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Burned-out skateboarder Jesse Sorensen (Jesse Gay) loses his sponsorship with DieNasty Skateboards after a decade of living extravagantly and is forced to move back into his old bedroom at his elderly grandmother's (Ellen Trent) house, broke and without a car.
Jesse discovers that his 17-year-old niece, Samantha (Corsica Wilson), already crashing with Nana, is headed down the same hard-partying path that led him astray. Now Jesse is faced with the responsibility of growing up, keeping his niece out of trouble and becoming a positive role model in his young son's life in the locally produced film "Veer!"
Directed by Jacksonville native Patrick Barry, "Veer!" is a gritty drama with tender moments throughout. Co-written by Barry and Gay, "Veer!" is adapted from a short film of the same name, based on Gay's real-life experiences as a skateboarder. Gay is a natural, playing the character in an environment of skaters and seedy bars.
Barry's effective use of contrast in black-and-white imagery, high-definition color and classic 8mm film during skateboard sequences give the whole thing a documentary feel.
Bryan Carson, who plays Jesse's son, is funny, honest and comfortable in front of the camera. As Samantha, Wilson delivers another standout emotional performance.
When Jesse sees Samantha donning a blonde wig in a bar and being hit on by one of his peers, he decides to intervene, to prevent her from falling into the same patterns with the people who did him wrong.
Jesse's secret late-night visits to his son through a bedroom window — to talk and sneak in ice cream — are moving.
Most of his time and effort is spent building strong relationships with his Nana, niece and son, but Jesse also starts a romance with Paige (Erin Nicole Cline), a bartender.
A new addition to Jesse's old skate team gaining fame in the skating world, Strazz (James Nguyen) is criticized for his "squeaky clean" image that's atypical of professional skateboarders. His merchandise is sold at big-box retailers, making him a sellout in the minds of certain skaters. Strazz is an obvious foil to Jesse and highlights his unwillingness to conform. Nguyen's performance comes across as one-dimensional compared to Gay's. What Strazz lacks in soul Jesse more than makes up for in his efforts to be a better man.
The film's locales will be nothing new to those familiar with Downtown Jacksonville. Jesse skates under bridges and bombs a parking garage with his friends, and the film features a beautiful shot of Jesse skating down the Main Street Bridge. In one of the more touching moments, he skates through the old abandoned library with his son in tow on a scooter.
Scenes were also shot on location at legendary Kona Skatepark, famous for its downhill snake run.
From the hardcore sound of Powerball to the indie-rock sound of Crash the Satellites to the acoustic-driven crooning of Christina Wagner, the soundtrack features acts with Northeast Florida ties and complements the rough aesthetic of the film. Nathan Matthew David composed the original score.
"Veer!" — which has been featured at the Jacksonville Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Filmshift Festival and St. Augustine Film Festival — won the "Skate or Die Award" at the Pollygrind Underground Film Festival.


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What affects job creation throughout Missouri and the United States? A lack of certainty hampering small businesses and preventing them from doing what they do best: expand their company and hire more Americans.
What affects job creation throughout Missouri and the United States? A lack of certainty hampering small businesses and preventing them from doing what they do best: expand their company and hire more Americans.
As President Obama ramps up his rhetoric highlighting his administration's plan to put Americans back to work, consider this: In a recent United States Chamber of Commerce poll, more than four out of five small business owners believe that government does more harm than good when it comes to growing their business. According to the poll, 86 percent of small business owners preferred greater certainty to more government assistance.
As our nation's premier job creators, small business owners are a self-sufficient group. Just like anyone making a decision on whether to invest in something, they want to know the rules, the cost and the return. In other words, they want to know what regulations they will face, how much it will cost to produce their product, and whether there will be customers to purchase their product. Small business owners cannot invest in their business and hire more employees in good faith if they do not have some measure of confidence in the answers to these simple questions.
Solid predictions become even harder to make when our nation's out-of-control federal spending remains unchecked, the implementation of the health-care reform law is unclear, and the prospect of greater federal regulations threatens to make doing business harder and more expensive. This uncertainty creates doubt across the economy as a whole, making it more difficult for companies to find willing customers.
A Gallup poll of small business owners last fall listed the three biggest problems facing small business as government regulation (22 percent), consumer confidence (15 percent) and lack of consumer demand (12 percent). A real commitment to reining in government regulation and a serious plan to tackle the federal budget deficit will go a long way toward giving small businesses the steady ground they need to succeed and grow their business.
As the chairman of the House Committee on Small Business for just more than a year now, I hear this message every week. At a recent hearing, Michael Fredrich, president of MCM Composites in Manitowoc, Wis., focused on the uncertainty caused by our spiraling federal deficit.
"Please understand that the current level of federal spending and debt accumulation is not sustainable," said Mr. Fredrich. "Small business owners know this, and that is why they are most concerned about this issue. A recent survey released by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council and the Financial Services Forum in November found that small business owners believed that changes to federal fiscal policy would be the single most effective strategy to encourage hiring and to get the economy back on track."
In addition to Mr. Fredrich, many small business owners have highlighted economic uncertainty as a concern when reaching out to the committee through our interactive website, Small Business Open Mic.
"The inability of Congress and the White House to agree on the federal budget is a major source of uncertainty for my business," said Edward Pope of Unico Technology in Westlake Village, Calif. "This is no way to run a country and it makes it challenging for those of us in small business to run our companies. I'd like to hire in 2012, but with no budget certainty, I'm having to put those plans on hold."
Small businesses are the engine of our economy, with 27 million small firms creating about 65 percent of new jobs in the United States. Many of these businesses, here in Missouri and around the country, want to grow and expand, which will result in more jobs. But they are wary to invest in their companies when they do not know what is coming around the corner. The sooner that Washington provides small businesses the certainty that they need to grow, the sooner they can power a stronger economic recovery.
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Save everything.
Buy in bulk.
Find second uses for everything.
These are all powerful frugal tactics and they'll all save you money. I'll give you five examples.
1. Got an old t-shirt that's worn out? Toss it into a "scrap cloth" bin and save it for times when you just need a big piece of cloth to clean up a mess or protect something else from getting too messy.
2. Collect canvas bags whenever you can find them. Take them with you to the grocery store. You'll save $0.05 on your bill per bag at many stores, the bags are much more sturdy (and less prone to bags ripping or other accidents), and it's better for the environment, too.
3. Want to save money on pretty much any household product? Keep an eye on the price per unit and buy the version that has the lowest cost with that regard. You'll pay less per use, but you'll often wind up with fifteen bars of soap (or similar levels of excess).
4. Your vegetable scraps from the kitchen make brilliant compost. You just need a small compost bin out back. Toss the scraps in there and harvest the black compost months later. It's spectacularly powerful on your garden.
5. Buy any holiday supplies you need in the days after the holiday passes, then store them for next year. You'll get enormous discounts and the stuff will be just fine in storage for eleven months.
What do these four tactics have in common? They all save you money over doing things the "typical" way. But each one of them takes up valuable space in your home or on your property.
To put it simply, frugality and free space work hand in hand. It's much easier to pull off bulk buying and things like a "rag bin" if you've got space for those items.
Of course, at the same time, frugality works hand in hand with being in control of your possessions. You're far better off having one high-quality television than four cheap ones that will just fail every few years. You're far better off just owning a handful of your favorite books and a handful of unread books than mountains of books you've read and will likely never touch again (sell them, already!) and piles of books you might someday read (use the library for that!).
These two ideas combine together with one word: organization. Having a place for everything you own and not having more stuff than you can actually realistically use in the next year work together towards not only freeing up money (by selling off the excess stuff, you can pay off debts or start an emergency fund) but also freeing up the space you need for a lot of frugal projects.
It's surprisingly easy to organize your house. It only takes several hours, three baskets, and some patience. When you're done, you'll have a big pile of stuff to get rid of, as well as a sensible home for every item in your house.
Get three baskets and go into a room. I often use laundry baskets when I decide to do this, but you can use any sort of large tub that you wish. What you're going to do is go through every single item in that room and put the ones that are not in the right place into one of the three tubs.
One tub is for stuff that should remain in the room but is out of place. Don't worry about putting it back in the right place yet – you should do all of that when you're done. For now, just collect the stuff that you are sure will stay in the current room.
Another tub is for stuff that should remain in your home but is in the wrong room. If it should be in another room in your home, it needs to go into this tub.
A final tub is for stuff that you no longer wish to keep. As you go through each item, ask yourself honestly if this item needs to be kept. If you don't have a definite "yes" as a response, put it in this tub.
When you've put everything in the room that can be moved into the tubs, it's time to deal with each one.
Put all of the stuff in the first tub where it should be in the room.
Put all of the stuff in the second tub into the room where it should be. You can just put the items on the floor in that room if you so wish, but if you're going back into a room you've already finished, you should put the item away.
Put all of the stuff in the third tub in a place where you can go through it later. The garage is a good place for it.
Then, just move to the next room and repeat the procedure with the three tubs. When you're done, your house will feel a lot more organized and roomy.
The final step, of course, is to deal with all of the stuff you decided to get rid of. Ignore your second guessing here. You will likely think, "Well, I can keep this now that I have room," but don't fall into that trap. Trust your initial instinct and sell off or trade away that item.
The best thing to do is to have a garage sale with all of those items. Put up a sign in a couple of weeks, price everything, put up some tables, and arrange all the stuff. Your goal is not to make a mint, but to sell off a lot of the items.
You may want to sell media items at a media shop or trade them online. Both will earn you some cash from your excess items.
Keep in mind that this is an ongoing process. You may wind up starting over before you complete all of the rooms, but if you do that, the rooms you've already done will go much, much faster than before. You'll probably also come across projects that need to be completed along the way – just use your own judgment with them, but the key is to keep moving forward with something.
What's the end result of all of this? You have money from the stuff you cleared out. You have time because you're not hunting for stuff all over the place. You have space for other frugal steps that will, in the end, save you more money and time.


