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LOCAL SPORTS: Torrington man joins canoe race for first time at 90
Harry Wilcox, a Torrington native, has approached life with verve, energy and a sense of humor. At 90 he remains as active as men many years his junior and has no plans of sitting back and relaxing soon.
It is not surprising, then, that when his daughter, Liz Warder, suggested that he partner with her in the 50th annual River Rat Race, a 5.6 mile canoe race between Athol and Orange, Mass., he was ready for the adventure.
"I haven't been in a canoe in about 40 years," he said this week. "I used to take the kids canoeing up in New York State when they were young. We would rent three canoes for the family. But I had never been in a race. That was new for me."
The four decades since he last lifted a paddle did not deter him, however. "My daughter has a racing canoe," he recounted, "and another one she got from her brother and third of her own. She and I went as a father and daughter team and my son-in-law and granddaughter also competed as a father-daughter team."
The family showed up for registration Friday night and when his team was called on stage to receive their numbers, drawn by lottery, someone called out that Mr. Wilcox did not look 90 years old. It was an impression he confirmed the following day.
"We probably passed 40 or 50 canoes," he related. "People were saying, 'We were just passed by a 90-year-old!'"
Mrs. Warder has competed in the race 11 previous times and was familiar with the course. She asked her father two years ago if he would be her partner when he became a nonagenarian and he readily agreed. They were challenged by Mrs. Warder's husband, Gary, a Torrington High School star runner in the class of 1979, and their daughter, Kat, to make it a three-generational event.
Mrs. Warder wrote in a release that the race features a Lemans-style start with canoes lining up along one bank of the river. At precisely
1 p.m., a cannon fired and all canoes rush into the main stream of the river. Spectators traditionally cheer as canoe after canoe tips over at the start of the mad dash.
Mrs. Warder was worried about this aspect of the race and told her father that they would hold on to a tree branch until there was a clear path of travel available. Mr. Wilcox was eager to put his paddle into the water and asked several times, "Now?" and she responded, "Not yet!"
As canoe number 250 passed by them (they drew post position 139) they let go of the branch and began their adventure, she reported. The pair passed canoe after canoe, leaving many embarrassed canoeists behind them. They were unable to catch her husband and daughter but finished only 23 canoes behind them in 196th place. There were 329 canoes entered.
Mr. Wilcox had two years to train, but did not vary his daily routine.
He continued his normal activities such as cutting and stacking his winter wood supply, taking daily walks in a nearby state park and scaling local mountains. He and his daughter climbed Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, N.H., last October, but he says he has curtailed his mountain-climbing somewhat.
"I don't climb the kind of mountains we used to," he admitted, perhaps remembering the time he climbed Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with his daughter when she was a child of 6. "But I still climb Mount Haystack and Mohawk Mountain [several times a year]."
Still, his daughter was not satisfied. She teased him that she would take away his chain saw and snow blower and replace them with an ax and shovel to get him in top shape for the race.
Mr. Wilcox, who was born at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in 1922, has been a lifelong resident of Torrington where he was employed as a machinist, toolmaker and supervisor in the brass industry and later at the Torrington Company.
He was in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II, training to fly B-29s. But, he noted ebulliently, he never saw action in the war and never flew a B-29. "We trained in B-24s," he said. He attained the rank of second lieutenant before mustering out.
He may never have piloted a B-29, but he still rides his Honda 650 motorcycle around the countryside.
He returned to Torrington after the war where he and his wife, Joyce, raised their family of six children. Today they are grandparents to 10 and great-grandparents to six. Mrs. Wilcox went to the race where she watched the action with her son, Charles, daughter, Eden, granddaughter Candace and great-grandson, Glen.
"Everyone should have the life I have had," Mr. Wilcox said enthusiastically this week. Asked to what he attributes his long and healthy life, he answers, "Clean living--and if you believe that I have a bridge I would like to sell you."
He noted that when his father was in his 90s, his sister called insisting that he come and take his father's ladder away because he was going up on the roof to make repairs. "One uncle lived to 103 and my sister was 101," he said. "One uncle smoked and drank and it killed him at 97."
So he doesn't see himself slowing down soon. He allows that he had so much fun in the River Rat Race he "might try it again" when he is 91.


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We have worked on some basic style concepts already: http://www.lifebydesign.com.au/logos.html
We definitely would like you to use Avante Garde or similar rounded font (see our examples above)!
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We need a logo that projects simplicity and clarity but at the same time looks professional,corporate, stylish and cutting-edge. At present our logo is two squares (as seen on http://www.lifebydesign.com.au) but we would like something a bit more modern and effective than this. We have had some ideas, two of which are located here: http://www.lifebydesign.com.au/logos.html
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Do you wish that special lady in your life had the gamma-irradiated décolletage of She-Hulk? The 40-10-40 measurements of Black Widow? The willingness to traipse about in her underwear like Emma Frost? Body proportions out of a Rob Liefeld comic?
Why not get her these classy Marvel pajamas from Spencer's, which overlay the Marvel heroines' ludicrously stylized figures on top of your inamorata's ho-hum human form? More power to you if you sincerely want to don this sleepwear, but I'm surprised given the selection that there aren't clear cellophane Sue Storm PJs for sale.
Why is there fire? Apparently the Black Widow nightie depicts Natasha Romanoff mid-spontaneous combustion.
Does She-Hulk lose her nipples when she hulks out? According to these pajamas, yes.
"Happy Fourth of July, honey. PS: I always thought your bosoms needed more lens flare."
Truth be told, I'm think of buying this Spider-Girl camisole for the sole purpose of confusing the shit out of burglars.
Rather than buy your gal pal some stylish lingerie, why not buy her a shirt depicting a fictional character wearing lingerie? Lingerie that defeated Sentinels.
On a completely unrelated note, Spencer's is also selling this "Captain America Pimp Stein." Was Marvel's licensing division pounding shots of Smirnoff Ice mixed with AXE Effect the day they signed off on these products? (Hypocrisy alert: I sort of want this.)
[Spencer's via Bleeding Cool]


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This silky buttercream frosting is made with rich dark chocolate. For a fun variation, try it with white chocolate or hazelnut paste instead. Layer Cake Recipes
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In a blender or food processor, pulse the sugar until powdery. Transfer the sugar to a medium heatproof bowl and whisk in the egg whites and salt. Set the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk gently until the sugar is completely dissolved, 5 minutes.
