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Editor's Note: July is Ice Cream Month on Serious Eats: New York! To celebrate, we're spotlighting a scoop we love every day.
We don't have much in the way of farm-to-freezer ice cream in this city, which is why I'm all the more grateful for Ronnybrook Milk Bar in Chelsea Market. Their ice cream is some of the most dairy-forward I've had in New York; it really does taste like ice cream from a cow that's walked around happily its whole life, and has an almost elastic chew like a lot of New England's frozen treats.
Blueberry ($3.54 for two small scoops, $4.63 for four) is lovely but a little inconsistent: some bites taste intensely of berries, but others are more about mild cream. If you think of this as a berries and cream flavor, you'll be quite happy—especially once you dig into the sweet-tart blueberry skins. Ginger offers a warm, balanced spice and pleasant chunks of candied ginger. Ginger ice creams are often weak—or worse, too spicy. This is just right.
Ronnybrook Milk Bar
Chelsea Market
75 9th Avenue (map)
About the author: Max Falkowitz is the editor of Serious Eats: New York. You can follow him on Twitter at @maxfalkowitz.


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Greendale police remind drivers shop safely
Mall construction adds to parking lot challenges
Greendale - Construction work at the south end of Southridge Mall comes with a cautionary reminder from the village's Police Department about parking lot safety.
Incidents, such as a serious infraction one year ago, can result in citations to drivers, but police generally simply want drivers to be careful under new and challenging circumstances at the mall, 5300 S. 76th St.
"We just wanted to make sure that people are aware that part of the area will look different to drivers, even if they are familiar with the parking lots," said Sue Zuber, Greendale police administrative assistant. "It's a high-traffic area with cars and pedestrians."
Zuber said police officers have been working with mall security to ensure maximum safety.
The department issued a press release as construction got underway to emphasize the change in environment that can cause problems.
"Hundreds of vehicles come and go from Southridge Mall over the course of a week," the department noted. "Due to mall renovations and the new construction project on the south end of the mall, there may be detours and the possibility of poor visibility due to construction signs and equipment. … Let's all slow down and drive with care and consideration for other drivers when driving in the parking lots.
The notice added;. "Our shopping experience will be safer and more enjoyable."
The notice points out that while not all traffic laws are enforceable on private property such as the mall, the village does enforce ordinances that cover a variety of poor driving issues, including speeding, failing to stop at posted signs and driving recklessly.
Reckless driving was enforced in August 2010, when a 21-year-old off-duty mall security officer, arriving at the lot to report to work, reportedly decided to "play chicken" with a fellow security officer driving a mall vehicle.
Illegally cutting across the lot, the report states the driver nearly hit a man and two young children who were walking to a mall entrance.
The adult pedestrian reported the incident and it was recorded on a mall security camera.
"Citations being issued on Southridge property are not common," the department release said. "It only occurs when a person's driving is dangerous to others or themselves and frequently is because a citizen called to complain about other driver's actions or due to an accident in the parking lot. Mall security patrols will call the police if they observe reckless driving."
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navy check Golden Fleece 3 btn sack suit
light blue check shirt with red windowpane
pocket square
All from Brooks Brothers
2 checks, a stripe and a dot pattern. Blue in all 4 pieces. Red is an accent in the shirt and dominates in the tie. Yellow is an accent in the tie and dominates the pocket square.
Lots of great stuff in this thread but the Duke of Windsor on page 65 of Dressing the Man is still my favorite 4 pattern combo.


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Files with a .ths extension can be Textual Haskell Source. Currently you have .hs (source code is the main thing), .lhs (comments are the main thing) and now you have .ths (text is the main thing).
The code: darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/ths
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Note that in this example I am escaping the code (with > ticks), and the text is just the main bit. I also have which is substituted inline.
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I used PTI's Beautiful Butterflies and Lovely Leaves stamp sets. The ribbon is PTI's Fine Linen Satin Ribbon spritzed with a little Cherub Pink Tattered Angels mist....I am so loving this combination!
Rustic Cream Cardstock
Lovely Leaves Stamps
Beautiful Butterflies and Dies
Filigree Border Die
Heart Border Die
Aqua Mist Ink
Berry Sorbet Ink
Simply Chartreuse Ink
Fine Linen Ribbon
Other Supplies:
Tattered Angels Cherub Pink Mist
Tim Holtz Spun Sugar and Tea Dye Distress Ink
Fruit Punch Stickles
Prima Lace
Recollections Pearls
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The feature film Act of Valor might be headed for a series on TNT. A project is in development there involving the film's producers as well as the writer from Suits, Sean Jablonski and Bones producer Barry Josephson that could see the Navy SEALS story brought to television.
THR says the movie, which was released in February, is being adapted for the small screen by Jablonski, who left Suits prior to Season 2. Act of Valor is an unusual film in that it stars actual active duty Navy SEALS mixed in with actors including Roselyn Sanchez and Nestor Serrano; unfortunately that led to some serious panning of the acting by the critics. Still, the film was a pretty big box office success and was nominated for a Teen Choice Award. It tells the tale of a group of Navy SEALS whose mission it is to rescue a kidnapped CIA agent, and is inspired by real events. The movie apparently started out as a training film before finding its way to the big screen. There's not a lot of information on how closely the potential series would follow the format of the original film, especially in terms of casting. It seems unlikely that active duty Navy SEALS would be able to participate in a series project on a regular basis; without that the concept loses a lot of its originality and becomes just another war series. Still, it could be a good fit for TNT's drama lineup. They've also got another 7 potential drama series in development and have yet to make a call on the much-hyped pilot for L.A. Noir UPDATE: THR now reports a correction to the original story, stating that the new project isn't in fact based on Act of Valor. Instead it's a new project called React that comes from the same people behind the movie, and focuses on a black ops team and based on a true story. It's not officially connected to Act of Valor as originally reported.
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Originally, using the IMAP feature in ISPCONFIG 2 allowed me to use multiple folders at the root layout of the mail box. Upon moving to ISPCONFIG 3 and copying the mailbox data over, all folders are subdirectories of the Inbox and look quite ugly. How can I rebuild the mailbox tree so that all folders are at the root instead of subdirectories of Inbox?
The mailbox structure is the same in ispconfig 2 and 3 is the same as long as you used the same pop3 / imap daemon as this structure has nothing to do with ispconfig, it is created and managed by the imap daemon. If the mailbox looks differently in your imap client, you might have moved the folders to a wrong directory.
Currently, my directory structure looks like: Index | - Forum Posts | - Orders | - Hosting Details | - Sent | - Trash The structure is the same whether I'm using SquirrelMail or Outlook IMAP. Prior to moving to ISPCONFIG 3, it was: Index Forum Posts Orders Hosting Details Sent Trash How would I move everything to obtain that old structure?
