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In addition, I took the time to rewrite my materials in LaTeX; I figured, there's no point in taking the time to learn it without without using to whatever advantage on the job market. Say what you want about the content, my shit looks awesome.
Another thing I spent some time worrying about is the role my dissertation should play in my application materials this time around. Since I've been out for a while now, it seems to me that my dissertation should play a less central role. So now my dissertation is the starting point, but the focus is on what I've accomplished since then.
And although I'm not really excited about it, exactly, I wish the fucking JFP would drop already so I could get on with this fucking thing.
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Things I liked on our mini-Disney-road-trip-vacation-drive-home:
I like this sign outside of the yummiest restaurant in Mammoth or to use it's "map" name....Mammoth Lakes, California. ...man, I totally wanted to wear my ski boots inside....I'm bringing back wearing ski boots...totally hard to walk in but so unlike any other footwear anyone's wearing! ha ha ha jk, jk!
I like that it's called The Stove and they have a blue stove inside
I love the smell of fresh mountain air...clean and piney!
I LOVED my homemade cinnamon bread french toast with butter and pow-pow (powdered sugar). Caramelized crispy crunch on the outside, and soft cinnamony goodness in the center, all soggy with butter! yum-yum-yumderful!
I liked this giant ice cream cone....we stopped at got much smaller ones.
Blakey liked the little bench at first...but realized it was too hot for his liking.
i really liked this view at Disneyland and wish I was still there...
Disneyland....is truly one of my favorite places....
wishing I had some more of that french toast...


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IUCN and BRIDGE has launched a series of publications in conjunction with World Water Week and in line with the 2013 UN designed International Year of Water Cooperation.
The BRIDGE (Building River Dialogue and Governance) Project aims to build water governance capacities through learning, demonstration, leadership, and consensus-building, in particular in transboundary river basins.
To support several seminars and side events that IUCN is hosting, BRIDGE has published a newly designed BRIDGE brochure outlining BRIDGE's approach to water diplomacy and cooperation. The brochure goes further to outline how water diplomacy is implemented on the ground, citing examples from BRIDGE basins in the regions from South America, Mesoamerica, and Southeast Asia.
Also launched at Stockholm is a series of case studies from BRIDGE basins. The first three basins studied, the Lake Titicaca basin shared between Bolivia and Peru, the 3S basin shared among Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam, and the Goascorán basin shared between El Salvador and Honduras, will be on display at World Water Week and are available online. The case studies take an in-depth view of BRIDGE activities focusing specifically on intervention results and lessons learned in each basin.
BRIDGE has also launched a series of briefings focusing on specific issues relating to water management, cooperation, and water governance in transboundary basins. The Treaties and other Types of Agreement briefing focuses on how agreements in transboundary basins can encourage efficient use and management of water resources. Another briefing takes a look at how Water Diplomacy differs from conventional diplomacy and offers recommendations on how to implement it on the ground. For example water diplomacy needs agreements at multiple levels and requires a step-wise approach facilitated by meaningful joint action among stakeholders. Finally, Transboundary Water Institutions takes a look at the many types of institutions that can exist in transboundary basins. They also look at how institutions build resilience to shocks through taking an ecosystems approach incorporating flexibility, public participation, and multi-layered governance structures, among other key recommendations.
We have also launched a new infographic to accompany BRIDGE publications, illustrating BRIDGE's strategic process for implementing water diplomacy and building water governance capacity in transboundary basins. The graphic shows how BRIDGE:
- utilises demonstration to make cooperation operational in a basin through joint action,
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- fosters dialogue for consensus building through demonstration actions and learning events to catalyse new approaches to cooperation,
- implements leadership programmes to support the empowering of champions for transboundary water cooperation and better water governance,
- provides advice and support inlcuding providing on-demand technical assistance to governments and stakeholders on water governance.
As part of WANI, we have also launched a briefing on environmental flows, or eflows, that looks at water allocation and trade-offs.
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Washington's Blog
May 10, 2011
As I noted in 2009:
Senator Levin, in commenting on the Senate Armed Services Committee report on torture declassified today, drops the following bombshell:
With last week's release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions, it is now widely known that Bush administration officials distorted Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape "SERE" training – a legitimate program used by the military to train our troops to resist abusive enemy interrogations – by authorizing abusive techniques from SERE for use in detainee interrogations. Those decisions conveyed the message that abusive treatment was appropriate for detainees in U.S. custody. They were also an affront to the values articulated by General Petraeus.
In SERE training, U.S. troops are briefly exposed, in a highly controlled setting, to abusive interrogation techniques used by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions. The techniques are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War for the purpose of eliciting false confessions for propaganda purposes. Techniques used in SERE training include stripping trainees of their clothing, placing them in stress positions, putting hoods over their heads, subjecting them to face and body slaps, depriving them of sleep, throwing them up against a wall, confining them in a small box, treating them like animals, subjecting them to loud music and flashing lights, and exposing them to extreme temperatures. Until recently, the Navy SERE school also used waterboarding. The purpose of the SERE program is to provide U.S. troops who might be captured a taste of the treatment they might face so that they might have a better chance of surviving captivity and resisting abusive and coercive interrogations.
Senator Levin then documents that SERE techniques were deployed as part of an official policy on detainees, and that SERE instructors helped to implement the interrogation programs.
The senior Army SERE psychologist warned in 2002 against using SERE training techniques during interrogations in an email to personnel at Guantanamo Bay, because:
[T]he use of physical pressures brings with it a large number of potential negative side effects… When individuals are gradually exposed to increasing levels of discomfort, it is more common for them to resist harder… If individuals are put under enough discomfort, i.e. pain, they will eventually do whatever it takes to stop the pain. This will increase the amount of information they tell the interrogator, but it does not mean the information is accurate. In fact, it usually decreases the reliability of the information because the person will say whatever he believes will stop the pain… Bottom line: the likelihood that the use of physical pressures will increase the delivery of accurate information from a detainee is very low. The likelihood that the use of physical pressures will increase the level of resistance in a detainee is very high… (p. 53).
I also pointed out:
McClatchy fills in some of the details:
Former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration…
For most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there."It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document…
When people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people to push harder," he continued."Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam . . .
A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.
"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."
"I think it's obvious that the administration was scrambling then to try to find a connection, a link (between al Qaida and Iraq)," [Senator] Levin said in a conference call with reporters. "They made out links where they didn't exist."
Levin recalled Cheney's assertions that a senior Iraqi intelligence officer had met Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague just months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The FBI and CIA found that no such meeting occurred.
In other words, top Bush administration officials not only knowingly lied about a non-existent connection between Al Qaida and Iraq, but they pushed and insisted that interrogators use special torture methods aimed at extracting false confessions to attempt to create such a false linkage.
Writing about this today, Paul Krugman says:
Let's say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link.
