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We've just moved into a prewar apartment whose previous owners stripped it of all the old hardware and installed cheap and ugly doorknobs, latches, and pulls. Where can I go for attractive replacements?
You're not wrong for caring about the hardware: Savvy renovators know that the value of an apartment can be significantly increased just by upgrading knobs, faucets, and spigots. The clever hands at P.E. Guerin (23 Jane Street; 243-5270; by appointment only) could actually custom-make copies of your building's original fixtures. This family-owned firm -- purveyor of the city's haute-est hardware -- has a foundry in Spain, so its craftsmen can make anything, including reproductions. Mostly, their work is brass or bronze, but they will also do nickel and stainless steel.
Though Kraft (306 East 61st Street; 838-2214) does most of its business with the pros -- architects, builders, and designers -- its salesmen are tolerant of the novice, and the prices are reasonable. Solid-brass pieces are the company's own designs, made for it in France, Germany, and Portugal, but customers can choose from seventeen finishes, included nickel and verdi antique.
Another trade-oriented but customer-friendly store, Simon's Hardware (421 Third Avenue, near 29th Street; 532-9220) is worth a detour for its selection. There's a whole department filled with doorknobs and locksets, and there are floor-to-ceiling displays of pulls and hooks in every conceivable style.
A homewares supermarket, Gracious Home (1220 Third Avenue, near 70th Street, 517-6300; and, opening September 28, 1992 Broadway, at 67th Street, 231-7800) is decked out with scads of pulls, knobs, and hinges in every style -- ornate to sleek -- and all sorts of materials, including Lucite. It's a great source for the do-it-yourselfer.
After schlepping a suitcase around Europe this summer, I want one of those bags on wheels.
I've just confronted the rolling-Pullman problem myself. Experts say that the important things to check are the fabric (ballistic nylon is tearproof and the most durable), the zippers (should be industrial), and the wheels (Rollerblade or ball-bearing). Tumi was rated one of the best by Consumer Reports, but that was in 1995. Though it's still considered excellent, it's also one of the most expensive of the commercial brands, and no one will admit (at least openly) to discounting Tumi. The luggage pros give Andiamo and TravelPro high marks for performance and durability, and these two pass the checkout test with flying colors: They're covered in ballistic nylon and have industrial zippers and Rollerblade wheels. And TravelPro (made by the company that introduced the first flight-attendant bag-on-wheels) is considered the best buy for the money. Altman Luggage (135 Orchard Street; 254-7275) and Bettinger's Luggage Shop (150 Allen Street; 674-9411) offer deep discounts and will deliver in Manhattan.
Sleep Sofas
I just moved into a one-room apartment, and I need a sofabed. What should I look for, and who carries the best?
They're never as comfortable as regular sofas and they're a hassle to pull out and fold back, but they're a New Yorker's rite of passage. What you want are kiln-dried wood frames, a heavy-gauge-metal mattress frame, innerspring mattresses, and plenty of padding. My designer friends tell me that Avery-Boardman (979 Third Avenue, near 58th Street; 688-6611) makes the best in town, but it's a to-the-trade-only house. The good news is that the sleep sofas at Carlyle Custom Convertibles (1056 Third Avenue, at 62nd Street; 838-1525) and Carlyle Studio Collection (1375 Third Avenue, near 78th Street; 570-2236) are made in the Avery-Boardman factory and offer many of the same features: Frames are kiln-dried, springs are eight-way hand-tied, backs and sides are fully padded, and the innerspring mattress is supported by a woven steel frame. Even the folding mechanism is the same. The styling is traditional, but each of the styles can be had in five sizes, and you can add custom touches with piping and skirts.
Leather Furniture
That vintage Art Deco clubchair is so yesterday, but I'm crazy for leather furniture. What's great today?
With the newest breed of leather sofas and chairs resembling Pillsbury Doughboys (all puffed up and covered in stuff so unnaturally soft you have to wonder what it could be), I have a yen for leather that looks and feels like the real stuff. And I'm a pushover for styles that hint at libraries in great old houses, like Ralph Lauren's tufted and oversize Writer's Chair covered in distressed leather, and his regal tufted-and nail-headed North Hall Queen Anne-ish armchair. They're available at Polo/Ralph Lauren (867 Madison Avenue, at 72nd Street, fourth floor; 606-2100), and Bloomingdale's (1000 Third Avenue, at 59th Street, sixth floor; 705-2000). Also appealingly bookish is ABC Carpet & Home's (888 Broadway, at 19th Street, fifth floor; 473-3000) distressed-leather sofas, replete with nail heads. But if your style cravings demand something more moderne, check out Le Corbusier's classic leather sofa on a chrome-plated frame at Cassina USA (155 East 56th Street; 245-2121). More radical? Ralph Lauren's new chaise (at Polo/Ralph Lauren and ABC) -- all woven leather and stainless steel -- looks hot, hot, hot.
We just moved into a new apartment, and it's dark. I need lighting -- hanging lights, lamps, the works. My furniture is pretty eclectic. Where should I look?
Attempting to single out just one store makes me break out in a sweat. So many styles, so many sources. Don't go to Remains (19 West 24th Street, Second floor; 675-8051) looking for the ordinary: This neat gallery is a secret resource for many of the city's top interior designers when they need plummy vintage hanging lights. Hundreds of globes of every age, style, and size hang from the ceiling and owner David Calligeros can marry them to all manner of fittings -- nickel, copper, brass.
Looking like stalactites, glittery hand-blown Venetian-glass chandeliers cover every inch of the ceiling in the Parlour Cafe at ABC Carpet & Home (888 Broadway, at 19th Street; 473-3000), and there are hundreds more hanging from the ceiling on the fourth floor. A kind of chandelier Eden, ABC stocks at least 500 mostly European nineteenth-century beauties at all times: crystal, iron, wood, gilt, milk-glass, and alabaster globes, in addition to the Venetian glass. Also on four is an excellent selection of table and standing lamps.
An antidote for anyone grumbling about the disappearance of the old-fashioned neighborhood store, Barry of Chelsea Antiques (154 Ninth Avenue, near 19th Street; 242-2666) is appropriately dusty and cluttered, and, like the best of the old-time stores, is presided over by an owner -- Barry Lewin -- who is a pundit of what he sells. Among the hodgepodge of his lovingly restored lighting is Art Deco milk-glass hanging lights, thirties schoolhouse globes (some looking like inverted wedding cakes), sconces of every age, desk lamps, and twenties boudoir lamps.
Nowhere is there a greater concentration of Art Deco hanging lights and sconces than at Uplift Lighting (506 Hudson Street; 929-3632). The store has been around for twenty years, so most items are originals, but there are some nicely executed reproductions, too, and these are clearly marked. Adding to the overhead clutter are hand-painted globes from the twenties, and retro glass and brass hanging lampshades.
The fourth generation of the Liroff family oversees City Knickerbocker (781 Eighth Avenue, near 47th Street; 586-3939), a seemingly endless jumble of converted gaslights, Victorian sconces, crystal chandeliers, thirties floor lamps, and retro sixties fixtures. But it's not all vintage: The leaded art-glass lamps are new and Kenneth and Scott Liroff (the present owners) do nifty reproductions using old molds, so this is the place to come if you need six identical hanging globes.
An Italian company known for producing the most technologically advanced lighting, Artemide (46 Greene Street; 925-1588) has a sleek SoHo outpost where you can see the full range of its designs. Artemide, which enlists a coterie of international architects, artists, and craftsmen, creates everything from conservative desk lamps to funky luminaires in zillions of color variations.
Trendy lighting by top European designers is jammed into Lee's Studio (1755 Broadway, near 56th Street, 581-4400; and 1069 Third Avenue, near 63rd Street, 371-1122). In addition to the usual modern icons (Artemide's Tizio lamp and Koch & Lowy's Footsteps and Delta), there are reproductions of Art Deco classics.
The Bowery is known for lighting bargains, but you have to be prepared to sift through a lot of junk, and it's a good idea to shop around and know prices before you look here -- that bargain could end up costing. Two of the area's largest lighting emporiums are Lighting by Gregory (158 Bowery; 226-1276) and New York Gas Lighting (195 Bowery; 529-2651). The former fills four stores (formal to casual, everything from chandeliers to wall sconces to standing lamps to track) at a full range of prices, some surprisingly high-end. Gas Lighting has a more traditional selection of mostly brass and bronze chandeliers and brass floor lamps.
