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Mother shut boy in basement to protect him from pit bull / 12-year-old was killed by family dog; owner sees death as tragic accident but defends the breed as loving pets
Hours before being mauled to death by the family pit bull, 12-year- old Nicholas Faibish had been told to stay in the basement separated from the dogs, said his distraught mother, Maureen Faibish, who called The Chronicle on Saturday, trying to make sense of what she called a "freak accident."
"I put him down there, with a shovel on the door," said Faibish, who had left the boy alone with the dogs on June 3 to run some errands. "He had a bunch of food. And I told him, 'Stay down there until I come back.' Typical Nicky, he wouldn't listen to me."
Faibish said she was concerned that the male pit bull, Rex, was acting possessive because the female, Ella, was in heat. Apparently, Nicholas found a way to get the door open and come upstairs. At that point Faibish believes he walked in while the dogs were mating and was attacked by Rex.
"It was Rex, I know it in my heart," Faibish said. "My younger dog (Ella) was in heat and anyone who came near her, Rex saw as a threat. He may have been trying to mate. It was a freak accident. It was just the heat of the moment."
Faibish felt compelled to call The Chronicle, she said, because she was upset by comments in a Saturday column that disparaged family members who own pit bulls.
In the column an Oakland surgeon who often treats bites by pit bulls said, "when you have an animal like that in your house you are recklessly endangering your family."
"They made it sound like we put our kids in a war zone," Faibish said in a phone conversation. "That's not true. My kids got along great with (the dogs). We were never seeing any kind of violent tendencies."
Authorities on Saturday said they had no indication that the dogs had bitten Nicholas prior to the attack, but may have menaced him previously.
On the day of the attack, Maureen Faibish arrived at the family home at 711 Lincoln Way about 3:15 p.m. to discover her son's lifeless body in a front bedroom. His face had been mauled, and he was covered with bite wounds and had a hole in his scalp from the attack.
She hasn't been allowed back into the home because of the police investigation, she said. She has been staying with her father, who lives a few blocks away.
She talked to The Chronicle by telephone and later at her father's home where, sitting on a couch and wrapped in a blanket, Faibish held back tears as she spoke about her son and the day he died.
"It's Nicky's time to go," she said. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time."
After police were called to the family's home the day of the attack, an officer shot and killed Ella when the dog prevented him from entering the apartment. Rex was captured in the backyard and taken to the animal shelter.
The family had been packing for a move, and her husband, Steve Faibish, was out of town. Their two other children were also not home.
Maureen Faibish said she put Nicholas rather than the dogs in the basement because the room, which also served as a playroom for the children, was filled with plastic bags in preparation of their move. She figured the dogs would have destroyed the bags filled with clothes.
Before she left the house, Faibish sent her 9-year-old son to the store to buy Nicholas a soda, bagel and chips. He also had video games to keep him busy.
"Nicky was happy down there," she said.
Faibish declined to say what triggered such concern that she insisted her son stay in the basement, away from the dogs.
"I don't want to go into any of that detail," she said. "That's between me and the detectives."
Clearly struggling with her emotions, Faibish said the death of her son had become "a media frenzy." On one hand, she continued to defend pit bulls and her dogs.
"Even after the whole thing," she said, "I'm not mad at my dogs. I just love them to death."
Nicky had not known life without pit bulls, she said. When he was a baby, the family had Rex 1.
Ella and Rex II were "family dogs," Faibish said. They spent most of their time inside the house, slept in bed with the children every night and woke Maureen Faibish up every morning by licking her face. Ella was trained to lick her makeup off and kiss her ear.
"The police killed the wrong dog if you ask me," Faibish said.
She would never want Rex back in their house.
"Absolutely not," Faibish said. "I told them I wanted him put down. I think of Rex as someone who molested my child, murdered my child."
Faibish's comments captured the confusion and mixed feelings pit bulls can bring out in their owners. She spoke of Rex waking Nicholas and her up in the morning by licking their faces.
"He's the most loving and giving dog in the world," she insisted. "There were no violent tendencies in him at all."
Nor, she said, would she caution families who have pit bulls as pets. In the wake of this tragedy, some parents are wondering if they should keep their pit bulls.
"Oh, they should keep their pit bulls," Faibish said. "Even though my son has been killed in a tragic accident, I don't think they should be banned. You've just got to worry about them when they are in heat. I didn't know Rex was going to be so possessive."
Faibish said she and her husband decided not to spay or neuter their dogs because they wanted their puppies. She said Rex had been eager to mate with Ella, but the female dog was resisting his advances.
"I used to say to Ella, just go ahead and let him do it," Faibish said. "Get it over with."
Deeply remorseful, Faibish says she continues to think of what she might have done differently. For one, she wishes she'd persuaded Nicholas to go to a picnic with his younger sister, Ashley.
But she insists, "I have no regrets about that day," Faibish said.
She's also fed up with the second-guessing from public figures who, she feels, do not understand the situation. She says San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who made strong comments about restricting pit bulls, got an earful when he called.
"Just for the record, I yelled at Gavin Newsom," she said. "I told him off. How dare him say anything about my family?"
Newsom spokesman Peter Ragone said Saturday the mayor is deeply remorseful over her loss.
"Certainly, she's going through a very difficult time, and we extend our deepest sympathy to her for her loss," said Ragone.
Ragone said the mayor must also consider what policies should be taken regarding the wider issue of public safety.
"There's no question about the fact that the mayor, like most in the city, believe actions must be taken to prevent tragedies like this from occurring in the future," Ragone said.
While the public debate about pit bulls rages on, Faibish is left with the memories of her son, a popular and good-natured sixth-grader at Roosevelt Middle School.
"This isn't about a dog," she said. "This is about my boy. My precious little boy."


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Christmas-Crazy Neighborhoods
Each holiday season, residents of these seven communities come together to create the most spectacular Christmas lighting and decoration displays in the country.
By: Alyson McNutt English
Photo By: Visit Baltimore
Peacock Lane: Portland, Ore.
Residents of this southeast Portland neighborhood make sure their holiday light displays live up to their street's colorful namesake. A tradition since the 1920s, Peacock Lane's decor definitely has glimmer and glitz, but it also strives to be different, with rotating Christmas trees and lifelike replicas of Santa and Frosty the Snowman. You can safely stroll down Peacock Lane on "pedestrian only" nights, or pick up a ride in a horse-drawn carriage that will deliver you to the neighborhood and back to your car in style.
34th Street: Baltimore, Md.
Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood hosts its own miracle on 34th Street every year when this famously named block lights up the night with their Christmas spirit. This is a true homegrown Christmas effort: You won't find professionally styled lighting or corporate-sponsored displays here. Rather, the residents of 34th Street create their own look for their own lawns, and everyone pitches in to create a miraculous holiday show. The neighborhood's row house-style homes feature loads of lights as well as other fun decor, including inflatable snow globes, a hubcap Christmas tree with a bike-rim snowman, and overhead Christmas trains.
Dyker Heights: Brooklyn, N.Y.
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but Christmas lights take center stage in the Dyker Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn. Year after year, the competitive New York spirit drives homeowners in Dyker Heights to outdo one another, which makes for a fantastic show for Christmas-decor devotees. Make it a night by trying the "Christmas and Cannoli" bus tour that offers a comprehensive tour of Dyker Heights, as well as a pit stop where you can warm up (and fill up) with hot chocolate and cannolis from a local pastry shop.
37th Street: Austin, Texas
What you'll find on 37th Street in Austin isn't exactly your average Christmas lights display. Then again, what else would you expect from the city that prides itself on "keeping it weird"? During the Christmas season, lawns on 37th Street are adorned with festively lit lawnmowers and funky homemade holiday art. And the residents don't stop there: holiday lights span rooftops and light poles, making 37th Street's Christmas show a shimmering sight to behold.
Snug Harbor Estates: Cocoa Beach, Fla.
One of the biggest holiday tourist draws in south Florida doesn't have anything to do with the beach: It's the Christmas lights display in the Snug Harbor Estates neighborhood in Cocoa Beach. The brilliant displays are widely known in the area, and you can expect to find long lines at peak light-cruising hours in the early evening. (The streets leading into the neighborhood are even patrolled by the police on super-busy weekend evenings).
Christmas Lake Village: Santa Claus, Ind.
When you live in a city called "Santa Claus," people expect you to get pretty excited about Christmas. The residents of this Indiana town's Christmas Lake Village neighborhood take on the Christmas challenge with aplomb. For a few days each December, the neighborhood opens its gates to the public and thousands flock to see the dramatic decorations and luminous light shows organized by residents.

