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Jennifer Solberg had a good reason to reschedule our morning photo shoot at Rhine Hall, the West Town distillery she owns with her father, Charlie.
She had to make an emergency trip to Michigan to pick up 7,300 pounds of Gala, McIntosh and Cortland apples from Bixby Orchards, load them into an 18-foot truck and make it back to Chicago before noon. If she didn't pick up the fruit, Rhine Hall wouldn't be able to distill any apple brandy that week.
Solberg's willingness to do any job--even driving across state lines at 4 a.m. in a downpour--is indicative of the all-for-one work ethic that's turned her family's distilling hobby into a new business. The distillery, which opens Nov. 2 with a small tasting room inside, is the first in the city to focus on apple brandy and the Italian grape-based brandy called grappa.
"Our reason for opening isn't because distilleries are hot right now," Solberg, 25, of Bucktown, said. "We're not making another vodka, gin or whiskey. It's not because we don't like that product, it's just because our experience is in apple brandy."
Chicago has welcomed a handful of boutique distilleries within the past year--notably CH Distillery in the West Loop and Letherbee Distillers in Ravenswood--but none has staked its claim on brandy.
It's a spirit for which the Solbergs have a technical knack and a long-standing personal affection. After playing ice hockey for Dartmouth College, Charlie Solberg continued to play for a professional team in Austria, raising his family in the southern portion of Germany. (Rhine Hall is named for the ice rink where he played.) There, the Solbergs were introduced to what the locals called obstler, also known as apple eau de vie or apple brandy.
"In that region of Austria, they have the most abundant source of apples," Jennifer Solberg said. "It's legal over there for everyone [not just licensed distillers] have these [stills]. We were all introduced to distilling and the culture over there and enjoying these very hand-crafted spirits. It became the family hobby."
Making brandy remained only a hobby until September 2012, when Solberg decided the timing was right for her to move from San Francisco, where she had worked in sales and marketing, to become a partner in the distillery with her father. While her aunt, her brother-in-law and her other four siblings all have assisted in creating Rhine Hall in various ways, Solberg is the only one who has financially partnered with her father, Rhine Hall's master distiller.
"We sat down as a family and said 'We know we can make a quality product, it's just a matter of if we want to make a business of this.' Everyone else in the family was doing other stuff. I was like 'Man, I've just got to go for it,'" Solberg said.
They unanimously decided on Chicago, not only because Charlie's family is from the North Shore, but because of the strength of the community of artisans here.
"The sense of the loyalty in Chicago is, I think, what's really special about coming back here to start this," Solberg said.
The Solbergs do realize that brandy isn't Chicago's go-to spirit, which is why educating people in the tasting room is a priority.
"People need to go in and experience the spirit, versus just hearing about it being made," Solberg said.
The tasting room greets visitors stepping through the front doors on a quiet stretch of Fulton Street that's home to stained glass artists, a chic textiles store and an antique auto body restoration shop. The room's walls are stark white, save for a large abstract painting by Solberg's sister, Lisa, an L.A.-based artist. South-facing windows let in afternoon sunlight, with the beams skipping across the custom copper-plated still, the focal point behind the bar's glass wall. The entire room smells like apples.
When Rhine Hall opens Nov. 2, it will pour Rhine Hall's clear, unaged apple brandy--made completely from apples without the addition of neutral spirits--followed within the month by grappa and an oaked apple brandy. Though Solberg recommends sipping the spirits straight, Rhine Hall also will have a menu of two or three cocktails that incorporate cider or syrups from Madison, Wis.-based Quince & Apple. If visitors like what they taste, bottles of the brandy will be available for purchase at the distillery and soon will be distributed to bars and retail shops.
"I've started working with some bartenders and mixologists. Getting into those cocktail venues and bringing more awareness to the product is really the way to do it," Solberg said.
She imagines incorporating the brandy into old fashioneds, gin-based drinks and hot toddies, which sound especially enticing given the arrival of fall weather.
Once Rhine Hall has apple and grape brandy production under its belt, Solberg said it's only a matter of time before they branch out into other types of brandy.
"A city inspector who came in here was talking about his abundant mulberry trees on the South Side of Chicago and I'm like, 'We could make an alcohol out of that!' "
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Before the Solbergs purchased a higher-volume chopping machine, they used a vintage Schwinn bike to do the job. Their homemade apparatus uses a leather belt connected to a crank to turn a blade, which chops apples manually fed into the machine. To see me give the bike a spin at the distillery, click here.


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Duana and I were marshmallows last night. Translation for the uninitiated: We went to see Veronica Mars. Early. Like it's been years since we showed up so early for a movie. And Duana wore the gear – a top secret, deep style cut, but the gear nonetheless. Her review will be posted later this morning/early afternoon and she's still deciding how much to give from her initial analysis – the film only opens today, after all, so we might come back to a Part 2 on Monday – but for both us, it all goes back to that expression, so sanctimonious but irritatingly right, she keeps dropping on me whenever I ask her why Riggins and Lyla couldn't be together:
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Can you do that when you've been Kickstarted though?
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Sorry again about yesterday's technical difficulties. Site has been fixed and we're fully operational…but I still want to know: WHERE IS THE PLANE!?!?
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The event features no less than 29 Indonesian creative communities who showcase various artworks, including:Komunitas Lubang Jarum Indonesia (Pinhole Photography), Komunitas Peri, Komunitas Atap Alis Indonesia, BarudakUrban Light Bandung (Lightings Art Photography), Pena Hitam Arts, Kelas Pagi, Masyarakat Komik Indonesia (Comic Community), Invalid Urban, Costume Play Communities, and more.
As main feature, Artphoria 2013 presents masterpieces of Kurt Wenner, an international artist who is renowned for the art of 3D pavement or Anamorphic Street Painting. Kurt Wenner is here accompanied by 5 Indonesian distinguished artists, namely : Hendra Harsono, Rotua Magdalena, Diela Maharani, Zaky Arifin, and Nady Azhry who also display their exceptional artworks. With these fascinating works, visitors are presented with modern optical illusions which manipulate human sights through a series of paintings on a flat object that combines perspectives, colors, and certain special lighting techniques.
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We couldn't find any reindeer, but it turns out Santa is an excellent equestrian! Join Old St. Nick in coming weeks on the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum carrousel; just make sure you're on the "nice" list.
Start the day off with lunch at 11 a.m., when you can visit with Santa and make sure he got your letters. Then there will be lots of fun, festive activities starting at noon, including stocking decorating, holiday ornament making, and coloring a picture for Santa. Warm up with some hot chocolate and s'mores and, of course, don't forget to hop on the historic 1916 carrousel.
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Enough With the Rain?
You might remember when state tourism promoters called South Dakota the "Land of Infinite Variety."