I'm tired of Calvin Kleinish boy-girl underthings. I want sexy lingerie.


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Thursday, June 30, 2011
A Citizens Guide to Automated License Plate Technology
ALPR. Image via Wikipedia
Have you seen cameras like this on police cars near you lately? You will. The technology is called ALPR- Automatic License Plate Recognition, and it's going to be almost everywhere in the US in the near future. ALPR allows the automated scanning of over a hundred plates a minute. That plate information is matched versus databases like NCIC (FBI database) in the US. That database will indicates vehicles reported stolen, criminal warrants, and so on. Local departments can add their own data to check against, including unpaid fines and tickets (scofflaws), and so forth.
There is some controversy is that the plates are scanned without "probable cause," but law enforcement argues that scanning a license is not a search, or arrest, at all, but running a publicly displayed license plate.
If there is a "hit" with an ALPR camera, the officer may usually make a stop, but must verify the hit before taking action, so, if done properly, there is a low chance that there will be a false arrest, etc. That is, unless the database information itself is wrong. In my experience, it's not that unusual for it to be wrong, but it's a low percentage.
For example, a stolen vehicle may be reported, but then the owner realizes that they just parked it at another location, or it was towed, and never calls back to report that it's been recovered. In that case, an officer has cause to pull over the "car thief" and even detain them. Similarly, people may be reported missing and then not removed from the NCIC database and be associated with a particular vehicle.
There are other uses for the data that's collected, however. Departments make use the the tag information which is associated with locations via GPS to place a person at a particular place in time. For example, a known distributor of narcotics may be under surveillance for a while, and patrol cars may not have any cause for a stop, but their ALPR cameras may capture the vehicle location and log it over and over. That may give a circumstantial locations to show that he/she was selling to someone at a particular location.
The privacy advocates may have the biggest issues with that stored location data of almost every car on the road. You may not realize it, but ALPR is in use all over the place. Any choke point on major roads may have it; almost all toll plazas have them, so they know when you enter and leave a toll road, and where; some bridges have them, such as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland; all speed and red light cameras utilize this technology, and many municipal parking lots are equipped with them. At this point, the databases are not shared with other agencies, but could easily be, on request, or via court order. Do you have a problem with that?
The main benefit to the public is that the stolen vehicles and wanted persons are pulled over NOW, not when they commit another crime. I am a big believer in the benefits of traffic stops. Many mass-murderers and gangsters have been taken down because of traffic stops, and major drug distributors are stopped every day because of traffic stops.
The other benefit to ALPR technology is Officer Safety, something near and dear to me. Wouldn't you like your officers to know that the vehicle they are stopping has a driver who may be wanted for armed robbery, or has a history of mental illness, or a long criminal record? How much safer will an officer be if he or she knows they need lots of backup, and need it NOW?! Too many officers die on traffic stops because they make so many that they become routine, and the ambusher inside the vehicle always has an advantage.
So, ALPR is here, and it will be even more prevalent in the next 2-5 years as the cost is going down. Keep your vehicle registration up to date, obey traffic laws, and don't rob any banks or stores, and you should be fine with ALPR on the road.
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This issue's mag not only includes the special Valentines Day Poster,
it has interviews with the producer of Digimon Adventure Tri, and special Valentines Interview with the 5 male protagonists from the Digimon Adventure. (Taichi, Yamato, Koushiro, Jou and Takeru)
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Even if you are translating to your own language. He was working really hard on this.)
Q: What is the meaning for the word 'tri'?
A: 'tri' represents the number 3, is 3 possible to be the keyword in the new series? I think so. Of course it is also the third of the Digimon Adventure series. People can pay attention to all kinds of 3 in the new series.
Q: 15 years have passed since Digimon Adventure, what are the thoughts and feelings when new season was announced?
We want to remind people the time we spent together through Digimon Adventure tri after 15 years. The story and anime will be targeted to adult audiences. Hopefully the same audiences who enjoyed Digimon Adventure 15 years ago, will enjoy Digimon Adventure once more. And for those who did not watched Digimon Adventure before, will enjoy Digimon Adventure tri.


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Montreal landmark restaurant recently reopened.
Saturday lunch with kids.
G orders burger and baked potato.
That will be extra, says Waiter.
I wouldn't mind springing for a baked, I tell Waiter. But according to menu, burger comes with choice of baked or fries.
Sorry, Waiter says. French menu says burger comes with fried or mashed.
Polite chuckles all around. We'll take the baked.
Husband's turn to order.
Wants burger and fries.
10 oz burger? Asks Waiter.
No, says Husband. Here on menu burger is 8 oz.
On French menu, says Waiter, burger is 10oz.
More polite chuckles.
G's burger comes. With fries.
Excuse me sir, I think he ordered the baked.
Oh. Kitchen having trouble getting used to English menu too.
Look over at next booth.
Another family having lunch. He's drinking a pint of beer. She's having a vodka orange.
On the English menu, they ordered diet Cokes.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Wonder What the Spanish Menu Says
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would this be the restaurant with the giant cow on the outside?ReplyDeleteReplies
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new restaurant sounds like it should be located in that famous "no success" spot on queen mary that has more a louer signs then anywhere elseReplyDelete
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The kids decided not to teach Intelligent Design in U.S. Schools
I found this unintelligent piece over at fantasy world – the author George Konig predicts science will remove from the schools within ten years. He does not mention any names of the scientists who have given up and any reasonable person would consider his claim to be nonsense.
I propose his article to be something like this (short version):
The kids decided not to teach Intelligent Design in U.S. Schools
There are several excellent articles on Evolution and Intelligent Design to mention like evidence for evolution and Survival Of The Flimsiest.
Most creationists' and believers of ID have already given up on the hypothesis of Intelligent Design because of lack of proof. Researchers did not know what to look for, and because the hypothesis was not testable, they made no research published ever.
They finally had to accept evolution as a fact because of scientific findings in the last twenty years and because of evidence for historical evolution like genetic, fossils, anatomical etc.
Due to the unwillingness of religious people in the education field to accept Evolution - for their own personal reasons - the debate have and will continue until the court in Pennsylvania put and end to all the nonsense.
In fact, many people of faith accept evolution as the scientific explanation for biodiversity.
End of article!
Proponents say Intelligent Design provides scientific answers for gaps and inconsistencies in the theory of evolution. They think an unnamed "designer" or "Goddidit" fills in the "gaps" and "problems" in Darwin's Theory of evolution.
However, problem with science has always been that a new discovery will lead to thousands of new questions.
With Intelligent Design, we do not need to find out and we could stop learning.
On the other hand, we could accept that "Science is hard."
The scientific community will not accept teaching pseudoscience in schools, and they will fight back unintelligent arguments like Goddidit with reasonable arguments, I think.


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Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Last week a pack of lawyers (a term to which they gained rights as part of the tobacco settlement) set upon Red Hat, Inc., as earlier they had infested and continue to infest VA Linux. They will soon be seeking other publicly traded Linux companies. What to think?
But just about everybody has picked a side in this dispute, when the fact is that no one's hands are clean. To understand this, we need to understand a unique set of circumstances and a unique set of players.
There's lots of talk currently of the late, lamented "new economy." This was, looked at one way, the emergence of an information society that promised untold wealth. The flip side was a whole lot of people, many of them wet-behind-the-ears fund managers, throwing all kinds of other people's money at things they didn't understand (as far as they knew, "broadband" was an all-female orchestra), while all kinds of businesses went berserk getting online when they had no business doing so -- the local convenience store's sign "Visit us on the Web at . . ." was and remains laughable, and a whole lot of companies with hare-brained business plans that no one asked them to defend were lined up to receive baskets of money. It's pretty obvious and always has been that this wasn't going to work out happily.
A huge bubble was created. It was going to burst, as bubbles always do. The lone question was "When?" It lasted longer than anyone thought, causing companies and investment houses to believe their own p.r. Companies hired people from all over the place. Web designers actually made money. Investors were eager, no desperate, to get in at the start, and most of them having missed it were increasingly frantic to put their money in any startup, no matter how ridiculous.
At the same time, in keeping with the current thinking that anyone who has a dollar more than I do is "rich," and in keeping with the current societal deification of anyone who can be styled a "victim," the lawyers started planning. It is no coincidence that California was the state chosen by class-action lawyers as the site of their ballot initiative that would have made it easier to bring shareholder lawsuits, for much of the "new economy" was headquartered in that state. (California also makes initiatives easy.)
