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Noninvasive Botox™ Cosmetic for a refreshed, more youthful you
First love. First Job. First child. Every face tells a story, and you're grateful for each chapter. But while you would never erase the memories, there is something you can do about the lines and wrinkles that life leaves behind. At Lone Tree Facial, we have seen incredible results with Botox™ Cosmetic. With real, noticeable results, no surgery and no recovery time, there are many reasons why this safe and simple procedure has been chosen by millions of women and men.
Whether you would like to look as young as you feel, or maybe just look less tired — our skin care professionals will work with you to determine the best treatment profile that will get the best results for you. If you have been curious about Botox™ Cosmetic, interested in exploring alternative solutions to surgery to help you look and feel younger, or if you have wrinkles, crow's feet, or frown lines that you wish you didn't, Botox™ Cosmetic could be just what you're looking for.
How does skin age
As you get older, repetitive facial movements such as frowns and squints cause lines and creases that stick around and can really sap your self-confidence. These lines that appear on your face are the result of muscle movement pulling beneath your skin. As your skin softens, this pulling shows in fine lines and wrinkles across the forehead and at the edges of the eyes.
Botox™ is a pharmaceutical that restricts the transmission of nerve impulses to muscle. A simple series of Botox™ Cosmetic injections can release muscle tension and greatly reduce wrinkles around the eyes and forehead. The first series of injections will affect the area for approximately three to six months. The second set of injections lasts progressively longer.
No other procedure can duplicate the positive effects of Botox™ Cosmetic. In the experienced hands of our staff at Lone Tree Facial, this treatment is transformative! The injections are done in our office in less than an hour. Some patients may experience a headache afterward and there is a chance for some bruising to occur. Otherwise, most patients may return to work immediately after the injections.
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6 shots in a quiet East Oakland neighborhood
I heard the six shots that killed Oakland motorcycle officers Sgt. Mark Dunakin and John Hege. I didn't know that at the time. I knew it was gunfire.
Let me back up. Last Saturday afternoon, I was sitting on the front steps of my old house in East Oakland. The air was scented by the blossoms of the magnolia tree in the front yard. A neighbor driving by stopped to comment on the remaining blossoms on the tree. She also has one in her front yard. The trees are messy, we agreed. "But they're so beautiful when they're in bloom," she said.
Nearby, Mr. McElroy was taking advantage of the break in the rain to cut the grass in his front yard. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough took off in their small pickup on the way to their church to drop off food for the needy. A PG&E crew was doing some work down the block.
I was trying to pin down the location of a distinctive birdcall - it always sounds like "right here" to me - when I heard the shots. It wasn't the first time we could hear gunfire from our quiet, nearly idyllic street. Hardly. It can be difficult to determine the distance; the sound is distorted as it travels up the hillside from the streets below. This was close.
After 26 years, we moved away from the neighborhood almost a year ago. On this trip back, my usual nostalgia was tempered by the sound of gunfire. "Welcome back," I thought ruefully. I didn't find out what had happened until later. By that time, the gunman, Lovelle Mixon, had killed two more officers, Sgt. Ervin Romans and Sgt. Daniel Sakai - and the story was all over the national news. Four officers shot in Oakland. The city was once again in the national spotlight as a violent, crime-ridden wasteland.
My old neighborhood could be a metaphor for Oakland and its maddening duality. On our street, with sweeping bay views, most of the homes are owner-occupied, many of them by families who've lived there more than 30 years. We look out for each other, have regular neighborhood meetings and a summer block party. We go from house to house singing Christmas carols.
Just one block down the hill the atmosphere is noticeably different. Old cars clutter the street. Several houses look rundown and neglected. A block down from there and a few blocks east, you are in what has been described as Oakland's killing fields.
Mostly the two worlds stay apart. The poverty, instability and related crime don't travel up the hill, except for the occasional house break-in. Sadly, the economic security and family stability don't move down the hill, either.
It's just one of the Oakland neighborhoods that share a geographic space but not a reality.
Of course the violence and crime bred from ignorance, family breakdown and lack of opportunity aren't unique to Oakland. Those dynamics are in poor urban communities across the country. However, bad news sticks to Oakland. And for decades, it has been a Bay Area pastime to bash Oakland.
The people who live in Oakland, who love it, see a different city. They see the way people of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds are comfortable with each other. They see the thriving arts, born of the population's diversity. The city's striking architecture, from West Oakland's Victorians to the Art Deco buildings downtown. The glorious urban beauty of Lake Merritt, a refuge for birds and city dwellers alike. They might see the neighborhood doughnut shop where former co-workers, then retired, used to congregate. Or their church. Or maybe they just see the neighbors who watch their house and pick up their mail when they're out of town.
They aren't blind to the numerous and serious problems. Oaklanders have always impressed me as unusually concerned about their town, genuinely empathetic with the families and neighborhoods struggling with poverty and violence. More than in most cities, there is less a feeling that it's their problem over there and more of a recognition that if it happens in the city, it's everyone's problem. Then, maybe that's my Oakland chauvinism showing.
So now we have a new test of the city's resolve. The nation is watching and maybe more important, the city is taking a hard look at itself. The outpouring of grief and concern demonstrates a strong sense of community, and residents have been inspired to express their commitment to their city. Of course commitment hasn't been so successful in solving the interrelated problems of poverty, ignorance and violence.
And the city's alternate realities are visible and within sight of each other - the flags flying at the memorial to the two slain motorcycle police officers at 74th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, and the street shrine to the gunman just a half a block away.
