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Yesterday a Bloomberg News video with Martha Stewart made the rounds on Facebook and ignited a frenzy of indignation from the women's blogging world. In the interview, Martha disparages bloggers by saying they are "not experts," that they don't fully test recipes, that many just repost other people's work. Here's a sample of the conversation that exploded on Facebook yesterday. (Shown with permission from an expert in many things, Amy Oztan)
So, here's the deal.
Martha is totally right.
And she didn't say anything that bloggers haven't said amongst ourselves every time we get together. I had this conversation over and over again at BlogHer this year.
Are there amazing bloggers who are absolutely experts in their fields? YES.
Are there bloggers that are full of it, steal other people's work, put up anything any PR person sends them, are completely based on smoke and mirrors and everyone wonders why any brands work with them? HELL YES.
Now aside from the fact that you can tell the Martha Stewart interview was edited down to just these perfect controversial sound bites – I'd love to see the context of Martha's discussion of bloggers – there also has to be a reality check in the blogging world. Not everything is cause for outrage. And sometimes the very media outlet that puts out the video and calls it
Martha Stewart Speaks Out: Bloggers Are Not Experts
needs to be called out for playing this game in the first place. This is 30 seconds out of who knows how many minutes of footage. I'm guessing at least a half an hour. And they got exactly the reaction they wanted – all of the bloggers making this video go viral.
Martha Stewart should know better than to ever say what she said, even just from a savvy PR point of view. But, she is someone who truly knows the media landscape. She knows that blogging and the content machine have changed the way people get and want their information. As Cecily Kellogg points out over at Babble, Martha Stewart's company has taken a major hit, as have all large publishing companies, as they try to evolve in the changing digital media world. But that doesn't mean she's wrong about how many bloggers operate – or large online platforms – Babble, Baby Center and even the New York Times have certainly had their share of plagiarism scandals.
So let's take a step back and get real. Martha Stewart certainly doesn't need me to defend her, but we also don't need to be piling on one of the most successful female entrepreneurs – someone who elevated the crafting, food, and style niches to begin with, and proved there was a business model there – just to make bloggers feel justified about what they do.
If you're an expert, prove it by turning out great, original content, and hopefully you will be able to make a living doing what you love. And I bet if Martha asked you to contribute to her Pinterest Boards you'd do it in a heartbeat – because nothing proves you're an expert more than the seal of approval from an indisputable expert in your field.


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Leave it to me to select a problematic vintage to decide to make wine again.
September and October had different plans.
I had already placed my order with Fallbright Winemaker's Shop before the rains came—and stayed. Being an honorable gent, I did not cancel, but I knew full well what was about to take place; the rain was not only torrential, it came down all too frequently, leaving room for only a few sunny days between rains.
The Gewurztraminer was scheduled for an October first harvest, and Fallbright just about stuck to that schedule, but the juice had to remain in cold storage for a while longer, as the proprietor of the business hurt himself while working the harvest. I picked up the juice on October fifth, not too late.
As suspected, the stats were not so good: 20 Brix; 3.55 pH; 5.55 grams total acidity per liter. The problem, as I saw it, is that the high pH and low acidity would require high alcohol in the finished wine, for both mouth-feel and stability. But you can't get high alcohol from 20 Brix. Luckily, flavor was solid, as was the marvelous aroma of that grape variety, like a rose garden that had been sprayed with essence of ginger.
I went to work. Didn't like doing it, but I brought the Brix up to 22 (potential for 12% alcohol); then, I added 1 gram per liter of tartaric acid. I figured that after fermentation, I'd take some readings—or maybe I'd just use my taste buds, to see how good I really am—and then either adjust with a little more acidity or not.
Last week, the Gewurztraminer was at 1% sugar—fermentation is getting close to shutting down. The aroma is yeasty, no H2S detected, and it also is flowery—the color is like popsicle.
Riesling was to be picked on October twenty-second. The rain that kept—keeps—coming down moved that schedule to October 14, and it was almost too late. Botrytis rot had set in, and the lack of sunshine to promote photosynthesis had halted sugar development at 18.5 Brix.
Once again, didn't like to do it, but I added enough sugar to get the juice to 20 Brix, for a nice 11% potential alcohol. With a pH at 3.0 and total acidity at 7.8 grams per liter, I did nothing to the acid—I don't at all like lowering acidity, as the methods available generally change the flavor profile too much for my liking, and this juice has great flavor—of lemons and tangerines, to be exact.
The way I start a fermentation is to draw off a volume of juice into which I make the sugar and/or acid adjustments. I bring that volume up to 18 degrees center grade and then add the selected yeast inoculant. Usually, the juice that's left in the carboy starts to ferment from ambient yeast; I don't mind that; the inoculant will take over. In both cases, I've inoculated with a yeast that withstands cool fermentation, which is normally a slow fermentation that highlights the variety's flavor and aromatics.
Because of the Riesling stats, I have been thinking that instead of adding any more acid to the Gewurztraminer, it might be better for me to draw off about 10% of each wine later on and blend what I draw from the Gewurztraminer into the Riesling and vice versa. In fact, I will try that route—unless something happens along the way to change my mind.
Copyright Thomas Pellechia
October 2011. All rights reserved.
October 2011. All rights reserved.

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When creating my own wallpapers on my Nexus S, they always end up being low quality. The image is slightly blurry. Edges are not crisp. These are the steps I'm doing:
- Download a very large image from the web browser.
- Long tap my current wallpaper.
- Wallpapers > Gallery > download
- Selected the large image and expanded the crop marks to the max.
- Save
It seems like Android is compressing the image too much. Is there any way to set the quality higher?


text: This was my wife's primary knife until I bought that Takeda Bunka, and she hasn't touched this one since. This is the Kurouchi stainless clad blue steel from his pro line of knives. She is pretty hard on knives and most of the KU has been scrubbed off, it is dull, and has a couple chips. I thought I would offer the potential buyer a handle option. One handle is Buffalo horn, Honduran Rosewood Spacer, and Green Camel Bone ferrule. The other is spalted something I don't remember from Craig Stevens, nickle and fiber spacer, ebony ferrule. This knife is currently retailing for $230.00 considering its heavily used condition I am going to ask $135.00+ $40.00 to cover the cost of materials for the handle, delivered in conUS.


