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I'm not a model, I just crush a lot. (via Stockton PD)
Good news for those of you who are sick of seeing this guy's hot mug: he did not get the modeling contract everyone has been talking about.
And good news for those of you who love seeing this guy's hot mug: here's his hot mug again!
This Tuesday I reported that Jeremy Meeks AKA Hot Mugshot Guy AKA That Dude Who Made The Internet Lose Their Shit landed a sweet modeling contract with Blaze Models to the tune of $30,000, and, once again, the Internet lost their shit.
Yesterday, Luke O Neil from Bullett went ahead and did the craziest thing ever and checked to see if it was true. It's not.
Apparently, Meeks DID sign with talent agent/former porn actress/octomom representative Gina Rodriguez, and she has been trying to get him a modeling contract, but no one has actually signed him to one. And definitely no one has given him any money to model. And he is still in jail awaiting charges for 11 felonies.
According to O Neil, the whole mess started when Rodriguez talked to FOX about her efforts, and then TMZ extrapolated that information into reporting there was a contract. Then the Internet, myself included, lost our shit (got a lot of eyeballs on our sites).
In fairness, I thought it was true, we all did. And if I fact-checked every story that was making its way around, I wouldn't have time to unearth true Internet gems like this guy getting punched in the face or this woman jerking off a dolphin.
Plus, the dude is super photogenic so it makes sense that some modeling agency would take advantage of all the attention he gets, whether or not that attention is based on facts.
So, to everyone who got angry that a Meeks modeling contract would prove that crime does pay, don't worry, the only person getting work out of Meek's hot mug is me.
Yaaaay me!
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How can you gain confidence in sales, even when you're not closing many deals? Is your confidence even of importance?
In Michael Pedone's article How to Gain Sales Confidence When You're Not Closing, Pedone writes, "realize that all great sales people have at one time or another been so frustrated, fearful and discouraged, even to the point of wondering if a career in sales was for them." This fact, he then goes on to say, helps us to know that even though others have felt like this, they found a way and so can you. If, you are willing to "adapt, change, and hold yourself accountable..."
Don't be so focused on your needs, but what the prospects need. And remember that sales are not created, rather they are located. To gain confidence in sales you'll need to take control of the problem, of every sale. Focus on finding qualified prospects who actually need what you can offer them.
And once you take control, your confidence will rise and the sales will start to flow
Find Michael: LinkedIn Twitter
Top 10 Reasons Sales Managers Fail-and What To Do About It
In this article by Jaques Werth, the reader learns many reasons while Sales Managers fail, including:
- They don't hire the right people
- They don't maintain a uniform and consistent process
- They lack understanding prospects
- They waste time with the wrong prospects
- They lack skills in target marketing
Werth writes that a sales manager's "essential responsibility is to manage staff performance." Read the full article to learn all the ten reasons, and find Jaques: LinkedIn Twitter Facebook
2 Essential Rules Most Salespeople Forget
In this article, Geoffrey James talks about two necessary rules to remember when it comes to sales:
- Never answer a question that the customer hasn't asked.
- Never provide information that the customer hasn't requested.
James explains that he recently called an online conferencing vendor and asked a simple question, expecting a simple answer. But instead, he got a myriad of information he didn't ask for and didn't need. From this experience, the vendor he had contacted was crossed off his list and lost his business. And James writes, "I'd guess that form a quarter to a half of all B2B sales engagements are dlayed or prevented by vendor-inflicted information overload."
Remember the two essential rules and find Geoffrey: LinkedIn Twitter Facebook
Close the Deal with Powerful, Thought-Provoking Questions
In this article by Stephen Peady, Peady writes that he believes focusing is the greates challenge for salespeople today, and that
Of all the things that you can do and say when you are talking with a customer...there is non that comes close to the power of asking a great or though provoking question.
Peady then gives examples of questions, including:
- What do your customers most value about your company?
- Can you tell me about some of the most exciting future business opportunities?
- Where do you have a competitive advantage?
- What three major things have contributed to your success so far?
These questions, Peady writes,
...provide you with the insights to determine how or where you may be able to offer value, where challenges and opportunities exist and what the customer is thinking.
And, to continue our theme of motivation and confidence in selling, here's a classic from Daniel Pink. In his book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" he created a great explainer video for the book which you can find below.
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QPR vs Swansea City, New Date In March
Swansea City's match away at QPR will now be played on Tuesday March 17th at 8pm.
The game was originally going to be played on February 3rd but was postponed due to snow.
Tickets bought for the initial date can still be used but refunds are also available.
Tickets are also still available for Saturday's FA Cup game at home to Fulham, and they are on general sale at the ticket office.


text: suc_idn_idn94 idn94 idn suc yes Concerned Clergy and Laity Announcement, October 15, 1969 Newman, I. DeQuincey (Isaiah DeQuincey), 1911-1985 United Methodist Church (U.S.). South Carolina Conference United Methodist Church (U.S.)--Government Race relations South Carolina--Race relations Race relations--Religious aspects--United Methodist Church (U.S.) Civil rights demonstrations--South Carolina--Orangeburg Clergy--South Carolina African American clergy--South Carolina Clergy--Political activity--South Carolina Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.) One page announcement from the Concerned Clergy and Laity, South Carolina Conference, United Methodist Church, prepared and signed by I. DeQuincey Newman, Chairman. The document communicates the details of a mass meeting to be held at Claflin College on Sunday, October 19, 1969; the meeting was organized to address racism in ministerial appointments and ensure equal opportunity for African American Methodists in South Carolina. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Local identification number: pnl6910b University of South Carolina. Library eng Text http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/u?/idn,94 image/jpg Folder: General, 1969, Isaiah DeQuincey Newman Papers, South Carolina Political Collections, The University of South Carolina Libraries Forms part of online collection: Isaiah De Quincey Newman (1911-1985) Papers, 1929-2003. 1969-10-05 United States, South Carolina, Orangeburg United States, South Carolina, Orangeburg County Digital image copyright 2007, The University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. For more information contact South Carolina Political Collections, USC, Columbia, SC 29208.


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Reports: Obama to tap Julian Castro to lead HUD
WASHINGTON — President Obama is looking to tap San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to head the department of Housing and Urban Development, The New York Times and CNN reported Saturday.
Current HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan would then slide over to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Obama has nominated former OMB chief Sylvia Mathews Burwell to take over as secretary of Health and Human Services.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz declined Saturday to provide any information about the reported Cabinet shuffle.
"We have no personnel announcements at this time," he said.
The moves are part of a domino effect following the resignation last month of Kathleen Sebelius, who left after the troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov. Her departure allows the president to shake things up in his Cabinet for the final two years of his term.
Castro, 39, is a three-term mayor who has been widely talked about for higher office. He is considered an up-and-coming star in the Democratic Party, and his speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention only served to burnish his reputation.
Donovan has led HUD since just days after Obama took office. Obama tapped him to lead a task force in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. After the president won re-election, Donovan was the subject of much speculation about what the second-term Cabinet would look like and how long he would stay.


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Super Tulip Tour
Netherlands Bike + Barge Tours
The ultimate Dutch tulip bike tour!
A holiday that is proving to be another popular Holland bike tour is this Super Tulip Tour totally dedicated to the beautiful tulip. You will cycle Holland through acres of spring flowers and tulips, learn all about growing tulips in a tulip park and of course you will visit the Keukenhof. If the weather cooperates, perhaps you will even see the Tulips in the fields. The daily mileage is a bit longer than our normal tulip tours but through Holland's cycling paradise, you will enjoy every mile!
- Cycling through the bulb fields
- Keukenhof, the best day out among the flowers!
- Flower auction at Aalsmeer
- Windmills Zaanse Schans
Be sure to check out all of our Bike and Barge tours in Holland.
