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RUMFORD — Spring doesn't just bring warmer temperatures to Maine, it also brings hungry bears out of hibernation.
Residents of at least two Maine communities have reported seeing bears foraging for food in residential neighborhoods in the past week or so. Police on Tuesday advised residents of one Rumford neighborhood to take in their bird feeders, gas grills and garbage cans after a black bear was spotted wandering around. Police tell the Sun Journal that once the food sources are removed, the bears will return to the woods.
Early Monday morning, several residents in Ellsworth contacted police about a bear wandering around.
Authorities are warning people not to confront bears if they spot them.


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Bookshelf Envy: Floor to Ceiling Bookshelves
I have a major case of bookshelf envy lately, which started with Warren and Mimi's floor to ceiling bookcase in this recent house tour. I know I am not alone with my addiction to floor to ceiling bookcases. Case in point, there is even a website called Bookshelf Porn. I dream of one day having a library ladder and climbing all the way up to the top to reach a few dusty books.
Top Row:
- Bookcase Over Window: Bookshelf Porn
- Mike Mabe's Brooklyn Apartment: From Me To You
- All White Bookcase in European Home: We Heart It
- Floor to Ceiling Light Blue Bookcase with Library Ladder: Warren & Mimi's Highly Personal Architectural Home
- Reading on the Edge: Bookshelf Porn
Bottom Row:
- Office Bookshelf: Bookshelf Porn
- Living Room Bookcase Underneath a Skylight: Bookshelf Porn
- Two-level Bookcase: Bookshelf Porn
- Dark Bedroom Surrounded with Books: Stephanie Anne Blair's Blog
- Two rooms Filled with Books: Make Believe.
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Hoskins says prosecutorial misconduct persisted in animal-cruelty case
Beth Lynne Hoskins says a private investigator she hired has evidence indicating that one of the prosecutors in her criminal trial on animal-cruelty charges and an SPCA investigator remain romantically involved, even after the judge in the case was told earlier this month that the liaison had ended in March.
The Aurora horsewoman is again insisting that the case should be thrown out of court because of what she terms prosecutorial misconduct by Assistant District Attorney Matthew A. Albert due to his relationship with Alex A. Cooke, an employee of the SPCA Serving Erie County, who has been very involved in the case but never testified in the trial.
Earlier this month, Aurora Town Justice Douglas W. Marky refused to dismiss the criminal case despite Hoskins' accusations.
The Erie County District Attorney's Office had clearly stated in court this month that the relationship between Cooke and Albert lasted from November to March.
The latest twist will force a delay in the verdict that Marky had planned to announce before July 4. The court must now first revisit Hoskins' request to reargue the motion.
The issue resurfaced publicly Thursday – and in greater detail – when a thick stack of documents was filed in Aurora Town Court by Hoskins' attorney, John P. Bartolomei, on the motion to renew her argument to have the criminal case dismissed.
Hoskins insists that the court was lied to about the status of Albert and Cooke's relationship and believes it unfairly prejudiced the trial. The District Attorney's Office insists otherwise and says it would never misrepresent something or lie to a court.
"I remain astonished and horrified that my daughter, my animals and my life have been held hostage at the mercy of people who clearly think they are above both the truth and the law," Hoskins said in an interview. "The representations to the court were false by the District Attorney's Office. … We feel that we're being lied to."
Hoskins said she believes that the court would have ruled differently and granted her original motion to have the charges dismissed against her had information about the continuing relationship been available. In court papers, Bartolomei says the relationship between Albert and Cooke is "still going strong."
Meanwhile, Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III, who said he has not yet seen the new motion, said the real issue is not about Albert and Cooke.
"I can't intelligently comment on a motion because I haven't seen it yet, or read it," Sedita said. "This case, in my mind, is not about the alleged love life of an assistant district attorney and a person who is not even a witness in the case. This case is about whether the defendant is guilty of animal cruelty."
Prosecutor Nicholas Texido – who defended Albert in court in early June and argued against Hoskins' first attempt to have the case dismissed – said in court at the time that the relationship between Albert and Cooke had ended in March, shortly after Bartolomei had contacted the District Attorney's Office.
Thursday, Sedita said that there was no way Texido or his office would ever lie in court. "As far as we knew, their relationship was over at that time," Sedita said. "I don't know if whether subsequent to the last court date, Ms. Cooke and Albert may have rekindled their relationship. But make no mistake about it: I will find out.
"There was no intentional lying to the court. We would never do that. It's an ethical violation," Sedita said. "Mr. Texido's representations to the court were truthful representations. He was not misleading the court."
A court hearing on the renewed argument before Marky could come as early as next week. That means the announcement of his verdict will be delayed in the nonjury trial of Hoskins on 74 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. The criminal trial, which began in May 2012, stems from a 2010 raid by the SPCA of Hoskins' Morgan horse farm on Emery Road.
Hoskins' attorney Thursday released two photographs taken by Thurston Investigative Agency of Hamburg, showing Cooke, dressed in her SPCA uniform, and Albert getting into her car Wednesday morning, apparently outside of his residence on Richmond Avenue in Buffalo. Another photo shows the same car dropping Albert off about 14 minutes later in front of 25 Delaware Ave., where the District Attorney's Office is located.
The surveillance began late Tuesday afternoon, with a spot check at the SPCA's Ensminger Road site in the Town of Tonawanda, noting a black 2010 Hyundai Elantra car registered to Cooke. At about 8:47 p.m., the investigator followed Cooke, eventually tracking her car in the vicinity of a home on Richmond Avenue, where Albert was outside placing trash receptacles at the curb. Cooke, who was wearing casual attire, was observed entering the front door at about 9:14 p.m., according to the surveillance report.
Surveillance resumed at 4:55 a.m. Wednesday. According to the report, Cooke's car had remained parked in the same spot. Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, Cooke was seen leaving the Richmond Avenue home, wearing an SPCA uniform with the name "A. Cooke" on it. She placed some items in the car and then re-entered the home. A few minutes later, Albert emerged, wearing a suit and carrying what appeared to be a gym bag and a newspaper. The two then left in her vehicle, which briefly stopped in front of 25 Delaware Ave., where Albert left the car and entered the building, the report said.
Following a June 18 deposition that Bartolomei conducted with Cooke, Hoskins said her attorney felt it was worth delving deeper.
"She wasn't simply an intern observing activity" for the SPCA, Hoskins said of Cooke. "Alex Cooke's role has been much more central."
Hoskins also said it was learned that Cooke apparently was receiving $500 per month from the SPCA – through court-ordered bond money paid from Hoskins – toward care of a few of Hoskins' horses being fostered at Cooke's parents' farm in East Aurora. Initially, the defense had believed Cooke's parents were being paid. "Once we found this, we thought maybe we should take another look, to see if the relationship had really ended," Hoskins said Thursday.
The private detective's surveillance "only took one time, and he got everything," Hoskins said.
Albert could not be reached to comment. Cooke declined to comment when reached, as did the SPCA. Bartolomei did not return a call seeking comment.
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Another daughter to design for!
Stacey Bendet welcomed her second child, Scarlet Haven Eisner, via c-section on Friday, April 8 in New York City, the alice + olivia designer announced on Twitter.
Weighing in at 8 lbs., 9 oz., Scarlet joins big sister Eloise Breckenridge, 2, Bendet's elder daughter with husband Eric Eisner.
"I am definitely the only maternity ward woman in hot pink Louboutin flip flops and a custom neon and black lace alice + olivia kimono robe…" Bendet, 32, noted.
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By Thomas Hauser: Don King arrived at Barclays Center for the March 9th IBF 175-pound title fight between Bernard Hopkins and Tavoris Cloud shortly after 8:00 p.m.
King will be 82 years old on August 20th, but he has the physical presence and vitality of a man half his age. His large bulky frame, Cheshire Cat grin, booming voice, and high-pitched laugh suggest a force of nature.
Wherever King goes, he's encapsulated in a bubble of public attention. Everyone, from high-ranking corporate executives to men and women on the street, stop and stare and are drawn to his side.