The bubble burst. Share prices plummeted. Red Hat was trading at about 4 percent of its peak. (I use Red Hat as an example, but it has happened with many companies.) The rational analysis of it all is this: Companies that may or may not have had sensible reasons for going public did so, fueled in part by an investment community in search of product -- equities -- to sell. Investors, either individually or through their surrogates in mutual funds and retirement plans, snapped up these securities, driving prices to levels that scrutiny revealed were much too high. (This was made worse by the purchase of "sectors" rather than individual companies. This caused the bad companies to rise with the good ones, and, now, the good ones to crash with the bad.) When the obvious was finally seen, when the emperor's nudity and shortcomings became apparent, the rush away was as quick and as irrational as the rush into these shares had been.
Having prepared to do so, the lawyers pounced, filing shareholder lawsuits. It should be understood that, as attractive as the phrase "class-action" sounds to those of a collective bent, class-action lawsuits exist solely to enrich lawyers. That's why they file suit and then go looking for plaintiffs -- surely you've seen the advertisements on television, for instance, seeking people to join in a class-action lawsuit. (There are even a few counties in the country, most of them in southern states, that have become almost class-action theme parks, having made it known that they look favorably on that kind of litigation and are possessed of "soak the rich" -- anybody who has a dollar more than they do, which is almost everybody -- juries. Because securities lawsuits are usually based on federal law, it doesn't often matter where they are filed, which is why the VA and Red Hat suits won't be tried in the sunny south.)
So on first blush, it seems that no one is entirely in the wrong and no one is entirely in the right, but the suits seek to place blame wherever the money is, anyway.
This time, though, there appears to be another factor.
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As those of you who follow my blogs know, this week I'm focusing on the recipients of the 26th annual Bistro Awards taking place Tuesday night at The Gotham Comedy Club. I hope you have your tickets. Over the past three days, I've written about Liz Larken Brown, Nate Buccieri, Carole J. Bufford, Carol Channing, Anthony Cochran, Tyne Daly, Kevin Doxier, Michael Feinstein,Janice Hall, Sean Harkness, Allan Harris, and Dionne Warwick...all recipients! Today, I'm going to focus on Hilary Kole, Faye Lane, and Colleen McHugh.
Some of the Bistro's special honorees have included Mitzi Gaynor and Elaine Stritch (2010), Charles Aznavour and Liza Minnelli (2009), Marilyn Maye (2008), Betty Buckley (2007), Steve Ross (2006), as well as Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Cook, and many others.
Take a look at some of the recipients from 2009:
I first heard Hilary Kole sing when we did a memorial together a few years ago and I was instantly smitten. Hilary is receiving her Bistro for her Recording
"You Are There". Vocalist Hilary Kole's current release "You Are There," (Justin Time/JVC Japan) is a compilation of piano and vocal duets with some of the greatest artists in the history of jazz piano including Dave Brubeck, the late Hank Jones and many more. It is a follow-up to her debut recording produced by John Pizzarelli, "Haunted Heart" (Justin Time) which was released to critical acclaim in April of 2009, winning the Gold Disc Award in Japan, and receiving 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine. Both recordings are testaments to Hilary's musicianship and versatility as an artist in a career that started in a slightly different vein:
After studying composition at Manhattan School of Music, Hilary began performing as a vocalist at the legendary Rainbow Room as the youngest singer ever to grace the stage. From there, she debuted at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel as the co-writer and star of the critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway reviews, "Our Sinatra," and "Singing Astaire." She made her concert hall debut at Lincoln Center as part of the "American Songbook Series" with Jonathan Schwartz. In June 2007, she appeared at Carnegie Hall in a Tribute to Oscar Peterson, a performance reprised in January 2008 at the Canadian Memorial to Dr. Peterson at Roy Thompson Hall alongside Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Nancy Wilson.
Here are some upcoming appearances after Tuesday night's Bistro Awards
Spring Japan Tour Celebrating the release of Hilary's newest CD- TBA
EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT IN MAY- Hilary will be performing at the Bemelman's Bar, Hotel Carlyle, NYC. 8:30-11:30. www.thecarlyle.com
May 6th- private event
May 7th- Pt. Washington, NY "A Tribute to Mel Torme" with Billy Stritch, Hilary Kole and Friends. www.landmarkonmainstreet.org
June 25th- Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Jazz Festival. www.jazzfest.louthompson.com
"You Are There marks the second album on Justin Time for Hilary Kole, the New York based jazz singer (and pianist, arranger, and composer). Even though hundreds of singers are releasing what seems like hundreds of CDs these days, it's fair to say that no vocalist - in either the classic or the contemporary era - has done an album like You
Are There. This is a set of voice-and-piano duets, and though that fact by itself may call to mind Ella Fitzgerald's famous meetings with Ellis Larkins and the iconic Tony Bennett-Bill Evans collaborations, no one has done what Hilary does here: she has
teamed up with eleven different great pianists - each of them true legends of the keyboard - and recorded thirteen spontaneous piano-vocal duo tracks with these amazing musicians.
The project got underway when Hilary met the late keyboard colossus Oscar Peterson in 2005. She was, then as now, singing frequently at Birdland (then as always, "the Jazz Corner of the World," and her New York base of operations) . The
two became friends, and on one set, to her astonishment, Peterson invited her to sing
with his quartet . . ."Ms. Kole's poised, sultry ballad-singing has always been easy on the ears. But her smooth melodic lines have never been so consistently infused with literary subtext, which spells the difference between sounded pretty, and having something to say." --Stephen Holden New York Times
Contact Information for Hilary Kole
Birdland Worldwide Management
(212) 581-3080
315 W. 44th Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
North American Orchestra Bookings:
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(Content from http://www.hilarykole.com) Please visit Hilary's website and congratulations Hilary!
A little over a year ago, Faye Lane and I had breakfast and she was telling me about a concept she had for a new show. Well, folks, she followed through! She has had a very successful run at The Soho Playhouse and on Tuesday night, she will be going home for a well deserved Bistro Award and possibly a MAC Award next month for Musical Comedy
"Faye Lane's Beauty Shop Stories"
Soho Playhouse!We may know her as Faye Lane; she is a writer and performer living in New York City. But on the inside she's still Rhonda Faye Gunnels, who grew up in her mama's beauty shop in Texas. Casa Vale Beauty Salon was an old A-Frame house that was converted into a salon, with big mirrors and swivel chairs in the front room and shampoo bowls in the old back bedroom. And on the front porch? A fat little girl in a glittered-up Burger King crown, practicing her beauty queen acceptance speech and dreaming of being a star of the stage!
Praise for Faye Lane
and Beauty Shop Stories
She had them gobbling from the palm of her hand… they were howling, crying, falling in love with her.
– New York Magazine
I would go see it, by all means. It's a great show!
– Time Out New York
Endearing and soaring voiced – a real standout
– Backstage
A glorious evening of one-woman theatre that blazes it's way across the cultural highway.
– NightlifeExchange.com
Lane relates her journey with extraordinary wit, charm, and subtle power, resulting in a performance that's unforgettable.
– Hy Reviews
Faye Lane is a writer and performer who lives in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. Her unique blending of story and song moved New York Magazine to gush, "She had them gobbling from the palm of her hand. They were howling, crying, falling in love with her."
Congratulations, Faye! I'm so proud of you! To find out more about Faye, please visit http://www.beautyshopstories.com
COLLEEN McHUGH is receiving her Bistro Award for Entertainer
The Duplex
This is Colleen's year!
2011 Nightlife Award Finalist
2011 Bistro Award Winner
2011 MAC Award Nominee
In 2008, Colleen McHugh set off on a daunting project: to present a completely different cabaret show each month, for one night only, without losing her mind in the process. More than three years later, she's not only sustained the effort, she's received rave reviews along the way. The Calendar Girl Project has featured shows ranging from a musical tribute to the subtext of the color green, to an exploration of Karen and Richard Carpenter's songbook. Along the way, she's explored 'Tales of Revenge and Regret' and 'Songs of Self-Delusion.' She's tackled (not literally, mind you) Cole Porter's French connections and feted Judy Garland in honor of the anniversary of Stonewall.
