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Sunday's March for Women's Lives, which drew at least 750,000 people to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a good time to look at George Bush's overall record on women's issues. It's nothing to crow about (unless you're Rush Limbaugh). The administration has been steadily rolling back federal policies that help women. Abortion is just the visible part of this backlash, because it's such a hot-button issue for Bush's right wing legions. But the rest of his agenda is flying far under the radar.
Now, the National Women's Law Center has released an extensive report on "the erosion of hard-won gains for women under Bush." It's called "Slip-Sliding Away," and it examines 10 major areas of concern, from the workplace to the child care center and from the classroom to the military barracks. In each place, Bush's policies make it harder for women to achieve equal rights.
For example, the Department of Labor has "refused to use tools at its disposal to identify violations of equal pay laws," according to the report. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has "weakened enforcement of the laws against job discrimination and even abandoned pending sex discrimination cases." In schooling, the administration has proposed "reducing funding for, and even eliminating, programs that provide gender equity." The Department of Education has refused to investigate the pervasive exclusion of women from math and science programs. And despite an outcry over previous attempts to weaken Title IX protections for women in schools, the DOE is still pursuing that goal by failing to use its "scarce resources to enforce the law."
In addition, the administration has "archived" material on sexual harassment, making it unavailable to the public, notes the report. The president's budget proposes slashing funds for services to battered women and a national domestic-violence hotline. The Department of Defense has allowed the charter of a 55-year-old committee that promoted the recruitment of women in the military to lapse. Current policy prohibits a servicewoman from having an abortion at an overseas military hospital unless she has been raped or her life is in dangerand even then, she must pay for the procedure herself.
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Then there are the broader policy decisions that affect women's lives, such as cutting child-care budgets, freezing funds for after-school programs, and imposing harsh new requirements on welfare recipients. Plans to transform Medicare and privatize Social Security affect women disproportionately because they are more likely than men to be poor. It remains to be seen how single mothers will fare under the president's initiative to encourage marriage.
The report acknowledges that the administration has taken some constructive actions, such as prosecuting people who smuggle women into the country for prostitution. But the pattern is one of "serious steps backward."
Will John Kerry take these findings and run with them? If his reaction to Sunday's march is any sign, don't count on it. He sent his daughter to D.C. and snuck off to Iowa (though he showed up at an earlier, less publicized, abortion rights rally). Many Democratic strategists think the party should downplay women's issues in order to chip away at Bush's hold on the dude vote. (Remember, only 22 percent of white males voted for Al Gore.) If the president is to be held to account, women will have to do it. It's a matter of libertyand life.
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the wire that you hook up to your tps is the middle one. My box is inside my car, and it was a **** getting all hoses in and out the car. you just neep to use copper plugs, that are colder. im running two degrees colder.(Damn i actually gave useful information lol!!!!)
This is an OLD pic, but you should get the idea. I traded someone for an MSD ST Brace mount. Basically it's a piece of alum. that has holes drilled to mount on the firewall where the ST bolts are. I used a quick connect on the TPS line, so I could quickly disconnect it when pulling the intake off, and reroute it under the intake elbow. Oh and I use Autolite 24s gapped at .035.
What they said. I just hooked up my kit that I wasnt using on my friends Acura and it was a breeze to install. If you want to double check on the TPS wire, back probe each wire and it will be the one that is X.XX volts with the throttle closed, and around 5 volts at WOT. Im going to be mounting my NMU inside my fender and everything will be completly hidden. If you run the nitrous line under your car, run it through a subframe or something to protect it a little.
i am just curious as what wire is the right tps wire to tape would u guys know because i dont have a way to test for volts also where to get the vacume line from?? any pics please
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But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here. ""This is a valuable and insightful look at the most sweeping school-reform policy in 35 years."" —Booklist |


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Yey so happy for you! I really believe that when you take a chance in life, life will take a chance with you, and when you try to live it to its fullest it will provide you with the best chances and oppourtunitys, simply be uses you are living with your eyes and heart open to them! This is something I deifinitely need to remember more often! So thanks for the inspiration
XxI had parents who helped me through grad school in my late 20's, parents who would do it all over again because as I've learned, you never stopped being a parent! I love your gratitude towards them and after being a long time reader of your blog (and a first time commenter!) I think it's amazing that you now have a place to call home. You deserve it! Can't wait to see your new adventures on your blog! Reading all the way from NB, Canada :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to you and marlowe and your first house! How exciting! If I am grateful for anything it would definitely be for my family. They have really made life as a single parent easier. I do have dreams of having my own home someday with a garden and a big backyard for my son to play in. It is always refreshing to read your blog knowing that you are a single mom yourself and that it is hard, but it is still an amazing life. So happy for you both!
ReplyDeleteWow! That makes me so happy! I don't know you, just through this blog, I've followed you since I think around when my daughter was born (she was born in jan 11, similar age as Marlowe, that's why I started following u) but I'm so happy for you!
This is the first time I comment. I wish you all the best! You deserve this!
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-Elisabeth from NorwaySuch wonderful news! Can't wait to see pictures of your new home.
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My husbands parents/family have been very generous in helping us with houses also...yes our first house...which we sold AND our second. Their family is very collectivist. We would do ANYTHING to help them also. My in-laws are wonderful and could even move in with me if they wanted. It's great to have family help out...and I can certainly identify that most people won't understand that kind of generosity.


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Photo library cards issued by the city of Memphis are valid identification for voting and must be accepted by the Shelby County Election Commission.
The Tennessee Supreme Court Thursday, Nov. 1, lifted a stay on an earlier Tennessee Appeals Court ruling and ordered state election officials to tell the Shelby County Election Commission to accept the library cards at the polls.
The stay was ordered lifted on the last day of the early voting period and the action would also apply to the Nov. 6 election day.
The Supreme Court ruling came as the court agreed to hear an appeal of the larger issues in the Appeals Court ruling. Briefs are still to be filed by both sides in that appeal and no date has been set by the court to hear the appeal which makes it unlikely an appeal would be heard much less decided before Tuesday's election day.
The appeals court held that the 2011 state law requiring photo identification to vote in Tennessee is constitutional. It also ruled that the photo library cards issued by the city since July are among the forms of valid identification under terms of the state law.
In Thursday's order granting the appeal, the Supreme Court noted that normally granting such an appeal would leave the stay in place.
