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Debbie who wrote, "I love them all, but if I had to pick just one, it would be the variegated so I would get to see them all! Also love the Tranquil waters but like I said at first, all are beautiful because I just love hand-dyed!"
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Today I have a great interview with one of my most favorite knitwear designers, Melissa LaBarre, to share with you. She is the designer and co-author of the new and popular New England Knits book that came out this past summer.
I got the opportunity to knit one of her most popular hat patterns, crooked paths, a few months ago and I loved the pattern so much, I had to knit it up again shortly after the first beret.
I love this pattern so much, I'm going to knit it up again sometime in the very near future! I have a lovely skein of Madelinetosh in a really bright red that will look amazing knitted up into my THIRD crooked paths beret!
Links and such from the videos:
- knitting school dropout blog
- Melissa's patterns on Rav
- New England Knits book
- Co-authored by Cecily Glowik MacDonald
- Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival
- Interweave publisher
- Melissa's current favs: Quince & Co., Shelter, St-Denis Nordique, & The Plucky Knitter.
- november leaves (You have to check this pattern out!)
Thanks Melissa for visiting us on YOTH! Come back anytime! Melissa has generously donated a signed copy of the New England Knits book for one YOTH follower to win, and she will personally autograph it for the winner too! How cool is that?!
Also, two runners up have the opportunity to pick one free pattern from these five of Melissa's fabulous knitting designs: november leaves, september circle, eleanor's slouch, crooked paths, or Acorns.
I would like you to do the following if you would like to be entered into this week's giveaway:
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I'll randomly pick the winners on Sunday and post the results on Monday along with the new giveaway, so be sure to check back. Good luck everyone.


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Today is World AIDS day and I'm thinking about President-elect Barack Obama. As a 52-year-old Black gay man with HIV, I have many reasons to welcome the inauguration of Barack Obama. A big one is that an Obama administration has enormous potential to reinvigorate a struggle that has been allowed to flag over the last eight years: our national fight against HIV/AIDS.
With our country facing so many national challenges -- two wars, a financial meltdown, and the growing threat of environmental devastation -- it may be tempting to relegate the AIDS epidemic to the lower rung of national priorities. Yet that would be a grave mistake. Every year, more than 56,000 people in this country contract HIV.
The devastation is worst among Black Americans, who represent nearly half of all new HIV infections, including two-thirds of the new cases among women and 70% of the new cases among adolescents.
AIDS clearly has affected certain groups more than others. But as Senator Obama said in 2006: "We are all sick because of AIDS -- and we are all tested by this crisis. It is a test not only of our willingness to respond, but of our ability to look past the artificial divisions and debates that have often shaped that response."
AIDS, in short, is a sickness at the very heart of the American family. Like any family, America must respond to the sickness in its midst by displaying both solidarity for those who are living with HIV and a determination to make sure no one else gets infected.
We cannot relegate the AIDS fight to the government alone, not even with President Obama at the helm. So, here are several high-priority actions that Americans and our new government, together, should immediately take to reinvigorate our fight against HIV/AIDS:
Support Efforts to Develop a National AIDS Strategy
The U.S. government requires all foreign countries that receive assistance from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to have a national strategy to respond to HIV/AIDS. Shockingly, America has no national strategy for its own epidemic. No national targets are in place for reducing the number of new HIV infections or lowering the annual number of AIDS deaths. Multiple federal agencies own different pieces of the national AIDS response, yet in the absence of any national coordinating mechanism they stumble over each other, fight for turf, and leave critical priorities unaddressed.
President-elect Obama has committed to put in place a National AIDS Strategy. However, communities affected by AIDS -- not bureaucrats -- must drive the development of this strategy.
Partner With the Obama Administration to Strengthen HIV Prevention
HIV prevention accounts for a paltry 4% of total spending by the federal government on domestic HIV/AIDS programs. That's an outrage.
The Obama administration must make good on its campaign promise to strengthen national prevention efforts. Yet when opposition surfaces to needle exchange or school-based HIV prevention programs, we must speak out and persuade decision-makers that true "family values" don't allow more HIV infections to occur when proven methods exist to prevent them.
The disproportionate vulnerability of Black gay men to HIV infection stems in no small part from the prevailing stigma associated with homosexuality. If we are serious about lowering the rate of new HIV infections, we must actively oppose stigma and promote acceptance in our churches, schools, and local communities.
Make Knowledge of HIV Status a Universal Community Norm
The CDC estimates that more than one in five people living with HIV don't know they are infected. Such people are often diagnosed late in the course of disease, which significantly reduces life expectancy. Late HIV testing also contributes to the spread of HIV, because people who are unaware of their infection are more than three times more likely to expose others to the virus as people who know they are HIV-positive. Here, too, our new President will need our help establish a social norm that every person should know his or her HIV status. We need to urge everyone to get tested, and to explain, again and again, the benefits of getting tested.
Deliver Treatments to Those Who Need Them
In 2006, 15,000 Americans died of HIV-related causes. Yet, while our government's global AIDS efforts enjoyed double-digit increases each year between 2005 and 2008, categorical domestic federal programs for HIV treatment and prevention failed to keep pace with inflation. Especially scandalous is the lack of any funding increase for the Minority AIDS Initiative since 2004, even though nearly 100,000 Black Americans have become newly infected with HIV since that year. We need to insist that Congressional appropriators deliver the funding that is urgently needed to address this national priority.
Build Community Capacity on AIDS
Throughout much of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, mainstream Black organizations stayed on the sidelines. Thankfully, that has changed. Organizations like the Black AIDS Institute, the Balm in Gilead and the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS have assisted leading Black organizations and historically Black colleges and universities to develop organizational action plans on AIDS.
Unfortunately, we're still not where we need to be. In 2006, private U.S.-based foundations gave less than a tenth of their HIV-related contributions to activities in this country. Less than a tenth! While we continue to help Africa and other hard-hit regions, we need to put out the fire here at home.
