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The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series in a hundred years. A lot has happened since then – a Great Depression, the advent of velcro shoes, the invention of tacos, another Great Depression. One. Hundred. Years. So, as all of Cubdom looks back at another season of dashed hopes, they should be thinking one thing: we should have started the model.
Back in 1984, the super hot Marla Collins was a ballgirl for the Chicago Cubs (first ever for the majors), then she was fired for posing for Playboy. That's like firing Harry Dean Stanton for excess awesomeness. Cubs management should've went the other way. She had a great arm. She was like Ryne Sandberg in short shorts. If Donna Martin could graduate, surely Marla Collins could hit a slider.
I GUARANTEE you all this was on Iron Sink Network's mind when they created the web comedy, Model Ball.
Scott Zakarin and his Iron Sink crew are responsible for some benchmark web series, including The Spot and more recently Roommates, the first original web series on Myspace.com. They continue their string of pretty girl successes with Model Ball. And it's…wait for it…a homerun. Okay, maybe more like a triple.
Jake McBride (Tim Pilleri) is the best player in his softball league. He also has a gambling problem (gambling problems are always hilarious, just ask the homeless). His team which includes one female, his cousin Holly McBride (Tarah Despain of Roommates), a professional model, always wins the championship. It's a dynasty, like the Boston Celtics or the Jacksons.
During a post-victory bender, he bets a rival, Gary, $50,000 dollars that he can win the next pennant with a team composed entirely of professional models (Jake, are you crazy!! You can't do that! Girls throw like, er, girls.).
As the series progresses, Jake enlists his cousin to help recruit and round out the roster for his new team, the Hornets. We meet the sassy Australian Kat (Alice Hunter), the ditzy Olive (Sabrina Maahs), the why so serious Millie (Katie H.), the mousy Candice (Anna Bohn of Roommates) and the sexy, Christine (Sasha Formoso). Oh, and the professor and Mary-Anne.
This somewhat reluctant crew gets demolished in their first game, forcing them to seek out a ringer, a plus sized-model named Michelle. She quickly shines among the skill-challenged Hornets.
Model Ball embraces Iron Sink's love for attractive females and sports movie roots with gusto. Make no mistake, it is The Bad News Bears, but with models. Pilleri brings the funny as the put upon player-manager. He could use a little more Matthau, but he's lets the zingers fly in episode 6. Tarah Despain is also strong as the model cousin who dreams of opening her own modeling agency. And the girls that are supposed to be convincing players, like Formoso, have some game.
Modelall is consistently amusing, if not laugh out loud funny. Even when they wheel out the wacky announcer it still plays (Damn you Bob Uecker, you created a monster. And Mr. Belvedere.) Overall, the jokes are surprisingly PG when there's room to spice things up. When a character actually uses the phrase, "play with myself." I was wondering if there was some new web MPAA no one told me about. I'm pretty sure your demographic can handle at least "wack off" in order to sell a joke. In fact, I know so.
So, guys, in between checking your fantasy stats, watch Modelball every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ladies, too. It's like a post-post-post feminist A League of Their Own. Without Rosie, Madonna and that chick from Point Break (Utah! Get me two!). Besides if I wanted to see Rosie in a bikini I'd open my sketchbook.
As for all you Cub fans, you'll always have Marla, and the Billy Goat and Bartman. And Vicodin.


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New iMac first look is lean and mean …
Apple announced the new iMac today. It's not as boxy or ugly as it's predecessor, thankfully. Dumping the 17" screen in favor of 20 and 24" models, the iMac is made out of aluminum, glass and sports a very thin keyboard that comes in wired and Bluetooth versions, along with 2 stock 2 USB 2.0 ports built in. Under the hood? A 2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme processor with ATI's Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics card, 1 terabyte of storage space, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.0, and 1GB of RAM (the new iMacs support up to 4GB RAM). (Catching my breath)
You'd be hard pressed to figure out how they stuffed it all in, but it also comes with four USB 2.0 ports (that's six total if you count the keyboard), FireWire 400 & 800 ports, standard Ethernet, video out, built-in iSight camera, and slot loading SuperDrive.
Also included is the stellar iLife '08 package updated with a completely redesigned versions of iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band. The iMovie interface promises to edit and deliver movies in minutes, not hours, with scrubbing capability on all clips, expanded format support with AVCHD and HDV plugins built in, video library organized by event, and ability to publish movies directly to You Tube and of course, to the iPhone. That's kickin'.
The iPhoto has similar organization by event features and can still publish to book, website, and more. Garage Band has a either the sound timeline view or a virtual stage which allows you to jam with the loops in a very easy to use interface, has multi take recording which lets you choose the best takes, and it even creates a sheet music look based on what you input into it.
Cost for the 24" iMac fully loaded is your typical, Apple-sque $2,299.00 with the low budget (if there can be such a thing) 20" starting at just under $1,200.
And for all you iMac lovers out there, the rumors of its imminent death are premature as Apple announced an upgrade to a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Wow.
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Reduction in the Legal Blood Alcohol Limit from 0.08 to 0.05: Effects on Drink Driving and Alcohol-Related Crashes in Adelaide
AJ McLean*, CN Kloeden*, RA McColl** and R Laslett***
* NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit, The University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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The legal blood alcohol limit for drivers in South Australia was lowered from 0.08 to 0.05 g/100mL on 1 July 1991. The effects of this change on late night drink driving were assessed in the Adelaide metropolitan area by reviewing the results of a series of roadside breath alcohol surveys and by a comparison of the rate of alcohol involvement in crashes over a 15 year period. There was a short lived reduction in the percentage of late night drivers with a blood alcohol level at or above 0.08 at about the time of the introduction of random breath testing by the police in the early 1980s. This has been followed by a steady downward trend in this percentage from the mid 1980s. The blood alcohol levels of fatally injured drivers, as measured by the above criterion, have followed a similar downward trend to that observed in the roadside surveys. However, there have been negligible changes in the distribution of drivers' blood alcohol levels above 0.08 in the fatally injured group and in accident-involved drivers who were breath tested at the scene by the police. There was no marked change in the downward trend in the percentage at or above 0.08 in any of these groups of drivers following the reduction in the legal blood alcohol limit. This does not necessarily mean that the change in the legal limit had no effect because the reasons for the continuing decrease in both drink driving and the involvement of alcohol in crashes since the mid to late 1980s are far from clear.
The legal blood alcohol limit for drivers in South Australia was changed from 0.08 to 0.05 g/100mL on July 1, 1991. In this paper, the reduction in the legal limit is related to trends over time in the blood alcohol levels (BALs) of the general population of drivers on the roads late at night and to the rate of involvement of alcohol in crashes.
The procedure used to obtain breath samples from a representative sample of Adelaide car drivers was first used in 1979 (Holubowycz, McLean and McCaul, 1991). Twenty intersections controlled by traffic signals were visited by two teams of research assistants from the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit on a rostered basis between 10pm and 3am. The first driver to stop at a red light was approached and asked to blow into a hand-held breath alcohol meter (a Lion Laboratories Alcolmeter SD-2). The sex of the driver was recorded, together with his or her estimated age group (under 21 years / 21-29 / 30-50 / over 50).
The BAL distributions were weighted on a daily and hourly basis to allow for varying traffic flows. A correction was also made to allow for the estimated BALs of drivers who refused to provide a breath sample (about 5 per cent), using a method developed by Carlson (Wolfe, 1973; Carlson, 1979). All roadside survey percentages presented in this paper have been weighted and corrected in this manner.
