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How One Farm Saved Essex, New York
Rowan Jacobsen
On the day in September 2003 when Mark and Kristin Kimball pulled their bicycles off an Amtrak train and wheeled their way into the town of Essex, New York, no one would have guessed that one of the most important experiments in contemporary American agriculture was about to begin. Young and idealistic, the Kimballs had big dreams about coming to this town on the shores of Lake Champlain and starting a farm unlike any in America. The vision had all started with an apple pie. "I got this nutty idea to make an apple pie that I had completely grown myself," Mark says. "Everything. Apples, wheat, lard, maple syrup, everything."
A lanky bundle of muscle with springy blond hair and Border collie energy, Mark had started a community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Pennsylvania after college. The typical CSA charged members an upfront fee in exchange for veggies throughout the growing season. But Mark envisioned a farm that would, like the farms of old, provide members with nearly all their food 52 weeks a year-veggies, dairy, eggs, meat, even grains. People would take as much as they needed each Friday afternoon. It would be the first whole-diet CSA.
That alone would have made Essex Farm one of the most revolutionary farms in the country, but the Kimballs wanted to be more radical still. Instead of tractors, they wanted to farm with draft horses. The goal was to make sunlight and hard work their only input-no herbicides, no pesticides, no chemical fertilizer, no oil.
As they pedaled through Essex, they questioned their plan. The town seemed lifeless-"more boarded up than opened up," as one local put it. Essex's heyday as a port and shipbuilding center had come to a screeching halt in 1849 when the railroad arrived. Like so many other rural communities, the town's youth had fled for the city, leaving an aging population to make do in what became a food desert. The nearest supermarket was more than 30 minutes away. Local and organic were not even on the radar.
But it turned out that the hunger for healthy food-and for the social environment that food creates-was strong in Essex. Not only did the Kimballs find their members, but Essex Farm became the spark that brought life back to the community. Today the farm feeds 230 people year-round. Members drawn to the region by Essex Farm have started a yoga studio and a wellness center and have renovated the old Grange hall, which hosts a lively series of concerts, lectures and community dinners.
The farm has also served as an incubator for ventures that have taken root in the area. The Kimballs arrived just as something was shifting in America. For decades, young people had left the countryside for urban living. No future in farming, they were told. Then the "brain drain" reversed: a generation came out of college with a passion for the land, and some found their way to Essex Farm. Many of them fell in love-with farming, each other, with Essex County.
On any early autumn Friday, you'll find the farm filled with members picking up their food for the week and exchanging news. It's impossible to stand there as members load flats of heirloom tomatoes and jars of cream into their cars, and not entertain the radical notion that the solution to America's rural malaise won't be found in the Cloud, but in the ground. As farm member and Grange program manager Mary-Nell Bockman puts it, "These people are making things. Tangible things. Food. This isn't the virtual economy. This is as real as it gets."
Here's a look at some of the people and food ventures that are transforming Essex.
The Founders: Mark & Kristin Kimball
It had all the makings of a fairy-tale romance: she was a freelance journalist in Manhattan doing research for a book proposal about the new farming movement. He was a Pennsylvania farmer with some radical notions. (The apple pie!) She had a Harvard degree, an East Village apartment and a proclivity for tight jeans and marathon pinball sessions. He'd never owned a car or a TV. She was 5'2". He was 6'6". When Kristin met Mark, she thought he'd make a good subject for a book. After a few months, she scrapped the book project and decided to marry him instead. They hatched their idea for the full-diet CSA, but found that land prices had soared well beyond their means.
Which is what brought them to Essex. A family friend had acquired a run-down 500-acre farm there, and he was intrigued enough by the Kimballs' ideas to offer it to them rent-free for the first year-a year they knew they'd need to convince people of the merits of the whole-diet CSA, which this year costs $3,700 per year for the first adult in a household, $3,300 for the second, and $120 per year of age for kids. Making the numbers work for a family means saying goodbye to convenience foods and hello to a lot more cooking, canning and freezing.
But somehow when they had their first weekly distribution in March 2004-meat, eggs, milk, maple syrup and lots of lard-Mark and Kristin had found seven souls willing to take a chance. And that was all it took. Word of mouth spread quickly. Tom Duca was one of their first members. "I was a vegetarian!" the builder laughs. "I just came by looking for some yogurt." Mark explained that the farm didn't sell retail; it was all or nothing. So Tom opted for all. "My feeling was, we want these guys to stay here, so we'd better support them. I actually became a carnivore." Now he's hooked. "It's been amazing. How lucky am I? I don't go to the store. My food comes from here."
As Essex Farm grew, it became a mecca for industrious 20-somethings. With less machinery in use, the farm requires 10 full-time farmers, and the ones eager for the job tend to be young, fit, educated and passionate. Why would an Ivy League school graduate go to work for Essex Farm instead of Google? Because, as Kristin put it, "Most people who are coming into farming are doing it because it answers something really deep inside of them. It's not so different from being a writer or a painter or a dancer." There's little money in it, but healthy living, spiritual satisfaction and camaraderie are attractive benefits.
Aubrey Schatz pours milk at the Essex Farm's dairy barn
For a kid wanting to learn everything possible about organic agriculture, Essex Farm is Harvard. Most farms specialize in just vegetables, but on Essex Farm you can grow everything from barley to Brussels sprouts plus learn to milk a cow, pluck a chicken, fix a combine and, best of all, work a team of draft horses. "Horses are a great way to get people thinking about the energy that goes into their food," says Kristin. "It's such a direct lesson when you're watching a horse sweat and work. And it makes you a better farmer."
