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20 Odd Questions With Catherine Martin
'The Great Gatsby' production designer on her punk days, her Francophilia and her art-direction crush
AS THE BRAINS behind the look of the films her husband, Baz Luhrmann, directs—including "Romeo + Juliet" and "Moulin Rouge"—production designer Catherine Martin has envisioned Shakespeare's tragic hero in a Hawaiian shirt and turned Belle Époque Paris into a psychedelic fantasy. Now, the couple has taken on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel in "The Great Gatsby," which opens on May 10.
Ms. Martin, 48, first teamed up with Mr. Luhrmann in 1987, while still a student at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in a suburb of Sydney. (They married in 1997.) Their partnership has so far yielded five feature films—and two children, Lillian and William.
To create the sets and costumes for "Gatsby," Ms. Martin researched the look of houses in 1920s Long Island, and paid several visits to the island in search of Mr. Fitzgerald's inspiration for his fictional East and West Egg villages. But Ms. Martin and Mr. Luhrmann prefer their period films with an edge of immediacy. "We wanted to make sure we kept the visceral modernity and the raciness of the book," she said. To that end, she sought out a collaborator in designer Miuccia Prada, who contributed 40 looks from the archives of her Prada and Miu Miu labels, including the crystal-beaded dress that leading lady Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) wears in the final party scene.
Between films, Ms. Martin creates homeware designs for a number of brands, including Anthropologie and Designer Rugs. "My husband said he thought I should have my own creative outlet unfettered by anyone else's expectations," she said. "I'm fairly certain that he was referring to himself."
My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.
I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
If you look at the 1920s, you have all these strong female designers like Jeanne Lanvin and Coco Chanel—women who for the first time in history were actively speaking to their peers about how we dress and who we are.
I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.
What's interesting about Miuccia Prada is that she's constantly in dialogue about what is beauty, what is ugly, what is nostalgia. I thought her clothes would add texture and a kind of newness in the world of 'Gatsby.'
An everyday object that embodies great design is the Thonet bentwood chair. It's made from six or seven pieces of wood. It's inexpensive, beautiful and has withstood the test of time.
As a teenager, I dressed inappropriately. I was always in my own movie. I wore a long, white lace dress to play tennis, or I would decide I was going to become a punk and try to wear a string singlet with nothing underneath.
If money were no object, I would buy an apartment in Paris. My mom is French. I speak French. My kids go to Lycée Français. It's one of my ambitions that I've never gotten around to.
The last book I read was about the [decorator] Syrie Maugham, who was the wife of Somerset Maugham.
I'm always trying to find the perfect black ballerina flat. I think I've almost found it in the J. Crew Cece. It has a secret wedge and you can walk for miles, but it doesn't look orthopedic.
I wear a lot of Prada. I do have some Chanel and Marni. But I also love to wear Australian designers like Willow, Collette Dinnigan, Ksubi, Easton Pearson and Sass & Bide. I'm not averse to high-low. I love everything.
The best meal I've had recently was on Easter Sunday. We had about 30 family and friends over and I made two whole salmon, two roasted shoulders of lamb, a Moroccan carrot salad, a quinoa salad, a green salad, potato salad and raspberry trifle.
I wish I had art-directed the 1963 film "The Leopard." It's so beautiful.
I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
Australian culture is often looked at by the rest of the world as misogynistic. But Australian women tend to be very strong and independent.
If I could live in one of my sets, it would be "Moulin Rouge," although, I do love the here and now, and I would always worry about the health care because I'm slightly neurotic.
I like the idea of transforming things with pattern. I think my husband is a bit concerned that if he stands still for too long, I'll wallpaper over him. He's got to keep being a moving target.
—Edited from an interview by Elizabeth Gunnison
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David's Muzak - Compiled by Larry
Jungle Gym (featuring G. Love) / Jack Johnson And Friends
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything / Relient K
Red Sweater / Aquabats
Coconut / Kermit & Cast
Steal My Sunshine / Len
Oompa Loompa / Anthony Newley
Mudfootball (For Moe Lerner) / Jack Johnson
Daydream Believer / The Monkees
Heigh-Ho / The Dwarf Chorus
Borneo / Cast
You've Got A Friend In Me / Randy Newman
"C" Is for Cookie / Frank Oz
Everlasting Gobstoppers/Oompa Loompa / Anthony Newley
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke
Rubber Duckie / Jim Henson
I Want It Now/Oompa Loompa / Anthony Newley
Playdough / Aquabats
Wonkamobile, Wonkavision/Oompa Loompa / Anthony Newley
Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) / Disney Ride Tracks
Smile / Vitamin C
Songs To Grow To - Compiled by Stephanie
Big Bang Boom / Big Bang Boom
Mah Na Mah Na / The Muppets
Doodlebugs / Laurie Berkner
Speed Racer / Everclear
La La La La Lemon / Barenaked Ladies
Sweet Pea / Tommy Roe
Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work) / They Might Be Giants
I Know a Chicken / Laurie Berkner
The Happy Song! / Adam And The Couch Potatoes
Clap Your Hands / They Might Be Giants
ABCD Medley / Laurie Berkner
Bicycle / The Jellydots
The Foil (Malfoy) / Harry and the Potters
Me and My Arrow / Harry Nilsson
We Can All Get Along With Dinosaurs / Terrible Twos
Catch the Moon / Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb
Lady Bug / Terrible Twos
Rainbow Connection / The Dixie Chicks
Home / David Tobocman
Who's My Pretty Baby / Bird Elizabeth Mitchell
A couple of the songs that I chose were catered just to David, but you would probably like the rest of them. "Big Bang Boom" is a really fun birthday song that I think most people would like, but it's not for sell on Itunes, which is a pain. "Speed Racer" because it was a Speed Racer themed party. "Sweet Pea" is on there because I've heard Nikki call Audrey Sweet Pea, but I might not have thought of it if it wasn't on a CD Brittany gave to me. "Bicycle" because David loves to mountain bike. And "Me and My Arrow" because I know Nikki and David love the Beatles and the Beatles were big fans of Harry Nilsson. "Me and My Arrow" is from an album called The Point that Alicia introduced me to ages ago. It was a cartoon musical and one version of it was even narrated by Ringo Starr. Oh, and "The Foil" because Nikki and David are also big Harry Potter fans and that song is just funny to fans. Then I put the peppy songs at the beginning and wound down to the slow songs at the end.
Just before Creed was born, I came across this blog and decided I would follow it and become the ultimate kids' music expert, and our house would be full of non-lame kids music that adults everywhere could enjoy. That lasted for about five minutes when I checked our library for some of the CD's that Warren reviewed and our library didn't have any of them. Plus, who has the time when you could be outside jumpingin mud puddles and picking dandelions? Anyway, this challenge was a good opportunity to do a little research and come up with some new music for Creed.
We presented David with his CD's on Saturday morning before we left for Hocking Hills so he would have the day to judge them and select a winner. We spent the day trash talking each others CD's, which was pretty funny because Larry and are one of the least competitive couples we know. At one point Larry even told David, "I just want you to know that my CD is compiled of music we already owned, while Stephanie purchased a bunch of her songs so mine is homemade with love and hers is just store-bought!" Ha!
That evening David held a hilarious award ceremony while we were at the Park. He called it Project CD and formatted it like the end of a Project Runway episode and presented the winner of Project CD with a Speed Racer medallion (it was a Speed Racer themed party afterall).
And the winner was . . .
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I have to acknowledge that I had wonderful suggestions from my sister Candice, Warren of KidsMusicThatRocks, and Brittany, and Larry's CD was also great. We each forgot a few songs on our CD's so we're going to combine our forces for a third CD, which is bound to include:
Hot Dog by They Might Be Giants (Creed's favorite song that he does a sweet dance to)
Nellie the Elephant by The Toy Dolls
I Love Trash by Oscar the Grouch
I Love My Lips by Larry The Cucumber
Teeny Little Super Guy from Sesame Street
I hope that you found some new songs here to share with your kids and if you have any favorites that we missed, I'd love to know what they are.