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It's not every weekend that a USSF Development Academy side hits the road and comes away with four wins in two days, but CASL Chelsea managed just that this past weekend with a perfect 4-0 record at both age levels.
Heading north to Virginia, the CASL U-16s squeaked past McLean Youth Soccer 1-0, but not before the U-18s dominated in a 5-0 win. Monbo Bokar grabbed a hat trick for CASL.
Down in Richmond, CASL scored the same success against the Strikers. The U-16s secured a duplicate result, winning 1-0, while the U-18s were once again the better side in a 4-1 win – Bokar adding another goal for a four-goal haul on the weekend.
A few MLS teams' academies were in action as well. Of the trio of New England, San Jose and Real Salt Lake, the Quakes had the best of the action, posting a 3-1 record.
On Saturday, the Quakes' youth team traveled to Riverside, Calif., and defeated Arsenal FC – the U-18s winning 4-0 and the U-16s winning 1-0. The only blemish on the weekend came against fellow MLS academy opposition, as Real Salt Lake's U-18s won 2-0. The Quakes U-16s avenged the loss by winning 2-1 in San Jose's last game of the weekend.
The Revolution's academy took to the field for the first time in 2011, splitting a full weekend slate as the U-18s lost two and the U-16s won two against NJSA 04 and Match Fit Chelsea.
Other scores from the weekend:
Match Fit Chelsea 1, FC Greater Boston 0
California Development Academy 5, Nomads SC 1
Cosmos Academy West 1, Real So Cal 1
Seacoast United 2, Met Oval 1
FC Westchester 6, South Central Premier 1
Cosmos Academy East 3, Empire United 0
Indiana United 3, Derby County Wolves 1
Oakwood SC 1, Albertson SC 1
Richmond Strikers 0, North Carolina Fusion 0
Empire United 3, Cosmos Academy East 1
Seacoast United 3, Met Oval 2
Real So Cal 3, Cosmos Academy West 1
Indiana United 6, Vardar 2
McLean Youth Soccer 1, North Carolina Fusion 1
Empire United 2, Met Oval 1
Cosmos Academy East 2, Seacoast United 1
FC Greater Boston 3, NJSA 04 0
Indiana United 2, Vardar 0
North Carolina Fusion 5, McLean Youth Soccer 0
Empire United 4, Met Oval 0
Seacoast United 2, Cosmos Academy East 0
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Former Bank of America (BAC) wealth-management head Sallie Krawcheck said Monday that Wall Street is running the business through a "culture of crisis," which must change so that it can attract new clients.
Krawcheck, who spoke in New York during an annual conference put on by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), also stressed the need to attract more women to the profession.
"Participants are basically making quick decisions in reaction to today's news as opposed to looking at the long-term implications of those decisions," Krawcheck said at the meeting, as reported by CNBC. (Krawcheck was let go by BofA-Merrill in early September as part of a reorganization effort.)
In addition, Krawcheck said that too many of the markets have drifted from their original purpose. "Somehow we got to where they're betting mechanisms. Not in every instance, everywhere," she explained. "But we're talking about them being tools for people to make money as opposed to the efficient allocation of capital."
Wealth Management
Krawcheck, who led BofA's wealth-management unit for roughly two years, described the need for the business to come to grips with the fact that younger potential clients "no longer trust banks or the markets to create the wealth they're looking for," CNBC reported.
She also shared the thoughts of one of her former clients, who said that they didn't have enough confidence in the markets and tax policy in the recent past to take out any loans, and "a good bit of it was, "I just don't know what the growth is going to be there to get me a return on any money that you're going to lend me."
"We talk about stock market returns. We're not talking as an industry about protecting the downside," Krawcheck explained, and about planning and asset allocation.
Younger investors are skeptical of Wall Street, she says. "They typically think that these organizations don't add value," Krawcheck explained.
"The number one thing is 'Return my phone call,'" the veteran executive said. "Clients typically say investment performance is important, but it's usually about 8th on the list."
Women & Wall Street
The industry "doesn't do a great job for women or being appropriate" for the next generation of investors, said Krawcheck, according to a Reuters report.
Women account for about 15 percent or slightly more of financial advisors. They represent about this level or somewhat lower in terms of senior-management positions. "We do have large groups of people — women — who are underserved by our business."
A more diverse advisor and managerial population could help the wealth-management industry attract clients and boost overall results given the challenges of a complex economy, Krawcheck shared: "You need a broad range of perspectives in order to navigate through."


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More often than not, making predictions is an invitation to codify dumb opinions into novelty forecasts, flushed and forgotten as soon as they're made. The NCAA Tournament, though, provides us with a unique opportunity to evaluate just how full of crap expert opinions are. Specifically, we can compare the bracket accuracy of experts to the bracket accuracy of average, non-experts.
For this project, I collected data on all 11 million completed brackets (out of 12 million which were started) on ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge. Then I identified the brackets of 53 experts from CBS Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports, SB Nation, SI, and USA Today. (We would have loved to have had more, but experts making their entire bracket public is more rare than you'd think.) This list, while certainly not exhaustive, includes pundits, announcers, and sportswriters who regularly weigh in on college basketball-related topics, and who had a bracket which was made public. The table with the data about these experts' brackets is available here.
To evaluate how much better (or worse) the experts were at predicting this year's tournament, I considered three criteria: the number of games correctly predicted, the number of points earned for correct picks, and the number of Final Four teams correctly identified. Generally the experts' brackets were slightly better than the non-expert ones, although the evidence isn't especially overwhelming. The analysis suggests that next year you'll have just as good a chance of winning your office pool if you make your own picks as if you follow the experts.
Points Earned Per Bracket
ESPN's scoring formula devalues picking correct upsets in early rounds (10 points to correct Round of 64 picks, 20 points for Round of 32, 40 points for Sweet Sixteen, etc.), but let's start here since the point of filling out a bracket is winning it. On the graph above, the 11 million non-expert brackets are represented by the red histogram, while the 53 expert brackets are shown as blue dots underneath the graph. Going by points, experts tend to fall slightly above the mean for non-experts.
The difference is substantial, though not huge. Expert brackets earned an average of 651.0 points, while non-experts earned 604.4 points. The difference of 46.6 points is statistically significant (SE = 11.6; p < .01), but it means that, on average, the experts picked only about one extra Elite Eight qualifying team (or two extra Sweet Sixteens) than the non-experts. Dan Wolken of the USA Today earned the most points among the experts with 830, although there were 215,737 brackets (1.96 percent) which outperformed him.
(And since you're wondering the big spikes you see at the 680- and 80-point marks are for the massive amount of brackets that picked all favorites and all underdogs, respectively.)
Number Of Correct Games
This graph shows the distribution of the number of games correctly picked by non-experts and experts. As you can see, it appears that experts are not substantially better at picking overall winners than you or me.
On average, experts accurately predicted 37.9 games (out of 63) while non-experts correctly picked 35.6. This difference is statistically significant (SE = 0.53; p < .01), although a difference of just 2.27 games probably wouldn't overwhelm most people. In total, here were 4566 ESPN brackets (0.04 percent) with more correct picks than Jerry Palm and Luke Winn, who had the highest number of correct picks, 46, among the experts.
Correct Final Four Picks
It's possible that experts aren't especially good at picking early upsets, but they make up for it by doing well at predicting the Final Four. If this is typically the case, this year was a huge exception—which is obvious enough, given a 7- and 8-seed made the championship game. Not only did zero of the 53 experts pick UConn to win the national championship, not a single one of them had UConn or Kentucky in the championship game!
Nine of the experts picked half of the Final Four teams correctly, and on average the experts picked just one Final Four team correctly. This is not that much better than the non-experts who picked 0.87 Final Four qualifiers, on average (SE=0.08; p = 0.12). If Dayton, UCLA, or Stanford won the South region instead of Florida, experts would have actually looked worse at picking the Final Four (0.25 correct picks out of 4) than the non-experts (0.28).
The obvious critique of this analysis is that comparing experts to all the brackets on ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge isn't a fair comparison. This is true, but in many ways it should be generous to the experts. No good Cal Poly graduate can go without filling out at least one bracket where the Mustangs win the championship (you know, just in case). And then there are the other various bracket quirks, like the 31,449 people thinking they're clever with an all-upset bracket. Since they're all left in this analysis, they should really make the experts look better in comparison.
Even though the gaps aren't huge, I do find that experts were statistically significantly better at picking games and earning points than non-experts. If I trim off the 9.8 percent of brackets with the fewest correct picks, the experts' number of correct picks becomes statistically indistinguishable from the non-experts. Likewise, eliminating the worst 8.6 percent of brackets with the fewest points has a similar results.
So what's the takeaway? As a group, the experts are better than the public, but be mindful if you're just planning on copying one of their brackets. The average expert isn't far removed from just plain average.
Charts by Reuben Fischer-Baum
Stephen Pettigrew is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where he studies political science and American politics. He also has a master's degree in statistics from Harvard. In his spare time, he writes about sports analytics, particularly in hockey and football.


