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Cheyenne's Illustrated Writing FAQs 2
Posted on September 28, 2015 by cheymccray
Cheyenne's Writing FAQs 2
Cheyenne Sept. 2015 at resort for BMG blog heist day
Cheyenne's early early writing career in 2002
Q: How long have you been writing?
A: Since January 2000. Good grief. I was 35 when I started. That sure went by fast!
We didn't have a digital camera in our house until 2002. Here I am (In the striped shirt) working away at one of my early books.
I'm probably writing a young adult novel–before I went to the Dark Side to write erotic romance. They had cookies.
As KING OF HEARTS, it was the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award for best erotic romance of the year!
Q: Speaking of erotic romance… Who's this Jaymie Holland author? She writes a lot of smut, doesn't she?
Jaimie Holland decked out in latex and a whip. Really.
A: Yes. Lots and lots of smut. All of the smut you want to read to your heart's content.
Jaymie Holland is the ultra-erotic alter-ego that I established in 2011 because my Cheyenne stuff has grown a tad tamer. My work is still very hot, but I leave all of the BDSM, ménage, and other particularly naughty stuff to Jaymie. (Don't let my mom or sons know about her!)
Q: How often does Jaymie have a book come out?
A: A couple of times a year. This year OWNED, A BDSM Ménage erotic romance (triple whammy!) will be out in December.
Q: So why not more?
A: They ran out of cookies on the dark side. I drew the short straw so I have to buy more vanilla wafers for the host of demons waiting to come up to play… Just holding out for my next royalty statement to show up.
Yes, demons love vanilla wafters. Especially banana pudding made with 'em. Bananas, wafers, and pudding. Who'd have thought?
Q: When did you get your first agent and sell your first book?
A: 2001 was when I got my first agent and 2002 was when we sold L.O.S.T. (Live Oak Springs Township) to Llewellyn. It's a young YA I co-authored with Susan Vaught. The orangey cover on the right was the original cover and names we wrote it under. The cover on the left (which I LOVE) we used different names. I have plans for R.S. Collins, my third pen name!
2004: Cheyenne's first print book signing
Around the same time Susan and I sold the L.O.S.T. series, I also sold an erotic romance titled Seraphine Chronicles: FORBIDDEN to Ellora's Cave.
This picture is from my second book signing with my first book in print in 2004.
My first book signing was the most special, and I wish I had a picture. It was one of the most memorable of my life. A young woman came up to me and presented me with a red rose. Another woman was with her and asked if she could have the young woman's picture taken with me. The young woman was too shy to speak or ask herself. That is a precious memory.
Seraphine Chronicles: Forbidden, originally with Ellora's Cave
In the photo from the book signing was the original cover for Seraphine Chronicles: FORBIDDEN. Here's the new cover on the left, which I adore.
Forbidden from the "Magic" series with St. Martin's Press
I signed my first four-book contract with St. Martin's Press in 2004. The first book in the "Magic" series was FORBIDDEN MAGIC. I think there was a "Forbidden" theme of some sort. 🙂 Over a seven-year period, I wrote fourteen novels for St. Martin's Press. FORBIDDEN MAGIC was the first book I wrote that made the USA Today.
Q: Are you going to write more "Magic" books?
A: Even better: A new series with angels and shifters, set in San Francisco–and guess who's back, badder than ever….
Darkwolf.
Yes, Darkwolf.
Q: Why would you bring him back from exile?
A: Because I can. And I rather like that he's evil personified… Seclusion only made him eviler.
BWHAHAHAHA!
"Night Tracker" series, with St. Martin's Press
I had the covers framed for the"Night Tracker" series and the "Magic" series.
"Magic" series published with St. Martin's Press
Both series were published with St. Martin's Press. Love the covers!
Q: Why were the "Wild" and "Wonderland" series published under new series names and titles with new character names and covers?
A: St. Martin's purchased the print rights from Ellora's Cave, to the 4-book "Wonderland" series, which they renamed Taken by Passion; and the 4-book "Wild" series, which they renamed "Armed and Dangerous" (and had me change all character names. They also purchased the print rights to the 3-novella "Erotic" collection, and renamed "Total Surrender." They published all of those books in trade paperback under St. Martin's Griffin.
The following are the new 2015 covers for the "Wonderland" series.
"Wonderland" series. Originally published with Ellora's Cave in eBook and in trade paperback with St. Martin's Griffin.
The "Wonderland"series is now published as Cheyenne McCray writing as Jaymie Holland, with both titles, hoping to avoid confusion again. I expanded each Wonderland book considerably in early 2015.
Q. When will Mikaela get her own story?
The Kings' sister's story… Coming…. One of these days!
A. That is a very good question…
I do have the cover to OWNED BY FIRE! I don't have the story written yet. Here's the great cover. It's a start. 🙂
The following are the new 2015 covers for the "Armed and Dangerous" series:
"Armed and Dangerous" series originally published as the "Wild" series in eBook with Ellora's Cave and as the A & D series in trade paperback with St. Martin's Griffin.
The Armed and Dangerous series had been expanded quite a bit when it was published in print by St. Martin's. They have recently been republished under these awesome covers.
ZACK was picked by Cosmopolitan magazine and adapted in their November 2008 issue. In 2015, ZACK was selected by Apple's iBooks as an up-and-coming book, and then selected for their "Find Your Book Boyfriend" promotion. It was also chosen for a BookBub promotion.
Seraphine Chronicles: FORBIDDEN was my first erotic romance novel written, and WILDFIRE, aka ZACK was my first cowboy romance. But neither were the first romances I'd written.
Cheyenne's 1st love 🙂
My first romance was WILD BORDERS, aka KADE. This book is special to me for a lot of reasons, including Kelsey having a little bit of me in her. It was a book of my heart. I would love to find a Kade of my own!
Yes, I have a heart despite loving to blow stuff up and maiming bad guys. 😉
Cheyenne making everyone teary when she cried accepting RT Award
Q: What was your first award for a novel?
A: "The Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Erotic Romance of 2003" for Wonderland: King of Hearts (Ellora's Cave), also known as Taken by Passion (St. Martin's Griffin). The Romantic Times is now known as RT Book Reviews Magazine. This is a picture of me accepting the award at the Romantic Times Book Lover's convention in New York City in 2004. I cried and made the audience cry. Fun times. 😉
Cheyenne incredibly honored to receive the 2014 Desert Rose Award
Q: What is your favorite award?
A: The 2014 Desert Rose Award that my RWA chapter presented to me
I'm having fun writing these illustrated FAQs! If you have any questions, just jump in and ask in the comments section and I'll include them!
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20 thoughts on "Cheyenne's Illustrated Writing FAQs 2"
tinagerow44 on September 28, 2015 at 12:53 pm said:
Love the FAQ's – these are so fun! 🙂 And the Jaime Holland in with the whip is adorable 🙂
cheymccray on September 28, 2015 at 12:55 pm said:
Just wait 'til you see her with a martini glass! 😀 Thanks, Tina!
Laura Pinciotto on September 28, 2015 at 12:57 pm said:
Loved the Q & A. Been reading you a long time now. Can't wait till you new books are out.
cheymccray on September 28, 2015 at 1:08 pm said:
Thanks bunches, Laura! I'm excited to be writing the new series! ❤
angelshaw54 on September 28, 2015 at 12:58 pm said:
These were some of my questions, but I will say I'm a little sad to hear about the 5th book for the Wonderland series…also Darkwolf again!?!?!!!! I almost we get a small visit or at least some mention of Silver or the others from the original series LOL…somewhat happily awaiting the arrival of more books woman 😉
I know, Mikaela is being a pain. LOL. Darkwolf… bad, bad news. 😉 Hope you enjoy the new series, Angel! ❤
angelshaw54 on September 28, 2015 at 1:55 pm said:
Pfft you already know I'm going to love it!!!
Love ya, Angel! ❤
Ann Lorz on September 28, 2015 at 1:22 pm said:
I love the Q & A. I learned something new. I have to say your Magic series is my all time favorite of yours.
Thank you, Ann! I really enjoyed writing the Magic series! ❤ 🙂
Deborah James on September 28, 2015 at 1:28 pm said:
Wow! I didn't realize I've been reading your books from the beginning (except the YA). I have read part of or all of the series books and can't wait for Angels of Darkness: CHAINED.
Thanks, Deborah! 🙂 Wow, you've been with me a long time! ❤
Lori Meehan on September 28, 2015 at 5:24 pm said:
Some great questions!
Thanks, Lori! ❤
Brit on September 28, 2015 at 5:59 pm said:
I love all of your books 🙂 No matter what personality is writing (Jamie or Cheyenne). I really cannot wait for Chained!
😀 I very much appreciate that, Brit! ❤
tobrian on November 23, 2016 at 3:52 pm said:
have you ever tried bdsm yourself You seem to provide some very accurate descriptions, especially in your later works including the novellas. Hard to find someone that writes about the control, bondage and hoods that you do. ! Love your work
cheymccray on November 23, 2016 at 4:19 pm said:
Thank you for your comment! It's such a compliment to hear that my work sounds so realist!! I have great resources and a good imagination. Lol. Thank you for reading my work. 😊😊😊
Jodi on January 14, 2018 at 11:12 am said:
I love the Wonderland Series and am patiently waiting on Mikaela's story – will you ever re-release the 2 books from the Return to Wonderland series in expanded editions – with Lord Kir and Prince Eral?
cheymccray on January 19, 2018 at 8:48 am said:
Hi Jodi! Thanks so much! The Return to Wonderland books are tied up, and I won't be able to get the rights back to them to republish. 😦 Mikaela's story–I keep hoping to be able to write it, but too many deadlines get in the way. I'll post when it's finally available. 🙂 Thanks again!


