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Disparaging the upcoming 'generation' is a favorite human pastime. The internet is currently riddled with articles about millennials being the worst generation of humans to-date. To be fair, there are also quite a few thought pieces retorting that these denunciatory articles are just bad journalism. (Too lazy to write a meaningful article about pressing world problems? Consider kicking millennials while they're down!)
Obvi, the idea of 'generations' is a social construct, (meaning- 'generations' as we know them don't exist). The Lost, Interbellum, Greatest, Silent, Boomer, X, Millennial, Z- these are all self-imposed categories with hazy border years. These words really only bear the meaning we attribute to them.
It's funny to me that millennials are considered to be the worst-generation-yet by an incredibly vocal minority of non-millennials. For the purposes of this article I'm taking into consideration that a vast majority of non-millennials have no interest in the castigation of our youth, nor do I mean to divide the Environmental Rights Movement along lines of age. Yet even so, since y'all "went there," I'd like to set the record straight for all of us.
With age comes privilege, and I'm about to check yours.
Let's do a little roll-call, shall we?
Where recent 'generations' have gotten us:
1)The ocean is dying of acidification.
2) The ocean is expected to collapse by 2050.
3) The ocean is expected to rise 4 feet by 2100.
5) Our groundwater is now poison.
6) Our food system is imploding.
8) USA ranks 108th in national happiness.
9) Our transportation infrastructure is crumbling.
…just to name a few wonderful facets of the world millennials might some day inherit. (I say 'might' because we millennials can't assume that the planet will be livable into our late adulthood, a luxury that was bestowed upon previous generations).
Such little hope remains of a stable future on planet Earth that many people today are now suffering from climate depression. Unjustly, many of the people being most affected by climate change cannot afford to share in this privilege of despair.
In the collapse of previous empires, everyday people would shrug and return to the fields for subsistence agriculture or to the ecosystem for foraging- waiting for society to rebuild itself. I ask, in the event of a societal breakdown, where will the billions of people go this time around?
With the vast amount of land turned into concrete, asphalt, or toxic wasteland- there is no longer a natural survival safety net as there used to be. Dangerous toxins in the environment today (landfills, tailing ponds, nuclear power plants, open-pit mines, etc.) are currently maintained and "mitigated" with energy from fossil fuels. In the collapse of our national energy infrastructure due to rolling blackouts, hurricanes, economic collapse, wildfires, etc.- these places will all be at risk of additional fallout and thus furthermore threaten the contamination of entire bio-regions with life-threatening materials.
Moreover, most people alive today don't even have the beginning of an understanding of traditional wisdoms for basic survival. Never in history has there ever been such a large majority of human society which has been so completely divorced from the concept of what it means to be a human on this planet. Fossil fuels have allowed us to soar well beyond our means and to sweep our destruction under a metaphorical rug, but that bubble is about to pop.
So, why might millennials be our only hope (if we really do have one)?
We millennials are not a special group of humans. We just happen to have been born to a time when humanity needed saving from itself. We have been given two pathways to choose between: one that leads to extinction, and the other that leads to the preservation of our society. Millennials are our only hope- by complete chance. If we can't save society, then no one will. The good news is that with every passing day we millennials are inheriting decision-making seats of power to create real change for our communities.
Millennials understand that joining the resistance against unsustainable lifestyles of radical consumption, overthrowing corporate oligarchy, blockading any new nonrenewable energy projects, dismantling neo-liberal trade deals, fighting to achieve the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights... these are not idealistic pursuits for us, as was the case for past generations. For millennials, these are imperative acts of self-preservation.
To the Millennials reading this: how many of you have heard a non-millennial say the phrase, "I don't have to worry about ___insert impending climate catastrophe here___, because it won't happen in my lifetime."
To any non-millennial reading this, please know that if we hear you say a phrase like that- we are judging you. To state that climate change is a "millennial problem" makes you sound inconsiderate and ignorant.
To a certain extent- it makes sense that some non-millennials feel this way. For the most part, our society does have a few years left of this gravy train. Depending upon how old you are, you might not have to live a majority of your existence in a time of devastating instability.
won't might not have to watch your homes be destroyed by floods, you won't might not have to house and feed climate refugees from coastal states, you won't might not have to suffer from food shortages, you won't might not have to drink rainwater out of tarps, etc. But most scientists (and the Pentagon) are saying that actually, you probably will.
Millennials will be defined by history for our response to climate change. I would posit that we might some day even be remembered as the Greatest Generation humanity has ever known. We will be the generation that suffers state violence in order to turn society away from a lifestyle of radical consumption, war profiteering, and national exceptionalism. We will be the generation that restores ourselves to community living and re-invests in shared land ownership. We will throw out the corporate elite and restore legitimate elections to the United States. We will incentivize family-planning in order to stabilize our water and food resources. We will invest in a clean energy future. We will seek out indigenous wisdoms for pro-environment lifestyles.
We will, we must preserve society so that the unborn generations to come can taste the sweetness of Justice and Liberty in a stabilized world, and not be left to bandy scrabbling wars over tracts of dwindling clean water and un-poisoned soil.
For all my frustrated millennials out there, I will leave you with a meditation that helps me to sleep at night.
Although currently trapped by unprecedented predatory student loans, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although indentured into full-time labor with no wages, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although denied bike lanes and high speed rail from our politicians, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although denied the right to grow food on our own properties, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although held captive by the privatized prison industry for corporate profit, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although we are gifted a catastrophic state of foreign policy from our elders, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although our activism is considered terrorism, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although disenfranchised at the voting booth, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
Although fossil fuel companies block meaningful investment into climate adaptation, our voting bloc is only set to grow.
We are humanity's only hope because the people who made our world a place of injustice and ecological calamity are losing their power and authority day-by-day.


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Americans Abroad
Tim Howard 90 minutes in Everton's 1-0 win at Manchester City
Brad Friedel 90 in Aston Villa's 4-2 win over Bolton Wanderers
Marcus Hahnemann (injury) did not play in Reading's 2-0 win over Norwich
Luis Robles for Kaiserslautern today vs. Freiburg
Oguchi Onyewu 90 in Standard Liege's 4-1 win at Brugge
Carlos Bocanegra 90 in Rennes' 0-0 tie with Nantes
Steve Cherundolo 90 in Hanover's 1-1 tie with Bielefeld
Neven Subotic 90 in Dortmund's 2-1 win over Moenchengladbach
Heath Pearce 76 in Hansa Rostock's 1-0 win over Wehen
Gregg Berhalter 90 in 1860 Munich's 1-1 tie with Nurenberg
Frank Simek (injury) DNP in Sheffield Wednesday's 0-0 tie with Bristol
Jay DeMerit (injury) DNP in Watford's 2-1 win over Coventry
Jose Torres 69 in Pachuca's 4-2 win over Al-Alhy (Club World Cup)
Michael Bradley 59 in Moenchengladbach's 2-1 loss at Dortmund
DaMarcus Beasley did not play in Rangers' 2-2 tie at Dundee United
Maurice Edu not in the 18 in Rangers' 2-2 tie at Dundee United
Danny Szetela did not play in Brescia's 2-0 loss at Cittadella
Jozy Alitdore 33 minutes in Villarreal's 1-0 loss at Sevilla
Clint Dempsey 90 in Fulham's 0-0 tie at Stoke City
Eddie Johnson 55 in Cardiff City's 2-1 win at Ipswich
Matt Taylor 69 in Koblenz's 1-0 loss to Ingolstadt
Freddy Adu did not play in Monaco's 3-1 loss at Valenciennes
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December 15, 2008; 9:00 AM ET
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Thanks for mentioning our boy Torres playing in the Club World Cup. Missed the game but it sounded fantastic.
Posted by: DadRyan | December 15, 2008 9:28 AM | Report abuse
What's up with Convey? We could use a left wing player back home . .
Posted by: delantero | December 15, 2008 9:35 AM | Report abuse
Convey is injury prone..thats the last thing we need!
Good for torres saw the game, fast paced futbol!
