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Carol Pezzutti Lenehan: Expressions of Light
Even before Carol Pezzutti Lenehan studied art in Rome and received her degree, she was commissioned to paint portraits. She furthered her studies at the National Academy and the Art Student's League in NY while continuing to work on portrait commissions. The experience of painting portraits, from casual to corporate, has enabled her, at times to have painted three generations in a family. Lenehan's career has now spanned several decades and her work hangs in many public and private collections along the East coast. While portrait painting has been the backbone of Lenehan's career she has a varied body of work including still lifes, landscapes, and semi abstract pieces. Lenehan works primarily in pastel and oil and describes her style as painterly realism with heart. Lenehan will be showing several of her 'sunlight' still-life paintings as well as signature portraits in the window at the Art Alliance in Red Bank during the month of May. The main gallery space will feature two shows: works by members on the theme Young juried by Lenehan, and work by Long Branch High School students curated by Frank Mainieri, Roger Derrick, and Mill Wexler Kobrinski. The public is invited to the opening reception Saturday, May 4, 6:00-8:00. Come by then, or during gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 12 to 4 p.m., to look at the new art, take a break during your day in Red Bank, and pick up a class and studio schedule. Exhibitions at the Art Alliance change monthly. Six exhibitions a year show work by members of the Art Alliance. Three exhibitions, including the Annual Juried Exhibition, are open to members and non-members. Every January, the Art Alliance hosts an invitational show, featuring work by notable area artists. During the summer months, the programming is open to artists selected by the Art Alliance's curators who undertake their own shows. Membership in the Art Alliance is open to visual artists at any skill level and to art lovers. Membership fee is $40 per year; $25 for students age 25 and under with ID. Benefits of membership include reduced entry fee for all exhibits ($5 per piece for up to 3 pieces for members; $10 per piece for non-members); affordable studio space; diverse classes and workshops; networking opportunities; the possibility of mounting an independent exhibit during the summer. In addition, the Art Alliance maintains a website, a bi-monthly newsletter, and a Facebook page. The Art Alliance's studio space, also at 33 Monmouth St., hosts classes and workshops for members and their children, and can be rented by members for group, class, personal, or event use, dependent on availability.
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Who we are
The International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR) was founded in April 1992 in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Islam and Christian – Muslim Relations (CSIC), Birmingham, UK and the Center for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), Warwick, UK. IMIR is a private, non-political, non-profit and non-governmental organization. IMIR is dedicated to the values of peaceful coexistence and tolerant interaction between different cultures, ethnoses and religions in Southeastern Europe and actively works for preservation and integration of all minority communities in Bulgaria.
In the first years of its existence and especially during the period of the worst economic crisis in Bulgaria (1996-1997), the humanitarian work was equally important segment of IMIR's activities as was the research and scientific work. In the years after the crisis, IMIR continued to work as a donor institution, assisting various minority communities in Bulgaria through its scholarship program, its support for minority media and its support for research programs dealing with minorities. In the recent years, IMIR has gradually downsized its donor activity, thus turning into a genuine think-tank, fully devoted to production of expert research, analyses, forecasts and policy recommendations.
IMIR works with some of the best Bulgarian experts on issues like minority rights, minority integration, migrations, human trafficking, Islam, and inter-ethnic and inter-religious relations. Relying on the intellectual potential, integrity and dedication of these experts, IMIR has earned national and international recognition for its academic research, and for its studies of interethnic and religious issues in Bulgaria and the wider Balkan region. The Center has always been active in stimulating the inter-Balkan relations and the regional cooperation, and has established a number of partnerships with academic and non-governmental organizations not just in Bulgaria and other Southeast European countries, but across Europe.
The method of Urgent Anthropology, developed by Antonina Zhelyazkova, the Chair of IMIR's Board of Directors, has become one of the most important IMIR's trademarks. By sending multi-disciplinary research teams into the heart of the Balkan conflict zones such as Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and southern Serbia in the most critical times (during or immediately after the eruption of crises), IMIR has received international praise for its timely, accurate and impartial analyses of the regional hot-spots. The result of this work was the highly acclaimedUrgent Anthropology book series.
