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The Department of Transportation says it has fined US Airways $1.2 million for failing to provide adequate wheelchair assistance to passengers in Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C.
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Federal rules require that airlines provide free, prompt wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities, including helping passengers to move between gates to make connecting flights.
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Potted Potter
Note: This review is from 2007
Not that double act Dan and Jeff overly concern themselves with covering every supporting character or subtle plot development as they précis and parody their way through the adventures at breakneck speed. Rather they use the Potter phenomenon as a loose backdrop to their energetic alternative pantomime.
It means that knowledge the finer points of the septology isn't crucial to the enjoyment of this spirited romp – and, presumably, such loose adhesion to the source material might also help keep JK Rowling's lawyers at bay.
Potted Potter is – fairly obviously – a kids' show, and does come with the incessant shouting, relentlessly manic energy and over-the-top tomfoolery that seems par for the genre. Such exaggerated performance might prove too much for a jaded adult, but it's great if you're eight.
Even so, Dan and Jeff do manage to limit the forced jollity. They have a genuinely playful spirit and a natural chemistry that makes them easy to enjoy, despite initial reservations. Such good humour rubs off on the audience, too – not that the younger members ever need much encouragement to get into the swing of things.
The live game of Quiddich is the apex of this audience participation, as excited children (and at least one adult) get completely carried away in the moment. Otherwise all the family fun you might expect is here, from over-repeated catchphrases, silly dressing-up, lively songs and exaggerated rants.
As for the double-act dynamic, Jeff is the straight man, the cheery Potterite trying to take it all seriously, while Dan does his best to sabotage proceedings and wind up his earnest companion, which proves remarkably easy. Although Jeff plays Harry, it is Dan, taking the role of absolutely everyone else in the series, who youngsters will adore, thanks to his anarchic disobedience and unquenchably playful spirit. What more do you need to be a hero to like-minded children?
The show - a reworked transfer from last year's Edinburgh Fringe - is an irreverent blast from start to finish, frothily light and driven forward at a such a lick that boredom is not an option. 'Ideal for all the family' is a claim that's often made and rarely fulfilled, especially at this time of year – but in this case it could well be true, even for muggles who don't know their Aragog from their Bezoar.
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Ann F. Thomas
Otto L. Walter Distinguished Professor of Tax Law
Director, Graduate Tax Program
In 1992, Ann F. Thomas began a second career in academic law with a fellowship year at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, after 17 years (10 as partner) working in the corporate tax department at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions. Professor Thomas spent two years as an adjunct professor at Yale Law School and joined New York Law Schools faculty in 1995.
Professor Thomas, who teaches a range of tax courses and is Director of the Graduate Tax Program, was drawn to academia because of the chance to explore and develop a subject she views as fundamental to how societies function.
We need to promote greater tax literacy among lawyers. Teaching is very rewarding from that point of view, Professor Thomas says. Some students here are already working in tax and a good number are interested in the tax field executive and corporate practice and they really add to the fruitful discussion of tax issues.
Professor Thomas says her first love in taxation research is in the corporate and business context, but she also concentrates her scholarship on income tax and urges a re-examination of the assumptions about marriage and family that underlie current policy.
Our tax subsidies should work to promote the care and nurturing of children. In modern society, families can come in many different configurations. Tax policy should support family life and not just the traditional sole-earner household, says Professor Thomas.
In 1999, Professor Thomas organized a symposium for the New York Law School Journal of Human Rights on the subject of Women, Equity, and Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions. More than 20 experts from across the country legal scholars, economists, and activists spent a full day examining tax policy problems that diminish the financial security of women, including the possible marriage penalty within the income tax code. With the help of the Marjorie Cook Foundation, the Journal of Human Rights distributed the symposium volume to every member of Congress, key Treasury and White House staff, law professors, and economists. The timing coincided with fierce debates in both houses of Congress over marriage and income tax.
Although teaching tax law to future lawyers and practitioners is her primary mission, Professor Thomas uses her work in tax history to bring tax policy back to the citizens. As she sees it, tax literacy is the only way to ensure tax policies that reflect the needs of all citizens. We need to make the theory and the history of taxation more accessible so that voters can have a more informed view of our tax policy choices. Only then will they be able to set the agenda for future policy choices, she says.
Professor Thomas studies and teaches about comparative systems of corporate taxation around the world and sees a need in the increasingly global marketplace for an expansion of international cooperation on business and tax issues.
Professor Thomas is in the process of finishing a book examining the history of the U.S. tax system during the Progressive Era and the emergence of the modern income tax system in 1913.
Professor Thomas serves on the Board of Directors of the African American Policy Forum.
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"Introduction, Panel II: Exempt Organizations and the Corporate Charitable Deduction: Law, Policy, Theory (Symposium: Corporate Philanthropy Law: Culture, Education and Politics)." 41 New York Law School Law Review 831–834 (1997).
"Square Wheels: U.S. Pass-Through Taxation of Privately Held Enterprises in a Comparative Law Context (The Sixth Annual Ernst C. Stiefel Symposium)." 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law 429–471 (1997).
"The Long Hello: Uncovering the Citizenship of Women." Book Review of No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber. H-Law, H-Net Reviews (June 1999). Available from: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=3184
Moderator, "Panel I: Observing Money, Marriage and Taxation (Symposium: Women, Equity and Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions)." 16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 127–166 (1999).
Moderator, "Panel III: Child Care and Federal Tax Policy (Symposium: Women, Equity and Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions)." 16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 203–216 (1999).
"Shifting the Burden of Proof: A Reckless Experiment." 16 In Brief 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1998).
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"Women and Taxes: The Costly Connection." 79 Radcliffe Quarterly (June 1993).
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"Transactions Relating to Intercompany Stockholdings and Indebtedness." Outline in Consolidated Tax Returns (H. Alpert, ed.). Practising Law Institute, 1983.


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The Patriots aren't just a football team, they're a franchise that recognizes who the real Patriots are and they have never been shy about showing their appreciation.
The team took that appreciation a step further on Friday when they unveiled a seat on the south end of Gillette Stadium that will be permanently left empty in honor of the many soldiers who are either Prisoners of War or Missing In Action. The seat, which is in the back row next to the concourse, is chained off and is adorned with the POW/MIA flag and an American flag.
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Meredith Whitney: Goldman has lost its edge & housing double dip still ahead…
Update: Housing prices fall, Case Schiller is having a hard time with their price series due to enormous jumps in seasonality this go around,
…After reviewing the data, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index Committee believes that, for the present, the unadjusted series is a more reliable indicator and, thus, reports should focus on the year-over-year changes where seasonal shifts are not a factor. Additionally, if monthly changes are considered, the unadjusted series should be used….
this is unlike any other housing drop, in terms of severity and government intervention, so any series cannot capture where prices are going..
…On an unadjusted basis, prices dropped 0.9 percent in February, worse than the estimated 0.3 percent decline and following a 0.4 percent downturn in January….
…The report suggests more price erosion is possible before prices start rising on a sustained basis, S&P said. The price improvement can be attributed to momentum from the federal homebuyer tax credits, which expire on April 30, and prices could be pressured further by foreclosure sales….
More on falling prices from First Logic via Calculated Risk:
…On a month-over-month basis, the national average home price index fell by 2.0 percent in February 2010 compared to January 2010, which was steeper than the previous one-month decline of 1.6 percent from December to January…
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Best financials analyst on the street Meredith Whitney's latest comments on financials and housing via CNBC:
Beleaguered banking giant Goldman Sachs has lost much of the edge it had over competitors due to the recent government charges and is a stock investors should avoid, analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC.
