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People often tell me how lucky Myles is growing up in a house with lots of cupcakes (no, he hasn't had one yet). What I hope he gains from my Cupcake Project is a spirit of experimentation with food (not pounds – we'll be teaching moderation). While I don't care if he's a doctor or a lawyer or good at baseball or basketball, I really hope that Jonathan and I are able to raise a foodie. I want him to care about what he puts in his body – to choose non-processed, fresh foods whenever possible – and to try new things. I'll know that there will be days when he comes home from a friend's house with a Happy Meal or eats candy whose ingredients I can't even pronounce; it's hard to avoid. But, in the end, I hope he learns to choose smoked Gouda on homemade whole grain bread over American cheese on Wonder Bread.
Myles is now seven months old and we are off to a good start with Baby-Led Weaning. But, we know that we've got a lot to learn.
Here's where you come in:
Tell me what you are doing or have done to raise a future foodie. Did it work or did it backfire? If you don't have kids, tell me about someone you know.
Your comment (with an email address) will enter you into a giveaway to win the adorable Future Foodie Onesie from the Spunky Stork (shown above on Myles) for a future foodie in your life. The onesie is made of 100% organic cotton and is super soft. It comes in two sizes, 0-6 months and 6-12 months (FYI – they run a bit big. Myles is now wearing 9 month clothes and the 6-12 month onesie is still quite huge on him).
For a second entry, share a tip, join in a conversation, or mention this giveaway on Twitter with the tag #futurefoodie.
Fine print: Limit 2 entries per person. Deadline is Friday, April 9th at 11:59 PM CDT.
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This large-scale photographic mural is on view at MoMA for the first time in the United States. As in most of her work, here Sherman is both model and photographer, but instead of using makeup or prosthetics to alter her appearance, she has transformed her face digitally, elongating her nose, narrowing her eyes, or creating smaller lips. The characters, eccentrics that Sherman has elevated to larger-than-life status, sport an odd mixture of costumes, including a juggler's outfit, an ill-fitting nude suit, and a feathered leotard. Set against a decorative backdrop reminiscent of toile wallpaper, they are the protagonists of their worlds, in which fantasy and reality merge.
In fall 1977, Sherman began making pictures that would eventually become her groundbreaking "Untitled Film Stills." Over three years, the series (presented here in its entirety) grew to comprise a total of seventy black-and-white photographs. Taken as a whole, the "Untitled Film Stills"—resembling publicity pictures made on movie sets—read like an encyclopedic roster of stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films. But while the characters and scenarios may seem familiar, Sherman's "Stills" are entirely fictitious; they represent clichés (career girl, bombshell, girl on the run, vamp, housewife, and so on) that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination. While the pictures can be appreciated individually, much of their significance comes in the endless variation of identities from one photograph to the next. As a group they explore the complexity of representation in a world saturated with images, and refer to the cultural filter of images (moving and still) through which we see the world.
Fashion—a daily form of masquerade that communicates culture, gender, and class—has been a constant source of inspiration for Sherman and a leading ingredient in the creation of her work. Throughout her career the artist has completed a number of commissions for fashion designers and magazines, and this gallery gathers many of these works. Sherman's fashion pictures challenge the industry's conventions of beauty and grace. Her first such commission, made in 1983, parodies typical fashion photography. Rather than projecting glamour, sex, or wealth, the pictures feature characters that are far from desirable—whether goofy, hysterical, angry, or slightly mad. Later commissions resulted in more extreme images of characters with bloodshot eyes, bruises, and scars. These exaggerated figures reached ostentatious heights in a 2007–08 commission, in which fashion victims—including steely fashion editors, PR mavens, assistant buyers, and wannabe fashionistas—wear clothing designed by Balenciaga and ham it up for the camera. Sherman's interest in the construction of femininity and the mass circulation of images informs much of her work; the projects that take fashion as their subject illustrate the artist's fascination with fashion images but also her critique of what they represent.
The pictures in Sherman's 1981 centerfolds series refer to both the printed page and, in their stereoscope format, the cinema. Originally commissioned by Artforum magazine, these send-ups of men's erotic magazines depict a variety of women in different emotional states, ranging from terrified to heartbroken to melancholic. In these intimate pictures, it's as if we are witnessing a private moment unfolding. The photographs are at once seductive and anxiety-inducing; the saturated palette contributes to the intensity and the alienation of the women, heightening the drama of each picture. With this series, Sherman takes on the roles of both photographer (assumed to be male) and female model. The antitheses of conventional centerfolds, the works foreground the effect that pictures have on us, making us aware of, and complicit in, the acts of photographing and looking.
Sherman, who photographs alone in her studio, has used a variety of techniques to suggest different locations and imaginary (sometimes impossible) spaces, extending the narrative possibilities of her images. In her first foray into color, in 1980, the artist photographed herself in front of rear-screen projections of various cityscapes and landscapes, evoking films from the 1950s and 1960s that used similar techniques to create the illusion of a change in location. In later series, such as the head shots (2000–2002), clowns (2003–04), and society portraits (2008), the artist used digital tools to create a variety of environments. The garish fluorescent colors in a clown picture contribute to the disturbing quality of the portrait, while a fairy tale forest provides a dreamy backdrop for a well-to-do lady.
In the 1980s and 1990s—decades characterized in the United States by politically charged debates about censorship in the arts and the specter of AIDS—Sherman's investigation of macabre and grotesque narratives led to the physical disintegration of the body in her work and her eventual disappearance from the pictures. This gallery features photographs from several series exploring these themes, including the series known as the fairy tales (1985), disasters (1986–89), and sex pictures (1992), underscoring Sherman's preoccupation with horror and the abject throughout the years. These theatrical pictures revel in their own artificiality, often featuring dolls and prosthetic parts as stand-ins for the human body. The figure appears as an animal-human hybrid, as neither male nor female, or as barely human. Outlandish and revolting tableaus feature rotting food and substances that look like blood, feces, and vomit. Equally repulsive and seductive, these visually rich landscapes of decay are painterly in texture and color. Violated and hybrid bodies found their full expression in Sherman's 1992 sex pictures, for which she arranged dolls bought from medical-supply catalogues to simulate sex acts and mimic scenes from pornography.
Sherman's history portraits (1988–90) investigate modes of representation in art history and the relationship between painter and model. These classically composed portraits borrow from a number of art-historical periods—Renaissance, baroque, rococo, Neoclassical—and make allusions to paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, Fragonard, and Ingres (who, like all the Old Masters, were men). This free-association sampling creates a sense of familiarity, but not of any one specific era or style. The subjects (for the first time for Sherman, many are men) include aristocrats, Madonnas with child, clergymen, women of leisure, and milkmaids, who pose with props, costumes, and obvious prostheses. Theatrical and artificial—full of large noses, bulging bellies, squirting breasts, warts, and unibrows—the history portraits are poised between humorous parody and grotesque caricature.
A handful of Sherman's portraits were inspired by actual paintings. Untitled #224 was made after Caravaggio's Sick Bacchus (c. 1593), which is commonly believed to be a self-portrait of the artist as the Roman god of wine. In Sherman's reinterpretation, the numerous layers of representation—a female artist impersonating a male artist impersonating a pagan divinity—create a sense of remove, pastiche, and criticality. Even where Sherman's pictures offer a gleam of art-historical recognition, she has inserted her own interpretation of the canonized paintings, creating contemporary artifacts of a bygone era.
After almost a decade of staging still lifes with dolls and props, in her 2000–2002 head-shots series Sherman returned to a more intimate scale and to using herself as a model. The format recalls ID pictures, head shots, or vanity portraits made in garden-variety portrait studios by professional photographers. First exhibited in Beverly Hills, the series explores the cycle of desire and failed ambition that permeates Hollywood. Sherman conceived a cast of would-be or has-been female actors posing for head shots in order to get acting jobs; later, for an exhibition in New York, she added East Coast types.
