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Secret Service Special Agent Career
Secret Service special agents are employed by the U.S. Secret Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security. Secret Service agents work to protect the president and other political leaders of the United States, as well as heads of foreign states or governments when they are visiting the United States. Special agents also investigate financial crimes. The U.S. Secret Service employs about 5,000 people, about 2,100 of whom are agents.
History of Secret Service Special Agent Career
The Secret Service was established in 1865 to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, the Secret Service was directed by Congress to protect the president of the United States. Today it is the Secret Service's responsibility to protect the following people: the president and vice president (also president-elect and vice president-elect) and their immediate families; former presidents and their spouses for 10 years after the president leaves office (spouses lose protection if they remarry; all former presidents up to and including President Clinton receive lifetime protection, as this law changed in 1997); children of former presidents until they are 16 years old; visiting heads of foreign states or governments and their spouses traveling with them, along with other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States and their spouses traveling with them; official representatives of the United States who are performing special missions abroad; major presidential and vice-presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general presidential election, their spouses.
The Job of Secret Service Special Agents
Secret Service special agents are charged with two missions: protecting U.S. leaders or visiting foreign dignitaries (likewise, U.S. leaders on missions to other countries) and investigating the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. Special agents are empowered to carry and use firearms, execute warrants, and make arrests.
When assigned to a permanent protection duty—for the president, for example—special agents are usually assigned to the Washington, D.C., area. They are responsible for planning and executing protective operations for those whom they protect at all times. Agents can also be assigned to a temporary protective duty to provide protection for candidates or visiting foreign dignitaries. In either case, an advance team of special agents surveys each site that will be visited by those whom they protect. Based on their survey, the team determines how much manpower and what types of equipment are needed to provide protection. They identify hospitals and evacuation routes and work closely with local police, fire, and rescue units to develop the protection plan and determine emergency routes and procedures, should the need arise. A command post is then set up with secure communications to act as the communication center for protective activities. The post monitors emergencies and keeps participants in contact with each other.
Before the officials arrive, the lead advance agent coordinates all law enforcement representatives participating in the visit. The assistance of military, federal, state, county, and local law enforcement organizations is a vital part of the entire security operation. Personnel are told where they will be posted and are alerted to specific problems associated with the visit. Intelligence information is discussed and emergency measures are outlined. Just prior to the arrival of those whom they protect, checkpoints are established and access to the secure area is limited. After the visit, special agents analyze every step of the protective operation, record unusual incidents, and suggest improvements for future operations.
Protective research is an important part of all security operations. Protective research engineers and protective research technicians develop, test, and maintain technical devices and equipment needed to provide a safe environment for their charge.
When assigned to an investigative duty, special agents investigate threats against those the Secret Service protects. They also work to detect and arrest people committing any offense relating to coins, currency, stamps, government bonds, checks, credit card fraud, computer fraud, false identification crimes, and other obligations or securities of the United States. Special agents also investigate violations of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Federal Land Bank Act, and the Government Losses in Shipment Act. Special agents assigned to an investigative duty usually work in one of the Secret Service's 125 domestic and foreign field offices. Agents assigned to investigative duties in a field office are often called out to serve on a temporary protective operation.
Special agents assigned to investigate financial crimes may also be assigned to one of the Secret Service's three divisions in Washington, D.C., or they may receive help from the divisions while conducting an investigation from a field office. The Counterfeit Division constantly reviews the latest reprographic and lithographic technologies to keep a step ahead of counterfeiters. The Financial Crimes Division aids special agents in their investigation of electronic crimes involving credit cards, computers, cellular and regular telephones, narcotics, illegal firearms trafficking, homicide, and other crimes. The Forensic Services Division coordinates forensic science activities within the Secret Service. The division analyzes evidence such as documents, fingerprints, photographs, and video and audio recordings.
The Secret Service employs a number of specialist positions such as electronics engineers, communications technicians, research psychologists, computer experts, armorers, intelligence analysts, polygraph examiners, forensic experts, security specialists, and more.
For some 15 years, Norm Jarvis has been a special agent for the Secret Service. He has protected a variety of U.S. political leaders including former presidents Clinton, Nixon, Carter, and Ford. He has also protected foreign dignitaries including the president of Sudan and the prime minister of Israel. In addition, Jarvis has investigated criminal activity in a number of cities and served in the Secret Service's Montana and Utah field offices.
While his primary responsibility is to investigate crimes, Jarvis is called out regularly to protect a political or foreign leader. During those times, he serves as a member of a team of special agents who work to ensure there is always a "protective bubble," a 360-degree virtual boundary of safety, surrounding the person they are protecting, regardless of whether he or she is in a moving or stationary location. Protective operations can be complicated, with special agents working together around the clock, using intelligence and special technologies, and working in conjunction with local authorities to make sure the person is safe. "We don't believe anybody can do bodyguard work just by walking around with somebody," Jarvis says. "Scowls and large muscles don't mean a lot if somebody is determined to kill you." While special agents don't change their protective techniques when they work overseas, they often work in conjunction with foreign security agencies. "Other security forces usually defer to the Secret Service, which is considered a premier security agency," Jarvis says.
When Jarvis is not on a protective assignment, he spends his time investigating a variety of crimes. Special agents assigned to smaller field offices typically handle a wide variety of criminal investigations. But special agents usually work for a specialized squad in a field office, handling specific investigations like counterfeit currency, forgery, and financial crimes. Special agents may receive case referrals from the Secret Service headquarters, from other law enforcement agencies, or through their own investigations. Investigating counterfeit money requires extensive undercover operations and surveillance. Special agents usually work with the U.S. Attorney's Office and local law enforcement for counterfeiting cases. Through their work, special agents detect and seize millions of dollars of counterfeit money each year—some of which is produced overseas. Special agents working in a fraud squad often receive complaints or referrals from banking or financial institutions that have been defrauded. Fraud cases involve painstaking and long-term investigations to reveal the criminals, who are usually organized groups or individuals hiding behind false identifications. Special agents working for forgery squads often have cases referred to them from banks or local police departments that have discovered incidents of forgery.
Secret Service Special Agent Career Requirements
You can help prepare for a career as a special agent by doing well in high school. You may receive special consideration by the Secret Service if you have computer training, which is needed to investigate computer fraud, or if you can speak a foreign language, which is useful during investigations and while protecting visiting heads of state or U.S. officials who are working abroad. Specialized skills in electronics, forensics, and other investigative areas are highly regarded. Aside from school, doing something unique and positive for your city or neighborhood, or becoming involved in community organizations can improve your chances of being selected by the Secret Service.
The Secret Service recruits special agents at the GS-5 and GS-7 grade levels. You can qualify at the GS-5 level in one of three ways: obtain a four-year degree from an accredited college or university; work for at least three years in a criminal investigative or law enforcement field and gain knowledge and experience in applying laws relating to criminal violations; or obtain an equivalent combination of education and experience. You can qualify at the GS-7 level by achieving superior academic scores (defined as a grade point average of at least 2.95 on a 4.0 scale), going to graduate school and studying a directly related field, or gaining an additional year of criminal investigative experience.
