for numerous conservation groups, was one of the first.
"The proposal takes one modest step forward — attributing payments to real, warm-bodied individuals — but fails to make meaningful change by cracking down on the current mechanisms that allow for creation of 'paper' farms to collect additional payments.
"The proposal also takes a dramatic leap backward by removing any limits on loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains," it said. "Family farmers demanding a level playing field through enactment of real payment limits will have to hope committee and floor amendments to this initial offering are forthcoming."
A Cato Institute analyst accused the ag committee of "shying away from significant and wholesale reforms needed to free farmers from this outdated system of intervention."
Peterson said he was still exploring the idea of extending payment limits to conservation programs, instead of having a $50,000 cap on CRP payments and no limit on other programs.
"If payment limits are a good idea, I think it should probably be across the board," he said, adding that USDA had considered the same recommendation in its proposal.
Peterson said it's increasingly difficult to defend large payments to farmers. "It's hard to explain to people. No question about that. We're trying to keep as much peace in the family as possible, but this issue has interest outside the ag committee, just like it does inside. People have enthusiasm for this."
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If you ever wondered who was the single writer who had the most lasting impact on American culture in the history of our Republic, you inevitably end up by naming Charles Dickens. You can talk about Edgar Alan Poe and Walt Whitman and make a very good case for Mark Twain but when it comes to lasting influence, there is only one writer in the English language you are guaranteed to hear of every Christmas in America.
The irony of our affection for Charles Dickens is that, as we approach the 200th anniversary of his birth and its attendant celebrations, Dickens was dismayed that, as popular as he was in the States, he got little in the way of royalties from the sale of his works here and came here in 1842 to advocate for an international copyright law. He came away with a decidedly negative impression.
According to David Purdue's Charles Dickens Page (charlesdickenspage.com), the man who so vividly described the underworld of London found much to trouble him here. "In keeping with his fascination for the unusual, visits to prisons, hospitals for the insane, reform schools, and schools for blind and deaf children were high on his list of places to visit in almost every city he toured."
Dickens also visited Washington and attended sessions of Congress, toured the White House, and met President Tyler. He also took the opportunity to observe slavery firsthand and was appalled that it was tolerated. Dickens wrote to a friend in England, "This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination."
The literary fruit of that first visit was "American Notes" and the novel, "Martin Chuzzlewit," in which the protagonist dies a miserable death at the end of a dreadful series of adventures in America in a miasmal hell called "Eden."
But a lot happened between his first visit and his return to America in 1867. For one thing, the Civil War settled the issue of slavery and, pirated or not, Dickens' writings were immensely popular and some American publishers were actually paying royalties. A tour promised to be immensely profitable. Dickens came back.
"Dickens used the same stage props as he did in England," according to Purdue. "Dickens began his two-hour performances precisely at eight o'clock in the evening. He opened with a 90-minute reading, stopped for a brief intermission, and then gave a second, much shorter reading ... He used a book only as a prop; he was so familiar with the material that he could improvise with ease."
Dickens went to Boston, Providence, Hartford, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Albany, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo. He was too tired and frail to do the western states, and Canada. The tour netted Dickens $140,000, close to $2 million today, but it left the failing Dickens exhausted and had also convinced him that the "republic he imagined" was closer to reality and the hospitality much improved. There is little we could find, at least on short notice, of Dickens' appearance in Providence, but lots of notice was preserved in Boston, which, from all accounts appeared to have been a mutually pleasant affair.
The crude amenities Dickens endured in the 1840s had been replaced by a distinctly American invention: the up-scale hotel. When Dickens arrived in Boston in 1867, he spent several days at the Parker House hotel recuperating from the voyage and the hotel itself impressed him.
The Parker House was the first American hotel to offer guests bathrooms. As historian Daniel Boorstein once pointed out, it was the Parker House that prompted the invention of the water meter. Before it was invented, every Boston establishment, from the humblest cottage to the largest mansion, paid the same fee for water from the city's supply. The average household would consume about seven gallons a day, but when the Parker House and other hotels started using 30,000 gallons a day, the essential unfairness of the fees resulted in the water meter and the idea of paying only for what you use. Luxury rooms also had individual fireplaces and the mantle from the room that Dickens stayed in while he was in Boston was saved when the first building was torn down to make way for a bigger hotel and the mantle was installed in the Dickens Room, a small room devoted to club and business meetings held at the hotel and the Parker House continued to pride itself on its association with Dickens.