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The Institute of Applied Training Science Leipzig (IAT) offers this database of scientific literature to everybody interested in our sport. The database contains 374 relevant items related to yachting from the training scientific database SPONET.
Experts at the Department Information Communication Sport of the IAT constantly search for new publications and findings that then are included in the database. For your search you can apply the presented keywords or you can search the database on your own. You are offered a quick, easy and flexible access to the latest findings.


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Let me begin by stating that I consider myself an environmentalist. I recycle almost religiously. I compost obsessively. I keep the thermostat low in winter and high in summer. I try to limit how much I drive, but as the chauffeur for my three school-age sons, this is quite difficult. I support environmental causes and organizations when I can, having been a member of the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society.
I find the arguments of the Climate Change deniers uninformed at best and disingenuous at worst. Likewise, the idea of certain religious conservatives that it is hubris to believe that humans can have such a large effect on God's creation strikes me as theologically silly and even dishonest. And while I understand and even sympathize with the concerns of those folks whose businesses and livelihoods are tied to our current fossil-fuel addiction, I find their arguments that economic interests should override environmental concerns to be lacking in both ethics and basic forethought.
That being said, I have lately begun to ponder not just the ultimate intentions and goals of the environmental movement, but the very future of our planet.
Earth and atmospheric scientists tell us that the earth's temperature is increasing, most probably as a result of human activity. And that even if we severely limited that activity (which we are almost certainly not going to do anytime soon), the consequences are going to be dire: rising temperatures will lead to more severe storms, melting polar ice caps, melting permafrost (which in turn will lead to the release of even more carbon dioxide, increasing the warming), rising ocean levels, lowering of the oceans' ph levels (resulting in the extinction of the coral reefs), devastating floods in some places along with crippling droughts in others.
And according to a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by 2100 (less than 100 years) 25% of all species of plants and land animals may be extinct.
Basically, our not-too-distant future may be an earth that cannot support human life.
Now, in my more misanthropic moments, I have allowed myself to indulge in the idea that this is exactly what the earth needs. That this in fact should be the goal of any true environmental concern: the extinction of humanity. For only then does the earth as a planet capable of supporting other life stand a chance. (After all, the "environment" will survive without life, though it won't be an especially nice place to visit, much less inhabit, especially for a human.)
And a good case can be made that humans have been destroying the environment in asymmetrical and irrevocable ways since at least the Neolithic Age when we moved from hunter and gatherer culture to the domestication of plants and animals along with sustained agriculture. Humans have been damaging the environment ever since. (Unlike the beaver, as only one example of a "keystone species," whose effect on the environment in dam building has an overwhelming positive and beneficial impact on countless other species as well as the environment itself.)
So unless we're seriously considering a conservation movement that takes us back to the Paleolithic Era instead of simply reducing our current use and misuse of the earth, then we're really just putting off the inevitable.
But all that being said, whatever the state of our not-too-distant future, the inevitability of the "distant future" is undeniable—for humans, as well as beavers and all plants and animals, and ultimately the earth itself. For the earth, like all of its living inhabitants, has a finite future.
Around 7.5 billion years or so is a reasonable estimate. And then it will most probably be absorbed in the sun, which will have swollen into a red giant.
(Unless, as some scientists predict, the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda galaxy, resulting in cataclysmic effects that cannot be predicted.)
At best, however, this future only includes the possibility of earth supporting life for another billion years or so. For by then, the increase in the sun's brightening will have evaporated all of the oceans.
Of course, long before that, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (ironically enough) will have diminished well below the quantity needed to support plant life, destroying the food chain and causing the extinction of all animal species as well.
And while that's not good news, the worse news is that humans will have been removed from the equation long before the last holdouts of carbon-based life-forms eventually capitulate.
(Ok, so some microbes may be able to withstand the dry inhospitable conditions of desert earth, but seriously, who cares about the survival of microbes?)
Now if we're optimistic about all of this (irony intended), the best-case scenario is for an earth that is able to support life as we know it for at most another half billion more years. (Though this may be a stretch.) And while that seems like a really long time, we should consider that the earth has already been inhabited for just over 3 and a half billion years.
So having only a half billion years left is sort of like trying to enjoy the last afternoon of a four-day vacation.
Enjoy the rest of your day.


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Matthew Turland has pointed out the webcast series that the php|architect folks will be doing every two weeks leading up to the keynote for this year's php|tek 2009 conference.
Webcasts will be held roughly every two weeks leading up to the beginning of the conference. I'm scheduled for Friday February 27 at 1 PM EST and my topic will be "When RSS Fails: Web Scraping with HTTP." Participation is free, but the number of participants is limited, so register early. Note that participation requires a machine running either Windows XP or higher or MacOS X 10.4 or higher. Look forward to seeing you there!
The first webcast is happening on January 23rd and will be a look at time and project managment with the Web2Project product by Keith Casey. Other topics include web accessibility, using Propel, application security and Zend Framework/Dojo integration.
Check out the webcast series page for more information and to signup.


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I've taken the scans down. But I think they need an official online home. Here's the mail I sent to Isobel McKenzie Price
Dear Isobel.
Many thanks for your note. Apologies for not replying sooner, I've been away for a long weekend.
I've taken the scans down this morning. I understand your issues and the principles of copyright, but I believe that as:
- I'm not making any money out of this
- I'm not depriving you of any money
- no-one can make any money from the scans (too poor quality), and
- no-one has said or inferred anything damaging about Homes and Gardens
...you're being slightly over the top.
These are interesting and important historical documents. As you are clearly aware. They should be widely available for as many people as possible to learn from them. That they can be, instantly, is one of the great beauties of the internet.
I'm afraid as well, that simply getting them taken off my site is unlikely to be the end of it. These are digital files. They have been seen by thousands of people. It is incredibly easy for people to copy them and put them up on their site anywhere in the world. As of now, I have no idea how many versions there might be on the web.
My suggestion to you is this: you should either find or provide an official online home for these scans, where they can be made available with all the copyright information made clear. If not your own site, there might be other online publishers interested.
I will be happy to provide you with a much clearer set of scans for you to use.
That way will satisfy both our requirements, namely: to keep them within the public view, and within the law.
You will also seem like a very benign and enlightened media owner. And there can be no harm in that.
I look forward to hearing from you.


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ON AIR! Final season preview show
The team is headed north so it's time to talk how the Herd's roster will look, Opening Day and a lot more!
The final Bisons Season Preview Show is set to air at 5 p.m. on WWKB 1520-AM, the Bisons flagship station.
An archived version of the show will be on www.Bisons.com Monday.


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Report: Obama to propose NSA data overhaul
Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the year of terrorist attacks on the United States.
The Obama administration will propose an overhaul of the National Security Agency's telephone program that would end systematic collection of domestic call data and leave those records with phone companies, The New York Times reported Monday.
The plan, if enacted by Congress, would not require the phone companies to retain the data for longer than they otherwise would hold them, the newspaper said in a report attributed to unnamed senior administration officials. The federal agency could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, under the proposal being prepared.
Obama said earlier this year that he wanted to get the agency out of collecting bulk call records while preserving its ability to get data when needed and directed the Justice Department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by Friday.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would continue in its current form for at least three more months and would later face major revisions under the administration's plan.
Under the current secret phone program, operated under provision of the Patriot Act passed in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the agency retains phone data for five years. Phone companies typically are required to hold customers' calling records for 18 months.
Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union told the Times that while it has questions about details, "we agree with the administration that the N.S.A.'s bulk collection of call records should end."