This time, however , there was something different, a hopeful sign. A woman in the neighborhood gave police officers information about the whereabouts of the gunman. She told reporters that while she had been in trouble with the law in the past, she wanted to help the police find who had gunned down their colleagues. She recognized that her community was under siege as hundreds of officers looked for the suspect. She broke with the "no-snitch" code of the street and passed on information that led to the end of the manhunt. She understood that the lawlessness evident in the shooting of two officers in the middle of a Saturday afternoon could not be tolerated.
Maybe the city's alternate realities are coming closer together.

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|the sunset I caught from the other night on my way home
You are my favorite person, my fave. Three years ago, we were navigating the waters of planning a wedding, preparing for graduation and wondering what in the world we were going to do with our life post-graduate/wedding. We prayed and searched almost daily as we considered all the possibilities. Somehow, the Lord planted us here, in Norman, our college town. Despite our dreams of returning to our home state, oh Texas how we love thee, or our attempts to look for jobs in the sunshine state, Florida we're coming one day, we didn't move but a few miles down the road from our college apartments.
In all my day dreaming I never dreamed I'd be living full time in Oklahoma. My life up until college had been primarily lived in the great state of Texas and before my senior of high school I had little intentions of ever leaving my beloved state. Now after nearly seven years in Norman, Oklahoma, I can't imagine my life any other way.
The Lord has truly grown us here. We have gone from bright-eyed eighteen year olds to twenty-something adults. Our hearts have matured, our faith has matured, our dreams have matured, and our love has matured. We've gone from newlweds trying to find the right small group, to leaders of our own group. The relationships we've grown from that one avenue of our life here in Norman alone is beyond my understanding. I simply stand amazed, totally in awe at the work of the Lord. That there is a group of young couples that desire, that want, to come to a group we "lead" is beyond me. That is all God, and not an ounce of us.
We've also grown our home. We began in a small town-home with four walls, and only a door to our bathroom.We brought Paisley home to that little place. I found ways to squeeze things under beds and behind sofas, and we loved our little home. Now, in our two-bed, two and half-bath with garage and yard duplex, we have more room that we even imagined. A smile comes to my face as I recall the sweaty and jam-packed wedding shower we hosted a year ago here, and the fourth of july game day, and the countless dinner party nights. This home, God has given us a belonging here in this home. God has given us a place to love, cherish, and grow in. I adore this little home.
This Oklahoma town that we call home will forever hold a place in my heart. I have no idea how long we'll be here. Maybe, God will call us here forever. But I know that nearly every street here has a story that I'll remember. From our first dates, to our early days of being married, to our first moments of being "real" adults...there are so many places here, so many people here that make my heart ache with joy and gratitude.
I am so honored that our good King chose to pair us together. Only Him working in you could have brought me to live and truly adore living here in Oklahoma. I love this family He's given us here. I love this home He's given us here. I love the people He's given us here. Sweet husband, thank you for jumping into the unknown so many times with me. Thank you for getting that puppy even though you weren't necessarily "ready," thank you for pushing me to serve at the college worship night, even though I wasn't really "into it," thank you for trusting God with me when we found ourselves as "leaders" of a small group, thank you for looking at a duplex with me even when you didn't want to move, thank you for pushing me to choose excellence in my workplace when I'd rather be selfish, and thank you for being the most amazing husband to me when I know I'm not the most amazing wife back. You are without a doubt my best friend. I can't imagine doing any of life without you. I love you. -Veronica
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As the 2nd official 4 night cruise was drawing to an end, I sat with Fred Block, Mike Newell, Sara Varney, and Jeanine Yamanaka to reflect on our time aboard the Disney Dream. We recorded a podcast of our thoughts and recollections of this magnificent new ship and all it has to offer. Special thanks to Mike Newell of MouseWorldRadio.com for producing the show!
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Sometimes I have the urge to root my body tableside, legs curled up not moving. Fingers forming little identical packets, moving of their own wisdom, wet with water, sticky with grain. Morsels of ripe dates and pale fine semolina, perfumed with orange flower and rose. I feel time rest and swell and move slower, and maybe it's just because I'm used to cooking on my feet, but the act of sitting down feels defiant. Time is a tricky thing that runs out of your fingers like rice when you try to catch it, but will expand to fill every space when you decide to stop treating it like currency, to stop bargaining with it. It's an odd fluid thing not to be coldly bartered with. It really hates that, I think.
Sometimes I try to do so many things at once I feel like a robot-woman. The classic multi-armed mother pose, making a game of firing all the synapses at once, pirouetting around the house in a bluster of mental and physical activity. And it feels good! I can't lie. Who could hate trying to use themselves to full potential? Time swirls then, and ricochets to the beat of aspiration, fast-like and agile.
Sometimes I don't want to do that, and would rather pretend that it were not today at all, but any other day in any other place, where it's ok and better than ok to stake a claim on a bit of time and make something out of the ordinary. To invite time to sit and smell the rosewater. To wait patiently for tidy mandala-printed cookies to gain the merest tan, to take that first meltaway bite.
Sometimes the dance of an active mind doesn't look like eight arms or a flurry of movement.
Sometimes it looks like patient creation, a cup of tea, and these cookies.
adapted From Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
These make an exceptionally soft and perfectly fragrant tea-time cookie. Buttery like shortbread, and with a fruity middle and just lightly sweet. Near the end of Ramadan women gather to form these together in large quantities, and there are many variants. I added more dates because I didn't have enough walnuts for the recipe as written in the book, and they couldn't have been more delicious.