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In the first part of this post which was posted last week, I talked about how the energies of the year has started to be quite challenging. To make it easier for you to understand it, I have taken to share the article here again:
Late last year, I wrote that the lunar year 2017 would become challenging at the start of the 3rd quarter until the last quarter. The third quarter dawn upon us a lot of calamities both manmade (economic/political) and it is very likely that there is something that has started in the 3rd quarter whose effect we will feel this last quarter of the lunar year (November, December, January) or will feel it's effect next lunar year, which starts in February 16, 2018.
The remaining energies of the year is not very nice, it is quite hostile, and this would most likely be felt in the financial aspect, although technically speaking all fronts are affected – personal, health, and political or even natural aspect.
There will be some economic of financial imbalanced and money will be quite hard to come in, so it is highly advisable for you everyone to have a strong wealth or money amulet. The VAISRAVANA – DZAMBHALA WEALTH AMULET is a very good amulet to have because it helps ensure stability and it helps create not just attracts money luck or wealth luck or financial luck.
Politically speaking, and even personally level, it might be a little more chaotic, so politicians are advised to have the Ruyi to strengthen their power and or the Vajrapani Ruel. On a personal level this will manifest in having more arguments, blockage to success or career path and also lost of support.
Health wise some people might be more prone to accidents and/or illness, thus it would be nice to have the gold Kalachakra pendant and/or the Illness Suppression Amulet.
Overall speaking, one has to protect oneself and wearing images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas should help. I personally suggest wearing the image of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (also known as Earth Store Bodhisattva or Di Zhang Wang Pu Sa). I also strongly recommend for one to wear the FOUR DHARMAKYA RELIC MANTRAS WITH THE LAMA ASTISHA AMULET, an amulet that I have previously written. You can read more about it by clicking here.
It is also highly advisable for everybody to start saving up and plan for long-term financial investments.
If it's any relevance, it is not only me who is saying this, other reputable Feng Shui experts or writers are saying the same thing. The world famous Malaysian Chinese Feng Shui expert and writer, Lillian Too, has also announced the same thing. A friend told me that she has shared some mantras that you can chant to protect yourself by downloading her video for a fee.
As for me, I have shared with you the amulets that one would need to protect oneself from these hostile energies brought about by the last quarter.
However, as per consultation with Guru Lama, there some mantras that you can chant also. Please note that these mantras should be chanted under deep meditation, with a minimum of 108x (one full mala) or under extreme condition, chant 10 full malas of 1,080x each.
The protection mantras one should recite are the following:
Mantra of Buddha Amitabha: OM AMI DEWA HRIH
Mantra of Medicine Buddha: TADYATHA OM BHEKANDZYE BHEKANDZYE MAHA BHEKANDZYE RADZA SAMUGATE SOHA
Mantra of Buddha Namgyalma: OM BHRUM SOHA OM AMARITA AYUR DADAY SOHA
Note: Buddha Namgyalma is powerful protector Buddha.
Mantra of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara: OM MANI PADME HUM
Note: Avalolitesvara Bodhisattva is also known as Guan Shi Yin / Guan Yin / Kuan Shi Yin / Kuan Yin / Quan Shi Yin / Quan Yin / Kannon / Goddess of Mercy / Bodhisattva of Compassion / Chenrezig.
Mantra of Bodhisattva Earth Store: OM AH KSITIGARBGA THALENG HUM
Note: Earth Store Bodhisattva is also known as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Mantra of Bodhisattva Vajrapani: OM VAJRAPANI HUM
Mantra of the White Umbrella Goddess – Ushnisha Sitataputra: TADYATHA OM ANALE ANALE KHASAME KHASAME BHAYRE BHAYRE SAUMA SAUME SARVA BUDDHA ADISTHANA ADISHTHITE SOHA OM SARVA TATHAGATHA USHNISHA SITATAPUTRA HUM PHAT HUM MAMA HUM NE SOHA
Protective Mantra of Tantric Deity Kalachakra: OM AH HUM HO HAM KSHAMALA VARAYA HUM PHAT
Mantra of King Vaisravana of the Four Heavenly Kings: OM VAISRAVANA YE SOHA
Mantra of Yellow Dzambhala: OM DZAMBHALA DZALIN DRAYE SOHA
If you find yourself extremely affected in the financial aspect and you don't have the VAISRAVANA – DZAMBHALA WEALTH AMULET, aside from the above mantras you can add the following:
Mantra of the Wealth Granting Tara: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE DANAM ME DADA SOHA
Mantra of the Green Dzambhala: OM KARMA DZAMBHALA AH SOHA
Mantra of the White Dzambhala: OM PADMO KRODA ARYA DZAMBHALA HRIH DAYA HUM PHAT
Mantra of the Red Dzambhala: OM DZAMBHALA DZALIN DRAYE DANAM MEDIHI HRIH DAKINI DZAMBHALA SAMBHARA SOHA
Mantra of the Blue/Black Dzambhala: OM DZAMBHALA DZALIN DRAYE BASHU DHARINI SOHA
If you wish to know more about the Five Dzambhalas (also spelled as Dzambala, Jambhala, Jambala, Zambhala, Zambala) please click here.
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Triple Canopy
- March 11, 2014 7:00 PM
March 11 – Triple Canopy is a magazine based in New York. Since 2007, Triple Canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and designers, Triple Canopy produces projects that demand considered reading and viewing. Last summer, as part of the MoMA PS1 exhibition EXPO 1: New York, Triple Canopy organized Speculations ("The Future is ________"), an installation and fifty-day series of presentations, discussions, and performances in which artists, writers, technologists, economists, academics, activists, and economists were invited to place speculative bets on the future. Triple Canopy's resistance to the atomization of culture and efforts to enrich the public sphere through sustained inquiry and creative research, have set apart the magazine and earned it much recognition and praise. Most recently, Triple Canopy was selected to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2014 Biennial, opening March 7. Such a distinction is unusual for a magazine, but comes as no surprise given Triple Canopy's unbridled enthusiasm, intelligence, and confidence in its many endeavors at the intersection of visual art, literature, criticism, publishing, curating, and technology. For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, Triple Canopy editors Lucy Ives and Alexander Provan discuss Pointing Machines, the magazine's project for the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Triple Canopy, Pointing Machines (Chestertown, Maryland), 2013. Series of photographs.
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern
This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public each Tuesday from February 4 through April 8. Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Museum's auditorium. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250; a live broadcast of the presentations is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Free admission tickets (limit two) are available at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. The Museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday evenings during the series.
Café Modern serves cocktails, salads, and appetizers on Tuesday nights during the lecture series.
Podcasts of these lectures are available here, two weeks after presentation date.


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Kim Anning
Kim has vast experience in the Perth jazz scene from his start with J.T. and the Jazzmen and freelance work backing many visiting overseas acts, to a ten year stint in a restaurant playing solo instrumental guitar.
More recently he has been putting together special projects for Jazz Fremantle and the Perth Jazz Society and performing in duet with jazz diva Libby Hammer as well as leading his own band Blue Monk.
He can provide an intimate background with some smooth jazz standards from Tom Waits, Cole Porter, Gershwin and Richard Rogers to Dave Brubeck and A.C. Jobim, (vocal and instrumental, without backing tracks) with a touch of blues and even the odd pop song jazzed up.
Kim can also be hired in a duo, trio or quartet.
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The Jersey Shore cast has been vocal about their desire to help out those affected by Hurricane Sandy and it isn't just talk. Aside from the upcoming 'Restore the Shore' fundraising special, Vinny, Snooki, JWoww and the ganag have been pitching in any way they can. Snooki has been donating items, Vinny has been helping with cleanup and JWoww is turning her promotional events into not just celebrity meet 'n greets, but a call to action.
On Wednesday the reality TV star, aka Jenni Farley, turned an Ab Cuts promotional appearance at a GNC store in NYC into a canned good drive for the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
We all made fun and recoiled at these Shore party animals when they burst onto the scene three years ago, but they are showing their true colors as they step up to help this area of Jersey that made them famous! Be sure to tune in on Thursday night for the MTV special!


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The Bramwell Aristocrat
A Forgotten Hero
February 1990
A Forgotten Hero
His Country gave him its highest military honor. The State of his birth named a bridge in his honor. A tree grows in the Bronx, dedicated to his memory and a ferry boat bore his name. The Satuday Evening Post called him 'The Hero of Hill 543'.
His name was Cornilius [sic] Charlton. Out on WV Hway 12, between Bramwell and Pocahontas, if you listen hard on particularly dark and foggy nights, you might hear the faint sound of 'taps'. For it is there, in an overgrown cemetery, that Connie Charlton lies.
The DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, in General Order No. 30, states;
By direction of the President, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty, is awarded posthumous to the following named enlisted man.
Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton Company C, 24th Regiment, 25th Division U.S. Army Infantry
Sergeant Charlton distinguished himself in action against the enemy near Chipo-ri, Korea on 2 June 1951. His platoon was attacking heavily defended hostile positions on commanding ground when the leader was wounded and evacuated. Sergeant Charlton assumed command, rallied the men and spearheaded the assault against the hill. Personally, eliminating two hostile positions and killing six of the enemy with his rifle fire and grenades, he continued up the slope until the unit suffered heavy casualties and became pinned down. Regrouping the men, he led them forward only to be again hurled back by a shower of grenades. Despite a severe chest wound, Sergeant Charlton refused medical attention and led a third charge which carried to the crest of the ridge. Observing that the remaining emplacement which had retarded the advance was situated on the reverse slope, he charged it alone, was again hit by a grenade but raked the position with a devastating fire which eliminated it and routed the defenders. The wounds received during his daring exploit resulted in his death, but his indomitable courage, superb leadership and gallant self sacrifice reflect the highest credit upon himself, the Infantry and the military service
Date of award: 24 January 1952
Connie Charlton had been born in 1929 at Eastgulf, Raleigh County, West Virginia. His mother, the former Clara Thompson of Taz[e]well County, Virginia, and father Van took the family to New York, the Bronx, in 1944. It was there he enlisted in the Army, in 1946 after graduating from Monroe High School.
He liked the army and had decided to make it a career. He served with the occupation army in Germany and in 1950 was shipped to the orient.
He was Regular Army, with all the pride that carried, in a dirty little War that had yanked reservists from home and job to man the battle line against communism. Secure as a Sergeant Major in an engineering group some 100 miles behind the lines, Connie requested transfer to an infantry outfit, the 24th Regiment, the only black regiment still operational in the U.S. Army.
Charlton was assigned as squad leader, third platoon, and in May when the Eighth Army jumped off on a push north he went along with 'Charlie Company'.
Some forty years later, Seoul would host the Olympics a scant fourteen miles southwest of their position on what was called, at the time, the Lincoln Line. In 1951 it wasn't a game, it was War. Ten days later Connie Charlton was dead. Willard Colton, a magazine writer of the day, in a Saturday Evening Post feature story about Cornelius Charlton, wrote, " Connie never understood the forces that brought him all the way from Eastgulf, West Virginia, to that bloody hillside south of Chipo-ri, Korea. The cleavage of a republic, the greed of a cancerous ideology."
He was a soldier! A Regular Army soldier. He understood that and he knew what a soldier was supposed to do. Not stop and turn back from the enemy, but attack and move forward. The safe position for his men was not back, but ahead. He also understood that he was the platoon Sergeant, he was the leader and lead he did.
"Where does a soldier go?" Colton asked in his article. In 1951 to Chipo-ri. To Hill 543. To the pages of a big blue book entitled "Medal of Honor".
When Sergeant Charlton was brought home his mother wanted him buried in the Pocahontas Cemetery, because it was her family burial place.
The Cemetery was opened in 1942 by Emmett Bryant of Pocahontas and many black families in the area bought lots. It adjoins a Hebrew Cemetery and is near the original Pocahontas Cemetery. It is on the West Virginia side of the State Line and is in Mercer County. With the passing of Mr. Bryant there was no Cemetery Association to maintain the ground and so it has become overgrown and abandoned. The Medal of Honor Society, a national organization has begun a search for the final resting places of all Medal of Honor winners and in the search for Cornilius [sic] Charlton made contact with Ken Hechler, the West Virginia Secretary of State and a military historian. Hechler assisted in locating the cemetery. The grave itself has not been found, at this writing, because the Bryant Cemetery has for the most part, been completely overgrown.
The nearest relative is a brother, Arthur Charlton, who lives in Coalwood. Like the rest of the family, too far away to maintain the site. lt is obvious that since that day in 1951, when the Honor Guard completed the military funeral, few have visited the grave site.
The American Legion, in Raleigh County, has received permission of the family to move his remains from the abandoned cemetery to a military cemetery in the county of his birth.
Connie Charlton is at long last going home. Eastgulf is gone now, but he will be reburied with appropriate ceremony in a setting more in keeping with his status as a Medal of Honor recipient.
When he takes that last ride home, as the funeral coach travels up I-77, he will pass over the 'Charlton Bridge' that spans the Bluestone gorge. Past the site where in 1954 his mother, as a guest of Governor Marland, unveiled the Memorial Plaque that honored the 'Hero of Hill 543'.
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Add better support for Swim data to Strava
I am thinking about buying a Garmin Swim, but it is pretty useful if it cannot upload it's data to Strava. Is there a possibility that Garmin Swim will be supported?
edit: THANKS TO ALL THE SPORTERS REPLYING IN THE THREAD AND OF COURSE THE TEAM OF STRAVA!!! SWIM UPLOAD IS POSSIBLE FROM NOW ON!!!!
Strava Support edit: Although Strava currently accepts Swim data from Garmin devices, this forum can still be used to collect feedback on improvements we can make to allow swim data to be more useful and better displayed on Strava, for both swim metrics and swim activity data. Thanks for your feedback!


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Did you know that Snapchat's original name was Pic Boo? Or that they chose yellow… simply because none of the top 100 apps had yellow?
I learned those two things, and four more that left me inspired:
1. Evan made the point that social media is unnatural for both people and creativity. Real life conversations are ephemeral. That's why Snapchat doesn't have a feed. He also said the ability to quantify social hampers creativity. It takes away gut and instinct.
2. Brands are anything but ephemeral; they evolve who they are and their stories over long periods of time. That's not how we live and operate as humans. Brands need to work really hard to be relevant in social. They're not a "friend".
3. Evan was inspired by Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid, because he cared about art and the integrity of his decisions.
4. Joanna shared that Cosmo's most successful content on Snapchat's Discover was a 5 second video showing a woman from waist down, jumping into water wearing Ked's shoes. It was relatable, simple, and the right thing for a brand.
I'll end with a quote from Evan: "It's only been the last 10 years that conversations have been stored".
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A couple of weeks ago, when I was posting this article about Emma Watson, but really about Julia Roberts, I sent a video of that scene from Pretty Woman to Duana with a jizzy message about Julia attached. Duana, who appreciates Julia Roberts more than anyone else I know, wrote back:
She was a STAR. There hasn't been one since. Period. Maybe Carey Mulligan. I love her. I love that movie.
Carey Mulligan? Carey Mulligan and Julia Roberts?
It is a different time now. Julia Roberts might not be Julia Roberts if this were her time. And of course, personality-wise, there are very few similarities. But if we're talking about onscreen presence, and that rare ability to light every frame with nothing more than a widening of the eyes or a twitch of the mouth (Julia's really great at that move), Carey does indeed have It too. She obviously had It all over An Education. And it's why she became the undisputed Daisy in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming The Great Gatsby, when she was one of the last to audition, after which Leonardo DiCaprio declared admiringly:
"Well . . . I guess that's the Next Big Thing in acting."
This quote (part of a Luhrmann anecdote) appears in the new issue of Vogue featuring Carey as Daisy and she is styled so beautifully, not even Mario Testino could ruin it with his lack of imagination. I love this editorial. And I imagine Duana will too, especially that green velvet vintage-inspired dress on the cover.
Excerpts from Carey's interview are making headlines now, particularly her comment about Daisy being like a Kardashian. As I wrote the other day about Robert Downey Jr's GQ piece (click here for a refresher), some articles should not be excerpted. An article about Kellan Lutz? Go for it. But when the subject is an RDJ or a Carey Mulligan? You need to read it in its entirety -- for context, yes, but also for flow, to really get a complete picture of who she is from the profile, and especially how she arrives at her conclusions. Which, in this case, was through studying archival information on F Scott Fitzgerald and his companions, and developing her character approach based on his creative inspirations.
Daisy was written as the symbol of a man's ambition to be accepted into a society to which he would never truly belong. She was never intended to be profound. She was deliberately intended to be shallow, a girl who lived as though she was constantly being watched as opposed to a girl who just lived, authentically. Because ultimately Gatsby's objectives -- his obsessions -- were hollow. If his ultimate goal was any more than an illusion, it would have undermined a critical point of the entire story: that the dreams we chase are often best left as dreams. And in the pursuit of those dreams, we manufacture false realities around ourselves.
By that interpretation, OF COURSE Daisy is Kanye West's girlfriend. Carey is not wrong.
But you would know that if you read the Vogue article from start to finish.
