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homemade valentines recap
We are in the midst of making some very cute valentines. But they are not quite finished.. hopefully I can share them in the next few days. I realize time is short if your children are passing valentines out at school, so here are a few ideas (some new, some not so new).
We celebrated Bee's birthday last week and made these little notepads for the goodie bags. All kids love a little notebook of their very own, especially one with their name on it. These small notepads are easy to find in the office supply section, they usually come in packs of three. Print out some labels to cover the front, and these notepads are suddenly so much sweeter! (I always have a pack of full sheet sticker labels around the office.. you can feed them through most inkjet printers just like regular paper.)
I've made an editable PDF if you'd like to make some of these notepads yourself. The font won't match the one I used, since editable PDFs need to use fonts that everyone has on their computer (like Helvetica). But you can type in any name you like and print away. Trim them out after printing and peel off the adhesive backing, then carefully place your sticker on the front of your notepad (take your time, lining it up perfectly takes a little practice). These fit perfectly on Mead notepads, that's just what they had at my store, I can't vouch for other brands.. but I assume they are all pretty close. (Note: Make sure you print these at 100%, sometimes Acrobat will automatically scale your artwork to fit the page, so check your settings!)
I've also made a PDF for the valentine's we made last year. It's sometimes hard to think of a valentine where the kids can be involved, especially if they need to make 30! Print the PDF onto cardstock, cut it in half (each page makes two valentines), and let your kids draw on the arms, legs, and eyes... and then sign their name. You can attach one or two pieces of candy to the little man's arms.
I made these ABC cards for Design Sponge last year, and I think they would make a very thoughtful gift for your valentine. We have a birthday tradition in our family we've been doing since we were kids. We go around the dinner table and each person takes a letter of the alphabet, and we say something nice about the birthday girl/boy. A is for Artistic! B is for the Beautiful! We go around and around the table until we get to Z (which can be a difficult letter, you have to get creative). You can mention a favorite memory, or something that reminds you of that person, but it has to involve your letter. You can download the file over at Design Sponge, it prints 4 cards to a page.
And don't forget tiny matchbox valentines... inexpensive and awfully cute, especially when you involve your kids by having them write the nametags or draw little pictures of each classmate.


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His black cassock billowing in the breeze, candle bearer Anthony Kit steps lightly down the steps of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.
"Isn't it beautiful?" he asks, pausing briefly in the sun.
Kit, 80, is one of several longtime area residents who lead tours of St. Nicholas, the eye-catching onion-domed edifice that towers over Ukrainian Village. It's a good place to get a sense of the history and character of this neighborhood 10 minutes northwest of Chicago's Loop.
Bounded by the busy thoroughfares of Damen, Chicago and Western Avenues and Division Street, Ukrainian Village is a small but vibrant section in the patchwork of neighborhoods known as West Town. Named for the Eastern European immigrants who bought homes here in the 1920s and then stayed, the village still has a very strong Ukrainian presence. But the largely middle-class neighborhood has also blossomed with the influx of new businesses and a growing population of urban professionals, artists and families.
"In the last year, we've seen quite a few more younger couples moving in," said Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd). "And more young, fairly-affluent families are looking to buy their first home here."
You get a glimpse of the changing demographic at one of the area's newest venues, Chick Pea, a right-on-the-pulse Palestinian cafe from former nightclub impresario Jerry Suqi on Chicago Avenue. Young women dish over kibbeh and hummus under color-splashed Arab movie posters. Three guys try to top the high score at the vintage pinball machine. And Suqi's mom comes out of the kitchen to find out what everybody thought of her home-style food. Suqi said he chose Ukrainian Village for Chick Pea "because it's the right demographic: young, urban, left-leaning, but without pretense -- a conscious neighborhood. Ninety percent of our business is walk-up."
Others in the area echo similar thoughts. "I love that there are still 80-year-old Ukrainian ladies peeking out of the window when I walk my dog," says Marta Kenar, owner of chic/modern A Vision, a wine and flower shop on Damen. "But there are also yuppies and arty folks and families with little kids. It's also a place from which you can get anywhere in two minutes." Depending on which "anywhere" you choose, driving will get you from Ukrainian Village to Bucktown and Wicker Park in a matter of minutes and downtown within 10. It's about a 15-minute ride to downtown from the elevated train's Blue line stop at Damen/Milwaukee/North, six blocks north of Ukrainian Village in Wicker Park.
"It is close to everything," says April Lopez, pouring coffee at the Barista Coffee shop she opened on Damen three years ago. "But people also move here because they like the community feeling -- you walk down the street and can talk to everyone."
If there is one area for improvement, Lopez says it's in educational options. There is one public elementary school -- Christopher Columbus -- which the alderman's office reports to be right at median level compared to other ward schools. But the office says area high schools -- Roberto Clemente and Wells Academy -- have some crime issues, and are more of a concern.
On the upside, Ukrainian Villagers are in close proximity to the new campus of LaSalle Language Academy, which is being phased in at the former Anderson Elementary. A.N. Pritzker Elementary, a fine and performing arts school and gifted center, is four blocks north. And, Walter Payton College Prep, a math, science and world language academy, and the Oscar Mayer Magnet School are less than a 10-minute drive from the village.
Ukrainian Village also has several private parochial school options. Among them, St. Nicholas reports growing interest in its preschool through 8th grade program and St. Helen's Catholic School has seen an increase of 65 percent in enrollment in the last five years, according to principal Marianne Johnson.
Architecturally speaking, Ukrainian Village has a lot to offer, says Jonathan Fine, who lives in the neighborhood and is executive director of Preservation Chicago. Fine explains that because much of Ukrainian Village was developed by the same man, William Kerfoot, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the mix of well-built two- and three-flats and gable-topped brick "Kerfoot cottages" present a more unified look than other West Town neighborhoods. About 75 percent of Ukrainian Village is now a Chicago landmark district.
Greg and Jolanta Whipple and their three children moved into a late-1800s graystone on Hoyne Avenue this past summer. "Chicago has several streets that are just full of architectural gems and Hoyne is one of them," says Jolanta, an architect and former fine arts teacher at the School of the Art Institute. Jolanta spent the last three years restoring the home to its former single-family glory, removing a clutter of small apartments and restoring fine woodwork and built-ins.
She's done the same conversion process for other Ukrainian Village homeowners, as well.
"De-converting multi-units into single-family dwellings is the way to go here," says John Federici, owner/broker with Krain Real Estate on Damen. "This is a historic district, and there are very few empty lots to build new homes on."
According to Fine, the area's landmark status should not interfere with de-conversions. "The concern is with preserving the streetscape, so changes to the exterior of the buildings are regulated," Fine said. "But unless homeowners are going for a tax freeze, they are free to do what they wish with the interior."
The area also has many condos available in bigger, multi-unit buildings sprinkled throughout. While values are down and there have been some foreclosures in the neighborhood, Federici says, "Ukrainian Village is a very stable area, and continues to attract more affluent buyers -- people who are priced out of Lincoln Park, but want more bang for their buck than they can get in Bucktown."
Lilia Kulas-Zaparaniuk of Vintage Realty, which has been in this neighborhood for 20 years, estimates prices ranging from $230,000 to $400,000 for a two-bedroom condo and $400,000 to $750,000 for a "Kerfoot cottage" single-family home. Federici puts former two-flats that have been converted into single-family dwellings in the range of $1 million to $1.75 million. Properties closer to Division and the Blue Line are more expensive.
Letting more people see what the neighborhood has to offer, the Ukrainian Village Neighborhood Association is organizing a garden walk and architectural tour this summer.
"People here are very invested in beautifying and maintaining what we have here, and showcasing the history," says Paul Matwyshyn, association president. "There are many treasures here people have yet to discover."

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Five children stepped onto Leroy Dreyer Field Saturday full of excitement.
It was a special moment for a group who is facing the on-going battle with childhood cancer. Prior to first pitch, players from the Blinn baseball team embraced the children of Adam's Angels Ministry to offer their support as the group continues its fight.
In August, the Blinn athletic department selected Adam's Angels Ministry, a local non-profit organization that assists families battling childhood cancer, as its sponsored charity through its Adopt-a-Charity program for the athletic season. During the year, each Buccaneer athletic team hosted an Adam's Angels game in which Blinn honored the children from the organization. Gate proceeds from those games were donated to Adam's Angels.
During a pregame ceremony Saturday, the athletic department donated $1,212.75 raised through those Adam's Angels games.
"This has been a real highlight for our kids," said Adam's Angels founder Donna Culliver. "The Blinn players for every sport have been so good about getting out there and taking the lead. Our kids have really enjoyed it."
Donna and Tim Culliver founded Adam's Angels Ministry in 2003 after they lost their 4-year-old son, Adam Christian Culliver, to acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare leukemia that affects the brain, spleen and liver.
