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A few weeks ago I blurted out on Twitter that I was super excited about an upcoming T-Shirt that was inspired by my words and a particular blog post of mine. Well, after much self-inflicted anticipation, the shirt has finally been released! The shirt is called Unstoppable Andy, and it was designed by George Soto and comes to us from the guys that brought us the popular exploded tees and more recently, the string of Android inspired shirts.
So how did my words turn into a T-Shirt design?
Prior to Unstoppable Andy, the exploded design team, spearheaded by Dion Brigs, released a tee entitled Andy vs. Apple. It was meant to be a pro Android design. But as would any Mac faithful, I turned things around and poked fun at clunky, slow and chubby Andy the Android. I even compared him to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. Here's an excerpt:
"Some might see this shirt as a pro Android tee. You might see Andy breaking loose and attacking the Apple way. Not me. No way! To me, Andy, that green Andoid character is much like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man character from Ghostbusters. Big, fat, and slow. Sound familiar? If so, because those are all characters that both the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the Android OS and its various handsets have in common. Think Droid X. Big and slow. Yuck.
And at the end of the day, what happened to the Stay Puft Mashmallow Man? He died a horrible death. Apple might not have proton packs to destroy big and fat Andy, but what they do have is even better. It's called Rabid Apple Fans. Myself included.
To me, I see here Apple fighting quite valiantly. They are the good guys. They are fighting the big battle against the fat and ugly Marshmallow known as Andy. Fight that fight, Apple. Keep on fighting."
Well, the exploded guys read my words and a light bulb turned on. The above words would make for an insanely great and epic Steve Jobs vs. Android T-Shirt design! And so they ran with it. They kept me in the loop with the progress of the design and even sent me a few sketches of the unfinished design as it progressed. Needless to say, I was super stoked and excited!
Am I happy with the final product? Heck yeah. And who cares if this one was made with the Android crowd in mind. Steve Jobs is badass here. And remember what happened to the Stay Puft Marshmellow man? He went kaput!
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Lupe Fiasco escorted off inaugural party stage
You might wonder why rapper Lupe Fiasco would be invited to an inauguration party, given that he has publicly criticized President Obama in the past.
But this party was all about free speech.
So when Fiasco took the stage Sunday in Washington at the Hamilton Live theater as part of the StartUp RockOn inauguration bash, he bashed Obama again.
"Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist," he rapped. "Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn't say (bleep). That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either."
Politico reports that tweets indicated Fiasco played one anti-war song for 30 minutes and was told to move on to the next song. When he refused, security escorted him off the stage.
In a statement posted on HyperVocal.com Monday, organizers of the party say Fiasco was not kicked off stage for what he said.
"Lupe Fiasco performed at this private event, and as you may have read, he left the stage earlier than we had planned. But Lupe Fiasco was not 'kicked off stage' for an 'anti-Obama rant.' We are staunch supporters of free speech, and free political speech. This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act."
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Towards a segmented quality coffee market
Posted by TheShot on 27 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Quality Issues
The April 2007 issue of Coffee Talk primarily focused on the annual SCAA conference next month. The most interesting article comes from George Howell, president of Terroir Coffee Company, who wrote about the state of the world's quality coffee supplies: Towards a segmented quality coffee market [PDF file, page 8].
With the growing public awareness of Fair Trade certification and how little coffee growers receive on the price of coffee in Western markets, Mr. Howell underscores the lack of consumer education for how world economies work. For example, he feels the industry does a terrible job of explaining the basic economics of under-developed countries, which is the main reason why coffee growers receive so little on the dollar: the costs (real estate, labor) and livable-wage margins for middlemen are far, far greater in an industrialized nation (e.g., the U.S.) than in a typical coffee growing nation (e.g., Ethiopia).
Mr. Howell also likens the market for quality coffee as sort of a "squat trapezoid", whereas markets for tea or wine are more "pyramidal". While tea and wine quality can reach elite levels that command a significant market price, coffee prices generally plateau once the quality reaches a certain point. The only exceptions to this are "insular market" coffees: bean stocks with such limited supplies (e.g., St. Helena, Jamaica, and Hawaii coffees) that they command high prices regardless of the overall market for quality.
The most embarrassing example of this is the ridiculous Kopi Luwak coffee, a favorite subject for producers of local TV news fluff pieces over the past few years. Roasted Kopi Luwak can fetch $100/lb not because of its quality, but rather because there aren't a lot of Indonesian civets crapping out these novelties. As with many things in life, "expensive" does not always mean "better".
Today the typical home-brewed cup of $10/lb coffee is cheaper per unit of volume than a can of Coca-Cola: consumers really pay next to nothing for their coffee. An inexpensive ($10) bottle wine costs ten times that per unit volume. So the question is how to create the top of a pyramid market for quality coffee — just as we have for tea and wine. Because it's also true that the more you spend at the high quality end, the greater the share of the price that winds up in the grower's pocket.
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[…] BBC World Service radio recently aired a program (make that programme) that tracked a kilogram of coffee from its origins at an Ethiopian coffee farm to retail coffee houses in the Western world: BBC NEWS | Business | Tracking the true cost of coffee. The article mentions the gross imbalance in the distribution of profits as the coffee passes through the hands of middlemen, but it also touches on the gross imbalance of infrastructure and labor costs in the respective countries that the coffee passes through. […]


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The commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the death of Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水), a trailblazer in the nation's democracy movement, brought together political leaders across party lines yesterday as they stressed the importance of democracy in Taiwan.
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"Chiang Wei-shui dedicated himself to Taiwan's democratic movement for the duration of his life ? As we enjoy democracy and freedom in this country today, we should cherish the spirit he left behind," said Lu, addressing the ceremony held at Taipei's Ching Hsiu Girls' High School -- the original site of the headquarters of the Taiwan Cultural Association set up by Chiang.
The vice president also used the opportunity to promote the "blue sky, green land, good Taiwan" alliance, a cross-party association proposed by her to work for political stability by calling on the pan-blue alliance and the pan-green camp to reconcile for the sake of the nation's future.
"Chairman Ma represents the pan-blue camp and Premier Su is a member of the pan-green camp. Only the blue sky, green land alliance can make Taiwan better," she said.
The Taipei City Government has renamed the Chinhsi Park in the city's Tatung District the Chiang Wei-Shui Memorial Park. It is located near a hospital formerly run by Chiang.
Presiding over the inauguration, Ma detailed Chiang's contributions to the nation's democratic movement, and pledged to continue Chiang's efforts to pursue a democratic Taiwan, regardless of political affiliation or ethnic background.
