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By: Kristin Park
This past summer I had the pleasure of working with Jen from Jennifer Baumann Photography on a stylized photo shoot. From our first meeting I knew that what we were about to embark on a journey that would produce something wonderful…and I couldn't have been more spot on. This shoot was nothing short of spectacular!
Recently Jen posted the photo shoot on her blog and I thought it would be fun to share some behind the scenes footage from our day at Terrain at Styers with you.
The day started with Alexis and Elaina preparing our 'bride' and 'bridesmaid' for their time in the spotlight.
Thanks to Elaina and Alexis the girls looked picture perfect!
Terrian's own designer putting the finishing touches on the tablescape.
I even had a seat at the table!
Hanging in the kitchen as the Chef prepared the salads on the adorable salad plates from BHLDN.
Jen was able to capture the natural light to showcase the beautiful watercolor invitation suite that Christina from Paper Rock Scissors created.
In true wedding photographer style…Jen brought along a 2nd and 3rd "shooter" to make sure all angles were covered!
Straight from our Pinterest inspiration board to reality…the Jadeite Cake Stand from BHLDN is perfect.
Thanks to Liz from Terrain, Jen and I scored our dream location for this photo shoot!
After several months of planning and a full day of shooting Jen and I were THRILLED with how everything came together!
Venue, food, mini desserts, tabletop florals, and tabletop design: Terrain at Styers
Models: 'Bride' – Evelyn Trotter, 'Bridesmaid' – Danielle Ashworth, 'Groom' – Paul Mayer
Photography: Jennifer Baumann Photography
Wedding Planner: The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants – Kristin Park
Dresses, Jewelry, Shoes, Salad plates, Cake stand: BHLDN
Cake: Brooklyn Girl Bakery
Stationary & Calligraphy: Paper Rock Scissors
Hair and Makeup: Alexis Noelle Makeup and Elaina Millas
Bouquets and Boutonniere: Faye & Renee
Tissue Tassel Garland: The Paper Jar
By: Rebecca Richman
I'm so excited to share this wedding on the blog, this beautiful event was the result of true teamwork. I worked with Marie and Nick long distance as they live in Singapore for work but with frequent emails and calls and a few planned trips home we were able to plan all the events amazing details with the bride and groom and their family. Thank you to all of the wedding professionals who made this incredible event happen!
Feastivities Catering
OffShoot Floral and Decor
Avi Loren Fox Photography
Monachetti Video
Bella Angel
Sid Miller Band
First Class Luxury Limos
Sagets Formal Wear
It's so great when we get comments and reviews like these from our clients.
Deborah wrote on Wedding Wire:
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service: (5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness: (5.0/5.0)
Professionalism : (5.0/5.0)
Value: (5.0/5.0)
Flexibility: (5.0/5.0)
Working with Rebecca Richman was wonderful in every way! I cannot recommend anyone more wholeheartedly than Rebecca! My daughter and I miss seeing her now that the wedding is over!!
Marie wrote on Wedding Wire:
5.0 out of 5.0
Quality of Service: (5.0/5.0)
Responsiveness: (5.0/5.0)
Professionalism: (5.0/5.0)
Value: (5.0/5.0)
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Rebecca at Queen of Hearts was Incredible! BEST wedding planner -hands down! Throughout the entire year we spent planning our wedding Rebecca was there to help us at a moment's notice! Either by phone or e-mail she responded to even the smallest details! We had nothing to worry about with Rebecca, she made sure everything was in place! We had an amazing wedding and would never had done it differently! xo Marie and Nick
Liz, mother of a recent bride wrote on our Facebook page
Eventricity and Queen of Hearts were outstanding. Kristen and Phyllis made everything perfect for our daughter`s special day. They were an absolute calming force throughout the entire process. Extremely organized, very personable and attention to detail was outstanding. All of our guests were astounded by how easily everything flowed throughout the day and night between the Church in Delaware and the Reception in Philadelphia. The wedding party felt very assured w/ her present that they knew exactly what to do and when to do it. During the planning process all of our specific ideas came to fruition without complication. They truly are an absolute must have for your wedding. With the help of these ladies, I was able to give my daughter and son in law the wedding of their dreams and know that our out of town guests were well taken care of. So much so that the moment that brought tears to my eyes was when we saw the ballroom before the guests and my daughter turned to me and cried and said "it`s everything I ever dreamed of." I can`t describe how much that meant to me! My only disappointment, is that the Big Day is over and I won`t be chatting with Kristin and Phyllis as much! Love, Liz
We're so excited to get reviews like this, our planners ROCK!
By Rebecca Richman
Huge thanks to all of the wedding professionals who made this charming backyard wedding so special.
Ceremony: Church of the Redeemer
Reception: Family home in Bryn Mawr
Sweetwater Portraits
Petals Lane
Peter Duchin Orchestra
By: Rebecca Richman
Huge thanks to all of the wedding professionals who made this beautiful day happen for Vanessa and Brian!
Please Touch Museum
Brulee Catering
Cliff Mautner Photography
Blossom Productions
Beautiful Blooms
On Q Productions
Hudson Project
Paper Rock Scissors
Four Seasons
Rittenhouse String Quartet
by Mark Kingsdorf, MBC – Founder, The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants
I NEVER thought this day would come; tomorrow my significant other, two cats and our dog all pack up for the long drive to our new home in Orlando.
14 years ago, when I started The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants in Bucks County, did one wedding my first year and was marketing by printing introductory letters one at a time on my home computer – I NEVER in my wildest dreams thought there would be a WE, never thought I would have an AMAZING team of people supporting our clients and never saw the notoriety we have earned for our attention to detail and customer service.
As our visibility grew from local planner, one of the first men planning weddings in the Philadelphia region; to a regional planning expert and on to work with The Emily Post Institute on several books, to be featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Real Simple Weddings and USA. Appearing on Style Networks 'Whose Wedding IS It Anyway?" and HGTV's Ultimate Wedding Guide.
Our team has earned numerous industry awards, awards based on client votes and reviews as well as awards for our design. All of these are humbling and truly mind blowing and we are truly blessed.
Through it all, the one HUGE piece in our love of the business has been the AMAZING relationships we have built. Not only have we had the opportunity to work with the best of the best in Philadelphia weddings; but in addition to these AMAZING wedding professionals, we have been blessed with relationships with wonderful couples and their families.
Being asked to plan weddings for multiple siblings, best friends and in at least on case an entire circle of close friends. It's a blessing for us to show up at a wedding day and have five and six bridesmaids and groomsmen whose weddings we've planned. We love seeing parents and siblings of past coup[les as guests at a current client's wedding.
The Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants will continue to build relationships and embrace those relationships we have forged over the past decade; mainly because of those relationships; our entire team will remain, several of our talented assistants are growing into roles as Wedding Day Directors and Planners – I'm so excited to see where things go in the future.
I'm blessed to know that my dear friend, talented planner and third generation decorator, Phyllis Jablonowski is leading our team. I know she and I share a similar vision and she will give Queen of Hearts the same love and care I have over the years.
