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King County Residents are not allowed to dispose of sharps in the household garbage. The Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal knows of several community sponsored programs in King County and other Washington counties (Snohomish, Pierce, Clark, Okanogan, Cowlitz, Jefferson and Kitsap) that accept sharps from the community. The majority of these collection sites are public health centers in King County. The remaining counties offer collection sites at participating pharmacies and/or solid waste collection centers. To find out what is available in these counties or to see if your county offers residents safe needle disposal options, call the county public health department or the county solid waste division in that county.
If there is not a program in your city/county/town follow the state guideline, which allows patients to place used needles/pen needles, lancets (sharps) in a household container such as a laundry detergent bottle, bleach bottle or other opaque sturdy plastic container with a screw-top lid. When that container is full, you should place it in your regular garbage – not recycling.
Though this is still approved in the state of Washington it is the least desirable way to dispose of used sharps. Please read below for other options you may try before disposing of your container in the household trash
PLEASE NOTE: If you have your sharps in a red sharps container, these containers are typically not permitted in the regular garbage because they are marked BIO HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. Bio hazardous material is not allowed in the household garbage. In this case it's the actual container that is not permitted – not the sharps.
You may want to ask a healthcare facility (doctor's office, clinic, nursing home, hospital, fire station) if they would be willing to dispose of your container for you. These facilities are not required to take these containers from the public and often won't because of the cost they incur to dispose of medical waste (they typically pay by poundage). But it may be worth a try.
Safe disposal options for needles and syringes
Household generated "sharps" include hypodermic needles, syringes, and lancets. They are typically used in the home for insulin injection or for administering medications to treat other chronic diseases such as allergies, arthritis, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis B, and HIV.
Managing and disposing of household generated sharps safely reduces pollution to the environment and prevents injury and disease transmission from needle-sticks.
Never leave needles or syringes on streets, in parks, or anywhere else where they could injure someone.
Storage of Used Needles
Store at home
If you have a medical facility that accepts sharps from the community for disposal, either purchase a sharps disposal container from a pharmacy or ask your specialty pharmacy to provide you with a sharps container (these are typically readily available if you receive your medication through the mail).
If disposal sites open to the public are not available in your area, DO NOT use a sharps container. Instead, USE an empty rigid plastic consumer product container with a screw-on lid, such as a laundry detergent bottle.
Do not store used sharps in glass bottles, soda bottles, milk jugs, aluminum cans, or coffee cans.
If you are bringing used sharps to a clinic or hospital collection site or using a mail-back program, follow their requirements, which may include use of a pre-purchased sharps container.
Always keep storage containers for used sharps out of the reach of children.
Disposal of Used Needles
Never place containers with used needles or syringes in a recycling bin.
Never place loose sharps in the garbage.
Do not place sharps in containers with a BIOHAZARD label on the outside of the container in the household garbage. Biohazard material is typically not allowed in household trash. Sharps containers with a Biohazard label are usually treated as medical waste. To find out if your state allows sharps containers in the household trash contact your state waste department for specific regulations on household medical waste.
Clinics and Hospital Collection Sites
Some medical waste facilities such as, clinics, physician offices, EMT stations and hospitals have collection programs for needles, lancets, and syringes for use by their patients at home. If your healthcare provider has a collection program, learn about and follow their instructions for sharps storage and disposal.
DO NOT bring used needles and syringes to your clinic or hospital if they do not accept them.
Disposal Options Available to Washington Residents
Washington state regulators do not provide written recommendations to syringe users for disposing of home-generated sharps (syringes, needles, lancets, etc).
In King County there are options for disposing of sharps generated from personal use. The options differ somewhat depending on whether you live inside or outside Seattle City limits. When properly prepared for disposal, home-generated sharps are exempt from the regulations that govern disposal of commercial biomedical waste. Proper preparation and disposal are important to avoid injury to yourself and others.
The following guidelines apply to sharps you use at home and to needles and syringes you might find around your home.
- If you find a syringe or needle, do not pick it up with your bare hands.Use a glove and tongs, shovel or broom and dustpan to pick it up.
- Alwaysplace used sharps and syringes in a safe container. This can be a manufactured sharps container or a 2-liter P.E.T. plastic pop bottle. You can purchase manufactured sharps containers at most pharmacies. Whether you use a sharps container or a pop bottle, make sure the lid fits tightly. Then tape it shut for added safety. If you use a plastic pop bottle, label it with the warning: "SHARPS, DO NOT RECYCLE."
- Do not break the needle off from the syringe.Needles can carry HIV, hepatitis and other germs. If the needle gets broken off from a syringe you have personally used, pull the plunger out of the barrel, put the needle in the barrel, and then replace the plunger. Please, do not flush needles or syringes down the toilet!
In the City of Seattle, it is illegal to dispose of needles, lancets and syringes in your regular garbage can or recycling container. Put the items in a safe container (as described above), seal it, then take the container to Seattle's North or South Recycling and Disposal Station. Station staff will direct you to the proper disposal area. Only one container is allowed per trip. Your container will not be returned to you. The Recycling and Disposal Stations DO NOT accept loose needles and syringes. There is no charge for this service.
Alternative sites for disposal:
- Recycling and Disposal Stations in Seattle
- 2nd Ave S. and S. Kenyon Street (South Park Area)
Click on to the following site and scroll to the bottom for a list of syringe drop boxes available 24 hours a day:
Other Counties
For disposal contact your local county public health department and/or solid waste department for proper disposal specific to that county.
Individuals who use syringes at home are responsible for ensuring that their used syringes are stored in a way that does not cause a health hazards. To safely dispose of used sharps in the state of Washington, you may also use one of the options listed below to dispose of used needles, lancets, and syringes.
I. Mail-back Programs
Mail-back disposal programs allow home sharps users to mail used sharps to licensed disposal facilities as a safe disposal option. Such programs charge a fee for this service. Check with your health care provider or pharmacist, or search the yellow pages or Internet using key words "sharps mail-back."
II. Needle Destruction Devices
Devices or containers with mechanisms that bend, break, incinerate (destroy by high heat), or shear needles are called sharps needle destruction devices.
A destruction device that incinerates needles and lancets can be used at home to destroy needles immediately after use. These small, portable devices use a few seconds of high heat to melt needles and reduce them to BB-size balls. Previously used only in healthcare facilities, these devices are now available in smaller, less expensive models for home use.
Once the needle or lancet is destroyed by heat in a destruction device, the remaining syringe and melted metal should be placed in an approved sharps container and disposed of properly.
A needle cutter that automatically stores the cut needles is also useful while away from home when a disposal container is not available. The remains of the syringe after the needle has been clipped can be placed in either a household container or a sharps container (if there is a site available to drop off the sharps container). When the needle clipper is full, simply place it in the storage container (household or sharps container) and dispose of properly.
III. Legal, but Less Safe
In most counties in Washington (except Seattle residents in King County) it is currently legal to put used sharps that are in a household container with a lid into the garbage.
