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June 30, 2011 -- Mobile phones could hold the key to people giving up smoking after a study involving sending motivational and supportive text messages to smokers doubled quit rates after six months.
The "txt2stop" study is the first to verify quit rates using biochemical testing. It shows that smokers are twice as likely to quit their habit when receiving motivational text messages compared with those receiving standard texts.
The study published in The Lancet is by Caroline Free, PhD, of the Clinical Trials Research Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues. It was partly funded by the U.K. Medical Research Council.
In a news release, Free says, "Text messages are a very convenient way for smokers to receive support to quit. People described txt2stop as like having a 'friend' encouraging them or an 'angel on their shoulder.' It helped people resist the temptation to smoke."
Motivational Texting
Researchers randomly assigned 5,800 U.K. smokers who were willing to quit to either the txt2stop group (2,915 smokers) or to a comparison group receiving only non-motivational texts (2,885 smokers).
The txt2stop group received five text messages a day for the first five weeks and then three per week for the next 26 weeks, with a personalized system that also allowed people to receive instant messages at times of need by texting the word "crave" or "lapse."
Motivational texts included encouragement up to the actual quit day, advice on keeping weight off while quitting, and help dealing with cravings. For example, the craving text read: "Cravings last less than five minutes on average. To help distract yourself, try sipping a drink slowly until the craving is over."
Participants who texted "lapse" would receive a text that read: "Don't feel bad or guilty if you've slipped. You've achieved a lot by stopping for a while. Slip-ups can be a normal part of the quitting process. Keep going, you can do it!"
Non-motivational texts simply thanked people for their participation, requested confirmation of contact details, or said a range of other things not connected to smoking itself. For example: "Being part of this will help others in the future. Thanks for your help!" or "Only four more weeks to go until completion of the study!"
Abstinence from smoking was confirmed by testing the levels of cotinine (a chemical in tobacco) found in participants' saliva.
Smoking Cessation Program of the Future?
Quitting smoking has huge implications for health, but although two out of three smokers would like to give up, they often fail. Participants in the txt2stop group were more than twice as likely to have quit after six months than those in the comparison group (10.7% vs. 4.9% respectively).
Professor Max Parmar, director of the Medical Research Council clinical trials unit in the U.K., says in a news release, "This research has shown that texting could be a powerful tool to help people to walk away from cigarettes for good."
Glyn Mcintosh, director of development and communications at the U.K. charity QUIT, which helped develop the text messages and find volunteers for the study, says in a news release, "We are delighted with the results and hope that text motivation will now become a standard part of the quitting process."
Case Study
Fergus Joel, of Edinburgh, Scotland, says he successfully gave up his 20-a-day habit thanks to txt2stop and feels much healthier as a result.
The supermarket worker, who has two young children, says he likened the messages to a 24/7 friend providing encouragement and useful advice, which spurred him on during moments of weakness.
Joel, 36, who started smoking in 2000, used to light up three or four cigarettes before his morning coffee until he gave up during the txt2stop program in August 2009. He says in a news release, "The messages really helped me. I'd tried to give up before but it's tough to keep up the willpower.
"To get a text message at that time of day, even at weekends, it's like having a companion with you 24/7 encouraging you to stop. It does motivate you to stop. You're thinking, 'I shouldn't really smoke here, because this is somebody sending me messages here, on my own phone, in my own private space.' The wording of the messages was really good too, telling me things like 'the craving will pass,' 'hold on,' 'drink some water.'
"At the end of the day, I've got two children, and I don't want them to see their daddy as a smoker, this man who's stinking of stale smoke all the time. And the thing that motivated me most was the children but it was also for my health as well.
"I feel much fitter now -- I can run about with the children, I can taste my food much better, I can smell the air, it's just brilliant. It's been two years now and I'm very happy I've come this far."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the third year in a row, members of the MIT men and women's track and field teams were named to the Capital One Academic All-America team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Tuesday afternoon. A total of six Engineers were honored, three each from the men's and women's squads.
Senior Tyler Singer-Clark (Falmouth, Mass.) and junior Benjamin Schreck (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), were both named to the Men's Division III Second Team, while senior Jordan Mizerak (Lexington, Mass.) earned a spot on the third team. Seniors Jaclyn Konopka (Novi, Mich.) and Louise van den Heuvel (Nashua, N.H.) each were selected to the Women's Division III Second Team, and classmate Kaitlin Allen (Bedford, N.H.) secured a spot on the third team.
Singer-Clark earns his third Academic All-America honor after being named to the second team last year. A two-time All-American prior to this past season, Singer-Clark was part of the 4x400 relay that finished fourth at both the NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor Championships. A computer science and engineering major with a concentration in music, Singer-Clark is a seven-time New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference honoree. He held an internship running a digital piano lab and conducted an IBM co-op.
A first-time All-American pole vaulter that finished eighth during indoor NCAAs and sixth at outdoor NCAAs, Schreck, who earns his first Academic All-America honor, placed first or second in the event 10 times throughout the 2013-14 season. He was second at the NEWMAC Championships, tied for second at the New England Championships and was 13th at NEICAAAs. He was also named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team for the second year in a row. Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science with a concentration in music, Schreck has worked in the Department of Research and Development and the MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Group.
Mizerak, who earned his first CoSIDA Academic All-District Team honors last month and initial Academic All-America honor, concluded his collegiate career with an eighth place finish in the pole vault at the ECAC Outdoor Championships. His lifetime best vault was at the New England Division III Championships last month where he placed fifth and cleared 15-03.00. He was also named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team each of the past three years. Mizerak interned at Altaeros Energies and worked with the Precision Engineering Research Group, and the Space Systems Laboratory. He also received the Louis N. Tuomala Award for excellence in thermal fluids engineering.
Konopka earned her second straight Academic All-America honor after being named second team All-America last year. At the New England Division III Indoor Championships, she placed second in the pentathlon and tied for second in the high jump, while at indoor NCAAs she was 15th in the pentathlon. During the outdoor season, she finished second in the 100m hurdles and fifth in the long jump at the NEWMAC Championships. A brain and cognitive sciences major with minors in chemistry and biology, Konopka has done research in the Nedivi Lab where she was an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Research, as well as in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab and the Fee Lab. She was also the president of Brain Trust.

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BALTIMORE, 05-12-09 – Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird arrived at Pimlico ahead of schedule Tuesday with a Baltimore City Police escort at 6:44 p.m. after leaving Churchill Downs at 9:06.a.m.
"I called a friend on the way and said it's the first time I've had the police leading me instead of chasing me," quipped Woolley, who drove all the way in the Ford F-450 Lariat that towed the gleaming white van carrying his Kentucky Derby winner.