…(GS) faces a future in which its brand has been tainted and it will lose business to small competitors, said Whitney, who doesn't have a "buy" rating on Goldman or any of the other big banks…
…The company's stock should trade around book value, Whitney added, which would place the price just above $120….
Reasserts the double dip in housing-
…On other issues, Whitney called proposed new financial reform regulations "squishy" but said the result will be banks shrinking their balance sheets and consumers forced to seek predatory lenders for credit.
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Weekend in New England…
Well, it's time to pay off one of my two debts owed to Julia of Julia's Rants for several wager losses. I should have been more responsive to my obligation but business travel and work have been very challenging lately.
The two losses were the final regular season series loss by the New York Yankees to the Boston Red Sox and the Halloween dismissal of the Minnesota Vikings by the New England Patriots. It goes without saying which teams Julia was pulling for. Sadly for me, the results were in her favor.
For the loss by the Yankees, I owe Julia a couple of signs on my blog. I promise that I'll have them up by Thanksgiving. With the loss by the Vikings, I have to write a blog about Julia's favorite football team. I know this is very off-topic for a baseball blog but keep in mind this is for Julia…
When I was a kid, I remember reading about the old American Football League (AFL) and its original members. The Boston Patriots were one of those teams. In fact, when they were awarded their franchise in 1959, they were the eighth and final team.
Mike Holovak is the guy who stands out to me as the head coach of the Patriots in the 1960's, however, it was long-time Buffalo Bills head coach Lou Saban who was the team's first head coach.
My first real meaningful recollection of the Patriots was after they moved to Foxboro and became the New England Patriots. By that time, the head coach was Chuck Fairbanks. The year that stands out for me is 1974. The Patriots started season 5-0 behind QB Jim Plunkett, RB Sam "Bam" Cunningham, and WR Randy Vataha. They would only win two more games that season to finish 7-7, but one of the wins came at the expense of my Vikings.
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I know, Julia's favorite was actually this guy (Steve Grogan)…
Before the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, the Patriots did play in one championship game, the 1963 AFL Championship. They lost 51-10 to the San Diego Chargers, and would not advance to post-season play again until 1976. They won their first AFC East division championship in 1978, but like in 1976, they were eliminated in the first round of the play-offs.
My next significant memory of the Patriots happened in 1985. The Patriots made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but it coincided with the great Super Bowl Shuffle by the legendary Walter Payton and the Chicago Bears as the Patriots lost 46-10.
Sorry Julia, but it's hard to pass by Walter Payton's name without giving him some sort of tribute. He was one of the greatest players to set foot on the gridiron…
As the organization moved into the 1990's, their long history of futility began to change. In 1993, Bill Parcells was named the head coach and the following year, the team was acquired by owner Robert Kraft. Parcells would get the Pats to the Super Bowl in 1996 but they'd lose to Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers, 35-21. Hmmm, no wonder Julia dislikes #4!…
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After Parcells left, Pete Carroll was brought in for a few seasons. Despite making the play-offs two of his three seasons, the results were unimpressive and he was discharged. Still, a decade of some success had transformed the organization into one with a winning tradition despite the absence of Super Bowl success.
The arrival of the 21st Century also brought championship success for the Patriots as they won the Super Bowl in three of four years (2001, 2003, and 2004). If memory serves correctly, the new century also had a positive impact for another Boston area team that shall go nameless! 😉 With head coach Bill Belichick and QB Tom Brady, the Patriots emerged as the team to beat in the 2000's.
The Patriots did miss out on football immortality in 2007 when the team went undefeated during the regular season but lost to what I felt was an inferior New York Giants team in the Super Bowl. How many teams can say that a 18-1 record was a failure? None, except the New England Patriots. I am sure that there were a few former Miami Dolphins celebrating that day…
The Patriots remain a championship quality organization and they have been able to successfully replace aging stars and over-priced free agents through the years. They are currently tied for the division lead in the AFC East with a 6-2 mark and seem well positioned for much success in the second half of the season. With Tom Brady at the controls, it is a certainty that they'll have a say in who represents the AFC in the Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on February 6, 2011.
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For the uninitiated, "Monster High" is a line of toys, animated specials and other merchandise for kids (and has nothing to do with the 1989 B-movie of the same name). It's marketed by Mattel, apparently to those who are turned off by the oh-so-perfect world of Barbie. The students at Monster High are supposed to be the offspring of more famous monsters and supernatural beings- such as Count Dracula's daughter named Draculara (voiced by Dee Dee Green), the daughter of Frankenstein's Monster named Frankie Stein (Kate Higgins), Manny Taur the Minotaur (Audu Paden) and Clawd Wolf (Ogie Banks) son of the Wolfman. "Ghouls Rule" gives a more prominent role to a Jekyll and Hyde offspring as well- a nerdy Jackson Jekyll who becomes the blue-skinned DJ party animal Holt Hyde whenever he hears any musical sound (both incarnations are voiced by Cindy Robinson, who also voices several other supporting characters here.)
Like the two specials "Friday Night Frights" and "Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?" which were released together on one DVD that I reviewed previously, "Ghouls Rule" is CG-animated by Canadian studio Nerd Corps Entertainment (have to love that name.) The quality of the animation isn't as good as a typical CG-animated feature film, but a step above most made-for-TV fare. As before there is an interesting design scheme, with the Monster High school building resembling a castle and most objects are coffin-shaped, including the school lockers (reminding me of the cover for the 1980s B-movie My Best Friend is a Vampire), speakers and cell phones.
Although "Ghouls Rule" was released on DVD a few months before the other double-feature disc, it was produced after those two specials and runs longer (72 minutes), allowing for a bit more plot and character development although it is still rather fast-paced and some dialogue is hard to follow the first time around. Unlike the other two specials, on DVD this runs seamlessly with no black-outs for commercial breaks although it premiered on Nickelodeon where no doubt they were present. The story here is centered around Halloween, which of course is a perfect occasion for the Monster High franchise. Like the movie Hotel Transylvania, there is an "us versus them" issue amongst the monsters towards the humans, or "Normies" as they're referred to, of the neighboring town of New Salem. Basically the Normies have persecuted the monsters into staying out of their town, with the police quick to arrest any who venture in, especially around Halloween. It's all because of a few misunderstandings from long ago- for example Draculara was once seen by humans with tomato juice on her face which was assumed to be blood, causing her family to be driven away with torches and pitchforks. The reality is that, as Frankie and her friends discover in the catacombs under the school, monsters and Normies used to party together at Halloween.
A group of kids from the Normie high school (New Salem High) starts taunting Monster High by throwing eggs and toilet paper on the front of campus. The Monster High gang sneaks over to the New Salem High to retaliate, but it appears someone's already beaten them to it when they find the Monster High sign spray-painted there already and hear the police already on the way. To avoid being blamed for it, they head home but end up invited into a human's Halloween party after being mistaken for other kids and complemented on how good their costumes are. From here, a few of the monsters and Normies find they have things in common and become friends, but some humans still have it in for the monsters and try to get them in trouble, setting one of them up for the "Trick-Or-Treatment" (essentially a public execution) on Halloween night.
Since this is primarily a kids' show, nothing gets gruesome, but like the previous DVD I couldn't help but enjoy it anyways. Although it's done in CG animation with plenty of present-day elements such as cell phones and computers, I could picture "Monster High" as spiritually fitting in with the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon line-up. Cynics may criticize it being a disguised commercial to sell the related toys, as many 1980s kids' shows were, but I felt this stood well on its own being unfamiliar with the related products (no, I do not feel compelled to go out and buy them now!)