And while we're at it, on a meta, meta, meta level, Fitzgerald was always forthcoming about his goal for Gatsby -- he wanted it to be his masterpiece, for which he would be recognised as a literary great. You could say then that he was doing it to become a star. Not unlike how Gatsby was fronting for membership into high society and how the Kardashians perform to the camera in exchange for fame. Gatsby's facade and the Kardashians' were built on a series of mistruths. We are fortunate then that Fitzgerald had legitimate talent to support his aspirations.
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Michigan's Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital upgraded the condition of its food by adding a greenhouse. Michelle Lutz oversees production of vegetables, fruits and herbs, used in preparations such as braised romaine salad. / Photos courtesy of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
Greenhouse seedlings, transplants are ready six to eight weeks early and you can grow Out-of-Season Treats in winter! Pest and disease free equals greater production! For institutions like hospitals, greenhouses are workhorses! A greenhouse is a most valuable part of a productive home garden. Seedlings are ready for earlier planting. Hospitals want the best food possible for the health of their patients, and can't afford to be weather dependent.
As a home gardener in coastal SoCal areas you may question the need for a greenhouse. Though unheated, ours at our mile-from-the-beach community garden is well used! We often run out of space for everyone's seedlings as we get closer to planting time or the weather warms! Even unheated, an enclosed space is heated by the sun during the day and doesn't get so cold at night, no chilling winds or late freezes in there! Seedlings are protected from marauding pests, birds, walkabout creatures. Foothills and inland gardeners get more heat and more COLD! They really can use greenhouses to advantage.
In addition to starting preseason transplants, in a heated greenhouse you can grow out of season tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, cucumbers, beans, eggplant, zucchini, cantaloupe! Herbs, chard, raspberries and strawberries! And winter crops too if you just have too much snow outside!
Your greenhouse doesn't need to be huge or showy. It just needs to do the job.
Super options!
Our land is flat, but yours might have slopes and you could choose to have an earth shelter space complete with indoor shower! See also Heating Greenhouses Without Electricity!
Greenhouses come in a vast variety of shapes from squares to pillowdomes! Buy a premade kit or design and build it yourself entirely to your specs.
You can have a 2′ wide up against the chimney mini to a palatial entire rooftop greenhouse with an elegant view!
You may have a built in the ground greenhouse cousin, a cold frame, or an indoor kitchen window box.
Materials vary from hoop frames to the fanciest filigree and glass, cob or strawbale! They can be spanking new, made of have-arounds, or be recycled from demolition sites! Covering materials can be poly films, panels, glass and glazing. There are so many new products, techniques, new research, all the time, and each person's needs are so different, it is wise to check these things out for yourself. Talk with several 'experts' on each topic. Read up online. Compare. See what you really want. See what will do the best job for your needs.
Barclay Daranyi uses hoop houses for growing, storage and raising chickens at Indian Ridge Farm in Norwood, Colorado. Photo by Barton Glasser
If you have space for a larger greenhouse, consider gardening some of your crops in it! Hoop houses, or high tunnel farming is a recent invention. They are certainly the larger version of traditional row covers! There are huge commercial installations. Yet home made hoop houses can be no bigger than 8X8, so easy to put up a child can do it! Check out Rodale's HOOP HOUSES 101
- Season extension is the #1 advantage. 30 days on the front end and 30 days on the back end of the growing season is equivalent to moving your farming operation 400 miles to the south!
- Yields increase when your plants are protected from excessive rain and wind. When a more ideal growing temperature is maintained, a reduction in temperature-related stress, fruit set, fruit size increases.
- There is no bolting, so no loss of your plant's production.
- Because temperatures are maintained, you can plant when you want to, not have to wait until conditions are favorable.
- Soil conditions are more controlled, less moist, less to no fungi – wilts, blights.
- No pests, no pesticides! No birds, small mammals.
- Plus, they are movable!
Energy efficient attached greenhouses make a lot of sense. The home, and these bricks, help heat the greenhouse for free! Some attached greenhouses are beautiful walkin sunrooms, garden rooms, conservatories!
If you decide to build a greenhouse yourself, first check on local ordinances and with your neighbors. Place it conveniently, near electrical and water access if possible. Choose a location with a winter angle for maximum light, as much sun as possible. Use trees for windbreaks if necessary.
Know your prevailing wind direction, be sure it is well anchored. Use concrete blocks with eye hook attachments, sink posts or anchoring stakes, or use sand, not rocks, on the windward base cover.
Your roof choice tells us what kind of weather you have! Steep slopes and insulated lower areas tell us you are in high cold country with snow and need to decrease your heating costs. Medium slopes with rounded shoulders are good in windy and rainy areas. An extended slope on one side that faces the sun tells us you may get a lot of shade from trees on one side.
Doors make a difference. If you are in a windy area, you might choose sliding doors that can be secured and weather stripped versus velcroed flaps, zippers or swing out doors that blow away or animals could get through.
Ventilation is key! Hot days are hot! In two shakes a greenhouse can to get up to 110 degrees! Doors and windows can be the vents if intruders are not an issue, otherwise, ceiling vents are best. Solar devices can be set to open when temps hit a high level. Fans may be needed.
Electrical! Get advice from a greenhouse experienced professional because of the extreme conditions: heat, wet, cold. Make sure that person knows local codes
Consider solar lights, vent openers, fans or simply long sloped sides to have lots more solar energy as in the image!
Growlights? Yes!
Night light to see by
Computer monitor
Irrigation tips! Put your timer OUTSIDE! Make & see your adjustments without getting wet! Mini drop down sprayers or foggers at varying adjustable heights along an overhead line are fabulous! Consider recycling your water – is it legal to use grey water where you live? Collect rainwater.
A word about Damping Off. Damping off is a common problem with seedlings started in containers, indoors or in greenhouses. Per Planet Natural: 'Several fungi can cause decay of seeds and seedlings including species of rhizoctonia, fusarium and phytophthora. However, species of the soil fungus pythium are most often the culprit. Damping off typically occurs when old seed is planted in cold, wet soil and is further increased' by poor soil drainage.
The super simplest prevention is Cinnamon! Just sprinkle it on the soil! Sprinkle on plant injuries and they will heal. It is a rooting hormone. Mildew, mold, fungal diseases? Mix 4 tablespoons cinnamon in a half gallon warm water, shake it vigorously, steep overnight. Strain through a sieve or coffee filter and put it in a spray bottle. Add ¼ teaspoon liquid dish soap as a surfactant, lightly spritz your plants, undersides and tops of leaves! (In Santa Barbara area buy it in big containers at Smart & Final.) Also, it repels ants!
Pathway and Flooring best for your plants and feet! Have a sturdy pathway that stands up to wheelbarrow use. A non muddy pathway saves your greenhouse floor. A raised flooring keeps you from having a muddy mess. Drainage is necessary so there is no rot or mold. Heated flooring is the best. There are great options, more and less expensive! Concrete, rubber matting saves your feet. Dirt, my last choice, and/or pavers. Decomposed granite, pea gravel, raised wooden slats, pallets, straw, chips – use weed mat underneath! Use pest protection wire under weed mat and soft flooring choices. No gophers, no mice, squirrels, bunnies or snakes, thank you.
Shelves and Worktable
Make your work table a good working height for you!
Shelving needs to be safe and well supported
Construct your shelves wire covered like the top shelves in the image, or like the lower shelves, out of spaced boards so water drains, the boards dry, there is no mildew or mold.
Enough space between boards makes it easy to clean
Or use open wire metal shelving that allows drainage and dries
If there is lower shelving, slant it down from back to front
- so you can see what is in the back
- It is easier to get items in back out – keep heavier items to front
- No water clings to it – stays dry, no rot or mold
OR some say don't have bottom shelves so there is no nesting space for mice or chipmunks – they WILL eat your plants! You want to be able to SEE the ground! Depends on how critter secure your house is.
Rather than just the greenhouse, consider a 4 part working complex! A storage shed, the greenhouse, a covered work area and hardening off area.
Tool & Gear Storage could hold your tools and supplies!
Wheelbarrow, all tools – shovel, rake, pitchfork, spade fork
Small tools – trowel, clippers, sprayers
Bags of compost, potting mixes etc
Plug trays, biodegradable containers, labels
Gloves, apron, work boots, jacket
Greenhouse gear & replacement materials
Greenhouse Support Supplies!
Heating gear – heaters, heating mats
Cooling systems – fans
Irrigation, misting items
Lighting – grow light, night light
Thermostat, humidity (no mold), temperature devices, CO2 generators
Secure, safe-for-children and pets, dry storage containers
Your Workspace needs a sun shade top and wind screen side. It would be a good place for your composter, worm bin and might be a good place for your rain collector barrels
Care and Maintenance
Seasonal checks, reset watering needs, replace brittle coverings
Routine cleaning inside and out
Sterilize propagation area
Ventilation – Heat, condensation. Insulation – Frost
Deal with pests and diseases immediately!