Once again, I've got your "infinite variety" right here.
We're one year removed from a drought, but this year, it would seem we've gone the other way, at least so far.
By Monday morning, Sioux Falls had had 2.36 inches of rain in June, 1.36 inches above normal. The total for 2013 so far was 14.84 inches, or 4.34 inches above normal.
I'm pretty far removed from farming these days. It's been more than 40 years since I lived on one, and my family doesn't own farmland anymore, but if I had corn or soybeans yet to be planted, I know I'd be concerned.
And of course, this situation is not confined to South Dakota. A friend in southern Minnesota told of a farmer in her area who had planted 120 acres out of something like 3,200 as of around June 1.
And the New York Times tells of a farmer in northwest Missouri who has been unable to plant corn and soybeans on his 3,500 acres. He told the newspaper a decent crop in his area was possible, but not a good or great crop.
So there it is. Farmers--and everyone else--are at the mercy of the weather, and it could all change, so we'll see what things look like a month from now.
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NHL Game Night: 3-31-10 Lightning at Penguins
You explain it. I sure can't.
Mike Smith had a 27 save shutout for the victory. He was strong in tight and the Lightning did a very good job at limited the east-west chances and odd-man rushes that Smitty struggles with.
First Period
TB 17:00, Stamkos 46 (St. Louis, Foster)(PP)
Second Period
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Third Period
I don't get it. I don't get how you lose to Columbus one night, and then handle the defending champs easily the next. This wasn't like the Bruins game where the Lightning were outshot 3:1. The Lightning were very much under control defensively in tonight's game and they dutifully capitalized on the few chances they had. Was it trying to send a message on national TV? Trying to show out for Steven Stamkos' Richard Trophy race? The Pens announcers suggested they were playing for Tocchet's job. I'm not sure that's true one night after you choke against the Blue Jackets. Whatever it was, I enjoyed it.
Kudos to Mike Lundin (29:48) and Mattias Ohlund (27:07) for picking up the ice time with only 4 true NHL d-men in uniform and one of the minor leaguers getting thrown out in his first shift. Whoever ends up being GM, they need to re-sign Lundin expeditiously before July 1st. Even if he doesn't improve an iota over what he is right now, which seems unlikely, he's a solid, mobile, 20 minute a night ice time eater.
Steve Downie is now just 4 points shy of 50 of the season. Fun with numbers: since the turn of the year when he started taking on more of a scoring line role, Downie has 14 goals, 29 points, and 112 penalty minutes in 36 games. That pro-rates to 32 goals, 66 points, and 255 PIMs over an 82 game season. So he's got a chance to be a 30 goal and 70 point player next season, and possibly more. If Downie ratcheted up the discipline a bit more and trimmed his PIMs down to, say, a 150 PIM pace, how many more points would he have with an extra 50-60 minutes worth of total ice time? For Downie, that'd be like tacking another 3-4 games onto his season in which to hit the scoresheet.
Steven Stamkos is 1 goal back in the Richard Trophy race. I'd have killed for him to tie Crosby with an EN goal at the end.
Zenon Konopka still leads the PIM King chase. There's another guy who needs to be re-signed before July 1st.
Matt Lashoff was like Tom Berringer in that awful Sniper movie: one shift, one kill. 15 penalty minutes in 49 seconds after boarding ex-Lightning Rusty Fedotenko. The knock on Lashoff has been twofold: that he's soft and he's mildly stupid in his own end positionally. I'm thinking he was a little overeager to answer the first critique.
Vladimir Mihalik had 1 hit and 1 blocked shot in 12:18. He looked fairly poised and confident at times tonight, which is likely a byproduct of playing with countryman Andrej Meszaros. The good news with Vladdy is that his skating hasn't been as much of an issue as I thought it might be. The bad news is that NHL competition has highlighted the fact that even though Vladdy is big, he's not strong. He needs to build his upper body strength to compete better along the wall.
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Theresa McCloskey 9/30/2004 11:50:07 AMwonderful Jessica :-) #174187
Jessica McCollam 9/30/2004 11:59:46 AMThank you, Theresa! #814230
Teri F. Inman 9/30/2004 1:20:36 PMHi jessica,
Teri in canada #814356
Mellanie 9/30/2004 1:40:02 PMThis is great, Jessica!! Love the props! #814375
Dan Holm 9/30/2004 2:11:31 PMExcellent, Jessica! Love the shot, love your treatment! Very creative and exceptionally well done work! #814428
Diane Addonizio 9/30/2004 2:20:03 PMGreat image!! #814437
Mary J. Criss 9/30/2004 2:38:11 PMHow adorable! Very cute little girl! Is that one of your niece's? I love all the pics that you did like this. Awesome job!
Jennifer Rennison 9/30/2004 4:07:39 PMExcellent image, Jessica! She is so adorable! #814571
Stephen Zacker 9/30/2004 5:32:28 PMGreat portrait, and VERY cute! :-) #814678
Jessica McCollam 9/30/2004 6:20:35 PMMary, I know I shoot alot of family members, this happens to NOT be family. LOL She is my friends daughter, and so cute! She will be in more of the posts like this too. YFC!
Dale Ann Cubbage 10/4/2004 3:23:59 PMJessica, this is too wonderful! I love the treatment, the background, your set up and what a darling child! Great work girl! Gotta go visit your gallery and see the rest!
da #822111
Donna J. Taff 10/15/2004 4:21:13 PMCongratulation's, Jessica!!!! #844008
Dan Holm 10/15/2004 4:35:07 PMCongratulation, Jessica!! Best of luck with this in the next round! #844114
Kelly Abernathy 10/15/2004 4:59:49 PMBeautiful! Congratulations! -K #844324
Casey A. Hanson 10/15/2004 5:29:11 PMYou go girl! Congrats on this adorable pic! :0) #844611
Jessica McCollam 10/15/2004 6:16:35 PMThank you Dale Ann, Donna, Dan, K.S., and Casey!!
Marta Azevedo 10/15/2004 6:32:31 PMWhat a window light can do. Great work. Congrats #845202
Lori Ditlefsen 10/15/2004 6:38:05 PMVery cute! Congrats Jessica! #845248
Diane Dupuis 10/15/2004 7:27:52 PMSo cute! Congrats! #845589
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 10/15/2004 8:22:07 PMVery cool image, congratulations. #845994
Nancy Grace Chen 10/15/2004 8:25:16 PMVery cute... and well-styled.Congrats on your finalist.
Nancy #846007
Jennifer Rennison 10/15/2004 9:02:31 PMCongratulations, Jessica! #846173
Penny Steiner 10/15/2004 9:32:43 PMThis a terrific shot and well done..congratulations. #846293
Michelle R. Kovach 10/16/2004 8:45:26 AMCongratulations Jessica! Very well done! Love the feel to this!
