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WEDNESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- The value of annual
mammograms for women in their 40s -- the topic of a lingering
debate among health policy and advocacy groups -- has drawn
resounding support from the nation's largest group of
On Wednesday, the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists (ACOG) issued new guidelines calling for mammograms
to be done every year beginning at age 40. This is a departure from
its previous recommendations, which advised mammograms every one to
two years beginning at 40 and then annually beginning at age 50,
based on the incidence of breast cancer in younger women and its
typically more rapid progression, guidelines co-author Dr. Jennifer
Griffin explained.
The guidelines conflict with those issued in late 2009 by the
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which recommended screening
mammograms only every other year beginning at age 50 because they
can result in many false positive results, prompting unnecessary
biopsies and additional tests.
"I think the main point we considered was that about 40,000 women every year in their 40s are diagnosed with breast cancer, and about 20 percent of them will die from it," said Griffin, an assistant professor of OB/GYN at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "Screening mammograms reduce the risk of dying by 15 percent" in this population.
More than 207,000 American women were diagnosed with invasive
breast cancer in 2010, according to ACOG, and nearly 40,000 died
from it. Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer
among women in the United States after skin cancer. It may be
detected by a mammogram while it is very small and before it grows
big enough to become symptomatic.
A key factor in the ACOG recommendation is the shorter "sojourn
time" -- the time period in which a breast cancer can be detected
by a mammogram while it is still very small and before it gets big
enough to cause symptoms -- among younger women. Women aged 40 to
49 have a sojourn time of 2 to 2.4 years, the guidelines said,
while those ages 50 to 59 have a sojourn time of 2.5 to 3.7 years,
and women 70 to 74 have a sojourn time of 4 - 4.1 years.
"In these younger patients, we have a smaller window because these cancers tend to grow faster, sooner," said Dr. Lauren Cassell, chief of breast surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "There are plenty of patients who develop breast cancer between 40 and 50. The fear was we would miss these patients and see them at later stages."
The American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive
Cancer Network's screening recommendations are identical to ACOG's
new guidelines, while the National Cancer Institute calls for
mammograms every one to two years beginning at age 40. In addition
to concerns about fear-inducing false positive results, some
officials have expressed concerns about radiation emitted from
mammography machines, which typically equals that of a round-trip
transcontinental airline flight.
"Mammograms are stressful to patients because some require follow-up," Cassell said. "But unfortunately, to find the patients [with cancer], some are going to have false positives... At some level, I feel we have to accept that."
Some early, noninvasive breast cancers, known as ductal
carcinoma in situ (DCIS), never progress to dangerous cases,
Griffin acknowledged, and mammogram detection may provoke
aggressive treatment that ultimately is unnecessary or harmful.
But, "there's not a lot of consensus exactly how many cancers
might regress . . . and no way of knowing which ones might regress
or progress," she said. "It's true that some of these cancers we
detect would not progress."
The potential cost of mammograms was not taken into account in
making the recommendations, Griffin added, but that was also true
of the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines.
Overall, about 1,900 women aged 39 to 49 would need to be "invited
for screening" (though some might decline) to save one woman in
that age range from dying of breast cancer, the ACOG said.
"This is all based on our best judgment with the best available evidence," Griffin said. "Women in their 40s typically have children, some have elderly parents, many are active in the workforce. I don't think we can really underestimate the value of that one life saved."
The American College of Radiology (ACR) and Society of Breast
Imaging said they supported the updated ACOG recommendations,
noting that National Cancer Institute data show the U.S. breast
cancer death rate -- previously unchanged for 50 years -- has
dropped 37 percent since mammograms became widespread in 1990.
"I think not screening these patients yearly is taking a step backward," said Dr. Donna Plecha, division chief of breast imaging at University Hospital's Case Medical Center in Cleveland. "The cure rate in the early stages of breast cancer is in the high 90s [percent]. So I think it's prudent for patients in that age group to come in yearly."
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Flickr Finds: Small Portland Kitchen
This little kitchen in a Portland, Oregon apartment uses a mirror over the sink to great effect. It's not unlike having a window over the sink, as the mirror reflects light and movement and adds a "view" to the tiny room...
We also admire the built-in storage flanking the kitchen's "entry" and the touch of color the coral-colored lantern shade gives the otherwise black and white kitchen. photo: Flickr member
skidrd, with a Creative Commons License
17 Comments
Why remove the picture frame? It looks like it would be easy enough to wipe down along with the mirror.
Oh sorry, I was stuck on the mirror and didn't notice the little pictures. *blushes* =)
I had this exact kitchen layout in a San Francisco studio apartment--I think it's pretty common here in buildings of this era. I loved that little but efficient kitchen, and this one is just as sweet. It probably has a miniature stove on the other side of the fridge.
What a really cute little kitchen. Love it.
I had that exact kitchen, too, in a Chicago studio apartment, and I've seen a bunch of them here on AT. Same glass front cabinets, so pretty. My kitchen was a bit bigger and had a built-in Hoosier and a cute ancient refrigerator. I'm sure it's all torn out now, replaced by dark wood cabinets and granite countertops.
What I love is the black & white trim and tiles with the punch of the red orb lighting fixture! And, yes, the mirror is used to very good effect here.
It's a cute kitchen - but a shame that the landlord cheaped out with the sheet-vinyl flooring and vinyl cove moulding instead of linoleum tiles and quarter-round shoe moulding.
cute kitchen.
I would remove the picture frames not because of grease, but because it looks cluttered.
(i can't believe how many people reading this blog are paranoid of kitchen grease. seriously, are that many people avid deep-fryers?)
I have to agree with jac7890. These aren't commercial kitchens and they can be easily cleaned. I love this little kitchen.
i'm not a fan of the kitchen. really you can't see much of it and the part i can see isn't cute at all.
there are things called magic eraser sponges that get grease off like it's nothing. plus it doesn't look like there's a stove near those picture frames anyway so why would they get greasy?
how sophisticated this little ordinary kitchen is just with the black and white details.
Cute, cute kitchen. I love the glass-front built-in cabinets, the paper lamp (like a red sun). I agree with the others that all those smaller picture frames don't look quite right there. I think a big green plant would be perfect on that ledge and set off the crisp black-and-white color scheme nicely.
Oh my god, that looks exactly like the kitchen in my old studio in Portland. It's too funny how many people had this layout.
I have this kitchen layout in my Portland studio but I keep my fridge on the outside of the built in cabinets so that I can have a full-sized oven. I think 90% of the studio spaces in Portland have this kitchen layout.
I agree, this is beautifully done, not just the mirror but the red lampshade and the black-painted doors of the glass cabinets at the side. The person who lives here achieved just the right balance between the personal and the original bones, it's just lovely.
It's a cute kitchen, and would be even cuter if every flat surface weren't covered in stuff. I know storage is an issue in a small space, but all the picture frames, stuff on top of the fridge, etc. make it look messy. Paring it down would help.
I have no problem with the pictures on the counter and had a kitchen similar to that one but I had the overhead cabinets above the sink instead of on the end wall and I had the open shelves where the sink was only where the glass door are here and my stove and fridge, while on the same side of the kitchen were swapped around and I used a Microwave cart to add counterspace since these kitchens, often built in the 20's often had a severe shortage of useable counterspace for anything other than drying your dishes.
Don't get me wrong very cute kitchen but a word on cooking and pictures, it doesn't matter where things are in the kitchen, even sauteeing or indoor grilling etc will cause grease to permeate everything if you don't use a spatter shielf of some sort and many of those old kitchens didn't have an exhaust fan, if they did, many probably don't work anymore (the kitchen I had that was similar had one, but it didn't work). I live in a 1960 era kitchen now with a working exhaust fan but even that is somewhat effective. I know as I DO cook.
here though I'd have moved the glass vase over by the wall, less likely to knock it off and be broken and I do agree she needs to clear off the top of the fridge but I like how she fixed up the place w/ the mirror and the light however.
