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First exhibition and e-commerce launch of hand embroidered shawls made by BISP beneficiaries being organized in collaboration with AHAN and TCS will continue till Friday at Lok Virsa, Islamabad.
Commerce Minister Mr. Khurram Dastgir Khan has inaugurated the exhibition. He says e-commerce technology will bring an era of development and prosperity in Pakistan.
BISP & AHAN's joint initiative with help of TCS will prove as remarkable step towards poverty alleviation.


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Capitol Alert
Jerry Brown, Democratic leaders agree to increase taxes to fix California roads
Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders announced a $5.2 billion road-funding package Wednesday that would raise gas taxes and user fees on motorists, setting off a major political struggle to pass it in the Legislature.
Officials have set an April 6 deadline to approve the package, which would increase fuel taxes and contains a new sliding charge linked to a vehicle's value. The agreement also includes a constitutional amendment meant to keep lawmakers from shifting transportation revenue to other uses, something that happened frequently in the past.
For the owner of a $30,000 vehicle, who drives 13,000 miles a year at 25 miles per gallon, Wednesday's package would cost an additional $16.80 a month at full implementation, assuming tax levels in place today.
Likening the condition of the state's roads to a homeowner's deteriorating roof, Brown said the state has to act to avoid even worse maintenance and repair problems in the future.
"If you don't fix the leak, your furniture will be ruined, your rug will be destroyed, the wood will rot. That's what it's all about. Step up and take care of business, " Brown said on the Capitol's east steps, flanked by Democratic lawmakers and dozens of supporters of the package.
The package poses a major test for Brown and Democratic leaders, as they try to marshal members of the Legislature's recently enlarged Democratic supermajorities to push through large tax increases that pose significant political – potentially career-ending – risks for some.
Brown acknowledged that "failure is always an option."
"Look, we've got work to do. Nothing is assured here, nothing is in the bag," Brown said. "I think people know this is something good, this is something necessary. So I think we have a very good chance."
Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, said he is still speaking to members of his caucus about the package. Multiple Assembly Democrats were missing from Wednesday's crowd, and some face the prospect of tough re-election campaigns next year.
"I'm telling them this is the best we're going to get," said Assemblyman Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, the chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee, who helped negotiate the package. "I don't see it ever happening again in the next decade. This took a lot of time and effort by a lot of people, and (given) the attention span of the Legislature, they'll move on to the next issue area."
The package would mark the largest potential overhaul of transportation funding in California in more than 25 years. The state's base gas tax would rise for the first time since 1994.
Most of the $5.2 billion raised annually would go to pay for state and local road maintenance and repairs. Public transit and goods-movement projects also would receive several hundred million dollars. Other money would go to pay for new roads and other expansion projects.
The pact's announcement will launch days of intense lobbying from supporters as well as critics of the plan. Business, labor and local government members of the Fix Our Roads Coalition, which has been holding rallies around the state in recent weeks, is stepping up those efforts with social media campaigns. The influential California Chamber of Commerce announced its support for the proposal Wednesday.
Republicans were all but excluded from the negotiations, their leaders say, and lawmakers quickly attacked Wednesday's proposal, signaling that they will be doing more to oppose it than making speeches in floor and committee debates.
As proponents began to speak Wednesday, Assembly Republicans released social media ads tailored to different parts of the state, accusing Democrats of wasting existing road money while now seeking to raise the tax load on motorists who already pay a lot at the pump.
"We feel like it's our responsibility to fight for hardworking Californians," said Assembly GOP Leader Chad Mayes, R-Yucca Valley, adding that he has heard from multiple Democratic lawmakers leery of voting for higher taxes and fees.
"Back in their districts, they've polled on this, and they know their districts don't want to see increased taxes and fees," he said. "I think it's going to be difficult for them to get (the two-thirds vote)."
The package would raise gas and diesel excise taxes. For the gas tax, the base excise tax of 18 cents – the amount it's been since 1994 – would increase to 30 cents on Nov. 1. Administration officials said that amount reflects what the 1994 rate would be now if it had been adjusted for inflation.
In addition, the plan would set the variable gas excise tax at 17.3 cents a gallon starting July 1, 2019, and adjust it for inflation. The current variable rate is 9.8 cents, a rate set to increase to 11.7 cents July 1. Without any change, state officials expect the July 1, 2018, rate to be about 16 cents a gallon.
Also, the package would create several tiers of "transportation improvement" charges linked to vehicle values beginning on Jan. 1, 2018. Those with vehicles worth up to $4,999 would pay $25, for example, while those with a vehicle worth $60,000 and up would pay $175.
Frazier, whose bill proposes a flat $38 registration fee increase, said almost one-half of drivers have vehicles that would put them in the lowest tier.
Supporters say a lack of money has left the state short an estimated $3.5 billion in annual maintenance and repair needs, adding to a $12 billion backlog, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office said. Counties and cities have tallied a $40 billion backlog for local roads.
This winter's rains caused $700 million in damage to roads, culverts and bridges, officials said last week.
"Californians are sick and tired of driving on bad roads, and we are all paying the cost of disrepair, traffic congestion and unsafe roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure," Carolyn Coleman, executive director of the League of California Cities, said in a statement.
The package will be the first major legislative endeavor since voters approved Proposition 54 in November. That ballot measure requires bills to be in print for 72 hours before final votes.
Changes are not going to happen before Thursday, Frazier said. "The negotiating period is over. Now's the time when the rubber hits the road," he said.
Alexei Koseff of The Bee Capitol Bureau contributed to this report.
Jim Miller: 916-326-5521, @jimmiller2
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By Hairee Lee
And Hallelujah for this drink. I'm not the biggest fan of complicated cocktails especially ones that require me chop a lot and stand in front of a stove, straining and cooling. And then muddling and straining some more. Good Lord. To make a cold beverage? Puleez. And perhaps I say that I would make this drink again because I'm not the one who made it in the first place.
Practically trumped dogmatic adherence to recipes and we went bad ass and shopped non-organic, everyday-people groceries and gin. And even without a prayer, the cocktail turned out awesome, Holy-Moses-Mary-mother-of-God delicious.
Melissa, our table stylist, made it. And she had a word with me about future cocktails and just how complicated they could get. Thank God for Melissa, though, because she did a great job and this cocktail was by far my favorite yet. Even more than Cocktail #7: The Cure, which I enjoy at least once a week.