"Chiang Wei-shui's dedication and contribution to Taiwan's democracy is truly an act of love for Taiwan," Ma said.
A man of letters, physician and forerunner of the Taiwanese nationalist movement under Japanese rule, Chiang was born in 1891 in Ilan County. In 1923, Chiang was incarcerated for the first time, accused of violating a security law after he united students and social leaders to oppose Japanese colonization under the banner of the Taiwan Cultural Association.
He later founded the Taiwan People's Party, the nation's first political party, in 1927. He also organized the New Taiwan Alliance and the Taiwanese Labor Alliance in a quest for a more liberal and independent state.
He was jailed 12 times during his lifetime and was eulogized as "the savior of Taiwanese" when he died in 1931 at the age of 40.
Former Control Yuan member Huang Huang-hsiung (黃煌雄), who initiated the memorial ceremony for Chiang five years ago, said that people from many sectors of society had used different methods to express their gratitude to the activist.
The Cabinet named the Taipei-Ilan freeway the Chiang Wei-shui Freeway, and the KMT also displayed a huge a poster featuring his achievements at its old headquarters, as Ma requested, in an attempt to push for ethnic reconciliation.
Saying that Chiang represented the Taiwanese spirit and the nationalist spirit, Huang called on the public to keep in mind the contributions Chiang made to the nation.


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11 Fun Facts About the Beatles
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are remembered for their instrumental roles in launching the British invasion and bringing the aesthetic of rock and roll to new frontiers with everything from electronic effects to sitars. Their songs are beloved, hated, and exhaustively analyzed by a new generation every few years. (Even Glee is getting in on the action: In tonight's fifth season premiere, the show is putting its own spin on 14 classic Beatles tracks.) Abbey Road was released 44 years ago today; here are a few facts about the Fab Four.
1. John grew up near a place called Strawberry Fields in Liverpool.
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From the time he was five years old and all but abandoned by his parents, Lennon lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, in Woolton. One of his favorite spots to explore with his childhood friends was the garden of the nearby Salvation Army orphanage, Strawberry Fields. McCartney remembered in Barry Miles' book Many Years From Now that it was "a secret garden. John's memory of it [was]…There was a wall you could bunk over and it was a rather wild garden, it wasn't manicured at all, so it was easy to hide in." Lennon wrote the song in a reminiscent mood in 1966 while on set in Spain for the film How I Won the War.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" is not the only Beatles song named for a real place—the first Lennon family home in Liverpool stood near Penny Lane—but it might be the only one to have a place named after it: Strawberry Fields is now a memorial section of New York's Central Park.
2. "Michelle" was inspired by Paul's favorite technique for picking up girls at parties.
McCartney once shared in an interview that he and Harrison, self-described "working-class boys," often felt at odds at the boho-chic parties they went to as teens with Lennon (who was older and attending art college). To hold his own, McCartney developed a habit of dressing in black, sitting in a corner with his guitar, and singing in made-up French to see if he could draw over any of the Juliette Greco-type women. It never worked, but one day Lennon suggested that McCartney make "that French thing" into a song. Il faut souffrir pour être belle, man.
3. Ringo's real name is Richard Starkey.
Richard Starkey, called "Ritchie" by his doting mother, was born in Liverpool in 1940; he began playing the drums in a hospital band at the age of 13 while recuperating from a bout of tuberculosis, and by 17 he had helped to found the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Band. He joined the Beatles in 1962, replacing their first drummer, Pete Best.
Starr/Starkey was always known in the group's public performances, films, and album covers as Ringo, but in recordings of studio takes Paul can be heard calling out "Ready, Richard?" before counting the band off. The drummer's first nickname, Rings, reportedly came from his habit of wearing large amounts of jewelry, particularly on his fingers; later, while at a holiday camp, he changed it to "Ringo" to sound more cowboy-ish. In a scene from A Hard Day's Night where the lads are playing cards in a train compartment surrounded by giggling girls, the other members laughingly accuse him of winning because of his lucky rings.
4. The first lyrics to "Yesterday" were "scrambled eggs."
Genius often comes out of nowhere, and the melody for the famous melancholy string setting that is Vladimir Putin's favorite Beatles song apparently just popped into Paul McCartney's head when he woke up one morning. Until he could find words for it, the McCartney walked around the house humming "scrambled eggs…baby, I love scrambled eggs" so that he wouldn't forget the tune.
5. The BBC banned "I Am the Walrus."
Mild string player Harrison was incensed when the BBC banned "I Am the Walrus" for its lyrics "pornographic priestesses" and "let your knickers down." In an interview with official Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, he revealed a desire to take the Beatles' edginess in a new direction altogether:
Why can't you have people f***ing as well? It's going on everywhere in the world, all the time. So why can't you mention it? It's just a word, made up by people... It doesn't mean a thing, so why can't we use it in a song? We will eventually. We haven't started yet.
6. "Norwegian Wood" is not the name of the house.
For Lennon, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was an allusion to an extramarital affair; for Harrison, it meant the breakout song for his defining instrumentals on sitar. But the ethereal head-scratcher of a song title actually refers to the cheap furniture of the average 1960s bachelorette apartment.
Lennon and McCartney's lyrics follow a man who goes to a girl's apartment for the evening, only to be told to sleep in the bathtub and jilted the next morning; resentful of waking up alone, he sets fire to her apartment and its kitschy contents. McCartney remembers: "…a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, 'Cheap Pine,' baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood." Had the song been written today, it might have been called "Ikea Furniture."
7. The famous Abbey Road picture has a prequel.
Courtesy of The Beatles Bible
The final album cover photograph of four Beatles walking in time was chosen from a series of eight shots, taken on the crosswalk in front of Abbey Road Studios over the course of a single day in 1969. Freelance photographer Iain Macmillan took the official photos, but Paul's wife, Linda McCartney, happened to be standing by with her camera to catch this small elderly lady talking to Ringo as Paul fixes his jacket collar. We can only hope they came off as nice young men.
8. Sean Connery royally dissed the Fab Four as James Bond, but liked them enough himself to record a cover.
In the 1964 Bond thriller Goldfinger, Connery purrs, of drinking Dom Perignon at the wrong temperature, "It's simply not done…like listening to the Beatles without earmuffs." Young fans reportedly booed the line in theatres, but the actor himself bears no real animosity toward the Beatles. Connery even collaborated with George Martin in 1988 for the Beatles producer's In My Life album, a retrospective of Fab Four covers by celebrities from Robin Williams to Goldie Hawn. 007's spoken-word version of the title track is radical, but pleasant, like reaching for the Dom Perignon and getting a surprise glass of well-aged scotch.