When I lived in my first studio apartment, same era as the one shown, it was long galley, original as well and it had no exhaust at all and grease dirt and dust got on EVERYTHING, even if not right next to the stove and only ammonia seems to be effective on grease.

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"Bravely, they set forth to do battle... with their wits and by strength of pen, they sought to conquer the vast expanse known only as 'The Industry'. And in the end..." Well, in the end, talking economics does not top the list of most people's gaming dreams. But for that select group who wish to start a company, it's time to get serious.
In business, it's often said that cash flow is more important than profits. This is extremely true in publishing. So we'll go through a whole sample year in a company's life. Bear in mind that I have this strange, wacky assumption that game publishers are businesses as well as creative outlets. And, I'm going to ignore some of my own $1K Company column for this, to give the broad strokes.
Say you have a $25 book that cost you $1000 to print 1000 copies (a buck a copy), shipping included. So you start at $1000 in terms of investment, hoping to get paid back later, but with a nice clean bank account set at $0, and $0 cash in hand.
You print your book in early July and solicit orders from distributors. Selling them at a standard 60% discount to distributors, your revenue is $10 per book, and therefore your profit is $9 per book after you deduct the buck a book it cost to print. So in theory, you're making a profit with every book you sell! Sell them all, and you'll make $9000!
Let's assume that any product you make sells 400 in the first month. For each month after its launch, it sells half as many as it did the month previous. After 4 months, you've sold about 950 of them (and the rest were given out to reviewers, as comp copies, in trade, etc). This isn't bad for a small publisher!
You're smart enough to realize that you shouldn't think of it as "cost is a buck, with $9 profit per book". After all, you sell 1 book, you haven't made $9 profit, rather, you're still at -$991 in total profits. So you're clever. You figure that if you sell 100 of them, you've made back your costs, and then you're earning $10 in profit for each additional book past that. Congratulations-- you've found you 'break even' point.
We'll be fancier and assume you pay your writers and artists (and we're talking 'pay', not 'promise to pay'. A crucial distinction that many companies fail to make). So that's another $2000 in costs.
(Okay, maybe you wrote the book-- in which case you need to pay for an editor, since no one can effectively edit their own work. Or maybe you need to pay for a layout person. $2K is fairly reasonable for even a small operation). We'll get back to this in a minute, but this means you have to sell 200 books to break even.
But this tricky thing called cash flow is going to now rear up and bite your head off. I'll give an example as to why. Start a company with $1000 (your initial investment). Print 1000 books. You haven't paid your writers and artists yet. You now have $0.
And now you want to print a second book.
But... your distributor bought the books on a 60-day term-- they don't cut your check until 60 days after they receive the books. Suddenly, although you have $5000 in revenue coming in-- and therefore $3000 in profit, above and beyond your print costs-- you have zero cash flow. You simply have no cash.
And then the phone company bill arrives. It's a measly $40... but that now puts you forty bucks in the hole. Add in internet or web charges, merchant account fees, electricity, and even with a basic office setup you might be $200 down this month. And since you don't get paid for 60 days, you'll be another $200 down next month. Sure, you might have sold another 250 books by then-- but you won't see that money for another 60 days past that. You're always playing catch-up, here.
So you are at -$400, even though in theory you've made $3000 in profit. You have negative cash flow. And hey, GenCon is coming up and you plan to attend! That'll be around $2000 in expenses. Sure, you have the profits to cover it-- in theory-- but that'll push you to -$2400.
Plus you still haven't paid your writers. If you were clever, you may have told them "payment 60 days after publication". Okay, that means, in early September, you're going to get a check from the distributors for $5000 for that first lot of books, and lose a chunk of that to the writers.
Let's see... from -$2400, you get $5000 income, and pay out the $2000 you owe the writers and artists. Woo hoo! You have $600 in cash!
And you need to print your second book. That's another $1000 needed in cash, up front. And there you are with -$400 in the bank. And we still have lousy cash flow. And book 1 (here at the start of month 3) has 125 copies in sales (so you'll get $1250 in 60 days), and book 2 won't even start its initial sales until next month.
Sure, in another month you'll get a hefty check for $2500 for round two of the book-- but you'll also have incurred another $200 or so in office expenses. So at the start of month 4, you have $1900 in the bank-- at last, you have good cash flow, right?
But at the end of month 4, you have to pay out $2000 to your writers and artists. You only get a check for $660 for the last sales of book 1. You paid out another $200 in utilities. What's that give you?
$360 in cash, for four months of work. Oh, wait, I forgot. You had put up $1000 of your own money to start this. So where are we, at the start of month five?
We have $360 in cash. We're $1000 in debt (to ourselves, for our initial investment). And we haven't even given ourself a salary-- we worked for 4 months for free. Ugh.
If you want to print a book every four months, it'll cost you $3000 for writer/artist/printers, plus $800 in utilities (for 4 months). You'll be taking in $9400 during that period (for the previous book)-- but that's slightly out of sync. Basically, for the next two months you'll be hovering at having a cash flow of a few hundred dollars.
And what are we missing?
We haven't even factored in additional conventions (which suck out a quarter of a book's profits)-- go to GenCon, Origins, GTS'99, and a pair of local Cons, and that takes away a single book's profits right there. And these won't be evenly spaced-- conventions are all crowded into the summer, so in summer, forget about having any cash on hand.
We haven't included marketing. A meager $400 ad sinks your cash flow for that month.
We haven't included bad debt. If one distributor has to go an extra 30 days before paying you, you're several thousand dollars negative on cash flow. That can delay your next print run-- which, in turn, delays your chance to sell new product.
And if a book doesn't sell, well, that cuts off the money stream at its source, well before it does its 60-120 day trickle into your meager cash pocket.
But let's be optimistic. Say you skip marketing and still your books are successes. After the above launch, you get two more out during the rest of the year. All your distributors pay on time. You don't incur any extra expenses. You get one more book out, then wait for the last of the payments to trickle in (that slow 6-month process).
Book 2 sales start at the beginning of Month 5, Book 3 releases at the start of Month 8, Book 4 at the start of Month 10.
At the start of month 5, you had $340 in cash and $1000 in debt. Book 2 nets you $9600. Books 3 and 4, after costs, net $6000 each. You had 8 months of office expenses ($1600), plus an extra $800 in office costs while you waited for the last payments to roll in. Sometime around October, over a year after you'd started, you look back at it all.
16 months in business-- 10 months working, a half a year waiting (or more likely, chasing and suing) for final sales and payments. 4 books. All selling out 1000-copy print runs. You pay back your original $1000 stake. What have you made?
$18,540 in 16 months. That's $14,000/year. At least you beat US Federal Minimum Wage ($5.15/hour) by getting $6.73/hour. In that time, you were publisher, line editor, print broker, sales manager, con rep, webmaster, accounting, legal, and office clerk.
If you did all the writing, editing, art, and layout yourself, you'd only make an extra $8,000 over the year. But let's be mean for a second. We'd mentioned that writers can't edit their own work. Assuming you are uber-publisher and do _everything_ in house so you can pocket that extra $8K, well, that increases the odds of the product not selling. Much as monocultures are less resistant to problems than heterogenous tropes, so it is that team products with a good lead are better than single overworked (and often overwrought) visions.
What if book 4 didn't sell at all? Suddenly, the picture drastically shifts. You lose $9660 in revenue-- your total take was only $8880 over 16 months. That's $6660/year, or just over $3/hr. If book 3 tanks, you're $780 in debt!
On the other hand, if you do 2000-copy print runs... you increase your costs by $4000 over the year, but increase your potential profit by $32,000! Woo hoo! This is the way to go, right?
