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'Fresh Air' At 25: A Live Musical Tribute
This show was originally broadcast on May 11, 2012.
Friday, May 11, 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the day Fresh Air became a daily national NPR program. Before that, the show was broadcast only on WHYY in Philadelphia. How long ago was May 11, 1987? On Fresh Air's first edition, TV critic David Bianculli reviewed the finale of the TV series Hill Street Blues.
A 25th anniversary is a pretty big event in the life of a show. To celebrate, it seemed appropriate to do something that reflected our 25 years on the air, so we decided to select some of Fresh Air's great live musical performances from our archive. Among the performers on Friday's show: Peggy King, Susannah McCorkle, Loudon Wainwright III, Charlie Haden, Shirley Horn, Arthur Alexander, Richard Thompson, Dave Frishberg, Rebecca Kilgore, Nick Lowe, John Doe and Catherine Russell.
So many other great musicians have performed on our show over the past 25 years. (You can find many of their performances online here.) We feel very fortunate — not many shows get to celebrate a 25th anniversary — because we've been given the greatest anniversary gift a show can ask for: you. Whether you've been listening for 25 years or just a few days, you have given us the privilege of marking this anniversary and continuing to produce Fresh Air. On behalf of all of us who have worked on the show over the past 25 years, our current crew and our alumni, thank you. A lot.
A Medley Of Impromptu Singing On Fresh Air
Some of the singing you hear on Fresh Air isn't from concerts; it's just guests breaking out into song. Click the audio above to hear the medley — can you identify the voices?
You'll find answers below:
- Al Green on "Tired of Being Alone"
- Nathan Lane delivering singing telegrams
- David Sedaris singing the old Oscar Mayer Wiener commercial jingle, in his Billie Holiday voice
- James Brown counting off "On the One"
- Martin Short singing "I Shot the Sheriff" as Frank Sinatra
- Jason Segel performing "Castle On a Cloud" from Les Miserables
- Patti Smith singing "Slow Boat to China" — the kind of song she said she likes to sing around the house
- Richard Belzer imagining Bob Dylan at his bar mitzvah
- Bill Murray yelling at the band in character as a lounge singer
- Paul McCartney giving us a few bars of the great Beatles song "From Me to You"
- Mel Brooks as the German Ethel Merman
- Tom Kinney singing in the cartoon voice for which he's best known, SpongeBob
- Jack Black flexing his rock God voice
- Bret McKenzie channeling some Harry Nilsson in "Without You"
- Fresh Air's administrative assistant Dorothy Ferebee on the Chiquita Banana theme song
- Robin Williams giving us his Ethel Merman
- Martin Short singing "Come Fly With Me"
- Ray Manzarek of The Doors revealing an inner Sonny and Cher.
- Jay-Z remembering his first rhyme
- And Martin Short, in character as the Tin Pan Alley songwriter Irving Cohen
Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny Miller. The people who work so hard to find our guests, edit our interviews and keep us on the air include Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Roberta Shorrock, Sam Briger, Ann Marie Baldonado, Lauren Krenzel, John Myers, John Sheehan (who edited and mixed this anniversary show), Heidi Saman, Teresa Madden, Melody Kramer, Dorothy Ferebee and Audrey Bentham.
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Happy New Year. Today we conclude our series featuring a few of our favorite interviews from 2012. We'll start today's show with the interview I recorded with Jack Black last April. He's best known for his roles in "High Fidelity," "School of Rock," "Shallow Hal," "Tropic Thunder," "Nacho Libre" and the animated film "Kung Fu Panda." He's also known for his satiric, hard rock-heavy metal band Tenacious D, a duo with Kyle Gass.
In 2012, Tenacious D had a new album, Black starred this year in the movie "Bernie," and he ended the year by presenting Led Zeppelin with a Kennedy Center honor calling them the best band ever.
So there's a new Tenacious D album. I'm going to ask you to describe the band Tenacious D.
JACK BLACK: Tenacious D is comedy folk-rock, is what I would say.
GROSS: Folk rock?
BLACK: And the only reason I say folk is because we're two acoustic guitars. At our core, it's just me and Kyle on acoustic guitars and singing - you know, kind of like Simon and Garfunkel. But then we're most heavily influenced by heavy metal bands of the '80s.
We used to make fun of the devil because the devil's influence on '80s metal was so prevalent. And now, it just seems so ridiculous and hilarious. But this new album is more about redemption. It's a comeback-themed album.
GROSS: Which leads me into the title track, which I'd like to play, if it's OK with you.
BLACK: Please.
GROSS: Yeah, so this is "Rize of the Fenix," the title track, and it's the story of your band, Tenacious D, making its big comeback. And it's a tribute to, you know, a lot of heavy metal music of the '80s. Do you want to say anything else to introduce it?
BLACK: No, I think it speaks for itself. We're - it's in reference to our last album, which was a soundtrack to our movie "The Pick of Destiny." And it didn't do well in the box office scores, and it didn't do well with the critics. And this is our triumphant comeback to say, you know, you can't kill us.
GROSS: OK, so here's Jack Black and his band, Tenacious D.
BLACK: (Singing) When "The Pick of Destiny" was released, it was a bomb. And all the critics said that the D was done. The sun had set, and the chapter had closed, but one thing no one thought about was the D would rise again, just like the phoenix will rise again.
(Singing) 'Cause the fiery heart of a champion cannot be squelched by a failure or an embarrassment; no way, no. And the critics all agreed it was a stinky pile of cheese, but that does not mean that our hearts are not strong. Just like the phoenix, we'll rise again. Just like the phoenix, we'll rise again.
(Singing) Sunshine, it's a hell of a day...
GROSS: That's Jack Black's band, Tenacious D. What are some of your favorite things about heavy metal voices and the things that they - you know, like the really like, big, dramatic flourishes?
BLACK: Well, in general, in the vocals department, what I appreciate is glory.
BLACK: I was thinking about this the other day. And it's not just heavy metal but, you know, hard rock in general. I like to include my brothers from The Who and Led Zeppelin. But if they can take me on a journey through the clouds - I don't have any real spirituality in my life; I'm kind of an atheist. But when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
GROSS: But what about like, certain - just - like, vocal flourishes, like the - excuse me for embarrassing myself here - like the rise again thing.
BLACK: Oh, that.
GROSS: Yes.
BLACK: That was just me showing off. I wanted to show that I've got the chops, and I wanted to take my voice on a rollercoaster ride.
(Singing) Yay-yay-yay-yay-yow.
You know, that's just flexing in the mirror; vocal flex.
GROSS: So is that one of the things you love about, like, hard rock - is that, you know, the bigness of it?
BLACK: I do love the bigness. And it feels almost primal. It feels like we're Native Americans around the fire. Before there was - big buildings and cars and civilization, there was just the power of a voice singing to the heavens.
GROSS: One of the tracks, "To Be the Best," is almost like a parody of "Flashdance" - of the songs from "Flashdance."
BLACK: It is. I mean, that was a song that we did almost - that was the last song that we added to the album because we felt we needed one more song that fit the theme - which was, you know, the rise of the phoenix; the comeback. And we needed a song that sounded like something that would inspire you to do push-ups and sit-ups, and run around like Rocky.
BLACK: You know, like "Eye of the Tiger" and all those great, '80s rock things - you can do it if you believe in yourself. There's something so funny about that now. No one's really doing that kind of particular brand of cheese.
BLACK: (Singing) To be the best, we've got to pass the test. We gotta make it all the way to the top of the mountain. We can do it again. To feel the high, we've got to learn to fly. We've got to take it to the sky on the wings of an eagle. You're the best in the world.
(Singing) You are the best, but you say you don't know. You got the touch, now come on let it show. You call the shots, but you know that you gots to believe in the things that you're dreaming. Your search for the meaning is very revealing. The power of being is what you're feeling. You gotta believe that you're simply the best.