My email directory is the following: Code: my:/var/vmail/derdggdn.com/derek# ls -lah total 1.1M drwx------ 27 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 23:09 . drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-05-25 10:15 .. -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 103 2010-04-13 00:50 .antivirus.rc -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 938 2010-04-13 00:50 .autoresponder.rc drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-15 00:08 courierimaphieracl drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-07 14:15 courierimapkeywords -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 196 2010-04-15 00:08 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 37K 2010-07-08 23:09 courierimapuiddb drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 108K 2010-07-08 23:15 cur drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 20:46 .Deleted Items -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 8.4K 2010-04-14 23:36 dovecot.index -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 398K 2010-04-14 23:36 dovecot.index.cache -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 74K 2010-04-14 23:45 dovecot.index.log -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 129K 2010-04-09 10:04 dovecot.index.log.2 -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 13 2009-06-30 15:34 dovecot-keywords -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 25K 2010-04-14 23:36 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-28 11:38 .Drafts drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-07 15:41 .Forum Posts -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 68K 2010-04-13 00:50 .html-trap.rc -rw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 435 2010-07-08 23:03 ispconfig_mailsize drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 22:24 .Junk drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-15 00:08 .Junk E-mail -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 3.8K 2010-04-13 00:50 .local-rules.rc drwx------ 20 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-14 23:45 Maildir -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 3.5K 2010-07-08 23:15 maildirsize -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 204 2010-04-13 00:50 .mailsize.rc drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 23:04 new -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 656 2010-04-13 00:50 .quota.rc drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-06-22 13:12 .Registrations \drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 23:15 .Sent drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-06-10 22:10 .Sent Items drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2009-05-11 14:25 .spamassassin -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 1.2K 2010-04-13 00:50 .spamassassin.rc drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-15 00:16 .Spam Issue -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 148 2010-04-04 21:07 subscriptions drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-04-15 00:16 .Tax Data drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 23:49 tmp drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-07-08 23:09 .Trash drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4.0K 2010-05-08 22:53 .Travel Documents -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 2.2K 2010-04-13 00:50 .user_prefs -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 32 2010-04-13 00:50 .vacation.msg drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4.0K 2009-05-11 14:25 web This has something to do with NAMESPACES where the configuration from Perfect Setup seems to have all folders aside from INBOX as being private subfolders for INBOX. I have no clue where NAMESPACE information is stored for ISPCONFIG3. I'm using Courier and Maildrop according to the ISPCONFIG panel.
As mentioned in my post above, it looks as if you switched to another imap daemon. Which imap daemon have you used in ispconfig 2? For example, courier uses INBOX. as namesapce while dovecot does not use namespaces. So if you copied the imape folders from a dovecot system to courier, the layout may change. See also: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier As I mentioned above, thts related to the imap daemon that you use and not ispconfig.
I believe dovecot on ISPCONFIG 2 and then it's courier on ISPCONFIG 3. I used the default daemon on both installs.
Yes, when receiving mail (I use Thunderbird v14 or Squirrelmail 1.4), the mailbox structure of ISPconfig 3 with courier is incorrect but functioning correctly. Every other folders become subfolders of INBOX. The structure is: +Inbox | - Drafts | - Sent | - Archives | - Junk | - Trash The correct normal structure should be: Inbox Drafts Sent Archives Junk Trash Please correct it in the next release.
This is not related to ISPConfig at all, so nothing we could correct. Courier always has the folders inside inbox, thats courier specific, take a look at the courier docs and I explained that already. You can set inbox as prefix in your imap client if you want to get them displayed as dovecot is doing it or use dovecot. And take a look at the perfects etup guide, it is explained there how o set the prefix in squirrelmail.
Yes, I know how to make the mailbox prettier: Courier IMAP Client Configuration: http://www.karmak.org/2003/courier-imap/thunderbird-1.5/


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Toll Brothers, a national builder of luxury homes, is building two neighborhoods within Mountain's Edge, which was named the No. 1-selling master-planned community in the United States in 2007 by Robert Charles Lesser & Co., an independent real estate advisory firm.
Nestled against the rugged foothills of the southwestern Las Vegas Valley, Mountain's Edge is a 3,500-acre family oriented master plan.
It will include four elementary schools, shopping centers, restaurants and more than 500 acres of parks and trails upon completion.
Toll Brothers' Mirasol at Mountain's Edge features seven two-story, single-family homes in two collections -- Balboa and Monterossa. All seven home designs have been modeled and showcase options available.
The Balboa Collection includes four floor plans -- Miramar, Sonoma, Solano and Verano. Ranging from 2,489 to 3,151 square feet, the homes are designed with courtyards, master suites, formal dining rooms, great rooms and kitchens with features. Home prices begin in the high $300,000s.
Mirasol's Monterossa Collection, priced from the high $500,000s, has three floor plans from 2,600 to 3,142 square feet -- Botticelli, Bellini and Trapani.
Residents at Mirasol have access to all Mountain's Edge amenities, as well as a private community pool house. The two-story Mediterranean-style cabana is accompanied by a 2,000-square-foot pool, spa, covered patio, barbecue area and restrooms.
Madera at Mountain's Edge, which is nearing completion, includes the Messina, Cellini and Catania floor plans.
The semi-custom, two-story, single-family homes have up to 4,200 square feet and are priced from the high $500,000s.
In addition to several other home sites, the fully furnished Cellini model home, with central courtyard, is offered for sale.
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What would you do if you were told you only had a year to live? Would you rail against fate for this terrible injustice handed to you? Or would you do as Cathy does in The Big C and re-evaluate everything and do life your way?
In The Big C, Laura Linney plays Cathy Jamison, a wife, mother, and teacher who has been living an unremarkable existence until her illness forces her to do a one-eighty. In the course of the first two episodes, she makes choices she might never have considered in her "other life." The swimming pool she so desperately wants to put into her too-small yard is the first sign that logic is not going to play a role in her new decisions. "I'll pay double," she informs the contractor when he tells her all the reasons he is unable to honor her request. Money talks and eventually the contractor finds a way. Now that a death sentence has been handed down, Cathy very quickly changes her outlook on what is left of her life.
Her husband, Paul (Oliver Platt), is a man whose inner child rules the roost. His immature ways have forced Cathy to throw him out of the house. Now he desperately wants to get back into her good graces. Their son, Adam (Gabriel Basso), is a spoiled 16-year-old who is showing all the signs of turning into his father. Cathy desperately wants to rid Adam of his attitude problem, while fostering a mother-son bond. He will not go to soccer camp, she decides, but spend the summer with her instead. To Adam's embarrassment and confusion, she stops his camp bus by shooting it with paintballs, storms on board, and takes him home.