- Dr. Antonina Zhelyazkova - Chairperson
- Mr. Ivan Stancioff - Bulgaria/UK
- Prof. Jorgen Nielsen - UK
- Prof. Wolfgang Hoepken – Germany
- Mrs. Emmy Barouh - Bulgaria
- Dr.Antonina Zhelyazkova – Chairperson
- Lubomir Petkashev - Researcher and Projects Coordinator
- Zornitsa Karadzhova – Cashier-accountant

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When I was 33, I had a baby. I also had no clue.
Backing up a few weeks, I really, really wanted a baby. We tried for months (boxers instead of briefs, no hot tubs, counting ovulation cycles, and learning to sleep on my back with my legs in the air to keep the little swimmers going in the right direction), until finally a little pee stick changed our life with the blink of a bright blue stripe.
It was at that moment that I realized I knew absolutely nothing about babies. I'm talking zip, nada, nyet. The second-to-the-youngest of six kids, I never helped raise any younger siblings, and my summer jobs while growing up didn't include babysitting. And now I was pregnant. What have I done??
Resolving this deficiency the only way I knew how, I promptly rushed to the bookstore and bought every single baby parenting book in print and spent the next several weeks studying them with the intensity of a law student cramming for the LSATs. Huge mistake. Huge. However many books you have, that's exactly how many differing expert opinions you'll get on the subject of early childhood development. Getting close to my due date, I was a frustrated, teary mess, convinced I now knew less than before and that no matter what I did, it would be wrong. Without question, I was going to wreck my baby.
Jake was born shortly thereafter, and all evidence indicated I was right. He had a screaming cry that would wake the neighbors in the next county, and every time he belted it out, I knew I was failing. "What's wrong with him??" Hubs would shout over Jake's raging. "I don't know," I wailed. "I don't know." Even when I got it right, I was fearful and anxious. All. The. Time. I was going to drop him. I was going to accidentally drown him. I was going to leave him somewhere and forget where I put him. I was going to say or do something that would scar him for life.
Hubs finally decided we needed some help "just until I got the hang of it." Advice from my mother invariably started with, "You know, not every woman is a natural mother," so that wasn't an option. He suggested his mom. Yeah, no. Think Marie on "Everybody Loves Raymond," with slightly more snark. Even broaching the subject brought on a tirade of "Tsk, tsk. Mothering is something women just know how to do, dear. But if there's something wrong with you, well…" Next choice.
We finally decided on help outside the maternal family tree. Someone who could teach me what to do and make sure I didn't kill the baby while learning. We called a local agency who immediately sent out a nine-foot-tall amazon named Angelica. I don't know what Ange did in her past life, but clearly it wasn't childcare. When she pulled into our driveway, the first thing out of her car was a mile-long leg encased in skin-tight jeans and stilettos. She insisted that Hubs had already hired her. "He's got early dementia," I told her. "I know he's only 35, but it's genetic. Talk to his sibs. If they remember they're related. Now off you go."
We contacted a new agency and scored. Bing was fabulous. Close to my age, she was from the Philippines, spoke several languages, could cook dishes from around the world, and most importantly, was a whiz with babies. From the second we brought Jake home, they were besotted with each other. (More than one friend suggested that if she ever slept with Hubs, I'd be out on my keister. WTH. I wanted to marry her too.)
Bing taught me to feed, diaper, rock, bathe, and change a tiny human without breaking him. When it took almost a week for my milk to come in (breasts swollen to the size of the Andes Mountains, and totally nonfunctional. Even my body sucked at mothering), she dried my tears and Jake's, and taught me how to bottle feed him without guilt.
Jake was the undisputed king of his castle. He didn't learn to walk until well into his second year because he simply didn't have to. He'd point to where he wanted to go, and "Bing-Bing" would pick him up and deliver him to the appointed spot. Needless to say, King Jake and I had a few go-rounds on the weekends, when Bing-Bing was in the city. We compromised. He walked on Saturdays and Sundays.
When it was time for Jake to learn to talk, she taught him Tagalog, which would have been adorable except for the fact that Jake's parents didn't speak Tagalog. We spent his an entire year endlessly repeating, "Speak English, Jake. English."