GROSS: That's Jack Black and his band, Tenacious D. So when you were, say, a teenager, who did you fantasize - yourself - as being like? If you could've been in any band, which band would it have been?
BLACK: Well, I had two sides of myself. There was the yin and yang of my musical tastes. I had Van Halen on one side, and then I had Bobby McFerrin on the other side - the hard rock, and then the jazz. Both of them had a certain type of cheese to them. And when I mixed them together in my laboratory, that's sort of what I became - a mixture of the vocal stylings of the jazz-scat master, with the bombast and power of the hard rocker.
GROSS: Who else was in your jazz side?
BLACK: OK, now you're going to reveal me to be not that deep on the jazz.
GROSS: Was Bobby McFerrin out there all by himself?
BLACK: OK, he was all by himself.
GROSS: But nevertheless influential.
BLACK: Yeah. But I was obsessed with him, I would go so far as to say, because I had always imagined myself going out on stage by myself, and blowing people's minds just with the power of my singing voice. Now, I'm revealing too much about my ambitions, but...
GROSS: No, and Bobby McFerrin was probably most famous - was definitely most famous for "Don't Worry, Be Happy." But because he could do different voices when he sang - he could, like, back himself up - it almost sounded like he did several voices at the same time. But he could sing different parts. He could sing in different voices. So it was kind of like having a whole vocal group in this, like, one man.
BLACK: Yeah. Long before "Don't Worry, Be Happy," he was blowing people's minds with incredible covers of, like, Beatles songs. He did an unbelievable version of "Blackbird."
GROSS: Right. Didn't he do, like, percussion by tapping on himself, too?
BLACK: Yes. He would slap on his chest, and that would sound like the drums. But it would also affect his voice. (Vocalizing and tapping) I'm not going to do it justice so I won't even try now, but there was a time...
GROSS: I can just tell by that, that you - you were - you did him in your room.
BLACK: Whenever he came to town - oh, yeah. Whenever he came to town, I would be there. I would be at the concerts. And whenever he asked for volunteers from the audience, I would be running as fast as I could to the stage.
GROSS: Did you make it onstage?
BLACK: I did. I did make it onstage, and I think I was a little too aggressive with my enthusiasm because he did, one time, tell me to tone it down - not with words, but just with a look in his eye and a little shake of his head. I knew that I had crossed the line, and I wasn't supposed to be slapping my chest. That's his job.
BLACK: I was just going to do what he told me.
GROSS: You said one time as if, like, you did this many times - running onstage and performing with him.
BLACK: I've been onstage with McFerrin more than once. He wouldn't remember. I was just one of the thousands that have been on the stage, you know. I did want to be part of his Voicestra.
GROSS: I can't help be reminded of your movie "School of Rock," listening to this, in which you play a musician who is kicked out of his own rock band because he's so annoying, and then you end up being a substitute teacher and you want your students to like, love rock, so you're teaching them all about rock. And you want them to form a rock band that you will lead. And you're trying to give them like, an education about rock, you're trying to teach them how to channel their anger into like, writing songs and performing songs. So let's hear a clip of that scene.
BLACK: Great.
GROSS: (as Dewey Finn) All right. Now, is everyone nice and pissed off?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: (as characters) Yeah.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) Good. Time to write a rock song. Now, what makes you mad more than anything in the world? Billy.
BRIAN FALDUTO: (as Billy) You.
BLACK: Billy, we've already told me off. Let's move on.
FALDUTO: (as Billy) You're tacky, and I hate you.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) OK, you see me after class. You, Gordon.
ZACHARY INFANTE: (as Gordon) No allowance.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) (Singing) I didn't get no allowance today. So now I'm really ticked off.
(as Dewey Finn) You know what I mean? What else makes you mad? Michelle?
JORDAN-CLAIRE GREEN: (as Michelle) Chores.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) (Singing) I had to do my chores today. So I am really ticked off.
(as Dewey Finn) What else?
JOEY GAYDOS: (as Zack) Bullies.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) (Singing) All you bullies get out of my way because I am really ticked off.
(as Dewey Finn) So what would you say to a bully? Zack?
GAYDOS: (as Zack) I don't know.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) No, come on. If someone was right up in your grill, what would you say?
GAYDOS: (as Zack) I don't know.
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) If someone was pushing you around, telling you what to do, what would you say?
GAYDOS: (as Zack) Step off?
BLACK: (as Dewey Finn) (Singing) Step off! Step off! Step off! Step off! - everybody.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN: (as characters) (Singing) Step off! Step off! Step off!
GROSS: That's great. That's Jack Black in "School of Rock." I love your heavy metal falsetto. It's such a key part of those bands.
BLACK: I look forward to, someday, my Vegas show - where I do excerpts of all the highlights of my career. I will definitely do a "Step Off." I can see it, in my golden years.
GROSS: Now, you know how in the scene of "School of Rock" that we've just heard, you were telling the kids to basically channel their anger and frustration, and turn it into music; did you do that when you were a teenager - you know, like, try to channel your anger and frustration into music?
BLACK: I did use music as an outlet. And I did like to sing and make music into my four-track. I had a four-track recorder in like, 10th grade, I got my first one. My Tascam Porta 05 - anybody out there that remembers those machines.
And I loved just to sing as hard and as loud as I could - and harmony. It was like a release. It was kind of like a form of therapy. It's like scream therapy.
GROSS: What about acting in high school?
BLACK: Yeah. I was real involved in the theater program in high school, and I was in a lot of musical theater. And that's, I guess, where my music and my acting started to mix.
GROSS: So what was your favorite role that you played in a musical?
BLACK: Well, it's got to be "Pippin." That was my best one. But we also did a production of a Bertolt Brecht play called "The Caucasian Chalk Circle." And I played Azdak, the kind of anarchistic judge in a land that was sort of in turmoil. That was a kind of a heavy play to do in high school. It was pretty advanced.
But I had a blast, and I overcame a lot of fears. I remember I was so scared opening night, when we were supposed to do our first performance for all the parents, that I just called my teacher and said, I'm not doing the play. And he said, just come meet me at the diner. And so I met him at the diner that day.
And he talked me into it, said don't worry about failing; it's going to be fine. You know, it is what it is. It's an experience. You're going to learn from it. I was like, OK. And I did it. And I was so filled with fear and adrenaline that I gave probably my best performance of my life that day.
And it's a lesson that I've carried with me - that just because I'm terrified doesn't mean that I shouldn't do it. You know, and a lot of times I'll want to turn down a role or something because I'm scared of what it is, or that I won't do it well, and people will judge me. And then I have to say, eh, remember high school? You were scared of Azdak.
And I'll - more often than not - do it if I think that the fear is based in just cowardice as opposed to something that I really shouldn't do.
GROSS: We're listening back to an interview with actor and musician Jack Black. More after a break; this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Let's get back to the interview I recorded with actor and musician Jack Black last April. Your breakout role was "High Fidelity." And "High Fidelity," based on the novel by Nick Hornby, is set in a record store. You're one of the guys who works in the store. And you judge everybody - customers, your fellow workers - based on their taste in music. How did you get the role?
BLACK: Well, John Cusack was a friend from the Actors' Gang Theater Company - because he and Tim Robbins were tight buddies. And they were real...
GROSS: This is the theater company that you first worked in, when you were getting started. Yeah.
BLACK: That's right. Out of - yeah, out of college. Actually, as far back as my senior year in high school, I was aware of them. So John had seen my work at the Actors' Gang, and then he saw me do Tenacious D. And he said: I want him to play Barry in "High Fidelity." And I wrestled with it for a while; I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it.
GROSS: Why?