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Welcome to The Silence Of The Lambs Wiki
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres. Directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn, the film is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name, his second to feature Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
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I hope everyone has had a wonderful Friday and is excited for the weekend! I thought I'd leave you with a small taste for what's to come first thing Monday morning. :) A baby shower designed by Bump Smitten and beautifully photographed by Jonathan Hickerson! I hope you are as excited as I am. Also this week... More FREE DOWNLOADS. I'm talking invitations, envelope liners and labels, food/candy labels, activity labels, photobooth props, etc. See you soon.
Cupcake Toppers: Bump Smitten / Photography: Jonathan Hickerson
Catch up and enjoy these adorable posts from this week!
The mix of sorbet colors in the High Tea Baby Shower is so bright and refreshing
Another fabulous inspiration board by The Finishing Touch -- Baby Blocks
A dessert table perfect for those mommies-to-be who are craving cookies
Loving the mix of bright colors and Chinese food for this simple {no pink} shower
Water bottle labels DIY tutorial plus 7 free downloads


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VINT is slowly but surely taking over Louisville.
When Java Brewing Company grew a bit – shall we say – stale in 2009, owner Chuck Schnatter teamed up with Toni and Chris Lavenson to aggressively transform the retail coffee shops into a bold brand. The refreshing and spunky VINT was born.
Stemming from the word "vintage,†Chris Lavenson explained, "All of the new core products of VINT – coffee, tea, wine and ale – have a harvest cycle, a vintage.†With their recent successful merge with Heine Brothers Coffee, there's little that VINT doesn't have a hand in.
It's probably best recognized as one of few coffee shops that also serve up wine and beer. However, the mission of "offer(ing) premium beverages and food with efficiency and grace†points ultimately to the obvious core of VINT: the coffee.
Determined to craft the highest quality coffee possible within a chain milieu, VINT settled on serving "premium†coffee – a step above nationally-ranked coffee chains and franchises. Out of this decision came a superior daily roast as well as intricate detailing in the lattes. Latte art is a trend you will find at fine coffee shops like VINT, a tangible sign of pride in the product with a side of whimsy.
The hiring process to become a barista is selective and the training is grueling. "But when we put them behind the counter, they're going to know the products very well,†Lavenson said. "That's our goal.â€
On the day of my visit, the barista was quick to describe the featured coffee – Kenya – and point out some of the recent promotions. Currently, VINT is selling their original signature drink, the "Vint Julep,†fittingly titled for upcoming Derby festivities. Described as a Bourbon Barrel mint julep with bourbon smoked sugars with espresso, it's a yummy way to get anyone excited for the first weekend in May.
VINT has masterfully mixed the comforts of a quiet coffee shop with the liveliness of a corner bar. In addition to the fairly impressive beer list, the business has partnered with Vanguard Wines, who aids them in choosing from dozens of boutique, estate-grown vineyards from all over the world.
As if the eclectic array of beverages weren't enough, VINT also has teamed up with local language center Los Monitos to host occasional language classes and incorporate drinks from the region as well as food to complement said wines. To date, wines and beer from France, Spain and Germany have been showcased, and Argentina's robust Malbec wines were the most recent highlight. (Check in with Los Monitos for upcoming get-togethers).
"Louisville is blossoming,†Lavenson declares. "People are supporting local. We've walked into an educated customer base.â€
VINT has locations at 2309 Frankfort Ave., 462 S. 4th St., 516 W. Main St., and 4901 Brownsboro Road. For hours and information, visit www.vintcoffee.com.


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Joep Cornelissen is Professor of Corporate Communication and
Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The main
focus of his research is the role of communication and sensemaking in processes
of innovation, entrepreneurship and change, but he also has an interest in
questions of reasoning and theory development in organization theory. His
papers have been published in Academy
of Management Review, Journal
of Management Studies, Organization
Science and Organization Studies, and he has written a general text
on corporate communication (Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and
Practice, Sage Publications) which is now in its fourth edition. He is a
Council member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, a
former General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (2006-2012) and
serves on the editorial boards of the Academy
of Management Journal, Journal
of Management, Journal
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I looooove apricots. Unfortunately, I can't eat them raw, which I don't totally mind. Apricots are best cooked and concentrated, in jams or preserves or pies or galettes. I have about a quart of apricot jam that I brought back from Hungary, so I used that for this, inspired by these two recipes. I will eat anything with apricots in them. I'm terribly jealous of anyone near Alex's mother, who makes the most delicious apricot jams, who has something like two hundred pounds of apricots to process this year. Can you tell I'm back on my feet and keeping myself busy in the kitchen until it's time to go back to work (not sure when that will be, yet)? Also, these hold up better than in the picture, I just couldn't wait to eat them so they're not totally cool.Also, I'm submitting this for Joelen's August's Tasty Tools event, which this month was WHISKS!
Apricot almond shortbread bars
3/4 c cornstarch
3/4 c sugar
1 c rice flour
1/2 c almond flour
2 sticks of butter
1/4 t salt
1 t almond extract
1 1/2 c apricot preserves (you can use other kinds if you want, I love love apricots, also, you might want to increase this if you really like fruit filling things)
4 T orange liquor (you can skip this if you don't have it, or use 2 T orange juice)Preheat oven to 325. Butter an 8x8 pan, line with parchment paper, leaving an overhang to life the bars out later. WHISK cornstarch, sugar, rice flour, almond flour, and salt. Cut in butter, mooshing it up so it's all combined. I used my hands. You can use a food processor if you want. Press about 3/4 of the mixture into your pan, setting the rest aside. Mix your orange liquor and apricot preserves, and pour over the shortbread crust. Sprinkle the rest of the shortbread mixture over the top of the preserves. Bake for an hour and fifteen minutes, until the top is lightly browned and looks done, let cool, and cut into bars.