And so it was that we raised young grasshopper together and Bing became family, living with us until Jake turned three. (There was that one teensy stumbling block on the day Jake called her "Mama." I cried for two days, then announced a new game, where Jake and I would sit on the floor, I'd point at him and he'd yell "JAKE," then I'd point back at me and he'd yell "MAMA." We played it for hours, until all confusion about who was what was eliminated. I wasn't sharing this one.)
Three years later, Bing agreed to marry a man who lived in Southern California, so with many hugs and equally as many tears, we said our goodbyes.
Bing taught me that children are resilient and that love is more important than skill for a new mom (Although knowing how not to drop the baby should be practiced during pregnancy, not post-partum. Just sayin'.) She taught me that it truly does take a village, and I feel less guilty knowing baby Jake was loved by so many. Someday I'm sure Jake will tell his children about Bing-Bing.


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English Teacher
never fear, the concierge is here
you look at something when you are paying attention to it
don't look at me like that!
you watch something that is happening, or is going to happen
I can't talk now - I'm watching the game!
you see something when it comes to your eyes, regardless of your attention
did you see that flash of lightning last night?
but also - for a complete experience we can use see
Come around tonight - I want to show you my holiday snaps.
I've already seen them.
For a breathtaking beautiful view of the Taj Mahal, one has to see it by moonlight.
"Did you see that!" (Me watching the syncronized diving at the Olympics.)
A: Do you want to see that movie on television tonight?On the other hand:
B: No, I've already seen it.
I'm watching the Olympics on TV (synchronized diving).Also:
We watch children.The word watch is a more active verb than either look or see.
I hope that helps.
These words are incredibly confusing. All I can add to the great information here is that 'see' is usually used for a completed action. For example,
I saw the game last night.
I'm going to watch the game tonight.
I just wrote an article about this with some examples - read about how to use see, look, and watch
SEE: Perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight.
LOOK:Perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards.


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Orchard Crops
The Central Sierra foothills is full of many different micro-climates as well as elevations, which lends to the many different varieties of orchard crops grown throughout the region.
Please click on a menu option at the left for further information.
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FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Monday, March 24, 2014
Blog post by Blaize Hall, Television-Radio '15, Georgia, VT
Steve Gordon is one of Park's finest. After working for twenty years in LA, he escaped the traffic and city bustle and moved to peaceful Ithaca to teach. When we met, he spoke fondly of Los Angeles, but shared how nice a change of pace Ithaca is. He raved about his several years' experience...


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Photography Los Angeles
Photography Los Angeles. We have extensive experience in catalogue and brochure photography and whether in the studio or on location, we specialize in providing professional creative photography and digital images for brochures, catalogues, mailers, advertising, point of sale, web sites and exhibition display graphics.
Whether in the studio or on location, we have years of experience in furniture and room set photography as well as product, lifestyle, retail, automotive, jewelry and electronics. We are fully trained in the latest digital retouching techniques ensuring the results are color accurate and finished images are ready for print or the web.
We offer excellent creative abilities, as well as good eyesight and the ability to translate the images we see with our eyes to one captured by the camera. We are not only good with a camera, but also have in-depth knowledge about lighting conditions related to whether we photograph people, products or locations.
Every image offers a variety of interpretations and by observing and interpreting the choices we make in each we improve the outcome of the final photograph we create. A successful image depends on a number of things that must come together including: lighting, composition, and subject matter.
We photograph products for advertisements, brochures, books or magazines and Web sites. We work directly for product manufacturers or for the designers and advertising agencies who are creating promotional material. Photographers set up the product on a appropriate background and use different lighting techniques to get specific creative effects. When agencies want to achieve a certain effect they might ask a creative director or designer to work with us and provide direction. Following the shoot, we offer professional digital editing techniques to enhance the final look and effect of the overall photograph.
Jewelry Photography. Every piece of jewelry is shaped in a different way. The design is different, the shape is different (ring, earring, pendant, etc.), the finish of the metal is different and the opacity of the gemstone is different. Only experience can dictate the best way to light and set up a particular piece of jewelry. Attention to detail is crucial and the ability to control the elements is what creates a good final image.
