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My mind is so full of stuff I want to do...I can't do anything! So I decided to get it all out on this blog and I will post what I am up to. I did podcast in my car, to organize my ideas, but the audio was awful. It was good way to get things out and re-visit them later.
What am I doing?
I am currently working on my final portfolio for my Instructional technology Certification for Pennsylvania. I have to have my interview in late 2007. I decided I am going to use my website www.mrlutz.com as the portfolio. In it I hope to have a ton of stuff for Students, Teachers and Parents, and also showcase all my projects and cool things I have done with technology. I love the front of the site, but I think I am going to have to redo it. There are so many thing that need to change, the fact is I think I am going to rebuild the whole website from the ground up. Off to inspiration I go to plan to the site I will share what I have once I get it done.
Also any ideas how to have a vote and post top ranked sites via a web page...just a thought for anyone out there...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars by Veena
Previously on Marriage Boot Camp, Spencer confirmed he was a total loser and Heidi would be better off with someone else. Natalie continued to play her bad girl persona and capture most of the camera time, and the other three couples faded into the background.
This morning all talk is about Reid throwing Aviva's leg. I thought it was a fake rubber leg, but it turned out it was her prosthetic. Everyone thinks he was wrong for the stunt, but he doesn't seem that remorseful as he throws down his bowl of cereal.
This morning's exercise is sex-talk, designed to break down the barriers the couples have in the bedroom. Shoot me now. First they have to play spin-the-bottle, except instead of kissing someone, they have to pick a card and answer the question honestly. They drink some champagne to loosen their tongues. Actually – they read a sentence and fill in the blank word.
Reid – Aviva, I want to have more CUDDLING in bed. Everyone rolls their eyes, and Aviva tries to cover for Reid's lameness by telling us the cuddling is code word for sex.
Aviva's turn, and she can't answer her question at first. Her line – Reid – my pet name for you in bed is MONSTER. No one can believe how stiff and boring this couple is. This is not the Aviva we saw on housewives.
Next up is the puppet sex video. They use the puppets to role play; then they switch puppets and play each other.
Natalie and Jacob's problem is that he's 24 and wants sex on demand, all day, every day. She can't keep up. They seem to compromise on once a day.
Speidi claim they have great sex (throw up a little in my mouth). Heidi pretends to be the aggressor – and claims they have sex three times a day – most days. Spencer says he doesn't have to chase her because he's always being chased. I can not believe I'm typing this, but I have to admit I'm going to get a chuckle watching Aviva and Reid take a turn at this exercise.
Aviva and Reid make their puppets kiss a little, but she really shuts down. Apparently she has walked in on her parents having sex, and is traumatized (who wouldn't be). Now she doesn't want to talk about her sex life, even with puppets, because her kids might be watching the show.
Selena and Kiwane (also parents) act out a hot sex scene with their puppets to show the passion they once had. Today they are more like average married couples.
Rachel and Tyson's turn and Rachel also has to be the initiator. Rachel admits she's completely bored with their sex life, while Tyson makes jokes.
So lunch is priceless. Everyone rides Aviva for being so uptight, and she tells everyone that they're young and she's old, so that's why she is so uptight about sex. HELLO – has she met her father George the lech.
The episode ends with a one-on-one session with Speidi, and Heidi finally gets it that having a baby is not the answer to her issues with Spencer – leaving him is. Okay I added that last part, but tell me that I'm wrong.
In the final minutes Rachel has a little girl talk time with Natalie, decides she's at her wits end, and goes to talk to Tyson. Tyson tells her to take it one step at a time, and that they are working on "it", whatever "it" means. He basically deflects all her concerns, and it seems like she's finally going to realize she needs to leave him.
Next episode shows them all crying. I've got to say, this episode was a major snoozer. They didn't even bother to post pictures on their website.
Jill Zarin on David Tutera's CELEBrations! by veena
The show starts with David's assistant getting him out of bed to tell him that Jill Zarin has been calling them asking if David would do a party for her. I haven't watched this show before, but are we pretending that David is hired by the celebrities rather than them being cast for his show? Okay, I guess I'll play along. We're supposed to believe that Jill is so high maintenance she called both the assistant and David's phone and left messages.
Jill goes along with the game, and interviews that in NY she doesn't need a party planner, but in LA she wants to hire David, because he's the best. Again, are we supposed to believe that she's flown to LA to have her party with all her close friends?
Jill and Ally meet with David. Jill explains that she's about to turn 51, and was in a funk when she turned 50 and wants to celebrate now. She claims she wants to have her party in LA because she has a lot of friends there – for instance she flies out to LA every Christmas to go to Kathy Hilton's party. She talks, and talks, and talks, boring everyone. After Jill hands David her "list" he tells her that she's trying to plan a bar mitzvah. David tells her she needs to plan a sleek and sophisticated event. She wants to impress her rich friends that are flying in on private planes and wants to do something unusual like having a warm chocolate chip cookie station with milk. I've got to be honest, her party sounds better than David's – but he rips up her list and says the party will be a surprise. Jill pretends to be worried.
David's assistants pull some dresses for Jill to try on. They bicker, and it goes too far when one of them calls the other fat. That leads to a breakdown, apology, and rant from David about how they need to be more professional. Then Jill walks in with a bunch of options as back up, but first she has to pass on all the dresses they've pulled for her. But that was just a ruse, because she actually does like some of them. David describes Jill as high maintenance. She gets to try on two dresses before he gives up on her – seriously two dresses? What stylist allows a client to try on only two dresses. She voices over that she's going to wear the dress she wants to, and not stick to what he picks out. I'm sorry, but that's not being a diva at all – David is sucking as as party planner. I wonder what the ratings are for this show? We're 23 minutes in, and not one comment on the chat blog. Hmmmm.
Here is one of the dress choices I liked. Do you? @DavidTutera @WEtv pic.twitter.com/m1DZR1DTkV
— Jill Zarin (@Jillzarin) February 14, 2015
She tweeted a photo of a dress she actually liked but that we didn't see on the show. It looks a lot better than the ones she tried on.
Next up, Jill calls David and tells him something is going on. He meets her at Bark and Bitches – a pet store. She tells him – with a flat voice – that she thinks they need to cancel the party because Bobby has to go back to NY and can't get back in time. This is the lamest fake problem – couldn't they think of something better. She says she's a wreck because she has friends flying in for the party.
She starts talking about Housewives. She says that she had the best first season with her friends, but the second season her friends turned on her (Wasn't that Season 3?). Then she talks about Bobby's health scare. Then – for some strange reason – she tells David that last year she had a terrible experience when one of her friends told Ally that Ally's dad (Jill's first husband) wasn't her biological dad; he couldn't conceive so they used a sperm donor. Ally became really upset therefore Jill was also upset, and – oh this is why she's telling the story – that's why she didn't feel in the mood for a birthday party last year. Hmmm – I'm not going to comment on keeping that secret from Ally for 22 years, except to say that if you want to keep a secret you probably shouldn't go around telling friends. Ally, thankfully, isn't forced to be in this scene.
Next scene Jill is with the event planners. She's wearing a hot pink dress with a bright green Brikin. It's cute – not necessarily on her – but ….
35 minutes into the show, PP drops by on the chat blog to say she's going to record the show (west coast). Maybe all you east coaster are asleep. I get east coast feeds on the west coast, so it's still early here.
DRAMA – David was at an appearance and his plane is delayed – and everyone is freaking out. Jill walks in, and seems completely surprised by the venue. I always wonder how the guests know where to go when they keep the venue a surprise. Wouldn't they be busy texting out the address? Jill has a fake temper tantrum, and says she hired David Tutera for her party and she's going to get David Tutera for her party. Does she have to say his full name every time?
15 minutes left in the show – we're not going to see much of this party, are we? All those poor Bravolebrities that got all dressed up for their cameos. It's not 15 minutes; it's 15 seconds.
The stylist shows up with a new dress, and Jill is upset because she knows she'll look fat because she just ate a cheeseburger and fries and her tummy is going to stick out. This is the second reference to her fat tummy that she's made, and I suddenly remember that she has a spanx line – so what's the problem? Or is this a set up to talk about her squeezewear? If it was they edited it out.
David finally walks in when Jill and Ally are fully dressed and tells them they look amazing. Jill tweets that David helped Ally get dressed. Oops.
@DavidTutera was so sweet helping @allyshaps get dressed!@wetv #celebrations pic.twitter.com/ts0iSOznY0
— Jill Zarin (@Jillzarin) February 14, 2015
Now we come to the part in the show where everything comes together. Jill loves her dress and the venue. Bobby show up. They walk into the room and Jill exclaims that they had a big crowd. She seems surprised about who showed up, but mentions her A-list friends, you know – Patti Stanger, MJ, Reza, Marysol, Gretchen, Peggy. We end with some product placement as Jill goes through the gift bags. I now see how she got the endorsement deal for that kosher food group. It was probably a one-off deal.
