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If repetition is the soul of cooking, Graham Dailey was on the cusp of a spiritual breakthrough. The Peninsula Grill chef was preparing scallops with butternut squash and cauliflower for the fifth time in two hours, jiggling the plush shellfish in an orange cast-iron grill pan and dotting them with sage.
Opposite the gleaming countertop stove, a scruffy young cameraman in a plaid shirt with pushed-up sleeves glanced through his viewfinder at Dailey and the inquisitive television news host alongside him.
When Dailey motioned toward a ramekin of root vegetables, she wanted to know how he chopped his cauliflower. When he reached for oil, she wondered why he didn't coat the pan with it. And when Dailey instructed her to scribble the dish with a sorghum glaze, she asked for detailed guidance.
"Just have fun with it," Dailey advised, halfway rushing his words in concession to the clock ticking on the three-minute segment. "Don't be shy. Get on it."
Jane Hanson, the nine-time Emmy winner playing Dailey's foil, beamed. Without knowing it, Dailey had parroted back the advice that Hanson and Amy Rosenbaum had been giving the modest chef all morning.
"Very good, honey!" Rosenblum, a former "Today Show" producer, exclaimed when the filming stopped. "That was so good. I just thought you were great."
Hanson and Rosenblum get paid to tutor reluctant media subjects in the quintessentially modern art of shining on screen.
They've coached legal experts, digital entrepreneurs and cosmetics inventors who've landed the chance to sell their products on television.
Earlier this month, they came to town courtesy of the Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, which hired the consulting team to help local chefs hone their presentation skills.
Unlike many cities, Charleston doesn't have much trouble ginning up national media interest in its food scene. Epicureans so reliably swoon over the region's easy way with seafood and mastery of ingredients with Colonial antecedents that Charleston in coming weeks will host two of the most significant events on the national culinary calendar, Cook it Raw and the Chefs Collaborative Sustainable Food Summit.
But food journalists with an interest in shrimp tend to fixate on seafood towers at The Ordinary, and journalists chronicling benne seeds always seem to end up ordering Husk's cheeseburger.
Although the CVB didn't provide an official explanation for why it invested in media spruce-ups for chefs at many of the city's best-known restaurants, it seems likely that tourism leaders appreciate that chefs Mike Lata and Sean Brock can't be solely responsible for communicating to the world why it's worth eating in Charleston.
To cement the city's reputation as a top culinary destination, it needs to cultivate more chef-jacketed personalities who can connect with diners in Boise, Idaho, and Bangor, Maine.
The problem is many chefs chose their profession partly because they're not comfortable in hyper-social settings, such as morning talk shows, which have become a fixture of the restaurant promotion circuit.
"There's a word in New York: Schmooziness," Rosenblum told Dailey when he balked at joking with Hanson. "Remember, you're the entertainer."
Marc Collins, executive chef of Circa 1886, didn't intend to entertain when 17 years ago he took over the kitchen of a AAA Four Diamond restaurant as a 23-year old.
"I got into this because it was a passion," he says. "I wanted to work in a restaurant where people are lined up to get in. I didn't even think, like, 'I'll write a cookbook.' Maybe it's the old school in me, but I got into this because I love the craft, not because I love PR mechanics."
Collins has reluctantly courted TV attention, even applying for competitive cooking shows, because he believes it's become the only way to seduce guest traffic. For years, Circa 1886's biggest challenge was its location off downtown's main commercial strip. Nowadays, though, potential guests aren't content to merely find a restaurant, they want to plumb the depths of the person behind it.
"I've got to get myself out there," says Collins, a participant in the CVB program. "That's the reality now."
Chefs who bristle at having to parade their personas worry that food media's current affection for chefs who breezily divulge kitchen secrets on television, eagerly hobnob with fans at splashy food festival events and party hard after guest chef dinners could result in an unfortunate homogenization of high-end cooking, since ego's almost always apparent on the plate. But Joe Palma, High Cotton's executive chef, says the most successful chefs have never sequestered themselves in their kitchens.
"The people you heard about like Frank Stitt, that wasn't Twitter-driven," Palma says. "Knowing a customer's son's name and where his daughter goes to college, that's how you build a business."
Still, Palma admits handshaking is far more straightforward than the skills needed to impress an audience of millions (Hanson and Rosenblum like to play down stage fright by encouraging chefs to think of every TV appearance as a one-on-one visit with the viewer: Their students still frequently shake and sweat during their first mock taping.)
"I wish I had this opportunity five years ago," Palma says of the training, which he considered "continuing education."
"I was kind of freaked out the first time I did something with the "Today Show." You have no idea how fast it is until it happens."
Cooking with sorghum for three minutes, Palma says, is a routine task in the kitchen. But when the same chore's transferred to a soundstage, chefs have to worry about angling their hands so they don't block the shot, explaining the ingredient's significance while not burning it and dealing with unfamiliar equipment. Palma once appeared on camera with a grill that didn't heat up: A raw burger languished on its surface for a tortuous 30 seconds.
"I think a lot of people see chefs on TV and it looks very natural to them," he says. "That's their forte. And then there are other people whose day-to-day bread-and-butter have nothing to do with that. These guys, myself included, need some help."
Dailey describes himself as shy and "probably a little bit introverted," a point made by one of the glossy magazine ads his employer's concocted to lure visitors to Peninsula Grill. In the photograph, Dailey's waving at a shrimp boat. Only his back is visible.
"When these things come up, I don't volunteer," Dailey says. "I stay in my comfort area. The public wants more, but I like being in the kitchen."
When the "Today Show" filmed in Charleston, the culmination of a two-year, CVB-led campaign to disseminate the city's splendors, Dailey was tapped to show off Peninsula Grill's coconut cake. "I heard Hoda had a crush on you," Rosenblum teased. What Dailey remembers of the taping is the time crunch: his segment was cut from four minutes to 45 seconds without warning.
"See, that's a really unfortunate circumstance, but that happens all the time," Hanson told Dailey at the start of his two-hour coaching session in the Le Creuset L'Atelier kitchen. Dailey remained unnerved: Seconds later, Rosenblum called for an assistant to lower the room temperature.
"I don't want him sweating," she said.
"Can I get some water?," Dailey asked.
During his first take, Dailey made many of the mistakes he'd feared every time he turned down a chef demo or television appearance. He stammered. He frowned. He missed Hanson's verbal cues. And he stopped cooking whenever he started talking, pushing the segment past its allotted time.
Watching the playback, Dailey squirmed: "I look like such a dork with the glasses," he said. Rosenblum and Hanson concurred, and the glasses were put away for the rest of the session.
Yet what bothered the trainers most was Dailey's somber mood. "I want you to just have fun," Rosenblum counseled. "This isn't '60 Minutes.' This is fun. I'm going to need you to smile and have fun."
Everything else fell into place first. Over the course of successive takes, Dailey remembered to discuss the popularity of scallops in Charleston and his love of grill pans. But even as his movements became more fluid, his demeanor remained distractingly serious, which he attributed to an unwavering focus on technical correctness.
"You've got a fabulous voice, you're really cute, you make great food," cajoled Rosenblum, who spelled out "fun" in block letters on a poster-sized sheet of paper. "What's the downside here?"
Dailey will probably never grin like Fabio Viviani, the "Top Chef" alum who hawks pizza for Domino's. But on the final take, he proved that even casualness comes with practice. He looked relaxed as he joked about his restaurant's trademarked coconut cake, his voice engagingly tripping the intonation scale as he described how it's shipped all over the country. Dailey called the transformation "amazing."
"You grew," Rosenblum told him. "You really grew."
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From A1 Steak Sauce to Easy Cheese, from Maxwell House to Vegemite, Kraft is a behemoth.
