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Hello Bloggy Friends! Today's post is all about the fabric. :) This was my first time attempting to plan out a whole wardrobe. Knowing what an
ADD indecisive creature I can be, I limited my colors to black and white. (Grey may be added later) Even with my narrow color options I still spent a good two hours in Jo-Anns waffling back and forth. Man, can I just say how much it sucks to buy fabric in stores compared to online? Ignoring the whole "touching the fabric before you buy it thing." It is expensive! Don't even get me started on G Street Fabrics, which is located in the traffic hell called Seven Corners, VA. I refuse to drive in Seven Corners. I am not exaggerating when I say I probably could've gotten 3x the fabric had I purchased it online. Alas, that's what happens when you try and move in two days. :sigh: Anywhoo, time for the pretties!
|3 yards. Cotton blend w/ glitter. I'll use this for one of the dresses and try to squeeze out a top with any extra.
|1.75 yards. Poly blend. Tunic top, most likely M5851 sans bows or yo-yos.
This is it so far. There are some pretties (on sale!) online that I'm keeping an eye on. But first I have to sew up some of this. The Hubster gives me the evil eye every time I mention more fabric. Well, he should've been more specific when he said, "Just buy more fabric." I don't think he'll underestimate my fabric buying powers anymore. LOL!
Toodles for now, bloggy friends. I've got a muslin to sew. Aloha, all!


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Well, Zephyr has landed. With any luck she'll be at a bookstore near you (though if that bookstore is a Barnes & Noble, that will be the MAINSTREAM section, NOT Fantasy/SF—and god, don't ask me why, the story is too long for the telling).
I am very happy to have this book finally released in the wild. I love the cover and hope that it might entice a few more people to read about my supernatural filled, "Other" Lower East Side. This book has a lot more of Gentleman Jimmy Walker, with some extreme liberties taken (It's a supernatural New York!) It has some scenes that I'm very proud of, just because I think it's hard to write humor, and that kind of old-school, droll quasi-British rompery is some of my favorite stuff. Hopefully a few of you will find this about as quarter as amusing as I did (being amused at my own books is one of my greatest sins).
Anyway, even if you can't buy or read the book right now, I'd appreciate any signal boost for this that you can spare. And if you've read it, and have the time, please leave a review on one or a couple of the big retailer sites. It's always a huge help!
There is a FREE Zephyr Hollis short story up right now on Tor.com. I am extra lucky because it got its own beautiful illustration by Jonathan Bartlett, which is marvelously moody and very twenties. It's called "The Inconstant Moon" and is a prequel story about how Zephyr first came to New York and started to rethink what she'd always been taught by her demon-hunting daddy. As this is free, it's a great thing to send to someone who might be interested in the books but wouldn't jump into the more expensive novels.
AND, potentially even better, I wrote a long essay for Heroes and Heartbreakers about one of my favorite book couples of all time: Vicky and John from Elizabeth Peters' Vicky Bliss series. I ended up re-reading all of the books, flagging my favorite sections and then painstakingly organizing my thoughts into a multi-thousand word essay featuring many quotes and even something vaguely resembling a thesis statement. I spent about ten hours writing it (after the re-read) and then had strange, fevered anxiety dreams about having to finish an essay for a class the next day. Hmmm....
I think there's a couple other guest bloggy things going up in the next few days. Perhaps I will pop in here and link you to them, since otherwise me and the blog content are not very good friends.
In even more other news, some potentially cool things are developing on THE SUMMER PRINCE front, which I will announce as soon as I can. And I'm working working on a new YA novel that makes me very happy, though it is a little tricksy. Like all the best novels, of course :)
- Current Mood: excited
The situation:
I have four copies of the ARC of Wicked City, the sequel to Moonshine that is being officially released on April 10. They are doing me no good on my bookshelf, but I have been procrastinating in the difficult work of, uh, giving them away.
Know nothing about Moonshine? Reviews and an excerpt here. Curious about Wicked City? PW review and the first two chapters here.
The Solution:
I have four books, and I am attempting to use four different social media platforms. So I will use them in a (hopefully successful) experiment. Each media platform will give away one book. So, on Tumblr, reblog this post and I will put your name into a (virtual) hat. On Twitter, retweet it. On Facebook, comment/post to your own wall about it (liking is good, but won't get your name in the hat). And finally, on my home base, dear old Livejournal, you can comment on the post and/or write something on your own LJ (or Dreamwidth!) and link back to me. If you are on more than one social media platform, you can get your name in as many "hats" as you desire. If by some strange coincidence the same person gets drawn out of more than one "hat," I will arbitrarily re-draw for one of them, so that the books go to four different people.
The Wrinkle:
I really have no idea how many people have read Moonshine, or are really keen on reading the sequel, but just in case there are people out there who are REALLY EXCITED, as opposed to just curious, I offer you a bonus. In your reblog/retweet/facebook comment/LJ post, if you ALSO list a food or drink that Zephyr enjoyed in the first book, you will get your name put into the hat twice. I figure you'll only know that if you read the book, and that way you double your chances of getting a copy. Again, this goes for each "hat" separately. Yes, I know you can game this system; no, I won't stop you.
The Details:
My twitter is @alayadj, my Tumblr is alayadawnjohnson.tumblr.com, my Facebook page is Alaya Dawn Johnson, my LJ is here. You have from today (Monday, 3/12/12) until midnight EST on Friday 3/16/12 to get your name in the drawing.
The Winners:
I will contact you via whatever platform on which you won, and we will work out the shipping. I humbly request that all entries live in the US or Canada (or be willing to Paypal me a couple of dollars to help with shipping fees to their country). If I don't hear back from a winner after three days, I'll draw from the hat again.
The Fallout:
You are in no way obligated to review the book by winning this contest, but of course I would be thrilled if you do.Good luck!
ETA: You can tweet at me about the giveaway as many times as you want, it doesn't have to be a strict RT. And since there's space constraints over there, it's no problem for the food to be separate from the rest. (Of course, no matter how many times you tweet, you'll only get 2 entries in the hat, but don't worry about cramming everything in one tweet).
It can finally be told…my YA debut is coming out next spring from Arthur Levine/Scholastic, and I am so excited!
You can read the announcement on PW's Children's Bookshelf (scroll down). Here's the description, though:
Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince. Set in a utopian city in a futuristic Brazil, it's a coming-of-age story about a rebellious young artist and her unlikely friendship with the city's "summer king," who is destined to be sacrificed after one year of rule, as they spark a revolution that threatens to overturn the city. Publication is set for spring 2013.
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- Current Mood: excited
I ought to update this LJ a little more often this month, anyway, since Wicked City is coming out on April 10, which clearly necessitates something that might vaguely resemble promotion. Or at least a method of getting rid of the ARCs I currently have sitting on my bookshelf. I'm thinking a contest revolving around drinks/food Zephyr had in the first book. This means that if you are one of the two dozen people who read Moonshine, your chances are very good for having me mail you a signed ARC! Excited? Heh.
