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Forest Whitaker Frisked -- Blasts NYC Deli -- I Was FALSELY ACCUSED of Stealing
Forest Whitaker Blasts NYC Deli I Was Falsely Accused of Stealing
Forest Whitaker is furious with a NYC deli ... telling TMZ he was wrongly accused of shoplifting Friday morning ... and even FRISKED IN PUBLIC in a humiliating violation of his rights.
Whitaker -- an Academy Award-winning MILLIONAIRE -- says he was on his way out of the Milano Market on the Upper West Side Friday when he was stopped by a deli employee and accused of swiping an item from the shelf.
An eyewitness tells TMZ ... the employee proceeded to frisk Whitaker in plain view ... treating him as if he were a common criminal.
Shocker, the employee's pat down yielded zilch ... and Forest left the establishment baffled and angry.
Whitaker's rep tells TMZ, "This was an upsetting incident given the fact that Forest did nothing more than walk into the deli. What is most unfortunate about this situation is the inappropriate way store employees are treating patrons of their establishment.
Frisking individuals without proof/evidence is a violation of rights."
The rep adds, "Forest did not call the authorities at the request of the worker who was in fear of losing his employment. Forest asked that, in the future, the store change their behavior and treat the public in a fair and just manner."
We called Milano Market for comment -- but no one wanted to talk.


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Nike KD 9 Elite "Racer Pink" Set For Mid-May Release
May 4, 2017 0 by Patrick Johnson
The Nike KD 9 is Kevin Durant's ninth signature basketball shoe. It was designed by Leo Chang and features Flyknit and Zoom Air technology. The shoe debuted with the grey and pink "Zero" colorway on June 20th, 2016 for an MSRP of $150. Read the articles below for the latest Nike KD 9 release details and price information.
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Five-Grain Sourdough with Rye Sourdough
Another classic from "Bread". As always, I eliminated commercial yeast and extended rising time accordingly. So fragrant and delicious. Original recipe makes a lot of bread, which is a good thing, because they disppeared really fast. Of course I increased hydration, because my whole rye flour is very thirsty - and because I am a sucker for wet dough. My rye starter is way fast, especially in this weather, and this bread has a very high levain ratio, which means that it's a pretty fast bread to make.
Shaping method for the round loaf can be found at: http://techno.boulangerie.free.fr/09-ReussirLeCAP/03-lesFormesEnVideo/20.LeCordon.html
Five-Grain Sourdough with Rye Sourdough (adapted from "Bread")
Note: makes 3X730g loaves
- Levain
whole rye flour, 226g
water, 190g
rye starter (100%), 11g
1. mix and let rise for 12 to 16 hours.
- Soaker
flaxseeds, 82g
rolled rye, 82g
sunflower seeds, 68g
oats, 68g
salt, 20g
water, 374g
2. mix and cover, leave overnight
- Final dough
bread flour, 680g
water, 340g
honey, 14g
leavain, 417g
soaker, all
3. mix everything and autolyse for 30min.
4. knead until low-medium gluten development. rise at room temp (74F) for 2 hours, S&F @ 30 and 60min.
5. divide, preshape, let rest for 20min.
6. shape and proof for about 70min.
7. bake @450F with steam for 15 min. lower to 430F, let go of steam, keep baking for another 30 to 35min.
Wrapped up and ready to be eaten.
How can it NOT be delicious with this many seeds and grains?
Crumb is pretty open for a bread with 25% whole rye, and this much seeds.
Sending this to Yeastspotting.


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FreezeFest 2013
Published Jan. 29, 2013
Embrace winter! Rochester Institute of Technology is encouraging students to come out and celebrate winter in Upstate New York by participating in the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3.
The festival begins with the return of Rail Jam and PuppyFest at noon Feb. 1 by the Tiger Statue. Watch the annual ski and snowboard competition while playing with puppies and donating money to help local animal shelters.
The weekend features sarcastic comedian Joel McHale, best known as host of The Soup and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom Community. Tickets for the 8 p.m. Feb. 1 show are $17 for students with ID, $29 for faculty and staff and $43 for the general public and can be purchased at the Gordon Field House box office. Call 585-475-4121 for ticket information or to charge by phone.
"Events continue Feb. 2 with the Evolution of Pogo, a history of the art and sport of pogo featuring BowGo inventor Ben Brown and the world-record-breaking extreme pogo stunt team," says Rebecca Delany, coordinator for marketing and events services. "The free and open demo is from 9:45 to 11:15 p.m. in the Gordon Field House."
Family activities include the first ever Sausage and Sauerkraut Festival on the Greek Lawn and the "Frosty Fun Center," in the Student Alumni Union. At 7 p.m., RIT's Global Union presents Unification, a celebration of RIT's cultural diversity through performances from various cultural clubs on campus. Saturday night also features RIT men's hockey vs. Connecticut University at 7:05 p.m. in Ritter Arena.
Activities conclude Feb. 3 with a 5K race beginning at noon and the Student Government Super Bowl Party at 5 p.m. in the Gordon Field House. For more details on all the weekend's events, go to campuslife.rit.edu/freezefest.


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KOLKATA: An Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist, suspected to be involved in the German Bakery blast of Pune in 2010, was arrested from the city today, the police said.
A special team of the Kolkata Police STF arrested Zahid Hussain, a Bangladeshi national, from outside Kolkata rail station under Chitpore police station in the evening.
Hussain, a resident of Mirpur in Bangladesh, is suspected to be one of the main conduits of IM leaders in India, a senior STF official told PTI on condition of anonymity.
"Zahid Hussain was in touch with all the important Indian Mujahideen leaders and used to supply them with fake Indian currency notes and explosives. He is also suspected to be involved in German Bakery blast in Pune," the official said.
The explosion in German Bakery had left at least nine persons dead and scores injured in February 14, 2010.
"We are investigating all the aspects. He will be produced before the court tomorrow," he said.–PTI


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Complexity Zoo is down — anyone willing to help?Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Update (August 5): Sorry for the delay! Now that the Zoo is back up, my sense of urgency has decreased, but we still do need a long-term solution. Thanks so much to everyone who offered hosting. Alas, I was persuaded by the argument that it's too complicated to have a wiki mirrored at multiple locations, so I should really choose one—and ideally it should be someplace where I retain control of the files, in case anything goes wrong again. Following the helpful directions of Eric Price, I set up a MediaWiki installation at http://scottaar.scripts.mit.edu/zoo. Is anyone interested in helping me transfer over the content from the qwiki Zoo?