Dang it, we didn't find out why Jill was mad at Reza. Altogether the show was very unsatisfying. I couldn't let go and buy into the fake drama.
Chat blog – not one comment during the show. It's her – not me.
Next up – Angie Everheart is on the show. That's funny, she was on wife swap this summer as well. I guess it's the same old same old people going on these show. Oh, and according to their website Porsha will also be on in a special 2 hour finale. I think she had some sort of hair extension launch party – I remember her tweeting about it.
The Celebrity Apprentice
"Top Feuds, Firings and Fails" and "Universal Wizards" – S7/E7&8
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On a Personal Note: It was incredibly hard for me to focus on "The Celebrity Apprentice" this week. Not only was I absolutely furious at what transpired last week, but also because Mr. Stars99's beloved Nana (Grandmother) passed away on February 12th … He's lost both his Dad and his grandmother within 4 months of each other… It's a really, really tough time for all of us who love them.
Remember Last Week:
Task 1 – The teams had to design a King's Hawaiian photobomb campaign wherein they digitally inserted King's Hawaiian imagery into their original photography of New York City. In addition, they came up with creative hashtags that correlate with the photos. Team Infinity and its Project Manager (PM) Johnny won their 5th Task in a row (They've won 7 out of 10 tasks all season). Their photos were taken from the vantage point of a helicopter using the concept, "We Rise Above" which capitalized on a double meaning of the "rising" necessary for baked goods and the pictures which were taken from an elevated perspective. Kenya as PM and Team Vortex focused their campaign on liking buns – Probably because Kenya is herself such an ass.
In The Boardroom, in true ass fashion, Kenya attempted to throw Vivica's billion dollar ass under the bus but she failed to see the lights from the oncoming train. Kenya was so mean to Vivica that even Trump himself was asking Kenya why she is so nasty towards everyone. There were accusations made that Kenya swiped Vivica's phone and tweeted the following in her name using Vivica's phone/account: "This menopause is killing me. I can't think straight. I'm acting a damn fool half the time. 50 just isn't sexy." Trump doesn't believe Kenya's story and since she was PM on a failed task anyway, Trump fires Kenya.
Task 2 – After Trump sends Leeza over to Geraldo's and Vivica's struggling Team Vortex (They've lost 5 in a row now) the teams are tasked with creating an original jingle for Bud Light's new line of Lime-a-Rita beverages. Brandi and Leeza are PMs. Leeza wins because they come up with a stupid jingle I haven't been able to get out of my head all week… "Go, go, go Marga-Rita" and "Nice Over Ice." I admit, this week when Mr. Stars99 gave me an iced tea and I said, "Nice Over Ice" – I continued to realize what a jingling job they did!
So, for the first time in 6 tasks, Infinity loses and Trump loses his mind. He inexplicably ends up firing each and every Infinity Team member (Ian, Johnny, and Brandi) and manages to insult the viewership's collective intelligence. Okay, the complete arbitrariness of this abhorrent triple firing left me completely pissed off. I would have stopped watching this show right then and there but I committed to doing these recaps so we'll just have to struggle through these last couple of episodes together, okay?
The first hour of this week's episode was spent reminiscing about all of the past seasons of "The Celebrity Apprentice." Various topics were ranked in the following subject categories thus creating a "Top 5" (or 4) type of list for each category (Yeah, I don't know why they couldn't come up with at least 5 nominations for each category either… Makes no sense to me):
Top Feuds
5 – Geraldo Rivera vs. Kevin Jonas – Geraldo was being an ego maniac when Kevin was Project Manager (PM). Geraldo became indignant when Kevin had the audacity to tell him that he should stop and listen before he starts to speak. Kevin tried to advise Geraldo to use the "5 Second Rule" (Listen for at least 5 seconds when entering a conversation before saying anything). Accepting advice or constructive criticism does not work very well with someone who thinks he already knows everything about everything.
4 – Nene Leaks vs. Star Jones – Nene blew a gasket when Star suggested that Nene become the PM because she thought she was setting her up for failure.
3 – Latoya Jackson vs. Omarosa – Latoya had enough of Omarosa's constant button pushing and finally asked Omarosa to, "Please, be quiet." Omarosa flipped a fig.
2 – Meat Loaf vs. Gary Busey – When Meat Loaf discovered his art supplies went missing he was convinced that Gary had taken them and he went completely ballistic. Creative explicatives were hurled around that would make a longshoreman blush. Fortunately, Meat Loaf ultimately apologized and peace was restored throughout the land.
1 – Piers Morgan vs. Omarosa – Oh man, these 2 really hated each other and constantly fought about everything. However, this particular fight culminated in Omarosa pouring wine over his Piers' head in their war room
Favorite Fails
4 – Kenya Moore – As PM, Kenya had a misguided concept of imprudently using people's asses as a focal point for a photo ad campaign for the very family-oriented King's Hawaiian Company (makes various types of baked bread products) in a "Baby Wants Buns" ad campaign.
3 – Dennis Rodman – As PM, Dennis approved an ad his team created that misspelled Trump's wife Melania's name for Melania's skin care line. It was spelled 2 different ways in one ad (Melania vs. Milania). Dennis was lucky he was only fired.
2 – Clint Black – As PM, he decided to shoot a laundry detergent commercial that consisted of a string of double entendres. "Doing the wash" really meant having sex and the commercial was shot with Clint reading in bed when his wife (dressed in lingerie) asked him about doing his "dirty laundry." He said he did it "by hand" earlier and that "it was a small load." Trump said the whole thing sounded almost pornographic and the executives didn't like it. Perhaps they had taken things (or thingies) into their own hands, too.
1 – Gary Busey – Went batcrapcrazy when he wanted to turn into a dog for a commercial his team was making for LG. Lisa Rinna (Yes, OUR Lisa) and Pen Jillette just could NOT stop laughing. Pen, in his deadpan kind of way said that Gary, "Wants to play a crazy person who turns into a mechanical dog… He is literally, 'barking mad.'"
Top Fundraisers – By the end of this season, approximately 100 "The Celebrity Apprentice" contestants will have raised close to $15,000,000 for charity.
4 – Ian Ziering and Geraldo Rivera – In this season's "Wedding Dress Fundraising Task" – Each team independently raised a staggering amount of money for their charity – (Ian – $292,547; Geraldo – $294,780) for a combined total of almost $600,000. Before the PMs knew who won the task, they were told their totals differed by a negligible $2,500. Trump then made a big deal about saying he had never done this before in the history of "The Celebrity Apprentice" when he offered the PMs the chance to keep the funds each had raised for their charity regardless of who won the task.
3 – Paul Teutul, Sr. – The men's team set a record for the amount of money raised on the very first task. The women's team raised $126,962… The men's team raised $332,120 (plus a bonus of $35,000) for a combined total of $494,082 for Paul's charity. The men's team won primarily because they received $305,00 from 1 person.
2 – Trace Adkins – As PM, his plan was to simply get people with big checks into the door when the teams were tasked to sell meatballs as a fundraiser. His team raised $419,539 (the other team raised: $250,533) for a combined total of $670,072 for his charity.
1 – Marlee Matlin and John Rich – Set a record for raising the most money in one task when they sold art as their fundraising task. Trump offered the opportunity (if both teams agreed) that each team could keep the funds they raised (Sound familiar? It should… See #4 above). John's team raised a staggering: $626,908; However, Marlee's team raised the mind-blowingly colossal amount of $986,000. Trump added $14,000 to Marlee's total to round it up to a cool $1 million for her charity. So, this year WASN'T the first time Trump's allowed teams to keep what they earned… Puhleeze! #GetYourFactsStraight
Boardroom Backstabs and Betrayals
5 – Joan Rivers vs. Annie Duke – Joan calls Annie a "despicable human" and then compares her to Hitler. 4 – Vincent Pastore vs. Piers Morgan – In The Boardroom, Vincent bellyached that Piers gave Vincent the assignment to spy on the women's team and that Piers called him, "A fat Italian." Piers corrected Vincent – Because Piers said that he actually called him, "A VERY fat Italian."
3 – Richard Hatch vs. David Cassidy – Richard implied that David Cassidy whined too much. Richard said he got flak from his team for picking on "the little people" meaning David. Careful Richard, you're gonna be hit by a multi-colored bus blaring the song "I Think I Love You" if you don't watch out.
2 – Kenya Moore vs. Vivica A. Fox – This season, Kenya told Trump that Vivica was having "wild ups and downs" and implied through quoting a tweet that Vivica was being menopausal. Evidently, at some point during the task, Vivica had "lost" her phone and someone "tweeted" while pretending to be Vivica. Trump and the entire universe concluded that Kenya must have stolen Vivica's phone (allegedly).
1 – Piers Morgan vs. Omarosa – Omarosa hit below the belt when she went after Piers' kids in her mudslinging. She said that Piers is a terrible father. Evidently being told that you're a terrible father isn't as bad as being compared to Hitler (See #5 above). Go figure.