2018 Prices
Liza Marleen Two bed cabin/superior twin £ 1250 $ 1,875 € 1260 NOK 13125 kr 12115 $ 1,575 Two bed cabin/regular twin £ 1151 $ 1,726 € 1160 NOK 12083 kr 11154 $ 1,450 Two bed cabin for single use £ 1612 $ 2,418 € 1625 NOK 16927 kr 15625 $ 2,031 Triple cabin £ 1062 $ 1,592 € 1070 NOK 11146 kr 10288 $ 1,338 Sailing Home Two bed cabin £ 1171 $ 1,756 € 1180 NOK 12292 kr 11346 $ 1,475 Two bed cabin for single use £ 1652 $ 2,478 € 1665 NOK 17344 kr 16010 $ 2,081 Wending Two bed cabin £ 1066 $ 1,600 € 1075 NOK 11198 kr 10337 $ 1,344 Two bed cabin for single use £ 1270 $ 1,905 € 1280 NOK 13333 kr 12308 $ 1,600 Triple cabin £ 1012 $ 1,518 € 1020 NOK 10625 kr 9808 $ 1,275 Zwaan Two bed cabin £ 1171 $ 1,756 € 1180 NOK 12292 kr 11346 $ 1,475 Two bed cabin for single use £ 1652 $ 2,478 € 1665 NOK 17344 kr 16010 $ 2,081 Triple cabin £ 1141 $ 1,711 € 1150 NOK 11979 kr 11058 $ 1,438 Anna Antal Bunk bed cabin £ 917 $ 1,375 € 924 NOK 9625 kr 8885 $ 1,155 Low bed cabin £ 1066 $ 1,600 € 1075 NOK 11198 kr 10337 $ 1,344 Bunk bed cabin (single use) £ 1171 $ 1,756 € 1180 NOK 12292 kr 11346 $ 1,475 Feniks Bunk bed cabin £ 917 $ 1,375 € 924 NOK 9625 kr 8885 $ 1,155 Low bed cabin £ 1066 $ 1,600 € 1075 NOK 11198 kr 10337 $ 1,344 Bunk bed cabin (single use) £ 1171 $ 1,756 € 1180 NOK 12292 kr 11346 $ 1,475
extra options
Electric bicycle rental: £ 64 $ 97 € 65 NOK 677 kr 625 $ 81
Helmet rental (advanced reservation required): £ 10 $ 15 € 10 NOK 104 kr 96 $ 13
Amsterdam City Card: £ 40 $ 60 € 40 NOK 417 kr 385 $ 50
Museum Card: £ 40 $ 60 € 40 NOK 417 kr 385 $ 50
Set of two maps for self-guided option (advanced reservation required): £ 19 $ 29 € 20 NOK 203 kr 188 $ 24 *Ask us how many maps are needed for the entire tour
Extra night in Amsterdam: Please contact us
Discounts available for children. Ask us for details.
please note
Pricing is based on fuel costs as of July 2016. If the fuel cost increase 5%, additional fees may apply (even for reservations already booked).
Rates are based on double occupancy.
Information to read before you book.
We recommend purchasing bike trip insurance.
† Currency exchange rate set 90 days before travel.
Fly to Amsterdam International Airport.
Local Travel
Short train ride from Amsterdam airport to Amsterdam central. Trains are accessed in lower level of airport.
Please check local conditions prior to arrival. Average high/low temp in °F for Amsterdam in April is 53°/41º and May 61/46º.
Amsterdam City Card Amsterdam Museum Card
Electric bikes available for this tour! Please note: tulip season in Holland extends from the end of March to the middle of May but is dependent on temperatures and the weather. Going early or late in the season may affect what is in bloom. Gluten free diets incur additional charge of € 50 per week.
Tour Dates
2018 Dates
On the Comfort plus class boats:
Liza Marleen: May 5, 2018
Sailing Home: March 31, and April 7, 2018
On the Comfort class boat:
Zwaan: March 31, April 14, April 21, and May 5, 2018
Wending: April 28 and May 5, 2018
On the Standard plus class boats:
Anna Antal: April 7, April 14, April 21, and April 28, 2018
Feniks: April 7, April 14, April 21, and April 28, 2018
Where You'll Stay
Aboard comfort plus, comfort, or standard class vessels.
What's Included
- 7 nights' accommodations on board
- Breakfasts, packed lunches, and 3-course dinners
- Coffee and tea on board
- Tour guide
- Route information
- Road book (1 per cabin)
- Entrance fee for the Keukenhof
- Ferry fares on the route
- 24 speed hybrid bicycle with pannier bags, lock and water bottle
What's Not Included
- Bicycle protection
- Helmet rental
- Beverages (incl. alcohol), available on board
- Museum entrance fees (approx. €15)
- Maps for self-guided option (please see pricing)
- Travel insurance
Extra Stay
Extra nights in Amsterdam.
|8 days
|€915 Rates
|Client Reviews
Skill LevelEasy, guided bike and boat tour on flat terrain in Europe's most bike friendly country!
Tour Boats
Day-To-Day Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Amsterdam. Embarkation at 2 PM near Central Station. Cruising to Spaarndam and cycling to Haarlem, 9 miles (15 km)
Day 2: Harlem - Keukenhof - Leiden, 25 miles (40 km)
Day 3: Leiden - Kudelstaart, 28 miles (45 km)
Day 4: Visit to flower auction. Cruising to Amsterdam. Cycling to Womerveer via Zaans Schans, 28 miles (45 km)
Day 5: Wormerveer - Alkmaar, 28 miles (45 km)
Day 6: Alkmaar - Purmerend, 22 miles (35 km)
Day 7: Purmerend - Amsterdam, 13 or 22 miles (20 or 35 km)
Day 8: Departure from Amsterdam
*All distances are approximate. The above planned itinerary is subject to change due to changing wind and weather conditions and other unforeseen circumstances having to do with mooring requirements, etc.
Day 1: Arrival in Amsterdam. Embarkation at 2 PM near Central Station. Cruising to Spaarndam and cycling to Haarlem, 9 miles (15 km)
After arrival on board the barge, you can put your luggage away in your cabin and then enjoy a cup of coffee or tea. It is also a good moment to become acquainted with the guide, skipper and crew, and of course your fellow passengers. At 2 pm the barge sets off for Spaarndam, also known as the village of Hansje Brinker. From here, take an easy ride into the city of Haarlem. This city, which rendered its name to Harlem, New York, is a lively city with good shopping possibilities. At the same time there are many interesting 17th-century sights here. Back on board, after the bike ride, the program for the next day and the rest of the week will be explained to you at dinner time.
Day 2: Harlem - Keukenhof - Leiden, 25 miles (40 km)
Today's route leads you through the oldest tulip fields of Holland, including a visit of the Keukenhof gardens, the most beautiful spring park in the world. The Keukenhof is an overwhelming blaze of colors, seven million flowering tulips in a magnificent 80-acres' background of traditional and modern gardening architecture. (Tickets are included in the tour price.) You also can admire the various hyacinths and many other colorful flowers. You spend the night in Leiden, which is a historic city with many little courtyards, façades, and historical buildings built between the 15th and 18th century. Leiden, meaning 'built on waters', came into existence around 800 AD as a market place at the confluence of the rivers Old and New Rhine, the Vliet and the Mare. It was a center for the medieval linen industry. For a long time it was second only to Amsterdam in importance. Leiden is also the city where Rembrandt van Rijn was born.
Day 3: Leiden - Kudelstaart, 28 miles (45 km)
Today you bike from Leiden to Kudelstaart, a small town bordered by the Westeinderplassen, around the Haarlemmermeer. You will go right through the green heart of Holland, an area with small cycle paths, lakes, small rivers, and cows.
Day 4: Visit to flower auction. Cruising to Amsterdam. Cycling to Zaanse Schans - Womerveer, 28 miles (45 km)
In the early morning you can visit one of the many flower auctions in Aalsmeer. Every day 'Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer' sets the world price for flowers and plants. This happens by bringing supply and demand together by means of the auction clock- a fascinating process during which large and small batches of flowers are sold within fractions of seconds. As a visitor to Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, you will walk over a specially designed gallery, enjoy the gorgeous flowers, and experience the hustle and bustle of auction. The flowers and plants that are sold at the auctions are exported all over the world, a wonder of logistics. Afterwards you will have breakfast while sailing in the direction of Amsterdam.
Between the airport Schiphol and the city you disembark to continue your tour by bike along the river Amstel and right into the city. A ferry will transport you to the other side of the river 'IJ'. Here you leave the city behind an continue your tour through lush green polders towards the world famous hamlet of Zaanse Schans. A unique place where people live and work, with original houses and windmills from the river Zaan area.
Day 5: Wormerveer - Alkmaar, 28 miles (45 km)
From Wormerveer you will cycle to and through the most beautiful dunes of the Netherlands and if weather permits, you may like to swim in the North Sea during your lunch break at the beach. Today's overnight stay is in cheese town Alkmaar, a historic, lively city with many quaint shops. A little less than 400 heritage sites, canals, and harbor dominate the townscape.
Day 6: Alkmaar - Purmerend, 22 miles (35 km)
Today you'll cycle into the polder landscape of the Beemster and Purmer, part of a big green polder area. The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is an exceptional example of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. Its well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, dykes and settlements are all laid out in accordance with classical and Renaissance planning principles. Also on the agenda is a visit to one of the big water mills at the Rijp. Graft and De Rijp are two proud, typical 17th century villages that enjoyed great prosperity at the height of the fishing and whaling industries. You spend the night in Purmerend.
Day 7: Purmerend - Amsterdam, 22 miles (35 km)
Purmerend lies at the edge of an area called 'Waterland' where roads and water are nearly on the same level. Visit the nice village of Zunderdorp and Ransdorp. Those that wish to lengthen today's route can cycle the long route to Edam and Volendam and if time permits, you can cross the lake Gouwzee to admire the traditional fisherman's village, Marken, with its typical wooden houses.
The day ends in Amsterdam.
