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Citi's Fed Rejection Directly Rebukes Management Team
"They need to take aggressive action to show they're not the old Citigroup."
The stock of the oft-troubled megabank Citigroup is down more than 5% today following news yesterday that the Federal Reserve denied its request to increase its stock buyback to $6.4 billion and increase its quarterly dividend to 5 cents a share from its current $1.2 billion and penny levels.
The reason the rejection is weighing so heavily on its stock is because Citi management has been holding out hope for the increase. Going into the Federal Reserve's stress tests, which evaluate how a bank could withstand an economic crisis on the scale of what happened in 2008, Citi appeared to be well positioned to pass and increase its capital return to shareholders, which lagged well behind its peers like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
"It is five years after the financial crisis and Citi still doesn't have its act together," said CLSA analyst Mike Mayo.
Even more damning for Citi's management and relationship with regulators is that on the quantitative aspects of the test, Citi did the best among its peers. The bank really has been prudently building up its capital base, relying less on borrowing to fund its activities and more on retained earnings — which is bolstered by not paying out huge dividends and buybacks — and its equity.
Compared to JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, the Fed said Citi would have the highest capital ratio in its most extreme scenario for an economic downturn, with a 6.5% tier one common ratio compared to Bank of America's 5.3%, JPMorgan's 5.5%, and Wells Fargo's 6.1%. This ratio measures how much a bank funds itself with equity compared to borrowing, and the results show that Citi would be the healthiest of its peers in another financial crisis.
Citi also had the highest capital ratio, with a Tier 1 common ratio of 12.7% compared to JPMorgan's 10.5%, Bank of America's 11.1%, and Wells Fargo's 10.6%.
Taken together, this makes the Fed's rejection of Citi's rather modest request basically an indictment of its leadership. Mayo said in a note that the Fed's decision was a "shocker" and that Citi should think about breaking itself up and focus on "enhancing governance and holding managers more accountable."
"The Fed's decision makes it look like there is no level of capital that is sufficient whereby Citi could repurchase stock," Mayo wrote. "We believe it is time for management, including the Chairman, to indicate how Citi today will be much better than Citi in the past and take commensurate actions."
Mayo lowered his price target for Citi to $58 from $60 and said in an interview that, "Someone at Citi needs to be held accountable and to me that's the CFO [John Gerspach]."
Citi's new leadership was brought in a year and a half ago with the promise of improving the bank's relationship with regulators. The old regime, lead by former CEO Vikram Pandit and his President and Chief Operating Officer John Havens, was particularly faulted for not getting permission from the Federal Reserve to increase dividends and buybacks in 2012. The Wall Street Journal reported, "Pandit led the board to believe he had a close relationship with regulators" and that the board was "upset over Mr. Pandit's failure to anticipate the Fed's rejection of a plan to buy back shares."
The company's new management has been clear about its need to convince the Fed, with CEO Mike Corbat specifically stressing on its third quarter conference call that it must get the "qualitative" aspect of the capital return process right. "We laid out that we wanted to get the right result in terms of last year's submission. I think we got that and I think importantly, it just wasn't the quantitative piece, it was the qualitative piece," Corbat said.
Nomura analyst Steven Chubak said in a note today that the issues the Fed detailed could be fixed quickly, but that "Citi's relationship with regulators (CEO Corbat was widely perceived to have good rapport with the Fed) may take longer to mend."
In explaining its decision to reject Citi, the Fed said that the bank had "a number of deficiencies in its capital planning practices" and that Citi had difficulties projecting "revenue and losses under a stressful scenario for material parts of the firm's global operations."
One analyst, Gerard Cassidy at RBC Capital Markets, speculated that the Fed's rejection was at least partially tied to Citi's recent massive earnings restatement following its Mexican unit Banamex allegedly getting defrauded out of $400 million by oil services company Oceangrafia, which Corbat described as a "despicable crime." Citi had to restate its 2013 earnings by $235 million as a result. In a research note, Cassidy said, "We believe that the failure was driven from a qualitative perspective with the recent Mexico fraud investigation."
If that's the case, then one of Citi's putative strengths, its business and consumer lending across the world and especially Latin America, might be a weakness in the eyes of its most important regulator, the Federal Reserve. Some 39% of its $76 billion in revenue in 2013 came from overseas and 68% of its $13.7 billion in profits.
This March at an investor conference, Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach said, "Our goal is to increase the amount of capital that we return to shareholders over time," and that the bank's ability to hit its projected 10% return on tangible common equity, a widely watched measure of bank performance, "requires increasing the amount of capital returned to our shareholders in the coming years, subject to regulatory approval."
Those plans are on hold for at least a year, and Citi was only at 8.2% return in 2013. "It's not dead, it's delayed," Mayo said, referring to Citi's increased buyback plans.
Analysts at KBW downgraded Citi to its equivalent of a neutral rating following the Federal Reserve's decision. "We believed that the restructuring would support increased capital return in 2014 (and beyond)," said KBW analysts Frederick Cannon in a note. "However, restructuring has been slow to progress, in our view, and now Citi is faced with the possibility of lower capital return."
But Citi can always up its capital return later — the money hasn't gone anywhere — but Mayo thinks the bank's management needs to make a statement that its forcefully addressing the problems the Fed has identified. "They need to take aggressive action to show they're not the old Citigroup."
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Yo,BlackDragon99... you're so small,you can't bust out any rymes! You're stupid and and you're a jerk! Watch your face have blood instead of a smirk, 'cause that smirk will get u hurt.. and the blood will go down your shirt! You get beaten so quick and gets controlled by a boy... He can mess with your mind and make you his toy. That's all I got to say for today, and please go f yourself..if you may...
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This is funny because it's kind of childish, and you still refer to Mad as a guy? Well, nice try at a 'revenge' poem. ^_^
Oh wow, this is amazing, seriously you should consider a career at being a complete jackass.
Also, I thought you said you wouldn't be mean to me? But instead you call me controling? And yet, you say you want us to be 'cool' with each other. :/
'Cause you guys are like with each so much...and each time I hear ...oh Jimmy said that...Jimmy said this...it's LIKE your controlling them...and I don't want any crap today...if I speak..I speak nicely...and so do u and your friends...u got to tell them that...well anyways..,goodmorning.:)