The new administration offers enormous promise for a new day in our nation's long struggle against HIV/AIDS. However, President Obama and his team won't be able to reinvigorate the national AIDS response on their own. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.
Yes, we can!
Yours in the Struggle,
Phill Wilson


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1. We can't change basic biology.
American women are becoming moms later than ever before, thanks to improvements in fertility treatments and women's advancements in higher education and careers, which have opened up more opportunities while also creating obstacles to starting a family. The number of women having their first children between the ages of 40 and 44 increased more than fourfold from 1985 through 2012, with the number of such births reaching 109,579 in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Celebrities who get pregnant well into their 40s—often with the help of unlimited financial resources—fuel a general misperception that a woman's fertility stretches easily into her fifth decade, experts say.
Yet the stubborn truth remains that women are most capable of conceiving in their mid-20s. A subtle drop in fertility begins in the early 30s, just as many women are hitting their career strides; the decline accelerates around age 37 and then more sharply after 40, fertility doctors say. In an era when an early focus on careers means many women don't find their mate in their 20s, and those who do may not feel financially secure enough to have children before age 30, "society makes us do our family building when nature isn't most efficient," says Dr. Thomas L. Toth, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital In Vitro Fertilization Unit and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Of course, not all fertility problems are age-related. Younger women can have medical issues, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal disorder, that make it difficult to conceive. And while infertility is often thought of as a female issue, in as many as 40% of cases the problem lies with the male partner. It all added up to a $3.5 billion market for fertility services in the U.S. in 2012, up more than fourfold from 1988, according to Marketdata, a Tampa, Fla..-based market research firm.


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Global Guerillas & Resilient Communities
I really want to encourage people to keep an eye on the writing's of John Robb, both over at his blog, Global Guerrillas, and in his ground-breaking and extremely relevant book, Brave New War. His writing focuses on the evolving dynamics of the global geo-political system with a keen eye towards 4th generation guerrilla warfare, it's impact on the de-legitimizing of increasingly hollow states, and the need for communities to take control of their resources to establish independence and resiliency. His work is very much in line with my own sense of where things are heading, and his writings offer a coherent framework for understanding the great shift that is happening across our system of civilization.
My own personal recommendations: assume that the state will be increasingly unable to provide the fundamental services we have come to take for granted. Energy, water, food, health care, protection. The state will continue to spread out in extended foreign military engagements; American cities will move towards increasing chaos and conflict; local communities will seize the reigns of innovation, and assume responsibility for basic services and maintenance.
I don't expect apocalypse – and in many ways things will likely stay the same – but increasing strain will be put on state and federal budgets ($700B Failout?) and the state will grow more and more pre-occupied with defending its own demise (and continuing is conversion to a loosely fascist merger of industry and governance).
The State is dead. Long live the State!


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Thai Binh Province is not only acknowledged as a rice field in the North, but also as home to traditional craft villages. Dong Xam Silver Village is one of the most famous ones...
Throughout centuries, traditional crafts and craft villages have been existed and developed as an integral part of Thai Binh's history, for instance: weave fabric in Phuong La, silver carve in Dong Xam, copper casting in An Long, lace embroider in Minh Lang, "cáy" cake making in Nguyen Xa. Of which, Dong Xam is a village whose population is skilled in metal carving and attracts a large number of visitors from other provinces.
Dong Xam Silver Village
Dong Xam Silver Village is located in Hong Thai Commune, the north of Kien Xuong District, Thai Binh Province. Dong Xam is a village whose population is skilled in metal carving. The craft of silver processing in Dong Xam Village has existed since the 17th Century.
As of March 2003, the village has been acknowledged as qualified craft village and has a wide range of consumer's favorite handicrafts. Dong Xam Silver Village is known not only in the Vietnam, but also overseas. The handicrafts are produced for both domestic use and export to foreign markets, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Laos, Thailand, Netherlands, and Spain.
Silver has been used for many centuries, going back to ancient times. Periodically, it enjoys great popularity as it does currently. Silver is the most common of the precious metals. It is working qualities are very similar to gold. In fact, silver shines above all other metals in this respect. Silver carving products of Dong Xam village is so different from the ones of other places. Dong Xam's products are characterized by strange styles of cube and appearance, by sophisticated and well-proportioned decorations, by delicate and perfect skill. It can be said that the skill and carefulness of Dong Xam artists have been able to satisfy all the demands for using silver carving products of customers who are difficult and knowledgeable about silver carving art. Dong Xam artists always think high of "faithfulness" and "talent". Therefore, their products, which are always genuine and carefully-made, keep maintaining customers' confidence.
According to the local people, 300 hundred years ago, there was an artist named Nguyen Kim Lau, who travelled downstream on the Tra Ly River by boat to Dong Xam to make a living. He transferred his silver carving skills to the local people. Over time, silver carving has been maintained and developed. After his death, the Dong Xam Temple was built in appreciation of his contributions to the village and the festival in the temple is yearly held to mark the anniversary of the progenitor Kim Lau's death.
Dong Xam Temple Festival
Dong Xam Temple Festival annually takes place from the 1st to the 3rd day of the fourth lunar month and attracts many tourist from everywhere. The most exciting program is the boat racing contest on river with the participation of youth men in the hamlet and neighboring communes. Besides, there remains interesting traditional games and folk cultures like ca tru and cheo singing.
In the days of Dong Xam Temple Festival, a great deal of beautiful silver carving products are displayed and sold as souvenir for tourists.
Dong Xam Silver Village is expected to make a positive contribution into the implementation of provincial socio-economic targets and help Thai Binh Province to make rapid advances on the course of industrialization and modernization.