Greenhouses made of reused doors and windows are much more green than recycling!
Sustainable Greenhouses are often compost or solar heated!
They have heated benches and floor because root zone temperatures are more critical to plant growth than leaf temperatures. By maintaining an optimum root zone temperature, greenhouse air temperatures can be lowered 15° F!
LED's balance good light, cooler temps
Hydroponics (preferably aeroponics) remove excess heat and water vapor
CO2 is recycled by breaking down old plant debris in a digester
Soluble components of the plant debris can be incorporated back into the nutrient solutions.
Sustainable Sources to stir your thinking!
- Eco-Friendly Greenhouses
- Sustainable Architecture, Greenhouse Book & Video List
- Kiva's straw bale greenhouse – the time & money it takes
Fresh City Tomatoes, Any Time! On his way home from the office, the computer scientist harvests tomatoes from his company's rooftop greenhouse. No food miles! Why not produce lettuce, beans and tomatoes where most of the consumers are to be found: in the city? The flat roofs of many buildings are well-suited for growing vegetables. Rooftop greenhouses can also make use of a building's waste heat and cleaned waste water. Solar modules can do the rest. This uptown rooftop greenhouse urban garden is in Germany. Image courtesy of Fraunhofer UMSICHT.
Greenhouse Conferences! Tradeshows, sustainable, educational. Local, international! If you love greenhouses, might want to do urban agriculture business, just want to get involved, check these out online. There are different sponsors, different locations each year!
Whatever your special connection is, in SoCal, before our winter rains and cooler weather, late summer, early fall are perfect for getting your very own fine greenhouse up and running! If you miss that window, very early in the new year is good so you can start seedlings for early March plantings!
You might decide to sleep in it the first night!
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Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic! Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara's community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are often in a fog belt/marine layer most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is.


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MOVIE REVIEW-Apocalypse redux: Book of Eli is doom-y and gloomy.
Considering how long it takes to get a movie made, Hollywood's depression must have started before the current economic downturn. In fact, maybe things were going so well they thought we'd be up for a little doom and gloom on screen.
Whatever the reason, in less than four months we've had three movies (The Road, 2012 and The Book of Eli) set during or after an apocalypse (to be followed by the verge-of-apocalypse Legion) and two set after some kind of event that turned almost everyone into vampires (Daybreakers) or zombies (the decidedly lighter Zombieland).
The Book of Eli begins like The Road with more product placement but evolves into if not a feelgood version, at least a "Good News" version. It's "Mad Max" for the Tyler Perry crowd.
In the beginning of the end, we eventually learn, "The War tore a hole in the sky," and most of the people who weren't fried were blinded. Whoever took charge of whatever was left decreed that all Bibles should be burned, but Eli (Denzel Washington) heard a voice telling him to hold on to one and travel westward with it until he finds the place where it can be useful.
Thirty years have passed. Eli must be a slow walker, unless he can walk on water–which is not impossible, considering the other superpowers he manifests. Attacked by six hijackers, one armed with a chainsaw, he smites them all with his terrible swift sword. He's got the survival thing down pat, from shooting small game with a bow and arrow for food to taking shoes off corpses to bathing with HandiWipes from fast food restaurants.
Eli's travels through the bleak, colorless landscape bring him to a small community ruled by Carnegie (Gary Oldman), who turns out to be a fellow Bible-follower ("I grew up with it. I know its power....It's not right to keep that book hidden away. It's meant to be shared")– but not a nice one ("It's a weapon aimed at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate. It'll give us control over them").
With a gang of thugs doing his bidding, Carnegie already has power over this town, but he's apparently got franchising in mind. He's been sending "road crews" out to round up whatever books they can find, in hopes that a Bible will be among them. Now one walks into town with Eli.
Among those in Carnegie's thrall are blind Claudia (Jennifer Beals) and her daughter Solara (Mila Kunis), the hottest female on what's left of the planet. When Eli leaves, after besting most of Carnegie's troops in a gunfight, Solara begs to go along. Carnegie follows in a motorcade but they're unable to overtake the two pedestrians before dark.
The movie's full of silly mistakes, from Eli leaving arrows behind in men he's killed as if he has an unlimited supply, to a 78 r.p.m. record of a disco song from 1979, a good quarter-century after 78s were phased out. Though we're told hardly anyone is left who remembers the old days, few of the people we see look like members of the postwar generation.
It's interesting how Gary Whitta's screenplay sucks viewers into a standard, ultra-violent futuristic fantasy before revealing its true intent. The Bible serves as a MacGuffin, the thing opposing forces are fighting over, long before its identity, let alone its significance, is revealed.
Although there are some Christian messages along the way, the longest Bible passages spoken are both from the Old Testament.
The Hughes Brothers may have made The Book of Eli too arty for the action crowd and too violent for the church crowd without making it so good it transcends genre for a mass audience in search of a great movie. It'll be worth renting, but it's not good enough to avoid the trash heap of movies that show the Earth of the near future as a trash heap. #


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I love small plates, family style dinners because they offer variety to suit all tastes, can easily be scaled up or down to accommodate unplanned dinner guests, and allow you to experiment with different recipes and cuisines. One of my favorite house dinners this past year was our Greek inspired night: spanakopita (spinach phyllo pie), avgolemono soup (greek chicken lemon soup), roasted eggplant dip, and toasted pita. The spanakopita looks super impressive but is simple to prepare with the help of olive oil spray, and I promise the phyllo dough isn't as difficult to work with as everyone makes it out to be! It just takes a little bit of practice, like anything else. The spinach filling is jazzed up with the addition of feta and golden raisins, which give it a nice sweetness in contrast to the savory garlic and spinach. Other great additions to round out this meal include roasted eggplant dip, marinated peppers, celery and orange salad, spicy carrot salad and melon with honeyed yogurt, which all come from the June 2009 Everyday Food magazine!
simple spanakopita
Adapted from Martha Stewart
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- olive oil cooking spray
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 3 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 packages (20 ounces each) baby spinach
- 1 cup crumbled feta (4 ounces)
- 1/4 cup golden raisins, chopped
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 20 sheets frozen phyllo dough (from an 8-ounce package), thawed and cut to 8 by 12 inches
In a medium pan, heat oil over medium-high. Add onion and cook until golden, about 4 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, 1 minute. Transfer to a large bowl. Return pan to heat. Working in batches, cook spinach, tossing, until wilted, about 1 minute. Drain spinach and let cool. Press out excess moisture, then roughly chop. Add spinach, feta, and raisins to bowl with onion and season filling with salt and pepper. (To store, refrigerate, up to 2 days.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unroll phyllo. Place 1 sheet on a work surface (keep remaining sheets covered with a damp kitchen towel to prevent drying); spray with oil. Lay another sheet on top and spray with oil. Repeat until you have 10 layers of phyllo.
Spread half of filling lengthwise down middle of phyllo stack.
Roll into a log, brushing the seam with oil before sealing.
Spray log with oil. Using a small sharp knife, make 8 diagonal cuts on top. Repeat with remaining phyllo and filling.
Place logs, seam side down, on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until deep golden brown, 45 to 50 minutes. Cut into slices along slashes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Thieves Caught With 700,000 Condoms
Police in Malaysia have busted up a ring of condom thieves, recovering roughly 700,000 pilfered rubbers.
Six men -- including some who work for a company that exports condoms -- were arrested after hundreds of boxes of prophylactics were found stashed in a warehouse and a home.
While the thought of all those condoms makes one chuckle, it's actually pretty serious business: the contraband goods are valued at 1.5 million dollars, and the thieves face ten years in prison.


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Zen Pinball's productive relationship with Marvel Entertainment has delivered 14 virtual tables to Pinball FX2 on the Xbox 360 and Marvel Pinball on the PS3, as well as on mobile devices. There's going to be a 15th table coming up soon: "Civil War," taken from the 2006 crossover continuity pitting Captain America versus Iron Man.
It's not two tables, just one, but players will be asked to choose which side they want to fight for, Iron Man (in favor of the Superhuman Registration Act) or Captain America (against it.) Either choice will create different allies and missions/boss battles for you. Cap might get help from The Punisher, whereas Iron Man gets an assist from the Thunderbolts.
A release date was not mentioned. "Civil War features amazing slow-motion combat animations Iron Man and Captain America, each battling for what they see is right," said an official news release. "The number of followers amassed to each cause determines the difficulty of each fight, as determined by striking the proper targets and ramps, some of which materialize in thin air."
