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Veterinary Support
Technician SupervisorMissy
I am a single mother of 5 beautiful children, the youngest, Jalissa pictured here with me. We also have a cat named Leah that was a foster kitten I decided to make a part of our family. I have been with my VCA family since 2005.
My first job was with the Humane Society of Broward County. I started at an entry level and worked my way up to veterinary technician. I was exposed to all kinds of behaviors that dogs and cats can show. Some of the "bad" ones are simply misunderstood and those are the ones I enjoy working with the most. We have some kind of connection and understanding for one another. I once took in a pregnant dog that was abandoned at the shelter so she could give birth at my house instead of in a kennel. It put a smile on my face at the shelter seeing the dogs and cats go home with their new families as their new companions for life.
After coming to VCA, I felt how different it was right away. I learned how to perform dentals, take x-rays and assist in all kinds of surgeries and emgergency procedures. There is nothing like sending home a patient that was sick and is now feeling better. Seeing the love and relief on an owner's face is a great reward.
I enjoy what I do because we are the animal's eyes and voices. I have this motherly instinct in me which is why I try my hardest to make sure that our patients are healthy and our clients are happy.
I was 19 when I started working for VCA Stirling Square. Prior to that I worked at the Humane Society of Broward County. I remember the first euthanasia I had to help with, it was on a puppy that was very sick and there wasn't anything we could do to help him. I remember holding this small baby in my arms, I was crying and I felt bad that he didn't get a chance to even have a life. In time, I realized with every life lost whether it was their time or not, there are so many more we can save and help live longer and happier lives. My co-workers are more than co-workers; we are family. Every animal that comes into our hospital, no matter how small or big, naughty or nice, become part of our family as well. We work together with passion and commitment to make sure we help the ones that can't help themselves. And that's why I do what I do. Even on hard days I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
TechnicianAnais R.
As a child growing up in Puerto Rico I took in so many stray kittens and puppies that I would find in the neighborhood and hide them from my parents, feed them, care for them, and then beg my parents to let me keep them. I always had a passion for helping animals. I've always felt animals have the most sincere and purest form of love and loyalty.
In 2007 I started working for VCA and my passion for animals came into full force. I could finally help animals and work with them on a daily basis. In 2009, I took in a little puppy that turned out to have many medical problems. I've had her since and even through all the medical complications I've been through with her, if I could go back in time and choose a different puppy, I would have still chosen her, "Pinky". She is a constant reminder of the reason why I do what I do. If I can make all the difference n her life then I know I can make a difference in any other animals's life. I've had a few cats, rabbit, nursed baby kittens, fostered kittens, and many dogs over the years. But I currently reside with two, "Pinky" and her biological mother "Mama". The love that I have for them is unconditional and I know that their love is as well. That unconditional love is what keeps me doing what I do.


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Dear Prudence,
My husband and I are at odds over our younger daughter and her "blankie." My mother bought it for me when I was born and it's been loved so much for so long that it's completely see-through. I passed it to both of my girls, but only the younger has been attached to it. My daughter is almost 6 years old and my husband says she's much too old to be carrying around a "rag." He also has a problem with her referring to blankie as "him" because it's an inanimate object. My youngest talks with blankie and when she has tea parties she will "feed" blankie. (I was a similarly imaginative child.) My husband wanted to burn blankie or throw it away, but I got him to agree not to by saying I would make a bear and use blankie as stuffing. Blankie has been hidden from her for two weeks. Our daughter cries sometimes at night because she wants to cuddle with blankie, or she will say "I'm afraid blankie is going to die." I want her to have the blanket back, but my husband is adamant. Is there some way I can convince my husband that loving "blankie" is still OK no matter what our daughter's age?
—Blankie Blues
Dear Blankie,
Please tell me your husband has some other redeeming qualities because as a father he is not only a wet blanket but cruel, punitive, and bizarrely literal. Over the years people (or their loved ones) who were embarrassed or concerned about their security objects, from blankets to stuffed animals, have written in asking whether their continued attachment was abnormal. When I've run these I've always been flooded with lovely replies from people who continue to have a special place of affection for an article that helped get them through some hard times,including being in a bomb attack in Iraq. In the psychological parlance things like blankie are transitional objects, and their use is perfectly normal and healthy. Given the paucity of blankies at executive committee meetings, most people make the transition and let them go. But giving up blankie could be years down the road for your still 5-year-old daughter—and if she holds onto this shred of assurance over the long haul, that's fine, too. Your husband's objection that your daughter calls blankie "he" because it's inanimate makes me wonder if you've married someone who lacks the capacity to understand the minds of others, particularly children. I'm disturbed that in response to his daughter's tears, your husband wants to incinerate this little piece of cloth. As far as blankie is concerned, you should tell your husband point blank that blankie is yours, and he's not to get rid of it. But this conflict is not really about a threadbare piece of cloth; instead it's about your husband's capacity to be a compassionate and loving father. To address that, start by telling your husband that this issue has made you realize you two need to go to parenting classes together. As a start, hearing from a neutral party that your daughter's attachment is typical might mollify your husband on this subject. Whether your little girl eventually consigns blankie to a special private place (highly likely) or continues to keep him within reach (possible, but less so), ask your husband this question: What's it to you?
Study finds assigned acts of kindness improve relationships among school children
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The Vlahov et al. (1994) evaluation study also noted that the program was supplying both syringes and needles in a size incompatible with those used by injection drug users in the local community.
Discussion None of these three needle exchange programs would be considered user-friendly (a concept discussed below). Some of the unfriendliness in program operation stemmed from concessions to political opponents of needle exchange and some from research design requirements. Other aspects of the unfriendliness, such as tuberculosis screening, were required in a sincere belief that they were in the best interests of the participants. None of these three programs appears to have had any impact on HIV transmission in the local area, and it is not even likely that any of them had any meaningful impact on the HIV/AIDS risk behavior of the small numbers of people who participated.
Nonetheless, these three programs may provide valuable learning experiences for future exchanges. The New York City exchange in particular was the first to demonstrate that a needle exchange program could serve as a bridge to treatment (New York City Department of Health, 1989). The many similarities between the first legally authorized New York City needle exchange program (1988) and the Washington, D.C., program 4 years later (August 1992), however, raise the question of how the program planners can learn about important organizational issues from past experiences.
The primary lesson to be drawn from the above three cases histories, of course, is that a needle exchange program needs to be user-friendly in order to attract participants and to have a public-health-level impact on HIV and AIDS risk behavior. This somewhat straightforward organizational lesson, however, does not illustrate any of the possible complexities involved in the organizational characteristics of a needle exchange program and its possible effectiveness. The following two case histories show some of the possible complexities.
Manchester In 1988, Klee conducted an interview study of HIV/AIDS risk behavior among injection drug users in Manchester, United Kingdom, and published results somewhat later (Klee et al., 1991). She found that some of the local injection drug users who had participated in the local needle exchange program had become known among the drug user community as sources of injection equipment. These injection drug users themselves were often socially pressured by other injection drug users to pass on injection equipment, and they actually did pass on their used injection equipment more frequently than did a comparison group of injection drug users who


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Fitness & Exercise
Figure Skater Rachael Flatt's Winning Ways
What advice do you have for teens who aren't active at all?