But this savory cocktail is totally be worth the effort. The hardest part is the red bell pepper reduction, but once you make a batch, it'll keep for up to 2 weeks.
Now the original recipe called for all organic ingredients, even the bloody gin! It's probably why it's called "Father, Son & Holy Ghost": being all natural, all pure all innocent to pesticide.
But practically trumped dogmatic adherence to recipes and we went bad ass and shopped non-organic, everyday-people groceries and gin. And even without a prayer, the cocktail turned out awesome, Holy-Moses-Mary-mother-of-God delicious.
Adam Stemmler's Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Serves 1
- 1-1/2 ounce Tanqueray gin
- 3/4 ounce lemon juice
- 3/4 ounce red bell pepper reduction
- 1 ounce chopped organic celery
- 2 large sprigs basil
- 1 cocktail onion
- Cracked black pepper
To make the red bell pepper reduction:
- Add 4 ounces of finely chopped red bell pepper to 6 ounces of water and 6 ounces of organic agave nectar.
- Simmer on low heat for 10 minutes, then let it sit for another 20 minutes.
- Strain. Store for up to two weeks.
To make the cocktail:
- Muddle celery, 1 cocktail onion, and 1 basil sprig in a bowl. We use our cocktail tool-kit must-haves: Rosle fruit muddle/caipirinha pestle in long
- Fill shaker (we used our trusty Rosle cocktail shaker) with ice and muddled vegetables.
- Add all liquid ingredients.
- Shake and strain into a coup.
- Garnish with a basil sprig and crack fresh black pepper on top if you want.
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Recipe adapted from Esquire.
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Archipelago Books
I have had a review copy of this book in PDF form for ages. It should have been a hot-button draw, but I just never seemed to feel like opening it on my desktop, despite its brevity. Finally, to clear up my obligation, I opened it, and found it delightful.
It seems that the writer, with great sensitivity, wished to explore the imaginative space around certain historical objects, or episodes; he wanted to fantasize about the creation of art and history in a way that would feel like a real imaginative moment in the period. I found the little stories exquisite and evocative and delightful. Bravo. It is an exercise I enjoy, too, imagining the meetings in which movies are scripted, ads are planned, books are edited; imagining acts of imagination on their way to becoming realities.
I always try to capture my thoughts and impressions before researching or looking at other reviews. It was gratifying to realize that despite this book's appearance of being a self-published and self-indulgent effort, Tabucchi was actually a very respected academic and writer of literary fiction, and was nearly a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book was written about 25 years ago, and only pulled into English now.
Is it a coincidence that Tabucchi found his heart in Portugal, and that his post-modernism in these stories, many of which are set in Portuguese history, reminds me of Saramago? What is in the air/soil/food/water/wine of Portugal that fosters this art? My home language and culture is SO English, but I actually believe that literary art is happening elsewhere.
As someone always looking for a new thrill, I am pleased to have a new author to chase down and read through.
Now the marigold is wondering nervously about finding Tabucchi in a bookstore, about having this fixation with old guys writing about Portugal, about whether I should think up a thesis and aim for some sort of degree...
PS I have not yet found the shred of Fra Angelico that appears on the cover of the book, but I am looking. When I find it, I'll update this post.


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… and April Mood at the Bolsover Castle
Bolsover Castle is located in town of Bolsover, situated in the north-east of the English county of Derbyshire. Built in the early 17th century, the present castle lies on the earthworks and ruins of the 12th century medieval castle, with the first structure of the present castle having been built between 1612 and 1617 by Sir Charles Cavendish.
Today the site is now in the care of the English Heritage charity, as both a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The original castle was built by the Peverel family in the 12th century and became Crown property in 1155 when William Peverel the Younger died. The Ferrers family who were Earls of Derby laid claim to the Peveril property.
When a group of barons led by King Henry II's sons – Henry the Young King, Geoffrey Duke of Brittany, and Prince Richard, later Richard the Lionheart – revolted against the king's rule, Henry spent £116 on building at the castles of Bolsover and Peverilin Derbyshire. The garrison was increased to a force led by 20 knights and was shared with the castles of Peveril and Nottingham during the revolt. John ascended the throne in 1199 after his brother Richard's death. William de Ferrers maintained the claim of the Earls of Derby to the Peveril estates. He paid John 2000 marks for the lordship of the Peak, but the Crown retained possession of Bolsover and Peveril Castles. John finally gave them to Ferrers in 1216 to secure his support in the face of country-wide rebellion. However, the castellan Brian de Lisle refused to hand them over. Although Lisle and Ferrers were both John's supporters, John gave Ferrers permission to use force to take the castles. The situation was still chaotic when Henry III became king after his father's death in 1216. Bolsover fell to Ferrers' forces in 1217 after a siege.
The castle was returned to crown control in 1223, at which point £33 was spent on repairing the damage the Earl of Derby had caused when capturing the castle six years earlier. Over the next 20 years, four towers were added, the keep was repaired, various parts of the curtain wall were repaired, and a kitchen and barn were built, all at a cost of £181. From 1290 onward, the castle and its surrounding manor were granted to a series of local farmers. Under their custodianship, the castle gradually fell into a state of disrepair.
Bolsover castle was rewarded to George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, by King Edward VI in 1553. Following Talbot's death in 1590, his second son Gilbert, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, sold the ruins of Bolsover Castle to his step-brother and brother-in-law Sir Charles Cavendish, who wanted to build a castle on the original site. Working with the famous builder and designer Robert Smythson, the castle was designed for elegant living rather than defence,[ before their deaths in 1614 and 1617, respectively. The building of the castle was continued by Charles' two sons, William and John, who were influenced by the Italian-inspired work of London-based architect Inigo Jones. The tower, known today as the 'Little Castle', was completed around 1621.
The building of Bolsover Castle was interrupted by the Civil War that occurred between 1642 and 1651, during which the castle was taken by the Parliamentarians who slighted it, before it then fell into a ruinous state. William Cavendish added a new hall and staterooms to the Terrace Range and, by the time of his death in 1676, the castle had been restored to good order. The main usage of the building extended over 20 years and it is presumed that the family over stayed at the castle towards the end of that period. It passed through the female line into the Bentinck family, and ultimately became one of the seats of the Dukes of Portland. After 1883 the castle was uninhabited and given to the nation by the 7th Duke of Portland in 1945. The castle is now in the care of English Heritage.
Bolsover Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument,[ a "nationally important" historic building and archaeological site which has been given protection against unauthorised change. It is also a Grade I listed building (first listed in 1985), and recognised as an internationally important structure.