All newly hired special agents go through nine weeks of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, and then 11 weeks of specialized training at the Secret Service's Training Academy in Beltsville, Maryland. During training, new agents take comprehensive courses in protective techniques, criminal and constitutional law, criminal investigative procedures, use of scientific investigative devices, first aid, the use of firearms, and defensive measures. Special agents also learn about collecting evidence, surveillance techniques, undercover operation, and courtroom demeanor. Specialized training includes skills such as fire fighting and protection aboard airplanes. The classroom study is supplemented by on-the-job training, and special agents go through advanced in-service training throughout their careers.
New special agents usually begin work at the field offices where they first applied. Their initial work is investigative in nature and is closely supervised. After about five years, agents are usually transferred to a protection assignment.
In addition to the educational requirements, special agents must meet the following criteria: Be a U.S. citizen; be at least 21 and less than 37 years of age at the time of appointment; have uncorrected vision no worse than 20/60 in each eye, correctable to 20/20 in each eye; be in excellent health and physical condition; pass the Treasury Enforcement Agent exam; and undergo a complete background investigation, including in-depth interviews, drug screening, medical examination, and polygraph examination.
The Secret Service is looking for smart, upstanding citizens who will give a favorable representation of the U.S. government. The agency looks for people with strong ethics, morals, and virtues, and then they teach them how to be special agents. "You can be a crackerjack lawyer, but have some ethical problems in your background, and we wouldn't hire you as an agent even though we would love to have your expertise," Norm Jarvis says.
Special agents also need dedication, which can be demonstrated through a candidate's grade point average in high school and college. Applicants must have a drug-free background. Even experimental drug use can be a reason to dismiss an applicant from the hiring process. Special agents also need to be confident and honest— with no criminal background. "It's important as a representative of the President's Office that you conduct yourself well, that you look good, and that you're able to command some respect," Jarvis says. "Anything even as minor as shoplifting is an indicator of a personality problem."
Since special agents must travel for their jobs—Jarvis spends about 30 percent of his time on the road—interested applicants should be flexible and willing to be away from home. Jarvis says the traveling is one of the downfalls of the job, often requiring him to leave his wife and two children at a moment's notice.
Exploring Secret Service Special Agent Career
The Secret Service offers the Stay-In-School Program for high school students. The program allows students who meet financial eligibility guidelines to earn money and some benefits by working part time, usually in a clerical job, for the agency. There are many requirements and application guidelines for this program, so contact the Secret Service's Stay-In-School office at the address given at the end of this article.
The Secret Service also offers the Cooperative Education Program as a way for the agency to identify and train highly motivated students for careers as special agents. Participants in this paid program learn more about the Secret Service and gain on-the-job training, with the possibility of working full-time for the Secret Service upon graduation. The two-year work-study program includes classroom training and hands-on training that will prepare students for the following Secret Service careers: accountant, budget analyst, computer specialist, computer research specialist, electronic engineer, intelligence research specialist, management specialist, personnel management specialist, telecommunications specialist, and visual information specialist. Students working toward a bachelor's degree must complete 1,040 hours of study-related work requirements.
To be considered for the program, you must be enrolled full-time in an accredited educational program; be enrolled in your school's cooperative education program; maintain a 3.0 grade point average in either undergraduate or graduate studies; be a U.S. citizen; be enrolled in a field of study related to the position you are applying for; pass a drug test; and pass a preliminary background investigation and possibly a polygraph test. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must be registered with the Selective Service System or be legally exempt from doing so. Further, your school must sign a working agreement with the Secret Service.
There is also a Cooperative Education Program for criminal investigators (special agents), which, in addition to the general requirements stated above, requires that participants be enrolled in a graduate or law degree program and pass polygraph and medical examinations. This two-year program, available only in the Washington, D.C. area, provides rudimentary training for the special agent position, introducing participants to the investigative and protective techniques that agents use.
Students in the Cooperative Education Program work part time, which is between 16 and 32 hours a week. They may work full time during holidays and school breaks. They receive some federal benefits including a retirement plan, life and health insurance, annual and sick leave, holiday pay, awards, and promotions.
You must submit a variety of forms to apply for this program, so contact the Secret Service's Cooperative Education coordinator at the address given at the end of the article for more information. In addition, you may be able to apply for the program through the cooperative education program at your school.
Norm Jarvis didn't set out to become a special agent. As a teenager, he admired a neighbor who worked as a deputy sheriff. As Jarvis grew older and had to make decisions about college and work, he realized he wanted to go into law enforcement. At the age of 18, he volunteered to go into the U.S. Army to train with the military police. When Jarvis left the service, he used his veteran's benefits to help him get a bachelor's degree in psychology from Westminster College. "I have an innate interest in why people do the things they do," he says. Norm also earned a master's degree in public administration from Utah University. He spent eight years working as a police officer before he decided to apply to the Secret Service. He wasn't satisfied with his police officer's salary and was tired of the "day-to-day emotional trauma of being an officer." Jarvis loved to travel and was impressed by some special agents he had met, so he decided that becoming a special agent would be a way for him to progress professionally and work in an exciting position.
The Secret Service warns that because they have many well-qualified applicants and few anticipated vacancies, the chance that you will be hired is limited. On top of that, the hiring process can take up to a year or more because of the thoroughness of the selection process.
If you are ready to apply for a special agent job, make sure you meet the requirements described above, then submit a typewritten Standard Form 171, Application for Federal Employment. If you have graduated from college, you will also need to submit an official transcript. Alternatively, you can submit an Optional Application for Federal Employment or a resume, but you will have to complete some accompanying forms, so be sure to check with the Secret Service field office nearest you before doing so to find out exactly what forms to fill out. The field office in your area should be listed in the government section of your telephone book.
The Secret Service only accepts applications for current job openings. To find out what vacancies currently exist, use the contact information at the end of this article.
Norm Jarvis began working in the Secret Service's Salt Lake City field office in 1984. He was transferred to the Organized Crime Task Force in the Washington, D.C. field office in 1987. In 1990 Jarvis was promoted to the position of instructor at the Office of Training, and he was transferred to the Presidential Protective Division in 1994. Jarvis went to Montana in 1997 after being promoted to the position of resident agent of the Great Falls field office. Currently he is a special agent once again in the Salt Lake City office.
Generally, special agents begin their careers by spending five to 10 years performing primarily investigative duties at a field office. Then they are usually assigned to a protective assignment for three to five years. After 12 or 13 years, special agents become eligible to move into supervisory positions. A typical promotion path moves special agents to the position of senior agent, then resident agent in charge of a district, assistant to the special agent in charge, and finally special agent in charge of a field office or headquarters division. Promotion is awarded based upon performance, and since the Secret Service employs many highly skilled professionals, competition for promotion is strong.
Special agents can retire after 20 years and after they reach the age of 50. Special agents must retire before the age of 57. Jarvis plans to continue working with the Secret Service until retirement. When he does retire, Jarvis does not plan on pursuing law enforcement activities. Instead, he would like to earn a doctorate in psychology, sociology, or criminology and teach at the college level.
Some retired agents are hired by corporations to organize the logistics of getting either people or products from one place to another. Others work as bodyguards, private investigators, security consultants, and local law enforcement officials.
Special agents generally receive Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) on top of their base pay. Agents usually start at the GS-5 or GS-7 grade levels, which in 2006 were $25,195 and $31,209, respectively, excluding LEAP. (Salaries may be slightly higher in some areas with high costs of living.) Agents automatically advance by two pay grades each year until they reach the GS-12 level, which in 2006 was $55,360, excluding LEAP. Agents must compete for positions above the GS-12 level; however, the majority of agents reach GS-13—$65,832, excluding LEAP, in 2006—in the course of their careers. Top officials in the Secret Service are appointed to Senior Executive Service (SES) positions; they do not receive the availability pay. Top SES salaries are well over $150,000 a year.