All in all, The Queen of Hearts has been a blessing beyond my wildest dreams. For me, it's all about the relationships. It's ALWAYS been about the relationships. We want to work with people both couples and wedding professionals, who share the love. Who build a great working and often times personal relationship.
I'll not be far from The Queen of Hearts, the internet will keep me close as I'll still be doing some blogging with the team from time to time; and I'll remain close as a resource guiding the team and answering questions.
I can't thank you enough for trusting your weddings and friendship to me and our team. I'm truly blessed to know all of you.
Wishing you the best of Hearts, Health and Happiness.
Wedding professionals get to attend great events all the time; usually working, creating, designing, capturing amazing moments and details.
But when we party, we like to party like ROCK STARS, we love great food, we don't miss a detail, we expect great service, we love to dance, experiment with fun, creative cocktails and want to be entertained.
So, recently we got the opportunity to do just that – as a 7 time winner of the knot Best of Weddings we were asked to plan their annual "Cocktail and Connections" event for Philadelphia Wedding Professionals… this was actually our third time to be tapped for this event.
As with many things the starting point was location, location, location – we wanted someplace, interesting, fairly centrally located, with great food and great service. We wanted something new and exciting. .. Because most of us have 'seen it all'
We tapped the team at the new 'Vista at Top of the Tower', this great venue had recently undergone a transformation – knocking out walls, expanding their ballroom to expose panoramic views of the city and expand their capacity to accommodate larger weddings and events. Having done several weddings and event there we knew their amazing team, loved their food and creativity and were confident in their level of service.
Theming this fun industry event was easy, when you are in a venue with great architecture, AMAZING views and a wonder, creative chef – you take your cues from them. We invited their chef to 'get creative'; and he came up with a wonderful Latin themed menu – a journey through Filipino, South and Central American foods, wrapping up with a taste of Mexico.
So Latin it was – from the food we went to great pops of color in the linen, the flowers and décor by our team at Eventricity; designed to accent but not dominate the views of the city which were our focal point. Our partners at Eventions Productions lighting brilliantly took us from bright light, daytime accents to HUGE pops of color accenting the city skyline at night.
Throwing in some Latin music, impromptu Salsa lessons and demonstrations by Society Hill Dance Academy and a few Latin inspired cocktails and you have a party. We allowed a quieter space for guests to network and take in the views of the city, some 'mini-makeovers by Bella Angel, a fun Photobooth by Shutterbooth Philadelphia and desserts by chef Van at Van Earls Cakes and you've got a party.
Funny thing about wedding professionals; as much as we love a good party – we all need to know what everything is…so we tapped our good friends at Little Woman Designs to design menu cards and a collateral piece sharing the names and contact information of all of the professionals who made the event such as success. WE LOVE the way they mimicked the architecture of the tall narrow windows and wood tones of Top of the Tower in their design!
We all had a blast and partied like ROCKSTARS!
Special thanks to David Zaveloff of David Zaveloff Photography for capturing his event and sharing his images and to Darrell Aubert of Aubert Films for his great film trailer!
By: Rebecca Richman
I'm so excited to be sharing this Video Preview of Vanessa and Brian's wedding at the Please Touch Museum. Huge thanks to Blossom Productions for not only being so amazing to work with but also for being so kind to share this with us.
Vanessa & Brian {Wedding Film Highlights} from Blossom Productions on Vimeo.
By: Rebecca Richman
Amy and Alex were married in a white winter ceremony at the Hyatt at the Bellevue. Huge thanks to all of the wedding professionals who made this event happen! Also big thanks to Gabe from Philip Gabriel Photography for sharing these photos with us!
Hyatt at the Bellevue
Eventricity Floral Design
Eventions Lighting
Philip Gabriel Photography
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CTO Manhattan
By: Rebecca Richman
Kate and Chris's wedding video preview really captures the joy and beauty that was their wedding day. Much love and thanks to Aubert Films for doing such a fabulous job and for sharing this preview with us!


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Recalled Rich Products food at area schools
Rich Products believes the following area schools and school districts received frozen food, distributed under the Farm Rich brand, now subject to a recall because of a fear of E. coli contamination. However, none of the illnesses reported to date has come from food eaten at a school cafeteria.
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Reflections from LAC: Operators express frustration to USDA officials
Reactions to new meal pattern contain postives and negatives.
Yesterday I was in Washington, D.C., at the School Nutrition Association's LAC conference. I've been talking to operators about the new meal regs, both proposed and final, for more than a year now. Public opinion seems to flow in cycles. When the proposed regulations came out, general opinion seemed to be negative. It could have been that directors felt the burden of the rules would be too great or costly. Some expressed frustration over what they thought was a lack of input in the rules. When the final rules came out in January, there seemed to be a shift. Most of the directors I talked to said they were already well on their way to meeting all the requirements. Most seemed optimistic. Yes, there was still some frustration, but it seemed like having that time to digest the proposed rules made directors a little less hostile to the requirements.
So when I came into LAC's general session this morning I thought the upbeat mindset would be there; but I was wrong. After an overview of the new meal requirements, the session was opened up to questions and comments. Most of the people who spoke during the comments period seemed frustrated, and they directed that frustration onto the USDA officials present, Janey Thornton, USDA under secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, and Cindy Long, director, Child Nutrition Division, USDA.
Here are some of the comments:
- Several directors from California expressed concern over food-based menu planning. The directors would like for the state's SHAPE nutrient analysis to be allowed.
- Smoothies: If one cup of fruit is blended with one cup of low-fat yogurt, that blended item can not be used as components that meet the new meal pattern regulations. So the fruit in that smoothie can not be counted as the fruit component. This is because the fruit is no longer recognizable as a fruit when it is blended. Long said the goal behind the new meal pattern regs is to teach students what real foods look like.
- One director asked why there wasn't an exception for naturally occurring sodium like there is for naturally occurring trans fat. The USDA's response to that was that the sodium ranges included in the regs takes into account all sodium served, even naturally occurring sodium.
- Whole grains: If an item has water as the first listed ingredient and whole grain as second, that item is counted as a whole grain-rich item.


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Despite $1.3 billion in fourth quarter 2012 e-commerce sales, Best Buy Co. still has a ways to go to in its effort to effectively compete against retailers like Amazon Co. Inc., analysts say.
The consumer electronics and appliance retailer said today it posted $1.3 billion in e-commerce sales for the quarter ending Feb. 2, an 11.2% increase over the fourth quarter the year prior.
That suggests Best Buy's online sales in the prior-year quarter were approximately $1.17 billion. However, the retailer did not provide an online sales figure for that quarter in this release or when it reported fourth quarter financial results last March.
In the fourth quarter, Best Buy stores began matching the prices offered by competing local retailers and select online retailers. It was an effort to stem "showrooming," the practice a shopper going to a store to test out merchandise and then searches the web for a better price.
Consumers like the program, and it has improved Best Buy's credibility among consumers, Hubert Joly, president and CEO, told analysts during an earnings call this week. The impact on profit margins has been minimal so far, he said, but costs of the program may increase as it becomes permanent and covers most product categories. Best Buy announced last month that it had made the price-matching policy permanent, and expanded it to cover the prices at 19 e-commerce sites.