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NEFSC Gulf of Maine Cod Science Meetings
Gulf of Maine Cod 2014 Assessment Update
Upon examining the most recent survey data for Gulf of Maine cod, NEFSC researchers saw that all major indicators of stock health appeared to have deteriorated since the 2012 assessment. Given this, and the availability of catch and age data for 2012 and 2013, we conducted an updated assessment for Gulf of Maine cod to examine this concern. The assessment update is scheduled for peer review.
The terms of reference were developed by the leadership of the New England Fishery Management Council and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. An Assessment Oversight Panel will meet the week of August 18 to finalize guidance to the meeting chair on the scope of discussions for reviewers. The meeting will be open to the public via teleconference. The peer review is alto open to the public. It will be conducted through a sub-group of the New England Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee, and an external member from the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee.
- Gulf of Maine Atlantic Cod 2014 Assessment Update - Revised August 22, 2014
- Assessment Oversight Panel members
- Peer Reviewers
- Peer Review Terms of Reference
- Peer Review Report
Assessment Oversight Panel Meeting
Friday, August 22 10:00 am - noon
Call-in and webinar information
Gulf of Maine Cod 2014 Assessment Update Peer Review Meeting
August 28-29, 2014
Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel
250 Market St
Portsmouth, NH
It will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday and 8:30 a.m. on Friday.
Workshop Reports
- Discard Mortality Workshop (PDF)
- CPUE/LPUE Workshop (PDF)
Atlantic Cod CPUE/LPUE Workshop
We're hosting a workshop on using commercial catch-per-unit effort information in the upcoming Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine Atlantic cod stock assessments. Assessment scientists will present an overview of recent analyses of these data, and explain how cod and fishing effort distribution as well as regulatory changes over time influence the use of this information as a measure of stock abundance. .
This workshop will consider proposals and alternative hypotheses. We expect that fishermen, fishing industry leaders, state marine fishery biologists, fishery management council members and staff, and NMFS staff will participate.
To the Endicott College Gloucester Campus, 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 01930:
- I-95 North to Exit 45, Route 128 North. (Note that I-95 splits to the right for NH and ME. Stay straight for Route 128 North.)
- Go to Exit 14; Route 133 Gloucester. (Approximately 20 minutes)
- Go right off of the ramp for Route 133 East.
- Travel approximately 5 minutes until the end of Route 133. Gloucester Harbor is directly in front of you.
- Take a left on Route 127 and travel over the Blynman Bridge and continue on Route 127 for about 2 minutes. You will approach Tally's Service Station on your right. (Note there are several curves on this road.)
- Take your first right after the service station on Commercial Street. You will immediately see a large mill building marked 33 / Chamber of Commerce. Take a right into the parking lot.
- Enter through the door in the middle of the building. Endicott College is on the first floor, towards the ocean side of the building.
Previous Workshops
Atlantic Cod Discard Mortality Workshop
The Population Dynamics Branch in the Northeast Fisheries Science Center is hosting a workshop to estimate discard mortality rates of Atlantic cod in various fisheries. This workshop will use the "Delphi" method to build consensus among fishery experts like you. These discard mortality estimates will be incorporated into the next Atlantic cod stock assessments. Your contribution is important. Various prominent industry leaders, fishermen, state marine fishery biologists, Council members and staff, and NMFS staff will participate in this effort.
This working paper provides current information on discard mortality. It will be helpful to review prior to the workshop.
To the Mansfield Holiday Inn:
- Rte 95 north or south to Massachusetts
- Continue to exit 7A Rte 140 south
- Bear right off exit
- Continue to 2nd set of lights
- Bear right onto Forbes blvd. (Cabot Business Park)
- Go through 1 set of lights, remain in right hand lane
- Continue to end to hotel
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Julian Langer / Deep Green Resistance UK
As a radical environmentalist group defending the living world, Deep Green Resistance UK (DGR-UK) advocates that activists consider any and all means available in our fight. This includes institutional means such as voting. While it is questionable that either Brexit option will significantly impact this culture's relentless assault on the living world, or its treatment of other cultures, DGR-UK asks that you consider the following aspects.
The EU's main "mission" is the formation of a centralised superstate, the modern manifestation of the empires throughout history. Who benefits the most from this superstate? The multinationals of neoliberal globalization, the industries and corporations destroying and polluting the living world. While being part of this "community" provides individualistic benefits for British people, these don't justify our remaining part of this abhorrent institution. Rentier monopoly corporations and tax dodging elites freely flourish within the political body of the EU. And though Boris Johnson's Third Reich comments were completely moronic, EU nations such as Hungary, France and Austria are seeing significant rises in their right-wing and ultra-nationalist parties. Being part of this "community" does not present the progressive prospects argued by many in the "remain" camp.
Greece gives a clear picture of the problematic future we should expect if the TTIP era of politics and economics continues unchecked. Anyone from a broadly left-wing anti-capitalist position will oppose such developments. Remaining in the EU would mandate our inclusion in this "partnership," whose sole purpose is to make it easier for American and European businesses to conduct the practices we as activists resist. Do we really want to be included in this undemocratic and tyrannical trade agreement?
The EU is little more than a new form of colonialism. This is apparent in activities such as the "Pan-African initiative", which continues a long history of violence and abuse in the continent. These Eurafrican policies put African people in extremely vulnerable positions of racial stratification and violence, directly rooted in Europe's posturing. The resulting corruption has a huge impact on the lives of Africans and on the lives of African wildlife. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Africa's poaching crisis, with its links to the ivory trade and cartels colluding with corrupt African officials. Do we want to be part of and support a political body which is worsening the situation in Africa? Corruption, sustained by Eurafrican political arrangements and neoliberal globalization, is worsening poverty and decimating species central to African bioregions. Consider this as you cast your vote.
Finally, consider the environmental effects of a Brexit. Deals that the EU are involved with, such as the Paris Climate Deal are completely worthless, with just promises, no action. With the world in a "now or never" situation, can we really afford promises without actions? Will promises halt global warming? Will promises protect the habitats and species at risk from climate change? Clearly, they wont. We are likely to see the same responses to environmental issues within the EU in the future: promises, with no action. Brexit would enable the UK to set stricter environmental legislation, improving UK ecology, which needs to be at the forefront of all political decisions. We need to act in the best interest of the flora and fauna with whom we share these islands. We are not hopeful that if we leave the EU, the Tories or Labour Party will take needed action, but we question remaining part of a political body which restricts the very possibility.