Essex County can now count two spinoff, horse-powered farms as well as a creamery and a butcher shop, founded by Essex Farm alums. In 2012, in recognition that the farmers they were cultivating were as important as the veggies, the Kimballs founded the Essex Farm Institute, which offers week-long "Introduction to Farming" courses, summer internships and programs taught by other leaders in the sustainable-agriculture movement.
Founded after the Civil War, the Grange was long the preeminent agricultural society in the United States and its halls were the social hubs of many rural communities, but most have been shuttered for decades. Essex's closed in the 1990s. But starting in 2008, a group of volunteers spent hundreds of hours resurrecting it. One of them was Essex Farm member Mary-Nell Bockman, who had just moved to the area from New Jersey. "We thought we'd be living like hermits, but it's been just the opposite. We found this lively, welcoming community. Seeing the commitment that Mark and Kristin made motivated me to put more back into the community," she says. Today, the Grange boasts a full docket of dances, concerts, theater, classes, lectures, a film series and occasionally a sing-along supper. Bockman is the program manager. "The place really hums," she says, and that's the goal. "You can't solve people's economic problems, but you can give them a reason to stay."
You can also help the farms thrive, which was always part of the Grange's purpose. The basement of the reborn Grange includes a licensed commercial kitchen and canning center that can be rented by the hour. It gives CSA members the tools to deal with the inevitable glut of summer veggies, and allows commercial farms to make value-added products.
Racey Bingham picks calendula flowers to turn into medicinal tinctures and salves as well as soaps that are sold at the Reber Rock Farm Store
Reber Rock Farm
In 2009, during a six-week sabbatical from her rural development work in Africa, Racey Bingham went to work on Essex Farm. "After two weeks, I knew I didn't want to do anything else. I couldn't believe I was 30 years old and had never before experienced that kind of physical, emotional and intellectual fulfillment." The dream got even better when Nathan Henderson arrived at the farm two years later. He and Bingham partnered up and, with another couple they met at Essex Farm, started Reber Rock Farm. To avoid competition with Essex Farm, they opted to sell pastured meat, vegetables and maple syrup a la carte.
The next step in Reber Rock's evolution began with two acres of hardneck garlic, which produces scapes (flower stalks) that must be picked off so they won't divert energy from the bulbs. "Suddenly we had 8,000 scapes," Bingham remembers. "We wanted to do something with them, so I looked around and found a recipe for pickled scapes." But pickles sold at retail must be made in a licensed, inspected facility and building one of those isn't cheap. The addition of a commercial kitchen at the local Grange solved the problem.
The Greenhorns' Severine von Tscharner Fleming
The Greenhorns
In 2012 Severine von Tscharner Fleming got a taste of the Essex phenomenon when her organization the Greenhorns, a nonprofit that supports young farmers, hosted a mixer at the Grange. Over 300 people showed up. "We packed the Grange! We had a pig roast, seminars, a puppet show and a punk band with trombones. It was really fun."
Fleming was so taken with the Essex farming scene that when soaring rents pushed the Greenhorns out of their office in Hudson, New York, she said to herself, "I'm going north where the kids are!" She moved to Essex and turned a drafty old house into Greenhorns Central. Fleming and her constantly morphing crew of volunteers make films, disseminate information and even host "weed dating" events (weed a field next to a different person every few minutes).
In 2013, a promotional enterprise organized by the Greenhorns gave the commercial kitchen at the Grange its most triumphant moment. Pickles, sauces, syrup and other goodies made at the facility were loaded onto a wind-powered barge, sailed down Lake Champlain and the Hudson River, and sold to New York City restaurants, retailers and food co-ops for the first zero-emissions cargo delivery since the 1980s.
North Country Creamery
Ashlee Kleinhammer had been working on small cheesemaking farms in Vermont for several years when she heard about Essex Farm. She visited and was hooked. "I thought the full-diet CSA model was really inspiring," She soon took charge of their dairy operation. "After a year, I realized that I wanted autonomy and responsibility."
So when an opportunity arose to take over a shuttered dairy half an hour from Essex Farm, Kleinhammer and her boyfriend, Steven Googin, jumped on it.
In 2013, they launched North Country Creamery, which sells farmstead cheeses, yogurt and milk at co-ops and farmers' markets and through its own CSA and farm store. The following year they opened the Clover Mead Café. Now the "neighborhood," about 20 miles from Essex Farm, has become a showpiece for the Essex County food revival. You can grab a grilled cheese sandwich at the café, pick up some bacon, eggs and steaks from the Essex Farm alumni at Mace Chasm Farm and finish off with a beer at the recently opened Ausable Brewing Company.
It's a lifestyle that many people are drawn to. "The community is healthy, thriving, growing," says Kleinhammer. "There are just more and more young farmers moving to the area. Our first apprentice came from Cleveland. Her mom dropped her off so she could make sure we weren't sketchballs, and the mom ended up buying a house and moving here permanently. That's how communities snowball."