Whichever part of the country they're from, we've seen these women before—on reality television, in soap operas, or at a PTA meeting. With these pictures, Sherman underscores the transformative qualities of makeup, hair, expression, and pose, and the power of stereotypes as transmitters of cultural clichés. She projects well-drawn personas: the enormous pouting lips of the woman in Untitled #360 suggest a yearning for youth, while the glittery makeup and purple iridescent dress worn by the character in Untitled #400 indicate an aspiration to reach a certain social status.
In her role as both sitter and photographer, Sherman has disrupted the usual power dynamic between model and photographer and created new avenues through which to explore the very apparatus of portrait photography itself.
The works in this gallery explore the uncanny, monstrous, and carnivalesque impulses that are expressed through fairy tales, black humor, clowns, and masks. Although the pictures do not correspond with specific stories, Sherman's macabre fairy tale works from 1985 evoke the Brothers Grimm, Teutonic myths, folk legends, and fables, exemplified by gothic scenes such as Untitled #146. A later work, Untitled #296 (1994), equally theatrical and fantastical, may have been inspired by mimes or Kabuki theater. Sherman's 2003–04 clown series includes figures in a range of emotional states, from hysterical passion to tragic pathos. She has created a cast of bizarre, wicked, disturbed, and even lustful players, opening the door to multiple layers of meaning and narrative: the surface facade, denoted by makeup and clothes, and an under layer expressed through gesture, pose, and styling.
Set against opulent backdrops and presented in ornate frames, the characters in Sherman's 2008 society portraits seem at once tragic and vulgar. The figures are not based on specific women, but the artist has made them look entirely familiar in their struggle with the impossible standards of beauty that prevail in a youth- and status-obsessed culture. At this large scale, it is easy to decipher the characters' vulnerability behind the makeup, clothes, and jewelry. The psychological weight of these pictures comes through the unrelenting honesty of their description of aging, the tell-tale signs of cosmetic alteration, and the small details that belie the characters' attempts to project a polished and elegant appearance. Upon careful viewing, they reveal a dark reality lurking beneath the glossy surface of perfection. As with much of her work, in her society portraits Sherman has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to channel the zeitgeist. These well-heeled divas presaged the financial collapse of 2008, the end of an era of opulence—the size of the photographs alone seems a commentary on an age of excess. Among the numerous iterations of contemporary identity, these pictures stand out as at once provocative, disparaging, empathetic, and mysterious.
Because the majority of Sherman's pictures feature the artist as model, they showcase a single character. In the 1970s Sherman experimented with cutouts of multiple figures, in her whimsical 1975 stop-motion animated short film Doll Clothes and her rarely seen 1976 collages, which were achieved through a labor-intensive process of cutting and pasting multiple photographs. When Sherman began working digitally in the early 2000s, she was able to more easily incorporate multiple figures in one frame, allowing for a variety of new narrative possibilities.Where the early works chart the movements and gestures of a single character through space, the multiple figures in recent works interact with one another to create tableaus.

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Remi Trepanier 4/25/2007 11:28:56 AMGeorgeous shot Patricia!
Rémi! #644173
Maria Sacha 4/25/2007 12:33:35 PMWonderful idea. Looks almost like a painting. #4212585
Holly Abidi 4/25/2007 2:16:49 PMNeat image. I am not sure if that's a painting behind there or an actual scenery. But I think it is neat. I wish you could make out more of the scene behind the water drops though. But still for the theme I think it works. Best of luck! #4212958
Patricia A. Stalter 4/25/2007 2:38:37 PMThanks Maria and Holly, Yes that is a oil painting behind the drops. My intent was for it to not be obvious. #4213065
Sharon King 4/28/2007 8:38:34 AMVery creative, I like this a lot! #4224514
Su Sana E. P 5/24/2007 7:44:29 AMWow!! This is really a stunning image and a well deserving Finalist, Patricia!!
Patricia A. Stalter 5/24/2007 7:49:24 AMThank you SuSana, Coming from such a talent as yours, I am honored! #4323942
Brinn MacDougall 5/24/2007 9:07:43 AMThis is great, big congrats, Patricia! #4324250
Mitch Spence 5/24/2007 1:22:07 PMGreat concept, Pat. And you carried it out beautifully. Congrats all over the place. #4325090
Lois Adomite 5/24/2007 1:42:41 PMVery creative congratulation on your finalist entry. Lois #4325226
Patricia A. Stalter 5/24/2007 1:56:59 PMThank you Mitch and Lois your praise is music to my ears. #4325360
Cathy Barrows 5/24/2007 7:22:10 PMCongrats on your finalist...love it #4326448
Su Sana E. P 5/24/2007 8:32:42 PMPatricia, Congratulations on this well deserving Winner!! #4326716
Mary K. Robison 5/25/2007 2:16:12 AMMarvelous image, Patricia ~
Dominick M. Dimacale 5/25/2007 2:31:57 AMCongratulations Patricia on your win...Dominick #4327467
Mitch Spence 5/25/2007 7:35:37 AMHooo-eee, Pat. Second place. Uptown! #4329015
Patricia A. Stalter 5/25/2007 8:34:45 AMI am so happy to have achieved this honor. My time here at BP has been so much fun and it has encouraged me to put my best foot forward. Thank you one and all. #4329218
Brinn MacDougall 5/25/2007 8:41:45 AMOn wow, big congrats on your win, Patricia!! #4329236
Patricia Ronan 5/25/2007 2:31:34 PMCongratulations and well done on your win Patricia:) #4330044
JO ANN CLEVELAND 5/25/2007 6:57:07 PMSooo beautiful and creative Patricia!
Congrats on your gold medalion!
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Janine Russell 5/25/2007 11:25:23 PMPatricia, BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your SECOND PLACE WIN! #4331323
Hurk (Steve) Hurkett 6/4/2007 2:59:38 AMExcellent capture, Pat .... love the colors and effects ... Congrats onthis well deserved 2nd Place Win ... steve #4363085
Patricia A. Stalter 6/4/2007 5:43:11 AMThank you one and all. I really can't remember when I've had this much fun, with so many wonderful friends. #4363858
Rakesh Syal 6/7/2007 5:03:54 AMCongratulations on your well deserved Second Place Win! #4374812
Jeff Robinson 6/16/2007 5:55:22 AMBeautifully seen and captured Pat! Congrats on your very well deserved 2nd Place win! Jeff #4402516
Jessica Jenney 7/24/2007 5:21:50 PMHow did I miss this gorgeous image?! Congratulations on this wonderful win, Patricia! #4550551
Terry Cervi 8/6/2007 6:25:29 AMHow beautiful is this, Pat!!! A belated congrats to you! #4608095
Heather 8/20/2007 11:56:57 AMVery Pretty 2nd Place Winner!! Nice Job... and Congrats... #4674112
Chuck Bruton 11/2/2007 12:11:19 PMCongratulatons
Steven W. Lepak 12/2/2007 1:46:03 PMBravo Patricia! - and congrats too. This image is really stunning. Keep up the great work. Best Regards, Steven #5160255
Laura E. Swan 3/3/2008 11:52:06 PMThis is SO ORIGINAL. What a great idea! It's just beautiful and you really achieved the mystery behind the glass. It seems like a very romantic place you have taken us all! Thank you! -Laura Swan #5589357
April Riggs 3/4/2008 11:06:15 AMStunning! #5591922
Irene Colling 3/20/2008 12:05:59 PMThis is a wonderful and creative idea Patricia and you executed the concpt so well. I love it. #5669226
Jennie A. Dillman 3/30/2008 1:40:22 PMGREAT IDEA..LOVELY..J #5719634
Laura E. Swan 3/31/2008 8:50:55 AMHUGE CONGRATULATIONS PAT!!!!! I'm not surprised at all. This was so unique and beautiful. -Laura :) #5723731
Rajeev Kashyap 4/9/2008 11:28:56 AMCOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooNGRATULATION Patricia Stalter! Great job. #5766807
Dawn M. Schneider 4/22/2008 7:47:55 PMthis is such a great idea and beautifully done! #5827454
Laura L. Gonzales 5/24/2008 7:20:20 PMWOW! This is just beautiful!!! Congratulations on your well deserved WIN!!!! Your gallery is just awesome too!!! Laura #5973219
Bill Knaps 7/23/2008 6:39:07 PMHi Patricia, I wanted to select you as a favorite photographer, but I cannot find where to do it in your Gallery or when I am on this page . I cannot find your latest entries either. Bill #6223168
Barbara Kehoe 7/24/2008 3:37:33 PMBeautiful shot Pat #6226780