Transfer the warm egg-white mixture to the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the whisk. Add the vanilla and beat at medium-high speed until stiff and glossy, about 8 minutes. Beat in the butter a few pieces at a time, making sure it is fully incorporated before adding more. The buttercream should be light and fluffy; if it appears runny at any time, transfer the bowl to the freezer for 5 to 10 minutes, then return it to the mixer and continue.
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|Salon Jury, 1903
"In regard to jurys of artists, I have never served because I could never reconcile it to my conscience to be the means of shutting the door in the face of a fellow painter. I think the jury system may lead, & in the case of the Exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute no doubt does lead to a high average, but in art what we want is the certainty that the one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished, that is better than average excellence, that is what will survive, what it is essential to foster--'The 'Indepéndents" in Paris was originally started by our Group, it was the idea of our exhibitions & since taken up by others, no jury's & most of the artists of original talent have made their debut there in the last decade, they would never have had a chance in the official Salons. Ours is an enslaved profession, fancy a writer not being able to have an article published unless passed by a jury of authors, not to say rivals—"
Those of you who have been a juror, please share your thoughts about the process and the outcome of judging. No need to name the specific competition, but I'd be curious to hear what you learned about the experience of judging.
Letter to John W. Beatty, 5 September 1905, from Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art


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Notorious bad girl and all-around hot mess Courtney Love has -- through steady effort over the course of a decade -- become more well-known for her erratic behavior than for her music. (Quick, name a Courtney Love song! That's what we thought.)
The notorious rocker has now achieved an unprecedented brand of trouble, becoming the first-ever celebrity to be slapped with a defamation suit for statements made on Twitter.
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And even though piles of money can get a pretty fancy lawyer on your side, the outlook is not so good.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz denied a bid by Love to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, who claims that the star used Twitter to spread "an obsessive and delusional crusade" of libelous comments against her.
Love's attorney argues that the lawsuit is unfounded because it infringes on their client's right to free speech. However, the judge disagreed, saying that Love's comments were not made to serve the public interest and that Simorangkir has a good chance of winning her case.
Sorry, Courtney, it seems that zingers like: "Oi vey don't (expletive) with my wardrobe or you will end up in a circle of scorched earth hunted 'til your dead" are easily misinterpreted.
Simorangkir's lawyers told the LA Daily News that the ruling is reflective of Love's public image. Love originally hired Simorangkir to create clothing for her after finding the designer on Etsy, an online fashion marketplace that specializes in independent designers.
However, Love backed out of their agreement after seeing Simorangkir's invoice.
We'll be staying tuned. Love makes it impossible not to.


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It looks as though those pro-Morsi counterprotests by the recently-ascendant Muslim Brotherhood didn't work out as planned. Instead of convincing Egyptians to give Morsi a chance to use his pharaoh-esque powers to deliver democracy as promised, opponents are once again filling the streets of Cairo — and today plan to march on Morsi's palace to deliver their own message:
Thousands of Egyptians massed in Cairo Tuesday for a march to the presidential palace to protest the assumption by the nation's Islamist president of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies.
The march comes amid rising anger over the draft charter and decrees issued by Mohammed Morsi giving himself sweeping powers. Morsi called for a nationwide referendum on the draft constitution on Dec. 15.
Morsi's security forces have prepared for trouble, while the protesters are casting the stakes in stark terms:
Hundreds of black-clad riot police deployed around the Itihadiya palace in Cairo's district of Heliopolis. Barbed wire was also placed outside the complex, and side roads leading to it were blocked to traffic. Protesters gathered at Cairo's Tahrir square and several other points not far from the palace to march to the presidential complex.
"Freedom or we die," chanted a crowd of several hundred outside a mosque in the Abbasiyah district. "Mohammed Morsi! Illegitimate! Brotherhood! Illegitimate!" they also yelled, alluding to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood from which Morsi hails.
"This is the last warning before we lay siege on the presidential palace," said Mahmoud Hashim, a 21-year-old student from the city of Suez on the Red Sea. "We want the presidential decrees cancelled."
At the same time, a strike has spread from the judiciary to the media. Eleven newspapers have shut down today in protest of Morsi's decrees. Tomorrow, Egypt's private TV networks will follow suit, going dark for the entire day. The media — at least the non-state media — objects to the terms of the new constitution and its limitation on freedom of expression authored by the Muslim Brotherhood:
"You are reading this message because Egypt Independent objects to continued restrictions on media liberties, especially after hundreds of Egyptians gave their lives for freedom and dignity," declared a short statement set against a black background on the Web site of Egypt Independent, the English language sister publication of the largest independent daily, Al Masry Al Youm.
The one day blackout is the sharpest strike yet in a new push by liberal and secular groups to defeat the draft charter, which was approved last Friday by an Islamist-dominated assembly despite the boycotts and objections of almost all non-Islamist delegates. …
Among other criticisms, analysts and human rights groups say the draft contains loopholes that could eviscerate its provisions for freedom of expression. Although it ostensibly declares a right to free speech, the constitution also expressly prohibits "insults" to "religious prophets."
The charter declares that part of the purpose of the news media is to uphold public morality and the "true nature of the Egyptian family," and it requires authorization to operate a television or a Web site.
"The protection of freedom of expression is fatally undermined by all the provisions that limit it," said Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch who has studied the text. "On paper, they have not protected freedom of expression. It is designed to let the government limit those rights on the basis of 'morality' or the vague concept of 'insult.'"
Just remember, the Obama administration hailed Morsi as the democratic result of the supposedly reformist Arab Spring. The White House has been remarkably silent about that outcome ever since Morsi decreed himself a pharaoh. It took Obama only eight days to demand longtime US ally Hosni Mubarak's ouster after peaceful protests erupted against his regime in the spring of 2011. How long will it be before Obama speaks out against Morsi's power grab?


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WA dams set to dry up by summer's end, expert warns
Perth's drinking water supplies from dams will run out by the end of next summer even with decent rainfall, according to predictions by the Centre for Water Research.
By then, Perth and the South-West would become solely reliant on water supplied from the already stressed Gnangara Mound aquifer and the Kwinana desalination plant, director Jorg Imberger said.
Even using an optimistic calculation that 35 gigalitres (35 billion litres) of rainwater would flow into the city's dams - far greater than the 13 gigalitres last year - the dams would run dry.
"(Even) given recycled water, less water use, pumping the surface aquifer at Gnangara Mound a little bit more and hoping for rain, we'll basically have no water left at the end of summer 2012," Professor Imberger said.
The comments confer with the national Climate Commissioner's first report released yesterday, which warns that water availability will be at great risk before the end of the century due to changing rainfall patterns.
WA's South-West region was already "drying out" and all projections showed no improvement, the report by Professor Will Steffen said.
