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Alex Kipman, a 2001 graduate of RIT's B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences – now an executive with Microsoft – delivered the keynote address at RIT's 128th convocation, the opening event of the 2013 commencement weekend. Below is the full text of his speech:
"President Destler, Board of Trustees, and beautiful people of all kinds… let me first and above all, congratulate the graduates, their families and their friends, thank the faculty, administration and staff for tending, feeding and protecting the graduates during this amazing journey, and finally let me express how deeply honored, humbled and thankful I am to be back here today, 12 years after graduating from this amazing family called RIT.
"Welcome to graduation! Class of 2013, you have arrived!
"What an amazing, once in a lifetime event! Feeling the gravitas of the moment yet? Class of 2013, today you represent humanity at its very best. Let's together wallow in that concept.
"Every single graduating student has the indelible right to make a dream into reality. Graduation, like many other life events, is the process of turning a page and opening a brand-new chapter. In every case, the new chapter has a probability to yield the next profound revolution in knowledge and life as we know it.
"How can anyone feel prepared for the infinite probabilities that ensue, where there is no means of testing which decision is better, since there is no basis for comparison? I can only attempt to answer that question, with a quote from the great master Michelangelo, who said: 'The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.'
"Class of 2013, please do not fall into the trap of only committing to what's predictable. One of the things we are too often measured on is success. Sometimes this is exclusively what we are measured on. Instead, measure yourself by your failures. If you are not failing, and if you are not failing often, you are not trying hard enough. Think of failure as a stepping stone to ever greater success in life. Failure is not an end, but rather it is a bridge to future success. Resilience, and the ability to quickly rebound from failures renews you, and makes you more balanced, more creative and ultimately leads you to a more fulfilling life.
"Do not let fear hold you back. Fear of failure, fear of ridicule, fear of not knowing. When you want to accomplish something disruptive, you have to take risks. Revolutions in knowledge and life as we know it require this. I would not be here today without taking risks. I would not be here today without having failed, without being ridiculed, without spending the majority of my life dealing with the unknown.
"Graduates, you represent humanity at its very best. Defy the impossible and refuse to fear failure. Imagine what you could accomplish, if you knew failure didn't matter? Graduates, the world needs you to not be boring.
"Welcome to the rest of your life! Class of 2013, you have arrived!
"How does it feel to be free?
"Today, you are not only free, but most importantly you are free to achieve and free to find purpose!! Freedom, however, is only part of the story and half of the truth. In the Ying and Yang of life, FREEDOM is the Ying whose Yang is RESPONSIBILITY.
"Graduates, it is your responsibility to search for meaning and this should be your primary motivation in life. Without meaning, life will feel empty and with that emptiness comes aggression, addiction and depression.
"In the words of Heroes: 'Save the cheerleader… save the world!' Said differently, to save one life is to save the entirety of humankind. This starts with you and your life. You have been given rare gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You would not be here today without these, recognize how special that makes you. Do not take these gifts for granted, and do not allow yourself to one day say life was not interesting. Class of 2013, the world expects you to do a lot better than that, which brings me to the interactive part of this conversation. Are we ready?!
"Beautiful people of all ages, clear your thoughts. Now, search for the happiest moment in your life.
"Hold on to that moment. Is that magic moment in the first or second half of your life? If it's ever in the first half, you run the risk of one day looking back in regret. Half-life is a concept typically used to describe radioactive decay, but it also applies to life. Imagine being 60 years old and the happiest moment of your life happened before you were 30. Imagine being part of the graduating class of 2013 and that moment happened before you were 11. Ask this question to the next 10-year-old you see, and I guarantee you their happiest moment won't be before they were 5.
"Life is constantly knocking on your door asking for meaning. We are all born pre-disposed to live life to the fullest. Enriching and fulfilling experiences surround us. Do not let the machinery of modern society cloud your vision. Do not allow consumerism, corporations or societal dogma get in the way. his is all noise!! You need to focus on the signal in life.
"If your happiest moment ever falls in the first half of your life, ask yourself if you have given up doing what you love? You must slowly, but relentlessly, wipe from your psyche every trace of the alluring, but insupportable past, and build a new set of dreams and behaviors on a more present basis. A basis that is not supported by money alone, but places a higher priority on a healthy body that is allowed to exist without the stress and threats of today's society. Do you still have a heartbeat? If so you can still do something about it. It's time to re-establish these eternal values.
"We don't simply exist, instead we decide what our existence will be. Quantum physics teaches us that infinite probabilities exist at any point in time, and through the process of measuring we destroy all options and we create the present. In other words, humans are ultimately self-determining. You, and you alone, get to decide, from moment of time to moment of time, what you will become in the next moment. By the same philosophy, all of us, at any instant, have the freedom to change.
"There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: 'He who has a why to live for… can bear almost any how.'
"Graduates, never give up on what you really want to do. The world needs you to keep dreaming ever bigger dreams. Afraid others won't get it? Vision by definition is something most people can't see. Otherwise we would not call it vision we would call it common sense. Butterflies in your stomach? Now you know you are doing it right! Embrace the fear you feel within. Make sure that as life passes you by, that you are always running towards something, and never find yourself running away from something. Believe in yourself, take the leap, and jump off the cliff. fraid you will not survive? Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and focus on what you love. Which brings us to love…
"Class of 2013, above all you must love.