Anyway, welcome to my Tumblr, and here is the story of the very first Altered Fluid retreat to Woodstock, wherein your heroine drives a pinto in a snowstorm up a mountain:
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- Current Mood: contemplative
In other news (since I'm here), I have been working very hard on a completely new adult novel that's set in an imagined Tenochtitlan and surrounding area (equivalent to 200 years after the Conquest, if it had never happened). This thing is going to be a monstrous door-stopper, and I probably won't finish it for the next two years (mostly because of a contracted book that I can't announce yet that I have to write first). Anyway, the research is kicking my butt, in a good way, and it's really thrilling to be doing something completely different from my previous work.
And finally, I seem to have a thing for parentheses when I write blog posts. Good thing I don't write them very often!
- Current Mood: good
The best thing that could come of this is a country-wide consciousness raising, where perhaps people finally meaningfully ask what moral logic allows them to murder another human being for anything less than immediate self-defense. Revenge is not a reason. Deterrence is laughable. It is a racist institution, a modern-day form of lynching that allows the ones who advocate it to feel morally superior even while indulging in the most immoral of actions.
This article is particularly relevant, discussing the racial aspects of how the death penalty is carried out in the United States (it's a decade old, but still damming).
This bit struck me as so bleakly relevant (Troy Davis was sentenced in '91; his Georgian prosecutor expressed embarrassment that the execution had taken so long):
University of Iowa law professor David Baldus found that during the 1980s prosecutors in Georgia sought the death penalty for 70 % of black defendants with white victims, but for only 15% of white defendants with black victims.
Prosecutors have unfettered discretion in deciding which cases become capital cases, seeking the death penalty in approximately 1 percent of all capital eligible cases. Notably among the 38 states that allow the death penalty, approximately 98% of the prosecutors are white.
But it's all about justice, right? It's just about the case, isn't it? Race and class have nothing to do with it, huh?
I want to curse a lot more than I have, but let me just say this once more, with profanity: abolish the fucking death penalty.
- Current Mood: angry
So, you might not have heard the YA blogosphere blow up yesterday, but it did! Here are good summaries:
cleolinda makes an excellent and well-reasoned overview of the situation, complete with many links to the major players that you should follow
oyceter offers very good thoughts about where any effort at change has to start (try: everywhere)
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- Current Mood: annoyed
I don't have a publisher's blurb, but this book involves more djinni antics, a huge political fight over the "vampire liquor" and our intrepid heroine finding herself on the wrong end of a police investigation. So...I'll just post a decent blurb when the publisher sends me one, how about that? :) I am planning to write a novella this fall, which is loosely supposed to be Zephyr's "origin story." I'm going to use it as an either free or very cheap ebook teaser, so if you already like this series, hopefully that's something to look forward to. But I'll post more about that when I'm closer to having it finished.
I also have some other awesome news I will hopefully be able to announce soon. In the meantime, I had a great time at Readercon this year. I met some very interesting people, had conversations about subjects dear to my heart (Mexico! Urban design! The gentrification of DC!) and learned a few things that I think will be very helpful to me in my writing. I came away furiously thinking up story ideas, which is a good way to leave any convention.


text: Hello all, After very little sleep and many hours wasted, this turned out to be a memory problem. We resolved this by having only one stick in and trying a make installworld, this action rebooted the machine with each stick other than the first. We have since replaced the memory and the machine has been running fine for 2 days now.. Thank you for your input Lowell. To all a nice day. Andrew. > "Andrew Bogecho" <andrewb at cs.mcgill.ca> writes: > >> I had initially suspected bad interaction with the new raid card so I >> removed the card, but still had the same problem when using a local >> disk. > > Hmm. Is there any kind of power-saving functionality enabled in the BIOS? > >> I then run memtest from the ports and got the following errors on the >> "first" run: >> >> Test 15: Walking Ones: Testing... 47 >> FAILURE: 0x00020000 != 0x00010000 at offset 0x01efcb30. >> Skipping to next test... >> Test 16: Walking Zeroes: Testing... 52 >> FAILURE: 0xffffefff != 0xfffff7ff at offset 0x0101bbc0. >> Skipping to next test... >> >> But, no errors for any of the continuing runs. Is memory a problem here? > > That does look suspicious, all right. You could try running memtest > again from time to time. > >> I had initially installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, that run very well, but >> nis >> and amd would die every 24 hours. As these were "very" necessary >> services, >> I decided to go back to 4.x. On 5.0-RELEASE there were no reboots at >> all. > > You could always try -CURRENT, I suppose. A little risky, but > probably less so for production use than 5.0-RELEASE was. > >> How should I proceed now? I am thinking of maybe only running a single >> CPU >> kernel to see if that runs better. > > Not likely to matter, but worth a try, anyway. > > You could run a low-priority CPU-hogging job (or several) to see if > it's really connected to low usage levels, or if it's actually > time-sensitive. > >


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Commemorating our dear and self-sacrificing martyrs is one of many good deeds, which has, thankfully, become more common at the present time. The fact that, in different provinces, martyrs are described as great and magnificent personalities, and the fact that they are venerated, is an extremely beneficial and necessary obligation. However, in some centers and provinces of the country, there is a quality which makes this good deed increase in value. One of these centers is Sistan and Baluchistan province.
It is very interesting for me to witness that a number of outstanding personalities, from various social backgrounds in Sistan and Baluchistan and the honorable officials from that province, gather together in commemoration of the martyrs of Sistan and Baluchistan – which is an underprivileged province – and express their respect for them (the martyrs): this is very interesting, and it is extremely honorable.
The attraction that this issue has for me results from several factors. One is my own interest in this province. A while ago, I used to spend time in Sistan and Baluchistan. Of course, I did not stay there for a long time. However, Allah the Exalted developed things in a way that my relationship with this province and with its people turned into a long-lasting relationship. This was the work of God because I did not stay there for a long time. At that time, Iranshahr was so interesting to me that I wrote a testament specifying that I should be buried in Iranshahr, should I die during that trip. I insisted that my body should not be taken out of Iranshahr. I also visited the graveyard in that city – the one in Iranshahr – but it was not meant to be.
The people of Baluchistan are a people with great kindness. They are a warm, friendly, pleasant, and, of course, talented people. Talent is abundant in that city. However, throughout the course of history –during the time of Qajar or during the time of Pahlavi, those long years – that area and its people have been oppressed; and they have been shown little attention. During the time when I was there, I established a close relationship with the people: I used to communicate with them.
At during those days, not even one official would set foot in Iranshahr, which is, in fact, the political and geographical center of Baluchistan. Another example, one can refer to, is Saravan: it is considered the scientific and spiritual center of Baluchistan. However, not even one official – for example, a governor – had stepped foot in this city. Well, after the Revolution, presidents, officials, and everyone else visited that province: they traveled to all those cities; they even visited villages. There is a wide gap between now and then.
