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Las Vegas loves the Chinese New Year. From events, to beautiful displays and performances along with unique foods, this is always a momentous occasion. The Year of the Snake is no different and Splash Magazines Worldwide has gathered a list of some of the top things to do and see to commemorate the Year of the Snake.
BVLGARI recently unveiled new creations to its timeless Serpenti collection, a line of jewelry and watches playing upon the elegance and sensuality of the snake. You can get a look at these beautiful pieces at Crystals through March 5. There will be a special exhibit, which will include (left to right) the below pink gold ring with a rubellite head and pavé diamonds; this seductive pink gold necklace with round brilliant cut diamonds; and a stunning white gold serpent bracelet with round brilliant cut diamonds.
Crystals is home to the United States' largest Van Cleef & Arpels boutique featuring this gorgeous "Naga" bracelet from the "Bals de Legende" collection. This intricate piece showcases round and baguette-cut diamonds, violet tourmaline, colored sapphires, cabochon-cut emeralds, as well as hard and fine stones set in 18K white gold.
Individuals born in the Year of the Snake are graceful and exciting, making them excellent matches with this signature red enamel snake bracelet and fuchsia leather wallet with a gold snake signature buckle from the world's largest Roberto Cavalli location.
These exquisite snake-inspired accessories belong to the exclusive Mikimoto Milano Collection, a flawless combination of the iconic brand's classic elegance and Italian jewelry designer Giovanna Broggian's innovative and exotic designs.
What could be more appropriate than to simulate the pattern of snakeskin, various tones of cognac and black pavé diamonds set in Noble Gold were used to create H. Stern's serpent-inspired earrings from its Ancient America Collection.
While the snake may be replacing the Year of the Dragon, Emilio Pucci's ivory colored Dragon Shoes are truly one-of-a-kind as no two pairs are made from the same mold.
ERES' "Lunar" bustier-shape one-piece swimsuit is appropriately named for the holiday, and is designed to be reminiscent of the smoke curling from test tubes.
A truly unique dining experience will take place at the Bellagio this month as it welcomes the prestigious Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to the United States for only the second time. Typically reserved for royalty, heads of state and other world leaders, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse of Beijing will host a series of exclusive dinners within Tuscany Kitchen Thursday, February 14 through Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this rare culinary event are $500 per person, all-inclusive, and are available online at Bellagio's Epicurean Epicenter webpage or by calling Bellagio Concierge at 866-406-7117.
The lavish dinner offers an eight-course menu featuring a collection of historic dishes modernized from ancient menus. It will be prepared and served by the Diaoyutai culinary team, dressed in traditional Chinese attire and led by Executive Chef Hao Baoli, who has hosted more than 1,000 world leaders in his decades at the Guesthouse. With more than 30 years leading the Diaoyutai culinary team, Chef Baoli specializes in cuisine that is both healthy and delicious. His menu at Bellagio will feature a diverse selection of dishes showcasing rare ingredients and skillful techniques while also following strict nutritional requirements, ensuring all items are low in both sugar and sodium and high in protein.
Dynamic and colorful lion dances by Yau Kung Moon will commemorate the Year of the Snake at Bellagio, ARIA, Crystals at CityCenter and MGM Grand:
o ARIA – Monday, Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. at the main porte cochere
o Crystals – Monday, Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the entrance near Todd English P.U.B.
o MGM Grand –Monday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the front desk
o Bellagio – Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the main porte cochere
Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens: Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens ushers in the Year of the Snake with a complimentary display through March 3. The highlights of the Conservatory display include an 18-foot-tall custom-made Chinese money tree and a nine-foot-tall friendly King Cobra snake covered in 5,000 blue and yellow luminescent scales.
Jean Philippe Pâtisserie always puts together the most stunning creations and he did it again to celebrate the Year of the Snake. Inside ARIA Resort & Casino he will be displaying a massive dragon entirely hand crafted out of the finest European chocolates, as well as a number of Chinese New Year-inspired decorative cakes and edible works of art.
In celebration of the Year of the Snake, select MGM Resorts International restaurants will feature specialty menus and authentic cuisine from the Far East in celebration of the Year of the Snake.
FIN at The Mirage – The contemporary Chinese restaurant is offering a special a la carte menu for Chinese New Year. With fish being a symbol of surplus during this important time, FIN will provide an array of indulgent options including the Crispy Garlic Sea Bass and Steamed Seafood with bean curd and egg. You can also try three Chinese New Year specialty cocktails (the Water Snake, Shanghai Dragon and the Zen Mojito) that will be available on the menu for a limited time.
Blossom at ARIA Resort & Casino – ARIA's Chinese restaurant is serving up a "Year of the Serpent Special Chinese New Year Lucky Menu." Guests will feel luckier than ever deciding between an array of traditional Chinese favorites that have been given a Vegas edge like the Fish Filet with extra spicy broth hot pot and Spicy Jelly Fish Salad. For a more customary afternoon dining experience, Blossom will provide a "Cantonese Dim Sum" that is available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Rice & Company at Luxor – The enticing and healthy Asian eatery is ringing in The Year of the Snake with a decadent four-course, pre-fixe menu featuring Chinese-American cuisine classics like Beef & Broccoli and Orange Peel Chicken. One of the most unique plates of the holiday is the "Year of the snake roll." A fusion of Chinese and Japanese food, this sushi roll is filled with squid and scallops, topped with king crab, halibut and flying fish roe with a side of sambal mayo and balsamic glaze. The delectable menu is $65 per person.
Fleur by Hubert Keller at Mandalay Bay – Celebrity Chef Hubert Keller's worldly travels contributed to this pre-fixed, four course meal that highlights intense flavors best seen though the desert – a Five Spice Pineapple Tart with Jasmine Tea Ice Cream. Other unique, Chinese New Year crowd pleasers will be the Jumbo Lump Crab Egg Drop Soup as well as the Seared Duck with hoisin plum sauce and gailan broccoli.
MGM Grand: Pearl will offer a traditional Chinese menu in addition to a Dim Sum lunch Saturday, Feb. 9 – Sunday, Feb. 17 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Grand Wok will feature a special menu with a variety of select delicacies Saturday, Feb. 9 and Sunday, Feb. 10 as well as Friday, Feb. 15 – Sunday, Feb. 17 while Shibuya also will offer special dishes Sunday, Feb. 10 – Sunday, Feb. 17.
Dragon Noodle at Monte Carlo: On Sunday, Feb. 10, Dragon Noodle Co. & Sushi Bar will feature a $29 special three-course prix fixe menu for lunch and dinner 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Shark Reef Aquarium: Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef Aquarium will celebrate the Year of the Snake by decorating the habitat of its Burmese Python with traditional Chinese décor. Native to Southeast Asia, the Burmese Python is one of the largest snakes in the world, reaching up to 20-feet in length and weighing up to 200 pounds. Flexible jaws allow them to consume prey up to five times as wide as their head. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, regular ticket prices at Shark Reef Aquarium are $18 for adults and $12 for children ages five through 12; children four and under are free. For more information, visit www.mandalaybay.com and www.sharkreef.com


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This was originally posted over at Suture for a Living on October 24, 2008.
TBTAM sent me a quilt block (bear claw pattern) she found while antiquing. I have long admired the New York Beauty quilt block. Her small gift gave me a reason to "tackle" the block and make a small quilt using it. I did okay, but even using paper piecing some of my points and connections aren't as nice as I would like. When I critique my quilts, I sometimes feel as if it's my own form of M&M. Despite the imperfections, here it is.