9. Lovely Rita may have been a real Meter Maid named Meta.
"Traffic wardens," as they were called in London of the 1960s, were less common and less reviled in Britain than across the pond, and it took an American friend of McCartney's commenting on the "meter maids" to inspire the immortal rhyme of the Sgt. Pepper's track. The woman herself, however, never got her fine. Parking attendant Meta Davis claims to have written a ticket for a car outside of the Abbey Road Studios in 1967 when Paul sauntered out and pulled it off the windshield. "He looked at it and read my signature … He said 'Oh, is your name really Meta? ... That would be a good name for a song. Would you mind if I use it?' And that was that. Off he went." However, McCartney has stated that he wrote the lyrics while walking near his brother's house in Gayton, near Liverpool—some 200 miles north of London.
10. And Lucy the Lennon muse last flew in 2009.
The acronymic rendering of the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is LITSWD, but the only three letters that most theorists take any notice of are L,S, and D. The musicians and their fans alike have historically lamented the willingness of some of their critics to look for drug references in song lyrics, and "Lucy," with its imagery of "marmalade skies" and "kaleidoscope eyes," is a frequent victim. The inspiration for the strange and colorful song, however, came from a much more innocent place.
When 4-year-old Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing of a girl named Lucy who sat next to him in school, the songwriter was inspired by his childish scrawl of a girl who his son said was "in the sky with diamonds." Lucy Vodden later moved to London, and remained there until she died from complications related to lupus in 2009 at the age of 46. Julian Lennon rekindled their friendship in the last years of Vodden's life and frequently sent her flowers.
11. There is a heated international grammatical debate over whether the "the" should be capitalized.
Wikipedia talk pages were ablaze late last year over a small but persistent question: are they The Beatles or the Beatles? Lower-case faction members point to handwritten letters by Lennon which feature a small t in the band's title, while proponents of the capital T cite grammatical rules over trademarks and the logo atop the Beatles' official website. Squabbling on the online encyclopedia started in 2004, and recently resulted in several editors being banned from commenting. Lower-case advocate Gabriel Fadden complained of being "cyberstalked" in the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the rumpus. The two surviving musicians, McCartney and Starr, have refrained from throwing an oar or a drumstick in, but if you're interested, the talk page is still open and ripe for grammatical speculation.


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It is Earth Day..and what a beautiful day to celebrate this gorgeous planet. This is what I see everyday when I wake up eat breakfast, lunch and dinner to the time I go to bed. I feel very fortunate to get to live in such a beautiful place.
I watched "no impact man" the other week and I thought it was good. It got me thinking about toilet paper, toothpaste, laundry soap, house hold cleaners, etc. All the things that I thought were "essential".
I use cloth diapers for my little one, so why wouldn't I use cloth for toilet paper? It makes sense, no? My bloggie friend crooked moon mama, uses cloth for toilet paper, check it out, such a cute set up.
I have a couple Earth Day resolutions for myself. I really want to cut down on my families consumption of plastic, everything is either wrapped, stored or sold in it. So its hard to eliminate it, but now that I am more aware of it I try my best. ( for example when you buy mushrooms, there is a choice of buying pre packaged mushrooms, in plastic or you can choose your own and put them in a paper bag:)
My family and I are pretty earth friendly, but there is always room for improvement. Here are a couple little things I would like to change: 1. Stop putting the vegetables that I buy at the grocery store in those produce bags. I want to try and sew some of my own. 2. Start using fabric for toilet paper ( at least for #1's)
What are you earth day resolutions? If you get the chance read " The Lorax" by dr.seuss. Its a good one.
He lets something fall.
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It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
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In OPM survey, leadership, IT and workplace fairness seen lacking
Homeland Security Departmentemployees as a whole hold relatively low opinions of their department'sperformance in several respects, according to an Office of Personnel Managementsurvey.
In key areas covered by the OPMsurvey, employees' attitudes were more negative that those of workers at otherfederal agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office, whichconducted the survey for OPM. The survey, conducted in 2004 and released lastyear, covered all DHS employees and was not limited to IT workers.
These survey results reflect theanswers of 10,475 DHS employees who responded to the survey, and are comparedwith the answers across 16 large civilian agencies, including DHS.
Specific survey questions andemployee responses included:
AgencyleadershipHave a high level of respect for thedepartment's senior leaders:DHS: 39%Average of 16 other large agencies: 50%
Rate the performance of theirsupervisors as fair to very poor job:DHS: 44%Other agencies: 35%
Said the department's seniorleaders do not maintain high standards of honesty and integrity:DHS: 22%Other agencies: 14%
Said DHS leaders do not generatehigh levels of motivation and commitment:DHS: 51%Other agencies: 35%
InformationtechnologyReported that they had access toelectronic learning and training materials from their desk:DHS: 51%Other agencies: 71%
Said that they used technology, suchas an intranet or shared networks, to do their jobs:DHS: 69%Other agencies: 86%
Said they and their fellow workersuse IT to gather and share knowledge:DHS: 76%Other agencies: 81%
WorkplaceissuesSaid DHS is an average, below average orone of the worst employers:DHS: 62%Other agencies: 44%
Said the department had prepared itsemployees properly for potential security threats:DHS: 60%Other agencies: 72%
Said they knew how their workrelated to their agency's goals and priorities:DHS: 78%Other agencies: 83%
Said they believed they coulddisclose any suspected violation of a law, rule or regulation without fear ofreprisal:DHS: 40%Other agencies: 48%
Said the department's workforcehas the job-relevant skills and knowledge to carry out the organization'smission:DHS: 64%Other agencies: 73%
Said arbitrary action, favoritismand partisan political coercion are not tolerated at DHS:DHS: 33%Other agencies: 47%
Said they believe that promotions intheir work unit are not based on merit:DHS: 52%Other agencies: 36%
Said that, in their work unit, nosteps were taken to deal with employees who performed poorly and could not orwould not improve:DHS: 50%Other agencies: 41%
Said that high-performing employeesin their agency were promptly recognized:DHS: 17%Other agencies: 43%
The survey results appeared as partof the Federal Human Capital Survey that the Government Accountability Officeconducted on behalf of OPM. The margin of error of the results was plus or minusone percent at a standard 95 percent confidence level.
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. And as it turns out, zombies do it as well. They swarm. And when they're done swarming, they swarm all over again.
