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5 Tumblrs We're Enjoying This Week: NYC Housing, Babes, Trolls and More
Another week, another five Tumblrs for you to get behind. This week's picks range from some of the best babes in the game to the impossible act of finding affordable housing in New York City. Let us know what you think of this week's selection and as always, feel free to leave your Tumblr in the comments section below. With a bit of luck, you'll see yours here next week.
Ron Simmons gives us a healthy, borderline overdose of girls in varying stages of dress. While there isn't any full-on, fired-on-the-spot nudity, most of the images are scandalous enough to warrant a NSFW rating. Thus, NSFW.
Discovered via the comments section of last week's list, Savage Outlaws contains what appears to be completely original 35mm photography. In any case the grainy blog is worth a visit for the content alone which ranges from graffiti to abandoned listening stations in Berlin.
The Worst Room focuses around the nearly impossible act of finding affordable housing in New York City. Accompanying each depressing picture is the location of the apartment and the monthly cost. If you're quick enough you can share a tiny room with three other girls in Manhattan for just $649 a month. Best of all you get a bunk bed, what a steal!
Describing itself as "the best blog ever made on the information superhighway," Le Meme scours the Internet for the best (and sometimes, worst) it has to offer. Whether that's true or not is certainly debatable. What's not debatable, however, is the blog's stellar collection of funny, weird and ironic images collected from around the web.
Textastrophe is a professional troll at work and should give anyone who has been considering posting their number in a public place reason to think again. Following each ad is Textastrophe's conversation with the unfortunate soul who happened to put up his or her phone number for all to see.

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A look at Washington DC homes in the era of Trump
Politicians descending on Washington, DC at the start of a new administration is nothing new. But between who's moving in, where they're going, what they're snatching up, and how the neighbors feel about it, there's never been more attention on the area's real estate market.
The real estate conversation in DC hasn't been without its drama. Neighbors in the decidedly liberal Chevy Chase neighborhood where Mike Pence and family rented a home while their VP digs at the U.S. Naval Observatory were being renovated hung rainbow flags in November in solidarity with LGBTQ rights. Two nights before the inaugural balls, hundreds of protesters took to the streets outside the Vice President's home, throwing a pro-LGBTQ demonstration disguised as a raucous dance party in opposition to "Pence's anti-gay reputation," said CBS News.
Earlier this month, the demonstration moved to Ivanka Trump's new DC home in the tony Kalorama neighborhood, with hundreds of protestors marching/dancing for climate change outside her rented residence.
So how is the Washington, DC real estate market holding up under all this exciting scrutiny? Pretty well, thanks.
Last month, home prices in the area hit their "highest March median sales price on record," said Real Estate Business Intelligence. "March 2017's median sales price of $420,00 was up 5.3% or $21,000 compared to last year. Sales volume across the DC Metro area was nearly $2.3 billion, up 26.7% from last March. Closed sales of 4,450 were up 18.5% compared to last year. It was also the highest March level in a decade and easily exceeding the 3,755 sales recorded last March."
Hot neighborhoods
Activity in the upscale neighborhoods inhabited by some of the more high-profile folks in the Trump administration have hardly been negatively affected, protests notwithstanding. At $5.5 million, this Beaux Arts manse was the most expensive home sold in DC in March and is in the same Kalorama neighborhood that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and the Obamas now call home. This $2.5 million stone house also made the "most expensive" list for the month.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also chose Kalorama, purchasing a $5.6 Colonial Revival home earlier this year. Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos bought the biggest home in Washington at 27,000 square feet - and one of its priciest, at $23 million - in Kalorama in January. A former textile museum, the property was reportedly sold for $1 million over asking price in an all-cash purchase by Bezos.
So what's driving the luxury market? All the usual suspects: location, desirability, job prospects. But it's that last part that is really making things interesting.
"In Washington DC agents are poised for a pick-up in business as buyers who held off moving homes during an uncertain election year now enter the market and as Trump's political appointees stream into the capital, making big-ticket purchases," said Financial Times. "Michael Rankin, managing partner at TTR Sotheby's International Realty based in the US capital, says DC's market strengthens slightly whenever there is a major change in the administration and new public servants move in to take office. This year, however, that churn has been heightened by the president's choice of political outsiders for top jobs and the financial might of many of these appointments, including former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross."
Mnuchin bought a $12.6 million house in DC's Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood in February. Ross, President Trump's Commerce Secretary, bought a $12 million home in the same neighborhood, on a street aptly known in the area as "Billionaire's Row."
The one thing that could slow the local market down: a lack of inventory. Not only are there fewer homes to buy, but, "Low inventory in the Washington area housing market continues to push up the average sale price of a home," said the Washington Post, making it difficult for those below the 1% to afford anything in the area.
"Housing inventory nationwide has been greatly constrained over the past two years, and hit a new low during the first quarter of 2017," said Urban Turf. "The report finds that U.S. inventory has fallen for eight consecutive quarters - and the dearth of supply is most-pronounced in markets where home values have experienced the strongest recovery," like Washington, DC. Inventory in the area saw a "11.3 percent drop" in the time between "the first quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of this year," which is more than double "the 5.1 percent year-over-year drop nationwide."


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EU leaders converge on Brussels shortly to assess the weekend's electoral jolt delivered by euroskeptic and far-right parties. France's President Francois Hollande has called for a reduced EU role.
Leaders of the 28-nation EU bloc converge on Brussels later Tuesday to take stock of stinging rebukes from voters, especially in France and Britain, in the European parliamentary elections.
EU leaders were due to hold a preliminary discussion about who should get the job of next European Commission president at their informal dinner in the Belgian capital.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservatives won Germany's European parliamentary poll on Sunday, said her goal was to win back voters elsewhere in Europe through policies of growth and job creation.
Merkel described the overall results as "regrettable."
French President Francois Hollande (pictured) whose governing Socialists were relegated to third place by France's far-right National Front and the main opposition UMP, went on television on Monday to accuse Brussels of being "remote and incomprehensible" for many EU citizens.
"This cannot continue. Europe has to be simple, clear, to be effective where it is needed and to withdraw from where it is not necessary," Hollande said.
He said that policies of austerity in the eurozone since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008 had damaged European integration.
"Europe, in the last two years, has overcome the euro crisis, but at what price? An austerity that has ended up disheartening the people."
French prime minister Manuel Valls promised more tax cuts for low earners but insisted that France would maintain its efforts to bring its deficit into line with EU criteria.
"Until unemployment falls, until purchasing power rises, until taxes drop, the French won't believe us," Valls told RTL radio.
Barroso upbeat
European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso, whose term ends in October, put a gloss on the overall electoral outcome, saying a pro-EU camp of center-right, center-left and centrists would still have a "very solid and workable majority" in the new 751-seat European Parliament.
Parliament's latest projections put the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) on 213 seats, with the Socialists on 190 and the ALDE Liberals on 64, followed by the Greens on 53.
Anti-EU and eurosceptic sentiment account for about 140 seats in all. To form an official Parliamentary group, parties must group together at least 25 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) from a minimum of seven of the EU's 28 member states.
Britain's euroskeptic United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) won more seats than any mainstream British party. But, it ruled out an alliance with the National Front, saying the French party was too closely tied to racism and anti-Semitism.
Final results from Poland
Poland's electoral commission released final results on Tuesday, showing the ruling Civic Platform (PO) a notch ahead of the main opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS).
Each won 19 seats, the final results showed. In percentage terms, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's PO took 32.1 percent while PiS won 31.8 percent, the commission said.
Five seats went to the PO's partner, the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and four seats went to the Peasants' Party (PSL).
Following the Europe-wide trend, Poland's anti-EU newcomer New Right (Nowa Prawica) party led by Janusz Korwin-Mikke also gained four seats.
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Lethal Beauty / The Allure: Beauty and an easy route to death have long made the Golden Gate Bridge a magnet for suicides
Editor's Note: The first installment of a series of stories on Golden Gate Bridge suicides, which appeared Sunday, contained material that had appeared in the Oct. 13, 2003, edition of the New Yorker magazine. The story should have attributed quotations from Ken Baldwin of Angels Camp and Marin County Coroner Ken Holmes to the magazine. It also used language nearly identical to that of the magazine to describe the California Highway Patrol's decision to halt the official count of suicides at 997 and to describe the unofficial 1,000th death.