The New Mexico-based trainer, who saddled Mine That Bird for a stunning 50-1 upset by nearly seven lengths in the Run for the Roses on May 2, reported that the van ride when "as smooth as silk" for the son of Birdstone, who will return to action in Saturday's 134th running of the Preakness Stakes.
"He was calm all the way; ate his feed, cleaned up good; drank all his water," said Woolley, a first-time visitor to Maryland
The 45-year-old trainer allowed Mine That Bird to pose for photographers and cameramen for 15 minutes outside the Pimlico Stakes Barn only minutes after arriving. The Kentucky-bred horse stood calmly, unfazed by the frantic chorus of clicking camera shutters. Woolley seemed as relaxed as his colt just 10 days after running off with the Derby and four days before an attempt to add the Preakness on his unlikely Triple Crown campaign.
"I'm having a lot of fun now," Woolley said. "It took a little while after the Derby to sink in, but now I'm starting to really enjoy it."
Mine That Bird will bedded down in Stall 40, the traditional stall reserved for the Kentucky Derby winner in the Preakness Stakes Barn.
(Woolley will meet with the media at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
General Quarters had an eventful journey that began at 5 a.m. from Churchill Downs and concluded an hour past schedule at 4:45 p.m. due to his van's involvement in a minor traffic accident near Pimlico. Van driver Maurice Poe missed the stable gate and was heading for the entrance to Interstate 83 when his van was clipped on the driver's side by another vehicle as he attempted to find his way back to Pimlico. Fortunately, Poe, groom Billy Bass, General Quarters and another unidentified thoroughbred passenger were uninjured.
"He's fine," said owner/trainer Tom McCarthy, who left the track to investigate. "I think I'm more upset than he is. There was hardly any damage to the van."
"It was pretty scary," Bass said. "But he held all right. It didn't throw him around, just the feed."
The D. Wayne Lukas-trained duo of Flying Private and Luv Gov arrived at Pimlico 40 minutes later following a less stressful van ride from Churchill Downs.
134th PREAKNESS STAKES CONTENDERS
Horse Trainer Jockey Record
Big Drama David Fawkes John Velazquez 7-5-1-1, $890,250
Flying Private D. Wayne Lukas Alan Garcia 11-1-4-0, $193,080
Friesan Fire Larry Jones Gabriel Saez 8-4-1-1, $603,265
General Quarters Tom McCarthy Julien Leparoux 12-3-3-1, $641,735
Luv Gov D. Wayne Lukas Jamie Theriot 10-1-3-1, $62,896
Mine That Bird Chip Woolley Mike Smith 9-5-1-0, $1,791,581
Musket Man Derek Ryan Eibar Coa 7-5-0-2, $772,600
Papa Clem Gary Stute Rafael Bejarano 7-2-2-0, $890,940
Pioneerof the Nile Bob Baffert Garrett Gomez 9-5-1-1, $1,634,200
Rachel Alexandra Steve Asmussen Calvin Borel 10-7-2-0, $958,354
Take the Points Todd Pletcher Edgar Prado 6-2-2-0, $156,190
Terrain Al Stall Jr. Jeremy Rose 8-3-1-1, $512,084
Tone It Down William Komlo Kent Desormeaux 6-2-2-1, $54,720


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A California chef told police he killed and slow-cooked his wife for four days to dispose of the body. KNBC's Beverly White reports.
A Southern California chef on trial for allegedly killing his wife told police he slow-cooked her body then dumped it out as kitchen waste, according to an interview that was played in court on Tuesday.
Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David – the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance, Calif. – as a prime suspect.
In 2011, investigators dug up the Thyme Café, which Dawn co-owned, searching for her body. But in a taped interview played Tuesday in court, David Viens seemed to tell police why her remains may never be found.
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"I took some, some things like weights that we use and I put them on the top of her body, and I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days," Viens said on tape.
Documents: Read David Viens' interview with deputies
Viens claimed he argued with his wife, then bound her arms and feet and duct-taped her mouth shut. He said he panicked when he found her dead the next morning.
Viens claimed he stuffed his wife's 105-pound body in a drum and disposed of the remains as if it were kitchen waste.
"I came up with the idea of cleaning the grease traps and commingling in the, the excess, the excess protein," he could be heard saying on the tape.
David Viens told police he recovered Dawn's skull and jawbone and hid them in his mother's attic. Investigators say they never recovered any body parts.
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This report is from the week of April 24 to April 30, 2011.
The reports are missing for the following dates: April 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. Town Watch will be communicating with the Police Department to update the report.
April 30. 7800 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states that the last time he saw his blue 1998 Volvo V70, with a temporary tag DeX1002187 was April 8. Complainant was away on a business trip.


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US Basically Says It'll Ignore Anything In ACTA That It Doesn't Like... So How About Everyone Else?
from the ignore-away dept
"Each Party shall be free to determine the appropriate method of implementing the provisions of this Agreement within its own legal system and practice."We've even had people in our comments highlight that section, as a clear indication that each country need not change its laws. And some of the US negotiators are specifically using that clause to say that it can sign the current agreement and then point to that clause to ignore whatever they don't like in ACTA. Of course, this response has some scratching their heads. If the US can point to that clause an opt out of any clause that they don't like why can't other countries do the same? And, if it's true that any country can use that clause to effectively opt-out of anything they don't like in ACTA, what's the point of ACTA in the first place?
Of course, the reality, again, is that it's because down the road, when everyone's forgotten the promises that ACTA won't change anyone's laws, the lobbyists will step in and do the whole "international obligations" bit. What's amusing to me is that the very same commenters on our site who insist that ACTA cannot change US law, and who have pointed to Article 1.2 as proof, were also the very same folks in our comments a few months ago pointing to the demands that Canada change its copyright laws by claiming "international obligations" concerning WIPO/TRIPS -- even though WIPO/TRIPS, similarly, is supposed to let each country set up its laws "within its own legal system and practice."
It's basically all a shell game: say whatever you can to get the damned thing signed, knowing that after it's signed, it'll be much easier to apply lobbying pressure down the road.


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Modern Family, Homeland and Game Change dominated Sunday's 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, each winning four awards, with the Showtime drama ending Mad Men's four-year reign as Best Drama Series.
Homeland also claimed the lead drama trophies for Damian Lewis and Claire Danes, and the drama writing award. It is the first show to win Best Drama series, lead actor and lead actress since Picket Fences in 1993.
Mad Men was gunning for an unprecedented five-peat in Best Drama Series, but ended up going 0-17 this year. It also extended its acting awards drought to a dismal 0-25.