Peggy Wolff 10/18/2004 8:37:22 AMDarling! Congratulations! #853138
Colette M. Metcalf 10/18/2004 2:28:47 PMCongratulations, Jessica!!! #853904
Dan Holm 10/18/2004 2:38:35 PMAlright, Jessica!!!! Big CONGRATULATIONS on your win!!! #853950
Kristen McKain 10/18/2004 4:31:58 PMAdorable! Congrats! #854508
Donna J. Taff 10/18/2004 4:58:50 PMCongratulation's, Jessica on this wonderful win!!!!!! #854626
Michelle R. Kovach 10/18/2004 6:00:01 PMCongrats again Jess! Very well deserved win! One of my new favorites of yours!
Jennifer Rennison 10/18/2004 6:08:59 PMCongratulations on your win, Jessica! #854951
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Penny Steiner 10/18/2004 8:20:35 PMI knew this would win...it caught my heart and I am so happy you placed on it
Lori Ditlefsen 10/18/2004 8:34:31 PMCongrats on the win Jessica! #855326
Judith G. Secco 10/19/2004 5:09:24 AMWonderful! Congratulations.
Donna L. Cuic 10/19/2004 6:14:48 PMAdorable Jessica. Congrats on your win.
Susana Matos 10/19/2004 9:22:28 PMCongratulations! This is delicious! Great image!
Jessica McCollam 10/20/2004 12:11:09 PMThank you all so much!!! I am so glad you all enjoyed this as much as I do!
Leonard Pierce 10/21/2004 6:12:51 PMCongratulations on your Second Place win Jessica!!! #861810
Diane Dupuis 10/24/2004 6:30:00 AMCongrats on your well deserved win! #865925
Murry Grigsby 10/28/2004 1:03:57 PMSorry I missed this earlier but it just popped up on the BP home page and what great FUN! Nicely done Jessica!! Love the timing, pose, props and the old-timey feel :0) #875180
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Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a forward-thinking musician's musician whose supreme improvisational talents and interest in cross-pollinating jazz with rock as well as non-Western styles of music during the '60s and '70s established him as one of the key figures in the development of fusion and world music. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 15, 1938, Lloyd grew up surrounded by the vibrant blues and jazz scenes of his native city. Given a saxophone at age nine, Lloyd eventually studied with Memphis legend pianist Phineas Newborn as well as saxophonist Irvin Reason. By his teens, Lloyd was not only best friends with schoolmate trumpeter Booker Little, but was also gigging locally with such artists as saxophonist George Coleman and future blues icons including Bobby "Blue" Bland, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and others.
In 1956, Lloyd left Memphis and enrolled at the University of Southern California to study classical music, ultimately earning his master's degree in music. During this time, he performed around Los Angeles with a veritable who's who of avant-garde jazz including, among others, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, saxophonist Eric Dolphy, and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. Also during this time, Lloyd became a working member of Gerald Wilson's big band. In 1960, Lloyd joined drummer Chico Hamilton's ensemble as musical director; replacing Dolphy, who had left to play with bassist Charles Mingus. During his time with Hamilton, Lloyd was responsible for writing and arranging much of the music in the band and recorded several albums with Hamilton, including 1962's Transfusion, 1963's A Different Kind of Journey, 1963's A Man from Two Worlds, and 1963's Passin' Through.
By the mid-'60s, Lloyd had developed into a highly adept writer/arranger as well as a virtuoso improviser, and regular sojourns to New York City brought him into contact with such luminaries as saxophonist John Coltrane, trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, Mingus, and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, whose group he joined in 1964. Also during this time, Lloyd began recording as a leader and released several albums, including 1965's Discovery! The Charles Lloyd Quartet and 1965's Of Course, Of Course. Lloyd continued recording as a leader after he left Adderley in 1965 and formed his own quartet featuring future Miles Davis alum pianist Keith Jarrett, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and bassist Cecil McBee. An extremely creative, intuitive, and adventurous ensemble, Lloyd's quartet released several exceptional albums during this time, including 1966's Dream Weaver, the 1966 live album Charles Lloyd in Europe, and 1966's Love-In.
However, this ensemble's appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1966 and the subsequent album Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey are what truly caught the public's attention. An expansive, sophisticated, and genre-bending performance, Forest Flower found Lloyd and his group in peak creative form mixing his long burgeoning interest in Eastern music with modal and avant-garde jazz. The performance was a highlight at the festival and the album was one of the first jazz recordings to sell a million copies, gain heavy radio play, and garner a wide crossover audience during a time when rock was quickly superseding jazz in the popular mind set.
The success at Monterey buoyed Lloyd's career and he spent much of the late '60s sharing billing at such famed rock venues as San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium alongside artists including guitarist Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and the Grateful Dead. Such was Lloyd's popularity that in 1967 he was voted Jazz Artist of the Year by Down Beat and toured Europe, even playing in the U.S.S.R. during a time when the government was discouraging jazz performances. Lloyd's genre-bending jazz dovetailed perfectly with the free-thinking experimentation of the late '60s, and although his music was based in acoustic jazz, many artists took notice and went the extra step toward electrifying jazz, most notably including Miles Davis, whose 1969 classic Bitches Brew drew upon many of the same rock and world music influences that Lloyd had experimented with.
In the early '70s, with his career at its peak, Lloyd withdrew from the public eye and moved to Big Sur to focus on his interest in transcendental meditation and embark on what he has described as an inner journey. Lloyd remained out of music until 1981 when he met the talented 18-year-old French pianist Michel Petrucciani. Inspired by Petrucciani's immense skill, Lloyd toured with the young pianist throughout the early '80s and released several albums, including the live album Montreux (1982) and 1983's A Night in Copenhagen. In the late '80s, Lloyd formed a quartet with Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson and released several albums on ECM, including 1989's Fish Out of Water, 1991's Notes From Big Sur, and 1996's Canto.
His association with ECM continued throughout the next decade, a time of renewed public interest in Lloyd, and he built a steady body of work for the label, including 1999's Voice in the Night with guitarist John Abercrombie, 2000's The Water is Wide with pianist Brad Mehldau, 2001's Hyperion with Higgins, and 2004's Which Way is East. In 2006, Lloyd released the live album Sangam, featuring Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain. Two years later he returned with another live album, Rabo de Nube, this time with pianist Jason Moran. In 2010, Lloyd released Mirror, his 13th album for ECM, once again featuring Moran along with bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The live album Athens Concert, featuring vocalist Maria Farantouri, followed in 2011. Lloyd continued touring for most of 2012. His next studio effort was a duet offering with pianist Jason Moran entitled Hagar's Song, which was issued in February of 2013. The same year, the saxophonist was commissioned to write and perform a work for Poland's Jazztopad Festival in Wrocław. The festival also screened Arrows Into Infinity, documentary look at Lloyd's life and career. It was directed by his life partner, manager, and co-producer Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse. The film made the festival and theater circuit before being released on disc by ECM in 2014.
