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Ashiana Housing Ltd. (India)

Main Activities: Residential Building Construction | Nonresidential Building Construction
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Last Price 238.45
Volume 1,669
Turnover 398,390
Market Bombay Stock Exchange
Ticker 523716
Market Cap Market Cap 22,187,719
52 Week High 306.40
52 Week Low 114.70
P/E 101.48
EPS 2.35
Dividend Yield 2.25 (March 31, 2013)
Bookvalue 6,036,040
Enterprise Value 11,479,807
Quote updated on July 03, 2015
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Company Description

Ashiana Housing Ltd. ventures in the residential and commercial space building and Real estate infrastructure services. Incorporated in the year 1986, the company is based in Delhi.

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Unit No. 4&5, 3rd Floor,, Plot No. D-2, Saket District Center
Delhi; Delhi; Map
Postal Code: 110017

Full name: Ashiana Housing Ltd.

Previous name(s): ASHIANA HOUSING & FINANCE (INDIA) LTD (1986)

Status: Listed
Legal Form: Public Limited Company
Operational Status: Operational
IN-CIN: L70109WB1986PLC040864
ISIN Code: INE365D01013
Incorporation Date: 1986

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Photographing Fashion: British Style in the Sixties

Photographing FashionPhotographing Fashion: British Style in the Sixtiesis the result of opening one of Britain’s largest photographic archives. For many years, fashion editor Ernestine Carter commissioned photographs for use in The Sunday Times. At the hands of author Richard Lester, the archives become the launching pad for a full study of fashion and style in the 1960s. Lester chooses images ranging from the ball room to the beach, with an emphasis on portraiture. All of the photographs appearing in this volume have not seen public eye since their original newsprint run. (via Retro to Go).

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Leftover Pizza for Lunch and Tapas Dinner in Chicago

Right before we left for the airport (Joe gets to come with me on this trip -- yay!) we ate a quick lunch. I had some...

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…leftover veggie pizza from this weekend and a salad with some light Greek dressing.
After we got to Chicago and checked into our hotel, we used the Food Network app on my iPad to find restaurants near us that have been featured on the Food Network, since we knew those would probably be good options. We found Mercat right next to our hotel, which is a Spanish tapas-style restaurant.

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We got there right before sunset, so we sat out on the patio and had an appetizer before heading to the restaurant upstairs.

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They served us some Spanish-style bruschetta to start; then we had garlic shrimp, which were sizzling when they came out and tasted as good as they smelled!

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At dinner, we split several small plates. We started with a flatbread topped with bacon, anchovies, honey, pine nuts and watercress. I know it sounds like an unusal combination, but it was actually amazing! In fact, it was my favorite dish of the night.

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Next, we had lamb meatballs, which were decadent in a savory cream sauce.

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We then enjoyed the roasted cauliflower with truffle oil. It was so good that I am going to have to try making it at home.

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Finally, we shared a perfectly pan-seared halibut fillet. This has been a great start to our Chicago trip!
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Words of Promise

I would like to share with you, today, an excerpt from the devotional, "Grace for The Moment" by Max Lucado.  May you be blessed by it!

Every Christmas I read this reminder that came in the mail several years ago:

If our greatest need had been information,
God would have sent an educator.
If our greatest need had been technology,
God would have sent us a scientist.
I our greatest need had been money,
God would have sent us an economist.
But since our greatest need was forgiveness,
"God sent Us a Savior", by Roy Lessin

He became like us, so we could become like him.
Angels still sing and the star still beckons.
He loves each one of us like there was only one of us to love.

"God has given a son to us...
His name will be Wonderful Counselor,
Powerful God...Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:6

Monday, December 20, 2010

Joy-filled Fingers

Today finds me finishing up a gift that has brought me great joy to make.  I've used pieces of a vintage quilt, a fragment of an old lace trimmed pillow case and some lovely cream buttons.

There are some gifts that just seem to sing from your finger tips as you create, and this was one of them.  I'll show more pictures later this week.

We are expecting more snow as the temps remain frigid.  A good day to look through my recent finds, bake cookies and enjoy the sound of laughter coming from a family all together again.

May today keep a prayer of thankfulness continually flowing as I remember the reason for this Christmas season and the blessings I have received.  Have a joy-filled Monday!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday Scripture

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"In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel
to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged
to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant
of David.  The virgin's name was Mary.  The angel
went to her and said, "Greetings you who are highly
favored!  The Lord is with you."  Mary was greatly
troubled at his words and wondered what kind of
greeting this might be.  But the angel said to her,
"Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with
God.  You will be with child and give birth to a son,
and you are to give him the name Jesus.  He will
be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of his father
David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob
forever; his kingdom will never end."  Luke 1:26-33

How He loves us so,

Friday, December 17, 2010

Friday Pretties

A Christmas present from Diane

A newly acquired vintage bride doll

A pretty Christmas corsage

A Christmas gift to myself

For more Friday Pretties visit Joyce

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Tell Me Why

Tell me why...

I said yes to two custom order quilts in December?

I wait until the last minute to decide to knit some
Christmas gifts when I had the whole year to prepare?

I haven't figured out, after all these years, that skipping
my morning devotions to "get to work" is never a good idea?

my immursion blender decided to start smoking and melt
while I had it in a pot of potato soup?

we, as women, think we have to do it all in order for our
families to have the ultimate wonderful holiday experience?

there's never any chocolate in the house when you need it?

Off to grab my Bible,

Monday, December 13, 2010

Snow Day!

My highschool daughter walked around singing the snowday song she learned back in middle school yesterday.  Sure enough, she climbed in bed with me this morning letting me know that school was officially closed and then promptly went back to sleep.  I had to go take a peek.  This was the view out my front window when the sun was coming up.  I love the soft glow from the vintage nativity that a friend found for me a couple of weeks ago.  I need to build a creche but that will have to wait until the summer.

This is the view from my three-season porch.  The garden is under ice and snow, taking a long rest before next spring's awakening.  I sometimes wonder if the flowers need the rest because it takes so much energy to be spectacular for months on end.

I thought you might like a peek at the porch decorations while I was out here.  The Christmas decorations are pretty simple in this room.  Most things come inside for the winter because of the cold and moisture.  A little tree in a red pot brightens up one corner.

Floral pillows with tulle and silver ornaments give it just a bit of sparkle next to the church I covered with buttons one year.

A bit of greenery reminds me of the great flowers of the summer and what awaits in the spring.

The colors of the wicker furniture really pop against the white of the snow outside.  Winters are l-o-n-g in Michigan so we need all the "pop" we can get!

A large Christmas ball that my Mom made hangs from the ceiling fan.  Just looking at it has me wanting to go make one.  Today sounds like a good day for baking, sewing and wrapping gifts.  I wonder if I can coax a certain helper out of bed.  Probably not, isn't that what snow days are all about when you are young?  Blessings!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Sunday Scripture

"Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary?
Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless
and who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from his heart
and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong
and casts no slur on his fellowman,
who despises a vile man
but honors those who fear the Lord,
who keeps his oath
even when it hurts."
Psalm 15:1-6

Sunday Blessings,

Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Tour Continues - The Entryway

I have been looking for a topper for my silver tree and on a recent outing I found this angel.  She is not in the best of shape but I couldn't pass her up.  She still has a working light but I don't use it in the hopes of perserving her longer.   She is the perfect addition to the tree.

This tree is covered primarily with vintage bulbs but I have added a few newer ones as well.  I have used some civil war era lace for the skirt.  A piece given to me by a friend many years ago.  She had the blessing of a trunk belonging to a family member from that time period and so graciously gave me lace from it.

My Mom cross-stitched this picture for me.  It is one of my favorites.  There is beading in the wreath surrounding the picture.

What would an entry way be without vintage mistletoe to grace it?  My daughter likes to stand under it when a certain young man comes a-calling.   Blessings this Saturday!

With joy,

Friday, December 10, 2010

Friday Pretties

We continue the Christmas tour from the kitchen, one of the favorite rooms in my house.  This tree hold my Grandmother's and Mother's cookie cutters as well as some miniature kitchen utensils, small tin teacups, snowflakes, candy canes and more.