That unstoppably manic movement is the most unexpected part of "World War Z" as well as its most memorable. But while the rest of the film, directed by Marc Foster and featuring the irreplaceable charisma of Brad Pitt, is zombie business as usual, it's fun to see this kind of familiar material done with intelligence and skill.
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Based loosely on the book by Max Brooks, "World War Z" is in some ways less a zombie movie than the story of a global pandemic and the heroic individual (guess who) trying to stop it. Think "Contagion" with zombies only marginally less emotional than Steven Soderbergh's icy characters.
The presence of four credited writers (screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof from a story by Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski) is testament to the tangled (and much written about) production history of a film originally set to be released last year.
"World War Z" plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed. Against considerable odds, the ability and professionalism of the cast and crew have carried the day.
It doesn't hurt, obviously, to have a director whose eclectic resume ("Monster's Ball," "The Kite Runner," "Quantum of Solace") bespeaks a questioning sensibility, as well as a star like Pitt, an involved producer whose Plan B production company bought the rights to the book in the first place.
The film opens with the obligatory but mercifully brief happy family scenes where Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, is established as a stay-at-home Philadelphia dad who doesn't seem to do anything more strenuous than make pancakes for breakfast.
Then, with out-of-nowhere suddenness, as Gerry is stuck in traffic with wife Karen (a worried-looking Mireille Enos of "The Killing") and their two kids, the world as we know it comes to an end in the most unnerving, terrifying way. Infected, twitchy zombies frantically search out the living, even using their foreheads to beat against car windows, all with the aim of biting their victims into the same unsavory state.
Splendidly orchestrated by second-unit director and stunt coordinator Simon Crane (who had a hand in the "Saving Private Ryan" battle scenes) and effectively edited by Roger Barton and Mark Chesse, these scenes of panic, pandemonium and societal collapse are effective and remarkably plausible.
The attacks have barely begun before Gerry gets a call from U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Thiery Umutoni ("Hotel Rwanda's" Fana Mokoena). It turns out that in his pre-pancake days, Gerry was the international body's top field investigator, a specialist in crisis situations, and if this globe-sweeping epidemic isn't a crisis, nothing is.
Gerry is loathe to come out of retirement (the guy really likes his pancakes) but with the help of a daring helicopter rescue he and his family are deposited on an aircraft carrier, perhaps the planet's only safe zone, and Gerry is essentially blackmailed into accompanying a young scientist to South Korea, where it's thought the zombie-making began.
"Mother Nature is a serial killer, she wants to get caught, she leaves bread crumbs, she leaves clues," the scientist memorably says. What seems like the epidemic's strengths can mask a weakness.
It's in Israel, where the plot takes Gerry next, that "World War Z's" visual centerpiece erupts. Roused from a dormant state by noise, or so the film posits, the zombies form an angry hoard that so swarms one on top of the other that they form a pyramid that allows them to surmount a protecting wall. Long shots of this CGI happening, some taken from a helicopter, will not soon be forgotten.
What transpires after this gets a bit formulaic, but it's good to have Pitt in the one-man-against-the-apocalypse role. Though nothing about this part is a particular challenge, it's satisfying to see the actor handling being an old-school Mr. Intrepid without breaking a sweat.
At one point, if press reports are to be believed, "World War Z" was supposed to have a sociopolitical subtext. That is largely gone, but what remains is a film smartly enough made to help us understand why so many are so fixated on the undead.
In a world where we all feel more threatened than we ever have by myriad forces beyond our control, from global warming to spying governments, it is comforting perhaps to see the personification of these fears in creatures that also cannot be stopped. Unless Brad Pitt gets in the way.
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Each Christmas it is traditional for my family to watch Judy Garland's Meet Me in St. Louis. The more times I watch it, the more it and Garland's dazzling voice pull me in. By now I know the songs by heart and if not all of them, then at least the well-known "Trolley Song."
The scene of Judy Garland's character singing on the trolley is what comes into my mind whenever I see one and why today, I feel that I need to ride the trolley, wherever it may be going. Sure, it may take me places I have no idea where I am or why I ended up where I did. But it will also lead me to unexpected and interesting city jewels, waiting for discovery.
As Garland's character in the movie did not want to leave St. Louis but at the same time possessed a yearning to explore, I have a connection to the trolley and wanting to explore the city because of Garland's famous song and her character's adventurous spirit.
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Badly matched foundation can look downright scary: too gray, too goopy, too mask-like. This is an area where one size does not fit all. And now the diversifying face of America, the rise of high-definition image technology and a photo-happy population has translated to consumer demand for foundation that's natural looking, full of skin-healthy ingredients and color-customized for the fairest through the deepest complexions.
Beauty companies, rising up to meet the demand, have steadily expanded their offerings — and it seems to be paying off. According to market researcher NPD Group, in the 12-month period ending in October, total U.S. foundation sales generated $965 million, up 7% in dollars from the same time last year.
Here's a look at some of the areas of innovation:
Color traditionally has been the biggest problem with finding a good foundation to even out skin tone and cover imperfections.
For super model Iman, author of "The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color," the quest to find a good match was personal. A native of Somalia with a honey-brown complexion, she remembers having to blend her own foundation when she was modeling for Vogue in the mid-1970s because the makeup artist didn't have any that matched her skin.
"As a top model, I never went to the set without my own batch of foundation in my bag that I made at home," she remembers. Other women constantly stopped her on the street asking where she found her foundation, which led her to create Iman Cosmetics. She says 75% of her business is foundation sales, and she recently added a modern BB skin cream as well (the Skin Tone Evener BB Crème SPF 15, $20, at drugstore.com).
"I wanted to create something that was beyond race," Iman says, adding that dark skin comes in a myriad of tones and that some African Americans are very light-skinned. "I can't just generalize one group of people because there are so many shades within that one group …You can find people in China who are darker than I am. With Latinas alone, you find girls who are as dark as I am or blond and blue-eyed. You can't say that Latinas only have 'olive' skin, you know what I mean? The future is about skin tone."
MAC Cosmetics senior makeup artist Christopher Del Castillo cites his own half-Mexican, half-German heritage as an example of the increasingly mixed population that is leading to a whole rainbow of complexions. He has both yellow and pink skin undertones and says makeup companies and beauty department store advisors need to eschew oversimplified skin color notions.
At MAC, "our motto is 'all ages, all races, all sexes,'" he says.
MAC has been among the companies at the forefront of offering a wide range of foundations, and other companies are expanding their product ranges, too. For example, L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Makeup (about $10.95, available at drugstores nationwide) now comes in 33 shades, and in 2011, Burberry added four deeper shades to their Burberry Sheer Luminous Fluid Foundation ($52, nordstrom.com).
