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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for June to Beau Wolfe, a Public Information Specialist for the Citizen Information Center (CIC), a division of the Mayor's Office. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Wolfe has worked for the City since June 2004. CIC Manager Diane Gonzolas nominated him in the categories of customer relations and productivity for his work on anti-bullying programs on the City government access channels.
In March, Wolfe was part of the crew that taped presentations at a conference on bullying which aired on 5 CITY-TV and 10 Health. One of the presenters was Kirk Smalley of Oklahoma. He told the story of his 11-year-old son who committed suicide after being suspended from school for pushing a boy who had bullied him for years. College students started a Facebook page in his honor called "Stand for the Silent," and it has become an international movement.
Wolfe also taped a one-on-one interview with Smalley, and was inspired to do more. Working with Bill Luxford and Melissa Fuller of the CIC video staff, he organized a special showing of the documentary "Bully" at the Grand Theater May 12. The movie was followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Susan Swearer of UNL, co-director of the Bullying Research Network. The discussion was taped and aired on 5 CITY-TV and 10 Health as well as the educational access channel. Wolfe arranged for Smalley to record a message that was played before the movie, and "Stand for the Silent" materials were distributed at the event.
To encourage children and parents to attend the event, Wolfe also spearheaded fund-raising to provide free tickets. Donations came from businesses, organizations and individuals. Enough funds were donated to provide about 425 tickets with a face value of $6.
In her nomination, Gonzolas wrote, "Beau demonstrated a great deal of initiative, persistence and hard work. His passion on this issue was contagious, and others were inspired to work with him on this anti-bullying effort. The impact on the target audience is difficult to determine. Yet if even one student was inspired to stop bullying or to stand up for someone being bullied, this project could be considered a great success."
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are loss prevention, safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are considered by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $50 gift certificate, a day off with pay and a plaque. All monthly winners and nominees are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $250 gift certificate, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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A drug addict who threw desks and smashed a safety screen after she was denied access to prescribed methadone at an NHS unit has been ordered to pay £291 compensation.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard how Lucy Brown, 29, of Hawthorne Street, Chesterfield, was told at the NHS Bayheath House she could not have unsupervised access to the medication.
Becky Allsop, prosecuting, said Brown abused a staff member at Bayheath House before throwing tables and ramming one into a safety screen four or five times. Brown pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage after the incident on December 23.
John Wilford, defending, said Brown's prescription had to be supervised and she was frustrated because she was planning to travel to be with her father. Magistrates sentenced Brown on Thursday, January 30, to a community order with drug rehabilitation and ordered her to pay compensation.

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A little over a year ago, I left everything behind to focus on myself and travel.
The year before that was all about healing and opening up my mind and heart.
And now this year after falling in love with myself, I'm ready to work on personal power, growth and my future.
The summer is coming to end and I am eliminating unwanted friendships
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New law set to increase bicycle safety in Mississippi
For the Daily News
More people are taking to the streets, on their bicycles, that is. Bicycling is a fun and healthy way to get around town and many Starkvillians are taking to the road on two wheels instead of four.
A new state law has set a minimum space requirement for cars passing bicyclists on the road, making the road safer. Motorists must leave at least three feet between their car and a cyclist when passing.
The law also states that cars may not make a right turn in front of a cyclist traveling in the same direction unless the turn can be made safely. Turning in front of a bicyclist may cause an accident as motorists often underestimate how fast some cyclists are travelling.
"Mississippi now stands out as a leader in the cycling world. We are one of the few states in the nation to adopt a 3 Feet Law, which clearly defines the relationship between motorists and cyclists," said Josh Sullivan, president of Jackson Metro Cyclists and supporter of the legislation.
This new law went into effect on July 1st and was named after John Paul Frerer, a young man from North Mississippi who was struck and killed by a vehicle while cycling. Those who worked to get the legislation passed hope that Mississippi roads will be safer for cyclists and motorists alike.
"We're pleased that this law recognizes that bicycles belong on the road and share the same responsibilities as cars. Safety is everyone's responsibility and this law helps make Mississippi roads that much safer," said Devon Brenner, president of Starkville in Motion.
Guidelines for bicyclists are also included. Bicyclists must ride as close as possible to the right-hand curb or edge of a road, except when passing, turning, or avoiding road hazards. No more than two bicyclists may ride side-by-side on a road, unless the road is exclusively for bike use.
To read the full version of the law, visit http://www.starkvilleinmotion.org


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What is cramming?
Cramming is the illegal act of placing unauthorized charges on your wireline, wireless, or bundled services telephone bill. The FCC has estimated that cramming has harmed tens of millions of American households.
Deception is the hallmark of cramming. Crammers often rely on confusing telephone bills to trick consumers into paying for services they did not authorize or receive, or that cost more than the consumer was led to believe.
Wireless consumers should be particularly vigilant. Smartphones are sophisticated handheld devices that enable consumers to shop online from wherever they are or charge app purchases to their phone bills. The more your mobile phone bill begins to resemble a credit card bill, the more difficult it may become to spot unauthorized charges.
How does cramming occur?
Cramming most often occurs when telephone companies allow other providers of goods or services to place charges on their customers' telephone bills, enabling a telephone number to be used like a credit or debit card account number for vendors. Crammers may attempt to place a charge on a consumer's phone bill having nothing other than an active telephone number, which can be obtained from a telephone directory.
What do cramming charges look like?
Cramming comes in many forms. Charges – such as those described below – may be legitimate if authorized but, if unauthorized, are cramming:
- Charges for services that are explained on your telephone bill in general terms such as "service fee," "service charge," "other fees," "voicemail," "mail server," "calling plan" and "membership."
- Charges that are added to your telephone bill every month without a clear explanation of the services provided – such as a "monthly fee" or "minimum monthly usage fee."
- Charges for specific services or products you may not have authorized, like ringtones, cell phone wallpaper, or "premium" text messages about sports scores, celebrity gossip, flirting tips or daily horoscopes.
How can I protect myself against cramming?
- Carefully review your telephone bill every month, just as closely as you review your monthly credit card and bank statements.
- Ask yourself the following questions as you review your telephone bill:
- Do I recognize the names of all the companies listed on my bill?
- What services were provided by the listed companies?
- Does my bill include charges for calls I did not place or services I did not authorize?
- Are the rates and line items consistent with the rates and line items that the company quoted to me?
- When in doubt, ask questions. You may be billed for a call you placed or a service you used, but the description listed on your telephone bill for the call or service may be unclear. If you don't know what service was provided for a charge listed on your bill, ask your telephone company to explain the charge before paying it.
- Make sure you know what service was provided, even for small charges. Cramming often goes undetected as very small "mystery charges" – sometimes only $1, $2, or $3 – to thousands of consumers. Crammed charges can remain on bills for years.
- Keep a record of the services you have authorized and used. These records can be helpful when billing descriptions are unclear.
- Carefully read all forms and promotional materials – including the fine print – before signing up for telephone or other services to be billed on your phone bill.
What should I do if I think I've been crammed?