In those days, the people used to be treated with indifference: issues of Baluchistan were catered to indifferently. The talents of the people did not reveal themselves: they did not have the opportunity to do so. The same is true of Sistan. The people of Sistan are a people who are unique among all Iranian ethnicities in terms of their historical background. The history of Sistan is an extraordinarily outstanding and brilliant history. So, the same is true of that area. That area, too, had been subject to lack of attention and indifference: this indifference has been accompanied by natural disasters as well.
What one would feel upon meeting the people of that province was the need for affection: and Allah the Exalted put this affection in our hearts and into the hearts of officials. Presently, many tasks have been carried out for the region of Sistan and Baluchistan. All tasks that the Governor pointed out are necessary tasks; however, I advise him to avoid being satisfied with simply explaining these things to me during this meeting: this is because I am not the executor of tasks. The executors are government officials – be that on issues of the railway system, the process of desalination, or many other issues: You should pursue these matters on your own; you should go and seriously ask high-ranking executive officials to pursue these matters.
And they should know how to do so [pursue matters]: if there is really a way – which there is – they will know it. You should investigate the necessary tasks that must be carried out in the province. For example, regarding an issue of Iranshahr--whose problems I was more familiar with--why should the Baluchi weaving close down and fall into ruin? Why? This is an issue which I used to follow at that time, and it began to work; but, later on, it was ignored: you should set out and resolve these matters.
You should set out and find individuals in the private sector, so much so that they undertake these tasks. Moreover, they should benefit from the National Development Fund – the National Development Fund belongs to the private sector. There is nothing wrong with this: you should set out and pursue these matters. One of the reasons why I became happy with your gathering for martyrs is that I am interested in this province and its people. My interest is not illogical rather it is one based on logic and reasoning: and it is not that I only had a casual relationship with the people; there is a good reason behind my interest in this province.
The second issue is that this province is the manifestation of our motto of Islamic unity. There are some areas in the country – for example, Kurdistan, Turkmen-Sahra in Golestan province, and Sistan-Baluchistan province – in which Sunni and Shia live together. We want to teach and say to the world that Muslim brothers can cooperate and live side by side: an example is Sistan and Baluchistan; as it happens, the enemy has focused on this area. He has pointed his finger at this area and he wants to create discord. When you come and say that an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, in Shalamcheh, has been martyred for defending the Islamic Republic: this is the greatest piece of news on unity and solidarity between Shia and Sunni in Sistan and Baluchistan; this is not a minor event, rather this is a very important event.
When a certain Sunni follower is attacked by anti-revolutionary forces while defending the Islamic Republic: you should underline and highlight these events. We have had such events in Sistan and Baluchistan. It is very important for you to exhibit the true and real unity among this province: you should reveal this to the people. And, the way to do so is to carry out the tasks that the honorable Sardar pointed out; you should produce various cultural tasks; which include writing books, memoirs, and other such cultural products – for example, using visual and audio art and other such artistic forms.
You should benefit from all these methods, in order to portray the reality, so that everyone sees that in the Islamic Republic Shia and Sunni brothers cooperate during the most difficult situations. I have made some trips to Baluchistan, and I have visited many cities – for example, Zahedan, Iranshahr, Khash, Saravan, Chabahar, Zabol and many other different cities. When you go to these cities, you feel that the people are friendly towards the Islamic Republic, in the real sense of the word: you clearly feel this welcome there. Well, such displays of kindness show themselves most clearly in the arena of war and self-sacrifice.
Martyrs should be commemorated. This country and this system need to remember our dear martyrs. All of us need this. It is with the names and memory of martyrs that the glories produced by the Islamic Republic show themselves. The Islamic Republic is a system that has resisted and stood up against the modern jahiliyyah [ignorance] system over the course of many centuries. That is why modern jahiliyyah has engaged in a display of enmity towards it, with all its instruments: with military weapons, with cultural weapons, with the instrument of sanctions and with other newly-emerged instruments. This is the new jahiliyyah – this well-established and comprehensive falsehood which, unfortunately, exists in the world – has used all sorts of tools against the Islamic Republic.
Everyone has risen against the Islamic Republic, but they have failed to defeat it. They have failed to force it into retreat. They have failed to make the Islamic Republic take back what it has said. They have failed to make it say, "I take back what I have said" and "I forgot about this demand." They have failed to do so. Why have they failed? Because the Islamic Republic is very strong. What is the reason for its strength? Its strength comes from faith and resistance. When we reach this point, you see that this very important chain ends with martyrs, disabled war veterans, and self-sacrificing and altruistic individuals. The chain ends with such brave individuals.
What has caused the Islamic Republic to, thankfully, preserve its glory within the world, to display its capabilities on a daily basis, and to prevent all these plots and schemes from exerting their impact is the self-sacrifices of the people. The reason is the firm faith of the people, the martyrs are the best and clearest manifestation of this faith.
And you are commemorating and respecting martyrs, and you are keeping their names and memory alive! We need this! The Islamic Republic needs this commemoration and respect for martyrs. So, your work is valuable work. It is completely honest and necessary work.
Everyone should cooperate. There is no difference between Shia and Sunni and between scholars and non-scholars, in this regard. People from various classes of society and all those who can help should cooperate on this subject. They should preserve, underline, and highlight the memory of these dear ones.
Of course, I used to know some of the well-known martyrs of Sistan and Baluchistan; and I have read the biographies of others in memoirs, books, and other literature. However, we do not know all these martyrs, all these outstanding personalities, and particularly teenage martyrs -- twelve, fourteen-year-old teenagers. We are not aware of the circumstances that they had experienced. You should introduce them so that everyone can begin to know them. I hope that Allah will make all of you successful, God willing.
Greetings be upon you and Allah's mercy


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Obama administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been receiving high praise of late for his efforts to cut costs at the Pentagon. The most obvious case in point is the recent cover story in Newsweek that portrays Gates as the second coming of Dwight Eisenhower.
There's no question that Gates has made an effort. In his first year in office, he ended the F-22 fighter program, trimmed some of the more dysfunctional missile defense programs, and cancelled the vastly overpriced Presidential helicopter. This year he is trotting out a series of management reforms that include reducing "gold-plating" -- the practice of adding more and more capabilities to a weapons system without regard to cost -- to increasing competitive bidding for service contracts. His procurement reform package includes 23 initiatives in all, all designed to get more "bang for the buck" out of Pentagon spending.
There's just one major problem with Gates's approach (along with many minor ones, but I won't go into them here). He wants to keep increasing the military budget, which is already at post-World War II highs. As noted in the recent report of the Sustainable Defense Task Force -- a group of experts convened with the encouragement of Rep. Barney Frank (which includes yours truly as a member) -- the only real way to introduce fiscal discipline at the Pentagon is to cut spending. As long as contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin know that what Gates takes away with one hand will be given back with the other, they have no real incentive to cut costs. And if Gates's reforms do manage to reduce costs, the savings should go to the taxpayers, not the weapons makers.