Barbara Kehoe 7/24/2008 3:41:13 PMHi Pat, love your gallery too. I also tried to add you as a favorite photographer, and I can't do it either. I'm taking the two classes at DAA with you, and love your work there too. #6226796
Patrick Rouzes 7/29/2008 6:24:30 AMHi Patricia. CONGRATULATIONS on this spectacular WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patricia A. Stalter 7/29/2008 6:43:07 AMBobbie, Patrick, Thank you! I have written to BP support and they haven't answered about this favorite photographer thing. I like the idea and features of the new pholios, and hope they get it together soon, or I will go back to the old ways. My latest is always the first image after the finalists. Thanks again! #6244580
Hurk (Steve) Hurkett 7/29/2008 6:51:43 AMBeautiful capture, Patricia .... Contratulations on this super WINNER as well .......... #6244619
Renata Gusciora 8/11/2008 8:19:51 AMWoooww,that's amazing,Patricia!!Congratulations!! #6299023
Melissa Olsen 8/26/2008 4:35:43 PMPatricia, first congratulations on your win and second let me tell you that there is something about this photo that speaks to my very inward being. Wonderful job here, thanks for sharing with the rest of us here on BP. #6372379
Patricia A. Stalter 8/26/2008 5:29:37 PMMelissa, Thanks for these kind words. Let's stay in touch? oxxox Pat #6372645
Colleen Farrell 8/26/2008 9:27:28 PMThis is so wonderful, Pat--I love it! #6373456
Patricia A. Stalter 8/27/2008 5:34:40 AMThank you famous lady! #6374927
Lorri Shank 11/12/2008 6:38:47 AMThis is a work of art! #6744786
Rod Partington 2/21/2009 5:51:57 PMStunning image here,Patricia! #7191798
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 3/14/2009 10:06:41 PMThis looked amazing on the big screen at the Summit. A beautiful image Patricia! Congratulations! #7285987
Julianne Bradford 7/6/2009 12:47:13 PMGreat imaginative work well executed Patricia. Congrats on your well deserved award. #7711176
Irene Colling 5/18/2010 3:55:03 PMI'm revisiting old favorites of mine and I still love this. #8620369
Patricia A. Stalter 4/24/2016 8:58:16 AMI am honored to receive this award. #11465493
Carol Eade 7/8/2016 6:04:09 PMCongratulations on your All Time Winner! Love this. #11493522
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Part of a painting.
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Saints Row 2 Walkthrough
|Mission 4-15: The Shopping Maul
BEFORE STARTING THIS MISSION, YOU MUST MAKE PREPARATIONS. First, stop by Friendly Fire and completely fill your ammo for assault rifles, RPGs, SMGs, and hand grenades (although, honestly, it may behoove you to just refill all your ammo). As should be obvious, you'll want your rocket launcher in your "special" slot rather than the sniper rifle. Be sure your inventory contains four food items of the best-filling food available. Finally, call up Johnny Gat if you can prior to the mission to make sure he's a follower for this next one, as his high rate of damage and accuracy will seriously help you out.
Prepared? Let's roll!
The limo has been spotted! Shaundi interjects herself into the party, but pick up two more followers before heading out. Jump in the provided car, drive over to the spot, and head up the stairs to the checkpoint. The General's limo will arrive shortly, where it will be rammed against the building.
A gun battle breaks out. Fall back a step and take cover behind the railing. Take out your assault rifle, then pop out and take out some Sons; do not expend your rockets here, although feel free to fling your grenades. Protect Shaundi here: if she goes down, you'll lose the mission. The quickest way to thin the enemy's numbers is to take out their vehicles, as the resulting explosions will kill a handful of gang members. This won't work on the limo itself, but use this technique against the lower vehicles: the gang members are usually dumb enough to hang around their vehicles, taking cover behind them. This way you can conserve some ammo.
Once you mop up the stragglers, the General will escape into the mall proper. Secure your rear and check your followers. If any of them are wielding rocket launchers, dismiss the party or kill them, then grab two new ones who are hanging out nearby that aren't carrying them. Once you engage the General in a little bit, having any followers with rocket launchers will just be more risky for you than for the enemy.
After a few moments of peace, you'll be on the second floor of the mall. Somehow, Sons are able to drive their cars up here, so you'll have to watch all angles as you make your way forward. Watch your followers here: if a car is in their way, they may not be smart enough to go around it, so you might have to move it for them. Don't try driving it very far though, as a lucky rocket shot from an enemy (or an unlucky rocket shot from one of your followers) will instantly blow you up. You need to move quickly, else you'll eventually get overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Try to use your assault rifle and pistols here; do not use your rocket launcher under any circumstances and only use your SMG if you have no other choice.
At one point you'll come to a divide in the path, with a staircase leading down and two narrow paths up on your floor on each side of the hall. When you get here, you're going to be jumped from the rear and the sides by enemies and their cars. Prepare for it, and don't fret too badly if some or all of your followers go down. Try to quickly secure yourself, then revive them and keep fighting.
There are no more surprises after this, aside from more random baddies to kill. Once you're at the end of the floor, the General will finally emerge driving a Bulldog technical. This fight is extremely difficult, especially if the Sons are your last gang, so check this strategy carefully.
First, the Bulldog tends to get hung up on the pillars in the middle of the plaza. Use your rocket launcher if you can, or your shotgun if it's too close. Fire as many rounds as you can, because once the Bulldog manages to get out, it's going to try running you down. At this point, you need to go into the middle of the plaza and use the pillars as cover, because if you're hit at all by the technical, you'll die instantly. Let the Bulldog circle you stupidly, and use your rocket launcher or shotgun here as you need to.
Now, as soon as the General appeared, you may have noticed Shaundi run off immediately. She's running over to some ATVs nearby, and is trying to bring one into the fight. The enemies are all worried about you and your non-named followers, so they won't bother with Shaundi. She'll eventually bring the ATV up to you, and it will have a blue arrow over it. When this happens, the technical will take off on a predetermined route. Shaundi remains, for all intents and purposes, a mall rat and won't contribute further to the fight.
Secure yourself, then head over to the ATV. Drive immediately, and forget your followers. You'll need to zigzag a bit or enemy cars will drive on your tailpipe and send you flying, nearly guaranteeing death. Follow the technical as it drives around the second floor, and send magazines of SMG ammo into its rear. It usually continues to circle the second floor forever, though it might slip now and then and head downstairs. Follow it wherever it goes, and just send as many rounds into it.
If you're extremely lucky, the technical might make mistakes. If it runs over other Sons cars, the other cars may explode, causing tremendous damage to the Bulldog. The Bulldog will also take damage from slamming into the pillars and walls, and it tends to panic if there are a lot of vehicles or Sons around whilst you're shooting at it. This not only will add damage when it makes a mistake, but also because you can slow down and get in some shots on a stationary target. Just don't slow down too long or you'll have a Sons vehicle on your butt.
When you shoot, don't worry about what you're hitting. The tires can't be popped and no one inside the vehicle can be killed, so just fire: as long as you're hitting it at all, you'll be causing the same amount of damage regardless of where your shots are going. You may fail a couple times in the process, but keep up this strategy, and you'll eventually succeed.
When the technical goes down, the General will be dead. Shaundi and you will exchange some words of mutual encouragement, and the whole city will be yours.
Ah, nice to be on top, isn't it? The Saints have all the power in the city, and there's no one that can stop them anymore! It's time to roll the credits, right?