Nope. Remember cash flow? As in, the subject of this article? If you do a 2000-copy print run for book 1, well, you're starting with higher debt. And 2000 copies for book two? That kills your cash flow-- by month three, you're racking up more debt just to pay bills, and can give up on going to GenCon. That'll cut your sales, and increase the odds of a book not selling.
So by spending too much (doing too large a print run), you have not only increased debt, but reduced the money you have to spend on other aspects. If you run the numbers, about the only way to avoid cash flow problems with the above scenarios is to have an initial 'stake' of around $14200 to cover your first year expenses. At which point, putting down $14K to earn $8-$32K isn't the most sage of investments (especially given that you're forsaking other incoming during that period).
If you're even pulling in $15K/yr now doing 9-5, it's a no-brainer. Risk $14K and lose your $15K in income in order to make, at best, $32K (or, more or less the same sum that you would have had at the end of that year anyway), with a good shot of losing money tossed in, and longer work hours?
("But it's work I love!" Well, sorry, creating works is great. Publishing is business, which means work. If you really want to create, find a friend who knows business to handle the other aspects of the company... at which point you are now splitting the profits, but having more fun.)
But let's get back to our lesson on cash flow. On paper, you only need to sell 300 books to cover a 1000-copy print run, or sell 400 books to cover a 2000-copy print run. But in actual operations, you'll find that cash flow dominates your economic decisions. It's not a question of how much you might eventually make-- whether you live or die is entirely based on how much cash in pocket you have at the start of any month.
Without cash flow, you can't attend Cons. You can't print new books while interest is still hot. You can't do effective marketing. Cash flow is king.
The counterpart to cash flow is debt. By increasing debt (sinking more of your money into the venture, say), you can rapidly boost cash flow. This increases the total risks for losing money (you can't loose what you don't spend, as they say). The balance between being undercapitalized (and thus unable to bring products to market in a timely fashion) and being overcapitalized (and thus overextended in terms of debt and risk).
Now, to be upbeat. In the $1K Company we pointed out Lightning Print, which can do books on demand. Some of their terms have changed since that time. In particular, that they require you have some expertise in printing because they aren't a 'free help bureau'. There are different terms for being carried by Ingham versus just being printed. And their turnaround times are much longer than the original ones specified. But in many ways, they-- and other on-demand printers like them-- are still the best bet for the small publisher.
Not because they're fast, or cheap, or of higher (or lesser) quality. Not because they give free help to newbies, or are especially good at game books, or are well networked with distributors. No, they are a useful link in the publishing chain for one reason, and one reason only.
Similarly, a lot of start-up publishers offer less pay to the writers, but also offer royalties (a percentage of sales). This (in almost all cases), can result in less money for the writer, alas. If you are a publisher looking at royalties, a good way to set a rate is: pay 1/4 of your 'per word' rate up front, then set the royalties so the writer should make the same as if they were paid the full 'per word' rate, once you sell half the print run. That way, their risk is minimized and the total risk is shared. If they have a really good book, they make twice what they would have. If they have a really bad book, you're only out about half what you would have otherwise been forced to pay them. Either way, they get a least a minimum up-front to bank.
Royalties in general benefit the publisher-- the writer has to wait a long time to get paid. (Whether writers always have to wait a long time is a rant for another day). Royalties do have other advantages-- much like stock options with internet companies, they provide an added incentive to do better work, to write works that are less self-indulgent and more market driven, and so on. Whether these are intrinsically good or bad is irrelevant, though, because royalties for small press are a good reason for one reason, and one reason alone.
And, there's investors. Having investors has downsides-- loss of control and higher expectations on returns being two of them. Investors can be a pain to work with, and ultimately do have to be paid back. What they are doing is shouldering much of the fiscal risk in return for a good chance at making a significant profit. Really, investors don't invest in companies-- they invest in people who they think will use the company to make money. They are not that common to the RPG industry, alas, but they are useful, for one reason, and one reason alone.
All three of these cases, with their flaws and merits, are in the end useful to the small publisher for the one distilled reason. Because they solve the problem of cash flow.
There we have it-- perhaps the dryest, most boring topic on gaming entirely. In fact, if you made it this far, congratulations! Really, it's almost like a game.
Let's Fight the Dragon!
Let's Start a Company!
Hmmm... all said, I'd rather be gaming.
Good luck!
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Chapter 32.10 Reviews
"Why did you run Escher?"
It really was like living in different world, Escher mused as she re-read the express posted letter in the early morning sun on the balcony of the villa. It had arrived at the villa the day before, and it had probably arrived at the tiny post office the day before that. In the past, in New York, that would have infuriated her, she would have ranted and railed about inefficiency and bumbling bureaucracy. But she was learning to slow down herself, and not mind the pace with which time crept slowly, slowly forward here, taking only baby steps.
The letter was from Sarah, mostly to tell Escher to be at the post office later that day to receive a phone call. She didn't have a cell on Corfu (it wouldn't be much use anyway) and the villa did not have a telephone, so to make or receive calls she had to go into the town.
Could write about how the whole place is falling apart without you, but it turns out you picked Laz and I well! The Canary is doing great business, you'll be very pleased and we scored an awesome review last week for the food (courtesy of the new chef Laz hired).
Spoke to G last week because we've had an idea about the Saturday nights we got started a while back, with the full 1920s theme that sort of floundered and didn't do much. We're going to extend it through to Sunday as well and apply for a 24-hour trading license and run the bar like an old parlour.
G loved it. I know you said I don't need to run things by you while you're away, but The Canary is your baby and I want to at least keep you in the loop.
Laz and I are looking after the apartment as well, and have kept your room as a shrine to all that is our benevolent dictator!
I still can't get used to having to write to you instead of just seeing you or calling your cell. We need to talk ok? So I'll call the post office at 2pm on Thursday, I remember you told me it has to be before 4pm your time because the lady who runs the post office sneaks off for ouzo and then falls asleep. I still don't know whether to believe that…
She looked at the post mark, it had been express posted from New York the previous Friday, God knows how long it sat in the post office before Zelda's dizzy mind sorted it and sent it with the postman (a seven-year-old named, you guessed it, Spyro) to the villa.
It was already 1:00pm and Escher decided to stroll down to the town and get a coffee before going to the post office.
She had created quite a stir in Corfu town when she had first arrived in her skinny jeans, doc martens and band shirts. It wasn't as though the inhabitants of the island were backwards in any way, she quickly found out, in fact she suspected that a lot of the provinciality of the place was an act for tourists who wanted authenticity, someplace untouched by modernity. The same tourists who then bitched and whined because the café wasn't a wifi hotspot, they couldn't get service on their cells and why the fuck didn't anyone speak English?
Escher felt as though she was in on the joke to some extent, and had relaxed into the scenery. Of course she still stuck out like a sore thumb but she had even let Grutzelba make her a couple of peasant dresses. And the locals had begun to relax around her when they saw she wasn't just there to snap off a roll of film and catch the ferry back and on to the next island until she reached Ibiza.
She ran her fingers through her newly shorn hair. The night before Ludivine had attacked her with a pair of Grutz's fabric shears and cut off her long hair to her shoulders, adding in choppy multiple layers. It made her hair kick up into golden curls all around her head and she wasn't sure if she liked it (though Ludivine did tell her that if she dyed it black she's look just like Joan Jett).
It took about 20 minutes to walk into town if you didn't dawdle. There were other methods of getting around but Escher didn't trust the old Buick rusting to death in the grounds of the vineyard and the bicycles didn't entice her, even less so the donkeys, although Ludivine swore they were a good way of getting around the island. Escher preferred to walk though, it was therapeutic, she'd always thought so, remembering back to how many times she had walked home from Reprise because Frank had upset her.
She felt a pang at the thought of him but suppressed it quickly as she came into the end of the town.
As predicted, Zelda had tippled in her afternoon ouzo and was draped across the counter of the post office, half asleep. She smiled lazily at Escher when she walked.
"You're getting a call from Ameyerica?" She asked with her thick accent.