"Be unwavering about love in your life. Be unapologetic about empathy. Above all, be loyal to those around you who believed, and were willing to jump off the cliff with you. Being competent at love is quite different from being wise about it. Over the years, I have seen people take one of two paths: the competent one or the wise one. In the competent path you superficially flow through relationships. In the wise path, you use your experience, knowledge and understanding to make meaningful and profound relationships.
"Love is what you really know in your heart and in your gut. It's not logical, but it is both real and true. True knowledge comes from feeling and experience. It's not quantifiable and you can't learn it from a book. But you know when you love another human, you know when you are moved by a book, music, or a sunset. These feelings bring you inner peace not because someone has listed all the good characteristics of the person you love, or explained the sentence structure in the book, the mathematical precision of the music, or the light waves of the sunset, but because you experience it, you feel it. Logic has nothing to do with it. In fact, the truth of knowing something is much more powerful, accurate, and trustworthy than linear processes of 'learning' or 'understanding.'
"Being a Kirk, rather than a Spock, is the most important and hardest lesson I have learned in my life. As most, I had to practically lose everything I ever loved before I paid attention to this side of life. It was the year we shipped Kinect, it was a turning point in my life, and it changed me forever. I had to confront the reality of being one of the 'lucky' few that achieved a lifelong dream, and yet I was empty inside and my life had no meaning. Fortunately, I am lucky, and I have an enlightened aunt who loves me in the absolute sense. She embraced me, like only true mothers do, and she encouraged me to sit quietly and think for days in her off the grid farm in Brazil.
"I had to contrast the short term excitement I was feeling with the impact it was having on my relationships, family and character. I concluded that nothing in life compares to the warmth and care of spending a lifetime with a soul mate, watching a daughter grow and become involved in worthwhile endeavors and behaviors. I felt and I knew that if I chose wisely and loved deeply she would grow up and come home not as a matter of not having a job, or needing support, but to enjoy and share the holidays and life with us.
"Class of 2013, if you keep anything from today, keep the thought of being a Kirk rather than a Spock. It will serve you well and it will help you to find meaning in life.
"Graduates, I close today with one heartfelt wish. I wish it for every single one of you. I will wish it three times in a row to ensure it sticks:
"I wish the graduating class of 2013 to be lucky.
"I wish the graduating class of 2013 to be lucky.
"I wish the graduating class of 2013 to be lucky.
"Everything comes to lucky people. Lucky people do what they love and love what they do. Lucky people find meaning. Lucky people find love, prosperity and health. Lucky people recover from mistakes. Lucky people, when faced with a 50/50 decision choose correctly.
"I wish luck for every single one of you."
Kipman's speech is also available on YouTube.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Inaugural officials are planning more staff, signs and metal detectors to prevent the pedestrian jams that clogged the National Mall last time President Barack Obama was sworn in.
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It appears to be official that Amazon isn't going to be adding wine to the long list of things you can buy from them.
There will be lots of speculation as to why, but it all boils down to this: they couldn't figure out a way to make it work as a business. In other words, profitable or not, there wasn't enough return in it for Amazon, relative to other choices for deploying their resources. Given that Amazon makes its living optimizing the supply/delivery chain, this is not good news for others who think it's just a matter of a warehouse and some software to keep track of all the details.
I think Amazon probably started out by looking at doing it themselves. At some point, they realized that a significant investment (and startup risk) was associated with that course of action.
So, they looked for someone who appeared to have a working system. By all accounts, New Vine Logistics (NVL) was the team to beat, so they started talking to them about a partnership.
It's useful to remember that NVL already had the "sunk cost" advantage when they acquired the shipping technology of the original wine.com. It's hard to imagine anyone building an equivalent operation cheaper.
But, it's pretty clear in hindsight that NVL wasn't making money on their existing clients, leading to the sudden closing of their doors and subsequent sale to Inertia Beverage Group. When Amazon Wine seemed about to open for business in late 2008, I suspect that the impending launch showed Amazon that their chosen partner didn't really have the resources to scale up. Chicken and egg? Perhaps. NVL needed a commitment from Amazon to get additional capital, and Amazon needed to see that NVL could handle the business before giving them a commitment. We won't know until someone writes a book.
This is all speculation on my part, but Amazon is pretty smart, and as smart as they are, they couldn't see how to make it work, even without re-inventing the wheel and partnering with (arguably) the people with the best chance of making it work.
Tom Wark's analysis seems spot on: the current state-based patchwork of wine regulations is a major impediment to anyone trying to centralize fulfillment. While some are optimistic that this won't hurt wineries, it certainly doesn't improve the situation for them either.
I am not optimistic about the likelihood of change, either. State governments want to make sure they get tax revenues from wine sales. Middlemen have existing businesses to protect. It seems unlikely to me that the Federal government would take action (Granholm v. Heald addressed the relevant Federal issue: states have to be consistent about the rules for in-state and out-of-state wineries). Certainly, they have other fish to fry in the short-to-mid term.