The Former Governor
When visitors approach Essex by ferry from Vermont, their eyes are invariably drawn from the town to the exquisite 300-acre farm just south of it: a sweep of green fields, munching cows, an 1880s farmhouse and a barn so red it makes your heart quake. New York governor George Pataki and his wife, Libby, were so drawn to the place that they bought it in 2002. Now the Patakis spend as much time as possible there. "What drew us to Essex was the location within the Adirondack Park," says Libby. "We love the influx of young people wanting to move into the area to lead lives on a farm. What could be more positive than upbeat young people who work very hard, and want to live healthy and productive lives, even if there are no guarantees of future wealth? The dynamics of our region have changed and a lot of lights have been turned back on. Essex Farm's young graduates have emerged and begun their own small farming operations, and in that sense they are a model for agricultural revival nationwide."
The Patakis have played no small part in this revival, teaming up with the Essex Farm Institute on fundraisers and walking the walk on their own farm. "We're raising pasture-fed cattle," Libby says. "We have chickens and a large vegetable patch. We grow our own berries and make jams; we have nut trees and fruit orchards. With the exception of our cattle, we are an in-house operation and consume most everything we raise. And we love it all!"
Rowan Jacobsen, a James Beard Award-winning writer, is the author of Apples of Uncommon Character and several other books.
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Sarnia Jail. Photo by file photo //The Observer
A London lawyer argued his client should get extra credit for the two weeks he spent in isolation at the Sarnia jail due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The judge agreed, but in a roundabout way.
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While people convicted of criminal charges are usually credited 1.5 days for every day spent in pre-sentence custody towards their final sentence, defence lawyer Nick Cake said Michael Simmons, 50, should get even more time taken off for the long days he spent isolated behind bars in the border city.
"He's essentially in his cell 22 hours of the day," Cake said to Justice Krista Lynn Leszczynski via teleconference.
Simmons – released on bail in Milton on separate drug charges on April 16 – was immediately arrested and taken to the Sarnia jail, which cued his two-week quarantine. Cake argued he should get two days of credit for each of the 13 days in jail to that point.
Overall, Simmons spent 60 days behind bars, which would normally be bumped up to 90. Cake asked for 95 instead.
Assistant Crown attorney David Nicol disagreed, referencing a decision two weeks earlier by Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance in Windsor.
"The justice in that case did not suggest any additional credit for pre-sentence custody during the COVID-19 pandemic," Nicol said.
Leszczynski said she took the additional anxiety and restrictions of being in jail during a pandemic into account as she creatively crafted the sentence.
"I am going to heed the recommendation by Mr. Cake that your (client's) sentence ought to be reduced as a result. However, I'm not going to specifically indicate that the credit be given for that time," she said.
Both lawyers suggested a 14-month jail sentence for Simmons, who pleaded guilty to breaking into an elderly Sarnia man's home, stealing several items and briefly escaping from police. Leszczynski only gave him the usual rate by bumping 60 days up to 90, but then ordered he only had to serve 325 more days.
Without that extra order, he would have had 330 days left.
"Mr. Cake, that essentially gives you the credit that you were seeking, but just in a different way," she said.
The court heard several witnesses saw Simmons leave an 80-year-old man's home on Aug. 17, 2019, on a bicycle with several full bags. After a brief chase near the Colborne Road fire station – the canine unit was brought in – Simmons was arrested. Police found tools on him such as a hatchet, a small pry bar and pliers.
In the bags, police found a passport, a driver's licence, paperwork and documents in the victim's name, along with a stereo, watch, necklaces, rings, and stamp and coin collections. Some of the stolen goods were stuffed in pillow cases taken from the victim's bed.
"You broke into someone's home and, in this case, an elderly man who lives alone," Leszczynski said. "Mr. Simmons, I hope you can appreciate how that impacts one's sense of security."
The judge added his "very lengthy" criminal record with many convictions for property-related offences – including five prior break-and-enters – was aggravating.
Cake said it was a crime of opportunity for his client, a lifelong drug addict.

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July 7, 2021 July 15, 2021 / Dustin Murphy
This one was quite a doozy. I have to admit that it took me far longer to sink my teeth into this than I thought it would. I had to, at times, take a step back so I could digest and compile all the information being presented with before returning to bite off more than I could handle once more. Each of the titles in this collection has a lot of similar systems but have their own uniqueness to help them stand apart. The third title in this collection is the one which stuck out to me the most.
As always, I played each of these titles on the default difficulty to create a baseline experience for myself. Each game will receive its own small subsections, but will otherwise be reviewed as a whole.
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX
+This is most definitely the most relaxed of the three as far as urgency.
+There's an exceptionally satisfying loop of gathering materials and fighting enemies to increase resource quality.
+While not as refined as the systems of later games, the alchemy in this title is just as gratifying.
–Specific late-game materials can only be acquired through rumors, which have a random chance of appearing.
–This title has a particularly low level cap, which leads into a new system which will require extensive grinding to make the most of.
–Certain areas are locked behind friendship progression with various party members or merchants.
The features of Atelier Sophie which makes it stand out the most would have to be the loop for resource gathering, the low level cap and its subsequent system and the progression of the story.
The resource gathering loop is my favorite aspect of this title. Any time you enter a new map you'll see in the top right corner a circle with a glowing red dot and four closed spheres. Gathering from the resource nodes in an area will spawn additional enemies. Defeating the spawned enemies will replenish resource nodes you've gathered from. This creates a solid loop of harvesting and fighting, and engaging in this loop will slowly increase the level of the area you're in. Resources will increase in quality and enemies will become more deadly. Getting better materials leads to making better items which leads to being able to survive progressively stronger enemies. Which ties into the next main feature.