Day 8: Departure from Amsterdam
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Customer Feedback
J. Coffin 2 years ago
The staff,food and barge were exceptional. Just a wonderful experience. I would definitely recommend the tour.
Boat: Zwaan
Jim Wernham 2 years ago
This was our first trip - what a fantastic experience and great way to see the country. We look forward to many more adventures.
Boat: Zwaan
Judith Frederick 2 years ago
The staff on the Zwaan was top notch. They attended to our every need. Trip was superb. Every person in our group of 10 loved the trip!!
Boat: Zwaan
Jessie Nelson 2 years ago
Excellent tour guide (Albert) after the first two days out I relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed the biking, all the explanations of what we were seeing along the route. The caption and partner were great hosts. Every evening a fantastic meal. After our evening meal Albert always offered to take us on a walking tour, on his own time, which we all did. I would certainly recommend trip site to anyone.
Boat: Zwaan
Sheila Pope 6 years ago
My husband and I enjoyed a fantastic Super Tulip Tour in mid April of 2012. The staff of the very comfortable Zwaan were all professional, yet entertaining and informative. We learned a lot about Holland that week, and saw its beautiful countryside at a leisurely pace on the excellent bicycles provided. I would definitely recommend this trip and company to anyone considering a bike and barge tour.
Boat: Zwaan
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Super Tulip Tour Boats + Barges
Anna Antal Netherlands Standard Plus Class Boat The Anna Antal is a former shuttle barge converted into a motor passenger ship in the winter of 1994-95. In 2012, the salon and cabins were renovated.The sailing area of the Anna Antal includes all Dutch, German and Belgian waterways in so far as a ship of this size can sail. She also sails on the Waddenzee, IJsselmeer and Zeeland. The Anna Antal is built according to the rules of Maritime laws and holds a valid certificate for the Rhine.
Feniks Belgium, Netherlands, France Standard Plus Class Boat Originally, the Feniks was built in 1928 as a freighter on the Dutch, Belgium and French inland waters. In 1992, the Feniks was converted to a hotel passenger ship and put in service for various sailing holidays. Since then, she has undergone several renovations to keep up-to-date with all modern facilities.
Liza Marleen Comfort Plus Class Boat The Liza Marleen is a luxury motor passenger barge that was completely refurbished in 1998. This robust barge is ideally suited for trips on the wider waterways. It has a beautiful salon area and spacious deck.
Sailing Home Netherlands, Belgium Comfort Plus Class Boat Built in 2001, the Sailing Home was designed specifically to provide a more attractive hotel ship during your carefree vacation. It was built to meet the latest wishes and ideas with respect to comfort and service. The experience of a lifetime: cycling through the most beautiful spots within the Netherlands while residing on a very comfortable, newly built and well-furnished ship.
Wending Netherlands Comfort Class Boat The Wending is a former freight barge that was converted into a luxury passenger motor barge in the early nineties and completely redecorated in 2002. The barge has a spacious salon equipped with a television and music installation. It is a great place to relax after a strenuous day of cycling.
Zwaan Belgium, Netherlands Comfort Class Boat Once a cargo boat, the Zwaan (Swan) was completely renovated and converted into a comfortable passenger barge. On board you will find seven comfortable cabins allowing a total capacity of 16 passengers.


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Re: John, Robert McKee of Allegheny Co. PA
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Ronald Bachman 12/04/00
John McKee, founder of McKeesport, Pa. (b. 1746 Ireland, d. 11 Jan. 1807) married, as his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Hugh Goben, and had, according to my records, which may not be perfect, two daughters, Margaret (possibly died 28 Aug. 1819 McKeesport) and Margery, who married William Thompson. I don't know anything more, but this should be verified. It could be that Margaret and Margery were the same person.
By his second wife Sarah Redick (b. 1759, d. 11 Jan. 1807), whom John married on 26 July 1791, he had:David, b. 15 June 1792, d. 10 May 1793; John, b. 31 July 1794, d. 1860 Oakland, CA; Sally, b. 18 Aug. 1797, d. 25 Aug. 1824 Mobile, AL; and Redick, b. 7 Dec. 1800, d. 13 Sept. 1889. More on this family appears in Raymond McKee's _Book of McKee_, the 1889 _History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania_, and in an article in _Western Pennsylvania History_ from around 1948.
Perhaps William Thompson moved to Lewis Co., KY. Guian/Gavin McKee (my ancestor), presumed first cousin of John, moved to neighboring Fleming Co., KY, in 1789. If you are able to verify what happened to Margery and William Thompson, I'd be interested in learning about them.
Paul Gifford
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Teaneck Public Library
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Tel.: (201) 837-4171 | Fax: (201) 837-0410
|All interviews were taped and documented. They are available through the Reference Department of the Teaneck Public Library. The Library is not responsible for the accuracy of the statements nor does it necessarily endorse the opinions expressed.
Audio recording of the interview with Janet Johnston
|Janet Johnston
|Helen Klein
|January 31, 1984
|Jackie Kinney (4/24/1984)
This is Helen Klein and I am interviewing Miss Janet Johnston of 470 Ogden Avenue.
( I ) Mrs. Johnston, when did your family first come to Teaneck?
( N ) We arrived October 29, 1916. I was 2-1/2 and I remember a lot from what I've heard at that time. We arrived from New York City. I was born in New York City right where the George Washington Bridge is. And my dad decided that he wasn't going to pay any rentals any longer in New York City because they went from $24 to $36 a month. And he decided that, that was silly to repeat so out he came, looked in Bogota and looked in West Englewood and at that time, there was a very wealthy real estate man by the name of Nelson Ayers. He had bought up much of this land which was farmland. From the West Shore Railroad Tracks to the River Road to the West Englewood Avenue, to Warwick. He lived here in his rather modest home for a millionaire, which he was and he was kind of a one man committee deciding to whom he would sell. And it seemed to be mostly WASP's. In fact as far as I can remember, it was all WASPs. And my mother was a charming wonderful person who had a magnificent talent, singing, and he took to my mother and my father, particularly my mother, very fast, and they found a lot near the old Rekow farm, caddy-corner to our present home and they decided that that would be very nice and so we were allowed to move.
( I ) The lord of the manor sort of stuff.
( N ) Yes, exactly.
( I ) So that you have always lived in this house.
( N ) Always lived right in this house. Dad built it and used to come in and sit on a keg of nails in front of the fireplace and say, well, mom, mother, I am here for the rest of my life till they carry me out in a pine box and he watched and supervised. Dad was an engineer so he watched and supervised the whole thing. And they made some basic changes and we moved in on October 29th and my third year birthday was in November so I was just about three.
( I ) What do you remember of your childhood around there? There must have been a lot of young families who lived around here.
( N ) There were. I still see the friends that I made because we were not a mobile society. We were here. We had no car, most of us, and the only egress we had was (is egress out or in) well anyway the only way out or in was the West Shore Railroad. The old public service 78 Jitney which is still the only one we have in this part of town and the Fort Lee Trolley. That went down Fort Lee Road to the ferry. And we could go either across on the Yonkers Ferry or we could take the 42nd Street. There was 125th Street ferry too but I think this was the Yonkers ferry. So we didn't wander very much. And as I look back as an adult, I think my mother must have been fairly unhappy because she was a city person. City bred, from Minneapolis originally and loved New York, lived in New York, studied music in New York with her sisters and suddenly was brought hither by my father and plunked in this farm community of about whatever we were – 1,000 or 2,000 at the most. And not too much in the way of getting out. Not too stimulating a community at that time. As a child it was, a lovely community.
( I )For children, yes.
( N) Oh indeed yes. I probably wandered all over the place. I can remember walking over to Rekow's Farm to get the milk and I made friends with the Rekow's so I would wander over and feed the animals and play with the animals and they would give me cookies. It was a very friendly, easy-going rural atmosphere and the daisy fields were right in back of us. There was nothing on the other side of West Englewood Avenue. We had picnics. I came home screaming one day when I was about five or six to my mother because I had seen a man walking across the daisy field, rather disreputable looking, with a big bag over his shoulder and I swore it wiggled and that he had a little girl in it. It was some kind of a community, strange people would come to the door and ask for a sandwich or you would see rogues or whatever they were, they were probably nice men but I was scared of that. But my mother said, no I don't think he has a little girl in there and assured me it was all right. But I didn't wander too far from my own environment because I wasn't too sure of the strangeness.
( I ) What was where Whittier School is now?
( N ) Well there was nothing there. There was nothing here at all. There were a couple of houses. The house next door was built four years ago. There were one or two or three houses on the block, the streets were mud, red clay mud, pretty horrible, and we went to school at Washington Irving when I started in Kindergarten by taxi. And the taxi picked three or four of us up and then we went over there to school I think it was through the second grade and then they had an auction. My father was part of this auction. It was on a very blow March day. They stood on the hill on West Englewood Hill and looked around and decided that was a very nice place. For a school. So they bought the property and thereupon built a four-room school which they called Whittier and then I went to that school.