A girl can't go wrong when preparing meals on a pink kitchen island.  Everyday is a holiday using this.

A big glass jar holds my collection of vintage cupcake picks, candle holders, candles and nut cups.  I store my cupcake liners here as well.  The measuring cups are a new find and yes, that is a pink one sandwiched in the middle.

The little pink cupboard is prettified for Christmas with the addition of  a tiny tree.  I'm on the lookout for a stove to add to this piece.

I'm loving the vintage container found this week.  It holds my coffee liners and adds such charm to the coffee corner.

A little wink and a smile from some happy Holt Howard salt and pepper shakers.  Oh how I love Holt Howard!

Some sparkly pot holders from a local Christmas Bazaar add a homemade touch.  I try to imagine the person who made them.

My friend, Diane, made the little wreath and it ties the kitchen colors together so well.  I'm off to make some coffee and start my day.  A visit from my sweet niece is in order.  I love that she's in her 20's and I'm still Aunt Nay!

A thank you to Joyce for continuing to host Friday Pretties!
She's off to visit her sister and cousins for a fun weekend.
Visit her here.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Tour Continues

We find ourselves in the "Pretty Room" today.  I name coined by my family for the ultra-girly living room in our house.  I think most of the rooms are pretty and girly but this one seems to stand out.  It could be my use of old doors for backdrops and coffee tables or the lavish use of floral print.  At Christmas what makes it more girly is the white tree.

Most of my Christmas decorations can be credited to my Mom who has made me beautiful things through the years.  One of my absolute favorite is the paper garlands of dancing men and women.

The pattern came from an early Martha Stewart magazine.  It was quite the labor of love.  I have two strands each of men and women.  Two years ago she made me the second batch from velum instead of paper and they are holding up much better.  I cherish them both.

The mantel is all a-shimmer with garlands and trees.  The pink deer is a new find this year and fits perfectly in with the decorations.  It may stay there year round.

The shelf on the mantel was purchased at the Junk Bonanza in Minnesota three years ago.  Two years in a row I made the 18 hour round trip with my friends Diane and Sally.  We had such a fun time and I remember those trips each time I look at the shelf.  It makes a wonderful display piece for all the little treasures I find.

Years ago I made this wreath using my Grandmother's ornaments.  I want to publicly thank my friend, Diane, who lovingly fixes it each time I drop and break an ornament.  Diane makes and sells vintage ornament wreaths so I can count on her for a repair when needed.  Perhaps I should package it a bit more carefully.

I have two nativity scenes from my Mom which I switch out each year.  One she made in ceramics class and this one is cross-stitched.  I just sent away for a pattern I saw on Tina's blog "The Quiet Home".  I plan on knitting one and then when each of my children have their own homes, they may take one of their Grandmothers.  The wooden puzzle of the three crosses was made by my now college son when he was in shop class in middle school.  It makes the perfect backdrop for the nativity and is a reminder of the reason God came to earth and was born in a manger.

This chair was found at a barn sale this summer for $35.  It looks perfect with the heart pillow and the throw my Mom made several years ago.  My Mom is always creating something beautiful with her hands and my Dad is artistic as well so I got a double dose of creativeness from them.

My last picture today is of the sweet little mouse I found at Ikea a couple of months ago.  I have such an affection for mice.  When I saw this one, I instantly knew she was coming home with me.  A tiny top to a little chair makes the perfect home for her.


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I recently moved into a really nice high rise apartment complex in New York. Rent is way too high, however my friends keep telling me I need to start enjoying life a little. I have been single for a quite a few years and I am now on my 8th vibrator. Hopefully someday they will make a vibrator that can outlast my sexual needs. I need to find a man soon though before I lose my mind with this constant sexual desire I have 24/7. It's getting to the point where I can't even function at work and now even the geeks and nerds are turning me on. They should pass a law that it's mandatory everyone gets laid at least once a day. . I decided I would spend my Saturday doing laundry, so I gathered my clothes and headed down stairs to the laundry room. When I walked in I saw my neighbor down the hall. We spoke in passing once and he introduced himself as Bert. He seemed like a nice guy just not very interested in me, so I thought. Bert was a big guy and maybe he was just shy or something. I said, "good morning" and proceeded to separate my clothes. As I finished loading the last load into the washer, Bert tapped me on the shoulder. When I turned around Bert was standing there holding a pair of my black lace panties to his face. I looked down at his crotch and noticed his manhood trying to bust its way out of his jeans. I instantly felt a jolt run through my pussy, I didn't know what was happening to me. Bert then ran his finger tips slowly down my chest and over my hard nipples, he then ran his hands down to the bottom of my short mini skirt. He slipped his fingers into my panties and began to rub my clit very gently. He then picked me up and sat me on the folding table as he quickly spread my legs apart with severe urgency. My pussy welcomed his warm wet tongue. As I lay there moaning and rubbing my hard nipples, trying to hold back my orgasm and wanting this moment to last forever.

I heard the door open and suddenly my other neighbor Steve walked in. I didn't know what to do, I just knew I didn't want to stop. I closed my eyes and started rubbing my clit with my hand as Bert fucked my hole with his tongue. He gently sucked and licked every part of my wet pussy.

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A day “on”—USF-style

While many schools and organizations recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a day off from the job or class, the University of Saint Francis makes it a day “on”—as in carrying on with the Franciscan tradition of service in honor of Dr. King’s legacy of compassion, tolerance and equality for all.

Monday, Jan. 21 proved no exception, as students, faculty and staff spread across the city to participate in service projects for organizations and agencies serving disadvantaged local residents. Center for Service Engagement Director Katrina Boedeker estimated around 180 of the USF community engaged in service at 13 sites, such as the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission, Love Community Center, Vincent Village and the Associated Churches Food Bank, after the university’s call to service gathering.

“Of particular note is a long-term partnership between USF’s F-8 photo club and Vincent Village, which yields opportunities for families who receive assistance through Vincent Village to pose for and receive family photo portraits on MLK Day,” Boedeker said.

Rebecca Coleman, Department of Social Work chair, worked to sort food at the Associated Churches Food Bank on Wayne Street with a group of 17 USF students, faculty and staff members. “The frigid temperatures chilled us to the bone, but the food bank manager Christino Alvarez quickly warmed our hearts with his light-hearted sense of humor,” Coleman said. “Our task for the day: Sort the remaining canned goods donated by the Fort Wayne community during the holiday “Stuff the Bus” campaign. Sort we did! Everyone worked hard, laughed heartily and developed new relationships as we divided seven huge pallets of canned goods into smaller boxes.”

The rewards were intangible but lasting. “At the end of our time, Chris thanked us because we came to serve, not just volunteer. In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, we provided a service out of a desire to help promote the well-being of others. Our experience was truly “a day on in service to community,” and not just a day off from classes. In true Franciscan tradition, we served our Church, our community and one another.

Dan Torlone, chair of the Department of Education, worked with a group at Love Community Center on East Berry Street, on a project now in its fifth year. “We were initially overwhelmed by the magnitude of organizing clothing and other donated items for LCC’s store for the needy,” he said. After organizing the process, “All 10 volunteers kept moving at a steady pace for two and a half hours, sorting, stacking and otherwise making order of a chaotic jumble of donated goods. Students took the initiative and set the pace, sometimes challenging the adults to keep up with them.”

The impact wasn’t lost on USF’s students and volunteers. “One student commented to me that the benefit of doing such work is that we better understand from hands-on experience the blessings we have and the struggles others face on a daily basis,” Torlone said. “I noticed that very little goes unused. Even pieces of clothing or household goods that I would normally discard are kept as potential merchandise for LCC Store’s customers. It was a great day, indeed.”

Service projects at the USF North Campus throughout the day included making blankets for Project Linus, which aids children who are sick and hospitalized; crocheting and knitting warm winter wear for those in need for the Warm Fuzzies Project; and making pet beds for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control.