In the September 2, 1974 issue of Sports Illustrated, Mark Kram wrote, "Don King is big, black, and hardly beautiful, a 50-carat setting of sparkling vulgarity and raw energy, a man who wants to swallow mountains, walk on oceans, and sleep on clouds."
That was mainstream America's introduction to King. Two months later, Muhammad Ali dethroned George Foreman in Zaire with Don playing a key role in the promotion. In the decades that followed, King promoted more than 500 world championship fights. At one point, Don King Productions could lay claim to promoting seven of the 10 largest pay-per-view fights in history (as gauged by total buys) and 12 of the top 20 highest-grossing live boxing gates in the history of Nevada.
King has promoted Ali, Foreman, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Felix Trinidad, Roy Jones, and dozens of other Hall of Fame fighters. He's one of the few people in boxing today who transcend the sport. His name and face are more recognizable than those of Floyd Mayweather Jr. or any other active fighter.
"People come up to me all the time, put their babies in my arms, and ask me to kiss them," King chortles. "That doesn't happen to [Top Rank founder] Bob Arum or [Golden Boy Promotions CEO] Richard Schaefer."
Boxing fans are used to seeing King in a tuxedo on fight night, a shining apparition draped in bling that seems to reflect off everything from the top of his hair down to his black patent leather shoes.
At Barclays, King had a different look. The promoter was wearing red-white-and-blue jogging shoes, maroon corduroy pants, a blue shirt, an American flag-themed tie, and a rhinestone-studded blue denim jacket accessorized by three "Obama" buttons. The jacket (one of three celebrating America that the promoter owns) was badly frayed. By contrast, King's fingernails were impeccably manicured. He had an unlit cigar in one hand and miniature flags representing two dozen nations in the other. The name of each country was written at the base of its respective flagstick.
There was a time when it didn't matter a whole lot to King who won or lost a big fight because he controlled both fighters. That time is long gone. Now it's rare for Don to control even one combatant in a major bout. Cloud was under contract to King, but the Hopkins fight was the last under their promotional agreement. The assumption was that, win or lose, Tavoris would soon be gone. It was also deemed possible that this would be King's last fight on HBO.
What happened to King's power?
For starters, he was a prisoner of his own success. What had worked in the past stopped working as well as it had before. But King had enough money and enough trappings from the glory years that he wasn't forced to adapt. The times changed and he didn't change with them.
King is into control. He has always been hands-on in every area of his business. He likes everything to run through him and chooses not to share all his tricks of the trade with anyone. Thus, he never had a strong number two to help with the heavy lifting or guide him in new directions.
Don had always played leverage to the hilt. For years, control of the heavyweight champion (Ali, Holmes, Tyson) and the heavyweights beneath them was his most valuable asset. Then he lost that control. He managed to thrive afterward with fighters like Felix Trinidad and Julio Cesar Chavez but the power dynamic in boxing was shifting to favor the premium cable television networks. Network executives found other promoters easier to deal with than King. After Don took Mike Tyson to Showtime in the mid-1990s, HBO made a decision to license fewer fights from him. Then King lost Tyson and Showtime moved away from him too. Eventually, King no longer had a fighter who network executives felt they absolutely needed and HBO began the process of helping to build Golden Boy.
Also, whatever corners King had cut as part of his business model (and there were many), other promoters began cutting with an even sharper razor. The sanctioning bodies found new suitors to occupy the place on their balance sheets where King had once been. The tentacles of these promoters soon reached throughout the boxing industry as Don's once had.
Meanwhile, King's reputation was catching up with him. National attention focused on him in a critical way. Elite fighters became wary of signing with him. He was subjected to closer legal scrutiny than other promoters and, in some instances, held to a higher standard.
And finally, Don got old. People slow down at a certain age. There are no 80-year-old international chess champions. At a certain age, men and women think one fewer move ahead than they used to.
"I'm like Churchill," King says. "I'll never surrender."
But one had the feeling at the Barclays Center that King is nearing the end of an extraordinary journey. Indeed, although his fighter was the champion, it was Hopkins (promoted by Golden Boy) who had been listed first in pre-fight, promotional material. Cloud was fungible, a guy with a belt. Hopkins vs. Cloud was about Hopkins.
The defining feature of Bernard's career has been his longevity. As noted by Tom Gerbasi, "He took the time when boxers' legacies get destroyed or at least tarnished and made his even greater."
Hopkins ascended to stardom with a 12th round knockout of Felix Trinidad on September 29, 2001. He was 36 years old and the assumption was that his days in boxing were numbered.
Big number.
Over the next 41 months, Bernard recorded victories over Carl Daniels, Morrade Hakkar, William Joppy, Robert Allen, Oscar De la Hoya, and Howard Eastman. Then, at age 40, he lost twice to Jermain Taylor. Now, surely, the end was near.
Hopkins' record has been uneven since then. Prior to facing Cloud, he hadn't scored a knockout since stopping De la Hoya in 2004. Over the previous eight years, he'd recorded six wins, four losses, and one draw with one no-contest. He had won only one fight in the preceding 35 months. But he'd been competitive every time out. And what makes Bernard's ledger so impressive is his age. He's now 48 years old.
Margaret Goodman (former chief ringside physician for the Nevada State Athletic Commission) says, "If a fighter is old enough to need Viagra, he shouldn't be boxing."
Hopkins says, "I'm a fighter. This is what I do. Age is not my enemy. Don't look at the number. Look at the man. I'm not counting age. Everybody else is counting it. I'll stop when I want to stop."
Hopkins has superb footwork, great balance, and a rock-solid chin. He comes into fights in the best condition possible and is a master of ring generalship.
"No fight is about yesterday," Bernard says. "Every fight is about now. I take every fight like the building block of another generation of what I need to do."
His mindset also includes a healthy respect for the traditions of boxing.
"I don't know that I could have survived in a time like the 1940s," Hopkins acknowledged several years ago. "Fighting three, maybe four times a year, I think I would have been competitive with the best in that era. But physically and mentally, it would have been hard for me to fight 14 or 15 times a year like those guys did."
In sum, when Hopkins enters the ring now, he does so with the weight of history behind him and the burden of age on his shoulders.
Hopkins-Cloud was Bernard's first fight in New York since 2001. There were the usual mind games such as Hopkins showing up at the final pre-fight press conference wearing a black hoodie with sunglasses and a mask across his face and refusing to speak.
"I'd be a fool to get caught up in Bernard Hopkins' mind games," Cloud told the media. "That's a fool's game, buying into those traps. You can't lollygag and bullsh*t because that's his game. He's in his own world, so I'll let him be until March the 9th."
Cloud was a three-to-two favorite, based largely on the 17-year age differential between the fighters. When Bernard turned pro in 1988, Tavoris was six years old. Cloud's own pro debut hadn't come until 30 months after "Old Man Hopkins" beat Trinidad in 2001.
"I don't think any fighter can stay young forever, no matter how hard they try," Tavoris said, "and it's evident that he slowed down in the last couple of years."
But the feeling among the boxing intelligentsia was that youth was Cloud's only edge. Tavoris' record was 24-0 (19), but there wasn't much on his résumé. He'd had only two fights since 2010. The only slick boxer of note he'd fought was Gabriel Campillo. Campillo won that fight, although two of the three judges gave the nod to Cloud. The other "names" on Tavoris' curriculum vitae were Clinton Woods and Glen Johnson. Other than Yusaf Mack (who has been knocked out in three of six fights during the past 45 months), Cloud hadn't stopped an opponent since 2008.
Moreover, the fighters who have given Hopkins the most trouble over the years (Roy Jones when he was young, Jermain Taylor, Joe Calzaghe, and Chad Dawson) all had speed on him. Cloud is slow on his feet and slow to pull the trigger.
Meanwhile, much of the pre-fight activity was focusing, not on Hopkins vs. Cloud, but on Hopkins vs. Don King. They've had a long and often contentious relationship.
