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Michael Krehan, born in Germany but living in California since 2002, had been in the video games industry for almost two decades, working on titles such as "Red Dead Redemption" and "Grand Theft Auto V".
He had a keen interest in filmmaking ever since his teenage years. He started with little film experiments and volunteered on various film sets as boom operator, camera assistant, and editor, until he decided that the time was right to realize a project of his own and created "Apprecation", which made the rounds through the festival circuit in 2015.
Following that, he decided to realize a more ambitious project and wrote and directed "Dreams My Master" with the help of some collaborators from his first film, Jeff Siljenberg (cinematographer), Daniel J. Pico (producer), and Maris Lidaka (producer).
He is currently working on his next short film, with several more planned after that.
Dan was awarded the Albert P. Weismand Scholarship for his original screenplay, "Two Days In Limbo". A product of Dan's producing, writing, and directing, Limbo screened at the American Film Market in the Cannes Film Festival. It went on to garner a bevy of festival wins including the Grand Jury Prize - Best Short Film - Michigan Independent Film Festival.
Other films by Chicago-based Pico include Back to Reality, The Wooden Door, First Light, and Soldier. Additional directing credits include the TV pilots Roscoe Village and Casting Shadows.
Dan holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Film and Video from Colombia College, Chicago.
Born in the small suburb of Oak Park. Maris Lidaka was exposed to film, literature, and photography at a young age by his father. While attending high school in Copenhagen, Maris often went to the movie theater in order to remind him of home. In his senior year he decided to embark on a career in filmmaking, and returned to Chicago to attend Columbia College to study Film Directing.
Maris has worked as a Producer, Cameraman, and Editor over the past 10 years in order to become a complete filmmaker. He has worked on several TV shows, feature films, and documentaries. He has recently completed two shorts, is working on his third, and preparing to direct his first feature-length film. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Rico Anderson, an award winning actor and the oldest of 11 children on his mothers side and the 3rd of 4 children oh his fathers side, was born in Seaside/Monterey, CA and raised on the south side of Chicago as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. It was in Chicago where his love for the arts began. As a little boy, Rico and his 3rd grade class went to a touring performance of The Wiz, starring Melba Moore. Even at that early age, Rico sat there mesmerized and amazed at the performances. Memories from that performance stuck in the back of his mind and would not surface until a few years later when he and his family moved to Berkeley, California. The bug bit again and Rico started performing in several Independent films and theatre productions around the Bay Area. Rico also majored in Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University. Eventually Rico moved to Los Angeles and has been blessed to have many film, television, voice over and theatre credits to his name.
Rico's selected film and television credits include his breakthrough role in the 2005 Academy Award Winning short, "Mighty Times: The Children's March" where he portrayed civil rights activist, Shelley "The Playboy" Stewart. This period piece was Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (Marvel's The Avengers, Star Wars Trilogy) and Sam Elliott (The Hulk, The Big Lebowski) respectfully. Another breakthrough role was in sci-fi when Rico was tapped to star in Star Trek: Renegades, directed by Tim Russ (Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager) and starring Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babalon 5), Sean Young (Blade Runner) and Edward Furlong (John Connor in The Terminator). Rico was directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel's The Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) in the pilot for Dollhouse w/ Eliza Dushku and Tahmoh Penikett (Man of Steel, Battlestar Galactica), played the son of Danny Glover (The Color Purple) in "The Harimaya Bridge" with Peter Coyote and starred in the Universal release of, "Hole in One" with Producer, David Ellison (Star Trek into Darkness, World War Z) and Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The Adventures of Superman). Other selected guest star and recurring works include, NCIS, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, 2 Broke Girls, Days of our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Murder in the First, Weeds, Sullivan & Son, Justified and The Shield.
Onstage, Rico has captivated audiences in such noteworthy performances including the multiple award winning production of The West Coast Premiere of The Ballad of Emmett Till (Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles), Lyons in Fences (NexStage Theatre, Ketchum Idaho), Stone in the revival of Ray Bradbury's Kaleidoscope (Sci-Fest LA, Acme Theatre), The title role in Oedipus (African American Shakespeare Company, San Francisco) , For The Love of Freedom-Trilogy (The Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles) where Mr. Anderson took on the pivotal role of General Alexander Petion, Graffiti Blues (National Black Theatre Festival, North Carolina), the multiple award winning production of The Meeting as Malcolm X, Off-Off Broadway in Bed of Truth, Equus, and A Soldiers Play . Mr. Anderson, as a member of the L.A. based Sketch Comedy Troupe, The Outpatients, performed at The World Famous Comedy Store Main Room.
Selected Commercial work includes: UPS Store, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, MCI, Bud Light, Honda, Chevrolet, Sony, Jeep.
As a Voice Over artist, Rico has recorded ADR / voice work for the upcoming release of Batman: Arkham Knight, Power (Starz) and VH-1's Hit the Floor. Commercial and promotion: Bud Light, Honda, Sony, Jeep, The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and National Rent a Car.
Rico still lives in Los Angeles, continues to work extensively in film, television, voice overs and theatre and is carefully selecting his next project.
Born and raised on a goat farm in Reno, Nevada, Chris is a former world and national champion Jet Ski racer, who has been working as an actor for over 15 years. After graduating from Cal state Sacramento with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Chris moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and had absolutely zero short term success.
But after a few years Gann was given a break when he was cast by director Rob Cohen in Sony studios blockbuster xXx with Vin Diesel and Samuel Jackson. He reunited with Diesel while working on Disney\'s $50 million comedy, The Pacifier. Since his breakout roles, Chris has over 25 guest stars on TV, has been in over 30 films, and over 50 national commercials. As a stunt man Chris earned a screen actors guild nomination for his work in "Transformers Dark Side of the Moon" (2011)
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L.A.'s most compelling murder mystery might be the Page Museum's 9,000-year-old remains known as "La Brea Woman." Pulled out of the gooey tar almost a century ago, the oldest known Californian is considered by many to have been a homicide victim. Then again, she may simply have died of natural causes and been ceremoniously placed in the pits — alongside her fox-terrier mutt, whose skeleton was found beside her.
Not that you'll learn much about this if you visit the tar-pit museum or its Web site. La Brea Woman has all but vanished from the museum, and last November museum volunteer Melissa Cooper angered officials by posting images on her personal Web site of a facial reconstruction she'd done from the skull.