Semolina Dough
- 2 cups plus 1 1/2 tbsp (350 grams) semolina (fine-ground cornmeal)
- 1/3 cup (40 grams) all-purpose flour
- 3 1/2 tbsp (40 grams) superfine sugar (regular sugar works fine too)
- pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup (180 grams) unsalted butter, cut into 3cm cubes
- 2 tbsp orange blossom water
- 1 tbsp rose water
- 1 1/2 tsp water
- icing sugar, to finish (optional)
Walnut & Date Filling
- 1 3/4 cups (180 grams) walnuts (toasting them is a nice optional step)
- 1 cup (150 grams) fresh soft dates, pitted
- 3 1/2 tbsp (45 grams) sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp rose water
- 1 tbsp orange blossom water
In a large bowl, add the semolina, flour, salt and sugar and mix well. Add the butter (at cool room temperature is perfect), and work it into the dry ingredients with your fingers until it's fully incorporated. Add the orange blossom and rose water and regular water and mix until it forms a dough. Move the dough ball to a clean surface and knead for 4-5 minutes, then cover with a damp cloth and make the filling.
Put the dates, walnuts (if toasted, let them cool down first), cinnamon, and sugar in a food processor and grind them until the dates form a paste and the nuts are in small particles (but not fully ground up! Some texture is ideal). Add the rose and orange blossom waters and pulse twice or thrice to mix the paste. Transfer to a bowl.
To mold the cookies, make a bowl of water to keep your hands wet as you work, and weigh out 1 oz balls (28 grams) of semolina dough and roll them smooth. If you don't have a scale, the size of a large walnut is about right. Keep them moist under a cloth as you work. Count the balls and divide the date paste to match the number.
Take a semolina ball and flatten it in your palm; I found that a triangle shape worked well for me. place a date ball in the middle and wrap it carefully with dough. Roll it again into a ball, squish it gently into a disc and press into a mold, or press decorations with a fork, and set aside.
Preheat oven to 400 F
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes. They will firm up to the touch but not take on much colour at all on the top. The bottoms with have a satisfying golden colour though. Transfer to a cooling rack and cool fully (or not) before eating. You can sprinkle icing sugar on top too, if you want.
These cookies keep well, 5 days in an airtight container. I stored unbaked cookies in the freezer to good effect.


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Goebel, Thomas Parker (1949) An investigation of the deformation of a 38-O sheet specimen during tensile failure. Engineer's thesis, California Institute of Technology. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01222009-091511
It is recognized that the "necking down" of a tensile specimen which occurs prior to failure is essentially a plastic flow phenomenon. Careful observation of this flow could conceivably be used to determine the plasticity properties of various metals and also to check the applicability of some of the assumptions in the theory of plasticity.
The present preliminary tests were carried out primarily for the purpose of developing an experimental technique. A motion picture camera was used to photograph a deforming grid in the neck of a sheet tensile specimen while the load was simultaneously recorded on a recording oscillograph. This technique yielded two-dimensional strain data on one surface of the specimen and the total load as functions of time. This is admittedly not all the information desired on the plastic flow, but it does allow a partial correlation of strain rate with rate of loading, and a determination of the extent of elastic and plastic deformation on one surface of the specimen.
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We are THRILLED to announce that baby #2 will be arriving this September!
Sorry for the lack of blog posts. While I have been suffering from some severe morning sickness, we've also been battling the flu and cold. Needless to say the blog took a backseat. Hoping the morning sickness ends soon, and I will be posting more regularly again!


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She said it like I perceived what she was
talking about: "the meek shall indulge."
She then bereaved how meek she was,
how weak she was, how unique she was.
I then conceived how chic she was,
how sleek she was, how freak she was;
I heard her – and I couldn't believe she was
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The Meek Shall Indulge (a poem)
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Hello Everyone,
It's been a busy couple of days with a lecture to the Flying Needles Quilt Guild in Woodland on Thursday, and a workshop on Saturday. Here are a few pictures from the creative quilters at the workshop.
I present the formulas and techniques for one component at a time. You can see everyone taking good notes while I'm presenting. Then they go off to their machines and make the designated component for that hour.
Once they've made several of the components, they start playing on the design wall.
From beginning to advanced quilters, there is always something new to learn in this class.
We had a few "aahaa" moments, and there were light bulbs going on in the class.
This was an absolutely delightful group of women. Gail and I thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent with this quilt guild. You were good quilters which made our job an easy one.
I really enjoy spending good, quality time with quilters. I love to hear their stories, see pictures of their quilting style, and watch them add new knowledge to their quilting toolbox.
Gail and I were so warmly received by the guild members. We look forward to a return trip to the Flying Needles Guild in Woodland.


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Inspired by the visual effect of this cake on Obachan's Kitchen – the sliced black soya beans amidst the green cake, I decided that today's rapid-baking session to fulfil urgent take-away snack needs would comprise my faithful muffin recipe, spiced up by matcha, azuki beans and pine nuts.
[N.B.: If you want to stick more strictly to anti-candida principles, then omit the pine nuts and replace dairy milk with alternatives, and perhaps avoid the green tea too. Guess that leaves you with a red bean muffin!]
Ingredients & baking notes:
1) 2 tsp matcha green tea powder for 2 cups of flour. This is the quantity I derived from making green tea glutinous rice balls. A very delicate matcha flavour and I think I could have used more in the muffins as wholemeal flour has a stronger taste compared to white flour so unless you are paying attention, the green tea flavours might just pass unnoticed. The brown colour of the muffin is from the wholemeal flour, no sign of green tea at all (no wonder so many commercial green tea products use colouring).
