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Joy is like the Rain…
by the Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
I have never felt so grateful for rainfall than when recently watching the TUTS musical Oliver at the Stanley Park Malkin Bowl. Without our complimentary Theater Under the Stars panchos, we would have been cold and drenched. It is too easy to take rain for granted. The smoky Sechelt and Pemberton forest fires reminded us how much we need rain f or our very existence. It was shocking to look up in the North Shore sky and barely see the sun through the thick smoke covering. A couple who live right near Panorama Park told me that Deep Cove had never been so smoky and covered over. I was reminded of the song 'Smoke on the Water' by Deep Purple.
Miriam Therese Winters wrote the song 'Joy is Like the Rain' at a very dark time in her life: "I saw rain drops on my window, Joy is like the rain. Laughter runs across my pane, Slips away and comes again. Joy is like the rain." Little did she know that this song would end up being sung by millions of people around the world.
Many blessings in our life come in disguise. Only later do we realize how important they were to our development. Were you ever taught to count your blessings as a child? Sometimes that is easy. Sometimes that is very hard. Some families, like in Charles Dicken's musical Oliver, seem to be flooded with tragedy and hardship. Oliver was born to a dying mother, sent to an orphanage, and tricked by a pickpocket gang. Yet in the middle of all this 'rain' and tragedy, Oliver's grandfather Mr. Brownlow recognized a locket picture of his daughter, and realized that Oliver was actually his grandson. Joy is like the rain. Oliver had many blessings in disguise.
God has blessed each of us to be a blessing to others. The rain in our life is meant to bring a rich harvest in other people. Every blessing in our life is like a birthday present, just waiting to be unwrapped and shared generously with others. Don't just store your blessings away in your attics. Blessings are meant to make a difference in the lives of your friends, family, coworkers and neighbours. Everyone needs to know that they are blessed and loved, that they have a heavenly Father who has a plan for their life. Jesus loves each of us dearly and wants us to know that no matter how hard life can get, he is for us and not against.
My prayer for those reading this article is that we may realize afresh that joy is like the rain, that the blessings in our life are sometimes right in front of our noses. What blessings can you be thankful in your life?
The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, BSW, MDiv, DMin
-an article previously published in the Deep Cove Crier/North Shore News
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Categories: music, musical | Tags: blessings, Deep Purple, joy, Miriam Therese Winters, Mr Brownlow, North Shore, Oliver, Pemberton, rain, Sechelt, Smoke on the Water, Theatre Under the Stars, TUTS, Wildfire | Permalink.
Trouble Right Here in River City
There are few things that thrill me as much as seeing young people pull together and put on a high-quality school musical. My own 'Winston Churchill High School', which I graduated in 1972, was famous for two things: an excellent 'British Bulldogs' basketball team and an unforgettable drama/music program by Mrs Norman. The year I graduated, our school put on a smash-hit version of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. As I had just had a profound spiritual encounter with Jesus Christ that spring, my interest level was high in the school musical.
I remember when my youngest son Andrew had the privilege of playing the part of Professor Harold Hill in his BCCA School's The Music Man production . If I say so myself as an unbiased parent, he was thoroughly believable. My favorite song in the production was 'Trouble Right Here in River City'. What impressed me most in seeing the play was the self-sacrificing attitude of the entire cast. No one tried to be a prima donna. No one gave a half-hearted performance. Everyone, and I mean everyone in the entire cast, poured out their heart, mind and soul night after night at the Evergreen Theatre. The sense of school spirit and teamwork was palpable and real. I particularly enjoyed the performances of Marian Paroo (Ligia Cota), Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn (Alale Beheshti), and Marcellus Washburn (Robson Liu). But the truth is that everyone in the cast gave it their best.
I have been ordained as an Anglican clergyman now for 40 years. My undergraduate degree is in Social Work from UBC. While training in Social Work, I was paid by the North Vancouver Royal Bank to help 'high-profile young people' through the North Shore Neighbourhood House. One of the things I discovered in working at the Neighbourhood House is that teamwork was the key to break-through in the young people's lives. Our culture is swallowed by what Dr. Don Faris calls self-regarding individualism. So often good intentions become neutralized by the 'unholy trinity' of 'I, me, and myself'. In attending my son's 'Music Man' performance, I was reminded of the wonderful gift of teamwork. Teamwork brings out the best in all of us. Teamwork reminds us that no one is an island.
The Bible uses the image of a body in which one of us is a foot, another an arm, another an eye. Everyone needs everyone else in order to become all that we are meant to be. The leader of my son's BCCA Fine Arts program, Mrs. Birth, had a passion to call forth the best in every one of their students. This remarkable instructor led the way in giving and giving and giving until every student wants to also be a giver. Out of this remarkable dedication was birthed a musical/drama team that literally transformed the lives of its young people.
Suicide is the biggest killer of teens in our 21st century. Everyone needs hope for their future to keep going. Music and drama at its best can be full of hope, full of life, full of new beginnings. I thank God for teachers like Mrs. Birth who give so generously to raise up teams that actually work. Teamwork is a real solution to 'trouble right here in River City.'
-previously published in the North Shore News
-award-winning author of the book Battle for the Soul of Canada
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Categories: music, musical | Tags: Alale Beheshti, Anglican, Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada), Battle for the Soul of Canada, BCCA, British Bulldogs, British Columbia Christian Academy, Dr Don Faris, drama, Evergreen Theatre, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, Ligia Cota, Mackecknie Shinn, Marcellus Washburn, Marian Paroo, Mrs Birth, Mrs Norman, music, North Shore Neighbourhood House, North Vancouver Royal Bank, Professor Harold Hill, Rev Ed Hird, Robson Liu, School Musical, School Spirit, social work, suicide, teamwork, The Music Man, Trouble Right Here in River City, UBC, Winston Churchill High School | Permalink.
Seventy-Six Trombones Led the Big Parade!
One of the privileges of parenting is to cheer for one's children in their various school musicals. Our boys' school for eight years was British Columbia Christian Academy (BCCA) in Port Coquitlam. As well as having great academics and strong family values, BCCA has become well known for its strong drama and music programs.
My three boys were blessed to be involved in several memorable BCCA productions, including Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, and now The Music Man. My youngest son Andrew had a lot of fun shaving his hair off for his role as Daddy Warbucks, and the next year became Professor Harold Hill of Music Man fame. While putting on a school play is a tremendous amount of work (and driving for the parents!), it is an invaluable way to build school spirit and teamwork.
As I carpooled Andrew each morning to school, I listened to Andrew/Professor Harold Hill sing his heart out. The Music Man has so many unforgettable songs that it's hard to single any out. "Seventy-Six Trombones" is my favorite, but there are many more: "Gary, Indiana", "Wells Fargo Wagon", and "Trouble" are all remarkably gripping. Paul McCartney and the Beatles enjoyed The Music Man so much that they even recorded one of The Music Man's hit songs "Till There Was You".
The original title for the play was "The Silver Triangle." The earliest version of "The Music Man" included a young, spastic boy. Willson's advisors thought it would be best to eliminate the spastic boy from the story, so Willson decided to change the spastic boy into the younger brother of Marian Paroo and have him lisp. The musical "The Music Man" opened on Broadway on Dec. 19, 1957, at the Majestic Theatre and ran for 1,375 performances. The show became not only a hit but a happening, squeezing out the season's other Broadway classic, Westside Story, for the Tony 'Best Musical' award.
During the 1940's a relatively unknown musician named Meredith Willson kept fiddling with a musical story about his boyhood in Mason City, Iowa. As a young person, Willson had started off, playing the flute in his town band, before ending up with the John Philip Sousa Band, and then the New York Philharmonic, where he served under Toscanini and Stravinsky.
It took Meredith Willson eight years, forty songs, and thirty revisions to birth one of the world's most well-loved musicals. The Music Man is one of those very unusual Broadway hits where one person single-handedly produced the book, music and lyrics. Meredith Willson was also famous for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"(1964) about the Titanic.
The gist of the 'Music Man' story, for those of you who have never seen it, is that Professor Harold Hill, a traveling salesman and con artist talks an unsuspecting Iowa small town into putting out hard, cold cash for band instruments and uniforms, as a solution to a civic frenzy drummed up by Harold Hill over the town's new pool hall. "Remember, my friends, what a handful of trumpet players did to the famous, fabled walls of Jericho. Oh, billiard parlor walls come a-tumblin' down."
There are few things more captivating to many parents than the gentle form of flattery that suggests our children have some previously undetected musical genius.
In the process of wooing and sidelining the town's librarian Marian Paroo, Harold Hill himself faces the depth of his own deception, and his longing to be a real-live band leader. The romance between Harold Hill and Marian Paroo is much like an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. Like any good salesman, the one thing that Harold Hill could not resist was a challenge. Whether it was the challenge of selling band instruments to hard-nosed Iowans or romancing a confirmed bachelorette like Marian, Harold jumped in with both feet.
Harold Hill discovered that behind this brusque, off-putting librarian is a passionate heart with standards so high that make her unobtainable: "All I want", sang Marian Paroo," is a plain man, all I want is a modest man, a quiet man, a gentle man, a straightforward and honest man…I would like him to be more interested in me than he is in himself…"
Marian's mother Mrs. Paroo challenged Marian on her 'paralysis of analysis' regarding men: "I know all about your standards and if you don't mind my sayin' so, there's not a man alive who could hope to measure up to that blend'a Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat and Noah Webster you've got concocted for yourself outta your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your liberry fulla' books."
What The Music Man musical proves to me isthat love conquers all. Love conquered the 'conman' Harold Hill so that he ended up staying and literally facing the music. Love conquered Marian Paroo's impossible standards so that she actually opened up her heart to a member of the opposite sex. Love can conquer all, even your and my hearts. But unless we open up our hearts, Love can never break in.
If The Music Man ever come to your area, I encourage you to not miss out on the time of your life, seventy-six trombones later.
-previously published in the North Shore News/Deep Cove Crier
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Go, go, go Joseph!
I have twice had the privilege of having one of my sons in the "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" musical. My middle son Mark, as part of a North Vancouver Choir, was in the Livent Production at the Ford Theatre in downtown Vancouver. My youngest son Andrew played Zebulun in a Joseph production at the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam. It was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. I want to commend all the young people (and not so young) in 'Joseph' for the excellent job that they did, pouring their hearts and souls into a high-quality performance. It was exciting to see my son Andrew shine with life and vitality as he experienced the joy of working together on a high-quality community theatre team.
'Joseph' is one of those musicals that never seems to wear out, probably because of its theme of biblical proportions! It was so much fun! Perhaps the most colorful musical ever! I especially loved that amazing coat: it was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and all those other 57 amazing colours.
The Joseph musical variety was remarkable: country (One More Angel in Heaven), French-bistro (Those Canaan Days), Disco-rock (Go, Go, Go Joseph), Calypso (Benjamin), and even Elvis (Song of the King). Weeks later, these catchy songs kept running through my head when I was waking up or going to sleep.
The Joseph musical began in 1968 as a 20-minute "pop cantata" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for a school Easter concert in the UK. Derek Jewell, then the jazz and pop critic for the SUNDAY TIMES, unexpectedly gave the Joseph Musical national exposure when he wrote: "Throughout its twenty-minute duration it bristles with wonderfully singable tunes. It entertains. It communicates instantly, as all good pop should. And it is a considerable piece of barrier-breaking by its creators."
Tim Rice's favorite Bible story had long been Joseph and his coat of many colors. Speaking of the Genesis 39 Joseph story, Tim Rice commented: "This great tale has everything — plausible, sympathetic characters, a flawed hero, and redeemed villains … It is a story of triumph against the odds, of love and hate, of forgiveness and optimism. As with all great stories, the teller has no need to spell out the messages if he tells the tale well…"
Five years later, Joseph was expanded to 40 minutes in London, and then to 90 minutes in New York. After Andrew Lloyd Webber's huge success with Jesus Christ Superstar, his Joseph musical finally hit Broadway in 1982, where it became one of the most enduring and endearing shows of all time.
With tens of millions of people having seen Joseph worldwide, the Joseph musical now has a place in The Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest running touring musical.
As well as twelve different professional casts in its thirty-one year history, Joseph has been performed in 15,000 schools or local theatres, involving over 500,000 performers of all ages. Nowadays there are nearly 500 school or amateur productions each year in the UK, and over 750 in the US & Canada.
The song that touched me the deepest in Joseph was "Close Every Door To Me". Joseph poignantly sings: "Close every door to me, Keep those I love from me. Children of Israel are never alone, for I know I shall find my own peace of mind, for I have been promised a land of my own." This song both faced the depths of Joseph's despair in prison, and yet clung steadfastly to God's promises of hope. Joseph never gave up on his dreams, and neither should we.
Even after betrayal again and again by his brothers and others, Joseph saw the big picture, and at the end extended forgiveness to his jealous brothers. "You meant it for evil", he said to them, "but God meant it for good." All things really do work for good for those who love the Lord. May you, like Joseph, discover His goodness today.
Categories: music, musical | Tags: Andrew Hird, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada), Battle for the Soul of Canada, Benjamin, Broadway, Calypso, Close Every Door To Me, Derek Jewell, Easter Concert, Elvis, Ford Theatre, Genesis 39, Go, Go Joseph, God meant it for good, Guinness Book of Records, Joseph, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Livent Production, Mark Hird, One More Angel in Heaven, Port Coquitlam, Rev Ed Hird, Sunday Times, Terry Fox Theatre, Those Canaan Days, Tim Rice, Vancouver, Zebulun | Permalink.
Tomorrow, Tomorrow I Love Ya Tomorrow…