Twenty. That's the level cap for Atelier Sophie. I was absolutely shocked when I hit this level and it said MAX. But that's not the end of growth for your characters. Beyond making progressively stronger equipment, which will absolutely have the most profound effect on your ability to survive, once a character hits the level cap you unlock the ability to further augment their abilities. Upon reaching this point every character is given ten points which can be distributed to various augmentations.
Where it be base attributes for a solid bump in your stats, to upgrade the combat skills into more powerful versions, or to give characters additional passive abilities with a myriad of effects. Ranging from giving them boosted defense in dire situations, to a major stat boost dependent on a single attribute, these passive skills are a game-changer. This is both a massive positive and a huge negative. Beyond the first ten points, filling the EXP bar again rewards a single point for every "level". While this isn't a massive issue in itself, the point requirements for the various abilities rack up quickly. This means optimizing a character is going to require a grind.
Which leads to how you advance through the story. Story progression is tied to Sophie coming into her own as an alchemist by way of learning more and more advanced recipes. The conditions for coming up with, or discovering, recipes are varied but can be as simple as crafting items of a certain quality or defeating powerful enemies. Completing the unlocked item will typically lead to a cutscene in which you gain a new gathering field. This in itself creates a cycle of risk and reward and is to me the core of the Atelier series.
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX
+You choose your own journey this time around, exploring massive fields full of resources and enemies means you can wander to your heart's desire
+The systems for synthesis present in Sophie slightly streamlines itself while expanding on the more interesting aspects
+The improvement to Recipe Ideas allow you to purchase recipes outright using Idea Points you obtain throughout the game.
–It is extremely easy to wander into a region you have no business being in while on the hunt for ever-greater resources
–The sheer amount of subquests can lead you astray if you aren't careful, and whittle away your limited time.
What stood out the most to me for Atelier Firis was the ability to essentially take my own path through the story. While the finish line is the same, I'm certain the path I've taken to get there will have varied greatly from other players. Additionally, there appears to be a form of mastery.
Synthesizing more items of specific categories will increase a gauge through a few ranks, and each new rank adds additional effects to the process of synthesis. These effects are game-changers, which were reliant on the quality of cauldron used in Sophie. Increasing your rank with items allows you to rotate the shapes you plug into the board. The other alteration to how synthesis works is the new board. Rather than using multiple types of cauldrons as in Atelier Sophie, the synthesis screen in Firis shows a board with various panels and various lines which bestow additional effects. Using a catalyst will change which lines are available and can aid in specializing the type of item you're creating.
The massive difference for this title is just how vast the fields are. Everything you do consumes your precious time, which can make it tempting to beeline for exits in fields to reach new towns and items. I've found that what worked best for me is staying in a field until I had either filled up the map to 100%, or discovered all the related recipes to resources unique to that field. It's important to split your time equally between synthesizing new items which will be beneficial for fights, leveling up in battles against enemies, and completing side quests for either valuable resources or money. All's not well with these massive fields however. Finding specific items can be incredibly difficult. I recall in particular spending an unhealthy amount of time attempting to find Wild Cotton to craft Mofcott and then craft better armor for my characters.
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Painting DX
+The combat system has more synergy oriented features this time around
+Many aspects of the game have been streamlined from Atelier Firis
+It offers an equal balance of challenge and an easygoing adventure
–Compared to Firis and Sophie, the acquisition of new recipes is much slower nearing on a crawl.
–Terrain effects in the middle of a battle can be extremely unpredictable and unnecessarily punishing.
This one is my favorite of the trilogy. It just struck that right note. The loop was the most gratifying for me by far. This time around they chose to return to having individual smaller zones to explore rather than wide open fields. What made it stand out the most for me is the progression system for the story using the alchemist ranking system. Another stand-out feature is the tweaks to the combat system.
There's this amazing system of task and reward at play. Complete objectives in your Ambitions Journal to gain reputation amongst the town and take the next exam to increase your alchemist rank. Pass the exam and you gain access to a Mysterious Painting, furthering the story and allowing you to gather progressively superior materials. It's not much different from other titles, as it feels a bit like a carrot and a stick in a very good way. Making this system even better is that it is not required to complete every entry in the Ambitions Journal for each rank to take the exam, meaning it's ideal for both completionists or people who simply want to get through the story as quickly as possible.
This time around combat features a party of six characters, three main characters and up to three in reserve to tag in. Supporting characters while normally not acting in the battle have the ability to use a finite number of supporting abilities such as additional attacks, or placing down a time card which will nullify a single status ailment or debuff. Additionally, using certain attacks or items in a field can have a field reaction which can result in a hazard damaging the party. Enemies can set off these reactions as well, resulting in significant damage at certain points.
Cut From The Same Cloth
Now that I've stated what I feel stands out the most about each respective title, let's go a little bit more in depth with all the aspects they share and how those differ. As you'd expect, each title focuses on gathering resources to turn into odds and ends through the power of alchemy. Each game facilitates this by requiring the player to go out and find these resources themselves. You can buy certain items from vendors, but most of the time you'll be getting the best by hand. In Sophie you would find the best resources by increasing the rating of each field, while also finding rumors about items with special properties, or otherwise rare materials.