However, this is highly discouraged because of the injury and health risks it places on garbage hauler and processing facility workers. It is best to use one of the options previously listed for safe management and disposal of used sharps.
Label container "Do Not Recycle."
Put sharps in point-first.
Containers more than half-full should be disposed of.
Store sharps in closed container with the cap screwed on.
Although placing household generated sharps in the regular trash may be allowable under state rule, some municipalities prohibit this disposal method. Please check with the local authority to determine if this practice is acceptable in your community. You should contact your county or city waste manager, public health official, sanitary department, or environmental health department.
For more information, contact the Washington State Department of Ecology at www.ecy.wa.gov/ecyhome.html or call (360) 407-6000.


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Albany - Downtown Albany is a buzz with the sounds of drills, saws, and hammers. Construction started Monday on the Horace King Overlook on Front Street. And, Tuesday kicks off the second phrase of the Turtle Grove Play park. By Sunday, both projects should be almost finished.
As the country music song goes "Love can build a Bridge," but it also takes a lot of hard work. "We're so excited to see so many volunteers out here this morning, but we need more people to come out and help throughout the week," said Freddie Powell Simms, The Links.
Freddie Powell Simms, the ladies of The Links civic club, and dozens of volunteers didn't let a little rain stop them from building the 1,100 square foot Horace King Overlook. "The rain isn't deterring us. We have a lot of work to be done, and I promise it will get done," said Powell Simms.
The overlook will include a scaled replica of the 150 year old Horace King Bridge. Rickey Shipp owns Shipp's construction, but he and his workers aren't getting paid for this job. "This is so important to me because Horace King was a black man who did something great for this town. And as a black man, I want to preserve this piece of history," said Shipp.
Tuesday, these volunteers will get the help of hundreds more as the second phrase of the Turtle Grove Play park starts. "We will be putting in the playground equipment Friday through Sunday and that's when we will need the most help," said ATI project manager Tina Mitchell.
If the rain holds off and if volunteers hold on to those drills and hammers, the park and the overlook should be finished by the end of the week. You can just stop by and volunteer on either project from 8:00am to 8:00pm each day this week.
The Turtle Grove Play park is scheduled to open October 11th, with a dedication by the Governor.
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74HC4050 Hex Non-Inverting Buffer (DIP)
The 74HC4050 has an input protection structure that makes these chips ideal as logic level translators which convert high-level logic to a low-level logic while operating off the low-level logic supply.
For example, 5V input pulse levels can be down-converted to 3.3V logic levels. These parts also can be used as simple buffers without level translation.
The buffer on these chips is one way. I.e. the input voltage controls the output voltage. You cannot control the input from the output. This makes these chips ideal for logic level conversion when using the SPI bus, but they wont work for I2C as this requires bi-directional logic level conversion.
The 74HC4050 is fabricated with high-speed silicon gate technology
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We just learned that Samsung Galaxy S3 will see preorders begin on Verizon and AT&T's network on June 6th. That said, AT&T will be the only carrier to offer the phone in a red finish, in addition to the blue or white variant.
Both carriers will sell the handset for $199.99, which include 16GB of storage, a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED screen, 8-megapixel camera, Android 4.0, a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, and a whole lot more. All this will fit into a 4.7oz package that measures 8.6mm thin. In fact, if you want a thorough run down, checkout our comparison that pits the Samsung Galaxy SIII against the iPhone 4s.
Unfortunately, AT&T and Verizon haven't said when the handset will actually be available, though we do know it will arrive in T-Mobile and Sprint stores on June 21st with preorders potentially starting on June 5th for the two aforementioned carriers.


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OK, I didn't actually think I was giving a big talk this week, but one thing led to another and we will have a public lecture at Hunter College this Wednesday. I wonder what it will be about?
Replaying the 30s in Slow Motion
When the 2008 crisis struck, anyone who knew even a bit of history had nightmares about a replay of the 1930s — not just the depth of the depression, but the downward political spiral into dictatorship and war. But this time was different: the banking crisis was contained, the plunge in output and employment leveled out, and modern Europe's democratic political culture proved more resilient than that of the interwar years. All clear!
Or maybe not.
In terms of the economics, an effective crisis response was followed by a wrong-headed turn to austerity and, in Europe, a combination of bad monetary policy with a currency system that in some ways is turning out to be worse than the gold standard. The result is that while the first few years of this crisis were far better than the 1930s, at this point Europe's economic performance is actually worse than it was in 1935.
And the political scene is eroding. One European nation has already reached the point where its leader openly declares his intention to end liberal democracy; thanks to austerity, extremist parties are gaining ground in elections, with Sweden (which squandered its early success) the latest shocker; and of course separatist movements are scaring everyone.
We're still nowhere like the 30s politically. But you do start to wonder whether self-congratulation over the political handling of Depression 2.0 will eventually look as foolish as the economic optimism of a few years ago.
Cosmic Cato Koch Convergence
It's one of those mornings when several small items I was thinking about blogging about have, oddly, merged into a single story.
I've been getting some mail in response to today's column from people saying (by and large politely) that they predicted the crisis — by which, it turns out, they mean that they correctly diagnosed a housing bubble. Well, so did I — but I nonetheless don't consider myself to have predicted the crisis, because I had no idea that the consequences of a burst bubble would be as cataclysmic as they were.
That said, even pointing out the bubble got you heckled; I still treasure the sneering piece by John Hinderaker insisting that the only reason I thought there was a bubble was because I hated Bush. Well, who knew — Hinderaker is still out there, as I learn from Bonddad (via the still invaluable Mark Thoma).
But why is he still out there? In part because being wrong is actually a virtue in the eyes of some people, as long as it's the right kind of wrong. And those people have money and power: I'd actually forgotten about this, but the Koch brothers tried to install Hinderaker on the board of Cato, which they viewed as insufficiently hackish.
Still, think tanks are one thing; this doesn't happen in the world of scholarship. Oh, wait. Via Daniel Kuehn, we know now that the Kochs sought to control economics hiring at Florida State University. And you have to wonder how much this sort of thing goes on — usually, one suspects, more subtly and implicitly, without as clear a paper trail.
In the 1940s moneyed interests made an initially successful effort to block the teaching of Keynesian economics, although Samuelson somehow slipped through. If you don't think that similar things can happen now, you're naive — and the rich are richer and more powerful now than they were then.
Wild Words, Brain Worms, and Civility
Noah Smith writes that one should not be rude about people you disagree with, because they might turn out to be right. Indeed; what possible purpose can be served by, say, referring to Austrian economics as a brain worm? Oh, wait.
Actually, I think that Noah was doing the right thing when he brought in the brain worms, and is off on the wrong track on the civility thing. So let me make the case for brain worms.
First, picturesque language, used right, serves an important purpose. "Words ought to be a little wild," wrote John Maynard Keynes, "for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." You could say, "I'm dubious about the case for expansionary austerity, which rests on questionable empirical evidence and zzzzzzzz…"; or you could accuse austerians of believing in the Confidence Fairy. Which do you think is more effective at challenging a really bad economic doctrine?