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DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill proposed by Boulder Democratic Rep. KC Becker that would require commercial websites to remove a person's mug shot if they were never convicted of the crime for which they were arrested.
Lawmakers in a House committee will decide Tuesday whether the bill should go forward.
Some websites require people to pay hundreds of dollars to remove their booking photos online. The proposal from Becker would mean websites would have to remove booking photos at a person's request, for free, if they were never convicted.
Becker's bill would not impose criminal penalties, but it would allow people to sue if their picture is not removed.
Similar laws have passed in Georgia and Utah, but some states that have considered such bills have faced First Amendment concerns.
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How to demonstrate Inclusion in 5 Simple Steps
Last week, I gave an internal talk to our Cisco Inclusion and Diversity Ambassadors on "How to demonstrate Inclusion in 5 Simple Steps". I am a firm believe that Inclusion and Diversity is not what I call an "extra-curricular activity" but is an inexhaustible tool that should be woven into every aspect of our culture and all of our interactions at Cisco, both inside and out. And the things we do to weave this tighter into our company culture doesn't have to be rocket science. We can take small, yet significant, steps to accomplish this in the way we interact with people and how we present ourselves.
- Take some time to get to know our colleagues. How well do you know the people you work with? Do they take their children to work early in the morning, meaning they are unavailable for early morning meetings? What religion do they follow and have you marked these religious days in your calendar? Do they work from home on some days and therefore would be unavailable for face-to-face meetings? Getting to know your colleagues and peers could have a bigger impact than you think.
- Management by Wandering Around. Do you reserve some time each week to simple wander around the office? This style of management has been proven to have benefits for both the manager and the employee including open dialogue, reducing stress and opportunities to deal with big problems before they become big. For more information, click here.
- When you send an email, list your recipient's/recipients' time zones. I think this is a great tip. If you are based in the U.K. and the person you are emailing lives in California, list their time zone ahead of yours. For example, "I've scheduled a meeting for us on Tuesday, 15th January at 9 a.m. PST". This will have benefits for both sides – it will reduce the number of meetings set up during inconvenient times and also helps the recipient to ensure they are available.
- Use Outlook's Calendar features. Did you know you can add holidays and additional time zones to your Outlook? Simply go to Outlook Options and click on the Calendar tab.
- Open your meeting agenda. A couple of days before a meeting reach out to the attendees and ask them what they would like to include on the agenda. This is an easy win to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to decide what should be discussed. Also, when you begin your meeting "go around the table" and make sure everyone is clear on who is present. This avoids those uncomfortable "oh hi , I didn't realise you were on the call…"
These are just a selection of steps we can take to become more inclusive, diverse and stronger businesses. Do you have any tips you can share with our readers? Post them in the comments box below!
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FORT WORTH, Texas --- Amon Carter Museum Director Ron Tyler announced today that Jessica May has been appointed assistant curator of photographs. She will assist John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, in the interpretation and exhibition of the Carter's collection of photographs, which is widely regarded as one of the most important in the country.
"The Carter has a history of producing fine photographic exhibitions and publications, and we are delighted to have Jessica May join our staff," said Tyler. "Her experience, enthusiasm and training will add greatly to the perspective that we can bring to our collections."
"Jessica brings solid training and a passion for photography to the Carter," added Rohrbach. "I am looking forward to working with her on all facets of our museum program. She is a great enhancement to the institution."
May recently completed the Jane and Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her academic training is in the history of photography and American art. She holds a B.A. in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an M.A. in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She intends to complete a Ph.D. by December 2007 and is currently working on her dissertation, Off the Clock: Walker Evans and the Crisis of American Capital, 1930--1946. May's work on Evans led her to launch a concurrent project: the organization of an exhibition devoted to Evans, Berenice Abbott and Margaret Bourke-White entitled Modern Documents, which opens July 2008 at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine.
"The Carter's photography collection spans virtually the entire history of the medium as it has been seen and practiced by Americans, which is absolutely thrilling," said May. "It is a true honor to work with the collection and with this community."
In addition to her work at the Met and Colby College Museum of Art, May has extensive curatorial, teaching, writing and research experience. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Serious Cookies: King Arthur Flour's Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies Recipe
Our holiday cookie onslaught continues with a recipe excerpted with permission of the King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion. <!-- More here: King Arthur Flour's Pistachio-Cherry Biscotti, King Arthur Flour's Cranberry-Apricot Chocolate Chews, and King Arthur Flour's Light Spice Cookies. -->
- 5 1/2 tablespoons (2 5/8 ounces) butter
- 1/3 cup (2 1/8 ounces) vegetable shortening
- 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces) sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 2 cups (8 1/2 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon red paste food coloring or
- 1 to 2 teaspoons liquid red food coloring
- Sugar, for sprinkling
In a large bowl, beat the butter and shortening together with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the sugar, baking powder, and salt; beat until combined, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Beat in the egg, milk, and extracts until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in the remaining flour with a wooden spoon.
Remove one fourth of the dough; color it red with food coloring. Divide the remaining dough in half; color one portion pink and leave the last portion plain. If the dough is too soft to handle easily, chill it for 30 to 60 minutes before continuing to shape it.
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Divide each dough portion into six pieces. Roll each piece into a 12-inch long rope. (The red rope will be smaller in diameter.) Lay the ropes side by side on a lightly floured surface, alternating colors. Roll the ropes with a rolling pin into a single 14 x 9-inch rectangle about 1/4 inch thick. Using a pizza wheel, pastry cutter, or long sharp knife, cut the rectangle diagonally into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Cut the strips into pieces 5 to 7 inches long. Press the ends of the shorter strips together to make a strip of the desired length. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Curve one end of each piece to form a candy cane, then sprinkle each candy cane with sugar.
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Finnish Police Respond To The Norwegian Tragedy By Increasing Internet Surveillance
from the another-attempt-to-prevent-the-unpreventable deptIn response to the tragedy in Norway, Finland law enforcement has decided to increase its internet surveillance in hopes of picking up "weak signals" that could possibly indicate a terrorist threat. As Cato's Jim Harper points out, this sort of thing just doesn't work:
...random violence (terrorist or otherwise) is not predictable and not "findable" in advance -- not if a free society is to remain free, anyway.
The problem with attacks like the shooting/bombing in Norway is that they are isolated instances. The shock and horror of the event tends to overwhelm the common sense of politicians, law enforcement and the press itself, leading to unfortunate efforts like these, often combined with commentary from ad hoc armchair quarterbacks whose hindsight is endless but whose foresight is severely restricted.
The civil rights of citizens are trampled underfoot by politicians and law enforcement officials wishing to appear to be doing "something" to make their homelands safer. These "somethings" usually combine rush-job legislation with political theatrics, resulting in a hastily applied veneer of safety that extends the government's reach into the personal lives of its citizens.
We've seen it here in the US via the PATRIOT Act and the corresponding growth of the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA. Once a law gets on the books, it rarely gets removed. There may be discussions about oversight issues or possible detrimental effects, but bad legislation tends to be permanent.
The problem with an effort like Finland's is that there is only one guaranteed outcome to this effort: more internet surveillance. In light of Breivik's known interests, this heightened attention means anyone whose gaming choices include Call of Duty or World of Warcraft could possibly find themselves under surveillance. People with strong opinions on major world religions or political organizations could very well be flagged as possible suspects.
No one truly knows what they're looking for when they implement programs like these, and because of that, nearly anything can be considered "suspect." Even worse, this attack was characterized as pro-Islamic by the media before the information surfaced that Breivik was anti-Islamic. Knowing who's actually the "risky" party isn't always so clear, meaning that anyone can be the risky party. When you combine large amounts of speculation with the tendency of politicians to twist laws into vehicles of self-service, the originally well-meaning legislation soon becomes a weapon against any display of political or religious dissent:
As former FBI agent (and current ACLU policy counsel) Mike German advises, any ideology can become a target of the government if the national security bureaucracy comes to use political opinion or activism as a proxy or precursor for crime and terrorism.
It's very hard for anyone in power to respond to a horrific tragedy by doing nothing, but if the track record of post-terrorist-attack legislation is anything to go by, "nothing" would be a refreshing change.
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Robert Hanson
Marion resident Robert Lee Hanson, 80, died July 10. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Good News Christian Fellowship, Marion.
Born Feb. 16, 1933, in Wichita to Vernon and Okla Hanson, he graduated from high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951. He studied at Wichita Technical Institute, and worked as a television studio engineer for 10 years in Wichita.
He married Mary Prudence "Prudy" Baker on May 11, 1962.
The family moved to Marion in 1966. He worked as an independent carpenter and then for 25 years as a maintenance carpenter for Tabor College.
He is survived by his wife; a son, Robert David Hanson; and two stepchildren. He was preceded in death by twin daughters.
He was a member of Good News Christian Fellowship. A memorial has been established with the church.
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In response to the comment below, nope, not leaving, not ever, not nohow.
Seriously though, I live outside all the mandatory evac zones, and we are supposed to stay put for now to give those folks who really do have to leave (especially anyone and everyone in Galveston) the road. Things are quiet here as I poach a little wifi from my fabulous neighbors; the moon in shining and the air is peculiarly calm. I've hurricane-proofed the house; no projectiles here!
Since I live in the Houston Heights (elevation: 40 ft!) I won't flood. My house is set back from the street and is on a pier-and-beam foundation, so even if the streets flood (likely) my house will stay nice and dry.
Unless 115 mph winds tear off my roof and blow out my windows.
In which case, Pepper and I will retreat to the bedroom closet (the only windowless "room" in the house) and wait things out!
We'll be fine. We'll check in after the storm as soon as we are able.


