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1691: Eleven at Tyburn
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"Having Intangled themselves in the snares of Death, by their Dissolute Practices, against all the warnings of Publick Justice on other Criminals," as the Ordinary's Account puts it, 11 men and women "provokt the Lord to set them out, as monuments of his present severe, yet Righteous Judgement" and therefore hanged together on this date at London's Tyburn gallows.*
Murderers (and -esses)
William Harsey was taken literally red-handed, found by the St. Katherine's watch passed out drunk, still gripping a bloody knife. He'd wetted the blade in three different bodies that night, one of them his good friend (also drunk). Two died; one survived to testify against Harsey.
Mary Mott's infant son was found lying dead in a gutter on her rooftop, by a laborer working on the chimney. She claimed it was stillborn, but was unable to prove it: the presumption in such instances went against the mother, on the grounds that every infanticide would simply claim stillbirth otherwise.
William Smith "said that he was guilty of all sins except Murther, he named Sabbath breaking, Drunkenness, and Uncleanness." John Barret, a burglar, copped to the same trio of gateway sins.
Less repentant were two other robbers who had no use for the Ordinary's god-bothering, to the detriment of their bloggable biography: Richard Johnson, who "was not concerned for his bad Life, and withdrew himself from Chappel," and Anne Miller, who "refused to come to the Chappel, saying she was a Papist."
Posterity has much more on Mary Jones, a scarf-maker whose lover squandered all her revenues and drove "Moll" to make an illicit living by the dexterity of her fingers. Having been branded on the hand for picking the royal chocolatier's pocket, Jones turned to the boom trade in shoplifting London's growing traffic of valuable little textiles like stockings and lace.
She must have had no small gift for the five-fingered discount as she practiced it for 3-4 years. "She was apprehended for privately stealing a piece of satin out of a mercer's shop on Ludgate Hill, whither she went in a very splendid equipage and personated the late Duchess of Norfolk, to avoid suspicion of her dishonesty; but her graceless Grace being sent to Newgate, and condemned for her life at the Old Bailey."
Hanging day would hardly be complete in the late 17th century without a highwayman like William Good, who with a buddy (uncaptured) carriage-jacked a gentleman on the London-Hackney road and made off with the 12-Days-of-Christmas-like trove of "a Dyaper Napkin Value 12 d. Twelve Larks, Two Ducks, and an Embroidered Wastcoat."
Where Good hangs, there will you also find Malice — Humphrey Malice, to be exact, "Condemned for Robbing a Gentleman in Chelsy Field" in which crime he nevertheless enjoyed "no share in the spoil." His better remunerated (and less interestingly named) confederate Edward Booth hanged with him. The gentleman in question was Malice and Booth's second victim of the night, the first having been a more working-class sort who was stripped stark naked and could still only produce eight coppers. Malice and Booth gave him a vengeful thrashing for their trouble and told him "that the next time he went abroad, he should put more Money in his Pocket."
Thomas Taylor, a parson's son "addicted to idleness," was in fact quite industrious when it came to robbery. There's a story from his career of engineering a buffoonish caught-in-the-town-pillory routine to distract a crowd of yokels while his pickpocket buddies plucked them clean. His fatal crime was an even more audacious twist on the same, in which Tom, acting alone this time, fired a barn, then joined the resulting rescue scramble and made off with a trunk full of plate and £140 cash. He would later admit this was not the first time he had used this gambit.
The arson was the source of his condemnation, but we could not pass over the Newgate Calendar's remembrance of a different and dreadfully amusing larcenous exploit … which also goes to show the very private, and very punitive, nature of crime prevention in those days.
Taylor being pretty expert at picking of pockets, he set up for himself; and one day going to the playhouse in Drury Lane, very well dressed, he seated himself by a gentleman in the pit, whose pocket he picked of about forty guineas, and went clean off. This good success tempted Tom to go thither the next day in a different suit of clothes, when, perceiving the same gentleman in the pit whose pocket he had picked but the day before, he takes his seat by him again. The gentleman was so sharp as to know his face again, for all his change of apparel, though he seemed to take no notice of him; whereupon putting a great quantity of guineas into the pocket next Tom, it was not long before he fell to diving for them. The gentleman had sewed fishing- hooks all round the mouth of that pocket, and our gudgeon venturing too deep, by unconscionably plunging down to the very bottom, his hand was caught and held so fast that he could in no manner of way disentangle it.
Tom angled up and down in the pocket for nearly a quarter of an hour; the gentleman, all the while feeling his struggling to get his hand out, took no notice, till at last Tom, very courteously pulling off his hat, quoth: "Sir, by a mistake, I have somehow put my hand into your pocket instead of my own." The gentleman, without making any noise, arose and went to the Rose Tavern at the corner of Bridget Street, and Tom along with him, with his hand in his pocket, where it remained till he had sent for some of his cronies, who paid down eighty guineas to get the gudgeon out of this dry pond. However, the gentleman, being not altogether contented with this double satisfaction for his loss, most unmercifully caned him, and then turning him over to the mob, they as unmercifully pumped him and ducked him in a horse-pond, and after that so cruelly used him that they broke one of his legs and an arm.
Taylor, the Ordinary reported, "behaved himself very undecently and unhandsomely, all the way from Newgate to Tyburn."
* A good round number: it was Tyburn's second 11-spot of the year.
On this day..
- 1953: Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady - 2019
- 1591: Marigje Arriens - 2018
- 2009: Gerald Dube, from Cell 10 - 2017
- 1942: Six aspiring escapees from Dulag-205 - 2016
- 1946: One sex killer and four POW camp murderers - 2015
- 1939: Fifty-six Poles shot in retaliation at Bochnia - 2014
- 1894: John Cronin, by an automated gallows - 2013
- 1529: Desle la Mansenee in the Luxeuil Trial - 2011
- 1789: The Canadian Burglars - 2010
- 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos - 2009
- 1878: John Kehoe, king and last of the Molly Maguires - 2008
- 1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre - 2007
Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Arson,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,History,Mass Executions,Murder,Public Executions,Theft,Women
Tags: 1690s, 1691, anne miller, december 18, edward booth, humphrey malice, john barret, london, mary jones, mary mott, moll jones, newgate calendar, richard johnson, thomas taylor, Tyburn, william good, william harsey, william smith


