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Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today the theater's 2015-2016 season, which includes productions in the Potter Rose Performance Hall and the Studio Theatre at the Wyly Theatre in the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the Kalita Humphreys Theater on Turtle Creek. DTC's 2015-2016 season will include three world premieres, new productions of Dreamgirls and Romeo and Juliet, the regional premiere of All the Way in collaboration with the Alley Theatre in Houston, and The Mountaintop. The world premieres include a new musical comedy, Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical; a new play, Clarkston, by MacArthur Foundation Fellow Samuel D. Hunter; and Deferred Action, the culmination of a collaborative project between Dallas Theater Center and Cara Mia Theatre Co. Continue reading
Annual Meadows Prize Awarded to Artist Collective and Director
The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University has announced the recipients of its sixth annual Meadows Prize arts residency: the Detroit-based artist collective Complex Movements and Lear deBessonet, the director of The Public Theater's Public Works program in New York City. The Meadows Prize is awarded to pioneering artists and creative professionals who are active in one or more disciplines represented by the academic units within the Meadows School. Continue reading
Dallas Museum of Art Expands Its Nationally Acclaimed Access Programs
A nationally recognized leader in the development of accessible programming for visitors with special needs to connect with art, the Dallas Museum of Art today announced the expansion of its access series. The Museum will now include a new program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to be called All Access Art, and for the first time, offer a DMA Access docent training course, which the first group of docents has successfully completed. Continue reading
The President's Own U.S. Marine Band Brass Quintet Will Perform at SMU
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band Brass Quintet from Washington, D.C., will give a free concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, February 10 in Caruth Auditorium in SMU's Owen Arts Center, presented by the Meadows School of the Arts. The program will include Kurt Weill's Suite from The Threepenny Opera, Monteverdi's Four Madrigals, Darius Milhaud's Suite française and more. Continue reading
Dallas ISD Students to Receive Honors for Achievements in the Arts
Dallas Independent School District (ISD) students will be honored by the Dallas ISD Northwest Council of PTAs, Northeast Council of PTAs and Trinity Council of PTAs. Students will be awarded for achievements in the 2014-15 Texas and National PTA Reflections arts in education program. The awards are for imagination, creativity and interpretation based on the annual theme, which was "The World Would Be A Better Place If …" Honors will be handed out on Thursday, January 29, 2015. Continue reading
Nasher Sculpture Center Announces The Great Create Family Fundraising Event
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Nasher Sculpture Center announced The Great Create, their third annual fundraising event. The Great Create is Sunday, April 26, 2015 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event, which engages families artistic sides, raises essential funds for the museum's educational initiatives. Continue reading
Don't See Faces of Impressionism at the Kimbell Art Museum
I don't usually advise against seeing an art exhibit, but I strongly recommend not seeing Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay at the Kimbell Art Museum. I would very much like you to see one of van Gogh's self portraits, or the ballet dancers by Degas, or the magnificent bust of Victor Hugo by Rodin, or the piano players by Renoir. Unfortunately for all art patrons, the Kimbell Art Museum has stuffed these worldly gems in a closet called the Renzo Piano Pavilion. And if that wasn't enough, the museum is cramming in paying patrons as fast as they can. I would prefer to see an exhibit at a sardine factory. Oh wait, I did. Continue reading
Monet's Water Lilies Recreated in Nail Polish
Sally Beauty Supply and the Dallas Museum of Art have recreated Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1908) in nail polish. This vibrant work celebrated the arrival of Sally Beauty Supply's Nail Studio. The creation uses more than 6,600 nail polish bottles. This beautiful work is only on display tonight, January 16, 2015, from 6 p.m. to midnight. See it while you can. Continue reading
Perot Museum Extends Hours for MLK Weekend
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is extending hours for the entire Martin Luther King Day weekend. Extended hours will begin Friday, January 16, and end Monday, January 19, 2015. The museum will be open until 6 p.m. on Friday through Sunday and will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday. General admission is $17 for adults, $12 for seniors (65+), $11 for youth (2-17) and free for children under 2 years old. Continue reading
Jamie Wyeth at the San Antonio Museum of Art
Jamie Wyeth
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April 25 through July 5, 2015
The San Antonio Museum of Art will present Jamie Wyeth, a comprehensive retrospective of the artist. Jamie Wyeth will open April 25, 2015, and run through July 5. The exhibit, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examines Wyeth's creative approach to realism over sixth years. Continue reading
Free Sundays at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2015
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced the museum will be free on Sundays in 2015. Beginning in January, patrons will receive free admission to the galleries and special exhibits every Sunday through December 27, 2015. Continue reading
Texas Abstract at Barry Whistler Gallery
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January 17 through February 28, 2015
On Saturday, Barry Whistler Gallery opens Texas Abstract in conjunction with the publication of Texas Abstract: Contemporary by Michael Paglia and Jim Edwards. The exhibit will feature six of the thirty-three artists featured in the book. The opening reception is Saturday, January 17, 2015, from 6 to 8 p.m. Continue reading
UT Dallas Hosts Contemporary Art Panel Discussion
The University of Texas at Dallas will host Panel Discussion on The Art Effect: Translational Ecology of Contemporary Art, a panel discussion on contemporary art and art education. The discussion will take place in the Edith O'Donnell Arts and Technology Building in the main lobby on Thursday, January 15, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Continue reading
SMU Meadows School of the Arts Announces Community Performances Series
SMU Meadows School of the Arts announces the Meadows Community Series. The six community concerts will feature talented students at diverse Dallas venues. The series will include performances by the Meadows Wind Ensemble, SYZYGY, Meadows choirs, Meadows Opera Theatre, Meadows Symphony Orchestra and dance. Continue reading
Crow Collection of Asian Art Announces New Wellness Institute
The Crow Collection of Asian Art announces the creation of The Wellness Institute directed by Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson, a wellness and lifestyle medicine advocate. The Wellness Institute aims to achieve long-term health and happiness through artistic and cultural achievements and practices of Asian culture. Continue reading


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The Marcus Orr Print Room houses the museum's graphic works, its largest single collection. More than half of the prints in this collection are 20th-century American, ranging from an extensive selection of Associated American Artists prints to Pop Art of the 1960s and contemporary works by artists such as Glenn Ligon and Willie Cole. European Old Masters are represented by the etchings and engravings of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn; 18th- and 19th-century prints include works by Thomas Bewick, Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, and Honoré Daumier. A small selection of Japanese prints represents the Ukiyo-e school with woodcuts by masters such as Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. The Brooks' drawing collection consists primarily of 19th- and 20th-century American drawings and watercolors, including works by Everett Shinn, Reginald Marsh, Charles Burchfield and Andrew Wyeth. Among the contemporary artists represented are Nancy Graves, Peter Saul, and Manuel Neri. Nearly 600 drawings by 19th-century Tennessee artist Carl Gutherz offer an extensive overview of a salon artist active during the belle époque. Other regional artists include Mississippi's Walter Anderson and Arkansas-born painter Carroll Cloar. In addition, the collection contains a small selection of religious manuscripts from the 10th to the 18th centuries.

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No excuses. Jon Jones has had months, not days, to prepare this time around for Chael Sonnen.
That doesn't sound like good news for Sonnen.
In a bout at least eight months in the making, Jones will defend his light heavyweight championship for a fifth time when he fights Sonnen at UFC 159 Saturday at the Prudential Center.
Jones hasn't lost since he beat Shogun Rua, also at the Prudential Center, in March 2011 and has established himself 1-2 with Anderson Silva as the best MMA has to offer.
