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KANSAS CITY, Mo. --A judge sentenced a Kansas City man to life in prison after he murdered a father and then shot the man's 10-year-old son, according to WDAF.
A jury convicted Dontae Jefferson in the April 2014 shooting at a gas station. Surveillance video shows him approach a car at a pump and fire shots into the driver's window. Thirty-four-year-old Ka'Vyea Curry died. His 10-year-old son Ka'Vyea Tyson-Curry, who now prefers the name Ka'vyea Tyson, was paralyzed. An unrelated 5-year-old in the backseat survived unharmed.
Prosecutors called it a revenge killing; Curry was a witness to a 2004 armed robbery in which Jefferson pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 10 years, got out in 2013, and killed Curry eight months later.
"In my opinion he is pure evil personified," said Forest Tyson, Ka'vyea's grandfather. "I think I am a pretty good manly man, but there were a couple of things in there that I could not watch. My grandson taking his last steps on his own, I could not watch that video."
Ka'Vyea Tyson is now 13 years old and chose to go to school rather than attend Jefferson's sentencing.
"I am good," said Ka'Vyea, who says that is his stock answer to the question how are you? "I don't like sharing my feelings and explaining things."
He is going through the usual teenage difficulties, but he has to deal with so much more. He is occasionally in pain from the bullet that shattered his spine. The incident that paralyzed him and killed his father is still hard for him to talk about.
"I don't like to talk about my feelings, that's I just deal with it by myself," he said.
The teenager is now in 8th grade, enjoys playing video games and has a girlfriend. "I got my first kiss," Ka'Vyea said with a smile.
He is working with a therapist to gain upper body strength, but does not have much hope for a full recovery.
"Everybody is saying 'aw, you will walk again bro.' And I am like, 'no I won't.' They are just lying to me basically," said Ka'Vyea. "I want to believe it but it is not going to happen."
During Wednesday's sentencing, Jefferson apologized for shooting young Ka'Vyea, but not for killing his father. Forest Tyson exited the courtroom while Jefferson's defense attorney spoke.
"I almost lost it and I didn't want people to see that side of me," said Tyson. "I know defense attorneys have their job, but for this guy to get in, stand up and try to humanize this person -- it was just too much."
Jefferson's attorney argued the prior 10 year prison term changed his client's personality.
"My client, when he was still learning how to be a human being, got thrown in with the wolves in prison when he should have been put into a program to rehabilitate him," said Jarrett Johnson. "It is not an excuse, but I think we as a community who fear crime also ought to fear how we treat young offenders and what happens to them if we lock them up for a decade and throw away the key."
In court, Jefferson said people shouldn't think of him as a monster. Forest Tyson still does.
"He is not human, he might have all the body parts and heart but he does not have a soul," Tyson said.
One of the most emotional moments in court Tuesday was when Ka'Vyea's grandfather took the stand and begged for the judge to impose a life sentence, because he says his grandson is serving a life sentence in a wheelchair.


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Saturday, 30 January 2016
Or, cat posing with me, acually.
My sweater is from King Louie, the wool skirt vintage and the shoes from Next from some years back.
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Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Pekka Halonen painting.
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Thursday, 21 January 2016
I had been looking for one for quite sometimes but never managed to get so far as to bring one home.
Whenever I had some extra euros I'd browse online market sites for pianos in the somewhat near areas for sale. My dream was to get a grand piano, as it would fit in the living room, but those euros once planned for that you could say went to my abs instead (-that would be the pilates training).
We also have an inherited piano in the city home that I was thinking of moving out here, but it is old and rather worn; a few of the keys don't sound anymore. The piano man I had over tried to get new ones but the right kind for that piano were not to be found anylonger. Which means you can't really play that piano anymore without losing your mind.
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Labels: at home, lifestyle, music, oma elämä, The lazy thrifter gets lucky
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
In case you haven't noticed me mentioning it already: it's cold.
And while I've actually driven out to my far-away classes – I have a set in a town about half an hour west of the farm, where I teach one evening per week) wearing my dance wear topped with skiing pants (!yes, me. My envy of Dag's thick winter suit grew so strong I decided to be dress-smart for real during those evenings. And damn that's warm comfy! Plus easy. In and out and off and on. – I've also been putting layering into some serious action.
Altough now that the minus twenty-something days are gone, even a cold -13C feels rather doable, and all the stufing and wrapping oneself still goes somewhat quickly.
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Wednesday, 13 January 2016
On Sunday evening we went into town to see the LUX Helsinki light festival's outdoor art installations that have been spread out around down town Helsinki since Epiphany. It's a yearly happening arranged by the city and I've never paid it too much attention before, but this year the pieces were all rather impressive and I really wanted to make it (which is not always easy when you pretty much live where you work and if not then out in the countryside).
The Old Church park -most often called the Plague Park, as victims of the plague were buried there the old days- was filled with lanters. The atmoshphere here was perhaps the most intense here, with smoke, colours and ambient sound.
Music was also played as part of the installations by the Senate Square.