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CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Mikko Koivu's goal in the second round of a shootout Monday boosted the Minnesota Wild to their first road win of the season, 2-1 over Calgary.
After battling through a scoreless overtime, Zach Parise gave Minnesota the advantage in the first round of the tiebreaker, but Calgary's Jiri Hudler responded in the top of the second round by putting a shot past Niklas Backstrom.
That set the stage for Koivu, who came in quickly, cut back to a forehand shot and found the net behind Leland Irving.
Backstrom then clinched the win with a pad save on Alex Tanguay as the Wild notched a second straight victory and improved to 1-3-1 on the road.
Kyle Brodziak scored in regulation while Backstrom made 23 stops for Minnesota.
Hudler netted Calgary's only goal and Irving turned aside 23 shots for the Flames.


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W is for:
Weddings - always one of the most popular topics on my blog and it is difficult to select one image. Have a look at Century of Wedding Belles for an overview.
|A wedding of 1910 form the collection of my cousin Stuart.
Wills - Quite early on in my research, I was delighted to trace through the Index at Lancashire Record Office two wills relating to my Danson ancestors.
These documents not only gave information on children and grandchildren, including the married name of daughters - some unknown to me previously, but also cast a light on what were considered important possessions at the time, with a feather bed, sheets and bedstead, desk and books, meal chests and corner cupboard - all items of personal value cited in the wills.
|John Danson's Will, 1813
War and War \Memorials - as we move into the month of November, we think of Remembrance Day and the role our ancestors played in warfare. I have been proud on my blog to pay tribute to relations who fought, to feature the records I have found on them and the moving war memorials around the world that remember their sacrifice.
|The War Memorial at Oban on the west coast of Scotland, with the hills of the Isle of Mull in the background.
Wives can be a rich source of blogging stories and I like to celebrate the feisty females in my own family, such as my great aunt Jennie (lright)
On my "to do" list is Elizabeth Brekall, the second wife of my great great grandfather Robert Rawliffe. He was widowed with five surviving daughters, and married 35 year old Elizabeth Brekall, 20 years his junior. As she had three children of her own, I assumed she was also widowed. Wrong! According to the marriage certificate (and earlier census returns), Elizabeth was a spinster and the children were illegitimate. She went onto have a further four children with Robert.
Work - our ancestors worked long hours with very little time off. This makes it especially important to gain an understanding of their occupations and there is a wealth of information out there to give colour to a simple job title in a census entry.
My husband's Donaldson ancestors had sea connections whether as a mariner, shipwright, caulker, or river policeman. Another branch were miners moving between Derbyshire, Yorkshire and County Durham.
Left is an advertising blotter promoting the hairdressing business "Elise" of my mother's second cousin, Elsie .
Worship - finding out where our ancestors wworshipped, were baptised, married and buried is perhaps one of the first stages of our family history research.
St Chad's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lanxcashire - home of my Danson ancestors.
Photograph ttaken by my uncle Harry Rawcliffe Danson
And among all the W's where would we be without the World Wide Web!
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WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Whites are more likely than blacks to experience atrial fibrillation, a cause of stroke, even though blacks have a higher prevalence of risk factors such as high blood pressure, new research shows.
About 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia in which the two upper chambers, or atria, quiver chaotically instead of beating in a normal rhythmic pattern, according to the Heart Rhythm Society.
The less effective pumping action can cause blood to pool and clot in the atria, raising the risk of stroke.
The study proves that race has a direct impact on the incidence of atrial fibrillation, the researchers said. They planned to present their findings Wednesday at the Heart Rhythm Society's annual meeting, in Boston.
Researchers examined data on nearly 200,000 patients who had at least two clinical visits to the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit during 2007. The study included 110,333 whites, 65,657 blacks and 20,114 patients whose race was undefined.
About 42 percent of blacks had hypertension, commonly called high blood pressure, compared to 29 percent of whites. Seventeen percent of blacks were diabetic, compared to 12 percent of whites.
Hypertension and diabetes are risk factors for atrial fibrillation, yet blacks had a 50 percent lower prevalence of atrial fibrillation. About 1.2 percent of blacks had atrial fibrillation, compared to 2.5 percent of whites.
"Our results confirm what previous, smaller studies have suggested about African Americans and a lower prevalence of AF [atrial fibrillation]," said study author Dr. Kan Fang. "What is truly fascinating about our findings is that African Americans can have significant risk factors for AF, even higher than those of Caucasian patients, yet have a lower occurrence."
Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmias in the country. Risk factors include being male and/or older, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Every weekday from now until the Oscar ceremony we'll be running a For Your Consideration piece on behalf of every Best Picture nominee, arguing why it deserves its nomination or even a win, arguing why it's important, or even pointing out why it doesn't belong at the Oscars at all. Kicking things off is Katey with a personal argument on behalf of The Help.
When I was in high school, there was a fierce debate across my entire state about the Confederate flag, which had sat atop the South Carolina statehouse since the 60s. You might remember this-- it made national headlines, and resulted in the state finally being forced to acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr. day as a state holiday, and yes, remove the Confederate battle flag from on top of the state's most prominent building. 12 years later the debate seems insane, but at the time the flag's defenders commonly made the argument "It's heritage, not hate"-- meaning that the flag represented the state's history, not a pride in the antebellum era of the South, or a nostalgia for the days of slavery.
I didn't agree with them now or then-- the fact that the Confederate flag was put up there as a reaction to the Civil Rights Act says a lot-- but I thought about that argument often in the wake of The Help, which is by far the highest-grossing Best Picture nominee and the 13th-biggest movie of 2011. The movie got immediate pushback from The Association of Black Women Historians and nearly everyone else who wanted the flashy headline "Is The Help racist?" Even as moviegoers everywhere flocked to it, plenty of critics decided to write it off as yet another story about white people saving black people, ending Jim Crow, and making sure racism never happened again anywhere, ever.
There are plenty of complaints to be made about The Help-- it is a rambling, imperfect movie, relying a little too much on crass humor and hanging on to a few too many subplots from the book that never take hold in the film. But the movie makes a concerted effort to improve on the book, de-emphasizing the role of Skeeter, the privileged white girl who decides to take down the stories of the black maids who work in her Mississippi town, and expanding the roles of Minny and Aibileen, two of the maids Skeeter interviews. The Association of Black Women Historians seem to suggest that, by including Skeeter's story and others that take place in the white world of Jackson, Mississippi, it trivializes the hardships experienced by black domestic workers at the time. But it's the intersection of those worlds-- Minny and Aibileen's difficult and frequently dark one, Skeeter's overprivileged and stultifying one-- that makes The Help special. It's not about a white woman "rescuing" black women, but what those black women had to say when given the chance, and how they bridged a racial divide that, in the Jim Crow South, seemed impenetrable.
