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>><< From the Journals of Jean Seberg Literally burned by Preminger, driven crazy by an army of husbands, hangers-on, and J. Edgar Hoover, Jean Seberg lives on in a new documentary. Writer-director Mark Rappaport, familiar from 1992's Rock Hudson's Home Movies, has devised an ingenious strategy for dealing with this complex character in From the Journals of Jean Seberg. He hired Mary Beth Hurt (born 10 years later in the same Iowa town as Seberg) to play the actress as if she didn't commit suicide in 1979 but lives on — like all actors — through the magic of film, reincarnated as a sort of performance artist, film historian, and cultural commentator. The illusion is remarkably successful from Hurt's first appearance — she has the look of an aging gamin, disillusioned but still vibrant and droll. The title of the film is typical of Rappaport's devious approach — the "diaries" don't exist, they're simply Rappaport's clever conceit to explore issues of voyeurism, stardom, and exploitation. The format of the film is loosely chronological, starting with Seberg's appearance in Saint Joan after being chosen from 3000 contenders. We learn that director Preminger's legendary cruelty extended far beyond the usual director-actor trials: on the day that a Life magazine photographer was invited to cover Joan being burned at the stake, Preminger allowed Seberg to actually be burned. This event is rendered in a dazzling collage style typical of the film, including shots from the production, images from the Life magazine story, and Hurt talking about the event directly to the camera. Rappaport puts Seberg in context as one of an army of cinematic Joans — Ingrid Bergman, Falconetti, Alida Valli — through clips that show both Seberg's freshness and youth and the beginnings of the exploitation of her image and her entrapment by it. Hurt talks in mock-horrific tones about the "curse of Joan," how the role had all kinds of tragic repercussions in the lives of the actresses who played her. Rappaport's leisurely digressions begin here — with Hurt describing things as seemingly tangential but fascinating as the fact that Falconetti's grandson was the first person in France to die of AIDS in 1984. Seberg's next film was also for Preminger — Bonjour Tristesse. This time Rappaport gives her a kind of posthumous revenge against the dictatorial director. During filming, Preminger tormented her by threatening to replace her with Audrey Hepburn. In a startlingly clever scene, Rappaport shows an exchange between Seberg and David Niven, then reprises it by superimposing Hepburn's head over Seberg's. Hurt says she was secure that no 29-year-old (Hepburn) could play a 17-year-old. This is one of several comic superimpositions in the film, the funniest perhaps being when Hurt speculates that Barbra Streisand must have been one of the 3000 women who tried out for Saint Joan. In the scene of Joan burning at the stake, Rappaport replaces Seberg's head with that of poor wailing Babs. Seberg's career was filled with disappointments — good roles that flopped at the box office (Lill. Of course, Fonda, Redgrave, and Seberg had another crucial similarity — activist politics. And all suffered for it, says Seberg, though Fonda "was protected by her star image." Redgrave's work with the PLO decimated her roles, and she eventually passed into character parts. And Seberg? She was framed by the FBI, Hoover in particular, who leaked stories that she was pregnant by one of the Black Panthers, whose cause she fought for. When her child (the father was Romain Gary) died at birth, she insisted on a glass coffin, to show the world they had been duped. A series of nervous breakdowns followed that eventually killed Seberg in 1979 at the age of 40. While the essentials of Seberg's life are here for star-gazers, Rappaport uses her as a springboard for a discussion of larger issues. His combination of patchwork-quilt visuals, comic superimpositions, witty speculations on showbiz ("It's called show business, not show art," Seberg reminds us), and intriguing analysis of America's fixation with the female face and body, makes for both imaginative biography and art. BLFJ on Instagram @brightlightsfilm - stills, photos, and images from classic and contemporary films from around the world. Safe Runescape gold On Sale.

On Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m., Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music (BFCM) and the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra present a joint concert to honor the memory of Justice Gustin L. Reichbach (1946-2012) and Hope (1988-2011), daughter of Justice Reichbach and Ellen Meyers. The concert will take place at The Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, Clinton and Montague streets in Brooklyn Heights. Engaged with radical politics at Columbia University School of Law, Justice Gustin Reichbach led student protests in 1968 and went on to a career as a fiercely independent lawyer and judge. He won a court case that helped legalize residential loft life in Soho and TriBeCa, blasted a state agency from the bench for ignoring Medicaid fraud and served as a judge on a war-crimes tribunal in Kosovo. He provided prostitutes with condoms, H.I.V. testing and counseling. To his delight, the Daily News called him the Condom Judge on its front page. Hon. Barry Kamins, administrative judge for Criminal Matters, Second Judicial District, said, "The concert is a wonderful way to honor the memory of Judge Reichbach and his daughter Hope. Judge Reichbach was a man of great integrity and behind his love of the law, he enjoyed the arts and music and this is a great way to celebrate his life." Justice David Schmidt of Brooklyn Supreme Court (Civil Term) said of Judge Reichbach: Deborah Dowling of Brooklyn Supreme Court (Criminal Term) said, "Judge Reichbach was always a man of principle who was unafraid to look at things, including the law, in an unconventional way. He truly was a catalyst for change both in his professional and personal life." In May, Justice Reichbach wrote an op-ed article in The New York Times pleading for the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. He himself was using it to ease his cancer treatments. Justice Reichbach died of pancreatic cancer in July 2012. Hope Reichbach grew up in Brooklyn and attended Hunter College High School. In her senior year she teamed up with the New York Civil Liberties Union to sue then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for what she believed to be his illegal military recruitment tactics. City Councilman Steve Levin made Hope his communications director, and, at age 22, Hope ran for female district leader. She was recognized as a rising star in Brooklyn politics, but died in April 2011. For friends, family and members of the Brooklyn community, this concert will hold a special meaning as Justice Reichbach had hoped to serve as narrator for the Beavers concerto. Actor Harris Yulin will take his place. All proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships for students in civic leadership and grassroots community organizing. The program will include Felix Mendelssohn, “Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20” and Kevin Beavers “Roscoe Concerto for Violin, Narrator and Orchestra on a Text by William Kennedy.” The musicians include these faculty and students of the Manhattan School of Music: Christina Bouey, Xiao Wang, Holly Jenkins, Karen Dekker, violins; Celia Hatton, Nicholas Mann, violas; Grace Ho, David Geber, cellos. The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra will also perform with J. Freivogel, first violinist of the Jasper Quintet, on violin. Harris Yulin's last stage appearance was as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman” at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. His production of Horton Foote's “The Trip to Bountiful” at the Signature Theatre won four Lortel awards (including direction), in an extended run. The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1973 and is comprised of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians. Nicholas Armstrong has been its Artistic Director since 1997. He is Head of the Performing Arts Department at the Poly Prep School. Tickets are $20 at the door, students $10. For more information, call (718) 855-3053.

Long<< Lucky you, that’s about the closest to the real thing a “mortal” like us could experience. ( Well, except for that Tom Verducci thing ) Playing on those fields ( Fenway and Yankee Stadium ) must be an incredible sensation, even for a beat writer that’s used to be there. Good for you and your son. Nice job Ian! It’s about time you guys won! What a great picture of Tyler! ~Molly Unlike many of my fellow bloggers here, i’m not a Coco hater. But man ! was it a poor and lazy relay to the infield on the Posada double. Should’ve been an out at second ( or just a single ). And now he’s at 3rd base with 1 out. ATTABOY DUSTIN !! Is he hot or what ?! Is it just me or has Dustin really stepped up a notch in the field and at the plate since people were questioning his starting place in the team? The pressure seems to have invigorated him. 5-4 lead now thanks to Youk. I just think that he was in the bottom part of the learning curve. Somewhat normal for a rookie.. Yes, I noticed that Crisp really dogged that Posada double. Notice they didn’t show a clear replay of that play at the plate. Looked like Lugo might have snuck in. Did you hear they finally diagnosed Clemen’s ailment? It’s called… “WaitingForAnNLCentralPatsy-itis of the groin” How come Miller and Morgan were talking about a blown save by Oki ? We’re in 8th inning, for god sake ! It’s a blown lead, not a blown save ! cause jon miller is just annoying and morgan has diarehha of the mouth. he always needs something to talk about sadly he was right, it is a blown save technically. Hence why Proctor had 7 last year, despite having only two in the 9th inning. Lugo was out, they showed the replay, it was clear, posada just did a great job blocking the plate, more lucky than anything else. Where is the line ? When does it stop being a blown lead to turn into a blown save ? From the start of the 8th on ? Keep the faith, everyone. It’s Papi, Manny and Youk in the bottom 9th. Against Mo. That’s what makes baseball so exciting. Rough game, gotta keep it in perspective though: 12.5 games. The only thing I’m weary of is that we are running into a hot pitcher in Haren while putting Tavarez on the hill, the Sox have to be careful not to fall into those 1-2 game hangovers after an intense series with the Yankees. I’m not too worried about Okajima or Papelbon. Oki shut the Yanks down with a man on 3rd and no outs, and A-Rod did a good job of taking the outside fastball the other way. Although Paps should have at least wasted a splitter with an 0-2 count, but hindsight is 20/20. See them in August. I gotta tell you Papelbon has been kinda ******* me off. I might be saying this only cuz he gave up the homer, but the entire year he has only been pitching fastballs. I’m not even sure he knows how to throw a split or slider anymore. rsox: anytime you come in in a save situation and the opponent ties the game, it’s a blown save. So, say we had gotten a run bottom 8th. Pap would have gotten a blown save when he served up Arod’s homer. It’s possible to have more than one blown saves in the game (and it’s possible to have pitchers on both teams blow saves). penwhale, i know all that. I just thought that it wasn’t a save situation before the 9th inning. If a reliever blows out a 2 run lead in the 6th inning, is it a blown save ? I though it was a simple blown lead. I mean, is it a save situation as soon as a reliever enters the game with a 3 run lead or less ( or with a bigger lead that shrinks into a 3 run lead ) ? That’s kind of unfair for the set up men everywhere. They could end up with a blown save if they fail, but if they hold on, someone else ( the closer ) will come and get the save in the 9th. I just think that’s a weird rule. Papelbon needs to learn how to waste a pitch… maybe something that looks decent and then breaks out of the zone. He has been hit on a few 0-2 counts where he just grooves one for the heck of it. I think we hit the ball hard all night and just didn’t get the breaks. Knowing how shallow they play Pedroia to right… I have no idea how Abreau tracked that one down. Bad call by our third base coach on Lugo. If you see the replay, Jeter takes the cutoff as Lugo is barely rounding third. It was a very high throw, but he was still out. Why not give Papi/Manny a chance to break the game open against maybe the worst pitcher in all of baseball (Vizcaino – already 2 hits and 2 walks in the game). I can’t remember the last time Crisp or Lugo hit the ball hard. At best its a bloop or a grounder with eyes. I’m a little worried about Papi’s hamstrings. Although his drive off Rivera in the ninth was gone in any other park. rsox 34: Here is the official rule on saves. For many of the scoring rules, you can come up with situations that don’t seem fair, and the save rule is a good example. On Joe Morgan: Usually, his self-contradictions make me shake my head in disgust. Last night he was so ridiculous at one point I laughed out loud. Early in the game he makes a comment about Pettite being easy to steal on because he’s so slow to the plate. Then later, when they had Lugo picked off, but he was safe because of Phelps’ throw, Morgan says Pettite is tough to steal against because of his great pick-off move. It’s almost as if as soon as something comes out of the guy’s mouth he forgets he said it. Lugo’s getting called out at the plate was a combination of a slightly risky send by Demarlo Hale, a good play by Posada to get the tag on Lugo, and Lugo’s failure to make a better slide. I think Posada got a little lucky, in that he happened to come down in just the right spot, just in time to block Lugo’s foot, but he got the tag down very quickly. If Lugo had slid a little to the left and tagged the plate with his hand, he’s probably safe. Hindsight being what it is, and Lugo having only a split second to react to Posada being pulled off the plate by the throw, I can’t really fault him or Hale. Oh, and Ian, I’m glad you told us Tyler was your son. I never would have guessed that, since he doesn’t look ANYTHING like you. “That’s kind of unfair for the set up men everywhere. They could end up with a blown save if they fail, but if they hold on, someone else ( the closer ) will come and get the save in the 9th. I just think that’s a weird rule” You’re right about that, rsox. The reason the rule is like that is because back in the 70′s and earlier you had closers like Goose Gossage that would go regularly for 3 inning saves. Times have changed. The converse is true as well. I remember a game a couple of years ago in which Alan Embree left Mike Timlin with a bases loaded, no out jam with a one run lead. Timlin gets two outs before allowing just one run to score, and then getting the third out to end the inning. As I recall, Timlin didn’t even allow anyone to reach first, the run coming on a sac fly. Timlin got the blown save, but it was mostly Embree’s fault. Tough to write a rule that is fair in every possible situation. As far as the set up man not getting any credit in rsox’s example, at least they’ve started recording holds, so there is a statistic to show the contribution of the set up men. Not as sexy as a save, but those who take the time to look at all of the stats can see how well the middle relievers are helping the cause of the team. Thanks rob, btide and penwhale. I just hope the middle relievers take the time to include the Hs as bonuses when signing a new deal !!!! Another example was Mo Rivera – when the Yankees had a one run lead in the bottom of the 8th with runners on the corners and no-one out (Gordon’s mess), he came in and ggave up a saac fly to Varitek but got a blown save for it. Seems very unfair to me. The ESPN guys were terrible. I didn’t like A-Rod’s play at all in Toronto but they spoke at it, and A-Rod’s other escapades, for what seemed like two full innings. What a joke. They barely commentated on the game itself on what was a great game. Tonight could be a loooong, short night for the Sox. We are throwing the “B” team out there (no Tek, Lowell and dare I say Lugo) against the Cy Young winner for the first 2 months. Whoever came up with this schedule did a horrible job, there was no reason for New York to fly halfway acorss the country to play tonight much less Boston who has to fly coast-to-coast. Yankees are feeling the effects losing by 4 in the 7th, I have to think we will be viewing similar results soon. Let’s all say our prayers that this is the last start we ever see Tavarez pitch. Lester had a nice 7 inning start… seems like he is ready. How long do we keep a 5.50 ERA bum in our rotation? Given how tired the Redsox are, wouldn’t it have made more sense to just forfeit this game and rest our guys? Rayman, thats a little harsh for Tavarez. The ERA is high because of his first handful of starts, its around 4 in the last couple months. I’d prefer EZ in the rotation over Wake who can’t throw strikes. Let him work it out in the pen when Lester comes back. I mean around 4 in the last month I am counting on the vast knowledge of my brainy blog brethren. Can anyone confirm if the 1978 home record for the Sox (63-19) is the best since MLB when to the 162-game format? Also, alluding back to Rayman’s comment, I agree that Papelbon could have wasted a pitch or two on Arod. It is so frustrating to see an opposing player homer on an 0-2 pitch. Pap’s 2 plus era is still impressive but he could really dominate with that talent. Since I was hardly a blip on the Earth radar akihiro, I am unsure whether or not that is the best ever. Were they that good at home? That is one helluva record I think we are in trouble with both Wake and Tavarez. I really doubt Tavarez is going to get below 5.00 ERA as a starter. I think Wake doesn’t get any breaks from the umps. If its not a perfect strike, they never give him a call. Add in the wild pitches, the easy steals, and the wasted lineup spot (Mirabelli) and its not a pretty picture. We need Lester badly and I wouldn’t hesitate to look around the minors for some additional help. Yep, Rizzo. I recall they were like under .500 on the road but were unbelievable at home. 99 wins that year. By the way, just call me Paul. 9 hits and 2 walks given up to the worst hitting team in the league. That’s Tavarez. It is really painful to play the A’s… they have 1 good hitter in the entire lineup and always to seem to score runs against us. Wily Mo needs to be traded before he loses whatever value he has left. His defense in the outfield is an absolute joke. He has let two balls get by him in this game alone to allow the A’s to go for extra bases. It’d be one thing if he was hitting while playing a below-average outfield, but striking out roughly every 3 at-bats is obviously not going to get it done, nor is a glaring inability to hit the breaking ball which every pitcher in the AL is aware of. The Reds made out like bandits with the Pena-for-Arroyo deal: they got a rubber arm with big game experience while the Sox received a “future slugger” who swings a bat with holes in it. I really am losing patience with those whole “wait and see” approach the Red Sox are taking with him, I understand he’s young but right now I would much rather see Hinske as the 4th outfielder. At least he has proven he can play (2002 Rookie of the Year) whereas we are waiting on Pena based off of potential alone. And yes, he just went deep. But I maintain my point, he doesn’t hit enough to make up for his ugly defense. …now I wish there was a delete feature on this thing. I’m glad Pena is proving me wrong. (Although if Crisp wasn’t running on that play, it’s a groundout to the 2B, but that’s not important). What a good game other than the result. So many things pointed towards a win (tying up the game in dramatic fashion, escaping the jam in the 9th) Yet other parts pointed towards a loss (giving up the cycle, couldn’t score in extras, pedroia out at home) Im glad the sox fought the entire time, they could have just said it was too late and they were too tired to play. This still blows I wanted a win. lol….zach, thanx your comments made my morning. Keep the wmp dissing up and maybe he will keep the hitting up. His defense is brutal however, but I can see how he might be a good hitter down the road. Seems to me when he plays it takes him a few games to find his swing, he gets hot, and he’s back out of the line-up. Good game last night, crappy results. Haven’t really tracked or noticed the A’s beating us up over the past few years, I do know we have done that to them in the playoffs when it counts. How does Kotsay have such a great BA against us career wise. He must have played for those Blue Jays at one point. Seems all those guys come up big against us too. Didn’t mind the commentary last night, way better then the espn game Sunday. Well which Dice-K is going to show up tonight…I’m hedging on the good one, but have decided not to play him in my pool for the first time this season. I actually put the Big Unit in tonight. You’re right Alex, Sox played a gutsy game. It would have been a great win. Even though he gave up the home run to Chavez, Kyle Snyder did a nice job. Unlike those before him, at least he came in and threw strikes. How much trouble were the Sox pitchers in all night because of walks. It’s a rather disturbing trend. Even Pap is walking a lot of people and getting into trouble and throwing more pitches than he needs to. I’m really proud of Julian Tavarez. It looked like disaster time for him tonight, and he came back and gave the Sox some quality innings. While his stats aren’t all that great, he has pitched some gutsy games this year. He’s also so entertaining to watch. Dice-K needs to crank it up tonight. Sox have lost 4 of 5 and need to start winning again. He needs to be a stopper here. Fortunately, none of the other division rivals are winning much either. Sox have played pretty solid consistent baseball, but have not really put a run together yet. If they do that once, the could wrap things up early. Great outing by Jon Lester. Maybe we’ll see him back in a couple of weeks. That’s the type of close game I haven’t seen in a long while. Gutsy game by our boys, although it stinks they came out on the wrong end. Honestly, I had my hope up for an Ortiz homer and we almost got one. Then Chavez had to come out and ruin it. Tavarez had came out and given us a great chance most of the time to let us win ballgames. It’s just that he’s been matched up with the opposing team’s best pitcher almost everytime (e.g. Haren, Santana), so it makes it that much harder to get some runs on the board. Honestly, I’d be more worried about Wake. Like Rizzo said, he hasn’t been throwing strikes as of late. I hope it’s just some mechanical issue that can be worked out. Wily Mo coming up big…that’s just what I wanted to see. He needs to be in games more often so he can get better. Maybe we’re keeping him around so once Ortiz retires (which I hope is never, lol), we have another power hitting DH? No idea, but if we could trade him for someone, who and what position? Here’s to hoping we see a 10-K Dice-K tonight. zachary: I have been of the opinion that Hinske should get more playing time in the outfield as well. Then I looked at his offensive stats and was surprised to see how much worse they are than Pena’s. Pena AB: 75 AVG: .240 OPS: .767 TB: 34 SO: 29 Hinske AB: 59 AVG: .155 OPS: .547 TB: 17 SO: 15 Hinske sort of peaked in late April, when his average was up around .500, but he’s been on a steady decline. Who knows, with a few more consistent plate appearances, maybe he could pick it up. And of course there’s the glaring disparity in the SO column. The tough thing to quantify is how much of Pena’s production is offset by his defensive play. His fielding percentage is .923, pretty low compared to the rest of the team, but how many runs has he directly allowed to score? Last night was ugly, but I don’t have any stats for the season in that regard. (Hinske has a 1.000 fielding percentage in the outfield, but that’s with only 9 total chances. His fielding percentage at first base is .970.) Personally, I like Hinske a lot. Great team player, and seems to have come up with some clutch hits and plays so far this year. I agree that he’s worth giving some more playing time.

I mentioned that to someone yesterday and apparently our local banks are also doing it. One that I heard was that you can skip this month's repayment and they will recoup it from your bonus pay. I think this probably works only for government officers. All these are presumably again because of the expectation of high expenses of the coming Hari Raya celebrations. Even JPKE is also using this opportunity to launch Brunei's Grand Sales throughout the whole month. That seemed to be an interesting phenomenon. Why suddenly spend during Hari Raya? We got caught up in it as well. We decided to change our curtains which are now ten years old. My wife and I have talked about it for quite a while but it seems that we have decided to choose now as a good time to do it. Why now? I guess Raya is coming, that seems to be the underlying thinking. Most of us tend to use Hari Raya as the time to do the things that probably ought to be done. Other than that, there is the usual Baju Raya, Kueh Raya etc that needed to be bought in expectation of the many people that will turn up at our houses during Hari Raya. The number of new cars will also increase. Some of the guests that come over inevitably will be driving in their new cars. New cars, new things during Hari Raya. I guess it's okay if you can afford it. But even then, this is already bordering on the line of wastage. Yesterday's Brunei Times led with an interesting article about not splurging during Hari Raya as it is sinful. Some have argued that they only spend once a year and it is usually during Hari Raya. Besides we should celebrate the month after fasting for a whole month. Again some would say that beats the original purpose of fasting which is to feel deprived and to make one feel humble. What's your take on this? 14 comments: for me i wish ramadhan is celebrated as meriah as syawal and sultan's birthday or hari kebangsaan. why i say is that: Bulan ramadhan is the time where every muslim should look forward with excitement not just with amalan di waktu malam but to show how much we appreciate and celebrate it why not have the bandar and towns lighted up with the glittery cuculs?at least when little kids asked "mama kenapa bandar ani bercucul2 ani?" we can answer because we are celebrating the holy and beautiful month of ramadhan. macam di negeri singapore (or others) kalau they want to celebrate christmas a month before sudah tia orchard road atu meriah to welcome christmas my point maybe not agreeable to some but seriously kalau on the way or balik dari masjid siuk jua meliat di keliling bandar lawa and terang-benderang, apatah lagi sepuluh malam terakhir tengah malam on the way kemasjid kan sembahyang tasbih Sorry,my point above kind of "menyimpang sikit" but it was because of how we want to make the syawal and ramadhan celebration more festive-ised<---i made the word up! By the way,How about the muslim arabs or chinese?how do they celebrate syawal?is it like us here where we highlight it with open houses, extravagant baju melayu/kurong, cars, curtain, furniture, food? As mentioned by anonymous, it will be great if Bandar or commercial areas are lighten up during this hari raya,like the ones in singapore,(geylang areas) to celebrate this special occasions,hope the people at municipal board will look into this,and i do hope Mr.BR, will convey this to you know who.Again,Thank you MR.BR for filling my early morning reads with all your blogs.Lastly spend less and give more to the needy during this festive season,as again thats why we fast in the first place anyway, to be humble and feels what the poor is feeling,to repent to Allah All mighty. I think the purpose of raya is to strengthen tali silaturrahim is it not? All the pomp and circumstance we inject is just our own flavour and part of Bruneian culture rather than the arbitrary mode of celebration elsewhere. After all, where else do festivities last the entirety of Syawal? All that said, I can't wait for Raya;) I think it's ridiculous how wasteful we are during Ramadhan. And when Syawal comes, it's even outrageous. How can we justify spending so much money on food, clothes, cars and curtains and charge it all on credit or cash that should be going to charities and needy people? Ramadhan is a time to abstain oneself not just from consuming food but also from our overindulgence. And moderation is the key. Eid is a time for celebration after Ramadhan but to spend excessively is not exactly the way to go. We should be self-critical of ourselves and think whether what we are buying is what we need or maybe it's just what we want. I was about to indulge myself on a new digital camera because the latch on my old digital camera is broken. But i've saved myself approximately $500 by using tape to patch it up. Sigh.. but nothing is happening when it comes to "Chinese New Year". How unfair could that be? Thanks Mr BR for posting on the useless wastage we Bruneians seem to always do around Hari Raya. I am always surprised to see people spend so much money when they could be putting it to better use (their children's education say OR payment towards last year's Hari Raya bils). I have always thought that Hari Raya was a celebration to reward those wh chose to do without during Ramadan as a reminder that not everyone is fortunate. Isn't it ironic that Bruneians celebrate this fact with an entire month of needless festivities? Isn't an importane lesson of Islam moderation? is it necessary to buy new things for hariraya? i still don't understand why people have to change the curtains and sofas etc when the old ones can still be used... the same goes with the bajus, women with their thick 'katuk' and 'kisi' which cost hundreds of dollars... please, it's wasting money when we should be berjimat cermat... bersederhanalah dalam kehidupan... i know some of the bruneians are rich people, berkemampuan and everything, but that's not the reasons to throw your money over something which are not necessary... this is my personal opinion. after spending 8 years in the uK, i've stop enjoying the festivities. some would disagree, but i find it to be stupid and waste of time. why is it during raya, people try have the prettiest of everything ? whats the point ? to prove that you're richer and better than the less significant other ? why is it during raya, majority of the people who comes are the ones i've never met before ? and if i've never met them before, why do they come and ask for forgiveness? if it's a tradition, then this tradition is "empty". its like a parrot immitating it's master. not knowing what it's saying. such as raya-ers, coming over to people houses eating food, adoring the view of the priceless chandelier and minta maaf zahir batin. why is it every raya, they PLAY THE SAME MUSIC OVER AND OVER AGAIN. it's annoying. even when i was in the UK, these annoying music found their way through internet to torture me mentally. i have to stress that I prefer the way Christians spend Christmas. One special day. Close family and relatives ONLY. But malay, WHOA, one whole month. And it's every year! Calculate the amout of money, time and effort wasted. I can get myself 10 containers full of ciggarettes! note : this is my own opinion my mom feels the need to buy new furniture, curtains and other items for every chinese new year, which is a waste of money, in my opinion. we now have a room full of unwanted bedside tables, beds, sofas, chairs, desks, pillows and lamps. festivities should be about celebrating with family and friends (which is free), and not about how different the home looks compared to the previous year (which is taxing). i think its important as muslims that we must remain humble and not be too materialistic. at the end of the day, what can we do with the nice things we have? We certainly can't bring it with us when we die and it certainly doesnt count for anything on the day of judgement. Alot of us sadly have forgotten this. Dont you think god would be much more pleased if we celebrated the end of the fasting month with humbleness because isnt that what islam teaches? Think of the countless muslims around the world who dont even have clean water to drink, let alone be able to celebrate raya, and here we are spending hundreds on our 10 baju melayus every year... Dear BR, Hari Raya is coming soon. Would it be nice if you could post your address here so that we can send hariraya cards and if ok to visit you and family during hari raya? Thank you for the thought - publishing my address would be tantamount to breaking my vow to remain anonymous. If you still feel the urge to send HR cards to old BR, you can send it to: admin@bruneiresources.com MPC PO Box 1, Old Airport, BSB, Brunei. You are welcome to drop in for HR if you know where the house is. Selamat Hari Raya. hari raya is coming.....it does not mean to lavishly spend on clothes, food, house decorations etc. doesnt mean that ramadhan is over we can just forget about what we have learnt from this blessed month????? Islam teaches us MODERATION. i think most of us have forgotten this. it is a sin to show off all these worldly goods. why not just spend the extra money to help those who are not so fortunate. "love for your brother what you love for yourself" please dont be deceived by what all these dunia stuff has to offer. we have been blinded by both syaitan and western culture. "Open your eyes and see" ....stop being ignorant and be a true muslim. remember that god is always watching us and we shall be asked for whatever we do in this life and be judged accordingly.

NetBSD 6.0 Has Shipped 124)." Re: (Score:3, Insightful) Re: (Score:3, Informative) If you need a hand, ask on the netbsd-users mailing list ( [netbsd.org]). Especially with the new release just being out there should be plenty of people willing to help with whatever issue you have. (Since you've been running betas for a while you probably know about the mailing lists, so this is more of a PSA for anyone else) Zombie Apolcalypse? (Score:3, Funny) Did Netcraft confirm it? Everyone celebrates! (Score:1, Funny) Re:Everyone celebrates! (Score:5, Interesting) you might well be a NetBSD user and not know it. might be in your printer, network router or switch, internet security or web cam, cell phone.....it's an extremely stable, well engineered and high quality operating system Re:Everyone celebrates! (Score:5, Funny) Re: (Score:2) oh, a MacOSX user. that really doesn't count as netbsd even though there is some in the userland Contradiction (Score:1) Why does a STABLE release version highlight as a feature an EXPERIMENTAL filesystem? Re: (Score:2) Re:Contradiction (Score:5, Informative) STABLE is just the branch release. It means if you track the STABLE tree, you'll only get bugfixes. If you track CURRENT, you get stuff that'll go into the next version of NetBSD, but stuff will change on you (requiring you to update scripts and such). See the release map [netbsd.org] for a better explaination. It has nothing to do with the stability of the OS itself. I can't comment on that, since I haven't used it much, but from what I hear it's pretty good. Re: (Score:2) Re: (Score:2) This is a common way of getting advanced features out in 'beta' without slowing down a whole release - it allows users to experiment with the feature without expecting full support or without having to manually install the new feature itself - if you don't want to risk stability, don't use it. Similary - there are at least 2x similar 'experimental' technologies in RHEL6, which is used by many thousands of companies on mission critical systems: - Linux Containers are a Technology Preview. - Btrfs is not a producti Re:Contradiction (Score:5, Insightful) Don't bother explaining it yourself, just be a prat when people ask reasonable questions - I'm sure that will bring in more users. of the BSDs (Score:2) The one I know most about is FreeBSD. I have this vague notion that NetBSD has historically been used for routers/traffic shaping? Re: (Score:3, Informative) Darwin (the Unix heart of OSX) is a NetBSD derivative. Parts of QNX (a popular commercial embedded OS) are also based on NetBSD. Re: (Score:3) Darwin is based on the *FreeBSD* userland stack, but it has a Mach-based kernel. I don't believe there is really ,inch NetBSD stuff in there at all... Re: (Score:3) Check it out, from the horses mouth [netbsd.org]. NetBSD is used by Apple for a large portion of the user-space commands and tools in their Darwin project, and Darwin is the UNIX-based core used by Mac OS X. NetBSD source tends to pay attention to issues of portability and correctness, and is virtually all BSD licenced, which avoids commercial problems with the GNU General Public Licence. At least one of the Apple developers has access to the NetBSD source tree and has fed back some useful changes Re: (Score:1) Apple has utilities from both NetBSD and OpenBSD. But remember that Apple hired the primary developer from FreeBSD, and there's lots of FreeBSD code in OS X. One obvious example is the property lists API, which is a really odd feature from FreeBSD. (Sort of like importing some random dude's init parsing code as-if it were somehow unique or even useful as an operating system interface.) Also, there's a BSD kernel in OS X, which is a process managed by Mach. Not sure if it was ripped from FreeBSD or NetBSD. Re:of the BSDs (Score:5, Informative) Actually... Apple has utilities from both NetBSD and OpenBSD. Darwin has code from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, as well as code from Apple both in kernel space and userland (including the system library - the memory allocator [apple.com], for example, isn't from any *BSD). ...and there's lots of FreeBSD code in OS X. One obvious example is the property lists API, which is a really odd feature from FreeBSD No, it's from NeXTStEP, not FreeBSD. Also, there's a BSD kernel in OS X, which is a process managed by Mach. Mach manages tasks and threads; UN*X processes are built atop Mach tasks, and pthreads are built atop Mach threads. The "BSD kernel" part of XNU (under the bsd subdirectory) is what implements the "UN*X processes" stuff (among other things, such as the file system and networking mechanisms), and that code runs in both the "kernel task" (the UN*X process for which is pid 0) and in other tasks; it doesn't run in "a" process/task in the sense of "it runs in a single process/task". Not sure if it was ripped from FreeBSD or NetBSD. The from-BSD parts of the "BSD kernel" are mostly taken from FreeBSD, but have changed significantly, and the "BSD kernel" has a fair bit of Apple code in it, as well as, for example, Sun (Open Solaris) code (as in "DTrace"). Great response (Score:2) Re: (Score:1) Re: (Score:2) I think Android uses NetBSD-derived userland stuff also? I've had the impression that they wanted BSD stuff for licensing reasons but I wonder if there's something specific to NetBSD that makes everybody particularly like their userland utilities! Re: (Score:3, Informative) * * from: @(#)ls.h 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 * $FreeBSD: src/bin/ls/ls.h,v 1.18 2002/05/19 02:51:36 tjr Exp $ */ Re: (Score:1) Cool story. Re: (Score:1) Check it out, from the horses mouth [netbsd.org]. You are looking at the wrong horse. [apple.com] The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. Re:of the BSDs (Score:5, Interesting) The Darwin kernel (which is called XNU) is a bit weird - I spent some time looking into it when it was still a relatively new thing (2003-4 kind of era). XNU is Mach + FreeBSD + DeviceKit/Apple-y bits, all sharing the same protection domain.! The Apple-y bits in the kernel that I mentioned definitely includes DeviceKit, their driver interface. Maybe some other stuff as well. The drivers are not normal FreeBSD-like device drivers - I think they're even C++, unlike FreeBSD itself. I found it all a bit unexpected really, things didn't fit together as I'd imagined. There's probably more in here; I'm not sure if it's the original one I read through! [apple.com] Re: (Score:2)! I.e., it's as much a "microkernel" as Windows NT is. :-) The Apple-y bits in the kernel that I mentioned definitely includes DeviceKit, their driver interface. Maybe some other stuff as well. The drivers are not normal FreeBSD-like device drivers - I think they're even C++, unlike FreeBSD itself. Yes, DeviceKit drivers are written in (a subset of) C++. Drivers that just plug into the standard UN*Xy cdevsw are likely to be just Boring Old C. The VFS (file system) and network protocol layers should look somewhat familiar to people used to the *BSDs. Other than sitting atop Mach tasks, the process layer should also look familiar to them. Re: (Score:2) Re: (Score:2) This makes the whole kernel basically monolithic (i.e. like the modern Windows and Linux kernels), which is kind of unexpected! Well, we knew that was the case before OSX even shipped, but OK. It's not a microkernel-based operating system because the microkernel isn't doing process management, or much of anything at all. It's just playing HAL. Re: (Score:3) This makes the whole kernel basically monolithic (i.e. like the modern Windows and Linux kernels), which is kind of unexpected! It's not unexpected for anyone who has been paying even remotely attention to operating system development. Let me quote Linus from a G+ post on Greg Kroah-Hartmans feed: yes, it's based on Mach, but it's based on the older Mach 2 architecture which really wasn't a microkernel. It's parts of FreeBSD bolted on top of a research kernel that was meant to become a microkernel, but never really did. And the result really is nasty. Page fault and VM latencies are horrible (why do I know? We hit huge performance problems while doing the MacOS port of git), the filesystem choices they've done show a level of incompetence that is stunning, yadda yadda. But hey, it's pretty on top. If the Apple engineers actually knew what they were doing, they could use a known superior open-source kernel and put their pretty on top of that instead. Then they wouldn't have to do kernel programming, and could leave it to the people who actually like doing it and know what they are doing. Re: (Score:3) Re: (Score:2) Of course, at least Apple can come up with a stable ABI and driver model. Linus is too interested in playing around with little fiddly bits to worry about important stuff, like making sure software written a few months ago still works. Re: (Score:2) LMWTFY en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Examples_of_use Re:of the BSDs (Score:5, Interesting) NetBSD is the "runs on any/everything" variant. It's absurdly portable. If you've heard stories / jokes about "BSD on a toaster", it was probably NetBSD. It's not necessarily a great desktop system; "runs on everything" doesn't mean all internal or peripheral software support is going to be great (desktop-oriented BSD distros are usually FreeBSD based). However, it's a great choice if you have a very old or obscure computer that you want to run it on. I know a guy who runs NetBSD on one of the later-model VAXes. Re: (Score:1) Re: (Score:1) Sweet! (Score:3, Funny) Is the 68K port up to date? I've got to dig up my SE/30 and see if I can get it going again. Nothing like an old BW compact mac with a bash prompt to make a geek do a double take. Re: (Score:2) Actually, does it officially support Itanium, as yet? For something that claims to be the most ported, one would imagine it would. But honestly, I don't see the point to this - OpenBSD I can understand, and FreeBSD too. But NetBSD? I think they'd be better off just merging w/ Minix, which already uses NetBSD userland since 3.2 Re: (Score:1) Itaniums (Score:2) Oh, I know that OpenBSD forked from NetBSD, but it has far outgrown it. NetBSD's only selling point was being most ported - at least amongst the BSDs, but even there, FreeBSD has a version for ia64, but NetBSD doesn't. Which is why I was wondering. Currently, amongst the OSs still active for Itanium, aside from HP/UX, on the Linux side, only Debian remains, and on the BSD side, only FreeBSD. Any inputs on which of these is a better choice for this platform? Re: (Score:2) Great! (Score:2, Interesting) I even run this on an old Amgia, 20 years old. Amazing stuff, netbsd that is. I wonder how they manage to support all these different hardware. Cool. Re:Great! (Score:5, Interesting) I wonder how they manage to support all these different hardware. One way is automated cross-compiling to ensure that the source at least builds for as many architectures as possible. Think of it as a large scale continuous integration environment. why is this release announcement buried? (Score:5, Insightful). Re: (Score:2, Interesting) Indeed. NetBSD is exceedingly stable and more people need to take advantage of it. I'm very surprised Google didn't choose to use *BSD instead of Linux, because as servers go, nothing beats BSD. I once administered several BSD server and never once had a failure. Ever. Once they are up and running and configured correctly, they are there to stay short of hardware failure. NetBSD makes a great embedded OS and I'm surprised there are not smartphones running BSD. Maybe soon... Re: (Score:3, Informative) I'm surprised there are not smartphones running BSD. Maybe soon... There are. [apple.com] Re: (Score:2, Interesting) It's far easier to get random drivers and niche optimizations into Linux mainline. That's why BSDs tend to be more stable---less code churn. (Other times, it means persistent problems that go unaddressed for years.) Code churn means more bugs. It's inevitable. And it's why it's so easy to root a Linux machine, even though on-the-whole the code quality is really good. Also, Google started using Linux 15 years ago, before NetBSD was actually tolerable. In real world terms I guess the difference is small, but w Re: (Score:2, Interesting) > Evidence? This is Slashdot. OTOH, code churn is quantifiable, and I'd put money down to show that Linux changes faster, especially wrt to drivers, but I'm not about to waste my time doing that. People can take my assertion for what it's worth. One man's "code churn" is another man's development. If you improve code, it churns. BSDs certainly don't have any claim to be perfect and not requiring any improvement. They are behind Linux in almost any objective metric you can come up with, which is why they r Re: (Score:3) Linux used to be like the BSDs. I forgot his name, but in the 1990s there was like one dude who wrote most of the ethernet NIC drivers. If you bought a card you made sure to buy one compatible with his drivers, because all the others were crap. Could it be Donald Becker? Re: (Score:1) Re: (Score:2) I got 6 years of uptime once off of NetBSD on sparc. Congrats but you should never do it in something connected to internet. You would be using a 6-year old kernel that's ridicously vulnerable to 6-year old exploits. Re: (Score:2) how exactly do you access a kernel from the network without going via an application? Hrm, I'd guess you're probably twenty-five or younger, given that question. You missed some good times. Back in the day the TCP/IP stacks had quite a few bugs in them. Just about everyone lifted code from BSD 4.x (yeah, the original BSD). Once exploits for those started coming out, it was a race to see who could fix them the fastest. Linux (and I assume the BSDs, although I didn't follow them then) usually had a fix out within hours - Microsoft usually didn't have a fix for months, which did a lot for th Re: (Score:2) Re: (Score:2) Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Oracle all have a whole lot more users than NetBSD. To most people, NetBSD brings absolutely nothing that Linux doesn't bring. NetBSD may run in some routers, but Linux probably runs in a *lot* more routers. Even FreeBSD may run in more routers than NetBSD (JunOS is FreeBSD based..). So, to most of us, NetBSD is "meh, don't care". Sorry. Multi-core packet filtering (Score:2) Re: (Score:2) I second that. Anyone who's got experience with npf, please speak up. Oblig. quote from Escape from LA (Score:2, Funny) I thought you were dead! Re: (Score:2) I get that a lot. Of little relevance (Score:2) the features list are things most kernels have had for a decade or two, but NetBSD acts like they are brand new features? Talking about these features that have been around forever as being the latest and greatest is absurd. The BSDs long ago lost relevance. Pretty much there is not a thing that they do better than Linux and there is a lot that they do not do that Linux can do. It is painfuil to install and the hardware support is worse than Windows. I cant see a a strength to it. Re: (Score:2) I cant see a a strength to it. Support for VAX & toaster ovens. Also, lack of new code. Protip: New code = opportunity for instability / exploits. Linux is great for bleeding edge, but I run BSD on my NAS & Routers because stability is more important there. Linux license is SO much worse, huh? (Score:1) Re: (Score:1) I don't see how this disputes the simple fact that BSD Unix ran into major legal hurdles in the early days of its migration to the x86-based commodity software sphere, thus helping Linux gain an early lead. You seem to be trying to say that somehow BSD Unix systems such a Re: (Score:1) What I quoted implies everything you just restated, and it still doesn't dispute the fact that "BSD Unix ran into major legal hurdles in the early days of its migration to the x86-based commodity software sphere, thus helping Linux gain an early lead." You seem to have no (willingness to acknowledge, or conception of) the importance of timing. I suppose you've never heard the phrase "fist to market", either. Re:Of little relevance (Score:1) The BSDs long ago lost relevance. Precisely. And netcraft comfirms it. Re:Worth trying out? (Score:5, Informative) I've never really used NetBSD (I've installed it a couple times, but never used it much), but I've used OpenBSD and FreeBSD quite a bit. It's probably not what you'd want for a desktop system. It will run all the server stuff you listed just fine. The system compiler is gcc, although it likely comes with BSD make, so you'll want to install GNU make for compiling some software (usually it doesn't make a difference, but some projects rely on GNU make). Packaging is similar to Slackware's package system (or at least how it used to be - I haven't use Slack in years) - it's tarball based. There is the pkgsrc system where you can automatically download and compile software for the system (based off FreeBSD's port system, which I rather like). You can also download and recompile the entire OS if you want (the infamous "make world" on FreeBSD, although glancing at the docs it seems NetBSD doesn't use that exact term). Binary updates are generally available for security or bugfixes. The system doesn't do this for you (unless you recompile the system from source regularly - see below), so you have to check the errata page often to see if you need to update something. If you do, it's generally as simple as downloading the new binary and installing it using the system install tool. Source updates are done on CVS trees - you track one of the trees (STABLE or CURRENT) and you get updates. The BSDs differ a bit where this is concerned, so I can't really give any specifics, but on FreeBSD and OpenBSD it's relatively painless once you get it set up. There's a utility to help you update your configuration files in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, so I assume NetBSD has something similar. It supports CARP if you want to do clustering. I'm not sure if that will cover your needs, but if not, OpenBSD or FreeBSD might. I can attest that netbooting OpenBSD is cake - my firewall runs diskless. As far as my experiences, well, there's a bit of a learning curve. It's easier if you've worked with Slackware or some other source-heavy Linux distro. The BSDs have a very unified feel to them, probably because there's no separation of userland and kernel development - the base system is developed as one unit, not a bunch of different projects. Like with anything, you have to use it a while to get a feel for it. I like it. It's not as stuffy as Solaris, but it has a more consistant feel than Linux. Documentation is usually excellent, and the man pages are the definitive resource and usually include examples and explainations. I use OpenBSD for my firewall and nameserver, and FreeBSD for my file/webserver (due to ZFS and better Java support). I would use FreeBSD as a professional workstation (as long as it didn't require heavy 3D work), but not for my home machine. If you've got the time to put into learning it (which if you know your stuff from Linux, it won't take long), it's well worth it. Throw it on a server and use it for a bit, and see what you think. Re: (Score:2) Slackware might not be source-heavy now (I haven't used it in years), but it used to be, if you actually wanted to do anything with the system. If you wanted to install something that's not in the package sets (most everything, since Pat wasn't superman), you had to download and compile the source code. I never touched a line of C before I started on Slackware, and it was a trip learning to coax code into working. This was back before GNU autoconf was popular. Also, this was back when compiling your own k Re: (Score:2) Re: (Score:2) I have an Asus EEE PC (900A) with NetBSD 5 that runs the stock X.org and uses the kernel Intel DRI driver (i915drm) for accelerated 3D performance -- pretty good given the hardware. There are DRI drivers for Radeon that I've also used, haven't looked into Nouveau. So the 3D support foundation is there, but the hardware pickings are still kinda slim. Besides basic 3D acceleration, the continual 'catchup game' with desktop BSD is the explicit coding for Linux on the part of the big open source desktop envi

- Dispatch stories - Blogs - Schedules - Stats & stuff - Slide shows - Seasons past Ohio State linebacker Etienne Sabino had his left arm in a sling yesterday at the team’s annual picture day, after breaking a bone in his hand in Saturday’s scrimmage, but said he still plans to be in the lineup in the season opener Sept. 3 against Akron. “The doctor said I should be good to go. I just have to play with a cast on,” Sabino said. “I’ll be out about a week or so.” To aid the cause, the junior said, doctors added some hardware to help stabilize the fractured bone of his index finger during surgery yesterday morning at the Ohio State Medical Center. The injury happened early in Saturday’s scrimmage, not that Sabino noticed. “Coming off a block, I think my hand got caught in a face mask,” he said. “I kept playing because I didn’t think it was anything big. It ended up being broken.” Coming off a redshirt season, the fourth-year junior has been part of the three-man starting corps at linebacker, taking the spot on the strong side next to middle linebacker Storm Klein and weak-side linebacker Andrew Sweat. With Sabino likely missing at least a week, the coaches probably will move Tony Jackson, Nate Oliver and perhaps freshmen Curtis Grant and Ryan Shazier more into the mix. Coach Luke Fickell said yesterday he still wasn’t ready to declare a winner of Saturday’s jersey scrimmage, at least to the media. But it was going to be a subject of interest during the team meeting last night. “We’ll go through all the situations and stuff before we make any decisions or proclamations or announcements as to who would be wearing the scarlet jersey,” Fickell said. The winner — the offense or the defense — has rights to the coveted scarlet practice jerseys the rest of the fall. Running back Jaamal Berry, competing for the starting spot, was nursing a hamstring pull that kept him out of much of practice last week plus the scrimmage. Nickel back Tyler Moeller was sidelined by a strained groin muscle. Both expect to be back this week. Moeller was granted a sixth year of eligibility due to medical hardship. “You want to be getting into football condition, just being around the team and getting a feel for everything,” Moeller said. “So having this happen is kind of a bummer. But at least it happened now and not during the season. And it’s not my chest or my brain, so that’s good.” Moeller missed the entire 2009 season after suffering a major head injury when he was punched while on vacation in Florida that summer. Last year he was cleared to return to full contact, only to suffer a torn pectoral muscle in game five at Illinois that ended his season. Senior running back Daniel Herron has to sit out the first five games because of the NCAA suspension he and teammates Mike Adams, DeVier Posey and Solomon Thomas are facing for receiving improper benefits from a tattoo parlor owner. Along with practicing and helping the younger running backs, Herron has been cultivating a substantial beard. “Originally my idea was to cut it when the Nebraska game came and I get to return to playing,” Herron said yesterday. “But I don’t know now, a lot of people kind of like it. I might keep it a little longer.” Dispatch reporter Bill Rabinowitz contributed to this story. You love the Bucks, we want your bucks! it's like a match made in heaven. Tim May and Bill Rabinowitz offer their take on Ohio State's offensive performance in the Spring Game.

Yes - I used the jacuzzi after dinner, both of which were wonderful. Sakura was a Japanese style teppanyaki style service, and we had the whole table to ourselves. Rueben was our chef (he was a hoot) and he has been doing if for eight years, and our waiter was pretty cool as well (he is getting ready to move to Michigan with his fiancee). We enjoyed talking with both of them and and we are pretty sure they enjoyed it as well. The award for best town of the day with Route 66 spirit goes to Williams, AZ. This is a wonderful town with lots of shops, restaurants, saloons, and motels that have been restored. For the 10th year in a row, there was a motorcycle "Hog" rally starting today, so there was lots of activity. We selected a quieter spot for lunch a few blocks from the rally at Rod's Steakhouse. I was able to get a salad with awesome Blue Cheese dressing, a ribeye, and wedge fries for $9 - it was delish! This was a one-way road, and we parked past the entrance, and when we looked up we could not help but laugh at the sign, embiginate it to read it. Phew! As you can see, today was a busy day, we had 150 miles to go, with the things to see, it is a challenge. So, taking a breath here before we continue on... After Williams, we passed through Ash Fork, and then started on an approximately 150 mile stretch of original Route 66 routing (not always over the original road, but always close). Once we got into Kingman, we toured around, checked into our hotel, rearranged luggage (we only take in 3-4 days of clothes, with the bulk in the trunk), and they headed out for dinner. We went Italian tonight, and it was a pleasant change of pace (the Chianti was not bad either :o). The highlight of the day was the variety of terrain - mountain forest, desert plains, rocky outcroppings. I leave you with this last observation, since we have been out west, following the train tracks, I am amazed at how many trains are carrying cargo into the heartland and beyond. I can safely say that we have seen a new train moving East on the average of every 30 minutes over the last 3-4 days. It is amazing to see. I'm so glad the trip is going well. You're managing to see everything. I'm sorry I didn't tell you to visit the barber shop when you were in Seligman. Angel Delgadillo is the barber, and he's considered "The Father of the Mother Road", probably the most famous personage on Route 66 because he's the guy who started the road's resurgence. As for the Oatman Road, personally it scares me to death, but it sure is beautiful! Hey, who you callin' a dummy?! Yes, the Flagstaff area was just gorgeous, with all the pine trees. Prettiest area so far, in my opinion! I am amazed and so pleased you are able to get as many photo's as you are doing. Love them all. Wow I love the cattle drive, the half-off special, the peaceful spur and I could almost smell the trees. One thing I love about the west, is being able to see an entire train from engine to caboose, you don't do that back east. Thanks!! The ice cream shop would have prolly had big fun at my expense! And I agree about the trains... all that commerce going past would have brought to mind Dagny Talbert and her struggles..!