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Summer on the Hudson: Salute to the Sun Yoga
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
This event repeats every week on Wednesday between 6/4/2014 and 9/24/2014.
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End your day with relaxing Hatha yoga in a beautiful sunset setting.
Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.
The Plaza at 66th Street in Riverside Park South
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On 8/13/15, TR and Provider name locked. picked up 20 pieces of LP SmartSide at MBS (Provider name locked. Building Supply) siding to replace some Masonite siding on my house. (I paid $750 that day for the materials.) Provider name locked. spent the entire day painting the first coat of paint on the 20 pieces of siding while TR did the band sill repair, did the trim repair around my bay window and a replaced a piece of trim on my kitchen window.
They returned on Friday, 8/14/15, and worked only half a day on the siding repair before telling me that they were leaving early and that they wouldn't be back until Wednesday, 8/19 to finish the work because Provider name locked. was sending them to another job.. They left all of the materials scattered around my yard. when they left. On Monday 8/17 I received a "progress invoice" for $2315.95 from Provider name locked. for all the work done up to that point. A red flag immediately went up; I wasn't supposed to get billed for the labor until the job was completed. Against my better judgment, I paid the $2315.95. HUGE MISTAKE ON MY PART! Once Provider name locked. had that money, he had no interest in coming back to finish the job and I was left high and dry with the job partially finished. I spent weeks trying to chase Provider name locked. down and get a commitment on when his guys would be back to finish the work at my house. When I did manage to get a return phone call, Provider name locked. just made one excuse after another of why his guys hadn't been back to finish the work at my house. Three of four times he told me they'd be there on a certain day and then they wouldn't show up.
It wasn't until 10/15 (2 months after they'd left!) that they finally returned to finish the work at my house. This time there were 3 guys (TR, Provider name locked. , and Provider name locked. ). TR was supposed to be the "lead" carpenter. He and Provider name locked. argued a lot, and not in a friendly manner. It made me very uncomfortable. TR was hostile and belligerent when he spoke to me. On 10/15, all they had to do was finish installing the siding (that had been left on my patio for 2 months) and paint the second coat on paint on it, replace 1 piece of trim on 2 different windows, and replace the trim along the bottom of my chimney. The workers weren't focused on working; they were focused on fighting with each other.
I went into my backyard on 10/15 to see Provider name locked. and Provider name locked. urinating on my patio, 10 feet from my back door. The windows on the back of my house were open as were the blinds so they were in full view of those in the house, including one of my children. These guys gave new meaning to disgusting.
TR knocked on the door and said they were finished and told me to come look at it. I walked around the house and pointed at the trim paint that was running and dripping down onto the siding that I'd recently painted. He got nasty with me and said, "hey, it's not my fault it's not 90 degrees out!" Then he became very belligerent and said he was packing up his tools and leaving. I did my best to ignore his behavior.
I pointed out that the 2 pieces of window trim that they'd replaced hadn't been painted and he hollered at Provider name locked. to get over there and paint it. Provider name locked. responded back angrily that he couldn't paint it because the caulk was still wet and TR hollered back at him to paint it anyway! I pointed out that the trim along the bottom of my chimney hadn't been replaced and he couldn't even remember what they were supposed to do with it. When I reminded him that the rotten wood was supposed to be replaced with pvc trim, he said FINE in a nasty Provider name locked. of voice and then told me to go back in the house. Before I'd gone more than a few feet, he hollered at Provider name locked. to pack up their tools, that they were leaving NOW! (Provider name locked. had been out in their truck for several hours by then.) TR started slinging tools around. I went inside the house and locked the door. I immediately called Provider name locked. and told him that his guys had acted very inappropriately at my house and that that the work that none of what they had done had been done correctly.
Provider name locked. came to my home on Tuesday, 10/20. I expected him to be apologetic for how his guys had acted and for how they had screwed up the work at my house. Boy, was I wrong. As I pointed out the things that had been done wrong (which was everything), he became very hostile and said he wasn't fixing anything for free and if I wanted them to fix what was done wrong then I'd have to pay for it. Provider name locked. expected to get paid for doing it wrong, and then get paid again for fixing what they'd done wrong! I told him I wasn't paying him to fix what his guys screwed up. He stormed away from my house, making a scene in front of several of my neighbors, Provider name locked. at me that he was sending me a bill and if I didn't pay it he would put a Provider name locked. on my house. He sent me a bill for $1668 for 10/15-10/16 (this is in addition to the $3065.95 that I'd already paid him.)
The siding that they had installed was installed wrong. The mfg installation instructions call for minimum 8d galvanized nails with a .27" head and 0.113 shank. The nails are supposed to penetrate a minimum of 1 1/5" into the framing of the house. The nail head is supposed to fit snugly against the face of the siding. Butt joints were supposed to always be at studs. Provider name locked. 's workers used what looked like finishing nails that are used in conjunction with wood glue when making wood furniture. The nails had NO HEADS and were sunk deep into the siding. In many areas there were 3-4 nails in a 2" area. The butt joints were not on studs and half a dozen of them are already pulling away from the house. Because they used the wrong nails, the siding will pull away from the house as it swells and contracts. I called the supplier and described the installation; they said that the protective outer shell of the siding had been compromised and that the siding needed to be removed and new siding installed. Because the siding was installed wrong, the mfg warranty was voided. When I emailed Provider name locked. and explained how the siding had been installed wrong, his response was a verbal attack. He told me that I was wrong about what kind of siding that they had installed on my house. He insisted that they had installed Provider name locked. board siding and that they had followed the mfg's installation instructions. He was just lying. He had the invoice for the siding just like I did. Provider name locked. just tried to lie his way out of it by trying to convince me that I don't know the siding that was on my house. Provider name locked. refused to take responsibility for the incorrect installation of the siding just like he refused to take responsibility for the other mistakes his guys made.
The siding mfg is going to send a representative to my house to inspect the siding and document what was done to the siding.
On the back (second story) of my house, the only repair that they were authorized to do was to replace one vertical piece of window trim on one window. One of the workers took a paintbrush and randomly painted fresh paint 6-8" spots all over the wall so that now the entire wall has to be painted. This was obviously deliberate on their part to make me have to repaint the entire wall. The did the exact same thing on another wall of my house. This was nothing more than them deliberating damaging my house. Provider name locked. said that it is MY FAULT that there are spots all over those two walls. He said that if the paint had been a perfect match, then it wouldn't have mattered where his guys had painted.
Without my knowledge, one of the workers got an old piece of scrap wood from a 25 year old deck that I had demo'd and tried to pass it off as the pvc repair that was supposed to have been done at the bottom of my chimney. It obviously a piece of old wood, but the worker insisted that he'd done the repair with pvc. When I pointed the lie out to Provider name locked. , he said that he had no problem with what the worker had done!
For the past month, I've tried to correspond with Provider name locked. via email in a civil, professional manner so that we can get this worked out. The bottom line is that his guys not only didn't do the work right (so now I have to hire another company to do the work correctly) but they also caused damage to my house. So it's going to cost me more to get the repairs done because I also have to fix what they damaged. All he's done is return is threaten me. Apparently he sees a single mother as an easy target to take advantage of.
I intend to post his correspondence with this review so that others can see how nasty his emails to me were.
He was fabulous! He took care of everything. He even met with the city to see what needed to be done because I have a pool. I would so recommend him! I will definitely call him again. Nothing but good to report!
- Sheri S.


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This quilt top will become a baby quilt for my yoga instructor. I've been going to free classes at the local library on Saturday mornings since November. She announced recently she and her family are adopting a baby due early June. This will be my way of "paying" her for the free lessons.
For this quilt top I used the step pattern from block lotto blog. The top is machine pieced. It measures 42 in square.
Each block features something of interest -- a robot, a dog, a cat, a girl, etc.