Most Memorable Firings
5 – Kevin Jonas – Kevin thought he could bring in Ian into the Boardroom to get rid of Geraldo. He thought he could outthink Donald Trump – Nobody outthinks Trump… At least that's what Trump thinks.
4 – Gene Simmons – Great genius who wanted to show Trump how independent of a thinker he is by bringing 2 people into The Boardroom whom Trump couldn't fire.
3 – Dennis Rodman – Had a very public struggle with alcohol on the show. His team knew he wouldn't want people to see him act so strangely. There was sober Dennis and not-sober Dennis. Both were fired.
2 – Ian Ziering – He was fired because he kept saying he came up with a better jingle than what his team chose to use for their submission. Unfortunately, his jingle was to the tune, "La Cucaracha."
1 – Melissa Rivers – She felt she was maligned by Annie Duke and Brande Roderick in The Boardroom. After being fired, she ran (with a hurt leg) to the Winner's Suite (Where her mother, Joan, was waiting) refusing to be interviewed on her way out the door. Joan left with her daughter but not before continuing to call Annie "A Nazi" and Brande "A Nazi follower." It was quite a dramatic moment. Joan also called poker players "trash." Annie, of course, is a professional poker player.
Season 1 – Piers Morgan – Won $750,000 – "Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund" (Trace Adkins, Runner-up)
Season 2 – Joan Rivers – Won $530,000 – "God's Love – We Deliver" (Annie Duke – Runner-up)
Season 3 – Brett Michaels – Won $640,000 – "American Diabetes Association" (Holly Robinson Peete, Runner-up)
Season 4 – John Rich – Won $1.4 million – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Marlee Matlin, Runner-up)
Season 5 – Arsenio Hall – Won $520,000 – "Magic Johnson Foundation" (Clay Aiken, Runner-up)
Season 6 (All Star Season) – Trace Adkins earned $1.6 for "American Red Cross"… (Pen Jillette, Runner-up)
This Week:
Team Vortex has waited hours upon hours for the outcome of this week's firing. The phone rings in their celebrity suite and they're called back into The Boardroom. Trump is sitting at the Boardroom table and tells them, "The entire other team has been fired – So congratulations, you're the best of the best – You're the final 3." I'm still so pissed off about this. It infuriates me (or "infurryates me" if I'm invoking a Gretchenism from the Real Housewives of Orange County) that he calls this team "the best of the best." It's just stupid and insulting to the viewers.
Trump announces that one of the 3 of them are going to be fired right now. After asking Geraldo and Leeza who they want to compete against in the finale (each other) Trump asks Vivica who he should fire. To Vivica's credit, she actually told Trump that he should keep Leeza over keeping Vivica. She told him that she's always been honest to him and that she always tries to put her best foot forward. Trump kind of hates that she was that honest – but he says he respects it, too. Vivica's fired.
Trump tells the Final 2 that he's sending them in his private jet to Universal Orlando Resort. In this final task, they will be playing for $250,000. They are tasked with producing a commercial and selling 10 vacation packages to raise money for their charity. After shooting the commercial in Orlando, they will come back and present the commercial at a live, red carpet event.
The commercial will be judged based on creativity, brand messaging and overall presentation. The money they raise from selling the 10 vacation packages will not be the most important factor in determining the winner of this final task but it will be taken into account. Geraldo and Leeza will be getting help from previous contestants.
Leeza and Geraldo agree there will be no drama between them but will try their hardest to take each other down… They both are formidable opponents. Geraldo thinks he's a tough guy to knock down. I think he underestimates Leeza. Once in Orlando, Leeza and Geraldo meet their teams and get started on their task.
Team Leeza
Once in Orlando, Leeza and Geraldo meet their teams. Leeza has Brandi, Johnny, and Kevin on her team. Leeza is so happy to see that her two friends (Brandi and Johnny) are on her team. Leeza asks Kevin, "Can you effectively crush your former colleague, Geraldo?" Kevin immediately responds, "That's the only reason I'm back." Kevin has something to prove since he was fired so early on in this competition… Actually, he may be the most formidable of them all, to be honest.
As they're brainstorming, Leeza decides to go with a "Magic of Memories" kind of a theme and is trying to get Olivia Newton-John to come and sing her song, "Magic" for their commercial. OMG, I honestly love her (Sorry, gratuitous Olivia Newton-John reference). They decide their commercial should position the park as the premier vacation destination that brings families back together again and makes magic happen. Their hook is to feature a Dad who is overly scheduled who learns to relax and unwind. Kevin is the director for the commercial. The resort representatives tell them to highlight everything the resort has to offer. The team decides to, "Let's Get Physical" and tours the park to scout for locations to shoot the scenes for the commercial.
Leeza is ecstatic when she receives word that a company called, "LA Rocks" has committed to donate $120,000 for one of the vacation packages. While Kevin and Leeza are busy taking pictures and collaborating on the commercial, Brandi and Johnny decide to wander off to get hot dogs and beer. Leeza and Kevin look around for them but can't find them. Kevin thinks they may need to get leashes for them. I think they may need to hose Brandi and Johnny off because there's some serious flirting going on (In my opinion). Brandi and Johnny are just hanging out talking about the best way to microwave a hot dog. I think if I was Lisa I would have wanted to microwave them right about now. But seriously, don't they all have cell phones? I mean come the heck on…
Leeza finds out that Olivia will be happy to fly across country for her event. Johnny and Brandi leave to go buy props and costumes for the commercial. Leeza and Kevin stay behind to write the script and finalize the shots. While shopping, Brandi decides she wants to go on a roller coaster. Brandi and Johnny return to the war room empty handed whining that the shops didn't have anything they needed. Fortunately, they had a picture of themselves riding the roller coaster, "Rocket Ride." In her TH, Leeza says that Brandi and Johnny got off track but that she didn't have the time to be upset them. Plus – she just didn't want to be upset at all.
Kevin is a little concerned because he knows how much work it will be to shoot the commercial. He knows they need all 4 of them to get the job done. Leeza and Kevin go back through all of the pictures and finalize the script. Leeza knows she also has to be working on selling the 10 vacation packages but that Geraldo has proven himself to almost be unstoppable in the fundraising department. Even though Leeza secures another donor of $50,000 she is still a little worried. But, she remembers what her Mother always told her, "Stay in your lane, honey. Don't look at the other horses – Just run your race." Leeza knows her commercial is going to have to blow Geraldo's out of the water.
Team Geraldo
Geraldo finds out that his team consists of Ian, Vivica, and Lorenzo. Since he really butted heads with the 2 guys when they were one the same team before – Geraldo thinks Trump must be playing a joke on him. Actually, Geraldo – You ARE the joke because no one wants to work with you! Geraldo laments at not getting Brandi on his team, who is the only person left in the competition who has never actually worked with Geraldo on a task. Ian tries to makeup with Geraldo and tells him that it was never personal but that he just considered him to be his strongest competitor. Geraldo grumbles and they do this weird handshake thing. I think Geraldo would rather just do everything himself than to have to work with the two men…lol.
After some discussion, Geraldo decides he should be Harry Potter in the commercial. The idea is for the parents to go off and have fun by themselves while their children bravely go off with Harry Potter. Would you trust your child with Geraldo? Wow… lol. This commercial will certainly feature all things Geraldo and his immense ego – Because that's what it's all about, isn't it? Oh wait… Aren't they supposed to be showcasing something? Hmmm…
When the resort executives come into their war room, Ian astutely asks the perfect question, "What's one thing you want people to know about Universal's theme parks?" They want the commercial to reflect how thrilling and exhilarating the parks are – And that you can discover your own inner hero. Ian confirms the executives didn't give that information to the other team… The executives say the other team didn't ask them that question.
Geraldo knows he doesn't have a minute to spare. He knows the fundraising portion of the task is important. He asks Lorenzo how much money he can bring in – and Lorenzo says $25,000. Geraldo tells each member of his team to just sell one of the vacation packages and that he will handle the other 7. Geraldo boasts that his rolodex is fat.
Lorenzo and Vivica go and scout out the locations for the commercial. Geraldo and Ian stay back to work on the script. Geraldo asks Ian if he knows any bands that can come play for them. It's tough to lock in a superstar entertainer for free. Geraldo tells Ian they may have to end up singing themselves. Please, NO! Lorenzo and Vivica come back and they've also purchased some Harry Potter props like a cape, wand, etc. I bet they didn't take time to eat hot dogs or ride a roller coaster. Lorenzo has the story in his head and he and Vivica write down the shot sequencing for the commercial.
The next day, Geraldo gets to the shoot early and starts directing the camera personnel on the shots they want. Lorenzo shows up and is surprised when Geraldo has the 1st shot set up when he wasn't even there yet. Lorenzo and Vivica find out that Geraldo has changed all the shots. Vivica is pissed off that all their work went down the drain. Lorenzo does a hilarious imitation of Vivica (with appropriate gestures) in his TH.