"We're focused on growing online as well as expanding the profitability of online," Joly said. With the goal of having similar profit margins for its online store and its bricks-and-mortar stores, Best Buy will look to improving the value and conversion rate on online transactions. Namely, the retailer will work on making it easier for consumers to buy Best Buy services online, and making better use of recommendations, he says. Best Buy offers Geek Squad computer repair services in its stores.
"Joly is certainly headed in the right direction, but the war is not going to be won on price alone," says Paula Rosenblum, an analyst at RSR Research LLC, a retail industry consulting firm. "Best Buy has to set up its customer service across all channels to rebuild its brand. In other words, you can no more beat Amazon at its own game in cyberspace than you can beat Walmart at its own game in terrestrial retailing. You have to redefine the experience," she says. "That's the long-term challenge."
But the Best Buy brand recognition, as one of the last national consumer electronics retailers, could be an asset, suggests Erik Gordon, a business and law professor at the University of Michigan.
"It's early in the e-commerce game for them, but they could be the monster in the consumer electronics category because their brand is instantly recognized, they are trusted and customers could do returns at stores," Gordon says.
Best Buy attributed the Q4 2012 online sales growth to better-than-expected results from several marketing initiatives. Online sales of tablets, mobile phones and accessories were particularly strong, Best Buy says.
That online Q4 growth was at a slower pace than the 25.4% in Q4 2011, perhaps because of a sparse selection of new products. "The downdraft was caused by the lack of product excitement, in a sector driven by excitement, not by replacement cycles or needs, coupled with a price match policy taking dollars off the top line," Gordon says.
Best Buy, which in November laid out a five-point plan to boost e-commerce sales, did not provide the amount of e-commerce sales for its 2013 fiscal year, which ended Feb. 2 and thus encompasses most of 2012. But, in the third quarter the company had $431 million in web sales. That pegs Best Buy's e-commerce sales for the last half of the year at approximately $1.73 billion.
For the year ended Feb. 2, Best Buy, No. 11 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 guide, reported:
In the 2013 fiscal year, Best Buy closed 49 stores and expects to close five to 10 this year. Best Buy also said company founder Richard Schulze submitted no offer to buy the company by the Feb. 28 deadline. He initially inquired about doing so in August.
For the fourth quarter, Best Buy reported:
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Mass. 3rd Congressional District: Niki Tsongas vs. John Golnik
Mass. 3rd Congressional District: Niki Tsongas vs. John Golnik
Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district is a two person race featuring Democrat Niki Tsongas and Republican Jon Golnik.
The new 3rd district occupies roughly the area that the old 5th district occupied.
Tsongas, a Democrat, has represented Massachusetts' 5th congressional district since winning a special election in October 2007, succeeding Marty Meehan, who resigned to become Chancellor of UMass Lowell. Congresswoman Tsongas serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Natural Resources Committee.
Jon Golnik is the Republican challenger. Golnik worked as a foreign currency trader in New York before moving to the Boston area to be closer to his fiancée. He started two small businesses in 2003.


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The Seattle Mariners' 2011 coaching staff was officially announced Friday, Nov. 5, according to The Tacoma News Tribune's Larry LaRue. Carl Willis will serve as the pitching coach, Chris Chambliss will serve as the hitting coach, Jeff Datz will be the third base coach, Jaime Navarro will serve as the bullpen coach, Robby Thompson will serve as the bench coach and Mike Brumley will be the first base coach.
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The Seattle Mariners will keep Carl Willis as their new pitching coach while adding Jaime Navarro as their new bullpen coach Thursday, Nov. 4, according to The Seattle Times' Geoff Baker.
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's John Diedrich reports former Milwaukee Brewers SP Jaime Navarro is suing his ex-wife, ex-father-in-law and others alleging they ripped him off when a house was sold during the divorce, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Milwaukee. Navarro says his former wife, Tamara Weber, duped him into selling a house in Mukwonago for hundreds of thousands of dollars below market value by using a "straw buyer." In reality, Navarro's suit says, Weber and a real estate agent, John Redel, bought the house themselves and sold it several years later for the true market value.
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USAToday.com reports Cincinnati Reds P Jaime Navarro was released from his Triple-A Louisville team.
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Reds.MLB.com's Charles Odum reports Cincinnati Reds P Jaime Navarro made his debut in Triple-A Louisville on Sunday, May 25, and allowed two runs on six hits and no walks in six innings of work. The 36-year-old right hander was signed May 5, after opening eyes in the Mexican League.
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This fresh take on salsa is so satisfying and surprising to your taste buds that guests will beg for more.
2 T. fresh lime juice
2 T. honey
1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper, seeds removed
1/4 c. roughly chopped red onion
3 ripe avocados cut into 1/4 inch pieces
1 1/4 c. fresh cranberries cut in half and drained well
3 T. fresh cilantro roughly chopped
Sea salt and pepper to taste
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When you "Live ON" at WKU, you have the unique opportunity to live in community with people from down the road and across the globe. Gain a new perspective, meet students in other academic and interest areas, and contribute to and learn from the marketplace of ideas at WKU.
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A couple weeks ago, some of Kansas City's biggest companies, its hometown university and favorite football team took the stage at KCnext's Reverse Pitch to woo entrepreneurs and startups with offers to collaborate. The year before, many of them had been on the same stage, selling their companies. This time, they were selling opportunities.
Now it's up to entrepreneurs to take advantage.
H&R Block, DST, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Sprint and the Kansas City Chiefs each pitched for 10 minutes then took questions on products and services they solicited help for from tech entrepreneurs. Some of the pitches included the Chiefs wanting a solution to improve the parking experience—and more efficiently move 22,000 cars—at Arrowhead Stadium, DST wanting to understand how to tap into the new crowdfunding possibilities for businesses in relation to their work on mutual funds and Sprint (Pinsight Media+) looking for elegant solutions to mobile advertising.
"You're getting to know exactly what it is they want," KCnext president Ryan Weber told Silicon Prairie News. "Eight have responded to the pitches already, and one meeting has already happened."
He said one of the applicants had previously worked for one of the pitch companies and had no idea it was open to working with startups.
Weber and all of the presenters expressed the same sentiments before and after the event: They want to be involved with the community and engage in productive conversations to can help both sides. After last year's event, they realized the need to focus on tangible ways entrepreneurs could work with them, rather than marketing what they do.
With that, though, they say entrepreneurs should make sure to do all they can to come prepared for meetings and opportunities. Corporations hear from entrepreneurs with ideas all the time, but it's possible to stick out from the masses.
"They need to have their story straight," Kevin McGinnis told Silicon Prairie News. "And know what the corporation is looking for. Do the due diligence."
For startups and entrepreneurs interested, the chance to respond to the pitches remains open, but Weber recommends doing so sooner than later. The companies will want to move forward quickly when an opportunity arrives.
Apply on the Reverse Pitch site and refresh your memory or watch the pitches for the first time on Ustream.