Check out all the fashion hits and misses at the EmmysModern Family became the fifth show to three-peat in Best Comedy Series, following The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi and 30 Rock. Stars Eric Stonestreet and Julie Bowen both won their second Emmys in the comedy supporting races. Stonestreet previously won in 2010 and is the sixth man to win two in the category. Bowen won last year and is the first to repeat since Doris Roberts won three straight nine years ago. The sitcom also won comedy directing.
Game Change nearly swept all the TV movie/miniseries awards, nabbing the top prize, lead actress for Julianne Moore and writing and directing prizes.In a surprise victory, Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer won comedy lead actor after switching from the supporting category, which he won in 2009. Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her third Emmy and second in comedy lead actress for Veep.
Check out all the red carpet arrivals at the Emmys
The drama supporting trophies went to Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey) and 2010 champ Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad). Paul is the first person to win more than one Emmy in this category in 16 years.With four-time defending champ Jeff Probst missing from the race, Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars) won reality host, while The Amazing Race garnered its ninth statuette for reality-competition series in 10 nominations.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won its 10th straight award in variety series.
Seven-time nominee Louis C.K. snagged two trophies for comedy writing (Louie) and variety special writing for his FX special.
Other winners include Jessica Lange (American Horror Story), and Hatfields & McCoys' Kevin Costner Tom Berenger and Hatfields & McCoys.
Tune in to TV Guide Network's Emmy Awards Fashion Wrap Monday at 8/7c.
Check out the full list of winners below.
Drama Series: Homeland
Comedy Series: Modern Family
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Claire Danes, HomelandSupporting Actor in a Drama Series: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Directing for a Drama Series: Tim Van Patten, Boardwalk Empire ("To the Lost")Writing for a Drama Series: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, Homeland ("Pilot")
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jon Cryer, Two and a Half MenLead Actress in a Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, VeepSupporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Eric Stonestreet, Modern FamilySupporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Julie Bowen, Modern FamilyDirecting for a Comedy Series: Steven Levitan, Modern Family ("Baby on Board")Writing for a Comedy Series: Louis C.K., Louie ("Pregnant")TV Movie/Miniseries: Game ChangeActor in a TV Movie/Miniseries: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoysActress in a TV Movie/Miniseries: Julianne Moore, Game Change
Supporting Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries: Tom Berenger, Hatfields & McCoys
Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries: Jessica Lange, American Horror StoryDirecting for a TV Movie/Miniseries: Jay Roach, Game Change
Writing for a TV Movies/Miniseries: Danny Strong, Game ChangeReality-Competition Program: The Amazing RaceReality Host: Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the StarsVariety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Glenn Weiss, 65th Tony AwardsWriting for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Louis C.K., Live at the Beacon Theatre
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How to Write a Good Title for Your Blog Post
The purpose of a blog post title or "headline" is to get potential readers to read the first line of your content. Write a captivating and intruiging title and you'll draw people into reading it every time. Remember, just as in a traditional newspaper, blog readers tend to skim headlines to find posts that appear to be important to them. The right words in the title are the difference between being read and being ignored so don't rush.
Headlines these days are just as important as the post itself — with users skimming through their large list of RSS feeds or social media links, the headline is your only chance to grab their attention. Headlines for blog posts matter on multiple levels - they are what appears in search engine results, RSS feeds, links from other bloggers, social media sites, web site archives. Often, the only thing that people see and the sole thing that people make the decision to visit your post on. Write a boring, complicated or confusing title and it doesn't matter what you've written in the post - very few people will ever read it.
Before giving you the "DO'S" let me give you a couple of major "DON'TS
- Do not type your headlines using all capital letters - it is considering SHOUTING and therefore rude; it is also against Talk of the Sound policy to write headlines in all caps so your post will either be edited or deleted by a site administrator.
- Do not write a headline that can only be understood by reading the article - a reader will not be "intrigued" by your cryptic headline but confused and therefore skip over your article.
- Do not write "cute" titles that do not mean anything to anyone but you; no "inside jokes".
Top 10 Tip for Effective Headline Writing
1. Communicate a Benefit
Promise to meet a need. Readers with that need will be drawn to your post. For example, "Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Taxes in New Rochelle" or "How To Pay A New Rochelle Parking Ticket Online".
2. Create Controversy or Debate
Set the scene for a controversy. For example, "New Rochelle's New Trash Proposal Stinks"
3. Ask a Question
When you ask a question those who read it are wired to respond (or to see what the response is). Even better, direct the question AT the reader (i.e., use the word YOU in the question)
4. Personalize Titles
Personalize the language that you're using. One of the easiest ways to do this is simply to use the word 'you' or 'your' in your posts. For example, "21 Ways to Make Your Garage Sale a Success"
5. Use Keywords
Important for two reasons: (1) they grab the attention of readers who are scanning for particular content; (2) they tell search engines what your blog post is about and will help it to rank highly for those words. Search engines pay particular attention to titles to assertain what a web page is about (and the "tags" or categories you assign to your post). Keywords at the beginning of a title have even more impact. This is why you will often see the word "New Rochelle" in a title in Talk of the Sound and why it is often at the beginning of the title.
6. Use Power Words & Phrases
Power words and phrases can evoke a powerful response in readers and can increase interest in your post but you had better deliver on the promise of your headline or readers will be angry. To build your own list, stop by an magazine rack and look at the women's magazines; their editors are experts at using power words and phrases.
- Power Words & Phrases: Free, [blank] For Less, Stunning, Discover, Easy.
- People love to read lists: Top 10 [blank], The Hottest [blank], 21 Best Ways to [blank], 10 Reasons to Love/Hate [blank].
- People love secrets: Secrets, Best-Kept Secrets, Little Known Ways to [blank]", Behind the Scenes at [blank].
7. Big Claims and Promises
Communicating a benefit (see above) but on a grander scale. As with power words, make sure you can deliver or you will make readers angry.
8. Humor Titles
Not everyone can write humor and even the best comic write can fall flat so use this sparingly but a humorous title can be very effective at drawing readers into you blog.
9. Keep it Short
Many search engines and RSS readers display only the first 65 characters or less so going beyond this risks truncated, confusing headlines
10. Do not use full stop periods
The entire point of the headline is getting the reader to continue past the headline to your first line of copy so do not use punctuation that tells the reader to stop reading.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This blog post is, in parts, a summary of the post and comments over at Problogger.com: How to Craft Post Titles that Draw Readers Into Your Blog, part of a series on improving your blog by Darren Rowse.


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PITTSBURGH // In a season filled with embarrassing losses and unexpected slipups, the Ravens can now add bitter disappointment.