King promoted Hopkins for much of Bernard's middleweight title reign and the fighter (like many of his brethren) bridled at what he perceived as exploitation at Don's hands. Bernard exacted a measure of revenge in 2001, knocking out Felix Trinidad to derail the promoter's plans for a mega-fight at Yankee Stadium between Trinidad and Roy Jones. But he was still contractually bound to King for three additional fights that covered two more years.
King, of course, was supportive of Cloud in the upcoming battle against Hopkins.
"Tavoris Cloud will beat Bernard Hopkins," Don proclaimed at the January 15th kickoff press conference (held on Bernard's 48th birthday). "That's not a guess or speculation or prognostication. It's a promise." On the same occasion, King turned to Hopkins and noted, "You're smart. When Tavoris knocks you out, you'll know it's time to quit."
But for the most part, King kept the rhetoric down. "I love the man," he said of Bernard. "I have no problem at all with him."
Hopkins took a contrary view.
"I don't like Don King," the fighter declared, "and I made it clear I don't like Don King. Tavoris Cloud is Don's last horse. There ain't no stable. When Don's last horse breaks his leg, Don will be done. Whoever thought that Bernard Hopkins - not the mob, not the street people, not the fighters who threatened him over the years, not other promoters - whoever thought that it would be me that shut him down? Everybody that Don threw at me, I knocked out. I'm 15-and-0 against him. I understand my biggest motivation. Don King, willingly or unwillingly, helped me build my legacy and I've been beating him ever since. To put the last nail in the coffin, it's an honor."
To that, Richard Schaefer added, "I guess [King] enjoys what he's doing, walking around in his jean jacket with the flags and yelling 'Puerto Rico.' He doesn't even have a Puerto Rican fighter anymore. He's living in the past."
King took it all in stride.
"I'm very delighted to have listened to some of the comments that Mr. Hopkins made," Don said during a February 27thteleconference call. "I thought he was just par excellence. Bernard is doing a great job of promoting and I just want to say that he's not a nemesis to me. I think it's really wonderful that he's had such a unique, grand, wonderful career. There's nobody that can take that away from him. I love Bernard. Both of us are alumni from the penitentiary. He's a fraternity brother."
In truth, there are many similarities between the two men. Like King, Hopkins (whether he admits it or not) has become part of the boxing establishment. Like King, Hopkins has defied age and uses words as a battering ram. There was a time when King was the hardest-working man in boxing and also the hardest man working in boxing. That mantle arguably now belongs to Hopkins. Each man has a take-no-prisoners mentality and wants all the toys for himself.
Listen to Bernard Hopkins speak:
* "It's not luck. Luck didn't get me out of the penitentiary without getting killed, stabbed, raped, or whatever. Luck didn't get me out of the ghetto and turn my life around. Hard work creates luck."
* "The rules are different for Bernard Hopkins. The rules should be different for Bernard Hopkins because I've made them that way."
* "I'm doing something that ain't supposed to be done. Now it becomes something different and that's what I am. Different."
* "I do it my way."
King laughs when Bernard's words are brought to his attention.
"Bernard wants to be like me," the promoter says, "but he's got a long way to go."
When Don King arrived at the Barclays Center on fight night, he went directly to Tavoris Cloud's dressing room.
"Let's get ready to rumble," he told the fighter. "Do your business. Then we'll go home and eat a steak."
In years past, most likely that would have been followed by a pre-fight victory tour of the arena. Tonight, King settled on a folding cushioned chair, where he would remain until Cloud walked to the ring two-and-a-half hours later. It was more comfortable for Don in the dressing room and less energy was required of him there.
The room was quiet and would remain so for most of the evening. There was no music, little conversation within the fighter's camp, and virtually no interaction between any member of Team Cloud and King.
Unprompted, the promoter took a smart phone out of his pocket and began brushing his finger across the screen to move from photo to photo.
"That's me with Jimmy Carter. This is me with the first President Bush…Bill Clinton…George W. Bush…Mobutu [Sese Seko]…Coretta Scott King…Ferdinand Marcos…Nelson Mandela. He's the most interesting person I've ever met."
Abel Sanchez (Cloud's trainer) drew the attention of New York State Athletic Commission inspector Mike Paz to a cut on Tavoris Cloud's right index finger that hadn't fully healed.
"Can we put a piece of tape over the cut to protect it before we wrap?"
The answer was no.
"Hugo Chavez. I loved that man. He was like a brother to me…Silvio Berlusconi…Jacques Chirac at the French White House."
That was followed by photos of King with a parade of boxing luminaries.
"Muhammad Ali. Me and him, we changed history…Joe Frazier…Mike Tyson…Larry Holmes…George Foreman…Roberto Duran…Felix Trinidad…the big fights bring people together. It's not just about two men fighting. It's about bringing people of the same culture and different cultures together. It's a happening that people feel in their hearts and talk about for years. I didn't just promote fights. I promoted cultures and people. When I wave the Puerto Rican flag and shout, 'Viva, Puerto Rico!' all of Puerto Rico gets involved."
More photos. Then King paused to gaze at an image of his younger self standing next to his wife of five decades.
Henrietta King died in December 2010.
"My wonderful wife, Henrietta. I miss her dearly. Everything I accomplished in life, I owe to her."
The viewing continued.
"Pope Benedict. He just resigned…That's me at the United Nations…Henry Kissinger…Here's some more presidents. I forget what countries they're from…Shimon Peres at the Wailing Wall…That's with a giant panda in China…This is with some troops. I support the troops wherever I go…This is a picture of a painting that the Pope gave me. It's worth a million dollars.
"Michael Jackson…Janet Jackson…Christie Brinkley…Celine Dion…Danny Glover…Natalie Cole…This is some hip-hop stars…LeBron James…Martina Navratilova…Roger Federer…Rafael Nadal…All these people and I came out of the ghetto in Cleveland."
Then a photo of King embracing a gray-haired woman with her head pressed against his chest.
"My sister Evelyn. There were seven of us. Six boys and a girl. We're the only two left."
King looked at photos for well over an hour. One can surmise that virtually every person whose photo is on his smart phone remembers meeting Don too.
"The reward is in the journey," King said, "and I've had a wonderful journey."
At 9:30, Cloud stood up and began shadowboxing.
Another hour passed.
"I get anxious sometimes before a fight," King admitted, "but you don't want to show that to the fighter."
Then King began talking about Bernard Hopkins vs. Felix Trinidad and how fate had conspired to deny Trinidad his due. Team Cloud couldn't have cared less about what had happened in a boxing ring more than a decade ago.
Don waved his miniature Puerto Rican flag and called out "Viva, Puerto Rico!"
King refocused his attention on the fighter in front of him.
"Mr. Thunder," he roared. "The storm is coming. Let the warm air come in and mix with the cold air and we'll have ourselves a storm. God parted the waters for Moses. We're gonna part the waters tonight. This man is gonna strike a blow that will free us all. The walls of Jericho came tumbling down. You got to land that thunderous blow for all mankind."
At 10:50, Cloud left his dressing room and walked to the ring with King behind him.
The fighters were introduced to the crowd. Hopkins didn't look at King and refused to come to ring center for referee Earl Brown's final instructions until Don had stepped outside the ropes and begun moving toward his seat in the front row facing the main television camera.
The bell rang. The fight was on.
Before the bout, Cloud said, "If you look at Bernard Hopkins fight, he doesn't fight the whole round. You just gotta go in there and make him fight. You can't let him tie you up and start all that bullsh*t. You have to be really blunt with your fighting style. You just gotta go in there and beat his ass."
"I know I'm the better fighter," Hopkins responded. "I know I have the better fighter's I.Q. and I'm also the better-conditioned fighter. Cloud is one-dimensional. I love his style. He'll be coming right at me."
The fight was fought at Bernard's pace. Jimmy Tobin summed it up nicely for TheCruelestSport.com.
"Gabriel Campillo had already skywritten Cloud's limitations," Tobin wrote. "And Hopkins had read the message. This was an impressive performance primarily because of Hopkins's age, not because of his opponent. With a combination of feints, purposeful movement, and a handful of discouraging punches, Hopkins physically and psychologically wedded Cloud to his own inactivity. Cloud spent long stretches of the fight harmlessly following Hopkins as the latter slid along the ropes. He should have forced the fight against Hopkins, thereby increasing his chances to land something withering enough to remind Hopkins of his age. He should have played to his strengths, abandoned thinking, and tried to whale on the only other person in the ring not wearing a striped shirt. But this fervent attack never materialized. Even when in range, Cloud largely kept his guns holstered."