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If you live in a small home and still love to entertain, you know that hosting dinner parties requires a bit of space planning. Do you borrow a few extra chairs? Haul out a card table from your storage unit? Set up a few cushions on the floor? If you had Orla Reynolds' brilliant shelf, you'd have two tables and four dining chairs conveniently at the ready. Can you spot them?
Orla Reynolds' As If From Nowhere shelf design is so smart. The functioning bookcase hides two tables and four chairs that easily slide out when you need them. Reynolds is a former ballerina, and her design (which is "for small living spaces or for those who wish to cater to the unexpected guest") was inspired in part by her previous work on the stage:
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Attorneys for a man who says he is the brother of deceased actor Sherman Hemsley are trying to show that Hemsley was not of sound mind when he signed his will.
But several witnesses testified Friday at an El Paso court that Hemsley was cognizant when he signed the will, which gave longtime friend Flora Enchinton absolute power over his properties.
Richard Thornton, of Philadelphia, is expected to testify about his relationship with Hemsley during the trial.
Hemsley played George Jefferson on the sitcom "The Jeffersons." He died of lung cancer July 24.
Hemsley was born in Philadelphia, but lived in El Paso the last 20 years of his life.
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More than one-third of online footnotes disappear, researchers find
Faculty in ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism found that more than 33 percent of links to Web citations in professional journals have disintegrated within four years. The new study, by Greenlee School director Michael Bugeja and assistant professor Daniela Dimitrova, is featured in the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Workshop on sharing local government services
ISU faculty will offer options for local Iowa governments to share services during a March 18 workshop.
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Distinguished Professor of Chemistry John Corbett is the 11th recipient of the annual Spedding Award, the top honor for rare earth research. The award is named for the late Frank Spedding, longtime ISU chemistry professor and a pioneer in the Manhattan Project, which led to the world's first controlled nuclear reaction. Corbett, who also is a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, is the third Ames Lab researcher to receive the award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the ISU faculty since 1952.
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The ISU Dairy Science Club will raffle off basketballs signed by ISU men's and women's teams to help fund scholarships in memory of a student who was killed in a 2002 car accident. Tickets are $2 or three for $5. The raffle winner will get both basketballs.
Sanderson finalist for top amateur athlete award; online voters will help choose
Wrestling standout Cael Sanderson is among 10 finalists for the Sullivan Award, which is given to the USA's top amateur athlete by the Amateur Athletic Union. Fans will help determine the award winner, with online votes accounting for one-third of the balloting. Sanderson is assistant coach of the Cyclone wrestling team.
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ISU psychology professor Gary Wells, who has been advocating sequential police lineups for almost 30 years, says that method will become dominant in the next few years. Viewing suspect photos one at a time, rather than side by side, can significantly minimize the chance of mistakes and misidentification, Wells' research shows.
Adjacent Wal-Marts may dodge size curbs
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In Maryland, the world's largest retailer has found a way around the rules that restrict the size of "big box" stores. ISU Professor Emeritus Ken Stone, who has studied Wal-Mart for 20 years, comments.
Cyclones bow out
The Tar Heels stop the Cyclones in second round.
Cyclone women fall
The Cyclone women fall to Utah in the first round.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — There's no shortage of stages in the Entertainment Capital of the World, although residents have long found it easier to find a celebrity impersonator than a Tony Award-winning musical.
But executives at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts believe that's been changing since their $470 million complex opened last March, and they plan to keep the first-year momentum going with a 2013-14 Broadway calendar that includes "Les Miserables," ''The Book of Mormon," and eight other Broadway mega-hits.
"We are over-the-moon excited about the lineup," Smith Center President Myron Martin told The Associated Press.
The venue will be a stop for the "Les Miserables" touring cast in August. After that, "The Wizard of Oz," ''War Horse," ''Sister Act," ''Evita," ''Mamma Mia," ''Flashdance," ''The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," and "Once" will take the stage at a pace of roughly one per month.
Most of the productions will run for one weekend, while the series will wrap up with a monthlong run of "The Book of Mormon," the 2012 Best Musical Tony winner that one New York Times critic called "the best musical of the century."
The lineup, announced Monday evening, has garnered a combined 40 Tony awards and comes after the center's wildly popular debut year that saw sellout crowds at each Broadway production.
"There really was pent-up demand for high quality arts and entertainment in Las Vegas," Martin said.
Last Broadway season featured six shows anchored by the Wizard of Oz-spinoff "Wicked." Martin said Smith Center officials planned to sell 6,000 subscriptions to the series, but ended up selling 11,000.
The demand has helped the Smith Center attract a top-notch second season.
"We owe a lot to the six week run of 'Wicked'," Martin explained. "Because of its overwhelming popularity, other Broadway producers who ... weren't sure before that saw that Vegas and The Smith Center are for real."
For many, the Art Deco Smith Center complex represents Las Vegas' artistic coming of age. The city's philharmonic orchestra and ballet company now have an elegant, permanent home, and Las Vegas locals can find shows that aren't geared first toward tourists.
"We've been city for performing arts," said Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce spokesman Cara Roberts. "The Smith Center represents a point in time where we offer programming primarily geared toward residents of the region."
Martin believes the two sides of the tourist town go hand-in-hand.