"Yes from my housemate, she hasn't called yet?"
"No, no and I've been here all day" Zelda assured her, with the wide eyed innocence of someone lying through their teeth.
Escher sat down with the book she'd brought with her and waited for the call.
Typical of Sarah, the call was fifteen minutes late.
"I'm sorry, we had trouble getting the last customer's out" Sarah explained, the line crackling a little. It would be 2am in the morning in New York.
"That's okay, how are you?" Escher asked, more excited to hear her friend's voice than she had thought she would be.
"I'm good, we're good. I met a guy!"
Escher rolled her eyes.
"Who would have guessed it?" She asked sarcastically.
"No he's /different/!" Sarah said emphatically.
"They always are"
"No, this one is E"
Something in her friends voice made Escher stop. She had never known Sarah to be serious about someone. She had flings, week-long romances that were over before they started. Occasional bursts of tears and dramatics, but never anything serious.
"What's he like?" Escher finally asked.
"He's great, amazing…I mean, he's not a guitar player in an uber famous band but…"
She couldn't help herself, she had to throw Frank into the conversation.
"What does he do?" Escher asked.
"He's a band promoter, I actually met him through Gerard which reminds me, why didn't you tell me that Gerard Way was your silent partner?"
"Because he was my /silent partner/" Escher deadpanned.
"Right…well, I am so glad that I started working at /The Canary/, I mean where else do you get to meet all your favourite bands and fall in love with their promoter's"
"Whoa, wait, hold up…in love?"
Sarah giggled.
"You're in love?" Escher asked, the disbelief in her voce obvious.
"Yeah," Sarah replied simply, "I am"
Escher was in shock, she had never expected this from Sarah.
"What's his name?"
"Caleb Young" Sarah said, breathily.
"I can't believe it"
"I know right?" Sarah's voice was light and deliriously happy, but there was an edge to it.
"You never expected this, did you?" Escher asked, leaning on the counter.
"No," Sarah replied honestly, "I just thought that what I was doing was as good as it got, I never thought that if I just said 'yes' to the right person, that everything could work out so well"
Escher felt another pang, what would have happened if she had said 'yes' to the right person, and meant it?
"Why did you run Escher?"
Escher drew in a sudden breath, they hadn't spoken about this before. The first time she had contacted Sarah was when the plane had touched down in Italy, that was to let her know that Gee was silent partner if there were any questions about the business and to let her know that she was safe. Sarah had been livid and terse on the phone. It had taken a few weeks before they could talk civilly to each other, but they always avoided this one topic.
"I'm only asking now because I understand what it's like to be in love and I just don't know how you could have run away like that"
"He asked me to stay," She admitted, "And I said yes"
"So why didn't you?" Sarah repeated.
Escher sighed.
"I was in love with Frank for a long time," She said softly, knowing that Zelda would be listening in, "And then after eight years and so much that had happened, he comes back into my life and I fall in love with him all over again. But I know, in the back of my mind, that it's all one-sided"
"But he said…" Sarah began but Escher interrupted her,
"I'm sure he meant it when he said he wanted me to stay," Escher went on, misunderstanding what Sarah was trying to tell her, "but the simple fact is, I would always be the one that was more in love, and I can't do that"
Sarah was bursting to tell her what Frank had said that day in the Canary after Escher had just quit, but would she listen?
"I saw him, on Christmas Eve" Sarah said, remembering how drunk he'd gotten, how hopeless and despondent he had been. Gerard said he still wasn't himself, he was mopey and quiet but he wouldn't admit that he missed her.
"Great, great, look it's great news about you and Caleb Sarah, and I really am pleased for you but…"
"But you have to go?"
"Yeah," Escher said apologetically, "Thanks for the call and I'll call you soon"
"Ok I…" Sarah trailed off as she heard the dial tone of the phone in her ear, "I miss you" She mumbled into the dead receiver.


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The vigil is the highlight of Elvis Week, which this year featured a listening party at Stax Records for the recent release of the three-CD box set "Elvis at Stax." Performances by Presley tribute artists and a screening of the "Aloha from Hawaii" television program from January 1973 are other featured events of the weeklong reunion, which wraps up Saturday.
Police estimated 35,000 people would attend the vigil. Last year, an estimated 75,000 people descended on Graceland for the event. Elvis' ex-wife Priscilla Presley and his daughter Lisa Marie Presley spoke at last year's event, the first time they appeared together at the vigil since it began.
Christine Jeffords made her fifth trip to Graceland with her husband Jon and three other members of a fan club called the Elvis Midwest Mafia, whose members are from Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. They wore red T-shirts with Presley's image emblazoned on a king of hearts playing card on the front.
The back of their shirts had a quote that gives one reason why fans have made repeated trips to Memphis for Elvis Week and the vigil: "If you have a friend who is an Elvis fan, you have a friend for life."
"Where else can you go where you meet people from year to year who have the same passion?" said Christine Jeffords, a pre-school teacher from Hartford, Wis.
Jeffords, 52, smiles when she talks about buying her first Presley 45, "Let Yourself Go," which she bought as a young teen with money she had saved from babysitting jobs. She said the vigil is a way to remember not only his career, but also his giving personality and ability to make people happy with his music.
"If you were sad or happy or whatever, he was such a big part of your life," Jeffords said. "I always felt in my heart that he was a good person, a beautiful person."
The vigil started as an informal gathering the year after his death. It has blossomed into a major tourist event. Fans begin lining up along the outer wall of Graceland about 12 hours before the vigil, and many will stay until the early morning hours of the next day.
The event also has become an international affair and a tribute to the Tupelo, Miss., native's worldwide popularity, hosting fans from Australia, Brazil, England and Japan and other foreign countries.
Miguel Salinas Caceres, 53, came with other members of a fan club whose members are from Chile. Making his first visit to Graceland, Salinas Caceres recalled making scrapbooks of newspaper article clippings about Presley when he was a teen.
The articles and scrapbooks were a way he and his family followed and learned about Presley because they could not afford a record player or even the records themselves. He said his family used to pay a neighbor who owned a television so that they could watch Presley movies and other TV programs at the neighbors' house.
"For a person who is an Elvis fan and has the chance to come to the place he lived, it's emotional for me," said Salinas Caceres, of Santiago, Chile. "It's hard to believe that I'm here on the street where he walked, the street corners where he stood, the restaurants where he ate."
His fellow fan club member Rodrigo Gandarillas, a native Chilean who now lives in Houston, is on his second visit to Graceland. An Elvis tribute artist himself, the 39-year-old Gandarillas said the vigil is a way to give thanks for the enjoyment Presley has given him.
"The thing that impacts me the most about the vigil is the large amount of people from different countries, different races and different languages who understand 'the King's' musical message," Gandarillas said.
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- What Richard Did
- Production year: 2012
- Country: Ireland
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 87 mins
- Directors: Lenny Abrahamson, Leonard Abrahamson
- Cast: Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Sam Keeley
Lenny Abrahamson, the Irish director of Adam & Paul and Garage, both accomplished studies of marginalised lower-class figures, shifts territory to the world of wealthy Dubliners, beneficiaries of Ireland's tiger economy, and their arrogant, spoilt kids. In particular it focuses on Richard Karlsen (the first-rate Jack Reynor), a handsome rugby star and gifted student, less confident than he appears to be, spending the summer between sixth form and university with his mates and a new girlfriend. Then, suddenly, disaster overtakes him when he and some chums get involved in an accidental killing. Will they confess and face the consequences? The film is a striking portrait of a social class and a low-key allegory about a country in moral crisis.


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Fantasy Football drafts, for me at least, always seem to land at the wrong time. The other night I went to dinner at my girlfriends house when my draft was live. Thanks to an app for the iPhone I was able to pick my players without missing the dinner and being too much of a distraction. They knew what I was doing, but still felt it was more discreet than whipping out my lap top.