Take the following actions if your telephone bill lists unknown or suspicious charges:
- Call the telephone company responsible for your bill, explain your concerns about the charges, and ask to have incorrect charges removed. You can also call the company that charged you, ask them to explain the charges, and request an adjustment to your bill for any incorrect charges.
- If neither the telephone company sending you the bill nor the company that provided the service in question will remove charges you consider to be incorrect, you can file a complaint:
- With the FCC about any charges on your telephone bill, whether they relate specifically to telephone service or to other products or services that appear on your bill
- With your state public service commission for telephone services within your state (http://www.naruc.org/commissions.cfm)
- With the Federal Trade Commission (http://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov) about charges for non-telephone services on your telephone bill
Filing a complaint
You have multiple options for filing a complaint with the FCC:
- File a complaint online
- By phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322); TTY: 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322); ASL: 1-844-432-2275
- By mail (please include your name, address, contact information and as much detail about your complaint as possible):
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division
445 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554
The FCC's Truth-in-Billing rules require:
- Clear, non-misleading, plain language describing services for which you are being billed.
- The billing telephone company to identify the service provider associated with each charge.
- The billing telephone company to distinguish between charges that will result in disconnection of basic, local service if not paid and charges that will not result in disconnection if not paid.
- The billing telephone company to include one or more toll-free numbers you can call to ask about or dispute any charge.
In addition, wireline telephone companies must:
- Inform consumers of any blocking options offered for third-party billing.
- Place third-party charges in a distinct section of the bill separate from carrier charges.
- Include a separate subtotal for the third-party charges in the distinct bill section and on the payment page.


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What is it, you ask?
Oh, yes. Because one cannot have too many hobbies, right?
But I didn't stop there. No, no. I went ahead and started a new blog too! I can hear your heads shaking. Stop it.
Seriously though, I can see this adding some interest to my written family history, and hopefully can help me get to "know" some of my ancestors in the process.
Here are the first three pages I created: a two-page spread for my paternal grandfather's time in WWII, and a one-page spread for my paternal grandparents' lives together. These are on my other blog, but I'll post them here also.
I'm currently working on my maternal grandfather's page(s) and hope to have that done by the end of the week (at least that's what this weeks' goal list says).
Eventually, I expect I'll find a healthy balance between my now-dueling pastimes. In the meantime, this scrapbooking thing is FUN!


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The United States bishops in their 1999 statement, Faithful Citizenship, called on Catholics and all citizens to stay involved in public life...and participate in the debates and choices... and for voters to examine the position of candidates on a full range of issues....
Central to the bishops' concern is respect for life, especially where it is most threatenedin the unborn. They also called for a new kind of politics. Commenting on the statement, Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, president of the bishops' conference, pointed to the need to do more than issue a statement and the need to develop a strategy that would reach far more people than in the past. Earlier, in 1998, the bishops' document Living the Gospel of Life had dealt specifically with the effort to persuade voters and Catholic public officials to be faithful to church teaching on the sanctity of human life. At that time, Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore said the document was intended to promote a theology of persuasion. The question, therefore, is how to develop Bishop Fiorenza's strategy and Cardinal Keeler's theology of persuasion?
Prior to last November's elections, bishops throughout the country took up the theme of Faithful Citizenship in pastoral letters, urging their people to vote their conscience while keeping prominently in mind the abortion issue. Archbishop Edward M. Egan of New York wrote, All of us will have an opportunity to choose leaders who share our commitment to fundamental rights for the unborn, those advanced in age, the sick and the needy. Bishop William F. Murphy, vicar general of Boston, pointedly commented, I fail to understand how any Catholic can support a candidate who is outspokenly and unambiguously pro choice....' Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, probably the most direct of the bishops, charged Vice President Al Gore with being a captive of Catholics for a Free Choice and other groups which are intolerant of the teaching of the Catholic Church and with deception about his position, using words which mask what he holds.
How persuasive has been this strategyforceful presentation of the dignity of human life by authoritative church figures? Perhaps the recent elections may provide some clues. How did Catholics respond? The Democratic candidate, Al Gore, appeared unequivocally pro-choice; the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, was pro-life. Anecdotal evidence suggesting that Catholics remained independent-minded in considering the many issues involved in the election seems to be confirmed by a survey by the Voters News Service that estimated that 47 percent of Catholic voters voted for Bush and 49 percent for Goreabout even.
Assessing the impact of statements by church authorities and of the abortion issue on Catholic voters becomes more problematical in many local elections, in which, as in major cities and coastal states, most, if not all, candidates are pro-choice. In New York State, for instance, in the Senate contest between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rick Lazio, both candidates described themselves as pro-choice. But the differences were significant.
Lazio supported a ban on partial-birth abortion and voted for such a ban in Congress. Clinton opposed such a ban. She also opposed notification of parents of minors seeking abortions. Lazio supported such notification. Lazio consistently voted in Congress against federal funding of Medicaid abortions. Clinton supported such federal funding. Lazio, despite his claim to be pro-choice, was strongly attacked for being basically pro-life by Planned Parenthood, Emily's List and other pro-choice organizations that supported Clinton.
On the other hand, instead of supporting Lazio, the Right-to-Life Party entered John O. Adefope as a candidate. Many conscientious Catholics and many pro-life advocates, with conscience in mind and impressed by the right-to-life label, undoubtedly threw away their votes as a pro-life gesture in a politically self-destructive way that has become too familiar. The strongly pro-life Michael Long and his Conservative Party, more politically astute than the Right-to-Life Party, gave their endorsement to Lazio.
In the end Clinton received 55 percent of the vote, Lazio 43 percent. The Voters News Service estimated that 52 percent of Catholics voted for Clinton, 46 percent for Lazio. Although in this Senate election third-party candidates made no difference, many elections are uncomfortably close. A more effective strategy might have counseled the Right-to-Life Party to endorse Lazio and not run a candidate who could not win and would only draw votes away from Lazio. The challenge for church leaders would have been to help Catholics understand the differences between Lazio and Clinton so that they could vote in a politically realistic way and secure some incremental pro-life progress.
How are voters to discern among differences of this sort? Candidates' forums are widely used by groups such as labor unions, chambers of commerce and religious organizations to provide candidates with a chance to address voters' interests. Such forums are impartial, but the sponsor selects the chairperson or panel that guides the discussion and places in the audience people primed to ask pointed questions. Such forums have been effectively used by Catholic parishes to sound out candidates on both community and Catholic concerns. Questioners can inquire, What are you going to do to make Catholics want to vote for you? They can also seek a candidate's commitment to insuring that parochial school children get the school nurses, textbooks and street crossing guards to which they are legally entitled. Even pro-choice candidates, as in the Lazio-Clinton contest, can be questioned about subsidiary issues, such as parental notification for minors, informed consent and partial-birth abortion. The use of these forums should not be left to Planned Parenthood, to gay and lesbian activists and to other groups with agendas usually hostile to Catholic concerns.
