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Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas
At this time of year we can lose track of what its all about. I almost lost sight of this last year. Life is busy and December can be even busier and in the running around and shopping and wrapping and preparing and last Christmas, well, I wasn't all bah hambug but I certainly felt worn down by it all. I enjoyed the day, its impossible not to when you have three little ones, but the leadup was an unpleasant grind.
This year is no less busy, if anything its busier. Jenn has taken on new responsibilities at work which have squeezed things even tighter when it comes to time and sometimes it seems like there's no moment to breathe. Except ...
I don't know if its the fact that I am getting older(turned 45 last week) but I think it is. I'm not 'old' by any stretch but I'm aware that I am now closer to 50 than to 40, if only by days (and how the fuck did that happen?) and I'm quite aware of, what is it, my own mortality? Sounds crazy and don't get me wrong, I'm not thinking of buying a Porsche (not that I could afford one) or having an affair with a neighbour (who has the time!?) nor for that matter am I sitting by the window looking at the moon thinking maudlin thoughts. I'm just ... aware of it.
I've always enjoyed myself. I've always enjoyed the moment. It just seems that these days I've gotten a tighter grasp on this idea. Call it wisdom. Call is desperation ;) But things are good. They've always been good but they're even better now. The white noise, the grind, the little nags, these are all fading into the background, as they should.
And so this Christmas season, despite the grind, has been a wonderful one, filled with parties, food and drink, laughing with friends, playing hockey, having a grand time. The kids are beside themselves with excitement at what comes tomorrow and I'm a lucky lucky man to have three healthy young ones.
For those of you who drop by here now and then I want to wish you the merriest of Christmases. Celebrate! Eat, drink, spend time with your family and your friends. Laugh.
The very best of the season to you all.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Glory Twice Over
Hey there how are you doing, well that's great, glad to hear, yeah I'm doing well thanks for asking.
Its been a hectic few weeks here, after that quick spurt (heh) of activity in November I thought I was getting back on that blogging horse but as always life has gotten busy and so the old interweb blogsite has had to take a backseat. I have next week off though so maybe I'll write up a few. If I'm not too drunk.
When last we checked on our greying balding gut ever expanding loveable losers at Capsule things had been riding a wave made up of the blood of their vanquished opponents. We were firmly ensconced in the top four of our beer league division. Two of the teams below us had picked up some new players which had boosted their fortunes so these were early days but things were going well going into a four game stretch which included games against the top two teams as well as doubleheader against a club which had gone from getting smoked every game to suddenly beating everyone in sight thanks to the addition of a couple of guys who were ripping it up.
So a test of whether we were for real or not or if this was going to be another mediocre season in a history of mediocre seasons.
After two games we were failing. Not terribly, both games could have gone either way. We lost to the up and comers on a standout performance by their goaltender and then we lost to the first place team, undefeated so far, on an outstanding effort by one of their guys out of nowhere with just minutes left ended up being the winner.
Still two losses are two losses and one of our top Dmen gone for the next two games. Two more lossed and we'd be at .500. Mediocrity thy name is Capsule.
First we had our rematch at the revamped Maple Leaf Gardens two weeks ago. We came out slowly and ninety seconds in we were somehow down two. We dragged ourself back to a tie only to watch them pot two more thanks to great individual efforts by their big guns.
So with seven minutes we were staring at a third straight loss and being a single game over .500.
And then our best player, who had scored once already, took over. He's the youngest guy on our team, an absolute horse, a Hossa type, big and strong and overpowering. He brought us within one and then with a few minutes left he tied it up and it looked like we would at least get a point.
And then with less than a minute left a flurry from them, a shot hit our goalie high and popped up in the air and behind him, teetering on the goalline while our keeper went down, swimming like a madman and our two D tried to clear the puck while boxing out their frantic forwards flailing madly at the victory just inches away. One of our guys chipped it into the corner, averting disaster. In the ensuing battle his partner came away with the puck and wheeled behind the net and as he did our centre sped out of the zone, heading up the left wing. Hard up the boards and onto his stick and down his off wing your man roared, a defenceman backpedalling furiously before him.
The wrister, the goalie screened, the puck in the net, seventeen seconds left.
A month ago or so we had scored to take a lead with a minute left and seconds later we had lost it and so I admonished one of our D to make sure (we had both been in the ice for that failure), he smirked and moments later we had broken up their last thrust before it entered our zone and he sent the puck the length of the ice into the empty net.
After the game the chatter was hyper, grown men happy as boys, the hero saying this past weekend that that night when he went out he had immediately told the story to his companions, one of whom he had never met, thinking halfway through 'what the hell am I doing?' and then continuing:
So tonight we were playing at Maple Leaf Gardens ....
A week later, this past weekend now, and we were facing the second place team. Our only meeting this season had ended in a 0-0 tie when an unfortunate accident ended the game prematurely.
A win and we're two points out of second. A loss and we might not catch them.
We scored early and so the game stayed for the longest time as things slowly got uglier and uglier. Their best player is the biggest man I have ever played, at one point after I was pushed into the boards and I got up in a rage he stood between my assailant (who was sincerely apologetic) and I and the sun was blotted out as I stared at his ribcage smouldering. He threw two of our men down in separate incidents but when one of our guys held his ground (although admittedly dropping his shoulder when the collision came) he charged over shouting about body contact.
Yeah it was one of those. A player from each team tossed and barking from both teams and otherwise a pretty good game as they tied it midway through the last period.
And then a minute thirty nine left somehow a man left out front and the puck behind our goalie and the centreman, the most laconic guy on our club, who meets every jibe and poke with a quiet shrug (he has two teenage daughters so maybe its just exhaustion?) and has never raised his voice or stick in anger, smashed his Sherwood over the crossbar in a rage. Our opponents celebrated as if they had just won the Cup.
As I readied myself for the draw the ref admonished us 'ok now lets try and play this last 1:39 like gentlemen alright'.
Our best player, sucking wind, lugged the puck through the neutral zone, barrelling through hooks and slashes and getting it deep. Their big man fired it high and hard up the left side but our blue gloved it down and fired it back in as our goalie raced to the bench. They rung it around the other way but there was no winger and so our left D picked it off and with time straddled the line, easing into a lane and wafting a high wrister. After the game he laughed that it was going three feet wide but what happened is it hit one of us in front of the net in the shoulder and bounced into the net as we shouted.
Back to centre and this time they gained our blueline and suddenly their big man activated, charging into our zone, calling for it. For the majority of the game they had been looking to get it on his stick and now he rushed in, looking to end it, and their winger telegraphed it all the way and floated it into the middle of our zone, behind buddy, off our winger's stick, past their Dman who had just collided with said winger and fallen.
