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Kevin Bacon reenacts his 'Footloose' dance for Jimmy Fallon, cutting a rug to defy a dancing ban on 'The Tonight Show.' (YouTube/The Tonight Show)
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How do you get Kevin Bacon to dance on your show?

Ban dancing. On Friday's "Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon unfurled a proclamation from NBC announcing the decree.

"It's a bummer," Fallon said. "But rules are rules." The audience gamely booed.

"Oh shutup," Fallon responded. "We have to follow the rules, you guys ... NO DANCING!"

In the show's greenroom, Kevin Bacon sat, fuming.

"This is 'The Tonight Show'," he said. "There has to be dancing."

The actor dramatically clutched the wall, swung his pelvis and froze his body in a series of overwrought poses before peeling off his gray sweatshirt.

Oh yes, it's the warehouse scene from "Footloose," reenacted in the hallways of NBC. Bacon's body nimbly spun around a high bar, gymnastics style, before he magically changed into a bowtie and suit for a group dance, a confetti-strewn homage to the last number in the film.

In response, Fallon ripped up the no-dancing proclamation. The four-minute video has gotten 7,434,551 views since the segment was posted to YouTube Friday.

Before Bacon busts out into the hallways in dancey angst, Fallon points out that 2014 happens to be the 30th anniversary of the 1984 film.

The dance number is apparently Bacon's latest move to celebrate the 1980s. Currently starring in Fox series "The Following," Bacon recently collaborated with Mashable to school young people about the '80s, espousing the merits of the Rubik's cube, nuclear fears and parachute pants.

Since taking over for Jay Leno in February, Fallon's "Tonight Show" has proven especially successful in the viral video department — as with "Late Night" in the months and years prior. Celebrity collaborations on the videos have ranged from Brian Williams to Will Smith, Idina Menzel and Billy Joel (on Thursday, he teamed with Fallon for a doo-wop performance).


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14 dead in Colorado theater shooting; Philadelphia abduction suspect arrested -- AM news links

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Colorado ShootingView full sizePeople gather outside the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., at the scene of a mass shooting early Friday morning, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Karl Gehring)
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14 dead in Colorado theater shooting

Fifth teen arrested in Philadelphia rec center rape

1 dead in Ocean County police shooting

Attempted abduction suspect turns himself in

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Montgomery Friends of Open Space helps buy 10-acre tract

MONTGOMERY — When a tract of land just southeast of the Sourland Mountain Preserve was threatened with development, a local nonprofit stepped in and helped facilitate a deal to save the forested area.

Negotiations were carried out for more than a year and almost failed at one point, but the Montgomery Friends of Open Space helped to bring about the 10-acre land acquisition, which will provide an important trail head and parking lot for entry to the Sourland preserve.

A local man owned the property on Grandview Road across from Sourland Hills Road and was considering building a house there, Lauren Wasilauski, township coordinator of open space, said. The resident had already constructed a stone bridge on the tract.

“A large area would have had to be cleared” for the remainder of the construction project, Friends president Mary Penney said.

Wasilauski said the man’s neighbors suggested that instead of chopping down the trees he offer the land for preservation, which is when he approached the township to attempt to make a deal.

At first, the landowner and the township couldn’t negotiate a deal.

“It probably took over a year to preserve the property because we worked with the township and Somerset County. We were able to get a nonprofit grant to get the funding,” Penney said.

The purchase price of the land was $520,000, but the final cost to the township was $80,000 after grant funding was obtained by the Montgomery Friends through the Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Acres program, and from Somerset County.

“It’s a beautiful watershed area with freshwater wetlands,” Penney said. “It was a really important acquisition for water quality.” Officials also described the property as offering access to trout fishing in Rock Brook Creek and said it is a stopover for migratory birds heading between Canada and Mexico.

Wasilauski said the township is the sole owner of the property but will jointly manage the land with the Montgomery Friends.

The tract connects to two additional pieces of preserved land to the north and southwest. “There is a registered stone bridge on the property and that gives access over the rock bridge tributary,” Penney said. “We’re hoping to partner with local neighbors and businesses to work on putting some new trails in.”

A new sign will identify the property and the groups have plans to install an information kiosk with trail maps and information about the Sourlands, as well as establish trails that lead out to the surrounding open space.

The newly acquired land has been dubbed “the Potter property” and was described as containing freshwater wetlands and a diverse forest.

Preservationists said the land was once a part of a tiny community known as Rock Mill, and said there were grist mills and saw mills along the Rock Brook.

Wasilauski said that Montgomery Township is very aggressive about land preservation and about 36 percent of its land area is classified as open space.

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Wantage man gets 10 years in prison for conspiring to sell crack

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WANTAGE — A Wantage man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to sell more than 3.5 ounces of crack cocaine, while his female accomplice in the scheme received a three-year prison term, the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office said today.

Bruce Parks, 41, must serve five years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. He was also fined $2,330, under the sentence handed down Thursday in Newton by Superior Court Judge N. Peter Conforti.

Parks admitted that he sent Patricia Jelessis, 40, to Fort Lee on Sept. 25, 2009, to buy the drug — which he planned to resell in smaller amounts — for $4,000. The couple were arrested when Jelessis was returning to the home she shared with Parks on Alder Terrace in the Lake Neepaulin section of Wantage, the prosecutor’s office said.

Following their arrest, a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun owned by Parks was found in a storage unit that the couple had rented in Wantage.

Parks, who served five years in prison on drug and other offenses in the 1990s, pleaded guilty on June 28 to possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a felon, both second-degree crimes.

Jelessis pleaded guilty the same day to accomplice liability to the distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, a second-degree offense.

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Sea Bright mayor among residents still waiting for flood insurance payout, report says

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The delay in flood insurance settlements is complicating the rebuilding process for Hurricane Sandy victims.

"It’s very difficult to make a decision [on] how to rebuild when you don’t know how much money you’re working with,” Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long told WCBS 880.

Long is among what she estimated is roughly 90 percent of borough residents who still haven't received a check from flood insurance.

“Many people, myself included, haven’t even gotten that initial offer," she told the radio station. "I’m hearing a lot of nightmare stories from the residents of Sea Bright.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency runs the National Flood Insurance Program. Residents with questions of concerns about their flood insurance may call: 1-800-427-4661.

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Thumbs up, & down, on seashore vacation

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on July 31, 2014 at 9:13 PM, updated August 01, 2014 at 10:37 PM
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A recent few days at the Jersey shore promised to be a total escape, but the place was packed with people, cars, bicycles and lines. (Excellent pizza and soft serve ice cream did help take the sting out of it.)

It turned out that a long-time fave, Stone Harbor’s Wetlands Institute, was the best and most peaceful place to be. Plus, it’s in a beautiful area -- yes, wetlands! -- and its annual campaign to save New Jersey’s diamondback terrapins was nearly over.

That meant the roads were no longer marked by the bodies of squished mama turtles who were headed for egg-laying terrain, and Institute efforts were underway to shelter baby terrapins till their release. Displays around the attractive building showed how the babies develop and outside, adult terrapins enjoying the air and sun they need.

There were also displays of and about horseshoe crabs, known as “living fossils” because they’ve been around for over 400 million years, according to a leaflet, “Adopt-a-horseshoe crab.” As most beach lovers know, these are harmless creatures whose survival stems from their hard, curved shells that protect their “soft and vulnerable underbelly.”

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It was amazing to see countless tiny baby horseshoe crabs in an aquarium after they had hatched from eggs collected along Delaware Bay beaches. (Over-harvesting and habitat degradation have caused horseshoe crab populations there to decline severely, yet shorebirds and fish still depend on their eggs to survive.) Hatchlings will be released at summer’s end.

And birds – small darting ones through gulls to ospreys – apparently flourish in the Institute’s wide marsh grass-green expanse. Who wouldn't, I thought, wishing I could move into a bayside shack with a screened porch that would admit wonderful wetlands scents while letting me look out over the whole scene.

The Institute's myriad offerings include guided tours, a salt marsh trail and an observation tower. And yes (sigh), there’s a gift shop.

Whoa! to a bad practice

Then came the vacation’s downside: encountering horse-drawn carriages in Cape May. Major bummer. Bad enough to see this archaic and inhumane sight in Philadelphia and New York City – but to realize it’s also inescapable at a beach resort? Not good at all.

Once home again, I tracked down the business behind the horse-drawn carriages – Cape May Carriage Company (609-884-5354), a member of the Cape May County (not the city’s) Chamber of Commerce (609-465-7181; When I phoned, a rep told me they have 22 horses and 16 carriages, used daily from 10 am -10 or 11 pm, depending on weather (reportedly not when it’s too hot and not in the rain).