And in the food and drink sectors, content marketing seems to be a cinch. Pushing people to recipes and adding some fun around holidays, seasons, special edition products and family lifestyle are all the order of the day.
I'm just going to picture a few of the Kraft brands here, fairly simply, but go and check them out.
The Kraft Foods recipes website is very good. It's easy to use and linked to heavily from Facebook. All in all I'd say this a good example of a now standardised, dare I say 'traditional', marketing strategy for primary goods.
Recipes are where Kraft excels. Across YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, their websites and Facebook, Kraft gets big brand exposure.
Kraft Food – recipes and tips
This has 1m likes, as well as a Twitter account with 75k followers.
Recipes are so important to Kraft's content plan that the main Kraft Foods Facebook page is titled 'recipes and tips'. The pictures and fairly informal text are used to link fans up to the Kraft Foods website and /recipes.
The site is fresh, with clear buttons to share and an easy navigation. There's also a Spanish version of the site.
Kraft Canada – what's cooking
Kraft Canada (285,000 likes) also has tons of recipes on its website, which is a little older than the main site but very easy to use and nicely visual. There are French and English versions available.
The Kraft Canada Facebook page also nicely surfaces these recipes with images and the odd tagline. It's not rocket science, but it works.
Kraft Dinner (KD)
Canadian version of mac 'n' cheese. With 436,000 likes, it's been delivering cheesy goodness since 1937.
It doesn't post too often, and they make sure what they do is funny, ridiculous or (appropriately) cheesy.
For me, this is a pretty low risk, low effort, high reward strategy for big food and beverage brands. Here's the perfect example. KD has set up a Tumblr account to host these images, too.
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
This one has 1.5m likes in total, and hundreds of likes on each post.
Again, product news and promos, quirky imagery and photographs. There are pages to 'show your love' and 'find recipes' but these are essentially pages with a big image to like the brand and a link to the website for recipes.
The website is interesting in that its URL is http://www.youknowyouloveit.com/. Kraft does off-shoot websites very well, including funny stuff like Planters Mr Peanut at www.ineedsomeenergy.com who sings and dances for your pleasure.
Mac 'n' cheese also has a nostalgic timeline where users are invited to explore the history of the brand. This is a nice bit of brand building that isn't too difficult to have a web design agency create.
Kraft Dressing
With 132,000 likes, this is rather a controversial but successful account. The Zesty Guy, pictured below, is the Kraft mascot, and some find him a little patronising to the female audience. Again there's a dedicated site with a quirky URL - http://www.getmezesty.com/
Arguably this Facebook account is fairly weak. As one of the comment points out, there are no recipes and the Zesty Guy doesn't feature on the product in the aisles.
Kraft Peanut Butter
This has 129,000 likes, and the same formula of pics, recipes and quirkiness seems to work well for Canada's Kraft Peanut Butter.
This screenshot shows the inevitable price of the transparency of social networks, with negative comments creeping into corporate pages.
Kraft Cheese
Kraft Cheese, with 96,000 likes, occupies subpages on Kraft Foods recipes website. Yes, cheese is pretty much a staple foodstuff. Same strategy again here.
Kraft Original
I have to say, this account, also aimed at the Middle East market where Kraft squeezy cheese is also sold, is pretty saccharine to say the least. It has 186,000 likes.
There are some recipes, but a lot less quirkiness and lots more parenting (for back to school perhaps) cheesiness. It likely works well, but I can't help but feel the account is playing a bit safe.
13k likes
This is the main corporate Facebook page, and draws on food, drink, US news, company history etc. for its posts. There's still a focus on products, but the account feels like it's for employees and uber fans. Thus, only 13,000 likes.
There are plenty of Kraft products I haven't included here, as I've focused on Facebook pages that have Kraft in the title. But if you add in Facebook accounts for the rest of Kraft's brands (split into beverages, cheese, refrigerated meals, international and foodservice, meals and desserts, 'enhancers and snack nuts) the footprint is huge.
There's a lesson here for brands. Kraft is actually currently fighting to simplify the representation of its myriad offerings. But if your company has more than one strong trademark, product, mascot, using them to create further standalone Facebook accounts will help increase popularity online.
I've seen millions of likes across Kraft brands. Obviously, that's because Kraft and Mondelez are huge. Yet still I feel the simple approach of imagery, plentiful links to recipe sites and meal suggestions that suit the season all add up to a solid Facebook strategy for a perfectly suited sector.
As Facebook ads and arguably competitions and surveys aren't suited to primary goods, brand awareness is the main thrust of this Facebook activity.
I'll leave you with Planters' Mr Peanuts, whose song we appreciate in Econsultancy's Content team.
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I was doing a little research about Oreo, and I was flabbergasted by just how far the rabbit hole went- Oreo is manufactured by Nabisco, which was owned by Kraft (which since split into Kraft and Mondelez). Massive, massive industry! =\
Nice information regarding facebook marketing, now a days social media become more popular, but we have to do marketing in proper way.


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USAF weather dude working near Ramstein. Living overseas is amazing (as I post from a hotel room in France) and the compensation is more than I was expecting... but I'll probably be force shaped out next year. I have mixed feelings about the "clown college", so hit me up privately if you have any specific questions.
Visi: I'm going to Australia for a year in November. They're crying out for IT people. My friend applied for his Visa last Monday morning. He filled in a form on the embassy website, and by 3pm that day he had an email saying his visa was approved. It's a one year "working holiday" visa, with an option to extend it for another year. You can only work for one company for 6 months, though. Perfect for working for a bit, saving every penny, then going travelling until the money runs out, rinse, repeat.
Join me.
Lot of roadblocks being thrown up there. If you lose your current situation, however, a significant one comes down.
You know that Ars is academia-centric and degree-heavy, and many or most of us benefit from having a credential. As you can read, there is a lot of emphasis on it here.
What are your thoughts about going to school? You've said plenty about why you can't (at this moment, anyway). But if you could, would you?
Frankly, that's bull. I grew up in section 8 housing, ate "gubnant" cheese, and was on welfare up until I was 18.
If I can manage to get a degree, anyone can. If you CHOOSE not to get a degree, or not to invest in yourself by taking out student loans to get a degree, that is a choice you make, not a lack of availability.
Get another job. Get 2. Get a janitorial job at a local community college and get some classes in for free. Offer to work weekends if you are allowed to leave early enough to get to class on time. Take CLEP tests and shave 2 years of school (and tuition) off. Do what it takes to make what you want happen. I lived off $250 a month for 5 years to get my degree. And I busted my ass in the summer to earn as much as I could. And I still graduated with about $27k in student loans. But without that degree, I wouldn't have the salary I have now.
If you don't want a degree, or don't want to do what it takes to get one, then don't complain about the lack of opportunity you are running into because you don't have a degree.
And let's be clear, the "could you" is not so hard to achieve. There are plenty of jobs out there where you can work 9 to 5, and have the time to attend classes. If your current gig is not such, then it shouldn't be beyond the wit of man to change it, if you have 10 years in IT and can demonstrate the knowledge that that should bring.
This is INSANELY expensive, and no one will hire someone who just got their certs. It's strictly ex-mil territory.
Presumably this scheme only works as Australia's a Commonwealth country, while the US is not.
Ireland is not a Commonwealth country either. Consult your embassy to see if you are eligible.
Let me be a little more specific;
I make an "ok" salary of ~$43k/yr.
The reason I can't afford to go to college, is because my work schedule is 7am - 9pm, with almost zero exception, 6 (sometimes 7) days a week.