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Except for his books about writing, Gardner is mostly out of print now, though a recent memoir by his last wife (reviewed at Amazon by his first wife) and a new biography have tried to bring more attention to him. Gardner would probably find it sad that his books on writing have been tremendously influential (just in the SF world, Mary Rickert mentioned The Art of Fiction to me, and at the recent World Science Fiction Convention David Marusek brandished a copy during a panel and recommended everyone read it) while his fiction has been, for the most part, little more than a footnote to the literary history of the 1970s and early '80s (Grendel has been popular in classes that study Beowulf).
One of the best short story writers in the U.S. right now, Jeffrey Ford, studied with Gardner and was first published by him in Gardner's magazine MSS.. Readers of this site are probably more familiar with Jeff's novels and his magnificent short story collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant than with Gardner's fiction, but here is what he told Jeff VanderMeer in an interview a few years ago about his former teacher:
Gardner trashed just about everyone who was anyone, including himself, at some point. If Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole, it wasn't Gardner's fault. Gardner brought a bad rap on himself with all that Moral Fiction crapola. I never paid much attention to it and it never really came up in any discussions we had. I think he liked to stir the shit sometimes for fun, sometimes for notoriety, sometimes out of a sense of perverseness. He was, at once, a very good person and a very troubled person. His mind was spinning 24/7. If you go back and look at the writing of that period in the seventies, he was probably one of the most innovative of fiction writers. He was also writing essays, poetry, opera librettos, plays, radio dramas, you name it. I was never much for some of his more lauded works like The Sunlight Dialogues , a real brick of a novel, but I really love The King's Indian, Freddy's Book, Mickelsson's Ghosts . The last mentioned is one of the wildest fucking books in American Literature. I found its structure and story mind altering. Its style is deceptively at home, but it is really a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Above all else, Gardner was a great teacher of writing (not just my estimation but also attested to by scores of his students, including Raymond Carver). I'd take him these thirty page stories written in pencil on torn out sheets of notebook paper and slip them under his office door. Then, who knew when, sometimes late at night, once in the middle of a blizzard, he'd call me and say, "I'm reading your story." I lived in a motel across the highway from the college and I'd just drop what I was doing and go. Then he'd sit there with a pen in his hand and go through the lines of the piece one by one. He was brutal, but not without a sense of humor. By the time he'd be done, there would be about five lines left. "These are good," he'd tell me. "Write another one." Eventually he told me he wouldn't read them anymore unless I typed them up. It's got to be rare to find a writer of his caliber who would spend the amount of time he did with students. He'd spend hours going over a single story with you. So many of the things he told me about writing I didn't understand at the time but they come back to me now and I just shake my head at how true they were. He'd say weird stuff too, like "I believe that consciousness exists outside the body and it plays the physical being like an instrument." It made me wonder if everything he told me was total lunacy, but, luckily, I was dumber than a sac of shit and knew it, which allowed me to just push forward and trust him.


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Despite already being completely unveiled, reviewed, and advertised by Motorola for the last week now, we still don't know when you'll be able to buy a Moto X. Original rumors and behind closed doors conversations pointed towards a late August, early September release, but we've yet to hear anything official. According to a report out of Ad Age, that time frame is right on the money.
In a blog post on the magazine's website, the Moto X has been given a solid August 23 release date on all four major carriers in the US — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. August 23 should sound familiar at this point; that date has already been rumored thanks to an internal Verizon inventory leak. Of special note concerning the four carriers, we've heard that T-Mobile won't carry a Moto X variant in stores, so we're not sure exactly what T-Mobile getting the device on the 23 means. As for the other carriers, it will be business as usual.
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It's time to put the pedal to the metal, as you get behind the wheel of of a full size NASCAR style stock car at the Charlotte Motor Speedway! Strap on your helmet and buckle up for an adrenaline rush unlike anything you've ever experienced!
- Drive real NASCAR style stock cars- the same cars driven by NASCAR legends like Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr.
- Choose between 8, 16, 24, or 32 minutes of racing time
- Hit tops speeds of up to 150 MPH!
- No lead cars. Just you, the track, and a 2-way radio
- Take home a racing license and a certificate with your top speed!
Experience first-hand the thrill of driving a NASCAR style stock car at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
After a short classroom session where you will learn vehicle dynamics, racing lines, and safety instructions, you will head out to the track to find your 600 horsepower Sprint Cup stock car waiting.
A crew member buckles you in, checks your radio, and then it's time to start your engine! You'll hear that V8 roar as you hit speeds as fast as 150 MPH!
As your expert instructor coaches you over the radio, you will drive at your own pace, passing slower cars when you catch them.
You can choose between 8 and 32 minutes of racing, but don't be surprised if you leave wanting more!
Add a Ride Along: Select an option that includes a 3 Lap Ride Along and let a professional driver show you the full potential of these amazing racecars as he takes you on the ride of your life! The perfect addition for any Driving package!
About the Charlotte Motor Speedway
Charlotte Motor Speedway, considered the home track to many NASCAR race teams, this 1.5-mile, quad oval, asphalt track is complete with 24 degree turns and 5 degree straights. With a 1,980 foot frontstretch and a 1,500 foot backstretch, you're in for the drive of your life!
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- Participants must be a minimum of 5'0'' and 100 lbs in order to participate, and a maximum of 6'7" and 280 lbs
- Participants must be in good overall physical condition
- A valid driver's license is required
- Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent of legal guardian who must sign a consent form
- Vehicles are manual transmission (stick shift), however the crew is happy to assist you if you need a little help
- Pricing includes a $39 drivers fee that covers accidental insurance coverage, souvenir racing license and ear buds
- Photos and video packages are available for purchase at the track
- Feel free to bring snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
- Some seating is provided, however, it is recommended to bring lawn chairs to guarantee a seat for any spectators
DurationPlan on being at the track for approximately 3 hours.
Maximum Participants1 driver per car with 3-4 cars on track at a time.
SpectatorsYes, we encourage you to bring family and friends, and don't forget the cameras!
Weather DependentIf we have inclement weather and have to cancel, you may either reschedule for another available date or be issued a gift card that you can use to reschedule at your convenience. A refund will not be issued due to rainouts.
What To WearComfortable, casual clothes depending on the time of year as your clothing will be worn under a driving suit. Wear closed toe shoes, tennis shoes are recommended.
Booking InformationFor this experience we recommend booking at least 30 days in advance.
Cancellation PolicyPrior to scheduling/booking a date for this experience, Cloud 9 Living's standard return and exchange policy shall apply. Once you have scheduled a date and received a booking confirmation all bookings are final. No refunds or exchanges are allowed once you have scheduled a date. If you need to reschedule, you have up until 30 days prior to your reservation to make changes for a $50 administrative fee. Once you are within 30 days of the event, you are then locked in to that date and time and no changes can be made.
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What is the age requirement?
Participants must have a valid driver's license and participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who must sign a written consent form.
Are there any physical requirements or restrictions?
Participants must be a minimum of 5'0'' and 100 pounds in order to participate, a maximum of 6'7" and 280 lbs, and must also be in good overall physical condition. Participants will be required to climb through a 15'' x 30'' window, that sits 36'' off the ground (with minimal assistance).
Do I have to know how to drive a stick shift?
Yes, the cars you will be driving have a 4-speed racing transmission. However, if you need a little help getting going the professionals at the track will be glad to assist you.
