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On weekday mornings, sometime between 1.a.m and 5 a.m., lawless fantasia used to appear on television like a good recurring dream. Today, the rhapsodies are duller, stricter, and more subdued, but in the ’90s, they came in the form of ads for phone sex lines, softcore porn, and low-resolution infomercials that sold the mirage of a life fantastic to a woozy after-hours audience. The colors were always saturated, syrupy, rich as cream; the tones sedate, misty, and mostly libidinal. Whether bored, sleepy, incapacitated, or horny, this tribe—routinely or accidentally—was well acquainted with the call of Pure Moods.

Unexpected, unbidden, and more or less unnecessary, Pure Moods is a piece woven with some wear into the silk of the popular unconsciousness. You may not remember hearing this work, but after watching the commercial, you might find yourself feeling that you’ve always known lines from its script. Swooning and naked in its pride, the 17-song compilation album, advertised in 60-second hallucinations disguised as infomercials, was a warm vat of music that we might today refer to loosely as “new age.” Its carefully selected tracklist—a mosaic made largely up of film or television scores, or trance remixes thereof—seemed engineered to induce a ridiculous sort of fugue state. For some, hearing the album might pang a Proustian memory of falling asleep on a familiar sofa. For others, it can suggest an intensely ambivalent mixture of pity and allure. Pure Moods’ essence is safe, formless, and mostly meaningless, like a piece of art hung in a bathroom. For me, and for many others, it felt like paradise.

Before the shadow of Bezos, before the Zuck, before, even, the contemporary comedy provided for us by the insidiously dippy Elon Musk, there was Sir Richard Branson. In 1970, 22 years before he would publicly weep while selling his record label/airline/mobile-phone/space-tourism conglomerate, Virgin, for over a billion dollars, the rugged and floppy-haired Branson invented the mail-order model of record distribution out of the usual entrepreneurial cocktail of luck and generational wealth. Twenty and lordly, then-helming his small but pop-savvy lifestyle magazine, Student, he noticed the UK’s Retail Price Maintenance Agreement—which kept strict restrictions on the saleable cost of vinyl records—had been quietly lifted. Seizing the sword of opportunity, he quickly took to the back pages of his paper to be the first to offer a good bargain. “Name any record you want,” his ad read, “and we’ll sell it to you 10% to 25% cheaper than anyone else.” A business was born. Branson’s arbitrage paid off well in an unwittingly fertile market, functionally reconfiguring a luxury product into a more petty-bourgeois pleasure. High off the fumes of his boon, he assembled a team from his editorial staff, bought a manor, refurbished it into a recording studio, and christened the effort “Virgin” in honor of his fumbling inexperience in the music industry. It would become one of the largest and most powerful record agencies in the world.

After the first ripe boils of the young label’s hardships had been lanced (Branson was noted for having “no musical taste whatsoever” until enlisting his avant-minded second cousin to arrange a roster of artists for him), Virgin enjoyed a mainstay on the tone and volume of music sales for many years. They held court, especially in the early ’70s, to a certain genre fit for the bookish, acid-dabbling Eurodude who read NME and dreamt of armfuls of warm Eurogirls who did the same. A river of German esoterica gave the label several releases by the psychotropic faerie proggers Faust (who were deftly marketed as “the German Beatles!”) and the rhinestoned scuzz of Tangerine Dream, but the pièce de résistance of Virgin’s inertia lay in a freaky slab of music by a shy 19-year-old composer named Mike Oldfield.

That an album with a title and sound true to the phrase “Tubular Bells” could have eventually sent the world into a mania for two 20-some-minute, mostly repetitive instrumental opuses of glockenspiel and honest gibberish is testament to the strength of Virgin’s aspirational animus. After hearing the mesmeric and thoroughly uncommercial music Oldfield had designed in the wake of a disturbing LSD trip, Branson backed his production efforts in full at the Virgin manor. It was clear that the future mogul yearned to head the most influential label in an industry that he knew incredibly little about. What he did understand, however, was that there was a vested, collective, and profitable desire for music that made audiences feel like connoisseurs of a higher order.

Cannily, Branson invited Britain’s leading tastemaker and radio host, John Peel, onto his houseboat for lunch, during which he played the entirety of Oldfield’s finished two-track, 49-minute Tubular Bells to the captive presenter. Miraculously, Peel adored the record and premiered it in full on his show. “One of the most impressive LPs I’ve ever had the chance to play on the radio,” he purred on his May 1973 transmission. Rolling Stone later called it “a debut performance of a kind we have no right to expect from anyone.” Tubular Bells would launch the Virgin empire by earning the label million-dollar financing from its investors, become the third-best-selling album of the ’70s in the UK, provide theme music for William Friedkin’s 1973 blockbuster, The Exorcist, and sell more than 15 million copies globally. Almost exactly 20 years later, Tubular Bells would lay at both the spiritual and literal centerfold of our Pure Moods.

The full ad for the U.S. release of Pure Moods lives on in accurate fidelity on YouTube, but it would be a shame not to recollect it for you here. First, a call bursts from a black screen. A quick time-lapse of a sunrise fades into a husky, lusty voiceover (“Imagine…a world…where time drifts slowly…”), which lays cozily across a shot of an autumn mountaintop. At least a dozen vignettes ensue. A woman spins in a woven dress as a unicorn gallops into translucence. A faraway man walks through a fast-moving river. The unicorn reappears, newlyweds gaze and grope at one another before a soulful kiss, waves crash onto a dusky beach, a swarm of hummingbirds eject from a cloud—each image t-boned into one another in an effort to inspire a feeling of chaotic, seductive fantasy, soothing by way of arousal.

First released as Moods – A Contemporary Soundtrack in the UK in 1991, the compilation was rebranded as Pure Moods upon reaching the U.S. in 1994. The slightly fatter American version contains songs that are as decadent and suggestive of Tolkienian lore and day spa imagery as the montage in the commercial, each composed by artists that, when written out, sound like a cast of villains and druids. There was Enya, Vangelis, the Orb, Enigma. Together, they formed a New Age Mount Rushmore, chiseled in lavender quartz.

These were tracks and artists never designed to be played alongside one another, tracks and artists, for all intents and purposes, mostly foreign to one another except in essence. Their clunky but satisfying cohesion can be attributed to the cataloguing done by the Virgin heads, who arranged the piece on a lark, “stumbling into the project” as an experiment to determine if an album could be successfully telemarketed and sold far before its release date. The model, deemed “a huge buzz” after selling more than 2 million copies prior to its formal drop, would be replicated five times over with a tetralogy of sequels in the releases of Pure Moods II-IV. Later, it would fuel a variety of spinoff flavors, like Gregorian Moods, Christmas Moods and Tranquil Moods: The Ultimate New Age Collection. (I will freely offer that these should be sold as a box collection, titled, simply, “Mood Ring.”)

No claims were made over precisely what sort of mood Pure Moods would put you in, but the album summoned a particular soul of Virgin’s experimental curios and left-field aberrations that signaled a certain taste, ease, and class of listener. It was something like a lifestyle brand touting self-care avant la lettre. Suitable for the essential-oiled and candlelit bath, the head shop, or for popping into the cassette deck of your Corolla on a summer’s night with the windows down and your children asleep in the backseat, Pure Moods arranged a prefab state that, for the listener, may have summoned a feeling they didn’t know they needed. Likewise, for Virgin, Pure Moods was something of a sample platter made in quiet tribute to the unexpected blessings in their own roster: the artists, tracks, and rogues that had clinched the success of the label in stupefying spades.