When I was laid off from Earthlink, I was unemployed for 6 months while I looked for work. The company that hired me is the only company that even called me after ~70 some resumes that I sent out. Needless to say, the job market for IT in Los Angeles is not overly friendly.
Also, it is fucking expensive to live in L.A. If I were to go back to school, I'd have to quit my job. Quitting my job means losing my apartment, as I'd have no income. Like I mentioned before, I do not have anyone that I can "crash" with, either. I have no family, and I have no friends with extra space or room for a student.
...and I am not about to give up my current job to go to school, when I cannot be guaranteed of landing a job for income while I'm schooling. Abandoning my current job without lining something else up first is simply foolish.
You've said that you're 99% sure that a layoff is coming. I think it's fair to say that most of the posts with constructive feedback about school have been made with that in mind.
When the hammer drops on you, all this business about your apartment and your work hours and crashing with someone becomes moot. Are you ready for less expensive digs, part-time or night work, and school?
In terms of spending power, isn't 43k in LA like 20k in most places in the country? Have you thought of just moving to a cheaper city, or do you like LA too much?
then leave LA. you seem to want to go somewhere else pretty badly.
Like I mentioned, a Free Trade Agreement was concluded recently. Visas for non-undesirable US citizens should be pretty easy. Are you desirable, Visi?
No criminal record, not even an arrest.
No debt to speak of (save for 1 credit card, almost paid off)
No college degree.
Over 10 years work experience in my field
No communicable or other diseases
Not a religious wackjob
I think I'm good on everything except the college degree.
The problem I'm facing, however, is that I'm between a rock and a hard place; without a job, I can't support myself. Without a college degree, it's impossible to find a job...but to get a college degree I need to find some way to support myself...
...and it begins all over again.
financial aid/student loans?
(I realize you want to avoid debt, but if it's the only way, it's really not such a bad thing (certainly much better than CC debt))
14 hours/day, 6 days a week is like 4300 hours.
So basically, you make about $10/hour? No wonder you want to quit.
OK, so get another. Do the poor student thing while going to school, living on student loans and two chump jobs.
If you really want to make a change, you can.
It sounds to me like your JOB is the problem. It's holding you back from getting somewhere in life.
Damn... Honestly, I'm going to have to go with the "go back to college" thing one more time.
You said it yourself Visi, you can't get a job without the degree. Maybe you can find a job or 2, one that will give you tuition reimbursement?
You could always head towards the midwest, or maybe New Mexico? Its hella cheap to live around those areas.
I saw this thread the other day, but figured that it must be a piss-take.
Choosing between Australia and New Zealand would be largely a matter of preference. NZ is a little colder, a lot smaller, and in my experience even the more significant cities had a bit of a 'country town' feel to them (but it's a few years since I've spent any serious time over there, and that may have changed).
NZ citizens are effectively treated the same as Australian citizens in Australia, and one of the problems that NZ has is that many of its bright young people come over to Australia to work.
Australia has a skilled migration program. I'm not sure about all the details, but you can read about it here. I have a mate who works in immigration (although its the bit concerned with kicking people out, not letting them in), so if you have any specific queries, I might be able to get them answered.
Having recently tried to employ an IT person, I can tell you we have a massive skills shortage in Canberra (although being from LA, Canberra might be a bit chilly for you). If you can do any of the following, you have an Occupation in Demand, which helps:
Computing Professional - specialising in CISSP 2231-79
Computing Professional - specialising in E-commerce Security (non-programming) 2231-79
Computing Professional - specialising in Network Security 2231-79
Computing Professional - specialising in SAP 2231-79
Computing Professional - specialising in SIEBEL
Whilst I'm not entirely sure that Canberra can handle the Visi, feel free to ask me any questions about life here or in Melbourne.
We're you willing to change your work attire, you could make double what you do in my town(Grand Rapids, MI). The problem is that it's so much less expensive to live here . I'm in a custom 3k-sq/ft ranch on over 1/2 acre for less than $250K. Fly-over country FTW. I make six figures with no degree and 9 years in infrastructure. LA is a great place to visit...wouldn't want to live there. Just find a place on the east side of town. You'd not do well on the west side.
Yeah...the midwest really isn't my thing. I traveled all over the USA when I was younger, and the "country bumpkin" level of every place I visited was waaaaaaaaay too high. That, and the bible-belt factor really pisses me off.
I guess I just have to weigh my options and figure out what the fuck to do.
Each to his own. I'd have not moved out here either. Glad I was "forced" to, though.
Go for it. You will probably test out really high which will open up quite a few jobs for you in the military.
Want to blow things up--Tanks or EOD
Want to work on engines -- Helo mech
Like radars--air defense
Like sats--sat communications
Like the good stuff.-- Nuke school in the Navy
Want a real challenge - Special Forces, Seal Team
I spent 13 years in and had a blast. I got to fire pistols, tank rounds, a patriot missle and my favorite, Machine Guns.
Career enlisted Navy with 12 years experience here.
PM me if you want to discuss it.
For Navy IT pukes, they have one catchall "job", or Rate: Information Technician
They work in two areas essentially: radio/comms and IT. In one section, they run the LAN, do trouble calls for user and hardware problems, and admin the servers onboard ship. The other section handles the software side of communications.
The Navy has contracted out all of it's shore installation IT chores to EDS ($4 billion and counting it has cost EDS to date; I gould go on for days about how well it isn't working), so unfortunately IT is now a mainly shipboard rate. That is, they are assigned to a ship more often and for longer stretches of time than they are assigned to a shore installation.
The Navy is also in the midst of a 33,000 person drawdown, so advancement to the next higher paygrade is getting pretty tight in some rates (mine, for instance. )
We don't deploy as a general rule as much as our bretheren services, but we do go, sometimes for 10 months at a time. 6-7 months is the average. However, except for a few cases, we don't go anywhere particularly hazardous. No roadside bombs can get you while you are 35 miles out to sea, for example. That being said, the Navy has started to send individuals in country to Iraq and Afghanistan, performing admin and supply puke type jobs so that some soldiers can get some slack in their rotation schedule.
Staying in the L.A. area is out, though, since Long Beach Shipyard is closed. Closest would be San Diego, or Naval Air Station Pt. Magu up by Santa Barbara.
Visi, are you REALLY sure you are willfully giving up the ability to SAVE $40-$50k a year for the next 5 years, just because people wave at you while driving by?
I mean, COMEON! It is only just slightly harder to find your type of people anywhere you would go, but GO WHERE THE MONEY IS. You're young enough to really haul ass on this. Once you get the skillset and the experience, you can make a change in 5 years with favorable results. That, plus $200k in the bank.
My mistake; it looks like Ireland has a reciprocal arrangement with Australia for working holiday visas. Andy, is that what you and your friend are traveling on?
Visi, here's the Australian embassy info for professionals and skilled migrants--hope it helps.
Have you considered the East Coast? Preferably Boston?
If you think of it, there are more opportunities IT-wise out here than in LA, from what I'm gathering. Hell, I'll e-mail you my resume to show how "inexperienced" I am (my knowledge of computers is solely based upon my own findings as of right now), and I have been getting calls all over the place.
If you need help, you know you got some of us "bah-ston" Arsians to help you out
What about getting a degree overseas? I know for instance for Belgium it's reasonably simple to get a time-limited visa to study, and well, uni here is cheap compared to the US...Sure it'll be time-limited for the course of the degree, but that can always be changed after the fact. Also remember that once you get a visa for a .eu country, it's fairly easy to hop between coutries here.
The thing I don't understand is that from reading what you wrote, it sounds like you're tired with your living situation (and I bet a lack of friends contributes greatly to that), unhappy in IT,you want to study, so what's holding you back? Even if it's moving to the bible belt, remember, you can do tat for a few years and save up and then move elsewhere or something?