Beyond that, civility is a gesture of respect — and sure enough, the loudest demands for civility come from those who have done nothing to earn that respect. Noah felt (and was) justified in ridiculing the Austrians because they don't argue in good faith; faced with a devastating failure of their prediction about inflation, they didn't concede that they were wrong and try to explain why. Instead, they denied reality or tried to redefine the meaning of inflation.
And if you look at the uncivil remarks by people like, well, me, you'll find that they are similarly aimed at people arguing in bad faith. I talk now and then about zombie and cockroach ideas. Zombies are ideas that should have been killed by evidence, but keep shambling along — e.g. the claim that all of Europe's troubled debtors were fiscally irresponsible before the crisis; cockroaches are ideas that you thought we'd gotten rid of, but keep on coming back, like the claim that Keynes would never have called for fiscal stimulus in the face of current debt levels (Britain in the 1930s had much higher debt to GDP than it does now). Well, what I'm doing is going after bad-faith economics — economics that keeps trotting out claims that have already been discredited.
Nor are zombies and cockroaches the only kinds of bad faith; the worst, as far as I'm concerned, involves refusing to take responsibility for your actual statements. "The failure of high inflation to materialize doesn't mean that I was wrong, because I only said that there was a risk of inflation". "When I said that Obamacare spending adds a trillion dollars to the deficit, I wasn't misleading readers, because I didn't actually deny that the ACA as a whole reduces the deficit." And of course, people who engage in that kind of bad faith screech loudly about civility when they're caught at it.
When there's an honest, good-faith economic debate — say, the ongoing controversy about the effects of quantitative easing — by all means let's be civil. But in my experience demands for civility almost always come from people who have forfeited the right to the respect they demand.
Friday Night Music: Cheryl Wheeler
For some reason I've been taking a music trip down memory lane, back to the late 80s, when I was listening a lot to several singer-songwriters — Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, and Cheryl Wheeler; this song is as gorgeous as I remembered:
Maastricht in a Kilt
Simon Wren-Lewis says more clearly what I've been trying to get at with regard to the economics of Scottish independence. It would be one thing to make the sober case that independence is worth it despite the economic costs and risks; but the SNP has been claiming that there are no costs and risks, which is just wrong.
As he says, the obvious parallel is the push for the euro; in pursuit of the political vision of European unity, leaders waved away the obvious economic problems. I don't know how many times I encountered arguments along the lines of "You Americans are only raising these objections because you don't want a competitor to the dollar", which wasn't the point at all. And sure enough, the euro has turned into one of the great economic disasters of history, dealing a devastating blow to the very cause of European unity it was supposed to serve.
It so happens that some of the economic issues involving Scottish independence are the same: euro enthusiasts insisted that there would be no problem in creating a unified currency without a unified government, the SNP is insisting that there is no problem with maintaining a unified currency while breaking up the United Kingdom. But there is even less excuse this time around, since we have the euro experience to enlighten us.
If Scottish voters won't support independence unless they can keep the pound, then a Yes vote next week will have been won on false pretenses. Don't go there!
Their Own Imaginary Keynes (Wonkish)
Lars Syll approvingly quotes Hyman Minsky denouncing IS-LM analysis as an "obfuscation" of Keynes; Brad DeLong disagrees. As you might guess, so do I.
There are really two questions here. The less important is whether something like IS-LM — a static, equilibrium analysis of output and employment that takes expectations and financial conditions as given — does violence to the spirit of Keynes. Why isn't this all that important? Because Keynes was a smart guy, not a prophet. The General Theory is interesting and inspiring, but not holy writ.
It's also a protean work that contains a lot of different ideas, not necessarily consistent with each other. Still, when I read Minsky putting into Keynes's mouth the claim that
Only a theory that was explicitly cyclical and overtly financial was capable of being useful
I have to wonder whether he really read the book! As I read the General Theory — and I've read it carefully — one of Keynes's central insights was precisely that you wanted to step back from thinking about the business cycle. Previous thinkers had focused all their energy on trying to explain booms and busts; Keynes argued that the real thing that needed explanation was the way the economy seemed to spend prolonged periods in a state of underemployment:
[I]t is an outstanding characteristic of the economic system in which we live that, whilst it is subject to severe fluctuations in respect of output and employment, it is not violently unstable. Indeed it seems capable of remaining in a chronic condition of subnormal activity for a considerable period without any marked tendency either towards recovery or towards complete collapse.
So Keynes started with a, yes, equilibrium model of a depressed economy. He then went on to offer thoughts about how changes in animal spirits could alter this equilibrium; but he waited until Chapter 22 (!) to sketch out a story about the business cycle, and made it clear that this was not the centerpiece of his theory. Yes, I know that he later wrote an article claiming that it was all about the instability of expectations, but the book is what changed economics, and that's not what it says.Read more...
Mememe Blogging
More of my Business Insider interview, this time about monetary policy, here.
Tomorrow there's a conference on Rethinking Economics at NYU, live streaming here. I'll be talking about bad macro with Willem Buiter and Jamie Galbraith from 1 to 2:30.
Even More On Scotland
I'm going on Channel 4 in a couple of hours, and doing more homework. One thing that is likely to come up is the fact that some reputable economists (pdf) have concluded that Scotland-on-the-pound would be OK. What's my answer?
It is, in short, that this analysis doesn't seem to reflect the unpleasant things we've learned from the euro crisis. To be blunt, the reassurances from the working group sound like the kind of thing euro defenders used to say pre-2010. Unfortunately, we've discovered that sharing a currency without sharing a government is a lot more dangerous than even euro skeptics realized.
We are told, for example, that Scotland need not worry because its fiscal position is relatively strong. But that was true — or appeared to be true — of Spain and Ireland before the euro crisis. What we've learned, alas, is that a seemingly strong fiscal position can evaporate very fast in a crisis — especially if banks need to be bailed out. In that context, it's interesting to note that Scotland's banks are very big relative to the size of the country, because they serve much of the UK. Nothing wrong with that as long as you have a political union; but without, what's to prevent an Irish-type situation in which a small country is trying to bail out big banks?
We're also told that the Bank of England would of course provide liquidity — in effect, act as lender of last resort — to Scottish banks. Are we sure about this? It took the ECB years to step up to the plate in the euro crisis, in part because it turned out that you needed a lender of last resort to governments as well as fInancial institutions; even now, the ECB's efforts rely to an important extent on a bluff, in the sense that nobody knows what would happen if OMT were actually required. Assuming that England — possibly an England run by a Conservative-UKIP coalition! — would be there when needed is a big leap of faith.
An earlier version of this blog post misspelled the given name of the president of the National Front in France. It is Marine Le Pen, not Marie.
Let me say that I do understand why some people would like to be out of David Cameron's UK — just as some of us coastal liberals occasionally wonder what America could be like without the old Confederacy. But getting currency realities right is crucial. The European project is a noble idea, and the euro is a grand gesture in support of that idea — but the willingness to ignore macroeconomics for the sake of that grand gesture may end up making Marine Le Pen president of France. You really have to get these things right, or else.