With the beard on his chin as white as the snow by the time he was 40, Bob finally discovered a new vocation after making his first Santa visit to his granddaughters' daycare school in 1992. With over 10 years experience entertaining children as a professional Shrine Clown, Bob very quickly became enamored with the art of portraying Santa Claus. With the advent of the Santa organizations, he stepped forward and became involved in the leadership of the Florida Santas and the early national Santa Organizations.
He became known by many of his peers as an organizational leader and brought together vendors and workshop presenters for numerous state, regional and national gatherings, conventions and celebrations of Santas. He is a founding member of the Santa Claus Drill Team and has served as President since 2012. Bob has served as the President/CEO of the national organization, International Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas, since 2013 and has played a major role in the phenomenal growth of IBRBS to nearly 2,000 members in a short five years. Bob proudly serves in the Knights of St Nicholas as a Captain of Knights.


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Build Back Better - webinar with Andy Burnham, the LEP and the Growth Company
I was really pleased to be asked by the Growth Company to host this important webinar with Andy Burnham on Build Back Better - How Greater Manchester can make the best of the challenge of the pandemic and stay true to the ambitions of creating quality jobs, homes and businesses.
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Labels: business, journalism, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, Politics
Location: Manchester, UK
Help me out, Charlotte - letters to a Labour activist from the political wilderness
The second in a series of conversations with political activist friends has taken a little longer to produce than I hoped, but following a long chat to Liberal Democrat Stephen Duckworth, here are some ideas and thoughts shared between me and Charlotte Morris, a Councillor and now an Executive member on Bury Borough Council.
Hi Charlotte,
Thanks for agreeing to this. As you know I've had a very troubled relationship with the Labour Party. I hated it under Corbyn. In fact I wasn't that keen on Miliband and I fought a General Election in my home seat on that manifesto. I left when the anti-semitism was out of control and the NEC, the leaders office and local infrastructure of the party was dominated by people I had no interest in working with, or had any desire to see get into power. I supported Ann Coffey, Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger when they had the courage to leave. I was disappointed more didn't follow and that an alternative wasn't possible – and it really isn't, I get that.
I also thought that after the general election wipeout that Corbyn could truly own his defeat when it inevitably came. But he hasn't and the Left were quickly back on social media with a ready made betrayal narrative because they discovered the kind of Whatsapp group I have been in over the last few years.
And though I can't for one minute support a Boris Johnson Conservative government, I'm relieved in a way that the government we have now is not the one Jeremy Corbyn may have led. I wasn't convinced Kier Starmer would be able to shape Labour into an electoral force, but I think he's made a very good start. To be clear, despite three seperate messages from Labour MPs urging me to 'come home' as Starmer was elected, I don't really see the point of rejoining and yet, at the same time, I think our society is faced with an opportunity to really change and emerge from this terrible virus and the economic catastrophe with a better heart and a sense of common purpose. I know that's a bit of an offload, but I value your view.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner on this. Given I've kept you waiting for a response, I won't hang about. Let's get to the nub of the issue; you're looking for someone to give you reasons to re-join the Labour Party.
Well, sorry to disappoint, but I'm not going to indulge you in that.
I'm not really sure you should re-join. You said yourself in your email you "don't see the point". So why are you even considering it?
Seeing as we both work for esteemed academic institutions, I've done a bit of Google bashing and it turns out there is plenty of clever sounding academic thought around why people join political parties. The 'General Incentives Model' (Seyd and Whiteley, 1992) is a widely accepted approach to understanding why people become active in political parties. So why don't we start there?
This model outlines the following reasons why people take up membership of political parties:
-	Perception that participation will achieve a desired collective outcome.
-	A desire to see particular policies introduced.
-	Selective benefits of membership e.g. material or career benefits.
-	The intrinsic pleasure of political engagement.
-	Altruistic motivations.
-	A desire to conform to social norms and behaviour and expectation of personal contacts.
-	Personal affection for a party and / or leader.
(Isn't it amazing what you can learn after a few minutes on Google, by the way …)
I don't profess to you know you super well, but we've shared many conversations about politics over many brews over the past couple of years, so if you don't mind I will make a couple of observations on what I think motivates you. Please tell me if I'm off base.
I think you are fascinated by politics, see it as the vehicle to achieving things that make the world a better place and enjoy the intellectual stimulation of being involved in political debate. You're not a Tory. Not even a shy one, I don't think. You've got too much water under the bridge locally with the Lib Dems. And that lot you had a brief dalliance with last year are no more (hurrah!).
You're politically engaged, but politically homeless.
Perhaps you could consider the motivations for joining a political party against your own feelings of the Labour Party in its current form. Ask yourself why you want to be a member of a political party at all and what you want from that membership, and then you might start to find your answer as to whether that party should be Labour. I'd be interested to know what you come up with.
I know I could have used this email to tell you all the reasons why you should come back. Anti-Semitism will be stamped out once and for all. We're going to focus on winning elections, not just the argument. The Shadow Cabinet and its diverse talent shows the ambition the Party has. Sir Keir Starmer's hair. The truth is I don't think you should have left in the first place and I'm not too sure I want to legitimise that decision by saying "it's alright now, we're back to normal and you can return to the fold".
It somehow normalises the idea that those who resigned in protest at anti-Semitism were morally right. And that those who didn't were morally wrong. How can you support a racist Party? Why won't you take a stand? How can you ask people to vote for that man? My membership of the Labour Party certainly has caused me issues with people I love at times over the past couple of years. It's been hard to justify. And I accept that. I know that for those who quit, like you, it wasn't an easy decision. And at times, neither was deciding to stay. But ultimately I believe that my values are in line with those of the Labour Party and those who espouse anti-Semitism in the name of the Party or in the name of the Leader are the ones that are out of step.
I think ultimately what you need to ask yourself is do you think the Labour Party best represents your values and is it the best vehicle for seeing those values put into action?
But don't forget, with your chequered past, the big question isn't whether you should re-join the Party, it's whether we'd have you.
Speak soon.
Very good, Charlotte. Maybe we should have carried on talking about our pets.
I'm not all surprised you've cut to the chase and put the hard word down about joining. You're right, but I thought I made it clear I'm not joining, and I think I'm probably done with parties. Not least because you raise the obvious issue that they wouldn't have me anyway. So let's park that thought for now.
There's an element of the last five years that I still find troubling though. In an effort to keep the party together plenty of people kept their heads down and didn't speak out against the basket of deplorables that presided over the most shameful political leadership of a major party in our country's history. There's a sense now that papering over the shame can suddenly make everything OK. It's fine to laud Keir Starmer now with his impressive words and deeds and his grown up approach to political management, and his forensic and calm dissembling of Boris Johnson at PMQs is masterful, but there are going to be sterner tests when the EHRC publish their report that WILL declare Labour to have been institutionally racist.
Anything less than a sweeping of the stables, withdrawl of the whip, expulsions and firm statements of intent, will render any attempts to reach beyond that current base utterly redundant.
I put it back to you then, what should non-aligned, non-partisan community activists do? How do parties seek to coalesce allies with whom they find common cause around campaigns. Maybe later we can think about what Build Back Better might mean and how you and I as various elements of our personas - Councillor, University execs, community activists – can imagine that at local, regional, national, global level.
Ta,
The past five years is all I've known as a Labour Party member. I joined in the summer of 2015 following the General Election defeat. As a political observer both personally and professionally I'd never really felt party political and certainly not tribal, but by the time the exit poll came in I had had enough of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (I'd voted Lib Dem in 2010, don't tell anyone, we were all young once). I was absolutely gutted that Labour wasn't going to be able to form a minority or coalition government. Maybe it was the heady days of the Milifandom and we all got a bit carried away with ourselves (I confess I came for the memes, but stayed for the politics). Regardless, there wasn't much I didn't agree with the Labour Party on and I wanted to see the Party win. Ed Miliband wasn't perfect nor was that manifesto, but much of it spoke to me at that time and, actually, still does.
So to have gone from non-party political and very non-tribal to suddenly being a member of a political party that has been tearing itself limb from limb in a factional war for the past half a decade has been a bit disconcerting to say the least. I can't disagree with you that Corbyn's tenure has brought shame to the Labour Party and I tried to explain briefly why I stayed with the Party even though I felt that way in my previous reply.
But I don't agree that by moving forward in the way that the Party is doing now we are somehow papering over the cracks. Following a meeting with Keir Starmer after he was elected leader, the Board of Deputies said he achieved more in four days more than his predecessor had in four years. That's a good start and there is much more that needs to be done; I agree that we need action. I guess it's the old "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" and we shall await the publication of the EHRC report and judge Keir Starmer's response accordingly.
Beyond political parties, community activism is alive and well. In my own ward where I'm a councillor I'm lucky enough to know and work with a number of really proactive, passionate and dedicated community groups. These are non-party political although the people that run them have political views and in some cases party allegiances. They come in different forms, from a volunteer-led community centre to local litter picking groups, and from a traditional residents' association to a constituted 'Friends of' group that hopes to take over management of the local country park. I don't think they'd call themselves 'activists' as I don't think they see themselves as campaigners, but they are making a real difference in their communities and isn't that the ultimate aim of activism?
So to answer your question, what do non-aligned, non-partisan community activists do? You find something in your community that you're not happy with or that you think could be improved, you get a group of like-minded people together and you take action. In today's society with social media and the multitude of ways in which we can stay connected, this is easier than ever.
Ultimately, however, a degree of political engagement will be required, but political engagement doesn't have to be aligned or partisan either.
A great example of successful community activism, again from my patch in Bury, has been seen around the climate emergency. The Council passed a climate emergency in July 2019. In response a local group, Bury Climate Action, was set up. They've got engaged, got online, got in our faces by asking questions at Full Council, held meetings and asked us to attend, and they've lobbied local councillors to take appropriate action. They've put pressure on us. Asked us hard questions. And we've had to find answers. They've changed the debate and held us to account on our promises.
I hope that answers your question.
Under appreciated genius
I've been thinking a lot about what might have been. But also listening to a wide range of new music at a time when venues like Gorilla were at risk of closing, Q Magazine is nearing the end, and artists are staring into the abyss. Before all of that though, here are some massively unappreciated geniuses.
The one above is a towering anthem of melancholy from Gavin Clark, Good Day to Die, from the album Crazy on the Weekend by Sunhouse. In his A&R days author John Niven looked after Gavin when he was a brittle and sensitive singer songwriter at a time when the music market demanded brash and confident at the tail end of Britpop. Although you might recognise his tone and key from This is England soundtracks and various indie films, Gavin never broke through with any of his bands, Sunhouse or Clayhill. He died a few years ago in sad circumstances. Here's a heartbreaking and beautifully written obituary John Niven wrote in the Daily Record which captures him painfully well and a film his friend Shane Meadows made with Gavin in his living room. Maybe you could read the obituary while you play Good Day to Die, or just the whole of the album to be honest.
I went to see I Am Kloot a few times and was touched by the wall of affection from an appreciative audience of people like us. I noticed that singer John Bramwell was due to tour again just as lockdown kicked in. That's going to be top of my list when this is over. Support venues, support artists, and no, just downloading on Spotify won't be enough will it?
You couldn't download this next track if you wanted to, as it's not on Spotify. Flowered Up, or the Cockney Mondays as they were known at the time (by me) had an incredible energy about them and (heresy, I know) I genuinely think Weekender is far better than anything the baggy Mancs ever came up with. It's a sprawling, multi-layered, epic non-anthemic classic. Behind it is another tragic story of a talent lost and the subject of what I hear is a very good book. This here, about them, nails it and the epic lost brilliance of Weekender.