While back in High School, my youngest son Andrew had a tremendous experience as Daddy Warbucks in his BCCA school's Annie musical . He even shaved off his hair to really get into the part! The entire school rallied around the musical, resulting in a great sense of school spirit and camaraderie. Thanks to the hard work of the drama teacher Mrs. Birth and the music teacher Mrs. Gleimus, the participants blossomed and became a close-knit team. I was very impressed by the quality performance of all the youth that put their heart and soul into the production.
The 9-year-old girl who played Annie was superb. One person commented that she was as good as the original Annie! Her fellow orphans were cute, endearing, and believable, especially in the song 'It's a Hard Knock Life". Another real star in the show was the orphanage director Miss Hannigan, who demonstrated a wonderful slapstick humour: "Why any kid would want to be an orphan, I'll never understand". And who can forget the good-natured BCCA Principal Mr. Jarvie who surprised everyone when he was wheeled in as President Roosevelt!
The Annie musical was based on Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip. Harold Gray invented Little Orphan Annie in 1924 for the Chicago Tribune. Ironically Harold Gray did not start his comic strip with a little orphan girl, but rather with a boy named Otto (Little Orphan Otto!)
The Annie musical began at the Alvin Theatre on April 21, 1977. The New York show went for 2,377 performances, making it the third longest running musical of the 1970s. In 1982, the movie version was released starring Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking, and Carol Burnett.
One of my favorite songs from the Annie Musical is 'Tomorrow'. Going through a bitter 1930's depression, it gave people great hope to remember that 'The sun will come out tomorrow'. It is easy to be stuck in the past, in fear and discouragement. The 'Annie' musical reminds us to be future-oriented. To believe in the future gives us the courage to face each day's challenges. "Just thinkin' about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow." Life can beat us down and make us want to give up. The Annie musical reminds us that "ya gotta hang on 'til tomorrow come what may". The future can seem very mysterious and inaccessible. The Annie musical reminds us that : "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow! You're always a day a way!" Visionary people believe that there is hope for their future, that life is worth the struggle, that breakthroughs will come if we don't give up.
The Annie Musical also reminds me that all of us feel alone at times; all of us can feel like orphans. Life can sometimes feel very overwhelming. The answer for Annie's plea was adoption by Daddy Warbucks. The answer for our pleas in the 21st Century is the Spirit of adoption. All of us long for a father who will accept us and love us as we are. Jesus said: "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." Jesus reveals the heart of a true, loving Father, a Father who loves us beyond measure, a Father who longs to adopt us as his very own children. God has a special place in his heart for the fatherless, the abandoned, and the rejected. All of us at some level are little Orphan Annie. All of us are waiting to be loved.
Daddy Warbucks sang to Orphan Annie: "Something was missing but dreams can come true; that something was no one but you". Just like Daddy Warbucks, the heavenly Father is longing to adopt you and give you a new silver locket, if you will just say 'yes'. The Father loves you beyond your wildest dreams. The Father rejoices over you, and is saying, "It's okay to come back home. The table is set. The Adoption Party is ready to begin!" God's family, the Church, would love to throw a party in your honour this very Sunday! See you then.
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Recently I decided to watch one of the great classics 'My Fair Lady'. As I entered into the world of 19th century England, I found myself alternately laughing and weeping. 'My Fair Lady' refreshed my soul.
There are so many great lessons to be learnt from the historic classics, including the loverliest motion picture of them all! 'My Fair Lady' in some ways feels like a movie written for the 21st century, because it so accurately names the angst of contemporary gender confusion and role ambiguity. There is a fascinating dichotomy between the two songs: 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' and 'Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins, just you wait…' 'My Fair Lady' accurately names the 'flight from woman' so vividly described by Leanne Payne in her classic book 'Crisis in Masculinity'.
More than ever, like Liza's father Alfred Doolittle, many men are afraid to commit to a lasting relationship. Marriage has become the new four-letter word.
"The gentle sex was made for man to marry but, with a little bit o' luck, With a little bit o' luck, You can have it all and not get hooked!"
'My Fair Lady' (1964) was honored with twelve Academy Award nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Rex Harrison), Best Director (Cukor's only Best Director award in his career), Best Color Cinematography (in widescreen 70 mm), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Score (Andre Previn), and Best Color Costume Design (Cecil Beaton).
My Fair Lady was director George Cukor's film musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play Pygmalion with 2,717 performances on Broadway from 1956 to 1962. 'My Fair Lady' became the longest-running production in Broadway history, outdistancing the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play, Oklahoma!, which had held that record up to then.
Roger Herbert the film critic noted that Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe struggled with turning George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION into a musical off and on from 1952. Prior to that, Rodgers and Hammerstein had worked on it for a year before giving up, defeated. In 1954, Lerner hit upon the idea of setting to music the things that in Shaw's play happened off stage between acts.
It is hard to think of a movie that has had so many memorable songs, including: "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Oh, Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "The Street Where You Live," "I'm Getting Married in the Morning," and "With a Little Bit of Luck." The 'proof of the pudding' is that for the last two weeks I keep spontaneously breaking into song or whistling hits from 'My Fair Lady'.
George Bernard Shaw chose the original play's name 'Pygmalion'. Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus and a great sculptor. He, like Henry Higgins, was a confirmed bachelor and lived exclusively for his art. But one day he fell in love with the statue of a beautiful woman he had made and he prayed that the statue would come alive. His prayer was heard. When Pygmalion embraced the statue, it came alive and he married the woman, Galatea, he had himself created.
The show was for a while called LIZA and then LADY LIZA. Fritz Loewe wanted to call it FANFAROON, an obscure English term for someone who blows his own fanfare. MY FAIR LADY was picked as the title everyone detested the least!
'My Fair Lady' reminded me that many women don't feel good about being women. They certainly don't feel like 'My Fair Lady'. Many of them secretly feel like Eliza Doolittle the 'guttersnipe' flower girl. 'My Fair Lady' reminds us that God wants to affirm women in their femininity, their beauty, intelligence and worth.
Henri Higgins said to Liza, "Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible.". So too Jesus Christ says to each of us: "Remember that you are a human being with a soul". Jesus the bridegroom calls all of us spiritually (both men and women!) to be his bride, his beautiful princess beautifully dressed for her husband, washed clean of any stains and wrinkles (Ephesians 5:26, Revelation 21:2). Just as Liza was received by the King of Transylvania as a princess, so Jesus the King wants to call us 'My Fair Lady'. No matter what moral or spiritual gutter that you may fallen into in your life, your truest identity in King Jesus is as 'My Fair Lady'.
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Schedule of BBMP elections
March 7, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal
The State Election Commission has announced the BBMP council elections schedule, with March 28th 2010 as the day of elections. The election code of conduct has been in force since March 7th and will go on till April 6th.
The last date for filing nominations is March 15th while the nominations will be scrutinised on March 17th. The last date for withdrawing nomination papers is March 19th. After polling takes place on March 28th between 7 am and 5 pm, counting will be done a week later on April 5th. If necessary, repolling will take place on April 4th.
March 7th 2010 – Election code of conduct comes into force
March 8th 2010 – Notification will be issued
March 15th 2010 – Last date for filing nominations
March 17th 2010 – Scrutiny of nominations filed
March 19th 2010 – Last date for withdrawal of nominations
March 28th 2010 – Elections will be held from 7 am to 5 pm
April 4th 2010 – Repolling (if necessary)
April 5th 2010 – Counting and announcement of results
Interestingly, March 28th falls on a Sunday, a general public holiday. Citizens groups are going to be happy with this, because a higher voter turnout is more likely.
This will also be the first time that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) will be used for the city council elections. For this, the SEC has purchased 9500 EVMs.
Earlier, elections were slated to be held on February 21st, but after the Supreme Court quashed the wards reservation list, the elections were cancelled by the SEC.
Even as the state government approached the High Court (HC) to seek more time to hold the elections, the court issued an order saying that elections have to be held by March 30th 2010.
The state government then went to the Supreme Court (SC) to ask for more time to hold the elections, citing non-availability of schools and teachers due to examinations as a reason. The SC rejected the plea and asked the state to go back to the HC. The HC's order remained the same, that elections should be held before March 30th this year.
Meanwhile, the urban development department issued a draft notification of the ward reservation list on February 23rd and the final list was released on March 3rd.
Even as some citizens have filed a petition in the HC challenging some of the ward reservations, this time elections are expected to take place as announced. ⊕
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The History Museum of Mobile (111 S. Royal St.) has launched Fun Fridays offering fun educational activities designed for inquisitive minds aged 5-10 years. Each session is $5 per person and includes museum admission. The 1-hour time slots have limited class sizes so get reservations by emailing theeckj@historymuseumofmobile.com.
The July 14 and July 28 Fun Friday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. sessions will tour participants through the Faces of Africa exhibit and learn about talking drums. The group will then make their own instruments to take home.
Participants are welcome to tour the rest of the museum afterward.
Jazz Camp begins late July
The 18th edition of the annual Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival will be here soon and its first event kicks off July 24 with the Marcus Johnson Summer Jazz Camp. A wonderful opportunity for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels, the camp runs through Aug. 4 at the History Museum of Mobile (111 S. Royal St.) under the watchful eye of master clinician Hosea London.
This year's version includes a July 27 field trip to New Orleans. There is also a Master Class led by Dr. Willie Hill, director of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Camp culminates in an Aug. 4 recital at the museum. Campers will also perform at GCEHJF's centerpiece concert, Aug. 12 at the Mobile Convention Center.
Registration is required.
For more information, call 251-478-4027 or go to gcehjazzfest.org.
Theatre 98 in the driver's seat
Becky's theory is "when a woman wants a new car, she wants a new life." So when a bereaved millionaire wanders in her car dealership, opportunity knocks. However Becky's new "vehicle" may be too much roadster to handle.
The fourth-wall-shattering comedy "Becky's New Car" runs July 21 through Aug. 6 at tiny-yet-tenacious Theatre 98 (350 Morphy Ave., Fairhope). Friday and Saturday curtain is at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets are $18, $12 for students.
Theatre 98's recent fundraiser for new seating was lucrative but they still need a couple of thousand dollars to make sure all patrons will "ride in style" for future productions. Attendees are encouraged to consider making donations at upcoming performances. Those giving at least $100 will have their names immortalized on a plaque in the lobby.
For more information, phone 251-928-4366 or go to theatre98.org. Don't forget to check out Theatre 98's new Instagram and Twitter accounts.
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Hustlers and Johns in the Museum
Learn the real history of the world's oldest profession at "On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work" at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.
Sophia Larigakis
Patrick Angus' Hanky Panky, 1980. Courtesy of the Estate of Patrick Angus. Collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum
Although you wouldn't know it from the whitewashed depictions that have prevailed, the history of sex work has always been queer. It has also always been, by necessity, a history of activism. "On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work," now on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, contends gracefully with these intersecting histories. The exhibition, curated by Alexis Heller, succeeds by highlighting sex workers' own perspectives on their lives and labor.
"On Our Backs" reminds us that just as queerness is inextricable from the history of sex work, so too are such chronicles incomplete without reference to AIDS. Safe-sex guides for sex workers and calls to action against the epidemic (and the equally lethal state-sanctioned ignorance of the time) are scattered throughout the show, among reminders of its devastation—several wall texts mention the artists' own experiences with the illness. One such text accompanies letters from smitten clients to one Peter Thomas—a skilled chain mailer (as illustrated by the chainmail cock ring also on display) and escort beloved for his "safer-sex techniques, fist fucking, and conversational skills." Such layering of materials that delight and enchant over often heart-wrenching historical information is an empathic curatorial gesture that mimics in form the ambiguities of its subject matter.
While several more traditional artworks—such as Patrick Angus's lush painting of a porn theater-cum-cruising-spot and Shawné Michaelain Holloway's glitchy webcam video—bear mentioning, it's the ephemera that forms the unlikely heart of "On Our Backs." Queer histories, so rarely institutionalized, often take unofficial, intimate forms. Materials are largely maintained not by sanctioned caretakers or estates but rather through genealogies of affinity—heirlooms passed down along lines of friends and lovers. Noteworthy examples on show include a press release announcing the launch of Scarlot Harlot's May 1990 "Interstate Solicitation Tour" in protest of punitive legislation; a handwritten note explaining "how to pay a hustler," advising johns that "enticing a hustler with coke instead of cash is unfair because you won't be contributing to his 1) costly tuition 2) private acting/dancing lessons 3) his bill at Barney's;" copies of 1990s publications Gendertrash From Hell (by and for trans folks) and Black Lace (by and for black lesbians); and a flyer for California Advocacy for Trollops (CAT), a group promising childcare, legal counsel and bail for incarcerated sex workers.
Despite the care implicit in the survival of these materials, a latent sense of incompleteness remains; every threadbare zine or hand-annotated classified ad is a reminder of what was discarded—whether by accident or else intentionally lost in the gaps between queers, sex workers and HIV-positive folks and the families that so often rejected them. This transience lends what remains, and particularly what is on view here, a thrilling fugitive quality. "On Our Backs" is a show that springs from the leaky and often abject stuff of real life and death: fucking and bleeding and cumming and pissing and cruising, all to the tune of "Cash Rules Everything Around Me".
"On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work" runs until January 19, 2020.