They go over to the famous "Universal Globe" to shoot part of the commercial. They're all set to shoot – but they're missing the child actors they've hired. The actors are in hair/makeup back in the war room. Geraldo was told a PA was sent to get the kids. Lorenzo tells Geraldo the original plan was to meet the actors back at the war room – and then they would go to the globe. However, no one sent the PA to actually get the kids… Geraldo blows a gasket and is looking for someone to blame.
"From now on, I'm in charge of every shot!" Geraldo snottily says to Lorenzo.
Please note the following viewership statistics have been gleaned from:http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/
Well, that's it for this week… After last week's season high in viewership – This week's episode had a season low in viewership. People are cranky. Next week is the live finale. O joy, O rapture…lol.. Thanks for reading and until next time… Happy trails!


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Winner Winner Green Froggy Dinner?
A BuildABear Froggy?
Okay gift card anyway..!
—awesome blog name huh?
Is the winner of my first Blogavershury Giveaway!
Congrats Katie! (and thanks so much to everyone who played along!)
I will be publishing a list of all the awesomeness of blogs that you shared with me, to follow and friend and chat it up Carissa Style!
But first.. let's highlight Katie-the-winner's blog!
First, she has her own giveaway going on right now for some tasty looking pasta sauce *oh yum*!
And would you like to see her food yumminess?
You do don't you?
She calls this Orange Ricotta Bundt Cake.
And you had me at ORANGE!
Everyone do me a favor and slip on over to Good Life {eats} and congratulate her,
enter her contest and tell her I sent ya!
At least follow her on Twitter!


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New Ideas for Supporting Research and Outreach in the College
Dean's Message
(May 2010)
We have gone through a remarkable period of growth in the number and size of our externally supported research and outreach projects. Within the last few years, we have moved from award numbers in the $4–5 million range to award numbers in the $20 million range. Growth like this comes with its challenges, and we are working to find ways to provide enhanced pre-award as well as post-award support for our principal investigators.
One of our realizations is that some projects just do not fit neatly into our academic departments. Examples include the Mid-Atlantic Regional Education Laboratory, the Aeronautics Education Services Project (AESP), and the Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) project. These projects tend to be large in size, involve participants from multiple units (within as well as outside the University), and have a multidisciplinary orientation that cuts across existing academic units. In all three of these cases, we have been (or in the case of the TIES project will be) running the project out of the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, Outreach, and Technology rather than through a department. Our departments are set up to pursue broad academic missions that include teaching, advising, research, outreach, and service. Large projects like these can upset delicate balances that exist within departments, and it makes good sense to have the ability to administer projects at more central levels of the College.
However, we also have large projects where a department base seems to be working quite well. A good example is the Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning (MAC-MTL). The MAC-MTL is a National Science Foundation-funded center with a mathematics education focus. It fits well within our Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and we anticipate no administrative changes for this Center.
We have also created the Center for Educational and Developmental Sciences (CEADS), which is an arm of the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, Outreach, and Technology. Indeed, CEADS and its co-directors (Karen Murphy and Tom Farmer) will work closely with the associate dean to support the projects that are housed administratively in the associate dean's office as well as selected projects that are based in the departments.
You will be hearing more about CEADS and its mission as we get into the new academic year. For now, suffice it to say that the aims of CEADS include enhancing the scientific components (e.g., the research design, selection of metrics and methods, and the analytic plans) of research applications for projects that involve interdisciplinary and cross-campus initiatives that are related to education. Karen and Tom are working to identify a finite number of themes that will be used to organize the work of CEADS. For each theme there will be a faculty working group consisting of 3–5 faculty members from the College and at least one senior scientist from outside the College to organize the endeavor. We will be identifying a "scholar in residence" for each of the thematic groups and this individual, who will be a faculty member from the College, will work closely with the other members of the group, with the co-directors of CEADS, and with the associate dean to develop competitive proposals for research in the identified areas.
As you may recall, Kyle Peck is stepping down as associate dean for research, outreach, and technology to direct the REL and the AESP under the aegis of CEADS. Once we have identified the new associate dean for research, outreach, and technology, we will be ready to work through the details of how this new model for project support will work. We welcome questions and comments and look forward to having thorough conversations, which will include the Faculty Council, about the best steps to take. We need to be careful not to disadvantage our departments as we make these changes. Principal investigators will retain their department affiliations, regardless of where a project might be housed, and departments need to receive the appropriate credit, including financial credit, when department personnel spend time on externally supported projects.
There are many details that warrant attention, and my primary goal in this column is to let you know that some changes are being considered in how the College supports research and outreach projects. It has become a cliché to say that we are building the airplane as we fly it, but in this case the cliché seems particularly apt.
Questions and comments are welcome and can be directed to me, Karen, Tom, or to the new associate dean for research, outreach, and technology. In the meantime, I hope you are enjoying these delightful days of late spring/early summer. Please enjoy the warmer weather and I look forward to welcoming you back to campus in August.
David H. Monk


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For iPhone X Users: Apple is sharing Your Face Mapping data with Third-Party Mobile Apps
iPhone X has overruled our minds with its mesmerizing full-screen design (ditching the Home button) and features like creating cute animojis. It has made the world go 'aww'. However, recently the dark side of this has been revealed, that has shaken the world of iPhone X users.
As you know, iPhone X's front sensors scan around 30,000 points to make your face's 3D model. This face mapping model enables the users unlock their iPhone X and create animations. The face data gained is saved securely on iPhone X itself, rather than sending to the Apple's server over the Internet. This step was widely appreciated by the users. However, now it has been found that though no one can get access to this information from the server – it is possible to get this data employed from within the phone. That means, the third-party mobile apps installed on your device can access this data.
It has been found that the third-party mobile applications can store the wireframe representation of your face on their own computers. Using AI, the third-party mobile apps developers can use the visual mapping data to guess the users' age, gender, sexuality, mood, etc. to reform their services accordingly and engage the users. This might seem a newer way to deliver personalized user experience, but it's an attack on the user's privacy.
According to Apple's Neumayr, they care for the safety of the users and thus, have put various limitations on the access. They have made it certain that the third-party apps have to ask for user's permission for accessing the data. In addition to this, the apps have to explain how and where the user's data will be used.
However, it is being observed that the third-party applications send a pop-up message asking for 'access to the camera'. They do not specify that they are going to use each inch of mapping data – for what purpose and until what time. Moreover, the iPhone's settings do not distinguish between the back camera and those front-face mapping sensors. So, when you tap on 'OK' button, the active mobile app get access to your face till you do not delete it or look into the advanced settings. And the worst part is that unlike a laptop webcam, you can't even put a privacy sticker on the iPhone's front camera to get an escape from this.
So right now, the only option you have is to put more attention while tapping on the 'OK' button whenever a pop-up notification appears. Besides this, if you are worried to know to what extent your face mapping data has been made accessible to the third-party mobile apps, you can see it yourself with the help of an app called MeasureKit.
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In the spirit of self analysis, Dennis McDonald often posts the top downloaded documents on his blog. If you don't know Dr Dennis, he's an experienced, and level-headed IT consultant that I've known and been communicating with since 2005 (I guess we were thinking ahead). In fact, we started a white paper in late 2005 called "Business and I.T. Must Work Together to Manage New "Web 2.0″ Tools".
Although we wrote that white paper nearly two years ago, it continues to be downloaded and consumed (ranked number 6), as it's finally becoming relevant to the enterprise workforce.
If you're a new reader to my blog, you may be surprised to find out, that before I became so focused on social computing, I was actually an enterprise Intranet manager on the business side, and have worked on a total of 4 intranets, for some of my career, internal knowledge management was my passion.
Although I don't have many docs on my blog, I logged into Google Analytics, and pulled this data.
Here's the top 5 posts in the last 6 months:
The first was the blog index page, so I don't need to include that.
Views are 'page views' and Attention is duration spent on post (very important), I've included other interaction elements too such as comments, add them up and you'll get a sense of user engagement.
You'll notice that for the most part, the traffic for these posts are not high, but it's the interaction, the multiple comments, that make them stand out.
If I had more time, I would go into Delicious, Magnolia, Technorati, and Stumbleupon to find others tags, comments and metadata associated around the content.
For more information on social media measurement, check out this white paper I co-authored.
1) List of "White Label" (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms
The market is clearly hungry for this information. Techcrunch used it for their posts and analysis, and VCs refer to it before funding into this market I'm told.
Views: 19,520 Attention: 00:03:26 Comments and Trackbacks: 201
2) Marissa Mayar, VP of Google on The Future of Search and Announcing Google Gadget Ventures "We pay you $100,000″
Got on Digg.com, causing a tremendous spike and residual traffic of about 5%.