This is mean, you remind me of my cousin 'cause he's your age and he tries to be supreme by trying to get 'revenge' buut, I don't know what Blackdragon said to you but it doesn't deserve any cruelness or bullying; this is a website for people to write not bully. :/
Hmmmm...would have been better if you'd cleaverly avoided using names. And someone controlling Mad? I feel sorry fr te silly fucker who tries. And Jimmy? Controlling? HA!
Anyway, nice shot kid, but ya still got a lot to learn. Not trying to be mean.
And don't forget-SPACING!
Kiddo what's the flow. I am glad you expressed yaself but frankly don't see the tempo. Also ya should space so the words are mote readable and have impact. Now mate I rhymed and because you are rude and making a big deal out of a poem that may not be about just you so know this poem is ALSO about some other people in my past.
this was funny ! I lovedd the ending !!! :D
>.< that's not very nice...
I have never read a bigger piece of crap. You rhyme with cheap rhymes, the first things you could think of, and, dude, this is just... Horrible. It makes me want to kill you just for ruining what poetry is.
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Communicating Global Change Science to Society
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As he stands at the enterance to this dark valley,
he can hear other's as they scream in agony.
He swallows hard,
and thinking about the burden he feels he has to carry.
He steps on to the path, "He is with me." he silently utters.
The mountains are high.
the winds blow decaying things all around
he can see a woman rocking back and forth,
sobbing as she sits on the ground.
She looks at her hands,
savagely, she starts tearing at her hair,
looking at the man,
he wonders if she knows he is standing there,
she screams "I've lost my child, I am nothing if not a mother.
He hugs her.
Still he moves forward...
Some have stopped on the side of the path,
some have no will to keep going,
some pounding at the base of the mountains,
others stare at the clouds as they insanely laugh,
While some move forward, praying, hoping.
As he makes his way through,
he can see some are thirsty,
he is tired, and cold, he knows this surely,
but he stops, giving some drinks and food,
giving his clothes to those who are nude.
He tells all within ear what he knows.
We must move forward...
Some follow him as days turn to months,
as he trips over rock, and steps into pot holes,
he looks back and tells them where he found the bumps.
As the rains come and go he turns craters into springs,
and helps to make shelter for those who are cold.
As they trek through pools of dirt and blood,
venomous snake hiss and snap at their feet,
the people hold each other's hands,
and encourage those who weep.
They keep moving forward...
The Valley of Weeping
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i'm not sure if i understand this one but from my point of view it seems as if you are talking about the despair that most of us experience in this journey called life, where most of us lose hope and some of us have the courage and strength to move forward regardless of bumps, pot holes and snakes.
a thriller and well versed as always keep it up my friend.
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> Mary asked or there was already a yellow montana
> Two were named that are different as statd by Tom Michelletti.
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Hotel investment firm Inland American Lodging Advisor has purchased two Courtyard by Marriott hotels in Pittsburgh for a combined $50.5 million. The hotels include a 182-room downtown property, sold for $35 million, and a 94-room property in West Homestead, Pa., sold for $15.5 million. The new owner plans $15,000 per-room upgrades for both hotels.
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Oregon State University nutrition professor Melinda Manore says many students are urged to try fad diets or lose weight in unhealthy ways. Manore, who published a review of study data in the Nestle Nutrition Institution Workshop Series, said strategies that athletes can use to maintain a healthy weight include having a high-fiber, high-quality protein breakfast, consuming enough protein throughout the day, regularly exercising and avoiding fad diets.
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The Brain Tumor SPORE Biospecimen/Pathology Core provides staff and technology dedicated to enhancing brain tumor biospecimen integrity and usability through use of optimized collection procedures; multi-modality preservation, processing, and analysis;histopathologic-molecular characterization;and computerized inventory and web-based request and tracking systems. All aspects of sample identification, processing and storage are performed with strict compliance to the College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines. In order to maximize sharing and integration of SPORE projects, the Tissue Core collects and makes available data derived from all distributed brain tumor biospecimens.
Specific Aims of the SPORE Biospecimen/Pathology Core: A. To acquire brain tumor patient biospecimens from the operating room and SPORE Animal Core with optimized handling to maximize cell viability and/or minimize the warm-ischemic interval so as to meet the tissue accrual requirements for the Brain Tumor SPORE projects and clinical trials.
This aim i s essential for all Projects. B. To perform quality control assays on archived brain tumor biospecimens collected from the operating room and SPORE Animal Core, to ensure availability of adequate numbers of consistently handled specimens that will yield high quality data for SPORE projects and clinical trials. C. To provide routine and advanced tissue handling/processing and analytical techniques, including immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), tissue microarray construction, DNA/RNA extraction, protein isolation, and preparation of viable cells thatwill advance project hypothesis development and goal attainment. D. To maintain a database containing demographic data, results from molecular analyses, and brain tumor patient biospecimen distributions (internal and external) that will be linked to relational clinical databases maintained by the Biostatistics and Clinical Core.
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A bicyclist did not try to kill a pickup truck driver when he shot him last year in an incident fueled by road rage, a jury found yesterday.
The jury of seven women and five men, however, found Robert Urick, 42, guilty of aggravated assault in the March 7, 2004, confrontation with truck driver William Nicoletti, 52.
Urick, of Monroeville, also was found guilty of carrying a firearm without a license.
Assistant District Attorney Ed Scheid had argued that Urick tried to kill Nicoletti, having fired at least two more rounds after wounding the driver in the arm.
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To Erin and David Guay of Lewiston, a son, Samuel Dax, Jan. 23, 2012. Grandparents are Raymond and Diane Guay of Lewiston and Michael and Caryl Giggey of Topsham. Great-grandparents are William and Felicia Weymouth of Bangor.
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Archinect - News 2017-02-26T14:45:25-05:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/149941416/philip-johnson-the-fascist Philip Johnson, the fascist Nicholas Korody 2016-04-19T13:30:00-04:00 >2016-05-07T00:04:39-04:00
Johnson returned home certain his life had been transformed. He found in Nazism a new international ideal. The aesthetic power and exaltation he experienced in viewing modernist architecture found its complete national expression in the Hitler-centered Fascist movement. Here was a way not merely to rebuild cities with a unified and monumental aesthetic vision for the Machine Age but to spur a rebirth of mankind itself. He had never expressed any interest in politics before. That had now changed.

