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Leaving a nursing job in Minnesota after allegations of misconduct was never much of a problem for Kathryn Idovich. She always found another one.
Six times in 12 years, in fact.
By the time the Minnesota Board of Nursing suspended Idovich's license last December, Idovich's employment history included a patient injury under her watch, medication errors, unauthorized lookups of patient records and reporting to work after drinking, records show.
A Star Tribune review of Nursing Board disciplinary actions since 2010 found that at least 173 caregivers lost jobs after allegations of misconduct and managed to find new nursing positions. That includes nurses who have been found responsible for maltreating children and vulnerable adults, stolen drugs from their workplaces, practiced while impaired, or whose care has to led to harm of their patients.
Neither the Nursing Board nor Idovich's former employers would discuss how she was able to lead such a long career, despite events — four firings, five drunken-driving convictions and failing state sobriety monitoring — that were cited as justification for her license suspension last year.
"There were a number of instances, and such a long pattern," said Deb Holtz, the state's ombudsman for long-term care. Holtz reviewed Idovich's records for the Star Tribune. "There didn't seem to be any critical point in the system, where someone or something said, 'This is enough.' "
In an interview last month, Idovich, 39, who lives in northern Minnesota, attributed her job turnover to false accusations, bad luck and a desire to do different kinds of nursing care. She said she is ready to return to practice after being sober since April 2012.
"I have letters from my employers saying I was at work on time, that I was working hard and responsible," she said.
By law, employers are supposed to tell the Nursing Board when they fire a nurse. But the Nursing Board has not used its power to sanction employers for failing to do so.
Nurses who have lost jobs most often find work in the high-demand areas of aging care, group homes and home health care, disciplinary records show. Patti Cullen, the president of Care Providers of Minnesota, a trade group of more than 600 long-term care providers in the state, acknowledged that troubled nurses are working in her industry.
Cullen blamed holes in the state's background check system and employers' fear of defamation lawsuits from former employees for enabling problem nurses to quickly find new jobs. Cullen reviewed Idovich's case for the Star Tribune and said she did not believe any of her members would hire Idovich "if they knew any of this."
"She fell through the cracks," Cullen said. "There were a lot of protections that were built in to protect the innocent that also protect those that are chronic offenders."
A career in nursing
Idovich obtained an LPN license in 1997 without disclosing that she had been convicted of drunken driving four years earlier or that she had abused alcohol, according to a Nursing Board report.
Two years later, in 1999, Idovich was working at a group home when a picture frame fell on a resident in her care, she said. The injury near his eye required stitches. Idovich was fired.
The Star Tribune could not determine whether Idovich's group home employer, or any of her employers since then, complied with the 1989 law requiring reporting of terminations to the Nursing Board, because those reports are shielded from public view.
A law passed last year allows the Nursing Board to levy a fine against any employer that violates this law. The board has not investigated any employer for failing to report, according to Nursing Board Executive Director Shirley Brekken.
In 2003, Idovich applied for an RN license and did not disclose she had a history of alcohol abuse or that she had been fired from a job, according to the Nursing Board report.
She went to work for a hospital, which Idovich said was the most stressful place she has worked. According to the Nursing Board, Idovich resigned from the hospital after being told about concerns regarding medication errors, blood administration and communication.
Idovich went to work for a Brainerd home health care company in 2003, then resigned in April 2004. According to the Nursing Board, she cashed a check from the home of a client without authorization. Idovich said she was falsely accused by the company and did nothing wrong.
In 2006, Idovich was fired from a dialysis company. According to the board, she did not report for duty. Idovich said she lost her job after she called in sick.
At the end of 2009, Idovich was fired from MeritCare in Bemidji after she repeatedly accessed patients' and colleagues' medical records without authorization, according to the Nursing Board report. Idovich told the Star Tribune she only accessed her children's records. "I didn't know you couldn't do that," she said.
Caring for seniors
Idovich then began working for Heritage Community, a senior-care facility in Park Rapids managed by Ecumen. She was at Heritage for about a month before a co-worker smelled alcohol on her breath. She said she refused to take a toxicology screen.
Idovich said she wasn't scheduled to come in to work that day, had "a few beers" and then got called in.
"I wasn't doing any patient cares until I helped somebody with a patient," she said. "Somebody must have smelled it and called the director."
Idovich said the policy of the home was to refer employees with substance-abuse problems to treatment, rather than fire them. She said she called a state monitoring program for addicted or mentally ill health care professionals and reported her alcohol abuse and treatment history. Idovich enrolled in March 2010, but the Health Professionals Services Program did not have to alert the Nursing Board.
In April 2010, Idovich was contacted by the Nursing Board for what appears to be the first time and asked to respond to her firing for accessing patient records at MeritCare. The Nursing Board issued a reprimand and ordered Idovich to pay a $750 fine.
The Nursing Board report does not indicate whether it looked into her previous firings and DWIs.
That was a glaring error, according to Melissa Becker, a registered nurse and a legal nurse consultant who reviewed Idovich's case for the Star Tribune.
"The Board of Nursing relies too much on self-reporting," Becker said. "If you're simply looking for self-disclosure, you're going to fail."
In January 2011, Idovich was fired from Heritage Community for "failing to complete necessary paperwork for her leave of absence," according to the Nursing Board report. Idovich said she was fired after she requested a leave due to a pregnancy and an illness, and Heritage learned she was looking for other work.
"Luckily, Neilson Place ended up hiring me," she said.
That facility, a nursing home in Bemidji, took Idovich on in February 2011, at least her seventh nursing job in 12 years.
In September of that year, she was discharged from the state monitoring program for noncompliance after submitting three untestable drug screens. She denied drinking while under state monitoring.
In January 2012, Idovich said the Nursing Board told her she would be able to keep her license, but then in April 2012 she was charged with her fifth DWI, a felony.
She pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. In December 2012, the board suspended her license, for the first time indicating that they knew her full history of job losses and alcohol abuse.
"If you get a DWI, the board will take every action to help you keep your license," she said. "But if you get a felony one, it's different."
Since then, Idovich said, she has worked at a grocery store and cleaned hotel rooms. She said she wanted to be a nurse assistant, but the felony DWI disqualified her from providing direct care.
She said she's a good nurse who put her patients first, and is continually working to stay sober, including attending Alcoholics Anonymous once a week. Idovich is now eligible to petition to get her license back, which she said she plans to do.


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The creative process
I feel forced, A Psychotic ride. imbalances. Justifications stretched within the middle.. A conspiracy against self. Its a Schizoid illusion.
The creative process creates anxiety
The creative process forces me back into the Psychotic front lines. lives that force me to dissociate. So going into the art world is like going into a war. Everything gets triggered, and Im reminded that if I cant get through the art process because of the traumas, Im back where I started from. This makes everything really really tuff... Yet, Im tuff. I will tuff it out . Reorganize , go at it again and again and again.. Trust God on my knees and keep going..
Its not about the creative process anymore. Its about the dedication to the production. That is the more mature part of all of it. The preparation for the audience to believe it is of high worth. The polish. The shine. That is the dedicated manageable adult. Not all of my alters agree...
