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Jason Aldean's Next Album Will Have 'Hard-Charging' Sound His Fans Love
Jason Aldean is on the verge of completing his highly-anticipated fifth studio album, the follow-up collection to his multi-platinum selling 'My Kinda Party.' While Aldean admits that the pressure was on to come up with a solid album that would outdo what 'My Kinda Party' did — which was spawn four consecutive No. 1 singles — he says that in the end, he stuck with music his fans love and have come to expect.
"One thing I didn't want to go in and do was make 'My Kinda Party II,'" Aldean tells Taste of Country. "But at the same time, and I think I said this on the last record, too, I don't want to ever totally get away from what it is that got me to this point — that sound and hard-charging kind of thing that I'm known for, because that's what I enjoy to play. At the same time, I think on the 'My Kinda Party' record we changed it up. We did the [duet] with Kelly [Clarkson], we did 'Dirt Road Anthem' … just little snippets of things like that that are kind of different and odd."
"I think there's some of that stuff on this new record," he continues. "It's going to be the kind of record that people are used to us making. It's still going to be that hard-driving stuff and a couple of little surprises in there, too. It's good … I think so, anyway."
Fans will see some of the usual suspects behind the songs lyrics, including Neil Thrasher ('Tattoos on This Town,' 'Fly Over States'), Jason Sellers ('Don't You Wanna Stay'), David Lee Murphy ('Big Green Tractor') and Wendell Mobley ('Tattoos on This Town'), as well as some first-time writers like ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year and Peach Picker, Ben Hayslip.
"The more success we have, the better the songs are that get pitched to us," notes Aldean. "With every record we're getting better and better songs. This record was no exception. We have some really great songs. I think a lot of writers are locked into what I'm doing. For whatever reason, I feel like the stuff they write is stuff that really fits what I do. They've gone in and wrote a lot of songs specifically for us, especially on the new album. There are certain guys who are just great writers, so when you're looking for songs for a new album, obviously you're going to want to go to those guys and see what they've got and if they've got anything that fits you. Those guys are kind of dialed into what I like. We've got a good run going with them right now."
Aldean hopes the yet-to-be-titled new album will hit stores around October or November of this year. The hat-wearing hitmaker just released his fifth and final single from the 'My Kinda Party' album, 'Fly Over States.'


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|Feb 5th, 2011 01:42 PM
|Captain Marbles
Max Shreck from "Batman Returns"
Yeah, I know it isn't officially a Christmas movie, but the events of the movie do happen during the Christmas season.
And let's face it, anyone who dumps enough toxic waste to fill a lagoon, is a slumlord who owns half the firetraps in Gotham City, flushes his own business partner down the toilet, plots to steal the city's power with a huge capacitor disguised as a "power plant" and throws his secratary out the window deserves to be on this list of Christmas assholes. Or any list of movie assholes for that matter.
|Dec 24th, 2010 07:08 PM
|Mister Tea
|Dec 26th, 2008 06:09 PM
|how did this list not include scrooge?
|Dec 18th, 2008 04:24 PM
When you think of it, everyone who WASN'T Albert Mouse in "'Twas The Night Before Christmas." Basically everyone is trying to stifle his opinions! It's not his fault Santa Claus had thin skin.
And I agree on Farkus....but what about the Santa Claus in ACS? And his elves? Which may not count to me cause they wound up being funny...as the elf reminds me of my uncle. And even as a kid, Ralphie eating boot was always funny to me.
|Dec 18th, 2008 02:58 PM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
|"Look what you did you little jerk"
|Dec 17th, 2008 09:34 PM
|Damn, even the characters who didn't appear on-screen in Home Alone were assholes.
|Dec 17th, 2008 04:22 PM
|Maybe his son was the asshole. Probably some spoiled brat who didn't appreciate what an awesome dad he had.
|Dec 17th, 2008 05:35 AM
|he was kind of being an asshole to his son by not talking to him
|Dec 17th, 2008 03:42 AM
Marley "The South Bend Shovel Slayer" (Roberts Blossom) was certainly not an asshole.
Buzz: You ever hear of the South Bend Shovel Slayer?
Cousin: No.
Buzz: That's him. Back in '58 he murdered his whole family and half the people on the block with the snow shovel. Been hiding out in this neighborhood ever since.
Cousin: Well, if he's the Shovel slayer, how come the cops don't arrest him?
Buzz: Not enough evidence to convict. They never found the bodies, but everyone around here knows he did it. And it will just be a matter of time before he does it again.
Cousin: What's he doing now?
Buzz: He walks up and down the street every night salting the sidewalks.
Cousin: Maybe he's trying to be nice.
Buzz: No way. See that garbage can filled with salt. that's where he keeps his victims. The salt turns the bodies into mummies.
|Dec 17th, 2008 02:59 AM
|everyone in that movie is an asshole
|Dec 17th, 2008 02:10 AM
|Of all the Home Alone characters mentioned, no one mentioned Uncle Frank or Buzz.
|Dec 15th, 2008 05:42 AM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
|Wet Bandits
|Dec 15th, 2008 01:44 AM
|Actually, Pesci was less of an asshole than his partner in crime, Daniel Stern. Daniel's character was all about leaving a "calling card" at every house they robbed. So what does he do? He clogged people's kitchen sink drains and left the water running in hopes that the name "The Wet Bandits" would catch on. Robbing people is one thing, but giving them all that water damage on top of it for no real reason? Now that's pretty assholish... even Pesci's character thought so.
|Dec 14th, 2008 11:50 PM
|Dec 12th, 2008 06:39 PM
Thanks for the comments though everybody, glad you enjoyed the list!
|Dec 12th, 2008 04:37 PM
What about Culkin from the same film? The two burglars are just trying to make a living, he ruins their lives over objects when he comes from a wealthy family that could easily replace them.
They go to France for Christmas, that's the whole plot of the movie, if you decide to fly to a creepy european place for Christmas, something bad is likely to happen. I've seen Hostel, obviously, they hadn't, but I have.
|Dec 12th, 2008 02:13 AM
The oversight of Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life renders this list null and void.
I'd also tack on the Abominable Snowman and Joe Pesci in Home Alone.
|Dec 8th, 2008 10:41 PM
Hey, how about the mayor from "The Year Without a Santa Claus"? How that man can honestly be in charge of a town is beyond me!
Or nearly every character in "Rudolph's Shiny New Year"--what sick 'tard has the nerve to laugh at a baby?!?? I mean, sure, his ears are the size of the Hubble telescope, but would you want someone laughing at YOUR deformities?!?? Huh?!?? Would'ja?!??!?? If you ask me, Rudolph shouldn't've gone rescuing Happy--let those jerks stay stuck in 1976!!!!!!
Heck, even the prosecutor (or maybe he was one of the cops; forgot his name, anyway) from "Santa Jr." Not only does he try to have Santa's son imprisoned, but he has the nerve to act like a stereotypical middle school shy kid when on a date with that lawyer woman (forgot her name too)! I mean, really--he was just so cheesy with that date. It's laughable, but not intentional comedy.
|Dec 8th, 2008 07:56 PM
|Judge Reinhold spends a lot of time trying to convince Scott Calvin that he's not Santa and trying to indoctrinate Calvin's son in not believing in something that we as the audience clearly know is true.
|Dec 8th, 2008 10:47 AM
|You can go with the abominable snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. However, like most bad guys he was misunderstood. After a simple dental operation, he was nice as can be.
|Dec 8th, 2008 09:55 AM
Scut Farkus, ah yes the asshole everyone loves to hate.
Probably why it was so funny when the got the everloving crap beat out of them.
|Dec 7th, 2008 08:13 PM
|Scut Farkus is a name that simply screams asshole.
|Dec 6th, 2008 11:09 PM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
I was hoping for MS. Crock from Screwed.