Find something that you love and do that. I firmly believe that something will not be rewarding to you unless you truly enjoy it and love doing it!
I love skating and I cannot remember a day in the last 14 years where I have not wanted to go to the rink and skate. Well, except maybe a day or too when I have been so sick, I just did not want to get out of bed.
So I would encourage teens, especially those who aren't active, to try a whole bunch of different things until they find something that is for them.
When you're done with skating, what do you think are the biggest lessons it will have taught you that will help you in the rest of your life?
Work hard, play hard. This statement applies to me across all facets of my life.
What other events are you looking forward to watching at the Olympics?
I would love to watch some speed skating, maybe some snowboarding, freestyle skiing. So many events to watch -- not enough hours in the day!
Lastly, one lighter question - How do you pick your skating outfits?
Costume design is a collaborative effort between my choreographer, my dressmaker, my mom, and myself. We think about how the music might suggest a certain style if it is character based, or choose a certain color to create a certain mood. Then we begin sketching, and go from there.
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'Saw these snow rolls while snowshoeing in Michigan. They had rolled down the side of a tree.' (Photo Credit: Nikki Jorgensen via Facebook)
Most kids growing up in colder climates have made a snowman. You start by rolling a lump of snow into a large enough snowball for the bottom segment of the snowman.
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Did you know in certain conditions, the wind can take care of that itself?
What you see in the photos above are called snow rollers.
Snow rollers are most common in hilly or mountainous terrain. Basically, strong winds pick up moist snow and blow it along the ground, eventually building a cylinder of snow, which is often hollow in the middle. When the snow roller grows too large for the wind to propel it farther, it stops.
Here are the optimal conditions for snow roller generation, according to the National Weather Service:
- Existing icy or crusty snow cover, so additional snow will not stick to it.
- Additional wet, loose snow on top of the icy, crusty snow cover
- Wind strong enough to scoop out balls of snow and propel snow roller foward.
- At least some slope to the ground.
These snow rollers can be as large as barrels, as you can see in the photo above from Craigmont, Idaho. In a field, they can resemble spilled Cheerios on their side, or rolls of toilet paper.
Snow rollers can also leave tracks where they aggregated the wet, loose snowcover, similar to the famous sliding rocks on the "Racetrack" in Death Valley.
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Another personal favorite entrant was Luke Balogh's tribute to Moneyham & Sharp's 554 coupe. The race car has a chassis tagged to 6 seconds, and originally started life as a Fordor sedan! Owning Luke's Custom Machine in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, must have been a great help during the build!


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Smog: Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics
The text below an abstract, something I promised to present at the forthcoming Istanbul-conference on Cloud And Molecular Aesthetics. It riffs on my earlier post on smog as part of environmental art history, an ecological art history/aesthetic set of terms.
Media Moleculars of Smog Culture: An Alternative Aesthetic
Speaking of molecules, photochemical smog that covers so much of our surroundings especially in dense urban areas consists of Nitrogen Oxide (NO), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Ozone (O3) and Volatile organic compounds (RH). This is the elemental media condition across aesthetics of contemporary landscapes of industrial and post-industrial life. An urban screen, hovering above cinematic places of Los Angeles, etc. The sunlight reacts with the pollutants, resulting in a weird set of visual media: photochemical smog.
A matter of concern for inhabitants and of course biochemists, it however is also an issue we can address in our context of aesthetics, imaging and visual culture. This talk proposes to address smog – and more widely environmental issues from pollution to issues of geophysics – as relevant parts of our visual culture, proposing another sort of an angle to the "molecular". Indeed, the constituent definition of molecular that one inherits from Deleuze and Guattari sits in relation to the ontology of perception. This molecular becomes more than a chemical description and a way to address the dynamic constitution of the (molar) individual. As Tom Conley explains, this is a sort of a "chemical animism" speaking of the elemental molecular conditions that constitute systems of "complex interactions".
The molecular is an ontological angle that for Deleuze presents a world of "tiny perceptions" which are not only small in size but qualitatively present a different view to the whole. Hence emerges the whole agenda of micropolitics of perception and what could be called a chemistry of individuation. However, in the context of this talk, I won't go into a detailed discussion focusing on Deleuze so much as hint towards speculative ideas of a media history of smog, environmental pollution and the technologies of tele-sensing /smog sensors as constituting a different sort of a visual culture of "new media" of mixed temporalities: the ancient rays of sun, the modern fumes of the city, and the emerging technologies of tele-sensing. I argue that such topics bring an additional angle to the already important extension of aesthetics in the realms of biotechnologies, the molecular vision, and the new diffentiating scales at which perception is constituted. Perhaps it's the smog screens, reacting with sun light, that execute the truly ancient new media environment of post WWII culture as a sort of a non-human staging of the environmental catastrophy as well as an art historical period outside the usual categorisations.
Designing Techno-Political Realities and Imaginaries
We at the Winchester School of Art (#WSA) are hosting this lovely little event – with quite the trio: Benjamin Bratton, Jordan Crandall and Ed Keller are coming to Winchester for meetings and agreed to give a joint panel on Design, Biopolitics and Contemporary Technological Realities – and imaginaries we might want to add.
More info here, and below their titles for the short interventions in the panel:
Benjamin H. Bratton: "On Platform-Based on Robotics"
Jordan Crandall: "The Materiality of Drones"
Ed Keller: "Shadow Ecologies, An Alternate Biopolitical History"
Recursions: a new book series in media & cultural theory
We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques. Placed with Amsterdam University Press, a publisher known for its strong track-record in film and media studies, the series will publish fresh, exciting and important books in media theory. This includes both translations and other volumes that address the core themes outlined below. I am very excited about this project and working with my co-editors Anna Tuschling and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. We have already some significant projects lined up for 2015 and more forthcoming that we will announce in the coming weeks and months. We are supported by a very strong international advisory board. Get in touch if you want to learn more but first read below for more information!
New Series Announcement
The new book series Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality, and Cultural Techniques provides a platform for cutting- edge research in the field of media culture studies with a particular focus on the cultural impact of media technology and the materialities of communication. The series aims to be an internationally significant and exciting opening into emerging ideas in media theory ranging from media materialism and hardware-oriented studies to ecology, the post-human, the study of cultural techniques, and recent contributions to media archaeology.
The series revolves around key themes:
- The material underpinning of media theory
- New advances in media archaeology and media philosophy
- Studies in cultural techniques
These themes resonate with some of the most interesting debates in international media studies, where non-representational thought, the technicity of knowledge formations and new materialities expressed through biological and technological developments are changing the vocabularies of cultural theory. The series is also interested in the mediatic conditions of such theoretical ideas and developing them as media theory.
Forthcoming 2015
- Sybille Krämer – Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy.
- Claus Pias – Computer Game Worlds.