"People who live here will always find reasons to entertain people, to go to casinos for celebrity performances and Cirque shows. That'll never change," Martin said. "But the same people now have a way to go to a non-gaming institution that's reasonably priced and centrally located. They can be entertained and inspired."
The center tries to keep prices accessible for locals and families, with tickets to Broadway shows starting at $24. One of their biggest challenges, Martin said, is selling out too quickly.
"It has been way beyond expectations," he said of the opening year. "We dreamed big ... but the community support has been overwhelming."
Subscribers to the current 2012-13 Broadway season can renew their passes starting Feb. 19. Orders for new subscriptions will be accepted starting in May.


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To economically survive these days, every wine grape vineyard and winery must continually evolve or else face a closed door by consumers looking for the latest and greatest products elsewhere.
One of the many operations embracing change is Hahn Family Wines, a family-owned, premium grape vineyard and winery operation based in Soledad in the Santa Lucia Highlands (SLH) in Monterey County. The operation was founded in 1979.
"Pinot Noir is at the core of our operation today," said Andy Mitchell, Hahn Family Wines director of viticulture.
"The Santa Lucia Highlands has ideal conditions for growing Pinot Noir," the veteran grape grower said. "The area's microclimates and soils, along with various clonal and rootstock combinations, unite to form great complexity in the grapes."
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The elevations of Hahn vineyards range from 300-1,200 feet.
Mitchell manages wine grape vineyards totaling 1,100 acres, including about 40 clones. The majority of the acreage is Pinot Noir – about 620 acres with 20 clones. Other varietals include Chardonnay (13 clones), Grenache (1), Merlot (2), Pinot Gris (1), Malbec (2), and Syrah (5).
Hahn Estate is the largest grower of Pinot Noir (350 acres) along the 17-mile-long SLH AVA.
Hahn's three vineyards in the SLH cover 653 acres: the 146-acre Lone Oak Vineyard featuring Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Gris; Doctor's Vineyard – 243 acres – Pinot Noir and Syrah; and Smith & Hook Vineyards, 253 acres – Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Syrah, Grenache, and Malbec.
Two vineyards about 10 miles to the south on the Salinas Valley floor in Arroyo Seco (Arroyo Seco AVA) include: Ste. Phillippe – 290 acres – Pinot Noir, Merlot, and Grenache; and Ste. Nicholas Vineyards – 171 acres– Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Change is in the air
Turn the calendar back 15 years to 1998. The Hahn operation was much different. Large plantings of Bordeaux varietals, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc, filled the vineyards. The focus was on big, ripe flavors.
Today, the focus is Burgundean varietals.Optimal maturity, including fruit harvest at just the right time, gives wines finesse.
"I feel very fortunate to have been a part of the dramatic change in the makeup of these vineyards," said Mitchell.
After removing vineyards, replanting, and grafting on the estate's Smith & Hook vineyard, a mere three short rows of Cabernet Sauvignon remain.
Mitchell laughed, "It makes really good jelly."
His rationale for the varietal shift was to better target varietals with the cool growing conditions on the emerald "Highlands Islands" in the SLH AVA.
Each year, about 10-15 percent of the estate acreage is converted to new clones of Burgundian and Rhone varietals with decisions based mostly on market demand.
"Clones to a winemaker are like what a palate is to a painter," Mitchell quipped.
"The unique characteristics of the local terrior, combined with the clones, give our grapes and ultimately our wines complexity and layers of flavor."
The Hahn family is very pleased with the end results. Mitchell shares that other factors have also played into Hahn's success, including teamwork from the vineyard to the winery and vice-a-versa.
"When I first started with the company in 1998 we were essentially vineyards that had a winery," Mitchell reflected. "Today we are a winery that has vineyards."
Success a team effort
A large part of the turnaround is tied to Paul Clifton, Hahn's general manager director of winemaking. Clifton tastes most grape lots on the cusp of the harvest. He makes the final call on the harvest dates.
Updated cultural practices and other methods have added to Hahn's success.
This April, the Hahn family partnered with Mesa Vineyard Management to manage the day-to-day operations of the estate vineyards.
On pruning, Hahn's tries to prune each vine to its potential to create a balance vine throughout the growing season.
Hahn's has four Pellenc Model 8590 selective process viticulture vineyard machines to carryout various vineyard tasks, including the plug-in Visio pre-pruner unit to remove canes from the wires.
The final pruning pass is by hand using a battery-powered, hand-held pruner from Electrocoup. Mitchell conducted a survey several years ago which revealed the Electrocoup pruners increased worker efficiency up to 30 percent.
"The results are less worker fatigue and increased worker productivity," Mitchell said.
Shoot thinning begins in mid-to-late April to generate good airflow and improve the benefits of treatment applications.
Leaf removal is 100 percent by hand for the high-end grape programs. Leaves and basil laterals are removed from the canopy interior, leaving an outer layer of leaves to protect against sunburn.
In many "B" blocks, a Clemens leafing machine is used to improve pest management efforts.
Most of the vineyards are trained with the vertical shoot positioning system (VSP). The Smart-Dyson system is used in selected blocks to open the canopy and reduce hand-leafing needs.