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Grider Field was opened on March 22nd of 1941. It was named for John McGavock Grider of Osceola. It was constructed beginning in 1940 to replace Tomey Field, which was rendered obsolete by the tightening of Civil Air Patrol rules. Though the U.S. had not entered World War II at the time, the military was already gearing up just in case. Just before the official dedication of the field in May of 1941, the first class of Army Air Corps trainees arrived.
establishment of the Pine Bluff Aviation Commission. The facility still operates today on 850 acres about six miles south of downtown. It's considered southeast Arkansas's first modern airport.
It's also home to a local favorite you won't find on the highway.
Enter the terminal through glass doors and you'll find a small terminal desk on the left.
On the right, another glass door leads into the Grider Field Restaurant which - if you arrive around lunchtime - will be open, usually with a line of hungry patrons ready to dine.
The restaurant is a soul food classic, with fried and baked chicken and fried catfish offered every day. Lunch is served cafeteria style, with trays that are loaded with vittles you choose from the hot line. Once you've made your selection, you let the hostess know what you want to drink. She determines where you're going to sit while you pay up.
The south face of the facility offers views of the runway, and it's not unusual to see a private or small commuter jet right outside. The diminutive airport is relaxed, as is the restaurant within it.
I was made aware of the place when I made the call-out for great pie places in Arkansas. I was asking around about airport restaurants that might serve pie on Facebook and was given knowledge about Grider Field, precipitating a quick run to Jefferson County. I found there a delectable coconut cream pie made by Jimmie Lee Pound Cakes, and included it in the book.
It took me a little while to get back out for a substantial lunch. I found myself with the time a few weeks later and headed out just about the time the clover broke out over the property. I had to wait for a parking spot. There were cars lined up on the fire lane and parked out by the hangars from where the lot stood. Indeed, there was a line snaking out the door when I walked in.
There was someone at every single table within. The line rolled past down the long front of the eatery, all the way to the back where the hot bar was sat. My time in the line afforded me the opportunity to watch others dining on neckbone, chicken, catfish and meatloaf, and to see what was available that day. I decided I was doing broccoli and cheese and cabbage.
Three lovely women were dining by the window. One had picked up a slice of Jimmie Lee's coconut cream pie, and they were chatting betwixt the three of them whether she should crack into it. In the time it took the line to move past that spot, they'd all decided to share the piece, and passed it around, sharing it one bite at a time, until it was gone.
I was very excited to get a bite myself, but was distressed when I got to the end of the line and only found pound cake slices left - mind you, pound cakes with brown sugar on top and with coconut icing as well. Not a pie slice was to be found. Pastries are delivered once a day, which meant I was out of luck. I momentarily considered the bread pudding with its buttery sauce, but went instead with a brown sugar topped slice of pound cake.
When I got to the hot counter, I asked the ladies behind it whether they'd go with fried chicken or meatloaf. It was meatloaf by a very narrow margin. The broccoli and cheese and cabbage I was hoping for were both gone, so I chose meatloaf-compliant mashed potatoes and some candied yams. A small muffin was added and I was directed towards the register. A lady told me where I needed to sit once I paid up, and took my drink order too. I paid at the register and went where she directed.
What I didn't realize until a few moments after I sat down was that I would not be dining alone. A pair of friends were also seated with me at the four-top. They watched amused and asked me a couple of questions while I took photos of my food.
And what food. The all-beef meatloaf was a nice, dense chunk with a perfect ketchup-style sauce, plenty of onions and spices in the loaf, not too salty and not greasy at all. The mashed potatoes were all right, topped with just a bit of parsley. My double-down on starch, though, included those candied yams, which were syrupy and succulent, a truly wonderful yet rib-sticking side not for the faint of heart or the conscious of diet.
Then there was that little cake of sweetened cornmeal. This was a full-on cornmeal muffin, sugar added, butter-inflected, dessert-worthy morsel that had been dunked in sweetened butter again for a one-two punch. It was delectably crispy on the outside and moist and cake-like within, warm and so hard to stop myself on.
This selection of comfort food meant I had no room for that slice of Jimmie Lee Pound Cake with its brown sugar icing. I'd enjoy that later at home, shared with Hunter, a lighter and sweeter afterthought for that afternoon.
Being as I had another appointment to make shortly, I soon excused myself to leave the table. Before I got into my car I walked the grounds a bit, trying to fend off the overwhelming need for a nap and enjoying the gorgeous day. I also looked around the barracks, which gave me the idea to look up more information on Grider Field - which I shared earlier in this piece.
Grider Field Restaurant is only open for lunch Monday through Friday. There are always at least four entrees and a host of side dishes on the board, but when they're gone for the day, there's no more on the way. Get there when they open at 11 a.m. for the best selection. For more information, call (870) 536-4293. There's no website for the restaurant, but you can also check out the Pine Bluff Regional Airport on Facebook, here.
Grider Field Restaurant also has long, long roots. Click here to view a matchbook from the 1960s on the Pine Bluff Desktop Museum Facebook page.