Take Lockheed Martin for example. When Gates ended their F-22 combat aircraft last year -- a budget cut of about $4 billion -- he increased the company's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program by a comparable amount (about $4 billion). He even bragged that the F-35 increase would create more jobs than the number lost as a result of the F-22 cancellation, noting that "I think we've done a pretty good job of taking care of the industrial base."
Even Gates's examples of programs he hopes to get under control underscore the limits of his approach. He takes pride in the fact that his department will scale back the speed and size of a new ballistic-missile firing submarine so that its projected costs are more like $5 billion than $7 billion per ship. Leaving aside the question of whether these savings can be realized, why build a new missile-firing submarine at all? The administration has pledged to cut nuclear weapons substantially, and using these large submarines to fire non-nuclear missiles is an immensely expensive way to accomplish that task.
As Laura Peterson of Taxpayers for Common Sense writes in the organization's blog, "If Gates would try applying the affordability test to military personnel, operations and our national security strategy, we might find some real savings." The strategy is key -- as long as it is U.S. policy to maintain over 700 overseas military bases and a Navy, Army and Air Force designed to go anywhere and fight any battle, military spending will continue to go up, and there will be plenty of money for the weapons industry. In a tight budgetary environment, this spending will come at the expense of other priorities -- from deficit reduction to infrastructure investment to aid to the unemployed. Regardless of how one thinks the savings should be spent -- or not spent, so as to reduce the deficit -- the Pentagon needs to go on a serious diet. If Robert Gates takes on that task, he can truly be seen as a reformer.


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Darcus Howe at the Battle of Lewisham, August 1977
The Battle of Lewisham - Reunion - How we stopped the Nazi NF
Fb event: https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/133868593825540/
- Saturday 12 August at 13:00–16:30 UTC+01
- Clifton Rise, London, SE14 6, United Kingdom
The far right had become, pre Lewisham, mainstream in the media, in political life and often, in popular culture. In 1977, the National Front received over 100,000 votes in London elections.
The historic day in Lewisham, itself, saw trades unionists, socialists, Labour Party members, and crucially, many people from Lewisham itself, come together to say enough is enough.
Up to 10,000 people joined in to oppose the NF. All the fascists possible routes were continually blocked, NF banners were burned, and Bob Marley was played. The counter demo became a great example of black and white unity.
Nazi organizations such as the NF, believed that they could build a mass movement based upon racial prejudices and racist violence. They were wrong, and they were defeated.
Ted Parker who took part in the battle, mentions, "Thereafter the NF never again posed a serious political threat. Lewisham led directly to the formation of the Anti Nazi League (ANL) which, together with Rock Against Racism (RAR), and nowadays Love Music Hate Racism mobilised hundreds of thousands in collective expressions of solidarity between those of differing cultures and ethnic backgrounds. Organised racism was marginalised for the next quarter of a century"
Come and march and meet with some of the key individuals, who alongside many others, helped beat back the rise in racism and the fascists who fed off such poison.
People who played a critical role at Lewisham and some who helped form the Anti Nazi League (ANL), will recall the day the Nazis were stopped from marching and why it matters today. We'll assemble at Clifton Rise, a key location on the day.
The united front of socialists, trades unionists, Labour members... anyone against the Nazis, that was the ANL, was inspired from Lewisham. Alongside Rock Against Racism, the ANL was crucial in undercutting the then growing NF.
The ANL combined physically confronting the Nazis wherever they raised their ugly heads with powerful propaganda exposing the little Hitlers. It was a mass movement, that faced with the challenges posed by Le Pen, Golden Dawn and Jobbik, still reasonates. Please share this event, invite your friends, let's celebrate the victory and ensure today's fascists are defeated.
Hosted by Unite Against Fascism
See also the commemorations being organised by Goldsmiths College - here:


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Cookie Monster is a Muppet on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating phrases: "Me want cookie!", "Me eat cookie!", and "Om nom nom nom" (said through a mouth full of food). He often eats anything and everything, including danishes, donuts, lettuce, apples, bananas, as well as normally inedible objects. However, as his name suggests, his preferred food is cookies. Chocolate chip cookies are his favorite kind; oatmeal cookies are his second favorite. In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before he ate his first cookie, he believes his name was Sid.[1][2][3] Showing awareness of healthy eating habits for children, since 2006 he has said that cookies are "a sometime snack" and that he also likes fruits and eggplant.
He is known to have a mother, a younger sister, and an identically-designed cousin, who all share his characteristic blue fur and "googly eyes". He also has a father, who appeared in a Monsterpiece Theater sketch promoting energy conservation, water conservation and environmentalism. Both Cookie Monster's mother and father share his enormous appetite and craving for cookies. He and his Sesame Street friends are popular motifs on T-shirts.
The book Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles explains Cookie Monster's origin as follows: "In 1966, Henson drew three monsters that ate cookies and appeared in a General Foods commercial[4] that featured three crunchy snack foods: Wheels, Crowns and Flutes. Each snack was represented by a different monster. The Wheel-Stealer was a short, fuzzy monster with wonky eyes and sharply pointed teeth. The Flute-Snatcher was a speed demon with a long, sharp nose and windblown hair. The Crown-Grabber was a hulk of a monster with a Boris Karloff accent and teeth that resembled giant knitting needles.
These monsters had big appetites for the snack foods (like cookies) they were named after. Each time the Muppet narrator, a human-looking fellow, fixes himself a tray of Wheels, Flutes and Crowns, they disappear before he can eat them. One by one, the monsters sneak in and zoom away with the snacks. Frustrated and peckish, the narrator warns viewers that "these pesky monsters could be disguised as someone in your own home", at which point the monsters briefly turn into people and then dissolve back to monsters again.
As it turns out, these commercials were never aired — but all three monsters had a future in the Muppet cast. The "Crown-Grabber" was used in a sketch on The Ed Sullivan Show, in which he ruins a girl's beautiful day. Known from then on as the Beautiful Day Monster, he made a number of appearances on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. The "Flute-Snatcher" turned into Snake Frackle, a background monster from The Great Santa Claus Switch and The Muppet Show.
In 1967, Henson used the "Wheel-Stealer" puppet for an IBM training film called Coffee Break Machine. In the sketch, called "The Computer Dinner", the monster (with frightening eyes and fangs) devours a complex coffee making machine as it describes its different parts. When he is finished, the machine announces the monster has activated the machine's anti-vandalism system, which contains the most powerful explosives known to man. The monster promptly explodes. This sketch was also performed in October, 1967 on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was also later performed on the George Burns episode of The Muppet Show using the Luncheon Counter Monster.
Two years later, Henson used a similarly-designed and equally ravenous monster for three commercials selling Munchos, a Frito-Lay potato chip. This time, the puppet was called Arnold, the Munching Monster. After the three ads were produced, Henson had the opportunity to renew the contract. He chose not to, because at that point he was working on Sesame Street — and that monster puppet was moving on to the next stage in his career.
Cookie Monster, still unnamed, made his Sesame Street debut in the first episode, interfering with Kermit the Frog's "famous W lecture" by eating a model "W" bit by bit. He turns it into an "N", a "V", and finally an "I", to Kermit's frustration. He then tries to eat Kermit.