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. Battle Frontier (Generation III) The Battle Frontier (Japanese: バトルフロンティア Battle Frontier) is a special post-Pokémon League area in Pokémon Emerald that features several arenas where powerful Trainers can battle each other. The Battle Frontier replaces the Battle Tower in its location south of Route 130, and likewise is only accessible by taking the S.S. Tidal from Lilycove City or Slateport City. Unlike the plain Battle Tower in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, as well, each of the facilities in the Battle Frontier has a leader, the Frontier Brain, who may be challenged after certain winning streaks have been made through their respective facilities. In the anime, this Battle Frontier, rather than being on one of Hoenn's many small islands, is spread across the Kanto region, presumably so as to reflect on the then-recent releases of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen as well as Emerald. Much like the Gyms do not have a requirement that Ash beats anyone besides the Gym Leader, Ash is not required to compete in any matches besides those against the Frontier Brain. In either canon, the Battle Frontier is owned and operated by Scott, who meets up with the player throughout the game in Emerald, and met up with Ash in The Scheme Team. Pokémon Items Overview. On winning through a set amount of battles in any given facility, Battle Points will be awarded, usually in small amounts, but gradually growing through each consecutive streak. Defeating the Frontier Brain of a given facility for the first time awards the silver Symbol of that facility, as well as 20BP, while the second defeat of the same Brain gives the Symbol a golden color and the player another 20: Facilities Battle Tower Returning from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Battle Tower (Japanese: バトルタワー Battle Tower) is the most standard of the facilities. Like before, it features a standard 3-vs-3 single or 4-vs-4 Double Battle format, with straight runs of 7 Trainers that get progressively more powerful as the player goes on. At the 35th and 70th battle, five and ten runs through, respectively, Salon Maiden Anabel, the Frontier Brain, appears. If she is defeated, she awards the Ability Symbol. All multiplayer functions found in Ruby and Sapphire are retained, as well. For a detailed description of these, see Battle Tower (Hoenn). Through a glitch, players may exploit the Battle Tower in Emerald to clone their Pokémon. In the anime In the anime, the Battle Tower was the sixth of the facilities Ash challenged, in the episodes Talking a Good Game! and Second Time's the Charm!. After losing the first match, Ash redoubled his efforts and rechallenged Anabel, resulting in a win. This version of the Battle Tower is near Tohjo Falls. For the Battle Tower in LaRousse City, see here. Gallery Battle Palace In the Battle Palace (Japanese: バトルパレス), Palace Maven Spenser challenges the player. If defeated, he awards the Spirits Symbol. In the anime The Battle Palace was the fifth facility to be challenged by Ash in the anime, where it was on Metallica Island, near the Seafoam Islands. It appeared in Cutting the Ties that Bind! and Ka Boom with a View!. Gallery Battle Factory The Battle Factory (Japanese: バトルファクトリー. At the 21st and 42nd battle in a streak, three and six times through the Battle Factory, Factory Head Noland will challenge the player to a battle. Like all other Trainers in the facility, including the player, his Pokémon are completely random, and so cannot be known until he is encountered. If he is defeated, he awards the Knowledge Symbol. Battle style. In the anime. Gallery Battle Pyramid The Battle Pyramid (Japanese: バトルピラミッド Battle Pyramid) is a 7-layer pyramid. Each level is shrouded in darkness, and can only be lit up by defeating opponents on the level. Trainers cannot take any items into the pyramid, and items found within can only be used while inside, being stored in a special item bag that is handed out to those who challenge it. If the player is victorious, the bag stores said items for the next challenge. However, upon defeat the bag's contents return to 1× and 1× .. In the anime. Gallery Battle Dome The Battle Dome (Japanese: バトルドーム Battle Dome) is a tournament between 16 Trainers. Before each battle, the player can find out about their opponent, such as the Pokémon they use, their battle style, and how they train. Competitors can find out who was eliminated in each round by looking at the tournament bracket. After the player has won five and ten championships, Dome Ace Tucker will challenge him or her. On his defeat, he awards the Tactics Symbol. Seeding The tournament bracket is organized as follows: - Left Bracket: 1 vs 9, 13 vs 5, 8 vs 16, 12 vs 4 - Right Bracket: 3 vs 11, 15 vs 7, 6 vs 14, 10 vs 2 Seedings are determined by their ranking: the sum of the combined base stat totals of all Pokémon, plus 1/20 of the product of the number of different types represented by the Pokémon and the highest level among the Pokémon. If two Trainers tie in ranking, the higher internal Trainer number will win the tiebreaker; the player will always win the tiebreaker against any CPU Trainer, while Dome Ace Tucker will win any tiebreaker against other CPU Trainers. In the event of a tie battle, the higher seed advances and the lower seed is eliminated. Battle Style The battle style of a Trainer is solely determined by the effort values of all of the Trainer's Pokémon. A stat is considered to be emphasized if it makes up at least 30% of the team's EVs (taking Nature into account: for this calculation, EVs on a Pokémon with a beneficial Nature are worth 10% more, while EVs on a hindering Nature are worth 10% less), and neglected if there are no EVs in that stat among the entered Pokémon. If there are any emphasized stats, they are shown (if there are three emphasized stats, only two are shown). Otherwise, if there are any neglected stats, they are shown (if there are more than two, only two are shown; the ones that are shown are further influenced by the number of entered Pokémon having a hindering Nature in the particular stat). Otherwise, the Trainer is said to "raise Pokémon in a well-balanced way." CPU Battles Note that the game does not simulate battles between two CPU Trainers. Instead, the outcome between two CPU Trainers is broken down as follows: each Trainer is scored based upon the sum of the following: - The type affinity of damaging attacks: each attack dealing damage on the team is compared against each Pokémon on the opposing team. 4 points are awarded if the attack is normally effective, 12 if super-effective, and 20 if 4× super-effective. No points are awarded if the attack is resisted. 8 points are deducted if the attack is 4× resisted, and 16 points are deducted if the attack is ineffective. For the purposes of calculating this, Ground-type attacks are considered to be neutral against Pokémon with Levitate. Against Pokémon with Wonder Guard, type matchups that are not super-effective do not award nor deduct points. - The sum of the base stats of all Pokémon, divided by 10 - The seeding of the Trainer, minus 1 - A random value from 0 to 31 The Trainer with the higher score advances; if this is a tie, then the higher-seeded Trainer advances. During tournaments in which he may be challenged by the player, Tucker always appears as the #2 seeded contestant, and will always win his battles against CPU opponents. CPU Pokémon Selection To determine the Pokémon sent out by a CPU Trainer against the player, each of the CPU Trainer's three Pokémon is given a score. There are two scoring methods, which are chosen at random: the offensive method and defensive method. Both methods compare the type affinity of the Pokémon's damaging attacks against each of the three Pokémon on the player's team. In the offensive method, 2 points are awarded if the attack is normally effective, 4 if super-effective, and 8 if 4× super-effective. In the defensive method, 2 points are awarded if the attack is resisted, 4 if 4× resisted, and 8 if ineffective. 2 points are deducted if super-effective, and 4 are deducted if 4× super-effective. No points are awarded or deducted in any other scenario. For the purposes of this calculation, type matchups that are not super-effective against Pokémon with Wonder Guard are ignored (no points are awarded or deducted), and Ground-type attacks are considered to be neutral against Pokémon with Levitate. If all three Pokémon tie in one method, the other method is used. If all three Pokémon tie in the second method, then two Pokémon and the order they appear are chosen at random. Otherwise, the two highest-scoring Pokémon is chosen (if there is a tie for the second selection, the second selection of Pokémon is chosen at random). There is a 40% chance that the CPU Trainer will lead off with the higher-scoring Pokémon, and a 60% chance of leading off with the lower-scoring Pokémon. In the anime In the anime, Ash challenged the Battle Dome, which is located near Lavender Town, in Tactics Theatrics!!, as his third facility. Gallery Battle Arena The Battle Arena (Japanese: バトルアリーナ Battle Arena) pits two Pokémon against one another for three rounds. If both Pokémon last all three rounds, they are rated on how they battled in three aspects, and the Pokémon with the higher score wins, and the losing Pokémon leaves battle. If they somehow tie, both Pokémon leave battle. A knockout results in an automatic win for the Pokémon that is still standing. Pokémon are scored on their mind, skill, and body. This is much like the Fallarbor Town Battle Tent rules. The Pokémon with the better rating in each category scores two points, while a tie will award one point to each Pokémon. - Mind judges Pokémon on their offensive style. One point is awarded if an attack that deals damage is chosen for use (except Counter, Mirror Coat, and Bide, which do not award points, and Fake Out, which deducts one point), and one point is deducted if Protect, Detect, or Endure was chosen. All other moves do not award points. The Pokémon with the higher number of points wins the two points in the overall judgment. - Skill judges Pokémon on accuracy. One point is awarded if an attack lands successfully, while two points are deducted if it does not, unless it was caused by Protect, Detect, Endure, or Fake Out, in which no points are deducted. The Pokémon with the higher number of points wins the two points in the overall. In the anime In the anime, Ash challenged the Battle Arena, located near Saffron City, as his second facility, in Wheel of Frontier!. Before the match begins, a special machine is used to determine if the match is 1-vs-1, 2-vs-2, or 3-vs-3. Gallery Battle Pike The Battle Pike (Japanese: バトルチューブ Battle Tube) is a long pike in the design of a Seviper. Inside of it are 21 rooms, in seven sets of three. The player may choose any of the three in a set to continue through, and in each of the three, any of the following eight events may occur: - Single battle: The Trainer walks up to the player and battles. - Double battle: Two Trainers walk up to the player and battle. - Single battle and healing: 3 Pokémon per side; winner's Pokémon are completely healed. - Wild Pokémon: wild Dusclops, Seviper, Milotic, Wobbuffet, Breloom, or Electrode appear. - No event: An NPC stands in the room but does nothing. - Status effect: A surprise attack will inflict a status on one or more of a player's Pokémon. The status includes Kirlia's burn, paralysis,. In the anime In the anime, the Battle Pike is located near Fuchsia City, and Ash challenged it as his fourth facility in Queen of the Serpentine!. Gallery Other points of interest Artisan Cave - Main article: Artisan Cave The Artisan Cave is a long cave connecting one end of the Battle Frontier to the other. It starts near the Battle Palace and the exit is right next to the Battle Tower.. Betting man In the house south of the Battle Pyramid a man can be visited. After receiving at least 3 silver Symbols, he will ask the player to compete in a random facility. manga In the Pokémon Adventures manga In the sixth chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, a Trainer named Emerald arrives at the Battle Frontier, where after finding out that an overleveled Sceptile, which later became his, was in the Battle Factory. Now learning of this, he also seeks to stop Guile Hideout from achieving his goal, a task easier said then done. In the Pokémon Battle Frontier manga The Pokémon Battle Frontier manga features.'ve

Hello Lovelies, in the depths of winter, when the garden is mostly dormant and not a very tempting place to be I get a lot of pleasure from watching indoor bulbs, growing on my kitchen windowsill. from a little shoot........ the green leaves grow at a rapid rate and soon a promising flower bud appears........... 21st Dec On Christmas day my red tulips were the star attraction , but I still loved the anticipation of the wonderful red Amaryllis flowers to come...... 3rd January Last week was super busy , but one simple thing that made me smile when I got home after dark each day was checking on the emerging flowers....... Monday 7th Getting bigger, maybe tomorrow they will be open ......... Tuesday 8th No, but I love the progress shots anyway :0).......... Wednesday 9th Oooooooh , getting closer..... Thursday 10th On Friday I had a day off so I carefully moved the wobbly,towering plant onto my mantle and got chance to enjoy the emerging flowers in the daylight........ I'ts huge Ta-dah........ ♥♥♥♥♥ Then all you have to do is plant the bulb,water it occasionally and enjoy watching it grow........there's no hurry :0) Jacquie x The bulb flowers again next year too - but much later so when your bought bulb has been and gone the saved bulb comes into flower :) L.x. Thank you for sharing with us the journey of beauty... Goodness, I have never seen a red amaryllis before, I love it. Not keen on the pale washed out pink and lilac ones. Aahhh beautiful, I have a real thing for these flowers, lovely lovely red absolutely stunning, love it . Emma x What fun to photograph it's progress! And what thumping great blooms of beauty! :) Lovely! xx really wonderful!!!! i love red amaryllis!!! great photographs! have a nice week, love regina Beautiful. Just loved. Thank you for sharing. Woolie Hugs Trace So wonderful to see how you experience this! I'm on the same path with my amaryllis, it is starting to open up now and I can't wait to see the full blossoming flower :) Mine is the pale pink and I think I like the red better as well ;) And yours is HUGE, mine is much smaller, the leaves won't grow and the flower bulb is not even half the length of yours. But I do have 3 flower bulbs coming up! Enjoy your amaryllis! Lovely - I forgot to get one this year. So cheap for the weeks of fun! Sue x I remember the anticipation of these - my mum used to get one every year for Christmas! So pretty :) Jones x An amazing feat of nature - love the red too. Btw your Harold in the frost pics were wonderful. Claire at Just a little less xo I don't always comment, but want you to know how much I enjoy your sunny blog. Heather The amaryllis is beautiful! Very cheering! Cx How pretty, I forced paperwhites this year. It is so nice to have fresh flowers in the dead of winter. A beautiful amaryllis! I'm still waiting for mine to flower - I bought it as a kit in November thinking it might flower for Christmas, but it is still only 5 inches tall! Angie x I am being patient and waiting for mine to flower ... xx Just gorgeous - a fab colour too :) Absoloutely stunning and gorgeous, I love the deep vibrant colour. luv irene xxxx don't throw the bulb when ti finishes flowering. If you leave it somewhere until the leaves die back then cut them off and store it somewhere dry, you should be able to plant it again and it will flower next year. You could perhaps feed it a bit to encourage this. I just bought on of these at Lidl. Here in Germany it cost me 5 Euros, so a little more expensive than yours. But I think it is still worth it. So mine is very very tiny now and I can't wait to see it blossom so beautifully as yours does. Mine came withh a glass vase shaped like a hour glas. So only the roots are reaching the water and the buld itself stays dry. The instructions says you have to replace the water every time it changes its color. We'll see. oh, so beautiful!!! I'm experimenting the same joy this winter with a hyacint! :) And I have pink ciclamens like you!!! Lovely. I have never tried to grow bulbs inside but I think we all need a little greenery and colour in the house at this time of year. I've been buying tete-a-tetes and narcissi and tulips like there's no tomorrow! Gillian x Hello! You made lovely photo-reportage of your really nice flower! :) J. Gorgeous flower! I am so annoyed I wanted to get a couple bulbs this Christmas time and forgot. Love your Amaryllis though. :) Just stunning! :) x It such a beautiful flower - I love just how outrageously large it is! Claire Bravo! aren't they amazing, I will have to try one day. Heather x Gorgeous! I love amaryllis. I haven't had one in a few years but I may have to start again this coming year. Enjoy your beautiful flowers! Oh the anticipation as I scrolled down this post Jacquie! Gosh is that not just the most beautiful flower ever, how can one have the January blues when you can see such beauty. Thank you for this thrilling and beautiful post x Yay for flowers expressing the earth in song x Penelope Breathtaking! Such a cheerful thing, isn't it?! Thanks for posting. x Jenny Oh what a beautiful flower!!!! Thanks for sharing such a wonderful thing :) Have a nice day! X Lluisa Stunning! xx Sandi Stunning!! So beautiful flower! we have many of such in India, of different colors, orange, yellow..and my Mom started planting them also in my native country, these flowers are awesome! you are right, why to hurry, when you see how the beauty unwinds:) have a great flowery weekend! Anna I love them as well. Greetings from Loch Ness Shippy Beautiful - well worth the wait!

PH debuts as Asia’s new gamblers’ havenBy Michael Lim Ubac Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III described in glowing terms the giant $1.2-billion Solaire Resort and Casino on Manila Bay that he opened on Saturday, kicking off the Philippines’ high-stakes bid to join the world’s elite gaming destinations of Macau and Las Vegas. Solaire, controlled by billionaire port king Enrique Razon Jr., the country’s third richest man, is only the first of four huge gaming venues set to rise on reclaimed land as part of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.’s “Entertainment City” complex that officials hope will draw millions of Asian visitors. Mr. Aquino led a high-powered VIP guest list that included the country’s economic, social and political elite, expatriates and Cabinet officials Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras. “Today, it is indeed a pleasure to be in the company of those who continue to work with us to ensure that our tourism industry gets the recognition it deserves—to make certain that the basic truth that drives our global marketing pitch endures: that, indeed, it is more fun in the Philippines,” said Mr. Aquino, eliciting applause from an audience dressed for an evening gala rather than an afternoon outdoor event. The President and Razon officially opened the integrated resort after a colorful ceremony featuring dancers pirouetting on ropes suspended from the ceiling. Run by Las Vegas-based Global Gaming Asset Management and owned by Razon’s Bloomberry Resorts Corp., Solaire has 300 gaming tables and 1,200 slot machines on a floor the size of four football pitches. The building also has 500 hotel rooms and 2,000 parking slots. Another wing is being built to add 300 all-suite hotel rooms, 30 to 40 high-end shops and a theater for traveling Broadway shows as well as local and foreign lounge acts. The first phase that opened yesterday cost more than $700 million to build. Bloomberry expects to invest a total of $1.2 billion when the Solaire hotel-casino complex is completed. Even as Solaire was opening its doors, Razon said the company already has its sights on putting up new casinos in other Asian countries. “We are browsing around. Any chance we get, we will take it,” Razon said, but added that the company would have to make a name for itself first before venturing overseas. Far from done The President, who was himself well suited for the occasion, noted that during the past two years and eight months of his term, people around the world had looked at the Philippines and seen a country “vastly different from what it was just years before.” “Not only do they see a people re-energized, or an economy brimming with optimism and new life, they have also begun to see in us a world-class tourist destination,” said Mr. Aquino. He said he believed the country was now “beginning to realize the true potential of Philippine tourism, and I tell you, today we are far from done.” He also thanked Razon for bringing back home 500 Filipino workers. Bloomberry currently employs 4,600 workers. Of the total, 500 workers used to have jobs overseas but were recruited back to the country by Solaire. The Philippines works Mr. Aquino noted how other Asian destinations like Macau and Singapore were competing for bigger pieces of the very lucrative gaming industry pie. “Your presence in the country is proof positive that while it is indeed more fun here, Filipinos can also strike a productive balance between work and play—that, above all else, the Philippines works. “This is doubly true in the hospitality sector, since our people are naturally pleasant, and, as some say, seem to be born with smiles on their faces. These are universally compelling reasons for businesses to bet on our country, and I am grateful that you have done just that—to the tune of more than $1 billion for this project alone,” he said. Aquino plugs Solaire big-time Describing the mega-casino and entertainment resort in glowing terms, Mr. Aquino said Solaire was an entertainment hub that could be enjoyed by the whole family. “Already, we can envision your guests during their stay—families swimming in the pool, couples relaxing in the spa, or simply sipping on a mango shake with the Manila Bay sunset in the background. “Not to mention, a pleasant stay in Solaire can potentially expand the horizons of your guests. Soon enough, they may be more open to experiencing what the city around them has to offer—whether they want to take a bayside stroll, shop in the biggest mall in Asia, or even visit our newly refurbished National Museum,” he said. The success of the Solaire project means attracting even more tourists to our country, he said. “In fact, I am told that every tourist that visits our country directly results in the creation of one Filipino job. This means more work—more business, and consequently, more opportunities—for Filipinos. Low-lying fruit Mr. Aquino said that early in his term, his administration had identified tourism as “a low-lying fruit that had to be picked”. “I am happy to report that, so far, we have been successful,” he said, noting that in two years, the country jumped 12 spots—from 94th to 82nd—in the World Economic Forum Travel and Tourism Index. He said international tourist arrivals rose to a record 4.3 million in 2012, against 3.7 million in 2011. He said that in 2011, the country saw 37.5 million domestic travelers, exceeding the government’s 2016 target by 2 million. The Department of Tourism has since upped its target for domestic tourism in 2016 to 56.1 million. He said this means that by 2016, the country will need 37,000 more hotel rooms in tourism hotspots, and urged the industry to build more rooms. With the positive review of the International Civil Aviation Organization of the country’s compliance with international safety standards, Mr. Aquino said he expected the country’s carriers to resume flights to and from Europe and the United States. He also happily announced the signing into law of Republic Act No. 10378, which removes the 3-percent common carriers tax for all international air and shipping carriers on receipts and income derived from transporting passengers. With reports from AFP and and Paolo G. Montecillo Recent Stories: Short URL: Tags: Bay City , casino , Enrique Razon Jr. , gambling , Gaming , Mar Roxas , Rene Almendras , Solaire , Solaire Manila Resorts , Solaire Resort and Casino , Tourism

Monday, February 13, 2012 Giant Chocolate Toffee Cookies For this month's Secret Recipe Club, I was assigned the blog Bitchin Kitchin by Ellie in NJ. Ellie is a true foodie and her wonderful blog is full of savory and sweet selections, complete with lots of great photos that walk you through her recipes. If you get a chance, you must check out her cupcakes (so many tempting flavor combinations). It's been a very hectic month in the ButterYum household, so I chose a simple recipe to share with you today - Giant Chocolate Toffee Cookies. And yes, Giant is an accurate description as each cookie measure about 4-inches in diameter. These cookies are a bit unusual - the recipe calls for only 1/2 cup flour, but an entire pound of chocolate, 4 large eggs, and 1 3/4 cup brown sugar. They bake up big and heavy, but with a meringue-like quality to them - crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. My Notes: The cookie batter is a snap to make, but it has to chill for 45 minutes before baking. I used a # 20 cookie scoop to portion out the dough, which yielded exactly 24 large cookies, I baked only 6 cookies per sheet pan, chilling the dough between batches. Much like dipping ice cream, rinsing the scoop with hot water every couple of dips allowed the hard, cold dough to release from the scoop easily. Plan to use several sheet pans as the cookies need to cool completely before being moved. Also, I see no reason why you couldn't make them smaller if you wanted to - simply adjust the baking time. These fantastic cookie are even better a day or two after they're baked. Giant Chocolate Toffee Cookies makes 24 cookies (using #20 scoop) 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 16 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 3/4 cups packed brown sugar 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract 7 ounces chocolate covered toffee bar bit, chopped (Skor, Heath, etc) optional 1 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped (black walnuts would work particularly well here) (No need to preheat the oven yet - the dough needs to chill before baking). In a small bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside. In a double boiler over medium heat, slowly melt the chocolate and butter together until smooth (my chocolate seized a bit before finally melting - probably caused by the moisture content of my butter. I just moved my double boiler off the heat and stirred the firm chocolate mass every few minutes until it relaxed into a melted puddle of chocolate goodness). Set melted chocolate mixture aside and allow to cool to lukewarm. Beat sugar and eggs together for about 5 minutes until thick (I used my stand mixer with the whisk attachment). Slowly add the melted chocolate and vanilla extract. Next add the flour mixture, followed by the chopped toffee candy and nuts. Cover bowl with plastic and chill for 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 350F. Drop cookie dough 2 1/2-inches apart onto sheet pans lined with parchment or silicone (6 cookies per sheet pan). Bake for 15 minutes; cool completely before removing. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.

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Monday afternoon I opened my online Heisman Trophy ballot with no idea whose name I was going to put on top. I wanted to type "Manti Te'o." Instead I typed "Johnny Manziel." It might have been the toughest Heisman decision I've had in my two decades as a voter. Either player would be a deserving winner. But you can only vote for one. I wanted to vote for Te'o because I love everything about the guy: a senior with extraordinary leadership ability and charisma; a guy who has elevated his team to a new level of success; a defensive star in a sport that always favors the offensive stars; a young man with a heart-tugging backstory; and – this is important – a brilliant football player who has had a dominant season. I would be quite happy to see him win Saturday night. Yet in the end, after scrutinizing the statistics, I believe Manziel had the better season and deserved the vote. Barely. The hardest part of this Heisman procedure was comparing a quarterback to a linebacker. There is no statistical commonality. It is very much apples for defense and oranges for offense.. [Related: Manti Te’o hauls in lots of awards, but the biggest awards still loom]. He handled that load spectacularly.. Outside of individual stats, team success is obviously a major Heisman component, too. And you cannot do better than undefeated and ranked No. 1. But in terms of elevating a team from one year to the next, Manziel has equaled Te'o: Notre Dame has gone from eight regular-season victories in 2011 to 12 in 2012; A&M has gone from six regular-season victories in 2011 to 10 in 2012. That's a plus-four for both. There are some who have said A&M's improvement and Manziel's numbers are largely a product of playing in new coach Kevin Sumlin's pyrotechnic offense. There's no doubt that was a factor. But Te'o has had some help this season as well, playing behind a defensive front full of havoc-wreaking linemen who are ticketed for the NFL. (The highlight of the BCS championship game between Alabama and Notre Dame figures to be the Crimson Tide's mauling offensive line and the Fighting Irish's indomitable defensive line. Trust me, NFL scouts will be riveted.) The ability of the Irish line might also have contributed to Te'o's diminished tackle statistics this season. He went from 133 total tackles as a sophomore to 128 last year to 103 this year (with still one game to go). He didn't have a game with more than 12 total tackles this season, and did not have more than seven in any of the final four games. [Photo gallery: Best players not to have won the Heisman] A common knock on Manziel was his production against the elite defenses of Florida and LSU: He had no touchdown passes and three interceptions while running for one score and compiling "only" 536 total yards. But keep a couple things in mind: • Almost every quarterback struggled against those two defenses. The Gators lead the nation in pass efficiency defense and the Tigers are ninth. • The Florida game was Manziel's first as a collegian. With the postponement of the Aggies' opener against Louisiana Tech, that was his debut. Under those circumstances, 233 yards of total offense and a touchdown running isn't bad. Bringing up those stats against elite defenses without crediting Manziel for what he did against Alabama – as some people have – is intellectually dishonest. Against the nation's No. 1 defense, on the road, Manziel sliced up then-undefeated No. 1 'Bama for 345 yards of offense and threw two touchdowns with no interceptions. And many of those plays were highlight-reel, Heisman-worthy stuff. For all those reasons, I typed "Johnny Manziel” at the top of my Heisman Trophy ballot. Head overruled heart. I had to go with the best player, not the guy with the best story. More Heisman Trophy coverage from Yahoo! Sports: Other popular content on the Yahoo! network: • Giants think Sean Payton still talking with the Saints • Shane Victorino the surprise winner of MLB winter meetings • David Stern wants to stamp out 'Hack-a-Shaq' tactics • Y! News Year in Review: The top 10 obsessions of 2012

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263762637946594105.post6854103568645485292..comments2009-04-03T11:31:42.278-07:00Comments on California High Speed Rail Blog: Your Weekend Transbay Terminal UpdateRobert Cruickshank know, this is going to be an utter disaster. ...You know, this is going to be an utter disaster. This looks like the Terminal will probably go forward with no train box or an insufficient train box. Ow ow ow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263762637946594105.post-78970350355059785352009-03-19T10:36:00.000-07:002009-03-19T10:36:00.000-07:00@ jim, set aside "additional Federal money for a b...@ ...<BR/><BR/>... why should it get <I>any</I> federal money out of funds allocated for rail?BruceMcF Federal money is being applied for to help buil...<BR/><BR/>What to do if the funding is turned down is for San Francisco to work out.<BR/><BR/>Only two Caltrain platforms for a main terminus is really straining credibility, and without open access to those two platforms, I reckon the credibility breaks.<BR/><BR/>The simplest way to open access is, of course, a dive, which would be a deeper slot in the trainbox side cut and cover part of the rail tunnel. <BR/><BR/ <I>using</I> the four platforms to be taken over by HSR, which would justify applying for HSR money to build it.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>It would also reduce the problem of the support columns being off center to the island platforms, since the platform layout could be a central island and two side platforms, with the "offcenter" columns at the back of the side platforms.BruceMcF I think the train box should be built up....jim, I'm not talking about expanding the train box...Jim, I'm not talking about expanding the train box ... as I said above, given the freedom to optimize the use of the platforms, I think the 12 platforms are adequate.<BR/><BR/>However, when the HSR system is built out, that is likely to be using the platforms more intensively than Caltrain were planning for when they did/commissioned the design in 2003. <B><I>If they did the cheapest possible access design</I></B> there is likely to be capacity constraints in accessing the train box.<BR/><BR/>San Franciscans can, <I>of course</I>, just say, "take it or leave it", go ahead with the Caltrain-only terminus design, and tell CAHSRA that you'll make room for the Anaheim trains in Prop 1A and they can look elsewhere to terminate their other trains.<BR/><BR/>But your state's budget processes interfere with getting support for region level infrastructure like a main northern terminus for the Caltrains services, so you are trying for Federal money on the pretext that the trainbox is the main northern terminus for HSR.<BR/><BR/>That application ought to demonstrate the design capacity to serve as the main northern terminus for both systems with a substantial margin for growth. If it wants to have the best chance for success.<BR/><BR/><B>On the possible access constraint</B><BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>In order to minimize buildings taken out by the design, they put in very tight curves, which of course means operating at very low speed.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>Get the headway down to 2 minutes, and its 20 minutes arrival to arrival, each island can support 3 tph, and its 9tph total.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>Which is why it is not at all implausible that they designed an access system that is not adequate for the role that would be the strongest basis for the application for funding.BruceMcF M ... I don't know where to find any detailed...Alex M ... I don't know where to find any detailed diagrams of the switching in the tunnel itself ... or whether there is any ... the <I>direct</I> connections as sketched in the <A HREF="" REL="nofollow">"refined locally preferred option" (jpg)</A>) from the 2003 EIS are 1:2 fan-outs coming around the curve from the three tunnel lines to the six platform lines (tunnel lines as L:#, platform tracks as P:#):<BR/>* L:1 -> P:1 and P:2<BR/>* L:2 -> P:3 and P:4<BR/>* L:3 -> P:5 and P:6<BR/><BR/>Now, there ought to be switches connecting them, allowing crossover closer to the platforms than the mouth of the tunnel, but I have not seen any switching diagram ... which doesn't isn't a publicly available one, just that I haven't seen it.<BR/><BR/>@.BruceMcF long as San Francisco isn't paying for it.As long as San Francisco isn't paying for it.jim the three tracks in the DTX be bi-directional..?Alex M. arcady: "<i>A competent terminal design would ba...@ arcady: "<I>A competent terminal design would basically use the same principle as Caltrain's current 4th/King layout does now: a set of crossovers some distance out from the station throat to provide a second crossing point and eliminate conflicts.</I>"<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.BruceMcF: "<i>if your terminal design is halfway dec...Arcady: "<I>if your terminal design is halfway decent, dwell time far outweighs the time that trains foul other tracks.</I>"<BR/><BR/>I was about to say, "that would be your terminal design", but if Federal HSR money is going to be funding it in part, I guess it is my terminal design too.<BR/><BR/>And, no, the access track design is not halfway decent. Its a cut rate design to avoid dives and switching in the tunnel by allowing each tunnel track to act as an extended island platform track shared between the two platform tracks of the island.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>Consider the "fully semi-parallel" use of the access lines. Each line used as alternating bi-directional track, dedicated to its pair of platform. One passenger-platform shadows its neighbor on the same island, but each pair is fully independent.<BR/><BR/>The tunnel capacity used this would be 9 trains per hour if the tunnel is 1.5 miles, the average speed through the tunnel track is 10mph and the headways are 3 minutes.<BR/><BR/>Paired-bi-directional is a way of increasing capacity on through track, but does not work for accessing a terminal platform through a slow access line because the platforms will be idle for the time required to clear the pair from the platform and get a new pair in.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, suppose that we start from the planned final allocation of platforms to services ... Caltrain to platform lines 1 and 6, HSR to platform lines 2 to 5, platform lines 2 to 5 more or less connected to a pair of tail tracks.<BR/><BR/>OK, so dedicate the two outside tracks to egress and access, respectively. With 3 minute headways, that is a maximum throughput of 20tph, adequate for 8 HSR services and 8 Caltrains service per hour, plus 4 slots for contingencies.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>So, in essence, a stack of two-way track goes around the curve from the 2nd street tunnel.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>As a bonus, once the pair of Caltrain access lines have dived down to form the stack of access/egress pairs, the track can ease the turn radius substantially, easing that train-box access speed limit.<BR/><BR/>As a partial financial compensation for the cost of the dive, after the second of the Caltrain access/egress pair rises and has been switched onto the egress track, the tunnel can narrow to two tracks at the start of the access tunnel.BruceMcF: if your terminal design is halfway decen..: I sincerely hope that nobody take HSR fr..?arcady, how does reducing the dwell time at the platf...Jim, how does reducing the dwell time at the platform get the trains through the tunnel quicker?<BR/><BR/ ...<BR/><BR/>....<BR/><BR/>Now, there are crossing switches, but once you start crossing, then a single train movement blocks four or six platforms instead of just two ... and for trains the length of a full length HSR, moving at very slow speed because of the curves, it takes <I>time</I> to get the whole train over a switch, and if you are crossing over from the outside track to the inside track, all three tunnel tracks will be blocked for a noticeable period of time.<BR/><BR/>So the "just run them at a faster speed through the tunnel" solution runs smack headlong into the tight curves in the design ... the only way that "shared bi-directional platform track with switches for contingencies" makes any <B><I>sense</I></B> is if the trains can clear the tunnel quickly, but the tight curves are the rail equivalent of speed bumps.<BR/><BR/ if they think atherton is a problem, wiat til...and if they think atherton is a problem, wiat till they try to jerk sf around. we don't play.jim's the bottom line, and the supes and the mayo...jim with the thru to tail tracks can 't the trai...jim arcady: "<i>BruceMcF: There aren't really three ...@ arcady: "<I>BruceMcF: There aren't really three routes to SF. There's basically one route, with branches.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Part of that is clearly a distinction without a difference ... Sacramento / SF is definitely a distinct service to SF / Anaheim.<BR/><BR/>The SF-SJ / LA / Anaheim | SD exploder "solution" is not a general purpose solution.<BR/><BR/>"<I>It would be easy enough to just split the train at LA, with the front going to San Diego and the back to Orange County, for example.</I>"<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>And of course if the maximum combined patronage on two routes approaches one train per hour, so that two services per hour will be more than one full train, you still have two services, except with extra time penalties attached to whichever is the waiting half of the train.<BR/><BR/>@ Jim: "<I> jim said...<BR/>okay wait now - two platforms for hsr 12 departures per hour thats 6 departures per platform so thats and departure every 10 minutes, train arrives, people off, people on train departs. 5 minutes to offboard 5 minutes to board, not a problem. 400 people can board a train in 5 minutes. with no problem, In fact a 10 car train with 100 people per car ( 1000 passengers which will be rare on any one departure)</I>"<BR/><BR/>They are island platforms, with two platform tracks per island ... so that is 10 minutes to debark, 10 minutes to embark, and off. And at a more plausible 8tph when the system builds out, 15 minutes to debark, 15 minutes to embark.<BR/><BR/>So, no, its not the passenger access and egress that's the problem, its the <I>train</I> access and egress between the mainline and the platform tracks ... its a mess. And, of course, building addresses a bottleneck that is <I>not</I> in the design, and ignores a bottleneck that <I>is</I> in the design.BruceMcF Shinkansen in Japan carries ~150 million p...Tokaido Shinkansen in Japan carries ~150 million passengers per year. That's not the whole shinkansen network, just the busiest line from Tokyo to Osaka by way of Nagoya.Owen E<br><br>See the <a href="<BR/><BR/>See the <A HREF="" REL="nofollow">2008 Business Plan</A> for ridership estimates. (<A HREF="" REL="nofollow">Direct link</A>)<BR/><BR/>Estimates range from 40-93 million passengers.Herbie<br><br>Your fears about the difficulty of l...@Aaron<BR/><BR/>Your fears about the difficulty of level boarding are legitimate, in Europe. Near every country in Europe has a different platform height standard, maybe multiple heights, making level boarding problematic for cross-border trains.<BR/><BR/>HSR in California will be a new system built almost completely from scratch. I would consider a failure to provide level boarding a gross violation of the ADA. HSR will probably usher in level boarding for Caltrain, as well.Herbie arcady,<br><br>You write based on the AVE number...@ arcady,<BR/><BR/>You write based on the AVE numbers in my Eurotrib article that "Just extrapolating this to California means that an HSR ridership of 10-20 million is much more reasonable than whatever HSRA is forecasting."<BR/><BR/>I beg to differ, for two main reasons.<BR/><BR/>First, the magnitude of demand for high-speed rail traffic tends to be strongly correlated with the size of the <I>largest</I>.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/.<BR/><BR/>But, on the other hand, for me to make up my mind: what are CAHSR's latest ridership expectations?DoDo: I'm a level boarding nut for local rapid t...<BR/><BR/?Aaron: you should be really, really concerned with...Aaron: you should be really, really concerned with the platform-train interface. I think the only real solution is to have proper level boarding, where you can just roll your wheelchair right on the train (like on BART), with no stupid bridgeplates or lifts.<BR/><BR/

"...And underneath that, write 'We will miss you'. Got it?" Oh yeah, they got. Just found your blog, love it! It took me a second to realize what was going on with this cake and I too was laughing out loud! I just realized that you started your blog on my birthday!!! =D so this may, we'll both be celebrating! Love your blog Jen! I'm a dedicated reader! I choked on part of my coffee and sprayed the rest all over my computer. Thanks...really! As a former Wal-mart decorator Ive have been a first hand witness to some tragedies myself, luckily i was there to help fix them.... whoever took this order clearly has no common sense... I love to go to other bakeries and see how bad the decorators are...I now have a camera and ill definitely have to send you guys some pictures Oh Wow, I can't believe I didn't "Get it" before reading the post. at first thought that maybe suzanne had died... LOL I wonder why everyone assumes the decorator misspelled underneath. That's probably exactly what it said on the order form. Don't you just love non-English speaking bakers? Best wishes Suzanne We will miss you ("absolutly no quotestion marks parenthse's aposterphe's and double check spelling of Sue Zan underline 3 time's!!!") Hahaha! and they didn't even spell it right! Double fail :) Wow, that's neat. I'd even go so far as to say it's UNDER NEAT! OMG, somebody just pointed me to your site for the first time, and this cake has me with tears rolling down my face I'm laughing so hard!!!! Please oh please use this as the book cover! it's perfect! :) and they misspelled underneath. how sad. I heard about it, but I didn't believe it. Hi! My mother showed me your blog last week. I loooove it! Hi, I know this is an old post, sorry... I just found you blog though, and it's HILARIOUS! So, I just wanted to tell you you have yet another fan :) -Meggin I have a feeling that the decorator has been told--several times--"Just write what I tell you!" My boyfriend and I thought this cake was hilarious. For our 1 year anniversary a while back, he thought it would be funny to purposely have the card tucked into some flowers he bought me say "Happy Anniversary! / Under Neat that / Best Year Ever!" but apparently the flower shop he went to was too competent (actually... not competent enough?) and left out the "Under Neat." Love the blog! at least the name was spelled right... right? Years ago I ordered a cake for a family party celebrating my husband's, my father's and my niece's birthdays. It was to have said "Happy Birthday Tom, Buzz and Erica". What I got was: "Happy Birthday Tom Buzanerika" When I went to pick it up I was so angry I told them to keep it, stormed out and bought an uninscribed cake at a different bakery. I wish I'd had the sense of humor to have taken it to the party - I would have had a picture to submit to this site! omgsh! my choir teacher has this picture posted in the room. just a week ago we were trying to figure it out, just heard bout your site today and when i saw this pic i flipped out! either he was the one who ordered the cake or..just a fan of the site! definetley will ask him. at first i thought it was 'Neat' also, because i didnt catch the real problem, since it was so obvious. but look closer, it appears that it may have originally bean 'Neat' but someone found 'the' mistake and fixed it by adding a little loop to make an h. You can just imagine: Customer: "O.K. so can you put best wishes Suzanne, and underneath that, we will miss you. Oh, and could you add sprinkles?" Baker: "So that's best wishes Suzanne and underneath that, we will miss you. And sprinkles." Customer: "Oh, and could you do it in pink?Thank you!" Baker: "Yep, O.K., that will be ready for you to pick up tomorrow morning." And this is what they get: (On a cake) Best Wishes Suzanne and underneath that We Will Miss You Sprinkles It in Pink thank you Lol! Doesn't it worry you that these bakers might actually DRIVE?!?!?! Thanx, Scarlett Robyn It made me hungry, what should I do now??? I think it's so delicious!! 'and under neat that' ....lol That quality humor. I am a bakery manager. I can see this happenning if the decorator doesnt speak good english. I laughed hysterically when I saw it. Love it! I had a similar cake wreck with a bridal shower cake. It should have said, "may your love be as timeless as the tides and as deep as the sea". Instead it read - "may your love be as timeless as the tide SAND ASS deep as the sea.". And this was from the "Cake Boss" in Hoboken, NJ! Thankfully we got it fixed before it was delivered to the bridal shower! Just wish I had a picture! ah yes...verbal cake directions, i have found from experience, do not work well. when my brother ed got married to his wife ruth...the bakery congratulated 'ruth & Ned' on the cake. we freaked and corrected it...but couldn't resist telling every guest there about it. That cake looks like something from the early seventies - but the literal misinterpretation is hilarious - Great blog! I had to read all the posts, I couldn't stop...

Dustin G. sent in this lovely bit of irony purchased for the cast of a show called - you guessed it - "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." If you're feeling charitable, you can tell yourself the decorator misspelled "without" on purpose. If you're not, you can also nitpick the extra-wide spacing. What's that? Taxes are due today? Grrr. Right, so, dudes: What is UP with that crazy double-spacing, eh? 55 comments | Post a Comment ...!? It doesn't even make SENSE! I can see that the guy who made this cake was too "wtf"ed at the cake request to spell 'without' right. The logo for the show is awesome - why couldn't they have used that?! <-- Played Rosemary in a 1998 community theatre production of How to Succeed... Perhaps there with be a lucky switching of numbers in your taxes and you';; end up better off than this cake. lol Just trying to fill up the cake, I guess. It is weird looking. And what a pity, it is otherwise entirely unremarkable. WV: trastal - That's too much cake to put in the trastal - send it the way it is, they'll never notice. All I can do is shake my head... This cake is lame. Spelling mistakes aside, couldn't they have slapped a few $$dollar$$ signs on it or something? What IS up with that spacing anyways ? ? How to look like a fool without really trying. Angie (from over at) Webster is rolling over in his grave! Ya know, compared to some of your HORRIBLE wrecks, this one ain't too bad. At least the lettering is pretty...even if all of it's not quite right. Cruel irony indeed... I definitely thought that the "how" looked like Hour.... Which makes it even more wrecky. How To Fail At Cake Decorating Without Really Trying. Just gotta say...I'm playing Rosemary in this cast and I read this blog EVERY day...This is such a great way to start my Wednesday! The cheese! The extra space is for the cheese slices that hand is about to add... Maybe it was a test---you know, the one where they misspell words but because our minds somehow right the wrong, we can read it anyway. WV: untsome: like reading word verification words and thinking they are real words, and can I get away with using them in Scrabble Now it all makes sense! Maybe it had been a long, been a long, been a long day for the wreckerator. <--- got his nickname from the Venezuela-bound executive he played I've seen the most typos in my Business classes, so this makes sense! =p "How two Fial Speeling Wihtout Reelly Tring" is the working title of the play this wreckarator is working on. I believe in you.... How do you spell succeed and business correctly, then mess up without? But I guess they weren't really trying! WV-inwinci: This the cake inwinci messed up the spelling. You gotta admit, the baselines are super straight. I think they put a ruler in between each line! at least the writing is relatively straight, in spite of the double spacing...maybe they didn't want it to look cramped? I'm with DangGina here, it's not that bad. Not that good, but... I make that error all the time, but when I type! Maybe s/he was trying out a new icing linotype machine. It looks as though the "Wihtout" was first spelled "Wihout" the T, which was squeezed in later in the wrong place. Wow, I was surprised to see which word was misspelled! I thought for sure it would be "succeed" or "business." Who spells "without" wrong?! This is an example of how to make a cake without really trying. How to fix spelling without really trying! The spacing doesn't bother me nearly as much as they botched correction job. Mind you, I'd still eat it... WV: Vachness -- in such a vachness of space, any mistake can be fatal I'm with hj. After succeed and business, without should be plain sailing. So, what's the story? I think our wreckerator obviously got too confident, too cocky. Or went out for a few quick halves at dinnertime. Nice lettering, though. Someone's got a good hand. Argh. Now I want cake, misspelled or otherwise! wv: Warkin--I'll just warkin to the nearest bakery and get me some misspelled cake. Maybe they'll give me a discount? XD Did this wreck come from Richmond, VA? I know people who are in this very play performing here right now. I think your title sums it up quite nicely. Word verfication: harstink. These cakes — they harstink. It goes wihtout saying I'm trying to figure out the point of the whole cake. Do you succeed by eating cake?? If that's the case, then I'm golden!!! Spelling "without" correctly would be trying way to hard, and they were wanting to convey how to succeed without really trying. you know, like apathetic cool, like yeah, we just happened upon this successful cake. isn't it great? Or, "how to succeed in wrecking a cake without really trying". That's triple-spacing, mind you.:o) ~Amy B. Eh, thank goodness the rest of it isn't TOO horrible. I can't believe how many people CAN succeed in business without knowing how to spell though. solution: cut the cake quickly at the error and no one will know. I love how they navigated "succeed" and "business", then just murdered "without". I think it damn well may be intentional. The whole cake seems half-assed. A TV show celebratory cake from a grocery store with unrelated red flowers? I wonder if there is something we are supposed to read between the lines? LOL The cake really isn't all that bad except for the spelling mistake. A simple error in word spacing!! But seriously...Don't people LOOK at their cakes when they pick them up and check for errors that can be easily fixed on the spot?? Oh yeah..they did.. Would it have been better if the post had started with "How to Fail in Spelling Wihtout Really Trying" he just needs the time to think it out Maybe it's time for a new category: "Phoning It In". It's like the decorator took one look at the order, sighed, and grumbled, "I hope they like rosettes, because that's what they're getting!!" That's bad... you can tell they forgot the "T" and THEN put it in the wrong spot! tsk tsk tsk... Why, Miss Jen, you seem to have read my mind (er...were you especially bored today?)! Until now, I'd been wondering WHY there had been absolutely NO sort of reference, allusion or nod to the TAX SEASON via wreck! I really expected SOME little SOMEthing, like maybe a cake baked with a file inside for incarcerated tax evaders, or at the very least, a green and white cake. It's like trying to ignore flying-insect season--sooner or later you're gonna get bit in the ass anyway. May as well have cake. Okay, so there WAS no cake. Never mind. =^u.u^= She's obviously a writer - it's ingrained in us - double space, dobule space, duoble space. . . :P The spelling is stupid of the cake maker, but seriously, what's wrong with the spacing?! I think that the Wreckerator was set on the wrong "Justify" setting and that is why the writing is spaced so weirdly. Hopefully the hit the re-set button before the next cake! Ya gotta give the decorator credit for filling up every inch of cake space with something! I was listening to an NPR blurb about SpongeBob this morning. Apparently it's his ten year anniversary and 18 million adults watch him per month! no spell check for cakes! high school near me did how to succeed 6 months ago. decorator also spelled without wihtout I know, this one's old (currently prowling the archives). I've discovered an oddity I have the cake decorator may share: when handwriting something, I tend to duplicate my most common typos for the words in question, and "wihtout" is a very easy typo to make for "without". Hey! That play has HARRY POTTER in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Fourth Rough and Tumble Week of Being a Vegan This week I went back to many of my old habits and yet found that I have continued to implement some of my new discoveries from the vegan diet. I avoided meat and eggs for the most part, but satisfied my sushi and salmon cravings. I had yogurt in my granola and ate slices of cheese with wine for the first time in months. I savored every bite and had a whole new appreciation for food without attachment. I’m not addicted to food and it is not on the forefront of my mind for the first time in a long time. I’m on a quest to experiment with cooking, finding new ways to cook vegetables and whole grains. I made a new curry lentil dish and Thai green curry. I brought the crock-pot out of the cabinet so that I could cook in the summer without using the oven. This is my path of self-discovery; I am never going to stop experimenting with new foods and new ways to eat. Like taking any path in life, sometimes you come across a bright green patch of grass that you want to lie down and sun bathe in, just to relax and enjoy the view. Meditate for a while on what you have seen so far and what it all means. It was this week that I discovered that the actual definition of a vegan is: “Ve.†When I look at this definition, I see that I was not taking on the actual vegan diet. I ate sugar and drank wine. I never checked to see if I was eating gelatin. Some vegans even take the lifestyle so far as to refrain from using any animal products, such as wearing wool, leather or fur. This is something I did not even consider! My point is that some vegans do not just eat this way to look and feel healthy or even to prove a point that they can survive without processed food. Most do it as a contribution to the planet and out of their awareness and consciousness of the cruelty of modern animal agriculture. We destroy thousands and thousands of acres of rainforest to feed the cattle that we eat and milk. Animals are packed into unlivable, small spaces in factory farms, pumped up with antibiotics and drugs to stay alive. We never think of the suffering and misery that pigs go through, an animal as intelligent as a dog, yet we give Christmas presents to our pet dogs while eating ham for Christmas dinner. It is also a spiritual experience of feeling more connected with other living things on the planet. I was so concerned with my cravings for sugar and fitting in, forgetting to meditate and feel this connection. Only once did I feel how powerful my body was during martial arts practice and I had completely dismissed my dad’s compliment that I had impressive will-power. There was a mind-body connection that I was not focusing on. I was doing the diet on a surface level, not paying attention to the higher level consciousness that is part of the true vegan lifestyle. All is well. Perhaps there was a reason I stopped early. It could have been so that I could have the fourth week to meditate on my experience. Perhaps it was because I wasn’t in touch with the higher purpose of this lifestyle. Does this change my point of view on middle of the road? No, but it gives me a new sense of awareness for me to practice. It allows me to continue cooking vegan at home, but not beating myself up over having sushi or chicken with friends at a special dinner. And most importantly, it helps me have a new appreciation for people who are committed to making this world a cleaner, healthier, and more conscious place. What you eat can have a direct effect on your skin if you're struggling with psoriasis. See what to shop for.

MAY 14-15th, 2013 schedule May 2013 - FILM SCREENING SPONSOR - The arts, specifically the music and film industries, have perhaps been the most profoundly impacted of all industry by the digital revolution. Canadian superstar Keanu Reeves felt passionately about exploring the impact that digital had on the movie business and so he engaged several of his fellow filmmaker to create the impressive documentary SIDE BY SIDE, which has graced film festival screens around the world. From the film’s website: .” Justin Szlasa co-produced the critically-acclaimed feature documentary with Keanu Reeves. SIDE BY SIDE chronicles the way digital technology has revolutionized how movies are made through interviews with industry leaders like George Lucas, James Cameron, Lars Von Trier, Walter Murch and David Lynch. On the evening of Monday, May 13, Mr. Szlasa will be on hand to kick off CDMN Canada 3.0 2013 with a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A with sponsor TVO’s commissioning editor, Jane Jankovic. Advanced registration for this event is required. Please register here. Justin Szlasa Producer Justin Szlasa is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. He produced the critically acclaimed feature documentary SIDE BY SIDE with Keanu Reeves which premiered in 2012 at the Berlin International Film festival. SIDE BY SIDE has screened at over 70 festivals around the world and is distributed in the US and Canada by Tribeca Film. In 2010 Justin released the documentary 759: BOY SCOUTS OF HARLEM which he directed, produced and edited. It aired nationally on public television. Justin started his career as a management consultant but quit in 1997 to start Hubbard One, a software and services company that served about half the largest law firms in the United States. Under Justin’s management, Hubbard became an industry leader and was named by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing businesses in the country for three years in a row. In 2004, Thomson (now, German language and culture at LMU in Munich and improv at UCB. Justin grew up in Big Flats, New York. He resides in Paris with his family and will relocate to Los Angeles in August 2013. Welcome to Canada 3.0 2013 Amber Mac – emcee - Bestselling social media author, speaker, TV host, and entrepreneur Introductions by Dr. Kevin Tuer - Managing Director, Canadian Digital Media Network Tom Jenkins - Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText Corporation’ Chris Anderson - Former editor-in-chief of WIRED (2001-2012). Author, Makers, Free and The Long Tail. Founder, 3D Robotics Mentorworks has secured over $45M worth of government funding for its clients. In this breakout session, learn about the top provincial and federal government funds that digital media companies should be applying for, get tips on how to complete successful applications, and hear about success stories from funded companies. - Bernadeen McLeod - President & Founder, Mentor Works Ltd. Immediately following his keynote address, Chris Anderson takes to the stage on the tradeshow floor to answer audience questions and sign copies of his latest book, Makers. MaRS President Euan Robertson will pose and facilitate audience questions for 20 minutes, followed by a 25 minute book signing. Beat the rush and purchase your book online in advance for the discounted conference rate of $25.99! You order the book online, pick it up at the signing and have Chris autograph it for you. Chris Anderson - Former editor-in-chief of WIRED (2001-2012). Author, Makers, Free and The Long Tail. Founder, 3D Robotics Introduction: John Jung, CEO at Canada’s Technology Triangle The DataWind story is an amazing success, about a Canadian company identifying huge market opportunity in an international market, creating the disruptive technology capable of harvesting that potential and continuing to lever the diverse and talented labour market in Canada to make education in the third world a reality. Suneet Singh Tuli - Chief Executive Officer, Datawind Ltd.. Jason Townsend will be speaking at the event via video conference. Jason Townsend - NASA's Deputy Social Media Manager The way we transact intellectual property rights and manage contracts that has developed over many decades doesn’t meet the emerging needs of the digital content community. On the one hand we have state of the art digital technologies in multimillion-dollar production and broadcast management suites creating a huge volume and variety of content. On the other, we have a slow, methodical, labour intensive and document-oriented process. Rights management could interface more effectively with a rapidly evolving and complex technology ecosystem to automate many of the downstream processes. How do we make the rights licensing process faster and more efficient and drive down transaction costs and complexity? The industry panel will be moderated by: - Jane Harrison - VP and Associate General Counsel, Corus Entertainment Inc. with - George Burger - Director, VMedia Inc. - Tim Mizrahi - Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, Netflix - Tom Powers - President, Executive Producer, Open Door Co. Moderator – Shane Schick, Editor at Large, IT World Canada (CanadianCIO.com). Confirmed participants - Jeppe Dorff - Transaction Services| Emerging Business, Rogers Communications - Derek Colfer - business leader, global mobile product innovation at Visa Canada - Lisa Campbell - Deputy Commissioner, Fair Business Practices Branch, Competition Bureau Description: Examining the opportunities and challenges presented by the emerging mobile payments paradigm in Canada, with perspective from many of the players involved in the adoption of and successful deployment of same. Using Games to Drive Productivity Game designer, futurist and bestselling author of Reality is Broken, is harnessing the power of Internet games in new ways to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing our world today and tomorrow. Jane McGonigal - Game designer, futurist and bestselling author of Reality is Broken Food and beverage buffet on the 300 level. CDMN Canada 3.0 2013 welcomes international delegations from Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the US and more. Check out these presentations from a few of our international delegates: Grow Global presentations International presentation – Ricardo Sodre (Brazil) 12:15pm International presentation – Albert Jan Pomper (Netherlands) 12:30pm of over 20 hubs from coast-to-coast provides access to the knowledge, connections, services and support that digital media companies need to successfully innovate and market themselves at home and abroad. CDMN Canada 3.0 is the chance for our Network members to share with a national audience their available products and services, as well as showcase their best and brightest companies. Awards 2013 is the inaugural year for the CDMN Moonshot Awards, established to recognize Canadian companies that create jobs and wealth for Canada through innovation in digital media (ICT and mobile). This is the inaugural year for the awards, designed to acknowledge leading companies that contribute to the CDMN Moonshot goal, that anyone can do anything online by 2017. An expert panel of judges, including Host: CTV Question Period, Correspondent: W5 & Digital News Evangelist, Founder of New Man Media, Kevin Newman; Director at OMERS Ventures, Sid Paquette; Deloitte Canada’s Chief Innovation Officer, Terry Stuart; RocketScope Managing Director and Founder, April Dunford; and, CDMN Managing Director, Dr. Kevin Tuer, will be evaluating the nominees and determining the winners. The ceremony for the first ever CDMN Moonshot Awards will take place on Tuesday, May 14 at CDMN Canada 3.0 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, where awards will be presented in four categories: Finalists: CDMN Digital Media Dynamic Company of the Year Recognizing the Canadian company demonstrating the greatest increase in productivity through the adoption of digital media; three finalists will be recognized. - Magnet Forensics Inc. –. CDMN Digital Media Globalizer of the Year Recognizing the Canadian company demonstrating the greatest increase in international sales, investments or other contributions to the growth of the Canadian digital media industry internationally; three finalists will be recognized. -. CDMN Digital Media Innovator of the Year Recognizing the Canadian company demonstrating the greatest degree of innovation through the adoption of digital media; three finalists will be recognized. - Miovision Technologies Inc. – Inc. – a state-of-the-art medical technology company that provides advanced healthcare solutions for patients with restricted physical development. CDMN Digital Media Company of the Year Recognizing the Canadian company that made the greatest contributions to the growth of the Canadian digital media industry in 2012/2013, selected from entrants to the CDMN Digital Media Innovator, Globalizer and Dynamic award categories. Finalists are Desire2Learn,Vidyard, Magnet Forensics Inc., Axonify and Miovision. All Canadian companies were welcome to apply; self-nominations welcomed. Finalists will gain entry to CDMN Canada 3.0 2013 to attend the awards ceremony at an unpublished discounted rate. By submitting a nomination, the nominee agrees to let CDMN use the nominee’s company name in marketing and promotional material for the CDMN Moonshot Awards and CDMN Canada 3.0. of up to $4,000 in each of the companies participating has already yielded more than $20M return in closed business and investments. Program alumni are on hand at CDMN Canada 3.0 to talk about the impact the program has had on their business. Don’t miss these presentations where they share their experiences, and tips for other companies undertaking international business for the first time. Soft-Landing Program Alumni – Authintic 2:00pm Soft-Landing Program Alumni – Magnet Forensics 2:15pm Soft-Landing Program Alumni – DLI.Tools 2:30pm Building Effective Digital Infrastructure Towards Excellence in Research and Training Organized by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Featuring: - Patrick Horgan - Vice President, Manufacturing, Development and Operations, IBM Canada - Tom Jenkins - Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation; SSHRC Council Member - Ted Hewitt - Executive Vice-President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Vincent Larivière - Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Université de Montréal - Dr. Wendy Cukier - Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University and Founder/Director of Diversity Institute Description: Effective digital infrastructure and scholarship comprises the information and communications technology assets, facilities and services which support research within institutions and across national innovation systems. A coordinated effort among multiple stakeholders must be sustained in order to address the challenges and complexity of processes needed to collect, manage, analyze and share big data. Leaders in government, academia and private sector will address key challenges and opportunities related to digital infrastructure and scholarship, including issues of networks, data, computational infrastructure and research tools. Outcomes will contribute to a better understanding towards the needs for preservation and accessibility of existing and ongoing research data for analysis by users across sectors, and the development of data analysis skills for students to benefit all sectors of the economy. Moderator: - Gavin McGarry - President, Jumpwire Media Confirmed participants: - Mike McCauley - Product Manager, Google - Michael Litt - Co-founder and CEO, Vidyard - Stephen Lake - Co-founder and CEO, Thalmic Labs You’ve read about their stories on Mashable, TechCrunch, BusinessWeek… these young entrepreneurs have enjoyed tremendous success with their disruptive technologies – garnering up to millions of dollars in funding using traditional and non-traditional methods, and, in one case, getting acquired by Google. These dynamic innovators have more than their success in common – they are all graduates of the Y Combinator accelerator program, one of the most competitive programs in North America, if not the world. The other tie that binds them together is that they returned to Canada to grow their businesses, when many other Canucks did not venture back North after their stint in the Valley. Why did they return? What is it about the Canadian marketplace and the true north worker ethic that keeps these companies here? In this sure-to-be lively discussion, we’ll discuss the realities – warts and all – of successfully applying for and subsequently completing a Y Combinator stint, as well as what competitive advantages Canada has for starting and growing successful long-term technology ventures like these ones. What exactly are the problems with rights management? Who is impacted? What are the costs to the organization? In our second session on rights management, we’ll walk through scenarios in the life of digital content. In each, we’ll outline the stages, the players, the systems and the artifacts along with challenges in framing, transferring and managing associated rights. We will highlight the ambiguous terminology and concepts that bog the process down in phone calls, negotiations, conversations and clarifications. We will explore the opportunities for clarity, standardization and disambiguation in agreements As we identify and describe these challenges, solutions will begin to emerge. You will understand the issues in rights management for both the industry and your organization and see how standardization drives out costs. We’ll explore these topics with an industry panel moderated by - Peter Miller - Lawyer & consultant with - Michael Beller - Associate General Counsel at PBS - Mark Le Blanc - Director, Legal Services & Business Affairs, TVO - Michael Turner - Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, Discovery Communications - Christopher Pang - Senior Corporate Counsel, Shaw Media Lights, Camera, Economic Action: Building Human Capital to Fuel Screen-based Industry Growth If innovation is the driving force of the digital economy, talent is its currency. In its 25th year, the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) continues to play a critical role in the development of Canada’s top screen-based industry talent. What’s more, as found in a 2012 Nordicity report, the CFC’s alumni are creating new companies, products and content which generate measurable growth and economic activity in the sector. But how can Canada maintain and grow its ability to nurture and retain top screen-based industry talent and how can we anticipate future skills, talent and performance needs of the sector? Join CFC representatives, alumni and Nordicity for a discussion on the role of the CFC in the ecology of the screen based sector in Canada, highlights of its economic impacts and key performance indicators as well as a dynamic discussion on the role of the CFC and what the screen-industry needs in order to keep producing (and retaining) top talent. Discussion threads may include: - What is the vision of Canada’s screen-based sector? What is the strategy? How well are we doing? - What kind of talent is propelling screen-based industry today in Canada to meet that vision? - What is the impact on the economy that flows from the CFC graduates? - What broadcasters, entertainment companies, and governments now see in the CFC? - What kind of model for the future is the CFC story? Featuring: - Ana Serrano - Chief Digital Officer, CFC - Peter Lyman - Senior Partner, Nordicity - Julie Whelan - Senior Consultant, Nordicity - Jonas Diamond - CEO, iThentic and Executive Producer, Smiley Guy Studios - Christina Jennings - CEO, Shaftesbury - Mitchell Moffit - From a young age, Mitchell was fascinated by the chance to understand and experience life through its many facets. Whether it was music, art, sport, travel or academics, he wanted to do it all. But it wasn’t until high school that his love for science really began. The opportunity to qualitatively understand the things that [...] From the Arab Spring to the evolution of democracy in Tunisia and Moldova, digital media has birthed radical new ways of communication. International leaders from around the world have gathered in “The Community of Democracies” help address this challenge, utilizing an online platform described by US President Obama as “ strengthening the next generation of democratic leaders, empowering women, and standing up for civil society”. Hugh Ritchie, Director, Government Relations Program, Office of the President at OpenText will share the journey that lead to the creation of the truly Canadian Community of Democracies where past leaders of Democratic countries including Canada, Romania, Hungary, United States and others gather online to connect and share critical information and advice with leaders of emerging democracies. - Hugh Ritchie - Director, Government Relations Program, Office of the President - Open Text Moderator: - Scott Fraser - Director General, Global Business Opportunities, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Confirmed participants: - Simon Smits - Vice Minister for Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Netherlands - Lars Hansen - Head of International Business Cooperation, Innovations-Zentrum Berlin Management GmbH, Internationale Incubator - Masaaki Tanaka - Deputy Director-General, Science & Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from Japan - Marcos Vinícius de Souza - Secretariat for Innovation, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade - MDIC, Brazil Canada 3.0 is a place for not only the top digital media minds from Canada to gather. It attracts delegations from around the world, anxious to unearth opportunities for their companies in our marketplace, but also to share opportunities and discover common solutions to common challenges for Canadian companies looking to grow global. This panel will feature Robert Simon, Sr. Managing Partner of the BDC Venture Capital IT Fund along with Paul Rochester, CEO of recently acquired Layer7 Technologies of Vancouver, discussing the evolution of the company; from the initial challenges, successful growth and ultimate exit through an acquisition by CA Computer Associates. A fascinating case study of a venture capital backed company funded from inception by BDC Venture Capital. - Robert Simon - Senior Managing Partner, IT Fund, BDC Venture Capital - Paul Rochester - CEO, Layer7 Technologies Internet TV: The Television of the Future Reed Hastings - Founder and CEO, Netflix Michael Serbinis - Chief Executive Officer, Kobo NASA workshop that shares with government communicators and government agencies best practices and proved success tactics to implementing and effectively using social media to rally public support, impact public perception of the relevance of your organization, and gather grassroots input to influence policy development. Jason Townsend - NASA's Deputy Social Media Manager As a follow up to Sheryl Sandberg’s recent Lean In movement, this panel will feature successful women in the technology industry who are all navigating through their careers and figuring out the most effective way in which to step up, lean in, balance it all and give back! Instead of reiterating the facts about the lack of women in leadership roles and in the tech industry, this session will focus on ‘what can be done’ as opposed to ‘what’s wrong’. Themes addressed will include: - Working Life; Facing workplace stereotypes faced, the ‘self-doubt’ syndrome, success & likability correlation, practical tips on negotiating, and balancing work / family - Academia: Motivating young women to pursue STEM careers, and preparing young women in the classroom for their careers - Mentorship / Sponsorship: Identifying and working with the right mentor, whether men or women - Call to action: What is absolutely necessary for both men and women to do today to start tackling the issues at hand. Moderated by - Amber Mac – emcee - Bestselling social media author, speaker, TV host, and entrepreneur Confirmed participants - Kate Brodock - President, Girls in Tech & Executive Director of Digital & Social Media at Syracuse University - Karen Schulman Dupuis - Manager, Digital Communications, MaRS Discovery District - Dr. Gerri Sinclair - President, The Gerri Sinclair Group - Sarah Shortreed - Digital and Mobile Technology Executive In our third session on rights management, we’ll explore the technology ecosystem and how the components of the production and broadcast management systems address rights requirements. From simple text boxes to highly configurable rights administration systems, each environment has mechanisms for capturing and acting on rights. The key to all of this is metadata – the information about assets and the embodiment of that information in ways that technology can interpret and act on. In definitions and examples that everyone can understand, you’ll learn the crucial central role that metadata plays in the rights world. Explore these topics with an industry panel moderated by - Seth Earley - Earley & Associates with - Janet Gardner - President of Perspective Media Group - John Larrabee - VP Americas, Pilat Media - Robin Macrae - Information Architect, Earley & Associates Club Penguin: A Canadian Success Story Lane Merrifield - Co-founder of Club Penguin The Canada Media Fund presents a showcase of innovative Canadian productions that combine content and technology to redefine viewer interactivity. This selection of projects confirms how television is an ideal medium to lead the way toward heightened levels of engagement and foster new relationships with the audience. - Stéphane Cardin - Vice-President, Industry and Public Affairs, Canada Media Fund Confirmed participants - Andre Boysen - EVP Marketing, Digital Identity Evangelist, SecureKey - Cedric Jeannot - I Think Security – CEO and Security Expert - Rita Whittle - Senior Director, Treasury Board of Canada - Cyber Authentication Renewal and Federating Identity, CIOB, TBS, - Kevana Bamford - Provincial IDIM Program | Office of the CIO – BC - John Tarnowski - Associate Vice President, North American Money Movement (Online/Mobile) at TD Bank Group Description: There is an identity ecosystem emerging in Canada that is unique in the world. It is a multi-enterprise service that is focused on making more meaningful services available online while at the same time making it easier for users to enroll, access and control information shared by these services. Things like easy access to online government services, opening a bank account on the internet, proving your identity for new services online, registering your child at school or participating in an education portal are becoming possible. The service model for the Internet is moving from app-centric to user-centric. The current password model of authentication needs to evolve. Every web service needs to make a choice between making their credentials stronger by adding multifactor authentication (BYOD) or partnering to get authentication from a trusted provider (BYOC). What are the motivators for change? What does this mean for users and web services? What is the economic model? How to improve the security and privacy model for users? What is happening now and what is on the horizon? In this final session, we’ll apply best practices for deriving, defining and agreeing upon terms that could constitute standard rights management constructs. Attendees will be grouped and given assignments and instructions to create a rights management framework to meet the requirements of a typical transaction. We’ll put the exercises into a larger framework for attendees to see how rights management metadata, controlled vocabularies and ontologies are systematically derived and validated. The output of this working session will assist attendees in understanding and refining approaches to real world problems in their organizations. In a hands-on interactive workshop, you’ll learn about the following topics: - Real world scenario and use case review - Steps to the taxonomy development process - Interactive exercises developing terms - Validation approaches - Next steps in the industry initiative and formation of the rights working group The workshop will be facilitated by - Seth Earley - Earley & Associates - Stephanie Lemieux - Senior Consultant, Earley and Associates - Robin Macrae - Information Architect, Earley & Associates Building Around People Steve Irvine - Group Director, Global Marketing Solutions - Facebook Canada “Every two days now, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” – Eric Schmidt Join Steve Irvine as he examines the more personal side of social engagement. In this session, we’ll explore the evolution of media, the concept of identity, and how social influence can create unique experiences in an increasingly complex, data-filled world. Lane Merrifield - Co-founder of Club Penguin Following his keynote address, Club Penguin co-founder Lane Merrifield answers attendee questions on the breakout stage on the tradeshow floor. Jian Ghomeshi - Broadcaster, CBC Radio; Producer, Jian Ghomeshi Productions Jeremy Butteriss - Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google Canada - Dr. Kevin Tuer - Managing Director, Canadian Digital Media Network See the sights of Toronto, network with fellow attendees, and learn about some of the digital media happenings in Canada’s largest city. From business incubators to broadcast facilities and production houses, these tours will give attendees a backstage pass to some of the coolest and most sought after digital media hotspots in Canada! Tours take place on Wednesday May 15th, from 4:15 – 5:00 pm. *Pre-registration is required. Follow the links to our Community page to log-in and sign up. Huffington Post / AOL Canada - The Huffington Post Canada news room - Brainstorm hubs - Games areas - Our boardroom/yoga studio - Creative, open space layout - 2 floors with departments ranging from Sales, Executive, Marketing and Content - Exposed brick and modern design - NapQuest resting room - AOL Branded interiors Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (SIRT) / Pinewood Studios The Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (SIRT) is dedicated to fostering collaborative innovation in Ontario’s film, gaming and television industries. SIRT works with industry, academic, and government partners to conduct collaborative research and provide Ontario’s screen-based professionals the training needed to build the province’s competitive advantage. SIRT was established by Sheridan College at Pinewood Toronto Studios in early 2010. Startup Drinks is holding a special Canada 3.0 version of their event on May 15 at Hotel Ocho.