There's a word for this: it's evil.
I wrote last month:
One of the two senior instructors from the Air Force team which taught U.S. servicemen how to resist torture by foreign governments when used to extract false confessions has blown the whistle on the true purpose behind the U.S. torture program.
Truth Out reported yesterday:
Jessen's notes were provided to Truthout by retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns, a "master" SERE instructor and decorated veteran who has previously held high-ranking positions within the Air Force Headquarters Staff and Department of Defense (DoD).
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Kearns and his boss, Roger Aldrich, the head of the Air Force Intelligence's Special Survial Training Program (SSTP), based out of Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, hired Jessen in May 1989. Kearns, who was head of operations at SSTP and trained thousands of service members, said Jessen was brought into the program due to an increase in the number of new SERE courses being taught and "the fact that it required psychological expertise on hand in a full-time basis."
Jessen, then the chief of Psychology Service at the US Air Force Survival School, immediately started to work directly with Kearns on "a new course for special mission units (SMUs), which had as its goal individual resistance to terrorist exploitation."
The course, known as SV-91, was developed for the Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) branch of the US Air Force Intelligence Agency, which acted as the Executive Agent Action Office for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Jessen's notes formed the basis for one part of SV-91, "Psychological Aspects of Detention."
Kearns was one of only two officers within DoD qualified to teach all three SERE-related courses within SSTP on a worldwide basis, according to a copy of a 1989 letter written Aldrich, who nominated him officer of the year.
The Jessen notes clearly state the totality of what was being reverse-engineered – not just 'enhanced interrogation techniques,' but an entire program of exploitation of prisoners using torture as a central pillar," he said. "What I think is important to note, as an ex-SERE Resistance to Interrogation instructor, is the focus of Jessen's instruction. It is exploitation, not specifically interrogation. And this is not a picayune issue, because if one were to 'reverse-engineer' a course on resistance to exploitation then what one would get is a plan to exploit prisoners, not interrogate them. The CIA/DoD torture program appears to have the same goals as the terrorist organizations or enemy governments for which SV-91 and other SERE courses were created to defend against: the full exploitation of the prisoner in his intelligence, propaganda, or other needs held by the detaining power, such as the recruitment of informers and double agents. Those aspects of the US detainee program have not generally been discussed as part of the torture story in the American press."
Jessen wrote that cooperation is the "end goal" of the detainer, who wants the detainee "to see that [the detainer] has 'total' control of you because you are completely dependent on him, and thus you must comply with his wishes. Therefore, it is absolutely inevitable that you must cooperate with him in some way (propaganda, special favors, confession, etc.)."
Kearns said, based on what he has read in declassified government documents and news reports about the role SERE played in the Bush administration's torture program, Jessen clearly "reverse-engineered" his lesson plan and used resistance methods to abuse "war on terror" detainees.
So we have the two main Air Force insiders concerning the genesis of the torture program confirming – with original notes – that the whole purpose of the torture program was to extract false confessions.
Dan Froomkin reported last week:
Experts agree that torture is particularly good at one thing: eliciting false confessions.
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Bush-era interrogation techniques, were modeled after methods used by Chinese Communists to extract confessions from captured U.S. servicemen that they could then use for propaganda during the Korean War.
Indeed, it worked … producing false confessions, and delaying by years our ability to obtain actionable intelligence:
- Under torture, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi claimed there was a link between Saddam Hussein, al-Qaida and WMD
- One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ
- 9/11 Mastermind: "During … My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The Interrogators Wished To Hear"
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Galaxy/Rapids Open Cup rb
Rapids: Preston Burpo, Kosuke Kimura, Stephen Keel, Rafael Gomes, Jordan Harvey, Terry Cooke, Mehdi Ballouchy, Nick LaBrocca, Colin Clark, Conor Casey, Tom McManus
Galaxy: Steve Cronin, Chris Klein, Abel Xavier, Sean Franklin, Ante Jazic, Brandon McDonald, Peter Vagenas, Ely Allen, Carlos Ruiz, Edson Buddle, Alan Gordon.
The Galaxy have sold seats in the upper deck of the stadium, which I think is a bad idea - just make all the tickets ten bucks and let people sit anywhere they want.
Players are walking in now. Press box is discussing how Ruud Gullit has put out a strong lineup. Anthem. So many people in the stands are wearing the Galaxy warm-up jackets that it looks like they could storm the field and play if the team isn't doing a good job. It's also chilly, hence the jackets. Though they are covered up pretty well, there are some strange lines on the field. There was a lacrosse game here Sunday.
2 - Galaxy attack but the Rapids let the ball go out for a goal kick.
3 - Galaxy FK into the box, where Stephen Keel nearly heads into his own goal, Stone puts it out for a corner, which Alan Gordon knocks down a header to Buddle, who flicks a pass behind him - to the Rapids defense.
6 - Ball possession problems on both sides, but the Galaxy prevail just a bit more to get the ball into Rapids territory, but aren't able to get a shot off.
7 - Ruiz beats Burpo to a long pass in the box; as the two collide, Ruiz gets enough on the ball to sent it towards goal, where Keel chases it down to clear off the line. Close call.
10 - Pete V, long absent from the starting lineup, is making good passes to help the G's hold midfield well. It's in the link-up to the attack that the Galaxy are faltering.
11 - Shot by the rapids - Cronin has it covered, though it's a bit wide as well.
12 - Yellow for McManus, for charging in on an Abel Xavier kick.
14 - ACB and the Riot Squad are doing an across the field call and response "LA!" "Galaxy!" Pretty cool. Corner kick for the Galaxy comes to nothing.
16 - Ely in the box nearly strips Kimura of a long pass, but Kimura just barely escapes danger.
18 - Rapids slowly advancing from their end of the field more often.
20 - The Galaxy are missing the killer final pass of Becks or LD. They are working the ball upfield, but not getting service to the strikers at the right time or place.
21 - Rapids put together a run of possession and attack just noe, but like the Galaxy, lacked the shot set up. Galaxy back in Colorado ground on the counter. Pass reaches Ruiz in the box, but he has to lean backward for the header and it pops high for a clearance.
23 - Ruiz is down briefly, but seems alright.
25 - McDonny with a shot - wide. He was on a counter run, but still outside the box for that one.
26 - Pete and Mehdi clash for the ball - it looks like Pete wins it clean, but the ref, Janon Anno, blows for a foul. Crowd unhappy with that call.
28 - Klein fired three crosses in a row in to the box, thanks to the play of Pete to keep winning the ball back, but no one connects. McDonald should have on one, but Klein's crosses don't exactly have the quality of Becks.
30 - Shot by McDonald! Soo close. it just curved slightly away from the post.