BLACK: Because I was afraid. I was afraid people were going to judge me. But yes, but I was coming up with other reasons. I was like yeah, man, no, I'm not going to talk about music like that. That's not cool. You don't just talk about Kurt Cobain.
And you know, there was a few lines in the script that ruffled my feathers because, you know, there were certain things that you just don't name; you don't say those words out loud. They're too cool to be spoken out loud. But then once I got over the fact that it wasn't really the lines in the script but the fact that, you know, I was going to be on a bigger stage than usual and that I would be judged, I realized that I had to face my demons and go into the battle.
And I had that same kind of fear, adrenaline, going like I did in high school, in my first play. And I just acted my butt off. It was a transforming experience.
GROSS: Well, Stephen Frears directed that film. He's a very good director - I mean, judging as a viewer. Did he help you through your fear?
BLACK: Stephen was a great director, and he didn't tell me very much. He was very sparing with his praise. Like, I would try my hardest, and I was just doing anything to try to get his approval. You know, it was almost like a father figure. I wanted him to love me and love my performance.
So I was just diving through hoops and setting myself on fire and doing everything I could to wow him. And he wouldn't say anything. He would just say, all right, that's good; let's go to the next scene. And there was something about that that drove me crazy and sent me to higher heights. There's something to be said for the denial of praise - sometimes, that's the best kind of direction.
GROSS: And you know, your character in "High Fidelity" is very - kind of belligerent and crude. And at the end, he's going to perform and everyone who knows him thinks, like, this is going to be really embarrassing. And you end up being great. You perform Marvin Gaye's "Let Get It On" and just sing it really soulfully and with genuine feeling, which nobody knows - nobody knew you had.
BLACK: Yeah. They wanted me to sing a different song, initially. They wanted me to do a Marvin Gaye song - you know that one...
(Singing) I used to go out to parties, dance till dawn. Can't we get to something...
I can't remember the name of the song, but it didn't have the punch that "Let's Get it On" had. And I was like, guys, let me just rock "Let's Get It On." I can really sink my teeth into that one. And they were like, OK, sure. But then when it came time to do it, I kind of froze up. I got a little scared.
And we did it, and I sang it. And I was a little tentative, and it was not rocking. It just - everyone was aware that oh, this is how we're going to end the movie. Ew. And Stephen Frears came out and started yelling, but not at me. He was yelling at everyone else in the audience for not rocking more. You know, why aren't you enjoying this music more?
BLACK: And then he said, fine, Jack. Let's do it again. So he didn't yell at me - but I felt like it was all at me. And then when he said action the next time, I just, you know, I took it to another level. And then that was the take that he used in the movie.
GROSS: Jack Black, it's really been a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you so much.
BLACK: The pleasure was mine.
GROSS: Jack Black, recorded last April. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
BLACK: (as Barry) (Singing) I've been really trying, baby, to hold onto this feeling for so long. And if you feel like I feel, sugar, come on. Wow, come on. Ooh. Let's get it on. Let's get it on. Let's love, sugar. Let's get it on. Sugar, let's get it on. Ooh. Fa-la-da-da-da-da. We are all sensitive people with so much to give... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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50 Greatest Quotes on Men
Today's post as you can see from the title itself is dedicated to men. Well, technically women since they would be the one trying to find answers about men. After researching all day I have been able to compile this post with quotes that might answer some questions and some, as always, will remain unanswered no matter how hard we try.
1. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. ~ Fanny Brice
2. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
3. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ~ George Bernard Shaw
4. When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ~ Benjamin Franklin
5. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
6. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
7. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ~ Blaise Pascal
8. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ~ William Hazlitt
9. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~ Oscar Wilde
10. God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. ~ Unknown
11. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ~ Oscar Wilde
12. It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men. ~ Mae West
13. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. ~ Buddha
14. Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ~ Billy Crystal
15. Men play the game; women know the score. ~ Roger Woddis
16. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. ~ Winston Churchill
17. There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ~ Samuel Johnson
18. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ~ Louis Nizer
19. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
20. Few men have been admired of their familiars. ~ Michel de Montaigne
21. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~ Kin Hubbard
22. If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ~ Doris Day
23. All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. ~ John Lyly
24. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris
25. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo
26. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ~ Thomas Carlyle
27. Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ~ George Eliot
28. A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. ~ Jose Marti
29. The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. ~ Julius Charles Hare
30. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. ~ Marilyn Moroe
31. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
32. Young men preen. Old men scheme. ~ Mason Cooley
33. If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher
34. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
35. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ~ Samuel Johnson
36. Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
37. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ~ Francis Bacon
38. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle
39. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ~ Cher
40. There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ~ Will Rogers
41. Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ~ Samuel Butler
42. Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~ William Shakespeare
43. Men are only as great as they are kind. ~ Elbert Hubbard
44. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
45. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ Confucius
46. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. ~ Henry David Thoreau
47. It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. ~ Frederick Douglass
49. Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
50. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
nice! :D
- copper canyon grill boca raton on 10:56 PM said...
Thanks for the list!
- Anonymous said...
If these are the most amazing quotes regarding men, it's a sad wonder our world is where it's at. Where are the quotes speaking the positive attributes men bring? There are so many and yet instead you have chosen the ones that knock and diminish men. Where is the respect? We women are only hurting ourselves when we overlook and ignore the good qualities men do have.
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The PC is powered via a mini USB port so a cell phone charger should be able to turn it on. The specs say that it consumes 2 Amps @ 5V but we've successfully booted it with a USB charger rated 1Amp @ 5V.
I assume the extra power is required to power the peripherals on the 3 USB ports.
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Vortex86MX = (Vortex86DX) + (built-in GPU) + (HD Audio) - (ISA support).
eBox 3350MX eats only 5V 500mA. The extra 1.5A in its spec is reserved for USB peripherals
PedroR wrote:...
Can the POWER port of the eBox 3350 behave as a USB client?


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----- Original Message -----
From: Cara McKennon
To: Betty & Chuck
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Conference Call synopsis for
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, Part II, Mony
Conference Call synopsis for Saturday,
February 12, 2005. Part II. Mony Vital on
Immortality. Written by Cara McKennon
Mony Vital is one of about 1,000 people on
earth who lives totally on prana, Light
energy. He does not eat food of any kind, nor
drink liquids of any kind, including water,
yet he is in perfect health.
His comments were done in first person, so I
will write it that way. These quotes come
from notes taken during the conference call.
Quoting. Mony Vital on immortality.
?I don?t eat, I live on Light. I don?t drink
water even. I live on pranic nourishment If
you think you are getting anything from food,
you are totally mistaken. Food is poison, it
takes from your health. You actually get your
energy from air.
?Physical things, not living physically
immortal, I reject it. I don?t have to accept
the culture of death. Human beings are only a
?You receive two certificates in your life:
birth certificate and a death certificate.
From the moment you are born, you buy into
the death culture. You don?t see yourself in
the death culture. From the moment you are
born, you start to die.
?People decide when they will die. It is a
slow, painful process. People believe they
must grow old and die. It controls you, you
have no future, no vision.
?You must have a vision, you must have
possibilities, and not be bound by the
restrictions of earth. I designed my life
and the people around me. I love myself.
I am totally into myself.
?You are being controlled-mind controlled.
Your conversations in spirituality have no
basis in reality.
?Doing this you are not going to have a brand
new body tomorrow. You are not going
anywhere, unless you accept yourself 100%.
Not 99%, but 100%.
?Our bodies are 90% water, sacs of water.
Water is changeable. Since water is changeable,
you are changeable. You are the ones creating
the symptoms you have.
At this point, Mony was interrupted by Dr.
Yu?s presentation. I will resume the next
part when Mony returned.
Michael commented that what we have been
living is the old paradigm, Dr. Yu represents
the present paradigm. Mony Vital the new
Mony continued. Mony started with some
background history.