And the puck skittered out into the neutral zone and Ben (our big winger), exhausted, pounced on it and raced the other way with their centre in pursuit. The length of the ice they charged and Ben went backhand and the keeper sprawled to stop him and did so but our other winger, who had scored the equalizer moments before, picked up the loose puck and flicked a backhand over the fallen goalie into the top corner. As he turned he gave me a sardonic smirk as I leapt into his arms roaring. (He later said he thought I was rubbing it as revenge for their own celebration. The reality is I'm just a goof who needs a life ;) )
And so Capsule sits pretty now, halfway done, 7-3-1, lofty heights we haven't seen in years.
Glory days for these oldtimers. *rubs gut, drinks*
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Kansas City Southern: I Want My Duopoly
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As if Kansas City Southern (KSU) didn't have enough problems, you can now add Mexican-rail regulation to the list.
Through Friday's close, Kansas City Southern had dropped 23% this year, lagging Norfolk Southern's (NSC) 0.6% rise, Union Pacific's (UNP) 7.2% gain, CSX Corp's (CSX) 4.3% decline and Genesee & Wyoming's (GWR) 0.2% dip. That's in large part due to Kansas City Southern's first-quarter earnings outlook released last month--the railroad operator said that its profits would grow at a mid-teen percent clip in 2014, below forecasts for 26% growth.
Now investors have another reason to sell Kansas City Southern: Mexican legislation that would break its near duopoly on the rails. That fact is enough to make JPMorgan'sThomas Wadewitz and team slash their rating on Kansas City Southern. They explain why:
We are lowering our rating on [Kansas City Southern] from Overweight to Neutral due entirely to our concern that there is a meaningful probability that new rail legislation in Mexico could become law. While such a law would be challenged by [Kansas City Southern] and other railroads, it ultimately could translate to less pricing opportunity in Mexico. The near term impact to [Kansas City Southern] stock would likely come in the form of lower valuation as visibility to the EPS impact might be unclear for several years. While we still believe that [Kansas City Southern] has an attractive multi-year volume growth story, from a risk management perspective we can no longer justify recommending the stock in light of the risk from potential new rail legislation in Mexico.
Shares of Kansas City have dropped 6.4% to $89.82 today at 10:59 a.m. And while Mexico shouldn't be an issue for Kansas City Southern's competitors n the US, Norfolk Southern has fallen 2% to $90.97, Union Pacific has declined 1.3% to $177.78, CSX Corp has dropped 1% to $27.26 and Genesee & Wyoming is off 1.5% at $94.38.


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You'll be hearing from the staff at Food52 every week in Too Many Cooks, our group column in which we pool our answers to questions about food, cooking, life, and more.
Now that we've had our fun with citrus, we can no longer procrastinate. There's no way around it anymore -- it's the season of giving. If you know someone like us (and chances are you probably do), you know that when the weather turns cold and the holiday decorations beckon, you start receiving mason jars with bows, tins of cookies, and everything else, so long as it's homemade, edible, and in a pretty package. (And we hope you like them.) Maybe you're looking to branch out this year (fruitcake be damned), and if you are, you might find some inspiration this week. We're answering the question:
What's your favorite edible gift (to give, or to receive)?
Amanda: Other than a full Iberico ham leg? I like unusual jams -- like the time Merrill gave me a jar of Maine blueberry jam! -- and things like homemade limoncello. Friends often send a box of Meyer lemons; I love these friends forever.
Stephanie: It won't surprise anyone, but I love giving and receiving all manner of sweet things. Now that we live in the same city again, my roommate from university and I are reinstating our annual cookie party this year.
Christina: Love getting a loaf of my grandmother's panettone. I like making Union Square Cafe's Rosemary Roasted Nuts.
Merrill: These tend to be popular -- just make sure they don't get too warm during transport!
Brette: I love receiving things that keep for a while, like jams or preserves -- things that will last past the holiday season. And I like giving loaf cakes and boozy things, like the boozy cherries that Jennifer inspired me to make this summer, or little jars/bottles of infused alcohols.
Hally: My parents always put a jar of pickles in my stocking, since I really liked pickles as a kid (and still do, but that's where it started).
Marian: I like giving granola and homemade pumpkin butter -- things that are festive and sweet-but-not-too-sweet.
Jennifer: Every Christmas my father-in-law gives us a jar of cherries soaked in grappa.
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James: My most memorable edible gift (besides the sardines in tomato sauce that my grandma gave me every Christmas) was a pastry wreath that a friend made me when I was in high school one Christmas. Maybe I will pay it forward this year…
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Dr.Ido Titan Monday 10/12/2012, 15:49
We have a simple idea that we hope you'll like. Before moving forward on it, we'd like to know what you think.
Nowadays, we give away Collectors through the DT and the ELO tournament. We'd like to put 5 collector on the auction everyday, with a price starting at 1 clintz and no reserve price.
This way, the price of the Cr (especially of the top 5) would be set by the buyers instead of the sellers.
The number of Collector released in the economy would still be modest (half of what we release through the DT), so the impact on the economy would probably be modest at first.
Hopefully, after a few weeks (months ?) that the prices of the most expensive Cr would start to self regulate and reach more reasonable levels.
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@0 ComeAtMe , it's 5000 , not 50,000
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Sorry for writing 50 000 in post 105/109 here's it again with correct :
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If There Needs To Be An Investigation, It Should Be About Why The FBI Was Reading Certain Emails
from the friendly-fire deptWhile some have noted the irony of General Petreaus being taken down due to online surveillance methods that he should have been aware of, the case is bringing growing attention to an issue many of us have been discussing for a while: how easy it is for law enforcement to snoop through your email. We raised the question already, but as more info comes out, the whole thing is looking that much more questionable.
Julian Sanchez keeps trying to find out exactly what legal process the FBI used to go through a variety of email accounts based on an apparently non-criminal cyberstalking claim (which was apparently brought to the FBI by a non-cyber-focused agent who had seemed to have a crush on the "victim"of the cyberstalking), and notes that there are big questions about what process was used to go through these emails and how much oversight was involved:
To Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, the real scandal over the Petraeus affair is not the extramarital sex, but the invasion of privacy.Meanwhile, Chris Soghoian, working for the ACLU, highlights some of what's been revealed about the snooping. For example, FBI agents tracked down Patricia Broadwell as the email sender, even though she was using throwaway accounts, because webmail providers record the IP address from whence someone logs in -- and Broadwell didn't conceal that info. Apparently, the IP addresses were a series of hotels, and cross-checking with guest lists, it didn't take long to narrow down the only real suspect. Oh, and none of that info required judicial oversight for the FBI to get:
"Law enforcement and certainly intelligence agencies have an incredible amount of ability to gather huge volumes of detailed information about people's most intimate online communications, a lot of it without requiring a full-blown warrant, a lot of it without requiring even any kind of judicial approval," Sanchez said.