Jones' reign was besmirched only by his refusal to fight Sonnen on eight days' notice at UFC 151 in September after contender Dan Henderson was forced to withdraw because of injury. Jones didn't want to risk his title against a last-minute replacement in Sonnen, so he balked at the fight.
UFC president Dana White was forced to cancel a pay-per-view show for the first time in his tenure, igniting trash talk between White and Jones before tempers mellowed and the promotion's booming business went on as usual.
Now, it's time to fight in the octagon. Just how Jones likes it.
"This fight with Chael," Jones said, "it ties me in with pure peace."
For all his prowess inside the cage, Jones (17-1) is more mellow when it comes to pushing fights.
Sonnen's mouth is up there with some of the greats of pro wrestling when it comes to cutting promos. Sonnen's never met a microphone or camera he didn't like and has perfected the art of the sound bite to hype his fights, something his critics say has gotten him more title fights than his record.
Sonnen (28-12-1) co-owns a pizza place and named a special pie - topped with chicken - for Jones.
There was a line on the menu that told fans to order fast, "before our chicken runs out and we have to cancel."
Jones, ahem, wouldn't bite on a volley.
Focused on his title bout, he refused to return any bulletin-board quotes back at Sonnen. Plus, he doesn't need to mouth off to push a fight.
"The thought of going home without my belt, it keeps me angry," Jones said.
Only Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz has been more successful in UFC history at keeping a belt like Jones. Should Jones win, he'd tie Ortiz for most consecutive successful title defenses with five.
After beating Rua, Jones went on to beat Rampage Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans and Vitor Belfort.
Jones said he'd like to set the record of six straight title defenses around November before crossing weight classes and moving on to a dream fight, perhaps a record-payday bout against someone like Silva.
Sonnen's last two losses were against Silva, including a competitive five-round bout in 2010 for the middleweight championship.
His close calls have kept him in the middle title picture at two weight classes. But after fighting Silva, and scouting Jones, Sonnen said he knows who is the best of the two.
"I think Jon is considerably better than Anderson," Sonnen said. "Sometimes I hear that I don't deserve this fight or I'm not the right guy, but then I hear that Anderson could beat him. Well, you've got to be kidding me? I stomped Anderson Silva twice."
Jones and Sonnen coached against each other during the recent season of "The Ultimate Fighter" and gained a new respect for each other.
Well, at least Sonnen did.
"He cared a lot about his team," Sonnen said. "He took coaching very seriously. He was on time every time. And he inspired a bunch of guys that really needed it."
Again, UFC will put on a showcase card in New Jersey while it remains locked out of New York.
The New York Senate approved a bill last month to legalize and regulate MMA, the combat sport that includes boxing, judo, wrestling and kickboxing, and most states allow it. The Assembly has blocked the legislation for seven years.
Jones, a former college wrestler and the brother of two NFL players, said he'd love to represent his home state of New York and fight like idols Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden.
Sonnen, who's mostly heaped praise on Jones, said the fighter known as "Bones" would be a perfect match for UFC's possible debut at MSG.
"As great as Jon is, I don't think that he understands how good he is," Sonnen said. "You know, for him to pay tribute to Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali was a very nice thing for him to do.
The reality is Jon Jones could beat up Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali in the same day. And when he says he wants to be the best ever, Jon, news flash, buddy, you are the best."


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As with The Royal Opera, over the years The Royal Ballet has seen a number of roles created on particular dancers by choreographers. We thought we'd take a look at a few examples:
Kenneth MacMillan and Lynn Seymour
One of MacMillan's first works for Deutsche Oper Ballet, Concerto is an exuberant showpiece of the outstanding abilities of the whole company. The lyrical second movement was based on Lynn Seymour's warm up for rehearsal: "I used to become fascinated by what she was doing rather than what I was supposed to be doing, and I decided to incorporate the idea of the barre work into the choreography." The central pas de deux, danced by Seymour in the first performance, is an sensual transformation of the dancer's graceful exercises.
The Rite of Spring
Kenneth MacMillan and Monica Mason
Kenneth MacMillan plucked the 20-year-old Monica Mason – later Director of the Royal Ballet – from the corps de ballet to create the gruelling part of the sacrificial Chosen One. It was a part she would dance for the next 20 years. MacMillan explained his choice: "For one thing, she has tremendous power… rare in English dancers, who tend to be more elegant and refined. But she has a real athletic quality, which struck me in rehearsal – also she is tremendously musical."
He drew on Mason's knowledge of Zulu dances, gained during her South African childhood. As Mason remembers, it is "absolutely not feminine choreography" – something MacMillan made use of in 1987, in the ballet's first revival after Mason retired from the part in 1982. He departed from Stravinsky's original scenario and cast a man (Simon Rice) as the Chosen One: "I realized the steps I'd worked out on Monica were just as suited for a man. In fact, I'd picked Monica out of the 'tribe' of the corps because she was so much more athletic than the others, with real energy and attack." In her 2011 revival of the ballet, Monica followed MacMillan's adaptation, also casting men for the part: Edward Watson and Steven McRae.
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Frederick Ashton and Margot Fonteyn
Frederick Ashton had long been looking for a subject for Margot Fonteyn and her new partner Rudolf Nureyev when he came across Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux camélias, also the inspiration for Verdi's La traviata. Fonteyn was far older than many other leading dancers, but her electric partnership with Nureyev had revived her career.
In this story of a courtesan forced by propriety to give up her beloved, Ashton showed audiences a dancer whose technical abilities were beginning to decline but who retained a profound emotional power.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Christopher Wheeldon and Steven McRae, Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson
For The Royal Ballet's first full-length commission in 15 years, Christopher Wheeldon produced a wealth of fabulous creations including a discombobulating Cheshire Cat, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter – created especially for McRae, almost unique among Principal ballet dancers for his brilliance as a tap-dancer. Wheeldon was no less exacting with the casting of his principals: "As soon as I decided I was going to do Alice, Lauren [Cuthbertson] was absolutely for me the key to making this production work, because I knew she would embody the kind of Alice I wanted to portray. She has a unique ability to make her dramatic persona on stage natural, honest, fresh and to the point…as for Edward [Watson], he and I have been friends from school, and we grew up together…I want my White Rabbit to be a little bit bad, a little belligerent, and Ed's great at that. He does bad-tempered – a little bit tortured – really well!"
Do you have a favourite specially-created ballet role?
The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand runs from 7–10 June 2017. Tickets are still available.


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The spectacular abandoned pool at the fabled Grossinger's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains. In its heyday, celebrities like singer Eddie Fisher, boxer Rocky Marciano, and countless others were regulars at the resort. In addition, Grossinger's was the inspiration for the film Dirty Dancing and the hotel chain Holiday Inn, as well as the first ski resort to use artificial snow.


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I'm just going to come right out with it – Curtis Stone made me stir fry while dancing in front of 500 people, then kissed my cheek. Twice. AHHHH!!
Ahem! Sorry, but, AHHHH!!!
Ok, let me back up for a sec! As I mentioned, this Friday my Mom and I drove to Davenport to attend a luncheon to benefit Gilda's Club, a national cancer support organization, featuring a cooking demonstration and Q&A session with hunky Australian celebrity chef Curtis Stone.
My friend John works for Panera, who partners with Gilda's Club, and had tickets to the luncheon. Knowing that I wouldn't want to miss the chance to see Curtis in person, he invited me and my Mom to join him. I owe him BIG time for this one!