Father and son have no clue as to why Cathy's changed. She hasn't yet revealed her news to them. Whenever she starts to open up, something inside of her won't allow her to go on.
We also meet Sean (John Benjamin Hickey), Cathy's brother, another family member she hasn't let in on her secret. An environmental activist, Sean is homeless by choice, spending his days standing on a soapbox, berating passersby about how they are ruining the earth. When Cathy tries to give him money so he'll be happy, he throws it back in her face, saying the money would only serve to make her feel better. She's not happy, he informs her, and she's boring. The "boring" accusation seems to rankle her more than anything else.
Then there is Marlene, an elderly woman who has lived across the street from Cathy for five years. They have never spoken. When she goes behind Cathy's back, raising objections which interrupt the construction of the pool, Cathy is livid. She storms into Marlene's house and for the first time vents the frustrations which have surely been eating at her since her diagnosis. "I don't have a lot of time. I wanted to teach my son the banana split and dive. Summers in Minneapolis, they are very short. They are here and then it's over. I cannot tell you how mad that makes me."
For the first time, we are shown how prevelant Cathy's fear of the passage of time is in her thoughts. But her words are cathartic: she has revealed her terrible secret without giving away any pertinent details that will garner sympathy. Right now, this is how she wants it.
Two players round out this intriguing cast of characters: Andrea (Gabourey Sibide), an obese student who becomes Cathy's "project," and Dr. Todd Miller (Reid Scott), Cathy's young, handsome physician (who is treating her for stage four melanoma), the only person with whom she feels comfortable.
The smell of death permeates the pilot episode: from Sean's faking his own hanging using plastic garbage bags, to Marlene admitting she often looks forward to joining her deceased friends, to Cathy studying her death sentence — the shadows on her chest x-ray. But humor is laced through what could be a terrible downer of a show. Where there is life there is hope and where there is hope, a touch of bittersweet lives, as well.
The entire cast shines but it is Laura Linney as Cathy who truly stands out. Ms. Linney imbues her character with a strange, knowing calm. It's difficult to notice the cracks beneath her upbeat demeanor unless you look deep (the eyes tell all), something nobody close to her ever does. In the end, she takes the safe way out, confiding the worst of her fears to Thomas, Marlene's dog.
The questions remain: when will Cathy reveal her illness to her family and how will they treat her when she does?
The Big C is at once unpredictable, heartbreaking and uplifting. It would please me to see it have a long run but how long can a show about a stage four melanoma victim last? We'll just have to wait and see.
The Big C was created by writer/actress/stand-up comic Diane Hunt (Platonically Incorrect, the new Beverly Hills 90210, Good Morning, Miami, Will and Grace). It airs on Showtime, Mondays at 10 PM ET.
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Do You Like The Name Lightning For The Protagonist?
It's pretty fitting, I'd say, although I'll agree with the idea that it might be a codename.
I like it. It's... different. Then again main characters in FF games tend to have unique names.
I'm having a hard time believing that's her actual name. it must be an alias or something. While all Final Fantasy protagonists have weird names, at least they kind of sound like actual names when taken in context. Also, they usually have a first and last name.
I wonder what she's currently called in Japan. Do you think it's just the Japanese word for lightning?
Eh... I'm iffy on her name.
"I think they're trying REALLY hard to make her like Cloud. Cloud, Lightning, I'm catching a pattern here. Personally, I don't like it so much, but I didn't like the name Zidane, either. i've since warmed up to the name, and love FFIX.Yeah, FFIX is just so good it makes you love any name.
Ehh, I dunno. When I first heard the name in my head, I thought it was stupid, but it's quickly growing on me. Plus, I agree that it's probably not her real name just an alias she goes by... Hmm, what if they make it so that you can give her a name, but she still goes by Lightning, like a create a athlete mode in any number of sports games?
"It's her codename because she resembles Cloud Strife"
WTF are you talking about, Is Cloud Strife in FF13 or something? That's hardly the reason she was given the codename, as someone earlier said, it's fits in with all the other characters named after natural phenomena
That's not even a name...at least in America. "If you don't like America, then you can GET OUT!" :P It's probably sounds better in Japanese, like every JRPG.
I like it. Isn't it a codename for her real name though? Isn't that what Square had said?
Guys, Lightning isn't her real name. Nomura himself has said it's her code name. Her real name won't be reveiled until the game's launch (probably). Geez, do you guys live under a rock? They've said so a long time ago (read: over a year).
It's her code name... I want to know her real name. Needless to say, I like it.
I just had an epiphany! If they continue the trend like they said they would...
-FFVII: Cloud
-FFVIII: Squall
-FFX: Tidus
Something in me tells me her name will be Rain (or Raine, Rayn, Rayne). It's actually a beautiful name, when you think about it.
" I dunno. I kinda like Lightning. I wouldn't mind if it was the final name.I thought Lightning will be a code name. Her real name will be revealed in the game, but I think I heard somewhere that she doesn't remember it. This is probably a rumor though.
"Think about the storm related naming conventions for the main characters in many of the more recent Final Fantasy games. It fits with the theme there.Yeah Lightning fits the theme and I'm fine with it, but naming someone Lighting does make it feel like they're running out of storm related names.
Yeah like others are saying, that's not her real name. Lightning is her code name.
When I first heard that her name was Lightning I thought it was a little weird. But now I think it is pretty cool, whether it is her alias or not. Wouldnt mind at all if thats what she is called through the majority of the game. I just hope that if it is an alias that her real name wont be horrible.
I like it a lot.
I don't mind the name. I'm pretty glad to see a woman as the main character. Hopefully she'll be a tough-as-nails chick (seems that way so far); if she ends up being a damsel in distress having to be rescued by a dude who looks like a chick, I'll be pissed.
I don't see how it could be a bad name.
its no worse than cloud is it?
btw, was cloud even a main charecter, I've never played a FF game but this one might be my first
I'm not really crazy about it, to be honest. I'm not sure why, but "Lightning" just seems a little too awkward to be her real name... I hope it is a codename or whatever, I hadn't heard that rumor but it gives me hope! Regardless, I'm sure this game is going to be amazing, I haven't ever played a FF game that I didn't love.
I think it's an unusual name, but the name of the characters really doesn't matter as far as I'm concerned.
I like the name Lightning sounds cool and dark.Although is Lightning her real name or just some codename?Well Lightning is still cool and imo it suits her well.