Benefits for special agents include low-cost health and life insurance, annual and sick leave, paid holidays, and a comprehensive retirement program. In addition, free financial protection is provided to agents and their families in the event of job-related injury or death.
A Secret Service special agent is assigned to a field office or one of three Washington, D.C., divisions. Agents on investigative assignments may spend much time doing research with the office as base, or they may be out in the field, doing undercover or surveillance work. Protective and investigative assignments can keep a special agent away from home for long periods of time, depending on the situation. Preparations for the president's visits to cities in the United States generally take no more than a week. However, a large event attracting foreign dignitaries, such as the Asian Pacific Conference in the state of Washington, can take months to plan. Special agents at field offices assigned to investigate crimes are called out regularly to serve temporary protective missions. During presidential campaign years, agents typically serve three-week protective assignments, work three weeks back at their field offices, and then start the process over again. Special agents always work at least 40 hours a week and often work a minimum of 50 hours each week.
One of the drawbacks of being a special agent is the potential danger involved. A special agent was shot in the stomach in 1981 during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Other agents have been killed on the job in helicopter accidents, surveillance assignments, and protective operations, to name a few.
For most agents, however, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. For Norm Jarvis, the excitement and profound importance of his work give him great job satisfaction. "There are times when you are involved in world history and you witness history being made, or you are present when historical decisions are being made, and you feel privileged to be a part of making history, albeit you're behind the scenes and never recognized for it," he says. However, according to one of Jarvis's co-workers, the job is not always glamorous and can be "like going out in your backyard in your best suit and standing for three hours."
Compared to other federal law enforcement agencies, the Secret Service is small. The agency focuses on its protective missions and is not interested in expanding its responsibilities. "We want to be the best at protection, and I think we are the best in the world and that suits us fine," Norm Jarvis says. As a result, the Secret Service will likely not grow much, unless the president and Congress decide to expand the agency's duties.
In spite of increased high-alert conditions as a result of terrorist threats, the Secret Service still employs a small number of people, and their new hires each year are limited. Officials anticipate that the job availability could increase slightly over the next few years.
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Tech Innovations that could Help Us #EndTB
So far, the use of science in tackling Tuberculosis has mostly focused on microbiology, trying to improve testing, treatment and prevention of infection. Now, with the growing focus on the drug resistance crisis, technology is emerging to address the big barrier to #EndTB: Treatment adherence.
What is treatment adherence?
A major reason for drug resistance is that people who begin TB treatment -- a drug regimen which currently takes at least 6 months with multiple pills daily — don't complete it. When patients taper off or stop their medication because their symptoms have begun to ease, the more virulent TB bacteria (the ones that had better initial resistance to the drug) are allowed to survive. These bacteria then go on to cause a recurrence of TB, but this time resistant to the drugs they are already used to. The person may also spread this to those around her, believing that she has been cured.
Innovations that promote treatment adherence
We urgently need to ensure that those diagnosed with TB complete their drug regimens, meaning at least 80% of doses per month throughout the 6 months. New technologies have been rapidly developing to fill this gap.
There are smart pillboxes, like Caredose, Jeyun and Easycure Box, which provide reminders and help patients take the right pills in each dose. An interesting variation of this is the Cool Comply box, which provides solar-powered refrigeration alongside dose monitoring for MDR-TB therapy.
The 99DOTS adherence process: Take the pill, dial the number. Photo: Patrika Online
There are modifications on Directly Observed Therapy (DOTS) programs like the Operation ASHA biometric validation system, 99DOTS (which requires patients to message each time they 'adhere') and ZMQ and other Virtual Observed Therapy, or VOT, models (patients send videos of themselves taking the dose).
There are systems that complement the technology-based oversight with human interaction, like Keheala in Uganda, Ti Kay in Haiti, or E Health Points in India. The latter also combines compliance oversight with other services, like drinking water provisioning, to minimize the stigma from visits to health centers for those with a confirmed TB diagnosis.
And all of these innovations are linked to a monitoring system, which allows providers and administrators to identify outbreaks in almost real-time, and follow up quickly with those not managing to comply. It also provides real-time and consolidated data for planning. A special innovation in the monitoring area is the DOTsync App, which allows health workers to track side effects, infection control, nutritional-support package deliveries, and screening, alongside tracking treatment compliance.
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So is all technology good technology?
It's important to think of technology as an enabler, not a solution. What tech can't do is replace the role of human contact in reaching out to, sensitizing, and supporting those struggling with the disease and its effects. What technology must aim for is patient empowerment. The WHO in its advocacy of a 'patient-centered approach' mandates that 'measures [to promote adherence] should be tailored to the individual patient's circumstances and be mutually acceptable to the patient and the provider.'
In real terms, this means that it would be misplaced for innovators to assume patients either don't care or don't want to take their medicines and get well. Instead, they need to explore the reasons behind patient non-compliance: Lack of awareness, inconvenience, or other more serious problems, like stigma, obstacles to access, side effects, and social norms.
Dealing with these complex challenges requires a mammoth, multi-stakeholder effort: Time spent by field workers and TB Champions to provide information and support for the person undergoing treatment, who is often isolated; measures for nutritional and financial protection that enable access and treatment effectiveness; sensitivity of providers to patients' rights; and stable treatment support from the health system and funders. Innovations that support these more difficult enablers of adherence stand a much higher chance of creating impact. They would no longer be conveyors of existing treatment guidelines, but enablers of patient empowerment.
Finally, the innovations would need to incorporate features in their design that help to reach out to, educate, and include those who are most excluded from access to treatment and support. Some new initiatives, like the Zero TB Initiative and REACH, are mapping ' hotspots of transmission' and providers who can influence them. Innovations that address the drivers or social determinants of TB — especially poverty, poor housing and under-nutrition — will power a much-needed drive towards Health for All.
We need innovations that harness the energy of what we already know and learn daily, and use it to propel us towards eliminating TB by 2025. If you're an innovator, a user, or an enabler in this space, we want to hear from you. Can you help #EndTB?
Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com on May 14, 2018.
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Since 1996, Professor Gladding has led the faculty group responsible for the success of the massive curriculum revision that has transformed the introductory physics curriculum here at Illinois. This effort has involved more than 50 faculty and improved physics instruction for more than 25,000 science and engineering undergraduate students. He has shifted his research focus over the last five years to physics education research (PER) and currently leads the PER research group. He is also heavily involved in preparing at-risk students for success in physics coursework through the development of Physics 100.
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Some students may perform poorly in our introductory physics courses, not because of their inability to conceptually understand the physics content, but because of their inability to communicate mathematically. Indeed, a dominant contributor to student failure in physics may be related to students inability to represent concepts with, and extract information from, the physics equations. We have found evidence that many students view the meaning of the physics equations primarily in terms of numeric computations. These students view the computational uses of the equations as completely separate from the conceptual relationships the equations express. Our research has focused on understanding student difficulties with mathematical communication and the pedagogical practices effective at overcoming these difficulties.