Information on the role of alcohol in crashes was obtained for fatally injured drivers and for drivers who were breath tested by the police at the scene of an accident. In both cases, the accident data were for a similar region to that covered by the roadside surveys. The fatality data were for full calendar years, at all hours of the day. The police breath testing data were for 10pm to 3am, on the nights that the roadside surveys were conducted in 1991, before the introduction of 0.05, and in 1993.
Time Trends in Late Night Drink Driving
Figure 1 shows the percentage of drivers at or above 0.08 in the roadside surveys conducted by the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit since 1979. It can be seen that there has been a steadily decreasing trend in this percentage since 1983 (although it should be noted that no roadside survey was conducted between 1983 and 1987), with the negative slope of the trend line becoming slightly greater after 1989. Two comparatively low percentages, with respect to the trend line, are for the 1981 and 1982 surveys which were conducted six months before and six months after the introduction of random breath testing by the police.
Figure 1
The highest percentage of drivers at or above 0.08, in 1979, is much less reliable than those for the subsequent surveys because it is based on a relatively small number of cases drawn from a 24 hour roadside survey (all of the other surveys had sample sizes of several thousand drivers). However, it is thought that there was a real, and major, reduction in illegal drink driving during the year before the introduction of random breath testing, possibly due in large part to a vigorous debate in the media about the advisability of random testing.
There was a relative reduction of 21 per cent in late night drink driving during the two months immediately following the change to a legal limit of 0.05 in 1991. However, in the second half of that survey, which was conducted in the last quarter of the year, the percentage of drivers at or above 0.08 had returned to about the level which was recorded before the change.
The point in time at which the legal limit was changed from 0.08 to 0.05 is not readily discernible from inspection of the trend line in Figure 1. It may be that the steady decrease in driving with a BAL at or above 0.08 would not have continued beyond 1991 had there not been such a change but that remains conjecture at this stage.
Time Trends in Blood Alcohol Levels of Accident Involved Drivers
Blood alcohol levels in fatally injured drivers
Figure 1 also shows the percentage of fatally injured drivers who had a blood alcohol level at or above 0.08 from 1979 to 1994. The degree of variability is much greater than for the roadside survey data, primarily because of the relatively small annual numbers (from 20 to 42) of drivers fatally injured in the study area but the three year moving average line shows a similar decreasing trend from 1988 to 1993. There is also a dip in the trend line for the fatally injured drivers at about the time of introduction of random breath testing by the police in the early 1980s, similar to the dip for the non accident involved drivers. As before, with the trend line for late night drinking drivers, it is not readily apparent from either the line for the actual percentage of fatally injured drivers who were at or above 0.08 or from the line for the three year moving average that there was a meaningful intervention in 1991. There was also no change in the percentage of fatally injured drivers who had a BAL of at least 0.15 among those who were at or above 0.08 from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1994 (both 79 per cent).
Breath tested drivers involved in accidents
Police in the Adelaide metropolitan area attend all road accidents to which an ambulance is called and a proportion of those in which a vehicle has to be towed from the scene or there is some other need for police to be present. Drivers who are involved in an accident and who remain at the scene (and hence do not require ambulance transport) are breath tested by the police. If they are found to have a BAL above the legal limit they are then required to submit to an evidential breath test, after being kept under observation for at least 20 minutes. The results of these evidential breath tests on drivers involved in accidents between 10pm and 3am on the nights covered by the roadside survey in 1991, before the introduction of the 0.05 limit, and in 1993 are shown in Figure 2. Note that the BAL distributions start from 0.08 for each year. This is because the aim here is to compare the BAL distributions of drivers who were found, on the evidentiary test, to be at or above 0.08 in the two time periods. Even though the legal limit was, of course, 0.05 in 1993 there was only one driver who had a BAL in the range from 0.05 to 0.07 whereas there were 60 drivers at or above 0.08. In 1991 the corresponding numbers of drivers were 12 and 82.
Figure 2
The comparison of particular interest in Figure 2 is of the cumulative percentage curves for the BAL distributions for the two years. Note that the cumulative curve for 1993 lies to the left of that for 1991, indicating that there was a general reduction in the blood alcohol levels of these drivers in 1993. However, the reduction was very small, being equivalent on average to a BAL of about 0.01, but it was consistent with the decreasing trends observed in the percentage of fatally injured drivers at or above 0.08 and the similar trend in drivers tested on the roads late at night in the roadside surveys. Sixty per cent of these drivers at or above 0.08 in 1991 had a BAL of at least 0.15, compared to 56 per cent in 1993. Note that these percentages are considerably less than those for the fatally injured drivers (79 per cent).
It is not possible from the data presented to demonstrate that the reduction in the legal blood alcohol level from 0.08 to 0.05 in mid 1991 had any meaningful effect in the Adelaide metropolitan area on late night drink driving at blood alcohol levels of 0.08 or above, nor could any such effect be discerned among drivers involved in accidents. This does not necessarily mean that the change in the legal limit had no effect because the reasons for the continuing decrease in both drink driving and the involvement of alcohol in crashes since the mid to late 1980s are far from clear.
The support of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the South Australian Department of Transport is gratefully acknowledged. The comments and conclusions presented in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by any organisation.
Carlson WL. Estimation of nonrespondent BAC using a priori judgement. Accid Anal and Prev 1979; 11: 35-42.
Holubowycz OT, McLean AJ, McCaul KA. A new method of breath testing the general driving population. J Stud Alcohol 1991; 52: 474-477.
Wolfe AC. US national roadside breathtesting survey: procedures and results. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Highway Safety Research Institute, 1973.
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What begins as a business relationship turns into much more over time. When cultural differences, and the job titles they hold get in the way. Thane and Naaki must decide if what they have is worth fighting for.
This is a different kind of interracial romance because the issues are so culture based. It made for a fresh new read in one of my favorite genres. I highly recommend this book to those
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What interested me about this story was not the particular details, which are in some ways depressingly familiar but in some ways inspiring. I am tempted to use this case, once again, to add to the mountain of evidence that Wayne LaPierre was wrong in his infamous formulation that, "Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun." I've blogged before on this point, and will leave it here only by pointing out that the "bad guy with a gun" was stopped in this case by a good guy with a can of pepper spray and the will to act. Courage and perceptiveness are the first and most important weapons, without which nothing else matters.
But what really interested me about the story was this quote given in the aftermath of the shooting:
"The actions of the subject in this case do not define Seattle Pacific University nor the city of Seattle," Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh said. "The actions of the students and staff on site, those are the things that define Seattle Pacific University."This is why we spend so much time talking about violence and why the subjects of guns, murder, and the like are so prominent in our public conversations. Violence isn't just about the damage that it causes. While significant, there are lots of other things that cause similar amounts of damage. Nearly as many people died in Hurricane Katrina as died on 9/11; which one has gotten more attention?
We give violence the attention that it gets because of what it says about who we are. When somebody kills others, whether it be with a gun, a knife, or a plane, that act says something about both the perpetrator(s) and the victim(s). And how we respond to that act also says something about us. What it says, of course, is in dispute. We argue about it all the time. It is a, if not the, central question of our lives: who are we?
Recently a friend re-posted an op-ed piece from late 2012, after the Sandy Hook shootings, titled "Our Moloch". In it the author makes a strong argument, not about the tactics or the laws surrounding guns, but about the kind of identity that has been constructed around what might be termed the "gun rights movement". Whether you agree or disagree with his portrait, he is pointing to the right question. It's not about the guns. It's about us.
In times of crisis we look for meanings that uplift. That's why firefighters were so revered in the wake of 9/11 - because of the self-sacrifice they made to try to save other's lives, that noblest and most blessed of pursuits. That's what Assistant Police Chief McDonagh is invoking here. We are not the guy who pulled the trigger on innocent people. We are the guy who jumped on him, who disabled him and took him to the ground, who saved lives. That's who we want to be.
