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Fielding questions from the press on his way home from World Youth Day, Pope Francis skirted the issue of whether or not a “gay lobby” exists in the Vatican. His expression of support for Institutional Works of Religion prelate Monsignor Battista Ricca, who stands accused of carrying on affairs with men while representing the Vatican in Uruguay, was vague and tentative.

But the pope did use the word “gay,” several times. He was speaking Italian, where, as in English, the word has neutral-to-positive connotations. Though it was introduced by the journalists who were grilling him, Francis seems to have adopted it readily and uttered it without adding invisible scare quotes. In that simple linguistic concession, he demonstrated, once again, his willingness to engage with the world on its own terms.

It would be fair to say that the Vatican framed its statements on the subject of homosexuality in a spirit of pushback, with the gay rights movement doing the pushing. For that reason, official communication from Rome has tended to take a hunkered-down, defensive tone. In a 1986 letter, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith warned that in the decade since it had last addressed the matter,”an overly benign interpretation was given to the homosexual condition itself, some going so far as to call it neutral, or even good.” Attacking that interpretation meant rejecting the jargon of the party promoting it. In Church usage, there could be no gays, only “homosexual persons”.

This convention seems to have been observed pretty scrupulously. Despite its encouraging tone, “Always Our Children”, a letter from the USCCB’s Committee on Marriage and Family to the parents of LGBT children, conforms to it. Even while extending LGBT would-be communicants a qualified welcome with the jaunty exhortation “wash your hands,” Cardinal Dolan waxes clinical when referring to “the condition of homosexuality” and “same-sex attraction.” When it comes to the letter of Church teachings on homosexuality, Pope Francis hasn’t changed a thing, and almost certainly won’t. But regarding the people most directly affected by those teachings, he’s already bucked established style guidelines.

Many Catholics will resent it. No less than LGBT activists, we use language to construct our identity. A good case could be made that Francis, owing to carelessness, complacency, or both, has just surrendered a share of that identity — not an enormous share, maybe, but big enough to justify nail-biting speculation on whether, or how, it might be reclaimed. If Palestinian statehood is your goal, the last thing you want to do is start slinging around terms like “Judea” and “Samaria.”

With DOMA off the books and support for gay marriage growing, any concession on the Church’s part can look an awful lot like defeatism. But, as Ross Douthat points out in his Times blog, defeatism can look an awful lot like realism. To escape the plenary wrath of gay-marriage supporters, whose eventual victory is starting to look inevitable, Christians, including the Catholic Church, had better learn to play ball. If not, he says, support for traditional marriage could become “radioactive in the America of 2025 as white supremacism or anti-Semitism are today.”

From his days as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis knows this drill as well as anyone. When Argentina’s gay marriage bill was in play, the future pope damned it as “the work of the devil” and “an attempt to destroy God’s plan.” When it passed, he found himself in the paradoxical position of having to work out a modus vivendi for the Church in a country where God’s plan had been voted down. It may have been this experience that shaped Francis’ vision of a “culture of encounter,” or “a beautiful path toward peace,” where Catholics and non-Catholics can “meet one another doing good.” Francis never comes right out and labels it a post-culture war arrangement, but it fills in nicely as one.

Me, I’m all for creating that culture. For one thing, in contemplating the alternative, I don’t, unlike Douthat, underestimate the willingness of a Catholic cultural rearguard to play at scorched earth, making common cause with white supremacists where our interests would appear to coincide. In Crisis Magazine, political science and legal studies professor Stephen Krason argues that the commonly accepted notion of civil rights has become “an excuse for aberrant behavior and ignoring poor personal formation and deep-seated socio-cultural problems among different groups,” including both sexual and racial minorities. On that basis, Krason thinks civil rights is due a radical retooling. Not in my name, thanks.

In the second place, I suppose I should confess that a culture of encounter is what I’ve been living in all my life. As a relatively recent convert, I still have about as many gay close friends as Catholic ones. Referring to them by the words they choose themselves seems like nothing more than simple good manners. It helps throw a positive light on my conversion, indeed, on the whole notion of conversion. Insisting on using terms they find distasteful seems a positive insult, not to mention a sure conversation-stopper, on the order of “His mama calls him ‘Clay,’ so I call him ‘Clay.'”

Here I should pause to acknowledge the Christians who, in their own words, experience same-sex attraction, and reject labels like “gay” and “lesbian.” Message received, ladies and gents — not in your name. But Andrew Sullivan, who calls himself gay very proudly, seems impressed with Pope Francis, less by what, exactly, he said on the plane, than “the gentleness, the humor, the transparency” legible in his manner of speaking. It’s true, Sullivan didn’t single out Francis’ use of the word “gay” for particular praise, but I have to believe it influenced him. Try to say “gay” while smiling — comes a lot easier than saying “homosexual,” doesn’t it?