Update (August 1): Thanks to the efforts of Gopal Sarma at Stanford, the Zoo is back up and running!! However, I believe the only long-term solution is to get the Zoo mirrored at other locations. I can then direct the domain complexityzoo.com to point to any of them that are currently up. So, to all of those who volunteered to mirror the Zoo: thanks so much, and please go ahead and do so! Let me know what you need for that (I can ask Gopal to get the source files).
As some of you have noticed, the Complexity Zoo (well, don't bother clicking the link!) has been down for the past couple weeks. Some Stanford students volunteered to host the Zoo years ago but then graduated, and these sorts of outages have been a frustrating reality since then. So my co-zookeeper Greg Kuperberg and I are looking for a volunteer to help us get the Zoo back online. The reward? Eternal gratitude and a co-zookeeper title for yourself. In principle, I could host the Zoo on my Bluehost account, but I don't know how to set up the wiki software, and I'm not even sure how to retrieve the Zoo pages prior to its going down (Google Cache?). If you're interested or have ideas, leave a comment or send me an email.


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5 DAY ORDER – PLAIN Bagels 4 Pack – Ross Bakery
Out of stock
This product does not fit in to our normal round schedule due to our collection of tin loafs & tarts being around 5am, at which time this range is usually still in production. Due to customer demand we are going to try offering these products on a 5 day order – must be ordered 5 days in advance in order to allow us to collate and pre-order. These items will be baked on the morning of the day before delivery, rather than overnight on the day of delivery – as with the tin loafs. If ordered later item will likely be omitted, thank you for understanding!


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Lady Gaga Tearfully Admits She Is Still a 'Loser'
[There was a video here]
In a new promo for her May 7th concert movie on HBO, Lady Gaga is seen talking backstage before her gig at Madison Square Garden. She's crying and talking about how she still feels like a loser thanks to the high school bullies who tormented her. Aww.
But then she turns it around and says, "But now I'm a fucking superstar and no one can destroy me!" or something along those lines and then she prays. It goes from very sad to a little bit paranoid and crazy very quickly. What do you think, is Gaga too big for her britches or does she just need a hug?


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As far as I know there are 6 ways to change resolution:
1. At compile time: change the line
SVGA_MODE= -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGAin
1A. After compilation: use
rdev -v - a terrible hack, but it exists.
2. At boot time: put
vga=ask in the lilo config file, and lilo will
ask you what video mode you want. Once you know, put
3. At run time:
A. Use the
resizecons command. (This is a very primitive wrapper around
the VT_RESIZE ioctl.)
B. Use the
SVGATextMode command. (This is a less primitive wrapper around
the VT_RESIZE ioctl.)
4. Not "on the console":
dosemu, or with svgalib etc. you can change the hardware video mode
without the console driver being aware of it. Sometimes this is useful in
resizecons or
SVGATextMode set up: use
dosemu and some
DOS program to get into the desired videomode, dump (say from another VT) the
contents of all video hardware registers, and use that in the initialization
resizecons and
SVGATextMode require.
In some cases where the video mode has gotten into some unusable state,
dosemu, relying on the BIOS to set up the video mode, and then
dosemu (with
kill -9), is the easiest way to get into shape
Get svgalib and compile the program
Boot up your machine in all possible video modes
vga=ask in the lilo config file), and write
the video hardware register contents to files CxR
(C=cols, R=rows), e.g., 80x25, 132x44, etc.
Put these files in
resizecons 132x44 will change videomode for you
(and send SIGWINCH to all processes that need to know
about this, and load another font if necessary).
At present,
resizecons only succeeds when there is memory enough
for both the old and the new consoles at the same time.


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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Do You REALLY Need the Helicopter?
Lately, I have noted an increased number of pointless aeromedical transports to our hospital. These usually come from rural areas with less than stellar crews on the ground making assessments about the patient's need for urgent evaluation.
Last week, just such a case arrived of a 20ish year old who was (according to the ground crew) "having a stroke". She had been in an argument with her boyfriend and developed tingling in her arms and legs, then couldn't feel her body, then began to 'draw up' and spasm and was 'unable' to speak, becoming unconscious.
When the helicopter crew deposited this young lady in my department, they thrust a form in front of me and said "sign here, doc". It was to certify that I deemed her transfer by air as medically appropriate. I refused to sign it.
As I discussed this with the manager of our EMS Ambulance service, I learned that this overuse practice is not only my observation, but a big enough problem that we are at risk of closing down the service because of the money that is being lost.
The cynic in me believes that a large part of the problem is that competing EMS providers are cutting costs at the detriment of another provider. For instance, if Company A has only one crew stationed in a given area, if they were to transport the patient by ground, they would have to provide backup coverage for the area while that crew is out of service. However, if they call the helicopter from Company B to carry the patient....problem solved!
Though this has been a problem for years, I have really noticed an increase in the abuse of the helicopter in the past few months. Anyone else made similar observations?
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It's endemic, and has been since Medicare increased reimbursement rates for helicopter transport EMS about 10 years ago.ReplyDelete
Over half of helicopter EMS patients are discharged home directly from the ED, and over 75% are discharged home in 24 hours.
Part of the problem is poorly trained ground EMS crews infected with rotoriasis, but the problem isn't limited to EMS crews. Rural ER docs are susceptible, too.
Helicopter EMS is an industry begging for federal regulation, largely exempt from the FAA regulations that govern the rest of air transportation. Industry leaders have drug their feet implementing stricter flight safety standards and equipment requirements voluntarily, and are ever closer to getting those standards, and probably even more onerous ones, shoved down their throats by the feds.
When it happens, it'll be well-deserved. Regardless of what the media and general public believe, coal miners and Alaskan king crab fishermen are not the most dangerous professions in the United States.
Medical helicopter flight crewman is, by a substantial margin.
A close friend of mine died in a crash of a Medivac. He was the pilot. The weather wasn't that great but they were called to transport.ReplyDelete
It was for a pregnant woman ....and by the way, she really didn't require a transport, because when it didn't arrive due to the crash....she seemed to do fine without it.
Id love to be taken to the hospital for a panic attack via chopper.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:21 AM, July 26, 2010
My Med School got a Helo in the late 80's, nice big Jet Ranger, ahhh the competition among the Nurses to get selected for the "Flight Crew", and they all got Bright Blue Flight Suits, and Head of the Line priveleges in the hospital cafeteria, even had there own Drinking Fountains and Restrooms(it WAS Alabama).ReplyDelete
Then the Helicopter crashed on a training flight, killing both of the Pilots.
