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We had an opportunity to sit down with green building consultant Carl Seville, also known as the Green Building Curmudgeon for his no-nonsense look at green building and remodeling. Carl just published the textbook GREEN BUILDING: Principles and Practices in Residential Construction and is working on the new LEED for Homes Guide. We jump into the the quickly evolving world of green home construction and fly over the many local and national green building programs he has worked with. Fresh from speaking at the RaterFest Conference in the Colorado Rockies, he gives us a sometimes surprisingly optimistic look at better home construction.
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Laurie J. Bonnici, Ph.D., is "always trying to find new solutions to old problems" – a motivation, she says, that helped give life to the Accessible Libraries For All (ALFA) program. This IMLS-funded initiative seeks not only to expand the concept of universal accessibility in libraries, but to prepare a new generation of professionals for the task.
Historically, federal law has been the driver of library services for the disabled. "The Americans with Disabilities Act says that anyone with a medically diagnosed severe disability has access to services," says Bonnici, Principal Investigator for ALFA and Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies. As a result, "libraries – as federally funded institutions – have traditionally focused on people with severe disabilities, particularly visual impairments. These people represent about 35 percent of the population.1
"That's important, of course," she adds. "People with mild to moderate impairment, however, represent approximately 45 percent of the population."2
It's this large but relatively overlooked group – which Bonnici calls the "Extra-Legally Ability Challenged" or "ELAC" – that she and her colleagues wanted to identify, investigate, and find new ways to serve with the help of an IMLS grant.
The ELAC group is comprised largely of "people in the aging population," says Bonnici. They may have one or more physiological impairments that affect their hearing, vision, and/or mobility – difficulties that may not be obvious to a librarian. For example, "someone with peripheral arterial disease may have a hard time using a touch screen device," explains Bonnici.
Bonnici envisioned a graduate level degree program for aspiring library professionals that would "embrace this philosophy of universal accessibility," she says. Through the program, students would gain the requisite knowledge and training to assist and serve both the ELAC and legally disabled populations for decades to come.
Bonnici and her co-PI Dr. Stephanie Maatta (Wayne State University), recruited a group of students seeking master's degrees in the field at the University of Alabama and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. "Our recruiting strategy was to go out to leaders in the field, talk about our project and talk about people who they thought might be right for this program," she says.
Recruitment efforts yielded a diverse group of 30 students, most of whom are enrolled through distance education. "We have students of different races and ethnicities. We have a student who is mobility impaired and one who is hearing impaired," says Bonnici. "We consider ELAC another area of diversity."
The students – known as ALFA scholars – were divided into alpha and beta cohorts for the program. They embarked on a curriculum of study centered on issues of universal access and service to special needs populations.
Four functional components define the program. "First, all students go through an orientation, which creates an element of community," explains Bonnici. Second, students complete two additional required courses, beyond the standard degree requirements, designed to foster greater awareness and understanding of physiological disabilities, aging, and related issues for library and information professionals.
One of the required courses focuses on technologies used to serve the ELAC and legally disabled populations. "Part of the grant funds have been used to purchase Mac computers for the students," adds Bonnici. "The Mac operating system tends to be more user-friendly for people with impairments."
A third element of the program is unique field trips that give students a firsthand look at accessibility issues in practical settings. At the American Library Association annual meeting, a mobile lab allowed students to experience through simulation what it's like to have a disability. In the spring, students traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida to visit the state's Division of Blind Services' Bureau of Braille and Talking Books.
"The students also traveled to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Public Library Service in tandem with the Alabama Public Library Service to find out how they address special needs populations," explains Bonnici. They were also able to tour an installation called Dialogue in the Dark, an experience in total darkness where, led by blind guides and trainers, visitors learn to interact and communicate by relying on other senses. "For a little over an hour, you're taken through the world as if you were blind," says Bonnici.
"These organizations have been incredibly generous," Bonnici adds. "They received no funding from the grant at all, but were very engaged in our activities. They have hosted our students, offered them internships, and provided refreshments for us – and in this time of budget cuts, that is no small favor. This project would not be possible without them."
The final component of the degree program is a service learning project or experiential project. "It's similar to an internship," explains Bonnici.
This capstone project allows a student to pursue a particular area of interest in depth. For example, "One University of Alabama fellow left a tech company in Tennessee to be part of the program. She's interested in how people with disabilities access art collections – how does a blind person experience an art museum?" says Bonnici. "I'm working with her to place her in an internship in a museum. She can learn about the exhibit side of museums, but she also can establish an information side at the institution and bring in the idea of universal accessibility through technology application."
The ALFA scholars have shown superior commitment and dedication so far, according to Bonnici. "The extra effort during the recruiting process, supported through IMLS funding, really panned out," she says. The program will see its first graduates in December 2012.
Acknowledging the difference "between educating students for the profession and actual practice," Bonnici is anxious to find out where students land after graduation. "Are they carrying the universal access philosophy with them in their professions? Did the educating we're doing have an impact?" she wonders aloud.
Bonnici and her team will track students after graduation. For the first five years they'll check in yearly, then every five years after that for as long as possible. All of the students have established websites and blogs, and Bonnici has encouraged them to maintain these sites. "We'll also survey them and hold reunions," she says. "We're hoping our 30 students are presenting at professional conferences and working at nonprofits and private organizations in addition to public libraries."
Students may leave academia to pursue their careers, but Bonnici expects the degree program to live on. "We don't see it as dying with the funding," she says. "We are working with heads of the academic departments to get the special courses regularized so that anyone coming into the degree program will have the opportunity to take them."