Managing employees during tough times As a small business owner, you will be faced with difficult choices during turbulent times like an economic downturn or a decrease in demand for your product or service. In order to stay competitive, you must streamline operations and offer creative responses to external threats. It is critical to encourage innovation and make the kinds of changes that are necessary to ensure that your business succeeds today and in the future. When times are tough, business owners often resort to layoffs as a cost-saving measure. However, laying off employees can damage your business and impair its ability to succeed in the long term. Layoffs incur direct costs, including severance pay, administration fees and legal fees, which immediately affect your business' bottom line. There are also less tangible costs like the skills, knowledge and experience that are lost when an employee is let go. In the face of layoffs, employees often experience lower morale and productivity, higher levels of absenteeism and job-related stress, and a loss of faith in the business. Your best employees may start looking for other opportunities. And, when business does improve, the costs of finding and training new employees are very high. In the current economic climate, opportunities do exist, but small business owners must have clear strategies. Cutting back may get your business through the short-term crisis, but will not position you to be a leader in the future. Innovative cost cutting and restructuring measures can help you reposition your business and define how business will be conducted in the future, without the need to let valuable employees go. - Work-Sharing If business is slow, you can offer your core workers a temporarily-reduced work week instead of laying them off. Think long term - Where possible, avoid layoffs. Recruiting new employees when your business rebounds can be expensive, and can put your reputation as an employer at risk. - Reduce employee costs through work reorganization. Multi-tasking and learning new skills allow your staff to support your organization's needs now and in the future. Use recognition and rewards Rewarding employees can be a challenge in times of fiscal restraint. Here are some smart ways to recognize employees, while keeping costs low. - Acknowledge employee contributions — employees want to feel that their efforts are recognized and appreciated. - Use staff meetings as a forum to recognize outstanding achievements. - Link incentives to the overall goals and objectives of your business. - Offer low-cost, innovative perks, such as giving employees an afternoon off or access to a coveted parking spot. - Make recognition personal — allow employees to choose their rewards. Maintain a positive work environment - Ensure that employees have fulfilling work that is challenging and interesting. - Give employees continuous feedback and ensure that they understand their roles, the impact of their work on customers, and how they bring value to your organization. - Offer employees flexible scheduling to help them balance their work and personal lives. - Offer job-sharing and reduced work weeks. These alternatives to layoffs can help your firm retain existing jobs and return employees to full-time work when the recession is over. - Have a strategy to deal with workplace stress and conflict. - Set a clear sense of direction and leadership. Management should set a positive example for employees to follow. Although avoiding layoffs during hard times can be a challenge, the benefits to your business in the long term are significant. - Wage subsidies Are high wage expectations making you reluctant to put up that Help Wanted sign? A wage subsidy program can put the perfect employee within your reach. Was this information useful? - Date modified: -

Manila, Philippines, November 30, 2010 – Detained community health workers collectively known as the Morong 43 are in high spirits even as they mark 10 months in jail, lawyers from the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said yesterday in a statement. “Hindi kami pinaghihinaan ng loob dahil alam namin na nasa likod namin kayo,” Eulogio Castillo, one of the detained, told lawyers who visited on Sunday, November 28, 2010. Castillo, who considers the group as political prisoners, said they also rely on the larger social movement to secure their release. “We know that [the outcome of] our case holds implications for other political prisoners across the country,” he said in the vernacular. He also thanked the domestic and foreign groups and personalities taking up the cause of their release. The men and women separately entertained the lawyers with songs of hope. The women also taught the lawyers their signature four claps, three stomps and chant “Free the 43”. The Morong 43 all support the rally of lawyers and doctors set on Thursday, December 2, 2010. The legal and medical communities plan to march from Espana to Mendiola at noon, to ask the executive to drop charges against the Morong 43, on account of the illegality of their arrest and the subsequent search. “Those of us who are concerned that fundamental rights embodied in laws whose very purpose is to protect citizens from possible abuses by the state are disregarded in such a brazen manner, must take a stand,” said NUPL secretary-general and counsel Edre Olalia. The Morong 43 were arrested in February this year, while undergoing a health training in Morong, Rizal. A joint police-military operation, using a defective search warrant, swooped down upon the group early in the morning. The warrant did not specify the particular place to be searched. The search allegedly yielded guns and ammunition, so the 43 were then blindfolded, handcuffed and brought to an undisclosed place where they were continuously interrogated day and night, denied their right to counsel and tortured physically and psychologically. Charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives were filed against the 43 health workers five days after their arrest. The law specifies a 36-hour deadline for the filing of charges against anyone arrested without a warrant. NUPL lawyers visited the Morong 43 after its national legal consultation on extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights cases. NUPL and the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) represent the health workers in the criminal case filed at the Morong Regional Trial Court and Metropolitan Trial Court and in the petitions they have filed in the Commission of Human Rights, Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, administration ally and House Deputy Speaker Rep. Lorenzo “Erin” Tanada III reiterated his appeal to release the Morong 43. “I think that amnesty is not what they need as they are not guilty of anything. What they need is nothing but just plain and simple respect for their basic human rights ,” Tañada emphasized in a separate statement. Reference: Atty. Edre U. Olalia - Secretary General – 09175113373; Atty. Julius Garcia Matibag - 09279293089 at

There are always exceptions to this, such as meeting a favourite person or doing something interesting or both. This is one of those exceptions. Like Ottawa, Toronto was very food focussed. Incredibly food focussed. So food focussed I have no idea if I did anything (apart from look for parking) that wasn't food focussed. I think I spent a good six or seven hours eating, drinking and perusing foodish pursuits. There's little wonder why my clothes are just that much snugger. You know you're in for a good meal when all you have to say is "Yeah, I'm meeting a friend at an Italian restaurant for lunch. Can't remember what it's called, but it's at Richmond and Victoria." and the response is gleeful "Ooh! Osteria Ciceri e Tria!" you know it's going to be good. We shared the daily antipasti--a sampler tray, if you will. They were my word, they were good. I can remember all but one, but what I do recall--arincini di riso studded with cuttlefish, meatball in marinara sauce, lamb stew with crostini, fig with ham--was fabulous. For her main, my friend had the gnocchi with seafood; I had tagliatelle with duck ragu. We tried two desserts--a hazelnut tarte and a little cake (again, my memory fails). If you read Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess, you know that we shared a fabulous iced coffee that afternoon. She wrote getting together was like meeting an old friend. It was. Jennifer and I have been emailing each other, off and on, for years--(this month marks my fourth year foodblogging on Cardamom Addict; Jenn's been The Domestic Goddess for almost six years). We've cohosted events and sent questions and comments back and forth to one another, but in all this time we've never managed to meet. There was an immediate ease and familiarity--the type that's normally reserved for long lost friends who haven't seen each other in years. We sat at a patio and chatted about family and friends and Ottawa. We talked about blogging and characters who've come and gone in those years. We talked about our current real life adventures. Every once in a while pausing (or trying to out-volume) the Blue Angels as they zoomed over head, rehearsing for the Air show. Throughout, we were the targets of unwanted attention. No, not the wayward Bay Street crowd. A bee. Probably a relative of the one that harassed Yal and I. Cheeky monkey tried to steal some of my coffee too! That's just what I need...a fixated bee on a coffee buzz. I could have spent all afternoon chatting with her, but alas, she wasn't on holidays. We parted ways and I found my self on the TTC at possibly one of the two most dangerous-to-me stores in Toronto. The Cookbook Store is one of my measured Meccas. Yes. A store devoted to cookbooks. The usual suspects from Food TV are there, but unlike other bookstores, they don't dominate the shelves. Here is where I find good food writers. Here is where I find interesting titles. Titles appear here, in their original format, before they appear in big-box bookstores, rewritten for the American audience. I left with a copy of Piri Piri Starfish, a book from which I desperately want to cook each and every single recipe. My restraint at the Cookbook Store was easily voided as I peeked in at a neighbouring kitchenware shop. That peek ended up with me buying a terra cotta garlic keeper and a cast iron corncob printed cornbread tin. I'd seen them in magazines and recipe books and just couldn't resisit. It was inaugurated the next day with my variant of my favourite cornbread recipe. Using a combination of maple syrup and brown sugar, the bread has a sweet-smoky flavour. I'm sure the niblet pattern discernable in the cute little cobs only helps to make the cornbread even more tasty. 125g ap flour 1tsp salt 1Tbsp baking powder 1/4tsp baking soda 120g cornmeal 50g brown sugar 1 egg2Tbsp vegetable oil 225ml milk 125ml maple syrup Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Seive together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir in cornmeal. Beat together the egg, sugar and oil until smooth. Mix in the maple syrup and milk. Pour into dry ingredients and mix well. Pour into prepared 22cm (9") cake pan or muffin tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. cheers! jasmine Oh, and the other dangerous-to-me shop? Well, if I mentioned it by name, I'm sure the percentage of solicitous emails I receive will increase. That's a lot coming from the gal who's also the Sensual Gourmet...But really, I highly recommend them, especially if you're well beyond what regular department stores stock. What I'm reading: I'm a quill for hire! 4 comments: That must have been so nice to finally meet her. Toronto is such a great city for a foodie. So sorry I missed you on this trip but I will definitely take a raincheck! Glad you had such a fabulous time. What a glorious day you had. Many thanks for sharing the foodie photos. The cornbread looks so sweet when made in a corn shaped pan - that just must help with the flavour too.... lol and sending many huggles, Michelle and Zebbycat, xxx I could have spent all afternoon chatting with you too. Let's plan on that next time. With enough advance notice I can take time off...doesn't happen often though so let's book it soon!! Take care, Jasmine

Cases citing this case: Supreme CourtCases citing this case: Supreme Court, 326] due process. The court viewed the interest of the disability recipient in uninterrupted benefits as indistinguishable from that of the welfare recipient in Goldberg. It further noted that decisions subsequent to Goldberg demonstrated that the due process requirement of pretermination hearings is not limited to situations involving the deprivation of vital necessities. See Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 U.S. 67, 88 -89 (1972); Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S. 535,..,. 319, 329] That this second requirement is an essential and distinct precondition for 764 . With respect to the named appellees, however, we concluded that the complaint was sufficient since it alleged that they had "fully presented their claims for benefits `to their district Social Security Office and, upon denial, to the Regional Office for reconsideration.'" Id.,termination in part) (1974); Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 576 -578 (1972); Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S., at 539 ; Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S., at 261 -262. Rather, the Secretary contends that the existing administrative procedures, detailed below, provide all the process [424 U.S. 319, 333] 266 -271,] v. Family Finance Corp., 395 U.S. 337 (1969), involving garnishment of wages, was entirely silent on the matter. In Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 U.S., at 96 -97, the Court said only that in a replevin suit between two private parties the initial determination required something more than an ex parte proceeding before a court clerk. Similarly, Bell v. Burson, supra, at 540, 142 -146. These decisions underscore the truism in part); Goldberg v. Kelly, supra, at 263-266; Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, supra, at 895. More precisely, our prior decisions [424 U.S. 319, 335] 263-271. We turn first to a description of the procedures for the termination of Social Security disability benefits, and thereafter consider the factors bearing upon the constitutional adequacy of these procedures., 338].,, 339]] the private interests." The Secretary concedes that the delay between [424 U.S. 319, 342], 416 U.S., [424 U.S. 319, 343] at 169 (POWELL, J., concurring in part); laboratory diagnostic techniques," 42 U.S.C., 348] 171 -172 (Frankfurter, [424 U.S. 319, 349] J., concurring). All that is necessary is that the procedures be tailored, in light of the decision to be made, to "the capacities and circumstances of those who are to be heard," Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S., [ Footnote. [ Footnote 3 ] The District Court ordered reinstatement of Eldridge's benefits pending its final disposition on the merits. [ Footnote 4 ] In Goldberg the Court held that the pretermination 266 -271. In this opinion the term "evidentiary hearing" refers to a hearing generally of the type required in Goldberg. [ Footnote 5 ] The HEW regulations direct that each state plan under the federal categorical assistance programs must provide for pretermination hearings containing specified procedural safeguards, which include all of the Goldberg requirements. See 45 CFR 205.10 (a) (1975); n. 4, supra. [ Footnote 6 ] The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, simply noting that the issue had been correctly decided by the District Court in this case, reached the same conclusion in Williams v. Weinberger, 494 F.2d 1191 (1974), cert. pending, No. 74-205. [ Footnote 7 ] Title 42 U.S.C. 405 (h) provides in full: [ Footnote 8 ] Section 405 (g) further provides: [ Footnote 9 ] 763 -764. As in Salfi no question as to whether Eldridge satisfied these requirements was timely raised below, see Fed. Rules Civ. Proc. 8 (c), 12 (h) (1), and they need not be considered here. [, 546 (1949), when applying the finality requirements of 28 U.S.C. 1291, which grants jurisdiction to courts of appeals to review all "final decisions" of the district courts, and 28 U.S.C. 1257, which empowers this Court to review only "final judgments" of state courts. See, e. g., Harris v. Washington, 404 U.S. 55 (1971); Construction Laborers v. Curry, 371 U.S. 542, 549 -550 (1963); Mercantile Nat. Bank v. Langdeau, 371 U.S. 555, 557 -558 (1963); Cohen v. Beneficial Ind. Loan Corp., supra, at 545-546. To be sure, certain of the policy considerations implicated in 1257 and 1291 cases are different from those that are relevant here. Compare Construction Laborers, supra, at 550; Mercantile Nat.. [. See n. 29, infra. [ 29 ] By focusing solely on the reversal rate for appealed reconsideration determinations amici overstate the relevant reversal rate. As we indicated last Term in Fusari v. Steinberg, 419 U.S. 379, [424 U.S. 319, 350] an evidentiary hearing of the type required for welfare beneficiaries under Title IV of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C.. [424 U.S. 319, 351]

Nearly two months ago, I was dipping my toes back into Everquest II in anticipation of the New Halas update, while simultaneously revisiting Guild Wars due to the 5th Anniversary celebrations and War in Kryta teaser updates. I was certain at the time that come May 25th, I would be re-subscribing to EQII with my better half to fill our time when our Star Trek Online playing has lapsed (which is has). I did not expect to spend much time in Guild Wars, as I was feeling largely burned out on repeating content in pursuit of various achievements. Suddenly, today is the day, and Guild Wars has delivered a stunning upset. The War In Kryta storyline has begun unfolding in earnest, which has not only provided me with a reason to log in more often to keep up with the events (excellent observation by Ravious of KTR that this content is becoming more event-like), but which has brought in new and old players alike and enabled me to group more often for that same old content I was growing weary of doing by myself. Massively has started a new guild for the purpose of tackling the Prophecies campaign, and I have had the pleasure of grouping up with them for a couple of weeks. I even found two – two! – groups attempting the Dunes of Despair mission and bonus the other night (we failed, alas). Since ArenaNet now seems determined to keep a Live Team dedicated to providing updates to Guild Wars for as long as its lifespan, and the Guild Wars Beyond campaign is slated to keep us advancing right up to the point that Guild Wars 2 is launched, I now foresee a year where Guild Wars can return to being my main MMO attraction, and I have no further need for diversions. The Peacekeeper bounties provide a satisfying daily goal that fits within my schedule – I don’t even get to these every day, but they’re there if I want to. Courier Falken is a quick and easy run for tokens. I can’t believe I’m advocating for a repeatable quest, but for some reason the good Courier is fun to chase around (it must be his special attack). And in between all of this, I’m getting mission bonuses completed and even taking up vanquishing again with some good advice from friends. Guild Wars Beyond has truly breathed fresh life into the game from my perspective. It’s amazing how adding one new feature like this has made the entire experience seem new and exciting again, as though I was not there back when Thunderhead Keep existed as a brick wall to beat your head against. As for my better half: he will join me when his Necromancer can finally jump.

Catholic churches in western N.C. help build 2011 'Interfaith House' ASHEVILLE — Four Catholic churches and one college community of Catholic students plan on helping to make a deserving homeowner's dreams come true. The parishes of St. Eugene, St. Lawrence, St. Margaret Mary and St. Barnabas will participate in a Habitat for Humanity project in west Asheville this fall. Catholic students from the University of North Carolina-Asheville are participating as well, along with eight other faith communities in the Asheville area to build the 2011 Interfaith House for Asheville Habitat for Humanity. Construction should be completed by Oct. 28. Pictured: Parishioners of St. Eugene Church in Asheville and their pastor, Father Pat Cahill, get to work on building a Habitat for Humanity house, funded in part by the parish's weekly offertory. Four Catholic churches and one college community of Catholic students are working on the project, along with other churches in the Asheville area. (Photo provided) Betsy Warren, sponsorship coordinator for Asheville Habitat for Humanity, is excited about the new project. "This 2011 house will be the 13th Interfaith House built by a diverse coalition of faith communities in Buncombe County, and we are proud of not only the project, but of the way it bridges gaps and brings people of different faiths together," Warren said. More than 150 people will work on the home, for a total of 275 volunteer days contributed by all the churches. In all, it is estimated that more than 1,650 volunteer hours will go into the home's construction. The house itself will be approximately 1,100 square feet and will house a mother and her children who will put "sweat equity" into the project. The actual cost to Habitat of building the Interfaith House, including land and infrastructure, will be approximately $125,000. A full sponsorship is $55,000. The 12 faith communities sponsoring the Interfaith House expect to raise about $20,000. The balance of funding will come from other donors, from Habitat ReStore sales, and current partner family mortgage payments. Dan Brown, coordinator for the volunteers from St. Eugene Church, estimates that there will be 35 volunteers from the parish helping with the home. They will work over the course of 50 days to help complete the house. "Participating with 11 other faith communities is a demonstration of St. Eugene's ecumenical spirit," Brown said. "By helping to provide affordable housing for a deserving family in the Asheville area, parishioners reaffirm St. Eugene's mission statement's call to service within and beyond our boundaries." St. Eugene Church distributes 10 percent of each week's offertory to numerous local charities, including Habitat. They will contribute more than $2,500 to the cost of the 2011 Interfaith House. "I believe the Interfaith House project sponsored by Habitat for Humanity is so popular because we can share our resources with others in God's name, see the tangible evidence of our effort, and know that it has a lasting positive impact on making the our community more livable and sustainable," Brown said. —

Apply for CertificationHelp Organic Grow Recently, the NOP issued final rules and instructions to certifiers that provide important improvements to certification and require certifiers to raise the bar for both unannounced inspections and testing. These efforts help ensure that organic certification is rigorous and meaningful in the marketplace while guaranteeing that all NOP certified operations and certifiers are required to meet similar requirements. CCOF has performed both unannounced inspections and residue testing for some time and is therefore pleased to see these requirements effectively instituted by NOP. We salute the National Organic Program’s (NOP) commitment to improving the implementation of organic certification. On January 1, 2013, the National Organic Program’s (NOP) Final Rule regarding Pesticide Residue Testing went into effect. This final standard mandates that certifiers perform residue testing of a minimum of 5% of their certified operations. CCOF has been preparing for this requirement by performing residue testing for several years, providing feedback to NOP and working with other groups to ensure the final rule did not pose an undue burden on CCOF operations or farms exclusively. The NOP implemented the vast majority of CCOF and partner organization comments on the proposed rule. We are extremely pleased that the NOP has provided certifiers with significant discretion regarding the type of testing, reasons, and materials tested within the rule. The new rule allows certifiers to test for a wide variety of residues including: Tests may be based on random selection, complaints, investigations or risk analysis and all tests performed count towards the 5% minimum. In addition, the rule allows tests of plant parts, soil, water, and finished products instead of only farm gate products as was initially proposed. This establishes the rule as an effective compliance monitoring tool. CCOF worked hard to ensure this degree of flexibility, which will help ensure the efficacy of residue testing while ensuring that the entire organic community is subject to similar requirements. Certifiers may not charge operations for testing. The improved final rule will benefit CCOF operations and consumers by increasing consumer confidence. After recommendations from the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) the NOP has released NOP Handbook Instruction Policy 2609 regarding Unannounced Inspections (NOP 2609: Unannounced Inspections). This policy is intended to provide consistent application of NOP standards by recommending certifiers perform unannounced inspections of at least 5% of their operation annually. CCOF has actively lobbied for this clarification which requires all certifiers to meet the same percentage of unannounced inspections CCOF already performs annually. The NOP instruction document describes certifier best practices and reflects many CCOF comments to the NOSB and NOP. CCOF is well positioned to meet the requirements and does not foresee an additional burden for CCOF clients. CCOF operations are generally not charged for unannounced inspections unless they are mandated as a part of ongoing monitoring of their operation.

BETHiyyCE i A Bethpage Library 4 7 POWGU- ^^^,-72^4 Island Trees Plainedge also servir^ Seaford Old Bethpage Plainview VOL. 32 NO. 4 May 21,1987 to May 27,1987 20 cents per copy Beach Stickers On Sale Town of Oyster Bay residents can get a jump on the beach season by taking advantage of the opportunity to purchase their beach stickers before opening dav. Beginning Wednesday, May 13, and continuing through Friday, May 22, beach stickers will be on sale at John J. Burns Town Park, Merrick Road, Massapequa, and at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Beach, Oyster Bay. Both locations will be open seven days a week from 9 to 11 AM and 1 to 3 PM especially for the sale of the stickers. To obtain a sticker, which costs $ 18 and entitles the holder to use any of the Town beaches for the entire 1987 season, residents must provide proof of residency (a driver's license or property title) and proof of ownership of their car (vehicle registration). Centre Island, Florence Avenue and Tobay Beaches will be open weekends beginning Saturday, May 23. ALl beaches will be open 9 AM to 6 PM daily beginning Saturday, June 20. B/ue Ribbon Crimina/Justice Panel Announced Nassau County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta and District Attorney Denis Dillon today announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Panel designed to review and make recommendations regarding the operation of the criminal justice system in Nassau County. Gulotta and Dillon stated it was vital that the County tap the resources of Speed Limit Reduced On Bethpage Road The Town Board has approved a reduction of the speed limit on Bethpage Road, between Broadway and Woodbury Road in Hicksville. After considering a proposal at the April 28th public hearing, the Board has approved reducing the speed limit from 40 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour. The Town's Highway Division will begin to post the reduced speed limit signs and anticipates completing the task within a few weeks. experts in the criminal justice field in order to play for the present and future. "Complicated and complex court decisions, jurisdictional questions between state and local governments, and a hopelessly congested court system are just some of the developments which have lead to problems in our County system of criminal justice and have added to the problem of overcrowding at the Nassau County Correctional Facility," Gulotta said. "It will be the task of our panel, the members of which will serve without compensation, to review in detail every facet of the system, from initial arrest to the conclusion of sentencing and rehabilitation." To that end, we are pleased today to announce the compostion of this important panel. Chairing the panel will be: * Alfred Samenga, former County Court Judge * Frank Gulotta, Sr., former Chief Justice, State Supreme Court-Appellate Division. * Mario Pitono, former Justice, New York State Supreme Court In addition, the panel will include Bernard Meyer, former Judge, New York State Court of Appeals, Leo McGinity, Administrative (Continued on Page 8) ^ J ^ ^ ^ ^ J ^ . ^ J ^ ^ . ^ ^ . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ J ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ ^ 4 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ In memory of these men of Bethpage who gave their Uvea for their Country ao we may live, 'Test We Forgef WORLD WAR I Archie McCord George Benkart Jr. WORLD WAR II Raymond Carriere RaUdCaffrey Robert Damm Joseph Biitehom Charles Butehorn Clarence SkeUington Korean War Richard Moesch Vietnam War ist Lt. Stephen £. Karotczyc Pvt. 1 ci James M. Hasenflug L. cpi. Guido Farinaro Sp4 WiUiam H. Henaghan Pvt 1 ciOtto Graybow SP4 Leonard F. Janstzen L. Cpi. Michael R. Morps SP5 Gerald W. McCaffrey These names were placed on The Vietnam Memorial in Washington D. C. by the Woman's Club of Bethpage. (Bothpage Momorial Day Committee) Notts: If any nomas w«re left out pleast contact Ths iathpoge Tribuns 681 •0440 to bring titting up to dot*. Thaw name* will be placed in the Bethpage Public library. j^Lj^^j^jf j f ^ j f ^ j ^ - ^ ^ ^ ^ J ^ J f i ^ ^ ^ J ^ ^ ^ - ^ ^ - ^ - ¥ ' - ¥ ^ ^ ¥ ¥ - ¥ ' ' ^ ¥ ¥ ^ ^ ¥ # ¥ ^ Object Description Description Add tags for Bethpage-Tribune_1987-05-21 1

Volume 45 Number 41 329 Broadway., Bethpage, NY 11714 Nov. 2 - 8 , 2007 (516)681-0440 ext. 21 FAX (516)681-9354 Email: Nuz2u@aol.com 50 Cents Enhancing Facilities at Bethpage Schools Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto recently visited with officials at JFK Junior High School in Bethpage, where the Town installed new bleachers. On hand were Liz Cotton (PTA President at JFK Middle School), Linda Mangano (PTA President Bethpage H.S.), Ralph Tocco (Asst. Principal), Kerri McCarthy (Principal), Tom Frost (Bd. Of Ed. V.P.), Richard Marsh (Supt. of Schools), Supervisor Venditto and County Legislator Ed Mangano. It has been a productive summer and fall in the Bethpage School District. Several District building improvements and initiatives have been completed, and as a result Building core systems have been enhanced and communication between school and home has been improved. Bethpage Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard Marsh provided the community with a thorough update of the progress at the September Board of Education meeting, and continues to provide capital project status reports at many public meetings. A Bright Future for Energy Savings New energy efficient lighting has been installed throughout the District, most notably at Kramer Lane Elementary School and the Bethpage High School gymnasium. As the result of an energy performance contract with Johnson Controls, schools have brighter, more efficient lighting, equipped with motion sensor detectors that automatically shut off lights when a room is unoccupied. This, coupled with the reduced kilowatts used by the new lighting, and energy efficient windows and weather stripping installed under the 2000 facilities improvement bond, results in significant energy conservation and considerable utility cost savings. Additionally, as a result of the energy performance contract, a new, more efficient boiler system was installed at JFK Middle School. Improved Athletic, Phys Ed Facilities In addition to the new lighting installed at the Bethpage High School gymnasium, the expansive wood floor was refurbished this past summer. Last year, new bleachers were installed in the gymnasium as a result of some of the proceeds from the community-approved sale of Borella Field. The Town of Oyster Bay also agreed to donate new exterior bleachers for the playing field at JFK Middle School. The bleachers were recently installed and will provide many years of service for sporting events and activities and were donated to the school by from the Town of Oyster Bay with the help of Supervisor John Venditto. Restroom Restoration Completed Restrooms at Central Boulevard Elementary School have been renovated using monies in the District's Capital Improvement Fund. Since the 2000 facilities bond and the creation of the Capital Improvement Fund from the Borella Field sale, the District has been systematically upgrading restrooms at all of the schools. Full-Day Kindergarten Plans Approved The State Education Department (SED) has approved building expansion plans at the District's schools that accommodate the implementation of a Full-Day Kindergarten Program. In May 2007, voters approved the plan, which capitalizes on a one-time New York State EXCEL grant that will significantly offset costs associated with expanding the kindergarten program. Dr. Marsh said the project remains on schedule and the program is still on track to begin September 2008. Ground should be broken for construction to begin in November. Parents Connected with New Phone System This fall the District is implementing a new telephone alert system called "Connect-Ed." The system, which is widely used by school districts throughout the country, enables the District to automatically send blanket pre-recorded phone messages to all Bethpage parents in a matter of minutes. Connect-Ed is commonly used to get important messages to parents in a timely manner, such as a school closure or school emergency. A Wireless Bethpage HS Dr. Marsh also announced that Bethpage High School is now a wireless "hot spot." This means that computers used in the school no longer are required to be plugged into a port in order to access the Internet, but rather gain automatic access. Commonly referred to as "Wi-Fi," this technology is a great benefit to students and staff using laptops, and offers them mobile Internet access throughout the classrooms, cafeterias, labs, and study areas, such as the library. A wireless network has the same level of security as the standard network. Only registered computers can gain access and all computers still use the District's filtered Internet. The technology is commonly found today in airports, coffee shops, hotels, and public libraries, including the Bethpage Public Library. Wow..That's A Nice Check! This Halloween the Bethpage School District certainly received a treat! On Wednesday Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard Marsh (second from left) and School Board Vice President Tom Frost (second from right) was presented with a check for over $700,000 from Nassau County representing pilot payments from Lily Popcorn on the Grumman property. On hand to present this wonderful check were Nassau County Legislator Ed Mangano (far left) and Councilwoman Rose Walker (far right). ATTENTION TRIBUNE READERS!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! A Bethpage resident has lost a 14 ct. gold and diamond men's ring. The lost ring has an emblem in the front depicting the world being held up by an "M" to symbolize the word "MENSA". This symbol is surrounded uy diamond^ pIease contact the Tribune at 681-0440 if you find this special ring. Object Description Description Add tags for Bethpage-Tribune_2007-11-02 1

One. I have been overwhelmed with work – hence my absence from Twitter and blogging – but I thought I had to “let the cat out of the bag”. #1 – Taking up a Touch Typing Course – LIE!!! It is true that I’ve always envied people who can touch type… I can type fairly fast, but I still have to look at the keys as I do it. I have tried a few websites (such as Touch Typing ) that help you improve your typing – and hopefully teach you how to touch type. But I have to admit to never being resilient enough to get through any of them. #2 – Teaching at a University – TRUE!!! Despite what many people from the PLN thought (and said as much in their comments) about the timing not being right (I’ve been teaching English for 18 years – it just wouldn’t add up), it is true. Right after I got my BA in Graphic Design, there was a selection for teachers at the same university where I had studied (and the only one with a graphic design course at the time), because so many teachers were abroad getting their post-graduate studies done. I got the job (I have to admit that I believe what got me the job was the “class” I had to teach to the team of professors who were in the selection committee - I was fresh out of college, but had been teaching – English – for a few years, so I think it gave me an upperhand). I taught the history classes: art history (focusing on design), Design History, Typography History (1 and 2) and Science and Technology History. I had that job for 2 years, before I got fed up with politics and people pressuring me to teach in a more traditional way. Then I quit. but my love for art never changed But during those two years I still kept my job as an English teacher at a private language course. I only taught English on Saturdays. That is how I was able to do both things, and that’s what makes the timing work. #3 – At my Wedding, the Groom Fainted – TRUE!!! Yes, my (now ex) husband fainted, twice, during our wedding. It was a combination of nerves, heat – we got married in January, which is high summer here – not having eaten well during the day… He fainted twice. After the second time, I said I’d only go on if we were given chairs and they found fans to place right next to us. My requests were met and the ceremony went on… for another hour!!!! It was truly an unforgettable wedding, and an experience I have no desire to live again. Later that night he even asked me to tell him about the wedding – he had no recollection #4 – I am as Fluent in Spanish as I am in English – LIE!!! I have formally studied both French and Spanish, but have not mastered any of them. Although I can get around on my Spanish – I got to the advanced level and the similarity between Portuguese and Spanish helps – I am (by far) not fluent on it. I won’t even comment about my French! #5 – I Was a Successful Javelin Athlete – TRUE!!! While I went to high school in the US, I had the chance of being more active and practicing many sports. When track season came, the school’s coach made me try all sports, since I had no idea if I was any good at anything. Surprisingly enough, I was really good at javelin throw. I won a few medals in competitions among schools – even a few big meetings! And if I have failed to remember what was my best mark, it’s only because it has been so long (20 years!!!). I guess I had a good arm So, there you have it. The truth. And if I learned something with this challenge it is that I am a good liar (thankfully I don’t do it often enough to have realized that before!) and that my PLN has sooooo little faith in my physical abilities! Shame on you!!! So Alfonso, you were the only one who caught my lies!!! Good one! Ha, ha! Yay! You really were a good liar though. So I completely suck at guess your lies. So what? *pout* Yes, it was you telling Dave that you threw the javelin 100metres that made me believe that one. Clever It was not intentional, Dave!!! I swear! Oh Ceci, you made me so laugh! I still haven’t done my true-lie post and I promised. I hope it wouldn’t be to late when I write it down, but I joined this wonderful team of PLN few months ago, so how interested I would be? sorry about mistake – interested – interesting*- it’s 5 am here in CRO

Scarlett Johansson biography facts # Scarlett Johansson was born on 22nd November 1984 New York City, U.S to Karsten Johansson, an architect and Melanie Sloan, a producer. She has a sister Vanessa, two brothers Adrian and Hunter. She has a half-brother Christian. # Johansson’s family was in film business even before she was born. Her grandfather was a director and screenwriter, her mother was a film producer. # She entered the Hollywood films when she was just 9 years old, her film child debut was with “North” in 1994. Her debut in a adult role was with “Lost in Translation” in 2003. # Apart films she worked as a singer for music albums also, her first album “Anywhere I Lay My Head” was released on May 20, 2008, her second work “Break Up” was released in 2009. # She endorsed many products including L’Oréal, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton etc, most of them are cosmetics brands. # She has been considered as “Sex Symbol” by the glamour industry, Playboy magazine named her “Sexiest Celebrity” in 2007. Maxim, Esquire, GQ, FHM, Men’s Health also ranked her among the sexiest celebrities in the world. # She married Ryan Reynolds 27th Sep 2008 at Tofino, British Columbia. But the couple broke up in 2010 and their divorce was finalized on 1st July 2011. # In 2011 her cell phone was hacked and nude photographs were sent to Ryan Reynolds. FBI started the investigation and arrested Christopher Chaney from Florida, he confessed the same. # She is working as Global Ambassador for Oxfam, an NGO working to eradicate poverty around the world, it has presence in 90 countries worldwide. # In 2008 U.S presidential elections she supported and campaigned for Barack Obama, Democratic candidate. Scarlett Johansson quotes .” “I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me. I always had that huge laaa aspect to me.” “That’s probably the direction I’ll take; I can’t keep up this face forever, you know. There is some weird ageist quality in Hollywood; perhaps that’s why I lean more toward directing and development.” Scarlett Johansson all movies list and latest films [Fans only: Hello readers make best movies list of your favorite celebrity and we will be happy to publish your comments. Box office isn't the only criteria. Thank you – Author] she is the real beauty. I use to like Scarlett Johansson until watching her interview on 12/13/11 on Entertainment Tonight. While giving the interview Matt Damon walked on the set and she said "Oh J--us Ch--t, here he is now." It's apparent she's just another sewer mouthed low life. i really love Scarlett. Scarlett is very beautiful and honest actress toward her work as her film like lost in translation are too cool we really love her for that. scarlett is vary good in her acting but unfortunatly she is in limited movie. I saw her wonderfull movies but I like her movie 'the Island' she should be in good movies like bruce almighty Believe me or not, Match Point has been the most wonderful film i v ever seen! plus, Titanic, albeit well-produced, pales in comparison with it! Basically, i m highly interested in Scarlet's inspiring films! Played adorable role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I can never forget that sacreficing face of her in the movie......

Ketuba mystery – solved! When it comes to requests for help with family trees, we at are a pretty hard-hearted bunch. We have to be: if we weren’t, we’d finish up spending all our time on other people’s genealogies, leaving none for our core work of finding, transcribing and publishing Jewish community records and, with our other hats on, recording cemeteries for our sister site, So, mostly, we refer such queries to organisations and individuals more dedicated to this kind of work. However, we couldn’t resist a cri-de-coeur from a researcher concerning an unidentified Ketuba, passed to him by his grandmother. A Ketuba (marriage Contract) is handed to the Bride during the Marriage Ceremony and would remain in her possession throughout her lifetime and be passed to her children on her decease and, thus, remain rather private documents The Ketuba in question was quite plain and, fortunately, the personal details were easy to decipher. As was to be expected, there were no English Family names on the document and the Hebrew patronymics, Moshe b. Meir and Hannah bat Uri (Aryeh), meant nothing to our correspondent. That is until he looked at the dates on some civil marriage certificates that had, quite fortuitously, arrived by post that very day and, suddenly, the light dawned; the Ketuba belonged to his Great Great Grandmother’s sister, Hannah Emanuel, who married Morris Myers on 17 February 1864. The matter might have rested there but, in writing to thank us, our correspondent gave us some details of the parents of the Hannah Myers (nee Emanuel), whose Ketuba we had translated, and her sister Sarah, his own Great Great grandmother. They were Philip Emanuel and Abigail Simmons: two names which chimed with some records we had recently been studying. The couple had married at the Great Synagogue on 1st September 1841 Abigail’s antecedents, Levy Simmon(d)s and Sarah Cohen had been relatively easy to trace. Philip, however, had proved impossibly elusive. And elusive he remains. But something our correspondent spotted concerning the father’s name on Philip’s civil marriage certificate, sent us scurrying back to our SynagogueScribes database [] and over the next week or two we will see if this new line of enquiry leads us out of this genealogical maze, or if we continue to go round in circles, following one false trail after another. ALS 6 September 2010

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Return to Transcripts main page OPEN COURT Women of Istanbul Tournament; French Open Winner Li Na; Lobbing Volleys With Andrea Petkovic; WTA Chairman and CEO Stacey Allaster; Turkish Star Ipek Senoglu Determined to Put Turkey on Tennis Map; Andrea Petkovic Behind the Scenes Aired November 10, 2011 - 05:30 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAT CASH, HOST: Hello, and welcome to OPEN COURT. Just beyond these ships is the Asian continent. I'm in Istanbul where East meets West and the top women tennis players have all traveled here for a year-ending championship. So, why Istanbul? Well, it's one of several markets that women's tennis is hoping to conquer. Coming up on OPEN COURT, Li Na, Asia's first ever Grand Slam champion talks about life after her big win. Hear why her husband is back in her coaching corner. Plus, what does it take to run the WTA? The woman at the center of the organization gives us rare access. And still to come, Andrea Petkovic dusts off her dancing shoes. The tournament only sends out eight invitations, and I was lucky enough to catch up with some of the top players and ask them what their highlights of the year were. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) (CROWD CHEERS) CASH: And how have the last few months been since Wimbledon? Has it been a bit -- a bit crazy? PETRA KVITOVA, WIMBLEDON CHAMPION: When I'm playing some tournament, yes, other people came to me and know my name finally, because before it was like, thank God, or something like that. CASH: Twenty-four years ago, I won Wimbledon, and I had dinner with Martina Navratilova. It's been -- there's not that many Czech players have been winning since. Welcome to the club. You're now a member of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. KVITOVA: It's very nice to be with Martina and Jana and Jan Kodes and everybody who won this great game. (CROWD CHEERS) CASH: So, tell me, how's it been since the US Open? SAMANTHA STOSUR, US OPEN CHAMPION: I went back to the Gold Coast, and the Gold Coast actually put on a big parade for me and also the 100 meters champ, Sally Pearson. So we did a bit of a parade, and lots of people came out, we got the keys to the city. CASH: Yes, I got the keys to Melbourne, and I realized -- the key to Melbourne -- and I realized it didn't open anything. STOSUR: That's exactly right. There's nothing. CASH: Huh? What's the deal? I couldn't go into any jewelry stores - - STOSUR: I heard lots of rumors of what it does, and then once I got there, they said, no, it does nothing. So -- but I guess it's just a great honor. CASH: Is there anything in particular you think that might have stood out for this year? STOSUR: Oh, I think there's been some really huge milestones this year. Really interesting that you can have those major events and throughout the year have four different winners, four winners in really quite different stages of their careers. (CROWD CHEERS) STOSUR: Kim and Li Na, what she's been through, having a child, and now winning another Slam. (CROWD CHEERS) VICTORIA AZARENKA, WORLD NUMBER THREE: I think quite a lot happened this year, but the one that really stands out is Li Na winning the French Open. It was an historical moment for China and for women's tennis as well, it was really huge. And I was the unfortunate one to lose to her in the quarterfinals, but I think it was amazing. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI, WORLD NUMBER ONE: I think it's great that Li Na won in the French Open and China, it's a huge market, and she's become very big in China and tennis has become very popular there. (END VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Li Na's win at the French Open is something that I won't soon forget. I mean, 116 million people cheering her on, watching her lift the Roland Garros trophy. We were fortunate enough to catch up with her at a Chinese Premier event in Beijing. Here's Eunice Yoon. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANNOUNCER: Li Na! 2011 French Open Champion, Li Na! (CROWD CHEERS) EUNICE YOON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is a rare trip home for China's first ever Grand Slam champion. I wanted to find out how she's adapted to her newly-found fame. (CROWD CHEERS) YOON (on camera): That means we're starting. LI NA, FRENCH OPEN CHAMPION: OK. OK. YOON: So, how has life changed for you since the French Open? LI: I think it changed a lot. Really. I mean -- biggest I know after the French Open is I come back to China. The fans were crazy. (CROWD CHEERS) LI: I was back home and the lady was like, "Oh, Li Na, I know who you are, I need your autograph." I was like -- because she spoke so loud so everyone can hear that. And same time, more people just came around for me, so my friend said, "Run into the car! Run into the car!" So, I was full power running to the car, and then we shoot. So, I was like, "What happened?" It was just like no more life. (CROWD CHEERS) YOON: Why did you decide to go into tennis? LI: My father was a badminton player and had some problems so he couldn't continue. So that's why, I was playing badminton before. But after two years, the tennis coach came to the badminton court, take me to the tennis court to show me how was the tennis court, how was the racket, how was the ball. And I was -- because I was so young. I couldn't decide anything, so I asked my family. So, they came to the court, they say, "Oh, interesting. OK. We change." I was like, "This is what you decide, one second after you see the court?" And I think it's not bad that I changed. (LAUGHTER) YOON (voice-over): As a young schoolgirl, Li Na trained under the state-funded national team, which covers all of the players costs. BENDOU ZHANG, TENNIS JOURNALIST: The state assists and you don't have lots of options. You train with other girls, you have the same coach, they use the same ways to coach everybody. YOON: Following the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Tennis Association gave more freedom to its players. ZHANG: Now everybody has to personalize their coaching way. You can choose which tournaments you play in and which coach you work with. I think it's very good for her. YOON: Li Na picked the former Swedish pro Thomas Hogstedt to help move her career forward. THOMAS HOGSTEDT, FORMER COACH, 2005-2010: She had very, very big potential. She was strong, she had great technique and strokes. She needed to have a mind how to play. I think that's what I tried to help the whole China players was the mentality, to believe that you can beat. Also the top ten players have weaknesses, so everything is possible. LI: Thomas, he was magnificent China coach. He always gave me the confidence. First time, he would say, "Oh, for sure you can be top 20. I was like, "Are you joking?" Because I didn't believe -- never had the coach say I can be top 20. ZHANG: I think Chinese people like her because she's different. She's not very Chinese. She's very international. She talks and communicates with people in some kind of other ways. YOON (on camera): You're viewed here as a rebel or a maverick. LI: No, I'm not. YOON: Yes you are! LI: No. YOON: Are you comfortable with that image? LI: Definitely not. YOON: Why not? LI: I mean, I never thought I was special. I'm just a tennis player. I just do my job. So, I don't know why someone would say that. YOON (voice-over): Li Na began the year with her husband as her coach. She fired him in the spring and rehired him in the fall. LI: Really, it's tough. Husband is the coach, so sometimes he was shouting against me, I was like, "Hey, you are my husband, why are you shouting against me?" But I forgot he was my coach. ZHANG: Jiang Shan is like her rubbish can. She needs a channel to make all the negative emotion go out, and Jiang Shan does a very good job, I think. YOON (on camera): Who proposed to whom when you guys decided to get married? LI: This is tough. I mean, we don't know who said it first, because we'd been together 13 years already. Just feeling like, "Should we marry?" "Yes. OK." And the next day we just go, OK. YOON: Because there was a report about how you had proposed on Valentine's Day. LI: No, of course not. We students have parties. So we have to wait after he retire if student husband. (LAUGHTER) (END VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Well, I've got a very special guest here. ANDREA PETKOVIC, WORLD NUMBER 10: Hello. CASH: Andrea Petkovic. PETKOVIC: How are you? CASH: Hello, very nice to meet you. PETKOVIC: Nice to meet you, Pat. CASH: What do you think about Li Na? That was a pretty impressive year, wasn't it? PETKOVIC: That was so impressive. CASH: Something -- PETOVIC: It was really -- CASH: -- something special. PETOVIC: It was really special because I also -- I played in China now this year, and I felt that the spirit changed there. It was just, people got so much more into tennis and they really knew what was going on, and I think Li Na changed that. CASH: She's not the only one who's done well, is she? You've done amazingly well. Where was your ranking before this year? Because you -- PETKOVIC: Yes, I was -- CASH: -- we didn't know you before last year. And now, here you are. PETKOVIC: I played well, yes. I had a great season. I played quite consistent. I played three quarters and three Grand Slams. So, now I'm here, I'm top 10. CASH: So, you've gone from 13 to 10. Where do you think you can improve to get up to maybe top 5? PETKOVIC: I would like to have more variety in my game. I would like to come more to the net, you know? Like you did in earlier times I heard. And I would like to improve my serve, so there are still tons of things that I need to improve. CASH: Well, if you want to practice some volleys. You want to practice some volleys? PETKOVIC: Yes, let's do it. CASH: Yes? PETKOVIC: Yes. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CASH: And you seem to have a lot of fun on the tour. PETKOVIC: Yes. I'll try to enjoy myself as much as I can. CASH: Sorry. Sorry about that. PETKOVIC: Want to kill me? CASH: I didn't mean that to happen. Everybody's talking about your dancing skills. PETKOVIC: Oh yes? CASH: Yes. PETKOVIC: Do you have some dancing skill? CASH: I have no dancing skills. PETKOVIC: I don't believe that. CASH: I actually woke up in the middle of the night, I want, "Oh! Heidi's going to make me dance!" (LAUGHTER) CASH: And I'm horrified by dancing. PETROVIC: If I play semis in Australia, you have to dance with me. CASH: Where? Not -- on center court? PETROVIC: On center court, yes. CASH: Or in a night club? Different -- PETROVIC: Right after my match. CASH: Well, Andrea, thank you very much. PETROVIC: Thank you so much, Pat. It was a lot of fun. CASH: Yes, and I've got a little -- a little favor to ask. PETROVIC: Oh, OK. CASH: You mind doing some behind the scenes footage for us? PETROVIC: No, I don't mind at all. CASH: Yes? There you go. (END VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Still to come, an inside look at what it takes to run the WTA. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STOSUR: Funny, I've actually never been to this city or country before, so it's not too many places that are new each year. VERA ZVONAREVA, WORLD NUMBER SEVEN: Turkey is a great country, and I think they're paying a lot of attention to the sport. WOZNIACKI: We really didn't know what to expect, and now I feel like there's so much buzz about this city. (END VIDEO CLIP) CASH: Welcome back to Istanbul, the site of the WTA season-ending championships. The lady behind this elite event, none other than WTA chairman and CEO, Stacey Allaster. In 2010, "Forbes" magazine named her one of the most powerful women in sports. OPEN COURT was granted rare access to follow Allaster over a 48- hour period at the Rogers Cup. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CANDY REID, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Stacey. I've come to -- CASH (voice-over): CNN's Candy Reid caught up with her in her native Toronto. STACEY ALLASTER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, WTA: When you think about it, my first job in tennis was cleaning the red clay courts at my club. REID: Is that right? ALLASTER: For 24 cents, or to get a pop. And then to think that I am the head of the organization that Billie Jean King founded. You know, I can sit her today and tell you that our sponsorship revenues are 60 percent up, six new sponsors, we've added three or four new events. I sat with the top players three days ago and said, all right, we're in a worldwide recession, and your prize money in the last three years has gone from $85 million to $90 million and $96 million next year. So, from this, this is really today's meeting. Almost 40 percent comes from our year-end championship. KIM CLIJSTERS , WORLD NUMBER 13: She is a competitor in her business, and that's, I think, what has been very -- why she's been so successful is that, OK, we have a good product, but you also need a good leader, and she's been that leader that we've been looking for for many years. ALLASTER: This is their business. I work for them. And they're the stars of the show. The last one will be on Saturday -- DANIELA HANTUCHOVA, WORLD NUMBER 24: She's the strength to represent the players, that we are not only on the court to look good and to be part of the tournament, but every one of us wants to win it. REID (voice-over): Of course, the big factor in the WTA's recent success is the emergence of a genuine superstar from China, French Open champion Li Na. ALLASTER: Li Na has really kicked it and taken us to a whole other level, 116 million fans watched Li Na win her first Grand Slam. Just the scale and size of that market is immense for women's tennis. China and Asia-Pacific is our number one priority. We want to make sure that we get that -- those markets right. REID (on camera): Do you see good life after the likes of Venus, Serena, Kim, Maria Sharapova, once they retire? ALLASTER: Everyone says, who's next? Everyone says, is it going to be as good as Monica and Steffi? And Chrissy and Martina. And what do we know? It always is. How are you? PETKOVIC: I'm good. You? ALLASTER: I think you missed. And that's where we went to. PETKOVIC: I know. ALLASTER: What are we going to do? REID: How important is it to develop the personalities of the players? Because there's a lot of Eastern European players that people just don't know. ALLASTER: How do we make Andrea Petkovic a star in North America? The great news is, she's got a wonderful personality. You know this is my home tournament, right? PETKOVIC: I know, I know that you're Canadian. (LAUGHTER) PETKOVIC (imitating Canadian accent): I figured it out. ALLASTER: Oh! (LAUGHTER) ALLASTER: You met me! When we go to Europe, Andrea Petkovic is a superstar. So, that's where we have this strength of being global, but it also can be a challenge as we move the tour around. REID: What about the grunting issue? Because that came up at Wimbledon a bit. ALLASTER: It does. REID: People were worrying a bit about -- ALLASTER: I don't know, you Brits. It always comes up when we're at Wimbledon. REID: It's a problem with Sharapova and Azarenka, if they were to play together under the roof at Wimbledon. ALLASTER: Yes. I do believe that changing this generation is very hard. They have trained this way. It's how they learned to play the sport. REID: I only have $10. $20. Am I going to go and see a movie, am I going to go and see a tennis match? ALLASTER: You can go to a movie any day of the year, but for seven days in your city, you can only see world class tennis. So, take a chance, come and see a Monday afternoon first round match of women's tennis, and you will be blown away. You cannot believe how talented they are, how hard they hit the ball, and it's a great entertainment outing. (END VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Still to come, the woman who's determined to put tennis on the map in Turkey. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) CASH: Welcome back to OPEN COURT from Istanbul. One of Turkey's most successful tennis players, and she's leading the charge for tennis in her country. I joined her for a cup of tea, Ipek Senoglu. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Oh, look at this. Well done, Ipek. Tea, the traditional stuff. IPEK SENOGLU, FORMER TURKISH NUMBER ONE: Did you like what I ordered? CASH: Fantastic. The cafe. Here we are. Thanks for tea. Now, you've got the distinction of being the first Turkish player to ever play in a Grand Slam. Wimbledon, right? SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: I've known you for a years, so I knew you when you were trying to get into -- SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: -- the tournament. Must've been a big step up. SENOGLU: It was always a dream for me, but obviously, being the first Turkish and having to dream about it a few years back before I did it, people were actually laughing because no one had done it before. But obviously, reaching that goal for me to ever play in a Grand Slam meant a lot. CASH: Well, when I first came here a few years ago, probably about the same time as you were trying to come through -- SENOGLU: Yes. Yes. CASH: I could -- I saw the potential. I saw so many kids that were playing tennis, and I thought, wow, people really do like playing tennis here. SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: It's come a long way. SENOGLU: A player doesn't have to right now go outside of Turkey to play professional tennis. CASH: Now, you also were -- what we famously saw a beautiful picture of, you and Venus Williams playing on a bridge in between -- SENOGLU: Yes, Bosporus Bridge, yes. CASH: -- Europe and Asia. SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: And you stopped -- you managed to stop all the traffic, obviously. SENOGLU: Yes, we did. (CROSSTALK) CASH: That in itself is almost impossible. SENOGLU: On one side of the bridge -- on one side of the bridge, they actually stopped the traffic. They asked me, look, you guys are going to be the first two people that ever had -- can play tennis from Asia to Europe. Would you like to do that? I was like, "Yes, please!" I liked to do that. It was an amazing experience to be on that bridge and to toss the ball literally with Venus Williams, one of the best players in the world. And to actually write history, because I don't think anybody will ever do that again. CASH: You're doing a tennis show this week. You're still on the circuit. SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: You're doing a lot of stuff. You're doing a tennis academy. SENOGLU: Yes. CASH: Who are some of the players that you think -- that you enjoy interviewing and -- SENOGLU: One of the girls that I enjoyed interviewing with was Andrea because she's very outgoing and -- CASH: Petkovic? SENOGLU: Yes. Do you like her? CASH: She's a lot of fun. She actually did a video blog for us, so, a behind-the-scenes video blog. So, maybe we'll have a little look at that. Let's have a look. (END VIDEOTAPE) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PETKOVIC: It's crazy. It's crazy, it's crazy. Once it's like water, it goes crazy. I feel like I'm the Backstreet Boys. Look at this guy. JOHN ISNER: Look at my chest! PETKOVIC: He just played the match. How did it go, four sets? ISNER: I won in four. Look at my big chest. PETKOVIC: Yes, look at his chest. ISNER: Am I turning you on. PETKOVIC: A little bit. (LAUGHTER) PETKOVIC: I hope you like this, and make sure you stay tuned. Caio. (END VIDEOTAPE) CASH: Well, you see Andrea is a lot of fun. But -- SENOGLU: Yes. I told you. CASH: Yes. Thanks very much for looking after us and getting this feast. I think it's -- SENOGLU: Can I eat some now? CASH: I think it's time to leave. But first of all, we're just going to say good-bye to everybody from Istanbul and thanks very much for watching this month. Food time. END Weather forecast