Do I need a driver's license?
Yes, driving participants must have a valid (legal and not expired), government-issued driver's license (from any country).
Do I need to bring my own racing gear?
No, the racing school will provide you with racing gear, including a driving suit and helmet. If you have your own gear that you would like to use, you are welcome to bring it for possible use, but it will be subject to inspection and approval for use by the Track Operator. Gear will be available for you at the track, should you not be approved to use your own.
Can I choose which racecar I drive?
No, unfortunately the racing school cannot guarantee which exact cars will be at the track on a given date, nor can they promise the specific car a participant will be assigned to for his/her drive. Each participant is assigned to a car with careful consideration, based on individual height and weight.
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The price includes a $35 fee for racing license and liability insurance. This releases you from all vehicle damage.
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Yes, if you come up on a slower race car, track personnel will assist you around the slower portion(s) of the group, using techniques and instructions covered in your pre-drive orientation session.
What does the typical day look like?
Following a 1-hour pre-drive orientation/training session with the racing school's Crew Chief and professional instructors, you'll drive a real Sprint Cup style stock car on a speedway for a timed session. Total drive-time will depend on the program purchased. For this experience, there is no lead car utilized and and no instructor in the car with you! You will have constant, 2-way communication with a professional racing instructor through a state-of-the-art, in-car racing electronics radio system. Upon completion, you'll receive a full-color, Graduate Certificate with your top speed proudly displayed on it.
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If your experience is canceled due to inclement weather, the driving school will contact you and either immediately reschedule you for another available date, or issue you a gift card valid for 1 year. A refund will not be issued due to rain-outs.
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Specialties Journal Ad Review: Feeling the Pinch
Only three of eight specialty markets audited by PERQ/HCI's Journal Ad Review registered higher ad expenditures during 2007. Reporting gains were laboratory (+8.4%), ophthalmology (+0.2%) and optometry (+0.2%). Those with lower ad spending when compared to 2006 include radiology and pharmacy. Smaller losses were reported by hospital management, nursing and dental.
When measured on an ad page basis (Fig. 1), only one market, laboratory, reported an increase (+8.1%). Losses for the seven markets in decline ranged from -14.6% (radiology) to -1.1% (nursing). Overall, the eight specialty markets reported on here were down 3.4% on an ad page basis and -1.2% on a dollar basis.
Ophthalmology advertising has marginal gain
Ad spending in ophthalmology journals grew by just 0.2% during 2007. This marginal gain follows a very strong 17% increase in 2006.
Alcon Laboratories, which increased ad spending by 13%, repeated in first place, while Allergan retained the number two spot even though ad outlays were reduced by 10%. Advanced Medical Optics moved up from 4th to 3rd due largely to higher ad expenditures for their Advanced CustomVue Procedure, Bausch & Lomb slipped from 3rd to 4th following a 28% cut in ad outlays and Genentech advanced from 6th to 5th following a 50% boost in spending.
Pfizer Ophthalmics moved up from 8th to 6th due largely to higher ad outlays for Xalatan Solution. Santen and Vistakon Pharmaceuticals climbed from 11th to 7th due largely to the launch of Iquix, an ocular anti-infective medication, while Ista Pharmaceuticals fell from 5th to 8th following an ad spending cut of 41%. Bausch & Lomb stayed in 9th, while Optimedica moved from 12th to 10th as expenditures were increased for PASCAL Method of Photocoagulation.
Genentech's Lucentis Injection is now the most heavily advertised product with a 4% share of all ad outlays in this segment. Alcon's Travatan Z jumped from 23rd to 2nd, while Pfizer Ophthalmics' Xalatan Solution moved up from 7th to 3rd following a 36% boost in spending. Allergan's Lumigan dropped from 2nd to 4th as ad outlays fells by 22% and Alcon's Vigamox slipped from 4th to 5th even though ad spending was up by 7%.
Restasis, up from 11th to 6th, and Alphagan P, down from 1st to 7th, were two more Allergan products that made the top 10 list. Alcon products took the next three spots. Ad spending on Nevanac, for eye pain and inflammation resulting from cataract surgery, slipped from 6th to 8th, the newly advertised Infiniti Ozil Torsional Handpiece was 9th and the AcrySof Toric Single-Piece IOL climbed from 29th to 10th as outlays increased by 77%.
Pharmacy journals turn negative
After reporting a gain of 8.6% in 2006, ad spending in pharmacy journals registered a loss of 4.5% during full year 2007.
Pfizer retained the number one spot in this market segment even though ad expenditures were reduced by 3%. Moving up from 32nd to 2nd following a major boost in ad spending for Invega was Janssen Pharmaceutica, while AstraZeneca climbed from 15th to 3rd due largely to the launch of Symbicort. Wyeth slipped from 2nd to 4th following a 34% reduction in ad expenditures, while Novo Nordisk advanced from 11th to 5th on a 26% increase in ad outlays.
GlaxoSmithKline fell from 4th to 6th as ad spending was reduced by 18%, while Sandoz moved up from 9th to 7th as expenditures increased by 7%. Schering-Plough, new to 2007's top 10, climbed from 102nd to 8th due largely to higher ad outlays for Noxafil and the over-the-counter launch of Miralax. Teva dropped from 3rd to 9th, while Takeda advanced from 34th to 10th due to higher ad spending for a number of products including Duetact and Actos Plus Met.
Three newly advertised products that made the top 10 list include Janssen's new schizophrenia medication, Invega (1st), AstraZeneca's Symbicort (2nd) and Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka's Abilify (5th). A 200% boost in spending moved Forest's Lexapro from 39th to 3rd and a 104% spending increase advanced Pfizer's Exubera Insulin Inhalation Powder from 20th to 4th.
New to the top 10 are the NovoLog FlexPen, up from 11th to 6th and Schering-Plough's Noxafil. Repeating products include a Mylan Pharma Co. Ad, down from 6th to 7th, Wyeth's Tygacil, down from 5th to 9th following a budget cut of 25%, and Abbott's Humira, down from 4th to 11th as spending was cut by 47%.
Optometry advertising turns positive
After reporting a loss of 2.8% during 2006, ad spending in optometry journals registered a marginal gain of 0.2% during 2007.
Once again, Alcon Laboratories was the heaviest advertiser in optometry journals even though spending was cut by 5%. Allergan moved up from 6th to 2nd as ad outlays were increased by 80% for a number of products including Restasis, Optive Lubricant Eye Drops, Allergan Dry Eye Products and Lumigan. The Essilor Group moved up from 4th to 3rd even though ad outlays were reduced by 7%, Bausch & Lomb slipped from 3rd to 4th and Marchon Eyeware repeated in 5th place.
Hoya Corporation, a supplier of advanced optical materials and components, jumped from 50th to 6th as ad expenditures were increased by 308% on a number of their products that compete in this segment. Other advertisers in the top 10 that increased ad outlays include the Luxottica Group, up from 9th to 7th and Shamir Insight, unchanged in 10th place. Conversely, lower ad expenditures resulted in CIBA Vision moving from 2nd to 8th and Carl Zeiss Vision from 7th to 9th.