Cooper, a forensic artist who sketches criminals for the Santa Monica Police Department, now believes that museum leaders got upset, and refused to exhibit her illustrations, out of fear that her drawing of an ancient woman who was almost certainly Native American could provoke the Chumash Indians of Southern California to demand her remains.
Cooper reached that conclusion after talking with the museum's resident Chumash expert, Richard Reynolds. Reynolds says he can't comment publicly on the controversy, but museum curator John Harris agreed to discuss it with the Weekly via e-mail. Harris says he had originally approved Cooper's drawing project, in which she used skull-bone contours to show what La Brea Woman looked like in life, "on the strict understanding that the result would not be published or otherwise disseminated." Cooper says there was no such agreement.
A cast of the skull, attached to the ancient remains of a Pakistani female that was dyed dark bronze, the femurs shortened to approximate the stature of native people, had been on display at the Page for nearly 30 years. It was removed in 2004 to accommodate an emergency exit, but was then replaced by an exhibit of Native American artifacts.
Harris explains: "The museum felt and feels that this exhibit is more respectful to Native American groups" who oppose the public display of ancient tribal remains — even, apparently, of casts of those remains.
Cindi Alvitre, former chair of the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribal Council, likens the removed display to voyeurism. "It's disheartening to me because it's very inappropriate to display any human remains. The things we do to fill the imagination of visitors. It violates human rights."
In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that La Brea Woman was taken down because Harris was worried that Native Americans would be offended. Why it took nearly 30 years for the museum to remove its Pakistani–Native American mannequin mash-up from public view is another question. But Harris admitted at the time that he was worried the display might "attract attention to La Brea Woman's [real] remains."
Despite this delicate politicking, Harris and some local tribal leaders agree that La Brea Woman hasn't been linked to any existing Southern California tribe. Harris says, "Speculation that La Brea Woman may have been Chumash is baseless. It is impossible to verify the affiliation of remains that are 9,000 years old." And Deborah Sanchez, co-chair of the Barbareño Chumash Council, says that while "there's a possibility she may be Chumash or she may be from another tribe," all of that is still unknown.
In 1990, the federal government passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, requiring museums to inventory Native American artifacts and notify tribes that they possess them, but Harris says no group has claimed La Brea Woman.
Sanchez is suspicious of the museum. "I think it's kinda interesting because sometimes not designating remains can prevent the law from actually triggering — so any institutional group can say, 'Well, these are undetermined, so we don't have to give them back.' That's possibly what's happening here — they're not stating clearly that these are Native American remains, but I think that any knowledgeable person would probably say that if you have a 9,000-year-old skeleton found in the Tar Pits, it's therefore native remains."
La Brea Woman is the only human skeleton ever found amid thousands of fossils of mammoths, dire wolves, saber-toothed cats and other animals and plants in the Tar Pits, located in the Wilshire District, yet today this rare find gets the "vaguest possible" mention on a time line near the museum's entrance, Cooper says.
"She's part of the collection, but they just don't like to advertise or call attention to her," Cooper claims. Even Web pages detailing the "large-scale excavations of 1913 to 1915" — during which La Brea Woman was dug up — fail to acknowledge her.
Alvitre, who believes the remains are of a Gabrielino-Tongva who roamed Southern California, says museum officials are "afraid of the political implications and particular sanctions, as far as scientific research. It's a very common reaction."
However, Wendy Teeter, curator of archaeology at UCLA's Fowler Museum, points out that La Brea Woman had been on display for years. "She's never been not known. The idea she exists and is native is not a surprise," Teeter says.
Which brings the issue back to the detailed facial drawing by police artist Cooper. Last June, she asked her Page Museum lab supervisor, Shelly Cox, if she could create the reconstruction of La Brea Woman's face using a cast archaeologists had created from the skull. "I told her I'd do it for free because it's a win-win situation: I get to do a pretty cool project, and you guys could have it in your museum and get more visitors," recalls Cooper. "She was, like, 'Yeah, that'll be really cool; let me just verify it with the curator, John Harris.'"
Cooper says that when she met Harris at a museum event, "he was, like, 'Oh, yeah, that would be so awesome if you would do that for us.'"
Soon afterward Cox told Cooper she'd be doing the reconstruction in a place viewed by the public. But just before she began the project, she was told to work in a nonpublic backroom instead — "only because they don't want to confuse people" by working on human bones in a facility that houses animal bones, aside from La Brea Woman. "That was her reasoning. It wasn't like they wanted to hide it from the public," Cooper says.
Cooper worked from the cast, with the real skeleton beside it. Staff members, including some supervisors, stopped by to take pictures — some telling her that the project was going to be featured in the museum newsletter.
By last August, with the drawings complete, the plan was for Cooper to meet with Harris and Chris Shaw, the Page collections manager, to decide, according to Cooper, how to display the drawings.
This is when Cooper says things got weird. Despite repeated e-mails from Cooper to Harris and Shaw over three months, neither of them responded. Finally, Cooper asked why she was being ignored.
"When I finally got a response from Harris, he said, 'What are you talking about? We were doing you a favor by letting you even see the skull.' So I told him that 'This is my work. You didn't have me sign any papers. If you don't want to display it, that's your choice, I'm going to show it on my own.'" In that same e-mail, Cooper informed Harris that she quit. She then posted the images on her Web site and went public with the story.
In a prepared statement, Harris slams the artist, saying, "Ms. Cooper chose to violate her agreement with the Page Museum and publish her work for her own commercial gain."
But Cooper notes that she sold only a handful of her drawings, and only when people sought her out. "Forensic artists rarely, if ever, do commercial work," she says. "It's all about history, education and helping crime victims."
Indeed, both Sanchez and Alvitre are grateful for the reconstruction. Says Alvitre, "I appreciate what this woman did. She's brought a face to something that's been such a mystery."
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I've even added one more sonnet, although not one of my best by a long shot. Most of them aren't really anything special, although there are a few that I like, and almost sound pleasing. The last one (currently numbered XI) still manages to amaze me. Apparently I haven't written any sonnets since 2003, though. Like I've said before, I tend to be too lazy to tackle strict metres these days.
I've also rearranged the poetry pages some, so that the poems are now in more or less chronological order, and dated as far as possible. I usually strive to date all my writings, but not all the older papers have dates on them, I'm afraid.


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I just came back from my first weekend trip to somewhere else that is not London. I hope that this will be the first of many of such excursions. These types of trips were one of the main draws for moving to London, besides...you know, London.
