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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's game day in Columbus and we're just several hours from the clash between the LA Galaxy and the Columbus Crew. Above is a photo of the Columbus Skyline taken a few hours before tonight's match.
Before kick off, check out my "Three Points" to the match as well as my look at the emotion surrounding tonight's clash and my story on LA's reunion with former Galaxy midfielder Chris Birchall.
Also I spoke to Columbus Dispatch reporter Adam Jardy for his "Pitch Talk" segment
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The exclusive cooking experience at the Maserati booth featured chef Bottura delighting Maserati guests with his dishes, his vision, his passion and his story.
An Emilian chef born in Modena, who grew up with the sound of the engine as well as with balsamic vinegar and his grandmother's wisdom in the kitchen in the land of motors and flavours.
His job is today a matter of vision, inspiration, intuition, poetry. Executed with passion.
Inspired by his philosophy and background, he has reimagined the culinary traditions of Italy and Modena, taking an extremely contemporary and sometimes even futuristic approach. Each dish is a reconstruction of an idea, a memory, a play on words or a wry smile rendered into a singular gesture.
At Geneva the chef will present to the Maserati guests some dishes inspired by his origins, his childhood food memories and also the Maserati world.
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"My mother chased me down the street with a mortadella sandwich everyday on my way to school. In honour of her earnest effort to feed me, this memory has been revived with crunchy gnocco and the purest essence of mortadella".
Reid Bigland, Maserati CEO, also experienced this great moment and commented: "Massimo has shown true genius in expressing a modern or even futuristic vision of this tradition in every flavour, without ever betraying its origins. All this is very close to the Maserati tradition of designing, developing and building cars here in Italy that can excite and delight their drivers all over the world". Bigland continued: "it's also a great pleasure to host Maserati and Ermegildo Zegna customers here in Geneva allowing them to appreciate Massimo's culinary art".
Maserati and Bottura have been partners since 2015, and, in November, the Modena-based chef received his new Levante, the first SUV in more than 100 years of the brand's history.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wanting permission to stop worrying
I found that mixing yogurt with his water will get him to lap it up with vigor. In fact, he drank so much so quickly that he immediately threw most of it back up. That's helpful, Luke. Thanks.
I had all of his records for the past three days sent to his regular vet for review. They are on the opposite end of the city so we haven't been able to make it there with all this freaking snow. But maybe she'll have some ideas about how to monitor him for the next week or two. Or even better, maybe she'll say the magic words... "He's going to be fine. Stop worrying." Ah, that would be music to my ears.
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- Hillary said...
- February 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Ben said...
You never really stop worrying. Don't get your hopes up :)
- February 11, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Tia said...
Thinking about you. I'm really surprised if he's dehydrated that they didn't send you home with some fluids. Giving sub-q fluids at home is really easy. In fact, I've been doing it every night on a foster cat I have for the past 2 weeks. Might be worth looking into if it is truly a concern.
- February 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM
AWww, I'm so sorry. It's so hard NOT to worry! Good trick with the yogurt! Maybe just try to get him to drink less, more often though, so he doesn't throw up? Poor Lukey, and his poor mommy and daddy!
- February 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM
*hugs* Hang in there darling. I'm still sending all of my happy thoughts your way for you,your husband and Luke.
- February 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- Peace Turkey said...
That picture just melted my heart. *hug*
- February 11, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- Maxie said...
oh babe. i will be thinking about him. xo
- February 12, 2010 at 1:20 AM
- Erin W said...
Awe, even I am worrying about Luke!
- February 12, 2010 at 2:06 AM
Hang in there!
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Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars - and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms.
A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry - yet marries - his beloved eighth-grade teacher....
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- Kindle Customer
- 02/12/2011
Another Bradbury Worth Listening To
I enjoy Ray Bradbury short stories all ways have this collection fits the bill for me. The narrator does a very good job interpreting the individual stories and the characters in each story. The collection contain topics that range from subtle to, "that was different", suspense also stories that are other worldly, futuristic and a twist on a 20th century character (Hitler) in Darling Adolf and the suspense of family life as a man plots against his wife in The October Game. Other stories I really liked are: The Miracles of Jamie; A Story of Love and especially Interval in Sunlight a man with a robotic wife he intended to destroy. On a whole the entire Audio is worth the listen and yes I have listened to it in its entirety more than once as I have listened to other Bradbury audible stories. Check it out you might find you like it.
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- Karyn
- 07/06/2014
These short stories were very good, but I am glad I listened to them, in the daylight hours. So good, then Ray Bradbury is a genius when it comes to the macabre.
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- David
- 27/10/2012
Spooky, thoughtful, but sometimes just schmaltzy
Ray Bradbury is what I would call a literary author who's always labeled as writing genre stories (never mind the debate about what "literary" means in this context); he's a storyteller but his writing is also suffused with poetic flourishes and evocative, moody imagery and dialog that many genre authors skimp on. That said, none of the short stories I've read by him are among my favorite or most memorable. But some of his horror stories are very effectively creepy without any explicit violence.
Long After Midnight is a collection of twenty-two of his older stories. They range from mediocre to pretty good, but the mediocres outweighed the pretty goods, since after finishing the audiobook, I couldn't remember many details about specific stories. There is a lot of sentimentality, bordering on schmaltziness, such as in The Pumpernickel, basically about a middle-aged man remembering his childhood friends and how they drifted apart:
"In the hard, shiny crust of the bread, the boys at Druce's Lake had cut their names: Tom, Nick, Bill, Alec, Paul, Jack. The finest picnic in history! Their faces tanned as they rattled down the dusty roads. Those were the days when roads were really dusty; a fine brown talcum floured up after your car. And the lake was always twice as good to reach as it would be later in life when you arrived immaculate, clean, and un-rumpled."
A lot of the sci-fi stories in this collection are also heavily allegorical, with a tone ranging from Catholic to mystical, as in "G.B.S. - Mark V":
"What are we? Why, we are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Creation turns in its abyss. We have bothered it, dreaming ourselves to shapes. The void is filled with slumbers; ten billion on a billion on a billion bombardments of light and material that know not themselves, that sleep moving and move but finally to make an eye and waken on themselves. Among so much that is flight and ignorance, we are the blind force that gropes like Lazarus from a billion-light-year tomb. We summon ourselves. We say, O Lazarus Life Force, truly come ye forth. So the Universe, a motion of deaths, fumbles to reach across Time to feel its own flesh and know it to be ours. We touch both ways and find each other miraculous because we are One."
Many of the more dated ones also seemed to be semi-autobiographical, perhaps slightly elaborated tales of Bradbury himself as a boy.
Here is a list of the stories in the collection. Some of them have been turned into short films or Twilight Zone episodes.