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This is like Nero issuing a press release on his eager willingness to “work together” with Sts. Peter and Paul to raise up a new generation of saints and martyrs for the Church to venerate.

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  • Stu

    I don’t say this lightly.

    The President is an ass.

  • Scotty

    It surprised me that such a “media savvy” administration took several hours to issue a brief statement about a hugely significant event in a city-state that the U.S. has official diplomatic ties. Granted the time-zone difference is one reason why statements came from England, France, and Germany before the U.S., but waiting until the early afternoon EST to issue a 3 sentence statement…?

    Then I realized the Obama Administration probably had to f0cus-group the hell out of its statement with Planned Parenthood, Americans for Marriage Equality, Catholics United, Catholics for Choice, Catholics for Obama, Code Pink, etc… And that probably took all morning. Can’t be too careful with these things.

  • brian_in_brooklyn

    These complaints sound like. “The food here is terrible! And the portions are so small!”

  • “joe”

    “making war on the Catholic Church”
    yes that’s it, that’s always it.

    • Andy, Bad Person

      What would you call it?

      • “joe”

        implementing policies he may just actually believe are in the right.
        but when the center of your world is the church, you think the center of everyone else’s world must be too. (this attitude isn’t restricted to catholics, btw. i’ve heard muslims say that the the GWOT is “obviously” a war on islam.)
        full disclosure: i agree that any hospital should have an exemption, to whose practices this is repugnant. hippocratic oath at least, along with religious scruple. i wish i didn’t have to pay taxes under threat of imprisonment with which money the gov’t carries out murders of innocents around the world though, either.
        but this victimological narcissism is what drives me away from one catholic blog after another. “war on the Catholic Chruch.” please.

  • sjay

    I think it’s just a nice polite statement suitable for issuing under the circumstances. Sort of like when I get asked to write a reference for someone about whom I have mixed feelings. I focus on the positive impressions and keep the negative ones to myself.

    • S. Murphy

      That’s how I’m inclined to take it.

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    Location:USA-New Hampshire
    Elevation:3940 ft / 1200 m
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Started out looking for Crater Lake on a hike with my wife up a dirt road that looked to rough for our car, took a wrong turn at a fork, wife had had enough but I told her I was going to go up the next ridge and that I'd meet her back at the car. At the top of that ridge there was a very appealing peak calling to me. I'd never heard of Stevens Peak at that point, but after I got home I learned that was what I just climbed. Took a bit of a spill trying to run down the dirt road back to the car on tired legs, luckily not hurt too bad and wife hadn't been waiting very long for me. Mostly class 1 with some short stretches of class 2.
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February11 09,421James Peak
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  2,261James Peak
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May11 09,570Mount Ogden
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  3,810Mount Ogden
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June66 014,411Mount Rainier
  USA-WA - 2001-06-03
  13,796Mauna Kea
  USA-HI - 2002-06-18
July3939 018,510Elbrus
  Russia - 2009-07-15
  Russia - 2009-07-15
August1616 014,498Mount Whitney
  USA-CA - 1996-08-11
  10,078Mount Whitney
  USA-CA - 1996-08-11
September1313 019,341Kilimanjaro
  Tanzania - 2003-09-08
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  • Ascents: The total number of logged ascents, including unsuccessful climbs, non-summit goal hikes, drive-ups, or anything else logged as an ascent.
  • New Peaks: The total number of summits successfully climbed for the first time. Previously climbed peaks are not counted, nor unsuccessful attempts or non-summit goal hikes.
  • Vert-Ft/M: The sum total elevation gained by human power for the entire period.
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  • Elev-Ft/M and Highest Peak Climbed: The highest successfully climbed summit. Not listed if the same as the Highest Point Reached.
  • Prom-Ft/M and Most Prominent Peak: The most prominent successfully climbed summit.

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Happy Friday! It’s been such a great week at work. Busy but in a very good way with lots of  exciting things in the works. I’m spending my Friday evening working the front desk at Metro for the first time and I’m actually having so much fun with it. While I do get to teach classes and train clients as part of my job, I also spend a lot of time doing office work. It’s been great to be out on the floor tonight and chatting with the members. I’ve also been whipping up protein shakes, washing towels and praying that I am operating the computer system correctly! 😉

I’m happy to see the arrival of the weekend. I have a list a mile long of things I want to get done around the house. Starting with small things like buying new dish towels, organizing and cleaning all the way to things like resurfacing the bathtub, painting and furniture upgrades. I am trying to just take it one thing at a time but I’m in that zone where I want it all done now!