I have spent a painful amount of time waiting for rumors to pop up so I can make the next item I need to progress where I'm at in Sophie due to this system. Firis has a shortcoming in regards to gathering materials as well, in that the fields are so massive it can be extremely difficult to track down precise locations for specific items. Note taking is a must for this title, but it all comes at the cost of your limited time for the first portion of the game. For Lydie and Suelle, you'll find that most of your resource hunting will take place in the Mysterious Paintings you unlock through the game, as the amount of fields you find are significantly smaller than the prior two entries in this collection.
Synthesis is largely similar between all three titles as well. Sophie is the one which stands out as the most peculiar, due to the inclusion of multiple cauldrons which each have their own utilization. Later cauldrons are most definitely better for mastering the crafting loop to make max quality items. All three titles present a board where you'll place down shapes based on the quality and size of your selected resources. It's essentially a game of tetris where how well you squeeze in your synthesis affects the final quality of the item.
Sophie has it as well where placing items down in a specific sequence can cause orbs to appear in adjacent panels, and placing items of a matching color will grant a higher bonus to various parameters. Each title uses a similar system where the value of a resource will affect how many points it contributes towards bolstering effects such as item potency; or passive abilities which will give a bonus to stats when using it to craft a piece of equipment.
Sharing A World
Exploring the world takes different forms between the various titles as well. In Atelier Sophie we are presented with a sprawling world map with an ever increasing number of fields to gather from. Moving between zones on the overworld map can bring a variety of encounters such as enemy encounters, restoration items and even finding money.
Moving between nodes passes time and consumes your LP, which can factor into how long you're willing or able to spend in a specific area. Atelier Firis however is all fully open world. There's a number of sprawling maps covering a wide variety of climates. Wandering through the world consumes LP, and as you're on a journey you don't return to an Atelier so much as you find a campsite to set up your alchemically enhanced tent to rest. Everything consumes your time, and most activities will consume your LP. You can restore it by either napping in your tent or synthesizing items. In Atelier Lydie and Suelle, there is no LP system present, and you are now provided with a list of fields you travel to split up between the Outskirts Map and the Paintings Map.
The flow of battle remains largely the same between all three titles, with minor differences. While in Sophie you select every action for your entire party at the start of a turn, in Firis and Lydie & Suelle you select individual actions for a party member which are immediately executed. Atelier Sophie features a Chain Link gauge which increases as you perform actions in battle. The higher the gauge is filled the more likely an ally is to use a chain attack.
Once you fill the gauge beyond a certain point your allies are more likely to follow up with multiple attacks and more powerful skills leading up to a unique Special Attack. Firis utilizes a Chain Burst system, somewhat similar to Firis you will fill up a meter using skills and items to initiate this mode. Lydie & Suelle as mentioned above features a system where supporting characters can use specific skills in response to actions made by the character they are supporting. For some it may be placing down an AoE timecard, others will launch a high damage AoE attack.
In all three you will use standard attacks, SP consuming skills, and items with a finite amount of uses. If I've learned anything, never rely too heavily on any one facet.
All three of these games excel in their own ways, and have their own distinct shortcomings. Whether you wish to pick up an individual title, or purchase the trilogy as a whole, the experience is absolutely wonderful. There's a few little details about each game that, while not having any impact on the general gameplay, I found myself quite enjoying. Notably it would be the theme of the Blacksmith shop in Atelier Lydie & Suelle, which reminds me greatly of the shop music from Mana Khemia. There's also the inclusion of Pamela Ibis, who is by no means a stranger to anyone who has played a prior title in the franchise.
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Developer: Gust Co Ltd.
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Overall, the games are as well crafted as they can be and any residual clunkiness is simply a result of the systems at play. The same systems which can create a habitual loop can also be a source of exhaustion. This is the case for the Rumor system in Sophie, having a game rely on a rarely spawning resource is one thing. Requiring a rare rumor to appear and be purchased for an item to appear for a limited time in a specific field is another. Similarly, the vastness of Firis makes finding specific items that much more time consuming, and may make a player attempt to avoid going backwards if at all required for the sake of finding an item.
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The TV presenter said that she would be "too scared" to go under the knife, and that wrinkles are not a big deal.
"My make-up artist Helen tells me not to have anything done. She sees people who have had work done and has to work 10 times harder to make them look the same as they did pre-surgery. I think it's really sad."
Kelly added that if somebody has "had it done and nobody can tell, then good for you because we don't know".
She said: "I'd be too scared. I just think, do a few wrinkles - or should I say laughter lines - matter? Is it a big deal? I don't think it is."
The daytime TV personality also said that she believes women of her generation look different from their predecessors.
"I feel we're at a stage where we have more information than ever before, but I think we do generally take better care of ourselves," she said.
She said that her job keeps her young, "because I'm meeting people every single day and doing something different".
Kelly added: "If it's all about you, and all you are interested in is you, you're very dull. I want to find out more. The world is huge."
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1) Check perspective – rate the problem on a 'scale of awfulness'. How significant is the latest disagreement? Is it really pushing a 10 and something verging on the end of the world, or is it more like a 3 – akin to a stubbed toe? The rating is the first step to forming a proportionate response.
2) Check reaction - breathing is a much under-rated resource. Taking time to momentarily escape the situation, to focus on breathing, can bring us back to a calmer state and help us make a rational decision about the best way to respond.
3) Check success – the inspirational positive psychologist Martin Seligman extols the virtues of listing three things we're grateful for every day. By making this a habit, we're not only boosting dopamine and serotonin; but also strengthening the neural pathways responsible for finding the good stuff – i.e. it takes less effort to be happy. Over the holidays I plan to make this more specific, and note three ways my children have made me grateful, and maybe even joyful, that day.