This is however, is dedication to a draft.
Homeboy brought his fantasy draft to the movies with his lady. #respect pic.twitter.com/gZXtIx6ywe
— Elika (@steakNstiffarms) August 28, 2013
1. He was told it'd be over way earlier (so he agreed to go to the movie) 2. Draft ended just after the previews 3. 1st pick: Brady (WTF?)
— Elika (@steakNstiffarms) August 28, 2013
4. His lady brought a USB modem for him (I told him she's a keeper) 5. She made fun, so I reminded her her man commits and follows through
— Elika (@steakNstiffarms) August 28, 2013
She definitely is a keeper for being so understanding.
Talk about lighting up the theater. The ushers they always threaten will kick you out must have missed, or really respected this guy. The theater wasn't really that crowded though apparently.
@malcolli @MadeByTim @FtblSickness I can assure you all three other people in the theater didn't have a problem with it.
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Tom Brady in the first round?
@SECblog Tom Brady (yes, I asked)
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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has demanded setting up of new rail projects, especially in its industrial belt of Baddi-Barotiwala, besides expediting ongoing rail projects, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said in Shimla on Monday.
"I met Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and apprised him about adequate funding for ongoing projects," he told reporters in Shimla.
Virbhadra Singh said the issue of connecting industrial township of Baddi with broad-gauge railway line and extending proposed metro rail network in Chandigarh up to Baddi was also taken up.
Delay in completion of the Nangal-Talwara and Bhanupalli-Bilaspur-Beri rail lines was also taken up with Bansal, he added.
Official sources said the Chief Minister has sought funding in the ratio 75:25 for the Bhanupalli-Beri project.
Likewise, the conversion of the Pathankot-Jogindernagar narrow gauge rail line into broad gauge was also taken up, sources said.


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Maiya is 3 in a month, and hasn't been putting things in her mouth since something like 12 months.
Within the last fews days to a week-ish, she is starting to CONSTANTLY put things in her mouth. Her fingers, hands, toys, books, dolls, necklace. I feel like I'm constantly telling her to get xyz out of her mouth. She understands as much about germs as a 35 month old can understand, and when I ask her why she is putting things in her mouth, she just tells me "Why I want to!"
She has told me her mouth hurts (NOT when I ask why she's putting things in her mouth, but randomly), and that she wants to see a dentist. In fact, we have a birthday party tomorrow, and she keeps telling me, "I want to go to the dentist first, then the birthday party." But, she's two, and has two friends who she recently witnessed hurt their mouths and knows they went to the dentist. So, I put about as much stock in that as I do in her saying "why I want to!"
Not surprisingly, she just came down with a cold yesterday.
Since this came on so suddenly, and was followed shortly by a cold, and she had a cold about a month ago (cold season, ya know...), I'm wondering if there may be a reason for it. Has anyone ever seen this as a symptom to something? I'm just totally guessing, but maybe could it be because she has a sore throat? Tooth ache? Cavity? Cold sores? Tonsilitis?
I have looked in her mouth and see NOTHING, but I'm no professinal. She is not teething and has all her baby teeth. Before she came down with her cold, she was acting fine. Even now with her cold, it seems mild, and other than being a little cranky and not eating quite as much as normal, she seems "fine". In your minds, if this continues, would it warrant a trip to the doctor or dentist? Or is it likely a phase?


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One class of attacks that previous versions of EMET have not been armed to defend against effectively is Return Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks. Thanks to ROPGuard--a defense technology submitted for Microsoft's BlueHat contest--EMET 3.5 will have the tools available to defend against ROP attacks.Read more »


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glad to see nyc media / tv is finding its footing once again…used to really enjoy shows like secrets of ny and cool in the code.
that guy Baron looks like a trip!
how about a dieting show…summer is almost here!
I think station went HD last year but you are right I do not know where to find channel at least on Time Warner…from Wikipedia: "….NYCTV-HD, is expected to launch in May, 2009, and will be an all High-Definition version of the primary analog channel." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctv
there is no nyctv hd on cablevision just regular tv on 22
many shows on NYC life are shot in HD but broadcast in stand. def
bloomberg bring nascar to new york!
to Val – re NYCTVHD launching in may of 09 – I work at nyc media and that sounds like some typical "spin" most of us grew accustomed to from the former GM and his administration here at station – spinning the truth was a specialty of GM (Grand Magician) Arick Wierson – for 7 years he was the master of illusion getting everyone to believe in NYC-TV.
master of illusion ? more like ringmaster of this circus. now we just have clowns running the show
pink carpet sounds fun.
hope there will be new season of Secrets of New York with Kelly Choi
in this economy city govt paying high salary to a star like kelly choi is uncalled for
There should be a new campaign on nyctv – "see something, say something" !!
Give credit where credit is due : todd is just as much a magician as arick – maybe even more. Look at this new season – its basically crap I would never watch without a gun to my head, but packaged beautifully in roland grafx
i meant there should be a show on NYC Life trying to promote and educate NYers about NASCAR! its the fast growing sport in America and NYers dont even know it exists!
baron looks like he is straight out of a new york noise video LOL
how do we have more budget now and produce less than we did 4 years ago?
here is a programming idea – follow that new vice- mayor who bloomberg brought on who is gonna reinvent govt…like a reality show
kathy and todd = penn & teller
Nice work bloomie! pink carpet sounds interesting.
how about a show on ny bars?
so so happy for everyone. Buona fortuna joe tuna!
the station mgmt seems to really be into food and cooking
what time is announcement?
i moved to new york to avoid nascar debbie!
Actually NYCMusicShow is one of the programs that's shot in HD and downconverted to SD for broadcast.
NYCMusicShow premieres at 10pm on Sunday May 16 on NYC life. It's the only TV show dedicated to NYC music.
For more info, look for NYCMusicShow on Facebook.
I loved the circus – I kind of miss the good old days; this "launch" (which is a joke) made me remember the NBC launch a few years back – that was the apex of NYC TV in my mind….captain andrew "atilla the hun" atiya bouncing around, Wierson ODing on sugar-free red bull, but tons of creatvity, lots of pressure to get shows done…what happened? how can we get that back? now we are just repackaging crap… sorry to say diane.
why do nyc media employees constantly use public message boards to vent? it is so uncool and unpro… go have a drink and vent at a bar. jeez.
Great news! I love Baron Amborsia.
The new upper management at NYC Media is great, they all work very hard to clean up the mess that the other idiots left behind for them.
It's a great station ran buy great people now. Just because there were some bad apples doesn't mean they all are.
And really for the idiots who work there and constantly post dumb crap, Why don't you just QUIT and get a life! Really. So immature and stupid.
Get a life and grow up!
Barrrrron Ambrosia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO A MUST SEE!
BRONX FLAVOR!! hilarious show…I live in queens & have seen this on the web. great that it's gonna be available on TV around the city.
wht about bringing back an OLD favorite City Classics?
nice job KO!
i agree with mimi – all the haters at nyctv should just up and leave! the new managers are doing a great job – and for those that love to dump on wierson and unger and everyone – if it wasnt for them there wouldnt be an nyc media at all. anyone remember crosswalks?
KO, asher, coffey, wierson, unger – all high paid slaves in King Bloomberg´s court
How much does Kelly Choi make at NYC Media TV?
i agree get kela more airtime whoo-hoo
i dont think kelly choi works at station. generally they are hired on a show by show basis. im sure she wouldnt want to be a government employee!
what about more content for Staten Islanders?
it really offends me that nyc media / tv whatever its called doenst do more on New Jersey…we are part of NY area too!
Kelly Choi makes $57,827. Unbelievable, right? You can see her salary here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/civil_list_2009.pdf / she is employee ID 60666 Y.K. Choi on page 1089. (Her name is Young Kelly Choi). She is an employee of the Department of Information – which is what the NYC Media Group technicaly falls under. I was sure she was making a hundred Gs at least. Hopefully she gets more cash from Bravo.