Breakfast after my morning yoga practice was Barney Butter, honey, mashed banana and cinnamon on toast.

I had a fierce smoothie craving mid-morning (must be in withdrawal after all those green smoothies during the challenge!) so I went to Berrybrook because I love their smoothies. I chose the “Mean Green” which was banana, pineapple, papaya juice, spirulina and Kyo Green. A little bit of a different spin on the green smoothie but so delicious.

I went home for lunch and an afternoon break since I had to be back at the club until 8 p.m. I have been so into egg scrambles this week and I made the best one yet today. I sauteed spinach and cherry tomatoes together and then added black beans and a dash of chipotle powder before adding the egg and shredded goat cheddar. I topped it off with salsa and diced avocado. I decided to forgo a fork in favor of using my chips to scoop it up. I just opened a bag of Wholesome Goodness Multigrain & Flax tortilla chips that I was sent to sample and they are great! They held up well to the scooping.

Someone was being a bit of a grump this afternoon. Isn’t that such a sad doggy face? I cheered her up (and wore her out!) by taking her for a run. It is such a beautiful day in Charlotte. As I was running I thought to myself that the conditions were pretty much what I would consider perfect for running. Sullie thought so too. Lately, she’s been very unmotivated to run and that’s really unlike her. She was on her a-game today and happy to be out there.

I needed a snack to hold me over during my shift at work so I grabbed one of my homemade granola bars out of the freezer. That snack seems long ago now and my stomach is growling. I’m meeting some friends for wine after I get the gym closed and then it’s home to whip up dinner.

I wanted to share one last thing with you. I used to work at an ad agency when I lived in Birmingham and they have a great blog, The Social Path, that covers all topics social media related. Today’s post was about 5 Fun Fitness Apps. I actually don’t use any fitness related apps on my iPhone but I would love to try some. Do you have any favorites?

Have a great weekend!

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  • Bethany I. April 13, 2012, 7:34 pm

    I thought today was perfect running weather too, which is why I also went for a run! It’s been so chilly lately in NC that I’d forgotten it was Spring, but today was exactly how Spring should be!

  • Tamara April 13, 2012, 7:49 pm

    Happy Friday to you! What is that amazing bread you had pb and banana on? It looks incredible! I have really been into egg scrambles this week too (for dinner!).

    You always inspire me, Jen. Have a most beautiful weekend!

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:24 pm

      hi tamara! it was great harvest dakota bread. it’s super good! eggs scrambles are easy, healthy and delicious!

  • Heather @ Health, Happiness, and Hope April 13, 2012, 8:12 pm

    That homemade granola bar looks amazing. I need to try making my own sometime!

    It’s so sad that I have an iPhone buy really don’t use many apps besides Twitter, Facebook and maybe Pinterest and Instagram. I need to browse through them one of these days… a fitness app might be fun to try out!

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:26 pm

      me either heather! i need to branch out!

  • Mollie April 13, 2012, 8:43 pm

    your eats look amazing! I love mushing my banana before I put it on my toast. After I put it all together I pop it back in the toaster so it all gets gooey and melty together. mmm!

    Have a great weekend 🙂

  • Christine April 13, 2012, 8:45 pm

    As far as fitness related aps for the iPhone go, you totally need to check out Gym Pact! It would work perfectly for you, since you’re at the gym everyday! Check it out: gym-pact.com

    I’ve made almost $50 since mid – January! It’s not like a huge amount of money – but a nice little reward for something we already do. 🙂

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:27 pm

      thanks for the recommendation christine!

  • Carrie April 13, 2012, 9:29 pm

    Your food always sounds so yummy! Happy Friday. Glad you were able to cheer up that sad looking doggy.

  • Miriam@Bellaspire April 13, 2012, 9:32 pm

    Happy Friday Jen. I’m so happy that you are loving your job. I know what you mean about having things around the house to do. I have so many little odds and ends. Painting furniture sounds wonderful but then it’s like.. “when am I going to do that?” Good luck!

  • Mary-Heather April 13, 2012, 9:50 pm

    Sullie is adorable even when she’s pouting. 😉

    I love using my iPhone for fitness apps! I’ve tried a bunch but some favorites are:

    C25K (this app helped me start running last year! It’s great!) http://www.bluefinapps.com/#ourapps I love that I could use my own music, it kept track of where I was in the program, and I didn’t have to watch the time – just run when it told me to run, and walk when it told me to walk.

    Nike Training Club http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nike-training-club/id301521403?mt=8 SO many workouts, for different fitness levels and focuses.

    I just started this Ashtanga app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ashtanga-yoga-michael-gannon/id455901722?mt=8 to help me start building a home practice – I travel often, so having it on my phone is great.