Zen's pinball offerings are available on the PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
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I thought I heard somewhere that Thad Matta stated that Craft was the best defensive player he's ever recruited and there's little doubt he can run an offense. With that being said I'm going to say I feel he'll have a nice 4 years at OSU. Also wouldn't be surprised one bit if he's running that Buckeye offense as early as next year.
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Arvind Mahankali won the 86th National Spelling Bee Thursday night by spelling the word "knaidel." He chats with the TODAY anchors about his big win.
The seven-letter word "knaidel" crowned Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.Y., champion of the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, breaking his streak of bad luck in past years with spelling words of German origin.
"I thought a German curse has turned into a German blessing," Arvind said as he cradled the trophy Thursday. The word "knaidel" refers to a type of dumpling.
The boy finished third each of the last two years. His victory continues Indian-Americans' winning streak at the Bee -- although he is the first boy to win since 2008.
"I'm not nervous," Arvind, who admires Albert Einstein and wants to become a physicist, told The Associated Press before the finals, "because I think it's good to maintain composure."
Save for the occasional knuckle cracking and giggling, Arvind kept his composure while deflecting such challenging words as "glossophagine," "trichocercous," "thonnier" and "chalumeau."
The final took place Thursday night at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center outside Washington. Arvind took home $30,000 in cash and prizes and a large cup-shaped trophy.
Eleven contestants took the stage in the competition final, demonstrating their spelling prowess with words such as "auncel," "greffier," "envoutement," "mamaliga" and "transrhenane."
Fan-favorite Amber Born, 14, of Marblehead, Mass., was tripped up by "hallali."
Vismaya Kharkar, 14, of Bountiful, Utah, let out a long "No" as the bell dinged on "paryphodrome," eliminating her from the competition.
"It's been life-changing, I think," Vismaya said of being a part of the Bee.
The 11 young finalists had many reasons to be proud.
Not only have they battled stage nerves, obscure words and a newly introduced computerized test that included vocabulary questions, but they were also the last ones standing from a starting pool of 281 contestants.
A simple toll of the bell from judges marked each elimination in a tournament that brought together skilled spellers ages 8 to 14.
The vocabulary quiz introduced this year was part of the organizers' commitment to deepen participants' knowledge of the English language, Bee officials told Reuters. The first test was given in the preliminary phase.
The 42 semifinalists had to take a second computerized test on Wednesday evening.
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Spellers ranging in age from 8 to 14 descended on National Harbor, Md., for the annual contest.


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A high school student was expelled for selling his ADD medication to another student in exchange for bags of Cheez-It crackers.
The Courthouse News Service reports that the 15-year-old former student at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in St. Charles, Illinois was expelled after getting caught selling the medication. The student's mother claims the expulsion was illegal and she has filed a lawsuit.
She contends that while he did receive payments for his prescription medication in the form of crackers, chips and a very small amount of cash, he actually sold the meds to "to help his fellow student do better in school." She also claims that his behavior was "likely a manifestation of his disability."
The students mother is also seeking an injunction prohibiting the school from expelling her son because of his disability.


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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
On May 1, 2011, SCI President and Executive Director the Rev. David M. Rider took part in the TD Bank 5 Boro Bike Tour to raise money for the International Seafarers' Center at Port Newark.
Photos by the Rev. David Rider, President & Executive Director
The Seamen's Church Institute cares for the hardworking men and women of maritime commerce, but our mission would not be possible without the help of individuals, churches, corporations and foundations that work with SCI to meet their needs.


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Smith & Wesson shoots higherSeptember 7, 2012: 1:35 PM ET
Smith & Wesson's(SWHC) profits are surging as Americans buy guns at record levels.
Shares of the 160-year-old gunmaker shot up more than 16% Friday, after Smith & Wesson reported record first-quarter sales and earnings.
The gun manufacturing firm supplies handguns and pistols to consumers, the U.S. military and law enforcement officials, but in its earnings release, Smith & Wesson pointed to the consumer as the reason for its record results. Consumers' appetite for handguns, specifically pistols, helped the company double its sales for the quarter ended July 31, 2012.
Smith & Wesson upped its forecasts for 2013, noting a nearly $400 million backlog in orders. That's more than double its backlog this time last year, the company said.
Related: Smith & Wesson feels lucky, punk!
Smith & Wesson also noted that one of its newest products, the Shield, designed to be concealed, has been "highly favored and sought after by consumers."
Smith & Wesson's stock is up more than 140% this year. Shares of rival gunmaker Sturm Ruger (RGR) have racked up sizeable gains as well, rising 40% this year. Sturm Ruger's stock gained as much as 5% Friday before easing in afternoon trading.


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Put money in your pocket. That's what Obama senior advisor David Axelrod says the new administration wants to do with the middle-cass tax cut.
Despite the sagging economy, Axelrod says the President-elect will keep is campaing promise, sort of.
Axlerod also told NBC's "Meet the Press" that theadministration still plans to let President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire. Axlerod says those tax cuts skew to the wealthy, and "it's something we plainly can't afford."
Axlerod says letting Bush's tax cuts expire or eliminating them early while adding Obama's middle-class tax cut will "restore some balance" and end up being a "net tax cut."
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Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, 15
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride,
Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,
A thousand favours from a maund she drew
Of folded schedules had she many a one,
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A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh--
So slides he down upon his grained bat,
'Father,' she says, 'though in me you behold
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'His qualities were beauteous as his form,
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'So on the tip of his subduing tongue
'That he did in the general bosom reign
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'So many have, that never touch'd his hand,
'Yet did I not, as some my equals did,
'But, ah, who ever shunn'd by precedent
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'And long upon these terms I held my city,
'All my offences that abroad you see
'Among the many that mine eyes have seen,
'Look here, what tributes wounded fancies sent me,
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'The diamond,--why, 'twas beautiful and hard,
'Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,
'O, then, advance of yours that phraseless hand,
'Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,
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'O, pardon me, in that my boast is true:
'How mighty then you are, O, hear me tell!
'My parts had power to charm a sacred nun,
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'This said, his watery eyes he did dismount,
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'In him a plenitude of subtle matter,
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Kacey Musgraves, Chris Martin Perform 'Rainbow' At iHeartRadio Music Awards
By James Dinh
March 14, 2019
Kacey Musgraves continued her industry takeover when she took to the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, which was hosted by T-Pain on Thursday (March 14), with special guest Coldplay's Chris Martin and "Rainbow," the latest single from her critically acclaimed LP, Golden Hour.
Introduced by Bebe Rexha, the 30-year-old songstress appeared on the Microsoft Theater stage in a yellow one-piece without shoes on top of an oversized rainbow. Unlike her performance at the 61st Grammy Awards, Musgraves sat atop the huge prop in front of a backdrop of stars as Martin played the piano to the ballad, which she co-wrote with Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally. Back in December, the two previously performed the number at Global Citizen Festival's Mandela 100 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Well the sky has finally opened/ The rain and wind stopped blowin'/ But you're stuck out in the same ol' storm again/ You hold tight to your umbrella," she crooned during the hook. "Well, darlin', I'm just tryin' to tell ya/ That there's always been a rainbow hangin' over your head."
Beyond her performance, Musgraves also took home the award for Best Cover Song for her rendition of Shania Twain's "You're Still The One" with Harry Styles. It's the latest in a long string of accolades for the country titan. Not only did she conquer at the Grammys, but her "Oh, What A World: Tour" is sweeping the country with sold-out shows and she's set to hit both weekends of Coachella in April.
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|Olof Household Listing 1767, Canton, Lovö, Stockholm, Sweden.
1. Olof HELLSTEN,
born 1730 in Vrena, Södermanland, Sweden. He married Catarina WINQVIST (VINQVIST)
She was born in 1732 or 1737 in Stockholm, Sweden. She died 31 May 1777 in China, Lövo, Stockholm, Sweden.
Olof was a master tailor.
I have not found birth records for him or marriage records for them. Whether he was the first HELLSTEN, or not, I do not know.
According to Your Swedish Roots, Per Clememsson & Kjell Andersson, 2004, for many years Swedes used a patronymic naming system.
Example: Olor Andersson's son Erik would be Erik Olofsson and his daughter would be Britta Olofsdotter.
Some families chose names. "Many townspeople and others who didn't want to be perceived as "common folks" or wanted to distance themselves from the peasants adopted special family names.
The name was an important social marker. ... Many of these names are composed of features of nature, and they types of family names are sometimes called called "nature names." The names are just combinations of nature features; the combinations don't necessarily make sense, as with Dalberg, which is composed of "dal" (valley) and "berg" (mountain)."