The Structural Fetish
The FT has a pretty decent article on the emerging doctrine of "Draghinomics", which looks a lot like Blanchardnomics, which looks a lot like Krugmanomics — hey, we all studied macro at MIT in the mid 1970s. But I was struck by this bit:
One other senior eurozone official attending the Italian forum which gathers together policy makers, business people and academics said: "Structural reforms are key. Those countries that have made these efforts are performing better: Ireland, Spain and Portugal. Italy and France should think a little bit about this."
Yep, Spain offers a useful lesson for France:
For those of us not part of the structural reform cult, the story of Spain is this: the country experienced a full-scale depression when its housing bubble burst; this depression has led to a gradual, painful "internal devaluation" as labor costs come down, making Spain more competitive within Europe; and as a result, Spain is finally starting a slight recovery, with its growth rate in recent quarters (but only in recent quarters) higher than France. To see this as a triumph of structural reform requires preconceptions so strong it's hard to see why you would even bother looking at data.
Scotland and the Euro Omen
Let me restate and possibly clarify the points from yesterday's column:
Declaring Scotland independent would mean a big disruption of existing economic and financial arrangements. As Simon Wren-Lewis says, the preponderance of professional economic opinion is that this disruption would leave Scotland worse off, but that is a point we can argue. However, that is not the argument the independence movement is making; what they have been telling voters is that there would be no disruption — in particular, that Scots could continue using the pound, and that this would pose no problem.
This is an astonishing claim to make at this point in history. Economists (starting with my late colleague and friend Peter Kenen) have long argued that sharing a currency without fiscal integration is problematic; the creation of the euro put that theory to the test. And the results have been far worse than even the harshest critics of the euro imagined, with euro Europe doing worse at this point than Western Europe did in the 1930s:
And an independent Scotland using the British pound would arguably be in even worse shape. Europe has somewhat stabilized recently thanks to Mario Draghi's support for debtor countries — but Draghi is able to do this, in large part, because he is answerable to the whole euro area, not just Germany. An independent Scotland would be dependent on the kindness of the Bank of, um, England, with no say whatsoever in that bank's policy.
I've read quite a lot of the independence literature, and it shows no appreciation for the dangers involved. What Scottish voters should do is look hard at the experience, just across the North Sea, of divorcing currency from statehood; it's not encouraging.
My Head Talks About Minimum Wages
I did an interview over at Business Insider, and various pieces will be appearing over the next few days. The discussion of minimum wages is here.
The Trillion Dollar Zombie
I've often remarked on the remarkable tenacity of the inflationista doctrine (Santellinomics? CNBCnomics?) among investors, given the fact that believing the people who have been warning about soaring inflation and interest rates would have lost you a lot of money. How much money? Cordell Eddings at
BrookingsBloomberg puts a number to it: $1 trillion in gains on U.S. government bonds since QE began. Actually, this is arguably a low estimate; if you really believed in this stuff, you wouldn't just have failed to hold US debt, you would have bet against it — as, for example, John Paulson (as described in the article) and Eric Cantor did.
And let's be clear: those of us who understood the nature of liquidity traps predicted low rates of both interest and inflation from the beginning — in the face of loud declarations that this was absurd, that big deficits and rapid expansion of the monetary base would of course be inflationary. This has to be one of the most dramatic examples in the history of economics of a surprising, successful prediction.
Yet as far as I can tell, not one of the people who signed the infamous 2010 letter accusing Bernanke of debasing the dollar has admitted having been wrong, or shown even a hint of reconsidering. More to the point, perhaps, the doctrine has retained much of its hold. Look at the comments on that Bloomberg piece; most of them either declare that we do too have high inflation, but the feds are hiding it in Area 51, or that the data don't matter because the Fed is manipulating rates (hey, it can do that without adverse consequences? Then why not?)
As I've written on a number of occasions, I think it's fundamentally about affinity fraud. The consumers of this stuff like the attitude of the inflationistas — their hostility to helping the poor, their disdain for snooty professors, etc. And so they trust them no matter how bad their past results have been.
A Note on the Dynamics of Misinformation
Very busy, so no substantive posting today. But I did want to share a thought from the past few days. I posted about the surprisingly good news, at least so far, on Obamacare premiums for 2015 — and as usual was met with a wall of rage from the right. The idea that this thing might be working inspires a level of anger nothing else (except maybe climate science) matches.
No news there. Nor is it news that such people know things that ain't so. But there's something I've noticed from the combination of reactions to what I write and researching past coverage of Obamacare. It goes like this: a lot of the untrue beliefs people have about Obamacare come not so much from outright false reporting as from selective reporting. Every suggestion of bad news gets highlighted — especially, of course, but not only by Fox, the WSJ, etc.. But when it turns out that the news wasn't really that bad, these sources just move on. There are claims that millions of people are losing coverage — headlines! When it turns out not to be true — crickets! Some experts claim that premiums will rise by double digits — big news! Actual premium numbers come in and they're surprisingly low — not mentioned.
The result is that most news consumers — who form impressions rather than trying to work out details — have the sense that it's been all bad news. This is true even for people who don't rely on Fox — I get asked about the scary premium hikes by people on the Upper West Side! And of course for those who do get their news from Fox, well, they know, just know, that Obamacare has reduced the number of Americans with insurance and caused premiums to double or something, even though even their favorite news source isn't saying such things.
We need a term for beliefs based on reports that have been superseded; maybe fossils instead of zombies. Anyway, it's striking.
Friday Night Music: Lucius Covers John Lennon
I was going to do something clever and all, but my heart wasn't in it after a very tough week. Here's one of my favorite bands doing a lovely cover:


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I know how it is.
I know how it feels to be left. By myself. Alone. I know how it feels to be betrayed by a friend. Something - someone - you trusted. I know how it is. I know the denial. The pain. The anger. The urge for vengeance.
I know how it is to be hurt beyond belief.
People do not understand rape at all, I swear. It doesnt matter how far the assault goes, it doesn't matter how unconcious the person was. No matter what, it takes something huge away from the victim. No matter big or how small of a difference, that person will never be the same. No matter how serious court officials think the case, that one truth will always remain. Rape hurts. Rape should not be taken lightly. STOP BELITTING RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT


text: A while ago I found myself in a drug store with no reading material and I knew I was going to be sitting around for a while, so I browsed the comic section. There was an issue of X-Men written by Peter Milligan of X-Force/X-Statix fame. The issue was the first in a story arch about "Golgotha." I bought the issue and read it, and it was horrible. I loved X-Force/X-Statix, but this issue of X-Men was one of the most poorly written comics I've read since the early 90's. Does it get any better? What was the story here? Is he still writing the title? What's up?