Three of the most heavily advertised products in optometry journals are from Alcon. They are Opti-Free Replenish Multi-Purpose Solution, which retained the top spot, Travatan Z, up from 68th to 2nd on a 238% boost in spend and the Tobradex Family of Products, up from 96th to 9th. Also in the top 10 were Allergan products, Restasis, up from 17th to 3rd with a 67% increase in ad spend, and Optive Lubricant Eye Drops (8th).
Other products new to the top group include Bausch & Lomb's Zylet, up from 24th to 4th, Pfizer's Xalatan, up from 12th to 5th, and Drivewear Eyewear from Younger Optics, up from 97th to 10th. Vision Expo slipped from 2nd to 6th following a 23% cut in ad outlays, while a new entry from Seiko, Succeed Internal Free-Form Lens, was 7th.
The other specialties
The 6.4% increase reported by radiology journals during 2006 was followed by a 9.6% loss in ad expenditures in 2007. Siemens Medical Systems, up from 2nd to 1st, even as spending was cut by 16%, edged out GE Healthcare which slipped from 1st to 2nd following a 47% reduction in ad outlays. During 2007, ad spending in dental journals had a marginal loss of 0.1%. In the year-ago period, this segment grew by 1.3%. 3M ESPE, which boosted ad spending by 47% to support a number of new products, repeated as the top advertiser in dental journals during 2007. Invoclar Vivadent moved up from 3rd to 2nd following a 6% increase in ad outlays. After registering a 6.9% loss during 2006, ad spending in hospital management journals declined by 0.7% in 2007. Siemens Medical Systems moved up from 2nd to 1st due in large part to ad support for newly advertised products, Medical Solutions Diagnostics and UpTime Service. Premier Inc. moved up from 3rd to 2nd. During 2007, ad spending in laboratory journals grew by 8.4% when compared to the year-ago period. This gain follows a 3.9% increase in 2006. Roche Diagnostics repeated in the number one spot even though ad outlays decreased by 19%. Bio-Rad advanced from 3rd to 2nd with spending increases of 11%. After recording a 4.4% increase during 2006, ad expenditures in nursing journals declined by 0.3% during 2007. The top 10 advertisers in this market tend to focus on recruitment. The two exceptions were Nurses Services Organization, which repeated in 2nd place even though ad expenditures were down by 26% and Pfizer, which moved up from 9th to 7th as ad outlays increased by 16%.
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PAU, France (AP) — Luxembourg rider Frank Schleck denied taking any banned substance despite testing positive for a forbidden diuretic at the Tour de France, suggesting instead he may have been poisoned.
The RadioShack Nissan Trek team leader said he "formally rejects" having taken any banned substance and requested the B sample to be tested.
"If this analysis confirms the first result, a complaint will be filed against an unspecified person for poisoning," the rider said in a statement on Wednesday.
A RadioShack spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the statement to The Associated Press. The team pulled Schleck from the Tour on Tuesday after the positive test, and said he would be suspended if the backup sample comes back positive.
He's the older brother of Andy Schleck, the 2010 Tour champion who didn't enter this year because of a spinal injury. Frank was third last year.
"We have faith in Frank, but we can't explain," said RadioShack spokesman Philippe Maertens.
Cycling's governing body the UCI said Schleck tested positive for the banned diuretic Xipamide on Saturday. Schleck was in 12th place overall, 9 minutes, 45 seconds behind leader Bradley Wiggins on Tuesday, a rest day on the Tour.
The diuretic is classified as a specified substance and does not require a provisional suspension. The World Anti-Doping Agency defines "specified substances" like Xipamide as those that are "more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation."
Bans for such substances are often shorter, and athletes have a better chance of proving that they did not intend to consume it or enhance their performance.
Athletes who dope often take diuretics like Xipamide to mask other banned performance-enhancing drugs, or as a supplement for weight loss, according to the "Dictionary of Doping" by Jean-Pierre de Mondenard, a French expert.
The Katusha team yanked Russian rider Alexandr Kolobnev from the Tour last year after he tested positive for the diuretic Hydrochlorothiazide. However, the Court for Arbitration in Sportruled this year that the positive test was "justified by medical reasons totally unrelated tosport performance."
American rider Chris Horner defended his RadioShack teammate, saying he was convinced of Schleck's innocence.
"It's questionable on where that particular drug could come from," Horner said. "I don't believe that Frank took it on purpose, that's for certain. Let me say something different — I don't believe he knowingly took it, so I think he will be back with the team as soon as he can clear this up."
RadioShack sports director Alain Gallopin said Schleck's withdrawal from the race will allow the rest of the team to focus on the race and reach Paris, where the Tour ends Sunday.
"Frank needs time to organize his defense," Gallopin said ahead of the start of the 16th stage between Pau and Bagneres-de-Luchon.
"He was really down, as the rest of us. Now we need to move forward. My job as sports director is to motivate my riders by making them keep Frank in their thoughts," Gallopin said.
German veteran Jens Voigt, who is riding in his last Tour, said Schleck apologized to his teammates but was unable to give them an explanation for his positive test.
"We were shocked and surprised," Voigt said. "There was a moment of silence and we have been left trying to digest the news and to start thinking about what it means, the consequences it has or could have, and how we keep going in this situation.
"He said, 'I'm sorry, I don't understand, but I wish you all the best until Paris,'" Voigt said.
Under UCI rules Schleck could have raced on Wednesday, Tour chief Christian Prudhomme said before riders headed into the Pyrenees.
It was better he decided not to, he added in a brief statement.
"It is a wise decision, and for that matter, the only one imaginable," Prudhomme said.
Andy Schleck was awarded the 2010 Tour title after Alberto Contador was stripped of the win because he had tested positive for clenbuterol.
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Hammond, who found fame as a contestant on Big Brother when she took part in 2002, shared her news with viewers of ITV's This Morning during the show today.
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OK, so our blog probably won't end up in a Jeopardy question (answer?), but it is guaranteed good eatin'.
Let's kick it off the right way, too. None of this ninnying about, wasting time introducing ourselves and our mission statement. (If that's what you're looking for, I have no choice but to send you here. Sorry.) Let's get down to business instead:
Before you go hacking away at newspapers, curtains, blocks of cheese, aunty's Burberry coat or whatever else you've got lying around, allow me to be more specific.
I've been a fan of audio collage, cut-ups, mash-ups, plunderphonics, and the oft-related "breakcore" when I started hearing the stuff on WXYC-FM while in high school. Ah, those fond memories of bumping along in my Ford Taurus '88 Station wagon with the speakers at full blast tuned to XYC, who heroically pumped out Evolution Control Committee's then-new "Rocked By Rape" at a mighty 400 watts every few hours. Dan Rather's chopped-up voice spoke to me like a prophet.
Inspired by the genre's irreverence, frequent humor, and, quite honestly, its profound abandonment of ettiquette, I've been going chop-chop-chop ever since. No one and nothing is safe.
Why don't you join me? If you're one of us who likes to chop up audio files or, erm, creatively take music, noises, and other things out of context, send me your stuff (only send .mp3 files less than 2 min. and .wav files less than 10 sec.)and I'll put the cream of the crop and the cream of the crap up here in later posts. Probably on my radio show. MAYBE on the Thursday Night Feature one week this coming winter.