The percentage of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has hovered around 10 percent for the last several months, and local officials believe that number could slightly worsen before it improves. The county’s unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in January 2009 as the state and local economies plunged deeper into a recession. The rate increased to 10.8 percent in July – its apogee – and has hovered within that area in the months since. Statewide, better news may not be on the horizon either. “By far, this has been the worst in job loss the county has experienced in decades, far exceeding what we experienced in September 2001,” said Andrea Walton, a county spokeswoman. “As DeKalb works feverishly to climb out of this depressed job market, economic forecasters have predicted that DeKalb along with the rest of Georgia will lag behind well into 2011 due to the worsening of construction and the commercial real estate markets.” The number of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has risen from 32,547 in January 2009 to 40,296 in October, according to state Department of Labor data. The county’s workforce has also shrunk from 387,282 in January to 382,137 in October because a significant portion of the workforce has left the county, according to Ralph Tower, a state labor market analyst. The state’s unemployment rate could hit 11 percent by mid-2010 with more than six job seekers for each open position, Walton said. State banks are over-invested in the development market, she said, and, consequently, DeKalb County and the rest of the state will likely lag behind into 2011. To lessen continued job losses, the county has funneled money into DeKalb Workforce Development, a county agency, to protect and generate new jobs, she said. The agency received about $4.9 million to create or save more than 2,000 jobs in the county – part of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a direct response to the recession. The county also employed about 1,100 youth to work in a summer employment program. Many youth went on to receive full-time, permanent employment, Walton said. The agency determined in-demand industries that could lead to re-employment in a short amount of time, including health care, energy, green industries, education and infrastructure. County CEO Burrell Ellis held a jobs creation forum Dec. 18 to identify job creation opportunities. “The light at the end of the tunnel is that many think, and I agree, that DeKalb has weathered the greatest impact of job losses as we move to focus on job creation,” Walton said. New comments are currently disabled.

Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style - Date: February 2, 2012 from 9:30AM to 11:00AM - Day 1 - Speakers: Bjarne Stroustrup - 205,916 Views - 72 Comments Something went wrong getting user information from Channel 9 Something went wrong getting user information from MSDN Something went wrong getting the Visual Studio Achievements Right click “Save as…”Slides. Follow the Discussion Good!! Always eager to learn from the best. I'm definitely looking forward to watching Bjarne's interesting talk and the other GoingNative 2012 sessions! Looking forward to this exciting session, Rocks!! Looking forward to all the sessions. I am based in Manchester UK, must have checked the time in Redmond USA at least 20 times today :) cant wait. We are gonna party like it is C++98 :P Where are the live feed links? Awesome talk! Where can I access the recorded keynote? You'll be able to access the recorded keynote and indeed all the sessions right here. Charles said it would take about +1 day to do the encoding and then the downloadable video files will be available. Where can I download yesterday videos? It was a great lecture! But I haven't had the time to watch other speakers. I'll download the 1080p version of talks, since 1080p makes reading the code much a nicer experience. EDIT: Charles, would it be possible to also publish the PowerPoint or PDF slides? @undefined:Yes, where are the recorded sessions? Had to work during almost all talks, so I'm looking forward to here all these presentations - saw a bit of the first day live but will enjoy the recordings of all presentations soon . BTW: great selection of speakers: Bjarne, Sutter, Alexandrescu,… @STL: great to here that range-base-for-loops will be in VC11.. though I'm a std::for_each-guy so that's not that big of a deal for me. PS: looking forward to std::thread-support in VC… The range-based for-loop is significantly less verbose than std::for_each() (my least favorite STL algorithm). But using more specific STL algorithms is always a good idea. The first qsort Example seems to be broken. I guess it goes to show how bad the API really is. void f(char *arr, int m, ...) { qsort(arr, m, sizeof(char*), cmpstringp); } He probably wanted a char *arr[]. Great talk so far. btw. this website should support Unicode in names! Thanks. Fixed for future uses. A great talk! I believe the 38 slide should read shared_ptr<Gadget> p( new Gadget{n} ); instead of shared_ptr<Gadget> p = new Gadget{n}; The same thing with the 39 slide. I thought the talk on C++11 was great. helpful Can someone enlighten me about the syntax on page 62 (and 63) of slides: double* f(const vector<double>& v); // read from v return result double* g(const vector<double>& v); // read from v return result void user(const vector<double>& some_vec) // note: const { double res1, res2; thread t1 {[&]{ res1 = f(some_vec); }}; thread t2 {[&]{ res2 = g(some_vec); }}; // ... t1.join(); t2.join(); cout << res1 << ' ' << res2 << '\n'; } Isn't there a type mismatch between f() return and res1? I took some sentence from the description of Bjarne description, because I am trying to find ressources, materials tutorials that show how to acheive this. For the previous standart or c++11. Anybody know good reference where i can find this now? thanks @undefined: Slides will be released with each session video! Like this one C Oh heck I give up. Cool. Now we can see the invisible graph. Yes, having to explain an invisible graph was a bit of a challenge :-) Thanks for the comments; corrections will be applied to future versions of the talk. It is interesting to ask if the software which supposed to show the graphs and the graph itself (i.e. invisible one) was written in C++. I noticed also some problems with fonts on one or two slides. According to my experience these are typical problems in all kind of scientific presentations. It is hard to believe that it is so difficult to avoid those problems with current technology. The same presentation on one computer looks very different on a different computer only because some other fonts are installed on that computer. In theory it is possible to embed the fonts with the presentation unfortunately this method do not work well in many cases (my own experience). The only real solution is to transform the presentation into pdf or use some other software (or use your own computer but in many cases is not possible). I saw these problems hundreds times in all kind of conferences and it looks like nobody in the MS Office Team cares about that (since the existence of MS Office). The question about an easier way to declare getters and setters, anyone else think than Bjarne was just short of saying "I don't want that crap in my language"? =) Nice. C++ may get bashed a lot, but its creator can certainly deliver a coherent presentation.() ); Shouldn't there at least be a performance difference between sum=0; for(vector<int>::sizetype i=0;i<v.size();++i){ sum+=v[i]}; sum=0; for_each(v.begin(),v.end(),[&sum](int x){sum +=x;}); Since the first is calling size() during each loop, while the second (I believe) wouldn't constantly be rechecking the size, similarly to defining a vector<int>::sizetype end=v.size; and checking i<end? I am also curious why there aren't at least some run times or something to back up the claim that there is no discernible difference between "several systems and several compilers"? On my question about getters and setters in the video, I guess that these should be avoided; public data and object members should simply be declared public, despite what I've seen to be a common practice on many projects, and which seems to be promoted in many object oriented languages. Ideally, there would be some way to overload the setting of an object or data "property" if the logic needs to be changed or limits imposed. I have created a Property template class in the past as Bjarne suggested, however, there is no elegant way for the parent class to overload the setter in the aggregated Property<T> member, and the syntax of accessing members of the property too often become property.get().member(), rather than property.member(), which is what you want to write. From a language viewpoint, perhaps something like an overloaded "member access operator" would allow library writers to implement a setter or getter later if needed without changing user code. But without this, we suggest that if we need to change logic around setting or getting a member value, make the property private and recompile - we can easily find and update all the usages of the data member to use the new getter or setter. So awesome to have Bjarne posting on C9! Thank you, sir. C @undefined:Darren, here are my thoughts on your question. If you created a wrapper class for each public data member you could overload the assignment operator to perform bounds checking (as well as assignment) and perhaps throw an exception if necessary. That would solve the problem of assigning to a property without a setter. Of course, you would also have to overload all other meaningful operators for that property such as the boolean operators. You would have to repeat all this for each property, which in the end may be more trouble than it's worth. I can't really think of another way to do it, but I also haven't touched C++ in awhile so I could be wrong. Anyway, good luck. I would really love to hear a talk, or read a paper, from Bjarne that discusses when to use OOP, and when to choose Functional or Type programming. For me, finding a balance has always been the most difficult part in software development. There just isn't one right way, but I'd love to hear his thoughts. If anyone has any links to anything related that would be wonderful. Nice For those who are also members of the C++ Software Developers group on LinkedIn, I have started a discussion about what I believe are the most important features of C++ 11, and would love to see feedback and examples of good style that people would like to contribute. See I watched the video few times. I feel like we need some "fresh-minds" in defining what programming should look like, replacing Bjarne. They had their era, time to move on. My biggest problem with C++ (in big project) are the #includes that square the amount of source to compile (headers are compiled separately for each compilation unit). Look how long it takes to compile firefox or KDE :-( I think this is were we pay the cost for [over]using templates and/or inline functions. Maybe there is something that could be fixed here? Maybe if we break backward compatibility (drop the preprocessor)? It's a pity that those problems were not mentioned here. @pafinde: That's one of the things that modules seek to solve. You can see the "invisible" graph in my posted slides. I wrote a paper for IEEE Computer Magazine with very similar examples. See the January 2012 issue of Computer or my publications page:. From C++ application development point of view, is there any place for compiler generated iterators in C++ (c# IEnumerable)? Seems like they may be implemented with zero overhead, like lambdas do. I dont see any difference between the example and the 'better' example Both are understandable only if you use declarative parameter names as it is done with which is equally understandable for me if you write ? @bog: Thanks for this detailed answer to my comment. I dont want to start nit-picking here. For sure 99.9999% of all programmers (me included) would use both corner points to define a rectangle. But you could also define it by its center point and any other point. Or using the second constructor with Point top_left and Box_hw. Even if i would be 99% sure that i know what's meant, if i would readI would take a look at the implementation or read the docs to be sure. So for me, using declarative parameter names highly improves the readability of interfaces. After a night thinking about this issue I have to correct my first comment. Within the meaning of this excellent talk, the examples using Point are the better ones. I was just misled by the different notations for good examples written with parameters and bad examples written without. The Point example is better, because it implicates the possibility to use units like it is done by the Speed example. The general point (sic) about the Point example is that sequences of arguments of the same type is prone to transposition of argument values. I consider it a well established fact that this is a significant source of errors. The implication is that we need to look for remedies. Using a more expressive and specific set of types is one approach. A very good source of infomation.. Bjarne sir, I truly enjoyed, appreciated, and was influenced by your presentation. One thing that comes to mind is the ability for C++ to write performant, yet secure code. I'm confused at one thing. I can understand where he says, shared_ptr and unique_ptr, but where he says why use a pointer, and then shows this code: I'm pretty sure C++ wouldn't except that? I've just run a test, and you can scope a variable like in Java now ^_^ it would be like this Its amazing to see how C++ is catching up with .NET. I've always been a C++ guy. Thanks again. Now? That last f() has worked for about two decades! It's pure C++98. The "Gadget g {n};" in the original example, simply used the C++11 uniform initializer syntax, but is otherwise identical. Wow, i must be honoured to get a reply from the man himself. Thanks for the heads up Bjarne, C++ is really moving up. So I can just pass a object by value by using rvalue references. That is soo cool. Tom So, why can’t I read an unsigned char from an input stream? When I try to read from "0", I get 060 and not 0 as expected. And when I push (unsigned char) 0, I get "\0", not "0" in the output. (1) Huh? unsigned char c; while(cin>>c) cout<<c<<'\n'; gives exactly what I expect (2) The value of (unsigned char)0 *is* 0; not the value of the character '0' Great presentation Bjarne. Honestly I have checked it a few times already on the expense of not having watched the other videocasts yet... Too bad the Vector vs Linked-List comparison kind of fell short. In spite of the graph-mishap I got inspired and tested it on a few different machines. For small amounts it was virtually the same but as the sets got larger there was a huge difference.It was fun to see - especially since I remember discussing this a couple of years ago (then I failed to see the larger picture). Thanks again for the presentation! To the guy asking about getters and setters using different get and set functions per class and while still keeping function inlining, this should work. template<class OutType, class StoreType, class Controller> class Property { private: StoreType data; public: operator OutType() { return Controller::get(data); } OutType operator=(OutType a) { Controller::set(data, a); return Controller::get(data); } }; class HPController { public: static int get(int &a) { return a; } static void set(int &a, int &b) { a = b; } }; class Man { public: Property<int, int, HPController> HP; }; void PropertyTest() { Man man; man.HP = 7; cout << man.HP << "\n"; } Thanks Bjarne!!! I knew I wasn't stupid for wanting readable interfaces!! Hehe @Ray: The problem with that approach becomes when your 'controller' needs to do something a bit more complex and needs the target object's state to decide what to do or needs to notify the target object to do something else upon a change. In my experience I've found those cases the primary cases where I actually needed getters and setters. So then in that case the Property class template needs to change to be able to contain a controller object which then holds a reference to the target object ( 'Man', in this case ), and the Controller then can not use static methods. But then here is the bloat added. So I like Darren's new proposal best - if they are logically publically available properties just leave them as public member variables. In the future, when you realize that you need something more complex, either make them private and add getters and setters and modify the client code, or make a decorator that allows the assignment operator to work with them which calls the real getters and setter behind the scenes. The truth is IOStream treats signed/unsigned chars as characters and not as numbers. Whether this is something to be expected I don't know. Didn't know I could watch this on the internet. I will definitely watch this as soon as I get off. My suggestion is that when you write a char (short for "character") to an character I/O stream, you should expect to see that character on the output device. It takes quite some alternative learning to expect otherwise. PS The "c" in cout, stands for "character" PPS "If everything else fails read the manual" I was trying to use his units code that was on the slide around 24:00, but the syntax he uses for the following doesn't seem to work with gcc 4.6.2 and -std=c++0x using Speed = Value<Unit<1,0,-1>>; I've never seen this use of the using directive before. Anybody know what is up with this? @Luke: gcc 4.7 introduces support for template aliases. I have only 4.6.1 installed... I'll need to upgrade I guess With gcc 4.7, the following works: Speed sp1 = Value<Unit<1,0,-1>>(100); // 100 meters / second But this does not (operator/ is not defined): Speed sp1 = Value<Unit<1,0,0>>(100) / Value<Unit<0,0,1>>(1); I guess he left out the part which would define all the arithmetic operators. Yes, about two pages of things like this template<class U1, class U2> Value<typename Unit_plus<U1,U2>::type> operator*(Value<U1> x, Value<U2> y) { return Value<typename Unit_plus<U1,U2>::type>(x.val*y.val); } and this template<class U1, class U2> struct Unit_plus { typedef Unit<U1::m+U2::m, U1::kg+U2::kg, U1::s+U2::s > type; }; You can make that prettier in C++11, but I was using an old compiler (then), so I used old-fashioned, but effective, metaprogramming. I like this one. !bind comes from boost. "Using !bind(pred, _1) in the first call to stable_partition() in the definition of the gather() function template (around minute 56 of the video) won't compile, will it? (Unless the wrapper object returned from bind() overloads operator!, which I don't think it does.)" - from decades, code was been easy to learn first, because you were just need a few terms for programming. And you were done all things with that. - Now, you need , you must use Interfaces , typedef specifics, classes globally existing in a namespace (like .NET) and you must know how you name it. Yes, a box it's ok . This is a simple box. But, Box_hw ? how do you spell it ? You need now what you want to do but name it ! Is it more difficult for programmers ? No . Is it more difficult to remember the names ? No It it always difficult to remember for beginners. But, if you are a beginner, engineer, you just need to remember all classes. For example, even google couldn't help you if you want a bicycle and you don't know how you spell a bicycle. Now, differences between engineers : a few people know all classes ? well, but it's not very realistic. Second, i love when i can be a C++ programmer since i know how to program in Java. That is in a good spirit. Third, i love when he said "who does the delete ?" . Many bugs come from the bad documentation or a left program. And else about Copy ? Not copy ? well, you can choice. You need to choice and need to say in the documentation that you can copy or not (thread safe ?). After, it explains you should have use a Vector and not a List to insert incrementally your data because true OO type is a chained list. That is the difference and a time consuming with .NET List insertion. But, it's implementation dependent. You should know the implementation now. Low level is should be not use : use standard templates instead. That's very C++ ! Remove this comment Remove this threadclose

Best Kataang Moments (The Promise & The Search) YES Sokka’s face. lolz. I didn’t really feel this was a spoiler, but if you think so, I’m sorry? But seriously look how adorable they are. Since when were Kataang shippers ever throwing more of a hissy fit about Zuko then some adorable kisses? Older Kataang - Hold Me Tight by laiquendi-elf Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Alice Meynell Look at my OTP. Look how beautiful it is. Small penguin-sledding gifset. I had two more but tumblr won’t let me upload them. Question to other gifmakers: How do you get good quality gifs in small file sizes? Aang levitates in the air, until suddenly, a bolt of lightning strikes his body. The swirling cosmic ball vanishes and the avatar spirit falls and fades away along with the path of light Aang is standing on. Aang’s body plummets to the earth below. Back in the physical world, Aang’s body is also falling to the ground. His clothes are charred, and there is a terrible wound on his back where he was struck, as well as a burnt spot on the sole of his foot where the lightning exited. Katara stares shocked and horrified, tears rolling down her face. She turns her body and swirls the water around her. Katara creates a large wave and rides on top of it towards Aang, arms spread behind her. The wave rolls over Zuko and the Dai Li, washing them away. Katara catches Aang and lands on the ground, the water flowing away from her. She holds his unconscious body and looks up hopelessly... Imagine person A of your OTP a ghost singing a lullaby to person B every night. :( THIS IS NOT OKAY Because this is what actually probably happens every day after Aang dies ;__; i can’t promise you that i will be the only one around when your hope falls down but we’re young open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world My OTP is so beautiful! <3 and if i try to get close, he is already gone Ahh the way they look at each other! <3 I was never active on those forums, but whenever I went on there it was always a nightmare. I was personally insulted. I saw anti-Semitic remarks. People were horrible in general. I could never understand how a forum dedicated to my perfect OTP could draw such nasty people. Good riddance, I say. The Boy in the Iceberg / The Crossroads of Destiny

The financial regulation bill that House-Senate negotiators have finally cobbled together, with ringside support from the White House, is farcical in its failure to learn relevant lessons from 2007-2009 U.S. experience. The bill simply increases the regulatory authority of all government agencies responsible for that crisis, while leaving untouched the unsavory criminals and fraudsters, private and public, responsible for the collapse of financial markets. The Federal Reserve, which actively promoted the housing bubble and failed utterly to monitor the major banks, is to gain yet more authority to regulate yet more financial institutions. The Treasury, which bailed out some institutions and refused to bail out others, without rhyme or reason to its decisions, is to control a new Financial Stability Oversight Council empowered arbitrarily to determine which companies pose ‘systemic risk’. Rest assured that Goldman Sachs will never be so identified by any Sec. Treas. confirned into office. The Securities Exchange Commission, which created the credit ratings oligopoly and failed completely to identify any of the major scam artists that thrived under its loose jurisdiction, is to have additional powers to control elections to corporate boards of directors. And the criminals? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac go completely untouched by government action. Their top officials are feted by the Treasury and the Fed instead of rotting in the same jail as Bernie Madoff for their much more serious crimes. The major banks are not to be broken up to separate commercial banking from casino banking, as yet may be the case in the United Kingdom. Nor are the banks to be seriously constrained by miminum cash reserve to total asset ratios and by minimum tangible common equity to total asset ratios. Instead, all the fault lines that fed the 2008 crisis are to remain in place. In such circumstances, a major opportunity presents itself to the Republican minority in the Senate. If they hold together, they can filibuster this bad bill, and buy time until November 2010. Because so much financial market lobbying money is sloshing around the Capitol, however, my public choice expectation is that this bill will pass into law. My advice continues to be: Buy gold and take delivery now! And certainly do not turn that precious metal in when a bankrupt United States government eventually legislates to that end. Tags: failed government agencies gain increased powers, Fannie Me and freddie Mac get off scot free, The Dodd-Frank farce, the seeds of the next financial crisis are resowed July 7, 2010 at 11:39 am | [...] The Chris Dodd-Barney Frank-Barack Obama Comedy Show « Charles … [...] November 25, 2010 at 5:21 am | i think that everyone would love to watch some comedy shows because it is very entertaining *;~

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. Anonymous/ December 11, 2012 HORTON CXXXVBB A_Boleyn/ July 5, 2012 Oh … my … goodness!! How did I miss this post? You’re SO amazing. Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ July 5, 2012 You are too kind Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment at this post too. I really appreciate it Tasty Veedu/ May 28, 2012 Posted on my blog,take a peek: I still can’t believe I’ve made my first fondant cake!Thanks a million Sawsan… I couldn’t possibly have done it without your lovely blog! Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 28, 2012 heading over right now I am really glad I could help, thank YOU for trying my recipes for your nephew’s birthday Tasty Veedu/ May 27, 2012 Finally!!!I made my very first fondant cake..used your cake recipe,marshmallow fondant recipe,cream pattiserie recipe and added a bit of cocoa to your buttercream recipe…everyone loved it…ill be uploading the pics on my blog soon,but as i promised a pic as soon as possible ,jus visit this link: Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 27, 2012 Yay! I was waiting for your comment! I am so glad the cake turned out so well, it is really beautiful and the colors you chose are wonderful. Hats off to you on a job well done and Happy birthday to your sweet nephew Tasty Veedu/ May 24, 2012 Should i store the fondant in the fridge or at room temperature if i make it 2 days before?? Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 24, 2012 You should store it wrapped tightly at room temperature, if you store fondant or a fondant covered cake in the fridge the humidity will soften the fondant and causing the colors to bleed Tasty Veedu/ May 21, 2012 It contains sugar,vegetable oil,fat reduced cocoa powder(13%),wheat flour,whey powder & emulsifiers. These are the hints given on the packet: It is easy to melt and gives a perfect glossy finish every time. It is ideal for use as an ingredient in recipes or as a covering for cakes, fairy cakes and tray bakes. Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 22, 2012 I am not sure it wil work. You can try and if it doesn’t work, you can scrape it and use buttercream as a base under fondant, you can find my recipe for buttercream in my princess cake post Tasty Veedu/ May 19, 2012 What size cake tin did you use??did you double your usual cake recipe for this cake?can i bake the same recipe in a 9″ cake and divide it into layers?how do you cut it into such neat layers btw…sorry for soo many questions at once,I’ve bought all the ingredients for the cake and fondant…nephews birthday on 26th and I’m really nervous since its my first fondant cake.bt however it turns up I’d definitly post the pics for u,cuz I dont think I would have dared to do the fondant cake if I hadn’t stumbled upon your blog…:) Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 20, 2012 The pan you see is a 20 by 23 cm which is not one of the standard sizes but it takes 9 cups so a 9 inch round cake pan should be fine. Try measuring how many cups of water your pan takes. If it takes around 9 cups then it should be fine. For this cake I did not double the recipe, if you double the recipe you will need 2 pans, it really depends on how many people you need to feed. I cut it using a trick I saw on TV. Measure the thickness of the cake and half it and put tooth picks at the half mark all around the cake and cut immediately above the toothpicks using them as your support and guide. Please don’t appologize, ask as many questions as you want, I am happy to help. Happy birthday to your nephew and I really can’t wait to see the results and hear about the cake. Remember take it easy and enjoy it and take your time, you will get better results if you don’t rush things. Try to work at a time when your kitchen is not too hot, hot weather makes fondant sticky and easy to tear. You can make the cake two days in advance and the fondant can be made up to two weeks in advance and you can assemble the cake on the same day or the night before. Tasty Veedu/ May 20, 2012 Aww…u r so sweet!!I was wondering about how early i can make the cake and I thought it would be a bother to ask you soo many questions,so left it out…but you’ve answered it evn b4 i put de question up..i cant wait to make the cake…I have just one more question regarding chocolate ganache,I’ve bought a bar of Dr.Oetker’s Chocolate flavoured Cake Covering Bar…is it possible to make chocolate ganache using this bar?I bought it by mistake thinking its cooking choc bak frm saudi n nw m bak home in india…its really difficult to get a good quality bar of cooking chocolate here(btw de climate here is VERY hot ryt nw…:S…will try making fondant at night because its cooler then) Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ May 21, 2012 I am glad my comment was helpful, please ask as many questions as you want can you tell me what the ingredients in the Dr Oetker’s chocolate flavored cake covering are? and what are the instructions to prepare it. I don’t think we have this here and I am not sure if it will work in the ganach but if you give me the ingredients maybe I can help you more As for the fondant, definitely make it at night if the weather is too hot. thedrivencook/ March 5, 2012 You are so talented. Amazing cake! Sawsan@ Chef in disguise/ March 6, 2012 You are too kind Ashley Eva@ kitcheninspirations.wordpress.com/ September 22, 2011 Amazing, this is a really expert looking cake. I take my hat off to you — I like to spend time in the kitchen, but this just looks like waaaaaaaaay too much effort. Beautiful. thefooddoctor/ September 23, 2011 Thank you kindly..I love making my kids birthday cakes..the whole experience and mess make ir memorable Eva@ kitcheninspirations.wordpress.com/ September 28, 2011 Do you make the fondants? You are so talented! thefooddoctor/ September 28, 2011 You are so sweet Eva Shireen/ June 8, 2011 That is FABULOUS Sawsan! You are a true artist! You’ve done a wonderful job! Happy birthday to little Bibo and many many happy returns to come! I’m sure that cake made him over the moon!!! My children are already big fans of yours… they loved Horton and laughed their brains out about Bibo checking on Horton every 10 minutes! Really SWEET! thefooddoctor/ June 8, 2011 Thank you Shireeno Give your kids all my best.. Thank you for the sweet wishes for Bebo Miss Anthropist/ June 6, 2011 This is absolutely precious! Thanks for demonstrating how to make the rice treat figures–I definitely learned something new thefooddoctor/ June 6, 2011 Thank you Nourhan..that is the best part about blogging..you meet new people and learn something new every day Caroline/ June 5, 2011 Wow, great job with this cake, I’m so impressed! Too cute how your son keeps checking on HOOOTEN. I’m sure I would too. Wouldn’t want anyone ruining that masterpiece! thefooddoctor/ June 6, 2011 Thank you Caroline…I really appreciate your kind comment.. kouky/ June 5, 2011 waou!! ton gâteau est superbe!! je suis impressionnée par tous les détails que tu as parfaitement réalisés!! très bon anniversaire à ton fils!! bises! thefooddoctor/ June 6, 2011 Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment I asked my best friend to translate your comment for me because I’m not that good at french will reply to you in details soon thefooddoctor/ June 11, 2011 Merci pour visiter mon blog et pour tes gentilles commentaires! Je te remercie pour tes souhaits d’anniversaire Etaf/ June 5, 2011 woooooooooow are you planning to kill me sona, Etaf thefooddoctor/ June 5, 2011 Noooooooooooooo! Definely not! b3eed el shar Miss you so much Etaf lisamichele/ June 5, 2011 WOW..what a cake! I’m not a huge fan of fondant, but with skills like yours, I’d buy it from you in nano-second, ‘and’ eat the fondant! lol thefooddoctor/ June 5, 2011 Lol I did not use to eat fondant too until I came across this recipe at cake central, it actually tastes “good” and you can manage to take a bite or two.. Thank you Lisa for stopping by and for your kind words Kate@Diethood/ June 4, 2011 Oh how I wish that I could sculpt a cake like that… you are amazing!!! That is one incredible cake! thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 eva626/ June 4, 2011 my sister once made a cake for my dad’s bday out of rice crispies but it wasnt as cool as yours!!! it was just a big square with piles up layers with chocolate frosting on top.. thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Eva I can’t tell you how much your sweet comments and everyone else’s mean to me..Thank you so much fatisrecipes/ June 4, 2011 Wow… don’t you have some talent, there…. Who am I kidding, you’ve got HEAPS of talent! It looks amaaazzinngg… I can imagine my elephant (if I were ever to make this) looking a bit lopsided with severe down syndrome…. He’d be a very unhappy elephant, indeed. ……………..who ate it? thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you Fati and I’m sure if you made an elephant, it will be super cute. No one ate it yet…it is still in hte fridge under heavy observation from the birthday boy lol fatisrecipes/ June 5, 2011 thefooddoctor/ June 5, 2011 hehehehe It is all gone now..so sorry Nami @ Just One Cookbook/ June 4, 2011 OH MY GODNESS….. Sawsan! You are crazy! (in a good way, of course ). Or I should say you are amazing!! I am 100% sure your son was thrilled to see this. I am, right now. Great job! If I made this kind of cake, I think I would be taking pictures of this creation and would forget it’s birthday celebration. Haha. thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Loool I wish I had the time to take more pictures but with the exams and all there was very little time. I’m really glad you like it…I can tell you that my son loved it so much..and that was the whole point…to make him happy Claire @ Claire K Creations/ June 4, 2011 WOW is all I can say. That is an awesome cake. Well done!!! thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you so much..You are too kind Erin/ June 4, 2011 HOW COOL!!!! I love that you make parts of it out of rice krispie treats. It looks amazing! thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Hi Erin..it was really fun to make it with the rice treats..and it holds up better than fondant.. thank you for your sweet comment ChefMom/ June 4, 2011 This is absolutely amazing! My kids would flip! I’m so terrible at cakes and am always so impressed when I see a good one – and this is a seriously good one! Wow! (I love the fridge door story too! So cute!) thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you so much for the sweet words…I was horrible at cake making and decorating but I kept trying…I will keep the number of cakes that didn’t even make to the table a secret lol but believe me , time after time you get better and the best part is that it is a wonderful thing to do with kids…they have a blast helping Kate from Scratch/ June 4, 2011 This is so adorable! My kids love Horton and you have truly made it/him come to life. Woderful job! thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you Kate..it was really fun to make it and I am glad he came out recognisable hehehe Tanvi/ June 4, 2011 Sooo cute..I am sure your son would have loved it.Very good job on decoration!! thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you Tanvi Glad you like it theveryhungrybookworm/ June 4, 2011 Oh. My. Goodness. I love this. I may need to send this link to my mom as a hint for my birthday. I think she would get scared the second she sees the word “fondant.” Favorite line in the movie: “You just take care of that meatball sir and leave the freaking out to me!” thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Loooool I love that qoute too… Mine is when Vlad says..I’ll do it in exchange for that little kangaro Roody: Muuuuuum! Quiet Roody…mummy is thinking it over Wendy Irene/ June 4, 2011 That is such an awesome work of art! What a fantastic artist you are! Have a wonderful weekend thefooddoctor/ June 4, 2011 Thank you so much Wendy..hope you have an amazing weekend too Angela/ June 4, 2011 wooooow sawsan . reallly amazing !!!!! and say happy birthday to bibo and kis him for me <3 <3 but I'm not sure i'll succeed in making sponge cake can i make any english cake and just cover it with fondant? and how many cake molds i'll need? one or two? sooo innocent birthday cake i'm very confused about my son's i decided to make sponge bob cake couse day by day he loves him more thefooddoctor/ June 6, 2011 Sorry for the delay Angela.. You can make any cake you like as long as it is some what firm and not too crumbly. The number of cakes you will need depends on how big you want to make the cake.. Ginger/ June 4, 2011 Wow, this is phenomenal! I cannot get over how perfect Horton looks! You have such talent, I am envious! Have a wonderful time at the party! thefooddoctor/ June 6, 2011 Thank you so much Ginger..your sweet words mean alot to me Maris (In Good Taste)/ June 3, 2011 This is a masterpiece! I really thought the elephant was a toy! Magnificient! thefooddoctor/ June 3, 2011 Wow! You made my day Maris Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide/ June 3, 2011 Holy cow! Or should I say elephant. This is just fantastic! I’m so impressed. Also, I think you were smart to go with rice krispies seems like they’d hold up better to a 2-year-old! thefooddoctor/ June 3, 2011 Thank you Greg and yes you are right..a Horton made of fondant would not have made it to the party…he is still in the fridge and my little boys goes to check on him every 10 minutes..he opens the fridge …HOTEN(that’s what he calls him) ..he smiles and closes the door My BlogJect/ June 3, 2011 That elephant is so bloody creative! never heard of horton… but seriously impressed with the cake decorating effort! Your son is very lucky! thefooddoctor/ June 3, 2011 You are too kind..I’m the one who is lucky to have such sweet readers metrocakegirl/ June 3, 2011 GREAT job!!! This is fantastic. A tip that might help you get the smooth results you are looking for, after molding the rice treats, paint melted white chocolate over the surface, and let dry, it really makes a big difference. That being said, Horton looks pretty darn smooth to me. Again, what a great job! thefooddoctor/ June 3, 2011 Thank you so much for the tip and the kind words…will do the white chocolate next time

It's amazing....how swiftly dividing up your Life can be, when everything becomes Yours and Mine, and Ours isn't an approved possessive anymore. In hindsight, we both knew. We just knew how hard it was going to be to finally walk out, the courage hadn't matured strongly enough, yet to fight through it. It was about 6 weeks.....6 weeks, where I looked at him differently, every time we did anything, trying to etch it into my brain, burn it so deep that it would never leave.....since I knew, eventually it would. Silly things, ya know? The fuzz on his tummy, the shapes of his toes..... the sound he made when he put his nose on top of my head, taking me in. I watched my brain move through memories of his stories and ideas, our dreams together, and I grasped, hand over hand....trying to bottle them up, somewhere safe. Preserved. This time, it's different. There was a very clear point, when we both new we had to let each other....be. We walked away knowing we'd literally given each other every inch. No regrets. I watched my cigarette burn down, my eyes full to the brim, flooded with overwhelming ache...... "Can I please stay here tonight?" We both wanted one more evening, where we could act as if we still belonged to each other. One more night, one more morning with sleepy heads nestled into one another....one more coffee run, one more nightcap before everything changed. I held him in the dark, heart pulsing, shaking, our bodies fitting perfectly- the way they did.... "I feel so empty, I feel so dead." In the way he always knew how to calm me, "Chels, you're more alive than ever. You're more ALIVE than ever." The rawness of my pain was so clearly, LIVING, breathing on the surface of me...throbbing, accessible, conscious. "Everything in my future has you in it.... I don't want us to be done." Time always stopped together....I felt, if I just kept holding on, we'd never be apart. We were planning things, always- we were moving in October, to a new state...we'd met our "Someday" family, in our dreams...we already liked them, welcomed them...their tiny toes and their feistiness. I couldn't let them go. "THIS IS YOUR DREAM..... YOU HAVE THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INSIDE OF YOU." He said to me, while I hid myself inside of his arms, the ones I thought were made specifically for me. He was right, this was my Dream...he was my dream, and now....I had to walk away, knowing with my entire heart that we did every. single. thing we could.....some circumstances are just, unchangeable. I have the whole Universe inside of me.....and one beautiful love story, that has strengthened my heart, opened me to the most vulnerable place- changed me, irreversibly. We packed up my things, working together-- silently in sync.... detached still from the profound sadness that had now began to augment our lives. "Promise me, you'll never feel alone.... you'll never look at the phone and think that there's no one on the other end to call." He was, is, my Person. He said to me once, "Our souls have seen each other" and I know that they have, to the deepest capacity. When I was sad, he'd say "I see you." When I was defeated, he'd say, "You love yourself....remember?" He'd known me...he knew my layers and how to remind me of them, when I'd forgotten and I knew his. We sat there, on the bed, our bed---eating pizza, more for the activity than the nourishment....and he lifted his glass, piercing into me with those perfect blue eyes,"Cheers.....to our overwhelming success." It was what he'd always said to me when we toasted. Finally, it actually made sense. We, were successful. We love(d) so deep, so selflessly, cosmically.... we tried. We grew. We sacrificed. As we divided our things into His and Mine....I knew, there was one thing that would never be divided, apparently....souls can't do that. So.....My Love, as you will always be to me, here's to teaching me how big my heart actually is, to how magnificent it is to feel that love reciprocated and to our journey, together and now apart.... ....I will love you. Cheers, to our overwhelming success. 66 comments: Painfully exquisite. maybe all this happened so you would be able to look at the relationship in the positive light it deserved instead of the complete, earth shattering heartbreak of the last time. (not that this is any easier). my last breakup with the boy i thought i would marry ended on terrible terms, and i have tried so many times since the breakup to make amends, to try to salvage some shred of what was, just to be able to feel like the whole thing wasn't a complete failure....and i wasn't able to. it's the worst feeling. saying goodbye is never, ever easy. as always, this is beautifully written. stay strong, lovely <3 That was absolutely amazing. Heartbreaking. But as someone who's currently mending, I can say with absolute certainty that sometimes things just have to end. And when you've both given it your all, that's when you can leave without regrets. x wow. completely heart-wrenching but beautiful. thank you for sharing and for being so vulnerable and real. I'm so sorry; my heart hurts for you. </3 My heart aches for you both. Your words are moving, take care sweet friend. Don't forget that part above all. xo You are not alone. Love you. Beautiful. oh here i am , crying over yet another one of your beautiful heartfelt posts. what a blessing to have loved that deeply. It takes courage to walk away, and it's clear you're doing what's best even when your whole soul hurts. You've done everything you can for "us" and now you're doing what you need to for "me." Keep your head up and your heart strong, and just as Your Love says, remember that you're never alone. i'm sorry to hear that you had to separate, but i know that sometimes you have to walk away. i've had to do it before and as hard as it was i'm a better person because of it. good lucky lady, you'll do amazing no matter where you go or who you're with. that sounds like an extremely healthy breakup and i'm happy for you! I'm not sure why it had to end from the story you've so perfectly crafted here (you're SUCH a good writer!)... but i guess when it comes to our success, relationships can sometimes get in the way. This way of parting is in a way the best and at the same time most heart-breaking kind. Heartbreaking and but hopeful, Chelsea. You have a beautiful heart. oh my god (groans as i say this). if this isn't one of the most beautiful things i've ever read. Lots of hugs. This is beautiful, to have this with someone, even though it heart wrenching and painful. <3 My first true love and I were able to part this way and we are great friends. Soul mates, as it were. I'm so thankful for that. Yeah yeah yeah, if it was that great you wouldn't be splitting up. God, you kids irritate me. I went through this back in march. I thought I'd never recover. I told him I couldn't talk to him because it was just too hard. I went out and drank my sorrows away. I drank too much and cried into anyones arms who would let me. I thought I'd never be me again. I don't know when this all changed... But now were best friends. Seriously. And not the 'were broken up but are still doing it' best friends. For real. I've even started dating again, and it's real. It has been hard, but I am grateful everyday how it has worked out. I know you'll get through this, and I'm here for you until you do. anonymous--- leave it be, you have no idea what happened and to honor the person I love, I'm keeping it that way. Does it make you feel better to interject with your nonsense? go away. This is heartbreaking! Yet inspiring! Being able to walk away is hard, but sometimes it's what you NEED to do. In the long run, it will be for the best! xoxo I am so sorry for what you are going through. Breakups are never easy. You are a brilliant writer and this was no exception. wow...your writing cuts deep. As did your love for one another. I believe you are stronger than I....many blessings. Stay strong....wow. you are so poingant. you know how to "touch there." So perfectly written. Love you, darling. Just using yet another excuse to let you know :) i'm sorry that what you once had is now coming to an end... but it's so clear that you two will always have something. your souls have connected, afterall. this was poignant and beautiful. sending you lots of positive energy from boston. hoping your heart heals and you have brighter days coming soon. xo Your words are beautiful, Chels, even when beauty is the furthest from what you're experiencing. I'm so sorry your heart hurts. I wish I had something with more substance to say, but the truth is I can't find the right words after reading such beauty. But he's right... you're not alone. You're never alone. Though I'm sure that doesn't help much. This is beautifully written. once again I have found myself holding my breath as i feel myself rising and falling with every word you type. so beautifully captured. if i ever have a chance to experience a love like this, well, i hope my heart can take it. you're a beautiful person, Chels. hang in there. :) You got your second chance. You tried, you fought, you sacrificed. You were blessed with not just "one more night" but "a few more months." Be grateful. It will all get better. When beautiful things end, it hurts like fucking hell...but this, you got the most beautiful, painful ending there could ever be. It's light years better than an ending the implodes. But it still hurts like hell. Gutted. Spoken from the bleeding heart so powerful I can feel the love being squeezed out of you with a pressure impossible to bear. Looking forward to reading the next chapter of your life. You will get over this. I fell in love with this post. I was gripped. Transfixed. Sad. Moved. Empathetic. I was there, and not just because I have physically/mentally/emotionally been there, but because of your exquisite writing. This is beautiful. You are beautiful. Cheers to your overwhelming success. That was so beautiful it gave me chills...Clearly that person was brought into your life for a reason! "YOU HAVE THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INSIDE OF YOU." this reminds me of an Elliot Smith song, "Why should you want any other When you're a world within a world?" This made me cry. Literally. I'm crying right now. xoxo aw babe...but at least you know you guys gave it everything. That certainty is worth so much because it brings peace. The unknown will keep you up at night. I'm glad you guys are walking away in a way that honors what you two had, that is truly beautiful. You are going to be not only okay but better because of this! I'm so sorry Chels. I was so happy when you guys gave it another go- it was so wonderful to hear the happy in your words- and now so sad to hear the hurt. You are strong and amazing and everyone who is in your life is surely so grateful. Take time. Cry whenever you want. Just feel what you have to feel. Today is a feeling every-happy-and-every-painful memory day for me. Sometimes they still sneak up on me, even 6 months later. We can only remind ourselves that tomorrow will be better. Beautifully written. this gave me chills and brought many memories back. you took my breath away. completely. i have been there... re-reading your words took me back "there." you will find your happy, you will. and you will be thankful for this time in your life that will make you stronger. you've already realized the hard part-- the courage to admit it is time to walk away. For reasons only you two can ever know-- you love each other enough to do that and though it makes the saddest good-bye, it all will one day make sense. Thank you for your honesty. Your raw words spelt out so beautifully. xoxo This is heartbreaking, I'm so sorry.. Beautifully written! thanks for putting words to my divorce. this was beautiful. wow. im speechless. so beautifully written while it conveys a very true reality of what love is... My heart just broke for you both. I always wonder why things so beautiful have to end. Why? Why do they? We talk of time needing perfection - like the stars must align for anything worthwhile to work. But I always wonder if what love really needs is sacrifice. I guess you could call it service - service to the other in love. It seems that is the type of love that mends all possible heartache. I wish you the best! May your heart mend and you find something worth fighting for! The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning. It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have. Thank you for this. Thank you for letting us see your rawness and share in your beautiful tragedy. goosebumps so beautifully written, yet so heartbreaking at the same time. i am sitting here crying my eyes out! (okay, i also just finished watching jane eyre). i wish you all the best. stay positive. I cried a little reading this...wishing you the best of luck dear! Awe sorry to hear that. :( Sounds like you both gave it your best shot. Sometimes those are the hardest breakups. It's almost easier to be mad. This post almost made me cry. It's so real and so beautiful - and I can relate a million times over. Thank you for sharing. This is really beautiful. These are the hardest goodbyes: the ones where you're not angry, there's just love & knowing you have to walk away. Thanks for sharing this! *Hugs* I am crying. Wow, can't believe I'm just finding your blog now. This is incredibly moving and so honest. You are a great writer... and it's almost like you are in my mind more eloquently explaining how I've felt in the past. I started reading and writing a lot after my gf left me a few days ago. She likes to write too and I see you guys are friends here. The recent change of events taught me a big lesson that life is too short and that if you want it then you go get it. If its not yours then just trust in the Lord and willingly let go and He will do the rest for you. I just started writing on my own blog too. Goodluck and I know God has bigger plans for you. You defined in words what happened to me this summer... And I don't even know if I'll see him again although he keeps repeating it, promising it In different circumstances I would definately fight for this, but the world has other plans for both of us today, there is nothing I can do I jut know he made me a better person, alive, positive, so incredibly happy all the time Even without him by my side ;) Heartbreakingly beautiful. FML. Mascara all down my face and I cant stop crying. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, CHELS. Thank you for sharing this information to us... Keep coming Nicely done. x More PlayStation 3 News; Latest PlayStation 3 News, Reviews, and Videos Miniclip com is the world's largest online games website with over 57 Free online bigfoot www monster-truck-games com & find more monster truck games Pretty good post. I found your website perfect for my needs. Thanks for sharing the great ideas. WOW! Your writing is amazing. Just by reading it, it felt like I was in the situation. It was so raw and open.I love your writing and this post!! Love, Madita

(. Warm up the walls Changing the color and texture of walls is an easy way to add some spice to any kitchen. Paint the walls a deep red or blue for a dramatic look, or make your space feel light and airy with a coat of sunny yellow or subtle taupe. Feel free to experiment with decorative painting techniques, such as stripes, geometric patterns or textured finishes. After you've freshened up the color and texture of your walls, express your personal style through a few new accessories. An antique clock, a picture collage or shelves with colorful canisters are decorative, as well as functional. Change up the cabinets Liven up basic cupboards by switching the hardware - it's a simple way to give your existing cabinets a whole new look. Use crystal knobs for a vintage touch, or add stainless steel handles for an ultra-modern, sleek appearance. And, don't forget about the functional aspect of your cupboards - install shelf liner to ensure cabinets stay clean and well-maintained. Shelf liner protects cabinet shelves and drawers from wear and tear, prevents scratches and keeps spills or drips from damp dishes from causing damage to surfaces. "I recommend using shelf liner in any kitchen renovation project," says Danny Lipford, home improvement expert and host of the Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford television series. "It's simple for any homeowner to install and can be easily cleaned with a damp cloth or thrown in the washing machine. My favorite is Easy Liner from Duck brand - it offers an array of non-adhesive and adhesive shelf liners that are stylish and practical for use in any kitchen." The most popular variety, Smooth Top Easy Liner has a smooth surface that catches messes and spills as they happen, making clean-up a breeze, while the non-slip, gripped underside keeps the liner firmly in place. Transform your table Create a delightful dining space with a few changes to your kitchen table. Use a staple gun and a bright fabric to recover your chairs, making items you already own look like new additions to your home. You can even create a new tablecloth using the leftover fabric. Then, design your very own placemats using Smooth Top Easy Liner for a decorative touch that's easy to wipe clean as well as replace. Make sure to add a chic centerpiece - a vase of fresh flowers, a glass bowl filled with fruit or a collection of candlesticks - to transform your existing tabletop and create a focal point for guests as they enter the room. Brighten the basics Adding color from floor to ceiling is a great way to improve the overall feel of your kitchen. To start, try adding accessories to areas of your kitchen that feel blase. Bring in color at the highest points of the kitchen by adding faux plants or interesting knickknacks to the space above cabinets. Then, look low and consider the floor. Placing a colorful area rug beneath the table can bring additional interest and color to the kitchen, while also protecting the floor against scratches. Window treatments are another effective, eye-catching way to make any kitchen pop, whether you're adding new valances, cornices or even long panels. When choosing fabrics, make a statement with bright colors, or choose an unexpected, bold pattern for a contemporary approach. Sophisticated stripes, pretty plaids or fun florals are also a nice choice for kitchens. Follow these tips to make your kitchen as chic as your dinner is delicious - you'll create a flavorful design that will look good enough to eat.