"Ghouls Rule" is presented in full 16x9, and while it appears about as good as can be expected from the standard DVD format, the softness of the picture compared to that of Blu-Ray and other HD formats was distracting as it was on the other "Monster High" DVD. There were obviously details in the animation and design that standard DVD simply isn't capable of reproducing, and it often felt like watching a poorly-focused projector. (Update: I've just watched the latest "Monster High" release "13 Wishes" on Blu-Ray, and discovered much of the softness to the picture is intentional.)
Audio is in Dolby Digital 5.1 and sounds about on par with a modern TV production, with sound mostly kept up front with just a couple surround effects. Spanish and French dubs are also included in 5.1, along with English SDH, Spanish and French subtitles.
Three Monster High Shorts made for the MonsterHigh.com website are included, which appear as more traditional hand-drawn animation although I'm sure they were at least partially produced via computer. These are closer in spirit to how "Monster High" might have looked as an old-style Saturday morning show, although they're in 16x9 format. Audio is in 2-channel with the same subtitle options as the main program. The disc opens with a promo for the other "Monster High" double-feature DVD with "Friday Night Frights" and "Why do Ghouls Fall in Love?", letterboxed in a 4x3 frame with 2-channel sound.
Although I'm probably outside "Monster High"'s intended audience, I've enjoyed what I've seen from its DVD offerings so far. While it would be interesting to see more adult elements included, as it is I see it as a refreshing take on the traditional doll franchises of the past few decades with a good message to kids that it's OK to be different, rather than conform to what most people think is perfect (and Barbie's still around for those who don't agree!) As I mentioned in the other review, a live-action "Monster High" movie is in development so I'll be interested to see how that turns out.
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In recent years, Bowers & Wilkins, one of the legendary names in British hi-fi audio, has been branching out beyond its high-end speakers that have long appealed to audiophiles. It has created a line of uniquely styled Zeppelin iPod speaker systems and now it is offering the P5, a $300 pair of headphones as well as the $500 MM-1 multimedia speakers.
The first thing you're probably saying to yourself is: wow, $500 for a pair of PC speakers. What do I get for that?
For starters, these speakers are slick-looking with black cloth grilles and brush metal trim. For relatively compact speakers--they measure 6.7 inches high by 3.9 inches wide by 3.9 inches deep and have a 3-inch woofer and a 1-inch tweeter--the MM1s have a nice heft to them. The right speaker--which houses four 18-watt Class D amplifiers, two of which power the left speaker--weighs 2.1 pounds, while the left speaker comes in at 1.9 pounds. The amplifiers make the aluminum top on the right speaker warm to the point where we became concerned--maybe it's not quite warm enough to keep a cup of coffee hot, but pretty warm nevertheless. That said, the speakers worked fine during our tests--we left them on for a few hours straight without any problems.
In terms of setup, you connect the MM-1s to your computer via USB and it installs the drivers install automatically on Macs and Windows PCs. According to B&W, the USB connection is fed to an "audiophile" quality digital-to-analog converter that incorporates equalization to increase the 3-inch woofers bass output. Around the back of the right speaker is an auxiliary input for iPods and other audio devices as well as a headphone input. Both the USB and power cords plug into the bottom of that speaker, and some slots for cable management help keep everything aligned and hidden properly. The speakers come with a shiny black-and-chrome oval-shaped remote control that looks similar to the one B&W includes with its Zeppelin and Zeppelin Mini iPod speaker systems. The remote control--which is a fingerprint magnet and easy to misplace--controls the the speaker's power and volume, as well as play, pause, next, and previous track selection for iTunes. If you misplace the remote, there's a volume control on the side right speaker as well as a power button. The left speaker's blue LED flashes when you raise or lower the volume and turns red when you power off the speakers.
When CNET contributor Steve Guttenberg wrote his impressions of the MM-1s, he talked about how he didn't agree with B&W's claim that there was "no need to add a subwoofer" to these speakers. He pointed out that larger, less expensive systems such as Altec Lansing's Expressionist Ultra MX6021 PC speaker-subwoofer system ($200) "can produce dramatically more and very high-quality bass." While that's true, the MM-1 produces deep, punchy bass for a 2.0 speaker system and it offers very detailed, well-balanced sound.
What's interesting about these speakers is that they're truly optimized for a near-field listening experience and they sound their best when you're sitting about 3 feet away from them with the speakers spread about 30 inches to 36 inches apart. Not coincidentally, that distance equates to where you'd be in relation to your computer--and computer speakers--when sitting at a desk.


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Instructions: Each student group working on the Land Plan Challenge activity will need a set of all the items above. If you are working with one set of the six maps, then you will need six copies of this page. If you are working with two sets of the six maps, then you will need 12 copies of this page.
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Could you give up chocolate, fat, caffeine, or sweets for one month? These women did — and it wasn't exactly a piece of cake. "Breaking an ingrained habit takes focus and determination, especially when it comes to a favorite food or mildly addictive substance like caffeine," says Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, a dietitian at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Wellness Institute in Chicago who advised all four for the duration of the plan. But for these women, fear of heart disease, worry about a psychological dependency, or just wanting to lose those last five pounds gave them the push they needed. Here's how they fared (hint: The chocoholic was climbing the walls), plus tips on how you can cut out — or cut back on — each of these things too.
Confessions of a Chocoholic
Name: Allison Hillman Buchalter
Age: 35
Profession: Healthcare educator in Baltimore, Maryland
Height: 5'7" Weight: 125 pounds
What She Gave up: Chocolate
For Allison, it wasn't the amount of chocolate she ate that concerned her but the intense cravings she got — and the erratic behavior they caused. "I scrounged around my cupboards and car looking for chocolate," she confesses. She ate chocolate every day and felt that no sweet was worth eating unless it contained (you guessed it) chocolate. "I worried that I was too dependent on it, and even though I didn't have all-out binges, I felt anxious about it afterward, like I had a real addiction."
Nightmare...or No Big Deal?
Nightmare. Not surprisingly, Allison struggled the most of the four women. She couldn't find any foods to satisfy her cravings and admits that she thought about going on a chocolate bender daily. "I started eating slice-and-bake oatmeal cookies at night," she says. "I ate more sweets than I did when I was eating chocolate!"
Even worse: Once her 30 days passed, Allison ate brownies every night for a week. According to Blatner, for Allison, full-out deprivation backfired. A better strategy might have been to limit chocolate to every other day instead of banning it entirely.
Cut It Out
If, as for Allison, something is an absolute, nonnegotiable, must-have-it-every-day treat, denying yourself can cause bingeing, bingeing, and more bingeing. Allowing room for a beloved food — and practicing portion control — can help you manage intense cravings. For chocolate fiends, Blatner's favorite is CocoaVia's 80-calorie Chocolate Snack Bars. "They're portion-controlled and delicious, plus dark chocolate has heart-healthy antioxidants." If you still feel that a food has too much of a psychological hold, consider the circumstances in which you desire it. For example, if you crave a certain snack after a stressful conversation with your mother, avoid it during those times and save it for when you're more relaxed (take a walk or count backward from 10 to ease the stressful moment). Soon you'll start to associate it with pleasure instead of tension, which can help rein in out-of-control cravings.