One-thousand, two-hundred eighteen dead. The lives of families devastated. Sixty-eight years of debate about a suicide barrier. Today, The Chronicle begins a seven-part series looking at the darker side of the Golden Gate Bridge. The conclusion is inescapable: A suicide barrier would prevent deaths. Golden Gate Bridge district directors voted in March to authorize a $2 million feasibility study, which has not yet been fully funded. The stories this week provide the context, background, meaning and a human dimension for the decisions that will follow.
We take it for granted -- those of us who spend our lives here. But the potency of the Golden Gate Bridge, in its symbolism and beauty, is probably unmatched by any other urban structure in the world.
On those halcyon afternoons when fog threads the bridge's harp strings and suspension cables, when clouds settle over the East Bay hills and the sun catches diamonds in the bay, this greatest of vistas exhibits itself proudly: tawny hills of Marin, shimmering bulk of Angel Island, raw beacon of Alcatraz and the lazy, Mediterranean contours of San Francisco.
This is the view, on a good day, that greets the suicide before he jumps -- a panorama enthralling in its harmony of land, sea and sky. Even when the cooling fog blunts the view, the vast majority of jumpers take their last step facing east instead of west toward the Pacific.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the world's No. 1 suicide magnet, in part because it makes suicide so easy. People jump and kill themselves there, an average of 19 a year. In the peak year, 1977, there were 40 suicides. Some dive not expecting obscurity or oblivion but a kind of grace -- a welcoming body of water that inducts the jumper into nature.
"I'd heard the water just sweeps you under," Ken Baldwin of Angels Camp in Calaveras County, who survived his jump in 1985, told the New Yorker magazine.
In fact, there's nothing peaceful in a jump from the bridge. Once a person dives, depending on where he or she jumps, the body plummets 240 to 250 feet in four seconds, traveling about 75 mph, and hits the water with the force of a speeding truck meeting a concrete building. Some die instantly from extensive internal injuries; others drown in their own blood.
The jump is fatal 98 percent of the time. The Chronicle's research indicates that at least 1,218 suicides were reported between the time the bridge opened, on May 27, 1937, and this past Friday. Local mental health experts believe that number could be higher, considering the suicides who jump and go undetected, their bodies floating out to sea.
Three to 1, they're men, according to a recent study by the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California that compiled Marin County coroner's reports from January 1995 to July 2005. Eighty-seven percent are Bay Area residents -- exploding the myth that people flock from around the world to die here.
They range from 14 to 85, with an approximate median age of 41. Some leave suicide notes; most don't. An estimated 26 jumpers have survived, according to San Francisco Suicide Prevention and the Marin County coroner.
Beyond those numbers, it's difficult to draw a collective profile. The first jumper, on Aug. 7, 1937, was Harold Wobber, a World War I veteran. Wobber turned to a stranger on the walkway -- saying, "This is as far as I go" -- and took his last step.
Robert Byther, a 27-year-old Navy veteran, flew from Virginia to San Francisco in December 1980 specifically to jump off the bridge to protest the election of Ronald Reagan as president.
Filomeno De La Cruz, 33, celebrated Thanksgiving with relatives in 1993, then walked his 2-year-old son along the bridge. Around 5 p.m., De La Cruz lifted the child from his stroller, grasped him in his arms and jumped over the guardrail. "He was going through a divorce and custody fight," a homicide inspector said at the time.
Weldon Kees, 40, was a poet and filmmaker who produced KPFA's radio show "Behind the Movie Camera." Kees parked his 1954 Plymouth Savoy at the bridge parking lot on July 18, 1955, left his keys in the ignition and disappeared. His body was never recovered.
Fifty years later, Jonathan Zablotny, a senior at International High School, took his life. "Overall he had more reasons to be happy than to kill himself," wrote Zablotny's friend Patrick Fitzgerald in a letter to the bridge district board.
"He told no one and left no note. All we know is that he left for school Tuesday morning and never got there. That afternoon he was dead."
Tho the dark be cold and blind,
Yet her sea-fog's touch is kind,
And her mightier caress
Is joy and the pain thereof;
And great is thy tenderness,
O cool, grey city of love!
Poet George Sterling wrote those words in 1923, and the late Chronicle columnist Herb Caen was fond of quoting the last line. Sterling's words effuse romantic notions of San Francisco, its generous spirit and the "tenderness" of its residents. In a city defined by loss and impermanence -- settled by gold speculators, razed by earthquake and fire, notorious as an open port where anything goes -- Sterling found forgiveness and redemption, a balm for loneliness.
We like to feel good about where we live -- to believe that San Francisco retains its warmth and charitable heart. But the "cool, grey city of love" has for 68 years neglected an epidemic of death. Whereas officials at the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building and other suicide landmarks recognized a crisis and erected suicide barriers, the Golden Gate Bridge still offers a welcome mat to someone in search of a quick exit.
We sense the tragedy but view it in the abstract, rationalizing the deaths with a laissez-faire attitude: "They have a right to end their lives if they choose." During the months of reporting on this series, the majority of people interviewed voiced this sentiment, often in glib terms. "If they didn't have the Golden Gate Bridge, they'd just kill themselves another way."
Jose Maldonado, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, says suicide "is one of those things people don't talk about, especially when it has to do with matters of pride, especially with people in your own family. That can be extrapolated to society at large. People in San Francisco don't want to talk about suicide in their own city."
Denial is powerful. San Franciscans joke about bridge suicides in the offhand way we poke fun at a losing ball team or a scandal-tinged public official. The suicides themselves are vaguely perceived.
In the '90s, a suicide club was formed to predict the exact date that the 1,000th suicide would jump to his or her death. As the death toll approached, a local disc jockey promised a case of Snapple to the victim's family. In June 1995, trying to stem the countdown fever, the California Highway Patrol halted its official count at 997. In early July, Eric Atkinson, 20, became the unofficial thousandth. His body was never found after witnesses saw him jump.
Richard Seiden, a suicidologist and professor emeritus of behavioral science at UC Berkeley, remembers a greeting card he found in a gift shop. On the outside was a pen-and-ink drawing of the bridge. On the inside, this sentiment: "Don't jump to conclusions!"
In 1978 Seiden published a study of 515 people who were prevented from jumping off the bridge. He found that only 6 percent went on to kill themselves.
Seiden, now retired, has written of the bridge's "mystical allure" for suicides -- its combination of beauty, lethality, romance and efficiency.
That allure, complex and ultimately mysterious, can be broken down into five factors.
For Eve Meyer, executive director of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and a passionate advocate for a suicide barrier, accessibility is the biggest factor in making the bridge a magnet for death. "It's something you can accomplish relatively easily," she says, "and that's what makes it so dangerous."
The railing is 4 feet high, and the parking lot is a short distance from the bridge. Within two to five minutes of parking one's car or getting off a bus, one can dive over the railing. No need to buy a gun or to stash pills; none of the bother of hanging or asphyxiation.
Says Meyer, "It's almost like saying, 'If you're a failure, you can always do this.' "
In his original plans, chief engineer Joseph Strauss considered the bridge's potential as a suicide site and designed railings 5 1/2 feet high. On May 7, 1936, a year before the opening of the bridge, Strauss boasted to the San Francisco Call-Bulletin that the bridge was "practically suicide-proof."
"The guard rails," he was quoted as saying, "are five feet and six inches high and are so constructed that any persons on the pedestrian walk could not get a handhold to climb over them. The intricate telephone and patrol systems will operate so efficiently that anyone acting suspiciously would be immediately surrounded. Suicide from the bridge is neither possible nor probable."
By the time the bridge opened a year later, Strauss' promise had evaporated. It's unclear when the plans were modified, but at some point architect Irving Morrow, originally hired to design the entryways and bridge plazas, went to work on the guardrails. Morrow reduced them to 4 feet, and in doing so created a stage for decades of self-slaughter.
Today, after seven failed campaigns to pressure the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District into building a suicide barrier, the bridge remains a nearly foolproof method for suicide. One of this year's fatalities, Lois Anne Houston, was 75 and overweight, but even for her the 4-foot rail was no deterrent.
"Some people already have the Golden Gate Bridge in their mind, in the same way others have a gun in the closet," says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of a noted book on the psychology of suicide, "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide." "The particular place or means of suicide is obviously highly idiosyncratic, but it's a function of what's available."
Suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
-- from the Anne Sexton poem "Wanting to Die"
Marissa Imrie was a straight-A student at Santa Rosa High School when she jumped off the bridge in December 2001. After her death, Marissa's mother, Renee Milligan, looked on her computer and found that Marissa had researched a Web site on suicide. She also had bought a book, Geo Stone's "Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences," and learned that a jump from the bridge is far deadlier than suicide methods typically favored by women and girls: Poison is 15 percent effective; drug overdose, 12 percent; wrist cutting, 5 percent.
On Amazon.com, a customer review describes Stone's book as "a cookbook. But instead of teaching you how to make a souffle or Peking Duck, it has recipes for death."
Poison, drugs and wrist slashing are all potentially fatal, but in each case there's a window of time in which victims are open to second thoughts. With death imminent, their lives might seem more valuable or the cost of their death to family and friends too high. So they call 911, a friend or a relative. With a leap from the bridge, second thoughts are useless.
Although some suicides and suicide attempts are carried out with ambivalence -- they're a cry for help, a desperate plea for acknowledgment -- there are those who want only to die. In such cases, the belief that one method of suicide is especially deadly can bring comfort.
"The amount of pain and suffering that leads up to suicide is very hard for people to grasp who haven't been very profoundly depressed," says Jamison, who once made a suicide attempt and later described it in her 1995 book, "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness." "It's just so incredibly painful. People are really desperate. And one aspect of that desperation is really wanting to die and have a very final way."
In January 1933, two classmates from a Tokyo school jumped into Mount Mihara, an active volcano on the Japanese island of Oshima. Weeks later, six more leaped into the volcano. Soon tourists were gathering to witness the suicides, which totaled 140 that year, 160 the next. Barriers were erected; it's no longer a suicide destination.
"Various places develop a reputation as suicide landmarks," says suicidologist Seiden. "Hanging trees and lovers' leaps and places like the Golden Gate Bridge start to get a notoriety. They develop a self-propelling momentum."
In 1974, sociologist David Phillips gave a new name to suicide contagion. He called it the Werther effect, taking the name from "The Sorrows of Young Werther," an 18th century German novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The story of a young man's suicide by pistol after a failed romance, "Sorrows" inspired a rash of copycat suicides -- many of whom dressed for death in the style of the novel's tragic hero -- until the book was banned in several countries.
Newspaper and media accounts are believed to contribute to the Werther effect, which is why The Chronicle stopped reporting each Golden Gate Bridge suicide more than 20 years ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Association of Suicidology issued guidelines urging the media to downplay the suicides. Marin County Coroner Ken Holmes said he went to the local media when the number approached 850. "We weaned them," Holmes told the New Yorker magazine. But, he added, "the lack of publicity hasn't reduced the number of suicides at all."
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Empire State Building in New York, the Arroyo Seco Bridge in Pasadena and the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto were notorious suicide magnets until barriers were erected. Tellingly, when a suicide barrier was appended to the Bloor Street Viaduct -- after 480 deaths in 85 years -- people didn't drift to another bridge and create a new suicide magnet.
"When suicide becomes difficult," Meyer says, "people do not switch to another method. They tend to get help. This is what happened in England when the formula for gas ovens was changed" -- carbon-monoxide levels were reduced -- "and it became harder for people to purchase certain over-the-counter drugs. The suicide rate went down. England has a suicide rate half the size of ours because they're so aggressive about it."
Mark Finch, 33, was a tall, high-strung Englishman living in San Francisco. Stylish, gifted and chronically depressed, he was in the process of coming off the antidepressant Effexor when he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 14, 1995. When he died, having left his leather briefcase on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and a number of suicide notes on his office desk, his friends were stunned. Jenni Olson, his co-director at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, recently made a film, "The Joy of Life," that deals in part with Finch's suicide and the bridge's long legacy of death.
Why the bridge and not another form of suicide? "Of course, given his personality, I just thought, 'Oh, how Mark' that it would be so spectacular. He doesn't do anything in a small way," Olson said.
She sent copies of her film to the bridge's board of directors, and believes it influenced the members' decision in March to explore the possibility of a suicide barrier. "The Joy of Life," which played at the Castro Theatre in June, was shot on a 16mm film stock that renders colors in rich, saturated tones and provides physical evidence of the bridge's grandeur. Filmed from below to emphasize its massive bulk and from a distance to capture its elegant Art Deco design and spectacular natural setting, the bridge looks iconic -- staggeringly beautiful.
It's difficult to imagine another man-made structure so perfectly conformed to a setting of exquisite natural beauty. "There is a kind of form to it, a certain grace and beauty," a suicide survivor once told David Rose, a psychiatrist at UCSF Medical School. "There's something aesthetically pleasing about it," said S.I. Hayakawa, the onetime president of San Francisco State who became a U.S. senator in 1976.
Alfred Hitchcock capitalized on the bridge's allure -- and dramatically enriched its mythology -- when he staged a powerful scene in his 1958 thriller, "Vertigo," nearby. Kim Novak, playing the mysterious Madeleine, drops rose petals into the bay at Fort Point -- under the shadow of the giant bridge. Suddenly she jumps in and, in a sweeping gesture of movie-star heroism, Jimmy Stewart dives into the turbulent water and carries out the soaking Novak in his arms.
When glamour and beauty are required for a death site, the Golden Gate Bridge can't be topped. For those who select it for suicide, says Jamison, there's an attraction in "seeing for the last time something that is truly beautiful. Perhaps doing it in a very beautiful, spectacular, dramatic way adds meaning to something that otherwise doesn't have as much meaning as one would like."
The beauty factor is perplexing, Jamison says, because most suicides occur in ordinary places: garages, attics, subway or train platforms. "They're not anything associated in any way with beauty. To me it's quite unusual in suicide literature. Of course, it's a very small percentage of suicides that jump from the bridge. But there is a quality to it that is very haunting."
Suicide is taboo in most world cultures -- perceived as a sin and affront to God, a callous rebuke to one's family, the ultimate in ingratitude. In America, suicide is often disdained, just like the depression that triggers it, as a lack of moral fiber. "People think depression is like having lung cancer," says Stanford's Jose Maldonado. " 'You did it to yourself. If you weren't so weak, you'd pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' "
In 1959, a Chronicle story on the "enigma" of bridge suicides quoted East Bay psychiatrist Malcolm A. Sowers: "When someone jumps from that bridge, he is, in a way, joining all those who went before. And that's important, I believe, because even in suicide, people don't like to be too far removed from the herd."
Seiden of UC Berkeley dismisses that notion. "Most of the people who are suicidal are so wound up in themselves, so depressed and so unable to see beyond the tip of their nose that the idea of becoming part of this larger congregation wouldn't really appeal to them. They're really stuck in one place, sort of glued into the fact that there's no hope for them, no future, no alternatives. They get a kind of tunnel vision."
Perhaps the bridge's necrology of suicide is tied to the city's tradition of tolerance and nonjudgment, if not connected, as well, to the notion of San Francisco as a city of transplants, people who migrate from other parts of the country to find comfort and acceptance.
Once the seeker reaches land's end, the gateway to the Pacific, does he find what Jack Kerouac called the city's "end of continent sadness"? Finding that San Francisco is like any place -- short on miracles, incapable of erasing the past -- does he give up, believing he's used his last option?
There are no simple answers. Jenni Olson conjectures that suicides choose the Golden Gate Bridge in part to spare their friends and family the horror of discovering their bodies. By jumping off the bridge, and leaving the dirty work to the Coast Guard rescuers and coroners, Olson said, a suicide removes one major aspect of trauma for the survivors.
Whatever the elements that impel a person to jump off the bridge, it's important to remember that every suicide is marked by irrationality. "Suicide is a closed world, with its own irresistible logic," wrote critic and novelist A. Alvarez in "The Savage God," a response to the suicide of a friend, poet Sylvia Plath. "Everything makes sense and follows its own strict rules; yet, at the same time, everything is also different, perverted, upside down."
The majority of suicides, Jamison wrote in "Night Falls Fast," are people suffering from major depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Often they've gone off their medication; in many cases drugs and alcohol exacerbate their disorders. Divorce, reversal of fortune, disease or other crises can precipitate suicide, but these conditions are rarely unaccompanied by underlying mental disorders.