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Patritti Wins 'McLaren Vale Grenache' Trophy at International Wine Challenge, London
by Kyla Schmidt May 23, 2017
Overnight the International Win Challenge 2017 Trophies were announced in London and Patritti's 2015 Section 181 Single Vineyard Grenache has been awarded top regional Trophy for 'McLaren Vale Grenache'. Patritti's winemakers, James Mungall and Ben Heide were cautiously optimistic they could take out the top award following the Tranche 1 Gold Medal announcement in December last year.
Third generation Patritti winemaker, James Mungall says of the win, "The vines that produce this fruit for this wine were planted by my Nonno through the 1960s in the Tatachilla sub-region of McLaren Vale. Unlike most Grenache at the time, the fruit was used to make varietal wines for other European immigrants who were used to drinking lighter style red table wines. I think he would be pretty happy to see us winning McLaren Vale's best Grenache varietal wine from the same vines some 50 years later."
McLaren Vale is the only Australian wine region to have a Grenache Trophy class at this competition. Mungall says, "This is not only great for Patritti, but all of McLaren Vale. We have always believed that the region produces Australia's best Grenache, and this award helps us showcase the region and the exceptional Grenache it produces to the world."
Now in its 34th year, the International Wine Challenge (IWC) is considered the world's most meticulously judged wine competition, with tastings taking place over two tranches of blind tastings. IWC says, "Throughout the rigorous judging process, each medal winning wine is tasted on three separate occasions by at least ten different judges..."
This is the first time Patritti has entered these awards. Each of the seven wines entered has scored an accolade, with the most notable:
2015 Patritti Section 181 Grenache McLaren Vale - Gold Medal and Trophy, McLaren Vale Grenache
2014 Patritti Saperavi Barossa Valley - Gold Medal
2015 Patritti JPB Limited Release Shiraz McLaren Vale - Silver Medal
2015 Patritti Lot Three Shiraz McLaren Vale - Silver Medal
Winemaker Ben Heide is currently in the UK at the London Wine Fair where Trophy wines are on tasting, "This is only the second international wine show we have ever entered, and the first time the 2015 Section 181 has been entered internationally. We couldn't be happier with the results."
About the International Wine Challenge, UK
The IWC has two separate tastings to accommodate the different production and sales schedules across the globe. Tranche 1 wines were tasted in November (2016) with results announced in December. Tranche 2 wines were tasted in April with results announced in May. All wines are tasted in the context of style, country and region.
Wines that win Gold Medals in Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 are held for a Trophy tasting in April. At this blind tasting wines are sorted into regional and national Trophy winning wines.
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Brandi Glanville and Dean Sheremet Land New Cooking Show! Together!
by Kelly Lynch at May 10, 2016 9:54 am .
While LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian continue to beg for work, their ex-spouses are actually doing quite well for themselves.
Brandi Glanville found life after marriage to Cibrian to be quite lucrative; she's enjoyed success as a reality star on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, will soon appear on E!'s upcoming series, Famously Single, has her own podcast, line of wines and book deals.
Meanwhile, Rimes and Cibrian can't rub two pennies together, BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE THEIR LOVE TO KEEP THEM WARM.
TMZ reports that Glanville and Sheremet have signed on for My Kitchen Rules, a reality cooking show based on one that has enjoyed success in Australia.
The show will pit teams of two against one another to see who can throw the best dinner event.
Lance Bass, Andrew Dice Clay, Naomi Judd, and siblings Ray J and Brandy have already signed on, according to the site.
Yesterday, Glanville posted a photo to Twitter with Sheremet, more or less confirming that a cooking show is indeed happening.
"Let the games begin 💗 @Deansheremet -Don't let me to close to the knives," Glanville tweeted.
Brandi Glanville Photos: Through the Years
LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian Mock Brandi Glanville on Reality Show
Sheremet is a chef and health and fitness coach, having attended the French Culinary Institute.
Last year, Sheremet told blogger Natalie Thomas what it was like meeting Cibrian on the set of Lifetime's Northern Lights, before he discovered that Rimes and the actor were having an affair.
"He was a good looking guy. I just remember being like, 'Oh, God, just another one of those Hollywood pretty boys,'" Sheremet recalled.
"If you're in a room with him, he's probably one of the most charming people you'll ever meet. But I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw this f---ing table...
"He just felt like one of those guys from the beginning. A total schmoozer. Very Hollywood.
"I never bought his schtick. But I wasn't worried."
All's well that ends well, though. Rimes and Cibrian are jonesin' for work, while Sheremet and Glanville are making out like bandits.
Tags: LeAnn Rimes, Dean Sheremet, Eddie Cibrian, Brandi Glanville, Celebrity Gossip
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Recordings Review: Thinking Outside the Sack
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Rigoletto.
One had the feeling that the marketing department at DG weren't trying too hard to sell CDs with this cover,
which appeared on the initial 1980s pressing of this set. Image © Universal Classics.
This 1964 La Scala recording of Rigoletto features the unusual choice of acclaimed German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role and Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik leading the proceedings. That sounded pretty strange when I first saw this set sitting on a shelf in a used CD store in Boston, but surprisingly it works.
Labels: CD review, classical music, dietrich fischer-dieskau, giuseppe verdi, italian opera, la scala, opera review, Paul Pelkonen, Rafael Kubelik, Renata Scotto, Superconductor, Verdi
Film Review: Just Don't Lend Him Money
Sir Richard Burton as Richard Wagner.
Obsessive genius: Sir Richard Burton as Richard Wagner in Wagner.
Image © 1983 Hungarofilm/Kultur.
The turbulent life of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is a fascinating and at times repellent subject. Tony Palmer's film is now available on Amazon Prime, allowing the curious and the dedicated to take a leisurely tour through this expansive retelling of the convoluted life of the German composer. Divided here into three manageable episodes of three hours each, it is an experience that all serious Wagner lovers should try at least once. Then again, the same may be said of a trip to Bayreuth.
Labels: Amazon Prime, classical music, German opera, Liszt, Lohengrin, Ludwig, Richard Burton, Richard Wagner, tannhauser, Tristan und Isolde, Vanessa Redgrave, Wagner, Wagner Festival, Wagnerian
A Communication to My Friends: A Millennium Approaches
Some thoughts and some blog news as we approach the 2000th Superconductor post.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at his desk. Painting by Serov.
As we approach the 2000th article on Superconductor (which should happen sometime in October) I've been looking for a good way to celebrate that still keeps readers entertained. This blog has been a lot of work and it's been around a long time now, mostly due to the indulgence of certain arts organizations, our cherished advertisers and you, the classical and opera loving community that has become a strong audience for my writing. And yet there's still so much to do.
Labels: alan gilbert, Amazon.com, blog, blogging, Carnegie Hall, classical music, critic, open letter, Opera, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor
Recordings Review: Finally Uncorked!
Glyndebourne releases a classic L'Elisir d'Amore.
Sometimes a fine wine must remain in the cask before its full body and rich accents can be sampled and savored. This superb live recording of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, bottled at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1962, remained unreleased until 2009.
Labels: bel canto, classic recordings, classical music, donizetti, Glyndebourne, Luigi Alva, Mirella Freni, opera recording, Paul Pelkonen, Sesto Brusciantini, Superconductor
Recording Recommendation: The Shoe-String Ring
Valhalla on just $1.50 a day.
The original cover of Die Walküre. Clearly not marketing the music.
All Photos by Christopher Whorf © 1968, the artist.