    DailyMile.com works with multiple apps that you can use to track your workouts, and it syncs to their site. http://www.dailymile.com/apps

    Basically you can tell that for better or worse I’m never without my iphone 😉 but I find it motivating to have programs

    • Alexis April 14, 2012, 1:57 am

      That C25K app got me started in running a year ago also and I just finished my first half marathon!! I loved it, and still remember staring at it willing those 3 minutes of running to just hurry and end:)

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:28 pm

      mary-heather – thank you so much for all of the recommendations. i am checking these out. love that gannon ashtanga app. i’m also never without my iPhone. addicted!!! 🙂

  • Whitney @ Whit Likes Fit April 13, 2012, 10:23 pm

    I use the Nike+ GPS app and seriously can’t get through a run without it.

  • cassie April 13, 2012, 10:46 pm

    your eats today are exactly what i want to have tomorrow! they look so good, i can’t wait!

  • Chris K April 14, 2012, 7:05 am

    Ashtanga Yoga with Michael Gannon. Great iPhone app for novice Ashtangis like me.

  • Miriam April 14, 2012, 7:14 am

    This is my first comment here, but I love your blog Jen! 🙂
    I came to the comments to see if there were any mentions of good workout apps, because I love using them. 🙂
    I LOVE the Nike Training Club app, I use it all the time. I like that I can do it at home because I don’t have a gym membership, and there are some really good workouts on there! I also use the GymBoss app to time my Bodyrock workouts. I think I might also download a start to run app, because the weather is improving and I would like to start running again but I would like to do that with some sort of plan.

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:29 pm

      miriam – thanks so much for taking the time to comment and for reading my blog!

      i will check out the nike app. sounds great! gym boss sounds like it may be useful for me too!

  • Katelyn April 14, 2012, 4:02 pm

    I just love reading your blog. As a fellow yoga teach and ‘crossfit-er’ you embody what I live each and every day. I do have one question though… and this may be random and far too personal, in which case you can ignore it, but I was wondering where you find time for your boyfriend/husband with everything you do? You never mention him so it seems like he’s not around much and that’s something I’m struggling with myself… just curious if it’s manageable for us busy gals 🙂

    • Jen April 18, 2012, 6:30 pm

      hi katelyn – i love hearing from fellow hybrid yogis!

      i am still trying to figure out the balance with busy life and relationships. it’s a work in progress every day! i do not have the answer! 🙂

  • Jen@FoodFamilyFitness April 14, 2012, 4:33 pm

    you seriously always have the best meals!!!!

  • Liaa April 15, 2012, 12:46 am

    Your smoothie and granola bar looks so good! Now I’m craving a smoothie too. Aw your dog is too cute 🙂 Have a great weekend!

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Forty years ago today, the Stanford Prison Experiment began — arguably history’s most notorious and controversial psychology experiment, which gleaned powerful and unsettling insights into human nature. Orchestrated by Stanford researcher Philip Zimbardo, the study randomly assigned 24 middle-class college-aged males, recruited via newspaper classifieds and pre-screened to have no mental health issues or criminal history, to the roles of prisoners and prison guards in a hyper-realistic simulated prison environment. The Trust Molecule by Paul J. Zak. iBrain can ‘read your mind’; enlists Stephen Hawking. A team of California scientists have developed the world's first portable brain scanner, and it may soon be able to "read a person's mind," playing a major role in facilitating medical breakthroughs.

"This is very exciting for us because it allows us to have a window into the brain. We're building technology that will allow humanity to have access to the human brain for the first time," said the project's leader, Phillip Low. KGTV reports that the device, created by San Diego-based NeuroVigil, and dubbed the iBrain, fits over a person's head and measures unique neurological patterns connected to specific thought processes. Sebastian Seung: A Neuroscientist Reverse-Engineering The Brain. Hide caption A map of neurons of the mouse retina, reconstructed automatically by artificial intelligence from electron microscopic images.

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Simon Starling's "Autoxylopyrocycloboros,"
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If there’s one thing that unites the East End of Long Island with the rest of the vast world, it’s the bays and creeks whose tides here wash out into the Atlantic Ocean and from there touch all the water of this world.

It’s easy to feel isolated at the end of an island, but it’s equally easy to feel connected to the rest of the world through the currents that float past our doors, picking up new ideas like flotsam eddying in the stream.

"This is the exhibit I was born to curate" — Andrea Grover with one of Mare Liberum's punts.
“This is the exhibit I was born to curate” — Andrea Grover with one of Mare Liberum’s punts.

I guess that’s why the Parrish Art Museum’s new exhibition, Radical Seafaring, has been filling both my dreams and waking thoughts for the past several weeks — it’s a glimpse into the universality of our experience here in the Peconic Bathtub.

