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A weekend full of selfies, red lips, long laughs and one very full birthday girl heart.
Every year birthdays are a unique adventure for me. Growing up as an only child, birthdays were kind of the BIGGEST DEAL ON EARTH - any only children out there, you feel me. It was pony rides and shopping excursions and entire weekends full of shanny-centered-celebration and merriment. There is nothing inherently wrong with these things, by the way. My parents are amazing and they have loved me with the greatest love. Their love is fierce and has carried me through my darkest moments with a grace and a tenderness I could not have lived without. I am so grateful to them and to the space they made in their hearts to love their daughter well.
All that to say, when I became an adult, I didn't understand why everyone didn't dote on me for my birthdays the way I had experienced growing up. It took me years to realize that I received birthday love in a specific way - the way I'd always known, and my friends, they just did not speak this same birthday-love-language. At first I thought they didn't love me at all, clearly, since they weren't throwing parades in my honor. But overtime, I began to understand. ; )
So for the past three or so years, I have tried to learn a new pattern for birthdays. First, that looks like letting people love me however they know to speak their love. And really, why not? If I love them back, then I should enjoy and relish in their unique expression of love towards me. Second, I have tried to brainstorm fun and creative ways each year to honor the ones I hold dear. Because more than anything you could wrap up in fancy gold paper & glitter bows, they are the real gifts in my life. More and more, they are what I want to celebrate each year on my birthday. The relationships that keep me sane, the people that carry me through, the brothers and sisters who keep me laughing and rejoicing just by being who they are. These are my people, they sit in my corner and they cheer for my life all year long, and on my birthday, I want to honor them and be surrounded by them.
So this year, I decided to throw a dinner party in their honor. I loved this idea because it let me plan something beautiful and fun and celebratory, but it was focused on the Others in my life. So with the help of my dear friend Jess Bott, we prepped a meal and made this space beautiful and opened the doors. I smiled as each friend came in and I thought of the specific things I loved about them and how grateful I was for all the beautiful souls He has filled my life with. Below are some photos from the evening! Thank you to Jesse for snapping some shots of the party!
The following day was my actual birthday, and we spent the afternoon at the springs, followed by hitting up Brand New in concert at house of blues. It was a perfect combination of the sweet slow pace of the springs with sisters at my side, to the fun ruckus of screaming high school anthems at the top of our lungs that night. The women here, Kristin, Jesse, Laura - these are my girls. I love these women deeply and it was the sweetest gift to spend my birthday with them at my side. Also, red lipstick is our new favorite accessory...
And finally, these two. Guys, I just LOVE my parents. Our family has a had a really rough couple of years and yet I think we have been blessed by it. I see us growing closer and stronger as a family in the middle of all the on-going chaos.
On this day, we explored the farmers market then strolled around Rollins and ended our day at a favorite restaurant. The whole time, we laughed and joked and just deeply enjoyed each other's company. Such time with them, away from the things our past two years have been filled with - it was glorious and God-sent and it meant everything, more than any tangible gift could.
I love living in the fruit of hard fought love, and that is exactly what this family does. We fight hard for each other, always have, always will.
I think God is most visible when we look to the relationships in our lives. My community, my people, my family both by blood and by Blood - I look here at all that God has given me and I know, with certainty, that I am loved with an everlasting love. He has met me through them, and it has been everything to me.
A little birthday thought I had that day:
"Birthdays are like mile markers. A sign of time passing, another year under your belt and a new year up ahead. Some birthdays in the past have felt hard to embrace because I guess I didn't feel ready to "move forward". But this one... This one is glorious. I have never felt more freed up, never felt more proud of who I'm becoming and all the growth and victory this past year has held for me. Never felt more excited to embrace the unknowable newness that lays ahead. Whatever is unknown, I relinquish to the Knowable God who is wholeheartedly good to me. Twenty six. I'm so ready for you. So grateful for the beautiful relationships in my life, the sweet King who holds me together, and all the glorious goodness in every little detail of this life.
Thankful, grateful, brave, steady, heart wide open...
Here we go."


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My studio in Venice faces out to a neighborhood involved in an evolution of rapid visual change. Accompanying this change is a new sense of contemporary commercial fashion and style supported on the street by the constant new flow of very styled 'Hipsters'. From my studio second floor balcony, the 'Hipster' person is new, different, and fun to watch. Although, to some of the original residents this new visual is met with some discomfort. Mostly, because it didn't fit their idea about life 'style'.
This new discomfort reminded me of a thinking about making art that most of my friends agreed upon when were all just starting as artist in New York in the early 1980's. It was the sense that discomfort enables us to see forward and therefore discomfort was necessary in our art in order to create the new art of the future.
Tahitian Hipsters
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Most likely, we were uncomfortable, ourselves, with the art (conceptualism and minimalism) that came immediately before us and we mischievously set out to tease the end of its reign. Many were using racial, inequality and sexual themes, and even the retired art of portraiture as a vehicle for the discomfort. Since my body of work came out during a severe illness, I was very fortunate that my theme was based on historic humor.
It was absolutely Sparky's drawing line constructions that first excited me and influenced the last 26 years of my work. But, it was also the sense that doing an entire body of work visually based on only one very successful cartoon's imagery was brand-new work. And, that it would be uncomfortable with most art professionals because it didn't necessarily fit their idea about museum painting. It may have been the undertow of my work.
The 30 'Tahitian Hipster' paintings were produced in Tahiti on my dream-like open-air studio deck that sits 6 feet above a shallow lagoon 100 yards off shore. So the work had to be visually about the Tahitian Hipster.
The most obvious common denominator in Hipster style seems to be contemporary headwear. Of course there are many contemporary Tahitians, but Tahitian headwear is predominately deeply rooted in centuries of tradition and history. The materials and designs of this headwear are amongst the most beautiful works of art.
The only discomfort in the Tahitian studio is losing the paint (mixed with lagoon water) from the painting tool to the strong tradewinds as it makes its way to the surface of the paper. But, in looking forward, I discovered restaurant style squeeze bottles that apply the paint directly to the surface. This explains the almost island reptile-like surface on all the works produced on this heavyweight paper.
I could explain more, but its time to return to my comfortable studio balcony. There may be a hipster going by.
– Tom Everhart
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What's Happening at AIIM
METANOIA Inauguration Ceremony
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Guest Lecture by Mr Mukesh Parikh
Book Expo -2017 Book Showcase
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Inaugural Function for PGDM (IM) Batch 2018-20
Expert Talk on Are we communicating right? by Ms. Sushama Oza
AIIM Management Development Program Inauguration Ceremony
Expert Talk on Gains and Pains of Mergers and Acquisitions by Mr. Nitin Parekh
Leadership Development Program by Global Leadership Coach, Mr. Peter Cox
Children's Day @ Campus
Vibrant Gujarat 2017: January 10-13, 2017
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Many European Business Schools and some American Business Schools have been offering a One-Year full time Executive MBA Programme for over two decades now. Until recently, the Business Schools in India were offering only Two-Year MBA Programmes. However, in recent years, several reputed Indian Business Schools have also launched One-Year Post Graduate Programmes and many of these programmes are very well received by both participants as well as recruiters.
However, all One-Year programmes currently being offered by Indian Business Schools are essentially General Management Programmes. Some Business Schools offer One-Year programmes with specialization in either Ports & Shipping, or Oil & Gas, but no reputed foreign or Indian Business School offers full time One-Year Programme covering the entire spectrum of infrastructure and allied sectors. PGPIM aims at filling this gap.
AIIM offers a series of Short Duration Programmes for Executives at both senior as well as middle management levels.
AIIM has already designed and offered the following Management Development Programmes:
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EducationUniversity of Kentucky - Lexington, Kentucky
Ph.D., Finance, 2005
Eastern Kentucky University - Richmond, Kentucky
B.B.A., Finance, 2001
University of Kentucky - Lexington, Kentucky
M.S., Economics, 2004
Research Interests
Corporate Liquidity
Financial Constraints
Behavioral Finance
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Financial Education
Courses Taught
Financial Modeling (MBA)
Applied Portfolio Management I and II
Investment Analysis
Intermediate Business Finance
Business Finance
Journal Publications
"The Influence of a Credit Rating Change on Dividend and Investment Policy Interactions," with Hinh Khieu. (2016) The Financial Review 51 (4), 579 – 611.
"Cutural Influences on Risk Tolerance and Portfolio Creation," with Yongping Li, Shifang Wu, and Steven D. Dolvin. (2016) Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 9, 43-55.
"Seeking Alphas from Underperforming Stocks: the Perspective of Corporate Governance," with Weishen Wang. (2014) Journal of Investing, 23 (3), 23-34.
"How Entrenched Managers Beat Earnings Expectations Before and After SOX," with Weishen Wang, Rachel Graefe-Anderson, and Dongnyoung Kim. (2014) Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 54 (1), 82-91.
"Large Investment, Financial Constraint, and Capital Structure," with Hinh D. Khieu and Manfen W. Chen. (2014) Quarterly Journal of Finance and Acccounting, 51 (3/4), 71-106.
"Rewards to Meet Market Expectations: Evidence of Stock Market Sophistication," with Weishen Wang and Rachel Graefe-Anderson. (2014) The Journal of Accounting and Finance, 14 (1), 174-185.
"The Influence of a Credit Rating Change on Corporate Cash Holdings and Their Marginal Value," with Hinh Khieu. (2012) The Financial Review, 47 (2), 351-373.
"Estimating the Impact of Discount Real Estate Broker Utilization on Selling Price and Time on Market," with Justin Benefield and Anne Gleason. (2011) Journal of Real Estate Research, 33 (4), 531-563.
"Education Expenditures and the Cost of Performance," with Caroliniana Sandifer. (2011) Southern Business and Economics Journal, 33 (1/2).
"The Influence of Simulation Performance on Student Interest," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2011) Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 12 (3), 35-48.
"Bank Marketing Investments and Bank Performance," with Donald J. Mullineaux. (2010) Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 2 (4), 326-345.
"Further Examination of Equity Returns and Seasonal Depression," with Steve Dolvin and Qun Wu. (2010) Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, 10 (1), 67-81.
"Analysts Get SAD Too: The Effect of Seasonal Affective Disorder on Stock Market Analysts' Earnings Forecasts," with Steven D. Dolvin and Qun Wu. (2009) Journal of Behavioral Finance, 10 (4), 214-225. Chosen to be included in a Virtual Special Issue of Behavioural Finance, published by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
"REIT IPOs and the Cost of Going Public," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2009) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 39 (1), 92-106.
"Antitakeover Techniques and Corporate Ownership Structure," with Jocelyn Evans and Hyuntai Choo. (2009) Managerial Finance, 35 (1), 6-24.
"Daily Stock Returns: Momentum, Reversal, or Both," with Steve D. Dolvin. (2009) Financial Decisions, 21 (2), Article 1.
"Ringing the Bell on the NYSE: Does it Matter and Why?" with Steve D. Dolvin and Hinh Khieu. (2009) Global Business and Finance Review, 14 (2), 93-103.
"The Influence of Seasonal Depression on Equity Returns: Further Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts," (2009) Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, 48 (2), 63-83.
"Internally versus Externally Advised Non-Brokerage Real Estate Firms," with Justin Benefield. (2009) Journal of Alternative Investments, 12 (1), 39-49.
"Constraints on Loan Sales and the Price of Liquidity," with Donald J. Mullineaux. (2008) Journal of Financial Services Research, 33 (1), 21-36.
"The Influence of University Investment Education on Asset Allocation," with Steven D. Dolvin and John G. Gonas. (2008) Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 7 (1), 29-42.
"Market Efficiency at the Derby: A Real Horse Race," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2008) Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 27 (1), 1-14.
"The Effect of Resale Constraints on Abnormal Returns of Borrowers in Syndicated Loans," with Steven D. Dolvin and B. Perry Woodside. (2007) Academy of Banking Studies Journal, 6 (2), 81-96.
"Prior Debt and the Cost of Going Public," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2007) Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting (formerly Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics), 46 (2), 23-42.
"Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Pricing of IPOs," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2007) Review of Accounting and Finance, 6 (2), 214-228.
"The Impact of Bank Venture Capital on Initial Public Offerings," with Steven D. Dolvin and Donald J. Mullineaux. (2007) Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 9 (2), 145-164.
"The Effect of Instructional Technologies on the Finance Classroom," with Steven D.
Dolvin and J. Michael Morgan. (2006) Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 5 (2), 33-42.
"Venture Capitalist Quality and IPO Certification," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2006) Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 8(4), 353-371.
"IPO Long-Run Returns: A New Approach," with Steven D. Dolvin. (2006) Financial Decisions, 18 (1), Article 4.
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications
"Economic Effects of Smoke-free Laws on Rural and Urban Counties in Kentucky and Ohio," with Ellen J. Hahn. (2012) Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 14(1), 111-115.
"Economic Effects of Ohio's Smoke-free Law on Kentucky and Ohio Border Counties," with Ellen J. Hahn. (2011) Tobacco Control, 20(1), 73-76.
"Smoke-free Legislation and Charitable Gaming in Kentucky," with Ellen J. Hahn. (2009) Tobacco Control, 18(1), 60-62.
"Economic Impact of a Smoke-Free Law in a Tobacco Growing Community," with Donald J. Mullineaux, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, and Ellen J. Hahn. (2007) Tobacco Control, 16 (1), 66-68.
"More than Just the Ryder Cup: An Examination of Relevant Personal Characteristics in Professional Golf," (2007) The Sport Journal, 10 (3), Summer.
Book Publications
Applied Corporate Finance: Questions, Problems, and Making Decisions in the Real World. (2014) New York: Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9172-9; E-book ISBN: 978-1-4614-9173-6.