32 - Ball free in the Galaxy box - oh, Croning scoops it up. The Galaxy have had the upper had, but the longer the Rapids escape, the more frustrated LA will get.
35 - It's back and forth in the midfield right now. One great play or one slight defensive bobble could decide this. Xavier heads a cross away on a Rapids counter.
36 - Buddle off the post! Burpo dives and misses, the ball hits him and he nearly gives up an own goal. On the corner, the Galaxy argue that Burpo palmed the ball out, but the ref saw it hit a Galaxy players leg, apparently.
38 - Clarke shoots, Cronin blocks but can't hang on, galaxy manage to clear the ball.
39 - CK for the Rapids, Galaxy clear for a deep throw.
40 - Galaxy on the counter, cross to Ruiz, ref blows for a handball.
41 - RUIZ! From midfield, he shoots, catching Burpo off his line, Burpo runs backward and falls - ball goes off the frigging POST! Unbecredible, as Ravelli would say. That would have been Beckham-esque.
43 - Ely slid into someone and got a yellow, though he seems the one hurt.
44 - Rapids FK hits wall, but ref blows for handball. moving the subsequent FK much closer to goal - SAVE - Cronin.
45+ Klein overhits two forwards with another cross.
Ruud subs Allen for Randolph. I think Ely might be hurt.
Halftime - The Galaxy should be leading by a couple, but now there is all to play for in the second half.
BREAKING NEWS - Ely has been diagnosed with a concussion.
46 - Jazic is in for the Galaxy.
47 - Galaxy FK - oh if only Becks. . . . Pete sends a decent ball that Abel gets a head on, Burpo catches.
49 - Yellow for Nick LaBrocca - he kept standing in front of the Galaxy FKs.
50 - Pete serves ball it, gets knocked out to Randolph, who slips in a great pass that Gordon manages to miss on the doorstep of the goal. So close again.
53 - Rapids on the attack. McManus sends outside shot wide. I think his 40-yarder, which is winning Goal of the Week, might have swelled his head a bit.
55 - Killer instinct - it is lacking among the LA players right now. Xavi with dangerous packpass to Cronin, who barely clears against an attacker. Play it forward.
57 - The longer the Rapids hang around with the game in the balance, the better it is for them, because they can send a fast forward like Herc to burn the defense.
58 - Rapids corner - cleared.
60 - Pete slips, misses the ball, Rapids attack, Cooke has the ball on the right - cross! Galaxy barely clear.
62 - Galaxy CK, Pete takes and McDonald heads just barely wide.
Izzy going in. Israel Sesay in for Ruiz.
64 - Colorado FK out for goalkick.
66 - Galaxy again controlling most of play - again not finding final pass. Mehdi on the counter tried to catch Cronin off his line - misses high by about ten feet over the goal.
67 - Gordon clips LaBrocca from behind - gets yellow. MacManus is out, Omar Cummings is in.
68 - Clarke shoots, it's deflected wide for corner, Cronin comes out and catches the cross.
70 The Galaxy are losing sharpness as the game goes on. Ciaran O'Brien is on for Clarke. Crowd boos, remembering his hit on Ruiz at the season opener.
71 - Gomes gets a yellow for pulling down a Galaxy player on the counter. The Galaxy are all around the box, but keep mistiming runs and crosses for the final shot. Pete finally winds one up from outside, but it gets deflected.
72 - Josh Tudela in for Brandon McDonald. the Galaxy lose strength in midfield with that mover, because Pete is not an enforcer.
73 - Iz called offside. Crowd hated that call. Looked on, really.
74 - Casey nearly finishes it - shooting/crossing across the face of the goal. The Rapids then reel off a corner and two shots. The Galaxy can't clear, but they do deflect one and Cronin comes up with a pretty good save on another. The Rapids have all the momentum, now, though.
76 - They're coming at the Galaxy hard, again, Casey earns another deep throw - Cooke just waiting for the chance to cross - but Randolph steals the ball, Rapids counter again, Cooke crosses, Cronin punches out!
78 - Rapids circle the Galaxy goal like vultures. The Galaxy are trying to work the ball out past midfield. Nothing doing.
79 - IZ! Randolph on the counter uses his speed to creat space and sends in a great cross, but Iz just clean misses it. Wow.
81 - Cronin poor clearance leaves Rapids near goal - then the Galaxy D gives up a FK in a prime spot.
Casey cracks a header on goal, nice and low, and Cronin atones by getting down for the grab.
82 - GOAL! Casey makes no mistake this time, while Cronin hesitated, stepping out for Cooke's cross, then backing off on it, while the Galaxy D didn't shoulder off Casey. 1-0. Rapids.
85 - A tired Buddle is stuck in the corner, unable to get a cross off. He finally knocks the ball to Randolph, who botches it completely.
87 - The Galaxy are attacking, but everything they do looks frantic right now, and they are overhitting a lot of passes.
88 - Galaxy CK - Gordon is up for it, gets good contact - it's wide. Cesar Zambrano coming in for the goalscorer, Casey.
90 - Cummings holding the ball up well every time the Rapids regain possession. He draws a FK, then a corner.
90 + Cooke gets a yellow card - for time wasting? I'm not sure. Gordon draws a FK on the other end. This could be the last chance for the Galaxy. Herc is on for Cooke. Pete serves, it's good, Gordon goes up for it - his header is wide.
Colorado holding the ball well, galaxy with one last attack - Xavid serves ball in, out for throw. Into box, Rapids clear.
Final whistle. Crowd boos the result for a bit, then pounds the drums for the Galaxy players. The Rapids will now play Kansas City on June 4th for the right to officially enter the Open Cup. The Galaxy meanwhile, are out of all competitions this year - other than league play. If this was a preview of the team without LD and Becks well, to be fair, they still created a lot of chances, more so than the Rapids. But close ain't cutting it.
14 comments:
- David said...
Thanks for running it A.C.
- May 27, 2008 at 7:44 PM
- KQ949 said...
You rock! Thanks for the commentary consider the Galaxy fail AGAIN to do what they promise with audio from their site.
- May 27, 2008 at 7:45 PM
English audio is up now. Click on Listen live when you're at the Galaxy webpage.
- May 27, 2008 at 7:57 PM
- Arelcao Akleos said...
doesn't work for me. just get code. When I try to paste the embedded links in the code just get error message
- May 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- Unknown said...
does any one know if highlights from the match would be available anywhere?
- May 27, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Unknown said...
Go to the galaxy site, rather than MLSnet's main page. That solved it for me.
- May 27, 2008 at 8:13 PM
- Joseph D'Hippolito said...
Interesting that Gullit runs out a regular-season lineup (w/o Donovan or Beckham, of course), while Clavijo starts mostly reserves. Well, the Galaxy said it was all about winning (or entertaining or making money or whatever it is this week).
I would be very interested to see the final score.
- May 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- jen said...