Bonnici also will continue to do research and look for new ways to apply the ELAC concept. "We have a new colleague here at the University of Alabama in the field of school library media," she explains. "She's very interested in extending the ELAC concept to school libraries and to children with mild/moderate disabilities. We're thinking of applying for further funding to branch out into this area."
Bonnici is also sharing what she's learned with other institutions. "We have a website so that other people and schools can see what we've done, learn from it, and replicate it," she says. "Syllabi from our courses will be available there."
She also wants to "go international." Much is going on in Europe and Canada, according to Bonnici, where the definition of disability tends to be more inclusive. "We're trying to present at international conferences and have open discussions," she says. "I attended the Aging and Society Conference last year and we will be presenting in Helsinki later this year at the International Federation of Library Associations, Technology Section. We're excited to share what's going on in this program."
Bonnici also is excited about the future. "We're preparing professionals who embrace this philosophy of universal accessibility," she says. "They will think about how people with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities interact with the library."
"We are educating them in a philosophy," she says, "which goes way beyond training."
1. National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute, 2004. Refers to the entire visually impaired population, which includes moderate to severe.
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There is no question that C++ is currently used in a lot of mission-critical applications (but, then, so is COBOL) and in a lot of commercial software packages. But is it a dying language, due for replacement by Java, C#, Python, Scala and so on? And, considering that a lot of COBOL and Fortran is still in active use, does this matter much anyway?
The answers are probably "no" and "no". Things are still happening in the C++ world. The latest Intel compilers, for example, are extremely good at optimising code for the latest Intel architectures and its Threading Building Blocks helps you exploit parallel programming on multicore architectures efficiently. Now there's a new C++ standard which addresses many of the issues associated with C++ programming. Even Bjarne Stroustrup says that C++11 feels like a new language here - read more in this interview.
Standard C++11 still lacks Java-style garbage collection, used to clean up allocated memory that is no longer needed (and I'm not sure that relying on programmers to do their own garbage collection is entirely safe), but it does include a state-of-the-art threading library. Many programmers don't like garbage collection, because of the propensity for basic Java to stop for a few seconds while garbage collecting, but that's an implementation issue and you can get modern high performance Javas with better-managed "deterministic" garbage collection facilities offering predictable latency (see, for example, Oracle JRockit). Read about the C++11 innovations here.
Embarcadero's new C++Builder XE3 compiler, which supports the new C++11 standards and allows VCL (Visual Component Library, a visual framework for building Windows applications originally developed by Borland) and FireMonkey (which is what Embarcadero calls its "modern, multi-platform, hardware accelerated GUI and application framework") to be moved onto 64bit platforms, is another sign that interest in C++ is still active. Embarcadero (or, rather, Borland, part of which it acquired in 2008) has a good record for providing productive developer tools and its new compiler promises "agile C++". In other words, developers can use Embarcadero extensions to make C++ up to 5x faster than traditional development, Embarcadero says, using rapid prototyping, PME (properties/methods/events) component-based programming, and visual development. Of course, that's hard to verify in the general case (and no improvement at all satisfies the "up to" 5 times promise) but if you are, or want to be, a C++ shop, it's probably worth investigating (the original Borland C++ Builder was pretty good).
Embarcadero's new compiler builds on clang, a front-end for the respected open-source LLVM compiler, which (it says) will address any advantage Intel compilers have in exploiting Intel's architectures And, usefully, Embarcadero promises industry-leading compliance with the C++ standards.
The key promise of C++Builder XE3, however, is that it will let you target multiple platforms with a single codebase and a single developer team. That sounds good to us, although it won't really come to fruition until its iOS and Android on ARM capabilities arrive. This is also a 64bit compiler, with good support for a Windows 8 look and feel interface, so it offers lots of options for legacy C++ Windows application modernisation (it supports (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8). And support for Mac OS X and Retina Display (letting developers deliver a native user experience and automatic HiDPI display support in Mac applications) has to be a bonus. Despite the C++11 improvements, we suspect that native support for a wide range of popular desktop and mobile user environments will be what drives any actual C++ resurgence.
On balance, C++ probably wouldn't be our language of choice these days for general business systems, where something like Java (or Scala) will probably be more productive overall. But C++ is still the optimal choice for some applications and a perfectly adequate choice (if you have the right C++ skills) for many more; and we aren't in the business of building applications anyway. C++ certainly isn't anything like dead yet and, according to C++ guru Herb Sutter, now "computing feels young and fresh in a way that it hasn't felt for years, and that has only happened to this degree at two other times in its history" - although he's talking about the UI and mobile devices, which are what modern C++ has to support.
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Garbage collection (GC) is no longer that much necessary due to the presence of the smart-pointers in C++11 (shared_ptr, unique_ptr, weak_ptr -- although by default you're just supposed to use unique_ptr, and only use shared_ptr when sharing; having to use weak_ptr is extremely rare and might indicate a design flaw in your program).
C++98/03 already supports RAII, which is automatic resource management (scope-bound, not garbage collected) -- what's even better it applies uniformly to *all* resources -- memory, files, threads, network sockets, you name it. Much easier than mucking around with try-finally or try-with-resources in Java.
In fact, the best practice (as documented in, e.g., C++ Primer, 5th edition) is not to use raw-pointers, new/delete, or manual memory management at all and instead rely on the above-mentioned standard techniques (that's what the C++ Standard Library itself does).