After a nearly three-decade tenure with the label, Lloyd re-signed to Blue Note in early 2015. His debut for the label, Wild Man Dance, was commissioned by the Jazztopad Festival two years earlier. His band on the date included pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Joe Sanders, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, with guest appearance from Greek lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and Hungarian cimbalom master Miklós Lukács. Wild Man Dance was released in April. ~ Matt Collar


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Talk:Main Page
According to Special:Popularpages, the various pages in the Demonstration section are the most visited parts of the wiki, so I moved that section to the top of the main page. --Andrel 09:19, 26 April 2006 (PDT)
Work in Progress
It's not clear on first view (to me at least) that Main Page#Work in Progress is a link to Work In Progress (as none of the other section headings are). Possibly it should be a normal heading with the link in a short text below (à la Main Page#Other software).
Imalone 05:22, 1 February 2006 (PST)
You are free to fix that. It's a wiki after all -- Jmspeex 19:22, 1 February 2006 (PST)
Done (just didn't want to trample all over the front page) -- Imalone 04:33, 2 February 2006 (PST)
Lock This Page
On all/most other wikis the Main Page is locked so only admins can edit it. Due to the amount of vandalism, I think the Main Page should be locked and all changes discussed here. --SonicChao 05:11, 27 August 2006 (PDT)
Paranoia / cdparanoia
Why is there no listing under software of paranoia or cdparanoia? Also, there is no listing on the main xiph.org page. Is that software acknowlegded? --WhiteDragon 19:52, 9 September 2006 (PDT)
Suggestion :-O
First I want to congratulate you on the wonderful work being done. Thank you very much :-) Please allow anonymous edits (like wikipedia does) b'caus i'm too lazy to login :-)
- I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the ton of hidden links I just culled has nothing to do with you... I can't speak for the people running Xiph but requiring a login reduces some of the flood of spam that shows up here, and Wikipedia has many more resources available to deal with it than this wiki does. Imalone 06:06, 24 November 2006 (PST)
Proposal for a developer section
As more developers start to "get it" about how ultra cool Ogg / Vorbis / Theora / etc is, wouldn't it be great to have a wiki section devoted to helping these budding programmers along? eg: i've written some nice code i'd be happy to share. Could contain a programming FAQ, how-to's, and real code. Thoughts?


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WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul ended a marathon filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA early Thursday after holding the floor for nearly 13 hours, focusing on concerns over the constitutionality of the administration's use of drone strikes to target suspected terrorists.
The Kentucky Republican began speaking at 11:47 a.m. Wednesday and yielded the floor at 12:39 a.m. Thursday.
A self-described champion of constitutional liberties, Paul said he simply wanted the White House to assure him that it had no authority to target an American within the United States under the drone program.
"I am hopeful that we have drawn attention to this issue, that this issue won't fade away, and that the president will tomorrow come up with a response," he said. "This isn't the end of this; this is the beginning of this."
What began as a one-man crusade to delay the Brennan nomination ended as a team effort as Wednesday turned to Thursday in the nation's capital. Even Paul's Kentucky colleague, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, took part in the discussion, announcing that he would not only vote against Brennan's confirmation, but would vote to block the Senate from even considering the nomination when a procedural vote occurs, probably later this week.


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...is completely redefine the word "priority". It's a very grey area now with respects to all things not related to kiting.
For the past 2 years I now:
- schedule my client meetings around the wind
- and if there is wind in a location where I am meeting a client...they get scheduled according to the forecast.
- I have had meetings in a client's office where I am looking out the window during the meeting and watching the trees bend under 20 kt wind...all the while counting the minutes until the meeting ended.
- when I tell a client I need to check my schedule it means "Let me first check the forecast"
- I have taken client calls in between sessions. I would arrive at the launch spot...look at my watch and know that I had 60 minutes before a mandatory call with a client. Rigged up...jumped on the water...thrown a boat load of tricks...landed most...wiped out on some...then kited a heading all the way out to flats only to realize I had lost track of time and then b line like a crack addict back to shore...dropped my kite in rapid fashion and taken the call to conduct business. Then hoped right back on the kite as soon as the call is done.
- When I travel on vacation to kite...you will NEVER be able to reach me anymore. Period. I used to take vacation meeting calls on snowboarding trips on the side of a mountain in the middle of a long run but since kiting I completely disconnect from the planet.
- I now have many more "Dr. appointments" than I did before kiting
- and apparently all of my Dr. appointments now last between 2 and 4 hours.
- I have put off purchases of other items around or for the house and reallocated those funds to kiting gear. That leaky roof is fine! We won't hit the rainy season for another 5 months. Time for a new kite or new board!
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- the grass no longer gets cut with any regularity either. I have literally been in the middle of doing yard work when all of a sudden the wind kicks up and I drop everything like its the plague so I can go kite. Luckily I have one cool, chill woman. She actually encourages me to go kite whenever the wind is up so with a supporter like that I can never go wrong.
- and the final kicker is this...I have an opportunity to take a new role at a new company where I would essentially double my income but the trade off is I will be back to 75% travel which means no more flexibility like I have today which means waaaaay less kiting. No joke...I am 85% sure I won't take the position because of this. I guess I look at it as money can't buy me more time on the water so why lose that time?
Crazy right? But when I hit the water...man...everything in the world just balances out and I am in my state of Zen.
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Third One-Goal Loss of Season
HAMDEN, Conn. – A three-goal first half by Quinnipiac proved to be too much for the Yale field hockey team Sunday afternoon at Quinnipiac Field Hockey Turf Complex, as the Bulldogs rallied with two goals in the second half but fell 3-2. That was their third one-goal loss of the season.
Quinnipiac (6-5, 0-0 MAAC) earned a pair of penalty corners in the opening moments of the game, and that led to the first goal. Defender Jennalise Taylor scored off an assist by forward Jess Rusin to put the Bobcats up 1-0 at the 3:57 mark. That point moved Rusin into sole possession of second place on Quinnipiac's career points list; she finished the day with 72.
The Bobcats extended the lead to 2-0 at 23:39 on a goal by forward Danielle Allan, who tipped in a ball from defender Amanda Danziger that was deflected.
Rusin then made it 3-0 with 44 seconds left in the half, diving to poke in a rebound for her 30th career goal -- good for a tie for second on Quinnipiac's career goals list.
Junior Heather Schlesier came on in relief of senior Emily Cain to start the second half in goal for Yale, and the Bulldog attack began rallying. Freshman forward Rhoni Gericke tipped in a goal at 35:12 to pull Yale within 3-1. Senior midfielder Emily Schuckert had the assist.