I still can't get the audio. That's okay. I'm getting a great feel for the game from a.c.'s comments.
- May 27, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- L.B. said...
I've shot a little video but nothing too exciting. If there's a PK or dangerous-looking free kick, I'll try and record it. But if and when they score, they'll show the highlight on the scoreboard so I'll make sure and grab my camera.
- May 27, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- Unknown said...
still nil-nil?
- May 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- Dan Haug said...
Well... at least this will create more space in our schedule for money-making friendlies.
Thanks again for the PBP
- May 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
How many matches will DB and LD miss this season for the Galaxy?
- May 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Pretty good performance by the Galaxy in the first half. The second half was no good though, but a lot of that had to do with Ruiz being taken out and Iz being put in.
I know coaches will never say this about a player, but I thought when Ruiz was subbed out and Sesay was put it, Gullit was calling it quits, taking his chances with the youngster.
With Franchino, and Pires in midfield, Galaxy should be just fine without Landon and Beckahm. Maybe not as dangerous, but just fine.
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6 Tax Factors to Consider When Picking a Retirement Destination
It pays to know how much you might pay in state and local taxes before you move.
Maybe you're thinking about relocating in retirement, in hopes of enjoying milder weather and lower expenses. Before you make a move, it pays to assess the overall tax burden of your future home.
No matter where you live, your federal taxes will be about the same if you take the standard deduction. But you'd be amazed at how much your state and local tax burden may vary from one location to another.
People planning to retire "often use the presence or absence of a state income tax as a litmus test for a retirement destination," says Tom Wetzel, president of the Retirement Living Information Center. That's indeed one factor for retirees to consider. But Wetzel notes that "higher sales and property taxes can more than offset the lack of a state income tax."
Seven states -- Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming -- have no state income tax. Two states -- New Hampshire and Tennessee -- tax only dividend and interest income that exceeds certain limits. But many of the remaining 41 states (and the District of Columbia) that impose an income tax offer generous incentives for retirees. If you qualify for the breaks, moving to one of these retiree-friendly areas could still be a good deal -- taxwise -- for you.
Here are five other key tax factors to consider when comparing states as possible retirement destinations:
Taxes on retirement-plan distributions
Although most states that impose an income tax exempt at least a portion of pension income from taxation, they often treat public and private pensions differently. For instance, some states exclude all federal, military and in-state government pensions from taxation. Other states go even further, exempting all retirement income -- including distributions from IRAs and 401(k) plans.
Some states that tax pension income offer special breaks based on age or income. At the other end of the spectrum, several states are particularly tough on retirees, fully taxing most pensions and other retirement income.
Taxes on Social Security benefits
Depending on your income, you may be required to include up to 85% of your Social Security benefits in your taxable income when filing your federal return. (Read Strategies to Reduce Taxes on Social Security and Plan to Pay Taxes on Social Security to learn more about how benefits are taxed.) But in recent years, many states have been moving away from taxing Social Security benefits. Thirteen states now tax Social Security benefits to some extent.
Sales taxes
Don't forget to include state and local sales taxes in your personal budget analysis. Some states exempt food and medicine; other states famously have no sales tax at all, while some will tax every dime you spend.
And keep in mind that the sales-tax pain doesn't always stop at the state level. Most states allow cities and counties to assess their own sales taxes.
Property taxes
Property taxes are a major cost factor, particularly for retirees living on a fixed income. The median property tax paid in the U.S. on the median U.S. home value of $164,200 is $1,809, according to the Tax Foundation.
Tax rates vary significantly from state to state and among cities in the same state. But many local jurisdictions offer property tax breaks to full-time residents, some based on age alone and others linked to income.
Check to see how the local jurisdiction generates property-tax bills. There are two key numbers to evaluate: the percentage of a home's assessed value that is subject to tax and the property tax rate. Note that, depending on the tax rate, a home taxed at 100% of its assessed value could have a lower tax bill than a property that is taxed at only 50% of its assessed value. For example, on a $100,000 property taxed at 100% of its assessed value with a 2% tax rate, the property-tax bill would be $2,000. If instead the property is taxed at 50% of its assessed value with a 5% tax rate, the tax bill would be $2,500.
Estate and inheritance taxes
In addition to the federal estate tax (only relevant to estates valued at $5.43 million or more in 2015), some states levy their own estate tax. Many of these taxes kick in at levels lower than the federal threshold. Wealthy retirees need to make sure their estate plans take into account both federal and state estate taxes, which can eat into the amount passed on to heirs.
In a handful of states, heirs have to pony up. States that levy an inheritance tax require heirs to pay taxes on inherited assets.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is raising concern with civil rights leaders.
State Historic Sites Director Keith Hardison says the flag raised last week inside the House chamber is part of a historical display replicating how the antebellum building appeared in 1863. Hardison says the flag should be viewed in its historical context and shouldn't be offensive.
North Carolina NAACP president Rev. William Barber disagreed. He says that flag represents Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and lynchings.
Sessions of the General Assembly moved to a newer building 50 years ago, but the old capitol still hosts official events. Gov. Pat McCrory has an office on the first floor.


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Stamkos gets boost from Gary Roberts' trainingby Dan Rosen
TORONTO -- It's not easy to put Gary Roberts out of commission. Steven Stamkos almost did it in with one powerful squeeze this summer.
Stamkos, the Tampa Bay Lightning center, was playfully roughhousing with Roberts, a man 24 years his elder but one many consider to be among the toughest to ever play in the NHL. Stamkos put a vicelike grip on Roberts' bicep, and Roberts' arm started to throb, threatening to at least temporarily ruin his plans for golf that day.
Subban shapes upBy Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer
Working with a personal trainer who designs his nutrition plan and keeps him busy in the gym, the Canadiens defenseman has conditioned himself to withstand the rigors of a long NHL season.
Instead of anger, all Roberts felt was pride. After all, Roberts and his training methods are ultimately responsible for Stamkos' surge in strength during the past four years.
"If you eat properly and train right at a young age, your body goes through the roof, and that's why Stammer can grab my bicep and I can't golf that day," Roberts told NHL.com during a recent interview at his gym in North York. "I was like, 'My goodness, that's how strong he's gotten.' He's still 22 years old. He's got three or four years left of good quality years of training. He's still got an opportunity to improve.
"That's scary."
NHL coaches and players can pin the blame on Roberts for helping Stamkos develop the necessary strength, power and speed to match an already enviable skill set. The Lightning can thank Roberts and his high-energy, fast-paced, nutritionally based training program for helping Stamkos become one of the best players in the world.
And, of course, Roberts can thank Stamkos for helping jump start his post-NHL career, because without the success of his first client, the Gary Roberts High Performance Training Centre might never have been born.