"However, the right to vote has profound constitutional significance," the order reads. "In light of the impending general election on Nov. 6, 2012, the court has determined that the stay should be lifted for the limited purpose of ordering the defendants (Tennessee Secretary of State) Tre Hargett and (Tennessee Elections Coordinator) Mark Goins to immediately advise the Shelby County Election Commission to accept, for the Nov. 6, 2012 general election and until otherwise ordered by this court, the photo library cards issued by the city of Memphis Public Library as acceptable 'evidence of identification.'"
Goins said he is "pleased" with the court's decision to hear the appeal. He also said he has ordered the Shelby County Election Commission to accept the photo library cards as valid voter ID.
"We have advised the Shelby Election Commission to accept the city-issued library cards from Memphis for the Nov. 6 election in Shelby County," Goins said in a written statement. "For 94 out of 95 Tennessee counties, today's order from the court will have no impact: State- or federally-issued photo IDs are the only forms of identification that will be accepted. In Shelby County only, the city-issued library photo ID cards will also be accepted in accordance with the court's directive."
The new instructions are a change from the instructions Goins issued after the Appeals Court ruling and order last week. Then Goins said election officials were to continue marking ballots cast by voters using a library card as provisional ballots.
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Better, surely, to offend everyone equally. We are thus pleased to unveil the Bunhill euro, in which we have tried to incorporate as many stereotypes as possible.
Note, for example, the drunken reindeer to represent Scandinavia, the broken plate for Greece and various other icons that need no explanation. It seems only right that my portrait should be on the note: I am equally loved by all Europeans, except foreign ones.
My design team and I spent weeks casting around for a theme that would unite Europe in contradistinction to, say, the United States. It was not easy ( which is why the single currency will not work, but that is another matter). But we did eventually decide that the spirit of Europe should be just that: booze. Ask for a glass of wine anywhere left of Barbados and you will be served with a chilly look. In Europe, still, a glass of wine is what you will get - which is why our note is scattered with alcohol.
There is, in truth, little point in getting too excited about the euro note, because it will soon become irrelevant. We will not be carrying around notes - we will have a small piece of plastic called an electronic purse which we will use to pay for everything, everywhere.
This of course leads on to the question of what to put on these cards. Banks and whatnot will probably want their logos. This is dull - we should be able to put photos of our children, tortoises, racehorses or maybe, if we are nostalgic, a good old-fashioned five pound note. Me, I will have a picture of Bunhill - moi-meme.
I predict a mighty battle - between the sub-editors of the British press and the US legal system. The war will be fought over Cordis or, critically, CORDIS.
I was talking last week with chaps from the Common Market who run an information system called the Community R&D Information Service, or CORDIS. As I left, they extracted a promise from me - that I would always write the word in capital letters. "An American medical equipment company called Cordis has threatened to sue us," they said. "The only way we can go on is by promising we will always use capital letters."
Trouble is, newspapers have something called house style which, to sub- editors, comes somewhere between the third and fourth commandments in importance. On this newspaper, if an acronym can be pronounced as a word, it is written in big and little letters. So when they see my word CORDIS, they will almost certainly strike it down, and the European Commission will have to pay out billions of dollars.
So if the word cordis appears in capital letters in this piece (and I have no control over that), the Common Market owes me a few hundred quid out of gratitude.
Sandy Sandison of Hildenborough, Kent, has noticed an advertisement for a publication in the Chartered Insurance Institute Journal. "Alien reinsurance in the US market," it is called.
Is this reinsurance of aliens, I wonder, or reinsurance by aliens? If the former, how does the premium on a Martian compare with that of a Plutocrat (is that what they're called?)? If the latter, are we about to see photographs of impoverished Martian Names?
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Surveys are reaching epidemic proportions - someone should do a survey to find out how many there are. One of the more bizarre is the Presswatch Quarterly, which has just landed on my desk. It counts the number of times companies have been mentioned in the press during the quarter, subtracts unfavourable mentions from favourable ones, and comes up with a ranking. Most favoured company is Tesco (+953); Morgan Grenfell comes bottom, scoring -1,462.
How do they decide whether an article is positive or negative? The best pieces, in my view, are a delicate shade of grey with a hint of apricot - but for Presswatch, they must be black or white. I suggest a colour palate be used instead: this article is light blue, this one grey, this one black. Mix them up and voila! A nice colour for each company. What a pretty piece that would make when the listings are published.
It's still Advent and those executive stocking fillers are coming in nicely. Laurence Manning suggests processed cheese slices, which survived the Channel tunnel fire. "No traveller should be without this nutritious snack which unfolds into a safety fire blanket." Alan Jones (him again) suggests Lard on a Rope ("for palm-greasing") and A Scrapbook of the Collected Wisdom of Bunhill (is he after the champagne, or what?).
Magy Higgs (not her again) notes that the telegram address for Harrods used to be "Anything, London". So this year, she says, they are promoting the Anything Department.
"Anythings are available in rainbow colours, all sizes and both winter and summer weights: unisex, biodegradable, non-toxic. There's an Executive Anything, in see-through wraps, fitted with a parachute, buoyancy ring and safety cut-out. Floats for hours and shines in the dark. There's also the `Anything for the Weekend?' pack, opaquely packaged, waterproofed, unsinkable, peppermint-flavoured, banned in Colombia and silent in use."
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Street fix: Band jacket goes preppy
What first caught my attention were Kyle's glasses, then his hair. Then as I was about to take his picture, he unrolled his jacket, which brought character to his outfit.
He was with Megan. Together, they made an
adorable couple.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Wood and plastic necklace for new Sand line
As I was preparing my stuff for a two-night stay at the beach, I was thinking I wanted to make a necklace for the trip. Good thing I brought along my bare, wooden beads and some clear and opaque plastic trinkets.
I was off in less than fifteen minutes with my bag and my new lightweight accessory. Opted for
instead of
to make the collection title more tangent, but at the same time more encompassing. Plan to use more types of wood, plastic, and perhaps even coffee beans.
Writing this back from an island-hopping excursion, my tote is heavier with white shells and corals that have been damaged or cracked, but now all bear holes big enough for nylon string.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Onyx, obsidian, and meteorite necklace
I asked the saleslady if the cratered beads they were selling really came from space. She laughed, and I shrugged it off. Nobody was buying the "meteorite", so I wanted it.