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The 1992 concert celebrating Bob Dylan's 30th show business anniversary featured a star-filled rendition of "My Back Pages." The likes of Neil Young, Tom Petty and George Harrison traded verses and shared the classic chorus: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
The song, first recorded by Dylan at age 23, provided a perfect fit to mark the middle age of a music icon. It might seem like an equally appropriate soundtrack as the American troubadour turns 75 Tuesday.
But summing up a landmark birthday in a half-century-old song feels too pat for pop's poet of paradox. Dylan and his music are tangled up in contradictions, no easier to get a handle on now than when he was a young folk singer out of Minnesota making his mark in Greenwich Village.
That's the way he apparently wants it. Dylan's forged a career upon defiance – from penning seminal protest songs to going electric to bucking traditional definitions of age. He thrives on upending expectations: The great anti-establishment voice of the 1960s now makes commercials (including a new take on "Forever Young" with will.i.am for Pepsi in 2009 and a more recent spot for IBM) and even released an album of songs associated with Frank Sinatra last year.
Dylan delights, perhaps most of all, in defying his own legacy, touring constantly and turning selection from his songbook into unrecognizable growls – all while producing new recordings, originals and covers alike. (His just-released album, "Fallen Angels," offers another collection of primarily Sinatra-inspired standards. Check out Dylan's sweet-and-smoky take on "All the Way.")
Dylan, who lives by the credo of "don't look back" (even if he's one memoir into a purportedly three-volume set), primarily focuses on the pages yet to be written.
Perhaps best was to commemorate his birthday is to forgo both over-analyzing and looking for easy answers – in the wind or elsewhere – and embrace the enigma that is Bob Dylan, who tries, by often inscrutable example, to get us to grow up without growing old.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Anyone know what the smaller projects he mentions on one of the later pages are?
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September 2001 - 13th StreetMark Wahlberg Interview by Smilin' Jack Ruby Part 1: Pretending To Be An Actor
You know, it was actually pretty interesting to meet Mark Wahlberg. I really had no clue whatsoever on what he was going to be like in person, so when he came in dressed nicer than almost any actor I'd ever seen in a junket - and I don't mean flashy-nice, just wearing a nice suit, no tie, white shirt - I was impressed. He's quiet, soft-spoken, with a good sense of humor and that tattoo that goes around his neck only barely peeking out from under the shirt. He was just a genuine guy and I totally respect him. What's that got to do with the movie he's promoting - Rock Star? Not much, but it's always interesting to see how close people's personalities are to their public persona.
The first question was, what's better - being a rock star or being a famous actor, as Wahlberg would certainly be the one to know. "Being a rock star," Mark said with a smile. "But I obviously didn't fit the bill. But I got one more crack at it, which was nice." Was that the appeal of doing the movie? "Yeah. Yeah, there were a number of things that I liked about the script, but that was certainly one of them."
The question came up about making the transition and Mark joked, "I'm pretending to be an actor and it's been working so far. When I first mentioned the idea of being an actor, people kind of chuckled, but now, they're saying maybe he can really do it." But the money's good, right? "I was thinking about taking it up full time." [Lianne: LOL]
One of the other reporters asked about when it came down that he knew he wanted to be an actor full-time. "Well, I knew I wanted to do it after I made my first movie," Wahlberg admitted (naturally, I wondered if he meant The Substitute or what). "I felt comfortable moving on. I worked with two people who were very protective of me and really kind of showed me the ropes and took me under their wings - Penny Marshall and Danny DeVito. I felt like after that experience, I really didn't want to do anything else. I certainly didn't want to go back to music because I was being pushed and pulled in all the wrong directions and for all the wrong reasons. The second film I did was directed by somebody I'd already worked with in my music days, so I felt comfortable after the first go-round, but I also knew that in order to succeed, you've got to be really careful, make the right choices, and surround yourself with really talented people."
Part 2: Let's Talk "Apes"
The time of this junket was just after the big drop-off of Planet Of The Apes and people were starting to talk about it being a letdown. Naturally, the question of how Wahlberg got involved came up. "That's not about the commercial success, I mean, it's because A: I got to work with one of the most talented directors of all time and it wasn't like I was like, 'great, this is my opportunity to become an action hero,' it was an opportunity to work with a really interesting filmmaker," Wahlberg replied. "That's why everybody signed on to do that movie. It just kind of turned into this other thing."
But would he do a sequel? And what about that ending? "If Tim would direct it, yeah. I mean, seeing what's happening... sheesh, people can't figure out the ending, I mean, if you go back and see the movie again, you're going to feel like, whoa, I should've gotten that," Wahlberg scoffed good-naturedly. "You'd be a bit embarrassed that you didn't get the ending. I mean, it's very simple. But for me to explain it, I may give away things that are coming in the sequel which wouldn't be cool."
But who's easier to work with - chimps or rock stars? "Yeah, the chimps are more cooperative and a lot more disciplined," Wahlberg joked. "Seriously, those chimps are really smart, they know what action's going on, they just give you a hard time so they get exactly what they want. And then they'll do a little of what you want."
As Donnie Wahlberg is coming up in a movie of his own right now, the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg miniseries for HBO, Band Of Brothers, one of the reporters asked if Mark ever gave his older brother acting advice. "I did," Mark admitted. "I tried to offer up a little advice, but we were, you know, more concerned with our relationship as brothers. We had had a professional relationship early on and it really took its toll. Not only our relationship as brothers, but our whole family. So, you know, we just kind of went back to basics. I tried to give him a little bit of advice early on, you know, there had been a couple of bad things that I'd been offered, passed on, that went right to him and I just tried to say, 'I didn't say no because I thought they were great parts, great people.' He's got a little bit more flexibility. He's not really trying to take on too much. So, yeah, he's very talented, it's just again, about making the right choices and working with the right people."