Adam's Angels assists local families who are facing childhood cancer by offsetting costs incurred that include, but aren't limited to, living expenses, meal vouchers, fuel costs, and medical parking. According to the organization's website, www.adamsangelsministry.com, one in 300 children will develop cancer before age 19, and one out of every five children diagnosed with cancer dies.
"Blinn stepping to the plate and taking the lead has really helped raise awareness of our organization," Culliver said. "Now other companies are stepping forward and asking how they can help. It's really shed a light on things. The more support we receive, the more we can assist families."
Blinn founded its Adopt-a-Charity program in 2013 after Athletic Director Scott Schumacher saw the success the baseball team was having with its annual Turn Back the Clock games. During those games, the team would sponsor a charity and donate a portion of the gate proceeds to that organization. A charity for the 2014-15 athletic season will be named in early August.
"It's important that the athletic department gives back to the community for their support of us," Schumacher said. "Adam's Angels is an extraordinary organization that does great things for families in our community."


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Latitude: 50.9422 / 50°56'31"N
Longitude: -2.6322 / 2°37'55"W
OS Eastings: 355676
OS Northings: 116054
OS Grid: ST556160
Mapcode National: GBR MP.NT3J
Mapcode Global: FRA 56CM.BB4
Entry Name: Church of St John the Baptist
Listing Date: 19 March 1951
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1055713
English Heritage Legacy ID: 261341
Location: Yeovil, South Somerset, Somerset, BA20
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Yeovil
Built-Up Area: Yeovil
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
5/4 Church of St John The Baptist
Church, late C14. Limestone with Ham stone dressings: lead roofs. Cruciform plan
with South porch and vestry (1915) 1 bay sanctuary, 2-bay choir, crossing, 4-bay
nave and West Tower, with North and South choir and nave aisles and projecting
transepts. Early Perpendicular style, crypt is Decorated but not necessarily
earlier. Three tiered plinth, buttresses with double offsets terminating in
pinnacles between bays, set-back buttresses to corners. Windows to full width of
each bay: 5-light terminating in 2-centre arches, tracery of reticulated
perpendicular transitional design. String course below slender arch-panelled
parapet with roll-mouldings; parapets angled to gable ends. Blank second bays to
choir. To bay 3 of North aisle a pointed arched doorway cut into bottom of
window, opposite on South nave aisle is South porch, a half-height 2-bay
extension, in style of rain building. Doorway probably C19, crocketted label
mould to pointed archway, and swept sculptured panel in niche. Stair turrets to
East outside corners of both transepts. Tower 28 metres high, in 4-stages set
back offset corner buttresses, capped by openwork balustrading eatching the
parapets could be C19. Two-light late C14 windows on all sides at bell-ringing
and bell-chamber levels, the latter having fine pierced stonework grilles. Stair
turret to North-west corner, with windvane termination. Plain West doorway
flanked by triangular shafts, West window having Perpendicular tracery. The iron
latin cross set into the South-east corner of the parapet may be of C15. The
tower has a chiming clock, (no clock face), a Sanctus bell and a peal of 10
bells, the East window similar tracery to the West window, and the parapet is
crowned with a stone cross. Internally the South porch late C19 The Nave and
aisles are lofty, the apexes of the arcades are close to wall plate level: the
columns slender, alternate order hollowed, with small impost capitals on outer
and riddle of the five orders. Wall shafts to aisle/chapel walls; Tower and
crossing arches unpanelled and set higher. The trussed ribbed rafters of the
barrel roofs and nearly all the bosses said to be original: West bay of the
North aisle has sore ancient timbers. Colouring applied to bosses and principal
timber members throughout. The Crypt, under the choir, has four Quadripartite
vaults of early/mid C14 style, central octagonal pier, and moulded corbels to
walls. The entrance doorway (North wall of chancel) has a croketted ogee arch,
double cusps, and pinnacled side pilasters. Fittings of note: late Ill font, an
outstanding brass lectern, English c1450, inscription figure of monk on stand;
on North and South chancel walls sculptured lenton veil brackets. Memorial
brasses to Penne 1519 and Hawker 1696. Many C18 memorial, notably to Revd. J
Phelips Died l766. Newman of Barwick Died 1790, and Harbin Died 1704. Earliest
church in Yeovil, dating from c950. Rebuilt 1380-1400 probably by William
Wynford, master mason of Wells: major restoration 1851-60.
Listing NGR: ST5567016058
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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Twerking: Birds Do It. Bees Do It.
Miley Cyrus has gotten a lot of attention for twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards in August — and not twerking on Saturday Night Live in October. As the Huffington Post points out, she is just the latest in a long line of celebrity twerkers, including Madonna, Rihanna, and Britney Spears.
What many people don't realize is just how far back twerking goes. Back before the VMAs, before the Oxford Dictionaries Online immortalized the word, before 33 high school students got suspended for their video, before the How to Twerk tutorial got more than 16 million hits on YouTube, before Jimmy Kimmel's twerking prank, before Big Freedia's Guinness World Record attempt and even before Bubba Sparxxx and the Ying Yang Twins popularized the word in the 90s.
No. We are going back to the forest primeval, to a bird that's been shaking what nature gave it since before mankind figured out what a seat cushion was for.
Twerk Well And Prosper
What's in a good twerk? The Oxford Dictionaries site has defined the verb form as "to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance." Miley was more succinct. "It's a lot of booty action," she told Ryan Seacrest.
You don't have to tell that to the sage grouse.
During mating season, male sage grouse dance so hard they have to spend a significant portion of the following year building their body weight back up for the next mating season. For black grouse males, it just isn't a successful dance without major weight loss, a spike in blood parasites and a compromised immune system. The ones that lose the most body mass are better at defending their territories and experience greater success among the lady grouse.
But according to Richard Prum, an evolutionary biologist at Yale University, there are even better twerking analogs than the sage grouse in the natural world, including the Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise ...
... and the Wire-tailed Manakin.
The manakin's mating dance "is the ultimate pre-copulatory display," says Rick, who was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2009. "The female has a straight-on rear view of this display."
Take a look for yourself. The male manakin finds a female — any female — to display to. He proceeds to dance in a sexually provocative manner that involves thrusting tail movements and a low, squatting stance (sound familiar?). But the manakin goes one step further — swishing a bouquet of wiry feathers across the female's face as he shimmies back and forth along the branch.
"This," Rick says, "is as close as possible in nature to a sexual fetish."
Birds of a Feather Twerk Together
As it turns out, Rick has been thinking a lot lately about birds who do twerk-like dance moves, though he wouldn't call it that. He has studied the manakin — and other birds — for years, and he also happens to be writing a book about the evolution of beauty.
The cool thing is: The manakin's twerk-like mating strut has impacted how the birds have evolved, Rick says. The manakin's dance move came along before its characteristic wiry feathers — those ones that the male rubs over the female's face as he booty-shakes — ever developed.
The female manakin who participates in the display "also has wires coming out of her tail, which she never uses," says Rick. "So, what this is, is a sort of evolved decadence. The female, in selecting for what she likes in terms of fetishistic tactile stimulation across the face...as a result she transforms her own body."
Over the course of time, the dance shaped the bird's plumage.
Twerks For Us
While selection for well-performed dance moves can breed extreme plumage among birds, twerking would have no such consequences among humans. As Rick points out, "There's no indication that twerking is associated with fitness. People were getting plenty of mates before they started twerking."
With some birds, if they don't dance it well, they won't reproduce at all. "Like a dance move, it's an aesthetic process," he says. "And that extreme aesthetic expression requires lots of failure. If everybody did it the same, it wouldn't evolve to any extraordinary extent. Which is similar to saying that most opera and most poems suck, and the reason they do is that it's really hard to achieve it well, and when you do achieve it well, it can be good in an amazing and enduring kind of way."
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So, birds are good at twerking. Really good at it. Bees are, too — they talk to each other by wagging their rears. Heck, even educated spiders can do it (It helps to have extra legs and a butt flap that unfolds into a shining, iridescent display at dancing time).
And now, humans do it. Judging from online videos, lots of people do it. For fun. For profit. And, well, just because they can.
"Twerking is about the butt, and the butt is really a human autapomorphy," says Rick. "It's a unique structure that other animals lack."
What is The Protojournalist? New-school storytelling, old-school reporting. @NPRtpj


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"People have been coming to U2 shows for 20 years now. It's almost like the Deadheads at this stage." — Adam
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October 16, 1989: National Tennis Centre, Melbourne, Australia
October 16, 1992: Texas Stadium, Dallas, TX
October 16, 2001: United Center, Chicago, IL
October 16, 2004: Riverside Studios, London, England
October 16, 2005: Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
October 16, 2008: Sam's Chowder House, Half Moon Bay, CA
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In the May/June 2010 issue, Robert Simonson explores Brooklyn's burgeoning beer, cocktail and coffee scene, but not to be overlooked is the borough's growing collection of wine bars and bottle shops. From a former mini-mart to a cozy townhouse, here are a few of Brooklyn's best wine bets.