Posted by: TheWashDipsSince88 | December 15, 2008 9:39 AM | Report abuse
Adu's lack of play is baffling. Monaco was losing, so what does the coach do? Sub a defender for another defender.
Posted by: Reignking | December 15, 2008 9:47 AM | Report abuse
Convey is injury prone..thats the last thing we need!
Posted by: TheWashDipsSince88 | December 15, 2008 9:39 AM
I'm I in a time warp? ;-) Convey is pretty much done on the international/top league level. Shame - since he's only 25 - and I always thought he was a good midfielder. Philly 2010?
Posted by: Kev29 | December 15, 2008 10:00 AM | Report abuse
Only five player's whose teams lost- very good results
Posted by: carmines757 | December 15, 2008 10:31 AM | Report abuse
I like the time for Altidore and Dempsey. Very encouraging.
Posted by: Modibo | December 15, 2008 10:34 AM | Report abuse
Out of curiousity how do you feel about Adu's situation over at Monaco?
Posted by: BolivianDCFan | December 15, 2008 11:54 AM | Report abuse
Puma is signing to pay $10 million to sponsor WP . . . and since they also sponsor Marta, that would seem to increase the odds of getting her to the US
Posted by: OWNTF | December 15, 2008 12:09 PM | Report abuse
Adidas sponsors MLS and Puma sponsors WPS. Sibling rivalry?
Posted by: I-270Exit1 | December 15, 2008 12:31 PM | Report abuse
Watching the Pachuca-Al Ahly. I guess Pachuca will turn things around in the second half, but Al Ahly's second goal was wondrous. Shows you what a team can do when they have a player of enormous skill. Aboutrika caught up to a long ball over his head and took it in stride, controlling it on his ankle -- almost totally deadening it, but not so much as to cause him to break stride. The he went down the side and served a nice cross to Barakat who, made the final pass to Flavio, who didn't miss (a lot of MLSers might have missed).
For Goff, here's a template you can use for future Americans Abroad posts:
Tim Howard 90 minutes in Everton's
Brad Friedel 90 in Aston Villa's
Oguchi Onyewu 90 in Standard Liege's
Carlos Bocanegra 90 in Rennes'
Steve Cherundolo 90 in Hanover's
Neven Subotic 90 in Dortmund's
DaMarcus Beasley did not play in Rangers'
Maurice Edu not in the 18 in Rangers'
Danny Szetela did not play in Brescia's
Clint Dempsey 90 in Fulham's
Freddy Adu did not play in Monaco's
Posted by: fischy | December 15, 2008 2:06 PM | Report abuse
Very encouraging signs for Altidore.
Torres looked very good. hope he sees more time on the national team.
Bocanegra plays left back in France. I would think that when DeMerit is healthy we should play both on the back line. DeMerit to me has always been good enough to be in the starting eleven.
Convey and Eddie Johnson should just back up and come home. Face it, neither should be in the US national fold. Their both just terrible now. (Beasley in about three months Im gonna put you in this group too)
Posted by: grubbsbl | December 15, 2008 4:39 PM | Report abuse
This really is going to be a big problem for the US side, if so many o four players aren't getting playing time.
Posted by: fischy | December 15, 2008 5:19 PM | Report abuse
Seriously, Beasley and Edu need to get out of Rangers. The SPL isn't any better than MLS anyway.
Posted by: alecw81 | December 15, 2008 6:24 PM | Report abuse
The Rangers announced this week that they are downsizing the squad in January so it will be interesting to see if Beas goes. The manager did make reference to keeping young talent so gotta believe that Edu is in his plans.
Posted by: Beckster1 | December 15, 2008 6:55 PM | Report abuse
The Rangers announced this week that they are downsizing the squad in January...
Posted by: Beckster1 | December 15, 2008 6:55 PM
The Texas Rangers? Or The Queens Park Rangers? Or Rangers? (That would traditionally be The Glasgow Rangers to the uninitiated).
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Brighter and more affordable lighting for villagers of Salavanh province
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In Sept 2011, as a result of a collaborative project to bring mobile lighting solutions to remote villages in Laos, Sunlabob and the German Embassy of Laos installed Sunlabob Pico Solar Lanterns in 5 Salavanh province villages.
Replacing kerosene lamps, the solar lanterns provide lighting for activities such as cooking, eating, and reading, and can also be used for charging cell phones. A total of 5 battery charging stations with 50 lanterns each were installed, benefitting over 1,130 villagers.
"This lantern is comfortable and safe. Moreover, we save up to 75% in lighting bills, and whenever we show people from other villages, they want to have one too." says Khankeo Salithithapong, a Salavanh province villager.
Majority of Salavanh's villagers are rice farmers who earn less than USD 1 per day. They produce enough to eat but not much to sell so they often cannot afford even the most basic amenities.
Prior to the installation of the solar lanterns, each household had 2 kerosene lamps, using 1 litre of kerosene over a period of 6 days. For the solar lanterns, villagers only pay 1000 kip per charge, half of which goes to the maintenance fund and the other half goes to the salary of the Village Technicians (VT) and Village Energy Committees (VEC). The involvement of the local community also provides a way for individuals to participate and make a profit. Moreover, the lantern burns more cleanly so there is no dangerous indoor emissions.
As all 5 villages are located within close proximity to one another, Sunlabob conducted a centralised training session for all VTs and VECs. The training, lasting 3 days, comprised of an accounting training as well as a technical training for the VTs and VECS. To ensure transparency and efficient financial management of the system, the accounting training is extremely crucial as it teaches the VTs and VECs how to collect charging fees and manage the Lantern Maintenance Funds. The technical training also ensures that the VTs can resolve common issues in a timely manner.
In about one-two months, Sunlabob will return to the villages for a checkup and coaching visit. The goal of this visit is to:
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- Check the money in the Lantern Maintenance Fund;
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
A week on the Sea Dream 2 cruising the Med.
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Food lovers visit to Istanbul
After spending a week on the Gullet in Turkish waters we headed to Istanbul for 4 days of eating and exploring. After a very crazy ride into the city in the worst traffic you could imagine we arrived at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Hotel on the Bosphorus. The location on the water is beautiful the traffic in this area is terrible.
Dinner the first night was at Sunset Bar and Grill a view of both bridges and the entire city across the Bosphorus. The food was a B but the service and view were an A+. They eat later in Turkey so if you arrive before 8 most places are very quiet.
The next morning we met our guide Anka Benli and headed out to see the Blue Mosque and The Basilica Cistern before we had lunch and of course the Grand Bazaar was waiting for us. Anka can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or www.ankabenli.com , Anka has been the guide for many well know American chefs and personalities, including Martha Stewart, and Anothony while he was filming No Reservations. After a lunch at Hotel Yesii EV in the garden restuarant called Sera we headed to the rug shop. The owner Recep Sefer is well respected and we were shown amazing rugs of every kind. Go to www.orienthandmadecarpets.com, location is Nuruosmaniye Caddesi #68 in the main bazaar. Of course I bought a beautiful carpet for a new bedroom in our Sun Valley house. After more shopping we headed back to the hotel to rest and get ready for dinner.
Dinner was at a fish reataurant called Eftalya, www.eftalya.net . We shared plates of tomatoes and onions, fish balls, large local prawns grilled to perfection and then the waiter presented a huge fresh local white fish that they grilled and served at the table. the fish has a simple olive oil and lemon squeezed over. We were the only tourists since it seems to be a true local place. Be sure to go after 9pm for a fun active meal.
The next morning we met Guzin Yalin, Guzine is very involved it everything to do with food, food products and cusine in Turkey.
Visit her site at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Guzine does food tours, is a great food writer and help produce a beautiful cookbook of Turkish recipes.
After coffee and a quick conversation sitting on the Bosphorus in an area called Bebek. We had lunch next to the spice market at a Kabob place called "Hamdi". Guzin explained about the flat bread called Lahmacun with meat or herbs and Simit, a bread covered in sesame seeds and baked. I learned so much in just one morning I look forward to our next meeting. Thank you to all the people tha made our short visit in Istanbul a perfect beginning to a long friendship with the city and new friends.