That divide felt very familiar to me, even growing up 30 years after the Jim Crow era. True, it's the white world of The Help that rings true to me, the ambrosia served at card game gatherings, the tricks for making fried chicken, the society ball where a minor faux pas can become a catastrophe. But plenty of white children in the South are still raised in part by black nannies or housekeepers, myself included, and when The Help explored that middle ground between otherwise divided races, I felt a pang of recognition seeing something that I'd never seen spoken out loud before. Talking to my mother, who clearly remembers a black woman in uniform working in her childhood home, we recognized so many other things, from the well-dressed polite society women who will whisper terribly racist things when nobody is looking to that odd, fraught relationship where a white woman might spend the entire day at home with a black woman she knows better than her own husband, but still never regard her as an equal.
The truth that The Help explores doesn't just come from director Tate Taylor and Kathryn Stockett, both of whom know Mississippi intimately. The justly celebrated cast brings out so much of this, and yes, including the actresses criticized by others as playing caricatures. Those who think Bryce Dallas Howard's villainous Hilly Holbrook is over the top or a caricature have clearly never spent time with high-society Southern women, who harbor outdated beliefs that stretch back to the antebellum period or even earlier. Those who think Octavia Spencer's portrayal of the sharp-tongued Minny skews too closely to the stock Hollywood "Mammy" character clearly aren't paying attention to what Spencer does with the role, giving Minny a dignity and a powerful presence that she struggles to hang on to in a world that constantly pushes her back down. Those who have a single bad thing to say about Viola Davis in the movie are clearly blind-- she's spectacular in it through and through.
"It's heritage, not hate." That argument doesn't really apply to The Help, which few can argue as actual hate speech, but I come back to it again in the movie's defense, trying to explain how you can be nostalgic for a period of history that's ugly and unflattering, how the intersection of white and black lives can be both fraught and sometimes terrible, but also more complicated than is easy to remember. It's far from a definitive statement on Civil Rights, but The Help dares to explore that tiny intersection of disparate lives in occasionally clumsy ways, but undeniably powerful ones as well. It's a polished Hollywood film about a complicated, sometimes terrible history-- but it's a real and moving investigation of a heritage that comes entwined with hate but is not defined by it.
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I love this pickle recipe! It is out of Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig's 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat' book, which is a great book to read in addition to Nourishing Traditions. It's nice to have a sweeter version of the lacto-fermented pickle, and the honey and lemon juice in this recipe do the job nicely.
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Tech takes a shot a reaching the Dance; faces Morehead State on ESPN2 at 7 p.m.
By Thomas Cohern
Cookeville Herald-Citizen
NASHVILLE — It's been a while since the Tennessee Tech men have had a chance to play for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship — 2003, to be exact.
But the Tech men won that chance, upsetting the regular-season champ and tournament top-seed Murray State 64-59 on Friday night at Municipal Auditorium, advancing to the championship game of the OVC men's basketball tournament.
"The road to any OVC championship goes through Murray State," said Tech coach Mike Sutton. "That's been the course of the OVC for years. We were very fortunate. It was a hard-fought game. Both teams fought hard and it probably wasn't a pretty game — except on our side, it's always pretty when you win."
Tech (20-11) will play the winner of Austin Peay-Morehead State, which was in progress as of this report. If the Golden Eagles win on Saturday, it would give them their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1963.
With the win, Tech became the fourth OVC team to win 20 games this season, setting a conference record. The win also breaks Tech's four-game losing streak in the tournament semifinals, and is the Golden Eagles' first appearance in the title game since 2003.
The win also gave Tech its first win over Murray State since January 2009.
The Golden Eagles' defense stole the show, holding the regular-season champ Racers to a 3-for-18 performance from 3-point range, adding to a 33.3 percent (17-of-51) effort from the field.
"One of the things we wanted to do was defend the three perimeter players — (Issac) Miles, (B.J.) Jenkins, and (Isaiah) Cannon," Sutton said. "Those guys were all-conference performers. We wanted to defend them and not give them any looks. They missed some shots, and, obviously, the question will come up about them not playing (the Racers had the double-bye as regular-season champions) and those type of things — we don't know that or how that scenario will play out in a few years.
"You have to defend, rebound and execute. We held Murray to 33 percent. That's not a good shooting night for them. Hopefully some of that is our defense."
The Tech offense was led by Kevin Murphy with 19 points, while Jud Dillard had back-to-back double-doubles to go with the one against UT Martin on Thursday night.
Zac Swansey earned his "Mr. Clutch" label again, knocking down a 3-pointer with 24 seconds left, giving Tech a five-point, 60-55 lead. This was just minutes after Swansey went down after a foul, spraining his wrist. While Murray State's Miles was on the other end shooting foul shots, Swansey rushed back to the Tech bench to get the wrist wrapped.
After the 3-pointer, it was 24 seconds of just trying to fend off the Racers, but they couldn't get any closer than three points as Dillard and Murphy closed the game out on the line.
"That last 30 seconds was the longest 30 seconds I've had playing basketball," Swansey said. "There were so many posessions. We got a defensive rebound, and we all want to take good shots. We spread the floor. I give a lot of credit to Jud Dillard. He gave me a little bit of daylight so I could focus on the rim and knock it down."
Tech finished the game with a 48.9 shooting percentage, hitting 23 of its 47 shots. The Golden Eagles led 29-24 at the half, then kept pace with the Racers with each side scoring 35 points in the second half.
Ivan Aska ended the game with 15 points for the Racers (23-8), while Miles scored 11.
Now, Tech gets ready for the title game, and with two games already under their belt, the Golden Eagles feel ready to go.
"We'll see," Dillard said. "I think I've got a lot left in the tank. If my team needs me to do it, then I'll get another double-double, a triple-double, whatever."
Swansey added, "We're tired, yeah, but when you've worked this hard — we've been going since August when we started this journey with three-a-days, going to the Dominican Republic, two-a-days before the season started. It's what it comes down to. We've got to give it all we've got and leave nothing out there. I hope we come out victorious."


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Jim Cramer often advocates themes in the market. These are big picture ideas that he believes will lift the fortunes of companies and by proxy their stocks.
"The concept is that big themes work for any occasion," Cramer explained. That is, when the market goes higher these stocks should be among the best performers. And when the market turns lower, these are the kinds of stocks that are most likely to attract new money first and then bounce.
"These are big theses that I've talked about on Mad Money through-out the year," said Cramer, and they continue to work. Five of Cramer's favorites follow:
Cramer is a big believer in the renaissance underway in the housing market and has profiled a slew of housing plays since January. However, Cramer is a shrewd investor and always scours the market looking for new ways to profit from the theme.
On Tuesday, Cramer found something.
"It's called William Lyon, it's a homebuilder IPO and it comes Wednesday night," he said. "The last few homebuilder IPOs have been tremendous wins. I think this one will be too, particularly because it's a California and Arizona play, the two hottest markets in the country."
Cramer said the IPO should price around $25, but would pay up to $27.
Cramer is also an advocate of the new energy discoveries made in the United States and the potential for these discoveries to make North America energy independent by 2020.
For most of 2013, Cramer has recommended playing the theme with EOG, as a bet that the company not only has fantastic energy yielding fields but that other real estate holdings may also contain gigantic reserves.
"And I 've got a new one too," Cramer added. "I'd look at Ensco as a bet the Gulf of Mexico is again heating up." Also he said, "just today Petrobras, the gigantic Brazilian national oil company raised a staggering $11 billion to increase its drilling budget. Fabulous news for Ensco."