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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is hailing a decision by Massachusetts to offer drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles special license plates, to easily identify them to first responders.The move comes after NFPA conducted training for first responders in Massachusetts in July 2011.
"This is an important step in the effort to protect first responders and the public," said James M. Shannon, NFPA president. "If a first responder can easily identify the vehicle as an electric or hybrid vehicle, they immediately will have an extra level of necessary information that can enhance safety."
Massachusetts is the second state in the nation, behind Hawaii, to offer specialized license plates as an option to electric and hybrid vehicle drivers. Owners of any of the 30 vehicles considered electric or hybrid in nature by Massachusetts Registry of Motor may swap their license plate for the new plate, for a small fee.
The NFPA says the move aligns Massachusetts with the goals with the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Electric Vehicle Safety Project.
Since the launch of its Electric Vehicle Safety Project, NFPA has collaborated with top safety experts and automobile manufacturers to provide a comprehensive curriculum of up-to-date information on the topic. The course, which has been delivered to first responders at fire academies across the country — including the state of Massachusetts — is also being customized by NFPA for law enforcement, providing information on how to most effectively deal with emergency situations involving hybrid, electric and extended range vehicles.
The NFPA course offers subject matter experts with knowledge on topics specific to electric vehicles such as disabling procedures, extrication processes, risk of electric shock, handling new types of batteries, challenges presented by charging stations, as well as towing and storage guidelines.
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Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007)
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo's first novel in English has a chronological structure: the protagonist's visa is for one year only, so the migrant meter starts ticking from the moment she lands in Heathrow from Beijing. As the title suggests, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is concerned with language, and the narrator's attempt to make herself understood as she finds her way around the city. Although it isn't arranged alphabetically, it is divided into dictionary entries of key words, beginning with initial impressions: typically she notes the English obsession with the weather, the strangeness of the food and the contrast between her expectation of London ('should be like Emperor's city') and the 'tacky reality'.
Like many new to the city before her she is lost: 'How I finding important places including Buckingham Palace or Big Stupid Clock?' The narrator soon realises that nobody in England can be bothered to learn how to pronounce her name 'properly' (a term she struggles to comprehend). So, she calls herself Z, and comes to be called Z. Later entries reflect the philosophical changes Z undergoes as she considers the meaning of 'self', 'identity', 'freedom' and 'isolation'. She begins to question western concepts: how can they value both 'privacy' and 'intimacy' at the same time? The gain in knowledge and sophistication is also felt as a loss of innocence and spontaneity.
Above all, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is an A-Z of London. There are no monuments, after the briefly entertained and soon abandoned attempt to go to Westminster. There are no pilgrimages to Chinatown and only one visit to a Chinese restaurant, which ends in embarrassment. Despite this, the novel is a love letter to London, as the place where Z becomes an artist. Her epiphanies take place in greasy spoons, pubs, and in Hackney public library.
Nuttington House in Brown Street
The hostel where Z is booked to stay on her arrival is 'prison looking'.
Sixteen pounds for per bed per day. With sixteen pounds, I live in top hotel in China with private bathroom. Now I must learn counting the money and being mean to myself and others. Gosh.
She looks for a cheap flat on LOOT. But all the flats are 'dirty and damp and smelly'. She thinks that London is a 'refugee camp'.
Nutford House, Brown St, W1 …
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Holborn. First day studying my language school. Very frustrating.
And the more she learns the worse it gets. Why does English grammar privilege the individual over the place? Why do they have tenses?
On her way back to the hostel after her first language class, Z loses her way and gets caught up in the Stop the War march of 2003: 'Many smiles. They feel happy in sunshine.'
She looks at the biggest demonstration in postwar British history through the lens of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture… A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence.
She wonders what the demonstrators expect to achieve with their pleasant day out: 'if people here want to against war in Iraq, they needing have civil war with their Tony Blair'.
Z's first lodging in London is a kind of halfway house:
House is two floors, lived by Cantonese family: housewife, husband who works as chef in Chinatown, and 16-year-old-British-accent son.
Z only speaks Mandarin so there isn't much communication between her and the host family.Everything inside the house is traditional and not much fun: they work all the time and nothing grows in the back garden, which is covered in concrete. It is as if they don't want to put down roots.
Z doesn't feel at home there and she is intimidated by the locals:
Every night I coming out Tottenham Hale tube station and walking home shivering. I scared to pass each single dark corner. In the place, crazy mans or sporty kids throwing stones to you or shouting to you without reasons. Also, the robbers robbing the peoples even poorer than them. In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor". But robbers here have no poetry.
Cine-Lumiere, South Kensington
Guo is a filmmaker as well as a novelist, so perhaps it is no surprise that her heroine wants to go to the flicks. She meets the man who becomes her lover after a screening of Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul, about the love affair between a Moroccan immigrant worker and an older German widow. She thinks: 'A man in this country save me, take me, adopt me, be my family, be my home'. How wrong can she be?
'Fear Eats the Soul'
Japanese Landscape, Kew Gardens – kew.org
Their first date is in Kew Gardens, which Z loves, at first: 'lotuses and bamboos is growing in India garden, plum trees and stone bridge is growing in Japanese garden. Where is my Chinese garden?'
She moves in with her lover as the result of a misunderstanding:
'I want see where you live,' I say.
You look in my eyes. 'Be my guest.'
Our long-shabby Hackney Road
His house is old, 'standing lonely between ugly new buildings for poor people'. But at the back there is a little garden: 'the noisy London being stopped by brick wall…. Plants and sculptures on sunshine.'
Z attributes much of her new vocabulary to her lover's teaching. He is an anarchist, and a sculptor of the human body; a bisexual drifter who is twenty years older than she is. The lover, directly addressed as 'you' throughout the novel, remains unnamed, suggesting her ambivalent feelings. Z tells us that Anon is her favourite poet and the book is prefaced by the disclaimer: 'Nothing in this book is true, except for the love between her and him'. But rendering the lover anonymous also seems like an attempt to efface him. His anonymity is particularly ironic, given that Z so often conceives of their relationship as an antithesis between her Chinese value of the 'collective' and 'the group' against his Western individualism and belief in the 'self'.
Chop Chop Hackney
Z starts to belong in Hackney. She doesn't feel homesick for China: above all, she is glad to have escaped her domineering mother, who told her that she was an ugly peasant girl whom nobody would want to marry. But she does miss Chinese cooking and one evening she takes her lover out to eat.
Restaurant has very plain looking. White plastic table and plastic chairs and white fluorescent lamp. Just like normal government work unit in China…. I swear I never been so rude Chinese restaurant in my entirely life. Why Chinese people becoming so mean in the West?
Brick Lane Market
The only problem between the couple is food: he is a vegetarian and she is an avid carnivore, who was always hungry as child growing up in a poor town in South China. On Sundays she wants to shop in the supermarket but he isn't keen: "Hmm, right. Let's worship in Sainsbury's every Sunday".
You take me to Brick Lane market. It is really a rubbish market. All kind of second-hand or third-hand radios, old CDs, used furniture, broken television set … I wonder if all these things made in China.
You walk in the rubbish market with your old brown leather jacket and your dirty old leather shoes…. But you look great with these rubbish costumes in the rubbish market.
Dirty Dick's, Liverpool Street
While her lover is away for a few days, Z decides to visit an English pub.
I sit in pub alone, trying to feel involving in the conversation. It seem place of middle-aged-mans-culture. … While I sitting here, many singles, desperately mans coming up saying, "Hello darling". But I not your darling. … Some is drinking huge pint Lager, is like pee.
A young man buy me beer. He is the only good looking one.
I say: " I feel so delightful drinking with you. Your face and words are very noble".
The man surprised and happy. He stops his drinking.
"Noble, eh?"
A while. He say: "Love, you only think my words are noble because I can speak English properly – …but it is my mother tongue".
Dirty Dick's, Bishopsgate
Columbia Road Flower Market – photo: Chmee2, Creative Commons
Columbia Road Flower Market
Z's favourite place is Columbia Road flower market, where her lover takes her so she can plant a little Chinese garden in Hackney.
We brought the small little sprouts of Chinese cabbage at home. Eight little sprouts all together. … We watering Chinese cabbage sprouts every morning, loyal and faithful, like every morning we never forgetting brushing our teeth. Seeing tiny sprouts come out, my heart feel happy. Is our love. We plant it.
Seven Seas, Hackney
Z discovers her own language in a greasy spoon, run by a Cypriot cooking full English breakfasts.
I love these oily oily café around Hackney. Because you can see the smokes and steams coming out from the coffee machine or kitchen all day long. That means life is being blessed.
She reads a headline in the newspaper: 'Lost For Words -– The Language of an Endangered Species' about the death of the last speaker of womans-only language, Nushu, 'the language used by Chinese women to express their innermost feelings'. Z thinks: 'Maybe this notebook which I use for putting new English vocabularies is a Nushu'; this becomes, of course, The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers that we read.
Between Brick Lane and Bethnal Green Road
Z's lover finds his own family heavy going and he doesn't want to have any kids himself. But he takes her to visit an old Bengali mother and her ten children:
Is big three-floor house with ten little rooms. Five childrens are from same mother, and another five childrens are from another woman but with same man.
The father is dead but they all just get on with their life. Z doesn't understand how a mother can raise ten children without a husband.The Bengali mother can't speak English but she teaches Z how to be independent.
Unlike Fassbinder's film, there is little prejudice against Z amongst the community in Hackney. The fear that eats the soul results from her insecurity: 'The fear of without home. Maybe that why I love you? I am building the Great Wall around you and me because I am too scared to lose the home. I have been living in that big fear since my childhood'.
Berwick Street
At first, Z feels shame about sex: 'Is such taboo in China. I never really know what is sex before. Now I naked everyday in the house, and I can see clearly my desire.' It is the lover's language that seduces her: 'I think you are a noble man with noble words' (Has she been to the pub?) She tells him: 'I want learn most beautiful English words because you are beautiful'. The erotic and the linguistic are closely paralleled: she learns about tenses, pronouns and plurals through reading porno mags, the instructions on a packet of condoms, and the box of a vibrator.But the discovery of her desire is also felt as a threat to her independence: 'My whole body is your colony'. At this point, Z decides to educate herself in westernism and goes to a peepshow.
thehandbook.com
Soho, Berwick Street. My feet can't move away from a sex shop. Some leather bras with two hole in middle, some leather belt, some handcuff…
Z is so mesmerised she goes back another day and pays twenty pounds to see a live show. 'While I am standing there watching, I desire become prostitute. … To take my body away from dictionary and grammar and sentences'. She resents her lover's power over her, just as she resents being colonised by the English language.
Rupert Street
But Z's lover introduces her to a lot of good stuff: Frida Kahlo, Hanif Kureishi, Virginia Woolf, Bette Midler. One night he takes her to a little cinema on Rupert Street:
You take me watch documentary films double bill. Two crazy women in one night.
The first film is about Mae West: 'an extremely successful Hollywood star, always make audiences happy and laughing.' The second film is Billie on Billie: 'She is extremely sad face, hopeless expression. From the film I learned her struggled by childhood, her prostitution mother, her sex abuse when she twelve years old, her drug and alcohol, her poor dignity being a black. …. A strange fruit. I want leave the cinema to cry. I feel her pain in my heart.'
She wants to become 'Mae West, be her courage, her bravery, her humour, her creativity, her challenge to the world' but fears she is 'not even painful Billie. I am just obscure nobody with name starts from Z'.
Hackney Town Hall Library
Z's lightbulb moment occurs when she reads Gustave Flaubert on the Greeks devoting themselves to art without even knowing where the next day's bread might come from: 'Let us be Greeks!' She decides to dedicate her life to something serious, not just making shoes like her parents.
I'd like to write about you, one day. I'd like to write about this country. People say one should separate one's real life from one's art work… So one can has less pain, and be able to see the world soberly. But I think this is very selfish attitude. I like what Flaubert said about Greeks. If you are a real artist, everything in your life is part of your art.
South Kensington again
The last film they watch is Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Z sees her lover in Albert Finney's frustrated, restless character and she identifies with the young woman who desperately wants a home. Their relationship is bookended by movies.
It is only towards the end of the novel that she asserts her cultural independence, telling him: '"You never really pay attention to my culture. You English once took over Hong Kong, so you probably heard that we Chinese have 5,000 years of the greatest human civilization ever existed in the world … Our Chinese invented paper so your Shakespeare can write two thousand years later. Our Chinese invented gunpowder for you English and Americans to bomb Iraq"'. Her lover stares at her and has 'no words'.
Back in Beijing
In the epilogue Z calls her mother from Beijing to say that she is not coming home to their small town. Her mother is furious and Z thinks: 'Sometimes I wish I could kill her. Her power control, for ever, is just like this country.'
Even in Beijing Z feels out of place: 'everybody talks about buying cars and houses, investing in new products…. I can't join in their conversations.'
She is homesick for London: 'where I had my most confused days and my greatest passion and my brief happiness and my quiet sadness.'
Biographical readings of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers could be reductive: this carefully structured novel, with its web of allusions, is not a collection of diary jottings but a work of art. Guo has written many novels, made films, taught in New York, Paris and Berlin; and lives with her husband and daughter in Hackney.
http://www.guoxiaolu.com/
Susie Thomas has written about British authors from Aphra Behn to ER Braithwaite. Her most recent volume is So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron, which she co-edited with Andrew Whitehead and Ken Worpole.
All rights to the text remain with the author.
London Fictions homepage


