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Burberry, Tom Ford headline London Fashion Week
LONDON (AP) — Soft, lacey pastel confections at Burberry Prorsum, wacky florals at Christopher Kane, sparkly party dresses at Tom Ford: London Fashion Week was in full swing Monday, with a huge diversity of new spring looks from a parade of big names all jostling for buyers' attention.
Luxury British label Burberry packed in the biggest crowds with its runway show, which featured a collection of ultra-feminine pastel outfits, sheer pencil dresses and light cashmere coats.
Designer Christopher Bailey said it was all about romance and softness — and as if the floral details and lace prettiness weren't enough, he drove the point home by closing his show with a shower of pale rose petals.
"I wanted everything to feel like you are being enveloped in fabric. I wanted people to feel warmed by it," Bailey said after the show.
If that's not your cup of tea, there were plenty of other inspirations for next season's wardrobe on show Monday. Tom Ford, for example, went in the opposite direction, showcasing a catwalk of leather biker jackets, glamorous black double-breasted trouser suits and slinky little dresses for partying the night away.
The American designer said the collection, which also included some ultra-sparkly catsuits, had a powerful and strong woman in mind.
"There's nothing stronger in our culture than a beautiful woman who's also physically strong," Ford said.
Day 4 of the 5-day style event is traditionally reserved for London's blockbuster shows, and a host of celebrities joined the fashion crowd on the front row. Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett were spotted at Ford, while Naomie Harris, Sienna Miller and One Direction's Harry Styles turned up at Burberry.
Other hot tickets Monday included Kane's, which featured florals — but not as you know it. Kane, one of the most influential among London's younger generation of designers, showcased prints of flowers dissected, complete with the biological names of the plant's parts.
Monochrome reigned at Erdem, which created a poetic and haunting mood with wispy layers of sheer tulle and organza. Those who prefer color in their spring and summer wardrobes need not worry, though: Roksanda Ilincic was among designers who worked with vibrant tones, with color blocks from sunshine yellow to neon green.
London Fashion Week winds down with its last shows Tuesday, when models, buyers and editors pack up and leave for more runway previews in Milan and Paris.
Romance was in the air at Burberry, which showcased a collection of feminine lace dresses, soft cashmere cardigans and organza shirts in pastel shades of rose, mint, lavender and cornflower blue.
The color palette and textures may be sweet and dreamy, but there was also a sassiness and a sexiness to the designs. Some models wore nothing but loose unlined wool coats in simple clean shapes, while others sported head-to-toe see-through lace outfits and barely-there floral print skirts.
Outerwear is Burberry's strong point and although there were none of its signature trench coats in sight, the collection featured plenty of light cashmere and wool coats in a loose and relaxed cut.
As with everything Tom Ford, his new womenswear collection is slick, opulent and full of sex appeal.
Set in a darkened room with mirrored walls, Ford opened with luxurious brown leather jackets and dresses, then moved on to a series of mostly monochrome mini dresses in zebra print, an oversized fishnet pattern, or black mesh overlaid with cobweb-like patterns. There were big statement party dresses covered in sparkly beading, and catsuits encrusted head-to-toe in mirror pieces.
More practical for most women would be the sharp black trouser suits: One had a sexy lace-up back, and another was double-breasted with satin panels.
Kane's show started out with a science fiction vibe, with outfits that featured daring teardrop peepholes. Some of the first models wore metallic paisley cutouts on their collars or lapels, suggesting something from Star Trek.
There were diaphanous gowns with lots of pleats, as well as more girl-next-door sweaters bearing words like "PETAL" and "POWER." Less accessible were Kane's hologram-effect dresses with delicate, glittery streamers — these could be party wear in the year 3013. Also on the odd side were sheer black dresses festooned with traffic-sign arrows pointing at each other.
Erdem's catwalk show was a black and white romance, a haunting and dreamy tale told purely in monochrome.
Dresses and separates were made of sheer tulle and organza embroidered with delicate lace, and many looks had wispy layers of sheer fabric trailing behind the shoulder like a soft cape or a bridal veil. Feathers added to the collection's couture look, though the softness was offset by the bulky jelly clog shoes the models were wearing.
"He's so clever — I loved all the wide leg trousers that were see through. It was so dreamy and beautiful, it made me a bit teary," said model Daisy Lowe.
Ilincic has given her feminine style a bolder spin this season, with vibrant graphic blocks of neon orange, green and purple and experimental dress shapes.
There are still her signature calf-length, A-line skirts that emphasize a tiny waist, but Monday's show conveyed a much stronger woman overall. There were pleated skirts worn over skinny trousers, big padded jackets, and skirts with stiff pleats.
The show closed with dresses and jackets embellished with hard crystal flowers — luxurious for sure, but it's femininity with an edge to it.
Associated Press writer Raphael Satter contributed to this report.
Sylvia Hui can reached at http://twitter.com/sylviahui


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Happy New Year 2019!
Happy New Year 2019!
"The process of gathering these images reminded me of the Bible's effortless ability to reinvent itself for each generation and each new way of searching."
Bruce Feiler
Its stories may be the best known in the world, but its locations have long been a mystery. Where did Noah's ark land? Where did Moses receive the Ten Commandments? Where are the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? Now, in Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler offers an unprecedented heart-stirring adventure through the landscape of some of history's most storied events.
Featuring Bruce Feiler's own photography as well as his selections from professional collections, Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey brings together breathtaking vistas, intimate portraits, and fascinating panoramas, providing firsthand access to the inscrutable land where three of the world's great religions were bornand finally puts a face on the stories that have long inspired the human spirit.
Over several years, Feiler traveled nearly ten thousand miles through the deserts of the Middle East, which led first to his runaway national bestseller Walking the Bible. This new illustrated book follows his route, offering a thrilling photographic voyage through the actual places of some of the Bible's most memorable eventsfrom the heights of Mount Ararat, where Noah's ark landed, to the desert outpost in Turkey, where Abraham first heard the words of God, to the summit where Moses overlooked the Promised Land.
Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey chronicles a landscape that nurtured the relationship between humans and the divine, breathing new meaning into stories that have been a timeless source of inspiration.
"An instant classic…A pure joy to read."
-Washington Post Book World
"Smart and savvy, insightful and illuminating."
-Los Angeles Times
"An exciting, well-told story informed by Feiler's boundless intellectual curiosity...[and] sense of adventure."
-Miami Herald
"An eloquently spiritual pilgrimage."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Feiler's accomplishment, and it's a profound one, is to confront his idea of God..."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"An inspirational oasis…From the barren land, Feiler emerges, like those whose paths he traces, renewed and transformed."
"An enthusiastic travelogue…Feiler delivers a wealth of information in an accessible and entertaining format."
-New York Times Book Review
"[Feiler] is an excellent guide...He has...invested [this book] with a keen intellectual curiosity."
-New York Times
"Bruce Feiler went looking for proof. He learned that proof doesn't matter."
-USA Today
"Evocative, descriptive, emotionally honest, and often funny."
-Christian Science Monitor
"Feiler, not unlike Mark Twain, brings a sharp sense of humor to the whole endeavor."
-Los Angeles Times
"A powerful and spiritual pilgrimage…in every way, marvelous if not indispensable reading for anyone remotely interested in the Torah."
-Chicago Sun-Times
"The perfect read for people who are interested in the Bible and the middle East."
-Jerusalem Post
"A work of magic...[succeeds] in making the Bible exciting."
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"Goren and Feiler make for two of the most entertaining traveling buddies since Bob Hope and Bing Crosby."
-San Francisco Jewish Bulletin
"This book belongs on the shelves next to the classics."
-Publishers Weekly (*starred review)
"Anyone planning to visit the Middle East should take two books with them--the Bible and this one."
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- In 1970 in the UK it was not only legal but widely accepted practice to pay a woman less than a man for doing the same job. Women who wanted a life outside of home making and child rearing were seen as aberrant, and often regarded with scorn.
- In 1960 in America many parts of the country segregated public facilities by race, with black people consistently and blatantly short-changed. This invidious system was widely supported by prominent politicians and churchmen.
- Even into the 1970s in Australia aborigine children were forcibly removed from their parents and placed in institutions where they were denied proper education and were terribly vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse. Again, this programme was considered perfectly proper and moral by the standards of the time.
- There was a standing assumption for many years that unmarried mothers should immediately give up their children for adoption. In Ireland they were also incarcerated in the "Magdalene Laundries". Other countries had similar systems. Strangely, the fathers were left to go free.
- For most of the 20th century, when it became necessary to remove children from their parents because of neglect or abuse little thought was given to keeping siblings together: they would be split up to suit the convenience of potential adopters or fosterers.
- Until recent years in most Western countries, homosexuals were persecuted and discriminated against, both by the law and by society at large.
- Until the 90s in the UK drink-driving was considered a minor peccadillo. Drivers convicted of the offence were more likely to encounter sympathy at the unfair attitude of the legal system than censure at their reckless disregard for the safety of others.
The problem with moral absolutism is that (in its commonest form) it asserts that the perfect moral code has already been revealed and the only possible improvement is in closer adherence to that code. However I describe myself as a Liberal Utilitarian (although I confess I haven't actually read any of Mill's work). Hence I see "the greatest good of the greatest number" as a basic moral principle, while at the same time acknowledging that there may be a lot of disagreement about exactly what that means and how to bring that about. Liberal utilitarianism recognizes no absolute moral imperative apart from the general principle that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are good things. However by retaining that anchor it avoids the charge often leveled by the Absolutists that those who question their moral code are "relativists" who believe that any moral code is as good as any other. Liberal utilitarianism examines the impact of moral rules on the real people affected by them. If different rules would have a better outcome then those rules are automatically better. I see the arguments (both past and ongoing) about freedom, equal opportunities and tolerance to be a part of this process, and I see a steady improvement through history. Those who object to the current crop of improvements in morality because they contradict their particular absolutist code would do well to read their history books.


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Hitting with RISP has been a recurring theme for the Mets over the past couple of seasons, and this year has started out the same way. They made the most of a bunt single, couple of walks and an error last night, but a bases-loaded double would have saved some angst.
Although Maine pitched well enough to win, he's still not out of the woods as far as his shoulder is concerned. It will be a little cooler tonight than it was in Florida.
Here's tonight's line-up:
Jose Reyes, SS
Daniel Murphy, LF
David Wright, 3B
Carlos Delgado, 1B
Carlos Beltran, CF
Ryan Church, RF
Ramon Castro, C
Luis Castillo, 2B
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Richmond (cities, United States)
Richmond:1 City (1990 pop. 87,425), Contra Costa co., W Calif., on San Pablo Bay, an inlet of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1905. It is a deepwater commercial port and an industrial center with oil refineries and railroad repair shops. Richmond is a major center of trade with East Asia, Hawaii, and Alaska. The city's diverse manufactures include machinery and instruments, metal products, chemicals, motor vehicles, and construction materials. There is ship building and biotechnology development. Originally part of a Spanish ranch on the site of Native American shell mounds, it was settled in 1823 and then grew with the coming of the Santa Fe RR at the turn of the 20th cent.
2 City (1990 pop. 38,705), seat of Wayne co., E Ind., near the Ohio line; settled 1806 by Quakers from North Carolina, inc. as a city 1840. In the fertile Whitewater River valley, Richmond is primarily an industrial city. There are printing and publishing industries, and metal products, construction materials, foods, animal feed, electronics and electrical products, machinery, and motor vehicle parts are manufactured. Earlham College and Indiana Univ. East are in the city.
3 City (1990 pop. 21,155), seat of Madison co., central Ky., in the bluegrass region; inc. 1800. It is a tobacco and livestock (cattle and thoroughbred horses) market, and there is diversified manufacturing. In the Civil War the battle of Richmond (Aug. 30, 1862) was a Confederate victory. Eastern Kentucky Univ. and a U.S. army depot are in the city.