The replacement Helo wasn't nearly as nice, the AC didn't work, and the new pilots looked like Goober Pyle(he's from Alabama)
When I was in the hospital all radioactive, the helicopter landing place was right outside my room's window. It sure helped pass the time but I always felt sort of conflicted about feeling happy it was landing so I had something to watch...you know, because the reason it was landing was something horrible for someone. Maybe I shouldn't have felt so bad about it?ReplyDelete
AD: I appreciate the input. I love the term rotoriasis.ReplyDelete
I get a little squeamish at the idea of anything "begging for federal regulation". I simply do not think that the feds will ever improve anything with regulations...in fact, I would predict that they would make the problems worse.
I too had a good friend die in a helicopter crash during dubious weather and it was such a waste because the patient (who died too) was a stable cardiac patient.
I believe that EMS dispatch (including real-time medical control) should be more proactive in defining the medical necessity of scene responses for rural areas...especially for medical calls (years ago I remember a flight for a "stroke" which was merely a blood sugar of 30).
I also think that we err when we transport non-urgent patients by air. As you point out, the risk to the patient is not zero. Just because the helicopter was called doesn't mean they have to bring the patient if the assessment doesn't warrant.
That only reinforces bad behavior.
- PeggyU11:50 AM, July 26, 2010
Radioactive Girl - During my hospital stay I got a room overlooking the heliport as well. I can see how someone might get rotoriasis :DReplyDelete
Helicopter EMS is exempt from most FAA flight safety standards, and the industry has steadfastly refused to improve on its own.ReplyDelete
There was a recent panel to review the safety issues, and a set of suggested improvements - night vision goggles, instrument capable birds, dual pilots, terrain avoidance systems - was promulgated. Only a few have voluntarily adopted those suggestions, and yet medical helicopters keep falling out of the sky at an alarming rate.
That Alaskan king crab fisherman comparison wasn't just hyperbole.
I look for the feds to crack down in the not-too-distant future, and like you fear, they'll probably fuck it up like a soup sandwich.
But it's not like the industry hasn't been given ample opportunity to address the problems themselves.
When the feds stop suggesting and start mandating, they can't say they didn't bring it upon themselves.
My knee-jerk, and perhaps dated, reaction to AD's post was: "Bullshit." I worked the Bering and I have worked many scary places, including helicopter work, and nothing on earth comes close, except perhaps, subsurface mining.ReplyDelete
However, I thought about it and AD is probably right. I hate working in subsurface mining environments, because of the lack of control over your own safety. Yet, there are significant safety measures in place. Working in the Bering in the winter is insane, but you have some control. You can always back off. Having heavy nets out behind a boat, or having a crab boat loading up with ice on the traps will kill everybody onboard, but you have a choice. You can stop fishing/crabbing. You can put all hands on deck, swinging anything heavy that comes to hand to break up ice from the top of the boat. The Japanese call a boat working the Bering that pushes the limits a Ni Ju Roki, a 26; it means a boat that goes down, taking all 26 crewmen with it. However, it is rare, these days. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was still foolish pride in evidence in the fleets and folks would do anything to arrive back in port with a broom hanging from the rigging, indicating they had swept the fleet in tonnage brought home. The industry has self regulated.
The problem, as I see it, with chopper-med is that, by definition, the people involved are widely separated. All of the pilots and nurses/EMTs involved are not getting back together at the end of a season or workday and figuring out solutions amongst themselves.
In fishing villages and coal mining towns, these things get discussed amongst the participants and their families.
Unfortunately, there are also those areas where doctors, and even high ranking medical directors are highly invested in the helicopter medevac system. So invested, in fact, that even after changing protocols due to a crash that killed 3 (one of two patients survived), nothing has changed because those protocols are not really being enforced. The final line in the protocol states "by paramedic discretion" and no one ever questions that discretion. Whenever people question the validity of the system, important people with '.MD' after their name play the 'what if' game. Therefore, while protocol states that MOI is a PART of the assessment, the majority of providers are taught that MOI IS the assessment.ReplyDelete
Sorry, this is a hot button topic for me, and one that I get scant support for given where I live and practice.
the helicopter is being used as an expensive bandaid for rural and semi rural hospitals who can not keep enough qualified docs on staff to be anything more than aid stations. it is a terrible idea but points to the real trouble, the lack enough qualified trauma docs outside the big city. wonder why?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:11 AM, July 27, 2010
Would YOU wanta live in Valdosta, Georgia???? Which isn't really fair, cause Valdosta is considered the "Big City" in South Georgia, I mean they got a Wal-Mart and a Movin-Picture-Place...
Frank "I get allergic smellin Hay" Drackman
Me, I cringe, just when I see those community transportation vans. I never noticed them before, until my business partner's wife's Mom needed to be taken to the hospital (dialysis, as I recall), 5 blocks away. I am not exagerrating, we could easily have worked out driving her, or just as easily, pushed her up the sidewalk during a break from work.ReplyDelete
Instead, we had to have this big van pull up in front of the house regularly, with a silly protocol for how to get her to the curb (our office was in the back of a huge, old house.)
It wasn't my job to flip the driver a 50, no this was a community service. A cab would have cost $20, round-trip, including tip.
Since then, I have noticed these transport vans, everywhere. Can you imagine the cost, cummulatively, of all of these vans, in every community? I would shudder if the costs were $100 per transport, nationwide, but I will bet they more closely approach $1,000 per transport.
I could have pushed Abuela up the sidewalk for free, enjoyed myself, flirted with female doctors and nurses, and been back at the office in 20 minutes. Unless I got lucky, in which case, I may have been back to the office a bit later.
Off the wall.. but ER doc, is that a picture of your local helicopter? It looks pretty sharp.ReplyDelete
I work in a suburban city as a firefighter/paramedic with transport times to the nearest Level I trauma center less than 20 minutes. The very few instances we call for the helicopter is typically when there is a prolonged extrication on the interstate. Granted, we pride ourselves on being able to properly assess and triage patients..
There are a lot of rural communities surrounding us that do call for the helicopter a lot.