( I ) Tell me how did your mother do marketing?
( N ) We went to Englewood. Let me tell you about this. We were looking at a folder that was a concert my mother gave. My mother's name was Mrs. E.A. Smith and she gave this concert in 1927 in the auditorium of Whittier School which was a dedication of the school. They were dedicating it and opening it up and that was the date – February 1, 1927. So mother and two of her sisters were on the program. Adelaide Paterson was her older sister and Mrs. Rollins was her youngest sister. And these two people were married from New York and they came and gave a concert. And that was the beginning of Whittier School and that's when we all started to go and the friends that I made in Whittier School are acquaintances that I still see and I am now 67.
( I ) That's marvelous. Tell me. I've wanted to ask you about this. How did you do marketing if you were in this little community here with no stores nearby?
( N ) We had Cutler's Drug Store. On the corner of West Englewood Avenue and Railroad Avenue where the barber shop is now and it had a dirt floor. Eventually it had a tile floor. It was a real cute little soda fountain kind of thing. And then there was Etton's Meat Market. That was all there was.
( I ) West Englewood wasn't there then.
( N ) It was later. We did use it but it was expensive, and Etton's was expensive. So we tended to go to Englewood.
( I ) How did you get there?
( N ) By the 78 Public Service Jitney.
( I ) And how often did you have to go marketing?
( N ) Well probably no more then once a week, once every two weeks.
( I ) Did they deliver?
( N ) No. We brought it home. Etton's delivered but Etton's didn't have everything. It was a meat market basically with a few fine gourmet type of things but it wasn't satisfactory for the functions of the home. We used to make a list of things that we needed for Christmas Shopping, for clothing, that kind of thing. And we would make a list and when the list was long enough, we would go in on the train to New York with our dad. We'd go in on the early morning train and we'd stay until he came home at five. Come home on the five o'clock train. And all the neighbors were on the train. So it was a very friendly thing to do. But we didn't do it more than once every two months because this list didn't grow that quickly. It was hard to get there so you tried to make the most of the trip.
( I ) That left you off then at the Pennsylvania Station?
( N ) No, it left us off at Weehawken. Then we took the 42nd Street Ferry and then we took the Trolley.
( I ) Now what I want to ask you is when things started to change. When did more building start? When did Teaneck get more populated?
( N ) Probably ten years. 1916-1926. By the time the George Washington Bridge was contemplated and they started to build the bridge and then they built the highway and it was at that time that my father said, "This is going to make the change." And of course it did because it was accessible now. Cars coming in. We had our first car in 1927 and as soon as cars began to become more usual, more people had them, then it started to change. And after the war, there was more money, the big boom before the bus business, people were buying up property and they were beginning to build here and Nelson Ayers sold the whole quadrant and it became, it didn't change it didn't change in types of people to much. We were all under the same church. We all did the same things. But then it possibly began to change around World War II.
( I ) So you weren't very aware of class differences in Teaneck because you lived in your own little corner of Teaneck.
( N ) We lived in our own little world.
( I ) And you went to a church that was nearby.
( N ) I was married in that church.
( I ) Not the one that's there now but the wooden one, right?
( N ) The one that has become a Jewish Temple. It was a very sweet little country church. And I just was not aware. It didn't even occur to me to question or to ask, we didn't have any radio and television. My family was a very educated family and a very cultured family and I learned about the world but it was through their eyes and my friends were all pretty much the same type so we just compared notes with each other. That's all there was. When I went to college in '35, '34 I guess, it was a real eye opener to find out that there were lots of other types of people. One of the things, however, about Teaneck – there are lots of things about Teaneck of which I am very proud and very happy – it was a good place to grow up. It had I suppose some disadvantages in a sense that it was pretty parochial but if your family was not parochial and mine was far from it, it didn't seem to ever cause a problem. And yet on the other hand, there was not much culture in Teaneck. There was practically nothing. And my beautifully talented mother I am sure felt very deprived. She tried to start some organizations like a choir, a local choir. A community choir, of which she could have directed and been the soloist but (inaudible) and dad was very active in town. As park commissioner, he helped establish the Windsor Park at the bottom of our hill along the railroad track there. It had lovely flower beds and we had a summer house, a gazebo I guess you could call it, and my mom used to go down and give concerts every now and then on Sunday afternoons in the park and it was something that we used to do. We used to go up and watch the tennis matches up on Warwick, I guess that is, Warwick and Essex Road. We had a big grandstand and we had a Tennis Club. So we played tennis from when we were tiny and we played all our lives.
That was the thing to do on a Sunday. We tried to be home and read the papers and chat with the neighbors. We didn't even go for rides in the car because we didn't have one. Finally we did. So when the changes in '42 started coming and the folks from the city came out, there was a big leap forward culturally. When the bridge opened up '29 and people began to migrate out here, until the crash, then people began to really build quickly and nice homes. As a matter of fact the Boulevard opened up which is known today as Winthrop Road and it was a status, a social status thing to do, was to sell your other house and move to the Boulevard and if you had made it, then you did this. And my father decided, I don't know that he had enough money to do it to be very honest with you, but he and my mother did talk about it and decided they would stay here. Which must have been a very wise move because many people lost their homes over on the boulevard because they stretched further than they had right to. And dad through the desperation was able to hang in there, it was a tough time, but we hung in our home. But the cultural level just took over when these folks from the city began to move out.
( I ) What ethnic group were they?
( N ) Mostly Jewish. Mostly the Jewish folks began to come in and then we began to have many more things. Well our library has always been the source of great cultural advantages for Teaneck and one of my very closest friend's mother was very highly responsible for the library, Mrs. Jordan. We had better library facilities, we began to have more musical things, we had lectures, we had the opening of the Bergen Junior College which is now Fairleigh Dickinson and it brought people here that had never dreamed of living out here in the so-called country. And from there on, Teaneck was well you might almost say invaded by wonderful new people and of court at first it rocked, the community, because it is not easy to just immediately absorb a whole new ethnic change. But Teaneck has a way of always riding well with these changes and it didn't seem to rock it too much for too long and as it settled down, the high school became one of the best high schools in the whole darn country. I graduated from Teaneck High School in '34 and my brother was graduated in '42 and we've often said that we felt that we had received a Junior College education from the high school. A point of interest that some people may or may not know, in 1933/34 Teaneck High School owned its own plane. It was a little Aronca and we had Link Trainer at the high school and anyone who wanted to could sign up to learn to fly and so some of us did. We took the ground courses and the study courses during the school year, school week, and on Saturday morning, Captain Norwood took us to Teterboro where we had our Aronca and we went off into the air. And if you could afford to take the lessons, I could not, nor was I vitally interested, but you could get your license and some of the folks did. That had not continued in any high school and I didn't know why. It seems too bad because certainly we were beginning in 1933 to be part of the age of air.
( I ) After that, they went to teaching you how to drive automobiles.
( N ) That may well be part of it. But the high school never taught us to drive a car.
( I ) At one time the high school had courses.
( N ) Not when I was there. But they dropped the airplane thing. I am sure it was economics but it was a shame. Because we were entering the age of air and no other high school has picked it up which is very interesting. I don't think any place in the whole country but it was the kind of thing that Teaneck did. It was way ahead, it was a super, super educational.
( I ) You are talking academically, of course.
( N ) I am talking academically and socially. And we had a fine orchestra, student orchestra, band, choir, drama, the airplane advantage, we had many, many advantages. My group of friends were on every champion sports team in the high school that year because we just went all out for this kind of thing. Probably because our community was our life.
( I ) What about clubs, various clubs, aside from sports. You know, academically. French, Latin, Chess, anything like that?
( N ) We had millions of them. You could have any indulgence or any hobby you had. I belonged to the drama group, the choir, all the sports, French Club, that kind of thing. My friends were pretty much in the same things.
( I ) You kept pretty busy.
( N ) We were very busy. We had roller skating clubs, had roller skating parties. We had ice-skating. We just had a very, very good time and this all was among our own age, in our homes or at the high school, and a privilege for anybody who moved here.
( I ) Let's go back to when you were much younger and tell me about your walk to the Pine Forest.
( N ) Well we would walk along what we called Essex Road near Whittier School, cross the daisy field which is now West Englewood and we would start early in the morning with a box lunch and walk all the way through the daisy field and enter the big pine forest.
( I ) Where was that exactly?
( N ) Well it was all the way from Essex Road to the railroad tracks and as far as Cedar Lane. It was just a vast tract and it was perfectly beautiful. You can see some of the pines today as you drive down Garrison or Sussex Road and there was a lovely brook there and a great big huge rock right in the middle of the brook and that would be our goal for lunch. Then we'd go and play in the brook and have our lunch on the rock and then keep wandering and we would wander until we hit the railroad tracks and that would be about time to come home for supper. We'd be gone all day long and I suppose that of you look at some trees along Sussex Road, you will see a lot of carved trees where we put out our hearts and flowers.