When the hotel was celebrating its 125th anniversary in 1981, a special event was staged in the Dickens Room for Cedric Dickens, a great-grandson of Charles who had put together a collection of old cocktail recipes based on what Charles enjoyed drinking or had written about in his books, a subdivision of the Dickens industry that resulted in Drinking With Dickens. There was a bust that sat in a niche above the fireplace and the late proprietor of the Brattle Book Shop in Boston, George Gloss, looked up and asked who it was. The bartender told him it was Charles Dickens and Gloss said it certainly was not. Cedric Dickens entered the room and seconded Gloss. Nobody knew whom the bust was of but everyone knew it wasn't Dickens, and looking at the Dickens photographs that Gloss lent to the affair made it conclusive. Since the late 1890s, when that iteration of the Parker House was built, that bust overlooked the room, "in a little niche in the corner of the Dickens Room, coolly aloof from the countless parties and functions played out beneath its stony gaze," according to the hotel's newsletter. It was a bit embarrassing but even more embarrassing was the fact that nobody knew who it was or how he got there. A young manager at the hotel came up with the answer.
"His name is Alexander Hamilton Rice and he was a governor of Massachusetts in the 1800s," reported Kevin Shale, now a film producer in Boston. "I walk by his portrait every day when I cut through the state house on my way to work."
Americans and the world continue to throw parties for Charles Dickens. This month's Smithsonian magazine outlines the Dickens industry as it exists in England and Providence College associate professor Elizabeth Bridgham has frequently hosted celebrations of Dickens, including the national Dickens Society Symposium in 2009 at Providence College and a variety of Dickens presentations at the school. The North Kingstown resident is an avid Dickens fan and the official bibliographer for the Dickens Society.
"I'm off in two days to present a talk at a symposium to be held in Paris, Condette, France, Rochester, UK and in London, called 'Dickens and the Idea of Dickensian: A Tale of Four Cities.' The events for Dickens 2012 are heating up!"
Bridgham recommends visiting www.dickens2012.org for news of events scheduled this year.
In April 1868, Dickens returned to Boston to give the last performance of the tour. Purdue said audiences gave him a valedictory and prolonged applause following the reading:
"He closed by telling the audience, 'In this brief life of ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time ... Ladies and gentlemen, I beg most earnestly, most gratefully, and most affectionately, to bid you, each and all, farewell.'"
Dickens died in 1870 at the age of 58. He had no idea what his impact on the culture would be. There is now a theme park devoted to Dickens in Chatham, Kent, England that opened in 2007. It's not likely that Dickens would have approved of the Great Expectations log plume, advertised as "the longest indoor dark ride in Europe and the Haunted House of Ebenezer Scrooge. He requested in his will that no memorials be made for him, a request that, aside from the theme park and a corner in Westminster Abbey, was largely honored in England: The only public statue of Dickens was cast in bronze by Edwin Elwell in 1891 and it is located in Clark Park, in Philadelphia.


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Defenders News Briefs: Fall 2010
Defenders Sues To Stop Coal Mining
Continuing to push for cleaner, more sustainable energy, Defenders of Wildlife in July sued the Interior Department to halt the sale and mining of coal leases in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming. The basin is the nation's largest coal-producing region, with 500 million tons strip-mined every year and then burned in hundreds of coal-fired power plants across the country. The region's coal is responsible for nearly 14 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is the first case challenging the Obama administration's failure to confront the climate change impacts of its federal coal-leasing program. The administration plans to offer 12 new leases that could collectively produce 5.8 billion tons of coal—as much as has been mined from the entire region over the last 20 years. Burning this coal would release more than 10.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide—nearly one and a half times the total amount of greenhouse gases released in the United States in 2008.