The guest lists from hotels, IP login records, as well as the creative request to email providers for "information about other accounts that have logged in from this IP address" are all forms of data that the government can obtain with a subpoena. There is no independent review, no check against abuse, and further, the target of the subpoena will often never learn that the government obtained data (unless charges are filed, or, as in this particular case, government officials eagerly leak details of the investigation to the press). Unfortunately, our existing surveillance laws really only protect the "what" being communicated; the government's powers to determine "who" communicated remain largely unchecked.He also delves into the method by which Petreaus and Broadwell communicated -- by sharing an account and communicating via "drafts" that were saved. For the head of the CIA you'd think he'd use a method that wasn't long known to be just as (if not more) insecure than regular email. Soghoian tears apart this supposedly "secret" method of communicating:
Got all that? It's even more info that the FBI may have been able to obtain without ever having to get approval from a judge. That's not to say they didn't necessarily go before a judge to get a warrant or similar tool for surveillance, but it does highlight just how much info the FBI can obtain without any real oversight, and how it's entirely possible for it to be abused -- taking a very limited situation (non-criminal online harassment) and turning it into something massive.
For more than a decade, a persistent myth in Washington DC, fueled by several counterterrorism experts, has been that it is possible to hide a communications trail by sharing an email inbox, and instead saving emails in a "draft" folder. This technique has been used by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, Richard Reid (the shoe bomber), the 2004 Madrid train bombers, terrorists in Germany, as well as some domestic "eco-terrorists." This technique has appeared in federal court documents as early as 2003, and was described in a law journal article written by a DOJ official in 2004. It is hardly a state secret.
Apparently, this method was also used by General Petraeus. According to the Associated Press, "[r]ather than transmitting emails to the other's inbox, they composed at least some messages and instead of transmitting them, left them in a draft folder or in an electronic 'dropbox,' the official said. Then the other person could log onto the same account and read the draft emails there. This avoids creating an email trail that is easier to trace."
The problem is, like so many other digital security methods employed by terrorists, it doesn't work. Emails saved in a draft folder are stored just like emails in any other folder in a cloud service, and further, the providers can be compelled, prospectively, to save copies of everything (so that deleting the messages after reading them won't actually stop investigators from getting a copy).
Ironically enough, by storing emails in a draft folder, rather than an inbox, individuals may be making it even easier for the government to intercept their communications. This is because the Department of Justice has argued that emails in the "draft" or "sent mail" folder are not in "electronic storage" (as defined by the Stored Communications Act), and thus not deserving of warrant protection. Instead, the government has argued it should be able to get such messages with a mere subpoena.
In fact, as the EFF's Trevor Timm notes, we should be investigating the FBI over why it was snooping through people's emails and how frequently it does this. He notes, as others have, that nothing about the origination of this case should have resulted in FBI involvement, let alone reading people's emails. Remember, early on, no one knew this had anything to do with General Petreaus or any other high ranking official:
Basically, it sounds like the FBI had very questionable reasons for digging all that deep into this case at all. Michael Davis, at the Daily Beast, notes that the emails were typical "cat-fight stuff," with no indication of illegal activity:
The spark that set events in motion was a handful of allegedly harassing emails sent anonymously to Kelley, a friend of Petraeus's, which she brought to a friend at the FBI. Yet it's unclear why an investigation was ever opened, given that everything publicly known about the emails suggests they weren't illegal.
As the Daily Beast reported, they said things like "Who do you think you are? ... You parade around the base ... You need to take it down a notch." The story noted, "when the FBI friend showed the emails to the cyber squad in the Tampa field office, her fellow agents noted that the absence of any overt threats."
It seems the deciding factor in opening the investigation was not the emails' content, but the fact that the FBI agent was friendly with Kelley. (Even more disturbing, the same FBI agent has now been accused of becoming "obsessed" with the Tampa socialite, sent shirtless pictures to her, and has been removed from the case.)
When the FBI friend showed the emails to the cyber squad in the Tampa field office, her fellow agents noted that the absence of any overt threats.So while there's all sorts of talk of investigations into who should have known the details of what was going on at what time, no one seems to be questioning why a simple "cat fight" resulted in the FBI digging in and reading people's emails. Yet, that seems like something we should all be quite worried about.
"No, 'I'll kill you' or 'I'll burn your house down,'" the source says. "It doesn't seem really that bad."
The squad was not even sure the case was worth pursuing, the source says.
"What does this mean? There's no threat there. This is against the law?" the agents asked themselves by the source's account.
At most the messages were harassing. The cyber squad had to consult the statute books in its effort to determine whether there was adequate legal cause to open a case.
"It was a close call," the source says.
Indeed, if there's any "benefit" to come out of this, perhaps it's that more and more people are hopefully realizing just how easy it is for the FBI to spy on people electronically.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - After Friday's victory against Murray State, the Lipscomb men's tennis team dropped a home match Saturday afternoon against the University of Texas at San Antonio, 5-2.
Stuart Tierney and Miguel Cortez earned wins in the singles competition, while the doubles team of Tanner Brown/Colby Shaw netted a victory.
Lipscomb head coach Andrew Harris said he felt the team lost momentum after missed shot opportunities early on.
"We were certainly looking to come out and establish the momentum in the doubles," Harris said. "Give credit to UTSA. They made the shots when they had to.
"In the singles, we had to regain momentum, and we did with Stuart [Tierney] being the first one off. However, we struggled to capitalize on the other remaining matches in continuing to keep constant pressure."
Harris said he's confident in the fact that Saturday's loss will help pave the way for future success.
"The guys fought hard, and we will learn from this experience and be better because of it," Harris said.
The Bisons (3-4) travel to UAB on Friday, March 1.
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Texas-San Antonio vs Lipscomb (Feb 23, 2013)
Texas-San Antonio 5, Lipscomb 2
Feb 23, 2013 at Nashville, Tenn. (Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. Martin Ayala (UTSA) def. Oliver Strecker (LIPM) 6-4, 6-3
2. Diogo Casa (UTSA) def. David Salazar (LIPM) 7-5, 6-7, 7-6
3. Tyler Brown (UTSA) def. Daniel Hernandez (LIPM) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
4. Stuart Tierney (LIPM) def. Joel Rubio (UTSA) 7-5, 6-1
5. David Kelleher (UTSA) def. Colby Shaw (LIPM) 6-3, 6-3
6. Miguel Cortez (LIPM) def. Oliver Breininger (UTSA) 7-6, 6-4
Doubles competition
1. Martin Ayala/Diogo Casa (UTSA) def. David Salazar/Oliver Strecker (LIPM) 8-4
2. Tyler Brown/Joel Rubio (UTSA) def. Miguel Cortez/Stuart Tierney (LIPM) 8-5
3. Tanner Brown/Colby Shaw (LIPM) def. Kolby Kilgo/Hugo Guanais (UTSA) 8-2
Match Notes
Texas-San Antonio 5-3
Lipscomb 3-4


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Sheffield indie stars Milburn and special guests including Reverend and the Makers will rock Sheffield's Don Valley Bowl this Friday night and you could be going for FREE!
More than 5,000 people will be at this very special homecoming concert headlined by the city's comeback kids, Milburn - who have been selling out venues nationwide ahead of what looks set to be a chart smashing album return.