For a slightly happier ending, David Ford is at least still with us, but nowhere near the status he deserves. I'm fairly stuck on one of his earlier albums, Let the Hard Times Roll, but I'm not here to judge, just to share. I'd start with To Hell With The World, but maybe cheer yourself up with Making up For Lost Time. I just don't understand why everyone doesn't know these songs like I do. Life's better for it.
Labels: Books, music
Let it happen
I found this old photo taken of me in 1989 when I was the editor of a fashion magazine in Australia, sat staring out of the window of the L'Alba Cafe in Northbridge, WA, possibly one of my all time favourite neighbourhood hangouts.
Strangely, I've been taken back to that time and place by the song below - Let it Happen by Tame Impala. Written and performed by Kevin Parker who grew up in WA, but will have been 3 years old at the time, it seems to capture that anxious feeling of the world of possibilities and excitement. The added ingredient for me is the sense of dislocation from home, and that I'm not meant to be laying down roots and making plans here, I'm in a foreign land. Hence the most critical line is this - "If I never come back, tell my mother I'm sorry".
There's also a loop in the song where it momentarily sounds like the disc is stuck, before the burst that breaks that loop finds another settled rhythm and then a complex harmony of two vocal tracks competing for your attention. There's a lot going on, but it's ultimately uplifting.
I often think about those 'Sliding Doors' moments of big life decisions, and deciding to return to Britain was just such a time for me, especially the crushing sense of struggle and uncertainty, loneliness and rotten English weather that followed, taking me a couple of years to find my groove in London.
Where would the friendships, relationships and opportunities in Australia have taken me? How much more chicken mango or Greek salad could I have eaten at L'Alba, or Vietnamese noodles from this takeaway in Highgate? Would I have grown out of dance music and clubbing in Perth as quickly as I did in London? Maybe I quit while I was ahead? Obviously I don't wish away the happy marriage and the wonderful children I've fathered, and I would always have wanted to have landed here.
I've been doing a lot of looking back lately and thinking about where my own sons will go in the world and how I'll feel about that. Maybe it's because the world has got so much smaller during lockdown, shrinking our literal horizons, but expanding our sense of responsibility.
It's always around me, all this noise
But not nearly as loud as the voice saying
"Let it happen, let it happen (It's gonna feel so good)
Just let it happen, let it happen"
All this running around
Trying to cover my shadow
An ocean growing inside
All the others seem shallow
Bearing down on my shoulders
I can hear an alarm
Must be a warning
I heard about a whirlwind that's coming 'round
It's gonna carry off all that isn't bound
And when it happens, when it happens (I'm gonna be holding on)
So let it happen, let it happen
I can't fight it much longer
Something's trying to get out
And it's never been closer
If my take-off fails
Make up some other story
If I never come back
Tell my mother I'm sorry
I will not vanish and you will not scare me
Try to get through it, try to bounce to it
All the while thinking I might as well do it
They be lovin' someone and I'm not that stupid
Take the next ticket to take the next train
Why would I do it? And you wanna think that
Oh, maybe I was ready all along
Oh, maybe all I wanted was the sound
Oh but maybe I was ready all along
Songwriters: Kevin Parker
Let It Happen lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Labels: Australia, music
An introduction to the future
Every day we seem to lurch from one example of our crisis of leadership and trust, to another. I'm not alone in feeling adrift, confused, and searching for purpose, but whatever else is going on it doesn't have to be one of crushed personal responsibility and accountability. This pandemic and the ensuing lockdown has been a shock to the collective system and to individual hopes and dreams.
I hardly stand unique in this country at my disgust and horror at how the most impressive collective contribution of sacrifice and civic spirit was frittered away by a lethal amateurism. It is a time of intense national shame. Yet organisations and individuals across our country have displayed leadership, generosity and a capability to contribute to the common good, and it is from them that we must take inspiration in order to contribute to a rebuilding of trust.
Many of us are determined the inevitable change should be positive, and a few of us have been knocking ideas around. For me, this arose from a small group of us from within the Freshwalks hiking group. We were split into smaller groups to support one another during lockdown and see where it took us. We've done OK, I think. We've shared a lot, helped one another and enjoyed the experience. I knew one of the others quite well, another a bit, one used to work with Rachel years ago, and the final chap, not at all. I'd say we've been through a fair bit together since and know each other pretty well now.
Let me start with my own state of mind.
I'm one of those people on the divide in society that has been able to work from home. I'm not going to complain about that, because others have suffered far worse symptoms than the new blight of being all Zoomed out. We've done alright at home, eating together, I exercise regularly, Rachel's done well with her work, raising money for people in crisis.
But while I've got a lot done - finally written an MSc thesis - I've also drifted and dithered. I've wondered how I can make a meaningful contribution to my work, and to making the world better, to know what I'm doing in my job, and that it matters. In reviewing things I've written and read, there's an awful lot of nostalgia. From that comes a melancholy about what I've missed out on. I think we look back because there's precious little to look forward to. The promise of the future as a better place is an uncertain one now.
I have three impatient words written on the opening page of my work journal – the book where I take notes at meetings and where I write ideas down. It just says – does it matter? Frankly, at the moment, it doesn't always feel like much does; but it must. I want to articulate a bold sweep of key actions and behaviours that can and should take place as we emerge out of lockdown to contribute in our own way to Build Back Better, it can't happen just by willing it so.
And much as I muse at a policy level - I literally wrote a thesis on it - it's at a personal level that I have had similar moments of clarity that have looked at the ticking clock of life and thought – I no longer have the patience to work with unpleasant people. I think part of me has always done this. I've definitely been guilty of discriminating in favour of working with people who crack on, get stuff done, work at a pace I do and share my values. I described it recently as finding a golden thread of good people. However, I'm also aware that has come across in the past as 'picking favourites'. But for many emerging from this terrible pandemic and the recession to come, we're going into a severe economic situation where plenty of us will be content to work for anyone, assholes included. Therefore it also places an even greater importance on those of us who can discriminate to build alliances with the good, the kind, the generous.
Here, then, are my three thoughts on where I think I must go:
All of us who can must double our commitment to get on and do stuff - I think of what Matthew Taylor at the RSA described as the need to 'make power, not take power'. Not require power to be given to us, but demonstrate we are effective community leaders and actors, capable of using the skills, efforts and capacity we have to make change. It's not a substitute for gaining real power, but it's a step towards it.
Secondly, more than ever, we need to build alliances. I'm in a community of people loosely based around our hiking group, Freshwalks. It's but a small example of how we can support one another. It's not the solution to the world's problems, but right now as a collective it works for me. So does the People's Powerhouse, the RSA, my Church, other networks I'm part of, and the links I've built through my work. Our whole world is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) and obviously plenty of people say this, repeatedly. But maybe within that we have to understand there are things beyond our control and decisions made that we don't like and that our response has to be messy too. So to counter that feeling of helplessness we need to ask the right questions, not always to try to provide all the answers, and only through thinking through a potential answer with others, will we be able to make progress.
Thirdly, we must never be afraid to think big, and realise it's not just for us. I've stumbled across something called "Cathedral thinking" the idea that you are creating something you may never see built in your lifetime. Greta Thunberg has talked about it, apparently, which is fine with me. Submitting yourself to the pursuit of a big idea.
The bottom line is a revolution in spirit, in kindness, in a new conception of how we live our lives in relation not only to each other, but to nature, to our air, our rivers and seas and a different understanding of how our land is our common treasury. I've said so many times that happiness is about spending time with the people you love, but it's also about knowing you are living your life as close as possible to your own sacred values. Mine are to be honest, be loyal, be kind. When I fall short on any of them, it crushes me. So I need personal strength, but also that of others, to uphold those pillars.
Where we individually go with that I genuinely don't know. The answer to the question of "what we do" isn't actually as important as the why?
Labels: freshwalks, friends, journalism, reflections, social media
Tracey Thorn's Another Planet - we were all young once and not very nice
It took me far too long to read this delightful and insightful memoir of a suburban childhood, bought for me by my dear friend John Dixon who has over the years opened my eyes and ears to routinely enriching books and music.
Maybe lockdown has made us all more reflective. I've certainly found nostalgia very appealing, even more so than usual.
The structure veers between the 1970s and 2016 and a nostalgic return to Brookman's Park in Hertfordshire where she grew up. The fact that you know the happy ending - Tracey's career as a singer songwriter and her own family life (I'm an avid reader of her fortnightly Off The Record column in the New Statesman, by the way) doesn't change anything; there's no revelation or a gotcha moment.
It brought back all kinds of memories of discos, experimenting with alcohol and girls, getting into scrapes and the emerging music of the time. But the strongest reminder I got was that teenagers aren't terribly nice, and regard their long suffering parents either with disdain, or not at all. Whenever I've tried to place myself in the world of my own sons and reverted to how my magnificent parents behaved, my memories are almost entirely bereft of them. And yet who picked me up from the Hornby village disco at 10pm before starting work the next day at 5 am? And that I habitually lied to them about where I was, who I was with and what I was doing. I'm just relieved I didn't have a diary to cross reference as Tracey has, I wince at the thought.
More than anything though, it is a tenderly written book, tinged with appreciation and sharp social and cultural observations. As John reminded me of Paddy McAloon's thoughts on the matter: "the sweet sweet songs that cloud your eyes (pause) nostalgia supplies."
Labels: book review in a lift, Books, Nostalgia
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Working with animals is the same as I mentioned in Healing and Energetic Cleansing with People except that animals do not transmit to us directly what their problems are or the aspects that they need to solve. Generally the animals come to a Healing session by some anomalous manifestation in its physical or behavior, but that is not an impediment to be able to work at an internal level with the animal.
Often what happens to the animal is a reflection of what happens to those who take care of it, because there is an energetic symbiosis. They absorb energies from their caretakers so it can also be an opportunity for them to access aspects to resolve and release.
My experience with animals is not as extensive as with people, places or systems, but they do come periodically to me, obtaining transforming results.
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Please email me for final versions of any of the published papers. nellie.wieland@csulb.edu
Book project on linguistic reality
This monograph presents a central conception on what language is like—whichever language it is and whomever is using it. The perspective taken here is panoramic in the sense that it does not attempt to solve particular problems in semantics and pragmatics—although the metaphysics of language defended has implications for these particulars. Instead, the focus is on the foundational questions about the limits, scope, location, and constitution of languages and particular linguistic entities (words, sentences, meanings, propositions). The consideration of these questions falls within the historical tradition of talking about the nature of language itself, from the early modern period to the 20th c. development of universal grammar. These essays build on previous work within the area of meta-linguistic analysis on quotation, context dependence, idiolects and private languages, universal linguistic types and concrete tokens, and whether (and how) there exist meanings independently of use by speakers. The conception of language defended here treats utterances in contexts as the basic units of linguistic analysis, and develops the claim that since language does not have context-free, fixed, eternal content, a new metaphysics of language is required—one grounded in speakers themselves.
Pt. I:
1. Origin Stories: Everybody has a story for the origin of human language: divine origins, family trees, early hominids manipulating political sympathies. We can learn about mother tongues and proto-languages from pidgins, child development, and linguistic universals. Each approach tells a different story about what we're looking for and what we think language is. This chapter presents these origin stories and how they have shaped linguistic theorizing in historical context. From Rousseau, Condillac, and Herder's speculations on the emergence of language from imitative cries emotional outbursts to the range of evolutionary theories that have tied linguistic development to political or gustatory advantage.