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You Already Know How To Be A Great Lover
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There are countless books and Cosmo articles on how to learn the most cutting-edge techniques to please your partner sexually. They all have great information and most of the time the tips are very good. But I think prior to trying to blow your partner's mind (and body) with some new technique or quick fix, you've got to make sure you have these two elements covered FIRST.
First, the connection with yourself. Feeling comfortable with your own body. Knowing that you are worthy of both giving and receiving love and sexual pleasure. Getting into your body.
Second, the connection with your partner. Really being present with the person in front of you. Fully appreciating their body as it is, truly seeing their essence, their energy.
"Your sex life is sacred and personal. When you find the confidence to live it as you choose, you come home to yourself." – Alan Cohen
Trying one or 37 new sex techniques with both of those components down first will be like night and day. It's similar to dancing salsa and not once looking the person in the eye or getting in sync with your partner. Are you dancing together as a couple or merely for your own pleasure? You might have a few cool moves here and there, but the overall dance won't be as juicy and fun.
"But, JP, aren't there things I can learn that can help me in bed?" YES. Read books, watch DVDs, take workshops. I've read and studied my fair share of books on sex techniques, masculine/feminine dynamics and tantric philosophies. They all have great information and wicked fun things to try. (The best homework on Earth!) And if you want some suggestions on where to start, check out my recommended reading section.
But as can be the danger with any personal growth or self-improvement book, I would often start to think "Wow, here are all these things that I'm currently NOT doing and need to do in order to be acceptable and attractive." Now, when I start to have those thoughts, I put the book down or stop the iPod and give myself a reality check. I was looking for some magic pill, stroke or lick to be the secret to great sexual connection. But like many things, being a skillful lover is a lot about attitude and energy and less about the actual technique. And the more in tune you are with yourself and your partner, the more in the flow you'll be. Not to mention you will both feel safe enough to explore new things and tell your partner what might not be working so well. Yes, it's true, that hot sex tip you just read on AskMen.com, might not work on your woman. Play and learn from HER body, not some prototype.
My main point is to embrace and accept who you are first, then go seek out ways you can expand and improve. To start learning a new sex technique from place of LACK doesn't serve you or your partner. Start to trust yourself, your own inner mojo.
So here are 3 things to try on for size:
- Connect with your breath. Any yoga or tantric book will show how powerful the breath is for sexual connection. Start noticing how your experience shifts with the variations in your breathing. Maybe even sit together for one or two minutes and breathe together as part of your foreplay. Another great tip is to synchronizing your breath with your partner's breath. Good times!
- Focus only on the things you really love about your body and your partner's body. Trying to get turned on when you're thinking about your beer belly or the fact that your bikini wax is 5 days old isn't gonna help. If it's something you truly want to (and can) change, then yes, go ahead and take some action. But if you're about to bump 'n grind, that is NOT the time to nitpick yourself or your partner. And trust me, 9 times out of 10 they don't even care about that "flaw" you're obsessing about.
- Make eye contact. There's no quicker way to establish a meaningful connection than to look into someone's eyes. Yes, it may feel awkward even if it's your wife of 42 years. But after you get over any initial anxiety or vulnerability, you'll be able to ride a really fun wave of soulful connection.
It sounds counterintuitive, but the best sex is an INSIDE —> OUT job, not an OUTSIDE —>IN job.
10 Responses to "You Already Know How To Be A Great Lover"
20. Mar, 2010
What a wonderful post! And so very true. Any time you can be confidence with yourself and really be present with them, the more attune your bodies will be. The eyes really are the window to the soul.
Found you from Mike's page. Will be perusing!
20. Mar, 2010
Good stuff, man. You've become a must-read in my book.
Dating Dufus
20. Mar, 2010
Hi Jeffrey, I liked your comments on Mike's blog and then found your site. Thank you for putting the personal/energetic/soul connection back into the story!
I agree with you about the self-help advice, sometimes it can do more harm to the self-esteem than good. In particular I think people in the spiritual community (and it sounds like you are in it) have a tendency to expect– in themselves and others– a continual process of "growth" or "personal development."
After years of living in an ashrama community I finally realized this can go too far! This constant striving to become a "better you" than the one you are right now can cause you to miss the great you you are already.
I'm excited to read more of your posts, going to do that now!
20. Mar, 2010
@lifebeginsat30ty: Thank you so much. Hope you find my other posts helpful, too.
@Miss Alpha: Eye contact is hot. And during the bump 'n grind, even hotter.
@Dating Dufus: Thank you so much for your appreciation!
21. Mar, 2010
Great insight Jeffrey! I have tried the breathing technique with my partner and the sexual connection sure is stronger.
The eye contact is something I am working on. He has no trouble looking straight into my eyes, but I tend to shy away. Like they say "the eyes are the windows to your soul" and maybe I'm trying to protect myself a bit.
21. Mar, 2010
@Kristin: Thank you! Yeah, eye contact during sex can be vulnerable for both partners. That's why it's important to choose partners who you feel safe with and feel comfortable communication with. Have fun practicing!
15. Apr, 2010
Connecting with yourself — your wants and desires — and expressing them, may just make you a selfish lover. A taker.
To be a giving lover — the essence of actually pleasing someone other than yourself — the advice may be more practical:
Ask your partner what she likes. Give it to her. Ask her if she liked it. Give it to her again.
And of course, reciprocity means sharing.
Jeffrey Platts
15. Apr, 2010
@Jason: Also good reminders, bro. There are lots of great things that can be explored as ways to get more in tune with your partner. Too many people presume that they should already know what their partner wants and what makes them feel good. Like you say, one simple solution: ASK.
22. Apr, 2010
Ok Jeffery , I don't understand about the breathing part? I don't think you're talking about what I'm thinking about because I had a really bad experience with breathing with this guy, so I know it could not be what you are talking about, but how do I find out just what you are talking about with the breathing part, will I find it in the books you suggested? Please help me out.
March 30, 2010
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Down Beat Magazine review: "Friends" June 5, 1975
Before "fusion" became a dirty jazz word, Down Beat writer Bob Rusch was one of the few who could hear the difference between a commercial extreme and Marc Cohen Copland's thoroughly original, musical approach.
FRIENDS — Oblivion Records (New Music Distribution) od 3: ⅝ Tune; Black Vibrations; Nursery Rhyme; Loose Tune.
Personnel: Cohen, electric alto sax; Jeff WIlliams, drums; Clint Houston, fretted bass, acoustic bass; John Abercrombie, S4 & 12-string guitars.
***** (5 stars)
It has been my contention for some time that although independent and co-operative record companies account for an absurdly small percentage, in sales, of the total records moved in the jazz market, their musical and historical level of importance is of a far greater percentage.
The "indies" for the most part stand out as enigmas aside the commercially-oriented giants, usually pushing a favorite idiom/era or style of jazzed sounds, with a particular artist as the focal point. Set into this pattern comes the enigma of enigmas, Oblivion Records, which over the past 3 or 4 years has managed to push out a total of 4 LPs and one 45 record. The material has ranged from rural field blues to urban blues to mainstream jazz to electronic jazz/rock. Their one constant quality of music along with the humor and personal approach to production and packaging.