4 Former name of the New York City borough of Staten Island.
5 City (1990 pop. 203,056), state capital, E Va., at the head of navigation on the James River; settled 1637, inc. as a city 1782. It is a port of entry and a financial, commerical, shipping, and distribution center, with a deepwater port. Richmond is a major tobacco market; tobacco and tobacco products are among its leading manufactures. Clothing; chemicals; pharmaceuticals; metal, wood, and paper products; and computer components are also produced. There are printing and publishing enterprises and numerous corporate headquarters in the city. Richmond is the seat of the Univ. of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Virginia Union Univ., and a theological seminary.
Places of interest include the state capitol (1785), designed by Thomas Jefferson; the Washington Monument; the Valentine Museum; the White House of the Confederacy, once the home of Jefferson Davis, and next to it the Museum of the Confederacy; the American Civil War Center; St. John's Church (1742), where Patrick Henry made his famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech; the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (in the oldest surviving building in the city, built c.1740); the Robert E. Lee House (1844); Monument Ave., with its statues of Confederate leaders and tennis player Arthur Ashe; Hollywood Cemetery (1847); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
The first permanent settlement was made in 1637. Fort Charles was built in 1645, and the site became a trading center. The city was laid out in 1737 under the patronage of William Byrd. It was made the capital of Virginia in 1779 and was raided by the British in 1781. During the Civil War, Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy and the constant objective of Union forces. The city was seriously threatened in the Peninsular campaign (1862), when it was saved by the Seven Days battles; in the Wilderness campaign (1864); and in Grant's campaign of 1864–65 around Petersburg, which culminated in Richmond's fall. Much of the city was burned during the Confederate evacuation, Apr. 3, 1865. Richmond National Battlefield Park (see National Parks and Monuments, table) includes several of the battlefields.
See E. M. Thomas, The Confederate State of Richmond (1971); L. White-Raible, Richmond: A Renaissance City (1988).


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Miami, Florida Travel Guide
Miami Summary
- Sunny beach weather year-round, especially from March to June
- Miami Beach's huge stretch of white sand and calm waters
- Topless sunbathing in South Beach
- Couture shopping, with rare designer boutiques
- Hopping club scene until 4 a.m.
- Chic fusion restaurants
- World-class golf courses
- Famed art galleries and design museums like the Bass and Wolfsonian
- Thriving LGBT community
- Live Cuban music on Calle Ocho
- Relatively little crime in most tourist areas
- Most attractive people in the U.S., according to Travel + Leisure
- No beaches near Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, or Downtown Miami
- Difficult, expensive parking, especially in South Beach and Downtown Miami
- Unreliable public transportation
- No private beaches -- all are open to public
- Occasional chilly days from December to February
- Sweltering humidity in the summer, especially August and September
- Slight hurricane potential from June 1 to Nov. 30
Neighborhood Guides
- South Beach: Quaint, neon-lit South Beach is one of the sexiest beach towns in America
- Coral Gables and Coconut Grove: Both off the beach, where hippie chic blends with upscale golfing
- Downtown: By day it's a business center, by night it's a relative ghost town
- Miami Beach: Low-key Miami Beach offers a quiet break from the at-times chaotic South Beach
- Northern Beaches: Wealthy locals, retirees, and snowbirds from the Northeast populate this quiet area
- Suburban Miami: Huge resorts with championship golf courses dominate sleepy, residential suburbia
- Key Biscayne and Virginia Key: Laid-back, surfer-dude appeal alongside the Ritz-Carlton
- Fisher Island: Exclusive 216-acre island with a private club, a hotel, and posh residences
What It's Like
Like Cuba's ultra-capitalist offshoot, Miami is a sprawling, modern metropolis with a Latino pulse. One of America's most fashion-forward cities, its couture shopping, A-list clubs, renowned art galleries, and innovative cuisine draw some pretty famous faces, with paparazzi (or Secret Service) frequently in tow. But beyond the glitz, Miami is a safe, impressively clean city -- the cleanest in America, according to Forbes -- with a touch of small-town charm in neighborhoods like South Beach, Coconut Grove, and Coral Gables. Young families, jet-setters, retirees, and college kids buying six-packs with spare change unite, brave the humidity, and celebrate the Sunshine State in style.
Where to Stay
South Beach -- with its perpetual techno gliding from every cafe, shoe shop, Ferrari, and pizza parlor -- is lined with historic, neon-lit Art Deco hotels that range from posh, be-seen haunts like the Delano to far cheaper, small-scale digs like the Albion. From Mid-Beach northward, larger, family-focused spa retreats like the Fontainebleau or Acqualina line the beach. Moving inland, there are business-focused Downtown towers like the Four Seasons and historic golf resorts like the Biltmore in Coral Gables or the Marriott Doral Golf Resort in Suburban Miami.
Miami Hotel Guides
Miami's Best Hotels
We compiled lists of the best luxury hotels, family-friendly hotels, romantic hotels, hotel rooms, hotel service, pet-friendly hotels gay-friendly hotels, best hotel beaches, iconic hotels, best hotel pools, best hotel spas, and best bathrooms. Don't have time to read all that? Not to fear. We selected one hotel from each list that bests its competitors (if only slightly). Below, we present the best hotels of Miami.
Miami's Best Value Hotels
After sleeping at more than 100 hotels throughout Miami and comparing them against one another, we are uniquely able to differentiate between the real value hotels and the cheap, seedy dives.
Miami's Best Luxury Hotels
Price alone doesn't cut it -- what we're looking for is iconic design, beautiful rooms, overindulgent service, and the best damn food in Miami.
Miami's Best Family Friendly Hotels
We've made a note of all the hotels we found especially kid friendly -- sometimes because they were overtly kid-centric (like the Loews and the Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort), and sometimes just because we saw families having a lot of fun.
Miami's Best Romantic Hotels
Here's a list of the places we'd return to for a romantic vacation, without question. From a couple's getaway like the Setai, to the elegant and kid-friendly Biltmore, to the Downtown Epic for the romantic executive -- find a spot to pop that champagne!