King knows what he's watching. He didn't say much as the fight progressed, but what he said was on the mark.
"Veteran moves from Bernard…See how he throws the elbow…He did it again just then…Whenever Cloud gets inside, Bernard ties him up but he doesn't do it the way most fighters do. He locks Cloud's head in with his arm, pushes down, and twists. That weakens a man, but you do it as long as the referee lets you."
There were moments of hope.
"That's it. Give it to the body. That got Bernard's attention and spread his legs…Bernard has a great poker face. He never shows when he's hurt, but he was hurt then…Cloud has to step it up and take the fight to him."
In round six, Hopkins opened a cut on Cloud's left eyelid. As the rounds went by, he continued to dictate the pace and terms of engagement. By round 10, there was a look of resignation on King's face. Midway through the 12th round, he looked up at the giant screen overhead to see how much time was left.
"Bernard's got it…Great job. He's a good fighter."
The reading of the judges' scorecards was anti-climactic: 116-112 (twice) and 117-111 for Hopkins.
Don King has had many critics over the years and I've been one of them. But this is a time to praise Caesar, not bury him.
King was capable of sitting down with professionals on the opposite side of the negotiating table (whether it was Seth Abraham at HBO or Bob Arum at Top Rank) and doing what had to be done to make the big fights that the public wanted to see. Historic co-promotions like Ali-Frazier III, Holmes-Cooney, and Trinidad-De la Hoya bear his imprint. His showmanship put 132,247 fans in seats for Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen in Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. And for those who think anyone could have sold tickets for Chavez in Mexico, King also sold out the Savvis Center in St. Louis for Cory Spinks vs. Zab Judah. If Don had been calling the shots, Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather would have happened.
"Everybody is trying to do what I've already done," King said three days before Hopkins-Cloud. "Ain't nobody can touch me here, not in this lifetime."
So for the moment, let's put the bad aside and celebrate the excitement and energy that Don King has brought to boxing over the past 40 years.
"You'll never be able to replace boxing as a sport," King has said.
Boxing won't be able to replace Don King either. He'll leave a global footprint when he has gone.
Thomas Hauser can be reached by email at email@example.com. His most recent book (And the New…: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing) was published by the University of Arkansas Press.
March 20,2013
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In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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It's the wealth report season, when various research organizations across the globe finish crunching the wealth data of 2013 and come out with their findings. For those of you with loaded schedules, we have highlight some of the reports and boiled them down to the essentials.
Cerulli Associates, "The Midas Touch: Wealth preservation and the world's high-net-worth investors."
Cerulli Associates spotlights the offshoring of Middle Eastern wealth and the varying dynamics of the newly wealthy in Latin America.
In the Middle East, the vast majority of funds and financial products are delivered through international insurance companies, like AXA, MetLife, and Standard Life, not your local brokers. There are some 4,000 financial advisors, 90% of which are based in the United Arab Emirates, but a chunk of the high net worth segment is serviced through the 60 some-odd private banks with offices in Dubai. The unstable region provides little cover and foreign accounts help folks shelter their wealth, which explains why the actual business is usually conducted in their accounts held in Geneva, Jersey, and Singapore. Still, there's a carriage trade going the other way, too, claims Cerulli, with foreign life insurance companies, banks, private banks, and asset managers moving into the region.
The wealthy in Latin America, meanwhile, behave radically different than their counterparts in the U.S. or Europe. These folks typically have a net worth of $15 million, and are much younger; only 7% of Latin Americans are over the age of 65 (compared with 23% of Japanese and 13.5% of Americans). By 2015, total privately held wealth is estimated to be $8.3 trillion.
Unlike in the Middle East, local banks dominate, though there is a wide disparity of quality. Brazil's banking infrastructure is well developed, and stringent financial controls make it hard for the wealthy to get their money out of the country. In contrast, Mexico is still in the early stages of financial services development, but close proximity to the U.S. gives the nation's wealthy another option. Argentinians and Venezuelans park a staggering 80% of their assets abroad, since political instability and spiraling cycles of inflation dilute wealth if kept at home.
Boston Consulting Group, "Global Wealth 2014: Riding A Wave Of Growth."
The headline finding in Boston Consulting Group's wealth report was that private global wealth in 2013 popped by 14.6%, to $152 trillion. Languishing economies in Western Europe and Japan undershot that double-digit growth, at 5% and 1% respectively, while the fast-growing Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) market exploded 31%. Over the next five years, BCG expects Asia will continue its ascendance. Global wealth will grow at 5.4% annually to a total just shy of $200 trillion, reports BCG. Asia-Pacific will account for half of that growth and, for the first time, will overtake North America as the world's wealthiest region. That's on a headline basis, of course, not on a per-capita basis, where Asia still has a long way to go to catch up with the developed West.
Still, the rapidly growing region is defying even previous optimistic estimates. By Cerulli's tally, there were 1,587 billionaires in the world in 2013, commanding a total net worth of $6.5 trillion. The U.S. tops the list with 492 billionaires, though it took nearly a century to reach current numbers, with John D. Rockefeller becoming the world's first billionaire back in 1916. Meanwhile, in 2002, China had no billionaires; ten years on, the Middle Kingdom ranks second in the world, with 152 billionaires.
BCG predicts that by 2018, the U.S will retain the top spot as the world's wealthiest nation but that China, at number two, will continue to narrow the gap, growing 84% to $40 trillion, while the U.S. expands by just 17% to $54 billion. Farther down the list, India should crack the top 10. BCG expects it to rank 7, up from 15th this year, by growing 129%.
As a consequence, the wealth management industry saw global assets jump by 11% in 2013, driven by a rising equity market. That pushed revenue some 8% higher, stronger than the 5% and 7% increases reached in 2012 and 2011 respectively. Regulatory costs continue to plague the sector and helped push overall costs up 3.5%. Clients are also demanding that this stodgy industry get with the times and adopt mobile technology. Top on that list of demands is "research and market data," "tailored investment recommendations," and "portfolio analysis and simulation," for smartphones and tablets, all of which are noted as differentiators for early actors in the space.
WealthInsight: "Germany's Millionaires: Eastern prosperity on the horizon."
As Europe as a whole continues to report anemic economic growth, the number of German millionaires continues to swell. From 2009 to 2013, the total number of millionaires increased 7.6%, to nearly 1.4 million people, while the number of multimillionaires, folks with $30 million in investable assets, ballooned to 11,901, up 27%.
In keeping with their steely reputations in the field of banking, a hefty 35.5% of Deutschland's millionaires come from the financial services sector, followed by 13.4% in manufacturing. That partially explains why 33% of these folks are located in the financial services center of Frankfurt, followed remotely by Dusseldorf, at 10.7%. The capital Berlin in Eastern Germany, by comparison, has only 1.7% of the high net worth population.
WealthInsight believes assets held by German millionaires will increase by 25%, to $5.6 trillion, over the next five years. Meanwhile, the number of millionaires will grow an additional 11%. But where are Germany's richest parking their assets? Germans are a conservative lot and invest 65% of their wealth at home, where their steadfast economy seems to weather all storms.
In 2013, a touch over half of their foreign assets, 52.2%, were held in broader Europe. German millionaires, suggests WealthInsight analyst Tom Carlisle, will cut their exposure to other unstable European economies, as they continue to hunker down in the motherland and shun the broader European economy. By 2018, he predicts, European assets will fall by three percentage points, most of which will flow back into Germany.
Bad news, perhaps, for broader Europe but, as the title of the report alludes to, good news for Germany's underdeveloped East, which folks left in droves after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It could take 20 years for this revitalization to create balance between the East and the West, WealthInsight notes, but change is afoot. "Companies and the young have started moving back to East Germany in small numbers," says Carlisle.