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l SUPPOSE this article could be titled "The Conquest of El Capitan." However, as I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was conqueror and who was conquered: I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
The above mentioned last bolt marked the conclusion of a venture that began in July, 1957. Mark Powell, Bill "Dolt" Feuerer and I met in Yosemite Valley intending to make an attempt on the North Face of Half Dome. We discovered that an excellent team of climbers from southern California was already at work on it and had the situation well in hand. In our disappointment, we became a bit rash and decided to "have a go" at El Cap.
I'm sure no climber ever considered El Cap impossible-the term "impossible climb" having long since become obsolete. The fact that, previously, there had been no serious attempts to scale the sheer 2900-foot face was simply due to the common belief among rock climbers that techniques were not sufficiently advanced to cope with such a problem.
After we decided to attempt the climb, we spent an entire day studying the face in search of a continuous route to the summit. It is interesting to note that, on the climb, the route went exactly as we planned, with the possible exception of the "Roof Pitch," a formidable-looking overhang about 2000 feet up. I felt it would be best to bypass this obstacle, using a crack somewhat to the east. Later this crack proved to be only a water streak and we were forced to negotiate the "Roof."
It was obvious that existing methods of conducting a sustained rockclimb would be inadequate. Because of the extreme difficulty of the climbing we anticipated slow progress-perhaps no more than 100 to 200 feet a day. We would spend many days on the rock, so reasonably comfortable campsites were a necessity. Unfortunately there appeared to be very few ledges. We agreed unanimously that the only feasible plan of attack would be to establish a succession of camps up the face, linking them with fixed ropes. Supplies wouId be hauled up from the ground as needed. This would require a support party to assemble and tie loads to our hauling lines. Throughout the climb, such people as John Whitmer, Cookie Calderwood, Ellen Searby, and Beverley Woolsey contributed much to the success of the climb as they patiently plodded up the talus with loads of food and water. Our technique was to be similar to that used in ascending high mountains, with prusiking and rappelling gear replacing ice axe and crampons as aids for traveling, and winch and hauling lines instead of Sherpas.
On July 4, 1957, we began hammering our way up the smooth, glacier polished wall. There was no thought of reaching the summit on this attempt-our tentative goal was El Cap Towers, the prominent pinnacles on the east side of the buttress about half way up the face.
On the third day we reached Sickle Ledge, 550 feet up, and established Camp I. The next four days were spent pushing the route upward toward the "Towers." The climbing was almost entirely 6th class, direct aid, and about as difficult as can be imagined. Finally, 150 feet short of the lower tower, we were forced to give up. Our special "stoveleg" pitons which had brought us up 300 feet of the two- to three-inch-wide "Stoveleg Crack" were so battered and flattened that they would no longer hold.
Leaving fixed ropes behind to secure what we had gained, we descended. Reaching the ground, our spirits were somewhat dampened by an unexpected problem. It seemed that our climbing presented quite a spectacle and had attracted a crowd of tourists which created a traffic jam at the road-junction near the base. The park rangers were understandably distressed and we had to agree to stay off the rock during the tourist season, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. This meant we would be climbing with shorter days and less certain weather. Difficulties of the El Capitan ascent were not confined to the rock!
According to our agreement, nothing was done until after Labor Day except to replace the many borrowed climbing ropes left as fixed line with a newly purchased half-inch manila.
Beginning with a four-day tour at Thanksgiving, there was a series of attrition attacks extending through October 1958 which whittled away the remaining 2000 feet to a point from which a final push might stand a chance of success.
The accompanying Chronology of El Capital, First Ascent outlines this, but limited space in the "remarks" column prevents adequate description of the troubles and frustrations that plagued us in the next several months. About everything that could go wrong did.
The first, and probably worst, blow was Powell's unfortunate accident. In September 1957, he took a bad fall (while on an easy climb) and fractured and dislocated his ankle, putting himself out of action for a long time, if not permanently. Then, weather in the spring and early fall of 1958 was abominable. New equipment such as the winch, laboriously carted 1200 feet up to "Dolt Tower," was not nearly as effective as it might have been.
Along with the new equipment, new faces appeared on the rock. This, too, posed a problem. Powell and Feuerer felt that no new members should be admitted to the group. I didn't think the three of us constituted a strong enough party to go ahead on El Cap, since Powell, who had climbed brilliantly on the first attempt, was no longer capable of doing much leading. The dissension arising from this situation ultimately resulted in Powell and Feuerer dropping out, except for the continued use of Feuerer's pitons and other special equipment. So I continued with whatever "qualified" climbers I could "con" into this rather unpromising venture.
By mid-October 1958, Camp IV at 1800 feet and a high point at 2000 feet, just below the "Roof," had been established. The Chief Ranger had given us a deadline-to complete the climb by Thanksgiving. I have never understood how this was to have been enforced. But it didn't matter; we were all determined to reach the summit before winter.
After a long, hard look at the remaining 900 feet of the upper face, Wayne Merry, George Whitmore, Rich Calderwood, and I (who now made up the El Cap climbing party) agreed that an all-out effort was in order.
On November 1, 1958 we started up the fixed ropes for what we hoped would be the last time. The weather had cleared and the invigoratingly cool breezes were a pleasant contrast to the violent thunderstorms and oppressive heat of the nine-day effort in September. Due to a late start, we reached Camp IV a little after dark and were soon in our sleeping bags discussing plans for the next day's activities.