Horses pull the carriages in shifts, I learned, operating mostly around the pedestrian mall and historic district. As for their getting a vacation from this involuntary and unnecessary labor (New York carriage owners claim their horses spend time each summer on a farm), "They live on a farm, with turn out every day!” the rep told me.

But let’s get back to the whole concept of horse-drawn carriages. People object to it for numerous good reasons, and NY Mayor Bill de Blasio is still working on ending it in his city. Cape May should easily be able to do without it. Some protest phone calls or emails might help.

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Data Changes

FDA structured product label drugs and ingredients in the Current Prescribable Content subset:
Previous releases of the Current Prescribable Content subset contained only SAB=RXNORM information. But beginning with the October release, the Current Prescribable Content subset will also include drugs and ingredients from the Food and Drug Administration structured product labels (SAB=MTHSPL). In addition to SAB=MTHSPL drug and ingredients, relationships between drugs and ingredients, NDCs, and other SAB=MTHSPL data will be added to the subset. The subset will remain in the public domain, and no license will be required to download it.

Inert ingredients in the full monthly release and the Current Prescribable Content subset:
The RxNorm team is in the process of editing SAB=MTHSPL inert ingredients. The first batch of inert ingredients will be included, along with their SAB=RXNORM names and RXCUIs, in the October full monthly release of RxNorm and the October Current Prescribable Content subset. An important application of including inert ingredients with active ingredients in RxNorm is the creation and maintenance of allergy lists in electronic health records. The remaining inert ingredients will be edited and added to RxNorm releases over the coming months.

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The RXN_PRESCRIBABLE attribute, which served as a flag for the drugs and ingredients included in the Current Prescribable Content subset, will no longer be used. In its place, the content view flag (CVF) value of "4096" will be used. CVF is the last field in the RXNCONSO, RXNSAT, RXNREL, and RXNSTY files. Whereas the RXN_PRESCRIBABLE attribute was associated with an RXCUI, which made it problematic to identify all of the related attributes and relationships, the CVF value is included in each individual row in each data file. Using this flag, you can easily identify all of the Current Prescribable Content subset information within the full RxNorm releases.

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La Roux and Jenny Lewis are amongst the latest additions to the Bestival line-up.

Outkast, Beck and Foals are set to headline this year's Bestival. The festival, which is held in the Isle Of Wight's Robin Hill Park from September 4-7, will stage a tropical 'Desert Island Disco' fancy dress theme, following 2013's nautical 'HMS Bestival' theme.

Other new bands on the bill include Reverend and the Makers, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Dub Pistols, Bipolar Sunshine and more. Speaking about the line-up additions, festival founder Rob Da Bank has commented: "From pop to metal, rockabilly to raging techno, Bestivalites have no boundaries when it comes to what they wanna watch, so I book it all! I'm totally chuffed to have La Roux returning to the Big Top once again, the traditional Saturday mosh pit should be in evidence for Skindred, amazing songstress Jenny Lewis will be warming it up for Beck and Bipolar Sunshine and Catfish and The Bottlemen are two of the hottest acts of 2014."

Bestival organisers are planning to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by implanting the world's biggest disco ball at this year's event. The disco ball will be built in honour of the Sunday night headliner Nile Rodgers, who will be performing with his band Chic.

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Sunrise and cloudsJuly 14, 2000 — Georgia is receiving some much-needed rain, but it won't be nearly enough to make up a significant rainfall deficit. The forecast for the coming summer months continues to call for hotter, drier conditions in many parts of the United States, according to the newest seasonal outlook from NOAA's National Weather Service.

Along with Georgia, much of the Southeast continues to suffer from severe drought conditions, including much of Florida, Southeast Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, most of Alabama, South Carolina, and western North Carolina. Georgia's drought is the worst since 1986, and it is the twelfth driest January through June period for the state in 106 years of records, according to statistics released today by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. It was the third driest January through June for Florida.

Increased tropical storm activity late this summer (a result of the continuing La Niña) is expected to bring some relief for the eastern part of the drought area.

Drought conditions have improved in the central part of the United States, but some parts of Nebraska, southwestern Iowa and northwestern Kansas continue to experience drought.

In contrast, increased monsoon conditions should make the Southwest wetter than normal this summer.

June was drier and warmer than normal in the Southeast and Southwest, but cooler than normal in the north central part of the United States and the Great Plains. The outlook continues to call for warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Southeast, the Southwest and the upper Midwest.

"We have been lucky that we have not yet experienced a major, widespread heat event, but people should continue to watch the National Weather Service's official forecasts, which could signal potential heat wave conditions," said David Unger, a meteorologist with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. San Francisco had a well-predicted hot episode in June that claimed 22 lives, and a recent heat spell in the South has been blamed for four deaths in Houston and one in South Carolina.

"Our National Weather Service forecast offices work with local officials to identify evolving heat waves early," said Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Jack Kelly, director of the NOAA's National Weather Service. "By being prepared with emergency heat response plans, communities can educate citizens about the dangers of prolonged exposure to high temperatures and humidity and reduce heat-related injuries and deaths."

NOAA's seasonal outlook is available on the Web at it Climate Prediction Center

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NOAA proposes critical habitat revision for the Hawaiian monk seal, seeks public comment

June 8, 2011

Hawaiian Monk Seal.

Hawaiian monk seal hauled out on a beach in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to rest.

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NOAA’s Fisheries Service has proposed 16 areas as critical habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and is inviting public comment. The proposed revision includes expanding the 1988 critical habitat designation in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and adding new areas throughout the main Hawaiian Islands.

In July 2008, NOAA Fisheries Service received a petition from non-governmental organizations to revise the Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat designation under the ESA. In June 2009, NOAA Fisheries Service released a 12-month finding, which is one step in the review process, announcing that the petition presented substantial scientific information indicating that a revision to the current critical habitat designation was warranted and announced its intention to move forward with a proposed rule.

Following this announcement, NOAA Fisheries Service convened a Critical Habitat Review Team of experts in the field of Hawaiian monk seal biology and management to evaluate critical habitat for the species.

“Monk seals are an important species for Hawaii, and such a valuable part of our ecosystem,” said Michael Tosatto, NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands regional administrator. “This species faces a number of threats, and it’s imperative we ensure they have safe areas where they can rest and take care of their young.”

The team identified essential features for Hawaiian monk seal habitat, such as their need for reproduction, rearing of offspring, foraging, resting and habitat protected from disturbance. The team then identified areas throughout the Hawaii that met the criteria. NOAA Fisheries Service also considered the economic, national security and other relevant effects to the proposed areas.

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A group of seals resting on a beach in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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Under the ESA, critical habitat is an area which may require special management or protections essential for the conservation of a listed species. Federal agencies must take precautions to insure that activities they fund, authorize or carry out do not destroy or adversely modify critical habitats.

Biologists estimate that only 1,160 Hawaiian monk seals exist, and are in danger of extinction because of their declining population in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Monk seals are wide ranging pinnipeds that require both marine and land habitats for reproduction, rearing, foraging and resting. However, unlike other well recognized pinnipeds that congregate in large numbers at rookeries, monk seals are considered a solitary species. They generally prefer to haul out in remote areas for reproduction and rest. The proposed revision to Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat allows NOAA Fisheries Service to incorporate new scientific information available regarding Hawaiian monk seals’ habitat use, and will allow for the conservation of those areas essential for Hawaiian monk seal survival and recovery.

NOAA’s Fisheries Service is accepting comments on the proposed revision through August 31, 2011. Dates, times and venues for public hearings will be available on our website at: NOAA’s Fisheries Service will review comments and issue a final rule, expected by June 2, 2012.

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This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

by Ola Larsmo*

At the core of Seamus Heaney's poetry a profound experience is revealed – that a gap exists between the totality of what can be said and the totality of all that can be witnessed, between the limits of languages and the margins of the actual world in which we live. For Heaney 'poetry' is a means of measuring this gap – if not bridging it.

In Heaney's early poems this gap is connected to a sense of deep loss and even of moral guilt. The young poet keeps encountering a growing distance between the world of language and the physical world he sees around him. In a biographical sense, this may be linked to the fact of being born within an agrarian society where the poet has his roots, but from which the gifts of language and education has excluded him, so that he does not fully belong there any more. This distance is superbly captured in his poem 'Digging', from the debut collection Death of a Naturalist (1966).

The young Heaney sits by his desk, pen in hand, and watches his father digging in the garden. As both come from a long line of Ulster farmers, the father is doing what the Heaneys have been doing for generations: tending the land.

by God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.

The son does something different:

But I've no spade to follow men like them.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.