Unfortunately, some Catholic authorities, apparently reluctant to trust the intelligence and faith of parishioners, prohibit candidates holding pro-abortion positions from appearing under Catholic auspices. Catholic Charities of Rockville Centre, N.Y., had arranged 19 such candidates' forums at which Clinton and Lazio or their representatives were scheduled to appear. But the diocesan bishop, James T. McHugh (who died on Dec. 10), banned such pro-abortion candidates from Catholic premises. All the forums were canceled. This removed parishioners, as an interest group, from the political process and from understanding and publicizing the differences between the candidates. A pro-life strategy must, however, involve grass-roots discourse and interchange if the arguments of pro-choice advocates are to be persuasively rebutted. Authoritative statements from on high, important as they are, are simply not enough.
How are the pro-life strategies to be made more persuasive? Hillary Clinton had surprisingly strong support among women (60 percent of the vote) and among Catholics (52 percent). While exit polls were not conducted with nuns, conversations with members of several religious communities have shown strong support for Clinton. Lazio's aggressive approach to Clinton in their first debate was seen by many as undesirable male behavior. Disenchantment among many sisters and their organizations with what they perceive as disenfranchisement of women in their church and the recent headline-making intrusion of the Vatican into the ministries of nuns have inclined many sisters to pro-feminism candidates. The patriarchal characteristics of the church, evidenced by denial of women's ordination down to the recently reaffirmed prohibition on the formal installation of women as lectors, have also disposed many laywomen, especially those who are younger and better educated, to see the anti-choice position as the voice of a church perceived as unsympathetic, if not hostile, to the empowerment of women. Many are alienated not only from the pro-life movement but also from the church itself.
What, then, might be a persuasive strategy for this women's issue? Pro-life efforts rely heavily on authoritative statements like those made by bishops prior to the recent elections and those made on other occasions by the pope. The 1998 statement of the U.S. bishops, Living the Gospel of Life, begins with a quotation from Pope John Paul II and contains 17 additional quotations from him. But after Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, and the sometimes controversial statements from the present Vatican, it is fair to question whether papal authority will today constitute, even for many Catholics, the theology of persuasion sought by the bishops. For non-Catholics, it could well be a turn-off.
In addition to heavy reliance on external authority, the U.S. bishops present persuasive internal reasons for respecting the dignity of life and opposing the unjust violence of abortion. But any debate must involve both positive arguments for one's own position and also a rebuttal of opposing arguments. Popes, bishops and pro-life advocates rest content, however, with presenting only one side of the debatethe case for the inviolability of human life. The argument made in support of legal abortionthe argument for the unrestricted liberty of women and for their empowerment, the argument that is the very engine that drives pro-choice acceptance politically and in public opinionis simply ignored. It is neither rebutted nor qualified. A new strategy must include a strong and legitimate feminism. It cannot allow the feminist concerns to be monopolized by the pro-choicers.
Regrettably, the feminist position is perceived by many, both pro-choicers and pro-lifers, as necessarily including abortion. But that need not be. Pro-choice feminist Naomi Wolf in her Fire With Fire (1993) describes how in the 1980's Yale University feminists banned Feminists for Life from the university's women's center. Wolf objected to this, affirming that abortion was not an essential in the struggle for women's equality. She wrote that women talking about the bad aspects of abortiongrief, mourning, depression, the killingshould not be excluded from the ranks of feminists. She reported that when arranging a condom or diaphragm before intercourse, she said to herself: Careful, careful. This is a matter of life and death. There and in other writings, she admits the killing involved, wants to avoid it, but justifies it for what she regards as more compelling reasons.
In its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court used sanitized language. Last June, however, when in Stenberg v. Carhart the court by a vote of 5 to 4 struck down Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion, the opinion for the majority spoke in unvarnished language of the horrific details of that procedure. But since the abortions already permitted by the court were equally gruesome procedures, the majority concluded that the partial-birth type must also be permitted. The significant point here is that pro-choicers and the court are at last dealing with both sides of the argumentthe freedom of women and the killing element of abortion. Pro-lifers, if they are to have a strategy of persuasion, must similarly address both sides of the debate, advancing solid arguments for the life of the unborn, but affirming the legitimate liberties and equality of women. It is disastrous, intellectually and politically, for pro-life forces to let themselves be perceived as enemies of the new empowerment of women that is widely seen as a defining characteristic of the 20th century.
In Living the Gospel of Life, the bishops make no reference whatever to the legitimate liberty and empowerment of women. Their six uses of the word women refer exclusively to women as victims. They speak of a new pro-life feminism but curiously describe it as counseling women facing unexpected pregnancies, staffing pregnancy-aid centers and influencing elected officials against abortion. A pro-life feminism must involve much more than this if it is to be persuasive. It must be more than a mere strategy; it must be rooted in justice itself for women.
John Paul II in his many documents refers frequently to the dignity and equality of women; but invariably he insists on greater awareness of the original complementarity between men and women, a concept that historically has hardly been compatible with the equality or empowerment of women.
A new strategy of persuasion could appropriately involve authoritative statements of bishops, supplemented by grass-roots involvement of parishioners in the particularities of elections as, for example, by way of candidates' forums. And, above all, a strategy of persuasion must address both sides of the debatethe inviolability of the life of the unborn and the legitimate empowerment of women.


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Q: Do you have any favorite characters from your books? If so, who and why?
Michelle: Jiri. He's from Tribes of the Vampire. Also, King Lucien of the Damned from Realm Immortal. These are both secondary characters that I get a ton of fan mail for. They're total alpha, very much on the evil side, yet everyone asks me to redeem the unredeemable. As a writer, these characters can be more fun to play with than the hero and heroine. And, I like making a bad guy that people want to see get better.
Mandy: I'm going to go with Pallo from Daughter of Darkness. I think he's just really misunderstood. I'm sure under all that alpha male vampire he's a sweet, sweet, lovable lil kitten, right? I mean, there has to be more to him than pure sexual maleness. *grin* In all honesty, I really love everything about him. He's not afraid to piss people off and he will, in extreme circumstances admit he's wrong—well, if he wasn't always right that is. LOL.
I think Michelle should work on Jiri's book next. I also think he should be in love with a woman who is 5'6" curvy, has long black curly hair, green eyes and answers to the name Mandy or Mistress. Really, it's up to her on the name.
Michelle: Huh, for some reason I opened up a couple WIPs tonight and they'd been edited with that very information. Strange… ;)
Mandy: Hmm, no clue what happened *hides all evidence of having hacked Michelle's system*
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Bank of America Corp. led financial stocks higher following an upgrade with the broader market rallying Wednesday after Alcoa Inc. reported a surprise quarterly profit late Tuesday.
Shares of blue chip Bank of America Corp. BAC, +2.54% rose 3.8% to close up $8.86 following an upgrade from Guggenheim Securities. In a research note, Guggenheim analyst Marty Mosby, who has a $11 price target on the bank, raised B. of A. to a buy from neutral.
The analyst called the stock's recent fall from $10 a share a buying opportunity and said the bank could show gains from securities transactions and the retirement of debt this quarter.
Mosby also said he expects earnings surprises from Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +1.44% Regions Financial Corp. RF, +3.16% and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. BK, +2.36% Shares of Wells Fargo, which reports quarterly results this Friday, closed up 2.1%.
Genworth GNW, +0.00% shares rose 3.2% to close at $7.54 after institutional brokerage BTIG started coverage on the stock with a buy rating and a price target of $11.