I cant spend more then a few minutes into it. Anxiety from PTSD, Alters, Protectors, people outside of me, people inside of me. The creative process creates anxiety.
Do I accept it, do I run from it.
Their is a still small voice to create. This is the innocent child.
The quest of artistic ownership goes on..
I feel like Im 6 years old. lies,,fake smile and abandon wait for me outside.
The Forest, Christmas trees
Im all alone.!
Im from the Psychiatric class.
Its always burning,
Not so light at times.
Its always burning
If I could finish a project, what would it look like...
I think the monsters are protectors that are heading out to battle. The real world. Dancing in the real world. Dying in the real world. Living in the real world. All of life is a Television..
I get stuck
Answer of manageability:
I simply take breaks: Call someone..
I write out what the project is, what I expect to get from it. What it looks like.
I use examples from others completed work of what Im looking for in an end product
I create a rough draft and get started.
Its important to keep it innocent. If it ever gets past innocent, its time to go swimming... Its time to laugh and become a volcano.
Spontaneity with Safety. Hmmm... That is all I was trying to say... !!!


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Well, this is it, the last Backspin before we roast another beast and drink heavily in a forlorn attempt to damp the pain of endless caroling in every store we go into (does the tire store really need to play "Away in a Manger" amid the perfume of new tires?).
Anyway, in this season of compulsive consumption, the gift that keeps on giving (at least until it is superseded by a newer, better version in six months or a year) is the iPhone 5.
Consider Mumbai, where the high cost of the iPhone 5 as compared to consumer income was predicted to result in weak sales. All stocks of the device were sold out a few days after its November launch! Moreover, it was reported by India's CNN-IBN that despite resupply, a "minimum waiting period for [the iPhone] is around 10 to 15 days" which, in turn, has triggered a wave of gray market sales.
China, where the price of the iPhone 5 compared to the average wage is even greater, saw the phone go on sale on Dec. 14 with "around 300,000 online orders already placed with China Unicom" reports Japan's NTD Television.
Even in the U.S., iPhone 5 availability is limited, and at some Apple store locations, a "two per customer" maximum is in place. Of course, if you're committed to getting one for each member of your family and there's more than two of you, there's going to be a problem.
And there will be even more of a problem when your English is poor, you think that other customers are being sold more than the maximum of two, and you attempt to document this outrage by taking a video (presumably using your existing iPhone), thereby annoying the store's management.
Such was the rather confused tale of one Xiaojie Li, of Newton, Mass., who, after scoring two iPhone 5's at Apple's store in Nashua, N.H., had ordered two more online and went to pick them up at the same store. The reason she drove 40 miles to Nashua, even though there's an Apple store in Newton a few miles from her home, is the lack of sales tax in New Hampshire.
When the Apple store management saw Ms. Li they asked her to leave and this was, it seems, when she started videoing and a policeman, who was moonlighting as store security, got involved and did the obvious thing: He tasered her (there is, of course, a video of the whole incident).
This ridiculously over-the-top response to a small Chinese woman who doesn't speak English very well was described by Nashua's chief of police as justified because security is needed to control "groups who will buy large numbers of the devices and then sell them for a profit overseas."
So, what this comes down to is the police doing what they should, protecting Apple's "official" market and the fact that Ms. Li was tasered is the fault of the Indian and Chinese gray markets. Right. Talk about putting the "Christ!" in Christmas.
Here's hoping the charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest against Ms. Li are dismissed and that she and you, have a great holiday. And my seasonal purchasing advice? Stay away from Apple stores.
Gibbs is inclined to celebrate Festivus in Ventura, Calif. Could you wrestle him to the floor? Challenges to email@example.com and follow him on Twitter and App.net (@quistuipater) and on Facebook (quistuipater).
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[Introduced January 11, 2012
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Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-3-5a, relating to the prevention and control of communicable and other infectious diseases; and creating the "West Virginia Elimination of Mercury in Vaccines Act" requiring the elimination of mercury in vaccines.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-3-5a, to read as follows:
§16-3-5a. Elimination of mercury in vaccines.
This section may be cited as the "West Virginia Elimination of Mercury in Vaccines Act of 2011."
(a) Effective July 1, 2011, vaccines administered within the state may not contain mercury or mercury compounds, including, but not limited to, thimerosal, unless:
(1) A specific vaccine that does not contain mercury is not manufactured; or
(2) A mercury-free vaccine is not available despite using best efforts to secure that vaccine.
(b) If, in accordance with subsection (a), a mercury-free vaccine is unavailable, a vaccine that contains a trace amount of mercury, as defined by the United States Food and Drug Administration, may be administered.
(c) If a mercury-free vaccine or a vaccine that contains a trace amount of mercury is unavailable, the vaccine that contains
the least amount of mercury is to be administered.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate, to the maximum extent possible, the use of vaccines that contain mercury.
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11 Eyes - Complete Collection (DVD)
Title: 11 Eyes - Complete Collection
Volume: DVD
Running time: 325
Distributor: Sentai Filmworks
Release date: 2011-01-11
Suggested retail price: $49.98
Age rating: NR
Raised in an orphanage after witnessing his sister's suicide, Satsuki Kakeru's life has already been dark and cruel enough. When he and his friend Yuka are thrown into a alternate dimension called the Red Night, it takes a gruesome turn from bad to horrific. Now, trapped flickering between our world and the Red, Kakeru quickly discovers that he and Yuka are not alone, and that, together with the other so-called "fragments," they must defeat the malevolent entities known as the Black Knights.
Facing monsters from beyond imagination and at the center of a deadly hunt, Kakeru's only chance of saving their lives now hinges on finding the power buried within himself and unraveling the mystery of his own origins and family... if he can survive long enough to do it! The horrors of the Red Night are just the beginning of the nightmare as shocking truths are exhumed!
Special Features: Clean Opening Animation, Clean Closing Animation.
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- Reviewed in Shelf Life (October 10, 2011)
- Reviewed by Theron Martin (January 27, 2011)
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Emmy winner Judi Evans presented several awards at the Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Friday night in Los Angeles along with DAYS OF OUR LIVES co-star James Scott. We Love Soaps spoke with the talented actress on the red carpet. Watch the video below.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Judi Evans: Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards
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LOVE Judi Evans! I wish we could see more of her on Days..that show needs to be wise and give its very talented cast decent storylines. Thank you for the interview!ReplyDelete
Damon, I have been watching "Days" again since the news first 'broke' about Alice Horton's declining health on the show (first time in over 10 years!) and I could not believe how GREAT Judi Evans looks! She has never looked better. So glad she's on the show again!ReplyDelete
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Yes they both do the wipe move. Although I have installed a PEI sheet and nothing gets wiped off anymore. Probably due to my nozzle height setting. Thinking of building a actual wipe brush setup. But it has not been a problem so far. I got my ID on the 23rd and it has been running non stop ever since. It is 12:57am on 12/31/17. I have completed a 18, 29, and am working on another 24 hour print. Well S3D said it was only 14 and octo gave me a 3 day estimate. 3 hours into a 45.4MB print and octo says I have 20hrs left. I have ran MG PLA, IC3D pla, and am currently using 3D Solutech silver PLA. I am printing ericthepoolboys LS3 engine. The intake was the 29hr print, I printed 7 pistons at .1 layer and that was the 18hr print. I am currently printing both heads in duplicate mode, S3D said 9 hrs for one and 17 for both with a single extruder, so I figured I'd run the duplication mode and do both in the 9 hr time. Well looks like it's gonna take a little longer but still half the time as using one nozzle.