She was stone cold. She almost sucked out Norm McDonald's soul and made him wear his dead father's tux(which she took off his dead body during his burial).
|Dec 6th, 2008 02:16 AM
|Jeff The Ninja
Back in high school. My School put on a production of "A Christmas Story". I ended up playing Scut Farkas for 3 of the five shows. During one performance we put on for some kids coming in from a few neighbouring elementary schools, we got to that whole Ralphie beats Scut scene. Well, during that part, the script called for me to give him a facewash (using some snow from a recent snowfall that happened around that time). Well, the dude who handed me the snowball had packed it way too tight, almost an iceball but not quite. So i ended up busting his nose open (Blood on the stage, his costume, some unfortunate children sitting up front). I guess most of the kids thought that it was part of the show because we got some claps and cheers as he stood there, looking pissed off with blood running down his face. So we finish the scene, and i go backstage. And i notice the stage manager panicking over the spilt blood and the poor guy playing Ralphie not realizing that he had been bleeding for the past minute and a half.
Good times, Good times.
|Dec 6th, 2008 12:39 AM
|Purple Man
|Came here for Frank Cross. Was not disappointed.
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Set in the distant reaches of Middle-Earth. places hardly any men west of Mordor can tell you about. The stories of Harad, Umbar, Khand and Rhûn. Stories set under different stars and from a different point of view. We follow a young Haradrim and his friend, an old travelling merchant.
Categories: Book-verse
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I just spotted some of my fave oufits - can't imagine the time it must have taken. Crazy and beautiful.ReplyDelete
das sieht wirklich megaschön aus!
ich liebe die farbverläufe..gibt es die immernoch? hab sie vor etwas längerer zeit mal irgendwo gesehen deshalb weiß ich nicht genau ob ich sie wohl noch bekommen kann..
Beautiful colors...
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OMG you are completely right, shame some people don't noticed that, anyways the cover is AMAZING!
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Ho gosh! This is am-az-ing!
I'm gonna buy it!
Sieht wirklich wahnsinns aus!ReplyDelete
Wow, that's great! A good idea. One point to ELLE!ReplyDelete
I have copy of this magazine and I admire your affort to scan these pictures to your blog too (;
on a side note, I hope that the Elle team will one day come up with Elle Collections Men. It's going to be great.
It looks great!
GvN - Giorgia
An interesting way of displaying, all in groups, by color. You are right, it does look like a rainbow of models. I wonder also how long it took to put together, and was it just one person?
snappy x
it's crazy cool isn't it? just like one of those 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles of baked beans!ReplyDelete
Amazing. Colour is an interesting way or organising the different designers. It also makes people to see the clothes out of their context, amongst other designers and allows easy comparison.
A lot of work must have gone into this but it does not go unnoticed.
x Vanessa
these colours look great...! want to have it too!
Where can I buy it?
I love your blog Pascal...
You have a great style.
I'm just starting a fashion blog, take the tour.
Great colors!ReplyDelete
such great graphic design! i'd love to blow that photo up and stick it on my wallReplyDelete
I had this is in my hands and I didn't notice or even thought about the amount of work that went into it indeed, but now that you pointed it out I can see the beauty and workmanship that's in this issue. Definitely taking another look!
Puck @ ONEOFPOINTS.blogspot.com
definitely took a lot of effort in cropping. i bet interns had a gruesome time doing all this! :D its worth it, nonetheless.ReplyDelete
Thtey had finally got this in the US awhile ago and I picked one up! I'm in love with it! It obiviously takes it awhile for it to come over here. please put up photos when the next issue somes out! :)ReplyDelete
wished there was a vogue collections, in English not french, I've been hanging over the thought of buying this magazine :)ReplyDelete


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Taking action on housing matters: the pros and cons - PART 4 of 4
Some have attempted to make inroads into more moderate income offerings. Among these are longtime residents Ralph and Barbara Winters, who in 1999 developed a set of two-bedroom apartments on the western end of Cass Street. Ralph Winters has also been part of various discussions over the years regarding housing in Culver, as a past member of the town council and other boards and committees.
"As realtors, the acronym P.I.T.I. is used," says Winters. "That's Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance. Affordable housing by the usual criteria is a home in the $ 75,000 to $ 100,000 range. This is a stretch for someone with a $15 an hour job, unless both mom and dad are working at that rate, with fulltime work.
"In Culver," he says, "affordable housing could be accomplished if there were a co-operative land owner and perhaps a housing or infrastructure grant from the state or the federal government.
Manufactured housing or trailers is one path to affordable housing, but a few years back the Plan Commission said, 'no new house trailers in Culver.' That attitude would need to change.
"I would be supportive of the Culver Council if they chose to pursue a project that promoted affordable housing."
Another local businessman who has taken concrete steps to bring more affordable housing to Culver is Kevin Berger, head of Easterday Construction in Culver. After years of seeking out land, Berger helped bring a Garden Court assisted living complex to South Main Street, though he notes more than a year after opening, the place still isn't full.
"It all feeds together," he says. "If we could get some of the people that work in Medallion to live in Culver, that will help the restaurants, Park N Shop, the tax base. It has ancillary benefits.
"What I'm seeing as the problem, though, is the lake is such a draw for the affluent, that even if we go build stuff and subsidize it, unless you lock them in somehow, why wouldn't (middle income homeowners) flip it and make a profit? It's not just a matter of building something cheaply, but if that's all available, it's a buyers' market."
Berger echoes town manager Dave Schoeff that the town may likely have to make some investment up front.
"My experience," says Berger, "is (people) will look for it to be built before they consider moving here.
Berger also points out ongoing infrastructure and other decisions need to be made with commercial development and housing in mind.
"The Culver Redevelopment Commission put that lift station at the end of Jefferson Street to serve the Dicke property there, but look at the next property across the road. Is (the lift station) deep enough? How much more would it have cost to serve the next connection going in? I want to see that in the comprehensive plan: do we want to see industrial-commercial development and low income housing? How will we make it happen? We need more vision...we need to look farther out.
"Communities are either growing or dying," he adds. "There is no status quo."
Cafe Max owner Susie Mahler, who says she was part of the first incarnation of the Culver Redevelpment Commission, notes that a decade or more ago, building a housing development was out of the question, since the town's sewer system was in such poor condition.
Thankfully, after massive overhauls, that's no longer the case, but Mahler asks the question plaguing any discussion of developing moderate income housing -- which many property owners likely ask when considering what to do with their land: "Why would I build moderate income housing when I can make more profit and a higher dollar with ease?
It will likely come as no surprise that the challenges facing Culver as a community with an increasing "resort" identity are neither new nor unique.
Some resort communities -- including mountain ones, as well as lakeside -- long ago recognized the inherent problems of a community emptying of its residents nightly, and many embraced deed restricted, or so-called "workforce housing," as an answer.
Deed restrictions often set aside a certain block of homes or apartments and then enforce a set of requirements developed within the community itself, rather than by a state or federal mandate. The aim, unlike some federal housing programs, isn't simply to provide housing to the poor or underprivileged, but to limit designated spaces to those gainfully employed and living full-time within the community.
In a 2008 article in the Los Angeles Times ("Affordable housing in pricey resort towns," www.articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/17/news/adna-subsidy17), the director of an area housing authority remarked, "This place will turn into Disneyland if we don't have anybody that actually lives here...It's like, 'OK, lights on,' and the whole workforce will just commute in, work here during the day. And then, 'lights out,' and travel back."
School officials, wrote the Times, credited deed restriction programs with helping recruit and retain quality teachers and other professionals.
In a 2009 Apsen Times article ("Resort towns struggle with affordable housing," www.steamboattoday.com/news/2009/jan/18/resort_towns_struggle_affordable...), success was found in giving developers incentives to build homes with apartments attached, relaxing some building guidelines to help encourage more rentals for local workers.
In fact, the workforce housing concept developed in the ski towns of Telluride and Aspen, Colorado in the 1970s, according to Wikipedia, where "a plan was developed to create a secondary and separate 'local worker' housing market which was based on local wages and affordability."
In addition to living and working in the community, beneficiaries of deed restricted housing in Colorado also had to not own a second home in the community, stay there for a minimum period of time, and agree to sell the property only to someone who met the same criteria. Caps were later added to the amount of profit a property owner could make on the same of the home.