BTIG analyst Mark Palmer said in a note he believes the stock is undervalued because concerns about its U.S. mortgage insurance unit are "overblown," and that the unit is on track to return to profitability in 2013.
Shares of MetLife Inc. MET, +2.42% advanced 1.4% to close at $35.33 after Raymond James analyst Steven Schwartz upgraded the insurer to outperform from market perform in a research note. The analyst, who has a $42 price target on MetLife, cited the stock's under valuation over the past three months as key to the upgrade.
Schwartz also lowered his rating on Assurant Inc. AIZ, +1.11% to underperform from market perform on regulatory concerns that its specialty property forced-placed homeowners' insurance will make it unlikely to keep up with the rest of the insurance sector. Shares of Assurant closed up 1.1%.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR XLF, +2.13% which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, +1.09% rose 1.6%. The sector was the best performing of the 10 sectors in the S&P 500, following the worst day for U.S. equity markets in 2012 on Tuesday.
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Throughout the project, we've been collecting existing online resources via social bookmarking services, and gathering evidence of what works and what doesn't in various different areas of mobile technologies in libraries. In order to share this information, we've brought together a series of documents under the umbrella of Pathways To Best Practice.
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The show must go on.
Unless Sandy comes to town.
Broadway, which grosses more than $1 billion a year and pumps about $30 million a week into New York's economy, went dark Monday and Tuesday night due to Hurricane Sandy.
Producers were scrambling yesterday to determine whether the casts and crews of Broadway's 28 shows could make it to work for today's matinee.
While big stars are chauffered to and from the theater in black SUVs, actors, musicians and stagehands are working stiffs who depend on public transportation.
The Broadway League, which represents producers, polled its members yesterday at 3 p.m. to see if the shows could go on today.
It appears that most will, though as of deadline yesterday a few producers were still having trouble rounding up their cast and crew.
Some shows may not play today.
This is the second time in a little more than a year that Mother Nature has upended the old adage of the show going on no matter what. Hurricane Irene forced Broadway to cancel a weekend's worth of performances in August 2011, knocking nearly $10 million off weekly receipts.
But Irene was drizzle compared to Sandy, whose after-effects are sure to be felt for a long time.
The only silver lining is that this week traditionally is a soft one for Broadway, with attendance dipping because of Halloween and Daylight Savings Time.
Broadway lost two performances after the attack on the World Trade Center. But by Wednesday night, at the urging of Mayor Giuliani, all shows were up and running — a sign to the world that New York was open for business.
The loss of even one performance can wreak havoc with a show's finances. Because of steep weekly running costs, most shows make their weekly profit in the eighth performance. Anything less than that, and they'll have an unprofitable week.
The perennials — "Mamma Mia!" "The Lion King," "Wicked" — won't notice the loss.
But marginal shows could be thrown into turmoil. And several of the new shows this season are marginal, barely holding their heads above water before the Hudson overflowed.
"Chaplin, "The Performers," "Scandalous" and "The Heiress" could, like the Atlantic City boardwalk, be washed away by Sandy.
The loss of one or two performances also has stark consequences for the industries that survive on Broadway — restaurants, parking and taxis.
Take away Broadway shows, and Times Square empties out pretty fast.
Yesterday the TKTS booth at 47th and Broadway, usually a hub of tourist activity, was as desolate as Mongolia.
Off-Broadway producers were also taking stock of their situation yesterday. The blackout below 39th Street means many of the city's smaller theaters won't be open for several days.
The Vineyard Theater in Union Square has postponed tonight's opening of "Checkers," a promising new play about Richard Nixon and his famous 1952 speech, indefinitely.
Veteran Broadway producers said yesterday that they expect a steep plunge in this week's box office receipts — perhaps as much as a 40 percent drop from last week's. Getting into the city could be a nightmare for the next several days, which would pick off one of Broadway's key constituencies — suburbanites.
Still, there was a sense yesterday that there are enough tourists in hotels to fill theater seats. And if you live in the city, this week might be your best opportunity to see one of the so-called "sold out" shows.
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The working man in Illinois apparently can't lose.
Both Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and his newly minted Republican challenger Bruce Rauner are laying a "man of the people" groundwork in their run at the governor's mansion in Illinois.
"As long as I'm governor, I'm here to fight for the 99.99 percent," Quinn said in his salt of the earth acceptance speech after easily winning the Democratic primary. "Together, we will build and protect the middle class and keep Illinois moving forward."
Rauner, a multimillionaire who squeaked out a victory against a public employee union-backed opponent, sounded a similar every-man tone.
"This is about the truck driver in Rockford looking for more work," Rauner said. "This is about the factory worker in Decatur who lost his job…this is about the single mother in Pilsen, struggling to make ends meet who wants to have a better life."
Rauner supporter and Palatine GOP precinct committeeman Kevin Cavanaugh said voters are going to have a choice between two very different visions of populism.
"(Rauner) is playing to what people want," Cavanaugh said. "There's a want for tax rollbacks, there's a want for fiscal responsibility."
Quinn's populism is what voters have come to expect from the two-term Democrat: government action and government spending.
"I'm here to fight for working people who deserve a fair shake," Quinn told his crowd of well-wishers, "And I'm here today to fight for an economy that works for everyone, not just for the billionaires, but for everybody."
Quinn's primary victory speech echoed his gubernatorial address to lawmakers from last month. He once again called for a $10-an-hour minimum wage.
But the battle for the governor's mansion is going to be as much a proxy war over the role of public sector unions as it is about fight for who is the real man of the people.
Rauner made no secret of his desire to unseat the "government union bosses" during his run through the primary.
Those union bosses, including American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Service Employees International Union and Illinois' teachers unions, have donated millions of dollars to Quinn over the years.
Andrew Matthews, a Illinois State University political science professor and local education union president, said there's no doubt the proxy fight over labor will add millions of dollars to what is already expected to be an expensive November election.
"I don't know what our union will end up doing. I don't know where AFSCME is going to end up. I don't know where SEIU (will end up)," Matthews said. "This is a Pat Quinn versus Bruce Rauner race. (But) certainly organized labor is going to have a voice in that race. We have a voice in every race."
Ron Gidwitz, a former GOP candidate for governor and Rauner financier, said he expects labor unions from outside the state to open the flood gates and pour millions of dollars into Illinois.
"They're pretty determined that we'll have a tough race in the fall," Gidwitz added. "We'll see what happens."
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Ricky Martin: 'I Would Bully People Who I Knew Were Gay'
In an interview with GQ Australia, Ricky Martin opens up about his past battles with internalized homophobia.
"I was very angry, very rebellious. I used to look at gay men and think, I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me. I was ashamed.
"When you're told you're wrong by everyone, from society, from your faith - my self-esteem was crushed. I took my anger out on those around me."
The singer continues, "I look back now and realize I would bully people who I knew were gay. I had internalized homophobia. To realize that was confronting to me. I wanted to get away from that."
Martin is now the father of two twin boys, Matteo and Valentino, whom he's raising with his partner Carlos Gonzalez Abella.
He explains, "'I didn't want them (his twin sons) growing up in a house of lies… or thinking that there was something wrong with being gay."