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Posted on December 14, 2020 December 17, 2020 by Garry Sloan
McLaren Racing announced at last weekend's Abu Dhabi race that they had agreed to sell a third of the company to a group of United States-based investors.
MSP Sports Capital will inject £185m by the end of 2022 giving them a 15% stake rising to 33%.
McLaren were delighted with the news with McLaren Racing chief Zak Brown stating,
"This investment bolsters our plan to return to contention for wins and championships in F1 and IndyCar."
McLaren has taken a long-term strategic decision to separate the funding for the race team from the automotive and engineering divisions effectively ring-fencing the F1 team.
McLaren Group executive chairman Paul Walsh hit the nail on the head when he explained, "We stopped making cars because our factory was locked down. If you don't make cars, you don't sell them – and if you don't sell them, you don't get the cash flow.
"But we had the racing team that was continuing to spend money, as they should. That tension made everyone acutely aware that the fundamental model needed adjustment."
MSP's arrival increases North American interest in F1 demonstrated by the purchase earlier this year of the Williams team by U.S.- based Dorilton capital.
MSP Sports capital was established in 2019 by Jeff Moorad, who began his career as a sports agent before becoming involved with Major League Baseball with firstly the Arizona Diamondbacks and then the San Diego Padres.
So, no doubt Moorad and Liberty Media who own the MLB team the Atlantic Braves have had dealings in the past. Moorad has motor racing experience through his previous ownership of NASCAR team Hall of Fame Racing.
Morrad's partners in MSP include Arne Rees who was previously a senior executive at sports broadcasting network ESPN, a subsidiary of the Disney Corporation, and Jahm Najafi.
Najafi runs Najafi Companies, a Phoenix-based private-equity firm in which he only invests his own money and is part owner of the Phoenix Suns NBA team.
MSP has put together a consortium that includes Najafi companies and UBS O'Connor, a hedge fund subsidiary of Swiss investment banking firm UBS.
UBS are no strangers to F1 as they were previously global partners and are currently sponsors of the Mercedes team.
UBS is also no stranger to the courtroom with numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking secrecy practices resulting in numerous large fines amounting to billions of dollars.
Najafi who has two fingers in the pie through MSP and Najafi companies will become vice-chairman of McLaren Racing under the deal, whilst Jeff Moorad of MSP and Rodrigo Trelles Zabala of UBS O'Connor will join the McLaren Racing board as non-executive directors.
It is fair to point out that both Moorad and Najafi have a track record in philanthropy with Najafi being the founding partner of Social Venture Partners, a philanthropic venture capital fund that invests in emerging non-profit organizations.
So why have the recent investors of Lawrence Stroll, Dorliton Capital, and MSP decided owning a F1 team is a sound investment?
It would appear that Liberty Media's strategy of maximising revenue with an expanded calendar to circuits/countries that will pay top dollar along with the promised land that the likes of Disney (ESPN) and in the not-too-distant future Amazon offer in terms of TV contracts seems to have hit the mark.
Investor confidence is further raised with the new Concorde agreement establishing a budget cap and a more equitable sharing of the revenues.
The proposed 'dilution' fund has also increased the value of a team as it is a significant barrier to entry resulting in the supply/demand balance in favour of the teams.
Stroll, of course, has ambitions for the Aston Martin road car project but upon his purchase of Force India, he told the New York Times, "I looked at it as a business opportunity the value of an asset like this, treated properly, cherished over time significantly appreciates.
"I never really anticipated owning a team, wanting a team. But, put simply, this was a phenomenal business opportunity that presented itself."
Dorliton capital is interested according to their PR in 'partnering with incumbent management to create value over the long term'.
MSP seems to have reached the same conclusion as Stroll with Moorad commenting, "We believe that Liberty's business plan of creating more franchise-like values on the teams are going to flow in part from the cost cap.
"All of these pieces of a thoughtful business plan will ultimately create franchise values for each of the teams in the sport.
"That's our bet, to be frank. We're betting on the long-term future of Formula One."
Gene Haas must be looking on with considerable interest at recent developments!
So, time will tell if the private equity investors will see a return on their investment but in the short term when teams recently faced financial meltdown due to the pandemic it is probably overall a positive development.