"The Blue Bottle" — heavily metaphorical story about two men searching for an artifact on Mars.
"One Timeless Spring" — a twelve-year-old boy believes his parents are trying to poison him.
"The Parrot Who Met Papa" — almost felt like a bit of magical realism, about a parrot that has memorized Hemingway's last, unwritten novel.
"The Burning Man" — odd story mixing any number of "why you shouldn't pick up hitchhikers" tales with a pseudo-philosophical meditation on the nature of evil.
"A Piece of Wood" — one those speculative fiction stories that tries to make an important statement by starting with a silly premise, that a soldier has invented a device that can destroy all weapons.
"The Messiah" — a Martian manifests as Christ to a Catholic priest, with tragicomic results.
"G.B.S. - Mark V" — meditations of a robot.
"The Utterly Perfect Murder" — an old man resolves to visit his childhood friend and enemy and kill him for all the misery he suffered.
"Punishment Without Crime" — a man is sentenced to death for killing an android duplicate of his wife.
"Getting Through Sunday Somehow" — an old Irishman rambles about the past.
"Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds" — a man meets a witch.
"Interval in Sunlight" — this was one of the more memorable, though devoid of any fantastical elements, about a woman who wants to leave her joyless, verbally and emotionally abusive husband.
"A Story of Love" — interesting, surprisingly thoughtful story about a thirteen-year-old with a crush on his teacher, who reciprocates his feelings on some level. Manages to examine age differences and societal taboos without being icky.
"The Wish" — schmaltzy tale about a man who wants one last conversation with his dead father.
"Forever and the Earth" — a SF writer brings Thomas Wolfe to the future to write about Mars and space travel.
"The Better Part of Wisdom" — an old Irishman discovers his grandson is gay.
"Darling Adolf" — an actor hired to play Hitler in a historical film wants to literally revive the Fuhrer's role.
"The Miracles of Jamie" — dark-themed but not very original story of a boy who believes himself omnipotent, as a way of coping with his dying mother.
"The October Game" — this is the creepiest story in the collection, and the most obviously horrific, about a man who conceives a horrible vengeance against his wife.
"The Pumpernickel" — sentimental and kind of banal slice-of-life story.
"Long After Midnight" — another gay-themed story, but frankly the plot slips my mind.
"Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!" — a chocolate addict confesses to a priest, in another allegorical tale about redemption and pleasure and freedom.
In general, not a bad collection of stories, especially if you are a Ray Bradbury fan, but they didn't really excel in my opinion, although there is enough horror and creepiness in a few of them to make this good Halloween reading. 3.5 stars.
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- Diane
- 31/08/2012
Journeys to other Worlds
I have loved Ray Bradbury's writing ever since, as a 12 year old, I found a 1st edition of his "Martian Chronicles" on my parents' bookshelf. Do not look for high-tech wizardry in these stories--rather Bradbury employs the science fiction/fantasy genre to explore the mysteries of existence and of the human psyche. As with any collection of short stories, there are some that resonate more than others, but overall, this collection evokes those feelings--of wonder, poignancy, curiosity, fear and mystery--that sets Bradbury in a class by himself .
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 17/02/2013
Mars, Childhood, good ole days, and a No No
Read much of Bradbury and you learn two things about him. He would like to go to Mars and he would like to be twelve forever.
These stories were written before 1944, which makes it seem funny to us that he writes about how much better things were in the good old days. This is a theme he uses often. Times were better when the roads were made of dirt. The stories are dated. What he writes or the way he writes could not be done today. Several of the stories talk about his love for his male friends, to the point that today it would sound very gay (not that their is anything wrong with that), but I am pretty sure at the time he did not think it gay. One story is about a 14 year old boy who falls in love with a 24 year old teacher and she falls in love with him. Recent news stories remind us that, that is not legal today. I felt a little uncomfortable listening to that one. Writers are mentioned often in these stories. George Bernard Shaw is the main character in one, Thomas Wolfe in another and Hemingway thru a parrot in another.
Of the 22 stories I would give six of them five stars, my two favorites would be The Burning Man and A piece of Wood. There are five stories at the four star level and then the rest are three or less. Darling Adolf is long and boring. The Burning Man is scary and even talks about genetics. None of the others are scary.
Narrator was good
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- Randy & Brenda
- 29/11/2019
My favorite short story is in this book
I have always liked Bradberry. The story long after midnight has been with me since I was 17 years old. I'm 44 now. The pure way he distributes and tells about life is amazing.
- Kevin
- 26/08/2018
I expected much more. A very hodgepodge collection which most of the time left me frustrated.
The production itself could have been improved by giving more than a split second space between stories. There were longer pauses between paragraphs.
- Gary Mason
- 30/12/2014
Somewhat entertaining, somewhat haunting
Some good, some forgettable, but overall I found myself keen to be done with this collection of Bradbury's. These seem to be early writing yearning for childhood.
- Dean
- 04/03/2013
This is a short but very rich collection of tales from Ray Bradbury. Unlike may authors today the feel you need to sell books by the pound the create depth of story, each of the short stories making up this book has depth and complexity not found in tomes 1/4 its length from most modern authors. The performance is not top shelf but the stories make up for that shortage.
- Mary Ann
- 03/12/2012
An Uneven Collection
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I listen to books when I'm out walking, making me somewhat of a captive audience. I found some of Bradbury's stories to be excellent and others to be a disappointment. Too bad.


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Following on from yesterday's best fiction post, here are the best non-fiction books I read this year. (Note that not all of these were published this year, that's just when I read them.)
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The morning dew still in the air, you catch the early birds making their way to their stores, cups of coffee in hand. You hear a few laughs, friendly hellos, and the jingle of keys. Not long after that, stores open and people crisscross the herringbone brick and cement street on the Kalamazoo Mall. Customers visit merchants, some of them long-time friends. Stop for a bagel or pastry or lunch, if it's already midday. Get their shoes shined. Or pick up an out-of-town newspaper. Some have business at one of the corner banks. Others have creative interests at the Epic Center, where so much of Kalamazoo's artistic talents now reside. Come evening, people come out to dine or just window shop, while folks who work downtown relax at quitting time and take in an evening event near the Radisson.
Year round, there are constant reasons to come to the mall. Parades and sidewalk sales. Art on the Mall, the holiday season, and more. All of it at the heart of a growing, diverse Central City.