( I ) We have to go look for that. You don't remember anything about the politics of the town, do you? At the time when were beginning to grow up, do you remember hearing your father talk about it.
( N ) I do because dad was reasonably active as park commissioner and he was never on the town council or that kind of thing because he was busy in New York working and he didn't have the time but I can remember mother being very active in a new party that had grown up. Carl Van Wagner was the mayor at the time and my family seemed to have thought that the Taxpayers League was not one of the people we should be supporting and they were getting pretty strong. I don't honestly know whether they were right or wrong. I don't even really know what the Taxpayers League was out to do but I can remember much literature, much phoning and much meetings in the house where mama, mother was very active in this. And it was just before the government was changed from mayor/council and Paul Volker came. Incidentally, I have a pamphlet here that I want you to see and maybe you can make a copy for your memorabilia, and when Paul Volker finally was hired as city manager, I think that was what mom and dad were out to do, was see that we became a city manager form of government, not they alone, from the mayor/council, they felt that it would be less political and less favoritism would be shown. And so in 19 whatever it was, Volker changed or turned the government around and as a city manager, he was one of the finest men, probably the best city manager. A town like Teaneck at the time could have had. And it grew and developed magnificently and this form of government made certain that all codes that were good codes, all the rules and regulations that go with running a good town, that they were maintained, that they were kept, and that nobody was going to break in and upset housing codes, zoning and everything you have in a town. I don't know a great deal about the details of that but I do know that if you drive along route 4, for example, today one of the wonderful things that people today in Teaneck are enjoying is no commercial things on route 4 and that was part of that whole era where they made certain that you didn't suddenly find a gas station next to your home or a lot of commercial people coming in and making a quick kill and ruining what was a beautiful town and they've maintained the town enough so we have a lovely system. Kids have loads of places to play.
( I ) Of course the parks weren't there. I mean those were all developed later under the
( N ) That was Mr. Brett. Mr. Botit, and those were all people that were working at the time with Mr. Volker.
( I ) In other words, what you are saying is there was no difference between republic and democrats as far city politics was concerned. People voted.
( N ) Everybody was republican. Until the influx. But really we were. I didn't know there was anything else, really. I can remember when I was in sixth grade, I had pencils in my school drawer with the head of Hoover and the head of Smith and I wasn't supposed to bring the Smith one home. There weren't many people for Mr. Smith around here. It was Hoover's Town. But then when people began to come in from the other parts, we had more variety.
( I ) What was the reaction when Roosevelt was elected in this town?
( N ) In the family and in the town, there was an uproar. And I almost got disowned because I was in college by that time and I suddenly realized there was another world, and I voted for Mr. Roosevelt the first time I was able to vote and I thought, poor dad and mother would have apoplexy. They could just not see this. This I have turned and my brother has turned into a Democrat and I am sure the folks are turning over their grave. But on the other hand, they were not parochial folks. It was just, this is what they knew, this is what they came from. My mother was a mid-westerner. My Father was an upstate New Yorker. And this what we knew this is what we lived.
( I ) Tell me, do you remember anything about the depression whether there were any WPA funds used in Teaneck or for what purpose or whether there was much unemployment. People did lose their houses here.
( N ) I am sure they did. I don't know. We had a tough time. Everyone I knew was aware. We all were under the NYA, the youth administration, I had two jobs under that in order to stay in college. And that I was in college. We didn't even come home weekends too often from college. We sometimes didn't even come home Thanksgiving because we couldn't afford to. But being aware of losing homes and tragedies I can't say that was part of the picture I had anything to do with. But we all did work and we all knew that once we got out of college, we were not going to do anything else but get a job. Our family needed our help and we did. I can't honestly say that I remember I am sure Teaneck must have had some of that. I remember more things like tramps coming to the door, poor people coming to the door and mother asking (inaudible) and we always opened the door. It is quite different from today when you scream through the door, "Who's there" before you open it. But even so, Teaneck even now with all of these changes, some of them very bad, some of them not bad but nonetheless changes, Teaneck is still not rocked but it, not thrown by it. We still maintain a good community, a viable community, very different, sure, but it is viable and it is a good community and it maintains its viability, I think magnificently with some really very shocking changes.
( I ) What do you call shocking changes?
( N ) Well, the fact that there is more crime, the fact that I don't feel free to walk everywhere I used to, virtually not to walk anywhere, at any time of the night. I would have walked at 2:00 am. But I've been told to be a little cautious about walking certain places and not to do some of the things I used to. I never used to lock the door. I never heard of locking the door. I haven't had a doorbell in this house since we've lived here. Because you never locked the door. And now I have a knocker because I never got around to getting a bell but we have to lock things and we have to warn our children not to leave their bikes loose and there are changes. And I think the high school has had a tough time the last eight years being fair to the new groups and yet not losing its standards. And I'm afraid that some of the standards have been lost but I am sure not all of them.
( I ) Well for example I understand that they have the honors program at the high school.
( N ) The high school isn't the problem, it's the elementary school. By the time I started in high school, Teaneck High School. In 1938, it hadn't changed then at all. It was the way I remembered it. Then when the changes did come about in the more recent years and you got your honors courses, those are fine in the high school for the good students. And a good student is having no trouble getting into the college he wants to get into I understand. The elementary school can't be so segregated. You are all of one type really unless you can't read, you are put into the bluebirds or the robins or whatever, but basically the elementary school is having more of a struggle than the high school. As I understand it. Now I am not an expert anymore. I have been out of the whole business for four years.
( I ) Well I was wondering in what way, you mean as far as reading scores are concerned.
( N ) The reading scores, maintaining a certain kind of discipline, taking care that the balance is right, challenging, giving leadership qualities, because you have got so many extremes. Children that don't even know the language. The Hispanics that come in know Spanish. Then what does the youngster over here whom has a working vocabulary that is incredible do while you are teaching the little girl the plain basics of
( I ) You mean these heterogeneous classes, you think that is very difficult.
( N )> I think it is impossible. I don't believe in heterogeneous. I don't believe in segregation as such I do not believe you can teach all people, all the time, at the same rate and get anywhere if you are going to have talented people, leadership people. So I understand mostly from neighbors, young neighbors, that they find the elementary school unsatisfactory. Once they get to high school, then they can go off on the various roads and directions and if this youngster wants one thing, like carpentry, and this one wants to become a doctor, there are places for these children to go without saying they are being segregated. They are simply seeking their own level and getting a good response and that's good so that a student going into the high school can usually maintaining himself pretty well.
( I ) You spoke once about the band and a concert that your mother gave for band uniforms. Can you tell me something about it now?
( N ) I think it was in the early 30s when the band had just become organized and it was a good band, quite a good size band, and they needed uniforms. So Mr. Wilflake talked to my mother and wondered if there was some way they could raise the money and she said, "Yes, I'll give a concert." Of course at that time when we were known all over town, now it is a bigger town and more diverse, we don't all know each other quite as well, but in those days it was a community in the full sense of the word and so as soon as they heard mom was going to give a concert, they knew they would sell the house out which they did, and she gave a magnificent concert with two or three other soloists and it was a very musical experience, absolutely magnificent. And they raised enough money through the concert for the band uniforms and then some, I suppose. Who knows. But I was very proud of her.
( I ) Let's talk about through the war years and what you know about them.
( N ) I didn't live in Teaneck during the war years because I was in Florida with my husband who was a flyer, a pilot in the air force and so I was mostly in Florida with him and then I came back to Teaneck about 1943, I think it was, or '44 and there was a period of six or seven or eight years of the men coming back, the women stopping working and becoming housewives again and a period of adjustment of maybe five or six or seven years. And then around the 1950's when there was some more social changes because of the mobility of the whole country. People were living in the south that never lived there before and southerners were coming north and so there were some changes. And there were Blockbuster stories and I became somewhat active. I can't say I was real active but I did become somewhat active in the fairness of open housing. I did it two ways: I was moderately active in the neighborhood schools which I belonged to until I found out it was backed by the birchers, a lot of the birchers were using it as a tool which upset me so I left; then my church was the First Presbyterian Church in Englewood was working on Fair Housing in many of the areas around here and so I was interested in Teaneck. So we proceeded to help open up fair housing to anybody by stopping as much as we could the blockbusting and it must have been somewhat successful because it certainly did stop. And we did it though literature, we did it through signs, we did it through the churches, talking in the various churches and I wasn't wildly active. I don't mean to take any credit for this but I was enough aware of it so that I became involved with it.
But I was busy getting a new job and getting back to living a normal life after the war so I was very busy and I had my mother and father here and I was taking care of them so I wasn't right in the center of it. But Teaneck, once again, bounced on the right side of the fence beautifully on the fair housing and opened up the whole town. And we have been absorbing more than our due in a way we did open it up to it. The real estate people have played I think very unfairly. I think they have taken advantage. I think they have looked for the quick buck and I think they have misused Teaneck's decency to the detriment of, I hope, the real estate lobby and I think to a certain extent Teaneck has been asked to absorb more than it really had a right to have to. If all of the communities, of which there are so many in Bergen County, had each one done his share, it would have been a very graceful, easy, slipping into the new era of all kinds of people having a fair share and a fair right to live where they want. I don't think we needed any busing, I don't think we needed any of these things if it had been done fairly and squarely but it ended up that we have had to pay what I think was an absolutely ridiculous amount. Because there were so many communities that did not become involved.