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Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945
Lynne Rienner Pub, 01.01.2002 - 190 Seiten
A journal account of a sixteen-year-old girl who in June 1941 bade farewell to her family for what was to have been a summer-long vacation camp. Lena Jedwab left her home in Bialystok, Poland and arrived in Russia just as Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Lena was stranded in a Russian children's home while her family was murdered by the Nazis at the Treblinka concentration camp for the crime of having been born Jewish. In her diary, Lena wrote in Yiddish as she agonised over the unknown fate of her family and the uncertainties of her future. Expressed are her conflicted emotions over what the war had done to her youth and the gratitude felt for being alive, nourished and in school while so many others were displaced, starving, and dying. Not since 'The Diary of Anne Frank', has there been such a personalised account by an adolescent girl caught up in the turmoil and terror of World War 2. GIRL WITH TWO LANDSCAPES is an incredibly important and highly prized addition to Judaic Studies and Holocaust Studies collections.
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2 Cents From Judy
From September of 1980, I have a letter from him of which I am quoting a snippet.
"If you can think of anything else Mom would like or would enjoy please either go ahead and get it and let me share expense or let me know so we can sent it from here. There are so many things I have thought of over the years that I would like to send her and wish I could have or would have when she would have enjoyed them, but I don't think 'things' ever were that important to her, so at least maybe nothing has been lost. I worry about her being warm in the night in that house, with the heat turned down."
This is just such a lovely passage, full of loving emotion.
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- Elizabeth said...
The summer of 1980 was such a difficult summer, and yet a summer of great upheaval and blessings. I'm just thankful that I could be in Washington that summer - to be there for Mother and Dad, as well as everything else that went on. Glad you saved that letter, Judy.
I do remember the new purse that Dwight gave Mother for Mother's Day the year that Pat graduated from high school, and Brig went on his mission. The purse was so wonderful and had so many pockets, that she lost her recommend in a secret pocket - had to call Olympia so that she and Dad could go through the Provo temple with Brig. She found the right pocket later on that trip, and we all laughed about it.
- March 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM
- Dwight said...
I gave mom several purses over the years. Each time we gave her a new one her response always was "This one will do me." But I always wondered what else could I, or should I, have given her or done for when I had a chance to do so.
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I have Harold B's tag. That's all that matters.
Quote from: The Nailer™ on October 25, 2013, 09:37:30 PMI have Harold B's tag. That's all that matters.Yep, that made me laugh out loud for real.
I still got it! I beat Dick on Aug 19th gave him 295 the first and only time I traded tags this year. I figured the only way to beat the curse of losing it the next round was to not have another round. I actually had about 6 rounds playing in the Open div every time. (Check out the league results in Olathe). The #1 tag has given me invincibility powers like I have ever experienced in my 10 years of playing. I regret to announce that I will not be able to win another Club Championship this year, so I would like to have a round Friday Nov 1 at Lakeside Hills starting at 1 PM if anybody is in for it. The forecast is calling for sunny skies and 60 deg. I would also like to play for $5/person or you can option out and just play for bag tag. I have to pick up kids on Friday after school so we would need to start by 1 PM.
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I have a crush on Michael. He's easily 6'4", extremely well-built, and hilarious. Oh, and one other thing. He's very clearly gay.
Michael is my spin instructor and the reason I got hooked on indoor cycling. For months, I'd feel giddy before class—almost bizarrely excited to workout, really—and afterwards, extraordinarily grateful to him for helping me achieve that addictive high.
Fortunately, I'm too focused on my burning thighs and butt to even worry about blushing when he stops by my bike to check that I'm not wimping out on my resistance level. And because I'm sweating out of every pore of my body, my usual schvitzing pits syndrome is no concern.
But really, who am I kidding? Michael is far more concerned with shaking his backside and belting every word to his Lady Gaga mix than me, the girl fogging up her oversize Buddy Holly glasses.
As it turns out, there's a very real reason I feel like a giddy schoolgirl over Michael. In a post at Equinox.com, writer Roy M. Wallack says there's a scientific link between exercise and crushes, er, bonding.
Research shows that male prairie voles (rodents that develop human-like monogamous relationships) who exercised bonded more to females than sedentary males. The thinking? Exercise is believed to release oxytocin, (a.k.a. the "love hormone), which fosters maternal bonding and, incidentally, adult bonding, too. In other words, of course I'm feeling some, well, special attachment to Michael.
Please tell me I'm not alone and you've been crushing on your cycling (or similar group fitness) instructor, too?
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
On the Street….Camel Coats, Florence p.1
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love the color of the coat!
now this is a fabulous shot!
LOVE the printed scarf on the gentleman in the background.
the depth of field give the photo a whimsical feel.
and, oh – the camel coat is, well, classic.
Great picture- perfect example that the main difference between these bespoke and off-the-rack ones are the "just right" fit. Notice it around the waist and all along the sleeves; the arms in this coat are not even particularly high yet there is a clear definition between the sleeves and the torso, which elongates the figure. Great briefcase as well. Jorge from W Palm Beach
Very nice. I like this. i don't like men in coats that come below the knee unless they are a Loden or a fur coat. Interesting suit pants and nice bag too. The gentleman behind sports a cool scarf. Looks like a beautiful morning in Florence!
Classic with a modern fit…once again great!!!
100% class.
He has a vest? Or is that his suit coat?
I also love the '60s hippie psychedelic scarf on the otherwise very staid gentleman just behind him. Wonder what he was up to in 1968 ;)
his bag is beautiful !
God I love this look on a man..it's so classic…
Very sharp and clean. I like his entire look.
I love the scarf on the guy on the left – superconservative with multicolour paisley – lovely!
ummmmm! Bellisimo!!
This jacket is so nice I wonder where you can buy it from.
Sorry, what's the bag?
What's the bag?
if the face would have been as elegant as the rest…. this is the classic example where a well dressed man,can turn out to be not elegant, because, elegance cannot be bought!!!!!
the camel coat is really nice, great cut…but I am more taken by the colorful scarf that the guy behind him is wearing. it's gorgeous!
What a beautiful coat! Very elegant! Are those trousers black (pinstriped) or gray?
Hope to see you soon in Helsinki, Sart!!
i really like this pic…but there's one thing. the guy w/ that paisley scarf…looks a teeeeny bit feminine 2me…
Best bit for me is the use of a pocket square in the coat breast pocket – if you going to wrap up and hide the suit jacket, why not continue to keep your stylishness visible.
Awesome picture, the striped trousers, and camel bag. That coat is perfect. I like how stern the older Italians look.
the bag is last season tod's.
camel coats are such beautiful classic pieces…
Is it a similar coat, the older wrestling or box champ wore last week in Firenze, isn´t it??
Off: I saw your picture on the IHT for the Perfect Man Magazine. It is very classy.
Beautiful classic and I love the added casual bag. The pants and shoes, however, remind me of a chef.
Superb. Always. The length is perfect too.
exactly how I remember the super Italian stylish man! :D
Finally a somewhat normal looking person.
Like someone said earlier, that scarf must have a big value to this guy. It might remind him of his first girlfriend of something like that, and it doesn't matter how it looks. Looks great anyway.
These guys look so tough*, like the guys in the "Napoleon" shot. I'm loving the scarf, it softens everything.
*some very nice looking gentlemen share this quality of "you-really-don't-want-to-mess-with-me". It's a no-nonsense look without all of the testosterone trimmings. This sounded much better inside my head.
i want his bag.
An earlier poster implied that the man in the camel coat couldn't pull off "elegance" because he has an inelegant face.
The excellent fit of the coat–over what is clearly a well-toned body–suggests to me that he wasn't attempting to give off an air of elegance, but of virility. And he certainly has the face for that. But then I like a man with a certain ruggedness to his face.
I LOVE the cut, style and color of that coat. That is one well put together man.
Sexy!!! this man is hot, elegant is not the point here honey. Every item in his outfit screams the same thing, the boots, the pants, the bag the picking of his gloves in his left pocket, the gold watch!!! He is Mr. Gorgeous. And the guy in back is not doing so bad either for a fun sugar Daddy.
not the coat – the scarf, look at the scarf of the other gentleman!
Like them both !! The man with the bag has awesome trousers ….his bag is fabulous !
But….the scarf on the 2nd gentleman is amazing !
Totally am in LOVE with it …
i love the scarf on the man behind him!!
The camel coat looks really good! I never had one but I will as soon as find mine. I curious if will match with long sleeve T-shirt. I'm not fan of Dress Shirt with coat.
The fit of the pant is outstanding, loving the mix of texture beteween the coat and the clasic pattern of the pants. The handbag should not be ignored…!!!
I hate to picky – ok, I don't – but he's done-up the wrong button. Maybe little details like that don't matter… and maybe they do. For me, it just jars when I look at it.
Just wow! Im sold, that's it, im getting a camel coat! Another example of how right you were sart, indeed nothing matters more than the fit! For as long as I've seen camel coats here in Nyc, none looked so flawlessly 'chique" on anyone I've seen (maybe not enough for me to have remembered nevertheless). Although this camel coat in picture seems to be a bespoke model, the fit to me is pretty insightful as to how a 1/4 lenght coat should look on someone. I love this to the utmost extent!
Are they taught this kind of style from a young age? or is it just an osmotic process.
The cut of the coat makes him look very Dick Tracy…
I like the pinstripe pants.
the bag is ORCIANI! it's a "set city" bag!
hippie scarf guy belongs to Bernie's buyer team in Zurich.
I love the longer comments, especially those from the regulars like Jorge from W Palm Beach and Dan from Richmond. I learn from the pictures and I learn from them.
Let's just say…OMG!!! :)
Not a fan of DB coats but this one work well, i like the pinestripe suit(i suppose) and the bag !
Seems to be confident with himself.
He only has the bottom button of the DB coat buttoned. Is that how they are to be worn?
I always through (perhaps incorrectly) that DB coats were buttoned all the way down.
What a great coat! I liked how he wore them with pinstripe pants too.
the length of the coat is perfect! Please note the pochette! wearing a pochette with a coat just makes a huge difference. also the length of his pants is super!
Absolutely Fantastic Double Breasted Coat. One of classic and eponymous style.
Very emulative of a traditional english style, especially that of HRH Prince Charles who is often seen wearing a double breasted full length coat in a Tweed.
Although the camel goes extremely well with most things; especially the pinstripe trousers he is wearinng.
Also, very classic ralph lauren image.
But its totally admirable.
Lovely cut but I think the supporting actor to his right is the real gem of this picture. Beautiful, bold paisley backed by the sky blue striped oxford shirt :) Great worldly swagger, too.
I love the cut of his coat. His outfit is quite chic.
I love the scarf from the guy in the back.
ps – he's cute.
Such a clean outfit!
Perfectly tailored, clean and simple.
I love the entire look. And look at the striped trousers!
I'm not sure but I think he also wears an odd waistcoat. Quite elegant !
Fantastic ;D
The bag is THE BRIDGE, italian brand.