"Over the next two years, Johnson moved back and forth between Europe and New York City. At home, he mounted shows and promoted modernist artists whose works he considered the best of the new. All the while, he kept an eye on the Nazis as they consolidated power. He had slept with his share of men in the demimonde of Weimar Berlin; now he turned a blind eye to Nazi restrictions on homosexual behavior, which brought imprisonment and even death sentences."

Read the rest of this fascinating excerpt from Marc Wortman's forthcoming book, 1941: Fighting the Shadow War in Vanity Fair. For more on Philip Johnson, check out these links:

Two of a kind: photographer Robin Hill contemplates the Farnsworth House and Glass House simultaneously

Philip Johnson's "Tent of Tomorrow" Receives $5.8M for Its Restoration

Philip Johnson Was a Nazi Propagandist

Buy a Night in Philip Johnson's Glass House for $30K at Neiman Marcus

 http://archinect.com/news/article/128096468/controversy-over-hitler-s-prora-beach-resort-continues Controversy over Hitler's Prora beach resort continues Alexander Walter 2015-05-26T15:15:00-04:00 >2015-06-01T22:01:34-04:00
Axel Bering and Michael Jacobi, the main investors behind the Prora project, claim they could not care less about a building once being dedicated to Hitler. [...] He and his partner, Michael Jacobi, both confess that because they had to comply with German regulations, their investment carries some Third Reich architecture qualities. They did, however, add a balcony, but otherwise they see Prora as a nice beach town and a solid investment.

Artist impressions of various sections of the Prora colossus and their new make-up (source: Seebad Prora):

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 http://archinect.com/news/article/116268834/vacation-resort-developers-help-complete-hitler-s-vision Vacation resort developers help complete Hitler's vision Alexander Walter 2014-12-18T13:33:00-05:00 >2014-12-27T21:51:56-05:00
Built by the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II, the Strength Through Joy resort was a Nazi vision of tourism's future. Happy, healthy Aryans would stay and play at the 10,000-room complex on the Baltic Sea, eating, swimming and even bowling for the Führer. Think Hitler's Cancun. [...] a group of investors in this seaside town is now doing what the Nazis never could: realizing the site's final stage of transformation into a vacation wonderland.

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When a well-intentioned Alabama teenager tweeted a smiling selfie taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she attracted a deluge of hatred and outrage from across the internet. Lambasted as disrespectful, insensitive and inappropriate, the selfie was later explained as a means of memorializing her visit to the camp for her father, who had passed away exactly a year prior to her visit. Her gesture was by no mean the first or last of its kind, and represents an inevitable schism in memorial politics – as traumas recede from lived-past into historical contexts, how should cultural inheritance be balanced against personal experience? And how can this balance be articulated in the memorial space?

Currently, Auschwitz-Birkenau is memorialized in a variety of ways, but the structures themselves are not being actively preserved. In 1947, the Polish government established a memorial to all victims, and opened an exhibition of prisoner paraphernalia at Birkenau in 1955. Auschwitz I, the original death ca...
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Philip Johnson was a terrible, hateful human being. And he wasn't just some casual Nazi sympathizer whispering, "maybe Hitler has some good ideas" in shadowy bars, either. He actively campaigned for Nazi causes in the U.S. and around the world. Johnson visited Germany in the 1930s at the invitation of the government's Propaganda Ministry. He wrote numerous articles for far right publications. He started a fascist organization called the Gray Shirts in the United States...

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Nuremberg plans to spend up to 70 million euro restoring the sprawling complex used by Adolf Hitler for his mass rallies, as debate continues in Germany over what to do with Nazi-era architecture. "This is a job of national importance, we cannot take it on alone," said Ulrich Maly, the Social Democrat mayor of the Bavarian city, who added he would ask for federal funds to complete the project.

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The unbending axis of architectural apologetics made for Speer is a double one...This defense, of course, is exculpatory only if it fails to make any distinction within the field of this expression or to consider any integral relationship between form and function. The more outré defense of Speer insists that he is not simply tarred with modernism's anti-classical brush but that he was an excellent architect, full stop.

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Prora was designed to accommodate 20,000 people in one go. Hitler was convinced Germany lost World War I because its population lost its nerve. His idea was to create cheap package holidays to wed the nation to Nazism and to shape happy, strong, well-rested new generations capable of winning the next war.

Germany's newest youth hostel offers access to one of the best beaches the Baltic has to offer. Sunseekers are flocking to the place, which is booked out for the summer season and is already receiving bookings for summer 2012. The hostel stands just meters away from one of the best beaches the Baltic Sea has to offer, but is located in a building with a deeply troubled past. The 400-bed hostel, which calls itself "the longest youth hostel in the world," was opened on July 1 in a gigantic former Nazi holiday hotel that stretches for 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) along the coast of the island of Rügen at the resort of Prora.