- Anonymous9:39 PM, July 28, 2010
We took our infant daughter who has a CHD to our local ER as she had been vomiting, inconsolable and not well. Her sats were in the 80's (not a big deal for her). This is a regional medical center that services an area of probably 200,000. They wanted to "chopper" her to our Children's Hospital 1 1/2 hours away. We refused. They did insist on an ambulance. When we arrived at Children's the attending told us "You could've driven up yourself you know." I said "I know. Why didn't you tell that to the ER Doctor who insisted on the ambulance?" Crazy!ReplyDelete
No, Torie. Our helicopter isn't that nice...we couldn't afford it. I found that one on Google Images.ReplyDelete
RML: I have two high acuity pediatric centers within a 3 hour radius of my hospital. The kids with CHD, or other chronic problems are always difficult since we don't see these issues every day and don't have a baseline on the child. I usually rely on the parent (if possible) to help me assess the difference from the baseline.
When a kid with a chronic condition becomes ill, and their baseline sat is in the 80's, they can get very sick very quickly.
These big Children's Hospitals tend to be pretty cavalier.


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To minimize effects on microclimates and human and wildlife habitats by reducing heat islands.
Ensure that at least 50% of hardscapes and roofs, but not including common roads that serve multiple buildings, on the project site meet one or more of the following requirements. Points are awarded according to Table 1.
Table 1. Points for percentage area with shading or nonabsorptive material
|Percentage of hardscape area
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Option 1. Shading (1–2 points)
Locate trees or other plantings to provide shading of hardscapes. Shading should be calculated when the sun is directly overhead (noon on the summer solstice), based on ten years' growth after installation.
Option 2. Nonabsorptive materials (1–2 points)
Install light-colored, high-albedo materials or vegetation-covered hardscapes. Acceptable strategies include the following:
- using ENERGY STAR qualified roof products in appropriately sloped applications applications (or performance equivalent for projects outside the U.S.);
- installing vegetated roofing;
- using open pavers (counting only the vegetation, not the pavers) or engineered grass pavers; and
- Use paving materials with a three-year aged solar reflectance (SR) of at least 0.28. If three-year aged value information is not available, use materials with an initial SR of at least 0.33 at installation.
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Making the move to a new operating system can be a challenge, but there are ways to make it a little easier.
In Part 1, of this series, we discussed backing up your computer and introduced Windows Easy Transfer. Now we will outline the steps for using Easy Transfer.
Once you have downloaded and installed Windows Easy Transfer on your old computer and started it up, the program will prompt you on what to do. It will ask how you want to transfer items.
Choose whatever method you want. If you are upgrading the same computer to a newer OS, you will need to choose the external hard disk or flash drive option. If you are transferring from an old to a new computer, it will depend on whether you have a cord to connect your computers or if you are transferring over the network, or if you still want to use the external drive. It will then ask which computer you are using, an old or a new. On my XP machine, it only gave me the option of being the old computer. After this point, depending on the method you chose, you may have different screens than what I describe. I chose to save to an external drive or flash drive.
You will then see a window that will scan your computers for files to transfer. You can leave it as the default or you can customize the files you want to transfer by clicking on Customize. A new menu will pop up, and you can uncheck certain locations, or you can choose to customize even more by clicking Advanced at the bottom of the menu. This allows you to navigate to more specific folders in each location and choose exactly what you would like to transfer.
Once you have made your selections, make certain you check the size of the file to be certain it will fit on your external drive or flash drive. This is shown right above the Next button. If the file size is OK, click on Next. A window will pop up asking you to set a password. If you feel you need to protect the file, add a password and then confirm it, making sure to note it down. If you do not want a password, simply leave the boxes blank and hit Save.
The Assistant will then ask you to locate your external device, name your file (something you will remember for when you open it on the new OS), and then click save. Once it finishes, it will show you your transfer is complete and note the drive you saved to.
Please note, if you are using two computers and you saved to an external drive, when you plug the drive into the new computer, it will likely be a different drive letter.
Once you have safely saved your files that you want backed up, you can begin the operating system installation. After going through the installation, you can then use the Windows Easy Transfer program built in to Windows 7 to transfer the files you have saved. Check out Part 3 to learn about that process.


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Friday, 25 May 2012
confessions on a friday......
hands up.... who buys things just because they like the packaging????
.........erm......(puts hand up) ... ME :)
happy friday
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mod podge and markets.......
I have a new best friend......it comes in many shapes and sizes and has a very groovy font...I know I'm a little late to the party for Mod Podge crushes but now I know what all the fuss is about :).....
it helped me turn my cute little vintage cases into these :)
and also on the inside....
I am planning lots more Mod Podging activities...if you would like to know how to do the outside of the suitcase there is a fab tutorial over
......other non Mod Podge related news is that littleteawagon cushions and bunting have been featured in Prima June 2012 Craft Supplement Magazine. Its a really lovely little mag with lots of nice ideas for making and sewing like this.......
.....also this weekend I will be packing my ModPodged little cases full of bags and bunting and prints and vintage supplies and heading down to the Magpies and I vintage craft market in Altrincham...this is not something I do very often ( I like to hide away in my little garden shed mostly ) but a very lovely new friend....
oooh betty
has invited me to share a stall with her and her very lovely vintagey and retro things....how could I refuse?... we will no doubt spend the afternoon chatting and drinking lots of tea and getting quite giddy :)
so with that I will wish you a very happy weekend..
I know its only Thursday but I am thinking ahead :)
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a post about not posting.....
...I know I have been neglecting this blog recently....but I have been a busy bee in my little shed in the garden...when the sun was shining.....when the rain was lashing....when the moon came out. I was hidden away with just my radio, my sewing machine and occasionally a small dog.. when the fancy took him.....I'll be back properly soon ..
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With two major grants, The National Institutes of Health is supporting research on inner-city Latino and African American adolescent sexual behavior. The researcher's projects will study teenagers and their families in the Bronx.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos of NYU's Silver School of Social Work two major grants for his research on inner-city Latino and African American adolescent sexual behavior. Both projects will study teenagers and their families in the Bronx.
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Next time you're in a theater in Boston - or down on the Cape, or out in the Berkshires, or on Broadway, or pretty much anywhere, really - take a look around at the audience. Chances are you'll notice something missing: young people.
What you're likely to see instead is wave upon wave of gray hair. Most of the seats will be occupied by baby boomers and those of the generation born around the time of World War II. Thirtysomethings will be scarce; twentysomethings will be even scarcer. And teenagers? Don't ask.
Or better yet: Do. Why don't more young people go to the theater?
That question ought to be on the front burner this week as about 1,000 regional-theater professionals gather in Boston for the national conference of Theatre Communications Group, whose membership includes more than 500 theaters across the country. It's been a persistent problem for years, and the American theater needs to find a concrete solution pronto, because its customers aren't — you should pardon the expression — getting any younger.