2) I cooked 1/2 cup dried red beans using this method. Cook till just soft and not disintegrated, and make sure they are dry enough to separate out into individual beans before mixing into the batter.
3) The pine nuts were roasted beforehand, by dry-frying in a skillet over very low heat.
4) Just over 1/4 cup of white sugar went in. I wasn't sure what would be the appropriate amount to balance out the bitterness of the matcha and the bean taste. In the end, I think there wasn't enough green tea taste and I could have used a little less sugar (or perhaps none at all, in which case everyone else in my family would be spitting this out at the first mouthful).
5) Decided to use butter instead of vegetable oil today.
Verdict: it was OK tastewise, but I think the main problem is that I don't like the texture of this muffin recipe anymore. It seems too close-textured and sort of gummy. And they don't rise enough to produce those enticing giant cracks on the top. [13/2/08 update: reheated the frozen muffin in microwave for a snack, and somehow they seem very nice today!?! The texture is crumbly and light – maybe they just needed a bit more cooking time? Useful to slightly underbake muffins that will all be frozen, so that the reheating won't dry them out too much. The pine nuts and red beans are great but not enough green tea taste.]
I got rather sick of these muffins after a period where I was making a big batch of them once every week or every fortnight (in the days when the only food intolerance friendly snacks I made were muffins and scones). Today was the first time in many months that I'd made them but no, I'm still sick of them.
Looks like it's time to be more adventurous with my basic muffin recipe. I used to avoid ones that use buttermilk because it's so expensive, but now that I know some substitutes for buttermilk, there's no excuse not to try them ☺.
12/6/08 update: made these muffins again as I needed a sugar-free snack (omitted sugar this time) for bento. Increased the amount of green tea powder to 2 1/2 Tbsp and it was great. Also, the texture is definitely slightly gummy. A check on various troubleshooting websites suggests that there's too much liquid. I also wonder if I have been over-mixing the batter…
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Hope y'all had a great weekend. Time with Mom Joan and Dad Vince was great, though it didn't turn out as planned...actually...nothing went as planned after Wednesday...
"Imagine if you will, one Vinny Marini. A common man who has been nervous about a dentist appointment all day.
Yet it is not the dentist appointment he is just leaving that should have him worried...it is something that will change his next 24 hours. Because you see, our reluctant subject has just crossed over, from a nitrous buzz and straight into...The...Twilight...Zone..."
I come walking out of he dentist office and into my car. A simple ride home and I lay down on the couch. The appointment had actually gone well. He did two caps, on on the top left the other on the bottom left. It took a few attempts for him to get the nitrous set right, beginning at a 50% mix..."HA" - I chided him - "If you think 50% is going to work, you are mistaken kind sir." We finally got it set to 71% and all worked well and his methods are really quite good.
There were a few times when I tensed up and that might have contributed to...
Well, we are getting ahead of ourselves now...
As the night glides on, I even eat a sandwich and continue to put things away in preparation for mom and dad's arrival on Thursday.
Finally, I head upstairs around 11:00pm and put out towels for them. I then grab the canister of hairspray and bend over to put it in the cabinet under the sink in the bathroom upstairs.
I drag myself to my bed and find my way under the covers. Back hurts, but this has happened before, it will be better soon.
And I fall off to sleep...until I wake at around midnight and my bladder is calling. I roll onto my side and begin to drift off the edge when BAM! Lightening, Electrical Impulses and I am in huge pain.
I try again and again over the next 15 minutes and there is just no way I am getting up. So, using a mug I take with me to bed that contains juice, I improvise and then fall back to sleep.
Only to find myself awake again at about 4:00am and I am in pain and the bladder is calling again...WTF!?!?!?!?!
Over the next half-hour I try every configuration possible to get offf the bed and then finally just 'pushed' myself off onto the floor, breaking my fall but putting me into a 15 minute spasm.
I drag myself toward the bathroom figuring I can lift myself on the door jam and counter top from the sink...
NOPE...not going to happen and the trash cannister became another make-shift latrine...
So, now I am finally comfortable, on the carpet in my bedroom, gazing at my bed and knowing that I am not getting up there again at this point.
I crawl over to the bed and grab the comforter and slowly drag it off onto the floor. Luckily, one of my pillows also came along for the ride. I lay there with the comforter wrapped around me and I drift off to sleep again.
My cell phone? Where is it? It is somewhere around 7:00am (I am guessing since I can not see a clock - but the light outside the window looks about 7:00am.
OH, you know what that means ... right?
My alarm clock! And for the next hour, I got to listen to the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP...
Nancy is 4 hours south on a business trip. Mom and dad are 6 hours away outside Atlanta.
Throughout the day, I try and get myself up, only to be interrupted by another spasm. Never has the back been in this shape. I call over to the Chiropractor and he asks if I can get ice on it --- um no, the ice is downstairs.
Man I could use something to drink. My lips are parched - I bet they are covered in white junk. My mouth has three layers of gunk in it...The only thing I might be able to crawl over to and drink from is my mug...but - um...nope, I am not that delirious that I would stoop to that.
Nancy is calling whenever she can and is trying to find Ernie and see if he can get over. Mom and dad are calling.
I send an email or two from my 'crackberry' as SONGBIRD from "The Ice Box" calls them, so I had friends checking in during the day.