Neither a remain nor a leave decision will have a drastic impact on any of these issues: the establishment at any level won't allow changes which undermine the status quo of this culture. But in our work as activists, we need to do all we can to support the living world, including voting for incremental improvements. To remain in the EU has obvious benefits for British people, but are these reasons of capitalist-ideological-individualism good enough? Regardless of whether you vote in this referendum, DGR-UK ask you to consider what it really means to be part of the EU.


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The BC Federation of Labour submitted the following recommendations regarding youth employment to the Government of Canada's Expert Panel on Youth Employment. There is a significant leadership role that government can play to improve the employment rates of young people and ensure that they are best equipped for success in our future economy.
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Computer School All School Meetings are monthly full-school assemblies. The goals of ASM are to foster the values and mission of The Computer School; to offer leadership opportunities for eighth graders to showcase their talents and voice; to celebrate the academic and creative achievements of the community.
Each month a different group of 8th grade leaders runs ASM from beginning to end, introducing and taking part in various acts on stage. They plan around the month's chosen theme, creating engaging skits, performances, and presentations.


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Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
- Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
- Converting Servers at a News Organization
The Mac vs. PC "war" has been going on since many of us were still in grade school. As for me, I've been torn between the two for about that long. But switching back and forth for me was in large part a combination of necessity and desire. Let me explain.
I learned to run PC-DOS, program BASIC, and write Pascal programs on the original IBM PC in 1982. In those days, you got text with a text graphics card and bare-bones color graphics with a CGA adapter, and I thought it was the height of cool that I could play Microsoft Flight Simulator during downtime. I was so smitten with the new tech that when the ill-fated PCjr came out, I almost convinced my parents to get us one.
Soon after that, my buddy John showed me an article in Creative Computing magazine about an upcoming computer called Macintosh from the company that produced our "ancient" Apple II computers. I didn't think much about it, since Apple was obviously yesterday's news, and the future of the PC was all in IBM's hands. Apple II was a dying, closed-off system, while the IBM PC was the system that both businesses and consumers thought of when they thought of computers.
Then I got a summer job at a local Computer Depot, and consequently got some hands-on time with the Macintosh. The first-generation 128K Mac was underpowered, to be sure, but the new graphics interface sure beat having to type DOS commands just to get to the word processor and modem terminal program. Call me fickle, but when I "got it," the way was clear: Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) were the wave of the future. For college, I chose a brand-new Apple Macintosh Plus. It had the power the original Mac lacked, and by that time there were enough software packages to make it useful. I mean, MacPaint and MacWrite were cool, but you need to do other things like connect with CompuServe, right? That Mac saw me through college, with an 800K floppy disk drive, a 20MB SCSI hard drive, various modems, Apple ImageWriter printer, and 4MB memory upgrades along the way. I upgraded to a Mac Performa 400 while in grad school. But, alas, the real world waited.
My first job out of college was as an IT dude at a major record label, where I serviced the art department, which, of course, worked with Macs. I got a crash course in Lotus Notes and saw how a mixed PC/Mac environment worked, which wasn't too well in those days. The lines were drawn between the creatives (Macs) and the corporate side (PCs). I still liked the Mac as a platform, but the incompatibilities were maddening. You couldn't reliably get a PC-written Word document to read right on a Mac if you'd done any formatting on it. Even keyboards and monitors were on different, noninterchangeable standards (PS2 versus ADB keyboards, VGA versus DB15 monitors, and the like), leading to walled gardens where the Macs played with each other and the PCs did the same. Networking was just starting to bridge the gap, but the gatekeepers (network managers) absolutely hated that work, so it got done only when necessary.


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Bijar - Hamadan Carpet:
Herti and Mina Khani designs are very common in BIJAR Kurdish rugs. You can also find medallion and all-over patterns with multiple borders. BIJAR carpets are counted among the best oriental carpets for everyday use because they are extremely tough and rigid. Modern BIJAR workshop carpets are still of excellent design and construction.
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The Ara chair by Pedrali is the perfect example of a multi-purpose chair. A sophisticated contemporary chair that looks at home indoors or out.
Contemporary stacking chair suitable for use inside or outside. Stacks up to 8 chairs. Polypropylene. Made in Italy.
This Pedrali chair will ship on a pallet via Air Freight (curbside delivery) to most US addresses. Additional delivery services are available a la carte (such as inside delivery to first dry/secure area; inside delivery to room of choice, uncrate, debris removal, etc). Should you require delivery in Chicago or anywhere in the upper-midwest please contact us to ask us about our flat-rate white glove delivery service via our EuroSprinter (see more about the EuroSprinter here). Should you require a white glove delivery outside of our EuroSprinter delivery area we can arrange for that as well.... just ask!


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Why revealing our deepest passions is the greatest risk.
I am turning 30 next week and I have to admit, I'm scared. This epic decade threshold is reminding me of my mortality. In my 20's I tried on many lifestyles: I was an urban waitress, a visual anthropologist, a traveling vagabond and a yoga teacher.
Now that my 20s are over, there is no more time to mess around.
I realize that counter to my youthful fantasies of lifelong invincibility, I WILL indeed die. Hopefully not soon, but eventually.
There is a sense of urgency, of passion rising in my core that I cannot ignore.
Now is the time to step into my true voice, true mission. Now is the time to admit what I really care about.
Somehow, admitting that I DO care feels edgy. I have been taught to "play it cool" and not show how much I care because it's easy to get hurt that way.
SO, as a practice of vulnerability, authenticity and courage, I'd like to share with you one of the things I MOST care about...
As part of my initiation into 30dom I am "coming out" as an artist!
You may not know that I studied art in college where I was classically trained in painting. I used to show my art regularly and felt outwardly recognized as an artist.
For the past 7 years, I have been making intuitive paintings and taking my art "underground", using the process as therapy and keeping the secrets of my heart precious and private.
When I have thought about being an "artist" or showing my art, here are the types of thoughts I've had: It's too good to be true, it's too much, too amazing, too awesome. It's not realistic, it's selfish, it's over the top.
Painting has brought up all this crap about not feeling worthy to take up space, which on some level touches the deep pain of not feeling worthy to exist.
Being able to expand as an artist and not apologize about it is a HUGE step in growing my genuine self-confidence and self-love.
Now, in celebration of my 30th birthday, my artist is ready to be REBORN!