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>By the way 2: nearly all hostas are diploids
It's nice to know that nearly all hostas are diploids. Could you
pleas tell us which ones are not diploids?
Just because hostas look and behave like diploids doesn't mean they
aren't amphidiploids, also refered to as allo-tetraploids. With 60
chromosomes hostas are almost certainly amphidiploids.
Allo-tetraploids are called amphidiploids because they look like they
are diploids when you look at their meiosis - you see typical bivalent
pairing. If you cross two species, lets say species A and species B,
then the F1 hybrid has one set of A chromosomes and one set of B
chromosomes. If Chromosome set A is not homologous with chromosme set
B, then they don't pair during meiosis and the plant is infertile.
Some people say sterile, but that is not the most correct term. Now,
if you double up that plants chromosome numbers the plant will have
two sets of A chromosomes that can pair with each other and have two
sets of B chromosomes that can pair with each other. When you look at
the cells undergoing meiosis you see a cell with twice the number of
chromosomes as the two species, but each chromosome is undergoing
bivalent pairing, thus the hybrid is fully fertile and it looks like a
diploid. Polyploidization has been a significent factor in the
evolution of plants. Since you are a fruit fly and yeast geneticist,
NOT a higher plant geneticist, you are probably unaware of the
significence of polyploidization in plants and how it occures. For a
long time botanist thought that the different species produced a
diploid F1 and then sometime later there was natural doubling to the
tet level. However, we now know that this polyploidization in plants
has come about by unreduced gametes. The union of an unreduced egg
with an unreduced pollen sperm cell gives instant rise to a fertile
amphidiploid. You might be interested to know that Luther Burbank,
the great American horticulturist of the late 19th century and early
20th century was the first to have this occure under controlled
conditions with his introduction of the Garden Huckleberry or Wonder
Berry by crossing two poisonous Solanaceae plants. He repeated the
cross for 13 years without ever getting a pod to set and then one day
he got one pod to set with one seed and the resulting hybrid was fully
fertile and true breeding, and, interestingly, it was not poisonous
even though both parents were poisonous. This is what we call an
amphidiploid. He gave a presentation of this event to a horticulture
meeting in the early 20's, but, unfortunately, he wasn't a scientist
and he was mostly ridiculed. Today we know better.
Now, last year I planted a LARGE amount of ventricosa Aureomarginata
seed and got very few seedlings. I saved about ten or so of the more
interesting seedlings. The question is, are these going to be
triploids or tetraploids? These seedlings were as vigorous as
vigorous seedlings from other crosses, but there wasn't anything about
them to suggest they were tetraploid.
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The RS treatment looks good on the Audi TT. It drives even better.
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2Audi spotted testing new TT RS Roadster at the Nurburgring
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Last year, we reported that Audi was exploring other engines for the R8. This report may confirm the V6 is coming, along with other interesting tidbits.
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It was a small field of five. The stands were completely empty. And yet, the 2012 TTXGP World Championship was pretty frickin' awesome.
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"A race car has a soul."
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Audi has introduced an S Line Competition version of the TT that dresses things up with the S Line sport and exterior packages, plus a few extra features at reduced cost. Globally, it can be fitted to any TT with up to 211 horsepower, which for us means the standard 2.0 TFSI coupe since we don't get the diesel or smaller gas engines.
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It was only a matter of time, folks. As soon as Audi finalized its purchase of the Ducati brand, we knew to expect a slew of comparison tests pitting the German automaker's finest wares against the two-wheeled exotica rolling out of Italy's best-known motorcycle maker.
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The 2012 Audi TT RS Plus has officially bowed at the Geneva Motor Show. The stunning little coupe packs the same 360 horsepower and 343 pound-feet of torque as the TT RS we know and love here in the States, but with around 100 fewer pounds to lug around. Audi still isn't saying where the weight savings comes from, though we'd wager the coupe boasts lighter seats and less crash garb than its U.S. counterpart. Even with the all-wheel drive coupe's slimmer curb weight, the TT RS Plus still does the
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When we last checked in with the little bit of speculation there's been on the coming, third-generation Audi TT, rumors said the TT would move upmarket to make MSRP space below for a mid-engined Audi R4. With the R4's future in question, who knows how the TT will play it, but other scuttlebutt says that the TT will be on the MQB platform, will combine first- and second-generation designs and be lighter and more driver oriented.
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What's better than a 360-horsepower Audi TT RS? Well, not a whole heck of a lot, as we recently found while test-driving the pint-sized beast on American soil. But how about a TT RS Plus with more power and less weight? Now that's the ticket.
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Ah, wedding season. This time it's my little sister Sally's turn to walk down the aisle and say those life-altering words, and I couldn't be happier for her. But I would like to offer a few pieces of advice from nearly 16 years of marriage to my dear Rob (which is a mere drop in the bucket compared with my parents who are celebrating 53 years today — way to go, Mom and Dad!)
I'm pretty sure I'm no longer in the running for "Mother of the Year" because a true contender would never admit to dreading her kids' summer vacation. OK, maybe dreading is a bit strong. Let's just say I am wallowing in these last few scholastic days. Many moms I know are positively giddy this week, saying they look forward to having their children around all day, every day, and that they cannot wait until the final bell rings.
So there I was, standing in mountain Pose on my trusty blue yoga mat, preparing to do the balancing pose known as "tree" with the other students. But wait — I was alone at the front of the room…I was the instructor!
Fort Hood Lemonade Day is coming up this Sunday and Andrew decided he wants to participate.
This week I am thinking about time. Or more accurately, about the lack thereof. OK, here's the truth: I am a chronically late person. I'm not happy with this state of affairs but it's a fact.
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It's that time of year when all the women's magazines tout the new Spring fashions, featuring colorful, elaborate photo spreads of everything you can't afford, couldn't possibly fit into, or even find in your local area.
My little sister is getting married! She and her long-term boyfriend Josh recently got engaged while on a romantic Hawaiian getaway.
When I married my husband, I suppose I should have known he had another love. Oh the signs were all there but I pretended not to see them.