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This Sunday 6/26/16 we will be holding open houses at my listings, 2222 River Road, Maumee (SOLD) and 2478 Goldenrod, Perrysburg! Come out at see these two great properties in person!
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After nearly 20 years as record label executive and talent scout, Michael Alago, New Yorker in heart and soul, left the music business in 2003 in order to dedicate his time to his other passion: photography. And not without success. Michael started his photography career with a Polaroid camera, shooting series of erotically charged portraits. Since then he has equipped himself with a large variety of camera's, developed his eye for muscle-bound, tattooed rough-necks to the level of perfection and published two excellent photocbooks, Rough Gods and Brutal Truth, displaying friends, models and bodybuilders set against the gritty, urbane backdrop that is New York City. This Spring, Michael Alago surprised again with a new book in which he, as a matter of speaking, returns to his Polaroid days but using the exciting new digital techniques brought by Hipstamatic. For his book Beautiful Imperfections Michael traveled around the globe and shot vivid, uncompromising images of raw emotion in the poetic and in-your-face expression that is his signature style. Indeed beautiful Imperfections is composed by photos hot by using Hipstamatic alone, resulting in a series of surreal and dreamlike portraits. Enough reason for BeautifulMag to talk to Michael Alago.
Michael, it is unbelievable but it is already 7 years ago that we last published your work. Tell us a bit about what has happened to you in those years between 2006 and 2013?
Michael: LOL. So much has happened, but the highlights are that I self published a book of poems, observations and rants (with my friend Mina Caputo) called Night Blooming Jasmine Will Never Smell the Same and in 2011, another photo book of mine was published by German publishing house Bruno Gmünder called Brutal Truth–a 265 page book of my "Rough Gods" www.roughgods.com along with my signature flower images and some poems and positive thoughts. I executive-produced the last two Cyndi Lauper albums Bring Ya to The Brink and Memphis Blues for which we got a Grammy award nomination, and this year, my latest book has been released called Beautiful Imperfections.
You have earned your stripes in the music industry first before concentrating on photography. How did you come to make that switch?
Michael: Thank you for the kind words. I worked at Elektra records, Geffen records and Palm Pictures for my entire career as an A&R executive (talent scout). It was extraordinary and what happens I find is all great things come to an end. 25 glorious years. The industry was really starting to change in 2004 and I was looking to switch careers so I delved in my second love-photography. Photography has kept me in the public eye with all three of my books and I have had the opportunity to meet some awesome men in the process. Life is good!
You are known to be quite a visionary. You have discovered Metallica, worked with Nina Simone and were among the first to recognize the potential of rough, sensual and sexual men as subject of art photography. Now there is your project Beautiful Imperfections. What can you tell us about this new book?
Michael: I have been grateful to work with gifted artists that I had either discovered or help give a second life too. Now, with photography, I can share my vision of men and their beauty and what turns me on and hope in that process my audience stays on the journey with me for the long ride. The new book Beautiful Imperfections was initially an experiment with the iPhone and the Hipstamatic app. I was loving the results that various "films," "lenses," and "flashes" afforded me on the iPhone so I continued with project. The images were fabulous I kept shooting until I had over 200 or so pictures and then presented them to my publisher, Michael Taubenheim at Bruno Gmünder. He loved the idea, so with my friend and designer Ian Jopson, the gorgeous book came to fruition.
What makes making portraits with Hipstamatic different from using a regular professional camera with filters?
Michael: The difference is that there's a phone that's a camera in my back pocket hat's easy and cool and fun to use. I keep it simple and play with all the "films" and "lenses" and see what I like and just go for it. The pictures can be quite dazzling. I smile at the technology and just embrace it.
Hipstamatic comes with many different settings. How did you select the ones you wanted to use?
Michael: I experiment with all the possibilities on the Hipstamatic app and just wing it till I get it all right. The fun is in the unknown.
With iPhone apps such as Hipstamatic, Instagram and Lo-Mob, how do you see the future of digital photography?
Michael: The future of digital photography as we can see is constantly surprising and delighting us. Instant photography with all the cameras we have in front of us to use show us that the visual possibilities are endless.
After this revolutionary and bold project, what is next on Michael Alago's wish list?
Michael: Oh my. Lets see. On June 14th I did a signing of Beautiful Imperfections at a great new gay bookstore called Bureau of General Services Queer Division located at 27 Orchard Street in NYC. That same evening my great friend, transgender artist singer songwriter Mina Caputo, joined me and we read from our poetry book, Night Blooming Jasmine Will Never Smell the Same. Also on August 1st I have an exhibit of new work at Cock Gallery in Portland Oregon with my new partner in crime fellow photographer Marne Lucas. The Portland show is a real beauty. Check the website for details. The gallery is located at 625 NW Everett Street in Portland. I'll be looking for hot men to photograph in Portland so I hope they all get in touch with me. :-)
My wish list is all coming true and that's a blessing so I keep on keepin' on and keep moving forward and hope that great things continue to happen. Like this interview, so thank you! See you on the road somewhere. –BM-