The son has moved into a different world, yet, through his words, both tasks become related. Both dig beneath the surface of things, cultivating the possibilities of what may grow. In this early poem – the first one in his Selected Poems – Heaney uses a rhetoric figure that for a considerable period would be his trademark: the 'chiasma', or crossing of themes. The poem starts out with the image of the pen, and goes on to relate what could be termed as the young intellectual's respect and awe for the seemingly commonplace skills of the working man, represented by his father's 'spademanship' – before the focus returns to the pen, which has now been transformed to a tool for hard work – which Heaney enlists in the genealogical, or historical, line of working men. The pen and the spade trade places and within the course of the poem, quite literally, became metaphors for each other. Spade-as-pen; pen-as-spade.

This 'crossing of themes' is a method that Heaney uses repeatedly. In one of the more quoted of his 'Glanmore Sonnets' from the collection Field Work (1979) you can see the more mature poet playing with the same method of building a poem, only now in a more intricate fashion:

Outside the kitchen window a black rat
Sways on the briar like infected fruit:
‘It looked me through, it stared me out, I'm not
Imagining things. Go you out to it.'
Did we come to the wilderness for this?

We have our burnished bay tree at the gate,
Classical, hung with the reek of silage
From the next farm, tart-leafed as inwit.
Blood on a pitchfork, blood on chaff and hay,
Rats speared in the sweat and dust of threshing –
What is my apology for poetry?

The empty briar is swishing
When I come down, and beyond, inside, your face
Haunts like a new moon glimpsed through tangled glass.

A poem such as this becomes almost mathematical in its precision. On the way downstairs the writing "I" of the poem has identified himself with the small, exposed and wordless living thing, the rat: at the end of the poem the "I" looks up at the window, himself in the position of the rat. In the last stanza the poet has traded places with the rat itself, the intruder, that threatening piece of nature.

Halfway there you find the real hinge of the poem, the place where things trade places: the "bay tree", symbol of poetry and a classic heritage, "reek with silage". A familiar, rural smell, in itself a modern phenomenon of the countryside, is projected onto the symbol of antiquity. And the moral problem from the poem 'Digging' presents itself again.

Blood on a pitchfork, blood on chaff and hay,
Rats speared in the sweat and dust of threshing –
What is my apology for poetry?

Does poetry need an excuse? Or a defence: the word "apology" is, of course, ambiguous. In the sheer face of bloody violence, the everyday slaughter in the farmyard or the political violence of Irish history, past and present – what place is there for poetry at all, what role can this heightened form of language play in the face of crisis, death, distress?

This is the question addressed in one of Heaneys' best essays on literature and the 'meaning' of poetry, 'Feeling into Words' (in Preoccupations, 1980). He takes his starting point in a quote from one of Shakespeare's Sonnets, number 65: "How, with this rage, shall beauty hold a plea?"

This question is central to Heaney's own poetry and to his prose writings about his own poetry and that by others: among his close, literary 'relatives' you find a number of other Nobel Laureates, such as Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott and Czesław Miłosz. How then should beauty, or poetry, hold a plea?

The answer, that slowly works its way to the surface in all of Heaney's writings, is quite straightforward. By showing us things as they are.

As he writes in another of the 'Glanmore Sonnets', which takes its poetic impulse from the BBC weather report:

Dogger. Rockall. Malin. Irish Sea:
Green, swift upsurges, North Atlantic flux
Conjured by that strong gale-warning voice,
Collapse into a sibilant penumbra.

L'Etoile, Le Guillemot, La Belle Helene
Nursed their bright names this morning in the bay
That toiled like mortar. It was marvellous
And actual. I said out loud, 'A haven,'
The word deepening, clearing, like the sky
Elsewhere on Minches, Cromarty, The Faroes.

The "actual" is "A haven". Heaney creates a way in which you learn to see the actual world around you, in a new light. But "seeing" in the Heaney sense can mean two things, two concepts which we find in the centre of modernist poetry; 'epiphany' and 'correspondence'.

It is quite simple: 'epiphany' is here, as in the works of James Joyce and Tomas Tranströmer, the moment where you experience a sudden insight into the meaning of things seemingly trivial, for example the BBC weather forecast –how it in itself can contain a world of life, of thousands of living people along a coastline, exposed to the same weather, something very real as the rain and the wind – as opposed to strange political ideas of 'purity', 'nation' or 'race'. A haven.

'Correspondence', on the other hand, is when you realise previously invisible connections between things, connections perhaps only made possible through the special kind of language we call poetry. The most obvious case of correspondences in Heaneys' work you find in the suite of poems he wrote in the early seventies, where he – again like Tranströmer – shows his fascination with the 'bog bodies', the startlingly well-preserved remains of prisoners executed and buried in peat bogs in Denmark in prehistoric times. The most well known example is 'the Tollund man', who was strangled somewhere around the year 350 B.C., and was sunk into a peat bog outside of Silkeborg in Denmark.

The custom of human sacrifice combined with the burial of the victims in bogs is connected to the Celtic culture of the time, a point driven home by Heaney in his poems about the 'bog bodies' in Wintering Out (1972) where he openly compares the – in our eyes – senseless murder of human beings, for the sake of an abstract god or goddess, to the slaughter of men and women, for the abstract ideas of nationalism and loyalism, in his own contemporary Ulster.

The here and now is a sanctuary, we live in a real world, it has to be seen, you have to experience its stark reality if you are not to succumb to seductive ideologies. But, on the other hand: everything you see is in itself connected to a vibrating sense of history, everything has meanings beyond itself, and beyond your own life. That is the paradox, if you will, that you find in Heaney's earlier poetry.

But a paradox can, strangely enough, be something very stable. You have 'this' on the one hand, and 'that' on the other. The first phase of Heaney's poetry can rest almost comfortably in that kind of balance. A metaphor is introduced in the first stanza and recurs, with its meaning turned inside out, in the last. This kind of irony has its place. But Heaney's poetry has continued to grow and change. It has become more restless.

This change is visible in a collection like Electric Light from 2001. Nothing has been lost, but new elements have been added. In the poem that gives the book its title, you recognize the 'old' Heaney:

In the first house where I saw electric light,
She sat with her fur-lined felt slippers unzipped
Year in, year out, in the same chair, and whispered
In a voice that at its loudest did nothing else
But whisper.

In this poem you see the weaving together of the old, rural community – here represented by the poets' grandparents, the oral storytelling, the old farmhouse with the stable on the other side of the bedroom wall. And the electric light, the "wireless" set with its green eye and voices from afar. Vintage Heaney.

But in the same volume you also find a poem like 'The Loose Box' – a strange, winding tale that starts out in an ordinary, abandoned stable, somewhere in the northern Irish countryside – and then moves on to the birth of Jesus on a bed of straw, in another stable – and then covers the fall of Troy (with the use of a wooden horse, filled with straw), to the death of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins in the civil war – and his own background in the countryside, in the stable, on the straw. You could boil it all down to one sentence: "all flesh is straw" – but it is not a stable poem in the way that Heaney's poems used to be stable. Something happens here, in a pun or word-play with the word "stable" – and all of history comes undone, spilling into the poets' own biography, spilling straw. It is a magnificent poem. It is like seeing a sail flapping in the wind, not because the ship has lost its momentum but because it is ready to change its course.

This tendency to outgrow the balances and ironies of the earlier phases is very visible in Seamus Heaney's latest collection to date, District and Circle (2006). The district and circle in the title shows itself to be the subway system, subterranean connections deep underground. All the elements from his earlier works are very present, like in the opening poem about the old "turnip-snedder", an ancient piece of farming machinery that sits abandoned in a barn somewhere – but still loaded with meaning and threat, as being watched by a child that now has grown up to become a poet: "this is the way that God sees life." A churning mechanism, impersonal, forceful, ready to crush turnips and boys' fingers alike.

District and Circle is also a book that digs deeper and deeper into memory: it recalls boyhood encounters, the American presence in Northern Ireland during World War II, even the 'Tollund man' himself makes a guest appearance. But the very method of this 'new' poetry is not to balance things evenly on a scale, but to make them merge, go up into each other.

This is very visible in the subway poem. Heaney has written about the "underground" before, in the opening poem of Station Island (1984) where the poet, hurrying through the London subway, finds himself transformed into Orpheus, dreading the moment when he has to look back over his shoulder.