My first time using S3D and only my second print in duplication mode. I placed my models as far to the right as I could on the bed in fear that the heads would collide. There is no check that I saw in S3D that makes sure your heads will not run into each other in DUP mode. I found that out the hard way. I just made sure that I thought of the model as only ONE model and made all of my settings from there. Since E0 cannot completely clear the bed as E1 can I programed everything from it. Also make sure you do not have two tool paths in S3D preview. It will let you run a brim with both tool heads which can cause a crash of the two if you are not careful. You can imagine how I found that out:}
After learning from my mistakes I am 1millon times happy with this printer.
The only settings I have changed from the MG S3D settings are my retract distance and speed, temp settings for different materials, and my start layer %. I have left the speeds at default and it prints perfect! Slow, but perfect. I have a rostock max V1 upgraded to a V3 so I am used too a lot faster speeds, and I have NEVER been able to get PLA to work on that machine. But all the parts that I print and sell are ABS so I never really cared. I purchased the M3 ID for the duplication mode, to make twice the parts in half the time. I have not printed anything in ABS yet but I am sure I can get it to work. I love this machine! I built a half a$#^d enclosure out of cardboard and bubble wrap and on the non printing head I can get 40C with the bed set at 60C in a room that is maybe 68F. Not bad.
I am looking forward to the release of the M3 enclosure at the end of FEB. Hopefully if will not be a cheap plastic cover like some of the other printer manufactures. I'm sure MG will do it right.
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I have it now for a few weeks and am really happy with the Kruger. The only weakness I can spot is the fan located at the below the build plate, I had some poly support falling down. If a little piece gets in the fan it would ruin it I think.I think I'm going to put some kind of extra barrier above it.
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Sticking a screwdriver in the fan is a bad idea (and it happens in moments of inattention in spite of one's best efforts), but I would not expect a piece of wayward plastic to do more than just stop it. At any rate, I have printed for years and never had an issue with the electronics enclosure fan, nor seen any forum posts of anyone who did (other than the issue of the 12V fans wired in series, but that's an M2 thing and I don't know if it applies to the M3).
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They don't call it the 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse-Freeze-A-Palooza for nothing; weather conditions at Thunderhill in late December usually oscillate between "horizontal stinging sleet" and "bad day even by Ivan Denisovich standards." The folks at the Busted Knuckle Garage, realizing this, sent me one of their trapper hats, which I had the opportunity to test out in the 37-degree morning weather at the 25 Hours Of Thunderhill last weekend.
The hat is pretty damn warm, just the thing for the Arse-Freeze pits (last year I made the mistake of thinking that the Arsenal Gooners knit cap given to me by my soon-to-be-ex-friend in London would actually keep me warm at the race, in addition to getting my spleen kicked out by enraged Spurs fans). Perhaps more importantly, it tells the world that you're a man or woman of exceptional
automotive geekiness taste and sophistication. And for you Midwesterners, chortling condescendingly at what we soft, lotus-eating Californians dare to call "cold weather," wearing this hat will make you look like the gearhead version of the Slush Sweeping Guy in Fargo, which you totally want. It's $34.95; Tru-Coat™ is extra.
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The GEL-Kayano 25 hugs and cushions your feet to absorb impact to make your last km as comfy as your first. Updated with a jacquard mesh upper and a new Meta Clutch external heel-counter, The GEL-Kayano 25 uses an integrated panel on the medial to provide unparalleled support.
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Lauren Conrad on the Pressure to Look Perfect
In seventh grade, I was allowed to wear makeup, and to say it was a trial-and-error process would be an understatement. I matched my eye shadow to my outfits each day but took little care in matching my foundation to my actual skin tone. My eyebrows were overplucked, and my hair was overstraightened. I was a complete disaster. Actually, I was a reflection of an Orange County standard of beauty. As we grow up, we're taught what beauty is by what we see around us. It was pretty easy for me to blend in—my skin tanned easily, and I was born with naturally blond hair— but I can't imagine how difficult it was for the girls who didn't fit the mold. It can be terrifying to wander through high school feeling different.
When I moved out of Orange County, my tan faded, I stopped abusing eyeliner (for the most part), and I began experimenting more with my style, hair, and makeup. I learned a lot about myself and what looks good on me in the process. One of the best parts of growing up is finding the freedom to model yourself on what feels the most true rather than mirror what's around you.
When I stumbled into the entertainment industry, it came with one big perk: a beauty team. I would spend hours prior to each photo shoot in a cloud of hairspray and powder, emerging as a new and improved me. The veneer of perfection you see on the small screen and in magazines is far from the truth, though. The industry's best hair and makeup artists can give us perfect lips and beautiful windblown waves. We're all spackled, whether to combat breakouts, dark circles, or wrinkles. Then, because that's not enough, a retoucher will take a magnifying glass to the final image and meticulously correct every errant hair. (I do make sure—in both my new book and my previous book, Lauren Conrad Style—not to go overboard with retouching. I feel strongly that the image I project should be what I actually am: a fairly normal girl with fairly normal problems.) We're surrounded by absolutely unrealistic ideas of beauty because girls in photos are, well, not real. They're the result of a hairstylist, a makeup artist, a manicurist, a personal stylist, a tailor, good lighting, correct angles.... And to get that one photo that makes the cut, sometimes a thousand or more need to be taken.
So, look at pictures of celebrities for artistic inspiration—cool eye-shadow color combos, blush placements, unexpected ways to wear your hair—but don't think for a second that you should look like them. Because nobody does, not even them.
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Brother International Returns As Integrated Partner For Season Five, Premiering Wednesday, July 16 at 9 PM ET/PT
Bravo Renews Series Partnership With ELLE Magazine For Fifth Season of Peabody Award-Winning And Emmy-Nominated Series
NEW YORK � July 14, 2008 � Bravo and The Weinstein Company have inked partnerships with American Express, Bluefly.com, L'Or�al Paris, Saturn, and TRESemm� as official sponsors of the fifth season of Bravo's Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated series, "Project Runway," premiering Wednesday, July 16 at 9 p.m., ET/PT. The multi-platform deals provide significant brand exposure through product integration and presence both on-air and online. The joint announcement was made today by Susan Malfa, Senior Vice President, Ad Sales, Bravo Media and Oxygen Media and John Miller, Executive Vice President of Television at The Weinstein Company.
For the fifth consecutive cycle, Bravo continues its overall series partnership with ELLE magazine, including the expertise of Editor-At-Large Nina Garcia as a series judge, and prizing for the winner of "Project Runway," who will receive an editorial feature in an upcoming issue of ELLE.
"Our passionate viewers want to connect with our shows on all platforms: online, on the phone or interactively with the show," said Malfa. "Our viewers create the buzz; they are influencers and advertisers get the benefit of that word-of-mouth power."