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The only surprising thing about the Mar. 8 announcement in London was the timing: Why did it take so long? British Airways PLC has endured a succession of pratfalls and earnings disappointments since Robert Ayling took over as chief executive officer in 1996. Frustrated by Ayling's abrasive management, the board has finally dumped its pilot--even before it names anyone to take over the stick.
Whoever does replace the brainy but unpopular Ayling faces huge challenges. If the economics of the industry are turning in BA's favor, as its executives insist, it may not be too difficult to dig out of the estimated $400 million loss the airline is likely to report for the year ending Mar. 31. But some rivals think the troubles run deep--and that BA's cost-cutting, downsizing strategy is flawed. Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Atlantic Airways and BA's most persistent critic, says only BA's dominant position at London's Heathrow airport has saved it: "If British Airways were any other company, it would have been driven out of business by now."
LETHAL MARKET. BA has clearly lost its leadership position in both the European and global markets. Unless it regains high altitude quickly, it could be takeover bait when an expected easing of the regulatory environment makes a radical consolidation of the European industry easier. Both Air France and Lufthansa, once considered also-rans, are now outperforming BA in what could be a long-term battle to be one of Europe's two or three surviving major airlines. While they have added flights and offered new routes, BA under Ayling did little to draw customers and seemed not to bother promoting economy-class business--as if its position at Heathrow left passengers with few alternatives.
To be fair to BA, overcapacity, price wars, and high fuel costs have made the airline industry a rotten place to work of late. BA's 30% share price drop over the last year is not that much worse than the European airline average of 24%. BA has suffered particularly from competition on its U.S. routes, where it makes most of its money. And regulators have refused to approve an alliance with American Airlines Inc., saying the two carriers would enjoy a near monopoly between Heathrow and the U.S.
In response, BA is downsizing radically. Passenger capacity will drop about 12% over the next three years. BA is replacing roughly half of its 330-plane fleet with smaller models. The idea is to chop total seats while boosting the proportion in business and first class. If it works, BA will regain the initiative. "I think the corner is turned, and we are moving in the right direction," says Colin Marshall, chairman and former CEO, who has temporarily replaced Ayling. As to the next CEO, Marshall says BA wants a team player to follow Ayling, a loner who alienated execs and the work force.
BIG MISTAKE? There are indeed some hopeful signs at BA. Premium traffic was up 11.6% in February from the previous year. The tough European market may be improving, and BA's relentless cost-cutting will take out about $400 million this year. While some analysts put 2001 profits in the $80 million range, Chris Tarry of Commerzbank sees BA earning $190 million next year.
But giving up market share could be a critical mistake. "The successful airlines at the moment are driven by volume, not price," says Richard Hannah, airline analyst at Deutsche Bank in London. The pacesetters in Europe are the upstart and old-line airlines that are adding seats and cutting prices. If price-cutting continues--and it seems to be the way of the world--BA's strategy could prove a bust. BA has copied the discounters with Go, which offers bargain flights from outlying Stansted airport. But Go has yet to turn a profit.
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Love your enemy, because in the end all this shit in this world, we don't know how it ends up, if it leads to anything or nothings. but being happy and at one with yourself is the most important thing to me, because that is all there is on this earth, you.
Loveing your enemy people find difficult because there is so much harm and terror in the world, but people who love everyone regardless are those that are most happy and most wise. I had a teacher in high school who was raped and she told me she loved he rapist and i thought that was fucked up. but she told me if she spent the rest of her life hating the man that raped her that she would always be unhappy because hate or anger or negativity will always bring you down. thats why kids living against the law are all miserable, you might not think it but if you ever get to know them, they all miserable as fuck.
negative thoughts and negative actions will never let you acheive happiness.
"He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon Goodness will dislike no one."
Confucianism. Analects 4.3-4
What kind of love is this that to another can shift? Says Nanak, True lovers are those who are forever absorbed in the Beloved. Whoever discriminates between treatment held good or bad, Is not a true lover--he rather is caught in calculations.
Sikhism. Adi Granth, Asa-ki-Var, M.2, p. 474
The sage has no fixed [personal] ideas.
He regards the people's ideas as his own.
I treat those who are good with goodness,
And I also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
I am honest with those who are honest,
And I am also honest with those who are dishonest.
Thus honesty is attained.
Taoism. Tao Te Ching 49
A superior being does not render evil for evil; this is a maxim one should observe; the ornament of virtuous persons is their conduct. One should never harm the wicked or the good or even criminals meriting death. A noble soul will ever exercise compassion even towards those who enjoy injuring others or those of cruel deeds when they are actually committing them--for who is without fault?
Hinduism. Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda 115
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When I was a kid I can remember my family always making the comment "I wish I had half as much energy as that kid." I always got annoyed by it thinking that they were just lazy, and if they really wanted to they could get off the couch and run around in circles and bounce off the walls with me. Now that I have kids of my own I realize that their energy level really is through the roof and people weren't kidding when they made those comments! I am always looking for creative ways to burn the kid's energy, and this weekend it's a no-brainer! Jr. JAM! The day where it's fun to be a kid.