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Soft and tender Swedish meatballs with rich, silky gravy served on a bed of buttery egg noodles. They are subtly spiced with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. The delectable gravy is made of beef broth and sour cream. The ultimate comfort food.
I feel completely comfortable calling myself an expert when it comes Italian meatballs, since I've made and eaten hundreds of them, but I've only crossed paths with a Swedish meatball once, too long ago to really remember. They are usually served with mashed potatoes and Lingonberry jam. I was craving egg noodles so that's how I served mine. I was going to buy Lingonberry Jam but it was a bit pricey at eight dollars for a small jar, so I passed on it. On second thought I wish I hadn't. . . I wonder what it would of contributed to the dish... I suppose it's akin to the tradition of serving cranberry sauce with turkey dinner.
Soft and tender Swedish meatballs with rich, silky gravy served on a bed of buttery egg noodles. The ultimate comfort food.
- About ten minutes before mixing the meatballs soak bread crumbs with milk in a small bowl.
- Add the ground beef and pork, bread crumb mixture, onion, egg, parsley, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice to a large bowl. Mix thoroughly and form into small balls no bigger than an inch in size. Refrigerate meatballs for a half an hour before cooking.
- In a large skillet add a tablespoon each of butter and vegetable oil. Over medium heat pan fry the meatballs in batches. Remove and set aside in a covered casserole dish to keep warm. As an alternative these can be baked on 400 degrees about 15 minutes.
- Cook your noodles according to package directions.
- Meanwhile in the same pan you fried the meatballs make the gravy. If there is a lot of grease drain off leaving a tablespoon or two in the skillet. Add the butter and melt, whisk in the flour, cook for two to three minute on low. Slowly whisk in the broth, add the nutmeg. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat and simmer for five minutes.
- In a small bowl temper the sour cream by slowly stirring in a tablespoon or two of the hot gravy. Slowly add to the gravy whisking well. Add the parsley and a pinch or two of salt. Bring back to a simmer. Remove from heat.
- Drain the noodles and toss with butter. Serve immediately over the noodles with the meatballs.
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Finance bill set to get green signal today
Faced with a volatile political atmosphere, the government is set to get Lok Sabha's nod for the crucial finance bill on Tuesday to avoid a potential Constitutional crisis.delhi Updated: Apr 30, 2013 00:20 IST
Faced with a volatile political atmosphere, the government is set to get Lok Sabha's nod for the crucial finance bill on Tuesday to avoid a potential Constitutional crisis.
Finance minister P Chidambaram is likely to announce Rs. 2,000-crore worth of tax breaks, including a clarification on wealth tax on farm land.
Chidambaram is also likely to provide a clarification on a controversial clause of the bill and assure investors that it was not targeting investors from countries such as Mauritius by questioning the validity of tax residency certificates.
He is expected to introduce 12 amendments in the finance bill, sources said.
With both Houses of Parliament failing to transact any business for the fifth consecutive day, Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar on Monday stepped in to broker a temporary truce between the government and the opposition to help the pass the finance bill, the railways appropriation bill and demands for grants of ministries.
The government agreed to advance the dates for passing the finance bill by a week to Tuesday and promised to consider the opposition's demand that the Prime Minister call an all-party meeting to discuss issues such as the incursion by China, the leaked draft Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the 2G scam and alleged interference into CBI's probe in the coal block allocation scam.
As per the rules, the government has to get all money bills related to the budget passed within 75 days of its presentation.
Since these bills will have to go to Rajya Sabha and then the President for his assent, the government played it safe by advancing the date for their passage.
In case the opposition ups the ante on any contentious issue, the government is keeping the option open of adjourning both Houses of Parliament sine die before schedule.
The government does not anticipate any major disruptions in Lok Sabha on Tuesday afternoon as the BJP-led NDA is expected to stage a walkout as soon as the finance bill is taken up for discussion.
Initially, leader of the opposition Sushma Swaraj said she would say a "few words" before the finance bill is passed, but others felt it would be useless to have a discussion on the budget for just 4-5 hours.
"It is unfortunate that the budget will be passed without discussion. But this is not the first time such a step will be taken. In 1991, budgets were passed without discussions," CPI(M)'s Basudeb Acharya said.
The fate of the food security bill and land bill remains uncertain.
The finance minister in his budget 2013-14 had proposed levying 1% wealth tax on the value of the agricultural land that fell within eight kilometers of the municipal limits of the city.
But members of both ruling and opposition parties called the proposed tax "unwarranted" and asked the government not to impose it.
Chidambaram is likely to clarify that no wealth tax on farm land will be imposed.
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This study examines the state's "Top-to-Bottom" ranking, which has been repeatedly criticized by educators for appearing to be correlated with school poverty rates. Mackinac Center research finds that schools that serve more lower-income students tend to receive lower scores on the TTB list.
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(New Castle, IN) – Former mortgage broker Jason Keigley faces six separate new felony counts involving violations of Indiana's Loan Broker Act. The arrest occurred this week at the Branchville Correctional Facility after continued investigation of Keigley's mortgage practices by Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita's Prosecution Assistance Unit. The additional charges were filed by Henry County Prosecutor Kit Crane. Keigley already faces more than 11 years in prison for felony fraud convictions in Hendricks County. If convicted on the new charges, Keigley could spend up to three years in prison for each felony charge.
Documents filed with the court allege that Keigley was not registered as a loan broker as required by law when he closed a mortgage for a Henry County couple. He also took steps to obtain mortgages for two other couples in Henry County. However, before he could close the mortgages, he was arrested and incarcerated in Hendricks County on unrelated mortgage and securities fraud charges.
Specific charges against Keigley include three counts of loan broker fraud and three counts of acting as a loan broker while not being licensed, which are Class D felonies.
"Hoosiers deserve to be protected from those who prey on their financial security. Individuals like Jason Keigley deserve to be held accountable for each and every one of their devious attempts to steal money from innocent victims," said Secretary Rokita. "Our office has a track record of partnering with prosecutors across the State of Indiana, like Henry County Prosecutor Kit Crane, to aggressively root out financial crime and keep Indiana citizens safe."
Crane appointed Stephanie Caraway, Senior Attorney for Secretary Rokita's Prosecution Assistance Unit, as Special Deputy Prosecutor to prosecute and try the case against Keigley, with assistance from Crane and his staff.
Keigley's convictions in Hendricks County stem from his convincing a Hendricks County couple to invest in his mortgage company. Keigley represented to the couple that their funds would be available to them at any time. However, when the couple later requested their funds be returned, he only gave them a small fraction of what they had invested. The couple never recovered the remainder of their money. In March of 2008, a Hendricks County court sentenced Keigley to over 11 years in prison for his scheme. He is currently scheduled to be released in April 2012.
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In my opinion, making Google Drive the hub for all of your online content wasn't the best idea on mobile. Google Drive is a solid online storage service, but adding document editing to the mix never made much sense on mobile. Mobile apps should be focused to be more efficient, and adding document editing to an app that's supposed to manage your online files (of which there are many kinds) never seemed intuitive to me.
It looks like Google may see it the same way. The company has just announced three new apps, two of which are now available. Google Docs and Google Sheets are document and spreadsheet editors, standalone apps made to manage those documents that are in your Google Drive. The third app that is yet to be released is Google Slides, a slideshow editor.
These apps show all your recently edited documents, allow you to create new ones and feature offline support for creating documents when you don't have an internet connection. In my opinion, this makes for a much more efficient and intuitive service, even if it means having a few more apps installed.
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1. Re: Where is the manual?thtleung Mar 6, 2012 2:37 AM (in response to carolknudsen)
No manual. You may have to find information on Photoshop and pick the parts that are relevant. After all Touch is a subset of PS.
2. Re: Where is the manual?jbphotog Mar 6, 2012 11:53 AM (in response to thtleung)
In the same boat..need online manual please.
3. Re: Where is the manual?Warunicorn Mar 6, 2012 2:49 PM (in response to carolknudsen)1 person found this helpful
The first thing I would suggest to anyone new to PS Touch would be to just find time and sit down with the app. Explore and test on a sample image. Be patient. This is probably one of the most powerful apps of its kind; you can't expect to master it right away.