The luncheon took place at the beautiful Rivercenter in Davenport, and the menu was just delicious. We started with a side salad,
then devoured Apricot Ginger Chicken (desperate for the recipe!) and roasted potatoes.
There was raspberry cheesecake and triple layer chocolate cake for dessert, that I wanted to plant my face into, but alas there are 14 more days of Lent!
During lunch there were people walking around selling $20 raffle tickets for a chance to cook with Curtis during one of three live demos he'd start after we finished eating. My Mom and I dug into our purses, but realized we had both left our checkbooks in the car when switching to smaller purses for the event. Huge. Bummer. At least we were seated pretty close to the stage, so we'd just have to settle for staring at him from slightly afar.
After dessert had been eaten, and the coffee was poured, the main event got underway. Come on down, Curtis! :)
The crowd, which was no less than 500, and 99% women, went completely bananas as he jogged in from a side door and climbed up onto a wide stage in front of the room, stocked with a portable oven, cookware, dishes and tons of food.
Now, I'm used to seeing Curtis' life-sized cardboard cutout when I go grocery shopping at Hy-Vee every week, who he partners with, but holy buckets he is SO much more handsome in person, and absolutely oozing with charm and charisma. He had everyone giggling within seconds. ;)
Curtis started the first cooking demo by reaching his hand into a bucket containing the names of people who purchased raffle tickets, and calling out two of them to come and join him on stage.
As two women shrieked with joy and made their way up, I turned to John and whispered,
"Good for Curtis Stone, you know? I can't even imagine standing up there in front of 500 people and putting on a show like that. Getting up in front of a group is literally my biggest nightmare."
"Really?" he answered back.
"Yes, really! I mean, maybe it'd be easier to go up in front of a large group instead of a small one because you wouldn't have to make direct eye contact with anyo – no, wait, yeah it's still my biggest nightmare. Never in a million years."
The first cooking demo wrapped up, and the giggling women left the stage with hearts a'flutter – their year, no doubt, completely made.
Next it was time for the second cooking demo to start. Curtis reached his hand into the bucket and pulled out a ticket, announcing the name in his thick Australian accent.
Kierstin Smeeth, (pretend my last name is Smith,) come on up!
Kierstin Smeeth? Is there a Kierstin Smeeth out there?
Nobody got up and everyone looked around all, where the hell is this Kiersten Smeeth and why is she not sprinting up there to cook with this total babe?!
Just then I feel my Mom poking my back. I turn around and she's practically jumping out of her seat "It's you! It's you! I bought a raffle ticket!!!"
omg I'm Kierstin Smeeth? I'M KIERSTIN SMEETH!!!!
I honest to God could not recognize my name through Curtis' accent, and for all I knew neither my Mom nor I purchased a ticket, so why would it be me anyways?! But it was. IT WAS!!!
In complete shock I got up and slowly made my way to the stage, cheeks already burning. I could not believe that I had just gotten done telling John what a train wreck I am in front of a group, and here I was about to do exactly that.
But Curtis was there. At the top of the steps leading onto the stage. Hand outstretched. I reached up to take his hand, and he drew me in for a hug then kissed me on the cheek. The crowd gasped.
Curtis Stone just kissed me on the cheek.
"Kierstin, is it?" he asks, his hand covering his mic.
"Oh, um, it's Kristin, actually!" I respond, trying not to barf.
He leads me to the center of the stage where the other woman who was called, Heidi, has already joined us, then begins to explain how the cooking demo will work.
I can barely move at this point. I'm thinking, OMG I'M STANDING NEXT TO CURTIS STONE AND HE JUST KISSED ME ON THE CHEEK AND HE SMELLS SO GOOD! (Yves St Laurent, someone asked!) but I'm shaking like a leaf from stage fright.
Just when I started to slightly calm down, Curtis declares, "Ladies! Today you are going to help me make a fresh and easy stir fry." showing us a wide variety of ingredients laid out on the table in front of us. "Also, ladies, I just came out with a new mortar & pestle product. Do you know what a mortar & pestle is?"
We nod. Mimicking grinding motions in the air, grinning like idiots.
"Well, my mortar & pestle has a special name. It's called the Bump & Grind, and you're going to use it to make a special stir fry sauce!"
I spin to face Heidi, horrified. I think I know where this is going.
Keep cool! I tell myself, fanning my face with my hand all, ooo Curtis Stone just said bump & grind! getting a slight laugh from the crowd. On the inside I'm all please don't say it, please don't say it, please don't say it…
Then he said it.
"And you're going to bump & grind while ya' do it!"
It gets worse.
"To music!"
Much worse.
"It'll be a competition, and the audience will vote on who has the best bump & grind which will determine our winner!"
I pretty much panic at this point. Me, the ultimate introvert, dancing, nay – bumping & grinding – on stage to some Black Eyed Peas song, while sloshing soy sauce all over myself trying not to hurl on Curtis Stone.
I briefly forget how unbelievably awkward I'm dancing when Curtis picks up my phone, which I had brought up to document the moment.
This is my favorite picture ever.
Approximately 47 terrifying minutes later (you try grinding in front of 500 people standing next to Curtis Stone and see how long it feels to you!) the song mercifully shut off.
Tasting is next, and while Curtis and sous chef Steve deem my stir fry the best, the audience – wait for it – chooses Heidi as the bump & grind winner through cheers and applause. I contemplate making a run for it, leaving a Kristin-shaped hole in the wall of the Rivercenter.
Instead I stay, get my picture taken with Curtis, then get another pity kiss on the cheek as I practically sprint down the stairs and away from the stage. Every mortifying minute worth it. BAHAHAHAHAHA – Curtis, freaking, Stone!
Emotionally scarring moments aside, Curtis is the nicest person, and such a gentleman. After the luncheon he stayed to sign autographs and take pictures with anyone who wanted one, with an unwavering smile on his face the entire time. He didn't falter once. Each picture he took looked like the first picture – what a great guy! (And seriously, HUNK!)
But my Mom – oh my Mom! She had excused herself during lunch for what I assumed was a bathroom break, but what she actually did was go and pay for a raffle ticket with her credit card. "I just wanted you to have a chance to cook with Curtis!" Angel. I nearly cried.
Still all riled up two days later, I decided to make a Curtis Stone recipe for dinner tonight.
Homemade Pizza!
With a yeast crust!
I figure if I can
awkwardly stumble around dance in front of 500 people I can make a homemade pizza crust. ;)
And you can too – it's honestly very simple!
Start by adding 1 Tablepoon honey and a packet of active dry yeast to 1 1/4 cups warm water.
Stir everything together, and allow the mixture to sit for 5 minute, giving the yeast time to "activate".
After 5 minutes, there should be a foam on top of the liquid. Yeast = ready!
Next, pulse together 1 teaspoon salt and 3 cups all purpose flour in a large food processor.
Add in the activated yeast, and 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, then let 'er rip for 10 seconds, or until the dough comes together.
Pretty much just like this!
Turn the dough out onto a flat, well-floured surface, then knead for 3 minutes, adding extra flour when necessary.
So far so good, yes?
Pinch the dough in to the middle to form 2 balls.
Place the balls onto a well floured baking sheet and dust the tops with more flour.
Cover with plastic wrap, then place the baking sheet in a warm, dry area for 45 minutes to an hour, or until the dough balls have doubled in size. I placed my baking sheet on top of the stove, with the oven set to 450 degrees.
Form one dough ball into a circle, then place it onto a well-greased pizza pan. My dough spread super quick – too quick to snap a picture! Brush the top with olive oil and minced garlic.