2. The Idiosyncrasy of Human Linguistic Competence: Is human language different in degree, but not in kind, from other natural forms of communication? Is human language integrated with, and should be understood in terms of, other psychological and cognitive capacities? Taking a stance on each of these questions has framed much of the study of language throughout history. They also mark differences in how we treat other human abilities. For example, the human visual system differs in degree, but not in kind, from other visual systems found in nature. It is also obvious that rich aspects of human experience — such as attraction and disgust — are integrated with, and should be understood in terms of, other human psychological and cognitive capabilities. Human language, on the other hand, is regarded by most theorists as idiosyncratic on at least some important dimension. It is a combinatorial system with unlimited expressive power; it requires mental representation; it is not realized in our phenotype alone but only emerges in social settings; it is an open system; it is not exclusively iconic; it is unemotional, spontaneous, and not bound to concrete contexts.
3. Empiricism and Rationalism in Linguistic Theory: There is a divergence in method in the study of language: On one hand, language is conceived as an abstract object idealized away from any facts about history, usage, or realization in a cognitive system. On the other hand, language has been conceived of as a natural phenomenon, subject to constant change through usage. Linguistic reality lies somewhere between these poles.
4. Language, Dialectic, Idiolect: Languages are political objects. Dialects are what makes language learning possible. Idiolects are what we end up actually knowing. But then we're faced with a fundamental insurmountable problem of normativity. This problem of normativity bears on linguistic theory in the following way: developing syntactic and semantic theories requires, in part, relying on use-data and prompted intuitions from 'native' speakers. While all speakers are standardly considered 'native' speakers of some language — usually their first language — there is an open question of how to exclude speakers from this category. There is also an open question about the object of the theory: what counts as the boundaries of any given language and how are 'native' speakers identified?
5. Realism and Idealism about Linguistic Entities: If the real instantiation of a language is the steady knowledge state of an individual idiolect, then is any language ever the language of a human population? Probably not. Then what should we study? If we just study idiolects we can't form general theories. If we just study the languages of populations then we're never studying anything real. It seems we're forced to study an idealization over idiolects and away from human populations. Theorizing about more and more abstract linguistic entities is itself a kind of fallacy that divorces the linguistic theory from integration with related cognitive and psychological capabilities.
6. Orthographic, Phonetic, and Gestural Conceptions of Language: The vast majority of human languages have never taken a written form. Yet, the history of philosophy has primarily conceived of language as a set of abstract entities. As such, they can be effectively studied in orthographic representations. Linguistic science has primarily conceived of language as a natural phenomenon that is best studied in its phonetic and signed modalities. Each modality—orthographic, phonetic and signed—makes unique and independent contributions to linguistic content. The history of philosophy of language, unlike other branches of linguistic theorizing, has prioritized orthographic, and artifactual, representations of language which distorts philosophers' understanding of the real linguistic phenomena.
7. The Ambiguity of Human Language: A fundamental property of human language is that signs are arbitrarily attached to objects and situations. This is contrast with other forms of natural communication that are concretely tied to particular situations. The (apparent) problem with this is that the signs of human language require additional cognitive effort to resolve ambiguities in reference and meaning. While it might seem that widespread ambiguities in a system of communication are defects of that system, we can also see that they are the very tools that enable combinatorial and computational power in human language.
8. Codes and Ostensive Inference: How are the ambiguities of human language resolved to make language learnable and expressively powerful? Two models of linguistic entities combine to do this: a model of language as a form of code transmission (where the codes themselves are re-combinable in infinite ways), and a model of ostension whereby ambiguities in the codes are resolvable through inferential processes, embodied cues, context, pragmatic expectations, and narrative structure.
Pt. II:
1. Explanation in Linguistics: What is the evidential base of linguistics? Could anything count as evidence in a linguistic theory? Is linguistic theory obligated to account for anything in particular? It might be that the study of language requires us to remain agnostic about the structure of linguistic reality. After all, any view taken constrains the bounds of the evidential base.
2. Idiolectal Error: Is it possible to defend an idiolectal conception of human linguistic competence and still identify the conditions that make possible deviation and error for an individual speaker? Idiolectal conceptions of language face a problem of explaining normativity (or the correctness conditions for knowing a language), and of explaining the use of idiolectal judgments as evidence in linguistic theory. Whatever standards are selected to identify error cannot distinguish the phenomenon from novelty or purposeful linguistic agency.
3. Reports: Reports and quotations are used in natural language in many different ways. This makes them theoretically complicated. But they are central to an account of linguistic reality because it is in the act of quotation that ordinary speakers come closest to wrangling with meta-linguistics: language about language. The theoretical complexity multiplies when we consider reports across modalities (in writing, speech, and sign language). This makes it easy for theorists to get confused about the central quotational phenomenon in natural language, which is reporting speech in verbal conversational contexts. This central case is inter-personal, dynamic, embodied, and used for purposes of scene-setting and story-telling. Starting from this central case requires a novel theoretical framework.
"Human Interest Stories: Metalinguistic Devices in Fiction." The Language of Fiction, Andreas Stokke and Emar Maier, eds. (in progress)
Review of Interpreting J.L. Austin: Critical Essays by Savas Tsohatzidis (ed.). Analysis Reviews. (in progress)
"The Abnegated Self." Tales of Good Character: Agency, Virtue, and Narrative. Joseph Ulatowski and Liezl van Zyl, eds., forthcoming. (link is to penultimate draft)
Abstract: A self-abnegating person lacks contact with her agency, either against or without her will. This does not mean that she cannot provide reasons for or a narrative about her actions. It's just that the reasons and narrative are someone else's. People abnegate parts of their agency regularly; for example, within hierarchical institutions. In other cases, the self-abnegation is all-encompassing; for example, for victims of brainwashing. An agent in such a position can completely fail to understand herself or be understood by others as having a self. I focus on two problems related to self-abnegation. The first is whether there is a conception of a self that can reliably discriminate between strong selves and abnegated selves. The second is whether a person with an abnegated self should be treated as a person with a strong self. I conclude that the good of respecting derived or instrumental agency comes in putting that individual in a position to agentially flourish and maintaining the structural conditions and expectations of agency.
Review of Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy by Mari Mikkola (ed.) in Hypatia Reviews. 2018.
Abstract: This is a review of Mikkola's 2017 book on analytic feminist analyses of pornography in the wake of the speech act approach.
"Agent and Object." Social Theory & Practice 43(3): 503-518, 2017.
Abstract: If a person has lost all or most of her capacities for agency, how can she be harmed? This paper begins by describing several ways in which a person loses, or never develops, significant capacities of agency. In contrast with other work in this area, the central analyses are not of fetuses, small children, or the cognitively disabled. The central analyses are of victims of mistreatment or oppressive social circumstances. These victims are denuded of their agential capacities, becoming, in an important sense, objects or pseudo-agents. In light of this, the concern of this paper is how further harm to ersatz agents should be understood.
Review of How to do Things with Pornography by Nancy Bauer in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2015.
Abstract: This is a review of Bauer's 2015 book on philosophical authority, speech act theory, and self-objectification, among other topics.
"Reporting Practices and Reported Entities." In Indirect Reports and Pragmatics: Interdisciplinary Studies, eds. A. Capone, F. Lo Piparo & M. Carapezza. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. (link is to penultimate draft)
Abstract: This essay discusses speakers' conceptions of reported entities as evident in reporting practices. Pragmatic analyses are offered to explain the diversity of permissible reporting practices. Several candidate theses on speakers' conceptions of reported entities are introduced. The possibility that there can be a unified analysis of direct and indirect reporting practices is considered. Barriers to this unification are discussed with an emphasis on the cognitive abilities speakers use in discerning the entities referred to in reporting contexts.
"Indirect Reports and Pragmatics." Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy (389-411), eds. A. Capone, F. Lo Piparo & M. Carapezza. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. (link is to penultimate draft)
Abstract: An indirect report typically takes the form of a speaker using the locution "said that" to report an earlier utterance. In what follows, I introduce the principal philosophical and pragmatic points of interest in the study of indirect reports, including the extent to which context sensitivity affects the content of an indirect report, the constraints on the substitution of co-referential terms in reports, the extent of felicitous paraphrase and translation, the way in which indirect reports are opaque, and the use of indirect reports as pragmatic vehicles for other speech acts such as humor, insult, or irony. Throughout I develop several positions: (i) that a semantic analysis of indirect reports is insufficient, (ii) that the distinction between direct and indirect reports is not clear and that indirect reports are the predominate way of reporting while direct reports may be a para-linguistic variation on them, (iii) that most questions about the semantics and pragmatics of indirect reports will rely on a full understanding of the nature of what is reported and how it gets reported, (iv) that an analysis of reporting requires the pragmatic tools of metarepresentation and a social, inter-personal understanding of relevance and shared knowledge.
"Finding Love in the Kingdom of Ends." Jurisprudence 2: 417-423, 2011.
Abstract: This is an essay on Kant, objectification, love, and pornography, and Rae Langton's Sexual Solipsism.
"Parental Obligation." Utilitas 23: 249-267, 2011.
Abstract: The contention of this article is that parents have an obligation to care for their children, but for reasons that are not typically offered. I argue that this obligation can be unfair to parents but not unjust. I do not provide an account of what our specific obligations are to our children. Rather, I focus on providing a justification for any obligation to care for them at all. My argument turns on providing an external description of the parent–child relationship in order to establish that parents are in a unique position among adults in their ability to help and harm their own children. Given that children are deserving of moral regard, I conclude that parents are obligated – in a way that is often unfair – to provide this care. I end by considering implications for social policy.
"Context Sensitivity and Indirect Reports." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81: 40-48, 2010.
Abstract: In this paper, I argue that contextualist theories of semantics are not undermined by their purported failure to explain the practice of indirect reporting. I adopt Cappelen & Lepore's test for context sensitivity to show that the scope of context sensitivity is much broader than semantic minimalists are willing to accept. The failure of their arguments turns on their insistence that the content of indirect reports is semantically minimal.
"Minimal Propositions and Real World Utterances." Philosophical Studies 148: 401-412, 2010.
Abstract: Semantic minimalists make a proprietary claim to explaining the possibility of utterances sharing content across contexts. Further, they claim that an inability to explain shared content dooms varieties of contextualism. In what follows, I argue that there are a series of barriers to explaining shared content for the Minimalist, only some of which the contextualist also faces, including: (i) how the type-identity of utterances is established, (ii) what counts as repetition of type-identical utterances, (iii) how it can be determined whether semantically minimal content has been repeated, and (iv) what the nature of such content is.
"Linguistic Authority and Convention in a Speech Act Analysis of Pornography." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85: 435-436, 2007.
Abstract: Several philosophers have recast feminist arguments against pornography in terms of Speech Act Theory. In particular, they have considered the ways in which the illocutionary force of pornographic speech serves to set the conventions of sexual discourse while simultaneously silencing the speech of women, especially during unwanted sexual encounters. Yet, this raises serious questions as to how pornographers could (i) be authorities in the language game of sex, and (ii) set the conventions for sexual discourse—questions which these speech act-theoretic arguments against pornography have thus far failed to adequately answer. I fill in this gap of the argumentation by demonstrating that there are fairly weak standards for who counts as an authority or convention-setter in sexual discourse. With this analysis of the underpinnings of a speech act analysis of pornography in mind, I discuss a range of possible objections. I conclude that (i) the endorsement of censorship by a speech act analysis of pornography competes with its commitment to the conventionality of speech acts, and, more damningly, that (ii), recasting anti-pornography arguments in terms of linguistic conventions risks an unwitting defence of a rapist's lack of mens rea—an intolerable result; and yet resisting this conclusion requires that one back away from the original claim to women's voices being 'silenced'.
Reviews: L. Antony & N. Hornstein's Chomsky and His Critics and N. Chomsky's On Nature and Language. Philosophical Psychology 17: 127-130, 2004.
Abstract: two reviews on books about and by Noam Chomsky.