Agenda -4 Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee Meeting8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Thurs., April 4 8 p.m. CHCA Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee Meeting Chestnut Hill Hospital, 8835 Germantown Avenue, Main Level Conference Room Agenda: Water Tower Recreation Center storm water runoff conditions: considerations for applying to the Green City, Clean Waters Program+8:00 pmCHCA Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee Meeting - Apr5Fri - −Deadline for Chestnut Hill Community Association Dues (all-day)Apr 5 Friday, April 5 Deadline for new membership dues payments and membership renewal dues payments in order to qualify to vote for bylaws amendments+Deadline for Chestnut Hill Community Association Dues (all-day) - −Save the date April 18 CHCA annual meeting (all-day)Apr 5 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. CHCA Annual Meeting Presbyterian Church 8855 Germantown Ave. Thursday, April 18, 2013+Save the date April 18 CHCA annual meeting (all-day) -6Sat -Chestnut Hill College Scholarship Gala6:00 pm – 10:00 pm April 6 Chestnut Hill College Scholarship Gala 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Commonwealth Chateau at SugarLoaf Hill, 9230 Germantown Ave. Guests are invited to enjoy cocktails and dinner and will have the opportunity to meet Chestnut Hill College students who are assisted by academic scholarships. Highlights of the evening include dancing and a “Support-A-Student” live auction, where guests can bid to provide a student with a variety of scholarships. Throughout the evening, guests will tempt their taste buds with a sumptuous array of savory and sweet treats from some of Chestnut Hill’s finest food and beverage purveyors, including Baker Street Bread, Zipf’s Candies, The Wine Thief, Bredenbeck’s Bakery, the Chestnut Grill, Metropolitan Bakery and more. One lucky guest will also walk away with a diamond pendant, courtesy of master jeweler Carol Voelme Zemnick, ’75. Proceeds from the event will fund Chestnut Hill College academic scholarships. Tickets are $150 a person. Event sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available. Cocktail attire is recommended and complimentary valet parking is also available. For more information, please visit. To purchase tickets, please contact Coco Minardi at 215.753.3692 or email minardin@chc.edu+6:00 pmChestnut Hill College Scholarship Gala - −Art Exhibit and Poetry Reading7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Saturday, April 6 7 p.m. Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts 7924 Germantown Ave. Free and open to the public; complimentary refreshments served Join us for a reading and reception that kicks off a month-long exhibit of the unique fiber art of Wendy Osterweil and the responsive poetry of Musehouse poetry students.+7:00 pmArt Exhibit and Poetry Reading - Apr7Sun -

Most of the time, I relish in the responsibility and creativity of deciding what we eat on a daily basis. Planning 2-3 meals in advance usually helps keep things just organized enough to take some of the stress off, but not so much that it zaps any last minute creativity from the equation. Often in the 3 meal scheme, just one of them will be something totally new. Sometimes, though, I will have greatly overestimated my capacity for new recipes. Just such a scenario played out a few weeks ago when I just couldn’t bring myself to cook. It was too much. I was tired and stressed. Mix in a little guilt and you’ve got the makings of one fantastic meltdown. The potential loss of a good meal really gets me down. I forget what I had planned to cook now. It doesn’t even matter. All I know is there was crying and consoling and an agreement that Paul would make dinner. And not in that because-I-have-to way either. In an excited and eager way, like he was almost waiting for the floodgates to open so he could actually cook something without me glaring over his shoulder. He promised me Potstickers, people. While I could only nod through the tears, I retired to the couch with a drink in hand, giddy just thinking about them. He even let me “help” by allowing me to read the ingredient list to him and walk him through it. It was the perfect combination of being the boss and not having to do any of the work. It was a rare and beautiful gift and that’s why he’s a keeper, ladies. Paul makes the absolute best Potstickers. I find this incredibly impressive, partly because I suck so much at making them. I can never wrap them in a way that gets all of the air pockets out, and mine are always ugly looking. Paul has just the right technique. Despite hardly ever cooking, he has certain recipes that he can pull out and completely blow you away. (Other times he’ll try to make an omelet without greasing the pan, but, you know…a mistake you make only once.) The Potstickers were heavenly and they are a fun appetizer-for-dinner meal that feels really special. We’re addicted to these and I bet you will be, too. And a brief note to non-cooking spouses: never underestimate the breakdown. These used to be Ku’s pork dumplings, but now they are Paul’s Potstickers. Potstickers (adapted from American's Test Kitchen) 1 lb ground pork 2 cups napa cabbage, minced finely 4 green onions, sliced 4 tsp low-sodium soy sauce 1 tsp sesame oil 1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger, optional 2 cloves garlic, minced fresh black pepper 1 lb ground pork dipping sauce: 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce 1-2 Tbsp water, to taste 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 tsp sesame oil hot stuff: either 1/8 tsp chili paste, a dash of hot sauce, or minced red chilies, to taste about 30 dumplings with this amount of filling, serving about 3 people as a main course, or 6 as an appetizer. To make potstickers: 1. Add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to a nonstick pan. Place over medium heat and add enough dumplings in the pan to form a single layer, but without the dumplings touching. Cook 3 minutes or until the bottoms have crisped and browned. 2. Pour 1/2 cup of water in the pan, cover it, and let them cook (without peeking!) on low for 10 minutes, or until all the water is gone. Set a timer! 3. The dumplings should be brown and crisp on the bottom, but if not, let them cook a few minutes more to get crisp again.

Giant of a first inning sets tone for NL's rout Panda plates three in five-run frame off Verlander; Melky named MVP KANSAS CITY -- Talk about a lasting first impression. The National League sure knows how to make one. The NL struck for five runs against American League ace Justin Verlander in the first inning and cruised to an 8-0 victory in the 83rd All-Star Game on Tuesday night with 40,933 fans packing Kauffman Stadium. It was Kansas City's third Midsummer Classic, and in this longtime AL stronghold, the NL has won all three games. The first two came in 1960 and 1973. This time, though, there was added relevance because the NL, for the third straight year, had won home-field advantage for the World Series. Giants center fielder Melky Cabrera, back where he played last season for the Royals, earned the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet after bashing a two-run homer in the fourth inning to go along with a single and run scored in the NL's big first frame. "I didn't come to win an MVP. That's just a surprise. It's a great gift that the Lord gave me," Cabrera said. "But the same opportunity that Kansas City gave me last year is the same opportunity that San Francisco is giving me every day to showcase my talent. Again, I'm just very thankful for the fans that voted for me to come here." AL players must have been blinking in disbelief in the first inning. This was a Verlander they'd rarely seen. The big Tigers right-hander was roughed up for five runs on four hits and two walks as all nine NL batters trouped to the plate in his only inning. That's right, five runs. It's happened twice before to Verlander in his brilliant career, but this was an awkward time for a repeat -- his first All-Star start. "Obviously you don't want to go out like that, but hey, I had fun," Verlander said. "That's why I don't try to throw 100 [mph] in the first inning. Doesn't usually work out too well for me." Even so, Verlander was intent on pleasing the throng at Kauffman. "Obviously I don't want to give up runs. I know it means something," Verlander said. "But we're here for the fans. I know the fans don't want to see me throw 90 and try to hit the corners. So, just let it heat. Have fun." It was the NL, though, that had the most fun. Cabrera's one-out single and Ryan Braun's double off the right-field fence accounted for the first run. Verlander, on a 3-2 pitch, showed some finesse with a third-strike floater that Joey Votto gazed upon in wonder. However, Verlander loaded the bases by walking Carlos Beltran on a 3-2 delivery and Buster Posey on four straight pitches. "It is surprising, because he's one of the toughest pitchers in the game through the last year," Beltran said. "Normally, when you face him during the season, you get 90, 91 [mph] early in the game. But he came out firing 97, 98. He was missing his spots, and we were able to capitalize." Pablo Sandoval, the Kung Fu Panda of the Giants, launched a liner down the right-field line that struck the wall just fair and rolled away from Jose Bautista for a three-run triple. "I just got a pitch I can hit," Sandoval said. "He didn't have command of his fastball. I just got a curveball right there, hanging, so I put a ball on the wall." Panda trundled home on Dan Uggla's infield hit, a grounder to shortstop Derek Jeter. Finally, on his 35th pitch of the inning, Verlander got Rafael Furcal to bounce into the third out. But it was 5-0, sucking some air out of the AL-leaning crowd. Verlander became only the third pitcher to give up five or more earned runs in one inning or less. The others were Atlee Hammaker of the Giants in 1983 and Sandy Consuegra of the White Sox in 1954. Such a first-inning outpouring of runs happened just once before, in 2004 when the AL scored six runs at Minute Maid Park in Houston. It also matched the NL's biggest inning in All-Star history. Matt Cain, the NL version of a hard-throwing right-hander, had much better luck. After a leadoff infield single by Jeter, the Giants' perfect game pitcher whizzed through two scoreless innings and registered on his best moments meter. "It's definitely right up there with all of them. All the nerves, all the pressure and all the excitement," Cain said. "That was a thrilling two innings right there." A Cardinals twosome combined for the NL's sixth run in the fourth inning against Rangers lefty Matt Harrison. Furcal laced a two-out triple into the right-field corner, and he scored on pinch-hitter Matt Holliday's single to right. But wait, these guys weren't finished. Cabrera lined a home run into the left-field bullpen for two more runs and an 8-0 lead. Harrison didn't escape before giving up a triple to Braun, also into the right-field corner. Braun was left at third base, but his triple gave the NL a collection of three, an All-Star Game first. Just four innings into the game, NL manager Tony La Russa, in his farewell appearance, had all he needed for victory. "You just don't usually get an eight-run lead in a big game like this," he said. "It was just lucky, like the other 30 years have been for me." It wasn't the most lopsided shutout win in All-Star history. That was 12-0 by the AL in 1946 at Boston's Fenway Park. The AL stirred up some mischief in the fifth inning against Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw by loading the bases on one-out singles by David Ortiz and Mike Napoli (youngest All-Star Bryce Harper lost the ball in left field) and Asdrubal Cabrera's two-out walk. But the promise fizzled as pinch-hitter Ian Kinsler flied out. Nothing else developed, which meant that AL manager Ron Washington of the Rangers had become just the second pilot in history to lose two consecutive World Series and two consecutive All-Star Games concurrently with the same clubs. The other was the Braves' Bobby Cox. Billy Butler, the Royals' representative, pinch-hit for David Ortiz in the seventh inning and grounded out to third base against Cole Hamels. Up again in the ninth, he struck out against Joel Hanrahan. A poignant moment came in the NL sixth when the Braves' Chipper Jones, heading for retirement, made his final All-Star appearance. He grounded a single into right field against lefty Chris Sales. This was the first game of his career at Kauffman Stadium. "Unbelievable. I regret not having been given the opportunity to play here before," Jones said. "It is a beautiful venue. I am happy that I got to play here one time before I retire." And it was a beautiful evening, the game starting at 90 degrees, with Hall of Famer George Brett, Kansas City's official All-Star Ambassador, tossing the first pitch to Butler, who'd been greeted by a roaring standing ovation. This game marked a reaffirmation to the country and the world that Kansas City was an old-style baseball town, but with modern amenities, its roots running deeper than just the 1985 World Series title and with a rich history beyond even Brett. By all accounts, the team, the city, state and region hit a tape-measure home run. "Everything about our stay here was about as perfect as possible, win or lose," La Russa said. "Doesn't surprise anybody. ... That's kind of the way Midwesterners are." Helps, too, when you go away with a big victory.

You can't ask for better support as a pitcher than you get from our club. I would stack up my club's lineup against any lineup for any team in baseball. If we're not the best offensive club, then we're certainly one of the best. That's not taking anything away from any other team, but I like our lineup one through nine as much as I like the Yankees', the Indians', etc. You name them and we're right there with them. One of the keys to our lineup is our depth. When you look at it from a pitcher's perspective, there's no taking a hitter off; there is no breathing room. In other words, you can't just blow by someone. There are a lot of excellent one-two punches in the game right now, but I feel that the combination of Gary Sheffield and Magglio Ordonez, the two guys in the middle of our lineup, are as good as any combo. Both guys are proven and both guys are producing at a high rate right now. They are both great, professional hitters who also possess a lot of power at the plate. Our catalyst, Curtis Granderson, is a one-of-a-kind threat at the top. He can hit for a lot of power; he hits a lot of triples; he steals his fair share of bases, and at a very successful rate; and he can motor from first to home on a double. He has the sort of tools that can quickly change a game. He improves our chances of scoring runs and winning games. As a pitcher, when you give up only a few runs, you know you have a good chance to win the game. You know you're probably going to get strong support. If I had to face our lineup, I would do it like I attack any other good lineup. I would attack them and try to put the hitters back on their heels. We're in a tight race and it remains to be seen whether our offense will be able to help carry us all the way to October. I know one thing: I wouldn't trade our offense for anybody else's offense. Jeremy Bonderman, the 26th overall pick out of high school in the 2001 First-Year Player Draft, is 10-4 with a 4.50 ERA and 121 strikeouts over 136 innings for the Tigers this season. He won 14 games in each of the previous two seasons. Major League Baseball Players Association trademarks and copyrights are the property of the MLBPA. Contact the Major League Baseball Players Association for more information. Use of the Website signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

I know there probably is no real connection, but I couldn’t help but wonder if Mayor Rahm Emanuel considered a last-minute change to the five people he picked for his infrastructure trust – a body that is supposed to set priorities for repair projects such as mass transit and sewer. For Emanuel included an organized labor official among his people who will have influence over the city’s maintenance – Chicago Federation of Labor President Jorge Ramirez. HE MADE HIS announcement at roughly the same time that the Chicago Teachers Union was making it known that they took a massive “drop dead” vote toward the Chicago Public Schools leadership – which is merely taking its cue from Emanuel in the hard-line it is adopting toward contract negotiations. “Drop dead.” How else would you describe a vote of 90 percent of teachers favoring a strike, and only 2 percent (1.82 percent, to be more precise) opposing the idea. Considering that we have to go back to the days of Harold Washington as mayor to find a time when teachers actually walked off the job (for four weeks, back in 1987), it would seem that city and schools officials have done a thoroughly good job of ticking off their teachers to get them so overwhelmingly willing to take to a picket line. Now I realize that just because the teachers voted to strike, that does not mean they will actually do so. IT MERELY MEANS that the Chicago Teachers Union leadership can call for a strike at any time now, if they think that negotiations have reached an impasse. The teachers just gave them the authority to do so. I’ll give the example of a suburban high school district, Thornton 205 based in Harvey, where teachers took a strike authorization vote one day, and the school board voted to approve a new contract agreement the next. Somehow, I doubt that will occur in Chicago. But let’s hope that educators and administrators all manage to act like adults and continue to try to strive toward serious negotiations. Anything’s possible. Besides, the two sides have all summer and the early autumn to try to talk things down and reach a serious compromise somewhere between the 2 percent raise for next year that was the Chicago Public Schools’ initial offer, and the 29 percent that the teachers’ union initially asked for. Although when one considers that it was 20 percent more pay for having to work 20 percent more hours and another 4 percent to compensate for a pay hike they had to give up, it seems they’re really asking for a 5 percent hike for the upcoming year. SOMEHOW, THE DIFFERENCE between 5 and 2 doesn’t seem so great! This is all about playing political hardball, and I’m sure on a certain level Emanuel would like it if he could claim a conquest of the Chicago Teachers Union among his first accomplishments in office. Which is why the overwhelming strike authorization vote announced Monday shouldn’t be such a surprise. My guess is that union boss Karen Lewis is trying to show she has just as big a (ahem) as Emanuel. Personally, I take the 90 percent support for a strike about as seriously as I do the idea of teachers doing 20 percent more work for only a 2 percent pay hike for the first year – and a pay freeze for the next couple of school years. THEY’RE BOTH NONSENSE-TALK. Ridiculous rhetoric! Absolute arrogance, mixed in with a touch of pulp! We’re in the second week of June. Which means there is still plenty of time for people to get serious. And I mean people on both sides of this equation. Let’s only hope that they do, and that come September, Lewis’ rhetoric about “overpaid outside consultants” and “billionaire education dilettantes” will be long-forgotten because the two sides will have come together and made it possible for us to go a full quarter of a century without a Chicago schools strike. That would be a serious accomplishment we as Chicagoans could take pride in. -30-

Along with many Americans, I wondered what the NRA was going to say yesterday in response to the Newtown massacre. In what I thought was a shrewd move, the NRA was unusually quiet this week, including shutting down their social media presence. I’m not sure if they did it out of respect for the victims, or wanted to develop a strategy to salvage their relevance and credibility with much of the American public. Given their statement yesterday, I think they developed their ideas in a boardroom while drinking whiskey and playing the Call of Duty Black Ops II video game (They likely wouldn’t have played their own NRA sport shooting video game that was roundly panned a few years ago). Now before some of the diehard NRA wing nuts jump down my throat, please understand that I am not in favor of eliminating law abiding citizens from owning guns. I own a shotgun and a revolver. The handgun is an old Colt 38 Special that was my great-grandfather’s service weapon when he was the Marshal of the City of Ruston, Washington. I have a newspaper article from the early 1900’s where he used this weapon in a gun battle with a burglar (the burglar lost). I enjoy target shooting and bird hunting. I am envious of my friends who have beautiful gun collections, and consider many of them beautiful works of art. With that said, I’m blown away by the NRA’s myopic and inflammatory statements yesterday. My interpretation of what they said is; this incident was caused by; - Extremely violent video games - Reluctance to prosecute gun crime cases - Gun free school zones - No one in the school was armed to fight back Their approach? Make a very public and inflammatory demand to place armed police officers in every school. OK… which schools? Public? Private? Daycare? Tribal? What about all of the other public gathering areas that have experienced mass shootings, like malls and movie theatres? What about the economic reality where federal, state and local law enforcement officers and programs are being slashed? What about the fact that a school resource officer engaged the shooters at the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, and was significantly outgunned (An officer with a sidearm is no match for someone intent on mayhem with a high powered/capacity assault rifle). I’m guessing their myopic approach is going to come back to haunt them. I’m not a card carrying member of the NRA, but if I was I would have dropped it before their press conference was over. The current NRA leadership is nuts (or they were really drunk when they came out of the boardroom). It now appears that the Newtown murderer had significant mental health and social issues. We may never know what made him snap, steal his mother’s guns, and kill everyone he encountered in a very short amount of time. Where does the NRA stand on helping those with significant mental health issues? When the New York City Police Commissioner expresses disappointment in the NRA’s stance (and yet says he is not surprised), you have to wonder; What the hell were they thinking? Why didn’t they simply express outrage at the tragedy, call for increased dialogue and action to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those with mental health issues, call for increased support and funding for families struggling with the mentally ill, and offer to aggressively participate in a national dialogue on how best to proceed? Instead, they came out swinging defensively, looking and sounding desperate and totally out of touch with America’s growing concern about gun violence, especially the horrific violence that occurs in 2-3 minutes by a deranged kid with a high caliber semi-auto rifle with a 30 shot magazine. What is revolting is they took this approach before the last of the victims had been buried. The NRA leadership may have just flailed their organization into irrelevance. Let’s hope the majority of NRA members have a more realistic view of the need to take positive and realistic steps to prevent these type of events from happening again. The victims and families in Newtown and all of the past mass killing tragedies deserve nothing less.

Nine Muses - News I don’t know what they’re saying exactly because I don’t speak this language but I think it’s about the constant struggle a woman experiences when caught between innocence and her sexuality. A woman must often repress her sexuality in order to protect herself but within there is this passion that can only be unlocked once she finds someone she can connect with and feel ready with. This will go almost completely ignored now that there are dead Americans to talk about, but Newtown Elementary was not the only school attacked today. Wow. It’s happening all over the world. Society is collapsing. These seemingly random acts of violence are all connected by one basic thing: People are unhappy with their lives and what they see around them. They envy children because children get to be happy. It’s socially acceptable for a child to be silly and happy. Adults are told they must hide their emotions at all times and never express them and must also work nonstop. This system is wrong. That lifestyle is wrong. People are lashing out everywhere. This keeps happening. Violence in public places. Until people re-evaluate their lives and start to realize that maybe working nonstop is unhealthy and is driving people insane nothing will get better. Turn off the TV and start reading reliable online news sources. Things are changing but it’s going to take a lot of darkness before we reach the light. Pay attention to the people around you and take care of those you care about. Society is shifting. Who knew such republicans existed. HOLY SHIT, give this man an award. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Republicans for Planned Parenthood. SHOCKED Contrary to popular belief, most Republicans aren’t bad people! The Republican Party has become incredibly warped over the past few years, going far more right than most right-winged citizens. It’s unfortunate that the Republican Party is the new name for the Tea Party these days. I had no idea that that group existed either. (Source: stfueverything) [Chorus] Written to the pages of the law good lord The Cold Continent latch key child Ran away one day and started acting foul King of where the wild things are daddy’s proud cos the Roman Empire done passed it down Imported and tortured a work force and never healed the wounds or shook the curse off Now the grown up Goliath nation Holdin open auditions for the part of David, can you feel it? Nothing can save ya, you question the reign You get rushed in and chained up Fist raised but I must be insane cos I can’t figure a single goddamn way to change it [Chorus x2] Welcome to the United Snakes Land of the thief home of the slave The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and power is God [Verse 2:] All must bow to the fat were Cause the children cant escape from the pain and they’re born with poisoness hatred in their veins Try n’ separate a man from his soul you only strengthen him and lose your own But shoot that fucker if he walk near the throne Remind him that this is my home (now I’m gone) [Chorus x2] Hold up give me one right here Hold on [Verse 3:] aint [Chorus x2] [instrumental break] [vocals: Mankwe Ndosi] (You’re so low) Custom made (You’re so low) To consume the noose (You’re so low) Keep saying we’re free (You’re so low) But we’re all just loose (You’re so low) [Repeat til fade:] Custom made (You’re so low) To consume the noose (You’re so low) Keep saying we’re free (You’re so low) But we’re all just loose (You’re so low) If I were Muslim they would call me a terrorist. I noticed this picture floating around on Facebook today. It pisses me off. Here’s my 2 cents: But you’re not and they aren’t. In this incident racism isn’t really relevant. People are ignoring the real issue. There’s no sense in complaining about racism that didn’t even happen! There are actual real examples of racism happening all the time. Let’s talk about those if you want to talk about racism! This shooting was tragic and should be talked about but it shouldn’t be turned into a conversation about racism because that doesn’t apply here. It was senseless violence and should be addressed for what it is. Don’t turn it into an issue it’s not just so you can have something to say. Racism is bad and is definitely an issue but in this case it doesn’t really apply. People like to bring up racism when it doesn’t apply because it’s a very charged issue and is easy to define. Racism is obviously wrong. So if people bring up how wrong racism is they automatically get to feel smart because they’re right. This incident is not about being right or wrong! The real issue here is senseless violence but senseless violence is harder to understand and harder to talk about. People are ignoring the real issue here! People should never just go around talking about racism and nothing else when things like this happen. Violence isn’t that simple. World’s first virtual grocery store opens in Korea! Customers scan QR codes underneath pictures of products with smart phones to add them to their online carts and the items are delivered to their homes. More info: new york times opinion article This article blew my mind! Please read it! Click the title or the picture to go to the article :): “I was able to get away with this diamond wall heist because I told the owners I would paint in big letters ‘Diamonds are a woman’s best friend’ on the exterior of their building. The owners loved the idea and all quickly agreed. The next day I had started painting but what the owners didn’t know is that I lied to them and was hijacking their wall.” .”.

Carrot Barley Galettes For the past three years now, I've been writing a column in ELLE à table, a French bimonthly cooking magazine. This column spans two pages, and I generally devote one to an ingredient (cardamom! buckwheat! white chocolate!) and what you can do with it, the other to a food experience or trend (superfoods! Japanese pastries! mushroom picking!) and why you should care about it. In the next installment (spoiler alert), due to appear in the March/April issue of the magazine, I'm declaring my passion for the rolled grain -- flocon de céréale in French -- as a multi-faceted ingredient and an all-around trouper: cheap, nutritious, and versatile. If the term "rolled grain" doesn't ring a bell, just think of oatmeal: each of these little flakes is in fact an oat groat that was rolled between two tight cylinders to make it flat (ouch). In fact, when you look at a rolled grain closely, you can recognize the shape of the original grain, with the "seam" in the middle (I admit without shame that I realized this only recently). The same treatment can be, and is, applied to other unsuspecting grains: spelt, barley, rice, kamut, wheat, rye, you name it. I am never without a bag or two or four of assorted flocons, and I use them in very many things, from granola to cookies, from bread dough to fruit crumbles, and from gratins to savory tarts. And I've recently added a new type of preparation to the list of great things rolled grains and I can accomplish: please meet the carrot and barley galette, a vegan vegetable and grain patty that would love to meet you for lunch sometime. All you need to do is combine rolled barley with grated carrots and a few seasoning ingredients, add water, wait for this mixture to swell and cohere, then shape into patties and cook in a skillet until crisp and golden with a tender heart. I call it carrot and barley because, well, I've mostly made it with grated carrots and rolled barley, but naturally you can take the concept and run away with it (just don't trip and fall on your face), using whatever grain and vegetable you like. It works especially well with root vegetables (I've made a beet and spelt variation for instance), but nobody says you can't try it with finely minced winter greens, grated Hokkaido squash, chopped mushrooms, or, come warmer days, with peas and later zucchini or tomatoes (in that case, you'll have to adjust the amount of water to account for the juices). The one thing to remember is that said vegetable won't really have time to cook in the skillet, so you'll have to decide whether it needs to be cooked beforehand, or can be eaten semi-raw. Carrot and barley galettes - 200 grams (7 ounces) grated carrots, from 2 medium carrots - 200 grams (7 ounces, about 2 cups) rolled barley, or other rolled grain (oats, spelt, rice, etc.), or a mix - 1 small shallot, grated or finely chopped - 1 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon ground cumin - 1 tablespoon sesame seeds - 3 1/2 tablespoons ground flax seeds (from 2 tablespoons whole seeds; this works as a binder to help the patties hold their shape) - 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast (look for it in organic stores; substitute a grated hard cheese if you prefer) - olive oil - fresh chervil or cilantro - hot sauce Makes eight 85-gram (3-ounce) patties. Combine all the ingredients from carrots to nutritional yeast in a medium mixing bowl. Add 240 ml (1 cup) water and stir well. Cover and let stand for at least 1 hour or until the next day (refrigerate if you let it stand for more than an hour). The mixture will gradually become more cohesive; the longer it rests, the easier it will be to shape. Pour a bit of oil in a skillet and place over medium heat. Divide the mixture into eight equal portions (if you want to be really exact, each should weigh 85 grams or 3 ounces). Wet your hands lightly, scoop out a portion, and shape it into a patty between the palms of your hands. You can make the patties thicker or thinner depending on your preference. Repeat with as many portions as you want to cook. Transfer the patties to the hot skillet and cook for 3 minutes on each side, or until golden. Serve immediately, with a sprig of chervil and a dash of hot sauce. The raw mixture will keeps for about 2 days in the fridge, tightly covered. Chocolate & Zucchini [] All writing and photography on Chocolate & Zucchini is Copyright Clotilde Dusoulier © 2003-2012 unless indicated otherwise. All rights reserved.

Good restaurant in Venice Venice now exists only for tourism, so indifferent food and terrible service are easy to find. After two days of really unpleasant dining experiences in October we took an acquaintance's advice and tried the Gam-Gam, "Bar Ristorante Ebraico", a kosher restaurant in Cannaregio by the Ponte di Guglie at the edge of the ghetto. We were not at all interested in kosher food (and the big window poster of Rabbi Schneerson was pretty off-putting for me) but it turned out to be such a pleasure we ate there the next 2 nights too. A number of Venetian specialties originated in the ghetto, so most of the Gam-Gam menu was both Jewish and Italian (although some items were Israeli). All in all, it was probably the best restaurant we ate at in Italy. Carciofi Fritti (deep-fried artichoke hearts) and Sarde in Saor (fried sardines marinated with alternating layers of onions) are perhaps the best-known Venetian dishes from the ghetto, and both were irresistible. The Couscous con Pesce (with fish) and Spaghetti Mar Rosso (Red Sea spaghetti) both had a really delicious tomato fish sauce. The salads were the best we had in four Italian cities. The Melanzane (eggplant) del Ghetto is harder to describe, since we ordered it twice and it was different -- but delicious -- each time. Also notable were the latkes, but they weren't the flat potato pancakes my mother made; these were big egg shaped deep-fried things, crunchy on the outside and delicious. An Israeli antipasto platter was also very good, as was a fish filet with a spicy sauce. The decor was nothing much but pleasant enough, and the prices are reasonable, everyone is friendly, the service is fast and efficient (most of the waitpersons seem to be Israeli students), everybody speaks English, and the #5 vaporetto Ponte di Guglie stop is right in front of the restaurant. Tel. 041/715 284 We also enjoyed Gam Gam. In fact my husband was sick one night and my 12 year old and I brought him back matza ball soup from Gam Gam--I'm sure that's what cured him. I also have to agree about the preponderance of so-so food in Venice. This was our third trip. The first two trips the food was the highlight for me but this time the mediocre food was a huge disappointment.

Seattle - CSA's and Wine clubs Hey folks - I'm a recent transplant to the northwest (coming back to fiancee's native grounds), and it looks like after months of travelling and general non-employed vacation time, we decided to finally get our butts in gear and find jobs and a place in the seattle area. So, I am looking for reccs on two things: - a good, reasonably priced CSA : in San Diego I was lucky enough to be part of the Be Wise Ranch CSA, although we had to eventually stop due to having far too much food for two people (and far too much mizuna/chard/collards for anybody!). The produce was lovely, and the price was reasonable - came to about 20 dollars for a box every two weeks. is there anything similar up here? I've looked around and found a lot of organic delivery and such, but that seems a lot more expensive. Preferably a CSA that lets you pick your produce to a degree would be great too. - a wine club or something similar: a bunch of my family and friends back in california do this kind of thing, and from the events ive gone to with them it seems to be a great way to meet people and put things on the social calendar. I know Washington makes some great wine, but I'm not sure how big the scene is in seattle. Thanks in advance. Cascade Harvest Coalition just released their 2009 brochure of local CSAs: Debs. - re: goofyg fullcirclefarm.com all the way. You're always getting the food at least a day or two before any PCC or other small organic market, I promise. A few pointers: 1) I never eat lettuce, and it seemed that lettuce was often an option for the weekly box. So, I added "lettuce" to my list of 3 items I never want in my box. That way, they substitute it for you, and you have an extra substitution to use. 2) try some of the local foods you thought you didn't like. You might find them more enjoyable when they are fresher. 3) Just accept the fact that you'll throw away some of the food. Every kitchen has waste. It's no biggie. If you compost it, you'll still go to garbage heaven. As for a wine club--check out Michael Cawdrey's shop- "Fremont Wine Warehouse". He has regular tastings, he's most eager to help, all wines are under $25, and the man truly knows wine. Go. Got our first Full Circle Farm CSA Box yesterday. I will say that I'm very impressed. It seems like a good deal and will certainly force us to eat more healthy. In fact, I tasted my first sunchoke last night which was actually grown at the farm and it was delicious. Anyway, anything can happen in the future but as far as the first box goes, I highly recommend the service. CSA: I've been using Full Circle Farm as our winter CSA, we get a small box of organic veggies and fruit every other week ($29/box). I really like their system, you can make up to five substitutions per box, you can suspend your service if you're going to be out of town, you can order additional items from their "green grocer" section, they denote what they grow themselves, what's sourced from other PNW growers, and what's not local. Wine Club: Verve Wine Bar in Columbia City does tastings Tues evenings, price is $5-10 and they pour 5-7 wines. Esquin does free tastings on Thur evenings and Sat afternoons. I really like Wine Outlet, they have open bottles to taste every day, I highly recommend checking them out this Sunday (3/30) during their pig roast. I use Nature's Last Stand for my CSA delivery and am very happy with them. Yes, you get critters sometimes but nothing that you wouldn't see if you grew your own vegetables organically. My husband and I get a small box every two weeks for $35. It's the right amount for us. The Pike Place Market also operates something like this and I've done that in the past. The quality and variety of produce was a tad higher but it was more expensive, the boxes were bigger and therefore more than my husband and I could use, and you had to pick them up at the market. - re: Lauren I used to belong to the Pike Place Market CSA. THey are discontinued. For a wine club--you mean tastings and the like? lots of wine shops have free and pay tastings--try Pike and Western, Esquin, McCarthy and Schiering. Chateau Ste. Michelle is close by and has wine events. Tons of restaurants do wine dinners. The magazine Northwest Palate always has some listings. Culinary Communion does cooking classes and tasting classes. I just signed up for Full Circle Farm's CSA after some good recommendations from friends. I can't speak to quality yet as I get my first box on Thursday. I will say that the website is very easy to navigate, specifically identifies Northwest-grown and/or Full Circle Farm-grown items and they allow substitutions. Check it out at fullcirclefarm.com and I'll try and post a review when I get the box. - re: yoyo11 - re: yoyo11 I've signed up for full circle farms in the past, they're very nice and the produce is great too. There was this one time I got a few unwelcome visitors on my broccoli but they totally made it right by giving me a little something in the next box I got. The only reason we stopped is that I still find it challenging to eat my fruits and veggies (sorry, I'm more of a junk food girl). So basically I stopped doing CSA period, I didn't swap to someone else. If I ever go back to it, I'll totally join full circle again. I think they even have eggs and some other stuff now. - re: lollybird - re: Jeters absolutely - that was one of the things we loved about them. They were also really great about us postponing boxes which we would periodically do when the veggies got just too much for me and I had to have a junk food break. I must have postponed at least 3 of my 10-box set. It took months for me to get through the entire lot. - re: Jeters - re: lollybird - re: Jeters why are you off bread? I had to get away from white bread for a couple of reasons, so now I'm on ezekiel bread (sesame, and cinnamon raisin) and the crushed wheat sourdough from trader joes. Had to go to all the grocery stores in the area to read every single ingredients list. Now, practically the only time I have white bread is when I hit Wibbleys for my weekly burger. I just picked up a flyer for Seattle Uncorked.. Haven't tried anything with them so far, but the membership fee is waived if you sign up before July '08.

The drive to Vegas is a mere 5 hrs and when you get there, you can eat whatever your hearts desire. I suggest you eat here in SD, or perhaps Temecula, then suck it up and land in Vegas where you will find one of the greatest cocentrations of really amazing choices for your eating pleasure in North America. (Take that New York!) Guy Savoy. Gary Danko. Michael Minna. Picasso. Nobu. (gulp) Buffets. Just to name a few. And not all Vegas options are on the high end like these above. We love - LOVE - Lotus of Siam. Decidedly not Vegas atmosphere. Off strip, but nearby to the south end hotels. Google it - you'll see it's one of the most well-regarded Thai places in the world. But if you must nosh en route, there's a Tommy's in Barstow () Happy travels. That drive is not really designed for fussy eaters the way I would define that term. But there are a few non-fast food, non-chain places that could do the trick. Just North of Barstow is Peggy Sue's Diner, a 50's nostalgia place that is popular with travelers and truckers. Not earth-shattering, but pretty decent. In Baker, there's The Mad Greek, which is an order-at-the-counter place that does a pretty decent job with traditional Greek foods as well as burgers. There are probably some decent alternatives in Victorville, but I haven't found anything there but the chains (On The Border, Outback, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Marie Callender's, Red Lobster, Ruby's, etc., etc.. - re: Midlife You don't say where you're coming from or if you have any control over the schedule, but we drive to Vegas from Sherman Oaks several times a year. We don't bother to eat on the way. Maybe twice we stopped at Donut Man in Glendora (off the 210) for a snack. We leave at 7am, pick up coffee at our local Starbucks, stop at the drive-thru Starbucks in Baker for more coffee, and hit Vegas in time for lunch. If I remember I bring almonds or fruit for snacking in the car. If I had to eat in Baker I might try the old Bun Boy which is now a Big Boy. But really, it's probably just a waste of time and calories. - re: Debbie W Original plan to two of us leave from Studio city area nice and early and drive straight through with bagels and coffee. Suddenly we have companions who are very nice but fussy eaters so a stop is now involved. Oh well. Think it will be Mad Greek in Baker. I should be mad by then. thanks for your advice. - re: arlene I guess I don't understand what being a fussy eater has to do with being unable to make it from the SFV to Vegas without stopping for a meal. I'd think if they're fussy then you could have stronger grounds to argue that you shouldn't eat until Vegas - lots of excellent choices for fussy eaters there. -

Authentic Food in NC Triangle Area Anyone... Pancho Villa on Chatham St. is about as authentic as you can get for mexican food. Speaking spanish is almost a requirement. Their pozole is delicious, and you can get any of their tacos with a variety of meats, including tongue. Then you can always go next door to the mexican grocery store and get a fresh paleta. There is a new authentic Chinese restaurant in Morrisville called C&T Wok; we ate there tonight and found a traditional Szechuan menu that looks to be fairly authentic. We tried the Pork w/ Szechuan Radish Soup and the water-boiled beef (classic szechuan dish) and both were excellently done. I (the eastern counterpart) feel that this restaurant may become my favorite Chinese place in the triangle area, but will have to try more from it before I make that decision. You could also check out Coquette in North Hills. Where are some places that make their own pasta and do it well? Does Bella Monica? I would have to add Watts Grocery for local sourcing (although several places do that) and Neil's for making his own Pastrami/Corned Beef. I guess what may need to be answer is what is meant by authentic? Are we speaking strictly ethnic cuisine? Clyde Coopers in Raleigh has good BBQ. Indian well you can take your pick just not Azitra. Saffron, Udupi, Sitar and Mint all seem to get good followings. You can go with Locopops for something different. Don Jose is one outlet in Chapel Hill, but there are several Taco trucks and quite a few places located in Durham that I'm sure people will pipe up about. As far as Greek I'm not sure where it goes from being authentic to something you could find at any other Greek place. I've also happened to have Sushi Tsune. I went there with my sigfig weekly. We were becoming regulars, so (what seemed like) the head waitress was *very* nice to us. She gave quick, quality service and while she didn't talk much, she seemed to have noticed and tried to keep our dinner routines. We also got complimentary mochi ice cream (mmmmmm, i love mochi) and some salad and soup (separate times). The chef, I heard, has only been in the US for 4 years, he's very friendly and a bit playful. We ordered the firecracker roll one time just to try, and asked for it "extra spicy" just to be mischievous. He asked if we were sure and played around with us a bit. Sitting at the bar is definitely enjoyable if you are good at conversation. The guy is cool. It's a shame it's not opened between 2 and 5? I think (it's been a while), 'cause I would definitely like to go for a light supper thing sometimes, seeing as how my schedule doesn't really allow much time for dinner anymore. - re: applegravity14 sorry for spamming, I just realized I haven't really recommended anything....the Uni, like the OP said, is awesome. Nice and creamy, served at the right temperature for me, which is room temperature or a bit under. Another favorite of mine is the Hamachi, which I love and like to order in most sushi restaurants. This one served fresh hamachi every time, very buttery and delicious. The salad is ok, the dressing makes it a lot better. The tempura is light and not too oily, which i appreciate, being someone who can't stand grease; they've had their off day, though, but most of the time, it's pretty good about having a light batter. As for the udon, I agree with the OP, and I'd like to add that I really liked the accompanying spice jar thing, with some chili peppers and black sesame seeds. I really liked the Caldo de Res (beef soup). I've been wanting to try Caldo Camaron (shrimp soup), but they've been out every time I've gone back there. It seems like they have it on Thursdays, so if anyone gets to try, tell me if you like it? I've also had the Pupusa and while the curtido was only ok, the pupusa was made fresh, like everything else I've had there. It was very nice and hot, with that crunchy crust on the outside. yumyum. I've had a bit of a problem at first, though, 'cause the staff doesn't seem to speak much english, if at all. But a little research or a background in spanish will not disappoint you. :) Hmm...I had the costilla (ribs) and I don't think I like it very much, but I'm not the greatest judge of how it's supposed to taste, so don't really take my word on it if you've had the dish before and is just looking for a place to eat good food. My friend and I have wanted to try chiles rellenos (stuffed peppers) for so long, but it seems like they only have it on a certain day also. Simply put, the tacos are the best things there, hand down. Sopes, huaraches, etc...are ok, with the huarache being slightly off my list for the beans. Nothing against their beans, since I'm not a beans person and I like the beans there as a side dish, but the huarache was a little too heavy for me. - re: applegravity14 - re: applegravity14 Can I get a confirmation on this place please? I went in there for the tortillas (which are available down the street at Weaver St. Mkt) and all they had were some trucked in from Ga. Can I purchase tortillas here, is this the right place (Hispano-greek mural on the west side, blue awning)? My spanish is muy poquito, but tortilla is tortilla, so I don't think that was it. - re: Big_Mac - re: brokegradstudent This article makes reference to a restaurant in your area that makes their own corn tortillas. After your recommendation of Asian Aroma, my fiance and I went to try it. We second your opinion on the authentic Chinese menu. You never would have been able to tell from outside...we had driven past the place several times in the past and chuckled at the name, but didn't think to try it until reading your post. Being from the West Coast and having lived a big part of my life in Taiwan, I was happy to finally find a place with real Chinese dishes. The beef noodle soup was very good in my opinion (its main plus being authentic), and the salt and pepper squid was deliciously spicy and salty. There is a Chinese menu but it is also translated into English so that you can order from there too. The dinner crowd was almost all Chinese. yum yum! :) Bosphorus in Cary has authentic Turkish food Unaabi does a pretty good job on Afgan cuisine - re: blewgo - re: wallabunny I haven't had the kababs, but according to the menu they come with rice, a salad and Afgan bread. If you go with someone share the bolanee sampler platter before the kabab. It has two of each bolanee on the menu. The menu on the web site doesn't completely match the one they give you at the table, but it's close. - re: blewgo - re: mikeh The Bosphorus menu is heavy on kabobs, but they have enough other stuff on the menu to make dining there an adventure. The patlican kizartmasi is one of my favorites. It is breaded, fried slices of eggplant covered with a fresh marinara sauce and surrounded with yogurt and garlic. The tomatoes in the marinara sauce are peeled and seeded. How often do you see that much care taken in food prep? On Sunday evening they have doner kebap which they serve several ways. Yes, it is kebap. - re: blewgo EastWestCouple has been to Bosphorus tonight, and have a review to give: We liked the place almost immediately when we sat down. The restaurant was cozy, nicely decorated, clean, and unpretentious. Our waiter was warm and friendly and made us feel at home. We ordered Cigar Bourek as the appetizer, and the restaurant provided an opener of fresh pide bread with seasoned olive oil for dipping. We have a strong suspicion that this restaurant bakes its own bread, and it's absolutely delicious. I had the Bosphorus Salad, and he ordered the Kofta Kabob. All of it was fantastic! Without going into too much detail, the food can be summed up as being perfectly seasoned, crisp and fresh (the way Mediterranean food should be), aromatic, and delightful to eat. It's all very authentic, and on top of that, it's also done right. Of particular note, the rice pudding is really exceptional. It was brought to us nicely chilled and dusted with nutmeg and ground pistachio. At the end of a rich meal of spiced, grilled meats, the dessert was delightfully refreshing with just the right balance of sweetness without being heavy or syrupy. The restaurant has a cozy, relaxed "family feel", and in fact, my fiance has spent some time in Turkey and thought it was really like stepping into a neighborhood favorite there. The dining room is tiny, about 10 booths and tables total, with some outdoor seating, all of which only adds to the charm. We were so impressed that we felt it warranted a recommendation on Chowhounds for everybody. Cheers! We liked Neomonde in Raleigh for middle eastern food.

A. In our hectic world of suicide, depression, divorce, bitterness & hatred -- happiness, joy & contentment are precious commodities indeed -- they are constantly being sought after. 1. So many advertisements appeal to our natural desire to be happy -- promising joy & contentment if we will only try their product (s). 2. But look around you, the majority of people have never found true & lasting happiness! 3. As a result, some people have become cynical about the elusive state of happiness -- denying that such even exists. a. Is there such a thing as true happiness? b. Yes -- happiness is a reality & it can be ours. c. Not only can Christians be happy, but B. God expects & commands that his people be happy: 1. Scriptures: Rom. 14:17: "For the kingdom of God is not meat & drink; but righteousness, & peace, & joy in the Holy Ghost." Phil. 3:1: "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe." Phil. 4:4: "Rejoice in the Lord alway: & again I say, rejoice." I Thess. 5:16: "Rejoice evermore." I Peter 4:13: "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." 2. Paul rejoiced & was full of happiness even in less than pleasant circumstances. II Cor. 6:10: "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, & yet possessing all things." II Cor. 7:4: "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." II Cor. 12:10: "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." 3. Many other passages could be cited, but these are sufficient to show that of all people, we as Christians should be joyful & happy. C. I think we can all agree (based on these passages) that God expects His children to be happy -- but the question remains: "How?" 1. Happiness is not something that we stumble on by accident. 2. Happiness cannot be bought, sold or traded (regardless of the many sales pitches to the contrary). 3. Fortunately, happiness is not a commodity afforded only the rich or affluent. 4. Happiness is a state of mind within everyone's grasp! 5. Many books have been written; all claiming to contain the formula for happiness & contentment. a. But the very best advice to be found on the subject was written years ago & is found in God's Word -- the Bible. D. In the short time that we have together, I want us to notice some of God's Rules For Happy Living. Discussion: B. God has promised to bless His children abundantly. Matt. 6:33: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, & his righteousness; & all these things shall be added unto you." Mal. 3:10: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, & prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, & pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." 1. We live in the richest & greatest nation in the world. 2. Even the poorest American is rich in comparison to the rest of the world. C. Sure you have your problems -- we all do -- but let's face it, our blessings far outweigh our burdens. 1. We need to practice the words of the song: "Count Your Many Blessings." 2. If we will count our blessings, we will be happier & more thankful to our Heavenly Father. 1. Most of our fears for tomorrow never materialize. 2. We often miss the roses around our feet, because we are looking for thorns down the path. B. If people would only learn to live one day at a time, there would be fewer ulcers, & fewer nervous breakdowns. C. We have no assurance of living till tomorrow -- so why not take it as it comes -- one day at a time? Jas. 4:13-15: "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, & continue there a year, & buy & sell, &, & do this, or that." 1. If we would only learn this we would be much happier. Lk. 6:38: "Give, & it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, & shaken together, & running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." 1. Some go through life always expecting to receive from others, but they never give a thing. 2. Acts 20:35: "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, & to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." I Thess. 5:17: "Pray without ceasing." Phil. 4:6: "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer & supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Col. 4:2: "Continue in prayer...." B. Every Christian should reserve time during the day to thank God for his many blessings & to ask for his guidance. 1. When a husband & wife do not talk or communicate we know that something is wrong -- when God's children do not communicate with him, something is wrong! C. Prayer is a vital ingredient in God's Recipe for Happiness. A. All things have a place in life. 1. Some things are far more important than others. 2. We must learn to keep important things in first place. B. Many things in life are important, (some more than others). 1. Our Lord stressed priorities in Matthew 6:33. 2. Spiritual matters must take priority over material things. C. One cannot be truly happy until he learns to count the true value of things -- & put first things first. Phil. 4:7: "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts & minds through Christ Jesus." B. We (as Christians) of all people have every reason to be at peace with ourselves -- we have peace with God. Phil. 4:8: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, & if there be any praise, think on these things." B. There should be no room for trashy evil thoughts in the mind of a Christian. B. Many think it's terrible to laugh & joke (there are times when it is inappropriate). 1. Scriptures: Proverbs 17:22: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Rom. 12:15: "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, & weep with them that weep." 2. Only when we learn to laugh & cry with one another can we truly be happy & "bear one another's burdens." Phil. 4:4: "Rejoice in the Lord alway: & again I say, rejoice." B. As we already mentioned, we have so much to be happy about. C. Let us show the world that Christians are truly happy people! 1. We are weak, but our Father is strong. 2. Matt. 10:28: "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul & body in hell." Phil. 4:13: "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." B. With God on our side, what, or who do we have to fear? 1. But we must let God have full control of our lives. 2. This is the only way to find true peace & happiness. 3. David spoke of this in Psalm 23. B. Until we truly let Christ be Lord (master) of our lives, we will not, we cannot be truly happy! C. There can only be one person in the drivers seat. Conclusion: A. Yes, Happiness can be found!!! 1. Not in drugs, alcohol, or material wealth. 2. True happiness can be found only in obedience to God's will. a. Only when we submit to God's Word can we have true peace & happiness. B. Have you found the happiness that God intended for us to know? 1. Just remember, happiness is a habit -- a by-product of right thinking & living. C. Invitation: Sermon Source: Herschel Bass reproducted for non-commercial purposes at no cost to others.

Go down, Moses …. After years in the wilderness, a journey that began in 1994*, 44 Upper Cross Road reports an executed contract. Twenty-three acres and a disposable house, asking $8.499 million, and while it hasn’t closed yet, the Promised Land is in view. How many official days on market? It’s been on and off, but active days, not counting those when a buyer could have just called up the owner and revived it, number in the thousands – probably close to 9,000. Brother Gideon will I’m sure feel a twinge of nostalgia seeing this go because it was first listed for sale when he was just setting forth on his brilliant career and now, sniff, it will be gone, surely imparting a faint sense of mortality to the poor guy. Nothing lasts forever. * Gideon corrects me: his memory places this disaster beginning in 1990. 7 Responses to The oldest listing in Greenwich has a contract! Was this the property that had the monster home rejected by the conyers farm board?? It was one floor, 35,000 sq.ft, bowling alley, nail salon, you get the picture. Just to think, in the early 80′s Brant was selling 10 acre lots for 750,000 Even harder pill to swallow is that his daddy once owned 1500 acres, which he gave to Peter. Can you imagine what it would be worth today!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes, less than 7 years ago, but still, come on!) The property taxes are $81K a year, so the seller pissed away over $1mm over the life of the listing! If memory serves, Rosensteil owned the 1500 acres, his heirs sold it to Petey, not the father, and Petey hired the lovely and talented Joan Caldwell to lobby the subdivision through the town. Were lots really going for 750K in the early 80s in Conyers Farm? Was this a good deal then? An ok, the dad just gave him the print biz And yes, the lots were 750k a pop One of my clients bought 3, (29.85) acres to be exact He lives on converse lake, north gate He confirmed that price for many a times….damn him! Why didn’t this piece of shit sell? Certainly relative to the assessment it looks like a bargain. I enjoyed the listing photo’s, especially the young lass with a horse marked as “exterior front”, since there was no architecture or landscape gracing that photo , I was curious how often young women are sold as chattel property in Greenwich real-estate deals?

Chris Uggen's Blog sociology, criminology, self-indulgery* Thursday, April 30, 2009 Wednesday, April 29, 2009 the education gradient in a new minnesota poll some fresh locally grown data via the strib's minnesota poll, conducted last week:some fresh locally grown data via the strib's minnesota poll, conducted last week: the poll of 1,042 minnesota adults includes some useful information on loss in wages and benefits, support for president obama's economic policies, and subjective financial well-being. with regard to the latter, the education gradient shown above caught my eye. about 56 percent of college grads considered their financial situation to be good or excellent, relative to about 35 percent of those who had not attended college. about 9 percent of college grads considered their financial situation to be poor, relative to 21 percent of those with some college, and 26 percent of those with no college. i didn't graph it, but there's also an intriguing age story here that's likely bound up with the education results. relative to every other age group, those aged 35-44 were far more likely to rate their financial situation as good or excellent (51 percent) and less likely to rate their situation as poor (13 percent). the. Saturday, April 25, 2009 cinco de mayo gang injunction against .0001 . closed-circuit guitar post my dobber's been down the past week, so i retreated to the seventies station this weekend and made a li'l joyful noise. it took me back to the school lunchroom -- especially the intro riff and cover image of a shirtless albino man with mutton chop sideburns, red lipstick, diamond necklace, and a prominent mole. anyway, i loved the riff to free ride, but never took the time to suss it out. the original guitarist is surely featured on the mount rushmore of 70s guitar: either rick derringer, ronnie montrose, joan jett, or brother johnny -- i'm betting on derringer. the tab below isn't much help, but there's some fine youtube instruction available. RIFF1: (play while droning the open "A" string--not tabbed) v sv ^ v h ^ v ^ v sv ^ v h ^ v ^ e------------------------------------------------------------------- B----( )--9-10--10--8--7--------( )- -8-8--7-(5)--2----------------- G-----7---9-----9---7--7---------7-- -7-7--7-(6)--2 ---------------- D-----7---9-11--11--9--7---------7-- -9-9--7-(7)--2----------------- A7--9---------------------7----9--------------------0-0------------- E------------------------------------------------------------------- here's the intro, electric full-length and an acoustic version that moves a li'l slower. i started with the acoustic version, then worked my way toward the other two. i'd recommend applying a li'l reverb (5 outta 10), zero distortion, and using the 2nd (dire straits) position on a stratocaster. the trick is a limber slide between the 7th and 9th fret and muting through the chicka-chicka -- which works a whole lot slicker with a li'l chicken grease on your fingers. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 external review now i'm heading off to serve on the review team for another sociology department. i'll do all i can, of course, to make the process as constructive for them as it has been for us. i'm also hoping to bring a few ideas back to the minnversity, as this department has much to teach us. Monday, April 20, 2009 glaucoma there are more tests to be done and i'm not in the later stages, so i shouldn't be going blind anytime soon. and, i'm honestly a little relieved to learn why i've been having so much trouble seeing and working. my grandmother had glaucoma, so i sort of know the drill. i'll be exploring all sorts of treatments with lasers and eye drops this summer, though i'll likely steer clear of the tetrahydrocannabinol. the released: a new frontline doc on mentally ill former prisoners via susan tucker at the open society institute:via susan tucker at the open society institute: The Released a new FRONTLINE/PBS documentary, will be broadcast and made available online starting Tuesday, April 28th at 9pm est. This documentary promises to be as powerful and disturbing as The New Asylums, also from MeadStreetFilms, where we saw seriously mentally ill men in cages receiving “therapy” and being shuttled back and forth between a maximum security prison in Ohio and the state’s hospital for the criminally insane. And we came to understand the genuine complexity of their situations and yearned for more equally complex and humane responses. The Released follows some of the same men featured in the first film who were subsequently returned “to the community” -- but more often to the street -- and in some cases have ended up back in prison. We’re pleased that OSI has been able to support dissemination of the film and development of a, highly informative website... Similar support was awarded for The New Asylums (which can still be seen on Frontline’s website) and before that for The Exonerated by director Ofra Bikel, also shown on PBS. Friday, April 17, 2009 SRI can only mean one thing... Wednesday, April 15, 2009 contexts tech fair tomorrow: 11-1 coffman union the contexts tech folks will be doing a little academic technology showcasin' tomorrow, so i thought i'd spread the word. i'll be there, fronting my very first poster (thanks, suzy). you can also meet podcasters arturo baiocchi and jesse wozniak, as well as the voice of the crawler, amelia cotton corl. the multi-talented arturo is working up the video above, and he'll also be showcasin' the spss flash modules he developed for intro stats. at this time, i can neither confirm nor deny rumors regarding the appearance of jon smajda, context.org's reclusive web genius. Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm Location: Mississippi Room, 3rd Floor Coffman Memorial Union The College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology (CLA-OIT) Academic Technologies is pleased to announce the second annual Academic Technology Showcase, featuring CLA innovations in the area of educational and research technologies. This poster-style showcase will feature over 25 exhibits on innovative technologies for teaching and research throughout CLA. Below are examples of what you will experience at the Showcase: -- Student-produced media podcasts, iTunes U and CLA You Tube Channels -- Bicycles (and backpacks!) used to make digital graffiti art -- The GeoWall, which lets you fly over mountains and through valleys without ever leaving the building -- Exploration of virtual space and time with Time Dig -- Cutting edge practices in digital music -- Innovations in online learning and digital course delivery across the CLA curriculum -- Collaborative art projects using technology Come check out how technology has affected every facet of today's student! **All attendees can register to win a Flip Camcorder!** Departments and Academic Support Centers Represented at the Showcase: Department of Art (2) Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies Department of Communication Studies Department of Geography (2) School of Journalism and Mass Communication School of Music Department of Psychology (2) Department of Sociology (2) Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department of Writing Studies Language Center Center for Writing CLA Student Services CLA-OIT Division of Academic Technologies Monday, April 13, 2009 minneapolis skid row, c. 1960 i've read some good histories on minneapolis' old gateway and skid row, but this is the first film i've seen from the period. it isn't pretty, but the footage is amazing. the narrator is johnny rex, proprietor of the sourdough and king of skid row. flyer for a yard sale, minneapolis 1980 via mnspeak and stuff about minneapolis:via mnspeak and stuff about minneapolis: this sign dates to the early days of the incarceration boom. with so many going to prison each year, i'm surprised that i've never seen such an advertisement before. more typically, i see divorce cited as the reason that a car or household goods must be sold. perhaps prison is too stigmatized to make for an effective marketing pitch. note that the parenthetical -- (for tax evasion) -- appears to have been added after the rest of the sign was prepared. this presumably destigmatizes the seller so as to overcome customers' fears of visiting a prisoner's home. it could also draw buyers, signalling that high-quality goods will be available at the sale. that said, bernard madoff would have a tough time attracting customers if he offered a full-disclosure parenthetical: (for securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, perjury and making false filings with the SEC). i suspect he'll use christie's instead. Sunday, April 12, 2009 work-family balance as elsewhere, female labor force participation has risen among touring bands. and at least some of the parents are now bringing the kids to coachella. think about it: relative to the average nine-to-fiver, these parents get to spend a lot of time with their kids. when i was a feature writer in the skinny-tie era, i didn't see many kids backstage. i once asked a musician about a song called tape my wife to the ceiling, which i assumed expressed some kink way beyond my comprehension. instead, he told me it was about wishing that everything at home could stay exactly as it is, while the band was doing the road thing -- after the tour, he just wanted to remove the tape, take the family down from the ceiling, and resume the good life he'd left. he knew the idea was ridiculous (hence the title), but mid-sized bands had few other good options for traveling with their families at the time. a decade or so later, alan and mimi (and superstars with greater resources, i'm sure) made family inclusiveness a pre-condition for touring. it will take a generation or so to determine whether road life is actually good for kids, but i don't think they're suffering. if one judges by low and cloud cult, the music doesn't suffer either. Friday, April 10, 2009 depression blogging and the sociological imagination nice. there are clear elements of both group therapy and personal journaling in such blogs, carried along by the writer's honesty and wit. i'd guess that depressed bloggers generally have the same sort of motivations and procreant impulses as non-depressed bloggers, but i really have no empirical basis to make such a claim. i expect we'll be seeing a spate of articles in coming years on such basic questions. first, there will be cross-sectional studies asking whether bloggers are more X than non-bloggers (where X=depressed or sleepy, dopey, happy, or bashful). second, there will be longitudinal pre- and post-test studies that ask whether the experience of blogging makes bloggers more or less X at time t than at time t-1 (perhaps relative to a matched comparison group of non-bloggers at t and t-1). third, we'll likely see an event history approach to blog duration, complete with time-varying covariates (e.g., work hours, family changes, grumpy commenters). on balance, i'd bet that most of this research will show that persistent bloggers realize some sort of benefit from the experience. more personally, i see blogging as a restorative tonic for the sociological imagination, as it gets me writing and thinking about a diverse array of people and events. kieran, as usual, put this best: As a thing for academics to do, writing a blog can be an endless black hole of self-absorbed wittering — or, it can cultivate a capacity to stay interested in things and to write about them fluently in the course of everyday life. One model can be found at the back of The Sociological Imagination, where Mills has an essay called “On Intellectual Craftsmanship.” blogging may not have honed my intellectual craftsmanship, but i know it helps me maintain the "playfulness of mind" mills described -- and playfulness comes in handy when our research takes us to depressing places. Thursday, April 09, 2009 the whole house seems to be thinking... i love to see my kids performing or competing, but there's really nothing better than observing them writing in a quiet house, late at night. tor pecks away fiercely, hunched at the computer, while esperanza is more prone to a comfortable chair, paper, and pencil. here's a poem on the subject from richard wilbur:. Tuesday, April 07, 2009 closed circuit to m.k. and c.p. i love drummer jokes, but this one is apparently real. via stereogum:i love drummer jokes, but this one is apparently real. via stereogum:. probably best not to mention jimmy, courtney, or the ticketmaster hearings. Friday, April 03, 2009 what about a snuggie with a fedora? Thursday, April 02, 2009 diligence trumps decadence . i love that line about "going home early to get up the next day and write." but wasn't there a historical moment -- right up through kerouac, i'd imagine -- in which writers had greater license to behave licentiously? in the same article, charles baxter suggests that writers are fallen (rock) stars:. Wednesday, April 01, 2009 flipping.