Getting to Paris from London is about as easy as getting to Connecticut from Brooklyn at 11am on a weekday, after everyone else has already made their commute, a.k.a it's pretty easy. And then there you are, in Paris.
Lots of Brits don't seem really enamored with the City of Lights. Compared to the Big Smoke, it certainly couldn't be more different, that's true. London looms larger than life and when I first moved here I was terrified to step foot into it. Paris, by contrast, seems to invite you into it, to explore. There's always a place to sit and eat. It always seems appropriate to do those things. Coming back after so many years away felt like slipping on my favorite leather jacket, snug and easy, you're always in the mood for it.
I stayed in Monmartre, just above the Abbesses Metro stop. As fair as a Parisienne quotient, the Hill flies off the charts. Roads that wind and meander, quaint houses, always a place to peak into, food is comforting, and restaurants are cozy. You're also very close to great neighborhoods like South Pigalle, or SoPi, which are hotbeds of hipster action.
There was much eating and much too much drinking, but the crystal clear days that Paris gave us helped us get up and moving. We walked from the Hill to the Marais, the Marais to the Jardin du Luxembourg, the Jardins to the Tuillieries. Big fluffy clouds rolled by, the sky was blue, the sun shone, dogs walked themselves and all was right in the world.


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Review: Orly In a Snap quick drying topcoat
So what's the verdict? Sadly while it's great, it's not quite HG material. When applied over dry polish it sets wonderfully fast. It's dry to touch in a minute and completely dry in five.
But there is a trade-off, with some polishes, my nails start chipping in two days even if I apply two layers and top it off again in between. I find that this polish works better with some colours than others - brand doesn't seem to be a factor!
For example, Revlon in Copperglaze Platinum lasts over five days chip free with this, but Opulent Pink chips in 2 days. It's head scratchingly odd.
The funny thing is, I remember the old formula had these problems - but five years later that funky smelling bottle is wonderful. Should I set this aside for 5 years and let it thicken then? =P
I'm still looking out for my HG quick dry polish. Until then I can't live without this. I don't mind painting my nails every 3-4 days compared to waking up the next day with smudged or hatched nails.
5 comments:
- LyNn said...
just wondering
apart from this topcoat
what other quick drying topcoats have you tried?
- 21 January 2010 at 08:55
- Askmewhats said...
oh no, chipped after 2 days??? You can try OPI's RapiDry, my nail polish is still alive after hmm..5 days for now :)
- 21 January 2010 at 10:16
- Kahani said...
Lynn: That's about it really. =P Am gonna give Sally Hansen a whirl next I think.
Nikki: Ooh really? The reviews on MUA were so bad I decided not to get it!
- 21 January 2010 at 12:19
- jeen said...
Kahani, try the 30-second Sally Hansen one - the one in a clear red bottle, not the clear bottle - it's my ol' faithful.
The clear bottle is cheaper and dries about as fast but it doesn't lay down as thick a layer as the red bottle. The stuff in the red bottle stays chip-free for several days to a week, depending on what you put your nails through.
I also have it on good authority that it's the closest dupe to seche vite :)
- 21 January 2010 at 23:05
- Kahani said...
omg jeen... you're a godsend. I hope they sell it here. Yes I've been moping around because seche vite isn't hereeee...
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I would like to start by saying an enormous thank you and well done to everyone who helped make the May Revels such a success last Saturday. With a small team it is a huge amount of dedication and work and your efforts are very much appreciated by us all at school. The fundraising is hugely important but equally as valuable is the enjoyment of the event by our pupils and the memories it creates.
Staffing September 2018.
I am thrilled to be able to share some exciting news about teaching arrangements in the new academic year.
In September Mrs Hayes will increase her teaching days in Class 1 from two to three. We will be recruiting for the two day position (job share) for Class 1 and keep you informed when an appointment has been made.
Due to a very small intake of pupils in Reception both last year and this year, the number of children in Class 1 will be significantly reduced and a contrast to the numbers in Class 2. As a result we have worked together as staff and governors to consider how best we structure the teaching in order to secure the best outcomes for all our pupils. For the academic year 2018/19 we will continue with two classes; Class 1 Reception / Y1 / Y2 and Class 2 Y3 / Y4 / Y5 and Y6. However, during the morning English and maths sessions pupils will be organised into three groups. This means the Y3/Y4 pupils will be taught separately from the Y5/Y6 pupils. We will be advertising for a HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant – qualification required) to assist with the teaching of the groups. Higher Level Teaching Assistants do all the things that regular teaching assistants do but they have an increased level of responsibility. HLTAs can teach classes on their own and cover planned absences. They work under the direction of the class teachers. This has been made possible due to the support of the Oakridge Trust Fund. We believe this to be an exciting plan which will ensure all our pupils are taught in small focussed groups.
Miss Hawkins continues to be absent due to illness. We look forward to welcoming her back in Term 6.
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The Kansas City Chiefs got a win on Sunday.
The team snapped an eight-game losing streak, beating the Carolina Panthers 27-21 while improving their record to 2-12 on the season.
During the post-game press conference, Chiefs' head coach Romeo Crennel did not look the part of the winning coach, nor did his words sound as such.
The coach lamented, "I'm choosing not to answer any questions about what I saw yesterday. I think that you will understand that, and hopefully you will respect my wishes on that, because it wasn't a pretty sight."
What the coach had seen the preceding day was the 2nd half of a tragedy.
Fourth-year linebacker, Jovan Belcher, killed himself with a gunshot to the head in front of Crennel and GM Scott Pioli in the parking lot of the Chiefs practice facility shortly after murdering his long-time girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, shooting her in front of her mom and in the presence of his mom and the couple's 3-month old daughter.
On Monday, this piece was published on KansasCity.com about Ms. Perkins, offering a little bit of background on the woman whose tragic death has nearly made her a household name.
Her friends had apparently inspired the column in that they did not want her to be "overshadowed" by the recognition of the famed athlete and boyfriend by whom she was killed.
The friends spoke about how they had not known Belcher to be violent, offering that sure, the couple's relationship had endured some rough patches but nothing out of the ordinary.
"They're like every couple, they argued," said Kelsie Hoberg, a close friend of Perkins. "Nothing we thought was ever super-unhealthy...I don't know how it got to where it did-why he thought he needed a gun."
This article posted today on ESPN.com confirms that the Chiefs were aware that the couple was having relationship problems.