Foundation Helps Defenders Protect Wildlife
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in June awarded Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Wilderness Society a $3.1 million grant for a three-year project to promote wildlife-friendly and environmentally-responsible renewable energy development. The grant will allow the groups to coordinate and increase their oversight of and advice to government agencies in the selection of sites for geothermal and wind- and solar-powered energy projects. "This grant will help ensure that wildlife conservation has a strong voice in the development of a national policy for renewable energy at a time when the environmental, economic and human costs of our continued addiction to fossil fuels have become all too apparent," says Defenders President Rodger Schlickeisen. "We are very grateful to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for this support."
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Mississippi State University alumni who know a nationally recognized, hardworking individual who deserves special and elite recognition can submit that person's name and qualifications for an MSU honorary doctoral degree.
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"God Loves Uganda, which was broadcast earlier this week on PBS and is now available on iTunes and Netflix."
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Brand Name Apo-Tamox Common Name tamoxifen
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Tamoxifen belongs to the group of cancer-fighting medications known as antineoplastics, and specifically to the type of antineoplastics known as antiestrogens. It is used in combination with other medications to treat early breast cancer.
Tamoxifen fights certain types of breast cancer, called hormone responsive or estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, by blocking the effects of the hormone estrogen in the body. This prevents the growth of the types of breast cancer cells that require estrogen for growth and survival. It is also used to treat breast cancer that is advanced or has spread to other parts of the body.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended dose of tamoxifen is 20 mg to 40 mg daily taken in 1 dose or in 2 divided doses. It may be taken with or without food. For the treatment of early breast cancer, the recommended duration of treatment is 5 years.
Tamoxifen sometimes causes nausea, but it is important to keep taking the medication even if you begin to feel ill, unless otherwise directed by the doctor. Do not stop taking tamoxifen unless you discuss it with your doctor first.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a different dose than the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to that this medication be taken exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
10 mg
Each white, round, biconvex tablet, engraved "APO" over "T10" on one side, contains tamoxifen 10 mg (as tamoxifen citrate 15.2 mg). Nonmedicinal ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, mannitol, and maize starch.
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Each white, octagonal, biconvex, compressed tablet, engraved "APO" over "T20" on one side, contains tamoxifen 20 mg (as tamoxifen citrate 30.4 mg). Nonmedicinal ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, mannitol, and maize starch.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take tamoxifen if you:
- are allergic to tamoxifen or any ingredients of the medication
- are pregnant or planning to become pregnant
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- bone pain
- changes in menstrual period
- constipation
- genital itching
- hair loss (partial) or hair thinning
- headache
- hot flashes
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- skin rash
- swelling of the feet, ankles, or lower leg
- taste alterations
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin or mucous membranes
- blurred vision or vision changes
- cough and shortness of breath
- pain or feeling of pressure in the pelvis
- severe nausea or vomiting
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- signs of bleeding (e.g., unusual nosebleeds, bruising, blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding gums, cuts that don't stop bleeding)
- signs of liver problems (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools)
- symptoms of inflammation of the pancreas (e.g., severe upper right abdominal pain)
- symptoms of low white blood cells (e.g., sore throat, fever, cough)
- vaginal bleeding or discharge
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- hives
- signs of a severe allergic reaction (e.g., hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat)
- swelling of the hands, feet, or ankles
- symptoms of a blood clot in the leg (e.g., pain, swelling or redness of the calf or leg)
- symptoms of a blood clot in the lungs (e.g., chest pain and shortness of breath)
- symptoms of a stroke (e.g., sudden weakness or numbness of the arms or legs, sudden difficulty speaking, sudden dizziness, sudden severe headache)
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Blood clots: Tamoxifen may increase the chance of developing blood clots in the lungs or legs. This chance may be further increased if tamoxifen is given with other forms of chemotherapy. If you have a history of blood clots, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
A blood clot in the blood vessels of the brain can prevent blood from reaching parts of the brain, causing a stroke. If you experience signs of a stroke such as confusion, difficulty speaking, loss of coordination, sudden headache or vision changes, contact your doctor as soon as possible.
Cataracts: Tamoxifen may cause cataracts or worsen existing cataracts for some people. If you experience any vision changes while taking this medication, contact your doctor.
High blood calcium levels: Tamoxifen may cause an increase in blood calcium levels for women with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Your doctor will monitor for this with blood tests.