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|aluminum, wood
|Floor mat material
|Center console trim
|wood, aluminum
|rear center folding with storage, rear center with cupholders
|Steering wheel trim
|Door trim
|wood, aluminum
|Interior accents
|wood, aluminum
|Floor mats
|rear, front
|Floor material
|Door sill trim
Convenience Features
|Adaptive stop and go cruise control
|Autonomous lane guidance
|lane centering
|front, third row, rear
|Memorized settings
|2 driver, steering wheel, climate control, driver seat, side mirrors, audio system
|Adaptive cruise control
|Power outlet(s)
|12V cargo area, two 12V front
|One-touch windows
|Reading lights
|front, rear, third row
|Power steering
|Easy entry
|power rear seat, manual rear seat, power driver seat
|Multi-function remote
|illuminated entry, panic alarm, proximity entry system, trunk release
|Cargo area light
|Retained accessory power
|Power windows
|lockout button
|Footwell lights
|Steering wheel mounted controls
|audio, cruise control, phone, multi-function, navigation, paddle shifter, voice control
|Push-button start
|Vanity mirrors
|dual illuminating
|Assist handle
|rear, front
|Remote engine start
|Center console
|front console with armrest and storage
|Steering wheel
|power tilt and telescopic
|Rearview mirror
|Universal remote transmitter
|Homelink - garage door opener
|in floor, front seatback, cargo tie-down anchors and hooks, sunglasses holder, door pockets
|Ambient lighting
|Capless fuel filler system
|Moonroof / Sunroof
|tilt/slide, one-touch open/close, anti-trapping, remotely operated, power glass, sliding sunshade
|Daytime running lights
|auto high beam dimmer, LED, wiper activated, auto delay off, auto on/off
|Exterior entry lights
|puddle lamps
Exterior Features
|integrated, dual tip
|Front bumper color
|Door handle color
|Mirror color
|Rear spoiler
|Rear spoiler color
|Grille color
|chrome surround, black
|Rear bumper color
|Window trim
Tires and Rims
|aluminum alloy
|Spare tire size
|Tire type
|performance, all season
|Spare tire mount location
|Spare wheel type
|Tire Pressure Monitoring System
|Rear wiper
|intermittent, with washer
|Window defogger
|Front wipers
|speed sensitive, variable intermittent, rain sensing
|Power windows
|safety reverse, remotely operated
|Rear privacy glass
|Laminated glass
|Liftgate window
|Rear door type
|power liftgate with closure assist
|Camera system
|rear multi-view
|Rearview monitor
|in dash
|Cross traffic alert
|Autonomous braking
|Pre-collision warning system
|audible warning, visual warning
|Lane keeping assist
|Automatic emergency braking
|Child safety door locks
|Child seat anchors
|LATCH system
|Body side reinforcements
|side impact door beams
|Impact absorbing bumpers
|Parking sensors
|rear, front
|Blind spot safety
|Lane deviation sensors
|Crumple zones
|front, rear
|Side mirror type
|driver side spotter mirror
|Side mirrors
|integrated turn signals, heated
|Side mirror adjustments
|power, reverse gear tilt, power folding
|Airbag deactivation
|occupant sensing passenger
|Side airbags
|Knee airbags
|Front airbags
|Side curtain airbags
|front, third row, rear
|Side-curtain airbag rollover sensor
|Anti-theft system
|audio security system, engine immobilizer, alarm with remote
|Power door locks
|anti-lockout, auto-locking
|2-stage unlocking doors
|Axle ratio
|Drive mode selector
|4WD type
|full time
|Center differential
|Auto start/stop
|Cylinder deactivation
|Battery saver
|Rear stabilizer bar
|diameter 27 mm
|Front suspension classification
|Rear suspension classification
|Front struts
|Rear suspension type
|Rear spring type
|Front spring type
|Front suspension type
|lower control arms
|Rear shock type
|Front shock type
|Front stabilizer bar
|diameter 25 mm
|Rear brake type
|Rear brake diameter
|Front brake diameter
|Front brake type
|ventilated disc
|Braking assist
|Electronic brakeforce distribution
|Power brakes
|Electronic parking brake
|auto off
Stability and Traction
|Stability control
|Traction control
|Hill holder control
|Trailer stability control
Audio System
|voice operated, touch screen display, AM/FM, HD radio
|Auxiliary audio input
|Bluetooth, jack, USB, iPod/iPhone
|Internet radio app
|Pandora, AHA
|Antenna type
|diversity, mast
|In-Dash CD
|single disc, MP3 Playback
|Total speakers
|Radio data system
|Speed sensitive volume control
|Surround sound
|Premium brand
|Hard drive
|Satellite radio
|Electronic messaging assistance
|with read function, voice operated
|Satellite communications
|voice guided directions
|Smart device app function
|vehicle location, maintenance status, lock operation, engine start, maintenance scheduling, send destination to vehicle
|Driver assistance app
|roadside assistance
|Wireless data link
|Navigation system
|hard drive, voice operated
|voice operated
|Real time traffic
In Car Entertainment
|Connected in-car apps
|Google POIs, weather, sports, stocks, Google search
|Apple CarPlay ready, Android Auto ready, AcuraLink
|Infotainment screen size
|7 in. and 8 in. (dual)
|Instrument cluster screen size
|4.2 in.
|Trip computer
|Digital odometer
|External temperature display
|Multi-function display
|Fuel economy display
|MPG, range
|Warnings and reminders
|low oil level, low fuel level, maintenance due, tire fill alert
|Trip odometer
|Upholstery accents
|contrast stitching, perforated
|Passenger seat power adjustments
|4-way power lumbar, height, 12, reclining
|Driver seat power adjustments
|height, 12, 4-way power lumbar, reclining
|Third row headrests
|2, adjustable
|Passenger seat
|Driver seat
|Rear headrests
|3, adjustable
|Rear seat folding
|split, flat
|Front headrests
|2, adjustable
|Third row seat type
|50-50 split bench
|Rear seat type
|60-40 split bench
|Rear seat manual adjustments
|Front seat type
|sport bucket
|Third row seat folding
|Rear seat
|Seatbelt pretensioners
|Seatbelt force limiters
|Emergency locking retractors
|rear, front
|Seatbelt warning sensor
|Third row seatbelts
|Rear seatbelts
|Front seatbelts
|Steering ratio
Drive Type
|Drive Type
|Standard Seating
|Max Seating
|Head Room (front)
|38.1 in
|Head Room (rear)
|38.3 in
|Hip Room (front)
|57.5 in
|Hip Room (rear)
|57.8 in
|Shoulder Room (front)
|61.1 in
|Shoulder Room (rear)
|59.1 in
|Leg Room (front)
|41.4 in
|Leg Room (rear)
|36.6 in
|Seating Rows
|Head Room (third row)
|35.6 in
|Hip Room (third row)
|40.6 in
|Shoulder Room (third row)
|54.7 in
|Leg Room (third row)
|28.1 in
Measurements of Size & Shape
|196.2 in
|77.7 in
|Width (without mirrors)
|77.7 in
|67.4 in
|111 in
|Ground Clearance
|7.3 in
|Angle of Approach
|14.9 degrees
|Angle of Departure
|17.4 degrees
|Track Width (front)
|66.3 in
|Track Width (rear)
|66.3 in
|Break-over Angle
|15.2 degrees
Measurements of Weight
|Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
|5677 lbs
|Gross Vehicle Weight Range
|5001-6000 lbs
|Curb Weight
|4264 lbs
|Max Towing Capacity
|5000 lbs
Truck Specifications
|Max Payload
|1413 lbs
Interior Dimensions
|Cargo Volume
|15 cu ft
|Interior Volume
|147.7 cu ft
|Passenger Volume
|132.7 cu ft
|Cargo Volume (rear seats down)
|68.4 cu ft
|Cargo Volume (third row down)
|38.4 cu ft
Performance Specifications
|Turning Circle
|38.7 ft
Fuel Tanks
|Fuel Capacity
|19.5 Gallons
Wheels and Tires
|Front Tire Type
|Front Wheel Diameter
|20.0 x 8.0 in
|Rear Tire Type
|Rear Wheel Diameter
|20.0 x 8.0 in
Crash-Test Ratings
2020 Acura MDX SUV AWD
|Front Crash Overall
|Front Crash Driver
|Front Crash Passenger
|Side Crash Overall
|Side Barrier Overall
|Side Barrier Driver
|Side Barrier Passenger
|Side Pole Driver
|Side Combined Front
|Side Combined Rear
Green Score
EPA Green Score
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EPA and California-required standards. The names refer to tables of numerical limits for the various air pollutants allowed by the standards.