Part 3: So, Do You Even Like Rock?That's when Mark, who plays a heavy metal singer in the movie, admitted the unthinkable. "No. No, I never listened to rock," Mark said, straight-up. "It's just a complete turn-off to me, which is again, something else that appealed to me because, you know, for me to pull it off and be believable as one of these guys was something that most people wouldn't see right off the bat. But, I've been listening to it a little bit since. I kind of listen to something similar to what I'm supposed to be doing. I was in France for four months making a movie and I had to sing Charles Aznavour songs. I was supposed to be a big Charles Aznavour fan, so I listened to Charles Aznavour for four months, then through the CDs away the second I was finished. But I still listen to a little bit of rock, more the classic rock. Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult, The Animals, earlier stuff. The hard, hard stuff is still a little bit much for me to take. I had to listen to it."
Okay, so you don't like rock, but what attracted you to doing this kind of thing then? "The heart the movie has," Mark replied. "I think Steve Herek did an incredible job of giving the movie a lot of heart and a lot of real emotion and also be fun and entertaining and pushing the envelope without having to go to extremes. A lot of people think, 'oh, wow, sex, drugs and rock and roll!' But it's not hardcore."
Somebody asked if Mark tried to do all the vocal work in the movie, and he replied with a really humble answer. "Yeah, I thought it would be important for me to try," Mark said. "We were out there performing for six months, so it's a lot of work. I had problems with my vocal chords on The Perfect Storm and I had to have an operation, so it was important for me to take care of myself at the same time. I studied with a vocal coach for six months and ended up doing a lot of the singing."
Part 4: Future Projects And Hair ExtensionsThat's when somebody asked about the hair extensions Wahlberg had in the movie. We got a good story out of it. "Mine was about to there. (Mark indicates about shoulder length) Very uncomfortable," Wahlberg replied. "I couldn't wait to get that hair off my head. It was so...you know, Steve was like, early on when we were rehearsing, you should get your extensions now and learn to deal with them now. So, I got them in January and we didn't start shooting until March and we shot until June - second week in June - it was not fun." What about everything he said on stage? "I improv'd all that."
And the lovely Jennifer Aniston who you - lucky dog - got to mix it up with throughout the movie. "She's fantastic," Mark admitted. "She did a really great job. She put herself out there a bit. I like people who take risks." So, how'd that chemistry work out? "Well, I just think we clicked together," Wahlberg replied. "We both felt really strongly about the material and we were both committed 110%. She went a little crazy in that disco scene. I was like, 'whoa!'"
We started talking about Wahlberg's career choices to which he replied, interestingly enough, "I've got nine nieces and nephews to answer to and I think at this stage of the game, it would be really tough for me to make a movie like Boogie Nights just because of, like with this movie, there's not too much graphic drug use or stuff like that or real nudity. For me, it's tough because I do care. I'm concerned about how I'm perceived, especially in these kids' eyes. So, it would be tough. I'd really have to do some thinking. At that stage of the game, it was easy for me because A: I wasn't considering them and B: I was trying to prove myself as an actor. But I can push the envelope without having to push it in that direction. Just do more dramatic stuff. But it's definitely something I think about."
Finally, what's next? "I'm doing another thing with Paul Thomas Anderson and then David Russell, the guy who did Three Kings," Mark replied. Russell? Anderson? So, is there a title for either one? "No. David has a title, but I don't know if he'd want me to share it," Mark admitted. "Paul doesn't have a title. And James Gray who I did The Yards with. I'm kind of getting back to where I feel the most comfortable."
Now I just have to figure how to get into these press junkets and get the 411. Instead of reading 10 million articles that rehash the same questions just to see one good question.
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September 2001 - 13th StreetInterview with Stephan Jenkins By Smilin' Jack RubyPart 1: Hooking Into Rock Star
Okay, here's another rock star that Warners unleashed on the press during the junket for Rock Star, in this case - Stephan Jenkins, the lead singer of the rather popular pop-rock group Third Eye Blind. Jenkins plays the lead singer of a rival Steel Dragon cover band who butts serious heads against Mark Wahlberg's Chris Coles character. Though Jenkins isn't exactly in the movie forever, he plays a pivotal and fun role, but more importantly, he gave us a look at the life of a working rock star, so that's always a plus.
The first question was simple, how'd he get involved in the movie Rock Star and what did he think of the dichotomy of rock star versus actor? "I've never thought about," Stephan said. "Me being in the movie was pretty haphazard. Yeah, it just started - I was doing this tiny little benefit show and Mark and I are friends and I was in town. I was in Los Angeles and I called him, 'what're you doing tonight? Do you want to come over? I'm playing a little set.' So, I was playing acoustically and then he said, 'I'm doing this movie Rock Star' - and it was well in advance - 'you should do it. You should play my friend in the movie.' So he started riffing on it, talking about it. He was going, (affects cockney accent) 'You've got to talk like (this).' So we just started riffing back and forth on it, but I was on tour with my band, Third Eye Blind at the time and I couldn't stop and do a movie. So, instead of playing his friend, I play his enemy. It fit in with the touring schedule."
Ah, so old friends. Where did you hook up with Mark? "I met him on the set of The Yards." There's more to this, of course, as Stephan Jenkins was dating uber-hottie actress Charlize Theron at the time who was in The Yards as well.
So back to question - what's better, rock star or actor? "For me?" Jenkins asked. "Better to be a rock star right now. Yeah, I wouldn't trade this for anything."
Part 2: Yes, Jenkins Hates Hair Metal Well, Wahlberg hated the '80s hair metal, what about you? "Oh, I hated that shit. I hated it," Jenkins admitted, no problem. "Hated it. Yeah. There were real camps. I sort of like chose music based on its snob appeal back then. I liked Joy Division and The Clash, stuff like that. So there were real lines drawn. Now I look back and some of that stuff is just so good. Motley Crue was great - just straight-up great. I mean, you think about these bands that were so touted. It's like, really, was there anything better than AC/DC? The intelligentsia would say, 'almost anything,' but they're wrong. It's great."