Other USF MLK events included an interdisciplinary roundtable, “Why You Should Care about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” and the presentation, “An Evening with Coretta Scott King,” on Jan. 23. On Jan. 24, “A Celebration of African-American Art and Literature took place in Achatz Hall atrium.

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A trip through the mirage of Art Basel into the scarred face of Miami

David Hockney's sailor on display

Not surprisingly, Robins was adept at explaining the art theory behind his development projects, and the ways Dacra is bringing art, design, and real estate together "to make Miami a brand name." He said he learned from the successful preservation of historic buildings in his South Beach projects that consumers were starting to reject the cookie-cutter commodities of the mall and "starting to value unique experiences" made from "a combination of permanent and temporary things." On the streets of the Design District and Wynwood, Robins sought to bring together restaurants, fashion showrooms, and high-end retail stores, surrounded by parties, international art shows, and public art. "This gives a richness to the experience of Miami," Robins said. "That is the content that Miami is evolving toward right now." I thought of Lapidus, the Godfather of Art Deco, and his quote about the Fontainebleau: In Wynwood, Robins wanted to turn not just a hotel lobby but an entire neighborhood into a place where visitors feel they have entered a movie.

Robins grew more excited as he discussed his vision. "With my work at Dacra, I build communities," he told me. "When we brought Art Basel here, Miami immediately became recognized as a world-class city."

Others are skeptical. "Miami will always be an attractive place for people to visit in December, but you can't graft culture onto a city," says Alan Farago of the widely read blog Eye On Miami. "It's a mistaken belief that art can be a totem or a symbol of a great city without there being any substance. Miami will continue to be a pretender because there is no investment in local culture beyond building massive edifices like the Performing Arts Center."

Indeed, the center — now renamed the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center, in honor of a wealthy benefactor — has become perhaps another in a long line of tragicomic failed improvements for the area. Bunker-like, it has been likened by some architecture critics to an upside-down Jacuzzi. Though 20 years in the making and long heralded by boosters as a building that would instantly make Miami a "world-class city," the center has operated at a deficit and suffered from poor attendance since its opening. The future of Museum Park suddenly turned cloudy a month before the opening of this year's Art Basel, when Miami Art Museum director Terrence Riley unexpectedly resigned days after unveiling the architects Herzog and de Meuron's final model for the new buildings. Riley sited a desire to return to private practice as an architect, but online speculation had it that he already knew cash-strapped Miami would ultimately be unable to raise the money to build the museum.

Farago wonders what would change if the city did have the money. "In Miami on one hand, we have public school teachers using their own salaries to buy art supplies for their students," he says. "Then we have these one-off art events and a performing arts center that brings us road shows of Rent, Annie, and 101 Dalmatians."

When I asked Robins what lasting benefits Art Basel provided to the community, he cited a roster of new restaurants opened by star chefs and fashion showrooms. "It encourages people to come down here year-round," he said. It was clear that Robins was discussing amenities designed for tourists, or for a speculative community of future residents who might be enticed to come to Miami.

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Commentary: Where do you listen to audiobooks and podcasts?

February 1, 2012 by · 4 Comments
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Where do you listen to audiobooks and podcasts?

I listen to a lot of novel length audiobooks while walking.

Pitt River Dyke, British Columbia

I listen to audiobooks when walking to work, from work, or walking a dog.

Short stories are for folding laundry, cooking or loading and unloading a dishwasher.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time with Melvyn BraggCBC Radio One - IdeasEntitled Opinions (about life and literature)

Depending on the length of the trip I either listen to audiobooks or podcasts while driving. Short podcasts are no good for long drives. So for longer drives I listen to BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, CBC Radio One’s Ideas, or WKZU’s Entitled Opinions.

TVO Search Engine with Jesse Brown - Audio PodcastCBC Radio - SparkFreakonomics

There are a few podcasts I consistently like to hear only on weekday mornings, like TVO’s Search Engine, CBC’s Spark, and WNYC’s Freakonomics. They somehow just seem to set the right tone – and that tone just doesn’t work for me in the evenings.

The Memory Palace with Nate DiMeoToday In Canadian HistoryEli Glasner On Film

Some podcasts, like The Memory Palace, Today In Canadian History, and Eli Glasner On Film are so short I reserve them almost exclusively for walking to or from a car.

TriangulationGweekFresh Ink

At the gym, while pumping iron, I tend to listen to interview podcasts like TWiT’s Triangulation, or Boing Boing’s Gweek. On the stationary bike I watch G4’s Fresh Ink because that’s a video podcast.

BrokenSea Audio Presents: OTR Swag CastRadio Drama RevivalDecoder Ring TheatreI listen to audio drama almost exclusively in the evening. OTR Swag Cast, Radio Drama Revival, and Decoder Ring Theatre, are turned on in the minutes before I go to sleep.

Forgotten ClassicsUvula AudioNew Books In Public PolicyI listen to a couple of shows, Forgotten Classics and Science News Update, almost exclusively while getting dressed or clipping fingernails and toenails. I also listen to podcasts while in the bathroom – and that’s where my big pet peeve with podcasts comes most to a head – too many are just too quiet.

While brushing my teeth and when showering you need a decent volume to overcome the white noise of running water. I can’t listen to New Books In Public Policy in the bathroom, it’s volume is just way too low.

Where do you listen? And what do you listen to there?

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Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale – adapted from a story by Kurt Andersen

January 12, 2011 by · 3 Comments
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From Stories: All-New Tales (edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio) here is an “audio cinema adaptation” (a reading with sound effects) – produced by Jonathan Mitchell for WNYC’s Studio 360. I was looking throughthe Amazon.com reviews of the paperbook. This Xmasy Science Fiction story got top marks from all the reviewers!

Stories: All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al SarrantonioHuman Intelligence: A Holiday Tale
By Kurt Andersen; Adapted by Jonathan Mitchell; Performed by Ed Herbstman, John Ottavino and Melanie Hoopes
1 |MP3| – Approx. 22 Minutes [DRAMATIZED READING]
Podcaster: Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Podcast: December 23, 2010
“…a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years.”

[Thanks to Barry Haldiman for the find!]

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The SFFaudio Podcast #053

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The SFFaudio PodcastThe SFFaudio Podcast #053 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Anne Frid de Vries of the Anne Is A Man blog for a talk about his wonderful podcast review blog.

Talked about on today’s show:
Anne Is A Man blog, reviewing podcasts, Five Free Favourites #4, Five Free Favourites (on Anne Is A Man), a Dutch person living in Israel, podcasting as “a new universe”, or “a secret world”, BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, OPML files, iTunes, trading podcast subscription feeds, Dan Carlin, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, “History and Science Fiction go together like ham and cheese”, radio shows vs. podcasts, Dan Carlin’s Common Sense, interviews in different media, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CBC, Tapestry, Spark, APM’s Speaking Of Faith, Canada wins!, Mary Hynes, Ideas, TVO’s Big Ideas, Hunting For Robin Hood |READ OUR REVIEW|, Writers And Company (on a re-imagining of Robin Hood), WNYC’s RadioLab, Robert Krowlich, Krulwich On Science, The Do It Yourself Scholar blog, UCSD podcasts, Victor Maganga‘s courses on East Asian Political Thought and Politics And Warfare, Yale podcasts, Stanford podcasts, the rationales of rating and reviewing audio, Harriet Klausner, Google’s PageRank, reading good books twice, Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Professor Hubert Dreyfus @ U.C. Berkley, the Greek and Judaic traditions, Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace, what’s wrong with radio!?!, radio in Canada, radio in the USA, radio in the Netherlands, radio in Israel, iTunes in Uzbekistan, The Teaching Company, where do you do your listening?, Scott’s Pick Of The Week: Robots Podcast, Talking Robots Podcast, “The Future Of Artificial Intelligence“, “Robots: Chaos Control“, Jesse’s Pick Of The Week: Carve Her Name With Pride: The Story Of Violette Szabo, S.O.E. operations, the film version of Carve Her Name With Pride, Dan Carlin’s series on The Ostfront, ‘WWII is the Iliad of our times’, the western front of WWI, Anne’s Pick Of The Week: New Books In History podcast, Marshall Poe, Jared Diamond, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.