"Rainfall is the main driver of run-off, which is the direct link to water availability," the report says.
"Hydrological modelling indicates that water availability will likely decline in south-west Western Australia."
Perth's dam capacity is already below 25 per cent and only 10 per cent of that is drinkable.
WA Water Commission figures show the average amount of rainfall flowing into the dams has dramatically declined since 1974:
- 1911 - 1974 - 338 gigalitres
- 1974 - 2000 - 117 gigalitres
- 2001 - 2005 - 92.4 gigalitres
- 2006 - 2010 - 57.7 gigalitres
"It's raining less but the reduction into reservoirs has reduced even more because the vegetation is sucking up the rest (due to deforestation)," Professor Imberger said.
"Between 30-40 per cent of that reduction is due to climate change. The remainder is down to land clearing - trees are not (there to) recycle water the way they used to be."
Of this really serious situation nobody seems to be doing something about it. Maybe they're just hoping all this is going to go away.
But a Water Corporation spokesman said it was too early too predict how much water would be left in the dams by early next year.
He said over the past 10 years the dams had averaged 100 billion litres of water per year, although last year only 13 billion litres flowed.
Rainfall flows into the dams had been getting later and later each year but it already started this year.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the Perth metropolitan area recorded only 59 per cent of its average annual rainfall last year.
A record hot summer brought no relief and so far this year, less than 50 millimetres of rain has fallen in Perth.
Professor Imberger said the state government's only option to avoid running out of drinking water was to immediately bring other sources online.
That included expanding use of the Yarragadee aquifer in the South-West, doubling capacity of the second desalination plant at Binningup - due to come online by the end of the year to provide 45 gigalitres of water - to 100 gigalitres, and improving water recycling.
"Of this really serious situation nobody seems to be doing something about it," Professor Imberger said. "Maybe they're just hoping all this is going to go away."
Several WA water experts have recommended tapping further into the Yarragadee aquifer to ease pressure on Gnangara Mound, which stretches from Gingin, north of Perth, to the Swan River.
The south-west aquifer stores about 1000 gigalitres and could provide three times as much drinking water as the Kwinana desalination plant, according to Professor Imberger, but the government has so far resisted using it due to opposition from locals.
Professor Imberger said planting thousands of new trees in south-west WA also would help boost future rainfalls.
The state government did not respond to inquiries about how it was managing Perth's drinking water supply.
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"Boardwalk Empire," HBO's great Prohibition-set crime saga, came up dry in the Emmys' Outstanding Drama category. Even if that's a function of a field packed with popular, quality shows ("Breaking Bad," "Mad Men" and "Downton Abbey," among them), the snub still stings: "Boardwalk" belongs at the bar with the best of the bunch.
The rebuke echoes, in some respects, the most recent season of the show in which Steve Buscemi's onetime political and gangland powerhouse Nucky Thompson found himself battling virtually alone – near friendless after being seemingly deserted by the likes of real-life crime figures Arnold Rothman, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.
But as the show begins its fourth season Sunday after Nucky proved he fights hardest – and smartest – when his back is to the wall, the slight offers a lesson applicable to both Emmy voters and 1920s gangland Atlantic City: Don't underestimate the power of Nucky Thompson and "Boardwalk Empire."
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"Boardwalk," as we've noted, is the best TV crime drama since "The Sopranos." The programs share similarities beyond the network (HBO), the setting (New Jersey), the creative team ("Boardwalk" creator Terence Winter worked on "The Sopranos") and overlap in cast (Buscemi and Dominic Chianese). Both combine almost Shakespearean drama with, at times, unrelenting violence, and psychological- and character-driven action (even if "Boardwalk" is bereft of occasional dark comic moments generated by the more contemporary and oddly relatable Tony Soprano and Co.).
Both shows, in different ways, also are about family. Season 2 of "Boardwalk" focused, quite violently at times, on fathers and sons. The recent outing brought desperate attempts to patch together family units: Nucky made nice with his treacherous brother Eli, even as his own manufactured domesticity with the widow of a man he ordered killed crumbled under the weight of deceit. Former G-Man Nelson Van Alden turned bad to make a life for his out-of-wedlock baby daughter and the loyal nanny who became his de facto wife. Physically and emotionally scarred WWI veteran Richard Harrow tried to forge his own version of family, even if he ultimately was driven to an epic gunfire barrage not seen since "Miller's Crossing."
The characters' various efforts at family harmony haven't always ended well – though not as poorly as Nucky's stunning killing of his surrogate son Jimmy Darmody at the end of Season 2. The show could have died with Jimmy, but came roaring back to life with Bobby Cannavale's turn last season as psycho mobster Gyp Rosetti. His frightening Joe Pesci-level portrayal of a sociopath earned the show its only major Emmy nomination.
This season bodes to bring new conflict and new alliances for Nucky, who, like his show, seems to have to keep fighting for respect. In meantime, check out a preview of the new season of "Boardwalk Empire":
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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U.S. CEO Blasts French Work Habits
PARIS—The chief executive of a U.S. company that had considered buying a tire factory in northern France delivered a blistering critique of French work habits, writing to France's industry minister that he would be "stupid" to operate in a country where workers get high wages for little actual work.
Maurice Taylor, the CEO of Titan International Inc., TWI 4.88% criticized France's labor culture, saying that French unions and the government do nothing but talk. His letter, published on Wednesday in French newspaper Les Echos, highlights the danger that President François Hollande's labor reform plans, including measures that would allow companies to cut working hours and wages when production slows, may be too slow-paced for foreign investors.
Titan had expressed interest in acquiring an unprofitable plant put up for sale by tire maker Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., GT 4.34% but the company pulled out of negotiations last year after workers, headed by the communist-backed CGT union, refused to work longer hours to save jobs.
In a Feb. 8 letter responding to an approach by Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, Mr. Taylor bluntly replied: "Sir, your letter states that you want Titan to start a discussion. How stupid do you think we are?"
Mr. Taylor didn't return calls requesting comment.
Mr. Montebourg dismissed the criticism on Wednesday, replying: "Your comments, which are as extremist as they are insulting, display a perfect ignorance of our country, France."
He pointed out that France is home to 20,000 foreign companies that employ about two million French people and account for a third of its industrial exports.
The war of words is the latest involving Mr. Montebourg and a foreign company. Late last year he clashed with ArcelorMittal SA Chairman Lakshmi Mittal over plans to shut two blast furnaces in Florange, France, threatening to nationalize the facility, and told Mr. Mittal he wasn't welcome in France anymore.