Editorial Board
- Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton)
- Anna Tuschling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (University of British Columbia)
Advisory Board:
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University, US)
- Geert Lovink (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- John Durham Peters (University of Iowa, US)
- Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University, US)
- Marie-Luise Angerer (University of Arts Cologne, Germany)
- Eva Horn (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Markus Krajewski (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Adalberto Müller (Federal University of Niterói, UFF, Rio de Janeiro)
- Eivind Røssaak (National Library of Norway)
- Steven Connor (Cambridge University, UK)
- Peter Krapp (UC Irvine, US)
- Antje Pfannkuchen (Dickinson College, PA, US)
- John Armitage (Winchester School of Art, UK)
- Till Heilmann (University of Siegen, Germany)
- Isabell Otto (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (University of Bochum, Germany)
- Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
- Claus Pias (Leuphana University, Germany)
- Stefan Rieger (University of Bochum, Germany)
- Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- Axel Fliethmann (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
- Yuji Nawata (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)
Authors' information
Proposals welcomed
Proposals for monographs or edited volumes should kindly follow the standard AUP Proposal Form (http://en.aup.nl/en/service/authors) and should also include the envisaged table of contents, an overview of the volume and abstracts of the proposed chapters or articles.
Further information
If you are interested in publishing a book with us please contact Jeroen Sondervan, Senior Commissioning Editor for Film & Media Studies at firstname.lastname@example.com or one of the series editors.
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The memoirs of an aspiring lichenologist
Rebecca Birch's voice draws the hand drawing the landscape. It tells stories of trips and meetings, people and things. The projection of her unfolding drawing/narrating tells the story of her artwork in (auto)ethnographic style, and becomes an art performance itself. Birch's work was recognized in Art Review's March issue as one of the Future Greats and the magazine organised a party for her – addresses to a lichen covered stick.
A lichen covered stick was part of a particular roadtrip-performance-screening -project of Birch's, and became the theme of the evening too. I was invited to be one of the speakers – addressing this assemblage and offering variations on the theme and Birch's art. Below a short text based on my talk, one of several talks/performances alongside Francesco Pedraglio, Erica Scourti, Karen Di Franco and a playlist provided by Bram Thomas Arnold.
Imagine this talk voiced by an alter ego — a part real, part imagined Finnish lichenologist from the late 19th century, in his hallucinations of a future ecocatastrophy, and past earth times since the carboniferous era.
The memoirs of an aspiring lichenologist: media & ecology
In his short text about Rebecca Birch, Oliver Basciano gives us an image of her art works and refers to the capture of light as much as shadow through the role of the camera itself comparable to that stick covered in lichen.
"[the stick] acts as a sort of MacGuffin around which collaboration and conversation circle within the hermetic confines of a car. With this, one can perhaps understand the videocamera as taking a similar role – giving Birch the opportunity to embed herself in a community or situation that would remain closed otherwise"
Indeed, the stick persists as a thematic motif; it resides there as a silent interlocutor. The closed technological environment of the car hosts both human chatter as well as this stick of nature smuggled as part of the roadtrip.
The camera, the visual registers and works with light as well as lack of it – the shadow, darkness. In the context of lichen, consider another perspective too. Focus on the lichen as the first element that registers light, sound, movement, chemistry around it. It participates in Birch's work so that it's not only the camera, which registers the sounds and visions, but the lichen, a symbiotic organism itself. This refers to the scientific context of lichens as bioindicators – they register the changing chemical balance of the world. In short, lichen is a medium – a medium of storage, an inscription surface that slowly but meticulously and with the patience of non-human thing pays attention to the growth in air pollution. It's symbiotic status is symbiotic in more than the biological way: it is involved in the material-aesthetic unfolding of ecologies social and nature.
It was a Finn, Wilhelm Nylander, who discovered in the 1880s details about the possibilities of using lichen as biodetectors; through experiments exposing lichen to chemical elements such as iodine and hypochlorite Nylander found out that one can "read" nature through this natural element. It meant a discovery of an important feature that tells a different story; it is less a narrative than a sensory registering of the environmental change that technological culture brought about gradually since the 19th century: atmospheric pollution, leaving its silent mark.
Lichen has over the years and years observed to be full of life and circuited as part of different ecologies. They have been not just objects of our attention, addressed by narratives and images but became part of the modern cycle of industrialised life. They silently observe our chatter, listen in, as well as through their earless senses know what we are doing to our surroundings. They provide housing for spiders and insects, but also some of lichens are (re)sourced as part of the high-tech industries for pharmaceuticals (antiobiotics) and cosmetics (sunscreen).
This participation in multiple ecologies, a cycle of different duration is a fascinating topic considering both our theme today as well as the broader discussions of past years concerning the anthropocene. In short, it is the discussion that started in contexts of geology and environmental debate about categorising our epoch as the Anthropocene – a geological period following the Holocene and branded by the massive impact humans, agriculture, geoengineering, and in general the scientific-technological culture has had on the planet. And now, it has gathered the wider scientific and arts/humanities community as part of the discussions that reflect a different , growing perspective to the environmental.
The anthropocene -and the obsceneties accelerating it as the anthrobscene – can be unfolded through lichen. In a rather important move, such Macguffins tell a hidden story of change. The technological culture in which nature becomes entangled with the human induced scientific changes. Visual, oral narratives give an image of this change. We tell stories of our nature, our interactions in ecology, in the environment with media which stores the remains of the planet as part of our human narratives- roadtrips, conversations, social events, accidental meetings, small details, landscapes – drawn by Birch in her performance that remediates the earlier.
In other words, lichen is besides a conversation piece also a medium. It saves this story through its biological means as storage that in our hands becomes memory – the scientific-aesthetic context of memory read through lichen. Even pollution becomes a sort of a mediated environment, like with photochemical smog. The lichenologist Nylander was on to something, more than observations about lichen. A lichenologist plays homage to the conversations lichen shares as it tells the story of a slow change since the coal pollution (sulphur dioxide) of England since the 18th and 19th century to the contemporary air of nitrogen compounds. So besides the conversation going on in Rebecca Birch's car, there is this silent partner always present, as it has been for a longer while, and now also articulated in the visual arts/ecology-mix of an evening – Addressing the stick, but also: the lichen as the address which receives transmissions of industrial modern culture.
Nb. The party was sponsored by Absolut Vodka, with signature drinks:
Photochemical Smog as New Media
Perhaps photochemical smog is the only true new visual media of post World War II technological culture. It represents the high achievements in science and technology, combined with (synthetic) chemistry and sunlight. It modulates the light like advanced visual media should and embeds us in its augmented reality as we suck it into our lungs.
It encapsulates the mediatic cities of Los Angeles and Beijing, as encompassing surely as Hollywood's machinery. Just like the material basis of technical media of more conventional kind – such as photography and film – it is chemical based. It is media the same as any photochemical process is about how light gets absorbed on our planet's atoms and molecules.
But it's new media, particular to the modern industrial age and the chemical reactions of more recent history. It feeds of industrial pollution and modern transport. It is about the screen as well – how the sunlight is offered this massive living chemical molecular screen on which to project its energetic images. A molecular aesthetics of an ecology of a dying planet.
The Anthropobscene: The Elemental Media Condition
Winchester School of Art are one of the partners of the transmediale-festival, which takes place again in January/February 2014 in Berlin. This short text below is a sort of a trailer to our bit for the event: the text is co-written by myself and Ryan Bishop and the the contribution to tm14 is likewise co-curated by us. The text gives an indication of some of the themes we will discuss during the festival and conference week, and it draws on some of our work on these topics: Ryan's writing on the four elements and contemporary aesthetics, and my work-in-progress book project on "geology of media" and what I pitch as the anthropobscene – a new geological era catalysed by the corporate capitalist measures of depletion and exploitation.