One of the main reasons I'm "fed up", is with the current sociopolitical climate in the USA. I hate it. It's based on religious dogma, superstition and selfishness.
I'd much rather attempt to immigrate to a country that falls more in line with my own personal philosophy than (unsuccessfully) attempt to integrate myself into the populace of the USA.
As far as studying abroad, well, that intreagues me too. Why not? I love learning, and I love "adventure" (so long as I have a roof over my head and stable income).
In regards to Boston...Sure, why not? However, I can't imagine the cost of living is that much lower than in Los Angeles. What other information do you have for me, JSClark?
Get the fuck out of LA.
Move someplace more tolerable, and -cheaper-, San Antonio is booming at the moment. 2Wire is shoving a call centre in there, and theyre likely to be looking for techs soon, including full IT staff.
150k mortages in SA are coming back at $600 a month..... with 0% down and 600 credit score.
Visi, you have no concept of how many freedoms you actually have in the US. Im currently up to my neck in personal / married life shit with my american wife. Im from the UK, I dont -ever- want to move back there, its too small, too on top of one another, too goddamn assbackwards. It`d kill me inside a year.
You think the dogma is bad here, good luck in the UK, in Ulster you have the protestants going for the Roman catholics, on the mainland you have the pakkies, the blacks, the chavs, the wideboys and all kinds of racial tension and problems. Youve got the smug cunts in the south, vs the grim up North, the sheep fucking welsh and the Manaical scots. You have political bullshit on a level that makes your head spin. Arcaic laws and legislation, taxation that makes no fucking sense, gas that costs more per litre than you pay per gallon in the US.
EVERYTHING is smaller and limited, you know how you go to the store and theres an isle for cereal and 200 different choices, in the UK, good luck over 15-20 choices. The TV is limited unless you get -limited- cable or satellite tv and then its 6months to a year behind the US for popular shoes. BT has a monopoly on the telecoms (still), good luck getting stable high speed and not paying out the arse for it.
Denmark, fantastic country, great healthcare system, but from friends living there, immigration is causing huge tensions. Full of lego and small island, lots of lovely women around.
France, lovely people bar the parisians, paralysed by political nonsense and a general malaise for the on french.
Italy, not been there, political turmoil that boils over, fanatical soccer fans.
Spain, even more fanatical soccer fans, lovely weather, far too many sweaty brits on holiday, political nightmare, terrorist problems.
Germany, the finest cars in europe, a mad motorway/freeway system, great beer, great food, absolutely no sense of humour.
Switzerland, everyone has an automatic weapon in their closet, crime is almost nil, anal to the extent that your neighbours will sic the police on you if you dont wash your car or rake up your lawn.
Nordic regions, Sweden, Finland, Norway, fucking cold 6 months a year, very little between them and the north pole than the odd horny reindeer, highest suicide rate in the world, simply because for 6 months a year theres nothing to do but drink and fuck, and theres only so many gorgeous blondes you can handle. Oh and 60% taxation rates, great cars too.
Belgium, chocolates, french fries with mayoinaise and Hercule Poiriot, fucking weird people.
Holland, fantastic country, great infrastructure, lots of high speed around, lots of immigrants fucking it up. Silly taxation rates, great healthcare, one of the few places in the world you can get stoned legally and then go visit whores legally.
Monte Carlo - youre not rich enough.
Lichtenstein - I think they play soccer, thats about it.
Portugal - Small and mostly like spain, only more brazilian .. if that makes sense. Fanatical about soccer, far too many sweaty germans on holiday there.
Why not try Canada.
First off, the degree thing is crap, at least domestically. If you really have ten years of solid, provable IT experience (and given that you say you're 25, I think it'd probably be best to underestimate), you CAN get a very well paying IT job. You just need to be either actively looking now or get the fuck out of California. I have no degree, nor even a high school diploma, but I'm making much more than what they're paying you even though I'm only claiming six years of experience. It's tough to "break in," but once you land a "real" position, you're made.
It takes a lot of bullshit to get to that point, though. I was unemployed for a full year and then had to work in a non-IT field for six months before I was able to get back in IT and double my salary.
If you do want a degree, I agree that going overseas is a much better idea than attending some $150k domestic diploma mill.
Also, don't discount the Foreign Service. Someone already mentioned it, and it's an amazing deal if you can swing it. I'm not talking Foreign Service Officer, either, just standard IT specialist positions.
They pay for your (ridiculously nice) housing and since you'll be posted overseas, the first ~$80k you make will be tax-free.
Military is always an option as that door is not likely to close in the future. If you do decide to join, though, I would suggest considering using the opportunity to learn a new skill, as opposed to further specializing in IT. You only live once.
In regards to living here:
for a decent 1BR (which is what I'm assuming you live in right now), expect to pay about 600-800/month, including heat and hot water. Thats basically outside the "495 Belt" (or, the suburbs West of Boston). There is housing that is just as cheap in/around Boston, but don't be suprised to hear about murders going down around you.
But there is cheaper housing than that, in decent areas of the Central - Eastern Mass area. As of late, I have been checking out Craig's List, and seeing some nice places (and we're talking 2BR apartments that take up whole floors of multi-family houses) for about 600-800. It's all about looking around the area and determining what is best for you, as I'm sure that you are aware of that already.
IT related: From what I remember from your past posts, you seem to have a heavy knowledge when it comes to IT. If you want, I may be able to hook you up with a guy that might have some work for you. Granted, its on an as-needed basis, but it may work in your favor. Also, as I said before, I work for a prestigous job board, I may be able to help you out there as well if you are truly interested.
And I know you stressed the fact about not really wanting to go back to school, but have you considered part-time?
check out www.wit.edu <- that is the school I attend for night classes towards my bachelor's degree... about 6k/year for tuition alone. Wentworth is one of the better technology schools in the area, and I have heard various recruiters telling me about the students that come out of the school. My friend's father works as one of the top-notch software developers for Intel, and he says he will take anyone with a Wentworth degree before any other school. But enough about that pimpage
I say, if you have the time / coin, come out for a week to check it out and see if things might/will work out. Sounds like you should have better luck out here than in LA.
Hey, that's what I did today! And it actually felt kind of good.
I love them already.
The Boston thing sounds interesting.
One of my biggest hurdles right now though is funds. If I take time off of work, especially now, I am certain my job will fire me and seek a replacement. That's simply the way Hollywood works, unfortunately. The other problem with that, is since I don't get paid vacation, I have to save up enough money before I go anywhere to make sure all my bills at home are covered for the time that I'm gone.
I am going to have to play it by ear.
Also, I am not opposed to going back to college, however, I honestly have no idea what I'd do, other than art (and that's expensive).
Hm. How about a job at NATO? That's the job listing for the HQ in Brussels, there's other stuff available...Mind you, traffic to and from Evere sucks, which would make you feel right at home (I swear putting the HQ in such a bad traffic spot is their primary defense mechanism or something ). Have you looked into jobs available at American embassies around the globe? Do you speak a second language? Are you willing to learn a second language?
darkseid mentioned Switserland (Paging Vlip! paging Vlip!) and iirc there's a few peculiarities with regards to Switsrland. one is that if you want citizenship after moving there, it's a process whereby (iirc) your neighbours and fellow citizens vote on if they're going to allow you citizenship. I also know someone whose daughter lives there, there's some other gotcha's I can't remember at the moment.
Wih regards to Holland...well, our social security is better than theirs, and we can get high legally too
I found this link an interesting read too about US vs EU differences, fwiw, although I certainly don't agree with everything said in it (like the amount of hours worked, see the recent discussion on amount of work hours versus productivity we had here somewhere...)