Also on the bill are special guests Reverend and the Makers, plus Tom Grennan and Cabbage.
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Loft Jazz Returns To New York With
CHARLES TOLLIVER Residency @ the cell.
Presenter: Curators Jim and Genevieve Luce in association with the cell, A Twenty First Century Salon™.
Every Wednesday ...
from October 2 - December 11, 2013
Jazz legend and Grammy Award Nominee, Charles Tolliver And the Rising Stars explore Jazz new boundaries!
The Charles Tolliver Big Band has come to be known for its intricate, layered writing, charging rhythms and exciting soloists. The band's roots trace back to 1970 when Tolliver recorded "Music Inc. & Big Band" for his Strata-East label. He and Stanley Cowell were the composers and principal soloists for this ground-breaking album, which represented the new approach to big band writing since the emergence of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra five years earlier.
"Rarely if ever has a big band exhibited so much freedom or finesse, while at the same time never overwhelming the virtuoso soloists on whom the performances pivot." - Jason Ankemy, allmusic.com
In recent years, the band has reformed and returned with a vengeance, touring and recording for Blue Note (2007) and Half Note (2009). Its legacy begins with the Rising Stars, a Quintet he selected for his residency @ the cell.
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Beyond the Blame Game
Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as the "Interfaith Amigos," have been learning and teaching together since 2001. They blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
I would like to believe that I am free. I would like to believe that I am awake and aware. And I would like to believe that I am generally a loving and compassionate person.
I would like to be free, yet I realize again and again that I am not. I am open to manipulation and control when I least suspect it. In a flash, I am not a loving and compassionate person at all.
Take the Gulf oil spill (spill? It's more like a geyser, a gusher) or the recent Israeli military action against a blockade-busting flotilla of humanitarian supplies aimed for Gaza. Neither event is just news—they are direct calls to take sides. And, for those of us who find our side quickly, we are pretty sure that our side is clearly the right side. The others—they are criminal, if not in intent, then certainly in action.
Sometimes I just want to blast the stupidity of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, the horror of the occupation, and the marginalization of its Arab citizens. Sometimes I just want to vent my fury at the Big Oil for catastrophes of climate that so many have seen coming well before the current crisis. But I know that such blasting and such venting will only add to the difficulties and inhibit the healing that needs to be.
This is where I strongly suspect I relinquish not only my freedom but a good share of my awareness. In the virtual clarity of my response, I hardly realize that I have surrendered myself for manipulation by media and by my own preconceptions. Obviously, the big oil company and the occupying Israeli presence are at fault. The powerful, in their unending lust for more power, have once again created great suffering for the innocent and for the environment (also, of course, innocent).Good Guys vs. Bad Guys
These are terrible events—but how shall our righteous indignation solve anything? When we divide folks into the Good Guys and the Bad Guys (and how fortunate it is that we are always with the Good Guys!), we save ourselves from confronting the deeper ambiguities of life, and we distance ourselves from our own culpabilities and our own responsibilities.
Suspecting that I have fallen prey to media and to preconception, I sometimes remember to take a few conscious breaths and invite an awareness beyond the headlines and the hype. The population of Gaza has been suffering under a blockade enforced by both Egypt and Israel that, while attempting to prevent weapons buildup, has prevented the delivery of needed medical and humanitarian supplies and building materials. The recent flotilla attempting to break that blockade was violently stopped. Along with so many others, I felt outrage at the Israeli response. But then I noticed, for example, that the violence met by the flotilla has incited world anger against a country that many believe should not even exist. There are those who suggest that inciting this anger was the deeper purpose of the flotilla. And what other country do people think doesn't even have a right to exist?
What kind of consciousness would such thinking motivate in such a country? Could it motivate more violent responses than others can understand? Could it support unconsciousness about the suffering of the other? How can we step into the experience of the other and learn that true dialogue is possible only when blame is shared.
And I notice the silence in this country of all those whose voices have been demanding an increase in off-shore drilling, as well as a silence from other oil companies who are probably thanking their lucky stars that the geyser is not theirs. But where are the scientists of the other companies? Are they really willing to sit back and simply witness this environmental destruction?
And what about all of us and our addiction to oil? Even most of us who have been opposed to war have been quite happy to find gasoline prices lowering so we can more comfortably get on the road again.
Everyone Did It
And so I wonder whether real solutions, real healing, is once again frustrated by our own anger, our finger-pointing, and our self-righteous indignation. There is a tag-line that I've been noticing at the bottom of some emails lately, where many of us put quotes that matter to us. This particular quote is from Lao Tzu, and reads: "In the end, everyone will know that everyone did it."
It is a basic truth that when a relationship works or when it fails, both parties always share responsibility. While this insight might inhibit our perception that the Other is to blame and we are clearly in the right, the abdication of responsibility actually is a denial of our freedom. If it's all the Other's fault, then war is inevitable, and no one really ever wins at war. Accepting our shared culpability and responsibility allows us to enter into a greater dialogue—learning to collaborate on the path to greater healing.
This is a time of emergency. We need to meet it with great compassion for our shared culpability and with great creativity and hopefulness for our healing. We need to seriously but gently assess our addictions. What are the changes we would have to make in our lives that would reflect a healing from our addiction to oil? How would we respond to crisis situations in the world if we were no longer addicted to war? We all need to take a few breaths when we catch ourselves in the Blame Game and enter together into the Same Game. Because whatever the end is, we shall all have contributed to it.
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Village Art in the Park
The Pacific Northwest's longest continually-running outdoor art show, Village Art in the park has a long and rich history in Leavenworth. It started in 1966 as a promotional idea to draw peoples' attention from the highway to the downtown area. It continues to be an intricate part of the Leavenworth experience. Open 9-6 every Friday through Sunday from May 3 to October 20.


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Join Terra Nova Compost for a fun and practical hands-on backyard/community scale composting workshop. We will answer the questions: What is compost? Why should we do it? And, of course, how we do it? Bring a pair of gloves and garden shears, if you have them, and prepare to meet a few billion tiny, new friends.
To register please visit http://terranovacompost.com/events or phone 678-786-6568.
For our community and educational gardens, if you take part in this workshop, your entire community garden will be eligible to receive a soil test, quality compost, a compost bin, a weatherproof sign, and a composting thermometer - compliments of Food Well Alliance. You will need to register for the Healthy Soil, Healthy Community Initiative in order to qualify. Register here by July 28.


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BodSix, Inc. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 139 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Logo design for an indie software development studio.
Broken Infinity Labs
I'm in the process of formalizing my personal software development studio - Broken Infinity Labs - and am in need of an updated logo. Broken Infinity is a play on my initials CO and the logo should incorporate that idea.
If this helps - my software development pursuits cover a lot of areas. Most are web based projects with technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Java Servlets. I also cover iPhone development and Outlook plug-ins so there is a wide range of tech covered. I do work both on a contract basis and have some upcoming projects that will be publicly accessible.