I am showing my art for one night to my whole community. This is like showing my insides, my diaries, my deepest dreams and desires. It is terrifying, yet what are the paintings for, if not to share?
I hope that my art and this declaration of passion will inspire you to share what YOU most deeply care about to those you love.
Have the courage to reveal your hearts deepest desire. You might be surprised what happens!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anaïs Nin


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(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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Though I am not the biggest fan of the color green, there is something about olive that I just can not stay away from. It started when I had my first pair of Timberland field boots in cognac and olive that really had me hooked on the color. Throughout the years, olive is definitely a color that is a fall go to for me. I have jackets, pants, skirts, and even dresses all in olive. So when I spotted this sporty little number at the Addition Elle Pop Up during NYFW, I ordered her immediately.
This cutie of a dress went down the runway for Addition Elle this past September. It's a part of their collaboration with plus size model Jordyn Woods for their Love & Legend line. The dress definitely speaks to my athleisure side with the stripes, but it has the girly vibe with the ruffles on the sleeves. I'm wearing a 2X and it's soft and stretchy. The zipper detail gives you the option to show as much or as little as you would like.
Now this is described as a tunic, but since I'm on the short side, I was able to wear it as a mini dress. Now if you don't feel comfortable wearing something this short, definitely throw this on with your favorite skinnies, or a cute pair of leggings.
With the ruffles on the sleeve of the dress, I thought it would be a good idea to pair the dress with my Fenty by Rihanna bow sneakers. The sneakers definitely play on the fun and cutesy vibe of the dress being that they are made of satin and have bows. I've owned these sneakers since they dropped earlier this year and every time I wear them I receive tons of compliments. These sneakers are my go to when I rock anything olive, so you will be seeing these a lot this fall. I ended out my look with a green lippie and my favorite go to handbag, the Quilted Affair crossbody from Rebecca Minkoff.
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Reed Aljian is one of the Firm's two co-founding partners and serves as its Managing Partner. His practice primarily focuses on business, complex and class action litigation involving contract, construction, real estate, intellectual property, labor and employment, and insurance claims. Mr. Aljian has significant experience in all phases of litigation, having represented a diverse client base as both plaintiff and defendant. He has a proven track record, having successfully tried bench and jury trials to verdict in both state and federal court. He also serves as general counsel to various companies and high net worth individuals, offering them corporate, transactional, and litigation consulting.
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Mr. Aljian has received numerous honors for his community service. For example, in 2005, for his services representing an elderly homeowner, Public Counsel of Los Angeles honored Mr. Aljian as its Consumer Law Project Volunteer of the Year. In that action, the client was awarded the largest single-plaintiff judgment in a pro bono matter in the history of California jurisprudence. In 2008, McDermott Will & Emery honored Mr. Aljian with its annual award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Pro Bono and Service to the Community. In addition, Super Lawyers Magazine has recognized Mr. Aljian as a "Rising Star" in business litigation for each year from 2008-2011, as a "Super Lawyer" in business litigation every year since 2012, and among the top 50 attorneys in Orange County in 2014 and 2018.
Mr. Aljian was born in Santa Monica, California. He obtained his undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, he was a four-year letterman and starting catcher on the baseball team and participated in the 1992 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation, he played professional baseball in the California Angels baseball organization and was a member of the Northwest League Champion Boise Hawks in Boise, Idaho and the Lake Elsinore Storm in Lake Elsinore, California. After his playing career ended, Mr. Aljian worked in sales, marketing, and advertising for several minor league baseball teams located in Arizona and Texas.
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This is a group of lower emotional tones I single out for a reason: they are not only toxic but very difficult to shake off. You can move out of fear or anger very quickly; just "pull yourself together." You've done it often; you know it works. Fear may come back but it comes and goes quickly. So does anger.
But these lower emotions are notoriously steady and unrelenting. That is why they are so corrosive.
Definition: corrosive, wearing down and steady destruction; the power to cause irreversible damage; eating away; steadily harmful.
I am talking about melancholy, shame, guilt (blame) and regret.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Monkfish and Bunny Rabbits...
Posted by Victoria at 4:35 PM
First and foremost, I would like to just say that my stupid culinary uniform shoes which I MUST wear every single day are giving me serious blisters and lots of pain, and I hate them. That said, we can move on to other topics of discussion... Today I got to clean and cook monkfish for the very first time! People only eat the tails of monkfish because as you can see from the photo above, the rest of it looks kind of like a goblin :) Not very meaty or appetizing, haha. In any case, it's different from the way you'd handle a regular fish so I was really excited about this process. My group made a Greek-Style Seafood Stew and a Porcini Risotto for today's service. Both came out well, although I've made risotto more times than I can count, so I tried to focus more of my energy on preparing the stew and let my group mates do a bit more of the risotto cooking. The fish itself was delicious, as was the rest of the stew. I can definitely see myself making this again (although I'd love to know where I can get myself some monkfish). Another group got to cook rabbit, and I was quite jealous as I have never cooked rabbit either and was really hoping for the chance. I'm thinking that I'm going to try making the rabbit dish on my own, some weekend soon maybe, and I'll let you all know how it goes! I did taste their dish and it was good, so one of these days I'll acquire myself some dead rabbit and start cooking ;)
Victoria's Word of the Day...
Concassée (kon-kass-SAY): Peeled, seeded, chopped tomatoes
Tomorrow I'm going to be "chef of the day." This means that in addition to our usual nightly reading, I have some extra preparation to do, and I need to arrive 20 minutes early to class. I'm really looking forward to the challenge! Tune in to find out what happens...
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I really enjoy reading these daily articles. It's like reading an interesting book, which is also funny and filled with useful hints.
Very proud of you...
- September 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM
- Lucine said...
I enjoy it too! And I love the picture of the little fishy family. lol.
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As a child I had an empathy with animals and was concerned with their welfare, but didn't go vegetarian until I was 18, as it was around this time that my sister decided to go veggie and we decided to do it together.
I never liked the taste of meat and was always uncomfortable eating anything that looked like a piece of flesh so going vegetarian was easy. I carried on wearing some of my old leather shoes and coats, but soon decided to replace them with animal-friendly versions. I had only been vegetarian for around 6 months when I started reading more about the dairy and egg industries. I was also formulating my own ideas about society and how we exploit and use animals for our own gains. I realised that if I didn't want to contribute to the suffering of any animals then I needed to go vegan.