There had been an earlier report that Jenkins had once even gotten into a fight with a heavy metal fan who tried to start some stuff with him. True story? "Yeah," Jenkins laughed. "I was defending The Police and he was defending Judas Priest. He had a backpack and he was telling me how the Police suck, so I went, (sarcastically) 'breaking the law, breaking the law.' In high school, that was enough for fisticuffs. We pretty much re-made that fight in Rock Star. I get to have a ball in the movie and that's great. You know, I walk in, tear up all of Mark's flyers, fight in the parking lot, attack Jennifer Aniston, kick him out of the band and I'm on a plane. It was a ball. I loved it. It's just action, all action the whole time."
Part 3: Real Life Fighting As a first-time actor, how did things go? Did they do many takes? "Oh, they move along pretty quickly," Jenkins explained. "Totally for grown-ups. That was my first time on the movie set. It was a night shoot and I had the flu that day, so I went there having to vomit. There was no rehearsal, it's just like, 'here, go.' And we went for it."
So, that was a real fight you guys were staging? "It was really funny," Jenkins replied. "They had these fight choreographers there - guys who were on The Matrix. 'Oh, yeah. Jet Li? I stand in for him,' you know? They had these people going, 'ah dude, what you're going to do is I'm going to throw this one here and you're going to duck and then double-double-cross like this.' I was just standing there like - I've been in some fights in high school and they all go the same way. Everybody puffs out their chest because they actually don't want to get hit. They just don't want to lose their dignity, but the dignity's about to be lost anyway. It's on the way out. And then, Push-Push-Terrible Awful Glancing Blow that doesn't do anything but damage the hand of the hand that threw it, Death Grip, Ground, and then people upset about their clothing being ripped. Always the way it goes. 'Kicked your ass, dude!' afterwards, you know. Spin control."
Um...I couldn't help but think, well, if I had a time machine, I'd launch us both back to South Dallas when I was growing up. I don't seem to remember fights at my school being quite so funny, but maybe we were the exception.
One reporter asked Jenkins about if he's going to keep acting and he replied, "Well, I'm doing a film right now, but...I'd like to be in a good movie." Really? What project? Anything I've heard of? "Um, no," Jenkins said. "I think it's a really good script. It's called Angelic Tuesday and it's kind of an old Hollywood script about these...it's kind of an indictment of the intelligentsia of Los Angeles, kind of the well-dressed, well-spoken class. So, I'm gleeful about ripping into them. To answer your question, there's a rapture to playing music and there's something that is erotic about rock music for me that I wouldn't sacrifice, I wouldn't trade places with anyone. I think that's on.
Part 4: The Rock And Roll Clich� What can you tell us, other than nothing, about the movie Angelic Tuesday? "There's about five people all of whom have agendas and they're all bad agendas," Stephan said. "It's sort of how that type of people are just as morally suspect as everybody else."
Finally, how would you compare Rock Star to the way things are now. "This is a period film," Stephan explained. "This thing is twenty years old. So to compare it to now, I would say, nothing's changed. Well, this is funny. We got on there and had a really good time just riffing on how absurd it is - the conceit and vanity of rock stars, you know. I still think that's very much in play. I think people walk off stage and keep living it, you know, and wind up in rehab and wrapped up in all that other kind of stuff. I think the film is - in however light a way - deals with how that world can sort of envelop you and can become very seductive and it can be corrupting and it can make you crazy. It certainly made me crazy." {<-- Lianne: Some say just being from the Bay Area automatically makes you crazy.}
So, that's rocker Stephan Jenkins talking about Rock Star. Hope you enjoyed the interview and look all week for our coverage of the forthcoming ode to heavy metal in the '80s.
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Imagine swimming in crystalline ocean waters shot through with sunlight when one of Earth's most notorious predators swims into view — a very close view.
Such pulse-quickening encounters are, in fact, the whole point for visitors to Tiger Beach, an idyllic spot in the Bahamas where eco-tourists can get up close and personal with tiger sharks — indiscriminate eaters known to devour everything from sea turtles to kegs of nails (and occasionally a few unlucky humans).
Yet it is by playing to the sharks' voracious appetites that dive operators are able to lure them into view, courtesy of generous offerings of chum — minced fish.
However, some have argued that the free meals — and resulting close encounters between humans and sharks — could have bad consequences for both species.
Shark meal
"People are concerned that it could be causing sharks to associate people with food," said shark researcher Neil Hammerschlag, an assistant professor at the University of Miami. Some worry that, like cartoon castaways eyeing each other hungrily in a boat, tiger sharks might, essentially, begin to see humans as giant pork chops with legs.
"Shark attacks are so very rare, so it's really hard to draw conclusions," Hammerschlag told OurAmazingPlanet.
Another concern, he said, and one that is easier to test, is that all the free food might disrupt the sharks' natural wanderings, and artificially limit their movements to areas close to tourist sites. (Why go hunting out at sea when the bipeds regularly serve up snacks?)
Since sharks are apex predators — a bit like the Godfathers of the ecosystem — and keep potentially disruptive ecological usurpers in check, such a change could have negative effects.
"They help keep balance," Hammerschlag said, "so if this really changes their behavior long term, it could have ecological consequences."
Neither idea has been properly tested, he said. To that end, Hammerschlag, heading up a team of researchers, designed a study to investigate.
Shark testing
They used satellite tags attached to the sharks' dorsal fins to track tiger sharks in areas where eco-tourism packages offer plenty of free food to the sharks — the Bahamas' Tiger Beach — and an area where the practice is forbidden — Florida.
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All told, they tracked 11 Floridian tiger sharks and 10 Bahamian sharks, in near-real time, for spans of six months to almost a year. Hammerschlag said he expected the Bahamian sharks, with access to cushy meals, to travel far less than their Floridian counterparts.