Immediate circumstances can inflame the suicidal mind, Alvarez writes, but "they are like a trivial border incident which triggers off a major war. The real motives which impel a man to take his own life are elsewhere; they belong to the internal world, devious, contradictory, labyrinthine, and mostly out of sight."
In his landmark book on depression, "Darkness Visible," William Styron described his illness as "a howling tempest in the brain," "an unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world." Plath, dead at 30 after sticking her head in a gas oven, described the quality of her despair as "owl's talons clenching my heart."
For a personality in crisis, the accessibility of the Golden Gate Bridge can be the tipping point between life and death. "It's like leaving a row of bottles of poison in front of a baby," says Meyer of San Francisco Suicide Prevention. "And they're all pretty and have bows on them."
The majority of bridge suicides are preventable, she says, because so many are impulsive. Strangely, the greatest stumbling block in the building of a suicide barrier is the attitude of a population that prides itself on open-mindedness.
"I had someone come up to me as I was walking to some hearings and he said, 'They should put up a diving board so those people can jump off it.' I said, 'Now say to me, "They should put up a diving board so my son could jump off of it."'"
Family Grief: A suicide leaves a legacy of anguish.
CRISIS CENTERS and HOT LINES
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255.
National Suicide Hotline: (800) 784-2433.
Asian Community Mental Health Services, Contra Costa: (510) 970-9750 for information in many Asian languages.
Asian Community Mental Health Services, Oakland: (510) 451-6729 for information in many Asian languages.
Contra Costa Crisis Center: Hot line (24 hours): (800) 833-2900; grief counseling (800) 837-1818.
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County: Hot line (24 hours): (800) 309-2131.
Marin County Family Service Agency, Suicide Prevention and Counseling Services: Hot line (24 hours): (415) 499-1100.San Francisco Suicide Prevention.
Hot line (24 hours): (415) 781-0500.
Linea Apoyo (Spanish-language crisis line): (415) 989-5212 (6 to 10 p.m. Monday-Friday).
Suicide and Crisis Service, Santa Clara County: Hot line (24 hours): (408) 279-3312.
Youth & Family Enrichment Services, San Carlos: Hot line (24 hours): (800) 784-2433.
Visit the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California Inc. at www.pfnc.org for public information and educational programs about mental health.
To learn more about the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Barrier Study: Visit www.goldengatebridge.org, click on "Current Projects."
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This is the location for those who are Dwarves or Friends to the Dwarves to come in social fun. Talk about the race formed even before the elves. Feel free to role play, talk, and post what you will within the guidelines of TORC and common sense.
1. Membership: Dwarves and Dwarf Friends! (Tho we seem a bit overrun with the latter...)
2. Location: We have a Grand Hall in the Lonely Mountain with numerous sleeping room and smaller meeting rooms to use. We are Dwarves, so if necessary, we can tunnel more for room.
3. Friends: You must be a friend of a Dwarf on these Board and preferably not harbor anger toward those of the Dwarf race simply because he or she is a Dwarf.
4. In general, discussion should have something to do with Dwarves as described by Tolkien. I am not limiting this thread to that topic, however, we do need to keep this to a general theme or face locking.
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olddwarf ------------------- Dwarf
Riot ----------------------- Dwarf Friend
Johnny_Flett (J_F) --------- Dwarf Friend (*need a title...*)
lark ----------------------- Dwarf Friend
Slugworts ------------------ Dwarf Friend
Elfkin --------------------- Dwarf Friend
Maranwe-Ar-Feiniel --------- Dwarf Friend
Ilfrith -------------------- Dwarf Friend
Kethasbro ------------------ Dwarf Friend
The visitors...(?)
balrogthane (BT)
Those not currently with us:
EberisonofRaymont (Eberi) -- Dwarf
THORIN_CLAYHELM (TC) ------- Dwarf
Darin_Bloodaxe ------------- Dwarf
BrninThedwarf (Brnin) ------ Dwarf
Samos ---------------------- Dwarf
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Arwen.Undomiel (Arwen) ----- Dwarf Friend
GrandaughterofGaladreil ---- Dwarf Friend
Boromir209 (boromir) ------- Dwarf Friend
Lady_Galadriel786 (LadyG) -- Dwarf Friend
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Naperville, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/10/2012 -- Interventional Cardiology Market Outlook in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to 2018 provides key market data on the Interventional Cardiology market in the BRICS countries. The report provides value ($m), volume (units) and average price ($) data for each segment and sub-segment within seven market categories – Coronary Stents, PTCA Balloons, Cardiac Catheters, Coronary Guidewires, Arteriotomy Closure Devices, Intravascular Ultrasound Systems (IVUS) and PTCA Coronary Drug Eluting Balloons (DEB). The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for the overall Interventional Cardiology market in each of the aforementioned countries. The report is also supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants with information on key developments, wherever available.
This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.
The emerging economies, comprising China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa, with a significantly large pool of under-served patients, represent the next big opportunity for the leading medical equipment and devices manufacturers. China remains the world's most populous country and is consequently home to a large patient base. The country is home to more than 120 million people who are aged 65 or older—a population in continuous need of medical care. India, the second most populous country globally, is home to 1.2 billion people, approximately 5% of which are aged 65 or older. It's estimated that shortly after 2020, India's population will surpass China, making it the most populous country in the world. As the population continues to grow and people continue to age, the underlying demand for healthcare is also expected to increase.
- Market size data for Interventional Cardiology market categories – Coronary Stents, PTCA Balloons, Cardiac Catheters, Coronary Guidewires, Arteriotomy Closure Devices, Intravascular Ultrasound Systems (IVUS) and PTCA Coronary Drug Eluting Balloons (DEB).
- Annualized market revenues ($m), volume (units) and average price ($) data for each of the segments and sub-segments within the seven market categories. Data from 2004 to 2011 forecast forward for seven years to 2018
- 2011company shares and distribution shares data for the overall Interventional Cardiology market in each of the aforementioned countries.
- Global corporate-level profiles of key companies operating within the Interventional Cardiology market in BRICS.
- Key players covered include Abbott Laboratories, Terumo Corporation, Boston Scientific Corporation, Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Medtronic, Inc., MicroPort Scientific Corporation, Biosensors International Group, Ltd., Cordis Corporation, ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD., Volcano Corporation, Eurocor GmbH, Vascular Concepts Limited, Goodman Co., Ltd., Biotronik SE & Co. KG, Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and St. Jude Medical, Inc..
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Experienced musicians bring blended sounds to concert Saturday night.
GOLDSBORO � The Monitors will offer the second concert of the season Saturday night for the Wayne Community Concerts 2012-2013 series.
This musical ensemble of 10 has been organized for more than 50 years. During that time they have performed at numerous events.
The Monitors have played at concerts, Mardi Gras, Hawaiian Luaus, wedding receptions, proms, cabarets and street festivals, to name a few. They have been the back-up band for celebrity artists such as Otis Redding, Millie Jackson, Major Lance, Faye Adams, Joyce Thorne, Connie Harvey, Kinston native Maceo Parker and Milton Bulluck.
They have provided opening concerts for international stars, Ray Charles and Roberta Flack, who once was the lead singer with the group. They have been the featured guest with the Barton College / Wilson Symphony Orchestra and recently completed a tour in North and South Carolina with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
A combined wealth of experience enables The Monitors to provide music for any occasion with songs and sounds that please audiences everywhere.
The leader of the group is Bill Myers of Wilson on keyboard. One of the co-founders in 1957, he is the only remaining member of the original group.
Other members include Sam Latham on drums, Gerald Hunter on guitar, Jerome Morgan on bass, Clark Mills Jr. on piano, Kinstonian Robert �Dick� Knight on trumpet, Fred Moye on tenor saxophone, Donald Tuckson on alto saxophone, Willie Dupree on baritone and Mollie Hunter on vocals.
The Monitors Concert
7:30 p.m. Saturday
Paramount Theater, Goldsboro
For ticket info: call Arts Council of Wayne County, 919-736-3300 or go to waynecommunityconcerts.com


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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Illamasqua and Chanel EOTD
Simple look of Illamasqua Hunger as a base with Synth and Matter and the deep green from the Chanel Celadon-Lame eyeliner. I can't seem to get the green to show up on photos that well but in real life it does look noticeably green.