Mr. Taylor's critique—while harsher than many businesses would endorse—reflects broader concerns about France's industrial competitiveness. Though productivity in France is higher than Germany's and close to that of the U.S. according to 2011 data from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, tough labor laws make it expensive to fire permanent workers. Closing factories can lead to massive political backlash.
France has moved to push employers to reach agreement with unions on more-flexible labor conditions. It is set to send a bill to parliament next month that would let companies cut working hours and wages when times are tough, lift some legal uncertainties related to layoffs and limit the time within which employees can appeal redundancy decisions.
Mr. Taylor wrote that France risks losing all of its industrial business and told a damning tale of the company's efforts to buy the tire plant in the northern town of Amiens.
"The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three," Mr. Taylor wrote. "I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!"
The letter sparked outrage in France. "The limit has been passed," said Thierry Lepaon, the next CGT union chief. "It's not the response of a minister that is necessary, but of the president of the Republic, who must demand respect for the citizens of his country."
The troubles at Goodyear's tire plant started in 2007 when the Akron, Ohio, company decided to restructure its two production sites in the town. Goodyear asked the staff to change production shifts so that the plant could churn out tires for agriculture machines and cars around the clock. After workers rejected the proposal, the management unveiled a plan to cut 402 jobs. Workers sued the company arguing the layoffs were unlawful.
In 2009 as the auto market was diving globally, Goodyear withdrew the job-cut plan and shortly afterward began negotiations with Quincy, Ill.-based Titan to take over Goodyear's agriculture machine tire plants in Europe, including Amiens Nord, said Goodyear spokeswoman Catherine Dumoutier. The management came up with a new restructuring project, which involved 817 job cuts, but failed to secure court approval.
Mr. Taylor visited the Amiens plant a couple of times and offered to keep about half the plant's staff for two years, but his proposal got a chilly reception from CGT workers, who demanded that their jobs be secure for seven years. "We were hostile because we didn't believe in his project," said Michael Wamen, CGT's representative for the plant.
Titan pulled out of negotiations in September, citing the "heavy social climate" in France, said a spokeswoman for Mr. Montebourg. The minister spent months trying to persuade the CGT to accept Titan's proposal, and at the end of the year told Mr. Taylor that conditions had improved, and that he could come back to the negotiating table, the spokeswoman added.
Meanwhile, Goodyear decided to shut the plant. As it winds down operations, it has cut car tire output by 90% to around 2,000 tires a day from the 21,000 the plant could produce at full capacity.
Still, French labor law obliges the company to keep all the workers employed, which means many of them don't work more than a couple of hours a day, while still getting full salary, a situation that appeared to enrage Mr. Taylor.
"Titan is the one with the money and the talent to produce tires. What does the crazy union have?" he asked. His letter went on to criticize the U.S. government as "not much better than the French" for failing to act against Chinese subsidies of tire exports.
In his letter, Mr. Taylor predicts that five years from now French tire maker Michelin—the second-largest in the world after Japan's Bridgestone Corp. —"won't be able to produce tires in France." A Michelin spokeswoman declined to comment.
Mr. Montebourg hit back in his response to the U.S. businessman. "Can I remind you that Titan…is 20 times smaller than Michelin…and 35 times less profitable?" Mr. Montebourg retorted in his letter. "That shows how much Titan could have learned and gained from establishing itself in France."
—Inti Landauro and Sam Schechner contributed to this article.
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A guide to breakfast in Bristol - Updated 26th January 2015
Back when I was young and far less choosy, I'd hit the nearest greasy spoon, surrounded by high-vis attired customers, avidly flicking through the trashy tabloids and stuffing myself with gargantuan breakfasts where the only common theme linking all of the items on the plate would be cheapness. Piled high but ultimately tasting of sod all.
Nowadays, I'm a much more sophisticated chap. I wouldn't touch The Sun with yours, preferring instead the broadsheets. As for my breakfast, the choice hasn't changed that much, a full English remains a lifelong favourite. What has changed though is that I'm prepared to pay a hell of a lot more for quality. No more garishly pink, cardboard tasting sausages packed full of eyelids, lips and arseholes for me, No. If my breakfast banger hasn't been lovingly hand reared on a Wiltshire farm and actually suckled at the teat of a farmer called Alan who's own diet consists solely of locally sourced spring water and grass, then frankly, I'm not sticking it in my gob.
Well. Not quite, but I am incredibly picky.
But where to find a good breakfast in Bristol? I hear your anguished cry. Hold tight, bacon lovers, I've taken the required hefty cholesterol whack for the team and have compiled a list of my favourites. I'll update this list from time to time, should my heart hold out. But right now, you should be eating breakfast in these places….
I love the Moroccan style breakfast at Poco in Stokes Croft. Merguez sausage, harissa, creamy scrambled eggs on toasted sourdough. Hell yes. The restaurant is also perfectly sited to watch the infinitely varied comings and goings of The Croft as you munch away. Believe me, people watching doesn't get any better than this.
45 Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, BS2 8JP
Telephone: 0117 923 2233
They serve breakfast/brunch on Sunday from 10am-3pm and it's absolutely belting. Go here, have the full English, drink coffee, read the papers and give me a wave whilst I do the same. It's my favourite breakfast haunt right now.
112 Princess Victoria Street, Clifton. BS8 4DB
Telephone: 01179 735435
Workhouse Café
Just down the road from the BRI, on the corner of St Michaels Hill, this steamy windowed café serves breakfast Mon-Fri 8-11 and all day on Saturday. Its fast becoming my favourite midweek go to. Laura Hart's sourdough toast, cracking coffee and a belting full English for £6.50 (I'm a particular fan of the sausages, almost certainly hand suckled by farmer Alan), they also serve porridge, if you're feeling virtuous.
Perry Rd, Bristol, Avon BS1 5BG
Telephone: 0117 329 0889
Absolutely cracking modern Middle Eastern restaurant, just South of the river in Bedminster. On the weekend, their brunch menu (served 10am-3pm) includes shaksohuka, a middle eastern breakfast of poached eggs, tomatoes, peppers, onions and spices. Throw in some merguez sausage for an extra £1.50 and you're laughing.
277 North Street, Bedminster, BS3 1JP
Telephone 0117 966 6880
Harts Bakery
An excellent artisan bakery, located at Temple Meads in an archway underneath the station approach (very Hackney'esque), it's a must visit for breakfast if you're travelling anywhere by train (or even if you're not) Ignore the abysmal chain offerings on the platforms and head here for Laura Hart's excellent coffee, superb cakes, pastries and bread (I'm a huge fan of the fennel and raisin variety). Open 7am-3pm, Tuesday to Saturday.