Next morning we ascended the fixed line to the previous high point and went to work on the long-dreaded "Roof Pitch." While strenuous and just a bit scary-nailing around the right side of the 180º overhang with 2000 feet of space directly below-it proved to be not nearly as difficult as we had thought it would be. The following seven days blurred into a monotonous grind-if living and working 2500 feet above the ground on a vertical granite face can be considered monotonous! On Sunday evening, the ninth day, a storm broke, providing a welcome day of rest from the hammering and hauling.
While sitting out the storm at Camp VI, snug in our sleeping bags with a rubberized nylon tarp warding off the wind and snow, Wayne and I took stock of the situation. Except for Rich Calderwood, who had gone down with an attack of nerves, we were all in good condition. Whitmore was somewhere below, most likely Camp IV, and would be coming up with another load of food, We had been working out of Camp VI for the past three days and, while we were not certain, we felt that our high point was surely no more than a couple of hundred feet below the rim. A determined push might put us over the top in one more day. We liked the thought, anyway. We were getting just a little tired of the whole thing.
By Tuesday morning the storm had blown itself out. After shouting our plans down to George, Wayne and I left Camp VI with extra food and batteries for our headlamps. Mid-morning found us at our high point and pushing on. As we began nailing up the next pitch, we heard a most welcome sound-a yodel from the top! John Whitmer, Ellen Searby, and Rick Anderson had hiked in to meet us. Spurred on by the encouraging knowledge that we actually were near the rim (because of the intervening overhangs, it had been impossible to see exactly where we were), we hammered up the next two pitches with enthusiasm if not speed. It was nearly 4 o'clock when we reached the tiny ledge that would serve as a belay-spot for the last pitch.
We could now see John and Ellen peering down at us. Also visible was the route between us and the top-a most impressive looking pitch! The first 60 feet was rather straightforward 6th class up a wide crack. The crack ended under an overhanging wall that was 90 feet high and completely devoid of cracks-15 pitons, 28 bolts, and 14 hours were required to surmount that final pitch, But at 6 the next morning I pulled over the top and stared feebly at Ellen as she struggled with her camera's faulty flash-attachment.
NOTES: The ascent took 45 days, spread over a period of 18 months. Although the face is 2900 feet high, so much altitude was lost due to numerous pendulum traverses, that a total of 3400 feet of climbing was necessary. About 675 pitons and 125 expansion bolts were used, 90 percent of which were for direct aid. The mileage of prusiking and rappeling has not been calculated.
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AREA: Yosemite National Park, California.
ASCENT: First ascent of the face of El Capitan.
PERSONNEL: Warren J. Harding, Wayne P. Merry, George Whitmore completed the climb, Additional members of final team-Richard Calderwood, John Whitmer, Wallace Reed, Mark Powell. Additional members of preliminary team-William Feuerer, Allen P. Steck. Assistants at base-Cookie Calderwood, Ellen Searby, Beverley Woolsey.


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Cigar Aficionado's 112 covers have won high praise, and eight of our cigar-smoking celebrities tell us why.
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Cigar Aficionado's 20th Anniversary, September/October 2012
Fittingly enough, the subject of Cigar Aficionado's first cover portrait in 1992 was . . . a cigar. The first two celebrities to grace the cover of the magazine, on the third and fifth issues, were the well-known (and long-dead) cigar aficionados Groucho Marx (who once said, "Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar.") and Winston Churchill, whose name became synonymous with his favorite-sized smoke.
The first living celebrities to appear on the magazine's cover—in 1994—couldn't have been more different: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh followed in the next issue by the communist leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro—both of whom shared a love of cigars.
In Cigar Aficionado's first 20 years, the cover story has always been part of the magazine's draw—both for readers who pick up an issue because of who's on the cover, and for the stars, who take a certain pride in talking about their discerning passion for fine tobacco. While early cover subjects included well-known cigar lovers such as Bill Cosby and the late George Burns, the magazine has also featured seemingly unlikely faces—from supermodels Linda Evangelista and Claudia Schiffer to politicos such as former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to Michael Richards (Kramer of "Seinfeld") to hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky and basketball immortal Michael Jordan.
We caught up with eight of our former cover subjects to check back in with them about cigars, about their lives and about what being the focus of a Cigar Aficionado cover story meant to them. We appreciate that they took the time to be interviewed.
Alec Baldwin(May/June 2004)
Alec Baldwin's 2004 cover story in Cigar Aficionado was headlined "Back on Track," a reference to the personal and professional hurdles Baldwin had overcome to emerge with an Oscar nomination for 2003's independent film, The Cooler. Since then, Baldwin has won a pair of Emmy Awards and a trio of Golden Globes for playing hilariously manipulative TV executive Jack Donaghy on the critically acclaimed "30 Rock." Recently remarried, Baldwin took time from his honeymoon to answer Cigar Aficionado's questions by e-mail.
Cigar Aficionado: What did being in Cigar Aficionado mean to you?
ALEC BALDWIN: I have been a cigar smoker since 1992 and I have always admired Marvin and the magazine. Cigar Aficionado is the most respected publication for serious smokers. When they put me on the cover, I was honored.
CA: What is your go-to cigar these days?
BALDWIN: I started by trying different strengths. Bolivar, Hoyo de Monterrey. Eventually I settled into a somewhat lighter smoke. Today, I like Romeo y Julieta, Montecristo and Partagás. My favorite is H. Upmann.
CA: What is your fondest cigar memory?
BALDWIN: Watching a plane land in the bush of Kwazulu, Natal, with a delivery of cigars from J J Cale in Sandton, South Africa.
CA: How has your taste in cigars changed since the cover story?