It was during the first season that Cookie Monster got his name and began using the growly vernacular (e.g., "Me eat cookie!") that would become part of his character. His signature song, "C Is For Cookie", was first aired during the 1971-1972 season, and became one of the best-known songs from Sesame Street.
According to the 1978 special Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster is allergic to peanut butter cookies.
In 2006, in response to growing concerns about record levels of childhood obesity in the United States, Sesame Street began airing segments titled Healthy Habits for Life. In these segments, the Muppet characters of Sesame Street talk about healthy habits, such as eating properly and exercising. The Healthy Habits for Life segments spawned Internet rumors that Cookie Monster's name had been changed to Veggie Monster or would be taken off the show entirely.[5][6]
In a 2007 appearance on Martha Stewart's TV program, Cookie Monster explained his new philosophy that "Cookies are a sometimes food."
On February 10, 2008, NPR host Elizabeth Blair interviewed Cookie Monster for the All Things Considered segment In Character. He answered the Proust Questionnaire, as well as revealing some of his favorite and non-favorite things.[5][7]
In a June 19, 2008, appearance on The Colbert Report, Cookie Monster again explained that "Cookies are a sometimes food." He also attempted to eat Stephen Colbert's Peabody Award. Colbert had asked agitatedly why Cookie Monster had "abandoned the pro-cookie agenda" and thus caused fruit to become the favorite snack of American children, according to a study Colbert had heard. Colbert criticized Cookie Monster for not wearing a cookie lapel pin. Cookie Monster also claimed to have "crazy times during the '70s and '80s", referring to himself as "the Robert Downey, Jr. of cookies." After eating a cookie to prove he still likes cookies, Cookie Monster asked if the Peabody Award, a round medallion on a small pedestal, was a cookie.[8] When Colbert returned to speak to Cookie Monster at the end of the show, the award had disappeared and Cookie Monster was wiping his mouth with a napkin.[8]
On November 24, 2010, Cookie Monster started a Facebook page as part of a campaign to host Saturday Night Live.[9] Though his bid to host Saturday Night Live failed, he was allowed to appear with Jeff Bridges when he hosted the show and sing the Christmas song "Silver Bells".[10]
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David Rudman officially became Cookie Monster in Sesame Street's 2002 season (taped 2001), but the year before that, Rudman shared the part with Eric Jacobson, Frank Oz's primary successor. Once Jacobson was cast as Grover and Bert, Sesame Workshop chose Rudman as Cookie Monster to allow for more interaction between Cookie Monster and Bert/Grover. Frank Oz still performs Cookie Monster and his other Sesame Street characters a couple of times per year.
Various toys and other icons of the Cookie Monster have been produced over the years. The most obvious is a cookie jar, of which several types have been offered.
Numerous children's books featuring Cookie Monster have been published over the years:
Familiar to generations of Sesame Street watchers, Cookie Monster is remembered for his gluttony and his distinctive voice.
As all monsters are, Cookie Monster is initially intimidating. His manner is gruff. His clumsiness occasionally causes damage. But quickly, Cookie Monster comes to be seen as benign—indeed, downright friendly. He has a few bad habits. He cannot resist gobbling up anything and everything that might be consumed, especially cookies. And he cannot quite control the way he spews forth crumbs. He is the quintessential consumer... The budget, for all its intimidating detail, might be seen similarly: as the Ultimate Cookie Monster. ... Its massive presence might be understood as little more than a compilation of cookies received, cookies crumbled, and crumbs spewed forth. Yet, apt though the Cookie Monster perspective may be, it does not suffice...—U.S. Budget Director Richard Darman, unpublished version of the introduction to President Bush's 1991 Federal budget[12][13]
In the Food Network program Good Eats episode "Three Chips for Sister Marsha" (first aired December 13, 2000), a puppet named Maj. Wilfred D. Cookie who looks like a green version of Cookie Monster appears. Asked about his well-known "brother", he responds, "I told you never to mention that ruffian. All he knows about cookies is how to shovel them into his face."[14] In the Fox animated series Family Guy episode "Model Misbehavior", Cookie Monster is shown in a psychiatric hospital, repeatedly foiling drug rehab styled efforts to cure his cookie addiction.[15]
We wanted his name to indicate that he was obsessed, like Cookie Monster is obsessed with cookies. So we used 'Trekkie' both because it sounded like 'cookie' and because Trekkies are, by definition, obsessive fanatics.—Jeff Marx, Avenue Q composer and lyricist[16]
The guttural singing style in death metal bands is commonly (if facetiously) compared to Cookie Monster's low-pitched, gravelly voice.[17]
In Family Guy, his voracious appetite was parodied and compared to the habits of a drug-addict. Thus, he was shown taken into a drug rehabilitation center, and where his "contraband" was taken away by security officials. Later in the Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back spoof "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", Cookie Monster is cast as the Wampa.[18] In another sci-fi related takeoff, the Star Wars spoof Hardware Wars features "Chewchilla the Wookie Monster" in the role of Chewbacca.
He also appears in MAD, first in "Mouse M.D", a parody of House M.D., then as the main character in "Cookie Blue", a parody of Rookie Blue.
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By Zoe Henry
1. Betterment
A New York City-based startup that provides automated investment services and personalized advice, Betterment had a record year in 2015. The company charges an interest rate between 0.35 and 0.15 percent, depending on the size of one's investment.
Headed by founder and CEO Jon Stein, Betterment grew its AUM (assets under management) by 200 percent last year, from $1 billion to $3 billion.
It also rolled out a new, automated 401(k) tool for businesses that gives employers personalized advice on their assets. Participants receive a portfolio of ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and are given the option of opening taxable investment accounts, IRAs, Roth IRAs, and trusts, all of which the tool will manage for them.
Jane Bryant Quinn, a prominent financial journalist and retirement expert, recently sang the company's praises: "I love these automated financial advisers, and not just for Millennials," she said. "Betterment is the only one that has an automatic plan for dealing it [your money] out over your retirement. The others will probably get to that eventually, because you really need both kinds of automatic planning."Read the Original Article
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It's draft time for the NFL, the perfect jumping off point for
Maybe it should have been called "The Draft That Nearly Wrecked the NFL," so one-sided did the league become in favor of the National Football Conference, whose teams took none of the six quarterbacks, in the years that followed.
A recent review in the L.A. Times portrays the ESPN piece as one that highlights the importance of getting that top quarterback, setting a precedent for future drafts. It's based largely on a personal diary kept by agent Marvin Demoff, who represented both Marino and Elway and who told the Times that the draft "accentuated the idea that to be really relevant, teams needed a franchise quarterback. If you didn't have a quarterback, it was like playing chess without a queen."
Ok, it's natural that the 1983 draft is remembered for six quarterbacks going in the first round, the first time that ever happened. But what gets missed is the painful lesson learned by those doing the drafting - you can get too pass happy, and really set yourself back in the process. All six QBs were drafted by AFC teams, the conference (or league, pre-merger) that had won 11 of the first 17 Super Bowls, including eight of nine from 1973 to 1981.