Deliverable will be vector-based versions of the following:
- Color logo with text
- Color logo without text
- Black on White logo with text
- Black on White logo without text
- White on Black logo with text
- White on Black logo without text
- A color version of the logo suitable for "fav icons" i.e. dimensions of 16x16px and 32x32px and 64x64pxText in logo can either be "Broken Infinity" or "Broken Infinity Labs"
- Must convey sense of both the infinity symbol and the initials CO
- Preferred palette of blues, silvers, blacks and whites.
- UPDATE - I'm removing the greens option, I thought I'd like the ideas, but I haven't really liked any of the uses I've seen
- I do not like bright oranges, reds or yellows
- UPDATED - no more green
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December 19, 2008
Richard E. Grojean, a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., and an OSA Fellow, died on Friday, December 19, 2008 in Laconia, NH. He was 85.
Grojean was born in Washington Heights, New York City, on March 1, 1923, the son of Eugene and Elizabeth (Killkenny) Grojean. He lived in the Boston/Brighton/Brookline, Mass., area for several years and was a graduate of Brookline High School. In 1941, he entered Northeastern University School of Engineering. He volunteered for the Army in 1942 and was assigned to the Volunteer Reserve Corps at NU. In April of 1943, he volunteered for active duty. On Jan. 7, 1944, his battalion was sent to France. It was assigned to the Third Army and attached to the 12th Corps defending the southern flank of the "Bulge" at Dalheim, Luxembourg. After the "Bulge," it remained in support of various divisions, corps and engineering groups through southern Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Grojean returned to Northeastern University School of Liberal Arts in 1946 and received a B.S.in Math/Physics in 1948. He entered Tufts University Graduate School in the Physics Department in 1948 and received a M.S. in Physics in 1950. He taught at Brandeis University for four years and was a professor at Northeastern University for 35 years. He held memberships in several honor and professional societies, including Sigma Pi Sigma Graduate Student Research Society, Sigma Xi Professional Research Society, President of the Northeastern University Branch and the Optical Society of America. He was elected an OSA Fellow for his contributions to Optical Science in 1989.
Grojean was a communicant of Saint Jerome Catholic Church, Weymouth, Mass. where he served as a lector for 28 years and as Director of Lectors for the last 10 years. He served for nine years on their Appropriation Committee and on several building committees for the Town of Weymouth. He lived in Weymouth for many years before moving to Belmont, N.H., seven years ago.
Grojean is survived by his wife, Lorraine (Baker) Grojean, two sons, two daughters, a stepson, three step-daughters, 12 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nephews and nieces.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Community Health & Hospice, Inc., 780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246. For more information and to view an online memorial, go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
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Little Rock Central High School, now a unit of the National Park System, is located at the intersection of 14th and Park Streets. Permission to enter the building should be obtained from the High School Administration Office. Their address is 1500 Park Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202. The Central High Museum and Visitor Center is located directly across the street from the school at 2125 West 14th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202. The museum is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information visit the museum's Web pages.


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Spelling bee do-over
The 2014 area Scripps spelling bee, stretched deep into the night last month.
Now it will go on a while longer.
Acknowledging "irregularity" in the competition, Hearst Connecticut Media announced Thursday that it would send two students to the National Scripps Spelling Bee finals in Washington, D.C., instead of one.
The first will be Anika Malayappan, of Danbury, the winner of the bee held last month at Western Connecticut State University.
Hearst will hold a spell-off on April 12 in Bridgeport, however, for the second-, third- and fourth-place finishers. The winner of that competition will also go to the Washington, D.C., finals.
"Upon review of the tape from the March 20th spelling bee, and in consultation with the National Scripps Spelling Bee officials, we acknowledge an irregularity in the order of words given to the students in the final spell-off rounds," Henry B. Haitz III, group publisher and president of Hearst Connecticut Media said Thursday. "We've made this offer to the families of these students, and we're awaiting confirmation of who will participate."
Many parents complained about the Danbury spelling bee, which ran until about midnight. When the people officiating the bee ran out of words from the Scripps list, they began using words from a dictionary.
Parents complained that the event's pronouncer was unable to pronounce some of the later words or use them properly in a sentence.
Because of these problems, students who misspelled words were allowed do overs, further complicating the competition.
Haitz said this won't happen in the spell-off.
"Our colleagues from our Hearst newspaper in Albany, N.Y., will serve as moderator, pronouncer and judges for the bee," Haitz said. "The Times-Union in Albany has sponsored the local Scripps bee in that region for many years, and this team is very experienced with officiating such an event."
However, Michael Goda, father of Abram Goda, of Bridgeport -- last year's winner -- said his son will not participate in the spell-off.
"He was treated unfairly then," Michael Goda said. "He's being treated unfairly now. I'm not going to let him participate in this mess again."
The family of second-place finisher Noah Fitzgerald, of Ridgefield, was unavailable for comment Thursday.
Aneeta Jagivan, of West Hartford, mother of third-place finisher, 12-year-old Arjun, said her family had not yet decided on whether Arjun will participate in the spell-off.
She said she felt it would be better if the entire spelling bee had a fresh start, with all its participants.
"I think that's fair," she said.
Helen Moran, principal of Multicultural Magnet School in Bridgeport, where Goda is a pupil, said the fair way to correct the problems with last month's bee would be to start over from the beginning, with all the participants involved. She called the spell-off solution a "ridiculous travesty."
"The parents are not happy at all." Moran said.
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FEEDBACK COLUMN: No place in the Hall for Bonds, Clemens and Sosa
No, no no! A thousand times ... no.
Don't buy into the hype. Don't be swayed by the unbelievable theories you are going to read and hear in the coming weeks.
The integrity of the game of baseball is at stake. Make no mistake about it.
What happens when Major League Baseball announces the results with the names of the latest inductees to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, will be heard as loudly around the world as Bobby Thompson's shot to win the 1956 World Series.
Three major players in baseball's steroid era -- Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, among a few others -- are on the ballot for the first time.
Writers around the country, including columnist Pat Caputo of The Oakland Press, will cast their ballots soon. Matthew B. Mowery, the baseball beat writer for The Oakland Press, and yours truly are also members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, but lack the years of service to cast a vote this time around.The question before us is not whether Bonds, Clemens, Sosa and others such as Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Craig Biggio put up numbers worthy of the Hall of Fame. The question is: Did they do it the right way? Did they cheat?
Entrance to the Hall of Fame is not just about numbers. Three of the six criteria for election to Cooperstown are sportsmanship, integrity and character
There is no gray area here. This issue is as clear as back and white.
Either you took performance enhancing drugs to gain an unfair advantage, prolong a career, build muscle mass, recover from injury and/or improve your endurance, or you didn't.
Baseball should take a look at Lance Armstrong and treat its known abusers in a similar fashion. You cheat, you lose. You cheat, you get stripped of your records. You cheat, you have to repay your postseason earnings. You cheat, you are not welcome in the Hall of Fame.