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One Exciting Night Cocktail.
1 Dash Orange Juice. (1 Dash Blood Orange Juice)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Original Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Punt e Mes)
1/3 Plymouth Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake (I stirred) well and strain into Port Wine glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top. Frost edge of glass with castor sugar.
As always, your life will be much easier if you frost the edge of the glass before straining the cocktail into it.
However, faced with mandatory glass frosting in a not very tart cocktail, I opted for the more bitter flavors of Punt e Mes in this Bronx-like Cocktail. This at least provided some interesting contrasts between the bitter and sweet elements of the construction. Fairly enjoyable, but I would leave out the caster sugar, if making it for myself, even if it cut down on the excitement for the evening.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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I am getting pretty damn sick of this "National Overreaction" that has been happening since 9/11
Bah, U.S. Lawmakers think they have to violate freedom of speech, and of all the times they could choose to do it, they choose Christmas. Goes to show what scum some of the G.O.P lawmakers are, anyhow. Bah, just bah. (TSA document overreaction) I am also getting FED UP (no joke, FED) with the surveillance-state mentality this country is heading toward. Can't a guy just have peace? Jeez, people need their privacy. I know this happened in the United Kingdom, but here? Here this is ridiculous. I wish my government would just leave the internet alone. Nothing bad ever happens because of leaked documents anyway, the only thing that ever happens is corruption stops and the criminals go to jail. I am starting to become ashamed of my government. God, will people just RESPECT the 1st amendment? Just.... FED.... up. (This comment was made by a U.S. resident concerning the sad, sad, sad state of affairs.)


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I'm going to show you how to make a quilted fabric envelope to keep all those special Valentine's in. I have a drawer will all these odd shaped love notes from my kids, and this will be a great way to keep them safe and organized.
(The picture above shows the card keeper open and the one below is of it folded up and closed.)
|size: approx. 9" x 13.75"
Let's get started!
Here's the supplies that you'll need:
21 - 5" squares
15" of medium size rick rack
1/2 yard backing fabric
17" x 35" piece of batting
2 - 2.5" x 44" strips of fabric for binding
Thank you so much to The Intrepid Thread for sponsoring the giveaway for my stop on the tour!
Please leave a comment on this post to be entered to win a $25.00 gift certificate to The Intrepid Thread and tell me something that you like or don't like about Valentine's Day!
I'll choose a winner by random number on February 15, so you have lots of time to enter.
Here's the other stops on the tour:
February 1 - Melissa from Happy Quilting


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20 U.S. Code § 7273c - Uses of funds
§ 7273c.
Uses of funds
(a) In generalGrant funds received under this subpart shall be used for one or more of the following:
(1) To assist parents in participating effectively in their children's education and to help their children meet State and local standards, such as assisting parents—
to engage in activities that will improve student academic achievement, including understanding the accountability systems in place within their State educational agency and local educational agency and understanding their children's educational academic achievement in comparison to State and local standards;
to communicate effectively with teachers, principals, counselors, administrators, and other school personnel;
to become active participants in the development, implementation, and review of school-parent compacts, parent involvement policies, and school planning and improvement;
to participate in the design and provision of assistance to students who are not making adequate academic progress;
To obtain information about the range of options, programs, services, and resources available at the national, State, and local levels to assist parents and school personnel who work with parents.
To plan, implement, and fund activities for parents that coordinate the education of their children with other Federal, State, and local services and programs that serve their children or their families.
To provide support for State or local educational personnel, if the participation of such personnel will further the activities assisted under the grant.
(b) Permissive activitiesGrant funds received under this subpart may be used to assist schools with activities including one or more of the following:
Providing information about assessment and individual results to parents in a manner and a language the family can understand.
Coordinating the efforts of Federal, State, and local parent education and family involvement initiatives.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title V, § 5564, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title V, § 501, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1858.)
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Theoretical physicist Julian Barbour may argue eloquently and convincingly for the non-existence of time, but I've sure felt it slipping away at a fairly rapid clip over the past couple of months.
I can't believe March is underway and the equinox is within sight.
Kinetic image from artist Paul Friedlander's installation Timeless Universe (Valencia, Spain 2006), inspired by the work of Julian Barbour
Since my last post of much-too-long-ago, I've completed teaching nearly half the semester of my Introduction to Anthropology class at College of Lake County; inventoried my 1,000th Carte du Ciel astrographic chart at Adler Planetarium; submitted a revised adult education seminar to Chicago's Newberry Library on the extraterrestrial life debate; started developing a new seminar on astronomy and cosmos in Native American culture using the Newberry's extensive holdings on Native American ethnohistory; and moved.
I'm now living closer to the college, which is very helpful, because teaching (more specifically, preparing to teach) has been the most challenging and time-consuming activity on my schedule by far, and having less of a drive matters. And so does the refreshing experience of returing to a college classroom. These recent weeks with my students have been great fun and I'm already working on possibilities for doing more teaching this fall.
Meanwhile, I have plans for CB, too, and look forward to sharing them with you patient readers soon!
Stay tuned . . .


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A debt security the payments of which are periodically adjusted according to a government published inflation index. See Debt Security
Currency in which the assets of a Sub-Fund are valued for accounting purposes but which is not necessarily the same as the currency in which Share Classes of the Sub-Fund are denominated or the currency of the Sub-Fund's investments.
(All sites are in English)