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Make Thursday a must-do night in Windsor this summer
Andrew L. Dunehoo
Summer is off to a slow but great start in Windsor with the Summer Concert Series.
The first concert of the season not rained out occurred on June 18 at Boardwalk Park, as The Kory Brunson Band entertained the crowd with a mix of classic country tunes and contemporary pop ballads.
The concerts make Thursdays the perfect day to experience downtown Windsor.
Visitors can start their afternoon with a trip through a variety of shops on Main Street, followed by a visit to the Town of Windsor Art & Heritage Center, which allots a cultural opportunity to learn about Windsor's past, explore the visual arts and see unique traveling exhibitions of artifacts and historical stories.
This summer, the featured exhibit is "Tots in Time: Discovering Windsor's Past through the Eyes of Children.'' This original exhibit showcases Windsor's 125 year history by highlighting the experiences of its residents in their youth. The exhibit offers hands-on experiences for kids of all ages, with games and interactive technology.
After visiting the museum, stay downtown and enjoy fine dining from a variety of restaurants. Complete your Thursday night with a short walk to Boardwalk Park at 6:30 p.m., for a concert in the park. Various artists from Irish rock, to soul and R & B, to bluegrass will grace the stage by the beach all summer.
The Town of Windsor Art & Heritage Center is open noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. The Summer Concert Series takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday through Aug. 6 at Boardwalk Park.
For a full list of concerts or to learn more about Windsor's Art & Heritage Center, museum exhibits or cultural programming visit www.windsorgov.com. And don't forget to like/follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/WindsorMuseum.
Andrew L. Dunehoo is manager of Art & Heritage for the Town of Windsor.