A 2012 article on the Affordable Housing Finance website (housingfinance.com/affordable-housing/grassroots-effort.aspx) reported success in providing 24 units of affordable housing in the resort town of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Town officials recognized workers in the community had to live outside the town and commute, noted the article, and so an ad hoc committee was appointed and eventually a "totally grassroots" housing coalition founded. The result was a long process marked by hard work, but overall a remarkably successful venture, with another 24 units in the planning stages.
The silver lining to the housing challenges in Culver, of course, is what it implies: unlike so many small communities not only in the Midwest but around the country, Culver has utilized its particular resources -- from the presence of Lake Maxinkuckee and Culver Academies, to the retention of a small-town, community spirit -- to not only survive but thrive as a vibrant destination.
John Buxton sums up the essence of the complex relationship between Culver's attributes and its housing complexities: "We're victims of our own success as a little town."


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The annual Xbox Live sale (aka The Countdown to 2012 Campaign) is now live. On Xbox 360, a variety of Xbox Live Arcade games and avatar items are on sale. But Windows Phone gamers haven't been entirely left out of the festivities, as three mobile Xbox Live games just went on sale as well.
The sale games:
- Fruit Ninja – On sale for $1.99, down from $2.99 – Marketplace link
- Fable Coin Golf – On sale for $2.99, down from $4.99 – Marketplace link
- Hydro Thunder Go – On sale for $2.99, down from $4.99 – Marketplace link
Naturally I already own them all (jeez my phone is drowning in games). Still need to go back and finish off Fable Coin Golf, but the others are in the bag. Will you guys be picking any of these titles up, and how do you like them?
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The fourth seeded men's track team (64) was edged by Tufts University (64.5) for second place this past weekend at the New England Division III Track & Field Championships. Williams College (153) won the 21-event competition and has now taken three straight and fourteen of the last sixteen titles.
Senior Uzoma Orji stood out once again as MIT's leader as he came away victorious in both the hammer throw and shot put for the second consecutive year. First on Friday night, he established a new meet and school hammer record of 205-9. The results were no different on Saturday. He took first with a toss of 58-07.50 in the shot put to best all competition. Also impressive in the shot put was freshman James Oleinik, who grabbed three points for MIT with a sixth place finish.
Orji then completed a tremendous weekend with a season best mark of 150-0 in his weakest event, the discus throw. In the pole vault, senior Thad Wozniak got off to a rocky start but managed to nab fifth place with a personal best of 22-4.25 on his third attempt.
In the running events, senior David Blau recovered from a poor showing in the 100 with a second place finish (22.41) in the 200. Sophomore Anthony Teixeira, who had already set a personal best in the long jump (20-9.25) on Friday, returned on Saturday to secure sixth in the 110 hurdles while competing with pink eye.
The 3000 meter steeplechase was another successful event for the Engineers. Chris Bruce took sixth and Jake Ruzevick followed in seventh, together earning five more crucial points for MIT. David Blau, Thad Wozniak, sophomore Kenny Rosche and Demario Dayton combined to take fourth in the 4x100 relay with a time of 42.73, an event in which the Engineers were seeded sixth.
Heading into the final event, the 4x400 relay, MIT maintained a three and a half point lead over Tufts. However, Tufts showed off their strengths in the race and finished fifth to earn four points and take second place by just half a point over MIT.
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The American Krystalnacht has begun!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Jawa weighs in...
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Of course, if this was intended to injure or scare Muslims, then it was a moronic and evil thing to do. It ought to go without saying that I condemn that sort of thing, but in case it doesn't, I absolutely condemn that sort of thing and insist that Muslims and all religions should be free to practice their religion freely and without harassment. And I think this ought to be thoroughly and fairly investigated to see whether the perpetrators were politically motivated, or just regular garden variety moron/vandals. I'm sure CAIR's mind is already made up--they desperately need a new membership booster--but the rest of us might like to see what this investigation turns up. (Maybe it's Buddhist Vigilantes?)
Now, that said, the JYB News Bureau has actually obtained hideous, shocking footage of these devices--which CAIR dubbed "Acid Bombs"-- at work, and the horrible consequences of the unstable mixture. Our report is here.
Mentos and Coca Cola
An Arizona mosque frequented by an imam involved in a high-profile lawsuit against airline passengers was hit by vandals early Monday with what police describe as a "pop bottle bomb."
Imam Didmar Faja says he was standing outside of the Albanian American Islamic Center of Arizona, just west of Phoenix, when the incident occurred at 1 a.m.
The plastic bottle contained pool-cleaning fluid and strips of aluminum foil, and was thrown from a red car driven by two persons. It landed about 20-25 feet from the imam, police said.
In a 10-page press release issued by the Council on American Islamic Relations, Muslims were warned to review their personal security and to "develop a list of attorneys who are willing to be consulted by the Muslim community in response to backlash incidents."
"Ask Muslim attorneys to volunteer their services to community members during this time of crisis," said the "community safety kit" issued by CAIR.
CAIR called the device an "acid bomb" that targeted the imam specifically because of the lawsuit, and called on "local and national law enforcement authorities to investigate the incident as a possible bias-motivated attack."
Glendale police Officer Matt Barnett said at least six similar incidents were reported over the weekend but none was directed at religious targets.
"Calling it an 'acid bomb' is kind of misleading," Officer Barnett said. "It was a plastic bottle with pool cleaner that expands and pops and squirts the pool acid. It's kind of like the Menthos [mints] and Coca Cola thing you see [on YouTube] -- the pressure mounts and it pops. It's not like a stick of dynamite was placed there."
"We're not ruling anything out. We've had a few more pop bottle bombs in the area, and we're concerned and want to see if there is a motive against religion or just a bunch of yahoos driving around and tossing these out the window," Officer Barnett said.
A sergeant with the Glendale Police Department said the incident is under investigation. "We are treating it as a hate crime. We are taking it very seriously," Sgt. Jim Toomey told Reuters News Agency.
Mr. Faja and five other clerics are suing U.S. Airways and "John Doe" passengers claiming they were discriminated against when they were removed from a flight last year. The passengers are named in the suit for reporting suspicious behavior.
The imams' attorney has asked a federal court in Minneapolis to close the court proceedings to the public claiming the men have received death threats.
It was not clear what the imam was doing outside of the center at 1 a.m., as prayers were scheduled for 4:30 a.m.
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Holy Land Foundation Trial
A 1991 document the government entered into evidence this week from the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas' parent organization, outlines its goals in America as "a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Hate crimes charged for Koran abuses
A former Pace University student faces hate-crime charges for taking paperback copies of the Koran from the campus library on two occasions last fall and disposing of the Muslim holy book in toilets.
Stanislav Shmulevich, a Ukrainian immigrant, was arraigned Sunday in New York Criminal Court on two charges of criminal mischief in the fourth degree as a hate crime.
"The defendant, as a hate crime, intentionally damaged property of another while having no right to do so nor any reasonable grounds to believe that he had such a right," said the complaint filed by the New York County District Attorney's Office.
University officials filed a vandalism complaint with police after the first incident on Oct. 12, when "a copy of the Koran was found in a public toilet" at the Manhattan campus that "was covered in feces." A second copy of the Koran was found in a toilet Nov. 21.
When questioned by police, Mr. Shmulevich, 23, "admitted to committing said acts" and "that he committed the acts out of anger toward a group of Muslim students with whom he had had a recent disagreement," the criminal complaint said.
"We reported it initially as an act of vandalism, then the police hate-crime unit came over and decided to pursue it as a hate crime," said Chris Corey, Pace University spokesman, adding that he was "not at liberty" to discuss the investigation or how Mr. Shmulevich was implicated.
Mr. Shmulevich was arrested Friday after police found a surveillance photograph of him leaving the reading room where the books are kept, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
He was released from jail after a Sunday arraignment in New York City Criminal Court. Mr. Shmulevich has no criminal record, and works for a European banking firm. Straley M. Thorpe, Mr. Shmulevich's attorney, declined to discuss the specifics of the case, but said the law his client is charged with violating was challenged in past lawsuits on constitutional grounds.
"This may very well be protected speech," Mr. Thorpe said. "The statute is way too vague and broad and includes that of simply annoying people. But this is a free country, and you can't run the risk of annoying people and be charged with a felony."