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Lovely look, your blending skills are really great! I clicked on the image and when it's a bit bigger you can ever so slightly see the dark green liner in the left side of the picture! I wonder if I'd recognize you from your eyes perhaps shopping at Selfridges or Liberty's next week! xxReplyDelete
I agree with anna... your blending skills are superb!!ReplyDelete
Great look! Love it!! xx
wow this looks stunning hun!ReplyDelete
Hi Anna,ReplyDelete
Yes, I'll have to try and get a better picture of that liner ! I think my blending is really bad so nice to hear your comment. I wish I could be at Selfridges/Liberty next week, although if I lived in London I am sure I'd be a lot poorer, I can't wait to hear what you end up buying x
Hi Tali,
Thanks so much for your kind comment, I think the Hunger base gets the best out of the shades.
Hello Shifa,
Thanks, I'd realised I'd not worn my Illamasqua much lately so have decided to use their eyeshadows all week. Thanks for visiting.


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Head Coach Howie Dickenman announced his 2012-13 non-conference schedule on Tuesday. The Blue Devils will open the season on Friday night, November 10 at the fourth-annual Connecticut 6 Classic, this year being held at the University of Hartford. Central will take on Fairfield for the second time in the four-year history of the Classic.
Also highlighted the non-conference schedule are trips to Indiana and Syracuse for the first-ever match-up with each of those storied programs. Syracuse finished fifth in last season's final ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. Indiana was 13th in the same poll.
"As always, this is a very strong non-conference schedule," Dickenman said. "We have a chance to face teams from the Big East, Big-10, MAAC, Ivy League, Atlantic-10, America East and the CAA. This might be as challenging a non-conference slate as we have put together in quite some time. We are excited to get started."
Following the game vs. Fairfield, Central will travel to St. Peter's on November 12, followed by the home-opener vs. Brown on November 15.
After the Brown game the Blue Devils will take to the road for five straight games. They will play at LaSalle (Nov. 18), at UMBC (Nov. 20), at Hartford (Nov. 24), at New Hampshire (Dec. 5) and then at Indiana (Dec. 8).
The Blue Devils return home on December 21 hosting Northeastern, followed by a home game vs. St. Peter's on Dec. 29. They end the non-conference season, and the calendar year, at Syracuse on December 31.


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Vending Machine Abortions
You've heard me talk almost non-stop over the last two weeks about this huge threat to religious liberty from this administration, requiring employers to provide contraception and abortion-inducing medication for their employers.
But what makes this fight all the more difficult is the culture-wide misunderstanding about what sex is about and what it's for. For example, Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania made headlines recently when it was learned that students could buy a morning-after pill, known as Plan B, from a vending machine in the student health center.
Just to be clear Plan B is not merely preventative birth control. It can stop fertilization, and it can also be taken up to 72 hours after intercourse to stop the implantation of an already fertilized egg. And it's up to 89 percent effective in causing an abortion to occur.
Well, it's tempting to just shake your head and say has it really come to this? But my colleague John Stonestreet, host of "The Point," identified in his recent commentary the wrong sort of thinking about sexuality that's really behind this.
When contraception is as convenient as sodas and candy bars, that's the sign that sexuality has not only been divorced from marriage and procreation, it's been divorced from any relational responsibility.
Think about it: Slide in 25 dollars, out comes an abortion-inducing drug. No one has to see, no one has to know.
If a woman chooses to get an abortion from a clinic, she at least has to face another human being and acknowledge, "This is what's been done." But now, the young woman has to face no one. She's not accountable for her actions to any other human being, and even worse, no one might know if she needs help.
The idea that sexual behavior is a purely private affair is now deeply embedded in our culture. How many times recently have you heard that women have a right to birth control at no cost? A right? Where did they get that idea? And of course, the ultimate example of this way of thinking about sex is pornography, where men and women can indulge and never have to be relationally responsible to the one they are using for personal pleasure.
Vending-machine abortions take this to the next level. As one Shippensburg student said, "I think it's great the school is giving us this option. I've heard some kids say they'd be too embarrassed to go into town."
Precisely, it should be embarrassing. Shame is a very important concept in civilized society, and there are consequences to our behavior. We're giving these students the idea that something this significant can be tossed around, and somehow we are all surprised then at the level of human brokenness we see from risky sexual behavior.
John Stonestreet got it right in his commentary: as we make sexual behavior more convenient, we are also making it more thoughtless and less personal. And that reduces it to a mere animal act rather than the beautiful interpersonal, mutually responsible behavior God intended.
Parents and grandparents hear this: The students John Stonestreet deal with every day and those I've worked with over the years, do not need more sexual brokenness, they need more guidance and accountability from adults.


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Crystal Pistol – S/T (Release Year – 2005)
Today's post comes from Tania from the Hard Rock Hideout Forum! Have you checked out the HRH forum lately?
Band –
Mike Ireland – vocals
Greg Laikin – bass
Dave Troutman – drums
Brian Bresett – guitars
Pinto – guitars
1. Watch You Bleed
2. Rockstar
3. Locomotive
4. Line It Up
5. Salt of the Earth
7. Shake
8. All The Freaks
9. Live Fast
10. Teenage Parasite
11. No Fun City
Producer: Jeff Dawson
Hailing from Canada, Crystal Pistols self titled full length debut starts off promising. The first three tracks are nice little rockers. Singer Mike Ireland has a great sleazy, grimy sounding voice and the first two songs in particular, Watch You Bleed and Rockstar, show off his dirty gritty snarl perfectly.
I'm not really sure what Crystal Pistol are trying to do with the Crystal Pistol band shot rest of the tracks on this CD. Some of it has a punk element to it, some have a rock element, some goth sounding. I guess its "punk rock", but to me it sounds as if they are trying to put too many different types of musical sounds into each song.
The songs are fast and short, in fact this CD only clocks in at just over 35 minutes. After the third song, the rest of the songs are decent. I'm not saying they are bad, some are catchy but there is nothing really standout after Locomotive. Salt of the Earth is a nice change of pace but it all gets fairly boring and predicable fairly quickly. All in all a mixed bag. Good enough but not great. Check them out at their myspace to get a taste of some Crystal Pistol.
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A guide to choosing the best dishes in Asia
How do you navigate the infinite food choices in Asia? We've gathered food writers and chefs throughout the region to spare you the bewildered flipping through a menu.
From the familiar to the slightly adventurous, these dishes take the guesswork out of ordering and provide the opportunity to enjoy a balanced meal truly representative of local flavors.
Recommendations: Hai zhi tou, malantou, xiao huangyu, honghsao rou, hongshao tipang
It's an understatement to say that the food in China varies from region to region.
If you find yourself in the bustling metropolis of Shanghai, Crystyl Mo, food editor at Time Out Shanghai, has a few pointers.
"It's very important to combine textures and temperatures, and also balance a meal between fish/seafood, meat, and soup," she says.
"We start with the small, cold dishes and almost always end with a hot soup which cleanses the palate."
Mo has a few specific suggestions for appetizers and mains.
Start out with the crunchy hai zhi tou (jellyfish in vinegar dressing). It looks and feels like a cabbage or other hearty vegetable, but it's not.
A great vegetable is the malantou, a rich, chlorophyll-heavy green indigenous to Shanghai.
More on CNN: 8 best foodie towns in China
"It's diced up with teeny weeny pressed tofu dice, seasoned very lightly with sesame oil. Classic," says Mo.
For something more adventurous, she recommends the xiao huangyu, a deep-fried yellow croaker (river fish).
"It's like a giant fishy French fry, but more excitingly crispy with all the little bits and edges that get wonderfully crunchy."
All the fish parts -- bones, eyes, et cetera -- are still in and edible.
Pork is a beloved staple in Shanghai, so for main dishes, get at least one or two dishes heavy on pork.
Most people think of honghsao rou, braised pork belly in a sweet soy-based sauce, but Mo suggests the hongshao tipang (red braised pork shoulder), a slightly gelatinous, braised whole pork shoulder.
"This [dish] has a melting fatty layer on the outside and soft meat inside that shreds at the touch of a chopstick. Luscious."
Recommendations: Tsukune, morokyu, goya champuru, rafuti, umi budo, mozuku tempura
No visit to Japan would be complete without a long evening rubbing shoulders with salarymen at one of the city's countless izakaya (taverns).
Tokyo resident Robb Satterwhite, restaurant reviewer for Bento.com and author of "What's What in Japanese Restaurants" (1988), offers recommendations.