The SLH is an ideal terrior for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and for powdery mildew and mealybug, both managed with integrated pest management.
On nutrients, Mitchell embraces s "spoon feeding" approach for plants; based on petiole, leaf, and soil analyses, plus well water testing for nitrogen levels.
The cool climate creates an extended "hang time" for the grapes. Some vineyards elsewhere complete the grape harvest before Hahn's starts in mid-to-late September.
Mechanical harvest
Pellenc's selective process harvesters pick about 80 percent of the grape crop, including higher-end grapes.
"The machine actually picks grapes cleaner than a hand crew, and has the flexibility to harvest grapes at night," Mitchell said.
Chardonnay grapes and most Pinot Noir grapes are picked at night to minimize oxidation.
Hahn's target production is: Pinot Noir – 2.5-5 tons per acre; Chardonnay 4-6 tons per acre; Syrah – 4-6 tons; Grenache – 5-7 tons; and Malbec 4-6 tons.
About 85 percent of Hahn-grown grapes craft Hahn estate wines.
Hahn's has two wineries – Hahn Estate Winery in Soledad and Cycles Gladiator Winery in Lodi (San Joaquin County). The wineries produced about 400,000 cases of Hahn estate wine last year.
The labels and price points and labels include: Lucienne - $50; Hahn SLH - $30; Hahn Winery - $14; and the Cycles brand - $12.
The remaining Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes are sold to wineries including Testarossa, Calera, Pisoni, V. Sattui, and Hope and Grace.
The most common rootstocks include 101-14, 420A, 1103 Paulsen, SO4, Teleki 5C, and 3309.
In the SLH vineyards, water requirements are 8-12 inches in the ancient alluvial soils. The vineyards in Arroyo Seco consume about twice that due to sandier soils and warmer temperatures.
Other management practices bid well for the operation. For bird control, the use of falconry successfully dissuades large flocks ("dragons") of starlings and blackbirds away from the grapes.
The Hahn operation participates in the Sustainability in Practice (SIP) program. Insectary rows are planted each spring between every 10th row to create a habitat for beneficial insects to remain in the vineyard.
Key beneficials include the ladybird beetle and lacewing. The insect larvae are veracious eaters of mites and mealybugs.
Clifton and Mitchell are pleased with the Flash Détente processing equipment from the Della Toffola Group utilized at the Cycles Gladiator Winery. The winery is one of about a hand full of California wineries utilizing the Flash Détente technology.
Mitchell says the system quickly heats grapes and fully extracts the grape's contents in a vacuum chamber. The process helps remove any off flavors affiliated with under-ripe fruit and botrytis issues.
The future
Looking out five years from now, what is on the Hahn drawing board? Expanded SLH production is a top goal, including the medium to higher-tier brands of Pinot Noir.
Mitchell said, "Case production of Hahn Estate SLH Pinot Noir in the Highlands is about 5,000 now. We'd like to increase production without changes to quality."
As Mitchell readied to get back to work, he confided his favorite wine to drink.
"It's Pinot Noir with Grenache as a close second. We produce a Rhône blend that is very food friendly; maybe as food friendly than Pinot Noir."
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As mentioned the other day by Mr. Trippe, Jeremy Fish had a show openning at the Lineage Gallery with Scott Musgrove in the great city of Philadelphia. The week before he left I paid him a visit and took some photos of the work he had done for this show.
Jeremy produced an immense body of work for this show, totaling $64,000.00 in retail value. I hope he sells out; he needs to get out of his crab shack and into a real domicile. The hunch in his back has grown and he only leaves the place to get supplies, avoid getting smacked and venture out for the occasional social event.
Paying tribute to the past and his influences is something that has always had a presence in Jeremy's work. Some of the work pictured above are his depictions from stories of the Brothers Grimm tales. Portraits of the brothers are included among The Bremen Town-Musicians and other characters of their country. "But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of Nursery and Household Tales in 1812 and 1814." Source
Dragonette was hanging around stinking up the spot with gas that seemed to seep from Satan's own ass. Cut down on the beef jerky, man.
Over the years that Fish has lived in his shack, I have only seen him sit at his computer and his worktable. Never have I seen him relax on his own couch (when he broke his ankle doesn't count, that wasn't relaxation, that was rehabilitation).
Fecal Face has a long history of sucking Jeremy's dick. It seems like there isn't a week that goes by when there isn't something about him in the news or in one of the blogs adding to the knob slobbery. The fact is Jeremy's work is excellent, you would be hard pressed to find many that don't respect him or his work. Sure, some might not like it due to their personal tastes, but they will at least respect his talent and work ethic. That is why I have no problem adding to the voracious cock sucking that we have bestowed upon Jeremy. His work has progressed over the past year in subtle yet very important ways. His details are sharper, more finite and meticulous. His faces are deeper, conveying more feeling and evoking more emotion than before. In other words, the old creep down by the ocean is stepping up his game. Now if he would only quit drawing animals stacked and crossbred with skulls. -Isaac McKay-Randozzi
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I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io
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I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.