The Helsinki dome looked very impressive being projected in different patterns.
To get closer to the light, so to say. The theme of the installations on the dome were joy. (I wouldn't perhaps label this particular print under that label as I find it scary as hell with the eerie dancers and sad thinkers, but then again that's just me.)
Family in shadows with polka dots.
Projecting. You can see how the air sort of shimmers of ice crystals when it's moist and cold at the same time. It is like everything is glittering.
It will be interesting to see how the city will be lit up the next year!
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Friday, 8 January 2016
Everybody's fuzzing over the cold that blew here from Siberia, which is yes, damn cold, the kind of hurts-to-breathe-cold, but not really that big of a deal in my opinion, as it usually gets really really cold once per winter anyways. Or if not then every second year, as it has been during the late 2010's. So you know you have it coming at some point. But then again, when it's really really cold even one degree celcius less does make a rather big difference and it has not been minus f*cking 28 degrees over here for some years. So it really does get people talking.
(In 2013 it got -30 though and that day we went to a beautiful midwinter wedding where everyone was holding sparklers -and freezing- when the couple stepped out of the light chapel and into the dark winter night outside. And our car wouldn't start since it does not have heating so we drove to the wedding in the farm van.*)
Well anyway here you have it:
The anatomy of dressing when really really cold put into action!
Lots of stuffed layers.
When it's really really cold it's hard to smile because your face is all hard and stiff and if you would smile ayway your teeth will freeze. Dag is all "wtf (well in slightly other words) my face is hurting!"
But getting back inside after being outside is just fabulous. Like when you get to pee after having to hold it in for too long a time.
*) As you see, I am un-debatable when it comes to weather a winter was cold or not or a summer hot or not, as I always have the blog (or Instagram) to go back to. Plus, I did work outside for more than a decade and I tell you, then you really remember what the weather was like. Whenever the weather gets shitty (in one way or another) over here I give myself an inner pat on my back and ask myself how the hell I actually was able to do it for so long. But strange as it is, I kind of miss the harbourlife too.)
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Labels: lets talk about the weather, lifestyle, oma elämä, thoughts, winter
Thursday, 7 January 2016
It's crazy cold outside. The cats are sleeping on the windowsills, as they tend to do this time of year, enjoying the warm air from the radiators. And Dag and I are playing chess!
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Labels: at home, cats, countryside, kids, oma elämä, this and that
Sunday, 3 January 2016
The colour really is quite the task to keep up with though, and it looks a bit different after every wash as I need to mix a few tinted hair masks to make it stay. I do like it, but not sure how long I'll have the energy to keep it up. Might have to give mint green a go in the end -well of course- before going back au naturel ;) But everything is really easier to do, hair styling wise, when you have a little (or a lot) of bleach in you hair.
The green dress was made by me for my middle sister's wedding a couple of years back but has only been used a few times since. (I was breastfeeding at that time and the dress was made to the upper measurements of that period so it does not sit as well now...) The flowers are also selfmade from some years back.
And the party, well yes, it of course had a little mini christmas tree with lots of sparkly flowers in it. And lots of flowers in everyodys' hair.
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I first heard about fried green tomatoes from the movie when it came out, oh, about (ohmygod!) 16 or 17 years ago.
(Although, thinking back on it, why was I watching that movie at such a "young" age, haha. Their concerns weren't my concerns. But I did/do like the movie.)
Anyway, the fried green tomatoes don't make an appearance in the movie until late and they weren't that big a deal in the movie. However, the term "fried green tomatoes" has always stayed with me.
I never see any green (unripe) tomatoes anywhere so the possibility of making it never crossed my mind. Then, I saw a couple of posts about fried green tomatoes, including this video by Chef John of Food Wishes Video Recipes. He even mentions Fried Green Tomatoes in his post, so I had to use his recipe! =)
Then, finally, we came across green tomatoes in the market! They weren't being sold as unripe tomatoes. I had to dig around in the huge crate of red to find them. And some of them were already turning slightly red.
I followed the video recipe quite well. Here are the flour, egg and seasoned cornmeal stations. I salted the sliced tomatoes for a bit beforehand and also let the breaded slices sit before pan-frying. (That posed a little of a problem as I was soon running out of surface area for the slices, hehe.)
The reward:
We've never had fried green tomatoes anywhere before this so we didn't exactly know what to expect. They were so good! They didn't even need any sort of dipping sauce! (I made a caper-mayo number, but that was completely ignored.) The sweetness of the cornmeal and its "gritty" texture in the crust were exactly what the slightly tart tomatoes needed. And the flavor of the green tomatoes were fantastic!
I have not seen the movie, so I did not really know what these "fried green tomatoes" were about. At first, I thought it was just some sort of expression, a turn of phrase. Or perhaps a metaphor, although a metaphor elucidating precisely what aspect of the human condition -- I didn't take that thought that far.