"Project Runway gives us the unique opportunity to incorporate a diverse group of partners, who are all committed to building the Project Runway brand outside of traditional categories," says Miller. "We are thrilled to be working with these unbelievable brands, some of whom have been with us since season one and have proven to be an invaluable asset to the show."
Elements of the sponsorships and integrations surrounding the fifth season of "Project Runway" include:
AMERICAN EXPRESS: American Express will present the weekly broadband aftershow, "Watch What Happens: After The Sew Live," hosted by Bravo's Andy Cohen, available to American Express Cardmembers. The live aftershow series will be housed on a custom microsite on www.BravoTV.com (bravotv.com/americanexpress). Custom on-air spots will drive viewers online each week to see exclusive commentary from Cohen, aufed contestants, past designers and special guests. American Express will also sponsor the Project Runway blogs, accessible to fashion fans everywhere. These activities are part of American Express' continued commitment to adding value and enhancing experiences for people passionate about fashion and creating special benefits and access for Cardmembers.
BLUEFLY.COM: Bluefly, a fully integrated sponsor, has teamed up with "Project Runway" to give the winning designer an exclusive opportunity to sell his or her creations on Bluefly.com and will once again host the "Bluefly.com Accessory Wall" in the designers' workroom. Bluefly will additionally be sponsoring Bravo's new B-Hive Viewing Parties � where fans are encouraged to submit pictures from their viewing parties to www.BravoTV.com for the chance to win the Ultimate Viewing Party attended by a past Project Runway designer. Their sponsorship also includes Bravo's "INFO Frame" live voting as well as the wildly popular "Fan Favorite," where the winning designer will be awarded a $10,000 Bluefly.com shopping spree.
L'OR�AL PARIS: The world's biggest beauty brand returns to "Project Runway" for the fifth year and continues to have an important presence, both on-air and online. L'Or�al Paris will once again provide a makeup room in each episode for the models' reveal. L'Or�al Paris will also sponsor the "Project Runway" Mobile Fan Club, which gives fans access to their favorite show personalities as well as exclusive show-related content weekly via their mobile phone. Bi-weekly L'Or�al Paris tips will be sent to fans who sign up for them. Their sponsorship also includes the Fashion Flyaway sweepstakes, which offers one lucky viewer an all-expense paid trip to New York and tickets to the season finale in Bryant Park along with a beauty makeover.
SATURN: A fully integrated sponsor, Saturn will award the winning designer a brand new 2009 Saturn VUE Hybrid. Saturn will also host an on-air vignette series featuring past "Project Runway" contestants who have been paired with a different Saturn vehicle and challenged to create an outfit inspired by the car. The vignettes detail their creative process, reveal the final results and drive online to a custom microsite to see how each designer "rethinks" design. The custom microsite also features additional footage, photo galleries and regular blogs from each designer. The site will also feature a weekly blog from Saturn advertising specialist, Lisa Gilpin and fans will be able to download widgets to put on their social networking sites. Saturn will also sponsor the "Fashion Fastlane" game on www.BravoTV.com as well as the Fashion Flyaway sweepstakes, which boasts an all-expense paid trip to New York and tickets to the season finale in Bryant Park.
TRESemm�: TRESemm� Professional Hair Care, a fully integrated partner, will provide the "next great American designer" with $100,000, for the winner to start his or her own collection. TRESemm� will once again increase its presence online with the sponsorship of the Weekly Online Challenge on www.BravoTV.com, where fans can test their design skills for the chance to win weekly prizes as well as the Project Runway weekly poll and the Model Photo Galleries. Lead TRESemm� stylist for Project Runway, Jeanie Syfu, will also write a weekly blog about the series. This season, the brand is partnering up with last year's winner, Christian Siriano, for the TRESemm� "How Fierce Is Your Hair" contest.
BROTHER INTERNATIONAL: Brother International Corporation has earned its reputation as a leading supplier of innovative products for the sewing and embroidery enthusiast and will be featured through on-air product integration. Through a growing network of sewing machine dealers and retail outlets nationwide, Brother offers a full line of home sewing and industrial machines, from basic to top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery machines.
Returning to the runway, host and supermodel Heidi Klum heads a panel of industry luminaries, including judges, top women's and men's wear designer Michael Kors, and fashion expert Nina Garcia, as they decide who is "in" and who is "out." Tim Gunn, Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne, Inc. will once again act as a mentor to the designers as they take on weekly fashion challenges. In what is certain to be the most fabulous season yet, viewers can expect to see top names in fashion and design guest star as well as surprises and twists along the way on this season of "Runway."
The 16 "Project Runway" contestants will be whittled down week-by-week to the finalists who will show their own line in front of an audience of fashion industry movers and shakers at New York Fashion Week.
"Project Runway" is co-produced by The Weinstein Company and Miramax Films. Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz ("Top Chef," "Last Comic Standing") and Rich Bye of Magical Elves are executive producers of "Project Runway." Heidi Klum is host and executive producer. Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein, and Desiree Gruber and Jane Cha of Full Picture are also executive producers. Barbara Schneeweiss oversees the production on behalf of The Weinstein Company.
Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been a NBC Cable Network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information visit www.bravotv.com.


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The U.S. does not have DVB-T. The U.S. has ATSC, which is different. This new Pi hat will not work with U.S. broadcast TV.ab1jx wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:31 pmIs there any more technical information available? Does it work outside the UK? Here in the US we have DVB-T, we don't use PAL video (we have NTSC), our standard TV antenna connector is the "F-connector" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_connector Looks like the chrome connector is an adapter that plugs into the board, we'd probably want a different one. Is that a CRC connector on the board itself? There are a few similar ones, I have something similar on my RTL2832 SDR/DVB dongles, a slightly different (incompatible) one on a Huawei cell modem. I can buy a Chinese TV and it works.
This will be my first "hat", looks like it should fit fine on my Pi with the official touchscreen display, wonder how that will work out. I do have a couple of bluetooth keyboards, one a small handheld one. Wonder if there's a way to make controls appear on the touchscreen while something's on the TV? I don't watch much really except Star Trek reruns. Can't get Dr Who.
Kodi looks like a newer generation of MythTV, used to use that with a Happauge card that plugs into a PCI slot. I took a quick look for a way to make Kodi work with my RTL2832 in DVB mode but didn't see one.
The page at https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/ra ... -now-modal says there are no resellers in my region. Wonder if that's a permanent thing? I was all set to order one too.


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New Zealand demanded Friday that Japan explain why its oil-laden whaling ship has not yet been moved away from the pristine Antarctic coast eight days after being crippled by fire.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand demanded Friday that Japan explain why its oil-laden whaling ship has not yet been moved away from the pristine Antarctic coast eight days after being crippled by fire.
Conservation Minister Chris Carter said New Zealand wants the stricken Nisshin Maru urgently moved out of the area to avoid an environmental disaster if the weather deteriorates and the ship founders.
"That ship is still stationary in the water. It has got 343,000 gallons of toxic oil in it and we want it out of there," Carter said.
Japan appears determined that the 8,000-ton ship will leave the region under its own steam, while New Zealand and conservationists say it should accept offers to help tow it away to ease fears it could spill oil or toxic chemicals near Antarctica's largest penguin rookery.