At the spine of both the UK and U.S. versions of the album lives the baroque jangle of “Tubular Bells” (though excerpted from its original sprawl to a reduced-fat 4:58). Flanking “Bells” are tracks from Enigma, a louche and late-stage ’90s-era cousin of Oldfield’s success. “Sadeness (Part 1),” the first Enigma single, is a porny, breathy, breakbeaty song, with Gregorian chanting giving way to a French voice pining orgiastically for the 16th-century erotic writer, Marquis de Sade, atop a downy bed of trip-hop. It somehow defies both anarchy and order, any sense of convention, and the usual formula for anything resembling commercial success. Yet, beginning in 1990, it lived on the Billboard charts for five unbothered years, reached the Top 10 in several countries, and made Enigma the most successful act signed to Virgin at the time of its release. (Unintentionally, the Gregorian chanting endemic to the track created a global hunger for sacred Latin monophonic music: In 1994, an unrelated album titled Chant from three dozen Benedictine monks living in a Spanish monastery went double-platinum.)

True to their title, Enigma remained heroically and consumingly atop the charts for the majority of the ’90s. “Return to Innocence”—whose aboriginal Taiwanese vocalizations blast at the top of the commercial, responsible for waking thousands of half-asleep American citizens on couches—is a glamorous smoothie of pseudo-erotica, a treatise on nostalgia and self-help. Seemingly custom-made for the proto-Y2K fetish for exploring one’s attitude with slogans across graphic t-shirts, its first four lyrics are just words (“Love…devotion…..feeling….emotion”) both inspiring and completely drained of meaning, at once empty and rich. It enjoyed a No. 1 one position on the charts in over 10 countries.

Non-Virgin releases on Pure Moods share the twin tenets of mild conceptual lunacy paired with baffling commercial success. There’s Enya’s immortal “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away),” which, upon its release, the Los Angeles Times scoffingly noted as part of an album filled with “nothing more than unusually windy New Age music.” “Orinoco Flow” is, in fact, an island archipelago of a song, with choral arrangements as lush and fabulous as the remote wonders it promises. It seems to give off its own aromatherapeutic odor and made Enya—a woman who does not tour, who never has toured, and whose perfectly inverse ratio of near-total reclusiveness and global omnipotence inspired an entire phenomenon known by business students the world over as “Enya-nomics”—one of the wealthiest and best-selling musicians alive today.

There’s the four-minute throb of “Oxygène Part IV,” courtesy of one Jean-Michel Jarre, who once bore ownership of the Guinness World Record for hosting the world’s largest concert (3.5 million in Moscow, 1997). DJ Dado, an agent of chaos, remixed the theme from The X-Files into his “Dado Paranormal Activity Mix,” ascending an already astral, imminently whistleable piece of art into the Burning Man mesosphere of dream trance (a top 10 hit for weeks across Europe). Kenny G, the saxophonist known in most minds as the human incarnation of a scented candle, contributes a satiny number titled “Songbird,” a song that became the first instrumental to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 since the “Miami Vice Theme” by Jan Hammer (who is also featured on Pure Moods).

It’s no surprise that so many of these tracks were either born or retrofitted into movies and commercials. From Karl Jenkins’ “Adeimus” (now known as part of an indelible Delta Airlines spot), David Byrne’s “Main Title Theme from The Last Emperor” (self-explanatory) even to David A. Stewart and Candy Duffer’s silken, sax-laden “Lily Was Here” (of the 1989 Dutch film, De Kassière, later to become a mainstay of the Weather Channel “Local on the 8’s” music) these were spectral mood-pieces, if not tailored for, then entirely befitting of, calibrating emotion. When divorced from the screen, scores take on new life when soundtracking yours.

But an album that capitalizes on tracks that would serve as well as closing-credits for a lovesick drama as they would in an airport bathroom does not, necessarily, a serious album make. Even without looking at the melty watercolor cover or hearing the title of the compilation, the songs summon the solace endowed by inspirational posters and cruise brochures that now feel bathetically out-of-touch: blue horizons freckled with soaring birds, pistachio mountaintops, forests of fluff and fungi, images of women with their hair thrown back in smiling rapture. Are these parodies of paradise, or can we see them in earnest? The commercial unhelpfully adds that the album is delivered “direct from Europe,” wherever or whatever that may be.

If you, like I, have struggled manfully to crack the riddle of whether the album is glib, good, or good in its glibness, the idea of camp may be a sound starting point. As Susan Sontag details in her 58-point treatise from 1964, camp is work characterized by a sort of “seriousness that fails.” Or, a unique “spirit of extravagance [that] cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is ‘too much.’” That too-muchness—from the commercial’s art direction to its deliciously sleazy voice-over, promising that this album was specifically “for your way of life”—was enough for mine, and for hundreds of thousands of others. Pure Moods peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard chart the week of July 26th, 1997, the same week the Men in Black soundtrack secured first place.

An inspired and perfect choice, then, that Pure Moods begins its downtempo descent with Angelo Badalamenti’s “Theme from Twin Peaks,” that totalizing Lynchian ballad of too-muchness. Regardless of whether your first encounter with the music was within the hundreds of scenes it was deployed in during the television series, in the later-lyricized Julee Cruise version, titled “Falling,” or, even, within Pure Moods, Badalamenti’s score from a show that—like the album—embodied mesmeric alternate realities, sentimental chintz, and a strangely narcotized, palliative hopefulness, sealed the work tightly with a sad, bassy kiss.

For everything that Pure Moods is, one thing is certain: Pure Moods is not kidding. Pure Moods aimed to sell the awe and wonder of music’s ability to change you. It is work that is genuinely, and for better or worse, peddling you a vague miracle. It is quietly saying that you will feel good for having listened to it. Even if it reeks of patchouli and a joke now, it also reeks of something like purity.

Even those most irony-poisoned among us can wrap ourselves around the fullness of Pure Moods as a pop object that’s completed its natural tour of meaning: a curio first taken in earnest, then as a joke, now as a museum fixture that holds both forces in its heart at once. It also illustrates the great life cycle of art’s journey through critical response—how spectacles are typically born as novelty, laid to rest as cliché, and resurrected as nostalgia.

Watching the ad for Pure Moods today can impart a sort of joyous nihilism by laying bare the architecture of the more complicated—but no less fantasy-enabling—advertising so inherently part of our lives now. And, in an hour when everything feels alien and existence slippery, falling in love with Pure Moods’ lawless pageantry is worth any mild cognitive dissonance it suggests. “People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing,” goes Sontag, again. “They’re enjoying it…it is a tender feeling.”

I grew up watching infomercials with the focus of an obsessive. Longform ones, like that of the especially good spot for the Magic Bullet blender (a full 30-minute, eight-actor orgy of disbelief), or that of the Xpress-Redi (in which two people praise a countertop griddle) were especially rich for their steeply-sloped story arcs, climaxing in money shots of satisfied men and women leading their lives with new, happy ease. These half-hour-long paeans to kitchen appliances were absurd moments of absolution; they worked like slow-acting pills against the usual symptoms of childhood melancholy. Their taglines and promises buried themselves inside me like hymns or worms. For the child who slept belly-down in front of a television nearly every night, exhausted by the glow of a screen, these moments felt like satisfying surrender to a particular sort of commercial rapture.