Hans Swarowsky's recording of the complete Ring Cycle was made in 1968 in Nuremberg. The sessions were a by-product of the Soviet invasion of Prague, which forced most of the Czech Philharmonic to flee to southern Germany. Under Mr. Swarowsky, the so-called "South German Philharmonic" dashed off these recordings quickly, releasing the entire cycle on the budget Westminster Gold label as a bargain-basement alternative to the Decca Ring with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Labels: das rheingold, Der Ring des Nibelungen, die walkure, Gotterdammerung, new ring cycle, recording, recordings review, Richard Wagner, siegfried, The Ring of the Nibelungs, Valkyrie
Concert Review: The Shaper of Worlds
Mostly Mozart ends with Haydn's Creation.
And lo he said, let there be light: Mostly Mozart music director Louis Langrée.
Photo © 2015 Mostly Mozart/Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
The 2015 Mostly Mozart Festival ended last week with two performances of Haydn's The Creation, that highly stylized oratorio built around the early events of the Book of Genesis. Haydn's work is one of beginnings and creation from the void, and was an apt choice to end a successful run by the oldest Lincoln Center event, one that has largely succeeded in reinventing itself and its image in the face of a challenging musical environment.
Labels: Franz Josef Haydn, Genesis, John Relyea, lincoln center, Louis Langree, Mostly Mozart 2015, oratorio, Paul Pelkonen, Schopfung, Superconductor, Thomas Cooley
Superconductor Preview: Met Outdoor HD Festival
The Met does its annual big show in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The annual MET Live in HD festival attracts 3000 opera lovers each night to Lincoln Center Plaza.
Photo © 2015 The Metropolitan Opera.
The Metropolitan Opera likes to do things big. And nothing is bigger than their annual ten-day series of free opera screenings, shown on an enormous digital projection screen mounted on the balcony of the Grand Tier of the Metropolitan Opera House. There are 3,100 seats for each screening and no tickets are required. This year's series starts Friday night and continues through Labor Day. Superconductor has a preview.
Labels: Anna Netrebko, classical music, lincoln center, Met Live in HD, Met Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Opera, Opera preview, peter gelb
Superconductor Preview: CXXV is the Magic Number
With numbers on the brain, Carnegie Hall unveils 2015-2016.
Now that's a super conductor: The enormous Sir Simon Rattle is one of three Perspectives artists at Carnegie Hall in 2015-2016.
Photo © 2014 EMI Classics/Berlin Philharmonic. Photo of Carnegie Hall from Wikemedia Commons.
Photoshop by the author.
In the psyche of 21st century Homo sapiens, the number 25 seems to be particularly important. Maybe it's because it's one fourth of 100, that magic and strangely satisfying number. Maybe because it's a square of 5 as in 5 x 5 = 25. This year, Carnegie Hall is celebrating the cube of 5, with the unveiling of its 125th anniversary season.
Labels: 125th anniversary season, 2015-2016 season preview, Carnegie Hall, Evgeny Kissin, Kronos Quartet, new music, Paul Pelkonen, sir simon rattle, Superconductor
Concert Review: Live...With a Net
Joshua Bell rings out at Mostly Mozart.
Joshua Bell and friend.
Photo by Eric Kabik for IMG Artists.
The influence of Johann Sebastian Bach on Western music is pretty much incalculable, beyond the words of a mere blog to describe. On Tuesday night, Joshua Bell returned to the Mostly Mozart Festival for an evening celebrating Bach's legacy and influence on three composers who followed him: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.
Labels: Andrew Manze, Bach Chaconne, Concert Review, Joshua Bell, Mostly Mozart, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor, Superconductor.
Superconductor Preview: A Season You Can't Refuse
The New York Philharmonic unveils an ambitious slate for 2015-2016.
Original gangsters: Olive oil importer Vito Corleone (second from left)and his three sons
Michael (l.) Santino (c.) and Fredo (r.) pose with adopted consigliere Alan Gilbert.
The New York Philharmonic will play the complete score of The Godfather next September.
Original film image © Paramount Pictures.
Photo of Alan Gilbert by Chris Lee © 2015 The New York Philharmonic.
Photo alteration by the author.
The New York Philharmonic's 2015-16 season marks the start of a key transitional period for America's longest-lived orchestra: the wane of Alan Gilbert, who announced earlier this year that he is planning to step down as the ensemble's music director in 2017.
That change hangs over this entire season, which also features the arrival of composer Esa-Pekka Salonen as the orchestra's third Composer-in-Residence. Mr. Salonen has made his reputation as a fearless conductor of romantic and modern repertory and as an equally fearless creator of music that remains eminently listenable while pushing forward in bold new directions. In addition to a conducting commitment, the Finnish composer will premiere new works under the aegis of the New York Philharmonic.
This is Mr. Salonen's first appointment with an orchestra in a composing capacity, following the career path he chose since leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "It's a new departure for me," he said in a pre-taped film shown on the Atrium wall. "I can ask (the Philharmonic) for almost impossible things and they deliver."
In addition to the New York premieres of his L.A. Variations and Karawane, Mr. Salonen will also compose a new work for the second NY Phil Biennial, scheduled to start in May of 2016. "I'm a little superstitious about talking about new pieces before they're written," he said. The full Biennial schedule remains unannounced, but the festival will include the New York premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest, a new opera by Gerald Barry. Earnest the first fruit of a new collaboration with Lincoln Center.
Mr. Salonen's 2016 conducting commitments include Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie, a massive work that incorporates solo piano and ondes Martinot. This is the featured concert of Messiaen Week, dedicated to the music of the 20th century French mystic. The schedule also features Messiaen's epic Quartet for the End of Time, performed at the Temple of Dendur with an all-star cast including Mr. Gilbert on the violin and pianist Inon Barnatan, the orchestra's current Artist in Association.
This year, the orchestra bucked the usual trend of hiring a violinist or pianist as the orchestra's Artist in Residence. Next year, it will be a singer: the American bass-baritone Eric Owens. Acclaimed for his interpretation of Alberich in Wagner's Ring, Mr. Owens will sing the role of Wotan in a January 2016 concert featuring the final scene of that composer's Die Walküre. "I don't know of any other opera that has this kind of cult following," Mr. Owens said. "It's like Star Trek."
Some other schedule highlights:
Mr. Gilbert will lead two major Mahler works (the Symphony No. 5 and Das Lied von der Erde and explore the music of Sibelius in honor of the latter composer's 150th birthday.
The orchestra schedule features the Mahler Sixth (with Semyon Bychkov) and Ninth under Bernard Haitink in April of 2016.
A three week festival focusing on the piano concertos of Rachmaninoff with Russian pianist Danil Trifonov completing a concerto cycle started earlier this season.
In a new holiday offering, Eric Owens will feature in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Finally, the season opens with a double bill of film scores, performed live with the movies behind the Philharmonic players. On the slate, late music director Leonard Bernstein's score for On the Waterfront and Nino Rota's score for The Godfather. Truly this is a concert you can't refuse.
Labels: 2015-2016 season preview, alan gilbert, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Godfather, lincoln center, New York Philharmonic, NY Phil, NY Phil Biennial, Paul J. Pelkonen. classical music, Superconductor
Concert Review: Double Reeds and Souls in Need
Matthias Goerne at Mostly Mozart.
Matthias Goerne appeared at Mostly Mozart this week.
Photo by Marco Borggreve © harmonia mundi.