Ryan Bishop and Jussi Parikka:
The Elemental Media Condition
Ever since such early geologists as James Hutton and Charles Lyell voiced a distance from biblical time, the Earth has had a proper history. The natural historical durations of the Earth have, despite academic disciplinary divisions, always intertwined with human history. In the current moment, the complex interactions of the two seem more prescient than ever. To follow in the footsteps of Dipash Chakrabarty, the horizon of the anthropocene forces historians to think of durations of nature as entangled with social history, and the historiographical functions of temporality need to be considered alongside such vectors that acknowledge the work of capitalism as a specific epoch. In this sense, we would like to refer not only to the anthropocene as the debated new geological era in scientific classification, but also what can be called the anthropobscene. This portmanteau word combines anthropocene with obscene, thus highlighting the vicious exploitative actions of corporations, governments and other agencies operating on different levels: from human individuals to multigovernmental organisations and transnational corporations. In much the same manner that Jean Baudrillard reconfigured the subject-object relationship placed within a scene as a network-screen relationship in the obscene, the anthropobscene reconstitutes the relationship between human scales of intervention into those of the geological. Thus, amongst other things, it refers to the obscenity of heavy pollution of the earth and the air, bringing back discussions of the four elements as found in the Pre-Socratic thinker Empedocles, whose writings strike both ancient and contemporary chords. Cultural theorists, such as Gary Genosko, have voiced an urgency for a renewed consideration of the elements.
For Empedocles, humans, nature and the universe contain the same elements. Flesh and blood are composed of approximately equal parts of earth, fire, water, and aether: the four elements that constitute the universe. The entire material world for Empedocles comes from the mixture and amounts of these four elements, the mixing of which he likens to paints on an artist's palette with their different effects due to combinatory portions. This insight of multiple and diverse substances generated through combinations and proportionality becomes a cornerstone of modern science and chemistry. The harmony of Love and the discord of Strife result from the proportionality of the elements with each constantly changing and warring with the others. The Empedoclean elements of this cosmogony and in nature constitute both media and content. They make, transform and destroy at the same time.
Empedocles' writings use physics to derive an understanding of ethico-political, even moral, laws. In the teaching of Empedocles the problem of substances as they present themselves to us takes a specific form: how do the Many come from One and One from Many? The primary and ultimately determinate forces behind the various manipulations, combinations and transformations of the elements in Empedocles are in the standard translations Love and Strife, which move in cycles of harmony and disharmony that reign over all of nature, including humans, fish, beasts and birds. But the elements are not simply passive recipients of the forces of Love and Strife. They can and do themselves act as causal agents, influencing the waxing or waning of Love or Strife.
Contemporary media culture can be opened up through such a consideration of elements. Indeed, as the philosopher Erich Hörl has argued, the technological is one crucial condition for the discourse – and practical existence – of this hypothetical anthroposcene – and anthropobscene, we might add. For artists such as Robert Smithson in truly Empedoclean fashion, the tectonic realms of the Earth and the mind are interconnected. Smithson's account amounts to a critique of the McLuhan-focussed idea of technology as extensions of Man. Instead, for Smithson, writing in 1968 in Artforum, it is elemental. One is here tempted to think it is elemental in the sense of the Pre-Socratic four elements, as well as elemental in the sense that those elements are more crucial than ever for a consideration of the biopolitical condition. Such aspects range from the materiality of data mining to environmental exploitation.


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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Streets of Fire
Froma Harrop on the neoconservative Mideast fantasy and
the reality that tolerance seems to be a one-way street...
Opinion | The Muslim world and the 'American Street' | Seattle Times Newspaper
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The New, Improved GOP Southern Strategy
Okay, let's get this stupid Ground Zero mosque issue
out of the way...I agree with Harry Reid. It's legal
for them to put it there but I prefer they choose
a different spot further away. That small act of
compromise would TRULY help bring people together.
The thing that really bothers me is how some
Republicans like Newt Gingrich are using this
situation as a springboard for generating hatred
of American Muslims. Somebody on Morning Joe called
Gingrich a "political pyromaniac"...I thought that
was a good observation. People like him will gladly
turn us against each other if it helps them get
anywhere in their personal quest for political
So, here we are in 2010 and the GOP is adding American
Muslims to their list of groups to hate. Who else
made the cut?
Unemployed people
And if you think I'm exaggerating about the way
black, Latino and Muslim conservatives are feeling
betrayed, just check out all the articles online
about how freaked out the leaders of those groups
are feeling these days...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Summer of Our Discontent
Still say climate change is a hoax?
Fires, flooding fit into climate change predictions
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Too Many Channels
As cable channels become more desperate to find new
stuff to fill their hours with and the population
becomes more and more ignorant of history, I think
we may end up with some shows like the ones being
proposed in this skit:
YouTube - WKUK - Season 4 - History Network
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Starve ALL the Beasts
With all the current concern about budget deficits, it
will be interesting to see how American politicians react
in the near future when somebody asks them if our
enormous military budget should be whittled down along
with entitlements and social programs.
Funny how things worked out...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Mexican Sleeper Terrorist Baby
Jon Stewart talks about anchor babies, the Fourteenth
Amendment and Hottentots. Click on the box titled
"Born in the USA"...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Official Website | Current Events & Pop Culture, Comedy & Fake News
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Are You Serious About Cutting the Deficit?
Robert Reich explains why the rich are saving and not
"trickling down" their tax cut money...
Why the Bush tax cut for the wealthy must go - Taxes - Salon.com
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Hi Kaleo, and thank you for your reply. Its actually true grounds on top of the filter, not the 'mud' that one usually gets at the bottom of a french pressed cup of coffee. They are not nearly fine enough to have seeped through the filter directly, they would have had to go around the sides. I'm also not seeing / tasting any grounds other than the 'mud' in the coffee I'm pouring, so for whatever reason they're not floating up off of the top of the filter.
Regarding how the plunger is stored when not in use, I received the press as a gift about a year ago and only started using it a few months ago. I don't recall how it was when I opened it, but if they shipped it from the factory with the plunger in place then perhaps it was not good to leave it boxed like that for many months. Beyond that I have generally stored the plunger as you've just said not to do so I will stop doing that. I do normally disassemble and wash everything shortly after I'm done brewing.
In any case when I get home I will try to examine what's going on in more detail. Right now when the plunger is not in the pot the edges of the filter are not in direct contact with the spring which I think is normal. I suspect that when placed in the pot the filter is pressed inward by the walls of the pot and the spring should be pushing back at that point.
Hi tcamp, thanks for your response. I'm basically filling the french press with about 18 oz of water which is for this particular one only filling it a bit over half way. After 4 minutes pass I press down the plunger and leave it there while pouring. I then lift the plunger up and remove the assembly from the pot and this is when I'm finding grinds on top of the filter. So I don't think its overfilled but I may not be understanding correctly what you are describing.
Hi all -quick question about the French Press. is it normal after brewing for some of the grinds to be stuck to the top side of the wire mesh filter? The vast majority are on the bottom of the filter or left in the pot but some end up on the top of the filter. I'm not grinding so fine that the grinds can slip through the mesh, so I am gathering that the filter is not tightly pressed against the edge of the pot and so some are floating up past the sides of the filter. Is this normal or have I perhaps re-assembled it incorrectly after cleaning?