Black Mountain Wine House
Like getting cozy at a friend's house with a glass of wine and good meal (if that friend happened to have a great palate and live in a Boreum Hill townhouse), the Black Mountain Wine House beckons you to settle in for the night. Their wine list focuses mainly on natural producers throughout the old and new worlds, and menu items range from gourmet mac and cheese to classic fondue.
Coordinates: 415 Union St.; 718-522-4340; blackmountainwinehouse.com
Brooklyn Wine Exchange
Owner Patrick Watson—the visionary behind the JakeWalk bar, Smith & Vine and Stinky Bklyn—opened this small-winery focused bottle shop in Cobble Hill last December. Weekly tastings and education classes in a room at the back of the shop cover everything from varietal basics to master classes in biodynamic and organic farming.
Coordinates: 138 Court St.; 718-855-9463; brooklynwineexchange.com
Snag a table at the long wooden bar and peruse the glass-pour list, which features a rotating selection of at least 25 different wines. Snacks include specialty cheeses, house-cured salumis and homemade sausages and pickles.
Coordinates: 381 7th Ave.; 718-768-9463; brookvin.com
Smith & Vine
Coordinates: 268 Smith St.; 718-243-2864; smithandvine.com
If you love whisk(e)y as much as you do wine, then consider this Carroll Gardens store your one-stop shop for all of your imbibing needs. The back wall boasts a selection of more than 70 Scotch whiskies, while a center table offers a wide selection of wines priced under $12 a bottle. In-store tastings often include food pairings from local vendors, and most wine purchases are 10 percent off after 6 p.m. on Mondays. smithandvine.com
D.O.C. Wine Bar
Specializing in all-things Italian, this rustic Williamsburg wine bar is likely the only spot in town where you'll find Sardinian gems like the rich and juicy Cannonau and Carignano del Sulcis.
Coordinates: 83 N. 7th St.; 718-963-1925; docwinebar.com
The Greene Grape
Quaint and cozy, this Fort Greene wine shop stocks a good number of wines from around the world as well as an abbreviated, but well-considered selection of artisanal spirits. Make it a meal and head to their provisions shop a few doors down, which hosts an in-house butcher, fishmonger and full cheese counter.
Coordinates: 765 Fulton St.; 718-797-9463; brooklyn.greengrape.com
Prospect Wine Shop (Park Slope)
Dedicated to mostly organic and biodynamic wines, this former mini-mart holds Saturday afternoon tastings on their garden-esque back patio and offers a selection of more than 50 different sakés.
Coordinates: 322 7th Ave.; 718-768-1232; propectwine.com
Red White and Bubbly
This Park Slope bottle shop hosts one of the borough's biggest selections of small-estate wines, many of them from the Empire State, itself. Weekly wine tastings, knowledgeable staff and reasonable prices are an added bonus.
Coordinates: 211 5th Ave.; 718-636-9463; redwhiteandbubbly.com
Slope Cellars
Opened in 2000 by a former elementary school teacher and a Wall St. exec, this 900-square-foot shop has amassed a selection of more than 900 bottles of mostly natural and organic wine as well as a thoughtful selection of small-production, handcrafted spirits. Be sure to say hi to Greta, the good-natured shepherd/husky mix who's always there to keep shoppers company as they browse.
Coordinates: 436 7th Ave.; 718-369-7307; slopecellars.com
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Bobby D. Russell, 35, of Peoria took his life Monday night by plunging a kitchen knife into his chest as police officers attempted to arrest him on a warrant for failing to appear in court for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
Bobby D. Russell had already been to prison once.
He faced going to jail again, for up to 30 years if found guilty, for having sex with a teenage girl.
Russell, 35, of Peoria took his life Monday night by plunging a kitchen knife into his chest as police officers attempted to arrest him on a warrant for failing to appear in court for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.
Russell was indicted in July by a Peoria County grand jury for the offense. It's the same charge, having sex with a then-13-year-old girl from December 2005 until May 2006, for which he was initially indicted in September 2006. The charge was dropped in February 2007, but this year's indictment appears to be a reinstatement of the original allegations.
Police showed up at Russell's girlfriend's house, 1316 N. Bourland Ave., about 9:30 p.m. Monday after a tipster alerted them Russell, who had a warrant out for his arrest, was at the home. Yolanda Code told the officer at the front door she had been sleeping and didn't know if her boyfriend was in the house. Meanwhile, a second officer stood watch at a back door in case Russell tried to evade them.
Peoria police spokesman Doug Burgess said the officer at the back of the house saw someone open the back door and shut it when they saw police outside. It was at this time Code gave the two officers permission to come inside and look for Russell.
During their search, one of the officers heard what he described as someone vomiting from the basement, police reports said. When they descended into the basement, police found Russell barely alive with a knife protruding from his chest.
Russell apparently plunged a kitchen knife into the left side of his chest, an injury that killed him within an hour, Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll said. He was pronounced dead about 10:20 p.m. in the emergency room at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center from the self-inflicted stab wound.
An autopsy conducted late Tuesday night confirmed Russell died of a single stab wound to the chest, which pierced his heart.
Police were shocked with the outcome of the case Tuesday, Burgess said. The names of the officers involved were not being released. The department does not plan to investigate the incident.
In 2000, Russell was convicted for a pair of drug offenses, possessing with the intent to deliver a controlled substance, and sentenced to 9½ years in prison.
Attempts to reach Code were unsuccessful Tuesday.
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Breakfast is a crucial meal for us all, especially kids. Children who eat school breakfast miss less school and get higher math scores, making them 20% more likely to graduate high school. But there are a lot of kids who aren't getting breakfast. In fact, of the 21 million U.S. kids who get free or reduced-price school lunch, only half of those eligible kids get breakfast.
Coupons for Change has partnered with Share Our Strength, which connects kids to nutrition programs like school breakfast. You can help out simply by clipping coupons and using them to save on the groceries you buy every week. At couponsforchange.org, every three coupons used gives one meal to a hungry child. They've also teamed up with celebrity chef and author of Ten Dollar Dinners, Melissa d'Arabian. She's sharing some of her favorite breakfast recipes that are both kid-approved and nutritious, so households everywhere can start the day off right.
It's a win-win! You help to win the fight against hunger while saving money on your own groceries and a child who is in need, receives a nutritious breakfast.
Green Morning Smoothies
If you've been hesitant to join the green smoothie craze, this is the perfect recipe to get you started. It contains a good dose of healthy greens like spinach, but the banana, peach and other ingredients make it taste sweet and delicious. It also contains whole oats, which will keep you feeling full and satisfied.
Breakfast Greek Yogurt Banana Split
Who doesn't like "dessert" for breakfast. Layer your breakfast bowl with bananas, a scoop of Greek fat free honey vanilla yogurt, then sprinkle on jam, sliced almonds, and fresh fruit. Voilà! A banana split loaded with healthy ingredients to kick-start your day.
Apple-Carrot Mini Muffins
These muffins are chock-full of nutritious ingredients like oats, flax seeds and produce. The best thing about this recipe is you can use whatever vegetables or fruit you have around the house. Melissa suggests carrots and apples but you can also use produce like spinach, zucchini, pears, or pineapple.
Breakfast Quesadilla
If you love breakfast burritos then you will certainly love these breakfast quesadillas. Load up a tortilla with refried beans, cheese, scrambled eggs and avocado. Then grill it up in a frying pan and enjoy!
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Ross Douthat argues convincingly that if we eliminated the link between contributions and benefits it would be much easier politically to cut Social Security. Of course he thinks ending the link would be a good idea for that reason, but his logic is certainly on the mark, people will more strongly protect benefits that they feel they have earned.
Douthat is off on a few other points. He tells readers:
"In an era of mass unemployment, mediocre wage growth and weak mobility from the bottom of the income ladder, it makes no sense to finance our retirement system with a tax that falls directly on wages and hiring and imposes particular burdens on small business and the working class.
"What's more, the payroll tax as it exists today can't cover the program's projected liabilities anyway, and the pay-as-you-go myth stands in the way of the changes required to keep Social Security solvent."
The problem here is that we are not condemned to an era of "mass unemployment, mediocre wage growth and weak mobility." This has been the outcome of inept macroeconomic policy and trade and regulatory policies that were designed to redistribute income from those at the middle and bottom to the top. Most people would look to reverse these policies rather than eliminate social insurance.
The implication of this comment, that we would somehow be able to make up substantial funding shortfalls from cutting taxes on low and middle income people by taxing the wealthy more also is not very plausible. Given the enormous political power of the "job creators" (as demonstrated by the fact that people are not laughed out of town for using this term), it is unlikely that substantially more money will be raised from the wealthy to pay for Social Security. This means that in Douthat's dream world we would be seeing large cuts in benefits.