This is the necklace I made for my mom as a gift especially for Christmas Eve, since she was looking for a necklace other than a long strand of pearls to go with her red dress. Coincidentally, the piece went well with what I was wearing yesterday morning.
Besides the leftover rosette onyx, I used medium-sized "meteorite" beads, obsidian, and some gray squarish stones. I decided to use gray with black to give my mom's red dress more character. She wore this double-stranded.
I hope you had a merry Christmas, because I did. Besides meeting relatives again, tasting my cousin's dishes, and the gifts, I was also able to sell both my
"grotesque" steel necklaces
and something new from my Sacre line (will post this by and by), plus a couple of orders for new hardware pieces.
It was likewise amazing how necklaces I conceived for men looked great on my aunts!
Again, I liked how this turned out. Different colors, textures, and shapes.
Tee, Rogan; thrifted skinny jeans, Dior Homme; belt, Brave Beltworks; sneakers, Generic Surplus; necklace, DIY
I was also able to make a necklace-gift for my grandmother, which she was happy to receive. It was shorter and was accentuated with shiny, metallic hematite beads. This afternoon I was also able to make a combination piece from black wooden beads and onyx for my cousin — much lighter than the earlier necklaces, but still looks interesting because of the new colors and textures.
As I write this post in the beach, I am wearing a new necklace made of unfinished wood and plastic, which I think is the start of a new line.
, perhaps?
I hope this venture blossoms. Watch this page — at least until I am able to put up my Bosquejo accessories site!
Happy holidays!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Parting is such sweet sorrow / My first sale
When Johanna told me that she was happily feeling the texture and shape of the rosette onyx beads and baroque pearls from the black necklace I just sold her, I knew it was in good hands.
This is how it looks up close — pearls and onyx with obsidian.
This was how I wore the very first version of this necklace, which was shorter and meant as a male accessory.
Jo is right by saying that from afar the piece looks just like any other bead necklace, and that it is only after closer inspection that one notices — from the colors and shapes of the reflected light — that the necklace is different.
Tee and skinny belt, A.P.C.; jeans, Two Percent; bonnet, 5cm; bracelet, three strands of ball-and-chain necklaces
It was Jo's suggestion to wear it double-stranded. Now the piece takes on a life of its own, just like any creation that exchanges hands.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Grotesque hardware necklaces
If this one had to have a title, I would name it
, or maybe
, since it looks like a throne or the huge beads remind me of planets and intergalactic space flight.
This can simply be called
, for obvious reasons. Must admit that I was a little disturbed when I finished it, but that is part of the reason why I like it. Laughed hard when my sister said I could use it to clip and wear my office ID. She's right, of course.
Now in the province. Tried to bring all my materials so I can make more necklaces, but sadly, airline luggage limits stopped me...
Monday, December 21, 2009
Hinge and bobbin hardware necklace: a variation
Met up with my friend Johanna last Friday to show her the black pearl and onyx necklace. (Just sold her today — my very first sale! — the
longer version with obsidian
I wore last Saturday. More on this in another post...) That day, I wore a single-stranded edition of the
bobbin and hinge necklace
I made earlier — which incidentally, another friend has already reserved.
Decided to wear the necklace with a monochromatic get-up for the steel to stand out.
This is how it looks up close, but only after one modification that Jo (short for Johanna) suggested.
I closed two hinges and removed the topmost one — which was digging into my neck (ouch!).
Polo shirt, Armani Exchange; jeans, Two Percent; sandals, Birkenstock
Outfit photos: Johanna Hife
I am besides myself with this new venture — creating new pieces, modifying them for clients, and posting them as fast as I can. I promise to write about regular topics as soon as I launch the online site of Bosquejo accessories. In a few days I hope!
Again I wore the piece with another necklace. Here is the stainless steel chain with a bike pendant I intend to wear/sell with it.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Black faux fur vest with onyx and black pearls
Sure, I have worn a
lace skirt as a cardigan for Halloween
, but this I have never done.
Went to Rockwell to visit Pier Lim, a friend who was selling his clothes at a bazaar. We were kidding around, and another friend and I decided to wear some of the items while going through the bazaar. Here are two of the shots.
I am donning the faux fur vest with a work in progress: a black necklace I am designing for another friend — a girl, hence the length. It is made up of irregular black pearls, onyx stones with rosette carvings, and obsidian, which is also black but with a sheen more subtle than onyx.
Still getting the hang of it, especially with the heat, but I must say that the texture and sheen of the vest give my black outfit more than a little zest.
Faux fur vest, Pier Lim; black tee, G200; sheer cardigan; thrifted; jeans, Jil Sander
Photos by Michael Son
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Amulet medallion necklace over henley
Remember the
first amulet medallion necklace
I made? Well this is very similar, except that I have used an extra amulet and more kinds of beads. Also a stainless steel necklace instead of nylon.
Wearing it this time with a henley, which I think works better with the piece. A friend has asked me to design a similar necklace for his close model/actress friend. Come to think of it, this would go very well with a light cotton or linen shirt dress.
I get giddy just thinking of the many variations possible! As I have mentioned, I want each and every accessory to be unique, if not as closely tailored to a personality as possible.
Feels like I'm back to high school craft class, which I was very fond of.
Henley, cK Calvin Klein; jeans, Jil Sander; belt, Brave Beltworks; scarf, thrifted; amulet medallion necklace, DIY; chain from Divisoria
I could have worn the necklace separately, but I felt there was one button too many above it. So I used this chain. Am also planning to sell simple, chain-and-pendant necklaces for those who want something simpler and a lot lighter.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Hardware necklace from bobbins and door hinges
The people at the hardware store thought I was a reseller, with all the cable connectors, door hinges, and bobbins I bought. I'm sure the clerk who sold me the items was laughing when I was already ready to pay and leave without even asking for the hinge screws — which I obviously didn't need!
As with the other pieces, this latest one with a double stainless steel ball chain necklace surprised me after I finished it. Admittedly, this looks more feminine than the others, but the hardcore metalware still allows it to be worn by men.
My sister says it look
— whatever that means. What do you think?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Crown of thorns
That's what I decided to name this Sacre necklace. Though it's no great sacrifice to pose in front of a camera and tripod, am still getting the hang of it — trying not to laugh at myself in embarrassment.
This was how I wore the necklace yesterday.
I got the beads and amulet from four different places. Putting them together took time, starting with a concept and working my way one bead at a time.