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ElanTech Devices Corporation, a subsidiary of Elan Microeletronics, announced Wednesday it is suing Apple over touch-sensor-related technologies. The company owns a number of US patents related to touch-sensing technology, and claims that a good chunk of Apple's products violate at least one of its patents.
ElanTech said in a statement that it owns patents on the technology that allows detection of finger position on a touchscreen or touchpad, which would affect iPhones, iPod touches, and all of Apple's notebook computers. To supports its case, the company said it won a similar lawsuit against capacitive touchpad supplier Synaptics related to multi-touch sensing technology in US Patent 5,825,352. Whether this lawsuit is related to that particular patent or others in its portfolio has not been disclosed. Both ElanTech and Apple have numerous patents related to touch-based interfaces.
ElanTech said it is seeking an injunction barring Apple from making or selling any products that infringe on its patents. If such an injunction were granted, it would effectively kill the majority of Apple's business. You can expect Apple will vigorously defend itself, quietly settle for a princely sum, or some combination thereof. If I were in charge of Apple, though, I'd just buy ElanTech outright with some of the billions I had sitting in the bank.
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The 10 Habits Of Highly Profitable Tax Preparers
The 10 Habits Of Highly Profitable Tax Preparers
Some tax preparers glean more profit per client than others. It's not just a matter of location or types of clients, though these may be important to the growth and future of the firm. Often, it is a matter of doing the right things at the right time – working with your staff and making effective decisions to set up the tax season months before the first client arrives with a shoebox full of receipts and 1099s.
As a senior sales representative for Drake Software, Byron McClure has worked with thousands of tax preparers over a period of 10 years. Here is his list of the 10 habits that can propel an ordinary tax preparation firm into a spectacular success. The list includes:
- Early purchase of tax software, and why it makes sense for your firm.
- Making use of professional organizations and business networks.
- Revisiting the firm's marketing plans.
- Moving critical operations to the cloud, and why it is in your future.
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going outside
On nice days, Israel is obsessed with being outside. I can't blame him, I too want to be outdoors. We don't have a fenced in backyard though, barely a yard at all actually, so leaving the house isn't as fun as he hoped.
Behind our driveway there lives this horse. Israel is quite taken with him, laughing if ever he sees the horse's eyes peek over the fence. Personally, I think the horse is a jerk, walking away from us when we try to come say hi, sometimes just running in the opposite direction or doing what you can see in the picture, giving us his butt.
Still Israel thinks he's pretty nice, so who am I to tell him different?
I've done a little bit of planting including some Lamb's Ear, one of my most favorite plants! I'd still like to fill up the small raised beds we made with vegetables, but first we need lots of dirt to fill those babies up! I'll keep you updated, since I know you're just dying to know.
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I love these photos, I can't blame Israel either. Is he feeling better?ReplyDelete
Great photos! Love the VAEGO chairs.ReplyDelete
ahhh wicker hoop chair!!! I just got one off craigslist, but I was bummed that the lady was keeping the matching one, boo, and yes I agree love the vaego chairs, I'm trying to get 4 for the yard.ReplyDelete
hee hee what a rude horse! Love the lambs' ear, I just want to stroke it so bad...ReplyDelete
amazing photosReplyDelete
i missed seeing little israel! yay!ReplyDelete
Thank you! Horses ARE total jerks! We used to have some and I always felt like they thought they were better than us. This horse you've met is not an exception to horse rules. Ours always went running in the opposite direction whenever we were around.ReplyDelete
I love lamb's ears, too. I'll have to remember to plant some when I can.
love the outfit jenn!ReplyDelete
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The most controversial letter in the Russian alphabet is the letter ё, or yo.
Fans of the letter call themselves Yoficators. They even have a theme song set to the music of Russian rock icon Viktor Tsoy. Why does a letter have a fan club? Because some people think yo has got to go.
Yo's shaky status has to do with it being a relatively late addition to the Russian alphabet, dropped in at the end of the 1700s. As Yaroslav Gorbachov, Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chicago, tells me, "(yo) really never took off as an independent letter. It has always remained sort of the shady companion of the letter ye."
Yo is really the Cyrillic letter ye, which looks just like the English letter e, only with a diacritic — that is, two dots — on top. Confused? Well, trust me, you're even more confused when natives casually omit those two dots, turning a name like "Gorbachov" into " Gorbachev."
But Russians have only gotten lazy about dotting their yos since the 1950s. Before that, both the letter yo and the essentially non-Western nature of the alphabet, had a powerful backer: Josef Stalin.
In 1930, Stalin signed an edict that protected yo.
"It was a secret document, it was not to be published," says Professor Gorbachov. Stalin's intention was to get Russians to stop Latinizing the script. "He also decreed that yo be put to use every time it's there in the pronunciation."
For the 3% of Russians whose names contain yo, not having Stalin around anymore to enforce a standard protocol is causing massive bureaucratic headaches. People have been denied passports and had their citizenship revoked, they've been unable to legally divorce and prove their children are theirs — all because of ye/yo discrepancies on official documents. But unlike Stalin, Russia's current strongman is remaining silent on the issue.
"I don't think Putin is behind this. He probably doesn't care about the alphabet would be my guess." Gorbachov instead blames the problem on "super-eager local bureaucrats who want to be holier than the pope."
Of course, getting rid of yo would bring Russian one step closer to the English alphabet. East vs. West — the linguistic tug of war has been going on for centuries. Russia's dual impulse to be embraced by the West while remaining distinctly Slavic is literally etched into the alphabet. Starting with legendary font-designer, Peter the Great.
"He was out to Westernize the country," says Gorbachov. "[Peter the Great] had realized how far behind Russia had fallen in terms of education, in terms of technology, and all these things. And he literally sat down and picked out characters that looked more Roman than Cyrillic in the Cyrillic alphabet."
The Russian alphabet was adapted from Greek, a radically different language, leaving a lot of extra wood to chop. But when Peter axed redundant letters, he was denounced as the anti-Christ by religious conservatives, who accused him of changing the very meaning of the Bible.
Another even more controversial modernization proposed by the last czar actually took decades to implement, finally rammed through by the Bolsheviks in 1917. It incensed language snoots — you know, the kind of people who view linguistic misdemeanors as crimes against humanity. They felt Russian was being reduced to the 20th century equivalent of chatspeak.
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In 2005, the city of Ulyanovsk — birthplace of that most famous of Bolsheviks, Lenin himself — unveiled a monument to yo in honor of the local historian who first popularized the rogue letter. But that monument triggered protests, too, which brings us to the other reason Russians love yo.
"My guess is that the letter is so popular because a very obscene word begins with this letter," says Gorbachov. "And Russians, we like krepkaya slova, you know — a curse word. So people are amused by having this letter around. There may be other reasons, but that's probably the principal reason."
Given that Vladimir Putin recently passed a law banning the use of curse words in Russian films, plays and print media, one can only wonder; will yo end up a victim of modernity or propriety?
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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Spoilers will be present within the article.
Alder (genus Alnus) is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Betulaceae). The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the Americas along the Andes southwards to Argentina.[1]
Whilst Alder makes for an unyielding wood, its ideal owner is not stubborn or obstinate, but often helpful, considerate and most likeable. Whereas most wand woods seek similarity in the characters of those they will best serve, alder is unusual in that it seems to desire a nature that is, if not precisely opposite to its own, then certainly of a markedly different type.[2]
When an alder wand is happily placed, it becomes a magnificent, loyal helpmate. Of all wand types, alder is best suited to non-verbal spell work, whence comes its reputation for being suitable only for the most advanced witches and wizards.[2]
Alder is also excellent for protection against outside forces, and, when combined with phoenix feather, is a suitable match for a wizard who will "make their mark on this world".[3]
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The Attack of the White Gloves, otherwise known as Pebble Beach, saw Jaguar celebrating its 75th birthday, which could be seen as a minor miracle in itself. Still, as well as showing lovely old cars like the XKSS that Steve McQueen used to own, there was some impressive new metal, symbolizing a marque with renewed confidence after slipping Ford's reins. Confident enough to make a negative into a positive. That was the idea behind the XJ75 Platinum Concept, a design study where what would normally be bright is dark and vice versa. Chrome parts are now black and the car's paintwork-over a body kit-is an unapologetic white. The wheels are big-pimpin' 22-inchers, also in black. Underneath the anti-bling is a long-wheelbase 2011 XJL, with a 470-hp supercharged V8. And here's the eyebrow-raiser: could we be seeing a pointer to a production XJR model?
In any case, one Jag that will definitely go into production is the XKR175 (left), so-called because only 175 examples of this grand touring coupe will be built. Again, we're talking body kit, big wheels (a more conservative 20-inch size this time), big brakes, and 510 supercharged horses from the 5.0-liter V8. And, in contrast to the XJ Platinum, this gentleman's express is finished in Ultimate Black. Apart from 15 cars going to Canada, the rest of the run is destined for the United States only, at a price of $104,500.
Seventy-five years ago, life was lived in black and white. At Pebble Beach 2010, Jaguar used a monochrome approach to get the right blend of nostalgia and forward vision.