Suggestions for an inexpensive coffee grinder?
Hi all - looking to buy a coffee grinder for home use for the first time, but not looking to spend a fortune - ideally $50-75 at most unless someone can convince me that nothing in this price range is worth it and its substantially worthwhile to spend more.
Can anyone suggest any specific models? Is a Burr grinder worth the extra $ or is a blade grinder adequate? Use will be with a French press and possibly an adapter for k-cup machine.
French Macaroons - alternative to Bottega Louie?
Hi all - any alternate sources for French Macaroons? I love the ones at Bottega Louie but at about $2.50 each the cost adds up pretty quickly. Are there any better 'bang for the buck' options out there?
Mar 21, 2014Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Zachary's Chicago Pizza - yay or nay? [Berkeley]
One thing is that I'm from LA and so I don't have a shortage of California-style pizza that I can get pretty easily. Unless there's a night and day improvement in California style pizza in SF vs. LA, I'd probably pass on it this trip.
As for thin vs. thick / NY vs. Chicago style, I like both, though I prefer Chicago style but in LA we don't have a lot of good Chicago style around, especially places that are easy to reach from the central parts of LA. My go-to thick crust pizza in LA is, sadly, Numero Uno, because its the only thing that's easy to get to that's remotely like what I'm after. So that's why I'm looking to take advantage of my time in SF if possible to get some better thick crust pizza than what I can get at home.
Aug 29, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
Zachary's Chicago Pizza - yay or nay? [Berkeley]
Thanks all for the replies so far. From the sounds of it, I am going to give Zachary's a pass, but Little Star sounds pretty good so I'm going to try and give that a go.
Aug 26, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
Over-the-top theme decor restaurant?
If Proud Bird appeals to you and you're in the SFV, you may want instead to go to 94th Aero Squadron at the Van Nuys Airport - same basic idea as Proud Bird - 94th is WW1 themed, PB is WW2 themed - both owned by the same company. That said the replica aircraft at PB are better, and while you can see planes landing at both, at PB you do see much larger and more impressive airliners, rather than light planes and business jets at 94th.
Aug 26, 2013Marvin in Los Angeles Area
I too was sent a coupon for Smashburger near where I live so am planning to try it after reading this thread.
For chain fast food burgers, In-N-Out still wins for me - I don't know if it qualifies as up-market, but its the same type of place as Five Guys. Fat Burger would be a close 2nd to In-N-Out, mainly because they're a bit more money.
My favorite fast food burger chain here in LA is "The Habbit" which is really good, but I think they are limited to the Southern California area. Their "Santa Barbara" burger on grilled sourdough with avocado is to die for, IMHO.
For a little bit more up-market (above fast-food), I agree about The Counter - they do a very good, customized burger there.
Along these same lines, at least here in LA, McCormick & Schmick offers their burger for only a couple of dollars during happy hour - one of the best deals in town. Not sure if they have any locations in your area, however.
Zachary's Chicago Pizza - yay or nay? [Berkeley]
Hi all...
Headed to SF in a couple of weeks, staying at the Intercontinental near the convention center, no car. Is a trip over to Zachary's in Berkeley worth it? Way back in college a couple of buddies were raving about this place, to the point where they had their pizza's shipped down to LA - since then, I've been curious to try it and since I'm going to be in SF, figure that I might as well, but since its out of the way from the rest of my itinerary, I wonder if its worth bothering? Are there any other Chicago style pizza places that would be comparable / as good and closer to my hotel / easier to reach without a car?
Aug 26, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
1. Ca Del Sol
2. Caioti Pizza Cafe
5. The original Katsu-ya is in Studio City - from before the fancier, trendy Katsu-ya's opened up. Its pretty good as I recall.
6. Not much in the area as I recall - there is a place called "The Steak Joynt" but it doesn't really live up to anything of the sort that you mentioned.
9. Kung Pao Bistro is pretty good
Aug 07, 2013Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Lunch in Newport beach with ocean or waterfront view?
Hi all - any suggestions for lunch this Sunday with an ocean or waterfront view? Type of food and price not necessarily important. I've been looking at Google Maps etc. but difficult to tell what restaurants actually have views and are not just near the water with no view. A couple of places that seem like possibilities are The Dock, SOL Cocina and 3-Thirty-3 - any thoughts on these or other suggestions would be welcome.
May 22, 2013Marvin in Los Angeles Area
What's Chow-worthy near the Intercontinental on Howard St.? [San Francisco]
Thanks again bbulknow - One probably silly follow-up question - what area do you mean when you say "the Peninsula"? Do you mean the same peninsula on which San Francisco lies, but outside of San Francisco (i.e. south of San Francisco), or do you mean somewhere else?
In any case, I checked the web sites for these restaurants - Flower + Water, AQ, Zare, Cotogna, Barbacco certainly look like our cup of tea. By Sam's, did you mean Sam's Grill?
May 16, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
What's Chow-worthy near the Intercontinental on Howard St.? [San Francisco]
Hi bbulkow - I'll try to narrow it down further.
First, for the most part, I'd like to stick to things we either don't have much of in LA, or in general are much better in SF than what we have in LA. I'm not sure quite what those would be, necessarily, so that's one aspect where I could use some help. for instance, while we certainly don't have a shortage of good Mexican food in LA, from what I understand, SF has its own variations of Mexican food (i.e. Mission-style burritos?), possibly better Chinese food than what we have in LA, at least outside of the SGV which I hardly ever get to go to, and I'm not really sure what other types of foods are in SF but not LA, or that SF excels at.
I was also under the impression that the better restaurants in SF are generally more money than in LA, so that's where the $100pp came from. I certainly don't mind splurging at that level, but I'd certainly find $50 pp more budget friendly, so if that helps narrow things down, any suggestions along those lines would be appreciated.
May 15, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
What's Chow-worthy near the Intercontinental on Howard St.? [San Francisco]
Hi Dave - thanks for the prompt reply. I'm visiting from Los Angeles, arriving late afternoon Sunday and flight out of SFO early Wednesday morning, so basically have 3 dinners and 2 lunches and breakfasts to consider. Breakfast might just be at the hotel (we're club members there), depending, but certainly lunch and dinner. Dinner probably would prefer suggestions closer to the hotel. At lunch time, we'll probably be out and about in other parts of the city so I know that doesn't narrow it down but geographically I'd be open to a wider area. We're mostly going to do the usual touristy stuff - Golden Gate Park, Union Square, the Presidio area, China Town, etc.
May 13, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
What's Chow-worthy near the Intercontinental on Howard St.? [San Francisco]
Hi all - am going to be staying at this hotel in early-mid September. Would appreciate any suggestions nearby - walking distance preferred but short taxi ride or easy to reach from here via Muni would be great too. Any type of food is fine, we're adventurous eaters, and pretty much any price point / type of place, from hole in the wall to $100 or so per person should be ok for us.
May 13, 2013Marvin in San Francisco Bay Area
This might be too simple, but I like to cook some pasta (usually spinach penne, but other shapes will do, as will whole wheat or egg pasta) and mix some in with some ground turkey that I simply cook up on the stove in a non-stick frying pan. Maybe a ratio of turkey to pasta of about 2 or 3 to 1 (I'm not scientific about it), then sprinkle some parm. and/or ground black pepper to taste.