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"It was actually Dyenamix that printed and dyed the majority of the materials for the Ode a L'Oubli," wrote Marasco. "Judith did, in fact, construct the pages and assemble the book and printed the silkscreened pages, but she was not the only print house providing the process for the project. We actually provided the printed or dyed fabric for 27 of the 34 pages in the book."
This is a terrific example of an artist standing up for herself and her business. I admired her for contacting me and providing me with the information. I immediately added the clarification in red and noted the ommission with regret, including a public apology. Marasco has invited me to visit her SoHo studio, and I look forward to doing so soon. I expect a blog post will come out of the visit.
Mistakes can happen, but it's what happens next that is the subject of this post.
Here's what happened to me recently: At the invitation of an institution where I had recently produced a wildly successful encaustic painting conference, a local public TV station created a video for airing. Whether by design or incompetence, the taping took place during a short period when I was away! Perhaps not surprisingly then, my role was not noted; indeed, my name was not even mentioned. I was shocked and appalled not only at the omission but because the institution continued—continues—to promote a video in which it appears to take credit for my work. I saw it only because an art professional in the area emailed me the URL and said, "Stop what you're doing and look at this video now." There's quite a lot more to the story, but that's the gist of it.
What kind of conference leader would I have been if I had continued with the institution and said or done nothing? What kind of artist? What kind of Marketing Mondays writer?
These are some of the situations in which you may need to stand up:
. You get your work on the cover of a magazine, only to see the "On the Cover" info omitted from an inside page. Let the editor know. Usually this error is rectified in the following issue, though it's small consolation when you're denied the immediate pleasure of seeing your name associated with the work.
. Your work is printed upside down, or with a misspelled name. Having worked in publishing, I can tell you that these things do happen. Let the editor know. A responsible editor makes every effort to find a place in the following issue to reprint the image right-side up--but don't expect a full page; it will be a tiny image and a short correction. Unfortunately, this is not possible with a postcard that has already been sent out. A follow-up email announcement might help, but of course it's not the same as that stand-alone little card which often has a visual shelf life of months or years. If a dealer makes a habit of these kinds of mistakes, well, you know what you have to do.
. Your name is omitted from the announcement of a group show. You are set to promote the show on your blog and, uh, there's no mention of you. Create a postcard with an image of your own work to announce the show. A decent institution or gallery will pay for the printing, or at least share in the expense. But of course you have to ask. Make sure you send out an e-announcement with an image of your work; include everyone's name on the list of exhibitors.
Standing up for yourself is not just about media issues, of course:
. What about the artist who sees his or her hard work claimed by another? Or copied? Or used without attribution? This is legal territory, and you'd do well to contact the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in your area.
. What about the painting that has been damaged? The work that has gone missing? Accidents do happen. Some dealers will work with you immediately to find or create a reasonable solution--and payment is a reasonable solution. Others may need repeated requests to deal with the situation; some may need legal prompting. Proceeding aggressively will probably damage your relationship with the gallery. Then again, do you really want to continue with a gallery that treats you and your work so poorly? This may be another time to contact the VLA.
. What about the check from a dealer or consultant that has been "in the mail" for six months now? I covered this issue a few months ago in Where's My Money? and When Bad Things Happen (talk about standing up: Click onto the video link at the bottom of this latter post to see the TV news clip of Donald Baechler discussing his lawsuit with the Loew Gallery in Atlanta).
In standing up for yourself, you may need to challenge an institution, a gallery, a group, or another individual. It's not easy to take that stand. You may actually find yourself blamed for the situation! But inaction is not an option. Just remember that reporting a story, stating an opinion, and recounting your experience honestly are not grounds for libel (words in print) or slander (spoken words); speaking out to stand up for yourself is a First Amendment right.
So, over to you: What was your situation and how did you handle it? How did you stand up for yourself? How did you follow up? What was the fallout? Was there litigation? If it makes you feel more comfortable to omit the specific names, that's OK. This post is about how we stand up for ourselves, our reputations, our careers.

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Not only is this SF artist (via South Carolina) a great painter, but he also plays some sweet music. Watch the video below to see what we're talking about... His studio, which he shares with a couple other artists, is down near Union Square. A really unique spot where we got to know Kevin better over a few Anchor Steams.
Haha. His studio mate left me a little present. Thanks, Jon.
Some more of Jon's caricatures.
Jessica got a little sing on.
MC Kevin Taylor
Paint in oil? Kevin says you should buy this. Great for the environment.
Kevin's friend who works at Ruby Sky came up... It was just before Halloween.
Later, guys... Thanks for the nice evening, Kevin.
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Research & Analysis by Andrew G. Biggs
Social Security and Marginal Returns to Work Near Retirement
Using the Social Security Administration's MINT (Modeling Income in the Near Term) model, this paper calculates the marginal returns to work near retirement, as measured by the increase in benefits associated with an additional year of employment at the end of an individual's work life. With exceptions for certain population subgroups, the analysis finds that marginal returns on Social Security taxes paid near retirement are generally low. The paper also tests the effects on marginal returns of a variety of potential Social Security policy changes designed to improve incentives to work.
A Progressivity Index for Social Security
Using the Social Security Administration's MINT (Modeling Income in the Near Term) model, this paper analyzes the progressivity of the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program for current and future retirees. It uses a progressivity index that provides a summary measure of the distribution of taxes and benefits on a lifetime basis. Results indicate that OASDI lies roughly halfway between a flat replacement rate and a flat dollar benefit for current retirees. Projections suggest that progressivity will remain relatively similar for future retirees. In addition, the paper estimates the effects of several policy changes on progressivity for future retirees.
Alternate Measures of Replacement Rates for Social Security Benefits and Retirement Income
Replacement rates are common and useful tools used by individuals and policy analysts to plan for retirement and assess the sufficiency of Social Security benefits and overall retirement income. Because the calculation and meaning of replacement rates differs depending on the definition of preretirement earnings, this article examines four alternative measures: final preretirement earnings, constant income payable from the present value of lifetime earnings (PV payment), wage-indexed average of lifetime earnings, and inflation-adjusted average of lifetime earnings (CPI average). The article also calculates replacement rates for Social Security beneficiaries aged 64–66 in 2005.
Poverty-level Annuitization Requirements in Social Security Proposals Incorporating Personal Retirement Accounts
In the current discussions of Social Security reform, voluntary personal retirement accounts have been proposed. Recent research and debate have focused on several aspects of these accounts, including how such accounts would affect aggregate saving, system finances, and benefit levels. Little attention, however, has been paid to policies that would govern the distribution of account balances. This analysis considers such policies with respect to the annuitization of account balances at retirement using the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the New Term (MINT) model and a modified version of a recent legislative proposal to evaluate the effects of partial annuitization requirements.
The Distributional Consequences of a "No-Action" Scenario
The 2001 report of the Social Security trustees projected that the combined trust funds for the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance programs will be exhausted in 2038. This analysis explains the effects of insolvency on future retirement benefits and poverty rates of beneficiaries if no action is taken to strengthen Social Security.


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I've always been the sentimental hopeless romantic type. I can't help it. And as I sit here writing this post, sending off 2012 while munching on sweet potato chips (my snack addiction of 2012), I also can't help but be a little excited about what 2013 holds in store, both here in my little corner of the web – look for a major redesign early next year! – and in our sweet little home life that we have created here in Connecticut.
While this past year was filled with the overwhelming level of stress of building a home and moving again (photos coming soon – promise!), this coming year will be filled with the joy of putting our stamp on the place while we continue to settle in, finish unpacking (ha!), and extend our kitchen into the yard where we plan to expand our garden and make a home for a few chickens. I am so so looking forward to sharing this next step of our journey to great food with you and I thank you a million times over for all the support you've shown for Smells Like Home this year and always. Cheers and much love to you in 2013!
However, before we part ways for champagne and hors d'oeuvres, let me share with you my Top 10 favorites from 2012…
Red Velvet and Strawberry Trifles with Cheesecake Filling
Lofthouse-Style Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
Baked Chicken Burritos with Sour Cream Poblano Sauce
Bacon Burgers with Bacon Onion Balsamic Jam
Smashed Avocado-Chile Tartines


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Why You Shouldn't Give Too Much Weight to Anonymous Online Critics
Back in 2006, Flickr user André Rabelo submitted the above photograph to the group pool of DeleteMe!, a group whose members vote on photos to weed out any photos that aren't "incredible pictures, amazing, astonishing, perfect". Sadly, the photograph was very quickly removed by popular vote.
When everything is blurred you cannot convey the motion of the bicyclist. On the other hand, if the bicyclist is not the subject– what was?
Why is the staircase so "soft"? Camera shake? Like the angle though.
so small. so blurry. to better show a sense of movement SOMETHING has to be in sharp focus
Nicely composed, but blurry
This looks contrived, which is not a bad thing. If this is a planned shot, it just didn't come out right. If you can round up Mario, I would do it again. This time put the camera on a tripod and use the smallest aperture possible to get the best DoF. What I would hope for is that the railings are sharp and that mario on the bike shows a blur. Must have the foreground sharp, though. Without that, the image will never fly.
yeah and? grey, blurry, small, odd crop
bit too blurred to be worth a save from me
Fantastic composition, but the tones and the graininess keep the photo from being great.
What's funny about this story is that Rabelo had the last laugh — the photograph is actually "Hyeres, France, 1932", a famous photograph by the French photographer and "father of modern photojournalism", Henri Cartier-Bresson. Made in 1932, the photo sold at auction in 2008 for a whopping $265,000.
This just goes to show that you shouldn't let anonymous online critics dictate how you photograph. While it's great to receive feedback and certainly worthwhile to hear things that help you improve your technique, the criticisms you hear online are often from people who don't know what they're talking about, so don't give too much weight to negative comments!