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With more than a decade of film reviewing experience under his belt, Bennett Duckworth has seen far more movies than the average Louisvillian. When he's not working or catching up with friends, Bennett can be found taking in the newest releases at various theaters around town. You can read his latest film review each week right here in The Voice-Tribune, and see more at www.bennettduckworth.blogspot.com.
The 31-year-old self-professed "movie geek†recently sat down with The Voice-Tribune to talk about film, nostalgia and how he has evolved as a writer.
– Sophie Hottinger
Where did you grow up?
I was born in Eugene, Ore. and moved here when I was 5 1/2 years old – my dad got a job at UofL. (My) first year was in J-town and the rest of my upbringing was in the Frankfort Avenue area, Clifton. I went to J. Graham Brown School most of my life, that was from second through 12th grade.
What do you like about Louisville?
I think I discovered it after high school. I really started meeting a lot of cool people in unlikely places – restaurants and coffee shops. I think that's where I've had some of my best conversations with people. And I think it's great during spring and fall time here.
When you're not watching the latest movies released, what are some of your hobbies?
Making food; I really enjoy making food as a hobby, at home. And graphic design projects as well. And, every now and then, taking 35mm stills – as long as that camera still lasts.
How long have you been interested in film?
I think my interest in movies easily started when I was a kid, and I'm (not sure) when it went above the average kid's interest in movies. I just know movies were something I shared with my dad. They were something we could both enjoy together, because otherwise he was this Classical music aficionado and it could be alienating to a kid sometimes. But he really liked going to the movies with me, so that was something we could talk about.
And I don't think it's any coincidence that a lot of the friends I wound up having just happen to be movie geeks, too. It was probably by high school that I was becoming kind of a movie junkie. I think I deliberately dropped playing video games at that point, because I couldn't fit them into my life.
How did you get your start writing reviews?
I think I started writing reviews as kind of a hobby, it was just on and off, probably starting in high school. When I was first out of high school I started writing them for a website called PuckNation.com and that was the first time I (was published). If I were to look back at any of those, I would probably think that I was all wrong about everything. I think my point of view, and cinema, keeps evolving and changing. There was a certain point when I kind of forced opinions that I didn't really believe, but I wanted to fit in with the elite. I'm a little looser now than I was when I was younger.
Do you have any all-time favorite movies?
I think that, with age, that's also drifted away. I would probably change the top five, if I had to pick, again every week.
I have always told people that "The Truman Show†is my favorite movie. And I still think it's a great movie, I re-watched it recently, but I think it reflects my attitude towards the world a little bit more when I was younger. I think sometimes the favorite movies, the ones that really stick with you, are the ones that had an impact on you when you were a kid. …So I don't pick movies by Truffaut or Kubrick or Goddard, even though those can be great movies, they didn't come out during my lifetime. And I didn't go to see (them) in the theater and get blown away by them when I was a kid.
I think "Star Wars" (also) inspired a lot when I was a kid. I found myself obsessing over the movies, and not the extended comic books or the video games or anything like that. I just really concentrated on the movies and every single scene and every single shot, and how they pulled off the special effects. Effects were a big deal to me when I was a kid – when they used to be special.


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Check out ESPN's 2006 Free Agent list. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2441631
Of every one on the list my favorites for the Knicks are Al Harrington of the Atlanta Hawks and Steve Blake of the Portland Trail Blazers. This will give us a defensive small foward, which we need the most, and a "pass first" point guard. We can trade Francis and Richardson and move Marbury to shooting guard. The line up would look like this:
Marbury backed up by Crawford
We'd still have a solid bench with the rookies and Crawford, and we'd have a potential playoff worthy team. What do you think?


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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Pacquiao Vs Mayweather, Make it Happen Already!!!
I hope that this fight really happens now, I also found another random news from a couple of blogs that Mayweather is asking for the bigger share(60/40) of the money between him and manny because he attracts more PPV sales than Pacquiao from their last fights. I was just thinking that its also came from Shane Mosley's side that's why the PPVs went up. It wasn't like his fighting himself which is too obvious. Anyway, I really hope that this is not another crazy demand for the fight not to happen.
To go straight to the point, I don't care about the whole reasoning behind anymore, whose lying, whose has the bigger share, give blood, Promoters BS, etc,..
I don't even want to make predictions on this unless there is a really strong evidence that it will happen.
The Boxing fans are tired, We want to see the Fight ALready!!!
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Cue the dramatic Jaws music...
This lady must have thought I said "move left" because she moved left. Fortunately, I wasn't going too fast.
On your left.
On your l...WHAT IN THE HELL?!
The driver of this thing was actually cleaning up trash and otherwise maintaining the trail. I do catch the occasional Mo-Ped on these trails though.
Tea Time.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
On your left.
Cue the dramatic Jaws music...
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- amidnightrider said...
Ha! Your lucky becaue it could have been one of the Banana Splits.
- April 10, 2009 9:51 AM
- Matt said...
You need to get yourself a bell.
- April 10, 2009 11:27 AM
That driver looks pretty fat from this angle.
Never heard of a bikesatwork.com trailer I guess.
Yet another example of our over-dependence on motorized transportation making our country obese and sick.
- April 10, 2009 11:40 AM
- TQuid said...
+1 . . . I just ding my cute brass bell a good ways back and let them react how they want, just so they know I'm there and they get a little more predictably.
Unless they are listening to their cell or ipod or whatever, then I just stick my frame pump between their legs so they fall over.
- April 10, 2009 11:40 AM
- TQuid said...
A little more predictable. Predictable. No coffee yet.
- April 10, 2009 11:41 AM
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I felt I wanted to define for myself the organic phenomena; what nature itself would suggest to me in sculpture. — Lynda Benglis
A milestone commission for the Museum, Lynda Benglis's For Carl Andre—a black, oozing mass from the artist's famous series of poured sculpture—is visually one of the most peculiar pieces in the permanent collection. Understanding the complex piece requires thinking back to the ideologies and art movements surrounding its creation. When For Carl Andre was commissioned in 1970, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art were momentous movements, and Benglis mixed the gestural movements of the former with the low-art materials of the latter. The most overt reference in the work, however, is to the Minimalist Carl Andre. The art of Andre and other Minimalists is characteristically composed of ordered, flat, modular, object-based forms, and Benglis makes an ironic and humorous homage to Andre in her work's stark contrast to the Minimalist aesthetic. The counterdynamics at work in this piece—male/female, beautiful/ugly, natural/man-made, freeform/structured, abstract/representational—mirror the conflicting ideological and artistic developments of the time. With For Carl Andre Benglis acknowledges a debt to the artists and movements that preceded her while she strives to expand the boundaries of art.