Am I glad that these fried green tomatoes were not metaphors, because the real stuff was just so darn delicious! To be honest, I didn't expect them to be that good or I didn't think I'd like them, because -- well, watery tomatoes? Sure, them watery tomatoes are fried, but still. Watery. Water. As in tasteless. I'm sure there's a metaphor somewhere there, if we care to look.
I did not imagine that frying unripe tomatoes would concentrate that particular tomato genius of tart-and-sweet in these their flesh. Add to the juicy lusciousness the contrast of the cornmeal crust and the whole fried green tomato was a phenomenal experience.
I'm almost tempted to watch the movie, just to see fried green tomatoes being eaten, because even just a vicarious experience would do for me.
Better than the Whistle Stop Cafe?
So, please, make some!!! (Triple exclamation marks!!!)
If you haven't done so before, then please check out the Fried Green Tomatoes video at Food Wishes Video Recipes.
Market Loot Series
Pesto Potato and Green Bean Salad
Yellow Beans, English Peas, Radish and Dill Salad
Grilled Corn
Fried Green Tomatoes
Chimichurri with Flank Steak
[eatingclub] vancouver Cornmeal Love
Corn Toasties
Fried Green Tomatoes
Cornmeal-crusted Okra
Potato Cornmeal Foccacia
Cornmeal-crusted Trout w/ Lemon-Anchovy-Caper Sauce
Upside Down Cranberry Cornmeal Cake
[updated 09-17-2008] Ning of Heart and Hearth kindly invited us to submit an entry to Bookmarked Recipes, this edition being hosted by her.
We're glad to join!
The roundup will be posted on Monday, September 22.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Fried Green Tomatoes
32 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 12:18 AM
Okay, okay!!! Another bookmarked recipe! Now, I have to go out and look for green tomatoes and cornmeal... :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 12:19 AM
Wow how unique! Looks a bit like our local 'goreng pisang' but with tomato inside! :D~~ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 2:41 AM
Did you get those green tomatoes from Richmond Farm Market? That looks really really good. Did you use a dip?ReplyDelete
You know...I love a good fried green tomato. Try various spice mixes for a little fun.ReplyDelete
I used mine in a grown up BLT - check out the link: http://everydaycookin.blogspot.com/2008/08/blt-grows-up.html
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 5:24 AM
You would make any Southern mama proud with this batch of Fried Green Tomatoes. I am going to hit the market today and make a batch for my daughter who loves these. Fabulous!ReplyDelete
I've now seen these little guys cropping up on at least three different blogs. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something?? Until a couple of years ago I also had only heard of them as a movie title, not an actual dish. WIth the London weather being what it is, I have bunches of green tomatoes sitting on my plants and no sun to ripen them, so I may well be trying these soon!ReplyDelete
Since you insist, I'll have to try but only when only green tomatoes are left in the garden.ReplyDelete
My mom used to make these for us as a treat growing up though we just use a flour batter without the corn meal. Its one of the best tastes ever in my bookReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 7:36 AM
It looks like you've been making them all of your life. I haven't had them in so long but now you've teased me into thinking I should go on the hunt for green tomatoes!ReplyDelete
Oh yeah! I would so eat those like potato chips, one after the other after the other.ReplyDelete
Looks just perfect--I am starving now!
I loved that movie! I have never had these either, but I am totally going to look for green tomatoes at the farmers market this weekend!ReplyDelete
I super love green tomatoes! I think it's Southern thing. When I lived in Kentucky - fried green tomatoes is served as side dishes just about everywhere. Sadly, I have never made it myself!! :) But I sure will now.ReplyDelete
I've never had these before either, but they look awesome and sound like they'd be delicious. I'll have to give this a shotReplyDelete
Yum. Yum. Yum.ReplyDelete
I must have seen that movie 25 times when I was 18...ReplyDelete
My mom tried making them afterwards, but they didn't quite come out right. Maybe I'll give them another shot on my own, all these years later.
Thanks for the memories. :)
i have never had fried green tomatoes... i'm thinking it's because we can never find unripe tomatoes anywhere, but since you gave it three !!! i'm going to have to look.ReplyDelete
I've never had fried green tomatoes but boy do I want to try some now. I have had pickled green tomatoes at some Jewish delis but probably very different.ReplyDelete
I love fried green tomatoes and will miss them come winter. Yours look awesome!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 8:49 PM
saw this Green Fried Tomato recipe on the Food Network website by Mark Ewan ("The Heat"). they used panko instead of cornmeal. both looks easy to do and yummy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 11:28 PM
I had no idea making fried green tomatoes would be such a broadway production.ReplyDelete
that.. crisp.. crust.. looks perfect.