Miami's Best Hotel Rooms
Here's our list of hotels with the largest rooms in Miami, with the best bathrooms, TVs, minifridges and freebies to boot.
Miami's Best Hotel Service
Here's our list of the most attitude-free Miami hotels where you will be waited on hand and foot throughout your stay -- from check in to check out, from the beach to the pool and from your room to the restaurant.
Miami's Pet Friendly Hotels
While many Miami hotels allow pets, the hotels on this list really go out of their way -- offering everything from gourmet food to pedicures.
Miami's Gay-Friendly Hotels
Miami's South Beach is one of the most gay-friendly destinations in the country, so any hotel in this neighborhood is a pretty good bet, but hotels near the gay beach at 12th St. or near hot gay clubs have a slight edge over the competition.
Even the tiniest of bathing suits is too restricting for some, so we've compiled a list of the best hotels to bare it all in -- places where the tops come off poolside or where everything comes off in the steamy, coed spas.


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City Manager Michael V. O'Brien is recommending an additional $528,527 go to the public schools, but that does not mean the city will exceed the minimum state spending requirement.
The city will still fall $417,123 short of the state minimum, according to a memo Superintendent Melinda J. Boone sent to the School Committee today.
In fiscal 2012, which ended in June, the city fell $1,500,195 short of the amount the state requires it to spend on the city school system. That amount was carried forward to the current fiscal year to be funded.
As things stand, the city is $945,650 short. With the $528,527 Mr. O'Brien is proposing, the city will still be $417,123 short.
"Although I am extremely grateful to the city manager for providing these funds … I am disappointed, because the city administration did not verify these numbers with either the (state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) or my administration, and the amount in the report to the City Council is simply inaccurate," Ms. Boone wrote in her memo.
In an email tonight, Mr. O'Brien pointed out that the state formula looks only at the bottom line, not how efficiently those dollars are used.
City changes such as healthcare reforms have helped more of those dollars go to education itself instead of employee benefits. And, he added, schools are just one segment of the city budget crying for attention.
"Trust me, our desire to increase WPS funding is ever-present, as is the desire to fund a new class of recruits to restore manpower levels at the WPD and WFD, the need to restore key services cut from DPW, and the list goes on and on.
"I would like nothing more than to say yes to everyone. Unfortunately, that is not my job. For, in the end, we have to make sure we can pay our bills, live within our means, remain stable as a community and grow."
The City Council is scheduled to set the tax rate tomorrow night.
The $528,527 that Mr. O'Brien is recommending the city give the school district is the amount the district would have lost from its budget as a result of final charter school tuition assessments and reimbursements in the state budget, which was finalized after the School Committee approved its budget. Mr. O'Brien's recommendation would let the schools keep their budget intact.
"These funds will certainly be a significant benefit to the Worcester Public Schools for this year," Ms. Boone wrote.
Statewide, cities and towns spent an average of 16 percent more than they were required on their schools, but lower-income municipalities tend to spend little more than required, according to a 2011 report from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.


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Michael C. Biewer , Ph.D.
Organic molecular switches
Research Group
B.S., The Ohio State University (1990): Chemistry
Ph.D., Yale University (1995): Organic Chemistry
Advisor: J. Michael McBride
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Colorado (1995–97)
Advisor: David M. Walba
Research Description
My research is focused on the understanding of intermolecular effects in ordered media. In particular we are investigating the effect different media impart upon chemical reactivity with the goal of designing organic systems with specific functional control. This broad research goal encompasses a number of different fields including semiconducting polymers for molecular electronics, biodegradable polymers for drug delivery and the synthesis of carbon nanotubes of one type through topochemical reactions. For a more detailed description of research projects go to the group webpage at www.utdallas.edu/~biewerm.
Selected Publications
Sista, P.; Huang, P.; Gunathilake, S. S.; Bhatt, M. P.; Kularatne, R. S.; Stefan, M. C., Biewer, M. C., Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Novel Benzodifuran Semiconducting Polymers, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, 2012, DOI: 10.1002/pola.26243.
Sista, P.; Biewer, M. C.; Stefan, M. C., Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene Building Block for the Synthesis of Semiconducting Polymers, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2012, 33, 9-20.
Cheng, Y.; Hao, J.; Lee, L. A.; Biewer, M. C.; Wang, Q.; Stefan, M. C., Thermally-Controlled Release of Anti-Cancer Drug from Self-Assembled g-substituted Amphiphilic Poly(e-Caprolactone) Micellar Nanoparticles, Biomacromolecules, 2012, 13, 2163-2173.
Sista, P.; Xue, B.; Wilson, M.; Holmes, N.; Kularatne, R. S.; Nguyen, H., Dastoor, P. C., Belcher, W., Poole, K., Janesko, B. G., Biewer, M. C., Stefan, M. C., Influence of the Alkyl Substituents Spacing on the Solar Cell Performance of Benzodithiophene Semiconducting Polymers, Macromolecules, 2012, 45, 772-780.
- Updated: December 10, 2012


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I am not really a fan of Scott Turow's books. Potboilers, mostly. But hey, I still like crime mysteries, so… There you go. Maybe it's just a case of professional jealousy…
But count me among those who agree with his stance as Authors Guild President that the DOJ, in its investigation into price collusion between Apple and major publishers, "may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition."
One set of numbers tells the tale:
- Before Apple entered the eBook market, Amazon accounted for an estimated 90% of eBook sales.
- After Apple entered the market, that figure dropped to an estimated 60%.
Yeah, I know he's been criticized… Called a turncoat… It's the same rhetoric over and over… In the three-legged stool represented by publishers, authors and consumers… The consumer is king. Yeah, we all like cheap. And while we're at it, let's kill the goose.


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Music, presents, lights, snow, cookies. Gaudete Sunday, rejoicing, joy, hope. Perspective is key as we enter into the last full week of Advent. Our theme this week is mindful living. It is about slowing down and deliberately preparing for Jesus' coming.
We may not be buying into our culture's commercialized Christmas, but we can still lose sight of what we are preparing for. As important as family is and as beautiful as gift giving can be, if we neglect the core of Christmas, we miss out — in a big way.