CRYSTAL PALACE boss Sam Allardyce says his side exposed Liverpool's weaknesses in their shock 2-1 win.
Christian Benteke's 14th goal of the season in the second half was the seventh conceded from a corner by Liverpool this season.
It was a familiar tale of poor defending at set pieces for Jurgen Klopp.
And Allardyce took delight in getting the better of Liverpool.
He said: "I thought we were - from start to finish - exceptionally good tactically.
"With limited possession we exposed their weaknesses."


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Rounding up the best fireworks displays in the Hudson Valley on the 4th!
These are great places where you can celebrate our country and enjoy the fireworks!
Fireworks will be displayed at dusk at the Town of Wallkill Golf Course. Parking at Circleville Elementary School. No parking at the golf course.
4th of July Spectacular fireworks will begin around 9:00 pm and can be viewed from the waterfront, Waryas Park (free), or the Walkway Over the Hudson (tickets required). Donations appreciated. Rain date, 7/7.
Parade kicks off the celebrations at 12 followed by fireworks at dark. Joseph Y. Resnick Airport, Ellenville.
Grab a bite to eat and sit back and enjoy the live music. Fireworks will start at dark, music at 6. T.R. Gallo Park, Downtown Kingston.
The parade, organized by the Saugerties Fire Department, starts at 11am at the High School and finishes at Cantine Field. Fireworks will be displayed throughout the parade.
Fireworks will begin at dusk overlooking White Lake! Free parking at 3586 Route 55, Kauneonga Lake.
The Liberty festival is a fun filled day with games, food, face painting, vendors, music, entertainment, and much more for the entire family! Fireworks at dusk. Classic car show at 10:30am, Music and Parade at noon. Main St. & La Polt Park.