On a footnote: Moorad appeared in and served as technical consultant for the film Jerry Maguire. Moorad was the inspiration behind the Jerry Maguire character played by Tom Cruise with a catchphrase suitable for F1,
"Show me the money."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) Mario Lemieux had one question for Sidney Crosby after the Pittsburgh star slipped past his boss as the Penguins' career playoff scoring leader during a Game 4 romp over Philadelphia."He asked what took so long Sam Reinhart Jersey ," Crosby said with a laugh.Lemieux's joke carried with it a pair of messages.The first is a not so subtle reminder to his protege that it took Crosby 152 games to reach 173 playoff points while Lemieux only needed 107 to get to 172. The second is a nod to Crosby's playoff excellence. He slipped by his boss because the Penguins – thanks in no small part to their captain – keep finding a way to win in the postseason.A victory over Philadelphia in Game 5 on Friday night would push the Penguins into the second round for the fifth time in six years and move them a step closer to becoming the first team in 35 years to win three straight Stanley Cups. Pittsburgh has gotten there by developing a killer instinct under head coach Mike Sullivan that it lacked at times before his arrival in December, 2015.The Penguins are 8-5 when given a chance to clinch a playoff series since Sullivan took over. They were 4-9 in potential clinching games from 2010-15, including letting 3-1 series leads get away in the first round against Tampa Bay in 2011 (when Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were both out) and to the New York Rangers in the second round in 2014, a collapse that cost head coach Dan Bylsma and general manager Ray Shero their jobs.Sullivan downplays his role in it, preferring to put the emphasis on his star-laden roster."This group of players has a real strong competitive spirit and I think it's hard to win in this game if you don't," Sullivan said. "I think it starts with our core players. 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Flyer fans exited Game 4 chanting for the firing of coach Dave Hakstol, and his grasp on the gig become precarious if his team can't force the Penguins to head back east for Game 6.There's a chance the Flyers could have Sean Couturier in the lineup. He missed Game 4 after colliding with teammate Radko Gudas in practice on Tuesday. Either way Womens Zemgus Girgensons Jersey , Philadelphia knows it needs to find a way to recapture the resiliency it showed during the regular season when it overcame a litany of setbacks to return to the playoffs after a one-year absence."They've played extremely well, and we need to play better," Philadelphia general manager Ron Hextall said. "Our focus has to get back to one game. We're down 3-1 obviously, but our focus has to get back to winning one game, and that's tomorrow. There's no question we have to play better individually, and certainly as a group."Or, play a little more like the Penguins, who have shrugged off a sometimes uneven regular season to look very much like the team that celebrated with raucous championship parades through downtown Pittsburgh each of the last two Junes.There's much work to be done before another one can be planned, but Pittsburgh is three periods away from getting at least as far as the last three teams trying for a threepeat – the 1998-99 Detroit Red Wings, the 1992-93 Penguins and the 1988-89 Edmonton Oilers."We know it's going to be a tough one," Crosby said. "We want to try and carry that momentum and the way we played into our own building."PREDATORS ON THE PROWThe team the Penguins edged in six taut games during the 2017 Cup finals have their own shot to move on Friday. 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Hopefully it gives him a little confidence."—AP Sports Writer Teresa Walker in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report.— Minas Panagiotakis/Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles Kingsfired head coach John Stevens and assistant coachDon Nachbaur on Sunday.Stevens, who was hired in April 2017, led the Kings to a 45-29-8 finish last season before they were bounced in the first round of the playoffs by the Vegas Golden Knights.That campaign offered reasons for optimism Johnny Gaudreau Jersey Kids , but the Kings opened the 2018-19 season 4-8-1 with just nine points over their first 13 games.At the time of Stevens' ouster, the Kings were tied with the Florida Panthers for the league's lowest point total.WillieDesjardinshas been installed as the Kings' interim head coach."This is a critical time in our season and our results to date have fallen well below our expectations. With that in mind, this was a difficult decision but one we feel was necessary," general manager Rob Blake said in astatement."We have a great deal of respect and appreciation for John's time with our organization. He was a key part of our past success, and we have tremendous gratitude for his many contributions."Stevens also spent a four-game stint as the Kings' interim head coach following Terry Murray's dismissal in 2011. Los Angeles proceeded to hoist the Stanley Cup in 2012 afterDarrylSutterwas appointed to the post on a full-time basis.Prior to his time on the bench, Stevens enjoyed a five-year NHL career, including three seasons with the Hartford Whalers as a defenseman. He did not score a goal in 53 career games.With Stevens out of the picture, the Kings will hope to find more stable footing underDesjardins.The 61-year-old previously coached theVancouverCanucks from 2014 to 2017. The team went 109-110 under his watch and 2-4 in the postseason.
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Pissarro's People
Camille Pissarro had a unique and lifelong interest in the human figure. From his earliest years in the Caribbean and Venezuela until his death in Paris in 1903, Pissarro drew, painted, and made prints featuring human subjects from every walk of life, which outnumber the figural works of his colleagues Monet and Sisley. Pissarro's People celebrates the painter's humanism in all its aspects and brings together nearly 100 works of art, including some 37 paintings and numerous works on paper made over the course of his entire career.
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Pissarro's People at the Legion of Honor this Fall
Pissarro's People was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. It is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The Grand Patron is Jeannik Méquet Littlefield. Education Sponsors are Denise Littlefield Sobel, Wells Fargo, and the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. Sponsors are Nan and Ransom Cook, Raj and Helen Desai, and Charles and Ann Johnson. The catalogue is published with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment for Publications.
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L: Camille Pissarro, Jeanne Pissarro, Called Cocotte, Reading, 1899. Oil on canvas. Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty. R: Camille Pissarro, Apple Harvest, 1888. Dallas Museum of Art, Munger Fund, 1955.17.M
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Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection
July 9, 2011 – October 2, 2011
One of the finest collections of 17th-century Dutch Old Masters belongs not to a museum, but to Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, who have been called "the most important collectors you've never heard of." Masterworks from this collection are constantly sought-after for American and international exhibitions. The selection of paintings includes premier examples of quintessentially Dutch subjects—from portraits and still lifes to landscapes and charming scenes of everyday life.
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Rarely Seen Masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age on View at the Legion of Honor This Summer
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the Mauritshuis, The Hague.