I machine pieced it using the paper piecing method. The small quilt is 24.5 in X 24.5 in. The suggested colors (by TBTAM) were red, yellow, blue, and black. They are all here, though just a small amount of blue. The quilt is both hand and machine quilted.
This detail photo actually shows the colors better.
Resources for patterns and inspiration:
Quilter's Corner Club – free New York Beauty block patterns
Mona's Creativity – My New York Beauty
Donna Duquette – New York Beauty Blocks
Mostly About Quilts – New York Beauty for a Minnesota Beauty
New York Beauty Meets the Orient Quilt (stunning)
New York Beauty Quilt (beautiful)
Peggy Martin Workshop – New York Beauty (several beautiful quilts)

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text: Central California Educational Opportunity Center (CCEOC) is a TRIO program at Fresno State providing services to low-income and/or first generation eligible adults desiring to enter into post-secondary educational programs. Funded by the United State Department of Education, CCEOC is designed to identify and assist individuals who desire to enter or re-enroll navigate the college admission and financial aid processes. The goal of CCEOC is to increase the number of under-represented adults enrolling into post secondary educational institutions, including the military-connected students and their families. CCEOC in committed to enhancing each participant's potential to reach their educational and career goals by providing quality services and guidance.


text: Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.


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It's not an easy task to weave historical facts with imagination to build up a story . Often the venture on the part of the author goes awry. But Nandini Bajpai 's Starcursed is an exception. Set on the backdrop of twelfth-century India it is a story where historical facts get mingled flawlessly with imagination giving rise to a sweeping tale , the tale of a girl who has that intelligence and knowledge to challenge and change the age old dogmas and doctrines .
Bhashkaracharya was a renowned Indian astronomer and mathematician who authored a book named Siddhanta Shiromoni . The book has four parts of which the arithmetic portion is said to be named after his daughter Leelavati . According to the legend Leelavati was extremely talented and grew up to be a beautiful maiden but according to her birth-chart , she was a Mangalik ( assignment of Mars in a wrong place which could lead to a disastrous married life ) and so was left unwed . However Bhashkaracharya , after much calculation precised a moment which could evade that curse of the star and wanted her daughter to get married on that precious moment. But Leelavati , being curious leant over the water clock made by her father to remind them of that rare moment and one pearl from her necklace fell into it making a blockage. The auspicious moment passed without being noticed and she was left unwed for her life .Taking cue from this story , Nandini Bajpai has created the character of Leelavati in her novel Starcursed.
Twelfth century was a turbulent period as the country was facing the war threat of Muhammad of Ghor and his band of Turkis . Muhammad of Ghor came victorious in many battles and stories of his violence and brutality has made him an infamous character in history. It was this time when Leelavati was born to Bhashkaracharya and his wife . Leelavati's talent was recognized immediately by her father who taught her along with his other students and she proved her superiority in no time. Bhashkarcharya was the head of the observatory of Ujjayini and so Leela grew up to be proficient not only in Mathematics but also astrology . She was aware of her horoscope and so when she got attracted to her childhood playmate and classmate Rahul Nagarseth , she was determined not to reveal her true feelings in front of Rahul . Rahul , a Jain by religion fell in love with Leela but when he expressed his love to her , it remained unrequited which hurt him. Rahul was not aware of Leela being a Mangalik so he failed to fathom the reason behind Leela's silence. Meanwhile , Rahul's step-mother ,the Sethani , arranged his engagement with Roopmati , the beautiful daughter of the Oswal 's , another big business family who was equally rich and famous like the Jagatseths .
Incidents began to happen fast as Leelavati and her family returned to Ujjayini from Anhilwara. Bhaskaracharya allowed Leela to teach students in his school and Leela eventually became more proficient in every field of Ganit , Falit Ganit and Jyotish . She even learnt Chinese so that she could decipher the Chinese manuscripts on astrology. Rahul , on the other hand , was busy to train a band of warriors under Prince Subhrata of Malwa so that they would be competent enough to stand against Muhammad of Ghor and his forces . As Rahul returned to Ujjayini , Leela again found herself deeply in love with him and finally she explained everything to Rahul ….that being herself a Mangalik she never wanted to bring ill fate on the person she loved most . Rahul accepted the fact with an open mind and logically inferred that nothing in life actually depended on the alignment of stars . Their love was true and pure and that it had the power to conquer everything , even ill fate.
But to a society , conservative and cautious , it was a blasphemy. Bhashkaracharya , in the meantime , found out an auspicious moment to join Leelavati with a suitable young man in the holy wedlock . Rahul was defending his kingdom far away against the Turks . Would it be possible for him to return in time to save her beloved from getting married to a wrong person ? Would the society and their family permit such an inter-religion marriage ? And Leelavati ? how should she react against her family ? against the stars ?
The book is not only a love story , it's a story about racing against Time , it's the fight of Leela to stop time for her. The narration is a proof that the author has studied extensively before writing this book. Different astronomical terms of ancinet India , quotes from the Leelavati section of Siddhanta Shiromoni have been used to make the narration realistic to the twelfth century .
The condition of society at that time , the narrow mindedness and beliefs of the high society that they should even avoid the shadows of the people of lower classes to retain their sanctity , the class-conscious attitude of the Brahmins , the shrewd nature of eminent scholars and the chicanery they used to play to prove their supremacy , everything has been depicted impeccably and the readers find themselves almost transported to a time long past .
Coming to characterization , the protagonist Leelavati has been depicted as an intelligent , learned and compassionate woman. She has all those qualities to be an obedient daughter , a serious teacher , a notable orator , a beloved friend and a good wife . The pivotal character of Rahul Nagarseth has been delineated to complement that of Leela . But even the other characters like Sethani , the astrologer across the river , Bittan,Mahendra , Lokasamudra and Bhshkaracharya and Leela's mother , have been portrayed painstakingly with minute details.
The language is like a smooth flowing stream devoid of any bombastic effect . The author has succeeded to hold up the pace and tension till the end of the story and there lies her credit .
Things I don't like
The cover : It looks like some children fairly-tale as we see a dark-complexioned lady is sitting on a crescent moon under a sky-full of stars .Though it's not fair to judge a book by it's cover but people who do that might become disinterested to dig through .
The engagement between Rahul and Roopmati was terminated without any fuss . Was it really possible in those days to do such thing so easily ? more so when two big business houses were involved in the matter ?
Small pox scars were big things at that time. It was not possible to erase the scar marks so easily once one became a victim of the dreadful disease.
The book is , otherwise , really enjoyable and gives a feel-good sensation once you finished reading . I recommend it for all readers .
From my side it's 4/5
Nandini Bajpai grew up in New Delhi, India, one of four sisters and many cousins, in a family that liked to read. Although she dabbled in corporate finance, business analysis, and fostering shelter animals, her first love is writing. Her novel Red Turban White Horse: My Sister's Hurricane Wedding was published in 2013 by Scholastic India. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, kids, their dog Yogi and cat Rakhan.
Book Links
Goodreads : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18684549-starcursed
Amazon : http://www.amazon.in/Starcursed-Nandini-Bajpai-ebook/dp/B00GLLKWAU/
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The Buchholz High School math team won big at a national competition for the eighth time in a row. The 49-student team took home first place in the 44th annual Mu Alpha Theta National Convention.