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"What If" Could Be Now: A New Retail Experience
Consider me a weekend warrior of the DIY home-improvement world. My projects are likely laughable (in scope and outcome) in the eyes of the professionals, but if that's the case, they're not invited to my next barbeque. So there.
Granted, I sometimes experience delusions of grandeur as I envision transforming my fixer-upper into a quaint Sunset magazine-worthy before/after feature. Norm Abram will never worry about me usurping his reputation, but I like fixing things when they break and looking at something I've improved and knowing I did it.
I can swing a hammer and even use a tile saw, but most projects involve a lot of learning and asking questions along the way. Sometimes that's a bit of a process – finding the answers I need or the people who have them.
Confession: Last time I went to one of those DIY meccas, I stood in the plumbing aisle gesturing and trying to describe "you know, the thing that bends like this and connects like that?" Unfortunately, I was talking to the paint guy because the plumbing guy was sick that day. He shrugged. I went to another store.
What if… when the vastness of parts and pieces in the plumbing aisle eventually overwhelmed me, I could turn to a kiosk with a touch-screen display I could use to navigate to "install new faucet." It would show me a list of parts and tools I'd need, plus video demonstrations of how to actually accomplish the task without flooding the kitchen. I could print the parts list, instructions, and a link to the video. Or I could send the video to my e-mail or phone to watch again at home. (Psst… Step 1: Turn off the water under the sink.
What if… that same demo tool was accessible to store employees over the wireless network on tablet devices or smartphones. An employee (we'll call him Wes) could quickly navigate to a demo and walk me through it, then help me find the products and send the installation instructions to a nearby network printer. If something was out of stock, he could search the inventory system to find it at a nearby store and IM one of their staff to hold it for me, or let me know when his store would have it in stock.
What if I needed a special-order product – a really fancy kitchen faucet, perhaps? Wes could use his tablet to access the network and walk me through the options and a product video. Even better, working over the store's secure wi-fi network, he could take my order, enter my credit-card information, and have it shipped to the store or to my house. He could forward me the tracking information and receipt — right then and there. I wouldn't have to find the special-order desk in the corner of the store or go home and find the product on the web.
I think I'm liking this store.
What if I have questions? The people who owned my house before me did some pretty wacky things and I'm consistently encountering oddness that needs to be remedied. Those situations bring up specific questions that cross the eyes and confound the imaginations of your typical hardware store generalist. Wouldn't it be great if I could click my heels three times and summon an expert to magically appear and field my questions? Indeed it would. It worked for Dorothy Gale, but I'm fresh out of red shoes.
Wes could magically summon that expert using that oh-so-handy business-class tablet device. He could search the store's enterprise social network to find the plumbing experts. Presence indicators would show him that Jackie was available by phone, but Dan was available over video. He could initiate a video chat with Dan, then hand me the device and so I could ask my questions directly in a face-to-face conversation.
Dan might be in another store or he might be at a call center in another state. Even better, he could be in a central demonstration center and where he could use a real sink to show me what to do over the video connection. Dan could e-mail links to relevant online demos or instructions that I could review at home.
Before I leave the store, I head over to the nursery to ask about a shrub in my yard. I brought a branch so I could show it to someone to find out what it is. No one in the store knows what it is, so they bring in another expert over video. Bad news, it's poison oak. Good news, at least the remote guy won't be itching for a week.
If I'd provided my e-mail address at any point, the store could send me a survey asking about my experience. At this point, I'm thinking they'd get good marks.
The second best-part of this scenario? It could apply to nearly any retail outlet – an auto parts store, home electronics, groceries, clothing… It's basically the customer-service desk – in a portable form. While I'm in a shopping mode, let's round out this trip. I could…
- Go to the auto parts store and get advice on which type of motor oil is best for my vehicle and driving conditions
- Head over to the home-electronics place to buy that new Blu-Ray player and have the salesperson bring up a picture of the back of my TV to show me which of those myriad plugs to use
- Stop at the grocery store and have a sommelier provide wine recommendations for my mother's famous spam/sauerkraut/biscuit casserole
- (Don't get me started on the potential for fashion advice. It's a good thing they can use the department store's wireless network – the mobile data charges over a 3G/4G network would be astronomical for my wardrobe improvement.)
But here's the best part of this scenario. It's not a figment of my imagination except that I haven't encountered it in real life — yet. The technology exists. Mobile tablet devices. Smartphones. Secure access over the wireless network to inventory, phone and video communications, messaging, point-of-sale systems, etc. An application with messaging, presence, and integration with the enterprise phone network. Networked interactive digital signs that provide access to the same collaboration, communication and Web applications. Check. Check. And Check.
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Retail customers are absolutely looking at mobile collaboration to increase customer satisfaction and responsiveness – providing immediate access to subject matter experts to help close sales. This video is based on customer validated use cases with Cisco Cius. It's the personal shopping experience of the future – and the future's coming soon! Enjoy!