BALDWIN: I smoke fewer cigars than I used to, but I enjoy them more. And I smoke (at Grand Havana Room in New York and Los Angeles) while I eat. Can't be helped.
CA: What's the first cigar you remember really appreciating as you smoked it?
BALDWIN: I remember smoking my first Upmann Magnum and it was like chocolate. I could smoke one every day, but my wife won't let me.
William Shatner(Sept/Oct 2006)
When William Shatner appeared on the cover in 2006, he was at the height of his "Boston Legal" powers as attorney Denny Crane, a role that brought him two Emmy Awards. The first captain of the Starship Enterprise on the original "Star Trek," Shatner has had several TV series since the end of "Boston Legal" (including the sitcom "$#*! My Dad Says" and the talk show "Shatner's Raw Nerve") and his documentary, "William Shatner's Get A Life," about his exploration of Star Trek conventions, just started airing on the EPIX pay-cable network.
WILLIAM SHATNER: Before we start, if you're going to ask my favorite cigar and I have to go do some research, I'm probably just going to click on some Cuban thing and I won't really know whether I mean that. So I'd rather talk about the feeling and the meaning of a cigar, rather than have to name some specific brand I like.
Cigar Aficionado: Fair enough. Let's start with this: What did it mean to you to be on the cover of Cigar Aficionado?
SHATNER: The Aficionado is a cultural-elite magazine aimed at a specific type of person. You don't have to be intelligent or rich or knowledgeable to smoke cigars but, given the mystique of cigars, it helps. Now I don't smoke often, but when I do, I want the subtlety of taste of the part of the Earth that this tobacco came from. Like good wine and good cheese, a good cigar requires a subtle palate. And I think I have that. So it gave me a sense of pride to be on the magazine's cover.
CA: What is your favorite cigar memory?
SHATNER: I'm sitting in front of my house, sitting on a hill overlooking my property and my wife and I are smoking cigars. Now, how many men have their wife with them when they smoke, instead of saying, "Get away from me—you smell"?
CA: At the end of most episodes of "Boston Legal," you and James Spader would sit on Denny Crane's balcony and share a smoke and a drink. Is there a downside to something like that?
SHATNER: You shoot the first take at the beginning of the morning and the camera has to be moved to shoot the scene from 20 different angles. So you're lighting and smoking cigars all day long. They did say to me, "Well, don't smoke them—just hold them in your hand." But I couldn't do that because I wanted to show the richness of his life and the enjoyment of smoking a good cigar. But 20 in one day is 19 too many. It took me a while to come back from that.
CA: Was the cigar boom of the 1990s a good thing or a bad thing?
SHATNER: A boom is good—why not? Obviously, you have to do everything in moderation. So smoking a great cigar is a pleasure I would wish upon anyone in moderation.
Susan Lucci(Sept/Oct 1999)
For actress Susan Lucci, 1999 was a banner year that saw Lucci landing on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine (holding a cigar while lying in a bathtub full of floating roses), even as she made her Broadway debut. While "All My Children" and Lucci's Erica Kane ended their run in 2011, Lucci is set to return to the small screen in a Lifetime series, "Devious Maids," created by Marc ("Desperate Housewives") Cherry, in 2013.
Cigar Aficionado: What do you remember about the cover shoot?
SUSAN LUCCI: It was one of the most fun shoots ever. I was so happy they asked me. And the shoot happened right after I won the Daytime Emmy. I was so thrilled to be asked. It turned out to be pivotal for me and led to me making my Broadway debut.
CA: How so?
LUCCI: In the story in Cigar Aficionado, I mentioned Broadway as a dream I'd had forever. Fran and Barry Weissler were producing a revival of Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway and, once they heard that I was interested in Broadway, they contacted me. I went into Annie Get Your Gun to replace Bernadette Peters. And I know they heard about my interest from that story.
CA: How did you take an interest in cigars?
LUCCI: I'm not a smoker at all, but I remember when cigar bars began to open in Manhattan. I'd pass by them on my way to work—at 6:30 in the morning, so they were closed. But they had a fascination for me; the cigar bars spoke to me in some way.
CA: And you wound up trying a cigar?
LUCCI: My husband and I were skiing with our children in Austria. We were sitting in this cocktail lounge afterward with my daughter, who was 18 at the time. There were two men sitting next to my daughter and me and they kept offering me a puff of their cigars. I was giggling and laughing, and I turned to my husband and said, "'If they offer me that cigar one more time, I'm going to take it." So the bartender offered me a humidor and I took a fresh cigar and lit it. It was a Macanudo. And that was my first puff. I enjoyed it as much as I could. I enjoyed being in the moment. I did smoke one more time. I took some puffs at a party. And then Cigar Aficionado asked me to be on the cover. And I learned even more.
CA: Such as…?
LUCCI: I didn't realize that the ashes were supposed to be at a certain point for the photograph. As it happened, the wardrobe mistress for the photo shoot was a big cigar smoker. So she smoked the cigar down for me until it was just right.
CA: What did being in CA mean to you?
LUCCI: Well, it came right after winning the Emmy. It was an astonishing moment for me. The response to the magazine was amazing and opened even more doors for me. It helped cross my career over. Then Regis Philbin came to my opening night in Annie Get Your Gun and asked if I'd appear with him in his nightclub act. And that encouraged me to get a nightclub act together for myself. And I went and opened Feinstein's at the Regency after 9/11. And all of that happened because of winning the Emmy and then being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado.