At about 3:30 or so, Ernie showed up and got me something to drink and sat and kept me company. Mom and dad arrived some 45 minutes later and dad and Ernie tried to get me up and I went into spasms again and went to the floor in some of the worst pain I had had up until that point.
Then I hit 911 and for only the third time in my life (the last two in Memphis, the first when I had an appendectomy attack in college), I was picked up by an ambulence.
The two guys came in and cradled me under the legs and forearms and hoisted. It hurt, but no spasm. Then one grabbed me from behind and the other lifted my legs and they carried me down the stairs and onto the gurney. The one Fireman/EMT asked how bad my pain was and then administered his B.S. Meter (Took my blood pressure) and confirmed I was in pain as my BP was 180/112 or something like that!
As they are taking me out, one of the guys says "Wow, someone is into photography." and then while in the ambulance he begins quizzing me on my vinyl. I guess in their job they must be very observant.
They called in and the doctor said not to administer any drugs. I went right into a treatment area and the nurse was there asking questions. Mom and dad had followed in their car and also arrived.
Within 45 minutes, I had a doctor checking me out and then explained they were going to give me a cocktail of muscle relaxer, pain killer and steroid and then give me prescriptions for each in pill form for the next 5 days.
Nancy showed up and that also helped my situation. About 45 minutes after the 'cocktail' I was feeling much better - besides the pain killer that is!! - The muscle was loosening and the spasms had stopped, so we headed home.
Mom and dad decided to take a hotel room as they can not sleep on the pull-out I normally use when they come. Of course, I could not use it at that point.
Friday, I actually got to work for about 5 hours and then came home. Mom, dad and I went and ate pizza at the only place I have found that makes an almost NY pizza...
Saturday I picked them up at the hotel and we went to Nancy's and had pasta and my gravy. Mom had brought me some Fusilli from Florida, as you can not get that style here in Memphis, and it is one of my favorites. They make it in a short and long variety...my fav is the long thinner cut.
So, as a recap...I spent about 12.5 hours on the floor of my bedroom unable to move with back spasms and the funny thing is...it did not seem like it was that long. I slept as much as i laid there awake. The pain forcing me to drift off.
I owe Ernie a huge debt of gratitude. It was not easy for him to come into the apartment and see me there on the floor...OH, plus Nancy and I had a mis-communication and she thought I was naked (as I sleep), but I had gotten a pair of shorts on that were in the pile to be washed, so he also thought he was coming up to be frightened beyond anything that could ever traumatize him the rest of his life!
To Mom Joan and Dad Vince, thank you for all you guys did while you were here. It was not the visit we planned, but the point was getting to see you both for the holiday.
To Nancy, who was a rock on the phone and tried to rearrange things to come home early. She came right to the hospital and then made sure I was totally settled when I arrived back at the apartment from the hospital. You were great getting the dinner together on Saturday and making sure Mom and dad felt at home...which they did!
I will then try and get in to see my Chiropractor for an adjustment.
Hey Rod...ready to wrap this up?
The way each and every one of us reactions is almost certainly changed when that decision has to be made in The...Twilight...Zone."
Recorded on Sept. 11, 1977, for Crosby's "Merrie Olde Christmas" TV special. A month later, Crosby was dead of a heart attack. The special was broadcast on CBS about a month after his death.
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Vice President of Retail Research, Americas
Cushman & Wakefield Names North America's Top 15 "Cool Streets"
A new breed of urban, experiential, and independent mid-market retailers catering to millennial consumers has led to the rise of 100 "Cool Streets" across the U.S. and Canada.
Cushman & Wakefield has published its first-ever Cool Streets of North America report (click here to download) It explores the phenomena behind the rise of dozens of new, edgy retail districts across the U.S. and Canada.
While some of these areas featured in the report are longstanding bohemian enclaves and focal points for local arts, music, or LGBT communities, the renaissance in nearly all of the Cool Streets has been driven by an explosion of unconventional new retail concepts.
Top 15 American Cool Streets
The report captures the top 15 Cool Streets as follows: Sunset Park in Brooklyn; Logan Square in Chicago; Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati; RiNo in Denver; Silver Lake in Los Angeles; Wynwood in Miami; North Loop in Minneapolis; Roosevelt Row in Phoenix; Carytown in Richmond, Va.; East Village in San Diego; Jackson Square in San Francisco; West Queen West in Toronto; Mount Pleasant/Main in Vancouver; and Shaw in Washington, D.C.
Fashion, the Fickle Mistress
Retail lives and dies by cool. Concepts connect, build loyalty, and grow by being cool. They also disengage, wither, and die by not being cool. If nothing else, the history of fashion is the history of what is cool and what is desirable. But, as anyone in retail will tell you, fashion can be a fickle mistress.
Every generation has had its own definition of cool, but cool constantly evolves. In today's media-saturated age some may argue that the issue of what is cool has never been more important to consumers, nor has it ever been as likely to change with lightning speed as it is now.
Cool Matters More Than Ever
If retailers live and die by cool, the same also holds true of retail properties, shopping centers and entire neighborhoods. Whenever we speak about real estate, the issue of location and a number of other factors come into play, but the reality is that cool matters.
In an age of frugal consumers, e-commerce encroachment, and vast gaps in performance between trophy malls and Class B and C shopping centers, cool matters now more than ever. San Francisco's most famous redevelopment is the Mission District, where an influx of tech-industry millennials has transformed the neighborhood into the city's hottest restaurant and bar scene. It certainly is a Cool Street, and probably more of an actual hipster haven than historic Jackson Square (most of the buildings here pre-date the 1906 earthquake). So why are we not focusing on the Mission District? Because it has nowhere near the retail upside of Jackson Square.
