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Drinking Closer to Home
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"Riveting and startling….So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers." —Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This
"Jessica Anya Blau…creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one often sees in fiction these days…. I found it impossible not to care about them—and equally impossible to forget them. Blau is a magnificent writer, and this is one special novel." —Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors
From Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, comes a new novel of California, growing up, and learning to love your insane family. Perfect for fans of Jess Walter, Kevin Wilson, and Michael Chabon, Drinking Closer to Home is a poignant and funny exploration of one family's over-the-top eccentricities—a book Ron Tanner calls "heartfelt and hilarious."
"Jessica Anya Blau…creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one often sees in fiction these days…. I found it impossible not to care about them—and equally impossible to forget them. Blau is a magnificent writer, and this is one special novel." —Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors
From Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, comes a new novel of California, growing up, and learning to love your insane family. Perfect for fans of Jess Walter, Kevin Wilson, and Michael Chabon, Drinking Closer to Home is a poignant and funny exploration of one family's over-the-top eccentricities—a book Ron Tanner calls "heartfelt and hilarious."
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 01/18/2011
- Trimsize: 5.31 in (w) x 8.00 in (h) x 0.83 in (d)
- Pages: 368
- List Price: 14.99 USD
- BISAC1: FICTION / Family Life / Siblings
- BISAC2: FICTION / Contemporary Women
- BISAC3: FICTION / Small Town & Rural
"At the end of the day, the Stein family is dysfunctional, foul-mouthed, appalling, loving and ridiculously endearing, thanks to Blau's hilarious rendition of their group dynamic. Soundtrack? Hotel California. Woody Allen directs." - Baltimore Sun
"The domestic relationships . . . are brilliantly rendered, a contemporary California version of Philip Roth." - Austin Chronicle
"An entertaining romp through one family's history." - Boston Globe
"A light-hearted, enthralling read that enables us to laugh at our own less-than-perfect families." - Bust Magazine
"Blau writes funny, often heartbreaking, and always relatable anecdotes ... [Her] lifelike characters are such a joy to get to know that one feels sorry to leave them behind." - Publishers Weekly
"From painful humor to poignant scene-setting, [Blau] takes no prisoners in her candid look at an unconventional clan." - Booklist
"Jessica Blau's second novel is not only a wise and pitch-perfect depiction of family dynamics but also happens to be unrelentingly, side-splittingly funny. I dare you to forget this family." - Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.
"If you think you've read enough novels about mixed up families already, go ahead and read one more. Jessica Anya Blau's DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME is a phantasmagoric, hilarious carnival ride." - Madison Smartt Bell
"Jessica Blau's DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME is heartfelt and hilarious as it explores every nook and cranny of this wonderful (and wild) family. If you want to know why we love our parents and siblings even as they drive us to drink and distraction, you must read this book." - Ron Tanner, author of Kiss Me, Stranger
"The sharpness of Jessica Blau's voice and wit never ceases to amaze me. From the first page this surprising novel takes a classic tale--adult children going home again--and turns it on its head. An absorbing, heart-wrenching read." - Katie Crouch, author of Men and Dogs
"A very funny -- but also deeply humane -- novel . . . Parental love and booze and drugs and all the complications of becoming an adult: This is a smart book -- a book that makes you cringe and laugh out loud." - Pauls Toutonghi, author of Red Weather
"If you took Jonathan Franzen, soaked him in Southern California culture, sprinkled him with biting insight and twisted humor, you would get a book that tasted something like DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME." - Katie Arnoldi, author of Point Dume
"Jessica Anya Blau has created an unforgettably unique family . . . and done them a great service by placing them in a compelling story that is alternately funny and sad as hell. I don't think I'd last twelve days in this family, but I could read about them forever." - Kevin Wilson, author of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
"DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME is as raw and heartbreaking as it is tender. Jessica Anya Blau has written an honest, haunting portrayal of a beguiling yet maddening family, who together come of age amidst the shifting morals of a country on the cusp of tremendous cultural change." - Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart
"[A] tour de force of a second novel . . . deliciously funny, endearingly naughty, resolutely hopeful, and highly enjoyable. Blau is a masterful storyteller." - Greg Olear, author of Totally Killer and the forthcoming Fathermucker
"[Blau has] lavished such attention on these people that I found it impossible not to care about them--and equally impossible to forget them." - Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors
"Hilariously irreverent . . . . This unconventional joy ride of a novel is also an unexpectedly powerful and multi-layered exploration of unbreakable family bonds." - Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies
"Jessica Anya Blau's emotional turf is kinship, from its betrayals to its bonds—and in DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME she covers this territory with an honesty so raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers." - Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This
"Chekhov knew that laughter and tears are only a breath apart. So does Jessica Anya Blau. The family in her marvelous DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME . . . make[s] beautiful, hilarious music through time and all the spaces in the heart." - James Magruder, author of Sugarless
"DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME is a gloriously rich portrait of three adult children who discover that the tensions and hurts they still have between them are inextricably tied to their laughter and their love." - Susan Henderson, author of Up From the Blue
"[H]ilarious and heartbreaking....[A] testament to the impossibility of ever truly 'leaving home,' and the great triumph of this book is in Blau's skillful illumination of how that's both a blessing and a curse....This novel will stay with you for a very long time." - Skip Horack, author of The Southern Cross and The Eden Hunter
"As perfectly pitched as it is comically painful, DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME echoes a profound Tolstoyan truth about family. Many novelists have a sense for place, the gifted ones deliver life with such fidelity that the truth hits very close to home indeed." - Marisol, author of The Lady, The Chef, and The Courtesan
"I have never encountered such exciting, eccentric, and lovably flawed characters as those Jessica Anya Blau creates in DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME." - Allison Amend, author of Stations West

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***Update 10/6/10. This posting was written over 1.5 years ago and many of the taqueros no longer set up shop. The ones that do exist are Fletcher/Larga, Verdugo/Ave. 31, a few on York Blvd. and Pasadena Ave./Figueroa. Happy taco hunting.***
I remember working till 1 am one night. I was exhausted and driving back home on the 10 freeway. The last time I had eaten was 5 pm and I was starving. At this point, I was ready to go home and sleep, but my brain made me double-check the hunger department. Yes, you did eat earlier today. But did you have double dinner? Why no i didn't! Something about me when I work late, I feel like I should reward myself for burning the midnight oil. Ok then, let's find something else to eat for all the hard work. When you're looking for late night eats, Los Angeles provides the options. I exited the freeway off the Vermont exit and immediately became happy because I was in food-hawk mode. I put both hands on the steering wheel and ducked my head lower to check out my options on the left and rightside.
Bland-looking burger joint. Probably too greasy.
Jack in the Box. Greasy and probably a long ass line in the drive-thru.
Korean-style pho. No, especially when you have to ask for cilantro.
24-hour diner. I'm not paying $13 for ham & eggs.
Taco trucks. The obvious choice but I'm kinda tired of it.
I was already nearing home and quickly becoming concerned that I had not made a food decision yet. It usually does not take me this long to consider what I'll eat. I stopped at an intersection and watched as cars crossed. Suddenly, as the last car passed and the light turned green, I noticed four blurry white lights. Like a moth in flight, I became drawn to it and hit the gas pedal. As i drew closer to the source, I noticed that the four lights were actually Home Depot clamp lamps on a pole. There was a crowd of people huddling around the light source like a campfire. And then I could see that they were huddling around a man and a woman behind a table. Oh yes. It could only mean one thing: taco stand, or as I refer to them, taco tables because they use folding tables to set up shop. I pulled over to the side and parked. Business time.
As I walked towards the taco vendor, I suddenly time traveled to Oaxaca, when Jeni and I were on a taco hunt. A boombox on medium volume playing Spanish music. A child, bundled in a jacket, sitting on a little chair cupping warm Horchata with both little hands. Patrons talking quietly among their friends. And finally, the sound of metal spatulas clanking the griddle top as the vendors cook up their meaty offerings. I asked what the taqueros had to offer besides the beautiful orange spit of spiced pork. The man smiled and removed the foil from one of his trays, bearing fresh lengua and cabeza. The vapors rose from the pan, giving a nasal teasing. I ordered my tacos and Jarritos, paid the lady and moved on to the 'salad bar' – a smorgasbord of taco accoutrements such as salsa, salt & pepper, curtido (spicy, pickled veggies) and napkins. I walked back towards the curb behind some patrons and quietly enjoyed my little snack, muttering groans of satisfaction. This is all I needed at 1:30 in the morning, and for me, was the true taco experience. All of this set within a auto repair shop backdrop on a busy street in Los Angeles.
It's not that you couldn't get the same quality tacos from trucks. You definitely can. But for me, there are little things that do it for me. While trucks can operate in rain or shine, they pretty much sell tacos all day long for a living. For the people running the taco stands/tables, they are usually families making extra money every night after their primary jobs. And in some cases, the vendors I've spoken with are even employees that station themselves in front of their own businesses/workplace. It's a lot of work and I am more drawn to them because its a method of business practiced heavily in Mexico, that I want to support. It's real street food.