( I )Tell me, do you know anything about how the real estate people did this sort of thing to Teaneck.
( N ) I surely do. I can only account for one or two stories that I personally know about so I don't have statistics to prove my story but I do have a friend who had been selling real estate in Bergen County, Northern Valley, and a friend of mine wanted to sell her house and I won't tell you her name because I don't want to get her involved but anyway, I said well let me refer you to this friend of mine who is a representative of one of the good real estate agencies. So that was all right. She did that and she took on her house and sold it. And I thought she sold it for a terribly small price but my friend didn't seem to care. She just wanted to get rid of it and leave. And I told her somewhat later, I said, I think you took advantage of my friend. You didn't give her a terribly good price. And she said, well you know the real estate people are sending all the blacks to Teaneck and all the whites elsewhere and so your prices aren't as high in Teaneck. And I've heard the story once or twice from other people so I am sure it is true. And I noticed too that Teaneck now, the Teaneck council is taking the real estate people to court.
( I ) Yes. I read that.
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The Internet has been a-flutter this week with talk of how Heather Armstrong of Dooce fame was treated on The Today Show, and I didn't catch the segment, mainly because I don't really give a shit about The Today Show. My mother watches it and the format is exactly the same every day, just with new people talking about the same damn subjects ad nauseum. But enough people were ranting about it that I finally broke down and watched it on YouTube last night.
And I have a bone to pick, although not with Kathy Lee Whatsherface (seriously, what is UP with her face? It looks like a melting candle). Sure, she was a bit dismissive of Heather, and that was pretty rude, but I'm sure Heather had her big girl pants on and is laughing her way to the bank. Good for Heather, I say. Good for her.
My beef is with another thing entirely. See now, I've been blogging since 2004 and it's something I enjoy very much. I genuinely like to write, I love to meet new people, and I enjoy feeling like I'm not alone in this crazy mixed up world. I'm also incredibly bored as my only conversation during the day tends to go like this:
"Yes, a ball!"
"Yes, baby. A ball."
"Yes, you have a penis"
(gurgles happily while playing with his junk).
I don't tend to read most of the Big Time Bloggers out there for two reasons:
1) Since their readership is so incredibly large, I never, ever get a response. And let's face it, if I wanted to write only for myself, I'd keep this private and not on the public domain. But these bloggers are so busy with whatever it is that they're doing that you never feel like you can connect with them. So I don't bother trying. This makes me sound much more like a petulant teenager than I really am.
2) I'm so sick of going to their sites only to have them try and pimp products out to me. I'm all for making a bit of cash (Like I've ever gotten a dime for being a blogger. I'm pretty sure I'm in the negative here, and that is a-okay with me) and I have no beef with that, but when every other post is hawking some new product or directing you to their paid gigs, I get annoyed. Maybe it's my own immaturity talking, or maybe it's just because I despise adults trying to pimp out products I'll never buy.
See, I'm down with pimping out YOUR OWN products, ala Etsy, but I don't really want to hear so-and-so's opinion on some new-fangled product. I totally dislike that blogs are quickly becoming marketing tools for big name corporations. If I wanted to be courted and advertised to, I'd flip on the television. I read blogs to get away from that noise, and I guess it annoys me when they're trying to do the same thing.
It sounds like I'm bitter here because no corporation asks me to review their products but I'm not. Not really. The last thing I want my readers to have to do is to actually look for the stuff I write amidst the product placements.
I love reading new blogs, and I love meeting new people, provided that what they do on their site is actually writing or photographs. This I can get behind.
I don't even mind the ads on the sidebars (which some people freak the fuck out about), unless they cause the page to take a day and a half to load, in which case I click away never to return again. I doubt I'll put ads on my site, primarily because I'm a vain bitch and absolutely hate clutter on my blogs sidebar. Besides, I'm fairly certain no one would take me anyway, since I talk about such disgusting stuff and refuse to stop using the word "fuck."
Am I being too critical here? I'm all for people making cash from doing something that they love, but I don't really appreciate people starting to blog simply to make money, which is what I'm pretty sure will happen after that Today Show segment, where they talk about 'word of Mom' as the hottest new advertising strategy. And this is not to say that ALL of the Big Time Bloggers do this, don't get me wrong.
God, I sound like such a crotchety old bitch here, like I sit around on a park bench all day trying to trip people with my cane (which is precisely what I plan on doing when I'm old) and talking about how in MY day, I walked to school in the sleet up hill both ways with rags for shoes.
What do you think about blogs becoming a marketing tool? Aunt Becky is dying to know what you think.
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I'd hawk stuff, but I don't like much stuff, so I imagine most of my reviews would be: "Yeah, I don't really know who would want to buy this."
Of course, as I say this I'm looking at the box my new backpack is sitting in and I can't wait to try it on and load my daughter up and then blog about it. That post will probably be kind of a review, but it will at least be a review of something that's on my mind and not something I do because I'm asked to by a company whose products I never use anyway.
Hmmm. I'm a little confused on this. Would I do a review site if it's just products that I happen to use? What if I start getting products sent to me that I start to use as a result of the sample? That line is blurry.
I'm delurking to leave you a comment because I loved this post. Thanks for pretty much summing up my feelings about this entirely. I have nothing against someone starting a blog to make money, if they're up front about it and if it's a business-type of blog. Someone starting a mom-blog as a way to make money, though? That sucks. And it's totally unrealistic – Dooce is an anomaly, as we know. Sadly, I think you're right that it will start to happen with all the attention mainstream media seems to be giving to mommy blogs lately (seriously, how late to the party are they?)
For me, it's all about the writing. If it's pretty obvious that someone is out to make a quick buck instead of trying to genuinely be part of a community or that they are altering their content to please advertisers and are as a result less than genuine, I will not read them. I read blogs that are well-written and whose writers have qualities I connect with. I'm not interested in reading corporate-driven drivel.
It's a good question and I don't have a good answer.
It's human to want to make money, since having money is so very nice.
it's also sad to see blogging go in the way of more traditional media and become a marketing tool.
I think it's unavoidable, really. On my own site, I do have Adsense ads (you can place adsense on your blog regardless oh how racy it is…).
I was recently asked to write a book review and agreed to do it, provided I really like the book.
I am trying to remain true to myself, and to focus on content, but it IS nice to make a little bit of extra cash from blogging (and trust me, it is just a little bit).
I never read the "Big Time Bloggers" either – for pretty much the same reasons. Although I have to admit when I first started reading here I was hesitant to leave a comment because it seemed like you already had a lot of readers! You're MY favorite blogger though, and isn't that payment enough? Hehehe.
From your perspective, I'm probably splitting hairs here, but I don't have ads on my personal blog. I DO have a review blog that I will mention on my personal blog… it's something that started with someone offering me some free kids books, and has grown (slightly) into some other things. But ultimately I don't make money from blogging.
I do, however, post notifications to let people know when I have something new elsewhere, because my readers have asked me to let them know (they hit my home place, but not the other gigs, regularly).
So I don't know where I stand, exactly. On the one hand, I have an ad-free blog, but I've also "sold out" by doing reviews.
When I'm old, I'm going to be like that crazy old hag on The Simpons and throw cats at passersby.
I read Dooce, because when she writes blog posts, I find her writing hilarious. Of course, they're fewer and far between now, what with the Daily Chuck and Daily Style sections. I do like her sense of style and the cute things she finds in various places, though it does get to be entirely too much cute sometimes. If you ever want to see Dooce at her best, read her archives, from 2001 on. Great writer, lots of laughs.
I read what interests me. Advertising doesn't interest me. If a blog gets too much like an infomercial, I am out. I DO have AdSense ads, but they've garnered, like, a half a cent since I started. Munificent bounty!! I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm a wealthy miser!!! Hehehehehehhhh!
I don't take issue with someone writing about a product they use and love – umm, I may have done this myself – but I do take exception to someone writing a gushing, glowing article about how some new product they were asked to try that just happens to be the best thing ever – and it's patently obvious they're just pimping more plastic crap.
That said…I can earn money with a blog?? How? I want on that gravy train! Oh, wait. I bet I'd have to stop saying things like "craptastic" and "fuck", wouldn't I? And I bet I wouldn't be allowed to mention my son's penis again..and who can resist mentioning a five-year-old's junk at least twice a week?? Plus, I bet no one wants to read complaints about roommates and family who don't help with the housework, either, no matter how funny one tries to be about it.
Oh, well, so much for me contributing to the family finances.