Cutting Caffeine Cravings
Name: Stephanie Hillebrand
Age: 31
Profession: Civil engineer in Huntington Beach, California
Height: 5'7" Weight: 140 pounds
What She Gave up: Caffeine
Stephanie's caffeine habit consisted of two Grande Starbucks coffees each morning, one or two cups of iced tea or soda at lunch, and more soda in the late afternoon to help her power through her 12-hour workdays. "It helped me focus in the morning and the first part of my day, but I was becoming really jittery and then crashing in the afternoon. I was falling asleep at my desk!" she says.
Nightmare...or No Big Deal?
Stephanie went cold turkey, replacing her usual morning coffee with decaf tea and her soda with water. She had bad headaches every day for the first two weeks, overwhelming fatigue, and a strong desire for a cup. "I was obsessed by the fact that I couldn't have coffee!" she says. She also missed the manic feeling that helped her meet deadlines. But by week three she felt more even-keeled. She added back one cup of coffee at the end of the experiment but kept her intake to that. "I feel edgy and unwell now if I have more than one cup a day," she says. "Plus I can still accomplish everything I need to — including meeting my deadlines — without the crazy caffeine high."
Cut It Out
Because caffeine can create a dependency, cold turkey may not be your best option, since it can cause withdrawal symptoms like Stephanie's. "Caffeine is short-acting, so it brings you up quickly, then down just as fast, and you need to drink more and more to get the same effect," explains Blatner. A more effective strategy is to gradually cut back to one or two cups a day by ordering half regular/half decaf. If you do have withdrawal symptoms, which generally subside after a few days, try drinking more water to prevent dehydration (an energy zapper) and eating fiber-rich foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, and sunflower seeds, all of which take longer to digest and give you more sustained energy. To ease headaches, take a caffeine-free pain reliever like aspirin or ibuprofen.
Stopping Sugar Rush Rituals
Name: Elham Safaei
Age: 25
Profession: Graduate student in health administration at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
Height: 5'4" Weight: 124 pounds
What She Gave up: Sugary snacks
Elham is from Iran, where having a cup of tea with cake and cookies is a daily social custom. "When you go to someone's home, people offer you tea and something sweet to go with it," she explains. "At school, I drank about six cups of tea a day — and by force of habit ate sweets, too." This meant cookies at breakfast and after lunch and the occasional ice cream at night with friends. "I knew it wasn't healthy, plus I really wanted to lose a few pounds," she says.
Nightmare...or No Big Deal?
For Elham, the biggest struggle was the social aspect of eating sweets. "I went to visit my family in Tehran and cheated a number of times. It's such an ingrained part of our culture I couldn't say no, and it was near impossible to resist my aunt's tiramisu." However, when she returned she followed the advice Blatner gave her and carried two pieces of fruit with her at all times, which calmed her cravings, even during tea breaks. "Once I was back in school and into my busy schedule I didn't miss them as much," she says.
However, Elham did start eating sweets again after 30 days — she says she loves them too much to deprive herself forever — but now feels satisfied with a bite or two of cake or a single cookie. The biggest bonus — and motivator — was the scale. "After one month I lost five pounds, and I'm determined to keep it off!" she says.
Cut It Out
As with caffeine, the more sugary foods you eat, the more you crave them, says Blatner. "It's not an addiction in the traditional sense, but sugar supplies your body with a quick burst of energy that's easy to rely on." To start cutting back on sweets, Blatner suggests that you first focus on what you're eating at regular meals. "A substantial breakfast that includes fiber-packed whole grains and some protein will help you stay fuller longer, which tempers cravings," she says. Try whole-grain waffles or reduced-sugar oatmeal with reduced-fat milk or yogurt. For a more savory breakfast, choose an egg-white and low-fat-cheese omelet on whole-wheat toast or a whole-grain English muffin with turkey sausage. If, like Elham, you associate sweets with ritual or reward, find a healthier substitute like fruit or sugar-free hot chocolate and a nonfood reward such as a new lipstick or a pedicure.
Slimming Down Saturated Fats
Name: Jennifer Fleece
Age: 34
Profession: Baby-bedding designer in Athens, Georgia
Height: 5'3" Weight: 125 pounds
What She Gave up: Unhealthy saturated and trans fats
Jen dolloped whipped cream in her morning coffee, snacked on packaged cookies and french fries, ate ice cream every night, and prepared home-cooked meals with saturated fats — and lots of 'em. "I live in the South, the only culture in the world that can make green beans fattening!" says Jen. "I love to cook, but I wasn't doing myself any favors with the amount of butter, sour cream, and heavy cream I used, because heart disease runs in my family."
Nightmare...or No Big Deal?
"On the one hand I found it easy," she says. "I replaced the whipped cream in my coffee with fat-free whipping cream and actually preferred the taste." Blatner also gave Jen healthier substitutes for her usual high-saturated-fat ingredients so she could still make her favorite recipes, such as evaporated skim milk in pudding, olive oil instead of butter in her lemon linguine, and fat-free sour cream in her beef Stroganoff. "What amazed me most is that I could barely tell the difference!" she says.
Unfortunately, Jen never did find a suitable substitute for either ice cream or cheese and ended up eating two whole boxes of fat-free cookies in one day. "I replaced one evil with another — lotsa sugar," she admits. "I also missed cheese desperately. I love Brie on crackers, cream cheese on apples. Fat-free cheese is just, well, wrong." After her month was up, Jen continued to use the same healthy fat substitutes but admits that she'd rather eat real cheese and ice cream — in moderation.
Cut It Out
If you want to cut back on unhealthy fats, a food label is your best friend, says Blatner. "You don't want more than 10 percent of your daily calories to come from saturated fats, and none from trans fats," she says. In 2006, all products will have "trans fat" listed on the label, but until then, avoid products that have the words hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oil in the ingredients list.


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AVAST Software releases its new 5.1 antivirus
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, January 10, 2011 – AVAST Software has launched avast! 5.1, the latest version of its award-winning antivirus software.
The new version strengthens the day-to-day safety of computer users – even before their computers are fully booted – and comes with an enhanced ability to detect zero-day threats as they appear.
"We have extended our rootkit protection from mainstream computers to the newest 64-bit machines. This is especially good news for the 36 percent of our users who are Vista and Windows 7 users," says Ondrej Vlcek, Chief Technical Officer of AVAST Software. "It used to be that only 32-bit machines were vulnerable to rootkits, but after the Alueron/TDL appeared last year, now everyone is vulnerable."
Rootkits such as the Alueron manipulate the kernel of the operating system code to hide themselves, enabling data and financial information to be more easily stolen without the computer's owner being aware of the infection – and also making it difficult for many antivirus programs to detect and completely remove them. The avast! boot-time scan uses direct disk access to bypass corrupted Windows file system drivers as it searches for malware.
"avast! 5.1 brings three major improvements focused on rootkits: all PCs are now able to do boot-time scans, the engine for rootkit detections has been enhanced, and the cleaning module's ability to remove the mess on an already infected machine is better than ever," explains Mr. Vlcek. "That is just the start. Most of the new stuff in 5.1 is hidden under the hood."
Changes in the Behavior Shield have increased the program's ability to find suspicious code without causing false positives. "The key is to identify potential malware more quickly and help other users," says Mr. Vlcek. The revised Behavior Shield is more sensitive than in 5.0, allowing the identification of wider range of questionable items. Data on these items is then automatically sent to the avast! Virus Lab and used to improve overall detection of these new threats as they appear.
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I believe I said on the Tony Awards live-blog that NPH was not truly going to be appreciated for being the renaissance man that he is until he turned 40, with peak appreciation for his awesome, awesome stardom coming when he's 50.
I should start making psychic predictions.