Hyper-customized foundation
Technology is making it easier than ever to get a good match. Sephora + Pantone Color IQ, for instance, is a hand-held digital device that scans the skin, assigns it a Pantone skintone number and directs customers to matching foundations made by various brands sold at Sephora.
Several makeup brands recently launched foundations that, via patented micro-technology, adapt to your skin's undertones. They include Giorgio Armani's Maestro Fusion Makeup with "smart pigment technology" ($62, giorgioarmanibeauty.com), MAC Matchmaster foundation with clear acrylate spheres that encapsulate micro-fine pigments ($33, maccosmetics.com) and Almay Smart Shade Makeup ($9.99, target.com), which contains what the company calls "shade-sensing beads" that transform to the color of the wearer's skin.
New brand Sayuki Custom Cosmetics, based in Laguna Hills, invented a machine that creates perfectly personalized foundation ($65, sayukicustomcosmetics.com) for you on the spot. (See related story.)
Or go with a lower tech option and visit a professional makeup artist, Del Castillo says. A pro can determine your undertones, the right formula (sheer, semimatte, matte or luminizing) and whether a liquid, cream or powder is best. Castillo says he often uses a color that matches the center of the face and a different color matching near the hairline, "But that's the advanced class," he says. With so many new products on the market, "you should be able to buy only one foundation that's close enough to your skin tone," he says.
Digital impressions
In a digital age, it's not just models and movie stars who need to look good on camera. You never know when you may be digitally photographed and the image uploaded, Tweeted, posted on Facebook and memorialized online for eons. And high-definition technology exposes every little imperfection. In HD, heavy foundation that once hid a multitude of skin sins looks clown-like. New HD foundations help create seamless coverage.
Make Up For Ever, founded by onetime painter and sculpture Dany Sanz, launched HD Invisible Cover Foundation ($40, Sephora.com) in 2008 when TV stations were transitioning from analog to digital.
"Makeup artists love Make Up For Ever foundation because it is very blendable," says Darcy Gilmore, makeup department head for NBC's "The Voice." Make Up For Ever foundations are naturally textured, full-coverage formulations available in an array of undertones including beige, pink, yellow, olive, coral, peach and combinations thereof. Gilmore says this makes it easy to find shades that match various complexions. "On 'The Voice,' we don't try to change someone's skin undertone but, instead, match it completely," she says.
Other prime-time-ready HD foundations include Smashbox High Definition Healthy Fx Foundation Broad Spectrum SPF 15, Smashbox Camera Ready BB Cream (each $39, smashbox.com) and Revlon HD Photo Ready Foundation ($13.99, drugstore.com).
Skin care
According to the 2012 Makeup In-Depth Consumer Report by NPD Group, eight in 10 women say that they use makeup with skincare benefits and that evening out skin tone is the most important benefit of foundation use.
Ingredients including antioxidant vitamins C and E, green tea, enzymes that prevent and repair UV damage, SPF and white birch extract are in a bevy of foundations. They include cult favorite Hourglass Veil Fluid Makeup ($60, barneys.com) and newer foundations such as Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus All-Smooth Makeup SPF 15 ($33, Clinique.com), Chanel Perfection Lumiere ($55, chanel.com), Lancôme's Teint Idole Ultra 24H ($44, lancome-usa.com ), Yves Saint Laurent Le Teint Touche Éclat SPF 19 ($48, yslbeautyus.com ) and L'Oreal True Match Lumi Healthy Luminous Foundation ($12.95, lorealparisusa.com ).
Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Even Finish Foundation SPF 15 ($42, bobbibrowncosmetics.com) and DiorSkin Nude Skin-Glowing Make-up ($48, sephora.com) stress that their foundations have a bare-skin, natural effect as well.


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American Music Awards Goes Paperless, Uses Galaxy Note II to Announce Winners
And the winner is ... Samsung's Galaxy Note II.
The smartphone took center stage — literally — at the American Music Awards Sunday night, as presenters used it to announce winners, according to website Run Around Tech.
In the video above, U.S. Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno and actress Kerry Washington present Linkin Park with the Alternative Rock Award after reading the band's name from a Galaxy Note II. Product placement at its most visible.
By replacing old-fashioned envelopes and notecards, Samsung is likely promoting the Galaxy Note II just in time for the holiday gift-buying season.
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Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox, 2005.
Explore how peoples of the Americas, Caribbean, and Southeast Asia used plants for medicinal and recreational purposes, their influence on modern pharmacology, and the dangers of destruction of communities and environments. Based on the authors' experiences of living with these indigenous peoples. Originally published in 1996, went out of print in 2004. Ideal for classroom use in botany, anthropology, pharmacology and other fields. Softcover, 228 pages, includes many photos and illustrations. B537Bulk, school and bookstore discounts available. To inquire about wholesale pricing, contact ABC's Customer Service Department.
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MIDLAND, Texas - Officials of a West Texas city where four wounded veterans died when a train slammed into their parade float say the driver of the truck towing the float won't be charged.
Midland spokeswoman Sara Higgins says no charges will be filed against Dale Andrew Hayden, of Midland. She also said the police report on the crash soon will be sent to the Midland County district attorney.
Assistant District Attorney Steve Stallings tells the Midland Reporter-Telegram that no decision on charges will come until the report is completed.
A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman says board investigators haven't questioned Hayden. Higgins wouldn't say if Midland police had done so.
Four veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were killed and 16 more people were injured in the Nov. 15 collision.


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The current website http://www.clearhill.co.uk is being updated, and a new/renovated logo is to be designed.
We will consider white on a coloured/gradient background or coloured/gradient on a white background.
The font can be a slightly rounded version of what it already is (italicized caps), but there isn't much room for manoeuvre as we aren't rebranding the whole organization at this stage.
Feel free to add shadows, shininess, 3D or any other so-called web 2.0 attributes. Please note, this is not a request to use all of them and we will not choose a design that we consider over the top.
The circle with the jumping girl in it is optional, but if included will need reworked, but any suitable graphic will be considered.
The winning design will be 100% original artwork and the winning designer will be required to sign a contract stating this to be the case and passing full ownership and copyright to Clearhill. You will be able to use it in your portfolio.