Brave admission. Can you identify with Ricky's struggle, Instincters?
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It's been more than five years since Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot and killed in his home, the victim of an armed robbery gone bad. Five men were arrested and charged in connection with his murder, but only one is currently behind bars: Venjah Hunte has made his first public statement since being sentenced to 29 years in prison.
From a letter to the Washington Times:
"To begin I would like to send my deepest apology to the family of Sean Taylor. I know an apology won't bring him back, but I hope one day they could find it in their hearts to forgive me."
"My thought or intentions weren't to hurt him or noone [sic] else, let alone murder, it was something I thought would never happen. Even though I didn't pull the trigger I still have to take responsibility for my actions. Period."
It's still not known who pulled the trigger. Hunte was the only one of the defendants to take a plea deal, pleading guilty to second-degree murder and burglary while armed in exchange for a deposition incriminating the other men charged. We once bemoaned the glacial pace of the cases—and that was in March of 2008. It's now 2013 and the trials of the other four have yet to begin, thanks to numerous postponements and changes of attorney.
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Readers, I'd love your opinion! Are there any no-fuss vintage hairstyles or haircuts?
Something that looks stylish but is not time-consuming?
Vintage flair for those who lack the time for perfect hair?
Any era or length welcome!
I'd be thrilled to hear of your own personal experience! Maybe you found an extremely quick cut? Or maybe you discovered one that looked simple but was actually a time snatcher?
I've got my own opinions, but I'd love to see what others think. In all honesty, I normally don't mind putting in the extra hours to create the perfect look, but there are times in life when that's simply not possible. With all our combined knowledge I plan to put together a post collaborating everyone's opinions and sharing the tips to success!


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Aletony necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Counting calories sucks! Counting to 10 is easy. This is why MakeIt10 exists. Each day, users of the application will be able to track their Food Intake or Activity Level on a scale of 1-10. So after an amazing workout, a user can rate his/her Activity Level 8, 9, or 10. If after a day of eating unhealthy foods, he/she can rate their Food Intake 1, 2, or 3. And so forth.
It's about Simplicity. Success through simple focus.
The logo should appeal to the masses, but most prominently to Internet and Smart Phone (iPhone and Android) users. This is where the logo will be displayed.
We are looking for the following:
1. Fun, easy, web 2.0'ish ( yes, this term is dated :)), maybe modern
2. Action oriented (considering the word 'Make' requires doing something)
3. Possibly emphasize the number '10.' However, please note, the font style used for '10' should also potentially be used for numbers 1-9
4. The word 'It' . Not sure whether word 'It' should be subtle and minimized OR have it signify 'Food Intake' and 'Physical Activity.' Use your creative discretion.
5. Success / Accomplished Oriented
We will leave the color palette up to you.
Sample Logo's for Inspiration.
1. Yelp ... their font style and icon (http://www.yelp.com/houston)
2. FitFu ... colors (http://www.fitfu.com/)
3. Hashable ... how they made the hash tag fun and playful (http://hashable.com/beta)
4. Scribd ... nice font style (http://www.scribd.com/)
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Thursday, 23 February 2012
Sewing for charity
16 comments:
- Jessica said...
Some lovely things there! I love the Dr Seuss bags!
- 23 February 2012 at 11:57
- barcord said...
You've been busy. They are all beautiful and decidedly saleable goodies. Your friend will have no problem selling these.
- 23 February 2012 at 12:41
- Caroline said...
What a coincidence! I'm making the same tissue covers with a group of friends in S'pore for the Cheshire Home. Or maybe it is not surprising as hand tissues are part of the survival kit of any proper Singaporian. Hope the sale goes well!
- 23 February 2012 at 13:34
- Diane H said...
Bless you, Vreni. These are all beautifully made items for such a good cause.
- 23 February 2012 at 14:31
- LintLady said...
Hallo Vreni,
schöne Sachen, die du da für einen so guten Zweck genäht hast! Ich hoffe sie sind dann alle ratz-fatz weg-gekauft!
Viel Glück und LG Doris
- 23 February 2012 at 15:54
- Sheila said...
Oh my. All the items you made are lovely! Such a worthy charity. I hope she has a successful day at the Farmer's Market.
- 23 February 2012 at 17:28
- Lynda said...
Wonderful items that will surely sell quickly. Love the silk bags.
Your around the world quilting bee looks exciting too. I'll be watching for the fun blocks you'll be making.
- 23 February 2012 at 17:40
- Theodora quilts said...
Wow you really have been busy making so many lovely things and the fabrics are so pretty, have a nice time at market.
- 23 February 2012 at 18:52
- Thimbleanna said...
Boy, you've been busy! All such cute little items -- what a wonderful thing to do. I'm sure they'll all sell very well.
And can I just say, I saw your picture the other day! What a cutie! Not at all what I expected (I pictured you as a brunette LOL)!
- 23 February 2012 at 19:17
- meli B said...
Lovely things. I am sure they were snapped up.
- 24 February 2012 at 09:24
- Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...
Lots of pretties you made for her to sell. I'm sure they will sell out quickly. Love those Seuss book bags!
- 24 February 2012 at 18:05
- Happy-Sonne said...
Liebe Vreni
Das sind ja wirklich ganz tolle Sachen, die Du da genäht hast. Wunderschöne Farben!
Vielen Dank auch für Deinen lieben Kommentar auf meinem Blog.
Ich wünsche Dir ein wunderschönes Wochenende und grüsse Dich herzlichst Yvonne
- 25 February 2012 at 17:02
- Julimond said...
Im Gegensatz zu mir warst du ja megafleißig. Ich hoffe, alles findet seinen Abnehmer, damit was in die Kasse kommt für den guten Zweck.
Das TatüTa Tutorial...das sieht ja wirklich total einfach aus. Muß ich mal ausprobieren.
- 25 February 2012 at 17:16
- Silvia said...
That's a good thing to do..sewing for charity..Sure she will not have a problem to sell it...They are all of them beautiful!!.
- 25 February 2012 at 22:38
- donkey and the carrot said...
Oh BOY!!! How cute are these!!! I really loved the first ones with the red white colors!!! How are you my dear Vreni? I am fine! Many kisses to you!!!
- 8 March 2012 at 14:24
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Right, Write
Just by making the statement that I was going to write more gave my brain permission to shut down. In the few years I have blogged, I've noticed the writers block that appears at the beginning of each new year. It happens to most bloggers at one time or another. I assumed it was because of all the fodder starting with school in the fall, on to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the finale of New Years. With all the commotion, in those last four months, most bloggers are burnt out.
I can't use that as an excuse. Yea, look back, I didn't blog much then. Eighteen posts in four months. I can't decide if that's because I was so busy or because I was tending to my FaceBook addiction.
It's been pointed out to me, on several occasions, that my brain spins around like a Rolodex. My thoughts usually are two rotations ahead of my speaking. I can be all over the board because of this. When I write on a regular basis, I'm more likely to keep myself in check and organize my direction better.
So where the fack am I going with all this? Who knows.
I've never been a writer, just someone that empties her brain out by way of blogging. It's getting crowded with clutter, I better purge more often.