The Mostly Mozart Festival took a serious turn on Wednesday night with a program focusing on the twin ideas of loss and death. The program marked the return of music director Louis Langrée to the helm of the Festival Orchestra, with a program that started and ended with Mozart symphonies, flanking vocal works by Bach and Schubert. With special guest Matthias Goerne singing the vocal works on the program, this was an example of what this Festival does very well indeed, hewing close to its core composer and supplementing the Mozart catalogue with works that came before and after.
Labels: Bach, cantata, Concert Review, Erlkonig, Lieder, lincoln center, Louis Langree, Matthias Goerne, Mostly Mozart 2015, Paul Pelkonen, schubert, Superconductor
Metropolitan Opera Preview: Tannhäuser
The last in a series of great Met Wagner productions returns.
The Venusberg ballet in Act I of the Met production of Tannhäuser.
Photo © 2015 courtesy the Metropolitan Opera.
Tannhäuser is the last of six Wagner stagings by the team of Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen to remain in the Metropolitan Opera repertory. This season, this gorgeous picture-postcard production (the Act II set is a detailed re-creation of the actual locale where the opera's singing contest takes place) returns to the Met stage, possibly for the final time. Johan Botha, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung and Peter Mattei are at the front of a superb cast under the baton of James Levine.
Labels: classical music. James Levine, German opera, johan botha, Met 2015 Preview, music drama, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor, tannhauser, Wagner, Wagnerian
Opera Review: It's in the Fine Print
Written on Skin premieres at Mostly Mozart.
Protection: The Protector (Christopher Purves) and his wife (Barbara Hannigan) in a domestic moment
from Written on Skin. Photo by Pascal Victor for Artcomat © 2013 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
What goes around, comes around. That aphorism might be applied to George Benjamin's Written on Skin, which had its long-awaited New York debut Tuesday night on the stage of the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.The composer's second effort in the genre, Skin (presented here in a production imported from Aix-en-Provence) is the central operatic offering of this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival, a work that tries to establish a new style for the 21st century by drawing on the ideas and concepts of a century ago.
Labels: Aix-en-provence, Concert Review, George Benjamin, new production, Opera, opera in english, opera review, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor, Written on Skin
Concert Review: His Aim is True
Edward Gardner energizes Mostly Mozart.
The always serene Edward Gardner in 2013 at the BBC Proms.
Photo © 2013 The British Broadcasting Company.
Sometimes a fresh baton is needed. That was the case this Friday evening at the Mostly Mozart Festival, where conductor Edward Gardner stepped up to lead the Festival Orchestra in familiar works by Mozart (natch) Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber. Although this program, featuring guest pianist Steven Osborne was nothing out of the ordinary for such a long-running event, but the musicians seemed to be playing with fresh energy and vigor.
Labels: Beethoven Seventh, Concert Review, Edward Gardner, Mostly Mozart 2015, Mozart Piano Concerto, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor, Weber
Metropolitan Opera Preview: Anna Bolena
Sondra Radvanovsky puts her head on the block.
Sondra Radvanovsky as Anne Boleyn in the Washington National Opera production of Anna Bolena.
Photo by Scott Suchman for the Kennedy Center.
The big spectacular event of the 2015-2016 Metropolitan Opera schedule is not a Wagnerian extravaganza but a triptych of three operas by Gaetano Donizetti, informally referred to as the "three Queens." This year, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky looks to become the first diva to sing the leading roles in Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux on the Met stage. First up is the revival of Anna Bolena, which opened the Met season in 2011.
Labels: anna bolena, Anne Boleyn, bel canto, donizetti, italian opera, Jamie Barton, Metropolitan Opera Preview, Sondra Radvanovsky, Three Queens
Concert Review: A Pair of Aces
Two debuts spark Mostly Mozart.
Dynamic debut: Sol Gabetta.
Photo by Marco Borggreve.
The Mostly Mozart Festival's adherence to familiar composers and repertories makes the month-long festival invaluable: not just as a summer retreat for the music lover but as a working laboratory for New Yorkers to hear new artists and new conductors, some of whom are making their first appearances at Lincoln Center.
Labels: A Little Night Music, chamber music, Concert Review, Cornelius Meister, debut, Mostly Mozart, Paul Pelkonen, Sol Gabetta, Superconductor
Metropolitan Opera Preview: Il Trovatore
Verdi's blood and thunder melodrama returns...twice!
Dolora Zajick (left) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (center) in Il Trovatore.
Verdi lovers might want to make two trips to the Metropolitan Opera to see Il Trovatore twice this season. The role of the fiery, devout and ultimately suicidal heroine Leonora will be sung by Anna Netrebko in the fall and Angela Meade in the spring. The strong cast also features Dolora Zajick and Dmitri Hvorostovsky in key roles.
Labels: Angela Meade, Anna Netrebko, Anvil chorus, classical music, David McVicar, il trovatore, italian opera, Metropolitan Opera, Opera, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor
Concert Review: It's Gotta Be the Shoes
Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Emerson String Quartet at Mostly Mozart.
Steve Madden Caviarr Rhinestone Slip-On. In Men's Sizes.
The annual visit to Mostly Mozart by the Emerson String Quartet is a joyous occasion, a cnahnce for New Yokrkers trapped in the sweltering and ever deepening canyons of gotham to hear one of the best chamber music ensembles in the country without leaving the fortress of Manhattan. On Monday night at Alice Tully Hall, the eminent Emersons were joined by French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet for a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Fauré at Alice Tully Hall.
Labels: alice Tully Hall, Beethoven, chamber music, classical, classical music, Concert Review, emerson string quartet, Faure, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mostly Mozart, Mostly Mozart 2015, mozart, Paul Pelkonen, Superconductor
Concert Review: The Sinister Urge
Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart.
The pianist Jeremy Denk played Mostly Mozart on Friday night.
Photo from JeremyDenk.net © 2015 Nonesuch Records.
The Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin is one of the most challenging pieces to perform for great length (14 minutes) and technical demands on the solo performer. On Friday evening, pianist Jeremy Denk opened his appearance at this year's Mostly Mozart festival with an even more difficult version of this piece: the transcription for solo piano written by Johannes Brahms, designed to be played by the left hand only.
Labels: Bach, brahms, Chaconne, classical music, Concert Review, Jeremy Denk, lincoln center, Louis Langree, Mostly Mozart 2015, Paul Pelkonen, piano concerto, Superconductor
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Current Affairs Wrap: Tones, Sarah Hanson-Young and Jeb Bush
Michael Burrill
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A policy and politic special as Michael Burrill delivers TBS' #currentaffairswrap, in a week of Sarah Hanson-Young, Joe Hockey, Pete Dutton and co dominating Australian news.
This week, Tone tried to play down revelations that Sarah Hanson-Young was spied on by Nauru detention centre security contractors, Wilson Security, claiming she was just being "looked after while she was there". Not infantilising at all for a 33-year-old woman. Despite the claims being verified by the Immigration Department, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, stood by his assertions that Hanson-Young is an "embarrassment to the country" who "makes these allegations which are completely unfounded". Pete even repeated the barbs on radio with Ray Hadley as they both laughed along to a parody song which labelled Hanson-Young "a half-wit". Though it pays quite a lot (as real estate expert Joe Hockey's four properties perfectly illustrate), personally I wouldn't describe a political career as "good". In fact, I generally view it with a level of contempt which allows me to comfortably describe Banal Pete as an "odious grey puddle of simpering malice". My own feelings aside, some may suggest that Pete and Tone degrade the honour of their office by treating a Senator with valid concerns like a hysterical little girl.