I know some may find the styling offensive, but I think it works — both aesthetically and conceptually; the combination of the Sacre necklace, gold pendant, and irreverent tee emphasizes the meeting of the sacred and profane. (Soon my teeth will match my accessories, with all the coffee I drink.)
Working on this necklace was no different from working on an article or a poem. Each sentence or line, like each bead, should flow smoothly from the one before it; and everything should come together to convey a cohesive and coherent meaning. At least that was how it felt for me.
Time to run back to Quiapo to get more amulets. Got my first two orders!
Stretch tee, De Puta 69; cargo pants, Izzue; filigree belt, Brave Beltworks; crucifix pendant, bought from Florence; wore everything yesterday with a vintage gold-plated Omega Seamaster
Bosquejo DIY necklaces: sneak preview
The past three days, I have been busy beading trinkets into necklaces that I think I can finally be able to wear proudly and sell to the public.
Here are five initial pieces that represent the first three themes I have used in creating the accessories: Noir, Hardware, and Sacre.
The first necklace on the left is made of irregular black pearls and onyx stones carved into rosettes — with a few wooden beads. The second
stainless steel necklace
you have already seen; it looks unique because of the use of cable connectors. The last three pieces were conceived by expounding on the idea of the holy: using amulets and transforming them into buried treasure.
I plan to launch a separate site very soon to sell these items. (But feel free to comment or email if you already want to order.) Instead of
Bosquejo Bauble
, I have decided to rebrand to
I would think these are not bad gift ideas, for those who haven't crossed out everybody in their list — both men and women, since I think these pieces are largely androgynous. I plan to make each piece unique and unrepeated. I will also be open for special custom-made requests, e.g. to make a piece that will best suit someone's personality and looks.
Now it's back to my beads...
What do you think of these first few pieces?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Street fix: How to wear red jeans
No, this doesn't involve
sitting on dirty escalators
. Compared to white jeans, I think it's even harder to wear red trousers since they grab people's attention by the horns.
While other people just pair them with a white or other neutral-colored shirt, this bloke has bravely — yet also quite sensibly — tamed the wild color by topping it with a sobering dose of dark blue. Instead of clashing, the two colors come in equilibrium.
Equally important to his outfit is the matching of his brown cap with his beige sneakers, which helps him avoid looking like a two-tone flag. That or your other choice of
slashing your pants
Kudos goes to Fred.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Gray gardens
So this is how I wore the
hardware necklace
I made yesterday: with a white tee and an additional bead necklace to set off the color theme.
No, the band I was wearing on my left wrist didn't have anything to do with sports.
It's made of plastic, instead of rubber, and comes in packs of six. Unlike the usual thick wooden bangles for women, this is thinner and I think can be used by men — singly, with other accessories like a watch, and at most in threes.
Trust me, it was just the heat.
This tee has a history.
Happy birthday to me.
All in all I've been a good boy all my twenty eight years...
Tee, cK Calvin Klein; thrifted jeans, Dior Homme; skinny belt, APC; sneakers, Generic Surplus; necklace, DIY; leather bag, Rabeanco
Outfit photos by Patricia Suzara
Friday, December 11, 2009
Style stalking + Jil Sander + Comme des Garçons
While scouring the stalls and racks at Divisoria and Greenhills for possible components of men's accessories, I stumble upon two surprises that make me wonder how ideas get around or are not actually as original as we think.
This seasoned gentleman, who I sat in front of during public transport, immediately evoked
Jil Sander's Fall 2008 collection
See how uncanny the similarities?
Only used my iPhone, which produced — after Photoshop — Rembrandtesque lighting. Allowed me to pretend I was only texting...
Now although the second gentleman I spotted didn't immediately remind me of any runway outfit, joining these two ensembles from
Comme des Garçons's Fall 2009 show
should do the job.
Of course, eyes were turning in his wake, intent for the kill.
Bosquejo Bauble: Hardware collection
I have just finished my latest piece for my DIY accessories, AKA
Bosquejo Bauble
, and I am still staring at it in awe. Never expected something created from cable connectors and random beads to look this exquisite.
Previous pieces were created using amulets.
Would you wear something that looks like this? Give it your brother, boyfriend, or best friend?
I will be wearing it today over a plain white tee, as I search again for unlikely items from the hardware, and even perhaps some junk shops and other unlikely places.
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Following Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan's television shows, the most recent addition in this list is that of actor Akshay Kumar who is all set to take the world of entertainment by storm. He features in this show called 'Khatron ke Khiladi' which has 13 beauties including Aditi Govitrikar, Yaana Gupta, Sonali Kulkrani, Pooja Bedi, Anita Hassannandani, Tapur Chatterjee, Meghna Naidu, Anjana Sukhani, Diptannita Sharma, Nethra Raghuraman, Vidaya Malvade and Urvashi Sharma along with the actor.
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Whew! I was having flashbacks to when my kitties were sick as I was reading. It's so scary. Go, Chase! I just love blue tabbies!
ReplyDeleteThank God! I was worried there at the end of the post. I hope Chase makes a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteSo good to hear Chase is doing better! I know he is a loved member of your family - and it is always difficult when family have health problems.
ReplyDeleteOh thank goodness! We had emergency stomach surgery on Claude when he was a kitten for a suspected blockage. They didn't find anything, and decided he had IBS. After that we put him on I/D food and he did much better!
ReplyDeletePoor Chase Bird. I'm so sorry he's been ill. I hope he's on the road to recovery now. My thoughts are with him. (That name is too funny. Love it!)
ReplyDeleteOh the beautiful love of you and larry nursing him back. It touched me so much and the triumphant way Larry told you. It was like a made for TV movie. I am actually crying!
ReplyDeletePraise the Lord! I was so scared this wouldn't end well. Bless Larry; he's a gem! May Chase recover speedily. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, so glad he is doing better!! It's so scary when our fur babies are sick. Give him a hug for me. : )
ReplyDeleteYou and Larry are a good mom and dad to your kitties. Do you have any idea why he would get sick like that? Do cats get the flu like humans? Our dog used to get sick occasionally, throw up and then not eat for a few days and I would get so scared. Glad your little Chase is doing well.
ReplyDeleteSo pleased Chase is getting better Tina. Our kitty had a similar episode, and the vet suspected that she did eat from a poisonous plant or so. But it's so heartbreaking to see them suffer without them being able to tell you what they feel.


