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Canadian Women in Communications (CWC), on January 31, 2011, announced the 2011 recipients of the prestigious CWC Annual Awards. These cornerstones of CWC’s mandate recognize women of achievement in the communications and technology sectors and those who support their advancement.
Member of the ITAC Board of Directors, and Vice President and General Manager, Xerox Global Services, Jim Muzyka, was awarded a CWC Leadership Excellence Award in the "Champion of Women’s Advancement" category.
The honours include individual awards – CWC Woman of the Year Award and CWC Leadership Excellence Awards – as well as the CWC Employer Excellence Award in the Change Champion category. All will be presented Monday, April 4, 2011 at the CWC Annual Awards Gala Dinner at the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa.
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Esther Cheung has been a practicing architect for seven years specializing in 3D visualization technology and computational design. She is the co-author of Otherly Engagements, a series of installations exhibited at Eyebeam, where she led the Digital Day Camp program. Esther has taught and lectured at the University of Waterloo, Hong Kong University and Columbia University. She received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Waterloo where she completed her thesis on technological visions of suburban futures, as well as a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University where she was awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize for her research in algorithmic design. | http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/people/people.php?id=3206&group=Adjuncts&page=G | 2013-05-18T10:23:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Sam could see for about 6 months, if he says it was a golf weekend with friends who would like to book the same hotel, and would like to make a call, as if the strange and good? ? Friday afternoon I had a hotel booked great country with lots of recreational opportunities in addition to golf, and had a few treatments, massages, facials, for the next day, while Sam was playing golf. That night, wearing a sleeveless turtleneck, tight. The dress had a cut on the side and was like me, who had a tantalizing glimpse of the covers on average, no bra, and again listick bright bright red. When I entered the room, my tits bouncing it as I went, I made a few heads with his friends, including Sam itsallgay 's table. After dinner, walked into the bar sitting on a bar stool, legs crossed my dress stretched across the buttocks and exposing the slot on the upper side and ordered a cocktail. 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I looked at our reflection in the dressing room mirror, the routine which are like two animals captured in the hell was so intense,. Ken took me an hour at least, whenever I wanted to run his fingers stopped moving for a minute bring me to orgasm and then it was doomed until I could no longer sustain and spunk in me again. Exhausted, we put side by side and I was sore, my butt was so swollen, but deep satisfaction. Ken left the room before he took my hand and wrote his phone number does not say in my hand, you have to wash the election or recall. I ran a bath for me and calm my ass if I decide to wash my hands or not. When I wash my hands I knew Ken would be an intense adventure that he and Sam could have ???????? | http://itsallgayja.weebly.com/index.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A little blog about life, family, food, and living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
Monday, May 10, 2010
MOM Chicken: Mandarin Orange Marmalade Chicken (gluten free, too)
Sometimes, the best recipes are the simplest ones. Especially when you discover them without too much forethought. Take today's recipe. With just a couple pantry staple ingredients, regular ol' chicken becomes something really special. Even better the entire meal was on the table in less than 30 minutes. Works for moi!
Ingredients:
White Onion, halved, sliced thin (you dont' want to use a sweet onion here)
1 tablespoon Olive oil
Chicken breasts cut into thin strips
Seasoned salt
Olive oil
Worcestershire sauce
Butter pat
Marmalade
Butter pat (again)
Heat oil in a fry pan. Add the onions, and fry them until crispy. You are going for texture as well as flavor here. Keep warm. In a large saute pan, heat oil over med high heat.
Season the chicken strips with seasoned salt or your favorite seasoning. Add to the pan, and saute until golden. Add a butter pat to the pan and spinkle with couple shakes Worcestershire sauce.
Meanwhile, heat the marmalade in microwave until melted. You don't need very much, I used about 1/4 cup for 5 servings. Once heated, stir in a butter pat, and pour over chicken in pan. It will bubble up deliciously. Be sure to stir up all the browned bits that are in the pan. The end result is a glaze/sauce that is out of this world good. Simple, yes. Good, absolutely! Sprinkle with the crispy onions, and serve immediately.
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Labels: Chicken, gluten free
14 comments:
I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!!!!! It had to be with quick and delicious dishes like this.
What a great chicken recipe. Hope you had a great Mother's Day!
I wasn't going to harp on you! Well, unless fawning over this dish that's right up my flavor alley harping. Happy mother's day!! :)
i certainly wouldn't dream of berating you for splurging on some gorgeous marmalade! and what a terrific use for it--i'm always game for some sweet-savory action. :)
Oh my, does this look good. This is my kind of meal, quick and flavor packed. Hope your Mother's Day was a happy one.
Oh my - this IS good. I made it for my dinner tonight using sliced chicken thigh and some of my dear Dad's homemade lime marmalade.
Was so delicious I phoned my Folks to rave about it, and then emailed the recipe link to them, and to sister in the UK and to gluten-free friend up in Alberta.
A super scrummy Mother's day gem - many thanks, dear Paula,
Michelle and Zebbycat, xxx and snorey purrrrumbles
This looks wonderful; I love the chicken/orange combo! I don't think too hard about my carbon footprint when it comes to food, because there are some things that just can't come from next door, and this marmalade would prove it! Mother's Day hugs to you!
I hope you had a great mother's day!
This is my kind of dish! And I know, I try to buy local whenever I can, but you know, sometimes you can't, or you don't. It's like when I try to not buy anything from China, but darn them and their cute dishes.
Oh, yummm. I was trying to figure something out for supper and here it is!!!!
Happy Mother's Day to you, also!
Linda
It looks SOOOO good, I'll be filing this one. I like my own marmalade but French might be better, more exotic ant any rate.
Hey, you know what? I say buy local when you can but we are also one world and people in other countries need to eat and be supported, too!!! So you are thinking locally and acting globally. And is the fact that I'm gonna MAKE this recipe from someone in a whole nuther state gonna ban me from my crunchy associations? Well, I hope not but if it does, I'll just enjoy it while I look 'em in the eyeball and chew. :)
It looks very gouda!!
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I’ve heard much ado lately about The Hunger Games. From “ZOMG I’m so excited it’s coming out this week!” to “If you don’t read these books, I’ll haunt you in your dreams after I die.” (or something like that – I paraphrase.) I haven’t read the books, although I probably would if I had more than 15 minutes to myself and Draw Something didn’t exist. Basically, y’all are speaking another language.
A few weeks ago, I was perplexed about The Hunger Games, so I asked my Twitter people to give me a short summary in 140 characters or less. I got the following.
I was still curious. Rather than turning to Wikipedia for my short summary of the Hunger Games, per use, I turned to my Facebook fan page, which is not only fun, but educational. I posed the same question, but gave them more space to expand. My fans, of course, rose to the occasion:
For you visual learners out there, allow me to provide you with a word cloud summary — suitible for framing or printing out as a crib sheet for the midnight showing of The Hunger Games with your BFFs to whom you’ve lied about reading the books because you know they will brow beat you if they knew the truth. You shouldn’t lie to your friends; it’s not nice.
So there you have it. If you’re not familiar with The Hunger Games, I’ve schooled you with a short summary of the Hunger Games with the help of these lovely ladies. Now you can pick up that US Weekly instead of reading the books.
I haven’t read books and now feel all caught up! I love the board you created!
Is it wrong that I’m kind of judging all of the people who are just now jumping on the Hunger Games bandwagon? I read the books a few years ago.
And? In order to coerce my boys to read a book, I promised if they read it & liked it then I would take them to the midnight premier. I’m not above bribery.
Ha love the word loud. I had another Facebook friend ask about HG a few days after you on FB. Too bad I couldn’t have just sent her the word cloud.
Hold the phone. People are LYING about having read these?? Excuse me, I have some haunting to do
I’m shocked you haven’t read them. Regardless of the movies I would highly recommend them. I waited until the 3rd came out last summer and bought them all. Finished all 3 in a week. So good!
thank you for this because I gotta say the movie trailers don’t tell you d*ck about the movie. P.S. What’s up with the lazy ass parents/adults letting teens fight to the death??? As you can see I’m on the fence about reading this series…. maybe I”ll pick one up and read it this summer and watch the movie on pay-per-view. Let me know if you find time and what you think girl – you’re blunt and to the point
One of my favorite aspects of the HG series is that the heroine is the badass; unlike Twilight (where Bella is a clutzy victim who needs constant rescuing), Katniss is the true hero.
She is always as strong, smart, competent and loyal as the two male characters who love her – if not more so.
So I was thrilled that both my daughter and my son read the books and loved them. Loved. Strong women rule.
We are going to the midnight showing on the 23rd. Can’t. Wait.
yep, these all seem accurate to describe the books.
This was a great idea and everyone seems to get the story! Quite interesting Can’t wait to see the movie, the books are awesome!
I’m not familiar with it at all either, but this makes me wonder why people love it so much and why my friends are whack.
My son read these books in a matter of days. I just can’t get into it. Eh. Oh well.
um. hello. read them now!!!
I was thinking about letting my oldest girl write her own post about the Hunger Games since she’s currently obsessed with it, but you did such a great job of summing it all up here
That word cloud is hilarious! Seriously, read the books. You won’t regret it.
These books were amazing. I could not put them down!!!
THANK YOU for doing this post – I don’t know what rock I’ve been living under, but I’d never heard of any of this until people were tweeting about how they “can’t wait for The Hunger Games.” I thought maybe it was a weight loss plan (Me: Why are you all planning to start a diet at the same time?) or some kind of race (Me: Naming your 5k marathon The Hunger Games in NOT enticing me to run.). I finally got that it was a movie when people started talking about camping out in front of movie theaters. Ah ha, now it makes sense! I know, I don’t get out much. The movie sounds cool, though – unfortunately the only books I get to read these days feature talking dogs or girls who turn pink from eating too many cupcakes.
ha! my pleasure. I know a lot of people are curious who didn’t read the books so I thought this was perfect.
I haven’t read the books either, and now I don’t need to. So many other books to read, you have to make tough choices. I’ve heard about how the heroine is a strong woman, and I’m all for that. Though teenagers killing teenagers sounds dire. Well, now that sounds like I better read one before I make a judgment. Or watch the movie.. Fun post!
I”d love to read them, for sure, but I just don’t have time! Maybe one of these days when my son can go play quietly by myself
I have all the books… well my daughter does but I don’t have time to actually sit down and read lately! The days are getting shorter or something.
OMG I love those books so much!
Okay, so I really liked the first book, but I was disappointed in the love triangle. In my opinion, there shouldn’t have been focus on that aspect of a teenager’s life, because given their circumstances it didn’t play out realistically for me. If a teenager was really put in that situation, I don’t know that they would have time to focus on love interests while trying to keep themselves alive. Now, before the games started, yes I can believe that your emotions would be confused and flustering because of what’s about to happen, you don’t know what to expect, you gravitate towards others who are in the same boat as you – but when they actually got into the games, while the love interest angle died down a little there were parts where it flared, and by the end I was just like, “Really?” Maybe I’m just biased because J.K. Rowling handled love so well in the Harry Potter series and they pretty much set the bar for children’s/YA lit for me, and if you can’t do it as good as Jo, it bugs me. But again, I could be totally biased.
All in all, I was impressed with the story line, but my co-workers tell me the series goes downhill after the second book. I’m still interested in reading the last two books, though, and I want to see the movie.
Ohh NOW I get it.
Bwaahaahaa!! I have it downloaded on my nook, but haven’t started reading it yet. I hope I’m not disappointed.
Loved Hunger Games and my kids and I are addicted to wordles. Erin
Thanks for stopping by! The more I hear about them the more I want to read — just have to get a little time to myself to do it!
I haven’t read The Hunger Games. Nor do I know if I will (you don’t scare me, KLZ!). All I know is that whenever I see people talking about these books (and movies) one thought comes to mind: Everyone everywhere is going to start naming their babies “Katniss.”
The name is going to explode. Mark my words. So it has been written.
I agree with Kristin that The name Katniss will probably explode.
Also, Jessica’s description of “a cross between 1984 and Twilight is pretty good. I also think it has echoes of the short story “The Lottery”, which I had to read in grade 8 and then gave me nightmares for a month. How that is good jr high reading is beyond me!
Also? I regret that I wasted time reading these books. Disliked them intensely and really do not get the fuss.
Love the word cloud. Haven’t read HG. Maybe I will someday. But maybe now I don’t have to!
EXACTLY. The word cloud is all you need! Now you can impress your friends with your HG knowledge
ah, us weekly. thank you, deeply. my week is done.
I haven’t yet read them, not do I intend to until I go on vacation. And now I have been sated for information. I love the visual aide. Perfection.
So glad you wrote this post as I’ve been very curious about The Hunger Games but honestly too lazy to read any of the books. This condensed version was just right
I’m glad! And in printable word cloud form. HA!
In a word: I LOVE THE WORD CLOUD! ok that was a few words. Still…it depicts the Hunger Games very well! I read the series last summer and couldn’t get enough. It’s not my usual genre AT ALL. I have no idea why I even bought it for my Kindle. I’m glad I did and thinking of reading it again before I see the movie. The trailers I’ve seen look AMAZING!
Doing the word cloud was brilliant. But somehow this summary wouldn’t make me want to read the novels at all if I hadn’t already read and enjoyed them! Perhaps, like all summaries, it misses why people love the books. The answer to that for pretty much any novel is going to be great story and/or relatable characters. In this case, it’s definitely both.
I definitely agree. I should probably just read them because there is something about the whole “teenagers fighting to the death” thing that bothers me!
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The Orlando Sentinel has just reported that the bond set for George Zimmerman two months ago has just been revoked and he now has 48 hours to surrender onto police. This decision came after George Zimmerman and his wife were found to be lying to the judge during his bond hearing about donations that he received from his website in his defense. Zimmerman and his wife failed to mention that they collected about $200,000 through a PayPal account on his website but instead lead everyone to believe that their financial situation was very poor.
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I love ‘Clean Out The Fridge!’ days. Without those days I would have never discovered this recipe, it’s absolutely delicious! Thai Pork Sausage Rolls are definitely going to make a comeback appearance on my menu.
Thai Pork Sausage Rolls:
Makes 10-12
- 500g of Pork Mince
- 1/2 brown onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 small red chili’s, diced
- 1/4 cup of soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons of lime juice
- 4 tablespoons of fish sauce
- 1 1/2 cups of tightly packed spinach, roughly chopped
- 200g of feta, crumbled
- 400g of button mushrooms, roughly chopped
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper
- 3 sheets of puff pastry
Optional:
- cilantro (I had none on hand)
In a warm pan over the lowest heat setting add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and the garlic, chili and onion. You don’t want to brown the ingredients, you just want to let the olive oil absorb all the delicious flavours and soften the onion. Keep it on the lowest heat for 5-8 minutes, stirring every so often.
Whilst that’s happening add the pork mince, mushrooms, spinach, lime juice, fish sauce and the salt and pepper to a large bowl and combine. Add to the skillet and increase the heat to medium. Cook until the pork mince has browned all the way through.
You’ll have a lot of juice left over, which is going to make the pastry incredibly soggy. Ensure you drain as much of it as you can. (This does not make the pork mince dry. The excess liquid is mostly from the spinach and mushrooms).
Allow the mixture to cool for 10 minutes, preheat the oven to 180°C (with your baking tray in the oven!)
Once it has cooled, add the feta and egg (save a tablespoon for the egg wash). Mix thoroughly. Divide the thawed puff pastry into quarters. Spoon the pork mix onto one puff pastry square. Seal the edges with eggwash (or milk) and roll them up. Brush the top with egg wash (or milk). Place rolls onto the greaseproof paper, then onto the hot baking tray. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the pastry is golden.
Categories
- Beef (1)
- Desserts & Sweets (14)
- Lamb (1)
- Legumes (1)
- Pizza (1)
- Pork (2)
- Poultry & Eggs (2)
- Sauces & Spreads (2)
- Seafood (3)
- Vegetarian (8)
Looks Delicious
Amazing! I think I’ll have to try these!
Looks awesome! | http://ittybittykitchen.com/pork/thai-pork-sausage-rolls/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Slowly starting to grow on me…slowly…
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I head to a retreat tonight and I hope that it replenishes my creative spirit. These are the lyrics to a song by Claudia Schmidt. The poem has a nature theme, but the idea of replenishing one’s self is strong, natural, and metaphoric in this case.
We go on, we go on,
Canoe under the hot sun,
The upturned paddles guide liquid to our
dry mouths.
Water within us, water surrounds us,
A great mystery our becoming dry at all.
Replenish, replenish, all must be replenished.
The water within and without.
All that fills, all that surrounds us:
The great whistling pines,
The tenacious beaver,
The ancient loon,
The rush of the young eagle’s wings as it
dips low over our canoe.
Replenish!
The eyes bathed in this delicate solitude,
The trembling eternity,
Called back in mid-sweep only to be
assessed by green parched eyes
Replenish!
Each shriveled heart
Which has its moments only at events set
aside for its song,
But cannot fly for the connection
Between the rock and the human body,
The heron’s wing and the hope in our souls,
We go on,
We go on.
Our paddles dance with the lake water to
the music in our throats.
We will grow dry again
Perhaps leap into the water
A small and symbolic celebration of a great
and endless task
Which gracefully undertaken,
Might allow us to go on, and on, and on.
Beautiful! May you have a wonderful time!
Thank you Jennifer.
Beautiful!!
It is.
What a wonderful way to characterize your time away…I hope you renew and replenish and enjoy.
I already have begun even after the first evening. I find it better rest than sleep.
I would imagine so…Ivon – I nominated you for the sweetest blogger award (on my last post ‘Very Sweet And Low In Calorie’).
I just love the sheer expression of inter-being and interconnectedness in the poem. Beautiful! Thanks Ivon
It set up the retreat so well that way.
Beautifully Characterized.
Thank you Lvsrao.
Heading off to a retreat to replenish creative thoughts sounds fantastic! Love the post!
It has been and thank you.
To go on is a cycle of renewal.
That makes perfect sense Alex. It is so natural. | http://ivonprefontaine.com/2013/01/19/replenish/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
DESCRIPTIONBest seller! NOW ON DVD! This newly edited disc contains two video segments: 1) Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse by Franklin Miller, Jr. (1963). This three-minute, 20-second segment is taken from the original 8 mm silent film loop by Franklin Miller, Jr. and he has added an audio narration. 2) The Puzzle of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse by R.G. Fuller, D.A. Zollman, & T.C. Campbell (1979). This seven-minute, 40-second segment is taken from the 1979 videodisc by Fuller, Zollman and Campbell. It has an audio track with people reading parts from the official reports and newspaper accounts of the collapse of the bridge. A printed User's Guide contains background information about the bridge's collapse, educational activities for students at various levels K-16, and recommended references on the subject. Edited by Robert G. Fuller, Charles R. Lang, and Roberta H. Lang. (User's Guide located online: : 27 pp. Copyright 1998)
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Usability Analyst- Salesforce.com.
Location(s):
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Responsibilities:
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* Focus on products within
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If you are interested please email send me your resume.
Thanks,
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Office: 415.536.4506 | Fax: 415.520.9398 | http://ixda.org/node/17279 | 2013-05-18T10:53:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Jay Neal
Jacksonville Daily Progress
JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville will host Nacogdocehs at 6 p.m. tonight at Tomato Bowl in the district opener for both clubs.
The match was originally slated for Tuesday night, but heavy rains earlier this week in Jacksonville forced a 24-hour delay to allow the natural grass surface to properly drain.
The junior varsity match between the two rivals has been canceled, according to Jacksonville head coach, Randy Hammontree. | http://jacksonvilleprogress.com/sports/x503850646/Tribe-soccer-to-host-Doches-at-6-p-m-tonight/print | 2013-05-18T10:32:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Though while still creating a somewhat original profile. The rear is a bit too much like every other supercar dream, but we like the shooting brake look of the Bugatti Type 12-2 Streamliner concept.
Though the car isn't likely to be produced by Bugatti, which takes years to develop one model, the designer claims it was designed around fitting the twin-turbo W12 engine under the hood (that's right, it's front-engined). Dare to dream Zammit, dare to dream. [ReubenZammit via CarScoop | http://jalopnik.com/366425/ever-wondered-what-a-bugatti-2%252B2-would-look-like-neither-have-we?tag=veyron | 2013-05-18T10:22:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The following is feedback to last week's Roving with Lalah in Ocho Rios, St Ann:
Brilliant! I love this story. Man, I miss Jamaica.
- Gutsy
A well written piece. Very descriptive. Your writing makes me feel like I'm in the middle of the action. Thanks!
- RRT
Ocho Rios is a beautiful place. The crowds of tourists only add to the great atmosphere.
- TR
Thanks, Lalah. Through you I get to know all these places. Keep it up!
- 0H Holmes | http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120619/life/life2.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The English High School at 144 McBride St. is slated to receive a new turf field that will be ready for the fall 2013 sport season, according to Boston Parks and Recreation Department spokesperson Jacque Goddard.
The field, which is used for football, baseball and soccer games, is in such bad shape the school could not use it for the fall sport season.
“The current artificial turf field at English High School has reached the end of its useful life,” Goddard said about the field that was installed in 1999.
The current field is artificial turf and will be replaced with a similar turf, according to Goddard. The new turf uses a “crumb rubber system” that allows the fibers of the turf to stand up like blades of grass and to allow for shock absorption.
“It helps should someone fall down and it also absorbs some of the energy if perhaps a fly ball comes down to the ground,” said Goddard.
The department has held two community meetings regarding the project. Early questions about the project were about where the English teams would play. Goddard said accommodations have been made at various other sites for all teams that would normally use the English High School field area.
English High Athletic Director Barry Robinson said the field issues did not affect the fall teams at all as they all found suitable sites to play at throughout the city, such as White Stadium at Franklin Park.
“It worked out great,” he said. “We didn’t let it bother us.”
He added, “These kids are happy just to compete.”
Robinson said he does not know how the field issue will impact the baseball team as the schedule has not been released.
Goddard said an issue still remains about how much natural clay area will be part of the redesign of the baseball field section.
The approximately $1.5 million project is expected to begin construction in spring 2013. | http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2012/11/23/english-high-to-get-new-field/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The football kicking landscape has changed so much over the past 10 years. When I was a high school senior in 2001 most kickers were smaller soccer guys that just had a natural kicking motion, but the landscape of kicking training and weight lifting have changed kickers forever.
I like what Bobby Knight was quoted as saying " The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." Kickers are preparing that much harder in the offseason for the possibility of a scholarship.
The average size of an SEC starting kicker/kickoff specialist is 5'11 1/2 and 193 lbs. That is nothing compared to the average position player in the SEC but there is certainly a trend of bigger kickers. NFL kickers are even bigger and the emphasis on the weight room has dramatically increased.
U. of Tennessee's current kicking commitment George Bullock (pictured below) is approximately 6'1 195 lbs. and Kentucky commitment Landon Foster is 6'2 180 lbs. This extra size and weight gives them more leverage into their kick and helps them add additional distance on their kicks and punts.
I have witnessed George Bullock's hard work personally over the years I trained him and I saw that he rarely missed a workout with the team. This has certainly paid dividends as he has one of the strongest legs in the 2012 kicking class.
Coming out of high school I didn't have any private kicking training and it took me close to 6-8 months to learn how to successfully kick off the ground. Most of the kickers that I have trained for 2 years or more will not have much of a transition at all when losing the tee because they are using a fundamentally sound technique.
This coming Summer high school kickers in Tennessee will be looking to gain a scholarship by their performance at university camps and showcase camps. It is important for these kickers to understand that they will not have the use of a tee at the camps. There success will solely be on their ability to kick off the ground and to kick off with a one inch kickoff tee.
Very few (if any) kickers who are looking for a scholarship have the ability to not kick a football or lift all offseason and then try to pick it up in May. The football kicking landscape is changing and it is important to make sure you are not left behind!
Visit:
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This time it is from the country formerly known as Great Britain. It is yet another example of what happens when lawyers get involved in what happens on the battlefield instead of sticking what they do best which is normally suing some large corporation to pad their bank account.
A Devon Territorial Army soldier who died when his vehicle hit a landmine in Afghanistan was unlawfully killed, an inquest has ruled.I kid you not, that is what they said, unlawfully killed. Here is a clue for the good lawyers, the whole purpose of waging war is to kill the other guy. You purposely hit the weak points of your enemy. To try and blame the vehicle that this guy was riding in is ridiculous. Would he have been "lawfully killed" if he had been walking?
Reading the account of the fight, we have a term for that type of engagement. It is called an ambush. It is not the fault of the vehicle that this trooper was killed, it was the actions of the enemy who lured them into the minefield.
This is just so ridiculous and it points to the civilian mindset that somehow you can wage a bloodless war where only the bad guys get killed.
If this soldier was "unlawfully killed", does that same line of reasoning apply to all the Taliban that have been killed because they didn't possess the same equipment as we do?
I don't know how this type of thinking came into being, and certainly back when I was serving and the only thing between me and a bullet was a button on my BDU's, I don't recall a whole lot of concern about soldiers being invulnerable. There is no way to eliminate loss of life on the battlefield. The whole nature of warfare is such that when one side develops a weapon or tactic the other side immediately goes to work on a way to defeat such a weapon or tactic. Knowing your enemies weaknesses is part of the process also.
What you have no way of knowing from this story is how many hardened vehicles did these Taliban fighters allow to pass before attacking this one? | http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2009/07/british-inquest-says-soldier-unlawfully.html | 2013-05-18T10:20:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A’s vs. Angels: Pregame notes
It’s Day 2 of Cactus League action. Dallas Braden’s on the mound against Joel Pineiro and the Angels at Tempe Diablo Stadium, and Hideki Matsui is making his spring debut against his former team. Here’s your A’s lineup:
Ellis, 2B
Suzuki, C
Matsui, DH
Jackson, 1B
Kouzmanoff, 3B
Carson, RF
Carter, LF
Taylor, CF
Tolleson, SS
Also scheduled to pitch: Brandon McCarthy, Guillermo Moscoso, Joe Bateman, Gabe DeHoyos, Trystan Magnuson, Vinnie Chulk, Willie Eyre, Jerry Blevins
Notes: David DeJesus is feeling better and could potentially be in the lineup for tomorrow’s home opener at Phoenix Muni. He’ll take part in light batting practice today but will stay away from running drills and take it easy. … Michael Wuertz is slated to throw a bullpen session off the mound Thursday. Between now and then, he’ll continue building up arm strength after missing a few days because of a sore shoulder. … Rich Harden will start throwing again toward the end of the week, Geren said this morning. Friday is a possibility, but nothing is set in stone. “We don’t want to make the mistake of rushing him,” Geren said. … The A’s will continue to also take it slow with Craig Breslow, who took on a major workload last year. The lefty was a little tender last week, but not to the point of concern. … Andrew Bailey will also be held out of games for at least five to seven days, as he eases his way back into live action. … Geren said Conor Jackson would see some time at first this spring, and he’s in there today. How much time he gets there during the season will depend on Daric Barton’s status. Barton played in 159 games last year, so he’ll be there on a daily basis unless injured or ill. | http://janelee.mlblogs.com/2011/02/28/as-vs-angels-pregame-notes/?like=1&_wpnonce=425f013316 | 2013-05-18T10:52:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Schema – What is the Best Practise for Updating ?;
- Validation and Justification of the Update – Remember this is a one time procedure affecting the entire Forest.
- What type of change is this (Update, Modification,Depreciation)
- What is the Risk ?
- Ensure if this is a customized update that you obtain a valid of .LDIF files to analyze with complete documentation
- Have complete explanation of the update written and approved
- Have a list of Roles and responsibilities for the Schema Update
- Is this schema update an update that is really required ?
- Is this the only way to effect your change ?
- Check whether base schema already has attributes or objects in it.
- Staging of Schema Changes (Pre-Production Forest to Production Forest). to test this out to ensure there are no problems thoroughly first. | http://janeylewis13.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/schema-what-is-the-best-practise-for-updating/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Long off the field of battle and sitting on the sidelines, marathoner Mizuki Noguchi (Team Sysmex) attended a June 11 memorial service for Hanji Aoki, an honorary member of Rikuren's directory board and one of the luminaries of the Japanese athletics world. Asked about her condition, Noguchi told reporters "I'm back in training. It's not to the point where I can plan my next race. But anyway, my main focus is on getting my muscles back into the condition they used to be in."
At the memorial service Noguchi sat at the same table with the women who preceeded her as Olympic marathon medalists, Yuko Arimori and Naoko Takahashi. "We talked a bit," said Noguchi. "They told me that I have to make a comeback, that I can't keep on like this. I was really happy to hear such warm words of support coming from people like them. It makes me want to do it," she said with a smile which showed that her drive to make the London Olympics is still burning strong.
"I don't know when my comeback race will be yet," she went on, "but I'm back to working on my speed on the track. I'd like to start with a half marathon." For the former 'Queen of the Half Marathon' it would be a major step to return to her best distance.
3 comments:
I would love to see her back. Her race in Athens was one of the bravest and smartest races I've ever seen run.
No one knows her anymore. She's irrelevant. I'm moving on to the Lakers and the world cup.
Nothing much is going on these days. And the japanese runners are running slow. only run 34:00 10000. @008-2007 was way better.Lots of good japanese runners are retiring and none of them run track. | http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2010/06/noguchi-aims-to-make-comeback-starting.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Since I even blogging for?
So, in the spirit of beating a dead horse, hammering it into the ground, or otherwise refusing to quit on something that’s quite clearly just done, let’s talk about ye ole’ summer vacation a tad more.
All I’ve done this week is yammer on about the beach. Oh, the beach is sunny, oh the beach is warm, the beach this, the beach that, Marcia, Marcia, MARCIA! Eh, I mean, the beach, The Beach, THE BEACH!
But obviously there’s a whole world out there ready to strip you from your hard-earned vacation dollars with their tourist traps and gaudy crap trinket souvenirs. Maybe a summer trip to the ocean isn’t your thing and instead you’re looking forward to the World’s Largest Hairball. Perhaps a visit to Old Faithful and a little roughing it* is more your speed, or a trip to, I don’t know, Idaho. Granted, I’m not sure why anyone would want to vacation in Idaho, but whatever.
I don’t know, you tell me in today’s Saturday Debate…
Summer Vacation: The Beach is best, or Screw that, I’ve got a much better idea?
As always, we encourage comments on the topic of the day.
Also, here, have a poll too.
And have a great weekend while you’re at it.
Pud’n
*By “roughing it,” I mean camping, not acting out scenes from those “50 Shades” books. You know…unless that’s your thing, in which case, who am I to judge? Hey, if that’s the kind of vacation your looking for, have fun. Get your…um…accessories all polished and ready. | http://jasonarust.com/2012/06/02/saturday-debate-the-vacation-plan/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Achieve The Film Look Shooting DigitalThursday, January 21st, 2010
So since the advent of digital photograhy many fashion photographers have asked me why their photos don’t look like film. Some of the complaints are that everything is too sharp, too much contrast etc. Well there are many reasons why these things happen, however the main consideration is that they are using too tight of an aperture. For example they are shooting at f/11 or f/16 or even f/22.
When shooting with a 35mm DSLR, shoot as if you were shooting medium format. When shooting medium format you lose alot of depth of field. Consequently your model or subject is very sharp and the background is out of focus and you get very beautiful bokeh. The best way to achieve this is to use a long lens. For this photo I used my Canon 200mm 2.8 on sticks and shot it at ISO 200 f/4.5 1/200th. I also used my Canon 580 EX II on ETTL. Now here is where my little secret comes into play. I bumped up the flash power to +3 stops and zoomed the flash head to 105mm. I was a good 25 yards away from the model.
I got a great smile out of my model by joking with her, complimenting her and not just sitting there clicking the shutter like a robot. I connected with my model because I took my time and composed and thought about the shot in my mind before I even thought of clicking the shutter. Very simple make up and no shoes, great smile and a very beautiful girl in nature make this a very marketable stock photo.
In this next photo I told my model to walk along the log and try to balance in bare feet. I also directed her to look at the camera and smile, laugh and just be silly. The important thing to remember here is that she can’t just do all this like she NORMALLY would. Normally one would smile too big and you would lose the eyes, and / or she would laugh so hard that she would get a double chin. So directing your model and constantly reminding her to keep her chin up and look at the camera and don’t squint the eyes is of utmost importance. The result is another very marketable photo that the model can also use for her portfolio.
In this photo again I used my Canon 200m 2.8 on sticks about 25 yards away. Notice the beautiful bokeh again. I shot this at ISO 200 f/4.5 shutter speed was 1/325th. I also used my Canon 580 EX II on ETTL, bumped the power up +3 stops and zoomed the flash head to 105mm. What I did different for this shot is set my flash to high speed sync mode. In high speed sync mode this allows you to set your shutter speed to whatever speed you want. I set it to 1/325th so I could keep my ambient light down. Remember, you control your flash exposure with your aperture. Any questions or comments are welcome ! | http://jasonchristopher.com/blog/tag/fashion-photographers/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Akka Client, C++ Server Through RabbitMQ
Over the next few weeks, I will tell you about all the discoveries I made in the project storm that made me skip blogging for three weeks. And today, we begin with some Akka AMQP client talking to RabbitMQ and C++ on the other end.(); channel->BasicPublish("amq.direct", request->ReplyTo(), body); } catch (ProcessingError &e) { const std::string* msg = boost::get_error_info<errinfo_message>(e); std::cerr << (*msg) << std::endl; } } } catch (std::runtime_error &e) { std::cout << "Error " << e.what() << std::endl; } }() os.write(0x1000face) os.write(0x1) os.write(0x1) os.write(0xa) os.write(0xb) val request = Publish("amq.direct", "cppdemo.basic", os.toByteArray) (client ? Request(request :: Nil)) onComplete { case Success(r: Response) => println("*** " + r.deliveries.head.body) }.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.) | http://java.dzone.com/articles/akka-client-c-server-through | 2013-05-18T10:31:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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From lighting fixtures that turn on at your expected arrival to heated bathroom floors that warm up just before your alarm clock goes off, it can be surprising how one or two high-tech luxury upgrades can transform the functionality of your home.