Despite their best showing of the year, the Ravens still fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 20-19, last night before 64,178 at Heinz Field and a national television audience.
Jeff Reed's 37-yard field goal that split the uprights with 1:36 left in the fourth quarter dashed the Ravens' chances of an unlikely win over their division rival.
The game-winner came less than two minutes after Matt Stover had kicked a 47-yard field goal to give...


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How To Make A Chocolate Cake Collar
How many times have you made a cake or icing, only to have something be slightly off. Your crumb coat feels well, crumbly, your icing tastes good, but isn't as pretty as it should be — and although things taste great, Martha Stewart wouldn't be impressed? No worries, just make a chocolate collar for your cake and cover your mistakes!
What You Need
1 Cake, Frosted and assembled
Chocolate (Dark, Semi-Sweet, Milk, White)
Parchment Paper
1. Start With A Cake: You can use a cake of any kind for this trick, between the layers you can use traditional icing, mousse or fruit filling of your choice. Add a quick layer of frosting, just enough to cover the outside (which will give the chocolate something to cling to as it sets).
2. Measure: You'll want to measure the circumference of your cake and the height. Cut a piece of parchment paper to match. We cut ours 1/4″ taller and longer to ensure a proper fit each time. If you'd like to use a taller filling (like berries) for the top, you might want to make it 1/2″ or even 3/4″ taller. Tape either end of the paper to your work surface (we cover our table in freezer paper… because we're messy).
3. Melt Chocolate: Temper Chocolate (yes you can do it in the microwave) and spread with an icing spatula over your parchment paper. Allow to thicken and set slightly. You want it to stick to the parchment without sliding off when you get ready to move it, but not crack when you wrap it around.
4. Wrap It Up: Pick up band, you might need two people depending on the size of your cake, and place the center of the band on the front center (if such thing exists) side of your cake. Wrap the sides around, ensuring your paper/chocolate touches the bottom of the cake plate. Press gently, yet firmly against the side of the cake. It should hold in place (if not, hold against the cake for a few minutes before releasing) and stay put. Allow to cool and harden completely.
5.Remove Wrapper: Once set, peel the corner of the wrapper back, it should come willingly and peel off smooth as silk. You can now fill the top of the cake with additional icing, fruit, ganache, or leave it as is! We (attempted) to fill ours with ganache, though in the name of getting photos taken in time for this post, we didn't let it cool quite long enough. The result…. chocolate waterfall. You can check out the results below. Remember to let it cool long enough!
Additional Notes
If you'd like to try your hand at some embellishments, they aren't hard to do. Simply melt white chocolate (or other colored candy melts from your local craft/hobby/specialty food store) and apply with a piping bag. Simple dots look great, as do words and other simple geometric shapes. Just let them cool completely before spreading your darker chocolate over the top. If attempting this on a square cake, try marking gently with a pencil where the corners will hit, otherwise when wrapping the collar around the cake, a dot or word can be "stuck" when you pull the wrapper off. If your dot or line is thin, it's usually not a problem, but a little preparation doesn't hurt! It's as simple as that and has a great clean look to it!
Remember kids, warm chocolate melts cool chocolate. Cake Fail! See, we're human too, though in our defense, this is the only time we've had a problem of this sort! Remember to let your ganache cool completely, or fill with additional icing!
Click to see all of this month's Home Hacks tutorials.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants has a no-hitter through eight innings against the San Diego Padres.
Lincecum walked Chase Headley in the second inning and has struck out five. He has thrown 97 pitches. The Giants lead 4-0.
Lincecum threw a no-hitter against San Diego last July.


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by Tom Utescher
Jill Sanger was a basketball player when she arrived at Chestnut Hill College in the fall of 2007, but last Wednesday night she ended her athletic career with the Griffins by scoring the first of CHC's three overtime goals in the 2011 lacrosse season finale.
Ahead at the outset, behind early in the second half, and tied with visiting Wilmington University at the end of regulation play, Chestnut Hill went into overtime with the Wildcats with the count at 11-all. Almost midway through the six-minute OT period, Sanger scored to move the Hill women ahead, and almost immediately sophomore Lindsay Alexander raised the tally to 13-11. Wilmington got back within one, but with 2:06 remaining junior Kelly McKay converted on a free position for a 14-12 Griffins win under the lights at Victory Field.
"I wanted to end on a good note, so it felt good to put that ball in the net," said Sanger, the lone senior on the Chestnut Hill roster. "That's how I wanted to leave."
With the overtime triumph, CHC avenged a 16-10 road loss to Wilmington, a fellow member of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.
With a final conference record of 5-7, the Griffins (7-10 overall) fell short of making the CACC tournament. One of their most prolific attackers, sophomore Nicole Covella, suffered a concussion which caused her to miss five games down the stretch, and she only returned in time for the team's final match last week.
"When she got her concussion," Sanger related, "our team came together and people stepped up and did things they didn't know they were capable of. When they all come back next year they'll be hard to stop."
Covella scored twice in Wednesday's game, as did Sanger and sophomore Erica Eaby. Alexander and McKay each produced a hat trick for the winners, who received single strikes from sophomore Brianne Timony and freshman Kelly Campbell.
Chestnut Hill had to be glad to see the last of Wilmington senior mid Danielle Niccoli, who not only fired a game-high five goals but was a playmaker who displayed great field vision in transition.
While the save totals for CHC junior goalie Jenn Delahanty (14) and Wilmington keeper Corinne Dries (10) were not far apart, a number of Dries' stops came on easily-tracked balls while Delahanty turned away some much more difficult shots.
It took the Wildcats a few minutes to start to put quality shots on-net, though. Delahanty easily coped with their early attempts, while the Griffins' offense found success at the other end of the pitch.
In the opening minute, the first shot of the evening by the compact, quick Covella was partially blocked, but the deflection fooled Dries and the ball made it into the cage. McKay came from out to the left of the goal to score barely two minutes into the action, and Campbell connected to make it 3-0 with 23:46 still remaining in the first half.
Wilmington's Niccoli romped down to score in transition at 21:05, and the visitors made slow but steady progress after that, building a 5-3 lead as the clock dropped down near the five-minute mark. After the fifth marker for their guests, the Griffins responded quickly, as Eaby located the upper left corner. The CHC sophomore netted another goal with 2:58 on the board, beating Dries on a bounce shot from the middle of the arc to create a 5-5 deadlock for the intermission.