As Emily Stimpson notes in her recent In Focus article, "Rediscovering Christmas Joy":
"as lovely, delicious, delightful, fun and downright magical as the trappings of Christmas can be, however, they remain just that: trappings. They are wonderful extras, the icing on the holiday cake. But they are not the essentials. They are not the reason angels went around Judea 2,000 years ago telling Levitical priests, virgins and shepherds to rejoice (Lk 1:14, 28; 2:10)."
Have a blessed week. As philosopher and priest Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati said on his deathbed: "Adore. Be silent. Rejoice!"
Jennifer Rey is the web editor of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Joseph Smith: The Most Influential American of the 19th Century?
In the prologue, Bushman recounts the story from 1844 when Charles Francis Adams (son of President John Quincy Adams) meet Joseph Smith. He also includes some of the text that Adams wrote almost forty years later about the meeting.
Adams wrote, "It is by no means improbable that some future text-book, for the use of generation yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the 19th century has exterted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to the interrogatory may thus be written: Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet" (p. 5).
Looking back from the early 21st century, I have to wonder if Adams was not right. Was Joseph Smith the most influential American of the 19th century?
I am not Mormon. As such, I do not regard Joseph Smith as a divinely inspired prophet. However, I also do not believe he was necessarily a con man either as many think. I think it is possible that he truly believed what he said but that does not require me to have to acknowledge he was a prophet of God. And of course the question of how authentic he was is not at all relevant to the question of how influential he was.
As it is, the Mormons survived Smith's death in 1844. They moved west and thrived. The Latter-day Saints have spread their message all over the world. The Mormons have played an important part in American history and they continue to be an important part of the Republican electoral coalition today. Joseph Smith remains an influential man.
But is he more influential than other great 19th century Americans? This is where it gets tough. I think at this point that Abraham Lincoln has him beat. President Lincoln saved the Union which survives to this day to be the only remaining superpower. That has to rank him #1. Other 19th century Americans such as President's Jefferson and Grant, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, and even Brigham Young may come out on top of Smith as well.
However, in centuries and millennia yet to come, will Smith be looked back upon as the most influential 19th century American? If there is no United States of America 1000 years from now and the Mormon Church is still thriving, would that then make Joseph Smith the most influential of 19th century Americans?
If enough time passes, I think Adams may be right about Joseph Smith and his place and history. My thanks to Bushman for sharing this encounter between Smith and Adams in his book.
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- VanillaMan said...
I often saw Smith as a Lenin-like figure and Young as the Stalin-like figure in Mormon history.
Lenin and Smith inspired, and Stalin and Young enforced. Neither the USSR or LDS church would exist today without them.
After Smith's death, Young took the majority of followers to an extremely remote part of the world. Young used his Day-n-Nighters to enforce his rule over Salt Lake and his country of Deseret. There was no escape from Young's grasp for those who wished to desert the Church.
It has become easy to prop up Smith as a saint. But his work would have been as forgotten as the many other religious cults that popped up in the US during the early 19th Century, if it wasn't for Brigham Young's dictatorial administration creating the LDS church and Utah.
- Miland said...
"It has become easy to prop up Smith as a saint. But his work would have been as forgotten as the many other religious cults that popped up in the US during the early 19th Century, if it wasn't for Brigham Young's dictatorial administration creating the LDS church and Utah."
This is probably true but it is true of all influential people. Lincoln was an influential president because he was smart enough to appoint good generals. Had he lost the Civil War, he would not be considered influential today despite his good qualities.
This is the same for Smith. Had he not recruited Young and given him leadership roles, Smith may well be a minor footnote in history today. Part of what makes someone being remembered as an influential leader is how wise they are in picking prominent followers as well as luck.
- VanillaMan said...
Brigham Young was not selected for leadership by Joseph Smith. Brigham Young was a Morman missionary to Great Britain and out of sight for years during the turbulent Nauvoo years. After Smith's death, the Church fractured and nearly died. There was a struggle over leadership at this time since Smith left no one in charge. Smith was a young man and did not expect to die in Carthage Illinois. The entire Smith death scenario was due to the exposure of Smith's newly christened, "Spriritual Wifeism", polygamous decree. Smith's wife denounced the Prophet and the church when she discovered her husband's adulterous relationships, and Smith covered his numerous affairs with this polygamous proclamation. The turmoil generated by this act forced Governor Ford of Illinois to send in troops to quell acts of violence taking place in Nauvoo. Smith was jailed in Carthage, and waited for his posse of "Day-n-Nighters" to break him out of jail so that he could cross the Mississippi into either Iowa or Missiouri, which Smith did on numerous previous occasions to escape local prosecution. However, locals were waiting for his posse and during the gun fight, Smith was killed while trying to escape.
He did not expect to die. He had no one in charge of the Church to succeed him. His only mention of successor was in his Book of Mormon which mentions that the Prophet was hierarchical. So, expectations were that his son would become church leader, although he was only 12 years old.
Hundreds of Mormons left the church in disgust over polygamy and Smith's demise. The remainder split over having a 12 year old leader and those who wanted another church elder.
Young stepped into this breach, took those who did not become the Reformed LDS church, (now the Church of Jesus Christ), and moved his group across the United States in waves over the next few years into the Salt Lake Valley to create a new Mormon nation, Deseret.
We now have an LDS church sandwiched between a newly revitalized Church of Jesus Christ and the polygamous Fundamental LDS groups. With DNA evidence clearly discrediting the entire Book of Mormon at this time, the LDS church in Salt Lake is trying to figure out a way to become more like the Church of Jesus Christ, that is, a Christian church, Bible based. For the first time, a portrait of Jesus was hung in Temple Square, and the LDS leadership is attempting an extremely difficult task of walking a tightrope between it's history and it's future. There are several tenants of Morman belief that do not work in Christianity, yet with continuing evidence that the Book of Mormon is a hoax, there is a real need to move this dynamic church into another faith. These are very good people, and I wish them the very best in this quest.
- Miland said...