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How To Add Content to the Portal: A General Overview
Would you like to contribute?
You can contribute content to this website. Content includes: web pages, files, links, images, news items, and calendar events.
Here's how.
First, you must be a member of this website to add, edit, or remove content.
To become a member, click the Register box located next to the Log In box to request a membership.
You can contribute to:
- Resources: Add public content here.
- Group Workspaces: Only members associated with specific workgroups will be able to access that group. These are private working areas that allow members to upload content, work on documents, and provide comments.
Add private collaborative group content here.
- News: Add news items here.
- Events: Add calendar events here.
New content items are added via the Add New . . . drop-down menu:
Adding content in Plone is done placefully, which is to say that you must navigate to the section of your Plone website that you wish the new content to reside before you use the Add New . . . drop-down menu. You can of course cut, copy, and paste content items from one section to another if necessary.
Content Types
In Plone, you can use a number of Content Types to post certain kinds of content. For example, to upload an image you must use the Image content type. Below is a list of the available content types in order of their appearance, and what each are used for:
- Collection
- Collections are used to group and display content based on a set of criteria which you can set. Collections work much like a query does in a database.
- Event
An Event is a special page-like content type specifically for posting information about an event (such as a fundraiser, barbecue, etc). This content type has a function which allows the site visitor to add the event to their desktop calendar with either the iCal or vCal standard. This includes applications such as: Google Calendar, Outlook, Sunbird and others.
To add a single event to your calendar, click on the vCal or iCal links next to the "Add event to calendar" text in the main view of the event item.
From Plone 3.3 on you can also get all the events in a folder in one go (currently only available in iCal format). To download the iCal file, append @@ics_view to the end of the URL of the folder that contains the events. For example, if you want to get all the events into the events folder in the root of your site, go to http://yourdomain.tld/events/@@ics_view. There are plans to provide a link to this iCal calendar inside the UI in a future release.
- File
- A File in Plone is any binary file you wish to upload with the intent that it can be downloaded by your site visitors. Common examples are PDFs, Word Documents, and spreadsheets.
- Folder
- Folders work in Plone much like they do on your computer. You can use folders to organize your content, and to give your Plone website a navigation structure.
- Image
- The Image content type is used for uploading image files (JPG, GIF, PNG) so that you can insert them into pages or other page-like content types.
- Link
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- News Item
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- Page
- A Page in Plone is one of the most simple content types available. Use Pages to write the bulk of your web pages on your Plone website.
Note: Depending on what add-on products you have installed, you may see more options in your Add New . . . drop-down menu than appear here. For information about those additional content types, refer to the Product documentation for the add-on in question.
Nearly all content types in Plone have two fields in common: Title and Description.
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Web addresses do have restrictions on allowed keyboard characters, and blanks are not allowed. Plone does a good job of keeping web addresses correct by using near-equivalents of the Title that you provide, by converting them to lowercase, and by substituting dashes for spaces and other punctuation.
The web address of a given item is referred to as the short name in Plone. When you use the Rename function, you'll see the short name along with the title.
The fields will vary according to the content type. For instance, the Link content type has the URL field. The File content type has the File field, and so on.
The Description appears at the top of pages, just under the Title. Descriptions are often used to conjunction with a variety of Folder and Collection views (such as Standard and Summary). The Description also appears in search results via Plone's native search engine.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers changed their leadership structure this year by hiring a new head coach and a new general manager. They'll also announce another change later this week.
Sapp later hinted that the new helmets will feature a chrome grill. The Buccaneers' official website announced that the logo will be changing for the first time since 1997. That change predated the most successful stretch in team history, so the organization likely is hoping for the same luck this time around.
My suggestion: Use Sapp's likeness as the new pirate.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" discusses controversial draft prospects Johnny Manziel and Jadeveon Clowney and reviews the offseason forecasts for the St. Louis Rams and Carolina Panthers.**


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Armagnac is a grape brandy produced primarily from four grape varieties (Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, Baco 22A and Colombard), although 10 are permitted. Made in the Gascony region of France to the south of Bordeaux (split into three areas: Bas Armagnac, Tenareze and Haut Armagnac), it is distilled only once and often aged for many decades.
History and production
Believed to be the oldest brandy in France, the first written record of Armagnac dates from 1411, meaning it predates Cognac by at least 200 years. Due to the location of the region (away from the coast), it remained a local product until the River Baise was canalised in the 19th century and exportation became easier. Originally produced in large alembic stills, a local peasant created the Verdier still, patented in 1818. This new type of still allowed more of the flavour to be retained from the original wine, thus increasing complexity and setting it apart from Cognac. The resulting spirit is then aged in oak, normally 400-litre Limousin casks, for at least two years before it can be called Armagnac.
Types of Armagnac
Armagnac can be divided into two main categories: vintage and non-vintage. Vintage Armagnacs are distilled from grapes grown in a single year, with the date displayed on the bottle. Non-vintage Armagnacs can either be labelled by age, where the number of years quoted relates to the youngest component of the blend or by category: VS (minimum two years in wood), VSOP (at least four years), XO (more than six years) or Hors d'Age (10 years plus).
Armagnac vs Cognac
Armagnac and Cognac are both grape brandies, but are produced in different regions of France. Cognac must be made in the Charente and Charente-Maritime départements to the north of Bordeaux, whereas Armagnac comes from the Gascony region south of the city. Armagnac is almost always distilled only once, rather than the double distillation of its northern counterpart. This leads to Armagnac having a more robust flavour profile and body, and is one of the reasons why it is usually aged for longer before release than Cognac, as more time is needed to allow the flavours to integrate and to remove the impurities that remain from the distillation process. Armagnac production today remains largely in the hands of small producers, rather than the big brands prevalent in Cognac.
Did you know?
- The main grape used in Armagnac production (Ugni Blanc) is one of the most commonly planted grape varieties in the world, especially in Italy, where it is called Trebbiano and accounts for around a third of all white wine produced there.
- Members of the society which promotes Armagnac around the world are known as mousquetaires (musketeers)
- Ortolan, a bird which was a French delicacy, would be prepared by being force-fed, drowned in Armagnac and roasted. The practice was outlawed by the EU in 1999 and has been enforced by France from 2007.
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This is personal. My two decades in the US Army were the centerpiece of my life. I believe in the ethics professed by the officer corps. Yet, I recognize that we mortals are imperfect (I certainly am) and the human heart is the ultimate IED. So while I'm disappointed that Gen. David Petraeus fell for Miss Fatal Attraction 2012, what makes me really angry is his hypocrisy.
Petraeus preached a gospel of perfect virtue — always a foolish move — and became another fallen televangelist.
Nor is it only Petraeus: Misbehavior, double standards and outright criminal acts have become epidemic among our senior officers. There have been dozens of investigations or prosecutions. Our nation's military leadership is sick.
As for Petraeus, he who rises by the headline, falls by the headline. His shabby indiscretion made national news not only because of his super-sensitive post as CIA director, but because he'd worked to make himself a media phenomenon. Ultimately, his cultivation of the press was far more successful than his failed (but celebrated) counterinsurgency doctrine.
For his fellow officers, Petraeus' love of the spotlight was an annoyance, but not a transgression. Even his tawdry "under the desk" sex with a squirrely hustler on the make (a "writer" who had to have "her" book ghost-written) also might have been written off as an all-too-human mistake (let he who is without sin. . .). What killed Petraeus was his dazzling hypocrisy.
The general held himself up as a paragon of self-discipline and model family man. In Iraq and then Afghanistan, he rigorously enforced "General Order No. 1," which prohibits our troops from fraternization, all sex, alcohol consumption, the possession of pornography and, generally, from any activity that might make the boredom and terror of this kind of war more bearable. When our troops screwed up, they got hammered.
Generals can take a weekend in Paris and get drunk (as Gen. Stanley McChrystal did), but the grunt who goofs in a firefight faces a court-martial.
Now those who've tied their military or literary careers to Petraeus and his inept counterinsurgency doctrine are rushing to make excuses for the general: He's too important to be sacrificed like this, the president shouldn't have accepted his resignation (resignation my butt — the guy was fired), and the affair only started after he left the military . . .
No man's too important to be sacrificed. Petraeus had to go. CIA employees must conform to behavior standards even stricter than those of our military — careers end over extramarital affairs or just the wrong flirtations. And as Petraeus himself loved to point out, leaders set the example. As for the timing of his affair, hey, the post of CIA director's more sensitive than that of any general.
Petraeus has one shot at redemption, though. He's scheduled to testify on the Hill this Friday. (Put him under oath!) He can do his country a last great service by telling the truth about the Benghazi debacle: What did the president know and when did he know it?
Then there's Gen. John Allen, the Marine who succeeded Petraeus in Afghanistan. Allen's the guy who, whenever anything went wrong, blamed our troops and told them they had to "respect Afghan culture" (The rape of little boys? The stoning of women? The rampant corruption?).
Thus far, there's no hard evidence of sexual hijinks by Gen. Allen. But he sure suffered a mighty case of the dumb-ass, as my old drill sergeant liked to say. This guy's supposed to be running a war — a full-time job for most folks — yet he generated more pages of flirtatious e-mails to a high-rolling bimbo than a professional writer could have produced. Allen's married, too.
Defenders claim he's just a Southern gentleman who responded to a damsel in distress. Spare me.
And these cases are peccadillos compared to the charges against Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne: the forcible sodomy of female subordinates and a host of other nasty sex violations.
On Tuesday, we learned that four-star Gen. William "Kip" Ward, former head of Africa Command, will lose a star and pay a fine of $82,000 for cheating on government travel. Had Sgt. Peters done that, I would have gotten a dishonorable discharge and, probably, jail time.
Incredibly, Ward's fellow generals closed ranks and argued it was unfair to take away a star because that would reduce Ward's annual retirement pay by $30,000. Jumpin' Jeepers in Jerusalem, Batman! The guy still gets over $200,000 a year in retired pay, plus the inevitable defense-industry handouts. And his buddy generals think it's unfair to bust this jerk one grade?
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — a good man — had to insist that Ward lose at least one star.
Every service has been hit by flag-officer scandals in recent years. One or two might be explained away, but there's clearly a crisis of ethics atop our military.
Instead of going easier on the generals, they should face harsher penalties than the captains. Generals know better. But their sense of entitlement has murdered their sense of duty, honor, country.
Ralph Peters is Fox News' Strategic Analyst and the author of "Cain at Gettysburg."