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NPR: Blade Runner – Dreams of Electric Sheep

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There’s an old NPR/WNYC piece on Blade Runner that casts the fear of Nexus 6 androids on Earth as a kind of allegory for racism and slavery. Perhaps we could coin a term for this. How about, “The Plastic Peril”? Although that sounds a bit too much like a reference to Autons.

Dreams Of Electric Sheep
By Phillip Martin
June 29, 2007
25 years ago this week, Blade Runner debuted in American theaters. It was set in a Los Angeles of the future, but its portrayals of race and racism had plenty of resonance in 1982. Reporterlooks back on a classic of cyborgian social criticism.

[via HuffDuffer and Adactio]

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William Tenn has died

February 7, 2010 by · 6 Comments
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“There’s too much beauty in religion to let go of it just because you don’t believe in god.”
-William Tenn

SFSignal.com is reporting that William Tenn has just died. You won’t find much written about Tenn (or his alter ego Philip Klass) on the internet. I figure that’s mostly because he wasn’t a very prolific novelist (the default format for most fiction readers). But if you like SF he’s probably someone you should know about.

I think I first read Tenn back in the early 1990s. It may have been his story The Liberation Of Earth. I really got into Tenn in 2004.

Back in 2004 podcasting hadn’t really started. LibriVox.org didn’t exist and audio fiction on the internet was actually quite hard to find. One of the best stories I found back then, and one of my favorite stories that I discovered by chance, was On Venus, Have We Got A Rabbi! by William Tenn. I reviewed it in 2004 |READ OUR REVIEW|.

The story was recorded as part of an interview with David Garland of WNYC’s Spinning On Air. Astonishingly, the ancient file and directory are still there and still online at WNYC’s website. But, like almost all audio back in the bad old days of the interweb it was in the still nigh-unworkable REALAUDIO FORMAT. Getting it to work may still be a serious problem – it didn’t work for me without some serious fiddling. Here’s the hour long show |REALAUDIO|

In the WNYC interview Tenn describes himself “an enlightened pessimist” and “a skeptic in every way.”
But that may be under-stating it. He may be best described as a combination of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain – but working primarily as a satirist in the field of Science Fiction.

His novel, Of Men And Monsters, is a truly terrific read and would make a wonderful audiobook.

It takes place in the future where the Earth has been invaded by giant aliens who have destroyed most of humanity. People now live in the walls of the aliens homes like mice divided into different groups and tribes where two types of religions have branched out; one that is devoted to technology from the past and the other that is trying to learn and decipher the aliens’ technology. [summary by Cynical-C]

Also available, via the Orthopedic Horseshoes podcast, are some snippets from Confluence 2008
with William Tenn talking about Theodore Sturgeon. |MP3|

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WNYC: RadioLab – AV Smackdown

May 25, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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May 19th’s broadcast of WNYC’s Radiolab program asked the question: Which is better, RADIO or TELEVISION. To determine the answer an audience was asked: Which is better at pictures? Which medium is better at emotions?
Which is more fun? |MP3|

The results of the contest might have been different had it been a question of video vs. audio, rather than TV vs. radio.

I’ve occasionally thought that if I was forced to choose between losing my eyes or losing my ears my answer would depend on whether I’d have some audiobooks at my bedside in the hospital.

[via Adactio]

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Sacramento --

Gov. Jerry Brown will propose spending nearly a third of $850 million in cap-and-trade revenue California expects to collect in the next fiscal year on the embattled high-speed-rail project, according to officials with knowledge of the governor's budget proposal, which is to be publicly released Friday.

A bulk of the money will be used to fund programs that assist poor families in making their homes more energy efficient, reduce catastrophic wildfires through forest management and other efforts to fight climate change.

"We are encouraged to see the conversation is about investing the dollars and seeing tangible benefits for communities," said Erica Morehouse, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund. "I think it's a big step forward for California, and it's the first step toward critical cap-and-trade investments."

Under cap and trade, California began collecting the new revenue in 2012 by auctioning "carbon credits" that essentially permit businesses to exceed the cap on carbon dioxide. Credit holders who do not emit carbon dioxide beyond a cap set by the state can sell them to businesses that are exceeding the cap.

The idea is to create a system that encourages polluting industries to limit greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

The governor will propose spending $350 million on sustainable communities and clean transportation, which includes $200 million on the state's low-carbon transportation program. The plan includes $140 million on clean energy, which includes $80 million on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and $110 million on natural resources projects, such as $50 million to reduce catastrophic wildfires through land management.

Brown's budget for 2014-15 will include repaying $100 million of a $500 million loan made from cap-and-trade revenue to the state's general fund in 2012.

Brown angered some environmentalists when he redirected those funds. Sources said the money will be paid back in the next few years. Administration officials initially said the $500 million would be paid back in one year.

"This is much better news than last year," said Vien Truong, environmental equity director for the Berkeley-based advocacy group the Greenlining Institute. "This amount of money will create jobs and clean the air. This will do a lot for our communities."

Truong said she isn't opposed to spending cap-and-trade revenue on the high-speed rail, but said there are other programs she would prioritize.

High-speed-rail authorities have argued that the $68 billion project would lessen the need to build more freeways and reduce emissions from vehicle and air travel.

However, the bullet train's financing was called into question in November after a judge issued dual rulings that blocked the sale of $8 billion in bonds and ordered the rail authority to rewrite its funding plans.

Melody Gutierrez is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: Twitter: @MelodyGutierrez


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Q: How long has Sequoia Hospital been around?

A: The idea for the hospital originated in 1938, when a group of nine women lead by Mrs. Henry Beeger made an appeal to the city council of Redwood City for a community hospital to serve the residents of southern San Mateo County.

Plans to establish the hospital were put on hold, however, while the community considered and approved bond issues to fund a city hall and library. The advent of World War II further delayed the hospital plan, but in 1946 voters approved creation of the Sequoia Hospital District. Building commenced in 1949.

On Oct. 25, 1950, the first patient was admitted to the 106-bed-hospital. In 1960, the hospital was appreciably expanded. Today it has a capacity of 308 beds. It remains at its original location at 170 Alameda de las Pulgas.

Q: Having passed the Cow Palace in Daly City many times, I just wondered how it got that name.

A: The building's official name is "No. 1A District Agricultural Association, Division of Fairs and Expositions, State of California." Built during The Depression, a disgruntled reporter wrote that it seemed a huge expense for a "palace for cows." The name, slightly altered, stuck.

Q: I'm aware that many streets have been named for major figures from the past. What about Whipple Avenue in Redwood City?

A: There was a Stephen D. Whipple who was well-known in horse breeding circles in the 1860s. He owned the Hambletonian and Durham Stock Farm and erected a house and stables at what is today the corner of El Camino and Aragon Boulevard in San Mateo.

He also was involved in a flour mill in San Francisco, coal mining at Mount Diablo and operated the S.M. Whipple, one of the early steamers on the Bay.

The name "Whipple" came up again in the 1930s, when Laura Thane Whipple, a young real estate agent in Niles, was instrumental in the sale of a large parcel of land between Mountain View and Sunnyvale that eventually became known as Moffett Field.

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Thanks mainly to deadeye shooting from John Gage, Stanford had a 26-3 advantage over Cal in bench scoring Saturday.

The Cardinal also had a lopsided advantage at the foul line, shooting more than twice as many free throws as the Bears.

It added up to a badly needed 69-59 win for Stanford at Maples Pavilion. A fourth conference loss would have put the Cardinal in a very deep hole as they hit the road this week to Colorado and Utah.

Gage, a 6-10 junior known mainly for his long-range scoring, hadn't hit a three in the previous two games. He swished all four of his tries from beyond the arc and scored 14 points as Stanford (11-7, 2-3 Pac-12) dealt short-handed Cal (10-7, 2-3) its fourth loss in its past six games.

"I'd like to have 26 points off the bench," Bears coach Mike Montgomery said of his injury-depleted roster. "We can't make excuses, but we don't have a lot of flexibility."