Thanks for the additional history vanillaman.
"Brigham Young was not selected for leadership by Joseph Smith."
I stand corrected. Of course, that fact can also be used to argue that Smith was highly influential. Despite not leaving a good succession plan in place, the church he started still thrived after his death.
- spackman said...
Vanillaman, where exactly are you getting your information? In my study of American religions i've come across many separate accounts of the mormon church and what you described isn't anywhere accurate. I visited Temple Square in 1964 and I can assure you that there were many pictures of Jesus, just as there was on the back of a card one of their missionaries left on my door two months ago. As for the Book of Mormon the only "proof" against it has been private and inconclusive DNA study performed by an ex-mormon. Their church wouldn't be growing so fast if it were that easy to disprove. Myself being Jewish, I don't particularly believe that the Book of Mormon is what the mormon's believe it to be, but any disproving theory must be concrete, otherwise you're just filling the internet with more trash.
- David Milo Pearson said...
I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly called "Mormon" by those not of our faith for our acceptance of "The Book of Mormon" as holy writ along with the Bible.
I, too, have read Bushman's "Rough Stone Rolling". While Bushman covers a lot of ground not covered by others in one book, I find that Bushman tends to pander to non-believers in his book far too much. But he is fair and accurate in many areas—but not in all.
VanillaMan is way off base. The Lenin-Stalin comparison is 100% smear with no truth whatsoever behind it. There is more of a connection between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler than there is between Smith & Young versus Lenin & Stalin.
One must consider the either divine inspiration or sheer genius of what Joseph Smith did, and what it has lead to.
Joseph Smith, for example, never built a church building, other than two temples. In 1831, in the first year after the Church was organized, Joseph Smith received a revelation to build a temple. During the 14 years he lived after the formation of the Church, two temples of considerable size and expense (especially for the day and the circumstances of LDS Church members) was phenomenal.
But building edifices was not the genius or divine inspiration. It is what the temples then and now are used for. For diseminating eternal truths in ritual revelations to church members, helping them get and keep in focus what their eternal existence (both pre- & post-mortal) is for.
Furthermore, the doctrine, as revealed in The Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price is incredible. And, interestingly, each of the three exclusively LDS "Mormon" books of scriptures are each quite different in form, content, and style one from the other.
Also, Smith's explanations of things such as the relationship between the Melchizedek and Aaronic (Levitical) priesthoods, as mentioned in the Bible, is incredible.
Even the size, number and functions of different priesthood quorums has marks of 'genius' or 'divine genius' (in my opinion) in them.
- David Milo Pearson said...
Brigham Young did not miss, despite Vanillaman's claim, the Kirtland period of problems. He left largely after the effects of that, with other apostles, to do missionary work in the British Isles. The 'genius' or 'divine inspiration' of that missionary effort, which was launched among the greatest difficulty (remember, the effects of the Panic of 1837 have been said to have been as great or greater than those of the Great Depression of the 1930's), and with great turmoil in the (LDS) church, the many new adherents to the LDS faith, which Charles Dickens, after a visit on a ship filled with Mormon converts leaving Liverpool, called "the pick and flower of England", came in numbers and with skills and talents that helped save the LDS Church before, during and after its westward trek to the Rocky Mountains.
For being a backwoods "no nothing" of the American frontier (had no more than a 3rd grade education), and, at the time Joseph Smith began the translation from plates of gold of The Book of Mormon, Martin Harris, his main financial supporter at that time, said that Joseph Smith did not even know how to write a "bill of hand" (a check).
On average, Smith translated 6-8 pages per day of a book that has a meandering, and yet never dropped story line, and has doctrines and tidbits from ancient American history strung throughout it.
And, regarding the alleged Book of Mormon/mitrochondial DNA "problem", there really is none, when one is sufficiently versed on the profound limitations of coming to any conclusions using mitrochondrial DNA that the detractors have alleged. For example, I have read in recent years where mothers have been proven not to have been the mothers of children they gave birth to! But, they did! And the reason for this apparent discrepancy was later found. Such is the case with the mitrochondrial DNA issue and indigenous Americans in regards to The Book of Mormon and their "Jewishness".
Many, many other proofs and evidences I could and would gladly give.
- Unknown said...
I find it interesting that vanillaman says Smith was killed while trying to escape. He was shot through a window while in the room he was being held in. The door was closed. Seems to me he was trying to avoid death rather than trying to escape.


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At Copper Canyon, CO for Specialized's Global Product Launch of the 2014 line. So far all the media has seen are these 2013 helmets and shoes available now with much more today. Then test rides for the rest of the week in the sun. I've got Google Glass with me and will live blog from the event, as well as the rides. To view the live updates, follow me on G+ and Twitter.
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PEOPLE if you like this youre sick in youre head.
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Just paste the title in Google and open the first option. She is beautiful, perfect. I love when u can see a girls ribs. Nice little tits, long legs, perfect face... love her! Anyone know her name?
Da stoesst man sich ja wund dran...
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so where are the pictures!!!!!
is beautiful
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She needed food...
Who is this beautiful woman? She is so hot! Just wonder what it would be like to get up close and intimate with her! WOW FACTOR WOMAN!
Always wanted to fuck an Auschwitz survivor.
Why won't this video load anymore... I've tried everything. I'm an expert with flash player and web browsers, yet it hasn't loaded for me for weeks.
very sexy
We are shaped by evolution to find the human body attractive. But what is it we find attractive exactly? Some think bones, it's a shape that doesn't change much in the human. What do I think? Well, I don't know what it is. But bones contribute I think.
that is fucking gross
Don't forget to rate 5!
This is to date one of the sexiest videos out there. I always find myself revisiting at some point of the year!
looked great until :08. from there she looked like a 90 year old lady.
She looks good to me.. Are you going to kick her out of bed? No because you know she is tight as fuck.!
have you ever played with Dead Space?? Well, she's something like that
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Fuck, what a fat whore!
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she is very sexy, and perfect as she is.
scarry, that a person like here can life in a healthy way. s.o. should help here otherwise she will be death in a next few month.