Sep 03, 2010Marvin in Home Cooking
Bringing food into Dodger Stadium?
Hi All - am headed to the Dodger's game tomorrow. Does anyone know if the security guys will give you a hard time if you try to bring in some food with you - i.e. just sandwiches from Subway or Quiznos or something like that?
Sep 03, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Tacqueria in LA that makes tortillas on the spot like La Super Rica in SB?
Paco's Tacos (a couple of locations, one near LAX, the other near Centinella & Washington) make their own, I believe they come with the queso dip, not sure which other menu items they're included with. Yum!
Sep 01, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Lunch or dinner in Miracle Mile or Park La Brea
Also next door to the La Brea Bakery is Campanile which is pretty good though not all that cheap. Thursdays are grilled cheese nights there, and they have a lot of good variations on the classic grilled cheese sandwich.
Aug 13, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Good, Hearty, Authentic Italian Restaurant on the Westside?
Rather liked Sor Tino in Brentwood when I went recently. Il Pastaio in Beverly Hills is always really good too, as is Ugo in Culver City. I'm not Italian and never been to Italy, so couldn't tell you authentic Italian from Chef Boyardee, but these places are all good.
Aug 13, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Antica Pizzeria in the Marina is LA's best and most authentic Neapolitan pizza experience
Reading through this I was also going to complain that the pizza is soggy there too. If that's how its supposed to be, I won't fault them, I'll just say I must prefer a different style then.
I will say that the pastas there are divine, especially the Penne Alla Vodka.
May 04, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Swiss Matterhorn returning to Van Nuys
It wasn't exactly fine Italian dining, but San Remo was a family favorite for years. We just did my Grandmother's 95th birthday their last year in fact. I'll miss it. I vaguely remember driving by Matterhorn in the old days, but never went their. I hope its good too.
Apr 15, 2010Marvin in Los Angeles Area
I rather like Darya, which is on Santa Monica Blvd. just west of Bundy Dr. in Santa Monica.
Aug 04, 2009Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Good value eats near Marina del Rey
There's not a lot that's a short walk from the Ritz, but there's plenty that are medium walks (like 1/2 mile) or short drives.
2nd the req for C&O trattoria - the food won't blow you away but the quantity will - its easily a place you can spend $10-$12 pp and have enough leftovers for 2 additional meals.
Soup Plantation is located on the 2nd floor of the shopping center on Maxella between Lincoln and Glendon Way. All you can eat salad for about $10 and they take AAA discount. Perfect for your daughter. Also there is Antica Pizzaria, pretty reasonably priced Italian.
In any case, there are tons of places in Venice and Santa Monica that are not too far to drive to that would be worthy, depending on how much you want to spend etc. Joe's in Venice as mentioned, Chaya on Main etc.
Aug 02, 2009Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Does anybody remember when Pizza Hut used to be good?
the only thing I ever enjoyed at Pizza Hut was their Priazzo, which they had for maybe 6 months then dropped - it was literally a pie (stuffed - one variety was spinach and cheese) with traditional pizza stuff on the top layer. It was really good.
These days, their actual pizza isn't even meh. I'm not sure how they stay in business.
Any rec's for St. Patrick's Day?
Hi All - Looking for suggestions on where to go celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Mainly looking to have a good crowd, but good food/drinks = bonus. Do any of the various Irish pubs/bars around town stand out? Are there any non-Irish places worth checking out?
Mar 13, 2008Marvin in Los Angeles Area
If you don't mind venturing a short distance outside of Culver City, then get thee to Outdoor Grill (located next to the carwash where Washington Blvd. and Washington Place merge/diverge between Centinella and Lincoln) for a really good BBQ Tri-tip sandwhich.
I'd also 2nd the rec. for Markie D's, but I'm 99% sure I read in another thread that its no longer there - taken over by a hot wings establishment I think.
Mar 11, 2008Marvin in Los Angeles Area
Simon LA in Sofitel Hotel - Yay or Nay?
Thanks for the tips everyone. Sounds like its best to pass on Simon LA for the main meal, but might hit it up after dinner. For dinner, probably gonna try Comme Ca instead.
Mar 06, 2008Marvin in Los Angeles Area


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"When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home."
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2014 Goals
Well I suppose I am a few days late to say happy new year but I will say it anyway - Happy New Year.
The sales have come and gone, people are returning to work and a few resolutions may still be in tack.
The start of something new is always promising. Most business have at least one goal - generate more income than expenditure. As people we work within setting that have goals but often find setting our personal goals much more challenging.
I think this may be due to the competition for our attention and how we are influenced around what our goals should be. How should we be happy? How are we successful? What is the right level of income to feel rich? How many holidays should i have and to where?
Our goals should make us happy. We should set happy goals for 2014. It doesn't mean they won't be hard, or challenging, or take effort but once we achieve them they will make us happy.
For me, as for several years, 2014 will be about being more generous with my time to others, in giving and in life. It is more of a long term goal than a yearly event. I hope to volunteer at a large sporting event this year which i am excited about and will make me happy.
I hope whatever goals you have set for 2014 they make you happy :)
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Sassicaia is a unique interpretation of the Cabernet variety, a wine of great breadth, complexity and longevity. The intense blackberry and cassis aromas, offset by notes of smoke and spice, are confirmed on a palate of lush concentration underscored by firm, ripe tannins carrying into a long, elegant finish. more
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The Vino Nobile has a bright ruby red colour and a rich texture. Refined aromas of cherry and plum follow through to a full-bodied palate, with soft, round tannins and a flavourful finish. more
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Purple color, nose of black cherries and underbrush. Medium body, sweet and clean at first taste, should be opened after 2-3 years. more
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The bouquet is intense, fruit-forward, toasted and ethereal. Pleasant sour black cherry notes are tied with a delicate hint of dark chocolate. Warm, quite soft and balanced on the palate. Food pairings: Ideal for roasted and stewed meat, game and mature cheese. more
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The wine has a magnificent garnet-red color with intense ruby-red reflections, of correct intensity and tonality. The nose is composite, rich, full and persistent, with hints of vanilla, sweet spices, tobacco, mountain hay and underbrush. Impressive taste sensations reveal the wine's imperious, noble, warm and velvety character, and the flavor ... more
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Intense garne colour with ruby reflexes. On the nose, intense perfume of plum and ripe cherry with hints of flowers and spicy aromas. On the palate, intense with soft tannins and a long final taste. Due to its structure and body, it is a perfect match for meat and game ... more
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Deep garnet red appearance. The bouquet is etheral featuring spicy, tobacco and brushwood notes; there are also important mineral notes. Classic and nicely harmonious wine, tannic when young and with considerable aging potential, making it an unmistakable "Nebbiolo of Serralunga." more
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All Fontodi wines are produced from grapes coming from their own vineyards, picked by hand, chosen with care and vinified in a way that exalts the character of the vines and the territory. The Fontodi Oil "Bio" is produced from its own olives which are delicately pressed the same day ... more
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The 2010 vintage was among the coolest and latest-ripening in recent years and yielded one of the most elegant expressions of Ornellaia. A deep ruby hue announces remarkable complexity on the nose, releasing heady fragrances of dark wild berry, pungent spice, and smooth pipe tobacco. The palate is finesse par ... more
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Intense ruby red in color, this Brunello has a complex and balanced nose, showing aromas of raspberries and liquorice with notes of chocolate and spice, varying from vanilla to cinnamon to coffee. Warm and full on the palate, the flavors are beautifully pronounced with excellent length. more
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All wines naturally contain some sulfites, however wines that contain less than 10 parts per million sulfites are not required to include "Contains Sulfites" on their labels.