Augusta-area sportsmen sometimes feel left out when Georgia's Wildlife Resources Division schedules its periodic public meetings to seek opinions on how best to manage the state's hunting programs. Many past meetings - on topics such as deer hunting with dogs and waterfowl management - have been held in other parts of the state, but one of eight planned January hearings will be held much closer to home, in Thomson. What's unusual this year is that there is no specific legislation or controversial rule change pending to incite public turnout and comments. But it will be an opportunity to meet state and regional game managers, and to ask questions on any topic you wish. "You can bring up anything you want," said Melissa Cummings, communications director for WRD. "It's basically open season on anything you want to ask or talk about." The meetings are the beginning of a yearlong effort to fine tune and sculpt hunting regulations. Topics that surface at these meetings could translate to new rules or regulations by the time hunting season gets under way in fall 2005. One topic that is almost guaranteed to surface is the controversial restriction placed several years ago on clubs that use dogs to hunt deer. Proposals to decriminalize hunting deer over bait, and longer dove seasons also have surfaced in the past. Georgia is nearing completion on its first comprehensive deer management plan, which incorporates surveys, biological data and opinions from both hunters and non-hunters to devise strategies for dealing with whitetails in a state where hunting is on the decline. "I know the deer management plan will be one of the major things everyone will want to discuss," Cummings said, noting that the document is undergoing final changes by a steering committee this month. The meeting in Thomson will be held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 5, at the Augusta Tech campus in McDuffie County. Everyone is welcome. Other meeting times and locations are as follows. All meetings are at 7 p.m. • Monday, Jan. 3: Georgia Wildlife Federation headquarters, Covington, Ga.; and Roquemore Center, National Fairgrounds, Perry, Ga. • Tuesday, Jan. 4: Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah; White County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ga. • Wednesday, Jan. 5: Southeastern Technical College, Vidalia, Ga. • Thursday, Jan. 6: Lee County Library, Leesburg, Ga.; The Forum, Rome, Ga. THREE DEER, TWO SHOTS: From the deer woods come many fine stories, including one this week from Scott Wingard of Columbia County. He wanted to share the story of how he and his young sons brought home three deer with just two shots - on the boys' first hunting trip. Wingard was hunting with sons Jackson, 6, and Parker, who is 4. "Just before dark, we took a small doe," he wrote. Then a huge eight-pointer lumbered into view, and Wingard took that one, too, much to the delight of the boys. "They were very excited, and expect nothing less on their next hunt," he wrote. After loading the two deer into the truck, they headed for home, only to collide with a huge doe a few miles from their deer lease. "The doe was completely intact," Wingard explained, "so we threw her into the truck as well." MASTER ANGLER: Jewel Jessie of Hephzibah has been an active member and volunteer for many years with organizations including the Fort Gordon Sportsman's Club. That's why he was honored recently as recipient of the club's 2004 Master Angler Award. Jessie placed first in five tournaments, second in two tournaments and third in two other tournaments. Jessie's fishing partner, Bob Palagyi, was runner-up, and would have been co-angler except for one tournament when Jessie fished with his brother, winning first place while Palagyi finished second. Reach Rob Pavey at 868-1222, ext. 119 or rob.pavey@augustachronicle.com.

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HEAD OF DETECTIVE AGENCY BARED AS A BRUTE L. E. Fitzgerald stood before Judge Heap in Hanson street court today and explained himself: "I am the manager of the Hunt, Shippy & Dorman detective agency. I have charge of 3Q operatives at the Royal Tailors' shop during the gar ment strike" Miss Ellen Gates Starr of Hull House and Mrs. Wm. E. Rodriguez, wife of the 15th ward alderman, were on hand to testify against Fitz gerald. Their stories: Miss Starr: I saw Fitzgerald knock down onto the sidewalk and beat un til blood ran two garment workers named Wiznevsky and Miller. In neither case had they laid a hand on him. In both instances it was clear that the policy of Fitzgerald was to throw fright into these men who walked peaceably along the side walk as pickets.. In other words, Mr. Fitzgerald is a slugger, a ruffian, a brutal coward, and may stand as a typical instance of how violence through armed guards is being used to defeat the garment strikers." Mrs. Rodriguez: "On Oct 18 I saw Fitzgerald beat a picket named Atkins at the Royal Tailors' shop, Polk street and Fifth avenue. At kins isn't much more than a boy and weighs 60 pounds less than Fitzger ald. Atkins had started across the street. His back was turned. Fitz gerald leaped on him, wrenched his arm, flung him in a half circle and then drove his fist into Atkins' nose, causing a spurt of blood. It almost unnerved me. I called to him to stop. He struck me between the eyes. I broke my umbrella trying to defend myself." Fitzgerald had signed jury waiver and his hearing on charge of assault of the pickets was to be heard. He demanded jury trial and the case was set for next week. Other witnesses beside Miss Starr and Mrs. Rodriguez will be heard on the work of Fitzgerald and his30' "operatives." o o EXTRA LEGISLATIVE SESSION BEGINS NOV. 22. Springfield, III., Nov. 19, Members' of the 49th general assembly who were today summoned into special session on Nov. 22 by Gov. Dunne saw their hopes for speedy adjourn ment go glimmering when the call was made public. The call embraces nineteen sub jects, many of which are important and must receive extensive consider-, ation by both houses before they are finally acted upon. Indications are it will take at least two weeks to dispose of the subject matter in the call. o o VILLA WOUNDED, LEADING HIS ARMY IN BATTLE Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 19. Gen. Villa, reported wounded, was today leading his forces in a desperate at tempt to retain his last foothold on Mxican soil. The battle for Sonora state was raging at two separate points. Villa had attacked Hermosillo, while Gen. Obregon, commander-in-chief of the Carranza armies, was attacking rich Cananea. Villa's injury, while reported slight by one of his officers, was not con firmed from any other source. o o HARD TO GET MURDER JURY Attorneys are discussing the diffi culty which has arisen recently to im- . panel a jury to try a murder case. A lerge number of the men called are excused for service because they t swear they are prejudiced against the death penalty. Yesterday before Judge Burke 29 of 69 veniremen were excused when they said they wouldn't inflict the death penalty. This was in the trial of Michael and John Catalanatto, accused of murder ! of Mrs. Antonia Docasio, who was i shot on ber doorstep June 12 .J- j5 , v&mmmmmmmim MMMHKHHMttiitti r. l' IMftASt M xml | txt

By Osama Diab Activists in Egypt should look to the hippy movement of the 1960s for a successful model in bringing about long-term social change. Since the establishment of the Kifaya (Enough) movement in 2004, the Egyptian political scene has changed dramatically. If this continues, political resistance in Egypt is likely to become much more dynamic than it has been since the 1952 revolution, which overthrew the monarchy and established a republic. Movements such as Kifaya, the April 6 youth movement and the national coalition for change headed by Mohamed Elbaradei, have all played their part in making the political life of Egypt less stagnant. They have managed to increase the margins of freedom and push for political reforms and will continue to do so, but they can’t do it alone. These groups all focus on short-term political gains. Their demands focus on short-term goals – constitutional change, free and fair elections, putting an end to emergency law – but they often ignore the most important element that could drive real change in the future: social change. With a society that is reversing social progress and embracing conservative values, the drive for democracy and equality may find few supporters. Many in Egypt still do not recognise the equality of women and embrace discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities. Some discard democracy and human rights as a western invention and as part of an imperialist agenda. What Egypt needs, rather than a few groups preaching against the current regime and political system, is a durable social movement that decades from now can influence politicians and decision-makers. Look, for example, at the social and political impact the hippy movement had in the US and, arguably, the entire world. Some argue that America wouldn’t have had a black president if it wasn’t for the social progress and momentum built in the 1960s. The reason behind the hippies’ success in changing the course of history is not only their anti-war sentiments, care for the environment, or their criticism of middle-class values and big corporate practices. These are values that were all preached by others long before the hippies. No, what made the hippy movement attract millions of youth in the United States and globally was the subculture to carry their messages, rather than the value of the message itself. Their hip and exotic fashion, music and lifestyle is what appealed to tens of millions of young people confused by the Vietnam War and examining the values of their parents. The new fashions they created, and the focus on art and culture in their movement, made it easier for their message to spread.. Ayman Massoud, the keyboardist of the Arabic rock band Massar Egbari (“Compulsory Direction”), explained to me what they mean by the name of the band. In his view, society draws a compulsory direction for us to take in order to fit society’s idea of what is proper and successful. “If someone wants to become a drummer, their parents will tell them to finish college first and then they can do whatever they want. But after they finish college, society will force them to find a job and practise their hobby on the side. After that, they will become too drained from their jobs and gradually forget about their old dream,” says Massoud. Egyptian dissidents don’t have to – and should not – follow in the footsteps of others, but establish a culture that will make it easier to promote their beliefs. I wrote before in Egypt Today about how an underground music scene is emerging in Egypt focusing more on societal issues. This appeals to those who are tired of a pop scene dominated by attractive singers chiming love songs to western beats: music that avoids issues facing Egyptian youth today. This can be the root from which a new subculture can stem. A movement like this would likely face huge social condemnation. It is inevitable it will be described as a threat to national security by the regime and a threat to society and its values by religious groups, but new ideas and social change are often faced with resistance. Khaled Diab pointed out in Brian Whitaker’s book, What’s really wrong with the Middle East, that Egypt has a million Mubaraks – meaning that authoritarianism in Egypt exists not only in the political leadership, but also in families, schools and workplaces. As long as people themselves don’t believe in the values of democracy and liberty, no number of political groups lobbying for change will succeed in pushing for reform. This column appeared in the Guardian newspaper’s Comment is Free section on 17 July 2010. Read the full discussion here.

dropdown - Author - Loving Film - Weekly Features - Other Features - Review Index - Rating System Wednesday, February 27, 2013 The Impossible Monday, February 25, 2013 85th Academy Awards aka the shit I sit through to see George and Jean Sunday, February 24, 2013 Emily Blunt Appreciation Emily Olivia Leah Blunt February 23, 1983 in Roehampton, London, England, UK I hate hearing actors going on about how difficult their lives are. I’m not on a minimum wage, working in McDonald’s, trying to bring up a family. Actors are so indulged in many ways, really. Saturday, February 23, 2013 (67) Which Witch is Which? Well, Disney spoiled it anyways.+ links Thursday, February 21, 2013 Alan Rickman Appreciation Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman February 21, 1946 (Hammersmith, London, England, UK). Wednesday, February 20, 2013 The SONSOFBITCHES snubbed/Performances I Love: Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd Monday, February 18, 2013 The Master Saturday, February 16, 2013 15 favorite Ally McBeal episodes (part 1) Runner ups:. Friday, February 15, 2013 (66) The flood on the corner + links Thursday, February 14, 2013 10 romantic scenes for Valentine's Day . Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Thoughts on BAFTAs Sunday, February 10, 2013 Screaming Sunday - Possession (2008) Friday, February 8, 2013 (65) I don’t like your new firm. The lawyers here are crazy and the singer bugs me. + links Thursday, February 7, 2013 Mama Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Michael Sheen Appreciation M.” Monday, February 4, 2013 The Best (and Worst) of 2012 Best movie: The Dark Knight Rises (2. Killer Joe 3. Looper 4. Prometheus 5. Silver Linings Playbook 6. Lincoln 7. Argo 8. The Cabin in the Woods 9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 10. Django Unchained)Christopher Nolan's masterful conclusion to The Dark Knight trilogy is not only a step up comparing to previous two movies, it's also one of the most epic and incredibly well made action/adventure films I've seen. Directed with much skill, done with great scope and featuring stellar performances from the cast, the movie has been my number 1 of the year for the last six months and though some films came close, not one of them managed to dethrone it. The film has one stand out performance - that delivered by Anne Hathaway as suave and clever Selina Kyle - but it doesn't have the biggest issue The Dark Knight had - the performance so fantastic it puts everyone in the shadow, making the film uneven. Lead by wonderful Christian Bale, the cast delivers earnest performances that are never overshadowed by the film's incredible action set pieces and breathtaking moments. Sunday, February 3, 2013 Movie of the Month - February - Amelie . Saturday, February 2, 2013 American Horror Story: Asylum - 2x13 Madness Ends (season 2 finale) Through. Friday, February 1, 2013 (64) Girl, Interrupted + links

Archive for 'Sreenu Vaitla' Baadshah to launch on 18 March Posted on March 18, 2012 by CineMelody Admin in JR NTR, Sreenu Vaitla, Telugu Movie | No Comments The dream combo of Young Tiger NTR and director Srinu Vytla’s ‘baadshah’ movie is launching in Hyderabad on18th of this month. Natasimham Nandamuri Balakrishna is likely to be the Chief Guest of this function. More VVIPs are expected to grace this occasion,. Bandla Ganesh Babu is producing this movie under Sri Parameswara Arts banner. As of now, Kajal has been selected the heroine of this mass and action entertainer. It is a known thing that Srinu Vytla is directing this movie after his blockbuster movie, ‘Dookudu’. S.S.Thaman is rendering music for this project. The regular shoot of this movie will be started in the first week of May in Seoul. Jr Ntr in the direction of Sreenu Vaitla Posted on March 17, 2012 by CineMelody Admin in JR NTR, Sreenu Vaitla, Telugu Movie | No Comments Young Tiger Jr.NTR in combo with Srinu Vaitla going to do a flick titled as ‘Baadsha’ which is being produced by Bandla Ganesh under Parameshvara Arts banner. Kajal is selected for female role in this movie. The movie makers said that this flick is going to launch today. For this launching function some of important persons of industry are attending and Nadhamuri Balakrishna invited as chief guest. After the big hit of ‘Dookudu’ director Srinu Vaitla is going to do this flick with fully entertainment and action elements. The writer Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan who were worked for Dookudu are working for this film and the music director Thaman also directing music for this film, also some of techniques of Dookudu are working for ‘Baadsha’. Currently, Jr.NTR is bussy in shooting of his next flick ‘Dammu’ with Boyapati Srinu, in which Trisha and Karthika are playing female leads opposite NTR. It is total Mass Entertainer Movie that is being producing by Alexander Vallabha under Commercial banner. Jr.NTR Baadshah launch on March 18 Posted on February 25, 2012 by CineMelody Admin in JR NTR, Sreenu Vaitla | 20 Comments on March 18.This flick is going to direct by Sreenu Vaitla and this is the first combination foe both of them. Pre-production works of this movie are on the progress. The script work has done by Director Sreenu Vaitla,and writers Gopi Mohan and Kona Venkat. Baadshah movie will be an actoin entertainer with comedy . Kajal Agarwal is playing the lead role in this movie and Ganesh Babu is producing the film on Parameshwara Arts banner. SS Thaman will score the music. As this is a first film in both combination ,there is lot of expectations on this movie amd movie makers promise to show the movie in a different way. Jr.NTR as Badshah by Sreenu Vaitla Posted on February 22, 2012 by CineMelody Admin in JR NTR, Sreenu Vaitla, Telugu Directors, Telugu Movie | No Comments An official announcement should be awaited.Kajal Agarwal is the heroine and this is the second combination for both after Brindavanam. And Bandla ganesh is the producer for the film.Thaman is scoring the music.It would be a Sreenu Vaitla mark movie will action entertainer. The shooting schedule starts from March and planning to complete in a single schedule and planning to release inthe month og August.

. If you’ve ever felt that your parents just don’t get what your life is about — or if you’re a parent convinced that your kids don’t appreciate what you’ve done for them — you need to check out Julia Cho’s new play Durango at the Cincinnati Playhouse this weekend. Not only is this a play about strife between generations of a Korean-American family. It’s also a more universal exploration of how parents from any culture yearn for the best for their children and how children need to follow their own paths. (See my review here.) In the Lee family, proud father Boo-Seng has just lost his job, a fact he can’t bring himself to share with his sons, eager Jimmy and angry Isaac. But he does coax them into a road trip from their Arizona home to Durango in Colorado: Cooped up in a car for a long drive, they cannot contain their strong emotions, and there are many revelations that could lead to greater understanding. But don’t expect this play to wrap events and conflicts up neatly — it’s more like life. You can see the possibilities, but they don’t necessarily arrive in a timely manner. Still, there’s a kind of hope. Cho is a promising playwright whose work is imaginatively staged in the Playhouse’s intimate Shelterhouse Theatre. You’ll come away from this story thinking about your own parents — or your kids. Get show times and tickets here. — Rick Pender A show that's likely to be considered one of the best of the 2009-2010 season is just about over. This weekend offers the final performances of Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's production of 33 Variations. The intriguing play by Moisés Kaufman is about Katherine Brandt, a musicologist who tries to understand what motivated Beethoven to compose many variations on a simple waltz melody. The action moves back and forth between the 19th and the 21st centuries as the composer and the scholar both race against debilitating health — the onset of Beethoven's deafness and the physical deterioration of Brandt's body from Lou Gehrig's disease.. No bad luck for this Friday the 13th: The Showboat Majestic is presenting The Nerd, a great 1981 comedy by Larry Shue, who also wrote The Foreigner. There’s a ton of theater this weekend, much of it certainly worth seeing. But if you want to be in the vanguard of theater fans who have seen fascinating work from around the world, you can do that at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center on Friday (7 p.m.) or Sunday (3 p.m.) when the Covington facility and Cincinnati World Cinema jointly present FELA! directly from the National Theatre in London. I'm a regular blood donor, so I'm pleased to tell you that you can help out Hoxworth Blood Center and help yourself a little, too, thanks to Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Starting next week, the company will do its part for Halloween when it presents Giles Davies in a creepy production of Dracula (Oct. 15 - Nov. 7). To set the mood, Cincy Shakes has arranged for a bloodmobile to do a collection in Piatt Park. Kind of a lazy Saturday. The hustle and bustle around Manhattan’s theater district subsides somewhat on the weekends, at least on Saturday morning before the tourists wake up. Wandered down to 40th Street to browse in the Drama Book Shop, an historic hangout for actors and writers, but a wonderful store for anyone who loves theater. I bought a script for Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, August Osage County, which is coming to southwestern Ohio in September when it will be co-produced by Dayton’s Human Race Theatre and Wright State University. Other than that excursion, I had a double-header theater day with a matinee of David Mamet’s new play Race in the afternoon and an evening performance of the ’80s Arena Rock musical Rock of Ages in the evening.

Lev Grossman, The Magician King A few years ago A.S. Byatt wrote a famous critique of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, dismissing them as “jokey latency fantasies”. In it Byatt argued that unlike works such as Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising or Alan Garner’s troubling and often unsettling children’s books which demand children grapple with a world larger and stranger than they had previously imagined, Rowling’s books allow children to fulfil their infantile fantasies of unrecognized importance and power. Whatever one makes of Byatt’s argument, it’s difficult not to wonder whether her essay played a part in the formation of Lev Grossman’s exuberantly entertaining 2009 novel, The Magicians. At once loving homage and deadly accurate deconstruction, it imagined a world where magic is real, and asked, with considerable sophistication, what it might mean if that particular fantasy came true. And in the process it created something at once strikingly original and deliberately subversive, not just a story about the loss of illusions and the beginnings of adulthood that was simultaneously an exercise in re-enchantment but a exploration of the manner in which power and trauma distort our inner selves. The Magicians centres on Quentin Coldwater. “Sarcastic and spookily smart”, Quentin is also, as his friend Julia admits to herself at one point, “basically a kind person who just needed a ton of therapy and maybe some mood-altering drugs”. Lonely and isolated at high school, Quentin’s one solace (other than his hopeless passion for Julia) is his absorption in the Narnia-like Fillory novels. Yet when an alumni interview for Princeton turns into an exam for an ultra-secret, ultra-exclusive school for magicians called Brakebills, Quentin finds himself initiated into a world where his oddness is no longer a liability, and where, amazingly, Fillory is more than just a story. Grossman’s follow-up, The Magician King, begins two years after the events at the end of The Magicians. Quentin is now one of the kings of Fillory. It’s a good life: populated by magical creatures and impossibly beautiful, Fillory is as close to perfection as any place could be. But as Quentin is beginning to realise it’s also a little bit boring. And so, when a carelessly arranged day in pursuit of an enchanted hare ends in tragedy, Quentin decides to embark on a quest. As quests go it’s no big thing, just a trip on a refitted sailing boat to an island in the Eastern Ocean to find out why the inhabitants haven’t been paying their taxes. But for the now-restless Quentin it seems enough just to have a purpose again. These early chapters unspool with a brisk efficiency, but the novel only really kicks into gear when Quentin stumbles on a golden key, which when used does not transport him somewhere magical, but dumps him and his childhood friend and fellow tetrarch, Julia, back on Earth. Desperate to return, the two of them must navigate a hitherto unglimpsed magical underworld populated by self-trained wizards and witches, and utterly unlike the cosy prep school world of Brakebills, a process that gives Quentin his first glimpse of the price Julia, who was rejected by Brakebills, paid to acquire her powers. But as they discover on their return to Fillory, their experiences on Earth were only the prelude to a much larger and more perilous quest to save not just Fillory, but magic itself. If much of the pleasure of The Magicians lay in its unfeigned delight in the books from which it drew its inspiration, much of its power lay in the tension between the magical elements drawn from C.S. Lewis and Harry Potter and elsewhere and the restless, dissatisfied and painfully human dramas of its protagonists. For all its playful energy it was ultimately a surprisingly dark book about loss, and failure. Something similar is true of The Magician King. Once again the book riffs wickedly on the tradition it inhabits, managing to seem as comfortable invoking the secret lore of 1970s role-playing games and Neal Stephenson novels as it is gesturing to Le Guin and Tolkien. And once again it manages the not-inconsiderable feat of managing to be both extremely funny and utterly believable. Yet it is also a more ambitious book than The Magicians. Moving beneath its surface are a series of deeply disquieting questions about the corrupting nature of power and the theological underpinnings of fantasy worlds such as Narnia. The gods Quentin and his friends glimpse are not benevolent, but cold and distant, while their expressions on Earth are not just capricious but actively malevolent. Certainly it’s safe to say that you’ll never look at Aslan the same way again. Despite the achievements of writers such as Guy Gavriel Kay and Neil Gaiman Fantasy is a genre that has long struggled to be taken seriously, often treated as faintly ridiculous or an embarrassing overhang from childhood. In The Magician King Lev Grossman demonstrates it is neither, producing a book that does not simply crackle with energy and ideas, but which manages to be at once an inquiry into the underpinnings of the tradition it occupies and a brilliantly eloquent demonstration of its possibilities. The Magician King is not a book for children, or even a book about the stories of childhood for grown-ups. It is quite simply one of the smartest, funniest, most exciting novels you’re likely to read this year. Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October 2011.

Charest comes back to laud Bergman at JGH MONTREAL — Former premier Jean Charest made his first official public appearance since losing the Sept. 4 Quebec election to pay tribute to his former colleague Lawrence Bergman at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH). The JGH presented the D’Arcy McGee MNA with its highest honour, the Distinguished Service Award, at its 78th annual general meeting. President Rick Dubrovsky described Bergman as being a tireless supporter of the JGH ever since he was first elected in 1994. In particular, Bergman was instrumental in obtaining government approval and funding for the major expansion the JGH is currently undergoing. Last year, the government announced that it is contributing $300 million toward the largest ever addition to the JGH’s patient-care facilities. Construction continues on the new Pavilion K, a six-storey building that will house emergency and critical-care departments and more general-care beds, among other services. Altogether, the JGH is slated to grow by 40 per cent when work is completed, which is expected to be the end of 2014. Charest affirmed that Bergman’s intervention was key in persuading him and then-health minister Yves Bolduc and finance minister Raymond Bachand to give the project the green light. “Those who have had the privilege of working with Lawrence know how determined he can be, how persistent,” said Charest. “But he never raised his voice, he didn’t need to. He was very persuasive.” Charest, who is expected to practise law in Montreal, said his government’s investment in the JGH “represented the trust we had in him and your community,” and recognition of the exceptional care provided at the JGH. Charest said he is a JGH patient himself, quickly adding that he’s in fine health. He also noted that his father-in-law, Philippe Dion, who was a surgeon in Sherbrooke for many years, died at the JGH just over a year ago at age 90. Charest said the family is grateful for the compassion shown to him in his final days. Also present was the Liberal interim leader Jean-Marc Fournier and National Assembly Speaker Jacques Chagnon. Charest joked that the evening was actually a Liberal party fundraiser. Bergman said he was overwhelmed by the tribute and that he was proud to have helped the JGH, which he lauded for having been open to every Quebecer since the beginning. “The JGH represents the finest values of the Jewish people, that of benevolence… Succeeding generations have maintained that tradition, and the JGH is an indelible part of the Montreal landscape,” he said. The JGH will have to get its finances in order. Treasurer Gary Wechsler reported that the JGH spent $326.9 million in the current year, leaving it with a deficit of $24.7 million. The provincial government requires the JGH to balance its budget within two years, Wechsler said, and a plan has been submitted, but no response has been received yet. Executive director Hartley Stern said the expenditure overrun can partly be attributed to the JGH being “the victim of its own success.” He said the emergency department is being used by many people who do not live anywhere near the JGH. Polls show that they come there because they think they will get better treatment, he said.

Chris A -- first impressions Article posted September 12, 2012 at 05:36 PM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 1262 Cleo B -- Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:46 PM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 284 It has been a while since I've attended school and it is refreshing to be back in the solace of pen, paper and homework. I have to admit that everything is vastly different from the kind of school I am accustomed to, not just beacause it is an adult school but things work differently from the Philippines. Back in my home country school starts at 7 in the morning and ends half past 4 in the afternoon, which is clearly not the same case here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The structures and buildings are different too, it is more modern and well built, which is a nice environment for learning. Truthfully I was nervous during the first day of class. I was anxious to meet my classmates but they are a nice lot and now I found myself comfortable around them. I imagined my teacher to be strict and and someone who plays by the book but upon meeting Jody I honestly thinking that she is cool and very helpful. So far the lessons that we have covered got the gears in my head turning again. The topics are considered to be refreshers since those were already taught in high school. I am looking forward for more writing assignments, especially the the lyrical one stated in the course outline. One must be determined in order to pass. I will set my priorities straight and focus. I must attend every class so that I won't miss anything and by not missing anything I won't have a hard time in catching up. I will pay attention to the lessons and actively participate in class, that way the piece of information will be retained in my mind. Taking down notes is helpful and will save me the trouble when studying alone. It will also keep things organized. I shall change my ways and never procrastinate. If a task is given I should carefully go through it and don't waste my time in idle thinking. Completing homework and making sure it is done before it is due is a good practice as well. Hopefully I'll follow through the things I have listed and acquire enough credits and be a successful student. It is better late than never. Becca C -- Blog #1 Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:52 PM GMT • comment • Reads 301 My first immpressions of this class was how diverse it was. It's a big change than from what I am used to from highschool but I knew what to expect. The school is very small but I like it in a way. Its easier to get to know people and easier to learn. So far I find the work we are doing in class rather easy. Probably becuase english is one of my stonger subjects and I have already completed a grade 12 english course. So far the course outline seems to be intersting. I am looking forward to the research project mostly. This semester I plan to come to every class to ensure that I succeed. My biggest problem in the past was attendence. Also, handing in all of my homework and assignments to ensure I receive the highest marks possible. The higher my marks the better chances I have for being accepted into the University Of Winnipeg. Jennifer C -- Blog #1 Article posted September 13, 2012 at 03:17 PM GMT • comment • Reads 278 Adam G -- Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:58 PM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 255 Derek M -- Blog #1: A breath of fresh air. Article posted September 12, 2012 at 04:30 PM GMT • comment • Reads 272 John M -- Blog #1 Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:45 PM GMT • comment • Reads 303 James N -- Blog 1 Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:47 PM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 271 Christina P -- First Impressions Article posted September 18, 2012 at 08:54 PM GMT • comment • Reads 307 Having been in and out of school for 10 years I would have to say my best experience so far has been with RETSD. I didn't know what to expect on my first day of school. I like that it's small so you don't have to compete too much for help. I especially like the fact that the teachers actually help you. At JobWorks the English teacher didn't help me much. English certainly isn't my strong point. I enjoy writing but I have a hard time puttung pen to paper. Attending class four mornings a week instead of two I've noticed the class moves at a faster pace. Hopefully I can get most of my assignments completed before the end of the course. There are always bumps along the road to success. In the past I have given up my studies because of work or illness due to my pregnancy. This year I plan to strive to achieve my diploma in June. With finances being tough and having a little one to care for at home that hasn't detered me from completing my assignments. Yes, they may be late but they will be handed in. Tim R -- blog 1 Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:39 PM GMT • comment • Reads 265 i like this class you are an awsome teacher.i like mcleode a lot more as a school.This one seems a little more ghetto but a lot smaller the class seems younger than last year i feel old but whatever.the work is the same some is fun some not so much.but all in all this will be a good semester.I hope to pass with a better mark than last year.I can do it just have to work harder.Up for the challenge.It will be good and i will enjoy myself thanks Soryda S -- Blog #1 Article posted September 17, 2012 at 05:31 PM GMT • comment • Reads 275 My first impression of this, I thought "yay!! the computer room!!" I say that because we can have our own space in a way instead of awkardly starring at each other, plus we can go on the computer...of course. I was surprised there was actually alot of students despite there was barely any last year when I attended here at the Center. My classmates ALL seem to be nice and smart! I know this because Jody had us in group discussions so that gave a me a better chance to get to know them. And as for Jody, she`s a great teacher just how most of her old students told me she was. I like the way she teaches. So far we learned about editing and revising our work, writing variables and reading strategies. Though this course is very fast paced I feel like at the same time I've learned alot. For me to succeed in this class, I think attendance is important and most importantly is to understand what is being taught to us so it makes are assignments and homework easier to do. Aaron S -- First Day Article posted September 25, 2012 at 03:06 PM GMT • comment • Reads 222 My first impreshion was that this was not your average school, classroom and bathroom location. The first day went really well though, all the other students seem really nise and all have a common goal to better their lifes. In order for me to be a succesful student I will have to apply myself and complete all assingments. Also I will have to do a better job of completing my blogs! Stephanie C -- First Impressions Article posted September 13, 2012 at 05:57 PM GMT • comment • Reads 296 Colin A -- Blog #1 Article posted October 15, 2012 at 04:17 AM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 225 My first impression of of the class is being very quiet. I was worried of being judged, because I was worried that I was not smart enough. My concern was that the classmates might make fun of me. My other impressions were how many students were and what ages groups there were . I wondered if the other students were nervous and excited like myself. I noticed a few other students sitting at the front with me on the first day. Francis B -- Blog #1 Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:36 PM GMT • comment • Reads 277 Kayla B -- Blog 1 Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:25 PM GMT • comment • Reads 273 I like this class. I find it's a very easy going envoriment,we go at a good pace. I like my classmates luckily they're all easy going and a funny group. I like that class kind of down sized because it's eaiser for us to get one on one. Our teachers cool and easy going. I am not worried when i have to ask her for en extention on my work. she also makes sure that everyones in the same spot or close to,which makes it easier not to fall behind. I am trying my hardest to keep up with the work and handing things in on time. I think if i just show up and do my best I'll be successful in this class. I've learned to ask for help or ask questions if I am not understanding something. My C -- first impression Article posted September 24, 2012 at 08:50 PM GMT • comment • Reads 246 Brandy D -- blog #1 Article posted September 24, 2012 at 08:39 PM GMT • comment • Reads 228 Part one - My first impression was that I thought that it would be easier then math. I guess I was wrong! The way I see it now being back in school these passed few weeks is that there is much more thinking involved. The room and building is easier to settle into due to the small classes. My classmates are very entertaining for the most part,They also can be alittle distracting when I am quietly working and deep in though. I like that the teachers they are more hands on help. While i was in high school i didn't get the kind of support and help that I do get here.I am very grateful for that.Helps me understand more of what I am learning. Part 2 - I will try my best to attend my classes and do all the work that is being asked to do. I will ask for help when and if I need to. I will be more of a class participant. I hope to work on my social skills and not shy away from involving myself in class discussions. Shirley M -- Blog #1 Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:35 PM GMT • comment • Reads 248 This being my first time here, I was pleasantly surprised. The building is smaller and very comfortable with up to date equipment. The smaller classes makes for more one on one help with the teachers. Since I have been out of school for so long, I'm finding it a complete change of pace. With having only two subjects at this time, I'm not being over whelmed. The other students are so much younger but nice and understanding of someone so much older than them trying to learn the same stuff they are. I enjoy the comments and joking around they do to lighten the mood when needed. The teachers are very understanding and helpful with all the questions being asked.. Since I want my Gr.12 diploma I am going to try to do everything required of me and learn. I will try to show up for every class, on time and be prepared with assignments completed to the best of my ability. Matt M -- Blog #1 :) Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:26 PM GMT • comment • Reads 305 Tyrah B -- First Impressions Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:27 PM GMT • comment • Reads 289 When I walked in I knew it was gonna be different than highschool. The other school I went to was like this but it was indepandent. I like how you have more class time to do an assignment and the smaller classes. This is the most fun and worry free for school that i have been. I like that the location of the building is close and is in Transcona. I enjoy the work that we do its very easy. The teachers are awsome my favorite to be honest would be english its more relaxed. This semester I'm going to attend school everyday unless there is an emergancy. I will do my work and hand it in. I have a tendacy of forgetting to hand in my work so I'll have to be reminded. I will do my assignments to the best of abilty that I can. Kris C -- blog #1 Article posted September 19, 2012 at 09:25 PM GMT • comment • Reads 305 James A -- Article posted October 23, 2012 at 06:33 PM GMT • comment • Reads 146 Kayla A -- kayla arbeau Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:55 PM GMT • comment • Reads 254 Margaret B -- Blog #1 Article posted October 1, 2012 at 02:24 AM GMT • comment • Reads 227 Adam B -- First Impressions Article posted November 3, 2012 at 08:40 AM GMT • comment (2) • Reads 191 Ryan M -- assignment 1 Article posted September 25, 2012 at 08:15 PM GMT • comment • Reads 275 I like the way adult classes are conducted as oppose to how high school was. This is my second time here except I didn't go past a week the first time. The work seems pretty straight forward so far and I can only expect the work to be building on the skills. I like that the teachers aren't too anal about the assignments and are understanding towards outside variables & the fact that not everyone goes at the same pace. The smaller building makes it much easier to find your way around which is always nice, KE was very confusing and Miles Mac was untill I went there for a while. My class seems good so far, everyone is nice and friendly which makes going back to school easier. I just have to force myself to stick to it, try not to miss any classes and not get behind in work and I think I'll be able to succeed. Supria C -- Article posted September 25, 2012 at 08:17 PM GMT • comment • Reads 213 Daniel E -- First Impressions Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:30 PM GMT • comment • Reads 231 Brittany F -- First Impressions . . . Article posted September 25, 2012 at 08:07 PM GMT • comment • Reads 240 This is the first time I have taken classes at this school, and the first time I have been an adult student. I was really surprised when I showed up to our English class for the first time a few weeks ago; I couldn’t believe how big our classroom was. I remember years ago when this school was an elementary school and did not except the building to be the way it is. A few days ago I was actually talking with mom about the building because I was wondering if there was a gym here and where would it be? At first I’ll admit that I was not looking forward to doing blogs one bit, none of my other teachers that I’ve had throughout my life have ever done anything like this. After the test blog we did I’m a lot more open to the concept. This semester I will try my best to not fall behind in the assignments given. In high school it was too easy to fall behind and not care enough to get caught back up. I chose to be an adult student, so I know because it’s my choice I will put much more effort into the course. So far I really like the teacher style that Jody has and the twists she has on here assignments. For example our last assignment we were able to choose the article we wanted to work with rather than given one that might not interest us. I continue to look forward to the rest of the course and the work included. Shakila G -- blog #1 Article posted January 6, 2013 at 06:53 PM GMT • comment • Reads 76 Loammy G -- Blog #1 Article posted October 4, 2012 at 02:11 AM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 264 Alright, well my honest first impression of this class (and I’m going to be brutally honest here) was that I hate it. I, with a burning passion hate English because of the amount of writing. Worst of all opinion writing, I’ve always thought “why should I write about my opinion when my opinion doesn’t matter?” Lucky for Jody, who my first impression was that she looks incredibly cool for an English teacher, my first opinion of the English class was wrong. Everyone in the class seems like decent people who are there with honest intentions which I greatly appreciate and the work isn’t immensely difficult. Writing is by far not a skill I possess and I truly miss novel studies but my gut tells me I can accomplish this. I can succeed in the subject that I’ve failed a number of times. It’s quite baffling to me that only two years of being out of school has made such a difference in moral when it comes to education. I’m not sitting in this class because I have to, I want to be here. This time will be different from the other three times I’ve attempted to get my diploma; yes three times I have dropped out. No more of that however, I’m going to complete this class if it kills me. Even if I have to cut my hours at work, I will prioritize my education and respect what it can do for my future. My ass will be in that chair every class, and assignments will be completed. They may not be on time but that something I have to work on. This is a goal I am determined to accomplish, and ill do anything to achieve it. Joseph H -- Question! Tell Me What You Think About Me? Article posted October 4, 2012 at 09:31 AM GMT • comment • Reads 303 ^ That isn’t a question, it’s an imperative statement. Sometimes, first impressions lead to misconceptions. Anyway. 1) ‘Tis been nearly half a decade since I last set foot in a classroom, and I’m genuinely happy to be back. I suppose that speaks volumes of my altered state of mind. If you study the principles of learning, which interest me (along with the psychological concept of “flow”), you’ll find that one must be inclined to learn in order to do so. Now, you’re probably thinking, “nah, ya think?” It’s like saying, “you have to want to make a purchase before you fist over the cash.” Granted, this is all rather eye-rollingly obvious, but my point is, it explains the innumerable droves of tykes in schools today who are blatantly uninterested in anything but recess, how fast a clock’s hands move, and the looming weekend’s sleepover. Like them, I once saw little to no value in being all but forced into congregating like sheep in a room with bad chairs and appalling decor to be educated in things I knew I’d never remember anyway, things I didn’t give a hoot about. Thus, any attempts anyone made at teaching me in this frame of mind were utterly fruitless, and so I was simply wasting everyone’s time and money, including my own, which, to be honest, I think is pretty funny, although I’m aware that I shouldn’t, but I don’t care. You can easily guess what ended up happening. There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go, but I basically vanished from the scholastic milieu on a whim. Um, well, it was more like the expedient path to spare my sanity… Okay, now, that’s cryptic, but it’s a sleep-inducing tale I’m sure you’ve no interest in whatsoever. Since then, I’ve come to realise that the pursuit of knowledge is an unabashed declaration of ignorance, which the spirit of inquiry haunts. In other words, because I venture a guess that you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about at this point, I’m much more interested in learning these days because of my seemingly insatiable, mostly selfish, desire for knowledge. This school’s environment seems far more hospitable than... uh, other...ones. Haha, don’t wanna go naming names now. In particular, the people, lack of stairs and eyeball-explodingly aggravating dissonance are things I really like. The small yet efficient space and horseshoe construction in which everything is just a walk around the corner away is great. I used to loathe how getting from one class to another in-between periods in high school was like a flippin’ hiker’s commute. Also, those touch screen Smart Board thingies in, like, every room are pretty damn swish. More money to spend due to the smaller space? I dunno. I think my peers are actually pretty cool people, and given my general dislike of humanity, you can take that as a compliment. :3 I’ve always felt that the best teachers would be people who didn’t like school in their youth, because they’d know what I couldn’t care less about, and be able to teach us, y’know, right; Jody is a living example of this, and I’m happy to know teachers like her even exist. In my experience, you’d either get some snooty cur who took themselves too seriously, or a cloudcuckoolander who was completely out of touch with reality. Here we have a teacher who likes Coca-Cola and omggoodmusic (:’D) who apparently didn’t blacklist me after I wrote her an entire paragraph about how I feel like one of the Angry Birds when dealing with people I deem stupid. So she’s obviously got a good sense of humour. Which I think more teachers need. Desperately. Speaking of the autobiography, it was slightly challenging for me to write, because, well, I’m not a narcissist. I obviously enjoy writing, just... not about myself. EVER. There’s great irony in the fact that we’ve all decided to be here ourselves, and thus are more focused, determined, and motivated than we ever were in our teens, and yet, the most laid-back, easy going mellow vibe permeates our days. That’s probably one of the best things about being here, really. 2) You need something in order to gain something. I require nothing to succeed except my strong desire to do so. I don’t have time to be defeated. Nazefa I -- My First Impression Article posted October 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM GMT • comment (1) • Reads 241 Nick S -- Test Blog #1 Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:46 PM GMT • comment • Reads 248 Shaun L -- First Impressions Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:57 PM GMT • comment • Reads 253 This is my first time here at Mcleod education center. I went to Transcona for about a month when I was 19. This school is a pretty good size, the classrooms are kind of small for the amount of students they have in them. Mostly everybody is friendly. Jody is a good teacher she explains things very well so that I think everybody understands. I’m not to fond of the work we have done or are going to do but English is not my favourite subject. My first impressions of this class was man I don’t like English but its not as bad as I remember. To ensure I succeed as an adult student I’m going to try and make it to every class so I know whats going on. I’m going to apply myself to my work especially English as that is my weakest subject. I will ask questions when I need help instead of being quiet. Most importantly though im just going to succeed because its something I want to do for myself. Alicia M -- blog #2 Article posted November 21, 2012 at 02:58 AM GMT • comment • Reads 168 Crystal M -- My First Impression Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:46 PM GMT • comment • Reads 274 Theresa P -- blog 1 Article posted September 25, 2012 at 08:17 PM GMT • comment • Reads 254 Matthias S -- First Impression Article posted September 25, 2012 at 07:46 PM GMT • comment • Reads 228 Stephanie S -- blog one Andrew S -- First impressions aren't everything. Article posted October 23, 2012 at 10:28 PM GMT • comment • Reads 174 Paula S -- Blog# 1 Article posted December 6, 2012 at 05:20 AM GMT • comment • Reads 112 Angelika S -- First Blog... Article posted September 25, 2012 at 08:16 PM GMT • comment • Reads 264 Conditions of Use

In the 1910 census I found a woman named Theresia Rauscher living with Charles and Barbara Stick living in Millvale PA. Barbara was the daughter of Anton Sperl and Katharina Rauscher Sperl. I have been puzzled by Theresa for a few years. I was sure she was related, but how??? Yesterday I searched Ancestry for Theresa Rauscher and came up with a few surprises. In 1902 I found a Baltimore Passenger List, dated 2 May 1902. The main person was Elizabeth Rauscher, age 58 from Rosshaupt, Bohemia. Next was Johann 32, Anna 29, Theresa 10, Antonia and Margaretha both 4, and Anna age 2. Elizabeth is listed as a widow, but I can not read the information for Johann and Anna. But my theory is that Johann is the son of Elizabeth and Anna his wife and the children are theirs. The interesting part is they are from the same town as Anton Sperl and his wife Katharina Rauscher. The destination lists Millvale PA and the relationship of brother in law with the name Sprool. Searching more in Millvale I came across a listing for Frank Rauscher b. 1833 in Austria and his daughter Anna. There are two conflicting reports about the daughter Anna. In the 1910 census it lists her as age 10, but underneath is appears that she is 50. That age would fit in with her fathers age of 72. Frank emigrated in 1900 and I did not find him on the 1900 census. On the Mira code index of 1910 it lists Frank and Anna age 50. Katharina’s death certificate Frank Rauscher is given as her father with mother unknown. This information was given by John Sperl her son and my husbands grandfather. My theory on this is that after Franks wife died he and his daughter emigrated to Millvale PA USA. Did John know his grandfather? I have not found a death date for Frank or Anna. Is Anna Rauscher, Katharina Rauscher Sperl Nosseck sister. Anna would have been born about 1860 and Katharina was born in 1864. My best bet would be the family cemetery, St Anthony’s in Shaler Township, PA except for the fact that the cemeteries records were all destroyed in a fire and the only records they have are from the names on the tombstones. Katharina’s middle initial is T, could that be Theresa and is it the name of her mother? This comment has been removed by the author. I had to amend my previous post. I theorize that Anna could be Katharina's sister and Elizabeth could be Katharina's sister in law. Happy Hunting, you have a lot of information...Mary

Dynamic new outfield has Braves feeling chipper Torch being passed from Jones to Upton brothers, Heyward LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When the 2012 season concluded, Braves fans regretfully watched Chipper Jones disappear into the horizon and begin his life in retirement. Over the course of the four months that followed, they saw their team's future brightened by the creation of an outfield trio that could energize Atlanta and the baseball world for at least the next three seasons. Braves general manager Frank Wren progressed through the early portion of the offseason determined to pursue free agent B.J. Upton and interested in the D-backs possibly trading Justin Upton. Adding one of these five-tool outfielders alongside budding superstar Jason Heyward seemed quite attractive. Adding both seemed to be unrealistic. If nothing else, it was just something fun to talk about after the Braves signed B.J. Upton to a franchise-record $75.25 million contract in November. But as it turned out, that was just the start of the fun for Wren, whose patience and aggression proved beneficial when he landed Justin Upton in a seven-player trade with the D-backs on Jan. 24. Wren entered the offseason looking for two outfielders and exited with three superstar-caliber outfielders who can frustrate opponents with their rare speed-power combination on a nightly basis. "These guys are up there, talent-wise, with anybody I've ever seen," former Braves outfielder Ron Gant said. " To have all three outfielders who can possibly drive in 100, possibly hit 30 [home runs] and possibly steal 30 [bases], you don't see that very often. I think these three guys can do that. The potential is there." There is tremendous potential as the Braves enter the 2013 season with three outfielders who are 28-and-under. At the same time, there are questions about whether each of them will live up to the expectations they face. B.J. Upton, the oldest member of this trio, has hit .242 with a .316 on-base percentage over the course of the past four seasons. The athletic center fielder has also increased his home run total and recorded at least 30 stolen bases each of the past four seasons. Even while hitting .246 with a .298 on-base percentage for the Rays this past year, B.J. Upton finished two homers shy of notching just the 61st 30-30 season in Major League history. "The potential is enormous," former Braves first baseman and Tampa resident Fred McGriff said. "It's just a matter of, if [Braves hitting coach] Greg Walker and others can get it out of him. He could easily be a .280-.290 hitter. He shouldn't strike out 160 times or so. It's just a matter of, if he's going to continue to make adjustments. His last month and a half last year, he was awesome. If you get it all out of him, you've got a great ballplayer." At this point last year, Justin Upton was considered a MVP-caliber player. But the optimism he created while hitting a career-best 31 homers with 21 stolen bases in 2011 was dampened as he battled a thumb injury and hit .280 with 17 home runs this past season. The .785 OPS he compiled during this "career-worst" season ranked as the 15th-best among qualifying National League outfielders. Heyward began living up to his tremendous expectations as he hit .269 with 27 home runs, an .814 OPS and 21 stolen bases this past season. Still just 23, the Gold Glove right fielder has seemingly positioned himself to rise to the elite class of outfielders. "You've got three outfielders here, if they put up the years they are capable of, you could possibly have three 30-30 guys in your outfield," Braves first-base coach and former National League MVP Terry Pendleton said. "That would be the first time ever. They've got that type of talent. Just thinking about that is crazy." There is no precedent that each will hit at least 30 homers and steal 30 bases next year. Only twice have two players from the same team recorded a 30-30 season in the same year -- Dante Bichette and Ellis Burks (1996 Rockies) and Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry (1987 Mets). There have been just four 30-30 seasons in Braves history, and Gant (1990 and '91) is responsible for two. Dale Murphy (1983) and Hank Aaron (1963) notched the others. "They all three can beat you in a lot of ways," Walker said. "They all three hit with power. All three can run. It's not just with stealing bases. They can also score from first on a double. But at this point, just like everybody else, I'm just sitting back and watching and getting to know them." Along with their potential offense, the trio has the kind of range that will make opposing pitchers envious of Atlanta's pitching staff. "Communication is going to be key," Justin Upton said. "Everybody out there can move pretty well and cover some ground. It's going to be interesting. We're going to have to position ourselves well and communicate when we go get the ball. I think it's special to have that kind of athleticism in the outfield. It's more of a luxury than a problem." From an offensive standpoint, this appears to be the most powerful outfield trio the Braves have possessed since Gary Sheffield, Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones combined for 102 home runs in 2003. But they combined for just 24 stolen bases, with Sheffield accounting for 18 of those. "Some of those old Braves teams had some unbelievable power in the outfield," Braves Chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk said. "But to have three guys with five tools who have the upside ability with many of those five tools, it's pretty impressive. Age and talent, you put it all together, this machine is really primed to be here for a while." Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

“Oh no,” she said flatly, when asked if she would buy any lots in the cemetery. “I don’t know, really (in which cemetery she would buy lots). It’s something I’ve got to look into.” For the second time in about six months, body fluids have leaked from her grandmother’s crypt in the mausoleum. Attorney Jim Logan said Monday he settled on an oral agreement that deficiencies would be corrected. This time, he will pursue litigation similar to the civil action taken against Fort Hill Cemetery owner Louisville Land Company. “I’ve contacted Assistant District Attorney Stephen Hatchett and will be giving him the necessary petitions requesting that office to engage in prosecution of the violations,” Logan said. “It took us what, seven years to get (drainage) tiles installed.” Dale Lawrence of the Lawrence Group of Dallas, Ga., did not respond to requests for an interview left at the cemetery sales office. Sunset Memorial Gardens, located north of Cleveland on North Lee Highway, was the subject of complaints in 2011. The complaints focused then on heavy equipment used to dig new graves. The equipment leaves ruts in graves and knocks down vases, and outriggers used to stabilize the backhoe crack headstones. Then, in late July 2012, the crypts leaked body fluids. “The smell is just horrendous. I think what angers me so much now is we were assured this was resolved six months ago,” Andies said. “They gave their apologies. [They said] the front of her tomb had been removed and sealed correctly; here we are six months later and clearly, it wasn’t done. Clearly, their apologies were insincere.” Long before a large stain on the carpet can be seen, the smell is overpowering. It is a stench that clings to clothing and penetrates nostrils and sinus cavities. The noxious odor continues to assault the senses long after leaving the cemetery and leaves one feeling nauseous. “A sickening smell. It’s just horrible,” she said. “It’s a disgrace, not only to the immediate family, but all the family members who are represented here, inside the mausoleum, the grounds throughout the cemetery. This isn’t the first and probably won’t be the last issue we’ve had with them about not keeping the grounds here.” Ralph Buckner Jr.,. The lights were burned out or broken, a single window air-conditioning unit was broken and the only ventilation came from two box fans. Also, the roof leaked, there was a broken window and the interior was generally dirty. “Here we are again,” Andies said. “It’s very disheartening. It’s sad so much disrespect is shown to our loved ones,” she said. “When we bury them, we like to think we can visit them and have a sense of peace, and it’s anything but that.” Logan said about 25 people have contacted his office with various complaints. He said there has been a little work to cover up some of the mold, but the mold is still there. “We had entered into an oral agreement with the Lawrence Group,” he said. “I tried to get them to enter into a written contract. They have done some of the things they were supposed to do. They did clean what was found about six months ago. It was atrocious. It was very, very, very, very despicable.” Logan said no ventilation system has been installed, the rear of the building where people park is still unsightly and the crypts were not sealed with plexiglass. “The violations of those standards applicable to the operation of the mausoleum make it necessary for us to proceed (with litigation). We had high hopes that not only complaints here, but in Hilcrest Cemetery would be resolved long before now,” he said. “There are some things that have been done, but they are minor in terms of the things that need to be done.”.