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I love the symmetry of all the architectural elements on this carriage house, don't you. It's absolute perfection.
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what i love is the idea of a carriage house! this photo is very audrey hepburn in sebrina. :)
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I do love the carriage house! Looks like cedar shingles which is something else I am in love with!
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pleases my Libra sense of balance....I also like the idea of having a carriage house....
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Pistons Halftime Piece - Playoff Mindset From the short halftime bit that ABC ran on the Pistons, during the Sunday April 9th game against the Pacers. Looks like the media has finally figured out a method to "sell" the Pistons. Great guys, family, determined, underdogs. Basically what the franchise has stood for over the last 3 years, nothing new to those of us following the "D" relentlessly. Here are some great quotes from the piece. We're a nose to the grind stone kind of club and you better be willing to lay it out there on the floor. -Tom Wilson We all have each other's back. And we all love each other not just on but off the floor too. -Rip Hamilton I think we want it more than anybody right now. -Ben Wallace When you make it all the way, play to the last final game, and you don't get the win... this year we are on a mission. -Rip Hamilton Everyone in this business knows, that it's not a "given" every year, that you're going to be in a position to win a championship, so when you have a team that's good enough to win a championship, the urgency is to get it done. -Joe Dumars
Great vid, Micro. Thanks for posting it. I've got a technical question though. How come every time I try to play a video with Windows media player or even any other player for that matter, they just play choppy, skip over parts and just basically look like crap? Any thoughts, or ideas how to fix it?
Tips Download and play from your local computer. This website is not setup to properly stream video at a fast enough speed. Change the video size to 50%. I find this fixes resolution problems. Make sure you don't have a lot of other stuff running. Playing video beats the crap out of older computers.
Great piece, it realy tells the tale of the Pistons. Nice to have on media format to see. Great job Micro you be gettin it done!
Thanks for the tips. But nothing seems to help. No matter what video I try to play it just basically plays in slow motion, and the audio looks like watching an old karate movie where the audio doesn't match the movement of the folks mouths. I have plenty of RAM (almost 1 GB), so I know that's not the problem. I'm almost positive that I don't have any spy ware or a virus, so really I'm just at a loss. The problem really just started up, I would say, about 2-3 weeks ago. You, or anyone else for that matter, wouldn't happen to have any other ideas would ya? :fingerscr
Zoso, I had some trouble about 6 or 7 months ago with alot of vids so my buddy told me to download the newest divx player. No problems since. here is a link http://www.divx.com/divx/ another thing you can try is is downloading ac3filter it helps with audio problems somtimes here is a link http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AC3_Filter.htm
Thanks a lot for the suggestions, Abe. When I went to update my Divx player, during the update process I got this error message; "The ordinal 2250 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll." So now my Divx player doesn't work at all (although it worked just fine before I tried to update it). Whenever I try to start the player now that error message pops up and the player doesn't load. I searched the Internet as well as the Divx web site to see if I could find anything pertaining to that particular message, but I came up empty. Man, I really am at a loss. But thanks again for the tips.


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Well said. Camby may be 38 years of age, but that still doesn't change the fact that he's still a great defensive center and can board off the glass with the best of them. Averaged 9.0 Rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game during 22.9 minutes per game last year. He'll create for an excellent defensive minded Center to last year Defensive Player of the Year in Tyson Chandler. It'll be nice throwing out Camby for 18-21 minutes on a nightly basis in order to spell Tyson Chandler down low.
Lets not forget, Camby averaged 22.9 minutes, 9 boards and 1.4 blocks per game during a shortened season where the schedule featured many back to back and/or back, to back, to back games. That won't be the case this year.
The Knicks still have the salary to A.) Match Jeremy Lin (which is a given) and B.) Sign both Fields and Jeffries. We've already signed J.R Smith for another year while extending Novak long term.
This has been a great offseason. Harrellson and Douglas wouldn't have been able to help us 'win now'. Both Kidd and Camby have the ability to do so.
Before getting early bird rights, it seemed impossible to sign Lin long term without the losing of Novak and J.R Smith. Now, we're on the verge of signing Lin long term, signing J.R Smith and Novak while still being able to bring in vets such as Camby and Kidd. That's outstanding. This COULD be our roster next season...
C: Tyson Chandler / Marcus Camby.
PF: Amare Stoudemire / Jared Jeffries.
SF: Carmelo Anthony / James White
2G: Iman Shumpert / J.R Smith
PG: Jeremy Lin / Jason Kidd.
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Corvus Species: monedula
The jackdaw or daw is a european corvid, a close relative of the crows and jays. Like them, it is a rather intelligent bird that can learn to talk and that likes to steal shiny things.
Jackdaws are 13" (33cm) long, one of the smallest corvids. They are black with gray eyes; adults have gray patches on their neck and cheeks. Their range spans across Europe, from the Middle East into England, and east to India and Siberia. They live in wooded habitats, pastures, cities, and everything in between. They are omnivorous, eating insects, seeds, and people food.
Jackdaws are one of the very few so-called "monogamous" birds that actually are monogamous. They become "engaged" at the age of about six months, begin to breed at the age of two, and actually mate for life. In the wild their lifespan is about 18 years; in captivity, more like 30.
Jackdaw pairs socialize with other jackdaws and also often with their congeners, rooks. The pairs stay with each other within the flock, and tend to nest near other pairs.
The pair, being cavity breeders, defend a nest site in a cliff, tree, or building; in Europe they sometimes clog chimneys with their dense nests made of sticks. In early spring the male and female build the nest together. After the eggs are laid, the female incubates the eggs and the male brings food for her.
Its call has been described as "tchak-tchak" or "kyack".
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Had the pleasure to use my friend's TG334 today!
It is just AWESOME! Way better than the K3003 for Jpop and heavy metal IMO
I also used it with my Rx MK3-b, didn't find much of a difference, in fact, I felt that the right ear was more dominant than the left on the Mk3-b, did anyone have any similar experiences?
PS:Just noticed that this thing kinda looks ugly.
Yeah, they're definitely not 'lookers'!! Well, the finish is gorgeous, and the mini jacks are clear jeweled miniaturized works of industrial art practically...