In fact, there is reason to think the situation could soon get worse. As the cost of admission climbs ever higher, the advent of supply-and-demand-based "dynamic pricing'' ensures that tickets to hot shows are as expensive as the market will bear. On Broadway, there's the additional scourge of "premium seats,'' which for "Death of a Salesman'' and "The Book of Mormon'' have commanded nearly $500 apiece. Theater, an inherently expensive art form to make at the professional level, is in danger of becoming a boutique business.
And the millennials, so financially strapped that they've been dubbed "Generation Debt,'' might well feel that they're in no position to be regular patrons. Saddled with college loans and credit-card payments, many bring home anemic paychecks if they're lucky enough to have a job. Little wonder theater isn't getting to be a habit with them.
Hard numbers on that are scarce, however. ArtsBoston has collected data on more than 1 million ticket-buying households, supplied by 50 cultural organizations in the Boston area. While the data have not yet been broken out according to individual genres — theater, music, dance, visual arts — they do provide a general demographic snapshot of local cultural consumers.
"We know that baby boomers are overrepresented,'' said Catherine Peterson, executive director of ArtsBoston, the largest arts service organization in Greater Boston, which assists cultural organizations with marketing and audience development. "That's no surprise. The under-30s are underrepresented.''
The theater community, she added, has signaled a clear commitment to change that.
They need to, because the age divide is plain to anyone who spends any time at all in playhouses. Like most theater critics, I see several plays a week, not just on opening nights, and not only in large theaters. Almost invariably, the overwhelming majority of the audiences are middle-aged or older. What has always puzzled me about this is that the Boston area is home to an estimated 250,000 college students from September to June.
In other words, there is a huge population of 18-to-22-year-olds at more than 65 colleges and universities, quite a few of whom are eager, even desperate, for something to do off-campus on the weekends. Many who go to college here settle down in the area after graduation; they are the logical foundation of Boston theater's future.
So, theoretically, Boston should be the perfect laboratory for experiments in how to attract young adults to the theater, right? And there is some experimentation going on, notably at Oberon, the American Repertory Theater's second stage, where the programming tends toward the hip and late-night. Even Broadway musicals can give a company a breakout hit with an audience it doesn't usually attract. That's happening now with the Lyric Stage Company's "Avenue Q,'' which, thanks to a virtual stampede of young patrons, has shattered Lyric box-office records that go back four decades.
But such youthful audiences are exceptions to the rule.
On Broadway, theatergoers aged 18 to 34 made up less than a quarter of the audience in the 2010-11 season, according to the Broadway League, the trade association for theater owners and producers. The average age of a theatergoer was 44, but even that understates the case: At plays, the average age for audiences was 53, while the average spectator at musicals was 43.
Of course, many people experience Broadway productions not in New York but when the shows go on the road. And there, the evidence is even grimmer. According to the Broadway League, which surveys national touring productions in alternate years, the average age of those theatergoers in the 2009-10 season was 54.
As for regional theaters, figures on audience ages are hard to find. Theatre Communications Group, a service organization that surveys its member theaters on many aspects of the field and annually releases reports on attendance, performances, and finances, does not collect such data. In an interview, TCG executive director Teresa Eyring said theaters have not pressed for a nationwide survey of audience demographics. Local numbers, she said, are more useful to them.
"For us to get demographic data, our theaters would have to be surveying their audiences on a regular basis, and to do it correctly is quite pricey,'' said Eyring. "It's a very expensive proposition.''
Perhaps, but most industries would consider it worth spending money on market research that tells them who their customers are - and aren't. The need to reach young audiences has long been the subject of much private fretting by artistic directors and other theater professionals. It's a challenge that, if met, might help address the lack of diversity that also afflicts many theaters.
"Theaters do need to be proactive in terms of engaging younger audiences, in making themselves inviting, whether that's through the work or through education programs,'' said Eyring. "It's a way of ensuring that people have had exposure to it, to really get a taste of how exciting theater can be.''
But she added a caveat. "I also think that theaters should love their audiences, whoever their audiences are,'' she said. "There's something wrong with the idea that there's something wrong with audiences that are older. Theater should be for everyone.''
Amen to that. But too often "everyone'' does not include people under 30. For nearly a decade, I've taught at a local university while periodically guest-lecturing at a half-dozen others. It adds up to a lot of time on college campuses and many conversations, in classroom discussions or one-on-one, with hundreds of students. I listen as they talk excitedly about an upcoming rock concert or movie or football game. But theater? No. Except for a vanishingly small handful of theater majors or performers, students do not mention theater as part of their weekend plans or even as a presence in their lives. (One exception: An animated discussion broke out in one of my classes about the scarcity and expense of tickets to, what else, "The Book of Mormon.'')
Let's stipulate that some of the onus is on college students themselves, who fail to avail themselves of sometimes massively steep discounts. Too many are content to blow 20 bucks on a few beers when $15 and a ride on the T would buy them some theater magic. Intellectual curiosity and a spirit of cultural adventure are, or should be, cornerstones of higher education.
These students literally do not know what they are missing; there is general agreement that theater in Boston, in terms of what's happening onstage, is in a dynamic phase at the moment. But theater is an art form that depends for its vitality on the audience - and there can be an extra jolt of electricity in the atmosphere when that audience consists primarily of young people, as with the raucous performances of Green Day's "American Idiot'' at the Boston Opera House in January.
Granted, theatergoing is a pastime that people often age into. And to an extent, the aging of the theater audience reflects the aging of the general population, as well as the wealth divide between old and young.
Still, though they've made some efforts, theaters are obviously not doing enough to reach young audiences.
Since the great majority of the hoped-for audience - twentysomethings and thirtysomethings - is usually not eligible for student discounts, why not follow the lead of companies that aim beyond the student population? In Boston, the Huntington Theatre Company offers $25 tickets to any show for those 35 and younger. Prominent theaters elsewhere make the tickets even more affordable for the same age range: $20 at both Manhattan's Roundabout Theatre Company and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, for example.
Because drama fans are made through early arts education, another part of the answer clearly lies in building a stronger presence in the schools. Social media and other marketing tools should also be used more imaginatively (but no "tweet seats,'' please) to communicate the unique excitement of live performance. Theaters could dive deeper into the talent pool of new playwrights and performers, which could lead to more work that young audiences would consider must-see material - and along the way lift the spirits, and possibly swell the ranks, of provocative dramatists, some of whom complain that older audiences are not adventurous enough.
It won't be easy, but the American theater has to find the missing piece of this puzzle. The alternative is long-term decline.