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ARLINGTON, VA; JUNE 22, 2011 – AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION, a 2-hour version of the original 12-hour reality series that changed television history, will air Thursday, July 7, 2011, 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS. AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION will provide viewers a window into the groundbreaking series, which has not been seen nationwide on PBS for more than 20 years. In the New York area, the documentary will air on Friday, July 8, 2011, 9:30-11:30 p.m. ET on THIRTEEN. Viewers can also watch excerpts from the original series and one full episode at: http://www.pbs.org/programs/american-family/.
Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond, who worked on the original landmark production, have now adapted the 12-hour series into a new two-hour feature-length compilation of the most memorable and compelling moments of the series. AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION provides a fresh perspective to viewers who may have missed the original series airing nearly 40 years ago.
Beginning on Monday, June 27, fans of the PBS Facebook page can watch the full two-hour Anniversary Edition of the film. Additionally, filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond will discuss the film in a live online chat on Thursday, July 7 at 2 p.m. ET.
Originally aired on PBS in 1973, AN AMERICAN FAMILY was the most controversial and talked-about television program of its time. In the course of its three-month run, the 12-part series riveted the country and drew in a record 10 million viewers a week. In the years since it was first broadcast, the series has become the subject of lengthy articles and reviews, including panel discussions with anthropologist Margaret Mead, who speculated that AN AMERICAN FAMILY could be the beginning of a new way to explore the complexities of contemporary reality, "maybe as important for our time as were the invention of drama and the novel for earlier generations," In 2002, TV Guide named AN AMERICAN FAMILY one of the Top 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.
The original 1973 series AN AMERICAN FAMILY stepped into the home of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, chronicling the lives of its family members. The series made parents Pat and Bill Loud and their five children Lance, Delilah, Grant, Kevin and Michele Loud household names. During the seven months that the family lived under the microscope of the camera, viewers watched significant life moments unfold including Pat Loud asking for a separation from her husband Bill Loud, as well as a glimpse into the New York lifestyle of their gay son, Lance Loud.
Unlike most documentaries of its day, AN AMERICAN FAMILY had no host, no interviews and almost no voice-over narration. Producer Craig Gilbert and filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond portrayed everyday life without embellishment in the style of cinéma verité. The first episode was broadcast by PBS on Thursday evening, January 11, 1973 at 9:00 p.m. AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION was produced by Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond. Edited by Alan Raymond. Supervising Producer: Charlotte Mangin. Original Series Conceived and Produced by Craig Gilbert. For WNET: Executive In Charge of Production Stephen Segaller. For WLIW: General Manager John Servidio. A WLIW production in association with PBS and WNET.
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The Autumn leaves are still in full swing, so we went down to Jingu gaien to look at the avenue of yellow-leaved trees. Lots of people thought the same thing.
We walked close by through Aoyama as well. We went to Cafe Madu to have a matcha latte. The last time we did this was in October 2007! It's good having a blog to remember these things.
Walking back we were hungry so we stepped into Pizza Salvatore for some pizzas.
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Jingu Gaien Leaves
The Autumn leaves are still in full swing, so we went down to Jingu gaien to look at the avenue of yellow-leaved trees. Lots of people thought the same thing.
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
DS-1 Distortion Mouse
This was a NICE present. Quite totally unexpected too.
It looks like your average Boss DS-1 Distortion guitar pedal, right? It's actually a computer mouse! I first saw one at Rock Inn in Shinjuku, although it wasn't for sale.
I looked it up online to learn that it was a limited edition item only available on the UK site. Understandably, it sold out in no time. So, the only way to get it is mostly third parties like eBay, or online somehow.
The tone and distortion "knobs" are left and right click, and you can see the scroll wheel on the side there. Very cool indeed. It definitely made my day.
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Sunday, 21 November 2010
Mt Mitake in Autumn
I've mentioned Mt Takao quite a few times, and the last time we went to Oku-Tama. Today we went to Mt Mitake.
It's on the same Chuo, Ome lines as Oku-Tama, and takes almost as long to get there so we had to get up fairly early. For a Sunday this is always a struggle for me. But, before 10am we finally got to the station.
There is a bus to the cable car, but we opted to walk which didn't take that long and allowed us to take in some nice scenery. By the time we got there one of the buses just unloaded a full crowd so the line for the cable car was about an hour long, so we decided to walk up taking about the same time anyway.
I think Autumn really is the best time to go hiking in Japan. Lots of colourful leaves.
The highlights were the Nanayonotaki waterfall, the big Tenguiwa rock and Musashimitake Shrine. The view up top is quite nice too. On the way down we caught the cable car.
For me Mt Takao is still my favourite place to go hiking, but I really enjoyed coming here. It's definitely better than Oku-Tama was, a bit more interesting scenery, and things to see.
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Saturday, 13 November 2010
Essential Japanese iPhone Apps
I must be bored or something.
I decided to make this video of the apps that get me half coherent, and living relatively comfortable in Japan.
First on the video is Human Japanese. It's one of the few teaching aids that keeps me interested with my ever-shortening attention span.
Japan Transit is the only English language train planner that I could find as an iPhone app.
It's a little bit limited that it only shows the next and last trains, but it gives good results, and considering it's the only one of its kind I'm happy to have it. There is a better Yahoo!路線情報, but it's Japanese only.
iKana was one of the first Japanese learning aides I used. It has a simple layout, and gives a painless way to practise learning, and memorizing the hiragana and katakana.
Kotoba! is definitely the MOST essential app I'm probably most thankful for. Many a time I have been totally misunderstood, I could get myself out of trouble by using this free one.
I've mentioned this one before. Radirou is great for listening to Japanese radio stations on the go. Unfortunately Japan only to you outsiders. I have the radio on my Nano, so I'm not using this one so much since I got that.
Fruit Ninja is the least essential of this bunch. It has taken its cues from a mini game of Rhythm Tengoku (nee "Rhythm Heaven" everywhere else.) It's a fun little time killer, and it kind of keeps to the Japanese theme of my post.
Make Out With Japanese reminds me of the "Make Out In Japanese" phrasebook that I had. Dang, I lost it around here someplace. This's a kind of Japanese girl dating sim.
Kind of fun. Ja ne!
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Thursday, 11 November 2010
Cheese Is Awesome
On the way home from Cheese Festa 2010, I was thinking what would make a good header for this post.
I REALLY miss eating cheese.
Living here in Japan the variety is sadly lacking to what's available back home. You can get it in specialty International food stores, but you usually pay a premium for the privilege.
I'm always surprised, nay shocked, that virtually everyone there was Japanese. Japanese aren't too well known for their taste in cheese. There weren't too many foreigners around.
Just like last year, we got 4 sample tickets, A-D, that gives you a cheese sample from one of the four tables.
Again the assumed politeness of Japanese people went out the window. I likened them to animals, pushy and uncaring of others around them to get that morsel of cheese on a toothpick.
As it reached the last hour, it was peak hour from people finishing work, although the room was constantly full from the time I arrived.
We got some extra samples from the demonstration area. I didn't understand a word, but I was all too happy when I got some food. All this cheese was making me real hungry!
These Eru cheese samples from Holland were really delicious. There's a blue cheese one that tasted real good, and I'm not usually a fan of that kind of cheese.
The Parmalat Mascarpone was first served on a spoon and just tasted like whipped cream to me. The second serving was on a pancake with syrup, and made a good combination. Like I said I was hungry. I was very thankful.
It's hard to take these guys talking about USA cheese seriously with their cheese hats and ties. Still, I'd love to wear that long tie for my English classes. Laughter and frivolity would no doubt ensue.
Don't eat the green cheese! Well, I didn't. Not that I didn't want to, I just didn't want to use up one of those sample tickets.