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[/IMG] Paint is ugly, but it worked out really well. I used PVC piping from HDepot, cut them to size fitted them with T-connectors and a couple of elbows. Cost less than 16 dollars and works really well. I used some old grips and taped them a long the top so the racquets wouldn't torque and drop.
what a great and well-timed post. i was just thinking about how to organize my racquetsall 500+ of them
post up the instructions/dimensions. Looks like 1 inch pipe? I'll huff some pvc glue, no problem. looks nice and easy enough, but is there anything you might change?
Thanks.. Yes it was 1 inch pvc. Anything I would change? after completion, I was thinking I could put another layer to create a shelf of sorts.. maybe for strings, accessories. you could put a shelf board on.l Yeah, the one thing that had a problem was the racquets torquing, but I kind of solved that with the grips across the top. It had enough tackiness to stop the racquet from sliding. My other thought was to have the top bars a series of 'T" fittings accross it down the length of the holder, there by having a natural stop of Torquing. I kind of dismissed that as I wanted the racquet to be able to slide. But thanks.. appreciate the input. I have a lot of tennis shoes.. I thought this would be a perfect idea for your tennis shoe.. shoe rack.
you could cut notches into the top PVC rails to stop the torquing/sliding. each racquet would have a 'slot'. obviously with this method, you wouldn't be able to freely slide the racquets back and forth.
For various styles of rackets and for long term storage, I'd stick with some sort of 'padding'. Care should be taken not to use anything that will 'stick' to the rackets(if the rackets will be stored long-term, especially). On wood models, for example, a sticky material might grab the trim strings wrapped around the hoop or could actually pull off the lacquer finish. It's less important on metal or graphite rackets or for short term storage, but still a consideration. Some sort of felt would cushion the frames, eliminate sticking and still allow the rackets to slide a bit when needed. lwto, nice job. Would be great if you had a 'free' source of some of the lengths(scraps, leftovers, etc). Any plumbers in the family or neighborhood?
Well thanks. The material I think cost less than 15 dollars I think so it wouldn't put you out much. I just got like 8 pieces of pre cut 3' tubbing a bag of t's and elbows. I didn't even glue it. you will notice if you look carefully, the base width is probably about and inch and a half wider than the top. I used the same cut outs for the cross pieces but just jammed the top cross holds into the elbows further.
Here is thread on this subject. Too bad the pictures have been taken down. http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?p=3542890#post3542890 I've always wanted a folding racket stand with a Babolat logo, but they won't sell me one. According to the Babolat Rep, they only give them to account holder clients.
I met a guy that had about 500 classic rackets. They were stuffed in all kinds of drawers and hanging about in his garage.
It's like a folding TV tray table without the top. I've seen them at a couple of tennis shops. They have Babolat, Head and Wilson logos, but all built the same. If I run into a picture of one, I'll post it.
For padding, use pipe insulation. It's tube-shaped, and has a slit up one side so it fits around a pipe. It's easy to cut to length too.
Bump. I'd like to make a racquet holder myself. Any one else have other ideas? I was thinking of making one that resembles a bike rack where each racquet has its spot (w/ handle pointing up).
Nice rack :lol: With how expensive racquets are, I don't see how people can have so many racquets. 500+? crazy.
I took a keyboard stand that wasn't being used and converted it as a racket holder. The only problem is that the bars are kind of short. And yes, pipe insulation will go on it; realized it after I took the picture. Without the pipe insulation, the rackets do slight around with the slightest bump and will likely fall off. You can purchase any keyboard stand online or at your local music supply store like M USIC I A N's FRIE ND and GUI TAR CEN TER between $10-$40. Sometimes they have used ones for sale too.
i built one out of pvc pipe and prettied it up one time. then i junked it and made a "pegboard" to hang a few rows of sticks. off the floor and they don't fall off.


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The bones of Renaissance master Caravaggio went on public display for the first time on Sunday in this Tuscan port after lying in an unmarked grave nearby for four centuries.
The remains, contained in a crystal urn, arrived in Porto Ercole by boat on Saturday, in a symbolic re-enactment of the voyage which first brought the troubled Lombardy-born painter to Tuscany in the late 16th century.
"I'm happy that he's returned and to be able to give him the burial-place he deserved," said Silvano Vinceti, head of Italy's National Committee for Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, at an official ceremony.
He said the painter's final resting place would "probably" be in his native town of Caravaggio, near Milan.
The urn will be on display for a month in the local Forte Stella alongside a photographic exhibition recounting the stages of a year-long investigation by microbiologists, art historians and anthropologists to determine the bones' identity.
The bones had been kept in a church ossuary in Porto Ercole after being exhumed from an unmarked grave in a local cemetery in 1956.
The team said they were 85 percent certain that the set of bones of a man who died in about 1610, aged between 38 and 40, were of the painter.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was said to have died of malaria in the marshy southern Tuscan region of Maremma in 1610 when not yet 40.
The scientists said their examination of the bones also suggested the artist suffered from syphilis, lead poisoning and sunstroke.
The artist, who revolutionised painting with his "chiaro-scuro" technique - the contrast of shadow and light - is celebrated for works including "Bacchus", "The Supper at Emmaus" and "Sacrifice of Isaac".
Caravaggio's subjects ranged from gambling to biblical episodes, but also illustrated his own turbulent life.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio arrived in Rome poor, then won fame and recognition before suddenly having to leave the city in 1606 after he was involved in a tavern brawl that left a man dead.
Nearly 600,000 people visited an extensive exhibition honouring the quadricentenary of Caravaggio's death that closed in Rome at the weekend.


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May 4, 2006 at 11:21 pm #1218501
Any one has any idea where to get good quality rubber resoling sheets and shoe forms or molds
I have a few projects that need resoling and I want to make some UL moccasins and I need go find a place to get it, I did a google search but no luck.Thanks.
May 5, 2006 at 5:43 am #1355933I've always heard a lot of good things about this guy Dave Page, cobbler. I'm not sure if he sells parts, but you could probably get some good leads from them about sourcing.
-MarkSep 5, 2006 at 2:43 pm #1362433Many shoe repair shops have foam sole material like the soles on HushPuppies in sheets. It's light, protective and durable.
Sep 6, 2006 at 9:06 am #13625035.10 sells resoling kits. They have soles for their approach shoes with the "dot" pattern. Its a good lightweight, low impact, tread pattern. Probably not much use in soupy mud, but I like it for my location (CO Rockies)
Sep 6, 2006 at 10:58 am #1362507JR,
I agree that the 5.10 "dot" sole material is nice ETC but it is not light. I have two pieces of the "dot" sole. It is 6″ by 14″ and one piece weighs 7.3oz. The dots are 1 cm or about 3/8″ diameter.It might be the lightest sole material with a pattern on it that a MYOG person might be able to buy.