Don Aucoin can be reached at email@example.com.


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Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the "Mayan apocalypse," a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21.
In the video, which was posted online Wednesday (Mar. 7), Don Yeomans, head of the Near-Earth Objects Program Office at NASA/JPL, explains away many of the most frequently cited doomsday scenarios. [See video]
Addressing the belief that the calendar used by the ancient Mayan civilization comes to a sudden end in December 2012, and that this will coincide with a cataclysmic, world-ending event, Yeomans said: "Their calendar does not end on December 21, 2012; it's just the end of the cycle and the beginning of a new one. It's just like on December 31, our calendar comes to an end, but a new calendar begins on January 1."
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He added that there is zero possibility of a NASA cover-up. "Can you imagine thousands of astronomers who observe the skies on a daily basis keeping the same secret from the public for several years?"
As for solar flares, Yeomans explained that these do exist — in fact, two massive solar flares erupted just days ago, sending bursts of solar radiation into space — but they are part of the sun's normal 11-year cycle. Radiation from solar flares can damage orbiting satellites, but Earth's magnetosphere shields its inhabitants from the blasts, and the flares are not a health concern.
"Then we have planetary alignments," Yeomans said. Some doomsayers believe the other planets and the sun will align with the Earth in December and cause catastrophic tidal effects. "Well, first of all, there are no planetary alignments in December of 2012, and even if there were, there are no tidal effects on the Earth as a result. The only two bodies in the solar system that can affect the Earth's tides are the moon, which is very close, and the sun, which is massive and also fairly close. But the other planets have a negligible effect on the Earth."
(Incidentally, it is perfectly normal for the sun and moon to align, bolstering each other's gravitational pulls on Earth and generating higher-than-normal ocean tides. This happens twice each month.)
Addressing the claim that Earth's axes are going to shift on Dec. 21, 2012, he said: "The rotation axis can't shift because the orbit of the moon around the Earth stabilizes it and doesn't allow it to shift." He noted that the magnetic field does shift every half-million years or so, but "there's no evidence it's going to happen in December, and even if it were to be shifting, it takes thousands of years to do so. And even if it did shift, it's not going to cause a problem on the Earth apart from the fact that we're going to have to recalibrate our compasses." [What If Earth's Magnetic Poles Flip?]
Invoking the astronomer Carl Sagan's famous maxim, he said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Since the beginning of time there have been literally hundreds of thousands of predictions for the end of the world, and we're still here."
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My recent Febuary 09 trip to Istanbul, Turkey. Sorry it wasn't a diving trip but I will try to dive the next time, as I will return to Turkey. I had a great time and saw a small cross section of the country. The food was fabulous. I sure you'll like these images.Read More
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After the success of egg free version of the classic chocolate chip cookies (both chewy and crispy), I wanted to try my hands on another American classic the "Oatmeal Raisin Cookies".
Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe
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- 3/4 Cup Or 1.5 Sticks Vegan Butter/Regular Butter, Unsalted (Room Temp)
- 1 Cup Light Brown Sugar
- 1 flax egg
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt (I Used Only 1/4 Teaspoon)
- 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon (I Used Only 1/4 Teaspoon)
- 3 Cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (I Used Quick Cooking Oats – Not Instant)
- 1 Cup Dried Cranberries Or Cherries Or Raisins Or White/Dark Chocolate Chips (Optional, I Used Raisins)
- 1 Cup Toasted And Chopped Walnuts Or Pecans (Optional)
- Preheat oven at 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Prepare 2 large baking sheets either greasing it or lining it with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy. I used a hand mixer.
- In a blender, add flax seed powder and water and blend it until it's foamy.
- Add the flax seed mixture and vanilla extract to the creamed butter. Stir it well using a wooden spoon/spatula.
- In a medium size bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and combine it well using a spatula.
- Now stir the oats and other optional ingredients you wish to include.
- Drop the batter by a table spoon 2 inches apart. I used an ice cream scoop.
- Wet your hands and flatten the cookies so that they are about 1/2 an inch thick.
- Bake it for 12-15 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the centre is little wet.
- Remove it from the oven and let it cool in the baking sheet itself for 5 minutes. Then transfer it to a wire rack to cool it completely.
- I baked the batch with aluminum baking sheet for 14 minutes and the one in dark color non stick baking sheet for 13 minutes. The cookies were chewy.
- I wanted to try baking with vegan butter alternatives for long time now. So I bought Earth Balance Vegan Butter and tried this recipe with that, instead of regular dairy butter. I'm 100% sure that the cookies will come out good with regular butter also, because the original recipe uses the same.
I didn't know then that it's going to cost me a lot of time and material to find the perfect recipe for an eggless version. I had one recipe in hand from a book called "Cookies". Also check out the full collection of Vegan Cookies.
Since I have baked earlier from this book, I thought of proceeding with a recipe from that book itself. Then I saw that it used 1 and 1/2 sticks of butter, so I thought why not search for a healthy version of the cookies and found one in the net. It used only 5 tablespoons of butter, if I remember right.
I proceeded with that recipe, substituting flax seed meal for the eggs in the recipe. I think I went overboard by replacing 1/2 the quantity of all purpose flour with whole wheat flour, because the cookies did not taste any good. I guess it was because of too many substitutions.
After the failure of the first experiment I decided to follow a regular recipe (not the low fat versions) exactly, but only replacing the eggs. So as per my first plan I decided to go with the recipe from the "Cookies" book. Again I used flax seed meal here to replace the one egg in the recipe.
The dough came together and the cookies also looked like the store bought ones. I couldn't wait to taste the cookies. But this time, the sugar in the recipe messed it up for me. It was way too sweet, even for a sweet toothed person like my mother and myself.
I did see a vegan oatmeal cookie recipe in "The Joy of Vegan Baking" book, but it used steel cut oats and I was not able to find it in the grocery store which I go regularly. So I thought why not try a recipe from the "Joy of Baking" website! Found this recipe and I was surprised that the recipe which I had tried out earlier was the same, but for the quantity of sugar.
The previous recipe used 1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, whereas this recipe used only 1 cup of light brown sugar. This convinced me to try the recipe because only the sugar was excess in the previous batch. I baked these cookies yesterday and am very happy that they came out very well.
Everybody liked the cookies, it tasted just like the ones from the bakery. Who said you need eggs to bake tasty cookies? We were not able to taste the flax seed meal at all. The cookies were chewy and tasted awesome. I can bet that nobody would guess that they are vegan cookies.