Dwight Powell, who was 9-for-9 at the foul line, scored a game-high 17 points. Stanford made 25 of its 31 free throws, while Cal was only 11-for-15.

"It's the way you're able to get the free throws," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "Our kids did a good job of playing with aggression. I thought we attacked the basket well. We got the ball inside and put ourselves in a position to be fouled."

They also attacked the Pac-10's leading scorer, Allen Crabbe. With Andy Brown having the primary defensive responsibility, Stanford held Crabbe to 14 points, six under his average. He took just four shots in the first half and made one of them.

Neither team shot well. The Cardinal won despite shooting 36 percent and making one field goal in the final seven minutes. Cal shot 35 percent.

"We came out with a defensive-minded game and tried to be as tough as we can and make the plays down the stretch," Powell said.

It was a one-point game (43-42) with 13 minutes left. Stanford's Chasson Randle stole a pass and drove for a layup, Gage hit a three, and Powell sank two free throws for a 50-42 lead. Justin Cobbs (13 points) hit back-to-back shots to cut the lead to four, but Stanford steadily pulled away.

"Any time you play Cal it's always one of those grind-it-out games, where it's physical and guys are playing their hearts out," said Randle, who scored 15 points.

Cal's Richard Solomon committed an ill-advised foul as Powell prepared to launch a three-pointer with the shot clock about to expire. Powell sank all three foul shots, and Stanford led 57-47.

"I tried to get him off his feet with a pump fake," Powell said. "He's a great shot blocker, so I knew it would be a tricky shot. ... Fortunately for me, he jumped."

Josh Huestis grabbed 12 rebounds and hit a 17-footer for the only Stanford basket of the final seven minutes.

The game drew an announced crowd of 5,877, easily Stanford's best of the season. The crowd, however, fell short of the 5,931 at last weekend's women's game between the two schools.

Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail:


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A man was found shot to death Monday in San Pablo, and his three children and their mother are missing, police said.

The man, whose name wasn't immediately released, was found in the backyard of a home on the 1600 block of 16th Street about 7:55 a.m.

The killing is being investigated as a homicide, police said. The circumstances leading to the man's death weren't divulged.

Investigators are searching for the man's three children - Hugo Ortez, 12, Merari Ortez, 6, and 2-year-old Jean Carlos Ortez - and their 35-year-old mother, Alicia Ortez.

The man had custody of the children, and their mother did not live with them, police said.

Alicia Ortez is not considered a suspect in the killing, but investigators are looking for her and the children to help determine what happened and to make sure they are accounted for, said San Pablo police Cmdr. Jeff Palmieri.

Angelita Ruiz, who lives across the street from the home, said the victim was a "nice, calm, reserved man. He seemed like a devoted father. His kids were always calm and playful."

Ruiz said she was shocked by the violence. "I can't imagine this happening in front of my house," she said.

Cristian Sotelo, 22, said the slain man moved in several months ago to a unit behind the house next to him.

"He was a nice guy, super friendly," Sotelo said. "He was always fixing cars in the front."

A black Audi that neighbors said belonged to the victim sat on the street. Inside the car were various articles of children's clothing, a car seat and a pink backpack with a princess printed on it.

Although police asked the public to report any sightings of the woman and her children - and some mobile phone users reported hearing a tone on their devices similar to one that accompanies an Amber Alert - a formal alert wasn't broadcast. Police say Alicia Ortez is a transient and may not have access to a car.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call San Pablo police at (510) 215-3150 or the West Contra Costa Crime Stoppers Tip Line at (510) 799-8255.

Henry K. Lee and Kale Williams are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com, kwilliams@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee, @sfkale


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Drivers in hit-and-run crashes that badly injure or kill people may have a tougher time fleeing the scene under a bill introduced by a Southern California assemblyman.

The legislation introduced by Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, would create Yellow Alerts for the most serious hit-and-run accidents using the Emergency Alert System, which now allows the state to warn people of severe weather, child abductions and other urgent situations.

"It's time that the law started reflecting our values," Gatto said Friday. "Accidents happen, but if you don't stop, it becomes a crime."

The bill, AB47, modeled after a similar law in Denver, would give law enforcement agencies the authority to issue immediate alerts to the public with descriptions of suspect vehicles.

The system would not be used for every accident, Gatto said, but wrecks that involve major injuries or fatalities and produce a highly detailed description of the vehicle involved, usually including a license plate number.

The information would be sent to the California Highway Patrol, with officers there deciding whether an alert is warranted and what level of alert to issue. In some cases, nearby highway signs could carry the information.

In California, 20 percent of fatal hit-and-run suspects are caught, Gatto said. He said that in Denver, where a similar law was adopted in 2012, police have made arrests in 13 of the 17 accidents that prompted an alert. It was not clear how many of those arrests were enabled by the alert.

The California system would cost taxpayers little, Gatto said. He said he is aware that people may be wary of another notification popping up on their phones.

"I certainly thought about the risk of 'warning fatigue,' " he said. "Blasting people's cell phones seems intrusive and sometimes borderline creepy."

For that reason, text alerts were purposefully excluded from the bill, Gatto said.

Kale Williams is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: Twitter: @sfkale


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To start things off in their nationally televised showcase Thursday night, the Raiders deferred the opening kick, deliberately pitting Denver's Peyton Manning against their porous defense.

The result was predictable: The only difficult thing was Manning's decision as to which of the three wide-open receivers in the end zone he should choose for the touchdown reception.

"When a team does defer, you want to get that first touchdown," Manning said. "If you go three-and-out, that's winning for them."

There was no winning for the Raiders. Not Thursday. Not Sunday. Not most of the season.

"This team desperately needs a win," Carson Palmer said.

Though the Raiders later showed a stout red-zone defense and managed two touchdowns, they shot themselves in the foot time after time. The fans - the ones who showed up - booed loudly. The yellow flags flew frequently. The team trudged off the field after the 26-13 loss.

It was just one more chapter for a team in crisis.

It's so hard to imagine - deep into this bleak, boring season - that a year ago, the Raiders were deadlocked with Denver for the AFC West title. Both teams finished 8-8 (along with San Diego), and Denver won the division on the basis of one botched Raiders play. Because Detroit beat the Raiders - when Rolando McClain couldn't cover Calvin Johnson - Denver won the AFC West based on record against common opponents.

Ever since then, the teams have sprinted in opposite directions. Denver improved to 10-3 Thursday and is in the AFC's elite. The Raiders dropped to 3-10 and are again irrelevant. They have done nothing in this season of massive change to signal that they are going the right way.

"I couldn't really comment on Denver's football team," said Dennis Allen, when asked about the divergent paths. "I'm not in their building, and I wasn't here last year. Our consistency isn't where we need to be. We compound mistakes at times."

A year ago, Allen was with Denver. Now, he's in Oakland. He probably could comment, though it didn't seem right to press the issue during this horrible week, when he lost his father.

Commissioner Roger Goodell viewed the Raiders' crisis in person. Before the game, he participated in a fan forum, along with Hall of Famers John Madden, Howie Long, Ronnie Lott and John Elway.

Goodell was asked about the Raiders' prospects for staying in Oakland. He noted the league's funding mechanism that can provide $200 million for a stadium project and said that money would be available to the Raiders, regardless of the 49ers' head start in building a stadium. He also said that sharing the 49ers' stadium remained "an option" if the Raiders chose it. He said that because there is still no stadium solution in Los Angeles, there's no movement toward a team there.

Those rote answers won't quell the speculation that Mark Davis would like to move the team back to L.A. Just as nothing will stifle the Jon Gruden rumors that bubbled up again this week.

They are another familiar sign of desperate times. When things get bad - too often for the Raiders - the first inclination is to reach back into a better past. Gruden visited with Mark Davis and his mother, Carol, when he lit the Al Davis torch before the Saints game Nov. 18. When I talked to him the following day, Gruden had nothing but glowing things to say about how great it was to see the Davis family.

He didn't burn his bridges in Oakland. That doesn't mean he would walk back over them: He would have his choice of NFL jobs, with teams that are fully stocked and complete with modern facilities. He has already done his Raiders time. The rumor is a pipe dream.