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God's Country
Claudia Kuhn 6/15/2012 4:24:17 AM
Beautiful falls Ken... From first glance at all the moss, I knew it had to be Oregon #1469242Antonio Amen 6/15/2012 4:32:20 AM
Beautiful, well done. #10181066Shirley Sicurello 6/15/2012 4:44:26 AM
Stunning... #10181076Danny B. Head 6/15/2012 4:48:01 AM
Love it! #10181087Joy Rector 6/15/2012 5:12:54 AM
fantastic #10181110Dayna Cain 6/15/2012 7:09:19 AM
You are a very talented and skilled photographer Ken. Your gallery is full of amazing work and this just adds to your collection. Gorgeous! #10181226JO ANN CLEVELAND 6/15/2012 7:17:43 AM
Ohhh my goodness Ken...this is one of the most beautiful water images I have ever seen...definitely a favorite!jo ann c. #10181229
Memoriee G. Sconce 6/15/2012 7:49:49 AM
Love this one. Did you climb down if so you are a brave man. It is so wet and slick hats off to you.😃Carol Quina 6/15/2012 9:49:31 AM
Gorgeous! Great shot of this beautiful place. Well done! #10181314Melissa Wynn 6/15/2012 12:34:03 PM
Stunning image!! #10181421Stefania Barbier 6/15/2012 11:32:38 PM
a truly beautiful composition, framing, and capture :0) #10182130Mike R. Howe 6/16/2012 3:18:03 PM
Beautiful image,Ken...Well done!!! #10182964Tammy Espino 6/17/2012 7:30:30 PM
I love Oregon, gorgeous capture! #10184425Terry Cervi 6/18/2012 5:41:57 AM
Wonderful pov and such a beautiful capture, Ken! I love Oregon too! #10184951Tamara K. Walker 7/30/2012 11:40:43 AM
Beautiful, congratulations. #10250475Shawn Jennings 7/30/2012 11:40:53 AM
WTG Ken! Congratulations on your finalist! #10250477Tammy M. Anderson 7/30/2012 12:03:35 PM
Congrats, Ken. Just beautiful! #10250613Judy V. Kennamer 7/30/2012 12:14:43 PM
Totally GORGEOUS, Ken! Congrats!!!!Tammy Espino 7/30/2012 12:46:36 PM
Congrats on this awesome finalist, Ken! :) #10250841Kathryn Wesserling 7/30/2012 1:08:09 PM
You find and then capture so much beauty in our wonderful Country, Ken. Congratulations for this Finalist.Jill Odice 7/30/2012 1:54:13 PM
Congrats on this gorgeous finalist Ken! #10251217Stefania Barbier 7/30/2012 2:18:39 PM
WTG Ken, it's a beauty... congratulations!!! #10251478John Connolly 7/30/2012 3:54:36 PM
Congratulations on your well deserved finalist Ken! Nice work! #10252191Kay E. Mahoney 7/30/2012 3:58:20 PM
Congratulations on your beautiful finalist, Ken. #10252211Lori Carlson 7/30/2012 5:11:02 PM
What a stellar comp of this beautiful scene, Ken! Way to go!! Congrats on your recognition! =) #10252606Christopher Budny 7/30/2012 5:12:23 PM
I love it when you go into the woods, nearly as much as to the beach, or to the mountains, or the wastelands.Gail Vitikacs 7/30/2012 5:52:08 PM
Terrific finalist Mr. Smith! #10252791Philip B. Ludwig 7/30/2012 6:54:21 PM
A breathtaking scene, very nicely captured. Congratulations on your fine finalist. Would not be surprised to see this as a winner. #10253122Usman M. Bajwa 7/30/2012 10:00:08 PM
FANTASTIC BEAUTY Ken. CONGRATZ!UB. #10253730
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CONGRATS & good luck, Ken!David M. Montero 7/31/2012 11:58:59 AM
Congratulations on your Finalist selection Ken. Must have been a trek getting to this location. Well worth it though. #10255359JO ANN CLEVELAND 7/31/2012 12:10:41 PM
Congrats on another outstanding Finalist, now for the Gold....jo ann c. #10255400
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Congratulations on your beautiful finalist Ken! #10255679Phyllis H. Burchett 7/31/2012 3:57:34 PM
Beautiful Ken, congrats! #10255842Renee Doyle 8/1/2012 12:51:01 AM
Big congrats to you on this gorgeous finalist Ken!!! #10257032Terry Cervi 8/1/2012 9:07:28 AM
Congrats on your beautiful finalist, Ken! #10257845Debra R. Harder 8/1/2012 4:42:42 PM
This is a FAV for me, Ken, and deserves a GOLD...no doubt!! Magnificent composition, details and lighting. Truly beautiful. Huge congrats!!! #10258598Donna LaMattino Pagakis 8/3/2012 8:12:12 AM
Congratulations Ken, what a beautiful image. Your are incredibly talented! #10261150Luigi Di Serio 8/7/2012 3:41:48 PM
Jaw dropper! #10266803Koosah Falls, on the McKenzie River in the Willamette National Forest, Oregon.
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Film Critics Need to Learn to Look -- and Enjoy
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Star presence, that distillation of charisma and sometimes glamour, lies at the heart of the movies' appeal. The star presence James Harvey evokes so richly in his new book, Watching Them Be, is never simply about physical beauty. Harvey rightly points out that Ingrid Bergman's fresh unaffectedness was distinctly unglamorous, and that Charles Laughton was plagued by a belief in his own ugliness. There are plenty of good-looking performers who have never managed anything like star presence (Tom Cruise, for one).
So what is it? We could start with some combination of vividness of personality, intense charisma, the ability of a performer to create his own reality and the ability to make the audience believe it is watching someone live fully in the moment. John Wayne's famous description of what he did on-screen— "I don't act. I react"— is as good a summation of the ability to be alive in the eternal present of a scene, to not anticipate, to listen and engage with co-stars. Contrary to the belief that movie stars are attention-seeking extroverts, Wayne's description of his job implies watchfulness and, thus, complicity with the audience.
Too often, especially for audiences that fancy themselves sophisticated moviegoers, star presence is no different from star worship. Talk about movie stars, the allure of them, the beauty of them, or as if what they do is the equal of and often superior to "acting," and you're likely to be thought of as trading in the lowest echelons of a celebrity-obsessed culture. That's just one of the challenges that James Harvey meets in Watching Them Be, his eloquent, imperfect, and altogether marvelous new study of star presence as exemplified by certain stars (Greta Garbo across her career; Charles Laughton; the young cast of Godard's Masculine-Feminine; Pam Grier and Robert Forster in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown), and by certain star-director collaborations (Marlene Dietrich-Josef von Sternberg, Bette Davis-William Wyler, John Wayne-John Ford). Harvey takes his title from James Baldwin's remark about movie stars, "One does not go to see them act, one goes to watch them be." Baldwin grasped that certain performers possess an extraordinary ability to live in the moment, and that while these stylized creatures may seem to exist apart from reality, they still possess the ability to convey truth, even profound truth.
Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar by James Harvey
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Harvey is trying to convey how even small moments can feel as if they represent more of what the movies themselves are about than the most acclaimed, all-out performances. It's not that acting plays no part in star presence, or is anathema to the movies. You wouldn't look at Brando, as natural and psychologically real an actor as ever walked in front of a movie camera, in the final scene of On the Waterfront, where Terry Malloy confronts Lee J. Cobb's mob boss, and say that he wasn't acting. You might, however, contrast the crescendos of that speech ("From where I'm standin' I been lyin' to myself all these years!!") with the moment in The Godfather where Brando's Don Corleone casually brushes some lint from the suit jacket of Al Lettieri's Sollozzo, the hood who wants the Don to join him in the dope business. It's the most minute gesture and one of almost courtly condescension, an older man reminding a younger man that he's just a scruffy upstart.
Some of the greatest movie moments have always depended on that kind of subtlety. Jack Lemmon, making his movie debut in George Cukor's It Should Happen to You, was repeatedly told by the director, "Do less, do less," until finally he said, "If I do any less, I'll be doing nothing." "Now you're getting it," Cukor replied. (If only the director had been around for the rest of Lemmon's career.) Without some sort of spark that ignites in front of a screen, even accomplished acting can feel wan.