"You see this now," Stamkos told NHL.com, referring to the state-of-the-art facility built specifically for Roberts inside the Fitness Institute. "Four years ago it was Gary and I in his home gym."
In 2009, Roberts, then with the Lightning as a player, invited Stamkos into his home gym in Uxbridge, Ontario to train and learn about nutrition in a one-on-one setting. The idea was that proper training and nutrition could help Stamkos, the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NHL Draft, build on his 46-point rookie season.
According to Roberts, Brian Lawton, then Lightning general manager, wanted Stamkos to spend the summer training in Minnesota, which meant living in a hotel. Roberts and coach Rick Tocchet figured out a more convenient way to help the rising star.
Instead of living 1,000 miles from home, Stamkos could drive the 20 or so minutes to Roberts' house to train and eat with someone who knew exactly what it takes to survive and thrive in the NHL, both as a 20-year-old and a 40-year-old.
"To be able to relate to a trainer was huge," Stamkos said. "He's has gone through it, has played in the NHL, knows what the body feels like on a day-to-day basis. Watching him helped too. There was a 42-year-old guy at the time who was the hardest-working guy on our team. I'm sitting there as an 18-year-old thinking I'm working hard, but I'm watching this guy, who has done everything you can in the NHL -- scored 50 goals, won the Stanley Cup, has nothing to prove -- trying to help a kid like me. It was the best thing for me when he asked me to work out."
After his first summer of training and eating the Roberts' way, Stamkos busted out with 51 goals and 95 points. That was enough to sell him on the program.
He could feel the difference all over the ice. Although it was invisible to the naked eye, Stamkos had developed enough strength and endurance to want to engage in a physical game.
"You can definitely feel it when you have the puck and guys are trying to get it but you're fighting them off," Stamkos said. "You can feel it when you go into the corner and the guy is not expecting you to give him a shoulder, but you do and he's gone and you have the puck."
Wayne Gretzky was talking about him.
Stamkos never got to 50 goals. He finished with 45, having scored seven in his final 30 games.
Roberts has an explanation for the slump: Stamkos stopped training and did not maintain his fitness level.
"He could feel it, and now he gets it," Roberts said. "I'm not asking him to be in the gym every day during the winter, but twice a week he needs to be doing something to work on his body so he doesn't get those imbalances. He didn't lift. He had a few minor injuries that affected his ability to train and he didn't do it, and then he felt he was getting sluggish and lacked energy."
Stamkos said he didn't cheat himself last season. He scored 60 goals and had 97 points.
"I saw a difference," Lightning GM Steve Yzerman told NHL.com. "He took it to another level."
Yzerman, a Hall of Fame player in his own right, said nothing Stamkos does from here on out in his career will surprise him -- not even 70 goals.
"The sky is the limit, most of all because he's got drive," Yzerman said. "He loves to play and he's got drive. The best players have that. I can't tell you he's not going to score 60 every year -- 70, I don't know. He's certainly capable of it because of the skill, the drive -- he's motivated."
Stamkos said he's training even harder this summer in a workout group that includes Pittsburgh Penguins right wing James Neal, Carolina Hurricanes center Jeff Skinner, Tampa Bay teammate Brett Connolly, New York Rangers prospect Christian Thomas and St. Louis Blues prospect Anthony Peluso.
They push each other from warm-ups to cool-downs. They challenge each other to jump higher, run faster, and to pump more iron than the next guy. Roberts lords over them like a controlling coach, motivator, friend and confidant.
Stamkos wouldn't have it any other way. At this point in his career, he doesn't know any other way.
"I have always had confidence in my skill, but I'm starting to have confidence in my physical ability coming," Stamkos said. "That is huge."
Follow Dan Rosen on Twitter at: @drosennhl


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Fashion Blogger Overcomes Muscular Dystrophy With Style
If the fashion industry has an award for heroes, Henrik Silvius should get a nomination.
Muscular dystrophy may have the 22-year-old Dane using a wheelchair, but that doesn't stop him from diving into the crowded sea of fashion blogging. Spending his days blurring the line between masculine and feminine fashion norms, Mr. Silvius is luring hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic readers to his Where Fashion Is Fashion Is blog.
Silvius may seem an unlikely candidate to conquer the world given his lot in life. But he's just one in an admirable cast of people with disabilities to break into fashion.
As a child, Silvius was not able to hang on tree limbs or kick soccer balls in the yard. Instead, he was observing the world around him. He's had a long affair with sketchpads, allowing him to channel those observations into drawings.
The view from his wheelchair caused him to literally see the world from a different perspective than everyone else; he always saw peoples' clothes and bodies before he saw their faces.


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Hi all! I'm getting very excited about our plans for third grade which will start in July. We've done lifepacs for 1st and 2nd and we are going to shake things up this year!
I'm am planning to skip the whole cursive writing thing in favor of keyboarding. It seems like the better skill for learning to get thoughts out quickly. I'll probably devote enough time to cursive to make sure he can read it and sign his name and whatnot.... but definitely not the stress I suffered in 3rd grade with it. YUCK!
So is anyone else teaching typing to a 3rd grader. What do you recommend and how much time are you devoting to it?
keyboarding 3rd grader
Discuss the pros and cons of various curriculums, or get help on which to choose!
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My seven year old did "Typing Instructor for Kids" and then did "Deluxe Typing Instructor". Both are great programs. The latter is definitely for adults. After doing both programs, she can type about 20 wpm without looking. Therefore, she can still write in cursive faster. But she chooses to type all the rough drafts that she knows will have to be corrected.
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There's this site http://www.pezgo.com you go there and you print out these stickers and stick them on your keyboard and then you play the browser games on the site. The games are designed for kids of different ages for the purpose of enhancing typing skills. It's all free of course. I have my kids play the games when they're bored and they want to play games and I see really good results.
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We use http://www.typingweb.com/typingtutor and the kids do well with it! I have a 1st and 3rd grader!
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There are lots of fun typing games - shoot the zombies, shoot the space ships, make your car / horse run faster, etc. Unless your kids are going to grow up to be secretaries and need 80-100 wpm, I wouldn't worry -that- much about formal instruction. I tried Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and one or two other typing programs, and none of them really stuck, but years of repetition has enabled me to type with good accuracy at 50-60 wpm, which is sufficient for my needs. In the end, it's more about -what- you type than so much -how- you type it.
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There are lots of "courses" that aren't as good as the free materials. If anyone has found a great paid course, I'd be curious. The free typing games that we use are at:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/key ... games.html
They also have a typing course which has a sequence, it's free:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/key ... ourse.html
A slightly smaller set of free typing games can be found here:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/key ... games.html
They also have a typing course which has a sequence, it's free:
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As you all probably know by now Jim has a foundation that helps many causes.
I believe that the following video was recorded when Jim visited Haiti last year. (Probably during those month he was "missing".)