And this is what Pure Moods inspires—rapturous, wild, ridiculous satisfaction, each song over-indexing on its unspoken bond to bring fantasy to an otherwise quotidian life. Like the seconds before losing consciousness, it re-created a floating, near-delirious state as image and song wrapped each other in a duvet of chloroform and melatonin. To so many, Pure Moods guaranteed a feeling so total, so rich, so sedative and decadent, that it approximated, then beget, real beauty. The miracle was the point. To see salvation suddenly offered to you—a proposal to make life easier, more fantastic, purer—was a bargain at $19.99, rush shipping notwithstanding.


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This impeccable Bonanza has been hangered all of its life and is in excellent condition. It comes with a recent Continental Factory Reman, Recent Paint, Windows, and Recent Fuel Bladders. New Garmin 530W in 2012, that is coupled to a STEC 60-2 with Yaw Damper!! Complete logs.

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Total Time Since Airframe: 3255
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Quick Answer: Should You Prebake Pie Crust?

How long should I blind bake pie crust?

Bake: Bake until the edges of the crust are starting to brown, about 15-16 minutes.

Remove pie from the oven and carefully lift the parchment paper (with the weights) out of the pie.

Prick holes all around the bottom crust with a fork..

Should I Prebake my pie crust for pecan pie?

Blind baking basically means baking your pie crust before filling it and baking the entire pie. This is necessary when making a pie with a custardy filling like ours today as it prevents the crust from becoming soggy.

Should I Prebake my pie crust for apple pie?

You do not need to pre-bake a pie crust for an apple pie or any baked fruit pie really, but we do freeze the dough to help it stay put. Pre-baking the pie crust is only required when making a custard pie OR when making a fresh fruit pie.

Do you have to bake a store bought graham cracker pie crust?

1 Answer. The pie crust is ready to use. There is nothing in a graham cracker crust that requires baking, although a little toasting gives some color and deeper flavor. … If your filling will require baking, there is little reason to bake the crust separately.

Why is the bottom of my pastry soggy?

I was taught that there are basically two things happening in pastry as it cooks – the gluten in the flour is creating the structure and the fat in the butter is creating the texture. But if the fat melts before the gluten has reacted to create the structure it will result in a soggy bottom.

How long should I bake my pie?

A pie with a raw fruit filling will bake for about an hour. Berry, apple, and pear pies cook for about 45 minutes. When using a pre-cooked filling, pies can bake at a higher temperature for a shorter period of time, just enough to thoroughly bake the crust and heat the filling.

Can you leave a baked pie crust out overnight?

There should be absolutely no problem leaving blind baked crusts out on the counter over night. You can always throw them back in the oven for a bit if you live in a damp climate and you feel they need crisping, but in general, that shouldn’t be necessary.

How do you keep a pecan pie crust from burning?

If your crust is burning too soon, cover the edges with foil or with a pie crust protector. Remove it for the last fifteen minutes of baking.

How do you make the bottom of a pie crust brown?

Preheat the oven to the temperature specified in the recipe. Use a Pyrex, glass, dark metal or ceramic pie pan, as these materials help the bottom crust brown more efficiently. Lighter metal reflects heat away from the pie crust, which results in less-successful browning. Put the bottom crust in the pie pan.

Should I bake the bottom pie crust first?

Whether you use ready-made pie crust or your own pie crust recipe, bake your bottom crust prior to filling your pie pan to avoid a soggy bottom. Pie shells under creamy custards also may remain soggy after baking. To avoid an unappetizing pie, pre-bake apple pie crust before you fill it.

Do you need to Prebake pie crust for quiche?

Prepare the Quiche Crust And yes, as you’ll see, you should always prebake pie crust for the quiche to avoid a gummy pastry. Preheat the oven to 450°F. … This technique, known as blind-baking, creates a stronger crust that can better hold a moist filling, such as the egg mixture in quiche.

How long do you blind bake pastry?

about 15 minutesLine the tart tin with baking parchment and fill with ceramic baking beans or dried pulses. Bake for about 15 minutes or until the pastry is firm, then remove the beans and cook for about 5 minutes more, until golden brown and biscuity. Trim off any excess using a small serrated knife before filling.

How do I make my bottom pie crust crispy?

Follow these tips for a crispy crustBake it Blind.Choose a Rack.Brush the Bottom.Use a Cookie Sheet.Make a Thicker Crust.Add a Layer.Fill It While It’s Hot.

Should you blind bake a fruit pie crust?

The key is to avoid the typical apple pie pitfalls — a soggy crust and waterlogged filling — by blind baking the crust and boiling down the juices before filling the pie. These steps add a bit of extra time but ensure a crisp and flaky crust and a cider-flavored filling that’s not the least bit watery.

How long do you bake an apple pie from scratch?

Our Favorite Apple PieOur favorite recipe for making classic apple pie from scratch. … We don’t precook the apples before adding to the crust. … To make this apple pie, we use approximately 4 pounds of apples (or about 11 cups of sliced apples). … We bake a standard 9-inch pie in a 400 degree oven for about 75 minutes.

How do you keep a pecan pie from leaking out of crust?

(Buttering the pie plate is important especially for a pecan pie. The filling tends to leak through the bottom crust and stick, making serving difficult.) One way to prevent that leakage is to paint the bottom crust with slightly beaten egg white before adding the filling.

How do you keep a bottom pie crust from getting soggy?

For double-crust fruit pies, cut slits in the top crust to allow steam to get out. The escaping moisture will help prevent soggy crusts. Bake your pie in the lower third of the oven. This will allow the bottom crust to become crisp while the top shouldn’t get overly browned.

How do you blind bake a pie crust without pie weights?

Fill the shell of the pie dough with rice or dried beans all the way to the top of the crust even into the crimpled edges as long as the parchment paper is covering the dough. Doing this will keep your crust from getting misshapen and bubble up during baking. Bake the crust for 20 minutes in a 375° F oven.


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What Does It Mean To Lock Your Cell Phone?

What happens if you lock your phone?

For Android 6 and above: If your device doesn’t have a screen lock, the Lookout Lock will prevent access to your device until the code to unlock it is entered on the device itself.

If you are using a screen lock, the Lookout lock will display a special screen to help you get your phone back..

What do u do when ur phone is locked?

Reset your pattern (Android 4.4 or lower only)After you’ve tried to unlock your phone multiple times, you’ll see “Forgot pattern.” Tap Forgot pattern.Enter the Google Account username and password you previously added to your phone.Reset your screen lock. Learn how to set a screen lock.

How much is it to unlock a phone?

Then they charge a fee — typically $50 — to unlock the phone if a customer wants to switch providers. “Essentially a locked phone did keep consumers tethered to their service provider,” because they faced paying a fee to flee, said Behar.

What is the most secure way to lock your phone?

Passcode. Passcodes are the most common security smartphone methods around. They range from the standard 4-digit numerical code to complex multi-character passwords. It’s always a choice between convenience and security, really.

Which is more secure fingerprint or password?

On the whole, a good, strong password is more secure than fingerprint recognition software. Fingerprints cannot be altered if they are compromised, nor can they be altered between different accounts or devices. Fingerprint scanners can be easily hacked, even with everyday items such as play dough.

How do I permanently lock my phone?

For Android: Tap Settings > Security > Screen lock, tap either PIN or Password, then follow the steps.