According to Jack Thomasson, HGTV Dream Home House Planner, to get the biggest bang for your buck, the key is to start adding these updates where it matters the most.
“The kitchen is the perfect place to apply technology that connects our home to our lifestyle,” says Thomasson, “When applied properly, technology in the kitchen can have a greater impact than when applied in any other room of the house.”
For example, the simple addition of a new faucet with touch technology, like those found in the 2013 HGTV Dream Home, can add ease and efficiency to everyday tasks. By allowing the water flow to be activated with a simple tap anywhere on the faucet, handle or spout, faucets like the Delta Cassidy single-handle pull down kitchen faucet with Touch2O Technology, help homeowners conserve water and avoid unwanted messes while entertaining.
This ease and efficiency added by touch technology is being incorporated into new homes at rates never seen before, as more and more consumers use the technology on a daily basis to interact with smart phones, ATM machines, tablets, computers, printers and other devices. It is now possible to utilize touch technology on tablets and smart phones to remotely adjust lights, monitor room temperature, or even summon a hidden flat screen television. Not only are these tools adding time-saving solutions but they are also providing new energy-saving benefits that can be felt on your water, electric and natural gas bills at home.. | http://jaxnews.com/view/full_story/21826216/article-Today-s-dream-home-utilizes-modern-technology-for-increased-functionality?instance=Improvement | 2013-05-18T10:22:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Two interesting pieces on the Giuliani campaign, the first coming from New York Magazine. They take a look at the conventional wisdom and find that all the ink about Giuliani having no chance doesn’t quite seem to hold:
Once the rest of the country sees Giuliani up close, the conventional New York wisdom once held, his campaign will surely fold. So far, exactly the opposite has happened. The more Rudy has put himself out there, the higher his numbers have climbed. Last week, a CBS poll showed Giuliani leading McCain by a whopping 21 points while a Quinnipiac survey found Giuliani running five points ahead of Hillary nationally, and dead even in blue states.
Yes, Rudy is the new horse in the race and thus, for now, the most compelling. Much of his popularity comes from the fact that he’s entered the race just as McCain’s ties to George Bush’s Iraq policy threaten to render his once inevitable nomination stillborn. At the same time, an idea has taken root that the 70-year-old Arizona senator, cancer survivor, and former POW, who would be the oldest person ever elected president, won’t be up to the job.
Giuliani’s pro-war stance and his moderate social-issue positions may yet bury him. So could a lack of money, a green campaign staff, his thin political résumé, his trifecta of marriages, and, not least of all, the fact that the 9/11 card, however powerful it is, could simply prove too flimsy to carry him all the way to the White House. With 21 months to go before Election Day, there’s still more than enough time for McCain to reassert himself—or any number of other scenarios to play out that don’t involve Giuliani’s becoming president. Still, no Republican presidential candidate in modern history has held this big a lead a year out and not scored the GOP nomination.
Believe it or not, America’s Mayor could be America’s next president.
It seems that the more exposure Giuliani gets, the better he seems to look. The question is why: and I think it comes down to something more than just being “the President of 9/11″.
It’s a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s that seems to understand what’s going on here:.
I think that’s exactly it. For all Rudy Giuliani’s many faults, there’s one thing that he is not and that is inauthentic. He could have tried to spin his way out of his own positions on civil rights for gay couples, firearms, or abortion. He hasn’t. He went to Sean Hannity and said what he believes.
And yet, conservatives seem to be embracing him.
It’s that authenticity that is Giuliani’s biggest asset against anyone of any party in the field. Hillary is as made-up as they come — she’s like a politicized, feminized Barbie. Barack Obama is the same thing — he’ll be what you want him to be but one is never quite sure what he really stands for beyond all the bobble-headed platitudes. Edwards — well, putting the blow-dried trial lawyer in front of the former federal prosecutor would be like putting a show dog in front of a pit bull.
Why would evangelicals support someone who seems so hostile to their beliefs? For one, Giuliani isn’t all that hostile. His personal pro-choice convictions are matched by his desire to restrain the judicial activism of the Supreme Court by appointing judges who will follow the principles of the Constitution and not legislate social policy from the bench. He’s not for gay marriage rights, but civil unions. His personal foibles may be troublesome, but the very essence of evangelical thought is that we are all sinners in need of redemption.
Evangelicals can support Giuliani for the reason the rest of the Republican Party appears to be embracing him — because he’s honest and forthright in his affairs. That’s a principle of evangelical Christianity that Giuliani has in spades, and it may be enough to win over those who would otherwise be skeptical about his candidacy.
It’s far too early to say that Giuliani (or anyone, for that matter) is truly a “front-runner.” A campaign that has been building momentum for months can die in a heartbeat and underdogs can become leaders of their party just as quickly. However, it’s important not to discount the value of Giuliani’s innate authenticity in this race — especially against the current field. In politics, perception matters as much as anything, if not more than anything. The American people have seen Giuliani provide leadership in a time of profound crisis, and they’ve seen someone who is unafraid to speak his mind and put his ideas out there without the need to spin and obfuscate.
Giuliani is very much in play, and I’ve the feeling that the more the media tries to marginalize him as having no chance in the early primaries, the more many conservatives will want to support him.
This topic is starting to get even more ink on JayReding.com than the 4,956th prediction that….sooner or later….one of these days….with God as my witness….these liberal bloggers are gonna end the Democratic Party.
Even looking at his most optimistic numbers, Giuliani has two huge problems. First, 60% of self-identified Republicans don’t realize he’s pro-choice. Second, Rudy may be leading the pack of contenders, but his numbers are stuck in the 40′s. That tells me that the yacht-faring Chamber of Commerce wing of the party is onboard….but what about the evangelical foot soldiers? Will they ever warm up to him? I’m skeptical.
Rudy’s fancy footwork on abortion is only gonna make the topic that much more uncomfortable (and omnipresent) for him in both the GOP primary and the general election. The more he has to walk the tightrope in “supporting a woman’s right to choose….but determined as hell to nominate SCOTUSes who will criminalize that right”, the more voters are gonna cringe. At least a third of the Republicans I know are working-class folks (mostly women) who are with the Democrats on nearly every issue….but still vote GOP because of abortion. If Giuliani doesn’t toe the party’s hard line against abortion, I can’t imagine a scenario where he can win. All the wishful thinking in the world by Giuliani disciples cannot help him hold the 2000 and 2004 Bush coalition.
Here’s a video I’m pretty sure Rudy wish he hadn’t made….Presidential? Judge for yourself–
Wow, that’s very interesting, Mark. If anyone’s an expert on wishful thinking, it would be you, no? Don’t you just wish Giuliani and all his supporters would all just hurry up and commit mass suicide?? That seems to be your style.
Eracus, every day that the Republican party flirts with nominating someone as unelectable as Rudy Giuliani is a day that I have a smile on my face. What terrifies me is the fact that the GOP might wake up and consolidate their support around affable conservative Mike Huckabee. Now there’s a Republican candidate who can hold the Bush coalition together.
Yeah, Mike Huckabee… there’s a guy that’ll set the world on fire.
What terrifies the Democrats is that the GOP will nominate a moderate candidate at the same time the increasingly radical Democratic base pushes their party further and further to the left. Anthony Downs had it right 50 years ago — the party that captures the middle wins the elections. The Democrats are trying to destroy their own centrists and the same time that Giuliani’s numbers keep going up.
Giuliani would defeat any Democrat in the field hands down. Hillary doesn’t stand a chance. Edwards would be toast. Even Obama would have trouble.
The biggest reason why Rudy will get the nomination is because he’s the Democrats worst nightmare and they know it.
Jay, what does the current chimp occupying the White House have that Huckabee doesn’t? If conservatives (and moderates) get to know Huckabee, they’ll like him….as opposed to Giuliani who will be liked less by everybody once his mug graces our airwaves daily.
Giuliani is exactly the kind of faux-moderate candidate that provokes the most cringes among voters. Giuliani is in virtual lockstep with the floundering McCain on the biggest issue (the war in Iraq), taking a position that guarantees his defeat in itself. And it never ceases to amaze me how you bourgeoise disciples think you can smear shit on the faces of your evangelical base by nominating a guy who stands apart from them on their most important issues….and still be rewarded for it. Bubba from Mississippi will not vote for Rudy, Jay. Nor will Trixie, the minimum-wage store clerk from rural Iowa whose allegiance to the GOP is based entirely on the party’s association with criminalizing abortion.
That’s your biggest problem. You are so smug in your belief that the Republican Party’s success lies in its commitment to mindless militarism and consolidating wealth into the pockets of the already-affluent that you believe you have ownership over the 2000 and 2004 Bush coalition no matter what kind of heretic you nominate. Kind of reminds me of the “where are they gonna go?” taunt that came from team Clinton after he signed NAFTA. Twelve years later, the Dems are just now getting some of them back…..a fate that will follow the GOP if they nominate Giuliani.
Wow!! What another brilliant analysis, Mark!! You sure are a political genius!! “Mindless militarism.” “…consolidating wealth into the pockets of the already-affluent…” You sound just like a true Marxist-Leninist whining about yellow running dogs and ravenous capitalist pigs!! Good show!! Bravo!!
So, Hillary’s going to win, right?
Eracus, Hillary will lose against any Republican candidate except Giuliani, whose candidacy would alienate values voters and open the door to a third-party challenge from the right likely to pull in double-digits in the Deep South.
So, it’s Kucinich then!!
Mark, you’re not a Republican, a conservative or any type of right-leaning person. How, then, do you presume to speak for them?
The rabid anti-abortionists that have run for President in the past have all quickly fallen by the wayside. Single-issue candidates and their voters constitute a rarefied grouping, particularly on the right.
And your blather about support for the war being a negative is fueled by a gross misconception of the feeling of the people who didn’t support the GOP in 2006. They are
not sick of the war–they’re sick of the half-assed way it’s being fought. Because of that many stayed home–and Democrats oozed into Congress.
Not because anyone supported their ideas, but because Republicans were pissed at what the Republicans in Congress were doing.
Rudy’s got a lot going for him–9/11 being only a part. His amazing cleaning up of the city(a phenomena that the left has already started claiming began with Dinkins–an utter lie)is a feat that changed so much for residents and visitors alike. It was as if he turned New York into what it could be–and THAT is the New York that everyone cried over on 9/11.
Rudy can win. But, more important, he’s the real thing. He told the Arabs to take their money and shove it. Can you see another politician doing that? A Democrat–particularly considering that a Democrat went sniveling after the cash Guiliani refused.
As you spout off, and you will, about Rudy’s chances, and how Republican voters feel about him, always remember that you’re speaking from the orifice you sit on.
Gee whiz, Jack, you just don’t get it. Mark knows everything — international economics, national security policy, the U.S. tax code — everything!! He’s a state employee, a socialist master-planner, and a follower of the Marx/Hegel dialectic. So if he says Rudy Giuliani can’t be elected, well then, Jack, Rudy Giuliani just can’t be elected. That’s all there is to it. Because Rudy likes gays and women rights and Donald Trump, his candidacy would only alienate values voters and open the door to a third-party challenge from the right likely to pull in double-digits in the Deep South. Got that? And then Hillary would be elected president!! We can’t have THAT now, can we? So….no Giuliani. See??
Jack, living in the Midwest and working for three years as a reporter in a small town, I’ve had no shortage of contact with conservatives, Republicans, and other “right-leaning” sorts. On more than one occasion, an interviewee would ask me, out of the blue, if I had been reading “the Left Behind series”. When my response was “no”, it confirmed in their minds that I was destined to spend the rest of eternity roasting in hell unless I was somehow “saved” before the Rapture. This is the kind of voter Rudy Giuliani needs to win over in the next 20 months….and just as these voters were not compelled in sufficient numbers to support Republican Congressional candidates in 2006, they won’t be compelled to vote for a heretic like Giuliani should he somehow manage to consolidate the support of the Chamber of Commerce Republicans and get the nomination amongst a divided field.
And I’m not talking about nominating a “rabid anti-abortionist”….just someone who has a solid and unequivocal pro-life resume. George W. Bush did…and won. Mike Huckabee does….and would win. Sam Brownback does….and even he may able to beat Hillary. John McCain and Mitt Romney are hedging their bets on the issue, but would still have an advantage over Hillary than Giuliani would not.
By all means though, I hope the GOP field runs with your theory that Republican turnout was soft last November because the party is insufficiently militaristic and trigger-happy. I’m really looking forward to hearing a variation on that line out of Rudy’s mouth at the Republican convention.
Rudy’s resume has its assets and liabilities. A huge liability is the litany of sleazy business dealings and shady associates (Bernard Kerik, anyone?) from his past. Even his tenure as Mayor in NYC offers the kind of paternalistic “government-knows-best” formula for success that will further alienate libertarian-leaning voters, who voted for Bush by a better than 80% margin in 2000 yet fell to around 55% support of Republican Congressional candidates in 2006.
“As you spout off, and you will, about Rudy’s chances, and how Republican voters feel about him, always remember that you’re speaking from the orifice you sit on.”
Whatever worthy points you made in your post are completely negated when you close with debate etiquette right out of the schoolyard sandbox.
Oh. My. God. A New York politician who had sleazy business dealings and shady associates?? In New York?? Who knew??
Mark, how much longer is it going to take for you to realize how much everything you post here only more reveals what a fraud you are? Are you so narcissistic and conceited that you have absolutely no self-awareness at all? Do you not realize what a self-parody you have become?
Just out of curiosity, would you please tell us how old you are and where you were educated? Perhaps your parental background? We just need some real-world perspective so please be as honest as can be. I’m not looking to knock it, I’m just trying to understand how anybody can be so removed from reality at this late stage in the game.
Please tell us you’re not older than 24, you attended community college, and married the girl.
(blinks a few times)
This exchange is becoming just a *little* surreal.
Why, whatever do you mean? Mark is someone who’s had 3 years of experience working as a reporter in a small midwestern town, by which he has obtained all the keen insights and vast knowledge as our authority on everything from climate change to Rudy Giuliani’s resume to deciding who should commit mass suicide. We just want to know if he’s had any other such profound experiences or formal training to help explain how he got so smart.
In light of your absurd comments regarding the importance people in the Midwest place on reading the ‘Left Behind’ series, I think my parting comment was not only witty, but spot on.
Your certitude is misplaced, to say the least.
Coming from outside, from well within the leftist orthodoxy, you spout the propaganda of your masters. It rolls glibly off your tongue because you accept its strictures wholeheartedly. And, in this free country, is fine.
But you would do well to peek outside your box every now and again, if only to reassure yourself that your leftist womb is secure.
I took part, prior to the ’06 election, in endless discussions with many conservative voters who were determined to make the party pay for having failed them. Some stayed home. Some voted for third party candidates they liked better(where available). Some commited the most heinous act–they voted for Democrats. ALL of them were generally united in their reasoning. The GOP had failed on national security, on immigration, and on fighting the war with the fecrocity needed.
Not a one mentioned abortion, or religious conservatism, or any of the bogeymen the left trots out.
Sadly, my point lost, time and time again. I told them that now was not the time for this kind of slap-in-the-face. It was far too dangerous, and worst of all, the left would take it as vindication, as approval, of every insanity that had festered in the fever-swamps these past 6 years.
And they did.
I am telling you, Mark, how the right ACTUALLY thinks. What ACTUALLY concerns and motivates. On two of the counts I listed above, Rudy scores well.
But you go ahead and continue thinking that he’s unelectable because he’s not up on the latest Kirk Cameron vehicle.
And here’s another parting shot–is the left so focused on derailing Guiliani because they’re afraid the Republicans will nominate someone unelectable—or are they afraid that Rudy has enough Democrat fans to make him electable even from the left?
“The GOP had failed on national security, on immigration, and on fighting the war with the ferocity needed.”
Amen, Jack, amen. Not to mention McCain-Feingold.
The difference between the GOP and the Democrat Party is the GOP will take out its own trash. The Democrats leave theirs in charge. That’s how we get the pro-union, anti-democratic legislation that just passed the House by a vote of 228-183, denying the workers’ right to the secret ballot in union certification elections. Only 2 Democrats were opposed. Stalin would be so proud.
By contrast, in 2001 many of the very same Democrats insisted that Mexican workers should not be denied the sacred right to vote by secret ballot, even though they were in the country illegally. And this is called, “looking out for the little guy.” Go figure.
Jack, I venture to say your representative sample of conservative peers who vowed to “teach Republicans a lesson” in 2006 among the 11% of the electorate who swallow the entire conservative agenda of laissez-faire economics, knee-jerk militarism, and authoritarian/theocratic mandates on “values”. Most Republican voters only adhere to one or two of these principles. I don’t what part of the country you live in, but if you discussed politics outside of your inner circle of conservative die-hards, you’d quickly discover how large the abortion issue looms with otherwise non-political housewives, particularly in Middle America. I know at least a dozen women (young and old) who are to the left of me on most issues, but vote Republican because of abortion. Nominate Giuliani and you’ve taken away their only reason to vote GOP. If you seriously think this demographic of voters is tiny enough to piss on, try them. I dare you!
You may be telling me how the right REALLY thinks….but “the right”, at least as you define them, won’t decide who gets to be President in 2008. The 89% of voters whose worldview deviates from the Republican Party platform will. Tell the pro-life ideologues that they can go straight to hell and they’ll take you (and Giuliani) down there with them.
Whatever Democratic fans Rudy has right now are a product of his post-9/11 celebrity. Remove that from his resume and he’s a widely-reviled figure with an abrasive New York personality. With him as the nominee, Democrats and independents will likely vote against Giuliani in even larger numbers than they did against Bush (and that’s not counting the attrition of Republican “values voters” who can’t bring themselves to vote for a gay-loving, baby killer trying to take away their shotguns).
Eracus, it’s a sweet day when bourgeoise sharks like you aren’t able to strongarm your employees from unionizing anymore. The “secret ballot” is (or rather was) a way for employers to control the union vote process through every imaginable means of intimidation. Kudos to the Democrats and the large number of House Republicans who sided with workers here. And once again, dissenting Dan Boren and Gene Taylor show how useless they are….particularly Taylor, whose Gulf Coast district is being deluged with low-wage Mexican workers since the Bush administration waived prevailing wage rates for Gulf Coast rebuilding that would have payed construction workers wages high enough to survive on.
Mark, 99.9% of the electorate agrees you are are just a fraud and a conceit and are simply making stuff up again. Only a true Marxist-Leninist would defend denying a worker’s right to privacy as a condition of employment. So either you are a true communist, Mark, or a just another empty-headed barking moonbat. Which is it? Maybe you can explain how destroying one of the most fundamental pillars of the democratic process helps the worker? And why your Democrat Party is passing legislation denying the secret ballot to others that they so enjoy themselves? Are some pigs more equal than others, Mark? Please explain. | http://jayreding.com/archives/2007/02/27/a-candidate-in-full/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sep. 29, 2012; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton (10) stands at bat during the game against the Chicago Cubs in the first inning at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Jennifer Stewart-US PRESSWIRE
The Diamondbacks continue to shop him, despite a club-friendly contract with 3 years and $38.5 million remaining on the deal. That is probably more likely because it jumps from $9.75 million in 2013 to $14.25 million in 2014 and $14.5 million in 2015, which may be a tough nugget for the small market D-Backs to swallow. By shopping him now, they can maximize value of any return trade from any interested teams.
Could the Toronto Blue Jays be one of those teams?
The Blue Jays do have an ample supply of solid prospects in which to deal from. However, if Anthopoulos is going to use any of his prized pitching chips, it is going to be in a deal involving the return of a front line starter. They do have prospects in Anthony Gose or Jake Marisnick that could be worthwhile in a deal for Upton, but it may not be enough to entice Arizona to make a move, especially when Arizona has ample outfield prospects of their own.
There is also the discussion of whether Upton truly fits in Toronto. Here, he is another right-handed power bat in a line-up that badly needs something from the left side of the plate. He is also a right-fielder by trade and it is hard to tell if he could transition to left field, where the Jays would truly need him.
Still, there are not too many 25-year-old players that have 6 seasons under their belts, let alone two All-Star appearances and a fourth place finish in the MVP balloting (2011). Justin Upton happens to be one of those players. Upton is a .278 career hitter with 108 home runs and a career OPS of .832. He is also just a season removed from a 5.7 WAR.
It may be worth an exploratory call, but Kevin Towers is not going to get a highway robbery deal from the Blue Jays.
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‘Twas the night before Eurobasket…
sports.ru’s Google Translated caption: “As soon appeared, Andrei Kirilenko was in the spotlight.”
Earlier this year (when AK and Fes were both still Jazzmen), Fes joked that he would room with AK in Lithuania. The two teams are apparently staying at the same hotel and either had dinner together or ran into each other at dinner on Eurobasket Eve.
Fes actually got an interview request from the media, but it seems they mainly wanted to ask him about Andrei.
Q: Let’s go back to the upcoming fight. First you have to play against ex-partner, “Utah” by Andrei Kirilenko. The guys from the Ukraine team, probably, all ears buzz with questions about the Russian star?
Fesenko: That’s right. I try to tell everybody how to act against Kiri. But I’ll tell you what words to explain this is impossible. You can spend several years with the same team and still will not understand when and how he plays. Here I am four years have been with him side by side, but still amazed that he sometimes gets up on the site. It would seem a simple solution to any situation, but he suddenly chooses that I would never have occurred. And then you realize – it’s brilliant and with maximum efficiency. Today Kirilenko will be our headache is the only thing I can predict for sure.
Q: Can you describe in one word Kirilenko?
Fes: Mister unpredictability.
Q: What do you personally learned from him for four years he spent in the “Utah”?
Fes: Excellent play “Vorkraft”! And not like, and it literally made! (sovsport.ru, Google Translated)
Turkey, meanwhile, was dealing with a major catastrophe. The team had brought along its own chef to Lithuania, but the hotel they were staying at wouldn’t let the chef into the kitchen. Fortunately, team officials were able to negotiate their way out of this crisis and the first meal enjoyed by the Turkish team in Lithuania consisted of “salad, tzatziki, rice, pasta, chicken and eggplant dish.” Sounds delish.
BTW, a new Enes Kanter revelation:
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!”
Turkey vs. Portugal in one hour! (then, one hour nap, then) Russia vs. Ukraine in four hours! Squeeee!!! | http://jazzfanatical.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/twas-the-night-before-eurobasket/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=4e28c04ab9 | 2013-05-18T10:53:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
October 2001 Los Amigos de Santa Amalia, a group of friends from his Havana neighborhood who have jammed together for over 10 years; his Sunnyside release, Buenas Noticias, is a produced studio date that provides superb insight into his musical character.
Julio Padrón
“What makes these CDs so special is the affinity I have with the musicians on these recordings,” says Padrón, in Spanish, while in New York City. “I’ve played with them for a long time and we understand each other. Even if we haven’t seen each other for a while, when we get together and play, we can do it blindfolded.”
Padrón, 30, believes that “it’s more beautiful to create phrases than deliver a lot of notes,” and you hear his lyricism on the bolero “Tu Mi Delirio” and the upbeat street-happy groove of “Mozambique 2000,” both on Buenas Noticias.
“I wanted to honor Pello el Afrokan [creator of the mozambique rhythm]. In the 1960s he was very popular. I started using the theme of his song “Mozambique” in my improvisation at the clubs where I was performing and it drove people crazy. Here I arranged it with a rubateo, which means the ensemble plays with a slight delay to give an offbeat feeling.”
It was Padrón’s father, a professional musician who played with Beny Moré’s legendary Orquesta Gigante, who introduced him to music. The trumpeter studied at the prestigious National Arts School in Havana, where he heard recordings by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Padrón’s tenure in the ’90s with Chucho Valdés and Irakere certainly fortified his interest in jazz, but it’s not all that he is.
“I appreciate jazz, but I’m a rumbero. The real jazz players are in North America—Wynton Marsalis and others—but we do share something. Jazz is about picardia [spice] in the music. It’s about a music that doesn’t exist on the page. It’s about imagination and creating something new. We do that too in Cuban music.”
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School holiday camps
Coming up:
- Winter Jazz Camp, July 3-5
- Advanced improvisation workshop, September 23 – 24
- Jazz for Kids, December 19 & 20
Winter Jazz Camp
Wednesday July 3 - Friday 5, ages 10+
24 hours of tuition!
It is a non-residential program for musicians ages 10 to 20, held at the Jazz Workshop in St Leonards. It features a varied program including:
- Big band playing
- Combo/small ensemble playing
- Improvisation intsruction
- Jazz style
- Jazz theory and composition options
- Performance workshop
- Rhythm section and instrumental masterclass session
- Jam session
Students work in separate groups based on their level of jazz playing for most sessions. Some sessions are combined.
The three days cost $295 for 24 hours of tuition. This camp filled up very quickly last year, so best not to put off booking too long if you are planning to enrol yourself or your child.
Bookings are open now.
When:
- Wednesday July 3 - Friday July 5. 10am – 5:15 pm each day.
Where: Jazz Workshop Australia, 58 Atchison St St Leonards
Cost: $295
Bookings: Phone or email message. We’ll need to know:
- Student’s name
- Parent contact details (email and phone)
- What instrument/s they will play at the workshop
- A rough idea of their level of jazz playing (so we can be sure they will be working at the level best for them). Maybe say how long they have been playing, any grades completed…that sort of thing. They don’t have to be advanced at all. They don’t have to be able to read music, though it helps.
- Whether the student has any significant medical condition or allergy we should know about.
To pay:
You can either send a cheque to Jazz Workshop Australia, PO Box 161 Crows Nest 1585
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No clue on Edna Ferber, though I did figure out the clue was looking for the author of Show Boat, which I hadn't previously known had been anything before it was a musical. I found it similar to my performance on the FJ in Tom Nissley game 5, where it was clear what novel was alluded to, but I was clueless on the author.
I knew the railroad cities were in a song, but I got off on the wrong foot when I tried to think of a title with Albuquerque in it, and never recovered. I might have pulled it out if I'd gone straight to Santa Fe, but my mental process never got past that left turn.
I wouldn't have gotten Odessa without question #2 on LearnedLeague just over a week earlier. I lucked into getting that question right by naming the only Ukrainian city I could think of besides Kiev. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known about the organization for ex-Nazis, and would have been at sea for the J! clue. | http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1212&start=20 | 2013-05-18T10:31:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Bayang is pursuing a centuries-old bloody mission. Koko and Leech just want to survive. Scirye, in a moment of grief, has made a rash vow to her goddess. Wherever Scirye goes, her griffin Kles goes also. If they want to achieve their goals and destroy the evil dragon Badik and his mysterious master, they must put aside their differences and learn to work together.
There's no lengthy world-building or description to slow down the reader; we're plunged immediately into a world similar and yet vastly different from our own, full of magic and strange creatures, from griffins to shapechangers, trolls to walking shark-people. Laurence Yep skillfully weaves his world-building into the adventure and as the reader is pulled along by the action we're fed fascinating bits of information about history, magic, and seemingly mythical creatures.
Following the trail of the thief Badik, the group of friends end up near Hawaii, where they will meet a powerful and unpredictable goddess and her allies. Each member of the group has prejudices and fears to set aside; each character must overcome their shortcomings and fear if they are going to survive and be successful in their mission.
An afterword and bibliography directs readers to the historical sources of many of the people, events, and geographies included in the story and eager readers will be on tenterhooks waiting for the next book in the series!
There's a nice mixture of high fantasy romance and adventure fantasy action which will please a variety of readers. I did feel that the "Cloud Folk" were a bit Oz-ish for the story, but that's a minor quibble.
Verdict: Fantasy fans, especially those who like the emphasis on adventure and action, will love this story as will fans of magical creatures and those who like complex world-building that's not too overpowering.
ISBN: 978-0765319241; Published September 2009 by Starscape; Review copy provided by publisher; Purchased for the library
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Thanks for the review--I want to read this one!!! | http://jeanlittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/11/city-of-fire-by-laurence-yep.html | 2013-05-18T10:21:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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'Alzheimer's Has Come Into Its Own,' Frelinghuysen Says
Costs to care for Alzheimer's patients projected to pass $1 trillion by 2050.
About 75 people from throughout New Jersey attended a town hall meeting by the Alzheimer's Association Greater New Jersey Chapter at the Senior Center of the Chathams Wednesday.
Rep. Rodney Frelighuysen (NJ-11) discussed funding for Alzheimer's research through the National Institutes of Health from a political perspective, though his comments were brief. Mostly, he listened to the stories those gathered had to share about the disease.
Debbie Warburton, the moderator, outlined the first National Alzheimer's Plan, which was introduced in May. The plan calls for an additional $100 million towards Alzheimer's research and care in the 2013 fiscal year, appropriated toward the plan's five goals:
- to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's by 2025 ($80 million proposed);
- to enhance care quality and efficiency ($4 million proposed);
- to expand support for people with Alzheimer's and their families ($10.5 million proposed);
- to enhance public awareness and engagement ($4.2 million proposed);
- and to improve data to track progress ($1.3 million proposed).
Frelinghuysen said funding for Alzheimer's research was something politicians could agree on, no matter their political affiliation. "It's not a huge lift for Congress for an additional $100 million," he said.
Frelinhuysen said Congress was more likely to pass a continuing resolution for six months and continue to draft a federal budget for the 2013 fiscal year after they return from their August recess. "In terms of an increase, it may be a while before we get that," he said.
He also compared Alzheimer's research and advocacy to diseases which "have historically been better funded," such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and leukemia. By comparison, he said, "Alzheimer's, I think, has acutely come into its own" since his first congressional term.
One man at the meeting, Mike Stanford, spoke about his wife Marcia's battle with breast cancer. After a diagnosis 16 months ago, a lumpectomy and a prescription for tamoxifen, "she was basically cured. That's not an option that we see with Alzheimer's," he said.
Marcia has an early onset of Alzheimer's, which several of those at the town hall said has affected their lives. "I am her primary caregiver," Mike said. "Her secondary caregiver is my daughter Riley. ... I'm probably the only parent in America who can't wait for his daughter to get her license," he said, listing all the errands Riley does already for both her parents.
Stanford's son Ryan, 12, also helps care for his mother, but Stanford said he does not really understand what's happened to her.
Walt Leudke's wife Denise also suffers from early onset Alzheimer's and has been hospitalized for the last two years. She was diagnosed seven years ago at the age of 54. "Alzheimer's is not just an old people disease anymore," he said.
Marie Demarais of Phillipsburg spoke about her mother, Dorothy, 90, who as Alzheimer's. "I go and have breakfast with her every day," Demarais said. "I see my mom every day, but I miss her terribly."
Demarais said her mother graduated cum laude with her bachelor's degree at the age of 64. "Now I hear people talk to her as if she has an IQ of 50," she said.
When Jeanine Wilson of New Vernon stood to speak about her father, who has Alzheimer's, she began to cry and had to sit. Warburton read the remainder of her statement:
"I am here to give a voice to my father, because he no longer has one. From a very early age I remember my father taking such good care of me ... I never imagined that in my 30s I would have to do the same for him. ... I am a constant advocate for his dignity."
Several of those present spoke about the need to train medical professionals to care for people with dementia and Alzheimer's. They told stories of ER doctors and nurses and even nursing home staff members who yelled or were forceful with patients who have Alzheimer's.
Laura Holly-Dierbach, the vice president of Programs and Services for the Alzheimer's Association's Greater New Jersey Chapter said, "Ninety percent of what what we know about Alzheimer's we learned in the last 20 years." Several others said how important it is for patients to enroll in clinical trials to help find better treatments.
Alzheimer's also complicates other existing health conditions, such as diabetes, which requires patients to remember when they last ate and what they had to eat.
Attendants also spoke about the rising cost of caring for people with Alzheimer's. According to the Alzheimer's Association, as many as 16 million Americans could have Alzheimer's by the year 2050, compared with about 5.4 million in 2012.
The cost of caring for those patients could rise from $200 million today to $1.1 trillion by 2050.
Carolyn Fefferman, a senior advisor to Sen. Robert Memendez' office also attended and read a letter from Menendez, who was attending the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.
The letter detailed the senator's experience with Alzheimer's, on both a personal and political level. His mother died after living with the disease for "18 long, difficult years."
Menendez included benefits for those with Alzheimer's in the Affordable Care Act and was a cosponsor of the National Alzheimer's Project Act, "which has significantly increased federal efforts in combating this disease."
Alzheimer's is currently the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Jackie Major
12:19 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Thanks to all of the people who spoke last night. This was such an informative and emotional town hall meeting. It really gave a face to Alzheimer's Disease and the families who face it every day.