The link is from the foundation official Facebook page so you need to sign in to see it. Still it's worth the viewing.
It always puts a smile on my face when I see people helping other genuinely.
For more info about Jim's causes, check out the website of the Better U Foundation:
PS: I posted this topic here but I'm not really sure if it's the right place. Admintrators, correct me please! Lol


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We did it again! As of June 3rd, we survived another year of Charlie! To commemorate, I dusted off last year's decor and threw him a celebratory little shindig. I didn't even switch out the photos from his first year of life, but hey! There were cake bites (a la Mish) so he didn't seem to mind.
Yup, this kid sure can drive me crazy. Crazy crazy crazy in love.
Friday, July 29, 2011
The Big 2
We did it again! As of June 3rd, we survived another year of Charlie! To commemorate, I dusted off last year's decor and threw him a celebratory little shindig. I didn't even switch out the photos from his first year of life, but hey! There were cake bites (a la Mish) so he didn't seem to mind.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
San Luis Obispo Nine-year Roommate Reunion!
It's time to resurrect three-word-captions.
Seven of us.
Together four days.
Party without kids.
Historic gum wall.
Everyone else cooked.
Riveting breakfast conversation.
Creme brulee french. (toast) (sorry for cheating)
Freedom to nap.
Braved Pacific Ocean.
Kayaked against wind.
Narrowly escaped killerseals.
That water's cold.
Naomi's water adventure.
Nerds at heart. (but lovable ones)
Terrible, cheesy movie.
Beautiful beach day.
Crazy body surfers.
Family picture time.
There we go.
All look same...
...nine years ago.
Fifteen kids now.
Must reunionize again!
P.S. Montana de Oro.
Love those girls. Really, I do.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Now that I've gotten my truest, foremost feelings out about being pregnant (in this post), I might as well confess that I'm also pretty scared. No, not constantly plagued with worries, but the nagging feelings are there.
See, I'm already weird. I'm a Mormon. A water-birther. A raw-plant-food-eater. A home-schooler. Just kidding. But still, four kids before our seventh wedding anniversary? Might be the weirdest of all, even for mainstream Mormon culture. (No really, check your stats next sacrament meeting.) That's cool and all-- many who want to have four kids by their seventh wedding anniversary are unable to, for a multitude of reasons. This all still feeds into my growing awareness that there is nothing "normal" about my lifestyle, and a fourth baby will certainly turn whatever is familiar and comfortable about my current life upside down and inside out.
I said earlier in this post that I just don't love babies. I was a little severe, but truly I am not eager to reenter the world of chaos, sleep deprivation, and social isolation that is raising an infant. The schedule cramped by nap times and frequent feedings, the juggling of household tasks and disciplining older children with one hand, the sheer madness that is running errands.
Yes, mothering small children is not for the faint of heart. I made the choice to have this child, as I've done three other times, almost purely on faith in a force much greater than myself. As I consider the practical details, though, I am already baffled and overwhelmed.
I know everything will work out fine. It always does. But... how? I have no answer and feel so very unprepared to have four smallies always with me at home. Five months' time... that's all I've got to resolve these sentiments...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Erik's birthday festivities
I really thought I'd taken pictures of all the fun we had with visitors in April and May. Hmmm, I'll have to hunt for those. In the meantime, Erik did get around to having his fourth birthday and we let him alone dictate the day's activities, free of interference from a certain older sister who lovingly meddles. He requested the train park and Yumberi frozen yogurt. Easy enough.
I figured I might as well throw him a birthday party, too, while I was at it. It's hard to tell if Erik or his mom loves Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs more (we do like the book, but I'm referring to the film), but our shared fanaticism made for an easy party theme choice.
Vicious winds prevented my vision of dangling food and rat-birds from coming to fruition, but the beauty of it all was that... no one cared. Not a one. Why didn't someone tell me seven parties ago that no one cares how a party looks, sounds, smells, and acts like a Martha-Stewart wanna-be-party? I know, I know, you all tried.
Not that there's anything wrong with extravagant birthday parties, if you're not making sacrifices in every other aspect of life in order to pull them off. Okay, lesson learned.
So ERIK. He loved his party just as much as every previous one. Maybe more. I will do (almost) absolutely anything to procure that toothy magic, but it's very comforting to know it's not nearly as hard to do so as I'd made it.
Yes, I free-handed Flint Lockwood for our pin-the-spray-on-shoes-on-Flint piece of entertainment. Unfortunately, I forgot all of the shoe cut-outs at home, but again, no one cared. We improvised and used it as a target for a rat-bird toss.
Erik even invented his own rendition of freeze tag: the tagger had a toy piece of peanut brittle for tagging/freezing and someone else had a toy syringe for unfreezing/administering the peanut allergy medicine for all the "Sam Sparks'" experiencing anaphylactic shock. If you're not well acquainted with the film, you might be a bit confused. Also, you really should see it. Really.
Don't forget Steve's gummi bears!
Party was a confirmed success when Erik fell asleep while Kyle was offering him bedtime story choices. Do I love anything more than that slumbering face? It was a happy birthday indeed.
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Todays feature is:
Heather is "a homemaker, housewife and mother finding joy and happiness in the everyday." Her crochet work is beautiful - you will want her afghans. And she has even designed some free patterns for you. I hope you enjoy her blog as much as I do. :)


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J.R.'s Antique Center
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Hours 10:00 - 5:00 Monday
Saturday, 11:00 - 5:00 Sunday
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J.R.'s Antique Center is located minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Maryland's historic Eastern Shore. We offer an exceptional selection of antiques, furniture, rugs, sterling, glassware and other collectables.
Come discover American and European antiques along with our fine collection of Kittinger, Biggs, Henkel Harris, and Baker furniture.
Father and son owners, Ralph 8c. JR Russum, along with a number of choice mid-Atlantic antique dealers, invite you to tour their continually changing inventory and uncover all types of treasures to compliment your home or personal collection.


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JOAD/AAAP are fun and challenging ways to become part of the Sattva community while building your skills as an archer athlete.
The Junior Olympic Archery Development Program (JOAD) and the Adult Archery Achievement Program (AAAP) are programs of USA Archery, offered at Sattva Center for Archery Training. JOAD is for ages 8 – 20; AAAP is for ages 21 and older. Coaching provided through JOAD/AAAP guides intermediate and advanced athletes towards enjoying the sport recreationally or progressing towards the excitement of competition.
You may be familiar with the practice of martial arts students earning different color belts to symbolize a level of achievement. Similarly, in JOAD/AAAP, participants are given opportunities to demonstrate how their skills have progressed under tournament like conditions in an event called a "Pin Shoot". Archers compare their scores achieved during a Pin Shoot with a national scoring matrix and, if a certain score is achieved to earn the next level, a new Pin is earned. Pins are collected on lanyards and become symbols of dedication, persistence, skill and achievement.