I have now been vegan for 18 years and I can honestly say it was the best and most important decision that I have ever made in my life. I only wish I had done it sooner. I feel so much better about myself knowing that I'm doing my best not to contribute to the suffering and exploitation of other sentient beings. In more recent years I have found out about how damaging animal farming is to the environment, so I know that by eating vegan food I'm reducing my carbon footprint too. I feel really healthy, have lots of energy and hardly ever get ill.
One of the biggest challenges as a vegan is trying to fit into a society where the majority don't share your ethics. For example, it's sad to hear people talking about farmed animals as though their lives don't matter, like they're products on an assembly line. Having said that, veganism is becoming more popular and I know that I have helped to motivate others to lead more compassionate lives through my involvement with vegan campaigning. This is why I helped to set up The Vegan Approach – a national group that helps people to go and stay vegan. I also started the Sheffield Vegan Meet Up and Sheffield Vegan Pot Luck groups so that vegans who feel isolated can meet like-minded people and show local eateries that there is a demand for vegan food.
More recently my friend and co-founder of The Vegan Approach, Chrissy Leyland and I started a business called the Vegan Tuck Box – a monthly vegan subscription snack box service. We found through our involvement in vegan campaigning that one thing new vegans find hard to obtain is vegan snacks and treats. So we started Vegan Tuck Box to make exciting new and hard to find vegan products accessible. We hope that we're making it easier for people to go vegan.


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Jesus is the Lord of time. He can make time go backward (Is 38:8) or stand still (Jos 10:13). He made it possible for His disciples to go two or three miles across the Sea of Galilee literally "in no time" (see Jn 6:21).
Jesus even gives us the power to move up the clock. Mary seems to have moved up the beginning of Jesus' public ministry (Jn 2:4). The Syro-Phoenician woman seems to have "fast forwarded" Jesus' ministry to the Gentiles (see Mt 15:28). Jesus even lets us hasten the time for His final coming (see 2 Pt 3:12). We are not helpless cogs on the wheel of time, but, as Christians, we share in Jesus' lordship over time.
The Lord created time by creating the heavenly bodies (Gn 1:14). Satan used time to dominate us when he brought death into the world through our sins. Jesus freed us from the bondage of time and death by His death and resurrection. He gave us power over time by the outpouring of the Spirit. Jesus will finally end time when He comes back on the last day, at the end of time, to take us with Him to the happiness of eternity. Because of Jesus' resurrection, time is our servant, not our master. Praise Jesus, the Lord of time!


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Sushil has recently had the honour of having two of his recipes published in Natalie Oldfield's new cookbook "Love & Food" so Wellington Foodies thought they would invite him to host a cooking class and show them how to make his Meen Kulambu aka fish curry.
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As some of you will know, Sushil was one of the MasterChef NZ contestants. Following the program he went onto work for Simon Gualt at Pravda. He hosts cooking classes all over the country. His highest accolade came from Josh Emett who said that Sushil's curries were some of the best he's ever tasted. I'm included to agree…. Sushil's curries are awesome and that is precisely why we've asked him to host this class.
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Career: Ken Livingstone has been Mayor of London since 2000.
He originally ran as an independent candidate, having been expelled from the Labour Party for opposing their official candidate, Frank Dobson, but was re-elected as the Labour candidate in 2004.
After working as a technician for Cancer Research and training to be a teacher, he entered politics in 1971 as a Labour member for Lambeth Council. In 1973 he was elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) and became its leader in 1981.
Under his leadership, the GLC was regarded as a hotbed of left-wing radicalism, which regularly clashed with the Conservative government until Margaret Thatcher abolished the council in March 1986.
From 1987 to June 2001, he served as Labour Member of Parliament for Brent East.
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Former Tory leader Michael Howard sacked Mr Johnson as shadow arts minister in November 2004 after press reports that he had misled the leader over rumours of an extramarital affair.
He is pledging to introduce "a new style of government in London," claiming that he will be "the mayor who listens to Londoners".
He has made street crime and anti-social behaviour central to his mayoral campaign, stating in his manifesto:
"Londoners are told that crime is going down... yet most Londoners don't feel any safer because every day the headlines tell a different story. On the top decks of buses, on station platforms and street corners a culture of incivility and adolescent anarchy has been allowed to spread, unchallenged...
"I want everyone in this city to have the optimism and confidence that goes with increased safety."
Career: Brian Paddick is the former deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and is the Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor.
He joined the Met in 1976 and held a number of senior posts before becoming deputy assistant commissioner in November 2003, a role in which he oversaw territorial policing across all 32 London boroughs.
In 2002, as commander for the London Borough of Lambeth, he came under fire for instructing his officers not to arrest or charge people who were found to be in possession of cannabis, a policy which led to him being labelled "soft" by some newspapers.
He has pledged to cut crime by 5% in each year of his first term in office and is hoping that his experience of fighting crime in London will win him votes, saying: "I have worked on the streets serving Londoners. I have managed large budgets and large teams of people to deliver real reductions in crime and making people safer."
He claims: "Livingstone did make a difference in his first four years in office, but he's gradually lost touch with Londoners. He is not listening any more.
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How to Scale Images in Adobe Fireworks CS5
There are three methods for scaling graphics in Adobe Fireworks Creative Suite 5 – proportional scaling, non-proportional scaling, and numeric scaling. Making images the right size is important. If an image is too large, you waste valuable download time; if it's too small, the image looks pixelized and out of focus.
Proportional scaling
To scale an image in Fireworks proportionally (keeping the same width and height ratio), follow these steps:
Select the layers you want to scale.
If you have multiple layers, you can hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) key and click the layers in the Layers panel to add them to the selection.
Select the Scale tool in the Select section of the Tools panel.
Anchor points surround your selection.
To make an image smaller, click and drag a corner anchor point toward the center; to make an image larger, click a corner anchor point and drag outward.
Typically, you don't scale a bitmap image to a dramatically larger size, because it may become pixelized. The rule of thumb is to not make raster images more than 20 percent larger. This rule, of course, doesn't apply to vector objects.
Non-proportional scaling
If you don't want to scale proportionally, follow these steps:
Select the layers you want to scale.
Select the Pointer tool in the Select section of the Tools panel.
To resize an image, click and drag a corner anchor point without using the Shift key.
Numeric scaling
If you need to constrain scaling to an exact amount, you're better off using the Image Editing panel. Follow these steps to perform numeric scaling:
Select the layers you want to scale.
Choose Window→Others→Image Editing.