"It isn't posing any threat to the Antarctic environment and the best thing to do for the safety of the crew is to complete ... getting the vessel seaworthy," said Glenn Inwood, spokesman for Japan's Institute for Cetacean Research.
The ship's main engine has been restarted but crew members turned it off while they repair the vessel's safety systems, he said.
"We keep hearing these optimistic reports that the engine is working and that they are making great progress but the bottom line is it is still stationary in the water," Carter said.
Weather in the Ross Sea where the vessel is drifting, lashed between two other whalers about 135 miles north of the pristine Antarctic coast, is still calm and the ship is not in any danger from pack ice, Inwood said.
The Japanese whaling fleet had been "really, really lucky with the weather -- but that won't last," Carter said.
Japanese officials say the fire did not cause any structural damage to the ship. One crew member died.
The fire crippled Japan's efforts to hunt up to 945 whales in the Southern Ocean in a season that runs from mid-December to mid-March, because the Nisshin Maru is the only ship in the fleet that can process carcasses.
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to Home: An Homage to Hestia"
Essay by Patricia J. Thompson
Close to Home: Introduction by Susan Hoeltzel
Home. The word evokes incongruent emotions. For some, it is the "warm fuzzies." For others, something less or something more. Everyday life, in its cyclical and unremitting mundaneity is not always etched as dearly in our memories as recollections of things that are out of the ordinary. We are so caught up with events and activities in the public sphere that we overlook the deep meaning experiences in the private sphere hold for our lives. That is why a society needs its arts and its artists! They remind us of the touchstones of our humanness and that, through our own efforts, we can transform that which would "bring us down" into that which will "lift us up." The exhibit "Close to Home" disrupts the taken-for-grantedness of our everyday world and marks ordinary objects and activities with the extraordinary eye and hand of the artist.
Households are the background setting for our most intimate associationsour
families. Political theorist Jean Betake Elshtain calls the family a "beloved
landscape." It is also a landscape strewn with shopping carts, tablecloths,
unsorted laundry, johnny mops, and ironing boards. These commonplace artifacts
of the household are the "technologies" of modern domestic life. So intimately
implicated in "housework" or "women's work," these items are often used
but rarely thought of as constituting an "esthetic" of the household.
Why should such banal items as twist ties, scouring pads, cosmetic pads,
dental and embroidery floss, steel wool, foam packaging, and squeeze bottles
be rescued from the garbage and take their place in creative projects
on display in art galleries? If men can establish an "ashcan school of
art," shouldn't women be able to sustain a "garbage pail" school?
According to anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, "specific everyday
tasks can be life-giving, binding individuals to each other and to the
past. They can also be opened up as areas of choice, becoming the building
blocks of identity." As she further remarks, "a household requires sustained
attention to many different needs, a very different kind of attention.
Time, space, and tools need to be used for multiple purposes." In the
present instance, they are also used to produce novel and arresting works
of art. The link between artwork and housework shows a refreshing appreciation
for commonplace objects and reminds us of their role in the real work
of "home-making."
Behind the mundane artifacts related to prosaic household
activities lies a human purpose which both male and female artists in
this exhibit help us to realize. As brought together by curator Susan
Hoeltzel, the artworks play off the unifying notion of "housework" and
offer the viewer a new appreciation for aspects of life we are likely
to take for granted and which we are unlikely to pause and reflect upon
as contributing to our psychological well-being.
Homage to Hestia:
Stephanie Demetrakopoulos believes we should "resacralize Hestia" because
to make her as culturally central and apparent as she was in ancient Greece
would give public recognition to the worth of private household work done
mostly by women. If we could resacralize this aspect of lifeenjoy
it as a part of the activity of beingwe might recover the connections
between mind and body, private and public, and the worlds of men and women,
traditionally so separate. Demetrakopoulos rejects the idea of Hestia
as a mere allegory for the "monotonous work that sustains our species,
housewifery." She encourages us to regard Hestia as the background for...labor
as a process in the house...whose products are swallowed and undone by
our needs as fast as the chores and duties can he done." She says that
putting the Hestian aspects of life onto women and sequestering them within
the home denies the fact that human life requires a great deal of repetitive
toil, simply to survive. The works assembled here help us bring this fact
of life back into consciousness in novel ways. On a Jungian reading, Hestia
becomes a psychological archetype whose qualities help women to remain
centered, withstand solitude, resist damaging relationships with men,
and find value in their personal resources and capacity for creativity
in their relationships with people and with the things of everyday life.
Barbara Kirksey remarks that, without Hestia, herself "imageless," there
can be no focusing on the image, and there are no boundaries to differentiate
the intimacy of the inner dwelling and the outer world because there is
no psychic house to give protective walls. She emphasizes Hestia's "cohesive
function in the soul, which preserves the element of wholeness, allowing
the individual to image "in peace." Framing our perspective in this way
helps us to view this unusual assemblage in the proper frame of intelligibilitythe
Hestian frame of referenceso that we can experience the ordinary
transformed into the extraordinary.
In the mid-19th century, Catharine Beecher published The Treatise
on Domestic Economy which suggested ways in which women could reduce
their workloads in the household and improve their health. Later, with
her sister Harriett Beecher Stowe, she published The American Woman's
Home in which domesticitynot just the individual "household
arts" of cookery and stitcherywas itself elevated to a science ("domestic
science") and an art. Domesticity is rarely represented in public artexcept
for the "domestic scenes" of the classical period when Vermeer bathed
his subjects in a warm glowing light. This exhibit brings into view what
French historian Fernand Braudel has called "that vast world of the habitual,
the routine." It is precisely those things lost to historythe habits
and routines of ordinary, everyday life in householdsthat we are
invited to contemplate here. Using the familiar materials that clutter
our lives and which are found close to home presents us with a realm of
possibilities we may not previously have imagined. Experts on the domestic
scene such as Martha Stewart can help us decorate a table, but artists
help us decorate our psyches.
When I teach courses in home management and household ecology, I ask students to keep a "garbage log" on which they list everything thrown out in the household trash. After a week, their assignment is to analyze the detritus of our throwaway society and to divide it into organic and inorganic components. This tells them what is biodegradable and readily recyclable end what is not. Next they are asked to make something useful and/or beautiful from an item they usually discard without thinking. The object of the exercise is not a simple intervention in the loop from manufacturer to consumer or even the quality or artistic value of the final project. It is to make them think about the things they use and the long-term risks and benefits of such use. The time to think about such things is before we sacrifice all our natural landscapes to urban landfills. Focus on process rather than product makes us conscious of what we are doing unconsciously. In this "disruptive" task, artists play an important role.
The evocative works displayed here help us see and think differently
about what would ordinarily lie just below the surface of our consciousness.
Students tell me they remember this "garbage" exercise long after they
have forgotten the oxygen and nitrogen cycles because it touched them
"firsthand" and was so "close to home."
Perceptions are organized around particular systems of signs and categories, rules and principles, that lead us to what is deemed worthy of attention. Culture provides a schema of what is worth seeing. Cultural conditioning has made women and women's work invisible.
We (women and men) are socialized to recognize what men have recognized as important. Conversely, such cultural schemes also dictate what is not to he noticed, what is unremarkable, such as the daily round of invisible household work done by invisible hands. We notice what we are taught to noticeuntil the artist directs our attention to something we have missed.