In the days since this tragedy, guns and the broader issue of this country's gun culture have been offered as areas in which rethinking and reformation may have an impact on domestic violence fatalities.
Belcher legally possessed the handgun that took Perkins' and his life so it's hard to know just how and what politically or lawfully might have prevented the act.
I would offer that, perhaps, the greatest opportunity we have to affect the high incidence of domestic violence lies in our willingness to take a long, hard look at our culture's fascination with toxic relationships and the factors that contribute to our growing inability to know the difference between a rough patch and a red flag.
In Hoberg's quote above, more than her questioning Belcher's need for a gun, her words regarding the seeming absence of anything unhealthy in Belcher and Perkins' relationship gave me pause.
I wondered, in these times, how difficult it must be for a woman, especially a young woman of just 22 years, to make an informed decision about the state of her relationship.
While our society's stance against domestic violence is a constant as we remain unified in our disdain and disgust for offenders, we have failed to provide reliable education as to the various toxicity markers that might help identify a love affair gone wrong.
Worse yet, so much of what we see on our televisions and hear on our radios glamorizes the exquisite pain of a hard won relationship, persuading would be significant others to be willing to endure more suffering in order to gain more superficial pleasure.
As far back as what would seem to be a lifetime ago, I was in an abusive relationship. It's hard to describe how I got there. Once engrossed, however, I only remember the empty, powerless feeling of having adjusted every part of my personality in order to try to relieve someone's insecurities only to realize that their insecurities had nothing to do with me.
And here's the tricky part, I wasn't struck physically until more than eight months into the relationship. Up to that point I had only been assaulted verbally.
I would like to believe that if I had been courageous enough to reveal my plight to someone at the time, I might have received a stern warning to get out before things got worse.
But in reality, I have little faith that anyone in my life at that time-excluding my mother who would have been the last person I told-would have been equipped to advise me of that.
The truth is, short of a black eye or a death threat, most people would have found little reason for alarm. People are more content to butt out, choosing to spare themselves the risk of being accused of having too much of an opinion on the matter.
In our current relationships climate, the Chris Brown/Rihanna narrative and the others like it, more than anything else, have distorted our view of what it means for love to conquer all.
It seems the more famous the partner the more easily their actions are excused.
That and the incessant show of support for Brown from his fanatic base demonstrate that, apparently, talent too pardons crimes in the court of public opinion.
Furthermore, our popular culture's sad inclination to value what you have more than who you are may render someone helplessly illogical in their choice between starting over in a new, healthy and loving relationship or getting a new designer bag in your old one.
A quick trip around the radio dial reveals that this generation's music defines a healthy relationship, by today's standards, as having begun with a little crazy and a lot of carnal pleasure, ending with a lot of crazy and a few new outfits plus a BMW in the garage.
And it's not only women who are drawn into this delusional web of erroneous perspective.
Men are lyrically lured by their hip hop contemporaries into the belief that all a damaged female good needs is a strong man to-according to Grammy-winning recording artist, Neo-love her until she learns to love herself.
Though the intent is noble, any man who embarks on that journey is sure to find a cruel and distressing ride and faces a very low possibility of conversion. Such aspirations are usually nothing more than a figment of the male ego.
It is the responsibility of each of us individually to be moved to love ourselves and to believe we are worthy of love. It is senseless to think otherwise.
And domestic violence is the quintessential senseless act. Despite all we will learn in the coming days and weeks about Belcher and Perkins' last days, the details will be meaningless in our quest for answers.
A mournful tragedy such as this one should inspire us to ask better questions of our loved ones and ourselves. We need a deeper, more significant discussion around how a healthy relationship looks and feels.
It's the truest way to open our society up to the possibility of a preventive plan of attack on domestic violence and domestic violence fatalities in this country.
We have all suffered in silence long enough.


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Friends Confidently Expect the Ceremony to Take Place Within a Few Days
Miss Force, the Bride-elect, Apparently Doing Her Final Shopping---Ceremony Probably in Connecticut
There was an impression last night among the friends of Col.
John Jacob Astor that his marriage to Miss Madeleine T. Force would not
be delayed more than a few days. The Astor yacht Noma was hurriedly
coaled and provisioned, and there arrived at the Force home sundry big
boxes containing purchases made by Miss Force during the day. Col.
Astor himself declined to say even that the marriage would not take
place to-day.
It was reported yesterday that a clergyman had been found who was willing to perform the ceremony, and that it would probably take place in Connecticut, but no record of the issue of a license for the wedding could be traced in that State.
Col. Astor was in and out of the
Force home during the day and evening. Shortly after 8 o'clock last
night he called and took his fiancée out in a taxicab. They were gone
for two hours. On their return Col. Astor stayed about twenty minutes.
When he came out he was asked what arrangements had been made for the
"As yet," he replied, "we have made no definite arrangements in regard to our marriage. In fact, matters stand just as they did yesterday."
Col. Astor went to his town house at 840 Fifth Avenue, where it was said he would spend the night.
The Noma, lying off Eightieth Street, had been coaling during the day and was taking on provisions until late last night. The Captain and both mates went ashore indicating that the yacht would not sail last night. It was learned, however, that the intention was that she should leave this morning. Her prospective destination is kept secret.
Indications that something more than usual was astir were in evidence about the Force home yesterday morning, when Col. Astor called two hours ahead of his usual time. Soon after he left Miss Force made a round of the Fifth Avenue shops, the result of which was apparent last evening when two big hat boxes and five other boxes arrived at her residence from a store where millinery and other things feminine are dispensed.
Before Miss Force had finished her shopping tour Col. Astor was back at her house. He got there about 1 o'clock and found nobody at hime. [sic] After he had waited an hour and a half Mrs. Force came in with her dog. Twenty minutes later Miss Katherine Force entered the house, and after twenty minutes more Miss Madeleine got back from her shopping expedition.
After his long wait Col. Astor greeted, his fiancée enthusiastically. He called a taxicab and started oft with the two young women. Miss Katherine Force was dropped at the Grand Central Subway station and Col. Astor and Miss Madeleine Force went on to the St. Regis, where they had tea. Col. Astor saw Miss Force at her home again in the evening.