"But, in fact, we found the opposite," he said. The Florida tiger sharks traveled, at most, 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from their tagging site.
In contrast, "the tiger sharks from the Bahamas diving site moved massive distances," Hammerschlag said. "Definitely that area was important, but they didn't rely on it."
Some swam as far as 2,175 miles (3,500 km) out into the middle of the Atlantic and spent seven months there. The researchers noted that the difference could be related to size: The Bahamian sharks are bigger, and bigger animals tend to travel larger distances.
Their research is published today (March 9) in the journal Functional Ecology.
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Hammerschlag said that the work indicates that eco-tourism, when done right, may not be all bad for sharks — crucial predators that are disappearing from oceans around the world, many falling victim to the lucrative and devastating shark-fin trade.
With proper policies, he suggested, people could continue to see economic benefit from sharks, but in a way that keeps the animals alive.
"In the Bahamas, they've encouraged shark diving because it's good for the economy, and because of that they're protecting sharks in their water," he said — something that Florida policymakers might want to keep in mind.
"I would say that before we ban these things outright, we should do some research," he said. "Rather than basing our decisions on fear, we should base them on fact."
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Taylor Morrison Unveils New Homes in Houston with Cypress Creek Lakes
Community Offers Spacious Homes, Access to Cy-Fair ISD Schools and Plenty of Amenities
Houston, TX, May 01, 2013 --(
)-- Home buyers looking for new homes in Houston will find plenty of promising opportunities at Taylor Morrison's Cypress Creek Lakes community this spring.
Taylor Morrison has unveiled its new Grande Series of floor plans at Cypress Creek Lakes, with 24 home sites available for Houston home buyers. The Grande Series includes new Houston homes that range from approximately 3,200 to 5,100 square feet, built on 80-foot home sites and starting in the upper $300,000s.
A total of five Taylor Morrison floor plans are available at Cypress Creek Lakes, ranging from the 3,288-square-foot Landry to the 5,084-square-foot Rousseau. Houston home buyers will find spacious homes that offer up to seven bedrooms and five bathrooms at Cypress Creek Lakes.
"This is a special opportunity to secure one of the best home sites available in Cypress Creek Lakes," said Jim Ellison, vice president of sales and marketing for Taylor Morrison Houston. "We've already had strong interest in these homes and we expect this community to sell quickly."
With convenient access to the greater Houston area, Cypress Creek Lakes offers a small-town community with resort-style amenities including a newly-minted 8-acre recreation center with clubhouse. Other amenities include a splash park, the Garden Club and much more. A third recreation center will open in 2013.
Cypress Creek Lakes also provides access to highly-rated Cy-Fair ISD schools, shopping, fine restaurants and plenty of entertainment possibilities such as Vintage Park. The community is also adjacent to the BlackHorse Golf Club, a 36-hole golf destination that has been critically acclaimed.
Homes at Cypress Creek Lakes will include The Interactive Home™ system – which incorporates a variety of connected home solutions including innovative Legrand products – offering many options including a front door video monitoring system, LCD command center, whole house audio system (with more than 70,000 internet stations and iTunes integration), Selective Call Intercom, camera monitoring, and a completely programmable lighting control system that can control everything from lights to small appliances.
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Easter is my favourite time of year. The abundance of chocolate and colourful flowers might have something to do with it.
Get creative with spring flowers and bulbs and plant a flower arrangement for the Easter weekend. Below is just such an arrangement I made using a wide mouthed urn. The cut flowers are drinking from water filled jars that's hidden by moss and planted primulas. I added bulb plants like hyacinths for fragrances and that spring feeling. Blossom branches adds texture and a bit of drama. If you don't have an urn, a shallow bowl or tray will work too.
After playing around with this flower garden, I think it's ok to over indulge in some Easter chocolate. I could not resist adding the very new Gin & Elderflower tipple into the mix.
Easter chocolate are not just for kids, right? See my selection of the best Easter chocolates with the grown-up's in mind:
Now for the more colourful and fun-loving choices:
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Extra thick egg with choc selection, £27, Hotel Chocolat
Medium milk chocolate spring flowers egg, £27.50, Betty's
Warner Edwards Harrington Elderflower Gin, £33, Amazon
Hazelnut Chocolate Truffle in a Real Eggshell, £4.95, Prestat
Fiona Cairns cupcakes, from £1.25 each, Waitrose
Beau Bunny, £2.50, M&S
Hen House eggs, £15, M&S
Easter Bunny pack, £2.50, Sainsbury's
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Will Flickr cofounders make a run for the border, or head for the Big Apple?
Now that Caterina Fake has left Yahoo and Stewart Butterfield has tendered his abstract resignation letter, what will the widely beloved Flickr cofounders do? And where will they go? Brendon Wilson, who worked in the Valley himself before returning to his native Canada, pointed us to an effort by a group of geeks to convince Fake and Butterfield to come back to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Flickr was launched. The welcome wagon even turned out a video slideshow of Flickr photos to remind the couple just how beautiful the city can be. Look, a rainbow! And it may just be working — last night, Butterfield added himself to the Bring Stewart and Caterina Home! group on Facebook. Fake may have other plans, though.
She was recently spotted in New York's startup-laden Flatiron and Chelsea neighborhoods, making the rounds. New York VC Fred Wilsion is an unabashed fan, and the two have already invested alongside his Union Square Ventures in Etsy. Might the pair break hearts in both San Francisco and Vancouver by moving to Manhattan instead? As for New York, all I can say is been there, done that. Head back to Canada for Sonnet's sake, guys. American citizenship ain't what it used to be.


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Lad rock isn't dead, it's just been lying down massaging its balls from the kicking it took last decade when the public psyche awoke from its 4/4 coma and embraced instruments other than those with six strings, with lyrics that went beyond 'my girlfriend's dumped me'. !