Uterine cancers: Tamoxifen may increase the chance of developing certain types of uterine cancer. Talk to your doctor about whether any special monitoring is needed. If you experience any vaginal bleeding while or after taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
White blood cells and platelets: People with low white blood cells or platelets should discuss with their doctor how this medication may affect their medical condition, how their medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Worsening symptoms: For some women taking this medication, pain may worsen and the size of the affected tissue may increase at the beginning of treatment. This usually resolves within a few weeks of starting tamoxifen. If you experience these effects, contact your doctor.
Pregnancy: This medication may cause birth defects or death to the developing fetus and should not be used during pregnancy. Effective birth control should be used while taking this medication and for about 2 months after finishing it. Tell the doctor immediately if you become pregnant while taking this medication.
Breast-feeding: It is not known if tamoxifen passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking this medication, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children.
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Ever heard someone shreek 'don't judge me!', or 'don't judge someone unless you haven't met them'? It does seem to be a bit of a cliche nowadays, or should I say, an excuse to be an ass and then deflect any criticism?
If we are not supposed to judge anyone we have never met, does that preclude all us historians from researching people who died before we were born? Of course not. History would be in trouble if we didn't research people who came before us. And of course, we don't know them.
And I have to say, and this comes as someone who spent 18 months researching somebody who died in 1847, that you CAN come to some kind of conclusion about what kind of person someone was, as long as you start off with a clean slate and see everything in the context of the time. Judging the past by the standards of today is problematic to say the least.
I guess the same stands for the 2,549 WW2 servicemen I have spent two years researching, or the 5,000 WW1 servicemen I am currently looking at. Just because I can never meet them, does that mean they should be abandoned to anonymity forever? Of course not.
If we don't research people then we don't have social history, and a society without history is like a ship without an anchor. And by the same token, our deeds and our actions precede us in the present day too. Life is full of judgement, its impossible to get away from it. Job interviews, dates, they are all about judgement – if someone has the skills you are looking for, or if they take care over their appearance.
So, go ahead – judge away!
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Montevideo's girls and boys golf teams swept the championships of the Sub-Section 12 tournament last Wednesday at Ortonville.
Montevideo's girls and boys golf teams swept the championships of the Sub-Section 12 tournament last Wednesday at Ortonville.
The Montevideo girls defended their team title by 25 strokes over runner-up Morris/Chokio-Alberta. Kendyl Anderson led the way for the Thunder Hawks with a 94.
The Montevideo boys' season-long rivalry with Benson/KMS continued, with the Thunder Hawks winning the title on the basis of a tiebreaker score.
Both teams had scores of 304, but Montevideo's fifth-place score was four shots lower than Benson/KMS's.
Phillip Ward fired a one-under-par 71 to lead Montevideo. All six Montevideo players shot under 80.
Both Montevideo teams will compete in the Section 3AA?tournament today (Thursday) at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Willmar.
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2. Benson/KMS 303
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Medalist: Jordan Burns, BKMS, 69
Section qualifiers: Montevideo team; Burns, BKMS, 69; Sam Peterson, BKMS, 74; Zach Mauer, BKMS, 78; Jordan Kolden, MCA, 79; Andrew Rentz, MCA, 79
Montevideo scores: Phillip Ward 71, Mike Moritz 77, Ryan Knudson 77, Derek Bruns 78, Grant Tufto 78, Tyler Sachariason 79
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Medalist: Cassidy Hennen, MCA, 91
Section qualifiers: Montevideo team; Hennen, MCA, 91; Jen Kack, LqPV, 93; Lily Erdal, MCA, 103; Maddy Hennen, MCA, 106
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In recent years, demand has grown for energy-efficient electronics products. A number of companies are working on ultra-low-power circuits and other embedded hardware to enable this. (See: Anagear's Low-Power Circuits Harvest & Save Energy.)
AC motors are commonly used in consumer and industrial motor applications. Toshiba says there has been "strong demand in the market, especially in consumer products, for more energy efficient DC motors." However, controlling these motors requires high-level technician skills, so the company is devising a simpler solution.
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The company is not saying exactly what this technology will entail. Koji Takahata, a spokesman from the e-service group at Toshiba Corp. Semiconductor and Storage Products Co. in Tokyo, did tell us the microcontrollers will foster an "easier and more cost-effective way to apply highly precise motor control to products."