The Buchholz High School math team won big at a national competition for the eighth time in a row.
The 49-student team took home first place in the 44th annual Mu Alpha Theta National Convention, held this week in Orlando.
Along with their eighth consecutive national win, team coach and math teacher Will Frazer said his students snagged 214 trophies in the 40 competitions that compose the championship.
"It's the first time we got over 200," Frazer said.
Superintendent Owen Roberts and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Karen Clarke traveled to Orlando for the awards ceremony, Frazer said.
"That meant a lot to the kids," he said. "They were pumped up."
During the competition, which lasted all week, students on Buchholz's team won first place in all three "chalk talks," which resemble a research presentation on a math topic, first place in the relay event and first place in the hustle competition, a fast-paced math race.
Students also won 21 of the individual topic tests.
Henrik Boecken, 16, won four of the five competitions he entered, including trigonometry, complex numbers, matrices and vectors, the individual pre-calculus test and the relay event, which he entered with classmates Kevin Huang and Harish Vemuri.
"It was definitely a cool experience," said Boecken, who is moving out of state and will have to say goodbye to the team. "There's people from all over the country, and it was an all-around awesome experience."
The mathletes, who are no strangers to winning competitions small and large, never fail to remark on the camaraderie they enjoy at the events.
"It was a really good social experience," said 14-year-old Kim Nguyen, a first-timer to the national math championship. "I met so many new friends and got to reunite with old ones."
Nguyen said her favorite event of the week was the ciphering test, and the most difficult was the triangles test.
She won both.
"It was a good challenge level for everyone," she said of the latter.
The math team has been preparing for the national competition all year, but the last month or so was crunch time, students said.
The team practiced three to five times a week together and clocked several hours of individual study every day.
They'll take the next two weeks off from personal study to run a middle school math camp at Buchholz, then begin preparing for next year's national championship, to be held at the Olympic Village in Park City, Utah.
The team will have to qualify for nationals by winning a handful of smaller competitions first, for which team members start early.
"We don't take much time off," Frazer said. "Two weeks off, then we're back, working."


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An Eastman Kodak Co. employee has filed a federal lawsuit claiming company officials breached their fiduciary duties related to their oversight of the troubled company's Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Employees' Savings and Investment Plan.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Rochester. It names Kodak's Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez, its board of directors and other past and current officials as defendants.
The case was filed on behalf of Mark Gedek, an employee of Kodak and participant of the two plans, the court complaint states. The case also is seeking class-action status to cover all Kodak workers who took part in those investment plans since Jan. 1, 2010.
The complaint alleges Kodak leaders breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prudently and loyally manage the plans' investment in company common stock. Those officials continued to offer Kodak stock as an option and failed to provide complete and accurate information to participants regarding the company's dire financial conditions, the complaint adds. The defendants also maintained the plans' pre-existing heavy investment in Kodak's equity.
Further, defendants failed to take action to protect the plans or its participants from inevitable losses, the complaint states.
A Kodak spokesman said the company believes the lawsuit is without merit and "we intend to "vigorously defend ourselves."
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Beautiful work. I like that all the screws are being screwed in instead of just placed. Was the dial developed using your Beginners guide to 3D text article?
Thank you all for your kind comments.Jason.To be honest I haven't tried the GPU option yet, rendering an animation can be time consuming with the AVI being saved at 25 frames per second, and if there is an average of 30 seconds for AnimationLab to move the parts and re-render, that's 12 1/2 minutes for 1 second of animation, they aren't all this bad, here its made slow because of the screw threads and springs which for me - slow down TC rendering. John.Ah, the numbers, I ended up positioning each one manually as for whatever reason whenever I rendered it some of the numbers seemed to disappear in advanced render (though they were fine in draft and quality render), so some numbers are slightly further away from the handle than others in order to get them to render correctly, fortunately it don't look too bad.
I had a play with a similar knob.
On Jason reply above "Nice animation and detailed work. But 12 hours rendering? Nothing against your work Andy, but I hoped that the new RED engine would perform better, especially since it has the "Use GPU" option now." Where is the "Use GPU" option.
Andy can you please share your Anilab settings?Andy can you please share your Anilab settings?also your pc's cpu and memory etc?
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The innate immune system comprises the cells and mechanisms that defend the host from infection by other organisms, in a non-specific manner. This means that the cells of the innate system recognize and respond to pathogens in a generic way, but unlike the adaptive immune system, it does not confer long-lasting or protective immunity to the host. Innate immune systems provide immediate defense against infection, and are found in all classes of plant and animal life.
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Algot Runeman wrote:reaffirm
I think that cosmetic surgeons often reaffirm certain body parts.
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:Algot Runeman wrote:reaffirm
I think that cosmetic surgeons often reaffirm certain body parts.
E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:Algot Runeman wrote:intermittent
There was nothing intermittent about the love between my grandma and grandpa. If there was any kind of -mittent, come rain or shine, I never heard about it.
One exception, of course, though it isn't any fault of their's. I myself am only intermittently reporting about their relationship. Blame it on Algot, who does't always provide a WotD around which I can tell a compelling anecdote.
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No. Sorry!
This is emphatically NOT an apodictic representation of my grandma!
This image only reminds me of a crude Madame Butterfly picture.
As for the kissing, grandma had only one single (though very cooperative) victim.
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Mid 19th century: named after Gibus, the French inventor of this type of hat.
Bobby stuffed his baseball cap in his backside jeans pocket, no Gibus hat to flatten. Scrubbing his fingers through his hair made do for a comb. He was as ready for the interview as he would ever be. Besides, flipping burgers is not the same as prepping to be the next Lord Stanley.
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An insider's view of what is really happening in the Harris County Criminal Courts
Friday, February 10, 2012
The D.A.'s Office Requests DPS to Investigate . . .
As if all the investigations and counter-investigations that have gone on over the past several months weren't enough, DPS has issued an official statement that today they were asked by the Harris County District Attorney's Office to investigate the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
Now, in all honesty, I'm not really sure what to make of this.
Weren't the Texas Rangers and the FBI already investigating the D.A.'s Office? If so, isn't requesting them to investigate today kind of akin to inviting someone into your house after they've already come in three days ago?
Or did Lykos finally realize the hypocrisy of all her "transparency" blather in light of all the stonewalling and investigating they did during the 185th Grand Jury investigation?
Or did the people behind the 185th Grand Jury/Mike Anderson conspiracy just convince Pat Lykos to initiate a politically motivated investigation into herself?
I'm so confused.
The reality is that Lykos probably took all week to confirm that none of her investigators ran TCIC/NCIC background checks on any of the Grand Jurors, Jim Mount, Stephen St. Martin, Judges Marc and Susan Brown or Judge Mike Anderson or Devon Anderson. Once they were certain that nothing was going to turn up, they invited the Rangers in to confirm it and give them a Seal of Approval.
Once again, it is worth pointing out how unnecessary all of this is.
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Because, it gives her a false sense of control. Her request is redundant. Below is a cut and paste link to The Texas Rangers. They are Born out of - D.P.S.. I think she is referring to the baseball team. Keep digging Pat, keep digging. Asses and elbows keep doing everything BUT your job!
The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in a call-to-arms written in 1823, and were formally constituted on October 17, 1835, by Daniel Parker as a member of the Permanent Council.[2] The unit was dissolved by the federal authorities during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, but was quickly reformed upon the reinstitution of home government. Since 1935, the organization has been a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety; it fulfills the role of Texas's State Bureau of Investigation. As of 2009, there are 144 commissioned members of the Ranger force.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:12 PM
Now that's funny. Most people heard that the Rangers were asking about who checked out digital tape recorders out about the time that they were testifying in front of the GJ.