In his previous superb books, Romantic Comedy in Hollywood and Movie Love in the Fifties, Harvey fused close reading (close watching, to be precise) with an implicit belief that pleasure is an essential part of any artwork. The scholarly approach to film criticism has never acknowledged that it doesn't matter how expertly artists fulfill their intentions if there's no pleasure to be had in that fulfillment. Harvey knows, on a gut level, that to talk about the movies and exclude pleasure is a heresy. After explicating a scene in Mata Hari, where Garbo comforts her now-blind lover Roman Navarro, telling him they will travel the world and, pressing his hand to her eyes, saying, "Here are your eyes!" Harvey writes, "Okay -- that's impressive. But you still have to feel -- and more and more with each film -- something like: What is she doing in this shit?"
The use of "shit" in the discussion of a woman still regarded as the greatest divinity the screen has ever hosted is startling. It clears the air, makes it possible to contemplate the greatness of Garbo -- and despite her mostly unlucky vehicles, she was great -- without the incense smoke getting in the way. And as palpable as Harvey's pleasure is when he's writing about the good movies Garbo got -- Grand Hotel, Camille, Ninotchka -- you can't help feeling he's allowing Graham Greene to speak for him, at least, in part, when he quotes Greene writing of Garbo:
A great actress -- oh, undoubtedly one wearily assents, but what dull, pompous films they make for her, hardly movies at all, so retarded are they by her haggard equine renunciations, the slow consummation of her noble adulteries.
Which, you may feel, is why, with the exception of the trio of films cited above, moments in Garbo's movies stand out more than the surrounding pictures. It's much more pleasurable to watch Garbo wandering the inn after her never-to-be-lovers' rendezvous in Queen Christina, saying, "I'm memorizing this rooooom" (a moment lovingly parodied by Eva Green in Bertolucci's The Dreamers) than to sit through the whole brilliantly designed, meticulously directed, hopelessly turgid picture. And it's why, as Harvey demonstrates by contrast, the continental trashiness of the best Dietrich pictures (Morocco, Desire, Shanghai Express) felt like a relief, why their star seemed a much more earthy divinity.
Contrasting Garbo's execution scene in Mata Hari with Dietrich's death by firing squad in von Sternberg's Dishonored, Harvey writes, "There is no transcendence for the Dietrich heroine -- only a fantasy state of tough recognitions. The Garbo heroine may aspire to a kind of sublimity, but the Dietrich heroine aspires to it, too -- in its skeptical, materialistic form." In the film, Dietrich's execution is delayed while a young soldier, balking at shooting a woman, delivers a fervent defense of pacifism. In response, Dietrich makes sure her seams are straight. Harvey writes: "What better thing [to] do while she waits than to check those stockings...? Better than listening to that poor soldier's outburst. He's right, of course -- about all of it. But really, what else is new?"
The dégagé tone in which Harvey asks that last question, the world-weary note capable of compassion toward the young pacifist but too wised up to align with him, is a perfect translation of Dietrich's character into prose. The ease with which Harvey evokes the scene -- as facilely as Dietrich steps in front of that firing squad and with just as little fuss, before letting the whole thing evaporate into smoke ("But really, what else is new?") -- is at the heart of what he is trying to evoke in Watching Them Be.
In her book Moving Pictures, the recently deceased art critic Anne Hollander argued: Our relation to movies and paintings is one of hopeless inequality: They will outlast us. Our mutability and mortality are weak in the face of those ageless moments they recount, those creatures and vistas unchangingly and forever going through their motions.
Hollander was right. Movies have a permanence that live performance (theater, music, dance) does not. This, as she realized, is one of the things that links movies to painting. But in another sense, movies are the most evanescent of the arts. Being shadows and light, they do not exist in front of us the way a painting or a sculpture does. And to experience them as they are meant to be experienced, as images that appear and are then gone, is to be constantly aware of just how fleeting they are. On some level, I think, evanescence is Harvey's unspoken subject, and the thing that has often flummoxed people about them.
Hollander again: "The power of moving pictures has been undeniable since the beginning of the cinema. ... What they did not first seem to be was art, at least, not in the same universe with the works of Rembrandt and Michelangelo. But anyone could have told, from the kind of force the screen image had, that movies were linked to compelling pictures of all kinds." The objections that otherwise intelligent people have so often made when it comes to the movies has had to do with a combination of the form's pulp origins and its bigness. You can be just as overwhelmed by a 19th-century novel or an opera, but they are likely to have a more respectable pedigree. And because movies don't give you the time to stop and consider, as novels do, and because they invade our intimacy in a way that the enforced distance of the theater prohibits, movies are often distrusted, still, with a suspicion not shown to any other art form. And more often that not, that distrust comes out in the old shibboleth particularly favored by literary types -- who have always felt in danger of being swept aside by film -- that reading is active, while looking is passive. Of course, no one ever making that argument will ever admit that passivity depends on what someone is reading or looking at (anyone who maintains consciousness while reading Fenimore Cooper is superhuman; anyone who ever dithered through The Great Escape is more than likely a boob). And no one, as far as I know, has ever tried to advance the argument that looking is passive to an art history professor. What has always escaped people who insist on judging films as if they were novels -- or, to paraphrase the film historian Eileen Whitfield on those who treat silent films as antique novelties, as if they were trying to be novels and failing -- is that good filmmakers use images as deliberately and carefully as good writers use words.
Which is why it's always been easier for novelists and literary critics who attempt to write about movies to focus on the script or, God help us, the theme. Classically bad overacting like Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine or Melissa Leo's Method scenery-chewing in The Fighter lays out meaning, so obviously it's practically sucker bait for people who pooh-pooh looking as being passive. You can't passively watch anything that keeps bonking you on the head. On the other hand, if you believe looking is passive, the meanings and nuances with which an actor can invest a gesture or convey in a close-up are likely to pass you by. Harvey finds the perfect example of this inability to see in his polite dismissal of a remark by the critic Daniel Mendelsohn (who as well as anyone has embodied the haplessness of literary critics attempting to write about movies). Mendelsohn is taking issue with Quentin Tarantino's insistence that in Robert Forster's performance in Jackie Brown, "Robert Forster's face is backstory." Mendelsohn claims this as proof that Tarantino believes "it's unnecessary to write psychology or motivation into the movies" and worries about the moviegoer who doesn't know Robert Forster. But, of course, as Harvey points out, a moviegoer who doesn't know Robert Forster can still see him; one who believes everything must be written lacks a basic notion of how movies work. Seeing is what Harvey does so beautifully. Here is Harvey on John Wayne's first appearance in Stagecoach, the movie that made him a star after he'd already made nearly 80 pictures:
With his size, his personal authority, his vibrant good looks, the iconic cowboy, in short -- it's all there. But so are other things, less expected: a certain unease, a hint of shyness, a distressed look that seems elicited by his own "hold it" command -- almost as if it pained him to give it at all. This is not the Gary Cooper or Randolph Scott face -- chiseled, impassive, resolute -- but the face of someone who feels what he's doing in his stomach, enough to show some strain about it in his furrowed brow, though no less determined to do it.