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Jackson Square is one of the few San Francisco districts where significant portions of the neighborhood are exempt from this code.
Jackson Square is only approximately 10 square blocks and is almost entirely a commercial district. Lodged between San Francisco's booming Financial District and the tourism-rich enclaves of Chinatown and North Beach, Jackson Square's official boundaries are Columbus Avenue to the west, Battery Street on the east, Washington Street to the south and Broadway on the north. While San Francisco's mid-Market area is also undergoing a retail revival, the availability of large blocks of space there is proving most alluring to off-price big box users.
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I feel like there are so many narratives to be gleaned from Lagos," says artist and designer Karo Akpokiere. Born in Lagos in 1981, and still resident in the city, his creative work is immersed in the hustle of one of Africa's most congested cities.
Straddling both traditional and digital illustration techniques, his work has appeared on T-shirts, decorated busses and smartphones, been deployed by advertisers and even appeared on art exhibitions. Clearly delineated black lines are a hallmark of Akpokiere's work. His commercial projects tend to show a strong interest in pattern and interlocking forms, while his personal projects, most of them drawings about Lagos, are narrative based.
It is the latter that intrigues. Earlier this year, Akpokiere, who studied graphic design at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, exhibited some of his Lagos drawings on All the World's Futures, expatriate Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor's group exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy. His drawings, many populated with writing, generated a great deal of attention. When I caught up with Akpokiere at his display in Venice he was conducting an interview with an Austrian TV crew. My subsequent interview, the first of numerous exchanges, with him was interrupted by an Israeli curator eager to speak to him about her forthcoming show "about Africa" in Tel Aviv.
This interest is partly accounted for in a statement by US-based Nigerian curator Ugochuwu-Smooth Nzewi, in the catalogue accompanying Enwezor's exhibition: "His graphics-based language departs from the usual forms of representing the city, which are mainly through easel painting and documentary photography." Text rich and tending towards visual allegory, rather than offering plainly descriptive scenes, Akpokiere's congested drawings of Lagos bristle with energy. Populated with traders and religious men, consumer objects and fragments of urban-speak, his drawings capture the pervasive and intertwined influence of religion, commerce, bureaucracy, travel and hustle on the Lagosian character.
The title of Akpokiere's Venice display was Zwischen Lagos und Berlin. The German title translates as "between Lagos and Berlin," which pretty much sums up the artist's year so far. Now back in Lagos, Akpokiere was a guest artist at the Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, a Berlin artist studio based in a former piano-making factory, when he first caught up with Enwezor. His initial proposal for his biennale display was an animated piece accompanied by a comic-book publication called Mega City Times. "It was all meant to be centred around Lagos," he explains. The idea of a publication was quickly canned: the 2013 Venice Biennale drew 400 000 visitors over its six-month duration; printing that many comics was unworkable. Things evolved from there.
"I was caught up in a lot of movement—back and forth between Lagos and Berlin—when I was creating the new drawings," says Akpokiere. "I tried to represent that instability in the drawings, just the constant motion." His drawings neatly dialogue with an on-going European news story: the arrival of refugees and migrants from elsewhere. Akpokiere's drawings offer a first-person account of the difficulties and strangeness that come with moving between Africa and Europe. A subtle sense of homesickness pervades his entire series. Elsewhere is strange.
While working on this project, Akpokiere found himself trying to answer a simple question: "What is the best way to represent Lagos without actually showing it?" His answer owes a debt to his training in graphics. Many of Akpokiere's drawings in Venice focus on bits of signage and urban lettering that marked his passage through Berlin and Lagos. "Only E.U. Citizens," reads one drawing. Another quotes a Lagos prohibition, "No: Hawking, Preaching, Advertising". Says Akpokiere, "I am more interested in icons and symbols that represent the city."
It is not just formal or official signage that intrigues this artist. Akpokiere is fascinated by graffiti appearing in the yellow busses that move Lagosians on a mass scale. "I am trying to make contact with the people who do those drawings, to collaborate," he says.
"Maybe we will create a letterset and typography that represents the city through our eyes." He is also researching the largely undocumented history of pre-colonial and post-independence design in Nigeria. "I would love to know how people in Nigeria, and in Lagos especially, engaged with typography before the British came."
These diverse interests are matched by the diversity of Akpokiere's creative output, including product design. Shortly before his Venice debut, Akpokiere attended the opening of the travelling exhibition Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design at the Vitra Design Museum in southern Germany. A pair of slip-on shoes by American online retailer BucketFeet featuring his fabric design was selected for display (and is now on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, until 21 February 2016). His Tokeria shoes feature a geometrical design inspired by the Japanese woodcut aesthetic and African geometric motifs. Lagos and Berlin, Nigeria and Japan: Akpokiere's work tells the story of young Nigeria's fluent and engaging worldliness
Sean O'Toole


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Watched two movies on the way to SFO:
Jumpers is an action movie about a guy who discovers that he has the power of teleportation, as well as his subsequent run-in with a secret government-sponsored organization that is set up to kill his kind. There are really not many surprises in this movie, the action is passable, and I did kind of like the premise. This is one of those movies that's very watchable when you are stuck iun a jetliner for 12 hours, but otherwise it would be a waste of money to rent it.