Gillian Triggs queried the regional consequences of Australian immigration policy this week, asking "have we thought about what the consequences are of pushing people back to our neighbour Indonesia? Is it any wonder that Indonesia will not engage with us on other issues that we care about, like the death penalty?". Dastardly Duttley in response continued to make the cows go bong with his political nonsense verse, describing the remarks as an "outrageous slur", and going on to add, "Well, when you reduce the position to basically that of a political advocate, I think it is very difficult to continue on, and these are issues for Professor Triggs to contemplate". The absolute temerity of Gillian Triggs, to think that it's the president of the Human Rights Commission's job to be a political advocate for human rights…what kind of latte smoking Marx brotherhood are we living in when the government of the day can't torture some brown people without the bloody Human Rights Commission President inconveniently doing their job!? In worrying indications Indonesia may have some political advocates of their own, their foreign ministry, responding to reports Australian officials had paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to turn back into Indonesian waters, said "This is endangering life. They were in the middle of the sea, but were pushed back". What an outrageous slur. In what could be interpreted as a tacit confirmation of the claims, Tone declared, "I am proud of the work our border protection agencies have done, I really am proud of the work that they've done and they've been incredibly creative in coming up with a whole range of strategies to break this evil trade". When it comes to deterring people smugglers, offering them the opportunity of a cash bonus if they enter Australian waters could, I suppose be described, almost euphemistically, as an "incredibly creative strategy".
Silma Ihram, a senior member of the Australian Muslim Women's Association, indicated this week that she considers citizenship changes an "incredibly creative strategy" by Tone to win the next election. Ihram claimed "we could be the next lot shipped over to Cambodia", compared the rhetoric being used with "reds under the beds" and said "the amount of money put into negative policing and punitive measures has really soured relations between Muslim community and ramped up the sense of fear and isolation in the community". Former Liberal Immigration Minister and one of the original boatphobes, Amanda Vanstone, was similarly unimpressed with the proposed changes, saying "cutting down our democratic protections to get at the enemy is profoundly dumb" and bemoaning the lack of judicial review. Though Banal Pete has suggested the opportunity for judicial review will be included in the legislation, he also said, "The government's not going to have the courts second-guessing ministerial decisions". Elsewhere, Tone ignored the criticism and got back to the flag groping he enjoys so much. Hinting at an expansion of Australian military operations in Iraq, T once again obliged IS their end of days imagery, declaring "Daesh is coming, if it can, for every person and every government, with a simple message: submit or die". Tone also claimed "American leadership is indispensable here, as in all the world's trouble spots". Isn't American leadership the cause of many of the world's trouble spots?
Angela Merkel illustrated her forgiveness for Barack Obama's reading of her texts with a sausage and beer breakfast, as the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the US) met in Germany this week. On the final day of the summit, the G7 committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2100, which is all well and good but may not arrest climate change at 2 degrees Celsius. To make matters worse, both Labor and Liberal governments have been purposefully overestimating emission forecasts for much of the last 20 years, thus meeting emissions reduction targets with very little real reduction. For those getting that slowly braised feeling again, cheer up, it might never happen! Some conspiracy theorists suggest civilisation will be destroyed by a giant asteroid in September, so watch out for that one! I'll be listening in on talkback personally, in the hope of hearing "Now listen Ray, you know what gets me!? It's these fucking asteroids coming to this planet and talking away the right of the people that live here to destroy their own civilisation. It's fucking political correctness gone mad".
Lastly this week, in Berlin, US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush attempted to sidestep his brother's invasion of Iraq, instead invoking his father's support for German reunification. This might be a slightly out there suggestion, but maybe people should judge him on his policies and his actions rather than his name? America, land of the free, must be so glad they threw off the shackles of one ruling family which handed down it's power through hereditary. Now they have a few ruling families who hand down power through hereditary to choose from, it's a triumph of the free market. Bring on another Clinton vs Bush election…
Michael Burrill is a 24-year-old writer and contrarian. His hobbies include cheap Australian lager and existential dread.
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Rainer the cabbie June 14, 2015 said:
Hey, no need to take the piss, that our government representatives job.
Anyway, as somebody that learned English on arrival in this country via the Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy and Frank Zappas Joes Garage, I can honesty say I have never voted for anybody in the last 33 years.
And since I don't prescribe to any social media at all, none of the above tally has anything to do with me.
But hey, I just discovered something.
Michael Burrill June 14, 2015 said:
Keep ignoring reality and treating a grown woman like a hysterical child for doing her job. I'm not falling for it though sorry.
As much as the very thought makes me slightly nauseous, would you vote me for Rainer? Haha thanks as ever for the support mate.
[email protected] June 14, 2015 said:
So if I entered politics, I'm the kind of person you'd vote for basically? Thanks I guess
Thanks a lot for the support man. Really appreciate it
Mary, I find your ability to make such an odious and far-sweeping comment rather silly and simplistic.
Still, its a free country……..
Daniel June 14, 2015 said:
Mate I always enjoy your column its my sunday morning ritual to read it and drink my coffee.
Mary June 14, 2015 said:
Michael, I find your ability to make such odious and far-sweeping statements rather silly and simplistic.
James June 14, 2015 said:
Michael do you serious respect what Sarah Hanson-Young says? She is a joke! She is trying to get attention again that is it. You fell for it.


We ran a special blog in the lead up to the EU Referendum providing a platform for both sides of the debate to explain the merits of their case.
The NFFO will not take a position on the UK's referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union. It will, however, provide a platform to both sides to explain the merits of their case. We hope through this to shed a light on the specific issues affecting fishing and assist those voting to do so from the best vantage point of understanding the issues involved.


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IT OUTSOURCING PLAYBOOK
IT Industry overview
Taxes and hiring models
Attrition, Vacations, Sicknesses
Transportation and Visas
Cultural peculiarities
Who should go
Late 2013 – Early 2014. At the end of November 2013 mass protests provoked by the refusal of the Ukrainian government to sign an association agreement with the European Union began in Ukraine. The peak of the confrontation came within the period February 18 – 21, 2014. On February 21, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, signed the opposition agreement on resolving the crisis. The same day he left Kyiv.
Spring 2014. On February 23, 20000th mass meeting in support of Russia was held in Sevastopol. After that, 97% of people in Crimea voted in a referendum for joining Russia.
By April, armed opponents of the new government in Kyiv occupied administrative buildings, including the offices of the police and security services in Donetsk, Luhansk and several smaller towns, and took control of a significant part of the Donbass region.
On April 15, the government announced the "anti-terrorist operation" to have started. At this stage, the situation quickly escalated into an armed conflict between government forces and Russian separatist armed groups.
Fights for Donetsk airport began on May 26, 2014. This is one of the most heroic war stories. Ukrainian armed confrontation between security forces and terrorist armed groups to establish control over the airport Donetsk International Airport, being of strategic significance. The defense had been lasting 242 days. The old and the new airport terminal were destroyed.
Summer 2014. On May 25 Petro Poroshenko is elected the President of Ukraine. In July 2014 Amnesty International published a report, which documented the abduction and torture committed by the armed groups of Russian separatists in Ukraine. Actually, AI was the first international human rights organization that has provided evidence of involvement in the conflict and recognized the international conflict.