Can a carrier lock your phone?

Most cell phones sold in North America—especially on contract—are “locked” to a particular cellular carrier. You can only use them on that carrier’s network, so you can’t switch to another carrier without “unlocking” the phone first.

Will my carrier know if I unlock my phone?

Quick facts about unlocked phones A locked phone can switch owners, phone numbers, specific plans, but not carriers. … The best way to test your phone’s lock status is by popping in a SIM card from another carrier— you’ll see an error message if your phone is locked.

What happens if I buy a phone that’s not paid off?

What Happens If You Sell a Phone That Isn’t Paid Off? … If you do, your carrier will blacklist your phone — also known as giving it a bad ESN or IMEI number. This number is accessible to other carriers too, which means they may not activate your phone on their network if it carries a blacklisted IMEI or ESN number.

What’s my network unlock code?

The default PUK code is usually 1234 or 0000. The default PIN code for an AT&T SIM card is 1111 Either way, if you never created a PUK for your SIM, you can easily call your SIM card provider and they should be able to give you this 4 digit SIM PUK number for free.

How do you lock your cell phone?

This way, if your phone is lost or stolen at least you only lose the phone and not your privacy or dignity. go to settings > security and PIN for screen lock, and short time for Automatically lock. Go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock and set a 4-digit passcode. You should also set an auto-lock time period.

What does phone locked mean?

What does it mean when a phone is locked? When a handset is locked it means it will only work with the provider from whom you bought it. If your phone is locked it won’t automatically become unlocked when your contract expires with your provider. You’ll have to specifically ask your carrier to unlock it.

Why you should lock your phone?

These hackers can ruin your life and steal your data by installing malicious software on your phone that gathers your personal logins and scans your emails. You can’t prevent this type of hacking by simply locking your phone. The only way to keep hackers out of your personal data is by locking the apps themselves.

Can I unlock my phone myself?

Unlocking your cell phone lets you switch carriers without buying a new device. All carriers are required to let you do this, as long as you’ve paid off the phone. Many smartphones can work with any U.S. carrier.

Can a phone be unlocked if it’s not paid off?

Can you unlock a phone that is not paid off? No. If you ask for the code to unlock your phone and it isn’t paid off your carrier won’t provide the code.

Is there a way to unlock a phone for free?

Unlock Codes Usually Cost Money, But Free Codes Exist! Once again, in the USA carriers are obligated to unlock the phones of eligible handsets, so please do speak to them first. One popular site is FreeUnlocks, which offers the first code free through a partnership with TrialPay.

Should I lock my phone or not?

While entering a PIN code is reported as annoying by the people who responded to my survey, Android does offer a safer and easier alternative called a lock pattern. … Compare that to only 10,000 combinations for a standard four-digit PIN code. So not only are patterns faster, but they’re also safer!


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HelpSpot Help Desk Purchase Decision

With our 45-day trial expiring this coming Monday, we’ve decided to purchase HelpSpot for use as our internal helpdesk. But wait, there’s more! We’re also going to be using the system not just for IT, but the Hospitality, Maintenance, and Marketing/Communications (MarCom) departments as well! We have yet to work out the specific details of how each of the non-IT departments will use the system, but I have a meeting with our People Resources person (HR) next week to brainstorm the best workflow, and we’ll go from there.

I have been using HelpSpot for IT department help tickets (HelpSpot calls them “requests” which is much more end-user friendly, one of the great things about HelpSpot) during the trial, and it’s been very easy to use and useful. So far we have 53 tickets in the system, from the beginning June through today, with 8 currently open and 45 closed. I’m looking forward to beta testing version 2, with some really useful new features like HTML support, request merging, batch responses, improved custom fields, integrated help, and an API that should make it even more extensible and flexible (I see potential for integration with Spiceworks or some other inventory system through the API, depending on specific details).


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Posted by: marisadedios | 22 January, 2012

Dear students and visitors

Queridos alumnos y visitantes

It is with great sorrow that I inform you that  THIS BLOG WILL BE TEMPORARILY INACTIVE as a way of protest against the attack Valencian public institutions,  especially Health and Education are under.

Lamento comunicaros que a partir de ahora ESTE BLOG PERMANECERÁ TEMPORALMENTE INACTIVO como medida de protesta contra al ataque a los servicios públicos de la comunidad valenciana, especialmente a la sanidad y la educación.

Valencian Government have announced new cuts in spending on the public sector which seriously affect Education.  It goes beyond dramatically cutting down teacher’s salaries (in my case nearly 20% less). For example, did you know that at our school we cannot pay for the electricity bill nor can we spend any more money on any kind of resources?.

I know we all have to tighten our belts when there is a crisis. But this is a scam. We are mired in various political corruption scandals, the region has been left cash-strapped and with hulking debts.

Who has led us to be the most indebted Spanish region? Will they pay for their negligence?

If you want to read more

We want Education, not corruption

Public sector financial crisis pushes schools to the brink of closure

Valencia in drive to cut Formula 1 costs

Spanish politician’s 24-metre sculpture prompts accusations of megalomania

El desprestigio político al funcionariado

Miles de ciudadanos se manifiestan por la enseñanza pública

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  1. Interesting article, I think the Spanish people have had enough…

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Method:The campaign involved a blitzkrieg of web banners, print ads, outdoor publicity, and "dressing up" the project site for the offer. We went the extra mile and re-christened the lane leading up to the project as “Green Drive” with the Pune Municipal Corporation.
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Once this was “New Age”, but now it’s just an extremely calming musical experience with a distant ethereal female vocal and a small smattering of musical notes that feel more like a guided meditation than a concert. Gabrielle Giguère hails from Canada and sings angelically. Her back up is a collection of odd instruments like “Bowed Bells” and an old autoharp. Her vocals form a mysterious parchment over this soundscape; there’s a distinct note of life passing away. Example: “Memento Mori” was inscribed on tombstones a century ago, it means “Remember death.” Here it’s a track that adds a sense of morose finality to the collection, even though it’s in the middle of the experience. “In Nude, in Fog and River” seeps along like a mist rolling down to a cold lake, it’s an evening that might never end for this songstress.

Her songs are full of space, and the press release that came with this download included commentary in French and a pull quote from “Brooklyn Vegan”, a music mag I have yet to see on a news stand. Calm beyond words, this is the sort of sound you need to cool off after a harsh commute or an hour of listening to national news.

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More than 40-50 crews from around the world participate in the Bay Regatta each year. Teams enjoy the beautiful and interesting route of the regatta, and its diverse evening program.

The Bay Regatta is an outstanding event in the world of yachting in Southeast Asia. The regatta takes place in one of the most picturesque areas of the region. The participants will enjoy four days of racing with a nightly rewarding of winners and delicious dinners at hotels and restaurants in the provinces of Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi.

The regatta is organized by Regattas Asia in association with the Phuket Yacht Club, the Thai Yacht Regatta Association, and the Sports Authority of Thailand, the Phuket Province, the Phang Nga Province and the Krabi Province.

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  • 04 February, 2020

    12.00 - 17.30 - Registration

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  • 06 February, 2020

    9.00 - Start of the race

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When the Pain Doesn’t Make Sense: A Catholic View of Suffering

Gabriel Gillen wasn’t sure what he was going to do with his life after graduating from college, but during his family’s Thanksgiving reunion he was quite vocal about the poor choice he believed his older sister was making.