But the 1983 draft set up the conference as the weak sister to the more powerful NFC for more than a decade, threatening the league's competitive balance and sending Super Bowl viewers to other channels. Beginning with the 1984-85 season, the NFC won the Super Bowl 13 consecutive times. Most of them were blowouts. The AFC's problem, for the most part, wasn't with the QBs themselves - Elway, Marino and Kelly are all deserving Hall of Famers, and O'Brien had a solid career in New York. But with its clubs mostly building around their new young guns, the AFC became the soft conference, filled with finesse teams that couldn't compete in the trenches against physical NFC clubs like the Redskins, 49ers, Bears and Giants. Fans noticed: after the Chicago-New England matchup in 1986 became the first Super Bowl to draw 90 million viewers, the game failed to draw that many again until 1996, thanks to a close game between two iconic franchises, the Steelers and Cowboys.
During the ill-fated stretch, Elway (Denver), Marino (Miami), Eason (New England) and Kelly (Buffalo) combined to go 0-for-9 in the big game, while O'Brien and Blackledge (a bust in Kansas City) never made it. It was Elway who finally broke the streak as an older veteran in 1998 when the Broncos knocked off Green Bay. He'd add another ring the following year before retiring.
Since Denver snapped the skid, the Super Bowl has featured many more close games than it used to, with the AFC winning 10 of 16. Viewership has grown to record levels.
Maybe the '83 draft should be remembered for what the NFC clubs did to help build championships. Washington drafted Darrell Green, a cornerback out of Texas A&I who became a Hall of Famer and won two Super Bowls. The Bears selected offensive lineman Jimbo Covert, who blocked for Walter Payton, won a Super Bowl, and was ultimately named to the All-Decade Team of the 1980s. The defensive-minded Giants took Terry Kinard, a defensive back from Clemson who started for their 1986-87 team that routed Elway and the Broncos in Super Bowl XXI. Dallas went for defensive end Jim Jeffcoat, who lasted 12 seasons with the team, including five with 10-or-more quarterback sacks, and won two rings.
And as players go, the biggest story of the 1983 draft: the San Francisco 49ers, without a first round pick that year, stole dynamic running back Roger Craig in the second round out of the University of Nebraska with the 49th pick. All Craig did was go on to become one the great dual threat backs in NFL history, the first to ever surpass 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in the same season. He wound up a four-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowl champion with the Niners.
As Demoff says, people do continue to talk about the '83 draft 30 years later. Just not nearly as much as they would be had it actually finished the job of breaking the league in half.


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A clear description of osteoporosis, one that helps you understand what it is, if you are a risk and what to do about it, is what this page is all about.
While this website is dedicated to women over 50, this condition is not. It affects males and females of any age and any ethnic background. However being a woman gives you a three-in-one chance of developing osteoporosis in your lifetime.
So to begin our description of osteoporosis…
We achieve peak bone mass at 30 years of age. From then on we lose it unless we take action to prevent or reverse this process. Not taking action increases our risk of developing…
- Osteopenia: A condition where we have an abnormally low bone density (below normal range but not low enough to be classified as osteoporosis).
- Osteoporosis: We have lost so much bone density that the bones have become porous, hence the name.
Signs and symptoms of osteoporosis? We don't see or feel any of this happening. In fact many times you find out you have osteoporosis when a bone breaks, and by then your condition may be severe.
To deepen our description of osteoporosis, let's look at these early warning signs…
- Loss of more than 1/2-1 inch of body height
- Loss of teeth – periodontal disease
- Hunched posture
- Back pain
- Protruding abdomen
How Can I Know For Sure If I Have Osteopenia Or Osteoporosis?
The best way to diagnose osteoporosis is to have a bone mineral density test. The most accurate test is called a DEXA scan. It's recommended that women aged 65 and over be screened for osteoporosis. Women aged 60 – 64 should also be screened if they are in menopause and have at least one of the risk factors.
What Increases My Risk Of Getting Osteoporosis Or Osteopenia ?
We don't yet know all the causes of osteoporosis or osteopenia. Here are some of the risk factors that increase your chances of developing these conditions…
- Having a close family member who has the disease (mother, father, sibling)
- Being Caucasian or Asian (the lighter your skin, the higher your risk)
- The beginning of your menstruation starting at 15 years of age or later
- Being underweight for your height (especially if you are tall)
- Being in menopause- natural or because of surgery
- Beginning menopause before age 45
- Being an over-exerciser
- Having a history of an eating disorder
- Being a yo-yo dieter
- High alcohol consumption
- Having a high protein diet
- Smoking
- Drinking more than 5 cups of caffeinated beverages per day
- Eating a low calcium and/or high sodium diet
- Lack of physical activity
- Certain medications – For questions about your medications check with your doctor or consult a physician who specializes in osteoporosis.
Knowing your risks and what you can do about them turns your description of osteoporosis into a call to action. While some of the things on this list are outside of your control (you can't change your family history or your past) half of them are lifestyle induced and are within your control.
Which Of My Bones Are Most At Risk Of Breaking?
To further describe osteoporosis is to talk about the increased risk of fracture this disease poses. Here are the most commonly affected bones…
- The Spine The small, triangular shaped vertebrae of the spine are extremely susceptible to fractures when bone loss occurs. In someone with osteoporosis compression fractures of the spine can occur while doing simple things like lifting groceries or getting a hug.
- The Hip About 90 percent of hip fractures are caused by a fall,in the other 10 percent the bone breaks first causing the fall. Hip fractures almost always lead to surgery, be it a pinning of the fracture or a total hip replacement. One out of five people with hip fractures die within a year following their hip fracture.
- The Wrist These fractures usually occur due to a fall. We tend to reach out our arms instinctively to break a fall.
Any bone in the body can break due to osteoporosis, these are just some of the most common ones.
Taking Our Description Of Osteoporosis A Little Further…
Our bone is living tissue that is constantly re-building itself. Osteoclasts are bone cells responsible for dissolving old bone. Their partners in this bone remodeling process are the osteoblasts. Their job is to build new bone to replace the old.
So for a better description of osteoporosis we need to understand what affects the remodeling process of our bones…
- Estrogen It helps balance the process of removing old bone and replacing it with new. During menopause estrogen levels drop and the rate of removing old bone out paces the rate at which new bone is laid down.
- Nutrition Calcium and vitamin D help to preserve our bones. Smoking and consuming high levels of salt, colas and alcohol cause bone loss to accelerate.
- Physical Activity Research has shown that the largest major determinant of bone health is muscle contraction. As your muscles contract they stress the bones they're attached to, causing those bones to strengthen.
What Can I Do To Help Myself?
What good would a description of osteoporosis be without knowing what to do about it? There is a lot you can do…
Lifestyle changes play a big roll in the treatment of both osteopenia and osteoporosis. In fact for those diagnosed with osteopenia, lifestyle changes may be all that is prescribed, while osteoporosis is treated with a combination of medication and lifestyle modification.