The idea that we should stop, think, and look close to homeand not look ever outwardto enrich or beautify our lives is empowering to us as we go about our daily round. Why must we fix our gaze solely on products? Shouldn't we also consider the underlying human purposes served by mundane artifacts and humdrum routines? There is a powerful message in this collection that transforms ordinary objects in our household ecology into objects of contemplation and reflection. In combining unlikely artifacts in artworks, we are reminded that living well is itself an art. As Mary Catherine Bateson says, the greatest challenge we face is "composing a life." This exhibit reminds us that a life, like a work of art, can be composed from commonplace components. It is up to US to put them together with imagination and courage.The private/public sphere split has captured the attention of feminist scholars in many fields for more than three decades. Central to their concerns is the dilemma of domesticity. How can domestic work be equitably shared and equitably compensated? Why is Hestian work more valued when it is done by paid workers in the public sphere than by unpaid workers in the private sphere? Domesticity implies its share of drudgerybut so does other important work in society. Some drudgery of comparable or even lesser worth to society is better compensated than forms of drudgery that have profound human importance! Mundane, repetitive, monotonous work that "never gets done" is frustrating and oppressive. No argument there. It takes the artist's eye to remind us that what may be engaged in as dull and repetitive also has its redeeming aspectsthe discovery of the artist in each of us as we pursue our work in either sphere.
Professor Patricia J. Thompson of Lehman Col-
Rhonda Roland Shearer, Doll Series: Girl Action Figures (Vacuum, floor model), 1993
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TORONTO (AP) – A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event.
The Ayles Ice Shelf – all 41 square miles of it – broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.
Scientists discovered the event by using satellite imagery. Within one hour of breaking free, the shelf had formed as a new ice island, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.
Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and couldn't believe what he saw.
"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years," Vincent said. "We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead."
The ice shelf was one of six major shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic. They are packed with ancient ice that is more than 3,000 years old. They float on the sea but are connected to land.
Some scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and that climate change was a major element.
"It is consistent with climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 percent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906. "We aren't able to connect all of the dots … but unusually warm temperatures definitely played a major role."
Laurie Weir, who monitors ice conditions for the Canadian Ice Service, was poring over satellite images in 2005 when she noticed that the shelf had split and separated.
Weir notified Luke Copland, head of the new global ice lab at the University of Ottawa, who initiated an effort to find out what happened.
Using U.S. and Canadian satellite images, as well as seismic data – the event registered on earthquake monitors 155 miles away – Copland discovered that the ice shelf collapsed in the early afternoon of Aug. 13, 2005.
Copland said the speed with which climate change has affected the ice shelves has surprised scientists.
"Even 10 years ago scientists assumed that when global warming changes occur that it would happen gradually so that perhaps we expected these ice shelves just to melt away quite slowly," he said.
Derek Mueller, a polar researcher with Vincent's team, said the ice shelves get weaker and weaker as temperatures rise. He visited Ellesmere Island in 2002 and noticed that another ice shelf had cracked in half.
"We're losing our ice shelves and this a feature of the landscape that is in danger of disappearing altogether from Canada," Mueller said.
Within days of breaking free, the Ayles Ice Shelf drifted about 30 miles offshore before freezing into the sea ice. A spring thaw may bring another concern: that warm temperatures will release the new ice island from its Arctic grip, making it an enormous hazard for ships.
"Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said.
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As Moon enters the dark corners of Scorpio this morning, we can find ourselves searching for privacy and seclusion. Under this creative and feminine Moon, it's easier when we make ourselves less available to others, if we hope to maintain our inner stability and serenity. As Luna trines dreamy Neptune this afternoon, with a sextile […]
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Dynamic duo Cinema first met when working for the Acme Library of Recorded Music for Film and Television in the early 70s. Their interest in quirky mood music and solid rhythmic foundations motivated early experiments with tape loops, gargantuan modular synths and bearded session musicians. Ostracized by their colleagues, their recordings languished in obscurity until being discovered recently in a skip outside the Acme building.
Now released for the first time on 7 inch vinyl record, 'They Nicknamed Me Evil' evokes sheer terror, whilst the locked groove loops presented on the B side are continuous-play concepts for rhythmic accompaniments and additional elements, each finely tuned to perfectly underpin the A side piece, when played alongside.
An associate from the Acme days, John Carpenter, perhaps sums it up best when he says: 'Those guys ripped me off.'


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Jane Lynch Returns as Host
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Aug. 20, 2013 - NBC has given a second-season, 10 episode-renewal to Thursday night alternative series "Hollywood Game Night." The game show, hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jane Lynch, is the brainchild of award-winning actor-producer Sean Hayes and is based on his real-life game nights. The announcement was made by Paul Telegdy, President, Alternative and Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment.
Celebrities who participated during the first season included Kristin Bell, Rose Byrne, Nick Cannon, Kristin Chenoweth, Minnie Driver, Patricia Heaton, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Amy Poehler, Martin Short and Jason Sudeikis.
"'Hollywood Game Night' allows the audience to take a seat on the couch next to their favorite celebrities and enjoy the pandemonium and exuberance of the colorful cast of celebrities in each episode," said Telegdy. "Jane and her friends know how to throw a party and we're thrilled viewers have come to play too."
Added Lynch: "It's fun hanging with friends and playing ringmaster, while trying to help our contestants earn $25,000. It's a win-win for all."
In the series, two contestants in each episode are transported from their everyday lives into a once-in-a-lifetime night of fun and celebration as they step beyond the velvet rope and rub shoulders with some of their favorite celebrities. Part Hollywood club and part casual game night, the series is a fresh look into the lives of the celebrity crowd.
"Hollywood Game Night" is produced by Hazy Mills Productions (NBC's "Grimm," "Hot in Cleveland, "Soul Man"), Mission Control Media (Syfy's "Face Off"), and Universal Television. Hayes, Todd Milliner, Michael Agbabian and Dwight D. Smith are executive producers.
Please visit the official show site at http://www.nbc.com/hollywood-game-night/
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A Boeing 777 arriving from Seoul, South Korea, crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, leaving two dead, CNN reports.
According to CNN, the victims of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash were two female students on a school trip from China: Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, both 16.
While 305 people survived the crash, 182 were taken to hospitals for injuries, 49 of which were suffering serious injuries, CNN reports. 123 walked away unharmed.
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The plane was flying dangerously close to the water as it attempted to land at San Francisco International, survivors told CNN. It eventually crashed into the runway, landing on its tail, resulting in a large fireball and a charred roof. An investigation into the crash has already begun and the results may not be determined for up to two years, according to South Korea's Aviation Policy Bureau. The pilot behind the controls is a 17-year veteran of Asiana Air.
This is the third deadly crash for Asiana Air in the past two decades, CNN reports. In 1993, a plane crashed in poor weather near South Korea's Mokpo Airport, killing 68 people. In 2011, a cargo plane carrying two people from Seoul to Shanghai crashed into the East China Sea, killing both.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg revealed Saturday evening that she was almost a passenger on the plane. Sandberg explained that her family and colleagues were originally on Asiana Flight 214, but decided to switch to United for the miles. "Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash," Sandberg wrote on Facebook. "Serious moment to give thanks," she added.