It's Harvey's discussion of Wayne in the climactic moment of John Ford's The Searchers that seems to me his most daring. Whatever you think of The Searchers (and it has always struck me as deeply flawed), this is one of the most powerful moments in all of American movies. Wayne's Ethan Edwards has finally located the niece for whom he's been searching for years (the teenage Natalie Wood, as touching as she almost always was), the niece who had been kidnapped by the Comanches when she was just a little girl, and who Ethan has vowed to kill because, to him, she's now a Comanche herself. But instead of shedding blood, Wayne picks up Wood as if she were no more than a doll, holds her aloft and then, gathering her into his embrace says, "Let's go home, Debbie." Harvey writes, "It's one of those great movie epiphanies that feels convincing to you not because it feels explainable but because it doesn't [emphasis mine], not finally -- a moment that both surprises and persuades you at once, and that persuades you, partly because it surprises you. Reminding you as it does of how feelings of tenderness and love ... can invade you, inexplicably even. Of how suddenly, even mysteriously, we can rise above our own worst characters and impulses."
That passage could stand for why I find James Harvey so satisfying a critic, and frequently so moving. Those are not the words of a critic disdaining explication but a critic who understands that criticism is never more lyrical, never more able to open up a work to readers, than when the critic chooses to evoke rather than to dissect. And when the critics understand that most of what's worth knowing about art can never come from a thesis-like explanation.
That Harvey chooses to end the book with three successive chapters on the collaboration between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, on the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer, and on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard, Balthazar (for him, the greatest film he has ever seen) seems to me a momentary capitulation to the work that invites just that kind of tiresome explanation. Not that the quality of Harvey's thinking or writing is any less in these chapters. It's just that, even when they're good, these three directors embody the school of "take your medicine and like it," which is anathema to everything that Harvey evokes so beautifully. When Harvey writes about the "accumulating blandness" of Dreyer's Ordet, or that Bresson's method can register "less as a reach towards transcendence than a personal rigidity, even stubbornness," I got the feeling he knows just what pains in the asses these filmmakers can be. (A director who proclaims, as Bresson did, that he didn't believe in actors has no business in a book on star presence.)
But this is a far-from-fatal flaw in a book that stands in opposition to so much of what's wrong with contemporary film criticism -- chiefly, the terribly serious, young, male critics who direct their criticism to one another instead of a reading public, and who have less feel for the erotics of cinema than any preceding generation of film critics. And in opposition to what has gone wrong in our culture -- the suspicion of, if not outright hostility to, beauty, the de rigueur conviction that policing culture is the logical extension of working to legislate social and economic justice. There's a great, absurd example of this in the recent Begin Again. When aspiring singer Keira Knightley asks Mark Ruffalo's record-label A&R man what her beauty has to do with why he wants to sign her, she's asking a question that is precisely attuned to this cultural moment. And it's a question that makes you long for Ruffalo to answer, "Everything." The question is ludicrous: We are meant to applaud it even though the camera has been drinking in the tremulous defiance of Knightley's killer jawline, the piercing and liquid dark eyes. They are not the totality of Knightley's talent. She wouldn't be worth watching if they were. But it's foolish to pretend they are not part of her instrument. It would just be easier for everyone involved, and more pleasant for Knightley's character, if she could just accept her beauty the way Ingrid Bergman does in Saratoga Trunk. Told she is very beautiful, Bergman gives a little laugh and says, "Yes. Isn't it lucky?"
Harvey is too much a grown-up to waste his time or ours bemoaning the unfairness of such luck. In her new memoir, Lee Grant talks about losing an early acting job in a picture in which she was co-starring with Burt Lancaster, because she was completely googly-eyed in his presence. "Burt Lancaster," she writes, "bigger than life, godlike in beauty and power, movie star, was saying his lines, and suddenly I felt all the Method reality I'd worked on leak out of me, never to return." Who could blame her?
Harvey's book, though, is not a paean to idol worship. The most powerful recent example of an actor being in front of a camera, Adele Exarchopoulos in Blue Is the Warmest Color, is also a superb performance. But Harvey can remind you that the peculiar nature of the movies is such that even great performances can seem so much fussing next to the experience of watching an actor who, in front of a camera, knows how to be. (There are few things I cherish more in the movies than the defiant challenge on Brigitte Bardot's tough little mug in Viva Maria!, when she breaks into Jeanne Moreau's traveling circus wagon and gulps down milk to fill her empty stomach while holding a gun on Moreau. Or Dean Martin in Rio Bravo abruptly sobering up enough to lose the shakes, and pouring a potentially lethal shot of whiskey back in the bottle, remarking, "Didn't spill a drop.")
The accomplishment of Harvey's book is not just that he writes so beautifully about so many moments -- like the look on the face of Robert Forster's bail bondsman in Jackie Brown, when he first catches sight of Pam Grier and in an instant knows what his life has been lacking; the way Bette Davis, in The Letter, continuously stares at the moon as if it is both her longed-for refuge and her unrelenting confessor -- but that he makes you realize why these moments could only exist in the movies, why looking is the path to discovering untold eloquence.
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6Frisée: The Forgotten Salad (in season now!)
Many people are a bit scared of frisée. They worry that it will be too frizzy, too bitter, and too overwhelming to use as a salad green.
This fear might arise from bad experiences with store-bought frisée, which can be woody and extremely bitter. But there's no reason to fear this chicory when you're getting it from a farmers market or CSA. It's in season from spring through early summer.
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Here are a few recipes to help you conquer your frisée fear.
Frisée is the star of a classic French bistro salad. The traditional version includes thick-cut bacon, but the vegetarian version is just as great without the meat.
For a vegan frisée salad, try topping the greens with a few chopped, sun-dried tomatoes and my Garlic-Walnut Dressing:
- 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
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- 1/4 cup of walnut oil (or extra virgin olive oil)
- Sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
1. Put oil in a skillet over medium-low heat. When it is warm, add the garlic and cook until fragrant and beginning to soften (about 6 min), stirring occasionally. Add the walnuts and continue to cook until they just begin to color (about 4 min). Let the mixture cool slightly and then put in a small food processor.