Asked whether someone was ever charged with a hate crime over the Bible, Mr. Thorpe said "that would take a paralegal a couple of days to research, but this whole situation is fraught with this kind of question."
A search of Lexis/Nexis did not disclose any hate-crime prosecutions for destroying a Bible.
Winfield Myers, director of Campus Watch for the Middle East Forum, called the arrest a step toward the implementation of Islamic law in America.
"One could take a copy of the Bible, the Torah ... abuse it in any way one liked, and never face a criminal penalty for the act of desecration," Mr. Myers said. "Anything goes — unless the keepers of Islam are offended, and then the power of the state must be brought to bear and the offender punished in a criminal court of law."
"The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can burn the flag and remain immune from prosecution because it is considered to be an act of protected speech. But turn your wrath on the Koran, and you risk arrest and criminal charges. This is Shariah, plain and simple," he said, referring to strict Islamic law.
Mr. Corey said university officials have not been contacted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations; however, the New York chapter released a statement commending the New York Police Department "for its appropriate handling of this case" and said the organization is working with the college's Muslim Student Association and the Association of Muslim American Lawyers "to promote tolerance on the Pace campus."
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Congress yesterday sent President Bush legislation that heightens airport and seaport security and includes a "John Doe" provision to protect airline passengers from retaliatory lawsuits for reporting potential terror activity.
The measure that implements the remaining major September 11 commission recommendations passed the House yesterday 371-40. It had cleared the Senate 85-8 late Thursday night.
"It was our highest priority to make the American people safer and we passed it on our first day in our first legislative act," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat.
"With this bill we will be keeping our promise to the families of 911 victims," she said.
The homeland security bill requires 100 percent inspection of air cargo and maritime cargo within three years, and changes the formula for the distribution of grant money to ensure high-risk areas such as New York and Washington get a larger share of funding.
The White House said the president would sign the bill.
The John Doe provision was introduced by lawmakers in response to a suit filed by a group of Muslim imams who were removed from a November flight after the flight crew and passengers reported the men were behaving suspiciously.
The suspicious activity, first reported by The Washington Times, included changing seats, the pattern of their seating, moving about the cabin before takeoff, criticizing the Bush administration and the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and asking for seat-belt extensions that flight attendants said were not needed.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Bus driver fired
The school bus driver arrested in May after he allegedly cursed and spit at Muslim children in a local fast-food restaurant has lost his job at Bay District Schools.
The School Board voted at Wednesday's meeting to support Superintendent James McCalister's recommendation that Thomas Eugene Plaisted, 60, be suspended without pay and terminated. Plaisted did not attend the meeting.
"I talked to him and informed him, and he knows that I was going to make this recommendation," McCalister told the board. "I told him he and his counsel could talk to the board, but he indicated to me that he would not be present and would not dispute it."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has deemed the alleged incident, which occurred at Taco Bell on State 77 in Lynn Haven, a hate crime. According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, Plaisted was in the restaurant when 36-yearold Asma Sidani, wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf, entered with her two children. When she went to the counter to order, Plaisted cursed and made threatening gestures at the children, deputies reported. He also allegedly spit on one boy and shoved the other.
Plaisted is due back in court Aug. 22 to face two counts of evidencing prejudice while committing an offense. He has pleaded not guilty.
A win for John Doe
ho would have benefited? Aside from ending some inconveniences, the real beneficiaries would be trial lawyers and pressure groups like CAIR eager to pull down the nation's homeland-security procedures. Of course, trial lawyers and far-left anti-antiterrorism groups happen to be important sources of money and policy support for Democrats.
The frightening part is how close we came to open-season on citizen tipsters. As recently as Tuesday, the tipster-immunity language appeared to be dead.
Suing John Doe
The goal of the lawsuit is not just revenge for their experience, but to send a message to anyone who associates Muslims with terror -- no matter how reasonable their suspicions might be -- they should think twice before saying anything.
The possibility of such lawsuits, not to mention the certainty that Cair will label them as "racists," will deter those who report questionable activity to the authorities, and thus potentially make it easier for terrorists to operate in the open.


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By nominating Mary Jo White as the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the White House tapped a former prosecutor who is unlikely to go soft on financial crime and has the ability to help restore faith in the fairness and safety of the capital markets.
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While she may have to lean heavily on the SEC staff on matters of market structure and rulemaking, insiders describe White as a tough but fair person who has the star power needed to attract top talent to Wall Street's chief enforcement agency.
White's selection also signals a willingness by the Obama Administration to crack down on illegal behavior, something critics charge the SEC failed to aggressively pursue over the past four years.
"Wall Street and its allies intimidate people. They're not going to intimidate Mary Jo White," said Dennis Kelleher, CEO of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Better Markets.
If confirmed, White would be the first former prosecutor to assume the position of Wall Street's top cop.
Prosecutor Turned Defense Attorney Turned Regulator
As the first female U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, White prosecuted a slew of high-profile cases, including convicting terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Since then White has served as a partner at the prestigious white-collar New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.
J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon told FOX Business he believes White is "extremely capable, competent, bright and tough" and called her a "perfect choice" as the next SEC chairman.
The selection of a former prosecutor to head the SEC took some by surprise, especially because White's name wasn't bandied about as a potential nominee until recently.
"It is a bit unusual and out of the box," said Rick Firestone, a former associate director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement who interacted with White when she was a defense attorney. "It signals the Obama Administration still wants the SEC to be perceived, and if not in actuality be, a tough cop on Wall Street."
Tougher Enforcement Ahead?
Firestone said concerns about White's prior experience as a prosecutor "might be a little out of proportion," noting her decade in private practice. "In my experience working with Mary Jo, she is a first-grade intellect, a fine securities lawyer and a very fair and reasonable person," he said.
During the tenure of former chairman Mary Schapiro, the SEC came under fire in some corners for not more aggressively prosecuting crisis-era crime on Wall Street.
Robert Khuzami, the outgoing SEC enforcement chief, pushed back at that criticism, telling FOX Business on Wednesday: "We've been the most vigorous enforcement agency out there; it's a very real record of accomplishment."
Still, White's appointment "sends a clear message that if anything the enforcement efforts of the past four or five years are going to be increased significantly," said Gregory Little, a partner at White & Case who previously served as trial counsel for the SEC.
Can White Boost Confidence?
Rather than counting convictions, perhaps the best way to measure the success of White's leadership at the SEC will be whether investor confidence in the safety and soundness of the financial markets increases during her tenure.
White's nomination comes as some investors question whether or not the markets are still fair to ordinary investors and amid questions about the safety of the markets' increasingly-complex structure.
"Too many people believe our markets are rigged by insiders for insiders. When people believe that they don't invest in our markets because they don't trust them. That is terrible not just for our markets but for our entire economy," said Kelleher. "I think Mary Jo White understands that."
Kelleher said by making investors believe there is a "cop on the beat" and "our markets are fair and open," the SEC can help "restore our markets to the broadest, deepest and best markets in the world."
This task can't be achieved with enforcement actions alone, though. The SEC will need to continue efforts to increase disclosure, investigate the pitfalls of high-frequency trading and clarify regulatory concerns by finalizing Dodd-Frank rules.
'Learning Curve'
It's not clear if White has the experience to tackle these difficult and important issues.
"I do think it's going to be perhaps a learning curve for her on regulatory issues," said Firestone, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery. He suggested that while White has a "deep understanding of the market" she may need to lean on the "very experienced SEC staff."
Likewise, White doesn't appear to have deep market-structure experience needed to delve into high-frequency trading, though she did sit on the board of the Nasdaq Stock Market.
"I'm hopeful she will see the threat posed to our markets by the predatory conduct of so much of the high frequency, high computer trading," said Kelleher, who said some HFT is just "profit maximization for the select insider few at the expense of the markets of the many."
Some believe White will be able to lead a recruitment turnaround at the SEC, luring other talented financial and legal individuals to the agency instead of higher-paying private jobs.
Keller said, "The SEC needs to become a beacon for talent: Come to the SEC and serve the public and restore that agency to its historically vaunted status."