Hellsten is made up of hell meaning "flat rock" and sten meaning "stone."
Maybe it doesn't make sense, maybe it described the landscape where they lived at the time. I remember riding thru the Sweden countryside, parts were rolling hills with lots of stones.
a. Johan Peter (13 February 1765 - ?)
b. Jonas (21 September 1767- abt 1820)
2. Jonas HELLSTEN,
born 21 September 1767 in Lövo, Stockholm, Sweden he died about 1820. I have found no information on his wife.
Jonas was a tanner and represented the Tanners Guild as an alderman in Uppsala, Sweden.
In June 1983, Alice Hellsten read the book Uppsala City History 1786-1862 and sent me the following information about Jonas:
"In March 1793 the 200 year celebration of Uppsala's church meeting was celebrated as an unusually democratic addition to the procession from the castle to the cathedral at the side of the magistrate was the chairman of the Elders, the tanner Jonas Hellsten and store owner Anders Yttraeus. ... In the spring of 1794 the falisfication of protocol was debated and the tanner Jonas Hellsten insisted that Yttraeus had falsified it and should be brought to court and now the interesting thing happened that no less than 13 of the Bergers who had participated in the meeting of the Elders immediately agreed with Hellsten. ... In the year 1808 he is mentioned as a newly elected treasurer. ... Around 1790 a number of upperclass citizens brought a complaint that the water in Fyrisan River was so badly polluted that it was unusable for all household use. One person about who it was complained was Jonas Hellsten and his tannery and it was requested that the tannery should be moved but Hellsten protested. And as he belonged to the leaders of the Elders, it was with a certain degree of relief of the Elders that they decided they did not have the power to prescribe such a measure that so strongly interferred with a single member's professional work. .... In 1810 (after the war against Russia) it was discussed about the payment and release of the soldiers. They wanted to entice young farm hands with high salaries to dress in the uniform of the state. They wanted to have special agreements with the people who signed up. It was felt that this was a difficult job and it was entrusted to a number of experienced elders and among them was found yet again alderman Hellsten. ... In May 1816 a general council was held and now the cities were supposed to regulate the salaries for the city workers. Dyntation should study this question and among them was found now the old Elder alderman Hellsten."
a. Eric (2 March 1786 - 24 March 1839)
3. Eric HELLSTEN,
born 2 March 1786 in Sweden, died 24 March 1839 in Uppsala, Domkyrkoförsamling, Sweden. On 6 January 1815 in Norrtälje, Stockholm, Sweden he married Lovisa Charlotta ROBBERT. She was born 21 August 1795 in Norrtälja, Stockholm, Sweden and died 25 November 1863 in Uppsala, Sweden.
|Death of Eric HELLSTEN, 24 March 1839
in Uppsala, Domkyrkofösamling, Sweden.
a. Lovisa Charlott (15 October 1815 - 7 November 1890)
b. Ingrid (Mari) Maria (11 February 1817 - 23 Jun 1880)
c. Gustava (Lina) Carolina (4 November 1818 - 21 February 1880)
d. Erica Wilhelmina (2 February 1820 - 27 April 1884)
e. Eric Adolf (27 February 1822 - 4 January 1903)
f. Matilda (Tilda) Bernhardina (22 April 1824 - 23 December 1889)
g. Carl Robert (14 June 1826 - 13 December 1909)
h. Ottiljana Josephina (20 March 1828 - 20 May 1910)
i. Edla Cecilia (25 July 1830 - 13 March 1910)
j. Theodor (Manne) Emanual (1 November 1832 - 9 June 1910)
k. Frans Elof (17 October 1833 - 27 December 1880)
l. Knut Alfred ( 27 January 1836 - 21 November 1891)
m. Oskar Eugén (5 November 1838 - 1 July 1900)
4. Eric Adolf HELSTEN,
born 27 February 1822, Uppsala, Domkyrkoförsamling, Sweden, died in Gaylordsville, Litchfield, Connecticut on 4 January 1903. On 12 August 1849 in Patterson, New York he married Mary HEARTY. She was born in March 1823 in Dorsey, Parish Creggan, County Armagh, Ireland and died 17 September 1902 in Gaylordsville, Litchfield, Connecticut.
|Birth of Eric Adolf HELSTEN in
Uppsala, Domkyrkoförsamling, Sweden.
a. Mary Louisa (7 June 1850 - 23 May 1942)
b. William Henry (7 September 1852 - 22 June 1917)
c. Caroline Matilda (13 February 1855 - 9 December 1918)
d. Sarah Jane (20 July 1860 - ?)
Eric Adolf was was the Eric HELSTEN who immigrated to the United States, changed the spelling of his last name slightly. He was trained as a tanner in Uppsala and opened a tannery in Gaylordsville. He is the person who took in John CARLSON and was later sued by John.
5. Caroline Matilda HELSTEN,
born 13 February 1855 in New Milford, Connecticut and died in Danbury, Connecticut on 9 December 1918. She married Charles Harold EVANS on 26 May 1881 in New Milford, Connecticut. He was born 23 May 1853 in Sherman, Connecticut and died 18 February 1928 on the train from Florida to NYC (near Savannah, Georgia).
a. Harold H (8 January 1883 - 8 May 1884)
b. Clarice Theodora (21 April 1884 - 7 July 1953)
c. Marion Elizabeth (11 February 1886 - 4 July 1974)
d. Howard Eric (7 July 1893 - January 1972)
6. Marion Elizabeth EVANS,
born 11 February 1886 in Sherman, Connecticut and died 4 July 1974 in New Milford, Connecticut.
On 13 September 1913 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, she married Robert Edward DAKIN. He was born 2 July 1888 in Gaylordsville, Connecticut and died 15 December 1918 in Danbury, Connecticut.
a. Robert Edward (25 May 1915 - 26 Ma 1915)
b. Theodore Robert (11 November 1916 - 1972)
c. Edward Evans (28 January 1918 - 10 December 1918)
7. Theodore Robert DAKIN,
born 11 November 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut and died 20 November 1972 in Berwyn, Illinois. On 8 January 1943 he married Alice Josephine RICHARDSON in Albany New York. She was born 26 January 1917 in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois and died 16 January 2001 in in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois.


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Etihad Guest Miles now offered on personal cargo
Etihad Cargo, part of Etihad Airways, has unveiled a new service whereby UAE residents who book personal cargo shipments can now earn Etihad Guest Miles and Tier Miles.
The new initiative is aimed at rewarding customers who send personal effects by air cargo, including furniture, automobiles, household objects, or even pets.
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Farmingdale State - 48, NYU-Poly - 39
Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Farmingdale women's basketball team used a late second half run with seven minutes to play to take a 48-39 conference victory over NYU-Poly (3-3, 0-1). The Rams improved to 2-3, 1-0 in the Skyline with the win.
In the first half, both teams were stuck in a defensive battle, seeing a span of six minutes without a basket. The Jays built up a six point lead before senior Margaux Pickell (Howell, N.J.) added a pair of free throws with 5:37 left to play.
With an eight point NYU-Poly advantage, 17-9, sophomore Tabitha Larsen (Ramsey, N.J.) hit another jumper to increase the lead to ten, but Farmingdale State went on a 9-0 run to end the half and would trail 19-18 at the break.
Senior forward Dominique Cunningham (Amityville, N.Y.) finished with a team-high 13 points. NYU-Poly was led by freshman Catherine Thompson (Spackenkill, N.Y.) who tallied a game-high 20 points.
Farmingdale State forced 22 turnovers, while giving the ball away just 12 times. The Rams also led the rebounding 52-45.
Next up for Farmingdale State is conference rival Old Westbury at home on Wednesday, December 7th at 6:00 p.m., followed by the men's game at 8:00 p.m.


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Sallie Krawcheck says U.S. banks still have issues.
"Accidents can and do happen," the former head of wealth management at Bank of America (BAC) said during an interview with Yahoo's The Daily Ticker early Wednesday. "JPMorgan (JPM) was easily able to weather [the London Whale losses], but the next one may not be."
For investors, this risk and related issues means that they should not put too big a chunk of their portfolio into individual bank stocks.
Krawcheck, who also was CFO at Citi Smith Barney (C), recently acquired 85 Broads, a global women's network, from its founder, the former Goldman Sachs executive Janet Hanson.
She acknowledges that banks are "certainly safer than they were" in 2008. "I think banks and money funds will do just fine in a bad market … "But I do worry about a very, very, very, very bad market."
Her chief concern is that banks continue to be undercapitalized.
During the downturn, some major banks had leverage ratios equal to 2% of assets, so "you can take a loss of 2% and [then] you're out of equity," Krawcheck says.