The New Vector Engine will support the trend toward higher-performance, more flexible motor applications, he said, which will enable the type of precision the industry demands. "The New Vector Engine makes it easy to incorporate the special function into the vector control, such as field weakening control required by various applications, realizing highly precise control."
Toshiba's M370 group of microcontrollers use the current version of the Vector Engine, which was developed as part of the energy-efficient Toshiba Cortex-M3 core-based microcontroller series, he said.
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NEMA's Lighting Systems Index increased in the fourth quarter of 2012 after a decline in the third quarter, growing 1.9% on a quarter-to-quarter basis and by 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. Lighting equipment demand has struggled to gain traction since the recovery began and remains well below the levels observed during the previous economic expansion. For the second consecutive quarter, miniature lamps and fixtures registered solid gains in sales value while emergency lamps, ballasts, and large lamps fell further.
Lighting output gains are likely to pick up over time as construction activity gradually improves. The housing recovery remains on track as overall housing starts were roughly 25% higher in January on a year-over-year basis. Building permits, a typically less volatile measure, climbed more than 30% in January from a year ago. Total housing starts are estimated at 781,000 in 2012, 975,000 in 2013, and 1.215 million in 2014.
However, nonresidential construction was flat in 2012, with investment outlays up only a scant 0.2% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter. Leading indicators such as architecture firm billings and income property prices continue to indicate that forward progress is on the horizon, but rapid and broad-based gains in activity are not likely in the cards in the near future. However, the outlook for commercial construction — office, retail, warehouse, dining/drinking establishments — is more promising for electrical equipment manufacturers. While the sector has seen sporadic increases over the last two years, the gains have been inconsistent. Steadier progress is expected this year, though, with growth accelerating heading into 2014.


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COSTA MESA — The conductor sits comfortably in a backstage room within a concert hall, which, he says, glorifies the qualities of the human voice.
John Alexander is retrospective. His decades leading the Pacific Chorale have added up, and yet the 67-year-old Laguna Beach resident remains as excited and as enthusiastic as ever.
He remarks that at this very moment, the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall is a perfect place to talk. It's the hall that heralded in the newest chapter of his accomplished artistic life. It's the grande dame of a venue Orange County finally got, and one made for choral music.
But things weren't always so grand. In 1972, when the 27-year-old choral conductor from New Orleans took the Pacific Chorale's leadership helm, Orange County was the backwoods. Its artistic merit was little to speak of. There was no major orchestra. There was not even a suitable place for one to play in.
But that didn't deter Alexander. He saw potential. He saw passion.
He still does. Come Sunday, Alexander will be celebrating his 40th anniversary season as the Pacific Chorale's artistic director.
Those 40 seasons show a period of remarkable transformation for the Costa Mesa-based ensemble that once was just another community group and has since become a national treasure.
'Out in the bean fields'
Alexander is from an extensive family tree of musicians. His father, Elliot Alexander, came from a family of 11 children, many of whom were choral musicians.
It's to no surprise, then, when Alexander notes that his "family had this long tradition of choral music."
Elliot Alexander carried on with the family legacy, becoming a conductor and also singing with the New Orleans Opera.
Those connections kept music alive and well in the household. The concertmistress of the New Orleans Symphony was a frequent houseguest and an early influence on young John.
"It was because of knowing her as a little kid that I decided I wanted to be a violinist," Alexander says. "I started studying with her when I was 5 years old."
Sometimes Alexander played his violin to music he wrote himself, as his father improvised on the piano.
"I think it's that very close relationship with my father — who was a classical musician, even though we lived in New Orleans — that helped build my career," he says.
When Alexander was about 8, he heard the famed American Boychoir perform. Eventually he auditioned and was accepted into the prestigious music boarding school based in Princeton, N.J.
It turned out to be a great four-year education for him. The group studied, traveled and toured. It was a major shaping point in his early life.
"I had more than the equivalent of a year's college music education at 12 years old," Alexander says.
But going to school "up north" did have one drawback: He found himself needing to lose his accent to fit in.