Arch 35 Lower Approach Road, Temple Meads. BS1 6QS
Bakers and Co.
A new addition to my breakfast listing, and what a belter it is. Located on Gloucester Road and serving excellent food inspired by the San Francisco cafe scene, this buzzing little cafe is fast becoming one of my regular morning go to's. I'm a greedy bastard, so I most often go for the more traditional 'Baker's breakfast', but there are some other excellent, really interesting choices on the menu. No reservations taken, so just turn up and squeeze in.
193 Gloucester Road. BS7 8BG
Pear Café
Seeing as this tiny Stokes Croft café is owned by my ex girlfriend, I may be accused of favouritism by adding it to this list, but I've eaten far too many sausage sandwiches there, of my own volition to happily refute any such claims. Takeaway only, really (there is a small table inside for two) and open from 8am, serving toast, coffee, tea, sausage sandwiches and absolutely superb flapjacks (beautiful buttery, syrupy, filth).
Unit 1, The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street. BS2 8QN
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If a slap up, full on breakfast is a bit much for you and you're more in the mood for excellent coffee and maybe a cheeky pastry, then head to these places…
Full Court Press
59 Broad Street, Bristol, BS1 2EJ
Small Street Espresso
Small Street, BS1 1DW
Didn't You Do Well
20 Park Row, BS1 5LJ
So, there you have my favourite Bristol breakfast joints. I don't consider myself infallible (OK, maybe just a bit) but if you know somewhere I've missed or I just don't know about, then let me know in the comments.
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I have heard very good things about the Bristolian but haven't tried it yet.
- 18 February 2014 at 18:24
- Eleanorjane said...
Ooh yum! I'm particularly interested in Wallfish as I often find myself wanting breakfast at about 12:30ish after church and lots of places stop serving it pretty early.
I've been to two of the Boston Tea Party places for breakfast (Park Rd and Whiteladies road). Nice food both times but v. slow service and dirty tables.
Great coffee at Small Street and we will try Full Court Press too.
Thanks for nobly throwing yourself on the breakfast grenade for us!
- 18 February 2014 at 22:27
- Dan said...
Charliebrock - I haven't visited the Bristolian since it reopened. I'll have to give it a go.
Eleanorjane - Wallfish is a real favourite of mine. You need to try it. Breakfast grenade, hahahaha my pleasure.
- 20 February 2014 at 19:35
- Magician Essex said...
I was performing at a wedding in Essex and visited the Bristolian before and it was fantastic, definitely recommend it!
- 1 March 2014 at 01:21
- Linda said...
Wow! Quite a fare.
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- American politicians as Game of Thrones characters - In case you missed this from earlier today. It made me laugh quite a bit.
- Silicon Valley's "Brogrammer Problem" - I'm mostly just surprised that the term "brogrammer" has caught on.
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- Suite Owners Indiana Chapter Group – May 20-23.
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- Montana Owners Group – Sept. 22-29.
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- Jayco RV Club/Starcraft RV Club Rally – Sept. 30-Oct. 3.
- Mandalay Travel Club Rally – Oct. 4-9.


text: Astronomers have added a key tool to their arsenal in probing the very early universe. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory, is a pair of observatories one in Hanford, Washington, and one in Livingston, Louisiana that monitor the universe for that most exotic of beasts; gravity waves. Each L-shaped detector is comprised of two 2.25 mile long arms and by monitoring the minute changes in length as measured by laser beam, LIGO can detect changes as small as 1/1,000th of the width of an atomic nucleus. By comparing the measurements from the two observatories and its sister companion, a European detector known as Virgo, directional magnitude of cosmic gravity waves can be measured. LIGO saw first gravity light in 2002. Late last year, data was released comprising two years worth of observations, and a sort of all-sky map in gravity waves is emerging. Unlike microwave energy, which can only probe the universe back to an age of about 380,000 years old, gravity waves were generated just moments after the Big Bang, and promise to paint a picture of that youthful era of our universe. LIGO may also prove to be one of the very few testable platforms for string theory, a theory that is very much in need of observational data. And be sure to keep an eye out in 2014 for Advanced LIGO, a detector to go online with 10x the present accuracy cant wait? YOU can join the citizen science brigade in the hunt for gravity waves before bedtime; checkout Einstein@home!


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A Utah town agreed to sell water to the National Security Agency at a rate below its own guidelines and the statewide average, according to records and interviews.
The deal could mean savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the NSA and federal taxpayers, but is more of a gamble for Bluffdale, Utah, which had to issue a $3.5 million bond to help pay for new water lines. City leaders consider the area, now covered with sagebrush, ripe for new businesses.
For now, it's home to a massive new digital warehouse run by the NSA, a $1.5 billion data center to help run its electronic surveillance programs. The area was chosen in part because of access to electricity and water which is used to cool supercomputers.
Without the influx of NSA revenue, it would have been 15 years before Bluffdale could have afforded to bring water to that area, said Bluffdale City Manager Mark Reid.
"It got us a ton of infrastructure, water infrastructure, in places we wouldn't have it," Reid said.
Bluffdale residents are not subsidizing the cost of providing water to the Utah Data Center, said Reid, noting the agreement ensures the city receives enough money to cover its costs for water and system maintenance.
But Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian Libertas Institute and who has written an opinion column calling for shutting off the water to the Utah Data Center, said it appears Bluffdale is subsidizing both the water and what he called "the NSA's extra-constitutional activities."
"I come from the line of thinking that government officials should be protecting our rights and not be economic developers," Boyack said.
Details of the agreement between the NSA and Bluffdale are discussed in three years' worth of emails the city disclosed earlier this month in response to a public-records request. Bluffdale allowed the NSA to redact large portions of the correspondence, but the emails still demonstrate how Bluffdale persuaded the NSA to buy what eventually may be more than 1 million gallons of water a day from the city rather than from four other bidders.
Like many culinary-water suppliers in Utah, Bluffdale has multitiered rates. The first 10,000 gallons used by homes and businesses every month are charged at the lowest rate, but then higher rates begin to apply. The final highest charges begin when a home or business consumes more than 100,000 gallons in a month. Currently, those large consumers in Bluffdale pay $3.25 per 1,000 gallons for water in excess of 100,000 gallons a month.
But when Bluffdale bid to be the Utah Data Center water supplier, it told the NSA it would charge it at the second-tier rate, currently $1.95 per 1,000 gallons, no matter how much water it consumed. That rate is usually reserved for homes and businesses that consume 10,000 to 50,000 gallons per month.