While today, the industry average is 8%, there is a risk that this "really is 4% to 6%," given the fact that banks can lose access to overnight funding if their capital reserves drop by 50%, the financial services veteran says.
Earlier this year, Krawcheck suggested that banks should change the way they pay their senior executives and stop paying them in stock.
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Russian police arrest 3 suspects in Bolshoi acid attack
Artistic director Sergei Filin suffered severe burns to eyes and face
Russian police said Tuesday they arrested three men in the acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet, including a star dancer suspected of masterminding the plot.
Sergei Filin was left with severe burns to his eyes and face when a masked attacker threw a jar of sulfuric acid in his face as he returned home late on Jan. 17. The 42-year-old former dancer is now undergoing treatment in Germany.
Interior Ministry spokesman Anatoly Lastovetsky said Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko is suspected of planning the attack.
Police also arrested the suspected perpetrator of the attack and the man believed to have driven him to and from the scene, the spokesman said. It was unclear whether either man had any connection to the famed ballet company.
Dmitrichenko, who joined the Bolshoi in 2002, has danced several major parts in recent years, including Ivan the Terrible in the ballet of the same name.
Bolshoi Theater spokeswoman Katerina Novikova said management was not aware of a conflict between him and Filin. Channel One state television reported that Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, however, also a Bolshoi soloist, was known to have been at odds with Filin.
Company plagued by intrigue, infighting
The Bolshoi Theater is one of Russia's premier cultural institutions, best known for Swan Lake and the other grand classical ballets that grace its stage. But backstage, the ballet company has been troubled by deep intrigue and infighting that have led to the departure of several artistic directors over the past few years.
Filin's colleagues have said the attack could be in retaliation for his selection of certain dancers over others for prized roles. Filin told state television before he checked out of a Moscow hospital that he knew who ordered the attack but would not name the person.
The Interior Ministry said the alleged perpetrator, 35-year-old Yury Zarutsky, was arrested in the Tver region north of Moscow. Earlier in the day, police had detained and questioned the suspected accomplice, whom the spokesman identified as Andrei Lipatov. No other details were provided.
Russian news agencies reported that Lipatov had been detained in the town of Stupino, a sprawling Moscow suburb that has summer houses owned by the Bolshoi Theater and used by its dancers and management. Dmitrichenko said in a recent interview that he was managing the dachas in his spare time.
In a February interview with Snob magazine, the Bolshoi's general director, Anatoly Iksanov, said the attack on Filin was inspired by longtime principle dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
"I don't blame that particular crime on him, but I'm accusing Nikolai of escalating the situation at the theatre, of putting psychological pressure on the theatre's staff and management, on Filin, on myself and teachers," he said.
Tsiskaridze, a long-time critic of the theatre's management, has denied the allegation and accused Iksanov and his allies of fueling the dispute.
Dmitrichenko's girlfriend, Anzhelina Vorontsova, was coached by Tsiskaridze.
Many ballet stars, including Anastasia Volochkova, have sided with Tsiskaridze. Alexei Ratmansky, the Bolshoi ballet's artistic director from 2004 until 2008, has likened the atmosphere at the theatre to "a disgusting cesspool" and said that the attack stems from "the lack of any ethics at the theatre."
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1957 Ford Ranch Wagon - Surf Wagon
Gordon McGilton's '57 Ford Ranch Wagon
The ability to find anything you could possibly ever want to think about on the World Wide Web is both a blessing and a curse. Who hasn't spent mindless hours adrift in front of a computer looking and clicking on the most inane subjects? (What are those town names between Amboy and Essex in the Mojave Desert?) But the web is also one of the best ways to find something you really want, such as your next vehicle.
Gordon McGilton, it's safe to say, owns a lot of cars, and in the course of the various builds he's been through with them he's had occasion to meet and become friends with one of the best upholsterers in the country: Paul Atkins. Atkins did the interior work in a few of McGilton's rides, and when Gordon was at Atkin's shop in Cullman, Alabama, Paul took him around and introduced him to other rod builders in the area, one of whom was Jesse Greening, of Greening Auto Company.
Greening burst on the scene a few years back after building a Ridler award-winning coupe (owned by Atkins) and has since built his name up by offering some of the best-looking, finely crafted hot rods anywhere. It doesn't hurt that Greening was named Trendsetter of the Year by the Goodguys Association in 2006 either, but trust us: This guy knows how to build a hot rod.
After Atkins introduced Gordon and Greening, the two started on '67 Nova project. It's a high-end deal, and the result will no doubt test the limits of what you can do with a '67 Nova when it's completed. Knowing the project would take some time to complete, Gordon thought he'd like an interim car built-something simple, but nice.
McGilton remembered a wagon Fat Jack built years ago, and even saw it once driving around at the Long Beach Swap Meet in Southern California, and the concept for the car (lowered, nice wheels, not a lot of money) has always stuck with him. Gordon began looking in earnest for a wagon (in particular a '57 Ford) but none could be found to his liking.
After looking for some months he was able to track down a suitable candidate while surfing the web one day-a low-mileage cruiser that he'd found in Alabama, so he bought it and had it delivered to Jesse for a redo. He asked only two things of Greening: that it be black and the headlights be frenched (using '56 Ford F-100 headlight hoods). Greening began the tear down, which meant the car was going to bare metal and readied for the rotisserie. As the build progressed, a few other additions came along, such as having the gas filler lid hidden. Now some folks might just move the filler to behind the license plate or some other easy fix, but Jesse took the opportunity to relocate the filler to behind the driver's taillight, which necessitated making a new flip-out taillight housing. And while he was at it, Greening also not only created new taillight lenses but the trim ring as well.
The suspension was improved with a set of Fatman Fabrication dropped spindles and springs, and a set of 18- and 20-inch Schott wheels were bolted to each corner. The wagon eventually got its black paintjob (thanks to Greening's dad, Jeff, plus Josh Cook and Ted Dobkowski) and the interior went red thanks to the talents of Atkins, who used leather throughout the cavernous interior.
When you check out the interior, it looks mostly stock, but in reality the front seat was lowered slightly while the rear seat was modified at its base because of the transmission. On the outside the bumpers were smoothed up and moved closer to the body, and even the "Ranch Wagon" nameplate was recreated on a CNC machine before being added to the end of each rear fender.
With the wagon finished, Gordon was able to climb in and drive it to Pleasanton, California, from his home in Clayton, North Carolina (a one-way distance of more than 2,800 miles). Driving them is what it is all about for Gordon, but he does have a backup plan. Since it was so hard to find a wagon when he originally wanted one, he has since bought three more, two of which still have their original paint! That just goes to show how good the Internet can be for locating your next project. And though Gordon may live 100 miles from the nearest beach, just by surfing the web for his wagon he can truly call it a "surf wagon."
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|1957 Ford Ranch Wagon
|Frame / Manufacturer
|dropped spindles and springs from Fatman Fabrication (Charlotte, NC)
|Chassis plumbing
|Greening Auto Company (Cullman, AL)
|Rearend ratio
|Rear suspension
|Rear brakes
|Baer Track (Pheonix, AZ) disc
|Front suspension
|Front brakes
|Baer Track disc
|Master cylinder
|Corvette 1" bore
|Steering box
|Wurthit Designs rack-and-pinion
|Front wheel make, size
|Schott (Los Alamitos, CA), 18x8
|Rear wheel make, size
|Schott, 20x8.5
|Front tire make, size
|Kuhmo, 225/45/2R18
|Rear tire make, size
|Goodyear, 245/50/R20
|Gas tank
|Cooling fan
|SPAL (Ankeny, IA)
|Billet Specialties (La Grange, IL) Front Runner
|Valve covers
|Edelbrock (Torrance, CA), modified by GAC
|Manifold / Induction
|Ignition / Wires
|Taylor / MSD
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA) by Cullman Discount Muffler
|Other engine facts
|Billet Specialties air cleaner
|Trans mods
|Compushift computer, Wilcap adapter for Ford engine
|Fast Shafts
|Body style / Material
|wagon / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Paint type / Color
|Glasurit / black
|Josh Cook and Jeff Greening
|Advanced Plating (Nashville, TN) / all stainless chrome-plated
|Ford and GAC
|Classic Instruments (Boyne City, MI)
|Stereo / Speakers
|Air conditioning
|Vintage Air (El Paso, TX)
|Dynamat (Hamilton, OH)
|Steering wheel
|Lecarra (Oneida, TN)
|Steering column
|ididit (Tecumseh, MI)
|stock, recovered by Paul Atkins
|Paul Atkins Custom Auto Interiors (Hanceville, AL)
|Material / Color
|leather / red
|Juliano's (Vernon, CT)