You can take Colleen home with you! COLLEEN MCHUGH
All of your friends think that you've lost your mind--except for the imaginary ones. Thank goodness you have Colleen McHugh to help you. Colleen McHugh's debut album songs of self delusion is wonderfully entertaining, as well as being highly theraputic. Oh, did we mention that it was selected as an' iTunes Essential?'"Arts & Entertainment" April 12, 2002
CABARET REVIEW: 'Songs' takes you high, low in one-woman show
by Howard Reich, Tribune Arts Critic
"Delusion is a great survival technique," Chicago cabaret singer Colleen McHugh cheerfully tells her audience at the outset of her intriguing new show at Davenport's.
She then sets about proving the point, launching into an evening's worth of songs about troubled souls who revel in their self-deceptions.
By turns emotionally stark and wickedly satirical, McHugh's "Songs of Self-Delusion" proves that a night at the cabaret need not be an entirely light-hearted affair. For though McHugh shrewdly punctuates the proceedings with comic songs and casual patter, she also probes into the darker sides of the psyche.
Better yet, she does so by drawing upon a remarkably far-flung songbook, which spans material by everyone from Broadway veteran Jerry Herman to modern-day Chicago troubadour Robbie Fulks. The ingenuity with which McHugh interweaves these vignettes helps give this show its dramatic heft.
McHugh opens her homage to self-delusion, for instance, with not one song but two, merging sections of Herman's "I Don't Want to Know" with Amanda McBroom's "Dreaming." In this haunting introduction, McHugh hints at both the comic and tragic sides of the set pieces yet to come.
Somehow, she switches easily from the absurd, black humor of Jill Sobule's "Mexican Wrestler" to the dripping irony of Jim De Wan's "You Wouldn't Do That to Me," from the clever wordplay of Phillip Namanworth's "Avoid" to the self-loathing laments of Francesca Blumenthal's "The Lies of Handsome Men."
Every song makes a point, though few more searingly than Fulks' "I've Got to Tell Myself the Truth," which McHugh sings to the accompaniment of a lone guitar.
To her credit, McHugh also brings some beguiling bits of stage business to the proceedings, particularly in Herman's "A Little More Mascara" (from "La Cage Aux Folles"). As the protagonist sings the glories of heavy makeup, two attendants hand her a tiara, white gloves and other ornaments with which to mask her insecurities.
With evocative musical direction from pianist Andrew Blendermann and expert backup vocals from Allison Bazarko and [Anne Smith], McHugh has conceived a bittersweet cabaret show as original as it is meaningful.
And that doesn't happen very often.
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José Padilha's forthcoming remake of Robocop has attracted attention so far largely for the changes the Brazilian director seems to be planning from Paul Verhoeven's iconic 1987 original. Joel Kinnaman, who is taking the lead role, has already hinted that we'll be able to see the cyborg officer's peepers through his visor, while Samuel L Jackson and Gary Oldman are playing media mogul and scientist types not seen in the earlier movie.
A new viral video, however, suggests that Padilha will be reviving one of the original film's most notable creations, the appallingly unstable mechanised police unit ED-209. Verhoeven utilised the robotic monstrosity as a symbol for everything that's wrong with unfettered, inhuman corporate governance of public services, a polemic that couldn't be more appropriate in 2012. The nightmarish automaton's signature phrase, "You have 20 seconds to comply" became so iconic it was even sampled for a classic rave tune by Silver Bullet which made the UK top 20 in 1990. I wonder if the new version will have quite such a powerful impact on youth culture.
Padilha's film, which is due to debut in 2013, will be the second remake based on a Verhoeven sci-fi classic to arrive in multiplexes in less than two years. Len Wiseman's take on Total Recall, with Colin Farrell in the Arnold Schwarzenegger role, hits cinemas on 3 August in the US and 29 August in the UK, and there have even been suggestions that a new "patriotic" take on 1999's Starship Troopers is on its way.
What do you make of the new ED-209? Are you happy to see him return to the streets of future Detroit in Padilha's film, or would you rather have seen him shut down for good?


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In City of Evansville v. USF&G, Michaels, Schulwolf and Salerno obtained summary judgment in favor of its insurer client that the insurer had no obligation to defend or indemnify Evansville for hundreds of millions of dollars that the USEPA deemed were necessary to improve the operation of Evansville's combined sewer system. Evansville retained multiple experts and highlighted their testimony in arguing that the costs of projects designed to reduce future pollution should be considered remediation of its past discharges. Michaels, Schulwolf and Salernoargued that all of the costs at issue were statutorily required operational improvements that could not be shifted to liability insurers. Michaels, Schulwolf and Salerno deposed a key expert and succeeded in using his testimony to underscore the fact that Evansville's experts had failed to create a genuine issue of material fact. The trial court dismissed all of Evansville's claims. Michaels, Schulwolf and Salerno handled the appeal.
Steven Schulwolf presented oral arguments to the Indiana Court of Appeals of behalf of all the defendant-appellees. Highlights of those arguments are available below by clicking on the links.
Video Excerpt 1 - Here, Mr. Schulwolf identifies a fundamental flaw in opposing counsel's argument and further responds to why there was not a "occurrence," which is necessary to implicate his client's insurance policies.
Video Excerpt 2 - Here, Mr. Schulwolf focuses on why opposing counsel's response to the panel's questions actually supports his client's arguments.
Video Excerpt 3 - Here, Mr. Schulwolf responds to the panel's questions as to why opposing counsel is wrong that summary judgment was improper by underscoring that the identical argument had been rejected by the Indiana Supreme Court in another case that both he and opposing counsel participated in.
Video Excerpt 4 - Here, Mr. Schulwolf persuades the court that the costs at issue here are merely the intended consequences of the environmental regulations at issue.
Video Excerpt 5 - Here, the appellate court acknowledges Mr. Schulwolf's and opposing counsel's experience in important Indiana insurance coverage matters and Mr. Schulwolf notes that opposing counsel's arguments have already been rejected.
Video Excerpt 6 - Here, Mr. Schulwolf argues why opposing counsel's expert affidavits fail to raise a genuine issue of material fact.
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The Mexican Heritage Society will host its 49th annual Fiesta on Sunday, Oct. 29, at the pavilion in downtown Port Arthur, Texas.
For 49 years Fiesta, which commemorates Mexico's Independence from Spain, has kept the Mexican culture alive in Southeast Texas by sharing the beauty and history of Mexican heritage at this much-anticipated event, which has been rescheduled after Harvey.
- Noon – doors open: opening ceremonies, welcome, America's National Anthem, Mexico's National Anthem, guest speakers
- 12: 20 p.m. – Children's costume contest
- 1:15 p.m. – Pageants: Miss Preciosa, Tiny Miss, Jr. Miss, Mr. Jovencito, Little Miss, Miss Mexican Heritage
- 3:30 p.m. – Mexican Heritage Society's Folkloric Dancers, directed by Maestro Jose Sada
- 5 p.m. –Royalty parade
- 7-10 p.m. – Baile with music by Kumbion Zelecta
Lawn chairs are welcome. No drinks, coolers, food, etc. may be brought to the event. For more information, visit the Facebook page Mexican Heritage Society of Port Arthur Texax.


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ChiveFest is a music fest put on by www.thechive.com Lots of bands, lots of beer, lots of shots, and a ton of interesting people from all walks of life.
After meeting Kat, Mac, John, and Jessie from The Chive, I was pretty blown away at how nice they all are. Obviously this is part of their job, but you can tell they all genuinely enjoyed meeting and talking with everyone, and are just all around good people. Please check out their Chive Charities page, and see all the good they are doing with their time. https://chivecharities.org/
|Hanging out at ChiveFest with my cousin Bobby
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I had a great time at ChiveFest with Bobby while he was there, and can't thank him and Becky enough for driving out of their way to pick me up, and get me safely back to their place. I had an absolute blast with them, and look forward to seeing them in the future, hopefully sooner than another 20 years or so!
Pictured to the right is one of my favorite breweries, Toppling Goliath. They are located out of Decorah, IA, and are quickly gaining attention for making amazing beers. Zee Lander is no different. A very smooth, and easy drinking IPA, Zee Lander continues in the TG tradition of making super hoppy beers without making them overly bitter. The best part about this beer is, it was my least favorite of all the TG beers I've had so far, and it was still great. http://www.tgbrews.com/site/
In contrast to TG, where I have enjoyed every one of their beers, I actually truly dislike some of Dogfish Head's beers, but I think that's OK. They try to push the boundaries of what beer should and can be. Some of those beer are incredibly amazing, like any of their IPA's, Burton Baton, and Palo Santo Marron, and some I would be fine never drinking again like Raison d'Extra (which is my brother in-law, Dale's favorite.) To me, that's what makes them so interesting.