A healthy diet is crucial to maintaining healthy bones. Calcium is the most important mineral for bone mass. However most of us only absorb about 1/3 of the calcium we consume. Without Vitamin D, our bodies can't use calcium properly. For bone-boosting recipes and tips go here.
Exercise, especially weight bearing exercises such as walking, dancing and stair climbing are good choices if done properly. Strength training exercises, especially site-specific ones that target the most susceptible bones, have been shown to decrease risk of fractures. But not all exercise is helpful. Some exercises are dangerous for women with osteoporosis. Learn which exercises are good for you and which ones to avoid.
Other lifestyle changes to consider…
- If you smoke, quit
- If you are suffering from fear or anxiety due to your diagnosis, beginning a safe exercise program and becoming stronger will help significantly. In addition… check out these ways to manage you stress.
Now that you have a thorough description of osteoporosis and the awareness of all that you can do for your bones, start today to support your bones. After all their job is to support you!
For help in choosing which exercises are good for you go to Best Exercises For Osteoporosis
For up to date, accurate information on osteoporosis, osteopenia and the latest treatments visit the website of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.


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The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are just about here, and if today's wave of initial reviews are any indication, they're poised to be two of the best Android phones of the year.
There are many reasons to look forward to either flagship — their sharp, colorful OLED displays, their top-tier cameras, their Gear VR support, their performance and battery gains, how little real estate they waste, most things that aren't TouchWiz — but Samsung's most convenient upgrade this year might also be its simplest: a return to microSD storage support.
If you plan on picking up one of these two (or any phone with a microSD slot), and you want to take advantage of the extra space, have a look at the Samsung Evo microSD card. As of this writing, Amazon has its 128GB model down to $40 — $10 off its usual going rate, and an all-time low.
Although the Evo is now a generation old, it remains a worthy buy for anyone who prioritizes sheer capacity for the money. It's still fast enough to not annoy you — see StorageReview's favorable writeup for deeper test results — but you're mostly buying it because each model provides good value. This deal only exacerbates that.
If you need stronger performance, however, try the Evo's follow-up, the Samsung Evo+. As we've said before, it more or less doubles the Evo's read speeds — though it doesn't notably boost write speeds — without jacking up costs too high. Its 128GB model appears to be discounted at the moment, too, though it's still $10 more than the Evo.
Either way, we should note that Samsung doesn't support Android's "Adoptable Storage" feature, meaning that the new Galaxy phones don't treat microSD cards like internal storage. You'll have to move apps around manually. Plenty of microSD-supporting devices do follow Google's lead, though.
The 32GB of space baked into the entry-level Galaxy phones will be plenty for some, but if you're the type to stuff a bunch of games, movies, or photos onto your device, either Evo card is well worth a look. Just know what you value first.
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The interior design and architecture firm ActDesign has won the "Highly Commended" award in the Interior Design Apartment category in the Americas division of the International Property Awards, a competition based in London. The winning design was its loft project in Old Montreal.
A former refrigeration warehouse with an imposing brick and concrete structure, within a hundred-year-old building situated near the port of Montreal, provided the perfect backdrop for the twenty-first-century loft. The client, a collector of modern art, gave the firm a free hand in designing the interior. He wanted to exhibit as many artworks as possible and had a marked aversion to traditional gypsum-board and plaster walls. His dream was to have a fluid space that would lend itself to the display and appreciation of art.
The interior design was based on a horseshoe plan, making it possible to have maximum exposure to the windows and to minimize circulation. The kitchen, dining room, and living room flowed in a succession of integrated zones in a loft-inspired open area. To create a balance between transparency and privacy, the designer used glass to partition off the office and the master bedroom. Crystal glass, clear or laminated white, was chosen to avoid having the artworks reflected in the overall composition.
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Inaugurated in 1995, the International Property awards are organized in association with Bloomberg Television and Google. It is one of the most prestigious competitions for property professionals in the world, with three main categories: Residential, Commercial, and Web Promotion. The portfolios are analyzed carefully by more than 70 expert judges whose knowledge covers all aspects of the property sector, led by three active members of the House of Lords: Lord Caithness, Lord Best and Lord Courtown.
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Why NCCU's LeVelle Moton won't let his basketball team wear school gear
N.C. Central men's basketball coach LeVelle Moton shared the stage with North Carolina's Roy Williams, Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel and N.C. State's Kevin Keatts at the Triangle men's Basketball Tip-Off Luncheon Friday.
When coaches of any sport get together the one thing they do well is share stories. With preseason practice just around the corner, Moton talked about his new team, why his players can't wear N.C. Central gear and the coach who had the biggest influence on his career.
Here's what he had to say.
Honoring those who came before you
Moton must replace seven seniors from last year's MEAC championship team. Since taking over at N.C. Central as a head coach in 2009, Moton has won three regular-season titles and two MEAC tournaments. So expectations are high every year. With what looks like a new team each season, Moton stresses to his players the importance of taking care of the program and honoring those who came before them.
As a way of doing that, Moton makes his players earn the right to wear NCCU gear during workouts.
"I don't want to give them anything because they have the sense of entitlement for something they've never earned," Moton said. "They have no N.C. Central gear, none, and they don't get that until they complete our preseason process. That's how we've done it since I arrived."
Taking shape as a coach
When the coaches were asked who had shaped them as basketball coaches, Moton revealed that his mentor was supposed to have been at the luncheon but wasn't.
"She was supposed to be here today, she had a hair appointment," Moton said. "It's my mom."
When Moton interviewed for the head coaching job at N.C. Central, he was asked how he would run the program. The answer was simple, he would just follow the only blueprint he knew growing up.
"I said I would just run it with the same core values that my mother ran her house," Moton said. "And that served well because she was actually my first coach."
Moton also mentioned Ron Williams, his coach at the Raleigh Boys & Girls Club.
"He was so tough," Moton said. "He had myself and guys like P.J. Tucker (Houston Rockets) and John Wall (Washington Wizards) and one of things about him, he never gave you any credit. He taught me how to hit a baseball, taught me how to shoot a basketball, but he never told us we were good."
On June 19, 1997, the only dose of encouragement Moton ever heard from Williams changed his life.
"He told me if I kept my head on straight I would have the opportunity to be something," Moton recalled. "From then my confidence just lit up."
That confidence wasn't limited to basketball.
"I went to school the next day talking to every girl," Moton said, drawing laughs from the audience.
Moton impressed by Tomlin
The coaches were asked to name which sport outside of basketball they like the most. Moton is a big football fan and roots for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Moton has said before he likes to learn by watching football coaches because of their ability to communicate and lead so many men at once.
Moton has had several chances to watch Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin up close and always walks away impressed.
"It's such a barbaric sport," Moton said. "And for one man to be able to manage (53) barbarians it's unreal. How he commands the room when he walks in and manages people and build relationships, I've been extremely blessed to form that relationship."