But of late there's been a quiet twanging and faux-Gallagher arrogance rumbling from the sidelines of the printed press. The first sign was earlier this year when Brother graced the cover of NME. Once again trying to breathe life in to Britpop's rotten corpse, the band were photographed with chins jutting in the air behind a tired Union Jack flag proclaiming the even more tired phrase: 'We want to be the biggest band in the world'. Deemed 'grit-rock' and with songs like 'Darling Buds Of May', it looked thankfully like another hack-invented micro scene that would implode by the time you could say 'new acoustic movement'. But, now along with The Vaccines there's another NME-backed white-boy-quartet to contend with, Tribes.
Hailing from Camden, the band is made-up of former Operahouse members: vocalist and guitarist Johnny Lloyd, guitarist Dan White, bassist Jim Cratchley and are joined by Miguel Demelo on drums. The band first got together in summer 2009 after the guitarist was caught trying to steal the drummer's wallet... and that's not where the rock n roll 'legend' of Tribes ends. Another member of the band was arrested for fraud aged 12 and Johnny went on a bender with Juliette Lewis only to wake up with a tattoo on his arm and no recollection of getting inked. Those crazy kids! When you're so obviously following in the footsteps of Pete'n'Carl, saying you met at the local over four pints of piss-weak lager isn't really going to cut it anymore
Taking another leaf out of the Libs' book, Tribes have made a big deal out of building their following up from live shows rather than indulging in any of this web 2.0 malarkey. With a hard to Google name, the band insist that fans have found them the good old fashioned way of seeing posters around Camden and claimed that their Facebook fan page was a surprise to them. They even did a guerrilla gig (remember those?) on the top of a mate's shop in Camden (remember that?).
The band's early demos on MySpace did, to be fair, ripple with a degree of hazy vintage charm and were good enough to impress Frank Black, who personally requested them as a support for a Pixies' show in London. The band also gained a coveted session at Radio 1's Maida Vale studios hosted by none other than NME's Krissi Murison. Finally signing to Island Records, the band has now released their first official four-track EP, We Were Children.
Recorded with producer, Mike Crossley (Razorlight, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks), We Were Children smoothes the rough edges of the band's early demos and adds a generic commercial gloss. The opening chords of title track 'We Were Children' recalls the achingly picked chords of Suede, but without any of the weirdness or charm of Anderson and Butler.
The EP continues down well-trodden path of lad rock as 'Girlfriend' opens with Gallagher signature feedback and a line that could've been torn from Luke Kook's black book - "I said I love you darling but I didn't mean it". Every instrument is pumped full of steroids, overbearing and overblown, to fit the 'arena band in the making' tag as worn by Coldplay and The Editors that goes straight for the sing-along chorus and forgets about the rest. Meanwhile 'Coming Of Age' is an iPhone in the air sing-along of teenage clichés that has more than a hint of 'Let It Be' to it.
The EP lacks any of the endearing aspects of the initial demos that gave the band their own character, like the fuzzy major acoustic chords and Johnny's beleaguered vocals on the T.Rex-esque 'Sappho' and the melancholic 'Nightdriving'. The only track that gets close to this is the acoustic demo of 'We Were Children', which gets the band back to basic and their best.
In an era when Lady GaGa's is giving birth to throbbing German-electro in front of a primetime audience on BBC3, Friendly Fires are reinventing time signatures for the 21st century and Josh T Pearson writes a masterpiece armed only with one battered acoustic guitar and a one broken heart... do we really need Tribes and their tired attempts to come across as the classic 'good honest rock band'?
No, but with Kasabian on the cover this week's NME, Johnny Borrell rallying his troops and the Kooks releasing an album this September it looks like we'll probably be hearing a lot more from Tribes, whether we like it or not.
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Freshleaf Media necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 65 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Established nostalgia website Do*You*Remember.co.uk (without the *) needs a Web 2.0 makeover to make its social networking features more prominent and usable and also to significantly improve its image and logo. This is a high profile website run by a very small (and busy) team and we are looking for some really outstanding new design ideas. Lets see what you've got!
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The brief is to redesign this existing website.
We have recently built in some social networking tools and forced them into the existing design, but we need something purpose built that makes the social networking obvious, enticing and easy to use.
We are looking for a really exciting design of a content page (see this page as an example). The contest winner may also be offered the opportunity to submit a design for the homepage as well but for the moment, the content page is all that is required.
A website that really inspires us is:
http://www.retroland.com (these guys are doing almost exactly the same thing as us so it is spot on in terms of content and usability but we're not overly keen on the actual design and colours.
We do not want you to copy this site, it is merely an example of a better implementation of (almost) everything we already have.
The design style should be web 2.0 with colour scheme and style to suit the subject matter without looking gawdy, cheap or tacky.
We are looking for a detailed design which includes ALL the features of the current site but laid out in a better way. Specifically we're looking for a more obvious and usable inclusion of the social networking tools we have (view people's profiles, send messages etc).
The logo must be web 2.0 and compliment the website design and colour scheme. The logo should either include a hint of an 80s theme or reference memories, remembering, sharing memories and that sort of thing.
The logo should include the name 'Do You Remember' either with or without spaces between the words. Use of the .co.uk is optional. The logo may also end with a question mark.
Preferably a follow on strapline should also be included saying 'the 70s, 80s and 90s'
The logo may include the standard web 2.0 'beta' but in recognition of its 80s theme, the 'beta' should become 'betamax' (well we think it's funny...). If it spoils the design, feel free to lose it.
Upper, lower or mixed case letters are up to you.
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Bono advised the U.S. Senate last week to deploy humor as a weapon against ISIS – and nominated Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen and Amy Schumer for frontline duty. Schumer responded with a tweet of two words, the first of which was "holy."