I hate to mention the 'B' word, but taco tables give you a Mexican Benihana experience. Disclaimer: I do not eat there nor will I ever again. You know Benihana. It's the type of restaurant that seats you around your own 'chef' and grill. The actual quality of the food is usually masked by whatever circus act the 'chef' has to offer. Will it be the blindfolded, juggling of shrimp? The knife stab between the v-shaped space of your spread fingers? Or my favorite, the 'onion volcano' which consists of butter being cooked inside a well created by stacked onions, causing rising vapor like a semi-dormant volcano. Whatever the case, it's pleasing to the senses. Taco trucks have been under fire over the last year or two by the City, and there has been an emergence of taco tables because of the relatively low overhead, compared to a truck that costs upward of $50,000. At a taco table, I'm more hungry than I would be at a taco truck. I can see, smell, hear and ultimately taste the food. And with a truck, I can get good tacos but not quite the same experience.
Here are a few places I've stumbled upon in Los Angeles, mainly in the Koreatown, Echo Park and Highland Park areas. I'd like to do the East LA and Huntington Park area next. You should be the judge though. Some are great, some aren't. Even my favorite places have had bad days and some don't even show up like they say they will. Sometimes when I go too late to a stand, the results aren't as desirable because the meat has been sitting out too long or the vendor isn't willing to make a new batch. And I sort of like the unpredictability of it. It goes back to the the caveman days where we had to forage for food that was available. I've listed the meats each vendor offers and you can see what the abbreviations mean in a few moments.
Few Things to Consider:
(1) All the taco vendors listed here are $1. Break down your Grants and Franklins prior to.
(2) If it's raining or extremely cold, taqueros probably won't be there.
(3) Al Pastor with pineapple on top is tasty. Ask them for a slice or have them sauté with the meat.
(4) Buche and tripas can be gummy sometimes. Say the magic words "mas dorado(a), por favor" and you'll get them fried longer. Tasty.
(5) I recommend ordering two tacos at a time and eating them right away for maximum enjoyment. Tacos do harden and get cold after like 2 minutes. The vendors aren't going anywhere, so take your time.
(6) They say you can gauge a taco stand/truck by its carne asada or al pastor. But to tell you the truth, I usually stick with the buche, cabeza and lengua and really don't remember how the asada tasted. If it was good, I'd remember it. I RARELY ever come across bad buche, cabeza and lengua since they are cooked with simple techniques that don't require heavy marinating.
(7) Again, the later you go to a taco stand, the better chance of your meat being either (a) dried out or (b) burnt to an unidentifiable state. Take for example, the Taco Zone truck on Alvarado in front of Vons in Echo Park, which receives much praise from the Yelp army, has its on and off days. And I've noticed it's off-days are usually when I get the tacos from 12 am - 2 am.
Asada (CA) - flap/flank/skirt meat. Usually grilled. Sometimes fried in oil.
Suadero (SU) - brisket. Fried in lard/roasted.
Lengua (LN) - cow tongue. Steamed/braised.
Cabeza (CZ) - head meat and cheek meat (cachete). Steamed.
Carnitas (CR) - pork shoulder/picnic/butt. Fried in lard/roasted.
Al Pastor (AP) - pork shoulder/butt. Spiced and marinated over a day and roasted on a spit. Originated in Mexico City by Lebanese immigrants. An onion or pineapple is usually placed above the spit for extra flavoring. Try with pineapple!
Buche (BU) - pork belly/pig stomach lining/hog maw. Fried in lard. My favorite taco filling. When fried longer adds a nice texture.
Tripas (TR) - pig intestines/chitterlings. Washed, boiled and fried. People love these for the texture and 'filling'.
I found this stand by accident when looking for The York. They are situated in a car body shop and always have people eating here - good sign #1. Good sign #2, everyone there stares at me like I'm from outer space which should tell you the food is authentic. Good sign #3 is explained in the following image.
This is exactly what I look for in a taco stand/table. A pot of various meats cooking in oil. Here you can see carne asada, tripas and buche all having a good time in the hot tub. I just shed a tear. It's not a wonder that you're asada might taste like buche. This is the first place I'll stop at during a Highland Park taco hop. I always enjoy their cabeza, lengua and of course, buche fried crispy. They also offer a habanero curtido – onions, oregano and habanero peppers!
This is also my go-to place if I don't feel like venturing into Eagle Rock/Highland Park. A lot of people from Red Lion Tavern, Cha Cha Lounge and Home frequent this place off Fletcher Drive. And with good reasons behind it. I always get welcomed with friendly smiles and before I usually order anything one of the guys there assumes I want my buche fried longer. That is service. This place is one of two stands that offers suadero (brisket) and it's quite moist and tasty (pictured below). I recommend buche, cabeza, al pastor and suadero with an ice cold Jarritos.
This taquero offers a different style of curtido. It's more of a cabbage and cucumber salad that balances out a spicy taco. I enjoyed the carnitas, buche and cabeza here.
If you happen to be doing your laundry in the Virgil/Santa Monica Blvd. area, do it where this taco stand sets up. I arrived right on the dot at 6 pm while they were setting up and I knew things would be fresh. The girl working there strongly recommended their chicken and it was really good. I enjoyed the cabeza and chicken.