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While I don't think Luke Cage quite stands up to the two seasons of Daredevil and the villains can't compete with Jessica Jones' first season with David Tennant, the first season of Luke Cage is still really good. Seeing Cage go from staying hidden to being recognized, becoming a super powered neighborhood watchman more than a super hero is interesting. The only disappointment I found was the first half of the season's main villain, Copperhead, transitions to a different villain for the final half where I found Copperhead more interesting. However, the final episode does offer a decent adaptation of a comic book villain's costume.
Another great Blu-ray from Netflix!
I just finally got around to watching the season on Blu-ray for the first time this month, as I was (re)watching all of the Netflix Marvel shows in anticipation on Jessica Jones: Season 2 being released (which ended up being a disappointment unfortunately, but that's another story). Overall I was very satisfied with the quality of the Blu-ray, and it was nice to discover that for the first time Netflix included a bonus feature with one of the Marvel Blu-rays. I haven't yet watched it, and I wish they included more extras, but it's something at least. I hope they continue these releases for the Marvel Netflix shows!
This is a very entertaining series that was a part of the Marvel-studios-Web-release. Similar as Daredveil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Punisher. Huge crossover of all these titles in the Defenders series that will be released later on. There is one thing that needs to be noted. Even though it lists this as a DVD, it is actually a Blu-Ray release. Even the cover case lists this a Blu-Ray so Best Buy needs to amend this listing. I just wish Marvel Studios would be as diligent with the Agent's Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season three and our, since they were never released on DVD/Blu-Ray in the USA.
Best thing to hit Harlem since Shaft.
Great series. I do not suscribe to Netflix, but been purchasing the season series of Jessica Jones, Daredevil and now Luke Cage on blu-ray. Mike Colter as Luke Cage is awesome. It did take some time in developing the characters but I'm enjoying the first season immensely. Luke Cage is gritty, groundbreaking and profoundly powerful. Being a native New Yorker, I like that Jessica Jones take place in H__l's Kitchen and Luke Cage in Harlem.
Luke Cage was sadly born to Marvel comics during a period of "blaxplotation" and used as a wingman for the titles "Heroes for Hire" and "Powerman and Iron Fist". He was later re imagined and became a powerful, positive role model and caring father in an inter racial relationship. This theme was carried over into the TV series well. Nice to see part of the Serpent Society used as well in the Extended Marvel Universe.
This is a great show from the marvel universe and I am glad that it has been released here so best buy can sell it. I love these shows as they allow for great characterization of some obscure marvel characters. This is more adult than the shows on abc so beware, but for the marvel fan it is a must have. Best buy had a great price as most stores do not carry it so it made my life easier.
I watched the Luke Cage DVD 1st season with my grandson and we both enjoyed it a lot. We are now looking forward to the release of season 2 on DVD. I prefer the DVD instead of streaming because I don't have to commit to a monthly fee. The series on DVD allows me to purchase only what I think I will watch.
Old school exploitation-style series, with a lot of bang-for-the-buck entertainment! Great casting, awesome action, not for small children with the language and violence though like all of the Marvel Netflix stuff. This is perfect for us older comic fans!