The Marc Cohen Friends album was recorded in Dec. 1972, and apparently has been met, since its release, by a wall of silence from the media. Cohen, a Philadelphian who has worked with Chico Hamilton, does not merely utilize the electric alto sax with octave divider, tape echo, wah-wah and fuzz tone, he innovates with it. It is a direction in which Eddie Harris has been moving, but Cohen is there! Cohen has transformed the electric sax from a gimmick to a concept in instrumentation with its own identity and horizons.
With the exception of Nursery Rhyme (a very lyrical Three Blind Mice), the tempo ranges from uptempo to absurd. Fortunately all the musicians are up to it; Jeff WIlliams' speed is often electrifying in itself. Cohen and Abercrombie seem particularly inventive and in harmony with and of each other. Clint Houston is left with the most traditional role of pushing out a relatively tame bass line. Very electronic, very stimulating, very inventive and innovative, and very much worth your attention and investment.
—Bob Rusch
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Marc Cohen Copland: electronic alto saxphone, tenor saxophone
Glen Moore: electric & electricfied acoustic bass
Jeff Williams: drums
Recorded May 3, 1972, in Studio 3, WKCR-FM, Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia University, New York for David Reitman's "Journey to the End of the Night," by Fred Seibert & Don Zimmerman
Here are the bonus tracks I've been promising to the Marc Cohen Copland's "Friends" LP. They pre-date the "Friends" sessions by some seven months, but this session was why I wanted to make the record in the first place. No one knew what was in store for us this May night in 1972, but I, for one, heard something I'd never forget. "Fusion" had been in the air for a few years, but Marc was one of the very few that actually merged the harmonic and rhythmic truths and jazz with rock.
For those of us who were jazzically inclined at Columbia in the late 60s, alto saxophonist/composer Marc Cohen Copland was a legend. I'd seen him perform with the Chico Hamilton Quartet, and engineered a recording of his big band at a campus auditorium, but we hadn't really met until my pal David Reitman had Marc play on his radio show with a trio in the spring of 1972. As usual, I was engineering the live radio shot, and the first tune was a slightly more radical than mainstream outing. But when bassist Glen Moore was playing a long introduction to his Three Step Dance, Marc started fiddling with a guitar amplifier and Echoplex, and things started getting a little wild. If I closed my eyes I would have thought some kind of electric rock guitar had snuck in.
The next medley clinched it. Marc had gone completely out there. Not in the avant-garde jazz way I was starting to like, but somewhere further. It was liked he'd taken Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and The Tony Williams Lifetime, and crossed it over with some of Cream or Hendrix or something. Actually, that's not accurate. The truth is I didn't know what the hell I was hearing, but I really liked it. We all did. The set list had some more familiar territory, but when it was all over the only thing remembered was the new sounds. They were certainly seared into my ears.
Almost 40 years later, I can't tell you whether I approached Marc about releasing the tapes that same night, or whether it was in the days afterwards. Tom and I had just started Oblivion, but our releases were Tom's blues passions and I was itching to document my side of the quarry. I figured it would be on the avant tip, but this session was incendiary to me and unlike anything in the world. We'd be the first with something, a real break for a tiny indie label. We'd call it "electronic jazz" (fusion was a term that came with the inevitable popularity), and it wasn't until a couple of years later that it turned into music that we'd never listen to again.
Downer! Marc didn't like the sessions, for reasons he never explained to me, but he was willing to come back later in the year with a quartet (adding his friend, electric guitarist John Abercrombie). We agreed, and made the date in December.
To be perfectly honest, I wasn't that turned on by the master sessions, certainly not like on these takes. But, I didn't have enough confidence to listen to the original sessions again and demand the better performances. (Just compare this "5/8 Tune" with the one on the released album. Or "Loose Tune", May and December.)
I always thought the lack of absolute magic might have something to do with the final reaction to the album. A lot of progressive reviewers liked it, but the public never warmed. Some thought it was my choice for the cover, others thought it was ahead of its time. But, as I listen to these "demos" again for the first time in four decades, I think it was really the 'X' factor, that thing that separates the unique and different from the special.0 comments Tagged: Friends, Jeff Williams, Marc Cohen, OD-3, recording,.
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I was the go-to guy for engineering live music sessions at Columbia University's WKCR between 1970 and 1973. So when David Reitman made the call for a May 1972 trio session featuring Chico Hamilton sideman (and Columbia graduate) Marc Cohen (with Glenn Moore on bass and Jeff Williams on drums) I was there. The shocker is that Marc had electricfied his saxophone and the result sounded less like Paul Desmond and more like Eric Clapton. In the aftermath of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and The Tony Williams Lifetime the fusion (no one was calling it that yet, thank goodness) of rock and jazz was being invented in front of our ears.
I was immediately enthralled and approached Marc to allow us to release the results on Oblivion Records. Intrigued, Marc asked to come back with another group for a session he could think about a little more; the trio was more of an experiment and he was dissatisfied with his playing. When he came back in December it was with a quartet, with John Abercrombie on guitar (not yet a star, his first solo album would come out in 1974) and Clint Houston on bass. The sessions didn't have the manic energy I so enjoyed with the trio, but it had richness, harmony and structure lacking in the original date.
Marc was uncomfortable being named the leader given the collective nature of the improvisations even though he composed three quarters of the date and put the group together. He named the record and the group "Friends."
The reviews were ecstatic: "A promising indication of things to come [in] New Electronic Music," said Crawdaddy! Magazine.
Click here to listen to the entire album in CD quality MP3s, and read the liner notes and credits.
'Anonymous' commented on the first 'complete Friends' post: "…my god this should be rereleased on cd, it's simply incredible!"
So, I decided to re-post the tracks in "Total O! (for Oblivion) Quality" —CD quality— sound with the highest MP3 rip rate, 320kbps. Effectively, you'd have to take the post as the actual "Friends" LP reissue. Enjoy, and at some point I'll go into why I've done it this way rather than a traditional release (Update @ January 1, 2012: Well, now there's a "traditional" release, digital though it is. If you're so inclined, Friends is available at your favorite digital store at streaming site.)0 comments Tagged: Friends, Clint Houston, complete, fusion, Jeff Williams, John Abercrombie, Marc Cohen, MP3s,.
I finally got a chance to post the complete original "Friends" LP, one of the first albums to mash up jazz improvisation with a rock sensibility. With the rise of The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever the music unfortunately became known as "fusion."
"Friends" was actually alto saxophonist's Marc Cohen's project*, but at the last minute he added in his friend, guitarist John Abercrombie, to the mix and insisted it be credited as a collective album.
Check out session photos, album graphics, and reviews. There are some really interesting bonus tracks and outtakes coming as I can get them digitized.