Jackie Major
Leonard Resto
9:15 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012
Sorry I missed this meeting. I am in a new job that started 4 weeks ago and I had a client meeting with a client who has a serious insurance claim. I cared for my Mother from 1998 to 2000. She suffered from Alzheimer's and she physically died in April, 2000. We had lost Mom in 1998 when she no longer recognized who I was. I took a year and a half from work to exclusively care for her 24/7. It was the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life; but, it was the best thing I ever did in my life. I have no regrets and would do it again tomorrow if I had to. I admire those that can care for an Alzheimer's patient because it is a 24 hour a day job. For caregivers, take advantage of support groups, you can learn a lot of practical tips. I also found the Senior Center- "Time Out" on Division Street at the border of Chatham and Madison to be a God send. I would take my Mom there 3 times a week and they treated her with great dignity and grace. That allowed me 3 hours to run errands and take care of my own affairs. As a result, I have been a generous donor to "Time Out" for their kindness.
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After making a couple of fabric origami bags,
and then some paper origami flowers..
it got me to wondering if you can do any kind of origami using fabric instead of paper?
My initial attempts haven't been too successful..
I suspect that I need to use stiffer fabric, or add interfacing or similar. But I figure I should be able to do it using the iron, and a few stitches here and there!
Have you ever tried fabric origami?
If you google images for fabric origami - there are some amazing things around.
Just as I'm writing this - I've found this great little tutorial for
making little origami gift bags. This lady used fusible webbing to add pretty paper to the back of fabric, which also stiffened it, then folded origami style! Brilliant!
Ok - watch this space, and I'm going to experiment some more!
If anyone has any ideas, tutorials and tips for me on exploring fabric origami, I'd love to hear them!
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Here is our new cowhide rug! I love it. Halston, my brother's girlfriend, picked it up for us in Argentina and delivered it to us when we met up at Disneyworld. She got my brother one too - he uses it as an extra blanket on his bed.
I should also say that we got a super deal on it. We got this for well over half off of what I've seen it go for in local furniture stores. Thanks, Halston!
Funny you post this b/c I was considering getting a black & white cowhide rug from Ikea for my office. I chickened out but it looks great in here.
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Today's giveaway is a big one! Sachin + Babi is a husband-and-wife team who create the most beautiful--and slightly edgy--clothing. Sachin grew up in India and met Babi in New York, where they fell in love. Today they're offering one lucky reader their gorgeous Elizabeth jacket ($680), which is ivory herringbone with a leather collar and belt. Wouldn't you love to wear it all winter?
For a chance to win, please "like" Sachin + Babi on Facebook and leave a comment below. A winner will be chosen on Friday, December 16th, so you have ten days. Good luck! Update: Molliee M. is our winner. Thanks for playing.
I'm in desperate need for a new coat, and this fits my style perfectly!
WOW. This coat is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Oh my gosh! This coat is absolutely gorgeous with the leather accents! I liked them on facebook and am crossing my fingers and toes!
xoxo
Molliee
molliee_martin@yahoo.com
Well that is just precious!
I would love to keep warm in this jacket, especially during freezing cold Utah winters.
Ooh so gorgeous!
Incredible coat~ LOVE!
So cozy! I'm going to Iceland in February, and this looks like just the thing to keep me from freezing!
~Stop Me if You've Heard This One
I would like a cup of tea with my beautiful new coat :)
"Liked" on FB!
looks so warm and beautiful!
Liked on Facebook... this looks Ultimately Comfortable.
Oh my goodness!
Liked.
Beautiful coat! Love your blog :-)
how beautiful!
What an amazing coat! Love the black leather detail. Such a sophisticated and classy coat for a New York winter. I like Sachin + Babi a thousand times :)
Good lord, that's gorgeous. I'd wear it everywhere! It'd be a fantastic (and much needed change) from my black coat collection.
great design and looks really warm! would love to wrap myself up in this..in the middle of western north carolina!
whoooo hooooooooo!
Happy Christmas to me.
that looks WARM! :o)
that is unbelievably gorgeous. it looks not only sophisticated and refined, but also cozy! I really hope I win!
love the coat!
Done I double-like them!!!! this coat is amazing!!!! wowowowow.....keeping fingers crossed : )
are you kidding me? they're giving away a coat? awesome. and like!
Gorgeous!
My plain black coat is looking so sad and tired. What a perfect way to amp up my winter style :)
YES PLEASE!!!!
I would love, love, love this coat! How gorgeous!
Love this coat, absolutely beautiful. =)
Oh my goodness, this coat is simply perfect! Love:) Fingers crossed and have a wonderful afternoon. xo
That coat is simply to die for! :)
How nice! I'd love to win. Thanks for the giveaway.
Love Sachin + Babi and this coat! Looks so luxe yet cozy.
Thanks for the giveaway!
i am obsessed with anything herringbone, gotta have this coat! i just "liked" them on FB. hope i win, crossing my fingers.
What a beautiful coat! Love the mix of leather... amazing.
i wish i were wearing that coat right now!
Do want!!
liked on facebook. love this coat! :)
moorehe2@gmail.com
!!!! it is so gorgeous, and i am so COLD! actually, it looks like absolutely everything they design is gorgeous. thanks joanna, as always, for more threads to lust after! xo, k
this is absolutely beautiful!
oh my goodness!! this is simply gorgeous!! I also need a new coat, so it would be perfect!!! : ) oh I hope to win
what a gorgeous coat! i would love to win!
Lovely, lovely coat. :)
That coat is stunning, I need that! :O
I want that coat!!!
This coat is absolutely gorgeouS! I would probably never take it off.
Jenna Harrison
Oh my goodness it's beautiful! Love the leather.
really love this coat. so beautiful!
Oh my. My heart stopped when I saw that coat - beautiful! I 'liked' them :)
WOW! I'd be the best sister ever if I won this and gave it to my sister oooooorrrr I'd be the most fashionable lady on my block if I kept if for myself ;)
beautiful! I own one hot pink coat. I desperately need a black one!
Wow, beautiful! I want!
Seriously? for FREE?
Perfect for this Minnesotan:)
this jacket is perfection!!
I liked them on FB!! That coat is gorgeous btw!!
Love this coat! Fingers crossed.
The coat is gorgeous! That would make any wintery New England day more enjoyable!
this would be perfect my weekends spent skiing in tahoe!
Beautiful, and it looks warm!
can't get on FB at work! But I can't pass this up:-)
LOVE this coat!
Gorgeous.
3 words: Want. Need. Now.
krissy jane
theshortofit.blogspot.com
Gorgeous coat, the announcement day is my birthday!! (zacademic@gmail.com)
this would be perfect for my weekends spent skiing in tahoe!
Oh my gosh! That coat is to die for, and would be nice for this cold weather here in Chicago!
so pretty!
Gorgeous!
beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous clothing. Thank you so much for the chance to win! steph_lui at yahoo
Wow. That is all I have to say.
Yes please, perfect for when it snows! :)
I would LOVE this coat- it's absolutely stunning : )
Love it! Also have done the fb "like"
Gah! I am in love with this coat. I am feeling very covetous right now.
This is beautiful, the story behind the couple who created it makes it that much more interesting!
adorable coat!! it would look even better in my closet :)
Classic!
Such a beautiful coat! I <3 Outerwear!
The herringbone pattern is ultra chic!! I live in Calgary and it is sooo cold right now!! Need that awesome coat!
What a staement piece!
Perfect!
ooh...yes please!
Gorgeous. Would love to own it.
Oh, I would love to snuggle up in this! Please :)
Already like them on Facebook. Boy would I loooove that jacket. So beautiful.
So cute, snuggly yet chic!! Would be perfect for my trip to the East Coast (Brrrr) from San Francisco. Have a great day everyone!
This looks so incredibly cozy (and beautiful!)
so gorgeous!
Yes please!!! It is gorgeous.
AMAZING COAT!!!!
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that looks so warm and cozy for the winter! i just moved from a warm tropical country to cold wintery netherlands and i severely need a coat! especially one that fantastic.
LOVE, LOVE! I have to win one of these drawings, right? :)
oh wow that is beautiful!!!
xo emily
That coat is insanely gorgeous!
It looks awesomely warm and chic!
i've liked them!!!
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Wow!! What an amazingly gorgeous coat! I would wear it all the time!
Wow. That coat is just beautiful... and also incredibly sexy. Nice work Sachin + Babi!
caitandallie@gmail.com
Wow Such a beautiful, elegant coat. I love when designers tip their hats to male style when design for women.
Beautiful coat... looks like it would work for both casual and dressy!
Love. that. coat.
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wow...that is a beautiful coat!! i loved all their looks on their website too. so sophisticated and fresh!!
i love this!!!
Beautiful! I love herringbone. And the leather details? Amazing.
gorgeous coat! crossing fingers!!
What a pretty coat!
love the coat!
Liked it on fb! What a great giveaway....it is a wonderful combination of classic and edgy. I'd love to win!
Who could say no to this coat!?
Beautiful!
Love this jacket! Such a fabulous giveaway! I've liked it on facebook
Flippin gorgeous! Love it.
Love the herringbone fabric!
Umm could this coat be more beautiful. I would looove to win!!
This is the most beautiful coat! I would love to have it:)
I like them on FB.
I am looking for a new winter coat, and this one has all the components that I am looking for in a new winter coat!
wow. that looks warm and gorgeous.
what a gorgeous coat! I've liked them on facebook... so glad you introduced them on here, all of their clothes are amazing!
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OMG I love this coat!! Fingers crossed :)
Liked on FB! This is gorgeous!
xo-Julie
Peace. Love. LOL!
I love it! What an amazing Christmas present:)
FAB coat!! Liked on facebook - and if I could like it twice, I would!
Oh! I've been oogling Sachin + Babi's clothes all month. I adore this jacket. :)
Oh, how cute! I would love to wear this in the cold Chicago weather!
LOVE this!
I "liked" them and hope to win this gorgeous coat!
Uh, yes! This coat would be perfect to brave my first Chicago winter.
so gorgeous. liked them on facebook!
I don't need a new winter coat, but I desperately WANT this one! I love the clean lines with a slouchy feel...and that material! Keeping my fingers crossed!!
I need a coat so badly!!! This one is gorgeous! Pick me pleaaaasssssseeeeeee!
very cool! i would rock it all winter long!
rwvanvoorhis at gmail dot com
Stylishly keep me warm while walking to class in Wisconsin? Yes please.
Oooooh, how decadent! Loves!
This jacket is absolutely stunning!
Gorgeous! Love all the clothes and love that jacket!
i love herringbone, this is perfect for winter!
Oh to bundle up in that coat. Even be tter that it was designed by lovers!
Fingers crossed!!!
To die for! Love it!
iove this coat
Ohh hope I win!!
The Elizabeth Jacket is BEAUTIFUL. WOW!
that coat is gor.geous. and in my favorite color, too!
such a great coat! the leather brings it all together!!
I need a new coat so badly!!
this is my only Hanukkah wish!
This coat is BEAUTiful!
OHHHHHHH....Lele Likey A Lot. I'll take all of their dresses while you're at it....thank you!
As always thanks for the awesome offers and links to new threads.
love. that. gorgeous. coat.
So simple but yet so elegant. I did not know them before, what a great discovery!
Gorgeous!! I would love to be in that coat right now! 38 degrees and dropping here in Alabama.
I'd love to win this! Liked on fbook.
That coat would make a long Canadian winter a little more comfortable!
This coat is beautiful! The leather perfectly compliments the ivory herringbone! I like Sachin + Babi on Facebook and I would absolutely love to own this jacket! :)
hsusarah1@gmail.com
Lovely!
pretty and snuggly warm
kinda looks like a robe...but i would try to work it!
Gorgeous coat!!
beautiful coat, i love the texture.
Liked them on facebook and love this coat!
That is one gorgeous herringbone coat! Love.
I hate using facebook, but this is just too cute not to "like"!
I am in Maine. It's cold here!
The coat is lovely. THanks for hosting.
Loving the leather accent!
LOVEEEEE!!!
What a stunning coat! I've had a look at a few of the pieces, they really are simply beautiful
That coat is gorgeous!! Wow!! What a rad company too!
Looks so different open and closed! love it.
Yowza! I love them. And I love this jacket. Count me in!
This coat is outrageously pretty.
Joanna, you have the most wonderful giveaways! Thanks!
So super gorgeous!!!
Amazing! I have my fingers crossed!
mylittlemaisie.blogspot.com
That jacket is so gorgeous!! You could get away with wearing it all year long, here in sporadic San Fran!
I am in LOVE with this jacket!! And I love love love your blog too! xoxo
Gorgeous!
Oh my gosh. I'm dying over this. It's so amazing.
That jacket is exactly what I need.
Beautiful, liked on FB :)
I LOVE THIS JACKET! and would love to own it :D
~Kate
Wow, what a giveaway. I love Sachi + Babi!!
adore this coat - gorgeous - liked them on FB! thanks!!
That jacket is gorgeous!
I wish I could love this on facebook.
ahuskin at gmail dot com
LOVE!
That jacket is bananas! (channeling Racheal Zoe)
The coat is beautiful! Hope I win.
that coat is so beautiful! wow!!
gorgeous coat and interesting company!
a maz za zing
so lovely!
beautiful coat!!! crossing fingers and toes. liked on facebook
done! lovely coat.
My daughter would really really love this coat!
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I vant!!!!!, :-)
GORGEOUS!
Beautiful!
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Do or Don't: Magazines in the bathroom
In their guest bathroom, they had a pretty wicker basket with books and magazines. And smack in the middle was the book 401(k)s for Dummies. It made me laugh. How long are people spending in there?!
I know it's a random question, but I'm curious: Do you have magazines in your bathroom? I know a lot of people do. Something about bathroom reading weirds me out, but Alex says I'm crazy, and maybe he's right! Thoughts? Do or don't?
Do you pee in front of your significant other? And our bathroom makeover.
(Top photo by Patrick Cline for Lonny)
Haha, I'm all for the reading material in the bathroom.. but come to think of it, there's nothing in my home bathroom... but there ARE fashion & retails mags in the bathroom at my shop!
There is NO reading material in our bathroom. Too dirty. If a book or magazine make it in there, they stay in the bathroom until they are thrown out.
We were once hosting my husband's friend for a week, and our guest took one of my husband's graphic novels into the toilet with him one morning. My husband told him he could just take it home with him when he left if he liked. the friend thought it was the nicest gesture, little did he know...
No! haha, I never understood this approach to the bathroom. I am IN AND OUT. no reading necessary. Although, that said, my BF disagrees strongly, so in that case we MUST HAVE AT LEAST one book availible for him, haha.
Yeah of course we do. I like to read in the bathtub most nights. Its a favorite way of unwinding.
i have ikea (and other brands) catalogs and some brochures we get in the mail (i change them regularly). i don't really use them (ok sometimes ikea :P) but the man in the house sometimes does. although now he's more into his smartphone and all those games he can play ;) he spends large amounts of time in there so he must have something (else) to do :þ
haha so funny, i'm loving these answers:)
(glad i'm not the only one who wondered about this!)
There is absolutely no reason for magazines to be in the bathroom. I mean, seriously... why? and gross. So unnecessary.
If you want to read while in the bath... just bring the book in with you. No need to stack them in the bathroom.
if someone wants to bring reading material in the bathroom, then thats their business...but leaving them in their to collect germs is gross. Plus, why would anyone want to touch a magazine someone else was flipping through while going to the bathroom, yuck!! On a side note, LOTS of people bring their cell phones in the bathroom with them. That is really gross! you put that to your face! I try to remember that before I reach for someones phone.
Yes! Most of the time it's for decorative purpose, but sometimes it comes in handy when we're staying there longer than expected.. ;)
We have a little wicker basket with magazines in our bathroom but not the guest bathroom. Somehow, having magazines on display like that seems to me like we're all admitting that we're not just "powdering our noses" haha, which to me seems a little too open. At my parents' house growing up, though, there was an entire bookcase in the guest bathroom, stock-piled with books like "Small Businesses for Dummies" and I would always find myself spending way more time than necessary perusing the bookcase (which was accessible without even having to get up! Eeek!
My concern is hygiene.... I don't have a problem with myself or others reading in the bathroom but leaving reading material in the room weirds me out. Love the bathroom with the map, though!
Yep. Got magazines. Though now I'm sorta thinking I should toss them...
When I was younger my parents friends house was the coolest place to visit, in their bathroom they had a GAMEBOY! Also crossword books & joke books, so people would often come back to the BBQ or pool party with a funny joke to share...
ha.
Lindsay @ Darling Clementine
My fiance and I do not agree on this one and we are moving in together in a couple months. Seeing any reading material in the bathroom makes me uncomfortable--which I know is silly since everyone knows what is going on in there. On the other hand, my fiance has TONS of magazines in his bathroom and when he stays at my place, he leaves reading material in mine. That said, we use the bathroom very differently--I'm an in and out kind of person and he is not. Am I being unsympathetic?
Yes! When I was in England it seemed like most of the people whose houses we visited had not just a basket, but a SHELF dedicated to light, humurous reading. Personally I loved the idea. I think it's funny and welcoming, haha! I know have a small book of art on the wicker table by the toilet. LOL :)
Once someone in my family is done reading something, it usually makes its way to the basket in the bathroom in case you want a little distraction. However, I'm never in the bathroom long enough to get through any articles. So it's not so much my thing.
I guess if you think about it, it is a bit weird, but I love to read in the bathroom and so does my bf. I always end up reading shampoo bottles and things like that if I don't have something to read, so we tend to keep our magazines in there LOL.
This is funny! I'm with you - I've always thought it's kind of weird/gross. ;) I'm sure if I did have reading material in the bathroom, though, my husband would enjoy it. Ha!
We seem to have a pile of J. Crew catalogs...I have to wonder how Jenna Lyons would feel about it ;)
I can't do it! It grosses me out and makes me think of people lounging on the toilet while they read. Sorry guests! Read elsewhere!
Of course! Where else would I get my reading done? It's the only place in the entire house where absolutely NO ONE can bother and interrupt me!
read in the bathroom - yes keep material in there - NO. tacky. ick.
I guess when you take a step back it seems kind of weird. However, it definitely makes the time go by quicker. The only down fall is that sometime you end up staying there longer than you need to because you're hooked on what you're reading, lol... And -ick.
It totally weirds me out too! Mac and I have the biggest debate about this so now he has gotten a midcentury box to keep all of this reading material in but out of sight as well, haha.
No books or magazines in mine. I don't feel like I'm ever in there long enough to warrant having them in there. Plus it just seems kind of dirty to me.
But, I do love that map bathroom picture! So good!
My husband's bathrooom is more like a library... I on the otherhand don't understand the whole 'relaxing on the toilet with a good book' thing, and am in and out. I think this is a venus vs. mars thing...
I tend to be a bit impatient in there, so having something to do while I use the facilities, take a bath, etc. is nice. I take books in sometime too!
It kind of weirds me out too! I always thought it was a guy thing, but maybe not.
Oh! I have issues about reading material in the bathroom but I covered it in a cute way. I framed 2 posters from banquet that match my bathroom (it's in shades of navy, grey and gold) that both have fun little nuggets of reading material. One is mounted so someone sitting down - with good eyesight- could read and the other is mounted where someone who might, ahem, stand to do their business could check it out!
Here's one of the prints I bought:
The other seems to be sold out or discontinued, but they have lots of good choices!
p.s. remember this?
I keep some reading material in the bathroom...but only for when I'm taking a bath!
Nope. Magazines in the bathroom totally gross me out. Not because of germs or anything but just because it's like...I don't know. It's a fairly intimate and revealing image to give people of yourself? Magazines stored in the bathroom would be like a vibrator stored right smack on top of the dresser, or prescriptions stored on a spice rack near the fridge, or upper lip hair remover stored on the sink counter. Everybody knows that people do these things, but nobody really needs to KNOW about it.
I don't really ever spend much time at all in the bathroom, unless I'm, like, really sick, so maybe I just have really extreme, gross associations with bathroom reading material.
This TOTALLY weirds me out. Glad to know I am not alone.
Yuck. No. Never. No reading material in the bathroom ever never ever. And thank you for bringing this up! It's always been a pet peeve of mine!
And regarding your PS - yes I pee in front of my mate and my kids! It's kind of hard to avoid. Seems like - whichever room I go in, they follow!
i read in the bath but that's it, I'm not a huge fan of sticking around for hours in the bathroom unless I'm bathing xx
No way. I'm like the bookstore in the Seinfeld episode - any reading material that makes it into the bathroom is "flagged."
Oh Joanna... you have got to be the most polite girl on all of blogland. I do not know of any man who doesn't read in the bathroom. Magazines in my house have been replaced by the iPad...
my husband & i don't keep any in our restrooms - we're usually in & out! but we always laugh because when we go to my parent's house, there's national geographics and newspapers. we're talkin' stacks of these things. i mean, really?! that's some heavy reading.
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My father-in-law keeps sodoku books in his bathroom. Ha!
Ha, I come from a big family of bathroom readers - I'm always wandering around the house with a book. Although because our bathroom is small we don't leave anything in it, I certainly have no problem with people who do.
I don't really get the hygiene complaint - we clean our bathroom twice a week, and it's not like I'm, uh, *doing* anything on my hands or the shelf...
Does anyone really need to spend that long in there that they need something to entertain them? Surely if it's taking that long, there's something wrong with your diet :D
We have separate bathrooms and mine has the occasional catalogue but his is chock full of discarded newspaper sections and half read books and all kinds of esoteric reading material. My bottom falls alseep if I sit too long but he spends days in there. Must be a male thing.
My in-laws have a huge backet of catalogues right next to the toilet in the main bathroom. It totally grosses me out. I think it's tacky too. Glad I am not the only one who doesn't like this.
We actually have a stack of children's book in our bathrooms. The reason being - our toddler loves books and the only way we could get her on the toilet to potty train her was to bribe her with books! Plus, our guests get a kick out of reading some of them when they visit the bathroom.
Why???? Why would you read in there. Get in, get out!
I LOVE that you asked this question! Confession: I sometimes do a little reading in the bathroom. However, I am totally opposed to having magazines or books on display in the bathroom. It's like we all know that goes on, but we don't need to draw attention to it or promote it. ICK! Plus, I don't like to think about the germs on those periodicals!
i think magazines are ok, but i seriously never spend more time in there than i have to :)
Miyan
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I have always hated it. I know many lovely people who do this but even as a young teenager I remember thinking, "It's tacky. Yuck."
If I'm taking a bath, yes, I take a magazine or two in...a book. But not like what you're describing. I loathe it. I'm so glad you brought this up!
LOL when I was growing up we always had Calvin and Hobbes books in the bathroom, and we (my brother and sister and I) would always leave one open right in front of the toilet in our bathroom. Never really discussed it, we just always did it and the next person would just pick up reading where the other one left off. My mom made a comment about how weird this was once, and we were all like "well yeah, makes it easy for the next person!" she CRACKED up laughing at our mutual and unspoken understanding over this matter LOL!! I actually don't have reading material in house now, but I should. Thanks for reminding me! :)
I'm not a fan and have no space anyway. However someone did a health study on this last year for those who are worried about that:
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I don't get it. For me in and out as quickly as possible. I'd rather read in a comfortable chair or my bed.
i so agree with lisa marie. such a gender divide here. if it werent for the bathroom, i never would have finished east of eden. on the other hand, i agree it's not the *classiest* thing to think about. maybe keep an ipad in there with a short cartoon - and when it's over a message pops up that says, 'ok, finish up you weirdo!'
Joanna! I totally agree- bathrooms are where you should do your "business" and then get out! The idea of having reading material in the bathroom has this old bourgeois kind of feeling to me- like it might be classy or something, but yikes- I think it's just kind of icky to spend so much time sitting on a toilet!!
Joanna... Alex is right! You are crazy.
I can't believe the comments about germs.
haha I never understood why people read on the toilet, I don't sit there for long so what's the point right? But since i moved in with my lover and he has some little funny books there, i started flicking through some and it's pretty cool :-) i just didn't grew up with magazine in the bathroom.... and now there a little book to learn italian that i read there.
our bathroom isn't big enough for a stack of magazines... however, in the age of electronic devices, i have been known to take my kindle, ipad and/or android in with me.
when i was a kid and first discovered the reading in the bathroom thing, i used to HIDE OUT IN THERE with my book to get out of doing homework or chores.
That's funny! My boyfriend leaves his "German for Dummies" in the bathroom!! Also, I remember my parents would put the Readers' Digest short stories collections in their bathrooms, which I always thought was a good idea.
It's a free country so bring what you like to the john with you, but then by all means bring it on out with you too. I think leaving magazines for others in the loo is just yucky. You can guess what people have being doing while holding that magazine before! Thanks for thinking of me and my reading needs, but I'll peruse your coffee table next time I'm curious what you've been reading lately ;)
i am kind of with you--something about it weirds me out.
i don't know i just can't stop thinking of all the germs on the magasines and stuff.
Neither me or my family has ever kept magazines in the bathroom. I just don't see the point/functionality. It doesn't work for me. Of course, it's something I could live with in future...XOXO
My friend has a copy of "Everyone Poops" in her bathroom for humorous decor, but that's about as far as I'll go.
Keep the door locked, turn on the fan, wash your hands, get in and get out. I want it to seem like you just stepped into and came back from Narnia. Less I know, the better!
Love your blog! :D
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OF COURSE!!!! It's perfect for bath time!
yes! with three little ones chasing after me, the bathroom is a great place to hide for a few minutes and flip through a magazine :) no shame here!
My American friend does so I thought it was a US thing, we dont in the Uk :P
I keep crossword puzzles in the bathroom! (And a couple catalogs or magazines.)
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm commenting from the can!
I put all copies of new magazines from the mail directly on the back of the commode. That's just where they live in this house.
I am a recent convert to magazines in the bathroom. I used to find the entire concept utterly repulsive, but gradually have come around to the idea. Am still a bit gross out at other peoples homes, but am ok to have a few copies of Elle Decor or Living Etc. in my own 'loo'. I don't hang around in there - no point having books!
Jamie's comment at 11.41 made me laugh!
When I first started dating my boyfriend he lived with a group of 5 guys and they had books in the bathroom. It really grossed me out because I always noticed how long his housemates spent in the bathroom and the stench that followed (too much information?)
Anyway, we don't have any reading material in our bathroom but I do like to take one in with me when having a bath but I'm guessing that's quite common isn't it?
I don't get why people think books in the bathroom are so gross. It's not like theyre any closer to your business than your face is while you're in there. You touch them BEFORE you wipe, right? Plus you keep lots of other stuff in there, like towels and your toothbrush. Why isn't it gross for those things to be around?
we have a stash that my husband reads while he's hiding from the children. our kids (ages 6 & 8) now pick up a magazine while they are using the toilette. it cracks me up every time i see one of them in there reading wine spectator, little legs dangling in the air.
Oh my goodness, that's hilarious! I definitely keep magazines in the bathroom...but AFTER I'm done reading them ;) I keep feeling like guests would get bored in there...and I don't want them to notice my dirty mirror ;)
What is up with all those commenters saying it would be "gross" and there would be "germs" on the magazines and books in the bathroom? Can we clean up with the belief that bathrooms are unclean rooms? You can have reading material in your bathroom and please, don't make people believe that this was something forbidden and gross. You go to the bathroom with mostly clean hands (as you go everywhere with hopefully clean hands) and you read while sitting. When would this be gross? Did you ever go to a library? Do you read at the doctor's? Do you have reading material on your work desk? Then you shouldn't, if you tell people they are gross when they read in the bathroom. Sorry for being a bit upset, but this really is something I cannot believe - all those cleaning fanatics when it comes to toilet-things. It is just normal and you do not get sick by reading a book that someone else has touched.
Nope! Totally creeps me out. I dated someone a few years back and when we visited his parents house I noticed a whole basket of novels, crossword books and loads of magazines in the bathroom. So gross. ;-)
Unless you are ill, how long does it take to poop? I mean, REALLY? The only time I have ever taken reading material to a bathroom is when I've had running induced IBS, or have had a stomach bug.
I also agree that it's unclean. Which, I would say is fine in your own household, but I wouldn't dare touch a magazine in someone elses.... eeewwww.
My husband keeps his science magazines there. I find that hilarious. I don't think I spend enough time there to think about going through a magazine...
I have no problem with reading material in the bathroom. A long book, haha, that is funny, but that kind of reading can be done in a bath tub or ... when my toddler takes a bath I sit in their and read. I don't consider bathrooms dirty or germy. I keep my tooth brush in their, are the same germs landing on books landing on my toothbrush too...????
What is funny to me is how many people think sitting on a toilet seat in a public bathroom is OK (have read this topic on a similar kind of forum) but reading in a bathroom is "Gross".
Very contradicting in my opinion!
I don't actually have anything in the bathroom in my apartment, but there were always magazines and books in the bathrooms in my parents house. I don't think it's gross as long as you put the lid down before you flush so germs don't go everywhere.
The bathroom in this picture is so charming, is this one of yours or something you found?
Kristina
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My friend in college kept him jounalism textbook in the bathroom and would read everytime he had a....ummm...."long one". By the end of the week he'd finish the chapter he had for homework. Haha
I prefer to read in a comfortable place so the bathroom is not the place for me. I would choose my couch or my bed for my reading at home.
I am also weirded out by reading material in the bathroom. Ho wlong do people sit in there?? It also gives me a terrible bathroom visual of the resident...
My husband complemented my dad on his toilet paper holder with a built in magazine rack so of course he was gifted one just like it.
I don't worry about hygiene and the people who are should be more worried about their toothbrushes! I've been to lots of people's houses where the toothbrushes are on the sink right beside the toilet. I'll have to say that grosses me out!
Good friends of mine wallpapered their guest bathroom with pages from romance novels the former owner had left in their apartment. I often wish I needed more time in the bathroom than I did (and that you could read the other side of the pages:).
Are you serious? Unless you ladies are in a constant state of diarrhea every time you've gotta go #2.. I don't see how it's a quick "in and out" process (just being honest here). The bathroom is a quiet place to get some reading done while working on some.. other things as well. ;)
Um, sometimes you CAN'T just "get in, get out." Sometimes things just... take awhile.
::cough cough::
That said, we don't always have reading material in our bathroom, but I will take my iPhone in with me if I think I'll be awhile. That's usually how I quickly check blogs while I'm working! ;) Hey, what else am I going to do? Just sit there?
hahahaha this is cracking me up....
we always had magazines in the bathroom when i was growing up from highlights to jc penney. maybe there was a "fix it yourself" book or something in there from time to time, but never novels just hanging out.....if those make it into the bathroom it's reading material while taking a bath. now that i live in my own place, i find that she brings over magazines she's looked through and leaves them in my bathroom of all places LOL....
I was casually sleeping with a guy who took showers only so it was a little off putting to see this STACK of novels, TIME magazine, etc. in his bathroom... but at the same time it was nice to see intellectual material and not maxim.....hahahaha I'm glad you reminded me of how baffled I was by that every time i was in his restroom.....
and by she i meant my mother hahaha
omg no. reading material in the bathroom weirds me out. just like seeing a cute boy in the grocery store while holding an extra large package of toilet paper rolls. no. just no.
I don't do it. I just want to get in then out lol
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I have to be honest, I'm surprised at how many people find it unhygienic to leave magazines or books in the bathroom. Here's a little (admittedly gross) tidbit: when a toilet is flushed, those droplets of water can spray up to 6 feet in the air! So the fact is, unless you're deep cleaning you're bathroom daily (and who has time for that?!), there are going to be some icky particles flying about.
And just think of all the studies they've done on the disgusting microbes that are found on dollar bills and such! I'm all for cleanliness, but at some point we just have to come to terms with the fact that everyone poops.
:D
I don't understand why people obsess about germs, as if any other room in the house is germ free? Germs are everywhere on everything we touch. No getting away from it and if you think the books on your shelves are any cleaner than the books and magazines in your bathroom then you're wrong. Assuming you wash your hands on a regular non obsessive basis you'll be fine! Needless to say I have a stack of magazines and books in the bathroom, kitchen, living room and garden shed!
Huh. I didn't realize people looked down so much on reading materials in the bathroom. We do keep magazines in our bathroom because our family has some people who simply aren't physically able to do their business very quickly. (On the other hand, I'm built as an in-and-out girl.) I do expect common hygenic courtesy, meaning that you don't handle the magazines *after* you've wiped or otherwise touched your body. With that, I really don't see why anyone should be judged for keeping reading materials in the bathroom.
a fried of mine used to work in a nursing home. She spent a lot of time accompanying the elderly people to the bathroom and (I'm sorry but it's true) pushing back their intestines. The anus muscles tend to wear out, especially when you waste too much time reading, sitting on the toilet. You're pushing (subconciously) all the time you're sitting there. Pelvic floor exercises are very helpful...
Do I have to mention that I never read with dropped pants ever after? (((o;
ina
I've seen it alot but I wouldn't do it personally. It depends on where the reading material is compared to the toilet but it could be unhygienic. Plus most people now and days just bring their smart phones haha.
I love to have something to read in the bathroom but I don't keep magazines or books in there, I keep magazines in a table next to the bathroom door and when I want to go I take a magazine with me.. its crazy but not a bad idea
When I was a kid, my dad always kept copies of the WatchTower in the bathroom. My grandma would send them and despite his differing beliefs, he said he couldn't throw them away.
No reading material in my potty room. Though, my fiance has been known to bring his phone in with him when he takes care of business :)
Welllll....
Sometimes.
It's nice to have something in there to keep you occupied.
Flu, much?
Also...
My Parents have always had electronic games in their bathroom. :) I think Yahtzee is the preference :)
Ha!
Such a funny post. :)
I'm surprised how many people are clearly one way or another!
Eat Cake
@Idle Wife - Yes! Totally agree!