Workers install a solar panel system on the roof of a home in Palmetto Bay, Fla.
In 2018, solar energy production in the Sunshine State only made up approximately 1.5 percent of Florida's energy portfolio. Over the next 10 years, the state's solar energy production is projected to increase nearly tenfold. This includes the installation of an estimated 7,125 megawatts of new solar generation based on a review of the ten-year site plans for the electric utilities. Nearly 80 percent of this generation will be owned by the state's utility companies, and the remainder will be contracted.
As solar projects expand across the Sunshine State, utilities and solar developers should be aware of all cost-saving opportunities available in the state. Florida law provides a long-standing state and local tax exemption for solar devices, and a recently enacted constitutional amendment will provide significant property tax savings for commercial solar projects through 2037.
The sales and use tax provides the state's largest source of general revenue. Beginning in 1997, solar energy systems and their components became fully exempt from the state sales and use tax. Eligible systems must convert sunlight into energy for use as a power source for another system. The broad list of exempt components include solar collectors, photovoltaic power conditioning equipment, pumps, controllers, piping, insulation and mounting brackets. To take advantage of the exemption, the purchaser must certify the equipment and hardware purchased or leased will be used exclusively in a solar energy system. Additionally, the cost of the solar system components must be separated from any costs of the project unrelated to the solar energy system.
Florida's constitution authorizes local governments to levy ad valorem taxes on real property and tangible personal property. In 2008, voters approved an amendment to the state's constitution permitting the Legislature to effectively exempt the increased value created when a solar or renewable energy source device was installed on residential real property. This permanent, 100 percent residential exemption was codified by the Legislature for renewable energy source devices installed on or after Jan. 1, 2013.
In 2016, more than 72 percent of Florida voters approved another amendment to the constitution to create a similar exemption for nonresidential real property and tangible personal property but only for 20 years. The Legislature implemented this amendment by prohibiting the consideration of 80 percent of the just value of property attributable to a renewable energy source device in determining the assessed value of any nonresidential real property. The legislation also created an exemption equal to 80 percent of the value of a renewable energy source device from the tangible personal property tax. These exemptions were limited to 80 percent of the value of the renewable energy devices, because the legislative sponsors wanted local governments to receive some financial benefit from solar projects in an effort to incentivize local governments to actively seek out new solar projects for their communities.
The nonresidential exemptions generally applied to renewable energy devices installed after January 1, 2018. The legislation grandfathered in a few specific projects installed prior to that date and excluded certain projects installed after that date in fiscally constrained counties. Most importantly, this nonresidential exemption has a limited duration. Solar developers need to understand the nonresidential exemptions will expire December 31, 2037, unless another constitutional amendment is reapproved by at least 60 percent of voters.
Similar to the sales and use tax exemption, the property tax exemptions for residential and nonresidential properties apply to components such as solar energy collectors, photovoltaic modules, inverters, pumps, fans, pipes, ducts, wiring, structural supports, refrigerant handling systems and other components used as integral parts of such renewable energy systems. However, the term does not include any equipment or structure that would be required in the absence of the renewable energy source device or any device located on the distribution or transmission side of the point of interconnection where a renewable energy source device is interconnected to an electric utility's distribution grid or transmission lines.
While Florida's tax incentives may not be the sole reason for the strong projected solar growth over the next decade, these broad-based state tax exemptions combined with federal incentives and reduced costs for photovoltaic cells appear to make Florida primed for investment in new solar energy production.
French Brown is an attorney in Dean Mead's Tallahassee office and a member of the firm's solar energy industry team. He assists businesses with Florida tax planning and controversies, as well as utility-scale solar projects across the state.