I've blogged a lot before (search the site on the "Use of Force" label; here's one of my favorites) about the intersection of violence and ideas. I think that one problem we have is that people spend both too much and not enough time thinking about violence and its relationship to who we are. We allow Hollywood fantasies about violence to shape our understandings of what it's useful for and how it works (just as we do about sex). At the same time, we don't spend enough effort thinking about who we want to be and where we want violence to fit into that picture. The extremists who carry assault weapons into Target and Home Depot have become a caricature, a grotesque parody of what we would regard as a good and civilized life.
So as we mark another senseless shooting in the headlines (alongside the many hundreds of senseless shootings that go unremarked because they are done in "those parts of town" among "those people") let's try just a little bit more to think. Not about the details of gun control, or the political clout of the NRA, or the best tactics for self-defense. Let's think instead about who we are and who we want to be. And let's talk about that together. Because in the end, that's the only question that really matters.


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Scott Bayman, the outgoing president and chief executive officer of General Electric-India, who has lived in New Delhi for the past 14 years, says the endemic culture of bribery, corruption, kickbacks, nepotism and cronyism that he first arrived to had significantly dissipated.
Bayman cited Indian Airlines' and Air India's purchase of Airbus and Boeing aircraft, respectively, as prime examples of this growing transparency.
Meanwhile, General Electric announced on Monday that Tejpreet Singh Chopra will succeed Scott R Bayman as president and CEO of GE-India.
"India, like lots of emerging markets and some developed countries, has some issues around corruption and bribery," Bayman said during a question and answer session that followed his speech, titled 'Fourteen Years on the Inside: A Perspective on India,' at the Johns Hopkins University hosted by its School of Advanced International Studies' Office of Development and Alumni Relations last week.
"I think those of us from the United States have been insulated from it a little bit, frankly," he said, "because of the fact that they know the answer [to a bribe offer] is 'no,' because we go to jail as compared to some competitors in other parts of the world. So it's not been such a big issue for us. The big issue for us has been where we try not to get sometimes specked out of contracts because of competitors' improper payments."
"I would say this though," Bayman continued, "over time just the noise level around corruption in terms of big things has gone down." He noted, "There were no accusations in the press or anywhere about any improper payments" about the Boeing and Airbus deals."
"I think that the process that we are experiencing as the defense sector is opening up. . . it's almost making it difficult -- the government officials are going so far overboard to make sure that it's very transparent that there is not even a presence or suspicion of it -- that it's almost slowing down the process. So, I think the (Indian) government is responding properly to this."
But, he added, "I guess you all know, as you move out and get to the lower levels -- and whether it's the inspector raj or whatever -- that some of these facilitating payments are likely still taking place.
"[But] I would say that in big ticket items where the central government is involved or right at the top of the state governments, there's been a significant improvement."
Earlier, Bayman was challenged on the laundry list of positives he cited about India -- almost as if he had gone 'native' -- and reminded about GE's series of issues in terms of its initial ventures and how GE struggled in some of these businesses, particularly in areas like appliances and plastics, and that many of these issues have yet to be overcome.
He acknowledged, "It hasn't all been easy. We had a couple of difficulties in some markets in India that frankly, I think we didn't do our homework on. "We exited the appliance business at our choice," he continued, "because we concluded that it was a market where we couldn't get the reforms that our shareholders demand and that we wanted to deliver to the shareholders. It was a market where the GE brand wasn't very well recognised among consumers and as we have become much more of a business-to-business company and not as big a presence in consumer markets, particularly outside the US, we elected to exit from that business.
"But plastics has been a terrific success story," he added. "When IPCL was sold to Reliance, we bought the IPCL shares and our plastics business has gone from $125 million to one that's growing to $300 to $400 million."
He argued, "We've had far more successes than we've had issues, and fortunately we are a big company and we can take a lot of wings and we figure if we can bat 80 or 90 per cent, we're doing pretty well. And, I'd say in India, we are batting at least 90 per cent, probably better."
On the question of wage differentials between highly skilled workers who work on essentially the same jobs and tasks in India and the US, which has led to his firm and other US companies being accused of outsourcing simply because of cheap wages in India, Bayman countered: "We treat countries in terms of compensation and benefits just like we do in the United States. It's a matter of supply and demand, and we don't pay our engineers in the US the same wage; we don't pay all our engineers in India what we pay in the US."
"If you are an Indian scientist or engineer," he continued, "and you are working in our center, your lifestyle in India is every bit as good, maybe better, some would argue, than it is for researchers that are making maybe twice as much money but working in Schenectady, New York. So we find that whether it's an engineer with a master's or a PhD or whether it's a factory worker or a salesperson, you just have to be competitive to the market you are in."
"Right now, because of the supply of highly skilled people in India, wages are lower there than they are in the US. We find however, the technical capabilities to be every bit as good," he said.
As far as GE is concerned, India would be the fastest growing country through 2010, he said. "So it's a big piece of our growth strategy." He summarily dismissed any political risk in terms of investment, saying, "India has shown over the last six elections its resilience in terms of who's in power.
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Newcomers Shiv Darshan and Hasleen Kaur talk about their upcoming film, Karle Pyaar Karle, and also field questions about working with a debutant director, their chemistry with each other and what makes the film special.
How confident are you about the success of the film?
Shiv: Honestly, because it's my first movie, it's natural for me to go through a wide range of emotions. I am having sleepless nights. But I am excited and confident because, as a team, we all have put in a lot of effort. It's an edgy and spunky film.
Hasleen: Initially, I had butterflies in my stomach, but now I am more confident because I am getting positive vibes from people from the different cities that our team has visited. It's an entertaining, good love story.
How was the experience of working together?
Shiv: It's been a phenomenal experience. Although Hasleen came on board just five days before the shoot started, she adapted quickly. She is hard-working and helped my craft of acting as well. I am a methodical actor and she is spontaneous. But we were influenced by each other's skills and I'm sure people will like our chemistry.
Hasleen: Shiv is the fourth generation of a film family. Even though he is debuting with Karle Pyaar Karle, he knows a lot about cinema. He is nothing less than a superstar. He has an awe-inspiring personality and makes our pair look so good.
Rajesh Pandey, the film's director, is also debuting with the film. What was it like working with him?
Shiv: Rajesh has been an associate director to my father and I know him since the last 14 years. It never seemed to me that it is his directorial debut. He knows his work thoroughly and has made the film the way we had envisioned it to be.
Hasleen: I share a love-hate relationship with Rajesh. He is one of those visionaries who not only have good ideas, but also execute them. He is also a tough taskmaster and made me work really hard and pushed me to my limits.
What is the USP of the film?
Shiv: Freshness is the film's USP. The actors, technicians, musicians, singers and, of course, the subject are refreshingly new and I hope people will love the film.
Hasleen: The pace of the film. Also the music and action are really nice. But, the biggest USP of the film is its love story.
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The elegance of Ammanati's Grand Hall Fountain
Florentine sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511-1592) started creating the Grand Hall Fountain in 1555 for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He conceived it as an allegory of "Florentia", highlighting Cosimo's good government.
The Grand Duke hoped to enrich the Hall of the Five Hundred in Palazzo Vecchio with a majestic monument in celebration of the first great aqueduct in Florence being built – an important and innovative infrastructure that reinforced Cosimo's public image as a prince that cared about the needs of his citizens and the beauty of his city.
The fountain had a "noble social function" in the eye of the Florentine prince, as art historian Giulio Carlo Argan has explained. And Ammannati "interpreted the historical situation in which Italy's courts were in the second half of the century, and the Medici court in particular."
According to Argan, it was "a regression: devoid of any real political power, these courts became artificial bodies in which conservatism, religious conformism and the defense of privileges merged with exterior modernity and false freedom in license. Morals came down to nothing but customs, social behavior, etiquette and social convention."