She was a member of the 82nd Airborne, an elite division of the U.S. Army. Gillen was struggling to understand how she could turn down a promotion to Captain and an opportunity to teach at West Point to get a Masters in Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

Gillen 01“I thought she had gone Bible Belt crazy,” said Gillen, who would one day become a Dominican priest. “I started riling her. ‘So what are you going to do with that degree? Couldn’t you get that part time and still teach at West Point? Take classes somewhere else? It would be a greater witness to teach at West Point. You’re throwing your life away!’”

But nothing he said dissuaded his sister, who had rediscovered her faith and who told him she knew this was what she was supposed to do. Unfortunately, his sister never got her degree. She died of leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the famous cancer hospital in New York.

When his sister left this earth, Gillen left the Church. He started to question everything. He needed to understand the problem of pain. He looked at philosophy, and eastern mysticism. He look anywhere and everywhere, except his own faith tradition because he thought he knew what the Church taught. But even beyond the grave, Gillen’s sister wasn’t finished reaching out to her little brother.

Angel solo with blue background“She had written a letter to a friend of mind that got him through Ranger school,” Gillen said. “He ended up going to Steubenville. He got engaged, broke it off,
and became a priest. Long story short, he got me out to Steubenville, brought me back to confession and daily Mass. I ended up joining a missionary order and then the Dominicans.

“My first assignment as a Dominican was Sloan Kettering! I almost said, ‘I can’t do this.’ Then, I realized I was able to relate with people, to share [what had happened in my own life]. People are angry. They direct it toward you. I was able to not be afraid of that; to talk them through that. I got it.”

Dominican Father Gabriel Gillen, O.P., who is now director of the Rosary Shrine of St. Jude in Washington, D.C. and who recently visited EWTN to talk about the Angelic Warfare Confraternity (see last weeks’ blog), said that, while he was at Sloan Kettering, he sometimes found himself ministering to people in the same room in which his sister had died.

“At one point, a lady was yelling at me because her daughter was dying. I was walking out of the room, and I really felt like I heard, ‘Get back in there!’”

carrying the crossWhen he returned, the woman who had booted him out was shocked.

“I said, ‘God hates suffering. This is why God took on suffering – to destroy death.’”

As they spoke, Father said she finally understood why Christ – and therefore His people – had to suffer. As Father says: “Once we understand why Christ had to suffer, everything else makes sense.”

To help us understand this spiritual reality, Fr. Gillen loves to use analogies from the natural world. He came upon one of his best analogies after being asked to give a talk on suffering to a group of children at a Wyoming Indian reservation who had been through a lot of trauma. After spending much time before the Blessed Sacrament, he still didn’t know what he was going to say. But, as he was leaving the church, his eye fell upon a statue of Our Lady of Grace, especially her foot under which she crushes the head of the serpent.

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He remembered a story he had heard about snakes. Until 1895, if someone was bitten by a snake, they died. But Albert Calmette, a French scientist and protégé of Louis Pasteur, discovered that if you milk venom from snakes and give it to sheep – to a lamb – you get an immune response and the blood of the lamb becomes an anti-venom.

Says Fr. Gillen: “No matter how big or how small, when we give the venom we’ve been stung with to the Lamb of God, He turns it into something else in the Body of Christ.”

As Father says, “You can’t make this stuff up! Suffering was useless until Christ came. Nothing was redemptive. Now it’s different. Even a deadly doses of venom can be cured with the Resurrection. Everything has been recreated.”

Crowning with thornsFather says many in the Early Church couldn’t understand how someone could be both fully human and fully divine. The Jews couldn’t accept the Messiah because they believed he was supposed to reign like David and be greater than David. They couldn’t understand that He was coming twice: first as the Suffering Servant and then in Glory.

The early Church used the term “Christ the Victor,” who was purposely taken into the prison of death, Father said. Early icons showed him kicking down the door and releasing Adam and Eve from their cell.

“Christ allowed Himself to be imprisoned so He could break open the doors. That’s how the Early Church used to describe suffering. Later, St. Basil described suffering as justice. Man had sinned and had to pay the price. It’s helpful to go back to the Church fathers.

“We get scandalized because we’re always wanting to be the Messiah and not the Suffering Servant. As sons and daughter of God, we want to be princes and princesses and to enter into His reign. We don’t realize we have to be Suffering Servants because He wants us to rescue the rest of the body that is still sick!”

Nail and crossSo how do we heal from the evils that are perpetrated upon us? We look to the Master. St. Peter denied Christ three times. After the resurrection, Christ appeared to the apostles. Three times he had Peter go back and revisit the evil of his denial. Three times, Peter affirmed his love, thereby undoing the denials and redeeming the situation.

“God sometimes has us revisit things to transform them so they won’t haunt us,” Father Gillen said. “I didn’t want to go near Sloan Kettering. We get caught up in the storms. But with Christ, we can walk on water. He says, ‘I want you to be totally free.’”

Today, secular psychologists sometimes help patients heal by reframing traumas from the past, but Father says God goes much deeper. He goes back and fills those things in us that need to be filled. In fact, many Popes have spoken about “returning to the School of Nazareth.”

Guy in hospital room“The only holy family was the Holy Family,” Fr. Gillen said. “Every family has different developmental stages. All have been given certain things or not given certain things. At your current age, you might have forgiven everybody, but you need to go back to those different ages. The nine-year-old [you], the 15-year-old [you], has to be filled with the things you weren’t filled with. God really goes back, out of time. You can go back to different stages with Mary as mother, Joseph as father, and Jesus. You can go back and nurture [your earlier self] and remove things.”

Father says we can pray the rosary and place ourselves at the different stages of Christ’s life.

“Feel the great love the Blessed Mother had, not just for Jesus, but for all the people who will be baptized into Christ. We need to place ourselves into the Body of Christ and let Jesus and Mary and Joseph fill us. That’s spiritual passages.”

CrucifixionSo let us go to the School of Nazareth, as Father suggests, and let God in. Let us ask Him for healing. Meditate on His Word and His life. Ask Our Lady, our Mother, through the mysteries of the rosary and other Biblical scenes to help. Turn to St. Joseph, foster father of the Savior and a carpenter, to help craft something beautiful out of something that may be very ugly. If we do this, then we will be able to resonate with Father Gillen’s final words:

“Evil is a lack of goodness; it has no substance. Lucifer imploded on himself. He was an angel, but instead of going outward in love, he became a black hole. God doesn’t create the void [which is how those who have experienced a tragedy sometimes feel]. He fills it. He allowed himself to be swallowed by death for three days; He went into a spiritual darkness that God did not create.

“You cannot fill a black hole on an actual level. How do you fill it on a supernatural level? Only God can do it. [God] allowed His uncreated light to be swallowed into that black hole to fill it and that’s how he destroyed it, so the game is never over. There is nothing in life we could be hit with that could destroy us.”

Amen Father Gillen!

Want to learn more? Fr. Gillen recommends: “Behold the Pierced One,” http://bit.ly/PiercedOne by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and Part 1 of “My Way of Life,” which he calls “a devotional way of going through the ‘Summa,’” by Fathers Farrell and Healy, http://bit.ly/MyWayofLife. Father likes the section about the angels. You can also watch a homily Father Gillen delivered while at EWTN this past November at http://bit.ly/FrGillenHomily.