That was a poem about death, about loss. The same is true about District and Circle: the "underground" is here the realm of the dead, too, something that becomes apparent in the opening lines:

Tunes from a tin-whistle underground
Curled up a corridor I was walking down

Where the eerie music at the same time is that of a street musician and at the same time the alluring music of the "people underground", the Tuatha de Danaan of Irish folk lore. The poem goes on in the same vein, with the vendor in the ticket booth being Charon, which is obvious without the poet mentioning it. Stepping onto the subway carriage becomes the passing on, with all the other passengers, to another destination:

My back to the unclosed door, the platform empty;
And wished it could have lasted

... and the poet sees his father's face in his own reflection in the window, it all leading up to the final stanza:

And so by night and day to be transported
Through galleried earth with them, the only relict
Of all that I belonged to, hurtled forward,
Reflecting in a window mirror-backed
By blasted weeping rock-walls

The distance between language and world is gone. The subway train is a subway train, no more, no less; at the same time the voyage is a ritual passing from life to death, a fact that is stated nowhere in the poem, but nonetheless becomes obvious to the reader. The train is no 'metaphor' for death, it is death.

This transformation is present in all the best poems in the volume. 'Poet to blacksmith' claims to be a translation of a letter from the Irish-speaking, 18th century poet Rua Ó Súilleabháin to his blacksmith, asking for a new kind of spade, perfect, shining, with "no trace of hammer to the blade".

And best thing of all, the ring of it, sweet as a bell

The reader has no problem here recognizing the spade from 'Digging'. It is no longer a question of pen and spade trying to coexist, or doing 'the same thing'. They now are the very same thing. The gap has, in one way at least, finally been bridged. By poetry itself.

As in 'A Shiver'. On the surface, a poem about knowing your tools, about craftsmanship or silent knowledge: deeper down, about a labour that has been there all the time, throughout forty years of writing:

The way you had to stand to swing the sledge,
Your two knees locked, your lower back shock-fast
As shields in a testudo, spine and waist
A pivot for the tight-braces, tilting rib-cage;
The way its iron head planted the sledge
Unyieldingly as a club-footed last;
The way you had to heft and then half-rest
Its gathered force like a long-nursed rage
About to be let fly: do you good
To have known it in your bones, directable,
Withholdable at will,
A first blow that could make air of a wall,
A last one so unanswerably landed
The staked earth quailed and shivered in the handle?

Poetry is that shiver in the handle.

Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966).

Wintering Out

Field Work
(Faber & Faber, 1979).

(essays, Faber & Faber 1980).

Electric Light
(Faber & Faber, 2001).

District and Circle
(Faber & Faber, 2006).

* Ola Larsmo (b. 1957), writer and literary critic. Between 1984–1990 Larsmo was editor of BLM('Bonniers Literary Magazine'). Today he writes literary criticism in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Ola Larsmo has published some fifteen books, alone and in collaboration with others, mainly novels, but also essays on contemporary Irish and Swedish literature and on the subject of the Internet and democracy. His latest novel is En glänta i skogen ('A Glen in the Forest', 2004). In the fall of 2007 it will be followed by Djävulssonaten ('The Devil's Sonata').

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North Slidell Tiger Fest a hit

Ivette Hernandez By Ivette Hernandez The Times-Picayune
on May 29, 2012 at 5:35 PM

Teachers and staff recently celebrated student achievements during the recent Slidell Junior High Tiger Fest held at the school located at 333 Pennsylvania Ave. Teachers displayed work from their seventh- and eighth-grade students collected throughout the school year.

Slidell Junior High's Tiger mascot was on hand for hugs and high fives at Tiger Fest.

Various talents were showcased at the event, including performances by the cheerleaders, dance team, band and chorus. Baskets were raffled to benefit the school. Raffled baskets had items for those who like to barbecue, watch movies or just relax.

“It went really well,” said Julie Lupo who is the technology resource teacher at the school. She added this is something the children look forward to each year.

The Country Club Homeowner’s Association held its annual Memorial Day BBQ and swim party Monday from noon to 5 p.m. at Pinewood Country Club, 405 Country Club Blvd. The event was free to members of the Country Club Homeowner’s Association. Dues are $30 per family.

Tanglewood Village Homeowner’s Association held its annual Memorial Day BBQ at the pool at 205 Grafton Drive. Hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks were provided.

The event was open to pool members and those who have paid their homeowners’ fees for the year. Dues are $30 per family.

Ivette Hernandez New swimmers to the Tanglewood Tarpon swim team, from left, Richard Toth and Jacob Treadway enjoy some fun at the meet and greet recently held at the Tanglewood Pool.

To kick off the summer season and the summer swim team, the Tanglewood Tarpons recently held a Meet and Greet at Tanglewood Pool, 205 Grafton Drive. The event welcomed back swimmers and coaches while introducing new swimmers and parents to the team.

Those who are interested in joining the team still can do so by contacting Dawn Schiro at

Tarpons will participate in their first meet June 4 at Pinewood Country Club.

Ivette Hernandez lives in the Tanglewood Subdivision. News about North Slidell can be sent to her by email at; by phone at 985.290.2714; or by mail to Ivette Hernandez via The Times-Picayune, 2070 E. Gause Blvd., Slidell, LA 70461. All submissions become the property of The Times-Picayune and will not be returned; submissions may be edited and published or otherwise reused in any medium.


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Sun shines on The Garden Party benefiting New Heights Therapy Center: Northshore Notables

Elizabeth Moore By Elizabeth Moore The Times-Picayune
on December 09, 2012 at 2:00 PM, updated December 09, 2012 at 2:01 PM

Hosts David Fennelly and Carlos Sanchez extended welcoming hands to guests arriving at Summergrove Farm on Oct. 28. The sun smiled down on The Garden Party, which was a benefit for New Heights Therapy Center.

new-heights.jpg New Heights Therapy Center benefited recently from The Garden Party, a lavish celebration dedicated to supporting the New Heights mission.

Fountains, statues, flowers and lovely landscaping defined the al fresco affair. Tempting aromas wafted from peaked white tents, where chefs dished out their finest culinary offerings.

Adding to the eclectic atmosphere were musicians who played throughout the day. Applauded were Reed Alleman Band, Bayou Dulcimers, Robert Calmes, Jerry Hess and Patrice Fisher.

A highlight of the day were lesson demonstrations by instructors and riders, who showed off their equestrian skills.

Ongoing activities included an opportunity to contribute to an adaptive bike at the Tack and Wheel Shop, an informational Lesson Arena and a Run for the Roses Derby to help offset a year’s cost for a horse.

Live auction items included a home solar system, a wine tasting and food pairing for 20, a progressive brunch at four horse farms with limo transportation, flying lessons and more. Artwork was on parade at the silent auction, along with many unique items from foreign lands.

New Heights Therapy provides an equestrian program for children and adults with physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Board members are Kristen O’Keefe, Louise Brady, Phoebe Whealdon, Sandra DiPietro, Dan Casey, Susan McMillan, Clint Cheveallier, Paul Morris, Brett Petry, Patrick Granier, Dr. Aaron Karlin, Mary Robinson and David Fennelly. Cindy Sibley is the director of operations.

Garden Party Jubilee Sponsors were Dan and Monique Casey and Carl Ashley. Steering committee members were Cindy Sibley, David Fennelly, Carlos Sanchez, Dan Casey and Louise Brady. Team leaders were Sue Cheveallier, Lisa Sharp, Mary Anne Haase, Ann Mayer, Donna Bryant, Kristen O’Keefe, Pat Brady, Marsha Walsh, Catherine Insley, Janice Westereng and Kim Clinard.

The Garden Party raised $230,000. Fennelly and Sanchez were thanked for donating property for a permanent home for New Heights Therapy Center. For more information, visit

News about west St. Tammany social events may be provided to Elizabeth Moore at; 985.893.0612; or by mail to 20490 Johnsen Crossing, Covington, LA 70435.


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Kids Wanna Help Lemonade Brigade & Young Business Owner Workshop June 1 in Mandeville

Christa Chautin By Christa Chautin The Times-Picayune
on May 20, 2013 at 12:00 PM, updated May 20, 2013 at 12:04 PM

What does summer mean to you? Swimming? Vacations? The heat? How about lemonade stands? The idea of kids selling lemonade in their communities to thirsty residents is evocative of summer, and this summer in St. Tammany will have kids selling lemonade to learn how to run their own businesses, support good causes, and have summer fun.

The 2013 Kids Wanna Help Lemonade Brigade & Young Business Owner Workshop will take place on June 1 from 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at Franco’s in Mandeville. The deadline to register is May 24 or until workshop capacity is full. The event is open to kids all over St. Tammany Parish; they will meet twice in Mandeville for the workshop and awards ceremony, but may have lemonade stands closer to their residences.

The event always has new speakers, and since many kids participate year after year it is important that the workshop is always fresh for them. Also, because of the number of kids who want to sign up, but can’t make it to the workshop on June 1, Kids Wanna Help wants the kids of the community to know that they will provide training on other days for participants who can’t make it to the workshop. Just contact the nonprofit for this service. Kids Wanna help is expecting to reach the $125,000 mark by the end of the summer.