Where's the incentive to play by the rules if we as a society reward known cheaters? Letting Bonds, Clemens, Sosa or any other stars tied to the steroid era into the Hall of Fame is a slap in the face to players on the fence who played the game the right way.
Pete Rose did less to hurt the integrity of the game than Bonds, Clemens and Sosa.
You're going to read columns in the coming weeks full of theories about how many wins Clemens would have had without steroids, how many home runs Bonds would have hit steroid free. You're going to hear they put up Hall of Fame numbers before they were tied to steroids.
Me? Integrity in sports matters.
The Oakland Press encourages readers to sound off about topics appearing in the sports section. Send your thoughts and opinions to sports editor Jeff Kuehn at email@example.com. Be sure to include your name, hometown and phone number for verification purposes.
Fodder for this week includes:
n Are you satisfied with the two teams playing in the national championship game in college football?
n Still no sign of a settlement in the NHL. Do you miss it?
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Ohio State is the Big Ten
Jeff, the Big Ten (Big 14) needs Ohio State. It is the only school in the conference that has done anything relevant in college football nationally in the past 10-plus years. Ohio State has been the Big Ten during those years.
No other school has been to the BCS title game (3) or has even come close. Year in and year out, Ohio State has been ranked with the big boys of the SEC. With the exception of last year's debacle, they have finished in the top 10 (even in the top five) on a consistent basis. No other Big Ten school can say that.
Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and just about every team all took a step backward this year. Wisconsin is playing for a BCS game with a 4-4 conference record after finishing in third place. Nebraska is playing for the same even after the Buckeyes hung 63 points on them.
I keep hearing "the Big Ten is down this year." With the exception of Ohio State, my question is when has the conference ever been up? Out of the 24 BCS appearances, the Buckeyes have been to nine of them. They have also been to three national title games, winning one of those. No one else has been to the title game.
This year they went 12-0 under first-year coach Urban Meyer. Because of probation they aren't playing in their 10th BCS game or possibly their fourth BCS title game. The future looks bright in Columbus. I would say that the Big Ten better get used to it, but they have already for more than a decade now. Take Ohio State out of the Big Ten and you take what little credibility the conference has nationally. The Big Ten needs Ohio State.
Alan Rude
Shelby Township
Got a bad rule? Lions will find it
I figured out the Detroit Lions' purpose in life. It's to benefit the rest of the league by finding issues with how the games are officiated. No matter how obscure or insane the rule is, the Lions and their staff will find some reason to have it invoked and expose it.
Last year we have the flag man, head coach Jim Schwartz, using up all his challenges until they really counted. I am referring to the touchdown that was ruled out of bounds on Lions receiver Titus Young. Schwartz did not have any flags left to challenge and overturn the mistake. The league, realizing that it's best to get it right, changed the rule before this season. Now, any scoring play or turnover was automatically reviewed, thus no need to throw the challenge flag.
As part of that rule, the league inexplicably added that if a coach challenged the scoring play by throwing a flag, it rendered the review null and void along with a 15-yard penalty levied on the coach's team. I can only assume this was to penalize a coach for attempting to show up the referees.
Fast forward to the Thanksgiving day game and our flag man has challenge flags, which he tossed before a play was over, thus negating an automatic review of a touchdown that should not have been. League officials have strongly hinted that they will change that rule so that if a coach tosses a flag on a scoring play the play will still be reviewed. So there you have it, the Lions continue to amuse and bungle their way to ineptitude, but the silver lining is that through those efforts, the rest of the teams in the league will benefit.
West Bloomfield
Lions are 4-7 for several reasons
I do not think Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh did anything intentional on Thanksgiving. His face was in the turf for crying out loud. I agree that head coach Jim Schwartz should have known better to throw a flag, but could anyone really believe they were calling that a touchdown? And with the way calls go for the Lions, It seems second nature to pull that red flag out when a bad call happens.
You could point your finger at any number of things why the Lions are 4-7. No offensive line, no Jahvid Best or no breakaway threat at running back, injuries in the defensive back field, bad play calling, special teams that can't tackle anyone or a returner who doesn't break any big plays, dropped balls, turnovers, not throwing to Calvin Johnson in the red zone, being too committed to a rushing offense that neither has the line to support it or a fast runner. My point is it's because of all of those things. Schwartz deserves as much blame as tight end Brandon Pettigrew fumbling, Jason Hanson missing a field goal, and bad officiating. If some simple things go right, we are talking about another great season and who we will match up against in the playoffs.
I think Titus Young should be done as a Lion. He proved how big of a distraction he was and that the team can survive without him.
Grand Rapids
No shortage of bad apples in sports
Every year around this time, a fresh batch of Major League Baseball stars are teed up for nomination for the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. And every year, many, many fans ask why Pete Rose isn't enshrined there. After all, "Charlie Hustle" is one of the greatest hitters in MLB history. Those folks, bless their hearts, have never read the criteria sent to the writers who cast their votes annually: "Voting shall be based upon the players records, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contribution to the teams on which the player played."
Rose, the gambler, will be joined this year by the steroid trio of Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens in the growing group of those who fall way short of the criteria beyond their skill sets. Pretty soon there will be enough rejects to populate their own wing of the HOF or a separate building out back and almost out of sight.
Pro sports, in general, is going through an era where jurisprudence is written and talked about as much as game summaries and statistics. Players continually misbehave on and off the playing field, are fined and suspended for stomping or kicking opponents, get caught going 50 mph over the speed limit, driving drunk, abusing drugs, beating their spouse, etc. We are living through a generation of spoiled athletes who have been passed from grade to grade, continually told that their stuff don't stink, and are unable of completing a sentence without three or four "you knows." When they finally are confronted with having to tell the truth, they hide in the training room, refuse interviews, and slip out the back door into their Escalade with tinted windows ... and we wonder why kids who idolize them are getting into trouble at younger and younger ages.
Unfortunately, this is the underbelly of pro sports. Driven by the pressures of big business, owners reluctantly employ convicted criminals like Michael Vick, who openly admitted to torturing and killing a minimum of 5-7 pit bulls. Yes, he spent time in federal prison for running an intrastate gambling enterprise, but he has never been charged by the State of Virginia for cruelty to animals. Why is Vick treated like a hero on the gridiron?
I have been a sports junkie for over 50 years, have friends in the NHL and MLB, and it constantly amazes me the almighty power of the TV dollar. Marvin Miller died this past week. Miller was the attorney for the MLB Players' Association and combined with player Curt Flood led the increase in salaries from a minimum of $7,000 in 1966 to an average of $3.25 million today. How can a left fielder, who can field and hit be worth several dozen times more than our President, a hundred times the pay of a brain surgeon or a cancer researcher, or a thousand the value of a fire fighter, police officer, or teacher? It's plain wacky and it won't end as long as owners keep raising salaries and TV networks keep growing the revenues to feed the growing appetite of the sports industry.