Views 12,079 Attention: 00:03:14 Comments and Trackbacks: 23 (although if you go to the Digg page there's quite a bit)
3) Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook
This was passed around, and repurposed on MarketingProfs.com
Views: 7,690 Attention: 00:03:13 Comments and Trackbacks: 68
4) Web Strategy: How to evolve your irrelevant corporate website
This went global and the community started to translate it into multiple languages
Views: 4,743 Duration: 00:03:35 Comments and Trackbacks: 78
5) The Many Forms of Web Marketing for the 2007 Web Strategist
I noticed that some of the reffere traffic for this comes from Stumbleupon and Delicious
Views: 3,765 Attention: 00:02:50 Comments and Trackbacks: 58
I hope you list out your top 5 posts for the last 6 months, it's a good exercise to learn what's worked for you, leave a comment when you do, I want to see.


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A few months ago, I was delighted to be introduced to a marketing agency I'd heard a lot about: theEword.
I was a fan of theirs and I'd previously spoken with one of their founders, Al Mackin, who was one of the few other SaaS aficionados building software in the North West of England.
Marketing agencies are our biggest customer segment at Ruler Analytics, and the pains they're facing are almost always identical: it's very difficult, but crucial, for marketing agencies to be able to prove the value of the services they're providing to their clients.
It's the exact reason why we built Ruler Analytics
But theEword was a unique challenge.
Like most agencies, they were struggling to get one of their clients to realise that inbound phone calls were the result of the agency's marketing efforts.
According to Aisha Riaz, theEword's Operations Director, "With digital, we need to show our clients the worth of everything we're doing. But with content marketing and related services, it's not always simple to track and report on important metrics."
Where theEword differed from what we were familiar with is that the agency focuses primarily (though not exclusively) on marketing for the property and leisure industries. They offer a variety of services, including SEO, PPC, web development, and content marketing, each with the goal of: increasing the number of in-person visitors to local businesses, increasing footfall to tourist attractions or filling tenancy positions for property groups.
With many analytics tools, proving the connection between digital traffic and in-person traffic can be difficult. But for a sophisticated agency like theEword, making that connection is crucial.
Ruler Analytics call tracking seemed like a promising solution.
"One of the reasons we switched to Ruler Analytics was because of the client services side of things. We've worked with similar tools before, but our experience wasn't great. Ruler Analytics allows us to go to the client and show exactly how much business we've brought in and where it's coming from. It's invaluable to us."
How Do theEword Delight Clients?
For theEword, work is composed of campaigns and initiatives designed to drive in-person visits to local businesses from residents of or visitors to a specific area—tourists, for example.
They focus on using tactics like localised SEO, content marketing, digital advertising, and social media marketing to increase visitors to restaurants, tourist attractions, and events.
If reservations, product sales, or ticket purchases can be completed online, it's simple to track those leads/conversions with general analytics tools.
However, many people choose to perform these tasks by phone—or to make other inquiries that suggest they intend to patronise the business.
When reservations are made, tickets are purchased, or hours of operation are requested by phone, most marketing agencies can struggle to attribute those leads and sales back to the campaigns that generated them. This leads to inaccurate reporting that can damage agency relationships with clients.
If clients are unable to see the full picture of how many inquiries, sales, and reservations are being made, marketing agencies may struggle to prove their value and suffer from low client retention rates.
Enabling Effective Client/Agency Reporting
When transactions occur primarily online, agencies can simply provide their clients with a number of individuals who, for example, entered from a blog post and filled out a lead-capture form, or entered from a search ad and made a purchase.
This is more difficult when the goal of digital marketing is to drive in-person visits.
How do you prove that a piece of online content, a visit from organic search, or a click on an ad drove an individual to ultimately visit an establishment?
With Ruler Analytics call tracking, the number of incoming calls can be attributed directly back to the source campaign.
Marketing agencies can see which campaigns are driving the most phone calls, and phone calls can even be recorded to identify the intent of the call.
If the intent of the call was to make a reservation or purchase tickets, then the source and campaigns can be attributed directly to generated revenue.
This provides detailed reporting on how many leads agency campaigns are generating, and how many of those leads turn into sales.
For marketing agencies, showing how agency efforts and services have led to increased in-person traffic is crucial to proving the value of the services your agency provides.
Ruler Analytics simplifies the process of attributing calls, ticket purchases, and reservations back to the campaigns that drove them, allowing marketing agencies to highlight the outcome of their efforts.
Additional Benefits of Tracking Online Marketing with Ruler Analytics
For theEword, the ability to provide enhanced reporting to clients has been just one benefit of adopting Ruler Analytics. When speaking with Aisha Riaz, she mentioned three other major advantages: price, service, and ease of use.
- Price: "In terms of price, Ruler Analytics is a lot cheaper than its competitors, which is obviously a good thing. But even if the price was the same or more expensive than other products, we'd go with Ruler Analytics. We've learned that you shouldn't compromise on quality and service."
- Service: "For someone who isn't technical the concept can go way over their head. But I can call the team at Ruler Analytics anytime and they'll put it in layman's terms for me—explain it very clearly. I think it's also brilliant because the directors are open and willing to spend the time needed. You don't get that with a lot of businesses, so I think just the personable side of the business is perfect."
- Ease of Use: "Ruler Analytics is really easy to use. Our client who's using it has said so readily on the phone—she's in the dashboard all the time because she loves using it. It's clear, and if you need any help there are people on hand to help you straightaway and answer any of your questions.
In the end, though, Aisha Riaz believes that the biggest benefit they've seen since implementing Ruler Analytics is the ability to provide detailed reports to clients. "It really shows you the value of what you're doing in terms of marketing," she says.
Getting Started with Marketing Agency Analytics
As told by theEword, Ruler Analytics can really help build strong relationships between clients and their local marketing agencies.
By providing a means of connecting leads and sales—those that happen both online and over the phone—back to the specific campaigns that generated them, marketing agencies can prove their value more clearly than ever before, strengthen client relationships, and improve client service.


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I decided to try using Easy Canvas Prints with a photo of my son. No parent can ever have too many photos of their children displayed! The photo I chose had a very laid-back, casual look to it. I felt that it would be a good match for a canvas print. I was also planing on displaying it in my son's room, which is far from formal. You can see how lovely it is from the photo below.
Ordering an Easy Canvas Print was even easier than ordering online 4×6 photos. Seriously! You pick your size, it shows you approximately how big the canvas will look in a virtual room, you upload a photo, click and drag it to the blank canvas in the size you want, choose a border, and you're done! You can go back to make minor adjustments if you like, but the process was easier than I imagined! The canvas print came back exactly on the date the shipping information had given me too! I am not only impressed, I am hooked on making more canvases! My next one is going to be a canvas photo of my son driving a go-cart solo for his first time! He saw how well the first canvas came back that he is requesting a 16×20 to fill up a large blank area in his room! I can't wait to see how that one turns out!
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A Vision for Learning to fish
Fishing is one of the best ways to spend time in the outdoors and catch a tasty meal. The first step to enjoying the sport is learning. Many people have gained knowledge on how to fish by staying close to experienced anglers at it. Trial and error is not the easiest mode of learning how to fish.
There are several methods of easily learning the ropes of fishing. Firstly, ensure you have seasick medicine. You don't want to ruin your sporting day with seasickness.
It might seem obvious, but getting familiar with your equipment is essential. Understand the concept of knot tying, baiting, and casting. Your fishing experience becomes pleasurable when these concepts are properly internalized. Set specific times of the day for fishing with tides, weather, moon positions, and location in mind. These are elements that directly influence the number of available fish, a crucial link to morale. Not the least important advice definitely, regular practice will make you an experienced angler within a short time.


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---[H]as your impression of Michishige-san changed from the time of your début?
Sato: At first, I was really scared of her. It was the same for Minishige-san, Tanasa-tan, Niigaki-san, Takahashi-san... I was scared of all of them.
I want people who are older than us to join as 12th generation members.
Since I want the MaaDuu combi to eternally be junior in age
(Sato Masaki)
In the final stretch towards her graduation, what's in the hearts of the MaaDuu combi?
Michishige: Pleased to be working with you.
Sato & Kudo: Pleased to be working with you!
Well then, it feels like we're gradually getting into the final stretch towards Michishige-san's graduation. Currently, what's in the mind of you two journalists?
Kudo: Honestly, it feels sad to part. At the opening day of the previous tour, in Zama, when we went 'Ganbatteikkimasshoi!', we started talking about how we're finally starting on the opening day. Then, I thought, 'Ah, this is the last time we'll be starting off on an opening day with this combination of 10 people'... But for me, right now! Even though I feel sad, but at any rate, isn't enjoying the moment even more important? Since we have to treasure the remaining, valuable time, I feel like we should earnestly have fun now.
Sato: For Masaki... I don't really think about the graduation. When the idea of graduation gets into my head, I'll go and make sure I do something that's tons of fun. But, there are times when interviewers mention 'The graduation has been decided...', and every time, there's like a flash that comes out from within me... That makes me feel like I've got to stow it away with everything I've got.