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'I've been left with no choice but to claim damages and apply for injunctions to stop the sewage being continually pumped into the sea. If I don't make a stand I might as well close shop', he said.
Mr Saltmarsh bought the beach five years ago and has invested pounds 2m on its development.
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You find it easy to fall in love. You accept people as they are, and you even can love someone's flaws.
Because you are so loving and caring, you are incredibly easy to love in return. Your heart is open and ready to be filled.
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NHL lockout: Alex Ovechkin's soul is in DC, says he'll return to Caps
|Ovechkin's soul still sits in Washington with the Capitals. (Getty Images)
Hey, do you remember that time when Alex Ovechkin said he might consider staying in the KHL even after a new CBA was reached? Well you can forget that.
Just in case it wasn't already clear that the captain of the Washington Capitals was just blowing some smoke and perhaps trying to use his name as some leverage for the players, Ovechkin made it pretty clear that he is looking forward to returning to Washington. Albeit he said it a touch more poetically.
Here is what he had to say to Igor Fein of vmdaily.ru -- translated by the Alex Ovetjkin blog -- regarding a potential return to the NHL when the lockout is over.
So once the lockout will be over, will you return to the NHL as soon as possible?
Certainly. I am very comfortable in Moscow, Russia in general, but my soul is across the ocean, in the NHL, with Washington Capitals, with whom I still hope to win the Stanley Cup.
Alas, every week, even every day and hour, the hope that the NHL lockout will be solved, is decreasing.
There you have it, Ovechkin yearns to reunite with his soul half the world away in our nation's capital. Or perhaps it's his bank account that he wants to return to in Washington.
Given the agreement between the NHL and KHL to honor existing contracts, it was going to be a nasty fight if Ovechkin had decided to try to stay in the KHL. He also would have lost out on the massive $9,538,462 annual salary through the year 2021. That's an awfully big incentive to come back to the NHL when this is all figured out.
Even still, Ovechkin said it's not just that he has a good thing going in Washington that he wants to return to -- it's also that the KHL really just isn't for him.
Here's how Ovechkin responded when he was asked what he doesn't like about the KHL experience.
The most annoying thing is almost complete lack of interest in hockey in Moscow, especially noticeable after sold out arena in St. Petersburg, not to mention other cities. For example, our game with CSKA was attended by fewer people than a basketball game CSKA -- Zalgiris. And the difference was enormous, three thousand spectators less than watching "Gullivers". We had around six thousand, the basketball game almost ten.
In addition, it is unclear why such stars and supposedly favorite players of our the country, as Alexei Yashin, Slava Kozlov, are not used as much as they could be? Unclear situation with a classy goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov, the dismissal of SKA St. Petersburg coach Milos Rzhiga. This is probably the kind of world record with a "minus" in front.
Basically, the KHL has its issues too. It sounds like somebody misses a whole city Rocking the Red.
Ovechkin and his other comrades who fled to the KHL could say all the while that they were considering staying in the Russia-based league, but it never had a real chance of happening. Whether they loved playing in the KHL or not, like Ovechkin has now admitted, the logistics of it just never made sense. It was the most transparent posturing of this entire lockout, and there has been plenty of posturing.
On the plus side, Ovechkin did just have one of his best games thus far in the KHL, recording his first hat trick of the season over the weekend thanks in part to Washington and Dynamo teammate Nicklas Backstrom. Ovechkin has 12 goals and 15 assists in 22 games and in case you're curious Backstrom has 7 goals with 11 assists in 13 games.
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this is really beautifully framed story. you can make more dramatic in various ways. the theme is flexible. good work.
Thanks. I'd like to expand it with more details. Just a attention-grabber for the first chapter, i'd actually like to make a novel out of it.
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Ulcer feelin much better, thank you — my avid readers. 🙂
So, Spencer is 2… and at times certainly showing the temperment of one. However, there are a few perks. For instance, every time I blow my nose he comes running wanting his own nose wiped. I mean, Conner would've broke through walls not to have his nose wiped. Weird.
And just now I was asking Spencer "What's your name" — he goes "ummm…. bab-bab"… but the look on his face while he says, "ummmmmmmmmmm…"
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Absinthe 14 arrived in yesterday's mail, and is loaded with interesting authors and pieces, including:
Myśliwski's grand epic in the rural tradition—a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man's connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plain-spoken and compassionate Szymek, recalls his youth in their village, his time as a guerrilla soldier, as a wedding official, barber, policeman, lover, drinker, and caretaker for his invalid brother. Filled with interwoven stories and voices, by turns hilarious and moving, Szymek's narrative exudes the profound wisdom of one who has suffered, yet who loves life to the very core.
They select some man, sufficiently experiment with him and only then identify him as the object of the experiment. They slip him hidden meanings of his multisense expressions which, for them, are univocal. They let him deal with it for years. What they tie in a knot through definition in a moment, he is forced to spend years untying through conscientious interpretation. In the meantime, their definitions are petrified solid. His interpretations appear, as if they were made of butter and deliberately throw them on his head, so that they could laugh at these babbles.
For those who wish to gain a closer knowledge of the peculiarities of the Balkan mindset, a reading of this text, which has the value of an emblem of national identity, is, I might say, obligatory. Of course, we are dealing with a "Balkanism" that has been filtered through the work of Huysmans and Edgar Allen Poe, captured in a hypnotic narrative whose density of meanings has led literary theorist Matei Calinescu to compare it with Borges' El Aleph. It is an unusual narrative, whose effects are those of an addictive literary drug.
There's also a piece by Thomas E. Kennedy called "A Visit to Hunger 120 Years Later," and book reviews of The Other City by Mchal Ajvaz (reviewed by Jeff Waxman) and When a Poet Sees a Chestnut Tree by Jean-Pierre Rosnay (reviewed by John Taylor).
As mentioned above, the Absinthe site for issue 14 is still coming together, but you can order the issue by clicking here.
Prose translators will likely disagree, but I believe translating poetry requires a significant level of talent, a commitment to the text, and near mania, all of which suggests that the undertaking is the greatest possible challenge. The task is to. . .
The biggest issues with books like The Subsidiary often have to do with their underpinnings—when we learn that Georges Perec wrote La Disparition without once using the letter E, we are impressed. Imagine such a task! It takes a high. . .
Following The Infatuations, Javier Marías's latest novel seems, like those that have preceded it, an experiment to test fiction's capacity to mesmerize with sombre-sexy atmospheres and ruminative elongated sentences stretched across windowless walls of paragraphs. Thus Bad Begins offers his. . .
Death by Water, Kenzaburo Oe's latest novel to be translated into English, practically begs you to read it as autobiography. Like The Changeling, as well as many other works not yet released in English, Death by Water is narrated in. . .
Jocelyne Saucier's Twenty-One Cardinals is about the type of unique, indestructible, and often tragic loyalty only found in families. For a brief but stunningly mesmerizing 169 pages, Twenty-One Cardinals invited me in to the haunting and intimate world of the. . .
We know so very little; so little that what we think to be knowledge is hardly worth reckoning with at all; instead we ought to settle for being pleasantly surprised if, on the edge of things, against all expectations, our. . .
Many of Virginie Despentes's books revolve around the same central idea: "To be born a woman [is] the worst fate in practically every society." But this message is nearly always packaged in easy-to-read books that fill you with the pleasure. . .
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's La Superba is appropriately titled after the Italian city of Genoa, where, after escaping the pressures of fame in his own country, the semi-autobiographical narrator finds himself cataloguing the experiences of its mesmerizing inhabitants with the intention. . .
It took reading 44 pages of Intervenir/Intervene before I began to get a sense of what Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez were up to. Recurring throughout these 44 pages—throughout the entire book—are shovels, shovel smacks to the face, lobelias—aha!. . .
As presaged by its title, contradiction is the theme of Peter Stamm's novel, All Days Are Night. Gillian, a well-known television personality, remains unknowable to herself. And Hubert, a frustrated artist and Gillian's lover, creates art through the process of. . .