The Spiderwick Chronicles is an action/fantasy movie about a house plagued by goblins. The owner, Arthur Spiderwick, wrote a book about faeries, and now the evil ogre Mograth is trying to get that book (an obviously has been for 80 years, the poor bastard needs a life). When the great-grand-nephews of Arthur move into the house and discover the book, all hell breaks loose.
As you'd expect, the premise works out to another crummy Hollywood fantasy movie. The beginning is alright but it deteriorates quickly. The design of the monsters in the book shown in the first minutes – is pretty neat and reminds me of Brian Froud's work, but the ones in the movie itself are normal CGI fare. If I had to sum it up in a few words, I would describe Spiderwick Chronicles as a cross between The Gate and Labyrinth, and it fails at it. Again, it's watchable… barely.


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The Aeronauts
The thrill of The Aeronauts lies in its death-defying stunts.
The thrill of The Aeronauts lies in its death-defying stunts.
This documentary about a family-owned private ambulance service in Mexico City is one of the great modern films about night in the city.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An FFC on Gavin Hood's Official Secrets.
A celebration of Yasujiro Ozu, as written by a Far Flung Correspondent from Egypt.
An article about Chicago native Verdine White, and Earth, Wind & Fire receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, December 8th.
A review of the EA game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
The PG-rated literary biopic "Goodbye Christopher Robin" might sound like a perfectly fine choice for family night at the movies, given that it is in large part an origin tale about that beloved ursine superstar Winnie-the-Pooh. For anyone who has read aloud A.A. Milne's sing-song wordplay to sleepy tykes at bedtime, the film's title likely summons visions of a honey-craving bear, a sweet-natured piglet, a sullen donkey and an energetic tiger bouncing alongside their pint-size human pal—inspired by the author's own son—as they share adventures in the 100 Acre Wood.
Some of that sun-dappled, tree-canopied cavorting in a picturesque English countryside is glossily re-enacted complete with a sweeping Carter Burwell score in "Goodbye Christopher Robin." That way, we learn how a little boy and his cuddly toys captivated the imaginations of both young and old around the globe in the children's books written by Milne more than 90 years ago.
So why did the girl of grade-school age a couple seats down from me go from happily (and noisily) consuming the remains of her concession drink through a straw to outright bawling during the movie's final manipulative moments before being led out by her concerned adult companion? Possibly, the script's awkwardly intertwined thematic threads depicting the power of make-believe, the loss of childhood innocence, and the scars—both physical and mental—borne by those who serve on the battlefield, along with the teasing possibility of a major character's death, did the trick.
You would think that generations weaned on Disney's litany of animated demises from Bambi's mom to Simba's dad in "The Lion King" would be able to handle the depiction of personal loss in fictional form. But it is all in the telling, and "Goodbye Christopher Robin" never quite reconciles its whimsical upbeat passages with its gloomy downer portions. As the script by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan seesaws between the mirthful and the morose, Winnie fans are ultimately made to feel uncomfortably guilty for their warm fuzzy feelings about the bear. It's as if we are somehow complicit in the events onscreen that caused pain to the actual Christopher Robin, who preferred to be called Billy Moon—the Milnes are big on nicknames—as a way to distance himself from his constant nagging shadow of an alter ego.
Director Simon Curtis has previously delivered such middlebrow, fact-based crowd-pleasers with a pinch of edge in the form of showbiz saga "My Week With Marilyn" and the Holocaust drama "Woman in Gold." But right from the start, this period piece passes through several dark passages on its way to the House at Pooh Corner, beginning in 1941 when an ominous telegram is delivered to Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) as they tend to their quaint Sussex garden. Cut to the First World War being waged in 1916 France, where Milne struggles with shell shock amid the carnage and chaos.
When he returns home, the writer—whose first name is Alan but is mostly referred to as Blue—tries to readjust to his previous posh life as a successful generator of witty plays and humorous magazine essays. But despite his happy-go-lucky socialite wife's attempts to cheer him up, he continues to suffer from paralyzing flashbacks induced by such triggers as buzzing bees, flickering lights and popped balloons. Robbie's Daphne decides a baby might lift her hubby's spirits and make him forget that big, bad war. But their son's arrival only reveals how ill-prepared the couple is to take on child-rearing responsibilities. Milne eventually decides that a rural retreat will halt his waking nightmares. Soon, a live-in nanny is hired to tend to their son, a warmhearted godsend named Olive (Kelly Macdonald, a nice contrast to a rather stiff Gleeson and chilly Robbie).
But when mummy extends a stay in London so she can party on and Olive is called away to tend to her sick mother, father and son are left to their own devices and eventually forge a close bond. Their outdoor rambles often include Christopher Robin's stuffed animals, a gift from his mother and practically her only positive influence on the child, and together they bring the soon-to-be-famous characters to life. These sequences as well as those with Macdonald are often truly enchanting thanks to nine-year-old acting newbie Will Tilston, an androgynous chubby-cheeked cutie with Grand Canyon dimples, a remarkable bowl haircut and an innate sense of how to deliver a line.
Suddenly, Milne is writing up a storm about Pooh and his buddies, and his books become a worldwide sensation. That is when the film evolves into a sort of horror movie as his son becomes an unwitting celebrity, forced to do interviews, pose for photo ops and meet and greet fawning Winnie worshipers. Basically, he is unwillingly roped into being not just a muse but a shill for his father's work.
When puberty hits, Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game") takes over as Christopher Robin, whose fame makes him an irresistible target for bullies after he is sent away to a boarding school. When World War II breaks out, he fails to pass the medical test for becoming a soldier but begs his father to pull some strings. And that is where the telegram comes in.