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Cruiser's Culinary Cheat Sheetby Janice Wald Henderson, Cruise Culinary Editor | October 29, 2009
Have you ever been stumped by a word on a cruise ship menu? Here is your cruiser's culinary cheat sheet.
|This is a report from our cruise culinary editor Janice Wald Henderson. Janice has been a longtime contributor to many magazines, including Bon Appétit Magazine and Brides. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Cooking Light and numerous other publications. Janice is also the Los Angeles editor of the Essential Restaurant Guide at epicurious.com. Janice Wald Henderson Cruise Culinary Editor
As a food expert, I still come across the occasional menu item that stumps me. It's impossible to know - and remember - every culinary term. I'm sure this has happened to you, too, especially on a cruise.
In fact, it's probably more challenging at sea. Onboard restaurants - from mass market to luxury ships - now feature menus peppered with trendy lingo like emulsions and foam. (Hint: They have nothing to do with high school science experiments.) Other ships showcase classics you rarely see onshore, such as beef Wellington and baked Alaska.
I perused several ship menus to create this glossary of gourmet terms. Consider it your cruise ship culinary cheat sheet. Next time you sail, you'll be sure that what you order is exactly what you want to eat. And will you impress your tablemates? Sure. That's the bonus.
- AMANDINE - Often misspelled as almondine, it's French for garnished with almonds.
- ARTISAN CHEESE - From boutique purveyors, usually made in a hands-on fashion in small batches.
- BAKED ALASKA - Typically a last formal night dessert; sponge cake topped with ice cream and meringue and briefly baked.
- BALSAMIC - From Italy, aged in barrels for a richer color and deeper, sweeter flavor. The longer the aging, the more intense the taste.
- BASMATI RICE - Fragrant, long-grained rice with nutty qualities; grown in Himalayan foothills.
- BEARNAISE SAUCE - Similar to hollandaise sauce flavored with tarragon; classically served with steak.
- BEEF WELLINGON - Beef filet coated in pâté de foie gras (pureed cooked duck or goose liver) or duxelles (mushroom mixture), wrapped in flaky pastry and baked. Some contemporary chefs tweak the recipe into salmon Wellington.
- BEURRE BLANC - Silky smooth French butter sauce made with white wine. (Use red wine instead and it's beurre rouge.)
- BURRATA - Italian mozzarella cheese filled with a soft buttery center made with cream and shredded mozzarella.
- CARPACCIO - Traditional Italian dish of thinly sliced raw beef; modern takes often use seafood.
- CEVICHE - Raw seafood "cooked" in citrusy marinade.
- CROSTINI - Thin rounds of bread, brushed with olive oil and baked until crisp.
- EMULSION - Mixture of two elements, such as oil and water, which normally do not combine well. Mayonnaise is an emulsion. In modern cooking, chefs make emulsions, such as grapefruit emulsion (a blend of grapefruit, zest and olive oil) and serve as a sauce or garnish.
- ESCARGOTS A LA BOURGUIGNONNE - Snails baked in garlicky butter sauce.
- FLAN - Small round pastry topped with savory or sweet filling. Can be served hot or cold.
- FRISEE - Slightly bitter, curly-leaf green often used in salad mix called mesclun.
- FOAM - Sauce or essence aerated to foamy consistency, often by adding gelatin or agar and foaming in a CO2 cartridge powered canister. Flavor-intense yet dainty and light. Examples include lettuce, apple or pomegranate foam.
- GAZPACHO - Cold Spanish soup of loosely pureed vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, onions and breadcrumbs. Chefs often riff off the classic; mango gazpacho is an example.
- GRANA PADANO - Hard dry cheese similar to parmesan. Favored in Italy over Parmigianino-Reggiano for its bolder flavor and aroma.
- GRATINEE - Browning food topped with breadcrumbs or cheese under a hot broiler.
- GRAVLAX - Raw salmon cured in salt-sugar-dill mixture. Often served with pumpernickel as an appetizer, or with dill-mustard sauce.
- INSALATA CAPRESE - Translates to "salad from Capri." Expect fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil.
- INVOLTINI - Little roll-ups, often veal, beef or eggplant, with various fillings.
- JOHNNY CAKES - Southern specialty of pancake-like fried cornmeal cakes.
- KOBE BEEF - Special grade of pricey beef from Wagyu cattle raised in Kobe, Japan. Cows are massaged and fed beer, resulting in exceptionally marbled, tender beef.
- KUROBUTA PORK - Reputed to be Britain's oldest pig breed. Known as Kurobuta pork in Japan and Berkshire pork elsewhere. Sometimes called both on American menus. Highly marbled and juicy. Darker in color than traditional pork. Prized by chefs and foodies.
- MISO - Fermented soy bean paste; tastes better than it sounds. There are several varieties of varying hues. Delicious brushed as a glaze (with sake, ginger and garlic, for instance) on black cod or other fish before broiling.
- OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER - A New Orleans specialty; oysters on the half-shell, topped with spinach, butter and breadcrumbs and baked.
- PANCETTA - Italian bacon, cured but not smoked. Often used in pasta and sauces.
- PANNA COTTA - "Cooked cream;" a chilled Italian dessert made with gelatin rather than a custard base and often served with berries.
- PAPILLOTE - A cooking method, usually for fish, baked in a parchment paper "package."
- PONZU - Japanese sauce, made with soy and citrus. Commonly served with fish.
- QUENELLE - Softly poached small dumpling; can be fish, meat or vegetable.
- REDUCTION - Creating a sauce by boiling liquids until volume is reduced by evaporation. Used to thicken sauces without flour or cornstarch and to intensify flavor.
- RISOTTO - Exceptionally creamy Italian rice dish with firm grains. Often served with seafood or saffron (Milanese).
- SATAY - Also written as saté; an Indonesian and Thai dish of skewered meat or poultry, grilled and served with often-spicy peanut sauce.
- SLIDERS - Mini-burgers, usually beef. Trendy appetizer.
- SPAETZLE - Tiny German dumplings, made by forcing dough through a sieve. Usually served tossed with butter as a side dish, or as a garnish for soups.
- TAGLIATELLE - The name in northern Italy for fettuccine; long, thin flat noodles.
- TAPENADE - Often served with bread at Mediterranean-style restaurants; tapenade is traditionally made with olives (such as kalamata), olive oil, capers and other seasonings.
- TARTARE - Finely chopped, seasoned raw beef or seafood.
- TARTUFO - Italian ice-cream dessert shaped into balls with fillings like cherries, chocolate and/or nuts.
- VICHYSSOISE - Chilled puree of potato and leek soup. Cauliflower and apple vichyssoise is a modern take on the original.
- WAGYU BEEF - Usually refers to Wagyu cattle raised in America, Kobe-style.
- WASABI - Made from ground root grown in Japan to add spice and flavor to food. Traditionally accompanies sushi. Today's chefs often use wasabi to flavor many dishes, not just Asian.
- YUZU - Tart Japanese citrus fruit, all the rage in modern cooking.