"If there are daily specials, then that's a good place to start," says Satterwhite, who is partial to the sashimi platter of the day.
More on CNN: 40 Tokyo foods we can't live without
"If there are four people in your party, get an order for two people, so you have room to order other food."
Izakaya offerings vary widely, but if you find yourself at a place that does chicken skewers, go for the tsukune -- minced chicken and spices grilled on a skewer.
"It's worth seeking out an izakaya that does charcoal grilling," Satterwhite says.
For a vegetable side, he recommends morokyu, sliced fresh cucumbers with a chunky miso dip.
More on CNN: Earn your sake spurs at a working brewery
For a more robust restaurant dining experience, the options are endless in Tokyo. Melinda Joe, author of food and drink blog Tokyo through the Drinking Glass and the Japan Times' drink column "Kanpai Culture," suggests checking out one of the many Okinawan restaurants that have opened over the past few years.
"The food is a lot closer to Chinese or Southeast Asian cuisines," she says. "Even Japanese people have a hard time navigating all of the dishes. But they tend to be fun places with sometimes music and live performances."
Start out easy and typical with dishes like goya champuru (bitter gourd with pork and eggs) or rafuti (simmered, tender pork belly in a soy-based sauce). For something more fun, order the umi budo. Their name means sea grapes, and they come with a ponzu sauce.
"They're firm, turgid beads, but when you eat them, they pop in your mouth and release this briny, unctuous liquid," Joe says.
Another dish with a trans-formative quality is the mozuku tempura. This otherwise slimy seaweed makes a delightful, nutty-flavored, batter-fried fritter.
Pair your Okinawan delicacies with a potent long-grain rice wine from the region, called awamori. Or go light with Orion, an indigenous lager.
And when it comes to sake, splurge.
Satterwhite explains what to do even if you can't figure out the list. "People often choose sake based on the location. For example Niigata sake tend to be dry and clean; sake from Ishikawa are earthy; and sake from Yamagata are aromatic and fruity. If there are monthly specials, they'll tend to be fresher. And if you see 'nama' sake, give it a try, because it's harder to find outside of Japan."
More on CNN: 9 nostalgic Japanese foods
Recommendations: Yukhui, dalk galbi, budae jjigae, tuna kimbap, kimchi mandu
When in Seoul, there's no better guide to the grub than Joe McPherson, longtime food writer, restaurant consultant and founder of ZenKimchi -- which does non-touristy food tours around the city.
Rather than dive into the barbecue extravaganza Korean cuisine is type-casted as (partially true, but not entirely), look into getting a yukhui (pronounced yook-hway), Korea's version of a steak tartare, with ribbons of fresh beef mixed with Korean pears, sesame oil, green chilies and usually a raw egg yolk.
"It's a perfectly elegant balance of savory and sweet," McPherson says.
On the cooked white meat front, there's dalk galbi, a spicy marinated chicken dish from Gangwon province usually stir-fried at the table with vegetables like sweet potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and noodles.
"Everything a growing boy needs," McPherson says. "I regularly run polls on what Korean foods people like. Dalk galbi always ends up in the top three."
If you ask him for his own personal favorites, though, McPherson has at least two. Budae jjigae, a spicy, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink type of fusion stew that originated in the Korean War.
McPherson says, "The taste is like American Independence Day in a bowl." That sort of makes sense.
Depending on the version, expect anything from Spam and hot dogs to baked beans. And speaking of historical foods, McPherson also recommends his favorite cheap lunch food from when he first moved to Korea: tuna kimbap (a maki roll with tuna salad) and kimchi mandu (kimchi-filled steamed dumplings).
More on CNN: 40 Korean foods we can't live without
Recommendations: Kappa meen curry, sev bata pur, shorshay bata ilish, dum biriyani
Of all the countries in Asia, the cuisine of India is arguably the most bewildering and diverse. Rather than limit himself, novelist and food writer C.Y. Gopinath takes us from Cochin in the south, to New Delhi in the north, with detours in Mumbai and Kolkata, pointing out must-haves along the way.
The thattukada (roadside eatery) is an institution in Kerala's port city of Cochin, serving up an endless list of southern standards and some unusual curve balls.
"In just the category of dosas, thattukadas serve as many as 36 different kinds with quixotic names like Volvo, Duck Lasoon and Ruby Pai," Gopinath says.
But don't forget to get Kerala's signature dish, the kappa meen curry.
"It's never better than you'll get it at a thattukada -- chucks of steamed tapioca with pieces of seer fish in a fiery coconut-based gravy."
Moving north to Mumbai, where the endless street stalls serve pani puri, sev batata puri, dahi bhalle, and more, both a bottomless stomach and a steel-lined one is required.
More on CNN: 40 Mumbai foods we can't live without
But Gopinath has good news: "You can order all of the above and more at the famous street food chain Vithal's."
There he recommends the sev bata puri, "crisp-fried flour roundels layered with chick peas, potatoes with a touch of green mint chutney, all doused with cold sweet yogurt."
When in Kolkata, try the city's signature fish, ilish or shad.
"Shorshay bata ilish, or shad in a tingling fiery handmade sauce of fresh green chilies and ground black mustard, is a classic not easily found in standard restaurants," advises Gopinath.
"The ilish has fine chewable bones, but some restaurants, such as the Oh! Calcutta chain, serve a de-boned version." (Oh! Calcutta, Hotel Rosewood, Tulsiwadi Lane, opp. Mahindra Heights, Tardeo; +91 (0) 22 23539114/23533115)
Finally, in New Delhi, take a break from the usual tikkas and naans, and go for an oft-overlooked relative.
"A biriyani is a biriyani is a biriyani," says Gopinath, "except when it's a dum biriyani."
He's talking about a special style of biriyani cooking, where the pot is covered and sealed with dough, keeping in the steam and the flavors of the saffron and spices.
"Arguably the best place to try this dish is Dum Phukt restaurant in the Maurya Sheraton Hotel."
Recommendations: Tamarind prawns, pork soft ribs, Teochew-style whole promfret, char yoke, Penang wing beans with dried shrimp paste and sambal
A mash-up of Chinese, Indian and Malay cultures, the food of Malaysia is among the most exciting in the region.
Any visitor to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Georgetown in Penang would be lucky to have Robyn Eckhardt lead the way through ordering Chinese, Teochew and Penang-specific food.
"We'd get our appetites going with finger food: tamarind prawns (just one or two each), head and shell-on crustaceans shellacked in a tangy-sweet mahogany sauce, and pork soft ribs coated with a five-spice powder and deep-fried," teases Eckhardt, food writer, culinary tour guide and co-author of blog Eating Asia.
When it comes to mains, Eckhardt is partial to a steamed Teochew-style whole pomfret, which comes with pickled mustard, sour plums, ginger and chopped fresh chilies.
"I'd balance the promfret's bright tartness with a study in sticky decadence."
She means char yoke, or roast pork, sliced and fried with black soy sauce.
"It's a dish I refer to as bacon candy."
If you can stand the heat, order the Penang wing beans with dried shrimp paste and sambal.
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Recommendations: Som tam, tum sua, kai yang, gaeng om, laab moo
When it comes to Thai food, practically everyone is familiar with the usual tom yam, basil chicken, pad thai, green curry and som tam (papaya salad).
But take a simple, overdone dish like som tam (papaya salad) and explore its northeastern (Isaan) relatives and you have the potential for a simple but very rewarding Thai meal.
Restaurateur Eh Laoraowirodge and chef Korn of new Isaan eatery Somtum Der in the heart of Bangkok's business district share what goes into a well-rounded Isaan feast.
(5/5 Saladaeng Road, Silom Road. BTS: Saladaeng. +66 (0)2 632 4499)
If you're going to get som tam, Eh suggests trying something slightly different and going with a tum sua, which is essentially the same thing, but with the addition of rice vermicelli noodles.
More on CNN: 40 Thai foods we can't live without
For the fearless, there are versions with pla ra (fermented fish).
"You can find it everywhere in Thailand," he says, "with different tastes. No matter where I travel, if I'm ordering som tam, I'll order tum sua."
Papaya salad is practically widowed without kai yang (marinated grilled chicken). But Eh is even pickier than that.