Next, consult your toppings. We've got: asparagus (the thinner, then better!) fresh mozzarella cheese, kalamata olives, baby heirloom tomatoes and red onion.
Spread out the toppings, then drizzle more olive oil on top, and give the whole thing a generous sprinkle of salt & pepper.
Into the oven for 10 minutes at 500 degrees! Pipin' hot, yo!
And devour!!!!
Ok, I don't know what has taken me so long to make homemade pizza dough. This was so easy!
The crust was light and chewy.
The toppings, hot and fresh. I am obsessed with the combo of sweet tomatoes and salty olives!
This was almost too pretty to eat. Almost. ;)
Click here for the pizza dough recipe! >
Well I think I've had just about enough fun for one weekend. I hope you did too!
Off to daydream… ;)
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Tiered storage shifts focus away from disk
At Storage Decisions, users and analysts discussed creative ways to tier storage according to levels of data protection and storage services, rather than disk costs.
CHICAGO -- In response to emerging frustration with tiered storage as initially defined by the industry -- classes of disk in separate frames sorted according to cost -- users and analysts at Storage Decisions on Wednesday discussed new approaches to implementing tiers that defy the dogma.
Previous conferences and trade shows had seen users venting frustrations over tiered storage and pulling back from what was initially an enthusiastic pursuit of the process. Some initial implementations of storage tiered between Fibre Channel (FC) and SATA disks in separate arrays had actually resulted in higher storage costs and management headaches (see sidebar).
But this week found users sharing their success stories with tiering storage in novel ways, among them Harley-Davidson Motor Co.'s Andrew Madsen.
"My definition of tiered storage isn't about disk types," Madsen said. "It's about access and protection. It's saving costs, but it's not about the cost of the hardware."
Madsen said all of his storage tiers are on FC arrays from IBM. The first two tiers are both on DS8300s. The difference between them is the size and the performance of the drives -- the Tier-1 disk spindles contain 146 GB that spin at 15,000 rpm, allowing faster access to data for mission-critical databases, including Oracle. The Tier-1 segments of Harley's storage environment are also protected using RAID-10, redundant controllers and are slated to be replicated to a secondary site when it is up and running this quarter.
Meanwhile, Madsen's Tier-2 storage, located on another DS8300, contains 300 GB disks that spin at 10,000 rpm, are protected by RAID-5 and will be backed up on site. These arrays, which do not have the redundant controllers contained in his Tier-1 system, are used for development data for quality assurance and testing environments that still call for reliability but don't demand the performance of the faster 146 GB drives.
Finally, Madsen 's third tier is on a DS4800 array, which also uses 146 GB drives but with less cache than the other frames, and without dual processors.
"The difference between the 8300s and the 4800 is that if we lose processors on the 8300s, we're down ports, but the arrays won't fail," he said.
All told, Madsen estimated tiering the levels of protection and performance on his arrays had saved him approximately $500,000 this year, representing 50% of the disk budget and one fifth of his overall budget -- all without a single SATA disk implemented.
Another unorthodox approach was taken by Blackhawk Technical College, which plans to stray from the norm by bumping a FC box from Hitachi Data Systems down to Tier-2 while using an IP SAN from LeftHand Networks Inc. as primary storage.
"Because we're a college, we need to keep our costs down," said Jeff Redington, systems engineer with Blackhawk. Cost was his primary motivation for looking into iSCSI, he said. Currently, Redington said he is looking into IP SANs from LeftHand Networks, EqualLogic Inc. and Xiotech Corp., and said that though he's only gotten one price quote from LeftHand, the savings are obvious.
"HP [Hewlett-Packard Co.] gave us a quote for a midrange FC array that was $175,000 for 4 TB [terabyte)," he said. "LeftHand's quote was $100,000 for 16 TB."
Redington also said the typical concern about the performance gap between iSCSI and FC weren't as much of a concern; he reasoned that since the older Hitachi array is still running 1 Gbps FC, switching to Gigabit Ethernet wouldn't make much of a difference in his environment.
As for the other strikes against IP, Redington did say that reliability on an IP SAN is "a concern." In response, the college plans to implement the SAN on a separate IP network from its LAN; and once its final decision on a SAN vendor is made (Redington indicated he is leaning strongly toward LeftHand's system), it will run on a set of clustered disk nodes for reliability.
Meanwhile, Xiotech user Joel Grace, manager of storage systems for Houghton-Mifflin Co., subsidiary Riverside Press, said he is using FC and SATA disks in his environment for different tiers of storage, but he has bucked the conventional wisdom by sticking fast to just two tiers rather than the recommended minimum of three (in fact, in his presentations, Casey recommends users come up with between four and eight classes of data).
Grace said high-end databases reside on 15,000 rpm 146 GB FC disk on a Magnitude 3D array from Xiotech protected with RAID-10. This data is replicated to a Magnitude classic array that otherwise would have been discarded. The second tier on 7200 rpm 400 GB SATA drives, also on a Magnitude 3D, is protected with RAID-5 and is backed up to tape on site.
Grace said it had been made clear to him that at least three levels of tiered storage were the norm, but "three levels to manage would negate the cost savings of the cheaper disk," he said. By sticking to his guns, repurposing the Magnitude classic and changing data protection levels between his arrays, Grace estimated he had still saved as much as $200,000.
A disconnect between vendor and user strategies
There has been recent evidence that some vendors are beginning to catch on to the backlash against tiering classes of disk. For example, EMC Corp.'s recent Clariion refresh no longer uses SATA disk for lower tiers, instead favoring low-cost FC disk, and HP uses FATA rather than SATA in several of its midrange arrays. Another player, Compellent, takes a "none of the above view," according to spokesman Rob Davis.
"We believe data should be migrated automatically between storage tiers according to usage patterns rather than by type or application," Davis said in an email, "as is being pushed aggressively by some consultants and the industry's largest vendors who offer products and services in this area."
Meanwhile, users and analysts said on Wednesday that disconnects remain between the marketing of tiered storage products in general (or trying to circumvent them by slashing prices on high-end arrays) and how users are attempting to implement them.
Just as Grace has heard much about the benefits of a three-level system, Madsen said he has found resistance in some cases to his tiered storage plan. He said IBM has urged him to use 146 GB drives in both 8300 systems, citing their higher performance and the fact that disk is cheap.
"Cheap disk doesn't solve the problem," according to Casey. An informal poll of the audience showed 55% agreed with Casey that a significant portion (20-50%) of their data is "over-protected," regardless of the price of the hard drives used to store it.
More to the point, a slide was included in the "Tiered Storage School" presentation Wednesday morning by Mike Casey, vice president and chief technology officer of consulting firm Contoural Inc., titled "Why your incumbent vendors may not embrace true storage tiering."
"Tiered storage done right can avoid Tier-1 purchases for the next two years," according to Casey "Most vendors don't offer best-of-breed in all tiers -- this is bad news for them."
Casey also said vendors bristle at his tip that users focus further storage purchases on equipment for the low end, rather than for Tier-1.
In fact, Casey said, some of the cases in which tiered storage had been a spectacular success for his clients hadn't involved the purchase of new storage at all. One customer, whom Casey did not name, had saved some $5 million just by changing which data it used replication to protect, he said.
Casey also said much of the frustration with tiered storage so far has come as a result of the confusion over tiered storage and information lifecycle management (ILM). "ILM is data movement over time, while tiered storage is the placement of data on the most cost-effective storage for its first use," Casey explained. "ILM and archiving can take six months to implement correctly, whereas tiering storage shouldn't take more than two months."
Ultimately, he acknowledged, many users are still thrown by higher up-front costs for implementing a tiered storage system. But he urged them to take the long view.