Jim Belushi(Jan/Feb 2008, Nov/Dec 2010)
Jim Belushi is one of the few celebrities to have graced Cigar Aficionado's cover twice: in 2008, when he shared it with fellow Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd; then at the end of 2010, for his series, "The Defenders," his return to TV after eight seasons of "According to Jim." Since then, Belushi has done a Broadway star turn (in a Tony-nominated revival of Born Yesterday), even as he continues to sing and dance with Aykroyd as a member of the Blues Brothers.
Cigar Aficionado: What do you remember about the cover shoot?
JOHN BELUSHI: It was the coolest shot ever. I loved the suit. It was a pure joyous moment in my life. My wife wouldn't let me wear that suit out, so the picture captured the spirit of what was going on inside me. I was in a joyous place.
CA: What did being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado mean to you?
BELUSHI: I've had a long relationship with the magazine. The first time I was on the cover, I felt it took me a long time to earn that place. I was honored that they felt it was my time. When I went into my cigar store and they had the cover up, it made me feel great.
CA: What's your go-to cigar these days?
BELUSHI: My go-to cigar is still the Fuente Hemingway. The Padrón is also right there with it. I like the Montecristo No. 5. It's a little shortie. I had a box of them one time when I was filming in Italy. I just loved them.
CA: What is your favorite cigar memory?
BELUSHI: The first cigar I smoked with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a cop car on location in Chicago when we were filming Red Heat. It was a Montecristo No. 2. We had the windows rolled up and the car filled with smoke. I turned green and almost puked. I thought, "I can't handle this."
CA: Was the cigar boom of the 1990s a good thing or a bad thing?
BELUSHI: I think it created chaos, but out of chaos came higher standards. It was like a crashing wave and then the waves settled down. I think cigars have gotten better since then. In the 1990s, there were a lot of good cigars but a lot of bad ones, too. Now it's harder to find a bad one. The standard of cigar-making has gone up.
Joe Mantegna(July/Aug 2011)
Actor Joe Mantegna joined the series "Criminal Minds" in 2007. The veteran Chicago actor was playwright David Mamet's favorite actor early on, winning a Tony Award for the original production of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. These days, when he's not starring in "Criminal Minds" (or voicing Fat Tony on "The Simpsons"), Mantegna produces TV series and films of his own—and still enjoys a good cigar.
Cigar Aficionado: How long have you been reading Cigar Aficionado?
JOE MANTEGNA: I remember reading blurbs in the early 1990s about a magazine that was coming out that was going to be for cigar smokers. And I thought, "Maybe this thing will finally come out from underground." Because, back then, you were afraid to let people know about this thing that I did. At that point, the whole cigar thing—people were starting to get into it but it was still not out of the closet. Cigar smoking was for Winston Churchill and old guys; it had that connotation. And then the magazine came out and it was like, "Wow! This is like Vogue.' " And I've been a subscriber since the beginning.
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Karimunjawa, Beyond the Average
15 October 2012
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It was 12.00 a.m. and the air begun to be colder when people just fell asleep while I was riding my motorcycle from Solo headed toward Jepara with three other friends of mine. For the second time, I started my journey to Karimunjawa archipelago, geographically located more than 80 km north away from Jepara and culturally comprised of three different tribes: Java, Madura, and Bugis. Ferry Muria was the only transportation available in Jepara to crossover at the time...
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Komodo National Park: World's Best Diving & Snorkeling Sites
14 December 2012
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By far, this is the best snorkeling experience in my life! Komodo National Park is not only notable as the natural habitat for the endangered Komodo dragons, it has an amazing underwater scenery so awe-inspiring that, in my opinion, no world-class oceanarium can rival. It's a bliss that we are living in the tropics of pristine coral reefs and beautiful islands of crystal clear waters. Komodo island isn't all about the mean, ferocious dragons that spurt no fire, on...
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11 January 2013
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Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
What to say first? Meeting the orangutans and the people who are dedicated their life to save these great apes, sleeping on the klotok, watching the fireflies at night, eating the most amazing meals that made on the boats, planting my own tree to help getting...
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Meeting Komodo Dragons and Snorkeling at Pink Beach
11 January 2013
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Maen lost a limb to an attack by a Komodo Dragon. He could have lost his life. Instead, he survived and courageously has returned to his post as a ranger in the Komodo Islands looking after an environment and an animal that perhaps does not have his best interests at heart. [Michael recounts his...
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Nusa Lembongan - Nusa Penida; Another Paradise in Bali
13 March 2013
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Disclaimer: This is our trip report - purely reflect our real experience,can be subjective but factual to our eyes at that time and places. How to get there: Very easy, dozens flights from Jakarta and other regional and international airport to Bali Ngurah Rai International airport.Get the taxi from airport to Sanur beach,where several fast boat and regular boat are ready to bring you with the travel time between 30 minutes to 3 hours depend on the boat operator...


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AUBURN – Authorities say a northeastern Indiana tattoo artist used his skills to entice sex or nude photos from teenage girls and coerced money from some of them.
Jason Schwartz, 29, of Butler, pleaded not guilty this week to felony charges that include child molesting and possession of child pornography, along with misdemeanor counts of illegally tattooing minors. A DeKalb County judge has ordered Schwartz to be jailed without bond.
Authorities say the case involves 11 girls between 13 and 15 years old.
Court documents say Schwartz pursued the girls between March and June, when he was first arrested on sexual misconduct charges.
DeKalb County Prosecutor ClaraMary Winebrenner told The Star of Auburn that Schwartz followed a pattern.