|Fuel Type
Air Pollution Score ?
The Air Pollution Score is based on the government emission standards for which the vehicle was certified to comply with and reflects vehicle tailpipe emissions that contribute to local and regional air pollution, creating problems such as haze, and health issues.
Greenhouse Gas Score ?
This score reflects fuel emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
Smartway ?
SmartWay is a designation earned by those vehicles that have combined Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores that place them in the top tier (approximately the top 20%) of environmental performers. SmartWay Elite is reserved for the best of the best.
EPA Green Score
( Federal Tier 3 Bin 125
EPA and California-required standards. The names refer to tables of numerical limits for the various air pollutants allowed by the standards.
|Fuel Type
Air Pollution Score ?
The Air Pollution Score is based on the government emission standards for which the vehicle was certified to comply with and reflects vehicle tailpipe emissions that contribute to local and regional air pollution, creating problems such as haze, and health issues.
Greenhouse Gas Score ?
This score reflects fuel emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
Smartway ?
SmartWay is a designation earned by those vehicles that have combined Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores that place them in the top tier (approximately the top 20%) of environmental performers. SmartWay Elite is reserved for the best of the best.
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All space missions begin in violence. Traveling through the cosmic void may be a smooth and utterly silent thing, but getting off the ground in the first place is a feat achieved only with massive engines, silos of fuel and the controlled explosions they're designed to produce. Those explosions can do a lot of damage, which is why no one—save the astronauts themselves, who willingly climb inside all that erupting hardware—have ever been allowed to get anywhere near a rocket when it's taking off. That fact can be murder on the business of launch pad photography.
It's one of the great ironies of journalism that it's a lot easier to capture close-up images of the murderous business of war than of the peaceable work of putting people and payloads in space. But the rules are as strict as they are extreme: On launch days, rockets sit at the middle of a circular evacuation zone that, in the case of the space shuttles and the old Saturn V's, stretched up to three miles in all directions. That no-go rule has never diminished the demand for arm's-length images of the liftoffs—and satisfying that demand has called for some creative thinking, engineering and camera-rigging on the part of the people taking the pictures.
Dan Winters, who grew up during the golden age—the Cronkite Age—of space reporting, is one of the photographers who has mastered the craft best. As the images that follow—taken from his new book, Last Launch—show, he has proven himself a virtuoso at his work. His pictures can practically singe your eyebrows and set you squinting with their brilliance, while at the same time capturing the black smoke and deep clouds that are often the counterpoint to the fires of liftoff.
The work begins the day before launch, when he positions up to nine cameras as little as 700 ft. (213 m) away from the pad. Each camera is manually focused and set for the particular shot it is meant to capture, and the wheels of the lens are then taped into position so that they can't be shaken out of focus when the engines are lit. Electronic triggers—of Winters' own devising—that do react to the vibrations are attached to the cameras so that the shutter will start snapping the instant ignition occurs.
To prevent the cameras from tipping over on their tripods, Winters drills anchoring posts deep into the soil and attaches the tripods to them with the same tie-down straps truckers use to secure their loads. He also braces each leg of the tripod with 50-lb. (23 kg) sandbags to minimize vibration. Waterproof tarps protect the whole assembly until launch day, when they are removed and the cameras are armed. Throughout the launch, they fire at up to five frames per second. Only after the vehicle has vanished into the sky and the pad crew has inspected the area for brushfires, toxic residue and other dangers, are the photographers allowed to recover their equipment.
Earlier in his career, Winters, like all photographers, shot with traditional film. "Back then," he says, "after shooting ... there was still the wait until the film was actually processed—which seemed like an eternity." For the three liftoffs in Winters' book, including STS-135, the 2011 launch of the Atlantis that was the last ever shuttle flight, he used digital equipment.
The shuttles have now been mothballed, never to fly again. Other, unmanned rockets are already flying and other American astronauts will surely go aloft from Cape Canaveral before too many years have gone by. But until then, the old shuttles endure in images like Winters'—which will prove to be far more permanent than the great machines themselves.
Last Launch will be available through the University of Texas Press in October, 2012.
Dan Winters is an award-winning photographer based in Austin, Los Angeles and Savannah. Winters recently photographed the cover for TIME's military suicides story. Previously, TIME assigned Winters to shoot The Last Liftoff: A Farewell to the Shuttle Program.


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WASHINGTON—Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, expressed support for a January 7 New Jersey State Senate vote to preserve the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
"On behalf of the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee, I am grateful for the courage of those New Jersey senators who stood for the truth of marriage as a bulwark of the common good," he said.
The New Jersey Senate voted 20-14 to reject a same-sex "marriage" bill, just as the New York State Senate did when it rejected a similar measure December 2 by a 38-24 margin.
"Preserving marriage between one man and one woman is a matter of justice; indeed it is one of the premier social justice issues of our time. It does not deny but rather supports basic human rights—especially the rights of children," Archbishop Kurtz said. "The recent New York Senate vote and the vote in New Jersey witness to this fact."
The votes in New York and New Jersey follow closely the November victory for marriage in Maine, where the "people's veto" overturned the legislature's spring 2009 decision to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples.
Archbishop Kurtz noticed the timing of the votes.