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Aunty Jannette Phillips, a Ngunawal Elder originally from Brungle Aboriginal Reserve near Tumut, at the base of the Snowy Mountains just south of Canberra, gave the welcome to country at DFAT's 2014 NAIDOC Week flag-raising ceremony.
DFAT NAIDOC flag raising ceremonyCanberraPhoto Mark Graham
Wagga Torres Strait Islander Dance Company performing at DFAT's NAIDOC Week flag-raising ceremony.
Indigenous Network champion, Deputy Secretary Ewen McDonald, chatting with performers after the flag-raising ceremony.
The Wagga Torres Strait Islander Dance Company performers pose with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags in the DFAT main foyer.
Eminent historian Professor Henry Reynolds (r ), and Sydney University academic Vicki Grieves (c ), addressed DFAT staff during NAIDOC Week. They are pictured here with Rob Tranter, First Assistant Secretary, PCD.
The highlight of NAIDOC Week was the Secretary's reception and Indigenous fashion show. Pictured is DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese greeting US Ambassador John Berry.
NAIDOC week fashion paradeCanberraPhoto Mark Graham
DFAT public diplomacy officers were happy to help the stylists backstage at the fashion show. Lauren Hernandez is helping designer Grace Lillian Lee adjust one of her colleague Letticia Shaw's gold frocks.
Luscious fabrics on Kimberley designer Letticia Shaw's dresses, and modern interpretations of traditional Torres Strait Islander designs on a Grace Lillian Lee costume.
Designer Letticia Shaw, of the label Ticia, adjusting one of her costumes.
The Ticia gold long frock stole the show. Here is DFAT public diplomacy officer Melissa Wicks helping out just before the dress is modelled on the catwalk.
One of the models wearing an AKIN Collection printed silk dress. The collection was produced as part of the Contemporary Indigenous Fashion Project, funded by Arts Queensland through the Backing Indigenous Arts program to bring the work of Indigenous artists to the attention of the fashion industry.
The models backstage in designs by Grace Lillian Lee.
Krystal Perkins, Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Managing Director, interviewed Letticia Shaw onstage ahead of her collection's showing.
Letticia Shaw's "Ticia" designs on the catwalk.
The Akin Collection selection is applauded on the catwalk.
Designers Grace Lillian Lee (l) and Letticia Shaw (second from r) with models wearing clothes from the three collections.
Two Indigenous film sessions screened during NAIDOC Week at DFAT. This screen shot shows Eddie "Koiki" Mabo (Jimi Bani) and Bonita Mabo (Deborah Mailman). The film marked the 20th anniversary of the historic High Court Mabo decision which recognised that Mabo held native title to land in the Torres Strait.
The NAIDOC Week touch footy team braving Canberra's winter weather.
Back row: (l to r) Alex Westcombe, Tommy Takiari, John Granich, Byron Fay, Patrick Mayoh, Rocco Weglarz, Andrew Rollings, Robert Carloff
Front row: Maddie Hardgrave, Savannah Finn, Kahu Kapea
The NAIDOC Week trivia night raised $2,000 for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Punters enjoying the trivia night.
Wiradjuri man, Larry Brandy, inspires children with his storytelling, which is fun and also teaches them about Indigenous culture.
Kids at the NAIDOC Week storytelling session perform a kangaroo dance in costume.
Indigenous fashion designer Letticia Shaw, from the Kimberly in Western Australia, gathering her thoughts ahead of the NAIDOC Week fashion show.


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Alisha Sweeney is a host at Indie 102.3 and has been with Colorado Public Radio since 2011.
Bachelor's degrees in Journalism (Media Studies) and English (Literature), University of Colorado, Boulder.
Professional background:
Alisha Sweeney has been a host and producer for non-commercial radio with alternative, Americana and contemporary formats. She's hosted shows for Radio 1190, WFMU and KCUV. Alisha also spent five years working at an Internet music television station as executive producer, producer and writer of music-related programs.
In 2002, Alisha caught the eye of her journalism professor who encouraged her to take her career to London, England, where she was the first American host on ResonanceFM, a non-commercial radio station. Alisha curated a show called "MP3 Treasure Chest," which featured obscure, Internet-discovered musicians and interviews with artists around the world.
After her stint in London, Alisha planted roots in Denver where she landed her first commercial radio hosting position. She started off as the morning show DJ, launching Americana radio station KCUV. Alisha was later recruited by ManiaTV to help launch the world's first live Internet television station. She spent five years at ManiaTV, serving as executive producer, producer, writer and director for a handful of programs, including "The Daily Indie," a music show featuring mostly music videos and interviews with some of the most inspiring independent bands in the music industry. While Alisha enjoyed working for a music video television station, she missed hosting her own show, so she went back to KVCU as a weekly host in addition to her producing duties at ManiaTV.
During a visit to New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon in 2007, Alisha approached her favorite east coast radio station, WFMU, about hosting a show. They agreed, and she created a program called "Colorado Music Is For Lovers." She showcased the most exciting bands from Denver and conducted interviews with local musicians.
Alisha has won several awards as a morning drive DJ, including being named Best Radio DJ in Denverby "Westword" in 2001 and 2013, as well as by Citysearch, which also named "The Morning Show With Alisha" on Radio 1190 the Best Morning Show in Denver. She also received the 2013 "Westword" Web Award for Best TV, Podcast, or Radio Personality on Social Media.


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Kraken Products needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
VersaTables need a complete 9" x 11.5" Folder design which includes the front and rear design. We prefer illustrator or publisher files.
Print on each inside pocket - left and right
Business card holder on inside right pocket
American Made Adjustable Computer Furniture
Desired Color Scheme:
Blues & Whites
Desired Style:
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We would prefer the design to incorporate the colors and feel of VersaTables.com
We would like to try and focus on the ideas of American Made, Lifetime Warranty, Free Shipping, High Quality, Fast Turn Around..
We can provide high resolution images for any of the final images ued in the design but for the mockup we would prefer just to pull the images off the website.


text: As the consumer movement grows, more and more consumers are finding opportunities to serve on boards and committees, where they can truly impact mental health policy. This technical assistance guide explains how to become an effective member of a board or committee. Selected Contents: Understanding Boards and Committees * The Importance of Consumer Involvement * The Nomination and Application Process * Knowing the Unwritten Rules. 22 pp., 8 1/2 x 11.


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Hot songs. Cipto by thehorizon
Founded in 1997 Nike Air Max by hresdss123
Love the new article in your by Prcfrogcom
hope it was good coffee ... by vdwpatrick
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wow, thank you both for those by rebecca64
Such cool illustrations. This by Shyvan
That's really fantastically by stephaniesays


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After nearly 40 years in FM radio, Gardner-Webb University-based WGWG will soon only be available via Internet platforms.
BOILING SPRINGS � After nearly 40 years in FM radio, Gardner-Webb University-based WGWG will soon only be available via Internet platforms.
The station is negotiating to sell its FM signal and radio tower equipment located in Mooresboro, and the Internet transition is expected this year, according to a news release from the university Friday. The station�s studios and call letters are not being sold.
�It�s been something we�ve been talking about for a while to prepare for the future of radio and the future of college radio,� said Noel Manning, WGWG general manager and chief communications officer at GWU. �It�s not just about the airwaves anymore. You�re limited by the area your signal covers in our 16-county area. It�s adapting with the technology, advancing and trying to get better with it.�
Manning said the switch to Internet-only delivery will provide financial savings to the station � through electricity, equipment and other costs � though a specific dollar figure was not available. He said the change will also enable the station to pursue new opportunities through archiving programs, advertising its sponsors and more.
�Stepping back from an FM frequency frees you a little bit,� he said. �There are certain stipulations and regulations from the FCC you have to abide by with an FM frequency. For example, as a non-commercial station, if someone wants to purchase online sponsorships from you, you�re limited by what wordage you can use. Online, we can do full-blown commercials. It opens up new opportunities for us to work with.�
WGWG announced its changes to the GWU campus and its listeners Friday.
�We hope to attract new online listeners as well,� said Jeff Powell, WGWG operations manager. �We also plan to expand the hands-on opportunities for students to learn radio, audio, broadcast announcing, public speaking and writing.�
What�s changing, what�s not?
* WGWG will be available through Internet platforms only, not through 88.3 FM on the traditional radio dial.
* Content will be available at WGWG.org, Soundcloud.com/wgwgdotorg and additional media platforms.
* The station will continue to operate programming from its studios at 106 Emily Lane in the Elliott House.
* The studios and WGWG call letters are not being sold.
* The station�s FM signal and property and equipment for the station�s radio tower in Mooresboro are being sold.
* WGWG.org plans to increase ongoing programs where students, faculty and staff participate through on-air shows available live, on-demand and through social media.
* WGWG.org plans to increase its audio archives and downloads of GWU athletic broadcasts.
Source: WGWG, Gardner-Webb University
WGWG timeline
A look back at the history of WGWG:
1961 � WGWG established as a radio club
1974 � WGWG signs on the air at 88.3 FM, a 5,000-watt station offering �Beautiful Music� and The Afternoon Rock Show
1993 � WGWG transitions to a 50,000-watt FM signal
1998 � WGWG.org launches online stream
1999 � WGWG begins offering original local programming with live in-studio music performances, talk shows, movie reviews, high school football and more. Singer/songwriter Don Conoscenti becomes first musical guest
2005 � WGWG.org begins offering limited archives of radio interviews and live in-studio music
2010 � WGWG switches format from Americana/roots to variety
2011 � WGWG available on the Tune-in Radio App
2013 � WGWG.org offers enhancements, including downloads and on-demand programming available through Soundcloud, Facebook and Twitter
Source: WGWG, Gardner-Webb University