He also is wrong with his arithmetic. The payroll tax certainly can cover the program's expenses. In fact, had it not been for the upward redistribution of income over the last three decades, which nearly doubled the share of wage income going over the cap on taxable income, the projected 75-year shortfall would be about half of its current level.
Even with the current projected shortfall, if ordinary workers shared in projected productivity growth over the next three decades, a tax increase equal to 6 percent of their wage growth over this period would be sufficient to make the program fully solvent. The problem is clearly the policies that led to the upward redistribution of income (e.g. protectionist policies for higher paid professionals, stronger patent and copyright monopolies, subsidies for too big to fail banks etc.), not Social Security.
It is worth pointing out that when Douthat proposes "means-testing for wealthier beneficiaries," his notion of wealthy means school teachers and firefighters, not Bill Gates and Mitt Romney. There are a small number of very rich people, cutting some or all of their benefits won't make any difference to the program's finances. In order to have any appreciable effect on Social Security's finances it would be necessary to cut benefits for people who earned $40,000 a year or thereabout.
Finally, Douthat refers to "changing the way benefits adjust for inflation." Douthat is not interested in "changing the way benefits adjust for inflation," he is interested in reducing the way that benefits adjust for inflation. The most widely touted proposal would be equivalent to a 3.0 percent cut in lifetime benefits. This would have a larger impact of the income of most beneficiaries than the ending of the Bush tax cuts would on the after-tax income of most of those affected. For this reason, it is understandable that there would be resistance just as there is considerable resistance to "changing" the tax rate for high income taxpayers.


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HUDSON et al. v. UNITED STATES
certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the tenth circuit
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) imposed monetary penalties and occupational debarment on petitioners for violating 12 U. S. C. §§84(a)(1) and 375b by causing two banks in which they were officials to make certain loans in a manner that unlawfully allowed petitioner Hudson to receive the loans benefit. When the Government later criminally indicted petitioners for essentially the same conduct, they moved to dismiss under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The District Court ultimately dismissed the indictments, but the Court of Appeals reversed, relying on United States v. Halper, 490 U. S. 435.
Held: The Double Jeopardy Clause is not a bar to petitioners later criminal prosecution because the OCC administrative proceedings were civil, not criminal. Pp. 412.
(a) The Clause protects only against the imposition of multiple criminal punishments for the same offense. See, e.g., Helvering v. Mitchell, 303 U. S. 391. Halper deviated from this Courts longstanding double jeopardy doctrine in two key respects. First, it bypassed the traditional threshold question whether the legislature intended the particular successive punishment to be civil or criminal in nature, see, e.g., United States v. Ward, 448 U. S. 242, focusing instead on whether the sanction was so grossly disproportionate to the harm caused as to constitute punishment. The Court thereby elevated to dispositive status one of the factors listed in Kennedy v. MendozaMartinez, 372 U. S. 144, for determining whether a statute intended to be civil was so punitive as to transform it into a criminal penalty, even though Kennedy itself emphasized that no one factor should be considered controlling, id., at 169. Second, Halper assess[ed] the character of the actual sanctions imposed, 490 U. S., at 447, rather than, as Kennedy demanded, evaluating the statute on its face to determine whether it provided for what amounted to a criminal sanction, 372 U. S., at 169. Such deviations were ill considered. Halper s test has proved unworkable, creating confusion by attempting to distinguish between punitive and nonpunitive penalties. Moreover, some of the ills at which it was directed are addressed by other constitutional provisions. Thus, this Court largely disavows Halper s method of analysis and reaffirms the previous rule exemplified in Ward. Pp. 49.
(b) Applying traditional principles to the facts, it is clear that petitioners criminal prosecution would not violate double jeopardy. The money penalties statutes express designation of their sanctions as civil, see §§93(b)(1) and 504(a), and the fact that the authority to issue debarment orders is conferred upon the appropriate Federal banking agenc[ies], see §§1818(e)(1)(3), establish that Congress intended these sanctions to be civil in nature. Moreover, there is little evidencemuch less the clearest proof this Court requires, see Ward , 448 U. S., at 249to suggest that the sanctions were so punitive in form and effect as to render them criminal despite Congress contrary intent, see United States v. Ursery, 518 U. S. ___, ___. Neither sanction has historically been viewed as punishment, Helvering, supra, at 399, and n. 2, 400, and neither involves an affirmative disability or restraint, see Flaming v. Nestor, 363 U. S. 603. Neither comes into play only on a finding of scienter, Kennedy, 372 U. S., at 168, since penalties may be assessed under §§93(b) and 504, and debarment imposed under §1818(e)(1)(C)(ii), without regard to the violator's willfulness. That the conduct for which OCC sanctions are imposed may also be criminal, see ibid., is insufficient to render the sanctions criminally punitive, Ursery, supra, at ___, particularly in the double jeopardy context, see United States v. Dixon, 509 U. S. 688. Finally, although the imposition of both sanctions will deter others from emulating petitioners conduct, see Kennedy, supra, at 168, the mere presence of this traditional goal of criminal punishment is insufficient to render a sanction criminal, as deterrence may serve civil as well as criminal goals, e.g., Ursery , supra, at ___. Pp. 911.
92 F. 3d 1026, affirmed.
Rehnquist, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which OConnor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Thomas, J., joined. Stevens, J., and Souter, J., filed opinions concurring in the judgment. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Ginsburg, J., joined.


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2014 Outdoor: Placed fifth in the javelin at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Vermont with a toss of 53.43m (175'3")… Recorded a career-best javelin throw of 53.66m (176'0') to finish seventh at the Morgan State Legacy Meet… His heave places him fourth in the UMBC record book… Also competed in the pole vault during the meet at Morgan State, tying for tenth after clearing 3.40m (11'1.75").
2013-14 Indoor: Competed in the pole vault at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games, clearing 4.35m (14'3.75") to place fifth overall.
2013 Outdoor: Competed in the javelin once during the year, taking fourth in the event at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium... Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2012-13 Indoor: Did not compete in any meets.
2012 Outdoor: Bested his previous personal-best by clearing 4.50m (14' 9") in the pole vault en route to placing tied for eighth at the conference meet... This height ties him for eighth all-time in the UMBC record book... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2011-12 Indoor: Recorded a personal-best in the pole vault by clearing 4.40m (14' 5.25") while placing third at the Terrapin Invitational... His height tied him for tenth all-time in school history at the time... Finished tenth in the pole vault at the America East Championships after clearing 4.20m (13' 9.25").
2011 Outdoor: Finished fifth overall, 4.12m, in the pole vault at the Maryland Invtiational… Placed tenth overall in the pole vault at the America East Outdoor Championship... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2010-11 Indoor: Finished eleventh overall, 4.10m, in the pole vault at the Terrapin Indoor Invitational.
2009-10 Indoor: Competed in the pole vault at five meets… Set a season-best mark of 4.20m at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games.
Backgorund: Named an All-County pole vaulter as
a senior during the indoor season… Won the regional indoor
and outdoor championships as a senior… Named to the
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an All-State Honorable Mention as a senior.
Personal: Oldest child of Bambi and Steve Kshimetski… Has a younger sibling Jamie… Enjoys the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers… Also plays guitar… A member of the National Honor Society… Majoring in chemical engineering… Born Jan. 12, 1992.


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Eastman Kodak, who filed for bankruptcy in January, introduced Super 8 in 1965. Ten years later, Ford's sole Liberian dealer used the film to document a country in its last years before its descent into one of history's creepiest civil wars. These are his movies of driving across Liberia.
Liberia, a polyethnic wedge in West Africa, was originally a 19th-century project to return freed slaves to Africa. Instead of an African democracy liberated from European colonialist rule, Liberia became a weird mirror image of the Antebellum South, with the returned slaves—called Americo-Liberians—ruling over Liberia's indigenous tribes. Their rule lasted until 1980, when 29-year-old master sergant Samuel Doe from the Krahn tribe became President in a rather novel way: he stormed the presidential palace with his supporters and disemboweled President William Tolbert, the last of the Americo-Liberians, in his bed. Nine years later, Doe suffered a similar fate, then Liberia was overrun by coked-up teenagers in wigs with AK-47's, led by people like General Butt Naked and General Peanut Butter, and the country descended into a civil war whose weirdness and violence would have made Hieronymus Bosch blush.
The American presence in Liberia wasn't restricted to its founding and a capital named after James Monroe. Firestone, through its Liberian subsidiary Firestone Natural Rubber Company, has been operating the world's largest rubber plantation in Liberia since 1926. They've had other interests as well, like the Bomi Hills iron ore mine, the destination of the road trip in the video, filmed by a Firestone employee who ran "the sole dealership for Ford US and UK cars, pickups, trucks, tractors" in Liberia.