The Image Editing panel appears.
Click Transform Commands and choose Numeric Transform from the drop-down list.
The Numeric Transform dialog box appears.
In the Width and Height text boxes, type the percentage by which you want to scale and click OK.


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Matthew Goucke and Chris Keefe
A recent judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council1 (Privy Council), the ultimate appellate court of the Cayman Islands, has provided certainty for investors and insolvency practitioners with respect to the enforceability and priority of investors' claims for unpaid redemption proceeds in the winding up of Cayman Islands investment funds.
The Privy Council decision is the most recent in the ongoing liquidation proceedings of Herald Fund SPC (Herald), a segregated portfolio company incorporated in the Cayman Islands which was one of the largest so-called feeder funds into the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
The case involved an important point of statutory construction, namely how section 37(7) of the Companies Law operates in the context of significant unpaid redemption proceeds sought to be enforced several years after the discovery of the Ponzi scheme notwithstanding that, with the benefit of hindsight, those redemption claims, valued at almost $200 million, were clearly based on a wholly fictitious net asset value.
The issue is one that has rarely confronted the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and this was the first time it had been considered at the highest appellate level.
Affirming the rulings of the Grand Court and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, the Privy Council found that, as a matter of construction, section 37(7)(a) of the Companies Law does not apply to the claims of certain classes of Herald's unpaid redeemers in circumstances where, at the commencement of the winding up, the relevant redeemable shares had been "redeemed" in accordance with the terms of Herald's memorandum and articles of association. In other words, the redemption date had occurred prior to any suspension being implemented, notwithstanding that payment had not been made and was not due to be paid at that time.
The Privy Council found that "redemption" occurs on surrender of the status of shareholder, which is entirely a function of the terms of the contract of membership between a company and its members among themselves – expressing the freedom that shareholders and a company have to shape their relationship as regards redemption or purchase of a company's shares.
The Privy Council did not accept the appellant's argument that "redemption" ought to have an autonomous statutory meaning (being the completion of the entire process of redemption, including payment). As a result, the enforceability of a claim for unpaid redemption proceeds is now entirely dependent on how "redemption" is defined under the relevant articles of association of a particular company.
Regrettably, the Privy Council did not address in its judgment a number of the arguments advanced by the appellant in support of a consistent statutory definition at the hearing of the appeal.
The appellant was, however, successful in opposing the claims of intervening investors who had submitted redemption requests after Herald's board had implemented a suspension of redemptions in December 2008 and who asserted that they had enforceable claims arising under section 37(7) of the Companies Law. The Privy Council rightly rejected these claims on the basis that the suspension meant that the terms of redemption provided for it to take place at a date later than the commencement of the winding up (in circumstances where Herald's directors never lifted the suspension prior to that date). In terms of the application of section 37(7), the Privy Council in its judgment did not refer to the various academic texts cited by the appellant which suggested that redemption for the purposes of the section meant the completion of the entire process of redemption, including payment. It instead found that section 37(7) envisages situations where shares are, or are liable to be, redeemed or purchased, but where a company had for any reason wrongly failed to take steps necessary to enable the redemption or purchase at the applicable date in accordance with the terms of the relevant articles of association.
Acknowledging the very limited practical application of the section, which must arise given the construction favored by the Privy Council, the board noted that "the likelihood in practice of successful section 37(7) claimants may well be slight."
Essentially, in the context of the articles of most contemporary Cayman Islands investment funds, this decision means that redeeming shareholders have valid claims for the payment of redemption proceeds as at the relevant redemption day, which claims are enforceable in a winding up regardless of (i) whether those claims are based on a net asset value which has been wholly misstated as the result of a pervasive fraud (as was the case with respect to Herald); and (ii) a company's ability to make payment out of either share capital or share premium at any time prior to the commencement of a winding up.
The Privy Council also appears to have gone a step further than it did in Fairfield Sentry v Migani where, in the context of an action by the liquidators of Fairfield Sentry seeking to recover redemption proceeds which had already been paid to investors based on a wholly fictitious NAV, the Privy Council found those proceeds could not be clawed back in circumstances where payment had already been made prior to the commencement of the winding up. In this case, the Privy Council sought to draw "a precise line" (or rather extend the line) so as to allow investors to escape loss (and perhaps with significant fictitious profit) in a liquidation where they have ceased to be a shareholder under the terms of the relevant articles of association prior to the commencement of the winding up, notwithstanding that no payment has in fact been made (nor could it have been made as a matter of fact at the relevant time).
It is an unfortunate consequence that unredeemed investors will ultimately bear the loss in a liquidation once claims which are based on a misstated NAV have been paid, simply because certain investors submitted redemption requests a matter of days before others and in circumstances where the resultant suspension was due to no fault of the company or its directors, but solely based on the exposure of the Madoff fraud.
This decision means that, in times of uncertainty, boards of investment funds will need to act quickly in deploying suspension or gating mechanisms to ensure that, to the extent possible, any unforeseen loss is borne by the investor base as a whole.
Importantly, however, the Privy Council reaffirmed the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal's finding that the claims of unpaid redeemers rank behind the claims of ordinary third-party creditors; although it left open the seemingly difficult question as to the priority to be afforded between claims for unpaid redemption proceeds that sit outside section 37(7) and those claims arising under the section.
While the Privy Council's decision provides finality as to the appropriate treatment of claims for the payment of redemption proceeds in a winding up, it is likely that new and existing funds alike (together with their respective investors and prospective investors) may reconsider new formulations of what "redemption" means under their individual constituent documents in order to navigate the unfortunate loss-allocation consequences which may arise pursuant to this judgment. The door of course remains open for legislative reform in light of the very limited practical application of section 37(7) of the Companies Law.
Matthew Goucke and Chris Keefe act for Mr. Pearson, the additional liquidator of Herald.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.


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It's so sad that my iPhone takes better pictures than my camera. I definitely need to check out that tutorial because I know that I could have them look better than they do. A friend of mine told me recently about a photographer who shoots wedding with an iPhone! Now THAT would make me a nervous bride!!ReplyDelete
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Greg Giraldo: A personal remembrance
"Who would've thought that a guy who had his shit so together would have hair like Lisa Lampanelli's fuck hole."
That's what Greg Giraldo said to me when I first met him face to face. It was 2005, the year I launched Punchline Magazine. Greg had literally turned 40 minutes before, and having just wrapped up a masterful early show at Carolines in New York City, he was taking a breather before his next set with his friend and fellow comedian Russ Meneve, who was opening for Greg that night.