If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and you are familiar with either/both, you've got a good head start as far as the basics go. (We're all familiar with layers, for example.) The included tutorials also give a good idea on where to find what tools/commands when you want or need them.
4. Re: Where is the manual?Luanne Seymour Mar 6, 2012 3:01 PM (in response to Warunicorn)
I have a question for this community. What kind of learning information would you find most useful? Some people are requesting an online manual. Some prefer to ask questions here in the forum. Some like to use the video tutorials. For many, the in-app tutorials are plenty. What do you think?
Thanks for your input.
5. Re: Where is the manual?thtleung Mar 6, 2012 4:41 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
For me a manual is a good start to check out available functions. The video tutorials are useful in showing techniques and demonstrating effects. The forum is the go-to place for questions users come across - i.e. real life cases.
6. Re: Where is the manual?jbphotog Mar 6, 2012 9:29 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
I like a manual in hand so not having to keep hitting the web for answers even though that resource is great. Visual tutorials are great too but a manual, a good manual, is what I prefer.
7. Re: Where is the manual?jbphotog Mar 6, 2012 9:33 PM (in response to Warunicorn)
I am familiar with three photo altering programs but PST is my first photoshop experience. I never could master the layering thing but one post here has given me hope I may be able to use it.
Layering. It simply brings to mind you have more than one image then blend them but I keep getting unwanted results from total cover up to loss of the photo.
I shall keep trying.
8. Re: Where is the manual?Saskatchewanobie Mar 6, 2012 10:06 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
Luanne Seymour wrote:
I have a question for this community. What kind of learning information would you find most useful? Some people are requesting an online manual. Some prefer to ask questions here in the forum. Some like to use the video tutorials. For many, the in-app tutorials are plenty. What do you think?
Thanks for your input.
I'm very satisfied with these forums and no manual. I've gotten direct answers here from those who have discovered the workings of this program. I have worked with Photoshop extended for over 15 years and it does not work by 'touch' - so getting things to react has been the biggest puzzle for me. Anyone who needs to learn photoshop can just get PS Elements or Full Version and have it all including manuals in PDF format.
The real key for me is that these forums are alive and well.
9. Re: Where is the manual?Luanne Seymour Mar 7, 2012 12:42 PM (in response to thtleung)
These are all good answers to my question. I just want to double check something. It sounds like some people are saying that they like manuals because they provide a good overview of the tools and features of the product. Do any of you have some excellent examples of online manuals that you use for tablet apps?
10. Re: Where is the manual?jbphotog Mar 7, 2012 4:34 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
The only user guide for the iPad is on line. I got it from the app store and now it sits as my only book under that menu icon.
Forums can be good for items left out or not made clear in a manual. So many of them are written with the broad audience of readers in mind assuming way to much that the user already knows a bunch.
A good manual writer for consumer electronics should write it with the possibility that the user has no experience with technology and unfortunately what one term in tech speak can be another term for a different brand of the same type device.
The problems I've had with forums sometimes is the one replying reads the question wrong (especially with very complicated procedures) and too assumes too much about the problem which can lead to them totally misunderstanding the asker's problem. It's all about communication.
I try to give help politely where I can with the many products I use in music, computing, video, and photography, but I have also found some very insulting so called helpers out there who take it upon themselves to express aggravation that I may be taking up time on a forum with a basic question they feel is too low level for what they seem to perceive as their personal forum.
I am having a very tough time getting layers to work with my PhotoShop Touch. Total failure at present, but I won't give up.
On another forum I have an extremely simple interface question...no replies. But, I have had some great success in getting answers from nice people, including moderators to getting things to work.
11. Re: Where is the manual?Kade Jones Dec 4, 2012 7:40 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
Good examples of online manuals for popular apps are:
Kindle app. acess help from the menu and it takes you straight to Amazon's site with all the how to's and troubleshooting you need.
Also, Google Earth is another easy access to simple instructions and functions.
I of course mention these big names because Adobe is in the same division as Google and Amazon when it comes to being hugely successful and recognisable. With a fantastic (and reletively complex) product like PS Touch, it deserves some attention to detail such as the inclusion of a manual.
Personally, i am new to Photoshop from another program having recently got myself an android tablet with your product pre installed. I am impressed so far, but would appreciate an easily accessable set of instructions to go hand in hand with this community. (Btw, i'm looking for help with resizing my pictures while retaining the full image. It isn't included in the tutorials).
12. Re: Where is the manual?Ignacio Barrientos Dec 5, 2012 1:14 AM (in response to Kade Jones)
When it comes to resize - what exactly do you mean by retaining the full image?
If you want to resize an image there's the Image size under the & (sign at the upper bar) which changes the size of the image (all layers).
If you want to change the size of image data on a specific layer you can use a selection and Transform (the cross icon on the upper bar).
13. Re: Where is the manual?Warunicorn Dec 5, 2012 11:01 AM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
I'm kind of an Adobe Acrobat guy myself; I may want to look up something but not have access to the Internet. I wouldn't mind a PS Touch manual in Acrobat format. I could then reference it right it on my tablet (via Adobe's own Acrobat app for mobile).
To those mystified about layers: Think of them as tracing paper, layered one right on top of another. There is a hierarchy. The top layer (in the column) is the most visible, where the bottom is the least visible. The factors that determine visibility in that hierarchy are blending modes (e.g., Multiply, Screen, etc.) and opacity as well as other effects like fades. Again, experimentation is key. Start with just a few layers.
14. Re: Where is the manual?paulinepdm2 Dec 6, 2012 11:30 AM (in response to carolknudsen)
I have spent the better part of my day today using the app, I can figure most things out, even managed to edit several images, now, if I could just find them somewhere in my files (Kindle Fire HD), I'd be relatively happy. Does anyone have a clue where they might be stored? I have used ES Explorer, search, and WiFi File Explorer but they are hidden somewhere, not in the obvious places and cannot locate them. Since I couldn't give tem a name, all of them are titled "untitled1 untitled 2, etc, in the space where the app shows "projects."
15. Re: Where is the manual?thtleung Dec 6, 2012 5:25 PM (in response to paulinepdm2)
Not sure where the project files are stored. However if you want to use the retouched image in another app you'll need to export it as a JPG. The exported file can be found in /Pictures/Adobe Photoshop Touch/.
BTW you can change the project name. Just tap on the project name ('Untitled' etc.) and a dialogue will come up allowing you to change the name.
16. Re: Where is the manual?Warunicorn Dec 6, 2012 9:18 PM (in response to thtleung)
In addition to what thtleung said, you also have the option of exporting any projects that reside on your tablet to Creative Cloud. You can export them in PSDX format (PS Touch's native file format) to preserve layers, etc. in the event you have to format your tablet.
17. Re: Where is the email@example.com Aug 26, 2013 1:16 PM (in response to Luanne Seymour)
I'm impatient with trial and error when i know that if i had a manual (online or dead tree) with a index or search function i could get my answer a lot quicker. and listening to "tutorials" that are nothing but compensated "celebrities" praising their owners in upbeat generalities don't cut it. i've been working with PS since v.2.5, been teaching it for 12 yrs, but my videos are pausable step by steps with print-out(able) docs. on the positive side i do like the onboard interactive tutorials build into the app but they still the don't replace a manual for $9.99 i shouldn't expect a lot of extras, yes?
18. Re: Where is the manual?Warunicorn Aug 27, 2013 11:05 AM (in response to firstname.lastname@example.com)
To be honest, you know how Photoshop's paradigm works so you have a head start right there. I wouldn't get too comfortable with a manual; PS Touch has changed some since version 1.0. (It wasn't drastic but definitely enough that it might confuse users who have a 1.3 manual and are using version 1.5.)


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Volume 18 Issue 27 | November 18 - 24, 2005
Villager photo by Gary He
Jonathan Breck sports a latte mustache at Galleria Illy, an experimental coffee shop in Soho that will close in December.