"The recent decisions in Maine, New York and New Jersey are signs of hope and sources of encouragement. We are in a pivotal moment in this country on the issue of marriage, as more and more people recognize that protecting the basic rights of persons need not and should not come at the expense of the unique truth and value of marriage. The good of the love between husband and wife, the vital responsibilities of mothers and fathers, and the rights of children all deserve unique protection under law—all of these are indispensable to a just society that serves the dignity of all people and the common good."
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Avoid big bus tours and get cozy with our intimate Niagara wine experience. Your sommelier guide will pick you up from downtown and take you to learn about cold climate wines, Ontario's specialty. Taste Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc (as well as a few surprises) at 3 boutique wineries. We'll be treated to a tour and cheese pairing as you meet the winemaking teams. Mid-day enjoy a locally-sourced lunch at one of the vineyards. All that, but don't worry we'll have you home in time for dinner!
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text: Hello, gorgeous Rufus! What a beautiful kitty you are with your golden tabby colors, your plush coat and oh, those giant velvet paws! You give kisses to show your people your affection; you meow to your staff to open the tap for fresh water to drink! And you are a busy kitty, too -- playing fetch or having fun with water bubbles, being the Duke and ruling with your wonderful paws! You are sooo handsome and I love your wonderful gaze. Please have your people give you some extra petting for me, Duke Rufus, because you are a very special boy! Happy Cat of the Day, sweety!This is Rufus, and do not let his size and stately gaze fool you, he is just five months, so still very much a growing kitten. He's a dog-like cat! He just loves playing fetch and licks people to show them his affection. However as he's half cat and half raccoon (that's what people say about their breed, although they really are 100% cat genetically) , he always meows to let us know that we have to open a water source to let him drink or play with water bubbles. He's Duke Rufus, a very noble cat :3 ruling our home with a giant velvet paw.


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Only a fraction of the more than 250,000 cables have been released so far, and just a few of those were related to the "climate" negotiations last year. But even what little has come out thus far — analysts are calling it the "tip of the iceberg" — is raising eyebrows and generating more anti-U.S. sentiment around the globe. And the revelations certainly won't help the COP16 "climate change" negotiations in Cancun right now, either.
It turns out that, at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency and the American "intelligence" apparatus, the U.S. State Department sent out secret diplomatic cables seeking intelligence on United Nations bosses, foreign officials, and others. News reports claimed such an operation — basically using diplomats with immunity as spies — could be considered a violation of international law.
The State Department, while conceding that its staff does gather information around the world, was insistent that American diplomats should not be considered spies. But among the information they were collecting was data such as credit card numbers, frequent flyer numbers, telephone records, internet passwords, biometrics data, "vulnerabilities," and other "biographical" information. It was also looking for dirt on other governments and officials.
In terms of the climate shenanigans revealed in the cables, the U.K. Guardian reported: "Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage."
The newspaper described some of the revelations in the diplomatic cables, saying they show "how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial 'Copenhagen accord.'"
Some of the comments in the cables reviewed by The New American would seem to indicate that, for the U.S. government, this sort of "negotiating" is simply business as usual. Discussing the Dutch government's ploy to "solicit support" for the climate "Accord" by sending messages to countries receiving "development assistance," a cable signed by ambassador Fay Levin at the American embassy in the Netherlands to the U.S. State Department in D.C. is very revealing. "This is an unprecedented move for the Dutch government, which traditionally recoils at any suggestion to use aid money as political leverage," it said.
At a meeting of Dutch negotiators, ambassadors were apparently "clamoring" for guidance on how to sign poor countries up to the agreement, the cable reported. "However, [Dutch Foreign Ministry climate negotiator Sanne] Kaasjager said the Netherlands would find it difficult to make association with the Accord a condition to receive climate financing." In other words, using so-called "climate financing" as a bribe to third-world regimes — even if it meant they would agree to the climate deal — was not something Dutch climate bosses were too excited about.
Judging from the cable, some developing-country governments were still not totally on board with the so-called "accord." Mainly this was because they weren't getting enough say in where the loot would be spent, and because some of the climate plunder was apparently coming out of existing foreign-aid budgets. So, the Dutch government thought of a possible solution — meet with the "recipients (sic) countries to address these issues head-on rather than wait for them to surface as a PR disaster later," the cable explained.
Of course, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Fay Levin was not happy about the leak. "I cannot vouch for the authenticity of any one of these documents. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential. And we condemn it," she said in a statement posted online. "Diplomats must engage in frank discussions with their colleagues, and they must be assured that these discussions will remain private."
Levin strongly condemned WikiLeaks and said the U.S. regime was moving "aggressively" to prevent a similar mishap. "Honest dialogue — within governments and between them — is part of the basic bargain of international relations," she claimed. "In the United States, [diplomats' internal reports] are one element out of many that shape our policies, which are ultimately set by the President and the Secretary of State." Congress, apparently, gets no say.
Then there was a cable from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a country that generally mocked the warmists in Copenhagen. "Saudi officials are very eager to obtain investment credits for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and other technology transfer projects that will only become available once an agreement has been reached," the embassy cable boasted. The document also discussed more technology transfers, more foreign investment, and "a U.S. commitment to help Saudi Arabia with its economic diversification efforts" as goodies that might make the Islamic regime come onboard with the "climate" agreement.
Cables dealing with "climate change" and the island-nation of the Maldives basically show the Maldivian regime promising to support the "Copenhagen Accord" in exchange for U.S. taxpayer money. The "tangible assistance," as the regime referred to it, would allegedly be used to finance various pet projects such as a deeper harbor.
Why a nation supposedly on the brink of disappearing under the waves needed a deeper harbor was not explained. How the depth of a harbor is related to "climate change" was not mentioned either. But either way, once the money started to flow, other nations would realize "the advantages to be gained by compliance" with the climate agreement, a Maldivian official promised U.S. climate negotiator Jonathan Pershing.
When Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed spoke to The New American magazine at the Copenhagen summit last year, he was asked about his alarmist claims regarding the disappearance of his nation due to alleged warming and rising seas. However, one of the world's foremost experts on sea levels, Swedish oceanographer and Stockholm University Professor Niklas Morner, had recently been in Copenhagen to discuss his findings from a trip to the Maldives. He had been measuring the sea levels there for decades. And he reported no unusual or dangerous rise in ocean levels.
President Nasheed's response to Morner's studies consisted mostly of inaccurate statements about a Pope killing Galileo, an attack on the Swedish expert's methodology, and a reference to the moon landing. Finally, at a loss for words, Nasheed simply said: "[Morner's] attacks are not even worthy of a response." But "climate funds" in exchange for supporting the U.S. position on "global warming," evidently, are worthy of a response.