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If you're ever travelling abroad, please pack clean underwear. Know-it-alls will tell you to never lose sight of your passport or to keep your return tickets nearby, but this is the single most important advice you'll hear from anyone. The last thing you want is a uniformed stranger disapprovingly rummaging through your soiled undergarments while the passing masses judge you on their way out. In case any of that was confusing, let me summarise: pack clean underwear! Very important. Even more important, though, never bring Royco cubes into the United States. Royco and Ujimix.
Let me explain .
I mostly fly cattle class, with all the crying babies, smelly- mouthed seat neighbours, and food so bad no self-respecting pig would eat it. This is not to complain, because I suffer from an acute form of wanderlust that I don't even need a fully formed excuse before jumping into a plane and heading somewhere cold and much too expensive for me. I had a moderately complicated flight routing last week: Nairobi—Amsterdam—San Francisco—Minneapolis—London—Amsterdam —Nairobi. I was heading to Silicon Valley to watch former Apple CEO John Sculley launch his new baby, the Obi worldphone, and then head to London to co-host Kenya In the Park, an outdoor celebration of our culture in the British capital.
I happened to be travelling in the upper deck for once, so was among the first people out of the plane in San Francisco. I may have come from a small village in Siaya and didn't even get on a plane until I was 20, but I know how to fake being posh when I end up in the business cabin. So I didn't take to it kindly when the customs officer asked me to proceed to Counter 2 so his colleague could "process" me further. A humourless African American gentleman in his late 20s called Long took my bags and proceeded to unpack them. He didn't ask for my permission, just started removing stuff and putting them aside. I only remembered that I had three one-kilogramme bags of Ujimix for some friends in London when he got to them. "Why don't you just mail it to them?" he asked after I had explained what they were. "You have much to learn about us Africans," was the appropriate answer. "We'll tie and lead a live goat through international airports and into America if we could." But I just kept quiet because he still had my landing card and could send me back. It is then that he discovered I had several sachets of Royco cubes — the star that lifts every Kenyan meal from the bland category. He put them aside as well as he asked me questions that suggested he wouldn't stop until he had my DNA samples. He left me standing there while he went to channel his inner Walter White with my flour and seasoning. "Is this a random search or have I been flagged for something?" I asked his colleague. "It's totally random for compliance issues," he assured me. Except it wasn't, because I was the first black person out of the plane and only one to be stopped. Just like I had been "randomly" selected for a secondary search at Amsterdam 12 hours prior to this episode. Meanwhile, Long had broken into my Ujimix and Royco and was testing them for heroin, marijuana and opium. "I just want to make sure that they are what you say they are," he said with the seriousness of a mortician. His little Chemistry experiment complete, he plastered the broken ends of my gifts with the world's most conspicuous blue tape and handed them back to me.
If you think the walk of shame on the morning after a one night stand is repulsive, there's nothing worse than repacking your bags in full view of half of India entering San Francisco. My only consolation is that it was still better than being taken into custody for being a drug dealer. "Larry Madowo arrested in America with drugs" isn't a headline that I want to see. A young black male travelling internationally always raises eyebrows and you get racially profiled in our post-911 world. Travelling while black is to accept indignity, racism and delays because of the colour of your skin, even in a post-Obama world. Those of us village boys who grew up dreaming of faraway cities and now have opportunities to visit are resigned to that ugly downside to it all. Sometimes you're temporarily suspected of being an international smuggler or a drug dealer. It is all worth it when the Ujimix and Royco cubes make their way to the UK and to grateful hands.


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Next week, tickets will be sold out of our administrative office starting Tuesday, June 14 through Friday, June 17. This year, our administrative offices are located at 160-161 Sea Street. To get there from South Beach Street, take a left on Sea Street right behind Cook's. Remember, if you show us a valid Nantucket-issued driver's license, you are eligible for a nearly 50% discount on tickets, for simply being an ACK resident!
Our official Box Office and Headquarters at the Greenhound Building (10 Washington Street) opens Saturday, June 18 at 8:30 a.m. For Patron Pass holders, passes and registration packets will be available for pick-up starting at noon on Sunday, June 19. Click here for more information regarding tickets. Remember, you can still order your NFF 2011 tickets online. We'll see you there!


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Welcome to King's Wood Creation
Here at King's Wood Creation, we have been turning the ordinary into extraordinary for over 20 years. With small beginnings as a one man shop, KWC has developed into one of the premier manufacturers of fine wood products in the USA.
Our products range from custom wood doors, fireplace mantels, kitchen and bath cabinetry, ceiling box beams, furniture, hand railing, finishing, carvings, and anything else your mind can imagine. With a bevy of CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) machinery as well as highly experienced staff, our goal is to create anything you or your clients can envision. We select only the finest pieces of timber, and can source specialty woods on demand.
King's Wood Creation has earned its reputation by meeting the needs of building professionals as well as homeowners alike. We know quality and we know value. So, whether it's your first home, the first move up, or that home that says you've made it, King's Wood Creations makes it special.
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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon to criticize Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, calling him a "cartoon stereotype of a Wall Street fat cat."
Wilbur Ross is a cartoon stereotype of a Wall Street fat cat with no interest in anyone but himself. He has shady ties to Russia and China, serious business conflicts, and a history of cheating people out of their homes. What else is @SecretaryRoss hiding? https://t.co/g9gCfLhEI1
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) August 7, 2018
The Massachusetts senator linked to a June Forbes story detailing how Ross, who is worth an estimated $700 million, failed to divest of his fortune since becoming Commerce secretary. Divestment was a promise he made on more than one occasion: once before he took office in February 2017 and again after having submitted a statement to the Office of Government Ethics in November 2017.
On Tuesday, Forbes published a follow-up story about Ross's business dealings, asserting that "the current United States secretary of commerce could rank among the biggest grifters in American history."
'Shady ties to Russia, serious business conflicts'
Sen. Warren has long been a critic of Ross. She led the opposition to his nomination, and in June, along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), she called for a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into possible insider trading by Ross.
Leading into Ross's confirmation hearing, Warren first used the "cartoon stereotype of a Wall Street fat cat" comparison in a tweet. She followed that up by calling out his "shady ties to Russia," seemingly a reference to Ross's stake in Navigator Holdings. Navigator is a Russian shipping firm, which connected Ross to some of Vladimir Putin's closest allies, according to Forbes.
Wilbur Ross has shady ties to Russia, serious business conflicts, & a history of cheating people out of their homes.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 27, 2017
Upon learning of pending investigations by journalists into his ties to Navigator, Ross allegedly shorted his stock in the company, prompting the legislators' call for the ethics investigation.
That isn't the only Ross scandal to raise eyebrows. Other questions raised about Ross's financial dealings include his past role as vice chairman of the Bank of Cyprus, a notorious haven for wealthy Russians, and his bankruptcy firm's dealings with the IPO of a Chinese wind-power producer called Longyuan Power.
"That investment was made solely to curry favor with the Chinese and a big state Chinese investment fund," one of Ross' former colleagues told Forbes.
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If Christ is within you through frequent Holy Communion, then you must become like Him. You must be meek and humble, long-suffering, full of love, not be attached to worldly goods. Your mind should contemplate the heavens and you should be obedient and rational. Take care to allow the Holy Spirit to reside within you. Don't be proud, impatient, devoted to material things, avaricious or gluttonous.
"Saint John of Kronstadt"