Creating a clip like this back in 1975 was a bit more complicated than in our age of two video cameras per pocketable device, especially when you were in West Africa. Here's how the author describes the process:
Film was v expensive and unobtainable in Liberia, so your first shot was your only shot. Film came in 50ft reels—about 2 minutes—and cost the equivalent in todays money of around £50. Didn't see what I'd shot until a year later. Bought a years supply of film when on leave, and kept it in the fridge. Mailed to the UK for processing, collected on the next annual leave, then spent the following year editing it. Slow!
He's also got a clip which shows cars driving around Monrovia in a torrential downpour and another which illustrates local air travel. They all show a time and place which isn't actually that far in the past, but which seems positively ancient when compared to modern films about Liberia, like Vice magazine's from 2010—or the 2011 documentary The Redemption of General Butt Naked.


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A Gartner analyst, however, says that IT shops are largely focused on short-term projects rather than planning for a recovery.
"This is the time for CIOs to change the economics of technology, and HP can help," said Deb Nelson, a senior vice president of marketing for HP's technology solutions group. To that end, HP will detail two new enterprise virtual arrays, an enhanced virtualization platform, data protection software, and several services.
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Hewlett-Packard also unveiled new consulting services on Tuesday. Consolidation and virtualization-centric ROI services can help customers assess where to get the highest return from virtualization and server consolidation, Nelson said. With a new multitiered hybrid service, customers can design a datacenter with tiers of service to reduce costs.
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"We're all aware of the challenges the economy is presenting," Nelson said. "[These new offerings] don't mean IT has to spend more to stay competitive. It's about spending in a smart way."
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This June, a congressman from New York City stepped down from office after it was revealed that he had used his Twitter account to send several women pictures of himself wearing only his underpants. A few months earlier, another congressman, this one from upstate New York, was forced to resign after having been caught sending a woman he'd met on Craigslist a photograph of himself, naked from the waist up. Guys, is it really that difficult for you to shop for clothes? Based on my recent research, escorting an assortment of mostly shopaphobic fellows from one menswear establishment to another in an attempt to expand their sartorial horizons, I'd say the answer is yes.
"Of all the suits you tried on today, which would you buy?" I asked a TV writer after he'd indulged me for many hours by posing in pants and jackets at several stores.
"The blue one," he said, referring to a smart thin-striped light-wool ensemble by Zegna (Bergdorf Goodman; $2,495). "You want to know why?" he continued. "Because I'm wearing it. I will buy whatever will make it stop."
What do men find so objectionable about wandering through a shop or two in search of something nice to wear? "I get dizzy in stores." "I'm not comfortable with another human being that close to me, let alone someone whose only interest in me is that I might buy an overpriced sweater." "What's with the European-size thing? How am I supposed to know how to buy clothes on the metric system?" "I have considerable anguish parting with that kind of money." "I hate having to tote purchases home in garish shopping bags." "I know I'm like a child, but I work from home and don't really need clothes. I can wear the same pair of jeans for a week, since I wear them only when I go outside, one hour a day." "Women have faith in clothes to somehow do something, but I don't see them having transformative power." "I'm allergic to wool." "No matter how old you are, you're afraid the salesman will suggest that you might have better luck in the department for husky boys."
Not all men are averse to browsing the racks. Meet P., a lanky ghostwriter and author, who arrived at our shopping appointment in an ancient L. L. Bean tweed jacket, a forest-green crew-neck sweater, a blue button-down oxford shirt from J. Crew, and a gray T-shirt. (According to P., "T-shirts must be colored, because white says Jackie Gleason or geek.") "The big conundrum for men, when it comes to wardrobe, has to do with caring or not caring," P. said. "It's like the first time you fall in love. You have to pretend you don't love her to your friends, because they'll tease you. But you love her. It's the same with fashion. You could call it studied indifference, but, believe me, it's studied." P. agreed to take me on a tour of a few stores that he likes, beginning with Brooks Brothers (346 Madison Avenue, at 44th Street). "When I was a little kid in Milton, Massachusetts, Brooks Brothers represented a rite of passage," he said, as we made our way past tables of ties. He prefers skinny ties, which, he maintains, are harder to find than a decent reading lamp (standard-width striped ties, $79.50-$115). "You would come here with your dad, and if he was sober he'd buy you your first blue blazer with three golden buttons that, back then, looked naval and now have a Scientological flavor" (classic navy junior blazer, $198). Although Brooks, P. says, has lost some of its air of elegant melancholy, it is still a fine place to go for unpretentious staples: khaki summer suits ($398-$598); oxfords that have been burnished to Shaker simplicity ($488); and button-down shirts, which come in no-wrinkle cotton and a wide array of pastels and stripes (avoid the contrast collar unless you need something to wear to your arraignment for corporate malfeasance; $69.50-$135).
Next stop, J. Crew, purveyor of the meticulously offhanded I Don't Care look. The broken-in chinos appear to have been languishing for years in the bottom drawer at your summer house in Rhode Island; the pre-faded T-shirts insouciantly suggest a laundry accident ($65, $24.50).
"I would wear just about everything here," P. said. "Except for the madras shorts. You want to look youthful, not ridiculous" ($72.50).
Inside the four-story Beaux-Arts mansion that houses the Ralph Lauren store on the Upper East Side, you will find artifacts from a covetable life. Only some of the goods are for sale, though—not the frayed kilims or the purple felt pool table. What is implicit at J. Crew (no logos) and discreet at Brooks (a minute insignia of a sheep suspended limply from a ribbon, as if it were a sick piñata) is writ large at Ralph Lauren, where an entitled-looking polo player astride a pony, the symbol sometimes three inches tall, is stitched on the bosom region of shirts and knits (polo shirt, $75).
From a female perspective—we women have hundreds of choices of cuts and lengths and hemlines—it's almost unfair what a well-fitting jacket and trousers can do for a man, regardless of whether he chooses two-button or three (two's safer unless you're very tall); one or two vents (two's easier for sliding into a cab); a peaked or a notched lapel (peaked is trendier, but notched is classic); or an English or an Italian cut (the former is hourglass-shaped and made of heavier wool; the latter's looser and formed like an inverted V; and, while we're at it, the American variety is constructed like a sack). Dress codes today are less emphatic about the need for a suit when a sports jacket will do, but you never know when you're going to be invited to something you don't deserve to attend.
"I have been known to wear the house jacket at fancy restaurants," L., the aforementioned TV writer, told the salesman at Paul Stuart (10 East 45th Street), when he joined me there for some suit-shopping research. "I don't really wear what you'd consider clothes." His attire that day featured a dinosaur-themed T-shirt and, courtesy of a goody bag from a comedy festival, a fleece-lined khaki jacket. Nevertheless, he tried on suit after suit at Paul Stuart, a company that dresses men who want to look dapper but not so dapper that anyone notices. The store, situated in a three-story building whose autumnal-colored woods and décor make it feel like a law firm, ranks above Brooks Brothers in fashion and price. Mayor Bloomberg is a client. "L. is prominent in the chest, so this is a good model," the salesman said of a gray striped worsted wool, a mixed marriage of English and American design (ready-to-wear suits, $1,284-$4,984). "This here," he said, fingering the slightly buckling fabric near the lapel area, "will get alleviated by the tailor." Phew.
If stores were cookies, Brooks Brothers would be a chocolate chip, Paul Stuart an English tea biscuit, and Bergdorf Goodman Men's (745 Fifth Avenue, at 58th Street) a perfect petit four. A bit more traditional than the comparable gents' store at Barneys (gingerbread men with grenadine-foam lips and essence-of-truffle souls), Bergdorf has exquisite Continental suits at exquisite Continental prices. Regarding an Isaia slate-blue number with gray undertones ($2,995), a debonair salesman said, "It's a little bit of fun, but classic." "Too shiny," L. said. Up on the third floor, where things are more "contemporary," L. tried an Etro Glen plaid with pin dots and a paisley lining ($1,540). "Too much action," he said. How about a reversible Dries Van Noten jacket—one side red, the other black-and-white check ($925, on sale)? "Something I might wear on a riverboat or getting out of a small car." What could be wrong with the casual navy flannel suit with striped lining? It was by Thom Browne, the American designer who, a few years ago, introduced an influential line of suits whose skinny trousers and sleeves were cropped so short that the wearer appeared to be dressed in a hand-me-up. This suit, however, was length-appropriate ($2,200). Catching sight of himself in the mirror, L. said, cheerlessly, "It feels as if I have a job."