As the second half commenced, Wilmington jumped ahead 7-5 in the first two minutes, but CHC pocketed the draw after the second strike and Alexander barreled in on the goal to get the Griffins going in the new period. Niccoli rounded out a hat trick for the visitors, and the resulting 8-6 tally remained on the scoreboard for eight minutes.
With 18:34 left in regulation play, Alexander knifed toward the goal from out to the left of the crease, making the first of five straight CHC strikes in just three-and-a-half minutes.
Wilmington never led again, but the Wildcats caught up at 11-all with four minutes remaining in the second half. The Griffins thought they might break the tie when they sent a long pass across midfield and hit Covella on the run, but the sophomore had the ball checked away from her as she penetrated the right side of the arc.
A six-minute overtime ensued, a session to be played in full with the teams reversing the direction of play after three minutes. With 2:28 elapsed, Sanger cradled in from the right side and launched a ball that wasn't a bullet, but was aimed well enough to get past Dries. Alexander came right down off the draw to beat the Wildcats' keeper just a dozen seconds later. CHC snapped up the next draw as well, but an attempt by Covella was stopped six seconds before the teams changed ends.
Wilmington went on the attack and Niccoli drew a foul, converting the free position with a shot to the upper right corner with 2:47 to go. Gaining possession off the next draw would be critical, and in an extended battle on the restart, players were sucked into the middle of the field, whirling like a swarm of bees. Covella eventually came up with the ball, and a few seconds later it was in the crosse of McKay when she was checked in the head by Wilmington's Meggan Apgar. Apgar left the field with a yellow card and McKay scored from the center hashmark with 2:06 on the clock, furnishing the hosts with an insurance goal at 14-12.
Early in the final minute, Wilmington was on the move up the right wing, but an errant pass veered over the sideline. The Griffins got the ball back and ran out the remaining seconds of overtime.
Afterwards the departing Sanger acknowledged, "A lot of us haven't played lacrosse for more than three years, including myself. All the girls are very dedicated, though, and they're out here working hard to get better. We now have a coach [first-year skipper Katie Lee] who wants to stay here and build up our program, and that's what the team needed."
A few days later CHC's Alexander was named to the All-CACC First Team, and Sanger and Covella became Second Team selections.


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The Woodinville Winers visit Bartholomew Winery
- Written by Mike McClure and Terry Morse
It was a cloudy Seattle day and while in the Georgetown area (where believe it or not there are numerous hidden gems of wine tasting rooms) it seemed like a perfect day to do another wine tasting.
The old Rainier Brewery (a Seattle icon) is now home to several types of small businesses. One of those happens to be the Bartholomew Winery.
The first thing we noticed before walking into the tasting room was the cool metal sign just outside the door of this quirky building.
Bart and Chona Fawbush are husband and wife owners of this unique tasting room. Chona, who seemed to be enjoying the crowd as she was pouring to a busy room, told her story on how their tasting room was really a mess before they converted it into a warm and unique place.
The bright yellow walls and the painted-over red brick are great touches that give this place a lot of charm.
They have a room adjacent to the main tasting room where they have hosted- wine tastings with a master sommelier, in addition to offering the room for private parties and events. They even once had a comedy show in there.
Bartholomew Winery started in 2007 after Bart and Chona spent many years immersing themselves in the industry, which included a lot of wine tasting and education with many of the Woodinville wineries where they developed a huge appreciation for the wine business.
At the same time, Bart consulted and volunteered with other wine makers where he honed his skills in winemaking.
In fact, Bart was a mortgage broker by trade. After the economy started deteriorating in late 2007, both Bart and Chona took their passion and plunged into the wine business.
They realized you don't need a large chateau or winery to get into the business; you just need great wines.
Their wines are made in Grandview, Wash., where they lease production space.
On the day we tasted, they had 10 different wines available to taste.
Their 2008 Viognier had hints of citrus and melon which was delightful.
Their 2008 Cabernet Franc (which is 100 percent cab franc) and their 2008 Jaxon (which is a varietal) were both notable reds.
In addition to their wines, they were offering a chocolate pairing with a new up-and-coming chocolate company out of Vashon Island called Tease Chocolates.
Julie and Topher Farrell are both escapees from the corporate world and became founders of this new venture in chocolate.
They were offering handcrafted artisan chocolates which included filled truffles and solid bars – one with hints of cinnamon and pepper to excite the pallet and one with hints of salt and toffee crunch. They made for delightful pairings with the variety of wine that was being offered at Bartholomew.
Bartholomew Winery is located in the Old Rainier Brewery Building at 3100 Airport Way South in Seattle. Their tasting hours are from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
There is no charge for the tasting and their wines are reasonably priced between $10 and $32.


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The company's insurance man came and appraised Mulva yesterday and will cover all of the damage. However, last night we took Mulva to the gym and were the victims of a hit-and-run sideswipe that left one headlight shattered and scattered on the pavement about 10 yards from the car and copious red paint along the newly-impacted left side. Chris is on the warpath to find and photograph the offending full-size red truck with yellow lettering on the side that was parked next to us when we arrived, a truck which often parks in our gym lot. It's been a bad month for Mulva.
I'm also working on some socks in Yarntini Sport Weight in Chololatini, basic 1 by 3 rib on #3 needles:
AND, in the background, bonus libation recipe!
Have you gotten your 5 servings of fruit and veggies for the day? No? Is this perhaps because the fruit you have is past its prime, a bit grainy, or just not really in season? Do you have a juicer? If so:
Juice your second-tier fruit (in this case it was 2 pears and about 10 stawberries)
Pour the juice into a cocktail shaker
Add as much vodka as you like (I do about 1 part vodka to 1 part juice, but I really like vodka)
Add some ice
Shake and strain and enjoy


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Name: Darren
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Long Beach
I'm a 24-year-old straight male. On my second tour of duty in Iraq, I took some shrapnel in my back on account of an IED. I've been in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, ever since. I come from a very strict religious family so I never was sexually active before the marines. Now I'm back at home, and while my parents are great caregivers, I can't talk to them about this. I'm afraid that I won't ever get to have sex, but I want to. What should I do?
Tough break, pup! As if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren't bad enough, there is all this collateral damage to our brave and valiant service people. Damn. If we, your countrymen, don't owe ya'll every possible assistance, accommodation and convenience I don't know what!
I'll admit, your family's religious scruples, coupled with your spinal cord injury, makes for a pretty daunting double whammy. So let's start with some basics. Lots of people automatically think that a person in a wheelchair can't have or is uninterested in sex. Your parents probably think this. They probably also believe that sex is only for married people and since you aren't married and you're in a chair, there's no good reason to discuss the matter further. I encourage you not to sink to the lowest common denominator on this.