William H. Force, father of the bride-to-be, had an encounter with a photographer when he went out for his morning walk yesterday. He started off with the photographer following him, on the alert for a good opening. Mr. Force noticed the photographer's manoeuvres, turned around, and made a gesture indicating that he would not be photographed. The young man continued to advance on him, but stopped when Mr. Force raised his cane and rushed at him. The photographer fled, with Mr. Force pursuing, shaking his cane and declaring loudly that he would have him arrested.
The photographer had no trouble in keeping ahead of the irate Mr. Force. Suddenly he turned, halted an instant, got a good snapshot of his man, raised cane and all, and was off.
Mr. Force, disgusted, walked back home. No arrests.
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Everton announce Aiden McGeady transfer
Everton have unveiled new signing Aiden McGeady after bringing in the Republic of Ireland international from Spartak Moscow for an undisclosed fee.
The 27-year-old has agreed a four-and-a-half year deal at Goodison Park, where he will join international teammates Seamus Coleman, Darron Gibson, and James McCarthy. Roberto Martinez is rumoured to have paid £2.5 million to Spartak for the services of the winger, having previously tried to sign him while at Wigan Athletic.
McGeady moved to Russia for £9.5 million in 2010, having impressed for Celtic in the Champions League. A statement on the Spartak Moscow website read: "Spartak and Everton have reached an agreement in principle on the transfer of 27-year-old midfielder Aiden McGeady to the English club. Spartak Moscow thanks Aiden for the years he has spent with the team and wishes him success in his future career."
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Access to accurate, up-to-date grantmaking data is critical to understanding the funding landscape and ensuring that your giving is as effective as it can be. And that's what this campaign is all about!
The campaign to "Get on the Map" is a partnership between Philanthropy Massachusetts, the Candid (formerly Foundation Center) and the United Philanthropy Forum, and has as its mission:
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If I share my data, what's in it for me?
When you share your data, you'll be making a powerful contribution to Foundation Maps, a highly interactive, searchable mapping platform from Foundation Center that will be accessible to all Philanthropy Massachusetts' members.
But, it's all about participation. Only when our community of funders commits to sharing data will the Foundation Maps platform reach its full potential as a powerful source of accurate, up-to-date answers to questions like…
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The YV-929 armed freighter was a 22-meter-long light freighter produced by Corellian Engineering Corporation. It used the same forward cockpit structure as the much larger YV-100 light freighter.
Unlike most CEC freighters, which came off the assembly lines with minimal weaponry, the YV-929 was designed from the start to be heavily armed for defense against pirate and Rebel raids, and also featured very strong shields.
The YV-929 was armed with two dual light turbolasers, dual ion cannon turret beneath the cockpit, two triple blasters mounted on stubby wings, and four concussion missile launchers, half of which fired to the aft.
Despite its compact size and heavy armament, the YV-929 was still able to carry 150 metric tons of cargo.
Not surprisingly, the YV-929 was often used by the very Rebels and pirate groups it was designed to defend against. The second most common user of the design was the Corporate Sector Authority.
It was often referred to as a "flying brick". The Empire often sanctioned or fined CEC for selling the freighters to various third parties such as the Rebel Alliance.[2]
YV-929 light freighterEdit
A variant of the YV-929 was produced which reduced the armaments by removing the turbolasers and one of the concussion missile launchers. This version of the craft carried enough consumables for six months of operation.
- "A Legacy of Starships"—Star Wars Gamer 2 (First mentioned)
- The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
- Dangerous Covenants
- "Starship and Airspeeder Speed Chart" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
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Hace dos días pensaba esto y hoy leo esto en el blog de Helen DeWitt:
Piaget makes a very good case for the fact that the language, and even the concepts and the thoughts we have as adults, really don't fit with childhood experience. There is a radical discontinuity between childhood experience and adult experience. We complain of a kind of amnesia, that we don't recall much of our early childhood, and Freud of course said that this was because we were repressing painful or guilty desires. But Piaget argues this couldn't be true, because otherwise we would forget only those things that were painful but remember everything else—which is clearly not the case. We have an almost blanket amnesia, and Piaget argues that the terms in which we experienced our childhood are incommensurable with the terms in which we now think as adults. It's as though it's an entirely different language we knew and lost. Therefore I feel that any writer who is writing about childhood, as an adult, is bound to falsify experience, but one of the things you try to do is to find poetic approximation; an elusive and impossible task. It is like trying to pick up blobs of mercury with tweezers—you can't do it. You nevertheless attempt to find various metaphorical ways of surprising that experience. I think you oftentimes feel it's there, but you can't get at it, and that's the archaeology of writing about childhood.


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Back to Rockville
Corinne Bailey Rae gives an Uptown Theater crowd the sounds of a resurrected heart and soul
Ten years ago, Corinne Bailey Rae was poised to be a big star. In February 2006, at the age of 27, she released her debut, self-titled album, which would rise to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 charts and sell nearly 2 million copies in the United States and more than 4 million worldwide.
Two years later, as she was working on the follow-up, "The Sea," her husband, musician Jason Rae, died of an accidental overdose of drugs, and her second album, "The Sea," released in 2010, became, mostly, a treatise about grief, sorrow and loss.
Rae toured on that album and released a subsequent EP of cover songs, but it would take her six years to resurrect her muse and make another full-length, "The Heart Speaks in Whispers," released in May.
Tuesday night, before a crowd of about 600 in the Uptown Theater, she and her tight, whip-smart four-piece band delivered a show that tapped into all of Rae's music catalog, an appealing mix of jazz, soul, R&B, folk, rock and pop that evokes an array of similarities and comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Erykah Badu, Rickie Lee Jones and, on one or two occasions, Esperanza Spalding, who assisted in the recording of "The Heart."
Love and romance were themes throughout. She opened with "Been to the Moon," a silky track from "Heart" that delivers an ultimatum to a suitor: "I've been to the moon and stars for you / Now it's your turn to go for me, too." She followed that with "Closer," a track from "The Sea" that's an appeal for intimacy, then two from her debut album: "Breathless" ("I get so breathless when you call my name") and the satiny "Till It Happens to You," a declaration of heartache and doubt.
Throughout the show, Rae exuded a sense of liberation, raising her arms high and sweeping them back and forth, gently shaking her substantial mane of hair and flashing her radiant smile.
Her audience was attentive all night, even during the extended instrumental jams that showcased her band's considerable skills. Rae joined her mates on acoustic and electric guitar for several tunes, and they applied two- and three-part harmonies.