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Turkey by boat
After many months of planning we were joined by 10 friends on a beautiful gullet in Turkey for a week of cruising. Our yacht was chartered through— bluefunyachting.com, the name of the boat was Caner IV. The boat was fashioned after the old style sail boat called a Gullet. Caner IV is 128 feet long with 6 beautiful staterooms and was only 3 years old. (Our boat and crew)
We picked the boat up in Bodrum, Turkey and headed out for 7 days of swimming, eating, and exploring. The food was so fresh and our chef created 3 full meals a day. We never ate a meal off the boat since you could not have found a better meal or service any place.
After each person would rise to sunshine we looked forward to breakfast at 9am the outside table was covered with platters of fresh fruit, tomatoes, peeled of course, cucumbers, olives and the freshest yogurt and cheese. After breakfast we would find our places on the deck for a cruise to the next bay for swimming and reading.
Our course was charted by our captain and we would move to a different port, bay, each day. We would swim in the 85 degree water and then get ready for a perfect lunch each day at 2pm. We had bought our wine in Bodrum and found that many of the local Turkish wines were not bad. Lunch was usually started with a toast of local rose' and a few bottles of local beer.
We would often see our chef buying fresh fish from a local fisherman , they would come up along side our boat and offer their latest catch.
We did anchor one morning and go to a small village in Selimiye Bay. We went to the local market where the crew loaded up on tomatoes, peaches and feta cheese while the ladies did a little shopping at a shop called Ayna, www.aynabutik.com,. We all bought wonderful cotton dresses that the owner had created., not expensive and we had so much fun wearing them for dinner that night. (white night)
Dinner was started with the traditional mezes, 5 or 7 platters of starters, okra stewed in tomatoes, beans many different ways, kebabs and often flaky pastries filled with meats, cheeses and grains, hummus is so flavorful and smooth with plenty of olive oil ready to be scooped up. The main course would follow, always a huge green salad loaded with fresh parsley and different types of greens. The chef had a grill set up on the back of the boat and grilled fish, steak and chicken with lemon as the main course. Perfect dessert and fresh fruit ended another perfect day.
After 7 days we pulled up anchor on the last morning and headed to land. Thc crew pulled into the private dock at the Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay just out side of Bodrum. The hotel was great but after so many amazing meals on the boat, no one was happy about the food at the hotel. I will publish a few recipes in the recipe section that I know you will all enjoy.
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My dearest wish is that we can do so beyond any party lines, and that democracy means so much more than the fruitless cross in the box every five years. In fact, in the vast majority of historical events, the rights of people have only been won through direct action and not the ballot box.
In the weeks after the election, we hear reliance on food banks in the Forest continues to soar, and it's going to get a whole lot worse. And if the Tories succeed in doing away with human rights legislation, even the most peaceful protest could be rendered illegal.
But the big question is, is the Labour Party and indeed the entire Parliamentary system of embedded privilege, a judiciary created by and for the rich, any kind of solution? It seems to me the Party system is a dead end. The massive anti-austerity vote in Scotland should be a wake-up call to Labour, but already the big guns are calling for Labour to be more like the Tories to be "electable". (While the far-right sirens will also see Labour politicians shamelessly play the anti-immigration charade).
"They didn't buy what we were selling, how we sold it or who was selling it. In fact, all too many didn't know what we were selling at all."A party too isolated in terms of geography, mindset and pure human contact from the British people can never hope to prevail against a surprisingly resilient and resurgent Tory party – and a tidal wave of nationalism. If we stay trapped where we are right now, we'll lose again."
I suspect Labour loyalists will now seek to rebuild their party and fight for its buried socialist soul, just as they have been doing and failing to do since the death of John Smith. In the process they will be prepared to defend the next Party leadership no matter how similar to the Tories they become, and oppose the Greens, anarchists or any other Left entities, all for the sake of their Party and a hope that in 2020 some sort of compromised red team will have some power.
I find the words of blogger Johnny Void, referring to the power elite, more inspiring and real-world:
"So cossetted and pampered have their lives been so far that they think we will continue to accept any indignity. That we will work for peanuts, or nothing at all, and let them sack us on a whim and jail us if we strike. That we will continue to pay them huge rents to live in hovels and willingly accept being socially cleansed from our homes and communities. That the champagne will flow forever and their lives remain undisturbed as they steal the very world from beneath our feet.
"Only a few of the pampered elite have looked to history and realised that this situation cannot last. That the rage of the working class has conquered dynasties and empires centuries old in the past. That no army, or fucking copper will save them when they finally push too far. And they will only have themselves to blame when the pitchforks eventually come."
Party or no party, comrades, we must and will keep up the dissent. Whoever they vote for, we must ensure we are ungovernable.


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Welcome to Swinhoe Farm Riding Centre. We are a small family business, run on a 1750 acre farm in the picturesque countryside of North Northumberland with Spectacular views to both the cheviots and the coast overlooking Holy Island.
The Centre was established in 2005 by Claire Nixon; UKCC Level 4 Coach, BHS Accredited Professional Coach with her BHS SC (BHS Stage 5 Senior Coach), BHS SM (BHS Stage 5 Care and Management), BHS II (Stage 4 Senior Coach in Complete Horsemanship), NVQ Asessor, IV (Internal Verifier), BHS Ride Safe Assessor and Trainer. She also has an Postgraduate Diploma in Profesional Sports Coaching, an HND in Equine Management, is up todate with her BHS Equine Specific First Aid, Child Protection and has a current CRB Check. Claire is currently on the MSc in Profesional Sports Coaching.
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Over the realm of Darkness he sufficed
Above countless principalities and demons that breathe the fires of hell and Overcoming the minions that abhors the night,
the reckless spirited energy which breathes fear and grounds evil,
Words of mouth reigns supreme over words of silence
But one who triumph over both "action"!!
"Fear not for I am with you"
Distinguished between powers,
Exulted among gods,
Worshipped above lords,
Within thy bossoms "life" withing thy embowelment "death"
Conceived in the heart of the night, the thickest of evils and the strays of demons,
sin cast's its elastic wings of dissit and tempt on the embodiments of Earth
Children, the quakes are here, the gates are open, and the demons that feed the fires of hell are let loose,
"The feast have begun"
Pick a side now all yea that worketh inequity
For the end is at thy wrist approaching,
Cast out all illicit works, for no sin is another greater than,
Jesus is reaching out right now!
The one whose name is as a strong tower,
he is and will always be the way through!!!


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The Irish Times described Gerry as one of five visionaries who have had a major impact on the development of the Web. He has appeared on BBC, CNN and CNBC television, partaken in various radio shows, and featured in numerous print media publications. Gerry has spoken about top task management in more than 35 countries.
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This cute Thanksgiving craft project is really cute and so easy. I got my daughter out the supplies and she made these all on her own.
You just need scissors, toilet paper cardboard tubes, construction paper, markers, and glue or tape.
Instructions for Pilgrim People
- For each figure, wrap a cardboard tissue tube with construction paper clothing and glue the paper in place.
- Draw the face on using a fine tipped marker. We used Sharpies.
- For the hair, cut fringe along one side of a small paper rectangle. Roll the hair around a pen to make it curl up a bit, then trim it, and glue it into place.
- Cut and decorate headbands and feathers for the Native Americans and collars and an apron for the Pilgrims. For the Pilgrim girl's bonnet, just cut a band with a triangle at the front. In the back the ends can overlap. For the Pilgrim boy's hat, cut out a black circle 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Roll and glue a black piece around another segment of toilet paper tube, then attach it to a circular brim. Add a 1/2-inch band and square buckle and glue the hat to the boy's head.
- The turkey head is the shape of a deflated balloon, with a triangular beak and small red wattle attached. You can give the turkey a cute pilgrim's hat if you'd like. Also, don't forget to add colorful turkey feathers.
For little ones, it's easier if you have the pieces measured and cut out ahead of time, and then you can leave the coloring and gluing to their capable little hands! Bigger kids will be able to do the whole thing themselves. . . just show them the picture and let their creativity take over. Make one for each person who'll sit at your Thanksgiving table and turn them into place cards by gluing a little name sign on to the front of each one.