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Tax hike question still dogs Pawlenty
If Tim Pawlenty joins Mitt Romney on the GOP ticket he'll bring one big piece of baggage that gives conservatives heartburn.
When he was governor of Minnesota, Pawlenty backed a "health impact fee" — 75 cents per pack on cigarettes. It caused the biggest clash of his governorship, shutting down the state government. Pawlenty never called it a tax increase, but his critics certainly did.
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Fiscal conservatives are still uncomfortable with Pawlenty's break with conservative orthodoxy on this issue, even though it seems unlikely to cost him much political capital in the veepstakes.
( Also on POLITICO: Veep watch)
Republicans in Minnesota and tax critics believe Pawlenty broke his no tax increases pledge, and called the cigarette hike a "fee" as an end run around the pledge. Yet even Grover Norquist, the king of anti-tax movement who fought the cigarette tax at the time, now seems forgiving of Pawlenty.
Taxpayers League of Minnesota president Phil Krinkie – who served in the Minnesota House during the budget debate – said the fee's impact on Pawlenty's chances at higher office isn't that simple.
"Was it a tax increase, absolutely. Do I think some 6 or 7 years later that it's a disqualifier? No," Krinkie told POLITICO.
At the time, Pawlenty defended the fee as a means to help put an end to a budget impasse with a divided state legislature. "I believe this is a user fee. Some people are going to say it's a tax. I'm going to say it's a compromise to move Minnesota forward," Pawlenty argued in May 2005, at the heat of the debate. In his book, "Courage To Stand" he made the argument that the fee had helped "break the logjam" but that his victory "came at a price."
"To break the logjam, I agreed to a seventy-five-cent health impact fee on cigarettes, as a compromise. I really disliked it, but it was the least-economically detrimental plan that would get us to an agreement. The fee was designed to offset the costs the state incurred in providing health care to smokers," Pawlenty wrote, noting that there was "some snickering" around the fee.
Brian McClung, a former spokesman for Pawlenty, argued that the health impact fee is an "imperfect compromise," but that Pawlenty has made that clear.
"Governor Pawlenty has said the health impact fee was an imperfect compromise and something that he regrets agreeing to. However, his record as a budget-cutting fiscal hawk is second-to none," McClung said in an email to POLITICO. "
But Republicans familiar with the Minnesota debate and Pawlenty's tenure as governor say he lost some conservative street-cred among the same grassroots activists and tea partiers that have been slow to embrace Romney. The Romney campaign – which typically does not comment on their selection process for a vice presidential candidate – did not respond to requests for comment from this article.


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PHOTO: Barcelona Sunset FLICKR
Crazy schedule and posting light over the next few days. On a writng deadline and headed overseas later this week to Germany and Spain. I'll be working in Barcelona and then will spend a few days in Munich.
AIDS Vaccine Barcelona 2013 has awarded me an international media fellowship. #AIDSVax2013 will be the world's "largest international conference of researchers, advocates, clinicians, private sector partners and public health experts" focused exclusively on HIV vaccine research. The fellowship is sponsored by Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, the Catalan Program for HIV Vaccine Research and the government of Catalonia. I'm very excited and humbled. Only four or five American journos were awarded fellowships.
Barcelona 2013 would be my third or fourth international fellowship. I traveled to Zambia in July and August on a global health fellowship for the International Reporting Project at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. The first fellowship was a December 2011 trip to the high-level International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa in Addis Ababa sponsored by the Ethiopian government.


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Congenital Heart Conditions & Treatments
Heart disease symptoms are frequently present early in life, but it is possible for some congenital heart problems to go undetected throughout life. With the advances in prenatal imaging, heart conditions are being detected while still in utero. Some children may not exhibit any signs while others may exhibit shortness of breath, cyanosis, syncope, heart murmur, under-developing limbs and muscles, poor feeding or growth, or respiratory infections. Congenital heart defects cause abnormal heart structure that produces certain sounds called heart murmur. These can sometimes be detected; however, not all heart murmurs are caused by congenital heart defects.
- Ebstein's anomaly
- Hypoplastic left heart
- Hybrid stage 1
- Norwood procedure
- Pulmonary atresia
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
- Transposition of the great vessels
- Tricuspid atresia
- Truncusarteriosus
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial septal defect
- Atrioventricular canal (endocardial cushion defect)
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Hypoplastic aorta
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pulmonic stenosis
- Ventricular septal defect
Genetic Conditions With Increased Risk for Heart Defects
- DiGeorge syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Marfan syndrome
- Noonan syndrome
- Trisomy 13
- Turner syndrome
- Hetertaxy
- Williams syndrome
- Echocardiogram
- Cardiac MRI
- Cardiac CT
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Chest X-ray
- Pulse oximetry
- Cardiac catheterization
Surgical Care of Neonates Through Adulthood
- Hybrid procedures
- Hybrid Stage 1 for HLHS
- Periventricular approach to RVOT and Melody valve
- Ross procedure
- Valve sparing aortic root replacement
- Ebstein's valve repair
Dedicated Congenital Heart Perfusion
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), transport ECMO
- Ventricular assist devices
- Dedicated perfusionist
- Blood conservation program
- Jehovah's Witnesses program
- Fetal cardiac diagnosis and counseling and cardiac genetic evaluation and counseling
- Neonatal heart surgery, as well as pediatric, adolescent and adult congenital heart surgery
- Dedicated pediatric and adult cardiac intensive care units with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support
- Transcatheter valve therapy/replacement (pulmonic, aortic, mitral, tricuspid)
- Transcatheter ASD, VSD, PFO, PDA closure
- Transcatheter treatment of complex vascular stenosis (angioplasty/stent pulmonary arteries, angioplasty/stent aorta, angioplasty/stent venous stenoses, stent PDA)
- Complex congenital cardiac imaging (transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, intracardiac echocardiography, congenital cardiac MRI, congenital cardiac CT, 3D rotational angiography)
- Infrastructure to care for congenital heart patients and their families from fetal diagnosis through senescence by a single highly specialized multidisciplinary team
- Multidisciplinary team composed of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease cardiologists and surgeons, neonatologists, dedicated cardiac anesthesiologists, congenital cardiac intensivists, pediatric and adult subspecialists, and advanced pediatric cardiac nurse practitioners
- One of only a few U.S. centers with access to both Melody and Sapien valves for pulmonic valve replacement
- Novel hybrid techniques aimed at minimizing morbidity and mortality
- Clinical trials site affording patients access to the latest therapeutic advances in congenital heart disease