"Ammannati deeply felt this crisis in values," Argan explains. "So he transformed the natural ideal of beauty into the social ideal of elegance" (translated from "Storia dell'arte italiana", Sansoni, Florence 1968).
The fountain he created symbolizes the "Creation of water" with figures representing six divinities: the Arno, Ceres, Juno, Flora, Castalia and Prudence. It never made it to Palazzo Vecchio: instead, it first decorated the Boboli and Pratolino Gardens, and later was taken apart and brought to the National Museum of Bargello, where in 2011 it was put back together in its magnificent, mannerist elegance.


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I began my blog in January, and I've received quite a few questions about the best way to sell a
So welcome to the first of a new series: "Lessons Learned." I'll try to tell you more about Coke memorabilia and collecting, based on my experience working at
In 30+ years, I've seen any number of Coke pieces and been asked almost everything about
"Lessons Learned" will answer frequently asked questions, and I might break up some entries into a few posts, since I'm covering a lot of ground!
Question: I'm interested in selling my Coke collection (or a single piece). What's the best way to do that?
Answer: There are a number of ways to sell
For general Coke items or more recent
One way to sell a Coke piece is through an auction site such as eBay. This kind of site lets people who are specifically interested in buying
There are tens of thousands of
The other place collectors know to go to find Coke items is through
For rare or unusual
Depending on the piece or collection you are selling, you also could try an auction house or local estate sale service. Three auction houses that regularly feature high-end
There is a fee for this kind of service (usually a percentage of the sale), but -- if you have a valuable piece -- an auction hosted by someone who is an expert in
Of course, valuable pieces sell at
Please remember:
No matter how you sell a Coke collectible, always do your homework! You want to know as much about an item as you can so that you are an informed seller. That way, you can write the proper description of the item, answer questions potential buyers might have, and maybe even know if you want to keep that
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We approached ProWebDesign with a web app that had most of its structure in place but needed a bit of polish on the design side of things.
The web app, AskTRAK (TRAK = The Retirement Analysis Kit), is a web-facing part of a monumental piece of software that "… is used by financial planners across the United States for educating clients about retirement." Web app includes only some of the TRAK programs. But even so, its screens are packed with data inputs and data visualization charts/grids. The original UI didn't make things easier for the user, the app was quite overwhelming.
Our tasks were: 1. to create better UX & UI with minimum or no change to underlying code / 2. make the app completely responsive and touch-adapted / 3. make it look pretty:).
We've standardized and standardized some more. And achieved the level of standardization we are truly proud of:). The entire app interface came down to 4 reusable, multi-functional groups of elements:
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Completely responsive and touch optimized
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Data visualization
After all the data is inserted, it can be visualized in 2 forms: grid (table) or chart. When concentrating to look at large amounts of data, people can often be annoyed by what one would call "visual noise": supporting elements of design. Colors, backgrounds, borders, etc. That's why we have created 3 color schemes. Now users can choose one that is the most "invisible" and pleasant to them.
Data export
And finally, the data can be exported in form of printable reports. Reports generation screen was the messiest and the most challenging. Its elements can be added back-n-forth between the lists, rearranged by drag-n-drop, each element has a thumbnail that user can expand and view. Items in Current Order list can be saved/edited/deleted/re-exported as Report Sets. Etc. Still, the screen below doesn't look scary at all:).


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Here is our Halloween table. I took the photo from a ladder looking down on it, otherwise I get too much of the back of the store in the pic. From eye level, it doesn't look as empty. See the black and orange cloths on the back of the display ~ they are simply kitchen towels! We use a lot of towels and napkins in our displays, as inexpensive ways to tie in to the holiday and if we need some height in our display, we just place an empty box under the towel.
Joy's Hope. I've used it to display cocktail napkins, but at home it would be so cute for cupcakes or hor'derves. For some added height, I have one of our Halloween figurines sitting on top.
banner on there, a few decorations, and then I have some chocolate pumpkins and lollipops hanging from the branches! I have the vase sitting on a clear glass cake stand, then I surrounded it with bags of candy corn.
|Our hand decorated Oreos.
In most of the photos I see for dessert tables, the treats are all unwrapped, like our pretzels above. While I love the way that looks photographed, I think in reality, you would want most of your treats (especially chocolate ones) wrapped, like the pretzels shown below. It doesn't take long for chocolate to melt in little (and big) hands, so unless you like hand prints on your furniture, place your treats in cello bags and then tie them up with a cute favor tag.


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Boston in Suffolk County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)
Union Oyster House
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
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The oldest continually operated restaurant and oyster bar in the United States, constructed between 1716 and 1717, it is a rare surviving brick example of Boston's Georgian architecture.
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior
Erected 2003 by National Park Service.
Marker series. This marker is included in the National Historic Landmarks marker series.
Location. 42° 21.678′ N, 71° 3.416′ W. Marker is in Boston, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County. Marker is at the intersection of Union Street and Marsh Lane, on the right when traveling north on Union Street. Touch for map. Marker is located along the route of the Freedom Trail. Marker is at or near this postal address: 41 Union Street, Boston MA 02108, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Green Dragon Tavern (a few steps from this marker); Proclamation of the "Bells" Journey (a few steps from this marker); Ebenezer Hancock House Samuel Adams (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Faneuil Hall (about 500 feet away); a different marker also named Faneuil Hall (about 500 feet away); Bunch of Grapes Tavern (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Boston Massacre (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Boston.
Also see . . . Union Oyster House website. (Submitted on April 19, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.)
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Close Encounter With An Angry Black Moslem
The next thing I know, a black male is in the store and yelling at us that a girl had asked him for dope, why would she do that? Because he was BLACK - he screamed. Only because he was black. I figured, Hey! This guy is upset. We must listen to him and possibly he will calm down. We were sympathetic at first and said - who knows why she asked you that question? It's unfortunate that she obviously made a mistake in judgement of character, but try to calm down. He became wildly loud and started screaming at us that it was because he was black! He started getting his face close to my friends face, screaming at the top of his lungs, sauntering, spittle forming, head bobbing. That was it. He's dealing with 2 women - both of us 43 - both of us with an attitude - both of us in the throes of perimenopause - neither one of us believing that bullies ought to be treated with kidgloves.
STOP SCREAMING AT US - WE DID NOTHING TO YOU. CALM DOWN. We're both yelling. I have a snapshot memory picture of the customers in line at the ATM machine, frozen in place, shocked faces with mouths hanging open, watching.
The man continued to scream, louder and louder. IF HE WASN'T BLACK WE WOULDN'T BE DISSING HIM. YOU'RE ALL RACIST, YOU'RE ALL THE SAME - disgusted look on his face - CRACKERS!
Yes. He called us 'crackers'. LOL! (Who the hell talks like that anymore?) Both of us screaming at him - WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'YOU'RE ALL'?? DO YOU MEAN ALL WHITES? WE'RE WHITE SO WE'RE PREJUDICED? WE NEVER CALLED YOU ANY NAMES - WE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT YOU OR THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN! YOU'RE UPSET, YELLING, COMING IN HERE AND CALLING US RACIST AND CRACKERS.
Then. I recognized him. I went to that store a couple of weeks ago at about midnight. The owner is in there working alone and I was in line with an armload of stuff. He walks in - and steps right in line in front of me. I told him - 'I am in line. You need to move. I was here first.' The barrage of abuse began. Talking his shit about 'Oh I'm black. He won't hire me because I'm black.' Then to the owner, 'C'mon - hire me - I'm black and blacks clean bathrooms.' I told him, 'Just move out of my way because I was here first.' He moved but continued with the abuse, making comments about my anniversary ring and my wedding ring, how I must be rich but the owner won't hire him because he's black. I looked at the owner and rolled my eyes and skedaddled.