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In Mid December we walked into their rose garden and I was blown away. I am still seeing images of the garden in my mind's eye.
Usually, I walk into a rose garden and what do I see? Well it can be lovely , but all too often the garden can be dry soil, defoliation, spotty yellow leaves far too much bare earth
Not an enthusiast then?? Well all changed now. Christchurch showed me how it can be done,
Look at these arches, look at these red reds. Let me share some photographs with you.
|Many Happy Returns
It was the white roses that made the most impact. Fantastic.
|Molly Kirby
A bright yellow bed of " Casino"
|Ingrid Bergman
1. Well New Zealand has a kinder climate. Christchurch has milder winters and hotter summers that we have in UK, and certainly more than we have in Scotland.
And Roses love warmth. We sometimes forget that and wonder why we lose rose bushes, particularly Hybrid teas in a bad winter. At Abriachan we only grown shrub roses and climbers as others just can't take the cold.
|Nancy Hayward
Just wonderful. No wonder they call Christchurch the Garden City


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Chill out with this quick, nutritious smoothie.
Back-to-back meetings, prenatal appointments, baby showers — who has time to sit down and eat? Even if you're short on this most precious commodity, pregnancy is no time to skimp on nutrition. Mothers-to-be need an extra 100 calories daily in their first trimester and 300 calories a day during their second and third trimesters. Additionally, higher amounts of all nutrients, including bone-building calcium, iron and folic acid, are needed during every month.
This refreshing smoothie recipe is so jampacked with nutrients that it's a virtual meal-in-a-glass. It's also delicious, light and easy to make, so you'll have a better chance at beating the clock — and the summer heat. Hurry–Up Tropical Smoothie Serves 2 ½ cup orange juice ¼ cup pineapple chunks, drained 1 banana (frozen optional) ½ teaspoon almond extract ¼ cup skim milk 4 tablespoons powdered skim milk 4 ice cubes 1 cup strawberry fat-free yogurt (sweetened with fruit juice)
In a blender, whirl all ingredients except yogurt for 1 minute or until smooth. Add yogurt and whirl for 30 seconds. Pour in a tall glass and enjoy.
For another quick meal, freeze the extra smoothie. When ready to drink, thaw for 5–10 minutes. Place in blender with 2 ice cubes and whirl on high speed for 1 minute.
Nutritional information per serving (16 ounces): 223 calories, 4 percent fat (1 gram), 71 percent carbohydrate, 25 percent protein, 118 micrograms vitamin A, 437 milligrams calcium, .6 milligram iron, 56 micrograms folic acid.


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Zamboanga Medical School Foundation
In 1994, I helped in the establishment of a new school in Zamboanga City and formulation of its curriculum which is community-based, competency-based, and problem-based learning.
In May, 2002, I had a chance to go back to Zamboanga and participated in the first alumni homecoming of the school. In the process, I interacted with the graduates and also, I learned from Dean Fortunato Cristobal what transpired in the school from its establishment to date.
Based on the data on the first 3 batches of graduates (1999 to 2001),
1. The graduate rate from the school was 60% (45/75).
2. The passing rate in the Philippine Board of Medicine exam was 84% (43/51).
3. The school has produced 19 MD with MPH (Master in Public Health).
4. Majority of the graduates are municipal health officers in Region 9 contributing to the health development in the region.
With these information, I can say that I have achieved the goal of Education for Health Development in the Philippines.
Reynaldo O. Joson, MD, MHA, MHPEd, MS Surg
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If you ask New Yorkers what their city smells like, their immediate and vigorous answer will include such items as these:
· Garbage
· Dog poop
· Urine
· Sweat (from other people, as in the subway)
· Chemical vapors
· Gas
· Mold
· Grilled meat from block parties
· Diesel fumes
· Smells from halal and hot dog vendors
Summer, of course, is the worst season for unpleasant smells, since the heat "cooks" the garbage and other undesirable deposits.
|Man's best friend, but ...
David Shankbone
To these I'll add another provided by a friend who lived for many years in Brooklyn: the sickly sweet smell of mice dying in the walls after the landlord has spread poison, a smell that lasts from ten days to two weeks until their little bodies desiccate. For my friend this is quintessential olfactory New York.
And if you press New Yorkers for some positive olfactory experiences, they'll think a minute and perhaps come up with
· Toasted bagels
· Fruit tree blossoms in spring
· The aroma from a pizzeria, with hints of yeasty bread, cheese, and sausage
· In Brooklyn, the aroma of freshly roasted coffee emanating from several little wholesale coffee companies hidden in brick buildings
· Italian sausage cooking at stands at the annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy
|Sausage stand at the Feast of San Gennaro.
Obviously, the negative experiences outweigh the positive ones. And New Yorkers complain: 13,054 odor complaints to 311 (the city's complaint and information number) over the last four years, or about eight gripes per thousand residents. And to judge by the number of complaints, Manhattan is the smelliest borough by far. Unless, of course, it simply has the most residents willing to lodge a complaint, which may well be the case.
To the smells already mentioned, I'll provide a few more, both pleasant and unpleasant, from my own experience.
· The aroma of fresh baked bread emanating from some invisible bakery nearby, especially delicious on a cold winter night
· On the street, the acrid smell of fresh asphalt when a pothole has just been filled
· Roasted chestnuts from sidewalk stands in the fall
· Hot air from dry cleaners, sometimes with a chemical edge to it that is probably toxic
· A smell of rubble, plaster, and splintered wood heaped in dumpsters outside residences or shops undergoing renovation, their interiors, when glimpsed from the sidewalk, totally gutted and devastated
· Exhaust fumes from buses as they pull away from the curb
· In parks, the cloyingly sweet summer fragrance of Canada thistle and milkweed flowers, the soothing scent of a wild mint and, in the fall, a rich cidery tang from rotting apples scattered on the ground under apple trees
· When pavement is being replaced, a smell of wet cement
|Canada thistle, a fragrance that intoxicates.
|Wet cement plus graffiti. The photographer wonders: vandalism
or history in the making? Will it one day be another Pompeii?
Basher Eyre
Yet many smells escape me, for my sniffer isn't the most efficient. So let's consult an expert. A neuroscientist in town last spring to register the smells of a New York morning stood outside Grand Central Station during the morning rush hour and reported the following:
· A toasted onion bagel
· The "briny, salty, fishy" smell of the East River, delivered by the breeze
· A "really powdery, moist, kind of sweet smell" from steam rising from underground
And inside the terminal, where shops abound:
· High-end coffee (instead of the cheap coffee of the 1980s)
· After-shave
· Toothpaste
· Disinfectant from trains
· Brown-black shoe polish
· Cheap air freshener from a Town Car coming from a man's suit
And outside again, going toward Bryant Park:
· Hot dogs
· Doughnuts
· The "sour, tangy, birdy smell of pigeons"
· Cigar smoke
|They're hard to get away from, but you don't have to feed them.
There speaks a true expert, a scientist of smell. And recently, on a so-called Smellwalk in Brooklyn, participants who sniffed trash cans and doorways and even trees reported such smells as these:
· Garlic
· Acqua di Gio cologne from a European tourist
· Recently chewed gum in a trash can
· Cigarette smoke
· A marijuana joint
· Blended wheatgrass
But when the tour organizer, who has led walks to create Smellmaps of various European cities, was asked for the characteristic smell of New York, she reflected a moment, then announced, "A warm, musty smell that comes from the cellar." Not, I confess, a smell that I have experienced.
Every so often an unusual smell – unusual for the city – arrives to spice our urban living. In April of this year New Yorkers awoke to a heady smell of windborne smoke whose source was easily located: a brush fire in New Jersey a good hundred miles away. And periodically, from 2005 to 2009, a mysterious maple-syrup-like aroma visited our nostrils, its source an enigma. Finally, in 2009, Mayor Bloomberg announced triumphantly that the probable source had been detected: fragrance-processing plants in New Jersey making use of fenugreek seed, a spice employed in this country more for industrial than culinary purposes. Not an unpleasant odor, but many New Yorkers were of the opinion that New Jersey should keep its smells to itself. (I shan't chronicle the smells of northeastern New Jersey, which combines extensive marshland, a pig farm, and an oil refinery.)