Senior forward/midfielder Gabby Garcia then scored off a great run down the middle of the field, pulling the Bulldogs within 3-2 with 19:57 left in the game. Senior forward Brooke Gogel assisted on the play.
But that would be as close as Yale would get. Quinnipiac goalkeeper Megan Conaboy made one of her best saves of the day with eight minutes to play, diving to get her stick on a ball that was tipped by junior forward Jessie Accurso.
Yale (3-6, 1-2 Ivy League) got what turned out to be its final penalty corner of the game with seven minutes left, but Conaboy made a save on a shot by senior midfielder/back Georgia Holland.
Quinnipiac received a green card with 1:09 to play, but the Bulldogs were unable to take advantage of that penalty. The Bobcats wound up getting a corner in the final seconds, and Schlesier had to stop a shot at the end of the game to keep the score at 3-2.
Conaboy finished with nine saves, while Cain and Schlesier made one each.
Yale travels to California to play Cal and No. 6 Stanford next weekend.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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Thursday, September 01, 2011
Kenandy: A New Cloud ERP Provider Emerges from Stealth Mode
There's news for those of us interested in manufacturing ERP: a new cloud ERP provider is having its coming-out party this week at Dreamforce, the annual user conference of Salesforce.com. Kenandy, which is built entirely on Salesforce.com's platform, provides core manufacturing functionality, such as inventory, shop orders, purchase orders, and material planning. Founded in 2010, Kenandy already has one customer live and a handful of others sold and in implementation.
Early this week, several people forwarded me advance word on Kenandy from a Wall Street journal blog post. Normally, the launch of a new cloud provider would not warrant this kind of attention. But this launch has an interesting twist: the brains behind Kenandy is none other than Sandra Kurtzig. She is the original founder and CEO of ASK Group, the developer of the well-known ManMan ERP system--more or less the SAP of the 1980s. She retired something like 10 years ago, but was convinced to come out for an encore by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com and her neighbor on a beach in Hawaii. Kenandy has venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and its managing partner Ray Lane sits on Kenandy's board.
Kenandy's AngleI scored an interview with Sandra and her CMO Rod Butters yesterday, prior to Sandra's appearance on stage with Marc Benioff this morning at Dreamforce. I had a lot of questions for Sandra, and she was forthcoming with answers.
I also took a walk to the Expo floor and got a quick view of Kenandy's system. I also met the "Ken" of Kenandy. (The firm is named after Sandra's two sons, Ken and Andy).
- Kenandy is positioning itself for small and midsize manufacturers ($15M - $300M), especially those that source, manufacture, and distribute products through contract manufacturers and channel partners. Sandra noted that ERP vendors with systems designed in the 1970s and 80s (such as ManMan) assumed their customers were vertically integrated. Her perspective is that this orientation has carried forward in the design assumptions of the leading on-premise ERP providers today, which have their roots in systems built during that time period. This is not a good assumption today, as even small and midsize manufacturers are contracting large parts of their operations offshore and have complex distribution relationships with channel partners. Such organizations need an extended ERP system, and Kenandy is being designed with these scenarios in mind.
- Built on Salesforce.com's platform, Kenandy is a full multi-tenant SaaS offering. An organization can run multiple facilities within a single tenant, or it can set up multiple tenants, for its contract manufacturers or business partners, for example, and gain inventory and production visibility up and down its supply chain. (Disclaimer: I have not evaluated Kenandy on any functionality points to confirm these features).
- Kenandy expects very short implementation times. Its first customer, Den-Mat, a maker of dental products, went live in two weeks, converting from a legacy IBM Series i (AS/400) system.
- Kenandy is focusing on manufacturing functionality and depending on other cloud providers to fill out other parts of the enterprise suite. For example, there is integration (of course) with Salesforce.com for CRM, and with FinancialForce.com for financials. In addition, Sandra claims that integration with customer's legacy systems (e.g. Quickbooks) are always an option.
- Development of Kenandy is being led directly by Sandra: in other words, she is not only the founder and CEO. Like many start-up software firms, she is also the brains behind the product and the chief product management executive. She is working with a small group of internal developers and is supplemented by development resources from Persistent Systems in India.
A Market with Lots of Open SpaceI am currently working on a research report on cloud-based ERP systems, so I was quite interested in seeing a new competitor emerge in this market. In my view the market is wide open. There are only a handful of pure multi-tenant SaaS ERP providers, and even few that can support the needs of manufacturers. These providers include NetSuite, SAP's Business ByDesign, Workday, Plex, and Rootstock.
Compare this to the dozens or scores of ERP providers that we could choose from in the 1980s and 1990s. Today the market for traditional on-premise ERP systems is dominated by two vendors: SAP and Oracle. Microsoft occupies a strong secondary place, especially in the SMB space. Many of the other players have been acquired by Infor and Oracle, though several good providers, such as IFS, Epicor, QAD, Syspro remain independent.
Nevertheless, the broad industry trend is moving to cloud computing, and manufacturers that want full-suite ERP in the cloud have few choices. Therefore, the market is wide open. As I mentioned to Sandra, it's like the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock. There is a whole continent waiting for anyone so inclined to stake a claim. There's no need to argue about property lines with neighbors. Just go out, pick a few verticals, geographies, and organization sizes, and build out your offering. There is plenty of room to grow.
Other providers are already doing so. Plex was first out of the gate, with a full cloud-based ERP offering dating back to the middle of the last decade, and they continue to gain momentum. SAP's launch of Business ByDesign is also gaining traction, not only in subsidiaries of SAP's traditional large customer base, but in net new SMBs as well. Rootstock, not as well known, has a credible offering for manufacturers (especially project-based) on NetSuite's platform, and it has now migrated its manufacturing ERP offering to Salesforce.com's platform. Moreover, other on-premise vendors, such as Epicor and Infor, have enabled their products to operate in a multi-tenant cloud deployment model.
But there are large swaths of open space. Kenandy is a welcome new player.
Update, 10:02 a.m.: Sandy is on stage now at Dreamforce. She's wearing a button with the letters ERP crossed out. Marc asks, "Your previous firm ASK built on HP's platform, right?" She jokes, "Is HP still in business?" Ray Lane, an HP board member, is standing next to her. Sandy mentions Salesforce.com's investment in Kenandy. Ray, as mentioned in my post above, is also an investor, and now relates the story of Sandy showing up in Ray's office, asking for money. Ray, who like Sandy, is well over the median age at Dreamforce, admonishes the audience, "Don't think our generation is through yet!"
Update, 10:20 a.m.: Dennis Howlett looks at manufacturing cloud ERP developments.