To be continued ....
... for my own sanity.
8 comments:
- San said...
I like the "do" lol
- January 12, 2010 at 11:44 PM
- Nancy said...
San: You took the photo! And that "do" with the clip ... is holding my brain together ;)
- January 13, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Look forward to more purging.... Facebook is fun but following your blog and a few others is actually more enjoyable, at least to me...
- January 13, 2010 at 3:35 AM
- sherry ♥ lee said...
It IS a nice do -- whether it's keeping your brain "in" or not!! :)
You are busy -- life is full, you've taken on a new hobby (okay, the man is not a "hobby" lol!!!) -- and you are fishing and boating and sucking up life like a sponge. That's a very good thing. Healthy some would say!! :) (that would be moi!).
So you don't blog as much as you used to -- remember..."blogging without obligation" -- and when you do blog it's always something interesting.
Live your life. It's the only one we've got!! ♥
- January 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM
You include the coolest photos! Love this one! You and your sister are talented ladies. You're right about it being hard to find topics in the New Year. I go through blogging phases, and the main thing that keeps me going is my writing students. A lot of them come visit, and they inspire me to come up with material for them, which is why my blog is so "writer-heavy."
I also agree with Sherry, who notes that you have a life, a real life, that keeps you busy. You don't live inside your computer screen (which it seems many bloggers do)!
- January 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Ree said...
Yay! I've missed you.
- January 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- dkuroiwa said...
(pssst...hey...I'm just going to copy and paste this whole post for my blog...okay? okay. 'cause really...you took the words right out of my fingertips. thanks. you're a great friend with a great do...one that i envy.)
*funny...the word verification was "ovillye" which, when i first glanced at it, i thought read "oliveoyle"....THAT would have been awesome!!
- January 17, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Bruce said...
LOL....brain purge.....like you are the only one that does it. I better purge soon before my head explodes.....
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Blogging on the brain - part 2
I like all those things in the "About This Blog" blurb on the right side of this page. Out of curiosity, I skimmed through the blogs I follow (I don't necessarily read everything), and counted up the categories. Several of them were outdated, or sadly, closed shop a few months ago. Those did not get counted. I follow:
17 history blogs
26 genealogy blogs
29 about books, booksellers or libraries
5 about Quakers (modern)
1 travel blog
29 writing blogs
6 scrapbooking or photography
and 6 others, just for fun.
Apparently Genealogy, Books and Writing still grab my interest, about equally. I was surprised to see only one for travel, because I follow several travel bloggers on Twitter. New posts show up in the Reading List on Blogger's dashboard, but I don't know how to delete duplicates or extinct blogs.
What about you?
1. What are your favorite themes?
2. How do you read your favorite websites and blogs? (eg. Google reader, Blogger)
Please post your answers in the comments. I'd like to know your thoughts.
6 comments:
- Mary said...
I too am struggling through the Platform Challenges, also am unclear about my blog "personality," and think I may have messaged you through an earlier challenge. Do we make a good connection (for PC #15)?
- Kris Swanguarin said...
I think blogs by their nature are works in progress that evolve with us. I have a postcard blog which I've neglected a bit to work on a new focus. I also have a blog for my writing too.
My favorite themes? I'll have to research that but race cars, dog mushing and humor postcards for my postcard blog. My writing blog is, well, about wonder and pain and liberation.
I read blogs differently depending on the subject and depth. Almost exclusively, I visit blogs via Twitter and have several I follow regularily.
It seems you are doing a great job mixing your themes. Have you thought of a separate blog for each theme? They might feed off each other. This has the advantage that your readers will know what subject they will be viewing when they visit.
Sorry so long winded. Best of luck with the Platform Challenge.
Here are links to my blog:
- Susan Scott said...
Hello Elizabeth, I am also struggling with MNINB let alone twitter, FB blogging and checking out others's blogs from which I KNOW I will learn a lot. It reminds me a bit of my resistance to emailing in the 1990's and how I thought I wld never do this - but thank heavens I overcame this (pretty quickly). I like what Kris said about blogging and they will evolve with us.
All best wishes,
- Susan Scott said...
You asked about favourite themes .. I like contemporary and historical novels, authors such as Edward Whitmont (Jungian analyst who died a few years ago); Joseph Cambell (a great writer on mythology who incidentally may be a source for you on Ireland:did you know that St Patrick was accredited with driving all the snakes out of Ireland?); good biographies ..
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Hi, everybody. Thanks for stopping by!
Mary, where? Twitter? I think I was interested in one of your MNINB comments and clicked on your profile, but there's no information (in Blogger). No last name, no photo, no info - makes it hard to connect. All the challenges are a little overwhelming, aren't they? I hope to see you again in one of these venues.
Kris, thanks for the comments. Separate blogs or not is exactly what I'm struggling with. I like having everything in one place, especially 3 years of past posts.
Susan, it's a lot going on, isn't it? But fun! I think we'll like some of the venues more than others and gravitate to those. I hadn't heard of those authors.
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Today's challenge about SEO and keywords really helped me think about the content of this blog. He had us write down what search words we want people to use to find us. I wrote this in the comments section on MNINB:
"I realized I've been blogging about writing and blogging, when I really want people to find me for Irish genealogy or Quaker history. This is just the kind of focus I needed."


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Name: 1964Video
Type: N64 Emulator video plugin (under community development)
Licence: GPL 2.0
Targeted: All 1964 emulator users
Supported Emulators: All windows-based emulators with plugin support (1964, Project64, Mupen64plus)
Requirements: MS C++ Redistributable Package
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Release Date: 10/14/2009
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- added support for a WIP folder for enabling the reloading of newly designed
textures of retexture artists. WIP has to be a direct subfolder of the main
folder of the hires pack. Nested folders are possible
- fixed a bug with texture dumping
- fixed the counter display for texture loading. Now it indicates the real
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- adjusted displayed messages
- added hint for caching option (forgot to port this from my private codebase
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- started to comment the hires code in TextureFilters.cpp. It should now be
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- CRC-fix avoids slowdown in Castlevania, Smash Brothers and probably other games, when hires is enabled
- Support for static hires backgrounds as used in Zelda
- Experimental texture caching (check options). This has still improvement potential (texture compression)
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- No rechecking and reloading (in case of enabled caching) of hires-textures. if a savestate is loaded or if you
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- Fix to avoid crashing under Vista and Windows7
- Some smaller things
- Fixes ported from the Linux version of Rice
1964Video is based on the latest version of the Rice-plugin, meaning the version 6.1.4, which included some changes of Mudlord.
Afterwards the community involvement started as Gitech requested some improvements for supporting the development of his
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Current situation:
The development of the plugin has now moved from a one-man-show towards a (hopefully) community-driven approach. That way,
we hope getting more people involved into actual development and to foster the progress of this great plugin, which - even if not yet
being the most advanced one - was the initial plugin pushing N64 emulation to the next level by introducing hires texture support (Rice).
The initial version of the plugin (r30, 10/10/2009) also contains some fixes, that have been applied by the folks of Mupen64plus, a multi
platform N64 emulator, to the linux version of the Rice plugin (thank you guys!). Furthermore, some ideas have been taken from Glide64,
which is the reference video plugin for 64 emulation atm (great work folks!).