And this all started with free agency, 24-hour sports stations, huge endorsement contracts and even bigger salaries given to many less than well educated or upstanding citizens who are put before our youth as role models. What will all of this take us? Who knows, but you can rest assured there are at least a few references to the underbelly of pro sports in this sports section.
Bob Frick
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SCOTTS VALLEY — Paula Phelan was working as a software programmer in Boston in the late 1970s and early 1980s, struggling with the cold weather and trying to decide whether to dump her engineering career to pursue her passion for art when she decided to move to San Francisco.
After a few years working for companies such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Phelan found her way to Scotts Valley where she founded a public relations company 20 years ago that uses Phelan's engineering background to help market, promote and guide global tech companies.
"I was good with customers and getting customers to clarify what they needed, from an engineering perspective," Phelan said from her offices that overlook a lake patrolled by a giant catfish. "I ended up being the in-between person who was able to talk to both sides of the fence. You could send me into a really technical big deal meeting and I could speak intelligently and engineers couldn't fake me out and blow smoke at me."
Phelan sat down recently with this newspaper to talk about guiding companies through 16 IPOs and more than 80 acquisitions as her own company of 20 employees survived Silicon Valley's ups and downs over the past 20 years. Her clients have included Cisco Systems (CSCO), Symantec, Oracle (ORCL), IBM and Microsoft. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: Why would a name-brand tech company, with its own PR and marketing staffs, need to hire an outside company like Nadel Phelan?
A: I focused on in-house projects for many, many years (as an engineer) and your focus is on making that product as good as humanly possible. You know the application and how people will use it. But you don't necessarily see how it's going to fit into the ecosystem that's in existence right now. I travel a lot, about 150,000 miles a year on average, because if you sit here in the States, you don't realize how big the problems are.
Five years ago I was in China when everybody wanted to sell into China. Cisco was our client and they had an advanced program to do networking. I met with college students and asked about the software they use and their online use. None of them had computers. They had to wait 10 hours minimum just to get access and usually it could be as much as 10 days. And all of their access was via cellphones when smartphones were few and far between. Suddenly I realized all of these things we were trying to sell into China were premature. Unless you have feet on the street, that's the kind of things you can miss.
I just got back from Europe where a lot of people used to think that Europe was way ahead of everyone else with their 3G network. But in the U.K. you can't even hold onto a phone call because they drop all day long and their bandwidth is completely screwed up. Now it's permeating all across the continent.
Q: Why can't a sophisticated tech company discover for itself the kind of systemic problems you find on the ground?
A: Everybody thinks these big companies have all of the marketing dollars in the world. That's a misnomer. They're usually broker than everybody else because they have too many initiatives going on. So they love the extra support.
Q: How was your own company able to survive the boom-and-bust eras of Silicon Valley when so many others went under?
A: (Before the dot.com bust of 2000-01) it was like what the Roaring '20s must have been like. I literally had people sending me flowers trying to entice me to take them on as clients. Most (PR) agencies, even small agencies, have been acquired over the years and they now have to show growth and increase the bottom line. But we're not beholden to anybody. We've stayed the same — real, real constant — throughout all of this. That's what it takes.
Q: What kind of projects and products do your clients focus on?
A: We do infrastructure. We do all the stuff that's not usually very sexy. It's the things that run the network, that run the phone systems, that are on the back end of banking systems. That's our sweet spot, not an iPhone per se. This is the gnarly stuff. You actually have to know why this code is different or what the security implications are for this technology. You've got to care about all of the bits and bytes and you've to go know all of the three-letter and four-letter acronyms that go along with this stuff.
Q: Are you personally a tech/gadget freak?
A: I am not. I adopt technology as it makes sense. Did I have one of the first cellphones? Yes. I had the Nokia brick. Then I had the old Motorola car phones that were bolted in and everybody thought were so cool. Today I use mobile apps as they make sense to me.
Q: Why did you decide to base your company in Scotts Valley?
A: I was in Silicon Valley briefly and it just didn't suit me. I like being near the water and San Francisco's really cold. I looked around for value and it was Santa Cruz County, where you get more value for your money and a better quality of life. There are no negatives. The benefits are clean air and being closer to the ocean. I'm exactly one hour, door-to-door from SFO, my hub. That is my bus stop.
Q: Your offices have a colorful decor, including a gong in the reception area. Why?
A: I bought that in Big Sur. We use it to celebrate when we have a really big win by hitting it. (The staff member who gets to hit the gong) also gets a bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne.
Contact Dan Nakaso at (408) 271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/dannakaso.
Paula Phelan
Age: 57
Birthplace: Connecticut
Position: President and CEO Nadel Phelan
Previous jobs: Managed marketing departments at Veritas Software, Hewlett-Packard and several startup organizations in Silicon Valley
Education: Bachelor of arts, University of Massachusetts; master's in psychology, John F. Kennedy University; Ph.D. in psychology, Sierra University
Residence: Scotts Valley
Family: Married
Five facts about Paula Phelan
1. Has increased the amount of sleep she gets every night to six hours.
2. Wrote two historical fiction books, based on the years 1919 and 1939. Working on two more, based on 1869 and San Francisco in 1969.
3. Writes every day from 5 to 8 a.m. then makes colorful abstract pen-and-ink drawings at night that occasionally resemble animals. "It's a centering thing. It's a calming thing. You have to clear the mind in order to focus."
4. Loves gardening and bird watching.
5. Has a baby grand piano in her living room but doesn't know how to play it — yet.


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On the tour bus with Zara Larsson
The young, opinionated Swedish pop star reveals what makes her nervous, why she surrounds herself with an all-girl crew – and what the Justin Bieber rumours were all about.
The blinds are down on the silver-coloured tour bus that's parked right by the entrance of Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club. It's a legendary venue that has hosted some of the world's biggest bands and artists – from Nirvana to Adele and Justin Timberlake – in the 35 years since opening. It's early in the afternoon and a group of teenage fans are sitting on the pavement outside, leaning against the brick wall while covering their bare legs with blankets. We knock on the bus door, the blinds open and Zara Larsson's tour manager lets us on board.
Zara is tired. She's half way through her North American tour and has just returned to the bus – also known as her temporary home – after visiting a children's hospital downtown. "I don't get any sleep on this bus," she says while lying down on a brown leather sofa: "But I'm good at taking power naps!"
She's been on the road for a bit over a month, travelling the continent together with her all-girl crew. The opinionated artist is a feminist if there ever was one, and she loves to surround herself with strong women.
"Honestly, it wasn't a plan or request from my end to have only girls with me on this tour, it just happened. Most of the people I work with are women and I'm comfortable with that, but I have no problems working with guys either," she says.
It's only been a few years since I was waiting outside concerts to see my idols.
This is a small and short tour that she shares with the British electronic group Clean Bandit.
For Zara it's still just the beginning, and she's very vocal about her musical goals and ambitions.