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Oh, yes, of course, I'm still alive!
I had a lot do far for the blog and also my crafty life is a bit neglected right now, but all is ok.
I'm fine, I'm happy, I'm still walking in my self-expressione journey!
I'm dedicating myself to some quick and easy projects these days.
A lot of crocheting involved in them!
Mum visited me in the first days of april and crocheted some Moleskine covers and pencil cases for my shop and I've completed them with fabric, zippers and/or buttons (if you are curious... peach Moleskine case with floral flap - red Moleskine cover with gingham flap - red pencil case).
But I was also feeling the urge to crochet something by myself (I looooove to crochet!!! So relaxing!) and I decided to make something useful for my bedside table, always covered by my things (do you remember it in 2012?).
This is what I did:
- saved from the trash can a little glass bottle (it was for black pepper and I like its shape)
- removed the plastic dispenser from the top
- washed
- covered with three stripes of crocheted yarn in colors I like
Ta-daaa, finished!
Now the pens I use to write with while I'm in bed have a nice place where to stay! Nothing so important, but pretty!
You know, I like covered bottles!
I also finished some sewing projects recently.
The only one I've photographed is the bag I've made for Vera's birthday!
Vera bought two of my bags in the past, the sand tulip bag (pattern by me, altered a bit) and the grey tote (designed by me on her needs).
She liked my work so much, that her boyfriend decided to order me another one, totally new, designed by me.
He was in love with two Ikea fabrics, so I mixed them to make something unique for my sweet friend.
I know she appreciated; this is the most important part of my work :)
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Bags are not quick and easy projects like covering a tiny bottle, but I enjoy a lot the process.
I have a long list (in my brain) of new bags to make soon, mostly using recycled fabrics. And of course I want to sew other bags like the one I've made for Vera, because I like the result and having a new pattern designed by yourself, you know, is amazing! :)
But I still need some quick and easy to fill those 15 minutes I have here and then in my busy days.
Probably I'm going to find new projects in my Pinterest boards "things to try" and "inspirations".
But first I'd like to hear from you: what do you make/do if you have no time for big projects, but feel the urge to create?


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Spring has Sprung
Some things don't change
This month's header is from a drawing I did in 1970 (only two things were on my mind). Long forks and small front wheels ruled the day. Indian style girders were very popular and off beat colors like pink or magenta started showing up. The theme of a chopper rider and a hitchhiking woman is a recurring theme throughout chopper/motorcycle history. Later art by David Mann or the end of Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man come to mind. (8.5 "x 11" ink and color pencils)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
This Month's Header
Labels: Chopper History, MY ART, This Month's Header
2 comments:
- max schaaf said...
super rad drawing!
- April 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Rick said...
I'm working on an illustration for a friend. Picturing him riding his Duce. I came across your blog while searching for inspiration and help on motorcycle artwork. I enjoyed looking at your blog. I have a few examples of motorcycle pieces on my blog that I've done. Not many. Two of my favorite...
If you can find the time.
- April 8, 2010 at 5:46 AM


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The Bridesmaids Ask
When it comes to planning weddings there are certain things that are really, really stressful ... including deciding who to have in your wedding, and who to invite. Thankfully, I had people around me through these decisions that constantly reminded me – this is the one time in your life it's OKAY to be selfish. This is the one time in your life it really should be just about you and your partner, and what you both want.
With this in mind, David and I chose our wedding party based on the people that have been there for us through whatever, who were there when we needed them, and who we see being a part of our lives long-term.
With my bridesmaids and Matron/Man of Honor decided, I started brainstorming "ask" gifts. I knew that I wanted to do something handmade, and found this awesome tutorial (but instead of using etching cream I used gold paint ... and I couldn't find the right stencils, so I instead used puffy letters, which I had seen in a different tutorial).
When I took off the tape/letters, it was hard to keep the paint from coming off too. I had to use an exacto knife to clean up the edges – as you can see here, they're a little jagged.
To go along with these glasses, which we'll use on the wedding day, I also crafted up some homemade cards.
I started by using watercolors to make the background, and then ATTEMPTED to do traditional calligraphy, but I'm really not picking it up. So, instead I just wrote out their names and did a makeshift calligraphy look by hand.
Finally, I got a little can of Sophia and put together a little ask gift! (I think these Sofia cans are SO cute!)
I'll be the first to admit that they're far from perfect, but they were fun and personalized!
I am learning a lot about myself as I plan our wedding. It's hard not to feel guilty when deciding who to invite, and who to have as a part of your wedding party. It's especially hard for us because we have a hard cap on the number of people that can fit in our venue. But I am learning that even though it's really easy for me to feel guilty, I have a really solid core around me that helps to clear my mind.
This is so corny, but I remember this scene in Bride Wars (yup. It's happening. I'm paraphrasing Bride Wars.) where they say that planning a wedding can either bring out the conflict or harmony in a relationship, and I feel like David and I have just gotten closer through some of the curveballs thrown at us while planning our wedding. I'll be honest, certain things have really sucked, but I feel more confident than ever in the people I'm closest to and the fella I get to marry.


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Judges 7:19-23 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. 20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, ―A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!‖ 21 Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled. 22 When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah,[a] as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.23 And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.
Ephesians 6:10-20
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[c]against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
1. Stand – To be situated in a particular place or position.
2. Position – A place where someone or something is located or has been put.
I. Introduction It was God who called Gideon and gave him instructions on what to do. The task was humanly impossible. God wants it done in his own way. The battle belongs to him. This was warfare and positioning is imperative. Being in the wrong position is dangerous because you can be killed causing your Army to lose. Positioning is one of the key strategies used in warfare.
II. Characteristics of the Army of Gideon (Prerequisites to Standing in their Position)
Volunteer (6:35; 7:3)
Alert (7:4-6)
Equipped (7:16)
Obedient (7:22) We should have the same characteristics in the Kingdom of God. Most of us are not, and that is why we lose in the battle.
When we know our calling, we should be careful to do it. Volunteer and not let God force us into it.
We should be aware and alert of what we are involved in. It is warfare. That is important to realize.
We should be well equipped. See next section.
We should obey the instructions of the Lord. We are not called to accomplish the task in our own human ability but allow God to work through us. The battle belongs to him, and he wants to be glorified by all we do.
III. Aspects of our Standing
1. In Spiritual Warfare (Ephesians 6). We are involved in spiritual warfare every day. We are to stand having put on the whole Armor of God 1. So that we will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and 2. Withstand in the evil day
B. In the Service of the Lord. This is our calling. Each one of us has been created with a divine purpose. No one can take your place. You need to know your divine purpose and strive to accomplish it. The primary goal of man should be to fit in God's perfect plan (Jeremiah 29:11). IV. The Armor of God
A. The helmet of Salvation
B. Breastplate of Righteousness
C. Belt of Truth
D. Shield of Faith
E. Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God
F. Shoes of the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace
V. Other Weapons of Spiritual Warfare
A. Prayer (Use examples in the Bible).
B. Praise and Worship (Use examples in the Bible).
VI. Conclusion – Stand in your Position. For you to be able to do that, you must first be able to know your position. First, know that you are involved in Spiritual Warfare, and the battle belongs to God. Second, know your calling. This is the divine purpose why you exist. The battle can only be won when we all stand in our positions.


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Dogs speak to those who know how to listen and Ian definitely knows how to listen. My Australian Bulldog had undergone a huge operation and was confined to a pen for a number of weeks just at the time a puppy had come into our lives. My Bulldog wanted to kill the puppy and my puppy was petrified of her. Ian taught me how to build the trust between them and slowly slowly we went from can't have them anywhere near each other to they can't get enough of each other. There was no quick fix, there was rules, there was perseverence, patience (a lot of it) and most importantly there was love and understanding. Ian helped me so much through this process and he hit the nail on the head every time we were progressing from step one to step two. I couldn't recommend him highly enough.
Can't rave about Bondi Behaviourists enough. We've had 2 invaluable training sessions and wonderful Jo takes our pup out twice a week for an on-lead training walk. All their advice, tips, tricks and professional assessments have empowered us with the knowledge to train and look after our Kelpie X puppy. Extremely happy with their service, professionalism and attentiveness. Thank you Ian, Jo & team :)
Ian has provided our team with invaluable advice and guidance on managing dogs in our care. It is going to really improve the relationships that we have with them!
Ian has done an AMAZING job helping our troublesome staffies, Harry and Dexter. Harry recently developed a severve anxiety around cars after seeing some jet skis at Christmas. After a session with Ian, some helpful instructions and a few weeks of stressful walks he is now cured! Thanks for all your help Ian from Ben, Lauren, Harry and Dexter
"Last year, I was injured in a car accident and was left with constant arm pain. Bailey became very anxious, and began to drop down at the sound of road traffic refusing to walk. But thanks to Ian, Bailey now walks confidently, as do I! Ian's patience and skill is so reassuring. He can read dogs like a book"
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In addition, our club attracts talented players who may not fit the rigid systems of other premier soccer clubs, offering an attractive option to play high level youth soccer in Santa Cruz County. While maintaining high training and behavior standards for all our players, participating families are encouraged to pursue a full range of activities for their child, promoting a well rounded, healthy individual.
All of Santa Cruz County FC Revolution's licensed coaches and league officials are volunteers with decades of playing and coaching experience. Our highest priority is the child's mental and physical well being. We believe our system of development preserves the joy of play while competing at the highest levels. Having committed and experienced volunteer coaches means less pressure on win or loss records and more emphasis on individual player development. Playing soccer is all about having FUN.
Santa CruzCounty FC Revolution is about Family and Community.
The love of soccer is the common denominator, bringing families together in the community from diverse social, spiritual, ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds. Through the beautiful game of soccer, members in our community (kids and parents) socialize, work and play together in a positive, healthy way.
Santa Cruz County FC Revolution is a member of U.S. Club Soccer and currently competes in the NorCal Premier Soccer League.