I've always wondered about green tomatoes - I never knew if they were just unripe tomatoes or a special variety! I have lots of unripe tomatoes in my garden, so I really need to try this out!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2008 5:26 PM
Ooooh! I love Fried Green Tomatoes! And the movie too :) The first time I had them were actually at The Whistle Stop Cafe where the movie was made in Georgia! It's the same dinner from the movie! Since then, I have been in love with them! Thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
My mouth is watering!! I am going now to the local tienda to grab some geen tomatoes to make them for lunch ... perfect day for it too - today is fresh vegetable day and tomatoes will be green to last, ripening, through the week.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2008 1:17 PM
Well, I have been enjoying fried green tomatoes for . . . let me think . . . about 50 years BEFORE the "Whistle Stop Cafe" was ever heard of.ReplyDelete
As a native Southerner, I remember my Grandmother, in Houston, Texas, going out to the garden and fetching a few softball-sized "greenies" (as she called them), and frying them up in her cast-iron skillet, much in the way you have done.
But, what the hell, we old-timer Southerners weren't much into "movies" or "food blogs" or "chic" dishes, or that kind of thing.
We were just into GOOD Southern food.
Loved your post, by the way.
Just wanted to add that my wife (an RN) was born and raised in Wisconsin and I've got her positively ADDICTED to fried green tomatoes, as well as other traditional Southern Delicacies.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry. I hate to keep apologizing for my girlfriend "chiff0nade"'s weird behavior on the food blogs (you can read her story here: http://profiles.aim.com/chiff0nade).ReplyDelete
But her post, obviously as an impersonator of "DocChuck" immediately above, must be taken for what it is . . . the cheap vodka and anti-depressant pills stupor, that Louise (SeriousEat's staff member) usually posts.
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I have always wanted to try these. I barely remember anything about it, but I saw the movie when I was very young. Ever since then I've wanted to see what they were all about. You two made them look tempting enough that I may finally try it out!ReplyDelete
I have to look up goreng pisang now! =)
Yup, we did get them from there. I had to look in the bins if regulkar tomatoes for unripe ones, though. And most of them are ONLY semi-unripe. =( No dip was needed if the tomatoes/cornmeal were well-seasoned (salted). Otherwise, some sort of lemon-mayo wth pickles or capers would do the trick. (I've even tried it with oyster sauce! Haha.)
Darius T. Williams:
We had some pizza lying around and I put the fried green tomatoes as a topping on the pizza! =)
The blogworld and your plants are all conspiring... well, not against you, since making these would only benefit yourself! =D
Better late than never, since I myself have waited this long after first seeing fried green tomatoes!
It's really hard to find unripe tomatoes here too.
We;ve made them since without all the fuss (ie, the lazy way). Still good, but this original method was still the best. =)
Wow! I didn't know that place actually existed! =)
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2008 4:00 AM
I also only got to know about Fried Green Tomatoes through the movie, which was excellent by the way. Unfortunately, I've never tried the food version though, but sometime when I visit USA again I simply have to try it. It sure looks interesting!ReplyDelete
My husband has gained a great deal of weight since he's become housebound (medical condition).ReplyDelete
I am trying to wean him off the fatty foods he loves so much and on to low-cal but tasty alternatives.
I'll be oven frying him some tomatoes, soon.
Why wait until the US? ;)
I love Fried Green Tomatoes, geat post! Ciao from ItalyReplyDelete


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The next Xbox and the next PlayStation won't be released until 2014, if Microsoft and Sony have their way, industry sources tell Kotaku.
Both companies are hoping to wait out the current generation, and extending an already elongated console life-cycle despite clear signs that Nintendo will launch its next machine by the end of 2012.
"Both MS and Sony are telegraphing to each other that they're delaying, to milk the current [generation] and fill in previous craters better," one insider who has worked with the first-party companies like Sony and Microsoft told us.
Other sources with access to first-party companies, speaking to Kotaku anonymously because they aren't authorized to be talking about Microsoft and Sony's plans, said that they too are hearing that 2014 is the target date, though some believe 2013 could happen if either company feels pushed.
Our insider believes that any new Xbox in 2013 would only be a Kinect-upgraded 360, not the next-gen console that would come in 2014. That source says that Microsoft doesn't even know what parts will be in the next Xbox. They say the company's board "is wrestling with whether to be profitable on day one," as Nintendo's Wii was presumed to be, or to once again launch a new console at a loss, which is what Sony and Microsoft usually do.
A wait for a new Xbox or PlayStation until 2014 would make the Xbox 360 the lead Microsoft gaming console for nine years and the PlayStation 3 Sony's chief console for eight. That would be an unusually long time for successful game consoles to retain their importance.
Microsoft launched the original Xbox in 2001 but quickly replaced the machine, which was expensive for the company to make, with the Xbox 360 in 2005. A more traditional console life-cycle would have positioned the Xbox 360 as Microsoft's newest machine for five years, the length of time between the first two PlayStations, or six years, the gap between the Super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64.
"I think we'll see a game of chicken between Sony and Microsoft," industry analyst Billy Pidgeon of the firm M2 Research told Kotaku. "Sony definitely isn't launching a successor before 2014 and could stand to benefit by having Microsoft launch first as PS3 builds in to North America and builds a strong position in Europe. Microsoft claims there's a lot more room in Xbox 360 for developers to max out, but here PS3 could have a strong advantage."
"Both MS and Sony are telegraphing to each other that they're delaying."