With regards to savings, you'll need some money to move overseas anyways...
Some cost of living info, in general, here.
You're completely out of your tree.
I really like that expression.
The United States is not a part of the working holiday program.
Wow, they give you no vacation time?? @_@
uhh, yeah, dude, save up some cash, and come out this way to feel it out. You are going to get laid off anyways, so either way, they are going to get rid of you. Not to mention, I could never work for a place that demands you 14 hours a day to tend to their server farm, only to get barely enough to pay my bills.
In terms of school, there's Mass College of Art (which is right across the street from Wentworth), which is also another good school from what I hear.
No vacation? Terrible salary? Ridiculous hours?
Why are you on this job again?
How can that possibly be legal under California labor laws?


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Palm Drive becomes a grand pedestrian promenade.
|Take a stroll: For much of the 20th century, as this shot from the 1950s shows, The Alameda was a thoroughfare that splits what today is the heart of campus. Now Palm Drive too is a pedestrian-friendly promenade. Photo from SCU Archives
The stretch of road that once jogged between Mission Santa Clara de Asís and Sherman Street near the main entrance of campus is gone—the gray pavement and parked cars traded in for an elegant brick walkway better fitted to the University's historic church. Construction of the new Palm Drive promenade was just finished as this magazine went to press, with completion on track for late September, in time to welcome back faculty and students for the fall quarter.
The new pedestrian mall highlights the Mission Church as the centerpiece of SCU. It also makes the heart of the campus more foot-friendly, a process that started decades ago. "It will not just look better, it will be safer for students and pedestrians," says Joe Sugg, assistant vice president for operations at SCU.
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Those who remember dodging cars on The Alameda before it was rerouted in 1989 will perhaps best understand that the conversion of Palm Drive into a brick-paved, tree-lined pathway has more than aesthetic benefits. As for The Alameda, what was once a four-lane highway is now a grassy plaza. But years of new building on campus meant that Palm Drive, while never the thoroughfare that The Alameda was, became a stretch of pavement increasingly shared by walkers and drivers.
Now, though, for students strolling between classes, the only vehicles they'll have to worry about dodging at most times are bikes and skateboards.
The next phase of the project will convert the campus portion of Alviso Street into a similarly landscaped pedestrian mall. That will create a north-south promenade stretching from beyond O'Connor Hall past the Donohoe Alumni House. Construction takes place in summer 2014.
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Mourners pay their respects Monday as the former justice lay in state at the Supreme Court.
(By Dayna Smith — The Washington Post)
By Gabriel Escobar
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July 29, 1997; Page A06
The procession that filed around the flag-draped coffin of retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan had, by afternoon, included friends and relatives, union guys, troops of Boy Scouts, tourists in T-shirts, men and women in suits and a lot of devoted and anonymous disciples.
In the court's Great Hall, where Brennan's coffin was on display yesterday, this cross-section of Americans silently paid tribute to a man known to many as a champion of individual rights. The reasons for their attendance varied from the eminently practical—it was very hot and humid and the court is an air-conditioned tourist attraction—to the profoundly moving.
Justice Brennan, center, speaks with Justice Harry Blackmun, left, and Justice John Paul Stevens during a 1987 case about the authorship of Shakespeare's works. (AP File Photo)
"I am a woman. I am black. What more can I say?" said Tiffany Graham, 23, a paralegal at the Justice Department who will enter law school at the University of Virginia in the fall. Graham said Brennan's forceful opinions on the rights of minorities, including women, had a direct and lasting influence on her life. "I wouldn't have the advantages I have now," she said. "He was truly an American hero, and I came here to pay my respects, to say thank you."
Such high praise was common outside the Marble Palace—"his permanent memorial," as the Rev. Milton Jordan called the building during a brief private ceremony before Brennan's family and friends.
Justice Brennan, right, shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the White House in 1956. Eisenhower had just selected Brennan to be a Supreme Court Justice. (AP File Photo)
Brennan, who was 90 when he died Thursday, believed the courts should try to right social wrongs, and his success in forging a consensus on divisive issues has had a profound effect.
People who did not know Brennan but knew his work cited specific cases that expanded civil liberties and freedom of the press, or they mentioned his adamant opposition to capital punishment.
Some, such as Jim Lyle, volunteered their own political party affiliation and philosophical bent, making it clear they saw Brennan as an unfailing liberal ally and one, perhaps, impossible to replace.
Lyle, a law student from Columbus, Ohio, said most people probably did not recognize the scope and reach of Brennan's work. "These things affect you throughout your life, even though you don't realize it," Lyle said of the justice's opinions, particularly those that enhanced civil liberties. "The decisions that he made, the stances he took, the influences he had on the court, his ability to sway, to use arguments on other justices—all this I think was unique to the man."
President Clinton presents Justice Brennan with the Medal of Freedom in November, 1993, at the White House. (AP)
Funeral services for Brennan will be held today at St. Matthew's Cathedral, where Washington's power brokers will pay public tribute before Brennan is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. By comparison, yesterday's viewing was much more informal and democratic, drawing many from less-exalted positions in official Washington, people who knew Brennan's work well from the inside.
There was Laura Millman, a special master with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, who said Brennan "stood for positions that would make this country great." And there was Rebecca Dickinson, a lawyer with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who called Brennan a hero. "He was one of the greatest minds in the last 100 years," Dickinson said. "I don't think people realize how much they owe to him."
No one ventured to say what Brennan would have said about the adulation. Born to Irish immigrants who settled in Newark—his father worked as a coal heaver in a brewery before finding success in America—William Joseph Brennan Jr. had the kind of upbringing that lots of people can identify with. He was one of eight children and, as a boy, earned pocket money by delivering milk, pumping gas and making change for passengers awaiting trolleys.
People like Joe Sweeny, a history teacher and union activist from Upstate New York, can relate to that. Standing on the court steps with his 8-year-old son, Robert, Sweeny called the immigrants' son a "champion of individual rights, an impossible man to replace."
In 1956, Justice Brennan holds his 7-year-old daughter, Nancy, as his wife, Marjorie, holds his robe. (AP File Photo)
The coffin was brought in at 10 a.m., past 27 of Brennan's former law clerks. Dozens of Boy Scouts visiting the Capitol stood across the street from the court, many at attention. By 4:30 p.m., 2,300 people had filed past the coffin.
Among them were Harry Lemmon, a justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, and his wife, Mary Ann Lemmon, a federal judge in Louisiana. They met Brennan in France in 1988 and became friends. Yesterday, the Lemmons remembered a man who would literally reach out, gently grabbing you by the arm to make a point. "He was the kind of person that everyone felt was a close friend," Harry Lemmon said.
And then there was the assessment of Rachel Simon, 7, who did not know anything about Brennan until her parents, Ken and Sabrina Simon, took her and her two siblings to the viewing. Inside, Sabrina Simon—a lawyer, like her husband—knelt to whisper in her daughter's ear. She told her "a great person had died and people were showing their respect."
The Simons, who are black, moved from the District to Birmingham. Ken Simon, a former White House fellow, said Birmingham and the South are different now from the way they were in the 1960s—for the better. The implication was that Brennan helped make that possible.
On the steps of the Supreme Court, defined once by Oliver Wendell Holmes as having "the quiet of a storm center," Rachel Simon said, "I think it was pretty bad for somebody who was really great to die."