Whether you or your child's interest is purely recreational or an Olympic, Paralympic or World Championship dream, USA Archery's JOAD/AAAP programs are tailored to help you achieve your goals.
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A college football player who was arrested Saturday for knocking a referee unconscious during a football game said the punch was accidental and hopes to apologize to the referee in person.
The visiting Mt. San Antonio College lineman Bernard Schirmer was accused of punching the unidentified side judge in the middle of the third quarter in the game against Ventura College, college police confirmed.
The referee was seen walking Schirmer back to his huddle during the game after breaking up an argument between players.
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As the referee is seen ushering Schirmer along, he is punched and falls to the ground.
"I didn't even know I hit him," Schirmer said. "I didn't feel a thing."
Schirmer said he regularly punches his own helmet to regain focus, but inadvertently hit the referee during the game.
Schirmer was immediately ejected from the game and arrested on suspicion of felony battery, according to Ventura County Community College District Police Department.
He was suspended for five years, according to Jim Sartoris, commissioner for the Southern California Football Association, who says says it is protocol per the association's rules.
The school plans to appeal the suspension, Sartoris said.
The referee will not pursue charges, but Schirmer hopes to apologize to him in person.
"I would like to apologize face to face and tell him it was accident," he said. "I did not have one thought in my mind to bring harm to you. I'm truly sorry."


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Courtesy of US Forest Service and CapitolChristmasTree2012.org
The Capitol Christmas Tree is harvested Friday at the White River National Forest.
Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET Sunday: Christmas is on its way to the U.S. Capitol.
The 73-foot Engelmann spruce that will serve as the official U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree was cut down Friday in Colorado's White River National Forest, NBCWashington.com reported Saturday.
A crane lifted "Colorado's gift to the United States" through the air before setting it on a huge flatbed truck, NBCWashington.com reported. Crews will wrap it up and prepare it for a national tour.
But first, according to CapitolChristmasTree2012.org, "The People's Tree" was getting a community sendoff in Meeker, Colo.
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Capitol Christmas Tree celebrants sign a tree banner Saturday in Meeker, Colo., as "The People's Tree" at right awaits transport to Washington, D.C.
Saturday festivities included a street fair, tree banner signing, visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, a formal presentation ceremony by the U.S. Forest Service, government officials and three Ute Indian tribes, young singers and a parade and fireworks.
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Last week, the Colorado state Forest Service harvested 75 subalpine fir trees from the Colorado State Forest near Gould to accompany the Capitol Christmas Tree, the Herald Times of Rio Blanco County reported. The companion trees will spend the holidays in U.S. government offices, the Herald said.
The Capitol Christmas Tree and companions will travel through 10 states on custom-decorated Mack Trucks before arriving in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 26. Santa will blog the whole way.
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Salmon with Lemon-Mint Dressing
Seasonal vegetables and pasta complete this easy entrée.
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoon sugar
¾ teaspoon salt, divided
1/8 teaspoon plus ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon finely minced shallot
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
Garnish: fresh mint sprigs
Whisk together lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, ¼ teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl; slowly whisk in ¼ cup olive oil. Stir in shallot and mint. Set aside.
Sprinkle salmon with remaining ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté salmon 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Drizzle with dressing. Garnish, if desired. Makes 4 servings.
Orecchiette with Zucchini and Tomatoes
Cook 1½ cups orecchiette pasta according to package directions. While pasta cooks, cut 1 medium zucchini lengthwise into quarters; slice thinly. Add zucchini to pasta during last 1 minute of cooking. Drain and transfer to a medium bowl. Stir in 1 cup halved cherry tomatoes, ½ cup shredded Parmesan, 1 tablespoon olive oil, ¼ teaspoon salt, and 1?8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. Makes 4 cups.
Dave Martin, executive chef of New York City's Crave on 42nd, recommends Francis Coppola Diamond Collection 2006 Yellow Label Sauvignon Blanc with this dish. "With a clean finish and hint of tropical flavor, this wine is a deal at about $15," he says.


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This review appears in the July 2014 issue of The New York City Jazz Record.
Ingrid Laubrock Octet
Zürich Concert (Intakt)
By David R. Adler
This is an expanded ensemble effort from saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, but the players from her Sleepthief trio (pianist Liam Noble, drummer Tom Rainey) are tucked away inside the octet. The date starts on a high ethereal plane with the brief "Glasses" but then forges ahead with a set of longer and far more detailed pieces, alive with the timbral possibilities provided by guitarist Mary Halvorson, trumpeter Tom Arthurs, accordionist Ted Reichman, cellist Ben Davis and bassist Drew Gress.
Laubrock aims to balance complex written material with flowing and volatile improvisation, and the result is impeccable. Reichman is prominent on "Novemberdoodle," his lonely melodic lines assuming new shapes as the band fills out the unraveling harmony and subtle counterpoint. Rainey doubles on xylophone — at times it sounds more like marimba — and adds still more textural elements. Halvorson's solo feature comes at the beginning of "Chant," which goes on to highlight Gress and Davis in startling bowed unison passages. The abstract lyrical interplay of piano and cello toward the end is a highlight of the set.
It's on "Chant" that Laubrock steps forward decisively on tenor sax, and she remains very present on "Matrix," inviting spirited dialogue with Arthurs' breathy and unsettled trumpet. Reichman and Halvorson have their own deep duo moment as well toward the conclusion. But if there's a centerpiece of Zürich Concert it's the nearly 20-minute-long "Nightbus." It starts with solo piano, rubato Mingusian discords from the band, a brief taste of the fascinating Laubrock-Rainey duo, beautifully conceived sectional counterpoint that emerges in layer after layer, and then a tightly grooving Rainey solo that opens another new section. Soon Noble is off with a fiercely burning trio interlude with Gress and Rainey. Laubrock's unison writing in this section is astonishing: Tim Berne-like in its difficulty and angular motion but distinctively hers, down to the last lightning chamber figure that surges up to end the piece.


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Reviews of two Grouses (Famous and Black)
Posted by Arctic Wolf on February 15, 2014
The Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky has a history in Scotland reaching back in time to 1896 when Wine Merchants, Matthew Gloag and Son, first blended their Grouse Whisky. Over the next nine years, the whisky became so popular that Matthew Gloag decided to add the word 'famous' to the name in 1905. Over the next century it would become one of the most popular brands of whisky in Scotland. Although the home of famous Grouse is the Glenturret Distillery, according to The Famous Grouse Website, the Famous Grouse Whisky is a blend which contains premium single malts such as The Macallan and Highland Park.