In a cable about a conversation with European Union climate boss Connie Hedegaard, the prospect of bribing nations to support the agenda was revealed even more clearly, though this time, it was the EU making suggestions. Hedegaard wanted to know, first of all, if the United States would need to engage in "creative accounting" to meet its climate-financing pledges.
Next, EU climate chief Hedegaard "suggested the AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) countries 'could be our best allies' given their need for financing," according to the cable. And indeed, given the AOSIS' vocal and aggressive demands for more money, the analysis is probably correct. But the deal really would work both ways: The island regimes agree to the deal based on bribes offered, and the "rich" countries' regimes get to impose all sorts of economy — killing taxes and regulations on their populations. A win-win situation for everyone — except, of course, for the people.
If a private American company (that wasn't well connected) was caught discussing espionage, bribery, and extortion so candidly in an effort to further its agenda, the firm and responsible individuals would almost certainly be prosecuted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But for governments, including those ruling from D.C. and Brussels, such practices seem to be normal and acceptable. To add just a little more irony, government apologists and officials are now calling for the prosecution of WikiLeaks for exposing the scandals. So much for the purported "consensus," anyway.
Related articles:
WikiLeaks: Whistleblowing or Treason?
Skeptics Have Their Say at COP16, Press Refuses to Report
Cap and Trade by Stealth: U.S. States Partner With Foreign Governments
COP16 Attendees Sign Petition to Ban Water, Harm U.S.
Will EPA Admit Economic Impact of Regulations?
Climate "Experts" Propose Global One-child Policy, Socialism, Taxes, Carbon Rationing


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February 13, 2013
Addressing a mass meeting in Tundikhel of Kathmandu, February 12, 2013, Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Unified Maoists spared much of his time trying to justify his party's fresh stand adopted through the party's national convention held in Hetauda of Makwanpur district.
He said, "We would have been standing at the same position had we not made timely adjustments in the political line adopted by the party."
"The party would have been in the same state as that of Mohan Bikram Singh if we had not gone through timely adjustments", he reiterated.
But where is the mention of the support of NOIDA in such an adjustment Mr. Chairman? And what about Muni's support for this transformation?
"In the last 25 years since I took over the charge of the party by making continuous experiments in Marxism we have arrived at this stage. Marxism is not a religious text. It is rather a science. Whereas others only read the text, we made several experiments to arrive at this stage."
Dahal in the course of his speech also said that to amass weapons for a revolutionary party is not a difficult proposition.
"I would like to remind that we had no weapons before 2052 B.S. If required then we have the capacity to provide military training to the entire population."
"I am aware that some so-called revolutionary parties are terming us as revisionists and rightists but they are not putting efforts to institutionalize the changes", he said criticizing the Nepal Communist Party-Maoist led by Chairman Mohan Baidya Kiran.
The Party deputies Baburam and Narayan Kaji also spoke at the mass meet.


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Metro: Last Light is the hugely anticipated sequel to 2010's critically acclaimed cultclassic Metro 2033.
The game picks up after the bad ending from Metro 2033, in which Artyom delivers a devastating attack on the mysterious supernatural race known as the Dark Ones. The station-cities of the Metro struggle for power using weapons found in D6.The player follows Artyom, the main protagonist from Metro 2033, as he searches for the mysterious Prisoner, the supposed "key to survival – the last light in our darkest hour…"
From a career carved out as a spoiled model and socialite (increasingly the latter), she was plunged into a world of darkness, where celebrity means less than nothing. In order to survive she started out selling her body, but now she makes armor for rangers, a proud and fiercely independent woman.
Born into a humble family, the middle daughter of five, she was expected to care for her younger siblings and was accustomed to being ignored in favor of her more confident older sisters. But on a family trip to the city it was she, not them, who was spotted by a modeling scout on a Moscow street at the age of 15. Caught up in a swirl of modeling contracts, she was a millionaire before she turned 18; by 20 she had become tired of the long days and endless travel, demanding pampering and luxury, and eventually refusing to work at all.
Dropped by her agency, but famous throughout Russian society, she spent her early twenties being chauffeured from party to party, squandering her wealth and seeing little of the family she had left behind. She found that there were more than enough men prepared to buy her the things she desired, and eventually she married one of them – an extremely influential man with a cruel reputation and a dark past, who indulged her whims.
From the back seat of her limousine, she phoned her husband – afraid of the rumors of bombs and missiles, but certain he would know what to do. He answered from the steps of a bunker on the outskirts of the city, and suggested, in a scornful tone that struck her like a blow to the stomach, that maybe this once she could look after herself. Her bodyguards swept her into the Metro before the missiles struck, but from the moment the doors of the station were closed, it was clear that they wanted nothing more to do with her. There were women down there that reminded her of her sisters, but their eyes were filled with bitter triumph at the sight of the rich girl now humbled. Wealth and celebrity now valueless, she was truly alone.
When hunger and fear overtook pride, she found herself forced to sell the only asset she valued – her own body. For years she survived that way, living day-to-day, struggling to maintain some semblance of glamor, shunned and whispered about. But alive. More and more often, she thought of her sisters and her mother, all of the women of her family now alive only in her memory. And that memory gradually made her stronger, more determined.
His life charts the downfall of a career soldier in charge of marshaling the terrified populace into the safety of the Metro system, to an outcast living on the periphery of the subterranean society, contributing nothing and living by his wits.
He was a career soldier from a military family; one who had seen active combat many times and earned both the respect of his superiors and the loyalty of the men who served with him. After several foreign tours, he was stationed back in Moscow, charged with passing on his combat experience to metropolitan troops accustomed to ceremonial duties. The posting was frustratingly uneventful, but it allowed him to live in barracks with his wife and two daughters, after years in which he had missed out on their first words and first steps while stationed abroad.
The orders came in an hour before the bombs began to fall. An imminent attack on Moscow. The Metro system could only offer limited protection. Preparations had to be made; panic had to be avoided. He was ordered not to divulge the information prematurely – not even to family members. And so when his designated station had been prepared, he ordered his men to guard the doors, and he paced, alone, deeper inside the empty station. His wife would be walking their daughters home from school; the three of them, hand in hand, on the streets of Moscow. Laughing together. He heard a growing roar approaching the station, and he knew the time had come.
He gritted his teeth and followed instructions; watching the desperate horde stream into the station, waiting for the moment when the limit had been reached. No matter how many were let in, the crowd behind them grew larger and more frantic. And no matter how intently he focused on his orders, he kept seeing flashes of his family in the faces of the strangers sprinting past. It was a relief to fire a shot into the air – the signal to his men that the gates had to be closed. The noise of the crowd increased in pitch and intensity, and it was then that he saw her: a young mother, newborn in her hands, just beyond the barrier formed by the soldiers. Her voice was pleading, but her eyes, focused intently on him, seemed filled with accusation. As he turned away, holding the child to his chest, he could picture his wife looking at him with those same accusing eyes. There was an inhuman wail of despair behind him as the gates were finally closed.