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OS and Virtualization or Virtualization and OS?
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We each behave according to our nature. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that while a virtualization supplier believes that the operating system is, effectively, a feature, an operating system vendor would argue that the converse is true. The philosophical differences between Red Hat and VMware could not have been more apparent during their respective events - September's VMworld gathering in Las Vegas and yesterday's Red Hat analyst day held at the New York Stock Exchange.


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Kirsten Southwell, ADAA 2012 Winner of Mobile Design category, shares her experience with us….
As designers, we're always looking for ways to better our work, to evolve as artists and individuals. We grow up, mature, and our understanding of great design grows along with us.
Kirsten Southwell, North Carolina State University and ADAA 2012 winner of Mobile Design category, shared her perspective of the ADAA experience in Toronto. Her story demonstrates how sometimes, the little things become most memorable – when our colleagues share in our achievement, when our friends share in our joy, and when our professors lift us up, are the times when we truly grow and connect to our community.
"Since becoming an ADAA winner, I think I've gained a lot of perspective about my own abilities as a designer, as well as a greater appreciation for all of the wonderful support I have as an aspiring professional. I think that the place I have found the most support has been from the studio that I work for, Second Story Interactive Studios.
For example, within an hour of winning the ADAA award, I was extremely touched to receive a phone call from David Waingarten, a Creative Director at Second Story. David temporarily derailed a meeting he was in, just to congratulate me and share the news with the rest of the studio. It was a simple gesture, but it became obvious to me, that the individuals I work with enjoy sharing in my success in a way that is far more personal than by simply acknowledging it.
I was also surprised by how my alma mater, North Carolina State University, took such pride in my achievement. I received emails from all of the professors in the Graphic Design department! Not only that, but someone thoughtfully took the time to create a large poster, announcing my achievement, then hung it up in the main breezeway of the College of Design.
I feel my education is invaluable. I am thrilled that I have an opportunity to share the ADAA honor with the program—and specifically the faculty and TA's—who gave so much of their time and effort to help shape the designer that I've become.
My friends have been really excited for me. I think it has been a little eye-opening for some of them to get a bigger understanding and context of the work that I do. My friend, Chris, came all the way to Toronto to attend the DesignThinkers conference and share in the moment with me. He confided that after they called my name to come on stage, his heart didn't stop racing for a few minutes later. I found that incredibly endearing that he literally experienced my anxiety – for me.
As far as what I have learned as an artist… I've learned the value of making an effort and taking a chance to claim recognition, and become distinguished for your work. I work at an award winning studio, and it's great to contribute to projects collaboratively. However, receiving individual acknowledgement can only empower you, validate you, and heighten your sense of awareness for the designer that can become.
Recently, I've been exploring motion. Part of this is in thanks to the DSLR camera I bought with my ADAA Prize Money! It started with a desire to create high-quality GIFS as a storytelling method on the Second Story blog. This has kind of taken off into creating long stop motion animations in Photoshop and creating prototypes in Flash. Now I'm learning AfterEffects – I'm committed to exploring as a designer.
Since being distinguished by the ADAA, I was also honored as a winner in the Optimizing category of the IxDA Interaction Design Awards. So just last month, I found myself back in Toronto to receive an award at the IxDA13 Conference.
At the ADAA 2013, we too share in the joy and achievements of Kirsten and all alumni in the community. As the ADAA embarks on our thirteenth year, we're looking forward to recognizing more emerging artists and designers, pushing their pursuit of greatness in design.
Congrats, Kirsten! To view Kirsten's honored work, visit the ADAA Gallery at www.adaagallery.com.


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I'd say Western and Queens are pretty equivalent, and quite similar in terms of atmosphere as well. Though, I would say the undergrads at Queens are considerably smarter (I'm not biased at all!)
Everyone's really pushing me to go to Columbia. I'm just feel like a decision as big as this deserves to be carefully weighted... but I'm having a hard time coming up with substantial pros for the other three schools.


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At least I hope it is. Right now I'm sitting inside under a big blanket as a Nor'easter dumps a ridiculous amount of rain on New Jersey. Spring so far has been cold and wet.
I'm ready to wear sun dresses and sandals, grill out on the patio and eat lots of ice cream!
The weather forecast for next week is looking up and I'm hoping that means I can break out the chiffon dresses and ice cream maker! Not at the same time, but maybe! We'll see where the summer takes us!
To get ready for the warmer weather, I'm putting together some fun ice cream recipes. This Chocolate freezer pie was incredibly easy to put together but it totally impressive to look at! Plus, you get ice cream sandwiches in each slice!
I made my crust out of Cool Mint and Sweet Cream ice cream sandwiches. It was a nice way to use up a box of ice cream sandwiches, because otherwise I would definitely eat the entire box myself. You should definitely give this pie crust a try! To be completely honest, I saw it on Facebook and thought it was a great idea. Admire and acquire!
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One year ago: Raspberry-Lemon Soda
Two years ago: French Toast Crepes
Three years ago: Quiche with Sweet Peppers and Sausage
Four years ago: Banana Bread French Toast
Five years ago: Spring Penne Pasta
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I are Valthonin. Greatest of the greatest.
But seriously, I guess im like Indiana Jones. Since i've grown up being obsessed with him and Boba Fett, I'm kinda a mix of Indy, Fett and my father.
I am a Role Playing Gamer, like my father before me.


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Savannah City Council members delayed a vote Thursday to allow double-decker tour buses and offered multiple assurances to downtown residents that they want a thorough review of the proposal.
Alderwoman Mary Osborne, who represents a portion of the Historic District, drew applause from residents when she also called for a review of ordinances regulating tour buses.
"There needs to be a limit," she said. "Enough is enough."
Council voted to have its Tourism Advisory Committee review the proposal and return with a recommendation early next year but not necessarily by the Jan. 10 date the project's backers wanted.
Alderwoman Carol Bell apologized for council's quick decision to vote at the council's Dec. 13 workshop, saying council hadn't been provided information until Dec. 18 that detailed a 1996 decision by the city to ban taller, British-style double-decker buses.
"Had we had this information, perhaps we would have been better informed," she said.
They had most of it beforehand.
Council members received a Dec. 12 memo from Acting City Manager Stephanie Cutter in which she recommended that the tourism committee review the double-decker proposal before council voted, which has been the city's typical practice. She also advised council that double-decker buses had been banned in 1996 over concerns about damaging the tree canopy, causing traffic congestion and adding to visual blight. Her memo also included measurements for tour vehicles, though the ones for double-deckers were for taller, heavier styles.
She also advised council that two times since 1996, council had upheld the ban.
Mayor Edna Jackson agreed the tour-bus issue "may be an eye-opener for all of us" and directed Cutter to study and report back on the tour ordinances and options for increasing enforcement.
Some of that work has been done by the tourism committee, which for the past year has been studying and recommending changes to the city's tour ordinances. A final report is due next year.
One recommendation that went into effect last year raised fines on trolleys and other tour buses from $25 to $100, including for noise violations or entering a square if two trolleys are already there, city officials said. For motor coaches, the fine went from $25 to $250, said Sean Brandon, the city's Management Services bureau chief.
Alderwoman Mary Ellen Sprague asked for data on the number of citations issued. That data was not immediately available Thursday, but Brandon, the former director of Mobility and Parking Services, said compliance, not citations, was the ultimate goal.
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"Our timing just couldn't be worse," she said, "as far as trying to bring a small, new tourism business to Savannah."
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• Council delayed until Jan. 10 discussion of proposed policy to govern murals and similar large, public art displays. Council wanted a more defined policy after a "Before I Die ..." public interactive installation drew complaints in one Waters Avenue neighborhood.