Update, Sep. 6: Dennis Howlett interviews me live about my thoughts on Kenandy. Click on the image below to watch the interview.
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Labels: Kenandyby Frank Scavo, 9/01/2011 08:40:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
Reader Comments:ERP systems tend to be horrible kludges of ideas from the 1960's through now. They have at least 10 times more complexity and code than they need. Are any of these newbies really rethinking (as, for example Workday is doing for HR)? (I do not work for workday, by the way...)
I see Kendandy is doing fast MRP in memory, which is better than nothing, but that was also available in the 1980's and MRP has not been rethought fundamentally since the 1970's. I mean the whole planning process in ERP systems is unworkable in today's world.
I guess the complexity with legacy and most current MRP systems is due to technology: you have to run MRP in an implementation that is procedural code on top of a relational database, all in all a headache to maintain.
Change happens when you cross-breed multidimensional, in-memory, columnar or hybrid datastore / calculation engine with MRP - 'code' is pretty basic but the power is immense. So you can't avoid the in-memory part.
Doing things simple is the hardest thing in the world. Show me a on-premise _simple_ MRP/manufacturing and I can tell it is possible as SaaS. So far I have hard times fitting MRP and simple into the same picture.
MRP has been 'rethought' several times - OPT, APS, SCP, IBP to name a few, but I am not sure if this is what people need.
@Arein agree: "hard time fitting MRP and simple into the same picture".
New technologies, were tried before. I2 etc. More to try, low latency web, columnar datastore, Cuda.
But probably not what people require, some how social needs inserting into the process without the complexity of reams of exceptions. SocialMRP?
BTW - Super coverage by Frank, exciting times.
Arein and Clive, thanks for the comments. My own view is that MRP, APS, SCP and *all* of the resource planning tools are good--each in their own place. That's true whether on-premise, or in-the-cloud (those are just deployment options).
The problem, however, is that vendors promote, and customers buy, tools that may not be appropriate for a given scenario. And the sophistication of the tools is quite often NOT matched by the sophistication of the customer. So, the tool eventually becomes shelf-ware, and the customer goes back to informal systems, spreadsheets, etc. And the tool gets a bad name.
This has been a problem since I first started with manufacturing systems in the late 1970s (remember COPICS?). Cloud doesn't change that one iota. In fact, it might make it worse as these tools become cheaper and easier to buy.
I would add that end users are disempowered by highly automated systems - no matter how intelligent the end users. Reliance is shifted onto the system and the small group of technical experts who maintain it. While there are benefits, the major drawback is loss of agility - an organisation's ability to react to changes in market conditions.
Given the amount of change we have seen in the past 20 years, this is a major issue. I think it better to invest in training end users so they can operate a lesser-automated yet more flexible system within which they can adapt their operating practices, rather than having them submit a mini business case every time they need to have the system changed to accommodate a new or changed requirement.
In fact, designers of traditional enterprise systems, and managers within their customer base, have applied over-zealous risk management in an effort to protect organisations from the hands of their own staff, but have paralysed their operations in the process.
My hope is that KenAndy can deliver a system which is easier to use - and easier to change.
Having also been in this space for about 40 years, and an APICS Fellow for 30 years, I was under-whelmed looking at the 22 minute demo on YouTube. While the concept of Cloud is catchy, what makes anyone think that (1) the same end users that refuse to use their current ERP Mfg systems will suddenly adopt this one, (2) that a shockingly simple set of function/feature will satisfy any mfgr larger than a very small and simple mfgr, and (3) what larger enterprise is suddenly going to allow 'end users' to take over (as happened with CRM) and run with mission critical data such as BOM's ... where are the "adults" in this picture? I didn't see anything in the way of system controls other than the simplest of PO approval methods. Cloud is often sold by sales reps end-running IT and going direct to business users to buy a subscription. That happened in CRM, and to some extent with HCM with very angry line of business users stuck with very old software, but can it happen with the heart of your enterprise?
And where is the data collection coming from? Are bar code scanning / data collection firms suddenly feeding the cloud? It looked like everything needed to be keyed in, although the screens were pleasing and nicely laid out.
Maybe I've been around full featured ERP Mfg too long. I was hoping this might be something like ASK, but I don't see it yet.
I agree with all of you that this is potentially a huge market but when I visit mfgr companies and see a near total lack of knowledge concerning "MRP", PLM, enterprise Quality Mgt, Lean practices, even accurate shop floor control ... I'm not convinced that a sexy, social Cloud front end is going to make the key difference. I'd love to keep this conversation going.
btw - I'm not the previous anonymous poster.
ERP Opinions,
Consider that tradition products have much more functionality than most organisations need. These organisations are often forced to make their business processes much more complex than they need to be - or ought to be. The complexity all too often fails to translate into benefit - and imposes an unnecessary and large amount of master data management.
Kenandy is a young product, but if functional extensions can be easily build, gaps can be closed at lower cost. And furthermore, only what the organisation needs it built and imposed.
My own view is that the traditional vendor products (not necessarily the vendors themselves) will collapse under their own weight or stagnate while newer and more nimble approaches circle it.


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Host Seth MacFarlane took the stage at the 2013 Oscars with an opening monologue revealing he was ready to poke fun at the star-studded audience.
"The quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now," he said.
But it wasn't too long before MacFarlane was interrupted. William Shatner, dressed as his iconic character Captain Kirk from "Star Trek," descended on the stage to warn MacFarlane that he was about to ruin the Oscars and be branded the worst host ever.
"The show is a disaster. I've come back in time … to stop you from ruining the Academy Awards," Shatner said.
|Seth MacFarlane's Boobs Tribute
Shatner tried to steer MacFarlane away from singing an "incredibly offensive song that upsets a lot of women in the audience."
Cue MacFarlane's medley "We Saw Your Boobs," a laundry list set to music of acclaimed actresses in Hollywood who all bared their breasts in film.
MacFarlane was joined by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles to call out Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Watts, Jodie Foster, Hilary Swank and countless others who we've seen nude in film.
Not every joke funnyman Seth MacFarlane made landed with the A-list crowd at the 85th annual Academy Awards.
The host elicited gasps from the crowd when he introduced "Django Unchained" as "the story of a man fighting to get back his woman, who's been subjected to unthinkable violence. Or, as Chris Brown and Rihanna call it, a date movie."
Another joke that somehow earned a too-soon nod? A throw to President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
"I'd argue that the actor who really got inside Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth," MacFarlane said.
MacFarlane's jab at Mel Gibson didn't land too smoothly either. MacFarlane said the N-word laden "Django Unchained" screenplay was "loosely based on Mel Gibson's voicemails."
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The theme of the 85 annual Academy Awards was celebrating music in film, and the tributes to movie musicals didn't disappoint.