Pigeon believes Sony, in particular, has every reason to keep this generation going, to capitalize on the slow-launching PS3 and to maximize the "headroom" still available to developers on the powerful system.
Saying his company is "laser-focused' on its current machines and next handheld, Sony PlayStation spokesperson Patrick Seybold declined to "comment on rumors or speculation" about the company's future platforms.
Microsoft did not comment for this story by press time.
The continued prominence of the current Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 through 2013 squares with plans from publisher THQ to launch the game Devil's Third as well as a title made in collaboration with movie director Guillermo Del Toro for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013. It would also make likely that expected but unannounced games from other publishers, the next Grand Theft Auto, for example, would be for 360 and PS3.
Former Xbox executive Shane Kim told the press in 2009 that Microsoft would support the Xbox 360 through 2015, and the launch late last year of the Kinect sensor compelled Microsoft officials to say that the new peripheral will help expand the 360's relevance for years to come.
Nintendo can show its Wii successor machine to external game developers, as it is doing now, without worrying that it'll be trumped by other new consoles when it launches in 2012.
The slow recovery of the North American economy will also continue to discourage Microsoft and Sony from releasing new machines. "I don't think either Sony or Microsoft are interested in a new console till they can advance the technology, and they certainly don't want to launch at a $600 price point," analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities told Kotaku. "It may take till 2014 to get 2TB hard drives, uber fast CPUs and state-of-the art graphics and sell at $400."
The upshot of this is that it allows Nintendo to show its Wii successor to external game developers, as it is doing now, and to press, as it plans to do this June, according to industry sources familiar with the project, without worrying that it'll be trumped by other consoles when it launches in 2012.
While the Wii has lagged behind the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in terms of graphical horsepower, its next machine should bring it at least up to the level of technical muscle as its competitors. Should be a hit, then, according to Pidgeon, all this dawdling could end. "If Nintendo does very well with the next console," he said, "Microsoft and Sony will quickly get a lot more serious about next generation."
More Wii 2 News:
New Nintendo Console Debuting At E3 This June, Launching In 2012, More Powerful Than Xbox 360 and PS3
The Great Big 'Wii 2′ Rumor Round-Up
Fresh Details About Wii 2's Unusual Controller (And Why It Won't Kill The Wii Remote)


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To catch you up, this pattern is part of my line of retro designs for Butterick Patterns, "Patterns by Gertie." (And they are all currently on sale for $1.88!) This particular design is number B5882 and was inspired by a 50s style called the "shelf bust."
Here's the model-y version.
And the Gertie version.
Faithfully"), and they are black on the outside and white on the inside of foot! Perfect for my black and white dress.
Anyway, back to the dress, with a few construction details.
this method on my yellow dress from 2010, the days of yore. Thankfully I've figured out a better way to cut steel boning since then, which I will share one of these days.)
I borrowed a pocket pattern from a skirt pattern I own and sewed them into the side seams.
The fashion fabric is a silk and cotton brocade with flocked velvet polka dots from New York Elegant Fabrics. AMAZING. The contrast is a silk satin shantung from Paron Fabrics. I lined the whole thing in a lightweight cotton-poly blend from Metro Textiles, and finished the hem on the lining in black contrast narrow hemming on my serger.
Okay, about the straps. I wrote a post about how I originally intended them to be worn, which is with the band flipped down under the bust and then twisting at the upper edge of the bodice.
I tacked the band down just where it turns into the strap, to keep it in place.
Whew! I think that's it! Overall, I'm really happy with the dress. It's a special kind of thrill being able to make my own pattern design. Here's a couple shot to end with.


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Word and Voices: UAS poets to bring community together
Laster also expressed confidence that this is only the beginning of UAS events from the Media Club.
Juneau, Alaska
A wave of poetry will sweep the Auke Lake campus with Words and Voices: Poets of UAS. The event is part of the Sound and Motion: Spring 2011 Arts at Egan Series.
UAS students, faculty and staff will be reading their own poems centering on the theme of community Friday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Egan Lecture Hall.
Emceed by the UAS Media club, Words and Voices is club's first big event on campus. Their Sunday night Excellent Radio program features poetry and spoken word in addition to music. Members could not be more excited about a UAS student organized poetry reading as part of Sound and Motion said Kate Laster, also known from the radio as DJ Kayo Nekomata.
"As one of the most active UAS clubs, we wanted to bring a (little) something special to the event: A vibrant energy to highlight how tough it might be to read our own words, to voice your own voice!" Laster said.
The Media Club is expecting a good turnout of readers and poetry lovers.
"We have about 15 confirmed performers laying down their words," Laster said. "We always count the possibility that perhaps some (shyer), secret poets checking out the showcase will maybe get the itch to read. We welcome them to still submit poems, or at least perform the next time. Audience wise, we're expecting some eager, boisterous people ready to listen to others. There isn't anything much more inspiring."
Laster also expressed confidence that this is only the beginning of UAS events from the Media Club.