These guys do the hot tub thing. First thing I saw when I got there was buche being made. Mmm. I enjoyed the buche and cabeza.
Back to Highland Park, this guy is from Guerrero and is one of the the few stands that I have seen offering al pastor con piña, which is one of my favorites. I also refer to him as Disco Ball (pelota de disco) taco man since he had a disco ball tied to his stand. They also offer grilled cactus (nopales) for your tacos as well as a relish or pico de gallo with nopales. If you have not tried grilled cactus, it's kind of like a bell pepper with a slimy texture, similar to Japanese mountain yams and natto. Ask the nice man for his 'hot cookie' drink. It's something 'galletas' in Spanish and it's tasty on a cold night. I enjoyed the al pastor and tripas. He seems to favor tripas because there's always tons of it on the grill. A disco ball, tacos and some house music and you've got yourself a party.
These guys are statione right in front of the Guerrero Meat market and also serve the al pastor con piña. They offer grilled cebollitas (green onions) and nopales with your tacos. Nice guys.
Found these guys when I decided not to take the freeway and I'm glad I didn't. I enjoyed the al pastor and buche. There was a nice guy eating there as well and told me to try tacos another way. Order one soft taco, and one cooked a bit more crisp... put them together and you have a dual textured taco. I didn't know if he was making this up or talking about Taco Bell's latest caloric delight.
These guys are loved by the Yelp army. Probably because it's the closest taco stand for patrons of my favorite bar, The Verdugo in Glassell Park. I had tried to find them at least five times – either missing them or not being able to find them due to their frequent location changes. And like a moth, I drove down this really dark part of Verdugo Rd. and found the brightest lights along the sidewalk. The stand was covered by big trucks, probably done intentionally. The people running this here are young and very nice people. Tacos are served the way I like them... small tortillas, small portion of meat. $.80 for one taco. They also offer gorditas for $3. I enjoyed the asada, al pastor, buche (already crisped up) – my favorites being the cabeza and suadero. 5 pm - 11 pm, everyday except Thursday.
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Songs for People with Two Ears Revisited30 December 2011
And after a long spell, another collection of songs that are seldom heard in stereo, with yet another variation on the same cover art. As before, this includes rather a lot of DES "Digitally Extracted Stereo" which is essentially fakery, but often really good fakery. A couple of these are sync mixes: the original 45 and a karaoke track fused into a single sort-of-stereo whole.
Note: "Paperback Writer" is routinely available in stereo, but the canonical mix is none too good; this is a remix. And the Doors track is an attempt at duplicating the 45 mix, by cutting, pieceing, and retiming the stereo LP version. I didn't do either of these myself, so don't ask me how it was done.
Track listing for 111147-2:
- The Dave Clark Five: Do You Love Me
- Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders: Game of Love
- The Skyliners: Since I Don't Have You
- Martha and the Vandellas: Jimmy Mack
- The Beatles: Paperback Writer
- Chubby Checker: Hooka Tooka
- Preston Epps: Bongo Bongo Bongo
- Sagittarius: My World Fell Down
- The Yardbirds: I'm a Man
- The Shocking Blue: Venus
- The Beach Boys: Heroes and Villains
- Them: Baby Please Don't Go
- Sonny and Cher: Baby Don't Go
- The 13th Floor Elevators: You're Gonna Miss Me
- Wilson Pickett: Funky Broadway
- The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
- The Crystals: Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)
- Sly and the Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
- King Harvest: Dancing in the Moonlight
- The Doors: Light My Fire
- The Temptations: Papa Was a Rolling Stone
- The Rivieras: California Sun
- Edwin Starr: Agent Double-O-Soul
- Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues
- The Murmaids: Popsicles and Icicles
- Bobby Darin: Splish Splash
- The Soul Survivors: Expressway to Your Heart


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By Tim Hume, CNN • Updated 15th August 2012
A lie-detecting virtual border official nicknamed "Elvis" is the latest high-tech approach to securing borders in the United States.
Developed by University of Arizona researchers in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the computer is known as the Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time -- or
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Derrick said the kiosk could process travelers in five minutes.
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The computer uses three sensors to assess physiological responses: a microphone, which monitors vocal quality, pitch and frequency; an infrared camera, which looks at pupil dilation and where the eyes focus; and a high-definition camera recording facial expressions.
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Brooks said the project was still in the early phase of field testing, and participating in the AVATAR interview process was entirely voluntary at this stage.
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It even got a name among the team developing the project. "We call him Elvis, or Pat," said Derrick. "But when he's in the field he's just the AVATAR agent."
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Testament – The Formation of Damnation (Release Year – 2008)
It has been a long time since we have a disc of new material from Testament. 1999 to be exact.