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Welcome to the Mahwah Police Department's New Bulletins page. New and pertinent information will be posted here on a regular basis. The newest articles will always appear on this page.
The Mahwah Police Department is regulated by Township Ordinance 2-16. This Ordinance REGULATES the requirements necessary for a person to become a Police Officer with the Township Police Department. To view the Ordinance as well as the Job Description, CLICK HERE


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
New Regulations Conform to Changes Made by ADA Amendments Act of 2008
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) revising its regulations to provide that an individual seeking protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) establish that he or she has a disability consistent with the original, expansive intent of Congress when it enacted the ADA in 1990. The NPRM, approved by 2-1 vote, carries a 60-day period for public comment.
The NPRM makes several significant changes to the definition of the term "disability" necessitated by enactment of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The NPRM will be available from the Commission's website, www.eeoc.gov, along with a question-and-answer guide about the proposal and instructions for submitting public comments.
"Today's Commission action marks a key step in implementing the landmark Amendments Act, which will smooth the road for those trying to establish disability under the ADA," said Acting EEOC Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "The Commission acted following careful and thorough deliberations, and we look forward to reviewing any and all public comments before issuing our final regulation."
Acting EEOC Vice Chair Christine M. Griffin said, "Congress recognized that the intent of the ADA was being misread, that its goals were being compromised, and that action had to be taken. These regulations will shift the focus of the courts away from further narrowing the definition of disability, and put it back where Congress intended when the ADA was enacted in 1990."
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an antidiscrimination statute, was signed into law in July 1990. The EEOC is responsible for enforcing Title I of the ADA, which prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities. The statute requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees and job applicants with disabilities—defined as people with mental or physical impairments that substantially limit a major life activity, persons with a record of a disability, or who, while not actually disabled, are regarded as disabled.
The ADA Amendments Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2009, states that Congress expects the EEOC to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the Act, and expressly authorizes the EEOC to do so. The new law rejected the holdings in several Supreme Court decisions and portions of EEOC's ADA regulations that Congress believed construed the definition of "disability" too narrowly, preventing individuals with impairments such as cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder from bringing discrimination claims. The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the proposed rule make it easier for an individual alleging employment discrimination based on disability to establish that he or she meets the ADA's definition of "disability." The ADA Amendments Act also modifies the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits employment discrimination in the federal workforce on the basis of disability.
The EEOC voted June 17 to adopt the rules changes, which then went to the Office of Management and Budget for review, and to federal agencies.
Consistent with the ADAAA, the NPRM emphasizes that the definition of disability -- an impairment that poses a substantial limitation in a major life activity -- must be construed in favor of broad coverage of individuals to the maximum extent permitted by the terms of the ADA, and should not require extensive analysis; that major life activities include "major bodily functions"; that mitigating measures, such as medications and devices that people use to reduce or eliminate the effects of an impairment, are not to be considered when determining whether someone has a disability; and that impairments that are episodic or in remission, such as epilepsy, cancer, and many kinds of psychiatric impairments, are disabilities if they would "substantially limit" major life activities when active. The regulation also provides a more straightforward way of demonstrating a substantial limitation in the major life activity of working, and implements the ADAAA's new standard for determining whether someone is "regarded as" having a disability.
The 60-day public comment period on the proposed rule-making will officially commence upon publication of the NPRM in the Federal Register, which is expected to be published the week of September 21, 2009. The EEOC encourages the public to offer its views and suggestions.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Finance & Development, March 1986
- The Export Performance of Developing Countries
- Central Bank Open Market Operations: What Does It Really Mean
- Studying African Agriculture
- Will Sales Taxes Work in Developing Countries?
- Some Economic Aspects of Education Projects
- Stabilizing an Economy: SPAIN
- The World Bank's Mission in Eastern Africa
- What's Left of the Business Cycle in Europe?
- Book Notices
- Views and Comments
- Recent Activity: International Monetary Fund
- Recent Activity: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation
Central Bank Open Market Operations: What Does It Really Mean
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- March 1968
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I don't understand why the 'free will' thing keeps popping back up again and again. Either you don't have it or you do and it will not change the way you behave. If you suddenly learned that you do not possess 'free will' will you just out of a window???? Are you not going to put bad people in prison????? Or are you going to just continue doing what you have been doing???? What would the universe look like if it was not predictable or only predictable to a variable degree? Can you imagine such a universe?
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I see, but that still doesn't seem to rescue free will from the jaws of determinism. In fact, perhaps quite the opposite.
Not only was the rescue a failure, but it looks like it's been chewed up, swallowed, and thoroughly digested :)
There is no rescue attempt. The whole point is that the basis of the whole thing is framed wrong. I can't rescue an answer when the question is wrong in the first place. And I never even mentioned quantum mechanics as I don't see how it applies until one is a good thousand strokes into the masturbatory session.
As for your assessment of my attitude on philosophy? That in itself is irrelevant to the fact that philosophy is more irrelevant than ever as a way for discovery. If you are fond of it, then I mean no offense to you personally. But, what has philosophy done for us lately, really? Other than continue to rehash age old arguments that have no application to reality like free will versus determinism? That is like applying the "chicken or egg" question to biology and expecting it to be one or the other when it is both and neither. The question is wrong and we know this. And in knowing more, we can ask better questions.
But all that aside, I don't think you understand my point at all. You seem to think I am searching for freedom in some principle of uncertainty or by denigrating philosophy. That is not the case. In fact, I've often argued that free will is an absurd concept. But determinism argued to a fatalistic conclusion is only a little less absurd to me. There are many more and better questions to be asked than "free will or determinism".
Given that those at the leading edge of science are all philosophers, I don't get your point. The physicists and cosmologists are working on the nature of reality and existence. These are philosophical questions, and a lot of it is sheer speculation.
Plato saw the reality of the senses as basically unreal. Underlying that world was a reality far different from appearance. That was a couple thousand years ago. Today physicists also talk about a reality that is far different from appearance, and almost totally based on speculation rather than measurement.
Today's philosopher-scientists give us explanations which are almost pure conjecture and speculation: string theory, multiple dimensions (I believe 11 is the most commonly given number nowadays), branes, and an infinitude of universes.
This is all philosophy even if you don't call it as such. A rose is a rose by any other name.
So you are wrong, my friend.
I beg your pardon, but those people are scientists, not philosophers. If you definition of philosophy is so broad that it entails all who ask questions, then we are all philosophers and it means nothing to be one. But make no mistake, those on the leading edge of science are scientists with specialized knowledge and training. Just because they speculate or hypothesize doesn't turn them into something else. To question is all part of the scientific method. Let's face it; science has replaced philosophy and that is my whole point.
And string theory? That is the example you use after I invoke Lawrence Krauss? Geez. Talk about a swing and a miss.
Just to add, Krauss often teases Brian Greene for the speculative nature of string threory. And string theory is not an accepted theory and, technically, not even a theory. It is a hypothesis. And this hypothesis is not "pure speculation" since it has mathematical roots. It isn't like they decided which number they liked best to assign as the number of dimensions. It came from the math that they have worked out. There is no way to test it so all one can do at this point is wank on about it. It is all very probably bullshit anyway and that is a lot of what philosophizing gets you.
And one more thing I find humorous and must point out is that you hold up string theory as this gold standard of "philosophy science". The thing is, they didn't just run the math and discover extra dimensions. No, they ran the math and the math didn't compute so they invented dimensions in order to make the equations work. That and it being untestable is why many dismiss string theory.
If philosophy is mental masturbation, then string theory is mathematical masturbation.
Oh, so you base whether someone is something on whether they have attained a PhD? So, you can't be a writer without obtaining a writing certificate from a university?
I'm curious to know, why can't someone be BOTH a scientist and philosopher.
You are talking patent nonsense. One can be both a philosopher and a writer and a scientist. Even if you don't call yourself such.
Philosophy has always been about being a "lover of knowlege" (which is what "philosopher" means).
Oh, so you base whether someone is something on whether they have attained a PhD?
I guess if a person gets an MD, they are a doctor, right? Or they obtain their JD then they are a lawyer. If they get their PhD in Astrophysics, they are a scientist. Right? To some degree it does matter.
I'm curious to know, why can't someone be BOTH a scientist and philosopher.
I never said that couldn't happen. But philosophy doesn't bring anything useful to the table that the scientific method doesn't already possess.
Science has important roots in philosophy which is why there are some aspects of it that are so similar. You mention Plato, a philosopher. But what he did is not comparable to what Darwin, a Natural Philosopher, did. Only in the most basic way is it even comparable; they ask big questions and seek to answer them. But in how they seek to answer them is so vastly different that to equate these philosophies as being equally valid ways to discover the objective nature of the universe is silly. And we have progressed beyond natural philosophy into modern science.
Philosophers don't do science. Scientists do. And if in the heart of a scientists lurks a philosopher then that is all just peaches and cream. But they aren't practicing philosophy and they are not making important discoveries using philosophy. They are doing this all using science.
As with many things free will is the "solution" to a problem religion created itself. It may be a nice philosophical argument, but in the real world it's irrelevant
Succinctly and well said.
Yes, in the real world obtaining a Mercedes Benz is a lot more important than really understanding the nature of the world we live in.