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Philippe Petit and Nik Wallenda have never met. That may be a good thing.
As construction on the anchor foundations proceeds amid Hellhole Bend's pinyon and yucca scrub, it becomes immediately clear that Nik Wallenda isn't the first wirewalker to covet this view.
There are other steel cables on site as well, anchors driven into concrete beneath parched soil, and two stubby, weather-worn block-and-tackle mounts on opposite sides of the chasm. They have been sitting in place for 25 years.
The gear belonged to Philippe Petit, the celebrated French high-wire artist whose illegal 1974 wirewalk between the World Trade Center's twin towers established him as the most daring cable walker of his generation, perhaps of all time.
But lately, the skyscraper-size butte Petit discovered in early 1988 — the same one that Wallenda will use for his globally televised wirewalking platform on June 23 — has become a ripped scab. At 63, the charismatic funambulist is accusing Sarasota's Wallenda of ruining his unrealized masterpiece.
"I am so outraged and I am extremely intellectually angry at the fact that somebody is now making my walk impossible," Petit says from his home in the Catskill Mountains of New York state.
"Now, if that person was another artist with a creative soul and was making a magnificent crossing there, then maybe my anger would turn into some kind of respect. But I know the person who will walk there soon will just get — well, why not be cruel? — get his ass across, as they say sometimes in America, and nothing else."
Petit says he understood Hellhole Bend's potential the moment he saw it from the window of a small plane a quarter-century ago. When the craft angled above the Little Colorado River, the view was so stunning that he called out an order to the pilot: "Stop! Stop! Stop!"
As he would tell the world many times, he had just found the canvas for his "masterpiece." That proclamation likely came as a surprise to those who remembered Petit's achievement of Aug. 7, 1974, a performance that will never be replicated. He would call it "the artistic crime of the century."
One day before Richard M. Nixon resigned as president, and with an assist from a tiny band of infiltrators, Petit illegally strung a steel cable between the Twin Towers of the brand new World Trade Center ahead of Manhattan's morning commuter rush.
For 45 minutes, in front of powerless rooftop police and uncounted thousands of awestruck spectators more than 1,300 feet below, Petit crossed the 200-foot void between the towers eight times. He lay on his back, dangled a leg off the wire, and even beckoned for a hovering seagull to approach.
"I rejoice at witnessing the disorder created by the announcement of my aerial escapade," he wrote in "To Reach the Clouds," his 2002 account of the moment. "The anthill is in turmoil! Voices and sirens scream orders and counter-orders on the roofs and in the streets, but I hear mostly the streets, where the voice of the crowd overcomes that of emergency units."
Recalled a Port Authority officer who attempted to coax Petit back to the safety of a rooftop: "When he got to the building we asked him to get off the high-wire but instead he turned around and ran back out into the middle. . . . He was bouncing up and down. His feet were actually leaving the wire and then he would resettle back on the wire again. . . . Everybody was spellbound."
'High-wire Opera'
Petit was arrested, but his penalty was to perform a juggling show for children, which he would parlay into a high-wire act in Central Park.
His Trade Center tour-de-force was revisited in 2008 with an Academy Award-winning documentary, "Man On Wire."
And yet, Petit vowed that his designs on running a cable across Hellhole Bend would eclipse that New York showstopper. He would call it "Canyon Walk: A High-wire Opera."
And now this.
Petit and Wallenda have never met.
In an hourlong interview with the Herald-Tribune, Petit would not once utter Wallenda's name. But following Wallenda's Niagara Falls wirewalk in 2012, the distinctions between two of the world's premier aerialists were conspicuous to at least one critic who compared them to Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
In a discussion of craft and art, novelist David Churchill took note of more than stylistic divergences, from which there is no shortage of material.
Expelled from five schools for misbehavior, arrested more than 500 times by his own count for unauthorized street juggling, Petit has a rebel image that stands in sharp contrast with Wallenda's reputation for working within the system.
Churchill noted Wallenda's seven generational ties to the circus, versus Petit's learning to wirewalk at 16. There was Wallenda's Christianity versus Petit's atheism, Wallenda's pragmatism and family-man commitments, Petit's aversion to commercialism and bachelor lifestyle.
"Wallenda is Kelly, an athletic technician who danced beautifully, but he always looked a bit workmanlike," wrote Churchill for the online Critics at Large. "Petit is Astaire, where innovation and inspiration naturally came together to create works of art on a dance floor or ceiling. . . . Long may both continue to pursue their passions and inspire us lesser mortals to unearth more of our own."
At Hellhole Bend, the schism has never been greater.
Petit says he had his aerial adventure mapped out 25 years ago. Impressed by the butte's unassailable 1,500-foot verticality — he called it "Lone Rock" — Petit planned to traverse Hellhole Bend's south canyon rim and onto a vista from which, presumably, no human had ever gazed.
"It will be the spectacle of a man leaving the Earth, leaving civilization, a place where you can walk to the rim of a canyon and then arriving at a place that is a no-man's land, that is like the moon, a place where nobody has set foot before," Petit says, still using the future tense.
Unlike previous surreptitious skywalking jaunts — the World Trade Center, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia — Petit would openly approach Navajo Nation about Hellhole Bend, which is on Native American land. He envisioned the participation of flamenco singers and Navajo musicians. At the end of the walk, he imagined saxophonist Paul Winter — with a lift from a helicopter — standing on Lone Rock to welcome him.
Environmental and archaeological impact studies, rigging blueprints involving 30 pairs of guy wires, sketches of Lone Rock and its opposing cliff — Petit says he was ready to roll in the summer of 1988. But the plan disintegrated when a producer Petit declines to name paid his first visit to Hellhole Bend.
"He was totally terrified. So much so that he could not stand on the edge," Petit recalls. "He had to sit down and had to back up like an animal on all fours. He said, 'No, I don't want to help you pay for killing yourself,' because he was convinced it was an impossible feat."
Good idea gone bad
In 1999, Petit's High-wire Opera appeared to regain its pulse when a German producer approached him with impressive resources.
Petit says he submitted once more to the laborious Navajo permitting process. He ordered new equipment and recruited specially trained riggers who could rappel down canyon walls and secure guy wires for the 1,300-foot walk.
"At the last minute, when we had a deal with pay-per-view TV, we could not convince the five investors in Germany that the pay-per-view TV concept that they could not understand was the right one," Petit says. "And out of financial cowardice, they disappeared into thin air. So we had for the second time in our life a giant fiasco."
Today, except for the severed cable at Hellhole Bend — reportedly cut to make room for an unrelated TV commercial — Petit's handiwork remains largely intact. To reach the Discovery Channel/NBC production area, visitors follow the bumpy south-rim trail Petit cleared with heavy equipment. That jagged artery is being upgraded for Wallenda's imminent challenge.
Petit was hardly the only one disappointed by the "fiasco."
Flagstaff contractors Frank Mayorga and Jerry Lively remember it well. Mayorga, who recently revisited Hellhole Bend to see how well his work had withstood decades of weather, worked for his father's welding business in 1988 and says, "We never saw a dime" from the efforts.
"All we ever got was a Christmas card that said, 'Merry Christmas,' " Mayorga says. "Mom saw that and basically went through the roof."
Kathy O'Donnell, Petit's longtime companion and production director, says the unnamed producer left everyone in a lurch, including Petit: "We lost $250,000 in the deal — nobody got burned worse than we got burned."
Lively, the former owner of the only crane company in northern Arizona in 1988, says he lost somewhere in the five-figure range. Although he rattles off details of several lawsuits between him and other businesses in the dispiriting aftermath, he doesn't blame Petit.
"I did a lot of work for him, like clearing the road, but I think Petit really got screwed," says Lively, who lives in Colorado today. "It's a shame they ran out of money — I think it was a pretty good idea."
Walking in the sky
Despite the passage of years, Petit, an artist in residence at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York, held fast to his Hellhole Bend dreams.
That is, until hearing "the unfortunate news that another wirewalker" had "committed the poetic crime" of using the site to stage a show.
Petit draws an analogy to Bulgarian-born environmental artist Christo, whose 2005 Central Park project "The Gates" — involving 7,503 saffron-fabric banners — took 30 years to produce.
"Let's imagine Christo a few years before he was able to get all the cast together," says Petit. "He looks through his window and you know what? Somebody has turned little pieces of aluminum, little silk things with nothing to do with the beauty and the poetry of his project, and somebody stole Central Park from him and stole the project from him, saying 'You didn't invent this stuff from canvas, you didn't invent the principle of hanging these garments to float in the wind.'
"So how would he feel?"
Petit's take on Wallenda predates Hellhole Bend.
Following his Twin Towers triumph, Petit remembers fans insisting he should do at least two things in America: wirewalk across the Grand Canyon, and take on Niagara Falls.
The closest he would get to the latter would be in 1986. Petit produced an abbreviated re-enactment of 19th-century French aerialist Charles "The Great" Blondin's downriver exploits at Niagara Falls for an IMAX film.
That movie, "Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic," played at Niagara Falls State Park's Adventure Theater last summer as 110,000 spectators gathered to watch Wallenda make the unprecedented walk over the lip of Horseshoe Falls. More than 13 million others tuned in on ABC.
Petit dismisses Wallenda's walk as a coarse stunt because of the safety tether the network forced Wallenda to wear. He calls the dangling counterweights needed to stabilize Wallenda's 2-inch steel cable "ugly," and he criticized the shoulder harness Wallenda used to support the balancing pole. Petit says a real Niagara wirewalk has yet to be executed.
"I don't know why people say he has guts, whoa, he has nerve, whoa — I don't think they were inspired," Petit says. "Certainly, I was not inspired because he was an uninspiring actor. I'm not impressed when I see something dangerous or something technically complex."
Petit says he expects more of the same from Hellhole Bend.
"Well, there might be some music, and we know he will talk to God, you know, through a little, whatever, 21st-century machine. But this is very far from what wirewalking is," says Petit, whose extensive legacy includes the Eiffel Tower and a Frankfurt wirewalk before 500,000 people to celebrate the German city's 1,200th birthday.
"Wirewalking is a man or a woman walking freely in the sky and inspiring others because we have forgotten that long, long ago, we had feathers and we were of the family of birds, and we explored the sky."
The next project
Back in Sarasota, Wallenda, during a backyard practice break, says he had no idea about Petit's designs on Hellhole Bend until 2008, when Flagstaff location scout P.J. Connolly guided him there. He says the site was clearly the most impressive of the many Arizona candidates he visited.
Wallenda, who will walk from the butte to the south rim — the opposite direction from Petit's dormant High-wire Opera — concedes he and Petit do agree on one thing about the venue: "It's a masterpiece. It's nature."
"It's God's masterpiece," adds his wife, Erendira.
To that end, Wallenda says he intends to clear Petit's rigging, as well as his own, from Hellhole Bend after the wirewalk.
Wallenda waves off Petit's other critiques, except to remind people he needed the balance pole shoulder harness at Niagara Falls in order to hoist 60 cumbersome pounds of camera and battery equipment, affording viewers bird's-eye angles.
"We'll let the readers decide," he says. "I'm not an artiste, I'm an artist.
"The idea that I'm stealing his artistic visions is a little weird. I mean, if I don't get to Turkey," he says, alluding to his goal of crossing a gorge designating Eurasia's continental divide, "another wirewalker will, and I'll say, 'More power to him.' "
Wallenda smiles as he ponders the remote prospects for meeting Petit. "If he showed up, and he was respectful, I'd be honored. Maybe he'd even learn my name," he says. "It's Nik. Now in German — Nik. Now in French — Nik.
"It's Nik."
The encounter seems unlikely. Petit says he's working on an Easter Island project involving the Moai, the mysterious prehistoric stone statues that have made the Pacific site so famous.