Experience is knowledge acquired over time. It's knowing exactly what to do with a piece of jewelry….knowing how to style it; knowing the best lighting to use with a colored stone mounted in a yellow gold ring; or knowing how to get the most detail from a diamond by controlling color, light intensity and the direction of light.
The lighting set-up is the most important component in jewelry photography and is the product of professional experience. Jewelry is highly reflective and when photographing it you naturally capture the surrounding area in the surface of the jewelry. With skill and properly positioned lighting unwanted reflections can be minimized or avoided completely.
Also, every piece of jewelry is different so each piece presents new challenges and rules on the set-up table. For example, a ring with an opal stone requires different lighting than a necklace with diamonds, or a pendant with onyx, or earrings with emeralds, and so on. There is no "one-for-all" lighting set-up when photographing jewelry.
Architectural Photography. The challenge of photographing an interior is to capture the feeling of the space in a way a viewer will be able to appreciate. Viewers should be able to look at the image and visualize themselves within the space. The subject depicted is more important than the photograph itself.
A photograph of an interior is a success if the final composition clearly conveys the philosophy and intent of the designer and at the same time meets our standard. The quality of the design to be captured greatly influences how it is photographed. In general, it is much easier to photograph a well-designed space.
The lighting of interiors, especially the balancing of light intensity and color, has always been a challenge. With each situation, we must decide not only whether to add light but how much and of what quality.
What normally determines whether an interior needs supplemental lighting is the dynamic range—the span from lightest to darkest zones—present in the subject area and the dynamic range of the medium used to record the space. If the dynamic range of the composition is within the latitude our digital cameras, it is possible that additional lighting may not be needed. Sometimes, however, other factors may be involved. A mixture of light sources may produce unwanted color shifts, some of which may be easier to correct than others.
Food Photography. At the core of all photography lies subject, composition and lighting. If those three things are poor, no amount of post-processing work will fix it. It won't matter what your aperture, f/stop or ISO is if you don't have an interesting subject, good composition, and great lighting. Without these, a photo will lack impact.
Reading a photograph is the study of how a particular image is created and the thought process behind it. We constantly make decisions about lighting (quality and quantity), composition (the arrangement of visual elements) as well as content (subject and meaning) when taking photographs.
Every image offers a variety of interpretations and by observing and interpreting the choices we make in each we improve the outcome of the final photograph we create. A successful image depends on a number of things that must come together including: lighting, composition, and subject matter.
We work hard to elicit good strong reactions out of our work for the foods that we eat. We as food photographers must have a great appreciation of food to be able to properly capture it through our photography. We offer a culinary background with a strong skill in photography.
Our food photography will be used for promotional purposes, on the packaging of food, Web sites and other media advertising. Food photography must fulfill and therefore Food photography requires certain and particular needs to the style of lighting, food composition and presentation, reflections and texture. As professional food photographers, it is imperative that we capture the photo just right so that the food looks enticing and gets people to want to eat it.
Professional Fashion Photography. We not only have great interest in fashion trends. We totally immerse in the world of fashion and we have developed an outstanding creative and technical skills that will give our individual character and style. We are always prepared to experiment and explore new ideas and techniques that will enable us to take on the most challenging and demanding fashion assignment.
Our understanding of the concepts and composition that create the image that will make fashion appealing to the public eye. We aim to properly represent the talent and work of fashion designers to the public. We have the experience and know how to produce photos that will most likely be used for marketing and advertising fashion products.
Because we understand fashion trends we can deliver striking images that sell the look and style of the clothes our clients wish to present to the buying public, We work both in studio and on location to produce imaginative and eye-catching photographs that illustrate and advertise clothes, accessories and lifestyle. We understand each client's brand image, the various end uses of images, and be able to work closely with other creative people to produce photography images that will sell the products.
People Photography. Perfecting photographing people does complete our offering as professional photographers. Photographing people can be a very intimidating and daunting task, after-all there is a lot of pressure on the photographer when taking people photos as you are dealing with a wide variety of personalities. Being a great people photographer often starts with being a good people person, and we are good with people. We are not only good with a camera, but also have in-depth knowledge about lighting conditions related to whether we photograph people, products or locations.