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Flint Knoll is named after the famed rolling Flint Hills of Kansas, my home state. Meredith and I are both proud Midwesterner's who journeyed to Napa independently. Coincidentally, we both shared a passion and love of fine wines and a childhood dream of living in the beautiful state of California. Meredith moved to Napa to pursue her career in Medical Sales and I came here to be the Director of Sales and Marketing at a prestigious winery. We were blessed to meet the old-fashioned way when I hosted Meredith and her friends for a wine tasting. You can say the rest is history- we went on our first date two days later and shortly thereafter, the concept of Flint Knoll emerged.
Our goal is to create the crème de la crème of wine to be enjoyed with family and friends to celebrate life. We have a world-renowned winemaking team with Philippe Melka at the helm, who brings over 30 years of winemaking experience from wineries in Bordeaux, France and Napa Valley, California. We specialize in small production, handcrafted high end wines and source fruit from some of the most coveted vineyards in Napa and Sonoma. Our Flint Knoll customers become our friends and family and drive our passion to craft classical wines from this incredible region we are so fortunate to call home. Flint Knoll is an ode to Kansas and the Midwest. It's about hard work, pursuing your passion and creating great friendships along the way.
Aaron & Meredith Michaelis
Aaron & Meredith Michaelis, Proprietors
Aaron Michaelis is at the core of Flint Knoll's concept and hails from Wichita, Kansas. In 2013, Aaron took his passion for wine to the next level and made his journey out to Napa Valley to work in sales, marketing, and product development with boutique wineries and vineyards. In 2016, after years in the making, Aaron's dream became reality and harvested the first vintage of Flint Knoll.
It was a trip to California in 1999 that had Meredith Michaelis dreaming of one day living on the West Coast. That dream became a reality 10 years later after earning her Master's degree in Molecular Biology at University of Illinois. She took a sales role with Eli Lilly in Northern California and made Napa her home. Today, Meredith works full time in Veterinary Medical sales and helps Flint Knoll behind the scenes- she loves to show up at early morning picks during harvest, helps us with blending sessions and when her schedule allows, she enjoys sharing our wines with our Flint Knoll friends at dinner events across the country.
Philippe Melka, Winemaker
Like the celebrated wines on which he's built his reputation, Philippe Melka's career has been influenced by soil. A native of Bordeaux, Melka grew up intrigued by the intricacies of the land around him. He earned a degree in Geology at the University of Bordeaux and a Master's degree in Agronomy and Enology.
Melka's first job out of school was at Château Haut Brion. From there, he took a position with the reputable Moueix Company and was sent to Dominus Estate in Yountville to study soils in 1991. Napa Valley soil proved to be a revelation for Melka. He began dividing time between soil study and winemaking at world renowned wineries Badio O Coltibuono in Chianti and Chittering Estate in Australia. He returned to France in 1993 to deepen his expertise at Chateau Petrus.
Melka has been trained and influenced by some of the most notable personalities in the wine business such as Jean Delmas and Jean Philippe Masclef from Haut-Brion, Christian Moueix and Jean Claude Berrouet from Petrus, Paul Draper from Ridge, Daniel Baron from Silver Oak and the globetrotting wine consultant Michel Rolland with whom he continues to work with on consulting projects.
In 1994, Melka returned to Napa full time and has served as winemaker for some of Napa's most highly regarded brands.
Maayan Koschitzky, Director of Winemaking
Maayan Koschitzky has amassed an impressive winemaking resume spanning from the vineyards of Israel to Screaming Eagle and Dalla Valle here in the Napa Valley, working alongside some of the top winemakers and among the most coveted terroirs in the world. In 2014 Maayan joined Atelier Melka and he brings a dynamic array of talents to the Melka team. With a background in Engineering and years of experience in both wineries and vineyards, Maayan plays a multifaceted role at Flint Knoll in both winemaking and operations.