Meanwhile Katherine Oliver makes A COOL $192,198 (page 4445), Todd Asher brings in a whopping $155,000 (page 267), and Diane Petzke pulls in $130,000 a year (page 4716). Shameless! She does nothing!!
Meanwhile the hard workers who do the REAL WORK get PAID NOTHING!! Like Milly Perez only who makes $70,458 (page 4673) or another hard worker – and unsung hero – Adele Merlino is only making $69,261 (page 3998) and THE MASTERFUL Weiner Milien makes $54,582. (page 4031)… HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Basiclly, the more you make at NYC Media, the less you do.
ps: Funny note Marybeth Ihle makes $60,112 (page 2813) but acts lke she makes 3X that!
is mimi a teenager cheerleader? GO NYC MEDIA! get her some pom-poms. talk about idiots
its not NJTV….its NYCTV. or was. whatev-
this is great- now i know how much the city is wasting on silly ventures like nyc media. im sure thats not the worst of it… they should mke all commissioners work for a dollar a year like the mayor.
funny thing is with these "deals" they couldnt do a simple deal with Bravo to put Top Chef Masters on NYC TV duh!
Spanglish I do remember Crosswalks. was like bad cspan. pass me the aspirin!
yeah the TV statoin sucks but i do enjoy The Radio Station 91.5 FM
kela walker can lose a few pounds then talk about getting a show!
Yes Adele is a hard worker. And I am a sparrow. Let me fly away…..
Tony Sawicki is such a fantastic talent!
thats all kelly makes!! craaaazy
i think nyc life is in HD on Verizon FiOS
i hope for new season of Secrets of NY with the HAWT Kelly Choi… and that black coat!!
yeah adele = slacker
wake me up when u change the channel.
MAY 10 here we come!!!
love the cool graphic effects on the station / always have
no shows for the Indian community?
when will Todd or KO wake up and hire a REAL PRODUCTION MANAGER. Diane does NOT have the skills. Nomi Roher was not great but versus Diane Putzky far better in every sense of the word. WAKE UP!!
Hey RC – Commissioners are not rich.
yes new mgmt team at station is brilliant. I can not understand why wierson never thought of putting Profiles on in primetime on ch. 25.
Arick Wierson was not a magician. but he knew how to get what he wanted from DOITT and City Hall. KO probably goes back with Bloomberg far longer, but that closeness hampers her in a way. KO would never go against a City Hall directive. Wierson was close enough to get what he wanted from across the street, but independent enough to break from the crowd when he had to – which is (partially) why he developed so many adversaries over the years. In the end, KO is not – as we have seen over the last year or so – a risk-taker. She plows through the "party lines"; Wierson was willing to stick his neck out, and go around the DOITT / City Hall command and control. Of course the hoi polloi do not understand these nuances. EFP wants raises. Producers feel they should all be at NBC or making films. The graphics team – what graphics team? But some day someone will write a good book about the NYC TV saga, and I will be there in line to pick it up – will be a real page turner! Can't wait.
Xman – or should i call u Timi Lewis…why do u continue to defend wierson? get a life lewis!
oliver> wierson
Baron will be awesome
its my park is so boring
diane is angling to take over when asher leaves. so those of u who dont like her – bite your lips…she is here for the long haul
come on guys, diane isnt THAT bad. at least she doesnt play favorites like Nomi did…
Everrrrrrrrryone has opinions….
Yes I am a cheerleader for NYC MEDIA, if that's what you must call it…it's about time we have some people not corrupting the system! people who just want to do a great job and love what they do and not to profit off of it as their only motive working there!
All you haters need to get a job somewhere else. You know there are tons of people out of work! YOU could be one of them! Stop Hating and either Sh*t or get off the pot!
Everyone at NYC Media is a hard worker, but raises are needed. No one is expecting to suddenly make six figures, but considering the cost of living is going up and our checks aren't. We need something. No raises have been given for over three years now, outside of contractual union raises, which amount to nothing. 2%? Wow. Awesome. Wierson's managerial staff screwed over the people working here, collecting excessive overtime whil others did their work. The attacks on the new managerial staff is unwarranted for the time being, for the most part. They just picked up the slack, and it sucks, because they inherited the stigma already attached from the previous administration. It also doesn't help that many of the new staff are making more than steady employees who've busted their butt for years and let others reap the joy. It's not an easy l;ife for the bees constantly buzzing about.
to Neutral Ground – you give Diane and co. too much credit. they inherited a great brand, new office space (sort of), tons of Emmys, a slate of shows that are great formulas that could be expanded on – they even inherited Kelly, a bonafied star now. But they have just squandered all this. No new shows in production (I dont count Job Hunt as a show and you shouldnt either.)
no matter who is in charge, people will always complain. that is the way it is. people at the botom feel they dont get paid enough. people at the top think those on the bottem will never understand. thats how it always was and will be
I don't give Diane and co. too much credit, I'm just giving them a chance. Great brand? Sorry, if anything they inherited a dying station with leprosy. It was slowly rotting away until they managed to bring some new shows in, even if they aren't produced in-house. You can only watch so many re-runs of $9.99, Cool In Your Code and such.
However the new management also must try to correct the sins of the past, even if they didn't cause them, but inherited them. They can't turn a blind eye to the ramifications. They need to get overtime reinstated. They need to bring in extra and new equipment to handle the workloads. They need to give out some long-overdue raises. They need to boost morale, and all these certainly will help. What are editors and producers to do when they are rendering and exporting? Nothing, they can't do much on their computers for anywhere between minutes to hours. What is EFP supposed to do with equipment that's mulfunctioning from wear-and-tear and they can't get replacements? What's both master controls supposed to do with constantly failing equipment and insufficient manpower to handle the shifts? How many people at NYC Media are working other jobs to supplement income for their lack of pay?
The new management is probably tired of constantly being attacked and criticized by old employees, while old employees are tired of being screwed over by everyone, even if it isn't intentional. I mean how can you think otherwise when you have a guy who didn't complete college get a six figure job due to who they knew? Regardless if they did or didn't bust their butt getting the job and proving themselves, it still looks like a slap in the face to people who did get their degrees and/or worked decades in the field. Todd Asher's already getting what Arick was getting, and that's at starting… Good for him! Just pass some of that love on to the lessers. It's hard to believe there's no money for raises when you have such crazy payscales for the newer folks. That's all I'm saying.
to Neutral Ground – fair enough. all valid points. I just wish the place could become fun again like it was in the 'hey day' of say 2006 / 2007… those were really fun times. lots of production going on, launch events, press and media interest, the NBC thingy – and everyone seemed to get along because we were busy AND productive.
vexing: yeah u state it perfect. its SO not fun anymore. i got into TV because I love it. its a PASSION. and while I would rather be working on shows at a big private sector network, I realize there it is cut throat and you don't have the nearly the Freedom that you might have here. sure $9.99 is a stupid show but its fun and quirky in its own way.
But you said what i have been thinking inside – i wish it was fun again. the few original things we have done in the last year are all government stuff – i think i speak for most of the creative staff at the station – we didn't sign up to work in government. we signed up to work in TV!
Todd needs to loosen up. that would make the place more 'FUN"
willis – agreed
boy this entry sure generated lots of comments!
i love steve schirpa!
u guys are stupid kela is HOT!
i could never stand the seth-werbell-wierson cabal… in the end they all bailed on Bloomberg.
I have been reading this blog and biting my lip the last two days but enough is enough. I agree with Mimi (whoever you are athough I think I know) … Haters at NYC Media OUT! First you hated and conspired against Wierson and created this impossible situation for him and his team. You all felt so smug last year when the match hit the box of firecrackers. Then the new management is put in place and then you all start privately griping how moe of the same or that it was better under Wierson and you all walk around talking about how great it was in the past blah blah blah. YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT TOO! Now you Haters are all up in arms about Diane and how awful she is. She is not great but be real, people. Guess what. She has Diane and Todd's confidence and she will be here a lot longer then any of you. In fact I am 100% sure KO and Todd keep a Fire List in their wallets – people they are just waiting to can. AM watch out. Weiner, Molly… be smart.