Topics at the workshop will include “Creative ideas for businesses that kids can run themselves.” and “The customer is always right.” One of the speakers at the workshop will be Sherri Hansen, the owner/director of Culinary Kids in Mandeville.

The workshop will provide all information from running your own business to which charity to donate to; representatives from several charities will make presentations to the Lemonade Brigade teams to explain what their charity does and who it helps. Teams may donate all of the money raised to one of these charities or it can be divided it up and give money to two or more charities. But the decision is entirely up to the Lemonade Brigade teams.

Through what they learn at the workshop and what they learn through the Lemonade Brigade Handbook, Lemonade Brigade members learn how to start and run their own successful businesses. They practice these skills running non-profit lemonade stands. Part of the training is to teach kids how to choose a charity to support. To ensure that the Lemonade Brigade members make informed decisions about the charities they support, Kids Wanna Help invites nonprofits to make presentations at the workshop so the kids have the opportunity to ask questions.

“When you give money to charity it’s important to know where that money is going. We talk to the kids about how to choose a charity that is the best fit for them,” said Mary-Brent Brown, recent graduate of SSA and co-founder of Kids Wanna Help.

Participants usually join the Lemonade Brigade in teams – any number is fine but larger teams seem to be able to have more stands over the summer and have more members take turns participating. Those who join during the summer are also able to sell year ‘round. The Lemonade Brigade is invited to sell lemonade at high-volume-selling-opportunities during the school year such as the Monster Mash, the Zurich Classic, and St. Paul’s crawfish boil.

“The Lemonade Brigade is open to boys beginning in 3rd grade and girls beginning in 4th grade. Some of our counselors this year are kids who joined the Lemonade Brigade when they were really young,” said Beverly Brown, 10th grader and Co-founder of Kids Wanna Help.

The cost to attend and participate is $85 and includes lunch, the Lemonade Stand Supplies including a banner, a yellow table cloth, caps and bracelets to sell at their stands, the cups they will use to sell lemonade which are printed with the Lemonade Brigade logo and their Uniforms which consist of a t-shirt, apron and cap. It also provides access to a Lemonade Brigade Handbook, a car magnet, a trophy at the end of the summer and the whole family is invited to the End-of-the-Summer Awards Ceremony and Pool Party.

The Lemonade Brigade is open to all girls in grades 3-8 and boys, grades 4-8.  Registration forms are available at

Kids Wanna Help also offers scholarships for families who are not able to pay the $85 registration fee.

To register, send the registration form along with a check made payable to “Kids Wanna Help” or just the registration form if a full scholarship is being requested to Kids Wanna Help® 816 West 15th Avenue, Covington LA 70433.

For more information on the Lemonade Brigade, make-up days for workshop training, The Fall Fashion Show, and any other events from Kids Wanna Help, visit the website at or call the Kids Wanna Help hotline at 985.875.0407.

Christa F. Chautin writes about the Covington area, and may be reached at


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'K-Ville's' Cole Hauser moves on to NBC's 'Chase'

Dave Walker, | The Times-Picayune By Dave Walker, | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune
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on July 31, 2010 at 10:44 AM, updated July 31, 2010 at 11:03 AM

HOLLYWOOD – The sins of “K-Ville” were not Cole Hauser’s.

chasepic.JPGKelli Giddish (left), Cole Hauser (right) and the gang from NBC's 'Chase.'

He’s moved on. We should, too.

The 2007 Fox drama that birthed gumbo parties cast Hauser as Trevor Cobb, NOPD cop and buddy to Anthony Anderson’s Marlin Boulet.

Hauser’s new NBC series, “Chase,” debuts September 20 and opens with Hauser on the kind of aerobic perp pursuit that robbed the New Orleans-set-and-shot “K-Ville” of any shot to transcend cop-show clichés.

The title of the new show again?

“It’s called ‘Chase,’ baby,” said Kelli Giddish (“Past Life”), Hauser’s costar in the drama built around a team of Texas-based U.S. Marshals. “I show up on set the first day of filming, and they’ve got the camera strapped to the golf cart, and they say ‘All right. You signed on. Like, go.’ So I did, and I was sprinting the entire first day.”

Giddish’s character, Annie Frost, joins Hauser’s Jimmy Godfrey on that premise-defining opening sequence. They operate as part of a strike force that will animate a weekly resolution-seeking procedural of a kind that populates CBS’s successful prime-time lineup.

The Dallas-shot show comes from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, godfather of the “CSI” franchise as well as feature films ranging from “Top Gun” to “Coyote Ugly” to “National Treasure” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” and their sequels.

The “Chase” villain of the week will be worth the work.

“By nature, if U.S. Marshals are after you, you don’t have parking tickets on your record,” said executive producer Jonathan Littman (“CSI,” “Without a Trace”), during a panel interview at the summer TV Tour. “You’ve done something really wrong.

“They are a short story unto themselves. There is a journey they are on as well, and so it’s not just about violence. It’s not just about bloodshed. It’s about, really, trying to capture someone that is really going out of their way to get away from you.”

Added executive producer Jennifer Johnson (“Cold Case”): “If the marshals are pursuing them, they are the worst of the worst, but bad guys don’t wake up thinking that they are bad guys. They wake up saying, ‘I need money, and how will I get it?’ So they will be portrayed as heinous criminals, but … you understand them, and that makes us feel conflicted because they are portrayed as these heinous characters, but as we pull back the layers of the onion, as we tell the short story of how they got to that place, we will understand them better.

“And that’s exactly what the task force does. They have to anticipate their moves and get there first. Well, in order to do that, they have to figure out what they eat, where they sleep, who they love, who they don’t love. So once they get psychologically into the fugitive’s head, then they can pursue them physically and chase them down. So unlike other shows where you spend that episode figuring out who did it, in this show, we know who did it in the teaser. We see them do it, but they get away like Hannibal Lecter did at the end of ‘Silence of the Lambs.’ They disappear. And, now, our team has to start from scratch and figure out how to solve this manhunt, how to track down this person, the game of chess.”

While, at the same time, learning something about themselves.

“Each case will refract on our characters,” Johnson said. “A big part of the show is understanding what makes these (marshals) tick, understanding what their day looks like before they get the page that they’ve got to get to the office immediately. What are each of them doing? What are each of their relationships to each other? What are their personal secrets? And so it’s so much about their characters. And then we’ll use the fugitives to refract that story. What (the marshals) look for, what they know to anticipate, has to do with their life experience.”

And so, who is Hauser’s Jimmy Godfrey?

“Jimmy Godfrey is from Uvalde, Texas,” Hauser said. “It’s pretty much a ranching community. He grew up in nature. He grew up with his father teaching him how to hunt. He grew up looking at the stars. He grew up dreaming of being in law enforcement.

“It’s a character that ... I’ve always wanted to play, which is kind of just a true American, a guy who loves the country and loves the people that live in it and wants to protect them.”

Villain-hero refraction considered, it all sounds pretty complicated, but it’s really not.

NBC is restocking its lineup in the wake of the Jay Leno-to-prime-time fiasco, and “Chase” is the network’s bid to mount a broad-appeal action hour.

Alas, many cosmopolitan Texas viewers will probably watch “Chase” between their fingers for fear of the kind of broad default characterizations that vexed us in “K-Ville.”

“This is a task force of cowboys,” Johnson said. “It’s set in the wild West. Texas captures the flavor of the show, which is big blue skies, cowboys, the reintroduction of the American hero, a simple pursuit of justice.”


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'Hannibal' returns for second season on NBC on Friday

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Dave Walker, | The Times-Picayune By Dave Walker, | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune
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on February 28, 2014 at 1:00 AM, updated February 28, 2014 at 1:05 AM

NBC’s “Hannibal” returns for a second season. TV tweet of the day so far. TV weekend.

TV Linkzilla Daily for 2/28/14 starts now.

Based in part on characters and concepts in the 1981 Thomas Harris novel “Red Dragon” — which eventually led to Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film masterpiece “The Silence of the Lambs,” as well as quite a few other lesser Hannibal Lecter screen projects — “Hannibal” returns for its second season at 9 p.m. Friday (Feb. 28) on WDSU. Its grisly art, favored by many critics but not yet beloved universally by a large or even medium-sized audience, comes from Bryan Fuller (“Heroes,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Wonderfalls”), the show’s executive producer.

Who, it may come as a surprise, is a little freaked out sometimes by where his show goes.

“With crime stories, I’m so sensitive,” he said during the Winter TV Tour in Hollywood. “I look at dog videos all day to put me in a happy place to combat where we work.”

And where he and the show’s actors work, after all, is a show about serial killing as a lifestyle.