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by Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State University), John R. Graham and Campbell R. Harvey (Duke University)
Graham and Harvey are well known for their CFO survey of the equity risk premium. In this paper, they test whether these executives are miscalibrated, i.e. the distribution of their expectations is not correct. They use a unique panel that includes over 12,500 probability distributions of future stock market returns collected from top financial executives over nearly a decade. They find that executives are severely miscalibrated: realized market returns are within the executives' 80% confidence intervals only 33% of the time. These executives seem therefore to be overconfident in their views. They show that miscalibration improves following poor market performance periods because forecasters are influenced by extreme negative past returns. Poor returns are salient events that seem to influence these executives. They also find that the degree of miscalibration is strongly correlated with the confidence interval that executives provide to their own-firm project returns. Finally, executives' miscalibration is correlated with their own-firms' level of investment.
This is an interesting paper that shows that the risk premium is very difficult to forecast even by professional executives and seems to cast doubt on the efficient market hypothesis since their expectations seem to be systematically miscalibrated and therefore wrong. This is also a cautionary tale for not relying on surveys to forecast macro and financial variables, even when the participants are sophisticated executives. At the same time, their forecasts can guide their investment decisions; public policy makers should take note and provide better public forecasts to complement the private miscalibrated forecasts.
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By Kathy Finn
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Former New Orleans mayor C. Ray Nagin was called a politician on the take in closing arguments by prosecutors at his graft trial on Monday while defense attorneys questioned the credibility of those who had cut deals to testify against him.
Nagin, 57, is standing trial on 21 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and tax evasion during the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that could land him in prison for more than 20 years if convicted.
The jury adjourned for the day after deliberating for about three hours without reaching a verdict and will resume discussions on Tuesday morning.
With Nagin and several members of his family seated in the packed courtroom, prosecutor Richard Pickens painted a picture of a mayor who was nearly broke from financing his sons' struggling granite countertop business and turned for help to contractors who needed his assistance to get city business.
"You saw how a mayor on the take operates," Pickens told the jury during his closing statements.
Pickens gave examples of five separate corruption schemes that Nagin used with different sets of players who allegedly paid cash bribes and provided other favors including free vacations to Hawaii and Jamaica, private jet trips to Chicago and Las Vegas, and parties for Nagin and his family, all with a combined value of more than $500,000.
During the 10-day trial, the jury heard from some 30 prosecution witnesses, including a city hall insider and contractors who earlier pleaded guilty to bribing public officials and are awaiting sentencing.
"You saw how (Nagin) used the power and authority of a high public office to extract payoffs from contractors," Pickens told the jury.
Pickens also said Nagin traded city dollars for cell phones for his family, and received truckloads of granite and money from a consulting contract after he left office in exchange for favors.
Showing summaries of bank transactions for the Nagins' company, Pickens reminded jurors that several times the account showed a negative balance immediately before deposits coinciding with alleged bribes landed in the account.
He also showed email exchanges between Nagin and a businessman who allegedly paid $23,000 to provide a private jet for the Nagin family for a shopping trip to New York City.
"Thanks a bunch. You the man!" Nagin wrote in an email to the man immediately after the jet was reserved.
Defense attorney Robert Jenkins countered by arguing prosecutors relied heavily on witnesses who testified against Nagin in hopes of gaining lighter sentences for their crimes.
"It goes to their credibility," Jenkins said, pointing to one contractor who was charged with separate crimes in Texas and whose case was consolidated with the Nagin matter.
"He got a sweet deal," Jenkins said.
Nagin's attorney said it defies logic to think the mayor helped steer huge amounts of city business to contractors for relatively small returns. "If I'm helping a guy get millions, I'm only going to get $50,000 of it? That doesn't make sense," Jenkins said.
He argued that what the prosecution called bribes were investments in the countertop company made by businessmen, not because Nagin demanded it, but simply in hopes of getting closer to the mayor by "treating his sons nicely."
On rebuttal, lead prosecutor Matthew Coman said Nagin during his eight hours of testimony last Thursday and Friday blamed everyone from members of his staff to his sons for situations that got him into trouble.
A former cable TV executive who swept into office on promises of good government in 2002 and won re-election four years later, Nagin now lives in Frisco, Texas.
If convicted, Nagin could be sentenced to at least 20 years under federal guidelines, said Tania Tetlow, a Tulane University law professor and former assistant U.S. attorney.
(Editing by Jon Herskovitz, Bernard Orr)


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SgtCupCake wrote:
I rarely agree with prison sentences that do not involve violence. Does the potential punishment fit the crime, or is there something wrong with our legal system?
You wouldn't want someone who commits wire fraud or identity theft thrown in jail because it doesn't involve violence? Getting hurt financially can be just as devastating as physical / verbal violence imo.
While I agree there are times the crime doesn't fit the punishment, just because the crime isn't violent shouldn't equate to no jail time.
Just re-purpose them, prison are just inefficient use of potential work force, it not too hard to come up with any kind of public work that they will have to do, which if they refuse to comply, then you can start thinking about binding them against their will with something like prison.
That way you can save quite on the expense, has has you can leave them enough free time to also have a 2nd work to pay their bill, or you can ensure their basic need at a lower cost then prison has you don't have to pay for 24/7 security.


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BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – Thursday marked day one of the sixth annual Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships. Two relay teams and four individual members of the King Tornado swimming & diving teams competed in the first of the three-day tournament. Both teams reside in the middle of the pack of a total of 22 teams competing on both the men's and women's sides.
Senior Melissa Smith (Maryville, Tenn.) possessed the highest first-day placement, finishing second in the women's 1-meter dive with 156.70 points.
The foursome of Samantha Norman, Shirley Langford, Rachel Fuller, and Kelsey Wiese finished sixth overall in the women's 400-yard medley relay. Their time of 4:16.19 held off Milligan's 'A' team and was just seconds off the pace from a top-5 finish. Wiese turned in the third-fastest 100 yards in the race (54.85).
Rachel Fuller (North Augusta, S.C.) finished 15th in the women's 1,650-yard freestyle (19:32.27). Quenton Lyons (Louisville, Ky.) and Christopher Nochowicz (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) finished the men's 1,650 free in 11th and 13th place, respectively.
The final relay team to compete on Friday was the men's 400-meter medley relay team comprised of Reynold Thibideau, Lyons, Christian Knoblauch, and Taylor Horton. The team finished ninth overall with a 3:51.95 finish time.
Following day one's completion, the women's team rests in sixth place out of 10 with 45 points. Mars Hill College and Asbury University share a lead for fourth with 51 points. Notre Dame College currently leads the women's side with 96 points.
On the men's side, King (28) sits in ninth place just one event into the competition. They are just four points out of sixth place Urbana University (32). Notre Dame College also leads the men's side with 92 points.
Day two on Friday will begin with preliminary races opening at 9:30 a.m. inside the Stivers Aquatic and Wellness Center at host Union College. The following finals events will be held, in order: 200 free relay, 200 IM, 500 free, 100 breast, 200 back, 100 free, 200 butterfly, and 800 free relay.
Video of the championships is available by clicking here.
Information regarding the championships can be located here.


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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Student Resources
LGBTQ Services at Lehman
Lehman College is home to a diverse and engaged community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and allied students, staff, and faculty. Here students will find ways to connect with this community and get information they may need.
Lehman College Counseling Center works to foster the academic success and personal growth of LGBTQ students, and to offer college-wide services to enhance the campus community's understanding and appreciation of LGBTQ people and themselves.
LGBT Community and the Counseling Center
The Counseling Center is a safe space for anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer, or anyone who is questioning their own sexual orientation or gender identity. Students are encouraged to come in to talk with any of the Center's counselors to help with the journey of identity formation, sexuality and gender. Each semester, the Counseling Center offers support for LGBTQ students focused on the life-long journey of "coming out."