Someone I admire is Mike McKenna. He was here before Wierson and stood by him and helped make NYC TV what it is. And now, as NYC Life, he is standing by Todd and KO too. Even Diane, who he has every reason to loathe. He should be an example. He is a TEAM PLAYER. and this from a guy who basically tossed from Bloomberg (the company.)
So anyway, my point is – you Htaers out there will be gone sooner or later. So watch it.
It's really remarkable that a year after he left, NYC Media staff are still debating and arguing over the Arick Wierson legacy. Not just here in this blog. You hear his name come up around the office just about every day. Its like anytime any executive or producer or whoever has any plan, idea, or innovation, people immediately compare this to what Wierson did or didn't do. Everyting is way better or way worse than THe MAN. He's like a ghost who continues to haunt the consciousness of the staff. Guys – whether you loved him, hated him, publicly admired him but privately despised him, or just thought he was a politically-connected, plugged-in cocky son-of-a-bitch with too much gel – get over it! He is gone off making his millions in Brazil or wherever. And I am sure he could care less about any of you. So turn the page!!
Legacy? Yeah maybe. Like Tony Soprano, Benito Mussolini and Michael Milkin. They too all have legacies.
What Todd and Diane are doing is a burst of sunlight compared to Mr. Arick Slick. Wierson was the worst . He played favs all the time. Like was he having some love affair with Matt Tollin? he wouldnt make a move without consulting the great and all knowledgeable "Matthew Tollin, esq." and there were far better lawyers at the station than Tollin. Wierson hired him because he needed someone with a fancy Harvard degree – regardless if the degree didn't come with smarts. But more important to Wierson was that he and Tollin went to school together and were roommies at Georgetown – so in the end Wierson traded loyalty over competence. As time went by, Wierson and his Latin side really came out – as he was some sort of family patriarch. and most of us were simply day laborers. Adios!
you Wierson is from Minnesota. he is like Norwegian, I think. Not Latin. Why did he always go represent the mayor at the Norwegian day parade in Bay Ridge with Brian Andersson??
all of u who try to compare oliver and wierson – check this out…they are like brother and sister: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6899687749860693766#
happy to see ralph still STRONG with da Bridge!
this is like insano-ville
The Bridge sucks! New York Noise is where it's at! Where's the new episodes?! The quirky humor is what I like about NYN! It's got such a cult following, but you guys buried the most popular show that didn't need any advertising? What about other ethnic shows on 25? Why only Latino?
Originals will be a major addition to line up!
I am excited to see new material airing on the channel.
the bridge is brilliant! NYN is / was a pooper of a show
congrats to nyc tv on a new season launch
why did they change the name. NYC Life? sounds like a woman's channel…NYC TV was a great name, The best, in fact… government creativity NOT at work
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Cohen traveled to remote rural locations (the Atacama, the Mojave Desert, the Western Sahara) that precisely shared the same latitude as the cities that he selected for his series to take photos of the clear night sky. He, then, superimposed the stars with their respective darkened cityscapes in order to get the most accurate image of what the night sky would look like. (via Konahrtist)
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• Recipe: Chocolate "Salami" - We were intrigued by this, especially after Joanna's experience with fig salami. At Delights & Prejudices, the James Beard Foundation blog.
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A local restaurant used to feature slices of chocolate salami as a dessert. The "fat" was chunks of nuts and coconut. Delicious!
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I've started buying the Sophie Conran collection through amazon.com. I've got some lovely oval serving platters and the cake stand. They're great quality and they look so pretty on the table.
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I have been using digital cameras for a while now. It has been a long time since I have used film cameras. I thought the class looked interesting so decided to give it a shot. This was the first time developing my own pictures. I am now in love with film photography. I love everything about it. The unpredictability, the length of time, the dedication, the process. Just everything. Of course sometimes I am not in the mood to stand in the dark room for hours on end developing pictures that may or may not be turning out the way I want, but those are just the off days. Yes of course I am going to still use digital photography, I love that too. I just now want to keep using film photography too. Also it has honed some skills of patience and waiting for the right shot. Or just going that much further to get the right angle/lighting/focus. There is just so much involved, really a great art.
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Careful. Charging your iPhone 5 could kill you. Or at least that is what happened to a 23 year old Chinese woman of the country's western Xinjiang region.
Ma Ailun, a a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines, was reportedly electrocuted after answering a call on her iPhone 5 while it was plugged in and charging. The news was delivered by the official Xinhua news agency, who cited a police report.
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TreesSleeping trees,
Comatose grass,
Leaning softly,
Slowly waving goodbye
To a world we never knew.
A crimson sunset,
Golden tendrils cross the sky,
A blood red canvas,
Violent burning epicentres
Of what may become.
Grass stained red,
Trees have been bled.
An Ode to Dr WhoIf I am the Doctor, she is my Rose,
No weeping angel will stand between us,
And with my psychic paper we will pose,
As anything we like, I will support her like a truss.
I am a fish in her Pond of love,
Cybermen will fall beneath our faith,
And through adversity we'll rise above,
No ghost can stop us, no wraith.
I am the Doctor, eternal, never-ending,
My life will go on, but still I cling to humanity,
In the form of companions, who are expiring,
To all else I seem to lack sanity.
But I'll tell you this, before I depart,
I don't want to go.
Because I leave all I love, with my full heart...
Regeneration, a new face to show.
Legs, I've still got legs! Good. Arms, hands, ooh fingers!
I scream with glee, awakened from regeneration,
Awakened, ready to take on the Daleks and other nightmares,
So a new saga begins, fraught with adventure and fresh creation.
The MausoleumFingers reaching
A morbid graveyard full,
Grasping at dirt,
Frustration and bloodied hands
Digging, retching, screaming.
Living, yet strangely dead.
Fresh meat in a grave,
In a boneyard filled
With the unwanted.
The mausoleum of the damned,
The tomb of the unloved,
The trench of the unknown,
The mass grave of the passionless,
Is full, but still taking names...
The RavenThe Raven climbs through jet fire,
Black as the wings of the beast,
Calling out for better days
And an elderly, lonesome Priest.
The priest lies in his ashen grove,
Surrounded by all that he knows,
When suddenly a Raven caws
And flames engulf the night.
Awaiting the priest is a lady so old,
Coughing a storm in her bed,
And the spit she coughs up
The grime, the muck, is as black as a Raven's soul.
Goodbye.I'm sick of writing,
I'm sick of this whole show,
Writing works for you,
Toiling to show my love.
Only to be... discarded.
I feel like my soul is used,
But still I pick up my pen,
And all I can do is write,
And all I can write about is you.
You threw me away, you crushed my essence.
You chose not to love me,
And that tore my heart apart,
For without you I feel like nothing,
Just a pile of trash with no purpose.
Despite this hurt, this pain, I still compose for you.
Even as I write this,
I'm contemplating another love poem,
Or another ode of heartbreak.
I feel like a two-track record.
I only have two emotions when it comes to you.
You hurt me, you made me cry!
What a pitiful thing to do!
You brought me to my knees
You decided you loved another man.
He is better than me, funnier and smarter.
Now my inadequacies are overflowing,
Through my mind and corrupting my soul,
Like a dam filled with venom breaking
And pouring into my being.
I hurt, my life hurt, everything hurt.
So now that the po
Death Embrace me.Death please embrace me,
Take me away from this world,
For even eternal torture,
Is better then what I'm feeling.
A lost love, a shattered heart,
These curses pound in my head,
So come and give me your arm,
That way I can escape this pain.