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A little bit of everything.
Yesterday dawned warm and sunny and this week's Saturday sky is brought to you from Canon City:
Felicia and I were in Canon City attending the monthly meeting of Warm The World. This picture shows the finished items in the WTW inventory. The bags near the bottom are hats and scarves. The rest of it is blankets. Items on these shelves are tagged, counted and ready to be delivered.
When you look at this picture, it looks like WTW has a ton of inventory. However, when you consider that WTW supports many organizations this is not nearly enough.
This year WTW is supporting all of Fort Carson. Every baby born at the post will receive a handmade blanket from WTW. That's estimated at 1400-1500 blankets. All of sudden these few hundred blankets in the picture don't really seem like a lot.
WTW supplies yarn for it's volunteers. Here is most of the WTW yarn stash:
See that empty spot in the middle? (I'll zoom in for you.):
These are the cubbies for pink and purple yarn. WTW can't keep these colors in stock. In fact, WTW is low on all pastel yarn. Do you have any pastel yarn around your home that you can donate? If you can, please consider sending it off to WTW. Besides yarn, WTW is also in need of gift cards for craft stores so that we can purchase yarn. If you can help, you can send any items to:
Warm the World
PO Box 1089
Canon City, CO 81215
Yesterday's WTW meeting inspired me to throw a new scarf on the needles:
I'm calling this the Bunny Pink Scarf. It's named after Sam's new toy:
Shortly after Valentine's Day I was at the store and came across a bin of stuffed animals that were 75% off. I picked up a few for the dogs. They destroy stuffed toys so quickly and I refuse to spend more than a couple of bucks on each toy. They don't last long, but the toys see a lot of love:
All of that playing wears a girl out:
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Ghosts 'N Goblins Ad Blurbs (Game Boy Advance)
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5 point score based on user ratings.
Advertising Blurbswww.nintendo.com - Nintendo 3DS (US):
Defeat the forces of evil and save your girlfriend in this haunting adventure.Take on the role of the knight Sir Arthur, and delve into the realm of demons and monsters to rescue your girlfriend. Choose your weapons wisely and take advantage of their strengths to deal with the situation at hand. Defeat the main boss at the end of each level and pass through the gates that stand between you and Astaroth. Teach him a lesson in chivalry he'll never forget. The stage for adventure is set. Are you brave enough for the challenge?
This game is only playable in 2D.
Contributed by Harmony♡ (20408) on Jul 18, 2016.
Capcom's universally popular Coin-op; GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS, is now available for your 16-bit home computer.
- Amiga graphics taken directly from coin-op ROM's
- 1 or 2 Player Section
- Amiga & IBM PC versions contain all six levels of coin-op
- Well over 100 screens to battle through
- Choice of five weapons with which to fight
- 28 enemy characters to overcome
- 4 way scrolling effect
Capturing all the features from the ORIGINAL coin-op GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS captures every detail in true 16-bit style:
Europe 16th April 1990
U.K. 2nd May 1990
Contributed by Jo ST (24080) on Feb 18, 2015.
The beautiful princess has been kidnapped by the Devil and imprisoned in Hades. Her one true love, a gallant knight in shining armor, sets out to rescue her armed with one of five different weapons and great skill. But he must overcome demons, dragons, giants, and zombies to get through the seven guarded gates. And ultimately, he must fight with the Devil himself!
GAME PLAY: You are the knight that must save the princess, and your weapons are a javelin, torch, sword, axe and a cross. Gain a suit of armor and you can live through the first fatal blow of an attacker. Look for hidden characters that give you another player or extend your life, but beware of flames that shoot up from the sea of fire. As you destroy the evil enemy demons, a key appears from the sky. This key opens the next gate. There are many friends and foes in the land of Ghosts 'N Goblins. It's a devil of a challenge.
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4672) on Mar 23, 2004.
- The all-time classic, action-adventure game now for the Game Boy Color video system
- Seven challenging levels of hauling adventure
- Collect money, weapons, health and other power-ups to aid you in your quest
Contributed by Corn Popper (69350) on Sep 05, 2002.
Command the heroic Sir Arthur, as you begin a quest to defeat the forces of evil and save your kidnapped girlfriend Guinevere. Scores of evil enemies await you, from zombies to gargoyles, on your journey to save her. Will you survive the perils that lie in wait in the haunted countryside of Ghosts 'n Goblins?
The beautiful princess is kidnapped. Her lover, The Knight in shining armor, armed with five different weapons to fight the enemy, sets out to rescue the beautiful princess.
- Zombies waiting in the cemetery
- Weapons in the enemy's pot
- The Dragon at the third gate
- Giants guarding the area
- The Demon general "Ikkaku" waiting at the first gate
- Watch for flames that shoot up from the sea of fire
The Knight, aided by your skill, must pass thru four different guarded gates, fighting and destroying demons, dragons, giants and zombies. There are hidden characters too! Some friends. Some foes.
Ghosts 'N Goblins is exciting ... challenging you and the Knight to rescue the princess, amid great danger, escaping Hades, land of the enemies.
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What Are You Wearing?
Her name, she said, was Nicole. She called me randomly one night in a Texas hotel room, and she wanted to have phone sex. I obliged. And obliged, and obliged. A year later, Nicole and I decided to meet face-to-face. In retrospect, maybe not the best move
Late one cold, wet November night a couple of years ago, maybe 3 a.m., I was sitting on my bed in a Motel 6 just south of Austin, Texas, brushing my teeth and watching the closing moments of a college basketball game on ESPN2 that had been played earlier that night but was being rebroadcast and whose outcome was still a mystery to me, when the phone on the night table besides me jangled to life.
Who could possibly be calling? Nobody knew I was there; I'd arrived only an hour earlier. It had to be the old Pakistani guy down in the motel office, I figured, or else my little brother, Peter, whom I was traveling with; he'd gone out walking down the service road, looking for better reception on his cellie so he could call his girlfriend. After the third ring, I picked up.
There was a silence, then a woman's voice, half whispering. "Hey there."
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Well," I said. "I'm watching the Providence-Niagara game. I think it might go into overtime. Who is this, by the way?"
"I'm Nicole." I could hear the push of her breath on the other end of the line, as though her mouth was pressed close to the receiver. I went to the window, peered through the curtains—the parking lot was dark and still. Was this someone's idea of a joke? Maybe so, but I was just that bored and lonely enough to play along.
"Hi, Nicole. My name's Davy."
"I like that name" she said.
"Yeah, it's a…uh, it's a good name. Listen, where are you?"
"I'm in your motel." The room seemed to slowly whirl backward, like a carnival ride catching speed. "What are you wearing?"
"Well," I said. "I've got on gray mesh basketball shorts with, let's see, three thin white stripes down each side, and a Bell's Pizza T-shirt." I was quiet for a second, then rushed to fill the silence. "It's blue. I used to deliver for Bell's Pizza. We made these shirts for our rec-league basketball team. Hey, I've got a question for you. Can I ask you a question? What are you wearing?"
"No-thing," she breathed.
There was a stirring in my gray mesh basketball shorts with the three thin white stripes down each side. Nicole explained that she'd hit the bars all night with her friends, and that now they were drunk and passed out and she was bored. "Pretend you're here with me," she said. "I want to tell you what we would do."
I'd never had phone sex before. Not that I was opposed to it—it was just one of those things that never came up. I guess it had always seemed sort of strange and silly to me. Real sex was so much more appealing. And in times when that was hard to come by, well, that's what the stack of Victoria's Secret catalogs crammed behind the books on my bookshelf was for, along with a 1988 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition with Elle Macpherson on the cover and battered VHS copies of 9 ½ Weeks and Basic Instinct (my good stash had been lost in a move).
"If you were here," Nicole said. "I'd lick your lips. I'd lick you everywhere." She moaned a little. "I'm fucking myself right now. Tell me what you're doing."
"Umm, touching my privates?" I started touching my privates.
"I'm sucking your dick right now. Oh yeah, I'm sucking you good. I want you to fuck my mouth like you're fucking my pussy."