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Lawrence Taylor's son went ahead and auctioned off his father's 1991 Super Bowl ring last night and when all the numbers were tallied, it went for a cool $230,401.20. Further details of the transaction, including who made the winning bid, were not released. But we do know that it was not Osi.
As Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News put it, he fell just 445,552 followers short of making good on his promise to return the ring to LT. But why not just buy the ring anyway, Osi? "Honestly, because i dont know him. If im going to spend that kind of money, it will be because people love him and show it."
That's a pretty weird thing to say and do, no? Randomly inject oneself into a strange memorabilia auction in order to have fans of a player you don't know prove they love him? And then say that is why you are doing it? He is either some sort of budding social media genius or a maniac.
What are you playing at, Osi Umenyiora?
Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl ring sold for $230K; Osi Umenyiora was not the buyer [Yahoo]


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...take the cannolis.
Who wouldn't, right? A gun can always be replaced, but a good cannoli? Come on, we know which one ranks highest, don't we?
Around here we take cannolis very seriously. We've got to. We live in the middle of nowhere. Even driving a fair distance (a half hour or so) doesn't yield a decent bakery--no, let me rephrase that--driving thirty minutes doesn't produce any kind of bakery, so finding cannolis is a little like searching for the needle in the haystack. You know they're out there--somewhere--but unless you're willing to drive a couple of hours, they're hidden.
I've gotten pretty adept at making cannolis but that can be a pain in the behind. Sometimes you just have a hankering for one cannoli. Making them from scratch involves making enough to feed a bunch of people. And I can guarantee you that, even without a crowd, if I make cannolis they will be eaten. Mostly by yours truly, so that's not a great thing to do too often.
About forty minutes from here there's a small bakery. They sell a very slim, but yummy, assortment of goodies. Last week we were there, browsing the contents of their glass case, when Hubby spied a small plate of cannolis in their cold case.
I jumped on them like a barefoot debutante at a shoe sale.
Now I've been plagued by--you guessed it--cannoli dreams.
Today we've got a medical appointment in the little bakery town. Of course my hopes are high that I'll find a little plate of cannolis.
What about you? Do you have a sweet tooth? And if you do, is there any indulgence you crave? I've got an enquiring mind, and I want to know.
Hope you have a great Friday!
Friday, May 08, 2009
Leave the Gun
...take the cannolis.
Posted by Sarita at 4:29 AM
4 comments:
- Dru said...
Yes I have a sweet tooth and plain vanilla cake with chocolate icing is my downfall.
Have a good Friday.
- Nicole McCaffrey said...
Mmmm... warm chocolate chip cookies. But they have to be home made, store-bought cookie dough just doesn't taste the same.
But like you with the canolis, if I bake them, I know who is going to devour most of them, so I don't make them nearly as often as I'd like to.
Not that I'd ever turn down a canoli if someone waved one beneath my nose. The food is half the reason I married into an Italian family! ;o)
- Wendy said...
Okay, so I've obviously led a deprived life. I've never even heard of cannolis let alone eaten one. Had to search good old Wikipedia to find out what you were writing about, and now I'll have to do a bakery run to see if such a thing exists out here! Will I regret this?
- Melissa McClone said...
I'm not a cannoli fan, but my hubby likes them. I think profiteroles drizzled with chocolate sauce are one of the best things ever created. I'm a fan of most anything chocolate though!


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Equities are mixed this morning after an overnight spike that appears to be a manipulated attempt to force the market over key resistance… that attempt has so far failed. The dollar is lower, bonds are flat, oil is higher, gold continues its impressive move higher, and unfortunately food is moving higher as well.
Weekly Jobless Claims rose right back to the 400k level, reported at 399,000 for the past week, a 7.3% jump from the prior 372k. Note how Econoday says this was a 24,000 jump, when in fact it was an increase of 27,000 over the prior report… here they subtract the 3k revision higher to make it sound better than it was, but they do the exact opposite when numbers are in the other direction, always trying to make it sound better than it actually is:
The long sweep of improvement in initial jobless claims hit a bump in the January 7 week, up a very steep 24,000 to 399,000. The goods news is that claims are still under 400,000 for a ninth time in 10 weeks. But otherwise the data, which the Labor Department stresses is free from special factors, point to a step backward for the jobs market with the four-week average, up a sizable 7,750 to 381,750, ending five straight weeks of improvement (prior four-week average revised to 374,000). Details also include a 3,000 upward revision to the December 31 week to 375,000.
Continuing claims also rose, up 19,000 in data for the December 31 week to 3.629 million. Here the four-week average is unchanged at 3.605 million with the unemployment rate for insured workers also unchanged, at 2.9 percent.
Though the data are clean from special factors, the first week of the year is typically the highest week for claims. This factor brings into play seasonal adjustment questions. Still, today's report is a disappointing start to the January employment picture.
As if any of the jobs numbers are even close to reality… they aren't.
The Retail Sales report disappointed as well, coming in at .1% in December versus the .2% prior month and .4% expected. First, let me ask you how that .1% increase compares to all the massive hype around the Christmas shopping season? Remember all those supposed records set? Mobs breaking down doors with people running each other over? Was that reality or just spin?
Here's the spin:
December retail sales advanced but less than expected but part of the slowing was due to upward revisions to November and October. Retail sales in December edged up 0.1 percent, following a 0.4 percent rise in November (originally up 0.2 percent) and 0.7 percent gain in October (previously up 0.6 percent). The December figure came in lower than the consensus forecast for 0.4 percent. Excluding autos, retail sales actually fell 0.2 percent in December after increasing 0.3 percent in November (originally up 0.2 percent) and increasing 0.5 percent in October (previously up 0.6 percent). The market median forecast was 0.4 percent. Gasoline sales dropped 1.6 percent after a 0.9 percent increase in November.
Sales excluding autos and gasoline in December were flat, following a modest 0.2 percent increase in November (originally up 0.2 percent). Econoday's survey panel now includes a consensus for this series which was 0.4 percent for December. Within the core (excluding autos and gasoline), gains were led by building materials, clothing, and food services & drinking places. Weakness was led by a drop in electronics & appliance stores.
Retail sales on a year-ago basis in December posted at up 6.5 percent, compared to 7.0 percent in November. Excluding motor vehicles, sales were up 6.0 percent on a year-on-year basis, compared to 6.8 percent the prior month.
Today's report is disappointing but hardly a disaster. Consumers are still spending and front loaded a bit in November. But some subsectors apparently did a bit of price discounting (likely electronics among others) and we may see that in quarterly earnings.
On the news, equity futures dipped somewhat as initial jobless claims also were a little higher than expected.
Retail Sales are massively overstated. Raw Retail Sales are measured in dollars. Retail Sales measure sales only at stores open for the past year – they fail to account for stores that have closed. These two errors are huge.