"The chicken I love the most is kai ban [Thai free-range chicken, literally 'house chicken']. It's very lean, not too big in size, not that meaty. But the skin gets really crispy, and you can really get the salty and herbal taste of the marinade."
Kai baan is not common, but a lot of places in Bangkok do have it so it doesn't hurt to ask.
The soup, says Korn, "has to be gaeng om. It's an Isaan soup with a lot of herbs, dill, cabbage, mushrooms, Thai eggplants. They do it with chicken, pork or offal."
And to round things out, get a laab moo (minced pork salad with raw shallots, mint, lime juice, and roasted ground rice) and have it with sticky rice.
Take a bit of rice between your fingers and squeeze it tightly into a ball before dipping it into the dishes, letting the rice absorb all the gravy.
Recommendations: Fried carrot and radish cake, ba chor mee, satay, ngoh hiang
Singapore's got everything from hawker stir-fries and hip tapas bars to artisanal coffee shops roasting their own beans.
Shen Tan of The Wok and Barrel (13 Duxton Hill. +65 6220 0595, ), a former food hawker herself, shares what the best hawkers of Singapore have to offer.
For quick nourishment between meals, get the fried carrot and radish cake.
"It is savory-sweet," Tan says, "because of the preserved radish and dark caramel sauce."
She also loves ba chor mee, spicy stir-fried noodles with pork: "The minced pork, sliced pork, liver, and meatballs deliver tremendous umami."
For a different meat extravaganza, get the iconic meat on a stick, satay. There are Chinese versions and Malay versions, so pay attention.
"The tangy pineapple puree in the rice peanut sauce is the perfect foil for the satay sold by Chinese hawkers, while the spiced peanut gravy from the Malay hawkers complement the beef and mutton satay," Tan explains.
Incidentally, classic hawker fare can also be found at Tan's own restaurant, of which IS Magazine's dining editor Jalean Wong is a huge fan.
"She makes everything in house," says Wong of Tan's cooking, "including tender beef rendang and full-bodied chicken curry, best when soaked up with some fragrant and coconutty nasi lemak rice, as well as two accompanying sambal chili sauces."
She also loves Peranakan cuisine as served at her new favorite restaurant Violet Oon's Kitchen (881 Bukit Timah Road. +65 6468 5430) where she orders dishes like ngoh hiang, bean curd skin–wrapped rolls with deep-friend prawn, crab, pork, and water chestnut.
Hong Kong
Recommendations: Siu mai, cheung fun, gon chow ngau hor, char siu, egg tarts
The Cantonese dishes of Hong Kong can be found in the streets (though less and less so), mall kiosks, cha chan teng (HK-style diners) and high-end restaurants.
HK Magazine's dining editor Adele Wong and food writer and organic market organizer Janice Leung -- of popular food blog e-ting the world -- have recommendations on every front.
Find yourself at a dim sum lunch? Don't forget to load up on siu mai.
More on CNN: How to eat dim sum
"Dim sum restaurants all over the world serve this classic, but few have enough competition around them to do it properly," says Leung, whose feelings for this shrimp-topped pork and shitake mushroom dumpling are rather lust-filled.
"Porky juices ooze out as you bite into it, the slippery, al dente shrimp giving it just enough contrast for both texture and flavor."
Another dim sum must-have, according to Wong, are the cheung fun (rice noodle rolls).
"The prawn ones are my favorite."
Meaty, greasy Cantontese options are abundant in Hong Kong, too, at siu mei restaurants and cha chan teng.
Wong recommends the standard gon chow ngau hor (beef friend rice noodles).
"It's the ultimate comfort food," she says.
And don't forget the quintessential Cantonese barbecue, char siu, which is pork loin marinated with Chinese rose liqueur, hoisin sauce and bean paste and roasted at a high heat and glazed with maltose. Leung describes it as "juicy, sweet, salty, fatty -- all at once".
And while far from the apex of Cantonese cuisine, when it comes to snacks Leung recommends the egg tart, brought over by the British back in the day.
"The local Chinese modified the recipe, creating a super-delicate, eggy custard that has the consistency of just-set jelly."
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I could name 121 songs, but I don't have the space … So here's a random rundown of tunes from 2010 that have taken turns migrating to the top of my iPod playlists.
1) "Save My Love," Bruce Springsteen. This is a leftover? Just one song out of two discs worth of great re-takes from his '70s "Darkness" sessions.
2) "Sprawl II," Arcade Fire: There are so many smart, complex songs on this album, and this one brings them all together near the end. Plus it sounds like Blondie.
3) "House of Cards," Butch Walker: Butch channels ELO, and makes them sound cool.
4) "Ain't Got No Troubles," Eden Brent: Fine boogie-woogie blues with a playful wink; she's classic and fresh at the same time.
5) "I Still Believe," Frank Turner: "After all, it was rock 'n' roll," sings Turner, and he won't be happy until we've all picked up a guitar.
6) "Bring It On," The Gaslight Anthem: "Give me the fevers that just won't break," sings Brian Fallon, and few rockers these days burn with as much passion.
7) "All These Strangers," Elvis Costello: Lilting and literate, the only song this year to name-check Benghazi and Belgrade.
8) "You Look Like I Could Use A Drink," Jason D. Williams. The best country catchphrase in years, on the most rollicking piano-driven album since Jerry Lee was dating his cousin.
9) "A Graceful Fall," John Mellencamp: "It's not a graceful fall from dreams to the truth," observes Mellencamp, imbuing the words with simple beauty on a simply beautiful album.
10) "The Curse," Josh Ritter: Girl meets mummy. Girl loses mummy. Girl dies. Only Josh Ritter could pull this off.
11) "Hurricane J," The Hold Steady: Craig Finn and dark, troubled women … Let's face it, it's a match made in heaven.
12) "Hey Self-Defeater," Leland Sundries: Laconic and shambling, this is one of several striking songs on an EP that sneaks up on you in its off-kilter brilliance.
13) "Miss California," Melissa Etheridge: There's no better Melissa than mad Melissa, and Miss California — aka same-sex-marriage disser, Carrie Prejean — must have really pissed her off.
14) "Champaign, Illinois," Old 97's: Bob Dylan meets Rhett Miller for this retooling of "Desolation Row," a move so audacious it just might work … and it actually does.
15) "Motel Room in Davenport," Peter Himmelman: Every time you think rockabilly might be dead, a song like this comes along. Turn it up to 11.
16) "I Don't Wanna Know," Peter Wolf: If this doesn't get you twitching like Wolf in his "Lights Out" video, you must be asleep or dead.
17) "California English," Vampire Weekend: So sue me, I like these guys — they're like the Beach Boys if the Beach Boys were vampires.
18) "O.N.E.," Yeasayer: Same with these guys, except they're like Yaz, if Yaz were skinny, synth-addicted hipsters. I mean that in a good way.
19) "End of an Empire," The Henry Clay People: Guitars? Check. Piano? Check. Loud, full-speed-ahead rock 'n' roll? God, yes.
20) "Something Good Coming," Tom Petty: "Mojo" meandered, but tracks like this show that Petty's still got it in the heart department.
21) "My City of Ruins (Live)," Eddie Vedder: From the Kennedy Center tribute to the Boss, it's the best Springsteen cover in years. Rise up, indeed.
Peter Chianca writes the Gatehouse Media music blog Blogness on the Edge of Town (blogs.wickedlocal.com/springsteen). Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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On behalf of the organising committee, I am delighted to welcome you to the website for the New Zealand Society of Actuaries' 2018 Conference.
The conference is due to be held in Queenstown between 28 and 31 October 2018, and we hope many of you will be able to join us for a thought-provoking and engaging event in one of New Zealand's most iconic locations, famed for innovation, pushing boundaries and adventure.
The conference's theme 'The Remarkable Future' encourages us to explore what the future holds for the actuarial profession, in a world where change is getting faster, technological advances are ever more rapid and the world has never been more connected. It challenges us to ask ourselves how we can innovate, embrace change and adapt to ensure our place in this remarkable future.