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City manager choice draws rave reviews
SANTA ANA A fiscal crisis. The desire for transparency in government. Transportation and housing needs.
Santa Ana and Phoenix have in recent years shared a number of these issues.
And now, the stage is set for the city manager of Phoenix, David Cavazos, to become the next city manager of Santa Ana. The City Council will vote Monday whether to approve a contract with Cavazos to lead city government.
Cavazos, 53, would leave a city where he has worked for more than 25 years, starting as a management intern. In government circles, he has gained a reputation for innovation and for helping his city weather a recession in a way that it was able to meet its obligations to residents.
"He's done a very good job of managing the city through difficult times," said Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton. "We have a sometimes divided council. He did a good job working with all sides, staying neutral, and that's something I admired as mayor."
Members of the Santa Ana council say he was their unanimous top choice.
The council will consider approving a three-year employment agreement, which would become effective Oct. 21. Under terms of the contract, which includes automatic renewals, Cavazos would receive $315,000 in an annual base salary the first year, plus benefits, including moving expenses and a housing allowance. According to a city report, the estimated first-year cost of the agreement is $558,625, $515,395 in the second year and $515,895 in the third. He'd succeed Kevin O'Rourke, interim city manager.
"From the candidates we interviewed, he stood out with his background and experience," Councilwoman Angelica Amezcua said. "We wanted the best for the position. We all felt he definitely stood out above all the other candidates."
She said council members noted his experience working in a much larger city, while many in the pool of 64 candidates lacked experience working with a city of Santa Ana's size. A plus, she said, was his bilingual ability.
Cavazos would be Santa Ana's first Latino city manager, city officials say.
"For us, a big element he possesses is his belief in transparency," said Mayor Pro Tem Sal Tinajero. "The belief in open government is something that we have worked hard to cultivate here. The other item that really stood out was his ability to bring back Phoenix from a budget deficit, and his ideas to do that. He will have the know-how to increase our stability in the city of Santa Ana."
Tinajero said Cavazos had developed a good relationship with a diverse community and council.
"He is able to build bridges between communities so that everyone works together for the common good," Tinajero said.
Stanton said Cavazos is responsive and professional. Phoenix leaders also noted his involvement in the community through such activities as Phoenix Children's Hospital, where he's immediate past chairman, and the Cesar Chavez Foundation, which has a Phoenix office.
The mayor said he and the city manager visited nearly 100 businesses together, trying to determine what they needed to grow and increase hiring. Cavazos also worked to keep water prices down and advocated an expansion of the city's light-rail system, using local rather than federal dollars.
"He's a business-like guy. He makes tough choices," the mayor said.
When Cavazos stepped into the city manager's position in Phoenix, the city faced a $277 million budget deficit. "He helped launch a major fiscal turnaround, resulting in a structurally balanced budget in just two years," a city of Santa Ana news release said. Cavazos established an Innovation and Efficiency Task Force, which generated $59.7 million in annual savings, a 2012 report said. He set a total savings goal of $100 million by 2015.
He also noted in a 2010 report that the city had received an award for transparency and conducted 10 to 15 community budget hearings annually.
In Phoenix, Cavazos was responsible for managing a $3.6 billion budget. Santa Ana has a general fund budget for 2013-14 of $205.7 million.
"His number one strength was a real focus on creating efficiencies, doing more with less," Stanton said.
According to his Web page in the city of Phoenix website, the city under his tenure also initiated a strategic plan to determine how to best allocate city resources and developed an ongoing organizational review process which has led to a reduction in management layers and enhanced service delivery, resulting in the smallest government in Phoenix in 40 years.
Nevertheless, his service in Phoenix wasn't without controversy. The Arizona Republic reported in 2006 that Cavazos was among a half-dozen city employees who were suspended for violating travel policies.
At the time of the five-day suspension, Cavazos was an acting deputy city manager. Most of his travel charges were incurred while he was at the Aviation Department, where he had served as both acting aviation director and assistant aviation director.
At issue were international airline fares incurred by department employees who flew business class to Europe and Asia. Cavazos said he had reimbursed the city $911.76 in expenses.
"The major issue was the business class (travel)," he said in a 2009 story in the Republic, when he was hired as city manager. "We as public servants need to realize that the public expectation in that case was we should be flying coach, and we didn't do that. And when we didn't do that, people were disappointed. … Nobody has been more pained than me, the humiliation, the embarrassment."
Cavazos was at the center of another controversy last year when the City Council voted to increase his pay by $78,000. Employee unions protested the move, saying Cavazos should not see a large pay hike when a hiring freeze remained in effect for police officers, and city employees hadn't had their pay and benefits fully restored after taking a cut three years earlier, the Republic said.
The increase raised Cavazos' annual salary to $315,000, not including a car allowance, longevity bonus and deferred compensation.
City Council members said the increase was justified because Phoenix paid its manager substantially less than cities of comparable size, and noted that he led his city through a fiscal crisis and raised efficiency.
"His commitment to his employees and to the taxpayer allowed him to negotiate peaceful agreements that led to closing the $270 million deficit he inherited when he took the job as manager," said Councilman Michael Nowakowski. "I am very sorry to see him go."
The City Council meets at 5:45 p.m. Monday in its chambers at 22 Civic Center Plaza. Call 714-647-6520.
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Because, sometimes a bike race looks like this. Maybe time to start a little mud cloth.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
summer sewing
Instagram. The ease of process in posting a photo or two over there is working well with our all over the place summer schedule.
12 comments Labels: appliqué, Boys of Mine, Dyeing, Fringe, Indigo, tablequilt, Technique
Monday, May 2, 2016
Thread of Days into May
I started working on this post when the title would have been "...into April" and then lost my hold on that whole month.
Many bicycle related things going on: My husband and I have become more involved in our boys' bike team and really enjoying meeting new friends with a passion for being outdoors and nurturing a lifetime love of bike riding. We have spent some time nursing our 12 year old's broken collarbone, also bike related. In his new place on the sidelines, he has become a contributing member to many conversations and I have learned so much about him by just listening. But, one boy a bit broken and slowing down seems to have resulted in our other boy just going faster and faster. Oh. My.
It's a very busy time, and my absolute favorite season. I can't get enough of all the green and being completely worn out from digging in dirt all day is really the best kind of tired. End of the year school activities are near, summer trips and visitors inching closer, and the garden growing faster than we can keep up with. These threads of days continue into green.Thanks so much to all who are still following along here, despite all my gaps in communication.
5 comments Labels: Boys of Mine, draw, journaling, stitched line, thread of days
Friday, January 29, 2016
Thread of Days
January is gone! I started this in November right around Thanksgiving. A day spent in the creek at my parents' house started the fossils. Then a tangle of things after that.
I was inspired to work on a sort of journal kind of stitching after following the last few months of Lynn Harrigan's daily calendar project on Instagram. For one year, Lynn beautifully documented the weather and experiences of each day in thread.
This project of mine grows by week rather than by day. I really wanted to work on something about process. No pulling threads out or worrying too much about how it turns out, I will just keep drawing and stitching.
My firstborn had his 12th birthday last week and on we go. I thought I would say a lot more about all the imagery, but I don't really need to now. January is gone and it's all I can do to keep up. It's all in the threads and that's the point.