The city of New York, then, teems with smells, some offensive and some not, though New Yorkers tend to emphasize the stinks. For perspective, let's have a look at nineteenth-century New York and see how it compares.
By all accounts, nineteenth-century New York stank. Sidewalks were often piled high with kitchen slops, cinders, coal dust, broken cobblestones, and dumped merchandise, while the streets were rich in horse manure that, in rain, became a thick, ankle-deep slime that smelled like bad eggs dissolved in ammonia. And when dry weather prevailed, the thick traffic on streets like Broadway ground the manure into dust that blew up from the pavement as a piercing powder that covered the clothes of passersby, invaded their nostrils, stung their eyes, and even blew into their residences to assail the furniture and upholstery. And in any weather there might be a dead horse in the street. Only the arrival of the horseless carriage relieved the city of these pestilential smells.
And that wasn't all. The middle class lived in handsome, well-scrubbed brownstones on Fifth and Madison Avenues and their side streets, well removed from the seedy West Side of the 30s and 40s, which housed the gas facilities that provided them with gaslight, and such urban amenities as stables, distilleries, hog pens, slaughterhouses, tanneries, swill milk dairies, breweries, and a varnish factory, all of which emitted their distinctive aromas. But if the wind was from the west, this symphony of smells could find its way eastward to the fashionable shops and restaurants and hotels on Broadway and to the brownstone neighborhoods as well.
So how did people cope? By holding handkerchiefs to their nose. Ladies, if they had to face these affronts to gentility, sprinkled flower scents on their handkerchiefs, behind their ears, and on perfumed sachets that they carried with them. But the best solution was to retreat into the sanctity of the home and guard it with vigilance, and so arose the cult of the parlor.
The parlor was the shrine and sanctuary of the affluent middle class, its refuge from the nasty smells – and nasty sounds and sights – of the turbulent city outside. It was a feast of velvet and brocade, a stage for the gleaming white keys of a pianoforte, an assemblage of bibelots on whatnots, its shaded sanctum scented with cedar and lavender and rose. Here one received callers of note, prominent among them the minister of one's church. In such an atmosphere one could forget for a while the reek of manure-laden streets, a whiff of hog pens and distilleries, and clouds of eye-stinging dust. (More on the parlor in a future post.)
Another feature of nineteenth-century New York was a section of the city where no lady ever set foot, except to take a ferry or steamship: the waterfront. But that waterfront offered a unique assortment of smells, as its docks welcomed ships from every major port in the world. A stroll there brought to one's nostrils an amazing sequence of aromas: fresh pineapple from a stand; sawn wood from a steam engine cutting up firewood; gas smells from a riverfront gas works; garbage smells from a mountain of refuse fed continually by a line of carts, while ragpickers crawled over the trash to scavenge bits of food, or shoes or scraps of metal to sell to the junk man; smelly hides being unloaded from a ship; hogsheads of tobacco ready to be shipped abroad; hints of tea, palm oil, and strange spicy aromas from crates and barrels being unloaded on docks serving the China, Australian, and African trade; a fine mist of flour as a grain elevator delivered flour from a spout to be weighed, bagged, and carted off; a smell of coal as workmen grimy with coal dust and sweat unloaded coal from a canal boat; and a smell of brine from an oyster market, and fish smells from a fish market. Such a roster of smells reveals the tremendous activity of the waterfront in those days, and what the city has lost commercially since, albeit with an improvement in relative tranquility and waterfront recreation.
|Ragpickers scavenging in a mountain of trash, 1866.
Let's return now to the smells of today and end by mentioning two less than enticing aromas imposed on us by those longtime friends of mine, the trees. An import from China, the gingko (Gingko biloba) is a common shade tree here with distinctive fan-shaped leaves that turn yellow in the fall. At the same time it bears its fruit, tawny or yellowish little balls that litter the ground, the smell of whose fleshy pulp has been likened to dog poop, an odiferous cheese, rancid butter, or vomit. If one endures the smell and if, wearing disposable gloves to prevent irritation to the hands, one removes the pulp, inside is a greenish nut that some consider tasty. Having endured the stink, cracked the shell, and fought through to the nut, I once tried it but found it uninteresting, not worth the ordeal required to harvest it. Furthermore, if consumed in quantity, it can be toxic. In the city the fallen nuts get crushed by pedestrians on the sidewalk, and people wonder where that offensive smell comes from. Yet up in the North End of Central Park I have seen Chinese ladies gathering the fruit on the ground, whether for culinary or medicinal purposes, I do not know, since Chinese tradition sanctions both. My conclusion: leave the gingko fruit to the Chinese ladies, who probably know what to do with it; only the hardy should mess with it.
|Fruit of the gingko.
Wolfgang H. Wögerer
And if, strolling the city's streets in spring, you should detect an odor that some have described as a mix of (ahem!) semen and rotting fish, though others just say semen, don't assume some oversexed teenager has been active in the vicinity. Instead, look around and see if you don't find one or several trees bearing quantities of little five-petaled white flowers that, if sniffed, prove to be the source of this wanton odor. Such is the callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), another import from Asia and the second commonest shade tree in the city, which puzzled me for years until I finally consulted the city and they identified it. I knew it only as a mystery tree with white flowers in the spring; I had never stuck my schnozzola into its blossoms to discover this surprising -- and for some, offensive – odor.
|Charming to look at ... until you sniff.
Finally, to end on a more positive note, I'll mention McNulty's at 109 Christopher Street (yes, that street) in the West Village, which boasts of being the country's leading purveyor of choice coffees and rare teas. Entering, you encounter the aura of a bygone era with sacks of coffee and chests of tea with obscure markings from faraway lands all around you, and even scales reminiscent of the nineteenth century. Above all, one's sniffer is intoxicated by the mix of aromas: oolong and herbal and black and green teas from India and Kenya and Sri Lanka and China, and coffees from Indonesia and Hawaii and Jamaica and Costa Rica and Columbia and Uganda and Ethiopia and Yemen and – but why go on? A rare symphony of aromas, unique, unforgettable.
My Gauge of Estimation: Just devised, it's self-explanatory. Very subjective; feel free to challenge or supplement it.
The Gauge of Estimation
My rating of the living creatures known to me; a purely personal judgment, riddled with prejudices, flexible, subject to change.
I admire (from most to much)
1. Activist American nuns (they've even gone to jail for their convictions)
2. Nurses
3. Dalai Lama
4. Honeybees (industrious, well organized, essential as pollinators)
5. Doctors Without Borders (they have guts)
6. Teachers (minus a few bad apples; overscrutinized, underpaid)
7. Greenpeace (they have guts too)
8. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
9. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
10. Jimmy Carter (a better career post-White House)
11. Immigrants (we need them; they work hard)
12. Organic farmers (ditto)
13. Spiders (they have a bad press, eat flies and mosquitoes; I never kill them)
14. Investigative journalists (fewer now, when we need more of them)
15. Salvation Army
16. Painted buntings (our most beautiful songbird, but I've never seen one)
17. Michelle Obama (I'd vote for her)
18. Snakes (U.S.; beautiful, harmless unless provoked)
19. Labor unions (to counterbalance corporations)
20. Bald eagles, falcons, hawks (fiercely beautiful)
21. NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) (they fight a lonely fight, plead only for consensual relationships)
22. Apple (in spite of its faults; endlessly inventive, and I love my Mac)
Pending (I haven't decided, may need more info; from hopeful to less hopeful)
1. Pope Francis
2. Mayor de Blasio
3. Chelsea (on her own at last; we'll see)
4. Poets (poor things, so sensitive and so alone)
5. FBI (at least, not as bad as the CIA)
6. New York's Finest (we need them, but …)
7. Bill (brilliant but at times stupid -- Monica, etc.)
8. Hillary (wants so much to be President)
I dislike (from much to most)
1. Sarah Palin (but keep her around for laughs)
2. Blue jays (the bullies of the bird world)
3. Worms (they serve a purpose in the biosphere, but…)
4. Putin
5. Mosquitoes (they love my blood)
6. Governor Andrew Cuomo (eliminated his own Commission to Investigate Corruption; in my eyes, a hack politician)
7. Cockroaches
8. Justice Clarence Thomas (came up the hard way, but I believe Anita Hill)
9. Fundamentalists (they commit the sin of simplicity)
10. Bankers (the big guys, not the small fry; manipulative, irresponsible)
11. CIA (because…)
12. Terrorists (of all stripes; takes in more people than you may think)
13. Koch Brothers (one is bad enough, but two…!)
14. The tobacco industry (at least their lies are known)
15. The Tea Party crowd (partisanship first, the nation last)
16. NRA (National Rifle Association) (even nine-year-olds should shoot)
17. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) (secretive, far-reaching; too often they write the laws our states adopt)
I hold in the utmost contempt (from much to most)
1. Bedbugs
2. Telemarketers (recorded messages, incessant, stupid)
3. Dick Cheney (his finger in every dirty pie)
4. Bullies
5. Monsanto (the company I love to hate; GMOs, etc., and their ex-execs infest our government!)
6. Vermin
7. Congress (except for a few good souls, two of them noted above)
8. New York State Legislature (the lowest you can get)
Coming soon: Brownstone and brownstones (the material, the residence, the Victorian parlor). Then: Ralph Fasanella and his take on Joe McCarthy, the Rosenbergs, the Cold War, Vietnam, a Crucified Iceman, and so much more.
© 2014 Clifford Browder


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Single claimers on UC or JSA must prove they are looking for work more than 35 hours in a benefit week?
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Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) reported Wednesday that its second-quarter profit climbed 20% to $941 million, or $1.25 a share, from $787 million, or $1.06 a share, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue rose 6% to $16.54 billion from $15.57 billion. Analysts, on average, expected the company to report earnings of 98 cents a share on revenue of $16.47 billion.
"Strong operational performance drove double-digit margins at both of our major businesses and produced outstanding results in the quarter," said Jim McNerney, Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We also made major progress toward certification and delivery of the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 and continued our disciplined increases in commercial airplane production rates. Our outlook for the year has strengthened as our team continues its relentless focus on productivity improvement, cash management and program execution."
Looking ahead to the full year, the company lifted its earnings outlook to between $3.90 and $4.10 a share, from a prior view of $3.80 to $4 a share.
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|PICTURED: Not The Horse.
THE LONG MADE SHORT: It's fun. Genuinely so, at that. It's a very entertaining film that breaks the Disney mold in places, and, to my mind, that needs to be rewarded. Vote with your wallets, folks. THIS COMES FROM SOMEONE WHO, TRADITIONALLY, GIVES DISNEY THE STINK-EYE. (More on that later.)
MORE INFO THAN THAT: Listen, did you hear about how Disney was going to title the film Rapunzel, but switched marketing tactics and tried aiming it more at boys and parents instead of just at girls? It's true; The Princess And The Frog pleased critics but wasn't a big box office performer, so someone at Disney said -- "Well, hell, cousin, let's make movies for girls AND boys! Get more butts inna seats!"
IT WORKED. The movie is fun even for a cranky-butt like me. Plus...it's making money.
Money, as you know, talks. In this case, the money that you spend going to see this movie (besides snagging you a better time at the movies than TRON: Legacy was), says something to Disney. It says, "Break that mold. Push a little bit. Cast the net wider. You can appeal to a wider audience if you take that risk."
It also says, "John Lasseter has the right damn job."
Oh, you know who John Lasseter is. Pixar, right? The dude whose Wikipedia entry says he is
[A]n American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.
Chief creative officer. Calling the shots, in other words. Ever watch an interview with him? I have. Guy loves animation. He is an artist first, businessman second. He wants to take animation places, and bring you along for the ride.
American animation needs him.
I have bitched about the state of animation before. I have also looked down my nose at Disney's output for a long time -- perhaps unfairly, I generally equate "Disney" with "mediocre", if not in terms of technical ability but in terms of content. A few exceptions (Atlantis, Treasure Planet, The Black Cauldron, Fantasia) aside, their stuff makes me go ho-hum. Well, the dragon in Sleeping Beauty was pretty swank, but for every bad-ass black dragon and magic sword combo, you get about a dozen sappy song/cute animal friend salads. Maybe the movies are better than that, but they certainly haven't attracted me. But they've attracted a lot of other people, and, in a sense, contributed to this notion that animated movies are for kids or, worse, just for little girls. I have a little girl; I'm all for animation for little girls*. I'm not for the idea that animation is just for a given section of the population.
|I am definitely pro-animation-for-girls-with-Melee-(Frying Pan)-5D.
Yesssss. Fingertips steepled, hunched over my desk. Yesssssssss...!
It's not Heavy Metal. It's not even Titan A.E. or Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas. But it is most people's synonym for animation, Disney, taking a chance. Taking a chance and succeeding, by making a movie that truly has stuff for the whole family -- I don't just mean that it's family-friendly, in that there is nothing objectionable (which there isn't), but rather by making a movie with something everyone in a family can enjoy. A movie with a heroine that'll inspire little girls without being sappy, a hero young boys will want to pretend to be, a pair of villains you'll want as NPCs in your D&D game...
|The Stabbington Twins, voiced by Ron Perlman: Fighting-Men, lvl. 4. You're welcome.
...a movie with gorgeous art direction, smooth animation and truly beautiful lighting; a movie where some of the best comedy business is delivered by a perpetually-drunken dwarf in a diaper.
Yes. You read that right. Dwarf. Drunk. Diaper.
In a Disney movie.
"For kids".
Go see it. Tell that damn mouse to keep up the good work.
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A Missouri couple, Susanne and Jerry Byerly, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Missouri, against Cargill Meat Solutions Corp after Mrs. Byerly was hospitalized for salmonella poisoning, allegedly from ground turkey produced at Cargill's Springdale Arkansas plant.
The lawsuit claims that 111 people have gotten sick from tainted turkey, and at least one person has died from turkey products made by Cargill and infected with Salmonella Heidelberg.
The lawsuit says that Byerly became sick after her husband used the tainted turkey in spaghetti sauce on August 1. By August 11, Byerly was so sick she entered the hospital to be treated with intravenous antibiotics. After her discharge on August 12, Byerly learned that strain of salmonella that had infiltrated her blood stream matched the strain found in Cargill's infected turkey.
According to the complaint, Cargill was aware that Salmonella Heidelberg had been detected in the Springdale Arkansas plant in 2010, and as far back as 2007, and that Cargill "failed to alert consumers of the potential danger, issue a recall of products that it knew to be contaminated, or reasonably act to prevent consumers of its products from becoming infected and sickened by Salmonella Heidelberg."
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Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) cut into a portion of its profits in the third quarter to cover expenses tied to representation and warranty issues or putback risk.
The bank noted in its third-quarter earnings that its profit was partly impacted by $24 million in charges attributed to an increase in the company's reps and warrants reserve.
Banks like Fifth Third create reserves specifically to brace for the potential of buy-back risk.
The firm's profit fell to $354 million, or 38 cents a share, for the period. That is down from earnings of $376 million, or 40 cents a share, in the second quarter. It's also lower than the $373 million, or 40 cents, recorded a year earlier.
Still, the company's CEO Kevin Kabat said the third quarter brought stronger mortgage banking revenue.
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For years, New York investment manager Ed Shugrue III traveled to England on a regular basis to have his suits custom-made on Savile Row and his bespoke shirts fitted on Jermyn Street. Although he enjoys bird hunting in the English countryside, making time to meet with his tailors in London was a chore he found increasingly annoying.
"It's impractical to have a real Savile Row suit made unless you live in England, because you need two or three fittings. Plus, there is no sense of timeliness among the top prestige makers," says Shugrue, who is president of ES Capital Management in Manhattan. "It can be frustrating because you don't always know when you'll be back to be refitted. They may offer to ship it over, but there is no one to mark it up. It can take as long as a year to get a suit made, and you start asking yourself, 'Where is all the custom attention that I expected, but didn't get?' "
Shugrue's intercontinental fashion challenges were resolved when he met Stephen Kempson, a dashing English clothier who had relocated to the United States and was offering his services as a private wardrober to a small but formidable group of American businessmen. Not only does Kempson possess a great sense of style, but he also understands the importance of convenience and expeditious service, says Shugrue. More important, Kempson recognizes that American and British gentlemen have different expectations for how their suits should fit. "In London, they put a strong rope on the shoulder," explains Shugrue. "When I asked to soften it, they argued, saying that is not how a traditional suit is made. Stephen is willing to make an adjustment here or there; he gives you what you want without all the dogma."
Kempson, who serves fewer than 40 clients nationwide, may be one of the newest, most discriminating players in a growing industry of private fashion consultants and personal wardrobers. These specialists make their livings by updating the closets of busy executives who have more talent for stock trading than suit shopping. Not only do these clothiers bring their wares to clients' homes or offices on demand, their services enable busy professionals to acquire custom-made suits and sportswear without interrupting their work and private lives.
The idea of a private wardrober is nothing new. It dates to the 19th century, when wealthy men kept private appointments with personal tailors to peruse the latest striped flannels and solid wool worsteds and purchase a wardrobe for the coming season. Eventually the practice died out in the United States as tailors stopped making house calls. However, over the past two decades, national companies such as Allen-Petrie Clothiers, David Lance New York, David Rickey & Co., Renzi Custom Gallery, and Tom James Co. have attempted to revive this trade by redefining the relationship between a man and his tailor.
As combination stylists/consultants/ salesmen, most private wardrobers are dapper fashion experts who are trained in the fine points of tailoring although they never pick up a needle themselves. They have a keen eye for what silhouettes and hues work best with a man's form and coloring. Because nearly all worked their way into the business as top clothing salesmen in the country's best retail stores, they are extremely customer service–oriented.
"Stephen Kempson is more of a general contractor than he is a tailor," says Shugrue of his wardrober. "He takes all the measurements, and together we select the fabrics and decide on the cut. Then he works with the tailors in England to ensure the construction and the proper drape of the suit."
In addition to providing the clothes themselves, personal wardrobers enhance their services by using technology to offer additional perks. Partners David Heil and Rick Lamitie of California's David Rickey, for instance, invented a patented color- and number-coordinated wardrobe management program that enables their clients—including sports greats Magic Johnson, Phil Jackson, and Dan Marino—to put together any outfit at a moment's notice. David Lance New York will dry-clean, repair buttonholes, and store a man's entire winter wardrobe during the summer and his spring clothing during the fall. Kempson makes quarterly forays into his customers' closets to replace worn socks, dress shirts, and underwear. He will even resole shoes if necessary.
Naturally, such indulgences come at a price. Suits and sport coats purchased through personal outfitters can start at $2,500 and run as high as $15,000, depending on the cloth and custom details. Many clothiers also require minimum purchases to compensate for their added services. "It's not about saving money for my clients," says Kempson, who is based in Southern California but frequently meets with customers on the East Coast. "It's about value that comes from the quality, and saving time, which is money."
It is also a matter of convenience. Most Savile Row suitmakers visit major U.S. cities and see clients in hotel rooms on a revolving schedule, two or three times per year. Wardrobers, regardless of where they are located, are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"I live in five homes around the world," says business and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, chief executive of Robbins Research International in La Jolla, Calif., and a regular client of David Rickey's Heil. "Recently, I was at my home in Fiji and was asked to speak at the World Economic Forum in China. I'm pretty informal in Fiji and don't keep a lot of suits there, so I just called David and he put together something appropriate and sent it directly to China so it was waiting when I arrived." Heil and Lamitie also photographed and cataloged Robbins' entire wardrobe on a private web site so he and his assistants can discuss and precoordinate outfits regardless of where the busy executive is in the world.
Despite the obvious advantages of such services, the one shortcoming of a private clothier is the dual role he plays as both stylist and salesman. "He can be an annoying pain in the neck and a typical, finicky, pushy salesman," says radio host Mike Francesa about wardrober David Schwartz of David Lance New York. But, Francesa acknowledges, "David knows his stuff, and he's a fanatic about what he does."
One of Schwartz's calling cards is a custom wardrobe book—a concept he discovered while working for competitor David Rickey in the early 1990s. The book catalogs the contents of each client's closet and employs a special numbering system to help even the most fashion-challenged man navigate his way through ensemble coordination. "If you have a black suit with a lavender pinstripe, the book will show 10 shirt-and-tie options that go with it," says Francesa, adding that Schwartz is so fussy he sometimes phones in his disapproval if the WFAN sports show host veers from the cheat sheet on television appearances. Francesa, however, counts on the criticism for guidance. "Whether I'm dressed in a business suit or casual sport coat and slacks, everything matches. I kind of pride myself on that," he says. "When you're big and don't have the body beautiful, it's nice to wear well-made clothing that looks great and fits right."
Clearly, the goal of any personal wardrober is to sell new clothing each season, acknowledges Schwartz. But it is always an evolutionary process rather than a fast sell, he says, downplaying his sales function. "If a guy comes to me the first time and says he wants to buy 20 suits, I won't sell them to him," explains Schwartz, who, along with Managing Director Marc Streisand, meets clients in an elegantly appointed, cherry wood– paneled townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Instead, he says, the process begins with a half-hour rap session to learn about a man's business, how and where he travels, and how he uses his clothing. Schwartz and Streisand use this initial consultation to develop a database of what the man owns and what voids in his wardrobe need to be filled. "I'll usually start with a small taste of something that is a little more subtle in color, such as a gray or blue pinstripe or something solid," explains Schwartz. "From that we see what we like, figure out the shape that fits him best, and move forward from there."
Heil proceeds at a faster pace, suggesting a minimum first order of four key items or ensembles—a suit, a sport coat, a sportswear outfit, and a tuxedo—so the customer can sample each of David Rickey's specialties. "But," says Heil, "we produce only one outfit right away to make sure they're satisfied with the quality and the fit." Once they have a blueprint of sizes and preferences, Heil and Lamitie fulfill the initial order, and later graduate the customer to a complete wardrobe—everything from suits, shirts, and neckties to formal wear, shoes, socks, belts, and cuff links.
A well-honed stylistic eye, attention to detail, personalized service, and the ability to build a fine custom wardrobe are the key elements to look for when choosing a private wardrober. But it is important to remember that just because something is custom-made does not mean it is well-made, points out David Rickey's Heil, whose business has its own in-house tailor for alterations and currently employs eight wardrobers nationwide.
Most wardrobe consultants do not have the luxury of working with top suit houses such as Kiton, Attolini, and Brioni primarily because their services compete with those brands' own bespoke businesses. Instead, they often have their suits tailored by Adrian Jules or Martin Greenfield in the United States, Cheshire Clothing in England, or Lou Myles in Canada, among others. These are all reputable, well-established companies, but they remain relatively obscure in the world of luxury apparel. Their clothing is mostly machine-made with handwork added later because, as Heil puts it, "Our clients don't want a handmade suit that looks homemade." But not all wardrobers have to rely on third-party tailors for manufacturing. Some national operations—including Tom James Co. in Franklin, Tenn., which operates 124 offices nationwide and is part of the Individualized Apparel Group that also owns Oxxford Clothes—are large enough to produce their own clothing.
"A tailor might be a great man of the needle," says Schwartz, a gentleman so versed in stylistic elegance one hardly notices his girth cloaked under an impeccable navy beaded-stripe Super 180s cashmere suit and geometric-patterned silk necktie. "But even if the quality is great, you're not necessarily going to get the style to go with it. If you go to a store, you're limited to what it has. Coming to me is like going to Bergdorf Goodman, but instead of it saying Bergdorf's out front, it says [the client's] Suit Shop, because everything in the place is made for you."
Leading Personal Wardrobers
Allen-Petrie Clothiers
Strafford, Pa.
David Lance New York
New York
David Rickey & Co.
Costa Mesa, Calif.
Martinez Custom Clothier
Baton Rouge, La.
Savile Row Custom Clothiers
St. Louis, Mo.
Stephen Kempson
Los Angeles
Tom James Co.
Franklin, Tenn.


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Monthly Archive for: 'January, 2013'
In the Blue Corner… FTC comes out swinging on product switching
Louise Beange has written an interesting post on our sister blog In Competition about an 'amicus brief' issued by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicating that an incident of 'product switching' in the pharmaceutical industry by Warner Chilcott may be a breach of anti-trust laws. Read more about it here. We've previously posted about similar issues on IP Whiteboard …Read More
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The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a dispute over the legality of 'pay-for-delay' or reverse-payment agreements between patent holders and generic manufacturers. These are settlement agreements in patent infringement litigation in which patent holders pay generic manufacturers to delay releasing generic alternatives to pharmaceuticals. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the US Federal …Read More


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Ropes Program Coordinator
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The University of California Riverside, Recreation Department seeks a self-motivated, enthusiastic, and proactive professional to assist the Assistant Recreation Director of Ropes and Child Care Center in the student staff development and supervision of the Ropes Program.
Minimum Requirements
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across the organization.
Advanced proficiency in the use of computer applications relevant to job duties.
Advanced knowledge of campus policies and procedures.
Advanced knowledge of program activity and best practices. Demonstrated ability to analyze and improve programs and processes as needed.
Highly effective service orientation; program management, sound judgment and decision-making, critical thinking skills, skills to develop original ideas, creative problem solving skills in a varied and challenging environment.
Demonstrates advanced client service leadership, entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking skills to resolve non-standard issues.
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In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities'air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.
UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.
- Washington Monthly (August 2016) ranked UC Riverside 12th in the nation in its annual University and College Survey. \
- Education Trust placed UC Riverside 9th in the nation for closing the graduation gap between black and white students by 1.7 percentage points.
- In QS World University Rankings 2016/2017, UC Riverside's Department of Philosophy is #1 in the world for the frequency with which published papers are cited by other philosophers.
- U.S. News and World Report Survey (September 2016) ranked UC Riverside 118th overall; earns "Great Schools, Great Prices."
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (August 2016) Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Riverside among the top 151 to 200 institutions. This survey bills itself as "the most trustworthy precursor of global rankings of the world's top 500 universities."
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- IM2011 – Stalking the Wiley Homunculus and other Adventures in Network Management - Keynote Presentation at IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Dublin, Ireland, May 2011. Author: John Day.
Publications and relevant documents
- RINA: An architecture for policy-based dynamic service management. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2013-014, Boston University, 2013. Authors: Y. Wang, F. Esposito, I. Matta, J. Day.
- DAFs and Management in RINA – Slides from the RINA workshop, Barcelona, January 2013. Authors: John Day, Eleni Trouva.
- Namespace Management DMSs – Slides from the RINA Workshop, Barcelona, January 2013. Authors: John Day, Eleni Trouva.
- Layer Discovery in RINA Networks - Paper presented at the International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). Slides. September 19th, 2012. Author: E. Trouva, E. Grasa, J. Day. S. Bunch


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'Survivor' Stars Ethan Zohn & Jenna Morasca Split After 10 Years
So sad! After ten years together, 'Survivor' winners Ethan and Jenna are splitting up and will 'move on without each other.'
Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca have decided to call it a day after a decade long relationship. The couple, who met after starring in the Survivor franchise, began dating in 2003 after Jenna won Survivor: The Amazon. The pair, who have no children, have split amicably and have asked for their privacy to be respected. Read on to see their full statement.
Ethan Zohn & Jenna Morasca Split Up
"It is with much consideration and a heavy heart that we are announcing that after 10 years of a loving relationship, the decision was made to move on without each other," Ethan, 39, and Jenna, 32, told PEOPLE on Feb. 18.
"We will carry with us the memories of a relationship grounded in love, laughter, support and friendship," the statement continued. "We have experienced some of life's greatest joys and toughest challenges together and our decision to be apart can never diminish that. We want to thank everyone for their support and we ask that our privacy be respected as we move forward."
This is such sad news!
Ethan, who won Survivor: Africa, has had a very public battle with cancer and Jenna has been by his side every step of the way. In April 2009, Ethan was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which was treated with chemotherapy. The cancer returned later that year, and again in 2012.
The couple made many TV appearances together, and they appeared on The Amazing Race and The Celebrity Apprentice.
What do YOU think HollywoodLifers? Are you sad that Jenna and Ethan have split?
WATCH: Ethan & Jenna Meet On 'Survivor'
— Eleanore Hutch
More Sad Break Up News:
- Liberty Ross Files For Divorce From Rupert Sanders After Kristen Stewart Affair
- Dennis Quaid Files For Divorce
- Jenelle Evans Asks Courtland Rogers For Divorce After Hospitalization


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Do you know these famous last lines?
Our previous book quiz, which tested your knowledge of famous opening lines in novels, yielded some very high scores. But how well do you know famous last lines?
Though a book's opening lines may determine whether or not you take the book home at all, it's as likely to be the last lines that stick in your memory long after you set the book down: they may tidily tie up events, or make you question instantly if there is a sequel, or see you muttering "Thank goodness that's over!", or even leave you hanging hopelessly from the edge of the proverbial cliff.
There's no question that writing a work's last lines, just like its first lines, is often a matter of much weight and consideration for the author. Take our interactive quiz to see if you can recognize these classic conclusions.


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The Main Types Of Shutters And Their Uses
Window shutters and similar installations can work in superior ways than curtains do. Also, the new models available can make these highly appealing and more decorative than before. Installing the right kind of shutters or blinds can even get you to reduce your energy bills. One may opt for detached or fixed installations (hence the different names), based on how they want to operate these or the given use and other variables.
If you are looking for indoor efficiency, plantation shutters can block out 90% of the sun rays that get into a room. These represent a favorite choice because of their elegant look and energy efficiency.
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If you want your blinds to collect less dust, opt for vertical ones. These will be drawn to the side to let in the light of day. Usually we see this made out of thickened fabric, but can be of other materials too, like PVC, faux wood or metal. You may rotate them to let the light in or keep it out to a specific degree, or you may pull all the slats together to see the window entirely.
When the sun is your only concern and you totally want to keep it away, then purchase roman blinds or shades. These are stacked up in an even fashion so they can block all light. These are no good option for outdoor use or for bathrooms, though. They are no good for insulating purposes. To enjoy maximum light blocking properties, try the ones with a blackout lining.
A more traditional way to shield your windows is represented by the wooden shutters. When shut, these block the light completely. They are used in bad weather too, as they protect the windows from strong winds, rain or hail and often have decorative purposes, too.
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The City of Greater Bendigo has begun work on new dog parks at Truscott Reserve, California Gully, and Allingham Street, Kangaroo Flat
The City of Greater Bendigo has begun work on new dog parks at Truscott Reserve, California Gully, and Allingham Street, Kangaroo Flat.
The council included $74,000 in its current budget for stage one works at both venues, which are expected to be completed by June 30.
No money for further works was included in the council's draft 2018-19 budget.
COGB public space design coordinator Aaron Lindsay said the stage one works at both sites include installation of fencing, provision of water supply points for both dogs and people, installation of dog bag dispensers, bins and signage .
The 1.3-hectare Kangaroo Flat site is located near the corner of Allingham and Chapel Streets, while the Truscott Reserve site is 1.8 hectares.
Read more:New dog parks slated to open by mid-2018
Both sites will include fenced off areas for small dogs within the new parks.
"Future, but as yet unfunded works at both sites, are expected to include walking paths, trees, seats and the addition of dog agility equipment such as ramps and pipes," Mr Lindsay said.
Unlike the city's existing dog park, Harcourt Park in Strathdale, neither the Kangaroo Flat or California Gully sites had a natural water source.