"Tiered storage done right may actually see an incremental cost increase up front," he said. "But you can get through your next hardware refresh without purchasing any more high-end equipment -- that's where the real savings are."


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NEWPORT, R.I.—After slogging through a slew of errors and a lack of hitting during their six-game losing streak, UMass Boston (4-6) turned things around in a huge way Sunday afternoon during a doubleheader sweep of Salve Regina (5-7) at Toppa Field.
The Beacons used a pair of late-game rallies and strong efforts from their two pitchers to grab 9-2 and 4-2 victories.
After failing to record a hit through the first four innings of game one, UMB registered 10 hits and nine runs in the top of the seventh to avoid falling to 2-7 on the year. Senior Taryn Asta (Marshfield, Mass.) put the Beacons ahead with a key two-run single, while Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Lyndsey Capra (Lowell, Mass.) and Kelsey Svenson (Oxford, Conn.) each recorded two hits in the rally.
The trio would combine for all four of the Beacons RBI in the second contest, as Capra and Svenson made the most of their opportunities to get into the lineup. Capra tied the score at 2-2 with an RBI single in the top of the sixth, while Svenson put the Beacons ahead 3-2 with her third single of the game.
For the day, Capra finished 3-for-8 with a run and three RBI, while Svenson enjoyed a career day, going 5-for-7 with a run and two RBI. Bouyea was just as good, ending the day 3-for-6 with two runs and two RBI in the Beacons first wins since opening day.
While the offense provided late-game theatrics, the Beacons pair of underclassmen pitchers kept them within striking distance, behind a strong effort all day. The pair allowed four runs, three earned, in 14 innings of work and allowed just one walk.
Game One: UMass Boston 9, Salve Regina 2
Through six innings at Toppa Field UMass Boston failed to get anything going against Seahawks starter Jen Cruver, but that all would change in a big way in the top half of the seventh.
After mustering just one hit and four baserunners in the first six innings, the Beacons marched 14 batters to the plate, recorded 10 hits and plated nine runs to wipe away a week of frustrating defeats.
Capra led the Beacons with two hits and two RBI, while Svenson and Bouyea each tallied a pair of hits.
On the mound, freshman Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) outlasted Cruver to improve to 2-3 on the season. The right-hander allowed eights hits and two earned runs over seven innings, while allowing one walk. In her past four appearances, Gray has allowed two runs or fewer in all four, while recording a complete game in every collegiate start she's made.
Despite the wide margin of the victory, the Beacons could get very little going through the first six innings.
Cruver retired the order in three of the first six innings and the only baserunners to reach for UMB came on two errors, a single and a hit by pitch.
At the same time, the Seahawks jumped out to a 2-0 lead, behind single runs in the second and third.
But the Beacons turned the corner against Cruver in the seventh.
Bouyea led off the inning with a single and advanced to second on a fielder's choice, as Toni Scola (Worcester, Mass.) reached second, when the Seahawks tried to cut down the lead runner. Capra reached on a bunt single to load the bases and Svenson cut the deficit to 2-1 with an RBI single to right field.
Salve Regina temporarily cut the bleeding when Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.), who had UMB's only hit in the first six innings, grounded into a fielder's choice-with Scola out at home, but seven of the next eight batters recorded base hits to blow the game open.
Kelsey Souza (Braintree, Mass.) tied the game at 2-2 with an RBI single and advanced all the way to third on a 2-run, go-ahead single from Asta. Sam Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) pushed the lead to 5-2 with an RBI groundout and Erika Vecchiet (Pequannock, N.J.) made it 6-2 with an RBI single to left field.
One batter later, Scola cracked the Beacons only extra-base hit of the game with a run-scoring double and she came across to score on Capra's two-run single to cap off the Beacons nine-run inning.
The Beacons nine-run frame was their highest scoring inning since April 11 of last year, when UMB scored 10 runs in the second inning of a 21-0 mercy-rule win at Gordon College.
Gray made quick work of the Seahawks in the seventh, as she retired three straight batters, after allowing a leadoff double.
Game Two: UMass Boston 4, Salve Regina
Game two would follow a similar, albeit less dramatic, script to the Beacons' game one win.
Salve Regina once again held the lead for much of the game, only to have UMass Boston respond with a late flurry to earn the doubleheader sweep.
Svenson led the Beacons with three singles and an RBI, while Vecchiet, Hemstock and Souza all tallied two hits apiece. Bouyea picked up two of the four Beacons RBI in the contest and recorded one of four UMB doubles for her only hit of the contest.
One of the biggest stories of the contest though was the performance of sophomore pitcher Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.). After struggling with her control in her final three starts in Florida, Zullo put together an impressive performance, giving up just one earned run and no walks over seven innings. The right-hander improved to 2-3 by striking out three and allowing just six hits.
Salve Regina took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI double from Marissa Simpson and would hold onto the lead for the next two innings.
UMass Boston continued to struggle against Cruver early, picking up just two hits over the course of the first three innings, before finally striking for a run in the fourth. Hemstock led off the inning with a double for the Beacons and came across to score on a sacrifice fly from Bouyea to make it 1-1 through three and a half.
The Seahawks went back on top in the bottom of the fifth on an infield single, but stranded two runners on with one out, when Hemstock picked a runner off third to put down the rally.
Hemstock led off the sixth with a single and moved to second on a Vecchiet single. With two outs and the runners in the same positions, Capra singled up the middle to score Hemstock and make it 2-2. After Capra stole second to put runners on second and third, Svenson registered an RBI infield single to give UMB a 3-2 lead heading into the bottom of the sixth.
UMass Boston added an insurance run in the seventh when Bouyea blasted a double to left-center to score Hemstock and put the Beacons ahead 4-2.
Zullo made quick work of the Seahawks in the final two innings, allowing just one single, to help the Beacons move within two games of .500.


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|By Fuat Kircaali
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|May 16, 2010 10:15 AM EDT
A few minutes ago I received an email questionnaire informing me that "The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) has once again partnered with George P. Johnson Experience Marketing to conduct this essential and timely research. This year's study is being co-produced with The Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. and with support from the Event Marketing Institute."
The first question of this survey is:
Which one of the following best describes the role of "digital marketing" when you are planning an event?
a) A leading tactic
b) A vital component of the plan
c) Taken under consideration with other mediums
d) Usually an afterthought
e) Don't really consider it
I was shocked to see this question and equally shocked to read the selection of possible answers!
First, allow me to present the facts, which reflect the reality of the media business in 2010, the decade we just entered, as it relates to the facts of our company.
SYS-CON Media executed a five-year transition plan from January 2004 through December 2008. We transformed our company into a pure "new media" business in five years, which is now owned and operated by Ulitzer, Inc. The last print magazine published by SYS-CON Publications, Inc. was in December 2008. Ulitzer.com was launched about a year ago with more than 500 micro sites including the 16 year-old www.sys-con.com brand, which is now a property of Ulitzer, Inc.
Ulitzer.com offers roughly 1.4 million articles, including the online libraries of all SYS-CON print magazines from the past 16 years.
Ulitzer.com is also the world's first and only revolutionary new media platform designed for original content on any subject in any language.
For example, Dmitriy Stepanov who joined Ulitzer earlier today is the 9,875th Ulitzer author on our new media platform.
The largest new technology event in the world, Cloud Expo, is the first conference to be born, produced and presented completely on the Ulitzer platform.
The Cloud Expo home page updates automatically around the clock, with the most recent feature stories, articles, product reviews, news and blogs posted by the world's most influential authors on their subject matters! You may find all faculty members and speakers from Cloud Expo conferences on Ulitzer pages.