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Cincinnati Inc., Cincinnati, OH, has expanded its laser-cutting product line with the introduction of the CL-900 series fiber-laser cutting systems. The systems combine the low operating cost of fiber lasers with the company's high-performance 12,000-in./min. linear-motor axis drives to create a productive, economical laser-cutting system for sheetmetal processing.
CL-900 series machines reportedly cut mild steel two- to three-times faster than conventional machines, while reducing operating costs by as much as 40 percent. Their solid-state fiber laser minimizes maintenance costs, compared to conventional CO2 lasers, by eliminating the need for laser gas, internal optics, glassware, blowers and vacuum pumps. Also, fiber lasers deliver the beam via a flexible glass fiber—no need for external mirrors, bellows and beam purge gas.
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Q Hi, Zoe-the-Roadshow-Retriever.
Kathleen Owen
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A Kathleen is one of many readers responding to a previous column about protecting pets while driving. Zoe is our four-footed carpool partner on many jaunts.
Q Our two dogs (and the one before them) have been wearing seat belts and riding in the back seat of our cars ever since they were puppies. I began seat belting our first dog, a very smart poodle named Cookie, when she jumped down on the floor and tried to stand against the gas pedal while I was pushing the brake pedal. That was 23 years ago.
Now our current poodles, Daisy and Rocky, wear seat belts whenever they are in a car; they act as if they are unsure when we do something as simple as back out of the garage.
Mr. & Mrs. Roadshow, I hope you have given Zoe a seat belt, too. It's always best to wear it when you are on an excursion with them. It's also best to bring treats along, too.
Kathleen Owen
A I have a confession to make. We have not buckled Zoe into our cars, but after fielding your comments and those of so many others, we'll head to a store to get a seat belt or another restraint system for her.
The AAA surveyed drivers and found that 80 percent say they have driven with their pets, but only 17 percent use any form of pet restraint system.
Q I am a registered veterinary technician and am also very concerned with pet safety in vehicles. I have seen firsthand what can happen to pets during a collision. They, like their human companions, can be thrown from the vehicle when not restrained. When I see a small dog on Mom's lap while she is driving, or the dog in the back of the truck-SUV, these images flash through my mind.
I have seen the poodle who has jumped out of the window to go after another dog with a broken pelvis and a lifetime of pain. I have seen the unrestrained pet thrown from the car in a collision with massive fatal injuries. Even when restrained in the back of the truck, I have seen the dog who jumped out to follow Dad and was literally hung by its leash. I don't want to be so graphic, but I believe it's important to deliver this message — everyone riding in a motor vehicle must be in a safety restraint.
I am a proud Mom to J.J. and Rusty. They go everywhere with me, and never do they ride without a safety restraint. Little Rusty is a dachshund (don't tell him he's little, for gosh sakes) and he has trouble seeing out the window of my car. For this, I have a booster seat equipped with accommodations for the seat belt. He has a special harness that clips directly to his seat.
J.J. is a big dog, and he wears his seat belt on his harness and also connects to the existing seat belt.
There are different options available as far as styles. They are all padded in the front to minimize injury in a collision, and have different options in attachment to the cars' seat belts. And just like children, the safest place for them to ride is in the back seat.
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Q Another tip for traveling with dogs: Don't let them stick their head out the window. It's easy for rocks or other debris to kick up and injure them in the eye.
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Q All animals should be confined to an appropriate, hard-sided carrier when in the car. This is their BEST protection during a crash. Although there are harness restraint systems, pets can and do become entangled in them.
And what about the netting, screening, or tubing used to confine pets to the rear of a vehicle? What if the door or tailgate pops open in a crash? Your pet will end up on the roadway.
Think of a carrier as a car seat for your pet. You wouldn't put your child in without a car seat, right?
What? Your pet HATES the carrier? It's easy to get him to love it. Bring it into the house and feed him all his meals in it for the next week. Yup, he will soon ADORE the carrier!
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Q P.S. Why didn't this Republican vote for Mitt Romney? I could not get over the little stunt he pulled of having the family's Irish setter strapped in a pet carrier on top of the car. Talk about cruel, as well as a stupid and lame excuse for doing so! Next time, Mitt should be strapped to the luggage rack and see how he likes it.
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The Front Row: Aamir Khan Opens Up on 'Talaash'
Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapor star in this week's Bollywood release: "Talaash." The story of an investigation into the mysterious death of a film star, it's a dark and emotionally-charged tale. The film releases Friday.
The actors spoke to Anupama Chopra on "The Front Row." Here is a transcript of their conversation.
Anupama Chopra: Aamir, Bollywood doesn't throw up too many suspense dramas. Does the Hindi film form make it inherently difficult to do suspense effectively because you have to have songs, a love angle?
Aamir Khan: No, it's not that. In fact in my opinion it can be an extremely popular genre and all good suspense films that we have seen over the decades have been smash hits whether it is "Jewel Thief" or "Teesri Manzil." The kind of a person I am, I don't follow genres. I like to go with the flow. A script comes to me, I like it or I don't like it. If I like it I do it, I don't bother about the genre.