"I have the world's best dancers with me and I love to hang out with them, so I never feel alone here. Sure, I miss my family and my close friends, but I'm doing what I love and it's easy to be on tour, everything is routine."
The pop star rubs the sleep out of her eyes and steps out on the concrete to the glee of the teenage fans waiting for her. She hugs them, leans in on photos, and receives a hand-written letter that she promises to read later. "I always read them! If there's an address, I try to send back autographs or an album." She compliments the young fans and lets them know how much it means that they're here.
"It's pretty surreal," she comments once inside the venue. "It's only been a few years since I was waiting outside concerts to see my idols, and now people like me in the same way as I like other bands and artists," she says while holding her phone that's covered in pictures of Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and, of course, Beyoncé.
Zara Larsson's rise to international fame hasn't happened overnight, but transcending from a young Swedish pop singer to a global star has definitely gone fast. Her music has been played over two billion times online, and regardless of where you live it's impossible that you haven't heard one (or all) of her monster hits Lush Life, Never Forget You, I Would Like or Ain't My Fault. Despite all of her recent success, and being a singer on the verge of superstardom, life on the road is far from as glamorous as could be expected. She has no hair stylist, no makeup artist, and sleeps in a bunk-bed.
"To become super famous," she says, smiles, and continues: "No, the thing is that I want as many people as possible to listen to my singles, see me in concert and stream my album, and if my music gets that wide an audience, I want to have a stadium tour, to win a bunch of Grammys and have Billboard number ones."
"No I don't think so, that's too soon. But maybe in three or four?"
My biggest investment is buying my grandmother an apartment. She really deserved it
"I want all of this so badly, and I love to dream big. But I'm not naïve and I know that things don't always pan out the way I've thought in my head. Whatever happens, I'm never going to stop singing and I know that I will be doing this for the rest of my life. As long as I have good people around me, continue to like what I'm doing and work hard, it will work out."
She steps inside her dressing room in the club, betters her makeup and slips into an oversized pink hoodie from her collection for H&M. When she steps out of the dressing room she's talking to her mum on Facetime.
"Are you picking fights with the whole world?" we overhear her mum asking about her most recent Twitter controversy. Then their conversation moves on to high school, which Zara is graduating from this summer. Zara is cool, doesn't seem concerned with other people's opinions about her, and doesn't come off as a person who wants to instigate a Twitter feud with anyone, she just wants people to know where she stands and that she's not afraid to say what she thinks.
Zara has a tight bond with her family, and although she thinks it's irrelevant to share how much money she makes, she doesn't hold back when it comes to spending it on the ones close to her.
"What could I possibly spend money on?" she asks. "I still live with my parents in Stockholm and it's not very expensive to be on this bus! I take a lot of taxis and – okay – I like to buy expensive handbags, shoes and accessories. If I see something I really want to get, I tell my mum and she transfers money to me. She looks after my finances. But my biggest investment is buying my grandmother an apartment. She really deserved it, and I see that as an investment and not a waste of money, obviously. I would love to spend more on things like that, on the people I love."
While walking on the streets in Washington, D.C.'s hip U Street neighbourhood, it's evident that Zara Larsson is a force to be reckoned with. Heads turn, traffic stops, and she strikes up random conversations with strangers wherever she goes.
Back on the bus, Zara's dancers have returned from a day of sightseeing in the US capital. They show pictures of themselves in front of The White House, the Lincoln Memorial and other monuments and landmarks. During the month Zara has been in America, she hasn't seen the country she's been crisscrossing through. Most of the time, the blinds are down on the bus and when they stop in a city there's always an interview to do, a television show to perform at, or a concert to play.
"America is swooshing by and I hardly see any of it. This is my first time in D.C. and I haven't even seen The White House. I always think to myself that I will come back and see all of it the next time."
Neither she nor the dancers are 21 so they can't go to bars or clubs, and since Zara is still Stockholm-based she hasn't established a squad of Hollywood celebrity friends to party with. But the most important thing are the shows, which she plays in new cities every other day. If she were out partying she wouldn't be able to ace every performance.
"Ha ha, not yet! But no, I'm good."
"No I'm super single right now. Or, I'm not dating just one person, to put it that way."
"No, on that one too…"
"Oh God no! I would never! That's so elitist and gross. I don't like the idea of it, it's like 'hey we're the popular and pretty people, want to go on a date?' A relationship really isn't a priority for me. If I meet someone, I meet someone, but I'm not actively looking."
"I wish!," she says and laughs. "That's completely unfounded, but I would be interested to talk to him if we met again. We've said hello in a restaurant once, but definitely nothing more than that," she says and continues: "It's strange with the mythology around famous people, because once you meet them you realise they're just regular people. The only person I want to keep on my superstar pedestal is Beyoncé."
It's dusk when Zara and her dancers take the stage. The venue is sold out and the crowd is ecstatic. It's an eclectic mix of old and young that sing along to the hit parade Zara delivers from the stage. When I ask a young couple in the audience who they came to see – Clean Bandit or Zara Larsson – they answer the latter with vigour.
"She's such a star!" they say.
Zara aces every move, lyric and note, all the while feeding the audiences hunger to dance and sing. She's never been better than this. Her strong confidence shines through the entire show, especially when she's teasing one of the final songs of the set.
"Do you know what's my fault?," she shouts out to the wild crowd. She holds the suspense for a few seconds before answering her own question: "Nothing!"
The audience is not ready to let go when she exits the stage after performing her 2016 hit song Nothing Without You, and welcomes Clean Bandit up.
It's always been natural for me to take a lot of space and I'm confident in my talent.
After the show, Zara makes a guest appearance with Clean Bandit before heading back to the bus. It's close to midnight and a six-hour drive to New York awaits, where she's performing on a news show at 8 am. While getting ready for bed, Zara goofs around with the dancers, always with a joke, an impression or a theatrical reaction to a question.
"Yeah, I am and I always have been. It's always been natural for me to take a lot of space and I'm confident in my talent, that I'm great at what I do. I've always loved singing and I'm really happy about this. That all of this is happening," she says waving her hand around the bus.
She pauses and thinks for a little bit.
"When I'm being interviewed on TV because I'm not really used to that. But I'm especially nervous when I'm releasing new material – I'm never fully confident that people are going to like it or listen to it, it's scary. But again, in the end it doesn't really matter because I'm proud of what I do and I'm working with the thing I love the most in the world."
"Hell yeah!"
Zara cleans her face and brushes her teeth, says goodnight and closes the door to the section of the bus where her bunk-bed is.
The Zara Larsson >< H&M collection arrives in selected stores and online on 18 May.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 170 diseños de 53 diseñadores freelance.
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Huntha Management
Huntha Management (pronounced hunter), provides project management, site supervision, tenancy coordination services in a retail environment. We manage shop fit outs for clients, and manage tenancy coordination for landlords.
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The logo that I am looking for for my company is something smart & professional.
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