I have some great beer at home, that I'll be writing about in the next blog. Until than, you can keep up with me on the beer app Untappd search for Crinkletalk, or follow me on Twitter @Crinkletalk. Thanks to all that helped make this last post so memorable for me, and to my amazing wife, who puts up with all my shenanigans. Until next time, keep drinking good beer and Chive On!


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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
2014 Big Island CIP and GIA
Notable CIP funding highlights for Hawaii County include:
• $79.309 million for terminal expansion and other improvements for Kona International Airport
• $33 million for the design and construction of a new instructional facility for the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy
• $35 million for the design, engineering, and construction of a Judiciary Complex in Kona
• $14.89 million for the construction and equipment of a specialty and support classroom building at Waimea Middle School
• $2 million for improvements to the Waimea irrigation system
• A total of $5.4 million for improvements for the Lower Hamakua Ditch watershed project
• $3.5 million for the design and construction of a community agricultural park in Waimea
• $3 million for the plans, land acquisition, design, construction and equipment for the Keeau Demonstration Facility to develop biofuel animal feed in Keeau
• A total of $14.517 million for various improvements to the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA)
• $2 million for the construction of a student drop-off and parking area at Honokaa Elementary School
• $3 million for improvements to athletic facilities at Honokaa High School
• $250,000 for the design of a covered play court and site improvements at Kamalii Elementary School
• $550,000 for improvements to athletic facilities at Kau High School
• $300,000 for upgrades to the Kealakehe High School track
• $675,000 for the construction of covered walkways and site improvements to Keaau Middle School
• $275,000 for ground and safety improvements at Keaau High School
• $250,000 for lighting system for gymnasium at Konawaena High School
• $3.86 million for gymnasium renovations and improvements at Pahoa High and Intermediate School
• $1.05 million for the design and construction of a covering for the existing play court at Waiakea Elementary School
• $450,000 for the design and construction of a new batting cage at Waiakea High School
• $800,000 for the plans and design of a new regional library in Pahoa
• $7.9 million for improvements to the Youth Challenge Academy, Keaukaha Military Reservation
• $300,000 for plans and design of a new West Hawaii Veterans Center
• $1.61 million for a non-potable well at the West Hawaii Veterans Cemetery
• $2.55 million to plug two geothermal wells and to restore well sites
• $3 million for the design and construction for Puu Waawaa structure improvements and dam compliance
• $3.5 million for Manuka Natural Area Reserve boundary fence
• $13 million for the design and construction of Phase 1 of the Waimea District/Regional Park
• A total of $43.4 million for new aircraft rescue and firefighting station and other various improvements at Hilo International Airport
• $3 million for various improvements to the Ellison S. Onizuka Space Museum
• $1.425 million for modification plans to improve navigational safety and operational efficiencies at Hilo Harbor
• $12.41 million for various improvements to Mamalahoa Highway
• $7.570 million for realignment construction and widening of Akoni Pule Highway on the Pololu Valley side of Aamakao Gulch
• $10.71 million for various improvements to Hawaii Belt Road
• $2.215 million for the construction of miscellaneous improvements to existing intersections and highway facilities necessary for improved traffic operation
• A total of $9.175 million for the extension design of Saddle Road from the Hilo Terminus to Queen Kaahumanu Highway
• $6.75 million for land acquisition and the design of Puainako Street from two to four lanes between Kanoelehua Street to Komohana Street
• $7.622 for the construction of a Saddle Road maintenance baseyard facility
• A total of $27.7 million for the widening of Queen Kaahumanu Highway to a four-lane divided highway from Kealakehe Parkway to the vicinity of Keahole Airport
• $1 million for the construction of sidewalk and intersection improvements on Mamane Street from Lehua Street to Plumeria Street
• $3.5 million for the plans, design, and construction of a traffic signal at the Pahoa bypass and Post Office Road intersection
• $7 million for various improvements along state highways, including guardrail and shoulder improvements
• $2 million for the alignment and replacement of the Waiaka Stream Bridge along Kawaihae Road
• $2 million for intersection improvements at Highway 130 and Homestead Road
• $2 million for infrastructure improvements to the University of Hawaii-Hilo Office of Mauna Kea Management
• $2.5 million to the University of Hawaii-Hilo College of Astronomy for the modernization and repair of the 2.2 meter telescope on Mauna Kea
• $500,000 to the University of Hawaii-Hilo College of Agricultural, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management for the plans, design, and construction to establish the temporary international flight training center at the Hilo Airport.
• $600,000 for renovations to the nursing and culinary buildings at the University of Hawaii- West Hawaii campus
• $2.4 million for the design and completion of Phase 1 at the University of Hawaii – Palamanui Campus
• $2.5 million for improvements to the Kau Irrigation System
In addition to the executive budget CIP funding, appropriations for Grants-In-Aid were also awarded to organizations for the benefit of the Big Island community:
• $1.7 million to Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana (KALO) for the construction of a new community recreation center in Kamuela
• $500,000 for the construction of a new Island Heritage Gallery at the Lyman House Memorial Museum
• $1.5 million to the Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Association, Inc. for the construction of Phase 2 of the Waiohuli Community Center and park master plan
• $950,000 to La'i'Opua 2020 (L2020) for improvements to the parking lot and roadway. L2020 is a community group focused on supporting communal needs and the coordination of facilities and services for residents of the Villages of La'i 'Opua and the broader Kealakehe area
• $643,000 to the Salvation Army for the renovation of the Family Intervention Services facility in Hilo
• $250,000 to The Food Basket, Inc. (Hawaii Island Food Bank) for infrastructure repairs and maintenance
• $1 million to the Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation for the construction of a new adult day care facility
• $750,000 for the design of a new free-standing emergency room at the Puna Community Medical Center
• $425,000 for the design and construction of a community based outpatient clinic and box culvert at the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial
• $751,000 to the Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council for various equipment and improvements including the design and construction for emergency repairs and handicapped access improvements; vehicles for the transportation program; and the design, construction and equipment for a botanical garden
• $1.5 million to the Kahilu Theatre Foundation for improvements to existing facilities
• $30,000 to the Brantley Center, Inc. for renovations of existing facilities in Honokaa. A partner of Hawaii Island United Way, The Brantley Center provides training and support individuals with disabilities so they may overcome barriers in the community
• $200,000 to the Hawaii Island Humane Society for Phase 1 of the Hawaii Island Animal Community Center
• $75,000 to Child and Family Services to support operations and rent subsidies for transitional housing in East Hawaii
• $200,000 to the Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council for the Drop-Out Prevention Program which provides educational and support services to students at-risk of dropping out of school
• $92,362 to Kalani Honua to assist with the restoration of the Pahoa Intermediate and High School eight-man football program
• $200,000 to the Kona Historical Society for the Hawaii Island Museum Outreach Project which provides a wide range of academic, community, and volunteer services
• $107,672 to Malama O Puna to restore priority areas of the Keauohana native lowland wet forest
• $79,214 to Project Vision Hawaii to expand health screening services for the poor and disabled across Hawaii island
• $15,000 to the Volcano Art Center to equip the Hale Hoomana building with the basic tools to support a range of teaching programs that will serve a diverse population of Hawaii residents and visitors
• $20,000 to the Anekona Ouli Kanehoa VFD Company for the construction of a volunteer apparatus garage
• $60,000 to the Kailapa Community Association for the plans and design of the Kailapa Community Resource Center
• $1 million for the construction of the West Hawaii Community Health Center at Laiopuna in Kona
Representatives Contact Information:
Representative Richard Creagan (Naalehu, Ocean View, Capt. Cook, Kealakekua, Kailua-Kona)
(808) 586-9605
Representative Cindy Evans (North Kona, North Kohala, South Kohala)
(808) 586-8510
Representative Faye Hanohano (Puna)
(808) 586-6530
Representative Nicole Lowen (Kailua-Kona, Holualoa, Kalaoa, Honokohau)
(808) 586-8400
Representative Mark Nakashima (Hamakua, North Hilo, South Hilo)
(808) 586-6680
Representative Richard Onishi (Hilo, Keaau, Kurtistown, Volcano)
(808) 586-6120
Representative Clift Tsuji (Keaukaha, parts of Hilo, Panaewa, Waiakea)
(808) 586-8480
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Professionally, I have done research in the atmospheric sciences for the past 22 years.