I didn't see the show you mentioned because I don't watch brain-drain programming, unless it's animated and on FOX. I'll stick to reading you and the other folks who return comments, answer e-mails, and haven't forgotten that their farts stink, too.
Shade and Sweetwater,
I'm all for advertising and shout-outs, as long as it is understood that these things are what the blog is about.
If a person is giving wonderful reviews of something just because they want to score free swag, or because they get a percentage of sales back, fine. But don't do that with the veneer of giving genuine reviews with un-biased product opinions.
On my blog the only reviews I ever post are either because I really liked something, or really disliked something. And I never get a kick-back or free gear (I totally wish I did though!).
Yep. Agreed! I read Dooce for years.. and now I have taken her off my list b/c I find her boring. I really could care less about all her advertisers and shit on her page… she used to be quite humerous– and still is at times, but I am over the blogging for $$ deal. No thanks. That is not why I write – or why I read others.
I don't know how much I can add to this conversation that we haven't already discussed. I don't usually read big time bloggers either, one reason is that what's the point of being the 200th person to comment? Another reason is that I don't find most of them nearly as entertaining or worth reading as they, or others seem to think they are.
In regard to ads, you know my reason for putting ads on my blog, but I'm not about reviews or any shit like that. It's worth noting that BlogHer don't mind "fuck". They might not even mind "cunt". Just so you know.
I do the payu2blog thing- I try to keep the interference with my real "stuff" at a minimum (it's one link per column). It's gets old sometimes, but the money is easy. And goodness knows I'm easy (oh that almost came out wrong).
I actually wrote Dooce once and got a response within a day. That makes her an ok kid in my book 😉
It seems we were both writing our posts at the same time. Again, great minds and all that.
Ms. Pru and I have had similar conversations. I've been asked to do reviews and run ads, but I decided long ago not to. Personal preference, that's all. That and you can't make much money on 100 hits a day. Now ask me when I get 10,000…
Don't read Dooce, either. I can be ignored anytime by my husband and child before I let some stranger do it.
Personally, I do prefer the smaller, less "sponsored" blogs. I like to get comments back! I don't blog just to journal (but I have come to appreciate getting that out of it), I like the social aspect of it, like an online support group.
I agree with what you and others have said. I like reading blogs that feel more personal. I like the impromptu little things people write about, just because they have something to say or need somewhere to unload. Luckily there are a lot of good smaller blogs out there, and I think it's fun to find them.
I'm with you. I read Dooce if no one has anything up that I haven't already read (a rare thing as I've been so busy lately), but I have considered making a calendar of Pascal ala Chuck. I don't mind product placement if it's something related to the site and it's of actual use. But I'd far rather see the stuff the author is up to especially Etsy stuff. Show me the uniqueness of the world, of your world, not more crap.
I am the wrong person to ask about advertising on blogs. As an advertising professional, it's part of what I do for a living. As a reader – they suck balls.
I don't read a lot of the big time bloggers either. Mostly I like to read blogs that are sincere and I like leaving comments and actually getting a response from people. I agree with Ms. Pru…who cares if you are the 200th person to comment? I also hate having to weed through posts to find the "real content" among the product reviews, etc.
You're not a big-time blogger? Where've I been? (lol)
I thought this was where all the cool cats hang!
(Ditto-to you, Aunt Becky)
Don't read the big bloggers . . .
Not into the ads either . . .
Haha, yeah, sometimes I think I write well enough to get an audience, but then I'm all "fuck!" and whiny and that goes out the window, haha. (Having a large audience makes me feel self-concious anyways.)
Blogs as a marketing tool, ie, a business using them to post dynamic content on their website and try to garner business, I'm cool with that. It's a totally different application of a blog than what I do, but it's fine. But people who write their own blogs and promote crap? That would get exceedingly boring.
I do read Dooce, because she can be funny and I adore her dogs, but I don't read any of the other big bloggers either in the mommy world or the tech world. Just not my thing.
Well i sorta got my question answered here (about the "goddess" dooce). Yeah I've never been responded to by her either and right, DD, i can be ignored at home! I started blogging for catharsis, and cause I'm a writer, and then yeah i added adsense when somebody told me about it. I mean, it's not like i'm making moolah. But if I did…anyway, realizing some blog-politics here maybe? She's a BIG one; she's so big she wont allow comments. I live for comments! Love Aunt Becky's,and I consider you one if the coolest (not just "mommy" bloggers either) and i'm flattered you read me! You're big in my book. I mean your blog is.
Well, I must admit that I do read Dooce. I think the girl can write incredibly well. I get behind the notion that good writing is less about length than it is strength, and I value writers who are more about developing a voice than being careful. As a blogger who is known for her voice, B, I'm thinking you know what I mean. I also must admit that it gives me no small thrill to know that finding herself fired for blogging has old Dooce laughing all the way to the bank at this point in her life. More power to her.
That said, the whole blogging for profit industry gets a bit under my skin. I don't care if others want to slap up ads and it would never stop me from reading them. Lately, though, I am beginning to feel caught in the trap of reading/commenting so others read/comment because I want to be kind and reciprocate and that sort of thing. But what I'm realizing is that for some (not you, and not most of the bloggers I read) it's more about generating traffic to make money. It tires me. I can't keep up.
I made a decision a couple of weeks ago to read who I love and comment where I please and to stop worrying so much about keeping up. If people wanna read me, they will, and if I want to read other people I will. I don't care if my stats drop, and I don't care to put up ads.
What I really want is to attract a like-minded readership…a community of others whose thoughts and opinions I value. And that is cool. It keeps the quality of this thing we do solid–rather than people blogging garbage all day long just to generate traffic and make money.
Sorry I'm rambling. I've been thinking a lot about this lately.
Hey, I saw on Tales From The Dad Side that you enjoy a male perspective. I give one about dating and parenting as a single dad (two-home families, online dating, hooking up, booty calls, etc.) Voyeurs welcome.
Glad I found your site!
Sadly, I read no such marketing tool blogs, or at least blatantly horrible ones (I feel so . . . out of touch?). I do read the big three infertility blogs, and have for, god, 4-5 years some of them? But it seems they have their own community (albeit sometimes CRAZY) and I always felt like I'd be interfering or breaking up a party to post. So I lurk, don't comment, still like reading them. I'm finding it hard to keep up with the 20-30 regular commenters I have, I can't imagine having to keep up with 100+. (Especially when some of them come armed with the CRAZY.) I'm in an odd place where sometimes I comment, sometimes I don't, sometimes others do, sometimes they don't, and I pretty much totally get why we do/don't when we do/don't. Did that remotely make any sense?
I don't read big time blogs because I blog for human connections. But maybe I am a bit jealous, too…
Hmmm I know (blissfully) nothing about all that! However, I might consider the old lady mischief.
Tho I was planning on running around through the rain inappropriately dressed. Or inappropriately undressed. Just cause I fucking can right! Totally totally a good time.
Can't fucking wait. Well yes, actually can totally wait. But still.
I posted a blog about just this subject at
and basically, what I said is- if you write what people want to read and you can fulfill the American dream of making money doing what you love- WHO ARE YOU HURTING?
And I say this as someone who is, yes, also in the red with this whole blogging thing. But just financially.
The rest is great.
Hi! I just found this post via MomGrind. I totally agree with you! I visit Dooce, because I find her interesting, but I don't really visit any of the big dogs for the same reasons you mentioned.
I get product review requests every so often. At first I thought it would be cool to get free stuff as long as they gave my readers a discount or something, but now I have found that they are more trouble than they are worth. And I don't run a product review site and I hardly ever visit product review blogs. Now if folks send me stuff and I think it is super cool, I'll mention it.
I do feel like the "word of mom" gives us some legitimacy. Its sad, but that is how I feel.
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Well the summer movie season is officially underway. It kicked off with Tony Stark flying around in his red and yellow suit and continues with a whole host of A-listers galavanting around the Hamptons in the roaring Twenties. oh, and Tyler Perry gets thrown in too.
Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at what This Rotten Week has to offer.
The Great Gatsby
I, like you, read the Cliffs Notes for The Great Gatsby in high school, so I think we can all consider ourselves experts on this classic work of literature. And though the great American novel can now be boiled down to a Wikipedia entry (adding a whole new dimension to the high schooler's arsenal of evasive literary tactics) having a film on hand to crosscheck the "visuals" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic would have been a nice resource in Mrs. Moore's eleventh grade English class. Ah, to be the youth of today, with every little thing on hand so nothing ever actually gets done.
Though it should be said, those looking to use the film as the basis for their spring oral report might want to ignore the soundtrack (Jay-Z and Jack White didn't roar through the Twenties) and focus more on the character development of dudes like Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) and of course the ever-elusive, mysteriously present Jay Gatsby (Leo D). It is their relationships on which the story is built and how their opulence and ego devolves into sh#$ like getting run over by a super sleek twenties roadster (it's yellow and looks fantastic!).
Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge-76%, Australia-55%) knows a thing or two about big, showy, over-the-top productions (much like the parties at Gatsby's pad) and has given the film the look of the times, if the early twentieth century was kicked up a high definition, flashy notch. Less a period piece and more a chance for everyone to play dress up, something about the trailer for this film just rubs me the wrong way (much like my feelings on 42, which I missed the critical boat on). It could be "No Church in the Wild" blasting over a 1920's New York landscape, or it could the quasi-musical feel to the flick. But I just don't think it blows critics away. Of course, it's too big, too star-powered, too visually significant to finish below fifty percent. But I don't see it climbing to other-worldly heights. Something in the seventies feels about right. And I look forward to a generation of high schoolers giving reports that lead with, "Oh man, Gatsby is so freaking hot, just looking at, errrr I mean reading about him was so errrr, awesome." The Rotten Watch for The Great Gatsby is
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The Broadwell SoC and module
In some ways, the Broadwell-Y chip follows the same basic outlines as the Haswell-Y processor before it. Both chips have dual CPU cores, 3MB of L3 cache, and integrated graphics.
Still, according to Stephan Jourdan, Intel Fellow and Director of SoC Architecture in the Platform Engineering Group, fitting a chip like this one into a fanless tablet form factor less than nine millimeters thick is a daunting challenge. The power that an SoC can consume in a device is determined by lots of factors, including display size, chassis thickness, the materials used, and even ambient temperatures. Jourdan says the system type Intel targeted, with a 10.1" display, requires an SoC that operates at three to five watts of sustained power. (That's not TDP, or peak power, but likely maps to Intel's newer SDP metric for mobile processors.) Given that the prior-gen Haswell Y-series processors operate at a 6W SDP, Broadwell would need to cut sustained operating power in half to meet this goal. Broadwell's physical size would have to shrink, too, in order to fit into the target devices.
The Broadwell team attacked these problems on all fronts. Thanks to the 14-nm process, the SoC shrank substantially from one generation to the next. The Haswell Y-series SoC measures 130 square millimeters, while Broadwell-Y occupies only 82 mm². That's not exactly half the area, but Intel's architects have added a number of features to Broadwell in order to improve its power efficiency and performance. The net result of everyone's efforts, claims Jourdan, is a chip that delivers more than twice the performance per watt of Haswell-Y before it.
Some of the advancement comes courtesy of an advantage unique to Intel, one the company is quick to emphasize these days. Intel's process tech engineers and chip designers have the ability to work together, within the same company, to "co-optimize" their products and fabrication processes. Jourdan credits a specially tuned flavor of the 14-nm process for a further 10% reduction in capacitance in Broadwell-Y silicon, a 10% lower minimum operating voltage, and a 10-15% switching speed improvement at low voltages. All told, the combination of general 14-nm improvements and process-specific tuning account for roughly two-thirds of the power efficiency gains from Haswell-Y to Broadwell-Y.
As you may know, Haswell-Y isn't entirely a "true" system on a chip. Many of the legacy I/O functions are hosted on a separate piece of silicon, known as the Platform Controller Hub or PCH, that mounts on a common module with the CPU. Broadwell-Y follows the same template, but the module had to shrink dramatically to fit into tablet-sized devices. The Broadwell module is 50% smaller in area than the Haswell version, as pictured on the right, and it's 30% shorter in the Z dimension, as well.
Yes, this is a dual-core x86 processor with two "big cores," integrated graphics, and a companion chipset. Kind of hard to believe, isn't it?
Reducing the SoC module's thickness required some ingenuity. The fully-integrated voltage regulator (FIVR) in Haswell and Broadwell allows for fast, fine-grained power state transitions on the chip, but it also requires the presence of external inductors on the SoC package that add height. To overcome this obstacle, the Broadwell team developed a workaround it calls the 3DL module. The inductors are placed on a small external PCB that hangs beneath the SoC module. To make room for the 3DL PCB, each motherboard has a hole cut into it, directly beneath the Broadwell module. This arrangement effectively "hides" the additional Z-height of the inductors and allows Broadwell-Y's total height to be almost 50% lower than the Haswell equivalent.
Interestingly, Jourdan shared the details of another FIVR workaround the Broadwell team had to implement. Because FIVR isn't very efficient at low voltages, they added a mode called LVR where FIVR essentially gets bypassed under the right conditions. The need for 3DL and LVR makes one wonder whether the level of VR integration in Broadwell makes sense for future generations of Intel SoCs.
Managing power and extending dynamic range
Intel's chip- and system-level dynamic power management capabilities are incredibly sophisticated these days. One of the key mechanisms, Turbo Boost, has added a new wrinkle so that Broadwell can fit into a new class of devices.
The smaller batteries in sub-nine-mm tablets can potentially be stressed into failure by short bursts of high power consumption from the CPU, so the Broadwell team had to design a mechanism to avoid such problems. The result is a new, more granular limit in this chip's dynamic voltage and frequency scaling algorithm known as PL3. The other limits will be familiar from past chips. PL1 is the long-term CPU power limit that the system can withstand without overheating. This limit is measured across minutes of operation. PL2 is the short-term burst limit used for temporary excursions to higher clocks—say, a quick trip to a faster clock frequency to improve responsiveness while loading a program. PL2 is measured in seconds. The new PL3 limit is monitored in milliseconds, to prevent instantaneous power use from damaging the device's battery.
The additional intelligence in Broadwell's Turbo Boost control complements the rest of Intel's power management mojo, which allows power sharing across the SoC die and manages the thermal behavior of the entire system.
Even with all the goodness of the 14-nm process and Broadwell's dynamic power management, driving SoC power from 6W to 3W while maintaining performance was probably out of reach without some additional help. Intel was bumping up against some basic limits in the physics of chip operation.
For one, the firm could only reduce Broadwell's operating voltage so much before the transistors would cease to work properly. Any home overclocker knows how crucial voltage is to ensuring stable CPU operation. This lower limit on voltage is a significant barrier to driving down power consumption in a chip like Broadwell with over a billion transistors.
You see, a chip's power draw is determined by a fairly simple equation that involves the clock frequency, the number of bits actively flipping, and the square of voltage—and that squared term means voltage tends to dominate the conversation. The Broadwell team could push its chip's clock speeds lower, but doing so would only result in linear reductions in power draw. Any time a portion of the chip is operating at low clock speeds and at the chip's minimum voltage level, it's just not being terribly efficient.
The Broadwell team's solution to this dilemma was to adopt a method known as duty cycling. With duty cycling, some portions of the chip are turned off entirely during certain clock cycles. Intel has used duty cycle throttling (DCT) for years to rein in its CPUs to prevent failures in the event of overheating.
Broadwell introduces a new mechanism called duty cycling control (DCC) that has a different aim. Broadwell's integrated graphics component takes up roughly a third of its die area, perhaps a little more, and DCC targets those graphics units. Working together, the SoC hardware and Intel's graphics driver can shut the IGP's execution units off entirely during some clock cycles, eliminating even leakage power. DCC kicks in when those execution units would otherwise be operating under inefficient conditions: at a low clock frequency where further voltage reductions aren't practical.
With a light graphics workload that only requires half of the IGP's horsepower, DCC might ensure that the IGP spends half its cycles turned off and the other half doing its work. Jourdan tells us Broadwell's integrated GPU has very low latency for switching on and off, which makes this mechanism practical. In fact, Broadwell's IGP has a range of DCC operating points ranging as low as 12.5% of the regular clock speed. At that lowest level, the graphics EUs are active for only one out of every eight clock cycles. They're powered down for the rest, even though the IGP may be drawing an animation on screen.
So that's another way the Broadwell team managed to shoehorn this chip into a much smaller power envelope. One can imagine that this technique could see extensive use in the future, as graphics hardware takes up an ever larger portion of the die area. What's more, since the SoC can share power across its die, some of the power reductions realized on the graphics side of the house with DCC can be used to enable Broadwell's CPU cores to run at higher frequencies, as well. So DCC offers an effective increase in dynamic operating range on both ends of the spectrum.


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Pokémon Best Wishes Season 2 - Episode Titles
The Japanese magazine Newtype has revealed a new episode title for an upcoming episode. This episode features the continuation of the Unova League and Ash's battle against Kotetsu. It is due to air on January 10th following a two week break over the Christmas period
Episode 769: Unova League Conclusion! Lucario VS Pikachu!!
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OMG.. Justin Bieber Kissing a Boy
I dont know what's going on with the world today, but google is messed up.
I was trying to google search "justin bieber kesha", and then all these strange keywords popping up in my eye.. Below is the screen shot
Furthermore, google trends today shows "justin bieber kissing a boy" as #7 most search in the USA. That is just a mess. Why would people google search something like that? I know you do! that's why you ended up in this page?
PS: Bieber is not Gay, ok? so he won't kissing a boy. He only kisses girl. Understood? Want proof? here.. Justin Bieber Kissing Jasmine Villegas
So keep on digging Justin bieber kissing a boy, and you won't find nothing. Well, fake pic maybe!