At first, the plugin has to be brought to a state that makes it easier accessible by potential new developers. Death-druid did with
the transfer towards a maintained svn already the first step in that direction. Furthermore the source code has to be documented for
allowing a better understanding. All applied changes have already been documented - more to come.
The general target is of course the improvement of the existing plugin. As usually everyone just has a limited amount of time, he/she is
able to dedicate to such leisure activities, additional developers are needed. Thus any interested dev is warmly invited to join up at the svn.
Finally, it's of course all about having fun!
This thread is meant for publishing the latest versions of the plugin, sharing information about development progress, obstacles, ideas to
the community and for providing feedback regarding the releases towards the developers.
This thread is not meant for nagging about "when do you release" or "when do you support". I guess feature requests should be allowed but
don't expect a guarantee for implementation. If you really badly want it, it's community-driven - you are free to do it yourself. Please always
keep in mind, if the devs lose the fun and therefore interest, you'll lose the contribution.


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We recently found ourselves watching 'Leap Year' (you know, 'cause it's literally the only movie we can think of that celebrates Leap Day), and realized that Matthew Goode is the hunk that completely fell off our radar. Whatever happened to that scruffy-looking stud after he played Amy Adams' new-found hubby in the movie?
After the romantic comedy, Goode scored roles in a couple of films, 'Cemetery Junction' and 'Burning Man,' as well as in the TV shows 'Dancing on the Edge' and 'Birdsong.' Now, the Englishman will be starring alongside Nicole Kidman and 'Alice in Wonderland's' Mia Wasikowska in the upcoming movie 'Stoker.' According to an interview with Digital Spy, Goode has high hopes for the film, and frankly, so do we.
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GUNGHO needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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BYU student qualifies for U.S. Olympic luge team
12/14/2013 10:58amA BYU student qualified for the luge Olympic team on Friday.
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Dozens of kids get to 'Shop with a Cop' for Christmas
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Sunday, September 01, 2013
the chamber of secrets
Separate and mostly unrelated: we currently live in a three bedroom house, which while by New York standards is an embarrassment of bedrooms (and square footage), means that under current occupancy patterns, we have neither a guest room nor a room for Nina to decamp.
THEREFORE (and this is where the two threads come together) we are working towards the goal of consolidating both boys into the same room. We already have a bunk bed in Cal's room so we're halfway there (it's even a twin over a full so that Mack will be, what, 50% less likely to end up on the floor?) but even so, it's a transition that is sure to be met with some resistance, at least initially. So we're selling the idea by billing these new shared quarters as the SUPER-DUPER BOYZ HANGOUT ROOM. Jazz hands! And one of the ways that we thought we could make the room cooler? By building a secret clubhouse inside of it.
Cal's room has three small closets, the middle closet of which has a lofted crawlspace, about two and a half feet wide, thirteen feet long, and maybe four feet high. We'd been using this space to keep a variety of larger items that we had nowhere else to store (as we have neither garage, basement nor attic space); things like our Christmas decorations, moving boxes, an old set of doors from the laundry room, what have you. We still have no place to store these things, and in fact, all these things are kind of sitting out in the family room now until we find a better place to put them. But lack of storage aside we figured screw it, let's just empty out the crawl space and turn it into a clubhouse. A SUPER SECRET RAD CLUBHOUSE FOR BOYS. No Homers allowed!
The first thing we had to do, after we emptied the closet out, was change the light fixture. Being a closet, all it had was a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling with a pull-chain cord, which was obviously hazardous, what with the risk of anyone walking into the burning bulb with their face. So we took out the light fixture, capped it off, and put in an outlet instead. (I say "we" but when I say "we" I really mean the electricians did it and I watched, encouraging them with the thumbs up sign and offering beverages for their troubles at annoyingly frequent intervals.) After the electrical work was done, we vacuumed and washed the floors (and I apologize for the lack of any really good "before" photos because you have to understand, it's basically a railroad car-shaped space, there's really no room to get a good shot) and got to work decorating.
One thing that Joe really wanted to put in there was a full-wall panel of dry-erase board. A dry erase board that size (about four feet by six feet) would easily cost more than a hundred bucks, but we did it on the cheap by going to Home Depot and getting a panel of fiberboard with one side of white shiny coating (not sure what the coating is but it is smooth and slick, like melamine) and getting it cut to 48 inches, which was the length of the wall on one side of the clubhouse door. The whole panel of fiberboard cost something like $12.99, and after getting it cut, we ended up with two fairly large pieces of whiteboard material--I still have to find a home for the second piece, because I guess I'm too much of a cheapskate to throw it away. The only drawback to this is that the dry-erase board isn't magnetic like some of the more expensive "real" whiteboard options, but in the big scheme of things and especially given the price differential, I don't think it's a big deal.
My big contribution was the lighting. Mainly the concern was safety. Joe had wanted to install one of those recessed can lights up in the ceiling, but I just kept having visions of the kids burning their heads or their hands on the bulbs, as the ceiling really is very low in there--Cal can't even stand up straight without his head grazing the ceiling. Another issue is that as a closet, the ventilation in the clubhouse space isn't very good. We already put a fan by the door to move some air in there and I have talked to the boys about leaving the outer closet door open, because as an anesthesiologist I am somewhat paranoid about CO2 rebreathing. (That scene from "Apollo 13" where the astronauts have to make that new CO2 filter out of, like, a sock and some duct tape? THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES.) Anyway, my point to the lights is that anything incandescent would heat up the space quickly. I originally thought about a string of low wattage Christmas lights, but then I found these:
Tape lights! (Not "tap lights". TAPE lights.) They're LED and energy efficient, bright, cool to the touch, and super-easy to affix, as they are literally backed with 3M tape so you can just stick them up wherever you want. And best of all?
They change color! They even have flashing and strobe effects, which is not my favorite setting (I kept waiting for someone to start seizing in there) but the kids certainly enjoyed pushing all the buttons. I mean, no kidding, right? THERE ARE BUTTONS? WE MUST PUSH THEM. Anyway, we got two sets of 16 feet each, which was enough to go around the entire clubhouse once with a few feet to spare. We actually like these lights so much we ordered another two sets to rim the bunkbed with, so the kids could use them as reading lights in bed. (See also: the awesome factor.)
We rounded out the room with a berber carpet remnant we had lying around from carpeting the bedrooms when we first moved in (coincidentally the one strip we had was almost exactly the dimensions of the clubhouse space--we just had to lop off a few inches in width to make it fit), two beanbags from Target, a few superhero posters, and a world map from National Geographic. Et voilà.
The name of the secret club, by the way, is SECRET CLUB MOM AND DAD NOT ALLOWED (S.C.M.D.N.A. for, uh, "short") and after surveying the finished product, Cal and Mack promptly kicked me out, which I consider a successful end-result.
Hope you're having a happy Labor Day weekend!