For more resources:
- Dear Trevor: an interactive online Q and A sponsored by The Trevor Project
- It Gets Better Project: videos of support by teens, adults and celebrities
Training Services Available
The Counseling Center is available to provide training and workshops on a variety of issues related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and the LGBTQ community including workshops about stigma and violence, adolescent development, and the "coming out" process. If you are looking for a speaker for a class or a club, or professional development training, contact us.
The Safe Zone Initiative: An Ally Community
The "Safe Zone" Initiative
In January 2009, the Counseling Center and the Rainbow Alliance launched a campus-wide "Safe Zone" project to increase the visibility of LGBT allies throughout the Lehman campus. People who identified themselves as LGBTQ or who are active allies of the LGBTQ community were asked to participate by attending an initial training workshop. They were then asked to wear or post the "Safe Zone" graphic and to visibly identify themselves on campus as people who are educated about sexual orientation and gender identity, and who oppose bigotry and hatred directed at LGBTQ people. Safe Zone stickers, posters, and buttons can be seen throughout the campus.
List of Safe Zone Ally Community Members
The following Lehman faculty are participants in the Safe Zone initiative:
- Norma I. Cofresí, Director, Counseling Center
- Nancy Ann Cintron, Director, Career Services
- Merrill Parra, Director, Office of Student Disability Services
- Prof. Stuart Chen-Hayes, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy, and Special Education
How To Join
It's easy to become a member of the "Safe Zone" community. Simply attend a "Safe Zone" one-hour training workshop. At the end of the workshop you will receive your Safe Zone materials to make yourself visible to the community, along with a resource guide. "Safe Zone" trainings are held each semester; workshops are offered for staff and students separately.
The training workshop ensures that all community members have a common level of basic knowledge and the tools needed to be an effective "safe" person for LGBTQ students and people who are questioning their own sexual orientation or gender identity. The training covers the following topics:
Affirming language and vocabulary for talking about sexuality and gender identity
The prevalence of homophobic harassment and what you can do to stop it
The "Coming-Out" process and how you can help
Where to find on-campus help and LGBT community resources
Safe Zone Ally trainings are offered each semester, enabling new volunteers to join the effort throughout the year.
Once training is completed, participants sign the "Safe Zone" Participant Agreement to reaffirm their commitment to making Lehman College a safe and inclusive community.
Community Based Resources/Services
In the Bronx
Bronx Community Pride Center
The Bronx Community Pride Center is committed to nurturing and empowering members of our community to enjoy and realize their full potential. We provide direct social services, cultural sensitivity trainings, community education and a home to promote the health, education, social growth and well-being of the Bronx LGBT community. Programs include support for the transgender community and programs specifically for young people.
448 East 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10455
Main Number: 718-292-4368
Health Hotline: 866-4-GAY-CARE
Fax Number: 718-292-4999
In New York City
A comprehensive and up-to-date directory of LGBT services and organizations in New York City can be accessed online at New York City Comptroller's Office.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center
The LGBT Center, or "The Center," provides over 27 different programs including free and low cost counseling, support groups, youth programming, family supports and cultural, recreational and political events. Over 300 groups meet at the Center each month.
208 West 13 Street
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-620-7310
Website: www.gaycenter.org
The Audre Lorde Project
The Audre Lorde Project (ALP) is a Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, and Transgender (LGBTST) People of Color Communities. Call for program information and schedule.
85 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 718-596-0342
Website: www.alp.org
Gay Men's Health Crisis
GMHC provides HIV/AIDS-related services including education, print and video materials, women's initiative, peer counseling services, support groups, financial advocacy, recreation and meal programs, legal services, and seminars.
119 West 24 Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
Phone: 212-367-1000
Hotline: 212-807-6655 or 800-243-7692
Website: www.gmhc.org
Identity House
Identity House provides peer counseling and therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and all other adults who are struggling with issues of sexuality, alienation, relationships and family. They also sponsor groups, workshops, and other events.
39 W. 14 St., Suite 205 (between 5th & 6th Ave.)
Phone: 212-243-8181
Website: www.identityhouse.org
Metropolitan Community Church of New York
Church of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community; holds worship services and Sunday school, offers counseling, holy unions, a food pantry and other services.
446 West 36 Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)
Phone: 212-629-7440
Website: www.mccny.org
Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center
General medical, dental, and mental health services; transgender and youth programs; STI and HIV Testing.
356 West 18th Street (between 8th & 9th Ave.)
Website: www.callen-lorde.org
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
AVP serves lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and HIV-positive victims of violence and others affected by violence, by providing therapeutic counseling and advocacy within the criminal justice system and victim support agencies, information for self-help, referrals to practicing professionals, and other sources of assistance. Services are free and confidential.
240 West 35 St., Suite 200
(between 7th & 8th Ave)
Phone: 212-714-1184
HOTLINE (24-hour): 212-714-1141
Fax: 212-714-2627
Website: www.avp.org
Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG)
P-FLAG is a national organization made up of local chapters offering peer-based support to families when a son or daughter or other family member is coming out as LGBT. For information about meetings specifically for Families of Color, with support offered in Spanish, visit their website.
P-FLAG for Families of Color and Allies in New York City meets THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH (except July) from 1-3 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13 Street, (between 7th and 8th Aves.), New York, NY 10011 (Center: Tel. 212-620-7310). For more information and culturally specific help write to us at firstname.lastname@example.com
- Anna Maria L. Thomas: Phone: 917-656-9816
- Yla Eason: Phone: 917-407-9415
- Nila Marrone: Phone: 914-787-8738
- Migdalia Santiago: Phone: 718-749-8562
FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City. We develop politically conscious leaders who are invested in improving ourselves and our communities through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. FIERCE is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression. The FIERCE office is open for drop-in hours for LGBTQ youth of color (ages 13-24) Monday through Friday from 4:00 – 8:00pm.
- Carmen Robello : Phone: 646-637-4210
- FIERCE NYC (LGBTQ Youth of Color organization)
147 West 24th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 646-336-6789
Fax: 646-336-6788
Latino LGBT Organizations in New York City
Hispanic AIDS Forum (HAF): H.A.F.'s mission is to improve health outcomes for Latinos in New York City who are affected by HIV and other chronic illnesses. HAF fulfills this mission by integrating prevention and education into a set of multi-faceted wellness programs.
Las Buenas Amigas (LBA): Las Buenas Amigas es una organización Lésbica Latina educacional, social/cultural política, y recreativa, dedicada al ideal de crear una presencia Lésbica visible, positiva en nuestra sociedad y un espacio rico y seguro en el cual abogar, discutir, informar, y tomar acción, educarnos con respecto a los temas que aféctan a nuestra comunidad (tales como la homofóbia y toda otra forma de opresión).
- Latino Commission on AIDS (La Comision Latina sobre el SIDA): Free confidential HIV testing and referrals
- MATEANDO, Comunidad de Materos (argentinos y uruguayos) Amigos en Internet.
- Pride New York. PRIDE is Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment. Our mission is to promote awareness and pride in our cultural and sexual identities, to advocate for our community on important issues, to increase our community visibility, and to provide a safe space for discussion and expression. Our ultimate goal is to empower our community.
Latino LGBT Organizations Outside New York City
- HonorPac. Empowering Latino/a LGBT Communities.
- Puerto Rico Para Todos. Puerto Rico Para Todos es una organización que lucha por la justicia social para todos los seres humanos en nuestras Islas. Nace de nuestro deseo de aportar en la creación de una sociedad para tod@s. Como misión fundamental, luchamos por la inclusión de las comunidades lésbica, gay, bisexual y transgénero (LGBT) en el proyecto social de nuestro pueblo.
- Unity Coalition/Coalición Unida is the leading Latino|Hispanic gay civil-rights initiative, offering leadershipon issues that concern LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Latino|Hispanic and other minority groups across the U.S.