"Because I was schooled in the North, I quickly got rid of my New Orleans accent," he says with a laugh.
At 13, Alexander got a job as an organist/choirmaster for a Presbyterian church. Some two years later, he did similar work at another church — this time an Episcopalian one.
After attending high school in Florida, where his family lived at the time, Alexander did his undergraduate studies at Oberlin, his master's at the University of Kentucky ("which was a major shock coming out of the ivory tower of Oberlin," he says) and his doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (where today his brother, Reid Alexander, is a professor of piano pedagogy).
During his studies, he did a host of activities, including working with choirs for the orchestras in Lexington and Cincinnati.
By 1970, Alexander had a teaching job at Cal State Northridge (which lasted through 1996) and had once worked with the Pacific Chorale — then called the Irvine Master Chorale — at the request of its founder, Maurice Allard.
In 1972, Allard went on sabbatical and someone needed to take over. Alexander stepped in.
Jan Landstrom, a Pacific Chorale board member who has sung with the group and was its business manager in the early years, remembers how impressive the youthful man was.
"This young guy came in, and we really liked him," she says. "He did a beautiful job."
But Alexander says back then he was hesitant to take over a choir "out in the bean fields."
He became convinced soon enough, though.
"I saw the passion that these people were driven with to do something really outstanding," he says. "It was a passion that I bought into, so I took the job."
'Can't you people in Orange County build a hall here?'
It was always Alexander's long-term goal to work with choral orchestral literature.
The big problem, though, was that Orange County had no professional orchestra in 1972. Furthermore, the group he was hired into was just "a great community chorus."
That realization led to the first of what Alexander describes as his "three different jobs" within the same 40-year tenure: making the choir a professional-level ensemble that could sustain itself.
Landstrom was in on some of that early development in 1974, when the choir did its first European tour.
"I remember performing in the cathedrals," she says. "We had never done things like that before. He introduced us to wonderful music."
Back in Orange County, it was a lonely world to work in, Alexander says. The nonprofit Philharmonic Society of Orange County, formed in 1954, was "really the only game in town," and it was about bringing in music from the outside classical world.
"We were really, at that time, the only major classical group really making a serious effort toward classical music," Alexander says.
Fortunately for Alexander and his chorus, in the county next door they found orchestral collaborators: the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pasadena Symphony. Alexander calls working with the L.A. Phil in 1976 a major landmark for the ensemble.
But despite those successful collaborations, locally there was no place for the chorus or a visiting orchestra to play — at least not a good one.
"We were always needing a place to perform," Landstrom recalls. "We could rehearse and everything sounded wonderful, but then we would go into some hall and our notes would sound flat."
The solution was less than ideal.
"We all got together and decided that the best acoustical hall in this county that could hold our audience was Santa Ana High School," Alexander says. "So we all went over to this very old, decrepit high school auditorium that was in desperate need of repair."
Alexander says it was so bad that Zubin Mehta, then the conductor the L.A. Philharmonic, infamously remarked in the Santa Ana High gym during a concert: "Can't you people in Orange County build a hall here?"
The answer at the time was no.
The county first needed to get its own orchestra, Alexander says. That's why he was "in on the ground floor" in the late 1970s as the Pacific Symphony formed under the direction of Keith Clark.
'It was a completely new world'
Alexander says his second "job" as director of the choir — which officially became the Pacific Chorale in 1981 — lasted for 20 years and began in 1986.
That was the year Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa opened, much to the excitement, anticipation and relief for local performers wanting a place to call home.
"It was a completely new world," Alexander says. "I felt like I had moved to a new position."
But in the weeks before the hall's Sept. 29 opening featuring the L.A. Phil and Pacific Chorale, Alexander realized the design of the 3,000-seat venue was, from a choral standpoint, missing something quite major: space for the choir.
He says the stage's orchestral shell could fit just that — an orchestra. There was no spot behind for a choir to stand.
"They had to build this extension to the original shell that was just plywood," Alexander says. "They had to build this whole set of choral risers, and they did this in three weeks. It was amazing."
Still, he says the multipurpose hall — while regarded as a major upgrade from the Santa Ana High School gym — never had the right acoustical properties for choir and orchestra.
"You don't do classical music in a 3,000-seat hall," he says.