The Raiders' problems are so dog-eared. Stadium? Los Angeles? Coach? We've paged through all these issues, for years and years.

The desire to reach back into a better past isn't a completely false impulse. It took the halftime ceremony - not the game - to remember what the conversation should be about. Raiders Hall of Famers were honored: Jim Otto, Willie Brown, Fred Biletnikoff, Art Shell, Ted Hendricks, Mike Haynes, Long, Lott, Dave Casper, James Lofton and Madden were in attendance. So were the widows of George Blanda, Gene Upshaw and Al Davis. Missing were Marcus Allen, Jerry Rice, Eric Dickerson and Bob Brown.

It was an impressive reminder of, as someone used to say, the greatness of the Raiders. Of the onetime winning culture. When they produced Hall of Famers rather than simply lost to future members.

The most poignant thing said during the pregame panel came from Long, drafted the year before the Raiders moved to L.A. He spoke of being a kid coming into the Oakland locker room and joining Shell, Upshaw and Hendricks.

"Those great players made it a point of emphasis to show young players that this is how you play the game, how you compete," Long remembered. "That this is what it means to put on a Raiders helmet."

That's what missing, the leadership and knowledge of who and what the Raiders once were. That culture is almost extinct. And no one is sure if the new regime is the right one to rescue it.

Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: Twitter: @annkillion


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Tony Gemignani, the impresario behind Tony's Pizza Napoletana, has opened his long-awaited second pizzeria in North Beach, where he's turned his focus to Prohibition-era Chicago.

Named Capo's, the new restaurant features brick walls with vintage newspaper photos of bygone mob bosses, stuffed red booths, and a thoroughly old-school vibe.

An octogenarian brass cash register reigns over the bar, where whiskey is the specialty.

Then there's the food.

Gemignani has designed a number of different pies, most available in four styles - deep dish, cast iron pan, stuffed or cracker thin - and made with Ceresota flour, from one of the oldest mills in Chicago.

The signature pie is a creation Gemignani calls Quattro Forni; it's cooked four different times in four different ovens, one of which fries it. Only 20 are available each day.

The other half of the menu tips its cap to Italian-American classics such as fried calamari, an iceberg lettuce chop salad, bone-in chicken Vesuvio and two types of lasagna.

And yes, spaghetti and meatballs is on the menu, along with a few favorites from Tony's, such as the fried string beans.

Capo's: 641 Vallejo St. (near Columbus Avenue), San Francisco; (415) 986-8998. Antipasti, $3.95-13.50; pasta, pizza and main courses, $12-$35. Full bar. Cash only. Reservations accepted via phone only.


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[GUEST POST] Help Kickstart BLADE SINGER, a Swashbuckling Collaboration Between Aaron de Orive and Martha Wells

Aaron de Orive is a writer who has worked on several popular video games, including Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, Anarchy Online, and the award-winning Star Wars: The Old Republic. He is also the creator of the tabletop RPG Shard: World of the False Dawn. He is currently collaborating with Martha Wells on a new fantasy boook called Blade Singer.

The Origins of The Swashbuckling Adventure BLADE SINGER

by Aaron de Orive

It all started with an incredible duel.

It was the climax of Scaramouche, the 1952 movie starring Stewart Granger and Mel Ferrer as Andreu Moreau and the Marquis de Maynes. The amazing swordplay lasted around eight minutes and ranged all across a lavish theater, ending on a stage with a shocking reveal. It’s one of my favorite cinematic moments and one of the finest sword fights ever put on film. I longed to write a story that featured a duel like that.

My love of swashbuckling films started early. Movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood such as The Black Swan, Robin Hood, Captain Blood, and The Three Musketeers (the one that starred Gene Kelly) made an indelible impression on my young mind. I’ve watched the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers (the one that starred Michael York) so many times, I’ve memorized every line of dialogue. And there are some zingers in there courtesy of Alexandre Dumas and George MacDonald Fraser (who also gave us the entertaining Flashman novels).

I suppose it was inevitable that I would write a story like Blade Singer. But it didn’t start out as a novel. My background is in film production, which I studied at the University of Texas. My focus was on screenwriting. I took very naturally to the screenplay format. Some find it overly mechanical and restrictive, but I loved it. It’s ideal for training storytellers to think in terms of scenes and beats, for understanding the narrative flow, and for achieving the maximum amount of drama with the fewest words possible. Blade Singer‘s first incarnation was as a feature-length screenplay.

A few years after I wrote the screenplay, I got the opportunity to show it to one of my favorite authors, Martha Wells. I had just finished reading her wonderful novel The Death of the Necromancer and found myself sharing a panel with her at ArmadilloCon. I expressed my admiration for her work, and then helped her prepare for a Star Wars trivia contest (I forget who won). I was fortunate enough to become her friend. When I told her about my desire to turn the screenplay into a novel she was incredibly supportive. And when I asked if she’d be interested in co-writing it with me, I was delighted (and stunned) when she said yes.

The screenplay became the spine of the novel, and together Martha and I fleshed out the setting, characters, and subplots. We settled on how we’d share the writing duties and we dug in. It was an amazing experience. Martha’s talents as a storyteller are both enlightening and humbling to witness in action. When the novel was finished, I was very proud of what we had created and was determined to share it with an audience exactly as envisioned. In this case, that meant self-publishing. And so we decided to Kickstart the novel, to cover the many costs that would insure a professional level of quality.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

"Curate Shakespeare As You Like It" in Milwaukee Wears Flaws Well

By Ken Morgan

A running routine in Don Nigro's 'The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It' is that the famous 'All the world's a stage' speech from Shakespeare's play and it's never successfully finished. That pretty well describes this play.

One of the most prolific playwrights in American history, Nigro has published over 200 scripts. When asked to create a stripped-down version of 'As You Like It' to be performed by a minimum number of actors, he hit on the idea of a troupe of six amateur actors, led by a curate, who attempt to perform all 30 plus roles in an empty -- or is it nearly empty? -- theater. A sound creative idea with intriguing possibilities, but alas, the enterprise is sick, and the execution falls short of ideal."

"The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It" plays at Village Church Arts at 130 E. Juneau Ave. in Milwaukee through March 4. Call (414) 332-3963 for tickets.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Shakespeare in the Movies Quiz

Try this quiz from the London Guardian sent in by Olwen Terris, Senior Researcher of the Shakespeare Project at the British Universities Film & Video Council

The Many Faces of Shakespeare: Is This One Really His? - New York Times

Is a death mask found in a ragpicker's shop in 1842 that of William Shakespeare? This coming Saturday's issue of the British weekly New Scientist says the mask, bearing the date 1616 and the high forehead, prominent nose and beard associated with Shakespeare, could be, Agence France-Presse reported. At the behest of Prof. Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, a scholar of English literature at the University of Mainz in Germany, specialists at the German Federal Bureau of Investigation compared two portraits widely believed to be of Shakespeare with a bust in the Garrick Club in London and concluded that all the faces belonged to the same person.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Imogen Butler-Cole in Mumbai, India
Now, Romeo can't kiss Juliet!

Kisses in British school plays could soon become a thing of the past if proposed guidelines for staging drama productions come into force.

If approved, Romeo would no longer kiss his beloved goodbye in Shakepeare's immortal tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' and will have to make do with more chaste gestures.

The guidelines, being considered by educational organisations, suggest that stage directions for characters to kiss should be replaced with "a peck on the cheeks or an embrace," a report in 'The Times' said today.

Characters may also "hug each other in friendship".

Among productions considered too risque for schools were Grease, The Taming of the Shrew and The Playboy of the Western World.

The report said these guidelines would be considered by Welsh education professionals and have been suggested to prevent inappropriate sexual behaviour in school productions.

"In the past some unscrupulous drama teachers have used the integrity of the play as an argument to provide cover for their abusive practices," the guidelines said.

"Drama teachers must cut or adapt plays if they have to in order to protect children and young people. (They) should ... Not rely on arguments about the artistic integrity of the text," they added.

However, critics of the proposed guidelines said teachers should beware of sanitising productions.