I suspect that since you still have a healthy interest in sex, and you want to get laid at some point…hopefully real soon. All we have to do is figure out a clever work-around to your current living situation. To that end, I have some questions for you. Are you afforded any private time and space in your parent's home? Are you are getting some physical therapy at the veteran's hospital or elsewhere? Are you in a spinal injury support group? Do you have any social outlets, other than the medical related ones? Do you still have some jar-head buddies who could swing by and pick you up and take you out?
The reason I ask all these questions is that, despite your disability, you're gonna have to forge your own independent life away from, and out of the control of your parents — good people though they are. Many care-providers, despite their best intentions, have a tendency to smother the people they are caring for. Don't let this happen to you. The only way you will find the fuck you are looking for is if you assert your independence. This move toward independence may have to happen incrementally, but you gotta get started.
Clearly you have access to the interents, or you wouldn't have been able to contact to me. That's a good start. The internet tubes is gonna be your best friend for the duration, count on it. Connect with other similarly challenged vets and civilians online. These folks will be a wealth of information for you about how to take the next steps — pardon the pun — toward independent living. If you're not plugged into an ongoing spinal injury support group, make that happen ASAP. Like I said, these folks will have information and resources that the professionals who attend you do not have, or will not share. If there are any wheelchair fetishists out there, your support group will know about them. And I think you can be pretty certain that there are. You are following me on this, right Darren? Good!
Now, this is where your jar-head buddies will come in handy. Prevail upon them to be your transportation. Parents are good for getting you to and from the hospital and the like, but you don't want to count on them to get you to a tryst or date, don't cha know. One thing for certain, when connecting with chicks online or elsewhere you need to be pretty upfront about what you want and need. Remember, you have to compensate for people's preconceived ideas about sex and disability.
I'll grant you, this is a fine line to tread — again no pun intended — because you have to be upfront about your desires, but ya gotta do it without being a dickhead about it. You are also at a disadvantage for not having had the opportunity of hone your dating and seduction skills before Iraq. So you're gonna have to do some remedial work now. In social situations — and you ought to be goin out to places other than hospitals and support groups — project yourself as a sexual being. Put out a sexual vibe. Not all geeky and weird, but as a matter of self-confidence, you're a marine vet for Christ sake. That should be swagger and bragging rights enough.
And don't forget, you know something that others may not know. You're gonna be a freakin' terror in the sheets, because you gonna be making up for a whole lot of lost time. Make eye contact and smile, be your charming devilish self. Whatever you do, don't gawk at her tits. They may be pretty as all get out, and the object of your eternal desire, but please, keep a lid on it!
If you are unsure about your skills as a lover or you just need a little tutorial on how to please a woman, my I suggest you connect with a pro — ya know a sex worker. That's right, it's a time-honored way for guys in the service to lose their cherry. And you're still sorta like in the service, right? Nowadays, connecting with just the right provider has never been easier, thanks again to the internets. See, I told you that the internet tubes was gonna be your best friend for the duration. Seriously, I suspect that you have lots to learn about the ins and outs of sex, — my final pun, i promise — so why not see a specialist?
One thing for sure, if you are having a difficult time carving out private time there in your parent's home, or they are the snooping kind, keep your internet searches on a friend's computer. You don't want your parents finding out that you are indeed a sexual being looking to get his freak on. At least you don't want them to find out till after you've established your independence. Because if they pull the plug on your internets before you're on your own, because they think you are a big fat pervert sexual sinner, you're gonna be shit out of luck, if ya catch my drift.
Good luck
Name: Mikhall
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Location: U of M
I've been having wet dreams since I was 13. I thought I would get over this by now, but it's still happening. I'm in college now and I don't want my roommate to think I'm some kind of freak. Is there anyway to make this stop?
I remember when I was a kid, I couldn't have been more that 6 or 7, I overheard my older brother telling his friend he had had a wet dream. I couldn't wrap my head around what he was saying. He was boasting, of course, and it had something to do with sex, that I knew for sure. But why was he so proud of wetting his bed? I was way to self-conscious to ask him about it, so I let my mind just spin out all these fantastic scenarios and boy, were they fantastic. My brother was really cool, so I was hoped I would have a wet dream one day too, but I was also dreading it all the same. Information about sex, when it comes in dribs and drabs like this, can really be confusing.
I finally had my first wet dream a few years later and I was surprised as hell to wake up with sticky wet sheets and PJs. Interestingly enough, I didn't make the connection between what had just happened to me and what my brother had been talking about a couple of years earlier. So ok, I wasn't all that swift when I was a kid. But just look at me now!
As I look back, I can't honestly tell you how I figured the whole thing out. I did, however, discover that wet dreams had a more ominous technical name: a nocturnal emission. That was scary in and of itself.
So ok, here's what we know about wet dreams. And you can bank in this info. When a guy begins puberty, somewhere between the ages of 9 and 13, he starts to produce sperm. Once that happens he's able to ejaculate, even though he may not have discovered this on his own, ya know like through jerkin' off. It is at this point that most guys experience their first wet dreams. While asleep our little boy cock rubs against the mattress or sheets, or we may unconsciously fondle ourselves till we squirt. Since this often happens while dreaming, or because of a dream with sexual overtones, a nocturnal emission is also call a sex dream, or the ever popular dirty dream.
Here's something you might not know. Technically there is a difference between a nocturnal orgasm (which anyone can have at any age, even as and infant) and a nocturnal emission (which only males have and only after he reaches puberty).
I know you're a bit exasperated, Mikhall, with the continuation of these pesky wet dreams, but it's all quite normal and I might add, healthy. You clearly have a very active spooge production system. You're body is producing an over abundance of spunk, more than you need. And it has to get rid of the excess somehow. Believe me, you really wouldn't want it stay in your system; it wouldn't be healthy. Embarrassment aside, you can be grateful that your bod is working properly and in harmony with nature.
Do you recall your first wet dream? Most guys tell me that they thought they had injured themselves, or they somehow got a sex disease. Too bad our parents don't prepare us for this eventful night. Many kids are so filled with fear and embarrassment that they try to destroy the evidence — getting rid of the sheets, underwear or pajamas. Another confusing aspect of a kid's first wet dream is the pleasure and arousal he feels. Those of us brought up in religious homes are often filled with shame by this disturbing occurrence.
Those of you who are familiar with Dr Dick's background know that I was a Catholic priest for many years. I know, scary, huh? I don't want to go off topic here and discuss my life as a priest now — we can save that for another time. What I want to point out here is that when I was in the saddle, so to speak, I often had the occasion to hear the confessions of young people. It was remarkable how often young men would confess to a wet dream, like if they had committed some heinous crime! What gives with a culture that instills such shame about things that are so natural and outside of our control?