What could have been a salute to the power of imagination to heal damaged souls and broken relationships instead opts to focus on tragic events. Maybe it is for the best that my row mate left before she could witness the ultimately happy yet cruel twist at the end. Like many behind-the-scenes looks at famous writers of childhood staples, whether C.S. Lewis in "Shadowlands," Lewis Carroll in "Dream Child," J.M. Barrie in "Finding Neverland" and P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks," "Goodbye Christopher Robin" follows the formula of pulling back the curtain to reveal these often complicated if not entirely pleasant influencers of young minds. Yet this might be the first of these fact-based bookshelf accounts to induce PTSD symptoms in kids.
An early review of Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell out of AFI Fest.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
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America's Got Useful Ships Just Lying Around
U.S. Navy mulls putting aviation logistics ships to work
Uncategorized June 30, 2015 .wombatman1 0
It's no secret that the U.S. Navy doesn't have enough amphibious ships. The Marine Corps, which rides the amphibs into battle, says it needs 38 of the ships — and could make do with 33, in a pinch. But Congress hasn't been willing to pay for the vessels, which can cost a billion dollars or more apiece.
So today the Navy has 29 amphibs and might manage to boost that number to 33 by 2018.
But never fear. It turns out that Military Sealift Command, the Navy's quasi-civilian specialist branch, has lots of useful ships lying around mostly idle that, with some imagination, can partially fill in for the pricey amphibs.
Take, for example, MSC's two aviation logistics ships?—?S.S. Wright and S.S. Curtiss. Six hundred-and-two feet long, displacing 24,000 tons fully loaded, the twin loggies each boasts a large helicopter landing pad, multiple cranes and a full-length cargo hold opening onto ramps on its sides and stern. With a crew of just 41, each of the vessels can accommodate more than 360 passengers.
While less tough than dedicated amphibs and totally lacking defensive weaponry, under the right circumstances the aviation logistics ships could embark potentially hundreds of Marines and their vehicles plus thousands of tons of supplies. Joining other specialized ships, the loggies could help send the Leathernecks ashore to invade an enemy, defend an ally or help out following a natural disaster.
Curtiss and Wright have been mostly idle for the 30 years they've been in government service. Both vessels began life in the late 1960s as commercial cargo ships. The Navy acquired Wright in 1986 and Curtiss in 1987 and outfitted them as floating depots for helicopter mechanics — T-AVBs, in MSC nomenclature.
The idea was that, during wartime, the T-AVBs would tie up alongside a pier just behind the front lines of some foreign war zone. The Marines on the ground would send their damaged and broken copters back to the loggies for repairs.
But Curtiss and Wright have rarely performed that specific role. Both vessels activated for the 1991 Gulf War. Wright also supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Wright helped out the relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, tying up on Staten Island as temporary lodging for aid workers. Otherwise, the T-AVBs mostly sit inactive?—?Wright in Baltimore, Curtiss in San Diego.
But the Navy and Marines are waking up to the vessels' utility. "These are vessels are not amphibious ships as we know them, but quite frankly, Marines, we've been operating off these ships in varying degrees for years," Jim Strock, whose job it is to brainstorm new "seabasing" ideas for the Corps, told the U.S. Naval Institute's news blog.
According to the blog, the Navy conducted a test earlier this summer, using a crane aboard one of the T-AVBs to lift a flat-bottom landing craft onto the vessel. In theory, Curtiss and Wright could embark Marines and landing craft, anchor offshore, drop the craft into the water and then load infantry into the craft for the choppy ride ashore. World War II-style.
More likely, the T-AVBs would plug into a seabase — a sort of constellation of special cargo ships, each performing a niche role housing, transferring and sending Marines onto a beach. The Navy — and MSC, in particular — has been working hard on new seabasing technology for several years now.
Here's how a seabase could work. Cargo ships carrying Marines and their vehicles could converge on an anchorage 25 miles or so from shore. With Navy destroyers protecting against air and sea attack, the transports could join "skin-to-skin" or connect via floating docks called "lighterage." With helicopters and catamarans assisting, the vessels could shuffle people and vehicles, prepping them to move ashore.
Next, a Mobile Landing Platform — the Navy is building several of them — would connect to the cargo ships. The MLP can partially submerge, flooding its deck so that hovercraft and landing craft can motor on and off. The other ships in the seabase connect Marines to the MLP; the MLP gets the Marines into the landing craft that haul them to the beach.
Working together, the seabasing ships mostly duplicate the functions of purpose-built amphibs. The major difference is the amphib's weaponry, high-tech communications gear and toughness. Battling neo-Soviets, the Red Chinese horde, Terminators or aliens, you'd want amphibs. For somewhat more routine ops, a seabase — potentially including Curtiss and Wright?—?should suffice.
To be clear, the Navy is considering new roles for the aviation logistics ships because it, and the whole U.S. military, is running out of money. But that doesn't mean sending the T-AVBs on an amphibious assault isn't a fantastic idea. "The best solution isn't always the fanciest or the most expensive," former Defense Secretary Bob Gates once said.


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I had previously been hosting this photo blog at blog.radiantviewphotography.com on my own web space. But, keeping the blog updated and, especially, updating the blog software whenever WordPress released a new version became tiring -- especially since the "automatic" updates never seemed to work, probably user error. So, I thought I would try blogspot. At the least it will prevent me from having to update the blog software and hopefully it will be easier to keep updated as well.
And just to get the photoblog started, I'll post one of my first, and still favorite, images taken of the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C. as the full moon was setting.