The programme will commence on the evening of Sunday 28 October and will conclude by the middle of the day on Wednesday 31 October. It will comprise a number of plenary sessions with inspiring and thought-provoking external speakers, as well as a range of concurrent sessions which will provide plenty of opportunity for delegates and members to present papers and hear from their peers. The programme will also feature a number of social and networking events, including a welcome function on Sunday night, a relaxed evening event on Monday night and a formal gala dinner on Tuesday night. And of course, we will be making the most of the range of exciting activities Queenstown has to offer, with a choice of afternoon activities on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Homeless
Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s
The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy
Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness
Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People
The Mole People
Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us
Late in the 1970s Americans began noticing more people sleeping in public places, wandering the streets with their possessions in shopping bags, rooting through garbage bins in search of food or cans, and asking for handouts. By January 1981, when Ronald Reagan took office, a small group of activists led by Robert Hayes and Mitch Snyder had given these people a new name—"the homeless"—and had begun to convince the public that their plight was a serious one. Later that year America entered its worst recession in half a century, and the homeless became far more numerous. At the time, many people saw this as a temporary problem that would vanish once the economy recovered, but they were wrong. Unemployment fell from almost 10 percent in 1983 to just over 5 percent in 1989, but homelessness kept rising.
The spread of homelessness disturbed well-to-do Americans for both personal and political reasons. The faces of the homeless often suggest depths of despair that we would rather not imagine, much less confront in the flesh. Daily contact with the homeless also raises troubling questions about our moral obligations to strangers. Politically, the spread of homelessness suggests that something has gone fundamentally wrong with America's economic and social institutions.
Because homelessness is both deeply disturbing emotionally and controversial politically, it has inspired a steady flow of books and reports by journalists, political activists, and scholars.1 These publications cover a multitude of different issues, but I will concentrate on what they can tell us about three questions: how much homelessness increased during the 1980s, why it increased, and what we can do to reduce it.
As soon as homelessness became a political issue, legislators and journalists began asking for numbers. The Census Bureau was in no position to answer their questions, because it had always counted Americans by making lists of "dwelling units" and then trying to determine how many people lived in each unit. The bureau had never made much effort to count people living in bus stations, subways, abandoned buildings, parks, doorways, or dumpsters. Nor did it try to fill this gap when public interest in the homeless exploded in the early 1980s. Even the 1990 Census, which attempted a systematic count of people in various kinds of shelters, made only a half-hearted effort to count the roughly equal number of homeless adults who were not in shelters.2
In the absence of official statistics, both journalists and legislators fell back on estimates provided by activists. In the late 1970s Mitch Snyder argued that a million Americans were homeless. In 1982 he and Mary Ellen Hombs raised this estimate to between two and three million.3 Lacking better figures, others repeated this guess, usually without attribution. In due course it became so familiar that many people treated it as a well-established fact.
Widespread acceptance of Snyder's estimate apparently convinced the Reagan administration that leaving statistics on homelessness to private enterprise was a political mistake, and in 1984 the Department of Housing…
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The new star of NBC's The Voice? The coaches' steal!
The hit reality show's new trick, allowing one coach to swoop up another coach's contestant, is taking over the battle rounds and we love it. The steal adds a sense of unpredictability and fun to the competition as we never know when Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton will push their buttons.
And push their buttons they did during the second night of battle rounds. So which contestant caused our coaches to turn into artist robbers?
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For his team's first battle, Cee Lo decides to go for an unusual matchup: confident singer-dancer Domo aka "D to the O to the M to the O" vs. farm boy Cody Belew. "It's a battle between the singer that can dance and the dancer that can sing," Cee Lo says of the pairing, who take on Lady Gaga's "Telephone."
Blake compliments Domo's beauty and tells Cody he's "damn good looking" as well. Christina acknowledges that the song was more in Domo's comfort zone and says she won the battle, as does Adam. In the end though, Cee Lo surprises us and goes with Cody. The three other judges all choose not to steal Domo. D to the O to to M to the SO LONG!
Carson sounds off on Christina and Cee Lo's season four exit: "It'll keep things fresh!"
Team Christina
Aquile goes up against 15-year-old Natalie Hernandez on "You Give Me Something." Thanks to his age and life experience, Aquile seems to have the edge, with guest mentor Billie Joe Armstrong telling him, "I think it sounded better than the original."
Cee Lo says he "loved" their performance and tells Aquile he was "perfect." While Adam praises Nathalie's maturity ("When I was 15, I was a zit!" LOLZ, Adam!), he gives the edge to the more-experience Aquile. Christina says she has a "soft spot" for both singers, but her spot is softer for Aquile. "I think Nathalie would have been great on Blake's team," Christina says, but the country crooner decides not to steal her.
In a quickie battle, the songstress pitted Celica Westbrook against Lisa Scinta on Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" and decides to keep Celica.
NBC renewed The Voice for two more seasons
Team Adam
The battle of the night was Caitlin Michele, who suffers from panic attacks, vs. photographer Melanie Martinez on the hit song "Lights." He says they both "do interesting unique things in a pop context," which is why he paired them. After an emotional performance, it's clear that the other three judges are interesting in whichever artist Adam sends home. Blake refuses to say who he thought won the battle and Christina refuses as well, calling it the "prettiest and most moving performance." Cee Lo won't say either, but says he loves Melanie.
"None of these guys are showing their hand because they want one of you," Adam says of his fellow coaches. Adam says the decision sucks, but chooses to keep Melanie, making Caitlin fair game for Cee Lo and Blake. Blake says he has a "soft spot for unique artists" like her; Cee Lo counters that "Unique" is his first name and says, "Come to me, my dark princess." In the end, Caitlin chooses Cee Lo, aka her prince.
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In a quickie battle smog technician Charlie Rey went up against grandfather Rudy Parris and Rudy takes it.
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"Here we are… knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do…? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light?… Name one thing you could make." from blog post at fair companies
Sustainable living continues to intrigue me on many levels. As I am sure I have said before in one of my blogs somewhere, the term has been upcycled over time encompassing everything from waste not want not thriftiness, frugal cost saving, simple and/or meaningful living, do it yourself, homesteading, living off the grid, recycling, green or eco-living, but whatever it might mean to you, I have a stronger sense of what it has meant and means to me.
A few years back I set upon myself the task of learning to do more that would equate to what is today's term of sustainable living by trying to teach myself more of the old homemaker skills that seem to elude my grasp. It was both fun and challenging and I learned some few new skills, but not nearly enough to survive if the way of life as we know it does not sustain.
I keep thinking I will blog about it, make a website collection about it and I do go about getting projects started but fall seriously short of goal. Enough years have elapsed with the internet now that there are many such blogs, websites, groups, forums, social networks that cover sustainable living far more comprehensively than my meager collection efforts.
So what is the point of this blog entry? I have One Note which is a great piece of Microsoft software that works like several expanding file folders. For the most part that is where I keep my collections. There is no need to blog it as a means to harvest or collect information intended for my personal use. Blogging then has changed shape for me as blogging is a sharing of information enterprise, and I am not sure what I have to share that hasn't been shared somewhere else by someone else.
I've seen a number of blogs that serve as collections of source links pointing to other peoples accomplishments. I could perhaps do that as well, and find I am likely unwilling to devote the time to keeping such a blog updated regularly, nor spending great amounts of time searching out the internet. So this blog will be a bit more random and irregular in it's purpose, theme and what catches my interest to share. Mostly though, it still feels to me like the overarching theme for me is what amounts to sustainable living – on several fronts.
Having taken all my blogs and integrated them into one, I find I have far too many category tags for the tags to be functional. Yet I am unwilling to spend the time to condense the category tags for each blog post into more functional categorization. Wishing any interested reader well in trying to sort through the too lengthy list of tags, but I sure wouldn't blame you if you gave up after seeing the list.


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Ten months after the governor, and then MMWD, asked for reductions in water use, MMWD customers continue to respond well. Average consumption for mid-October 2014 was approximately 25% lower than it was last year. The total water savings achieved since the beginning of the year have helped to keep our reservoirs at close to normal levels.
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Reservoir Levels: As of October 19, reservoir storage is 49,579 acre-feet,* or 62% of capacity. The average for this date is 52,290 acre-feet, or 66% of capacity. Total capacity is 79,566 acre-feet.
Rainfall: Rainfall this year to date (July 1-October 19) is 1.12 inches. Average for the same period is 2.33 inches.
Water Use: Water use for the week of October 13-19 averaged 21.98 million gallons per day, compared to 27.86 million gallons per day for the same week last year.
Creek Releases: During the month of September 2014 MMWD released 160 million gallons, or 490 acre-feet, into Lagunitas and Walker creeks in west Marin for habitat enhancement.
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