Anupama: All of you have worked with each other before. Aamir: Have Rani and Kareena evolved as actors? What do you think?
Aamir: Kareena, I worked with for the first time in "3 Idiots." I was really impressed with her. She is someone who really throws herself into the work. Rani, I have seen a huge change from "Ghulam" to now. But both of them throw themselves into the character, into the film and I think that is really wonderful. Both of them are actors who like to give and take when doing a scene. That is how I like to work as well. I don't like to work in isolation. Some actors work in isolation. That kind of throws me off, so I like that connection when you are doing a scene. They are also both really superb human beings. I am really fond of both of them, they are no-nonsense, regular, casual people and I really like that.
Anupama: In interviews, all actors say that they don't care about box office numbers. But with every big film, publicists send press releases detailing the opening figures, when the film has crossed 100 crore rupees (1 billion rupees, or around $18 million). As actors, is it difficult to choose an unconventional, grittier film than "Talaash," when the conversation is so much about making hits and making it into the "100 Crore Club"?
Aamir: Not for me. I have picked really strange film,s none of them ought to be a part of the big successes. "Rang De Basanti" or "Lagaan," "Sarfarosh," 'Taare Zameen Par," "Dil Chahta Hai" are very unusual films for mainstream cinema. So clearly I am not looking at box-office numbers. Do they mean something to me? Of course they do. Do I want my films to do well? Of course I want them to do well, but my decisions are not going to be based on numbers. My decision has to be based on my emotional reaction to a story and my keenness to do it. I never look at the number in isolation because that can be misleading. I want to know the audience reaction. Sometimes the film opens really big and may end up doing the business of over 100 crore but when you ask people: How did you like the film? Then may be eight out of 10 people may say: Nahi yaar jama nah. Mazaa nahi aaya (the film didn't work for us.) It has done more than 100 crore but eight out of 10 people haven't liked it. Then is it a successful film? Not for me.
Anupama: Rani, Kareena, does it work on your minds? Isn't there pressure with a star cast like this?
Rani Mukherjee: I think it is important for actors like Aamir, Kareena and for myself to be a part of film that is going to be memorable, whether in terms of the film or in terms of our work, because that is what stays with people down the years. Yes, there is pressure, but I guess sometimes one needs to just sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee and think about the future and the present and just be happy with the work that we have done. Competition is healthy. It's great but at the end of the day what is important is: Will you want to be remembered or would you just like to be remembered with the numbers your film made? I think what is more important for me as an actor is to be a part of good films.
Anupama: Kareena, I believe that Aamir has the best gut in the business, the best feel for a great story. When an actor is this successful, can you, as co-stars, have creative disagreements with him? Can you say: Your interpretation is weak? I have a different view?
Kareena Kapoor: I don't know. I think Aamir is one actor who works for the betterment of the film. He can take praise as well as criticism. I have worked with a lot of actors but I can say this that if you go up to Aamir and tell him you don't like the film, he is never going to take it badly. He would want to know the reasons as to why and he would be really interested to hear it.
Anupama: What about you, Rani?
Rani: Never, I wouldn't dare to. Not for any other reason but because I genuinely respect him so even if I wouldn't agree with him, I don't think I could tell him to his face. Yes, as a friend I have a lot of disagreements with him. I fight with him. I say really nasty things to him. But when I am on set as an actor, I think I have too much respect for Aamir.
Aamir: This is the first that I am hearing of this because in my memory whenever she has not liked anything of mine she has told me to my face! I truly believe that when you are making a film there is no right and wrong, there are creative opinions. Each one has his own opinion and each one is valid. As far as I am concerned, in 24 years that I have been around, not once has anybody hesitated to tell me exactly what they feel and not once has anybody hesitated to disagree with me strongly also. That is one of my strengths. I believe that I invite people to open up and that's how I like it.
Watch "The Front Row with Anupama Chopra" tonight at 8:30 p.m. on Star World for the full conversation with Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji and the review of Talaash. For more details, visit the show's website, Tumblr or follow it on Twitter @thefrontrow2012 and on Facebook. You can also follow Anupama Chopra on Twitter @anupamachopra.


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bigsprings necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 168 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Training program for home-based entrepreneurs (more than 15 million in the US alone!) needs a logo and image that will be used in multiple ways... so the winning designer of this contest needs to be available for future projects adapting his/her winning design as the program evolves.
The Debt-FREE Direct Seller™ Training Program
This is not just any ol' design project... nor do I need just any ol' design!
That's why I will work with you to give you constructive feedback on a regular basis throughout this contest so you can get a better feel for what I like in terms of fonts, colors, images, ideas. That's also why I've tried to be thorough in this brief - both in giving you a sense of the project and my want/don't wants. So, here goes...