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I've been having an e-mail exchange with Jundo over the past few days, and one of the things I commented on was my discomfort with the rituals that are practiced in Zen. I thought it would be a good idea to post my thoughts here, and see what you all think. Here's what I said first:
I've been hanging around Treeleaf pretty much since the beginning, but I'm constantly torn between my immense appreciation for your teachings and for the sangha that you have built, and my distaste for all the ritualistic trappings that are part of zen. I come and go as my feelings shift. At times, I want to make a stronger commitment to zen practice. But at other times, I can't help thinking that a more secular Buddhism, without the ritualistic baggage, suits my views better. But the ideas that zen brought to Buddhism resonate very strongly within me. In the past few months, I've been reading a lot of Pali canon texts. They are very grounded, very deep, but they don't have that touch of the ineffable that zen has.
Then, in reply to Jundo's reply (which I won't post, unless he says it's okay to do so):
In some ways, I guess what bothers me is that these ritual - not just the chanting, but the robes, the rakusu and the rest - are transplanted, and don't resonate with me.
I wonder if any of you have similar thoughts, and, if so, how you deal with them.


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LUCKNOW: The Shia and Sunny waqf boards in Uttar Pradesh will be dissolved in the wake of corruption charges against them, the Yogi Adityanath government has announced.
Chief Minister Adityanath has assented to the dissolution of the boards, Minister of State for Waqf Mohsin Raza told news agency Press Trust of India in Lucknow.
The dissolution process has been started after taking into account all legal aspects, the minister said.
There have been serious allegations of corruption against the Shia and Sunni waqf boards related to their properties.
An inquiry conducted by the Waqf Council of India had also found many irregularities.
The role of the chairman of the Shia Waqf Board, Wasim Rizvi, as well as the minister for waqf in the previous Samajwadi Party government, Azam Khan, had come under scanner after the inquiry by the Waqf Council of India.
Barely a fortnight after the Samajwadi Party suffered a humiliating defeat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, a report by the fact-finding committee of the Central Waqf Council (CWC) indicted Mr Khan — one of the controversial ministers in the erstwhile Akhilesh Yadav government — of corruption, mismanagement and misuse of office.
The fact-finding committee, constituted after the CWC received several complaints from UP, was headed by Syed Ejaz Abbas Naqvi, who is also the in-charge of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand waqf boards.
Mr Raza had recently handed over separate reports of the Waqf Council with regard to the two boards to the Chief Minister.
The committee in its report elaborated on how Mr Khan as minister allegedly misused his position to grab properties under the boards.
It said Mr Khan made a trust — Maulana Johar Ali Education Trust — and diverted funds from waqf properties to it.
The report pointed out discrepancies in maintaining rent collection records on Waqf properties.
It recommended that the Uttar Pradesh Waqf Board be dissolved immediately and all accused officials be barred from entering waqf offices pending investigation.
Mr Khan has, however, maintained that he was absolutely clean and the allegations against him were baseless.


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Santiago Benejam Torres converted Axxon's fan-translation of Little Brother to ePub, and is making it available gratis on his site. Thanks, Santiago!
Update: I've just heard from Eduardo Hojman, my editor at Puck, that the Spanish edition of Little Brother will be published on March 7, under the title, "PEQUEÑO HERMANO"! It'll be distributed worldwide — through Spain and Latin America.


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Great, simply true article wrote by Pelle Sjoenell, ECD of BBH LA.
"..I believe Creative Direction isn't just Creative Selection. I've noticed the two are often confused and I think it's the result of agency process. Creative Direction is about having a vision and making sure the vision is clear to everyone involved. Having a vision doesn't mean coming up with or choosing the ideas. Having a vision is about leadership, constantly inspiring and instigating. That's why Creative Direction has to start early in collaboration with planners, even before a brief is written, and follow through to the end of the rainbow. In other words, if Creative Direction is done right, you should never have to select. You never need to resort to the role of a bouncer. Or simply giving things thumbs up or thumbs down..."
The process can only be fixed if the CreativeDirector doesn't sit above others. Creative Director is just another kind of job. No one works for a Creative Director. Everyone works for the idea. The idea hires us and we go to work. The Creative Director's relationship with the idea is unique. It's a combination of three professions – a politician, a farmer and an assassin. The politician handles the multiple stakeholders of the idea, traditionally pursuing different agendas. The farmer's part is to nurture the idea so it can grow from interesting to awesome. This means identifying which add-ons, or fertilizers, will make the work better and which will hurt the crops. Lastly, the Creative Director needs to be able to shape shift into an assassin. This means isolating any threat against the beautiful, fragile idea, and putting it to sleep forever.
Playing these three roles requires the Creative Director to be involved early and broadly. It's when Creative Directors are involved late, or are too far removed, that their job becomes that of Creative Selection. Ultimately, that's but a minor part of the job.
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Executive Creative Director, BBH LA
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Disney released the trailer of upcoming sequel of Wreck-It Ralph (Oscar-nominated 2012) ,called Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 leaves Litwak's video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet -- which may or may not survive Ralph's wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet -- the netizens -- to help navigate their way, including a website entrepreneur named Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson), who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site "BuzzzTube."
So, why didn't they call it Ralph Wrecks the Internet – Watch the trailer for answer ;)
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TOKYO – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed IOC inspectors to Tokyo on Monday and said the Japanese capital's bid to host the 2020 Olympics was "second to none."
Bid organizers are hoping to win over the International Olympic Committee after Tokyo failed in its bid for the 2016 Games, which went to Rio de Janeiro.
The IOC's evaluation commission began a four-day inspection of Tokyo's bid on Monday. IOC vice president Craig Reedie is leading the visit, which will be followed by trips later this month to Madrid and Istanbul, the other two cities vying to host the Olympics.
Abe, Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose and bid leader Tsunekazu Takeda all welcomed the IOC panel at an official reception.
Abe offered the full support of the central government to host the games and recalled the powerful impact the 1964 Tokyo Olympics had on Japan and the region.
"The Olympic spirit was the same spirit with which Japan grew to its height," he said in remarks to the visitors. "For the Japanese, the Olympic spirit became a mission that we must help the rest of Asia to grow."
Boasting that Tokyo's preparedness was "second to none," Abe said the Olympic torch should return to Tokyo.
As Japan now faces the challenges that other countries will face — how to rejuvenate an aging society and keep the air clean — hosting the Olympics in 2020 will "inspire many others, just as Tokyo did before in 1964," he said.
Tokyo organizers want to highlight the city's safety and advanced infrastructure, while emphasizing that 28 out of the 33 competition venues will be within eight kilometers (five miles) of the Olympic Village, which is to be built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay.
During the visit, Tokyo organizers will provide explanations on 14 themes, such as the location of venues, security and accommodation. Monday's presentations involved explanations of the vision for the games, venues, the Olympic Village and the Paralympics.
On Monday, the IOC commission visited 16 different venue locations — some yet to be built — and the proposed site of the Olympic Village.
"We completed the first day without a hitch. I'm satisfied. But we still have three days to go," Takeda said.
Tokyo's previous bid was hurt by a demonstration against hosting the Olympics during the evaluation commission's visit, and organizers are hoping there will be no repeat this time.
Public support is much higher this time around thanks in part to Japan's strong showing at the London Olympics.