“For me, part of it is stylizing the violence so it’s heightened and not real,” Fuller said. “What we do on the show is sort of purple and operatic, because if it were real, I couldn’t watch it. I couldn’t work on it. So we are borderline fantasy with what we do on the show. So that helps me be able to work on the show.

“I’m more interested in the psychology than I am the reality, because it is a very troubled headspace. So I think it has to balance toward the psychology of what the characters need to go through, and then we bend reality. But if we break it, believe me, we get reminded to sort of step back. We are a show in reality, but it’s heightened.”

Further reading about "Hannibal:"

Alan Sepinwall @

Adapted from a few passages of Thomas Harris' first Hannibal Lecter novel, "Red Dragon," by writer Bryan Fuller, with a stunning visual style crafted by director David Slade, "Hannibal" is unapologetically graphic nightmare fuel, but presented in such an imaginative way that it almost plays like science fiction. When I spoke with Fuller at the end of the show's low-rated first season(*), he said that with each killer and each crime scene, he aimed for the same "larger-than-life, operatic quality" he found in Harris' books, because real life has too much depressing violence in it, and thus, "the more real the murder is, the less I'm interested in it."

Mark Peters @

Hannibal is the kind of gem seldom found on network TV. It’s more than that, even: It’s the best version of Thomas Harris’ work yet—yes, even better than Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs.

How is this possible? It probably helps that the show is also the loosest adaptation of Harris’ work so far.

Bill Harris @

We're used to Hannibal Lecter holding the fork. He's always eating the meal, he's never the entree.

But in season two of the TV series Hannibal, which returns Friday, Feb. 28 on NBC and City, sometimes the silverware gets passed around, figuratively speaking.

Watch a preview, then keep reading:

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132110146005540973.post2812484596132341022..comments2015-05-23T08:30:39.802+09:00Comments on Nonjatta: Yoichi Single Cask 1987/2005Nonjattanoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132110146005540973.post-49567711409747839852009-06-10T16:16:28.494+09:002009-06-10T16:16:28.494+09:00Hi Will, LOL! Good comments! Seriously, I know tha...Hi Will,
LOL! Good comments! Seriously, I know that it’s tough to come up with descriptors that everybody understands/approves because we all have different backgrounds, especially regarding analogies with food, and I won’t use industry standards because that would be too boring to me and most probably to the readers. I’m only doing this for fun.
The veal thing is rather significant to me because there are various kinds of meatiness that one can find in whisky. I won’t list them all but I feel veal cooked in butter is very different from, say beef stock or bacon or cured ham and so on… Same with lovage, that can be close to soy sauce or even oyster sauce ‘though it’s a plant.
As for pepper, well, I used to just write ‘pepper’ before my good friend Martine made me nose a good dozen different kinds of pepper. Wildly different. Now, agreed, Szechuan pepper isn’t exactly pepper anyway...
Don’t you get crystallised fruits where you live? You may google that and you’ll find many and not only on Mars or Jupiter ;-)
And did you try this particular Yoichi yourself? I’d love to read your own notes.
Me, a food critic? Now, that’s an idea ;-)!
Take care and have fun,
SergeSergenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132110146005540973.post-55246938248465106532009-06-10T09:07:45.241+09:002009-06-10T09:07:45.241+09:00Will, I would advise you not to open the third ga...Will,
I would advise you not to open the third gallon bottle of White Lightning cider before commenting. It makes you appear ignorant and uncivil.
On Nonjatta, we try not to attack other people's experiences. Tasting any drink is necessarily a subjective experience and communicating that experience requires some trust that the audience are actually going to be listening and not sneering. Personally, I find it hard to put the complex tastes of whiskies into readable prose but I don't resort to abuse just because my palate-brain connection is a bit Neanderthal. When I have tasted the same whiskies Serge has reviewed I have usually found some of the tastes perfectly expressed somewhere in his review and have been uncomfortably aware that I would have been reduced to something like "its quite sweet", "a bit salty", like the hundreds of other notes I have written.
Will (or should I say Troll?), before you trouble us again, sober up and know that Serge has written more whisky notes than you have had Thunderbird puke smelling mornings.Nonjattanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132110146005540973.post-44033850159414334722009-06-10T01:09:41.141+09:002009-06-10T01:09:41.141+09:00Serge, your description of the Yoichi was laughab...Serge,
 your description of the Yoichi was laughable to say the least. the nose, lovage and ham with notes of veal cooked in butter. Was the veal breaded and rolled in egg first? and the mouth, crystallized ginger and szechuan pepper, and back to crystallized orange. What planet are you from pal. where the hell do you find those crystallized products.
and the finish being half round and half wild notes of chewed cigar, hell you've been living in cuba to long buddy. but you sure do talk a load of bullshit, if i do say so myself.
you sound like you'd be a better food critic than someone who (i feel) can describe what their tasting in the malts. Kind of puts me off trying another jap malt. wmwillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03712780804170790420noreply@blogger.com


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Norwegian Strawberries

Summer in Norway means strawberries and the appearance of the first punnets of local 'jordbær' is always met with much excitement and discussion. Indeed, strawberries hold a special place in all Norwegians' hearts. Even their name, 'jordbær', evocatively translates to 'earth berries' in English, conjuring up an image of a primal fruit as old as Norway itself. Now one might think that the northern climate of Norway is not particularly suited to growing strawberries, but for a few glorious weeks of the year Norway produces some of the finest strawberries I have ever tasted. The relatively cool summers and abundance of light produce slightly smaller berries that are bursting with the most extraordinary concentrated strawberry flavour. They are a vibrant shade of crimson; a colour that extends all the way to the core of the strawberry, unlike some of the giant polytunnel monstrosities that are tasteless and white at their centre.

Strawberries can be found for sale everywhere in Norway at this time of year. They are sold outside grocery shops, by the side of the road, or you can pick your own at the many farms offering 'selvplukk jordbær'. The first strawberries of the summer are always expensive, falling in price as the season progresses. I read somewhere that the average Norwegian consumes around 5kg of strawberries during the summer - if anything this sounds like an underestimate.

Another superlative joy to be found at this time of year is the abundance of wild strawberries, or 'markjordbær' in Norwegian. They can generally be found growing around woods everywhere and provide tiny bursts of the most intense, delicious and intoxicating strawberry flavour. It is common to see kids (young and old) foraging for wild strawberries and making 'markjordbær på strå' by threading these tiny deep-red jewels onto long blades of grass to be enjoyed later. If you're lucky, you may even be able to find some white wild strawberries which, although pearl white in colour, have the same intense flavour as the red ones.

In total there are around 15 different varieties of strawberries in Norway, with the Korona, Senga Sengana, Zephyr, and Bounty cultivars accounting for the vast majority of strawberries grown in Norway. As the season progresses, strawberries from more northern parts of the country start to ripen and the prices of punnets gradually fall. Come the beginning of August, as quickly as they arrived, they've gone. All that's left are some jars of homemade jam to tide one over through the long winter months.

A common sight in summer along the roads in Norway
Freshly picked Korona strawberries for sale in Bygdøy

Intensely sweet strawberries from Hjembu Farm on the South Coast of Norway
Markjordbær på strå - Wild strawberries on a grass 'straw', picked near Risør
Strawberries and skyr - an Icelandic cultured dairy product, a bit like a thick, sour yoghurt (originally from Norway)
Hulled strawberries ready for the pan (if you can resist not eating them all)
Making jam

Homemade jam - perfect with Norwegian sour-cream waffles or English scones
Simple Strawberry Jam Recipe

1kg strawberries, hulled
500g jam sugar (sugar with natural pectin) - add more if you like your jam sweeter
Juice of 1 lemon

1.  Place strawberries in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat gently until the juices start to run
2.  Mash the strawberries a bit, depending on how chunky you like your jam
3.  Add the sugar and lemon juice and stir until the sugar has dissolved (do not let it boil at this stage)
4.  Increase the heat and bring the mixture to a vigorous boil
5.  Boil for 4 minutes (or longer for a thicker jam)
6.  Skim off any foam; spoon into hot, sterilised jars; cover with a disc of wax paper and seal (will keep for a year or so)

  1. Yummy! Fikk lyst på jordbær og fløte nå. Må kanskje servere det her i London i helga :)

  2. @Kavey - They taste delicious too! England has some good strawberries too though, I remember finding some really good strawberries from Kent when I used to live in London. With Jersey cream on a hot summer's day, mmm...

    @nordicainlondon - Ja, det må du! Også kan du prove jordbær med skyr og litt sukker til frokost, kjempe deilig!

  3. Great article, I really like the whole site, very nice design. The topic of Norwegian Strawberries is just fascinating, I've never heard about them before.