Don't know what I'm talking about? I did this yesterday as an example (not appropriate for work, small children, and operators of heavy machinery). Also, read and you shall learn:
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Valuable introductions to a valuable art form.The creative restructuring of cultural items, images, and sounds is a longstanding practice (e.g., "Dada" isn't just something you sing in a Volkswagen commercial). Collage, as a medium, has the immense power both to force relationships upon its subjects and to let the viewer/listener/experiencer/audience form his/her/their own. And with great power, comes great irresponsibility. And the potential for monkey noises, distorted beats, presidential speeches, and movie dialogue to show up in the mix.
Together, we can turn this wasteland into a cut-and-pasteland.
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Boy that was some party we had here last month. It took me all week to recuperate! However, no longer can I ignore the fact that November has its share of monthly celebrations too. Take National Bread Month for example. Can you think of a better month to celebrate bread? Me either. As a matter of fact, as many of you know, I'm not much of a baker. But, I was thinking. Since I have already said a number of times that I was going to try my hand at baking bread, perhaps, (and that's a huge maybe:) November 2011 may just be that time. We'll see:)
A Grain of Wheat...
...from Tummy Tingles! Remember that cutie? Yep, it's the same book I shared for Gingerbread Day way back in June. How many of you tried that Fairy Gingerbread Recipe? (that should be a direct link to the image of the recipe) No one. Uh oh, it's that time of year you know. As a matter of fact, there are those who believe Gingerbread Day to be the day following Thanksgiving. I'm still trying to confirm that...
Tummy Tingles ©1937 is not the only wheat book published by Ms. Beardsley, she also authored a booklet tiled From Wheat to Flour the same year. I found a copy of her other booklet available online for reading at the Digital Book Index. Below is a "slice" of From Wheat to Flour.
|It seems strange that anything as small as a grain of wheat could alter the course of history, yet nothing that man ever discovered has been of more importance to him than this tiny bit of food- stuff. Who first introduced wheat into the human diet will never be known, for he lived thousands of years before recorded history.
Probably the first people who used wheat as a food simply chewed the grain, making what farm children today call wheat gum. Of course, we know now that the kernel of the wheat berry, freed of its hard outer covering, or bran, can be ground to a fine white flour and from it, a delicious food, bread, can be made, but man was a long time learning this.
We do not know just how bread first came to be made. About twenty thousand years ago, in the Stone Age, people were making a coarse flour by crushing wheat on a slightly hollowed rock with a small stone held in the hand. Moistened with water, patted into little cakes, and baked in the sun, or on a heated stone, this coarse meal gave Early Man a bread stuff which he found satisfying and strengthening. He found, too, that wheat could be kept for a long time without spoiling. By gathering it when it ripened in summer, he could store it in skins, hollow trees, or other dry places and eat it when food was scarce.
This single fact caused man's history to take a new and important turn. Since he was no longer obliged to wander from one region to another in search of food when the seasons changed, Early Man stayed the year around near the wild wheat fields. In time, he learned that the wheat plant, bearing many seeds, grew from one seed. Early Man was not a quick thinker, but once he realized that many seeds could be gained by putting one in the ground, farming or agriculture, as we sometimes call it began...online version con't
There once was a time when a homemaker's reputation depended, in good measure, on her ability to produce a good loaf of bread. Here's a rhyming 1903 recipe designed to help the new housewife meet with success by way of...you guessed it, Nebraska!
|"When a well-bred girl expects to wed, 'tis well to remember that men like bread. We're going to show the steps to take, so she may learn good bread to bake. First, mix a lukewarm quart, my daughter, one-half o milk and one-half of water; to this please add two cakes of yeast, or the liquid kind if preferred in the least.
"Next stir in a teaspoonful of nice clear salt, if this bread isn't good, it won't be our fault. Now add the sugar, tablespoons three; mix well together, for dissolved they must be. Pour the whole mixture into an earthen bowl, a pan's just as good, if it hasn't a hole. It's the cook and the flour, not the bowl or the pan, that 'makes the bread that makes the man.'
"Now let the mixture stand a minute or two, you've other things of great importance to do. First sift the flour use, the finest in the land. Three quarts is the measure, 'Gold Medal' the brand. Next stir the flour into the mixture that's stood, waiting to play its part, to make the bread good. Mix it up thoroughly, but not too thick; some flours make bread that's more like a brick.
"Now grease well a bowl and put the dough in, don't fill the bowl full, that would be a sin' for the dough is all right and it's going to rise, till you will declare that it's twice its size. Brush the dough with melted butter, as the recipes say; cover with a bread towel, set in a warm place to stay two hours or more, to rise until light, when you see it grow, you'll know it's all right.
"As soon as it's light place again on a board; knead it well this time. Here is knowledge to hoard. Now back in the bowl once more it must go, and set again to rise for an hour or so. Form the dough gently into loaves when light, and place it in bread pans greased just right. Shape each loaf you make to half fill the pan, this bread will be good enough for any young man.
"Next let it rise to the level of pans--no more, have temperature right, don't set near a door. We must be careful about draughts; it isn't made to freeze, keep the room good and warm--say seventy-two degrees. Now put in the oven--it's ready to bake--keep uniform fire, great results are at stake. One hour more of waiting and you'll be repaid, by bread that is worthy 'a well bred maid."
A Few CrumbsThe second week of November kicks of National Split Pea Soup Week.
Tomorrow, November 6, is National Nachos Day or I Love Nachos Day. It isn't, however, International Day of the Nacho, that was back in October on the 21st!
The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich measured 40 feet long. It contained 150 pounds of peanut butter and 50 pounds of jelly. It was created November 6, 1993 in Peanut, Pennsylvania. Peanut Butter Fun Facts from Skippy:)Hoo...Hoo...who doesn't luv Poppin' Fresh! He made his TV debut on November 7, 1965 and I blogged about it, right here.
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The news rendered hardcore fans speechless. Some wiped away tears.
Regis Philbin, the 28-year TV stalwart, is leaving the show Regis and Kelly. After hosting with Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa for multiple generations' worth of viewers, Reege is going to step down from "Live with Regis and Kelly" later this year, though no date has been specified.
"There is a time. Everything must come to an end for certain people on camera — for certain old people," said the effervescent 79-year old.
If Anderson Cooper didn't already have a syndicated talk show in the works, he might have been a candidate to succeed Regis.
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Extending over the pathway of the High Line are the delicate red branches of Salix chaenomeloides, or Giant Pussy Willow, with fuzzy silver blooms just emerging. Each individual bloom is actually a cluster of tiny flowers called a "catkin." On the Giant Pussy Willow, these catkins will grow up to two inches in length, bearing resemblance to a rabbit's foot, before finally losing their fuzz later in spring as the flowers mature.
The name "Pussy Willow" comes from an old Polish legend that goes like this: a mother cat's kittens fell into the river while playing along the shore and a willow next to the river swept its long branches into the water to scoop up and save the tiny kittens. Since then, according to the legend, the Pussy Willow's branches have sprouted tiny fuzzy buds where the kittens once clung.