Tipping Their Hand As the “Little Injuns that Could” continue to chug their way up the mountain despite the smoking engine and the dings and dents throughout their body, the Indians made a surprising move yesterday when they needed to make room for Jeanmar Gomez’s start against Oakland. While the idea that the Indians would either send Choo off to the DL (he’s out for a while with this side issue) or send the likes of Shelley Duncan or Jerad Head back down I-71 with the idea that either would return in 10 days, after the September 1st roster expansion date and after either had spent enough time in AAA in order to be recalled, the Indians instead sent their Opening Day 1B Matt MaTola off to Columbus. While the move is entirely justified in terms of LaPorta’s performance, the timing of it is more than a little surprising as the Indians’ current offense resembles that of a AAA team as injuries have laid waste to the Tribe’s position players. At a time when it would seem that the Indians would need any able-bodied position player to be standing at the ready, they sent down LaPorta, who (not all that long ago) was a Top 30 prospect in all of baseball and was (as if you needed to be reminded of this) the BIG bat that came over in the CC deal from the Cream City. Regardless of that pedigree and his inclusion in the Sabathia deal, there’s little question that LaPorta has “earned” this demotion, as I wrote this three weeks ago, suggesting as much:. Since that was written, Kipnis, Hafner, and Brantley all hit the DL (and that’s just on the offensive side of things, not to mention Choo, who is out for a couple of weeks with this side injury), with the Indians improbably absorbing these “punches” to stay relevant into September. My suggestion from the piece was to play Santana at 1B every day and for Marson to assume the full-time C duties and that looks to be the direction that the Tribe will take going forward. If you want to continue with the “since that was written” tract, LaPorta has posted a .603 OPS in the 13 games “since that was written”, striking out 12 times in 41 plate appearance, actually striking out (not just making an out) more often than he got on base since August 10th. Maybe some of this is still injury-related and the argument can be made that he probably should have gone to Columbus on a rehab assignment after the ankle injury (I think I made that argument at one time) as since he has returned from the DL, he’s posted a .231 BA / .256 OBP / .372 SLG / .628 OPS line in 129 PA, striking out 32 times in those 129 PA…or about ¼ of the times he strode to the plate. If you’ll remember, when LaPorta came off of the DL, the team was short-handed at the time back then and his return allowed some level of normalcy to set in for a team in need of an offensive spark. Certainly, LaPorta didn’t provide that spark (as you look at those numbers above again), and what’s striking about this demotion is that LaPorta heads down to Columbus when the team is even MORE short-handed offensively than they were when he came off of the DL in June, which brings us to this overwhelming feeling about this move, in that it would certainly seem to suggest that the Indians are not counting on Matt MaTola for much of anything, this year or beyond. Maybe the argument can be made that the Indians are trying to send LaPorta a message, that nobody on the roster (regardless of prospect pedigree or what trade you were involved in) is above being demoted, but in light of their unprecedented need for offense right now and the fact that the Indians are…you know, IN A PENNANT RACE, his demotion speaks volumes about the faith that the have in LaPorta right now and how much (or how little) hope that they might have for LaPorta going forward. Though LaPorta’s been under the microscope than probably any other current Indian in this space, you want a stunning fact? Matt LaPorta’s career OPS coming into 2011 was .694 in 623 plate appearances. In 349 plate appearances in 2011, he has a…yep, .694 OPS. Lest you forget, MaTola turns 27 in January and now has a fairly consistent track record of posting a sub-.700 OPS (.694, to be exact) over 972 plate appearances in MLB. Those days of thinking that LaPorta was the “answer” at 1B (much less an upgrade over Garko and Broussard) seem like they were long, long ago. For some perspective on where LaPorta has fallen in terms of standing within the organization, let’s remember again that when the Indians needed to send someone to Columbus for 10 days, they kept Jerad Head and Shelley Duncan on the team over Matt LaPorta. For all intents and purposes, they could have sent Lonnie Chisenhall down for 10 days given the way Hannahan is playing, but instead they dispatched LaPorta. Yes, the Indians need OF and LaPorta hasn’t played LF since he broke his toe in Fenway last year (which may be why he’s not playing LF anymore), but the fact that Head and Duncan – who are both older than LaPorta and are non-prospects (even if Duncan is a useful piece) and have options – start to bring into clearer focus how damning this move is in terms of the long-term future for LaPorta in Cleveland. Even more than LaPorta going down instead of Head and Duncan is the idea that LaPorta would be sent down in the midst of a pennant race for this team, which has been making moves to maximize this roster for 2011 since they called up Alex White months ago. Seriously, if you think about the moves that the Tribe has made to make a push for 2011 (White’s call-up, Chiz and Kipnis call-up, Kosuke, the Ubaldo deal, Thome) all season long, you start to really get the idea of how much they consider LaPorta to be “helpful” to this team at this point. That said, nearly all of the moves that they’ve made all season have been just as much about the future as the present as they’ve started the adjustment period for guys like Kipnis and Chisenhall and added a top-of-the-rotation starter that helps today and tomorrow. That brings us back to the idea of the “tomorrow” of Matt LaPorta as, to say this move brings more cloudiness to the horizon of his career as an Indian would be an understatement. His plate discipline is bad and getting worse and his reputation as a “mistake-pitch” hitter (and almost that exclusively) was being cemented as his offensive production looked to be more in line with a Futility Infielder than that of a Future Cornerstone. Though it is true that there is the possibility that injuries played a role and LaPorta just needs to get healthy, e hasn’t been able to stay healthy since he arrived to the organization, so why is there a belief that he’ll suddenly find a full season of health and productivity in 2012? The short answer is that there isn’t any reason to think that, and I can’t think that LaPorta is being counted on to be the de facto 1B next year for the Tribe at this point, regardless of what trade he was involved in or how high hopes may have been for him at one time. At this point, the Indians (quite suddenly, at least publicly) look to be turning away from LaPorta as a viable option at 1B as, if he’s not going to be trusted to help THIS team (beset by injuries), what incarnation of the future Indians is he going to contribute mightily to? The answer to that came with his demotion and it’s led to the speculating about the future of certain players that we’re used to doing this time of year…we’re just not used to doing it in the middle of a pennant race. As for that speculation, one thought that immediately comes to mind in terms of exploring external options for 1B next year is that the “Thome money” earned at the gate that has started to come in (and figures to continue) could perhaps give the Indians some financial flexibility to add a 1B in the off-season. Whether or not the Indians will continue to draw at the level that they have recently (hence the “Thome money”), let’s remember what Terry Pluto wrote last weekend when he passed on that, “the Indians projected 1.3 million at the start of this season”. Right now, they’d be on pace to see between 1.7 million and 1.8 million people come through the turnstiles, with that number perhaps even going higher if the Thome Love Fest keeps playing and if the Indians can draw the casual fan down in the month of September in a pennant race…which seems odd to even write. Let’s say that they draw 1.75 million by the end of the season (and that’s being pretty cautious) and realize that 1.75 million in attendance is about a 35% increase from their expected gate revenue. While I’m not saying that there’s your “found” Prince Fielder money (just forget that), what it might do is first-and-foremost allow the Indians to be pro-active in locking up their own players (that have proven themselves this year), then have additional funds to perhaps attempt to fill an organizational hole…and 1B certainly looks to be a hole. Does that mean that you should go out and order a custom jersey with a “PUJOLS 5” or a “FIELDER 28” Tribe jersey for next year? Of course not, but remember how the Tribe really has $17.7M actually committed in payroll next year with decisions on Grady’s option (and I think they pick it up and try to get creative to add more years at lower money by picking up the option) and with arbitration coming for Choo, Perez, and Cabrera (again) as well as Masterson’s first year of arbitration eligibility? Well, there’s a possibility. By locking those two up (and making the cursory call to Scott Boras…just to see what’s what), the Indians can lock down more of their new, burgeoning “core” for the foreseeable future. However, it’s still worth noting that if they do agree to a long-term deal with Asdrubal or Masterson (or both…or more), the dollar amounts in those contracts generally ramp up as the years pass, meaning that the Indians still could have some financial flexibility for 2012 and 2013 to explore external options for 1B. In terms of those options, it’s a pretty top-heavy list and the 1B FA pickings start to thin out after Pujols and Fielder in terms of “sure things”, although the switch-hitting Lance Berkman is certainly intriguing, as are Mike Cuddyer and Carlos Pena, although those 1B will have no shortage of suitors. Of course, the Indians have always been reticent to get into bidding wars with teams that have the ability to simply write off their mistake contracts and given that “reticence” in the FA market (although, remember this organization did add Millwood for 2005 for $7M), maybe they could go the trade route to add a 1B, even if it seems as if the Tribe fired off most of their trade ammunition. Perhaps they could move Rafael Perez and Cord Phelps for something moderately useful as for as much talk as there may be about how CHRIS Perez is about to get more expensive in arbitration, RAFAEL is actually further along in his arbitration years and is about to get more expensive…probably more expensive than he is actually worth. With Hagadone knocking on the door as another LH reliever to go with Sipp, Rafael would probably win the “Perez Most Likely to be Traded” contest for the off-season and Phelps certainly looks to be blocked in a couple of different ways in the organization. Then again, I’m just spitballing here and wouldn’t expect any kind of “1B of the Future” to come from a trade centered around Rafael Perez and Cord Phelps and it’s worth mentioning that this is all worrying about tomorrow - something Tribe fans are used to in September - when today is more pressing and compelling in the form of a pennant race…which is certainly something Cleveland hasn’t become used to in the last decade. For now, LaPorta is out of the Indians’ imminent plans in a move that could provide some insight as to what they plan on doing in the off-season. But the off-season is still a month (or hopefully more) away and things are getting exciting again on The Reservation, with thoughts that Grady may be returning and with the Indians doing to the Royals and A’s what they should have done to the Mariners. It is worth noting that after the A’s leave town, the Indians have 28 games left. Fourteen of those games come against the White Sox (8) and the Tigers (6), meaning that there could be some serious movement in the AL Central as all of these teams control their own destiny in their hands. Lest anyone forget, the Tigers arrive on Monday and there’s still baseball left to be played as September is nearly upon us and a pennant race has remained on the North Coast. Regardless of what 1B in 2012 is going to look like, what’s happening in the here-and-now is unquestionably fun and the fun figures to continue with the hope that this is still only the opening act… 9 comments: Just to save you guys some reading on irrelevant posts, I wondered about the connection of Hafner and LaPorta getting beaned (in the face and head, respectively) to their drop off in production. Hafner came back strong for a year and a half, while LaPorta put up good numbers in AAA after taking one off his noggin in Beijing. Apparently, he just can't hit major league pitching. Hopefully, he gets his confidence back in Columbus. Great insights Paul! Would love to hear more speculation on possible 1st basemen via trade... The similarities between LaPorta and Andy Marte (check out Marte's numbers in 2009 and 2010) would be hilarious if they were happening to some other team. We're getting closer to being able to close the books on the big trades of '08 and '09: 1 win (Martinez--especially since his replacement was already in the high minors) and 2 losses (Sabathia and Lee). For an organization that doesn't spend and traditionally hasn't drafted all that well, that percentage isn't nearly good enough. MaTola just doesn't look like an MLB-caliber hitter at the plate. He may turn out to be one of the countless players over the years who were superb up through AAA ball and couldn't make the jump to the majors. At the moment when Jeanmar Gomez had his high performance , some bad Online pharmacy reviews destroyed his career!?

Click here to visit the Climate Change Policy & Practice knowledgebase. Announcement from Monday, 17 December 2012 The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is pleased to announce the launch of three new knowledgebases for sustainable development policy makers: Land Policy & Practice() Forests Policy & Practice() Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice() These knowledgebases are part of our suite of knowledge management projects tracking international activities addressing sustainable development issues. Each knowledgebase is managed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services. Funding for Land Policy & Practice, Forests Policy & Practice and Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice has been provided by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Knowledgebase content is researched and written by our team of thematic experts. Features of each knowledgebase include: IISD manages and is fully responsible for the content posted on Land Policy & Practice, Forests Policy & Practice, and Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice. Information on United Nations activities is provided in cooperation with the UN system agencies, funds and programmes through the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB). Land Policy & Practice, Forests Policy & Practice, and Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice join IISD's other knowledge management tools: In early 2008, during preparations for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, IISD Reporting Services launched its first knowledge management site, Climate Change Policy & Practice. This knowledgebase supported efforts by the sustainable development community to track the various activities undertaken by international actors addressing climate change. Our work on our flagship publication, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, positioned us to make this transition into monitoring the implementation of international multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). Our teams, which attend the MEA negotiations, track the decisions that the international community has taken and understand the wide variety of actors involved in each arena. As 2012 comes to a close, we are pleased to bring you the latest additions to our knowledge management work, and to expand our efforts to track implementation of the agreements that we have reported on for the past 20 years. For further information on our knowledge management activities, please contact Lynn Wagner, Senior Manager, Knowledge Management Projects (lynn@iisd.org). To provide us with information about your land or forests related activities, please contact Lauren Anderson, Content Editor (lauren@iisd.org). To provide us with information about your chemicals and wastes activities, please contact Faye Leone, Content Editor (faye@iisd.org).

Treatment of Acute HIV Infection With Quad Fixed-dose Combination (FDC) Tablet (PHI04) - Full Text View - Tabular View - No Study Results Posted - Disclaimer - How to Read a Study Record This is a multicenter, single arm, 48-week open-label study of FDC ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF [Stribild] in acute HIV infection. Study sites will be members of the Duke-UNC Acute HIV Infection Study Consortium. Participants will be enrolled for 96 weeks. Clinical care and study drug (ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF) will be provided for the first 48 weeks. After week 48, clinical care but not study drug will be provided through week 96. A study participant suppressed at week 48 can continue on FDC ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF. The primary hypothesis is that once daily fixed-dose combination elvitegravir (ELV), cobicistat (COBI), emtricitabine (FTC), and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) will rapidly reduce viral replication to <50 copies RNA/ml in participants with acute HIV infection. The secondary hypotheses to be considered are 1) virologic response rates as measured by plasma HIV RNA levels will be non-inferior or superior to a historical group of participants from the PHI cohort treated with EFV/FTC/TDF, 2) compared to historical controls treated with EFV/FTC/TDF, plasma HIV RNA will decrease more rapidly in PHI participants treated with ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF, 3) compared to historical controls treated with EFV/FTC/TDF, immune activation as measured by the proportion CD4+ and CD8+ cells expressing HLA-DR and CD38+ will decrease more rapidly in PHI participants treated with ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF, 4)in a subset of participants samples will be obtained from compartments such as the gastrointestinal tract, and lymphoid tissues to assess changes over time in parameters such as HIV-1 RNA, immunologic responses to HIV, and tissue and anatomic reservoirs. We hypothesize that treatment with the ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF will demonstrate improved viral clearance in these compartments as compared to historical controls treated with EFV/FTC/TDF. 5) in a subset of participants who remain suppressed on therapy, resting CD4 cells with replication-competent HIV-1 (latent reservoir) will be quantitated and compared to similar measurements in PHI participants treated with EFV/FTC/TDF. In addition, we will compare these results to those measured in HIV-1 infected participants treated and 6) ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF will be well tolerated, and the proportion of participants who require treatment modification will be less than that observed in participants treated with EFV/FTC/TDF. - viral load measurement of <200 copies/mL at week 24 [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] - virologic efficacy of the fixed dose combination (FDC) ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF given once daily to participants with acute HIV infection as determined by the proportion of treated participants with HIV-1 RNA to <50 copies/mL at week 48 [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ] - rate of virologic decline in the first 24 weeks of treatment comparing FDC ELV/COBI/FTC/TDF to FDC EFV/FTC/TDF [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] Detailed Description: None desired Acute HIV infection is defined as: A positive 4th generation HIV Ag/Ab Combination Assay and HIV RNA (NAAT or viral load) and one of the following within 30 days of study entry: - a negative HIV rapid test - negative/indeterminate Western Blot OR A negative or indeterminate HIV antibody, antigen, or nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) and any one of the following within 30 days of study entry: - A detectable HIV nucleic acid in blood confirmed by a second NAAT - Positive p24 antigen - A positive HIV antibody test according to standard criteria obtained within 45 days after an initial negative or indeterminate HIV antibody, antigen, or nucleic acid amplification. Inclusion Criteria: - Acute HIV Infection (as defined above) within 30 days of study entry. - Age >18 years. - ART-naive (<14 days of previous antiretroviral treatment. Exceptions are: Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) if participant was documented as HIV-negative at least 3 months after completion of PEP. Lab values within 30 days prior to study entry: - Absolute neutrophil count >500/mm3 - Hemoglobin > 8.5 g/dL for men and > 8.0 g/dL for women - Platelet count >50,000/mm3 - AST (SGOT)> .2.5 x ULN - ALT (SGPT)> .2.5 x ULN - Total bilirubin <2.5 x ULN - Calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault formula) > 70mL/min: - For women of reproductive potential, a negative pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to initiating antiretroviral study medications. Reproductive potential is defined as females who have reached menarche and have not been post-menopausal for at least 24 consecutive months, or have not undergone surgical sterilization. - Female study participants must use a reliable form of barrier contraception, such as a condom, even if they also use other methods of birth control. All participants must continue to use contraception for 12 weeks after stopping study medications. Acceptable methods of barrier contraception include: condoms (male or female), diaphragm, or cervical cap. These can be used alone or in tandem with hormonal or IUD method. - Ability and willingness of participant to give written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: - Women who are pregnant or breast-feeding. - Women with a positive pregnancy test prior to study drug administration. - Men who have sex with women, and women of reproductive potential unwilling or unable to use an acceptable, reliable barrier method of contraception for the entire study period and 12 weeks afterwards. - Use of immunomodulators (e.g., interleukins, interferons, cyclosporine), HIV vaccine, systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy, or investigational therapy within 30 days of study entry (Prednisone 10 mg QD or less is permitted. - Known allergy/sensitivity to study drugs - Difficulty swallowing pills - Inability to communicate effectively with study personnel - Incarceration; prisoner recruitment and participation are not permitted - Active drug or alcohol use that, in the opinion of the site investigator, would interfere with participation in the study - Any active psychiatric illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, could confound the analysis of the neurological examination or neuropsychological test results - Active brain infection (except for HIV-1), brain neoplasm, space-occupying brain lesion requiring acute or chronic therapy - Serious illness requiring systemic treatment and/or hospitalization until patient either completes therapy or is clinically stable on therapy for at least 7 days prior to study entry - Known cardiac conduction disease - Prior treatment with any other experimental drug within 30 days of initiating study treatment - Unable to discontinue any current medications that are excluded during study treatment - Life expectancy less than twelve months - Acute Viral Hepatitis, including, but not limited to, Hepatitis A, B, or C - Chronic Hepatitis B Infection documented by a detectable serum Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or plasma HBV DNA - Calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault formula) <70mL/min No publications provided Additional relevant MeSH terms: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 16, 2013

Pediatric HIV Disclosure Intervention - Full Text View - Tabular View - No Study Results Posted - Disclaimer - How to Read a Study Record With increased availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and improved care, increasing numbers of perinatally infected children are surviving into adolescence. While HIV care and treatment programs are expanding, growing challenge faced by health providers and caregivers is diagnosis disclosure to HIV infected children. The investigators propose a 4 year project to test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioural intervention that the investigators have designed to support developmentally appropriate disclosure to HIV infected children by their caregiver. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will lead to increased disclosure rates and will over time improve health and mental health outcomes among caregivers and children in the intervention group compared to those receiving standard care. The findings of the study will inform Ugandan and other countries' national policies on pediatric HIV care and treatment. - Disclosure to child of child's HIV-positive status [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] - HIV related morbidity [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For all children and HIV-infected caregivers, information on WHO stage of HIV infection, treatment status, opportunistic infections, CD4 counts will be abstracted from medical records. - Child antiretroviral medication adherence [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] - Cost and Cost-effectiveness [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] - Caregiver depression/anxiety [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ] - Child behavior checklist [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]captures depression, anxiety and behavior using the child behavior checklist Detailed Description: At the end of 2009, there were an estimated 2.1 million children < 15 years living with HIV, with almost 90% residing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In Uganda alone there are an estimated 150,000 HIV-infected children. Although disclosing to a child that he or she is infected with HIV is an important and integral part of providing comprehensive HIV medical care, studies conducted in SSA have indicated that only 2% to 37.8% of HIV-infected children < 15 years know their HIV status. Studies by the investigators' team and others have revealed a high demand by both caregivers and children for health provider-facilitated communication about HIV and disclosure to HIV-infected children. In Uganda despite the rapid expansion of HIV services for children, very few health providers receive formal training in how to support disclosure of an HIV diagnosis to an infected child. Despite the existence of international and national recommendations for disclosure there are no tested models for supporting caregivers and HIV-infected children in SSA through the process of disclosure. This study proposes to test the effectiveness of an innovative cognitive-behavioural intervention designed to support developmentally appropriate disclosure to HIV-infected children by their caregiver. The proposed intervention builds on the investigators' team's prior research is informed by a cognitive behavioral perspective, as well as the Disclosure Processes Model. The investigators will also adapt components of a multi-faceted program for caregivers of HIV-infected children, developed by members of the investigators' team with funding support from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Specific aims: - To determine the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavior intervention for increasing disclosure of children's HIV diagnosis by caregivers to their HIV-infected children age 7-12 years old in Uganda. - To determine the effect of disclosure on immediate and longer-term caregiver and child mental health, and child behavioral and clinical outcomes, and whether the intervention modifies these effects - To assess the incremental cost, health impact, and cost-effectiveness of the intervention Inclusion criteria: - children of age 7 to 12 years; - confirmed HIV-infected; - unaware of their HIV status, according to caregiver report; - principal caregiver, age 18 years or older, of the eligible study child is able and willing to participate in their regular treatment program (monthly visits) and data collection visits at the study clinic at 6-month intervals for 24 months; - agreement to participate in 3 group sessions with other caregivers over a 6 week period, and 3 counseling session with the eligible child(ren), scheduled at the same time as usual clinic visits; - resides within a 30km radius around the study clinic, and not planning on moving during the study period; caregiver and child must both consent / assent for participation. Exclusion criteria: - caregivers and children who are unable to consent or assent to participation in the study due to cognitive impairment or illness; - for children, medical history of serious birth complications, severe malnutrition, bacterial meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral malaria, or other known brain injury or disorder requiring hospitalization or continued evidence of seizure or other neurological disability; - for caregivers, severe mental illness or developmental disability. No publications provided Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 16, 2013

5 Former Athletes Who Flamed Out on TV entertainment world: The Not-So Magic Hour The charismatic Lakers’ legend couldn’t make it work as a late-night talk-show host in 1998 — he was canceled after eight weeks. The show was marked by Johnson’s lack of comfort and chemistry with those around him, and it’s widely considered one of the great TV experiments gone bad of recent years. Johnson has been able to stick around largely as a basketball analyst for ESPN where producers let him be himself. Guess the late-night audience just didn’t want as much Magic in their lives. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow If his TV career didn’t go down the toilet fast enough during his stint as a correspondent with NBC’s ‘Today,’ Barber only further embarrassed himself when he was caught cheating on his wife with a 23-year-old NBC intern, whom Barber later married. His broadcasting career should have been a natural fit for the running back. But he never quite crossed over into the mainstream non-sports stories he was assigned, and NBC management grew impatient. In May 2010, the network cut him. Keeping Up With Bruce’s Face The Olympian for the decathlon has landed in a bizarre second life as an awkward step-father on ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians.’ Jenner has been ridiculed for his looks and his behavior since the show’s inception in 2007, and has appeared on the show’s spinoff series, ‘Khloe & Lamar.’ Jenner fell into the family when he married his wife, Kris, who was previously married to lawyer Robert Kardashian. You Can’t Be serious MCENROE McEnroe hosted ‘The Chair’ on ABC in January 2002, but it was his failed CNBC show, ‘McEnroe,’ that got him really riled up. Twice during its six-month lifespan the show received a 0.0 Nielsen rating. Nobody could save the show, as much as they tried. It turned out that people didn’t wish to turn to a former irritable tennis player for financial wisdom. When McEnroe has stayed more within the lines, and has cameoed as himself in several movies, he’s found a more winning recipe. FOREMAN’s Sitcom Gets Grilled He’s made a name for himself as both a boxer and a chef so it’s easy to forget Foreman’s conquest into the CBS sitcom family in 1993. His show, ‘George,’ was panned and is considered by many to be one of the worst sitcoms ever to air. That experience making just nine episodes of the flop must have scared Foreman straight as his few movie appearances afterward have cast Foreman as a boxing commentator. NEXT: Scrabble and Other Outlandish Cheating Scandals

Ongoing • Relay For Life • 11AM Join the race, help fundraise, or just kickback and have fun. Relay For Life SF Embarcadero will be held at Little Marina Green near Chrissy Field. This will be a full day with bands, food, fun, and – most of all – a celebration of the fight against cancer! Ongoing • Sunset Cruise • Ongoing Embrace your inner tourist and go on a sunset cruise on the Bay, with your fleece and camera of course! The Red and White Fleet’s largest vessel, The Royal Prince, plays host for a two-hour journey with live guitar music, buffet appetizers, and a complimentary cocktail or soda. July 26th-Aug 1. Friday July 30th • Food Truck Congregation • 5-9PM Live music, gourmet food, beer, wine, and amazing views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island and Alcatraz?! “Off The Grid” is organizing this weekly cultural market. Participating food vendors include El Huarache Loco, Kung Fu Tacos, Azalina’s Malaysian, Hapa SF, Curry Up Now, Chairman Bao Truck, and many more. The slightly new location will better protect you from the wind and give you more space to stand in the lines Get your cultural grub on! Saturday July 31st • A New Farmer’s Market • 9-1PM The Cow Palace Farmers’ Market will provide the surrounding communities of Visitacion Valley and Bayshore with a source of fresh and locally grown produce. Come out to the Cow Palace at 2600 Geneva Ave., Gate 5, to enjoy a day of fun and delicious food! Saturday July 31st • Indonesian Day • 11-4PM Celebrate the Indonesian culture with food, dance, and music. An uniquely San Francisco tradition, this event continues to be the biggest Indonesian event in the United States. Sunday Aug 1st • Outside Art Street Party • 11AM An outdoor event for the whole family, Out Side Art is bringing together a talented group of artists and DJs to represent some of San Francisco’s most creative scenes. The primary artistic focus of this event will be a coordinated effort by local artists to complete a Mural started by the internationally renowned British artist BANKSY. The live mural painting will be complimented by music from an eclectic variety of San Francisco’s best DJs. Sunday Aug 1st • Yoga on the Pier • 11AM Take in the fresh air as you move from asana to asana on Pier 39 this Sunday. Learn to quiet your mind and not be distracted by external factors as you strengthen and lengthen your body. Sunday Aug 1st • Foodie Anniversary Extravaganza • 11:30-2:30PM Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of your favorite street carts; Adobo Hobo, Gumbo Man, and The Chai Cart! It will be big birthday bash with many more your favorite street food vendors such as Chile Lindo, Lumpia Cart, and Mali Num Num so come ready to eat!

After silent with regard to the duty of staff to use the AED. Recently, an appellate court in New York addressed the issue of whether the legislation that requires an AED on health club premises also creates a duty for the certified employee to apply the AED on a club member in distress. In Miglino v. Bally Total Fitness, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division’s interpretation of New York State General Business Law 627-a created a duty to use the AED during an emergency situation despite the New York state legislature’s silence on the issue. The Miglino case stems from an incident on March 26, 2007, when a member of a Bally Total Fitness club in Long Island, NY, collapsed as he played racquetball at the club. A club member informed the front desk about what happened, and a 911 emergency call was placed. A Bally employee, who was a personal trainer and had completed a certification course in the operation of an AED, responded to the scene along with a doctor who was a member. The club’s AED was brought to the scene but never used. An ambulance arrived about 8 minutes after 911 was called and took the club member to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The estate of the club member brought an action against Bally seeking monetary damages for failing to use the AED as mandated by New York General Business Law Section 627-a[3] and for failing to use life-saving measures on the club member. Bally moved to dismiss the case arguing that the trained club employee had no duty to use the AED. Bally also argued that liability could not be imposed based upon New York’s Good Samaritan Law (New York Public Health Law Section 3000-a) that insulates a voluntary responder to an emergency situation from liability unless the volunteer acted with gross negligence. New York’s Appellate Court denied the motion to dismiss and held that New York law recognizes a cause of action if Bally can be found to have negligently failed to use its AED on the decedent. In 2005, New York amended General Business Law Section 627-a requiring every health club in the state with more than 500 members to have an AED on the premises. The law further requires that during staffed business hours, the club must have an employee on the premises who is certified by a nationally recognized organization or association in the use of the device and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In its decision, the court cited a 2002 article in the medical publication Circulation Journal of the American Heart Association entitled “Automated External Defibrillators in Health/Fitness Facilities” and recognized the importance of an AED being immediately available in an emergency cardiac situation at a health club given that there is a substantial risk of a cardiac arrest after strenuous exercise. In addition, the court cited the legislative history of the statute acknowledging the strong public policy of the enactment of the law to prevent deaths associated with cardiac arrests after exercise. In support of its motion to dismiss the case, Bally cited New York’s Public Health Law Sections 3000-a and 3000-b. More commonly known as the Good Samaritan Law, this law provides that a person who voluntarily and without expectation of monetary compensation renders emergency treatment to an individual at the scene of an accident or other emergency situation outside of a hospital or other medical setting, shall not be liable for damages for any injuries or death as a result of the emergency treatment rendered unless it is established that the injuries or death were due to “gross negligence” on the part of the volunteer. This standard is much higher than needs to be established in comparison to the ordinary negligence standard otherwise imposed on a health care provider on treatment rendered in a non-emergent situation. The public policy underlying Good Samaritan Laws is clear in that the state, while certainly not mandating it, wants to encourage its citizens to assist each other in emergency situations when no licensed or certified emergency responder is available. The New York Appellate Court held that the Good Samaritan Law did not prevent the club member’s estate from bringing an action against Bally for the failure to use the AED. While acknowledging that New York’s law mandating an AED at health clubs with greater than 500 members did not contain any specific provision imposing an affirmative duty to use the AED, the court held that it would be “illogical to conclude that no such duty exists.” The court went on to say that if it did not interpret the statute to impose a duty to use the AED, it would “eviscerate the very purpose for which the legislation was enacted… and would [render] the provision meaningless…” The court supported its rationale by questioning why the state would mandate a health club to provide the AED and a certified user if no simultaneous duty existed to use it. While many states have taken steps to expand public access to AEDs, only 10 states have created legislation regarding the availability of AEDs in exercise facilities: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island. In addition, the laws have similarly created a duty of the owners and operators of the facilities to have on the premises an employee who is trained in the use of the AED. As in New York, the users of the mandated AEDs in the other states are protected from liability with regard to the use of the AED through similar Good Samaritan Laws. Most of the states noted above fail to make reference to the duty of the health clubs or their certified employees to use the AED in an emergency situation. In fact, with the exception of Michigan, the various statutes do not use the term “duty.” Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island all require that an AED be available on the premises and require that an employee be medically trained to use the device during business hours. Louisiana requires only that the AED is available on the premises. None of the states mentions a need to actually use the device. However, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island do offer protection from liability for the use or non-use of the device. It is apparent that if an affirmative duty is to be found, it will be in the hands of the courts to make that determination. The current regulations likely will stir up debate about whether a duty to use the AED will attach along with the duty to provide the device and a certified trained employee. Despite the protection from liability afforded to health club owners and their employees with regard to the use of AEDs, some courts will recognize a cause of action against health clubs if the club’s certified employee fails to use the device in emergency situations. This seems to contradict the legal protections afforded to voluntary responders under the various Good Samaritan Laws. It is up to health club owners and their employees to become aware of the additional responsibility to affirmatively act, apply the AED and determine if the AED is medically indicated under the circumstances. With the expanded availability of AEDs to the general public, the courts and the states likely will evaluate if a duty to apply the device attaches regardless of the location or the circumstances. BIO Jeffrey C. Gerson, Esq. is a litigation partner in the law firm of Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP. He specializes in the defense of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers. He also handles general negligence defense with a special interest in sports litigation, as he is a New York state certified high school varsity football official. Cristina LaMarca, Esq. is a senior associate in the Litigation Group at Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP. She specializes in the defense of physicians, hospitals, nurses and other health care providers. LaMarca also is a registered nurse with experience in cardiac surgery nursing care at a major New York City hospital. Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP maintains offices in New York, New Jersey and California.

FOTD Friday: L’Oreal HIP’s Sculpted eyeshadow duo >>IMAGE<< Category: FOTD Friday beautiful as always. u have a good weekend too! I love this duo! Look very pretty on you! Yes, I have that duo and love it. Beautiful application. Love the blush on you. What blush is it? love the duo the makeup is gorgeous I went crazy on a HiP BOGO sale at walgreens a few months ago and I have almost every color – except for some of the newer ones. This is one of my fav. next to wicked I have this one and it's one of my faves. It makes a great smoky eye. I haven't tried it for daywear though. Check out mspurplekisses81 on youtube for tuts on hip duos. That girl is BAD! She should be a rep for L'Oreal because she works these duos like nobodies business. She can make the brightest duos wearable for everyday. She has a tut for almost all of them, and if she doesn't have one you want to see send her a request and she'll hook you up. I'm telling ya'll, she's the best. My YT name is staceface75 so if you stop by her channel let her know that I sent you her way with rave reviews! That's a lovely duo. You look gorgeous! I love the way the HIP duos look on you, but I just haven't got the hang of applying them. And there's no such thing as blush overload. The more, the better. a girl after my own heart! i agree, less is def more with shadows like that. i usually pack at least one hip duo with me when i go out of town. gotta luv it! Another cute look B. Good job and have a great weekend.\ PJD The blush is pretty! i love L'OREL's HIP cosmetic line! They put some bold colors together, BUT when put on they are Fantabulouse and they arent expensive at all! "Windshield wiper motion"? You crack me up! BTW, I wanted to let you know that I gave you a Kreativ Blogger Award Keep doing your thing! C I love "sculpted" on you! Funny thing, I wore it to work today. Your application is nice…Thanks for the post This one is the best thus far…I'm loving the colors!! I SO want that duo… so bad HIP is not sold here… but it´s a very pretty combination I have this duo and Sassy(a teal and taupe one) and never wear them because I couldn't just "throw" them on and go…After seeing you work your magic with this duo…I think I was just applying the shades a little too heavy handed…I'll have to give them another try. I love the way you toned down the metallics for the eye look. Nice! The black with the purple glitter in this duo is a really good dupe for those of you who didn't get a chance to pick up MAC's young punk e/s from the style black collection. And the one thing that this black has over young punk is that you don't have all the fallout from the glitter in young punk. Thank you, my darlings! Hey Brittles, I love this look on you. I do have it and I love it. Def easy to apply. How cute are you?! Love those glasses! Thank you, chicas! Loving IT!!!! xxx, GC cute! looks like we all have sculpted on the brain. i just did a post about it too I absolutely LOVE that blush…Beautiful!

The Global Search for Education “There is no competitive advantage today to knowing more than the person sitting next to you.” — Tony Wagner Is Your Child an Innovator By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” — President Barack Obama, January 25, 2011 Welcome.. “The competitive advantage for someone going out into the world is what they can do with what they know.” — Tony Wagner. “What students need is practice in applying their learning to new situations, not just in the classroom, but in the community.” — Tony Wag. For my new book I interviewed Joel Podolny, Vice President of Human Resources at Apple, who has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, and he told me that to get into these kinds of schools you learn to play a game. A game of getting perfect scores, building a resume, etc. The problem is, if you have not learned how to collaborate, to take risks and learn from your mistakes, to create as opposed to consume — all the qualities that matter in the world of innovation — then companies like Apple will have no use for you. “Instead of preaching that all students should be ‘college-ready,’ we should instead establish the goal of all students being ‘innovation-ready’.” — Tony Wagner To what extent is innovation capability a function of family and external influences? These days, young people become innovators in spite of their schooling, rather than because of it. In my research, I found both parenting and teaching practices that strengthen the capacity to innovate — emphasizing discovery-based play, limiting screen time, encouraging young people to find and pursue their passion, take risks and learn from mistakes, and instilling a sense of the importance of “giving back” — these were all things that parents and teachers of young innovators encouraged. What overall rating do you give the US Public School system for training innovators A grade of F. But it is not the teacher’s fault. They are not encouraged to innovate, and there is no funding for educational R&D. We must prepare teachers differently and develop lab schools for 21st century learning and teaching. Mostly importantly, we need to begin using much better assessments, like the College and Work Readiness Assessment and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. Assessment drives instruction, and having the wrong metric is worse than having none at all. Multiple choice, computer-scored test results tell us nothing about the quality of teaching or students’ college, career, and citizenship readiness. Every student should have a digital portfolio as a cumulative record of the development of his or her innovation skills. Finally, instead of preaching that all students should be “college-ready,” we should instead establish the goal of all students being “innovation-ready.” Young people don’t necessarily have to go to college to learn to innovate. Nearly half of Finland’s high school students choose a career and technical education track, rather than an academic track, and Finland has a higher innovation standing than the US. Dr. Tony Wagner and C. M. Rubin Photos courtesy of The Dwight School and Dr. Tony Wagner:

Coaching is bigger than a game Fan voting will decide the top 15 coaches from each division who will qualify for our objective scoring model endorsed by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. The model will produce ten finalists from Division I-FBS and five finalist coaches from each of the three other divisions, based on the criteria below. Sportsmanship The best coaches conduct themselves in an honorable way on and off the field. By treating their players, opposing coaches and the media with respect, they set an example for everyone to follow. Integrity Integrity means knowing how to win the right way. The best coaches refuse to bend or break the rules to keep their teams on top and require the same from their players. Responsibility Coaches aren’t just leaders of their team, but also leaders in their community. They give back to their schools and communities that cheer on their teams every week. Excellence Wins and losses aren’t the only measure of excellence. It’s also about encouraging student-athletes to excel in the classroom so they be successful in anything they pursue when their playing days are done. On the Field — Wins, penalties, and year-over-year improvements are among the measures of on-field excellence by the coach, his staff, and his team. Off the Field — The coach’s commitment to education is measured by academic progress rate (APR) scores for the Division I schools and success at producing Academic All-Americans for Divisions II and III. How the winners are selected Fan votes College hall of fame selection committee votes National media votes College Hall of Fame selection committee Bob Anderson Jim Ballard Tom Beck Tom Brahaney Roger Brown Teel Bruner Marino Casem Chuck Cecil Jim Christopher- son Carmen Cozza John Cooper Jeff Davis Dan Dierdorf Jim Dombroski Terry Donahue Vince Dooley Joe Dudek LaVell Edwards Dick Farley Joe Fusco Archie Griffin Bob Griese Roger Harring Chad Hennings Lou Holtz Jim Houston Don James Billy Joe Johnnie Johnson Brian Kelley Ted Kessinger Roy Kidd Gordie Lockbaum Ronnie Loft Archie Manning Fred Martinelli Mark May Rueben Mayes Randall McDaniel Don McPherson Darrell Murda Don Nehlen Tom Osborne Tubby Raymond Bob Reade John Robinson James Saxton Jeff Siemon Bruce Smith Jim Sochor Jessie Tuggle Herschel Walker Curt Warner Frosty Westering Paul Wiggin Reggie Williams Richard Wood Ron Yary VIEW ALL » National media Craig Bennett Jack Bogaczyk Christine Brennan Tim Brando Chris Childers Colin Cowherd Steve Conroy Teddy Greenstein Clyde Hughes Dan Jenkins Bill King Ivan Maisel Stewart Mandel Gordie Mann Keith McMillan Brandon Misener Ryan Tipps Kelly Whiteside Bud Withers VIEW ALL » be a finalist, a coach must NOT have had: Major program infractions assessed by the NCAA in the current year (2012) at the school he represents, APR penalties assessed to the program by the NCAA in the last two reporting periods, or major integrity violations during 2012 as determined solely by Liberty Mutual Insurance (also applies to members of coach’s staff).

Gin: A Global History by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson Freelance writer and co-founder of 12BottleBar.com, Lesley Jacobs Solmonson, takes on the topic of gin in The Edible Series, and this is no easy task. Possibly the most difficult distilled spirit to explain in terms of its history, gin is both beloved and notorious, and its stories are filled with buts, and thens, and colorful connotations that would have most writers baffled. Jacobs Solmonson does a wonderful job of helping us figure it all out. I have read large volumes on the history of gin and with every one I have had to continually reference backward to follow the spirit's timeline. It is, I think, the most confusing history of a liquor and that is why I have such a great appreciation for this far more concise telling of events. She takes the reader on a trip with gin, from the Dutch jenever to the British takeover, the development of our beloved London dry to the experimental world of New American Gin. The tonic turned sophisticated tipple is worthy of note and appreciation, as are these tales written so clearly. Compare Prices on Gin: A Global History 170 pages Published: June, 2012 Cover Price: $17.00 Rum: A Global History by Richard Foss Food historian and journalist, Richard Foss, explores the often underrated, yet highly influential, history of rum in this small book. As he acknowledges in the introduction, rum has influenced culture, commerce, and society in a variety of ways over the years, making it, historically speaking, one of the most important distilled spirits. Another finely written volume, Foss has delved into rum's storied past and attempts to look into the spirit's future in an entertaining read. Not as in depth as some other rum compendiums such as Wayne Curtis' And A Bottle of Rum, and yet not a historical snapshot either, this volume encompasses the major events of the liquor that has for years been taken, adapted, and produced throughout the world. From the Caribbean to the British Navy, colonial New England to today's ever expansive market, Foss details this story in a bright, respectful way that will have anyone sipping the sweet syrup before reaching the second chapter. Compare Prices on Rum: A Global History 146 pages Published: June, 2012 Cover Price: $17.00 Vodka: A Global History by Patricia Herlihy Vodka is not as simple as it is often described. No, the clear, tasteless, odorless grain spirit is far, far more complicated than that and in this volume of The Edible Series, Emmanuel College Professor, Patricia Herlihy, attempts to dispel the myths and explain the global phenomenon that is the vodka market. She has done an amazing job at covering the entire scope of what vodka was and is. I cannot place one aspect of vodka that has passed her attention in such a surprisingly short book. Beyond the history and production of vodka, Herlihy gives due attention to the craziness of the business of making vodka and this is my favorite aspect of the book. She examines the many variations of vodka, from the various grains and other base distillates such as potato to the astounding variety of flavor infusions which never cease to amaze me in their choices. She also looks at the marketing side of vodka from its origins to today. Unlike many distilled spirits, this is a liquor that is all about sales, more sales, and finding the most innovative way to appeal to a certain subset consumers. Herlihy also takes a look at our personal preferences when it comes to vodka. How "our brand" defines us, how it is so easily abused, and why it finds its way into so many drinks. Neither overly technical nor cultural, this is one of the most interesting books on vodka I've seen yet, possibly because Herlihy makes it feel so much more personal, having no qualms about telling the story of vodka how it really is. Compare Prices on Vodka: A Global History 170 pages Published: June, 2012 Cover Price: $17.00 Whiskey: A Global History by Kevin R. Kosar As Kevin R. Kosar, founder of AlcoholReviews.com, explains in the introduction, this is not a glorification of whiskey like so many other books on the subject. It is, instead, a look at the spirit from all sides: the good, the bad, all encompassing. In the book, Kosar examines the origins of whiskey, how it is made, its lineage, its harsh business, and its evolution into a modern marketing machine. It is quite the fascinating read and Kosar's style of writing makes it one of those enjoyable historical accounts. He looks at whiskey as a whole and breaks it down into the various styles, including the distinctions within those often national styles: how one Scotch can have an entirely different profile from one produced down the road yet retain its signature Scotch-iness. He also takes a look at the downfalls of whiskey such as its toxic effects on society over the years, its mass marketing machine complete with celebrity endorsements and cure-all tonic adverts. Recipes and brands have come and gone (and sometimes returned); whiskey has evolved over the years while simultaneously remaining distinctly whiskey, and Kosar does a wonderful job of distilling all of this down into a handy little book. Compare Prices on Whiskey: A Global History 160 pages Published: November, 2010 Cover Price: $15.95

Carmen is one of my favorites and it is being performed, for FREE, in Tel Aviv, this summer!! I am going!! It is going to be hot, humid, and crowded as hell, but I am going! It is going to be after a LONG chemo day (I will be getting both Doxil and Herceptin that day), but I am going! It is going to wipe me out, but I am going! As soon as I am done with chemo, I will gather my kids and take the train to Park HaYarkon. We will bring a picnic and and camp out until they let us in. We will be hot. We will be sweaty. But we will be there! You are welcome to join us! Need I remind you? Admission is FREE! When is this happening? Thursday, July 29th. What time is the performance? 9:00 pm (that's 21:00, for you Israelis) Officially, audience entrance begins at 7:00 pm, but maybe they'll let us in earlier.... How long is the performance? Approximately one hour and 45 minutes. Where exactly is the performance? Ganei Yehoshua (Park Hayarkon) in Tel Aviv. Park HaYarkon is MILES long. I have no idea where Ganei Yehoshua is. I imagine we will figure this out when we get off the train. Apparently, the train does stop right next to Park HaYarkon. I have no idea how close the train stop is to where we want to be. Maybe you are wondering who is sponsoring this Opera in the Park? The Municipality of Tel Aviv Yafo and the Israeli Opera continue the annual summer open air opera in the park tradition in Ganei Yehoshua. This summer's presentation is one of the most popular operas in the repertoire: Carmen, by Bizet, in a colorful and extravagant production. Carmen, a free spirited gypsy, runs aways from prison, falls in love with the Toreador, and gets killed by her former lover. This larger than life, open air production is based on Franco Zaffirelli's production at the Metropolitan Opera, New - York.Email me if: 1. you are interested in joining us 2. you have a chair I can sit on for the performance 3. you know if my disability card can get us in earlier 4. you know of a good place to hang out while we wait to get in 5. you can explain how to get to Ganei Yehoshua from the train stop at Park HaYarkon 6. you have any other great ideas Do not email me to tell me that I am crazy. I already know that. (For more information about Carmen in the Park, see below) Please daven (or send happy, healing thoughts) for RivkA bat Teirtzel. With love and optimism, RivkA Conductor: David Stern Revival Director: Gad Schechter Set Adaptation & Design: Nitzan Refaeli Lighting Designer: Eyal Tavori Choreographer: Neta Shezaf Soloists: Carmen Rinat Shaham Don Jose Scott Piper Escamillo Vladimir Braun Micaela Noa Danon Frasquita Hila Baggio Mercedes Shira Raz Zuniga Andrei Trifonov Morales Yair Goren The Israeli Opera Chorus: Conductor: Yishai Steckler The Young Bat-Kol Choir: Conductor: Dalia Lazar-Shimon Conductor & Music Director: Anat Morag The Opera Orchestra - The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion The Neta Shezaf Flamenco Dance Theatre Sung in French Subtitles in English and Hebrew: Israel Ouval 15 comments: sounds awesome. I won't be in the country then though. i went two years ago- it was a blast. it is in ganei yehoshua. i can give you exact directions closer to the date. you need to get there early if you want to sit close up - but i preferred being on top of the hill with ample view of the huge 2 screens on either side of the stage. Enjoy! Can you ask your oncologist to have your infusion a day later so you won't be as tired from the chemo when you go to the opera? I know in the States I can make changes to my schedule within reason. Jill I'm not into opera, however did you see the youtube mob-flash TA opera at dizengoff center? awesome! I am happy that you will be there! Hope you enjoy the show. :) Refuaa Shlema! Rinat Shaham (Carmen) My father was very into opera and made us listen to Carmen all the time - among other things. Enjoy! So happy for you, I know you will enjoy it.....hopfully you will be able to exchange chemo days so that you might not be so tired and you will be able to enjoy Carmen so much more.....:-) Hugs I went there the last two years--so fun!!! Unfortunately, I won't go this year because of my year of mourning. But you will have a blast. G-d willing, I'll see you there next year!!! Wow! I'd love to go. It's right after I get back from taking my father to AZ. Remind me that tuesday if you remember, please. I just caught up on the last month and a half or so. First - enjoy the opera. Sounds great! disease progression - feh but, as you wrote, no surprise. I'm glad there are still drug options and I hope they're not too tough and that they keep this at bay. your daughter's bat mitzvah and how amazing she was - Mazal TOV!! the dress - troggezunt and enjoy! I'm sure, like always, that I'm forgetting other things. Take care. Leah G -- Have a great vacation! I'll see you when you get back!! IsraLuv -- I thought I wanted to sit up close, but another friend also mentioned how much she enjoyed sitting on top of the hill. I have decided that I don't really care where I sit as long as I can sit in a CHAIR! Jill -- Besides the time factor, and being tired after spending the day in the hospital, I'm not really worried about being treated on the same day as the opera. In Israel, the oncology day ward is closed on Fridays, so I do not really want to postpone treatment, 'cause that would mean postponing it by at least three days. Since this will only be my second dose of both Doxil and Herceptin, I do not want to delay treatment. Mikimi -- I love opera and loved that video clip. I actually posted it on my blog, but now I see that the post is not up. I'll have to fix that... Rinat -- thank you so much for visiting my blog!! how did you find it?? I look forward to hearing you sing Carmen in Tel Aviv!! Jennifer in MamaLand -- my mother is the one who was into opera. I will forever be grateful to her for passing on that appreciation to me! My dad likes opera too, but, when he goes, he always falls asleep in the middle! Interestingly, my in-laws are also into opera, but my husband is not. Bernie -- as long as I am not in pain, I will love Carmen, no matter how tired I am!! Baila -- it's a date! Batya -- I cannot be counted on to remind you. I suggest you write it in your calendar. That's what I do! Why are you taking your dad to AZ? Btw, my parents and brother live in Phoenix. Miriam -- thanks!! your comments always make me smile!! Sounds like a wonderful evening - maybe I'll see you there. Sitting on hill sounds much more comfortable than in the middle of the crowd, especially in muggy Tel Aviv. As for being crazy, it's in a wonderful way that makes life more fun and colorful ;-) 1. you are interested in joining us I am, but Rabbi Devra might veto it. the three weeks, I mean the fifty two weeks 2. you have a chair I can sit on for the performance we have one, a folding one like this but I would gladly shlep something more comfortable for you even like this 3. you know if my disability card can get us in earlier clueless, but will gladly call the suitable pakid to get the right answer 4. you know of a good place to hang out while we wait to get in Umm, wouldn't you need to stay on line to keep your spot? Otherwise it is across from Ganei Hataarucha, there may be a free air conditioned taarucha going on there at the time, I can look into that too 5. you can explain how to get to Ganei Yehoshua from the train stop at Park HaYarkon Working on it, loםks like a 5 minute walk, would you believe 10. depending exactly where the sitting spot is, between 300 and 800 meters from the train station 6. you have any other great ideas google - get your friend Rinat top three spots. Kewel! Love, Gidon Read more: what a laugh, I put angle brackets around the term to google instead of quotes, and it hid the term! carmen youtube opera BTW, to remind everyone what a boor I am, the Habanera only brings to mind Gilligan's Island -Gidon

Mfoster Said: Guys, Thanks !I've been a lifetime FP user, and I eventually got a bit tired of the "chewy-ness" of my coffees. I wanted fresh, clean and flavorful. After reading this extensive 89 page discussion of the Brazen, This had to be the machine.All I can say is WOW.I got it yesterday from Roastmasters with a lb of Willoughby's House Blend. I used 1/2 cup (~40g) grind from an Capresso Infinity at a notch below mid Med for a 0.9L pot. I was surprised that this is exactly what I would use for the FP, except the water temp would be in the 190 range.Brew conditions : 1:30 Pre-soak @ 200 FTotal brew time for start ~10 min. Seriously, this is the best cup of coffee I've ever had. With a bit of creamer : Chocolate, caramel, great body and no bitterness. Best of all, no grounds in my cup.From set-up to brew, everything about this maker is easy. And I love the varibility of the Pre-soak to brew temp. You're guaranteed a perfect cup every time.I would never start my day at 5:30am to join a forum and post an opinion; just wanted to say Thanks.And perfect timing........ The kids have the day off of school, I'll have the Brazen running all day !Cheers - Mark Posted February 21, 2013 link LIY Said: Mark: I'm sure that many who follow this topic, and contemplate purchasing the Brazen (as I do) would be interested in your observations with regard to the every day usability of this coffee maker, i.e. ease of pouring coffee from the carafe, condensation on and around the basket, the top of the Brazen, water left in the brew chamber, etc.I'm convinced that you can get a really good cup of coffee from this device, but I am apprehensive about the many negatives cited by those posting to this forum! Perhaps it would be wiser to wait for version 2.0??Many thanks!LIY LIY, Great points. As others have pointed out, pouring from the carafe works best when the spout is almost directly vertical to the cup. I have no reasonable explanation for why having the carafe pouring in slightly tilted to the cup results in a little flow down the carafe....IMO, it's a non- issue. I place the spout vertical to the cup, then trigger the opening and I don't get any spillage. Any amount that would spill over, however, is minimal. Very little condensation is left in the brewing basket. When the brew is finished and I'm ready to clean out the basket, I rinse the basket and let it dry out in the sink. Another non-issue for me. I use a Capresso Infinity grinder set at mid-medium with the gold filter supplied with the brewer. The filter is fine so I could see how having a grind greater than med could cause poor drainage. There's not much room between the brew basket and the gold filter so I don't think there could be much water left over from there.Naturally, there's going to be some residual water left over in the brew basket as the coffee grounds cool and continue to drain, It's minimal. There's moisture left over in the water reservoir, which doesn't bother me since I just add to the reservoir marking lines. I've only made 6 cup - 0.9L brews, and the coffee brewed seem to be the appropriate amount, although I don't care to measure it accurately..... I'd rather drink it. It ended up between 800 and 900 ml in a non- scientifically graded bottle. Finally, I cleaned the brewer with a damp soapy cloth then followed with the calibration and 2 clean water passages. I don't taste or smell anything off, musty, medicinal, or plastic. So far, I've brewed 2 batches - Willoughby's House (2 day old) and Starbucks French (2 months old) both 40g at the same grind 1:30 Pre-soak and at 200F. Both amazing. Wife loves it too, which is most important ! And she's a real critic. Starbucks tasted better and fresher than from the store. I did't think this brew maker had a lot of negative comments. I bought it based on the comments on this forum.IMO.... On a forum like this with the owner of the company being a member, I expected negative comments or - critiques. The members of this forum took interest in this brew maker because it's unique. They are interested in helping the manufacture in making a better product. Yet, One comment did stand out - there's a lot of Brazens that have been sold, and the company is reporting less than 3% as having issues. Not everyone is going to provide positive feedback. If a product works as expected, why would you, unless your blown away with the results. But - negative issues are another matter. Members of this forum were just reporting their feedback.And although the brew maker is new to the market, I don't see how a version 2.0 could be better. For over ten years my FP poured funny and leaked with every brew, produced unpredictable tasting coffee and left me with a mouth full of grind. The Brazen is a pleasant step-up. But does the Brazen brew better than a cheaper maker ?, I couldn't tell you that..... It does make Starbucks French better than the local Starbucks store ! And is worlds better than the FP.I'm new to this machine, time will tell. It works perfectly out of the box and I love it. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask !- Mark

At some point between the hours of about 1 a.m. and 8 a.m., my blog reached 1,000,000 page views. By the time I went to bed, it was only about 50 hits away. I was sorely tempted to log out and visit my blog a few dozen times to push things along so I could witness the roll-over before going to sleep, but that just didn’t seem right. While there might have been a time in my life when I would have stayed up to watch it happen organically, this is not that time of my life. I went to bed. I awoke to the sound of the thumping of small children running around the house around quarter to 8. I reached for my iPad, and saw that the count was above a million. The roll-over was over. So I rolled over myself, and went back to sleep for a bit more. So much for fanfare. (Before 8 in the morning, I will invariably choose sleep over fanfare.) I don’t remember the exact count at 7:45 this morning, but I think it was something around 1,000,016. So the roll-over probably happened around 6:30 or 7 in the morning, on Sunday, September 16th. So, Maria, your guess of the dieciseis was closest! (A few hours early, but it was around 16:00 somewhere in the world.) So, what fine prize will you choose? A screenshot taken some time before I went to bed. A screenshot taken some time after I got out of bed (and fed the kids breakfast and whatnot¹). – ¹ I regularly feed the kids whatnot. Wow! Thanks, Mom! holy cow. i can only dream about those kinds of numbers. congrats! Sarah, it’s not as exciting as it sounds. I wish I could dream of your number of appreciative readers! (And if only I were as good a writer as you!) I think a good 80% of my hits are people looking for something, usually a picture, and moving on. Most of what I post is seen or read by only a precious few. (And by “few,” I’m guessing I have around 100 people who visit my blog, either regularly or periodically. And by “precious,” I mean that I really appreciate those who actually do come back far more than the faceless thousands who come across my blog but don’t find it worth a return visit.) oh, but don’t sell it short. i think it’s terrific! your photos are phenomenal. Congratulations! :) I noticed it was getting close yesterday, rather earlier in the day. Thanks, Sally! And thanks for all your encouragement along the way. Well deserved. And a real landmark. Thanks, Mary! I’m not sure how well it’s deserved, but it does feel like some sort of achievement. Well, holy crap on a cracker! This is the most exciting thing that I’ve read all morning. Congrats. Thanks, Ally Bean! And thanks for making me giggle with your colorful metaphorical language! I may well have to use that one. (If I may borrow it from you.) Feel free to say it whenever it seems appropriate. I’ve found it to be a most useful turn of phrase when I don’t really quite know what to say! Fits many circumstances and seems to convey just the right amount of emotion. Wooohooooooooo! Yay and yay! Or rather AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYYY! Also, this: Congratulations, Maria! And can I just say that this is the first time I have, to my knowledge, found mariachi music in my comments? So, woohoo! But.. Who was the millionth hit?? Sadly, I have no idea, and as far as I know, no way of ever finding out. I can only assume it was some dude in Saudi Arabia looking for a picture of a pink egg or some woman in Nepal looking to learn about Puerto Rican fruit. Or maybe just some insomniac from Nebraska looking to find an “etymological spider drawing.” (I’m not even sure what that would look like, but I don’t think they had any luck finding one here.) Fabulous. You deserve a million more! Thanks! Maybe in another 6-ish years I’ll get there! Pingback: Dude, where’s my doodle? | collecting tokens

Student Profile Amina - Class: Senior - Major: African-American Studies - Gender: F - High School: Westhill High School - Transfer Student: N Big Picture One of the best things about Maryland are the living and learning programs. They make a University of over 30,000 undergrads seem like a small community. It makes it easier not to get lost in the shuffle. I would change the structure of the Student Government Association and how they allocate funds. The size of the school can be overwhelming at times but its great going to such a big university because there is always something to do, a new activity to get involved with, or meeting new people. College Park, despite the name is NOT a college town. There are about 5 bars on Rte. 1 and thats it. There also is some animosity between the university and the city of College Park. Crime is an issue here. The Administration (especially the Diversity Provost) is awesome. He's very accessible, easy to talk to and always willing to help with student initiatives. Biggest controversy--a noose was hung outside of the black student union in Fall 07 MD students have a ton of school spirit, which is one of my favorite things about Maryland. We're "terpaholics" Academic Life As an African American studies major I know my professors really well. I have a key to their office! But with the larger majors its much more difficult to make that kind of connection so students really need to make an effort to get noticed by their professors. Within my major (African American Studies) class participation is a fundamental component of the class Serious academic conversations happen all the time, especially within the activist community, world issues and other topics are frequent points of conversation. The African American Studies dept is really small and personal. I know all the staff and my advisor knows me really well. I have a really good relationship with the professors and I often talk to them about non class related things. I do think that the dept. is way under funded especially considering the caliber of the faculty within the dept. But Behavioral and Social Sciences in general is extremely under funded. Education here can be geared to learning to learn or to get a job it depends on the dept. and it depends on how the student takes the information given to them. The business school, criminal justice and the government and politics dept. definitely promotes just getting a job or going to law school. Only international development and conflict management seem to be interested in learning to learn. Smaller majors like American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology have students interested in learning for learnings sake. Student Body There is a place for everyone at Maryland. With such a large campus, it's easy to find people that you relate to. Class is really casual but it depends on the person, it ranges from pajamas to really stylish and well dressed, but no one cares what you're wearing either way. Some students are extremely politically aware but a great deal of students are really apathetic, which is unfortunate being so close to DC. I would say that most students are center/left, The Best Things opportunity to experience something new and different everyday because of our proximity to DC and the size of campus there is always something going on The Worst Things red tape and bureaucracy

WASHINGTON, August, 22, 2011 —In the span of a year, a lot can change for a relatively new band. Has the sound grown? Have they become more comfortable on stage? Seeing a band after a year, one wonders if anything is dramatically different about them? The Silver Liners performing at the Rock and Roll Hotel provided a good opportunity to see how much this band has changed in the past year. In the last year, the Silver Liners released their second EP. Their membership has changed slightly. A documentary film crew seems to be following them around. The band has clearly grown at least in terms of their personal scope. However, they are still a five piece pop/rock band from the DC area and their set is still filled with tight danceable rock songs. One of the more unique things about the Silver Liners is even in their immediate infancy there was a certain kind of professionalism to the band, almost abnormally so. Despite none of the band members being much older than 25, they’ve always played with a clear goal in mind. A lot of this stems from front man’s Jay Nemeyer’s drive. Aside from being the band’s lead singer, he’s also been the band’s unofficial mouth piece and by that distinction has been the sole interpreter of the band’s direction. A year ago, his stage presence was obvious but there was also some stiffness to him. It felt like he was slightly too concerned with making sure the band’s presence was just right. This was balanced on stage by the casual nature of guitarist John Patton and fun energy of bassist Ray Remesch, so it never dominated how the band came off. Nemeyer now seems more relaxed on stage but still with a certain level of intensity. The clear and diverse personalities of the band is in part what makes the band arresting on stage without settling on coordinated costumes, elaborate stage set-ups, or other garish gimmicks. Another aspect to their professionalism is just how tight they are during their performance. For such a young band, it’s a bit surprising to see them as on point with their songs as they are. There’s rarely any wasted time in songs. The band is in tune with each other enough that even some early technical troubles are virtually undetectable when the rest of the band fills in their roles. Since the Silver Liners approach has been refined, it’s easy for them to throw interesting curve balls to the audience. At one point during the set, local rapper Dom-o was brought on stage unexpectedly to rap one of the band’s mainstays “Running Through My Head.” It’s a quirk which keeps anyone familiar with the band on their toes and an open mind for anyone seeing the band for the first time. The most obvious difference in the band wasn’t anything they played but the addition of new keyboardist Kenny Grim. Keyboard has always been a strong point of the Silver Liner’s sound and one would think it’ll continue to be, but they were largely absent during this show. Being Grim’s first show with the band, it’s easy to understand he didn’t want to step on the rest of the band’s toes. As they move forward, Grim’s presence will be felt more. The night closed with the rocker “Hold Your Hand” which is a song Nemeyer wrote before the band was formed. It’s noticeably faster and harder than their normal material. While it’s an older song, it might be a sign of the band’s willingness to push towards something outside of their current sound. The Silver Liners have refined their sound to this point and it’s time for them to take the next step. Give the band another year and it’ll be interesting to see what new direction they go in..

posted in other group but figured i try here too.. my 5year old son has picked up a cursing and additude habit the past week or two.i first noticed when he told 8month DS "quit your shit" when he was trying to climb on him.i told him that shit is a bad word and i took away all his cars (which he loves) for a week.next was telling his bother he would "kick his ass" if he didnt get off his bike.that one bought him a spanking and no bike.but today was the big one. i took all three of my boys to the pool when they came home from school and i heard potty mouth say "oh shit" when he slipped.i spanked him for it and made him sit on the bench while his twin brother,me and his little brother continued playin in pool.after 30minutes i went to talk to him about this cursing issue of his and he screamed "i fucking hate you" in my face and took off running to our apartment door.once we all got home i brushed his teeth with *THICK* salt water paste i mixed up while he kicked and screamed.that was 2hours ago and he is still sitting dead center of his bed pouting (i really dont care) but im freaking out in my head as he has NEVER been a behavior problem other than being a bit stubborn and now all the sudden he doesnt want anyone talking to him or touching his stuff and he is sooo mean and hatefull im so scared its going to get worse and worse and also scared he may act out toward 8month LO... any advice is extremely welcomed My first responce would be to ask who he hears these cuss words from. Then whomever it is should stop using these words within earshot of any of the kids. THAT alone will help. My son had one slip over the summer, we hadn't heard him use any bad words... well when I asked him WHO he heard the word from he said that Dad had called a guy that in his truck.(a-hole) So Dh had to then talk to Deagon and explain how he shouldn't have used the word. We did not do a timeout in this case because it was a 1-time thing and he actually asked "Should I call him an a-hole" My eyes about flew out of my head!!!! I would continue to leave him in his room without any toys to think about what he is saying. I would want him to know how hurtful his words are, and there is no excuse for them. This would be best coming from the person he's heard the words from and he should see that this person also stops. I personally strongly dislike these words and cannot stand hearing them out of adults and teens. But when they come out of children I know it was a learned behavior and they are trying to get attention or they know nothing different.