?I was raised in Israel. From the age of 5 I
was taught the teachings of the Torah, what I
am to believe and not to believe. Was I in or
out? As a child I was very confused about
what they wanted me to do.?
He resumed back to where he left off before.
?After every meal, your body has to rest. In
some societies, they have a siesta, a 2 hour
break, after the meal to rest. People eat too
much. It shuts down the system. There is no
good food. Your stomach is the size of your
fist. You should 1/3 less than you do.
?Change your system. Clean it up. Balancing
is cleaning it. Cleaning it is balancing it.
Most people have parasites. If you clean up
your system, you clean up the parasites. The
parasites are a symbiotic relationship. You
don?t get cravings for certain foods, your
parasites get cravings for certain foods and
you feed the parasites when you satisfy your
?So why feed your parasites? It?s all
?Your body wants to heal itself. You should
never see a therapist or doctor. You are
buying into the death culture. You should try
Tai Chi,
?I tried it all, being a vegetarian, eating
only raw fruit, or all juices. ?
When asked how long he had been on prana, he
said. ?Five years.?
He said something about 21 days. Not sure in
reference to what.
He said, ?After 3 days of not eating, you
will not be hungry anymore.
?Learn to be a whole human being. Learn to
love yourself completely.
Loving yourself is very important, and loving
everybody else.
?The only love that really matters is loving
yourself. Look inside yourself.
Buddha and Jesus said to love your neighbor
as yourself. Self love, inner love, promote
Loving self, loving inner self, loving
yourself collectively.
?I never do anything to harm me.
?Who is ready for this change of lifestyle?
Everything about this world is about eating.
It?s the old energy. If you don?t eat, you
have time for other things. Not eating
doesn?t cost anything, it instead saves lots
of money.
?I don?t get invited out much because I don?t
eat their food.
?You can?t buy life force in a can. You can?t
buy it in a pill or plastic bottle. Change is
the new paradigm.
?Think about being alive. Most people can?t
see 20 years into the future.
?The most revered man in the world is the
Pope. It is not about youth, or being happy.
He is very old, he?s about religion, not
living, being in a death culture, a culture
of death from A to Z. Like the movie the
Matrix. Go see it, if you haven?t seen it.
You are living in a matrix, inside the box.
?You are living in the damning of America,
and getting dumber and dumber. You don?t
question, you act like robots. The
controllers don?t want you to find out you
are living in a box they control.
?The medical community believes in a death
culture. In medical school, they practice on
cadavers, on dead bodies, not on live bodies.
?Homeopathic medicine is imitating
traditional medicine.?
Michael asked Mony how to do this.
Mony?s reply. ?You must love and heal the
inner child within with appreciation,
acknowledgment and love. Bless your cells,
bless your organs.
?Every morning before you get up, and every
night before you go to sleep, touch every
part of your body, like your hair, face,
arms, legs, stomach, chest, back if you can
reach it. Touch it and tell your body, ?I
love you.? Do this every morning and you will
have the best day of your life. You don?t
anyone else?s permission to do this.
?Get in your heart. Love every feeling you
have. Do not condemn or criticize yourself.
?Try something different, do this program. Do
this for 42 days. It takes that long for
change to come about.
?Affirmations don?t work. You must
acknowledge the problem. Your body wants to
heal itself, to cleanse itself. If you have
something wrong with your lungs, you won?t
stop the problem by suppressing it. Monitor
what you are
doing to your body.
?Accept and love the parts of your body.
Detox the body and allow it to heal itself.
Your body is geared for survival. Most people
can?t hear their body talking to them through
their symptoms.
?I choose to feel good. Feelings are
important. Affirmations don?t work. Don?t deny
the problem. Change it by acknowledging
it 10 times. As long as you don?t acknowledge
it, you will have a misconnection.
?Connect directly to your brain. Say it 10
times. Love your body. Encourage your body to
become what you want it to be. Don?t deny
what problems you have. The body wants to
heal itself. By pretending, you are lying to
?You can?t fragment your body through
religion and governmental control. Having a
belief in the present culture is like
committing suicide, giving your life to a
culture that has nothing to do with you.
Michael asked Mony if visualization would
Mony?s reply, ?Yes, use your imagination,
have a vision. Put words to the reality you
want. If you can?t see yourself as being
healthy, you will never be healthy. To get
healthy, get a vision of being healthy.
?Hospitals only have a 33% survival rate.
It?s not about life force.
?Change your life style. Do your own healing.
See how beautiful it is to be alive. You are
sick because you choose to be sick.
?You must change your chore belief by loving
your feelings.
?Food is the illusion, that it is necessary
for survival.
Mony was asked about soy.
Mony?s reply. ?Soy is poison. Splenda is
poison. Both cause pain and misery.
?Don?t eat too much food. A little will do
?Go to my website. Read about how to get
cleansed. 40, 50, 60 year olds, clean your
intestines. You should do this once a year at
least. It?s good for your eyesight.?
?Start at the basics. There is no magic
?Make a decision. You must change your
thinking. Pay attention to what you eat.
Consider how long it will take it to digest.
It?s waste energy. The longer it takes, the
faster it will cause aging. Eating food is a
waste of time and nutrition.
?You never gain one ounce of energy from
food. Instead, you lose energy because it
takes more energy to process food than you
get from it.?
Sonali asked Mony. Paraphrasing. ?How are we
to get our children to accept this new way of
not eating when it?s all around them, in
their school, social activity, if they don?t
eat with the other children, with their peer
Mony?s reply. ?The culture is not concerned
about your children. They are considered a
consumer. They are part of the productive
steps of buying. They are being imprinted
with this death culture. Schools are nothing
more than babysitters. Children don?t learn
anything important. They have to want to be
different. They are a social issue. They buy
into the culture, needing cell phones, stuff,
they don?t know what life is about.
?It is your inner child that is deprived. Let
go of impossibility thinking.
?Home schooling is better than the public
school system.
?Baby?s are put on soy formula. It?s like
poison. Baby food is bad for babies. Every
food in your culture is bad for people. It?s
all nonsense.
?Drinking a glass of orange juice in the
morning will ruin your day because it will
play havoc with your blood sugar levels. It?s
worse than drinking coffee in the morning.
Mony gave a toll free number. 888-225-7501
He said he would be going to Thailand soon
and would not be around to answer his phone.
In Thailand many would be going into a Dark
room retreat. When asked what that was.
?People go into a dark room without any light
for a period of 2 weeks. They drink only
water. They go beyond the beyond. Changes
every part of their body and resets their
clock. ?
Another website given was:
Name of a book was given. ?Living on Light.?
by Jasmuheen
When asked about gazing into the sun. Reply.
?I am a breatherian. They are sun gazers. It
is wonderful to look at the sun before sunset
and sunrise. It helps to reset your clock. Do
not do it in the middle of the day.?
[The above information is transcribed as best
as possible from the weekly conference calls.
Some errors or omissions may have occurred
during the translation. This information is
being provided freely for educational
purposes only and should not be construed as
providing legal or financial advice or consulting.]
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Mattingly challenged by outfield surplus
LOS ANGELES -- Manager Don Mattingly said on Thursday that the Dodgers' excess of healthy outfielders has made his lineup decisions more stressful.
Mattingly said "there will come a day" when there's "just a clearer picture" of who will start and who won't. He said that doesn't mean he will stick with only three starters every game and relegate one to a bench role.
Mattingly has tried to rotate Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and Carl Crawford into the three starting spots, often citing statistical-matchup history or righty/lefty preference. Further complicating Mattingly's decisions, Scott Van Slyke has become invaluable against left-handed pitchers by hitting .444 against them.