Kudo: But in the group itself, we get along really well! 'Let's do something with the 10 of us!', the number of times we do something like that has really increased. We've played tag based on Maachan's suggestion, and I think that it's most fun when we're doing things where stuff like age doesn't matter.
Sato: But I think that it started from the 'Dokkiri' before Minishige-san's graduation. The one at Mount Fuji.
Michishige: That was really interesting!
Sato: That was huge~ I feel like that was the birth of the bonds that tied us as one.
Michishige: We don't really lodge together in the same room.
Kudo: When we're doing tours and the like, we get separate rooms at the hotels. So it really was a first for all 10 of us to sleep bundled together in a room.
Sato: When we were in Hawaii the other day, Minishige-san went, 'I want remain in Hawaii with everyone, just like this'. That made me really happy... Masaki thought that 'It would be all right if time would stop just like this'. It's the first time I've thought that way in Hawaii. Since up to then, the 10th gen has nothing but painful memories....
Well, I heard that the crying incidents in Hawaii were severe, but it's already all right (laughs).
Kudo: But, as Maachan says, this Hawaii trip was a little special.
Michishige: Yeah, it was fun.
Kudo: We all lay down on the grass, and talked while looking at the night sky...I thought that it felt kind of youthful (laughs).
I see. It really gives a good picture of how now, the group is united.
Michishige: Currently, we really do get along. Whenever the 10 of us are doing the same thing, we can't help but have fun. In preparation for a concert, everyone's feelings become united, like all 10 of us would wear the same T-shirt at a rehearsal.
The pink 'Completely Michishige' T-shirts?
Michishige: That's right (laughs). That's never happened before, all the members matched up wearing the same T-shirt. Plus, it was Sayumi's T-shirt (laughs)!! It made me seriously happy that everyone wore Sayumi's T-shirt. The photos of all of us matching one another are my treasure.
And, the 12th generation members are about to join. How do you feel?
Kudo: Of course we're looking forward to it. It's just that, as Michishige-san said, we're really close, so the newly joined members might harbour anxieties. If they're someone who wants to join Morning Musume. because they've come to like us by watching the current Morning Musume.'14, I expect that they'll probably be familiar with the stories that the current 10 of us are really close. Therefore, I think that we have to make it so that they'll be able to lose those anxieties. I myself was really worried when I joined, so I want them to come in with a warm welcome.
Sato: Masaki still hasn't got to grips with it. Since I'd like to go on for about 2 years with the current 10 of us. It's not that I dislike the 12th gen, but I love the present 10.
--- I see. So that's the case?
Sato: And I also feel that I don't want them to see me being told off by the dance teachers. It's still all right with Oda-chan. Since she instructs me with a 'Sato-san, you got told off again'. However, Tsunku♂-san has his own way of thinking, and decided that new members would be joining...
Michishige: It'll be soon, right.
Sato: That's right! Oda-chan's my kouhai, but she sends me messages like 'Sato-san! You got told off by the dance instructors, so it would be better to practise properly'.
Kudo: That's hilarious! What's up with that? (laughs)
Michishige: Is that still the case even now?
Sato: It still is! But because Oda-chan says things like that, it makes Masaki practise, encouraging me with 'Let's do our best together as it's Michishige-san's final tour'...... Oda-chan keeps an eye out for Masaki. Oda-chan's actually an (academic) year older than me. So I've got nothing but gratitude for Oda-chan. I feel that it's great to have this sort of 11th gen. But the 12th gen will definitely be... younger in age, so what can I do......
Michishige: Eh~ older ones would be better? That's different. Normally, your relationship with a kouhai that's older would be trickier. Mutually.
Sato: Nope! Older would be better! It would be nice if MaaDuu were eternally the youngest.
Michishige: Ah, so that's what it is! You don't want them to take away your title of youngest, it'd be better if it was MaaDuu who are the same age.
Kudo: I think the same as Maachan in that case! However, the 2 of us are going to become senior high school students...... I think it would be tricky, for the youngest to be in senior high school.
Sato: Yup, and so MaaDuu will breakup when the 12th gen join!
Kudo: Oh, she's come out and said it (laughs).
--- Please bear with it. This is for the MaaDuu book, after all (laughs).
---[Within] the history of Morning Musume., starting from Tsuji-san and Kago-san, all sorts of tag-teams have been put together.
Michishige: These 2 are unique. Since it doesn't feel like they're on great terms with one another. For example, they're unlike the pairings we've had so far such as the PonPon combi (Fukumura Mizuki & Ikuta Erina) or SayuEri, there this definite image that 'Since we're good friends, we're always together'. For these 2, that's what's different (laughs). Since we often see scenes where Kudo gets mad, or Sato makes a retort. It's a new form of pairing.
--- Like Tom and Jerry. Like they get into friendly fights.
Sato: That might actually be the case though......
Michishige: Also, what's interesting about the MaaDuu combi is that Sato isn't dependent on Kudo! Always saying things like 'Duu, I hate you!' or 'Let's disband!' Or 'I'll make a new pair with Oda-chan' (laughs).
--- While waiting for Michishige-san to come, these 2 were discussing something on the lines of 'Being uneasy about graduation'.
Kudo: What were we talking about...... Just now, in the sense that we had no idea how it would turn out, we feel a bit uneasy. We feel like 'I wonder what we should do?', 'How will it be from now on?'......
Michishige: I see...... Morning Musume. is constantly evolving, since it's a group where new entries and graduations happen repeatedly. I myself have seen numerous people off so far. Numerous senpai and contemporaries. Every time, there's this voice asking 'Will it be all right?' Particularly during the graduation of my closest friend Eri, and the graduation of that star performer Aichan, I heard those words from those around me. At Gaki-san's graduation, I would become the leader, so my heart was thumping hard. But, for Morning Musume。´15....... We can become 'The Morning Musume。 of that time'. The present Morning Musume。 are the 10 of us, but after my graduation, in a real sense, you'll be making 'The reborn Morning Musume。' Since the ones making it... will be the 2 of you. It'll be all of you. But, it'll be all right. Because I believe that since it's you guys, you can do it, I decided that I would graduate. I've got no worries. Since if it's all of you, it'll be all right.
Sato: ......Ah, that's right. Minishige-san, what's your favourite tree (ki)?
Michishige: My favourite tree (ki)? 6ki!
Sato: Thank you very much!


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This is one of the things she brought me. It's a Longaberger Christmas purse with a wallet
inside. She kept begging me to look inside. Well in the wallet where you keep your bills she had a gift certificate to my favorite quilt shop for $25. What a gal. Also gave me a new quilters daily calendar with all those nice blocks on it.and a cute candle vase with cutouts that says friends.
So about that time in walks my son. A little earlier than we expected and I had to go to town and get the oysters for dinner today and stop at the Chinese buffet and get us supper. Then we got serious about working on the new laptop. In no time at all he showed me how to hook up the printer, and it works, Uploaded all the pictures on two disks and showed me how to use my wireless mouse instead of trying to use the one on the laptop.
So as you see I've loaded the very first picture on my blog. Gee, Thank You Kim for doing that all these months.
My daughter got here about 7 pm and finished up the Chinese and then we had a great visit and at 11 this is what they were doing.
Just like days gone by playing backgammon on the floor. While I'm showing pictures, this is one that my neighbor took and sent to me. Hubby blinked when the camera flashed. He doesn't always look like that.
I still have plenty to learn on here. In fact yesterday I was in someplace and put a lot of my blogs in thinking it was the bookmarks.
Now we can't find that particular file. It was one that came up for that purpose but with this being a lot of google stuff hard to tell where it is.
So far Christmas has been good. Had a nice package from Kim but I'll let her show you what she sent me.
Hope everyone is almost ready now for Santa to come.All I have to do is buy groceries for dinner when all the grandkids will be up with their parents. On the 26.
Thanks for stopping in and another time I will have some quilty things to show.


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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Saturday commute xxxii: doux de montagne
between the ranch of Leland Stanford
and the beach of immigrant fishermen
there is King's Mountain Road
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Suppose it were Friday v: if there were a Party of the quiet places
It would not be
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workout in red
Big mouth.
Remember it took three of you to kill me.
A god, a boy, and, last and least, a hero.
I can hear Death pronounce my name, and yet
somehow it sounds like 'Hector'.
And as I close my eyes I see Achilles' face
With Death's voice coming out of it.
Saying these things Patroclus died.
And as his soul went through the sand
Hector withdrew his spear and said:
Christopher Logue
War Music: An account of Books 1-4
and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997©
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Le jour se lève
It's 10:38 in the morning on a 15th of July; the St Cyr cadet reconciles him-self to dawn with that diffuse contrition which comes of passing
une nuit blanche
in the cellar of one of those countless Romanovs, who've held such receptions since their relief from duty. We urge no fear for the glistening delt, the moistened brow; they stack towels
as de la Rentas stack pillows.
But could I really have agreed
to tennis at noon?