@Jessica Kulick and @Dom - I totally agree with you! I would add that almost all of the un-hygienic commentors keep their toothbrushes in the bathroom, eh?
I am loving all these responses. So funny. Seeing a stack of magazines someplace kind of weirds me out in the lets-all-acknowledge-whats-really-going-on-here kind of way, but more often than not I appreciate it.
It's kinda gross. But sometimes I end up spend more time in the bathroom than I wanted to so reading material does come in handy.
But I also always close the lid, and not doing so is REALLY gross.
Yes, magazines, books and crossword puzzles. I recently began bringing in my Kindle Fire and surf the web. It began as a child with 3 sisters and one bathroom. Privacy was rare in our small three bedroom ranch. Then as a mother...and now the habit is ingrained in my senior years. Too bad for hubby that we recently traded in our 3 bathroom tri level for a 1 bathroom bungalow in Florida.
I think now that smartphones exist magazines in the bathroom are kind of unnecessary...I see why people like to have them in there, but it is a little funky to think about especially when it comes to guests.
We have an Uncle John's bathroom reader for my husband in our only bathroom, but I find it a little weird (and tacky) and try to keep it hidden in the cupboard beside the toilet. If we had an ensuite to put it in I wouldn't care.
dying over these comments, especially marf at 12:10: "we have a stash that my husband reads while he's hiding from the children. " hahaha!
my parents have a book of random facts in their bathroom, which is how i know that the glue on the back of postage stamps is the favorite food of cockroaches. and, believe it or not, that information has actually come up in conversation once or twice :)
honestly, i didnt realize people didn't read in the bathroom...hahaha. i highly recommend it if you havent, especially if you have kids, its one of the only places to escape!
Definitely a DO in my book :) I love reading material in the bathroom. Haha!
This is too funny! I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Seinfeld episode about this exact thing:
Oh, and no for me : )
I house my collection of home design mags in our hallway bathroom. I just don't know where else to put them... so now the collection has grown into an obsurd number of magazines in one tiny bathroom, it's sort of a joke.
During our entire life think how much time we spend in the bathroom?
I personally don't want to waste any moment... so... I DO... I have a pile of magazines in the bathroom.
It is fascinating for me to read about this kind of subject. I am French, and every time this type of " intimate " subjects comes out, I can totally see the cultural differences and how " prudish " American can be. It's so interesting to see how much people are in denial of being simply human ! Guess what Ladies, we are ALL THE SAME, we all go to the bathroom, you might as well be productive or relax, there is NOTHING wrong with it !
What a great post!...Number one, in our house, there is no point to putting reading material in the bathroom. We go in there "for a reason!" LOL And if my friends have to use our bathroom I don't want to put reading material in there, encouraging them to ignore US!! ^_^ ...As to your 'P.S.' question: OF COURSE we do! We've been married for 30 years, and together for at least 4 years before that. Whatever secrets we used to have, are long since forgotten! Besides, I don't understand being married to someone, that you're intimate with!, but that you have issues of dressing, or undressing, in front of! Really?!....Why?!! O_O
it's not for me. i can't sit on the loo for that long, but when i lived with a boyfriend we totally had magazines and newspapers in the bathroom
I seriously don't know what men are doing in there. I am in and out like 3 min tops! My fiance takes about 30 min...haha maybe it's a man's time to get away
I find reading material disgusting in the bathroom - just take a second to look up the spread of germs from a toilet flushing and you'll know why
When I was a little girl I read books in the bathroom. Now I take my smartphone and play solitaire. Usually I have one hand on the phone and one hand petting the cat that bothers me when I am in there!
As someone who suffers from ulcerative colitis, I spend a ton of time in the bathroom. It sucks, and I am happy to have magazines, catalogs, or a book. I draw the line at computers/phones/ipads, though.
My dream bathroom would have a big open window facing the ocean and a large stack of magazines.
Apparently people who read in the bathroom are more depressed than those who don't. Interesting, right? No reading materials for me, but my boyfriend will take in books, magazines-- even his iPad!
No! It totally grosses me out. And I feel weird when I am in a bathroom that has a stack of reading material. Ew!
KK
We don't have reading material, but we do have the hand-held Hangman game that is left in the bathroom.
don't! i'm totally with you joanna, reading material in the bathroom weirds me out. there are entertainment magazines in the women's bathroom at my office and i always wonder who is in there catching up on their gossip.
We have a stack of Empire magazines - so great. Do the business, decide on a movie to watch in one go.
I think its fine. Not germy/unclean either - there are so many worse germy places than that, that you happily put your hands on all the time (handrails, door handles, elevator buttons) so why stress. Making sure you wash your hands before you eat, prepare food, touch your face etc. is what matters.
For all the comments regarding "I don't know how people take that long...get in and get out". Its not a matter of it taking longer, and you having more time to read, its a matter of it being a relaxing, quiet, chilled out place in the house. Maybe its just a matter of being more comfortable with your bodily functions rather than being so freaked out by it and thinking its 'dirty' and that its something you have to get over and done with in such a hurry to be away from. I wonder if there is a correlation between people who are worried about this, and those who have worried about being naked in front of their family members (including children) for functional purposes (showering, getting changed etc.).
Loved this part in the linked article someone put earlier ():
"To be blunt, bugs in your poo can get on your hands, be transferred to your reading material, and on to the hands of some other unfortunate. That risk is quite slim though. As Curtis says, "we don't need to get anal about it".
"The important thing is to wash your hands with soap after using the loo to get the bugs off," Curtis says. This way, even if you flicked through a shit-smeared copy of the Metro left on the toilet floor at Reading station, washing your hands before leaving should keep you quite safe. Of course, if you ran your hands over the most soiled pages, picked your nose and rubbed your fingers in your eyes, you might well get an infection. For the determined, there is always a way."
I do not read in the bathroom but I do talk on the phone - not sure which is more weird. Though I usually do it to hide from the kids.
I'm with you! I find it kind of gross. Growing up, my dad always kept tons of magazines in the bathroom, and he'd sometimes be in there for such a long time. I really didn't understand it. And my cousin refers to the bathroom as "his office". Yuck! When my husband and I were first living together, I found out that not all men do this. Thank goodness!
To add, when we were kids we had laminated maps (world, and more detailed ones of different countries) on the walls and back of the door in the toilet. Maybe those would be easier to clean for those who are fearful. Why not make the most of your time in there and learn something.
Love this post. There's this whole category of "bathroom readers"(someone mentioned the Uncle John reader) that I've always been fascinated by--there's quite a few of them, so I imagine that a lot of people buy them and put them in their bathrooms.
I think the bathroom's too damp to keep any kind of paper in it. Plus I have a tiny NYC apartment bathroom--adds too much clutter.
I place all critical reading material (mutual fund prospecti, self-help books) in the bathroom wine-crate "book cases." It's the best-lit room and has a captive audience.
I wrote and sized my second book with bathroom readership in mind:
(Also: Love the bathroom in the photo. I inherited one of those giant Nat'l Geo wall maps and will do same now.)
magazines MUST be in the bathroom!
we have a basket full of magazines next to the toilet: design magazines and also cooking magazines :-DDD
a friend of mine has also Bible there...
I, too, am quite weirded out by reading material in the bathroom. I feel like if you have time to read on the toilet, you might need to add some fiber to your diet, if you know what I mean? My boss used to disappear for a good 30 minutes or so and emerge from the bathroom with a magazine dogeared with articles to share (shudder).
We have a gorgeous orange plastic basquet (with hearts) were we keep the newspapers, magazines and even some comics' books. And it works, because that way the newspapers and magazines articles will be all read! :)
Have them but hide them! :)
We always have a bunch of magazines in our bathroom - simply because that way, we ensure that they get read!
No way dude, there are poop particles ALL OVER THE PLACE in bathrooms, and think of all those people who poop or pee, then wipe, then close their book, then wash their hands, GROSS.
wow, i'm with the few people who don't understand all you delicate "eww"ers -- no one holds onto the reading material WHILE they wipe, or even after--after wiping you wash your hands and leave, duh. nothing unsanitary about it.
as for the many, many people who "don't get" why someone would be in there long enough to read: i envy your prompt pooing. some of us have more complicated systems! and, as you age i hear it is far more common to, so to speak, take your time. nothing disgusting about it, bodies are bodies, doin their thing however they do it.
I think the moral of this story is that men take FOREVER to do their business. I think women are just in and out. Less time for reading.
I would never get to a read or browse a single one of my fashion magazines if they were not in the bathroom. Not that that happens often. I have two small boys that seem to think it is their job to interrupt. However, we us one of the drawers for the books and magazines, so it is not seen or around for possibly accidents due to potty training...
The funny part is...most people are worried about the germs that get on the reading material...but their toothbrushes, hair brushes, toileteries are all in there all the time!
I think it's gross. My sister and her family think I'm weird and she and her husband and 2 young kids all read in the bathroom. Sometimes when her daughter is engrossed in a book, she take forever to come out of the bathroom! Glad to know I'm not the only one grossed out by this! :)
i'm with kristi, some of us have more complicated systems!
also i think its so funny that everyone is freaking about the germs. we keep so many other things in the bathroom all the time! what about your toothbrush? that goes in your mouth!
The comments about germs make me laugh a little! I'm not sure if anyone ever got sick from reading something in the bathroom! Plus, don't you just wash your hands when you leave anyways?
My parents (actually, my dad mostly) used to have reading material in the bathroom. We don't but I don't think it's tacky or anything... I've actually been over to friend's houses that keep catalogs in their bathroom, and guests come out and talk about interesting things they saw! They guests seemed to really appreciate it.
haha! I would prefer NOT having magazines in the bathroom, or even books for that matter. However, my husband thinks it's absolutely necessary to have 'em in there. So I've pretty much had to compromise.
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Reading in the bathroom is a must. I have been caught, more than once, doing the potty dance in front of the bookcase because I needed new reading material. I even bought us a TP holder that has an attached magazine rack.
That being said, this is all for our private ensuite bath. The hall bath that guests use sports no reading material. I used to have a Garrison Keillor joke book in there, but I haven't had a book in there for a while. I figure if you're a guest, you're probably want to get in and out so no one knows what you're up to...
DON'T...just say no!
Joanna, this conversation reminds me of a favorite Seinfeld episode where George brings an art book into the bookstore bathroom! ha! :)
Absolutely must have magazines (The New Yorker)in the bathroom! It's my only time to have an excuse to be in there reading. With two kids I never get time to myself, except when I'm doing my business! I take full advantage!
I do agree they should not be in the guest bathroom, only your own bathroom.
I'm not sure what your Doctor's offices are like in the USA but here (England) we have magazines in our waiting rooms! Now that is horrible as everyone there is ill! I cringe at the bacteria on the old 1990's Living Etc's :)
So your own bathroom seems not as bad in the scheme of things as we all wash our hands!!!
Haha! I have always been grossed out by this - it just feels vulgar to me, but I know so many people who think it's totally normal. One of my roommates in college even left a book of crossword puzzles in there!
I love reading in the bathroom!
I have to say it is a definite DON'T in my book. Imagine all of the germs involved... Eww...
Huh. I'm stumped by all the people who think it's gross or weird to have reading material in the bathroom. i do and think it's great. That is basically how I get any reading done. And I don't need it to pass the time, so to speak, it just feels like multi-tasking. My legs have even gone numb occasionally from sitting there too long, engrossed in whatever it was I was reading.
We don't have a guest washroom though so now I'm wondering how many of my friends have been grossed out by the existence and visibility of the reading material...
I'm not a huge fan, nor am I an avid bathroom reader.... but I'm moving in with my boyfriend in the fall and it's a necessity for him (sidenote: boys are gross). We're stocking out bathroom with Where's Waldo books, Eye Spys and Magic Eye books, though!
- Danielle
I don't know why anyone would be in the bathroom that long, unless they're sick.. In which case, I wouldn't want to read.
LOL. Joanna, what a funny topic. Our bathroom in our apartment is too small to keep reading material in there but as someone who gets a little anxious sitting still for more than a minute, I wouldn't mind reading material in a guest bathroom XD Also, is it really that unhygienic? We keep our toothbrushes in the bathroom, after all.
Also, my father used to keep a little handheld electronic yahtzee game in his bathroom. Maybe that is too far, but I agree with other posters--I think it might be a man thing!
One more thing, did you know there is actually a "bathroom reader" book? I can't remember where I saw this, but it's kind of hilarious.
I do not keep reading material in my bathroom simply because I find it embarrassing! Living by myself though, I tend to have a lot of weird habits that I don't notice until my friends point out. For example, the other night my friend said, "So are you reading like seven different books right now? Because you have like seven books scattered throughout every room and each one has a little bookmark tucked halfway in." My house is littered with books but I hadn't even realized that I was currently reading that many, or that I had spread them out in every room! Every room except the bathroom...haha (:
My husband use to work in an office of about 5 other people (all women) once or twice I used their office bathroom and noticed there was a big stack of books mostly daily inspiration type stuff (specifically geared towards women). I thought this was weird. Do whatever at home but should you really be getting that settled in at work?
I have to be honest...I am not a fan. That said, my husband walks out of the bathroom with MY magazines and I want to kill him! REALLY? Once in the bathroom, they should not be allowed out! Just a thought.
Definitely some more Puritanical commenters here than I am.. I don't personally keep reading material in the bathroom, but I get a kick out of it when others do (and I will usually settle down to read for a few minutes even though I'm done using the restroom.) A funny friend of my mom's used to keep the book Everyone Poops in her bathroom, which always cracked me up.
I'm never in there long enough to read. My future hubby, though, enjoys it. It doesn't bother me. I figure as long as you put it down between wiping and washing your hands, there's no harm!
this is so funny! my husband is outraged by magazines in the bathroom. it doesn't bother me, but it is like the biggest deal in the world to him. i can't wait to show him this!
kelly of
I've seen people commenting about correlations between super anal people who dislike magazines and books in bathrooms and being uncomfortable with their bodies and such - I love my body, have no shame of talking about these things or of being naked - I don't care about these things. :) I don't have to "get away" from my natural functions as soon as possible - it just simply takes me like 20 seconds to do my business and I'm certainly not gonna hang around afterwards haha
maybe try kombucha ;) haha
My parents and brothers always had magazines and books in their bathrooms, but never the guest bathroom. I always just thought it was normal for people to read in there every once in a while. Haha what's wrong with multitasking? :)
So glad I'm not the only one weirded out by this. I just really don't think reading material belongs in the bathroom... but obviously this is a personal thing! I don't care if other people do it. Although, I agree with other commenters that it puts that mental image in your head, haha.
this is hilarious, why people get so grossed out about magazines in the bathroom, you keep your tooth brush in there too don't you?
These comments are so fascinating! Books or other reading material in the bathroom are a nice idea- they can be quirky or reference, or entertainment- anything to pass the time when spending a little longer than anticipated in the powder room :) Other people's bathrooms (*not* their medicine cabinets!) are always interesting to check out. Besides, I'm all for being real and acknowledging something that some call "gross", and I call something we all do as a natural bodily function. (reminds me of that children's book, "Everybody Poops" :)
This is giving me ideas for designing my own bathroom- and I love your makeover photos, Joanna! What a difference!
What I do in the bathroom is strictly business, not pleasure, so no, I do not have reading material in my bathrooms. Occasionally I have brought a book in there with me throughout my life, but not recently and not often. I spend as little time in there as possible.
I have my own bathroom (we're lucky to have three in our little townhouse) and I keep reading material in there. I found that after I had my daughter, I find my alone time is only unquestioned/uninterrupted if I'm in the bathroom, so I tend to linger. Now, I know this sounds gross, I actually look forward to my little escape. It's not like I'm having appetizers and wine or anything. I also store my mags up on a shelf away from the toilet. :)
We totally do! Maybe it's because I live in a house full of boys, but we all read in the bathroom. I think we probably made it seem okay and normal because books in the bathroom were part of potty training. I guess we just don't freak out about germs...after all, we do wash our hands and the bathroom is spot cleaned every day. We don't leave magazines out for guests, but I'm pretty sure our guest bath has a drawer full of Lego magazines my boys have stashed in there:) When my boys were babies, the bathroom was often the only quiet time I had all day. So, yes, I did bring a magazine in with me on occasion!
Ugh, no. I am so not a bathroom reader. I'm trying to "train" my husband to stop doing it, but little success so far.
I think it's don't! Besides the "cootie" issue, I don't think toilets are very comfortable so why read a book in there? Leave books and other reading materials for company to curl up with on a comfy couch =)
TheLittleRosette
Haha, I'm with you! I can't imagine what the heck people are doing in there that would take so long as to merit reading a book! I'll take a book in the bathtub with me every once in a blue moon, but it doesn't really touch anything other than clean hands! But I do take my phone in with me sometimes, which is probably more disgusting as it is closer to my face.
Haha love this!
I used to be okay with it when I was growing up but since living with the BF it's kinda started to gross me out.
The funniest part is when one of my magazines go missing I go running to the bathroom and come out saying "baaaaaaaaaabe - come on" , which he replies with a smirk.
Dang it! now I hide my magazines lol
-Michelle {LiveLoudly}
i couldn't help but laugh at the post, I have a range of material in my bathroom from Bobbi Brown makeups how to's, to National Geographic Traveler to the actual Bathroom Book series, haha!
When I want my husband to read an article about raising kids, being more awesome than he already is, or look at something I want to discuss buying, I set it in there for him.
I do in the guest bathrooms, but...no. I think it's gross. Once in the bathroom, they are only for bathroom. I do have a funny book (I can't remember the exact name) that's specifically for bathroom reading.
I'm with you, I find it super weird. Do you really want people to hunker down and stay a while?
Funny post- We don't have a guest bathroom but I was always against any sort of bathroom reading material until I got married. I have to compromise on some things, right? My husband thinks is totally normal to have reading material in there so we have a basket that holds our New York mags and other related reading material. I've laid down the rule of- once it's in there, it stays in there until it's ready to get tossed. At least he agrees with that!
hubs and I just carry our own in if we're going to be a while. We do keep one book of sudoku puzzles in there. We jokingly call them the "poozles" =)
I'll bring something into the bathroom to read with me (as does my husband), but I won't leave magazines or books there when company come over.
OMG I didn't realice about the germs!!! I have a chic basket full of chic magazines in MY GuEST BATHROOM!!!... there is nothing chic about it :-&
A definite DON'T for me. Although, it might be fun to do a little social experient. You could put some magazines in there and see who is more likely to be in the bathroom longer hahaha
Sometimes you need to take your mind off of things to let everything....relax?
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PEOPLE! How can you think reading in the bathroom is weird?! I keep magazines in the bathroom and I always read a bit, even if I am only in there for a few seconds. It's a lovely escape (especially if you have a baby).
Also - why is it gross? You are touching the magazines BEFORE you do any...er... wiping or flushing. So I see no problem there.
Also... if I am at your house and you have no reading material, I will find something to read for sure. Shampoo bottle, lotion bottle.... anything within reach is game!
I was at my little sister's house last weekend and noticed a children's book in her bathroom called "Underwear Do's and Don'ts"...and I thought that was really funny. Then I remembered I gave it to her for Christmas a few years back...and then it was even funnier.
I keep my Jcrew catalogues and old magazines in my bathroom. I really like having my space and alone time, so sometimes I just sit in there and chill out away from my fiance. I throw them out every couple of months, and I don't really care what kind of message that sends to other people. There's WAY too many other things to worry about than if my guests are creeped out by a magazine. Just don't touch it then! Plus, I read them before my hands come in contact with anything, *ahem*. And even if there's germs on the reading material, I always wash my hands before leaving the bathroom, so that problem is taken care of. Actually, I'm more grossed out by the idea that some people AREN'T washing their hands at home!
don't! i just think it's weird and i have never in my life felt the need or been in the bathroom for a length of time that required reading material - i don't understand it. not to mention i'm a total germaphobe and i feel like they are just so gross!
Always! grew up with magazines and gardening books next to the toilet. now I have a plethora of reading material (but only in MY bathroom, not the guest!! I guess I can see how it could be gross . . . maybe something could splatter??
yeah sure we do! Just a natural thing around here. No biggie :o)
We have baskets of magazines in both bathrooms at my parent's house. It's the only time anyone has a chance to read them! And my mum and I are both bathtub readers... some of my favourite books are sad and wrinkled because they've been dropped in the bath :-)
If the loo is in a seperate room, it's nice to have a read while soaking in the bathtub.
We have a full bathroom; bathtub, shower, wash area + loo = NO. There is just something irksome about toilets and reading material. Hygiene? Time factor?
Absolutely! We have a huge basket full of magazines. There's a little something for everyone. I often catch my five year old sitting there with a magazine spread out on her lap. It cracks me up!!!
Funny thing ... I think men and reading in the bathroom go together ... but women ... no. My husband always takes his phone in the bathroom and scrolls through his Twitter feed and totally takes his time. I get in and out quickly. Even when we're out, and we both go in a public restroom at the same time, I always beat him out.
haha, 401 K's for dummies sounds like a book I should read!
The other day...in 2010?
I love your blog, but isn't there another way than to lie about when conversations/events occur? (such as, "a couple years ago, I was at a friend's house [I mentioned this on Glamour at the time] and they had magazines in their bathroom!")
Just a thought to consider for any similar future posts.
That is so funny that you wrote about this. I was *just* thinking about it this morning. My husband has been known to finish a novel while on the John. I, on the other hand, only go in there if I have business to take care of. Then I leave. There is no lingering and finishing novels for me.
Yes to reading material in the bath area, one of the only changes I get to read at home is in the bath. But no to reading material in the toilet. Get in get out, on need to hang around people.
Lol some opinions around this are funny! My hubby spends forever on the loo (which is slightly annoying when it's only one toilet in the house!), and if my system is moving a bit slow, then it's nice to have something to do while you're waiting - and besides, if you shut the lid you shouldn't have too many problems (and the smell dissipates faster too). I mean, you have toothbrushes, bottles of face cream and deodorant and all sorts of things... just wash your hands and you're all good! Germs/bacteria find it difficult to live on a magazine page, mostly because they require a surface that stays warm and damp to be able to breed, and they don't get terribly close to anything that will give it enough time to breed. Things like your phone however can provide nice places for germs to breed, because of its proximity to your face/hair/ear when you use it.
I'm fairly certain the whole 'red flagging' thing is pretty exclusive to men. Forget about the reading material in the bathroom being weird. Let's talk about the residue possibly left on said reading material. Yuck! I'm a bit of a germaphobe though.
Joanna,
As others have pointed out, this post is pretty much a rehash of a 2010 Glamour post.
What I don't get is why you haven't bothered to make any reference to the old post, when you acknowledged the need for it in your apology for the "misstep" in
The apology rings hollow when you jump straight back into making the same "misstep".!!
-Megan
meganesass.blogspot.com
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Giving Away Free Copies of Your Book as a Promotional Tool
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
That’s crazy! You might be thinking. If we give away free books, then we’re losing possible sales.
Initially, I thought that too. I didn’t want to give away free copies, especially to my closest friends and family because they were among the few I knew would actually go out and purchase my book without arm-twisting.
But over the past year, I’ve realized I was wrong. My sales didn’t go down through the distribution of free books. In fact, they went up. The people who received my book for free helped promote it through Amazon reviews, blog write-ups, interviews, and numerous other ways. Their promotion helped carry the news and excitement about my book beyond the scope of my personal reach.
When giving away free copies of our books, of course, we’ll want to employ discernment and strategy. We’ll need to evaluate how many copies to giveaway, to whom, and when.
How many?
Many traditional publishers devote a percentage of the marketing budget to giving away books (exactly how many will likely depend on the size of the publisher). Often they’ll send free books to key blog reviewers, magazines, book distributors, major reviewers (like Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times, etc.) to solicit early reviews. This is one of the benefits of having a traditional publisher—they can get your book in front of a wide variety of reviewers.
My publisher also gives each author a specific number of copies for Influencers—people who agree to help spread the news of the book. The author compiles a list of names and addresses of friends who want to help. My publisher sends the free book once it becomes available to those on my list. (See the end of this post if you’re interested in being an Influencer for The Doctor’s Lady.) Obviously, in self-publishing and some small publishers, the author would need to take on the full cost and responsibility.
On top of what my publisher does, I giveaway books on blogs that host me for interviews. Giveaways spark interest, attract more people to the interview, and spread additional buzz about the book. The winner may become a devoted fan who will hopefully talk about the book to others within their circle of influence.
To Whom?
We should ideally fill our Influencer list with people who are excited about and willing to help promote our book. They need to know that in exchange for a free book they’re agreeing to positively support us in some way—usually through a blog review or interview, but the promotion can be something simple too (see this post for more ideas: 10 Simple Ways to Support Authors You Love).
We should also let our Influencers know that if they read our book and can’t support it (for whatever reason), then they aren’t obligated to do anything. In fact, we’d prefer that they not damage our promotional efforts by saying something negative. If they didn’t like the book, we can inform our Influencers that they can still help us by donating the book to a local library or to someone they know would enjoy it.
When?
If possible, we should generate interest and pre-orders by getting free copies out before release date. My publisher starts sending out giveaway copies in the month preceding the book’s release, so those who sign up to be Influencers usually get a sneak peek ahead of the general public.
It’s also helpful to giveaway copies during the couple of months after the release. This helps to keep the momentum and excitement going.
I’m giving away free copies of The Doctor’s Lady!
The Doctor’s Lady releases in less than two months!
I’m currently compiling a list of Influencers to send to my publisher. If you'd like to read my Christian historical romance AND host me for a blog interview during September or October, please send me an email at jodyhedlund (at) jodyhedlund (dot) com with your mailing address (or use my contact page). I’ll send you additional information about the blog tour and add you to my Influencer list. Then you’ll be eligible for a free promotional copy of my book in August.
As always, I’m incredibly grateful for anyone who's willing to help promote my book in anyway, big or small! Thank you to everyone for your generosity and kindness in supporting me and my books!
So, what do you think? Have you considered the idea of giving away free books as a promotional tool? Do you think it helps? Or do you have hesitations about giving away books?
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Just emailed you :o)
My book comes out in November, but my publisher does not send out books to influencers. I'm given a certain amount of books, and I'll use those to give to people who have agreed to be a part of my blog tour.
I think giving away free books is a must and only helps. And two months? Wow! I felt like Preacher's Bride just came out. Awesome. :)
As usual, an interesting and helpful post.
This is some great information. I'll need to keep this in mind next year.
I just self-published an e-book (The Husband's Guide to Getting Lucky), and the cool thing about that is that you can give away a billion copies, and it costs you nothing. :) I'm getting read to do another Free Book Day soon. Woohoo!!
Oh, yes, for both Cinders and Monarch I've given away a lot of free books. For Monarch, my publisher has been very gracious with the ARCs. It has been a really nice, and I hope it pays off!
Getting ready for my own launch, so going through the same process.
Frantic and manic are the two words I use the most at the moment. What about you, are you managing to keep sane. You sound much more collected than I am:)
Best wishes, Elle
I've heard this POV from several writers, all whom I respect (including you!), so I really think you have the right idea here. Thank you for breaking it down into a little more detail for those of us just starting out. I'm not big enough or influencial enough to be an influencer (and I'm totally in the wrong genre), but I'll be happy to wave pompoms and do what I can to promote The Doctor's Lady from my little corner of the web.
Great post! This is one of the things I've been wondering about since I found out my own book would be published. I know that giving away copies is a good thing, I just haven't the faintest idea who to give them TO, in order to have the greatest impact!
Hi everyone!! I like Marla's point about e-books. It IS definitely much easier to give away e-books! In fact, I just read an article yesterday about how traditionally published authors are giving away backlist titles as a way to draw interest in current releases. Seems that is working very well too!
And Elle, with my debut book, I was much more frantic! So I can understand what you're going through! I learned a lot with the first book and now am building on that. I definitely feel more confident this time around!
I'm game if you want a blog influencer. :-) And there have def. been authors who I won their book on a blog and went on to buy other books of theirs. :-)
I'd love to read it and promote it for you!!! I'd gladly blog it on and then share it to Facebook!I don't know how to do a blog interview, but I'd be glad to learn. Loved the first book, and I blog for Blogging for Books for Waterbrook Multnomah.
I'll send you an email!
I actually love the idea of giving away books. After all, we're not only interested in the financial gain, but of gaining readers!
This is great stuff, and just when I needed to hear it. Thank you so much Jody!
Giving away books for promotional purposes makes sense to me. A good book generates enthusiastic readers, and that word of mouth buzz is invaluable. I'm not at that stage in my own journey yet, but would love to be a part of yours. I'm e-mailing! :)
Great post! And my blog is kid/teen focused, otherwise I'd be signing up! Best of luck with the new launch!!
@delpgang: Thanks for your offer to help! If you'd like to email me (via my contact page), then I can send you a little more information.
This is good advice Jody. Sign me up to promote the Doctor's Lady!
Thanks for sharing this, especially in light in your real-time experience with your first book giveaway.
I think we have to realize there will be some financial investment in promoting our books. Free is great and I'm always looking for ways to bring attention to my book, but I plan to spend some money and give my book, Guardian Cats, away as a promotional. Thanks for sharing 'To Whom, When and How? with us.
Hi Jody, I have just come accross your site through Gracie O Neil's blog. I am an aspiring writer and I am new to blogs, twitter ect and have been struggling to find the right way of using social media. I just want to say that I have found your information so helpful and it has given me many ideas and more confidence to try new things. So thanks for all the great information. I would love to help promote your books any way I can.
I also agree with free books to promote, especially these days when people are struggling.
Thank you for the insight. Excellent as always. I already assumed that this would be part of the marketing plan but identifying the strongest avenues is one of the components I foresee as giving the most difficulty. Nevertheless I am certainly looking forward to this phase.
Well, it's not my first novel but I'm still frantic, with two children to homeschool there rarely is enough time, I'm getting lots of fan mail at the moment, glad to have my P.A. to help.
The new press I'm with is also very supportive. Going out there with a new pen name is a little daunting and they want me to do a lot more marketing then I'm used to.
It's in my nature though, I'll still be like this when I'm 60, lol.
I was just thinking about this! Great thoughts!
I think free is just what everyone wants, of course. But more than that, readers want to feel close to their favorite authors. Being chosen to receive a free book creates a bond that benefits both author and reader.
I am more than happy to help you promote your book, whether I am lucky to get a free one or not. :)
Just let me know any info for my blog: gjscyprus at cytanet dot com dot cy
Jody,
I'd love to be an influencer for your new book. I loved The Preacher's Bride and can hardly wait to read your new novel.
A spot on post! And a topic that is important to all writers. I juggle a 50+ hour a week day/job, volunteer work for abandoned animals, all while getting my YA novel ready to submit to agents. Life happens, but that's the joy of it! --Elizabeth
Grocery stores and other retailers give out free samples. Makes sense to do the same to the right people.
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Here was the New York Yankees' lineup Sunday in their playoff game against Baltimore:
Batting first: SS Derek Jeter
Age 38. Thirteen-time All-Star, five-time Gold Glove winner, one of the greatest players in the history of the game, a sure first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Batting second: LF Ichiro Suzuki
Age 38. Ten-time All-Star, 10-time Gold Glove winner, Rookie of the Year in 2001, MVP same year, two-time batting champion, major league record holder for most hits in a season, a sure first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Batting third: 3B Alex Rodriguez
Age 37. Three-time MVP, 14-time All-Star, two-time Gold Glove winner, batting champion. He has hit 647 home runs, fourth-all-time. He has hit 266 homers since 2005 -- one of six American Leaguers to have 200-plus homers in that time frame. He has been a contentious player after signing the biggest contract in baseball history and then being traded to the Yankees, but he is inarguably one of the best who ever played. He will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer unless his steroid use motivates voters to send a message.
Batting fourth: 2B Robinson Cano
Age 29. Four-time All-Star, Gold Glove winner, MVP candidate the last three years, widely viewed as one of the best players in the game.
Batting fifth: RF Nick Swisher
Age 31. All-Star, has hit 207 homers since 2005, one of six American Leaguers to have more than 200 homers in that time frame. Star of the book "Moneyball."
Batting sixth: 1B Mark Teixeira
Age 32. Two-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, runner up for MVP in 2009, one of six American Leaguers to have hit 200-plus homers since 2005.
Batting seventh: CF Curtis Granderson
Age 31. Three-time All-Star, twice led the league in triples, last year led the league in RBIs, one of six American Leaguers to have hit 200-plus homers since 2005, fifth Yankee to hit 40 homers in back-to-back seasons (Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Giambi).
Batting eighth: C Russell Martin
Age 29. Three-time All-Star, one-time Gold Glove winner, has hit 39 homers the last two seasons.
Batting ninth: DH Raul Ibanez
Age 40. All-Star, has hit 20-plus homers seven times, has driven in 100-plus RBIs four times, hit perhaps the Yankees' most important homer of the 2012 season to bring them back against the Red Sox in ninth inning of their penultimate regular-season game.
Pitching: CC Sabathia
Age 32. Six-time All-Star, Cy Young award winner, finished top five in the Cy Young voting four other times, has led the league in wins twice, shutouts three times, strikeouts-to-walk ratio twice, and is widely believed to be well on his way to a first-ballot Hall of Fame election.
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Great. OK, now, let's take a look at the Baltimore Orioles' lineup Sunday night, shall we?
Batting first, LF Nate McLouth
Age: 30. All-Star in 2008 for Pittsburgh. Traded to Atlanta next year. Was OK down the stretch, unplayable next year. Pirates signed him. Pirates released him. Came to Baltimore.