Think of it this way, when your bladder gets full you take a wiz. When your prostate and seminal vesicles get full you take a jizz. It's as simple and natural as all that. Now, if I were to guess, Mikhall, I'd speculate that, for whatever reason, you're not masturbating all that much. Right? The reason I think that is, if you were relieving yourself of your joy juice, ya know like beatin' off, you'd have less of a build up and fewer wet dreams, if any. Do you see where I'm headed with this? The same thing would be true if you didn't relieve yourself when your bladder got full, you'd piss anyhow, only it would happen when you weren't able to properly direct it. Get it? Got it? Good!
If you want to cut down on those embarrassing wet dreams, milk yourself before you sleep. This way you can direct your spooge into a proper receptacle, like a Kleenex or a dirty sock — just like all your peers.
I also want to remind you of the current research being done about masturbation. Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 men who had not, about their sexual habits. They found those who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to develop prostate cancer.
The protective effect was greatest while the men were in their 20's. Get this, men who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.
Good luck!


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SPRINGFIELD – I love animals.
But that shouldn't be surprising. I'm the son and husband of veterinarians. My house is a menagerie with four dogs, two cats, two rabbits and a pair of parakeets.
Some of the creatures have special needs. For example, there is the newborn kitten born without eyes that we took in, raised on a bottle and now has been a member of our family for eight years.
Or there is the rabbit that a client of my wife begged her to adopt after she developed allergies to her pet. And let's not forget Lester the St. Bernard mix, which devoured my Blackberry last month.
So the Reeder home is all about rescuing animals.
While I love animals, I have an even greater devotion to freedom. That's why some legislation introduced recently in the Illinois Legislature gives me pause.
It seems state Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, and state Rep. Dan Burke, D-Chicago, have introduced legislation prohibiting pet stores from selling dogs that haven't been rescued from the pound or an animal rescue group.
So much for trusting consumers to make wise decisions for themselves.
Under this bill, consumers could buy dogs from breeders. But pet stores would be prohibited from purchasing from breeders.
The bill's proponents say it will cut down on "puppy mills."
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals defines a "puppy mill" as "a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation that places profit over the well-being of its dogs."
But the Illinois legislation essentially lumps all breeders into that category.
There are bad dog breeders out there just like there are unethical accountants, sloppy electricians and dishonest politicians. But most breeders, like most people in any given profession, do a good job.
In fact, most of the dog breeders I've met are nice people who love animals and are committed to finding them good homes.
The federal government licenses commercial dog breeders to ensure they are raising their animals in a safe, clean environment. Apparently that's not good enough for some state lawmakers.
They want to throw the puppy out with its bath water.
The bill, which Gov. Pat Quinn endorses, would put some pet stores out of business.
It also would make it tougher for dog breeders, who are mostly mom-and-pop business owners. In fact, most of the breeders I know are doing it part time to supplement their income.
I bought Hershey, my Labrador retriever puppy, from an older woman battling muscular sclerosis and living on Social Security. Despite her physical ailments, she made sure the dogs were clean and well cared for.
In the years after our purchase, she periodically would inquire how her "baby" was getting along. She certainly didn't get rich raising dogs, but it helped her make ends meet. And she found loving homes for hundreds of puppies.
But the bill before the Legislature would prohibit pet stores from buying from businesses such as her's.
It's all part of that smug, government-knows-best mindset that pervades Springfield.
The "thinking" goes something like this: More dogs need to be adopted from animal shelters, so we'll make it impossible for pet stores to sell anything but "rescue" dogs.
Never mind that it hurts small businesses owners.
Never mind that it reduces choices for potential pet owners.
And never mind that many of the health problems present at poorly run "puppy mills" also plague dog pounds and other shelters.
An animal in a pound cage can be exposed to a lot of infectious diseases.
That's yet another reason pet stores should be free to choose where their animals come from.
• Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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When Olafur Eliasson installed his work "The Weather Project" in the Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern in winter 2003, more than two million people thronged to see it: a giant golden orb hung at the end of the 500-foot-long hall. Actually it was a semicircular steel frame 50 feet in diameter with 200 yellow sodium lights, but its shape was doubled to a full yellow aureole by 300 mirrored ceiling panels overhead. Many among the enthralled public lay on the floor and basked in the light, as a soft mist resembling a London fog was pumped into the hall. Sometimes the viewers themselves formed patterns that could be seen in the ceiling.
Now the Danish-Icelandic artist is having his largest survey to date and his first major show in the United States: "Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson." The exhibition originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Madeleine Grynsztejn. The New York show—displayed exuberantly as a single exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center—is curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Roxana Marcoci. Currently Eliasson's works offer some of the most contemplative and enjoyable spaces in New York City.
At the Museum of Modern Art through June 30, the show goes to the Dallas Museum of Art (Nov. 9, 2008, to March 15, 2009); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (April to September 2009); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (dates to be determined).
The New York curators have also mounted a smaller exhibition, "Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s," that recalls some of Eliasson's artistic forebears. In the 1920s, for example, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was making subtly balanced geometric abstractions that expanded the palette of Russian Constructivism. An abstract film by Hans Richter (d. 1976) has an uncanny affinity with Eliasson's "Remagine" at P.S. 1. In the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark's architectural projects, in which he opened wells of light into abandoned buildings, presaged some of Eliasson's more elaborate engineering pieces. Robert Irwin's "light and space" work was perhaps most influential. His "Untitled" (1968), for example, has spotlights illuminating a slightly convex, pearly white disk to form overlapping circular shadows of white and gray on a white background.
Olafur Eliasson draws on these and other movements, such as kinetic, op and conceptual art, but in his own distinctive way makes the mundane magical. With materials ranging from light, water, moss and earth to steel, mirrors, strobe lights and fluorescent panels, Eliasson creates immersive environments that one experiences bodily as well as visually. (The live reindeer moss hanging fragrantly on a wall at the Modern will age naturally and change color throughout the exhibition.)
"Legibility" is also critical for Eliasson—however dazzling a piece may be, viewers usually realize how it is made. "Olafur's work," writes Madeleine Grynsztejn, "is first about a 'Wow!'" and then about 'Ah hah!'" It is grounded radically in temporality, for both aesthetic and social reasons. The artist wants visitors to be able to step out of the generalized time of a commodity culture and into themselves.
The new work installed in the central gallery of P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens, N.Y., "Take Your Time" (also the name of the exhibition), is a huge circular mirror mounted to the ceiling at a 6 degree angle; it makes one complete rotation every two minutes (pg. 25). As a viewer, you want first to find yourself in it, follow its soft motion, and locate other viewers both in it and beside you. A shared experience of space and time occurs, a charged calm at once disorienting and embracing.