None of the core four is on fire offensively and Mattingly said he didn't know if that was the result of irregular playing time. Puig is batting .269, Kemp .218, Crawford .217 and Ethier .206. Kemp has the highest slugging percentage at .473 and Puig the highest on-base percentage at .355.
Mattingly left Kemp out of Thursday night's lineup, even though he's 6-for-15 lifetime against Phillies right-handed starter Kyle Kendrick and had two doubles Wednesday night.
"I think Matt is disappointed," said Mattingly. "He swung the bat good last night."
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Microsoft Agrees To Hand Over Skype User Data To Russian Police
from the laying-down-for-its-users dept
Microsoft's defense of its very close relationship with national intelligence agencies has historically been that it "complies with applicable laws." However, its "compliance" in the past seemed to have exceeded the compliance of other companies, as it offered the NSA pre-encryption access to most of its popular services as well as "working closely" with the agency to allow it to grab both audio and video from Skype, which it acquired in 2011.
The company has taken a tougher stance in recent weeks, releasing statements that decry the agency's overreach and promise better protection of users' information and data. But given this recent development, it appears the tough talk was saber-rattling for the public's benefit. Microsoft is still very compliant when it comes to working with intelligence agencies.
Microsoft Corporation that owns the Internet call service Skype is ready to keep in store its Russian users' negotiations, correspondence and data exchange during six months and share it with the Russian police, if necessary, Microsoft's press office told Itar-Tass.Well, I suppose there are none of the usual constitutional concerns that might (theoretically) limit Microsoft's obliging attitude towards the Russian's counter-terrorism efforts. Every Russian Skype user will have their data stored for six months and handed over to the police whenever they ask for it. If the Russian agencies decide they need more data, or want to extend the length of time the data is stored, Microsoft has already agreed to honor any future law targeting its Skype users.
Microsoft thus confirmed its commitment to work in full compliance with the Russian law, the way it does in all countries of its operations. If any new law is adopted, the company will comply with it as well, the press office said.
The pending legislation covers a whole lot of ground, data-wise.
According to the document, an individual or a legal entity that has organised users' contacts on the Internet are to store information about the reception, transmission, delivery and processing of voice information, texts, images, sounds or any other actions in the process of information dissemination and/or data exchange, for six months following such actions and share the mentioned information with the state authorities, if requested.Any service that has user accounts (which would be close to 100% of them) will be required to hold tons of user data and metadata for six months at the behest of Russian authorities. This isn't that much different than the NSA's data hauls, except that some of its programs don't specifically ask for permission before grabbing data and the collections are stored onsite by the agency.
Details are presumably still being hashed out, but Microsoft has already sworn its allegiance to the Russian law in whatever form it takes after being pushed through the legislative process. Not exactly a heartening indicator of Microsoft's new-found willingness to stand up to government overreach.


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As China's Influence Grows, Myanmar Resists
Chinese-owned businesses are buying up real estate in Mandalay, and a backlash is growing. Myanmar and other Asian countries are attempting to resist China's widening economic and military influence. WSJ's Patrick Barta reports.
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To set up the time, simply send the command TIME=hh:mm:ss, where "hh", "mm", "ss" are the hours, the minutes and the seconds, respectively.
Setting up multiple clocks is a tedious process: pair your Android tablet with one at a time, then (from BlueTerm) send the command that includes the correct time. Then repeat for each clock.
What if you could broadcast the TIME=... command? And that command to include the most accurate time, acquired from GPS? This is what this post is about. Now you have the "method".
Next, to the "apparatus". It consists essentially of 3 parts: GPS receiver, microcontroller and Bluetooth master module. Putting them together is trivial, since both GPS receiver and Bluetooth module communicate through serial ports.
I used an old (now discontinued at the major online stores, but still available on ebay) Fastrax UP-501 GPS module I already had laying around. But any GPS receiver should work as well, including the Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout.
The "Bluetooth master module" is a re-programmed HC-05 (see the datasheet) as master, with CMODE=1 (for broadcasting).
The sketch, presented below, uses SoftwareSerial library to communicate with the GPS module (Rx on D3, Tx on D4) and TinyGPS library to extract the time from the NMEA sentence. The BTBee module is connected to the hardware serial port (D0, D1).
#include "TinyGPS.h"
#include "SoftwareSerial.h"
SoftwareSerial GPSSerial(4, 3);
// GPS Fatrax UP501, connected as follows:
// - power pin to 3.3V
// - ground pin to ground
// - VBAT pin to 3.3V if no battery is used
// - TX pin to D4
// - RX pin to D3 through a voltage divider (2 resistors, 10k + 4k7)
#define _DEBUG_ true
// commands for GPS module;
#define PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_1HZ "$PMTK220,1000*1F"
#define PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_5HZ "$PMTK220,200*2C"
#define PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_10HZ "$PMTK220,100*2F"
// turn on only the second sentence (GPRMC)
#define PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCONLY "$PMTK314,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0*29"
// turn on ALL THE DATA
#define PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_ALLDATA "$PMTK314,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0*28"
// MTK command datasheet at http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/proj/nmeaxor.html
TinyGPS gps;
void setup()
// default baud rate for BTBee (on hardware serial);
// default baud rate for UT501 (on software serial);
// turn on all the available data (for 9600 baud you'll want 1Hz rate);
// set update rate to 1Hz
#ifdef _DEBUG_
Serial.println("ready for reading GPS...");
void loop()
void acquireTimeFromGPS()
unsigned long age;
int Year;
byte Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second, Hundredths;
if (feedgps())
#ifdef _DEBUG_
Serial.println("GPS feed acquired...");
gps.crack_datetime(&Year, &Month, &Day, &Hour, &Minute, &Second, &Hundredths, &age);
char buf[20] = {0};
sprintf(buf, "TIME=%02d:%02d:%02d", Hour, Minute, Second+1);
bool feedgps()
while (GPSSerial.available())
char c = GPSSerial.read();
#ifdef _DEBUG_
if (gps.encode(c))
return true;
return false;
As protoboard I used the XBee Shield from seeedstudio because it had a socket for my BTBee (plus 3V3 regulator) and also ample space for processor and GPS. (It could even fit in a Altoids tin if the GPS receiver is soldered directly to the board, without headers.)
Future improvements should include a couple of status LEDs, one to show that the data was being acquired from GPS, another to indicate that the "TIME" command was successfully built and broadcast. Similarly but more expensively, a small OLED screen could be used to display the activity.
On the software side, the time, which comes as UTC in the NMEA sentence, should be adjusted to the current time zone, probably based on the longitude.


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Ron Howard's massive "Dark Tower" tent-pole project goes up in smoke and suddenly he's got a new film brewing. Go figure...
Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven," with "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on board to adapt the screenplay and Ron Howard directing, reported Deadline. Krauker's 2004 book tells the story of two murderous brothers acting on a directive from God. From the official synopsis:
At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this "divinely inspired" crime, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. Along the way, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest-growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
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The day's top national and international news.
Needless to say, the Church of Latter Day Saints didn't much care for the book, with church historian Richard E. Turley condemning the book as "a full-frontal assault on the veracity of the modern Church."
"Banner" will reunite Black and Grazer, who recently worked together on Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic, "J. Edgar," starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Howard and Grazer continue to look for a home for their "Dark Tower" adaptation, and yesterday it was learned that "Law & Order: LA" writer will rework the script for the "Colossus: The Forbin Project" remake that Howard and Grazer had once planned to make with Will Smith.


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- Genealogy Leftovers - Information of general interest to genealogists worldwide, or those with interests in Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, USA, South Africa, Europe etc. This is where I put the 'leftovers' that do not fit into my three locality-specific blogs for Queensland, the United Kingdom & Australia, and Yorkshire.