Batting second: SS J.J. Hardy
Age: 30. All-Star in 2007 for Milwaukee. Hit .229 in 2009. Brewers traded him to Minnesota. Had injury-plagued season. Twins traded him to Baltimore.
Batting third: CF Adam Jones
Age 27. Drafted by Seattle. Traded to Baltimore in ill-advised (for Seattle) Erik Bedard deal. Two-time All-Star, Gold Glove winner, spent three or four years as the obligatory "good player on the Orioles."
Batting fourth: C Matt Wieters
Age 26. Two-time All-Star. Was widely viewed as such a phenom that people came up with cool "Matt Wieters facts" before he ever played a single game in the major leagues.
Batting fifth: 1B Mark Reynolds
Age 29. Played for Arizona, where he became first man to strike out 200 times in a season, then the next year he smashed his own record by striking out 223 times (but also hit 44 home runs). The Diamondbacks traded him to Baltimore after 2010 season, when he hit .198 with 211 strikeouts.
Batting sixth: 3B Manny Machado
Age 20. First round pick for Orioles in 2010, was hitting around .260 in Class AA when the Orioles called him up to play third base, though he had been a shortstop. His second day in the majors he hit two home runs.
Batting seventh: RF Chris Davis
Age 26. Showed promise in his rookie year for the Rangers and his 21 homers his second year. Third year he hit .192 and spent most of the year in the minors. Next year he was up and down from tje minors when Rangers traded him to Baltimore.
Batting eighth: DH Lew Ford
Age 36. Had not played in the Major Leagues since 2007. Had hit .226 and .233 for Minnesota the two years before that. Baltimore signed him as a free agent in May.
Batting ninth: 2B Robert Andino
Age 28: Longtime minor leaguer for Marlins. Played total of 79 Major League games from 2005 to 2009 for Marlins before they traded him to Baltimore for a pitcher, Hayden Penn, whose 9.51 ERA is the highest in baseball history for anyone with 30 or more appearances.
Pitching: Jason Hammel
Age 30. A 10th-round pick by Tampa Bay, he was called to the big leagues in 2006 and promptly went 0-6 with a 7.77 ERA. Three years later, Tampa Bay traded him to Colorado, where he pitched for three relatively uneventful years before Colorado traded him to Baltimore.
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It would be tempting to say, based on how it ended, that the game played out the way a matchup like this must … the Orioles played over their heads for eight innings, stayed close, and then, in the end, succumbed to the talent, history and crushing power of the Empire. It's tempting to say that, but I would argue that is not exactly how the rhythms of baseball work. Yes, in baseball, sometimes talent does win out. But sometimes -- especially in short series -- it does not.
The Orioles have been in the Yankees' heads for a while now. Baltimore, with a team that seemed to be playing over its head even when it was playing .500 ball, marked the Yankees sometime in July, tracked them down, caught them close to the end. For eight innings Sunday, the Yankees looked entirely out of sorts. Derek Jeter sacrifice bunted with two strikes again,* A-Rod looked helpless at the plate again, Ichiro twice seemed to swing right through the baseball on strikeouts, and the Orioles kept threatening against CC Sabathia.
*Jeter did this in the World Series in 2009 -- that time with the Yankees up two runs -- and bunted foul for strike three. Jeter admitted then it was a dumb play. It was just as dumb on Sunday, but at least this time he got it down.
In the eighth inning, with the game tied 2-2, the Orioles had their chance. J.J. Hardy led off with a double -- and the heart of the Orioles' lineup (such as it is) was due up. And then Sabathia threw a hanging change-up right over the middle of the plate to Adam Jones, a pitch I imagine Jones will see in his nightmares for months to come. Baseball over a long season is a game of opportunities, missed and utilized, blown and exploited. Over 700 plate appearances, how many fat change-ups did Adam Jones see this season? How many did he crush? How many did he misfire on? It makes the story better to say that such differences of success and failure come down to character, to will, to the inner strength that rises up in some people in the biggest moments and does not rise up in others. Maybe. Or maybe, it comes down to a minuscule difference, an infinitesimal angle shift on the bat, a millisecond miscalculation on the swing, a slight wobble of the baseball.
Jones swung hard and fouled the pitch straight back. And then Sabathia, a pitching artist who had already made his one mistake, pounded Jones inside with a fastball, pounded him inside again, threw the nasty change-up he had intended to throw the first time and finally threw a diving slider that Jones swung right over for strike three. Matt Wieters promptly broke his bat on a foul pop-up and Mark Reynolds grounded out to Jeter after looking overmatched for his whole at-bat and that, for the Orioles, was that.
The Yankees scored five runs in the ninth and won. In that half inning, the Orioles did, in fact, look like a team that had flown too close to the sun. Jim Johnson, who had been money all year, threw a 2-0 fastball up and over the plate to Russell Martin -- a pitch, in its own way, as fat and happy as the change-up Sabathia threw to Jones, only Martin did not miss. He crushed a long home run to give the Yankees the lead. And then, it was prime-cut Yankees -- a ground-ball single by Raul Ibanez, a hit-and-run jam-shot single to right by Jeter, a perfectly placed squibber in front of the plate by Ichiro, a strikeout by A-Rod, a smashing opposite-field double by Cano, a throwing error by the Orioles, a helpless pitching change by the Orioles, a sac fly by Nick Swisher.* The Yankees won 7-2.
*To give you an idea about the joys of batting average -- Nick Swisher came into this game 1-for-31 in the postseason with runners in scoring position. He came up with runners in scoring position twice Sunday night. The first time, he walked. The second time, he hit a sac fly. That means Nick Swisher is now … oh yeah … 1 for 31 in the postseason with runners in scoring position. It's like they never happened.
Now, it's tempting to say the Orioles are done now. And maybe they are done. How could this team -- THIS TEAM -- possibly beat the Yankees three out of four, especially with three of those games at Yankee Stadium? But, again, you can't just expect logic to suddenly dictate Baltimore's path, not now, not at the end of this crazy season. The Yankees are a team of All-Stars and all-time greats. The Orioles are a team of rejects and reclamation projects. This series, by that logic, shouldn't even be happening. Of course, the Yankees look like they will win, and win with ease. If the Orioles somehow pulled this thing off, it would be a Disney movie.
Well, they still make Disney movies, don't they?
The Disney movie that occurs to me is "Old Yeller." And we know how that ended. I kind of feel it's going to be the same for the Orioles, sadly.
Matt Wieters dad comes home and Buck Showalter has a puppy? IIRC, that is how Old Yeller ends.
When I look at your lineup breakdown the thing that jumps out at me isn't the famous names and resumes of the Yankees compared to the Orioles, it's the age difference. 4 Yankee starters age 37 or greater? Versus a team in their (albeit lesser) prime? The way players age, break down, and wear out over the course of a season Baltimore should be the favorite here. Even if the Yankees win out it is hard to see them winning it all. Still, stranger things have happened, and while the Yankees lack speed and defense (dare I say "the Trout factor") they have a lot of hitting, and hot bats can turn a postseason.
The age difference (like most other things) doesn't matter as much right now - there's only ~20 games left, and anything can happen over 20 games. Maybe the younger guys have a little more left and will be just as fast on their swings, not lose a fraction of mph on their fastballs ... but probably not. (Next year, and the year after, and the year that, over 162 games, those effects are more likely to show up.)
That said, 3 out of 4 games is not that unusual. Like that old cliche, you take them one at a time - win today, and it's two out of three. Win again and you're the favorite.
A lineup that has 4 of the 6 guys to have hit 200+ homers since 2005 is going to have 4 or more guys who have been playing since 2005, a total of 8 seasons. In other words, the team that dominates in the counting stats will likely be older.
Now,I would take a team made up of these Yankees back in 2003-5 over either of today's teams.
I'm assuming the 200+ homer guys from 2005 is AL only? Because Pujols, Cabrera and Konerko all have 200+, which makes at least 7, but Pujols and Cabrera played in NL also.
Yeah, he said American League home runs only. Ortiz and Konerko are the other two.
ARod is 5th all time in HR not 4th. Bonds, Aaron, Ruth, Mays, Aros
So how hard were you trying to jynx New York with this column? This Yankee fan isn't happy...
Baltimore normal DH (the one who played yesterday) has a little bit more gravitas than Lew Ford.
God, how I hate the Yankees!
The Rangers had a similar bullpen meltdown (complete with weak hits, etc.) in game 1 of the 2010 ALCS against the Yankees, only their meltdown blew a sizeable lead rather than a tie game. It seemed that the Rangers wouldn't be able to recover from that, and they promptly won 4 of 5 to take the series without much difficulty.
Sometimes losses linger, sometimes they don't.
Joe, you have to write something about Raul Ibanez! As unhappy as I was to see the Yankees win, I was thrilled for Ibanez last night.
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On the age front:
- Teams with 3 or more players age 37+ are 9-15 in postseason games. Teams with 2 or more are 64-80.
- Teams with 2 or more such players are 10-18 in postseason finales.
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One has to smile sometimes when you hear Bernie Ecclestone in action. The other day he told a German magazine that it was logical to have a French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours on June 23. In F1 terms, yes, it is logical. The F1 circus will be coming home from Canada after a race on June 9, with no Race in New Jersey on June 16, as had been planned. The next scheduled Grand Prix is the British GP on June 30 and so on paper the June 23 race in France would be perfect.
Except for one tiny little detail. The Le Mans 24 Hours, France’s biggest motor racing, takes place at Le Mans on June 22-23. To put the French GP up against this would be decidedly daft as it would mean that French race fans would have to choose between the two and both would therefore suffer.
Talk about stirring the pot…
The most likely outcome of all this (if there is one) would be a race at the end of August at Paul Ricard, but as the promoters of the idea do not have the money needed it is all rather academic at the moment.
Not to mention the number of people writing, commentating, talking, standing by or even taking part at Magny-Cours, who are expecting to race at Le Mans next year.
Do you know if the Magny-Cours promoters have any more money?
I wonder if an F1 race at Magny-Cours would make Le Mans suffer all that much. It is a different type of event and many people have to plan well ahead with accommodation, etc and many are people from the local area, enjoying their own annual party. In fact, I expect the considerably increased exposure the race would get in the media would probably suit the Auto Club de l’Ouest just fine. It has been getting a bit tired lately.
Would it be too late to move Germany back a week and then there would be room for a France/Britain twin race on the 30th June/7th July?
I think the British GP has already been moved forward a week from 07/07 to avoid a clash with the Wimbledon mens’ final
There was a clash this year with the final, was there actually a noticeable impact on the ratings?
Hard to say when the Sky deal has, for the most part, crippled the BBC’s ratings even for live races. Because of the clash, the BBC put the Wimbledon men’s final on BBC One, while the GP went on BBC Two (they had put the pre-race waffle on BBC One). BARB projected viewing figures of 2.86m for the 2012 race on BBC Two, plus 0.455m on Sky Sports F1, while the 2011 race got 4.94m on BBC One.
Viewing figures comparisons for 2011 vs 2012, up to the Italian GP, can be found at .
Difficult to tell. The BBC / Sky deal has seen the combined UK TV viewing figures for Formula 1 well down across the season so far.
do the same fans watch f1 that attend Le mans? My experience says probably not…..
In my experience there’s quite a lot of overlap.
Why would they not? I certainly do. I watch a lot of racing.
When Bernie speaks, look 180 deg. from where he’s pointing at and guard your pockets!
Good point about conpeting against the 24 hrs of Lemans.
I always enjoyed the race at Magny Cours. Hope they go back someday.
Could they not push the British GP to June 23 and the French on the 30?
There’s still the little issue of a Le Mans clash.
How about a race at Bugatti Circuit at Le Mans on the date Ed Greenhalg or end of august suggested. There wil be stands and motorsports fans so it would be a good track but add a new section from the Sarthe beccause it is a littlle short
Well don’t stop there, how about the whole track – F1 qualifying 2pm Saturday, race 5.30pm Sunday or something with the 24 Hours from 4pm-4pm in between! Of course this isn’t going to happen, but it would be pretty amazing!
Bugatti Circuit doesn’t exactly look interesting for F1 though. It isn’t much of a track in my opinion, and definitely not worthy of getting F1.
The full Le Mans track wouldn’t be all that interesting for F1 either I think, as only the Esses and the Porsche Curves look like corners I would like to see an F1 go through.
Qualifying would be interesting though, as there wouldn’t be time for two runs…
There must have been a deep belief that New Jersey could deliver a race in 2013. So much so that there wasn’t some contingency already in place.
There will be no driver/commentators left for F1 if they clash with Le Mans.
The Le Mans fan is a different type of chap (or chapess) to the F1 fan. with F1 agitating for shorter races because of the “modern” attention span of viewers, the thought of a whole 24 hours is another planet, a different way of life. So I doubt may of each fan base will desert their normal sport.
It might be interesting to see the attendance figures for a Magny-Cours GP vs le 24 Heurs de Mans. Also to compare the entrance and stand prices etc.
No Berne has nothing to do with Paul Ricard he said so recently.
so it must be true.
Magny-Cours, with all due respect, is in the middle of nowhere. As for attendance figures, not sure about how much Magny-Cours was pulling in its last few F1 years, but Le Mans nowadays has a consistent race weekend crowd of around 250 thousand people, of which 50-70 thousand are British. It’s certainly one of the biggest sporting events in Europe in terms of on-site attendance. As for the Le Mans fan base vs the F1 fan base, there is still a certain amount of overlap and there always will be.
As for magny-cours being in the middle of no where ? If it is then where would you put Ricard,thats really no where! I suggest that you buy a map.
‘Normal Sport”? So the fact that I have not missed an F1 race all season, yet somehow have avoided missing a WEC race either doesn’t make you think.
I’ll happily watch 2 races at once, the F1 on the TV and WEC online, but not for Le Mans, that gets my TV for the whole 24 hours. NOTHING interferes with Le Mans.
I’d happily skip whatever F1 race was on that weekend, and so would 99% of the F1 watchers in an online group I’m part of because F1 is a procession that I have trouble paying attention to, Le Mans is 24 hours of excitement.
Sorry if I’m asking the obvious here Joe but who are the promoters you mention at the end?
Magny Cours
Joe you silly man, there would be no clash as The Bernard would no doubt insist the Le Man organizers to move their date!
There will be 2 or even 3 time more spectators at Le Mans then at Magny-Cours because endurance racing is the finest art of motor racing.
Well I’m an F1 fan and have been for almost 20 years but lately I’ve become a big fan of the LM 24 Hour. I’d have to say, in the event of a conflict, I think I’d be leaning towards the 24.
To further the idea of holding the 24 and the GP at the same venue, how about adding the F1 cars to the 24 as a 5th class?
Ze french and ze english … Napoleon times
Ecclestone as Wellington?
Maybe Ecclestone as Talleyrand?
“In politics one needs to hitch
One’s wagon to a star
A toast to Minister Talleyrand!
Survival is his aim
A man from whom ‘Duplicity’
Could be a middle name
Allegiance to a governmenet
Doesn’t mean a thing
He’d be pleased with revolutionaries
Delighted with a King:
One has to be detatched
One has to be devoid
Of any sentimental ties
If on’es to be employed
Essentially, eventually
All leaders are destroyed”
What are you talking aboutI have raced single seaters since 1981.
When you have the same credentials,then talk too me!!
“We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France.”
I keep threatening to get it printed out in four in high letters, framed, and stuck up in my office.
Could it also be that if BE is talking to the press about Magny Cours, he could really be throwing his weight behind Le Castellet? Hmmmmm.
That is a wise comment.
As i recall the FIA has already asked the ACO to move Le Mans to the 23rd, so not much chance of another move.
From what we saw at Valencia and Abu Dhabi you can never be sure that races that are usually snooze fests are always going to turn out that way, but putting the go-kart track of Magny-Cours up against the spectacle of La Sarthe probably isn’t the best idea in the world.
Wrong height!
How about a replacement event at Indianapolis? A possible French GP on the day of the LeMans 24 hours talked about publicly by Bernie may just be a matter of negotiating with another circuit to raise the price.
I don’t know, miles from anywhere in the middle of the countryside with its cows and muddy fields, hours from the capital city. That’s the problem with Silverstone – oh, sorry, Magny-Cours! | http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/magny-cours/?like=1&_wpnonce=534f767a6d | 2013-05-18T10:12:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
by John Galt September 7, 2009 On this Labor Day a flash news update from the Glenn Beck Department of Labor hit the news wires and this is what I could call good news. As we sit now the Czar Unemployment Rate (CUR) is sitting at 3.13%. Hopefully it will reach 100% soon.
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As part of the experiment, our agent stimulates the creatures, causing them to assume their ungodly copulatory positions. His brain has been lathered with a special contraceptive emulsive made from bacon grease and Knox Gelatin to protect him from the vile purpose of these lewd scoundrels.
The most brilliant biologists on earth are even now groping the monstrous organs in order to find a way to foil the gruesome invaders.
To be continued...
P.S. Lock your women up while there is still time...
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Dear sweet mother of god & the Jeffersons . . .
Don't worry I already had my women locked up.
Holy Hell that was funny!! I was rolling in laughter!
Lol i`m not watching any more Looney Tunes with my girlfriend any more...
nice Balloons btw:D
William Bigger
William Bigger, Bowdoinham, Maine 4008 - SSN, Credit Records, Arrest Records, Court Records, Criminal Records ..
You are on a roll.
That's a very creative story!XD!
I'm surprised of what is possible to be done with balloons.
No more birthday parties and nature shows for you!
HawHawHawHawHaw!!!!
Xena, Storm, Leetah, Akane and any one of my female characters would've made those aliens, "very small males", with a word or well placed kick with a Jimmy Choo. And then finish the job with a soldering iron:)
-San Francisco Feminist MuuhuhuhuuhuhuaahhahaHA!
Now I know where babies come from!
JK, this is hilarious! I always knew those bastards were planning something with their "living balloons". Tube-like commies.
Take my wife...
Please.
How can any woman resist?
Education!
With a solid understanding of how they easily fall prey to such alien attacks it should naturally follow that we equip all our women with safety pins and curious 3 year olds!
Let the popping commence.
These blow my mind, especially that fetus!
- trevor.
Hey, that's Spongebob Sausagepants!
i..
*sigh*
speechless.
you amaze me with your comedic brilliance and crude vulgarity. keep being a role model please.
all of this keeps making me think of ub iwerks's 1935 balloon land!
maybe we need to hire that pin cushion man.
LOL!!
hideous result - human/balloon-creature hybrid
lol..
whatever the opposite of 'wholesome' is, this is it.
(is it me or does the pin cushion man have a giant pin johnson?)
dude what are you smoking
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck! Balloon aliens! Where's my Aunt Matilda's hairpin?
Watch out for the secret alien balloonies
Or they will assimilate all of us goonies
they assume the identities of our favorite cartoonies
and mate with our wimmen under the flashlight of a dozen Moonies
report suspicious activities to the government soon - EEEEEEEE!
Oh my gawd! Their offspring are overrunning Altoon - EEEEEEEE!
ehehehe
You should do a cartoon skit where all your characters are weird ballon aliens.?
"They wrap their reproductive apparatus around our heads, suck out our brains and impregnate them."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
If only you did more funny stuff like this, and less animation reviews. You're a cartoonist/comedian, not Roger Ebert.
Human/balloon hybrids?! My God!!Looks like World War III all over again!
Hey John, I know is off the topic but what do you think about Topo Gigio?
I Know that its extremely cute but I think is a really good puppet and it moves really well.
hey John
This past weekend i was visiting my parents in Philadelphia and we visited a newish museum SOLELY about the THREE STOOGES. I know you're a fan, so I thought I'd let you know.
Listen chowder-brains, the girls are in trouble. "Right Moe, what are we gonna do"? We gotta save 'em see, and fast.
"Hey Moe, I got one, I got one"!
Nice work Porcupine, now let 'em have it.
For duty and humanity!
i was just reminded of this gem.
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This post is for my readers who were questioning the need for strengthening the existing legislation regarding defending freedom of religion and free speech rights in Canada.
Mike at The Good Fight has linked to an excellent article by Ted Byfield at the Calgary Sun, which lists all sorts of court challenges over the last few years.
Notably, but not limited to (and I have paraphrased Ted's words here):
-Bill Whatcott, an evangelical Christian and a licensed practical nurse who was fined $15,000 by his professional association for protesting against abortion on his own time and $20,000 by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission for speaking out against homosexuality.
-the Catholic school in Whitby, Ontario, which was forced by the Ont. Supreme Court to allow a homosexual student (Marc Hall) to take his boy friend to a school dance.
-seven marriage commissioners in Saskatchewan who have been forced to resign because they refuse to perform homosexual marriages.
-Mennonite camp north of Winnipeg which refused to rent its premises to a homosexual choir, and was dragged before the Human Rights Commission whose decision is pending.
-Hugh Owen, evangelical Christian who placed an ad in the Saskatchewan newspaper naming four Scriptural verses against homosexuals, and not even quoting them. He was forced to pay $4,500 in human rights fines.
-printer Scott Brockie refused to print material for a gay organization and was fined $5,000 and ordered to print it anyway. When he still refused, his case went to the Ontario Supreme Court and his legal bills added up to $170,000.
-Scott Boisson, the Calgary evangelical pastor who wrote a letter to a newspaper questioning the promotion of homosexuality in the public schools. When he was charged, he held a fund-raising dinner for help with court costs. Something calling itself the Gay Militia, wearing masks, burst in on the dinner and tried to break it up.
-Kamloops teacher, Chris Kempling, who was suspended for daring to question homosexual marriage in a letter to the editor, and was suspended for four months without pay, though there was no evidence whatever he had mentioned this view in a classroom. And when he was asked to appear before a Commons committee, he was put under investigation again by his superiors.
And so on. But many people have willful blinders on, and even this evidence will be lost on them.
Update: This is quite an impressive post argued from the other POV. Why Gay Marriage is Good Conservative Policy. You know, I can't argue with that. It would certainly be easier to go with the flow. I guess it depends what's important.
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Quite the boy that Ted:
In his heyday as founder and editor-in-chief of the feisty, ultra-conservative Alberta Report newsmagazine, Ted Byfield was famous for his newsroom rants and rages.
Mellowed, perhaps, but Byfield remains a salty-tongued, hard-drinking yet devout Christian who displays a drive and tenacity lacking in many people half his age.
Source
Now open to new information is fine. The first case that Ted cites is Bill Whatcoot.
Saskatchewan human rights tribunal ruled that Bill Whatcott, pictured, incited hatred against gays and lesbians and he's been ordered to pay a $17,500 fine. Whatcott and a group called the "Christian Truth Activists" distributed pamphlets in Regina and Saskatoon calling us "sodomites" in "filthy" same-sex relationships, "430 times more likely to acquire AIDS and three times more likely to sexually abuse children!" The fine will go to the four who filed the complaint against him.
Not exactly same material there.
Joanne, please do try to have credible sources next time - I'm not even going to waste time on the rest of your "examples"...
Actually Hugh Owen is amusing - he's one of those "creationist" that Man walked with Dinosaur - I'm sure that him a Doris Day get along fine...
CWTF - Typical ad hominems.
Why do I bother?
Hence:
But many people have willful blinders on, and even this evidence will be lost on them.
Joanne, I believe in Freedom of religion, but when you examples are radicals with an agenda, I fail to see your proof. You rally against "lobby" groups but wilfully site these ones because you agree with their message.
Your case would be better presented if you had credible examples. Intolerant zealots will not advance your cause.
1. Kempling was suspended for far more than "writing a letter to the editor". The man is a crank, who claims to be able to "cure" homosexuality using thoroughly debunked, dangerous reparative therapies. He was a school counsellor, not simply a teacher, and was in a position to do maximum damage to any gay teen that entered his office.
2. The Knights were fined for breaking a contract and generally being rude about it. Their right to deny a hall rental to gay and lesbian weddings was upheld.
3. Mark Hall went to the human rights tribunal to uphold his right to participate in a dance held on public property, off school premises, and far away from the parish church.
4. Hugh Owen cited Leviticus 20:13 in his ad. I believe that's the one that calls for homosexuals be put to death. Charming.
5. Marriage commissioners are commissioned by the state to execute their duty of performing legal, civil marriages, as defined by the federal government. If they can't or don't discriminate over every other religious objection to a marriage (interfaith, remarriage of divorcees, sacramental obligations), why is it OK to discriminate against gays alone?
6. Bill Whatcott is Canada's Fred Phelps. By all means, use him as an example of religious persecution. I'd love to see DORA devotees defend such calumnies as "gays are three times more likely to sexually abuse children", and "gays are 430 times more likely to contract an STD", or that the gay lifestyle only leads to "death, depravity and disease". By all means, associate the CPC with Bill Whatcott.
Bill Whatcott is spreading hate and lies - is this someone you want to represent you?
He's been convicted of hate-mongering, as for the pamphlet incident, it was because he was doing it without a permit on University grounds. Hardly religious persecution....
The Marc Hall is not persecution (unless you count the school board denying his rights). The school receives public funds and as such cannot discriminate. If it was a private school, then likely it could have banned Marc Hall from bringing his boyfriends to the prom on religious grounds.
With Scott Brockie, I'd agree that you do have a some valid arguments.
I have not read enough on the other cases (not what is posted on religious sites but the court documents) to be able to do justice to them.
valiantmauz, thanks for the update.
Of course, I have a feeling the ones with blinders will not understand what you wrote.
Re Scott Brockie:
Google his name and the last item on page 1 is a court document. Many of the higher ranked search results appear to be the "usual suspects".
Sometimes I read them, you may find inadvertent mention of the facts of the case, but it is a tedious process picking over the indignant rhetoric that often ensues.
And c_wtf, you walked right into one of Joanne's classic traps, where she can label you an "ad hominem" attacker, while at the same time mentioning everyone else's "willful blinders" causing them to ignore her "evidence". Of course she will accuse me of the same, by referring to most of a page of google search result summaries as "the usual suspects"
A page from the factum:
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8. Running a general print-shop for the public at large is a commercial enterprise and is not a manifestation of religious beliefs.
9. In delivering a service available to the general public, printers are required to comply with the laws of the land which cover matters such as copyright obscenity and hate literature. Thus a printer is entitled (and even required) to refuse to print material which infringes copyright, or violates Canada's obscenity or hate literature laws. Beyond that, however, freedom of expression is not enhanced by allowing printers to scrutinize the contents of materials and deny printing services to viewpoints they disagree with. This would lead to censorship and a stifling of freedom of expression.
Thanks Cherniak_wtf. I don't want a flame war with Joanne or anybody else, but this DORA idea is purely reactionary, vengeful, unconstitutional, and targetted at one tiny minority of Canadian citizens. It's not a Defense of Relions Act - it's an Attack on Gays Act. It's an attempt to write into law the one acceptable bigotry.
A very little digging exposed the "persecution" of Scott Brockie. Press release available here.
Money quote:
"The original complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Commission in the spring of 1996. Mr. Brillinger had asked Imaging Excellence and Mr. Brockie to print stationery for the organization [Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives].."
I suppose we really do need legislation to protect our right to say: "We don't serve your kind here".
I'd also like to point out that the Brockie case has not one d**m thing to do with same-sex marriage.
The places I looked didn't mention that Scott Brockie's trigger was a print job with the offensive words on it. That's why elsewhere we see he says he would have done business cards for the gay guy, and even has gays working for him. But it looks like printing something with the offensive words "gay" and "lesbian" was the problem.
To continue with the guilt by association ad hominem attack, I found a site from an organization that supports Mr. Brockie:
The Canadian Association For Free Expression.
In their article, they describe him "feeling the might of Canada's militant homosexual lobby and their allies in the Ontario Human Rights Commission."
Meanwhile, elsewhere on their site, they are defending a gentleman who posted at "", where you will see a nice stylized cross with "white power world wide" written on it. The usual anti-Semitic "free speech" can be found there.
Would you support Scott Brockie's freedom to refuse to print Jewish materials?
But of course it's the Liberals who are anti-Israel.
Hmmm...'looks like your comments section has been hi-jacked by the blinkered, bigoted, biased, and left/lib/fem/gay brigade.
They make Ted Byfied's and your point exactly. So what if people were "rude"? So what if they quoted Bible passages that offended certain groups? So what if the guy's "a crank"?
All of these situations are covered in Canada by freedom of expression and freedom of religion. When people are free to express their religious views or their views on other things, it doesn't matter if you're offended. What you have to say is equally offensive and rude to the Knights, to the crank, and to those who may have been rude to you.
Grow up, cherniak_wtf and valiantmauz: 'Next thing you know, the Frankenstein monster that's been created by these Human Rights (sic and sick) Commissions is going to come after you and your ilk, and then you'll be screaming bloody murder. Go ahead. No one will be listening.
BTW, Ted Byfield is an amazing man. He is an exceptional writer and editor and has been responsible for the journalistic education of a huge number of Canada's most influential journalists. Even those who are far more liberal and left than he is, speak very highly of him and admire his tenacity and his courage of his convictions.
Compared to him, you're a pipsqueak, cherniak_wtf.
Also, I detect a rather nasty bias and bigotry towards Christians these posts.
That's really "open" and "tolerant" of you. Take a look in the mirror the next time you take your anti-religious, anti-people-who-don't-think-like-you hatchets out.
If you don't defend the rights of others to say things with which you disagree or to say things that "offend" you, then you'll find that your rights to do the same--and believe me, your views pi**me off--may well be taken away from you at some future time.
Don't be so cocky. Your ignorance is showing.
Dear anonymous - aka gutless.
Point me to one word of my posts that is anti-Christian. Just one. I dare ya.
The stories of the Caladonia March for Freedom posted at CTV, CBC, and canoe are laughable.
I think its' fair to point out those examples of authoritarian abuses.
The heavy handed wielding of various rules and priviledges especially the "Human rights Commissions" which seem to be operating as extra-legal entities above the law are an affront to our principles of democratic justice.
That's why Harper's proposed legislation is making sense.
In reality though we should never have been put in the postition of needing more laws to correct existing bad ones.
At least at a local level school board trusties and officials can be taken to task by voters.
Swift - Busy day. Just checking that out now. Thanks.
Swift - Here's what's laughable!!!
You don't know the half of it. I was there.
Oh poor Bill Whatcott, former “drug abuser and sexual addict” who claims he was screwed in a half-way house by “sodos” at the age of 17 and who used to cruise the YMCA for casual sex with other men. The same Bill Whatcott with two broken marriages, whose avatar at FreeDominion is Jesus (a bit pretentious, wouldn’t you say?), and who spends every waking hour of his miserable, desperately pathetic life now railing against, what he describes as “homos, fudge-packers, deviants and sodomites.” The same Bill Whatcott who masquerades under a Fred Phelps like wingnut group called “Christian Truth Activists” that incites hatred against homosexuals accusing them of being disease carriers and child abusers and who describes same-sex marriages as “filthy.” You mean THAT Bill Whatcott?
Charming company you’re keeping there Joanne.
Oh, and Ted Byfield is a crackpot.
But many people have willful blinders on, and even this evidence will be lost on them.
A nice attempt by Joanne to poison the well, but then there was this post:
valiantmauz said...
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Oh Snap! By the numbers! Damn you valiantmauz and your reality-based community!
Well guys, if you won't accept my sources, I guess we'll simply have to agree to disagree.
Interesting link in your update. I've always wondered why the Tories never supported SSM. To me, I think that gay marriage would fit nicely into the whole "freedom from the state" doctrine - a philosophy that I adhere to as well.
Zac, right. Politically speaking, it would make a great deal of sense.
I was thinking more along ideological lines, but politically it would make sense also. I see this as an albatross that I'm sure Harper would like to rid himself of. If I was a CPC strategist, I would hold the vote in the fall, watch it fail, be done with it and concentrate on polishing the moderate label.
But that's just me though...
If I was a CPC strategist, I would hold the vote in the fall, watch it fail, be done with it and concentrate on polishing the moderate label.
It will probably go down that way no matter when the vote is held.
Joanne - it's not the sources that are the problem. The problem is that Byfield's column was fundamentally dishonest: "oh look at this list of poor persecuted religious folk", and completely ignoring the context of each case. Bad journalism, horrendously simplistic presentation.
Please tell me why you think that each of the "persecuted" deserve to have their religious views trump other Canadians' rights.
Tell me why it's acceptable to have a guidance counsellor in a school that is a) openly hostile to gays and b) offering quack cures to his students?
Tell me why Bill Whatcott deserves the right to tell outright lies about gays and lesbians.
Tell me why Hugh Owen should be allowed to publish an ad citing a Bible verse that advocates the death penalty for gays.
Tell me why Catholic beliefs should extend to a dance on public property, outside of school or Church, and where the participants are in their late teens.
Tell me why it's acceptable to deny printing stationery because it contains the words "Lesbian and Gay Archives". Not porn, not propaganda - stationery.
Tell me why it's ok for a marriage commisioner to deny a civic marriage to a gay couple, yet ignore every other "religious" requirement for marriage like interfaith, remarriage and sacramental obligations.
Futhermore, tell me why religious freedom deserves to trump all other freedoms set out in the Charter.
Make your case.
Valiantmauz - Why don't you go to the source and write a letter to the editor? I didn't write the column.
Joanne (True Blue) said...
Valiantmauz - Why don't you go to the source and write a letter to the editor? I didn't write the column.