Sixteen of those years were spent at Colorado State University in Fort Collins where I earned a Ph.D. In the 90's I was involved in global climate change research for NASA. For the past five years I have worked at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. I am doing research related to the next generation of NOAA geosynchronous satellites, due for launch in 2012. I am still single, but I have four nephews who, along with the rest of my family, live in various parts of the Twin Cities. I like to read, write and play guitar. I have two cats.


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Monkey Baa Theatre specialise in creating inspiring, award-winning theatre for young audiences, creating productions which present a multifaceted reflection of the world. The launch of their upcoming 2017 program was met with enthusiasm and high expectations.
The audience was afforded a glimpse into the nine performances, which will make up the 2017 season, each one more magical than the next. In particular, Where the Streets had a Name, which tells the story of a girl who believes if she can collect a jar of dirt from where her Grandmother was born and return it to her, then she will get better. Through developing the play, Monkey Baa has engaged with young people, educators, artists and Australian-Palestinian community representatives, connecting with communities who have experienced a similar journey as those of the family depicted. Adapted from Randa Abdel-Fattah's novel, Where the Streets had a Name looks to be a moving and inspiring story of family and the ties that bind.
Described as the jewel in their 2017 program crown, Diary of a Wombat, adapted from the Jackie French book, with illustrations by Bruce Whatley, presents the story of a wombat, Mothball, the naughtiest wombat in Australia. Incredible work has been done to bring this multi-award winning book to the stage and we were afforded a sneak peek of the exceptional puppetry as Mothball took to the stage. The production will embark on a nation-wide tour around Australia from March to November, this fifty-nine venue tour is a first for Monkey Baa and was met with overwhelming excitement.
Special guest speaker Bruce Whatley presented an entertaining and humorous insight into his process and how he creates his amazing illustrations. He discussed the creation of Mothball and working with author Jackie French, describing how amazing it is to see a character you created literally come to life before your eyes.
Overall, 2017 is set to be one hell of a season for Monkey Baa, with an ambitious line-up of meaningful and moving theatre that will be guaranteed to inspire a new generation of young people.
2017 Season line-up
Swamp Juice (January 17 – 21)
Diary of a Wombat (April 18 – 24)
Oddysea (May 6)
Thai-Riffic! (July 4 – 8)
Neighbourhood Watch ( July 19 – 24)
Grug and the Rainbow (September 9)
The Arrival (September 12 – 14)
Where the Streets had a Name (September)
The Bockety World of Henry & Bucket (September 25 – 30)
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General Women's Meeting to Unify Sisters throughout the Globe
Contributed By Sarah Jane Weaver, Church News associate editor
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The 2014 general women's meeting will unify Latter-day Saint women across the globe, said Sister Linda K. Burton.
The meeting "is about what we feel when we are together," said the Church's Relief Society general president. "It is about working together as disciples of Jesus Christ."
The First Presidency announced November 1, 2013, that beginning this spring the semiannual general women's meeting will replace the general Relief Society and general Young Women meetings. All women, young women, and girls 8 years of age and older were invited to participate in the combined meeting.
The live broadcast, originating from the Conference Center on March 29 at 6:00 p.m. MDT, will be translated into 55 languages, reaching millions around the world in chapels, on television and radio, and over the Internet.
"There is power in gathering," said Sister Burton. "We elevate each other in a way when we are together that is absolutely remarkable."
Sister Burton; Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, Young Women general president; and Sister Rosemary M. Wixom, Primary general president, said they hope the meeting will increase the feelings of sisterhood among Latter-day Saint women of all ages across the world.
The "emphasis is the covenant path that we are all on together," said Sister Oscarson.
One highlight of the meeting will be a multigenerational choir.
Church leaders asked women, young women, and girls across the Wasatch Front in Utah to apply for the choir. The volunteer choir includes 364 Church members, age 8 and older, who live within a 100-mile radius of Church headquarters and who have experience singing in choirs. They also committed to attend all six rehearsals.
Sister Oscarson said thousands of Church members applied to participate in the choir.
"It was exciting to see how many people wanted to join and be involved in this, she said. "And they're in families. We have mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts coming together to sing."
The overwhelming number of applicants is indicative of the willingness of Latter-day Saint women to engage in the work of Jesus Christ, said Sister Burton.
Women "have something to give, and they are willing to give it," she said. "I love the women of the Church."
Diane Bastian, music manager for the Church, said during the selection process, directors concentrated on families and tried to fill all the age groups. The outcome was that about 50 of the 364 participants are children ages 8 to 11. Another 70 choir members are ages 12 through 18. The adults in the choir represent the remaining decades, she said.
Selecting participants from the many thousands that applied was a "a very difficult process," she said. "We looked at choir credentials, especially, and looked at musical experience."
The "choir by application" in the Church is unique, she said.
In many ways the process followed the pattern established by the Eagle Scout choir that participated in "A Century of Honor"—the Conference Center event that celebrated the Church's 100-year affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America held October 29, 2013.
Sister Wixom said it is important for Primary-age girls, 8 years old and older, to participate in the general women's meeting and in the choir.
Members of the 2014 general women's meeting choir participate in a dress rehearsal in the Conference Center on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Thousands applied to participate in the 364-member choir. Photo by Leslie Nilsson.
"This will be a new day, and it will be exciting to have them join the general women's meeting," she said. "These girls are capable of feeling the Spirit of the Holy Ghost; they're capable of receiving personal revelation. … And they're excited. So are we."
Something that makes the meeting valuable, said Sister Oscarson, is for women, youth, and girls to be able to see how important they are for each other. She and the other leaders want to "help them see that we are all in this work of salvation together, that we are not divided into organizations that keep us separate. We need one another."
Each season of life is so important, added Sister Burton. "We need to see all the seasons together so that we can strengthen one another and glean from our unique perspectives along that covenant path."
Sister Wixom agreed, noting the new general meeting sends an important message: "It is unity," she said. "It is seamless in spirit and purpose. We are together."


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S/S 2011 : Lanvin by Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbaz
loves a wrinkle. So he created a collection for Lanvin Spring 2011 that was a
hymn to skin
which is wrinkled in Fortuny-like pleating, stretched in all those sheaths. It was a spectacular foundation on which he could lavish increasingly
heady colors
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He layered on the embellishment with
pagan metalwork
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gladiator skirt
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These have helped me get back into the swing of things, so will start of with my first of many cards. Not the best of pics, need to get used to new phone and comp. this was made following the sketch from The Cutie Pie Challenge. Made this card from very old paper stash, used cuttlebug to emboss and image is from http://pinkgem-janet.blogspot.co.uk/, such a happy gingerbread man, coloured with promarkers.http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Sketch
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100% Renewable Energy for Cities Is Possible
Rio de Janeiro/Hamburg - Climate change is to a large
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the fossil fuel consumption by cities and is a huge threat to urban
areas at
the same time. It is alarming that neither industrialised nor developing
countries have coherent strategies for efficient, renewable energy
supply for
their cities. And there is little sign of appropriate, practical
measures being
Seven-Point-Plan, which encourages cities to set their own goal at 100%
renewable energy supply, is the core element of the report "100%
Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities". This was presented by
the World Future Council and Hamburg's HafenCity University at the
biggest global cities summit, the World Urban Forum, in Rio de Janeiro
Schurig, Head of Climate and Energy at the World Future Council: "If we
do not succeed in the next few years in making a U-turn in metropolitan
supply it will be impossible to tackle climate change effectively. Some
75% of
global consumption of resources, including fossil fuels, occurs in and
cities. Hence it is absolutely essential that every city deals with the
of the issue at hand and sets itself 100% renewable energy supply
targets and
appropriate implementation strategies. Our Seven-Point-Plan aims to help
to formulate suitable strategies according to their individual
and locations."
plan addresses the need for regulatory measures as well as incentives at
and national levels. Options that involve private businesses and
planning and permission processes are also explored. In addition to
energy development the report stresses the benefits of so-called "carbon
sinks", for example the targeted development of green areas for CO2
capture and storage. It emphasises the importance of education and well
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Best punk/new wave band?
By new wave i mean the they're-not-really-as-punk-as-say-The-Adverts-or-something-but-they're-still-lumped-in-with-£6.99-punk-compilations-made-for-Asda sort of new wave.
i'm currently torn between X-Ray Spex, Undertones and The Damned.