Wines that are still in the barrel and have yet to be bottled. Futures offer the opportunity to invest in a wine before it arrives in our store.
Like futures, pre-arrivals are wines that have not yet arrived on our shelves, however they may or may not be a new release. Pre-arrivals may already be bottled and en route to our store.
The Wine Advocate is a bimonthly wine publication featuring the consumer advice of wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. Initially titled The Baltimore-Washington Wine Advocate the first issue was published in 1978. Accepting no advertising, the newsletter publishes in excess of 7,500 reviews per year, utilizing Parker's rating system that employs a 50-100 point quality scale.
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Burghound.com was the first of its kind to offer specialized, and more importantly, exhaustive coverage of a specific wine region. The first Issue was released in January of 2001 and there are now subscribers in more than 50 countries and nearly all 50 states. Allen Meadows spends over four months a year in Burgundy and visits more than 300 domaines during that time.
James is one of the world's leading authorities on Australian wine, matching intelligent, honest reviews with unparalleled knowledge of, and passion for, the wine industry.
The Bottle Shop wine store in Spring Lake, New Jersey, is owned by the Murray family, who have been wine merchants in Monmouth County since 1972. Tom and Marie Murray converted a small liquor store on the Jersey Shore into a vintage wine, cheese and gourmet food shop; an endeavor reported in the New York Times in the summer of 1974. Today, their three children are continuing the tradition...
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I rate wines using the 100-points scale. I have used this point system for close to 25 years. I still believe it is the simplest way to rate a wine, with its origins from grade school in the United States. A wine that I rate 90 points or more is outstanding (A), and worth buying. If I rate a wine 95 points or more (A+), it is a must buy.
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Homepage for wine writer, Neal Martin's, "Diary of a Wine Writer".
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Malt Advocate magazine is America's leading whisky magazine. It's the number one source for whisky information, education and entertainment for whisky enthusiasts.
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Since launching in May 2013 Vinous has become one the fastest growing wine content websites in the world. Regular features include comprehensive reviews of new releases from Italy, California, Champagne and Burgundy, vertical tastings and retrospectives, in-depth videos shot on location, Vinous Favorites - our top picks under $25 - and Vinous Table, where we profile our top eating and drinking destinations.
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hopefully joao posts his selection in the next two hours overwise I will not be able to post mine untill tommorow night (aus time).
hopefully joao posts his selection in the next two hours overwise I will not be able to post mine untill tommorow night (aus time).
Daniel Vettori is an absolute legend!
So frustrating when you lose all momentum after being on a little bit of a roll. Before you ask patience isn't a quality of mine.
I was mad at myself last time for not getting Flintoff so I was delighted that he was still available when my turn came.
Last edited by Joao; 14-09-2009 at 07:03 PM.
I choose Ricky Ponting. Its good to get a quality batsman in my side, suprised he lasted this long. I personally hate the bloke but he can bat.
Whose turn is it now?
CricZo XI - Draft League
Season 1 M Hayden, G Gooch, R Dravid, W Hammond, K Pietersen, G Sobers, R Marsh (wk), R Benaud (c), D Steyn, W Hall, N Adcock
Season 2 J Hobbs, B Richards, D Boon, H Taylor, C Lloyd (c), A Stewart (wk), T Goddard, A Davidson, H Tayfield, C Ambrose, H Griffith
Season 3 H Sutcliffe, M Hayden, I Chappell (c), G Pollock, A Faulkner, M Hussey, D Lindsay (wk), I Botham, A Kumble, M Marshall, D Lillee
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2) Pup Clarke
3) Jamee999
4) marcussjd9
5) Somerset
6) BoyBrumby
7) Pasag
8) kingkallis
9) GeraintIsMyHero
10) metallics2006
11) joao
12) S.P. Fleming
13) Amitpal_00 (what should we do here?)
14) marc71178
15) Michaelf7777
Now you know what to do...
Amitpal again!
Am I allowed to use his opener in case if he doesnt turn up for this round as well?
Think we'll skip amit, who hasn't very long left in this thread. marc71178 is up.
Fourth Round Draft Order
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6) metallics2006
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8) Michaelf7777
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Welcome to the Unitarian Society of New Haven!
We are a diverse religious community with almost 325 adult members and a religious education program that serves about 85 children and youth. Gathered as a congregation in 1951, we are grounded in the centuries-old religious heritage of American Unitarian and Universalist theologies, and are a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Our Sunday Services are at 9:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Children's Religious Education classes are held at 11:15 a.m. The YRUU youth group meets at 1:15 p.m.
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395cc, 34bhp, 95mph, Insurance group 8
The Yamaha YP400 Majesty is a fair bit heavier than the 250, but has beefed up suspension and a much more touring biased set of bodywork panels. It's supremely comfortable, good on fuel, but the 125/250 Majesty makes a better commuter than the Yamaha YP400 Majesty and the T-Max makes a better maxi scooter for another £700.
1063cc, 62bhp, 110mph, Insurance group 11
The Yamaha XVS1100 - a big cruiser of yesteryear is more a mid sized cruiser of today. It's an evolution of Yamaha's long running XV1100 Virago which used to be its custom-style range topper but now it's dwarfed by the near-two litre megacruisers. The Yamaha XVS1100 is somewhat old tech but light weight and manageability are always useful.
1063cc, 64bhp, 109mph, Insurance group 14
Owners love their Yamaha BT1100 Bulldogs. Everyone else hates 'em. Depending on your point of view the Yamaha BT1100 Bulldog is either a relaxing, better-braked alternative to a cruiser, rather like a Japanese version of a Moto Guzzi Breva (that won't break down), or it's an ill-handling, gutless chump of a thing that would sooner dump you on your backside ...
865cc, 69bhp, 115mph, Insurance group 13
The Triumph Thruxton is a great looking retro cafe racer, which just doesn't have the punchy power you'd expect of a big twin. It also sounds dull, boring almost. Compared to buying a well restored Triton 650 for the same money, the modern day Triumph Thruxton is a weak imitation of genuine cafe racer cool.
647cc, 53bhp, 110mph, Insurance group 11
The Honda XL650V Transalp has been providing honest transport seemingly since the dawn of time. Revitalised with a bigger motor and a face-lift in 2000, it's softly-chuffing charm and easy-going manners have won a devoted audience. Mostly blokes more interested in getting from A-to-B than having a giggle buy them up.
638cc, 54bhp, 110mph, Insurance group 10
The biggest scooter in the two wheeled world is really a mid sized touring motorcycle under its plastic panels, with a punchy 638cc twin cylinder motor makes a claimed 54bhp which is enough to send the 650 Burgervan to about 110mph. Too heavy, too wallowy in the corners and short on luggage capacity for serious touring riders.