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{{Infobox person | name = Heywood Hale Broun | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|3|10}} | birth_place =New York City, New York, USA | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|9|5|1918|3|10}} | death_place = Kingston, New York | death_cause = | alma_mater =Swarthmore College | occupation =Journalist, sportswriter, author, actor | othername = | yearsactive = | parents =[[Ruth Hale (feminist)|Ruth Hale]] and [[Heywood Broun]] }} '''Heywood Hale Broun''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|r|uː|n}}; March 10, 1918 – September 5, 2001) was an American author, sportswriter, commentator and actor. He was born and reared in New York City, the son of writer and activist [[Ruth Hale (feminist)|Ruth Hale]] and newspaper columnist [[Heywood Broun]]. ==Early life== Broun was educated at private schools and Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1940, Broun joined the staff at the New York [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] ''PM'' as a sportswriter. His career was interrupted by World War II in which he served in the United States Army [[field artillery]]. When the war ended he returned to the ''PM'' newspaper and wrote for its successor, the ''New York Star'', which ceased operations in 1949. Woodie was married to Jane Lloyd Jones, and they had one son, Heywood Orren Broun, known as Hob, a novelist, who predeceased his parents in 1987. ==Career== He went from Broadway to CBS in 1966, where he worked for two decades as a color commentator on a wide variety of sporting events, including the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing alongside his colleague Jack Whitaker. Along with his long-time producer E.S. "Bud" Lamoreaux, he became a permanent fixture from the initial broadcast in January 1966 of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd. Broun was noted for his "merry mustache, his loud jackets and his suitcase full of words, oh what words," as Lamoreaux later put it in a retrospective of Broun's work that appeared in a series of 36 half-hour shows on ESPN called Woodie's World. Broun's five-minute Saturday night features on CBS were about the big stories and the not so little ones. Starting with Lombardi and Namath in Super Bowls I and III, moving on to Ali and Frazier, along with DiMaggio and Ted Williams and "the Miracle Mets," and Russell and Cousy and Wilt Chamberlain, and Nicklaus and Secretariat and Ruffian, Broun also contributed some distinguished reporting from the Mexico City and Munich Olympics where he reported on important world events like the "black power salute" of the American sprinters John Carlos and Tommy Smith at the playing of the National Anthem in 1968 and the terrorist attack on the Israeli wrestling team in 1972. However, in between the "big stories," he filed pieces from the national marbles championship in Wildwood, New Jersey, the national lefthanded golfers championship in Galesburg, Illinois and a profile of a rodeo clown in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Broun also took a lap in a racing sports car with Britain's Stirling Moss, showed up as the coxswain of the Harvard crew as they prepared for their annual battle on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut, with arch-rival Yale, and was run over by a wild horse at the American Indian rodeo in Oregon, after which he tracked down an American original, Buckskin Billie Hart, who was living a hermit's life at the confluence of the Salmon River and Wildhorse Creek, somewhere near a remote dude ranch in Mackey Bar, Idaho. ==''Woodie's World''== In 2002, [[ESPN Classic]] debuted a series devoted to Broun's reporting, titled ''Woodie's World''. The 30 minute program typically featured four stories from Broun's Saturday featurettes with current information inserted as needed. ''Woodie's World'' ran for 36 episodes from 2002 through 2005. Beginning in 2009, ESPN Classic brought the series back in reruns, which continue to air sporadically on the network. ==Acting career== Broun acted in a number of films, including: * ''The Odd Couple'': In this film, he plays himself, a sportswriter at a New York Mets versus Pittsburgh Pirates game. While fellow sportswriter Oscar Madison ([[Walter Matthau]]) takes a phone call from roommate Felix Ungar ([[Jack Lemmon]]) about mundane dinner plans, the Mets pull off a triple play. Broun exclaims, "A [[triple play]], Oscar! One of the greatest plays I've ever seen, and you missed it! You missed it, Oscar!" * ''For Pete's Sake'' * ''[[HouseSitter]]'' Additionally, he sometimes appeared on television series in guest or supporting roles. In 1952 and 1957, Broun was cast in two episodes of the anthology series, ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]''. From 1955 to 1957, he guest starred in three episodes of ''The Phil Silvers Show'', also known as ''You'll Never Get Rich''. Broun was cast in 1962 and 1963 in different character roles in five episodes of the NBC police sitcom, ''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]],'' starring [[Joe E. Ross]] and [[Fred Gwynne]]. He subsequently appeared twice on the ABC sitcom, ''The Patty Duke Show'', as Mr. Mickel in "The Babysitters" (1963) and as Mr. Fleming in "This Little Patty Went to Market" (1964). He appeared in 1965 as Charles Kane in "The Sworn Twelve" of the CBS legal drama, ''The Defenders'', starring [[E. G. Marshall]]. Broun had a cameo appearance as himself in the 1969 movie [[Some Kind of a Nut]], starring Dick Van Dyke. ==Books== * ''A Studied Madness'' (1965) * ''Tumultuous Merriment'' (1979) * ''Whose little boy are you? : A memoir of the Broun family'' (1983) ==Radio== Broun hosted ''The Literary Guild's First Edition'', a nationally syndicated radio show devoted to authors and books, produced by Cinema Sound Ltd., New York beginning in 1973. A later version of the show, ''Broun on Books'' was sponsored by Mobil. Over 200 episodes of the show were produced. Guests included [[Pete Seeger]] and [[Josh White]]; Robert Kimball, Bill Bolcum, Max Morarth and [[Dan Morgenstern]]; [[Donald Bogle]] and [[Rosalind Cash]]; [[Kurt Vonnegut]]; [[Joyce Maynard]] and [[Jeff Greenfield]]; Penelope Gilliat, Herman Weinberg and [[Howard E. 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The holiday season is officially here, and we have some fun skincare tips for you. Spending long hours traveling -- or in the kitchen playing hostess-- can leave your skin looking dull and tired.
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PENNSVILLE, N.J. — A Delaware bridge shut down in both directions by a gas leak Sunday evening, bringing traffic on a major East Coast artery to a standstill on one of the busiest travel days of the year, has reopened.
Greenley said fire officials were waiting for pressure to dissipate in the pipes at the facility before reopening the bridge. He said earlier Sunday that the chemical was dissipating fairly quickly from the pipes and estimated the bridge could reopen in the next few hours. The state Division of Natural Resources and Environmental Control was also on scene at the leak.