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Marvel Comics' Iron Man has been no stranger to time travel in his years in the comics, but this coming June, the Armored Avenger is crossing over with more than historical figures but the entire Marvel Universe in the publisher's "The Iron Age" storyline.
Headed up by writer Rob Williams, the story kicks off in "The Iron Age: Alpha" with art by Rebekah Isaacs before continuing in a number of one-shots and a capper "The Iron Age: Omega" issue in August. You can read CBR's initial interview with Williams here, and then read on past our exclusive art to read about Marvel's latest "Next Big Thing" call on the story featuring Williams and editor Tom Brennan.
The call started with an announcement that Williams has gone exclusive with Marvel. "Most of us are nostalgists at heart, and I've loved these characters my entire life," he said of his attraction to the Marvel U. "Their importance hasn't changed over the decades...and I couldn't be happier about being exclusive. It made my day when they offered it, and I'm absolutely thrilled."
"'The Iron Age' is a big love letter to the Marvel Universe," he continued. "There've been a lot of moments in the writing of this that have had a sort of 'Eeeeeeee!' fanboy feeling to them and a lack of dignity for a man my age." Williams said that one of his particular favorite time periods to play with was dropping the time traveling Iron Man into the Alan Moore/Alan Davis era of "Captain Britain."
The series was inspired, in part, by Williams love of the NFL where throwback jerseys are part of the norm in the modern season. He pitched an idea focusing on using some classic takes on the Marvel characters and utilizing their past costume designs. SVP of Publishing Tom Brevoort pushed him to format the idea as a small event, and "As we went along, we pulled in other writers to do certain chapters," he added.
Brennan chimed in saying, "Sometimes a goofy or fun visual idea can spiral into the next event notion because the visuals are half of a comic...on time of this cool notion, Rob had a great story idea. That's the trick."
"My mantra all the way through this was that this can't be fan fiction," Williams said. "There has to be a protagonist journey and an arc. It can't be nostalgic trolling through the past...I think people are going to be surprised by what happens to Tony Stark as he goes through this. The goal is to see how this matters to him as we drive through this."
The story kicks off with a dying scientist who was fired by Tony Stark many years ago who's "managed over the years to assemble different parts of Doctor Doom's time machine, so he uses this time machine to bring Dark Phoenix...to effectively destroy the planet earth. Tony Stark escapes through the time machine, and the story from there is Tony going through time to get different parts of the time machine...that's the MacGuffin and his drive to eventually get back to save things."
Brennan praised Williams' ability to mix modern, sophisticated storytelling with crazy ideas like the scientist's underwater base for an effective match. The pair also praised Isaac's art, especially her shark-drawing skills.
The story will continue after "The Iron Age: Alpha" through three issues in July which each have two stories focusing on Tony's quest to connect with past heroes. The first issue features an Avengers team with James Rhodes in the armor due to Tony's alcoholism and a Captain Britain ready to defend the British Isles against an American invader. "There were certain discussions on who to include based on who had a really cool look," said Williams, noting "You don't want to base it totally on aesthetics...but someone mentioned at a certain point 'Disco Dazzler has to be there!'" He added, jokingly, "Disco is what a 2011 audience needs!"
Ultimately, a "one time only" superteam will build out of the characters visited, which Williams said he worked to make feel like a real natural unit working towards a goal together.
On the art end of the equation, discussions at one point centered around finding some old school artists for the project, but eventually the influence of Isaacs - who Williams likened to a young Adam Hughes in line work and storytelling -Â helped the team decide to bring on artists like Ben Oliver for the Captain Britain story and Roberto De La Torre on the X-Men chapter. Those are the three parts that will be written by Williams directly.
Further teams for "The Iron Age" #1 include Christos Gage and Lee Weeks on Avengers while issue #2 features Jen Van Meter and Nick Dragotta on Power Man and Iron Fist as well as Elliot Kalan and Ron Frenz on Fantastic Four with a focus on a young Human Torch. Finally, issue #3 also featured Louise Simonson and Todd Nauck on Dazzler.
Asked how he approached the task of using Dark Phoenix who is a character that draws out strong fan opinions across the readership, Williams said, "I concentrate on telling a satisfying story, really...You have to respect that kind of thing, but you have to work on moving things forward...She is such an amazing threat. She's not in 'Alpha' a tremendous amount, but as we go through things and get into the X-Men story which takes place in the classic Hellfire Club story where she's still Jean Grey, we get to deal with that in a more character-centric, empathetic way."
"Rob used every character for the right reason here," Brennan explained. "The way the world comes to an end with a longtime Marvel character that fans love and respect...when Rebekah draws that moment, you feel the impact."
As for how the story comments on modern times as it rocket through the past, Williams said that will play in. "Iron Man is our 2011 consciousness, and he is seeing these eras saying 'This was all so much fun. When did it get so serious?" he explained. "It's a celebration of these characters and of the MArvel Universe, but it also speaks to how things have changed for the characters and how comics have changed...it's got a lot of kick ass action as well, but all these things were in there from the start."
Overall, Williams said he had great affection for all the characters and runs he'd be playing with with the one exception of Dr. Birch AKA The Phantom -Â the villain of the piece created by Stan Lee from an old issues of "Tales of Suspense." "There are things that happen like when you're writing someone like Nightcrawler that are just amazing," he said.
With so many creators who worked on the original stories being brought into the mix -Â Lee Weeks, Ron Frenz and Louise Simonson -Â Brennan said that their experience helped make the entire process more authentic and collaborative. Weeks spoke often on the phone with his writer Chris Gage while "With Ron, I put him on this because #1 I went back and read the issue of 'Fantastic Four' we're dealing with is when Johnny was wearing the red costume, which he's perfect for...and also, working with a new writer...being able to team them together was important to me."
Iron Man himself gets a flashback challenge in the form of going back to a classic armor. "One thing that happens to him in 'Alpha' is that Dr. Birch deactivates the Extremis armor and makes Tony Stark as weak as a kitten," Williams said. "He can't call on this incredible technology that can probably help him get out of a lot of the scrapes he gets into in this." Stark lands first in the age when he was "drunk as a skunk" and has to take up the classic '80s armor which the writer promised "He feels like crap in...part of the fun along the way is him having to think his way out of situations."
One of the issues the creators dealt with was the idea that even though Iron Man is only traveling technically ten years into the past, the styles of older comics include things like Disco where they feel a bit more dated. Brennan joked that he told Williams "No Regan robots!"
"It's also different eras," Williams said, noting that the "Captain Britain" stories were informed by a period of high unemployment in Britain. "Look at where we're at today...we're always looking for ways to link these stories to the modern day."
"The Iron Age: Alpha" ships this June from Marvel Comics and will be 48-pages.


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So I'll start by admitting that I like new toys as much as the next guy...maybe even a bit more than the next guy.
That said, the fact that I've been carrying the same laptop for nearly 2 years just isn't sitting well with me. Crystal & Juan are both sporting newer models with Thunderbolt and Juan still rubs his SSD in my face from time to time. I might also add that my current 15" MacBook Pro is the first laptop that I've ever dropped and although it's been a good six months, I am reminded of it every day by it's sad little dented corner.
So why don't I just shut up and buy a new laptop? Well...I'm not sure what I want and I'm not sure if Apple is going to give me what I THINK I want. What do I want, you ask? I'd like a 15" MacBook Air, please...
Rumors have been around since the summer that one might just be a reality. Mac Rumors
I've been asked: "Doesn't a 15" negate the purpose of an air?" I say "it depends". Who knows what kind of connectors it would have. Firewire? Not likely. I could live with that if vendors would hurry up and begin making Thunderbolt external drives more available. I don't have many demands...just give me a higher resolution screen than that of the 13" and surely with a larger footprint Apple can solder an extra 4GB of RAM in there somewhere.
So really, Apple...that's all I want for Christmas this year. A shiny new 15" MacBook Air with a beautiful high-res screen and 8GB of RAM. Beyond that....I'm willing to comply, in normal Apple fashion, with pretty much whatever Apple decides I need.
**Update** So we didn't get a 15" MacBook Air but we did get new MacBook Pros with Retina Displays which came in much thinner and more streamlined than previous models. I'm happy to report that I have a shiny new 13" MacBook Pro Retina and am loving it!


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about The development
Pulelehua is a 304 acre masterplanned green residential and retail community designed for the local workforce as well as residents who wish to rent on a long term basis. It has an incomparable 180 degree ocean view sitting on the West Maui Mauka just off of Honoapiilani Highway between Kannapanli and Napili.
Maui Oceanview LP acquired this property in Spring of 2016 and is looking forward to design a community that not encompasses it natural beauty but also the Spirit of Hawaii community. When fully developed, Pulelehua will have 1,200 residential units, several neighborhood parks, beautiful jogging and biking trails, solar energy, a community wide exclusive potable water system, a state of the art water treatment system, local neighborhood service retail centers and a local elementary school.