We offer a wide range of styles and types of photographing people, featuring people in commercial photography to promote products or services will push the caliber of the final images to a higher standard resulting in a much more effective mean to promote and advertise those products or services. We have the creative abilities, as well as good eyesight and the ability to translate the images we see with our eyes to one captured by the camera. We are not only good with a camera, but also have in-depth knowledge about lighting conditions related to whether we photograph people, products or locations.
Industrial Photography. The precise boundaries separating industrial, commercial and advertising photography are often clear but can also be obscure. Some images fit within more than one category, and indeed may be used for distinctly different purposes. Nevertheless, in broad term, industrial photography can be divided in to two categories or work. These are focused on the practical elements of industrial processes, principally illustrating the materials, tools and methods used, and people working in industrial environments.
Images of the practical aspects of industrial Endeavour are typically created for specialized or internal purposes and are consequently of little interest to a wider audience. In general, the subjects are technical, often sequential, and designed to document the stages of a manufacturing process, details of products, and the layout of equipment. They show details of highly-sophisticated machinery, materials and processes in a way that informs a particular audience, and are consequently of little interest to people not involved in the particular field of work. They are not normally intended for general publication, and the content may be of a proprietary nature, although some commercially less-sensitive images in this category do occasionally appear in company reports and other similar documentation.
Industrial photography can be defined as photographic practice that takes place within and/or at the behest of an industrial organization, to document production processes. The purpose of such photography is quite clear and easy to figure out, because the company either wants to archive those photos for administrative purposes or the purpose is commercial, for advertising in brochures, catalogues or in any other advertising materials. It was already determined that the borderline between industrial and for example documentary photography is very flexible depending on purpose and context of session.
The other category of industrial photography, which shows people in their working environment, is more visible to the general public. The images tend to be more aesthetically pleasing, and typically portray aspects of working environments, training, work units, and the overall culture of companies and organizations. Their purpose may be administrative, or perhaps associated with industrial or public relations . The photography work may be undertaken by external professionals, in-house photographic departments or other employees.
360 Rotating Product Photography. Internet sales now heavily outweigh retail sales and with fierce competition from all angles so to speak, companies need to grab the attention of their online target market immediately. Short of actually visiting a shop, how else can the buyer experience the quality of and begin to covet your product? By seeing it beautifully from all angles of course using beautifully lit 360 product shots that effectively create 3d objects. That's where we come in!
360 degree product photography is a process of capturing a series of still product images on specialized equipment that rotates the product on one or more axis. The images are edited, formatted and integrated with a viewer that allows a consumer to interact with the product, rotating it from various angles and zooming into it to see the product detail.
Why do you need 360 Rotating Product Photography? It is the optimal way to show every facet of a product or subject, delivering maximum information in a quick and easy fashion. The effect is of a 3D image in a two dimensional medium, contributing to your potential customers' on line browsing experience.
The rotating product images are tools that can promote a featured product or sales item. They can be used to show the bring-to-life details of a product that would never have been visited from a static shot even with the traditional zoom features. Using 360 degree product photography, you can show off your products in all their exciting, rotating, interactive and stylized glory. 360 degree rotating images are ideal for online catalogUes but also for press releases, news stories, marketing campaigns, and digital social network marketing.
Showing your products to potential buyers from every conceivable angle provides them with the greatest amount on information to aid in the purchasing decision. This leads not only to higher sales as the buyer is more confident in his/her purchasing decision, but also to a reduction in product returns and refunds. It is the nearest thing to in-store shopping, allowing your customer to view your product as it they were there.