Ulitzer will eventually replace all media on all subjects you can think of in any language around the world.
Question: Are You Planning "Digital Marketing" When You Are Planning an Event?
Here are my thoughts on this question. At this very moment, some people on planet Earth are switching from gas to electricity, some people are printing technology magazines and mailing them through the post office, some people are reading the New York Times with their Sunday bagels.
As far as we are concerned, traditional media tools are long gone; our company began this transition 6 years ago and completed it a year and a half ago.
If I were asked this question and expected to give an answer, my reply would be:
f) none of the above
Let's take "Cloud Expo" for example. The most popular technology conference of the new decade was born on "digital media" and produced and presented using "digital media" assets.
I can't comprehend that any event producer anywhere in the world today would answer this question by picking any one of the five available options presented. "A leading tool?" What do you mean by "a leading tool?" What other tools would you possibly have in this day and age? This question, the survey itself and its participants belong to the last decade.
I personally don't use email anymore; I communicate through "Twitter."\
We don't do press releases unless we have to; we tweet stories to our roughly 12,000 followers in 8 channels. The news gets amplified to hundreds of thousands instantly.
Even during Cloud Expo, we reach more people by Twitter than the announcements we make through loudspeakers in the convention centers.
I would love to contact the people who are conducting this survey and ask them if any company answered their first question as "don't really consider it."
In an age where I personally hail a cab at an airport through Twitter, I can't possibly comprehend which century bubble those people might be living in.
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i'm surprised it's not noted anywhere here on the site, but A/N now has a fully functional mobile website. check it out for yourself. big round of applause for the developers!
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Yeah we should have told everyone. Sorry about that. I'll do it now.
no problem. looks great, btw.
it was nice meeting you at the Reason Rally. incidentally, i just mentioned you in another discussion about Republican Atheists, if you care to respond. hope you're not offended, but i'd really like to know how an Atheist can square the peg with the GOP. here's the link:
Question: Is it available for Androids as well? I have an Android with Cricket, if that helps.
i have an Android (not sure what Cricket is) so yes.
Thanks Matthew. For the record, Cricket is a prepaid cell phone company. They do have 3G service available, which is what my phone has.
Ooh, gonna check it out. Been using the site with Dolphin on android, but it hasn't loaded the chat function well at all. Maybe it will with the mobile version!
Just an update... Using Dolphin on android I am able to use chat on the actual chat page, but the scrolling is troublesome, as the history builds and won't pop down to the latest post to chat. This is compounded by the fact that sometimes I have private chats running, and going between, I have to scroll pages and pages, which on a tablet, means a lot of thumb swipes...
But at least it does work on the chat page.
Ooh, awesome! I haven't been very active here lately (unemployed, sitting at home feeling sorry for myself), but this will be great!
Can't find the app in iTunes or the App icon for iPhone 4s. Was it discontinued?
You don't need an app for it - load in safari and then choose to view the mobile version of the site.
You can also go to it on your phone, then click the "action" button at the bottom of the page and click "add to home screen". It will look like an app on your phone, and when you click on it, it opens in safari....
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By Jeremy Jacquot • Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 20:58
Today we'll look at two more of the (supposedly) bullet-proof points in Joanne Nova's "The Skeptics Handbook."
"Professional Speaker" turned climate expert Nova rehashes two of the more common skeptic talking points, that: the world is no longer warming and the Vostok ice core record proves that rising CO2 emissions are not the cause of warmer temperatures.
As skeptics love to point out, the planet has not appreciably warmed over the last decade even though carbon dioxide levels have greatly increased. While it's true that surface temperatures have remained essentially flat over the last 10 years, taking such a myopic view of the temperature record obscures the much more meaningful long-term trends.
Indeed, if you look at the temperature record of the last 150 years or so, you'll find it extremely hard not to notice the obvious upward trend (there's a reason why the nine warmest years on record have all occurred between 1998 and 2008).
You'll notice that I specifically mentioned surface temperatures; that's because the datasets that look at surface warming (those developed by the UK Met Office Hadley Center) are only one aspect of this complicated picture. If you were to look instead at other datasets, such as NASA's, which include the Arctic Ocean (the area of the planet that has been warming the fastest) in their measurements, then you'd see that there hasn't been a cooling trend since 2003.
In fact, 2005 was the warmest year on record, with 1998 and 2007 tied for second place. Yet even the NASA datasets, which assume that the Arctic Ocean's surface temperature is roughly the same as that of nearby land-based stations, probably underestimate the degree of warming.
The real measure we should be keeping a close eye on is how much heat the oceans are absorbing. And, wouldn't you know it, their heat content has steadily increased since 1999. That's a problem because, as Real Climate's Gavin Schmidt explains, ocean heat content trends reflect "the planetary radiative imbalance" – that the planet is absorbing more heat from the sun each year than it is losing.
Oceans exert a moderating influence on the climate by soaking up extra heat; therefore, if they take in a little more heat then usual, surface temperatures will tend to fall slightly (even though the planet's overall heat content is going up). On the other hand, if the oceans absorb less (something that could happen more often if we keep the heat on), surface temperatures will increase.
But, wait, skeptics will say: All of that is beside the point because the Vostok ice cores have now clearly demonstrated that temperature leads CO2 – so rising CO2 emissions can't be blamed for higher average temperatures. Not quite.
"The strongest evidence for the radiative effect for CO2 (and CH4, N2O, etc) is from laboratory experiments," said Dr. Schmidt. "The strongest evidence for a significant climate sensitivity is from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), when ice sheets covered the planet (about 20,000 years ago), and that has not changed."
The lead/lag issue that Nova is referring to is only evidence of a strongly coupled system – not evidence that CO2 has no effect, he explained. As Dr. Dessler notes:
"What most scientists think happens is that the orbital variations cause a small initial warming. This small initial warming leads to CO2 being released, which then leads to further warming.
Thus, CO2 indeed lags the initial warming. However, that does not mean it's not playing a crucial role in the warming. In fact, its role in warming is pivotal."
The difference now is that CO2 has become a "forcing," he says. What this means is that humans are now essentially "controlling" the global carbon cycle and causing temperatures to rise by pushing the atmospheric concentration of CO2 ever higher – thus "forcing" the climate.
Anyways, there is a much better argument to explain the CO2-temperature correlation: namely, that none of the other factors that have influenced the climate in the past – tectonic activity, orbital variations, solar variations, volcanoes, internal variability – can do the evident temperature increase justice. Dr. Dessler lays out the case thusly:
"If we look at the warming of the last few decades, we can immediately rule out tectonic activity and orbital variations – they are much much too slow to account for warming over mere decades. We can rule out volcanic eruptions for a similar reason – they affect the climate for only a few years. Thus, volcanic eruptions are also likely unrelated to the several-decades-long temperature increase we are experiencing.
We can rule out solar variability because we have high-accuracy measurements of the output of the sun from satellites since the mid-1970s, and we have not seen the increase in solar output necessary to explain the temperature increase. This is not to say that solar is playing no role, just that it cannot explain the majority of the observed warming.
Internal variability is the hardest to evaluate. We know that ENSO significantly changes the Earth's temperature, and so long-term ENSO-like variation is something we have to consider. However, nobody has yet put forth a viable mechanism or shown data that such a long-term cycle exists. In the absence of any evidence supporting it, we conclude that it's likely internal variability is playing a minor role in today's warming. Clearly, future research might cause us to re-examine this conclusion.