I have a created a training program that will be marketed throughout the direct selling industry (full- and part-time home-based entrepreneurs like network marketers, party plan salespeople, etc.). To help you understand the potential magnitude of this, note that there are currently more than 15 million direct sellers in the United States alone! And I will be marketing it to the individual direct sellers as well as the direct selling companies.
Key to this design is the trademarked phrase, Debt-FREE Direct Seller™. This phrase, combined with a character, picture or symbol to create our logo and "brand" will be used in multiple ways as this program expands and evolves. Besides using it in the name of the program (i.e. The Debt-FREE Direct Seller™ Training Program) and for all of the printed materials for this program (marketing and educational), it will immediately be used in the header graphic on the website we will be developing (http://www.debtfreedirectseller.com) as well as to create banner ads and/or links for affiliates who endorse and market this program. In the very near future, I see other uses for this logo/design - ranging from buttons to T-shirts to bumper stickers (e.g. I'm a Debt-FREE Direct Seller™) as well as other educational materials we develop (CDs, videos, workbooks, programs).
About the program and its purpose...
The Debt-FREE Direct Seller™ Training Program teaches and supports direct sellers to consciously and intentionally use the money they make in their business (even amounts as small as $200-$400 a month) in ways that rapidly eliminate debt and create true freedom, wealth and well-being (financial and other kinds) in their lives.
What this program teaches is NOT the "business as usual" training direct sellers receive. It actually goes AGAINST the approach the vast majority of direct sellers and direct selling training programs take. In the program, we talk about teaching them to take "the road less traveled" (borrowing from the Robert Frost quote) because that will "make all the difference" for them in terms of achieving freedom.
It is revolutionary and life-changing and its emphasis is on FREEDOM! It's also very grounded in reality, simple, practical, empowering and, believe it or not, FUN! (No "heavy, sober, serious or scary designs, please!)
- The word FREE must be in all CAPS.
- The trademark (TM) must be included with the phrase Debt-FREE Direct Seller™.
- An energy that ATTRACTS... that draws people to it (and thus, the program, website, products, etc.) It needs to convey a sense of safety, compassion as well as hope, empowerment and action.
- Emphasis is on FREEDOM rather than debt. (Thus - the capitalization in Debt-FREE.)
- Simple, clean and professional - but in a casual way (not stuffy or boring... again, we are working with home-based entrepreneurs - not more traditional corporations)
- Must be memorable and recognizable.
- Again, it needs to convey hope and freedom (and even fun!)... both in the font and in the symbol/design/image.
- When thinking of the logo design, I have often imagined a person (or gender neutral image of a person) with their arms raised above their head and spread wide - a movement/image I associate with both victory (aka the movie "Rocky") and with freedom and exhilaration.
- If you can do something to incorporate the "road" idea or "path" idea (since we talk about them taking the "road less traveled"), that would be great. Don't know if it's possible... but it would be cool if you could.
- I like colors - so have fun trying different ones. FYI - green is the color of growth and money; purple is the color of transformation - both of which apply to this program. I also like the image of a rainbow - as long as it is not too "hokey" or obvious. My company, Access Abundance!, uses the rainbow idea in both our logo and on our website banner. Check it out at http://www.accessabundance.com.
- Since there will be times when we will use the logo/design in black & white, I will need to see it in color and black/white - and the winning design needs to still convey the energy and message (albeit to a lesser degree) in the black & white version.
- Since this program teaches simple and powerful concepts... the logo must be simple as well. Participants in this program find themselves "breathing easier" (especially around money), the design and choice of font needs to convey a sense of openings and possibilities for people.
- Keep in mind that this log will be used to "brand" ourselves... with participants in this program and companies who endorse the program adding it to their websites and exposing it (and the message of the program) to more and more of the 15+ million direct sellers in the US and throughout the world!
- A scalable logo - something that can work on a small business card or button as well as a large banner we may create for expos and vendor display booths.
- The ability in the future to add a tagline to the logo without having to redo the design. At this time, I don't know what that tagline will be - but I recognize that may be something that will evolve and I want to make sure this will be able to be easily added.
- The winning designer's willingness and availability to work with us in future adaptations to the basic design we will be making. I would like to develop an ongoing association with the winning designer as this program evolves and expands.
- Formats: We will need it for immediate use in JPG and PNG format - but given the undetermined future uses of this design, I also request it in Adobe Photoshop Vector format. I'd also like it made available in Vector format. (I'm not the most knowledgeable of the different formats, so if you have questions or if something I've asked for doesn't make sense - please ask!)
- No thin or tiny or tight fonts - this program is rooted in principles of abundance (remember, my company is Access Abundance!).
- Boring or blocky or plain.
- Overemphasis on money (do not use a lot of money symbols or images) - this program is about FREEDOM in all aspects of their lives and not just money.