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LG G Pad 8.3 Pictures
LG G Pad 8.3 has the first FHD display on an 8 inch slate. The actual size of the glass is 8.3 inches, carrying a resolution of 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA). A quad-core 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor is under the hood. Using the QPair app, each call and message that appears on a smartphone will also appear on the tablet and simple replies can be send through the G Pad. With the 8.3 inch screen, the LG G Pad 8.3 offers an updated version of QSlide, which lets you choose between three different apps at the same time thanks to the larger glass. With Slide Aside, using a three finger slide allows you to move an open app off to the side of the screen and open a new one. The KnockON feature allows users to turn the slab on or off by tapping on the screen. The LG G Pad 8.3 features 2GB of RAM, with 16GB of native storage. The back and front facing cameras weigh in at 5MP and 1.2MP respectively and a 4600mAh cell keeps the lights on. Android 4.2.2 is pre-installed and the tablet will be available in black and white, weighing 338g.


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Vince Gill & Amy Grant are coming to St. George, Utah
Fri, April 11, 2014
Call the Tuacahn Box Office today: 435-652-3300 www.Tuacahn.org
Guests attending Tuacahn shows and concerts receive a 10% discount on the regular room rate at BEST WESTERN Coral Hills. Just show your tickets to the front desk agent at check in.
Vince Gill has sold more than 26 million albums. He has earned 18 CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year in 1993 and 1994. Gill is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and has received 20 Grammy Awards to date, the most of any male Country artist. Besides being known for his talent as a performer, musician and songwriter, Gill is regarded as one of Country Music's best known humanitarians, participating in hundreds of charitable events throughout his career. In August of 2007, the Country Music Association inducted Gill into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Amy Grant's career spans over 25 years and stretches from her roots in gospel into an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality, and philanthropist. Grant has sold more than 30 million albums and won six Grammys in multiple categories, beginning with the platinum selling Age to Age in 1982. She also has six #1 hits, including "Baby, Baby," and "Every Heartbeat" and is one of only two Christian artists to be awarded a star on the legendary Walk of Fame in Hollywood.


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Welcome to the Alameda County Public Works Agency website! We have a continuing commitment to public services, with a focus on improving the overall safety and quality of life of Alameda County residents. Our mission and goal is to provide, maintain and preserve public infrastructure in an efficient and effective manner, while promoting a healthy and sustainable environment that supports safe and livable communities. The Agency values community engagement and participation, and performs its tasks in transparent and responsive manner.
We hope you enjoy our site and find everything you are looking for. Please share your feedback, ideas and suggestions with us!
Daniel Woldesenbet, Ph.D., P.E.
Agency Director
APWA Accreditation
The Alameda County Public Works Agency has successfully been re-accredited by the American Public Works Association (APWA).
The APWA Accreditation program recognizes public works agencies that go beyond the requirements of the management practices established nationally in the public works industry. During the re-accreditation process, the Public Works Agency was found to be in full compliance in all categories reviewed. Two of the Public Works Agency's programs, Rate Setting and Equipment Specifications, and Bid Review, were recognized for exceptional model practices that should be adopted by other public works agencies.
When the Public Works Agency was originally accredited in 2012, it was only the 8th agency in California to receive the Accreditation award, and the 79th in the nation. Maintaining the accreditation status requires an organization to be reevaluated and granted re-accreditation every four years.


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The 1,275 acre body of water will have an expected water temperature of 78 F. Due to the size of Prairie Creek Reservoir, the water temperature can change quickly race week so participants are advised to bring a wetsuit if they have one. The water is usually very calm, but heavy winds can cause the water to become slightly choppy.
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Exaggerate has contains a large amount of symbolism that can be seen below. By gaining an idea about Exaggerate and the associations it has we gain a more intuitive insight into its meaning.Man and his symbols shows us great ways to use lifes symbols to understand our inherit nature and purpose.
The New Moon on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, at 4° Sagittarius brings chaotic change and rebellion. This is directly linked to Mars opposite Uranus which can bring irritation, hostility or unexp...read more
Venus is now in Capricorn where it joins Saturn which recently moved into its home Sign of Capricorn a few days ago. Normally, this placement adds a great deal of seriousness to your relationships ...read more
With the Sun in Sagittarius, our focus shifts from the need for an intimate connection with a person and with ourselves, to the desire to reach out to the world and connect with something larger th...read more
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Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church is the same Church founded by Jesus Christ and his apostles, begun at the day of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit in the year 33 A.D. It is also known (especially in the contemporary West) as the Eastern Orthodox Church or the Greek Orthodox Church. It may also be called the Orthodox Catholic Church, the Orthodox Christian Church, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, the Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ, or simply the Church.
The bishops of the Orthodox Churches trace unbroken succession to the very apostles themselves, therefore ultimately receiving their consecrations from our Lord Jesus Christ. All the bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, no matter their titles, are equal in their sacramental office. The various titles given to bishops are simply administrative or honorific in their essence. At an ecumenical council, each bishop may cast only one vote, whether he is the Ecumenical Patriarch or simply an auxiliary bishop without a diocese. Thus, there is no equivalent to the Roman Catholic papacy within the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
As with its Apostolic succession, the faith held by the Church is that which was handed by Christ to the apostles. Nothing is added to or subtracted from that deposit of faith which was "handed once for all to the saints" (Jude 3). Throughout history, various heresies have afflicted the Church, and at those times the Church makes dogmatic pronouncements (especially at ecumenical councils) delineating in new language what has always been believed by the Church, thus preventing the spread of heresy and calling to repentance those who rend asunder the Body of Christ. Its primary statement of faith is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.
Very brief history
- See: Timeline of Church History for more history
Almost two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth and founded the Church, through His Apostles and disciples, for the salvation of man. In the years which followed, the Apostles spread the Church and its teachings and founded many churches, all united in faith, worship, and the partaking of the Mysteries (or as they are called in the West, the Sacraments) of the Holy Church. The churches founded by the Apostles themselves include the Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Rome and Constantinople. The Church of Alexandria was founded by St. Mark, the Church of Antioch by St Paul, the Church of Jerusalem by Ss. Peter and James, the Church of Rome by Ss. Peter and Paul, and Church of Constantinople by St Andrew. Those founded in later years through the missionary activity of the first churches were the Churches of Sinai, Russia, Greece, Serbia, Serbia, Serbia, and many others.
Each church has always had independent administration, but, with the exception of the Church of Rome, which finally separated from the others in the year 1054, are united in faith, doctrine, Apostolic tradition, sacraments, liturgies, and services. Together they constitute and are called the "Orthodox Church", literally means "right teaching" or "right worship", derived from two Greek words: orthos, "right," and doxa, "teaching" or "worship."