Not that in the grand scheme of things it really matters, but still.
i dont see how
undertones and the damned dont fit into just being punk. they released what is widely regarded as the first uk punk single...
but as that killed the thread
i'll say...stiff little fingers.
i wasn't
including Damned in the new wave descriptions.
Possibly Undertones as new wave though. Undecided.
Geisha Morgue or The Labstocks
Do you mean stuff like this?
From that tracklisting, it would be Jonathan Richman or The Stooges.
But yes, X Ray Spex as well.
like that.
Worst = The Boomtown Rats.
no way
do they ever count as punk. rat trap is pure springsteen ripoff.
They do
on those bloody compilations...
Can't Stand The Rezillos. I'd put that album against anything from that time.
Good point
i forgot the New York contingent though :S
the fire engines
use me!
Human Sexual Response
the Boston New Wave band were very good
What a weird view you have of the past, thommo
The Damned, as has ben noted above, released the first British punk record, 'New Rose'. WHy would you not consider them to be a punk band? Is it because they essayed humour? Is it because they didn't write political songs?
X-Ray Spex???? How on earth are they not a punk band?
How are you defining "punk" in the phrase not-really-as-punk-as-say-The-Adverts-or-something?
British punk music, that is, the first known British punk bands, had a variety of musical styles. Siouxsie And The Banshees, X-Ray Spex, Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, ATV, Penetration, 999, Damned all had distinctive sounds. Is there some purity of punk that I missed that you would like to define and elucidate?
Read the thread title again
i asked for the favourite punk/new wave band.
And then gave a definition of new wave as i saw it in the context of this discussion.
Hence your answer could either be a punk band or a new wave band.
But i happened to choose three bands who are on the whole considered punk, except maybe The Undertones for appearing aftewards.
By new wave i was attempting to include the likes of Blondie, Talking Heads, Devo, Boomtown Rats etc. etc. that are included on 'New Wave' compilations.
i am not claiming to be the guiding voice of pop's past. i was just trying to start a fairly broad discussion about music fuelled by my excitement of hearing a live Undertones gig on the radio just now.
Now please can you stop being so needlessly anal and answer the question.
Devo are allowed?
one shiny vote for them from me then.
bordering on post-punk i guess. But okay.
how can devo
NOT be accepted as a new wave band!!?!?!?
I see
I read the title and then I read the first paragraph. I read the third paragraph: I assumed the subtopic was still the subtopic of the second paragraph. This happened because I read logically and I assume that everyone writes as if they are writing an instructural document.
but even if the post is badly structured (maybe i should get a sub-editor? Are you offering?) i've never doubted that The Damned or X-Ray Spex are punk bands, and The Undertones are mostly there too. So can you let it lie now?
I read your first post
and thought to myself 'If ever I've seen a thread destined to be pedantically scrutinised by our dear Traynor, this is definitely it.' And unsurprisingly, he then appears. This thread is the superhero equivalent of the Batman logo in the sky for Traynor, summoning him to question your very beliefs and values.
all the way! Eliminate the ninnys and the twits!!!
If you like.
Maybe i should open it up to post-punk too then.
the first PiL LP was 1978.
i think only you know what you're getting at, really.


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What a lovely walk. I'm completely with you regarding access to the countryside. We currently live in a town, and even although it is only 2 minutes walk to the river and 5 minutes to get out of town I would really prefer we lived properly out of town. This is the first time I've ever lived in a street (except for student years!) and while it is convenient it isn't really me.ReplyDelete
Hope Oscar keeps improving. Juliex
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I love your pictures. It seems that you had all a great afternoon walk. I hope your cat gets better soon. Those butterfly pictures are amazing. xx
what beautiful photos, we drove past feilds of poppys on sunday, I so wanted to take a photo but there was no where to stop, they looked so beautiful. so glad oscar is on the mend, get well wishes, he is gorgeous xxReplyDelete
Isn't it wonderful to have the countryside on your doorstep, it is just the same for us too. My sister lives in central London and despite the parks I wouldn't want to live there.ReplyDelete
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The film premiered at Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday.
Directed by Romuald Karmakar, a Berlin-based filmmaker who also made 2009's Villalobos documentary, If I Think Of Germany At Night looks at the role music plays in the lives of five artists: Ricardo Villalobos, Sonja Moonear, Ata, Roman Flügel and Move D. The film, which runs for 105 minutes, looks at the artists' life at home and on the road, and premiered at Berlin's Kino International on Sunday, February 12th. It will be screened again tonight (February 14th), Friday (February 17th) and Saturday (February 18th) at Berlin CineStar at Potsdamer Platz.
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A Guide to Planning for College
Freshman Year
- Take challenging academic courses and always try your best.
- Meet with your guidance counselor to develop and review your academic plan.
- Get involved in extra-curricular activities. Make the effort to get involved with groups, clubs, or teams that interest you. These activities are fun and make you a well-rounded student.
- Work hard and make the grade. Get off to a good start with your grades because they will impact your GPA and class rank. Although college seems like a long way off right now, grades count toward college admission and scholarships.
- Explore your interests and possible careers. Use Naviance family connection and complete interest surveys to learn more about yourself.
- Start learning about college. Look at the college information available in your Counselor's office, CAC and public libraries. Use the Internet to check out college web sites. You can start a list of colleges that might interest you.
- Attend a college fair and/ or meetings for parents and students about college planning and college entrance criteria.
- Plan worthwhile summer activities. There are plenty of ways to have fun and build your credentials during the summer, such as volunteering, getting a job, or signing up for an enrichment program.
Sophomore Year
- Continue taking challenging academic courses.
- Continue your involvement in volunteer and extra-curricular activities.
- Take the PSAT in October.
- Begin learning about the college admissions process. Use Naviance family connection and explore in more detail.
- Familiarize yourself with resources provided by your guidance counselor, the CAC, college fairs and the library.
- Review and rework your test after receiving PSAT results.
- Begin to build your own "college file" and add to it as you gather materials about colleges that interest you. Use school vacations to visit college campuses.
- Continue exploring potential careers. Use Naviance family connection and explore in more detail.
- Develop your personal resume recording activities and achievements.
- Practice writing a college essay, selecting topics from those requested on college applications. Ask someone to critique your essay.
- Plan worthwhile summer activities. There are plenty of ways to have fun and build your credentials during the summer, such as volunteering, getting a job, or signing up for an enrichment program.
- Stay on track with your courses. Work with your guidance counselor to make sure you're enrolled in the courses you need to prepare you for college or a career.
- Read, Read & Read
Junior Year
- Continue taking challenging academic courses.
- Continue involvement in volunteer and extra-curricular activities. Accept leadership roles.
- Continue to add activities, awards and achievements to your personal resume.
- Think about what you seek in college: location/size/specific major/competitiveness. See your Counselor and develop a broad list of colleges that interest you, including "reach" and "safety" schools. Update your navianace family connection account.
- Learn more about the college-entrance process through information, meetings offered, the CAC and your counselor.
- Review sample FAFSA form.
- Take the PSAT in October. PRACTICE prior to testing! This test determines National Merit and National Achievement Scholarship qualifiers. Review and rework your test when results arrive.
- Think about which teachers you will ask to write recommendations.
- If you intend to seek an athletic scholarship, start contacting coaches at the schools that most interest you.
- Take sample ACT test. Consider attending an ACT preparation sessions.
- Preview how much financial aid you may be eligible for by completing the FAFSA 4caster at www.fafsa.ed.gov
- Attend college fairs and meet college representatives when they visit school. Ask questions!
- Get to know your teachers and start thinking about who you might ask to write recommendations.
- If you intend to seek an athletic scholarship, register at the NCAA Eligibility Center at www.ncaaclearinghouse.net. Send out letters of interest to coaches at the schools that most interest you.
- Ask colleges of interest to let you know when a representative will be in town; attend their presentations.
- Write a response to the common application essay. Ask your English teacher, etc. to edit.
- Individually meet with your counselor in the spring about college planning and graduation requirements.
- Develop a timeline for your college and scholarship application deadlines.
- Research scholarship opportunities.
- Plan worthwhile summer activities. There are plenty of ways to have fun and build your credentials during the summer, such as volunteering, getting a job, or signing up for an enrichment program.
- Visit colleges when and if possible. Obtain an excused absence form from your counselor for college visitation.
- Complete your resume in Naviance.