The Black Grouse is an offshoot of its popular cousin which begins where The Famous Grouse ends. The whisky is the result of a further blending of the Famous Grouse Whisky with Islay Malt Whiskies. The resulting whisky has a peated flavour profile with a reportedly dark smoky character.
It has been about four years since I examined each of these blended whiskies, and recently I had a chance to sample each blend side by side as I was gifted a bottle of each this past Christmas. I took advantage of this opportunity to revisit each of my previous reviews tweaking the tasting notes and the scores (neither changed significantly).
Here are the links to each of the revised reviews:
Review: The Famous Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky
Review: The Black Grouse Blended Scotch Whisky
Note: The astute reader will notice that the suggested cocktails for each have been tweaked as well!
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Shaquille O'Neal is in training for his next career.
The 7-foot-1 center for the Phoenix Suns is taking a course at Syracuse University known as Sportscaster U, a crash course designed to teach athletes about the broadcasting industry. He arrived on Sunday and started school Monday at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
"I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking," O'Neal said Monday during a break in his studio work. "After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show."
Sportscaster U is essentially a broadcasting boot camp started last year by Syracuse radio play-by-play announcer Matt Park and fellow Syracuse alum Dave Ryan, an ESPN announcer. Park and Ryan are adjunct professors at Newhouse.
The inaugural Sportscaster U was held last summer in conjunction with the National Basketball Players Association.Four players, including Eric Snow and Adrian Griffin, signed up for the hands-on course.
They will host another session for more NBA players later this summer, but this week's session was designed specifically for Shaq.
"His energy level is unbelievable," Park said. "He wants to do it all and he's been terrific."
O'Neal spent his time taping mock stand-ups, scripting material, and conducting interviews.
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You know the story of Lori Drew — the mom from Missouri who was accused of setting up a bogus MySpace profile impersonating an adolescent boy. Lori acted as this fake "Josh" to stir up romantic feelings in young Megan Meier who, after being dumped by "Josh," took her own life.
A terrible thing of course. And someone needed blaming. So federal prosecutors chose to go after Lori Drew. The jury convicted her of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (the federal anti-hacking statute), but today the judge acquitted her. Seems like a good decision, as the theory on which the prosecution based its case — that Lori violated the site's terms of service by saying she was someone other than she is and thereby exceeded her authority — was shaky at best. The big problem with that theory was that such a reading would make most of us criminals. I'm sure you don't mean to tell me you've never signed up for an online service using something other than your real name or accurate contact information.
Most smart people can agree that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was not the right way to punish this "crime." Various states have enacted legislation to handle cyberbullying and are already prosecuting people in state court. But the problem is not going to go away. People will still do foolish things on the internet.
And to the extent that foolishness is criminal, the individual should pay a criminal price. The individual.
Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to go after this conduct put the contractual relationship between the end user and the provider (i.e., Lori Drew and MySpace) under the microscope where it did not belong. The court and jury had to scrutinize that contractual relationship and the resulting authority (or lack thereof). They had to do that because there was no other way the government was going to win a CFAA prosecution otherwise.
Focusing on that relationship in this context did not make sense. MySpace didn't have anything to do with this other than being a passive intermediary. Why should the inquiry at trial have gone to those kinds of questions? Why should the intermediary have been bothered? It shouldn't have.
The bad act was (I guess we have to again say "allegedly was" now that she's been acquitted) between Lori Drew and Megan Meier. That's the space where the factual focus and legal analysis belonged. Not in the legal relationship between Lori Drew and MySpace.
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The other day, I heard from Hilary, a former student who forwarded a pdf of the Letters page in the January issue of Washingtonian Magazine. The top letter, which called out the editors for choosing to feature a naked woman on the cover, was hers:
Your magazine is cutting edge, informative, and entertaining without being superficial. However, when the December issue arrived, I was disgusted. Washington is full of beautiful, powerful, educated, intelligent women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, and this cover does nothing but degrade us to a naked – and I'm sure Photoshopped – figure with some lines about cosmetic procedures floating around her head…
Hilary said she was heartened by the fact that the magazine not only published her letter, but acknowledged the extensive blowback the cover had gotten from other readers. She also wrote that she was inspired by the documentary, Miss Representation, and since seeing it has been quick to "attack any and all forms of the continued objectification of women, especially powerful women, in our society."
You go, Hilary.
The cover story in question focused on the dreaded F-word, as in: Don't like what you see in the mirror? Fix it! You can guess the fix: pages of features on everything from going redhead or trying new workout routines to a guide to 12 plastic surgery procedures, complete with prices. (You can expect to pay anywhere from $2000 to $8000 to lift your eyelids.) All of which got me to thinking.
A while back we wrote about those two fall TV shows, "The Playboy Club" and "Pan Am", where we castigated the male producers for pitching women in bunny costumes and girdles as examples of "empowered women." (Apparently, the viewing public agreed. We're happy to report that the first show met its timely demise while the second is on well-deserved hiatus.) But as I clicked through that issue of Washingtonian Magazine, an ugly little thought crept in: It's not just men who are responsible for our objectification. You have to wonder if we're sometimes complicit ourselves: The December cover of Washingtonian was shot by a women. All those features to "help you feel your best in the New Year" were written by women, for women.
Are we sometimes responsible for our own misrepresentation?
I found more food for thought over there on salon, where Mary Elizabeth Williams, writing about the new Chelsea Handler TV show, wondered why we consider shows about girls behaving badly to be ground-breaking:
But what really sets [the Chelsea-Whitney NBC Happy Hour] it apart is the whiff of voyeuristic creepiness about building a prime-time block around willowy females who dress up sexy and get their drink on. Is this really the same network that figured out how to give us the complicated, hilarious – and very different – characters of Reagan Brinkley, Leslie Knope and Liz Lemon?
Worse, though, Happy Hour reinforces the stereotype of ladies as inherently less funny than dudes. Chelsea's humor, after all, hinges upon her being like a guy — someone who sleeps around and gets "lady wood" — but has conveniently appealing blond hair and boobs.
Over on twitter, a trending topic is #thingsaslutmightsay. Many of the tweets are from men. But not all. Yuck. Jezebel reports on a bathroom sign in a D.C. coffee shop that shows a creepy stickfigure gent peering over the stall at the stickfigure gal. This is funny? Who knows who came up with that bright idea — but what I wonder is why the sign is still up? Oh, it's Saxby's Coffee at K Street and Vermont Ave. Don't go there.
And over at The Guardian, Dominic Rushe wonders why, in 2012, the Detroit car show is still using "female eye candy" to sell cars — when roughly half its customers are women? [Note: the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas is likewise using "booth babes" to accessorize its products.]
Rushe asks a good question. But I've got another. What's our own role in all this nonsense? Whether or not we're directly responsible for any of the sexism that continues to objectify our gender, we do have one responsibility — and that's to call when we see it. Just like Hilary.


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