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This soup is delicious. I made some yesterday. My husband loved it so much he told me several times. Recipe makes a lot, so we will be eating some for lunch everyday (-;ReplyDelete
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You were featured on Friday's Five Features this week! Thanks for sharing the delicious soup! http://diy-vintage-chic.blogspot.com/2014/01/fridays-five-features-no-25.htmlReplyDelete
This sounds so good! I wish it was sitting in front of me right now! I featured it today in my soup roundup. You can see it here!ReplyDelete
That loos so yummy, A warm soup would be great in this crazy Atlanta weather. If you get a chance, I'd love to see this on my linkup: http://timeforseason.blogspot.com/2014/02/my-favorite-things-saturdays-215.htmlReplyDelete
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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I spent the better part of this weekend trying to come up with a new gravy recipe. Don't get me wrong, I have dreams about my mushroom gravy that I always serve, but this year I thought I would try to come up with something new. I have to say… I got nothing… This mushroom gravy recipe is still by far my favorite! I hope you enjoy as well 🙂
Serves 4 – 6
What you'll need:
1 small to medium onion, halved and sliced
1-2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tbsp. butter (or earth balance to make it vegan)
1 medium portobello mushroom, chopped
4 oz. wild mushrooms, sliced (these could be crimini, shitake, oyster or whatever you like)
2 tbsp. flour
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
2 tbsp. soy sauce
salt to taste
What you'll do:
In a large frying pan, on medium low heat, melt the butter and add in the onions, portobello mushrooms and garlic. Add a pinch of salt. Saute for about 2 minutes. Add the wild mushrooms and saute for another couple minutes. Add the flour and mix until dissolved.
Add in the vegetable broth and cornstarch. Stir to dissolve all the cornstarch. Let cook for another couple minutes and add the soy sauce. Taste and season.
Enjoy with my buttermilk mashed potatoes 🙂


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By Jason Zweig | 12:49 pm ET Jul 18, 2014
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Who should get to invest in deals that aren't available to the general public?
That is a question the Securities and Exchange Commission will have to address in the next year or so. Private offerings—everything from energy partnerships or shares in your community bank to hedge funds—can sometimes yield lucrative returns, but their financial disclosure is limited, they can be almost impossible to trade and you can lose ungodly amounts of money if something goes wrong.
That is why, at present, you can buy them only if you are an "accredited investor." To be accredited, you must have annual income exceeding $200,000 or have more than $1 million in assets net of debt, not counting the value of your house.
Known as Regulation D offerings or "Reg D" deals after the SEC rule that permits them, these private securities rival the public markets in size and popularity. If you have $1 million and a pulse, you probably have had deals like these pushed at you lately.
In 2012, the latest year for which data are available, 31,471 of these offerings raised approximately $900 billion, compared to 2,427 public debt and equity offerings that raised $1.2 trillion, the SEC estimates. More than three-quarters of the assets raised privately went into hedge funds, venture-capital funds, private-equity funds and commodity-trading pools; the rest went into private businesses.
The Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law of 2010 requires the SEC to review the accredited-investor standard every four years, but an overhaul is decades overdue. The dollar thresholds to be accredited haven't changed since 1982, although the value of an investor's primary residence was excluded from the definition in 2011. Back in 1982, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was around 800. Today, it hovers around 17000.
Being out of date isn't the only problem; money and brains simply don't always come in the same package.
"Joe Sixpack could inherit $1 million or win the lottery and not have any sophistication at all," says Roger Walter, a former securities regulator for the state of Kansas who is a partner at the law firm of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy in Topeka.
Unfortunately, there isn't a formal definition of "sophistication" in the securities laws, says Robert Robbins, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Washington. "It's kind of like pornography," he says: "You know it when you see it."
Under the existing rule, a person with just over $1 million in net worth is free to invest 100% of it in a single private offering, while someone with $999,999.99 can't invest a penny in any private deal.
"The principle here is that [millionaires] 'can afford to lose their shirt,' but they can end up losing their entire wardrobe," says Mercer Bullard, a former SEC regulator who teaches securities law at the University of Mississippi. "You're just as broke if you start at $1 million or $10 million and end up with zero as you would be if you started with under a million."
So raising the minimum dollar amount of wealth or income to be accredited probably won't solve the problem. And Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association, which helps individuals develop best practices for investing in new businesses, estimates that 28% of her organization's more than 12,000 members would no longer qualify if the income and wealth standards were raised to take into account the approximate rate of inflation since 1982 to $400,000 and $2.5 million, respectively.
"That would pull back a lot of capital from startups," she says.
One idea is to exclude some assets from the net-worth calculation. "If you pull out the nonliquid assets, you raise the odds that investors will have the liquidity to be able to withstand a loss," says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America. Counting only readily marketable securities like stocks, bonds and mutual funds, while excluding assets like farmland or equity in a family business, would make sense, she says.
Investors, Mr. Bullard suggests, also could be limited to a maximum of no more than 10% of their liquid financial assets in private offerings or required to keep a minimum of $500,000 in diversified investments like mutual funds.
Kevin Hogan, president of the Investment Program Association, a trade group for issuers and distributors of nontraded securities, worries that "people who have millions to invest don't really want to be told where and how to invest their money."
But federal law bars pension plans from investing more than 10% in the stock of their own company, so there is precedent for this kind of prudence, Mr. Bullard says.
The SEC is unlikely to finalize a new rule until 2015 at the earliest, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the meantime, before you invest in a private placement, it might be a good idea to try accrediting yourself.
Can you fully understand even the limited financial disclosures you will receive? If it takes five years to sell the investment, can you wait that out? Are you prepared to lose every dollar you put into this investment? Can you afford to?
If your answer to each of those questions is yes, maybe you are a sophisticated investor. If not, you aren't—no matter how much money you have.
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Behind Apple's products is longtime designer Ive
Steve Jobs has been Apple's most recognizable personality, but much of its cachet comes from its clean, inviting designs. For that, Apple can credit its head designer, Jonathan Ive.
Ive, a self-effacing 44-year-old Brit, helped Jobs bring Apple back from the brink of financial ruin with the whimsical iMac computer, whose original models came in bright colors at a time when bland shades dominated the PC world. He later helped transform Apple into a consumer electronics powerhouse and the envy of Silicon Valley with the iPod, the iPhone and, most recently, the iPad.
In the wake of Jobs' resignation as CEO, Apple must show that it can keep churning out head-turning products even without its charismatic leader. Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook, is now CEO, taking on the role of Apple's public face.