Nicole's dirty talk was both ridiculous and oddly arousing. But I couldn't shake the thought that this was all being recorded, that in the parking lot, staked out in the back of an ice cream truck that had been pimped into a mobile surveillance unit, friends of mine were listening in, wide-eyed and gleeful, headphones clamped to their ears. It was hard to be serious. "Nicole," I said. "I'm grabbing onto your titties! I'm kissing you with reckless abandon! I'm pumping in and out of you, like, well…well, like an oil derrick! Or a piston? I'm the sword, baby, and you're the scabbard!"
Finally, I grew less bashful and got into it for real, and in a few minutes there was a happy ending. We said good night. The basketball game on the TV had ended long before, and I had no idea who'd won.
At seven thirty the next morning, the phone rang again, jarring me awake; my brother, too. He lifted his head from the pillow. "Who the fuck is calling?" he said.
It was Nicole. "Girl," I said, "I'm sleeping. Don't you know what time it is?" I was about to hang up, but then, remembering our little moment a few hours before, I softened. "Look, here's my cell number. Call me later, okay?"
A few months earlier, in May 2004, I'd published a book called Found and hit the road with Peter for an eight-month, 136-city tour. At each event, I read from my book and Peter played guitar and sang. We burned from one city to the next in a 1999 Dodge van we'd bought on eBay. Mostly, we crashed on sofas and floors at friends' houses or stayed with folks we'd met that night at our show, though sometimes we'd take turns driving through till dawn while the other slept in the backseat, which folded down into a bed. It was actually so comfortable, a lot of nights I chose to sleep out in the van rather than on a stranger's sagging couch. Once a month or so, dusted from the road, we'd splurge on some sad-sack hotel, like that Motel 6 on the outskirts of Austin. That night Nicole found me, Peter and I had been on the road for six months; we were about a hundred cities into the tour.
Three nights later, in Oklahoma City, I was getting ready for bed out in the van when my cell phone rang. PRIVATE CALLER, it said. It was Nicole. She was still whispering. "What's up with the whispering?" I asked. She said her roommates were sleeping in the next room. We chatted for a few minutes, then got into the phone sex again. She told me she was tonguing my balls. This time I went Shakespeare: "Oh baby, wherefore art thy labia?" Afterward, she was about to hang up, but I said, "Nicole, that's so impersonal. If the fantasy is that we're having sex, I don't want to just zip up my pants the second we're done and leave. Can't we just talk for a bit? You know, cuddle?"
I was curious about Nicole. Now that we'd had sex a couple of times, I wanted to know what she was all about—I wanted to know where she worked; I wanted to know what she was into (besides having phone sex with strangers); I wanted to know what kind of person calls hotel rooms to have phone sex with strangers. She told me she'd studied psychology at the University of North Texas and that now she worked as a nurse at an old-age home in Waco; she'd just been down in Austin visiting friends. She also told me that her mother had passed away recently and that she'd been having a tough time with it—they'd been especially close.
The next few times we talked, she was still whispering, which was starting to seem a little suspicious. She said her boyfriend was studying just outside her bedroom door. I got a little freaked out—was this a guy I'd been talking to?
"Nicole, what the fuck? I said. "Just talk out loud for a second so I can hear your real voice." She refused. Still, she seemed like a girl—there'd been a few times when I thought I'd heard her real voice, times when she laughed, times when she moaned. So I went ahead and had phone sex with her anyway.
Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Tampa—Nicole and I skittered across the South; it was like Badlands for the new millennium (less killing, more "anytime minutes"). Every few nights, I'd be out in the van after a show, making my bed in the backseat, when Nicole would call, and we'd get hot and heavy. I was still wary that this was all some crazy prank by my friends and that our calls were being recorded, so during phone sex I kept things tongue-in-check, as though hamming it up for an audience. Nicole would be talking dirty, telling me how she wanted to squeeze my dick with her pussy, and I'd just start riffing on some goofy shit: There was NASCAR-themed pillow talk ("Straddle my throttle, Nicole. Take me to the checkered flag!"), and then sometimes I'd do it up in a stiff, upper-crust British accent ("Oh, God save the queen. I'm coming, I'm coming, tea and crumpets for all!"), and then other times, I performed in the voice of a black comedian making fun of the way white people talk, over-pronouncing each word ("Oh yes, baby, golly gee, keep licking my penis, that just feels absolutely stupendous!"). Only irony could distance me from the sad truth of what I was really doing: jacking off in the back of my van in a Taco Bell parking lot in Jefferson City, Missouri, while talking on my headset to someone who was possibly a man.
My brother gave me shit for it. "I can't believe you still talk to that dude," he said.
"It's not a dude," I said.
Over the phone, Nicole definitely had the resigned spirit of a woman who'd had a lot of attention from guys in high school but then, knocked around by life, had slid hopelessly overweight. It was weird that she was always whispering, though. A couple of times, I told Nicole it was over unless she talked out loud so I could be sure she was a girl. She refused, and for the next week I wouldn't answer her calls. Then I'd relent. One time I even asked a girl I met at one of the Found readings for details of what happens on the visit to the gynecologist, then asked Nicole the same thing. "It's uncomfortable," she whispered. "They come at you with that speculum—it's like a medieval torture device." I pressed her to continue, but she wasn't going to pay these games with me. Speculum? Ten out of ten male friends I polled had no idea what that was. Surely she was a she. But why disguise her voice? It was maddening.
Ultimately, this is what I told myself: Phone sex was really about the power of the imagination, and in that case I could imagine her to be whomever I wanted. It wasn't hard to imagine her as Fiona Apple's double.
Our relationship deepened. My phone had a special ring for Private Caller, and since Nicole was the only one who rang like that, I could tell when she was calling. I started looking forward to her calls. I dropped the funny guises and just talked to her genuinely. Sometimes we'd talk for half an hour before phone sex. Out in my van after a long night in Phoenix or Des Moines, I'd be lonely, drunk, and depressed, and tell her about my problems. Nicole was a great listener, willing to indulge each tangent of every story she was told. She was as curious about my life as I was about hers. In a fucked-up way, this was the closest I'd had to a real girlfriend in years. And the more we got to know each other, the more the sex improved. Nicole was insatiable. She started calling me every day, a half hour before my reading, when she knew I'd be out in the van getting my notes ready. "Hey, Davy," she'd breathe, "how 'bout a quickie?"
In December the book tour ended, and I resumed a more regular kind of life—staying put in Michigan, playing basketball twice a week at the rec center, sleeping in my own bed. For the most part, I stopped answering Nicole's calls. I was busy, and I was dating real girls—real in that they were in the flesh in front of me, and real in that they were unquestionably biological girls. But I also felt bad that I'd left Nicole in the lurch, and on occasion I'd still have a late-night phone visit with her. We were like those couples who break up but still end up sleeping together every once in a while. Then, one day, her number was no longer in service. Nicole was gone.
A few months ago, my van broke down on the freeway near my house, and as I waited for a tow and the bitter cold edged in, I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them. This game usually ends with me calling two or three of my es and leaving miserable voicemails on their cell phones or their machines at home. Inevitably, one of their new beaus calls back to say, "Hey man, I got your message. Emilie's down in Chile for two weeks, but you sounded really down…. I just wanted to call and make sure you were doing all right."
That night, on the shoulder of I-94, big rigs howling past, I thought of Nicole. We'd had kind of a nice connection, hadn't we? All the funny and sad stories she'd told me about working at the nursing home flooded my mind, along with her reminiscences of her mom, and I got the urge to track her down and meet her, find out who the fuck she was. I knew she might be 400 pounds or my grandma's age, or a guy, but there was also a possibility that she was, well, hot. So I tried her old number. A moment later, I heard her familiar whisper. "Hi, Davy," she said. "Been a while."
"I know! I can't believe I reached you! Listen, this is gonna sound crazy, but okay, I've been doing some thinking, and what I think is, I think we should meet. We should meet up." There was a long pause, the kind of silence you hear when the TV's showing footage of a plane crash or a natural disaster and the anchorman's at a loss for words. "Look," I said. "I just want to meet you in person. I'll come down to Austin or Waco or wherever you live. It's fucking freezing here, anyway."
Another long pause. Then: "You sure you're ready to meet the real me?"