Current Church structure
The Eastern Orthodox Churches of today consist of a family of fourteen or fifteen autocephalous churches and five autonomous churches, sometimes referred to as jurisdictions. The number of autocephalous churches has varied in history. Autocephalous churches are fully self-governing in all they do, while autonomous churches must have their primates confirmed by one of the autocephalous churches, usually its mother church. All the Orthodox churches remain in full communion with one another, sharing the same faith and praxis. There have been occasional breaks in communion due to various problems throughout history, but they generally remain brief and not developing into full schism. It is hoped that the Great Schism, with the Church of Rome, will someday be mended too.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople is also the Ecumenical Patriarchate and has the status of "first among equals" among the Eastern Orthodox Churches. The Church is not a centralized organization headed by a pontiff, but an organic community guided by the Holy Spirit in the world. The unity of the Church is visible in, and held together with, common faith and communion in the sacraments. No one but Christ himself is the real head of the Orthodox Church.
See: List of autocephalous and autonomous Churches
Number of Adherents
The most common estimates of the number of Orthodox Christians worldwide is approximately 225-300 million individuals.[1].
Other estimates such as in The Encyclopedia of the Developing World[2] places the number of overall Orthodox worshippers in 1996 at 182 million individuals, including the following breakdown:
- Russian Federation: 70-80 million
- Ukraine: close to 30 million
- Romania: 20 million
- Greece: 9.5 million
- United States: close to 7 million
- Serbia and Montenegro: close to 7 million
- Bulgaria: 6 million
- Belarus: 5 million
- Kazakhstan: 4 million
- Moldavia: 3 million
- Georgia: 2.8 million
- FYROM: 1.2 million
- Uzbekistan: 900,000
- Poland: 800,000
- Germany: 550,000
- Australia: 480,000
- United Kingdom: 440,000
- Latvia: 400,000
- Estonia: 300,000
- France: 260,000
- Lithuania: 150,000
- Austria: about 70,000
- Switzerland: about 70,000
- Finland: 56,000
- ↑ Eastern Orthodox Church: Number of Adherents at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Thomas M. Leonard. Encyclopedia of the Developing World: Vol 3, O-Z Index. Taylor & Francis, 2006.
See also
Further reading
Published works
The following are published writings that provide an introduction or overview of the Orthodox Church and its teachings:
From an Orthodox perspective
- Alfeyev, Hilarion; Rose, Jessica, ed. The Mystery of Faith: An Introduction to the Teaching and Spirituality of the Orthodox Church. (ISBN 0232524726)
- Bajis, Jordan. Common Ground: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity for the American Christian. (ISBN 0937032816)
- Bulgakov, Sergius. The Orthodox Church. (ISBN 0881410519)
- Cunningham, Mary. Faith in the Byzantine World (IVP Histories Series). (ISBN 0830823522)
- Chryssavgis, John. Light Through Darkness: The Orthodox Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality Series). (ISBN 1570755485)
- Coniaris, Anthony M. Introducing the Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life. (ISBN 0937032255)
- Constantelos, Demetrios J. Understanding the Greek Orthodox Church. (ISBN 0917653505)
- Florovsky, George. Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View. (ISBN 0913124028)
- Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. (ISBN 0140146563)
From a Heterodox perspective
- Binns, John. An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches. (ISBN 0521667380)
- Fairbairn, Donald. Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes. (ISBN 0664224970)
- Fortescue, Adrian. The Orthodox Eastern Church. (ISBN 0971598614)
- Roberson, Ronald. The Eastern Christian Churches: A Brief Survey. (ISBN 8872103215) - (also available online)
- Parry, Ken, ed.; Melling, David J., ed.; Brady, Dimitri, ed.; Griffith, Sidney Harrison, ed.; Healey, John F., ed. The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. (ISBN 0631232036)
External links
Overviews of the Orthodox Church
- Orthodoxy: The Narrow Path
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Model shunt RLC network
Ladders Filters sublibrary of the Physical library
The Shunt RLC block models the shunt RLC network described in the block dialog box, in terms of its frequency-dependent S-parameters.
For the given resistance, inductance, and capacitance, the block
first calculates the ABCD-parameters at each frequency contained in
the vector of modeling frequencies, and then converts the ABCD-parameters
to S-parameters using the RF Toolbox™
abcd2s function.
See the Output Port block reference
page for information about determining the modeling frequencies.
For this circuit, A = 1, B = 0, C = Y, and D = 1, where
and .
The shunt RLC object is a two-port network as shown in the following circuit diagram.
Scalar value for the resistance. The value must be nonnegative.
Scalar value for the inductance. The value must be nonnegative.
Scalar value for the capacitance. The value must be nonnegative.
For information about plotting, see Create Plots.


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James D. Thurman, vice president of Integrated Electrical Services (IES), Louisville, Ky., has been elected president of the Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC) at the group's annual convention earlier this month in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaking at IEC's 43rd Annual Convention and Exposition, Thurman said that IEC is ready to move forward with its plans to "take a larger leadership role in the industry. Independent electrical contractors make up 85% of the electrical contractors in this country. We intend to make our voices heard by working with electrical contractors from across the country and industry partners," said Thurman. "We will continue to defend the rights of independent electrical contractors and their employees."
Thurman currently serves as senior vice president and has been a member of the IEC Executive Committee for six years. His term will begin Jan. 1.
Other officers elected to serve for one-year terms were: Senior Vice President - Gary Baumgartner, Baumgartner Electric Co., Sioux Falls, S.D.; Vice President - Steve Humphrey, Sr., Humphrey & Associates Inc., Dallas; Vice President - David Picatti, Industrial Service Electric, Yakima, Wash.; Secretary - J. B. Wise, Wise Electric, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and; Treasurer - Eugene Mini, V.J. Mini & Son Inc., Boonton, N.J. W. T. "Bill" Bledsoe of PENCO Electrical Contractors, East Point, Ga. will serve as immediate past president. Established in 1958, IEC is a national trade association based in Alexandria, Va.


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Lady Gaga's representative has played down reports the singer transferred hotels in Las Vegas because she wanted a private pool, insisting the star "doesn't care about that stuff."
The "Bad Romance" hitmaker, who was in Sin City to perform at the star-studded iHeartRadio musical festival over the weekend, checked into the posh Cosmopolitan hotel, but according to the New York Post she left because the property didn't offer a private pool.
A Cosmopolitan spokesperson stated, "Lady Gaga did check out of the property, but she did not hate her room and had nothing but praise for the arrival staff, butlers, etc. She was looking for a private pool, which the resort doesn't offer."