"I don't think you can adequately understand the truth of the situation unless you look at all of the evidence regarding all of the victims together," Winebrenner said.
Schwartz's defense attorney, Hugh Taylor, didn't return a message seeking comment Friday.
Court documents say that some girls who gave nude photos to Schwartz told investigators he later threatened to post those pictures online unless they gave him money or sex.
DeKalb County Sheriff's Detective Adam Friedel said Schwartz's Facebook page shows an overwhelming majority of his friends were adolescent girls. The detective also reported finding several text messages on Schwartz's cellphone between him and a 14-year-old girl.


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We invite you to experience a gentler era at the Oak Park Inn and Historic Hopkins House. Nestled on two and a half acres of aged Burr Oaks and stately Jack Pines, this intimate country inn welcomes you to life in rural Western Wisconsin.
Every season provides unique experiences for the fortunate traveler who passes our way. Spring and early summer are especially beautiful, as the tulips and other spring bulbs are in full color. From mid May through the first week in June over 15,000 tulip bulbs (weather depending), and numerous lilac shrubs will scent the air. Note our tulip meter in the right margin; we will attempt to predict when the peak bloom-time will take place.
A bike ride or drive on the winding roads through nearby valleys, where Amish practice traditional lifestyles, will take you back through time to the 1800's. Recently developed audio car tours and bicycle loops are a uniquely designed series of scenic and safe loops utilizing the paved back roads. Our 24 to 36 mile loops guide visitors on adventures best experienced from the seat of a bike. Most of the bike loops have no more than three vehicles passing in an hour. Four of the northern bike loops can be accessed from the gates of Oak Park Inn. "Top of the World Tour" is featured in the 2006-2007 State of Wisconsin Biking Guide.
Three popular narrated car tours and companion maps will direct you along the ridges and valleys of Trempealeau County and this remarkable beautiful region of Western Wisconsin. Both the bike and car tour maps may be downloaded from this site.
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EcoARK Pavilion made from 1.5 Million Plastic Bottles
Here at Inhabitat we've showcased a host of amazing structures made from repurposed bottles, but we've never a project as polished and sleek as this. The Far Eastern Group sponsored this three story "EcoARK" movable Fashion Pavilion for the 2010 Taipei International Expo. The just-finished structure features walls made entirely out of plastic bottles and it's built to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes. These aren't your average-joe coke bottles, however — they're POLLI-Bricks by miniWIZ!
"EcoARK is the world's lightest, movable, breathable environmental miracle," said Douglas Hsu, Chairman of the Far Eastern Group. Though POLLI-Bricks have been used here on a grand scale in the EcoARK they can be used to make anything from a vase to a garden wall to a house. Just a small amount of silicone is placed between the bricks to make a bond between their specially designed interlocking structure.
It took 1.5 million POLLI-Bricks to make the sturdy EcoARK. The 130 meter long structure is completely deconstructable — it can be taken apart and reassembled at another location, kind of like a giant LEGO building. To top off the eco-cred the building was engineered to withstand large earthquakes and typhoons. Sounds like Taipei will be able to repurpose this building for a long time to come.
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November 9, 2010 at 3:40 am
Very cool! Saw photos of the Miniwiz EcoArk this weekend. I think it\'s for the international floral expo in Taiwan. Here\'s the link I stumbled on in Flickr:
August 10, 2010 at 6:50 am
miracle of construction !!!!and boon of environment….
June 8, 2010 at 12:19 am
Think of how much plastic will be reused if a mot of buildings were made out of these.A low carbon recycled plastic product. What else do you need!?
June 7, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Has anyone actually seen this building? And what are the actual pros and cons using this instead of glass, wood or any other building materials
April 16, 2010 at 5:56 pm
i guess thats one way to keep plastic bottles out of land fills.
April 16, 2010 at 2:59 am
It's a shame that the Web Store and most information links from the Polli-Bricks site are blocked because of malicious software. I'm sure they're a reputable company, but they should really get their commercial act together. VERY disappointing.
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Lewis Hamilton has billed Ayrton Senna as "one of the greatest winners" F1 has ever seen...
Lewis Hamilton has billed Ayrton Senna as "one of the greatest winners" F1 has ever seen.
20 years ago the triple World Champion was killed while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in one of the sport's darkest weekends.
Gone but not forgotten, the Brazilian is hailed as one of the greatest ever by many while drivers around the world have credited him with their love for racing.
Hamilton is one of those.
"Everyone loves a winner. That's just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had," the 2008 World Champion wrote in his column for the BBC.
"But more than that, he was a genuine hero - an iconic character who inspired people from all over the world.
"He made a massive impression on me when I was growing up.
"I started watching Formula 1 with my dad when I was just four or five years old. I loved cars. At the time, Senna and Alain Prost were the leaders of the pack and they immediately caught my attention.
"Ayrton was always very cool and composed when he was interviewed after the race. On top of that, kids are attracted to colours and I loved the orange and white McLaren and Ayrton's yellow helmet.
"I started to watch him and follow his success and, as I got a bit older, I began to want to know a bit more about the guy."
Highlighting what he most admired about the Brazilian racer, Hamilton said: "It was the fact that Senna was just an out-and-out racer that was most important to me.
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Why Netflix changed its pricing plans
Get ready for massive price hikes from netflix. There are a lot of things wrong with this, but it's not worth the time to get into. This just satisfactory DVD/streaming service just took a dump in my book.