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U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 15
Jan 15, 2013, 12:01 ET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
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Profile America — Tuesday, January 15th. Dr. Martin Luther King would be 84 years old today. The civil rights leader, minister, and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was born in 1929 and assassinated in 1968. Next Monday is a national holiday, honoring his memory and life's work, appropriate in a month that also sees the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. America's diverse population of some 308 million enjoys the civil rights Dr. King advocated, including 224 million whites, more than 42 million African-Americans, over 14.5 million Asians and about 3 million American Indians and Alaska natives. Just over 50 million of the U.S. population is of Hispanic origin. Profile America is in its 16th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010
U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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Discuss factors contributing to, or detracting from, safety, durability, client appeal, etc.
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(DETROIT, Mich.) — The 70-year-old girls' basketball coach of a Detroit high school shot two teenage attackers who tried to rob him as he was escorting two players to their cars, police said.
The coach was allegedly approached by two men who brandished a gun at him as he was walking two players to their cars near Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School Friday night, ABC's Detroit affiliate WXYZ-TV reported.
The coach, who police said has a concealed pistol license and is reportedly a reserve police officer, then pulled out his gun and shot at his attackers.
One of the attackers died from the shooting, while the other was rushed to the hospital, WXYZ reported.
Both of the coach's alleged attackers attended Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School, but one of the students had recently been expelled and was not allowed to be on school grounds, WXYZ reported.
The coach was not a teacher at the school.
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May 13, 2002
The President Signs H.R. 2646 into Law "Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002"
On May 13, 2002, the President signed H.R. 2646 (P.L. 107-171) into law, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. Specific bill provisions of interest to SSA follow.
Pilot Projects for Improved Access to Benefits
- Would provide Federal funding of up to $5 million for each fiscal year 2003-2007 for access and outreach pilot projects for States to improve the process of applying for food stamps, SSI, Medicaid, SCHIP, and other benefits programs, and for coordinating application and eligibility determination processes with such programs.
Legal Immigrant Children
- Would restore eligibility for food stamps for all legal immigrant children regardless of their date of entry into the United States effective October 1, 2003.
Qualified Aliens
- Would restore food stamp eligibility for qualified alien adults who are receiving disability benefits regardless of date of entry effective October 1, 2003.
- Would provide food stamp eligibility to any otherwise eligible qualified aliens who have continuously resided in the United States for 5 years or more. The provision would be effective April 1, 2003.
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I was wondering if I could do a quilt as you go without the backing and then do a quick stitch in the ditch to secure the back to the quilt. I have read that when you quilt as you go you hand sew the backing pieces together.
I don't have that kind of time to finish a memorial quilt for a friend. I have spent so much time agonizing other this, I want it to be perfect and I am so new and inexperienced, plus when you print out the fabric photos the fabric is so different from regular fabric. If you need to unsew a row of the stitching, the holes never ever close back up like with regular fabric. So, I have to make the photo smaller, which means adding sashing to the block or reprint it.
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Monaco, Holiday Rambler Launch 2015 Coaches
December 2, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Monaco, Holiday Rambler Launch 2015 Coaches
Monaco and Holiday Rambler will have all-new 2015 motorhomes on display at the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's (RVIA) 51st Annual National RV Trade Show, running Tuesday (Dec. 3) through Thursday at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
According to a press release, motorhome will be on display in Booth No. 3000 in the North Wing. The public debut of the new models is scheduled at the Florida RV SuperShow in Tampa, Jan. 15 – 19.
The 2015 Monaco Dynasty features an all-new Roadmaster chassis – supported by Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. – which features a big bore Cummins engine.
A return to classic, traditional styling is apparent in the 2015 Dynasty as it continues its strong legacy as Monaco's most luxurious motorhome. Everything from floorplans to features has been designed using the input from Monaco owners, making the new Dynasty a true reflection of luxury RV owners' wants and needs. A limited number of 2015 Dynasty models will be produced in 2014.
Holiday Rambler will debut an exciting all-new concept design for its 2015 Vacationer Class A gas motorhome at the show. The Vacationer will feature floorplans with spacious bathrooms and well-utilized kitchen storage.
"The last few months have been incredibly exciting as we've watched our new 2015 models begin to take shape," stated Mike Snell, President of Monaco and Holiday Rambler. "They represent a revival of both brands as we introduce bigger engines than ever before and incorporate feedback from our owners in the design process. These are truly products inspired by our owners inside and out."


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Markham is fortunate to have access to an abundant supply of the world's fresh water, but we only have one source and share it with over 9 million people in Ontario and New York State. The cost of clean water continues to rise as Markham meets the demands of an increasing population, attends to the expansion and maintenance of infrastructure, and complies with public health standards. Being water efficient protects our environment and our drinking water supply for today and for future generations – and it can also save you money!
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Older toilets (installed prior to 1994) can use between 13-20 litres of water per flush and an average person flushes the toilet 5 times per day. Replacing a high volume toilet is one of the best ways to reduce water use and save money.
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A South Miami Real Estate Blog that provides daily information, opinions and statistics on South.. Miami, High Pines and Ponce Davis real estate. Riley is a realtor specializing in luxury.. residential real estate.
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One of the premier tennis tournaments of the year returned to New York City last week.
Play officially began on Monday, but the excitement and buzz was brewing the week before, even if Hurricane Irene did temporarily put a halt to the fanfare over the weekend, including canceling the popular Arthur Ashe Kid's Day.
As players began arriving in Queens, several of the bigger stars met with the media to discuss the upcoming two-week tournament. Serena Williams, who missed last year's U.S. Open, is widely considered the favorite among the field of women, even after coming back from an injury.
"I feel good. I feel really good," she said. "It's been a good summer, so I feel solid."
As play began Monday afternoon, one of tennis' biggest stars nearly made a very early exit. The women's No. 3 seed, Maria Sharapova, lost the first set to 19-year-old Heather Watson and battled from behind to take the second. She easily dispatched of Watson in the third, but not before getting a big scare.
Afterward, Sharapova said it was one of her toughest first-round matches at a major championship ever.
"Yeah, no doubt that it was one of the toughest that I've had," she said after the match. "To be honest, it's quite expected. Obviously not really knowing too much about my opponent and not facing against her before, I don't know, she just came out and played really smart."
In other play on Monday, the men's No. 3 seed, Roger Federer, cruised past Santiago Giraldo in straight sets to advance to the second round.
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Parents: Doug and Vera Juhlin
School: Hononegah
Year: Senior
High school sports you play (w/position): Cross country and track (800M, 1600M)
Organizations you're involved in (Both in and outside of school): Band, French Club, Choir, band and choir at Hope Evangelical Church, Youth Group, Summer VBS Program, AP Scholar, Grace on Campus
Personal highlight (Sports or not): Going out for a sport and really enjoying it. I like that I excelled at it.
Hobbies: Music, Paint shoes, Read, Hang out with my sisters
Favorite movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)
Favorite TV show:Star Trek
Favorite musician or group(s): Jason Mraz
Favorite food: French Bread
Your inspiration: My older sister. She is a year older and was my inspiration to get into running.
Superstitions: I always double knot my shoes
What song would like playing when you step onto the field/court: "Sail" by AWOLNATION
Something people would be surprised to know about you: My little sister and I look almost exactly alike
You're best attribute: I try to be really nice to everyone and I'm hilarious.
You're worst attribute: I get really cranky when I'm hungry
You're biggest sports wish/dream/fantasy: I would like to run the 3-mile in 19:30
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|South Coast Gymnastics
2014 Season: Was in the lineip for seven meets on floor…scored a career high 9.775 at Cal/Washington…averaged 9.664 during the year…also had six exhibitions on vault with a high of 9.725 at Stanford/Arizoan…earned the Hornet Award which goes to the Sacramento State student-athlete who does the most in the community.
2013 Season: Competed on vault in four meets…missed the first seven meets of the season due to a shoulder injury…made her debut with an exhibition against UC Davis…scored 9.800 at the WAC Championships to set her career high…also scored 9.775 against Utah State.
2012 Season: Primarily competed on vault where she was in the lineup for four meets and had four exhibitions…scored 9.650 at Boise State for her high…received a pair of 9.750s in exhibition routines…also competed on floor in one meet with two exhibitions.