"We have the feeling (this event) won't be a onetime occurrence for us," Laster said. "We have attended many awesome poetry events local and afar as a group and separately, and we believe there is a great hunger for poetry in this community; for confession in stanzas and freedom found in ink! We plan on hosting and planning even more community and poetry kinds of events."
Words and Voices: Poets of UAS will begin at 7 p.m. in the Egan Lecture Hall on Friday February 25.
Tune in Sundays from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. to hear the Media Club talk poetry on KXLL Radio, 100.7 FM.
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Longtime Christian Dior creative director John Galliano was arrested in Paris last night, following an altercation with a couple in a café. Witnesses and the French police attest that the designer had been drinking heavily. Dior — which had planned its fall show, a traditional highlight of the fashion season, for March 4 — has announced that it has suspended its head designer, pending the outcome of the police investigation.
UPDATE: According to someone claiming to be an eye-witness, the incident occurred after the alleged victims mistook the "pretty drunk" Galliano for a homeless person, and insulted him when he tried to strike up a conversation. Galliano at first just said, "Cheers, everybody!" but further words were exchanged, until the designer turned back to tell the woman, "You're ugly and your fucking bag is ugly, too!"
The boyfriend of the women then got up from his chair and aggressively charged it to threaten the designer. Galliano's bodyguard tried to quiet the situation, as did the staff from La Perle, but there was nothing more to do; Galliano and the couple exchanged further insults untill [sic] the couple called the police while Galliano calmed down and was peacefully smoking his cigarette.
The end of the story, far less dramatic [than] the the press reported, the police just talked to the designer while his bodyguard was on the phone with his lawyer and Galliano conceded to go with them to the police headquarters to give his version of the story, since the couple wanted to press charges. No big police arrest took place. As for the anti-Semistic [sic] statements, Galliano did call the man who threatened him with a chair "Asian," which is indeed a racist statement.
Galliano was at a café/bar called La Perle, which is popular with fashion industry types, and is located in the Marais. The Marais is a traditionally Jewish sector of downtown Paris which is now extremely hip; falafel joints and Jewish bakeries co-exist with trendy brunch spots, a large gay community, and many second-hand stores. (One street in the Marais, the Rue des Francs Bourgeois, is lined with boutiques that open on Sundays, a rare exception to Paris's strict retail blue laws.) La Perle is about two blocks from Paris's Museum of Jewish Art and History.
On La Perle's covered terrace, Galliano allegedly launched an attack on a couple who were seated near him. Witnesses called the police, and the Telegraph reports:
A police source said: "We arrived extremely quickly and managed to break up the disturbance. The man involved was briefly arrested and then released pending charges for assault.
"Witnesses said he swore heavily, using anti-Jewish insults, before attacking a couple. Both have provided witness statements, as have a number of other people at the bar, including staff."
The source confirmed that Galliano, who has been chief designer at Christian Dior since 1996, was the only person arrested in connection with the incident.
At the station, Galliano was found to be drunk. He was later released, but police confirm that he will face criminal charges. The exact nature of what Galliano is alleged to have said is not publicly known at this time. Meanwhile, British Vogue talked to an eye-witness, who offers the following description of the events:
"We had a table at La Perle and John Galliano sat next to us. He spoke to a couple at a nearby table to say 'Cheers' and they insulted him. An argument started and the police came, so Galliano's bodyguard suggested that they should go to the police station to sort it out. He wasn't 'busted' aggressively by police, it was very quiet and peaceful. I definitely didn't hear him say anything anti-Semitic, or against any religion, it was all very calm."
"Dior affirms with the utmost conviction its policy of zero tolerance towards any anti-Semitic or racist words or behaviour," read a statement from Dior C.E.O. Sidney Toledano, who is himself Jewish (Toledano's father fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, before being expelled as a Jew from Vichy France). "Pending the results of the inquiry, Christian Dior has suspended John Galliano from his responsibilities." Galliano's lawyer told the Agence France-Press that the designer "formally denies the accusations of anti-Semitism made against him."
John Galliano Suspended By Dior Following Arrest For "Anti-Semitic Rant" [Telegraph]
John Galliano Arrested In Paris For Assault [Vogue UK]
Designer Galliano Held In Paris For "Anti-Semitism" [AFP]


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Ray LaHood announced this week that he won't continue on as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation for President Obama's second term, taking the most aggressive campaign against distracted driving ever put forth by the government with him as he departs.
I don't doubt that LaHood's heart was in the right place. He wanted to make cars safer and protect drivers and passengers from being injured or killed.
But his campaign was reactionary, misguided, promoted far too much government intrusion into how we drive and how automakers build cars, shifted too much attention away from poor driving itself, and it was ultimately ineffective.
By all accounts, LaHood was a much more high-profile secretary than his predecessors, and nearly all of his initiatives clashed with Jalopnik's "Drive Free or Die" driver-first mantra, making him a particular target of ours since his 2009 appointment to the post.