African/Caribbean Americans LGBT Organizations in New York City
- Gay Men of African Descent, Inc. (GMAD) : Mission is to empower gay men of African descent through education, advocacy, health and wellness promotion and social support.
Gay and Lesbian National Hotline
Monday through Friday, from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m., and Saturdays, from 12-5 p.m. Phone numbers: 888-843-4564 or 212-989-0999.
Lifenet (counseling)
Samaritans Suicide Hotline
Phone: 212-673-3000
The Trevor Project Hotline for LGBT Youth
Phone: 866-4-U-TREVOR
Website: www.thetrevorproject.org


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The distinctive aroma is slightly sweet and prickly.
Crush the berries before using to unleash the full flavor and fragrance. Works well in marinades - especially for beef and game, and is also used in the distillation of gin.
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before vacation a girl is looking very skinny and attractive, yet she goes to florida and comes back plump like a christmas goose. this is very similar to a ballpark frank hot dog, that plumps up when you warm it up
boy 1: yikes...she was so hot in february...and look at her now in april, shes fat! what happened?
boy 2: she went to florida and learned how to eat
boy 3: that bitch ball park franked
boy 2: she went to florida and learned how to eat
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Shutterfly announced today that it has acquired cloud-based image-storing service ThisLife.
ThisLife is a lesser-known service for users who want to store photos and videos on the Web. Upon uploading videos or images to ThisLife, users can organize them into events or categories and share them with others. Shutterfly didn't say how much it acquired ThisLife for, but the company noted that the deal will enhance its own services.
According to Shutterfly, in the coming months, it will incorporate ThisLife's storage and sharing features into its own platform. Users will be able to add photos from a host of Web-based image repositories, including Facebook and Picasa, as well as their mobile devices, and keep them on Shutterfly's service. ThisLife's facial recognition and design features will be bundled into the enhanced feature.
Shutterfly has been on an acquisition spree over the last couple of years. In March 2011, the company bought popular competitor TinyPrints, and followed that up a year later with a Kodak Gallery buy. Shutterfly acquire Israeli photo software company Photoccino in May and mobile photo company Penguin Digital in September.
Shutterfly has not divulged the terms of its deal with ThisLife. It plans to share more details of the acquisition during its fourth-quarter earnings call next month.


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About Town
Sled dogs 'mush' at the library today
Sean Leach, the president of the Narragansett Bay Sled Dog Club, will bring two of his sled dogs, their sled, racing and training equipment, photographs, and enthusiasm to explain his sport. This free event for children ages to 11 will be held in the library meeting hall on Thursday, Dec. 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Registration is not required.
Pageant rehearsal is this Saturday
The costume fitting and dress rehearsal for the annual Christmas Pageant will be held this Saturday, Dec. 17, at 10 a.m. at the Community Center.
The pageant itself is set for Saturday, Dec. 24, beginning at p.m. on the lower Shoreby Hill Green. It is a living tableaux of the humble birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem.
A complete list of participants appeared in the Dec. 8 edition of the Press.
Anyone going to the pageant should bring a flashlight for safety purposes and to read the Christmas carol song sheets. There will be no pageant if it rains.
Gingerbread house workshop Tuesday
The Jamestown library is holding a Gingerbread House Workshop for children ages 7 to 11 on Tuesday, Dec. 20, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Registration is required for this free workshop, which is sponsored by the Friends of Jamestown Philomenian Library. Visit the library at 26 North Main Rd. or call 423-7280 to register.
Santa to visit the fire station next week
Santa Claus will visit the Jamestown Fire Station on Thursday, Dec. 22, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The jolly ole elf will listen to everyone's holiday wishes and pass out treats to all good little boys and girls.


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TASTING NOTES: I confess, that I made this dish a year ago (I can now appreciate my newer camera, after seeing the less than stellar quality of these). The dish was delicious, and cost a fraction of what we'd pay in a restaurant. While it took a little time to chop and prep the vegetables, plus some searing time, I could clean up the kitchen and relax while the oven finished the job for me. The meat was falling-off-the-bone tender. The sauce...oh, the sauce! So far, this is my favorite braised short-rib recipe I've made. For that reason, because our weather has been cooler and with some rain, I think a braised short rib dinner is in order-- and it's this recipe that will have an encore presentation at our dinner table.
For a while, it seems that I'll only be blogging once a week. I have so many recipes I want to share with all of you, but my work schedule doesn't allow me the time it takes to edit photos and post recipes. But, I promise, to share with you the Short Rib Soup Recipe.


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My 10 most important books(Read article summary)
Among the 10 most important books that influenced this blogger are an encyclopedia and a comic book.
Mary Knox Merrill / The Christian Science Monitor / File
What are the 10 most important books you have read in your life? (Tyler Cowen actually recommends that we list the most influential). Anyway, here are mine:
- The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers
- Leading Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr
- The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- The Mighty Avengers, Issue # 160-177
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joesph Schumpeter
- The World Book Encyclopedia
I don't have links, but here is one I highly recommend: goodreads.com. I keep a list of the books I read, with my notes, and also keep tabs on my friends.
Why these 10?
- World Book. It was this encyclopedia that taught me two terrible things that deeply affected me. First, when I was 4th grade, I learned that JFK had been assassinated. Before reading about it in the encyclopedia during library time, I believed Kennedy was still alive. He was a hero to me. It was the 1970s, more than a decade after his death, but I felt like he had been killed that very day. The second thing I learned is that Saturn is mostly liquid, which scotched my plans to be the first astronaut to walk on the planet. Saturn is still my favorite planet, so maybe I'll just have to swim there ...
- · Leading Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr. This is the substance behind "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (which is also a fine book). I read it while working on my dissertation, and can learn something new about history and development every time I crack it open.
- · The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom. This is a cheat, since I wrote this one. My team changed the methodology of measuring economic freedom and reshaped the design of the Index as well. Like they say, you don't really know a subject until you teach it. Or write a book about it.
- · Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The most insightful dystopia, and probably the most accurate prediction of modern ills (soma, especially). It has flaws, in terms of literature and economics, but Huxley towers over the other dystopians.
- · The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama. The 1989 essay, more than the book, forever shaped the way I see the world. As a cadet preparing for Cold War service and beginning to see the failure of communism (and its hollowness as an economic threat), reading Fukuyama was a thrilling validation of dangerous ideas. And he was right, and the Wall fell. Taught me to have confidence in identifying what is inevitable versus what is noise.
- · The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. This is probably my favorite SF novel, but also the one that makes me think the most about human potential and education reform.
- · The Mighty Avengers, Issue #177. Comic books were a big part of my youth, so this issue is symbolic. Avengers were my group, at a time when the FF was popular and X-men were trendy. I started following the series but had a summer break, and when I biked to the local 7-11, this culmination of a long story was sold out. It took me something like 10 years to track it down. Comics also, by the way, taught me my first economics lesson: price inflation! That's a big deal when you're on a fixed income and your only luxury triples in price over a decade.
- · Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joesph Schumpeter. I was a double-major in political science and economics at the Air Force Academy for the simple reason that neither major could satiate my curiousity about communism. Professors in each department pointed to the other when I asked questions of much depth. Fortunately, somebody decided to put me in a special readings class as the only student where I was assigned three books. It was my two degree (junior) year. That's when I met Schumpeter.
- · What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer. As a student of the presidency, this summary of the 1988 election is the best of all election books, hands down.
I was tempted to list any daily newspaper. I have to admit that the daily paper is the only thing I can remember my Grandfather reading. Every day. Every day. It's a part of my life, the precursor to the Internet.
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