In contrast to the shrunk-in-the-wash outfits of Thom Browne are the grownup, gym-toned threads of Tom Ford (845 Madison Avenue, at 70th Street), designed, perhaps, with an Italian James Bond in mind: jackets with wide peaked lapels and high arm holes, sweaters of the cashiest cashmere, loafers in ermine suède that Liberace would kill for (navy mohair blazer, $3,400; gray cable-knit crewneck, $1,180; loafers, $790). Ford's mausoleum of a showroom, done in marble, metal, and deconstructed crocodile, is no place for the unhip or the chunky. (When the pudgy billionaire photographer Jean Pigozzi complained to Ford that he couldn't find so much as a handkerchief to buy at the store, the designer told him, "You know why? I don't want big fat guys like you in my shop.") Rising to the challenge, I stopped by the boutique accompanied by C., a tall, burly guy who was dressed in a smart plaid custom-made shirt, jeans from the Gap, and black Nike 923s. When the swank gray heather shirt ($525) he tried on wouldn't button, C. asked a salesman if there was anything else in the store that might fit better. The salesman hesitated, and then, moving his hands down his chest and outward, cupping an imaginary stomach bulge, suggested a sweater.
The John Varvatos boutique (122 Spring Street), offering the designer's slim-fitting rock-and-roll duds in mostly blacks and grays, did not seem the most promising store for Z., a short, bushy-bearded Brooklyn artist who says that he shops once every couple of years, usually because his clothes have disintegrated. But behold! A sales manager named Genaro Otero has transformed Z. into a cover model for GQ, decking him out in a pre-wrinkled black-and-white plaid shirt ($325); navy linen pants with a matching jacket whose lapel is embedded with wire so that you can modulate the level of rumpledness to match your mood ($345); a gray duster with a metallic sheen ($1,195); a gauzy scarf shading from blue to gray, despite Z.'s insistence that he has no use for non-utilitarian neckwear ($985); and a pair of leather-and-waxed-canvas laceless wingtips that appear to have been left out in the rain ($198). "How am I supposed to stand?" the newly self-conscious Z. asked.
At the large Paul Smith flagship (108 Fifth Avenue, at 16th Street), full of colorful whimsy from the stripe-loving English designer, we meandered from room to room, making note of a washed-silk pirate blouse in a garish floral print that screamed Jimi Hendrix ($615); a pullover with big beige dots, "in case you want to pose as a ladybug" ($315); a metal cockroach key ring ($175); and socks patterned with monster faces ("My socks never match, so the less distinctive they are the better"; $35). Z. deemed the aesthetic "too adventurous," although he did like the straw trilby hats with star-printed bands ($225). "I'd be very happy if everyone else wore a hat, and then I would, too," he said.
It's hard not to be charmed by the people at Seize sur Vingt (78 Greene Street)—the name refers to the French equivalent of an A-minus—whose crisply tailored shirts are cut from fabric with names like Trouble in Suez (blue with green multi-stripe), Ole Miss John Glenn (lavender gingham), the Murder of Roger Ackroyd (blue-and-red check), What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (navy-yellow-and-pink windowpane), and Adlai Stevenson (white twill; $170 for off-the-rack, $270 for made-to-measure). Custom suits ($2,600-$3,200, in six to twelve weeks) are also available, but, for optimal fit, the tailors in Hong Kong will need to take a look at you. Or, at least, that's what Karim, the salesman, said the video camera was for.
Saying goodbye to Z., I headed off to the Kiton boutique, in a landmark McKim, Mead & White limestone house (4 East 54th Street). The garments from this Neapolitan family-owned firm are so recherché (or do I mean expensive?) that they cannot be worked on by machine. Each suit is the product of twelve to fifteen tailors—a few responsible for the belt loops, others the zipper, and so forth. From bolt of cloth to finished product, a suit undergoes thirty pressings with an antique iron (ready-to-wear, $7,000-$11,000; made-to-measure, $8,500-$42,000, except when made with pure vicuña from Peru, which is $40,000; ties, $250).
If you require more attention than that, Michael Andrews Bespoke (2 Great Jones Alley) will whip up something for you from one of more than five thousand fabrics (price varies according to fabric). The people there are nice, and there is a fully stocked bar.
Men do not like to take off their pants. In a store. Or, rather, they always balk at trying on pants, for nothing makes an ever-widening girth more manifest than a waistband that will not button. Moreover, according to one man I know, "If you're with your wife, you have to put your wallet and other stuff in the pockets of the clothes you're trying on, because you don't want to leave them in the dressing room when you walk out to ask her what she thinks." Then, there's the vexing question of size. A recent article in Esquire reports that many trousers are significantly more ample than the marked waist size. This is due to "vanity sizing." The magazine collected a batch of pants by different manufacturers, all marked as having a thirty-six-inch waist. At H&M, they were actually thirty-seven inches; at Calvin Klein, thirty-eight and a half; at the Gap, thirty-nine; at Dockers, thirty-nine and a half; and, at Old Navy, forty-one.
If this is all too overwhelming, relax. You can order Bills Khakis online (billskhakis.com). Bill and his people offer trousers in twill, poplin, and chamois, and in all sorts of neutral colors, ranging from khaki to British khaki, cement to mushroom, and also weathered red ($115-$165). Or maybe you'd be more comfortable in a Utilikilt, a forgiving, pleated wraparound item that, by male skirt standards, is not un-macho (utilikilts.com; $200-$330 for all models except the Tuxedo, which is $660).
"Once, I wore a tie to the office," T., a banker, told me. "Everyone asked me, 'What's with the tie?' I'll never do that again." Now that every day is casual Friday in many parts of town, don't you need another pair of jeans so that you never have to do the wash? The deservedly popular Levi's 501s (straight-legged, button fly) are so hardy that, somewhere, originals from 1890 are probably still being worn (Levi's, 414 West 14th Street; $58). T., however, is partial to Earnest Sewn jeans. He, his fiancée, and I visited the Earnest Sewn outpost on the Lower East Side (90 Orchard Street), a rustic-looking spot (tin ceiling, vintage photographs, flower shop in the back) that could pass for a general store on the prairie were it not for the $200 dungarees ($180-$220). While T. surveyed the stacks of jeans, bypassing the stylishly ripped pairs (he prefers to wreck them himself) and trying to decide whether light dark blue was better than dark light blue, a sales manager named Jordan Cohen educated me in the differences between men and women shoppers. Men, he said, are quicker to make a sale, more receptive to the guidance of salespeople or innocent passersby ("Women just want your affirmation that they look good"), less concerned with a precise fit, and more likely to buy the same item again and again and often in bulk. To that, I'd add that, while women are afraid of being out of style, men are afraid of looking silly or, truth be told, of even being looked at. It is no wonder, then, that men's fashion evolves glacially, whereas the minidress on a woman's back becomes dated before she can even zip it up.
T. was in pursuit of a shirt with a not too billowy midriff, since department-store shirts make him feel as though he'd raided his father's closet. Until the turn of the twentieth century, the shirt had been worn exclusively as an undergarment. Today, it is a conspicuous piece of a man's attire, and nobody designs it more tastefully or idiosyncratically than the tailors at the European-inspired boutique Twenty Peacocks (20 Clinton Street; ready-to-wear, $129; custom-made, $145-$195). Made from European fabrics, the shirts resemble classic oxfords and broadcloths, in stripes, solids, and checks, except for a touch of contrast stitching, a button in an unexpected color, or a patch of accenting in another fabric.
"Their clothes are not generic, but not too funky," T. said. They can be very funky if you choose. One client, for instance, always stipulates that in place of a breast pocket there be a thin fabric sheath to hold a single pen. The shirts are cut narrow, but, according to the hospitable, fashion-savvy Moroccan owner, Mehdi Kabbaj (whose day job is selling insurance), "they won't make the guy look like he's on 'Jersey Shore.' " He went on, "Of course, men have an odd notion of how clothes should fit. Have you ever seen the way some guys try on a shirt? They test it by flailing their arms around, as if they need an outfit to fly in."
Not far away, in Nolita, is Lord Willy's (223 Mott Street), another clothier who does audacious things with trim. Owned by an English couple, Alex and Betty Wilcox, this tiny shop, whose logo is a silhouette of a chap wearing a shirt with a pocket square and boxers, offers a doozy of a navy blazer with lilac stitching ($1,600); a blue Glen-plaid shirt with Kelly-green buttons (shirts, $205-$285; pocket squares, $55); and some silk ties embroidered with the message "Get Knotted" on the back ($110). Lord Willy's house plaid, lest you worry, is registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority.
Unless you are a lumberjack, there's only so much plaid you can contemplate, and it's easy these days to surpass the limit. Squired around lower Manhattan by M., a recent college graduate with a strict dress code ("I take some flak for my no-shorts position"), I made my way through enough flannels, windowpanes, and plaids, both Glen and buffalo, to outfit the Scottish Ivy League. Steven Alan (229 Elizabeth Street) has a sharp collection of mid-priced reverse-seam button-downs, perfect for wearing to brunch with your parents ($109-$178). At Odin (199 Lafayette Street), a hip but amiable boutique whose labels range from trendy (Engineered Garments) to too-trendy-for-M. ("I have nothing specific against it, I just wouldn't wear it," he said, referring to a Commes des Garçons white shirt with black-and-white bib details), we found a shirt in a crisscross plaid of gray, black, and navy blue that M. liked enough to buy ($195).