Once again for a picture of reality we turn to Shadowstats where John Williams has produced the following chart correcting for true inflation – the reality is so far from the hype it's not even funny. What it is is sad, embarrassing, and pathetic. Real Retail Sales, according to his corrections, have been negative since about 1992, 20 years ago! And his chart doesn't account for substitution bias which makes this even worse:
Once again, money printing/ credit creation do not equal productivity or employment once you are past the debt saturation point. Yes, you can make dollar denominated statistics appear as if they are moving higher, and you can also lie and fail to account for all the printing in your statistics… but the disconnect between reality and the spin is growing massively by the day. So much so, that I think there are very few who believe it anymore, and that is exactly what loss of confidence is all about – it follows the breakdown of the rule of law.
I, Nathan Martin, no longer consent to the lies.


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Discover who's playing Hal Jordan's dad, and your first look at Jackie Earle Haley's Freddy Krueger. Find out what the third Riddick film is called. Daleks help you understand electoral politics! Plus Kick-Ass, Resident Evil, Walking Dead and True Blood.
Green Lantern:
Hal Jordan's dad, Martin H. Jordan, will be played by The Closer's Jon Tenney, who says he appears in some flashbacks to when Hal is 11 years old. (Meanwhile, Tim Robbins is playing Hector Hammond's father, a U.S. Senator. He's not playing Tony Stark's father — sorry about yesterday's mix-up, which is what happens when we add things to morning spoilers at three in the morning.) [Superhero Hype]
Chronicles Of Riddick:
Apparently the third Riddick film will have the subtitle "Dead Man Stalking." [ShockTillYouDrop]
Here are interviews with director Chris Nolan and composer Hans Zimmer in which they literally say nothing new about this movie. But just in case you haven't heard the basic synopsis before, here it is directly from Nolan. [Reelz Channel]
Resident Evil: Afterlife:
Milla Jovovich says Alice is a lot happier, and more at peace with herself, in this new movie, due to developments we'll find out about soon — and she's more open to relationships with people. And that may include a romantic relationship. Also, says Jovovich:
She loses her powers in this movie. She loses her powers in this one and it's actually a really great thing and sometimes it makes her human again which she's wanted. I think it gives her a lightness too and like, a sense of relief to just be a badass again and not have to be a superhero. I think that shows throughout the rest of the movie is that kind of, in a strange way, a joy of just being herself again which is great.
Sounds like she fought that change, but her husband Paul W.S. Anderson convinced her it was a good thing. [ShockTillYouDrop]
ZOMG! A new clip, plus a buttload of TV spots.
Nightmare On Elm Street:
The new Entertainment Weekly includes your clearest look so far at the new Freddy Krueger. [via HorrorBid]
Another new TV spot:
Doctor Who:
The Radio Times has a few awesome new stills from "Victory Of The Daleks." [BlogtorWho]
New Radio Times covers feature different-colored Daleks — if only you could really vote for the Daleks! They'd soon sort out the economic crisis! Umm... I mean, oh no. That would be terrible. [Doctor Who News Page]
The Walking Dead:
There's been a rumor going around that Brandon Routh was co-starring in this adaptation of the zombie comic — and Routh himself debunked it. [ShockTillYouDrop]
In this week's landmark 100th episode, one person dies, one person makes a sacrifice and one person takes on a new role. [E! Online]
Apparently in the big musical episode, it's not just that Walter's telling a bedtime story to Olivia's niece — it's that Walter's received upsetting news and is doing a shit-ton of marijuana. And then he's telling a bedtime story? Or just sitting there hallucinating? I guess we'll find out soon. In any case, Olivia's "retro private eye" persona plays a huge role, and we get to see how he really perceives her. Check out the cute pic! (More of that pic at the link.) [EW]
True Blood:
Here's another new promo for season three. [SpoilerTV]
Ashes To Ashes:
Looks like it'll be a Ray-centric episode in 3x03, judging from these new pics. [Den Of Geek]
A new clip from this Friday's "Upgrade". [OSCK]
Here's what happens in episode nine, "Heretic's Fork":
LIVES OF THE FIFTH COLUMN MEMBERS ARE IN DANGER, RYAN FINALLY REVEALS HIS TRUE BEING TO VAL, AND CHAD BOARDS THE MOTHERSHIP TO HEAL HIS ANEURYSM, ON ABC'S "V." Erica, Father Jack and Hobbes realize that the Vs know names and addresses of The Fifth Column members and must take drastic measures to protect them. Meanwhile, Ryan finally reveals to Val that he's a Visitor, and Chad, with the camera rolling for "Prime Focus," begins the process aboard the Mothership's Medical Bay to have his aneurysm removed, on "V," TUESDAY, APRIL 27 (10:02-11:00 p.m., ET), on ABC.
The April 29 and May 6 episodes will be really good, according to inside sources. Because of delays, the actual events of April 29 (the day everyone saw in their flashforwards) will happen on May 6 — but the April 29 episode will start to set those events in motion. Also, this show may actually get a second season, because of great overseas performance. [E! Online]
Here are synopses of episodes 17 and 18:
4/22/10: "The Garden of Forking Paths" - The clock is ticking on Demetri's life as Mark and his team go in search of his whereabouts; terror suspect Alda Herzog promises to give Zoey intel on where Demetri is - but at a price; and Olivia learns the identity of the person who sent her the text message informing her that Mark was drinking in his flashforward, on "FlashForward," THURSDAY, APRIL 22 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
4/29/10: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Janis continues to thwart her fellow FBI agents as an inside mole to a mysterious employer; Olivia is given some disturbing news by Gabriel (James Callis, Gaius Baltar on "Battlestar Galactica"), who has been subjected to numerous flashforwards; and Aaron's life is in danger in Afghanistan when he tries to blend in with the locals as he continues his search for his daughter, on "FlashForward," THURSDAY, APRIL 29 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Some photos from episode 17, "The Garden Of Forking Paths." And people have been noticing that both this show and V have "Fork" in their episode titles, on the same week. Significant? [SpoilerTV]
Here's a sneak peek from episode 16, "Let No Man Put Asunder." [SpoilerTV]
Stargate Universe:
David Blue says the dynamic between Eli and Rush will change:
I definitely think you'll see a different dynamic. Because of the dynamic that was created and ended in "Justice," I think Eli and Rush are going head to head. I think it's a Mozart/Salieri relationship. Although because of everything that's happened, you're going to see more of Eli not just doing what Rush says. Eli is going to ask, "Tell me why you are doing this? Or, I'm not doing this for you because I need to know what's going on." Eli is coming into his own and that frustrates the heck out of Rush.
Episode 14, airing in a few weeks is a big game-changer, and you'll die when you watch it. (I believe this is the episode before the big Jacob/M.I.B. flashback.) [E! Online]
Desmond is going to show everyone in the L.A.-verse a glimpse of the other world, and we'll see what happens when these universes collide, says Henry Ian Cusick. And we shouldn't jump to any conclusions yet about which is the "real" universe, or which universe the show will end up in. Also, if everyone in the L.A.-verse sees his/her "true love" when he/she glimpses the Island-verse, it'll be interesting to see who Jack and Sawyer see. Also, we'll learn tonight what Smokey wants with Desmond. [TV Guide]
Someone visiting the filming says that the new set that everyone thought was a new hatch is actually a new airplane set. So the finale will have significant scenes on board an airplane. (If this report is true, that is.) [SpoilersLost]


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