Finally, we have greenhouse gases. In this case, things work out well. Both the timing and magnitude of today's warming are well-explained by greenhouse gases.
This is why scientists conclude that humans are likely responsible for most of the warming of the last few decades. Greenhouse gases provide a reasonable explanation for the warming, while no other factor can explain the entire warming (though other factors, such as solar, might be playing a minor role)."
Case closed.
Read Part One of Debunking the 'Skeptics Handbook': More CO2 Does Worsen Climate Change
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Joanne Nova (Codling) & David Evans
1) You may recall:
Who is 'Rocket Scientist' David Evans? here last summer.
2) Now, look at:
http://www.sciencespeak.com and http://goldnerds.com.au/o/content/view/5/26/, both run by Nova and Evans…
3) Here's some history, H/T to Tim Lambert for pointer:
She got married, changed name Codling to Nova (Stage name). I think the 1989 there is a typo, as the rest is 1998.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Nice work
Thanks John, this is good stuff.
RickJames replied on Permalink
ice ages and Venus
one point from her handbook that wasn't touched on here (unless I missed it) was her point that Earth slipped into ice ages while CO2 was many times greater in concentration than it is now. I thought that came off as a compelling demonstration (if her facts are right) that Earths climate is pretty independant of CO2. The Venus example of CO2 warming is interesting but seems less compelling because Venus isn't in Earth's orbit and all that.
"scientists conclude that
"scientists conclude that humans are likely responsible"…then the article ends with "case closed". Concluding that something is likely does not elevate it to a fact. Hence the continuing debate. You present only hypotheses, regardless of how valid they appear, they need to be tested in a controlled manner (pretty tough to do with something as complex as our climate).
When you finally graduate and get a job, your employers will "likely" require you to produce something more than just opinions.
Passionate environmentalists are everywhere...
You are just another passionate environmentalist. Thats all. Which scientists? What are 10 years to scientific research? NOTHING AT ALL
Become a christian or something instead of "debunking" real researchers like Joanne.


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Wisonsin Supreme Court Upholds State Law Curtailing Collective Bargaining Powers
Ruling just a week after hearing oral arguments in the case, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned a lower-court ruling that had struck down the law. Though other challenges are foreseen, the law reining-in collective bargaining powers for public school employees and other state workers is now likely to go into effect -- at least for the time being.
Collective bargaining was always a bad idea for workers employed by a state-run monopoly, because it lacks the checks and balances of the private sector. When UPS went on strike, customers could -- and did in great numbers -- shift their business to FedEx, DHL and others. But taxpayers must keep paying for the public schools despite their rising costs and collapsing productivity.
Still, it is unlikely that this measure will control public school costs as well as many observers hope. I explain why in a feature story I wrote for the current (June) issue of The American Spectator. It's on newstands now, and should also be up on the Spectator's website within the next few days. [Hat tip for the breaking news to Bill Evers].


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It is a traditional Chinese Medicine commonly used for nourishing the body, improving the blood circulation , replenishing the vital essence and enhance the body resistance to diseases.
The soup can be taken on its own, with rice or with flour vemicelli.
Half of free range chicken, skinned and cut into 2 pieces
1 packet of Eight Precious Decoction ingredients, rinsed
1 liter water
light soy sauce or salt to taste (optional)
1. Blanch the chicken in boiling water. Drain and set aside.
2. Bring a pot of water to boil. Pour it into inner pot of slow cooker.
3. Add in chicken and Eight Precious ingredients. Simmer under high heat for at least 3 hours.
4. Skim off the scum and oil from the soup surface. Serve hot.


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BRUSSELS -- Germany's defense minister said Monday he expects Turkey to make a formal request to NATO for Patriot missiles to bolster anti-aircraft defenses along the border with war-wracked Syria.
"It may be -- I expect it -- that there will be a request by the Turkish government to NATO today for Patriot missiles to be stationed on the Turkish border," Thomas de Maiziere said ahead of a meeting with his European Union counterparts in Brussels.
NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said no such request had been received yet from Ankara, but that if it was it would be considered "as a matter of urgency."
"The situation along the Syrian-Turkish border is of great concern," Fogh Rasmussen said as he arrived for a meeting with the European Union's foreign and defense ministers.
"We have all plans in place to defend and protect Turkey if needed," he said. "These plans will be adjusted as necessary to ensure effective defense and protection of Turkey, and if we receive a formal request from Turkey to ensure such effective defense and protection that request will be considered as a matter of urgency."
Fogh Rasmussen also noted that the deployment of the U.S.-built Patriots would not mean imposing a no-fly zone over Syrian territory, a key demand of Syrian opposition groups.
"If we are to deploy Patriot missiles it would be purely a defensive measure to defend and protect Turkey," he said.
NATO installed anti-aircraft batteries on Turkish territory during the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars. They were never used.
Within the alliance, only the United States, Germany and the Netherlands have Patriots in their arsenals.
Turkey's air defenses consist mostly of short-range Rapier and Stinger systems, and U.S.-made Hawk low-to-medium-altitude missiles. Ankara has been looking to acquire a new high-altitude defense system to replace its Cold War-era Nike-Hercules batteries.
NATO installed the long-range Patriot batteries on Turkish territory during the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars. They were never used and were quietly withdrawn a few months later.
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PERCEE P came up in the Patterson Houses Projects of the Bronx, NY. He started hearing the precursors of hip-hop out of his windows before he was in kindergarten, around 1973. By ten, Percee had a mic in his hand. He debuted in 1988 with homeboy D-Nique on "Let The Homicides Begin" (Gotham City Records, 12" single). A few years later, his freestyles on the hugely influential Stretch & Bobbito radio show on WKCR parlayed into what should have been Percee's big major label breakthrough, 1992's "Lung Collapsing Lyrics" (Atlantic/Big Beat, 12" single), the now legendary Fast Rap masterpiece. Though the record established reputation as one of the best rappers in the field, his break never came.
For most of the rest of the 1990s Percee P laid low, working in retail and as a messenger, dropping only the occasional indie single and a few guest verses. Percee wasn't gung-ho about the rap game again until the late '90s, when he truly went for self and began his own guerilla distribution campaign, selling his CDs face-to-face to patrons outside of New York's Fat Beats Records, establishing himself as something of a local landmark.
Percee's pavement pounding around Fat Beats did more than keep him fed - it introduced him to a new generation of hip-hop collaborators, cats like Aesop Rock, Jedi Mind Tricks, C-Rayz Walz, Wildchild, Edan and Jurassic 5 among others. All of these emerging underground artists sought contributions from Percee P - not only because they considered him a bona fide legend and Fast Rap pioneer, but also because they regarded him as a peer, hustling his trade with the same hunger as them.
Percee met his future label execs out on the street as he sold them CDs. Stones Throw's Peanut Butter Wolf and Egon met with Percee during a series of NYC visits, and, impressed by his constantly evolving lyricism, brought him to Los Angeles, leading to appearances on albums by Wildchild and Jaylib in 2003. They signed him to an album deal shortly thereafter.
Percee P's debut on Stones Throw has been anticipated for 3 years, through selective guest appearances, the Chrome Children world tour and a handful of singles. Embodying the term Perseverance in both name and spirit, Percee P followed the grass roots path throughout his career.
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Thanks for posting- great idea. My tools usually remain in the shop, so the labels I would be interested in are the ones you show on the front of the systainer that shows the tool name/number. Are they peel and stick?Regards, Gerald
How much are the latches? My labels are 50 cents a label so about $1.50 a box and just wondering which way is more economical and more identifying from all side of the systainer.