Maybe just a bit about the most recent stitches...a memory of last weekend's walk by moonlight through the pasture and woods. An idea of my wonderful park ranger at heart husband. We had friends, kids, and dogs along with us and could see well enough with the moonlight reflected off the snow.
The little drawing of the woven bits = just a fragment of some recent developments.
16 comments Labels: draw, stitched line, thread of days
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Solidago and the Pollinators
I machine stitched around and between all of the hand stitching for that crinkle that I love.
This quilt is for the buzzing little lives of our late summer garden. The warm, welcoming golds and yellows of the goldenrod would draw you in for a closer look. We put our faces so so close to the starry structure of the blooms. Each bloom head was crawling and buzzing with pollinators too busy with their task to even notice us. This quilt will be our winter buzz.
11 comments Labels: Boys of Mine, draw, Home, Quilt Projects, Solidago
Thursday, September 3, 2015
golden greens
Just over three months have gone by since I posted here last, and wow it went so fast. I have been watching the garden grow and my boys too - trying to keep up with all of them - the boys and the garden.
The late season bloomers in our yard are gearing up for their show. We have several varieties of native goldenrod, most abundantly - Solidago rigida. It's not at all picky about soil or light or anything so has been a prolific self-seeder, so it seems the perfect choice for dyeing.
So far I have only used the stems and leaves with cottons and raw silk fabrics. No luck with the cotton, which was not surprising. The raw silk has been wonderful - celery green, pale yellow and most recently gold.
I tried painting with a bit of likely tannin-rich mud from our pond. It didn't affect the dye so much as just make a mud stain, but I like it. Like everything else, the mud preferred the silk. I am excited to work more with the mud. I love the raw nature in this process - making marks with wet dirt. On the silk it's kind of amazing really, and these are shown already machine washed and dried.
Before going much further with the dyeing I am thinking about what I would really use. At first I liked the greens, but that green and gold variation - especially in the middle block - is just beautiful.
Next try I will be working on repeating that.
I am also thinking about how beautiful these colors might be with walnut browns.
14 comments Labels: Boys of Mine, Dyeing, mud, Solidago, Traditional Blocks
Friday, May 29, 2015
little Bur oak whorl tablequilt
We can also always use another surface-saving welcome spot for handmade ceramics. If Eva finds it unoccupied we can just start calling it a cat mat.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Burr oak leaf whorl
I started this little tablequilt inspired by a few large Bur oak leaves I had pressed from last season. Spring arrived as I worked on it and I decided to show the way the leaves grow as they emerge. All of the leaves are from a tree in our yard that my husband started from an acorn five years ago. The acorn was dropped by gigantic and ancient Bur oaks that stands at the edge of a favorite park in our town. Now our little tree has already set acorns and is well over six feet tall.
The leaves are attached to each branch in a beautiful radial whorl pattern. This is very noticeable at the ends of the branches. It's really beautiful. So this little quilt has turned into something to honor this young tree and what is just the very beginning of its' timeline.
A sensitive edge has been sketched in so that it will follow the shape of a few of the larger leaves. I am going to push the limits of what I have done so far with a shaped edge and see what happens - trying to work a few things out to make something on a much larger scale.
8 comments Labels: Home, Inspirations, leaves, sensitive edge, tablequilt
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
the color journal quilt
It was beautiful out yesterday. I had been waiting for a day like that to take photos of the color journal quilt. It is really and truly finished and officially into chilly morning usage in our home.
This quilt was a bit of a test on construction. I had stitched the diamond pattern running stitch on each individual block with just a light piece of fabric on the backside to support the stitches. I used a flannel sheet as batting and cotton as the back and quilted the large diagonal lines to hold all of the layers together in the end. I was so happy to pull the quilt out after washing and drying and see no distortion between the unstitched and heavily stitched areas on the front. With not a lot of quilting through all the layers it has more of a comforter feel and the weight of it is really nice. Creating dense areas of stitch on each block as I go along adds texture and pattern with not a lot of bulk to stitch through. This frees me up to quilt the layers together in more of an open pattern for the comforter feel in the end construction.
This is one of many funny attempts to photograph the quilt outside by myself using the timer. I just had to show the redbud trees. I met someone recently who had moved here from the west and didn't know about the redbuds. They are a favorite of mine.
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It is a mystery that only a MSTie could know. For the fans of the revolutionary science fiction comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000: how long has it been since the Peabody Award, or the Emmy Award nominations, or the Siskel and Ebert-approved motion picture release? How long has it been since the culmination of the show's momentous ten seasons and the end of the show's syndication? To add insult to inquiry, this notice appeared on the MST3K FAQ (frequently asked questions) site:
Q: So, it's over?
A: Yes. There will be no new episodes of MST3K.
It would seem as if all the MSTies now are trapped in outer space while being forced to watch cheesy movies, the worst that can be found, "la la-la." After four years of numbing space silence, the cast and crew of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have finally returned for an encore. They have combined forces to form Cinematic Titanic and cast their silhouettes on the 1970s horror movie Brain of Blood.
Of course, most of the horror in Brain of Blood turns out to be unintentional, but this is a type B movie after all. Equipped with their signature comedic method of riffing off horrible movies, the players of Cinematic Titanic delightfully transform a scary awful film into a hysterically hip jaunt down scrutiny lane. Cinematic Titanic's braining of The Brain of Blood is titled The Oozing Skull. The original Brain of Blood is sold separately and batteries of jokes are not included.
Let's bone up on the movie. It is a tender story of brain drain, about a beloved foreign dignitary, Abdul Amir, who secretly dies and comes to America because the only way to regain his life is to transplant his brain into another person's body via an infamous doctor who has gone mad. The mad surgeon's lackey bungles the body-snatching mission which forces them to make other plans. The last minute body they find for the Amir's brain isn't exactly an improvement from his previous (too dead) one. "Zippy the Pinhead?" asks Joel. Then the whole evil scheme implodes into a black hole of chaos that becomes this monster of a film.
What stars from Mystery Science Theater 3000 grace the foreground? The Skull oozes stars none other than (creator) Joel Hodgson, (writer/actor) Trace Beaulieu, (writer/actor and person who has not left the building) J. Elvis Weinstein, (TV's) Frank Conniff, and (writer/actress/casted Pearl) Mary Jo Pehl. Fans will be happy to know that even though the rest of the MST3K crew including (Joel pro tempore) Mike Nelson, (Crow II) Bill Corbett, and (regular Saturday night Servo) Kevin Murphy missed out in all the Oozing goodness, but they still flow with the bon mots over at FilmCrewOnline and RiffTrax.
For the DVD, the disc is pretty stripped down as far as features go. The packaging art is nonexistent and the label doesn't have any of the retro 1970s horror movie poster feel or comic book appeal. Cinematic Titanic lacks the variety show aspect of the original MST3K. You won't see any musical numbers like "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas," comedy sketches featuring robots with the Pinocchio Syndrome, puppetry, or prop comedy invention exchanges in The Oozing Skull. But unlike MST3K, The Oozing Skull has a special guest star appearance that participates in a drive-by spoofing. Also, the cast and crew are in rare comedic form. This heady stroke of genius packs more zingers than the Hostess brand.
So although the Satellite of Love will now only orbit the hearts of fans, and although Tom Servo's inoperable arms will now only flap away the blues in a DVD boxed set or in Jim Mallon's cartoons, MSTies can appreciate that in a way the hilarious experiment will go on.
All this means one thing to the MSTies from coast to coast: WE'VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!
I've always wanted to say that.
The Oozing Skull is on sale now at EZ Takes. The motion picture of Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been re-released and can be purchased through Amazon. Also available at Amazon is Kevin Murphy's new book A Year At The Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey.Powered by Sidelines