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to write something from my own experiences.
While that post is geared toward cherishing every precious moment with your daughter, I have to write about guarding every single moment with any child.
I've lost two children. One to cancer, one to SIDS.
This isn't meant to be a negative or sad post, though it will seem that way. It's meant to be positive, to urge you to make every second a treasure.
Which brings me to the main point of this post. Guard every moment. They are all precious. You never know when that child will be taken from you. Just as you don't know your own last second of life, you also don't know your child's last second of life. So guard those seconds.
When they wake up and you look into their eyes and smile, you never know if that will be the last time you'll see that life looking back at you and smiling with joy. When they are eating, you never know if this is the last bite you'll ever see them take. When you take their hand to cross the road or walk through the store, or even just walk through nature, you never know if that'll be the last time their hands are alive in yours. When you read them a story for bed, you never know if that's the last time they will ever sit in your lap. When you put them to bed, you never know if that's the last time you'll ever be able to caress their cheek or kiss them on their forehead or cheek. When you hug them...hug them tight. You never know if that's the last time you'll be able to hug that precious child.
You never know if the last time you told them that you love them will be the last time you'll ever be able to say that to them. So don't wait. Don't tell them once a week or once a month. Tell them every day. Every chance you get every day, even.
Don't waste the opportunities you have to touch your children, to talk to your children, to look into your children's eyes, to watch the wonder your child shows as they learn something new. Don't squander the gift you've been given with that child.
Guard those seconds. You never know when they will stop ticking away. And when that happens...the regret you have will be regretting to treasure each and every single one. You never know how many seconds you have left with that child that loves you more than life itself.


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Person of Interest (CBS) – New series
Premiere: September 22 Order: 13 episodes
My cover of the upcoming Fall season for science fiction and fantasy fans continues with Person of Interest.
Extrapolate our current technology and apply significant funds to it and you could probably have something like what is used in this new show. It is not 'real' science fiction but rather csi-fi from those entertaining but mostly unrealistic crime lab shows. A software that uses pattern recognition to identify people about to be involved in violent crimes is not far beyond what we are able to do today.
Here Finch, a billionaire software-genius played by Michael Emerson (Lost) decides to do a Bruce Wayne but lack the physical talent so he recruits a presumed dead former CIA operative named Reese played by Jim Caviezel and together they work to stop crimes before they happens.
It looks like a mystery of week kind of thing that makes it easy to pick an episode here and there. Reese's past is probably good for a background arc or two. How come he is presumed dead? The videos so far shows a lot of action but no female casts so I assume this is a testosterone feast – a mixture of Human Target first season and Enemy of the State?
Reese's actions will catch the attention of the NYPD, including homicide detective Carter (Henson), and Fusco (Kevin Chapman), a cop who Reese uses to his advantage.
I find action without some love interest pretty boring so I hope there is some we haven't seen yet. Maybe Reese have an old flame he pines over but can't see because he has to stay presumed dead?
I will probably watch this expecting light entertainment, some spiffy state of the art surveillance technology and lots of action. CBS have a good track record for this kind of show and the trailer looks promising.
What do you think?
The "Person of Interest" cast includes Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award-winner Michael Emerson, Academy Award-nominee Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Chapman.
The "Person of Interest" TV show is produced by Warner Bros. Television. Emmy Award winners J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk ("Lost"), Academy Award-nominee Jonathan Nolan ("Memento"), David Semel ("Heroes") and Greg Plageman ("Cold Case") are the executive producers.


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Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia madman, mentions Jesus Christ how many times in the video he sent to MSNBC?
He seemed to know all about Jesus. Maybe that is the problem.
"Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people."
"Do you know what it feels like to be humiliated and be impaled on a cross and left to bleed to death for your amusement?"
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Paul Orgeron and Dusty Paul
Paul Orgeron was a tile-setter from South Houston, Texas who had been attempting to enroll his son Dusty into elementary school. Orgeron and his son had been living in a boarding house under the pseudonym of Bob Silver, for reasons unknown, before the massacre. They were said to have been quiet and never made any trouble.
Eventually Orgeron attempted to enroll his son at Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School but was denied on the grounds that he lacked a birth certificate for his son. He left the school claiming he would return the next day with the necessary documentation.
The attack
On September 15, around 10:00 a.m., Orgeron and his son approached a teacher who was about to enter one of the classrooms. At the time he was carrying a brown suitcase with unknown contents. The teacher was given two pieces of paper by Orgeron and asked to read them. According to the teacher the papers were completely illegible, and she was unable to understand them. While she tried to read the notes Orgeron mumbled under his breath about "having power in a suitcase," and the will of God.
He asked that all the children gather into a circle around him. The teacher became suspicious after seeing a mysterious button on the bottom of the suitcase. Seeing her distress other teachers joined her and Orgeron was asked to leave school grounds. When he refused the teachers began to evacuate the children away from Orgeron, and shortly thereafter Orgeron detonated the briefcase which was estimated to contain six sticks of dynamite. The explosion claimed six lives, including both Orgeron and his son. Two other students, a custodian and a teacher also perished.
School shootings are tragedies, but they are not proof that God needs to be taught in classrooms. In fact, I would say the opposite is true. Considering the relatively low amount of these tragic incidents that have occurred, and when they do, they are usually done by the God knowing.
Maybe God just wants it to be harder for student who believe in him to get a gun.


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