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NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said new guidelines prohibit city public hospital emergency departments from prescribing long-acting opioid painkillers.
In addition, the emergency departments will only prescribe up to a three-day supply of opioids, and will not refill lost, stolen or destroyed prescriptions, Bloomberg said.
Between 2004 and 2010, the rate of opioid painkiller-related emergency department visits nearly tripled in New York City, rising from 55 visits for every 100,000 people to 143 for every 100,000 people, the guidelines said.
The guidelines were designed to reduce prescription abuse and overdose by encouraging judicious prescribing, patient education, referral to primary care and treatment for substance abuse when needed, Bloomberg said.
"The guidelines were also designed to prevent an excess supply of opioid painkillers. We know that 3-out-4 people abusing painkillers obtain them from leftover medications," Bloomberg told reporters.
"In addition to the prescribing guidelines, the Mayor's Task Force on Prescription Painkiller Abuse's led to the creation of NYC RxStat, which will for the first time combine and use relevant public health and public safety data to combat the problem of prescription painkiller abuse. The task force has worked to raise awareness of painkiller abuse through public education campaigns and has worked with the state to create an improved Prescription Drug Monitoring Program."
"Working with healthcare providers and public health criminal justice experts our task force is providing the tools to fight a burgeoning epidemic while protecting legitimate healthcare needs," Bloomberg said.


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Cindy Musshorn, age 47, of Cedar Springs, passed away on Tuesday, November 1, 2011. She grew up in the Catholic faith and continued to honor her faith. Cindy enjoyed a simple life style and was a very loving grandmother to her granddaughters. She liked holidays and caring for her dogs. Cindy is survived by her daughter, Melanie Musshorn of Grand Rapids, and Amanda Musshorn of Cedar Springs; her granddaughters, Breanna, Julia, and Belle; her parents, Carl Musshorn and his wife, Barbara of Plant City, FL, and Kathleen Musshorn of Newington, CT; sisters, Carleen Kalweit of Holton, and Michele (Jerry) Barnett; and nephews, Tyler Avery, Ryan Avery, Jake Barnett, and Josh Barnett. Honoring her wishes, cremation has taken place with services planned out east. Arrangements by Pederson Funeral Home, Rockford www.pedersonfuneralhome.com
Amanda and Melanie miss you Mommy very much.
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Palenske Hall houses the Physics, Geological Sciences, and Mathematics and Computer Science departments. It is one of the three buildings in Albion College's Science Complex, originally completed in 1969, renovated in 2006, and named for Fred C. Palenske.
The department has fully equipped instructional laboratory spaces for introductory physics, electronics, and advanced projects. Students have keycard access to a student room and some laboratory spaces. In addition, the Science Complex has many small lounge and study areas that are ideal for studying, interacting with faculty, or just hanging out.
Major instrumentation includes a cryogenic photon counting lab, a thin film deposition chamber, a 5 kV ion-atom accelerator, a low-level nuclear gamma ray counting system, a 14-inch Celestron telescope with CCD cameras, numerous smaller telescopes, and a historically significant Alvan Clark telescope.
First, second photos from left: The historic observatory houses the 8" Alvan Clark refractor and was designated a Michigan Historical Site in 1985.
Third, fourth photos from left: A 16' Ash Dome houses the Stellman telescope, a 14" Celestron reflector. The department also has three 10" Meade LX200GPS telescopes and an 11" Celestron Nextstar GPS that can be mounted on permanent piers on the roof of Palenske Hall. These telescopes are used in astronomy classes and for student research projects.
Over the past few years the department has upgraded the laboratories with networking and computer-assisted apparatus.
A "portable" photodetachment apparatus (pictured at right) was transported to Albion from the University of Toledo. The apparatus has a low energy (50 kV) accelerator, with a hot filament ion source and charge-exchange chamber for making negative ions, which are then energy analyzed. Several students have worked with Professor David Seely on this apparatus.
Part of the Dow Interdisciplinary Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory is a Low-level Gamma-ray Spectrometer (pictured at right). The spectrometer consists of a high-resolution, high-efficiency germanium detector, environmental radiation shield and counting system. The spectrometer is used in studying environmental radiation and in ongoing studies of calibration of gamma-ray detectors.
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Today I was hoping to write about a phone press conference featuring Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg. They were going to talk about the possible verdict in the Bradley Manning trial and the U.S. government's war on whistleblowers. Unfortunately, that call was rescheduled from 10 a.m. this morning to just after my deadline, so I'm soldiering on without them. (If I learn anything fascinating I'll update this post later.)
The scenario in this country at this moment in time is indeed quite chilling. We have an administration that is hell-bent on pursuing leakers, moreso than at any other in our history.
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We have James Risen, the New York Times reporter who first revealed a bungled CIA plot to fool Iranian scientists and has now been ordered by a federal appeals court to testify against his alleged source. We also have the court-martial of former Army private first class Bradley Manning, whose judge may announce a verdict at any time. Instead, the mainstream media has largely been sidetracked by the soap opera of Edward Snowden reprising Tom Hanks' role in "The Terminal," wandering through Moscow International Airport and subsisting on a diet of vending machine food.
Snowden's ultimate fate is, I think, far less important than the ongoing questions about the insatiable data collecting habits of the NSA and their head-on collision with our constitutional rights.
Please please tell me now
Above and beyond that, though, there are other questions that I don't hear anyone else asking. Like:
- How is it that a three-month employee with a spotty resume managed to walk off with a trove of secret documents from a longtime intelligence contractor?
- If Booz Allen Hamilton is being asked to manage top-secret NSA programs, why doesn't it have better security than that?
- Why is Booz Allen Hamilton still receiving more than $1.3 billion of our tax dollars each year just for working with the NSA, as well as billions in other federal contracts?
- Why has no one at BAH been fired over this?
That Snowden exceeded his authority and broke the rules is not in question. The fact that he was able to do it so easily, however, means somebody else screwed up.
As many residents of Cringeville are well aware, the concept of segregation of duties is not a new one in the world of technology. You want to limit the damage a sys admin with a hidden agenda can do. But only now, months after the Snowden bombshells, has the NSA decided to adopt the "two-man rule" to limit one person's ability to expose supersecret programs and information. It's a bit like the cliché about securing the farm's outbuildings after its equine occupants have departed.


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NEW YORK, NY – The boss has spoken and Rachel Uchitel has been fired!
Rachel Uchitel felt it was a better move to join Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew than to compete on Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice. Trump is not one to be stood up and has already moved on.
"We no longer have interest in Rachel," Trump's camp said in a statement.
Uchitel signed on for the upcoming edition of Dr. Drew's show and Trump almost immediately dropped the former Tiger Woods' mistress from consideration of the next round of Celebrity Apprentice.
That might turn out to be an ill-advised move on Uchitel's part because just this past Friday, the real estate mogul made it known that he was serious about recruiting her.
"Rachel Uchitel very much wanted to be on Celebrity Apprentice. She asked us, we did not ask her," Trump's rep said. "We were considering it but have 10 people vying for each and every spot. Look what happened to Joan Rivers, Trace Adkins, Piers Morgan, and others who have been on the show."
The former socialite may have opted to tackle her personal issues rather than her career ambitions. Dr. Drew Pinksky is a renowned therapist and doctor who just may be the tipping point in helping Uchitel kick her prescription pill habit.
Uchitel will join a cast that includes 7th Heaven's Jeremy London, The Hills Jason Wahler, former teen idol Lelf Garrett and ex-model Janice Dickinson.
NEW YORK, NY – The boss has spoken and Rachel Uchitel has been fired!


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Setting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus -- reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick; damage forests, crops, and lakes; and harm fish and wildlife. This, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today by scientists at Syracuse University and Harvard who mapped the potential environmental and human health benefits of power plant carbon standards.
The authors of the new study, "Co-benefits of Carbon Standards: Air Pollution Changes under Different 111d Options for Existing Power Plants," use three policy options for the forthcoming EPA rule as a guide to model changes in power plant emissions of four other harmful air pollutants: fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and mercury. The scientists compared the model results with a business-as-usual reference case for the year 2020.
Of the three scenarios simulated, the top-performing option decreased sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions by 27% and nitrogen oxide emissions by 22% by 2020 compared to the reference case. This option reduced carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector by 35% from 2005 levels by 2020. The scientists state that the resulting air quality improvements are likely to lead to significant gains in public and environmental health.
"When power plants limit carbon dioxide emissions, they can also release less sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants," said Dr. Charles Driscoll of Syracuse University. "One of the policy options we analyzed cut emissions of these non-carbon pollutants by approximately 75,000 tons per year by 2020," Driscoll said.
"We know that these other pollutants contribute to increased risk of premature death and heart attacks, as well as increased incidence and severity of asthma and other health effects. They also contribute to acid rain, ozone damage to trees and crops, and the accumulation of toxic mercury in fish," added Driscoll. "This new analysis shows that there is a real opportunity to help reverse decades of environmental damage from power plant emissions and to improve human health," he said.
In addition to summarizing changes in emissions, the study quantifies the resulting improvements in air quality. It features detailed maps illustrating the benefits of decreased emissions from roughly 2,400 power plants for every 12x12km area of the continental United States. With a strong carbon standard, improvements are widespread and every state receives some benefit. The maps show that the greatest benefits occur in the eastern U.S., particularly in states in and around the Ohio River Valley, as well as the Rocky Mountain region.
The findings also show that different policy options yield different outcomes. The detailed air quality modeling makes it clear that a modest rule limited to making power plant improvements "inside the fence," similar to what some industry groups have proposed, would bring little if any air quality benefits for states.
"Our analysis demonstrates that strong carbon standards could also have widespread benefits to air quality and public health," said Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, of the Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard University. "With a mix of stringency and flexibility, the new EPA rules have the potential to substantially reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants, which contribute to local and regional air pollution. This is an opportunity to both mitigate climate change and protect public health."
The U.S. EPA is expected to release its proposed rules for carbon pollution from existing power plants June 2.
The new Syracuse and Harvard study and maps can be downloaded at: http://eng-cs.syr.edu/carboncobenefits.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm a big believer in making your home your personal refuge from the world. I'd rather spend my money on feathering my nest than taking a grand vacation. Those new to this blog should know that we expanded our home in a (nightmarish) remodel back in 2006, but never got around to finishing the master bath, mostly due to lack of funds. Over the past year, we've slowly been finishing the space. And this past weekend, we put the finishing touches on the master bathroom. Yippeeeeee !
Five years ago, before we expanded our home, our master bathroom was not a pleasant prepping area. At least not for me. It was so so very tiny. So small that Mr. CG and I were elbowing each other and quarreling over counter space. I finally resorted to primping in the children's bathroom. But not any more darlin'. All of that has now changed.
We've purposely doubled the size of our bathroom and budgeted in room for a separate primping zones. One year ago, the space you're about to tour was nothing more than sheetrock and a plywood floor. At last, at last, at last it is finished !
Welcome to our sanctuary. Away from the world. Away from the kids !
Come on in !
I feel like I'm living in the lap of luxury in here. We had the cabinets custom made. They are alder wood with a walnut stain.
We topped the counters with inexpensive cultured marble instead of the real thing. Modern cultured marble is easeir to maintain and you can get the lastest versions with a pure white surface and with bullnosed or ogee edges. The mirror is the Florentine by Hitchcock Butterfield.
The toilet is hidden behind a door for privacy.
And you've seen the bathtub zone before.
This inexpensive chandelier over the tub is a favorite detail – found at a local home improvement store.
And you've also seen the master shower before too.
This pair of towel hooks are another favorite detail.
Here is my personal vanity, in an old Hollywood style where I prep and powder my nose and also paint my little girl's toenails.
Beauty products are organized with kitchen drawer dividers:
Now if only I could keep these little munchkins preoccupied elsewhere. But it's totally not happening.
Double vanity. Plenty of elbow room. And they lived happily ever after!
The paint color is my own custom blend. 1/3 Behr 'Mountain Creek', 1/3 Restoration Hardware 'Silver Sage' and 1/3 'Swiss Coffee' white.
So there it is, the whirlwind tour. It's quite a big change from a year ago! And it is a dream come true for both of us. After ten years of marriage, it's nice to have a little sanctuary to call our own. At least, until we're invaded by you know who.