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Prosciutto Panini
James Carrier
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 534
- Calories from fat: 54%
- Protein: 31g
- Fat: 32g
- Saturated fat: 12g
- Carbohydrate: 34g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Sodium: 1647mg
- Cholesterol: 80mg
- 1 6-inch length sweet baguette (2 in. wide)
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 ounces (1/4 cup) chèvre (goat) cheese
- 1/2 cup arugula leaves
- 2 to 3 ounces thin-sliced prosciutto
- Lemon juice (optional)
- Fresh-ground pepper (optional)
- Split baguette in half horizontally. Drizzle cut surfaces with oil. On cut side of baguette bottom, spread goat cheese. Top with arugula leaves and prosciutto. If desired, add a squeeze of lemon juice and a sprinkle pepper. Set baguette top, cut side down, on filling.
- Nutritional analysis per sandwich.
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Prosciutto Panini Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Sandwiches
- CONVENIENCE: No-Cook, Portable/Picnic, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Pork
- PUBLICATION: Sunset
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Which Table Manners Do You Think are "The Essentials"?
We don't do a lot of formal dining the rest of the year, and then suddenly the holiday season is upon us and we have to remember if elbows on the table is a "do" or a "don't" at Grandma's house. We're curious what you consider to be the most essential elements of table manners and etiquette -- during the holidays and the rest of the year, too!
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Chew with your mouth closed and please, please, don't talk with your mouth full.
One essential is to not point out or think too long on another person's lack of "manners," though really the lapse is usually not a lack of manners but a lack of knowledge in manners. Using the wrong fork is not the world's biggest deal. It doesn't matter. I can think of very few transgressions at the table. Even elbows on tables are just fine so long as there's enough room and you aren't crowding anyone else. It's always nice to put your napkin on your chair if you get up in the middle of the meal, rather than on the table, but again, not a big deal.
This is only slightly related but I continue to be surprised how many people find it acceptable to arrive for dinner at somebody's house empty-handed. It's really not difficult or onerous to pick up a cheap bottle of wine or a cheerful bouquet or whatever. I was taught never to arrive empty-handed... anyone else?
Ask for something to be passed, don't reach across people. Inside voices. Try at least a bite of everything and if you don't like it, don't make a face and spit it out, just don't eat any more. Basic respect for the people around the table and especially the people who worked to produce your meal. Please and thank you. I don't think these things have much to do with "formal" dining, they should be part of every meal.
Never arrive empty handed and wait until everyone is seated before you start eating. My inlaws side if the family starts scarfing at family dinners by the time Nana sits down they are almost done. My family waits and we all eat together, that's the point isn't it?
The above commenter touched on my pet peeve. I am so irritated when people (grown adults!!!) make faces when there is something they don't like that is being served. A gracious "No, thank you - I don't really enjoy it" is all that is needed. Making a face of disgust is not very nice to the people who prepared the food!
- Chew with your mouth closed
- Don't start eating till everyone has been served (if it's a sit down thing)
- If a napkin is provided, use it regularly
- Don't get up till everyone is done eating
Agree with Tracylynn.... manners aren't for formal occasions... they are for everyday.
Don't get tripped up over silverware... it's not a big deal, but the more you use full settings the more obvious it is whats what.
@ ArchDarling... that's a tough area. Miss Manners suggests that we need not be schleping stuff around for the host and hostess to fret over... but generally she's referring to folks who bring a bottle of wine or a dish or a cake and expect the hosts to serve it at that event. And flowers can distract the hostess from her food prep... she had everything timed out but now she has to find a vase?
Most important, if you do bring a wine or a treat ... it's a gift... not a contribution to the meal. let it go.
The nicest thing you can give the hosts is a heartfelt thank you (preferably written) after the occasion.
Totally agree with Trixie about keeping your mouth closed and not talking with your mouth full; I'm shocked at how many people are oblivious to how unpleasant this is for others. And sit up straight, keep your elbows off the table, and put your napkin in your lap. Okay, I just channeled my mother....
ArchDarling - I agree about the empty-handed thing. And yes clickchick, agreed that flowers require a vase (but not if you buy one when you buy the flowers). Potted plants don't require one but they require ongoing care, so I see the point. But everyone can appreciate chocolate OR wine - pick one and take it to your hostess. I also hate it when people are empty-handed. I know, I know, you're inviting people to have a good time and not to get something in return. But when I've spent days getting the meal together and countless effort and $$, I think someone should remember to bring a bottle of wine.
Host Essentials:
+ ask about food allergies and major dislikes
Guest Essentials:
+ offer to help clean up
+ @clickchick, agreed, "The nicest thing you can give the hosts is a heartfelt thank you (preferably written) after the occasion."
General Essentials:
+ no phones
+ say please & thank you
+ wait to eat until everyone is served
+ @Archdarling, agreed, "do not point out or think too long on another person's lack of "manners."
I'm not sure that a host(ess) gift really falls under table manners. I think it wise, as a host, not to expect anything. As a guest, it is good to offer to bring a side dish, dessert, wine etc... or to simply bring flowers or something small, if relevant.
In "high" society it is considered rude to bring something to the hostess, especially if it's the dessert or a bottle of wine or anything you can eat or drink: it implies that you think her incapable of cooking a decent meal. Flowers are OK if the hostess is your mother or another member of your family.
Like chickchick noted, propriety requires that you send a thank you note the soonest possible after the event.
As for rules at the table, it all depends on the company, the occasion and the country. I'm French and I've always been taught that elbows on the table are an absolute no, that you don't cut your salad with your knife and that you use your knife with your right hand and your fork with your left. You should also shut off your phone, eat with your mouth shut, say thank you and please and always pretend you enjoy the meal, the people and the conversation, even if you're bored to death or your sworn enemy is sitting right in front of you. And the list goes on.
Use bread or your knife to push your food on the fork if necessary.
Do **not** use your thumb!
I had lunch at the Ritz-Carlton once with a retired high-ranking diplomat who used his thumb! I was stunned.
For kids: Sit down at the table during the meal and don't get up and raise hell until a) you're done eating and b) you've asked to be excused. And don't wipe your sweet potato-stained hands on the seats!
(Actually, those rules would probably work for adults, too.)
Wow um, hm, there aren't any that I find none essential. Using the wrong fork is forgivable, regardless how many times does that come up in your own home? But mouth open, talking, texting, elbows on table, eating before everyone has sat down, leaving before people are finished - no animals.
And re: napkin left on chair, you should actually leave your napkin on the table to the left of your plate. If you leave a napkin on the chair you risk soiling the upholstery.
Many of the obvious ones mentioned. I think a hand written thank you note is always nice especially if someone went all out.
avoid dinner parties where everyone is uptight and fretting over etiquette ;)
Treat people the way you want to be treated. That's what I do :)
If it's a real dinner, no texting, phone calls, TV, etc.
No insisting that people try something...they don't want to try it, they don't want to try it.
Growing up, elbows on the table were a big no-no. In business travel & formal settings outside of the US, I found elbows on the table to be customary. I take a look around to see what my hosts are doing (keeping hands on lap until they are seated).
@jamieo- agreed!