Her phrase of choice also could be used to sum up her last year, with highlights that included: A breakout third season of Comedy Central's "Inside Amy Schumer." Triumphs hosting "Saturday Night Live" and her first HBO standup special. Her hit movie, "Trainwreck," a winning meld of raunch and rom-com.
Now Schumer returns for a new season of her irreverent TV show Thursday, keenly aware that outsized expectations could nudge her career off the rails. She's channeling her concerns into some meta humor: In a recent "Inside Amy Schumer" promo, a doctor diagnoses her as "overexposed" and tells her to "go away for a while."
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Schumer's biggest challenge, though, isn't avoiding over exposure as much as dealing with the pressure to keep topping one's self that comes with major success. Just ask Dave Chappelle, star of the greatest Comedy Central sketch show of them all.
Constantly pushing ahead gels with Schumer's strongest skits, which thrive on the comedy of escalation. Case in point: her "I'm So Bad!" sketch in which ladies at lunch out-do one another with tales of decadent eating and wind up cannibalizing a waiter.
Schumer doesn't need to worry about losing her comic appeal as long as she keeps taking chances with her humor. Her smart, feminist and bawdy approach gave us last year's bold bit in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus was sent off in a boat to nowhere after she reaching a perceived expiration date on her attractiveness (the segment used a far blunter term to describe the end of the male gaze).
The biggest danger for fans is that Schumer outgrows her TV show – and leaves to fight ISIS full-time.
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How We Started a Bagel Company in San Francisco, Part 3
With our bagel recipe fine-tuned, and our production process scaled up to commercial quantities, it came time for Schmendricks to face our customers. And, really, to see if we had any customers.
Baking for our first few pop-up events, a feeling of terror remained firmly lodged in my stomach, up until the first batch came out of the oven and I felt confident we'd actually have something to sell. Unlike any other job I've had, running a food business involves the possibility of confronting a situation where there's no problem-solving option in the moment. If we were to unwittingly fumble our bagel dough, there's not a whole lot we'd be able to do when flavorless (or worse) bagels came out of the oven.
Even with tasty bagels in hand, however, selling to lines of customers meant developing a whole new set of skills.
Our First Pop-Up Bagelry
For our first event, we hit the street at Fayes, a lovable little neighborhood coffee shop/video store, completely uncertain if any customers would appear. Not wanting to sacrifice a boatload of bagels to the compost bin, we rolled a paltry five-dozen for the event. Yet, as Dan and Dagny discovered when they went to set up 30-minutes beforehand, there were already people waiting.
We had envisioned begging passersby to give us a try, but instead we had a line from the moment we started selling until we sold out 30 minutes later. And it only took us that long because we struggled to be efficient about the slicing and schmearing of our bagels.
How Many Schmendricks Does it Take to Slice a Bagel?
Just because you know how to make the food, doesn't mean you know how to deliver it to your customers efficiently. At our third event, people waited in line for over an hour to try our bagels. At our fourth event, the cops showed up. (They were actually quite pleasant, and once they established that we were properly permitted, simply asked that we adjust the flow of our line.)
Our initial bagel-delivery strategy had been something along the lines of: You stand at the register and I'll stand here with the bagels. It quickly became clear that we needed a better system.
An outsider might have been amused hearing us search for ways to make a relatively simple act of slicing a bagel, then spreading it with cream cheese, more efficient.
Eventually, we added little touches like a receipt printer so that orders could be passed to the schmearers rather than yelled out (and forgotten), and a visible menu board so customers weren't fumbling with their orders. Even so, despite the fact that we're only selling bagels and cream cheese, we need a minimum of all four Schmendricks working to successfully run an event.
A Good Problem to Have
As I mentioned last week, we have a giant bottleneck in our kitchen, and it centers around our inadequate ovens. Due to these frustrating machines, we simply cannot produce bagels fast enough to meet the demand we face at most of our events.
Friends and fellow entrepreneurs continually remind us that having demand outstrip supply is a good problem to have, but selling out can often leave us feeling just a little lousy. During one sale, I watched in dismay as we handed over the last bagel to one customer, only to see the next gentleman, who had come up one spot short after waiting for 30 minutes, wobble away on a walker. (We offered to deliver bagels to his house.)
Yes, we're giddy to have all these people show up at our events, but it's hard not to feel that we're disappointing people at the same time. At every event, our moment of greatest consternation comes when we look out at the line and try to decide on the maximum number of bagels we can allow individual customers to purchase. Either we disappoint the the woman who drove up from Sunnyvale to get a dozen bagels only to be told it's a three-per-person limit, or we send the people at the end of the line away empty-handed after a long wait. (Or we estimate horribly, and end up with dozens of extra bagels on our hands.)
In the meantime, we're feverishly looking for new ovens. I'll relish the day when I look up from serving bagels to see that the line has dissipated and we have a single lonely bagel left. That will mean every customer went home happy, and there's still one left for me.
The Rewards
Do you have vivid memories of the bagels of your childhood? Before we started Schmendricks, I thought I was the only one.
But—and allow me to get sappy for a second here—it's been a little heart-warming to discover how strong a connection people have to this bread. It's not just that people show up to our events, or that they'll wait in an imposing line, but the memories they share about their childhood bagel shop, or the smile they give us when they tell us our bagels are "real."
Maybe most touching has been the families. Not just because the kids are adorable as they try to gnaw through a chewy bagel, but because in many cases it seems to be a conscious act on the part of the parents to pass on a tradition. It's really nice to be a part of that.
When we started Schmendricks, we did envision ourselves as bagel prosletyzers of sorts, but we didn't realize that so many people out there already subscribed to the gospel. So, yes, it's nice to have a little green in the cash box after a successful day of selling—let's be honest, we wouldn't have started a business if we hadn't wanted to make at least some money. But we really appreciate the smiles as well.
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