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Adjuncts - Cybersecurity / Information Assurance
Job description
Job Category Adjunct
Posting Number M00543
Department Information Technology & Management Science
Reports To Dean, School of Business Administration
Point of Contact Christine Brown
Marymount University seeks qualified individuals to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of cybersecurity and information assurance topics.
Undergraduate courses are offered in the day (usually twice a week) and evening (once per week) and graduate courses are offered in the evening, online, and on the weekends (once per week).
Adjunct positions are pooled positions. Qualified applicants will be contacted as a teaching need arises.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree with 18 graduate semester credits in area of computer security.
- Official transcripts and a background check will be required prior to any offer of employment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Doctorate or Master's in cyberecurity, information assurance, or computer science.
- Teaching experience at the community college or university level, using hands-on learning techniques, is preferred.
Special Notes to Applicants
Please complete the online application and attach a cover letter, a CV/Resume including teaching experience, and a list of three references. You may also attach unofficial graduate transcripts.
Adjunct positions are pooled positions. Qualified applicants will be contacted as a teaching need arises.
Application materials must be received by
Open Until Filled Yes
University Profile
Marymount is a comprehensive Catholic university that emphasizes the liberal arts, career preparation, and personal and professional development. A diverse and welcoming learning community, Marymount serves nearly 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university's location in suburban Arlington, Virginia, offers easy access to the rich resources of the nation's capital. Marymount University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.
Job Duties
Percent of total time 75
Responsibility / Duty
Percent of total time 25
Responsibility / Duty
Supplemental Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Do you you hold at least a Master's degree with at least 18 graduate credits in this area of teaching for which you are submitting an application?
- Yes
- No
Applicant Documents
Required Documents
- Curriculum Vitae
- Cover Letter
- References
- Unofficial Transcripts
- Teaching Philosophy


text: Daniel Lee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and specializes in political theory, the history of political thought, and jurisprudence. His research concerns the reception of Roman law in later medieval and early modern political thought and its influence on modern doctrines of sovereignty and rights, especially in the legal and political thought of Jean Bodin, Hugo Grotius, and Thomas Hobbes. More generally, he has been interested in the relationship between legal science and social science in the history of ideas. His broader interests in political theory include the foundations of democratic theory, the theory of rights, constitutional theory, republicanism, and the philosophy of the social sciences. Lee's work in these areas has been published in Political Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas, Review of Politics, and History of Political Thought. He is the author of Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought (Oxford, 2016), which locates the juridical origins of modern popular sovereignty doctrines in the legal science of the Roman law tradition. He is currently preparing a monographic study of Jean Bodin's legal theory and a new critical edition of Bodin's Juris Universi Distributio ['A Division of the Whole Law'], both to be published by Oxford University Press. Lee is the winner of the APSA Leo Strauss Award, the Forkosch Prize, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Columbia Society of Fellows. Prior to his arrival at Berkeley, he taught political theory at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He serves as a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies and the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.


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Taipei Twin Towers
Taipei Twin Towers aims to provide a vibrant and charismatic destination that re-establishes the central station area of Taipei as the city's premier location for shopping, working, and tourism—a Times Square for Taipei. The design is characterised by a pile of blocks that create a vertical urban neighbourhood, and by the façades of those boxes – including a number of interactive media façades – that artistically communicate the diverse program contained by those blocks.
- Country
- Taiwan
- City
- Taipei
- Year
- 2018
- Surface
- 455529 m²
- Client
- Nan Hai Development
- Status
- Competition
The retail blocks are stacked in such a way that at their centres public atriums are created, which allow for a natural ventilation system. Outside, escalators and walkways connect the terraces on top of the retail blocks together, and provide alternative access to the stores, making a vertical shopping experience that rewards exploration. An elevated walkway that connects the station with the surrounding destinations will also become the spine of the area. Currently two design variations of this element are possible: one that runs straight through the site, and another that runs close to the facades of the new buildings, connecting with the larger network of escalators and walkways.
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Albert E. Bennison: b. 2 June 1867 d. 1 April 1913
Alice M. Bennison: b. 29 December 1859 d. 25 January 1937
Cemetery Location:
Albert Bennison: Block C, Row 13, Plot 21
Alice M. Bennison: Block C, Row 13, Plot 20
Albert E. Bennison immigrated to Canada in 1888, purchasing the Lawson building on MacKenzie Avenue in 1903 to open the City Bakery (today the home of the Modern Bakeshop). Albert ran the City Bakery for several years, but in January 1907, he retired from the business.
In February 1907, Albert married Alice Melinda Williamson, registered as a midwife in Revelstoke. Alice was previously married to Arthur M. Williamson and had settled in Revelstoke with her husband in 1893.
According to her family, Alice and Arthur had two children who died from diphtheria at a young age and a son, John Lloyd. Williamson's Lake Park, five kilometers south of Revelstoke, is the site of the former Williamson farm.
Not long after Albert and Alice were married, Albert worked as a jail guard, but was suspended for giving alcohol to a group of prisoners in his charge. Apparently he had been running a chain gang on a hot day, and had given the inmates beer to quench their thirst.
After Albert left the jail, he worked as a rancher and on a bridge gang, where he was in a bad accident. While being treated for his injuries, a tumour was discovered at the base of his brain and he died in April 1913, at the age of 45.
Alice Bennison died 24 years later in 1937, at the age of 78.