Don't agree with MissB on asking about food allergies or major dislikes. Host has an obligation to accomodate vegetarians and vegans if attending, but not everyone's food preferences.
If a guest has food allergies that are difficult to accomodate, he/she should let the host know privately.
And if you don't like some items being served, politely decline them as noted by others.
I would rather my guests repay the favor by inviting me over for dinner someday, than feeling they need to bring me anything to dinner. Maybe I wasn't brought up right, but I'd be a little offended if my guests thought they were obliged to buy anything (bottle of wine, flowers, dessert) in order to come over if I invited them.
Of course, in my station in life I'm more comfortable at a pot-luck than a formal sit-down so maybe it's a class thing.
Invited to dinner at a friend's. During dinner in the middle of a conversation, her hubby turns around a clicks on the TV. Made his point loud and clear.
Oh, in addition to not turning on the TV during dinner, silent use of cutlery.
My sister-in-law has a terrible habit of blowing her nose at the table when she is finished with her meal, while other's aren't. It annoys me and grosses me out.
Not sure if this falls under proper etiquette, but what about beverage choices, or lack thereof? Is it poor form, or just weird, to serve only water for the main meal and coffee during dessert? I attend family holiday dinners where these are the only options, and I wonder if I'm alone in thinking it's a little strange. To my knowledge nobody attending is in recovery, but I'm speaking of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options.
@tinamina, I agree that a host shouldn't have to accommodate every little thing, but I wouldn't want to serve a not spicy to me dish to someone who found even the slightest bit of spice inedible. I suppose it's not essential, but it's certainly kind to ask if there are things that people absolutely wont eat.
And for food allergies, some people forget to mention allergies or only remember at the last moment, which means last min scramble for host. Better safe than sorry :)
Thank the person who provided the meal for you (ideally in writing, or if that's too much trouble for you -- ahem -- at least phone). And then return the favor -- invite your host(ess) to dinner at your house.
People who pick on food...I once ordered a big platter of sushi for my daughter's b'day and my mother in law would use her chopsticks to separate the fish from the rice right on the big plate where everyone is eating from. She would leave the rice and eat only the fish.
She doesn't have a good chopstick skills so you can imagine how ugly she looked...it's funny cuz she is the only who always makes fun of other people who have no manners.
@ nycagnes, my stepmother does this EVERY SINGLE TIME we eat a meal and it's so disgusting! I hate people blowing their nose even in the kitchen, so at the table is a big no. Just get up and go to the bathroom.
Get there on time and no cell phones!!!
I had lunch recently with a well bred 29 year old. I am taking seriously old money, hedge fund money. He doesn't work.
He has the table manners of an ape. He didn't know how to hold silverware, he ate with his mouth open, his wiped his mouth on the back of his hand, he ate with his hands, and I really don't know what else. I was so grossed out I couldn't look at him. I ate the entire three course meal looking off to the side.
Did his nanny not teach table manners? Has he had dinner with his parents? What could they possibility think? How could this happen? He has not made the social inroads I thought he would have by this point, and now I think I have an explanation. Who can be around him, and food? No one apparently.
Manners are important.
PLEASE DON'T HOLD YOUR FORK LIKE A SHOVEL! That is all.
Multiple forks aren't a test of guests' manners -- they're a test of the host's. Multiple forks are for the CONVENIENCE of the guests, so the dessert doesn't taste like garlic. Somehow the purpose got lost or misinterpreted.
Wow, I'm with @jamieo! Treat people as you want them to treat you.
I have no rules, and no problems. Elbows on the table -- who cares? Sometimes people just want to rest... Forks? I only offer one, so no problem! Most people I eat with just don't talk with their mouths full, so why legislate it? If they do on occasion, it's probably because the conversation is rolling and they are excited to contribute -- forgivable!
I don't want hostess gifts. I plan the whole meal, and my guests usually ask in advance if I want them to bring something -- maybe a salad or extra dessert, so why not? (Of course there was that one time when our friends brought lasagna, and they, I and one other guest ALL made salads, unbeknownst to the others!) (BIG salads, at that!)
I don't want thank you notes -- saying thanks as you leave is more than sufficient, and if forgotten, also forgivable. (I can tell if you had a good time, and that's what matters to me.) I ALWAYS try to work around food allergies, since many of my friends have them. (If the group is too mixed, sometimes individuals bring something they can eat and share, and I make a plain verison of whatever, with the allergens as add-ins -- like walnuts in the salad, for instance.)
I don't entertain people I don't enjoy -- and if they are disgusting, they just don't come over. Simple!
yes!! arriving late is so obnoxious! and eating with your hands and mouth open...ugh
I think good manners exist to make an occasion pleasant and harmonious. So. Treat people as you would like to be treated. No to cell phones and TVs during dinner conversation. No dominating the conversation. No putting people down or making them feel ill-at-ease. Be kind. Be patient. Be flexible. Have a sense of humor.
Don't chew with your mouth open.
@jamieo, @SherryBinNH, and @FengShuiByFishGirl, you are my perfect guests. Rather, my perfect hosts. I am tired of having cereal and milk and almonds for dinner. I am a good guest. I bring optimism to the table and I eat with my mouth closed. :)
Oh, and if I have something in my teeth, please tell me. I'd rather have somebody telling it to me in front of my face and we all have a laugh about it than everybody else ignoring it and make a big meal of awkwardness.
I would simply be happy if when I am a guest that a simple,"No thank you." to wine and any other alcoholic beverages be respected. I simply don't like it and would be happy with just a cold glass of water. Also asking if I am an alcoholic is simply ridiculous. I am apparently rude for not "at least trying wine" but asking if I have an addiction is acceptable. Argh.
Don't get drunk and hit on your sister in laws husband. Also, don't throw wine corks at the old ladies.
Wow...lots of comments on this...don't know if this is included already, but here goes...I'm a very slow eater...please remember to save/share some food with those of us that take a while to get to all the course available. Thank you!
What @jamieo said. Screw formality, just be a kind - thoughtful - appreciative person : )
That said, open mouthed chewing, banging silverware on plates, I guess making excessive noise does drive me nuts, hah.
@HawaiiNei, you have a good point! I am a super slow eater and a vegetarian. So many times the quick - meat eaters scarf up the only thing I can eat. I get a little miffed even though I know they shouldn't have to cater to my special needs. But it would be nice to have it considered.
@lella... "silent use of cutlery"???
I'll start keeping my cutlery mufflers in my purse, just in case. Or pack my own plasticware.
I never knew that holding one's silverware in a certain manner (or eating with one's fingers) would be considered bad manners! I just thought it was part of a person's individual style/personal preferences, like maybe I prefer to touch my food or maybe my fork just feels better in this position.


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New years are known for new resolutions, but in one North Texas town, the mayor has proclaimed 2014 the Year of the Bible.
It's a declaration--or an official announcement. Mayors do it all the time for whatever they reason they choose to. In the case of Flower Mound, the mayor wanted his community to connect through the Bible.
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