Ten days later, I was in Austin. Nicole suggested we get together at an Applebee's off I-35 at the far-north end of town. I pulled into the parking lot at eight; this was one of those grim, anonymous commercial strips where Americans carry out their ordinary lives that appear on MSNBC after, say, a sniper shooting or a child abduction. Nicole knew what I looked like—I'd directed her to my picture on the Found Web site—but I had no idea whom to be looking for other than somebody sitting alone. A weary hostess greeted me: "Table for one?"
"Actually, I'm looking for a friend." I walked past her into the restaurant. The place was mostly empty; on a jumbo-sized TV, the Pro Bowl was on. At a table in the back, gazing at me with an odd smile while sipping a Coke, was a woman who was at least 89 years old. No fucking way. I almost bolted right then. But I'd come 1,500 miles to meet the real Nicole, even if the real Nicole had stumbled off the set of Cocoon. I ambled over and stood above her table. "Nicole?"
"There's no radishes in my soup!" the lady said. "I asked for radishes!"
It wasn't Nicole.
At another table, sitting by himself and halfheartedly watching the game, was a skinny Eminem-looking kid in a white Spurs hoodie who couldn't have been out of high school. I went over to him, squeamish and cringing.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Hi, I'm Davy."
"Okaaa-aay." He looked at me sideways.
Not Nicole. I felt dizzy with relief.
Then I saw her, perched on a red stool at the bar, toying with her cell phone—a curvy Latina maybe 24 years old. No J.Lo, but perhaps a young Rosie Perez. Nice! I felt a little tingle. This was the kind of girl I'd move to Texas for. I wondered if we'd be having sex in my hotel room tonight.
I moved close, and she turned to me with a smile.
"No," she said.
"Oh," I said.
What the fuck? Had she stood me up? I turned away and headed out of the restaurant, almost bumping into a guy on his way in. He was black with a shaved head, about 30 years old. We gazed at each other for a long couple of beats. Then slowly, shyly, he raised his hand and gave a little wave.
Nicole's real name was Aaron. We went inside and sat in a booth far from everyone. He ordered a Long Island iced tea; I ordered two whiskeys. The world seemed to rattle and buzz. Each steamy moment Nicole and I had shared over the phone flickered through my mind like a porno on fast-forward. But now, in each frame, I had to replace Fiona Apple with this—HOLY FUCK!—this guy. What kind of deranged motherfucker pulls stunts like this? My neck got hot, and I thought about just getting the fuck out Dodge, but after a minute the drinks and Aaron's bashful, slumping presence cooled me down.
Aaron began to explain things. He'd been doing the Nicole voice since he was 13, he told me. His first calls were to a guy at his high school, whom he had a crush on. Over the years, he'd had dozens of relationships with the general trajectory as ours: heated phone sex gradually evolving into a deeper friendship, then, after three weeks or three years, an inevitable flameout.
But how had he come to find me that night at the Motel 6? Was he staying in another room and saw my TV on?
"No, I was at home," Aaron said. "There's five Motel 6s in Austin; I have all their phone numbers memorized." These motels were somewhat unique, he said: Calls don't go through the front desk; they're handled by an automated system that asks for a room number. Many nights, after the clubs had closed, he'd be bored and drunk and start dialing random rooms. If a girl answered, he'd hang up—Aaron was gay; he didn't want to talk to girls. If a guy answered and he sounded nice, "Nicole" would start whispering.
He had dated—by phone—cops, businessmen, students, even a butcher and a baker (truly, but no candlestick maker). "I always want to be able to reach someone when I'm in the mood," he said. "So I like to have two or three things going at any one time."
"You mean all that time you were cheating on me?" I said in mock horror. "Whispering to other guys?"
He laughed—a squeaky girlish laugh. I could see how I'd mistaken him over the phone as female. Still, there'd been times when I'd suspected Nicole was a guy and had gone ahead with the sex anyway. Did that mean I was gay? Nah, not really. Each time we'd talked, at least during sex, I'd been able to convince myself that Nicole was female. My powers of self-deception were perhaps mightier than I'd realized, but I wasn't going to have to reexamine my own sexuality.
Aaron revealed more. I wasn't a very adventurous phone-sex partner. Spanking, domination—sometimes his calls veered into these territories. As Nicole, he'd led guys into the shower and had them pee on themselves. Once, he'd arranged to have a guy fuck his wife while he listened, without the wife knowing. All of this information was dispensed with the sheepish amusement and reluctant pride of a criminal reflecting on his work at the end of a spree.
Did he think Nicole's phone buddies know she was a guy? Some knew, he figured, but chose to ignore it. Others had no clue. A few guys had become so obsessed with Nicole that they'd proposed marriage. One even promised to leave his wife for her. "That's when I have to tell them the truth," Aaron said. "I feel bad for deceiving them for so long. It can be really heart-wrenching, because I might have feelings for them, too, but I have to tell 'em, 'Look, I'm a guy.'" There'd been shock, anger, promises of a beating. A lawyer he'd been screwing over the phone for a year called him a fucking faggot, slammed down the phone, and then, hours later, called back, confessed he'd had fantasies about guys, and asked to meet up. They ended up having sex at Aaron's apartment. A half-dozen times, he said, he'd hooked up with guys he'd met as Nicole. All of them claimed to be straight, only curious.
I still couldn't understand the allure of all of this. Aaron was a handsome guy, fit, with kind eyes. I knew from months of calls that he was a sweet soul and bighearted. Why didn't he find himself a boyfriend?
"I had a bona fide boyfriend once," he said. "A few years ago. I was so in love. But then he took off." Aaron looked down. "It's hard in the gay community. People are not faithful. It's hard to find someone who wants to be committed and serious."
That sounded like a cop-out to me; plenty of my gay friends had managed to find long-term partners.
"Maybe I'm in the wrong scene," Aaron said. "Guys at the clubs, they don't want what I want." Over the phone, he could get to know someone as a person first. It wasn't all about looks. "Sometimes," he said, "you can express yourself better with a stranger."
I asked about his mom—had she known he was gay? "We never had 'the conversation,'" he said, "but I think she suspected. Didn't matter. She loved me no matter what."
"She passed away in 2004?"
Aaron paused, "1999."
"Oh, my bad." I said. "For some reason, I thought it was more recent."
"Yeah," he said. "I lie about that. I always want to talk about her with people, but I think they'll think I'm weird if they know it's been seven years and I can't get over it."
I ordered us another round of drinks.
Aaron drifted from one story about his mom into another, and gradually his double life as Nicole began to make sense to me. Here was a guy still grieving over the loss of his mother, crushed from a broken relationship, and surrounded by death at his job—no wonder getting involved with people felt harrowing. As Nicole, it seemed, he managed to get his rocks off without risking true intimacy. I could only applaud his innovation, thought it struck me as awfully lonely.
The Pro Bowl had ended, and Applebee's was clearing out. I paid the bill, and we made our way out to the parking lot. A gloomy mist had settled in; the wet pavement had a dull shine.
"How 'bout a hug?" I said.
He smelled of musky cologne, salt, and beer, like a football stadium after the stands empty out.
"See ya around," Aaron said, though he knew I was flying back to Detroit the next morning.
"Yeah. See you around."
We got in our cars and rolled out of the lot, both headed for the I-35 South ramp. On the freeway, we drove side by side for a half-minute like two truckers. I saw Aaron playing with his phone, and then my phone buzzed—he'd sent me a text message: WANNA TRY A GUY?
I looked across at him, shook my head, and held up my hands—sorry, man, nothing I can do.
Aaron gave a little tight-mouthed nod and lifted his hand—the same understated wave when we'd first run into each other. Then he zoomed ahead, and a mile later, at a split in the highway, peeled away. I watched his taillights until at last they disappeared into the foggy, aching Texas night.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the first time in six years, the MIT softball team defeated the Coast Guard Academy with a score of 10-2 in the first game and 4-1 in the second. The Engineers are now 9-4 for the season and 2-0 in NEWMAC play, while the Bears dipped to 9-7 and 2-2 in conference play.