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Ronaldinho considering retirement in 2018
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Former Barcelona, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil star Ronaldinho is considering retiring from professional football in 2018.
The 37-year-old has spent the last two years without a club since leaving Fluminense and has said he will focus on non-footballing interests should he decide to call time on a career that began with Gremio in 1998.
"There is this chance, I think I'm saying goodbye to football next year, officially," Ronaldinho said at a news conference.
"I might play some farewell games for the teams I've played for, it's something we'll have to think about sometime soon.
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Q: Radio Button under Action Listener I want when I choose  a radio button and click the execute button, I want my search result to return the result for author title and year. For example if I click on author and entered an author's name stored in the database, I want to get author, title and year. The problem lies with wiring the radio button to the execute box. Thanks in advance.
   package data

         import java.awt.*;
         import java.awt.event.*;
         import javax.swing.*;
         import java.sql.*;
         import java.util.ArrayList;
         public class data extends JFrame implements ActionListener{

/**
 * @param args the command line arguments
 */
//Database Globals
Connection conn;
Statement stmt;
ResultSet result;

//Instance Variables
private Container contentPane;
private JLabel labelSearch;
private JTextField  tfSearch;
private JButton execButton;
private JRadioButton rbAuthorName, rbTitle, rbYear;
private ButtonGroup searchChoices;
ArrayList<JRadioButton> radioButtonList = new ArrayList<JRadioButton>();

//Constructor
public data(){
    super("Database Search");
    connect();
}
//Creating the GUI
public void buildGui(){

contentPane= getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

    //set pane size
    setVisible(true);
    setSize(200,150);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    //Initializing objects
    labelSearch = new JLabel("Look Up");
    tfSearch = new JTextField(30);
    rbAuthorName = new JRadioButton("Author");
    rbTitle = new JRadioButton("Title");
    rbYear = new JRadioButton("Year");
    searchChoices = new ButtonGroup();
    execButton = new JButton("Execute");

    //Adding objects to the component pane
    contentPane.add(rbAuthorName);
    contentPane.add(rbTitle);
    contentPane.add(rbYear);
    contentPane.add(execButton);
    contentPane.add(labelSearch);
    contentPane.add(tfSearch);
    radioButtonList.add(rbAuthorName);
    radioButtonList.add(rbTitle);
    radioButtonList.add(rbYear);
    execButton.addActionListener(this);
}

public void connect(){
     try
    {
       System.out.println("Connection to Driver...");
       Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
       System.out.println("Connection successful");
       System.out.println("Connection to Database...");
       conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/tbl_books","root","");
       System.out.println("Connection successful");

    }catch(ClassNotFoundException cfe)
    {
        System.out.println ("Connection error: "+cfe.getMessage());
    }
    catch(SQLException sqle)
    {
        System.out.println ("Connection error: "+sqle.getMessage());
    }
}

@Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        //Object src = e.getSource();
        if(e.getSource()==execButton){
            String buttonName ="";

        for(JRadioButton button: radioButtonList){
         if(button.isSelected()){
           buttonName = button.getName();
        }
            searchData(buttonName);

        }

    }
}
public void searchData(String strData){
     strData= tfSearch.getText();

    try
    {

        stmt = conn.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE,ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
        String sqlString = "SELECT tbl_authors.author, tbl_books.title, tbl_books.year " + "from tbl_authors, tbl_books " + "where tbl_authors.isbn = tbl_books.isbn";

        if(rbAuthorName.isSelected()){
            sqlString = sqlString + "author LIKE '%" + strData + "%'";
        }

        else if(rbTitle.isSelected()){
            sqlString = sqlString + "title LIKE '%" + strData + "%'";
        }

        else if(rbYear.isSelected()){
            sqlString = sqlString + "date LIKE '%" + strData + "%'";
        }

        result =stmt.executeQuery(sqlString);

        int test = 0;
        String store = "";
        String response = "";

        while(result.next()){
            test ++;
            store = store + "\n"+ test + "." +
            result.getString(1)+ "" +
            result.getString(2)+ "" +
            result.getString(3);
        }
        if(test !=0){
            result.absolute(test);
            //displayData();
            response = "Number of Records" + test + store;
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, response);
        }
        else{
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Could not find data");
        }

    }catch(Exception e){
        e.getMessage();
       }
}
//public void displayData(){

//}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO code application logic here
     CS6153Assignment2 data1 = new CS6153Assignment2();
     data1.connect();
     data1.buildGui();

}

}

A: I think what you want to do is when you click on the execute Button it looks for the currently selected RadioButton. The easiest way to do that would be saving all your Buttons into a Collection (ArrayList for instance):
ArrayList<JRadioButton> radioButtonList = new ArrayList<JRadioButton>();
radioButtonList.add(rbAuthorName);
radioButtonList.add(rbTitle);
radioButtonList.add(rbtYear);

And than in the ActionListener of the execute Button iterating over that list and looking for the selected one:
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        if(e.getSource()==execButton){

          String buttonName="";

          for(JRadioButton button: radioButtonList){
             if(button.isSelected()){
               buttonName = button.getName;
          }

          searchData(buttonName);
        }
    }

After that you only have to modifiy the searchData method a little bit so that strData gets the value of the parameter.

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