The new coffeehouses: Not just for breakfast anymore
By Ronda Kaysen
At 9 oclock on a Monday night at a Middle Eastern style den in the East Village, New Yorkers were dipping speared carrots in pots of fondue and washing it down with
Yes, coffee. That black, bitter beverage associated with the morning rush hour has taken on a new role at Mug, a cafe on E. 13th St. and Avenue A. And its not alone. Coffee shops are selling beer, wine and delectables, drawing visitors into their cafes well into the night.
People are always on the go. Now they prefer the finer coffeehouse, said Michael White, owner of Mug. People are looking for places to lounge. Now people are trying to get it with a cup of coffee.
In the past year, a spate of new cafes geared toward the evening crowd have opened in Union Square, the East Village and Soho. New Yorkers are finding themselves taking to coffee in the way one would take to a fine wine, by sitting down and enjoying it. Unlike Starbucks, the behemoth that first introduced Americans to luxury espresso, these new cafes have forgone the caramel-macchiato-in-a-paper-cup model for a more European tradition of coffee drinking.
Having a perfect cup of coffee is part of an enjoyable ritual. Its something that can be savored, said Gregory Fea, president and C.E.O. of Illy Caffé of North America, an Italian coffee company that launched a temporary Soho cafe and exhibition in September. I would love for the consumer to demand a good cup of coffee. Too often, the product thats offered is not perfected. I think that its a shame because coffee is the last thing you have after a great meal.
Galleria Illy on W. Broadway is a lofty space with white walls, oversized photographs lining the walls and a chandelier made of painted espresso cups. Baristas serve cups of espresso and cappuccino to guests lounging on contemporary Italian furniture. The back is lined with brightly colored espresso makers and the rear corner of the space houses a library with more than 500 coffee-table books and large Moroso chairs for lounging.
The Galleria is a three-month-long endeavor that will close on Dec. 15. In the meantime, it will sell coffee, advertise its Julian Schnabel- and David Byrne-designed espresso cups and host coffee-making instructional courses and a slew of evening events, including a private reading in late November of the Kitchen Sisters, a National Public Radio show, produced by the Coen brothers and featuring Sofia Coppola and Francis McDormand.
The Galleria is a place that you can go and you can immerse yourself in culture, said Fea. Were trying to help people to understand that having a perfect cup of coffee is part of an enjoyable ritual. Its something that can be savored. The idea is to really allow them to immerse them in coffee.
Tarallucci e Vino, an Italian cafe in the East Village, was such a success that the owners decided to open a second one in Union Square.
Last Friday, Tarallucci opened its doors on 18th St. and Broadway, offering in addition to its signature coffee, 16 varieties of wine. It also sells an assortment of exquisite pastries and assaggi Italian appetizers and assorted cheeses and meats. We wanted to function as an Italian bar, said co-owner Luca Di Pietro. Its a more fun way of eating.
But Tarallucci is still known for its Italian espresso which is ranked among the best in the city and on the opening weekend guests trickling in were still eager to sip espresso well into the evening. Were very well known for our coffee and cappuccino and that has followed us here, said Di Pietro.
Downtown on Maiden Lane a small neighborhood coffee house has blossomed in the heart of the Financial District. Open on Saturdays and late on Thursdays, Klatch is something of an anomaly in a neighborhood that shuts down at nightfall and stays closed all weekend long. When you live down here, youre so used to nothings open and theres not a lot to do down here, so I think people get up and leave, said owner Pam Chmiel. In an effort to create a destination atmosphere, Klatch sells wine and beer and started hosting a knitting class on Thursday nights.
Its been a steady, slow growth. We havent leveled out, were still growing, said Chmiel. Eventually, Chmiel would like to take advantage of being the only game in town and open a sister location in the neighborhood.
Mug, in the East Village, added a new twist to its coffee last week, launching a new pomegranate-flavored brew. Made with a combination of Chinese ginseng and pomegranate extract imported from Russia, the new flavor is no sweeter than regular coffee the extract is actually bitter but White, who created the flavor, swears it adds a healthy kick to the black, steaming java.
This one gets peoples attention. Theyre like wow! This is a great idea, he said.
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Besides having some Mayflower ancestry (ladida! and about whom more at a later date; someone remind me closer to--perhaps?--Thanksgiving) on my father's side, there are a number of other pioneers:
Thomas Steele (1683 - 22 Feb 1748) and Martha Morrison (1686 - 22 Oct 1759), maternal seventh great-grandparents, arrived from Aghadowey Parish, Northern Ireland in one of five ships full of other Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and were among the sixteen families who founded the town of Nutfield (present day Londonderry), Rockingham, New Hampshire in 1719.
Capt Samuel Cherry (15 May 1756 - 27 Oct 1825), a maternal fifth great-grandfather, helped settle New Haven, Oswego, New York in 1810, and was appointed one of the first four justices of the town after its formation in 1813.
Isaac Burnett (1780 - 1860), a paternal fourth great-grandfather, was one of the founders of Newport, Penobscot, Maine in 1814, and served as one of the first school agents, for District 5.
Which is all very historico-glamorous, but perhaps not that exciting. After all, we still see new cities being formed, although I cannot imagine that in the future anyone will find much to boast about if their ancestors were early residents of [insert your local soul-less suburb here]. But what about founding a whole state? Which leads me to the particular subject of this post: Stephen Addison Davenport, another paternal fourth great-grandfather, who sports a name nearly as posh as that of the aforementioned Mr Tugwell.
The Davenports are first recorded in America in 1640, when Thomas Davenport (abt 1615 - 1685, paternal tenth great-grandfather) appeared in the Dorchester (present-day Boston), Massachusetts church records. Successive generations of Davenports lived and farmed throughout New England, each son moving away from his birthplace.
Eliphalet Davenport (1750 - 1835, paternal sixth great-grandfather) fought in the Revolutionary War, enlisting as a Connecticut State Trooper under (then) Capt Israel Putnam (a distant connection on my maternal side) in 1775. According to his Pension records, he served variously as a guard, teamster, and even as personal waiter to Col Thomas Brown, until his discharge in 1779.
His grandson, Stephen Addison Davenport, was born in 1806. He farmed and began raising his family in Madison, New York. In 1841, he moved to the recently-formed Wisconsin Territory and bought a farm near Brighton, in Kenosha County. The move may have come about as a suggestion from his wife, Alma Holmes Doty. She was a descendant of those Mayflower folks to whom I referred earlier, and who seemed to have come from a higher social echelon than the simple Davenport farm-folks; one of her cousins was the Territory's second Governor, James Duane Doty. It is possible that James Doty may have exerted his influence, because Stephen Davenport was elected to serve in the Second Constitutional Convention, representing Racine. Sixty-nine men were picked for this convention, as "men of high standing in their respective Communities" according to Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, in his Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1903. [One wonders what he would make of all the recent goings-on in Wisconsin....] Stephen Addison Davenport was one of the signers of the State Constitution, adopted 1 February 1848 and ratified by popular vote the following month.
One might think that Stephen Davenport, having recently turned forty, fathered six children, and being one of the founders of the thirtieth state admitted to the union, might have taken a well-deserved rest; one would be mistaken. Apparently, the adventurous Davenport gene would not allow this, and Stephen Davenport decided to strike out for even-newer territory: California, and its gold rush. Unfortunately, he was a year too late.
On 30 April 1850, the Salem Company was formed, electing a Capt Noble as their head. It was a group of about two-hundred men, who would travel to California to seek their fortunes. Stephen Addison Davenport was appointed one of Capt Noble's assistants. Among other things, the Company passed a resolution, "excluding Ardent Spirits as a beverage" and disallowing gambling and card playing. The sober group intended to depart from Iowa on 6 May.
Remarkably, there are a number of extant letters from Stephen Davenport to his wife and children, whom he left in the care of a sixteen year old farmhand, Austin Geer. They give a fascinating view into the times.