Senior Year
- Continue taking challenging academic courses and keep your grades up.
- Continue involvement in volunteer and extra-curricular activities.
- Visit the CAC for college catalogs, applications, scholarship information, etc.
- Research scholarship options and track deadlines.
- Meet with your counselor to narrow your list of colleges and discuss financial aid and scholarship opportunities.
- Complete senior survey on Naviance.
- Student athletes should complete and mail the NCAA Clearinghouse application.
- Note any early action or early decision deadlines at colleges of your choice.
- Visit colleges of major interest. Plan an overnight in a dorm if possible.
- Attend college representative's visits and college fairs.
- Ask colleges of interest to let you know when a representative will be in town; attend their presentations.
- Investigate scholarship opportunities and internships.
- Take any additional needed ACT tests in October or December. Study for the test.
- Ask for recommendations from your teacher well in advance of deadlines.
- Submit drafts of application essays to at least one adult for editing.
- Submit all applications between September through November.
- Attend a Financial Aid information session.
- Complete official FASFA (financial aid form) available on the Internet. Visit the CAC for more information.
- Continue to work hard in all of your classes. Take all semester exams.
- Continue to apply for scholarships.
- Confirm your admission to the college of your choice. Notify colleges whose offers you did not accept.
- Continue to work hard in all of your classes. Take AP exams and all semester exams.
- Continue to apply for scholarships.
- Create a college budget and begin applying for additional funding, if needed.
- Complete your future plans survey and be sure to list where your final transcript should be sent.
A Guide to Entering the Job Market
How do I find a job?
- Visit the Cincinnati Ohio Means Jobs location at 1916 Central Parkway, (513)946-7200 or http://www.omj-cinham.org/. OhioMeansJobs offers a variety of services to help job seekers find employment. Job leads and the resource rooms are free and open to everyone. Career coaches, workshops and Veteran's services, are available to those who are eligible and apply. Regardless of whom you are, OhioMeansJobs can help you find your next job.
- Get a business casual outfit and even when filling out applications.
- Pound on doors. (Visit potential job locations with help wanted signs)
- Check want ads.
- Let your friends and relatives know that you are looking for work.
- Get online and complete a job search.
When you get a job interview…
- Be neat and well groomed.
- Go alone for an interview.
- Be on time. (Arrive 15 minutes early)
- Learn the interviewer's name and use it. Use a firm handshake to greet the interviewer.
- Know something about the company and the job before the interview. Be prepared to ask important questions about the job. Usually you are expected to ask questions near the end of the interview.
- Be positive. Stress your strong points. Be honest about your weaknesses, but don't dwell on them.
- Show some enthusiasm.
- Bring the following information with you: Social Security number, Personal references, Resume, Driver's license
- Don't plead for a job or a chance. Never say, "I'll take anything."
- Avoid asking questions about the length of paid vacations or being late for work. They leave a bad first impression.
- Don't criticize former employers.
- Be sure you communicate what you can contribute as an employee.
- Be sure to thank the interviewer for his or her time. Shake the interviewer hand.
- Don't hang around after the interview.
- Be persistent. If you don't get a job for which you've interviewed, keep trying. Persistence pays off. If you've had an interview, and the employer doesn't call you back, check with the employer in several weeks to let him/her know that you are still interested.
Some Resources to Help Find a Job:
- Job Corp - http://jobcorps.dol.gov/
- Urban League - http://www.gcul.org/
- Educational Opportunity Center - http://www2.ed.gov/programs/trioeoc/index.html
A Guide To Joining the Military
Joining a Military Academy
The application procedures for the academies are quite different from regular college admissions. Except for the Coast Guard academy, which accepts appointments on a nationwide competitive basis, the academies require that you be nominated for an appointment by a member of the U.S. Congress from your state. To ensure consideration by your Congressman or Senator, you should have already written (in the spring of your junior year) to ask for consideration for a nomination. If you have not done so, you should do this immediately! You should also email the academy for a "pre-candidate kit", which will outline for you all the necessary steps you should follow. You can also find some very good guidance in the websites of these academies.
Joining the Military
If you are interested in joining a branch of the military after graduating from high school, you may gain information and insight from any of the following sources:
- Recruiters who come to visit school. Listen to the announcements for the dates and times.
- Calling or visiting the recruiting offices in your area.
- Talking to people you know who have been in the military.
Joining the ROTC
If you are planning to attend college, but you would like to receive training to become a military officer at the same time you're in college, you should investigate the Reserve Officer Training Program, or ROTC. You may also want to apply for an ROTC scholarship to help pay your college expenses.
Joining the National Guard
The National Guard program allows you to serve in the military and maintain a civilian life at the same time. You would begin by attending basic training for eight weeks followed by an additional eight weeks of specialized training. Following that, you would be expected to attend training sessions one weekend each month and for two consecutive weeks each summer. You may be called to duty in times of natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, etc.
Joining the Reserves
The reserve program is almost identical to the National Guard in terms of the time and sequence of training obligations. To obtain information about the educational and financial benefits of the various military options, visit with a recruiter. Recruiters make periodic visits to the Guidance Office. Be sure to sign up to see them when their visits are announced. If you'd prefer to see them at their offices, you can find online under Cincinnati Army Reserves.


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Glass Menagerie
Karim Rashid calls his New Move collection of glass objects "very me." And indeed, the shapes are classic Rashid -- organic and colorful -- but with a twist. Right-side up, they're decanters or vases; turn them over and they become footed bowls or simply objets d'art. The items in the collection range from $98 to $285 and come in both clear and colored glass.
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Buzz Thrill
Using power tools and listening to loud music go hand in hand. DeWalt's new combination radio-battery charger, built specially for use on work sites, bows to this ignoble tradition. Simply place the DeWalt battery pack in the back of the radio, and it will charge in about an hour. Buy it for your contractor. After he finishes the job ($199).
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Modern Love
For those still pining over the Kaleidoscope, last year's incredibly popular modernist dollhouse, here's your chance to play house without making such a great financial or space commitment. A new book, Eames House, by James Barkley, includes previously unpublished pictures of the modernist masters' Los Angeles home plus three perforated sheets that can be assembled into three-dimensional replicas of the house (American Vessel, $45).
125 Greenwich Avenue/212-989-4300
Faking It
This fun new toy, called the Voice Changer, lets you change your voice to sound like a robot -- à la R2-D2 -- or a slightly possessed child. Made by Boxer, it comes in three colors: green, red, and navy ($20).
1062 Madison Avenue, near 80th Street/212-861-2544
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SABMiller looks to women to boost demand
Oct. 25 - Brewer SABMiller is looking beyond men to boost business. Speaking to Reuters, the company's Europe boss says appealing to both sexes could help stem decline in beer demand. Ciara Sutton reports.
Getting women drinking beer is easier said than done for brewers. Female-friendly campaigns have often run out of fizz after just a few months. But SABMiller, the world's second largest brewer, is hoping a change in advertising will have more of an impact. Head of European Business at the company, Sue Clark. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) HEAD OF EUROPEAN BUSINESS AT SABMILLER, SUE CLARK, SAYING: "We've tended to market our products to our core consumers. It's been about laddish humour, it's been about sporting occasions, it's been about male bonding. Not suprisingly that's the kind of consumer we get. So we do have to increasingly look at more mixed gender advertising" It hopes that launching a broader range of beers and improving conditions in bars will also help. But what would make women in London want to drink more beer? SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SAYING: (English): "I like sweet beers. So maybe a variety of flavours and tastes." SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SAYING: (English): "Strawberry beer is always good." SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SAYING: (English): "Cranberry, apple, I guess some of the ciders are quite nice." SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SAYING: (English): "More ciders, fruit ciders and I really like ginger beer." Beer consumption in the US has fallen by around 30 percent in the past decade, losing ground to wine and spirits. Trends in Britain and Western Europe are similar. With women making up only a fifth of beer sales, brewers are looking at brands that appeal to both sexes. (SOUNDBITE) (English) "I think Peroni is a great example of a beer in the UK that's become very successful with the mixed gender for men and women. One of the reasons for that is the way we've marketed it in a very stylish up market different sort of way to our traditional marketing.". SABMiller has around 34 billion dollars in annual revenue, and the company's performance has accelerated in recent months, fuelled by emerging markets like China and Africa. But rivals are doing similar things, with fruit flavoured brands. And even spirits companies are getting in on the action, with gummy bear vodka and maple whiskey.