I love it! You put up a post entitled In defence of defence of religions act wherein you cite this article's "examples" of so-called religious persecution. Valiantmauz comes along and catagorically shoots down all the examples, but instead of defending your position you play the "well...I didn't write it" card. Classic!
"Why don't you go to the source and write a letter to the editor? I didn't write the column."
How disingenuous.
Your post quoted the article extensively and approvingly, and went on to accuse those who oppose DORA of having willful blinders on.
I have proven - definitively, I think - that it is Byfield who is willfully blind, and by extension, you as well.
As this is your blog, it is your prerogative to ignore my information and my questions.
CC - I offered it as some examples. Clearly you don't like them.
Nothing I can do about that.
Yup. That's me. disingenuous
I thought it was more polite than openly calling you dishonest. I do try to be polite.
Not a problem. I'll try to come up with some better examples.
If anyone doubts that we do need a Defense of Religions Act, just examine gay lobbyists like Laurie Aaron from EGALE were saying on TV interviews when the story broke. To paraphrase, it was something like: "How dare the Conservative government protect those who speak against gay marriage!".
Do you really need a translator? In plain english that means: "We deserve the right to jail anyone who speaks against homosexuality. It's our right. Don't dare take it away from us."
Could any other meaning be taken from Mr. Aaron's comments? What's even more scary is that the mainstream media echoed the exact same sentiment in their headlines: "Conservative government to protect opponents of same-sex marriage".
Jake, thanks for your input. Great point.
Good letter here from Alberta that is related to what you are saying.
This part is particularly well written:
"...Each new issue is the staging ground for the next. First we were assured that this was just about discrimination. Then it was equal benefits for gay couples, but not marriage. Next, it was marriage. And now it's public education and state-enforced punishment of any criticism..."
Previous letter was written by Ted Morton, BTW.
Ah, yes. Here's the infamous editorial in the Leader-Post stating that ."
The other side of the coin is the statements of sime of the more extreme gay spokesmen against heterosexuals that to me clearly are an attempt to promote hatred. Hate literature? not according to the gay spokesmen.
Swift, that's true. Bigotry can occur on either side; usually involving extremists.
From Diogenes' blog:
Joanne (True Blue) said...
Valiantmauz, knock the chip off your shoulder and you won't be weighed down so much.
8:56 PM
valiantmauz said...
Joanne, your indignation would be more credible if you applied yourself to answering some of the points I raised on your blog, rather than attacking me personally on another's.
Look: here's the blog:
Fill yer boots and send your flying monkeys my way, if you're so inclined.
Otherwise, ya just look cranky.
4. Hugh Owen cited Leviticus 20:13 in his ad. I believe that's the one that calls for homosexuals be put to death. Charming.
Valiantmauz - That could be interpreted to mean death of the soul, or the opposite of eternal salvation (from what I have heard).
If they can't or don't discriminate over every other religious objection to a marriage (interfaith, remarriage of divorcees, sacramental obligations), why is it OK to discriminate against gays alone?
Indeed. In Manitoba they can "discriminate" over everything except gay marriage. You are well protected.
By all means, associate the CPC with Bill Whatcott.
It was Ted Byfield who made the reference.
Please tell me why you think that each of the "persecuted" deserve to have their religious views trump other Canadians' rights.
Please tell me why you would want to force someone to perform a gay marriage when they were against it in their heart.
Tell me why it's acceptable to have a guidance counsellor in a school that is a) openly hostile to gays and b) offering quack cures to his students?
I am sure that gay students could find an appropriate counsellor who would be sympathetic to their concerns.
Tell me why Bill Whatcott deserves the right to tell outright lies about gays and lesbians.
So if someone says something that isn't true they should be fined?
Tell me why Catholic beliefs should extend to a dance on public property, outside of school or Church, and where the participants are in their late teens.
Because it is an affront to the faith, but as you know, the Church lost this one anyway.
Tell me why it's acceptable to deny printing stationery because it contains the words "Lesbian and Gay Archives". Not porn, not propaganda - stationery.
Why should anyone be forced to do a job that they fundamentally don't agree with?
Futhermore, tell me why religious freedom deserves to trump all other freedoms set out in the Charter.
I don't think anyone is looking for that. Equality is the target.
Now you make your case.
Beyond that, however, freedom of expression is not enhanced by allowing printers to scrutinize the contents of materials and deny printing services to viewpoints they disagree with. This would lead to censorship and a stifling of freedom of expression.
I wonder what a radical Muslim printer would do if given a job to print pro-Jewish literature or vice-versa. Would they be allowed to decline the job? | http://jojourn.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-defence-of-defence-of-religions-act.html | 2013-05-18T10:21:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Tombstone Tuesday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers which asks bloggers to create a post including an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors; it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.
My great grand uncle Ulysses Jollett and my great grand aunt Sadie Janiera Lamb Jollett are buried in Coverstone Cemetery (formerly the EUB Church Cemetery) in Shenandoah, Virginia.
JOLLETTE
Ulysses Finks Janeiro S. Lamb
Jan. 26, 1883 July 7, 1880
Jan. 30, 1931 Feb. 5, 1961
Aha! And here is the tombstone of Ulysses and the mysterious Sadie from your previous post. Interesting that Janeira is spelled incorrectly and Sadie is not listed as her first name.
That surprised me too.
For a brief second I thought you were going to post about President U. Grant. Very nice post and who is this mysterious Sadie? I'm thinking we shall see more!
HA -- yeah, you don't run across too many people today named Ulysses.
I think the fact that she was 3 years older is cool...I am 1 year older than my husband....but in 1982 that was no big deal....way back it probably was.
Happy Tuesday!
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Get Spotify working with PulseAudio on Ubuntu Linux
I had problems getting Spotify to work under Ubuntu and Wine, with a Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 headset. The sound chopped 2-3 times per second.
Using OSS and normal Wine worked fine with the internal sound card of the laptop, but not with the USB headset.
I found this discussion thread and tried different remedies. The one that worked was Neil Wilson's fork of Wine, WinePulse, with support for PulseAudio.
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:neil-aldur/ppa to your system's Software Sources. Not using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)?
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MARTINSBURG - The Berkeley Arts Council has announced the first of three new artisan workshops to help artists and artisans better promote themselves and their work. These workshops will be held at the Triple Brick Museum located at 313 E. John St. in Martinsburg.
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Artists frequently must provide artist statements for all kinds of exhibits, whether they are major juried or solo opportunities or showing a few pieces in a local gallery. The artist statement is a written description of an artist's work. It should give the viewer insight into why the artist did the work and provides context for the work. An effective artist statement can enhance an artist's presentation, while a poor statement will likely confuse or otherwise turn off the viewer. The workshop will cover the basics of what to include in a statement and, almost as important, what not to include.
The workshop will be held Saturday, March 9, from 9 a.m. to noon. Cost of registration is $35 for BAC members and $45 for non-members. Registration is required, and must be made by Tuesday, March 5.
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Writing in a Journal—
Today I came across a fascinating study about writing in a journal entitled “Outcomes of an Integrated Journaling and Mindfulness Program on a US University Campus”. Being about journaling I, of course, was instantly intrigued. Upon further investigation I found this journaling study quite interesting and insightful.
I want to share two highlights of this study with you. The first is about the writing in a journal portion of the study, and the second is about a mindfulness scale the writers referenced.
So without further ado, here is a journaling gem just for you!
Writing in a Journal
Integrated Journaling and Mindfulness
Here is some excellent information about writing in a journal from the study (bold added by me for emphasis only):
“… another component of our sessions was journal writing, which served as a preliminary stage to mindfulness and helped students prepare their minds for the subsequent mindfulness exercises. The reason that we incorporated journaling into our study was two-fold. On the one hand, in terms of their benefits they have lots in common: journaling helps focus on one’s inner world, increase positive thoughts and decrease negativity. In addition to numerous psychological benefits, it enhances physical health (Pennebaker, 1997) and academic performance, for example, it helps high-school students become more active in their pursuit of learning (Scherer, 2002). On the other hand, journaling shares several advantages listed above for mindfulness: it is cheap, does not require special equipment, can be done almost anywhere and by people of all ages and cultures.
The two types of journaling (based on their content and objectives) that we incorporated into our study were gratitude and reappraisal. Research by positive psychologists revealed that writing about positive events – “three good things in life” – increases happiness and decreases depressive symptoms for six months (Seligman, Steen, Park & Peterson, 2005). Thus, on a good day we encouraged our participants to write about their positive experiences. However, when one is upset and cannot really feel positive, it helps to acknowledge these feelings and to be honest with oneself (Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, 2002). According to Pennebaker (1997), it is not just the act of writing about an upsetting event and letting off the steam that has positive effect but rather making sense out of it. Thus, we suggested to our participants that on a day when they were upset, they honestly share their thoughts and feelings in a confidential writing and then try to change their attitude about what happened (if possible).” (Read the entire integrated journaling study here.)
Mindful Attention Awareness Scale
One of the tools the study’s authors mentioned is the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). I am fascinated by simple questionnaires and find them very helpful. I love to complete them and paste them in my journal. Then later on when I find them again I marvel as I reflect upon how much I’ve grown and changed. Sometimes I even re-take the questionnaire. Use the following “Mindfulness Questionnaire” for your day-to-day experiences.
Scoring information
To score the scale, simply compute a mean (add your score for each of the 15 items and divide by 15). Higher scores reflect higher levels of dispositional mindfulness.
Well that’s all from me for today. I hope you enjoyed this journal writing gem as much as I did. Actually… I hope you enjoyed it even more!!!
Until next time, journal on!
Most kindly,
Jill
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You go out and buy
Nice cards for the few,
Nice cards for those who
Are not in the loop
With technology.
Who don’t want to play
With ‘new-fangled gadgets’,
Who prefer the
Old ways.
And that’s OK.
In fact, it’s rather fab
Polly Robinson © 2012
21/12/2012 at 18:48
Merry Christmas, Polly!
21/12/2012 at 18:56
Thanks Robin ~ hope yours is special with the family
xx
21/12/2012 at 19:12
Christmas cards are the one thing I didn’t get to this year. Hopefully my family will forgive me. And besides, I think they’ve accumulated enough school pics of my boys by now. How many awkward school photos does anyone need?
Have a great Christmas, Polly!
21/12/2012 at 19:16
You too, Carrie ~ and the family ~ bet the boys are relieved no more photos to be cooed over
Wishing you the best of Christmases
21/12/2012 at 19:18
I think the days of ‘cooing’ over their photos are long gone. That ends somewhere around the fabulous middle school years…
21/12/2012 at 19:20
Ah … I remember it well … as a grandmother with one grandson of 18, who grins when I say ‘how dare you!’, I do recall that the cooing diminishes. There again, as a grandma, I still do my fair share of ‘cooing’ ~ love my family (love to embarrass them heh-heh)
21/12/2012 at 20:35
Aw, sweet. This poem made me think of my Gran the other week – she asked to have a look at my phone… bafflement ensued! And as you say it’s rather nice to be traditional for those who like it that way.
22/12/2012 at 07:49
I often wonder what my mother would make of today’s world ~ she’s been gone a long time and never saw a mobile phone or even a computer … lovely that your gran was interested, Holly
21/12/2012 at 20:48
I must say I still have a soft spot for cards. I especially love the fact you can’t always tell who it’s from before you open it. Adds some spice to life I think!
22/12/2012 at 07:50
There is something nice about the postman calling …
22/12/2012 at 18:48
i love receiving the personal card with handwritten words and pictures. We send about 20 paper
cards and the rest are electronic. You, I agree, the old fashioned ones are rather fab!
23/12/2012 at 01:21
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December 6, 2006
Lester Says He's Cancer-Free
Great news:
3 comments:
that is such good news :)
I think Lester's return also puts the Sox in the drivers seat in negotiations over Matsuzaka. If Boras is really trying to extort the Sox into playing major league star dollars for an unproven prospect (repeat after me : Contreras, Contreras, Contreras..), the Sox should hold fast. Look at it this way: they get 51 million dollars NOT to sign the guy. That's not a bad deal as a worst case scenario. Boras wants Matsuzaka to go back to Japan and risk blowing out his elbow or having a rotten year? Great: call his bluff. The Sox can win with Schilling, Beceket, Papelbon, Wake and Lester.
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Schilling was dominant, regaining control of his fastball and split to strike out a season-high 10 batters (7-6-1-0-10, 114).
Yook hit an inside-the-park home run and scored standing up (20-game hitting streak)! Manny smashed a line drive shot over the Wall in left, and Dustin Pedroia went 3-for-3, with a single, two doubles and a walk.
Papelbot stumbled in the 9th, but held on to strike out Hafner with the tying runs aboard.
The Red Sox's 10 hits: 2 singles, 6 doubles, and 2 home runs. ... The two singles came in the third inning, before the Sox had scored any runs.
Yankees lost to Toronto 7-2. The Devil Rays scored twice in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Tigers 6-5 and raise their record to 21-28, 13.5 GB -- same as New York's.
***
Cliff Lee (5.93, 73 ERA+) / Curt Schilling (3.94, 113 ERA+)
Trot Nixon returns!
His ninth-inning home run against the TCM at Yankee Stadium that gave Pedro a 2-0 win on May 28, 2000 -- how on Earth can that have been seven years ago?!? -- and his pinch-hit two-run, game-winning blast at Fenway against Oakland to win Game 3 of the 2002 ALDS are two of my fondest memories of Boston career.
The thunderous ovation he'll receive is completely deserved.
95 comments:
What about the blast about 2' away from a homer in Game 4 of the World Series? Nixon was great, and he'll be missed.
From the Tangible post:
s1c:
Bradford posted the line ups (David Ortiz is out again with I assume more hamstring issues)
Julio Lugo SS
Coco Crisp CF
Kevin Youkilis 1B
Manny Ramirez DH
J.D. Drew RF
Mike Lowell
and
Sean said:
I'll be there tonight in gs 32 row 5, stop by and say hi. I should be in my new tavarez shirt in red.
yup, but slight change of plans, as Pena's inclusion means I'm wearing #22 in blue, row 5. Just leaving Lowell now, should be there about 6:15.
Cafardo has the update on Clemens in his rehab - through 3 innings he's retired 9 of 10 batters. Maybe they will have him start in Boston. I'm sure Pettitte would be more than happy to move back his start one day.
They don't have SL shirts. I'm sad.
Dammit, I missed seeing amalie Benjamin. She is so hot.
Jhonny Peralta SS
BRAK! BRAK!
Red Sox notes on their press pass:
► Boston’s previous largest 1st place advantage after 49 games was 9.0 GA in 1946.
► Julio Lugo is the 1st Sox player to be successful on at least his 1st 14 steal tries of a season since 1943, when Leon Culbertson was successful on all 14 of his SB attempts
► Sox are 4-1 at home in games started by opposing lefthanders, losing only to Baltimore and Brian Burres on May 11.
From my research: Schillings last start against the Yankees he gave up 12 hits the most since April 22, 2004 when he gave up 13 hits in Toronto, in the two games after that against Tampa Bay and Cleveland Schilling pitched 14.1 innings allowing only 2 runs.
Would like to see Curt get on a similar roll against Cleveland and MFY this weekend.
The Battle for the Basement
MFY - 12.5
TAM - 13.5
MFY (DeSalvo) at Toronto (McGowan)
Tigers (Durbin) at Devil Rays (Jackson)
Lugo was caught once, but the umpire totally blew the call.
redsock said...
Lugo was caught once, but the umpire totally blew the call
True but since it was against the MFY I'll take it every time!!
Huge heat for trot. Announcer had to pause for a long time.
From Cafardo on Clemens start "He looked more like Mike Mussina than Clemens."
Don: "Framed by Varitek"
DRINK!
So close to a 3 play. Schill has had some tough defense behind him tonight.
We also heard a "bill of the cap high".
Close on the possible triple play last inning.
Help me out nesn people, is the ump calling a lot of low strikes?
Wtg lugo.
Help me out nesn people, is the ump calling a lot of low strikes?
actually the zone seems fairly tight, floyd keeps hitting what looks to be strike 3, but it got called a ball (on tek and crisp)
Floyd? Wrong cliff, Tim.
Drewwwwwwww!!!!
I love doubles.
Yook, Drew and Lowell in the 4th. 2-0.
quick check of MFY and BJ's shows BJ's ahead 1 - 0 in the 4th.
Mike Lowell is a god damn moron.
2-0 Jays, bot of the 5th.
How many people do "Yooooooook" at home?
Laura wants to know, since she does it.
Floyd? Wrong cliff, Tim.
their all the same to me...opponents
Jays 3-0.
redsock said...
How many people do "Yooooooook" at home?
Everybody of course (well at least I do). One of the reasons I get exiled to the basement :)
How many people do "Yooooooook" at home?
*raises hand*
Pitching change in Toronto in the bottom of the fifth. Bases loaded 2 outs and Vizcaino(?) facing Thomas.
Go Jays!!!!!
Does anyone think, or care, that the dramatic shift used for Giambi , Ortiz and whoever else they use it for, is counterproductive. Just for the fact it makes pitchers pitch to that hitters strength.
I mean if all Giambi wants to do ispull the ball why not pitch him outside rather then busting him in so he will hit into the shift.
Just something that bugs the shit out of me.......
Pedroia on Fira
Roberto Hernandez's Pic on gameday looks like Morgan Freeman in Shawshank
TCM: 6-2-0-2-6, 89.
Sounds almost certain that he will chicken out and not face Boston.
So the MFY are in 4th chasing Boston, Billy is supposed to be their $28M savior, but they refuse to pitch him against the Sox.
(Or he's begging out.)
Getting away from God Bless America, we click over and see Toronto go up 5-0 in the bottom of the 7th on a bases loaded walk.
Cashman and Torre are taking the heat for him though, so he'll skate by in the NY tabloids.
7 innings and 10 K's. A good outing by Schilling, lets hope he repeats it on Sunday.
Jays have bases loaded and 1 out. Myers in for Aaron Hill.
I think it's more accurate to say that the MFYs are chasing the wild card at this point...
Nice to see Good Schilling tonight. The last two outings had me a little worried, but 7 strong innings (with a little help from some nice defense) makes me feel better.
run yook run!!!!!!!!!!
Inside the Parker!!! Amazing!
FUCK!!!!!
I flip over to the hockey game for 20 seconds and miss the inside the parker!!!!!
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!
Out of all the guys on this team that seemed likely to hit an inside the park home run... I guess when you're hot, you're *hot*.
Laura: "That's what you get, you stupid canuck!"
(She was smiling when she said it. :>) )
7-0 JAYS!
THE YANKEES ARE SURGING AHEAD IN THIS GAME!!!!!! WOW HAVE YOU EVER SEEN POWER LIKE THIS PEOPLE
THIS IS EPIC, GEORGE LUCAS HIMSELF COULDNT CONVEY THIS ANY BETTER
THIS IS PROBABLY THE GREATEST THING THATS HAPPENED IN MY LIFE
THIS IS SUCH A PHENOMENAL GAME, THE YANKEES WILL BE OWNING OCTOBER IF THEY KEEP SWINGING THE BATS LIKE THIS
[/yes network commentary>
K of Hafner looked a bit outside.
Spam Blaster!!! F YOU!!!
wtf, tuned into MFY-Jays game, jays feed...
they showed the youk HR...the announcer "Wow Kevin Youkilis riding something crazy like a 12 game hitting streak"
ugh, if ignorance is bliss i want to wipe the smile off that fool's face.
Last call for the Chokers.
Papel-bot better be warming up, good job by Lopez and Donnelly.
Final at Skydome: 7-2.
MFY now 21-28, 13 GB.
Last call for the Chokers.
Let me be the first to say.....lucky 13!
Dammit!
Oh yeah. Bot is warming.
I don't know what I like better. Our lights out closer. Or the fact that we have a back up closer who is just as lights out when LOC #1 is unavailable.
nice, pedroia finding his swing.
Prediction - If yankees lose 7 in a row then Torre gets fired and TCM suddenly pulls a groin.
Maybe TCM can manage them.
:>)
DUMBASS FANS DON'T TOUCH THE BALL. You look about 60; you should know better by now.
Dunno if it would have made a difference (especially with the steal just now) but still. How hard is it not to reach down onto the field? Don't touch the damn ball!
Rays trailing 5-4 to Tigers in the 9th. If they can win, they and the MFY will have identical records.
Settle down bot, we need outs here not record breaking radar gun readings.
Dear Bot:
Start botting.
*gulp*
Orsillo just said your favorite phrase, redsock ;-)
uh oh. maybe it's not his day - bring in okajima?
i think okie is unavailable, thats why they have kysny warming...
this AB is going better...
rays have tying run on 3rd, winning run on 2nd, 1 out
Every time I see him, bot melts down. End the game paps.
Every time I see him, bot melts down. End the game paps.
Tampa gets 2!!!! Rays WIN!!!
NY and Tampa are both 21-28, now 13GB.
whatever sean - i'm tired of your pessimism - i'm listening to the game and he definately swung. I could feel the air of him missing it.
nice! good call.
Tampa gets 2!!!! Rays WIN!!!
NY and Tampa are both 21-28, now 13GB.
hells yeah!!! i saw they were slowly crawling back into this game...let that be a lesson to you MF(BD)Y!!!!!
C'mon Paps, 1 more strike I beg you 1 more strike.
I know I'm a little late here, but I was making dinner - I totally do Yooook at home. And at the gym, embarrassingly enough, on the elliptical trainer with my XM radio.
OH HELLS YEA!!!!!
BOT!
There ya go sean. Pap does it again.
so much stuff just went on there, Ducks scored right as blake struck out and TB won! hecticity!
how about that YOOOOOOOK!!!!!
I'm definately picking up one of the red jerseys, #20...i've wanted one ever since he got called up back in '04 and ripped a homer in his first(?) game @ skydome...that was awesome, he immediately hiked to the top of my favorite player list that season. what sealed the deal was the classic denis leary commentary on him being "jewish" last season, and leary ripping into mel gibson as youk made some stellar plays at first.
that and i'd like a jersey of a player whose currently on the team.
wow... we are really good
35-15.
me likey.
Crazy game, but schill was on. 90-92 fb, 82 solitter, 85 slider, 72 curve. The injuns got a ton of lucky hits, but we won, so I'm fine.
For paps, he has now given up 16 by my count as a closer, and I've seen 5, and his injury. Crazy.
Imagine the game if we got that triple play, a 3 play and an inside the Parker.
I totally do Yooook at home. And at the gym, embarrassingly enough, on the elliptical trainer with my XM radio.
Ha! That's great. s1c said it, everyone does Yook at home - or everyone *should*!
Don: "Framed by Varitek"
DRINK!
Yeah, Tim's on board!
Tonight Don said that a certain national announcer used "by way of the K". Anyone know who that was? I think someone mentioned it in a game thread here at JoS.
Don intro'd a new one tonight: "in this results based business, he got the job done". Remy said play-by-play guys all over the country were writing it down...
And, since it appears to be good luck (um, not that I'm superstitious or anything...)
ELEVEN AND A HALF GAMES UP!!
and
YANKEES ARE 13.5 GAMES BACK!!
When Tampa Bay overtakes them in the standings, the New York papers are going to explode.
Imagine the game if we got that triple play, a 3 play and an inside the Parker.
I was thinking the same thing!
I love triple plays. I've only seen one once - unassisted, by Randy Velarde.
P.S. I love Dustin Pedroia. That is all. Good night.
this is my favourite game of the season so far. the crowd was electric, lots of great plays/moments. awesome :)
Before anyone potentially brings it up, no one was booing Trotter when he came up with the bases loaded in the 8th. That was the audible groan of 30,000 Sox fans who'd seen this sort of thing go terribly wrong in the past, and expected Trot to launch one into Williamsburg on the first pitch.
Of course, it didn't happen. Javier Lopez is quickly becoming one of my favorite guys, against all odds. And JC Romero... is also a guy who pitches.
Don intro'd a new one tonight: "in this results based business, he got the job done"
lmao, i heard that one and i had a "Jim Halpert" expression on my face.
Sweet.
Was at this game tonight. So incredibly fun.
Peralta: brak brak indeed.
My girlfriend and I, and my parents, do "Yook" in any and all situations.
Sean: You probably had a bad angle on the scoreboard from 32, but if you heard a loud cheer while Manny batted fairly late in the game, followed by a "Yankees Suck" chant, that was the moment their score changed from 4-0 to 7-0.
When the game ended, the scoreboard still showed 5-4 Detroit in the 9th. I got home to find out TB actually came back to win! So the Yanks are in dead last (when going alphabetically by team name.) There is no team in the majors FARTHER out of first place than the Yanks...
One more thing: Yanks would have to play .625 ball over their next 32 games to be above .500 on July 4th.
Jere, I was hoping you were at the game!
For the rest of my life, I will say (at least to myself) "brak brak" when I see the name Jhonny Peralta.
Alas, my friend, it's all downhill for you now. You'll never top that one.
Although "A Wood, VT Menace" comes mighty close.
One more thing: Yanks would have to play .625 ball over their next 32 games to be above .500 on July 4th.
!!!!!!
jere-
I heard it, and luckily someone in the row in front had a marginally better view of the score, to see the 7-0 change. I immediately reached for my crackberry to see what happened.
You going tonight? I've got my blue Nixon shirt underneath my work clothes as we speak.
No, my next game is when Bonds is in town. But who knows, I might pop over there between now and then.
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Blue Jays - 000 021 400 - 7 8 2 Red Sox - 003 000 030 - 6 5 0
Buchholz (5-3-3-5-3, 94) started the evening by walking two of the first three batters, but after a lull while the umpires reviewed a possible home run down around the Pesky Pole by Adam Lind (it was ruled a foul ball), he settled down, retiring 12 of the next 13 batters.
Toronto's first four runs were scored by guys who had walked. Buchholz walked the Jays' #8 and #9 hitters in the fifth and they scored on Corey Patterson's triple. Another HH BB scored on Travis Snider's double off Felix Doubront.
After walking the leadoff hitter in the seventh, Bobby Jenks -- who had not allowed a hit all season (14 batters over four innings) -- allowed singles to four of the next five Jays to put Boston in a 7-3 hole.
In the bottom of the eighth, lefty Marc Rzepczynski retired Adrian Gonzalez, but walked Youkilis and David Ortiz. After he struck out J.D. Drew, he wild-pitched the runners to second and third. With two outs, Jed Lowrie pinch-hit for Jarrod Saltalamacchia and singled one run home on a grounder behind the bag at third. Casey Janssen came in to face Marco Scutaro and Scutaro banged a double off the Wall for two more runs. With the tying run at second, Jacoby Ellsbury ended the inning with a first-pitch fly out to right.
In the ninth, Carl Crawford (0-for-5) struck out on three pitches, and was booed by the remaining fans. Pedroia grounded to short and Gonzalez grounded to first.
Brett Cecil / Clay Buchholz
First of four games against John Farrell's Blue Jays, including Monday's Patriots Day 11 AM start.
There is not much Terry Francona can do to spark the Red Sox, but he could -- and should -- make Jed Lowrie the starting shortstop. Repeating what I posted two days ago:
PA AVG OBP SLG OPS Lowrie 18 .438 .500 .563 1.063 Scutaro 33 .172 .273 .207 .480Lowrie 194 OPS+ would be 7th in the AL if he had enough qualifying plate appearances. Lowrie also had the third-best OPS (.907) on the team last year (in 197 PA).
AL East:
Yankees 7 4 --- Orioles 6 5 1.0 Blue Jays 6 6 1.5 Rays 4 8 3.5 Red Sox 2 9 5.07 PM: Rangers/Yankees; Orioles/Cleveland; Twins/Rays
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Let's try something new tonight:
Winning!
***
Friday: Brett Cecil / Clay Buchholz
Saturday: Jo-Jo Reyes / Josh Beckett
Sunday: Jesse Litsch / Jon Lester
Monday: Ricky Romero / Daisuke Matsuzaka
I only dislike one of those matchups.
I don't think three out of four is too much to ask for.
Crawford LF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Youkilis 3B
Ortiz DH
Drew RF
Saltalamacchia C
Scutaro SS
Ellsbury CF
Escobar SS
Patterson CF
Bautista RF
Lind 1B
Hill 2B
Arencibia C
Snyder LF
Rivera DH
Nix 3B
Scutaro SS
booooooooooooooooooooo
play the guy hitting .438!
On a really big part of the plus side, we're not facing Drabek.
Scutaro SS
Ferchrissake, Tito! Come on!
Now I see that Scutaro is 5-for-8 against Cecil.
(Darnell McDonald is 5-for-7, but nowhere in sight as Drew starts against the LH.)
Claude Julien is the worst coach in NHL history when he is in the playoffs.
Now I see that Scutaro is 5-for-8 against Cecil.
(Darnell McDonald is 5-for-7, but nowhere in sight as Drew starts against the LH.)
You expect Tito to be logical twice with regards to SSS?
Let's try something new tonight:
Winning!
Yeah!.... but not the Charlie Sheen version, which looks a lot like losing.
Cecil and Buchholz have both made 2 starts
Cecil: 10-16-8-3-6, 7.20
Clay: 10-13-8-5-5, 7.20
Playing Ortiz against lefties makes me shake my head, I would have Cameron at DH.
The winning streak starts today.
Buffyvision. MLB Audio to the rescue!
Ofer, yes! Let's all say it:
The winning streak starts today.
I only dislike one of those matchups.
Gee, I wonder which one ....
I wish I had Buffyvision! Blacked out at work, so it's WEEI for me. Not ideal.
Oh no the red uniforms
# 42
Dice-HH
What do they do with all those 42 jerseys later?
One from every team will be signed and auctioned, proceeds to Jackie Robinson Foundation. Don't know about the rest.
I don't like the hat, don't like the jerseys.
Why not sign and sell all of them?
To make them more valuable, maybe?
Sarcastic cheer
oh crap
Yeah, but if each player signed his own jersey, it would be worth something.
REALLY?? Is this the way to start this game?????
lovely
HR
oh fuck this shit
sounds like it was clearly foul on the replay.
replay please
It looked like a homer to me. Let's see the replay.
looks foul on replay
Okay, FOUL BALL.
obrien totally convinced it's foul
Remy and Don too. There is a question about the yellow line that runs down the stands. It is not lined up with the pole. But the ball went behind the pole. So do you go by the line or the pole? And why is the line not lined up with the pole?
FOUL
Very nice Posnanski piece on MannyBManny and his HOF future or not-so-future.
ah, that's better
Don and Jerry seem to have problems understanding the geometry of perspective.
Google Pesky Pole and look at the images. The line is off.
whew, it's a miracle, no one scored
jays strand a pair!
I remember announcers being confused about this same thing at the old Yankee Stadium in maybe 2008. If you look at the wall from head on, it looks like the line on the wall doesn't line up with the pole. But if you look straight down the line, you see that the line is right below the pole. (Should be, anyway.)
It hit the top of the wall to the foul side of the pole, so it's foul.
Don/Rem never noted the guy who reached out for the ball--he could have barely touched it.
I guess that makes sense Jere. I am directionallly challenged though.
Crawford safe
Castig & OB & their producer also saying lines down line up, but that it doesn't matter, because the foul pole is what you go by, not a line below it.
Safe. What is that trash?
a blown call at first on Craw?
Yes, he was barely safe, but his foot landed first.
that one was foul too :)
Even if that is where the line is supposed to be, it is not lined up at the very bottom, on the skirt that goes under the stands.
ROBOT UMPS, pls!
If you compare this pic to this pic you see how it's more lined up when looking straight down the line than it is when you look at it from right field. (The padding sticking out from the wall adds confusion, too.)
(That first pic is of redsoxdiehard, who comments here.)
It's weird that the TV and radio announcers don't know this.
Here's the Yankee Stadium effect I referred to: From down the line, pole lines up with line. From the side, the white line appears WAY to the left of the pole.
TEX - 01
MFY - 0
MIN - 00
TBR - 00
BAL - 000
CLE - 003* (and still batting)
OTT!
I'm so disappointed to not be home for the Patriots Day game. I love the 11:00 start, my favourite of the season.
Since the umps went to look at Lind's dong, Clay has been on point!
Good evening, all. Can we please win this game?
If you ever try to set up a football field with plastic cones on an unlined pitch, you'll see the same thing. It's impossible to straighten out the sideline on the end zone by yourself; you need somebody in the other end zone looking down the sideline to direct you.
Thanks for the pics, Jere. It makes sense - Edward Lee explains it well too. Now why don't Don, Jerry, Castig, OB or the Jays announcers know this? (Well, the Jays announcers are idiots, but still.)
Amy, haven't you heard, our huge winning streak starts today.
Another BB for Youk.
Yeah, thanks for the D, Jays.
We get a break! Imagine that!
I sure as hell am ready for that streak.
Re #42. Francona said that this day is important to remember what we did wrong, not pat ourselves on the back about what we did right. Very nice!!
I heard a snort and giggle, but I think it was only Remy.
E!
pour some salty in the jays' wounds!
Those Jays outfielders should be made to change jersey numbers between innings.
Hi Amy!!
Francona said that?? That is amazing!!
I get SO sick of the self-congratulations of MLB. It's exactly backwards.
DO and Remy saying "on fire" and talking about smelling fire coincidentally while Drew was up.
That was reported by Heidi. The clip started with her asking Microwave the hard hitting question of why it is important to honor JR as the first black man to play (or something like that). She then went on to report what Francona said.
Thanks, K. I'll look for quotes tomorrow. Or Allan will and I'll read them.
runs pls!
Thanks, K. I'll look for quotes tomorrow. Or Allan will and I'll read them.