But in many ways the real pressure will fall on Ive to make sure Apple continues its string of gadget successes.
Ive, known to his friends as "Jony," has led Apple's design team since the mid-'90s. Working closely with Jobs, Ive has built a strong legacy at Apple, ushering in products that are sleek and stylish, with rounded corners, few buttons, brushed aluminum surfaces and plenty of slick glass.
Apple's pride in this work is evident even in the packaging: Open up any iPhone box, for example, and see Apple proudly proclaim, "Designed by Apple in California." Six of Ive's works, including the original iPod, are even part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
People who have worked with Ive describe him as humble and sweet, quiet and shy, but also confident, hard-working and brilliant. Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design for MoMA, said she knows "hardly anybody that is so universally loved and admired" as Ive.
"Products have to be designed better now for people to buy them because of Jony Ive and Steve Jobs and Apple," Antonelli said. "All of a sudden people have gotten used to elegance and beauty, and there's no going back."
Design, as well as software that makes the gadgets easy to use, is a crucial part of setting Apple products apart from those of its rivals. Apple didn't make the first music player or smartphone, but it blew past rivals by making ones that looked cool and worked well.
Ive started out far from Apple Inc.'s Cupertino headquarters. He grew up outside London and studied design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in Newcastle, England. After finishing school, he co-founded a London-based design company called Tangerine. There, he designed a range of products including combs and power tools. It was through Tangerine that he first got to work with Apple.
In 1992, while Jobs was still in the midst of a 12-year exile from Apple, the company's design chief at the time, Robert Brunner, hired Ive as a senior designer. Thomas Meyerhoffer, who worked under Ive at Apple in the `90s, believes Ive came because he understood Apple was different from other computer companies.
"He came to Apple to take that even further," Meyerhoffer said.
And Ive did, but not right away. Ive quickly became a leader, working as the creative studio manager and helping to build Apple's design team during a period in which the company struggled to innovate.
Apple declined requests for an interview with Ive. But during a 1999 interview with The Associated Press, Ive said that for years, designers would produce foam models of computers only to be sent back to their drawing boards because of managers' fixations with focus groups and marketing figures.
"We lost our identity and looked to competition for leadership," Ive said at the time.
Brunner left in 1996 and suggested that Ive take over the post, even though Ive was only 29. When Jobs returned from his exile and became interim CEO in 1997, he named Ive as senior vice president of industrial design.
With Jobs again at the helm and Ive as his style guru, Apple refocused around design and produced a hit that got the company back on track. Apple shook up the personal computer industry in 1998 with the candy-colored all-in-one iMac desktop, the original models shaped like a futuristic TV.
Unlike previous product attempts, the iMac concept was immediately embraced by the top decision makers at Apple, and the design went through very few revisions.
"We knew we had it when we saw it, and with Jobs' support we were able to make it happen," Ive said in 1999.
At a time when most computers were boxy and largely black, beige or gray, the iMac was bulbous and flashy. People snapped up 150,000 of them in the first weekend following its release. Apple sold 800,000 iMacs by the end of the year.
The iMac changed the way consumers thought about personal computers and about Apple itself. It gave Apple a vital boost that helped it usher in a new era of consumer electronics that were quirky, fun and colorful. The marketing team even teased consumers by encouraging them at one point to collect all five - strawberry, blueberry, grape, tangerine and lime.
With Ive in charge of design, Apple then bought out the first iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010. In recent years, the company has largely dropped the bright color palette (though you can still find it on some iPods) in favor of black, white and silver hues. Yet they retained simplicity that made them approachable to everyone - from the tech geek to Grandma - as well as the curves, shiny surfaces and expensive appearance.
As a result, Apple's products are more popular than ever, allowing the company to surpass rival Microsoft Corp. last year as the most valuable technology company in the world.
"He wasn't responsible for them, but they definitely couldn't have done them without him," said Leander Kahney, who has written about Apple in several books and on his "Cult of Mac" blog.
Ive and Jobs have worked hand in hand and, in many respects, have contributed to each other's success. Ive has always been in contact with Jobs and speaks the same language as him, Antonelli said, and they clearly have chemistry.
Don Norman, who worked at Apple in the `90s as vice president of the company's advanced technology group, said that while Ive had good design ideas "sitting on the shelves," he needed Jobs to get those designs off the shelves.
"Jony has always been Jony - brilliant," Norman said. "What he needed was a Steve Jobs to say, `Make this happen.'"
Now, the test will be whether Cook can continue to keep that focus at Apple and encourage Ive to continue creating hits.
In a sense, the challenge won't be as difficult as it had been in the 1990s. Now that Apple has developed a style, it can build on it rather than try to reimagine it with each new product.
And that, Norman says, is now in Apple's DNA.
More information: Ive collection at MoMA: http://bit.ly/niZFGZ
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Improving Eyesight – Understanding Astigmatism
Improving Eyesight – Understanding Astigmatism
Astigmatism is normal as people age. Astigmatism happens when the eyeball loses its roundness and vision starts to become hazy. Astigmatism can also be caused by years of stress and strain on the eyes. The eye is surrounded by tiny muscles that help the eye ball elongate and contract. Years of tension, can weaken these muscles and cause problems when the eyes need to change shape.
Improving Eyesight – Understanding Astigmatism
The eyes are never ever truly round; they are constantly changing shapes depending on the situation. Everyone has astigmatism every once in awhile. In fact, you can create the illusion of astigmatism right now by pulling on the eye lids and blurring the vision. The eyes will usually fix themselves in a few hours or days; without the use of glasses. Artificial lenses mask the problem and prevent the eyes from healing themselves.
The eyes are amazing organs and they are the first line of defense against tension; we just tend to ignore those signs. If vision because blurry or distorted, your eyes are telling you to relax and take it easy.
When you feel tense, there are some activities you can do, and they only take a few minutes. The first thing to do is relax. Stop what you are doing and take a quick break. You don't have to leave your desk or the area you are working in. Simply move your eyes around. Look away from the screen or the papers in front of you; focus on objects far away and give your eyes a chance to move from near to far.
If you are at home, you can lie on the floor and have someone swing a pendulum over your head. This allows your eyes to focus and follow an object and move. The eyes need to move to work properly. They are not design to start straight ahead for hours at a time. They are made to move and absorb the world around us.
An easy solution to astigmatism is to eat more fruits and vegetables. Eating a more healthy diet can help improve health and eyesight. The important things to remember is to keep your eyes in motion and give them a break every 15-20 minutes.