And, in no small way, it’s a meditation on what art is when it takes place far from an audience, where the story of a piece must be told through documentation, a sort of journalism of the art of the seas.

Parrish Art Museum Curator of Special Projects Andrea Grover has been working on this survey of water-based art in earnest for the past three years, but she first conceived of it about a decade ago.

She jokes that Radical Seafaring is the show she was born to curate. Her father was a cod fisherman who worked on open dories. All the work was done by hand, and at the end of a trip the boats would be so filled with fish they’d be in danger of sinking.

“The only safety they had was homing pigeons,” she remembered at a day-long symposium titled Tideland Sessions in conjunction with the exhibit on May 21.

Her father later ran a marina and built boats in Freeport, where the boat he used to set the record for the first outboard-driven trans-Atlantic crossing is on display on the Nautical Mile.

“I’ve had my own radical seafaring adventures,” she giggled on a recent tour of the exhibit.

Ms. Grover said human beings’ concept of the sea has always been a fluid one — at one time no one would dream of taking to the sea for pleasure, and crossings were to be dreaded, but in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, ports bustled with stevedores and longshoremen, and luxury ocean liners meant that many people were able to experience life on the high seas.

But now, with the containerization of the shipping industry and most transoceanic voyages taken by airplanes, the open water is now once again the province of industry.

“Commercial activity really dominates what happens on the water,” she said.

But for artists, this plankton rich soup between the shores has become a fertile ground — seeking adventure, metaphor, a new vision of ‘the commons,’ lack of red tape or hope for a brighter future for the world, artists have taken to the seas in the past generation like, well, like fish.

Particularly surrounding the island of Manhattan, the waters have taken on increased importance for a more common land-based reason.

“All the land in the city is occupied,” said Ms. Grover.

Jas Ban Ader departs on the "Ocean Wave," leaving behind a spooky trail.
Jas Ban Ader departs on the “Ocean Wave,” leaving behind a spooky trail.

The exhibit is broken down into four themes — a taxonomy Ms. Grover created after she began compiling the work — Exploration, Liberation, Fieldwork and Speculation.

While this makes for a good way to classify some of the major themes at work in art on the sea, many of these projects seem to overlap boundaries, playing with art and science, media and maker culture, community and anarchy, ecology and authorship.

In the museum, I was struck most by the tale of Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who had been living in Los Angeles when he set out in 1975 on a project titled “In Search of the Miraculous” — a voyage across the Atlantic in a 13-foot sailboat titled Ocean Wave. The boat was found washed up on the Irish shore the following year with no trace of its captain.

But it wasn’t the story of his disappearance that I found most striking — it was the film and the sheet music of the young choir he’d hired to sing sea shanties, including “A Life on the Ocean Wave,” in preparation for his departure. The whole spooky project seemed carefully planned, as if he might have known the outcome from the beginning.

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This is the first in a guest series by Gary Smailes of BubbleCow.

At BubbleCow we work with writers on a daily basis to help prepare their books for submission to publishers and agents. As part of this process we have taken the time to talk and listen to publishers and agents to discover exactly what they are looking for in a successful book proposal. In this series of 6 blog posts guest written by myself, Gary Smailes (with Charlotte Frost), I will share what we at BubbleCow have learned and give you, the writer, all the skills and tips needed to write a great query letter and book proposal.

OK let’s start at the beginning. Here’s the first mistake most writers make when preparing a book pitch:

They think like writers and forget they are selling a product!

Book publishers are in the business of making money – even not-for-profit academic publishers need to keep themselves afloat. It’s true that many of them love books and want to see new knowledge disseminated, but at the end of the day they will not acquire a book unless they think it will sell enough copies to make back enough money to at least break even.

It’s your job to convince publishers that your book has what it takes to make it in the marketplace that that publisher specialises in. In reality this means you must pitch more than a unique contribution to knowledge. You must demonstrate that your book has a readymade, and accessible, academic readership, which means that your query letter and proposal are, in a sense, sales documents.

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Firstly, I want you to clarify exactly which subject area(s) your book belongs to. This sounds obvious, but just make absolutely sure. For example, you might be an art historian and your book might definitely be about an art historical subject, but does it also fit into cultural studies, design or architecture, and/or is it also about gender or politics. Be clear, what are the categories it fits. This needn’t be a long list, in fact it’s best if it’s only a couple of items long, but just clarify this for yourself.

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Germantown United CDC (GUCDC) is one step closer to the comprehensive neighborhood plan it’s been eyeing for years thanks to a new $25,000 civic engagement grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

The one-year grant will be split between GUCDC and a local theater-based nonprofit known as Just Act, which uses trained actor-facilitators (in teams of both youths and adults) to help spark community dialogues.