But - here he was again. And talking his same stuff, but this time it was different. He was screaming and accusing us of being racist and of 'dissing' him. Calling us names. He started attempting to insult us, saying it was obvious we had no college degree. (?) My friend went ballistic. Right there in front of God and everyone - she had really had it: YOU DON'T KNOW ME. YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO BE COMING IN HERE, GETTING IN MY FACE, SCREAMING AT ME - WE DID NOTHING TO YOU. And she kept on going - right in his face. All 5 foot nothing of her. He picked the wrong women this time.
We called 911. Another of our friends called on her cell phone - and she backed us up, too. She stood right there with us and didn't back down. The 911 operator heard him screaming in the background.
A little old man - frail as hell, just wanting to get his scratch off lotto tickets paid, stood up for us. He has to be close to 80 - the only one in the store besides the trio of small, white, females who would dare to speak up against his abuse. He screamed at the top of his lungs - 'STOP YELLING AT THESE GIRLS!!!' 'STOP IT!'
And our neighborhood Boys in Blue were there. Three of them. God bless them. Our angry black moslem got right into the first cop's face, yelling and raising his hand to him. He was in cuffs pretty soon and then he calmed down. He said he didn't yell at us at all. Adrenaline still pumping we all screamed YES YOU DID - DON'T YOU LIE - YOU'RE LYING NOW. My friend: I'LL PRESS CHARGES ON YOUR ASS AND BE SITTING RIGHT UP FRONT IN COURT. He's outta there. We're trying to calm down, adrenaline rush is furious.
The little girl, whom he had originally been screaming at out front, came back with her brother. Sweet kids. Teenagers. We told her that he was taken away in cuffs and how crazy he got with us. She was really scared and insisted that she had not asked him for any dope or anything. She was standing out there waiting for her brother to come out of the store and this guy pulled up, got out of his car and started screaming at her. She said his spit got all over her face. She was a black girl, which normally I wouldn't bother with skin color, but it was the whole issue with the crazy guy. He was black and she was a racist.
It came to light that another employee of the store had some encounters with this guy. Once, the crazy guy asked the employee what was in the kielbasa - and the employee answered that it was a pork product. He started screaming at the employee: WHY YOU SAY THAT???! IT'S JUST BECAUSE I'M A MUSLIM THAT YOU SAID PORK. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT JUST BECAUSE I'M A MUSLIM? Screaming again.
I wonder if his imam is this guy?
We women talked about this last night and today - we're all very upset about it. It was uncomfortable to say the least. We all agree that it is time to stop casting our eyes down and turning our faces away from this type of abuse. The way this man conducted himself is completely unacceptable. I'm tired of it. I am tired of blacks accusing me of being a racist merely because I am white. I will not abide militant black prison convert moslems believing that I should bow down to them. It aint gonna happen.
I can be crazy, too. I can be a crazy bitch if I need to be. Bring it on.
We also remarked that it is the old men who stand up. It is only the old men who are first to stand up - the veterans - the ones who fought in the big war. They are the only ones who will stand up besides the peri-menopausal women in life. The young kids coming up - what they're learning is to pretend the bad isn't there, ignore and it will go away, draw a picture and wear a bracelet, kiss the bully's ass, be punished for standing up for themselves.
Self defense is a human right.


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A history so funny, so true, so scary, it's bound to be called a conspiracy. "Meticulous in its research, forensic in its reasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in its debunking, Voodoo Historiesis a highly entertaining rumble with the century's major conspiracy theorists and their theories" (John Lahr). From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to the assassination of JFK to the Birthers, Aaronvitch probes and explores the major conspiracy theories (and theorists) of our time. In doing so, he examines why people believe these conspiracies and makes an argument for a true skepticism.


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Starbucks just launched its newest limited edition drink, the Unicorn Frappuccino. It's colorful, it's sparkly and Starbucks says it's "as fleeting as a rainbow." It will only be in stores between April 19 and 23.
So we bought four of them.
What should you expect from this "flavor and color-changing" drink?
It doesn't taste like what it looks like
With its colorful blend of pink, purple and blue, all of us at GuideLive went in expecting something like cotton candy. The color scheme reminded me of Nerds candy, personally, so I was prepared for something with that kind of sour kick.
Instead what we got was a lot of mango.
Like, a lot of mango.
That's what Unicorn Frappuccino really is, we decided. It's a mango smoothie hidden under bright colors, whipped cream and sparkly sprinkles.
I'm going to be honest: I feel like we were lied to.
Our group was split on whether or not we liked the frappuccino, but none of us thought it was disgusting. And it was certainly better than Starbucks' fruitcake gimmick from several months ago. It just wasn't what any of us were expecting.
The messaging is still fun, though
When I picked up our Unicorn Frappuccinos I was lucky enough to get a barista that was jazzed about the promotion. When I ordered four of them (which sounds like something only a crazy person would do), she said excitedly, "You must need a lot of magic today!"
And you know what? She was right. I do need a lot of magic today. And every day, while we're at it. Let's lean more into fun, fairytale nonsense to help us deal with the negativity around us. Just don't promise a rainbow and only give us the color orange.
Sarah Blaskovich, Tiney Ricciardi, Dawn Burkes, Shannon Sutlief, Charlie Scudder and a unicorn participated in this taste test.


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White Tiger
A white quarterback with a troubled past is given a second chance by an historically black university.
Written by Pat Forde and Originally Published by ESPN on January 17, 2011
A fence separated the old black woman from the football field, but it didn't stop her. She wanted to meet the young white quarterback. She asked the coach to bring him over. If you don't have a place to go for Thanksgiving, the old woman told the quarterback through the fence, we will feed you.
In the stands in Memphis, Tenn., weeks earlier, a black stranger struck up a conversation with the white quarterback's father. He was easy to pick out, after all, a pale face in a section full of dark faces. By the end of the game, the quarterback's father had been invited to stay at the stranger's house for the next home game.
Everyone wanted to reach out to the white quarterback. He had come hundreds of miles from his native Michigan to this strange place -- to Jackson State University, a historically black college -- because he had nowhere else to go, with a past he was trying to escape. He didn't know what to expect. He sure didn't expect all this. All the support and attention and generosity directed his way was startling.
Just a few months before, no college wanted anything to do with him. Now, this novelty act of a quarterback was suddenly a minor celebrity.
In a state that was crippled by racial intolerance, the Jackson State fans didn't care that he was different from them. They didn't care about the trouble in his past and the chilling word that was attached to him. Or maybe it was because of the differences, and because of the trouble, that they reached out.
Maybe this was the latter stages of a dream come to fruition.
The guy was intensely drunk, with a blood-alcohol content that later would be measured at .27 -- more than three times the legal limit to drive a car. He swung first. He hit Casey Therriault in the face.
The reaction was immediate, instinctual. Therriault retaliated, and Therriault connected. Dropped the man to the cold Michigan sidewalk with what police and media reports say was the one and only punch he threw.
Therriault was scared then. He was 18 years old and home from College of the Sequoias, a California junior college, on Christmas break. He'd been in this nightclub, the Margarita Grill in his hometown of Grand Rapids, with some buddies and some friends of those friends whom he didn't really know. He hadn't been drinking, he said, but trouble followed them out the door when they left.
The drunk guy was grabbing at them, trying to start something. Someone in the group directed an insult at the drunk, and Therriault laughed.
That's when the drunk guy hit him. And he hit back. And then he was scared, and he got out of there.
What happened next would change the life of everyone out on the sidewalk that night. Some of the other guys in the group jumped on the drunk guy. Kicking. Stomping.