The interaction of people with people, as well as with the artwork, is close to the artist's central concern. Influenced by the phenomenology of philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, Eliasson emphasizes the activity of the perceiving subject in community with other subjects. One stands within his installations, feels them and often hears them, as well as seeing them. It is an art that requires participation by subjects in common—your shadow mixes with other shadows, your reflection is neighbor to other reflections, the rainbow you walk through is like mine but cannot be exactly the same. And it is an art that invites free engagement over the course of time.
"Ventilator" (1997) is Eliasson at his most playful. An electric fan hangs alone from the ceiling, propelled in great unpredictable arcs through a space that it seems to be constantly creating for itself anew. If you are lucky, you will see it on an uncrowded day, when delighted children chase the fan in circles or leap unsuccessfully to catch it. (See if you don't have the same urge.)
In "I Only See Things When They Move" (2004), a bright light shines through rotating panels of color-effect filter glass and casts a constantly shifting rainbow of colors onto the walls of the square gallery; visitors' shadows add dark drama to the scene (pg. 26). The work "360 Degree Room for All Colours" (2002) evokes 19th-century panoramas, but with an encircling wall of light that pulses through a range of whites, shocking pinks and lavender; pale greens and blues, gold and white again (pg. 27). As the colors sweep through their spectrum, you become aware of their afterimages—yellow, for example, evoking its contrary purple—and the fact that the artist's program (which takes 30 minutes in its entirety) is arranged so that the colors never cancel one another.
Some of Eliasson's work deals with darkness and the night. In "Your Strange Certainty Still Kept" (1996), five faucets drop a light curtain of water from the ceiling of a black room. Water drops, illuminated by strobe lights, appear frozen in midair, recalling a night sky and distant stars. In "1 M3 Light" (1999), a dark room is filled with fog, one cubic meter of which is defined by the beams of 24 spotlights. (If you step into the space, you won't cast a shadow.) Loveliest of all, in "Beauty" (1993) a soft mist falls from the ceiling of another dark room, and a spotlight shining obliquely through it creates an indoor rainbow. During my visit it was a sweep of muted browns and maroons, but mesmerizing nonetheless. The colors dance in the mist and the artist encourages you to walk through them; you don't get very wet. (In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Eliasson wryly observed: "My art isn't very market friendly. Who buys rainbows?")
Eliasson's art is fundamentally experimental. At P.S. 1, "Model Room" (2003), made of mixed media models and ma-quettes, suggests how the artist and his collaborators, some 40 of them, study various materials and forms. From his many trips to Iceland over the years, gridded photographic suites of glaciers, rivers, islands, caves and horizons reveal not only his love for that stark landscape but also the inspiration it has provided him through its bare display of continuity and change.
One of the many laudatory reviews of the exhibition was headlined "Stand Still; A Spectacle Will Happen." But Eliasson has consciously set his course against the spectacular, the art of excess scale and dramatic effect. He sees the museum not as a place of passive entertainment but as a forum for reflective common experience that can free its visitors from conformity and convention. ("My real subject is people," he told Der Spiegel.) This is why he tries to present works that cause us to wonder how they are made. "It is crucial," he wrote in 2001, "that experience is presented undisguised to the spectator.... Otherwise, our most generous ability to see ourselves seeing, to evaluate and criticize ourselves and our relation to space, has failed, and thus so has the museum's socializing potential."
Eliasson was born in 1967 to Icelandic parents living in Copenhagen. After they separated, he lived with his mother in Denmark and visited his artist father in Iceland. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, earned a degree and opened a studio in Berlin. For 15 years his work has been exhibited internationally, showing at the Modern in New York in 2001 and representing Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Still in mid-career, Eliasson is completing plans for a public art project that will be New York's largest since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" in 2005 in Central Park. Beginning in late June, four enormous waterfalls will pour into the waters around the city, ranging in height from 60 to 131 feet. They are to remain in place for three months. One will be at the Brooklyn Bridge. Eliasson wants to draw attention to New York's water, and boat tours have been organized; but he hopes visitors will come on foot as well, to marvel at the great harbor that first gave the city life. Enchantment lies ahead.
Note: A fully illustrated catalogue is available: Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007).
View a slideshow of images from the Eliasson exhibit.


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I am a descendant of Robert Hazeltine, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 from Yorkshire and Devonshire, England. Robert and others quickly moved to Rowley, MA. Robert's son, Abraham, moved to Bradford, MA where they stayed for a few generations (son, Richard and HIS son, Richard were born there). The second Richard moved from Bradford to Chester, NH. Richard then moved to Concord, NH where his son, Joseph was born. Joseph was one of my Rev. War connections.
Joseph's son Ballard was born in Concord also. He married Sarah Noyes, daughter of John Noyes, Jr. and Mary Fowler of Bow, NH.
I am currently searching for Sarah and Ballard's burial sites, most likely in Concord.
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Colmes Departs, Amanpour Scores, Forbes Denies
♦ Alan Colmes, the "liberal" who supposedly serves as co-host of Hannity & Colmes with Sean Hannity, is leaving the Fox News program at the end of the year. [HuffPo]
♦ A daily news program hosted by Christiane Amanpour is in the works at CNN. [NYT]
♦ Despite screwing up nearly everything he touches, NBC golden boy Ben Silverman may see his contract renewed in the next few weeks. [NYM]
♦ USA Today has announced plans to cut staff. [E&P]
♦ Twilight was No. 1 at the box office this weekend, raking in $70.5 mil. [LAT]
♦ Forbes is not being sold to a shady Russian billionaire. [SAI]
♦ Sarah Palin's feeling very popular! Says her spokesman: "Barbara Walters called me. George Stephanopoulos called me. I've had multiple conversations with producers for Oprah, Letterman, Leno and The Daily Show." [NYDN]
♦ In the event you're still jonesing for more info on Rachel Maddow, Newsweek has another profile of the MSNBC star in this week's issue. [Newsweek]
♦ Luxury brands are cutting back on their ad budgets, not surprisingly. [NYT]
♦ Things are looking bleak for David Pecker: AMI, which controls titles like the National Enquirer and Star, has a week to make an interest payment or risk defaulting on its debt. [WWD]
♦ You can probably guess the reason for this news: GM is parting ways with Tiger Woods, its very pricey spokesman. [Adrants]
♦ Fox's 24 returned to the air on Sunday night and drew 12 million viewers to its two-hour movie. [NYT]