The Utah Data Center also must pay a 10 cents per 1,000 gallon surcharge required of all Bluffdale water users above 4,700 feet elevation, meaning the Utah Data Center is paying $2.05 per 1,000 gallons.
That charge is still less than the average statewide rate. According to a 2011 survey by the Utah Division of Drinking Water, the average rate for culinary water is $2.09 per 1,000 gallons.
To hedge its bets, Bluffdale built two conditions into the NSA deal. The agreement requires the Utah Data Center to pay Bluffdale $12,500 a month in maintenance costs. Also, the NSA must pay a minimum amount in water fees every month, regardless of its water use.
The minimum amount increases every year of the contract as the Utah Data Center is expected to boost operations, Reid said. Bluffdale, at the behest of the NSA, redacted portions of the contract showing the minimum monthly payments.
The provisions ensure Bluffdale has enough money to repay the $3.5 million bond.
It's unclear how much water the Utah Data Center is currently using. Bluffdale has declined to disclose the center's water consumption. The NSA previously has said the Utah Data Center would be operational in September or October, but The Wall Street Journal reported in October that electrical problems had delayed the project. The NSA has declined to say whether the data center is operational.


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A transparent touch-through window provides access to your Multi-Touch display, so you can adjust volume, navigate playlists, and control your iPod.
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Jerry Barlow concert will be Saturday, August 17 at 2 p.m.
The Summer Reading Program Grand Prizes will be awarded at this show. But, don't stop reading; we will be taking reading cards throughout the year.
Answers to Fun Facts about Colorado in the Library can be found the library's collection in honor of Colorado Day, August 1st. Participants in this contest will learn about Colorado in these 11 questions that offer a fun way to learn at the library. Questionnaires are at the service desk and Colorado is the featured topic in all the decorations around the library – starting with the flag in the lobby.
Anyone who completes the 11 questions correctly will take home a free admission ticket to the History Colorado Center compliments of the READ promotion which are valid until April 30, 2014. We have both adult and child tickets and it would make a great "end of the summer" field trip for the entire family.
While you are strolling around the library looking for answers, check out the new quilt that is hanging up in the north skylight. This quilt commemorates the Civil War and was pieced and quilted by local quilters, Sally Allen, Jean Bostron, Karen Chabot, Cindy Chisum, Jean Umberger, and Julie Vannoy. Thanks, ladies for your time and talents.
Computer use is up at the library and we'd like to explain our policies that have been put in place to ensure equal access for as many patrons as possible throughout each day.
*Patrons in good standing are entitled to use the computers twice a day for 45 minutes per session.
*Online tests, job applications or similar forms will take precedence and may entitle the user to an extension in order to complete the form(s).
*Others may request extensions in 15 minute increments only if there is nobody waiting for a computer.
* Patrons are asked to use only their own library cards and limit use to the allotted timeframe so that others may have equal access.
*Guest passes are available for out of town guest or new patrons awaiting proof of address to apply for their library cards only. Regular use of the computers is for library patrons in good standing. EMCL cards are available at no charge to residents who can provide a valid driver's license and proof of current address.
*Patrons who owe fines or owe for lost library materials are not eligible to use the public computers.
* WiFi is available 24/7 both inside and outside the building.
Computer classes continue with Russ Kauk, "Brush Geek" teaching Internet searching this month. Beginners with some computer experience are welcome to join the class at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and there is no charge for this service. EMCL provides laptops for the class but you are welcome to bring your own as well. Russ has had great success teaching those with little or no computer knowledge how to operate the computer, surf the web and even establish an e-mail address. If you are interested in attending the class, please call the library so that your name can be added to the roster.
What's happening at the library…
Jerry Barlow concert will be Saturday, August 17 at 2 p.m.


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I've been in heaven the past couple of weeks, as everywhere has been stocked full of sweet cherries.
At left is a picture of the amazing specimens I had last night.
The problem is, I eat so many sweet cherries this time of year, I'm concerned I'm going to turn into a sweet cherry, a la the girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the blueberries.
But I don't think I really care though. As long as I can still eat more.
I know that not everyone has a problem with cherries. Some like blueberries, strawberries, sweet corn.
It's all here in the Valley for you.
Summer is high time for a variety of delicious foods (Look, I realize corn is not a fruit, don't judge me).
What is your favorite summertime treat?


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It's Saturday morning and it's sunny out, so this means I felt the inexplicable urge to open windows, put on merengue and clean my house. This is usually a family effort but Carlos is working overtime and our older son is on a school trip, so it was just me and our youngest son.
I did most of the work, but our youngest son tidied his room, and "passed the vacuum" – (as Carlos translates literally from Spanish – "pasar la aspiradora.") …Suegra cleaned the bathroom her and the boys use, (my eyes burn from the scent of bleach when I walk to that side of the house), but mostly she has been going to neighborhood yard sales – bringing into the house twice as much as I throw out.
Anyway, if you need some music to clean to, here are some of my favorites right now:
Pégate – Grupo Treo (thanks to TikiTikiBlog.com for this one!)
Me Duele – Roberto Tapia
Give Me Everything – Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer
Estoy Enamorado – Danny Fornaris
Estar Enamorado – Golpe a Golpe
Taboo – Don Omar
Si no le contesto – Plan B
What are some of your favorite songs right now? What kind of music do you listen to when you clean?


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Moderator: TBD
Note-Taker: TBD
Attendee Count: XX
Officers: XX
Agenda Items
Introduction and Names
What Noisebridge is about
Treasurer's Report
Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process
What's Going On at Noisebridge
One short sentence about each of the following:
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (7PM, 2169)
- Python Mondays (6:30 PM, 2169)
- Security group - Thursdays 8PM except when 5MoF happens
- German is picked up again on Mondays?
- Material Fabrication Sessions aka Shop Class -- focusing on building stuff for the space at this time (Fri 8pm)
Need to schedule:
- New First Aid / CPR class from Michael (one time, approximately four hours)
- Hackers and the Law presentation
Project Updates
- Board elections. The board proposes a process described here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/2009_Director_Elections. If you don't like that for some reason, come up with a proposal of your own and we can compare (please don't just say, this is bad, without suggesting an alternative). We should consense next week if possible.
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- Electrical
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- Library -- Johnm still plans to work on shelves, must fix radial arm saw first.