"The more (children) understand about love and passion, the better," said Dominic Dromgoogle, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre, adding that the 16th-century playwright treated the subject with sensitivity and compassion.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Maybe He's Just Not Into You, Helena: All's Well That Ends Well

Whether the genre is comedy, tragedy or history, it's no secret to regular theatergoers that all often does not go well for Shakespeare, even on stages in New York City, the country's theater capital. If the actress playing the cross-dressing ingénue is lovely and affecting, her paramour may be played by a cardboard charmer with a popular television show on his résumé. Or maybe the clowns hit their marks, but the love-struck youngsters speak verse as if they're reading the list of additives from the back of a cereal box.
Short Takes: A Shakespeare contest by any other name...:

Calling the Bardstock nation - and forget it, boomers, this is for your kids. Great Lakes Theater Festival and WCPN FM/90.3 are seeking students in grades 6-12, not to watch bomber jet planes turning into butterflies, but to turn Shakespeare's dramatic themes into song. The annual Bardstock FM Shakespearean songwriting contest invites each student soloist or band to write and perform a new, original song inspired by one of the Bard's plays. All styles and genres are accepted. Four entries will be chosen as finalists. Prizes include free, professional recordings of the chosen songs and a commemorative CD; a live broadcast of the winning songs on a special edition of WCPN's Around Noon program in May; and awards of $250. Deadline for entries is Friday, March 10. Contact theater festival education director Daniel Hahn at 216-241-5490, Ext. 307, or e-mail DanielGreatLakes@aol.com.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Summer Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors at Auckland University Quad

Reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton

Thought to be Shakespeare's earliest comedy, The Comedy of Errors is seldom performed but Summer Shakespeare's imaginative and energetic production demonstrates that the work's neglect is ill-deserved.

Monday, February 13, 2006

A Midsummer Night Lovefest in the Philippines

By Lito Casaje

WHEN SISTER IMEE Mora, OSA, president of La Consolacion College Manila, appointed me as the institution's director for performing arts last semester, little did I realize that her vision-mission of instilling theater consciousness in her academic community, particularly in her spoiled colegialas whose perception of culture and the arts stops with "Pinoy Big Brother" and "Encantadia," was something of a Herculean challenge.

My once self-aggrandizing spirit to fulfill only my self-centered artistic whims, as president and artistic director of the 16-year-old Dramatis Personae, suddenly made a turnaround after being challenged this time by the lackadaisical attitude of my student actors in my latest theatrical project, a physical theater version of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Announces New Season

The Edges of RomeShakespeare's Globe Theatre 2006

2006, my first year as Artistic Director of the Globe, is a year of thrilling new beginnings. We aim to thicken the air with the sinuous and muscular poetry of Coriolanus; with the macabre humour and Grand Guignol of Titus Andronicus; with the relentless on-rushing sublimity of Antony & Cleopatra, and with the delirious farcical mayhem of The Comedy of Errors. To add to the Shakespeare, we welcome two new voices to the Globe: Simon Bent with Under The Black Flag, his rampaging yarn around the 17th-century pirate world, and Howard Brenton, with In Extremis, his telling of a love story from 12th-century Paris, that of Abelard and Heloise.

Dominic DromgooleArtistic Director

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Miniature Editions of Shakespeare

James L. Harner, editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online has launched an "Illustrated Bibliography" containing 41 miniatures "with some 200 more to come."

My favorite is Polonius' P's & Q's by Berkeley: Poole Press, 2002. Here's the description: "Opens 360 degrees to form a three-dimensional carousel (ca. 13 cm. diameter) of six pop-up/peepshow scenes. Each scene has two pop-up and one background colored illustrated panels on paper, all six scenes mounted in a black cloth binding with printed paper title label and balsa stage onlay, and fore-edge fastener; in a balsa, board illustrated paper model of the Globe Theater."

Friday, February 10, 2006

Strand Bookstore sells Second Folio for $100,000

By Rachel Fershleiser
Most New Yorkers know the Strand Bookstore as a place to browse for bargains, roll their eyes at rude employees, and pick up a paperback for a dollar on a cart outside. But on January 28th, one anonymous industrial figure plopped down a more significant sum for a book— $100,000 to be exact.

The William Shakespeare Second Folio he purchased was published in 1632 and had been in the Strand’s rare book collection for over twenty-five years.

For store owner Nancy Bass, the sale was bittersweet. “Its hard to let go of a book that was part of our store for such a very long time and something that is truly a rarity created by a literary master,” she said. “At the same time I’m comforted that in an age of technology, celebrity and instant gratification… something so important is still appreciated, is still considered desirable.”

That desirable book was kept in the rare book room’s heavy gold safe along with other treasures like a first edition of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” a slender Walt Disney volume marked with the familiar yellow discount sticker: STRAND PRICE $1200.00, and an unusual copy of Ulysses signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse.

“There’s a great story surrounding the copy of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ we have,” says longtime employee and rare book specialist Vasilis Terpsopoulos. “Joyce asked Matisse to illustrate his book ‘Ulysses,’ and Matisse hadn’t read it, so he decided to make the illustrations as they would be for Homer’s ‘Ulysses’! When Joyce realized what had happened, he refused to sign any more copies of the book. So ours is one of a very few signed by them both.”

Even for more casual collectors — and people without six figures lying around —the Strand’s third floor rare book room deserves a look. Renovated in the store’s recent overhaul, the space is surprisingly large and airy, the walls adorned with photographs of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Built-in bookshelves hold mostly gold-embossed, leather-bound tomes, but modern art books and new classics are also on display. A signed edition of “Bonfire of the Vanities,” “Endless Love,” or “Waiting to Exhale” can be purchased for roughly the same price as an ordinary new hardcover book at Barnes & Noble. And though the rare book collection carries everything from a six-hundred-year- old religious text to the new David Foster Wallace, the specialists employed there seem indiscriminate in their bibliophilia. When asked what he thought was the most exciting thing in the safe, a manager would only say,“I don’t play favorites.”

Strand Bookstore (www.strandbooks .com) is located at 828 Broadway and E. 12th St. The rare book room is open daily until 6:20 pm.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival To Open 2006 Season Feb. 24

Ashland, Oregon - The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 2006 season with four productions on two stages February 24-26, 2006. Kicking off the festivities is William Shakespeare's uplifting tale of transgression and forgiveness, The Winter's Tale, directed by OSF Artistic Director Libby Appel. The show opens at 8 p.m. Friday, February 24, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Opening Saturday, February 25 at 1:30 p.m. in the Angus Bowmer Theatre is the haunting, powerful drama The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by OSF Associate Artist James Edmondson. "
Shakespeare at Stratford: Text and Theater
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July 2-July 8, 2006
$1125 (approx.)

Plans are currently underway for the 2006 week-long program at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, scheduled to run from July 2-July 8, 2006. The course includes attendance at five Shakespearean plays by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre augmented by pre-performance lectures and post-performance discussions presented by resident experts.
(Past speakers have included: Professor Miriam Gilbert, from the University of Iowa and author of Shakespeare in Performance at Stratford: The Merchant of Venice, and Dr. Robert Smallwood, past director of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford.) Our study of text and performance will be further enhanced by leading RST actors who will appear in the class as guest speakers and talk about their roles in the plays we see.

The proposed schedule of plays for the course is as follows:
Sunday 2 July - Arrive
Monday 3 July - Romeo & Juliet 7.30pm RST
Tuesday 4 July - Julius Caesar 7:30 pm RST
Wednesday 5 July - Free Night
Thursday 6 July - Henry IV Prt 1 1:15 pm Swan; Henry IV Part 2 7:15 pm Swan
Friday 7 July - Henry VI Courtyard 7.30pm
Saturday 8 July - Depart

The preliminary estimated cost of $1125 includes the cost for theatre tickets to the five plays, fall pre- and post-performance lectures and discussions, housing* for the duration of the program, all breakfasts and one dinner, reading privileges at the Shakespeare Centre Library, and either a voice or a makeup & wigs lesson from an RST professional.