- Really busy or complicated.
- Something that seems "hypey" or "magical".
- Greater emphasis on debt - the emphasis is on FREEDOM!
- Nothing that looks like a logo you might see for financial services, financial planners, investment firms, etc. Remember - we are DIFFERENT!!!
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Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture
By Fenella Saunders
New digital camera research takes inspiration from insect compound eyes.
New digital camera research takes inspiration from insect compound eyes.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It's therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement. But John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his colleagues think that cameras with hundreds of tiny lenses working in unison, much like an arthropod compound eye, could also have their uses. "Evolution has come up with a lot of clever solutions for very difficult problems," he says, "and a lot of those solutions are not compatible, in geometry or material type, with engineered devices that exist today."
The compound eye excels in some visual areas. "It allows visualization of one's surroundings in all directions equally well, so there's no peripheral part of the field of view in the sense that everything has the same crisp level of focus," Rogers explains. "That's much different from what you find in a commercial digital camera where you have a finite field of view, things are crisp and focused in the center and then things get worse out into the peripheral part of the field.
"Because of the very tiny lenses, the focal lengths are very short, and what that essentially provides is an infinite depth of field, so objects very close to the insect or in a distant part of the field all look sharp and in focus," Rogers adds. "And the way that the eye is laid out, it creates an enhanced acuity to motion within the field of view."
As Rogers and his colleagues report in the May 2 issue of Nature, they have developed a prototype camera lens that takes inspiration from a type of diurnal arthropod visual system called the apposition eye: Each optical unit (called an ommatidia) contributes just one point of photoreception to the overall image. "You can think about it like a hemispherical array of pinhole cameras," Rogers explains. Although classic science fiction films might wish you to believe otherwise, most insect eyes do not form a complete image in each facet. As with most visual systems, including the human one, a lot of vision takes place in the brain, where information from each ommatidia is integrated to form a seamless picture of the world.
Some insect eyes, such as those of fire ants and bark beetles, have slightly more than a hundred lenses. Others, such as dragonflies, have tens of thousands. The camera lens from Rogers's group currently has about 200.
To have a wide-angle field of view like an insect's, the camera lens has to be hemispherical. However, creating and wiring a lens on a curve is a daunting task that would not lend itself to mass production. Instead, Rogers and his colleagues mold a flat lens array out of a transparent elastic polymer, which they can deform into a dome shape. Such flexible, molded components have become relatively common in optics and electronics research over the past decade (see, for instance, "Bring on the Soft Robots," March–April 2012, linked in the box on the right), so there are already scalable manufacturing techniques in place for these materials.
Wiring this bendable array of lenses required some creative thinking. Each lens has a radius of about 400 micrometers, whereas each photoreceptor is about 160 micrometers wide, so alignment must be precise. Rogers's group developed a mesh of silicon photoreceptors, one for each lens, connected together with flexible wires. As a result the lenses and photoreceptors do not develop any distortions when the array is deformed. The finished array is about 15 millimeters wide.
"We only put small bits of silicon that are doing the light detection right at the focal spot of each of the lenses in the lens array, and that is the only place where the mesh is physically bonded to the lens layer," Rogers says. "Everywhere else are these serpentine wavy wires that essentially act like springs. They can buckle and deform out of the plane during this inflation process. So you can stretch the whole thing, but the strain that the tiny silicon chips see is very small, even though the entire system is being blown up like a balloon. During this inflation, the whole thing has to operate elastically, in a predictable way, like a rubber band, not a piece of taffy."
The single point of light from each photoreceptor is fed into a computer, which processes all the points together to create a full image. The resolution of the image can be improved by rotating the array back and forth, so that each photoreceptor ends up contributing more than one point to the final image. This mechanism is a bit like the use of the fovea in the human eye, where one portion of the retina is concentrated with receptors, and the eye scans back and forth to keep this point at the center of current visual focus, while the brain integrates all the information to create a seamless image of the scene.
Currently the camera is able to create monochrome images of simple graphics. The resolution is somewhat limited because the relatively small number of optical elements can only sense a scant amount of light. Increasing the density of lenses, or the number of photoreceptors per lens, could make for a sharper picture, Rogers says. But the current image does not lose focus when the subject matter is moved through the array's visual field. Also, as objects move farther away from the camera, they appear smaller but don't become blurry.
Although there are many improvements the team wishes to explore, Rogers envisions the system being of use in surveillance devices, such as micro aerial vehicles, which could be used in disaster relief. The device may also be helpful in surgery, such as for endoscopic procedures, where a wide field of view would be advantageous for the physician.
"To do something realistic from a commercial standpoint really demands that we increase the resolution by a significant amount," Rogers says. "But I have to tell you, there's something about this kind of system that I just find appealing at a gut level, so our work is also motivated by pure discovery."
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