Alexis Anne Mackenzie - 2/28
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SAN FRANCISCO --- Alexis Anne Mackenzie opens Multiverse at Eleanor Harwood in the Mission on Saturday, Feb 28th. -details
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When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes "creative" and everybody "a creative," then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what's the difference, after all? So "art" itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading
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"Six Degrees" opens tonight, Friday Jan 16th (7-10pm) at FFDG in San Francisco. ~Group show featuring: Brett Amory, John Felix Arnold III, Mario Ayala, Mariel Bayona, Ryan Beavers, Jud Bergeron, Chris Burch, Ryan De La Hoz, Martin Machado, Jess Mudgett, Meryl Pataky, Lucien Shapiro, Mike Shine, Minka Sicklinger, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Alex Ziv.
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The San Francisco Bay Area is renowned for its tens of thousands of acres of beautiful parks and public open spaces.
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Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper --- Rachell Sumpter paints scenes of colored splendor dropped into scenes of desolate wilderness. ~show details
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The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
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of elaborate vocal scrollwork, which turns the voice into a complex wind
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to pitch, dynamics, melody, and rhythm.
This highly emotional and intense use of the human voice was in
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singer: Marietta Alboni (in NY 1852-1853). Her work influenced the aria of
the mockingbird in "Out of the Cradle endlessly Rocking" and the carol of the
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Amiri Baraka speaks to a group of young people who are sitting on the floor at Tufts University. "If you see this dude walking down with a white woman and you don't say anything to him, you're a liberal. That's why liberals are to be looked at askance. Because they let it go."


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Crepe Cake with Butterscotch Cream
Mille Crêpe, also known as Gâteau de Crêpe, is a multi-layered cake made out of crêpes. I spread layers of butterscotch buttercream in between each crêpe and topped the cake with thinly-sliced candied apples. This is quite time-consuming to make in miniature versions, but you can always make large crêpes and cut the cake into slices as you would with regular buttercream cakes.
I made the cake in honor of La chandeleur (Candlemas), which is celebrated on February 2nd. It's originally a Christian tradition that celebrates the presentation of Jesus at the Temple and also marks the end of the Epiphany season (Kings' galettes are made). I don't exactly know how crêpes became part of the French celebration of La Chandeleur, but I do know that they are an integral part of the festivities. There is a legend that says that on the day of La Chandeleur, if you're able to flip a crêpe and make it land properly (without it being wrinkled) in the pan without dropping it on the floor, you'll have a prosperous year. Originally, prosperity referred to a bumper crop of grain, but with fewer and fewer people farming for a living, over time it's come to imply general wealth. In a way it's an enduring testament to the agrarian culture of yore. That culture has survived in other ways too; in fact the saying avoir beaucoup de blé, which literally means "To have a lot of wheat", is slang for "being wealthy".
If you want to practice, prepare the crêpe batter a couple of days in advance, cook a few, and try to flip them. It may not fill your pocketbook, but it's a great way to fill your tummy.
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i'm probably preaching to the choir here but full auto shooters have to support the other target shooters and hunters too.
I wrote this post for the AK-47.net boards but I guess it's preaching to the choir over there. I thought I would post this over here too for more people to see. Now myself, I'm a military style service rifle shooter among other types of shooting and I do see a lot of factions in the shooting community that just shouldn't be there. We have to stand together as one united front against the gun grabbers or else they will take us down one by one if we don't support each other as one solid unified front. Anyways, here's my thoughts on what liberal gun grabbers think of YOUR guns!
So who's been here before? You are at the range with your military style service rifle or maybe looking at one in the store and some politically correct type gun owner will look at you like you are Janet Reno doing a table dance wearing nothing but a thong shaking and everything so all the wrong things are jiggling. Yeah, been there done that, right? Well the next time one of them starts to slam you for your choice of weapons, you can using a twisted liberal mindset, hit them up with these rebuttals.
Deer hunting rifles: Actually these are high powered sniper rifles designed to shoot people from long ranges. If they deny that, ask them if it was an AK-47 or a bolt action rifle with a scope that Lee Harvey Oswald used to whack Kennedy. Now why should you be allowed to own a sniper rifle like that? Wouldn't it be a good idea to ban those things too?
Hunting shotguns: Oh yeah, the old trench brooms of WWI fame. Yeah, you "claim" that they are for hunting but all it takes is a hacksaw and you now have a weapon that is banned by the geneva convention as a battlefield weapon because of the inhumane wounds it causes. Now in the days of smart bombs, napalm, fuel/air explosives and even nuclear weapons allowed on the battlefield, how horrible of a weapon is it that you are "hunting ducks" with that it would not be allowed to fight a war with? And you think you should be entrusted to such a devistating weapon? Oh, horror of horrors, ban those evil shotguns too!
Self defense pistols and revolvers: Now this one is the easy one. No handgun is made that small for hunting. They are made only for shooting these poor misunderstood members of society that have been forced by circumstances beyond their control to turn to a life of crime. Now you should not go out there with the intent of murdering these poor misguided angels that even though they have been in prison more times than Klinton should have been, and we should ban the possession of guns like that to make sure some misguided soul is not murdered by some vigilante when the police are equiped and trained to handle situations like this.
Target pistols and rifles: Yup, these weapons with a hair trigger, right? Triggers that are so sensitive that many of them are measured in ounces. These weapons are an accident waiting to happen so in the interest of the safety of the children, we must ban these weapons as well.