Major Foundation Support
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Phoebe Cowles
J. Burgess and Elizabeth B. Jamieson
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Circle of Friends in honor of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Additional support provided by the Netherland-America Foundation in honor of Frederik J. Duparc. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Gerrit Dou (1613–1675), Sleeping Dog (detail), 1650. Oil on panel, 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. Image courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Reading the Floating World: Japanese Ukiyo-e Books from the Collection of Arthur Tress
The Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books
March 5, 2011 – July 24, 2011
The flowering of popular culture during Japan's Edo period (1600–1868) brought about a revolution in Japanese publishing and the art of the book. With prosperity and the spread of literacy, particularly among the merchant class, a great variety of reading material developed, including illustrated books of poetry, legends and folk-tales, romances, and travel guides.
Utagawa Kunisada, Lovers, in the book An Appraisal of Sensual Pleasure (Shiki no nagame). Color woodcut, ca. 1830s. Collection of Arthur Tress
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Rupert Garcia: The Magnolia Editions Projects 1991–2011
February 19, 2011 – July 17, 2011
Renowned Bay Area artist Rupert Garcia is committed to creating artwork not only as a means of achieving aesthetic ends, but also as a viable way of addressing social and political concerns. Through his bold silkscreens and layered pastels and paintings, Garcia catalyzes discussion and debate in a broad audience about the pressing issues that have faced the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His recent editions elaborate on his political concerns, as well as addressing his interest in challenging notions of folk and high art.
Obama from Douglass, 2010. Pigmented inkjet. Printed and published by Magnolia Editions Inc., Oakland. Courtesy of the artist and Magnolia Editions.
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May 7, 2011 – June 5, 2011
The Magna Carta (or Great Charter of English Liberties), one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy, is on display at the Legion of Honor May 7–June 5. The document is presented in Gallery 3 under a Spanish ceiling dating from approximately 1500. The Magna Carta coming to San Francisco belongs to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, and is one of four surviving manuscripts from the revised 1217 issue.
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Magna Carta (detail), 1217. Bodleian Library, Oxford
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Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
April 23, 2011 – July 24, 2011
First unearthed in 1996 in a rescue excavation in Lod, ancient Diospolis, Israel, this large and extraordinarily detailed mosaic floor has only recently been carefully removed from its site and conserved. Found in a large villa believed to belong to a wealthy Roman, the excellently preserved mosaic floor dates to about AD 300. Two rectangular end panels flank a large square medallion. The medallion and one of the end panels contain depictions of delightful animals and exotic beasts.
Lod Mosaic Comes to the Legion of Honor
Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Israel Antiquities Authority from the collections of the National Treasures.
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Concepcion S. and Irwin Federman
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Mosaic floor side panel with hexagonal medallions, Roman, ca. AD 300. Excavated at Lod (Lydda), Israel. Stone tesserae, 13 feet x 5 feet 3 inches. Israel Antiquities Authority and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center. Image courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
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Arthur Szyk: Miniature Paintings and Modern Illuminations
December 4, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Arthur Szyk (American, b. Poland, 1894–1951) is best remembered for his diverse work as an artist and illustrator, from pochoir illustrations for traditional Jewish and Polish folktales and religious texts to watercolor designs for political cartoons that were regularly featured on the cover of Collier's magazine throughout the 1930s and '40s. Szyk's Polish and Jewish heritage remained central, and his attention to detail betrayed considerable historical research into his craft.
Arthur Szyk: Miniature Paintings and Modern Illuminations at the Legion of Honor
Arthur Szyk: Miniature Paintings and Modern Illuminations is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Lead exhibition support is provided by the Koret Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.
Additional support for the exhibition is provided by Bernard and Barbro Osher.
Left: King and Queen of the Roses, illustration for the chapter titled Little Ida's Flowers in Anderson's Fairy Tales (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945). Watercolor and opaque watercolor. Collection of Irvin Ungar. Center: Arthur Szyk, Paris, 1930s. Photo credit: Louvre Studio. Right: King George VI, 1938. Transparent and opaque watercolor. Collection of Irvin Ungar
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Aspects of Mount Fuji in Japanese Illustrated Books from the Arthur Tress Collection
September 11, 2010 – February 20, 2011
Noted photographer Arthur Tress (b. 1940) began collecting Japanese books in the fall of 1965 when he was a student at the Zen study center associated with the Shōkoku-ji temple in Kyoto. "After classes I would wander the back alleys behind the school, and I accidentally came upon a small, dilapidated secondhand bookstore that was filled from floor to ceiling with thousands of ragged old Japanese books for only a few dollars each," he recalls. "I was enchanted by the lovely, soft paper and bold illustrations [that were] often by important ukiyo-e artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai.
Hokusai, Untitled (Fuji Seen from Above the Waves), [detail] from the book One Hundred Views of Fuji, 1835. Collection of Arthur Tress
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Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave
February 5, 2011 – June 12, 2011
Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave is a painter by training, but textile and costume are her muses. Working in collaboration with leading costume historians and young fashion designers, de Borchgrave crafts a world of splendor from the simplest rag paper.
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Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave at the Legion of Honor
Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and sponsored by Lonna Wais. Additional support is provided by Nathalie and Garry McGuire and Elizabeth W. Vobach. Collection Connections is made possible by The Annenberg Foundation. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International.
Eleanor of Toledo (and detail), 2006, inspired by a ca. 1545 portrait of Eleanor and her son Giovanni de' Medici by Agnolo Bronzino in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: René Stoeltie
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