- Network
- Shop Work-bench -- Johnm still working on it...hopes to be done this weekend (7th/8th)
- Hack shelf
Consensus items
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Arts & Events
New: Parties and Movies Galore: It's the 15th SF Independent Film Festival
February 7-21
Brava Theatre, Roxie Theatre, Vortex Room in San Francisco
SF's wonderfully wacky, over-the-top and beyond-the-boundaries IndieFest marks its 15th incarnation with 77 independent films from 17 countries (34 features and 43 shorts). The 15-day-and-night event includes two world premieres, four US premieres and a bucket-list of theme parties, including (appropriately enough) a Quinceañera party replete with DJ Haute Mess (Brass Taxx), live music, an open bar and, of course, a birthday cake.
The Highlights!
Opening Night. The festival kicks off February 7th at the Brava Theater (2781 24th St.) with a special screening of The We and the I, the latest feature film from Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind). Written in cooperation with a group of real New York high school kids (who play versions of themselves), the film takes place almost entirely inside a bus filled with emotional, angst-ridden students taking the last ride home before summer vacation. One of the wonders is how the filmmakers managed to insert themselves into this moving teen maelstrom without leaving any evidence of the camera crew in the finished product. The US Premiere of Gondry's film will be immediately followed by IndieFest's Quinceañera party.
Centerpiece Film. Everado Gout's Dias de Gracis, a big hit at the Cannes Film Festival, is described as "an epic crime drama set in Mexico City against the backdrop of three televised Soccer World Cups." Here's Hugh Jackman's capsule review: "Days of Grace will simultaneously rip your heart out and have your mind reeling long after you have left the theater."
Closing Night Film. IndieFest concludes with a special screening of Joe Swanberg's latest directorial effort, All the Light in the Sky. A full weekend of Swanberg's works is scheduled to screen at the Roxie (3117 16th St.) immediately following the festival.
The Parties! The 10th annual Big Lebowski Party will be held Saturday, February 9, and will feature costumes, interactive games, and White Russians followed by a midnight screening of the Coen Brothers' classic film at The Roxie.
The festival presents its annual Roller Disco Costume Party at the Women's Building Auditorium (3543 18th St. at Valencia) on Friday, February 15 at 8:00 PM. Skates Rentals and Groovy Disco Tunes provided by Black Rock Roller Disco. Disco Attire Encouraged! 21 and up, $10 (free with an IndieFest ticket stub).
This year, SF IndieFest hosts not one, but two Valentines Day Sing-A-Longs at The Roxie. On St. Valentines Day, February 14, a Super Secret Sing-A-Long at 7:15 PM will be followed by a 9:30 pm "Anti-Valentines Day" Sing-A-Long with a bonanza of breakup-songs and '80s power ballads.
February 8, 9, 15, 16 will also feature IndieFest after-parties at Mission B.A.G. (Bad Art Gallery) at 518 Valencia Gallery. "The events feature fabulous art curated from only the finest thrift stores, flea markets and yard sales, plus game shows, DJ nights and special film screenings." All parties start at 7:00 PM and last until midnight.
The Films! IndieFest 2013 includes the World Premieres of Blue Dream (the story of an LA news reporter in the dying days of print journalism who "finds himself adrift in a world that is part Kafka, part Bret Easton Ellis, with an echo of Scientology") and Faceless (an investigation of the plight of many undocumented foreign workers injured in the 9/11 attack and then ignored). Other unusual fare includes Inside Lara Roxx (a porn industry, medical-justice docudrama), The Revisionairies (profiling the surprisingly likeable Texas dentist — who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs coexisted with humans — who was responsible for forcing schoolbook publishers to promote creationism), and the poetic and violent Mexican film Days of Grace.
There are four futuristic offerings in the mix, three of them comic (Manborg, Ghosts with Shit Jobs, It's a Disaster) and one, Antiviral, a wickedly satirical grim-fest (about a doctor who sells "celebrity illnesses" to extreme fans) directed by David Cronenberg's son, Brandon.
The Festival boasts a heap of New Experimental Short Works from "local legend" Lynn Hershman and newcomer Mary Helena Clark. An evening of "Cults, Manholes & Slide Rail Riders" offers a selection of Local Debut Shorts including Slide Rail Superman, The Muppetless Movie, and the futuristic sci-fi Life internal. And what IndieFest would be complete without a roundup of animated shorts from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US?
For lovers of the wonderfully weird, there's The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (the story of a prescient cephalopod who made headlines with his 100% success rate at predicting the winners of soccer's 2010 World Cup playoffs). Paul Bunnell's "1950's throwback," The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, is "a surreal genre of sci-fi B movies complete with musical numbers, over-the-top dialogue, and hilarious special effects" and Ghosts with Shit Jobs delivers a "futuristic, sci-fi comedy…. a hilarious satire about a generation of Torontonians in 2040 who work dead-end jobs in the future."
For much, much more on the festivities (and, for you party hounds, the feastivities), grab a print copy of the IndieFest program or graze through the cinematic fields waiting online at http://sfindie.org
Here's a sampler of some of IndieFest's fare (and a taste of the flavorful blurbs used to describe them):
The Last Elvis Armando Bo | Argentina 2012 | 90min.
Armando Bo's phenomenal debut tells of a divorced singer who lives as if he were the reincarnation of The King. A factory worker by day and small-time star by night, Carlos "Elvis" Gutiérrez has built his entire life around this borrowed identity. In his shabby, barely furnished apartment, his small-screen viewing consists entirely of Presley concerts and interviews. He insists on calling his ex-wife Priscilla, though her name is Alejandra; their young daughter is naturally named Lisa Marie.
Bound by Flesh Leslie Zemeckis | US, 2012 | 91 min. The Hilton Sisters were once the highest paid act in vaudeville, yet they never saw a dime. Conjoined at the hip, the "Siamese" twins began their career in carnival sideshows, but went on to become stars of stage and screen, featured in Tod Browning's Freaks. But, show business can prove to be fickle as the twins struggled in their later years to find work. Leslie Zemeckis' compelling documentary chronicles the ups and downs of Violet's and Daisy's lives and careers, from their heyday as America's sweethearts to their final days as grocery store clerks, shedding light on their unusual bond.
Video Diary of a Lost Girl Lindsay Denniberg | US, 2012 | 90 min. An eye-popping punk rock horror fantasy where we meet the immortal Louise and her beloved Charlie. Charlie was her paramour from the 1920s, whom she accidentally killed before realizing she is a descendant of Lilith, the mother of all demons! This race of women must feed on the souls of men once every full moon, or they will menstruate to death. Now a hundred years later, Charlie returns reincarnated, and Louise must struggle with staying away from the love of her life, or risk losing him again!