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Gemelli with Fresh Herbs and Chopped Olives
Posted by Victoria at 8:00 AM
I'm always looking for fast, easy, and delicious pasta recipes I can throw together on the fly. As much as I love a good, complicated, fresh pasta affair, it's a necessity to have a few of these straight-forward and reliable recipes under your belt for a weeknight meal. I love olives intensely, and found them to be an excellent addition to the fresh herb, garlic, and tomato sauce that joins the chewy and sturdy gemelli pasta in this dish. As tomato season approaches, I am sure there will be more pasta dishes like this prepared throughout the summer. Hope you all enjoy!
Gemelli with Fresh Herbs and Chopped Olives
Makes 4 servings
(From The Glorious Pasta of Italy)
3 T. extra-virgin olive oil
3 large cloves garlic, lightly crushed
3 T. mixed chopped fresh herbs (such as oregano, rosemary, and thyme)
1 cup coarsely chopped pitted gaeta or kalamata olives, plus 2 T. brine from the olives
2 1/2 lbs plum tomatoes, seeded and grated
Kosher or fine sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 lb. gemelli, fusilli, or other short, sturdy pasta
Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil and salt generously.
While the water is heating, warm the oil and garlic in a large frying pan placed over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until the garlic releases its fragrance. Sprinkle in the herbs and the olives and brine and raise the heat to medium. Stir to combine and saute for about 1 minute, then pour in the tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Raise the heat to medium-high and simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the tomatoes have been reduced to a creamy sauce. Turn off the heat and cover to keep warm.
Add the pasta to the boiling water, stir to separate, cook according to the manufacturer's directions until al dente. Drain the pasta in a colander set in the sink, reserving about 1 cup of the cooking water.
Transfer the pasta to the frying pan and gently toss the pasta and sauce until thoroughly combined, adding a splash or two of the cooking water if necessary to loosen the sauce. Transfer the dressed pasta to warmed shallow individual bowls and serve immediately.
Gemelli with Fresh Herbs and Chopped Olives
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Now that wildfire season is (already) upon us, some old-timer will surely start reminiscing about the days when "work fires" were common; when, on hot summer days, locals set forest fires in the hope that they and their buddies would get jobs on the federally-funded fire crews. A few dozen acres of brush gone up in smoke allowed the able-bodied folks in the rural community to get some decent government wages for a week or two. It's a logical economic exchange. Or at least it was.
In these days of mega-fires that torch not 30 acres, but 300,000, the concept of wildfires as job-creators has lost some of its folksy charm. When Leonard Gregg, a seasonal firefighter, started Arizona's Rodeo Fire in 2002, it put people to work, sure, but it also burned more than 400 homes and 470,000 acres, and cost taxpayers millions. Suppression efforts for such fires can run $1 million or more per day. Add to that the cost of lost property, and a natural disaster turns into an economic one, too.
Surprisingly, though, even catastrophic fires can have an economic upside. And while a fire will never be profitable for a local community, the old idea of work fires isn't totally obsolete after all.
Over several days in September 2010, the Fourmile Canyon Fire ripped through the suburban forests outside of Boulder, Colo. It burned a mere 6,181 acres, small by today's standards, yet the fire was also costly. That's in part because the flames focused on a section of wildland urban interface that was scattered with homes. According to a study by Headwaters Economics, Boulder County has one of the most heavily developed WUIs in the country, and fighting fires in such areas is far more costly than in undeveloped forests. A 2012 U.S. Forest Service postmortem estimated that $14 million was spent on suppression, management and burned-area restoration. On one especially nasty day, more than $1.5 million was spent in the effort to protect homes. The total bill for fire retardant, alone, was $343,000.
But the biggest expense was from charred homes. Insurers estimated that total losses were more than $200 million, in part because so many homes burned — a total of 168 — but also because they happened to be in one of the nation's more costly real estate zip codes. Since many of the homes were under-insured (insurance policies were not updated to reflect rising values over the years), the total value of destroyed structures was probably higher. Real estate values and associated property tax revenues took a dive, too. The taxable value of lots where houses had burned dropped 80 percent or more after the fire. Even homes that escaped the flames saw decreases of 30 percent or more in assessed value, which was directly reflected in their respective property tax bills. As a result, the county lost some $800,000 in property tax revenues during 2011 alone, according to estimates by the Boulder County Assessor.
Typically, a fire can also batter the tourist economy. For 36 days in June and July of 2002, smoke billowed out of the hills north of Durango, Colo. as the Missionary Ridge Fire burned 70,000 acres and some 56 homes (insured losses were $18 million). It followed close on the heels of the Hayman Fire, which tore through the foothills of the state's Front Range, and as word got out that a good portion of the state was aflame, potential visitors stopped coming during the peak of tourist season. In Durango, where tourism makes up nearly one-third of all economic activity, hotel occupancy rates plummeted beginning in mid-June, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, a trend that held all summer. Ridership on the Durango-Silverton narrow gauge train and visitor numbers to Mesa Verde National Park dropped by 33 and 25 percent, respectively. It was one of the worst tourist seasons in the town's collective memory.
So Durango officials were pleasantly surprised to find, when all the sales tax figures were added up at the end of that devastating year, that the retail economy had weathered the fire relatively well, taking a less than one percent dip from 2001. (Up in Boulder eight years later, the Fourmile Fire's impact on retail sales was virtually undetectable. In fact, sales tax revenues from September 2010 — the month of the fire — jumped considerably from the year before). Something had apparently offset the devastating losses to the tourism economy. Perhaps it was wildfire-related spending.
A study by the University of Oregon's Ecosystem Workforce Program backs that hypothesis up, showing that wildfires can, in fact, have a positive impact on various sectors of the local economy.
The study focused on Trinity County, Calif., and the very active 2008 wildfire season. By the time the smoke all cleared, a whopping $156 million had been spent on fighting the fires, with a bulk of it coming from state and federal government. If you're a federal taxpayer, a figure like that makes you cringe. But viewed from another angle, it's a sort of government stimulus package. After all, money is flowing into the community from the outside, and is being spent on wages, services and goods. If the locals have the resources to capture some of that cash, it can be a big bonus (if you've got an air tanker fleet nearby, you're golden). Trinity County, it turns out, didn't have the resources — there are no incorporated towns and not even a stoplight in the entire county — so only 5 percent of the money was dropped locally. Surrounding rural counties fared better, capturing some 23 percent. A sizable chunk of cash was also spent in other parts of the state. Locally, public sector wages and employment shot up, as expected. And in most other sectors wages and employment held steady or increased.


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CAAF Argument Audio: Mangahas & Pugh
Audio of today's oral arguments at CAAF is available at the following links:
United States v. Mangahas, No. 17-0434/AF (CAAFlog case page): Oral argument audio.
United States v. Pugh, No. 17-0306/AF (CAAFlog case page): Oral argument audio.
3 Responses to "CAAF Argument Audio: Mangahas & Pugh"
Sounds like someone on the CAAF needs to learn microphone discipline when speaking.
Both arguments went poorly for the government.
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