According to the two groups, the dollars will help them "map both the formal and informal networks currently contributing to community improvement efforts in Germantown." The work supported by the grant will be a "community network analysis" that ensures all of the neighborhood’s voices are "well-represented and prepared for their role as stakeholder in the larger effort to revitalize greater Germantown and the neighborhood’s shopping district and commercial sector."

"One thing we’d like to do is have a lot of these groups that may not be talking to each other right now start talking to each other," explains GUDCD Executive Director Andy Trackman.

Just Act Executive Director Lisa Jo Epstein -- who is partnering with GUCDC Corridor Manager Emaleigh Doley to spearhead the civic engagement project -- is on the same page as Trackman. The more people who participate the better, she says. "Then, when a developer comes in, there’s already going to be a new informal network that can say, 'If you’re coming in, you have to also respond to us. You have to do something for us, not for people from the outside.'"

"What I would like for this grant to do…[is] show that Germantown United is really committed to talking to all the voices in Germantown, especially as it relates to our planning of the neighborhood," adds Trackman. "I also would like to see this as a building block, as an attention-getter to get more resources into the neighborhood for this planning process."

Doley and Epstein are currently developing a series of community storytelling events; dates and locations TBA.

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Schoenberg - Gurrelieder

The 'tales of Gurre' tells the story of two lovers, King Waldemar and Tove. Waldemar's wife, Queen Helwig, finds out about their love and has Tove killed; Waldemar rails against God and as punishment is forced to spend every night riding with the ghosts of his dead vassals.

Eventually spring returns and the souls of Waldemar and Tove are united. This astonishing performance of Schoenberg's masterpiece is conducted by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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23 December 2007

Pinotage Club Celebrates 10th Anniversary

The Pinotage Club is 10 years old. We went live on the web in December 1997.

As the original site said “The beginnings of The Pinotage Club date back to early 1997 when the subject of conversation of a group of business travellers working in Cape Town turned to wine. The group felt that the South African wine industry was not capitalising on its one unique asset – Pinotage -- that Pinotage was underrated in its own home, that diversity of wines was to be encouraged and that Pinotage needed a 'fan club'. Forming such a club presented problems when those present lived in different countries and travelled frequently. But as the wine flowed the solution became apparent. We could keep in communication by e-mail and our club could exist in cyber-space on the world wide web. It was agreed that it would be a very informal club. Details of Pinotages tasted, availability etc would be e-mailed to each other.”

In retrospect it was an unfortunate choice of a name since, as later became clear, in the United States wine ‘clubs’ are commercial organisations selling wines by subscription. But we felt that our championship of this variety which seemed to have few friends in its own country and many enemies outside made us members of a select group.

After three years of being a lone voice promoting Pinotage on the web, the official producers Pinotage Association launched an impressive web site at www.pinotage.co.za. The increasing wealth of detailed information on that professionally run site and the increasing overhead of maintaining the Pinotage Club’s GeoCities web-site led to the migration in 2006 to this blog format. Here news items of interest to Pinotage lovers could be quickly published.

Our fourth newsletter, in 1998, quoted wine-writer Tom Stevenson who "felt all the fuss about Pinotage was a waste of time” and that “if it were a worthwhile grape it would be grown in abundance around the world but it still remains an exclusively South African wine." We agreed it is a valid observation that for the variety to be considered successful, it must surely be adopted by other countries. We soon found that Stevenson was wrong in saying it was exclusive to SA since Pinotage wine was being made in New Zealand where it had been grown since the 1960’s. And Zimbabwe’s two wineries both made Pinotage. Further spread of the variety had been halted by international sanctions against South Africa during apartheid years, although some cuttings had managed to travel in visitor’s suitcases.

The Pinotage Club has since researched and tracked down Pinotage vineyards around the world. Over the past decade we broke news of Pinotage in three US states, two Canadian provinces, plus Israel and Brazil. And in a blind tasting of Pinotage from around the world held in the Cape in 2001 local winemakers in the Cape were stunned when Babich Winemaker’s Reserve 1999 Pinotage from New Zealand was revealed as the favourite.

And if Pinotage no longer “remains an exclusively South African wine," what of South African Pinotage? There is no doubt that there is better Pinotage now being made in the Cape. Much of the thanks for this must go to The Pinotage Association for its research into factors affecting growing and vinifying Pinotage. But enthusiastic winemakers who have treated the variety seriously played a major part, and brands such a Stormhoek have done a great service in introducing easy-drinking fruit-led Pinotages to new drinkers and there is a generation of wine drinkers for whom Pinotage is just another variety, without any of the negative connections felt by many older drinkers.