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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may visit key ally China next week amid heightened concern over a possible nuclear weapons test by the reclusive state and its defiant missile launch in July, a news report said on Thursday.
Kim's visit will be primarily to discuss the North's possible nuclear test with Chinese President Hu Jintao, the daily Chosun Ilbo reported a diplomatic source in Seoul as saying.
"Authorities in Seoul and Washington were briefed that Kim Jong-il is to take a three-day trip to China around Aug. 30," the source told the newspaper.
Officials at South Korea's foreign ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.
North Korea defied international warnings and test-fired seven missiles on July 5, including a long-range Taepodong-2 that experts say could one day hit parts of U.S. territory. China voted for a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing the test.
A U.S. news report last week said the North was also preparing to conduct its first nuclear weapons test. South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday such a test was a possibility.
"Chances are that Kim will visit China next week in relation with North Korea's possible nuclear test," the paper cited another diplomatic source as saying.
Some doubt Kim trip
Experts on the North were skeptical about a Kim visit to China, saying Beijing was hardly in a welcoming mood because of what it sees as unnecessarily provocative moves by the North with its weapons programs.
Kim rarely travels abroad, but he went on a stealthy visit to China in January and took a look at the places that helped drive China's economic development.
Kim was also not likely to be seeking out China now, its main benefactor and single remaining key ally, an expert said, because of disappointment over what he sees as a failure by Beijing to convince Washington to drop a financial crackdown against it.
Talks by six countries aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons program have been stalled since November due to a U.S. crackdown on firms it suspects of aiding North Korea in illicit activities, such as counterfeiting.
Pyongyang said it would be unthinkable for it to return to the nuclear talks while Washington is trying to topple its leaders through financial pressure.
Roh to visit in October
Meanwhile, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will visit China in mid-October to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program with Hu, the foreign minister said Thursday.
Roh will "hold close consultations with Hu on North Korea's nuclear weapons program as well as bilateral economic cooperation," Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said in a speech at private research institute.
Ban didn't give further details on the summit schedule.
The summit comes amid flurry of new diplomatic efforts to coax North Korea back to the stalled disarmament talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
South Korean presidential security adviser Song Min-soon will make a two-day trip to China starting Thursday for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and other officials on "recent issues concerning North Korea's missiles and nuclear program as well as other affairs in Northeast Asia," according to the president's office.
Japan's top nuclear envoy, Kenichiro Sasae, held talks with South Korean officials on a similar issue. He was to meet his South Korean counterpart, Chun Yung-woo, before returning home later in the day.
North Korea has refused to return to nuclear disarmament talks until the United States lifts restrictions imposed on the communist regime for its alleged counterfeiting and money laundering.
South Korea and the United States have urged the hard-line regime to return to the talks without conditions, saying it is a law enforcement issue unrelated to the nuclear standoff.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dumbo Octopus
They swim, like Dumbo, by flapping their ears. Or whatever those things are.
Or whatever it was Dumbo did. (I saw the movie when I was four. I realize it was seminal but I'm not that sure on the plot.)
Update 12/2013: A new picture of an even cuter Dumbo Octopus here.
Update 5/2014: A rather more frightening look at a Dumbo Octopus here.
Update 9/2014 a lovely video here.
A new sighting here.
Update Oct 12 2014: A new video here.
Superhype awry
The Guardian: Led Zep reunion: promoter says no
Led Zeppelin's former promoter has warned the band against a reunion tour, questioning whether there is any "compelling reason" to get back together.
"I certainly don't think they should do a big tour because I can't see the point of it," Harvey Goldsmith told a crowd at the MusExpo conference in London this week. "I think some of the band really want to go out and do it and other parts of the band need to understand why they're doing it, and if there's no compelling reason to do it, then they shouldn't do it."
Rolling Stone: John Paul Jones Hints At Led Zeppelin Tour Without Robert Plant
(A million comments on the subject:)
Entertainment News
Plant-less Zeppelin gig draws criticism
Jones said the remaining members plan to record a new album and go on tour as Led Zeppelin.
Frankly amazing times for BBC Radio Devon, which broke a gigantic world exclusive on Tuesday. Cornering Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones at a "guitar show in Exeter", a cub reporter got him to reveal that Led Zeppelin will be re-forming - and seeking to replace the legendary Robert Plant with new lead singer!
As you know from this blog, John Paul Jones used the words "Jimmy, Jason and I" at the Guitar Show, not "Led Zeppelin".
And at the Radio Devon interview, he did not say anything about "Led Zeppelin". I heard the Radio Devon announcer say it. That's not the same thing.
The Late Show BBC Radio Devon Tue 28th October. (From Steve Sauer)
Here's my transcript:
Radio Devon: You are working with Jimmy Page, you are working with Jason Bonham. What is happening? We've heard Robert Plant doesn't want to do it. We've heard Myles Kennedy has been mentioned. What is happening?
JPJ: Well, er, we're trying out with a couple of singers and basically when we know what we're gonna do, we'll let you know. (Laugh.) Let everybody else know.
Radio Devon: You obviously wanna do it though?
JPJ: We do wanna do it. We're sounding great, what we're doing. We're very happy and we wanna, er, get on and get out there. Time's getting on.
Radio Devon: Is there a feeling that if you don't do it shortly you wouldn't wanna do it?
JPJ: Not that we wouldn't want to, but it's got to be right, you know? Not just trying to re-create, find another Robert. I mean you could pick somebody out of a tribute band. What's the point of that, you know? We don't want to be our own tribute band.
Radio Devon: And just a final point, will there be a record coming out? Is it just touring you'll do?
JPJ: Yeah, there would be a record, a tour, and ya know. But, we've got to have everybody on board, everybody on and that's what we're working for, that's a proper job.
Radio Devon: We're looking forward to it. So there you have it. Zeppelin will tour without Robert Plant in the not too distant future.
Could the compelling reason be they want to play loud music again? Not cash in as "Led Zeppelin"? I'm worried we might not get a chance to find out after this reception.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Information Week, in its article, Terrorists Could Use Twitter For Mayhem, Army Report Muses says,
"It [the report] touches briefly on "Pro Terrorist Propaganda Cell Phone Interfaces," using cell phone GPS data to assist terrorist operations, mobile phone surveillance, possible use of voice changing technology by terrorists, "Potential For Terrorist Use of Twitter," and other mobile phone technology and software that bears further consideration."
It's true, too. They could. They could also, say, write something on a notepad, put it into an envelope and mail it, so I think we should look very carefully at this "US Mail" thingy, as I'm sure it could come back to bite us on the ass one day.
I was thinking of some more technological ways to teach Terrsts how to organize, but luckily Rick in comments has put a few together for us. "Rick" says,
"You forgot the following:Pens, pencils, paper, cardboard, paint, walkie-talkies, bullhornes, postage stamps, xerox machines, telegrams, telephones of all types, whiteboards and dry erase markers, sharpies, emails, web sites, billboards, shouting, speaking at normal volume, whispering, sign language, coded gestures, pig latin, Navy signal flag banners, silkscreened T-shirts, carvings on tree trunks with pocket knives, vanity license plates, sky-writing, signs on blimps, coded whistling, backwards recordings embedded in pop songs, bogus advertisements, hoaxes with secret underlying meanings, varying lengths of thin and wide necktie ends, messages in wadded up pieces of paper, graffiti in public places including restroom stalls, limericks, and utterly ridiculous Pentagon press releases."
All true. But, look, Rick - and Army's 304 Military Intelligence Battalion Open Source Intelligence Team - I can't believe you both spent several minutes on this horrible threat and neither of you came up with steganographically embedded code words in Britney Spears pictures on Flickr.
Any more of this slack thinking and the Terrsts will have won.
*Twitterpated defined for the confused.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
John Paul Jones confirms rehearsals taking place
He was asked about the current rumors regarding a Led Zeppelin "reunion" tour. He confirmed that he, John Paul Jones, was rehearsing with Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham. Robert Plant does not want to do this for the moment. Robert did not want to "make loud music any more" so they had been working with "the other odd singer". JPJ said that they don't know who will be chosen, but "as soon as we know we will tell you." He really hopes that "something will happen soon", he added.
He said the band sounded "fantastic".
Here is the segment on YouTube, as posted by Nick337.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Undersea Boris Johnson found
Found at Zooillogix by the indefatiguable Oceangal. Picture courtesy of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was overjoyed to learn of the existence of his watery cousin:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Pretty Jack White
I bought the two Raconteurs CDs this week, Consolers of the Lonely and Broken Boy Soldiers, having been seduced a live boot provided by a friend. They got here yesterday and I will listen this evening.
I missed the White Stripes bandwagon, but that's all right. A bit of artistic maturity is a fine thing.
OK, pretty Jack White. I think we can all agree on this.
Hand to mouth shots always slay me.
Yeah, I know the cash shirt is photoshopped.
Edited to re-up photos, 06/03/15
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Baroque and Berserk
From one article, "Cult Fave Roy Harper Reintroduces Himself to the US", I learned that he is recovering from prostate cancer, but will consider touring again, plucky man.
And that there are reissues:
While Harper's musical style and lyrics may account for the lack of greater mainstream acceptance, his name and voice are probably familiar to rock fans. Led Zeppelin recorded the song 'Hats Off to (Roy) Harper' from 1970's 'Led Zeppelin III,' and Harper sang lead on 'Have a Cigar' from Pink Floyd's 1975album 'Wish You Were Here.' Now his distinct music is being reintroduced to Americans through the recent reissues of his earlier studio albums: 'Flat Baroque and Berserk' (1970), 'Stormcock' (1971) and 'What Ever Happened to Jugula?' (a collaborative album with Jimmy Page, 1985).
There's another, much longer, article at Popmatters, Hats Off: An Interview with Roy Harper
It says he's in his seventies and was born in 1941, so it must be being published in the future... or my math is crap. It's a full career retrospective and includes a little on my heroes, e.g.
Yet while Harper never achieved mega-rock star status, the people he hung out with did. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, David Gilmour all were close long-time friends. In 1970, Led Zeppelin recorded the tribute "Hats Off to Roy Harper" and put it on the folk-leaning, III. Harper remembers how he heard about the song.
"I went up to see them in their office, and Jimmy handed me the record, and I was like 'Oh, new record ...' and twirled it around a bit and said, 'Yeah, that's great.' And I gave it back," he says. "[Jimmy] he handed it back to me, and said, 'Well, look at it then.' And I sort of realized I should be looking at something else. And then, of course, I saw it, and I said, 'Oh, dear ...'"
Harper says he's still in touch with friends from the old days, and had just attended Robert Plant's 60th birthday. Still the gap between their success and his was large. Was that ever difficult?
"Well, you can imagine, being a multimillionaire and all of that ... the level on which I operate is nowhere near that," he admits. "Automatically, they have completely different lives from me. Although I must say that particularly Robert does his absolutely level best to keep his feet on the ground and stay in touch, constantly. Robert actually does his best all the time. Not that the others don't. But after so many years, after so much life experience, people do become separated, you know?"
I can imagine that. I've lost touch with a lot of friends from the seventies, and I don't even have the being-a-multi-millionaire excuse.
The long article is well worth a read.
If you feel an inkling to buy Roy Harper albums, do visit his own website, www.royharper.com . You can buy the them there and have the satisfaction of knowing he'll see the sales and not just a royalty check 18 months down the road.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Four Chords
Happy listening.
D'yer Mak'er – Led Zeppelin
Apparently people have problems with that title – it's pronounced Jamaica and is the penultimate line of the old joke,
"I took my girlfriend to the West Indies last week."
"Oh? Jamaica?"
"No, but it was fun trying."
You might not get it. I doubt anyone this century has taken a girl to the West Indies and not made her, but I said it was an old joke.
Edit: Having since heard an interview with Robert Plant where he gives the punchline, he actually meant the clean version.
"My wife went to the West Indies last week."
"No, she went of her own accord."
Not as funny, but apparently definitive. :)
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
For some reason they don't want this embedded – fine, don't sell records then. Usually I embed them myself but can't be bothered with this one. Nice record, though, in its way. And she was tied to a pole in the dark with Jimmy Page at the Olympics, so she's all right by me.
Grown ups are just silly children - Roy Harper
Can't find an embeddable one of this either, but Roy's all right by me, and he has quite likely been tied to a pole with Jimmy Page at least once, so I'll forgive him.
Stand by Me - Ben E King
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love – Dion and the Belmonts
Who Put The Bomp – Barry Mann
Hungry Heart – Bruce Springsteen
(A little different)
Last Christmas - Wham
There are thousands more – apparently over 100 hot hits with the same chords. It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Keep a'Coolin', Baby
There's now a newer review of the literature out. What's their conclusion?
The team's survey of major journal papers published between 1965 and 1979 found that only seven articles predicted that global average temperature would continue to cool. During the same period, 44 journal papers indicated that the average temperature would rise and 20 were neutral or made no climate predictions. The findings were "a surprise to us," Peterson says. For decades the "skeptics had repeated their argument so often and so strongly that we misremembered the tenor of the times."
Their report is published in in the September Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and there is a write-up of the paper in Science News: Cooling climate 'consensus' of 1970s never was.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Today's Gleanings
Does the truth lie halfway between say, slavery and abolition, or between segregation and civil rights, or between communism and democracy? If you quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Winston Churchill, in other words, must you then give equal time and credence to Hitler and Joseph Goebbels? If you write an article that's critical of John McCain, are you then obligated to devote an identical number of words to criticism of Barack Obama, and vice versa?
The idea that truth is merely a social construct, that it's subjective, in other words, first appeared in academia as a corruption of post-modernism, but it's taken root in our culture without our really realizing it or understanding its implications.
It began with liberal academics arguing, for example, that some Southwestern Indians' belief that humans are descended from a subterranean world of supernatural spirits is, as one archaeologist put it, "just as valid as archaeology." As NYU philosophy professor Paul Boghossian puts it in a wonderful little book, "Fear of Knowledge": " ... the idea that there are many equally valid ways of knowing the world, with science being just one of them, has taken very deep root."
Although this kind of thinking, relativism and constructivism, started on the left, many conservatives now feel empowered by it, too, and some of them have embraced it with a vengeance on issues ranging from global warming and evolution to the war in Iraq.
"Journalists live in the reality-based world," a White House official told Ron Suskind, writing for The New York Times Magazine back in the headier days of 2004. "The world doesn't really work that way any more. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
I respectfully disagree.
The rest is worth reading, too.
And on a completely different tack - but producing the same joy - a Baltimore Sun blogger finds a Page/Plant video of Since I've Been Loving You from Glastonbury in 1995 that packs a visceral punch. Always one of my favorite tracks, here it is in a very late incarnation, sounding, quite improbably, just as good as the first time.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Take On Me: Literal Video Version
What's wonderful is the sheer perfection of the redone track. The voice is beautiful, the words are funny (and get much funnier towards the end), nobody screws up and everything works out right. I don't know how people do this - there are many people with actual recording contracts who plainly can't sing at all, or even worse use Auto-Tune. It's strange to live in a world where some guys and presumably their pet Pro Tools can put together a wonderful version of a very famous song.
I get the impression that for every three people who actually produce a thing there are a dozen more riffing off it, fanficcing it, slashing it, parodying it, derivately working it or otherwise performing other post modern occupations of the same general sort. Is it just the way I live my life, or is it true?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Changing My Name to Fannie Mae
Friday, October 10, 2008
Archer Fish
Thursday, October 09, 2008
My Favorite Things
Osamu Shimomura shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the green glowing protein in jellyfish, GFP. The protein can be made on a structure of interest and then "lit up" so that the other protein or structure can be easily located under a microscope. It has led to several breakthroughs in Biology and Medical Research.
To do the initial research, Shimomura had to catch 100,000 jellyfish.
Daily Yomiuri reports:
In the state of Washington, where Shimomura was based at the time, there were so many Aequorea victoria jellyfish living in the sea nearby that local residents said they could walk on the water as a result. As his research would require up to 3,000 jellyfish a day, Shimomura, his family members and his assistants would repeatedly scoop up jellyfish using long-shafted nets, depositing them in one of about 30 buckets placed at intervals of five meters along a pier.
It goes on:
Due to a rapid decline in the number of jellyfish over the past 10 years or so, it has become impossible to capture large quantities of them.
Perhaps we also need a Nobel Prize in population dynamics.
(YouTube video)
I'm beginning to wonder if my friend isn't right - the one who sends me webpages to read about who our masters are, what the Federal Reserve really is, and what the real people in power are up to.
As Anti-War Blog says, savvy politicians usually wait until after they're elected to tell you they're nullifying all your rights.
Of course, as being paranoid is a way of life for me, I can't tell if he's deliberately throwing the election by appearing elderly, ill and mad or whether he's genuinely elderly, ill and mad.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Back in the Garage
What's My Name and Garageland, Live at the Elizabethan, Manchester, 1977
Janie Jones, Live at the Elizabethan, Manchester, 1977
White Riot 06-07-1978 Dunfermline Kinema,Scotland
I did see them live once, and all I remember is they had a lot of very large male fans wearing leather jackets. I suppose it would be better to say "I attended one of their performances", because I didn't actually see any of them.
Thank goodness for YouTube.
In 1977, I'd given up my Led Zeppelin habit. Now I look at what I was missing, and, y'know, stylistically there are certain similarities.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
And yet more "Bailout"
But did you notice this? The Federal Reserve
There's no point in giving them any more. And adding $150 Billion of pork for individual Senators for such things as removing the excise tax on wooden arrows for children (still not making this up) does not make the bailout "sweeter". It makes it bigger and more...porky.
Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System
The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.
The Fed's expansion of liquidity, the biggest since credit markets seized up last year, came hours before the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry.
Don't give them any more money. They lost the last lot and they'll lose this lot too.