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Waterford — Some went without an extra slice of pumpkin pie on Thursday. Others rushed their Thanksgiving dinners and some didn't eat at all, all in the name of a good deal.
Retailers like Sears, Toys R Us and Wal-Mart were scheduled to open their stores just hours after many holiday revelers had finished their Thanksgiving meals. And as shoppers lined up outside, store employees were reporting to work.
Nationwide, workers at retail chains such as Wal-Mart and Target threatened to go on strike or criticized their employers for the early hours, but there weren't any protests happening Thursday evening at the Wal-Mart in Waterford.
Jim Pepas and his friends and family arrived at Waterford Commons Thursday around 1 p.m. in his recreational vehicle.
He set up a grill, a coffee pot and some lawn chairs and instantly became the saving grace not only for his friends and family but also for a handful of people who had been in line at Best Buy since Wednesday afternoon.
"I'm not a big fan of standing in lines," Pepas, of Uncasville, said. "I won't do it at all."
But his family members queued up at retailers such as Sears and Target.
"I'll stay here and hold down the fort. I've got the heat on in there, it's got a bathroom, all the luxuries of life," he said of his RV.
One of the people who had availed themselves of Pepas' kindness was a Plainfield man who asked not to be identified and was the first in line at Best Buy. He had been waiting for 29 hours as of Thursday evening.
With the store opening at midnight and with six hours of waiting left to go, he was confident in his ability to stay awake. If he wanted to nap, however, his tent was just a few feet away.
Terrell Gray said he arrived at Best Buy at 11 p.m. Wednesday and that he had "skipped Thanksgiving completely."
"Well, there's always Christmas," he said. "This is the first time I've been in fourth place."
Trying to keep warm in three pairs of pants and two jackets, a hat and gloves, Gray said that the only time he came close to regretting his efforts to get the best deal on a laptop and two televisions, among other things, was in the wee hours of the morning.
"At 3 a.m., it was brick outside. It was super cold. I don't think I've ever been that cold in my entire life," he said.
But he stayed put. He had his own shopping agenda, and some of his friends had paid him to sit in the line and buy what they wanted. He said he felt safe because police had stopped by periodically throughout the evening to check on the people in line.
Around 6 p.m. Thursday, at Toys R Us, the parking lot was pitch black. Though the store's sign was unlit, about 20 people stood in line.
Naomi Rivera had secured her place at the head of the line before the sun went down. The New London resident said she arrived at 3 p.m., coffee in hand. Her sister would later deliver a plate full of Thanksgiving morsels for energy, just before the doors opened at 8 p.m.
"I'm getting a PlayStation 3 and a tablet," Rivera said.
Some shoppers, such as Kristine Staehle of East Lyme and Erica Askew of New London, chose to compare prices online and at other retailers before coming to Toys R Us.
"I do this every year. Last year, I saved $200 on toys for my 1-year-old and my 3-year-old," Askew said.
Groton resident Iris Campanile and her daughter, Andrea, arrived at 4 p.m. and were No. 3 and No. 4 in line. As two of the first 200 people in line, they were looking forward to their free surprise bags full of $30 worth of merchandise.
Camping out in front of a store for Black Friday was a first for Andrea, 14, who said that all she cared about was buying a toy for her younger sister.
"She's been wanting to do this forever," Iris Campanile, of Groton, said. "I've been doing Black Friday stuff since I was 13. It's more of a bonding experience for us than anything."
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