They beat him into a coma. Two weeks later, when the phone rang back at junior college in California, the prosecutor's words were incomprehensible: Therriault was wanted back home for questioning in the death of Jonathon Krystiniak.
Charges eventually were filed against five men, Therriault included: manslaughter.
"It was kind of like I had lost everything," Therriault said. "It was somewhere you never expected to be."
When a plea deal was offered, Therriault attorney Richard Zambon told him he should take it. The judge believed he was the least culpable of all the defendants and would sentence him accordingly. The other alternative was to risk a trial -- and although a self-defense argument was compelling, a conviction could result in 15 years in state prison.
So Therriault took the deal and the six-month county jail sentence that came with it. Three other defendants were given one- to three-year sentences in state prison. A fifth gambled on a trial and lost, and was given a sentence of 27 months to 15 years.
In January 2009, a year after the fatal altercation, Therriault entered the Kent County Correctional Facility in Grand Rapids.
"It's something that you have to accept, and if you can do it, you can learn a lot about yourself -- not that you'd do it to have a learning experience," he said. "But it's a place that's so dark and so low, that's the only thing you can take from it."
After several weeks in the county jail, Therriault was moved into the adjacent work-release facility. For the next five months, he made pizzas and washed dishes at Frankie V's, a sports bar owned by his old position coach at Wyoming Park High School in suburban Grand Rapids. His girlfriend, Sarah Hernandez, would pick him up in the morning for work and drive him back to the jail at night.
That's when Therriault would take stock of where he'd been and how he ended up there, behind bars.
"I got put up with somebody in a room, one person who turned out to be someone who helped me a lot," he said. "He was someone who kind of couldn't get away from [criminal] situations and made me realize that no matter what's going on in your life, somebody has it much worse. I had people who were there for me, and some people don't even have that.
"I grew up. I found out that I've got to appreciate things a lot more. You kind of go from having a lot, having a future, to nothing."
Julie Therriault was heartbroken and irate.
Her son had served his time. Why couldn't he get another chance?
Casey had come out of jail and gotten on with life. He enrolled at Grand Rapids Community College and became an immediate star of the football team, passing for more than 2,000 yards and 24 touchdowns while leading GRCC to a 9-2 record. He played well and stayed well clear of any trouble.
Yet all the four-year schools that had shown initial interest in Casey shied away. They loved his game but not the alarming word that surfaced with his name: manslaughter.
"I wanted to scream, 'Hey, this is a great kid right here,'" Julie said.
She wanted to tell them about how Casey and older brother Chad (now serving an Army tour of duty in Afghanistan) doted on their two handicapped brothers. Kyle, 27, has spinal dysplasia that curbed his height and has led to multiple major surgeries. And Lucas, 18, has both spinal dysplasia and a severe mental handicap that his family said has left him with the brain development of a 2-year-old.
Julie wanted the coaches who bailed on Casey to see him hold Lucas' hand. To see him change Lucas' diaper. To see him toss Lucas a football and make him smile.
She wanted to tell them about how Casey stood up in the courtroom and apologized to Krystiniak's mother, and how she forgave Casey. She wanted them to know about how Julie and Ed Therriault and Krystiniak's mom were all in tears and leaning on each other at the end of those traumatic court proceedings.
But most colleges didn't want to go beyond a troubling Google search and a surface explanation of what happened. They knew the impossibility of selling an administration on recruiting a guy who did time for manslaughter.
"He was a good kid and then, bang," Julie said. "Getting hit with that was hard. It was the most horrible thing I've endured as a mother, and I've been through numerous life-threatening surgeries with two sons. The thing I went through with Casey I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy."
So even after a productive season at GRCC, there was nowhere for Casey to go in the spring of 2010. That's when the most unlikely of schools made a phone call.
Earnest Wilson had been an assistant coach at New Mexico State, and he'd had his eye on Casey Therriault for a while. A disciple of Hal Mumme and his Air Raid offense -- which emphasizes quick, precise throws from the shotgun formation, in some ways a precursor of the current spread offenses -- Wilson saw a quarterback who fit that offense perfectly.
But Mumme had gotten fired from New Mexico State in 2008. His successor, DeWayne Walker, had retained Wilson -- but after a shaky, 3-10 debut season in '09, Walker was in no position to bring in a guy with a radioactive résumé like Casey's. Like every other school, New Mexico State backed off.
Then Wilson relocated to Jackson State as offensive coordinator and installed the pass-happy offense at a quarterback-poor school.
"We were looking for a thrower," Wilson said.
He told head coach Rick Comegy about Casey and got the go-ahead to recruit him. Comegy is a 35-year veteran of coaching at HBC programs, and among his reclamation projects was former Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson. After an infamous cocaine bust at OU, he wound up with Comegy at Central State in Ohio.
"Guys are going to make mistakes when they're young," Comegy said. "Not one of the guys on our football team hasn't had an incident in their life that they regret. I think they understand it better than we do as adults sometime."
One other thing the kids seem to understand better than adults: race. Casey's reaction to being recruited by a black school?
"Oh, that's a little different," he said. "It didn't really cross my mind. … I didn't think of going to a historically black college."
Fact is, Casey had played on racially diverse teams in high school and junior college. When his father plunked a portable basketball hoop at the end of their street, it attracted kids of all variety. The Therriault house was a melting pot then and now -- Chad's girlfriend is black, and Casey's is half Hispanic.
"I really don't think it fazes him that much," Julie said. "The biggest obstacle was getting over the Southern accent. When he went on his visit, he said, 'I don't understand what everybody's saying.'"
That was in May 2010, and despite the language barrier, Casey decided he would attend. Then he started getting cold feet, thinking about moving that far away from home. The jail experience had left him more attached than ever to his girlfriend and family.
Julie read him the riot act.
"This is your only opportunity," she told Casey. "You better take it."
On July 5, Ed and his third son packed up and left Michigan for Mississippi. They were dumbstruck by the heat, and in the dead of summer, there weren't many players on campus or any formal workouts to dive into. Casey called his mom crying twice, talking about coming home.
"You make a decision right now," she told him. "Get your ass in the car and drive home, or stick with it. But don't call me again."
He never called again.
What followed was an unlikely but perfect marriage of player and program. Casey's 3,600 yards of total offense and 41 total touchdowns (31 passing, 10 running) made him the Southwestern Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year and the first-team all-SWAC quarterback. He was second nationally in the Football Championship Subdivision in passing yards and total offense, leading Jackson State to an 8-3 record and a share of the SWAC East title.
A proud school with a passionate base and a gilded football heritage, having produced the likes of Walter Payton and Lem Barney, Jackson State had never had a standout white player before. There were a few lesser players who came and went, but nobody with the ability of Casey.
The fans adored him. They nicknamed him "White Tiger." Teammates called him "Blue-Eyed Soul Brother."
He was never more popular than in leading Jackson State past rival Southern 49-45. Four touchdowns were scored in the final three minutes -- the last of them on a 28-yard pass by Casey to Rico Richardson with two seconds left. Casey had driven the Tigers 60 yards in two plays for the winning touchdown.
Afterward, everyone raved about Casey's poise. His dad knew where it came from.
"He told me one time, 'These defensive linemen used to scare the s---|| out of me,'" Ed said. "'After I was looking at 15 years in prison, those guys don't scare me.' He doesn't get jitters anymore. After you've been scared like that, you don't get scared."
Sarah Hernandez and Casey's parents attended one of Casey's home games this past season. Her description of the experience:
"It was intimidating, and not because of anything anyone said or did," she said. "Nobody made us feel unwelcome at all. But it opened up our eyes. I know now what a black person means when they say what it feels like to be the only black in a room."