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Fantasy Tip: As DiComo notes, Syndergaard, the club's top pitching prospect, is expected to follow a similar path to the bigs that Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler had, which would put his arrival in New York around sometime in June. That would keep Syndergaard from achieving Super 2 arbitration status. He should be firmly on the radar of those in NL-only and keeper leagues.
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The San Diego Padres optioned 1B Matt Clark to Triple-A Tucson Monday, April 2. He hit .419 with four home runs and 13 RBIs in 45 spring at-bats. The team also optioned Ps Joseph Wieland, Casey Kelly and Jeff Suppan (triceps) to Tucson. Suppan may begin on the disabled list with a right triceps strain.
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San Diego Padres OF Kyle Blanks (elbow) will be promoted to Triple-A Tucson after the team recalled 1B Anthony Rizzo to the majors. Blanks will platoon with 1B Matt Clark at first base and will also continue playing left field. The team plans to have Blanks play more in left field as his elbow gets stronger.
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After decades of myth making and endless accounts from foes and even friends about his duplicity and brutality, on Wednesday, finally, James "Whitey" Bulger sat before judge and jury as his own version of the truth was presented by his lawyer, an unusual defense that included stark admissions of guilt.
"He was involved in drug dealing," his lawyer, J.W. Carney Jr., matter of factly told jurors during opening statements at the long-awaited trial in US District Court, exploding Bulger's long-held assertion that he kept cocaine and marijuana from his home turf of South Boston. And, yes, Carney told them, he was involved in illegal sports betting and loansharking.
"That's what he did," said Carney, conceding that Bulger ran "an unbelievably lucrative criminal enterprise" in Boston that raked in millions upon millions of dollars.
But, Bulger, who is charged with participating in 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s, denied being an informant and did not admit to killing anyone. He specifically denied strangling two young women or orchestrating the slayings of two businessmen in the death penalty states of Florida and Oklahoma.
The prosecution painted a very different picture. It described Bulger as a remorseless "hands-on killer," who left others to bury his victims while he took a nap and terrorized an entire city while using the protection of corrupt FBI agents.
"He did the dirty work himself," Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly told jurors, describing how a heavily armed Bulger allegedly lurked over his victims before ending their lives with a bullet to the back of the head or by choking them. Many of the victims were slain while Bulger was "one of the biggest informants in Boston," Kelly said.
The prosecutor named each of the 19 victims as their photographs appeared one by one on television screens in the courtroom.
Kelly also revealed that witnesses will testify that Bulger, who is accused of demanding tribute from drug dealers, personally negotiated a deal with a drug supplier, then parceled out 50 pounds of cocaine for distribution.
It was a remarkable day, the beginning of a trial that many thought would never happen as Bulger remained an elusive figure for more than 16 years until his capture two years ago in Santa Monica, Calif. Since then, he has made occasional trips to the hospital for a heart ailment and filed a flurry of motions seeking to delay his trial.
The opening statements came on the 38th anniversary of the slaying of one of Bulger's alleged victims, Edward Connors, who was gunned down in a Dorchester phone booth. His daughter, Karen Smith, said it was "calming" to know the case is finally moving forward. The trial is expected to last through September.
The courtroom was jammed with relatives of some of his alleged victims, law enforcement officials, reporters, and the public. The only vacant seats were in a front row reserved for Bulger's family, where his youngest brother, John, sat alone for most of the morning. Later, he was joined by one of Bulger's nieces and a lawyer.
Bulger, dressed in jeans, a long-sleeved green jersey, and sneakers, stared ahead during most of the proceedings before US District Judge Denise J. Casper.
Bulger's relationship with the FBI will be a major theme at the trial. Bulger paid FBI agents and other law enforcement officials for information about wiretaps, bugs, and advance notice of police searches, Carney told jurors.
Former agent John J. Connolly Jr. routinely leaked information to Bulger in exchange for payoffs of as much as $50,000 on one occasion, then falsely classified Bulger as an informant and filled his file with false reports, Carney said.
"The reason Connolly created the file was just to cover up the fact that he was being seen with Bulger so often, that he was meeting with him when Bulger would be providing money," Carney told jurors. He said Connolly, who grew up in the same South Boston housing development as Bulger, was greedy and used Bulger to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Carney said that Bulger had not provided Connolly with any valuable information and that some of the information in his file had actually come from Bulger's longtime sidekick, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, a longtime informant.
Connolly was described by Carney as "a rock star" in the FBI's Boston office, who won raises and bonuses because of his ability to recruit informants in an era when decimating the Mafia was a national mandate for the FBI.
Carney, referencing Bulger's Irish descent, insisted "the worst thing that an Irish person could consider doing was becoming an informant because of the history of The Troubles in Ireland."
Connolly is serving a 40-year prison term in Florida for leaking information to Bulger and Flemmi that jurors found led to the 1982 slaying of John Callahan, a Boston businessman. Connolly was previously convicted of warning Bulger to flee in advance of his 1995 indictment.
As for the fugitive years, when Bulger was one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, Carney said Bulger was not hiding, but rather "living openly in plain sight" until his arrest.
Carney urged jurors not to believe Bulger's former close associates, who will testify for the government, including: Kevin Weeks, who served five years in prison for being an accessory to five murders; John Martorano, who served 12 years in prison for 20 murders; and Flemmi, who is serving a life sentence for 10 murders.
Carney portrayed Martorano and Flemmi as violent psychopaths and told jurors that Flemmi killed two women, Debra Davis and Deborah Hussey, then blamed Bulger for the slayings. And he said Martorano and Flemmi were trying to frame Bulger for the 1981 slaying of Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler in Oklahoma and Callahan in Florida a year later.
Carney said Bulger was making millions of dollars from his crimes, while protected by law enforcement officials on his payroll, and had "no reason to go out of his comfort zone" and kill someone in Florida.
Stephen Rakes, whose South Boston liquor store was allegedly extorted from him by Bulger and his associates in 1984, sat with the families of many of Bulger's alleged victims.
"Thirty years ago I'd never look at him, and now I can't wait to look him right in the eyes," Rakes said. "Now his day has come. It took a long time, but the theory is good will triumph over evil and that's why we're all here today. Let's put an end to this craziness."Brian Ballou and Milton J. Valencia of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Shelley Murphy can be reached at email@example.com. Follow them on Twitter @shelleymurph;
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The latest in the Kidz Bop audio series, Kidz Bop 22, landed a spot on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, ranking No. 3. The album is also No. 1. on Billboard's Children's Chart. The Kidz Bop Kids, the faces and voices behind the Kidz Bop brand, will embark on a 22-city national "It's All About Music Tour." The tour will feature 11-year-old music sensation Ethan Bortnick.
Timed to coincide with the release of Kidz Bop 22 and the national tour, Kidz Bop and Imperial Toy will debut a new line of pop star role play toys. The line will feature musical microphones, keyboards, and fashion accessories.
The tour kicked off Friday, July 27 in Pittsburgh and runs through September 2. Tickets are on sale now, and tour information is available at Kidzbop.com. The toys will be available in August from Toys "R" Us and other major retailers.
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