Ugh..I can so sympathize with your situation. Both of my boys just started daycare in February and since then, they have BOTH been sick almost non freaking STOP! Every other week one is sick with a fever, coughing, throwing up, the runs, pink eye or an ear ache. I lost count of how many times the daycare has called me to come get them. It sucks because our daycare won't allow them to return until 24 hours has passed after their fever. My husband is in school and can only miss so many days so I'm normally the one who has to go get them. I know my supervisor is starting to probably think I'm using them as an excuse to miss so much work or they're getting frustrated but whatever I'm not lying about it have no reason to and even offered to bring them in doctor notes..thankfully though I'm active duty military so they can't fire my ass. It is a major problem over here too as I had to fo through all my sick days before maternity disablilty kicked in. I can't wait to have some time off next year so this isn't such a big deal. I would start taking more vit D- we find it really helps. We take fermented cod liver oil. You can give it to baby and take it yourself. I feel your pain on the daycare illness situation! This past winter, my LO has had gastroenteritis, RSV (thankfully, a mild case), and a succession of colds/sniffles, etc. Fortunately, she's only had to stay home twice (for 3 days each time) since starting daycare. Since being laid off, my husband has been in school part-time, job-hunting and doing temporary jobs here-and-there, so his schedule is a lot more flexible than mine. Luckily, he was able to stay home with our daughter when she was too ill to go to daycare. @ OP: Have you looked into the possibility of back-up childcare for your LO when she has to stay home sick from daycare? You didn't say in your post what kind of daycare center your LO goes to. A lot of corporate daycare centers offer backup child care (including sick baby care) if your LO is too sick to go to the center. They send someone to your home to care for your ill baby, and you have the reassurance that it's someone who's already been pre-screened by the child care center. Some companies also offer backup child care as an employee benefit. You might try looking into either of these options for backup or emergency child care.

After I finished cleaning the house I followed them around picking everything up behind them. I am sorry but this cracked me up. I am exactly like that!! Poor kids, can't play with anything when I get like that! ^^ Haha! you both cracked me up on that one. one. Here's a challenge if anyone wants it: Its Friday clean out your purse and/or car!!! Tasks for Friday DS to school done watch Sophia the first with DD done check what books are due online done library for story hour done grocery store (more for lunch than for food) done walmart done pick up DS done pack pie carrier done pack pen/pencil drawer done clean behind/under/in sofa pack hall closet pack table lamps (2) Have a great day everyone. I will CBL at library! I feel like switching our services for internet/cable/phone may have been a mistake...I am sure it will be good once everything is worked out, but right now none of the 3 services is working exactly as they should. Today is going to be spent getting that all fixed. To-Do: - Fix Phone/cable/internet - Finish setting up PVR - Vacuum - Call school about stage rental - Set up new credit card billing system for studio Tara - GREAT JOB! WOW! I wish I had time to do stuff like that. There are many areas of my hosue that accumulate like that. Currently, my dresser is one (though it's mostly stacked with maternity clothes I have no tote for yet), and my ironing board. Joey's dresser often has a pile as well. Sigh. I haven't worked int eh basement in over a week. I was going to last night, but decided to finish the burp cloths I made for my SIL. I'm the queen of unfinished projects, so I'm glad I finished them. The next 3 weekends are going to be busy too. Bleh!!! Maybe Joey will be happy sitting down there with me for a bit. We'll see. Mandee - I hope that all gets sorted/fixed! DHW - I hope DD starts to eat something soon! LZA - That cake is going to be cute :) Good luck with the baby shower! Hmm, I know I missed stuff. Today's to-do's: - empty dishwasher - put away laundry - 15 minutes in master closet (it needs WAY more than that, but I can start at least) - jewelry & make-up (BAM challenge) Just popping in to say I'm still alive! I was going to head to the bedroom days ago to take pics, do the mission, and then more pics...well, I never made it to the challenge. I'm swamped with work. I've been neglecting myself though and it stinks. I haven't showered in a few days or changed out of the same PJs. I feel gross. My house is falling apart. But my work is great lol. I need to take this weekend to regroup. I'm going to do the master bathroom no matter what, just probably over the weekend. I'll still take pics! I'm so embarrassed. Put it this way... I have no clean clothes. You can't see my bedroom floor. Eek! Jackie - I am soooo sorry to hear about your friend. Did they catch it early? I hope so. I went through breast cancer with my mom (unfortunately they didn't catch it early with her though).

Seriously then, what should we do? As a nation? should we rename ourselves and start a new history from this year forward, so that slavery isn't part of our history? a public time of mourning for what happened? I'm not being snarky or nasty. This topic has been bothering me for several days and I can't figure out how to word a post to discuss it, so here's my long ramble :) It's easy to say, well I never owned a slave, my parents never owned a slave, neither did my grandparents. I'm probably even safe with the next generation, but I flat out know that I'm descended from slave owners in one branch. Not to mention my norse heritage, which has a long history of slavery that seems to be acceptable I've also never known someone that was a slave, or their parents or grandparents were slaves. So why is it still a problem? But, the more I read here, the more that feels like a cop out. I'm truly at a loss though. I can't see that an apology from me, for something my ancestors did would be meaningful. I'm sure my dad said something stupid to his siblings at some point, but my apologizing would mean nothing to them. Realistically, would you prefer that we not celebrate the 4th? what about Thanksgiving? after all, we turned around and eliminated the native people that helped us survive those early years. And why is it that no one screams at the Normans for invading Briton, and basically eliminating the Pict's? Is it disrespectful to celebrate? All over the world, throughout history, civilizations have been enslaved and eliminated by others. Yet, it seems to me that the only one standing with any blame is the good old US of A. We, as a nation, take a lot of grief for Columbus. I've never understood this. He was employed by the Spanish Crown. Why isn't Spain on the block for destroying the natives? I guess my question is why do we seem to be the only nation held responsible for actions that were common in others? and for how long will we be held accountable for them? What would need to be done, to while acknowledge that they happened, let it be history and not current events? I truly wish that we could start over.... Erase history and begin new. I think that every year that slavery, racism, etc., is discussed, it just perpetuates the cycle. If it were all erased and the nation started fresh, eventually, as our childrens children grew to be adults, it would be all forgotten and we could move forward. I am black, but I am not one that is caught up on slavery, separatism, etc. I don't teach my son that he is any different because he is black. I feel no need to discuss slavery, etc. with him, as it is not his current reality. I don't feel the need to go out and buy "black children's books" or take him to the "black circus" or do special "black" things. I feel this will only cause him to be one of the people that won't let "it" die. Yes, racism still exists, but, the only reason why is becasue of history. People will continue to bring it up forever. Why? I'm not exactly sure. Dwelling on it will not make it go away. You can't change the past - only the future, yet we seem to be "stuck" in the past. It is not MY fault what my ancestors may or may not have done. (i honestly don't know if any of them were slave owners) I feel terrible that people were abused and treated like that, but I should not personally have to apologize for something I had no control over. ETA: I don't think its possible to "start over" because there are people out there that don't want to move on. They want people to remember how things were - and I agree that education is necessary and that people need to know what happened in the past to get us where we are today. There is just so much emotion involved that its difficult to "remember" without projecting the emotions and all that comes with it into today's world. I don't disagree with any of your points. My husband and his family descended from slaves but 4 generations ago. He is American and celebrates all American holidays as does his whole family. If they can celebrate life and liberty that is present in our society, why can't everyone else? i'm only 3rd generation American on one side and Native American on another and i no way feel that i am owed anything because of horrible things that happened to my ancestors. nor, do i feel it my responibility to apologize for horrible atrocities that happend to someone elses ancestors that my lineage have absolutely nothing to do with. i think there is a time where you remember, because nobody should EVER foget, but you start to heal and move on What would need to be done, to while acknowledge that they happened, let it be history and not current events? If it were actually JUST history I guess it could be that easy . But in all actuality there are still injustices, intolerance and prejudices against people of color to this day. It hasn't ended. It has just gotten better. I do not feel like I am owed anything. I hold no grudges. I live my life for TODAY. What happened in the past stays in the past for ME. But I can see how some people still feel bitter and can't/won't let it go! I am African American, Natice American, and White. (my great-great grandfatehr was a general in the Confederate Army.) That is who I am. I can't be filled with hate towards anybody. I dislike when people allow the past (that they didn't even live in) to consume them. I honestly do not expect the white people of today to apologize for what their ancestors may or may not have done. It is ridiculous. I deal with today. I think the reason why it is so difficult for some to let go is because Racism still exists. Jews were persecuted. they were disliked and hated. Now, for the most part, the racism toward Jews is not as prevalent as it is towards African Americans. I have to disagree with one bit of your post. I guess my question is why do we seem to be the only nation held responsible for actions that were common in others? Graet Britain has been going through this for years. think about Ireland and Scotland. I think this is probably fairly common in most countries. We just hear about America more because we are so good at making asses of ourselves in the press. My husband and his family descended from slaves but 4 generations ago. He is American and celebrates all American holidays as does his whole family. If they can celebrate life and liberty that is present in our society, why can't everyone else? ITA! If it were actually JUST history I guess it could be that easy . But in all actuality there are still injustices, intolerance and prejudices against people of color to this day. It hasn't ended. It has just gotten better. Either way, your (general) prejudices do not and should not affect me. If we all stopped calling attention to racist remarks, comments and behavior (except in criminal cases), maybe racism wouldn't be so prevalent. Why draw attention to negativity? sure Great Britain has been going through it, but it seems when it's time to "point fingers" the quickest direction is here.

'''Story and photos by Sgt. Brendan Mackie Combined Taskforce Viper PAO''' COMBAT OUTPOST LAKARAY, Afghanistan - Afghan Border Police and International Security Assistance Force members participated in Operation Southern Strike II in the Spin Boldak district, June 2 to June 16. The operation, led by the 3rd Kandak of the ABP, focused on interacting with the local populous as well as disrupting enemy formations in the vicinity of major passes in the area. "The major areas of focus were the Ganjitsu Pass, then the P'sha Pass and obviously the Wonake or Enjergay Pass," said Capt. Sean Nolan, commander of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. "These are the major passes in our area that the enemy uses to push supplies and equipment and men through to support their fight both in the Spin Boldak area and in Afghanistan proper." During the operation, 17 insurgents were killed, four suspects were detained and numerous caches of explosives and weapons were discovered. Among the recovered contraband includes more than 1,400 lbs of explosives, 19 personnel mines, 12 pressure plates, four rifles, two rocket launchers, two directional fragmentation charges, one pistol and numerous rounds of ammunition. Miscellaneous components of improvised explosive devices also recovered include 12 cell phones, 13 power sources, eight blasting caps, eight motorcycles, 18 feet of detonation cord and 50 feet of lamp cord. Although these statistics are important, the biggest accomplishment resides in the performance by the ABP, said Nolan. "This was our first major operation with them and we were unsure how things would go at a larger level," he continued. "It was just impressive on all ends." During the operation the ABP was able to provide a continuous level of support to include providing themselves with water, food, fuel as well as the ability to perform at a tactical and strategic level not seen before in this district. "I was very impressed by them," he continued. "What was really exciting to see, as the operation commenced, [was when] they took more and more of a lead role." Early in the operation, the ABP and ISAF forces exploited areas that were identified through intelligence sources. In those villages, locals were able to provide the ABP with valuable information about the enemy and their movements. "By midway to the end they [ABP] were pointing out objectives," Nolan added. "They were taking the lead and telling us, 'we need to go here and do this and that,' to the point where we were actually having to hold them back to coordinate assets. It was very impressive to see them really take leadership and ownership within their own area." Looking forward, the biggest thing to understand is how ready the Afghans are in taking over the mission, said Nolan. "They're just looking for us to enable them to win," he said. "It's no longer the old days of us having to drag them to the objective and show them what right looks like. They want to go. They know where to go. They know what to do when they get there." Although this was the first operation between Nolan's company and the local ABP, he looks forward to the next installment. "It excites me for the remainder of my tenure here, and our tenure here as a company, knowing that we have partners who are just chomping at the bit, and all we've got to do is enable their success, and that's really where we want to be." Views: 7 Add a Comment You need to be a member of EJC - Online Journalism Community to add comments! Join EJC - Online Journalism Community

Learn. Thanks, Jason Burnside Office 365 SharePoint Support Hi Snooze, just wandering wether you've had any feed back from microsoft on theiir progress? Nothing yet. I am looking forward to it though! As soon as I do I will post here. Thankyou for taking the time to get back to me. Yep I know that feeling! (-: Just over a month and no correspondence yet. Jason, I understand what you're saying but I think we need to show a wee bit more of a sense of urgency to fix something that plenty of evidence suggests is broken. Jason, I find your comment to be a little insulting. Have you not followed this thread and my attempts to the options that we have invented? Also, I was unaware that there were "releases" to the software. I thought that because everything was web based that updates and changes to an existing platform would be able to be made whenever they were needed. Snooze, Good point - enhancements can wait for "releases" - fixing things that are known to not work properly can't. All this requires is removing 7 characters from the code the slideshow script outputs: <p></p> Why do people have to wait for that? Well said, this issue has clearly gone on to long with no resolve. I have also put in a service request for this issue, I have received response back from them and although it is a relief to actually be dealing with a human being over the phone and not just representatives who seem not to have read the queries properly or reply with irrelavant, impartial or some times utterly useless information! (If you have read all my previous discussions on the forums you will understand my frustration) The issue is still not resolved. I must say though, although unable to resolve the issue as yet the chaps I have dealt with in more recent communication since the service request have been very good and dispite having not yet come to a conclusion are still taking steps to help and have been a pleasure to deal with. If the fault is with the programming in effect this is false advertising is it not? Perhaps a case for Trading standards, if not for the issue itself then with the level of customer service! Certainly prior to submitting a service request. (Not being overly technical minded, certainly with programming! I do not wish to be trying to re-write programs for Microsoft and don't feel we should have to even attempt it, particually as potential mis-haps are not covered, however I have tried everything else possible). Does anyone else also have have the privacy problem that when, say a potential client enters our website into their browser, along with the website results in the listings are my conversations on these forums. This is both very unprofessional and embarrasing, surely they should only be viewable to paying customers who are logged in to Microsoft 365 and not the entire world?! I do apologise for the essay I could go on, however this problem has been ridiculously time consuming enough not to mention stressful. Dear Snooze, Have you had any luck resolving this issue? Kind regards, Janine. I have not and it seems that the admins have forced this issue to be ANSWERED? Umm.. no. I don’t mean to be rude, but YES.... Microsoft has the issue in hand and has quizzed multiple people on the issue to verify its existence as well as troubleshoot potential work arounds described in this thread. NO the questions and concerns have NOT been answered. Watch, that problem will not be fixed, for in a few months Office 365 is being replaced with Office 365 / 2013. Everything is going to change. From team site to online storage and website editor.

Friday, February 11, 2000 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Harold Austin: always a new idea Seattle Times staff reporter Harold Turner Austin, a machinist who helped invent dozens of aircraft-enhancing parts in his 40 years with Boeing - including a ridged nose wheel that revolves in the wind to soften landings - didn't cap the creative juices when he went home for the day. Instead, he'd head for his welding shop and work on private projects, such as a portable gurney with pop-down wheels that still is used in ambulances and hospitals. Mr. Austin died Tuesday (Feb. 8) of heart failure. He was 85. He liked to buy and tinker with aluminum, tin and other surplus materials after World War II. "In addition to his work at Boeing, he was always chasing his dreams," said his son Alvan Austin of Puyallup. "His imagination (was) endless, and then there is his support of `causes' - the environment, politics, humanity." To delight his son, Mr. Austin once welded together two oil cans and mounted them on a beam bolted to a hub, thus creating a prototype for what became the Jet Plane carnival ride. In the late 1940s, he and several other Boeing employees developed the finished product, which starts vertically like a Ferris wheel and rotates to the horizontal while planes orbit the center. He also created other carnival rides. "He was very industrious and inventive," said a former colleague, John McFarland. "He was always entertaining us with his ideas." Mr. Austin recently invented a plow that makes cup-like furrows to hold water and thwart erosion. He also pioneered a motorized wheelbarrow with a clawed wheel that climbs trees and banks. "Harold was right on the fringe of greatness," said McFarland. "We used to say, `If we're so smart, how come we're not rich?' Truth was, he was an idea man, not a marketing or business man. But he was happy and led a good life." Born in Midland, N.C., Mr. Austin moved as a teen to California. In the mid-1930s, he worked in Seattle as a logger. He got the idea for the broaster while watching a steam donkey as he gnawed a dry steak sandwich for lunch. He quit his job and put together an oven that blows pressurized hot air into meat to cook it in seconds, retaining its juices. According to McFarland, Mr. Austin sold the idea to Col. Harlan Sanders, who worked in a Seattle restaurant in the 1940s before founding his fried-chicken empire. Mr. Austin became a Boeing machinist in 1940, doing his own work on the side. He retired in 1980. Also surviving are children Harold Austin, Marion, Ohio; Mary Ann Spies, East Wenatchee; and Robert Austin, Seattle; sister, Anita Brooks, Midland, N.C.; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. His wife of 60 years, Marie Austin, died in 1999. His daughter Karon Barton died in 1996. Services are at 1 p.m. Sunday at Yarington's Funeral Home, 10708 16th Ave. S.W., Se<<

Go to m.barnard.edu for the Mobile Barnard web app or download it from the App Store or Google Play. Go to m.barnard.edu for the Mobile Barnard web app or download it from the App Store or Google Play. A student admitted to Barnard with fewer than 24 points of credit is considered a first-year student and is subject to all requirements for first-year students, including First-Year Seminar and two semesters of Physical Education. A student admitted with 24 credits or more is considered a transfer student. To receive the A.B. degree at Barnard, a transfer student must be enrolled at Barnard (Morningside Heights, Reid Hall, Kyoto, Beijing, or the Berlin Consortium) for at least four full-time regular academic terms during which she must complete at least 60 points, including at least six courses in the major field (and three in the minor field, if a minor is elected). Additional major (and minor) courses, as well as general education requirements, may be satisfied by transfer courses. Transfer students are eligible for general honors when both overall and Barnard averages meet the required academic standards. Courses completed at other accredited colleges and universities which are similar in content and depth to Barnard courses may be submitted for transfer credit. Transfer courses are evaluated after a complete official transcript is received in the Office of the Registrar. Students are asked to submit course descriptions with their requests for transfer credit to the Admissions Office. Credit for approved work at another institution is applied to Barnard’s graduation requirement with a maximum of 16 points per term. Credit is exception to this ruling. Transfer students who entered Barnard in or after Autumn 2003 with fewer than 24 points need 122 points to graduate, and one of those points is for PE, either at the previous school or here. Those entering with 24 or more points must complete 121 points for the Barnard degree, and 1 of those points is for PE (1 is both the minimum and the maximum). Transfer students may apply for credit for previous summer courses under the regulations governing summer study. First-year students with a record of prior course work taken as non-matriculants at an accredited college in the United States may request up to 15 points of transfer credit (the courses must be intended primarily for college students and taught at the college by members of its faculty, and must be in excess of the courses required for the high school diploma). Such work will be evaluated after the student has completed 12 points at Barnard. Grades for this course work are included in the overall average. Copyright © 2013 Barnard College | Columbia University | 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 | 212.854.5262

DOS and Windows, despite being harder to use than the Apple Mac, soundly defeated the Mac in sales in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, the competition was over. Microsoft had won. And it is still dominant today. The paradox is not why the techies did not use the Mac (I used DOS because it had a command-line). The paradox is why ordinary corporate and home users did not buy the Mac, which would have made their lives easier. David Gelernter has an interesting theory in The Aesthetics of Computing, 1998 (Ch.2, "The Paradox of Beauty"). He suggests that Windows won because the Mac was too easy to use, at a time when computers were meant to be hard to use. He makes the comparison with cars, where every advance in ease-of-use, such as electric starters and even closed tops, was resisted by the "macho" car culture, which preferred cars to be hard to use. We see this even today, where computerised control in cars is resisted by Europeans, who prefer to do by hand many tedious jobs - such as managing the clutch and engine speeds - that could be handled by a computer. For me, UNIX is easier to use than either the Mac or DOS/Windows because of its powerful programmable command-line. I didn't actually find the Mac easy to use, since it didn't allow me write short command-line scripts. This leads to another reason why the Mac may have failed: It was too extremist in having (until Mac OS X) no command-line at all, and forcing you to use windows and menus instead of just having it as an option. The Mac had an extremist philosophy, whereas DOS/Windows and UNIX were more tolerant of multiple different styles of interface. I say that the Mac is a better user interface, but of course I'm saying (patronisingly) that it's a better interface for other people. I don't really believe it's a better interface for me. So maybe the Mac lost because it lost the power users (programmers, sysadmins), who preferred UNIX and DOS throughout the 1980s-90s. Not because they were being macho, but because no-command-line really isn't a good interface for power users. But why did ordinary users follow the power users? Because the OS is so fundamental to all applications, there). Usage share of Web browsers, 2013. From StatCounter.com (and see their main site). You might agree, but that's not the point. The point is that YouTube has massive and unaccountable power to decide what people can see.

Connecticut College News Professor of the Week: David Canton - Ben Eagle ´0902/16/2009 David Canton, Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College, was chosen for The College Voice´s inaugural "Professor Profile." Canton, who completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., specializes in the civil rights movement and urban history. He is currently teaching "The History of Hip Hop Music and Culture in Post Industrial America 1973-Present" and a seminar in "The Black Freedom Struggle 1946-1968." Voice: When did you realize you wanted to pursue a career in the academic realm? David Canton: I wanted to become a history professor during my senior year in college. I was a biology major and wanted to become a doctor, but my passion was history. Professor Joseph Windham was my professor at Morehouse and he was a young professor who had just completed his Ph.D. at Howard University. We talked about academia and after that I was hooked. He said it was pro family and you get to shape young minds. I have made the right decision. Voice: You joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2003, how do you think the school has changed since then? Canton: The school has increased its commitment to diversity. There are a number of new programs, such as the POSSE program and Men´s Diversity Leadership Network. In addition, the college is hiring a number of faculty of color for next year. The school has added the Women´s Center and the LGBTQ. The future is bright for Connecticut College. Voice: For underclassmen who haven´t declared their major yet, can you give three reasons that they should become history majors? Canton: History improves your reading, writing, and thinking skills. When one goes to the doctor, they ask for your medical history in order for them to make an accurate diagnosis. If a problem occurs at work, one must understand the history of the dispute. If you are a businessperson, one must be able to understand the history of a particular stock. A psychologist must understand a person´s social history in order to assess its impact on their patient. Voice: You received your Masters degree from Ohio State University. How do you feel about Michigan? Canton: I root for Ohio State, but as a graduate student I was not as involved with Ohio State football. Voice: You are currently teaching a course in the history of hip hop. Have developments in technology (YouTube, iTunes) made teaching contemporary history courses like this easier? Canton: I can access any video on YouTube or song on iTunes. It makes it easier; however, I have to find the balance between showing videos and having discussions in class. At the very least, I can tell students to watch the videos in their dorm. Voice: In the same course, you ask your students to write a rap. What is the best line you´ve ever received for that assignment? Canton: That is an excellent question. I was concerned with the quality of rhymes when I gave the assignment, but the students did an excellent job. Some gave battle rhymes and others wrote about their hometown. Voice: According to the College website, your most recent article appears in Pennsylvania History, Volume 75. Can you tell me what that article is about? Canton: This article examined a school desegregation case in Berywn, Pa., in 1934. Raymond Pace Alexander, a black attorney from Philadelphia filed law suit against the Berwyn school district. In 1932, the school district built a brand new school but did not allow black students to use it. The black parents boycotted the school for two years and eventually the school district desegregated. Segregation was not only a southern problem, but a national one as well. Voice: I know professors are supposed to spend all their time reading and researching, but do you have any favorite TV shows? Canton: Some of my favorite TV shows are Entourage, The Shield, Nip/Tuck, ER, Book TV, and Everybody Hates Chris. Voice: And lastly, for those that aren´t in your history of hip hop class, who´s an essential artist for any hip hop collection? Canton: Rakim, KRS One, and A Tribe Called Quest For media inquiries, please contact: Amy Martin, 860-439-2526, a.martin@conncoll.edu or Deborah MacDonnell (860) 439-2504, dmacdonn@conncoll.edu

Register now for free, or sign in with any of these services: Want to set your local edition? Select your location for more focused local news coverage when you visit al.com. Don't worry. You can change this setting at any time to another local edition. "My point is, that the inmates are calling the shots," Hagar, don't be naive, of course they are calling the shots. Jail is different but in prison, the inmates rule. Nothing will change that, not more money, not more guards. All we can do is make it as safe as possible for the legal citizens working inside. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be convicts. Size matters. But we have bigger beer! Quit yer whining! The sky is falling.......again I've read several different scenarios of what happened that day and Dman722b, what you are reading here is barely a mention. Don't judge the victim by what was reported in The News. I guess The News should receive kudos for their random act of journalism, albeit way too late. If your tax return is audited, the state will make you pay the taxes. The auditor will look at your bank account detail, to see purchases made out of state using your debit card, they will do the same with your credit card statements. They can do it. But they have to catch you. Who wants to take the chance? $40 on $1,000 purchase, what's the problem? Pay it, we need the money Rolando, get you some new friends or next you may be the white outline on the murder map. Grow up and act right before its too late. Mary Winkler shot her husband in cold blood and got 7 months. the state of TN did the right thing for Gaile Owens. the law should always be on the side of the pedestrian. Blame the driver or not, the family deserves compensation. Man up and sign the flippin check! A child playing with a gun. RIP Why is it the Feds responsibillity? If the citizens of Alabama want this scourge gone, they should find a way to make it happen. If he changed his life, why is he still wearing his thug costume--- big white shirt to cover up what he might be carrying in his waistband and I bet he's sagging. His life is a long way from being changed. Keep working on that Good Enough Diploma True but that doesn't make them less sleazy Yippee Skippy! going to prison on hump-day Most violent?? He killed 2 old, defensive women, how bad do you have to be?? He needs to be in the basement with the rats and cockroaches. They'll make short work of him. He's getting way more attention than he deserves. Why don't they put on their billboard "ok thugs, time to man up and be a role model" Mr Young must have p.o'd the godfather to get sent to this cesspool. I bet his family stays in NJ For the ones who want to know how the Collins' family benefits? I have 2 words for you Joe Fine Alabama is like a crack/meth head. When you run out of drugs and money (revenue), you resort to doing something illegal, like stealing (slot machines). I'm sorry, that's not a plan. Vote for either or neither, the real power is in the Legislature. I want to see Kay Ivey tear into Foghorn Leghorn Folsom--- now that's a debate. delete "Koran" insert "county commission" all others >>> do not pass GO Most of the convicts in Draper have been convicted of a violent crime, many of them multiple violent crimes. They didn't behave on the outside, what makes you think they will behave in the inside? Same with Holman. The baddest of the bad go to those 2 prisons. They are not in there beause they won a spelling bee. I don't think we should over-react.

Register now for free, or sign in with any of these services: Want to set your local edition? Select your location for more focused local news coverage when you visit al.com. Don't worry. You can change this setting at any time to another local edition. The County needed a whole lot of fat trimmed from its budgets. A meat cleaver is a good start. Unfortunately, for many laid off county employees they felt the blade first. Now, let's trim the administration and legal departments who await like the fated calf. Illegal aliens are afforded protection under the US laws. However, where many go astray, like the amnesty group or perhaps the writer above, is these illegal aliens do not have all of the RIGHTS of legal citizens - therefore their designation as Illegal Aliens and not citizens. To carry the writers statement to its conclusion, why have citizenship at all if all you have to do is sneak into America. Crime and criminals are becoming the victims now days with the press and other groups portraying Americans citizens as the enemy of decency and poor people. Nothing could be farther from the truth. America is a country of laws and the rest of the world needs to follow OUR laws if they intend on coming here or living here. This story is in keeping with continued the liberal bent of Da Snooze. Also, in this light, Mary, you need to bone up on your facts if you are going to attempt to lie and mislead citizens. Thankfully, the internet provides thousands of examples of how illegal aliens are stealing tens of billions of dollars in services from the USA.....annually. Take the blinders off. See the illegal alien situation for what it really is. I know that Da Snooze has little use for the facts, it's really more about your little liberal feelings than anything else. Maybe Mary you will be able to find a job writing books of fiction...like this so called story. Commend the county AFTER they hold the meeting NOT before. When the last commissioners convened the public bankruptcy hearings many citizens were humiliated by some of the commissioners. Some of the commissioners had already made up their minds on the matter and were talking on cell phones and not paying attention. Now, let's see if these new commissioners will really listen to the public of NO INCREASED SEWER RATES> A forlorn lover pours his heart out to his lover.....a blind and deaf old prostitute who takes her comfort from anyone promising money. So, the saga continues and the circle is unbroken. Sorry John, but if you are gonna print only 3 days a week you have to do better than that. YIKES!!! The County has been "sapped" by the financial crisis. LOL Am I the only one asking "Why NOW?" all of these little things are just now creeping up? They have an agenda at the county commission and that is to make US as miserable as possible so we all will rise up and beg Montgomery to give these morons home rule. Not on a cold day in Hades. Keep'em all poor until the last one runs out of the commission chambers door going home for good. Joey, your Alabama bashing and name calling of the state's residents is repugnant and boorish. OK, so YOU have a left wing agenda. Go sell that in New York or California. It is falling on deaf ears in a conservative state and it appears that YOU have cost your newspaper enough readership that they have had to downsize to printing Da Snooze 3 days a week. Whatever will I do to line my puppy kennel floor on the days Da Snooze is not printed? The illegal immigrants cost Alabama citizens tens of millions of dollars annually in health, food, social services and educational services. However, your zeal has blinded you to these facts and led many previous readers of the news to abandon it for the internet - thus costing jobs at your employer - another cost of the illegal alien rant of yours. Anytime you bring 40,000 - 80,000 illegal aliens into a system that they are totally unprepared for, such as language, education, housing, child services and on and on, these people are going to add a tremendous cost to that system. And they have added huge amounts of costs regardless of your blind nay sayings. The Alabama law, while not perfect because none truly are, is a start. Like all laws they will be refined and remade into the image of newly elected representatives as time goes on. Until such time as all people see the law as rational and worthwhile. And to paraphrase your words above, YOU should not be so hardheaded that YOU can't understand this. Name calling has never been the best approach. However, YOU have taken it to a new high by slighting the very people you wish to buy your newspaper. Not a good marketing program that! My son is a combat wounded Iraq/Afghanistan veteran with multiple injuries. When we went to the VA to sign him up for medical coverage the lady stated to him "this is NOT the DOD. This is the VA and our rules are totally different." Several months later he is still trying to get his benefits and all he gets is excuses. I overheard several veterans complaining about the "attitude" of the staff and the service offered. However, many have only VA insurance and they have to live with this "attitude" of we will get to you when we can make time for you. It is a national shame the way our veterans are treated. Many have wounds that will never heal and yet they are treated to surly intake people, months of waiting for someone to decide if their wounds were actually received in a war and other stalling tactics, and lame excuses that "we are backed up", you will just have to wait. These brave men and women placed their lives on the line for everyone of us. They deserve a medical delivery system that is more courteous, respectful and a damned sitre faster in giving them their due benefits. “I never thought it would be that much.” It is easy living when all you have to do is borrow the money. And this guy wants us to believe that he never knew his loan was going to be this expensive?? Come on. It took me 10 years but I paid back every penny of my student loan. These young people need to be real inventive, as I did, to make a living. The school board and it's administrative employees have always been "patronage" jobs for the mayor. Education in Birmingham has always been about the jobs never the children. Look at all of the "programs" that have been developed over the years to supposedly address the needs of underperforming students and you will see those programs stuffed with political appointees and others. Now, consider the dropout rate, 53%, and you can see where your money has been wasted. Good article John. The web site is an unmitigated disaster. Whoever thought up that one needs to be tossed from the the top of the News building. Da Snooze has been relegated to "rag" from "fish wrapper" which means it is not relevant. Ergo, printed 3 days a week. Da Snooze has been asleep at the wheel for some time now. It seems like most of their writers cater to left wing ideology and subscriber bashing. That is one sure way to ruin your business model......step on your readers and offend your advertisers.............which destroys your revenues. Joey, could it be that YOU are out of touch with the general public?? Here is a quote from the AP from 5-28-2012: " Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it." People may tell you they favor gay marriage but in the 32 states where it has been put to a vote - the voters have overwhelmingly rejected it and will continue to do so. Why is it you have such a hard time understanding this? People are not born gay. It is a choice. Yet, you castigate people who are against your position on this issue. Who set you up as the arbiter of all that is right for Alabama? "One of the law's unintended and embarrassing consequences was the arrest of a Mercedes-Benz official from Germany visiting the company's plant near Tuscaloosa. He wasn't carrying proper papers." This guy would have been held anyway - he simply didn't have ANY documents and he was released later. ." You guys need to get your line of BS straight. The long lines at Jefferson County courthouses was due to employee cut backs NOT illegal aliens. Its a wonder Da Snooze can get published even 3 days a week. Well, it looks like the commissioners have been working overtime to try and come up with new ways to take our money. Spurned on the employment tax, they now turn to raising sewer rates 8.2% a year for 3 years. Any of you readers getting pay increases like that? I didn't think so. John, some bard wrote "Change is inevitable." Since the birth of the personal computer and the internet, the world, as many of us know it, has changed drastically. Most for the good. Some of it not so good. Early in this century the printed newspapers held sway over people on a daily basis because they were the only game in town. Later, computers and a connection to the internet placed the news of the world instantly at your fingertips thus relegating the newspaper to reporting "history" or events that had happened literally hours ago. Change had come to the print news business. No matter how we obtain our news in the future, there will always be a need for clear, concise and cogent writing by an unbiased source willing to dig for the truth. Keep on keeping on. It's a brave new world!! If this teacher is found guilty he should be jailed for life. This is so sick! The SPLC is now a quoted "source"? Anyway you look at it, the law is not perfect. It never will be as it affects too many people in this state. BUT, it is the law now. It is a start for Alabama, at least, to start to gain control of illegal immigration within our borders. Common Sense has left the building!!! (along with Elvis) JeffCo is too top heavy in management personnel with ridculous salary and benefit packages. PLUS, when you consider that the County Attorney rakes in $375,000 a year - just think of the salaries he is paying his staff attorneys - who in turn hire all of their law school buddies to do the real work. Consider all of the "administrative assistants" ( read political appointments) wandering around with all of the department heads and you have millions of dollars a year in overhead you could trim. JeffCo has the money. There is just zero will to get rid of the real non-performers and political appointees that pile on costs for the taxpayers to absorb. And yes, I agree, JeffCo has no business being in any sort of medical business. The nitwits on the county commission had to blame someone!! I mean they are all geniuses, right?? JeffCo is going to have to finds it's own way out of this financial labyrinth and it won't be through increased taxing of county residents. I have lived in and around Birmingham and Jefferson County for over 6 decades and I, for one, could not sleep at night knowing that the Jefferson County Commissioners held taxing authority. One only has to look at the way they mishandled the sewer construction which ballooned from $1 Billion to over $3 Billion and all of the graft and corruption that accompanied it to know that these people are no more adept at being good stewards of our public money than Washington is. I would rather leave it in the (in) capable hands of the few in Montgomery than have hundreds of new taxing authorities throughout the state with thousands of additional greedy hands wanting to steal our money.

By Anne Collier It's arresting to think about what Stewart Wolf, M.D. – discovered and presented at medical conferences, as told by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers – in the context of social media and online safety today. Back in the 1950s, he found a community in Pennsylvania statistically very free of the No. 1 medical concern of the time, heart disease, and looked into what was going on there. When Wolf presented his research, he found that his skeptical colleagues "weren't thinking about health in terms of community [emphasis Gladwell's]." Now sub in (online) "safety" for "health": "Wolf and [his co-researcher, sociologist John]...." Now add the online piece A child's (anybody's) safety and wellbeing have a lot to do with his community offline and online, since the research shows that our online social networks are largely our offline ones. Almost echoing Dr. Wolf, USATODAY reports that, "for the most part, being part of a social network is good for you....." And the co-authors of a new book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, report that so much of what we think of as individual, e.g., body shape, politics, happiness, are really "collective phenomena." About peer groups, not technology The USATODAY piece is balanced, pointing to author and Iowa State University prof. Michael Bugeja's concern that we're not looking at online social networks enough from a computer-science perspective. But what we're addressing in the field of youth online safety is much more about young people's interests, social groups, and home and school environments than about computer science – as pointed out in last year's Internet Safety Technical Task Force review of Net-safety research through last year. The studies in the USATODAY article that look at community are more helpful to moving the youth-risk discussion forward, suggesting that we consider three things: the impact of an individual's community (online and offline) on his or her well-being; how the individual affects the community; and how the community functions and addresses problems for its members (as a group of people, not a site or technology). The guild effect On that third item, author and USC media professor Henry Jenkins made the point at our Online Safety & Technology Task Force meeting in Washington this month that online communities themselves tend to shape members' behavior to protective effect, e.g., through social norming or influencing, behavior modeling, and peer pressure or ostracism. Educators who play World of Warcraft tell me this community self-regulation certainly happens in the "guilds" of that massively multiplayer online game. So when we work in the field of youth online safety, it might be helpful to think about young people, its intended beneficiaries, in context – as participants in their online/offline communities rather than potential victims, as we have so much in the past. As for those communities: there may be times when outside intervention (from, say, friends, parents, or Customer Service) is necessary but other times when a little time is needed to allow the community itself to sort out how to deal with antisocial behavior. The other piece that needs more consideration is how to encourage youth to develop a "guild effect" in their online environments, so they're invested in the wellbeing of the community and fellow members, as well as themselves. From interest-driven to friendship-driven Not that they aren't already doing this. "Kids play socially.... We're growing a bunch of people who see what they do as social and collaborative and as part of joining communities," said author and Arizona State University literacy studies professor James Paul Gee in an interview with PBS Frontline for "Digital Nation." He talks about how young people quite naturally function in "teams," where "everybody is an expert in something but they know how to integrate their expertise with everybody else's; they know how to understand the other person's expertise so they can pull off an action together in a complicated world." What this suggests to me is that "the guild effect" (safe, civil behavior as a social norm) kicks in quite naturally in "interest-driven" social networking, one of the two forms of social networking described in last year's study from the Digital Youth Project (see "*Serious* informal learning"). The question is, how can the guild effect be just as effective in "friendship-driven" social networking and across the entire social Web, fixed and mobile? I think this may be the central question for online safety going forward. Sister Sites: SafeKids.com • SafeTeens.com • NetFamilyNews.org © 2012 Tech Parenting Group

Talk:Biology and creation From Conservapedia Surely we need to qualify young earth and old earth creationists here? Because young earth creationists cannot agree with the biology of mutation rates, unless somehow suggesting that mutation rates were far higher, and constantly more beneficial just after the flood? Old earth creationists can perhaps accept all the same science as an evolutionist, except that of abiogenesis, but I suspect more often than not they believe that the animals have been design, and the hand of god has guided evolution, which is not a belief held by evolutionists. I'm positive there are many other aspects of biology that young earth creationists would disagree upon.Raggs 12:45, 9 April 2008 (EDT) - Sorry, I don't understand. What is the "biology of mutation rates"? And why is that relevant to the article? --Ed Poor Talk 12:51, 9 April 2008 (EDT) - I assume Raggs means the rate at which mutations occur, and that would be relevant if there have only been a few thousand years since the flood. But I came here to say something a little different - surely it cannot be true that "Creationist biologists accept all the biology that an evolutionist accepts" - given that evolution plays such a central part in modern biology, as an underpinning theory and an observed fact. The article almost seems to be saying "Creationist biologists accept all the biology that an evolutionist accepts, except for the biology"! Humblpi 12:59, 9 April 2008 (EDT) - To answer your question on my usertalk (may as well state it here), I've got a zoology degree, have worked in the field of prosimians and am planning on starting a phd soon (hell I hope to become a professor one day, so perhaps I'm not worth listening to ;)). Also I've discussed this and these topics a fair old bit. Humblpi has basically got it. Mutation rates are pretty damn constant, not just in mammals but bacteria as well, the reason they evolve so much faster is their amazingly rapid generation time compared to ours. In short, if you're dealing with a 4000 year time period, mutation rates must have been through the roof (not only a very tiny population to work with, but also a hell of a lot to diversify to), and somehow avoid negative mutations (which are far more dangerous in small populations than large ones). YEC would have a lot of problems with biology (all related to evolutionary concepts, but there are a few). OEC can indeed accept every part of biology unscathed (depending of course on their beliefs). It just seems like a very short article, containing barely any information, and that which is contained needs to be qualified in many places.Raggs 14:01, 9 April 2008 (EDT) Creationist biologists accept all the biology that an evolutionist accepts, but disagrees on how living things came about. That is, they agree on the observable facts, not on the unobserved history. - But the claim that "evolution plays such a central part in modern biology, as an underpinning theory" is simply rhetoric, with little basis in fact. See here for more. And (molecules to man) evolution is not an "observed fact". Nobody has ever seen a creature evolved into a different kind of creature. - I'm curious about Raggs' claim of bacteria evolving fast: What have we seen bacteria evolving into (i.e. becoming something other than bacteria)? The point is, despite the rapid generation time, we have not seen them evolve (i.e. change into something else), yet if evolution were true, surely that's exactly what we would expect. In effect, it's a prediction of evolution that has been falsified. - I don't understand the comment about mutation rates being through the roof if you're dealing with a 4,000-year time period. It seems to be suggesting that creationists believe that everything evolved from the first living thing, just as evolutionists claim, but over a period of 4,000 years. If this is what Raggs is saying, he is just showing his gross ignorance of the idea that he so readily tries to point out problems with. YECs don't believe in (molecules to man) evolution at all. - Philip J. Rayment 22:51, 9 April 2008 (EDT) - Come now, stop trying to make me out to be ignorant and merely land yourself there instead. We have seen bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics, they don't need to become anything other than bacteria, and they have still evolved. Evolution doesn't have to lead to bacteria becoming anything else (or even multicelluar), you are using a misconceived definition of evolution I'm afraid. - As Humbli stated, and as I would have thought to be obvious, the 4000 year figure comes from the flood. We have pairs of animals, now unless you claim noah manage to fit two (or seven or fourteen of some animals), of every species that exists today, then he must have taken two of every "kind" (at whatever point creationists decide to define as a kind at the time). Now if we only have two to start with, and a lot of species to get to, then we need a lot of mutation to achieve the species variety in such a short time, and even more so because we are dealing with tiny populations. So if you are willing to state creationist biologists believe in everything evolutionists believe in, except molecules to man, then they would also accept mutation rates, however they cannot agree with biologists on these things due to the reasons I've just stated. Mutation is an observable event. Mutation rates are observable. The mechanism of replication is observable. So unless the replication systems have changed a great deal in the past few thousands years (in order to slow down speciation (more comfortable a word for you as opposed to evolution?)), then YEC biologists must argue mutation rates. - And to be honest, I'd like to go back to when mutation was extremely fast, and apparently almost never bad. Because that's another important thing you have to consider, with a large population and slow mutation you have a good buffer to survive negative mutations (doesn't matter if some animals just don't make it), when dealing with a very small population, in which almost every animal has some serious mutations, then you're facing big trouble.Raggs 02:16, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - Your comments show that you don't know the basics of creationist arguments, so "ignorant" is quite appropriate. The whole point of evolution is that all living things evolved from the first living thing, the evolutionary "family tree". If that were true, then given the generation rates of bacteria, you should, as I said, expect to see bacteria evolved into something else. Yet you don't, as you now admit. - To put that in more precise terms, the first living cells would not have had the genetic information for hair, blood, and lungs, to pick just three examples. So between bacteria and humans (etc.) evolution has to add enormous amounts of new genetic information. The question is, can we identify mechanisms that can produce this information? - First, the simply answer is "no". Mutations either have no informational effect, or they destroy information. This has been observed over and over. In other words, a key prediction of evolution is falsified. - Second, bacteria having resistance to antibiotics does not involve the generation of new genetic information. In many cases, a few members of the population already had the resistance. The antibiotic wiped out the ones without the resistance, and only the ones with the resistance were able to reproduce, so now a large part of the population are resistant to the antibiotic. But there was no new information generated. So it is not "molecules to man" evolution. - Third, when two creatures mate and produce offspring, each of the offspring inherit half the genetic information from each parent. None of the offspring have a full complement of the genetic information of their parents. If environmental pressures wipe out individuals with certain characteristics (such as short fur in a cold environment), the genetic information that is not in the ones that survive is lost. So if two populations of creatures that started out together end up in different environments with different selection pressures, each population ends up being a little (or not so little) different to the other. Depending on how different, we might classify them as different species. But in all this process of speciation, no new genetic information has been generated, and no mutations were involved. - Mutations do occur, however, and could also affect the above process, causing even further genetic information to be lost than just that lost from selection pressure on inherited subsets of the information. But again, this is a loss of information, not a gain, and cannot explain the evolutionary family tree from the first living thing to humans, birds, and pomegranates. - So the various species that exist today are indeed descended from the fewer kinds that were on the ark, but not from a process that can explain the evolutionary family tree, and much of it not from mutations. Mutations, and mutations rates, both of which have been observed, are not the issue. The issue is whether or not mutations can produce the evolutionary family tree. That is the (claimed) history, and has not been observed. - Again, this is pretty basic YEC creationism, and if you're not aware of that, you really don't have a clue about the idea that you are attempting to refute. - Philip J. Rayment 06:42, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - I think this reinforces the point I made near the top of this discussion. The beliefs of creationists and mainstream biologists/evolutionists are so far apart that it is simply not true to say that "Creationist biologists accept all the biology that an evolutionist accepts, but disagree on how living things came about." I am not here to argue about who is right, just to point out the size of the gap. I think that gap is so large that the thesis of the article is simply nonsense. [[User:|Humblpi]] 07:12, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - That can only be true if evolution makes up a large part of biology. I addressed that above with a link. Here are further examples.[1][2] The claim that evolution is a large part of biology is simply not true. Philip J. Rayment 07:21, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - Humblpi, We weren't talking about their beliefs, if by that you mean their own philosophical speculations about the history of life on earth (see Origins debate). - "Creationist biologists accept all the biology that an evolutionist accepts, but disagree on how living things came about." - Leaving aside what the article says to leave aside (wink), the article asserts that there is no other area of disagreement between biologists who accept and reject evolution. Since this is not a debate page, let us confine our discussion to ways in which we can improve this article. - If you are aware of an aspect of biology other than the historical question of how living things came about originally, on which there is disagreement between pro- and anti-evolution biologists, then you are duty bound to add it to the article. Or at least mention it here. --Ed Poor Talk 07:27, 10 April 2008 (EDT) Reading up: given that evolution plays such a central part in modern biology What part does evolution play in modern biology? In your answer, please be sure to give an example of a biologist invoking the theory of evolution in his work because leaving it out wouldn't make sense. Don't forget to show what percent of biology papers (in peer reviewed journals) refer to evolution. In case you can't answer this - and I was pretty sure you couldn't when I posed it - it means that biologists might give lip service to evolution, or keep silent about the claim that "nothing makes sense without it". But in fact, everything but the question of how forms of life originated makes perfect sense without any mention of evolution, positive or negative. In case I'm wrong, I'll check back later to see if you have bothered to reply. --Ed Poor Talk 07:15, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - Apologies if I have offended or transgressed. Please don't treat me like a child and set me "homework". I am only trying to help, and I was trying to say that the article looks pretty thin in terms of content - but I don't think it's up to me to add to it, because I think the underlying premise is flawed, and if it were up to me I'd simply delete it. In answer to your other point, yes, evolutionary processes are indeed a core part of much of modern biology. I'll give just a couple of examples, with sample reasonably accessible references, one from the field and one from the lab: (1) Research on predator-prey relationships assumes a parallel set of evolutionary driving forces, acting on predator and prey, and without a basic understanding of how the changes occur from generation to generation it makes no sense (e.g. Reznick DN, Ghalambor CK, Crooks K. Experimental studies of evolution in guppies: a model for understanding the evolutionary consequences of predator removal in natural communities. Mol Ecol. 2008 Jan;17(1):97-107. Epub 2008 Aug 23. [PMID 17725576]). (2) Research on bacteriophages demonstrates evolution in action, and in fact most of what is currently going on in this field is concerned with evolutionary changes (e.g. Kropinski AM. Phage Therapy - Everything Old is New Again. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2006 Sep;17(5):297-306. [PMID 18382643]). Good enough, or would you like more examples? They are endless. Humblpi 08:08, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - In the right ball park, but so far you're striking out. Neither example addresses my concern. - Taking the second example first, AFAIK there are no disagreements between pro- and anti-evolution biologists about bacteria mutating. If you don't know about this area of science, perhaps I should ask Philip, but I haven't heard of a single "Christian biologist" saying that mutations never occur. The 4-winged fruit fly is fairly well known, even among us laymen. - The first example is unclear. Granted that they assume evolutionary driving forces, how does this affect their analysis? What does it have to do with anything they've observed? (Surely you're not saying that leopards and gazelles have evolved during the lifetime of the ethologists observing them.) --Ed Poor Talk 08:28, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - I have just seen your addition to Ecology: "Here at Conservapedia, we use "evolution" only to mean the emergence of a new species." Ah, well now... If you are using that incorrect definition, then I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. End of discussion. Humblpi 08:34, 10 April 2008 (EDT) - I agree that the definition in Ecology is incorrect, but not that incorrect. See Definition of evolution for more. Otherwise, I agree with Ed Poor's comments above. Philip J. Rayment 09:25, 10 April 2008 (EDT)