So I was glancing at a stack of systainers and wondering how to tell right away what was in a systainer other than looking at those tiny labels with those tiny fonts printed on them and I was wondering if anybody would be interested in quick identification of contents like in the pics. I have the festool font and festool green and deep blackish blue colors to cut out individual letters in whatever size someone would want. I covered four sides of my two systainers and CT-48 too. These apply with just your fingers and are pre-spaced for you. I'm just seeing if there's an interest in this kinda stuff. These are self adhesive vinyl letters. I can mail these in an envelope to anyone. $1.00 per label and you should do 3 sides so just $3.00 per Systainer fully labeled. The lettering could be customizable in whatever size you want and whatever you want them to say. If you have a single color rendering of your business logo I can do that too. I just made the festool label for myself. I don't want to offer any label that has "FESTOOL" on it so as to oblige the copyright but tool name and other text is open game. I just put up a video of the application procedure....very easy. View it on YouTube below. (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)
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Other veteran comics could head straight to "The Tonight Show" couch to banter with Johnny Carson, but David Brenner had to do a stand-up routine when he was a guest.
Finally, Carson told a puzzled Brenner why.
"I like to sit back, smoke a cigarette and laugh for six minutes," Brenner, in a 2013 interview with CBS, recalled him saying.
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Carson's regard for Brenner, who died in his New York City home Saturday at age 78 after battling cancer, made him one of the most frequent visitors to "Tonight" as a guest and substitute host who was on more than 150 times.
And NBC's late-night show, in return, made Brenner's career.
It made the former documentary filmmaker into a hot comedian, one who was ubiquitous on other talk shows and game shows.
The lanky, always sharply dressed Brenner also briefly hosted his own syndicated talk show in 1987 and starred in four HBO specials.
Brenner moved with the times, trading routines about the humor of everyday life for jokes about social and political issues, and appearing on MSNBC and Fox News Channel cable programs.
Although his career faltered, he worked steadily through 2013 doing standup. A four-day gig last December included a New Year's Eve show at a Pennsylvania casino-resort in which he showcased young comedians.
Brenner, who was raised in working-class south Philadelphia and graduated with honors from Temple University, was "always there helping a bright young comedian, whether it be Richard Lewis, Freddie Prinze or Jimmie Walker, and he was still doing it until the very end," said his friend and publicist, Jeff Abraham.
In a statement, Walker called Brenner "a true comic genius" who was "my mentor and taught me about life and comedy."
The lanky, toothy-grinned Brenner's brand of observational comedy became a staple for other standups, including Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser.
"David Brenner was a huge star when I met him and he took me under his wing. To me, historically, he was the godfather of hip, observational comedy," comedian Richard Lewis said in a statement. "He mentored me from day one. ... His passing leaves a hole in my life that can never be replaced."
Brenner took a brief stab at upping his TV fame with the 1976 sitcom "Snip" and the talk show "Nightlife" he hosted in 1987. But he didn't achieve the success of Seinfeld's self-titled NBC sitcom or Reiser's "Mad About You," and he saw Jay Leno follow Carson as "Tonight" host.
Brenner's take on his career, as he described it in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press, was that he put family before stardom.
He said a long custody battle with a girlfriend over their son, Cole, forced him to curtail his TV appearances and visibility beginning in the mid-1980s, when Brenner lived in Aspen, Colo.
"In a nutshell, I couldn't work more than 50 nights a year (out of town) or I'd be an absentee father," he said. "That was when they were giving out the talk shows, the sitcoms."
He was asked if he regretted his decision.
"I didn't even make a decision. I didn't even think about it. How could you not do it? I don't mean to sound noble," Brenner said. "Besides, I come from the slums of Philadelphia and everything in my life is profit. My downside is what most people would strive a lifetime to get to."
Decades ago, he had burned out on filmmaking — "You don't change the world by doing documentaries," he told "CBS This Morning" in 2013 — and decided to give comedy a try. He was on the verge of quitting when his effort to impress talent bookers at "Tonight" worked.
His career soared after his first appearance in January 1971. He went from being nearly broke to overwhelmed by a then-hefty $10,000 in job offers the day after he was on the show.
"I never thought this was going to turn my life upside down and give me my whole future," he told "This Morning."
In a 1995 interview with the AP, Brenner imagined a different path with "Tonight."
"I really believe that had ... Johnny Carson retired in the early '80s, then I would be sitting behind that desk," he said. "I don't think there's any doubt."
Brenner wrote five books, including the post-9/11 "I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup," published in 2003. His last HBO special, "David Brenner: Back with a Vengeance," debuted live in 2000.
In a statement, his family said he left a last laugh: A final request that $100 in small bills be placed in his left sock "just in case tipping is recommended where I'm going."
Besides son Cole, Brenner is survived by his wife, Ruth, sons Wyatt and Slade and a grandson, Wesley, according to a statement from the family.
David Brenner wasn't married to Olympic skating champion Tai Babilonia, Abraham said, despite some reports that she is his surviving spouse. The pair had been engaged at one time, Abraham said.
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The end of a very, very, very good era
I am sorry to announce that a week before Christmas, we had to put Mr. Henry to sleep. Boy, was it hard to let him go. I mean, he's Henry, after all. The Big Guy. Big Hen. Hendo. Hendomania. Hendopolous. Henri Henri. He was the best guy anyone could ever ask for - with a face that could charm the pants off of any vet in a 160 mile radius. And he's done it, too.
Those sweet little ears. Those big brown eyes. His wrinkles, his little mouth, and his squished little pug nose. Even the way he strutted around in his big boy red collar (which eventually became the big boy red harness you see him modeling here) was endearing. I'm telling you, this guy had fans. He got himself into scenarios and situations that could hardly be forgotten. Listed below are just a few of the predicaments he found himself in. I'll preface each by saying, "The incident(s) with..." :
The cigar, the earthworms, the claw, the plate of fudge, the Easter candy, the toilet paper, the Michael Kors sandals, the giraffe bed, the ottoman, bridges, open stairs, paper-towel poopies, Uncle Kevin, his water bowl, the indiscretion in our foyer, the indiscretion under our glass coffee table, the indiscretions on every piece of furniture we own, his toe nails, the tongue tick, the rain. (For a complete listing, see the wikipedia listing for "Trouble with a captial "T".)
He lobbied hard for free refills, loved when we sang Amazing Grace, and asked Santa for a red wagon year after year. (He preferred to ride.) He convinced our dog trainer that he shouldn't be forced to lie down on command, so much so that the trainer told us, "He physically can't do it. You shouldn't force him...pugs are just like that sometimes."
He loved his mom, and he especially loved his dad. He thought his brother and sister were pretty nice, too.
He earned himself a dedication in one of the best selling lupus books on the market, for goodness sakes. Not many pugs can make that claim. That tells you just how special this guy really was.
Henry Henri Gorman is and always will be unforgettable. I just wonder when I'll be able to type his name without tearing up. Maybe someday soon. Maybe never. However it turns out, Henry would want it that way. And, as many of you know, Mr. Henry always got his way.


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The little kitchen that could
Here's the original kitchen, in all its glory. The house is about 100 years old, and I'm sure over the course of that time this small space has gone through many changes. Certainly the funky Mexican tile was not original to the house!
At the time it didn't seem so bad. Everything was (literally) within arm's reach. Efficiency meant no counter clutter...good thing because there wasn't really a counter to speak of. The lazy susan in the corner held a *lot* of stuff. And the view was pretty, especially when Trixie chose the sit in the window.
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