2. Process the walnut mixture until you have a relatively smooth paste. Add the orange juice (to taste), Dijon mustard, walnut oil, salt and pepper. Run the food processor again. If necessary, add more oil to thin your dressing. This dressing will keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.
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Many ypeople are a bit scared of frisée. They worry that it will be too frizzy, too bitter, and too overwhelming to use as a salad green.
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Congrats bro, still got my fingers crossed here.
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Larry ArmstrongJust 18 months ago, it looked as if AST Research Inc. was poised to leap to the top tier of personal-computer companies. While Compaq, Dell, and Apple were still recovering from earlier fumbles, AST was purchasing Tandy Corp.'s computer-making operations at fire-sale prices. The new factories and access to more than 6,500 Radio Shack and Computer City stores would surely push AST from No.6 to No.4 in the U.S., the company bragged.
It never happened. Instead, AST took its eye off its core business for a split second, and the fast-moving PC industry passed it by. Now, AST is mired in the second tier, behind such mail-order companies as Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway 2000. For its first six months ended Dec. 31, AST piled up losses of $62 million. Worse, while the rest of the industry was racking up double-digit sales growth, AST's revenues shrank by 5%, to $1.1 billion. And for the third quarter, which ended Apr. 1, the company is predicting further losses. "We were trying to do too many things at the same time," admits Safi U. Qureshey, chairman and chief executive of the Irvine (Calif.) company. "We couldn't execute new products on time, we couldn't take them into manufacturing on time, and we couldn't deliver them on time."
AST has stumbled before and recovered. But this time, a cash-strapped Qureshey--AST was down to $69 million at yearend--was forced to take a drastic step: In addition to the usual cutbacks and restructuring, including closing two plants and laying off 10% of the 6,500-member workforce, the 44-year-old executive has acquired a rich partner to see AST through. On Feb. 27, he persuaded Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. to pay $378 million for a 40% stake and six seats on AST's expanded 13-member board.
AST nets $250 million in new capital. More important, Samsung's leading-edge screens and its memory-chip technology could give a badly needed boost to AST's PC lineup. "We'll be able to influence their design," says Qureshey.
For now, AST is a player that is trimming its ambitions. The company has dropped out of the education and government markets and, even though it had started advertising a line of subnotebook PCs, it will not produce them. Also scrapped: a Tandy line of handheld personal digital assistants and a confusing array of brand names, such as Victor, PowerExec, and GRiD. The result: AST's price sheets list just 79 systems, compared with 225 last fall.
NEW NICHE. In home computers, which now make up one-third of AST's sales, the company will no longer pursue bargain-hunting first-time buyers. Instead, it will focus on the more knowledgeable consumer who wants a high-performance PC but doesn't want to pay a premium for the Compaq brand. "We think we can own the position between Packard Bell and Compaq," says James T. Schraith, AST's president.
So what does Samsung get for its 40% stake? For one thing, more of AST's business--including more than 1 million computer monitors a year that AST now buys in Taiwan. And the AST link will give Samsung an entree into the worldwide PC business. Samsung is the top PC maker in South Korea, but it has been unsuccessful in overseas markets.
Also, both companies are now in a better position to play a role in the convergence of the computer and consumer-electronics industries. Samsung is already a world power in TVs and VCRs, and Qureshey envisions televisions and videocassette recorders that have a built-in connection to the Information Superhighway. The two companies have also discussed a "home network" of appliances controlled by PCs.
Qureshey's biggest challenge, however, may be to maintain AST as an independent company. The A and T of AST stand for the first names of two of the company's three founders, Albert C. Wong and Thomas C.K. Yuen, both long departed from the company. Says Yuen: "When the honeymoon is over, we'll see a lot more decisions being made by Samsung executives." If Safi Qureshey isn't careful, the S could soon stand for Samsung.


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Grace Elizabeth Marano
Grace Elizabeth Marano passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, August 31 2008. Born on June 25, 2008 to Katherine N. Tillman and Daniel Marano of Perkiomenville, PA. She is survived by her siblings Makayla, 9 and Ethan, 4 and her Aunt Mary Tillman. Also surviving are her maternal grandfather Gerard Tillman, and her great-grandmother Muriel O'Donnell, paternal grandparents Donna and Dave Marano, Uncle Jon Marano, and her great-grandparents Maria and Daniel Marano, and Mary Reilly. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandmother Katherine O'Donnell and paternal great-grandfather John Reilly.
In the short amount of time Grace spent with us she filled all of our hearts with so much love and special memories. She will always be remembered for her sweet personality, her smiles, and the ways she touched upon all of our lives in her own special way. She will always be our little monkopotamus.
A funeral service for Grace was be held on Monday, Sept. 8, at the Williams-Bergey- Koffel Funeral Home, Inc., 667 Harleysville Pike (Rt. 113), Franconia. Interment will be in Limerick Garden of Memories.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in Grace's name to American SIDS Institute, 509 Augusta Drive, Marietta, GA 30067. (www.sids.org/ndonate.htm)


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has found that the Minneapolis Park Board placed too many restrictions on a man trying to distribute free Bibles at the Twin Cities Pride Festival.
In a 2-1 decision, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis.
Davis had ruled that the park board had made reasonable provisions for Brian Johnson to make the Bibles available at the festival.
Johnson's attorneys had sought an injunction to block the board's limits on Johnson's distribution, which would have confined him to distributing Bibles at a booth outside the festival.
The Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/18QaoNe ) reports the appeals court found Johnson would face "a loss of First Amendment freedoms" because of the restrictions.
The case was sent back to Davis.
Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com


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Posted on May 16, 2011 from Twitterrific
My friend emailed me this receipt... Thank God it's not my bill!!!!???
MarieEdwards429 on that receipt you could get a HOUSE for that. depending on the house, maybe even a car! wish i had the $$
posted 16.05.2011 02:13
Brendan62 My friend emailed me this receipt... Thank God it's not my bill!!!!??? I've had some good nights at Tryst but holy cow
posted 16.05.2011 03:08
NascarVegas Wish I were that server. $29000 tip automatic? NICE
posted 16.05.2011 03:10
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posted 16.05.2011 04:08
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posted 16.05.2011 04:09
ksrgatorfn brendan, does the 80/2 in the upper left mean a party of 80? While that is still a LOT of $$$ to spend, at least it would make it a little more reasonable...if that is possible. LOL
posted 16.05.2011 05:10
bdrawdy241 Now thats one hell of a club bar tab!!Could buy liquor store for that!
posted 16.05.2011 05:45