From the moment the explosions began above them, it was clear that the old regime, the one to which he had given his loyalty and obedience, had crumbled. The orders he had followed, the sacrifices he had made – all now seemed meaningless. To the survivors, he was the man who shut the doors too soon – the man who condemned their wives, husbands, children, to a painful death. There was no escape from their gazes.
Ostracised, he survived as a defiant outsider, resenting those who judged him and his decisions. That resentment fuelled his determination to scavenge, barter and beg for survival. But he's getting old now, losing the will to go on living out of spite – and as he does so, the old faces and the old screams stream back into his mind – and above all, the terrible sound as the gates of the station were closed.
The child he rescued was taken from his hands soon after he descended into the Metro station, and its identity has always been kept from him. As he pleads for scraps, tired and resigned, he wonders if the young man passing by without a glance could be the one. If he knew, would he embrace him for the life he was gifted? Or curse him, for his lost mother, for all of them left behind?
Before the blast, he was a well-known feature of the Moscow streets preaching at the top of his voice at all hours of the day, but now, after a period of soul-searching, he has become a beacon of hope and spiritual advisor to the hopeless denizens of the Metro.
Nobody knew for sure what had driven him, one day, to abandon his life and take to the streets, holy book in hand. His young wife was shocked, and for weeks she would visit him every day on the square, pleading with him to come home, to return to his job, to see his baby son. He would talk of a moment of divine visitation, a blinding light and a heavenly call that he was powerless to refuse. Others talked darkly of delusion and breakdown, shook their heads and pitied his family.
He became a familiar sight on the streets of Moscow, familiar enough to be near-invisible to those going about their daily routine. For ten years, he preached of repentance and apocalypse, never wavering in his certainty that soon a day of judgment would come. His wife no longer visited him; his son had forgotten his face.
The moment the missiles began to stream through the sky, he collapsed to his knees in rapture. What he had always known was at last coming to pass – a divine reckoning in which his sacrifices would be honored. He clutched his bible to his chest and wept with gratitude as all around him feet pounded on the concrete, the whole crowd streaming in one direction. And then his chest tightened, and he looked up at the sky once more. For the first time in years, he was unsure; he felt fear. His feet carried him to the Metro station, but his mind was empty, and he could not remember in the days that followed how he had traveled from one place to another.
In the chaos below ground, an old woman recognized him as the preacher from the square, and knelt down before him, convinced that he would have the answers, that all along he had known the truth. Others joined her, most of them stricken with grief as they thought of loved ones left behind to die on the surface, all of them unable to comprehend how this could be God's will. He thought he had made peace with such things long ago, setting aside all earthly companionship and attachments. But he was tortured by the moment of doubt he had experienced as the missiles filled the sky, and was unsure how to respond to their pleas. In ten long years on the streets of Moscow, no one had sought his counsel, and he had thought only to preach of the apocalypse, not to tend souls.
Confused and distraught, he wandered out into the tunnels and disappeared. When he returned, a year later, he seemed filled with calm. He knew now that his previous certainty had been vanity, that this new calling would truly allow him to prove his devotion to God, and atone for his sins. He would bring comfort to his small flock, and spread peace in this confused and fearful new world.


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Shay Stewart-Bouley, 39, of Saco, was on her way to a board meeting Wednesday when she read about Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster's comments about "unfamiliar" black people voting in rural towns.
"I was incensed," she said, about the outgoing party chairman's allegations that "dozens of black people," who were unfamiliar to municipal officials, voted on Nov. 6. "The GOP is becoming increasingly disconnected from the world that we currently live in."
On Thursday, Webster apologized. He also said he won't mail thousands of postcards to the addresses of people who recently registered to vote. Previously, he had said he planned to send them, and if they came back as undeliverable by the post office, he would have proof of his accusations of voter fraud.
Unfortunately, Webster's comments had already done damage. They caused people to question: If members of the GOP are concerned about attracting new people, why are they still focusing on perceived voter fraud when there is only evidence of a clean election system? There were virtually no complaints or concerns raised from municipal officials, according to the Office of the Secretary of State.
Stewart-Bouley keeps a blog called Black Girl in Maine and is a freelance writer for the Portland Phoenix. She is also the executive director of Biddeford's Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center, which serves families and youth with summer and afterschool programs.
Webster's statements once again played into people's unnamed fears, she said. She recalled Election Day, when two Somali women were challenged by a Republican poll watcher in Auburn. The poll watcher supposedly "just had a funny feeling about the women," according to news accounts, but later withdrew his challenge.
"Racism exists everywhere. It's just a fact of life. I choose, however, not to dwell on those things," Stewart-Bouley said.
It's time for the Republican Party to do "a heart check," she said. The demographics both in Maine and the country are shifting. The party must find what issues matter to potential new Republican supporters and move in that direction. There are certainly conservative African-Americans, she said, but few want to align themselves with a party that seems out of touch.
Ruth DeGraphenried, 54, of Buxton, said her first reaction to Webster's comments was, "There they go again." Describing herself as light-skinned black, she said she was not surprised that the leader of Maine's GOP said something offensive, but it's an embarrassment for the state.
The face of Maine is changing, she said, and it appears that instead of it being a welcome shift, "it's something people fear." If the GOP is to become more welcoming, it must have a change of heart.
"That's something that comes from within," she said. "Pretending to be welcoming doesn't fool anybody, and propping up a few people of color doesn't do anything."
Personally, she hasn't had problems voting, and many white Mainers she knows were equally horrified about Webster's comments. "I think my reaction to Charlie Webster was probably the same as my white friends' reaction, and that's a positive step in and of itself," she said.


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1. Recipe for a Start-up
While food businesses have traditionally gotten started in personal kitchens, most states now require any food sold commercially to be prepared in a kitchen monitored by a health inspector.
That requirement is too costly for many would-be entrepreneurs. People who want to start a food business in Cambridge, Mass., can rent professional kitchen space on an hourly basis from CropCircle, a nonprofit "kitchen incubator" that provides technical assistance and access to equipment like convection ovens and blast freezers.
Starting a food business through CropCircle, or one of the other kitchen incubators that have opened around the country, helps keep costs manageable, and entrepreneurs can quickly scale up production when they're ready.
CropCircle members can take a food-safety class that prepares them for the state certification they'll need to go out on their own. Operations Manager Darnell Adams cites the logistical challenges confronting food entrepreneurs, and says there's room in the market for more kitchen incubators and the help they provide.