While I really like the smoked cheeses, the easy winner of today's cheese tasting was far and away the Tete De Moine Swiss cheese. It WAS like there was a party in my mouth and everyone was invited.
They also gave an interesting alphorn demo. Now, I just got to find a place where I can buy some of this awesome cheese.
I'm actually posting this in real-time, rather than my usual backdating posts to give anyone that reads my blog every day (ha, I crack myself up), a chance to go. Even though it is Cheese DAY, it is held over two days, so there is still a chance to check this out tomorrow.
It's at the Belle Salle building in Harajuku. Put this address : 東京都渋谷区神宮前2-34-17 into Google Maps and you're golden.
What're you waiting for? Do you REALLY want to wait another year for this cheese-tasting goodness?
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
When The Morning Comes, I Won't Be Around
Back in the 80's I used to watch "Countdown", seeing bands that inspired me to pick up the guitar, and perform.
One of those bands was called "The Models". In Australia, this group was easily as popular as INXS. One of the lead frontmen was James Freud.
Today I heard he took his own life. It's always sad when one of your heroes lets you down. It feels very similar to when Michael Hutchence did the same thing in 1997. A little bit empty.
I'm glad that I had the chance to be a part of the great 80's Oz rock pub band days. Sadly nowadays people don't care about the scene anymore, so bands like these may never happen again.
Thanks for the great songs and inspiration. RIP James Freud :(
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Circumnavigating the Yamanote Line
Today is the Culture Day national holiday.
If I realised in advance that I'd have two days off in a row, I'd have planned something really special to do. Anyway, we'd thought to make the complete circle of the Yamanote line.
To those that don't know, the Yamanote line is the main train line, that does a complete 35km circle around Central Tokyo. It takes about 1 hour on the full loop. Instead of doing it like normal people, actually CATCHING the train, we did it the more DIY way, and took over 9 hours!
At 2.24pm we said goodbye to Nikon, the camera cat, sleeping blissfully unaware of our adventure, in her box bed under our apartment.
We thought it'd be best to start in Shinjuku and head south.
First stop on the line is Yoyogi at 2.50pm. Not much to see here. Probably most known for the Empire State doCoMo building, and also a common place to change trains to other lines .
At 3.05pm we reach Harajuku, a really popular youth district of Tokyo.
LOTS of people around today. I stop to take a picture at Takeshita street.
By 3:20pm we were in Shibuya. Here is one place that I think it's safe to say the most popular youth area. If you're in Tokyo, it's well worth a visit. At the front of the station there was some kind of political spokesperson blaring loudly atop a van, and people were as usual taking photos around the Hachiko dog statue.
We got to Ebisu at 3.40pm. Most noticeable around here is the Hinomaru driving school building which looks like someone lobbed a huge red ball into the building. Quite unmissable from the train line.
By 4pm we were in Meguro. Like Ebisu, this area looks very clean, and it looks like quite an upmarket exclusive place to live in. When I took a photo of the Meguro station sign a woman thought I was taking a picture of her feeding some pigeons. As if!
Gotanda(4:05pm), isn't very far away from Meguro, but there is a definite contrast of surroundings. There are many more office buildings, and in my opinion this area's kind of boring.
Just before we arrived at Osaki Station (4:20pm), I couldn't resist hamming it up with photos of the cool Art Village gnome.
You can't tell from this picture, but his hat rises up high into the sky. You can see this quite easily from the train too. Not a whole lot to see in this area. Just a lot of business parks otherwise.
Getting to Shinagawa station (4:40pm) felt like the longest gap between stations. Here is a big station which serves as another hub where many train lines come together.
By this time it was starting to get quite dark, and markedly cooler.
Before arriving at Tamachi (5:05pm) station, we made our way over a big street overpass where you can easily see Tokyo Tower peeking between the buildings.
You might remember from my other posts, Tamachi is a good place to get off to walk along the Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba.
Also, if you happened to be at this station it's possible to walk to Maruichi Bagel in Shirokane-takanawa a few blocks away for a good bagel fix.
We pass Hamamatsuchō at 5:30pm and Shinbashi at 5:43pm.
We got to Yurakuchō at 5:53pm. If you're on this line , here is an easy stop to make the short walk to the expensive Ginza area.
While we were here we first went to Kimuraya to hopefully get some anpan. We JUST missed out. Instead we went to the Chinese Tiger gyoza restaurant and had a spicy sesame mince noodles, fried rice and dumplings. Delish!
After eating we finally get to Tokyo station at 7:15pm. For a place that IS called Tokyo, this area seems really devoid of life. Just another area full of tall office buildings. As a policeman might say, "Move along, nothing to see here".
We pass Kanda at 7:26pm and Akihabara at 7:35pm. It must be the first time that I didn't notice any maids around! We had to take a short break because someone had to buy some stuff from Uniqlo!
Between Okachimachi (8:05pm) and Ueno (8:20pm) is Ameyoko, a great little market. I'd never been here before. Lots of shoes, and clothes, and other stuff.
I saw some "Basic Creative Reasonable" shoes that were a VERY close copy to another brand for only about 6,000 yen. I'll have to get a pair or two next time I'm here. Also worth checking out Ueno Zoo here too.
In Uguisudani (8:33pm) you can't help but notice a LOT of love hotels in this place.
The neon signs have enticing names like "Hotel Charme".
Rest or stay?
Passed Nippori (8:47pm), Nishi-Nippori (8:52pm), Tabata (9:02pm), Komagome (9:12pm), Sugamo (9:23pm), and Otsuka (9:31pm). These places are just about entirely residential. From the train these places look quite uninteresting. From the outside they don't look as bad. Only come here if you live here or visiting someone from here. There was a busker girl singing sweetly in Otsuka. She might still be there if you go ;)
Things start to get more interesting once we got to Ikebukuro (9:50pm).
I used to not like this place, calling it "Ikky", but it has definitely grown on me, particularly the higashi (east) side of the station.
Someone once told me it's like a little Shinjuku, and that's pretty close to the mark.
We got a bit disorientated getting to Mejiro (8:06pm). Didn't see anything of note here.
Next stop was Takadanobaba (10:20pm). Most notable as the "birthplace" of Astro Boy. The JR line departure song is very recognisable. There were quite a few drunk university students around here tonight.
I'm quite familiar with Shin-Ōkubo (10:30pm). I come here (too?) often to check out the wares in the "TC Gakki" music store.
Finally we get back to Shinjuku at 10:40pm.
Was it worthwhile doing this?
It's one thing to catch a train and watch the world go by, but to actually walk around and see what's around gives you better bearings, and a sense of place, and knowing where things are.
next time I'm catching the train!
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
iPhone 4? Hai!
I was really disappointed I missed out on getting that iPhone in Hong Kong.
I had a few choices - 1. Go Back to Hong Kong 2. Buy one in Australia 3. Get one from Softbank, and re-sign for another two long years or, 4. Buy a phone locally or from the auctions.
Yes, number 4!
I came back unexpectedly earlier on Halloween night, and scoured Yahoo Auctions for one. The one I found was still locked to Softbank, but was only 5 days old! The "Buy It Now" price was less than the "sell your soul" contract, and even cheaper than the unlocked phone from Hong Kong.
On Monday I went to do the bank transfer with the details directly from my phone. I usually translate the kanji at home before I came but there was the bank branch I couldn't make out, so I had to ask for a little help. Funnily enough it was 六本木, meaning Roppongi, which is typically a foreigner area of Tokyo.
The guy lived locally and sent it quick so I received it the next day. It was the same Kuroneko delivery guy. He must think I'm rich with all the junk I buy. It looked brand new, still covered in the protective plastic.
Because my SIM is normal size, I had to cut it. I was a little hesistant with the 980 yen MicroSIM cutter I'd bought in Akihabara on Sunday. It didn't have any instructions, nor did it even have a company name on it! There was a slight movement, but I just had a beer and made sure as much of the gold contacts was NOT getting cut. I only had one chance to get it right.
With a count of 1,2,3, I just pushed down swiftly, and was quite surprised how easily it cut. I wasn't game to use the supplied adapters to try it back in my old iPhone so there wasn't really any going back.
Thankfully the cut was perfect and it fit into the iPhone 4's tray exactly. I turned it on and plugged in my laptop. I was holding my breath those few seconds while I waiting for the phone to register on iTunes. YAY, it worked!
So far, so good. I've just about finished "terraforming" it to my liking. All I need is to wait a short time for the carrier unlock which is just around the corner.
Me so happy!
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