Featured performers included Catherine Zeta-Jones belting "All That Jazz" from 2002's Best Picture winner "Chicago," Jennifer Hudson's show-stopping "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" from 2006's "Dreamgirls," and the cast of this year's Best Picture nominee "Les Miserables" reuniting on stage for "One Day More."
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To introduce Christopher Plummer to the stage to present the award for Best Supporting Actress, MacFarlane couldn't help but make a joke out of the actor's infamous role as Captain Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music."
MacFarlane came out to announce the Von Trapp family singers, but no one came out. Instead, a man dressed in a Nazi uniform ran in to tell him that they were gone.
|Kristen Stewart Hobbles on Stage to Present
When Daniel Radcliffe took the stage to present the award for Achievement in Production Design, he was joined by his hobbling co-presenter Kristen Stewart, who was seen crutching along the red carpet during the pre-show.
The "Twilight" star's makeup artist told People magazine that the actress "cut the ball of her foot, quite severely, on glass two days ago."
The Associated Press reported that backstage, Best Supporting Actress winner Anne Hathaway told Stewart to "break a leg."
|Jennifer Lawrence's Unstable Victory
Jennifer Lawrence was so shocked to take home the Oscar for Best Actress that she lost her footing on her way up to the stage to accept her award.
"You guys are just standing up because I fell and that's really embarrassing," she said to the audience.
Lawrence regained her composure to give her acceptance speech, extending a special thank you to "the women this year," who she called "so magnificent and so inspiring."
|Daniel Day-Lewis a Three-Peat Best Actor Winner
It was a highly anticipated win for Daniel Day-Lewis, who took home the award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Abe Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."
Lewis cracked a joke in his acceptance speech, saying he was supposed to be cast as Margaret Thatcher and presenter Meryl Streep was the first choice for Lincoln.
"Meryl Streep was Steven's first choice to play Lincoln… I'd like to see that version," Lewis said.
|Michelle Obama Announces Best Picture Winner
In one of the biggest surprises of the night, the Academy brought out First Lady Michelle Obama to help Jack Nicholson introduce the nominees for Best Picture.
Rocking her new bangs and a silver gown, the first lady, live from the White House, announced "Argo" as this year's Best Picture.
"It was a thrill to announce the #Oscars2013 best picture winner from the @WhiteHouse! Congratulations Argo!" FLOTUS tweeted afterwards.
|Ben Affleck Triumphs at Oscars
Ben Affleck was flabbergasted by his win for Best Picture for "Argo." His frenzied, heartfelt acceptance speech resonated as he thanked his wife, Jennifer Garner, and ended on an inspirational high note.
"I want to thank my wife, who I don't normally associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage. It is work, but it is the best kind of work," he said.
"I was here 15 years ago or something and you know I had no idea what I was doing. I stood out here in front of you all, really just a kid. I went out and I never thought I'd be back here and I am because of so many of you who are here tonight …. I want to thank them for what they taught me, which is that you have to work harder than you think you possibly can, you can't hold grudges. It's hard, but you can't hold grudges. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you got to get up."
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Recently, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which I chair, held the latest in a series of hearings to examine how U.S.-based multinational corporations use loopholes in the tax code to avoid paying U.S. taxes. An earlier hearing examined tax avoidance strategies at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard; our recent hearing looked at Apple.
Our purpose with these hearings is to shine a light on practices that have allowed U.S.-based multinational corporations to amass an estimated $1.9 trillion in profits in offshore tax havens, shielded from U.S. taxes.
Corporate income tax revenue has accounted for a smaller and smaller share of federal receipts, and today is down to about 9 percent of federal revenue. The average U.S. corporation pays an effective tax rate of 15 percent, less than half the statutory rate of 35 percent. A recent study found that 30 of the largest U.S. multinationals, with more than $160 billion in profits, paid nothing in federal income taxes over a recent three year period.
These offshore tax practices deepen the federal deficit and increase the tax burden on American families. Our hearing helped our Senate colleagues, and the American people, understand the depth of our offshore tax loophole problem and the damage it does to our fiscal and economic health.
Apple's products are justifiably well known and used throughout the world. What may not be so well known is that Apple also has a highly developed tax avoidance system – a system through which it has amassed more than $100 billion in offshore cash in a tax haven.
The secret to Apple's business success isn't in the aluminum and steel and glass of my iPhone and other Apple products. Its profits depend on the ideas that bring those elements together in such an elegant package. That intangible genius is intellectual property that is nurtured and developed here in the United States. The key to offshore tax avoidance is transferring the profit-generating potential of that valuable intellectual property offshore so that the profits are directed not to the United States, but to an offshore tax haven.
Some of Apple's techniques are staples of international tax avoidance. But others are unique. Apple has sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance, offshore corporations that it argues are not, for tax purposes, resident in any nation.
Apple Inc. has created three offshore corporations, entities that receive tens of billions of dollars in income, but which have no tax residence – not in Ireland, where they are incorporated, and not in the United States, where the Apple executives who run them are located.
Apple has arranged matters so it can claim that these ghost companies, for tax purposes, exist nowhere. One has paid no corporate income tax to any nation for the last five years; another pays tax to Ireland equivalent to a fraction of one percent of its total income.
Apple's claim that its Irish subsidiaries are not tax resident in any nation is a key element in its strategy to avoid taxes on its offshore income. But how did that income end up offshore to begin with? That brings us to a second, more common arrangement for shifting income away from the United States to a low tax jurisdiction.
The offshore tax avoidance tactics spotlighted by the Subcommittee do real harm. They disadvantage domestic U.S. companies that can't reduce their tax bills using offshore tax gimmicks. They offload Apple's tax burden onto other taxpayers – in particular, onto working families and small businesses. The lost tax revenue feeds a budget deficit that has reached troubling proportions, and has helped lead the ill-advised sequestration now threatening our economic recovery.
Because of those cuts, children across the country won't get early education from Head Start. Needy seniors will go without meals. Fighter jets sit idle on tarmacs because our military lacks the funding to keep pilots trained.
Closing these kinds of unjustified loopholes could provide hundreds of billions of dollars to reduce the deficit and avert damaging budget cuts to our defense, our schools, our roads, the safety of our food supply and other important priorities.
Carl Levin is the senior U.S. senator from Michigan and chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.


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2011: Second Team All-SCIAC (11th)
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NASHVILLE, June 3 (UPI) -- Kelly Clarkson and husband Brandon Blackstock are staying together to welcome their soon-to-be-born first child in spite reports that he cheated on the singer.
Sources close to the situation tell Radar Online that the Americal Idol winner and her husband of eight months have just finished their baby girl's nursery in the pair's Nashville, Tenn. home.
"They are beyond excited over this baby. Kelly is just busting with joy and can't wait to hold her," the insider said. "They've got the nursery all together and now it's just a waiting game."