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
"Laurent, what is a bastille?"
Has anyone else, who blogs pseudonymously,
had to deal with this phase, yet? I refer
to a naughty air that seems to surface
a certain age of the endeavour,
as if the
antecedent had some sort of sense of its
own momentum. Only this morning, trying to
be civil toward the national day of France,
encouraging Laurent to apply himself
to his
posting brought about this exchange:
Laurent, now focus: what is a bastille?
A dull compound with a baccalaureate.
It wasn't so much what he said, but the cheek
with which he amused himself,
unheard of,
took even Whit aback, and promptly sat him down.
To be held over a barrel by an insubordinate
sobriquet is not, may we say, what brought us
to this page; and it sets a poor incentive for
others to bring something to life, with any as-
piration of sustaining its gentility. We've
half a mind to task him to study china.
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Adam François Parcel de Saint Cristau, 19 Floréal Year II
I do not know what immemorial power
Leaves crime in peace, harasses innocence.
Whenever in my life I turn my eyes,
I see misfortunes that condemn the gods.
Let's justify their hate, deserve their wrath.
Let crime's reward precede its punishment.
.. who had taken a liking to me
who often sent his servant to fetch me
to eat with him
You were destined to perish
you were rich
My speeches to the assembly
everything I did to win people over
to your side all came to nought
The decent man pitied you
but held his tongue
The memoirs of Jacques-Louis Ménétra, born 1738, are especially captivating for taking the form of a lifelong journal, and were historiography's most exciting discovery of the 1980s, 331 folio sheets of unpunctuated witness - and fantasy - found in the Bibliothèque Historique by Daniel Roche of the University of Paris. It is an impress of great liveliness and vital diversity of subject. Ménétra was a working man, a glazier, of the class that would produce the sans-culottes;
Paris had about 500 free elementary schools, one for every 1200 inhabitants, in the eighteenth century .. 98 percent of the domestic servants who left wills were literate, two-thirds owned
writing desks complete with inkstands, pens, and papers kept on file.
The stuff, in other words, was always there. Only the same presumptions denounced by Cecil in his life of Cowper, had precluded this discovery. It changed our under-standing of France, and invigorated her renown for inquiry.
Saint Cristau, age 44, appears on page 486 in Volume II of the
Liste Générale de Toutes les Personnes
meticulously maintained by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris. He died on May 8th, 1794, with 30 other substantial landholders, scarfed up as jacks for the bouncing blade in a prosecution of identity.
More and more, historians have come to understand the indispensable rôle of contingency in the saddest pages they survey. That the Terror is not France must come as a disappointment to Thomas Carlyle and Edmund Burke; but to everyone else it comes as an admonition to understand it. I cite again a great teacher under whom I did not study but was influenced,
who guided one away
from passivity toward tradition, at a place where such things are suspected of flourishing. That the worst that can happen, is reproducible, is constantly voiced to us first by demagogues, who'd only hasten its appearance. Irrationality thrives on historical presumption. And it will always get itself a Party.
To approach France, then, as a teacher, is not to diminish Saint Cristau by the celebration of Ménétra. Rather, we learn from them as structures in thought, each
- the adamant and the volatile in juxtaposition on a given page of time. We know all hunger, attentive and critical, to be for understanding.
In order to show you where your desire is,
Barthes wrote,
it is enough to forbid it to you a little. This would be the structure of the couple: a little prohibition, a good deal of play; to designate desire and then to leave it alone, like those obliging natives who show you the path but do not insist on accompanying you on your way.
No partisan of fresh-caught trout with a vibrant
on a Summer's day can possibly feel it isn't under-standing, he desires. This day of France coin-cides with monstrosity rampaging in umbrage against reason in the U.S., disinformation as its hook,
because it still exists
Where do we go, to say we're sorry for Saint Cristau; where do we go to learn the path of which we are the native? Except to turn with love to the experience of our Mother, fount of real security, of information needed for immunity from distemper. A reader in France writes in, to celebrate the croissant, another to praise particular hills at home. They are right. She teaches us desire before all else.
Jean Racine
III, i, 773-778
Orestes to Pylades
John Cairncross, translation
Penguin, 1967©
Jacques-Louis Ménétra
Journal of My Life
Arthur Goldhammer, translation
Daniel Roche, editor and commentary
Robert Darnton, foreword
Columbia University Press, 1986©
Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire de Paris
La Liste Complète des Personnes
qui ont comparu devant le tribunal
Paris Plon, 1866
Internet source
Henri Thirion
La vie privée des financiers
au XVIIIième siècle
Paris Plon, 1895
Internet source
Arno J. Mayer
The Furies: Violence and Terror
in the French and Russian Revolutions
Princeton University Press, 2000©
Roland Barthes
A Lover's Discourse
Richard Howard, translation
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978©
Gustave Courbet
The Man with the Leather Belt
Self-Portrait [detail]
ca 1845
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Trout
Kunsthaus, Zurich
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thinking about France
Something the French I've met, are too aware to do. If you have had a lover from France, to pluck an example from thin air, and you've lapsed into a bodily compliment, you were met with a whisper,
but that isn't me.
One goes, figuratively or not, to France for this very kind of rejoinder; where does it come from?
On the following day, most of the world as we know it, will ask itself this question about the existence of France. The answers that explain the great states of the world are on the tip of our tongue; and in regard to France, we know the wonderful people who've done everything they can to explain it to us, ever since
all of Gaul was divided into three parts.
I, for my part, do not care to hear of tomorrow's celebration,
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
That mantra belongs to one work of art which needs no justification from us, one masterpiece of passion we do not interrogate with history.
I, Laurent, know I have no French blood but that Paris figures in the conception, gestation, death, education, and delectation of my forbears, as the ground zero it is to almost everyone I know with a mind and heart. That Paris is not France, I, Laurent, do not need to be told; but that it has other consequential crossroads, we have already published, in a motorcyclist's choice between Meursault and Puligny. Moreover, we know, then, that the claim of the name of France has more than once been hostile to other provinces, other faiths, others living next door;
it exists only in that void sustained by the very arrangement of its parts,
Barthes suggested.
There exists an idea of France and an elastic place and an elastic mode, that are called by that name. What accounts for the constancy of the one, with so little surety of the others? I will agree, that it is too multifaceted for an answer, but that if you turn the thing
just so,
you may see what you lack for there. And the first of these is what you learned on your pillow, in an embrace that changed your heart.
Roland Barthes
Richard Howard, translation
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987©
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
An elegant mind on the myth of elegant time
.. who, after a severely classical four years at Eton, left England for the Grand Tour in his Berlne; was speechless with shyness at Madame du Deffand's parties in Paris, bought Guideo Renis in Bologna; who admired Frederick William I's Guards in Potsdam, stepping together like giant marionettes controlled by one hand;
who came back to England; married the daughter of a nobleman as Whig as himself or a relation; attacked Walpole or maybe Carteret; played Loo; made rotund orations, studded with Latin quotations; collected curious antiquities; laid out his gardens in accordance with the grandiloquent plans of Capability Brown; who spent half the year lounging in the windows of Brooks's and half among the oaks and elms of his country seat; who was painted in youth by Allan Ramsay, and in age by Romney; who was brought up to like Pope, but grew to prefer Ossian; who patronised Dr Johnson; who talked and wrote voluminous letters and composed compliments in verse; who laughed at the royal family and drank too much port and died.
[This] is the land of their dreams; but it is not at all like the England of the eighteenth century, the teeming, clamouring, irregular, enthralling England of the eighteenth century. In order to mould the age they love nearer to their heart's desire, they have successfully shattered it to bits. For one thing, their idea is too homogeneous. Only countries of the mind are so much of a piece. The past does not, any more than the present, escape that incompleteness, that inconsistency which is the essential characteristic of life as we know it, as opposed to life as we should like it to be.
Where better to go for a soothing shower of faith in the human mind, than to one which is so generous to the crisis of its disorder, as to have brought Cowper from the shadow of Wordsworth and restored our respect for the authenticity of his rural feeling in a cosmopolitan age. The flower of his generation of one of England's greatest families, Cecil's was a gift for the elegance of inquiry. It can be read, felt, assimilated, exercised in his legacy.
Can be, ought to be, needs to be.
Lord David Cecil
The Stricken Deer
The Life of Cowper
Constable & Co., Ltd, 1929©
i, ii Lachowski
iii Lauridsen
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Monday, July 11, 2011
The sound that wasn't wanted
Mlle de l'Espinasse:
Once I have seen inert matter change into something sensitive, there is nothing left to marvel at .. You have two great phenomena, the transi-tion from a state of inertia to one of sensitivity, and spontaneous generation; let them satisfy you, and draw correct conclusions from them and in a natural order, where nothing is great or small, permanent or variable in the absolute. Beware of the fallacy of the ephemeral .. Doctor, what is the fallacy of the ephemeral?
Dr Bordeu:
That of a transient being who believes in the immutability of things.