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3 Responses to When the Pain Doesn’t Make Sense: A Catholic View of Suffering

  1. Dr. E O'Brien says:

    Superb words to live by.

  2. Laura J Dennis says:

    Such an awe inspiring real life story of faith, determination, acceptance, patience & love!!!
    May God continue to give you strength & bless you always!!!

  3. Susan Isaacs says:

    7/28/2018 [ I apologize for the long winded letter I write to you but something inside of me told me to mail it to you. ] I need to tell my story to whomever will listen. I’m a 59 year old mother of one. My husband and I have been married 35 years. It’s been a tough and delightfully fulfilling life for me. You see I have had M.S. for 41 years and now I have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer recently. God wants me to do something for him but I’m not sure what. Let me start from the beginning. I have asked the holy spirit to guide me in this venture. You see I was adopted by a loving couple William and Audrey Wermuth who could not have a baby. The way she described well it sounded like endrometosis. I know I spelled that wrong but I’m using voice activated software. So they looked into adoption. I was adopted through Children’s home of Cincinnati Ohio. Then 10 or 11 months later they adopted my brother Steve. We are not blood related. I have always teased Steve that I was the oldest child in the family. They asked my parents if they would consider adopting another baby. With only one parent working and having promised the judges to give us college educations they couldn’t go back on their word. When we were adopted our parents’promised the judge that they would give Steve and my self college educations. They did so. Steve had a master’s degree in health business management and I’d received a degree in nursing. My father worked hard having his own printing business and my mother was a stay at home mother. Mom was my best friend. I believe children get whatever they want now a days. My son did which was a disservice to him. My husband and I met through a mutual friend in college. Jim and herself just didn’t work out on the dating front. With me being in college and Jim being in computer science at the same college we just hit it off. We were engaged for a little over two years. We were two infatuated young adults. At that time I was protestant and Jim was catholic. Some people call them” a cradle catholic “. We had tried to get a priest to approve of the wedding ceremony but they wouldn’t because we had to have weeks of classes before we were married. Of course love struck young adults that we were we didn’t if agree and we got married in my church. Looking back now as a convert I shake my head at how hormone driven Jim and I were. I came from a strict German type family background. I proudly say I was a virgen on my wedding night. I thank my parents for that. They were sweet and strict at the same time. My husband tells me that Audrey had her tact removed being that she told it like it was whether you liked it or not. I think I’d turned out like her Being a convert I’d tend to be very strict in my Catholicism. My brother used to call me Sister Sue. I went in under Pope John Paul the 2nd. My favorite pope of all. Of course I’m biased. My mother-in-law who was catholic I’m sure prayed for us big time. She was a very devout catholic. I’m sure it hurt her when we were married protestant but she was a very patient person. My husband renewed his faith when I became catholic. Then two years later my father and mother became catholic. My father’s side of the family was catholic. I was my mother’s sponsor that night. I was so proud of them that evening. I always looked up to Mother Angelica because she was like my mother who told it like it like it was! They told the truth whether you wanted to hear the truth or not. When he became catholic, my father, said he felt like he had come home. Half of his family was Catholic his father was catholic his mother protestant. Let’s get back to my diagnosis of my multiple sclerosis. I was in nursing school and I developed foot drop. I scoured my nursing books looking for what it might be. At that time dad was teaching me to drive a stick shift and he thought I was using that as an excuse not to drive a stick. So a neurologist Dr. Armitage suggested it might be a spinal tumor needless to say the test result didn’t show any presence of a tumor. Meanwhile the foot drop eventually left. I’d basically diagnosed myself as having M.S. Something kept telling me that I was right. So after our marriage nothing more showed up. Then we waited to have a child this was five years into our marriage. My mother in law suggested we wait to have five years together as a couple and so we did. We wanted a formal diagnosis of my M.S. And they took a spinal tap and the M.S. showed up in that spinal fluid. We were told that M.S. is usually not transferred in the family. Occasionally it can be but rarely it’s not. So we decided to have a baby. He was born on October 7 1987. During the year’s Dr. Reed treated me with steroids. I was in relapsing/remitting stage of my disease. I’ve always had a positive attitude with my life. Jesus has gotten me through 40 years of my Multiple sclerosis. I believe that my M.S. was so very slow I became comfortable with it. Adapting over the years. If I didn’t have to my savior at my side all the time I would be lost. I guess feeling comfortable was a sin in its self if you look at it that way. Father Terry always said that I’d beat my self up for no reason. I was too critical upon my self. I’d told him that I identified myself with the sorrowful mysteries. He said you also have the joyful, glorious and Luminous Ministries. Now I have ovarian cancer. Jesus wants me to do something but I don’t know what unless it is to tell others about trial’s and tribulations, but you see I don’t look at them as trials and tribulations. I see them as gifts and a treasure. You see he is molding and shaping me to a new life to come. Am I scared? Of course any human being would be if they were human at all but I’d have to look at a bigger picture which is a new life to come. If a person has no faith they would be lost.. In my opinion. After 40 years of M.S. I knew Jesus had my back. I knew before that. I knew that as a child. I guess I always have. My adopted mother was very faith filled. That time she was protestant. When I would come from school she would be reading the Bible. Anyway I’m finished for now. I hope you find this readable and making sense. My name is Susan R Isaacs. I live at Maple knoll nursing home. My address is. 11100 Springfield pike, Cincinnati Ohio, 45246. Thank you for reading my letter God bless all of you at EWTN and I hope Mother Angelica becomes a saint one day. In Christ’s love and friendship, Susan Isaacs PS: I hope this gets to Father Gillen. I needed to tell my story. Thank you Susan Isaacs

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Arabs used to travel to the Indian subcontinent even before the advent of Islam and the Prophet (SAW).  Traders would take their goods by sea to the west coast of present day India to sell their spices, gold, and African goods. This contact between the Arabs and the shores of India naturally brought this budding religion to India. The First Foothold The major incursion of Islam into the Indian subcontinent


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A phrase that I feel gets a bad rap is “Good enough.” I’ve seen quite a few posts, Tweets, and comments that, when boiled down, essentially say “Good enough… isn’t.”

I get what they’re trying to say, I think; don’t half-ass something and call it “good enough.” But they’re discounting a large group of obsessive, perfectionistic types – myself included – who will read that statement and end up never actually finishing anything… because they can only see “good enough,” not “perfect.”

There needs to be a distinction between “good enough” of the type that says “Eh, I did okay, and nobody can complain about it” and “good enough” of the flavor that says “I did all that I was capable of.”

The former is a sin. The second is what keeps things from building up in the “I’m tinkering with that but it’s not done” pile, because such things will never be done… as they will always just be “good enough,” to a certain mindset.

Of course, I am insane – certifiably, mind; I don’t swallow a handful of bitter pills every morning just for funsies – and may just be justifying my own garbage. But I still think there’s something worthwhile in doing something that’s “good enough.” At least it’s done. Better to have something done than trapped in eternal limbo, or so I think.

I’m having plenty of those moments as I work on Black Yard. I’m doing it with RPG Maker VX Ace, because it’s the tool I have. I can’t afford a newer one at this time. Writing code from scratch is not really an option (back in the dark days of DOS, it was; I was fairly proficient with C++ at the time, and could usually make BASIC comply; since the dawn of Windows, those skills are no longer functional.) I lack the talent and skills to draw or paint well, and lack the resources to hire someone else to do it, so I have to make do with the default textures and sprites. While I was at one point capable of playing piano, bass, and guitar, I never had much of an ear for music or the creation thereof; I was a mildly talented audiocopier, essentially. I also lack tools for creating music and sound effects, even if I had an ear and a mind for such. So the stock ones have to do.