If her boyfriend ever had that feeling, it is gone now.
On a bright and breezy October Friday on the Jackson State campus, Casey was moving through a crowded quad at ease. Girls called out his name in flirty tones, but he pretended not to notice. It was homecoming week, and the football team had gathered with the marching band and homecoming court to help boost a United Way fundraising drive.
The white quarterback stood out amid the sea of black faces, yet seemed oblivious to it.
"He described it once as saying that he forgets he's white," Hernandez said.
At Jackson State, they don't care what color Casey Therriault is. Or what happened in his past. They're happy the White Tiger has made an unlikely home in a Mississippi oasis a great man dreamed of decades ago.
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The honest Father's Day gift & dining guide
This story originally appeared on ELLE.sg, Toggle's sister site and the Singapore edition of the world's biggest-selling fashion magazine.
Time to give the oft-overshadowed parent some extra lurrrve! We're talking about the hero who probably taught you how to cycle, built your first dollhouse and showed you how to tie your shoelaces – don't you think the man deserves a unique Fathers' Day gift this year?
Show him that you care with a really, truly, honestly thoughtful gift (which means no World's Best Dad mugs or yet another boring tie). To help you out, we've rounded up the best gift ideas for you to surprise your dad with on 19 June. There's something for every kind of dad, from the gardening enthusiast to the tech-savvy, so click through above and start shopping!
For stories Dad will love, check out 5 Films To Make You Love The Environment More and 6 Cool Gadgets You Need To Survive The Heat. For more Living stories, head here.
06 Jun 2016
Aerospring Pro, $880, from Aerospring Gardens.
Surprise your green-fingered dad with this urban aeroponic farming system that can accommodate up to 36 different types of plants and most importantly, has an automated watering system. Get it here.
06 Jun 2016
Limbo Business Multiwheel in Carmona Red, by Rimowa.
Specially designed for business travellers, this Rimowa luggage includes a built-in notebook bag and cable bag, as well as other clever features such as clearly arranged partitions and compartments to help your jet-setting dad get organised in a jiffy.
06 Jun 2016
Facial Polishing Pair, $92, by Aesop.
Help your dad achieve a glowing complexion with this facial care set from Aesop. The Tea Tree Leaf Facial Exfoliant (which contains ground tea tree leaves) rids skin of dead skin and grime, while the Aesop cleanser of your choice will clean and polish skin to reveal a smoother touch. Get the set here.
06 Jun 2016
Father's Day Set Menu, $118++, at Mitzo Restaurant & Bar.
If Dad has a penchant for fusion fare, treat him to the Fathers' Day Set Menu at Mitzo. The restaurant is known for progressive Cantonese cuisine, and its Father's Day menu includes Chilled Poached Foie Gras With Orange Infused Lotus Root and Truffle Abalone Rice. Available from 17 to 19 June and includes free-flow draught beer to make Dad even happier. For more information, visit here.
06 Jun 2016
Forget Me Not cuff links, $208, by Carrie K. from Gallery & Co.
Remind your dad of your love for him with this pair of classy cuff links, shaped like knots - a playful pun on forget me knot!
06 Jun 2016
Harrison Emerson Sling, by Tumi
For the stylish adventurer, gift this leather utilitarian sling. The sleek, minimalist style is fuss-free while the pockets help to keep things organised (and deter thieves!).
06 Jun 2016
Mr Burberry cologne, by Burberry.
Nothing says precious like a personalised gift. Burberry is offering a monogramming service on Burberry.com and selected boutiques for you to customise the Mr Burberry bottle with up to three initials, just in time for Fathers' Day!
06 Jun 2016
Multiple Camouflage Bordeaux leather wallet, by Louis Vuitton.
Upgrade your dad's worn-out billfold with this beautiful and stylish camo-print leather wallet from Louis Vuitton.
06 Jun 2016
NGS x Marou chocolate bars, $29 for pack of three, from Gallery & Co.
Food is the best gift for the man who has everything, so how about treating him to these beautiful chocolate bars? They're a collaborative effort between Vietnamese artisan chocolatier Marou and National Gallery Singapore (the sleeves are inspired by the gallery's architecture!) - sweet and stylish.
06 Jun 2016
Nickel Shaving Set, $357, by Penhaligon's.
If your dad is the type who appreciates the finer things in life, he'll adore this elegant nickel-plated shaving set from Penhaligon's, which includes a classic shaving brush made from ethically sourced badger hair and a streamlined razor.
06 Jun 2016
Pilot 54 Chronograph Leather and Nylon Box Set, $439, by Fossil
If your father is a fan of Top Gun, he's gonna love this silver steel case that's adapted from the instruments in the airplane's cockpit. The set also includes interchangeable leather and nylon straps so he can easily switch up his look.
06 Jun 2016
Father's Day Set Lunch By The Pool, $48++, at Pool Grill Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel.
Treat your dad to an indulgent lunch by the pool at Marriott Hotel. The Pool Grill set lunch includes Western favourites like Beef Carpaccio, Pan-Fried Cod Fish and Gratinated Beef Tenderloin (pictured). Best of all - fathers get a glass of Prosecco on the house! Call 6831-4605 for reservations.
06 Jun 2016
SH8 Sound Bar, $1,099, by LG.
Now your dad can enjoy the concert-quality sound of his favourite Frank Sinatra tracks with this intuitive sound bar, which can detect and change the sound settings to suit various media types.
06 Jun 2016
Soccer Turtle Print shorts, $360 (men's) and $160 (boy's), by Vilebrequin.
How cute are these matching father-son shorts from Vilebrequin? The limited edition design features turtle-shaped footballs - an adorable reflection of the imagination-filled playtime that kids enjoy with their dearest daddies.
06 Jun 2016
Valliant white gold and diamond ring, by Larry Jewelry.
This bold geometric ring features diamonds and 18k white gold - perfect for the subtly stylish dad. The versatile design also means he can wear it from the boardroom to the bar.
07 Jun 2016
MDR-100ABN headphones, by SONY
Is your dad an avid music lover? Because if so, we've got just the gift for him. SONY electronics present their wireless (hence, hassle free) headphones with a digital noise cancelling feature. Now dad can sit back, put his feet up and wander off into blissful delirium.
07 Jun 2016
TomTom Bandit, $599, by TomTom
If your old man is the adventurous sort, look no further. Help him capture his best moments in ultra HD with the TomTom Bandit. The sleek action camera allows dad to capture hours of footage and edit it straight on his mobile phone. And the best part is, it'd only take a couple of minutes! We foresee spending dinner time watching his cycling footage and listening to him go "did you see that?!"
07 Jun 2016
Goals Journal: Minimalist, $44.90, by Kikki.k
Help Dad get organised in the office. Filled with inspiring exercises, prompts and planners, this journal is perfect for helping him set goals and take the next step in his life or career.
08 Jun 2016
Fathers' Day Set Lunch Promotion, $38++, at OCF Singapore.
Enjoy exquisite French cuisine at OCF Singapore, which is housed in the historical Old Parliament House. There's also an option to upgrade the lunch promotion to include free-flow beer and wine - go for it! For more information, call 6333 9312.
08 Jun 2016
Invati Men Nourishing Exfoliating Shampoo and Scalp Revitalizer, by Aveda.
If your dad is suffering from hair loss, help him out with this new 2-step system that is designed to fight hair loss from Aveda.
08 Jun 2016
Metropolitan Slim Brief in Pebble Leather, $995, by Coach.
Surprise your dad with this super sleek and stylish work bag that is also versatile enough for weekends - complete with a custom monogram of his initials!
08 Jun 2016
EH-TW5350 Home Theatre Projector, by Epson.