Ride to me upon your steed of the grave,
And sweep me away from all of this,
Take me away from him and her,
So content they're blind to my suffering.
I want to forget everything,
I want to forget everyone,
I want to forget existence,
I want to elope from this world.
As they hold each other I clutch my chest,
Internal bleeding from a decimated heart,
Slowly fading into the shadows, my eyes close,
But it's not Death's embrace, merely the clutches of sleep.
I dream of her with him,
My dreams turn to nightmares,
Even in sleep I cannot escape pain,
I cannot forget them.
So Death, please embrace me,
Take me away from this world,
For even eternal torture,
Is better then what I'm feeling.
Go Down SwingingI've fucked up my life.
I only just turned 19
But already my bones ache
And my liver quakes.
I'm tired already.
Tired and sad.
I've thrown it away,
Down the drain with aspirations
Due to childhood miscalculations,
And a fucked up sense
Of right and wrong.
I can't go home,
Not like this, not alone,
I won't go home forever.
I won't shack up with the parents,
Live in the basement,
Shut me in.
I won't let anyone shut me out,
I will scream and I will shout
Until the world's ears bleed
With the knowledge that they've heard me.
If I do go down, I'll go down a vagrant,
Wandering the streets with a scruffy suit,
And I'll go down swinging.
Towers.A looming citadel,
Lies upon my horizon,
A land of cold glass,
A land with no soul.
From the green pastures
And lush bush lands,
To towers of metal,
Standing over me.
These towers control my soul.
On them paintings are plastered,
This domineering propaganda
Screams at me, glaring into me,
Shoving its agenda into my face.
The cold castle grabs my soul,
'Till I'm another conforming being,
Something robotic, following the fortress,
Forcing me into its normality.
But I will not go into their ignorance.
Flee to the fields of which I came!
There all that awaits is contentment,
Followed by boredom and idiocy,
At least it's better than losing my identity.
evanescent.he said
"i want to fly,"
and those dreamer eyes
were golden with ambition.
but when he jumped,
nothing broke his fall.
so now he lives in the
moments between the blink
of an eye.
shadows sing him
their lullabies,
but sky larks no longer
cross his path.
she said,
"i want to fly,"
but she was too afraid of
now she sits on
the sidewalk and
she still remembered
how to dream.
i want to fly-
but what if
my wings
are not enough
to hold me up
in the sky?
are your dreams as
fleeting as mine?
resting in
the fragile nests
and wings of a baby bird,
afraid to take
the first step-
to fall?
Who what when where why or how.You're just another faceless one, hidden in the crowd,
No one cares about you, or why you act so proud.
No one knows who you are, you're just another face,
You could just disappear without a trace.
The blood red sky in your mind's eye,
It's always there but you don't know why.
You're just a part of a bigger whole,
And your heart is as black as coal.
You play dress-up with your top hat and cane,
But you can take it off and disappear again.
You're never noticed no matter what you wear,
It's a source of their contempt and your despair.
You could just disappear right now,
No matter who what when where why or how.
She Has No FutureI want to tie clocks to ceilings and shatter
them to pieces like a
because time is my most
feared enemy.
Bitter.Happiness is emptiness,
Sadness is happiness.
Emotions flying,
Souls are dying.
An empty world
Full of nothingness,
Yet entirely whole.
Filled with meaningless meaning,
People pass with every breath,
Only to find comfort in their death.
Stuggling for hollows in our hearts
And cavaties in our souls.
All for a fleeting life,
Full of bitter tastes
And desolate wastes.
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Get ready! A post about how awesome my vacation was! Yep, I am going to post photos from my vacation. No models, no wedding, no babies… none of that! Just pure tourist type photos (ok, there are a couple people here and there). You know the photos that have "wish you were here" written across the top. Yea, those.
I am the girl who at 30 something years old took her first vacation, a real vacation. The type of vacation where my only worry was if my flip flop was going to get washed away by a wave that surprised attacked me.
My boyfriend and I traveled 10 hours to the Outer Banks of North Carolina (OBX) where we met up with a group of friends. And yes, I vacationed right as wedding season started. Why? Well, because at the beach it's still considered "off season" and we got a great deal on a beach house! Although, this was not my first time in OBX. Last year I traveled to the same beach house to celebrate and photograph the wedding of one of my very best friends. You may have seen this image before.
But this time it was about collecting 10 lbs of seashells, flying a kite, reading a book, falling asleep poolside, watching sunrises, searching for sea glass, seeing a rainbow over the ocean, baking… actually relaxing! *see my instagram
I toured the Nags Head Fishing Pier.
I toured Jennette's Pier.
And my big bucket list day trip to Rodanthe! Yep, from the Nicholas Sparks book turned into movie, Nights in Rodanthe. My girlfriends and I drove the hour to Rodanthe, North Carolina on the same path Richard Gere took in the movie to see the house, "Serendipity"! Although the house is not in its original location (it was moved a few blocks after the hurricane last year, yes they moved the whole house) it is still just as breathtaking as ever. Yea, yea, I like romance movies.
We stopped by the Rodanthe Pier on Hatteras Island. The pier was also in the movie. Even though it was still being re-built from the hurricane and quite wobbly we as far out on it as possible.
On the way back from Rodanthe we passed the Bodie Lighthouse. It's pronounced like Body. Next year we plan to climb the 10 flights to the top. Told you these images are the stuff postcards are made from.
If you follow my *instagram or facebook then you have seen my week long journey, but if you don't I highly suggest you should. Otherwise you might miss some pretty amazing stuff!
But, I am back refreshed inspired and ready to go! OBX, you haven't seen the last of us! Countdown to OBX '14 has begun.
Until then….
krisandraI am a graduate of this school and that school, but most importantly I am now an intern with Leahand Mark.com. My name is Krisandra and here a little about me.
I was born in Chicago, raised in Florida, but currently reside in Atlanta, GA (for the last 6 years anyway).
I love my family most.
I collect horror movies even though I am too scared to watch them (even in the daytime).
I placed in 3rd in a hot dog eating contest (3rd out of 3).
I have been in the Chattahoochee River more times this summer than any water (besides a pool) in my whole life.
I love to enter 5k's.
I love to read and knit (by knit I mean scarves and only one pattern).
I live by quotes.
I have 2 cats (Princess and Feliz) and a hermit crab (Hermies).
I want to take your picture.
I will show you what I see through the viewfinder.
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I do not think or believe that there is anything one can say in brief or at length to give a definitive understanding of themselves. Everyone barely knows who they are, never mind who they were. some people may come close, but are still never going to be 100% accurate. Most people in the world that consider the topic do not even come to be 50% accurate. The reasons for this inaccuracy varies as much as the person does (which is very much indeed)
Some people will tell you to stop thinking about who your are, and just be. Which of the two options if there were only two, would in my opinion be the best. I however think that there is a third option (if not many more). My third option would be a mixture of being who you are, and some personal reflection. This method of living has done me more service than disservice. I pride myself on having a decently accurate self reflection, but I also recognize that I have much room for improvement in this area. I have my own personal biases. My gift is knowing that I have them. In sum I live my life and then think on it and compare it to how I ideally wish to be. Who I was is not nearly as important as who I am.
Do not be mistaken however that who I am going to be is most important to me because it is not. I have no assurance of who I am going to be. I will always be who I am, even if all i can do is pinpoint only a small portion of who I am at any given point.
It is because of this last statement that I truly cannot tell you who I am as a whole. To add to the mess some of the portions one knows and understands one day change in themselves or in combination with others. Our brain powerful as it can be, cannot catalog all the parts as they were and as they changed and so who I am in relation to who I have been thus far is lost to time and a extremely faulty memory.
Even if we could catalog all this info, the fact that these parts of who we are change almost render them useless. We cannot completely predict what they will change into and thus who we will change into.
and so who we are is in part subject to fate.
PS: Please correct if I am wrong. Or just tell me what you think.