In the first game, senior Anna Christensen (Vernon Hills, Ill.) went 2 for 3 with two runs and two RBIs. She and sophomore Sarah Van Belleghem (Los Gatos, Calif.), who was 1 for 4 with one hit and one RBI, were the only two Engineers to score twice, once in the first and once in the last inning.
MIT offense came alive at the bottom of the sixth and final inning, where they scored five runs on five hits. Senior Leah Alpert (Needham, Mass.) scored the first run of the inning and was followed soon after by sophomore K.K. Wopat (Edwardsville, Ill.) and freshman Alex Burgess (Chelmsford, Mass.), who both reached home on an error by the catcher. Off a single by Christensen and an error by the left fielder, freshman Alexandra Marshall (Glen Head, N.Y.) and Van Belleghem scored and, to end the game, Christensen scored off a double by freshman Tori Jensen (Holliston, Mass.).
Sophomore Ellie Fodor (Trenton, Mich.) pitched all six innings, allowing only six hits, two runs and struck out five batters.
MIT wasted no time in the second game, scoring two runs at the bottom of the second. The Cardinal and Gray increased their lead over the Bears further at the bottom of the fifth inning when Jensen hit her second homerun of the season, allowing her and Christensen, who batted before her, to score. Jensen is the only Engineer to have hit a homerun so far this season.
At the top of the sixth, Coast Guard scored its only run of the game when an error by the left fielder allowed Jessie Richardson to score. With two more scoreless innings, the game ended with an MIT victory of 4-1.
In her seven innings on the mound, Marshall allowed only three hits, one run and she struck out four batters. She is now 3-2 for the season.
The Engineers' next game will be on Wednesday, April 3 when they host Suffolk University at 3:00 and 5:00 p.m.


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Dato' Mohd Izani bin Ghani, aged 49, Malaysian, Male, was appointed to the Board of MAHB as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 21 March 2011. He is the Chairman of Board Nomination & Remuneration Committee and a member of Board Audit Committee and Board Finance & Investment Committee of MAHB. He is also a member of Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport Investment Development and Operation Inc. and LGM Airport Operations Trade and Tourism Inc.
Dato' Mohd Izani graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom in 1991 with Bachelor of Science (Economics) specialising in Accounting and Finance. After graduating from LSE, he pursued his professional accounting qualification from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and was admitted to Fellowship in 1998. He is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). He is currently the Executive Director, Investments of Khazanah nasional Berhad and Overseeing Executive Director of Khazanah Turkey Regional Office.
He is also a Director of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad and Fajar Capital Limited. In addition, he sits on the Board of several special purpose companies which are wholly-owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, namely Rantau Abang Capital Berhad, Feringghi Capital Ltd, Klebang Capital Ltd, Lido Capital Ltd and Cenang Capital Ltd.


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UPDATE: Due to inclement weather in the Northeast and the resulting flight cancellations across the region, the 3 Cohens concert scheduled for Feb. 9 has been canceled. Tickets will be refunded at the Miniaci box office.
George Wein's Newport All-Stars seemed a bit out of place among the percussive, groove-heavy lineup of San Juan's 2010 Heineken Jazz Fest. How would a bluesy, traditional jazz group fare amidst a roster of Latin-jazz superstars? And yet, when the band's clarinetist, the Israeli-born Anat Cohen, started blowing hot 'n' sweet notes into the humid night air, the largely Puertorriqueño audience stood and cheered as if she were a daughter of the Enchanted Isle.
Ovations for Cohen's virtuosity have been fairly universal. She topped December's DownBeat Readers Poll on her instrument and has a virtual lock on best clarinetist — six years running — as voted on by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Cohen's native Tel Aviv is a world removed from Puerto Rico, let alone the jazz hub of New York, where she currently resides. As unlikely as it seems, Israel has produced a generation of world-class jazz talent, including Cohen, 37, and her brothers, trumpeter Avishai, 34, and saxophonist Yuval, 39. While each pursues individual projects — Anat and Avishai from New York, Yuval from Tel Aviv — they also record and tour as the 3 Cohens. A current tour will bring their sextet to the Miniaci Performing Arts Center in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday.
The 3 Cohens' third album, "Family," deftly meshes their passion for traditional jazz with undeniably modern sensibilities. With obvious affection, they update numbers by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, while also nodding to modern-jazz greats Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy. Musical prodigies from a young age, the Jaffa Conservatory-trained Cohen kids played everything from classical to swing and Dixieland.
"Louis Armstrong became a favorite of ours very early on," Anat relates, explaining that she and her brothers latched onto their parents' cassette tape of Satchmo and Ella Fitzgerald. "That time period [in jazz] is very dear for the three of us."
The Cohens are hardly mired in the past. Anat's 2012 recording, "Claroscuro," while reviving tunes associated with Edith Piaf and Artie Shaw, sounds quite modern, as she switches among clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor and soprano saxophones. Avishai's recent "Triveni II" recording delves into material by avant-gardists Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. And Yuval's 2011 "Song Without Words," a duo recording with pianist Shai Maestro, melds modern and classical influences.
Standouts at the conservatory, as well as at the Rimon and Thelma Yellin schools, the Cohen siblings each earned scholarships to Berklee College of Music in Boston, before heading to New York. Then, in 1997, Yuval had a tumor removed from his spinal cord. The operation limited motion in his hands, and he returned to Israel, where he established himself as a premier music educator. Having since recovered, he's delighted to be playing with his brother and sister whenever opportunities arise. "It's something I look forward to," he says. "Getting together three, four, five times a year — you wait for it. And it's great when it happens."
Avishai, who took Rising Star Trumpet honors in the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll, echoes Yuval's sentiments. "Playing with your brother and sister, nothing can be like that," he says, "and that can't be anything else."
3 Cohens Sextet
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9
Where: Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.
Cost: $40, $15 for students
Contact: 954-462-0222 or SouthFloridaJazz.org


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Bikini Brief Undies
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So the morning after I attempted McCall's DIY style panties pattern, I sat down with my pattern paper, patterns, a ruler, pen, and my Victoria Secret undies and got to work. It didn't take much to draft up a new underwear pattern. This one has more coverage on the sides and no third crotch piece, which means less seams and less bulk. I believe these are also a bit more low-rise than the ones at the top, too.
After trying them on, I was thrilled with the results. I probably could have done this without buying the Tops and Panties pattern, but it was worth a try. The other innovation I came upon was using Wash-Away Wonder tape, a double-sided, sew-through, wash-away basting tape. I put that sucker on to attach the elastic and my stitches came out beautifully—perfectly holding the fabric and elastic in place. But beware when you are buying tape—if it is not double-sided, sew-through AND wash-away, you do not have the right product. Buy it in 1/4" or 1/8" strips for this project.
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Nov 13, 2010, 11.23 PMby madebymeg
Yes, the pattern on my blog page is for S-M-L :) If you make a size, let me know how it works out for ya!
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Nov 14, 2010, 04.03 PMby nehmah
Thanks, I have the patterns. I also have had a good time browsing your site. You have a most creative mind. Cordially, Nehmah
BTW, unders w/b donated through our anonymous group of folks who find those in need. (Used panties are not given away. They generally cannot be used for a pattern, due to stretching.) If you turn out a nice muslin, it can go to someone who really needs a decent garment. You get the tweaking for the final project, she gets a new "whatever". N
Nov 13, 2010, 10.45 PMby nehmah
Oops, I missed the post, again. The instructions and scans make the construction quite clear. One question; is the pattern for the panties in s-m-l on your blog page? Cordially, Nehmah
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(Adapted from James Tanton's monthly St. Mark's Math Institute newsletter.)
And then let them in on the dirty little trick that in math we insist on calling it a logarithm instead of a power when we write it like that.
To answer the inevitable "What the hell?", I go into a little history of how John Napier invented logarithms to make multi-digit multiplication easier for Renaissance astronomers.
Then we mention that it's an inverse of an exponential equation, play a little more with shifting between exponential equations and log equations, and we are done for the day.
Here are my filled in notes:
Algebra 2 Notes 7-1Here is the smart notebook file. Here is a google doc with text of a task for easy copy and pasting.
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