Single shot pistols: You all think of those Thompsen Contender pistols as pistols designed for hunting but actually they are "sniper pistols." Yes, they are made to be small enough to be concealed under a coat yet accurate enough to pick off children at a day care center from a long distance. This sir, is not a hunting weapon, but an assassins tool! Are you an assassin, sir? ban these as well.
Black powder guns: Oh yes, these are the ones that you would never suspect being used in a crime. The powder on the other hand is a solid explosive that can be used to build bombs to be planted in schools. While it would be a wise move to ban the possession of black powder, it would be an even wiser move to ban the ownership of these guns as well since without the powder they can not be used and if the temptation is not there to shoot a gun that is no longer there, terrorists will not be as likely to home-brew black powder.
So you see, there is not a catagorey of weapon out there that can not be demonized using a twisted little mind. The next time some PC type gives you a hard time remind them that we are all tied together on this issue. If I can come up with some whacked out ideas of what their guns are, what would some crazed dope-smoking liberal gun grabber be able to come up with!
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October 11. 2013 11:15PM
As the Tigers and Athletics readied for the decisive game of their American League Division Series, there were those in Boston, knowing that the winner would take on the Red Sox in the AL Championship Series that opens tonight, who were rooting for Detroit.
It may have been out of respect for the fact Oakland has, according to wins and losses, been the best team in the league over the last season and a half. It may have been because Tigers triple crown slugger Miguel Cabrera is battling his body, which limited him to one home run in 99 at-bats before he went deep Thursday. It may have been because from Aug. 8 on, the Tigers were just a game better than .500.
But John Farrell knows why Detroit is a team the Red Sox would've probably rather avoided.
"The strength of their team is clearly their starting rotation," the Boston manager said Friday.
Injured or not, Cabrera is still a beast every time he steps in the box. The sizzling bat of old friend Victor Martinez was a major factor in the Tigers' series triumph over the A's. Prince Fielder is formidable protection for Cabrera. And Torii Hunter, Austin Jackson, Omar Infante and Jhonny Peralta can all handle the bat, too. There's a reason why Detroit's offense was the AL's second-most prolific this season.
But that's not the biggest reason the Tigers pose a real threat to the Red Sox.
Rather, it's Detroit's ability to throw this season's earned run champion (Anibal Sanchez) in Game 1, then send this year's presumptive Cy Young Award winner (Max Scherzer) to the mound in Game 2, then give the ball to one of the game's most accomplished active pitchers (Justin Verlander) in Game 3. It rounds out the rotation with a right-hander who threw seven shutout innings at Fenway in early September (Doug Fister) in Game 4.
That's a vicious gantlet Jim Leyland can lay down, that quartet giving the Detroit manager a chance to get seven or eight good, maybe even great, innings in every game of this series.
That leaves the Boston manager to draw one conclusion how his team can best combat that strength.
"I look upon the key to us," Farrell said, "is our starters to keep a game in check."
It's not impossible that the Sox could match the Tigers if each of their own starters pitches to their potential, though it's imperative that Boston's pitchers at least keep their club competitive. Thursday afternoon, the manager laid out his plans for whom he'll trust to make that happen.
Already he'd announced that Jon Lester will take on Sanchez tonight, and it's now official that Clay Buchholz will go up against Scherzer on Sunday night.
In the Division Series, Farrell and the rest of Boston's brass opted to seize on John Lackey's splits, and gave him the ball in Game 2 because he was a much better pitcher at Fenway. They pushed Buchholz back to a potentially pivotal Game 3, then went with Jake Peavy for Game 4.
The equation changes significantly, however, as the playoffs move from best-of-five to best-of-seven series. And that change had to be considered heavily when setting the rotation for the ALCS, given the consequences it could render.
On one hand, it would've been be easy for the Sox to ensure that Lackey plays to his strengths by pitching at home, and they wouldn't even have to move him from his turn following Lester. Whoever starts Game 2 on Sunday will be lined up to also start Game 6 the following Saturday, and both of those tilts will take place at Fenway thanks to the series' 2-3-2 format.
However, the risk there is that by not pitching Buchholz until Game 3, he wouldn't be slotted to go again until Game 7. Given that the righty is arguably the best starter on the staff, and no worse than second-best, it might be difficult for Farrell to set up a scenario where Detroit puts Boston on the brink of elimination entering Game 6 but has one of the AL's premier arms available sitting idly until the next night. The decision to start Buchholz Sunday should avoid that.
Lackey, subsequently, will start the first game at Comerica Park (against Verlander). Peavy, then, will take on Fister on Wednesday, with Farrell apparently not putting much stock into their respective performances in the Division Series.
Over the season, Lackey's numbers give the appearance that he's more deserving of making two starts. His 3.52 earned run average was more than half a run better than Peavy's 4.17, and while the two allowed a similar number of baserunners, Lackey's ERA looks even better when factoring ballparks into the mix and comparing performance to league average.