We lambasted him for honking at D.C. drivers he saw talking on cell phones; for not practicing what he preached when it came to fuel efficiency; for letting cops slide on the "no using cell phones while driving" thing; and for having little transportation or administrative experience in the first place.
The Department of Transportation under LaHood also put forth some requests to automakers that can only be described as ridiculous. From a story we featured last year about his request that car companies dumb down their in-car electronics and dashboard consoles:
The recommendations are almost comical in their concern and specificity, going so far as to suggest the maximum amount of time a driver should spend looking for and then pressing a button (two seconds), the maximum number of intermittent two-second glances required to complete an entire task (6, for 12 seconds total), and the maximum amount of digital text a driver can see while the car is moving (no more than 30 characters, "not counting puncuation marks").
It's strange that LaHood pushed for so much government intervention into how we drive and how cars are made considering he is a Republican — the only one in Obama's cabinet — the party that supposedly advocates less government spending and involvement in our lives.
Let's look at some of LaHood's misfires as Transportation Secretary:
- LaHood wanted more systems in place to eliminate distracted driving. Generally, as enthusiasts, we prefer our cars to be as light, uncomplicated, and driver-focused as possible. Forcing technology on cars that regulates driving (and cell phone usage) habits gets in the way of this.
- LaHood's approach didn't address the real problem. There's no doubt that texting or calling when you're driving is dangerous and ill-advised. I don't feel like putting new technology in cars to prevent this is the right approach. I worry that the inclusion of said technologies makes us overly reliant on them, and therefore worse at driving.
- Distracted driving is not the public health crisis that he made it out to be. In 2010, distracted driving accounted for about 9 percent of the approximately 33,000 highway fatalities in the U.S. That's too many, but still the bigger threat is drunk driving: 31 percent of highways deaths were related to alcohol. Now, the number of traffic deaths did indeed rise for the first time in years in 2012, but that was because more Americans were on the road thanks to better weather, an improved economy and other factors — not because of a rise in distracted driving.
To his credit, LaHood was also one of the lead champions of Obama's $53 billion plan for a national high-speed rail system, which is actually far more important (fewer cars on the road, more road for us.) We'll have to see if his successor shares the same enthusiasm.
Which brings me to my next question: who's going to take LaHood's place? That depends on what rumors you listen to. It could be Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, or Deborah A.P. Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety board, according to the Washington Post.
We'll see if any of them wil continue LaHood's legacy of needless meddling with car technology and driver behavior instead of the much larger transportation and infrastructure issues this country faces.
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… Is worth two in the oven? Since the original version of that phrase makes so little sense in the first place, I'll let you be the judge of that.
But soon, two hopeful readers will have their very own cupcake at hand, nestled into a cheerful, bright pink holder! Keeping it simple but throwing in a little superfood twist at the end, I decided to share vanilla bean goji berry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting with the winners.
Just like the above saying, there was no rhyme or reason why, but it sounded tasty and that's good enough for me.
Okay, down to business. The first winner, chosen by a random number generator, is….
Commenter #13, otherwise known as long-time reader, sydneysunray!
Next up, laying claim to the second cupcake holder, is…
The lovely and ever-talented Oiyi!
Congratulations ladies, you'll be hearing from me shortly! To everyone else, don't fret; I happen to have a number of exciting giveaways planned for the very near future. Stay tuned…!


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Colorful church windows, beads on a necklace and many of our favorite plastics share something in common — they all belong to a state of matter known as glasses. School children learn the difference between liquids and gases, but centuries of scholarship have failed to produce consensus about how to categorize glass.
Now, combining theory and numerical simulations, researchers have resolved an enduring question in the theory of glasses by showing that their energy landscapes are far rougher than previously believed. The findings appear April 24 in the journal Nature Communications.
"There have been beautiful mathematical models, but with sometimes tenuous connection to real, structural glasses. Now we have a model that's much closer to real glasses," said Patrick Charbonneau, one of the co-authors and assistant professor of chemistry and physics at Duke University.
The new model, which shows that molecules in glassy materials settle into a fractal hierarchy of states, unites mathematics, theory and several formerly disparate properties of glasses.
One thing that sets glasses apart from other phase transitions is a lack of order among their constituent molecules. Their cooled particles become increasingly sluggish until, caged in by their neighbors, the molecules cease to move — but in no predictable arrangement. One way for researchers to visualize this is with an energy landscape, a map of all the possible configurations of the molecules in a system.
Charbonneau said a simple energy landscape of glasses can be imagined as a series of ponds or wells. When the water is high (the temperature is warmer), the particles within float around as they please, crossing from pond to pond without problem. But as you begin to lower the water level (by lowering the temperature or increasing the density), the particles become trapped in one of the small ponds. Eventually, as the pond empties, the molecules become jammed into disordered and rigid configurations.
"Jamming is what happens when you take sand and squeeze it," Charbonneau said. "First it's easy to squeeze, and then after a while it gets very hard, and eventually it becomes impossible."