The crowd sang along to favorites, including the chorus of "Green Aphrodisiac," a slow, sunny ballad about nature and sex: "Kiss me, your lips taste of honey / Songbirds and bees start a-hummin'." But no song aroused a bigger response than "Put Your Records On," a catchy R&B/soul number with a sweet melody and irresistible groove.
She closed the 95-minute show with "Like a Star," another hit from her debut album and another song about the trials and rewards of love. Before that, though, she sang "The Skies Will Break," a promise that sorrow will end and redemption is on the way, wisdom she attained the hard way: "The skies will break for you, my friend / It won't be long until it ends."
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I will be interviewed by a panel @ NSCD's Net Night on
Friday, 8th of March 2013 from 6-9PM
During the evening, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds will be host to established artists who will be interviewed by small panels. There will be workshops, a gallery of work and a "market place".
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The crypto markets are a perfect sea of red today. IOTA is down in the double-digits, which may come as a surprise to some. After all, the foundation has had a pretty successful two weeks.
The Latest IOTA News
On May 2, IOTA disclosed that it has joined the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative. Then, on May 5, word surfaced that IOTA was the sole winner of a partnership with Porsche, a German auto-manufacturer. The altcoins foundation will reportedly be working with Porsche on a project, called the Program 4 project.
The @PorscheLab is looking forward to work together with @iotatoken & @Porsche on a @StartupAutobahn Project. #StartupAutobahn is the ultimate innovation platform that unites tech companies with the tech expertise of #SiliconValley & the best of German engineering. #Porsche #IOTA pic.twitter.com/xMU7BSuX8r
— IOTA News (@iotatokennews) May 5, 2018
Three days later, IOTA was leading the cryptocurrency market. The news about Porsche came the same week that the altcoin started trading on Huobi. Meanwhile, this week, things are still looking optimistic for the altcoin. That is, in terms of announcements.
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— Huobi Pro (@Huobi_Pro) May 8, 2018
Late Thursday, the IOTA Foundation announced that it has added Michael Nilles to its team. Further, today, the altcoin got a shout out from emerging blockchain service provider BiiLabs. Both of these announcements were positive enough to send the coin towards the bright green light, but that didn't happen.
Welcome Michael Nilles to the IOTA Foundationhttps://t.co/4SbAfA2UQv#IOTA
— IOTA (@iotatoken) May 10, 2018
The foundation has seen numerous positive announcements surface this week. However, that hasn't helped the altcoin much today. MIOTA is still down significantly on the crypto markets.
MIOTA is currently selling for $1.92. This puts the coin down 13.88% in the past twenty-four hours. The altcoin has a market cap of $5.34 billion. The coin holds the title of being the 8th largest cryptocurrency.
Source: CoinMarketCap
What is the Crypto Community Saying about the Coin?
When it comes to discussing the altcoin, the crypto community has remained pretty quiet on social media. That said, there are tweets like the one placed below out there. These sorts of tweets show people are thinking about the coin in innovative ways.
I've been in electronics, wireless and encryption business for 37 years, both in and out of the military. #IOTA is the first crypto-currency that has garnered the most interest for me. My mind is full of real world use cases, exciting and rewarding times ahead!! #IOTAstrong
— green-protocol (@green_protocol) May 10, 2018
The IOTA Takeaway
Are you surprised to see the coin in the red zone today, considering all that has been announced over the past two weeks? Let me know below!
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Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Daddy Issues Edition
& Sons by David Gilbert (Random House Audio, July 23)
Oh, the things about & Sons that drove me bananas — the clunky omniscient narrator, the whole book-within-a-book thing, and it scores a big fat D- on the Bechdel test with its half-baked lady characters. In this 450-page dramedy about fathers and sons, a crotchety reclusive writer named A.N. Dyer engineers a reunion with his estranged adult children and his teenage bastard son, hoping they'll bond the bonds of brotherly love before he up and dies. (Dyer! See what he did there?) But before I knew what was happening, I found myself caring about the Dyer boys in the same way I cared whether Joey would pick Dawson or Pacey on The WB each week, and I couldn't wait to get back in the car every morning to tune into the Dyers' next Upper East Side hijinks. The pages are filled with charming-as-hell literary vignettes about rich boy problems, and if you make it halfway, you'll get to a full blown science fiction twist that should be a train wreck but somehow isn't. I actually kind of love this book a little bit because of it, and I'm not telling if the twist is zombies or not.
Verdict: BORROW. Borrow it so hard, just like you borrowed that Dawson's Creek boxed set from your friend who ponied up for it at the library book sale.
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell (Little, Brown and Company, September 3)
If "Buy, Borrow, Bypass" is secretly Date, Dump, or Marry for books, then The Maid's Version is the one you take home to meet your parents. And not because The Maid's Version is especially shiny or pretty on its own, but because Daniel Woodrell is a national fucking treasure. This is Woodrell's first novel since Winter's Bone, and in it he writes about his own father's mother, a maid who married a drunk and worked in the kitchen of the richest man in West Table, Missouri. One night, an explosion burns down a dance hall and kills 42 people in an unsolved tragedy that the town still whispers about to this day. With his trademark grit and haunting prose straight from the bowels of the Missouri Ozarks, Woodrell explores the schism between the haves and the have-nots, the wounds of fathers and sons, and the story his own grandma — the maid — whispered to him about what really happened that tragic night in 1929.
Verdict: BUY, so you can put it on your bookshelf next to the rest of your Southern grit lit where it belongs.
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly (Grove Press, September 3)
This British thriller started as my hero, full of badass feminist promise. An overstressed mother in the English Lake District loses her best friend's 13 year old daughter during a string of local disappearances, and thus we head down the dark and twisty path of modern parenthood. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? has all the right ingredients: cheating spouses, plotting frenemies, sinister fathers, secrets roiling just beneath the surface of everyday domestic life. There's even a subplot about dog rescue. But as I tore through, I started to feel disappointed and was reminded of praise Gillian Flynn recently showered on Alafair Burke: "you know you're in good hands with her, and can relax without wondering if things are going to fall apart midway through." That thriller pixie magic didn't quite happen for me here; this is Daly's first novel, and I think she's still feeling her way through, sharpening her craft and learning all the tricks. Her language and insights are both shrewd, and I'm looking forward to how much more effortlessly she'll handle the twists in her second and third books.
Verdict: BYPASS unless you're a thriller junkie and/or a dog lover, and keep your eye out for her 2014 release, The Day Before You Came, instead.
Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet (Crown, August 6)
Once upon a time in a faraway land I denied being the "thriller-reading type" — but then I started reading the really dark and twisty stuff; the kind where everyone wriggles and squirms and NO ONE gets to be the good guy. I'm in! Kelly Braffet's wonderful new book is about as dark and twisty as it gets. Eight attractive teenagers with shitty lives scramble to fend for themselves in a miserable world where grownups turn their backs just when their protection is needed most. At the story's core are two very different, very damaged families whose kids are left to atone for their parents' sins, with new sins of their own piling on at top speed. Braffet gives us a beautifully realized cast of the downtrodden and exiled in suburban Pittsburgh: exhausted waitresses, metalhead gas station attendants, blithe drunks, bullied goths, churchy fathers, schizophrenic mothers, all in a creepy, squirmy, steamy, scary stew that simmers to its punishing but perfect conclusion. All the fancy thriller writers with literary cred are calling Kelly Braffet the hottest new thing, and I'm SO on board.
Verdict: BUY, and then hole yourself up in a cabin in the woods to read the whole shebang cover-to-cover in 24 hours.
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|Medtronic Introduces Signia(TM) Stapling System, Innovative Surgical Stapler for Minimally Invasive Surgery
New Single-Handed Powered Stapling System Provides Real-time Feedback During Surgery1
DUBLIN - Feb. 16, 2017 - Delivering on its commitment to develop and expand minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technologies and capabilities, Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) announced the launch of its Signia(TM) Stapling System. The latest addition to the company's MIS portfolio, the Signia system provides surgeons with real-time feedback and automated responses to that real-time data.
The Signia system includes Adaptive Firing(TM) technology that measures the firing force and adjusts the stapler's speed based on tissue variability measurements, allowing for consistent staple lines2,3. Human tissue differs in thickness throughout the body and its organ systems. For example, tissue is thinnest at the top of the stomach and thickest at the bottom of the stomach near the small intestine4. Adaptive Firing technology can detect the variability of tissue and automatically adjust the stapler's speed during MIS procedures; this allows surgeons to fire staples consistently and evenly2,3. The Signia system also offers surgeons one-handed staple firing, allowing them to free up their other hand and stay focused on the surgical site5.
"In my experience to date, I believe the articulation, rotation and firing of the Signia system provides an important new option in the performance of minimally invasive surgical procedures," said Dana Portenier, M.D., FACS, co-program director, Duke Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Fellowship division chief, Duke Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery Duke Regional Hospital, chairman of surgery. "Its ability to provide the surgeon with helpful data and real-time response has the potential to contribute to more informed surgical decision-making."
"The Signia system is a first-of-its-kind stapling system and represents our commitment to pioneering intelligence-based minimally invasive surgical solutions," said Chris Barry, senior vice president and president of the Surgical Innovations business, which is part of the Minimally Invasive Therapies Group at Medtronic. "Ultimately, healthcare should help patients get better, faster with less pain; MIS delivers on that commitment."
The benefits of MIS procedures are well documented. MIS is less invasive than traditional open surgery and can be used in multiple surgical procedure areas including thoracic, bariatric, colorectal and gynecological. The Signia system is launching initially in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. It is expected to roll out to additional global geographies during the company's fiscal year 2018.
To view an animation of the Signia Stapler System in use, click here http://oak.ctx.ly/r/5ffs9
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Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic's periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
1 Based on internal test report #RE00024826, Signia(TM) stapling system summative usability report, January 2016.
2 Based on internal test report #R2146-151-0, Powered Stapling Firing Speed DOE Analysis and ASA Parameters, 2015.
3 Based on internal test report #R2146-173-0, ASA Verification Testing with Slow Speed Force Limit Evaluation, 2015.
4 Elariny H, González H, Wang B. 24. Tissue thickness of human stomach measured on excised gastric specimens from obese patients. Surg Technol Int. 2005; 14:119-124.
5 Based on internal test report #RE00024826. Signia(TM) Stapling System Summative Usability Report, Rev A, January 2016.


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Two books to order
I decided to order two english bread books to my uncle's home, who will come and visit us in a couple weeks. Books are probably everywhere cheaper than in Switzerland, this way I will be able to save around 30 Dollars, which is a lot for a student like me.
Now, question: which books? I decided to order for at least 25 $, because otherwise I'd have to pay for the shipping anyway. I rather spend my money for books only. ;)
I've already got Reinhart's BBA and Hamelman's Bread.
I was thinking about one Whole Grain book, either Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads or Laurel's Kitchen Bread book. I'm not sure which one I should take. I'm looking for a good book with interesting formulas. not only american style pan loaves. I do like hearth breads as well. It seems to me that Laurel's Book includes more formulae, but I don't know what kind of bread they are. I don't mind a couple enriched, sandwich style loaves, but I'd like to have some lean doughs as well. Do I find this in Laurel's book? Reinhart's on the other hand seems to have less theory and less formulae, but a section with hearth breads. is it worth it?
Secondly, I'd like to buy a book which includes formulae which consist out of a variety of grains, not only white flour, some sourdough . . . They can be time consuming, but please, not only! I don't want to have three day-projects all the time. A preferment - fine, sourdough - fine, but to fussy recipes don't fit into my schedule. I was thinking about Leader's Local Breads. I know about the errors in the recipes, but I think it wouldn't matter to much for me as I mostly use weight measurements? And I've already got quite some experience with baking, so I hope that I'd be able to correct errors if I find some?
Any other propositions?
I'd be very happy about some help to make my decision. And I promise to post about my baking which will result out of these books. ;)


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The party that calls itself Europe is over.
The sovereign debt crisis afflicting its weakest members has ended the eurozone's political Ponzi scheme -- the proclivity to hand out entitlements today and run up a tab due tomorrow.
The continent's La Dolce Vita lifestyle will disappear along with subsidies; cushy civil servant jobs; six-week holidays; 30-hour work weeks, Freedom 50 retirements and its people's belief that the world owes them a living.
This is the Great Markdown in Europe. A more gradual one is underway in North America. Both are due to debts, deficits, demographics and democracy.
Europe's situation is compounded by its badly devised, decentralized and balkanized fiscal regime -- one currency for 17 out of 27 countries and a central bank in each nation state. This is like herding cats and unsustainable as last week's political upheavals revealed.
Two democratically-elected leaders in Greece and Italy were unceremoniously pushed aside and replaced by technocrats and the IMF.