Despite all the venue imperfections as Alexander continued his goal of performing top-notch choral orchestral literature, things went well during his "second job" from 1986 to 2006. The Pacific Chorale established its first formal music education program. It even toured with the Boston Symphony and its famed conductor, Seiji Ozawa. Music awards were earned and given.
The John Alexander Singers — the chorale's professional chamber group — also formed, further cementing the Pacific Chorale's stature.
Alexander says he loved Orange County for its fertile and untrodden artistic ground. It's at least part of what kept him here and turning down offers elsewhere.
"There's not this long tradition that you have to live with here … I could just do my own thing," he says.
With a hall to call home and the Pacific Symphony hometown orchestra in place, Alexander says another milestone came in 1990, when the symphony hired Carl St.Clair as its music director.
The Texas native shared his appreciation for choir and orchestra, Alexander says. Together, both ensembles named after the nearby Pacific Ocean went about making great music happen.
"Between what the symphony commissions and what we commission, we've been a hotbed of activity for new music here in the choral orchestral medium," Alexander says.
St.Clair calls his colleague "a consummate artist, conductor, composer and community leader."
"For over 22 years it has been a great honor to have him as friend and colleague," he says. "The music he has created in Orange County is a blessing we are fortunate to share."
'Like a little kid with a new toy'
After Segerstrom Hall opened in 1986, 20 years passed. The Pacific Chorale had traveled the world, performing in Europe, South America and Asia.
Then in 2006, Alexander says his job at the chorale took on a third identity and renewed purpose. The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall opened.
And this time, there was a proper place for his choir.
He says he felt "like a little kid with a new toy. It's like a completely different world. I've been in a new job ever since we moved here."
"We could get by with murder in the old hall," he added. "The acoustics weren't there … the acoustics in this hall — they don't save us from anything!"
These days — now that the chorale has an infrastructure to succeed and a fantastic hall — Alexander says he works to further refine the sound for the choir's programs, which amount to nearly 20 each year for almost 40 concerts.
The chorale has a roster of nearly 200 singers, about 34 of whom are professionals.
"I doubt you would ever see that many Pacific Chorale singers all on stage together, though, as each performance roster is assembled based on the requirements of the repertoire and venue, and the availability of the singers," says Pacific Chorale marketing director Ryan McSweeney.
The typical roster count now for the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall is around 140, with 110 volunteers and 30 professionals, McSweeney says.
Sunday's 40th anniversary program, which begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, also features the Pacific Symphony. Alexander says the lineup is "a taste of his life" at the chorale.
It includes "Seeking Higher Ground" by Jake Heggie, which was played when the concert hall opened and reflects Alexander's hometown New Orleans. One of his own compositions, "Musica," dedicated to his influential father, is also on the program.
Landstrom — who's been involved since 1968, when the chorale was founded — says she is very excited to attend Sunday's concert.
"I'm going to feel a great sense of pride and gratitude," she says. "It all goes to John. He's the one that has kept this whole thing together and made it what it is today. Our sound when we first started was nothing compared to what the sound is now."
Mary A. Lyons, chairwoman emeritus of the Pacific Chorale's board, says for more than 30 years she's "participated in an amazing choral journey … singing for John is a joyous experience, and working with John is a wonderful and productive adventure."
Kelly Ruggirello, the chorale's president and chief executive, says Alexander "embodies dedication and visionary leadership. His 40-year record of artistic excellence and commitment to education are an inspiration for everyone working in the choral field."
As for Alexander, who just signed another three-year contract with the chorale, he says he's busier than ever. He laughs when asked if he's got another 40-year stint in him.
"As soon as I feel like it's not getting better, it's time for me to retire," he says, adding that, for the moment, "I'm playing it as it goes, but I feel really, really good."
BRADLEY ZINT is a copy editor for the Daily Pilot and a classically trained musician. Email him story ideas at email@example.com.
If You Go
What: John Alexander's 40th anniversary concert with the Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony
Where: Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa
When: 5:30 p.m. Sunday, with a 7:45 p.m. New Orleans-themed gala afterward
For more: Tickets start at $15. For more information, call (714) 662-2345 or visit http://www.pacifichorale.org.


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