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- UK / Australia Genealogy - Advice on sources and research techniques for genealogy in the United Kingdom and Australia, plus references to specific individuals. If your ancestor had a brother, sister or cousin who emigrated, Australian records (including very informative death certificates) may give family details that are not available in the UK.
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Would be hipsters on college campuses around the country won't be puffing on clove cigarettes and strawberry bidis anymore.
A federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect Tuesday. But the ban doesn't include menthol, which is by far the most popular cigarette flavor, or other flavored tobacco products.
Federal authorities say cigarettes that taste like spices, fruit or candy are more appealing to kids and young people.
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"Candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular tobacco users," said Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.
Deyton said 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers older than age 25.
And FDA officials also said almost 90 percent of adult smokers start smoking as teenagers. They said the ban will help stop more than 3,600 young people who start smoking daily.
But California-based Kretek International Inc., which imports clove cigarettes, says flavored cigarettes only make up "less than 2/10ths of 1 percent of all the cigarettes sold."
Menthol flavoring is used in about 25 percent of all cigarettes sold. And menthol smokes are getting "increasingly popular" with teenage smokers, USA Today reported.
A study has even found that menthol cigarettes are harder to quit than regular tobacco cigarettes, the newspaper reported.
Mike Siegel, a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, said it doesn't make much sense to exempt the most popular flavor from a ban.
"You know, you need to be consistent," he told NPR. "If it's so important that we ban cigarette flavorings, then ban them."
Of course, Phillip Morris USA -- which supports the federal ban on flavored cigarettes -- is unlikely to get behind a ban on menthol.
Franeta Phelps, a smoker in Dallas, said she is fine with the flavor ban because it will protect children.
"They will be more likely to smoke cigarettes, want to smoke cigarettes, to know the flavor or just to see if it's cool, and how it tastes, so yes, I'm fine with that," she said. "I'm OK with that."
In the meantime, a fight is brewing over the difference between a cigarette and a cigar.
Kretek has switched to clove-flavored cigars that are filtered and close to the size of a cigarette. They are wrapped in tobacco rather than paper, the traditional distinction between cigarettes (which are wrapped in paper) and cigars (which are wrapped in tobacco or paper made out of tobacco).
But an FDA lawyer said in a conference call with reporters that anything that consumers consider cigarettes will be defined as cigarettes, the New York Times reported.
In June, President Barack Obama signed a law that allows the FDA regulate the industry. Its authority includes the ability to ban certain products, reduce nicotine in tobacco products and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large, graphic warnings.
The law won't let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco outright, but the agency will be able to regulate what goes into tobacco products, make public the ingredients and prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children.


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Men's clothes for women? Suit yourself
Not welcomed by men's stores or tailors even in S.F., Sausalito woman turns entrepreneur
Zel Anders felt as if she was the only woman looking for well-tailored, dapper suits. The salesmen at Men's Wearhouse said they couldn't help her. Haberdasheries didn't carry her size of wingtip. Tailors, asked to alter men's suits, balked.
"They would just look at me and judge in this obvious way that felt so uncomfortable," says Anders, 48, who lives in Sausalito. "Which is crazy, because here I am in San Francisco. I know I'm not the first woman to wear a suit! So I thought maybe there was a market."
In 2010, she quit her paralegal job and enrolled in an entrepreneurship class at the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center. From day one, she had the name: Tomboy Tailors.
On Saturday, her haberdashery will open in the booming Crocker Galleria on Post and Kearny. The 1,100-square-foot shop will stock bespoke and ready-to-wear, dapper suits for women, inspired by the lines, detail and tailoring of men's suiting. She'll carry her own Tomboy Tailor line, as well as suits from Veea's sleek Androgynous line and a special run of shoes from Kenneth Cole. Though designing with lesbian and gender-queer women in mind, her scope is quickly broadening - as items like tight vests and wingtips become fashionable across gender lines and sexual orientations.
"Most stores treat me rudely," says Anders, a broad-shouldered woman with short, bleached hair. "I'm big enough to fit men's clothes pretty well, and still I've had tailors who were so uncomfortable working for me, they destroyed my pants."
A plan emerged
At the Renaissance Center, she met with other aspiring entrepreneurs twice a week for 14 weeks. In the beginning, she was just going to design a line of fitted women's shirts and offer a tailoring service. By the end of the course, she had a business plan for a store.
"She'd come to class always dressed in her suits, in a bow tie and jacket, and she looked great. It was the best advertisement," says Sharon Miller, executive director of the Renaissance Center. "We knew she was serious about this."
The Galleria contacted Miller about partnering with fledgling small businesses (the company will also be opening spaces for La Luna Cupcakes, T-We Tea, Project Juice, and Bernie's Coffee). She immediately thought of Anders.
"Crocker Galleria is downtown, a place where people are working, a mainstream and respected mall with a lot of foot traffic," says Miller. "It means the shop will be really broad-reaching - and I think she has a potentially huge market, way beyond just lesbians."
Anders jumped at the opportunity. She started going to trade shows and networking events - at one, she met a representative from Kenneth Cole.
"Just looking at her, I could see how passionate she was," says Lawrence Hansen, West Coast territory manager of Kenneth Cole Productions. "When a small independent like Zel comes in, it gets you excited. I got excited. I think she's probably seen some rejection; people have probably rolled their eyes. But we like her. We like the idea. And I think she's a sweetheart."
Kenneth Cole will be releasing its Elite class wingtip for Tomboy Tailors in never-before-seen sizes - starting with a women's size 8.
"If this works, this could make her a lot of money," says Hansen, "and she could be a hero among a group that's been overlooked for a long time and that hasn't had a destination for their attire."
Anders, the daughter of a fighter pilot, grew up in Fresno before moving to San Francisco at age 17 to go to San Francisco State, majoring in business and women's studies. She bought her first smoking jacket (turquoise with silver accents) at age 19. Outside her Galleria shop, she wore a fitted blue herringbone suit over a white button-down shirt.
"Men's suits are better made than women's," she says. "They have pockets. They're made to be tailored. Suiting is an old art that's coming back. People are paying more attention to bespoke clothes."
For her Tomboy Tailor line, she works with tailors and pattern makers to adjust classic men's suits to women's bodies. In October, she'll be putting out a book, "Tomboy Dapper," with photos of women across the country wearing their nattiest tomboy clothes.
However, the market for gender-queer clothes is not easy. The Mission District Foxy Lady Boutique, a store that specialized in plus-size women's clothes (and was very popular with men), recently went out of business.
But Anders might be tapping into a larger zeitgeist. Cultural icons for both queer women (Rachel Maddow, "The L Word" character Shane McCutcheon) and heterosexual women (Avril Lavigne, Diane Keaton, Anne Hathaway in a tux at the Oscars) are tuning into the dapper, tailored aesthetic. And the notion of bespoke (sheets, bars, bicycles) is seeing its own immense resurgence.
Suit for a judge
A few weeks ago, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Flanagan needed a suit for her induction ceremony, but her trusted (and open-minded) tailor was on vacation. A friend at the National Center for Lesbian Rights suggested contacting Anders.
"It's important to feel confident, and for me I look good in what you might call a men's suit," Flanagan said. "And it was a special day in my life, so it mattered."
Anders took Flanagan shopping - they walked from Brooks Bros., to Cable Car Clothiers, then the Hound before finding Faconnable on Maiden Lane ("where the salespeople were the most responsive and accepting," says Flanagan). They put together a suit, but couldn't find dress shoes to match.
"Zel's shoes looked perfect with my suit. She just took them off and gave them to me," says Flanagan. "We literally left in each other's shoes. She's so generous with her time and has such a great fashion sense.
"I can't wait for the shop. It's like, finally! And I know a lot of women who feel the same way."