This cost does NOT include your travel to and from Stratford from the U.S. Final actual cost will depend on the rate of exchange and the total number of participants. (There is a minimum of 15 required for the course to make, but the way the program is budgeted, the more people who enroll, the lower the per- capita cost. There is a good chance that this cost will drop to about $1000, as preliminary feedback suggests that we will surpass the 20- person limit needed to drop the costs to the next lower pricing band.) NO ONE WILL BE REQUIRED TO

If you think you might be interested in taking part in this exciting venture, or if you would like further information, please contact Carolyn Henly at: StratfordUK2006@cs.com or at her work number: 804-743-3683. She will keep you posted as the course takes shape and you can make a final decision about attending when details are finalized!

* Housing is in local Bed and Breakfast Inns; the cost quoted is for double-occupancy; it may be possible to request singles, but if you are interested in that, you will probably have to pay the full cost for the double-room.
Eastern New Mexico University presents MND

Even if they haven’t seen it, Eastern New Mexico University theatre professor Felipe Macias is sure that audience members will be familar with the material when they see next weekend’s performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Shakespeare's Will in Vancouver

By Vern Thiessen. Directed by Geoffrey Brumlik. A Gateway Theatre production. At the Gateway Theatre until February 18

You might enjoy bits of the second act, if you manage to stay awake that long.

In Shakespeare's Will, playwright Vern Thiessen imagines what the Bard's marriage might have looked like from the perspective of his wife, Anne Hathaway. He introduces us to Anne just after her she has attended her husband's funeral. For most of the play, she looks back at and reflects upon their unusual union. (She stayed in Stratford while he made it big in London.)

Thursday, February 09, 2006

British artistes enact Shakespeare's play in Jaipur

By Lokendra Singh, Jaipur

The characters of William Shakespeare's world famous play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, came alive recently in Jaipur when a group of British theatre artistes performed the play before an Indian audience here.

Led by Jarka Heller, the Play director and about ten young art students from United Kingdom performed the comedy before the audience at Jawahar Kala Kendra this Sunday.

The play, intended for the Indian audience was performed by the actors. Efforts are being made to bring together trained Indian actors and their British counterparts to work together.

“We would love to do this next year and years after. And hopefully get Indian trained actors to be able to work together with the actors from England. So, they could share their experience and learn from each other really,” said Heller.

The performance left the audience, mainly comprising students, enthralled with the authority with which the play was enacted by British artistes.

“It was a different experience. It was something different that we saw. We learnt a lot from this play. It was nice and I enjoyed it,” said Shibani, a young girl.

The magnanimity of the response that the British artists received left them astonished.

“It's been an incredible experience to come here and perform in front of an Indian audience. The response was absolutely fantastic. We could not even imagine anything like this and it's really an amazing experience. They are so enthusiastic. They are so much into the play, so supportive,” said John Morrissey, an actor.

Monday, February 06, 2006

"Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell."

Shakespeare & Company kicks off the new year with NEA grant and its tour of HAMLET February 6 - May 12

{Lenox, MA} - Shakespeare & Company's 2006 annual Spring Tour of Shakespeare brings Hamlet to schools and theatres throughout New England and New York as it hits the road from February 6 through May 12. Hamlet is generously supported by a $45,000 Shakespeare for a New Generation grant from the National Endowment of the Arts -- one of the newest major arts-in-education initiatives sponsored by the Endowment in cooperation with Arts Midwest. This recent grant marks a $20,000 increase over last year's funding to the Company and has further allowed it to provide matching grants for additional schools who would not have been able to afford to participate in the tour.

The seven-actor production of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy, is directed by Kevin Coleman, Director of Education, and features Zac Goodwin, Sean Jarett, Curt Klump, Nikki O'Carroll, Sarah Taylor, Marc Scipione and Tom Wells. Each actor plays two or
more roles and also performs stage manager duties. The costumes are designed by Govane Lohbauer; sound design by Kevin Coleman, and set construction and design by Marc Scipione and Zac Goodwin. For tickets and information please contact Group Tours Director Joanne Deutch at (413) 637-1199 ext 132 or visit: www.shakespeare.org .

Shakespeare's Hamlet has been pared down to a 90-minute, fast-paced Bare Bard production -- similar to Elizabethan touring productions that traveled the countryside each time the plague took London and city officials closed the theaters. Scholars believe that these Elizabethan touring companies contained small casts of players, each of whom played multiple roles, and performed scripts that were truncated accordingly.

Shakespeare & Company's seven-member cast performs at schools and theatre venues all over the Northeast, stretching as far north as Portland, Maine, and as far south as New York City.
The tour addresses the growing need for arts experiences for children-at-risk in rural areas where economic stresses, municipal budget cutbacks, and the elimination of school and state arts programming limit opportunities for young people to develop critically-needed educational and cultural perspectives. Each performance for students in grades 7-12 emphasizes language and the relationship between the actors and the audience.

Two interactive workshops and a discussion period are available to the audience in conjunction with the performance. In Wild and Whirling Words, a compilation of Shakespeare scenes, students are introduced to Shakespeare, his language, and the history of his plays. Through Workshops in Performance, students not only learn about Shakespeare's works, but also have an opportunity to become the actors as they create their own Shakespeare performance.
German Theatregoers Gag at Shakespeare Gorefest

It is Shakespeare's most gory work, full of bodies and amputations. But a production of Titus Andronicus at the Berlin theatre made famous by Bertolt Brecht proved so stomach-churning for one German audience, they tried to storm the stage.

"You're getting off on it [the violence]," members of the audience shouted at the actors in protest at the graphic rape scene in which Titus's daughter, Lavinia, also has her hands chopped off and tongue ripped out.

As security guards pulled the protesters back, about 30 members of the audience walked out in protest at the German version of Shakespeare's tragedy, Die Schändung (Violation), written by the playwright Botho Strauss.

"We came very close to calling the police," Claus Peymann, artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble told the Guardian yesterday. "I haven't experienced anything like this since the 60s. The mood was one of war. People were shouting 'Nazi theatre'. Perhaps people were surprised that this kind of violence can take place live on stage."

Founded by Brecht in 1949, the Berliner Ensemble has maintained his tradition of provocative political theatre. The play also includes Shakespeare's famous pie scene, in which the wife of the Roman emperor eats her two sons. "Our version begins with Shakespeare's text, but then changes into a modern play," Peymann said. "We do have a pie, though."


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Matt Pommer, the former left-leaning Capitol Times reporter, used some of his tired old tactics when he did his recent promotional piece for Mary Burke, like stating that the wealthy support Republican politics without mentioning that the "new party of the rich" is the Democratic Party.

There are more Democratic millionaires in Congress than Republican ones. Twenty out of the top 32 donors lean Democratic. If one adds in the unions, universities, left-wing activism, Wall Street banks, and Superfund contributors, the Republicans are outspent by 7-to-1.

Mary Burke's only experience is working for her father. He titled her a vice president. (We all know how family companies operate). Then she worked in the Doyle debacle. Finally, she was on the Madison School Board. How do these jobs qualify her? This limited bio should get her to the governor's office?

Pommer fails to mention Burke's rant on Scott Walker's ethics. She is highly critical of Walker because he had a woman that worked for him who was convicted of doing political work while on government time when he was Milwaukee County executive.

Yet recently Burke hired, as one of her senior advisors, Tanya Bjork. Bjork was convicted of the same thing. Burke is appalled by what Walker did, but she does the same thing. Isn't this a double standard?

Do you think Burke will fire Bjork? It seems the Democrats are trotting out more of the same. Now we should roll the dice on Mary Burke, another very unremarkable empty suit.

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Two people suspected of robbing a restaurant are dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds during a police standoff on U.S. Highway 41 that closed the highway during the Wednesday afternoon rush hour.

All lanes of U.S. Highway 41 between State Highways 45 and 76 were closed to traffic starting about 4 p.m., as police attempted to take the suspects from the robbery of a Winnebago County restaurant and tavern into custody.

Winnebago County Sheriff's Captain Mark Habeck said authorities heard two shots fired shortly after 6 p.m. and deputies approaching the vehicle found a man and a woman dead. ...

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