"I'm a classic carrion eater," said G., an international journalist, rakishly dressed in a black V-necked sweater by Charles Tyrwhitt, from England, a blazer from John Pearse, chukka boots on their last legs, and black circular glasses that George Orwell might have worn. G. continued, "If I smell meat, I will pounce on it, but I don't go out for a day of shopping. If I need it, I get it." That day, he needed a blazer for the road, so we headed to Billy Reid (54 Bond Street). You might saunter into this shop with the intention of buying one thing but find yourself distracted by all the other things, especially after the complimentary glass of barrel-aged bourbon. The majestic showroom is supposed to feel like home—sorry, not yours but the home of someone's genteel grandmother in, say, Savannah, after the architect fancied it up with floorboards from an old mill, a counter made from Kentucky church pews, and a clothes rack reassembled from a Louisiana apothecary cabinet. The clothes and the accessories are Southern prep: skinny knit ties ("If you roll them up and put them in your shoe, they won't wrinkle"; $95, reduced to $57); bow ties ("Really, really good, particularly the technically ugly ones"; $95); gray short-sleeved piqué polo shirts ("I could picture a grandfather in 1957 in this or an early 1961 mafioso outside the Desert Sands"; $95); a waxed-canvas blanket-lined khaki coat (no longer available); tweed jackets with suède elbow patches ("Everyone needs a good tweed in his life, and by that I mean hideously loud"; no longer available); antique brass cufflinks ($95); and a shotgun case ($595).
"For someone who never looks nice, I am very picky about clothes," said D., a freelancer, who, the day of our shopping jaunt, was wearing a moth-eaten sweater from Banana Republic and a pair of Levi's 501s from Dave's (581 Sixth Avenue, at 17th Street). Dave's is a great outlet for jeans, Army surplus, and work clothes, and it's D.'s favorite store, because he can shop there in less than seven minutes (Red Wing boots, $125-$279; webbed belt, $3). Quickly, then: at the SoHo branch of the Japanese chain Uniqlo (546 Broadway, between Prince and Spring Streets), where the blaring music and the hangar-size rooms remind one of Eero Saarinen's T.W.A. terminal, we most admired a single-breasted trenchcoat in a smart synthetic navy fabric, reasonably priced at $100. "Very Audrey Hepburn," D. said, trying it on. "And isn't that just what you want in a man's raincoat? The lining's nice, too."
Next stop was Freemans Sporting Club (8 Rivington Street), a haunt for men who much prefer shopping for the outdoors to being in the outdoors (and who also want to get a haircut and a shave, $42 each). In case you missed the message sent by the pinecones in baskets on metal shelves, the lanterns illuminating taxidermied animals, and the library consisting of books by male authors (except for Willa Cather), let's eavesdrop on a customer wearing a flannel shirt and sturdy boots: "Yeah, Sarah's doing great. She's making candles—in her kitchen." At Freemans, you can acquire suspenders ($95), a belt with a brass double-ring clasp ($129), a dive watch ($1,750), and plenty of manly American-made fittings, including a wool herringbone jacket with leather buttons ($1,350), a suit made from a basket-weave fabric whose blues and yellows shimmer in the sunlight ("Too much like sound-speaker fabric," D. said; $2,000), and a plush black cashmere coat, Teflon-coated, which makes it stormproof and perfect for politicians ($2,400).
In fashion and sports, men follow rules. "As long as you know the conventions of dressing, you won't have any problems," P., who is no relation to the previously mentioned P., said. What are the conventions? "I don't know," he said. "That's the problem." He had on a black belt and brown shoes, in shocking disregard of one of the forty-five tips laid out in the slim volume "Anything Other Than Naked: A Guide for Men on How to Dress Properly for Every Occasion." (Belts and shoes should be the same color.) Other tips include "Wear over-the-calf socks"; "Learn to put a dimple in your tie"; "Always keep an extra pair of shoelaces on hand"; "Never dress more casually than your client"; and "Don't wear a raincoat over a tuxedo." They forgot the tip "Don't listen to all tips."
"The look I'm striving for," said A., a commercial litigator, "is 'business boring.' For me, even a striped shirt would be stepping out." A. is a particularly hard shopaphobia case. We met at Saks (611 Fifth Avenue, at 50th Street), a vender not above catering to the legal profession but also able to accommodate natty doctors as well as the occasional artist. He was in need of some very unassertive ties. Albert Einstein once said, "Once you accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." Even so, A. ruled a Zegna mosaic pattern in blue and gold ($185-$195) "too interesting," a Brioni geometric ($195) "too nice," and, regarding a Paul Smith floral ($136), he merely said, "Whoa!" Unable to convince A. that brown and blue really do go together, I gave up and let a take-charge salesman at Barneys (660 Madison Avenue, at 61st Street) sell him a safe Armani blue striped tie ($180). He gave a big sigh of relief as his purchase was being packaged. The next day, A.'s wife sent me a thank-you e-mail. ♦


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Social Networks: Everyone in the Demo
The second Demofall session focused on social networking and "the wisdom of crowds." There were very some very neat ideas, though I'm not sure any real winners.
The first few focused on gathering opinions from multiple people.
Diigo provides what it describes as a highlighter and sticky notes for web pages. It's a browser extension that lets you annotate the web (both privately and publicly) and share and organize bookmarks. It looks good, but I'm not sure how it's all that different from services like Clipmarks.
CoComment lets you track all the conversations you are following on the web, including the ones you comment on. It runs as a sidebar, letting you track the comments on a web site, and see what someone who has made one comment thinks about other subjects. It's designed to let you bring other people into the conversation. Currently, the company claims to track 11 million conversations with 500,000 users.
Attendi is a search engine is trying to get more people involved in the Internet, as opposed to consuming content. It offers "search powered by experience," letting you connect to individual people who have expertise in particular areas. You can search for people with particular expertise, such as people who have visited Paris,and talk to them in real time, then aggregate all the information.
Relevant Mind has a similar goal, but one that seems to be more focused around products. You can look up specific products and see what people have to say about them, then shop. The goal is to be a product research tool. It seems more likely to be a part of a commerce web site than a standalone site, but we'll see.
Then there were three sites that try to take the "wisdom of crowds" concept and apply it to product development.
Fluid Innovation showed off Virtual Ventures, which looks like a game where you play a venture capitalist. The site presents ideas for new products and lets players invest in the ones that they think will succeed, doing things like due diligence and term sheets. But these aren't fake products -- they are actually corporate projects that may or may not be commercialized. So it's a game with the possibility of influencing real products. It's a neat idea.
Advanta's Idea Blob has a similar presence, but is more aimed at ideas from regular people, instead of existing companies. It lets people post ideas for new products and gather feedback, and the ideas that get the most votes get $10,000 towards building it. It sounds like an interesting way of starting a small business.
Spigit seems to be more of a simulation game, with ideas moving to different stages from initial idea to IPOs to a market cap. The idea is to provide a smart way for managing feedback to ideas. You can post ideas, rate them, etc. and get judged on how well the products due. The target seems to be companies that have lots of ideas to let lots of people review ideas, giving a structure to innovation. There is also a spigit for university students, election, and for startup.
All of these business games seem neat, but I have to say I'm still skeptical whether this really will turn out to be a good way to launch products.
Glam Media showed a new Glam.com site , which brings in information from multiple sites, in a curated fashion. They showed bringing in content from multiple blogs, but allowing the community to rate products, but with the quality of the rating depending on the interest of the individual rater. Unlike a site like Digg, it lets you show you how your ranking match with other people's, and then filter topics by different curators. It's a very interesting platform, though I see it mostly as a big enhancement to an existing web site.
Overall, I find these "social sites" to be interesting, but I'm not completely convinced by any of them. I want to take a closer look at CoComment in particular.


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NFL Training camp season is always a time for irrational exuberance. Every team thinks it can win the Super Bowl, even though 31 of those teams will end being horribly wrong. And so, to preview the upcoming NFL season, which could be the most unpredictable ever, we now give you five reasons why your favorite team could win the Super Bowl. Today, it's the Chicago Bears.
1. Because Jay Cutler doesn't, like, care what you think, whatever bro. Are you one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who thinks Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is a poor leader, a gutless quitter, and a perpetual sourpuss? Well, the 21st century's answer to Jeff George has heard your criticisms and, like totally doesn't care, which is why people can't stand him to begin with. Cutler exudes an air of extreme indifference that may not matter to him in terms of fan perception, but ought to matter quite a bit in terms of how his coaches and teammates react to him. It was that dour indifference that led to him being criticized for leaving the NFC title game in January, and that incident lingers over the QB like a toxic cloud and leaves teammates questioning whether he's a guy they like playing for. But Cutler remains extremely talented, and perhaps this season his indifference to everyone else will become a strong motivation to prove haters wrong. Perhaps. Probably not. Once an ass, always an ass.