Mlle de l'Espinasse:
Like Fontenelle's rose, who declared that no gardener had ever been known to die? .. Why can't these philosophers of yours express themselves as gracefully as Fontenelle? We should understand them then.
Denis Diderot
D'Alembert's Dream
Leonard Tancock, translation
Penguin, 1966©
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Garagiste in Merisi red
Garage wine
doesn't come from garages,
it comes from the earth, like all the
. It draws the eliciting hand,
all the others, where it may.
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Knowing ours to be a talky sort of page
It hasn't been unheard of, for readers to send in a photo relic for commentary or interpretation, knowing how we do go on from time to time. Early on, and more than once, the appeal to
put on a pretty record
was heard, to extenuate conjecture on the self-incrimination clause, or the eschatology of clavicles. A bafflement we owned, with some of this charity, was with the context of its application. But now, more usually, we find this same befuddlement to have prompted our correspondent, to demand a clue as to the thing's provenance, as if we were some boardwalk apppraisal stand for beachcombers.
I give you the beachdrinker, as the perfect example. Is he a kind of tautology in some Star Chamber narrative, in the history of the Fifth Amendment, or a kind of self-calumnising species of entrapment, striding along in surreptitious good cop/bad cop boardwalk interrogation?
Anything you say can and will ..
And where now are our paranoids, when we really need them? Or does this effigy descend from the clavically savvy discussions in Homer, showing the practicality of that apparatus for hoisting a rider by the tip of a lance, in even-Steven contest? All we can infer, is that it's not a telephone self-portrait, and that's not a Glock in his pocket.
As you might suppose, in eleven months quite a lot of this stuff can pile up, and we are sorely tempted to come up with a form letter of acknowledgment, or to publish our response, wholesale. Yet we haven't decided whether to disclaim expertise or to patronise everything with a treacly compliment. Still young, or passably so, in our own little project, we wonder if there mightn't be a creative - dare we say, in the opiate of the App Era,
- mode of processing these inquiries, while giving offense to the smallest number? Might the genius of our readers not be rallied to explain the deconstructed sweater, the style of stone best suited to a piercing?
Now that you mention it, who among us can not recall those days, when a well-knitted ratatouille might depend upon a parity of freshness in its constituents, perhaps a lighter hand in their assemblage in woven stages, responsive to their texture yet integral to a general whole? Now, is it possible, anywhere, not to dine out on deconstructions of this heretofore coherent collation, as if to say, now you must extract the essence of this delt, and here this pec, while at any moment a morsel of some papillae might draw its own balsamic intervention, exquis-itised for context to be crushed?
And were we, for our part, not more stout in our resistance to entreaties of that trade, the restaurants of our time might well entail a tasting note to publish on the spot, provided enough exotica in their offerings or remoteness in their locale, as to cover any blemish of our palate, or arcana of conceit.
But we stray. We see the flow of images submitted for our testing as a gathering flock of fantasies, focused in their plumage on a flattering presumption of some solution we possess for their dispatch. On the contrary. Living in the country, we see our share of birds, but less of restaurants than you'd think, and are therefore quite out of touch with the latest degradation of taste. We shouldn't wonder if a perturbation in one's healthy vasculation were the price of tasting so capriciously, where any thumb could play the sum of what is missing so deliciously. We're reluctant to speculate in complications of what an image is.
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Naughty Wittgenstein
Will this make the difference?
Who doesn't tread with trepidation in the blogland of style and snobbery, acquisition and exhibition, that it might someday all implode upon the perfect pair of shoes? Oh, dear lord, suddenly no more exquisite effect, excruciating detail, indenture to anguished compulsion, corrosive disdain, pretense of patronage. A Listerine heiress
once bought 11 canvases from Mark Rothko on a morning walk; have we heard if any of them worked?
Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
And here we are. 4 paintings would miss the point, suggesting they were trifles; 5 would sound uncritical. 10 would be obscene, as if there'd been a discount. Yet who could live with only 9, while 12 might sound like muffins? And any more, my god, you'd notice them.
Superb taste as always, Mr. Siegel.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925©
James Toback, screenplay
TriStar Pictures, Inc., 1991©
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49 Animals Killed After Suicidal Owner Released Them
For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56 escapees. Among the dead animals are 18 endangered Bengal tigers, 17 lions, two grizzly bears, six black bears, a baboon, and seven bobcats. Although the public was cautioned to remain indoors during the hunt, there was a human toll as well: the owner of the wildlife farm, who evidently unleashed the exotic animals on the community before committing suicide.
According to a report from the Associated Press, the owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, Terry Thompson, was discovered dead on the farm from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officials believe that prior to committing suicide, Thompson openEd the animals' enclosures, allowing them to escape, perhaps with the intention of creating havoc for his neighbors and police -- and it did:
As the hunt dragged on outside of Zanesville, population 25,000, schools closed in the mostly rural area of farms and widely spaced homes 55 miles east of Columbus. Parents were warned to keep children and pets indoors. And flashing signs along highways told motorists, "Caution exotic animals" and "Stay in vehicle."
Officers were ordered to kill the animals instead of trying to bring them down with tranquilizers for fear that those hit with darts would escape in the darkness before they dropped and would later regain consciousness.
Officials say all the animals released yesterday have been captured or killed, except for a monkey that has yet to be found.
Volunteers from other animal preserves in the area, including the Columbus Zoo, on hand to assist police with the recovery of the animals were saddened at the immense loss of life. The death of 18 rare Bengal tigers, an endangered species from Asia, is considered particularly tragic. Only around 3,000 of the big cats are thought to exist in the wild.
Some questions remain as to how the wildlife farm was funded; it was not open to the public. But among conservationists, the fact that Thompson was able to house so many exotic animals (many of which were purchased) reflects a failure of legislation. "How many incidents must we catalog before the state takes action to crack down on private ownership of dangerous exotic animals?" says the Human Society's CEO, Wayne Pacelle, via AP.
Earlier this year, a statewide ban on the buying and selling of exotic pets was allowed to expire in Ohio.
UPDATE: Mat makes a great point on Twitter: "In one day Ohio police killed the equivalent of 36% of China's wild tiger population. http://bit.ly/aKZutP via @MatMcDermott (Update posted by Chris Tackett)


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Becoming a mother isn't quite as peachy as all those newborn photoshoots would have you imagine.
You're suddenly confronted with the need to do a hundred things at once in an exhausted daze. You're trying to look after your child and yourself. You're trying to connect with this new member of your family without losing yourself.
And if you have moments of doubt or despair, guilt comes with it – because you think you've failed at being the perfect mother.
Christina Riley hopes that by sharing her experience of the first year of motherhood, she'll normalise these feelings; the ups, the downs, and the disconnect.
She spent a year taking photographs of her and her baby, capturing the isolation and dissociation so many new mothers experience.
'Nothing can really prepare you for how you might feel or deal with the sudden change of having a baby,' says Christina, 34.
'For me the experience was a lot more difficult than I expected.
'I felt so much guilt for missing the freedom and simplicity of my old life. I felt so lost and alone. It was very confusing because while feeling all of those difficult emotions, I was also falling completely in love with my daughter.
'When my daughter was born, all of the emotions I was experiencing made me feel so guilty because I didn't know it was normal to feel so displaced, confused and lonely.'
She'd previously used herself as a subject for her work, so Christina had no hesitation in documenting the 'foreign experience' of motherhood.
The end result is a photo series called Born, showing the raw reality of what Christina experienced in that tricky first year of motherhood.
Christina said: 'After showing the work to people, including other mothers, so many of them expressed how they could relate to my experience.
'Not a lot of parents want to talk about what can be the darker times of parenting, but Born is an honest window into that part of it, as well as the journey through self-discovery and love.
'I think a lot of mothers can relate to the picture where I'm crying over my screaming daughter. It looks so harsh, but in that moment I remember feeling completely overwhelmed and frustrated. Things were so out of control.
'Another photo, which I believe is pretty powerful, is the one where my daughter is crying on a black blanket. I framed it so she's pretty small in the frame. To me this symbolized what I was feeling at the time. She was a stranger to me and I wanted to be far away.
'There is another photo where I'm holding my daughter and our backs are to the ocean. This picture to me says so much. I love her, I will always be there for her, and our possibilities are endless.'
Christina has launched a Kickstarter for Born, so she can share her photos more widely and make other mothers feel less weird and alone.
'Born is an honest look at my personal experience with adjusting to becoming a mother that one may or may not relate to,' she explains.
'I hope the work highlights how normal it is to have a tough time emotionally with the transition while at the same time proving one can work through the tough times and thrive.
'I feel very emotionally attached to the photos. They transport me back to that time in my life.
'I also feel proud of myself knowing that I am a good mum regardless of how much I struggled.
'My message to mums would be to be really kind to yourself, don't feel guilty if you don't immediately feel attached to your baby or love your new lifestyle. It takes time and you will get there. Also take a lot of pictures.'
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