Will Black Yard be everything I want it to be, everything it could and should be in the best of all possible worlds? Probably not. But will it be “good enough?” Yes. It will be the best I can make it, it will tell the story I want it to tell, and when I hit the “compile” button and generate an .EXE that is “finished,” I will be happy.

Then I’ll nod my head and say “Good enough.”

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Jenny O’Hara & Nick Ullett at home in “Bakersfield”

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Nick Ullett & Jenny O'Hara

Her email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.”  (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.)  For actor/director Jenny O’Hara, it’s a serious mantra.  As it is for her hilariously entertaining husband, actor Nick Ullett.

Los Angeles theater lovers get the chance to sample their superior skills—and the magic they create by acting together — in Stephen Sachs’ new play Bakersfield Mist.  Sachs, the co-founder (with Deborah Lawlor) of the award-winning Fountain Theatre, also directed this premiere at the Fountain.

Bakersfield Mist is a comedy inspired by true events, in which a former truck driver from Orange County contended that the painting she purchased in a San Bernardino junk shop for $5 in 1992 was an undiscovered Jackson Pollock,  and several art experts supported her position. (Remember — “nothing is funnier than the truth”).

In Sachs’ play, the story has moved to Bakersfield, and the former truck driver is a former bartender. Enter Lionel Percy (Ullett), a New York art expert, to evaluate the “masterpiece.”  What follows is a classic conflict over truth, value, and the meaning of art.

Sachs, who admits he was “excited by the idea of a bawdy, colorful, foul-mouthed character who clashes with a sophisticated know-it-all art expert,” wrote the play with O’Hara and Ullett in mind.  “It was their voices I heard in my head,” he says.

Jenny as Maude Gutman in "Bakersfield Mist"

O’Hara, who has one of those faces you recognize instantly (because, like Kevin Bacon, she’s been in just about everything), was born in Sonora, California, “but,” she says, “I only stayed there a week.”  Instead, she grew up in upstate New York and Pennsylvania and enrolled at 17 in Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.  “I was too young,” she says, “and I was having too much fun to be serious,” so after a year she took off for New York.

She lived there until 1977, when the lure of TV work drew her to LA.  Her mother is Edith O’Hara, who continues to run her 13th Street Repertory Company in New York at the age of 94.

Ullett, meanwhile, had grown up in England, going to school at Cambridge University, and rooming with John Cleese and Eric Idle.  He came to America in the ‘70s as half of the comedy team Hendra and Ullett, and toured successfully all over the country, even appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Nick as Lionel Percy in "Bakersfield Mist"

Eventually, when the act broke up (“Tony [Hendra] didn’t really like performing on stage,” Ullett says), Hendra became a writer and editor and Ullett went into advertising.  “The man who hired me at J. Walter Thompson in 1972 was an Anglophile and a comedy writer,” Ullett notes, “and I went from being a copywriter and producer to the creative director of the L.A. office.”  By 1979 he was a vice president of the company.  “I was being groomed for the corporate life, and it worried me,” he says.

And so he went to Playboy (“a bizarre operation”) to head their in-house advertising department.  He was also manager of the Singing Playmates: “four well-endowed ladies who couldn’t sing a note,” he explains.

Ullett and O’Hara started living together in LA in 1984, but they soon got jobs in New York. In 1985 Ullett returned to acting in The Importance of Being Earnest (with Cherry Jones) and then Joe Orton’s play Loot on Broadway.  At the same time, O’Hara was starring on Broadway in the female version of The Odd Couple. Ullett and O’Hara set up housekeeping in the dressing room over her mother’s studio.  “We had dinner parties in this tiny room,” he says, “and to get to it you had to scramble over the roof of the theater.”

They were married in 1986, as Ullett was in between the LA tryout and the Broadway previews of what would become a three-year job in Me and My Girl. O’Hara was in LA during much of this period, beginning work on the My Sister Sam series, but Ullett was able to leave New York briefly to be with O’Hara at the birth of their first child, Sophie, in Los Angeles.  (Sophie Ullett is now an up-and-coming actress herself.)

Finally working together (although never in the same scene), O’Hara played Ilona in She Loves Me and he played the headwaiter in productions in Florida and then at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa in 1990.  “I had a fabulous song, ‘A Romantic Atmosphere,’ at the end of the first act,” he says, “and for ten minutes I killed!  I considered it the best job in show business.”

Tragedy struck when Ullett developed cancer.  Choosing to be treated at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, he underwent a bone marrow transplant and other critical care that has allowed him to survive the disease and remain cancer-free for 19 years.  In the meantime, O’Hara and Sophie returned to New York to be able to visit him, and O’Hara got a job as a director on the iconic soap opera As The World Turns.  “When they train you as a director, they don’t pay you,” Ullett notes, “so they quickly wrote her into the script so she could get paid as an actress.”

When she was told at a Christmas party in 1992 that the role of a butler was coming up on the series, she suggested that the recovering Ullett try out for it.  He not only got the part but stayed with it for a year and a half as the writers developed him into a butler/killer.  Finally, when he and O’Hara decided to return to L.A., the writers were confronted with the task of writing them both out of the script.  They did it by having the two attend a wedding where they decided to get married themselves.  “So we left the wedding and eloped and were never seen again,” O’Hara explains with a laugh.

All of this is documented in Ullett’s one-man show Dying Is Easy…Comedy is Hard, which he wrote and performed at the Matrix Theatre last fall.

Apparently, dancing is hard, too.  Ullett tells the story of his dancing stint in Me and My Girl.  “I was far too old for the part, and I couldn’t dance to save my life—I’m English,” he says by way of explanation.  “But the rest of the troupe was wonderfully kind and helpful in teaching me to tap dance, even though they knew I was useless.

The main problem was that I never developed any muscle memory.  When you’ve been dancing all your life, your body automatically moves into the right groove.  But mine didn’t.  So one night, after I’d been doing the role for about six months, my body just forgot everything.  There they were, 31 players lined up onstage to give me my big introduction with their outflung arms—ta da!—and 2,000 people in the audience waiting expectantly, and I just stood there, frozen.  So eventually I started leaping around, kicking my legs out and waving my arms, while the cast behind me made chortling and choking noises, trying to smother their laughter.

In fact,” he adds, “I’ve never been in a production that didn’t have some kind of a disaster.  Another time in Me and My Girl a huge light fell out of the ceiling and broke onstage.  It could have killed someone.  And what’s more, it was during an outdoor scene.  So we all tiptoed delicately around it, going on with our business, until finally the actor who played a butler came onstage with a broom and dustpan and swept it all up.  The audience loved it.”

There was always something unexpected going on on My Sister Sam, too,” O’Hara adds.  She played Pam Dawber’s assistant, Dixie Randazzo, on that 1986-88 TV series.  Dawber, who had become a star on the sitcom Mork and Mindy, “was really rowdy and loads of fun,” O’Hara says.  “She even got Mork (Robin Williams) to come in one time and do the audience warm-up.”

Nick & Jenny at their home in the Hollywood Hills.