However, her spokesperson has shot down rumors about Gaga's diva demands, insisting the pop star only relocated so she could take advantage of a private recording studio at The Palms hotel.
Her rep Amanda Silverman adds, "It was not a whole drama. She moved to The Palms to do a recording. She had some meetings. She switched because she had stayed at The Palms before. It wasn't like she hated her room, she doesn't care about that stuff."


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We really should celebrate Thanksgiving more than once a year. There are too many things for which we are thankful to cram into 24 hours.
Think of all that we take for granted: freedom, democracy, the Bill of Rights, TiVo, Monday Night Football. People in Third World countries would give anything for those blessings, although they'll need televisions before they can enjoy the last two.
Living in America is reason enough to give thanks, but some folks have more reason to be thankful than others. I can think of a few:
As is our annual custom, for a truer appreciation of the occasion, we solicited the help of younger minds — in this case, Kathy DeRenzi's first-grade class at Quail Run Elementary School in San Ramon. Her students were thankful for just about everything.
Sahasra was "thankful for people because they help you." What a nice thought. Sahasra will learn that this is more of a wish than a reality, but why spoil the moment?
Alex was "thankful for the world because it gives us everything we need." Sometimes it gives us a whole lot more than that, Alex, but the sentiment is sweet.
Keerthana was "thankful for teachers because they teach us lots of stuff." We see where you're going with this, Keerthana. It never hurts to suck up.
Jeffrey was "thankful for the blue Angry Bird because it is soft." As we said, these kids were thankful for things that might not occur to adults.
Corbin was "thankful for bones because if we didn't have them we would be all wobbly." There's one more thing adults take for granted. Come to think of it, we should be more thankful for bones than we are for TiVo.
Children have an innocent way of reminding us what's important. They see the world with all the cynicism removed.
One of these days, I hope to try that. In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving.
Contact Tom Barnidge at firstname.lastname@example.com


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Three second half goals broke open a 1-1 contest at halftime as Pfeiffer University claimed a 4-1 win over visiting Mount Olive College in Conference Carolinas women's soccer action on Thursday afternoon. The victory evens the Lady Falcons mark to 3-3 overall, 2-1 in league play, while the Trojans dip to 1-5-1, 1-2.
Mount Olive's first shot of the afternoon turned out to be a successful one as Ellie Barnes (Fuquay-Varina, NC) blasted her shot off of a Pfeiffer defender in the 10th minute deflecting inside the right post for a 1-0 Trojan lead. The Lady Falcons equalizer came in the 38th minute of play as Jill Maykut (Oviedo, FL) corralled a loose corner kick and found Stephanie Hardig (Statesville, NC) who notched her first of the season with her goal inside the left post.
Sarah Yates (Fort Myers, FL) gave Pfeiffer the second half lead in the 55th minute as Kayla Rodriguez's (Beckley, WV) rebounded free kick found Yates for the 2-1 advantage. Katlyn Stevens (Milton, GA) later snagged a loose ball in the 70th minute and found Rachael Ramey (Fayetteville, NC) who converted her first of the season. Stevens would then tally the match's final strike in the 75th minute thanks to a long pass from Katie Collins (Concord, NC).
Pfeiffer outshot Mount Olive 18-8 overall, 7-4 on goal. The Lady Falcons took all 10 corners in the match as well. The Lady Falcons will stay at home to take on Coker Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Live stats will be available through http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland firefighters cut a hole through concrete and used an air bag and a soapy lubricant to free an Oregon woman who fell part of the way down a 20-foot wall and got herself stuck between two buildings Wednesday morning.
The woman spent about four hours in a space 8 to 10 inches wide before rescuers managed to free her as television cameras filmed much of the effort.
Lt. Rich Chatman of the Portland fire department, wearing a blue helmet and harness, climbed into the hole cut by rescuers to help apply the soapy substance.
After the woman surfaced at 7:30 a.m., she raised her face, clenched her fists and shouted, "Oh, my God."
Rescuers had built a platform beneath the woman and had turned on a portable heater to keep her warm in temperatures just above freezing. The air bag was used to spread the walls.
"She was in good spirits," Chatman said. "We just tried to reassure her … we weren't going home without her."
Firefighters said they hadn't gotten a clear explanation of the woman's predicament. Chatman said she had been seen smoking or walking on the roof of a two-story building before she fell.
Authorities didn't immediately name the woman.
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At one point I asked Ethan if he had any ideas for the goose bento. Boy did he! He drew a diagram to illustrate his goose vision:
I was very impressed! He's always been very creative and I loved his take on sculpting geese. I really considered following his blue print, thinking I could put the geese in a muffin pan, one goose for each muffin cup space - their nests where they are a-laying! I even had just bought some organic kiwis, which are conveniently packaged six to a bag! It looked like all the stars were aligning... until further prodding in the pantry revealed that the only "chocolate covered pretzels" (he meant pocky sticks!) were the fat almond crusted ones...and our only marshmallows we had were the big fat ones... and then found that one of the kiwis had been eaten by Paige and another one squashed and mauled by Tyler. Boo.
Emergency plan B. Make a goose shaped cookie cutter. I remembered an old post on my friend Wendy's blog, where she writes about how she fashioned a batman cutter for her son Wyatt.
So I dug out the mini duck-shaped cutter that I had bought for 50 cents at a local hobby store for the ChemoDuck bentos.
Gathered some tools. I needed needle nose pliers, a thin Lego, a K'nex stick and a drumstick (don't mind the grime).
The end product looked something like this:
(well, okay, it looked exactly like this):
And the resulting six geese a laying bento:
In the top tier tray of an ultra awesome stainless tiffin box is a snack of Ritz crackers, custom-made goose-shaped cheese, a blue silicone cup "nest" full of mint M&M "eggs".
The geese are cut out of provolone cheese and decorated with food-safe markers. The little feet are cut using an itty bitty bento cutter and fruit leather. Both my husband and Ethan were baffled as to why some geese had two feet and others had one. Simply, some of the geese are laying in such a way their 2nd foot is obscured from view, of course. ;-) (really, I thought it looked a little crowded when they all had two feet showing so I took a few out).
The bottom of this tiffin box held leftover pizza and apple wedges and was not a pretty sight, so I'll spare you the photo. ;-) I'll be sharing more about this neato tiffin box soon!
This is part 6 of a 12 part bento series on the Twelve Days of Christmas! :)
See also:
5th day of Christmas: five golden rings
4th day of Christmas: four calling birds
3rd day of Christmas: three french hens
2nd day of Christmas: two turtle doves
1st day of Christmas: a partridge in a pear tree