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***This post is mostly for my memories, and to share with Archer someday when he is a daddy and dealing with his child's sleep training!***
We started our sleep training journey with Archer tonight. He is 7 months now and we felt it was time. Past time, really. We have been co-sleeping (or "attachment parenting" for those hip, well-read parents) since he was born. It was more a survival technique than a choice. Around the time of his birth, we had a lot happen in our family that was emotionally and physically exhausting. We had some serious health issues with some family members just prior to his birth, then two days after his birth, Cole's mom and step-dad were in a near fatal car accident. Then Christmas. Then Ava started school shortly after the new year. Things were just chaotic and life was in a bit of an upheaval. So we let him co-sleep and nurse on demand. And nursing became his sleep prop. For those who aren't down with the lingo, a "sleep prop" is exactly what it sounds like- something they need to sleep. So needless to say, the past 7 months (and really, before that, too, since I was huge and pregnant) have not been the best for sleep.
Archer is a sweet happy baby. Unless he is not getting his way. And let me tell you, being in his crib is NOT his way! The boy hates his crib! But we just decided that was tough. He was going to have to learn to sleep there. We had been researching several sleep methods. I had read a few books when Ava was a baby but never really "followed" any one method. She turned out to be my easy baby! We talked to friends, polled facebook, read reviews...
In the end, there are really two main types of sleep training- Cry It Out (CIO) and Limited Cry ("No Cry"). The difference is obvious. One involves a lot of tears, the other not as many. There are a lot of parents who SWEAR by one method or another. Me? I think each child is different and therefore there probably isn't one method that works for every kid. I think you just have to know your child well enough to know what will work for them. When it came to Archer, we decided that a CIO method would work best. After polling facebook, a friend turned me onto Sleep Sense. It was the most concise and logical I have come across- after all, when you haven't had a full night's sleep in over 7 months, who has the energy to read a big fat book!?!?! Sleep Sense, much like nearly ALL sleep training methods, advocates a calming, quiet bedtime routine. Since Archer HATES bath time with a passion, our bedtime routine for him is this: diaper change, massage with lavender baby lotion, pjs, reading time, nursing/rocking, laying down while still awake but drowsy.
CIO just seemed to be the right fit for Archer, for several reasons:
1. His Age: At 7 months, Archer is in the prime age range for CIO according to sleep sense. His separation anxiety isn't in full swing yet, and he is old enough to self-soothe and learn to be content in his crib.
2. His Size: At over 20lbs, Archer is plenty big enough to sleep through the night without jeopardizing his health.
3. His Personality: Archer is stubborn. I mean STUBBORN. It is bad. And I have no idea where he gets it (wink wink). Because of this, I knew that any method that had a parent attempting to sit with the baby or rub backs, etc. would only make him angry. I know that with Archer (unlike Ava), the band aid is best being ripped off. Ava likes things slow. She liked to know that mommy was there and had me rub her back or shush her back to sleep. Archer- that kind of thing just makes him "dog slobberin' mad." So I knew that the Sleep Sense method of a good bedtime routine then CIO would be the best fit.
And so far, so good. It took him 54 minutes. He cried almost solid for 54 minutes before falling asleep. The average for the program is 45 minutes on the first night, so we didn't do too badly. My money was on 1 hour 35 minutes. So he did a LOT better than I expected!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
54 Minutes
***This post is mostly for my memories, and to share with Archer someday when he is a daddy and dealing with his child's sleep training!***
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Archer is 7 Months Old!!!
***I am now a monthly blogger on Defying Disabilities, so I am writing about Ava there now mostly. Check it out! It is a great blog!!! My sweet boy is now 7 months. Well, technically, 7 months and one day! HAHA! Yesterday was a little bit of a busy day, and I honestly didn't even realize that it was his monthly birthday. Time flies when you are having fun. Or sleep deprived. Time flies then, too.
Archer, here is a snapshot of you at 7 months old...
LengthAt your last doctors appointment (6 month checkup) you were 29", which put you in the 99% for length! You continue to get longer and longer, and I have a feeling you are going to be a tall boy!
I don't know how tall you are, but your walker and bouncer are both on the tallest settings!
ClothesYou now wear all 9-12 month clothes now, although there are a few 6 month things that are big enough for you still. It is getting harder and harder to keep you in clothes! You have been wearing hats and sunglasses too, since we are spending more time outside (which you love!). Your socks are 12-18 month socks- you have HUGE feet! We have stopped using footed PJs for you because your feet are just too big for them! Thankfully I have been able to find some two piece PJs for you, although most nights you are happy to just wear a onesie to bed.