Ukrainian forces were steadily reducing the occupied territories until Russia increased its military intervention in Ukraine. On July 17 Russian soldiers shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the eastern Ukraine, with the loss of 298 lives. Another bloody episode of Ukrainian conflict is fighting for Ilovaysk.
Autumn 2014. On September 5, Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe signed a peace agreement in Minsk, Belarus. After the de facto government Donetsk and Luhansk held "elections" on November 2, Kyiv withdrew its offer of limited autonomy for the region.
Winter 2014. Active hostilities resumed in mid-January after the bus attack in Volnovakha. On February 12, in Minsk, the "the Norman Four" negotiations agreed to a new peace agreement. Participants appointed a contact group comprising of representatives of the OSCE, Ukraine, Russia and leaders of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and "FSC".
IT outsourcing industry impact
As for positive trends:
Current state and risks. Today, there are no active steps in the conflict zone, the breather has been observed since the beginning of March 2015. Russia is becoming weaker due to the sanctions and decreasing oil prices. Because of the very close attention paid from all of the world institutions and leaders to the conflict, the chances for resuming the active steps are very low.
Moreover, it is very unlikely that Ukraine will return the occupied territories easily, so probably it is going to be another frozen conflict with the armed troops from both sides at the current front-line.
By this time, the country's life has stabilized. People and companies have been getting accustomed to living in the state of constant threats from Russia.
There is also 100% probability that the aggressor – Russia – will continue its impact through media, business, and political tricks to prevent Ukraine from quick resuming.
As to possible risks, the military conflict is one of the most threatening issues to invest in Ukraine's economy (see the table below):
Advantages and opportunities of the association with the EU
IT outsourcing industry trends. The fourth quarter of 2014 revealed the picture with the stabilized situation and growth with small and mid-level clients, while big ones continued shrinking.
In the first quarter of 2015 the industry has started to grow again.
Today, even big companies are returning, as people learned how to work alongside the conflict, yet being in progress, as far as the situation in the country has stabilized. This provides the IT sector in Ukraine with opportunity to renew its development.
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A Mayor for YOU, the people of lakewood
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JeffCo Inmate Population Directive
Effective January 1, 2020, and until further notice, the 7th floor of the Jefferson County Detention Facility will be closed, reducing the operational capacity of the County jail to 1,148. To attain this, and thereafter to sustain it, control measures will be implemented whenever the housed inmate population exceeds the operational capacity by 2%.
Each morning, at 0800 hours, detentions command staff will meet and review the housed inmate count to determine if inmate population control measures should be enacted. When authorized by the Detention Services Division chief, or designee, the following steps will be used in sequential order to ensure the inmate population is adjusted to meet operational capacity.
The Sheriff's Office will release the least number of inmates possible to reduce the jail population within the affected units to manageable levels.
Thank you Laura McGee for your support
Laura McGee had a tree fall in her yard yesterday. Fox 31 came out —- TAKE A PEEK AT HER YARD SIGNS!!!!
Ramey is 'Pulling for You'
Special District Abuse – What we have learned from the Solterra experience
Special districts and how my Lakewood community — Solterra — landed in a mountain of debt
In 2016, a neighbor posted a seemingly simple question in a community social network online: "Why do my taxes keep increasing?"
The effort to answer that question took me on a three-year journey that exposed the depths of special-district abuse not only in my community — Solterra — but also across Colorado. The thread on Nextdoor led to my first meeting a week later with neighbors and a resident appointed by the developer to the Solterra special-district board. He was there to "monitor" the conversation (his words).
An hour later, the message was clear: Residents won't understand. They won't care. Don't rock the boat.
I left my neighbor's home smiling. I'm still "rocking," and won't quit until I stop special-district abuse.
Stormwater Utility Increase explained
Find out everything you need to know about Storm Water Utility billing
"I did NOT vote for the increase. Not because we do not need stormwater work but, primarily because it did not have a "sunset" provision.
A sunset provision puts in place a timetable when an increase will be re-visited. There should always be accountability on how YOUR money is being spent and if it is accomplishing what was expected. Additionally, the stormwater increase has an AUTOMATIC INCREASE built into the measure," Ramey.
Paid For by Committee to Elect Ramey Johnson


Here's Liz with Jake, the husband of the owner of The Brass Lantern, unloading his truck of yarn and furniture.
It was my idea to have Liz sell yarn at the Garden State Sheep and Fiber Festival for Brass Lantern. Having sold pottery for a friend at New England crafts fairs in the 1980s, I know what a challenge it can be to man a booth all by yourself, and set-up is a lot of work. So I volunteered to help Liz set up her booth yesterday.
Linda Berry Walker of Woods Edge Wools Farm (on left) and some of her friends, setting up the tables for their booth, which is probably the biggest one in the whole fair. Linda graciously put plastic up to protect her booth and Liz's from rain later today and tonight.
It was a fun time, although it was very hot and the perspiration was dripping into our eyes and soaking into our clothes. But the advantage of being there a day early was that I got to say hello to a lot of people I know. Lisa from All About Ewe was in Clark there, as was Kris from Winterspast Farm. And Liz's booth is right next to Woods Edge Alpaca Farm, so I got to hug Linda, who looks radiant.
Lisa told me that the company that distributes Noro and Debbie Bliss yarns has a policy of having large minimum orders, which is why a lot of yarn shops won't carry their brands. I am hoping that Liz will be the only booth with those brands at the show and therefore she can sell a lot of yarn, because she really needs to. Liza has a really good selection of nice yarns. If you're at the show, please visit the Brass Lantern booth in Barn 3.
These Sheltand sheep were a bit camera shy. Notice the color variations. These sheep are smaller than our usual domestic breeds.
I'll be making guest appearances there, but I will also be at other vendor booths, saying hello, resisting the temptation to buy too much and doing my reporter thing, which will include talking to Central Jersey vendors about their businesses and taking little snippets of video so that I can stitch them together tonight and make a video for MyCentralJersey.com about the event. I'll also be tweeting photos from my iPhone, and you can see my tweets in the staff tweets section on MyCentralJersey.com's home page.
Some of the sheep breeders hosed down their sheep before putting them in their pens in barns 1 and 2. They got a lot of dirt off and cooled the animals down.
The animals started arriving yesterday afternoon, mostly sheep and goats. The alpacas and llamas will probably arrive today. I got a shot of these Shetland sheep, which are tiny compared to many of the other breeds. The sign at their pen at the end of Barn 2 says these sheep have genuine UK genetics.
Some of the sheep got a bath outside the barns yesterday. They may be "white as wool," but they still look pretty tan to me. I'll bet the sheep felt a lot cooler after their baths!
I'll be leaving soon for the fair. It starts at 9, and lasts til 5 today and then runs all day tomorrow. If you are going today, get there early. We're supposed to have thunderstorms this afternoon and a really bad storm tonight. And if you see me, please stop me and say hi! I love to meet people who are reading the blog.
Posted in events, fiber farm, knitting, yarn on September 8, 2012 by Pam MacKenzie.
I almost can't believe we had to tear the stand back down today due to the impending storm..... It's 8:40pm... and bedtime 'cause tomorrow we reset the stage for the Brass Lantern for the 3rd day in a row! Thanks for all your help and support, Pam. You're the best!