  4. I suppose it makes sense, given how much soft fruit is grown in Scotland successfully - Norway's not *that* much further north. As far as the colour is concerned, though, I wouldn't read too much into it - in my experience it's as much to do with the variety as the growing conditions. Some are deliciously ripe and still white in the centre, others aren't ready until they go almost maroon.


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Legality of Marriage & Divorce An article in the May 25th issue of Time reveals that: “We now have reached a point where fewer than half of kids leaving high school will have their parents living together.”

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I am one of those guys that thought it would be great to ride without a helmet, so in 2007 I rode from St Augustine FL to Daytona Beach with nothing but a dew rag on my bald paté.

On the way home we came upon a three-motorcycle collision at an intersection. We stopped to help, but found two of the bikers were DOA from head injuries, and the third biker had a serious head injury. I have never ridden without a helmet since...

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Take wind, for example. If you look at a wind map of Michigan, (Google “Michigan 50 meter wind map”) you will see that just offshore Michigan is surrounded by winds that are classified as excellent to outstanding. Offshore wind power is rapidly being developed by Denmark, Germany and the U.K. The technology could readily be adapted to the coast of Michigan.

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A year after motorcycle crash, Jim Lumley still thanks his helmet

Features Patrick Sullivan The U-M study has prompted a call from insurance and medical groups to reestablish the state’s helmet law, but proponents of the repeal argue it’s too early to draw any conclusions about the data and note that last year’s remarkably long period of warm weather led to more motorcycles on the roads.
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Helmets & motorcycles Properly worn motorcycle helmets, particularly full-face helmets, are quite effective in preventing head injuries during a crash. Like Jim Lumley (featured in the April 29 issue), I always wear a helmet and am fully covered (i.e. jacket/pants/ boots/gloves) while riding, even when the temperature exceeds 90 degrees...

Fear-mongering lobby Today’s NRA is not the same proud organization my father belonged to. The NRA today has become a fear-mongering lobby for the gun manufacturers...

Don’t blame others Regarding Pete VanBerlo’s letter (May 6) it seems to me that he has fallen hook, line and sinker for the tactic legislators want us to fall for: blaming each other for our problems and not addressing the real issue...

Taxed by Snyder Wait a minute Pete (re: May 6 letter). Entitlement attitude. What makes you think that you somehow support us retired people who collect Social Security?

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Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board By: Marcy Knaack

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Thursday evening the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board approved the hiring for the following positions: High School Volleyball Coach – Jay Arends; assistant high school volleyball coach, Danielle Lujan; head cross country coach – Andy McQuillen; high school cheer coach – Danielle Coulter; library-media specialist – Val Ehlers; middle school social studies and science – Brady Swenson; and middle school language arts/science – Sara Jansen. Arends has been involved in G-R volleyball by coaching AAU teams for the past few years. Swenson and Jansen are recent UNI graduates and this will be their first year of teaching. Ehlers is TAG/Library/Media Specialist this year at North Tama. Certified staff and non-teaching contracts were approved for 2012-13 as were the non-teaching salaries. Non-teaching staff received a 3.25% increase. Seasonal staff and substitutes also received a 3.25% increase. The board approved renewing the Pay Schools program. This allows patrons in the district to pay school fees on-line using a credit card. Student fees for book and software rental, kindergarten milk program, towel service, music department, class dues, activity ticket, yearbook, 1:1 usage fee and instrumental rental for grades 5-12 remained the same as 2011-12. Lunch fees increased by 10 cents for everyone, except the lunch fee for adults increased to $3.25, up from $3.10. The board approved the food service agreement with Iowa Association for Educational Purchasing for 2012-13. Hunt and Associates of Oskaloosa were awarded the 3-year audit bid. The 1st year will be $5,700; 2nd year, $5,950 and 3rd year $6.200. A 28-E agreement with Eldora-New Providence was approved. This agreement will provide the district access to a certified ELL (English Language Learner) teacher to work with G-R staff in the event the district would have ELL students. The State Department of Education requires that local districts have a plan to meet the needs of ELL students in the district. The cost will be $500. Principal Matt Leeman presented the high school course description handbook to the board and the major change was that 2012-13 seniors will need 50 credits to graduate and succeeding classes will need 52. The board approved the change. The board approved hiring a staff member at the rate of $25/hour, to work with students on credit recovery as well as two students in the district with on-going health issues. The program was approved up to 80 hours. Supt. Tim Kuehl will solicit bids for steam trap replacement at the Gladbrook building. Kuehl told the board the kindergarten numbers at Reinbeck are between 25-28 students and it would be his recommendation to split the class and hire an additional teacher. Kuehl said there were positive comments made on the Dept of Education Site Visit. A list of summer projects was shared with the board Principal Bill Parker shared with the board the Gladbrook Women’s Club is giving each K-2 staff member at the Gladbrook campus $125 to be used to purchase books. Parker said the middle school choir recently sang for Senior Citizens and at the nursing home. Principal Matt Leeman had Brady Kuehl give a presentation on VREP (Virtual Reality Education Pathfinder) This year there were 13 students interested and next year 44 students have signed up for VREP. Leeman said several teachers at the high school are currently piloting the program Canvas to try and help them decide if it is a better possible Student Management System available for them than edModo. He said the district needs to start focusing on the restructuring and redesigning of the curriculum K-12 and he believes Canvas would be a good tool to help achieve this. Val Ehlers gave a year-end report for the District Advisory Committee and told of highlights throughout the year. In the consent agenda conditional approval was given for the 2012 graduates and student teaching agreements were approved with UNI, Wartburg and Buena Vista-Marshalltown center.

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On January 31, 2014 the 2013-14 G-R 7th grade Boys Baketball team hosted the Trojans from West Marshall in their season finale. A fine rendition of the national athem performed by chorus members of the team along with their coach preceded the game and was well done, Thank you guys! The Rebels were challenged on the night as West Marshall had defeated them earlier in the year by a wide margin. The Rebels started slow as they could only manage to scoare 2 points while the Trojans jumped out with eleven points. The second quarter was not much better for the Rebels as they dug a deeper hole trailing 31-6 at halftime. A much determined Rebel team started the third quarter and held the Trojans to two points while finding the bottom of the net and trailing 33-17 at the end of the third quarter. Throughout the season it is a goal to see that every player scores. The fourth quarter went back and forth and every Rebel played some of their best basketball of the season. With one second let, our last player not to score hit his first basket of the year. In the end the Rebels fell with a 45-27 score. This ended our year with a 3-9 record and motivation to improve. This is one of the most enjoyable teams I have had to work with in my many years of coaching and I thank them. Scoring were the followng Rebels: *Kaleb Hendricks - 6 points *Tyson Creswell - 3 points *Ethan Beach - 2 points *jackson Klboris - 14 points *Alex Whitney - 2 points

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MILTON, Ga. – Several new faces will join Milton’s Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals after the May 6 City Council meeting. Councilmembers Karen Thurman, Matt Kunz and Lance Large all appointed a new Milton resident from their respective districts.

The board is a seven-member board with a resident appointed by each councilmember and the mayor. It is charged to grant variance to the adopted building codes and construction materials as well as techniques.

For District 1, Thurman nominated Bill Newell.

“Bill Newell and his family have been active in Milton High School for many years,” she said.

Kunz nominated Gordon Hunter to be the representative for District 2. He cited Hunter’s lengthy time in the Milton community as a major reason for the appointment.

“He is very happy to serve in this capacity,” Kunz said.

Lastly, Large nominated Rick Mohrig to the board for District 6. Mohrig is a former Milton councilmember. He served in Milton’s first years as a councilmember.

“Mohrig has been very involved with the city for many years,” Large said. “He runs his own construction renovation business. He’s a good friend and a good neighbor.”

The Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals is an appointment-only board. It is also voluntary.

The board meets as needed, but it is required to meet within 30 days of the Community Development Department accepting an appeals application. There are no requirements for board members.

Mayor Joe Lockwood said he was grateful to the residents who will be serving.

“Thank you guys for stepping up and helping out,” he said.

Milton’s Parks and Recreation Department geared up for the summer at the last council meeting. Councilmembers approved contract agreements for fitness classes, boot camps, girls’ lacrosse programming, basketball camps and yoga classes along with children’s music classes and YMCA soccer, summer camps and recreation classes.

Council also heard the first reading of a rezoning on Batesville Road. There are three lots that are proposed to be rezoned from agricultural to community unit plan zoning. The applicant wishes to develop 15 single-family residences on 19.9 acres, according to the May 6 meeting agenda.

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Ramapo increases tuition, fees 12%

Tuition and fees for students at Ramapo College will rise more than 12 percent in September.

The college was able to circumvent a state-mandated 3 percent cap for the 2009-10 school year by assessing a separate capital improvement fee of $1,000 — $500 per semester — for each full-time student.