NicknamesArch, Bub, Bubs, Bubba, Brother, Chubs, Chunky Monkey, BuddaBall, Chubbers, Archie-Boy (I am the only one who is allowed to call him that...he will NOT be called "Archie" if I can help it!)
I have heard several family members call him "Archie" lately...that must stop.
We are struggling with sleep right now. You refuse to sleep in your own bed and you don't fall asleep on your own. You have to be rocked to sleep, usually while nursing. You also all but refuse a paci at night and fight sleep so hard! We have been working on it and I would like to have you sleeping through the night in your own bed by 9 months. Thankfully, your crying doesn't seem to bother Ava as she sleeps in the next room, so we are able to let you cry it out some.
Fun Stuff- some are the same from months 1-6!
* You are so ready to be on the move so you can explore! I can just *see* you wanting to get into everything!
* We moved you to your convertible car seat, and you like it better once you are in it, but the process of putting you in your carseat is still a fight.
* You have decided that you hate bathtime. You also hate swimming. Bummer.
* You still love to be naked! You just smile and smile when you are stripped down!
* Your fussy times come and go throughout the day, but are now connected with something obvious- being tired, wanting to be held, etc. So that is nice because I know how to help you or I know that you are just crying because you didn't get your way.
* You love to sit but you would much rather be standing up! You can pull up to a stand on your toys and sometimes the couch.
* You are SOOOO CLOSE to crawling! Any day now you will figure it out! You can still spin and roll all over the place. I also think you are a bit of a "scooter" when sitting!
* You chew on your paci more than suck, but that is because you are teething! You have one tooth already and another one quickly coming!
Archer- happy 7 month birthday!!! You are getting to be such a big, happy, fun, and outgoing boy! We love you so much and you have brought so much joy and happiness to our lives! We love you, and we thank the Lord each day for you! I pray that your daddy and I can honor God and raise you into the man He wants you to be!
~Mommy, Daddy, and Sister (Ava)
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HEL of an opportunity
We are continuously breaking our records. 25 million passengers served in our 21 airports. That's a 9,2 % increase in the amount of passengers. There are many reasons to fall in love with Finland.
The tourism in Finland is blooming. Finland has been ranked one of the best destinations in the world by National Geographic, as well as one of the best places to travel according to the Lonely Planet. More and more people from all around the world travel to explore our wild nature, clean lakes, breathtaking aurora borealis, and midnight sun. No wonder we are ranked one of the happiest people on the planet! Find more info about Finland as a destination: visitfinland.com
What makes us special?
We provide excellent passenger experience, guarantee smooth transfers, and efficient and fast turnarounds for airplanes.
We are proud of:
- the positive economic growth in Finland and ever increasing outbound travel
- the top quality resulting in one of Europe's lowest landing costs
- investing in long-lasting cooperation and active support to airlines for opening new routes to Finland
- putting safety and efficiency above everything involving flight safety, security checks of the passengers and luggage, safety of the apron and cyber security
One HEL of a plan
We are making extensive investments to secure smooth travelling also in the future. With an ongoing 900 million EUR development programme in Helsinki Airport, we increase capacity for long-haul and transfer passengers as well as for wide-body aircraft and improve the traffic arrangements. The improvements allow us to serve up to 30 million passengers. The total area of the terminal in the early 2020s will be more than 250,000 square metres being able to accommodate more than 10 Finnish Parliament Houses. The aircraft parking areas and taxiways, will be renovated over an area of 450,000 square metres. The size of the construction site is equal to 90 football pitches.
We are on the leading edge of environmental sustainability. Since summer 2017, Helsinki Airport has been carbon neutral, and all our other airports followed in 2019, a year before than predicted. Nearly 60% of all aircraft landings at Helsinki Airport are employing continuous descent approach reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise.
We aim to make our customers happy and satisfied in any way possible. We are continuously developing our services to ensure smooth travel experience to our passengers. Efficiency and safety are our key priorities to ensure minimum costs and flight delays. It's a win-win situation.