But in his first season since undergoing Tommy John surgery on his elbow, Lackey has seemed to fade since the start of September. Even with a two-hit complete game factored in, his ERA in September was 4.98. Then he surrendered 11 baserunners in 5 1/3 innings during his Game 2 outing against the Rays. He allowed four runs, so he came away with the win, but he wasn't particularly sharp.
Peavy's ERA is only a tick better dating to Aug. 31 at 4.78, though his ALDS outing was much better than Lackey's. While the Rays were mixing and matching and keeping the Sox scoreless in Game 4, Peavy kept the Sox in the game by matching zeroes except for one frame, when the Rays paired a double and a single to produce the only run he surrendered over 5 2/3 quality innings.
What might've settled matters is that whoever pitches Game 3 would also be lined up to pitch Game 7. And while Peavy's most recent performance was the first good playoff start of his career, Lackey won the seventh game of the World Series for the Angels in 2002. Both are ultra-competitive bulldogs, but Lackey's experience could be valuable there if the series gets that far.
If the Sox's starters match the Tigers' enough to make that happen.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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English label John Smedley, who might just be our favourite knitwear maker ever, have added a load of new jumpers and polo shirts to its sale site. You'll need to register to get in, but once you do there is a selection of very striking round and V neck sweaters in its sale reduced for £75 to just £40. The …
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If you have never visited John Smedley's discount store right next to their factory in Derbyshire you really should. They have lots of end of line items, slight seconds and more at very very cheap prices. If you live a million miles from Derbyshire and still want to grab one of their wonderful sea island cotton cardigans or extra fine …
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In Winter, at least, the obvious purpose of a scarf is to keep your neck warm, but sartorially speaking a scarf has a multitude of uses from adding a splash of colour to an otherwise slightly dull suit through to adding a degree of formality to casual clothes. Personally I am a die-hard stripey or houndstooth scar wearer. They can …
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There is a bit of trend in comedy jumpers this season. You only need to check out River Island's selection to see how prevalent they are. If you want knitwear that doesn't have to be teamed up with paper hats and plastic cracker jewelry that you can wear all winter long then check out this lot. These are our favourites …
Brandish Christmas List #4 John Smedley Gift Hamper
As a rule Christmas hampers tend to be fairly rubbish affairs stuffed with weird dried fruit and odd combination pickles that chances are will reach their sell by date before you get round to sampling them. However, ace British knitwear company John Smedley have come up with an alternative hamper this year which might be pricey, but is a must …
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If, for some bizarre reason, you haven't hopped onto the Madras train yet we are still offering alternatives. Alternatives that don't stray outside of the nautical look, but alternatives nonetheless.
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Scope of contingency programs needs to be expanded, execs say
Corporate officials need to consider disruptions from major information security failures when making business continuity and disaster recovery plans, security managers and analysts said last week.
Failure to do so, they added, could leave businesses dangerously underprepared to respond to infrastructure disruptions during a time of growing cyber-risks.
"Disaster recovery plans that take into account only the physical impact to the infrastructure are shortsighted and need to be remedied," said David Jordan, chief information security officer for Arlington County, Va.
The county now routinely incorporates cyberthreats and other potential technology-related calamities into its disaster recovery planning processes, according to Jordan.
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It's important that the topic not get lost in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, said John Pironti, principal security consultant at Unisys Corp. in Blue Bell, Pa. He noted that such disasters prompt many IT operations to focus on traditional business continuity processes involving their physical assets only.
IT managers shouldn't overlook the threat that cybersecurity incidents and other electronic failures can also pose to critical infrastructure, Pironti said. Disaster recovery "is stuck in a 1970s to 1980s mind-set of a mainframe, a LAN and a glass house that need to be backed up," he added.
What is needed is an "expanded perspective of what constitutes a disaster," said Bob Palmer, a vice president in IT at Lenox Inc., a Lawrenceville, N.J.-based maker of tableware and giftware.
Disaster planning "traditionally required that firms work with a single vendor who provided physical facilities and equipment in case of an emergency," Palmer said. An infrastructure failure stemming from an electronic attack would force a company to deal with security firms, Internet service providers and law enforcement agencies, among others, he said.
Adding to the complexity is the unpredictable and evolving nature of electronic attacks and potential responses to them, thus creating a difficult environment in which to conduct tests, Palmer said. As a result, he noted, disaster recovery planning needs to become "broader and [more] dynamic in nature."
Information security teams need to undertake security-threat scenario planning with workers who are responsible for business continuity programs, suggested Roberta Witty, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
The team should identify threats that could take down a company's core infrastructure or parts of it, she said. "Clearly, e-mail is a prime target, so you've got to look at how your business can continue without e-mail," Witty said. Similarly, "if you have an internal or an external security breach, the first thing you've got to understand is whether you'll be replicating the problem when you try to recover at a recovery site," she added.
Disruptions resulting from major worm outbreaks over the past few years have caused more companies to pay attention to such issues, Witty said.
Though computer security incident response teams are often ready to deal with disruptions from a security failure, more work still needs to be done, said Lloyd Hession, chief information security officer at New York-based BT Radianz, a provider of network connectivity services to financial firms.
"There's a real need for better synergy and communications between the information security team and the disaster recovery and contingency planning [function]," Hession said. "It's a question of how two groups with a similar function can work together to manage risk."