Give this girl a Big Mac.
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perfect, wish there was more of her
Not sexy ... =(
No way this thing could turn on a healthy guy
Eat more
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looks more like my GF :)
Thats not a girl thats a alien -.- :S
top model
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Not exciting at all.
What a beauty. One of the sexiest girls I've seen!
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Now she is a lovely lady love to meet her , she just turns me on , she makes me horny , I could spend hours with her the very best to you xxx
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i think it looks little (just a little?!) bit ill?
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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons were unable to get their offense on track Saturday afternoon in a 4-0 loss to visiting Campbell at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The Lady Bisons were down 1-0 at the half as Campbell's Caity Brown scored at 27:10 on a rebound of a shot that was deflected by Lipscomb goaltender Katie Shelton. It was the first goal scored this season for Campbell, which came into the Atlantic Sun Conference contest with an 0-6 record.
Campbell stuck for three goals in the second period. Kaili Terry, sister of Lipscomb soccer player Kevin Terry, scored the second goal of the game at 46:41 with an assists from Jessica Tacha.
Aletheia Fadness scored third goal of the game unassisted at 54:13.
Tacha closed out the scoring at 84:43 as she found the goal on a one-on-one play.
Shelton turned back 13 shots, her third highest total of the season. Campbell made 20 shots, 17 shots on goal.
Samar Azem and Ashley Pate combined for the shutout for Campbell. The Lady Bisons had one shot by Sasha Sack. They had no shots on goal.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Book giveaway
My blog's first birthday is coming up and I'm feeling generous. Or maybe I'm just stalling for time, as I'm off to Italy today and won't be able to post for about a week. Whatever the reason, there are two fabulous paperback books up for grabs: Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food and Lindsay Bareham's A Celebration of Soup.
Though I wouldn't dream of being without either of these books, I happen to find myself with extra copies and want to be sure they fall into the right hands. All you have to do is send a comment correctly identifying the edible (now there's a clue) flower shown in this picture, and you will have a chance to win both of these books. I'll send them anywhere in the world, so whether you're in Hong Kong or Honolulu, you can play. Friends are eligible too, since I will draw a name randomly from the correct answers.
I'll be back to tell you all about the Veneto (and Liguria, and my early spring meal at the Château de la Chèvre d'Or). Ciao!
21 comments:
- Pille said...
That's borage flower, Rosa :) My mum grows them in our garden, and I ate some at El Bulli last Sunday ;)
They're known as 'cucumber grass' in Estonian, as the leaves taste slighly of cucumber.
And yes - I'd love both of the books, as I've got neither of these (but love both authors :)
- April 11, 2008 at 9:44 a.m.
- ebg said...
An herb that offers a cool almost cucumber taste to a summer drink - the blue blossoms of borage
- April 11, 2008 at 4:09 p.m.
When checking your blog this morning, I was thrilled to find that you were feeling generous and playful enough to propose a game. I believe the delightfully blue edible flower pictured is Borage. Is this correct?
Your blog brings great joy to my life. I wait with bated breath for each new post. Thanks for all of your efforts!
Enjoy Italy!
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- April 11, 2008 at 4:40 p.m.
- Melissa said...
Happy blog birthday, Rosa! I enjoy your wonderful stories and recipes so much. Have a great time in Italy!
p.s. Those are borage flowers!
- April 11, 2008 at 5:03 p.m.
It is beautiful borage.
- April 11, 2008 at 6:35 p.m.
It is beautiful borage.
- April 11, 2008 at 6:37 p.m.
- Vida said...
Borage??? Vida x
- April 11, 2008 at 10:27 p.m.
- Jenny Rebecca said...
Ooh! Are you going to Cinque Terre?
Is it borage?
- April 12, 2008 at 2:17 a.m.
- Lucy said...
Off to the Veneto? Rather jealous...
Happy first birthday! Look, I've got both books (and let's face it, postage to Australia is insanely expensive...), so I'll have a guess, but just for fun mind you.
Borage? So pretty.
- April 12, 2008 at 3:16 a.m.
- Joy said...
i have the same plant growing in my front yard. it's borage and it's beautiful!
- April 12, 2008 at 5:18 a.m.
Lovely, beautiful lightly cucumber scentededible blossomed Borage.
Bees love it. I love it in Iced Tea or Pimm's and Soda.
- April 12, 2008 at 1:14 p.m.
- cmontgomery said...
Ciao Rosa,
The edible flower is borage, herb of gladness.
We are off to Paris next week.
Have a wonderful time in Italy/
Catherine Montgomery
50 Leonard Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 4T9
- April 12, 2008 at 3:06 p.m.
- Robin said...
It is Borage.
- April 12, 2008 at 4:24 p.m.
- Carol Van Rooy said...
Are they, Borago officinalis L... also known as Borage.
- April 12, 2008 at 6:45 p.m.
Rosa, The flower is Borage (Borago officinalis). Hope you are well. We enjoyed our trip and your tips last December. David, Dallas, Texas
- April 13, 2008 at 6:35 p.m.
- *fanny* said...
Hi Rosa,
I've been thinking of you lately. Can't really figure out why but I've had mental images of your gorgeous flat out and about in my head.
Can't wait to see you again.
Anyway, I don't know those flowers' english name, but they look like bourache to me.
xx fanny
- April 14, 2008 at 1:47 p.m.
- Rosa said...
Thanks everyone for taking the time to participate in my little game! I didn't know there were so many borage fans out there.
I put all respondents' names (including the ones who e-mailed me) into a fishing net and had Sam pick one out with his eyes closed. The winner is... Carol Van Rooy! I'll be in touch by e-mail, Carol.
- April 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
- Wendy said...
That's funny, Rosa. Not only are both of those books in my top 10 most valued cookbook list but I'm giving a book away on my blog this week too! Great minds, huh? ;)
- April 15, 2008 at 6:58 p.m.
- Susan said...
Book giveaways all over the place! What fun, but I'm too late to guess. Really looking forward to hearing about your latest sojourn.
- April 18, 2008 at 12:18 a.m.