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Pip & Grow, Kate Compton Barr, Lauren Hughey and Amber Kroeker
For best friends Kate Compton Barr, Lauren Hughey and Amber Kroeker, an annual girls' weekend was the launchpad for their now-thriving business.
Kroeker, an infant safety expert, knows that every year, 3,500 babies die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or suffocation. She identified a pattern and realized that many of these deaths could be prevented if infants 0-6 months old had a safe and portable sleep space. Kroeker had been awarded a $25,000 innovation grant from the University of Michigan to solve the problem by creating an American version of the 80-year-old Finnish Baby Box.
But during their annual get-together, Kroeker told Barr and Hughey that she had no idea how to get her product to market. Hughey says they "fell in love with the idea and agreed to jump on board and help launch the business."
The Path to Success
According to Hughey, the three founders (who all live in different states) spent a year "climbing the business learning curve (trademarks, patents, SEO, website development, branding, prototype refinement, supply chain, logistics planning, etc." They launched Pip & Grow at the ABC Kids Expo in 2016. Now, Hughey says, "a provisional patent, and a whole lot of learning later, the Smitten Sleep System is changing the way infants sleep by providing parents a convenient, recyclable and safe sleep option beyond a crib or pack-n-play."
The Smitten Sleep System is a recyclable and portable bassinet box (about the size of a legal file box) that comes with a firm mattress, cotton sheet and carrying handles. It weighs just 2 pounds, yet can hold up to 100 pounds. The boxes are manufactured in Atlanta, Michigan and North Carolina. Hughey explains, "We chose to work with American manufacturers in communities that need the jobs the most, and who treat their workers well."
How SCORE Helped
None of the founders have a business background. "We needed (and still need) help navigating this new world," says Hughey. "We found SCORE just in time to help us."
Hughey says their mentor, Jon Stuart, "keeps us on track, encourages us and raises red flags if we start to go off course."
Barr, Hughey and Kroeker have worked with Stuart for two years and interact at least once a month. Hughey says, "Jon is amazing. He is my brain trust and my cheerleader. He gives me honest advice, even if it's hard to hear. He connects me to other experts who can help. He gives me perspective. He helps me identify obstacles and figure out solutions to work around them. He lets me work on my own time, but doesn't allow me to get lazy. He keeps me from getting discouraged on this wild ride. Jon keeps me sane!"
Hughey adds, "SCORE made us significantly more efficient, because we didn't have to reinvent the wheel. We could lean on an entire stable of experts who have already 'been there, done that.' We would have made a lot more mistakes and not have grown on a stable foundation."
The trio have learned a lot from Stuart. Hughey shares some of those lessons:
- "Failure is not permanent. You have to pick yourself up off the ground and keep moving forward."
- "No matter how hard you work, you cannot run a successful business alone. The stronger your network, the more successful you'll be."
- "Done is better than perfect."
Pip & Grow Today
Hughey is proud of what they've accomplished so far. She says, "In 18 months we started from scratch and are now profitable. We've created a new market — a lot of American parents aren't sure about their child sleeping in a cardboard bassinet, even though families in Europe have been using them for nearly 80 years."
Stuart agrees that Pip & Grow is on a prosperous path. He says, "They've had great success to this point, with even greater to come."
In March 2018, Pip & Grow was named a finalist in the American Small Business Championship (ASBC). Hughey and Kroeker attended the ASBC symposium, and promptly "changed the way we approached social media and increased our Instagram followers by more than 50 percent and our Twitter followers by more than 25 percent." Moreover, says Hughey, "Sales have skyrocketed since our training."
Pip & Grow has since been named one of the three 2018 ASBC Grand Champions, meaning that they were awarded $15,000 to grow their business, courtesy of Sam's Club. Pip & Grow is also the 2018 SCORE Award winner for Outstanding Retail Small Business, presented by Liberty Tax.
Paying it Forward
Pip & Grow's vision is built around paying it forward. As Hughey says, "We believe that it's possible to do good while doing well."
Hughey adds, "I am most proud of keeping babies safe and bringing a new product to market in an ethical way. I sleep well at night knowing that we are supporting American families with our manufacturing and that we aren't adding a ton of plastic waste to the planet."
If you're thinking of starting a business, Hughey says, "Go for it! It's a wild ride of highs and lows, but if you believe in your business and do the work, the rest will come."


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The constitution provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies contributed to the generally free practice of religion.
The government generally respected religious freedom in practice. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom by the government during the reporting period.
There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice.
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The country has an area of 180 square miles and a population of 84,000 (2009 figure). Few official statistics are available on religion; traditionally, approximately 90 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. The population consists largely of immigrants from Spain, Portugal, and France, with Andorran citizens constituting only 37 percent of inhabitants. Generally immigrants are also Catholic. It is estimated that one half of Catholics are active church attendees. Other Christian groups include the New Apostolic Church; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons); several Protestant denominations, including the Anglican Church; the Reunification Church; and Jehovah's Witnesses. Other religious groups include Muslims, primarily an estimated 2,000 North African immigrants divided into two groups, one of which is more fundamentalist; Jews (an estimated 100); and Hindus.
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The constitution provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies contributed to the generally free practice of religion. The constitution, however, acknowledges a special relationship with the Catholic Church "in accordance with Andorran tradition" and recognizes the "full legal capacity" of the bodies of the Catholic Church, granting them legal status "in accordance with their own rules." The Catholic Church receives some privileges, although no direct subsidies, not available to other religious groups. One of the two constitutionally designated princes of the country (who serves equally as joint head of state with the president of France) is Bishop Joan Enric Vives i Sicilia of the Spanish town of La Seu d'Urgell.
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The authorities reportedly expressed concern that some methods allegedly used by certain religious organizations (brainwashing or physical abuse, for example) might prove injurious to public health, safety, morals, or order. These authorities questioned how they might proceed in such cases, but did not mention a specific instance. The law does not limit such groups, although it does contain a provision that no one may be "forced to join or remain in an association against his or her will."
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The industrial revolution of the 19th century brought drastic and sometimes violent changes to European cities. By the beginning of the 20th century, artists in Germany were responding to the time's social struggles and political unrest through their revolutionary artistic style and new subject matter.
The German Expressionists were one such art movement that reacted to these changes. Turning to simplified or distorted forms and bold colors, these artists tended to focused on humanistic themes and high emotion.
German Expressionism is one of the strengths of the Milwaukee Art Museum's collection, which includes multiple works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Street at Schöneberg City Park, 1912–13), Ludwig Meidner (Portrait of a Young Man, 1912), Käthe Kollwitz (Self-Portrait; from the deluxe periodical The Creators, vol. 5, no. 1, 1924), Emil Nolde (Roses on Path, 1935), and Max Pechstein (Calla Lilies, 1914).
In October 2010, the Museum added a new dimension to its early 20th-century German collection by acquiring a painting by the artist Hans Baluschek (German, 1870-1935), which has just been put on display in Gallery #12 with other European Modernism.
The work, called Arbeiterstadt (or, Working-class City), portrays a winter view of Berlin as a dark and dirty industrial city of 1920. The train tracks and railway signals are front and center while the houses of the workers huddle in the background. A dark, mysterious figure in a coat and hat—almost only a silhouette—stands on the rear platform of a train car with his back to the viewer. Smoke from the many chimneys of factories choke the air and make the night seem even darker. The few lights from the windows of the buildings seem lost in the gloom.
Baluschek uses a high vantage point to allow a sweeping look over this gritty working-class section of Berlin. This is Post-World War I Berlin, a city which not only must deal with the depressing conditions of modern city life but also a city reeling from a war that took a horrible toll on the young people of Europe—and which the Germans lost.
Working-class City is a powerful critique of what political and social issues can do to ordinary citizens.
Hans Baluschek certainly had sympathy for the working class. While studying art in Berlin as a young man, he found his subject in the city as a menacing and dehumanizing force.
In 1900, Baluschek became a member of the Berlin Secession, a group of artists that in 1898 looked for an alternative to the conservative exhibition and patronage policies of the state, represented by the Association of Berlin Artists. Although the Berlin Secessionists worked in different styles, they all supported a progressive approach to art. Baluschek is often grouped with German Expressionists because of his emotional style, but his is more a Realist in style and subject.
World War I inspired patriotic feelings for Baluschek, who painted a number of war-related subjects. After the war, he joined the Social Democratic Party and became involved in workers movements. In 1926 he helped establish an artist relief fund and later took on the directorship of the annual Berlin Exhibition. Denounced as a "degenerate artist" by the German Nazis who took power in 1933, Baluschek died in 1935.
Interestingly, the painting Working-class City was once owned by Crown Prince Wilhem of Prussia. The Museum purchased by means of a generous gift from Avis Martin Heller, a long-time supporter of the Museum, in honor of the Fine Arts Society.