Nellie Bowles is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @NellieBowles


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The original Pulitzer-Prize-winning series by Washington Post reporters Anne Hull and Dana Priest about the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A full two years before The Washington Post reported on Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Salon.com reporter Walter Benjamin published a series of articles on the hospital. While Washington Post reporters Anne Hull and Dana Priest won Pulitzers, Benjamin's work drew relatively little attention at the time.
The popular humorist often used the undercover ruse in his work for The New York Tribune. In this instance, he posed as a client to visit a number of New York's purveyors of the "black arts" to expose their scams. The series preceded his pose as a slave buyer to cover the Butler auction in Savannah.
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SALINAS-MORENO, Yolanda; CASTILLO-LINARES, Erika Belem; VAZQUEZ-CARRILLO, María Gricelda e BUENDIA-GONZALEZ, María Ofelia. Blends of waxy with normal maize and their effect on tortilla quality. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.5, pp.689-702. ISSN 2007-0934.
Maize tortillas are hardened during storage due to starch retrogradation. A practice to retard this phenomenon is to add gums to the flour or seize the amylopectin's slow retrogradation. The effect of mixtures of regular maize (H-40) and waxy maize was studied on dough characteristics and on tortilla quality. The dough's paste-forming properties were determined and tortillas were evaluated for moisture, color, rollability, extensibility and tensile strength. The variables were measured for three days of storage at room temperature (21 oC). The tortillas made with 100% waxy corn and 100% corn (H-40), were used as control. A higher proportion of 30% of waxy maize in the mix, led to dough with very bad handling characteristics (too sticky) and viscosities below the normal control and the treatment with 30% of waxy maize. The moisture content of tortillas was not affected by the inclusion of waxy maize in the mix, but the color did, its brightness decreased and the tortillas appearance was more crystalline as it increased the proportion of waxy maize. This increase was associated with lower tensile breaking strength and greater extensibility in freshly prepared tortillas (2 h). But after 24 h of storage, those tortillas which were harder and less extensible were those containing higher proportion of waxy maize (60, 85 and 100%). Rollability presented a pattern similar to the texture. However, in reheated tortillas, the best features of softness and extensibility were observed in tortillas prepared with 30% of waxy maize in the mix.
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|*November 5 - 11
|God's Mystery: The
Universal Fellowship
Read for This Week's Study:
|Matt. 10:5, John 4:9, Acts 10:26-28, Ephesians 3.
Memory Text:
| "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.
Mystery revealed and proclaimed. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul has already written about the unique unity Christ has established in the church. Writers before him have written about unity, but usually it was about unity among a single people, not among various classes, races, and nationalities, an idea that was all but unheard of in the ancient world. But Paul has written about a different kind of unity, one the world up to that point had never seen, the unity that comes through Christ.
Yet, he doesn't end there. He talks also about the church composed of these Jews and Gentiles and about what the Lord will do through this church. Most important, Paul points his readers to the love of God who has accomplished so many things for us through the sacrifice of Jesus.
The Week at a Glance:
|Why did Paul deem it such a "mystery" (Eph. 3:3) that Gentiles could also be partakers of God's promises in Christ? Why should this have not been such a mystery to him? What is the church to reveal to heavenly powers? What are the things God has done for us through Christ? What is Paul's prayer for the Ephesians?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November 12.
|November 6
The Contents of the Mystery (Eph. 3:1-6)
Look up the following texts. How do they help us understand why for Paul this unity was such a mystery? Deut. 14:2, Matt. 10:5, John 4:9, Acts 10:26-28, Gal. 2:11-14.
Years ago American patriot Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . ." However nice the sentiment, history shows that this view was anything but "self-evident." On the contrary, all through history various groups believed themselves greater than, and superior to, other nations and people. This idea was so ingrained that even the ancient Israeliteswho should have known better because of the revelation given them by Godwere contaminated with this sense of self-superiority. Hence, someone as bright, as diligent, and as studious as Paul needed a divine revelation to purge him of his native prejudices. For him, the idea that Jews and Gentiles would be one was so incredible that he deemed it a "mystery," a concept hard for most of us today to grasp (Why should this be a "mystery"?), because, in our day and age, these kinds of ethnic and national and cultural concepts of superiority, though existing, are looked down upon. Even if someone were to think themselves better than others because of their nationality or race or culture, it's considered in very bad taste to express such a view. Thus, only as we come to understand a bit of the mind-set of Paul's time can we grasp just how radical this idea of unity between Jews and Gentiles was to him.
|In what ways might you harbor a sense of cultural or ethnic superiority? (Few cultures, if any, are immune to this problem.) Why are such concepts so contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ?
|November 7
Evidences for the Mystery
Though Paul talks about the gospel going to the Gentiles as a "mystery," evidences of this promise were scattered in the Old Testament. Look up the following texts. How do they express the idea of the truth about God going to all nations?
It's a sad but powerful testimony to realize the hold that ethnic, cultural, or religious prejudice can have on our minds that even with the above texts, and more, Paul thought it a great "mystery" that the Gentiles should also be brought into the truth about God. Again, it's a thought that most Christians today, the vast majority being Gentiles, take for granted; it's hard, from this perspective, to realize how radical an idea this was for someone of the background and education of Paul.
But then, again, we shouldn't be surprised, should we? The gospel teaches us to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44), to bless those who curse us (vs. 44), to turn the other cheek (vs. 39), to not render evil for evil (1 Pet. 3:9), and so forth. In other words, many of the claims of the gospel are radical, going against our basic nature, cutting across some of the most ingrained and accepted cultural, ethnic, and political prejudices we have. If our toes haven't been stepped on, in one way or another, by Jesus, then we probably haven't met Him as we should.
|When was the last time Jesus stepped on your toes; that is, when was the last time you felt the claims of the gospel cut deep into some of your prejudices or passions? How did you respond?
|November 8
Through the Church (Eph. 3:9-13)
"To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God" (Eph. 3:10).
Read the text for today. What incredible message is Paul giving us in this one verse?
Read Ephesians 3:9-13. Notice what theme Paul links in with the plan of salvation in verse 9. Why is this theme so important?
We're new creations in Christ (see also 2 Cor. 5:17, Gal. 6:15, Eph. 4:24), and we are also part of the church that God Himself has created. He made us, He remakes us, and He made the church of which we, as new creatures, are a part. And it's through this church, composed of beings remade in His image, that His wisdom is revealed to the universe (Eph. 3:10).
Indeed, this new community, the church God has created, becomes a cosmic exhibit of His power, His grace, and His "wisdom," which defeated the divisive forces of Satan, "according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus" (vs. 11, NKJV). If it is through creation that God reveals His power to us, it is through new creation that God reveals His wisdom and justice to "principalities and powers" (vs. 10), including fallen and unfallen angels.
"Not to this world only but to the universe are we to make manifest the principles of His kingdom."Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, p. 13.
In this one text, Ephesians 3:10, we are given another look at the whole issue of the great controversy; we are shown the interest of other cosmic intelligences in the fate of our world here. What's even more astounding is that according to this text, it's God's purpose that through the church His "wisdom" will be made manifest to these other intelligences.
|Imagine you were part of these "principalities and powers" from somewhere in the cosmos who were watching the church. Write a diary entry about what you saw there. Compare notes in class this Sabbath.
|November 9
Notice the wonderful promise in Ephesians 3:12; according to Paul, through Jesus we have "access"; that is, access to God Himself. This is what Jesus was talking about in John 10:9 when He said that "I am the door." Adam had free access to God at first but, having lost it, he hid himself among the trees of the Garden because he could no longer face God with frankness and a clear conscience. The effect of redemption is to restore to humanity a new and bold access to God without fear or restriction and without the need of any intermediaries such as priests or saints or ritual. God is immediately accessible to the trusting soul, through the merits of Christ.