Greece's prime minister was replaced by a de facto "bankruptcy trustee" whose job is to take orders from the IMF, in the hopes of turning around the bankrupt country.
Then Italy's playboy prime minister was replaced by a "soft receiver," Mario Monti. He's a tough-minded academic, with huge political and moral leverage across the European Union, who will make Margaret Thatcher look like Mother Teresa.
By the way, Italy is not a basket case like Greece, Ireland or Portugal. But its bonds are under siege, which could prove ruinous for the region, and this is not due to fundamentals but to trading games that can be halted as described below.
Here are some facts about Italy:
- Total government assets in Italy are slightly less than the total of its public debts.
- Italy could raise an estimated 45 billion euro by selling its stake in oil giant ENI, utility ENEL, Poste Italiane or aerospace conglomerate Finmeccanica alone and Monti loves privatizations.
- Offsetting Italy's high public debt, of 120 per cent of GDP, is its low household debt of 42 per cent. By comparison, the U.S. and Canada have public debts of 90 per cent and 80 per cent respectively, but their household debts are among the highest in the world or above 160 per cent of GDP.
By the way, the relatively seamless transition from elected to technocrats is a healthy and necessary way to circumvent short-term democracies which have failed to cope with this crisis. This is no different than a private sector "workout" where the CEO is removed from a failing corporation and is replaced by the bankers' representatives.
Those reforms are now in place and new leaders in Portugal, Ireland and Spain (in this weekend's election) are kowtowing to the dictates of bondholders and bankers.
But financial reform is necessary in order to arrest and cool off the world's hot money. These are hedge funds and others who have caused the sovereign debt contagion and profited from it by making self-fulfilling short-selling bets.
A fascinating set of remedies has been suggested this week by Leonard Waverman, dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and former professor at London University.
He rightly suggests that the Euro crisis is similar to the Asian contagion in 1997 when speculators picked off one currency after another. The difference is that, in this case, there is one currency, the euro, but the similarity is that there are the bonds of 17 eurozone members to pick off. This permits a "classic run" because the bonds are substitutes for currencies that can be pummelled down in value for a profit.
"These one-way bets are yielding large profits to some at the expense of hundreds of millions of people," said Waverman.
It is time to put "sand in the wheels" of the "herd" through "capital controls." These include eurozone members mopping up embattled bonds and paying higher than market prices to destroy short-seller profit-taking; raising margin requirements to 50 per cent or more and imposing a Tobin Tax on trades.
It's interesting that in an imperfect currency union, the bonds of each country behave like separate currencies to market players. Waverman also notes that Malaysia was able to avert a currency run in 1997 by deploying such controls.
The European situation is considerably more serious than next week's "drama." The U.S. Congressional "super committee" is supposed to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts and tax hikes by the end of the week, but they are also politically challenged.
Investors are assuming nothing will be accomplished. This means that the only big news will be if these American politicians actually agree to make cuts before the football games start on Thanksgiving Day.
But don't count on it. The Europeans stand a better chance of fixing their problems before the 2012 U.S. federal election because they have learned how to unseat the incompetents in between elections.
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Lunching: A Rustic Tomato Soup Recipe
I've been meaning to share this utterly simple and perfectly basic recipe with you for a few weeks now, but somehow I manage to eat every last drop before snapping a single photo. We've had alternating hail storms, bitter winds, and generally chilly weather which has had me in the mood for hearty, warming dishes. However, what I've not been in the mood for is long hours at the stove when such exciting work is happening in the studio. This soup fits the bill; it's a snap to make, chances are you have everything rolling about in the panty, and it tastes far fancier than it looks. While I love to whip up extravagant courses, I also put a lot of stock in being able to make magic happen with a couple cans and an old clove of garlic.
~ Rustic Tomato Soup ~
you will need
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 of a medium-to-large onion, roughly chopped
3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp of dried herbs (I'll talk more on this later)
2 cups broth/stock (I often freeze bags of homemade veggie stock, but today I emptied a left-over carton of beef broth from a stew earlier in the week)
2 14oz cans of tomatos (organic, no added salt/sugar if possible. These can be diced, stewed, sliced, it matters not)
how to make it
Heat olive oil in a largish stock pot on the stove. Toss in onions, cook for 3-4 minutes or until beginning to turn translucent, stirring often. Add garlic, cook for another 1-2 minutes. Add sea salt, brown sugar and dried herbs (I've been using a dried Bouquet Garni mix which includes savory, rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, dill, sage and tarragon. However, I've also used hearty pinches of basil and oregano alone, and once, chopped up some fresh sage and threw in a bit of rosemary. Truly, I think you can get away with any combination above, just go light at first and taste along the way), continue cooking and stirring until the onions begin caramelizing and barely crisping at the edges.
Add stock and both cans of tomatos, juices included and stir well. Allow everything to warm up on medium heat for 5-8 minutes.
Now, if you're fancy and own an immersion blender, bust that baby out. If not, puree in batches in a blender before returning to the pot. Either way, you want smooth, without any hunks of tomato or onion surprising you later. Once your soup is looking thick and lovely, allow it to simmer for another 5-10 minutes while all the flavors get to know each other.
Finally, serve it up!
Some crusty bread (hello rosemary-olive oil loaf) would be glorious here or even a homey grilled cheese, but if the cupboards are a bit bare and the grocery store is not on the plans (ehem, as it is here), then slurp it up as is. And of course, if you can pour it in a handmade bowl and sip from a vintage spoon, all the better.


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Terraforma2018 – A festival of superior, sustainable bliss (live report)
Terraforma Festival 2018, Milan, Italy, 29.06-01.07 – review by Sandra S. Borch. Photos by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Guido Borso
For the past four years Villa Arconti, a baroque rural palace just outside Milan, has been home for one of Europe's most blissful festivals, Terraforma. First held in 2014 with a line up featuring Voices From the Lake, Pierre Bastien, and CB21, and later editions have included artists such as Suzanne Ciani, Mark Ernestus, Millie and Andrea, Aurora Halal, and Rashad Becker. The artistic programme celebrates music with an open-minded and experimental attitude across borders and genres. For its fifth edition the festival had the wizard from Detroit Jeff Mills, spokeswoman for the NON collective Nkisi, Rabih Beaini, Danielle De Santis, and many more. Here follows a selection of performances and thoughts on Europe's newcomer among experimental music festivals. Læs resten


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