Ha, it must be great having him around.
I think so. :)
Of course.
God damn....
ugh
a LOBotomy
Ha, it must be great having him around.
Ha, indeed.
Why can't we score runs??
Watching Ellsbury get blown away by 89 mph fastballs makes me a sad panda. :(
batting averages of 5 of the 9 players in tonight's lineup:
.149
.182
.148
.172
.184
yeah, not my favourite thing to see either
FYne play
OUT! FUCK YEAH
What is the team average, Allan? Below the Mendoza line, I assume.
THANK GOD FOR PEDROIA!
He said FY there!
Thanks for hitting the dirt 3 feet in front of the bag, ya chump.
jays suck :)
So my Boston daughter texted me yesterday:
"I think I just walked past Dustin Pedroia!!"
I say: "WOW! He's my new hero!"
M: "I think it was him, but he was really short. How tall is he?"
I say: "Short. 5 7 or so?"
M: "Yup, that was definitely him!"
Team AVG .230
Amazingly, not last in the AL. Oakland is tied with us, and Baltimore, Seattle, and Tampa Bay are worse.
Nice text :)
Allan, I guess those BAs answer my question, huh?
FY is our best player.
All these guys are much better than that. They have to start hitting some time!
RIGHT????
Yay to your daughter, Amy.
M also reported that she served drinks to the manager, GM and hitting coach for the Rays after the game they killed us in. I guess they were celebrating....
Yes, definitely my hero!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOMSHAKALAKA
castig: "that was a howitzer! you talk about the laser show, there it is...."
How does this little guy DO that?
"that's how it's done son, that's how it's done son"- Randy
What I said...our best player.
Once upon a time, The Big Man carried this team until it straightened itself out. Now that job falls to the little guy.
EBBB
Man, that guy really booted that ball in the stands. First row of the monster and he misses the ball that badly.
It's better than what I would do - duck for cover.
Red Sox are the worst in the AL with a runner at third and less than two outs. They have scored the run only 12% of the time (11 of 30). MFY are the best, scoring 15 out of 18 times (83%).
SWEAT POWER!!!
NOW we're talking!!!
SULTAN OF SWEAT
camera well dong
WE HAVE A LEAD?!?!
OK Flo, your turn
It's getting sweaty in here.
Now that's more like it. Keep it going.
DO saying the laser show has just begun as Youk is at bat, before the dong.
MOAR RUNZ
3-0 in our favor? Much more like it.
A walk works too
Jays fan at work said Cecil has contracted PhilHughes Disease.
It appears he was right.
TEX - 011 0
MFY - 001
MIN - 000 0
TBR - 000 0
BAl - 000 10
CLE - 004 0
What exactly is a dead arm?
I could go for another 7 pitch inning right about now.
castig: "induced"
That's my boy! Nice catch.
LBJ at the wall!
OK, LBJ---there you go!
LBJ!! Nice speed, nice catch.
Amy, it means the pitcher's arm has muscle fatigue, the muscles don't recovery, so he can't pitch effectively. As far as I know, it's a catch-all term for that - not a specific injury, but the arm can't pitch.
Nice try!
Thanks, Laura---I always imagine it means the arm just hangs there, dead. So I assume the only treatment is resting the arm?
I wanna know how that ump knew the guy's front-of-toe was touching the base from his angle! (Was the right call, but, still...)
Luis "Grand Slam" Rivera!
TEX up 3-1 in the 5th
TEX 4-1!
Luis "Grand Slam" Rivera!
Ha ha, I was wondering if you'd bring that up.
My first game at Fenway? Or maybe just my first NYY game at Fenway. An experience, for sure. Wearing my old cap. :)
Amy, I really don't know, but I would guess so. Anyone else know what they do for a dead arm, besides rest? Lethal injection, maybe?
not first game, maybe/probably first ny game
The only grand slam of his career: August 31, 1990.
NYY pitchers that day included Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret!
TEX 5-1!
OB casting aspersions on Don and Jerry's manhood
Dead Arm
HH pls don't BB
I saw that one too, while I was looking things up to answer your question. :)
"Let me Google that for you"
Ahh, that explains why Remy was saying he sees no reason to keep the windows open when it's cold and windy outside.
LOL, Laura! I didn't mean to make someone else look it up---just thought someone might know.
I'm at Coachella now. Got an alert from ESPN we were losing 3-0 and was upset, then confused later by alerts saying we were up 1-0 & 3-0. Game thread set me straight. Thanks!
Ha, must be, yeah. OB and Castig saying only windows closed in the media area is Don & Jerry's. OB: If the fans have to sit in the cold and wind, we should too. We can take it, we're man enough. (Paraphrase)
Wild 5th for Texas:
3 walks, including one with bases loaded; 3 wild pitches; and 1 HBP
Even when I know something, I generally take a quick look at Google to confirm before I post. Almost always.
Oh, damn.
Yes, I do that also.
What did we do before Google?
The only grand slam of his career: August 31, 1990.
That's hilarious. Only GS of his career. Obviously not my first game at Fenway if it's 1990.
NYY pitchers that day included Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret!
Erick Plunk, is that Stephen King?
Yes, King.
Chuck Cary started for NYY, wasn't sure if that name would ring a bell.
Used the library? :(
I called people a lot for answers. Wrote stuff down and tried to look it up later. Often didn't get an answer for something that bothered me.
Get him out!
Chuck Cary, nope
OK, now we need more runs
Used the library? :(
When I was in high school, my quiz bowl team lost on the final question in the championship of a major tournament because of a dispute over Spock's exact title aboard the Starship Enterprise. The official had to call up the local librarian, who did a little bit of research and told us that the correct answer was "Science Officer", not "First Officer." True story.
On trips to YS as a kid, my Yank fan friend and I would pass "King Lumber" on 684, and it had its phone number on the building: 232 5151. My friend overruled me and used then-Yankee uni numbers to remember it by: "Donny Tolly Cary Cary" = Don Mattingly 23, Wayne Tolleson 2, Chuck Cary 51, Chuck Cary 51.
I hung out with this friend a few weeks ago and asked if he remembered King Lumber's number, and without skipping a beat he says Donny Tolly Cary Cary. (He then called the number and it's STILL King Lumber!)
So that's my Chuck Cary story.
True story, why not. :)
I used to call the NYPL to ask q's when I was a kid. Turns out that was a very famous service, the first of its kind. You could ask up to 3 q's and a librarian would call you back with the answer.
(He then called the number and it's STILL King Lumber!)
Only they've changed it to Bernie Williams?
That's a great story Jere. That's how my brothers would remember numbers! It's beautiful that you were able to relive it recently...and that he remembered!
But we never would call the library to find out what was the name of that actor who starred in that movie with what's her name who was in the TV show about... etc.
Those are the things I would be up all night trying to remember but for Google.
Amy, same here. For those things, I would call someone. Those are Google q's now.
Good God, Cleveland is kicking Baltimore's ass. 8-1.
"Only they've changed it to Bernie Williams?"
Yeah, 2, and 51 ended up being much higher-quality Yankees. (For today's kids who drive by King Lumber.) Pretty soon, the entire King Lumber number will be retired in Monument Park
FINALLY
There's a baseball-y term: "not fleet of foot".
Earlier I heard "pulled a string". I don't think you hear that outside of a baseball broadcast.
Can we get some 'pen action, please? I don't like how Clay has let two people on without breaking a sweat here.
Around the same time you were naming King Lumber's digits after Yankees, A & I lived near a house that had a very large number 23 painted on it. I always thought of it as the Mattingly house. It was a beautiful brownstone. The people had a whole bunch of dogs who would lie all over the couches and chairs. They were like a wealthier version of us.
My memory of The Mattingly House.
Near where one of Amy's daughters now lives.
Whoops! "Allison" is me! Hahahahaha! Hi, guys!
SWEATY DOUBLE PLAY!!!!
Nice DP!
Big big dp!
Ha ha, I was wondering who Allison was. The Tim syndrome.
Damn. Tied.
Uch. So annoying.
Second time in 2 games I have seen CC not make a move on a catchable ball.
I thought, "Who is Allison?"
Where was it, Laura? I will check it out next time we are in Park Slope.
Polhemus, off Garfield. Beautiful quiet street.
We lived at 216 Garfield, on the top floor. That's when I was a nanny. My former employer still lives there, so if you see her, say hi for me. :)
Meh, could have been a lot worse.
Runs plz.
Oh yeah, could have been way worse, the way he was pitching.
I meant Buchholz
I know where Garfield is, but not Polhemus. Will have to look it up. Were you a live-in nanny?
We had a separate apartment in the house.
Polhemus and Fiske are each one block long, they connect Garfield and Carrol, between 7th & 8th Aves.
"Garfield? You mean like the cat?"
OK, I will look for 23 Polhemus. Perhaps we will stroll by when we next get to BKLYN, probably in May or maybe June.
Behold the Mattingly House, 23 Polhemus.
Fiske Polhemus? Fisk Pole??
Does that mean Allan was "Mr. Nanny"?
the wonder of Google
And here is Chez L-Sock (with sign in window).
It's a shame that Tala is not peeking out through the curtains in the upstairs window.
That is a nice 23 on there.
I guess you'd have to ask him. :)
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While walking through Alona Beach, I have found the greatest reward, not in an individual who journeys through life alone like I am but through a cute little puppy I found and befriended. Owned by Koreans who operated a restaurant joint at the beach front of Alona Beach, the puppy is one that enjoys the company of ordinary people and complete strangers. Never a barker but cuddly. His eyes are piercing with kindness and one that evokes innocence.
As I and Travey were sitting by the beach, the puppy is sitting nearby too. He just waited that I recognize him and aim Travey at him for the nice memorable photoshoot. He cooperated and what I have taken is a masterpiece and as I said, a tumblr material.
While at Alona Beach, I never found someone but I have found the Puppy. A Korean puppy who exemplifies loyalty, friendship and trust. Many opportunities, day and night that I and this cute puppy were together.
One night having dinner, this puppy just sit by my side and waited for me to hand-feed him with those I also ordered. Unlike other dogs, he does not eat when you throw food at him but rather, when you hand-feed him, he will have the most hearty meal.
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INTERVIEW WITH JAMES WILSEY OF THE AVENGERS
INTERVIEW BY STEVE OLSON
INTRODUCTION BY STEVE OLSON
PHOTOS BY JEROEN DE WAAL
Compute this: Original, tasteful, cool, stylish, classic… Jimmy Wilsey comes from something… something most can’t grasp… always ahead of the rest… When you thought it was almost over… Wilsey comes through again, but you probably don’t get it… You will later, when someone tells you… but isn’t that how it is for all of us?
Is Jimmy there?
Yeah, that’s me.
Is that Jimmy Durante?
[Laughs]
“THE SHOW WAS PRETTY CRAZY. THERE WAS A LOT OF HYPE. THE SEX PISTOLS WERE ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE. THEY WERE ON TV WITH WALTER CRONKITE FOR A SCENE THAT WOULD BARELY GET MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE TOGETHER AT ONE TIME. TO HAVE 5,000 PEOPLE TOGETHER AT THAT SHOW WAS UNREAL.”
[Laughs] I’m just kidding. …Cha-cha-cha…
[Laughs] Everybody wants to get into the act.
[Laughs] Exactly.
Ive been doing a lot of Edward G. Robinson lately. “Argh! Here’s how its gonna go, see.”
[Laughs] Okay, were going to start the interview now because, most likely, nobody knows Jimmy Durante or Edward G. Robinson. We haven’t started the interview yet, or maybe we have.
[Laughs]
I’m going to ask you questions about where you came from and that kind of stuff. I’m going to record you and I hope you can handle it.
[Laughs] I need more beer.
[Laughs] I’m going to hit this joint. So what is your name?
Jimmy Wilsey.
What is the spelling?
James like James.
James like Jesse James.
Wilsey spelled W-I-L-S-E-Y.
Where do you come from?
Well, my dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around a lot. I went to a bunch of different schools. I was born in Indiana. A week later, we moved out to the Mojave Desert. Then we moved back to Missouri. That’s where I grew up, around St. Louis. When I was about 18, I moved to San Francisco.
Oh, really?
I went there to go to art school, but it was mostly an excuse to get out of St. Louis.
So you were supposed to be going to art school in SF?
I went for one year, but by the end of the first semester, I was in a band called The Avengers.
Before we get into the Avengers, were you a kid that was into art?
I liked music and art as a kid, but I never knew anyone in St. Louis that did either one. It was just stuff I saw on TV. I liked art and drawing, but I don’t know how serious I was.
So you went to art school and tried to become serious?
Well, it was mostly to move. I wanted try to do something, other than get a job and stay in St. Louis.
Were you into rock n roll in St. Louis?
I had two or three friends in a high school of 5,000 people that liked the same music that I did. We used to hang out, party and play. We weren’t any good. Music sucked then, in general, except for Bowie and Lou Reed.
You didn’t like the glam stuff?
T. Rex was pretty subversive for the time. Stuff like that was good. The New York Dolls were great. I knew the guys at the record store, so I got the New York Dolls second album from the dollar bin for $1.
Oh, really?
The guy at the record store was like, “Are you really going to buy that?” I said, “Definitely.” I would get tickets for a lot of shows, like Lou Reed, David Bowie and Patti Smith. But Patti Smith had to cancel in St. Louis because they didn’t sell enough tickets. I was living for that show.
So you were into that whole scene. Was punk rock happening in St. Louis?
No, that was in ’75. I moved out to San Francisco in August of 76. I didn’t really like art school, the whole concept of art school, pretty much everybody at my art school and all the teachers at my art school. I was given an assignment to do a drawing in this one class. Instead of drawing a figure, I took a piece of paper and wrote, “I paid my tuition. I can do whatever I want.”
Nice.
Art school wasnt a great time, but that winter, there were a few, sporadic, punk rock shows in San Francisco. The Ramones played at this little bar in North Beach. The next thing you know, Crime played, and Rozz and Negative Trend played. They rented out this little Filipino nightclub and convinced them to do the show. A lot of people showed up and, all of a sudden, youd see all of these people that were into rock n roll that you would never see around town because there were no occasions for people to meet up in that type of forum and place.
That was happening in ’76?
In late 76 and throughout the winter, and into 77, it started to take off. All of a sudden there was a venue that had bands five or six days a week. There weren’t that many punk rock bands to fill all those gigs, so there were a lot of heavy metal bands and some drag queen acts. It was San Francisco. It was a mix of everything. Crime would do really big shows. For them to do really big shows, as a local band, was a big deal. Six months before that, there was no club. By 77, there were clubs doing a lot of business. People were meeting each other for the first time. A million bands started after that. That set it off. The Ramones did their first tour and every place they played, fifty new bands sprung up.
How did you hook up with The Avengers?
During that spring, Id see Penelope around town a lot, but I didn’t know who she was. She was just the girl with blue hair. Wed always bump into each other at different parties around town. Id talk to her and a lot of times she was with her boyfriend. He didn’t like me talking to her, but I was just trying to say hi. A few weeks later, I go to the Mabuhay and there’s this band called The Avengers and its her singing. They were totally lost. It was a total train wreck.
Oh, really?
Then a few weeks later, I ran into Penelope and her boyfriend, who was the drummer, walking down the street. They said, “Are you in a band?” I said, “I play guitar.” They said, “We need a bass player.” I said, “I can play bass.” I figured it was close enough.
How long had you been playing guitar before that?
Id just been playing with friends for a few years.
But you knew what a guitar was.
[Laughs] Yeah, I could play halfway decent. I knew what chords were. I knew all the David Bowie songs.
[Laughs]
I wasn’t trying to be a great guitar player. I was just playing for fun.
So then you joined the Avengers and became a bass player.
I sold my guitar, got a bass and an amplifier and went straight to rehearsal. I just bought the stuff assuming that I was going to be in the band. A few hours later, they kicked the other guy out.
Who was the guitar player then?
Greg Ingraham or Greg Westermark. He has two different last names. He grew up in Orange County and was in bands with the original drummer. Penelope was the drummers girlfriend. They all went to the Art Institute, except for Greg. Greg just kind of came up from Orange County, but Penelope and Danny [Furious] went to the Art Institute.
You said they were a train wreck. Did you bring in some kind of structure?
I think once we started playing together, it gelled a little more. The rhythm section held together. The funny thing is, I realize now that we used to practice five days a week, four hours a day, every day, every week. We got really good.
That makes for a tight unit. I was just a kid when I saw you play and I thought, “That’s one of my favorite bands.” I loved the guitar player. I loved the drummer. I loved the bass player. And, whoa, the singer chick is kind of cute, too. The rhythm section was really solid. That allowed whatever else to go down.
It was also the kind of music that we wrote. We could do a heavier rhythm section because we weren’t always trying to play at 250 beats per minute. We were into a slower, heavier groove.
Was the Mab going off by then?
Yeah, they’d get two hundred people in there and that was a huge night for that kind of bar. They did that once or twice and then the guy that booked the shows got the owners to let him start booking all the bands. It was a seven-day a week rock club in 77. It was right in the neighborhood I lived in – literally, a ten-minute walk from my house.
It seemed like the scene in SF was really truly into it. Maybe I’m looking at it from the outside, but they seemed committed to what they were doing.
Well, the first year we played in LA more than we played in SF. A lot of people in LA thought we were a local band.
Where did you play? The Masque?
The Masque and The Whiskey. We played a lot of different clubs.
Who are some of your favorite bands besides your own?
The Germs were our friends. They were great. The bands that I would go see back then were the weirdest metal bands. There weren’t that many punk rock bands at first, so wed go see heavy metal and hard rock bands. There was this band Magister Ludi that was just insane. They were really great players. They had walls of amplifiers and they were crawling around on the ceiling. They were playing like prog metal and the guitar player weighed 400 pounds. They were all garbage men from Daily City or something.
[Laughs] Right.
It was great. I used to go see Metallica play at the Mab. If you were any kind of band, the Mab was the main club to play. The first time I did sound for Chris Isaak was at the Mabuhay. People think it was such a big leap for me to go from The Avengers to Chris Isaak, but it really wasn’t. Both bands were playing in the same clubs for the same people.
You guys did the Sex Pistols show, too, right?
Yeah.
That was a large venue.
That was the biggest gig they’d ever played, by far. It was pretty crazy. It was a big learning experience for me. I had to be the one to go in and negotiate our deal with the guy from Bill Graham. He said, “Well give you $250 to play the gig.” I was like, “What?” I had borrowed money to buy a bass thinking that we were going to make all this money, but we only made $250. We had been making several times that much just playing the club on a Friday night. I was like, “That’s not very much. We usually make more.” He was like, “Take it or leave it. People are calling us on the phone offering us money to play this gig. If you don’t want it, get out of here!” I was like, ‘Where do I sign?” That was my first big lesson about the nasty side of the music business.
[Laughs] Right.
The show was pretty crazy. There was a lot of hype. The Sex Pistols were on the cover of Time Magazine. They were on TV with Walter Cronkite. For a scene that would rarely get more than 500 people together at one time, to have 5,000 people together at the show was unreal. Some people just came to see the spectacle. There were a lot of hardcore people there to see the show, but there were a lot of spectators and people that wanted to fight. It was like a snake pit. There was all this anticipation to play and then, while we were up there, it felt like it was over in ten seconds. I was covered in spit. There were big green lugies hanging between my guitar strings and I couldn’t stop. I had to keep playing right where the lugie was. Anytime you got close to the edge of the stage, there would be 100 arms trying to pull you in and kill you.
[Laughs] You had to survive.
I was glad when it was over. The guy announcing the show was this DJ from LA. He was just screaming profanity. Bill Graham was pissed. He went up on the stage and put his arm around the DJ and walked him off the stage. Once he got the guy off the stage, he picked him up by the lapels and shook him. He walked him down the ramp and out the door and threw him out of the show.
Nice. Do you think the good music scene had a lot to do with the art scene there?
There were a lot of art school dropouts. There were very few serious artists involved.
Art school drop-outs.
Danny and Penelope used to live on top of the Art Institute, in a tent, to get free rent. It wasn’t a big hoity-toity art school. They were up there, living on the roof.
Why did you guys break up?
At some point, the original guitar player left, so we got another guitar player. We continued on for a while and wrote some good songs, but the band had changed. The scene seemed to be dying out. A lot of people burned out and stopped going out. There was a second wave of stuff coming up, like the Dead Kennedys, and the crowds were different. It started becoming a punk uniform thing. I remember when The Avengers played, there were always people moshing around, but if there was a real fight, wed always stop playing until they broke it up. By ‘79, bands were encouraging people to fight. You started getting a whole different crowd and they’re not really much fun to talk to.
They just want to fight.
The whole thing started changing. After the first year of the band, I doubt we listened to any punk rock music at our house. It was all rockabilly or country music. I got into rockabilly in a big way, even though I didn’t really have the aptitude to play it.
It seems like rockabilly was the next thing.
It was all happening before the Stray Cats. Early on in the scene, half of the people in the audience were in bands. If you messed up on stage, everyone knew it. I remember Billy Zoom from X had been into rockabilly since the late ’60s, when he played with Gene Vincent. He was staying at our guitar players house when they had a gig up here with us. He was playing Gene Vincent stuff, just like the record. He was playing Elvis Sun Sessions stuff just like the record. I remember him playing Eddie Cochran, sitting in the balcony. He knew all the intros and turnarounds, just like the record. I thought, “That’s not even possible.” Then I was watching him do it and I was thinking, “Oh, that’s not hard. I want to do that.”
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One of our employees found my iPod in ice on the mountain today!
CRAZY!
Okay, so we assume it's my iPod. It's silver, and 2 gigs, and the same generation as mine. But, seeing as how it has spent a month in a block of ice, the battery is dead and it won't turn on. SB says we shouldn't plug it in for a few days so we can try to dry it out and not fry it.
Holy heck, what are the odds?
If it works again, then karma is totally back on my side. If it doesn't work, then at least I know it is dead and gone and I can go ahead and invest in a new one and send the loaner my sister sent us back to her.
In other news, Gabby had another bout of paralysis this morning, except she was totally freaked out by it this time and it was really scary. Like, we were ready to pack her up for the "final" vet visit. Cut to two hours later when she was limping around like usual again. We are trying her on a new medication, so we'll see if that helps...Dealing with geriatrics is stressful! | http://jules99.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Iona House in all its glorious Kodak Instamatic colour. There’s the old bank/playhouse on the left.
Looks like we had visitors that day.
| Iona House, c1960s |
The architect of the Iona House, John Davidson said “Your parents were looking for a contemporary statement, not an imitation heritage, or pseudo Victorian!”
They certainly got the contemporary statement.
I’ve always been curious about the red and blue of the house. Tones of red and blue. Checked with my mother Hayden and she thinks the original colours of the house were influenced by the colour of the Melbourne Grammar Boat House built in 1953 by architects Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell.
And then John Davidson lets me know that John Mockridge was one of his tutors at university.
All makes sense now.
| Mockridge Stahle & Mitchell, Melbourne Grammar Boat House, 1953 |
Spots of red and blue bouncing around here. I like the way Benny the dog matches Amanda’s furry collar.
| Iona House, Amanda, Julia, Joanne, Lisa Ritson, c1963 |
That’s me in white.
Julia Ritson
That last photo is priceless, even without the fur collar on the sweater (although I love that too). I’ve enjoyed seeing this house through your adult eyes. It appears to have had quite an impact on you, both in the design sense as well as memory. My grandfather ran a furniture store, and we always had contemporary pieces, mixed with traditional. I found some of his “sample room” slides once–gave them to my nephew (who runs a mid-century furniture business). After seeing your Kodak pictures, I wish I’d kept them! | http://juliaritson.com/2012/04/24/iona-house-red-and-blue/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Iggy Drops An EP Before An Album
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Grand Hustle's leading lady, Iggy Azalea, hits us with a pre-album EP called, Glory. Her forthcoming album, The New Classic, will be coming later this year. | http://jumpoff.tv/posts/view/iggy-azalea-glory-ep/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Slaughterhouse Sign Autographs In Joell's City
Slaughterhouse are going to each of the guy's cities to perform and sign autographs for fans. The first stop was NY for Joell Ortiz. Join the guys in Woodside, Queens' Best Buy
Rih Documents Her Crazy Trek With Press & Fans | http://jumpoff.tv/posts/view/welcome-to-joells-house/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When I moved to Juneau 16 years ago I knew I had found my old neighborhood. It wasn't Texas, but the people who live here very well could have been any one of my friends down the block.
Two years ago my son, whom at the time was 8, phoned me. He called to ask if he could live with me and in a heartbeat I said yes. I had no idea he would show up one week later. As of then, I began my life as a single parent. I found myself in need of immediate assistance. Our community stepped in and donated not only clothes, but toys and stuffed animals such as Fival the Mouse which my son, to this day, still cuddles at night.
Within that first week I knocked on every door of every agency I felt I needed, such as kid care, day care, etc... The response was quick, not to mention the high level of care and concern the workers expressed. It has been a great two years and the transition toward self-sufficiency is almost complete.
Several months ago my son's 12-year-old brother, who was in a foster home in Colorado, called asking, "Can I come live with you and my brother? I have nowhere to go." Once again the decision was easy. From there I contacted his case worker here in Alaska expressing my interest in obtaining custody. Suitable housing was a main concern and the home in which we were living in just wasn't going to work.
The future looked bleak until a miracle happened. Habitat for Humanity called and said I had qualified for a home to be built for the boys and I. Once again our community and private businesses came to the rescue. Our home is being built by an all-woman work force of whom our community should be very proud, and for which I have deep gratitude and respect. As of the date of this letter I am proud to say that a foster care license has been issued to me and the future looks bright and promising.
Thank you, Juneau, for showing what you're made of.
Alfred Votion and family
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Remember way back when like two months ago I showed you how to make a fun nautical inspired knotted headband out of a T shirt? Well here is another fun one, that you can make out of the scraps of shirt you had left over. And even though it may be hard to imagine this one is easier, but just as fun.
1. Cut the bottom of the shirt into half inc to one inch strips (depending on how wide you want your braid to be. You will need four strips.
2. Once you have your strips cut, cut one side of them, so they are no longer a loop, and stretch them out. By giving them a good tug, the t shirt material will stretch out and make a nice t shirt yarn.
3. Take one end of the four pieces and tie them in a knot. Be careful not to make it too tight, as you will be taking it out later. Once knotted, braid the length of your “yarn.” You can use three and do a normal braid, but to make it wider and give it a bit more detail you can use a four strand braid.
4. After you have finished the braid, it’s time to finish it off. Undo the knot from the beginning and wrap the braid around your head. When you have it at the desired length and tightness tie it off into a tight knot. I personally like the look of the fringe pieces hanging off, so I trimmed them to an even length. But you can just as easily pull the knot very tight, and cut off all the extra yarn.
5. Another way to add fun variety is by mixing materials. In this braid I used two different shirts. Two strands in a neutral grey and two strands in a fluorescent yellow.
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[JURIST] Reported hate crimes in the US increased by approximately two percent in 2008, the greatest reported increase since 2001, according to the 2008 Hate Crime Statistics [report; press release] released by the FBI [official website] on Monday. The FBI reported 7,780 single-bias hate crime incidents in 2008, up from the 7,621 reported in 2007 [FBI report; JURIST report]. The FBI noted that the increase does not necessarily reflect an actual rise in incidents, because the number of law agencies participating in the study increased in the last year. Racial discrimination accounted for 51.3 percent of reported hate crimes, a slight increase over the 50.8 percent reported in 2007. Hate crimes motivated by religion also increased slightly while crimes motivated by sexual orientation were reported with approximately the same frequency as in 2007. The only category to show a decrease was in ethnicity- and nationality-based crimes. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) [advocacy website] responded by issuing a statement [press release] calling for "a coordinated campaign to prevent, deter, and respond effectively to criminal violence motivated by bigotry and prejudice."The report comes one month]. Conservative members of Congress in both instances charged that the hate crimes provision was an inappropriate measure to include in a military appropriations bill, while some specifically opposed special protections to victims in those classes. | http://jurist.org/paperchase/2009/11/fbi-report-shows-reported-hate-crimes.php | 2013-05-18T10:22:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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My book is supposed to be coming out this summer, so now is the time to stat setting these things up. I do not find this work tasteful, but I see both its worth and its effectiveness, so on to the publicity. I want to do this book release the right way. I am finished hiding my light under a bushel.
I am looking for anyone who might be interested in having me come out to a classroom to do a reading and workshop. I am also looking for people who might be willing to conduct interviews with me. Primarily I am looking to make readings happen within Utah and Nevada, and interviews anywhere I can. Why Utah and Nevada? Because there is a much stronger possibility I can make this happen money-wise if such events are local. So if you, or anyone you know needs a guest reader/poet for a class or two, please get in contact with me or pass along this information.
To be honest, I am more than just new to this sort of thing, I am a newborn infant in this world. This is my second full length book, but I have never tried to schedule this sort of thing, and that's why I am asking all of you for help. I need to get out there and get past my fear of asking for help when it comes to promoting my work and my value as an artist.
Places I can get to in Utah within a day or two:
In Utah, I can get anywhere along the Wasatch Front same or next day, guaranteed. I can go as far as Cedar City and St. George by the next day, and I am willing to do the reading and workshop for what essentially amounts to gas money. I have the ability to take days off from work (with over a semester's worth of sick leave) and I am willing to do so.
I must admit I fantasize about somebody wanting me to fly across the nation to participate in a reading and run a workshop. I know that is as likely to happen as winning the lottery, but I need to put it all out on the table. If anyone knows a guy who knows a girl who has a professor friend who is coordinating a reading series, I am interested in hearing about it. Again, without any university affiliation of my own, I know this is not very likely. Here then are some things about me to keep in mind.
My strengths:
Poetry of place. Haibun and haiku. Landscape meditation.
Where I would like to do my thing:
Anywhere, really. I am willing to read and conduct a workshop from colleges all the way to middle schools. Historical Societies and community workshops are right up my alley.
When:
Ideally I would like to get things set up in the Fall, but I am willing to get going to non-academic settings in the summer as well.
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How is this supposed to work? On the contact page you will find my e-mail. Simply pass on my information to who you know, or pass on their information to me.
Easy. | http://justinevanspoetry.blogspot.com/2013/01/getting-this-started.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
In a radio interview three days ahead of his debate against Vice President Biden, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Monday contended in some of his strongest language yet that Democrats are distorting his and Mitt Romney’s record on the issues.
“They’re just going to call us liars for a month, is basically what they’re going to do, it looks like. … told radio host Frank Beckmann on Monday morning.
H/T: Felicia Sonmez at WaPo
I’m pretty sure everyone will still be calling them liars loooong after the election.
This is actually a bit more sinister than it lets on. Think about it: by framing it this way, the truth of the...
This seems like a familiar pattern. Lie and then feign shock and appall when called out for the lie. And still Americans...
The truth hurts doesn’t it?. | http://justinspoliticalcorner.tumblr.com/post/33238235512/gops-vp-pick-paul-ryan-democratic-strategy-is-to | 2013-05-18T10:52:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ugh....
We got the water permit today. This allows us to get the building permit. However, the city now is mandating that we install fire sprinklers! My architect is going to get this mandate removed. But, of course, who knows how long this will take.
Monday, September 29, 2008
4 comments:
Jordan and Rita:
Please consider the sprinkler system issue carefully. A sprinkler system could save your life. In the meantime, you may be spending more on other upgrades and ammenities that will not help to increase the safety in your home. You must weigh the expense of installing the system against the damage of a devastating fire. Sprinklers put out fires at the onset, giving residents time to evacuate and a tenable environment for doing so. You may also be able to obtain a discount from your insurance company. As long as you don't have water supply and other issues that may make the cost of the system prohibitive, it has been proven in cost/benefit analyses that sprinkler systems are a good investment. I wish you the best with the rest of your remodel.
Thanks for the post. The biggest problem is that sprinklers would require us to totally re-work the roof (the roof would have to be much thicker). The extra cost is too much for all this.
Jordan:
Did you work out the fire sprinkler issue? Let me know
They aren't required and we won't be putting them in. In order to add them, it would take considerable re-architecture. | http://jzrkremodel.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-i-said-in-last-post-well-never-get.html | 2013-05-18T11:01:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Hill says the hospital’s biggest recruitment problem is that doctors’ spouses want more amenities than the city offers.
Hill spoke to the Carbon County Economic Development Corp. board on Monday. He said working with the corporation helps with recruiting doctors.
He says the hospital doesn’t have enough doctors but has too many employees in other staff positions. He says the hospital plans to eliminate some positions if current staffers leave. | http://k2radio.com/rawlins-hospital-outlines-recruitment-obstacles/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Transliteration:As mentioned previously, the two window frames located on either side of the Ineffable Name comprises the following circular stained-glass inserts:(Right — Exodus 34:6) YHVH YHVH El rachum v’chanun erech apayim v’rav chesed v’emet(Bottom — Psalm 130:2) Adonai shim’ah v’koli tih’yena oznecha kashuvot l’kol tachanunai(Left — Psalm 19:14 [15]) yiyu l’ratzon imrei fi v’hegyon libi l’fanecha YHVH tzuri v’go’aliTranslation:(Right — Exodus 34:6) "YHVH YHVH El merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth."(Bottom — Psalm 130:2) "Lord, hearken unto my voice; let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications."(Left — Psalm 19:14 [15]) "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before Thee YHVH, my Rock, and my Redeemer."