- Rosa said...
Wendy, I would have loved to win your book, but those chick peas fooled me!
Susan, your prize was great too, but I'm way behind on my posts these days so no weekend herb blogging for me this week!
- April 21, 2008 at 4:22 p.m.
Looks like borage
- May 3, 2008 at 10:20 p.m.


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The Queen Victoria Building is currently undergoing a facelift at $37.5
million , one of the features is upgrading the paintwork to victorian period colours.
This image shows "The Grand Staircase* of Sydneys Grand Queen Victoria Building, and is an example of how grand old buildings can be restored and still be used as money making concerns, in this case a grand shopping experience
The Queen Victoria Building, now affectionately known as the QVB, was designed by George McRae and completed in 1898, replacing the original Sydney markets on the site. Built as a monument to the long reigning monarch, construction took place in dire times, as Sydney was in a severe recession. The elaborate Romanesque architecture was specially planned for the grand building so the Government could employ many out-of-work craftsmen – stonemasons, plasterers, and stained window artists – in a worthwhile project. Originally, a concert hall, coffee shops, offices, showrooms, warehouses and a wide variety of tradespeople, such as tailors, mercers, hairdressers and florists, were accommodated.
The QVB fills an entire city block bound by George, Market, York and Druitt Streets. The dominant feature is the mighty centre dome, consisting of an inner glass dome and an exterior copper- sheathed dome. Glorious stained glass windows and splendid
architecture endure throughout the building and an original 19th century staircase sits alongside the dome. Every detail has been faithfully restored, including arches, pillars, balustrades and the intricate tiled floors thus maintaining the integrity of the building.
The visual message of Sydney's coat of arms, on the cartwheel stained glass window, is that the beehive depicts business, the sailing ship – trade, and the dolphins – the harbour. Panel 1, on the left hand side, represents the Council of the City of Sydney, and symbols of architecture, while the letters I.G.B. on panel 3, on the right, represent Ipoh Gardens Berhad, the Malaysian company who restored the QVB.
The symbols are of property developers – the builders. The bottom central panel represents the heraldic symbol of a finished building and the joining of two hands denotes the fusing of two cultures. There are many interesting and charming exhibitions and attractions throughout the building, along with portraits of the Queen. There is also a letter from Queen Elizabeth II to the Citizens of Sydney to be opened and read by the Lord Mayor of Sydney in the year 2085. Outside the QVB, on Town Hall Place, facing The Town Hall are the Royal Wishing Well and Queen Victoria's statue.
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Spiders. Agh. Just the word conjures up the heeby jeeby creepy crawly shivers for some of us. And in Brazil? Spiders are actually raining down on a town by the thousands. Memo to self: Skip that second trip to Brazil next year.
Erick Reis, a 20-year-old Brazilian, was leaving a party in the Brazilian town of Santo Antonio da Platina when he saw thousands (yes, THOUSANDS) of spiders raining down from the sky. Oh. My. God. The video has since gone viral. And for good reason. It is some seriously harrowing footage.
If you hate spiders like I do, be warned: This will give you the shivers for weeks. See below:
Are you still breathing? Get this: It's real. Really, really real. And it happens more than we think.
The Anelosimus eximius spider is a "social" spider from South America. They build colonies of more than 1,000 spiders, and on occasion, high winds carry the webs into new places, creating an effect known as "spider rain." At first glance, that was the species these spiders appeared to be.
But an arachnologist from the University of Cincinnati says otherwise. He believes the spiders are "big, orb-weaving spiders" called Parawixia bistriata and that they leave the nest at some point. In other words, these spiders plan to disperse. And reproduce.
Someone hold me. Please. I am not kidding.
As I type this, I am ACTUALLY getting the chills. OK, look. I know being scared of spiders is silly and they are more afraid of us and blah, blah. But it's a very real phobia and I am legitimately terrified of the creatures.
Maybe I can be rational about sharks. But spiders? No way. If this happened to me, I would seriously have to be committed.
Luckily, these spiders aren't poisonous. But poisonous or not, my skin will crawl for weeks.
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Google hired masseur Elvis Gardin to support one of the cushiest, perk-filled workplaces in the world. But according to a new lawsuit, the company's New York office took the perk too far: Gardin says a client pleasured himself mid-rub, and got axed when he complained about it.
The allegations focus on one unnamed Google employee, the New York Daily News reports:
Gardin (above) alleges that when he brought this rogue masturbating to the attention of his superiors, he was canned for "poor performance," and the entire thing was swept under a rug, or ball pit covered in bean bag chairs, or whatever.
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AMD ships dual-core CPU for thin'n'light laptops
Neo takes on Intel's CULV
Computex AMD's dual-core Athlon Neo, a chip aimed at the same makers of ultra-skinny laptops that Intel is currently pitching its small CPUs - aka CULV, for Consumer Ultra Low Voltage - to, is now available in volume.
AMD has yet to detail the specifications of the dual-core chip, codenamed 'Conesus'. The single-core Athlon Neo MV-40 runs at 1.6GHz, has 512KB of L2 cache and is fabbed at 65nm. Conesus is known to contain 1MB of L2 and a DDR 2 memory controller. It's fabbed at 45nm, so it should have headroom for a higher clock frequency than 1.6GHz.
Not that Intel's hanging around. Yesterday, it announced it was shipping its latest CULV processor, the Pentium SU2700, a 1.3GHz part aimed at mainstream thin'n'light laptops. It consumes up to 10W of power.
The SU2700 is likely to be paired with the GS40 chipset Intel also announced yesterday. It's a "value" chipset but features souped up graphics, at least in comparison with the previous-generation chipsets usually used in cheaper thin'n'light machines. The GS40 has a GMA 4500M graphics core running at 400MHz and capable of grabbing up to 385MB of system memory as its frame buffer. The chipset supports HDMI.
Graphics is a key weapon in AMD's arsenal too, however, and the dual-core Neo will be offered with a chipset that integrates the company's Radeon 3200 core - a big step up from previous Neo-oriented parts which had a Radeon 1200 GPU on board. ®