The Ghastly Love on Johnny X Paul Bunnell | USA, 2012 | 106 min. | 35mm
Will Keenan (Tromeo and Juliet, Chop) is Jonathan Xavier, a bad boy alien who has been exiled to Earth from the far reaches of outer space with his devoted misfit gang. Johnny's former girlfriend, Bliss, has left him and stolen his Resurrection Suit -- a cosmic, mind-bending uniform that gives the owner power over others. Bliss and her new beau, the ice-cream-slinging sensitive Chip are on the run with Johnny and his goons in hot pursuit of the suit! An epic black and white sci-fi musical spectacle!
Manborg Steven Kostanski | Canada, 2011 | 60 min. California Premiere!
The armies of Hell have taken over the Earth, and all that stands in the way of the villainous Count Draculon and his total subjugation of humanity is a motley lot of misfits seemingly torn from the pantheon of schlock genre-cinema circa the 1980s. There's an Australian punker, a knife wielding anime chick, a kung-fu master (voiced with deliriously pitch-perfect stoicism by Kyle Herbert, the narrator from Dragon Ball Z), and, of course, the titular Manborg, itself a literal kind of cinematic Frankenstein, both emblematic of pulp sci-fi as obscure as Charles Band's Eliminators and as broad as Robocop and The Terminator. …[A] cacophony of laser-blasts and comic book ultra-violence [with] an extraordinary barrage of elaborate miniatures, iconic costumes and delirious stop-motion creatures that would have Harryhausen and Tippet try to high-five the ghost of David W. Allen out of sheer enthusiasm. -- Peter Kuplowsky
General Information about SF IndieFest
Regular film tickets are $10 in advance; $12 at the door. Mission BAG events are free. Roller Disco and Big Lebowski parties are $10. Full-pass Festival tickets are $170; $25 if you are under 21; $90 for a 10-Film Pack; $50 for a 5-Film Pack.


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Antibiotic-resistant Infections Reported in NE South Dakota
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The Department of Health is investigating a cluster of bacterial infections in northeastern South Dakota.
Twenty-six potential cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, from northeastern South Dakota have been reported to the department for evaluation. CRE cases have been reported in 42 states, including all of South Dakota's neighboring states except Nebraska.
Bacteria such as Klebsiella and E. coli are found in the human digestive system and can become resistant to carbapenem antibiotics. Patients on ventilators, urinary or intravenous catheters, or long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk for CRE infections. Healthy people are not at risk.
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Judge slams thief who attempted to steal rhino head from Norwich Castle Museum
PUBLISHED: 06:30 04 December 2012
A man was jailed for 18 months yesterday for his part in a botched raid on the Castle Museum.
Patrick Kiely, 29, who is serving a six-year sentence for raiding up to £15m worth of jade from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, attempted to take the rhino head from the Norwich museum on February 20 this year.
But the plot was foiled by alert staff who forced the gang, clad in balaclavas, to drop the head, worth up to £500,000, as they fled.
The four men escaped in a dark saloon car which was spotted near Argyle Street off Rouen Road.
But police later caught one of the culprits - Nihad Mahmod - after they found his finger prints on fake number plates which he tore off the car and left at the side of the road.
Prosecutor Peter Gair told the court the gang of four smashed the glass case as they attempted to steal the artefact.
Mahmod, 21, was jailed for two-and-a-half-years in July, while two other men arrested over the attempted theft have been released.
Sentencing Kiely at Norwich Crown Court, Recorder of Norwich, judge Peter Jacobs told him he had targeted part of our heritage.
He said: "To steal from museums shows a complete contempt.
"You take something away from us all. You diminish us all when you steal in this way."
Rebecca Hill, mitigating, said Kiely, who admitted the attempted theft, had been forced into taking part in the raid by men threatening his family.
And after the failure of the raid, she said he was then forced to take part in the Fitzwilliam raid on April 13.
But Judge Jacobs dismissed the mitigation as "twaddle". "If you think I am going to buy that sort of twaddle, you are talking to the wrong man," he said.
Kiely of Eleanor Street, Bow, was identified from the castle's CCTV by Metropolitan Police officers.
The 18-month sentence will be served on top of the six years for the Fitzwilliam theft.
The museum has since replaced the rhino horn on the Victorian specimen with a replica.
Rhino horns are prized in China for their supposed aphrodisiac qualities.
Lord Nelson artefacts worth £36,000 were also stolen from the museum in February.
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An online shop for folklore music (CD and DVD), Bulgarian traditional costumes, souvenirs, books and learner's books for Bulgarian language, icons, carpets from Chiprovtsi and other articles connected to Balkan folklore.
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Goodbye 2010 ! .... Seminar 2011 is already underway .... !
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Jerome Karabel Award Statement
Jerome Karabel's The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) is a co-winner of the 2007 American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award. In an epic narrative, The Chosen tells the story of admissions policies and practices in America's elite colleges over the full length of the twentieth century. With meticulous documentation, The Chosen shows how, over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century Harvard, Yale, and Princeton invented a selective admissions process that emphasized character over academic excellence as way of defending the positions and pretensions of both their own institutions and those of an American elite. The Chosen goes on to show how, in the final third of the twentieth century, even after the breakdown of the most egregious barriers to the admission of Jews, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and women and even with a growing commitment to some forms of diversity, America's elite universities continue to operate as a key instrument in the reproduction of social class. At the same time exposé, history and analysis, The Chosen has far reaching implications for our understanding of education, racism, social mobility and social change. In addition to the ASA Distinguished Book Award, The Chosen has also been selected for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award, the 2006 Weber Award of the ASA section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work and the 2006 Willard Waller best book award of the ASA section on the Sociology of Education.
Karabel received his BA (1972) and PhD (1977) from Harvard and now teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1984, Karabel was a Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator, Huron Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Karabel is the editor, with A. J. Halsey, of Power and Ideology in Education (Oxford University Press), a reader which has helped shape the sociology of education over the last quarter century. He is also the author, with Steven Brint, of The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985 (Oxford University Press), which received the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association. His scholarly articles have appeared in The American Sociological Review, The Harvard Education Review, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Social Forces, and Theory and Society. He has also written for In These Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
In 1988, a few years after his arrival in Berkeley, Karabel was appointed to chair the Admissions and Enrollment Committee of the Berkeley Academic Senate. In the politically tense atmosphere of California and amidst growing attacks on California's university system, Karabel's report—"Freshmen Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond"—both defended affirmative action and proposed that it be extended to include disadvantaged students, regardless of race. As chronicled in Nicholas Lemann's, The Big Test, in 1996 Karabel became a leader in the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defeat California's anti-affirmative action Proposition 209. With funding from the Ford Foundation, he is now working on a book length study of The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action at the University of California.


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