Transliteration:There has been a lot of very interesting Kabbalistic deliberation around the latter phrase, which we might peruse in greater detail at the conclusion of the analysis of this Shiviti. Be that as it may, the attention paid to detail in the artistic embelishments of this portion of the Shiviti is again most impressive. Consider the full image of the left panel:(Right — Psalm 96:11) Yishm’chu Ha-shamayim V’tagel Ha-aretz(Left) Yachid Hu V'yode'a Ha-kolTranslation:(Right — Psalm 96:11) "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice."(Left ) "Unique is He, and knows everything."
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Nov 21. Seriously??! I really am shaking my head in amazement at how quickly the days are zooming by. The pages of my daytimer are literally heating up as they turn quicker and quicker... and the saying "like sands in an hourglass" really hits home with me. I feel time is just going, going, going. And I am running, running, running, to try to keep up.
So in an effort to update this blog, here is Recap:Part 1, titled "Maritimers Rock!" I was fortunate enough to attend Scrapgala 2006 as a teacher in early November, and had a blast. The other teachers (Tena Sprenger, Carol Wingert, Christy Tomlinson and Debbie Hill) and I bonded like you wouldn't believe, and we were treated amazingly well by the people who ran Scrapgala - Debbie, Shirley and Amy of The Scrap Shack in NB, and their fabulous team of Git R Duns. I have never seen a team of people so nice, so willing to help, so uncomplaining, so "together." I didn't hear a single complaint all weekend - not from the students, not from the teachers, not one. And that, my friends, is frankly something that is super rare, especially at events like this. We were treated like royalty, even being taken out for dinner and a movie the last night (although we protested we didn't need to be "entertained." The poor Git R Duns - I believe a number of them fell asleep at the movie, they were so tired. I felt so humbled, so blessed and so spoiled to have met them all and to have had their help and friendship throughout the weekend. We all shed tears and exchanged hugs and email addresses. We're all hoping we get to go again next year. I think Christy is already planning what other songs she's going to serenade us with last year. And next time, I will take more than 5 photos.
Since returning, we've battled the flu (and won) (YAY), and I'm back to work, with orders, reorders, and preparing for CHA-W. Wendy at ScrapSupply emailed me to let me know a bunch of the new stamps sold out in less than 24 hours. How awesome is that. We are shipping as fast as we can and hope you can find the stamps you are looking for!
Coming soon: Newsletter. Wow, have we ever taken a hiatus from the newsletter. We are back with a vengeance though, so watch for it this week sometime. Here's a sneak peek of a little project that will be part of the newsletter.
Tomorrow: The Worst Wedding Hair - EVER (also titled "I wish I was a scrapbooker when I got married so I would know how to have better photos taken, how to pose photos, and generally end up with a wedding scrapbook."
Phew! That's a lot. I'm glad you're feeling better and that you're back to blogging. I really missed you. You can't be surprised about the stamps selling out. They are ALL must haves. I have mine. Some in my hands, some on their way, so I'm a HAPPY HAPPY girl. Thank you for making such wonderful stuff for us!
Oh, and what a cute pic. Looks like you had a good time.
Anilu.
Posted by: Ana Maria Magloire | November 21, 2006 at 05:42 PM
Yay you are feeling better!
I want you to know that it was your "pretty weeds" stamp that caused me to ACTUALLY STAMP on a layout yesterday. Woo Hoo!!! Can't wait to see the newsletter...I'm on the lookout for your stamps all the time now, especially now that I know you. That makes them even COOLER. As if that were possible...
Posted by: Debbie | November 22, 2006 at 05:25 AM
Know this doesn't fit this post...but just wanted to wish you a happy thanksgiving, and let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog.
Posted by: michelle simmons | November 22, 2006 at 11:21 AM
woohoo!!! gotta love hearing the stamps are flying off the shelves :)
Posted by: Nicole | November 22, 2006 at 05:28 PM
glad you are back to full throttle and that you had a fab time at the event. hope my email got through ok :)
Posted by: anam_kihaku | November 22, 2006 at 10:31 PM
hello girl - so glad your last teaching adventure was so awesome. May there be more like that in the future!
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The standard debate for so many things in life. This debate has also been raging for Crafter's Tome pretty much since Beta. I went into Beta with the intent of manually researching all the new content and documenting it for my site. I had no idea at that time how much new information there would be, I guess I thought it would me more like the Argent Dawn or AQ events. Boy was I wrong!
At some point it dawned on me that I would not be able to experience all the dungeons and other various places where recipes might drop, and I started camping the Auction to document new recipes. This worked well, but it didn't really cover all the recipes that were added. It also didn't cover the BoP recipes, which I didn't realize were a large factor until after release.
So now here we are, two months into the expansion and my database is incomplete. Based on my experience in Beta with bad recipes that weren't where Thottbot/Allakhazam said they were or just plain didn't exist anymore, I decided to only add confirmed data to my site. Either confirmed by me (I try to check everything people send me if I can) or submitted by users with a screenshot. I visit all the vendors, I visit all the trainers. I even stealth into Hordie towns to mark the location of their vendors.
Crafter's Tome was born out of my frustration with the other big sites and their confusing data. Thottbot is notorious for listing vendors and mobs in half a dozen zones which only exist in one zone. I've gotten to the point where I can mostly sniff out the bad eggs, but it's taken me almost two years to reach that point. I wanted my site to be different. If I list a vendor, then you know when you visit him that he will be there and he will have the recipe I said he had (unless someone else just bought it!).
On the other hand, my users get frustrated when they visit Crafter's Tome and we don't have a recipe listed that they saw on Thottbot or Allakhazam. I can understand that, I know we all want to see everything that's out there, not a partial list. At the same time I know people who've tried to locate a recipe based on the information from those other sites and given up because there's just not enough to go on, or whatever they read was wrong.
I get emails every day from users who send me screenshots of their finds (Big THANK YOU!). I also get emails from folks who don't have a screenshot but have a guildie who won a recipe on a dungeon run or some other similar situation. I appreciate all my readers and I want to help them. I'm having more and more difficulty deciding where the confirmation line should be.
So I'm going to put it to you. I've set up a poll and I'll let all of you vote on whether you want all the recipes, or only recipes that we've been able to confirm in some way. This way the site truly is yours as well as mine and you can have your say.
Quality or Quantity : you decide =)
***UPDATE*** Please visit our newest post to get the latest information on this topic.
Quality vs Quantity
Posted by Kaliope at Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Labels: general crafting
Quality is better for me, and your site has it in droves vs. the 'other' guys.
Justin
Thanks Justin! I'm so glad you appreciate what we're trying to do and I hope you keep coming back!!
I always look at your site first. You're right that it doesn't have everything, but it has a lot and I trust what it says.
Thanks!
Maybe look at a little of both worlds? If you receive a piece of information and are able to confirm it list it as usual on your AWESOME site. If you receive some information that you cannot confirm or can only pratially confirm post it up with an unconfirmed marker next to it. That way everyone who uses the site can at a glance know if wha tthey are looking at is the "gospel" or not.
I vote for quality! I fell in love with this site the moment I saw it (which happened to be at work and my secretary now thinks I'm nuts). I really count on it to give me accurate information. I'd rather find 99% of the info I need here and know it's for real than have unconfirmed data like other sites. It has only been two months so some of those ultra-rare drops may not have even surfaced yet. All the best things take time and I for one am willing to wait for it to be complete (if that is even possible) and accurate. As for what constitutes "confirmed", I think the basic guidelines you have listed on your "contact" page should work well. There are always some exceptions and I would trust your judgment on other reports you get.
Thank you guys so much for all your great comments about the site, I'm really happy that you like what we're doing!!
Sigi: To a certain extent we had already started posting some partially confirmed items on the site, which some of you may have already noticed. I guess in the wake of doing that we started having trouble deciding where the line should be. So far it's sounding like most of you agree that there should be a line, so we'll continue operating on that assumption. I guess the sticking point for me is that we occasionally get information that's really sketchy and I wasn't sure if I should add it or pass on it. Now that I know most of you appreciate the confirmation aspect of the data I think I'll pass on the really skimpy stuff (ie: someone says that they saw a recipe drop but they don't share any information about it).
I vote for Quality as well, you do an awesome job with this site and its far more reliable than any of the others like Thot and Alla. I'd rather not find the information than it be wrong, or deliberatley deceptive like so many of the comments left on other site's because they are unmoderated.
I also prefer quality over quantity, but you could always include a special tagline on sketchy entries saying "unconfirmed" or something, so that we know to be skeptical before we run all over creation looking for the mats. If that's not possible, I just prefer quality. Just a suggestion.
Quality. There are countless sites out there for WoW that contain databases with garbage data. Be patient and don't be tempted to complete your database as fast as possible. Become one the few sites (possibly the first) which contains almost nothing but legit data.
Quality . I love your site , it is without a doubt a crafter's mecca. I'm a Dragonscale leatherworker ( main ) and Alchemist and Engineer on my alts , and reading your site gives the the motivation to actually level my crafts all the way so I can make some really nice items. I value your accuracy and quality far more than bulk loads of raw data anywhere else.
Just thought i would say that i love ur site...and quality is definately better than quantity...i really liked how u the speediest way to get to 300 in jewelcrafting and i was wondering if u ever thinking about adding speed faqs about the other professions...like with what items u need and stuff...the jewelcrafting one really helped ALOT prolly saved me 200g...so thank you and good work
Thanks so much guys! I'm so tickled that you all value the site and the effort we put into providing quality data for you. It's a labor of love for me to work on it and to try and create something that the users will find worthwhile. You're input means a lot to us - thanks for taking the time to share your opinions and let us know how we're doing!
The reason I appreciate this site is (I admit) the community and the posts, much more than the information part, precisely because a lot of information is missing. I think I agree that we don't want this site to become Thottbot 2, but adding recipes as unconfirmed will a) increase the completeness b) encourage people to post confirmation screenshots/messages about it. And again, the value added of the site is really on the posts by Kaliope on stealth runs, the posts by various people about "secret" farming sites, or even guides to level different professions - that's what most of the other "database" sites (even accurate ones like WoWHead) don't have, and that's what we should put into evidence.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here Tsark. We want to encourage more folks to use the site and I fear when they come here and see missing recipes they may not stick around. Obviously the folks who stay appreciate our thoroughness, but those who are visiting for the first time may be turned off by the omission of items they see elsewhere.
We have other features we want to add in the coming months that we hope will bring more users into the fold, but in the meantime this is definitely one thing that could be hurting us. At this point I'm inclined to take a more relaxed approach to submissions and simply use the notes to identify the unconfirmed data.
I think if you KNOW a recipe is live, because youve seen it used, advertised, on the AH, etc. You should have it listed here, and get the drop/acquisition method from any source you feel is reputable, wowhead, thottbot, or allakhazam for instance or say if two of them concur on the same thing.
Your premise that you should only list recipes which members submit is flawed simply because it depends on member participation to build your database. Personally I think it would be relatively easy to take one tradeskill per week and research every 301+ recipe and get the site up to date.
Personally I quit using the site's database because it is (or was) missing so much data that I could find on Allakhazam. Between their actual database, and the subsequent member postings I get far more useful information when I am seeking acquisition info. The only reason I come here now is to read your blog.
Bomb: I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this and you are certainly entitled to your opinion. For those who prefer to have the type of information Thottbot and Allakhazam provide, you have those sites at your disposal. I don't believe we need more sites that use datamining and forums to fulfill their information requirements. Therefore I've chosen not to use the same model for my web site.
Crafter's Tome came into being because I was frustrated with the confusing information I found on other sites and I wanted to provide something different. Something where each recipe and vendor is confirmed by an actual person and not a glitchy data-mining algorithm. I do as much of the research as I can myself, but I don't believe it's a bad thing to include the users in that process. Thottbot and Allakhazam rely on their users to comment in the forums and contribute verification in that way, we invite our users to participate as well. It's certainly not a mandatory process on the part of the users, they have no obligation to share their experiences. But at this point I've researched every tradeskill and added all the recipes that I can find in-game, the majority of the recipes that are still missing are loot drop recipes, which would be impossible for one person to manually locate and catalog.
However, if I did as you seem to be suggesting and spent a week on each tradeskill, using other sites as my information source and simply cross-referenced them with each other, I would absolutely end up with bad data in my database. Right now, both Thottbot and Allakhazam list arcane dust as an result item from arcane crystals under Enchanting, something I've personally tested and know cannot be done. It's my understanding that this ability was removed during alpha testing, yet it's still in both databases. They also list items such as the Arcanite Sword Pendant and the Silver Rose Pendant under Jewelcrafting, as a couple of examples. I've never seen either of these items in the game and based on the complete lack of supporting data (drop rates, lack of user corroboration) I'm willing to bet they don't exist. But if I employed your methodologies, the fact that both sites list them would make them legitimate items. I personally would prefer not to perpetuate errors of this type because I can't support their existence in any concrete way.
There are deficiencies in the information that Thottbot and Allakhazam provide due to their methodologies. Perhaps you haven't noticed that they really have no skill level information for the new trainer recipes that were added in the expansion. That works out to about 30% of the new recipes that are lacking skill level data on both sites. Maybe this isn't the sort of information that's important to you, but there are probably other folks who appreciate having it. I'm able to provide that because of my in-game research efforts. By employing the data-mining method of information gathering we would still have holes in our data, just different ones.
I'm not trying to suggest that our way is better than their way. For the type of folks who want to be "first" to get something, our site probably isn't the place to visit. For the people prefer not to spend their time on wild goose chases, our site is probably a better match to their gaming style. Both strategies have their pros and cons, of course. But as I said, we already had enough Thottbots, WoWHeads and Allakhazams out there and my goal was to do something different :)
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I love this time of year in Michigan – the colors, shadows, unusual light, and unpredictable skies make for some great photos. These photos were shot today, not too far from my home in northern Macomb County, Michigan.
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Jeannie Queenie says:
November 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Karen, I keep returning to look at your lovely photos of pumpkins and now regret that last Thursday afternoon, the last day of our farmer’s open air market closed, that I didn’t buy some pumpkins. The reason being last Saturday I attended a Turkish cooking class and they made a superb pumpkin dessert which is incredibly easy to make. Just peel the pumpkin, cut large chunks (about 2″ X 2″) and place in a large cooking pot…add 3 cups of sugar…and NO WATER or liquid, stir/coat pumpkin with sugar, and cook for about a 1/2 hour on low heat..you will be amazed at the liquid that emanates in the pot..and the final result is simply scrumptious. Of course, you want to stir the pot now and then…try it…you will love it. | http://karendecoster.com/happy-november.html | 2013-05-18T10:11:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The next major Corona SVG Level Builder update is here! Corona SVG Level Builder 1.5 has dozens of small fixes, new examples and major features:
- iPad 3 support.
- Multiple SVGs loaded in the same scene.
- SVGs and Spritesheets in the System folders (Temporary, Cache, Documents) – for downloadable content.
- Object cloning.
- SVGs as definition tables – bodies are only parsed, not shown, so you can create them on demand (infinite scrolling games, non games apps, etc).
All the new features are documented and expressed with the new examples.
Update Available in the Members Area
If you are a customer, you can download the updated version in the Members Area. If you haven’t received an e-mail about the Members Area or forgot your access details, please contact me with the same e-mail as your purchase e-mail.
Changelog
GENERAL NEW FEATURES
[+] Support for iPad 3 in the dynamic resolution settings.
[+] Support to Multiple SVGs loaded on the same scene (i.e. SVGs with different definitions of bodies. Useful in
games with upgradable items, shops, etc, where you can choose as an example a background and a character from different sets,
in this case the background and level would come from a SVG and the character from another SVG).
[+] exposeRawAttributes SVG:createBody parameter, to expose all the SVG attributes from a body.
[+] Support to XML spritesheets.
[+] Support to XML spritesheets in subfolders.
[+] Support to SVG and Spritesheets in the Caches and Temp System folders (i.e. downloadable content)
[+] New API for body cloning and external body creation; new config: parseOnly to only parse objects from Inkscape, without creating the bodies.
BUG FIXES
[+] notDraw is now recognized in materials.
[+] Path materials now accept notDrawn.
[-] Images not loaded from SpriteSheets won’t be scaled forcefully in case of a resolution independent project.
[+] Fixed a issue which was affecting the scaling of physics bodies on different resolutions.
[+] Adjusted the order of replacement in custom attributes: body attributes correctly replaces material ones; Images not loaded from SpriteSheets won’t be scaled forcefully in case of a resolution independent project.
[+] Spritesheets flagged as persistent are now really persistent.
NEW SVG PARSER METHODS
[+] parseSvgFile(svgFile, config)
[+] createBody(bodyId, addToLayerGroup, exposeRawAttributes, svgFile)
[+] bodiesIdsFromLayer(layerId, svgFile)
[+] bodiesFromLayer(layerId, svgFile)
[+] cleanUpFile(svgFile, cleanPersistentData)
NEW EXAMPLES
[+] Multiple SVGs and Multiple Spritesheets in the same level.
[+] Resolution Independence 2, with support for iPad 3.
[+] Spawn at Touch Location.
[+] Clone object.
[+] Waypoints (not fully implemented, just gives an overall idea).
FIXED EXAMPLES
[+] Added a timer to the leg of the scrolling example character.
Where to go next?
- If you still haven’t purchased the Corona SVG Level Builder, you can purchase it right here. It comes with dozens of examples as well all future updates will be sent to you for free.
Kawika/ May 5, 2012
Are you planning support for Storyboard?
Alfred R. Baudisch/ May 5, 2012
Not yet, to be honest I still consider Director more reliable than Storyboard. | http://karnakgames.com/wp/2012/05/corona-svg-level-builder-1-5-ipad-3-support-multiple-svgs-downloadable-content-new-examples-and-more/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I am THRILLED to been given the blessing of being a part of their spring 2011 issue. I created an exclusive NEW PARTY design: a pink, green & white ladybug birthday party, just for Celebrate! It was photographed by the lovely and wonderful photographer, Andrea Winchenbaugh of Open Shade Studios.
The pink ladybug party feature, on pages 18-25, offers charming inspiration for a darling girl's birthday party, as well as many party tips.
In addition, check out pages 110-111 for the most ADORABLE *FREE* PRINTABLES designed just for readers of Celebrate, designed and created by my lovely friend, the most incredibly talented Kori Clark of Paper & Pigtails!!!!!!! Her work is truly darling, and I could not have been more thrilled to work with her!
Then be sure to visit page 112 for the RESOURCE GUIDE, which features all of the wonderful vendors and artists, so you can order the goodies featured in the party, to re-create the look yourself!
From my favorite Layla Grayce to The Sugar Diva, be sure to see all the amazing talented women and businesses who offer products as seen in the party feature!
And above all, there are many amazing entertaining ideas throughout the issue you won't want to miss.
Whether it is a darling yellow springtime tablescape, Easter recipes, creative ways to decorate Easter eggs, a Kentucky Derby luncheon, an Apil Fool's Day children's party, Cinco De Mayo delights and many adorable free printables for many celebration themes...pick up your copy of Celebrate today and enjoy! And stay tuned, they will be updating their site with the free printable files and more goodies from the newest issue soon!
I have found copies of the magazine at Michaels, Target, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, JoAnn Fabrics and AC Moore!
{Please note: The pink hobnail glasses seen in the feature are personally mine, I love them, purchased a long while back and unfortunately do not have any information on where to get them. I have seen similar at Home Goods and Anthropolgie}.
22 comments:
Congrats to you on such a beautiful and amazing feature!! I am so proud of you, you deserve the best! Thank you for letting me play a part! xo
Beautiful Party Kate! - I'd love to see the whole feature (unfortunately we don't get "Celebrate" here in Australia) - will you be doing a post on it? Kx
Oh my goodness Kate, that party is darling!! I LOVE everything you did and it definitely screams spring to me ;-) Oh and snap on the hobnail glasses, I bought some 2 weeks back for Easter (Spotlight for those that are in Australia, in light pink, light blue and clear)
Congrats on the magazine feature, how thrilling for you.
cheers,
Leoni
This is such a fabulously styled party! I can definitely see why they asked you to design a feature for them. Congratulations!
Congratulations!I love the party,the colors, everything. Unfortunately we do not have Celebrate in Brasil either. I have just posted it on my Blog! I am going to visit yours always. Kisses, Maja. cantinhodamaja.blogspot.com
Congrats! This is an awesome feature!
Ebony
i love everything about this party, kate! gorgeous yet so simple.
This makes me happy!! ; )
Congrats on the feature. You def deserve it. Your parties are fabulous. I love the colors of this party
What a sweeeet party! Love it, Kate! The colors are stunning, and it's such a beautiful design.
You GO! Loved your spread, you did an awesome job as usual!
Congratulations. I just ran across this magazine at Sam's Club a couple weeks ago and after flipping through it briefly, it went quickly into my cart. I can't wait for them to add the printable to their website!!!
Congratulations, Kate! What an honor!
Best Wishes to more parties!
So lovely! I too, love the gorgeous simplicity of this party...and I'm a sucker for hobnail glassware too! (I snagged similar hobnail "plasticware" for my kiddos last season and can't wait to use this pic as inspiration for this year's Easter "brunch.") Thanks, Kate!
Gorgeous! Congratulations on your magazine feature. Your work is incredible.
Pink and green! my favorite color combination :)
It was a great story and also love your lates in Southern Child!!! You are so very talented and I find so much inspiration in your work!!! Happy weekend!!!
I absolutely enjoyed the layout of the party table and wanted to steal some of the ideas for Easter Sunday or Mother’s Day. I would like to know how you did the flowers on the center piece. In every shot it is blocked with the spotted sweets tent card.
Also, the white gift box – so simple yet it stands out so well. I can’t wait to have a table full of them for an event in my home.
Kate, this inspiration is beautiful. The vibrant green alongside the pink ladybug creates such a clean presentation. Inspiring and inviting, thank you for sharing your talents. LL
I just found this magazine and was sure you were going to have something in it sooner or later! Congratulations! I missed the Spring issue but just bought the Summer issue. Can't wait to sit down and go through every detail!
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This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Kyle for winning!
I mentioned recently that I had been having some really good luck at the thrift store lately. And yesterday was my 35th birthday. So, I decided we should have a giveaway celebrating the 3 decades I've been on the earth. And what better way to celebrate than with 3 decades worth of vintage patterns??
Tanit-Isis, I'm looking at you!)
Since I'm not a fan of complicated giveaways, I'm making this easy on everyone (especially me!). To enter, leave a comment on this post. Be sure that your profile links to your email, or you leave your email so that I can contact you if you win. I am happy to ship anywhere on planet earth, but if you live across the waves, I don't promise fast. But it'll get there. Good luck! I'll close the giveaway, Wednesday June 27th at 8PM (Mountain time).
This is just a few of the patterns I've been finding lately, and since I can't sew them all, I've put quite a few into the Etsy shop. Since we're still celebrating here, how about a coupon to the shop for all of you lucky readers? Use the code HAPPYBDAY for a 15% discount on everything there. There are a ton of sweet patterns to choose from, and I'm still adding more! I'll leave the coupon active until July 23rd, so we can celebrate my birthday for a whole month!
great giveaway love the decades Susan
Nice giveaway and happy belated birthday!
/Katharina
Happy birthday! Those are some sweet patterns. Also, muahaha! ;) OK, off to check out Etsy now....
Happy Birthday! Hope you had tons of sewing time and some cake! g
Happy Birthday--a great idea with the patterns giveaway--and great taste in these iconic picks!
thanks for the giveaway and I hope you havea great birthday!
Happy Birthday!! Hope you had a great day and what a nice way to share your special day! :) Please enter me into the give away too! Punkmik@gmail.com
lovely! please enter me (and if it sways you, 27th june is my birthday!). all 3 patterns are great. joanne.lambert@gmail.com
I am also particularly taken with the collar on the 60s pattern! Happy Birthday month to you :)
What a get giveaway. Makes me wish I had kept all my patterns over the years, but then storage would be an issue.
Happy birthday!!! Thanks for your comment on my blog--she LOVED it!!!
Have a wonderful birthday!
The patterns are beautiful, but please don't put me in the draw - I don't think I can cope with grading up from a 32" bust ;-)
Receive my birthday wishes and please enter me for your giveaway. I am a size 34 bust but size 32 fits me perfectly because I don't like all that ease that comes along with the vintage pattern.
I hope you have lots of sales in your shop.
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These are great! Thanks for the giveaway!
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Happy Birthday, Katydid! Many blessings pretty lady!
Happy birthday! Mine's Sunday, but I'm a full decade older than you - wow! I'd love to win - and I'm a 32" bust - woohoo!
Happy birthday and thanks for this giveaway!
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Happy Birthday to you! Still gorgeous at 35, I see!
Happy Birthday! I love vintage patterns, and am convinced that I was born in the wrong decade!
Happy Birthday. The patterns look fabulous! | http://katiekadiddlehopper.blogspot.com/2012/06/celebrating-3-decades-giveaway.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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#LOLJets is trending on twitter? I’m just saying isn’t that always true? Their motto is Just End The Season after all. (4 turnovers? Get Sanchez out of the game).
#WhatI’mThankfulFor.
Day twenty-eight: A scene that made you laugh?
There aren’t many scenes that make me laugh in this series. Like seriously. Almost none. This is the only one I could think of.
How I feel right now.
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This might be the cutest thing ever.
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Our apartment is small, about 600 sq feet, 2LDK (which stands for 2 bedroom, living, dining, kitchen in Japanese real estate terminology), and we have lots of "stuff" (luckily we have closets to hide most of it), but I get bored with our layout every so often and Satoshi and I move around our furniture...this is our latest layout.
Opposite from where I sit is a chaise, which is great for napping.
My legs aren't long enough but the chaise can also be used as an ottoman, when sitting across from it.
In the evenings, I sit here and read. Actually, I also eat dinner here too...while watching television.
I know you shouldn't watch television while eating but it helps keep me company since most times I eat my meals alone.
During the day, I turn the lights off to save electricity. It is quite dark in some parts of our apartment, so I look forward to the really sunny days.
Where is your favorite spot to sit?
10 comments:
Is 600 square feet good sized for an apartment in Japan? From my very limited experience with Japanese apartments, it doesn't sound that small. Your place looks very cozy and very welcoming.
Hi Kat - Looks like you get a good bit of sunshine! My favorite place is on the counch with Sammy on my lap...though I think I spend most of my time on the chair in front of the PC!
It looks like a bright little spot and I like the blue curtains. I am either a corner of my sectional couch person (which I have to share with Max), or I have a chair with a cushion/ottoman I read in or out on the lanai, where I have a daybed. I can't pick just one!
Hi Anon, I think it is a good size in Japan, though our first place was 420 square feet! now that was really "cozy"!
Hi Kirkk, our apartment faces south, so we get sunshine almost all day, good during the winter but really hot during the summer.
I spend a lot of time in front of the PC too :p
You are so lucky to have so many spots to choose from Deb, am jealous!
Take care everyone :)
Kat
First of all I want to greet you, White Rabbit Ms. Kat!
My favorite spot is in my lazy boy in front of the TV. I usually eat, read, sleep etc. in this spot. You could just imagine it dominates my whole room because mine is a standard Japanese apato.
Greetings A! I can imagine a lazy boy dominating a Japanese apato, but those are really comfy :)
Take care.
Kat
where in japan are you living right now? The room looks nice and cozy! Sadly, I don't really have a favorite spot. Probably my seat when I'm reading blogs. :)
Hi Gar,
We live in the suburbs of Osaka. I also sit near the computer reading blogs too :)
Take care.
Kat
My favorite place is outdoors
at the picnic table
when the weather is warm
with my feet propped on the table
and a Corona w/lime in my left hand
while the dogs play tag around the yard
sounds like an awesome place to hang Rowena :)
Take care.
Kat | http://katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-favorite.html?showComment=1243837658208 | 2013-05-18T11:02:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
More and more Americans are becoming disillusioned with the modern healthcare system, and the changes the people want are not being made. Polls have shown only 33% of Americans are satisfied with their healthcare coverage, and over 50% consider there to be major problems with the system.
What many Americans don’t know, however, is the extent to which the health care system in the USA is broken. A common point in rhetoric on healthcare, from both Republicans and Democrats, is that Americans would pay more if the country switched to a single payer system. Even though it the USA is one of the only developed countries in the world not to provide universal, government healthcare, Americans pay the most per capita for health care of any country on the planet, and get worse results.
The United States pays $8,233 per capita on healthcare every year, for a total of $2.6 trillion. This number is anywhere from $2845 to $5505 dollars higher than in other countries. In spite of this, the USA has the lowest life expectancy, highest infant mortality rate, and most deaths from disease and injury per capita. Additionally, the USA has the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, AIDS, adolescent pregnancies, and teenagers with STD’s of all developed countries.
What does the future hold for American healthcare? Polls have shown only 34% of respondents approve of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, when prior polls showed 77% of respondents supporting health care reform. Many of the measures contained in the Affordable Care Act have yet to take effect, and many of them will help solve some of these problems in the short term, but those are a year off, at the shortest. In the long term, much bigger changes will have to be made, and only time will tell what happens.
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Hawaiian
artist Johnnie "Keoni" Durant is spending his summer vacation
visiting friends and carving an elaborate tiki at Evanston's lakefront.
A lifelong resident of Kaua'i, Durant is well-known for his traditional
Hawaiian
sculpture and jewelry, which can be found in private collections and
galleries, and on hotel properties and movie sets. This summer he is
drawing daily crowds as he carves the larger-than-life-size tiki, which
he plans on giving to the City of Evanston as a gift.
A
tiki is a large wood (or stone) carving that embodies the human figure.
In Polynesian mythology, it represents a deep connection to the
spiritual realm. Historically tikis reminded ancient Hawaiians of
their values, including respect for family, appreciation of nature and
belief in the power of knowledge. Today, tikis serve as symbols of
humanity and creating a better life among all peoples.
The Evanston tiki represents the god of sports and recreation and
symbolizes honor and sportsmanship. Durant has named the sculpture
“'Ohana,” which means family
(and community) in Hawaiian, and is a reminder that no one should be left behind or forgotten. To pay tribute to the residents of Evanston and the City's commitment to their health and well-being, Durant is incorporating the City's logo into his carving.
Durant's creation is being carved from white oak, the Illinois state
tree, and will take approximately a month to complete. When finished,
the tiki will stand approximately eight feet tall.
The public is invited to watch the tiki being created.. Durant plans on presenting the finished tiki to Evanston
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and the City Council. The final indoor location
for the completed sculpture has yet to be determined.
This
is Durant's second visit to the mainland and Evanston. His first visit
was last winter, when he experienced snow and extreme cold (11 below
zero) for the first time. His sweetheart (kuipo), whom he met while
carving a four-poster bed on a beach on Kauai, grew up in Evanston and
invited him to back to Chicago for a summertime visit with the promise
that he would love the trees, not to mention the unmatched culture and
diversity of her home town. For more information about the Evanston
tiki, call (312) 226-5100. For more information about Keoni Durant,
visit. | http://kauaicarver.com/evanston-review.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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U.S., Russia Try To Find Common Ground On Syria
Originally published on Thu December 6, 2012 3:40 pm.
The U.N. and Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, says there were no "sensational decisions" made at the talks in Dublin. But at least the U.S. and Russia are looking for, as he put it, creative solutions.
Before the talks, Clinton also struck a relatively positive tone.
"We have been trying hard to work with Russia to stop the bloodshed in Syria and start a political transition toward a post-Assad Syrian future. And we very much support what Lakhdar Brahimi is trying to do," she said.
The U.S. and Russia have both raised concerns about the status of Syria's chemical weapons stocks this week, and Clinton says both realize how quickly things are changing on the ground.
"Events on the ground in Syria are accelerating and we see that in many different ways the pressure against the regime in and around Damascus seems to be increasing," she said.
Up to now, Russia has used its position on the U.N. Security Council to shield Assad's regime. But a French diplomat says the Russian position has been evolving in recent months. The official, who asked not to be named, says the Russians understand that Assad can't win this.
That's also the assessment of Murhaf Jouejati, a Syrian exile who teaches at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
"So it does look like the Assad regime is going to be over soon, it's going to collapse ... fairly soon," Jouejati says. "If that is the case, if my assumption is right, that would at least in part explain a more moderate Russian position on Syria."
But Russia does have many concerns, says one expert, Yevgeny Satanovsky, who runs the Moscow Institute for Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow.
"We don't support Basher al-Assad — he's normal for this region — [a] dictator," Satanovsky says. "But the understanding that radical Islamism is not better than authoritarian leaders is, in Russia, absolutely clear."
The U.S. argues that radical Islamists make up only a small percentage of the rebel fighters in Syria, though the numbers are increasing as the conflict drags on.
The State Department is expected to announce soon that it will put one militant group, Jabhat al-Nusra, on a terrorism blacklist — a signal to secular opposition figures to keep their distance.
At the same time, the U.S. is planning to give a boost to opposition figures it prefers by recognizing the newly formed opposition coalition, the Syrian National Coalition. That's according to Jouejati of the National Defense University.
"The coalition is in the midst of putting together a transitional government; it has been recognized by several foreign governments and I think Washington is pleased with what it is seeing," he says says. "And I think fairly soon the Syrian National Coalition is going to be recognized by the United States as 'the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.' "
Jouejati expects that to happen next week in Morocco, at the so-called Friends of Syria meeting. France is already funneling aid to the opposition coalition, and the rebels hope that the U.S. and others will do that as well to show that there is an alternative to the Assad government.
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