I have looked for something lighter and haven't found anything that I like.
Sep 6, 2006 at 2:34 pm #1362522Well, if its the lightest out there for the DIYer, I guess it'll just have to do ;) Its still about 5 lbs lighter than the lightest Vibram replacment sole.
At that weight, in that size, I bet if it was trimmed down to a size 9.5 (the average American foot size, or so Ive been told), that 7.3oz should trim down to 3 or 4oz per foot. Not too shabby if you can come up with a light upper. Maybe no-see-um with some grosgrain for reenforcment?
Apr 21, 2008 at 9:06 am #1429324I tried some of their approach shoes in the 90s. The rubber tended to pick up a lot of dust and slip. Most noticeable on slick floors. Great for scrambling, but rock tends to clean out climbing rubber. Also, bouldering pads work like doormats. Maybe they have improved?
Apr 26, 2008 at 8:37 am #1430285I am putting in another plug for Dave Page, a local treasure here in Seattle. I don't know if he will sell you materials, but besides the fact that he and his brother do GREAT work on repairing and modifying whatever footwear your sport requires, he's the go-to-guy for answers and ideas- he's also a walking movie trivia encyclopedia!
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http://www.davepagecobbler.com/May 7, 2008 at 12:42 pm #1432054You might look at inexpensive flip-flops in appropriate patterns and same-depth thickness. The soles glue very well to wood and various plastics with Gorilla glue and various two-part epoxies. I don't know why they would not glue to any number of fabics or leather.
How do I know this? I use constant-thickness flip-flop soles for ultra-lightweight rifle recoil pads. Hey, there's a big weight difference between a 4- or 5-ounce commercial and a half-ounce one that works just as well. Big cost difference, too: $3 (for two soles) vs. $29 for one Sorbothane pad. -
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As a person said before, if Valve have to shut down Steam, they will issue a patch that allows you keep playing your games.
Hmm.. that seems odd. Is it possible something's updating very slowly that you don't know about? (check your download tab in Steam). I have 0 ping difference with Steam on or off. It's a passive service which SENDS you information when something happens - it doesn't even have a PING/PONG relationship with its own servers (Steam doesn't know when it's disconnected from the internet until you try to do something - it really doesn't check at all), so unless you have 5000 friends on Steam constantly "doing stuff" causing the servers to send you a constant stream of data, or a game updating, there should be virtually no impact anywhere else.
Oh - also, if your computer isn't up to it, it could certainly cause bottlenecks in your CPU, which translate to ping issues (and other things, but ping is easily discernible more than say, buffer rewrites :P). If you're running a dual-core or lower, I'd certainly recommend not running Steam at the same time as anything else. Steam can easily chew through a chunk of processor time on slower systems. The newer version of Steam uses about 10x as much passive memory as the old version did, though it's still not much even for - say, a dualcore with 4gig RAM shouldn't notice it.
Also, in relation to a later post - you can play plenty of online games in offline mode. They just have to not be games using Steam's DRM as their online authentication. Many don't, and use traditional CD keys, or even accounts (most new EA games) for this - they'll still work online in offline mode. Only a limited number of entirely SteamWorks based games won't work in offline mode. And should Steam ever shut down - a SteamWorks DRM revocation/emulation tool will likely be released in short order. (per my previous post - they've already tested such a tool and know it works, but make no guarantees they'd release such - as it depends on what agreements they have with individual publishers - particularly those using Steam as the only DRM for their game).


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Hugh Pickens writes: "Ars Technica reports that with the release of the "near-final" ACTA text (PDF), it is becoming clear that the US has caved on the most egregious provisions from earlier draftss advocating "three strikes" regimes, ordering ISPs to develop anti-piracy plans, promoting tough DRM anticircumvention language, setting up a "takedown" notification system, ordering "secondary liability" for device makers, and have largely failed in their attempts to push the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) onto the rest of the world. Apparently, a face-saving agreement is better than no agreement at all—but even the neutered ACTA could run into problems with Mexico's Senate recently approving a nonbinding resolution asking for the country to suspend participation in ACTA, while key members of the European Parliament have also expressed skepticism about the deal. "One of the biggest stories over the three year negotiation of ACTA has been the willingness of the US to cave on the Internet provisions," says Canadian law professor Michael Geist. "Taken together, the Internet chapter must be seen as failure by the US, which clearly envisioned using ACTA to export its DMCA-style approach." With no more negotiating sessions scheduled, this is close to a final draft, and something like it will probably be adopted unless countries start pulling out of the agreement altogether."


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Screwing Up is What Kids Do, So Spare TCU QB Casey Pachall Your Self-Righteous Hypocrisy
Hey, by any chance did you catch Dale Hansen last night on Channel 8 talking about that poor kid at TCU who got kicked off the football team for misbehavior? Man, I'm telling you: sometimes Hansen is my mullah.
He was talking about somebody who had written him saying we should pass a law that any kid convicted of "moral turpitude" should be banned from college sports and lose all scholarship support for life. Hansen, the Channel 8 guru of sports for the last 29 years, basically told people who think like that to go to hell.
"I don't want to be judged by the choices I made when I was 21," Hansen said last night, "and I'm not real comfortable being judged by the choices I made at 61."
He is a sportscaster, of course. But then, look: when Hansen is on the money, he is on the damn money, and on nights like last night Dale Hansen is my main man, whether he wants to be or not.
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It was a report, not an indictment, not a formal charge of any kind, certainly not a conviction. But the emergence of the report meant that even before he got popped for drunk driving Pachall was already in the middle of a big public relations disaster for his school, Texas Christian University.
The larger drug scandal at TCU last February was areal deal, and it did involve the football team, some of whom have been tried and sentenced. It was good police work, and the Fort Worth Police Department deserves kudos.
But in the aftermath of the drug revelations and Pachall's more recent arrest, we have seen a virtual shit-storm of stupefying hypocrisy about Christians, booze and drugs. The Dallas Morning News recently ran a story under a headline, "Quarterback's arrest is latest blow to Christian TCU's image."