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Yeah, yeah, so I missed Earth Day. I promise I did my best to drastically curtail my usual polluting practices for the occasion though: I waited until the next day to chuck all those batteries into the lake.*
Anyhoo, I promised you lovely twits on Twitter that we would extend the celebration here on Wrecks and have a whole Earth Week. So that's what we're doing. [putting on green & purple party hat & blowing on noise maker] Yay, Earth!
Now, where's the cake?
What? I was supposed to bring it? Oh, I see how it is: I've got to do everything around here, don't I? [rummaging through photos] Fine. I'm sure I can find an Earth cake in here somewhere...
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Umm, no, wait... Sorry, that's apparently an attempt at a Spaceship Earth cake. Or a big fuzzy golf ball. Totally different.
UPDATE: To the scores of you telling me this is supposed to be Disney's Epcot Center: Um, yeah, I know. See, the ball at Epcot is called Spaceship Earth, NOT Epcot. Give a Diz Geek a little credit, eh?
[returns to rummaging] Let's see...Earth cakes...Earth cakes...
Well, that's more of an earthquake. Although it's nice how the Wreckerator added that bridge in to span the gap. In fact, I think it fits right in with the triple-cloned Mickey, Pocahontas, matchbox cars, roses and palm trees, don't you?
Moving on...How about some earth movers?
See, since "earth" is also another word for "dirt", this actually makes perfect sense.
Although I must say, they're getting quite generous with the cake toys these days, aren't they? Just look at the size of those things! Pretty soon they're going to start slapping Big Wheels on cakes and calling it a day. (No, I don't know why they'll call Big Wheels on cakes "a day", but trust me, they will.)
Here's my favorite - and probably the most appropriate - Earth Day confection, though:
The message couldn't be more clear: Recycle, or die in a fiery mushroom cloud. Now that's how you teach the younger generations, my friends.
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Peter followed "Saving Deets!" with two more memoirs —"Charity Bites!: The Untold Stories of the Dog-Eat-Dog World of Autism Activism" and "When Life Hands You Lemons…Throw Them At People"— and a line of autism awareness T-shirts. Today, his activism largely benefits Generation Rescue, where in 2010 he worked as a fundraising and social media intern.
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A bit of a jock and attending PCC classes in pursuit of a degree in child development, Romero admits his signing up for a winter semester theater class was a bit uncharacteristic. The friendship he developed there with Peter was even more so.
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Now the two meet several times a week to plan, film and edit "Just Plain Ridiculous" and to talk about Romero's music career, which Peter partially manages.
Autism awareness is an important component of the friends' connection. Romero, who has twin cousins on the spectrum, regularly attends benefit concerts and events. So when Peter pitched a joint effort benefiting Generation Rescue, he agreed.
This spring, Romero will release a song he's written, "Through the Storm," exclusively on iTunes with the proceeds going to the Sherman Oaks nonprofit. A summer benefit concert showcasing Romero's song is planned for the summer, Peter says.
"Through the Storm" is a departure away from the romantic songs Romero has performed at places like Buster's Coffee House in South Pasadena and North Hollywood's Republic of Pie.
"I wanted to do something different to show people I wasn't this sappy songwriter," he says of the song, which he was unable to finish until he saw it through the lens of autism activism. "I feel it was made for this organization. The best way I knew how to give back was through songwriting."
No matter what the future holds in store for Peter and Romero, the friends are pretty certain this time in their lives will be memorable. Maybe it's because of the fun they're having, or because each has something the other naturally needs — Peter's persistence helps Romero's budding career, while Romero brings a laid-back affability that draws Peter out of his fortress of seriousness.
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Sen. Harry Reid embraced his role as a more empowered Senate majority leader Wednesday, calling for a major fiscal deal in the lame duck session while vowing a new push on immigration reform and an overhaul of filibuster rules in the new Congress.
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Speaking at a packed news conference on Capitol Hill, Reid laid out an ambitious agenda for 2013 after his party's surprisingly decisive Senate victories and President Barack Obama's reelection bid, saying the public gave Democrats a new mandate to raise taxes on wealthy families as part of a major year-end fiscal deal. While Reid said he's not going to "draw lines in the sand" ahead of the year-end fiscal cliff, he insisted on higher revenues.
Reid has good reason to feel ambitious. After a year of gloomy predictions for Democratic Senate candidates, the party may increase its majority from 53 seats to 55 seats — a stunning accomplishment considering how many of Reid's colleagues were considered vulnerable.
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"The president campaigned around the country saying, 'We know what the problems are with this fiscal problem. We just need some revenue,'" Reid said. "That was the issue. The mandate was look at all the exit polls, look at all the polling, the vast majority of the American people, rich, poor, everybody agrees that the rich — richest of the rich have to help a little bit."
With Washington facing potentially devastating tax hikes and spending cuts in less than two months, Reid said he was not in favor of punting until the next Congress by passing a short-term extension.
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