Ramapo's tuition and fees will now be among the highest at the state colleges, topping out at $12,088, up from $10,765 in 2008-09.

College President Peter Mercer said he got the go-ahead from Trenton to assess the fee to make much-needed repairs to the roof of the main academic building and the HVAC system at the student center.

"They are almost 40 years old," said Mercer. "We have significant deferred maintenance."

New roofing for the sprawling academic building will cost $10 million and include outfitting for solar panels, Mercer said.

Trenton had asked that the state colleges and universities cap tuition increases at 3 percent as a condition to getting federal stimulus money — $14 million to make up for state aid cuts and keep funding relatively flat for the schools this year.

Most of the schools stayed within the 3 percent cap. But, in the case of Ramapo, the state agreed that the cap needed only to be placed on "education related fees" said Paul Shelly, spokesman for the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities. The governor's office did not return repeated calls for comment on the issue.

Mercer said he realized that the difference in semantics likely won't matter to those paying the bills. "I realize parents write one check," said Mercer. "But I think parents understand that the state money is not there."

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Many Dems mum on call for Newark archbishop Myers to quit

A day after their leading candidate for governor said the Newark archbishop should resign amid a priest child abuse scandal, fellow Democrats remained divided on the issue — with many not saying anything at all.

It's a marked change from a month ago, when top Democrats clamored in near unison for resignations at Rutgers University following the physical and verbal abuse of basketball players by a coach.

And it could represent the fear of potential backlash from Catholic voters with all 120 seats in the Democratic-controlled Legislature on the November ballot this year, or a sign that state Sen. Barbara Buono — who has clashed with party leaders in the past — does not yet have their full support.

Buono, a Democrat from Middlesex County who is challenging Governor Christie this year, said Newark Archbishop John J. Myers should step down, questioning his ability to lead after word that a priest seemingly broke his legally binding agreement with Bergen County prosecutors to never again be unsupervised with children, minister to children or work with children so long as he remained a priest.

The priest, Michael Fugee, has attended weekend retreats and extended pilgrimages with the youth ministry of St. Mary's parish in Colts Neck, in Monmouth County. Fugee resigned from his ministry position Thursday, according to a statement from the archdiocese.

Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, called the questions about Myers "deeply disturbing," adding that "if true, he should resign immediately."

But Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, D-Essex, could not be reached to discuss the issue Thursday. She was one of the most vocal critics of how the Rutgers affair was handled. And state Democratic Party Chairman John Wisniewski declined to comment on the issue, through a spokeswoman.

Christie told reporters Thursday that he wants to first speak with Myers before passing judgment, adding that "what I'm repulsed by is jumping to conclusions."

"I will over the course of the next few days talk to Archbishop Myers," Christie said after a bill signing in Paterson. "Once I do, then I'm in a much better position to express an opinion on his tenure and his actions."

Myers spokesman Jim Goodness said the calls for Myers to resign are "reckless and rash."

"They reflect a total misunderstanding of a complex issue," he said. "They're making statements without a full foundation."

"We have adhered to the agreement with Father Fugee [and the prosecutors]. Father Fugee did things that were not approved by the archdiocese, and had we known about them, we certainly would not have permitted them."

Some Democrats shared Buono's concern and echoed her strong position.

"I think this needs to be taken seriously and dealt with," said U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Long Branch. "And to me it just seems the archbishop is brushing it under the rug."

Pallone said Myers' reaction so far appears to be taking a legal tack focusing on whether the agreement Fugee signed allowed him to be with children if there is supervision.

"It's clear he's not supposed to be with children, and they're not taking it seriously," Pallone said. "It's not good to have him with kids, supervised or not. If he doesn't understand that," Pallone said of Myers, "he needs to resign, leave, and put in someone who does."

Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, D-Englewood, called for Myers to resign in a newspaper opinion piece published Wednesday, saying he "may have confused turning the other cheek with turning a blind eye."

"He certainly breached that original agreement where the priest was not allowed to be in a position to come in contact with young children," Huttle said Thursday. "Why does the hierarchy continue to protect these priests?"

State Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald, D-Camden, said he doesn't know all the facts of the case and stopped just short of calling for Myers' ouster as a result, but he said church officials should be using a "common-sense test."

"I don't care what organization you're a part of. … There should be zero tolerance for anyone who harbors an individual who has sexually abused or abused in any manner a child," he said. "That's a position we should all take."

But state Sen. Jeff Van Drew D-Cape May — sponsor of a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases — did not return a phone call.

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H.S. boys track: Old Tappan's Marc Rienas making up for lost time

Marc Rienas didn’t start running track until the spring of his sophomore year and he didn’t train again until his first cross-country practice the next fall.

Marc Rienas of Old Tappan won a Group 3 championship and set multiple program records for the Golden Knights.
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Marc Rienas of Old Tappan won a Group 3 championship and set multiple program records for the Golden Knights.

But that didn’t stop the Old Tappan rising senior from winning a Group 3 championship, setting multiple school records or running one of the fastest 800-meter races in Bergen County history last spring.

Not bad for a guy who played baseball as a freshman.

"The only real reason I joined the track team was because my brother Will was doing it and I figured that was better than doing nothing in the spring," Rienas said. "I played baseball before track, but [Will] told me he liked track a lot better than baseball so I figured I would join him."

That turned out to be the best decision of his athletic life.

Rienas went from an out-of-shape cross-country runner to one of the best distance runners in Bergen as a junior. He won outdoor races at 800 in the Big North National, Bergen Group A, Bergen Meet of Champions and state sectional meets, and at 1,600 in the sectional and Group 3 meets.

Along the way he set the Golden Knights’ program records for fastest times in the 800 (1:53.28) and 1,600 (4:15.17), with his 800 time ranking 17th on the all-time county list and his 1,600 in the top 25.

Rienas also competed in the prestigious New Balance Outdoor Nationals. But he didn’t run his best because his body was worn down after his first full year of running.

"I should have trained before my junior year," Rienas admitted. "But I didn’t do anything at all because I didn’t really think I was an elite runner my sophomore year. I was satisfied with my sophomore times. But after cross-country in the fall, I knew I could do a lot better."

Rienas is training this summer, running before or after his job working at a family friend’s accounting firm. He’s not running a lot of miles but feels the extra work will pay off in better performances as a senior.

"I definitely have a lot of confidence now," Rienas said. "I’d like to win a lot more things than just a group title [as a senior]. Hopefully I can get a State [Meet of Champions] title."

Rienas has been in contact with a handful of college coaches about running at the next level. He got a late start in the recruiting process, but that didn’t slow him down before.

"When I started finding my events [in track] it was quite challenging, but I didn’t back away from it," Rienas said. "I liked it, I liked the competition and I got hooked on it."

Better late than never.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Brews on the beach in Pacific City, Oregon

Tsunami Stout, The Mother of All Storms, MacPelicans Wee Heavy Ale ... Who knew tiny Pacific City (aka “middle of nowhere” according to some), Oregon would boast the only coastal brewery in the Northwest? And award-winning beers to boot?

Located about halfway between Lincoln City and Tillamook, the Pelican Pub & Brewery claims a gorgeous wedge of real estate right on the beach at Cape Kiwanda, a scenic jewel even for this spectacular coastline. The haystack rock rising from the surf is one of two along Oregon’s rocky coast—this one’s the biggest. Think pints and sunsets when you’re planning that late fall or winter camping expedition. And if Mother Nature hasn’t provided enough jaw-dropping beauty in this one teeny tiny corner of North America, just wait till the gray whales cruise across your line of vision in the late spring or late fall migrations (coming up in mid-November). If you happen to be a fisher-person, the Little Nestucca River, which runs into the Big Nestucca River, is famed for its huge Chinook salmon that run in autumn, and an excellent winter run of Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout.

Put on those fashionable weatherproof layers we Northwesterners are so famous for and fill up the propane tank ... friendly Pacific City and a frosty Stormwatcher’s Winterfest at the Pelican are waiting to warm you up!

There are numerous places to keep cozy in your RV this season... Click here for a list of parks and RV campgrounds in and near Pacific City:

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    "Tech startups with no revenue have billion-dollar valuations," writes our Jim Edwards. "And engineers are demanding Tesla sports cars just to show up at work."
    There are, of course, tangible and empirical ways that economists determine bubblehood, but what fun is that?
    Surely the best way to see if we're in a bubble is to take a look at the anecdotal ludicrous excess of today's exorbitantly wealthy.A hedge fund hired pro surfer Joe Curren for marketing purposes
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    Billionaire Larry Ellison changed the yachting rules to price all the other rich guys out of the America's Cup
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    Source: Business Insider, Tech Crunch
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