In addition to their television and stage careers, O’Hara and Ullett are members of Los Angeles’ Theatre Tribe Theatre Company and the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and L.A.  “The Ensemble Studio Theatre here in L.A. has two 99-seat theaters in a new complex in Atwater Village,” Ullett says enthusiastically, “and it’s just a love fest to perform there.”

The two have made extensive appearances in California theater:  O’ Hara played in Our Mother’ s Brief Affair at South Coast Repertory and in Theater Tribe’s A Skull in Connemaraand Book of Days, as well as The Body of Bourne at the Taper. Ullett’ s LA credits include playing the Pinball Wizard in The Who’ s Tommy at the Aquarius Theatre, as well as a stint as one of Murphy Brown’ s more bizarre secretaries. O’Hara and Ullett both appeared in The Last Seder in 2008 at the Greenway Court.

Meanwhile, Sachs’ new play Bakersfield Mist, after its world premiere at the Fountain, will go on, through an affiliation with the National New Play Network, which sets up play readings for small regional theaters, to performances in eight regional theaters around the country.

Ullett will next be seen in Geezers, a film that has been accepted for the Toronto Film Festival in which he plays “the head of a crime family with tremendous joie de vivre.”  And O’Hara has three upcoming films currently in post-production: Sassy Pants, The Sacred, and Unfair and Imbalanced.

As the interview winds down, O’Hara sums up their marriage and careers:  “We have had a great life together,” she declares with a satisfied sigh.

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A Must Muscadet

‘What can you say ‘bout Muscadet that’s not about lemons and briny spray?’

Like me, you probably have an image of Muscadet that begins on a scale of steely simplicity and works down to utter vinous neutrality. The region, on Loire’s far left, butting the Atlantic Ocean, relies on a grape so innately forgettable that most people forget about a second after they learn the name.

Melon de Bourgogne

Melon de Bourgogne

Want proof? Ask a roomful of people who dabble in wine knowledge what varietal goes into Muscadet and I’ll give you a dollar for every one that says Melon de Bourgogne if you’ll give me a dime for every one that doesn’t.

The wines from this strange little appellation were originally grown for distilleries, like the insipid sippers made from Cognac’s one-dimensional Ugni Blanc. At least Burgundy was planted by lusty Romans; Melon de Bourgogne found its way to Loire via the race least likely to know anything about viticulture other than the headhunters of Papua New Guinea: The Dutch.

The vines in Pays de la Loire used to be red, but after a frost in 1709 froze them all to the ground, the Wooden Shoe Brigade marched in and planted a cold-hardy white varietal then on the decline in Burgundy. The intention was to produce eaux de vie, but for myriad horticultural reasons, the grape did better in the Loire than it had in , and the iconic wine called Muscadet has been a mainstay of the region ever since—the wine that many Europeans consider to be the best shellfish match on the planet.

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Dutch sandwich

Why do we call it ‘Muscadet’? Whereas it’s obvious that telling people that your wine is made out of Melon leaves room for cantaloupe confusion, it seems strange to settle on a name destined to be confused with Muscat and/or Muscadine, two separate and unrelated species, or Muscatel—a fortified sugary wine for hobos. But again, we are dealing with the Dutch, a race that eats chocolate sandwiches, say ‘Hi!” when they’re leaving and respond to everything else with “Tsjonge, jonge, jonge, jonge, jonge.”

In any case, the Muscadet appellation was only made official in 1937 and includes three sub-regions: Muscadet-Sèvre et Maine, Muscadet-Côtes de Grandlieu and the miniscule Muscadet-Coteaux de la Loire, which is smaller than a square mile. At over 20,000 acres, Sèvre et Maine is the region’s powerhouse—something that proved a detriment during Muscadet’s first wave of trendy popularity in the 1980s, when high-volume négociants encouraged Melon overplanting, much of it on land that was better suited to growing actual melons.

Overplanted Melon

Overplanted Melon

As a result, there was a glut of cheap, watery Muscadet on the market for many years, doing indelible damage to the brand.

In its textbook, and perfectly lovely incarnation, a Muscadet is desert dry, bright with acidity, demonstrative of an elusive sense of minerality that may show up as a slight, pleasant saltiness and even a bit prickly from carbon dioxide dissolved during the bottling process. But above all, the paradigm version displays an underlying richness from a period the wine spends aging on the lees; the residual yeast particles formed during fermentation.

In balanced measures, these attributes equal a shivery, steely—although often relatively simple—sip.

Michel Brégeon Re-Invents The Steel

Michel Brégeon

Michel Brégeon

In 2011, a cru communaux system was developed in Muscadet, intended to designate superior growing regions within the appellation. The first three named were Clisson, Le Pallet and Gorges.

I assume that there are more of them available in France, but in my secluded corner of the wine world, it is rare to encounter a Muscadet with the creamy depth of these exclusive crus, where a slightly different soil structure and an extended growing season produces riper grapes; older vines produce fruit with more intensity, and thus, the Muscadets, though not quite on steroids, tend to be pumped versions of generic tasting Sèvre et Maines.

img_4537_largeDomaine Michel Brégeon has been a leading advocate of these small, intense, privileged plots. His Gorges vineyard, for example, is less than twenty acres. It is built on gabbro soils, locally called ‘green rock’—acidic, decomposed granite that helps the vines assimilate micronutrients. Combined with ripe harvests from vines that are, on average, 50 years old and prolonged aging on spent lees in underground, glass-lined vats until bottling (up to seven years at times), the wines develop a structural backbone that allows for that most rare of Muscadet phenomena: Traction—an innate ability to get better, not worse, with age.

The wine I sampled from Brégeon, ‘Gorges’ 2013, was still youthful and vibrant, and probably will not reach an optimal maturity for another five or six years. It opens with a yeasty, late-harvesty nose of honey and pineapple, leading into a crisp palate filled with green apple, mint and notably, smoke.

Yet, somehow, the lemon notes that so typify the region remain intact, as an undercurrent that buoys the complexity.

220px-tulipomaniaMaybe that’s the lesson learned from the Dutch, who, fifty years before they got into vineyard management, were in the midst of Tulpenmanie—Tulip Mania, considered the first recorded speculative bubble in economics, during which virtually every soggy bog of reclaimed land was planted to bulbous show flowers.

Rewritten for Muscadet, that old saying goes:

“If life hands you lemons, plant more Melon.”

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Your MD Advisor will help you articulate your goals, taking into account your personal circumstances and constraints. They will devise a plan to achieve these goals financially, including a time frame for each one to help get you there.

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Your MD Advisor will take a detailed look at your finances. They will determine where (if anywhere) you might fall short of your goals. MD Advisors use special software to ensure the solutions they propose are optimized, and the best options for you. In order for them to do this, you’ll be asked to bring your:

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Many clients bring their laptops and access their information in real time, and this works well. Note that if you don’t have certain numbers, your MD Advisor can provide rough estimates based on averages for physicians at your same career stage in your province.

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Based on all the info you provided, your MD Advisor will present their recommendations as to how you can achieve your goals. These will include solutions to address the gaps they found during their analysis. Recommendations might include things like:

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While many of the perpetrators of Iran’s 1988 massacre continue to hold senior positions in the regime with impunity, Iran HRM seeks to bring these perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice. Iran HRM believes impunity emboldens the perpetrators to continue these atrocities.
Iran HRM campaigns for setting up a UN inquiry committee to investigate the 1988 massacre and obtain justice for the victims and their families.

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