It is interesting to see how versatile Pinotage is; pink Pinotages assuaged the recent increase in popularity for rosé wines. Co-fermentation with Viognier was pioneered by Fairview, Laborie Estate brought out dessert Pinotage fortified with Pinotage brandy, Sylvanvale released an Amarone style wine made from grape bunches dried on the vine, Graham Beck made the first Methode Champenoise red Pinotage and Simonsig had great success with their Methode Champenoise pink Pinotage. Diemersfontein created a cult with their coffee and chocolate Pinotage and Stormhoek and Froze created pinks meant to be served over ice.

Year after year more wineries compete in the annual Pinotage Top 10 Competition. Kanonkop and L’Avenir Estates currently hold the record for the most wins, with seven each, but every year more new names gain the coveted trophy and the quality barrier keeps being lifted. This year the Pinotage Association opened the competition to international entries.

When we started the Pinotage Club, it seemed possible that the variety could vanish. Now the future seems bright.

Here’s to the next 10 years.

Highlights from the past 10 years

1997 – Pinotage Club formed, website goes live December.
- First Pinotage Top 10 Competition held; there were 34 entries.

1998 – Pinotage Club described as 'Passionate about Pinotage' by the South African newspaper The Dispatch.
- First California Pinotage confirmed and bottle obtained. Pinotage confirmed in New Zealand

1999 – First sparkling red Pinotage made by Graham Beck.
- Newsletter publishes several Pinotage recipes, including Warwick Estates Pinotage Ice-Cream.

2000 – Severe fires in the Cape hit several vineyards.
- Warwick releases Three Cape Ladies Cape Blend an “intrinsic Cape statement of a trio of varietals which together express the Capeness of South African red wine”.
- New Zealand doubles Pinotage production.

2001 – Pinotage confirmed in Brazil and Virginia.
- International Pinotage blind tasting held in the Cape with four SA wines and 6 from New Zealand, California, Brazil and Zimbabwe. NZ wins.
- Pinotage tasting in Toronto presented by Pinotage Clubs Peter May
- Pinotage Association launch website

2002 – Pinotage Club presents five Pinotage tastings in London and Glasgow - 2000 & 2001 Pinotage Top 10, Kanonkop vertical, International Pinotage and ‘Back to Back’ - Pinotages from cousins Michael (Backsberg) Back & Charles (Fairview/Spice Route) Back.

2003 – More Pinotage tastings in Cape Town (with WineCellar) and London.
- Pinotage planted in India.
- Pinotage Club guest hosts a Pinotage 101 at www.wldg.com.
- Descriptions for Pinotage Aroma wheel requested.
- Wilderer’s Distillery makes Pinotage Grappa.
- Pinotage discovered in New York State.
- Pinotage Club trains staff at London’s Vinopolis wine experience with a tasting of different Pinotage styles.

2004 – Pinotage Club held Pinotage Top 10 from 2002 tasting in London.
- Bellevue Estate held a 50th birthday party for their Pinotage vineyards. Pinotage planted in Ontario.
- Barkan Winery invites critics to a tasting where they unveil Israel’s first Pinotage.
- Delheim co-operate with a Canadian winemaker to make a pink Pinotage.
- SA WINE magazine drops its annual Pinotage Champion competition.
- Kaapzicht Steytler Vision 2001, containing 40% Pinotage, wins International Trophy for the Best Red Blend in the 2004 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC).
- Peter May made honorary member of Pinotage Association and judges at the Pinotage Top 10 Competition
- Pinotage aroma wheel released, designed by Dr Johann Marais for the Pinotage Association.

2005 - 'California Wine and Food Magazine' reports local Pinotage is "clearly superior" after tasting 12 California Pinotages from 10 wineries along with 7 from South Africa and 3 from New Zealand.
- Peter May judges at Pinotage Top 10

2006 – Stables release the first South African Pinotage from outside the Cape ; it comes from the new KwaZulu-Natal Wine of Origin region.
- Pinotage Club moves website to a blog format. First entry shows Pinotage Club’s Peter May harvesting Ontario’s first Pinotage vintage.Peter May harvesting Ontario's very first Pinotage

2007 – Beyerskloof produce a million bottles of their standard Pinotage, open new restaurant and wine tasting cellar, and toast it with their new sparkling pink Pinotage.
-Three Virginia wineries release their first Pinotage varietals
- Meerendal take advantage of change in Wine Of Origin system to register a single vineyard block Pinotage- ‘The Heritage Block’ - planted in 1955
- WineLibraryTV.com’s Gary Vaynerchuck raves about Kanonkop
- Pinotage confirmed in Cyprus

  1. congratulations - and heres to another 10.

  2. congratulations pete - some fine achievements indeed.