2. Roy Williams and Mike Martz... together again! Pairing former disgruntled Cowboys wideout Roy Williams with Cutler is like creating football's version of the Jesus Twins, but there was some underlying logic in bringing Williams in, namely that he flourished during offensive coordinator Mike Martz's time in Detroit. Williams will also be counted on to be a big part of the offense, which he no doubt welcomes after being passed over for Miles Austin and Dez Bryant in Dallas. Speaking of former Cowboys...
3. (Door stiffarmed into smithereeens.) Marion Barber is in the backfield now, which gives the Bears a better short yardage back, and keeps Matt Forte healthy enough for him to continue to be the excellent pass-catching weapon out of the backfield that he was last year. Greg Olsen is gone, so Forte could end up catching more the 80 or 90 balls this season. He may need to.
4. A better offensive line. At its nadir against the Giants last year, this was the worst line in football. But as the year progressed, the Bears o-line became something more than just an embarrassment. Now they have a couple of extra additions in draft pick Gabe Carimi and free agent Chris Spencer, so this could be an improving offense going into 2011.
5. You got a defense and Devin Hester, you're gonna do okay. That's the thing about Chicago. Cutler's antics overshadowed the fact that this team played very good football on their way to the NFC Title game, and they have room to get even better. Very little about this team has changed. They added Vernon Gholston to the defense, but he's awful. It's still going to be about Brian Urlacher leading the charge and Devin Hester making the occasional, eye-popping return. You can go a very long way with that as your foundation. And if Jay Cutler ever decides to stop being Pouty McLoserface, you can probably go a wee bit farther.


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What is Roundtable?
Roundtable is a forum for sharing experiences and enjoying fun and fellowship with other Scout leaders. The objectives of roundtables are to provide leaders with program ideas, information on policy and events, and training opportunities. For those of you familiar with the literature, you may note that this is quoted from the front of the Roundtable planning guide, but rearranged a bit from the layout originally provided. I intend on running Roundtable more as a forum than just a training.
Who is Roundtable for?
Roundtable is for every Scoutmaster, Cubmaster, Den Leader, Committee Member, and Unit Leader who is interested in providing a quality program for their youth. Roundtable is especially for you. This is the next step from the online training and the individual experiences you may or may not have, because it is an interactive forum. You will be able to ask questions, share solutions to problems, and learn something from the experiences of others. I am fairly certain that if you attend and participate, you will benefit from roundtable if you are brand new to scouting, a couple years into the program, in a new position in scouting, or even a seasoned veteran in Scouting.
How is Roundtable be different this year?
When and where is Roundtable?
Roundtable is the first Thursday of each month from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, and will be held at the Hamilton Scout Headquarters located at 10455 W 6th Avenue Denver CO 80215.


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A transcript of Raiders rookie linebacker Khalil Mack's press session with the Bay Area media:
Q: How did it go, first minicamp?
Mack: It went well, it went well. Got some good work in. Productive so far. Learning a lot.
Q: Justin Tuck said he was impressed asking lot of questions . . . something on your mind, making sure you ask veterans?
Mack: No doubt. You have a lot of knowledge out there on the field, a lot of veteran players out there. It'd be dumb for me to not ask questions especially knowing the skill level they play with and they're pretty much the best in the game when it comes to pass rushing. I have to ask those questions.
Q: Mostly about pass rushing?
Mack: Mostly about pass rushing and playing with my hand down
Q: Coach Allen said yesterday your head was spinning and that's a good thing, throwing a lot at you until they narrow it down . . how do you feel mentally?
Mack: It's a challenge. It's a challenge. I'm open to the challenge. I'm trying to go out there every day and work on something they want me to work on and get better at it and try not to make the same mistake. That's my biggest thing. I try to go out there and do what I can to make plays and be in the right position. That's pretty much all they're trying to do, put me in position to make plays and I'm thankful for that part.
Q: when you were drafted, you said you wish you could go on the field tomorrow. Now that this camp concluded, do you look forward to down time or do you still want to go out tomorrow?
Mack: I mean, that's the thing about me. I want to keep getting better. Now that I know what I need to do to continue to get better. I want to work on stuff tomorrow if I could. That's just the way I think and that's how I am. I'm a hard worker and I like to do things the right way the first time. I don't want me being a rookie as the excuse, that my head's spinning or anything like that. So I want to do what I can to prepare myself, especially for training camp and be that immediate impact player.
Q: Plans for next month . .
Mack: For the next month, I'm obviously going to go home to Florida for a little while and spend some time with my family while I'm down there. But I'm obviously going to be working out with Tom Shaw maybe. But even then I'm going to be working my techniques and different things that I learned here throughout this time I've been here with coach Bob and JT, and just going over different things, and maybe even meeting up with some of the veterans and doing some off-the-field training.
Q: A lot of people are eager to see you in pads, veteran player impressed by you so far, coach Allen mentioned Von Miller as guy compared you to. How do you feel about the expectation level, that people expecting you to come in and be a dominant player right off the bat?
Mack: There's things I can control. I try to do what I can control, which is work hard, try and go out and work hard every day and show my teammates that I'm here for a reason and that's to help win and that's all I care about. I care about what I can control and that's what I think.
Q: Do you expect of yourself, to be dominant right away?
Mack: I expect to come in and do what I can to make an impact on the team in any way I can, whether it's playing on special teams, whether it's being a pass rusher, whether it's dropping back in coverage. I want to be able to make an impact on the football game.
Q: Does it add pressure to what you're doing right now, that your own team wants an immediate impact, does it add pressure to every stage along the way . . .
Mack: That's the thing. I'm a relaxed individual. I don't really think pressure, pressure, pressure. I think more, OK, this is what it is, work on this, work on that, and just do your job and this is a job now and I have to be professional. No more red-shirting, no more baby steps. I've got to go out and play football, and that's what I love to do.
Q: Strong side is that what you did a lot in college?
Mack: Yeah, strong side, you could say. You could say strong side.
Q: Tight end side . . .
Mack: Yeah, yeah, tight end side.
Q: When you rush passer weak side?
Mack: You never know. You never know. There are so many different things coach JT likes to do, and blitz is one of them. You could be coming from anywhere on the field.
Q: Any surprises in first month?
Mack: Surprises in what regard?
Q: Practices, meetings, people approaching you weren't ready for?
Mack: Like I told you, I go with the flow, man. I was surprised today. I wasn't late to the meeting just now but I had to do like a physical. I had to do a quick physical, and I went to the team meeting room and they made me get up on stage and try to sing something. They caught me off guard with that. But other than that, no big surprises.
Q: Sing?
Mack: I tried.
Q: What did you sing?
Mack: Somebody wanted me to sing R. Kelly and somebody else wanted me to sing Usher.
Q: Didn't bring guitar along?
Mack: That's what I'm saying, I didn't have the background so I couldn't really do what I wanted to do.
Q: After first minicamp, what have you become most comfortable with?
Mack: I mean, that's a good question because I'm not really comfortable yet. I can't really get comfortable yet other than the fact that the guys have been great. They've embraced me, and they've been trying to teach me along with the coaches, and put me under their wing and show me different things about the game. You could say that's comfortable but I don't like to get comfortable. Not yet.
Q: Communication improved, can you feel that or at this point just a lot of voices?
Mack: It's a lot of voices behind my head right now, trying to figure out what safeties are saying and you've got different calls. It's a lot of communication, but you've got to listen to the right things and that's what I'm trying to do right now. I'm trying to break down and assess the game at a high level like those guys are right now.


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Deep in the rugged coal fields of West Virginia, the rumble of a steam locomotive mingles with the sound of the New River crashing through its steep rocky gorge. With brakes squealing, the train passes a signal and slows for its approach into the town of Thurmond. The hulking locomotive comes to a stop in front of the train depot as the track supervisor checks the traffic. Simultaneously, the conductor announces the train and workers remove bags of mail and parcels from the baggage car. Arriving passengers get off the train, while those departing stream from the station's crowded waiting room to take their seats.
Yard workers quickly uncouple the engine, and the engineer takes it to the coaling and water towers to refuel. As the locomotive is re-coupled to the cars, the conductor nods to the engineer and announces the train's departure. The steam engine sends an explosive puff of smoke upwards, and the deafening whistle blows. As the sound of the train fades to a rumble, a fine dusting of soot settles on the starched white shirts and fashionable hats of the men and women bustling along the crowded sidewalk. From a distance they hear the approaching sound of yet another train coming into the town of Thurmond.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
New River Gorge National River
This lesson is based on Thurmond Historic District, one of the many historic districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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I agree with you decoder2. But I also have to acknowledge tripstone, for having my type of humour.
I could tell "sarcasm" was written all over tripstone's post.
I have seen many many other forum's on the web, that have way too many losers. AO seems to have the best audience. I am actually a little surprised, there aren't more 3733t h4x0rs. Thank god there isn't. heh