2011 Season: Was used primarily on vault as a true freshman…also saw action on bars and floor…was in the vault lineup for eight meets…had a best of 9.675 at the Lady Luck Invitational against Kent State…also scored 9.675 against Utah State and in the three-team meet featuring Boise State and UC Davis…best bars score was 9.475 at California.
Prior to Sacramento State: Competed at the club level for South Coast Gymnastics for 13 years…was named the club's Gymnast of the Year in 2008…was the state vault champion in 2008 and placed third at regionals.
Personal: Majoring in speech pathology…graduated from Mission Viejo HS in 2010…parents are Angel and Laura Montoya…sister, Amelia, was a member of the Utah State gymnastics team.
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|9.800 at WAC Championship (March 23, 2013)
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The Lake of Albano
WRIGHT of Derby, Joseph (1734 - 1797)
Date: 1790
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 101.9 x 126.4 cm
Acquired: 1946; Gift; F.J. Nettlefold
Accession Number: NMW A 109
Wright was the first truly talented British painter to make a successful career by choice outside London. Most of his pictures were either of or for the growing middle classes prospering from the Industrial Revolution. His visit to Italy in 1773-75 provided sufficient material for him to paint views of Italy for the rest of his life. The Lake of Albano and its surrounding countryside were much admired by British tourists visiting Italy in the eighteenth century. The relaxed figures in the foreground imbue the grand sweep of the lake with an air of contentment.


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Facebook has three days to remove a page on its network created specifically to monitor the location of known pedophiles, following a ruling from a high court in Northern Ireland that the page was illegal and breached the human rights of those publicly "named and shamed" on the page as convicted sex offenders.
The ruling came at the end of a case brought by one of the people named on the page, a convicted sex offender whose identity cannot be revealed publicly but is known as XY. XY had challenged Facebook to remove the page after he had discovered his photograph on it, noting that he had received threatening comments as a result and arguing that the page breached his human rights, an argument that High Court Judge Mr. Justice McClosky agreed with. "Society has dealt with the plaintiff in accordance with the rule of law," McClosky wrote in his ruling, "He has been punished by incarceration and he is subject to substantial daily restrictions on his lifestyle."
When initially contacted by XY, Facebook had apparently removed his photograph from the page, as well as deleting all comments on the page about him, but his legal team pushed for a more aggressive solution. Although Facebook has been ordered to remove the page within 72 hours, it is still up at time of writing with 5,342 likes and 290 people "talking" about it on the network. Following the verdict, a spokesperson for Facebook said that the company was "considering our next steps in light of the court judgment and we have nothing further to add at this stage."
Those behind the page are more pro-active, however, with the most recent comments on the page promising that, if the page is removed, it will only be a temporary setback, as a replacement page has already been created (That page, however, only has 301 likes). It should be noted that the new page bears the new instructions "Please refrain from rude/violent comments. Posting such comments could lead to your removal." (That request hasn't been followed by those posting comments on the page, which include "bring back hanging for pedos, they shouldn't have any human rights because their not human" and "wow i can't believe this guy! he has the right to be castrated and tortured for the rest of his life like his victims will be… hope someone takes a hammer to his head" Other comments include a request for names of London-based sexual offenders because people have "special treats for them" and someone suggesting that "all pedoes should have pedo braded into thier foreheads.")
It's unknown at this time whether Facebook will appeal the ruling, or whether it will be forced to remove the second page in addition to the first.


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* Equity markets execs, regulators agree to close on Tuesday -sources
* Final decision expected Monday afternoon -sources
* Bond market closed on Tuesday
* Six IPOs could face delays
Oct 29 (Reuters) - U.S. stock market executives, regulators and brokers have agreed to close the U.S. stock markets on Tuesday because of Hurricane Sandy, with an official announcement coming shortly, said people who were on an industry-wide call on the matter on Monday.
Every effort is being made to reopen markets on Wednesday, but a final decision has not been made yet, one of the people said.
The decision involved senior leadership of the exchanges, executives from brokerage firms and officials from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The U.S. stock market's closure on Monday was its first weather-related shutdown in 27 years.
Bond markets, which closed at noon EDT on Monday, will not reopen on Tuesday, a trade group said.
``It doesn't make sense to put people in harm's way or to only have half a market,'' said Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group in New York. ``If just the electronic market was open, that wouldn't provide enough interest, with everything else still closed.''
Equities trading executives said they were spending the day Monday pressing NYSE Euronext and the Nasdaq OMX to clearly communicate their plan to avoid a repeat of Sunday night.
Market participants and regulators decided late on Sunday to shut the stock and options markets, reversing an earlier plan to keep electronic trading going on Monday, leaving some people complaining about the confusion it caused.
The biggest problem with the New York Stock Exchange's initial plan to trade exclusively over its ARCA electronic system was that the contingency plan that it had created in March had not been vetted by many brokerage firms, the sources said.
The decision on whether to keep markets closed on Tuesday comes as Hurricane Sandy began battering the U.S. East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain. The monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousands scrambling for higher ground hours before the worst was due to strike. 1/8ID: nL1E8LT3SI 3/8
In New York, the mass transit system was shut down on Sunday evening, and many Wall Street employees were working from home, although major financial services firms were open for business at least with skeletal staff. Flooding is already hitting parts of Lower Manhattan and parts of New Jersey even before the storm makes landfall.
The decision to close the stock and options market came on Sunday night after SIFMA, the Wall Street trade group, held a conference call around 11 p.m. to debate whether to close, said a brokerage executive, who requested anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media.
``It was like trying to corral cats,'' the executive said.
Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey, said the bigger financial institutions were willing to have staffing to stay open.
``The closer it got to midnight, the less sense it made to do it, because people were willing to do less and less,'' he said. ``Then we got a message that our building in Jersey City, the front doors are going to be sandbagged, so that effectively ended that.''
An NYSE spokesman said a decision on when to resume trading was an industry decision.
Joe Christinat, a spokesman at Nasdaq, said, ``All the exchanges and members and regulators and city officials are discussing this right now.''
T.R. Lazo, a lawyer at the trade group Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, who is leading coordination of how to resume trading, did not return a call for comment.
The securities industry would have preferred that bond markets had remained closed all day Monday, but the U.S. Treasury department had a bill auction scheduled that had to proceed, two people familiar with the situation said.
Most of the trading activity on Monday in bond markets was in money markets, according to a source at a large Wall Street bank.
Clients have been trying to quickly roll over debt that was coming due Monday and Tuesday in the small window they had this morning before markets close. There was very little to no activity in other markets, the source said.
The stock market's closure means that companies that were looking to go public may have to wait longer. Six initial public offerings currently scheduled to price later this week will likely have to be pushed back, equity capital markets sources said. They added that decisions were being made now between underwriters and the issuers.
``We can't market some of these deals while no one is on the other side of the phone,'' said one equity capital markets banker at a large Wall Street bank. Some deals may be pushed back to next week after the election, the source said.
A spokesperson for Restoration Hardware, the highest profile of the public offerings set to launch this week, could not be reached for a comment.
Radius Health, which was set to price its $61.8 million IPO later this week, is in a ``wait-and-see mode,'' said Chief Financial Officer Nick Harvey. ``We haven't made any decisions yet,'' he added.
Equity futures continued to trade through Monday morning, closing at 9:15 a.m. EDT. CME Group Inc said it was closing its interest-rate futures trading as of noon EDT.


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JennKBM wrote:Even more disgusting...
Why? She knew the dogs were there, she knew the conditions they were in, she knew what they were being bred and sold for and she profited from their suffering.
She SHOULD be held accountable.
JennKBM wrote:Even more disgusting...
julie k wrote:Where the H is Cesar Milan when you need him?!!
Just heard on the news that the owner is being charged for their care while they are at the Humane Society, a huge amount of money.
Julie K
JennKBM wrote:However, I do feel sympathy for a wife (ANY WIFE), and her children that have to sit tied up while their loved one bleeds to death, and not being able to help. I can't imagine the horror she felt that night, not only her, but their children.