NPH turned 40 on June 15th. Very shortly after, it was announced that he will star on Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Just soak that in for a second. If you don't know Hedwig, I implore you to go find it right now. As it is, I'm beating myself over the head for never having seen it onstage – only the movie version (remember Michael Pitt?).
The Broadway show, though, is a one-man deal. John Cameron Mitchell wrote it and performed it himself, so it goes without saying that it's iconic and that he knows best who Hedwig is and should be. Mitchell says he's passing Hedwig's wig to "the finest entertainer of his generation". Somewhere, Justin Timberlake doesn't know why he just bristled a little.
This is awesome. It's going to be awesome. And while I need to get my ass to New York and sleep on Dean's floor and annoy him by singing the songs all night, I also get to bask in the gloat of being right. Neil Patrick Harris is on his way WAY up.
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The Senators have arrived in Sweden and host Daniel Alfredsson can't wait to show off his hometown to his team mates.
Alfredsson and the Sens arrived in Goteborg, all part of their preparation for Saturday's game with the Pittsburgh Penguins, though for Alfredsson the preparations go far beyond the first hockey game of the season to come on Saturday.
Being a hometown hockey hero is going to take a fair amount of what little spare time the Sens captain will have, with media requests, old friends to visit with and functions put on by his old hockey team the Frolunda Indians.
The first item on his busy agenda will be a honorary pillar in his name dedicated at the Goteborg Scandinavium, from there the Sens will play an exhibition game on Thursday against his old squad, all part of the tune up for Saturday's main event in Stockholm with the Penguins to open the season, followed up by a second match on Sunday.
The long distance bonding between the Sens and Goteborg will take place as the Captain plays a walking wikipedia, showing the them the sights of the city and introduces them to the cuisine and beverages available there we're sure.
One thing is certain, the captain is going to be a very happy fellow coming out of training camp, perhaps setting the tone for a successful season that leads Ottawa fans back to the Stanley Cup finals and another celebration at the end of the year for the Sens captain to take part in.


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This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
Quantum Adiabatic Optimization proposes to solve discrete optimization problems by mapping them onto quantum spin systems in such a way that the optimal solution corresponds to the ground state of the quantum system. The standard method of preparing these ground states is using the adiabatic theorem, which tells us that quantum systems tend to remain in the ground state of a time-dependent Hamiltonian which transforms sufficiently slowly.
The study of ground spaces of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental task in condensed matter physics. In terms of computational complexity theory, a common focus in this area has been to estimate a given Hamiltonian's ground state energy. However, from a physics perspective, it is sometimes more relevant to understand the structure of the ground space itself. In this talk, we pursue the latter direction by introducing the notion of "ground state connectivity" of local Hamiltonians.
In unidirectional communication theory, two of the most prominent problems are those of compressing a source of information and of transmitting data noiselessly over a noisy channel. In 1948, Shannon introduced information theory as a tool to address both of these problems. Since then, information theory has flourished into an important field of its own. It has also been successfully extended to the quantum setting, where it has also served to address questions about quantum source compression and transmission of classical and quantum data over noisy quantum channels.
Recently, Bravyi and Koenig have shown that there is a tradeoff between fault-tolerantly implementable logical gates and geometric locality of stabilizer codes. They consider locality-preserving operations which are implemented by a constant depth geometrically local circuit and are thus fault-tolerant by construction. In particular, they shown that, for local stabilizer codes in D spatial dimensions, locality preserving gates are restricted to a set of unitary gates known as the D-th level of the Clifford hierarchy.
Entanglement is a key feature of composite quantum system which is directly related to the potential power of quantum computers. In most computational models, it is assumed that local operations are relatively easy to implement. Therefore, quantum states that are related by local operations form a single entanglement class. In the case of local unitary operations, a finite set of polynomial invariants provides a complete characterization of the entanglement classes.
A class of d-level quantum states called "magic states", whose initial purpose was to enable universal fault-tolerant computation within error-correcting codes, has a surprisingly broad range of applications. We begin by describing their structure with respect to the Clifford hierarchy, and in terms of convex geometry before proceeding to their applications. They appear to have some relevance to the search for SIC-POVMs in certain prime dimensions. A version of the CHSH non-local game, using a d-ary alphabet and Pauli measurements, has an optimal quantum strategy using magic states.
For an anyon model in two spatial dimensions described by a modular tensor category, the topological S-matrix encodes the mutual braiding statistics, the quantum dimensions, and the fusion rules of anyons. It is nontrivial whether one can compute the topological S-matrix from a single ground state wave function. In this talk, I will show that, for a class of Hamiltonians, it is possible to define the S-matrix regardless of the degeneracy of the ground state. The definition manifests invariance of the S-matrix under local unitary transformations (quantum circuits).
The circuit-to-Hamiltonian construction translates a dynamics (a quantum circuit and its output) into statics (the groundstate of a circuit Hamiltonian) by explicitly defining a quantum register for a clock. The standard Feynman-Kitaev construction uses one global clock for all qubits while we consider a different construction in which a clock is assigned to each point in space where a qubit of the quantum circuit resides. We show how one can apply this construction to one-dimensional quantum circuits for which the circuit Hamiltonian realizes the dynamics of a vibrating string.
We analyze entropic uncertainty relations in a finite dimensional Hilbert space and derive several strong bounds for the sum of two entropies obtained in projective measurements with respect to any two orthogonal bases. We improve the recent bounds by Coles and Piani, which are known to be stronger than the well known result of Maassen and Uffink. Furthermore, we find a novel bound based on majorization techniques, which also happens to be stronger than the recent results involving largest singular values of submatrices of the unitary matrix connecting both bases.
Quantum information and quantum metrology can be used to study gravitational effects such as gravitational waves and the universality of the equivalence principle. On one hand, the possibility of carrying out experiments to probe gravity using quantum systems opens an avenue to deepen our understanding of the overlap of these theories. On the other hand, incorporating relativity in quantum technologies promises the development of a new generation of relativistic quantum applications of relevance in Earth-based and space-based setups.


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Miss South Carolina Bree Boyce has her eye on the Miss America tiara, and now that she's 122 pounds slimmer, she might have a shot.
Boyce, who weighed 234 pounds five years ago, now weighs just 112 and hopes to be an inspiration to overweight girls everywhere.
Every Friday, Bree Boyce dreaded her high school gym class. Students had to run a mile under 11 minutes, and those who couldn't finish in time would have to walk around the track for the rest of the period. She still recalls feeling low self-esteem in high school, when she wore a baggy T-shirt and size 18 jeans, always afraid of having her picture take.
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"I had struggled for so many years with my weight," Boyce told CNN. "So many girls look to beauty queens because they want to be like them and look like them. But my thing is that we're all unique and we're all different and not one person is going to look like the next. And somebody might be a healthy size 6, and an unhealthy size 0."
Boyce, who will vie for the Miss America crown in January in Las Vegas, said she always made jokes to deflect attention from her obesity. She found acceptance through her personality, but yearned to be a healthy weight..
"I tried to be very outgoing and tried to compensate my weight with my personality," Boyce said. "It was all trying to cover up and not try to expose myself too much that I was hurting inside about my weight."
Boyce tried low-carb and other fad diets, but nothing worked. After school snacks and fast food became mainstays in her life.
"I figured that this was the body I was going to live in, and there was nothing I could do about it," Boyce said. "I was just so unhappy about the way I looked, but I still continued to eat unhealthy."
When she was just 17, a doctor told her she needed to drop the fat, and she took his words to heart. She set a goal of losing five pounds in one month and began regular walks around the block. After losing more pounds, she joined a gym and started dancing in Zumba classes.
"It's all about learning a process, learning a lifestyle, and so many people think it's an overnight quick fix. And it absolutely is not. It takes time. It took me three years," she said.
Now, Boyce plans to run a marathon after the Miss America contest.
"I love my body," Boyce said. "I went from 234 pounds to being comfortable and happy and being content with the way I look. Someone says I'm not a 00 -- that doesn't mean I don't continue to compete for Miss America. We need to give an idealistic role model."


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Red Dead Redemption would probably be up your alley.
Journey? I know it's not long, but that's basically what the game is about.
I'm not into Westerns and I don't like GTA either, but I spent like 2 weeks playing Red Dead Redemption (if not more).
Any Metroidvania worth its weight should do you.
Xenoblade if you have the Wii - loads of exploring, quests and just finding all sorts of cool stuff.
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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
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Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) vol.13 n.1 Grahamstown Jan. 2013
Christopher R. Stones
The journal, born in 2001, has successfully grown during its first decade, progressing, developmentally speaking, beyond adolescence into full adulthood.
This year, 2013, sees the journal entering its 'teens' even though it has matured beyond what one might reasonably expect of adolescence in terms of its stability, deep reach into a diverse range of academic disciplines across many international fronts, and its continued growth in a considered and systematic fashion.
The IPJP has managed to become increasingly self-sufficient through the introduction of a processing fee paid by authors (albeit with exceptions from time to time) whilst simultaneously remaining true to its founding mission which was to provide an openaccess publishing platform with the view to supporting and disseminating knowledge around the fundamental tenets of a broadly-based phenomenological project. This was possible primarily because the past few years has seen significant financial assistance from the University of Johannesburg whilst one of the original founding sponsor universities, Edith Cowan University (in Western Australia), has continued to provide generous support.
It is important here also to stress the value which was added to the IPJP through its formal linkage with the National Inquiry Services Center (NISC) as its publisher. It has been this continued support of the two universities in association with NISC that has ensured good prospects for growth as the journal moves steadily into its teen years, so to speak.
As readers will have noted, the journal is attracting an ever-increasingly diverse range of papers, in terms of not only theoretical disciplinary backgrounds but also the country and culture of origin. The current volume is no exception since the authors hail from the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian countries, as well as from Southern Africa, including South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The first paper by Eva Cybulska is a psychodynamic interpretation of Frederick Nietzsche's idea of the "Eternal Return of the Same" using the context of his life rather than his philosophical writings. In her paper, "Nietzsche's Eternal Return: Unriddling the Vision, A Psychodynamic Approach", Cybulska interprets Nietzsche's 'abysmal thought' in the light of Freud's theory of 'repetition compulsion', the 'uncanny', and the 'oedipal confrontation with the unconscious'. This is a daring paper that makes some bold psychodynamic interpretations of Nietzsche's thinking within the context of his 'lived experience'.
The second paper entitled "Distress and Turmoil -Learning a Language, Ego States and being in the world" by Ewa Latecka suggests that learning a language is accomplished through the formation of 'language identities', and that for learning to occur there must be a permanent change in the identity of the learner. In other words, learning does not take place merely cognitively but must entail a fundamental change in one's ego state, this being referred to as a "linguistic ego state" which is facilitated through some form of existential crisis or 'distress and turmoil'.
Tone Saevi in her paper "Between Being and Knowing: Addressing the Fundamental Hesitation in Hermeneutic Phenomenological Writing" addresses the notion that an 'existential givenness' of the world is the basis for 'lived writing'. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, Saevi argues that 'phenomenological writing' is only possible when the writer has a deep appreciation that understanding the universe is intertwined with the sophistication of one's language and, importantly, that this language must be the "right" language to facilitate understanding.
The fourth paper in this edition, "Fathering a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis" by Claudia Martins, Stephen Walker and Paul Fouché, points out that while much research in the area of autism has focused on issues around poor maternal mental health and increased maternal emotional distress, there has been little work exploring the coping strategies of fathers of children suffering from autism spectrum disorder.
Their paper reports on the outcome of semi-structured interviews with five such fathers, explicated through an interpretive phenomenological analysis approach. Martins and her colleagues discuss the interview results, and make recommendations regarding the amelioration of the many existential challenges arising from such parent-child relationships.
Quite different from the previous papers, the research by Oliver Mtapuri and Pudurai Mazengwa entitled "Of Spirituality and Poverty: A Zimbabwean Cultural Perspective" is a so-called 'desk study' that explores the phenomenon of poverty in relation to "African spirituality." The paper argues that poverty alleviation strategies are doomed to fail if they do not fully take into account the cultural perspectives and "material world" of those they are wishing to help.
Development projects tend to be "disconnected" from the psychic and spiritual reality of the people themselves, and this paper argues that a challenge is to research culturally appropriate approaches to development issues using phenomenological rather than natural scientific approaches.
"An Account of Healing Depression Using Ayahuasca Plant Teacher Medicine in a Santo Daime Ritual", the final academic paper in this first edition of 2013, is a personal account of depression being healed through the use of a specific plant medicine in a ritualistic setting in Johannesburg, South Africa. The author, Jean-Francois Sobiecki, refers to certain plant medicine preparations as 'spiritual medicines' since they promote, his paper argues, enhanced awareness and a deeper connection to oneself and others as well as providing a marked appreciation of the cosmology in which one exists. His paper explores the benefits of using such medicinal plants in ritualistic practices.
Volume 13 (edition 1) draws to a close with a review by Chris Milton, a New Zealand-based Jungian analyst, of the 2011 book "Phenomenology for Therapists: Research into the Lived World" by the Linda Finlay, a British psychotherapist.
We hope that you, the reader, will experience this edition as intellectually and emotionally rewarding as it was for the IPJP team who put this edition together.
Referencing Format
Stones, C. R. (2013). Editorial. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 13(1), 3 pp. doi: 10.2989/IPJP.2013.13.1.1. 1167 [ Links ]
About the Author
Professor Christopher Stones, previously of Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa and currently Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, has enjoyed a lengthy academic and research career, in the course of which he has taught in the areas of physiological, clinical, forensic, social, and research psychology. He is Vice-President of the South African Association for Psychotherapy and past Chairman of the South African Society for Clinical Psychology. Editor-in-Chief of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology since 2003, he is also on the editorial panels of two other online journals. Using both natural scientific quantitative methodologies and phenomenological approaches, Professor Stones's research interests are in the areas of identity, attitudes and attitude change, phenomenological praxis and methodologies, abnormal psychology and psychotherapy, spirituality and religious experience, in all of which areas he has published extensively. An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with which he is also registered as a Chartered Psychologist, Professor Stones is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as both a research and a clinical psychologist, and conducts a part-time clinical practice with particular focus on adolescents, young adults and families, as well as offering long-term psychotherapy. In addition, he is regularly called on to serve as an "expert witness" in medico-legal (civil and criminal) court proceedings, and to contribute as a consultant in the field of forensic investigation. E-mail address: email@example.com.


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Follow Friday - 18 March 2011
Two recommendations today, each appeared about a week ago:
Most of you probably follow Greta's blog closely, anyway, but if you missed this one, I wanted to be sure you didn't miss it. This was posted on the day when WDYTYA was on a repeat... very entertaining, for we fans!
Top 10 Scenes I'd Like to See on "Who Do You Think You Are?" or: "10 Scenes You'll Probably Never See on "Who Do You Think You Are?"
Dick Eastman on archiving materials... I really like this one:
The Best Way to Archive Anything: L.O.C.K.S.S.
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I'm not really sure what to say about this particular wedding as I feel like if I start talking about it I actually won't stop. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! Ok, Emma... start from the beginning...
Well Liz got in touch back in October and I felt an instant connection... you know when you just know that you could sit and drink wine together.... for a long while. She also sent me a picture of her kitten called Flo who was I.D.E.N.T.I.C.A.L (I'm not joking) to our kitten who was also called Flo... it was fate :) Me and Pete managed to meet them both before the wedding at the venue (and then the pub) and we instantly loved them both and seeing where they were getting married and hearing their plans I was actually ready to burst!
Liz and Steve were married in Worthing at the Worthing Dome which has the most amazing art deco cinema on the ground floor and a gorgeous sun room with a balcony on the first floor where they hold civil ceremonies and the reception. Opposite to this scrummy building was the beautiful beach and Worthing Pier.... errr... wow.
Liz wore a jaw dropping fishtail dress with a cute faux fur shrug, a cute pearl necklace and a birdcage veil... ahh man this photographer was so in her element! Oh and her shoes! Bright red!... yummy, yummy, yum, yum. Steve also looked pretty dapper in a cool navy suit teamed with a purple tie and matching purple thistle boutonniere.
The ceremony was beautifully relaxed and then whilst the wedding party celebrated with glasses of champagne I was given 45 whole minutes with Liz and Steve... (big grin). We walked along the pier and then found the most amazing little retro cafe along the seafront... (these shots might actually be my favourite ever).
Liz and Steve then rejoined their guests and tucked in to a gorgeous buffet and listened to the Father of the Bride's very emotional speech and then everyone watched Steve's very funny slide show story of how he proposed to Liz.
Even the table decorations were cool.... cute homemade vinyls with music legends such as Elvis as table names, gorgeous wild flowers and cute badges as favours. Oh and an old vintage typewriter for guests to write little messages! Everything was finished off with some kick ass music, lots of dancing and The Photo Booth. I'm tellin' ya the whole thing was just beyond ACE.
I'm not going to gush anymore I promise and I really don't need to go on about how lovely this pair are cus I'll tell them in person when we meet for a beer. Yay!
So I'm thinking you might wanna grab a cuppa due to the hefty amount of photos I've posted below....I just couldn't bear leaving any out.... enjoy!


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and grate the tunafish. Nothing beats grated tuna sandwiches! LET'S GO!
STANLEY CUP FINALS, GAME 4 – 8:00PM (Versus) Two nights after the Boston Bruins absolutely crushed the Vancouver Canucks 8-1, the two teams head back to the ice again tonight as Boston attempts to tie the series at two games apiece. And you know what? You people out there who say they can't find the game because it's on Versus? I call BS. It's not that hard to find a random cable channel. You have a digital guide on your cable box that lets you scroll easily through all the channels, and you can even do a little search for the game without bothering to even find the channel. So save me your tiresome excuses and watch some olde tyme hockey. ANTICIPATION: TROUBLE BRUIN!
CMT MUSIC AWARDS – 8:00PM (CMT) It's been roughly three minutes since the last country music awards show, so let's have another one! Will Rascal Flatts be there? Oh, you know they will be. Rascal Flatts would appear at an IHOP grand opening if you asked them to. Also in the hizzay are Sugarland, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and all the usual suspects. And your host? Kid Rock. And let me tell you something, that man has a lot to answer for after giving the world "All Summer Long." ANTICIPATION: TROUBLE BRUIN!
20/20 – 10:00PM (ABC) Correspondent Chris Connelly (I remember him from "The Big Picture"! Best MTV show ever!) takes a look at the popularity and profitability of reality television. Meanwhile, stay tuned next week for a special 8-hour, three-part episode of "The Bachelorette" where everyone travels to Monte Carlo! Only on ABC! ANTICIPATION: REALNESS!
MINUTE TO WIN IT – 8:00PM (NBC) Guy Fieri takes time out from stuffing French fries into egg rolls when he hosts two "Jackass" alums, Steve-O and Ryan Dunn, on the game show where you do stupid crap for a minute to win a prize. Let's hope we don't get a "fish hook to the cheek" challenge this go round. ANTICIPATION: KRAYZEE!
THE DAILY SHOW – 11:00PM (Comedy Central) Suspendered skeleton Larry King pops by to talk with Jon Stewart about random LArry King things. Like how come bialys aren't more popular? And you gotta love that Nathan Lane! A comedian AND a gentleman. ANTICIPATION: KINGY!
Wednesday Watch List: Stanley Cup Action!
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Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm
Cal Newport, a post-doc at MIT who writes the blog Study Hacks, has an interesting method of getting important work done. He calls it "fixed-schedule productivity." The idea is easy to understand, but perhaps harder to execute: determine your goals, and focus on those, not the myriad interruptions that arise each day. Perhaps a resolution for the new year? (Spotted via Boing Boing.)
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Phil, could you comment on how you work? Have you done any major changes to your method since your degree, or just small adjustments?
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Big Easy bound
Former Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox has left Charlottesville behind and headed for New Orleans where he'll help lead rebuilding efforts as an associate dean in the Tulane School of Architecture. He looks back on the changes to Charlottesville since he climbed on board the City Council in the mid-1990s, from more bike lanes to taller buildings, and he makes some suggestions for what he wishes would happen next.
Unlawful entry
What could prompt a third-year UVA Law student to break into his school's records room after-hours and plant a spy-cam? Joshua Gomes' attorneys say the basis of his bizarre behavior might be medical, but his dreams of practicing law may now be out of reach.
Whoa, pho!
Charlottesville gets its first dedicated Pho restaurant thanks to Zinc owner and chef Vu Nguyen. What's up with the name? Does Moto Pho Co. mean something?
Mirror, mirror
She bought the "good" lightbulbs and doesn't take hour-long showers, but Janis Jaquith has nonetheless come to a painful conclusion: she's an addict, and you probably are, too. Can you guess the drug?
On the cover: (of this 40-page issue)
Photo of Maurice Cox by Courteney Stuart; photo of Joshua Gomes by Lisa Provence; Photo of fraternity house by Hawes Spencer; photo of chainsawing by Tom Daly.


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About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive Gila Wilderness Area (the brainchild of Aldo Leopold, created in 1924 as the first designated wilderness in the world), is the small mountain town of Pinos Altos ("High Pines"). Sometimes called a "ghost town," it's really not, although it owes its existence to an activity common to many true ghost towns: mining. In the case of Pinos Altos, gold was the metal that brought the town to life.
In 1860, Thomas "Three-fingered" Birch, who'd been looking for gold for years with no success, got a drink of water from Bear Creek and happened to see the very thing to which he'd-until then-fruitlessly devoted his life. The town that sprang up around this initial find, Birchville, bore Birch's name and sat atop the Continental Divide at just over 7,000 feet.
During the Civil War, Birchville's population plummeted, mostly as there weren't many able-bodied men left to protect against Apaches. Upon resettlement a few years later folks reverted to an older name used by Mexican miners, Pino Alto, which became Pinos Altos. Interestingly, Birchville was under Confederate occupation from early 1861 until shortly after the Union prevailed at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, which occurred just outside Santa Fe in the spring of 1862. Virtually all the tall ponderosa pines for which the town got its name were cut down by the mining boom years of the late 19th century.
After the Civil War, Fort Bayard was built to protect miners from continued Apache attacks. The town of Pinos Altos received a post office in 1866 and became fully legitimate, featuring a saloon, general store and dueling ground (now the site of Saint Alexis Catholic Church). But Apache attacks continued to plague the area until 1874, when a deal was struck whereby, as long as a cross remained standing on an adjacent mountain, there would be no fighting. Both sides held to the deal and the cross was upgraded a total of three times, just to be on the safe side. The above photograph is of the Pinos Altos Opera House, which was built in 1969 from original material salvaged from various buildings.
Mining booms came and went in southwestern New Mexico, but the region around Pinos Altos also contained silver, copper, lead, and zinc, so the town continued to prosper. It wasn't until the 1920's that mining began to wind down for good, at which point over eight million dollars worth of minerals had been removed from the surrounding mountains.
Today, Pinos Altos is home to a few hundred friendly souls and is a pleasant place to spend some time, soaking up all that Wild West history. If you go, be sure to stop by the Pinos Altos Post Office and Ice Cream Parlor for some delicious homemade desserts and good conversation. The post office/parlor sits on the site of the Norton Store, built around 1890, which was itself built on the site of the Occidental Hotel, a two-storied log structure that is long gone into the mists of time, like so much else.
The above photo is from the Pinos Altos cemetery, near Saint Alexis Catholic Church. The cemetery was dedicated on July 17, 1888. Baby Effie lived from January 11, 1888 to September 21, 1888.
The information for this post was compiled from New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide by Philip Varney (1981, Northland Press), The Place Names of New Mexico by Robert Julyan, and Pinos Altos: Then and Now by Robert O. Wilson. Many thanks to these (unwitting) sources.


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Recent reports of North Carolina's demise are greatly exaggerated
For caring and thoughtful North Carolinians, the past few weeks – months really – have been a period for both tears and laughter.
The tears of course, are for the myriad wounds – both real and symbolic – inflicted upon the Old North State by the reactionary leaders who currently hold the reins of power in Raleigh. Whether in response to the assaults on public and higher education, tax fairness, reproductive freedom, the right to vote, the right to be free from gun violence or any number of other destructive attacks, the mourning has been plentiful and much-warranted.
And the laughter? Well that, of course, has been mostly in response to the way in which so many of the nation's most-gifted humorists have seized upon this reactionary slide and subjected it to the laugh-out-loud derision it so richly deserves. Dark and painful as most of the jokes are, it's therapeutic to hear Bill Maher say things like:
"It's time for America to get off the sidelines and support a proud people in a region where religious freedom, women's rights and democracy itself hang in the balance. I'm talking, of course, about North Carolina….North Carolina right now is going ape**** in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, right-wing idea your angry uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law and that's North Carolina today."
And then there's The Daily Show where summer host John Oliver, recently explained:
"After a North Carolina legislative session like this, I think the big takeaway here might be: Your move South Carolina. You thought you had 'craziest Carolina' all sewn up, didn't you? With your runaway governor and your rampant [expletive], and it gives me no pleasure in saying this: you may be about to lose the War of Northern Regression."
And who could forget Stephen Colbert's hilarious barbs on everything from the passage of Amendment One to the legislative ban on sea-level rise.
Tastes great but less filling
In some ways, of course, all this national attention is welcome for those who oppose the state's hard, rightward shift. The idea that smart and savvy national media figures at the New York Times, MSNBC, Time and The Nation (among many others) are taking note of and holding recent developments up to national scrutiny is validating in many ways. It's not unlike those moments during which CNN or the Weather Channel covers a natural disaster in one's neighborhood. "Thank goodness," goes the internal thought process, "at least someone's paying attention. We're not alone!"
The downside to all of this national attention, however, is that it is, like so many from-a-distance media stories, incomplete. To watch Maher or read Time, you'd think that all hope is lost and that the state has utterly lost its soul. Indeed, the incessant drumbeat of the news reports, commentary and comedy shows seems to have convinced some in the national media to write North Carolina off and permanently consign it to the Old Confederacy bracket along with Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.
This, of course, is hogwash.
The real deal
North Carolina has no more become a permanent right-wing bastion than the country as a whole did when Newt Gingrich ascended to power two decades ago. It's no more a lost cause than Wake County was three years ago at the height of the "Gang of Five" school board takeover.
The current conservative push in North Carolina isn't indicative of a long-lasting political tide. Winning half the vote (and in some cases less) but grabbing unfettered power via a combination of big money, outrageous gerrymandering and misleading promises of moderation isn't a wave. It's more like a bit of electoral hocus pocus; a smoke and mirrors coup d'état.
If anything, the current period feels less like a permanent wave and more like the last bright blast of a reactionary movement whose star is about to dim for good. That's one of the reasons the right was so terribly anxious to ram Amendment One through in 2012; they could see the state's demographics and attitudes turning against them fast and knew their window of opportunity was closing. That's one of the same reasons they've acted with such demonic fervor this year; they recognize that their only hope is to literally upset the applecart of state and rout their opponents so thoroughly that they are able to cling to power long enough to transform it into some kind of far right lab experiment.
But this is almost certainly not going to work. Indeed, you can make a strong case that North Carolina is much better-positioned to lead a national progressive political renaissance over the coming years than dozens of other states. Consider the following:
The changing demographics – There simply is no going back to the Old South, mid-20th Century North Carolina. No matter what happens on Jones Street or in the Governor's mansion, those days are gone.
And neither is this a rustbelt state with a shrinking population of embittered and disaffected inhabitants longing for the glory days and turning to desperate measures and extremist causes. This isn't Michigan or Kansas. Oh sure, the state has its badly troubled regions. It also has its pockets of kooks and haters, but for the most part, these troubled souls are a scattered and tiny minority.
There's no getting around the fact that North Carolina could be the seventh largest state in the union in the not-too-distant future– a growing, diverse and increasingly urban state moving onto the world stage. This is not the kind of place that reactionary governments long thrive.
The right's fundamental weakness –And neither do reactionary governments long thrive where their intellectual and political firepower is so shallow. Formidable as the right might seem right now, the plain truth is that they have no real new ideas and no coherent vision for what they want to build. This weakness is readily evident in the feverish spin that they've been attempting to apply to the new laws they passed this session. Lacking a coherent voice to explain and defend their radical policies (Pat McCrory? Thom Tillis? Phil Berger?), the right instead falls back on the bizarre defense that, "hey, we really didn't do that much at all."
Take away one man's campaign money and the think tanks he funds and the whole thing quite likely collapses like a house of cards.
The powerful opposition movement that has arisen – Finally and most importantly, any notion that North Carolinians would meekly knuckle under to the right's destructive push has been utterly shattered by the power and authority of the only-just-getting-started Moral Mondays movement. Some national pundits may have the mistaken impression that North Carolina is a lost cause, but that's not what the folks on the ground in other states are saying. They increasingly recognize this as the frontline in a national battle. They're looking here for leadership and moving quickly to follow the Moral Mondays lead. Just yesterday, the Campaign for America's Future – a new wave DC-based progressive organization — tabbed Rev. William Barber for a national citizen leadership award.
Progressive activists, funders and emerging nonprofit groups aren't writing North Carolina off; they see it is as the place where the important action is and know the enormous national impact that a turnaround here will produce.
Our finest hour?
So, enjoy the comics and feel free to feel bad about the temporary fix North Carolina is in. But don't mistake the comedic one-liners or the tut-tutting of distant pundits for complete or fully accurate takes on where things really stand. North Carolina may well have suffered a painful and damaging blow, but the reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated. Our finest hour still lies ahead.
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