Like the patterns of a lakebed revealed by drought, researchers have long wondered exactly what "shape" lies at the bottom of glass energy landscapes, where molecules jam. Previous theories have predicted the bottom of the basins might be smooth or a bit rough.
"At the bottom of these lakes or wells, what you find is variation in which particles have a force contact or bond," Charbonneau said. "So even though you start from a single configuration, as you go to the bottom or compress them, you get different realizations of which pairs of particles are actually in contact."
Charbonneau and his co-authors based in Paris and Rome showed, using computer simulations and numeric computations, that the glass molecules jam based on a fractal regime of wells within wells.
The new description makes sense of several behaviors seen in glasses, like the property known as avalanching, which describes a random rearrangement of molecules that leads to crystallization.
"There are a lot of properties of glasses that are not understood, and this finding has the potential to bring together a wide range of those problems into one coherent picture," said Charbonneau.
Understanding the structure of glasses is more than an intellectual exercise — materials scientists stand to advance from the knowledge, which could lead to better control of the aging of glasses.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI named three new saints for the Catholic Church during Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square that was disrupted by a man who climbed out onto the upper colonnade and burned a bible.
Vatican gendarmes, a bishop and the pope's own bodyguard talked the man back from the edge of the colonnade after he shouted, "Pope, where is Christ?" in English and threw the burned bible to the crowd below.
Benedict and the thousands in the square appeared unfazed by the incident and carried on with the Mass.
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The disruption came toward the end of the two-hour service Sunday to canonize three 19th-century founders of religious orders: Italian bishop and missionary Monsignor Guido Maria Conforti, Spanish nun Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro and an Italian priest who worked with the poor, the Rev. Luigi Guanella.
On hand in the crowd was William Glisson Jr., from the Philadelphia area in the U.S., whose cure from a 2002 head injury was declared the miracle needed to canonize Guanella.
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Glisson, then 21, had gone into a coma after falling while in-line skating without a helmet; he had two brain surgeries but his doctors didn't give him much hope, according to Guanella's biography. A friend of the family who worked at a Guanella center for the handicapped gave Glisson and his mother two of Guanella's relics, and the family prayed fervently to the Italian priest.
After nine days, Glisson came out of the coma and today works in the family construction supply business.


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Evan Christian's commitment to mastering the flamenco guitar is so great that he moved to Spain to study the craft. That's not to say that his playing is completely grounded in tradition, though. In the studio, he pairs his flamenco guitar riffs with smooth, hip-hop-inflected neo-soul and synthesized, peppy funk in the vein of Prince. Tonight he plays his regular Wednesday night gig at the Jazz Estate at 10 p.m. <P>
Evan Christian
Tonight @ The Jazz Estate, 10 p.m.


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Date: February 28, 2009
Byline: Victor Whitman
'Mr. Puzzle' heads to 32nd crossword tournament
WOODRIDGE — Jay Kasofsky is a puzzling person, but not in the odd sense of the word. He's phenomenal at crosswords.
Sitting at his kitchen table in Woodridge, he scribbles solutions to Monday's New York Times puzzle until he quickly reaches the end.
Kasofsky is in training.
He'll be off to Brooklyn this weekend for a national crossword puzzle competition. He's been to all 31 of them, the only person who has never missed a tournament.
He zips along, row by row, without blinking. He boldly letters the squares with a red pen, his temples never throbbing in frustration, his hand never stopping for terror of filling in the wrong answer.
Although the Monday Times puzzle is, for crossword aficionados, pretty easy, crossword-challenged people would be amazed at how fast he finishes.
Within five minutes, he's filling in the last box: 65 across, "Talks like Don Corleone."
He writes "rasps" and blows out some air.
"There it is," he says.
Kasofsky, 68, a retired history teacher from Fallsburg High School, says his puzzling days go back to age 15, when an English teacher recommended he do crosswords to improve his vocabulary.
Modestly, he confesses he draws on a reservoir of tricks to solve puzzles, lots of words get repeated and it always doesn't go this fast. "Saturday can take me over an hour, depending on what they are doing," he said. "Sometimes they are on a level I am not understanding."
Kasofsky will bring his puzzling best to the tournament. New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz created the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978. It's the nation's oldest and largest tournament and the subject of the 2006 documentary "Wordplay." (Kasofsky was filmed competing, but the footage wound up on the cutting room floor.)
Since the movie, the tournament has grown so much it had to be moved from the Marriott in Stamford, Conn., its home for 30 years, to the larger Marriott Brooklyn Bridge. Last year, 699 competitors from all over the country, including an ex-New Yorker who flies from Paris, competed. Kasofsky is the only one who has come to them all.
"He is Mr. Puzzle," said Helene Hovanek, the tournament's coordinator.
Kasofsky admits he's not the fastest around. In 1979, he finished sixth, his best result. He proudly keeps the plaque in his living room.
And so, Fallsburg's puzzle man will soon embark on his 32nd tournament. With apologies to him, we close with a challenge:
What is "a tip" of a tail, six letters?
(Find the answer by reading the final two words of the second paragraph.)