From Kanesville (now Council Bluffs, the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail), Iowa, 4 May 1850:
"...now as far as Iowa is concerned it is not a fine nor pleasant nor delightful Country.... There is in this place at this time and in the settlement about 10000 inhabitants and 99 one-hundreths of them are Mormons they are living in mizerable huts as a general thing. Corn is worth 2 dollars per bushel.... [T]he rush of Emigration is Enormous...at this place probably from 5 to 8 thousand people... at St Joe there is said to be 3 times as many as there is here if so great God what the rush must be....Now send the children to school this summer if convenient all except enough to keep you company. Do not be loansum.... [W]e lodge in our waggons nights and bake our own pancakes and keep ourselves as clean as we can but if you or any other person could see the crowd that is here and the situation that we are in, you would then and there see how necessary it is for a man to have a woman.... [G]ood day until I have a chance to wright you from the Eldorado or gold diggings."
And again from Kanesville, 8 May:
"...tomorrow is the Day we are set to Depart from the White Settlement but I am doubtful whither we get away before the Middle of the week.... Take good care of the pigs there in the pen, yours lovingly S A Davenport"
There are crowds, delays, high prices, and Stephen Davenport continues to suffer from an unknown illness.
From Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1 June:
"...dry and cold weather. Grass has but just started our horses have seen hard times. There are a few Soldiers Stationed at this place. The fort and about it is neat and clean. Soldiers neatly dressed and they are in a Romantic place you may Depend. Now in Reguard to myself and my health I am well and Compared with when I last wrote you still I have an occasional pain in my Side and Breast but I do not feel alarmed about it.... I have not seen a white man or woman Except the Emigrants for 590 miles and Do not Expect to See another for 1100 miles more. But I must say to you that I see all kinds of folks and from Every State in the union and they all appear friendly.... Now I want you to Make and Eat you and the children A first rate pie plant pie for me for O God how I long for one and after Eating feed the pigs that I may have Some pork when I get holme next winter.... Now I had the pleasure of Seeing the peak of Laramie that is the fore taste of the Rocky mountains it is now Covered with Snow and ice. This is the most Romantic Country in the world. I believe it is well worth Seeing. We have seen plenty of Buffalo have seen them in Droves."
|Fort Laramie, c 1845, by A J Miller
From the North Fork of the American River, Placer County, California, 23 September 1850:
"Dear Wife and Children you must Excuse me for not Writing oftener than what I have, But permit me in the most humble manner to Say to you that our convenience for Writing is not as nice as when we are at holme.... Our Journey across the Plains was Some what A tedious one. We Run Short or porvisions when about a hundred miles from our Journeys End and to that Degree that we were obliged to put our Selves on rations.... This was a hard stent for me after living to Be 43 years old and always having Anough.... We Came through Safe and Sound with our team. All the horses lived through. Old Polly I sold for 85 Dollars, old Nancy I traded to the Indians for A pony and Sold the pony for 80 dollars this made 165 Dollars for my horses, our waggon we throwed away and paid 10 Dollars for another.... I have not lost one Single Day, And have made about 7 Dollars per Day Since.... We arrived here in the mines the 1 Day of August we was from 75 days Coming through the Bluffs.... [We] have been Building a Dam for across the river for purpose of working the bed of the river but have not yet worked it. Digging and washing gold is A hard Business.... I Can only Say that I Shall Come [home] as Soon as I have Money enough to pay my Debts and to get there with. I want you to guide and Direct the Steps of our Children and Say to them that I never lay myself Down on my rather Miserable Bed without thinking of all of you.... For three Months... I lay on the ground without any Shelter over me but my two blankets And was pretty Comfortable too at that. Sleep was never sweeter....We have of late had two quite Rainy Days. This they say is an unheard of thing.... Now I have got a Small but Merry pretty Speciman of pure native gold that I am going to Send to you in this sheet that you may see the nature of the Weed in its natural State this may not look as nice to you as it does to me...."
Stephen writes of the disappointment of the company as to what they expected, finding too many men and not enough gold. His health takes another turn as well.
10 October:
"Dearest and only thought of Woman, I have now Set Down after supper and A hard Days work to inform you that I am yet Alive and well and in as prosperous circumstances as I could expect to be.... Provisions are going up higher But we have got our flour and meat and Butter the latter at one Dolllar per lb. Wouldnt you like to get that for yours.... I suppose you and the girls are knitting your fingers off this fall and Just Save A pare for me mine have got holes in them.... Diging gold is A lottery and Damnd Bewitching. Doo not Believe Anything Else let whom will tell it... for this is A hard way to get Rich and A worse one for Comfort or happiness. All the wealth of the Californias would not induce me to Come on the trip again. All though and for all of the Assertions that I have here made I am not Sorry that I have Come. I have now Seen for myself and know for myself and if I am fortunate enough to get holme Alive and well and once more Enjoy out little family I Shall Be as Rich as I Desire.... Kiss little Willie for me and the younger ones the old ones are to Big to kiss But I doo not forget them. If Austin is there tell him to Be a good Boy."
Stephen Addison Davenport died the following month, from an unknown cause, without ever returning home. The Kenosha Democrat of 19 June 1852 reported that on 11 May, his estate was settled, some of the Davenport farmland being sold off to repay his debts.
Stephen Addison Davenport was born 20 November, 1806, probably in Pennsylvania. He married Alma Holmes Doty (9 Oct 1814 - 10 Aug 1879) in August 1835 in Madison, New York, her birthplace. Shortly after the birth of their third daughter in 1840, the family moved to a farm near Brighton, in the recently organized Wisconsin Territory (the farm stayed in the family until 1952). Three additional children followed, the last in 1849. The following year, Stephen Davenport went west with the Salem Company (to which he was appointed an Assistant) to make his fortune in the California Gold Rush. He died in Placer County, California, November 1850, but is erroneously shown in the 1850 United States Federal Census as still residing in Brighton, Kenosha, Wisconsin in September.
1 Stephen Addison Davenport married Alma Holmes Doty.
2 Henrietta Davenport (Jan 1836 - May 1904) married Charles Swarts (12 Feb 1835 - 8 Jun 1909), son of John Swarts and Mary McDonald, in Wisconsin, in 1859.
3 Ella Swarts (1862 - Apr 1899) was born and lived her entire life in Minnesota. She married Charles A Burnett (Feb 1856 - 17 Jan 1930), son of Nathaniel S Burnett and Rachel Elizabeth Squire, in Scott County, Minnesota, September 1879.
4 Alfred Nathaniel Burnett (19 Aug 1883 - 31 Jul 1959) married Jennie Arleta Eaton (14 Mar 1891 - 15 Apr 1979), daughter of Dor Henry Eaton and Anna B A Miller, in Minnesota, in 1909.
5 Leroy Stanley Burnett (31 Aug 1910 - 11 May 1980) married Hazel Lucille Erickson (6 Sep 1910 - 6 May 2002), daughter of Erick Albert Erickson and Johanna Maria Svard, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 21 June 1933.
6. [Living] Burnett married Beverly Alane Brown (8 Aug 1934 - 7 Mar 2010), daughter of Dana Earl Brown and Myrna Margaret Severin, in Long Beach, California, on 4 March 1961.
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- Full name: Arab Republic of Egypt
- Population: 77.4 million
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- Area: 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq miles)
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- Major religions: Muslim (88%) and Christian (12%) (mostly Coptic)
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- People: Egyptians are by far the largest ethnic group in Egypt at 91% of the total population. Ethnic minorities include the Abazas, Turks, Greeks, Bedouin Arab tribes living in the eastern deserts and the Sinai Peninsula, the Berber-speaking Siwis of the Siwa Oasis, and the Nubian communities clustered along the Nile. There are also tribal communities of Beja concentrated in the south-eastern-most corner of the country, and a number of Dom clans mostly in the Nile Delta and Faiyum who are progressively becoming assimilated as urbanization increases.
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Online shoppers can then expect their products delivered during a four-hour window. The retailer is also offering next-day delivery for the same price.
While Wal-Mart didn't disclose the exact numbers of online customers requesting same-day deliveries, a spokesperson noted that many customers selected the next-day option instead.
A number of companies are testing same-day shipping options, including eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), though the cost and logistics problems remain daunting. Analysts said that the driving motivation to offer same-day shipping was a need to compete with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).
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