I should note that his comment was well-founded – not just hilarious – as I've worn my hair unkempt and natural (read: Afro-esque) for most of my adult life.
A few days prior, I had interviewed Greg by phone for a long feature story, which was great; but this – finally getting to shake the dude's hand – was a real treat. During that interview and a quick follow-up days after the Carolines show, I feel like he really opened up about his station in life. He told me:
Turning 40 has affected me much more dramatically than I would've expected. I've made some pretty drastic lifestyle changes recently. With that has come real reflection…
It finally dawned on me: I didn't know if I wanted to be a guy with three kids. Then I realized I was a guy with three kids. So you can be a guy with three kids and an asshole, or you can be a guy with three kids who's trying to do the best possible thing. So I'm trying that. It's time to grow up and be a good man, husband and parent. That's a tall order for fuck-up traveling comic.
And so continued my enormous admiration for Giraldo — one of the main reasons I decided to start writing about stand-up comedy.
Specifically, his 30-minute Comedy Central special from 2000 is what made me realize that, when done well, contemporary stand-up comedy is an important art form that deserved to be analyzed and championed the way movies, music and television had been for decades. I had recorded the special on VHS and watched it somewhat compulsively (along with half hours from Zach Galifianakis, Nick Swardson and others). Here's a little bit of what that show looked like:
|Greg Giraldo – Illegal Alien Investment Banker
Luckily, running this site for the past five years has afforded me many opportunities to hang out with comedians whose work I love and respect. And Greg was one of those comics. Let me disclaim this now: I am in no way submitting that he and I were great friends. But he headlined Punchline Magazine's third-anniversary show in 2008; I've interviewed him three (or more?) times and have had many a brief and awkward chat at comedy clubs; we even had occasional text chats, which usually were good for a few laughs.
In May of this year, I texted him after his appearance on NBC's The Marriage Ref, hosted by his longtime friend comedian Tom Papa, and he responded in his typically sarcastic manner.
In the end, I'd like to think that Giraldo knew that I was someone who was incredibly passionate about the way he delivered the art form in which I'm most interested. I hope he knew that I was inspired by his performances. On his albums and during his live shows, no matter how frustrated or angry he seemed while dissecting society's foibles, there was a quiet, constant and underlying fragility that endeared him not only to me but also to all of his true fans.
I've been reading a few of the mainstream Giraldo obits; both The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly call him an "insult comic" in their headlines. There's nothing wrong with being an insult comic, per se, but it's a lazy – and just plain wrong – way to describe Giraldo's comedy. I get it: Most of America knew Greg from the insults he hurled on Comedy Central roasts, but that's what every comic does at roasts. That's why they're fun — because you get to see a guy like Brian Posehn (nowhere near an insult comic) become an insult comic.
The thing about insult comics is that they rarely offer their audience a deep look into the person they are; they're playing a character. Giraldo let his audience in all the time, making references onstage to his substance abuse, failed marriages and the challenges he faced as a father. And through our interviews these past five years, I got an even deeper look and shared that with comedy fans. Last year it seemed Greg was heading into a new, positive direction in life. In that interview he said:
It always depends on what mood I'm in. My moods shift rapidly. I feel more or less optimistic. I just woke up at 2 p.m. in Columbus, Ohio, and it's raining out. So I feel a little less optimistic than I might if I were someplace else where it wasn't raining. But I actually feel really good about things, and everything is definitely moving in the right direction.
Later in the interview he said:
You know, I'm never fully happy about anything but, yeah, I've gotta say in the last couple of years, I do seem to have a lot of fans that seem to really appreciate and like what I'm doing. I get a lot of e-mails, and I see the crowds getting bigger in all the clubs, and people seem to really be getting what I'm doing. So, yeah, I am actually pretty happy with the way that's going.
My last interaction with Greg occurred on March 24 of this year, when I sat down with him at Comix comedy club in New York to film A Tight Five, a web series wherein I interview comedians. Even more than during our interview in 2009, he seemed to be in a great place. He had just started work as a judge on Last Comic Standing, he looked in good physical shape and was in a great mood. Right before we started, he ran across the street to a bodega to get some trail mix so that hunger wouldn't set off what he described as his horrible ADD.
Unfortunately, because of technical problems and staffing issues, I was never able to post the interview — which runs about 30 minutes in its uncut form. We're working on getting that on the site as soon as possible. And I feel like shit because a few weeks after the interview, Greg actually texted me to ask about the status. Specifically, he asked, "What happened to our interview, homecheesefriesplate?"
Six months later, he's gone. And I'm pretty fucking sad about it. So I can't even imagine what his family and the comedy community — especially those comics who climbed the ranks with Giraldo the past 15 years or so — are feeling. All I can say to the comics is, no matter how surreal this feels, keep getting onstage and making us laugh and think. And to Greg's family, please know that an entire generation of comedians and comedy fans feels passionately about what Greg gave. I hope that brings even the tiniest amount of comfort to you.
I'm going to stop writing now and instead leave with one of the favorite quotes, from the aforementioned 2005 interview, that Greg gave me:
On the brighter side, I feel pretty good about where I am both professionally and personally. My new lifestyle has brought a lot more joy and peace into my home. I keep getting better and funnier. I've also gotten a lot more confident and a tiny bit more comfortable in my own skin. And I jerk off less.


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I've been up in my craft room trying to organize (just a little) and couldn't keep myself from playing. CAS(E) this Sketch had a fun sketch so I decided to play along.
I actually made two cards for it. They both use the SU set Love You to the Moon and some washi tape that I picked up at Michael's after Valentine's Day last year.
This last card uses the same stamp set, more washi tape from Michael's (yes, I bought it at the same time!), and a sketch from Mojo Monday. I'm really having a hard time getting the pictures to turn out. I'll have to start looking for better backgrounds.
Hope you have a great weekend, and thanks for taking a look!


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We understand the famous words "beauty takes pain," but it doesn't always have to!
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Ep. 228: Live at Mood Indigo with Shazia Ilmi and Sanjay Jha/
This week, we take Cyrus Says podcast live to IIT Bombay's Mood Indigo festival, and boy was it intense!
We have Shazia Ilmi (representing BJP) and Sanjay Jha (representing Congress), discussing the challenges India faces going ahead in the 2019 national elections, the recent Gujarat election close call and of course, a heavy dose of screaming at each other.
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