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This is a space where I indulge my WHIMS and WISHES...mollycoddle them and pamper them to the hilt.
While browsing through the blogosphere, I came across this food blog - Sudeshna's 'HERE I COOK' which had an event called 'HARVEST : THE FESTIVAL OF RICE'.Suddenly a brainwave hit me and I thought 'Why not?'
I had a post on a similar topic (RAMBLINGS..) a week or so back....so why not just link it and give the recipe for the Patishaptas I successfully dished out.....
The reason why I chose to make Patishaptas on the Poush Sankranti, as I have already mentioned, was because it was the easiest of all the pitheys and I had all the ingredients at home
Patishaptas are folded Pancakes with coconut and jaggery filling (pur).
So here goes the recipe which is my contribution to 'HARVEST : THE FESTIVAL OF RICE' hosted by Sudeshna of 'HERE I COOK' :
* 1 medium sized Coconut - freshly grated
* Patali Gur (DatePalm Jaggery) - 225gm
* Sugar- 1/2 Cup
* Flour (Maida)- 1 Cup
* Suji or Semolina - 1/2 Cup
* Rice Flour- 1/2 Cup
* Milk - 1.75 - 2 litres
Note:Khoa (dried or thickened milk) is normally used alongwith the Coconut and jaggery to make the filling. I did not have it at home and so thickened a litre of milk to half litre and mixed it while preparing the filling
HOW I PREPARED : Instructions are given in the sequence I prepared
-PATISHAPTA BATTER -Part 1:
I mixed the Suji and Rice Flour. Then soaked the mixture in adequate milk. Left it aside and got on to work on the Filling.
Took the freshly grated coconut in a wok (Kadai) and added the sugar and 150 gms of jaggery. Stirred it around well. (Sugar provides the binding)
After mixing it considerably well, put the wok containing the mixture on fire and continued stirring.
Added the thickened milk gradually (I was thickening the milk on the other burner while I stirred the coconut, jaggery, sugar mixture) and NOT in one shot.
The stirring and mixing is the most important aspect of making the Pur.
I continued the stirring process for about 40minutes, till the coconut turned a rich brown and became sticky in texture.
-PATISHAPTA BATTER (Continued):Part 2
I added a spoonful of ghee to the Maida and mixed evenly.
Added this to the already milk-soaked mixture of Suji-Rice Flour. Had to mix it well as to ensure no lumps are formed. Added more milk to make the batter of medium consistency so that it spreads evenly on the tawa.
To sweeten the batter, add some broken pieces of jaggery. The batter should be of mild sweetness.
- I used a non-stick Tawa (a non-stick frying pan would do fine)
- Smeared some oil/ghee (I used ghee....sinfully delightful!!) on the Hot Tawa. (I used the top of a brinjal cut horizontally, with the stalk intact..it makes the ghee smearing easy as the stalk acts as a handle)
- Poured a ladle of batter and spread it in a circle by tilting the tawa.
- Fried in low to medium heat to ensure the patishapta is crisp yet soft. Flipped it over.
- Made a snakelike shape with a tablespoonful of Pur and laid it lengthwise as is shown in the pic.
- Folded the patishapta and turned it around a bit to give a golden brown look to it.
- Served hot!!!