790cc, 61bhp, 110mph, Insurance group 10
The Triumph America is a cruiser with real cred – it harks back to the Thunderbird and other Triumphs modified in the States in the 60s and 70s. This means the Triumph America's not regarded as a Harley clone or copy like so many Japanese cruisers. It's a competent motorcycle too. It's not particularly rapid or sporty but the Triumph ...
744cc, 48bhp, 110mph, Insurance group 9
The Moto Guzzi Nevada 750 is a modest cruiser which is a surprisingly competent all-round bike as well as an effective posing tool. It's one of Guzzi's older generation of bikes and has had very few updates since 1989 but it doesn't matter. It's excellent round town, works over distance with a screen fitted and has a charm the Japanese ...
680cc, 64bhp, 125mph, Insurance group 10
If the idea of whipping briskly across continents in the blink of an eye holds less appeal than comfortable cruising, excellent economy, unflappable reliability and ease of use, then step right up and meet the new-for-2006 Honda Deauville – a friendly V-twin, mid-size tourer that's ready for anything.
1151cc, 95bhp, 130mph, Insurance group 13
The beleagured but charismatic Italian Moto Guzzi concern has been labelled many things in recent years but 'sports' has never been one of them. In truth, the Moto Guzzi 1200 Sport isn't a sports bike either. Instead it's an aggressively styled roadster using a mix of the latest Breva 1100 and Griso goodies. Too heavy to be a street scalpel, but ...
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Post Office soon to move more than 100 jobs out of Reading
Updated On: Mar 30 2013 05:54:20 AM CDT
Big changes are coming to the Gus Yatron Postal Facility in Reading.
Operations there are shrinking and many employees now have a tough decision to make.
More than 100 jobs at the Gus Yatron postal facility in Reading are in limbo, according to United States Postal Service.
"If they haven't noticed that their delivery of mail has been later, it takes two days to get somewhere in Berks County. If they haven't noticed that already, they will notice it. It may be extended even further," said Diane Price, a mail distribution clerk at Gus Yatron.
Price said her coworkers were notified Wednesday about the changes. Sixty-five clerk jobs will remain at Gus Yatron to run the post office. The rest, such as mail handlers, will have to relocate to centers in either Harrisburg or the Lehigh Valley, according to Price.
"When mail comes into Reading that we sort, will no longer be sorted here in Reading. It's going to be sorted in Harrisburg," said Price.
According to the U.S. Postal Service, the decline in mail volume has forced it to increase efficiency by consolidating mail processing operations across the country. Officials said they expect the changes at Gus Yatron to save the U.S.P.S. $7.2 million a year.
"The type of job that I've been doing for the last 29 years, which is sorting the mail when it comes in, will not be here," said Price, adding that she has no idea what she's going to do.
Luckily for Price, after working so long at this facility, she said she has enough seniority to find another job opening at Gus Yatron.
As for all 45 mail handlers, one said they have until April 10 to decided to accept jobs available in either Harrisburg or the Lehigh Valley.
In total, 140 mail processing locations are being consolidated nationwide.
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Crimson Tide women post highest team finish (3rd) since 1994; Tide men improve 5 spots in team standings to place 6th.
The Crimson Tide women were paced by junior Katelyn Greenleaf, who finished fourth in the women's 5k race
Airola, Stover, Reed and Ives named team captains for 2014-15 season.
The Crimson Tide was one of three schools with 95 or more honorees
Ken Taylor clocked a 1:18.56 to take first place in the 600 meters invitational
Junior2014 Cross CountryRan a 17:56.94 5k at the Crimson Classic... Clocked a 21:21 in the 6k at the Paul Short Invitational ... opened the season with a 5k time of 18:17.20 at the Asheville Cross Country Carnival.Sophomore2014 Outdoor SeasonDid not compete.
2014 Indoor SeasonFinished 10th in the mile with a time of 4:57.66 at the Indiana Relays ... clocked a personal-best time of 4:55.89 in the mile at the Rod McCravy Memorial.
2013 Cross CountryPlaced 26th at the NCAA South Region by running a 6k 20:52.77 ... ran a 6k in 21:48.29 at the SEC Championships and finished 45th ... finished 73rd at the Paul Short Invitational with a 6k time of 21:36 ... placed 19th at the Iowa Invitational, running a 4k time of 14:41.69 ... clocked a 2+ mile time of 11:27.81 at the Samford Dual and finished fourth. Freshman2013 Outdoor SeasonSet a new UA record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:38.91 at the SEC Outdoor Championships finishing eighth ... collected a PR in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:35.39 at the LSU Alumni Gold meet ... recorded a PR of 10:48.27 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, while placing second on UA's all-time list at the Crimson Tide Invitational ... collected a PR of 4:36.72 in the 1,500 meters at the Yellow Jacket Invitational ... marked a 4:42.64 time in the 1500 meters at the Alabama Relays.
2013 Indoor SeasonCompeted in the mile at the Mark Colligan Memorial meet ... ran a 5:16.54 mile at the Auburn Invitational good enough for 38th ... timed at 5:20.77 in the mile and finished 21st at the Crimson Tide Indoor Opener.
2012 Cross CountryOpened the season with a sixth-place finish at the Crimson Tide Kick-Off on Sept. 1 with a 3k time of 11:11.25 ... ran a 6k time of 24:33.08 to place 140th at the Commodore Classic on Sept. 15 in Nashville, Tenn. ... placed 47th at the Crimson Classic on Oct. 13 with a 5k time of 18:58.21 ... ran a season best 6k time of 23:18.26 at the SEC Championships (finished 109th) on Oct. 26. Prep and Personal Was a two-sport star in track and soccer in high school at Bearden High School in Knoxville, Tenn. ... as a junior, she placed second in the 1,600 meters with a time of 5:04.98 at the 2011 TSSAA Class 3A State Championships ... was third at 2011 TSSAA Class 3A State Championships in the 800 meters in a time of 2:18.77 ... as a sophomore, was the 2010 TSSAA Class 3A 1,600-meter state champion and runner-up in the 800 meters at state championships ... set Bearden school records in the 800 (2:16.05), 1,600 (5:05.41), 3,200 and 5,000 meters (18:42.83) ... a two-time all-state selection in soccer (2010 and 2011) ... 2011 soccer MVP ... Scholar-Athlete Award in 2011 ... member of the National Honor Society and the National Art Honors Society ... coached in track and field by Marty Sonnenfeldt at Bearden High School ... also competed for the Knoxville Track Club ... began competing in track at age 12 ... daughter of Corby and Melissa Stover ... born March 1, 1994, in Warrenton, Va.


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2050-2240 Bruton Boulevard has a Walk Score of 49 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in the Johnson Village neighborhood in Orlando. Nearby parks include Prince Hall Park, L. Claudia Allen Park and Willie Mays Park.
Nearby schools include First Academy, The First Academy and Richmond Heights Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Penninsula Food Services, International Food Club and Tropical Foods.
Nearby coffee shops include Cafe on the Rock and Alexsmith Organo Gold Coffee. Nearby restaurants include McDonald's, Red 13 Tattoo Studio & Saloon and IHOP Restaurant.
2050-2240 Bruton Boulevard is near Prince Hall Park, L. Claudia Allen Park and Willie Mays Park.
There are some bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. 2050-2240 Bruton Boulevard is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure.