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21 Moments That Made the Race
Words by Jered Gruber
Forget all the other races – there's nothing that holds a candle to the goliath in cycling: the Tour de France. When it's all done and the riders are rolling down the Champs-Elysees after nearly 4000k, there's no other race that leaves everyone with such a feeling of accomplishment, of satisfaction. And it's from here that we rewind the tape and head back to Düsseldorf, back to Germany, to take in the greatest moments from the 2017 Tour de France.

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Table of contents | How to obtain this publication
Download an excerpt (including the table of contents, executive summary, introduction and Chapter 1, "Defining Offshoring")
Pages: 220
Published: July 2007
The impact of offshoring on the labour market has become one of the major issues of concern to policy makers and public opinion. The phenomenon of offshoring is not really new, but it arouses just as much debate and concern because it is no longer confined to the manufacturing industry and low skills but now involves services themselves, particularly those to business. More recently the jobs affected by recent offshoring also involve more highly skilled jobs.
In addition, the emergence of the two great Asian economies, China and India, which have in part caught up technologically and have a large and increasingly skilled workforce, also causes concern in many countries.
This report answers these questions. After dedicating the first chapter to definitions and to the terminology used, it deals with the main motivations for offshoring and presents the latest developments in the theoretical debate concerning trade, offshoring and employment. It emphasises the difficulties involved in the quantities evaluation of jobs affected by offshoring and presents results, first to identify cases of offshoring and then to measure the impact on employment. Several positive aspects of offshoring are also quantified. The last chapter sets out policies and regulatory measures to offshoring as well as measures which could contribute to reduce adjustment costs and restore confidence.
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. Defining Offshoring
1.1. Offshoring in the strict sense (offshore in-house sourcing)
1.2. Offshoring in the broad sense (offshore outsourcing or subcontracting abroad)
1.3. Particular forms of offshoring
1.4. Terminology issues
Chapter 2. How Offshoring Affects Employment
2.1. Short-term negative effects on employment
2.2. Prime motivation for offshoring
2.3. The theoretical debate
2.4. Macroeconomic impacts on employment
2.5. Principal factors unfavourable to offshoring
Chapter 3. Problems of Measurement
3.1. Types of firms affected by offshoring
3.2. Proposed indicators
3.3. Relevance and limitations of the suggested indicators
3.4. Indirect measures to assess the employment impact of offshoring
3.5. Other approaches adopted to measure the impact of offshoring on employment
Chapter 4. Preliminary Results
4.1. The outsourcing of manufacturing and service activities
4.2. Employment trends
4.3. Some explanatory factors
4.4. Results for each country
4.5. Main research estimating the number of jobs affected by offshoring
4.6. Measuring the impact on the demand for labour of outsourcing production abroad
4.7. Quantifying the positive effects of offshoring
Chapter 5. Policy Responses
5.1. Causes for concern
5.2. The reaction of public authorities: what must be avoided
5.3. The cost of not moving offshore
5.4. Facilitate adjustments
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Christy Turlington's presence on the August cover of American Vogue prompted Style.com to duck into the archives for more of the supermodel's old work for the title. We thought the list lacked for a little seminal 80s campaign oomph, so...
We decided to resurrect some early gems, like this Versace campaign, shot by Richard Avedon, and co-starring (who else?) Naomi and Linda.
There is an entire cultural studies thesis about power dressing and the representation of women as authority figures and "having it all" latent in this picture from 1987.
Isn't it strange that this one, though it dates from almost ten years later, seems so passive by comparison? Calvin Klein had Turlington on a very restrictive exclusive contract until the early 1990s, when she was dumped by the brand for cutting her hair without consulting them — a relationship, and a reaction, that has always struck me as emblematic of a deep paternalism.
Herb Ritts, for Versace, makes Turlington look here like a piece of Surrealist art.
You just know there's a hipster in Williamsburg itching to wear this, a coat so ugly even Irving Penn couldn't make it look appetizing, right now.
Pressing questions: what is going on with the crotch of those pants?
Oh, man, remember film grain?
Since it seems inevitable that we're heading back to the 90s, would it be totally unrealistic to hope that we might return to these 90s?
Because I, for one, do not relish the thought of going back to these ones.
Ah, that's better.
Irving Penn contributes so very rarely to Vogue these days — which is understandable, given his advanced years. But this picture, and the next one, help show why he is missed.
Seriously, how long has it been since we've seen the actual shape of a human body, unaltered by Photoshop, in the pages of American Vogue? All the twists and overlaps are what make this picture — like the bulge in her arm that proves its supporting her weight, and the indentation the protrusion of her heel makes in her ass. And you can easily imagine these being among the first features that would be smoothed and tightened away under today's aesthetic regime.
Like they are here, in this otherwise striking cover from 2002.
Someone should make pumps like these again. They're not stupidly high, they have that perfect not-too-pointy toe, and the classic tapering heel. No hidden platform, no witchy long vamp, no 4" stiletto to negotiate walking in — just cute proportions and cute prints. Linda is saying, "Fuck yeah!"
Meisel in the 80s doing Avedon in the 50s isn't the most original of themes, but I'm a sucker for shots of women putting on their makeup and jewelry. Something about those moments of feminine toilette is so intimate and fascinating.
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Never one to shy away from the unusual, for a 2006 campaign for her Puma line Nuala, the supermodel had artist Alex Katz paint her.
Christy Turlington is, of course, a lot more than a model these days. She quit the industry at the age of 25 to study comparative religion at NYU, and is currently a graduate student in public health at Columbia. Now 40 and a mother of two, Turlington is making a documentary about maternal health in developing countries. She's financing it with the money she makes from her occasional gigs, like being the next face of YSL. "I can talk about things that people in the field are afraid to bring up," says Turlington, "because their funding is tied to administrations and policy."
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An Opportunity for Continual Learning
Young Steven entered the seventh grade in September. He wasn't as tall as the other boys, and when his mother was turning up his new trousers he asked her to leave big hems, about five inches, "because," he said, "I'm going to grow a lot this year."
Perhaps we are not so concerned with adding inches, but have we looked to the months ahead of us and deliberately decided that we will make significant growth?
One early Church leader asserted that "In this world of change, where we are required to make advancement, we must have an increase of intelligence. … There is no stopping place for a man [or woman] of God." (Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, 7:151.) In light of this need, we are grateful to a loving Father who has provided in Relief Society a program for continual learning.
Our courses of study benefit every Latter-day Saint woman. They include Spiritual Living on the first Sunday, and then on the second, Mother Education. It may seem unusual that nearly one-fourth of our lesson time is devoted to Mother Education when not all Relief Society women have children in their homes.
Women in the Church are familiar with the terms patriarch and patriarchal order. We associate them with things eternal and the work of the priesthood in our homes and in the Church.
We do not speak much of matriarchs; we call them instead, mothers. The mother is the counterpart to the patriarch of a home. Mothering is also an eternal, fundamental work. It has to do with bringing life and love, and it is largely learned.
Some young college students learned it when, as Relief Society members, they visited weekly with sisters in a local nursing home. The first weeks found many of the women in a resigned, even lethargic state. For the most part they had given up trying to do anything with their lives; they were simply waiting them out. But the girls continued to visit, some bringing short musical programs, others reading or helping them write letters. Gradually the women began to look forward to the weekly visits, and then, some of the vitality of these young Relief Society sisters carried on through the week. The girls nurtured every spark of interest. When they found that many of the women had been quilters, they got the necessary equipment for them and set it up. The women quickly finished one exciting quilt and were ready to start a second. A few chose to do other projects the students brought. The story continues to be one of activity and vitality. These young students brought new life and love; they were "mother" to the elderly sisters.
Mother Education lessons deal not with the physical processes of giving birth but with the nurturing qualities that can help every child of God live in the light. As we focus on gospel principles and adapt lessons to the current needs of sisters, Mother Education can be not only suitable but enriching for all Relief Society members.
We are told in Moses 4:26 that Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living. We are all daughters of Eve. I think of one sister who fills a very responsible position in Relief Society. Although, being single, she has no children, she has important work in her profession. She touches the minds as well as the hearts of young people; she uses fully her excellent talents and training; she brings love and light to the lives of others. I believe that her role is directed and accepted of the Lord as is my neighbor's, a mother of eight. Mothering roles differ and may yet take on other dimensions, but we can each learn to use the principles that relate to motherhood.
The young mother who must constantly care for the needs of her children and at the same time be the example on which they might appropriately model their lives, has a responsibility that challenges the most able. She it is who must learn and practice patience, teach and persuade with love, correct but not coerce; in short, develop every maternal attribute.
But we all must find ways to learn and keep these qualities, for, Eve-like, we shall ever be the mothers.
The Social Relations, Cultural Refinement, and fifth-week service-related lessons all contain gospel principles in a priesthood supporting context that make them meaningful to our day-by-day effort to follow the way marked by the Savior. Our lessons have helped us to refine our perception of arts and people, thereby reinforcing an appreciation of our world-wide Church.
Positive reinforcement is equally effective in our supervisory relationships. For instance, a monthly meeting of each class leader with the ward Education Counselor can help a teacher learn from every lesson. This one-to-one exchange will be most useful if the Education Counselor's comments on the lessons are positive and specific.
A teacher often knows what went wrong in a lesson, and although she may choose to discuss it, she probably does not need to be reminded of it. On the other hand, she may not realize what part was most effective and would be grateful for commendation; if, however, a teacher is simply praised for a beautiful or wonderful lesson, she may not know what made it successful and how to build on her strengths. But if the Education Counselor learns to look for specific elements, such as an arresting beginning, a thoughtful handling of class comments, she will be able to help the teacher by positive reinforcement.
Finally, the ongoing Relief Society learning opportunities will be effective in the lives of sisters to the degree that learning and teaching are by the Spirit. Let me tell you of a sister who helped me appreciate teaching by the Spirit.
She was an older woman, one of many immigrants who had been able to come only as far as New York City on the way to Zion. She had not had great opportunity for learning and was having difficulty adjusting to a new culture. We were the only two in our department at stake leadership meeting one night.
The board member asked us each to describe how we prepared our lessons. I had been trained as a teacher and could say some things about lesson plans and objectives; but this lovely sister, haltingly, in a language newly learned, spoke of how she studied the material and then got on her knees and asked the Lord what in that lesson she should stress for the sisters of her ward, and she said, "He always directs me." As I heard her speak and experienced the sweetness of her spirit, I felt sure that he did, because she taught me what I needed to hear. Though it has been many years since that night in Manhattan, I have never forgotten her nor her message.
As we continue to learn, with the Spirit of the Lord as our guide, we prepare for his coming. The Lord declared that when he comes again there will be no need for each one to tell his neighbor that he is the Christ, for all shall know. That we may increase in knowledge and intelligence and be prepared for that glorious event, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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As people are coming to understand, Asian economic growth over the past two decades—despite its great adoption of oil—essentially runs on electricity, most of which is supplied by the burning of coal. Here is the night sky over Asia twenty years ago, as captured in a still photograph from a film loop provided by NOAA's national geophysical data center. (see: NOAA -Nightime Lights of China 1992-2010):
Recently, in the past three months, a consensus has begun to form that China's use of coal may have just slipped past the fattest part of it growth curve. That may be true. But as you can seen on the 2010 photograph below, China is not the only "country" in Asia that has seen its demand for electricity advance strongly, since 1992:
It's understandable for people to be encouraged by recent trends in global coal consumption, mostly in the United States. If China's rate of coal consumption growth is also about to slow, that too is encouraging. The problem however, is that China would be slowing its rate of growth from a very, very high level of absolute demand. Further, as you gaze across other regions of southeast Asia in the above photos, global coal consumption is less about "country" and more about population. 1.2 billion people in the world are still unserved by electricity. A good portion of them live in India, for example, where you will notice the "advance of nighttime" lights has also been quite strong.
While there is certainly a possibility that Non-OECD countries will adopt more wind and solar—owing to the relative simplicity of those technologies—we need to be sober about current trends. The great trajectory of coal underway the past decade has a number of competitive advantages, especially the phenomenon known as path dependency. This is why I say the great news for clean energy, on a global scale, does eventually come but not until later in the century. Before then, the world unfortunately is transitioning even harder to fossil fuel energy, of the dirtiest kind.
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For many of us who grew up eagerly awaiting the Saturday showing of Siskel and Ebert — and who later came to respect Roger Ebert as a whip-smart cultural critic and master of the internet — his death yesterday was a major loss. It's a less wonderful planet because he's not on it.
Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, Roger's beloved wife of 20 years who referred to him as "my husband, my friend, my confidante and oh-so-brilliant partner", spoke about the end of his life. "We were getting ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us, smiled, and passed away," she said in a statement. "No struggle, no pain, just a quiet, dignified transition."
She went on:
He fought a courageous fight. I've lost the love of my life and the world has lost a visionary and a creative and generous spirit who touched so many people all over the world. We had a lovely, lovely life together, more beautiful and epic than a movie. It had its highs and the lows, but was always experienced with good humor, grace and a deep abiding love for each other.
Damn, what a romance. We should all be so lucky.
It's cool when people you respect from afar actually seem worthy of that respect when you learn more about them. RIP, Roger Ebert.


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Manna From Heaven
by Steve Kubby
There are a great many people who would never consider the use of visionary plants to be a spiritual experience. These people believe that spiritual experiences must come directly from God and that the use of visionary plants goes against the teachings of the Bible. Contrary to this notion, the Bible never explicitly prohibits the use of visionary plants or potions. What you will find however, is many curious references to a spiritual food sent down from heaven by God, called manna.
The Bible never tells us exactly what manna was and where it came from, but there are many Old Testament passages which describe its physical qualities and conditions associated with its appearance. The Bible's first reference to manna is in the Book of Exodus as the children of Israel are fleeing from Egypt and following Moses into the wilderness. After six weeks of wandering, they began complaining to Moses that they are tired and hungry. What happens next is truly extraordinary:Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will vain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no (16:4).When I read this passage, I was struck by the fact that manna easily fits the description of psilocybe mushrooms. For one thing magic mushrooms are small and round, and since they sprout so rapidly they would seem to appear overnight, as if out of the sky. Also, anyone harvesting them would immediately notice that they turn blue where torn and had no roots, giving more reason to believe that the mushrooms were of celestial origin. Note that manna does not just fall from heaven, but instead it is described as coming with the frost and dew, during the wet seasons. These are the precise weather conditions for mushrooms to thrive. And finally, manna is described as a bread.
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground (16:14). And when the children of Israel saw if, they said one to another It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Although translations have obscured the intent of this passage, it seems to be a description of how to find and identify manna and distinguish it from other non-psychoactive (or possibly lethal) mushrooms. Look for the small round things which are like bread, come with the rain, and seem to have heavenly (bluish) coloring. Psilocybe mushrooms also sprout in tiny pin heads which branch out in all directions and bear a resemblance to hoar frost.
It is also interesting to note that Moses tells the children of Israel that manna comes directly from Heaven to test them on whether or not they will walk in God's law. Here is evidence that manna was endowed with unusual spiritual powers, like those of magic mushrooms. However, manna does not automatically confer spiritual power. Instead, it serves as a test. Magic mushrooms would provide visionary experiences that would certainly test all who ingested them. Moses also said that the manna is literally the "bread of the lord" which is remarkably similar to the literal Aztec name for psilocybe mushrooms, "flesh of the gods."
But how and why did the manna suddenly appear? Again referring to the Bible, it is clear that the children of Israel had journeyed to a land where there was dew in the morning. As a large, nomadic tribe, the Israelites brought a lot of cattle and sheep together in the area. That meant a great deal of manure. The change of climate from the arid lands of Egypt to the dewy climate of the wilderness created ideal conditions for the propagation and spread of psilocybe mushrooms in livestock dung.
In Exodus 12:19-20, we find more references to manna.
And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning (16:19). Notwithstanding they harkened not unto Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank: and Moses was wroth with them (16:20). And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. and when the sun waxed hot it melted...(16:21).
Anyone familiar with wild mushrooms knows that they go bad very quickly and shrivel up under the heat of the sun, exactly like manna.
It seems curious that Moses recognized the manna instantly when the children of Israel showed it to him. He knew that the manna would spoil if it was not picked and eaten in the morning. But how did Moses know about manna? Perhaps Moses knew about manna because he had already encountered the mushroom at the time he saw the burning bush. Referring to an earlier period of his life, we find that Moses:...kept a flock of Jethro, his father in-law the priest of Midiam: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb (3:1). And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (3:2).
Had Moses eaten the sacred mushroom while camped at the mountain? Here again we can only speculate that manure from his flock and a change in climate had created the proper environment for the mushrooms to fruit. Perhaps Moses ingested the mushrooms purely by accident, or perhaps his father in law, who we know was also a priest, had introduced Moses to the mushroom. Archaeological evidence of psychedelic mushroom use in Biblical times is well documented by Terence McKenna, so it is reasonable to conclude that Moses could have had some experience with visionary mushrooms.1
Later, in Numbers 11:6-9, manna is again described in terms that are remarkably similar to magic mushrooms:But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdelliaum. And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar and baked it in pans: and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
Here we find manna described as before our eyes, having a neutral taste like fresh oil, and once again, the Bible mentions that manna appearing in the morning when the dew fell. The Old Testament even tells us what manna looks like, the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof. When psilocybe mushrooms are dried, their range of colors is virtually identical to dried coriander seed. In both cases, with mushrooms and coriander seeds, we see great similarities in the texture, color, tones, contrasts and general visual appearance. The Children of Israel must have given great thought about how to transmit the appearance of manna so as to aid future generations who might encounter it. However, mushrooms were a mystery to the Hebrews and they were unable to predict where manna could be found. Little did they realize that the manure from their cattle was providing a means for the mushroom to find its way into their mountain campsites.
Notice that the manna was ground in mills or beat it in a mortar. That is odd because earlier we are told that manna was quite delicate and, then the sun wax hot, it melted. However, if manna was the psilocybe mushroom, then it was probably dried and then ground in order to be used for baking. In fact, dried magic mushrooms are quite hard. Grinding or crushing the dried mushroom and then baking with the powder would insure that the delicate psychoactive molecules retained their highest potency.
In the next passage, the Bible describes manna as having light tan color and texture like a wafer, certainly an accurate description of the color and texture of a dried psilocybe mushroom. We also learn that the taste of manna is no longer that of fresh oil but rather that of honey. According to McKenna's research, honey has long been used in Mexico as a preserve medium for psilocybin containing mushrooms. Perhaps the children of Israel had begun to mix honey with the manna to preserve its potency. We find that Moses announced that manna must be kept for future generations:And the house of Israel called the name there of manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (l6:31). And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth. Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations: that they may see the bread where with I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt (16:32).
Again we are told to fill an omer with manna. But how much is a omer? Isaac Asimov, in his book on the Bible, concludes that an omer is about four liters, while the King James version of the Bible estimates an omer to be six pints. Psilocybe mushrooms are 92% water and only 8% remains when they are dried. Also, fresh mushroom take up a lot of space, due to their shape. So four liters of fresh magic mushrooms would yield less than a tenth of a liter, or about 1/4 cup of dried, powdered manna This corresponds closely with the amount of magic mushrooms required for a moderately strong dose when used for baking. This is important because it clearly shows that not only does manna have similar qualities to magic mushrooms, it also shows that it was also used in the same quantity as mushrooms. So manna matches psilocybe mushroom on both a qualitative and quantitative analysis providing a compelling argument that psilocybe mushrooms are in actuality "manna from Heaven."
Of course there are those who will remain eternally skeptical, but keep in mind that the description of manna given in the old testament bears an exact resemblance to mushrooms. Even if psilocybe mushrooms are not manna the similarities have indicated mushrooms as a possible candidate, and they certainly fit the bill for a "spiritual food". Unfortunately, when the Children of Israel finally reach the arid land of Canaan, the mysterious manna no longer appeared.And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land: neither had the children of Israel manna any more.
The children of Israel must have been deeply disappointed when they ran out of their sacred manna. We can see that they went to great lengths to preserve their knowledge about identifying and using manna The Old Testament contains detailed information about the color, texture, appearance, and relationship to dew, and the Old Testament even explains how manna is to be ground and then used in baking cakes. If the Israelites thought that manna was a magical event caused by God would they have bothered to note all the details about the identification of manna? What about the manna that Moses said must be put away for future generations? Turning to Hebrews 9:3-4 we find:And after the second vail, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all: Which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna.
Here we learn that manna was to be kept in the Holiest of all, the Ark of the Covenant. Clearly, the manna was something of great spiritual power since the Hebrews treated it with such reverence and even went to such great lengths to see that manna be given to future generations. We must also consider the covenant that the Jewish people held with God which was celebrated through the act of circumcision. Why was this covenant with God associated with the removal of foreskin from infant males. Why not a tattoo, scar, article of clothing or jewelry? Perhaps the answer is that the circumcised penis bears a remarkable resemblance to psilocybe mushroom just before the partial veil has broken away from the mushroom caps and they are at their greatest potency. If the Ark of the Covenant was specifically built to store manna it is logical was also tied to manna through the ritual act of circumcision, which gave each Jewish male his own mushroom-like penis.
The discovery that manna was (and is) psilocybe mushrooms is not simply an issue of theological or academic debate. So great was the power conferred by manna, that this small band of wandering slaves were able to defeat all enemies who crossed their path even when confronted by armies that were bigger and better equipped. Jews, Christians and Moslems can all trace their roots to the children of Israel who ate manna for forty years and saw themselves as God's chosen people. Again, we are reminded of McKenna's thesis that those who ate psilocybe mushrooms had a survival advantage due to better visual acuity, heightened senses, better hunting skills, and for the children of Israel, better warrior skills. Manna gave the Hebrews their own covenant with God one that is even recognized today by Christians who believe that the Jews have already earned a special place as the Chosen People. Bible scholar Grant Jeffrey explains:
"The covenant which God made with Abraham and the kingdom promises to David, Solomon and all the prophets will be finally realized in the Millennial Kingdom... the Lord promised a new covenant with Ismel in which He would give them a new heart, forgiveness of sin, and the infilling of the Spirit to the renewed nation. This promised kingdom will provide the fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of the Chosen People forever."3
What is the new covenant? It is the rediscovery of manna. Across the gulf of thousands of years the Bible transmits and accurate and detailed description of manna waiting for the time when the message can be decoded and manna can again fulfill its role as a celestial messenger. Manna was the basis of the Jewish covenant with God. Indeed, it is this covenant and the use of manna which has set the Jews apart as the Chosen People. The Bible is not the message, it only points the way. Manna is the holy sacrament that provides the means for God to "prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no."
If manna is indeed the psilocybin mushroom, then this means that the Koran, Bible, and Torah were all inspired by psychedelically induced visions. The very foundations upon which these religions rest were derived from the mushroom experience. Moses and the children of Israel used the mushrooms as true sacraments to communicate with a Higher Power, also known as Allah, God and Yahweh. The discovery that manna is real and is available to us today means that like children of Israel we too can use manna to experience the joy, wisdom and spiritual renewal of the Chosen People.
From Psychedelic Illuminations Volume 1, Issue VII
- Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, (New York, Harper Collins) p. 84.
- Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, (New York, Harper Collins), p. 127.
- Grant R. Jeffrey, Heaven the last Frontier, (New York; Bantam), p. 132
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On Jan. 23, 1943, my uncle, Frank Ebner Gartz, (photo in uniform, above) reported to the draft board in Chicago to start his training for WWII. So began the correspondence between him and family & friends, comprising almost 300 letters going both ways. I'm posting many of these World War II letters, each on or near the 70th anniversary of its writing. To start with his induction, click HERE.
This blog began in Nov., 2010, when I posted a century-old love note from Josef Gärtz, my paternal grandfather, to Lisi (Elisabetha) Ebner, my paternal grandmother, and follows their bold decision to strike out for America.
My mom and dad were writers too, recording their lives in diaries and letters from the 1920s-the 1990s. Historical, sweet, joyful, and sad, all that life promises-- and takes away--are recorded here as it happened. It's an ongoing saga of the 20th century. To start at the very beginning, please click HERE.
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- Margel said...
I love that you are reposting. I did not start following your blog at the beginning and missed several. I know, I know, I could always go back and read what I missed. Often, I did, but I still missed many and this was one of them.
- June 29, 2012 at 10:06 PM
- Linda Gartz said...
Hey Margel,
So glad you see you here and that you're enjoying these early posts. Yes, they really do set the stage for the immigrant story to come and include some the oldest and most exciting finds -- as we had no idea my grandparents had maintained diaries and correspondence with which we now can recreate their young lives (and love)
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Police said the thieves stripped the wiring from the building, one of several break-ins in recent weeks in the Defoors Ferry Road area. Another theft happened Monday, less than a half-mile from the warehouse where "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" is being filmed.
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The Wall Street Journal report on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly today caught my attention:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering attack on the floor of the United Nations Thursday on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the hearing granted the Iranian president the night before amounted to a "disgrace of the U.N. charter."
Mr. Netanyahu dramatically held up copies of minutes of the meeting of Nazi officials in 1942 where plans were made for the extermination of the Jews, as well as constructions plans of Nazi concentration camps.
"Are these protocols lies?" he asked, waving them in his hand. "Are the successive German governments that have kept these documents for posterity all liars?"
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He opened his remarks by saying that the greatest threat to the U.N. effort to prevent a repetition of the carnage of the World War II is the "assault on truth."
"Yesterday the president of Iran stood at this very podium and spewed his anti-Semitic rants," he said. "Just a few days earlier he claimed that the Holocaust was a lie." He then described how he had obtained the documents he held up before the assembly.
"Nearly one-third of all Jews at the time perished in the Holocaust," he said. "Nearly every family was affected, including my own."
Mr. Netanyahu continued about Mr. Ahmadinejad, "Perhaps some of you think this man and his odious regime only threaten the Jews. Well, if you think that you are wrong, dead wrong."
The Jerusalem Post report on Netanyahu's dramatic speech is here. The full text of the speech is here, video of the first eight minutes of the speech is below. The speech warrants consideration in its entirety. It provides a rare moment of truth in a venue that has become a cesspool of lies.
Part 2 of the video of Netanyahu's speech is here, part 3 here, part 4 here.
JOHN adds: I've been in Tulsa on business all week, taking depositions, and haven't had much time to keep up with the news. But I read Netanyahu's speech on the airplane coming home. It's great; I'd urge all our readers to read it.


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With portable devices, there's always a risk of losing or damaging your hardware when you're out and about. As such, it makes sense to make regular backups of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but in the past, that process has been easier said than done. With iCloud Backup, however, you can back up your iOS device's data automatically, even when you're not using it.
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iCloud Backup requires iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5, and it works in a similar fashion as the backup performed in iTunes when you connect your device to your Mac. Instead of saving your backup to your computer, however, iCloud Backup enables your device to back up the data to Apple's iCloud service over a Wi-Fi network. Your device will automatically make a backup when it's plugged in and connected to a Wi-Fi network, so that performing the backup doesn't drain your battery. (You can also manually back up your device at any point by going to Settings -> iCloud -> Storage & Backup -> Back Up Now.)
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While Apple offers two methods of backing up your iOS device—backing up via iCloud, or backing up to your computer—you can only use one at a time. If you want to use iCloud backups for your device, you'll have to forgo backing up via iTunes, though you can make a manual backup to your computer: Sync your device to iTunes (via tethered or Wi-Fi sync) and, under the Backup section of the Summary pane, choose Back Up To This Computer and click the Sync button. When the backup is finished, switch back to Back Up To iCloud and click Sync once more.
If you didn't elect to turn on iCloud backup when you upgraded to iOS 5 or set up your new iOS 5 device, you can enable it through the Settings app on your iOS device, or by connecting your device to iTunes and choosing Back Up To iCloud from the Summary pane. The initial iCloud Backup takes a few minutes, depending on how much data needs to be uploaded. For example, if you have several videos in your camera roll, the amount of time it takes to perform the first backup will be longer. Subsequent backups can take mere seconds to a few minutes, as, like Time Machine backups, iCloud will only back up what has changed on your device.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
1984 - Incredible Hulk #300 unpublished cover
Tip of the hat to Ferran Delgado who found this on eBay, the unpublished cover to Incredible Hulk #300 by Bill Sienkiewicz.
Posted by Jason Shayer at 10:29 AM
Labels: Bill Mantlo, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bret Blevins, Incredible Hulk, Incredible Hulk #300, Marvel Comics, Sal Buscema, Steranko
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Nice cover , I prefer this over the original. Thx for posting this up.ReplyDelete
Not a big fan of that unused cover, certainly not one of Bill's best. Recently started reading Peter David's start on title, few issues I picked up cheap. Great stuff. mantlo was great too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Shame it wasn't used. Wondering if it was a homage to Sterankos cover for the Hulk - King Sized Special?ReplyDelete
I was thinking the same thing. Definitely an homage to Steranko.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Hulk #300 is seriously one of my all-time favorite comic books. they don't make em like that anymore.ReplyDelete
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I recently had an excellent discussion with Dominique Parris, a reader of this column, about how Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 synchronizes with SharePoint—which is different from what we're used to when using Outlook 2007 to download email, and from how Outlook 2003 synchronizes with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. We discovered some very interesting details and insights that I'd like to share with you.
If you've seen my previous columns on SharePoint and Outlook 2007 integration, you should already know how to enable synchronization, but I'll mention it for anyone who hasn't done it before. All you need to do is select the desired list in SharePoint and select "Connect to Outlook" on the Actions menu. (For more information, see "SharePoint Integration with Outlook 2007, Part 1," April 27, 2007, and the other articles you'll find in the Learning Path on that page.)
Offline synchronization was introduced with Outlook 2003, giving read-only access to certain lists, such as Calendar and Contacts. In Outlook 2003, you can define the synchronization frequency using the STSSyncInterval registry subkey as described in the Exchange & Outlook Administrator article "SharePoint Offers a Different Outlook," February 2006. During every sync cycle, Outlook 2003 updates all lists.
However, when you're using Outlook 2007 combined with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you'll find the registry subkey doesn't exist anymore. You configure SharePoint list synchronization as part of Outlook 2007's Send/Receive Groups dialog box, which you'll find by selecting Tools, Send/Receive, Send/Receive Settings, Define Send/Receive Groups. Under Setting for group "All Accounts," you can define a sync interval by selecting the Schedule an automatic send/receive every x minutes check box and updating the time as appropriate. You might think that if you configure your default All Accounts group to automatically send and receive every 15 minutes, for example, you'll download any updates from the SharePoint site at this interval. However, Dominique and I discovered a different behavior: If you open a SharePoint folder in Outlook (e.g., the calendar), then create an item on the SharePoint site, the new item won't be downloaded automatically.
It took some more testing before we found out how Outlook 2007 synchronizes these items. A full synchronization, including an update to all your registered SharePoint lists or document libraries, takes place
- when you open Outlook
- when you click on Send/Receive All (or press F9)
A synchronization of the current list or folder takes place
- when you click on a list or document library to view it
- when you create, modify, or delete an item in Outlook
- when you enable shared content (e.g., Calendar, Contacts)
You'll see the Send/Receive status on the lower right corner of the Outlook window as it synchronizes. If you open the Send/Receive Progress window (Tools, Send/Receive, Send/Receive Settings, Show Progress), you'll see the SharePoint sync displayed on the Tasks tab. It's important to remember that Outlook 2007 doesn't use your established synchronization cycle for downloading SharePoint content.
I assume the basic logic for this sync strategy is that synchronization takes place only when you first log on and when you access a folder; if you don't access something, no sync is triggered. This strategy makes sense because if you've integrated many SharePoint lists from different SharePoint sites, synchronizing all of them every Send/Receive cycle could cause network congestion and would also reduce SharePoint's performance. But it can be a little irritating because the process is different from what you expect. As Dominique put it, "The current behavior does seem logical. Why change anything if nothing's been changed?"
Outlook Internet Site of the Month
This month I've found a Web site that offers a neat tool to handle Outlook from the task tray. Outlook on the Desktop 1.4 (just released in January 2008) places a fully functional Outlook Calendar on your desktop using a transparent window and provides you with a tray icon that displays the current day of the month. By right-clicking the icon, you can choose to display your Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, Notes, or Tasks directly on your desktop. Outlook on the Desktop requires Windows 2000 or later, Outlook 2000 SR1 or later, and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It's a neat tool that offers direct access to your main Outlook workplace. You can download it from Michael Scrivo's Web site.
As always, if you find a link for an interesting new freeware tool or add-on for Outlook, let me know! Send me a message at [email protected].


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The Impact Grip Head for Lights and Accessories - 2.5" Diameter (Chrome) mounts lights, light modifiers, scrims, flags, cutters, and other lighting accessories onto C-stands or butterfly frames.
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African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe's founding president, Robert Mugabe , whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for his remains.
More than 10 African leaders and several former presidents attended the service and viewing of the body of Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at age 95, at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare. The crowd filling about 30% of the 60,000 capacity of the Chinese-built stadium. Most of those attending were supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa drew boos from the crowd, as a result of the recent attacks in Johannesburg on foreigners, including Zimbabweans. An official pleaded with the stadium crowd to let him speak. Ramaphosa apologized for the attacks.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta described Mugabe as "a great icon of African liberation" and "a visionary leader and relentless champion of African dignity."
The announcement Friday evening that that burial will be postponed until the building of a new resting place at the national Heroes' Acre Monument is the latest turn in a dramatic wrangle between Mugabe's family and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a once-trusted deputy who helped oust Mugabe from power.
Mnangagwa presided over Saturday's ceremony, attended by Mugabe's widow Grace, who wore a black veil.
"A giant tree of Africa has fallen," said Mnangagwa, who hailed Mugabe as "a bold, steadfast revolutionary."
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He praised Mugabe for seizing land from white farmers. "To him, this was the grievance of all grievances of our people," Mnangagwa said. "The land has now been reunited with the people and the people have been reunited with the land." He also called on Western countries to remove sanctions imposed during Mugabe's era.
"Go Well Our Revolutionary Icon" and "Farewell Gallant Son of the Soil" were among the banners praising Mugabe, who led the bitter guerrilla war to end white-minority rule in the country then known as Rhodesia. Mugabe was Zimbabwe's first leader and ruled the country from 1980 for 37 years, from years of prosperity to economic ruin and repression.
He was deposed in 2017 by the military and Mnangagwa in a bloodless coup that was marked by more than 100,000 people demonstrating in Harare's streets to demand that he step down. Following Mugabe's resignation, Mnangagwa took power and won elections the next year on campaign promises he would improve the collapsed economy and create jobs. But Zimbabwe's economy has lurched from crunch to crisis and some in the crowd expressed the view that life was better under Mugabe's rule.
"Bread was less than a dollar when we marched against him (Mugabe). It is now $9," said Munashe Gudyanga, 18. "I am just here to say 'Sorry, President Mugabe, we didn't know things will be worse.'"
Some in the stadium sang an impromptu farewell to Mugabe, "When you left bread was a dollar," lyrics that implicitly criticized Mnangagwa, whose nearly two-year rule has been marked by rising prices, with inflation currently more than 175%.
The visiting leaders viewed Mugabe's the partially open casket, followed by a 21-gun salute, a flypast by Zimbabwean air force jets and the release of 95 doves, to mark Mugabe's 95 years.
Mugabe's body is to be viewed in his birthplace, Zvimba, on Sunday and then will be held in preservation until the new mausoleum is ready.
In downtown Harare, many Zimbabweans were busy with their weekend errands, and expressed little interest in the funeral, which was open to the public.
"What will I get if I go there? What will Mugabe do for me now that he failed to do when he was alive?" said Amelia Tukande, who was selling cellphone chargers along Harare's Samora Machel Avenue that leads to the stadium. "It is a waste of time. I have to work for my family."
Others said they would have wanted to attend the funeral but cannot afford transport fares.
"I didn't like him, but I still wanted to attend just to see for myself that he is gone ... but kombis (minivan taxis) want $3.50 just to get to the stadium," said Amos Siduna, waiting in line at a bank to get cash, which is in short supply. "That's too much money for me just to go and say 'bye bye' to a corpse. Mugabe's corpse. No."
The mourning period for Mugabe's death has been marked by the ongoing drama over where, when and how the ex-strongman will be buried. The new resting place will be built near the stadium at Heroes' Acre, a national burial site for top officials of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party who contributed to ending white colonial rule
The mausoleum will be at an elevated site above the other graves, according to Mnangagwa and a Mugabe family spokesman.
Grace had previously insisting on a private burial rather than the state funeral and burial in a simple plot alongside other national heroes planned by the government.
"We are building a mausoleum for our founding father at the top of the hill at Heroes' Acre," Mnangagwa said on state television Friday night, consenting to the Mugabe family's wishes.


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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Directed by Stephen Herek
Genres - Action, Adventure, Music, Science Fiction, Comedy | Sub-Genres - Sci-Fi Adventure, Sci-Fi Comedy, Teen Movie | Release Date - Feb 17, 1989 (USA) | Run Time - 90 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - PG
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With only a few days before their high-school graduation, it looks like airheaded rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk all their finals. The boys' long-suffering teacher (Bernie Casey) gives them one more chance. If they can ace a presentation on the topic of how a famous historical personality might react to modern times, they will be allowed to pass. If not, Ted's dad will plunk the boy into military school, thereby breaking up the boys' garage band permanently. Bill and Ted receive unexpected aid from a very unexpected source: Rufus (George Carlin), an Emissary from the Future. It seems that in Rufus's time, Bill and Ted's rock music is the basis of all society-and if their band is aborted, Rufus's world will no longer exist. Thus, Bill and Ted are whisked off in a time machine (actually a telephone booth) to retrieve a few historical characters--including Joan of Arc, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon and Beethoven--as "eyewitnesses" for their crucial oral exam. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure inspired both a sequel (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) and a Saturday morning cartoon series.
time-travel, friendship, teenagers, alien [not human], assistance, high-school, history, rock-music
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Under PAGES Focus 4, LUCIFS applied a strong focus on a whole-catchment, systems-based understanding and analysis of the relationship between the external drivers of land use and climate change, and the internal working of multi-component catchments on timescales that encompass the period of agriculture. Anticipating change in fluxes of materials in river catchments as a consequence of global change requires this understanding.
From 2012-13 onwards the activites of the LUCIFS Working Group were merged into the Focus 4 themes: Land Use and Cover, Regional Integration, Soil and Sediment, Water, and Biodiversity.
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It is hard not to consider the effect that has been had on the way we share information since the widespread adoption of the internet. There are many solutions for publishing and providing data, including some that I have covered before in this series of hosting service free software.
The issue with many of the solutions already covered is that they present two different extremes of the control of the information that is provided. For example, with a blog solution such as WordPress, the content on the blog is closely and tightly controlled according to the registered users who are allowed to post blog entries, and as we've seen, you can even control the comments to your blog posts.
The phpBB bulletin board system is the opposite—it gives users and web site visitors the ability to discuss and contribute information and data through a series of messages, conferences and topics. Although you can put controls in place, the typical environment and operational mode is to allow for complete freedom of expression.
A Wiki—of which MediaWiki is one of the most widely used and best known—provides a simple, web-based environment that enables users to collaborate and provide and share information. Wiki's are not about discussions, and they are not about regular articles or posts, like a blog.
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Instead, the wiki is concerned with storing, categorizing and sharing information in a way that allows any registered user to update, edit and enhance the information. The best example of this is Wikipedia, an online and completely publicly contributed encyclopedia. MediaWiki, the name for the underlying software used by Wikipedia, was originally developed for the Wikipedia project.
MediaWiki uses PHP for the web scripting engine, MySQL for the data storage and can be used with both Apache and IIS servers, although the former is preferred (and obviously works with the free software nature of the rest of the required products, including MediaWiki itself).
The core of MediaWiki (and any wiki system) is the ability for individuals to edit the pages. Pages themselves are considered to be single entries within the database—for example, Wikipedia includes a page called "Wiki", which is about Wiki's in general. The page title is important, as it becomes a quick and simple method for accessing pages in your wiki database. Pages can be further organized and arranged according to namespaces (that group pages logically) and keywords and nested classification structures, and that information can be used to provide a table of contents and navigable directory of information in your wiki.
Pages within the database can also be linked to each other—unsurprisingly a key feature of a system designed to store and reference information.
The editing and creation of pages of information is obviously entirely web based, and although the potential exists for that to limit the editing and display facilities, the reality is that MediaWiki supports a form of quasi-HTML markup that makes it easy, within the confines of a web page and a web form, to edit and create individual pages.
For example, basic text can be marked up using a restricted range of HTML (full HTML is supported as an option), supporting functionality like bold and italic text. In addition, references to other pages or sections within the wiki can be highlighted using wiki-specific markup in the text source. The construct
[[page title]] for example inserts a link to a Wiki page with the specified page title.
Similar constructs exist to insert page contents into the current page—enabling you to combine many similar pieces of information into a single page. A good example here would be the definitions of a group of terms—say, computer components, CPU, motherboard etc. These could all be available separately on their own pages, but could then be combined into a single page called "Computer Components". These links are automatic—the page is rendered on the fly from the source data with the formatting added.
The formatting of individual pages and the display of the site is handled by XHTML and CSS rendering techniques, which means that you can easily customize the display of the information in the wiki database to match your own website look and feel.
Finally, information displayed is further augmented through support for file uploads. MediaWiki, as the name suggests, was designed with a rich system of media support incorporated into the application. You can upload PDF documents, images, and other components and, if supported by the browser, display these elements inline with each page.
Further markup and display functionality is available within pages through a series of extensions that provide functionality like time charts, auto-numbering and mathematical formulas. This is further rounded out at a page level with table of contents generation, automatic numbering of article headings and the ability to include database metadata in the displayed page.
The metadata is important—not only does it help to describe the page content, it also forms a part of the editing process, as you can enable history and version tracking. This works in combination with the user registration system and the overall page editing and creation process to track the changes made to a particular page.
MediaWiki can be configured to control access and editing functionality across a range of pages, users, namespaces and other elements. You can opt to have a completely open system, or a completely closed system, and you can prevent or allow editing, updates, uploads and other functionality accordingly.
All of this functionality is provided out of the box. Installation of MediaWiki is surprisingly straightforward, requiring only a few minor steps after the installation of the MediaWiki files to set up your database, wiki host and basic user and administrator options. Within the realms of a hosting service, these steps are so straightforward that you can often install a wiki on to your website with a single click.
The ability to edit information in a global environment is what makes wikis and MediaWiki in particular such a good solution for data management, without requiring a sophisticated or heavily customized application. Your pages can contain whatever you want and be laid out and organized according to the information they contain, rather than the database that stores them.
As a user of a wiki (albeit not MediaWiki) as a solution for a company intranet, where information from HR, to department level data and even task, project, and client information is stored, I can heartily recommend it as a solution.
By giving the power back to the user and controller of that information, rather than the developer or company that manages the data, you improve the chances that the information will be shared, rather than hidden and controlled by individual groups.
As a service provided through a hosting service, how you use it is up to you. Different organizations and individuals use the wiki functionality in different ways. Many companies use MediaWiki as an extension of their website offering to build a community for their products. For example, Gentoo use MediaWiki as a method of disseminating information, tips, guides and FAQ data to their customers and users, while enabling users to update and extend that information. By eliminating the need to build or support a complicated website environment, these companies are able to build and support a repository of information with a very low development time, simply because the information exists.
Others use MediaWiki as the core of their website, providing, for example, travel related information, encyclopedias (Wikipedia is not the only one) and even archives of stories and free articles.
MediaWiki provides a very simple and straightforward method for building a database of textual information. The advantage of MediaWiki over some other solutions is the extensive user support, version history, and the support for additional files to be embedded and incorporated into the wiki database.


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When the Asian American Journalists association announced that ABC's Nightline host Martin Bashir would be the keynote speaker at its July 25 Gala, the group's executive director said "We're excited to have Martin this year who is — so to speak —one of our own." It's true, because deep down the cancer-stricken Michael Jackson interviewer Bashir is just like you: A dude who wants to bone all of the women in his general vicinity, and is not afraid to go into detail about the causes of his erection on stage in front of a large crowd:
"I'm happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes," he said onstage, with his 20/20 colleague Juju Chang nearby. "In fact, I'm happy that the podium covers me from the waist down." He then noted that a speech should be "like a dress on a beautiful woman - long enough to cover the important parts and short enough to keep your interest - like my colleague Juju's." ("See what I have to put up with?" she responded.)
Haha, that is a lot to put up with! Bashir and ABC later apologized profusely. The podium still has not forgiven him. [Daily Intel]


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(Update - click HERE to see how we turned this into a Medusa cheeseball for Halloween!)
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Spa Mask Cheese Ball
(Update - click HERE to see how we turned this into a Medusa cheeseball for Halloween!)
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Great job with the cheese ball. I'm so happy you like my ideas and made this recipe for your friend's party. I like the idea of using green sour cream so it can keep in the refrigerator longer. It also gives the woman's facial mask a fun glow.ReplyDelete
I'm going to add one of your pictures and a link to your site on my blog post.
Beth @ Hungry Happenings
Thank you :) That means a lot coming from you! And, thank you so much for the link on your blog!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness - That first picture gave me an awful fright!!! SO life like it's scary!ReplyDelete
Isn't it though?! A few people had that reaction. I showed a picture at the office and had someone ask - Oh, who is that?ReplyDelete
They thought it was a person lol
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2011 at 7:00 AM
I am planning to make this a Medusa at my sons' mythology birthday party! They will love it!!!ReplyDelete
Great idea! I never would have thought of Medusa - I may have to try that for Halloween!ReplyDelete
how far ahead can i put on the guaccamole before it goes funny in colour.....dont want to go to party and have to do face there.ReplyDeleteReplies
Unfortunately, it turns color pretty fast. You will probably want to wait until at the party.Delete


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