Some kitchen incubators focus on a specific population, such as immigrants or organic food producers, but Adams says CropCircle is "here for anyone who has an idea that is viable," which is why a day on the job might have her sampling kimchi, carob peppermint cookies, or baba ghanoush. – Colleen Shaddox
2. Free Computers
Computers are vital for almost any business, but not everyone can afford to buy one. Free Geek in Portland, Ore., can help. Volunteers donate 24 hours of their time to deconstruct and rebuild donated computers in exchange for one of their own.
Free Geek's build program guides them through the process of constructing five computers, so they can take home the sixth. A grants program allows nonprofits to apply for computer donations.
Free Geek also offers computer classes, tech support, and a thrift store that sells desktop computers and peripherals at a fraction of retail prices. This keeps computer equipment out of the landfill, working for the local economy, and connecting people to jobs, work, and the world.
For those not living near Portland, Free Geek has numerous affiliates across the country. These affiliates must follow guidelines that include: disposing of equipment in ethical and environmentally responsible ways, using free and open-source software when possible, providing affordable or free tech training, using democratic and transparent governing policies, and being a nonprofit business. – Krista Vogel
3. Quality Child Care
Working parents with young children need high-quality, affordable child care, while many parents staying at home with their children need a way to earn a living. Nicole Richardson got assistance from an organization that addresses both these needs.
Richardson came from a big family and always wanted to run a child-care business. But realizing that dream required her to navigate complex regulations and make renovations to her home, where the business would be based. She turned to All Our Kin (AOK), a nonprofit in New Haven, Conn.
All Our Kin prepared her for certification as a child development associate, helped her apply for her license, and provided technical assistance, including one-on-one mentorship from a master teacher. AOK clients get boxes of free materials that range from smoke detectors to art supplies, and Richardson even got a low-interest loan to fence her yard.
"I don't feel like I'm babysitting kids," she says. "I feel like I'm an educator." Today she is certified as an Early Head Start provider and employs an assistant to help care for five infants and toddlers.
AOK opened in reaction to welfare reform, which pushed mothers into low-paying jobs that didn't cover the cost of child care. Founders Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner began training women to provide outstanding child care in their homes. They expanded AOK's work when many existing child care providers in Connecticut started going under. They believed that with good training and support these businesses could be sustainable and extend high-quality care to neighborhoods where it was scarce.
Their strategy worked: The number of providers is actually increasing in New Haven.
With the right skills, child care can be a great career, according to Richardson. "If you have the love for the kids, I recommend it," she says. – C.S.
4. Ignite! Local Business
Training and mutual support go a long way in making small enterprises viable. That's no secret to the graduates of Urban FIRE (Financial Intelligence, Responsible Entrepreneurship), a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif., that provides an affordable "crash course" for would-be entrepreneurs in the inner city.
The resulting new businesses are launched every year at the Ignite! New Business Expo, a showcase to encourage community support.
Teamwork extends beyond the classroom for Urban FIRE graduates. The founder of Our Cuban Kitchen in Oakland, for example, buys the restaurant's desserts and marketing services from fellow graduates.
It's just the sort of collaboration that Urban FIRE founder Boku Kodama envisions as the basis of a local economy. "What Ignite! and Urban FIRE attempt to do is create intra-dependent villages within their communities so that they can be more self-sustainable without relying on so-called social service programs," he says. – Lily Hicks
5. Instant Office
Independent workers may need a ready-made office for just a few hours, or all day, every day, and that's just what's provided by Citizen Space in San Francisco, Calif. Freelancers can pay a small fee to drop in occasionally, or a monthly membership for dedicated desk space, 24/7 building access, conference rooms, and office amenities.
But this is more than just an office. It's one of the growing number of coworking spaces that has sprouted throughout Europe and North America in the past five years as collaborative alternatives to working from home.
Citizen Space gives members access to a computer clinic on efficient use of technology – vital to independents whose computers serve as business hubs. It's just one of the classes and events offered to promote good business practices and encourage social interaction. The networking opportunities are endless, and the atmosphere – somewhere between an office and a coffee shop – proves that people don't need to work for the same company to be colleagues. – Krista Vogel
6. Factory at Your Fingertips
What would you make if you could run a factory from your laptop? It's a real option, at least if you live near a Fab Lab. Developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fab Labs are a suite of industrial fabrication tools controlled by a personal computer.
The first Fab Lab outside MIT, at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, has allowed entrepreneurs to start microbusinesses producing everything from knitting tools to circuit boards. Fab Labs currently support small businesses in scattered sites around the United States and even more so in the developing world.
Some of these products may find their way back to the United States. A wireless network that helped Afghan farmers keep track of their sheep was repurposed in Kenya as a way to provide Internet access. Now people in Detroit are talking about adopting the system to provide low-cost wireless service. – C.S.
7. Organizing Freelancers
Offering your services on a temporary basis is one way to find work at a time when employers are reluctant to create permanent jobs. Contract workers make up 30 percent of the American workforce, and their numbers are increasing. The Freelancers Union offers "solidarity, benefits, community, and a political voice" to these consultants, independent contractors, temps, part-timers, and contingent employees. The 156,000-member organization is not actually a union in that it offers no collective bargaining. But it advocates for the rights of independent workers, and provides support in the form of group benefits such as 401K plans, health insurance (in certain states), disability insurance, and member discounts.
Increasingly, universities and colleges employ part-time, contingent, and adjunct instructors, who are sometimes paid less than the cleaning staff, and work without benefits or job security. The American Federation of Teachers is a trade union that now includes workers throughout education, health care, and public service, as well as adjunct professors. The American Association of University Professors and the New Faculty Majority are not unions but do fight for adjunct rights.
The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) of America describes itself as an member-run, independent union. UE has a growing membership that includes a range of occupations and represents approximately 35,000 workers in more than 140 autonomous locals around the country.
Whether these and other newer professional unions grow to have the political and economic clout of the Teamsters or SEIU remains to be seen. But in the age of social networking there are new avenues for organizing from the ground up. – Larry Buhl
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By Jacob Morgan on March 19, 2012
I think at this point it's safe to say that I've worked with, researched, and communicated with hundreds of companies around how they are leveraging emergent tools and strategies to impact their business. A few weeks ago I asked if we need a chief collaboration officer which received a lot of attention. Out of all of these […]
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Last night's TDS featured correspondent Sam Bee reporting on the class division that supposedly had been growing between different factions in the OCW encampment before it was dismantled. "As it dragged on, the movement had been in danger of becoming the very thing it was fighting against," she opined.
In the segment (billed as an attempt "to build a bridge between workers and protesters in America's rage-based economy"), Bee navigates her way from the uptown OCW end of Zuccotti Park to the downtown or "ghetto" OCW at the opposite end. One side held iPad-toting hipsters with bike-powered espresso machines and a library while the other was home to "the downwardly mobile, with their drum circles."
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.