Why Netflix changed its pricing plans
Netflix updated its pricing Tuesday, removing the ability to combine DVD-by-mail and streaming plans and effectively forcing subscribers to choose one or the other. For those that wish to continue using both services, the change effectively raises the price of a combined plan by 60 percent, which has already caused some subscriber unrest on the blog post announcing the change and around the Internet. But why did Netflix make the change?
Ultimately it comes down to money, as Netflix VP of Marketing Jessie Becker acknowledged in the company's blog post. "Given the long life we think DVDs by mail will have, treating DVDs as a $2 add on to our unlimited streaming plan neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs," she wrote.
The cost of its DVD-by-mail operations isn't supported by the $2 per month in additional revenues that Netflix gets from the previous add-on plan. While much of the infrastructure investment is a sunk cost and has been amortized over the years, supporting ongoing DVD operations isn't a winning strategy for a company that is betting big on streaming. The cost of postage alone argues against such a heavy discount for a continued DVD-by-mail plus streaming offering.
But there's another reason why Netflix is making this change: By forcing subscribers to choose, it's likely betting that most will go streaming-only, thereby lowering the infrastructure costs of supporting them. As we wrote last year, the real cost of its streaming service isn't defined by video storage, delivery or other infrastructure, but in the acquisition costs that come with it. That gives Netflix the ability to better manage its costs as it decides which content to invest in.
From an investor standpoint, splitting up Netflix's operations more clearly into streaming and DVD-by-mail services could also give further transparency into its business. Doing so would enable it to break out operational costs from its DVD and streaming units, something that it has been unable (or at least unwilling) to do so thus far. With a management and organizational structure that clearly defines operations into separate units — streaming, DVD and international — financial analysts and investors will get a better idea of what's driving revenues and costs. This could happen as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, once subscribers have been moved into one plan or another.
And finally, while Netflix weens subscribers off the combined plan and onto either a DVD- or streaming-only plan, there's a side benefit to breaking up its plans and effectively raising rates for those who subscribe to both: In the short term, at least, we're likely to see those who subscribe to both plans effectively subsidizing content acquisition costs for its streaming-only plan — except they'll be doing so at a higher rate ($7.99 versus $2 a month) and with more transparency.
If Netflix does break out financial operations in the coming quarters, as we suspect it will, we could see whatever profits might come from a combined plan or DVD-only being shuffled to support content acquisition, as Netflix invests ahead to support more aggressive subscriber growth, both in the U.S. and internationally.
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Along with ISPs charging more for bandwidth....if you want to stream movies you will be paying a lot more.
Netflix said Friday that moves by Internet service providers to charge users by the amount of data they use could end up costing consumers more.
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It's all BS. There's umpteen miles of fiber optics waiting to go online but the powers that be won't open them up even when the President said to do so years ago.
They just have to attach a fake shortage on anything we use so they can charge us more.
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To me, I think the real reason for the price increase is that most of the deals Netflix has with the studios ends next year and all the studios want a bigger piece of the pie.
When the Elephants dance, the mice get trampled.
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And why do these things happen? All in the name of money from all sides of the table. It's absolute rule and abuse never ends.
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Minor set back....
Just two weeks after announcing a price adjustment that angered many customers, Netflix came out Monday with a weaker-than-anticipated earnings outlook.
While the entertainment distributor reported a 52 percent rise in second-quarter revenue, it also reaffirmed a temporary slowdown in subscriber growth and said that its third-quarter revenue would be hampered by reactions to the price change. Netflix stock, which peaked above $300 earlier this month, dropped 10 percent in after-hours trading Monday, after closing at $281.53 earlier in the day.
Netflix Sees Angry Clients Cutting Profit
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Oops....guess it was a bad call. The Netflix price hike is costing them more than expected.
The announcement by Netflix that it estimates a one million subscriber loss is not much of a surprise if you think about it. The market's reaction to the news didn't help them as their share value dropped about 20% in one day.
They adjusted subscriber estimates from 25 million to 24 million and said that their financial projections for the quarter will not be affected by it. But shares fell $40 on Thursday after the announcement.
The company said that it knew the decision to raise pricing and split their services up had "upset many of our subscribers, which we don't take lightly, but we believe this split will help us make our services better for subscribers and shareholders for years to come." It's just too bad that their current subscribers and shareholders don't seem to agree as strongly.
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Most people seem to think that having both the DVDs and streaming on one website is much better and far more convenient. I completely agree. I also have to wonder, why couldn't netflix just keep everything like it was and then drop the DVD rentals when DVDs actually became irrelevant? Why do they have to go through the trouble of splitting the company in half into two separate companies and then disturb all their customers? It's pretty odd behavior and makes you think there could be some other reasons behind the scenes. Or why couldn't they wait at least another few years before doing something so drastic? They could've made it a more gradual process so they wouldn't freak everyone out. I don't think DVDs are going to disappear any time soon, at least I hope they don't. Streaming movies is not really that great yet. If you lose your internet or the speeds are slow, you're out of luck. I don't see reliable gigabit internet being hooked up anytime soon. A DVD player will keep on going unless you spill coffee all over it or the DVD is messed up (which is pretty rare). Anyway, the whole thing is silly to watch. I was already debating whether it was worth keeping the cheapest DVD plan from netflix and now I'm very close to closing the account. Who needs the extra hassle these days, especially when good movies are also hard to find?
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"This is history, right here," said Del. Maggie McIntosh (D-Dist. 43) of Baltimore, a bill supporter. "I'm convinced it will go to the voters, and I'm convinced we will win."
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This module parses the Accept-Language header and gives the most suitable locale for the user from a list of supported locales from your website.
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