So now, we're supposed to believe that the DA asked. What a joke. The ADA's involved went in and taped the GJ because they were told to do that.
Do you really think that they still have the recordings? Give me a break. They have no integrity. They spend their entire time making sure that's there's no evidence.
This thing is a total joke. Everyone knows the truth.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:17 PM
Any THIS, my friends, is why she's paying the PR people in the office the big bucks. "Turn this around and make it all my idea," she schemed. "I'll show them I've nothing to hide!"
- February 10, 2012 at 8:30 PM
The truth is this is politics all around. Why run down Zach when Carol Vance became D A with less experience than Zach. Things have gone downhill since Carol left.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Grammar cleanup on line 14.
- February 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- Murray Newman said...
Thanks Shirley!
- February 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Wow, I'm impressed Ms. Lykos, I think the next time I see an officer on the side of the road, I shall follow your lead and pull over and inform them that I was speeding and request they write me a ticket.
- February 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM
Judge Lykos did the right thing.
- February 11, 2012 at 1:37 AM
The readers need to support Zack.He is honest and will bring great ideas to Harris County.Why go back to the Rosenthal era with Mike? They were friends and of the same mindset. Zack Supporter
- February 11, 2012 at 6:30 AM
- Murray Newman said...
Anon 1:37 a.m.,
I agree completely. "Judge" Lykos did the right thing.
She just did it about four months too late.
- February 11, 2012 at 8:35 AM
From the Lykos Site:
Much Ado About Nothing
That is the title of her response to "all of this."
And - really - isn't this the crux of the problem?
Madam Lykos - You must realize this:
When you have your Tuesday meeting - look around the room - 95% of the people there do not respect nor trust you. In fact, a great many of them dislike you and a good many despise you.
When you had the investigator meeting in which you gave them a "surprise" (i.e. a shiny new badge), most of them were disgusted and felt sick at your lack of real understanding and support.
When you gave out longevity awards, most were simply annoyed at having to take time out of their day for your "photo ops." They were disheartened at the pathetic attempt to reward them - mostly because you had to tell them several times that that county doesn't pay for the awards anymore - but YOU - oh, gracious queen - did.
The public who pays attention must be getting tired of trying to figure out "just what you mean" because you say different things to different groups and your parse your words so carefully.
Much of nothing - is how you feel about us - the PEOPLE who make up the DA's Office. A bunch of NOTHING about who we are, what we can do, what we value, what we think and what we feel.
No matter how many awards, how much spin, how many gleeful feral grins - the fact remains:
You have been quite clear in your actions that the MUCH ADO is about YOU. And only YOU.
- February 11, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Lessons on Lykos Speak: On The Issue of The Elected DA's Trial Experience
From the website:
"My opponent has chosen to personally attack me, saying I never made an arrest as an officer and never tried a jury case as a lawyer. At HPD I made arrests, went to crime scenes, wrote the offense reports and testified in court. My last jury trial as a lawyer occurred just before I went on the bench as the first Republican judge of a county court, (later I was the first Republican Criminal District Judge). The jury found my client Not Guilty."
So - let's deconstruct:
1) "Last" jury trial was before she became judge of a County Court - from her website: "In 1980, the Harris County Commissioners' Court appointed her to the newly-created bench of County Criminal Court No. 10." So - she tried her LAST jury trial BEFORE 1980 - at LEAST 32 years ago.
2) How long BEFORE 1980? 1975?
3) According to the Texas Bar website, she was licensed in 1971. So, if her LAST jury trial was BEFORE 1980 (we don't know the year), when was her FIRST?
4) Notice she only talks about her "last jury trial." So - how MANY jury trials has she tried in her career? More than 10, less than 10? What type?
5) Most important question - she has been the elected DA of Harris County for 3+ years. Why has she not tried a case in that time? Wouldn't that have been a great way to learn about the job? Or, how about sitting 2nd chair? Instead of being in the courtroom, where has she been?
Other elected DAs may not have tried cases either, once they were elected. The DIFFERENCE between them and her is that it hadn't been 30 years since their last trial AND they all had much more experience as practicing lawyers in the courtroom.
You can't be the leader if you haven't ever been on the team.
- February 11, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Anon 6:30
Mike Anderson was not "friends" with Rosenthal. If you don't know the dynamics of the office, don't comment.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM
So did Lykos originally invite the Rangers and FBI last week or are these two seperate events? Is her recent invitation a subterfuge - is this her way to get the Rangers to do a perfunctory "investigation" based on her own specious complaint and get a letter from them saying no criminal conduct was found? When the TR/FBI inquiry broke into the news this past week I was wondering who the complainant was and whether a fix was in.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:30 AM
You can't have it both ways. Seems like a pretty astute move on her part.
Not everyone was as enamored with the Holmes era as many of the posters here are.
My memories of Holmes were of him sitting in his darkened office, a single table lamp on behind him, with police scanner blasting. That was just bizarre.
Many people, including me, don't count the Rosenthal years as an "era" like the Vanca or Holmes administrations because Rosenthal had a machine that ran without him when he took over.
I regret voting for Rosenthal against Lycos the first time around.
It's unfortunate that some great ADA's left and that others were run off or fired. But there was also a few who needed to go.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM
As a former Public Integrity ADA, I can tell you that theTexas Rangers have an internal policy that requires a formal request to investigate a public official. As ridiculous a formality as it is, that is probably what is going on.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Murray Newman said...
My assumption would be that the formal complaint to the Texas Rangers would have been done by one of the Grand Jurors, the special prosecutors and/or the judges Lykos decided to investigate.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:07 AM
FYI. The "Much Ado..." piece was authored by Gary Polland. It was his site referenced as the source that Lykos adopted.
So, it appears Jelly Jolly and Polland will be her paid megaphones to the public.
She still can't get around the fact that both her verbal statement and written statement on www.harriscountyda.com specifically tell us she will be eagerly bringing all the evidence to www.harriscountyda.com - and, she hasn't. I suppose Day 10 should be checking in soon.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Anon 8:42
Great post. An insiders view helps those of us that are not in the office to understand better what it is like. I wish more employees would write on this blog. Sharing, what it is really like to work in that atmosphere.
These are the posts that most of us outsiders read that we take to heart. Some of us get motivated to do whatever it takes to resolve this issue.
It is a shame that Lycos is using these employees for her photo ops. Of course she had to tell them that she bought the awards or whatever herself. As you said in your post it is all about Lycos. Sounds like it always will be.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM
She knows that DPS does not have that much experience in law enforcement nor in investigations.
They are kind of a joke in the community, and all they do is write traffic tickets and do accident investigations......when you can find them.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:21 AM
I'm glad someone pointed out that Anderson and Rosenthal were not buddies. I also knew they were not close friends.
What happens when the office loses access to TCIC when it's established they used it for non criminal investigations?
- February 11, 2012 at 10:42 AM
The FBI doesn't need a complaint to initiate 42 U.S.C. § 14141 investigations.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Anon 9:45
Do not question Johnny Holmes and his office. Please. His record stands on its own.
- February 11, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Dear Zack Fertita Supporter,
I am a Mike Anderson supporter who was planning to vote for Zack Fertita if, heaven forbid, Lykos wins the primary. However, you are so obnoxious and childish in your posts that I am seriously reconsidering ever voting for your candidate under any circumstances.
Zack, if you are reading this, you need to have a serious talk with this supporter. He is not doing you any favors, only turning people off from voting for you.
- February 11, 2012 at 12:19 PM
"We are eager to show the public all the evidence in this case." - Patricia R. Lykos (2/1/12)
Ms Lykos:
We realize you have never worked a weekend since joining the DA's office, but we thought we would let you know we are hopeful you will release the evidence to us.
By the way, belated congrats to you for the not guilty back in 1980. We did not know that.
-the public
- February 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM
One, all this talk about running NCIC/TCIC on the Grand Jury seems pointless. Of course they didn't run them, the Grand Jurors had already been run as a matter of course - all Grand Jurors are run to ensure they qualify for the Grand Jury and I'm pretty sure Public Intergrity does that. And there is no need to run either Judge Brown or Mike and Devon Anderson as I'm pretty sure anything they would've done criminally since they left the D.A.s office would have warranted attention. So they can claim innocence in regards to those databases. Second, Accurint is no small time database. As anyone who uses it knows, it returns a PLETHORA of information. Which includes criminal history. Known relatives, addresses, vehicles, phone numbers, amongst a myriad of other information are all encompassed by that database. It seems to me that save Grand Jury subpoenas that's about as investigatory as one can get in this arena. The act itself is in violation of TPC 39.06.
- February 11, 2012 at 1:15 PM
How about 39.02(2)?
- February 11, 2012 at 3:05 PM
It is Zack Fertitta----If you are going to vote for him ,you should know his name.
- February 11, 2012 at 3:37 PM
What a joke this shithole county is.
- February 11, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Anon 12.19---You are not doing Anderson any favors with your posts. Get someone without baggage to be elected.No scandals,no divorces,no controversy.Murray,you should have run.--------- Elect Zack
- February 11, 2012 at 4:05 PM
- Murray Newman said...
Anon 4:05 p.m.,
Mike Anderson doesn't have divorces, scandals or controversy. I've at least got divorces and controversy!
I do agree with the previous poster that there is no need for supporters of Zack to be attempting to alienate anyone from Judge Anderson's camp. They are both better candidates than the current District Attorney. After the primary there will be plenty of time to engage in head-butting. I don't know why anyone would want to begin it early.
It's a long road to November.
- February 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM
It's all about perception and control. She is a ego-maniac
- February 11, 2012 at 9:21 PM
re: 10:21-
You obviously don't know much about the Texas Rangers. They don't investigate traffic accidents. They are made up of some of the best criminal investigators that DPS has. They also have something Pat Lykos doesn't and that is Integrity. If she has lured them into a political exercise, I think she'll regret it.
You missed the point about NCIC/TCIC. It doesn't matter whether the Grand Jurors had already been run as a vetting procedure before their appointment. Same for Mike Anderson. You don't have to have a known criminal record. It's plain illegal to run NCIC/TCIC checks on anyone, whether they have a criminal history or not, unless it is done in the course of a legitimate criminal investigation.
- February 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM
What politicians have the rangers investigated ?
- February 11, 2012 at 10:57 PM
The Texas Rangers most often are called upon to conduct criminal investigations of politicians or their family members in smaller jurisdictions where there is a lack of qualified officers, or there is a need for objectivity. In most large counties or cities, there are plenty of agencies available to investigate claims of political corruption so they are less likely to take the lead role in these counties.
A unique problem exists when the DA or her staff become the focus of a criminal investigation because it requires the appointment of a Special Prosecutor who often will request the appointing Judge to provide them with the services of an experienced investigator. There is nothing wrong with an outside agency like the Rangers conducting an investigation of the DA but at some point, they may need the ability to issue Grand Jury subpoenas to obtain sworn testimony or evidence not subject to production under their power to issue administrative subpoenas. A Special Prosecutor would need to be appointed in order to assist the Grand Jury in preparing and issuing such subpoenas.
If you Google "politicians investigated by Texas Rangers", there are plenty of examples of their work in that area. At this time, it is still not clear what the extent of their investigation of HCDAO is.
- February 12, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Anon 10:25 - I believe it is you who missed the point of my comment. I understand it's illegal to run NCIC/TCIC if there's no official reason. My point was, while Pat et al. may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer they aren't going to do something as blatant as running NCIC/TCIC. They could have just looked at the records kept by public integrity if that was their concern (which I would assume it wasn't). The things they are looking for are more likely to be provided by Accurint.
Ergo, my point was I would bet good money they never abused NCIC/TCIC - of course, I would be more than happy to lose that bet since it would mean a swift departure for Die Hexe von HCDAO.
- February 12, 2012 at 9:05 PM
I wonder if Rangers realize that PL is about to manipulate them Big Time...?
- February 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Pat Lykos gives politics a dirty name.
- February 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't DPS fall under the Attorney General's Office?
Lets talk conspiracy: Since the AG's Office is ultimately investigating the DAO, how can it be independent?
The AG has an attorney assigned to the DAO in the same area that the Texas Rangers started their investigation. Special Prosecutions.
Isn't that Mini Patsy's (Vollman) so called area of expertise? Nothing like one of the Leadership Team members in charge of an AG attorney.
Now if the AG attorney is under the the umbrella of Patsy, isn't it clear that Patsy is running the AG's Office as well?
Conspiracy: a collection of easily proven facts and acts.
- February 14, 2012 at 7:47 AM
If I remember correctly, Ms. Lykos ran her campaign on honesty and transparency at the HCDAO. Again, if I remember correctly, she also inferred that Rosenthal and her opponent, Siegler, were not to be trusted and accused them of not being forthright with evidence. Isn't that ironic? Unlike Rosenthal and Siegler, I haven't seen Lykos do anything good for the office in the past three years. Sure, Kelly and Chuck may have raised some eyebrows at times, but you can never say they didn't fight for the victims. Patsy, I'm still waiting to see your passion for the DA's office and crime victims shine through....
- February 14, 2012 at 8:16 AM
DPS does not report to and is not in the chain of authority of the Attorney General. The AG is a statewide elected office. DPS is an executive office where the governor appoints commissioners to lead. There is no overlap.
- February 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Are the Rangers taking stuff from the DA's office today per written consent or has a search warrant been signed?
- February 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM
I wonder if the computers are being hauled away pursuant to a search warrant or if they were given up voluntarily?
- February 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM


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To summarize what sounds more like a street rumble than a business transaction, in the end Pratt overturned the store-credit-only policy for Glinska and refunded her $40, but refused to do the same for her friend. Reluctantly, and with the intention of appealing to her credit-card company, the friend accepted store credit and they left.
When I visited the store, Pratt said that Glinska had been "very rude." She also showed me what she claimed were the returned earrings and pointed out that the clasp on one was defective, for which she blamed Glinksa (but volunteered that she hadn't mentioned that when the earrings were returned. The earrings are lovely). I could easily imagine that the locking mechanism, which was a type I've never seen before, might be difficult to operate.
I asked why the store's return policy wasn't posted, but I didn't get an answer. I returned to that question several times, both during our meeting in the store and later that evening over the phone, and pointed out that if Glinska and her friend had known– from the beginning– what the terms were, they wouldn't have been able to argue with the policy. Every time, Pratt changed the subject.
I don't understand why a store owner wouldn't post the return policy in clear view near the cash register and print it on sales receipts. That simple act might have saved all three women from an absurdly stressful transaction.
Glinska reports that her friend's credit-card appeal has been denied, and adds that she's "pretty despondent" about the debacle.
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Daniel Anguiano from the hardware team joined me to show us the new cams and some of the new features on the 5000 series, and to talk about why Microsoft has so many different webcams.
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No Skype HD support.
Why is it so hard for Microsoft and Skype to corporate and get HD working out of the box?
Is not Skype the #1 video software?
Nice. The LifeCam Cinema is my favorite because of its noise cancelling microphone.
There are things you can do that are... off the menu. See Scott Hanselman's blog for details on getting HQ video chats through Skype. I'm looking forward to full support in many chats too, but right now it appears to be on the cusp of its time, hardware-wise.
What I'd really like is a camera like these or the Cinema HD with an ethernet port on the back and be able to point media player at it. Having it encode to MP4/h.264 and present the video as a stream so multiple devices could access it.
Nice, available in the UK?
having ethernet and the video encoding would make the device cost more, you can buy hires ethernet cameras but they are not low cost.
to do it you have to put a small computer inside with enough cpu power and ram to do the frame proceessing buffering and all the stuff of doing video streaming...
hardware keeps getting better so in time it will get to a lower cost but not yet....
Can the PC control the web cam, make it swivle to a different position? Can it work as a motion and sound detector, signaling events on the PC when motion is detected in the room? Basically use the web cam as part of a security surveilance system.
The internet based surveillance cameras don't allow a PC program to control the camera to the degree I would like. ( based on cursory research. )
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Many kids fall through gaps in dental care
No one wants to go to the dentist, but kids need to. A small cavity left to fester can grow into a big health problem. Although the government made pediatric dental care one of the health law's "essential benefits," new data suggest a lot of parents didn't buy dental coverage during the online enrollment period.
About 60% of U.S. children will have had cavities by age 5, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Children with tooth decay are more likely to have ear and sinus infections. The chance of developing other chronic problems, such as obesity, diabetes and even heart disease, also increases.
Paul Reggiardo, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Council on Dental Benefit Programs, says early dental problems can affect children's learning, how they interact with other kids and their ability to eat.
"It starts having an impact much more than cavities," he says.
Many children get coverage through their parents' employer-based health insurance or the government-funded Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid, which serve low-income people. But the American Dental Association says there's still a big gap: 10 million children ages 2 through 18 had no dental insurance in 2011.
The health law marketplaces that opened last year were designed to help people who don't qualify for Medicaid and don't have workplace coverage. Parents seeking pediatric dental insurance had two options: purchasing it as part of a family medical plan or as a separate, stand-alone policy.
Federal officials don't yet know how many kids got dental coverage through a family medical plan in the first enrollment period, which formally ended March 31. But they have reported numbers for stand-alone dental plans sold through the federal website serving 36 states: Just 63,448 children received this coverage. Experts estimate the number of children who could potentially be eligible for coverage through the various health plans is between 6 million and 8 million. The number is difficult to pin down because kids' dental insurance is not part of the insurance mandate.
One reason is that shopping for coverage is complicated and confusing, experts say. Perhaps more important, there's no separate subsidy for buying dental coverage and no federal penalty for failing to buy it. Only three states — Kentucky, Nevada and Washington — require parents to buy a children's dental plan.
In light of these problems, "Are we expanding dental access for kids?" asks Marko Vujicic, chief economist and vice president of the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.
Only 34% of medical plans sold on the federal exchange included pediatric dental benefits, according to an ADA study. Parents often confronted difficult choices — the ideal medical plan for their family might not have dental care for the kids, for example. To get that coverage, they'd have to buy a stand-alone plan at an additional cost.
Stand-alone plans are sold as either high-option policies, which likely involve higher premiums but smaller out-of-pocket costs; or low-option plans, for which premium payments may be less expensive but enrollees may have more out-of-pocket costs.
Prices for stand-alone plans vary not only by option but also where people live. Insurance markets are regional, not national, so costs and competition vary greatly. For the current year, a family in Cleveland County in southwestern North Carolina could pay as little as $33 a month for a low-option children's dental plan while another family in Beaver County in southwest Utah could pay as little as $8 for the same level plan, according to a KHN analysis of premium data for the federal marketplace.
Nationwide, the average price of a low-option plan was $21 a month and the average for the high-option plan was $27.
Subsidies and deductibles factor into cost comparisons, further complicating consumers' choices.
The federal health law provides income-based tax credits for buying medical plans, but not always for buying a separate dental plan. "(Parents) don't get the same support for picking a dental plan and paying for it as they do with medical plans," says Joe Touschner, a senior health policy analyst with the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.
Ultimately, though, those who bought a dental plan may be left wondering how it works and what it pays for.
"I'm not sure consumers know what they are getting," Vujicic says.
Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.


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The Tanglewood 2011 Season may not start until summer, but the schedule has been announced and tickets are on sale. If you're feeling a bit under the weather – uncertain if you'll awaken to six inches of snow or a deluge of rain – cheer yourself up by making summer plans to stay at our Lenox MA Bed and Breakfast and see a show at Tanglewood.
Opening Night (with the Boston Symphony Orchestra) is Friday, July 8, 2011. This year features an all-Italian program, and opening night will be a musical extravaganza lead by James Levine, Music Director of the BSO. Soprano Angela Meade, mezzo Kristine Jepson, and bass-baritone James Morris will perform excerpts from Bellini's Norma (Act 1). The Tanglewood Festival Chorus will raise their voices in song, and music by Verdi, Gabrieli, and Rossini will be performed. Pines of Rome, by Respighi, will conclude the evening.
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Hugh Weber, a political adviser turned marketer from South Dakota, is a thoughtful guy whose innate appreciation for absurdities (such as politics) also makes him a very funny new dad.
When his first child was born four years ago (he and his wife also have a second child, born in March), he decided to document the pregnancy through a constant barrage of videos, blogs and tweets — one of his more popular YouTube videos features his use of a breast pump in a humorously informative bit.
Thousands of people found this strange, hilarious experiment to be a revelation. In the video, Weber laughs like a deranged elf while he blurts out such classics as "I'm going to have cone-shaped nipples the rest of my life!" Clearly he is in some pain. Off-camera, his wife notes that she does this seven times a day.
Hidden in his social media, real-life mockumentary is what may be the most valuable advice new dads need: Be present, be participatory, understand everything you can about your wife, yourself, your baby and the "new normal" in your lives. Revel in it. You may not want to do that by using a breast pump.
Weber, enlightened to parenthood yet still naive, says, "The first six weeks I waited for the day when things would go back to the way they had been. The reality is that everything has changed and it's terrifying, but once you realize that and own that, parenting can be an exciting process. As long as I struggled to go back to pre-relationships and the way my marriage was, it was painful.
"If you want to go back, you're not building anything. Find the sunshine in the direction you're heading. I even got to know my wife better as a person."
In his just-released book, "Dude To Dad: The First 9 Months" (Familius), Weber coats good advice with humor as well. "Your wife at her best will be a fundamentally different person than the woman you met on your first date," he writes. "Your wife at her worst will be infinitely more terrifying than the monster you imagined under your bed as a child. Don't expect her to be who she was BC (before child)."
Taking the overwhelming adjustment to being a new dad with more than a grain of comicality, in fact, is good sense. David Hill, a pediatrician in Wilmington, N.C., hits the sweet spot early in his advice book, "Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro" (American Academy of Pediatrics).
Noting that people are invariably fascinated with the "stuff that comes out of new babies," he allows that a good portion of early child care involves diaper changes, with concerned parents wondering if there have been "too many or two few." He just skips over the question of whether new dads should be part of the poop parade and offers some practical advice: "Put the fresh diaper under your baby before you whisk away the old one and, if it's a girl, wipe front to back to keep bacteria away from the bladder."
"Finally," he writes, "there's no shame in simulating crowd-cheering noises if you score a three-pointer in the trash can." Dads are important to the child-rearing process, he contends, and can have a little fun along the way.
Hill notes that premature babies gain weight more rapidly if their dads are involved in their care. Those same babies score better on developmental and psychological tests more than a year later, again as a result of the father's involvement. Mothers more successfully breast-feed their babies when dads help, and children with involved fathers have better language skills, better grades, and enjoy higher self-esteem and suffer less psychiatric disease. Get it?
For nuts and bolts advice, Hill's book is filled with suggestions. He is, after all, a physician. In the first month, touch your baby, a lot. Known as kangaroo care, skin-to-skin contact helps stabilize the heart rate, breathing and sleep patterns. Hold your baby, a lot. "Talk to him, rub his back, let him suck on your finger, get in his face," Hill writes.
New dads need to be available at all times, says clinical psychologist, parenting expert and dad John Duffy of La Grange, Ill. "Dads aren't always great at being present with their babies, either physically or emotionally," Duffy says. "Change diapers, lie on the floor and be part of their lives. You have to adapt to what evolves. You're set in your ways and get selfish with your time — now you have to be generous with your time."
If you have a girl, there's one other twist, says Brian Klems, the online editor for Writer's Digest. You're out of your element, and it's easy to feel as if your manliness is threatened. With three daughters, Klems has been through dozens of shades of pink, ballet, tea parties, infinite episodes of "Dora the Explorer" and Disney princesses.
"As it turns out," he writes in his laugh-out-loud book, "Oh Boy, You're Having a Girl: A Dad's Survival Guide to Raising Daughters" (Adams Media), "I didn't need arm wrestling and Little League to be a great dad or a happy family man. I've actually come to love — OK, tolerate — ballet, pink and Dora. Now I wouldn't change my life for anything." Plus, he still plays fantasy baseball and roots for the Reds.
His advice includes forgiving yourself. "I've never heard of anyone bowling a perfect game his first time out," he says. "It takes practice. The same goes for being a dad. You're going to forget the diaper bag from time to time. You're also going to go to work with spit running down the front of your shirt. Don't beat yourself up over it. You'll get better at being a dad with each passing day as long as you care enough to practice and learn from your mistakes."
Fessing up
We asked a few veteran fathers to recall one of their worst rookie mistakes as new dads:
Hugh Weber, author and blogger: "I gave a bottle to our daughter and realized after the fact that it had all dripped down the front of her — a result of (my) not being present. She hadn't consumed a thing."
John Duffy, clinical psychologist: "When I was putting him to bed, I tried to reason with him, as if he understood me: 'C'mon man, give me a break here.' He'd just start crying more."
David Bakke, financial expert: "One of the dumbest mistakes I ever made was not making sure that the food tray on my son's high chair was firmly in place before sitting down to eat with him. Halfway through a meal one night, my son pushed on it and it came loose, and the food tray and the baby went tumbling down onto the hard kitchen floor. My son landed headfirst, but thankfully his head hit the food tray instead of the floor. That experience scared me to death."
Robert Nickel, entrepreneur, blogger and parenting columnist: Faced with a constipated baby, Nickel remembered that prune juice was a solution. In his case, he fell for the old "if a little is good, more is better" axiom, and a while later he had an explosion rivaling Mount St. Helens on his hands — and everywhere else.


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March 31, 2012 7:37 am
You two make me so jealous, I wish my sister and I could hang out more.
March 31, 2012 8:40 am
you guys are so cute 🙂 remind me not to get in a fight with you because those pointy shoes look like they'd hurt 😉
wcjohnson permalinkMarch 31, 2012 12:11 pm
oh i love that first picture! and that horse wrapped in pearls!!!! amazing!
lionhairs permalinkMarch 31, 2012 2:54 pm
Oh gosh! First the boots now those flats. I love your(and your sister's) taste in shoes!
You make me wish I had a sister! 🙂
katlane12 permalinkMarch 31, 2012 11:02 pm
naw you guys are so cute! Happy Birthday to your sister.
April 5, 2012 5:03 am
So cute. I adore her hand tattoos, too.


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Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
At least until the inevitable HHH promo finding some way to take it away from him due to a "fast count", Daniel Bryan is the WWE Champion. Enjoy it while you can.
Meanwhile, if the McMahon-Helmsley Era v. 2.0 wasn't bad enough, now WWE fired Jim Ross over the WWE 2K14 press conference, at which Ric Flair went into an off-message and possibly alcohol-assisted story-telling session where WWE blamed Ross, feeling he didn't keep Flair in line.
For those of you who haven't seen this press conference, here are highlights:
Oh, I know…officially, Jim Ross "retired". Ross's blog even took the high road.
If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
He got fired by Vince McMahon in another installment of the sadomasochistic relationship that the company has had with Ross over the last 20 years.
For years, Ross has been periodically treated like crap on and off-air by WWE, including on air segments seemingly designed to humiliate him, including the 1999 storyline, where (in storyline) he has been "fired" because of his Bells Palsy. Two similar storylines were done in 2011 related to "inflammatory bowel disease".
No matter how much fans respond to Ross, WWE seems to view him as a throwback to the "wrasslin" era, and prefers the Michael Cole "sports entertainment" style of parroted McMahon commentary that all too often doesn't get over storylines and characters in the way that Ross still can to this day.
If that's not bad enough, how about the HHH Twitter congratulating him on his "well-earned retirement". News bulletin, folks: anyone over the age of six with a computer realizes Ross did not want to retire. So you're not fooling anyone.
Reader Dave Cottom sent his thoughts on this fiasco to me. It said a lot of what I wanted to say better than I did (even if I just did), so here it is:
"I just had to get this off of my chest…
I have been a wrestling fan for as long as I can remember. Truthfully, I have never been able to get over the days of old school wrestling–the interviews with announcers before and after matches, the introductions in the ring (a la Michael Buffer) and the days of kayfabe (protecting the business and blurring of real vs. fake)–treating it as a real sport. Loved that stuff.
I heard today that Jim Ross has been fired from the WWE. I felt I had to say this, if no one else would….
Jim Ross is the single greatest wrestling announcer in the history of the sport, period.
He is the best that has ever done it…
Yes, I know Gordon Solie was great and legendary, Vince McMahon of the 70's and 80's had a distinctive and most recognizable voice and Tony Schiavone is inseparable from the glory days 1980's NWA Championship Wrestling. Jim Ross would tell you that Gordon Solie was the best and as far as Jim's enjoyment as a fan goes, he's probably right. The difference here, is I have experienced both from a fan perspective and I think Jim Ross is untouchable as an announcer.
Jim Ross, at his best, always made wrestling must-see TV. I can't remember anyone announcing so many important matches in the span of a career. On TV and pay per view, Jim Ross made ME believe and understand that I was watching a big time sporting event. I never, ever questioned his passion for the game and legitimacy that he brought to the matches he announced and to the sport (yes, sport) in general. Heck, I could listen to him announce just about any sport all day long. XFL anyone?
I heard today that this might be the end for him in wrestling. It is a sad thing. I don't care too much about the politics behind the scenes. I care even less about what goes on behind the curtain DURING a show–it cheapens the product to see so much garbage behind the curtain anyway, in my opinion, but that's a conversation for another day…
Professional Wrestling has always been about two guys "hooking up" and seeing which one could get the best of the other—playing by the rules or not. The best matches tell a great story and NO ONE has ever done it better than Jim Ross.
As a big, long-time professional wrestling fan, I just felt and somehow wanted him to know that I KNOW he was the greatest…..and that's all that matters.
Dave Cottom"
Until next time….


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Always have liked that word. Something that is counterintuitive is unexpected, surprising. Counterintuitive results may even seem illogical at first. A counterintuitive conclusion calls out for examination.
Where exactly is this leading? To something relevant, of course. International Paper Company has sponsored a new website based upon a seemingly counterintuitive argument. The website is GoPaperGrowTrees.com and the argument goes something like this: choosing and using paper actually benefits forests and the environment.
Poor Richard can hear what may of you are thinking . . . "sheer propaganda from wealthy timber barons bent on despoiling America's valuable natural resources."
Admittedly, the source of the argument lends a certain tinge to it's credibility. Poor Richard, having earned his livelihood (for better and lately for worse) in and around the timber and paper industry, may also be considered a suspicious source. Yet the argument stands on its own, despite the advocates involved. It's born of simple economics and goes something like this:
- Forestry is an agricultural business. This is certainly true in the US and the website supplies the data to prove it.
- The amount of a product supplied is directly related to the demand for that product. This is basic economics. Remember the S&D graph in Econ 101? The price of the product is determined by the intersection of the supply and demand curves.
- There is competition for the resources needed for production. In this case, the competing interest is development. Most of the timberland lost in the US during the last 20 years was forestland that was eliminated for development. The value of the land resource was greater when developed for commercial or residential use than when employed in agricultural production of timber.
- If the demand for forest related products (specifically paper) remains low, prices will not provide an incentive for continued forest management, additional forest lands will be lost, and fewer remaining forests will be managed either for environmental or agricultural benefit.
- Finally (and conversely), an increase in the demand for (and price of) print and paper will preserve forest lands and help to insure the best economic and environmental outcomes.
Multiple factors have driven the decrease in the demand for paper and print during the last 3 years. Foremost among these are the availability of competing technologies (like blogs on the internet), the perception that the cost of print outweighs any benefit it has over competing forms of communication, and the propensity to simply cut the larger identifiable costs when under economic stress.
It would be interesting to be able to measure the actual effect that environmental objections have had on demand. While Poor Richard suspects that this would be difficult to quantify, there is no doubt that the green objection has made a great excuse for the denigration of print and the diminution of demand for print on paper. (I still don't believe that people are really freaking out about printing their emails).
Will this signal a return to the good old days of print on paper? Probably not, but it's still a very effective (if counterintuitive) argument for valuable products that really shouldn't be as outmoded as popular environmental mantras would make them. Click on the logo, visit the site, watch the video and let me know what you think. Or better yet, order something printed on paper from the printshop behind the red awnings on Poplar Street.


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A Black and Gold Wedding at the Caramel Room at Bissinger's in St. Louis, Missouri
When Whitley Lukes (27 and a customer service associate) and Carlo DiCarlo (28 and an aircraft dispatcher) changed their wedding vision from gray and coral to black and gold, everything fell into place. "It was just the touch I was looking for," Whitley says of the new color scheme. They found the Caramel Room at Bissinger's in St. Louis, Missouri, for their reception. Whitely started visiting Hobby Lobby regularly for wedding decor (anything gold and pretty that was on sale). She purchased gold vases, Eiffel Tower figurines (they got engaged in Paris), metal letters and signs, then trusted her family to execute her vision. The morning of the wedding, Whitley and Carlo got ready at hotels in downtown St. Louis without a first look. Whitley was walking down the aisle at St. Cecilia Catholic Church (the same church where Carlo's parents were married), which was decorated in simple black lanterns and two all-white floral arrangements. After a full Catholic Mass, the newly married couple moved to the Caramel Room at Bissinger's for a classy black and gold reception, complete with gold sequin (for the couple) and black (for the guests) tablecloths, gold vases and white flowers. Because the reception was at a candy factory, guests also enjoy chocolate-infused martinis. Whitley and Carlo served antipasto, mushrooms with truffle mayonnaise, and peppered beef bites for hors d'oeuvres; salad, pasta, bread, provolone-stuffed chicken, roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables for dinner; and handmade Italian cookies baked by Carlo's aunt and cake with red velvet and cream cheese icing and butter cake with raspberry jam and buttercream icing for dessert. "It was an amazing dinner," Whitley says. During the first dances, all the women in Carlo's family surrounded him and his mom, finishing the dance with them. At the end of the evening, after a massive dance party, the couple posed for photos on the rooftop, next to the Bissinger's sign. Whitley's advice for other couples is to invest in areas that mean the most to you. It might mean working overtime or skimping in other ways, but sometimes you have to be "brave enough to bite the bullet" and say yes to the things you really want. With help from family, some creative budgeting and a few DIY projects, "we had a dream wedding," she says. "I'm so happy we made the choices we did." —Chrissy Sorenson
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It's an unexpected collaboration.
50 Cent has joined forces with Eminem and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine on his new track "My Life." While 50 Cent and Eminem rap about the struggles fame can bring, Adam Levine provides the soulful falsetto on the chorus.
"My life makes me wanna run away but there's no place to go/All the confusion it's an illusion like a movie/Got nowhere to go, nowhere to run and hide/No matter how hard I try," Adam sings.
Last night, 50 Cent debuted the first official single from his upcoming album Street King Immortal, "My Life," on a live episode of The Voice. Today, he released the music video.
The self-described "aggressive" rapper may seem like an unlikely pairing with Levine, but 50's been a fan for quite awhile.
"We were coming up at the same time and they asked me what do I like. I said Maroon 5 because I just heard the song ["She Will Be Loved"] and I [wanted to know], 'What is that [song]?'" he told 97.1 AMP Radio/Los Angeles.
Once he secured Levine for the hook, he headed off to Detroit to team up with Eminem. The hip hop greats have collaborated before on lesser-known tracks, but this time around, 50 Cent is determined to make a hit record.
"We went into the studio and I said, 'No, we gotta make a single,'" he explained. "I found a space that kind of meets the Slim Shady, not the Marshall Mathers, but the Slim Shady side of Em when he starts to get in that pocket…It just makes a great collaboration every time we did it."
On the track, 50 raps of how he went from "filthy to filthy rich." A fighter, writer, and entrepreneur he says, "This is my recovery, my comeback kid."
Meanwhile, the ethereal and gospel-esque sounds heard at the beginning of "My Life" follow throughout the video as each artist is shown running from the spotlight that they just can't seem to escape, no doubt a metaphor for all their lives.
"The video is kind of abstract; it's kind of metaphoric in a sense, like the paranoia of feeling like we're being chased," Eminem told MTV News.
Street King Immortal is currently slated for a February 2013 release.
-Sarah Carroll, 97.1 AMP Radio/Los Angeles with additional reporting by Annie Reuter
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Zell & Shirley Miller Library
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