Court orders most of 285 pit bulls to be put to death
By CINDY HORSWELL
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Most of the 285 pit bull terriers seized from what authorities said was a nationwide breeding operation for dogfighting were ordered euthanized Thursday.
If carried out, it would be the largest number of dogs seized by the Houston Humane Society ever put to death, a spokeswoman said.
Liberty County Justice of the Peace Phil Fitzgerald issued the euthanasia order after a hearing in which a veterinarian testified that pit bulls trained for fighting usually cannot be rehabilitated as pets.
The only exception in Fitzgerald's order was for puppies under 6 months of age, which the veterinarian said could be reformed. Fitzgerald ordered pups under 6 months of age — about 60 of the seized dogs — to be sold at public auction.
If nobody buys the pups, they are to be put up for adoption through the Humane Society, the judge said.
The pit bull breeding facility was uncovered Aug. 2, when authorities were dispatched to a 23-acre spread near Cleveland to investigate a fatal home invasion. According to investigators, Thomas F. Weigner Jr., 27, bled to death after being shot in the leg by three masked intruders. His wife, Julie Laban, their three children and her parents witnessed the shooting while bound with tape.
The intruders searched the property, presumably for large sums of money they believed hidden in the brick home, investigators said, but left without harming Weigner's other family members.
Dog auction a bit unusual
"It's unusual to have an auction for dogs. This is something that you generally see for cattle or horses," said Courtney Frank, Houston Humane Society spokeswoman.
The judge also barred the puppies to be auctioned from being neutered or spayed, but Frank said that conflicts with a state law ordering such procedures on any animal leaving the Humane Society or shelter.
"We're trying to research how this should be handled," she said.
The case broke the record for the number of dogs taken into custody by the Houston Humane Society, and if they are euthanized, that also will set a record, Frank said. The previous record seizure occurred in February of 2005, when more than 200 dogs of various breeds were seized from a "puppy mill" in Tyler County, she said.
"But a majority of those were adopted out and only about 75 to 100 had to be put down," she said.
Since the Liberty County seizure, the Humane Society has had trouble with individuals trying to break in and find these dogs, Frank said. Officials said Weigner had a reputation in dogfighting circles of having valuable breeding stock, with investigators putting the seizure's worth at as much as $1 million.
"We've also had a lot of people whose hearts have been touched and want to adopt these dogs," Frank said. Laban was not present for Thursday's hearing, but was represented by attorney Dick Wheelan, of Houston.
Wheelan said Laban has denied the pit bulls were being bred to fight.
He described her as a widow still reeling from her husband's death and afraid to return from Michigan, where she went to bury him because of the threat of her possible arrest in the dogfighting investigation.
Because the estate has not been probated, Wheelan said his client was unable to post the $28,000 bond for a delay in the proceeding so he could examine the dogs and mount a defense.
Wheelan asked for another delay Thursday, but the judge denied it.
"She did not even bother to show up on her own behalf today," Assistant County Attorney Mark Beausoleil said, adding Laban also failed to produce any veterinary records for the animals.
During the hearing, Wheelan called no witnesses. In his closing argument, he argued Laban may not have been aware of the breeding operation and, therefore, should not be held accountable nor prevented from receiving her rightful inheritance from her spouse's estate.
Beausoleil introduced 33 pieces of evidence, including numerous photographs he said showed evidence of cruel treatment and that they possibly were being bred to fight.
He pointed to chains hanging from a treadmill and a large tank with 6-foot walls, in which a dog would be placed to swim and could not escape, that he said were used for endurance training.
Many of the dogs were staked on short chains in circular muddy patches, just close enough to constantly squabble but not touch each other, which an investigator said was a common method for teaching aggression.
No shelter, no water
The Humane Society's chief veterinarian, Dr. Timothy Harkness, and animal cruelty investigator, Mark Timmers, testified the dogs were also severely neglected, noting five had died since coming into their custody.
Some of the animals had no place to go to escape the weather, many were staked in flooded areas, and some had no water or only contaminated water available, they said.
They also said food appeared to have been thrown on the ground, sometimes out of reach of dogs whose ribs were showing by the time they were seized.
Other prevalent medical problems included hair loss, eye infections and parasitic worms.
"That many dogs would produce a ton of fecal matter a week," Harkness said. "A lot ended up everywhere. All over the dogs' fur and chains."
Wheelan said he will discuss with his client whether to appeal Fitzgerald's order.
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Enjoy some good one-liners and bits from your favorite late-night comedians.
"The White House is looking through our phone records, checking our computers, monitoring our emails. When did the government suddenly become our psycho ex-girlfriend? When did that happen?" –Jay Leno
"The IRS has taken some heat for reportedly spending $4 million on a conference in Anaheim last year, where employees took dancing lessons. One of the dances they learned? Tap dancing around the issues." –Jay Leno
"If Obama wants to put this snooping thing to good use, how about spying on the IRS the next time they throw a $4 million party? Why don't you do that?" –Jay Leno
"President Obama was visiting a middle school yesterday, and while he was there he said that every school in the U.S. should have high-speed Internet. Then it got awkward when one kid said, 'Why, so you can read our emails faster?'" –Jimmy Fallon
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Pets, Pets, Pets
The dog is probably the most varied mammal on the planet. With about 300 breeds recognized worldwide, the origin of the name of each breed may not be as evolutionary or revolutionary as Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species, but nevertheless each etymology is intriguing. While many types of dogs are named after the country, region or tribe that first developed them, other breed names are linked to canine characteristics.
Etymology is the study of word origins. Breeds tend to be named after places, familiar sites like Boston Terriers born and bred in Bean Town, or obscure ones such as Salukis named for an ancient town in Arabia; after people such as Louis Doberman (and his beloved Pinscher) or the Duke of Gordon (and his royal Setter); after specific jobs including Pointers or Shepherds (as in "herd the sheep"); or after talents/ descriptions such as "Borzoi" being Russian for "swift" and "Shihtzu" being Mandarin for "lion". "Schnauzer" translates as "schnauz" or "snout" in German, and the French "barbichon frise" morphs into "Bichon Frise" or "curly lap dog".
Starting with the basics, both "dog" and "hound" derive from Old English. "Dog" comes from "docga" meaning "powerful breed of canine" whereas "hound" is from "hund" which was narrowed in the 12th C. to refer to a "dog used for hunting." (Specifically "Basset" is "low" in Old French and "Dasch" is "badger" in German, thus, explaining the names of these two stubby-legged hounds);
"Terrier" comes from the Latin "terra" meaning "earth" because these scrappy pups pursue their prey (rats, rabbits) in their burrows. "Spaniel" is a 13th C. word that denotes a dog that came from Spain. "Poodles" are not French. Actually their name is from the German "pudel" meaning "to splash" because Poodles were water dogs. The elaborate coifs helped their aquatics. Meanwhile "Vizsla" has a double translation, as 'to seek" in Turkish and "to point" in Hungarian, and "Schipperke" means "little boatman" (think-"skipper") in Dutch because these compact canines were watchdogs on barges.
Most of the Arctic sled dogs (Huskies, Malamutes, Samoyeds) are named for the Inuit or Siberian people who first bred them. Some breeds read like an obscure geography lesson. Dalmatians hail from a region in Croatia; Lhasa Apsos from the capital of Tibet. The ancient Roman army marched with their unique Mastiffs through a German town called Rottweil. Sound familiar? Airedales were developed near the Aire River in Yorkshire, England.
Yet other breeds besides French Poodles are map misnomers. Great Danes originated either in Britain or Germany depending on which expert you believe. The gentle giants got their mistaken name in the 1700s from a French naturalist who noticed these majestic dogs while he was traveling in Denmark. Labrador Retrievers are really from Newfoundland. Labrador is nearby. Although Pharaoh Hounds look like they stepped off the walls of the pyramids, recent DNA mapping says they are not an ancient Egyptian breed, but they are documented more recently as the national dog of Malta.