  3. Sue Courtney19:21

    Well Done Peter - Congratulationz on your first decade. As Andrew said, "Here's to another 10".

  4. Congratulations to an incredible achievement. Your site is very well written, informative and fun. Keep up the terrific work!

  5. Mustang Winemaker23:22

    Congratulations! I am an advocate of this great varietal that I have helped to make over the last few years. Keep up the good work- I know how hard it can be to stand by something that the 'critics' may not appreciate yet.
    Cheers to the New Year!


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The last couple of days I’ve found myself playing VVVVVV again. I played quickly through the main game, satisfied myself I could still do the infamous “veni vidi vici” trinket, and then having been slowly beating the various add-on levels from other people (some of which are really good, at least in terms of the platforming). I find myself wondering why on earth I’m playing it, given that I’ve beaten it so very many times.

It seems to be because it’s just such a well-made game. It’s even weirder because I’m not actually that partial to platformers in general (I don’t love Mario for instance – though Kaizo Mario had me a little hooked). But VVVVVV just works so well somehow. It’s like a total abstraction of movement. In a way it’s a bit like Skate perhaps, in that you’re largely focused on kind of dancing with the environments (and the easy resets certainly make getting the dance steps right a lot more pleasant). There’s something wonderful about the simplicity and difficulty of the way levels in the game work out, and the way that most of the time a single screen is a little world to negotiate in miniature, a single dance move.

Another part of me kind of feels angry about playing the game so much though. I’m not learning anything, it’s not that fun per se, it just kind of “is” – it’s a bit like going for a walk or doing the dishes, except devoid of lived experience. I worry about games at times like that. Are we game makers wasting people’s time? Are we, in a small way, killing them by facilitating these sorts of activities? That’s dramatic, of course, but I like the way it sounds! Killing our players, eh? Heady stuff.

But really – I worry about myself as I play VVVVVV for the nth time. I learn nothing much except how to negotiate environments in VVVVVV. I feel nothing much except briefly acknowledged successes and failures. And then I finish. And it’s more or less the same whether I play VVVVVV, an older game, or shack up with some new suitor, like Spelunky. Each time I’ll turn away from the screen a little closer to the grave.

But goddamn it I love playing VVVVVV.

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So, you’ve developed a great technology. Perhaps you’ve even developed your own products based on that technology. If it’s really that good surely other people will want to use it for their own commercial gain?

In the field of research and diagnostic antibodies the ability to prepare high quality reagents conjugated to enzymes or fluorochromes was for a long time the bastion of those with in depth immunochemical knowledge. That was changed by the launch of Lightning-Link® kits by Innova Biosciences in 2004 – providing the opportunity to anyone who can use a pipette to prepare conjugates in less than 30 seconds hands-on time.

As I mentioned above, if you have such a great product others will want to use it commercially, and therefore a strategy to license Lightning-Link® for commercial use was required. Whilst it’s not possible in such a short article to consider all aspects of licensing, I’ve included a few key points below that should always be considered.

Field of Use

Understand what the licensee wants to do with your product, and offer them terms for exactly that. If they ask for a license to use products in research applications, don’t include rights for diagnostic applications – that might be a useful extension in the future. If they ask for rights within a veterinary assay field, why would you include human assays? Of course, they might ask for something very broad, in which case you really should find out what they really want to do…..and ensure the terms reflect that.

Products / technology

Obviously this will differ from company to company. For Innova Biosciences product sales are a key part of the value of the license, so we don’t license our core technologies to licensees to use themselves. For others the opposite will apply. Of course, if you do have a range of products like Lightning-Link® you need to consider if a licensee really needs access to all of your products – it’s unlikely to be the case, so you should license only what they need, and keep open the opportunity for extending the license in the future.

The licensee wants this, the licensor almost certainly doesn’t! If there is any form of exclusivity it has to be justified by the return – and a guaranteed return at that, avoiding the risk coming from empty promises. Of course, you could be creative here – is there an opportunity to offer exclusivity in such a narrow field of use that it is truly unlikely to reduce your income in the future?

Even with a great product like Lightning-Link® there is some competition. You have to understand the competition to understand the value of your product to a potential licensee. This is simply the same approach as you’ll use when selling the product to any other customer.

Range of Reasonableness

Perhaps the really key point of everything already mentioned. You need to propose terms for the license – if those terms will not allow the licensee to use your technology profitably they will simply walk away. Your valuation of the technology being licensed has to be generally aligned with that of your licensee – fitting into a so called “range of reasonableness”.
In summary, simply remember that an active licensing program can bring your products into long-term and regular use by a range of different companies. The value of a predictable income stream derived from such licenses cannot be underestimated to the long term success of your business.

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