Paul then starts verse 13 with the word wherefore, which, in the Greek, also means "on account of." In other words, he is saying that "on account of" something, he doesn't want the Ephesians to worry about him. What is that wherefore referring to?
Because the Gentiles now belong to the body of Christ, because the eternal purpose is being fulfilled through Jesus, because God's wisdom is being revealed to the universe, and because we have free access to God, Paul asks his readers not to be too distressed over his sufferings, which have come to him on account of his bringing them the gospel.
In other words, Paul is saying "Don't focus on me or my trials; focus on the great news of what God has done for the world through Jesus Christ. The good news far overshadows anything I might be going through."
|Struggling? Worried? Fearful about the future? Write out a prayer
of thanksgiving to God for the things as revealed to us in this Epistle so
far, things Christ has done. Let the reality of the promises we have been
reading about overshadow all else in your life. Claim these promises as your
|November 10
The Knowledge of His Love (Eph. 3:14-21)
Read Paul's prayer (Eph. 3:14-21) over and over. Then paraphrase the essence of His petition. What is he praying for, and why do you think he would offer such a prayer?
Paul prays that Christ would dwell in their hearts. The Greek word used for "dwell" is katoikem, which indicates permanent residence. Christ is not a guest but a perpetual part of our lives.
Paul prays for the indwelling Christ so the strengthened inner being "may be able to comprehend" (that is, empowered and enlightened to grasp) the width, length, depth, and height of Christ's love (vss. 18, 19). Paul is praying to comprehend the incomprehensible, but he knows that the assurance of the believer rests only in such uninterrupted meditation of God's love. The believers must know with what great love they have been blessed. While Christ's love cannot be fitted into any geometrical measure, it is wide enough to circle the globe and reach every sinner. It is high enough to reach the very throne room of God. It is deep enough to plumb Satan's deepest gutter and pull out from that mess any sinner who calls upon Christ for help and bring him or her to stand under God's sunshine. It is long enough to stretch from "before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4) to endless ages of eternity, where that love will be the subject of saints' study. It is a love that "passes all knowledge" and fills all the believers "with all the fullness of God" (Eph. 3:19, NKJV).
"Fullness of God" is an expression lavish in assurance and is common to the books of Ephesians and Colossians. It signifies that God is beyond limitation. He "is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think" (vs. 20, NKJV). Rich in mercy, unfathomable in love, limitless in grace, and abundant in power, God has committed the entire resources of heaven to grant "above all that we ask or think" in order that His glory may be manifest "in the church . . . to all generations" (vss. 20, 21, NKJV).
How certain are, you of the reality of God's love? If someone were to ask "Why do you believe that your God is so loving?" what would you answer? How convincing a case could you make?
|November 11
Further Study:
|Access to God. "We have access to God through the merits of the name of Christ, and God invites us to bring to Him our trials and temptations; for He understands them all. He would not have us pour out our woes to human ears. Through the blood of Christ we may come to the throne of grace, and find grace to help in time of need. . . . As an earthly parent encourages his child to come to him at all times, so the Lord encourages us to lay before Him our wants and perplexities, our gratitude and love. Every promise is sure. Jesus is our Surety and Mediator, and has placed at our command every resource, that we may have a perfect character. The blood of Christ in ever-abiding efficacy is our only hope; for through His merits alone we have pardon and peace."Ellen G. White Comments, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1116.
Discussion Questions:
| "We have not merely been saved that we might escape
hell; we have been saved in order that God may present a people which will
astonish the whole world," said a great preacher. How well do you think the
church has succeeded in doing what this preacher has said?
Compare your "alien diaries" (see Tuesday's study).
Dwell on Ephesians 3:10 as a class. Discuss the implications of that text in light of the great controversy. How do the opening two chapters of Job parallel with what that verse is saying?
Let individual members of the class give a personal testimony regarding their own experience on knowing God's love, What, can you, learn from the different testimonies?
If someone who had been attending your class is no longer coming to church, what can you do, as a class, to reveal to that person some of the love Paul so eloquently talks about in this chapter?
|I N S I D E Story
|The Carpenter Who Died for Us
by DOROTHY EATON WATTS
Four carpenters sat on the floor of their small shop in a village in eastern India. As they planed and sanded the wood and fit the pieces together to make beds, tables, and stools, they talked about the man who had come to visit them. He was educated yet he took time to talk with common people and become their friend. The carpenters liked Mathew Reddy, but he was a Christian. They had heard bad things about Christians, but this man seemed so different.
One day when Reddy visited the carpenters' shop, he asked them, "Did you know that the God I worship lived on this earth and worked as a carpenter?"
The men laid down their tools and stared at Reddy. "A God who was a carpenter?" they asked, astonished. "Tell us more about Him."
"Jesus, the Son of God, came to live on this earth to show us what God is like," Reddy said. "He chose to be born as a human, to live in the home of a lowly carpenter, and to work with His hands, just like you do."
"We want to hear more about this carpenter God," the men said. Reddy came often to study the Bible with the carpenters. He explained why Jesus came to earth, how He ministered to others, and how He died to save them from their sins. Eventually the carpenters accepted Jesus as their Lord and invited Reddy to study the Bible with their families. In time 15 members of their families also accepted Jesus as their Lord.
When news of the men's conversions spread through the village, trouble began. People stopped buying furniture from the men; they refused to allow their wives draw water from the village well; shopkeepers refused to sell them rice. Still the carpenters worshiped Jesus. Then some villagers sent their cattle to trample the families' vegetable gardens, destroying their meager crops.
When Adventist leaders learned of the persecution, they provided relief supplies to help keep the families alive and encouraged the men to take their case to the district counselor. The counselor defended the carpenters' right to worship God as they chose and sent police to bring order to the village and assure that the new Christians could worship freely.
Problems still arise from time to time, but the carpenters remain steadfast. "People can do anything they like to us," they insist, "but we will be faithful to the Carpenter who died for us."
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A Fulton County sheriff's deputy stands guard Wednesday outside the World Changers International church near College Park, Ga., after a fatal shooting inside.
Updated at 4:28 p.m. ET: A former employee entered a chapel at an Atlanta-area megachurch headed by televangelist Creflo Dollar early Wednesday and fatally shot a volunteer staff member leading a prayer service, police said.
The gunman walked calmly into the chapel at World Changers Church International's main campus in College Park, Ga., and shot a 39-year-old volunteer and church member who was leading a prayer service, Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester said at a news conference.
The victim, Gregory McDowell, was transported to South Fulton Hospital, where he later died.
The suspect, identified by police as Floyd Palmer, 52, fled the scene in a car. He was arrested Wednesday afternoon, said Eric Heinze with the U.S. Marshals Service. No details were immediately available on his capture.
Palmer had worked at the church doing facilities maintenance but resigned his position in August, Lester said.
"He walked in calmly, opened fire inside the church and left as calmly as he came," Lester said.
It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired.
Fulton County Police Dept. Via AP
Floyd Palmer was arrested in the church shooting.
About 20 to 25 people were inside the chapel but no one else was hurt, Lester said.
Dollar was not at the church when the shooting happened, she said.
Lester said it's possible the shooter and the victim knew each other.
A few schools in the surrounding neighborhood were locked down temporarily.
World Changers Church has about 20 campuses throughout the country. The church founded by Dollar, who is its senior pastor, claims about 30,000 members and has an $18 million, 8,500-seat sanctuary about 15 miles from downtown Atlanta.
Dollar, who's known for his pinstriped suits and charismatic sermons, has written several books offering followers his advice on how to get out of debt and take lessons from the Bible in building wealth so they can better live as Christians.
Edgar Zuniga, NBC News Atlanta, contributed to this story.
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