Certain breeds like Collies, Pugs, and Chows have several explanations for their names. The word "Collie" either stems from the Anglo Saxon word for "black like coal" or the Gaelic "cuilean" for "puppy". In the 1700s Pugs may have been named for their resemblance to Pug monkeys, popular as pets then, or for the Latin word "pugnus" meaning "fist" because the Pug's profile looked like a clenched fist. Another idea is that "Pug" is a misspelling of the mischievous fairy "Puck" in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Chows also have two possible backgrounds. For their sake, let's hope the second one is true. "Chow" might be Chinese slang for "edible". The other thought is that in the 1800s clipper ships would travel to the Far East. Theodds and ends cargo was referred to as "Chow Chow".
Beagles too have multiple theories about the root of their name. Snoopy's ancestors may be described by the French term "be'geule" which means "gape throat" because of their baying voice or possibly by the Celtic word "beag" meaning "small". Whichever is correct, isn't it only fitting that during his Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin, a dog lover, recorded his groundbreaking observations about the whole natural world? Sons of Snoopy everywhere are baying with pride about their famous namesake ship.
For Adoption at Town of Oyster Bay Shelter (677- 5784) Miller Pl. Syosset: "Sasha" #067 is a special gal. This blue Great Dane mix about 9 years old came into the shelter with heartworm so the Town got her treated at their vet. Sasha is an absolutely sweet senior, but very thin. If she is lucky enough to find a home now, hopefully her spay can be postponed until she is recovered and stronger. Meanwhile "Neytiri" #146 is also a slim girl. She resembles a brindle Greyhound/ Whippet mix.
Male: "Romeo" #603 handsome Cane Corso mix with light green eyes; "Simba" #685-Pit mix; "Nilly" #092- buff kitten in the lobby. He touches your cheek with his paw.
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I knooowwww. Enough with "Call Me Maybe" already, right? I'm with you. I was done when the U.S. Olympic Swim Team did their rendition. And truth be told, I haven't watched another version since. Until today. I don't know what possessed me to click on yet another video of this seriously-run-its-course song (the subject line in my email that read: "Seriously, this is the cutest thing ever!" didn't hurt). But I'm glad I did. These senior citizens at Waverley Mansion retirement home are seriously the cutest things ever. Watch this. Now! Do it or we're in a fight!
Is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen? I mean, come on. And I love how it's barely edited at all. Just a bunch of super old people trying to lip sync to Carly Rae Jepsen. Adorable. Oh, and I also love how in the comments section on the YouTube posting, someone asked Sarah Urquhart, the uploader and editor, to do more videos, and she replied: "YES! Get ready for our Christmas number in December...and I am working a few ways to do Gangnam style :)" Love!
Okay, but seriously everyone, now can we get a new song?
How g.d. cute is this? Are you over this song already?
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Skip to comments.NY Times: White House declines to deny Obama lied about his mother (& her medical insurance)
Posted on 07/17/2011 5:58:26 AM PDT by Libloather
NY Times: White House declines to deny Obama lied about his mother
July 15, 2011
by Jonathan S. Tobin
Commentary Magazine
In other words, Obama lied in order to make a political point.
The early death of the presidents mother was a tragedy for her family, but Obamas manipulation of the narrative about her life was utterly unscrupulous. While her battle for disability coverage probably was stressful, that has nothing to do with her sons subsequent efforts to impose a government health care plan on the nation. Moreover, it should also be pointed out the president is in no position to claim his untrue account of his mothers problems was the result of a misunderstanding about a matter in which he was not involved. According to Scott, the correspondence says his mother referred to her son as her attorney in these matters.
For those with short memories, its important to recall that Obama has used this story repeatedly, including during one of the presidential debates with opponent John McCain. During that debate he said:
For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because theyre saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they dont have to pay her treatment, theres something fundamentally wrong about that.
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Politicians will say ANYTHING to get their way.
besides, that may cause people to begin asking: "What other parts of his life has Obama lied about?" And that is a HUGE can o' worms.
Period. Ann Coulter's new book? "DEMONIC" -- pretty much says it all.
The NYT would save reams of paper and gallons of ink if they would just print things that obama DOESN'T lie about...it would be blank,basically.
I don't feel confident that any GOP candidate will bring this up in any upcoming debate with him.
No surprise here.
The Bullsh*t light on my computer goes off every time Obama is mentioned.
BUt just the fact that the NYT printed this at all is telling. It was one of our founders that coined the phrase that facts are stubborn things.
Now a followup on his assertion that 80% of Americans want taxes to be increased would be in line to follow a theme, but then again maybe it has as I didn't give the NYT the web hit to find out.
Oh, hell no. They're primarily spineless, they're meek, and they want the press to like them, to not call them "mean-spirited" or "racist". Same as always. Here's my news to them: The Press hate you, they always will, and they'll call you "mean-spirited" and "racist" and a hundred other vindictives throughout your life. Deal with it and fight hard!
Yeah, really. He has lied about everyone else in his family.
Ah, you fall for the MSM trickery again!
During Clinton we had all sorts of stories (after the fact) about his lies. The MSM must expose these lies after they have made their impact just to say that the media is fair.
In Clinton's case, the lies were so numerous that the media started marveling at how good he was at lying.
So, just because the NYT runs a story --- 2 years late -- about Obama lying is not a victory for us in any way!!!!!
Not falling for the trickery if they had the smarts to devise such a brilliant plan, if I had then I would have clicked onto their site.
I have no illusions this is a crack in the veneer, just amazed it got past the editorial staff.
Ann Coulter's new book? "DEMONIC" -- pretty much says it all.
And they can easily hold two totally opposite opinions in their alleged minds at the same time without seeing any conflict. It is a mental disease.
that lie served it's purpose, the new lie being shouted is how the GOP wants to destroy the economy, social security, medicare, medicade, push granny off a cliff. and the press is going to help the donks in everyway they can.
yeah........he threw his granny under the bus in his "civil rights" speech... the granny that fed him and took care of him. looks like he took a page from the Al Gore book when he milked his sister's (?) cancer to a fare-thee-well.....O is beginning to rank with Casey Anthony in terms of making things up.
Why all this the fuss over one of Obama's lies?
I've read articles and blog sites devoted to listing Obama's lies. I dont recall seeing articles or blog sites refuting the fact that Obama's lies repeatedly.
Although I do recall several insinuations, that Obama is awesome. Perhaps that meant Obama is an awesome liar. However, I would think an awesome liar would be a liar whose lies werent so often exposed, a stealthy liar if you will.
My first recollection of an Obama lie was when he announced he was a constitutional law professor. This got my attention. I remember saying to myself, any candidate who understood the Constitution is one I could vote for.
Obama is a constitutional activist who ignores the founders vision for America provided by the Constitution and conducts an administration that supports his Socialist agenda.
The early death of the presidents mother was a tragedy for her family.
Why was it such a tradgedy? When she was alive and well she never spent that much time with them anyway.
An early death is a tradgedy in any family. My father died at 51, but he was with his family his whole life, not roaming around Indonesia, while others in the family raised his children.
Absolutely right.
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text: USC commitment DB Pharoh Cooper of Havelock, NC played free safety in the Offense-Defense Game in Houston Monday. "I made about 4-5 tackles and had a big hit in the middle," he said. Cooper said he also returned a punt, which he lost on a fumble. Cooper was outstanding the Shrine Bowl and was North Carolina's Offensive MVP. He has been committed to USC May but North Carolina continues to work him and will meet with him Friday at his school. "They are trying to get me to flip," Cooper said. "I'm just taking it in. I'm solid to the Gamecocks." Cooper said the only official visit he plans to make is to USC January 19th. Steve Spurrier has been to his school but has not made his in home visit. He hears regularly from USC recruiter Brad Lawing. The Gamecocks have Cooper in line for a job in the secondary, but he's also eying the return game. "If Ace (Sanders) leaves, I will have a quick shot in the punt return game," Cooper said.