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OMG. So creative and such fun! Makes me want to get busy here.ReplyDelete
I have no doubt that you will find plenty of things to fill your new found hours with.ReplyDelete
You don't have a garage?? I get the no basement thing. I know in some areas those aren't standard, but no garage? Not even an unattached one?ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness... you are the coolest mom EVER! I wish I had a super secret clubhouse like that. AwesomeReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:57 PM
This post makes me feel inadequate as a mom of three. Haa haa...ReplyDelete
I struggle just to read to them 30 minutes a day. How the heck do you find the time to do this project? I work part-time, 30 hours a week and I still can't find time to do things I want to do with the kids. You must be like Hermione and have that watch that allows you to be in multiple places at once. :)
Nah, just a three-day weekend and an enthusiastic co-parent with basic shop skills. Thanks, though! The kids are really enjoying it!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:41 PM
SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK AND BLOGGING MORE REGULARLY AGAIN!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Such a joy. and I love the hideout! Super impressive.
- Cara6:49 PM
That hideout is awesome! Those lights are fantastic - thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Nina is getting so big -- I demand an update post on her - haha.
Have a great week!
Love that room! Glad you are back!! Its like you are alert and oriented again! lol And my daughter still refuses to admit that she worships the ground her brother walks on.ReplyDelete
Great idea (love the lights & the white board wall)!!ReplyDelete
It'll be a room full of memories for the family (especially for Cal & Mack).
If you're still keen on putting up a magnet wall, I know some art stores sell magnet sheets (one side is white & smooth so you can write on it). It looks something like this: http://www.deserres.ca/en-ca/search/magnetic-adhesive/95560/
(the one I've bought before was not adhesive & much cheaper. They have it at the store as a roll, and you just tell them how much you want and they'll cut it for you).
This store is in Canada. A huge arts & crafts store. Not sure what the equivalent is in the States.
Great idea (love the lights & the white board wall)!!ReplyDelete
It'll be a room full of memories for the family (especially for Cal & Mack).
If you're still keen on putting up a magnet wall, I know some art stores sell magnet sheets (one side is white & smooth so you can write on it). It looks something like this: http://www.deserres.ca/en-ca/search/magnetic-adhesive/95560/
(the one I've bought before was not adhesive & much cheaper. They have it at the store as a roll, and you just tell them how much you want and they'll cut it for you).
This store is in Canada. A huge arts & crafts store. Not sure what the equivalent is in the States.
- Anonymous4:32 PM
Totally don't want to be a buzz killer, but have you considered the dry erase board fumes in an enclosed space?ReplyDelete
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stock markets sustained broad-based losses Monday, with investors jittery as euro-zone finance ministers met for the third time this month to discuss debt sustainability for Greece and potentially clear the way for the nation's next installment of bailout aid.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.23% fell 0.5% to close at 272.00, after putting in its best performance in nearly a year last week.
U.S. stocks also traded lower on Wall Street. See: U.S. stock indexes retreat on cliff worries
"Greece is still the core story and in focus today with the finance ministers' meeting," said Keith Bowman, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"But most stock-market reaction is priced in. Investors are hopeful that we'll get some sort of agreement and, if not today, then it may just happen another day this week," he said.
Among notable decliners in the Stoxx Europe 600, Barclays PLC BARC, -0.87% BCS, +1.74% skidded 5.4%, after Qatar Holding said it sold its remaining warrants in the U.K. bank but kept its 6.7% stake. See: Qatar Holding sells remaining warrants in Barclays
Meanwhile, shares of ThyssenKrupp AG TKA, -1.13% lost 5.1% after Credit Suisse cut its rating on the German conglomerate to neutral from outperform.
Nokia Corp. shares FI:NOK1V NOK, +0.32% lost 3.6%, giving back some of their recent gains. Damian Dinning, the Finnish handset maker's imaging-tech chief, told the pureviewclub.com over the weekend that he is stepping down to join Jaguar Land Rover, as staying with Nokia would have meant relocating to Finland from the U.K., which was not an option for his family. Nokia confirmed that Dinning is leaving.
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For the broader European markets, attention was fixed on Greece, with euro-zone finance ministers again meeting in Brussels to discuss a deal on a road map to debt sustainability for the nation, a move necessary to release its next tranche of bailout money. No news of an agreement were out at the European market close.
The Eurogroup also met last week with Greece on the agenda but interrupted its meeting to "allow for further technical work on some elements of this package." See: Another Greece decision delayed – a new pattern here?
"To reach debt sustainability, a cocktail of measures is on the table, including lower interest rates on Greek debt, debt buybacks and a compromise with the [International Monetary Fund] to extend the target date for debt at 120% of GDP to 2022 from 2020," analysts at Société Générale said in a note.
"While there is a good chance that an agreement is reached on Monday, we consider it unlikely that this will make Greek public finances sustainable on anything but paper. The hope is no doubt that the Greek issue will not need to be revisited until after the German election due in autumn 2013," they said.
In choppy trading, the Athens General Index GD, +1.89% inched 0.1% lower to 844.57.
European investors also fixed their eyes on Spain, after pro-independence parties in the region of Catalonia won a major victory in Sunday's election. See: Mixed message from election for Spain's Catalonia
Spain's IBEX 35 index IBEX, +0.35% dropped 0.4% to 7,874.80, with shares of Banco Santander SA SAN, +0.49% SAN, +2.65% losing 0.6%.
Monday's movers
Banking shares were also on the decline in the U.K., as Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC RBS, +1.82% RBS, +3.34% fell 3% and sector heavyweight HSBC Holdings PLC HSBA, -0.33% lost 0.9%.
The FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.24% slipped 0.6% to close at 5,786.72. See: Banks, oil firms drop in downbeat U.K. market
In France, shares of BNP Paribas SA BNP, +0.75% dropped 1.8%.
Total SA FP, -0.37% TOT, +1.66% shed 0.5%, as crude-oil futures dropped below $88 a barrel in New York. Investors in Paris shrugged off Exane BNP Paribas initiating coverage of the European oil sector with a positive stance and placing the French oil major in the "outperform" category. See: Oil drops on Greece jitters, stronger dollar
The CAC 40 index PX1, +0.30% closed 0.8% lower at 3,500.94.
Finally, Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, -0.01% lost 0.2% to 7,292.03. Shares of Deutsche Bank AG DBK, +0.44% DB, +5.52% fell 1.9%.
Vestas shares rally
Outside the major indexes, Vestas Wind Systems AS VWS, -0.51% soared 21%. The provider of wind-power systems said its lenders agreed to provide new credit facilities to the company.
Shares of Royal KPN NV KPN, +0.44% jumped 4.5%, after Bank of America Merrill Lynch lifted the carrier's rating to buy from neutral.
However, shares of UBS AG CH:UBSN UBS, +2.13% lost 1.5%. The U.K. Financial Services Authority said it has fined the investment bank 29.7 million pounds ($47.5 million) for systems and controls that failed in relation to a $2.3 billion trading loss as a result of unauthorized trading. See: U.K. fines UBS £29.7M over unauthorized trading
And shares of Swiss Re AG SREN, +0.06% slumped 1.4%. The reinsurance firm estimated its claims burden from Hurricane Sandy at about $900 million. See: Swiss Re: Claims from Hurricane Sandy around $900M
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