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Charles Sawyer named chiropractor of the year by MCA
Chiropractic Economics May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011 — Charles Sawyer, DC, senior vice president at Northwestern Health Sciences University, was named the Chiropractor of the Year by the Minnesota Chiropractic Association. He received the award at their Annual Convention May 21. Chiropractor of the Year is awarded to one who provides outstanding service to the chiropractic profession and the MCA.
"The honoree is dedicated to programs, projects and issues that have been influential in helping position the chiropractic profession in the community and health care arena, says Jennifer Olafson, MCA's education and event specialist. "They must also have a good community service record."
Sawyer shares credit for the award. "It is nice that the MCA values the efforts here at the University. It is confirmation of the importance of our partnership. I would consider it an acknowledgment of collective efforts," Sawyer says. "I was representing many others as well."
The MCA awards committee reviews a number of applicants before making a final decision. According to the MCA, Sawyer was an absolute clear choice. "It is an honor to be recognized by your colleagues; especially in private practice," says Dr. Sawyer. He sees the award as recognition of his work. "And I'm not done yet," he says.
Source: Northwestern Health Sciences University, www.nwhealth.edu/nwtoday/index.html
Dr. Sawyer makes list of '100 Influential Health Care Leaders'
Chiropractic, acupuncture get boost in state budget plan language
Jennifer Naas re-elected president of the Minnesota Chiropractic Association
Anthony Hamm, DC, re-elected co-chair of AMA HCPAC Review Board
Northwestern Health Sciences University names interim president
Northwestern Health Sciences University professor named best in state


"You know, I actually voted in these elections. I am registered in a swing state, so I felt that I had to vote," I yelled on top of the noise at the US Embassy Election Celebration in Tel Aviv. I was speaking to Mohammad, my colleague of 5 years, and his wife.
I hadn't told most people that I cast my vote this year for the first time in U.S. elections at the age of 35. I always held the belief that I should only be voting where I was living, and although I hold dual citizenship in Israel and the USA, I have only lived in Israel since the age of 14 and therefore had only ever voted in Israel.
With Trump versus Hillary, this election seemed different, more polarizing, more important to vote. So I did. I have now taken part in the democratic process in Israel and the US, something that I should be proud of, something that should be a basic right to all people.
A moment after confiding in Mohammad, I started to feel that sick feeling at the bottom of my stomach, that feeling when you realize that you have asked the wrong question or said the wrong thing, and I suddenly remembered that Mohammad and his wife have never voted.
As residents of Jerusalem, by Israeli law they can't vote in the Israeli national elections. They also had never been able to vote in the Palestinian presidential elections. During the previous PA presidential election in 2005 there were voting booths in East Jerusalem for Jerusalem residents, but there were many obstacles in the way including inadequate numbers of workers and a general feeling of fear at the polls. Therefore Mohammad and his wife had never voted for their leadership.
So here I was in the middle of the US Embassy Celebration in Tel Aviv celebrating American democracy while my colleagues and friends can only celebrate others' right to vote.
This seems a bit ironic, to celebrate others' democracy and freedom while you can't celebrate your own.
My evening started with a lot of enthusiasm and excitement but took an unexpected turn, and now at midnight I sit here writing this blog, feeling torn and wondering what I can do tomorrow for the freedom of all in Jerusalem.


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Q: Is it safe to use Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK? Background
Let's take the next sceneraio:

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*the user uses an app X which has multiple activities (like the gmail app).

*after navigating the app X a bit, he goes to your app.

*in your app, you need to start this X app using an intent, to go to a specific activity within it.

*now the user goes to this specific activity on the app X.

*the user presses the back button, hoping to go back to your app instead of staying on the app X.

another similar scenario:

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*the user navigates on your app between activities.

*your app went to the background (using the home button, for example).

*your app shows a notification that once clicked, it will open a specific activity of your app.

*the user clicks on the notification and goes to the specific activity of your app.

*the user presses the back button, hoping to return to the app that was shown before clicking on the notification, instead of going to the previous activity on your app that was shown the last time it left it.

It seems that the last step on both scenarios isn't the default behavior.
This is why I've searched what is the best combination of flags for this purpose.
The problem
It seems that the only flag that can achieve the behavior i've described is Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK (together with Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK).
According to the android API, however, this flag isn't recommended for normal use:

Do not use this flag unless you are implementing your own top-level
  application launcher.
  ...
Because the default system does not include
  graphical task management, you should not use this flag unless you
  provide some way for a user to return back to the tasks you have
  launched.

This information seems as confusing as the rest of the descriptions about intents.
There are other intents flags that I've seen, like Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK that achieve a similar result, but they have weird behaviors and/or they use high API
The question
Is it safe to use this flag? Are there any good alternatives to it?
What is the danger of using this flag and what is the meaning of the description on the API of using it?

A: In your first scenario, if your app needs to start an activity of another app, it can just start this activity within the same task as your application. There is no reason to use any special Intent flags for this (you don't need FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK). In step 5 of your scenario, the user will return to your application (because BACK just takes him to the previous activity in the current task). This is the standard, default behaviour.
In your second scenario, my first response is "that isn't the standard behaviour". That means that users probably won't expect to be able to go back to the task that they were doing prior to clicking on the notification. However, if you really want to implement this, then I would suggest that you create a special Activity that is launched from the notification and this special Activity should have a different taskAffinity than the rest of the Activities in your application. In this case, when the special Activity is launched from the notification, it will not bring your application's task to the foreground. It will just create a new task containing just the special Activity. When the special Activity is showing, the user can press the BACK key and this will return him to the task that he was working on prior to clicking on your notification.
In general you should NOT use FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK. The main reason is that if you have several tasks containing your application (or parts of it), it is pretty much impossible for the user to return to a specific one. There is no way to provide different launch icons or different application names (for the different tasks)(, so that the user will see multiple tasks in the "recent tasks" list, but will not be able to tell which one is which. You will have a hard time cleaning up what you are doing and you will just make more problems than you can deal with. There are about a million side effects of using this flag and for general applicaitons there is just no need to do it.

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