The 32-year-old singer announced she was expecting a baby girl in January, two months after she predicted the baby's gender on Twitter.
Clarkson's announcement came almost two months after a woman stepped forward in December to claim she and Blackstock had had an affair.
"We haven't slept together," the unidentified woman said at the time, "but we've been intimate in other ways. I really hope his wife keeps her eye on him because he's not the great man she thinks he is."
Clarkson is due to give birth on June 18. The child would be the first for the singer and the third for Blackstock who has two kids from a previous marriage.


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Elin Nordegren has reportedly used some of her $100 million divorce settlement from Tiger Woods to buy a brand new $12 million home ... just ten miles from Tiger's new digs.
The 9,000 sq ft beach front home in North Palm Beach features eight bathrooms and a 4,000 sq ft basement.
Elin is the only mistress of this house.
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The Bulimia Machine
You may have heard of the new personal stomach pump invention by the guy that brought us the Segway personal transport thingy. The contraption is called the AspireAssist Device. In Europe the device has been clinically tested on several overweight people and found to be very effective over the long term. 24 obese people lost an average of 49 percent of excess weight (which comes to around 45 pounds) after using it as directed for a year. The makers of the AspireAssist device hope to gain FDA approval sometime in the near future.
This story has caused a lot of controversy. First of all, the product itself works in a rather disgusting manner. Basically it works like this – you get an operation where a tube is installed the goes from the inside of your stomach out through the front of your body. There is an opening on your belly skin where you can stick some sort of pump device. The idea is, after you eat a meal and wait 20 minutes (to let your food digest and get liquified and evenly dispersed) you then use the pump to remove 30 percent of your stomach contents. [I have no idea how it is able to gauge what 30 percent of your stomach contents are, but then again I don't know how a Segway works either.] You then spray these contents into a suitable disposal apparatus such as your toilet, or if you are an animal lover, a baby birds mouth.
So why is this controversial you ask? Well, where do I start? First of all, the idea grosses people out and reminds them of bulimia (bulimia is generally considered a very bad thing). It also is offensive to those people who believe one should approach dieting from a healthy direction – with lifestyle changes that involve healthy food choices and eating habits and all that stuff. To them the idea of a quick fix approach sounds abhorrent, especially one that just seems so creepy. Some folks also express fear that this device may lead to health issues associated with classic bulimia, such as nutritional deficiencies and metabolic dysfunctions.
I think everyone should just chill out. First of all, if this device is approved it surely will be only for morbidly obese folks, and then only after classic diet and behavior counseling has proven ineffective. Mobidly obese folk are very sick and they almost always have severe diabetes and accompanying health issues that I can't even begin to list. Right now the options for these folks are not good and usually involve some sort of bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is a horrible procedure and carries a frightening fatality risk. Plus, it can be absolute torture to prepare for, and even worse to recover from. This AspireAssist device on the other hand requires a relatively simple surgical procedure to install, and if needed the device can be removed quite easily and rapidly as well. And what about the risk of nutritional deficiencies and associated bulimia type issues? I don't see the possibility of that, since you are removing stomach contents which should be homogenously distributed (if you wait the required 20 minutes after eating), and you are only removing 30 percent of the contents. It's not really different then if you just ate 30 percent less to begin with.
So once you get over the yuck factor and think about it, AspireAssist may actually prove to be a pretty nifty and valuable medical breakthrough. Technological advancements are often met with alarm and disdain, especially if they encroach on sensitive subjects such as personal appearance and fitness. In the end though, they can come to be accepted if they fulfill their promise.


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Whaddaya do when the danged guvmint closes the bridge to the beach for 19 months and promises to build a nice, new, tall shiny replacement?
Why, ya throw a party of course.
The East Ocean Avenue bridge in Lantana officially closed to automobile traffic sometime after midnight March 19.
But the town of Lantana closed it a day early — March 18 — and threw a Demolition Day party at Bicentennial Park on the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway.
The highlight of the day was the 2 p.m. parade of The Last _____ Over the Bridge. People signed up with their fantasies about being the last whatever to cross the span: the last Cub Scout troop, the last unicycle, the last man carrying his wife, maybe even the last hearse over the bridge.
Emcee Greg Rice offered his unique commentary of the Last Parade.
Town Manager Mike Bornstein said, "We just wanted to remind people that our downtown will still be open for business after the bridge closes."
Partying began at noon with music by the Mighty Quinn band and food provided by the town's best restaurants. Kids took their first and last hayride across the bridge, entered a chalk art contest and played on the tire swing in the park.
Free parking was available at Kmart Plaza at Dixie Highway and Hypoluxo Road with an old-fashioned trolley shuttling revelers to the park and back. The shuttle began at 11:30 a.m. The fun lasted until 5 p.m.
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Learn how to fish or develop your fishing skills at a fun free event on Saturday, June 18, at Wildcat Mountain Resort (Route 16, Pinkham Notch). The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine; registration closes at 12 noon, so get there early! "Let's Go Fishing" volunteer instructors and staff from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department will be joined by representatives from the U.S. Forest Service and the Appalachian Mountain Club to provide a wealth of experience and knowledge to help the beginning angler get started. The special "Let's Go Fishing" Event at Wildcat Mountain Celebrates the Weeks Act Centennial and National Get Outdoors Day.
Participants who register on the morning of the event will receive a "passport" outlining 5 stations that must be completed before they can begin fishing. Educational and instructional skill stations will include: Knot Tying; Fish ID; Casting; Ecology; Macro Invertebrates; and Fishing. Each station activity will take 15-20 minutes to complete and once an activity has been completed, the passport will be stamped and the aspiring angler will be one step closer to casting a line in the stocked fishing pond! No fishing license is needed to participate in "Let's Go Fishing" activities such as this event.
All ages are welcome at this free event, but children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All participants should bring sturdy footwear and clothing as well as personal sun protection (hat, sunglasses, sunscreen) and bug repellent. The fishing pond at Wildcat Mountain is accessible via the "C lot" entrance located approximately a quarter mile past the main entrance on the north-bound side of Route 16 heading toward Gorham, N.H.
Co-sponsored by the White Mountain Interpretative Association, the "Let's Go Fishing" Event at Wildcat Mountain is part of a coordinated statewide celebration of the Weeks Act Centennial and honoring the tradition of conservation and partnerships exemplified by the act, which created our Eastern National Forests, including the White Mountain National Forest. This observance of the Weeks Act provides an opportunity to promote increased awareness of sustainable forestry, land stewardship and citizen-based conservation. This event is also included among the National Get Outdoors Day events in June, which encourage Americans, especially our youth, to seek out healthy, active outdoor lives and embrace our parks, forests, refuges and other public lands and waters.