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Being "rich" just got a whole lot tougher. Under the fiscal cliff deal, taxes will rise only on couples making more than $450,000.
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By contrast, only 0.6% of joint filers, or 965,000 households, have incomes above $500,000, according to the closest estimate the Tax Policy Center has done to the fiscal cliff deal.
Raising the bar cuts out about 28% of the income that would have been subject to higher tax rates, bringing in less revenue overall.
The center did not determine how increasing the threshold would affect overall tax revenue, but President Obama in a speech Monday said "The agreement being worked on right now would further reduce the deficit by asking the wealthiest 2% of Americans to pay higher taxes for the first time in two decades.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Mini Blueberry Tartelettes
I've been meaning to make a blueberry tart for a couple weeks now. I've bought several boxes of them, but for some reason they had never made it to the dessert table until last night. This recipe is inspired by the classic french fruit tarts I was taught how to make at culinary school. The filling is a simple vanilla pastry cream (which is incredibly easy to make) and a light apricot glaze comes last, to give the finishing touch to the tart. I decided to make mini tartelettes this time which worked well for the party we were having that night. They're something fun and elegant about small finger food for dessert isn't there?
If you've never made homemade dough, I highly recommend this recipe. It's a fairly simple fail-safe recipe that can be applied to countless desserts. You can also omit the sugar in the dough and make a savory tart instead.
Mini Blueberry Tartelettes
Pastry Dough
200 grams of all-purpose flour
100 grams of very cold butter
30 grams of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 egg, beaten with 2 teaspoons of water
Sift the flour, sugar and salt directly onto a work surface (a cold surface such as marble works best). Cut the butter into small pieces. The butter must be very cold before you add it into the flour. Mix the butter into the flour by using a metal pastry scraper to cut in the butter and fully incorporate it into the flour mixture. You can also use your fingers, but if you do you must do it quickly to ensure that the butter stays as cold as possible. Once the dough has the texture of fine sand, create a well in the center by using a cup or a glass. Add the egg and water to the center (you can do this in batches depending on the size of your well). Gently beat the egg in the center and slowly incorporate the flour into the center making sure that the well does not break. Once most of the flour has been incorporated you can start using your hands. Knead the dough and form a round ball of dough. At this point, take a small handful of the dough, and, using the palm of your hand, smear it out completely onto the counter surface. This process makes sure that the butter is fully incorporated into the dough, and helps form a dough that will be easy to work with. Re-form the smeared piece of dough, and repeat with the rest of the dough until you have a pile of chunks of dough. Form it into a ball again. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 45 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 375 F. Take the dough out of the fridge, unwrap and leave it out for a few minutes so it warms up a little. Lightly flour your working surface and roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick round. Use small cookie cutters to cut out circles of dough. Place in buttered individual molds and gently prick the bottom of the dough with a fork a couple times. Then, place a small circle of parchment (a little bigger than the size of the mold) in the center of the circle of dough and place some baking beans on top to weigh the paper down. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the tart turn a light shade of golden brown. Let the tartelettes cool for a couple minutes, discard the beans and parchment paper and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
Pastry Cream
2 cups of whole milk
1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped (or 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract)
4 egg yolks
75 grams of sugar
20 grams of flour
20 grams of cornstarch
Separate the eggs and combine the yolks with the sugar. Whisk until the mixture turn a yellow pale of yellow (about 3 minutes). In a separate bowl, stir the cornstarch and flour together and add it to the sugar-yolk mixture. Stir to remove any lumps. In the meantime, bring the milk and vanilla bean to a boil. Stir occasionally. As soon as the milk starts boiling, add a ladle of hot milk to the egg mixture and stir vigorously (this ensures that the eggs won't curdle). Add all the egg mixture into the milk mixture and whisk until the mixture thickens. This take 1-3 minutes. Remove from the heat as soon as the mixture thickens. Place the pastry cream in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Make sure that the plastic wrap touches the surface of the cream (this prevents the formation of a skin). Let the pastry cream cool.
1 small box of blueberries
A couple spoonfuls of apricot jam
1 tablespoon of water
Once the tartelettes and pastry cream have cooled down, add some pastry cream to the bottom of each tart. The cream should go up 2/3 of the tart shells. Add the blueberries on top. In a small saucepan, heat the apricot jam for about 3 minutes. Add the water and stir. The glaze shouldn't be too thick, so add more water if it seems to thick to brushed on top of the fruit. Once the consistency of the glaze seems good, gently brush the glaze onto the blueberries and serve. Enjoy!
30 comments:
- LizNoVeggieGirl said...
SOOO envious of your fresh blueberry supply!! Those mini tarts look heavenly.
- April 6, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
How very beautiful. Blueberries are a favorite in our home. These sound delicious.
- April 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
I just love baking with fresh blueberries. Never made these little precious gems though. But the cream with the vanilla bean sounds heavenly.
- April 6, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- Rose said...
these are gorgeous! i have some blueberries just BEGGING for this! And, as always, your photos are gorgeous.:)
- April 6, 2009 at 1:31 PM
- Dana Treat said...
These are so pretty - just the perfect little bite!
- April 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- The Food Librarian said...
Just so lovely! These are so perfect. I could eat 100 of them in one sitting I'm sure!! :)
- April 6, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Coco Bean said...
Wow, this is exactly what I have been looking for.I have a friend that is crazy about fruit tarts but we haven't made them because we didn't really know how to make good ones (and Premier Moisson is down the street so we get lazy and go there). Thanks, I will save the recipe!
- April 6, 2009 at 5:50 PM
- Cakespy said...
These are so cute! And they look delicious. I haven't had fresh blueberries in some time...you're making me want them!
- April 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- Deeba PAB said...
No fresh blueberries here, but i *HEART* those tartlettes...they are gorgeous!! Can I skip the egg in the tart shell? I'm a bit egg phobic..
- April 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Ria Mathew said...
They look heavenly!!!!
- April 7, 2009 at 1:13 AM
- Zoe Francois said...
Simply perfect! They make me want summer sooo badly!
- April 7, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- miri said...
I agree, I also love that sophisticated look of finger food, and your tartelettes are just stunning!
- April 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Hillary said...
These are adorable! Great use for fresh blueberries! We made some blueberry muffins the other day. They were fabulous.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Jennifer said...
Stunning!!! I love the pastry cream combo with vanilla bean!
- April 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Cakebrain said...
Oo..yum! Pastry cream makes everything so much better! It's the food I'd like to be on a desert island with! Your tartelettes look scrumptious!
- April 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- unconfidentialcook said...
Blueberries are just beginning to come our way, and I must try these--they sound delicious and look adorable in this mini's version.
- April 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Coco Bean said...
Hey there, I just came across this book/magazine called "Quartiers Gourmands". It's a list of all the culinary artisans around Montreal. I guess they come out with it every year but I just picked it up and found a million amazing specialty places in this city that I never knew about. Thought you might be interested. I found that butcher that you were talking about in the book, Chez Vito sounds great!
- April 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Elyse said...
These mini tarts are just precious. I love the combination of blueberries and pastry cream...and of course, pastry crust makes everything better! And that little hint of apricot sounds delightful! Can't wait to try this out.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- food makes me happy said...
I wanna eat it so badly..
Guess I'll have to make it this weekend, otherwise I can't stop thinking about it!
- April 8, 2009 at 2:20 AM
- Emily said...
So beautiful, simple and delicious. I love blueberries! Fantastic job.
- April 8, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Darius T. Williams said...
So, i can dig this - looks good. And those blueberries look fantastic.
- April 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- Nic said...
These look wonderful, I love blueberries.
- April 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Laura said...
You make me want to reach for one and stuff my mouth. So beautiful!
- April 8, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Y said...
Those mini tarts look gorgeous! They remind me of a blueberry tart with cream cheese pastry cream that I've been meaning to make!
- April 9, 2009 at 1:46 AM
- Regina said...
This could not have come at a better time.I will be catering a small bridal brunch and little fruit tarts have been requested!
- April 10, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- the wicked noodle said...
Oh, these look amazing! Great photography, too!
- April 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Sophie Sportende Foodie said...
OOOOOOOhhh,.....AAAAAAAHHHHH/ these look perfect for my belly,....MMMMMMMMM!!!!!
- May 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- The Urban Baker said...
i am going to have to make these for the 4th! yum. your tartlettes look perfect!
- June 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM
- Eva said...
I just stumbled across this post while browsing your blog! I have been looking for a good tart dough recipe and I think I have found it. I am now a follower! Hehe
- September 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Cynthia said...
I totally just made a wild blackberry version of these, with a Cabernet Sauvignon glaze! Amazing! Thank you for the pastry cream and crust recipe!
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