This is the perfect gift for the soccer fan or movie buff dad! The Epson EH-TW5350 Home Theatre Projector provides an elevated cinematic viewing of his favourite programmes - warning though, he might not want to leave home!
08 Jun 2016
Kugel carafe, by Alfi
Such a stylish carafe will be a suitable statement piece for design-savvy fathers to show off in their office. The container can keep icy drinks cold for 24 hours, and hot beverages warm for up to 12 hours.
13 Jun 2016
Metropolitan Retro Pop fountain pen in houndstooth, $30, by Pilot.
If your dad is a functional guy, get him this practical but stylish fountain pen from Pilot's new Metropolitan Retro Pop collection. This classic combination of metallic gray and the ever-classy houndstooth pattern can never go wrong.
13 Jun 2016
Ralph Lauren Blue EDP, $109 (75ml) and $132 (125ml), by Ralph Lauren
An elegant interpretation of the classic Polo Blue scent, this EDP variant balances the sparkling freshness of bergamot and cardamom with the seductive intensity of vetiver and ambery woods - great for sporty, spontaneous dads.


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Carroll & Tenniel's Team Effort
Often considered "the greatest revolution in nursery literature" (Lochhead 117) by literary critics and art historians alike, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) presents a famously puzzling story. Perhaps even more puzzling than the story itself, however, is the paradoxical way Carroll's words interact with Tenniel's engravings. The story communicates the idea that perception is reality, yet only Tenniel's visual interpretation accompanies the story. The mere existence of Tenniel's illustrations then contradicts the story's central message: because everyone has their own interpretation of their environment and the events taking place in that environment, absolute truth simply does not exist.
As Alice does with the characters she meets throughout her adventures, Tenniel essentially forces his view point upon the reader because his illustrations portray the story from his individual perspective. He drew Alice, for example, according to his own vision of the type of little girl who would embark on such an odyssey. After all, Carroll never makes any comments upon Alice's physical appearance during the story, except in saying that she does not have "ringlets" like her classmate Ada (Carroll 11). He also comments upon when Alice's body changes sizes, such as when she nibbles the mushroom the caterpillar gives her (Carroll 33). Yet Tenniel assigns Alice long, fair hair, soulful eyes, rosebud lips, and every other aspect of her appearance based upon how he pictured her while reading the story. While she does exhibit a classic Gothic Victorian look and therefore reflects the aesthetics of her time, Alice remains Tenniel's unique vision. To emphasize that the illustrations are Tenniel's exclusive perception, consider this: Tenniel's depiction of Alice bothered Carroll (Nieres 194) because they deviated from this own mental image. Carroll wanted a sweet, cheerful Alice like the one he drew in his draft of the book; Tenniel gave him a somber one.
Therefore, Tenniel's engravings do not represent a complete and objective look at what Alice experiences during her travels. They constitute only one version of reality. Tenniel specifically chose to illustrate certain characters and events, while excluding others. He depicts some of the following characters or scenes: the White Rabbit checking his watch (Carroll 5); Alice peeking at the little door (Carroll 7); Alice picking up the bottle labeled 'Drink Me' (Carroll 8); Alice opening up like a huge telescope (Carroll 10); Alice as a giant watching the White Rabbit run past her (12); Alice floating above her sea of tears (Carroll 14); Alice swimming with the mouse (Carroll 15); the party of animals crowded around the mouse (Carroll 16); the Dodo handing a thimble to Alice, as the other animals look on (Carroll 18); Alice again as a gain but this time cramped in the White Rabbit's cottage (Carroll 22); Alice's huge hand reaching for the White Rabbit (24); Bill the Lizard shooting out of the White Rabbit's chimney (Carroll 25); Alice taunting the enormous puppy with a stick (Carroll 26); Alice observing the caterpillar smoking hookah as he sits on top of a mushroom (Carroll 28); Father William standing on his head before the young man (Carroll 29); Father William performing a back-somersault for the young man (30); Father William and the young man around the dinner table (Carroll 31); Father William balancing an eel on his nose for the young man (Carroll 32); and several more. In total, over forty of Tenniel's illustrations complement Carroll's story.
The question is why he selected those scenes and not others. What about those particular characters and events interested him intellectually or touched him emotionally? Was it merely a matter of convenience—perhaps he felt more artistically capable of drawing certain figures more than others? How much did Carroll influence Tenniel during his engraving process? (Apparently neither man left notes concerning this aspect of their collaboration (Nieres 196.)) There is infinite space for speculation. In her essay, "Tenniel: The Logic behind his Interpretation of the Alice Books," Isabelle Nieres states that:
"John Tenniel read the story with an artist's eye, looking for a promising angle, constantly alert to such opportunities for inventive imagery as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle, or material for caricature such as the Duchess, the Hatter or the Queen…As did Carroll [in his original hand-written draft], [Tenniel] alternates full-page illustrations with illustrations embedded in the text, achieving better balance between the actions of the story than did Carroll…" (Nieres 196).
This, of course, is a highly objective statement that does not truly explain what made Tenniel choose to illustrate one event over another. That is because it is not a question that can be scientifically answered. Perception is a fluid organism, comprised of multiples schemas, and influenced by everything a person sees, hears touches, tastes, and smells. All that is certain regarding the way Tenniel's engravings enhance the text is this: had he chosen different scenes to illustrate, the story simply would not read the same. As it stands, though, the reader only sees pockets of Alice's land, thereby making her adventure seem even more wondrous and mysterious because of what remains unseen. The rest is left to the reader's imagination.
Yet the images running through the reader's head as she reads the story likely do not match up with Tenniel's style. In fact, if the reader went through a picture-free version of the story, it is impossible that the exact same aesthetic Tenniel created would run through her mind. A modern reader, circa 2009, would not necessarily interpret Alice as a little Victorian girl, for example, but perhaps a hyper-sexed tween sporting a mini-skirt. If Carroll had truly wanted his readers to become aware of their unique perspectives, perhaps he should have made the book interactive and left blank spaces for them to illustrate the story themselves. (Of course to his credit, Carroll was not familiar with postmodern conventions so the thought likely never entered his mind.) After all, there are numerous ways to picture and interpret the story—or any story, for that matter. It is a case of what Per Aage Brandt calls 'negative semiosis': "Active, negative semiosis destabilizes meta-belief [belief in belief] and induces an 'infinite interpretation,' activates an emergency rule of non-relevance or perplexity, contradictory to the first rule, and widening the scope of possible devices for decoding" (Brandt 27). Most young children would likely accept Alice's adventures at face value while older children and adults would likely try to understand what the story means on an allegorical level. Regardless of how the reader interprets the enigmatic story, no two interpretations will match up exactly, even with Tenniel's pictures influencing readers' thoughts.
Alice's catchphrase of "Curiouser and curiouser" (Carroll 10) aptly describes the interplay between word and image in Lewis Carroll's and John Tenniel's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While the text advocates the importance of personal perception and understanding the points of views of others, the illustrations sunder such openness to possibilities and co-existing realities. They try to impose their own interpretation of the story upon the reader. But, as Alice's journey would have the reader believe, the world is full of multiple truths, where, unlike Tenniel's illustrations, few things are black and white. If readers are expected to apply the lessons that Alice learns throughout her adventures, they should be allowed to create their own vision of the little girl's journey and the characters she meets along the way—and they will.
Brand, Per Aage. "Curiouser and Curiouser—A Brief Analysis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Research in Text Theory: Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1994.
Carroll, Lewis. Tenniel, John. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll. New York: Avenel Books, 1982.
Lochhead, Marion. Their First Ten Years: Victorian Childhood. London: John Murray, 1956.
Nieres, Isabelle. "Tenniel: The Logic Behind his Interpretation of the Alice Books." Research in Text Theory: Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1994.