What image? Did somebody think being Christian kept people from drinking and doing drugs? I hung out at enough Irish bars as a young man to have come away with exactly the opposite impression. I always remember comedian David Steinberg's joke on the Carson show 100 years ago: he told Carson his father had taught him that Christians were normally well-meaning people who sometimes sold their children for whisky.
But I go too far, as usual. Hansen wasn't with me on any of that. He didn't say a word about Christians. He said, "It's incredibly frustrating to send a kid to school with a chance to play the games that we all dream about playing and then watch that kid waste the opportunity he has because he breaks the rules.
"But that's what kids do; they break the rules. They make some incredibly bad choices. I did, and I'm betting you did, too."
Oh, yeah. Let's not even go there. Earlier, talking about drunk driving, he used that phrase, "There but for the grace of God ..." That one always gives me the willies. Last night I wanted to whisper to my TV set, "Dale, would you mind lowering your voice?"
Grace, indeed. I'm still hoping he was on vacation.
The Dallas Morning News has a story this morning about a guy running for sheriff who wants to cut back the meals in the jail from three a day to two and not let the prisoners watch sports on TV. Being locked up in Lew Sterrett is already so miserable, such a living hell, why would somebody think he could get votes by promising to make it even meaner?
It's because he's one of the Real Haters - the people who think they can make themselves more virtuous (and probably richer) by hating and tormenting anybody who fails to live up to their own supposedly pristine moral code. They really are the American Taliban.
Last night Hansen talked about people who want to impose their own definition of moral turpitude on everybody else. He said, "I don't want to live in that country."
Yeah, me either, Dale. I'm with you. I do not want people to drink and drive. I do want to encourage kids not to engage in self-destructive behavior. But I know what world I live in.
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Michelle KaskeNew York's Suffolk County, home of the Hamptons beach towns, was short $722.65 on April 15 on an interest payment for its municipal bonds because of a clerical mistake rectified one day later.
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co., escrow agent for the county, accidentally neglected to make the full payment. It completed the entire $1.15 million payment on April 16, according to a securities filing.
Suffolk delivered the money on time, yet the trustee missed the payment, said Richard Tortora, president of Capital Markets Advisors LLC, which works with the county on its finances. The company has offices in Great Neck, New York.
"M&T had the money when they needed it," Tortora said in an interview. "They had the schedule, but through some kind of administrative glitch on their part, M&T missed it, which is shocking. But it happened, unfortunately."
The county's median household income from 2007 through 2011 was $87,187, compared with the U.S. median of $52,762, according to U.S. Census data.
"We have contacted the comptroller's office to apologize for our error, we have taken immediate steps to determine its cause and we will ensure that it never happens again," Michael Zabel, spokesman for Buffalo, New York-based M&T, said via e-mail.
Fitch Ratings last month cut the county's $1.4 billion of general-obligation bonds one level to A, sixth-highest, because of budget deficits and concern about the county's ability to attain stable financial operations, Karen Wagner, a Fitch analyst, wrote in a March 25 report. The outlook is negative.
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Julian Barnes may once have denounced the Man Booker Prize as "posh bingo" but he had no qualms about accepting its £50,000 jackpot yesterday, after three unsuccessful attempts to claim the most prestigious award in British fiction.
The judges took just 31 minutes to decide on the 65-year-old author – the bookies' favourite – a call likely to appease the prize's critics, who this year have damned it for apparently favouring "readability" over high-quality work.
"We thought it was a book that, though short, was incredibly concentrated and crammed into this space a great deal of information which we don't get on the first reading," said judging chair Dame Stella Rimington. "One of the things the book does is talk about the human kind." She added that it "has the markings of a classic of English literature", saying it was "exquisitely written" and "subtly plotted".
It is Barnes's 11th novel, and tells the story of Tony Webster – an ageing, somewhat unreliable narrator – who is forced to recall the circumstances surrounding a school friend's suicide. As the book progresses Tony is reunited with a former girlfriend, who prompts him to remember long-forgotten details from his twenties. The narrative, rich in metaphor regarding the reversal of time and brooding in its consideration of death, concludes with a twist.
The book is Barnes's first novel for six years, and the first since the 2008 death of his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, to whom it is dedicated.
Some critics have questioned whether it is Barnes's best work, with The Independent's review saying its inclusion on the Booker shortlist was "open to debate". Equally, the news comes after controversy surrounding the judges' citation of "readability" as a key reason for inclusion on the shortlist. Former poet laureate Andrew Motion said earlier this week that this "opens up a completely false divide between what is high end and what is readable, as if they are somehow in opposition to one other, which is patently not true".
Regarding the row, Dame Stella said yesterday: "We were talking about readability and quality. We were always looking for quality as well. You can have more than one adjective when talking about books." She added that she had gone through "many crises" in her long life, against which the Booker row did not really compare.
Despite gripes within the literary community, 2011 has had the best-selling shortlist in the prize's history, with sales up 127 per cent year-on-year. The winning novel, at 150 pages one of the briefest to have ever won, will be greeted warmly by consumers. However the accolade of "shortest-ever winner" goes to Penelope Fitzgerald's 141-page work Offshore, which won in 1979.
The other shortlisted books were Carol Birch's Jamrach's Menagerie, a picaresque tale of a young boy hunting for a Komodo dragon; AD Miller's thriller set in Russia, Snowdrops; Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English, which enters the mind of an 11-year-old Ghanaian who sees the dead body of a friend; Patrick deWitt's Western The Sisters Brothers; and Esi Edugyan's tale of a jazz band in war-time Paris and Berlin, Half Blood Blues.
Barnes was previously shortlisted for Arthur and George (2005), England, England (1998) and Flaubert's Parrot (1984). The other judges were authors Susan Hill and Chris Mullin, and journalists Matthew d'Ancona and Gaby Wood.
Extract: Barnes's prize-winning novel
I'm retired now. I have a flat with my possessions. I keep up with a few drinking pals and have some women friends – platonic, of course. (And they're not part of the story either.) I'm a member of the local history society, though less excited than some about what metal detectors unearth. A while ago, I volunteered to run the library at the local hospital; I go round the wards delivering, collecting, recommending. It gets me out and it's good to do something useful; also, I meet some new people. Sick people, of course; dying people as well. But at least I shall know my way around the hospital when my turn comes.
And that's life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments... Maybe in a way, Adrian knew what he was doing. Not that I would have missed my own life for anything, you understand.
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