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Freshman Surveys
The CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS) asks incoming first-year students about their high school experiences, academic and social, and their expectations about college BEFORE they begin classes. The CIRP Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey asks about their experiences AFTER completing their first year.
- 2008 - 2012 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey Results - (NEW: 9-10-12) Shows results of CIRP YFCY Survey administered at END-of-Freshman year from Spring 2008 - Spring 2012. National comparisons are available for 2012 SMC results with those of ALL 4-Year Private Colleges. Survey areas evaluated include general satisfaction items, satisfaction with campus services and facilities, utilization of services/facilities, self-reported of growth in learning skills/abilities, special First Year Advising Cohort (FYAC) items, and CIRP Construct scores (e.g. "Habits of Mind" score). Growth on CIRP Construct scores from the beginning to the end of the freshman year for a matched group of students are included.
- 2011 Freshman Survey - HERI Press Release and SMC Comparisons - Shows how SMC compares with national trends highlighted in CIRP/HERI Press Release of January 25, 2012
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Why Only Plant Based Ingredients?
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Client: Kerb (2002)
We built this website 12 years ago and it still stands up as a great piece of web content.
It was technically very advanced for its time, looked amazing and had a sense of humour. We gamified the website experience by insisting that the user collect items and solve puzzles to view every piece of content on the site and learn about the company.
The title of the site was: Creative Navigation or Commercial Suicide?
You can judge for yourself here
Client: Channel 4 (2008)
Built for the launch of the Channel 4 games website this had the best brief you could ever want. Just make something insane and playable. Oh and feel free to make full use of the dwarf actors from our TV stings.
Lovely physics combined with video that reacts perfectly to the behaviour of the boxes it is contained within. You will see what I mean when you play it.
Unique visits: 3.2 million
Client: RAF (2005)
The RAF didn't shy away from letting us build them a balls out side scrolling blaster – as long as there was some element of humanitarian aim to the mission.
This is an example of the kind of Flash games we were building almost a decade ago. No wonder it got much acclaim and huge traffic.
Unique visits: 31.2 million
It still stands up today – try it yourself
Client: Bandai (2006)
We worked for Bandai to promote the Unazukin toy. We built a site to showcase all the insane TV and Press promotion from Japan. Sadly there wasn't an awful lot of insane stuff. So we made a spoof Japanese TV ad…
Client: Playstation (2008)
In my top 5 things we ever did.
Very ambitious stuff. Faking soft-body modelling using a fast-to-calculate polygonal mesh of springs to create an almost perfect replica of the PSP game Loco Roco built in Flash by our amazing developer – the almost perfect Al MacDonald.
Client: Kerb (2000)
A viral game that we built 14 years ago to prove the concept of viral games to brand marketing managers and advertising agencies. We would ask them if they had seen the game and invariably they had. Point proven.
Pretty basic game as action script was in its infancy. Mainly notable for the theme tune featuring Harris on the axe with Robsa (tech director) and Me on vocals.
Client: Kerb (2006)
Piston Junkies 3D animated short collaboration on Phil Hartnoll's (Orbital) LongRange project.
We made the characters into vinyl toys along with Toy2r but sadly the final prototypes were stolen in China before they hit the production line…
Client: Kerb (2012)
For about 10 years at Kerb we were lucky enough to have one of the best Flash animators in the world working for us. Darren Butcher.
Some called him Daz. Some called him Dazzny the one man Disney machine. When he wasn't animating stuff on our client projects he was busy creating some of the best Flash animation that ever existed.
In fact, bollocks, I'm going to say it. THE best Flash animation that ever existed.
Client: Stan James (2004)
Our freekick game that got >80m unique visitors with no media spend. This was, of course, back in the day when there were a lot less games on the internet. Points of interest include Seb Delisle's incredible psuedo 3D engine and, of course, my excellent V/O.
I say old chap, why not give it a jolly good go
Unique visits: 81.4 million
Client: Channel 4 (2012)
Flash game built for celebs to play on a C4 magazine programme.
We are all going to die – in this game its about achieving as much as you can before that inevitable moment. Celebs and friends distances were saved on the track as their tombstones. Smash them for extra distance!
Client: Bowmans Poker
When flash video arrived we embraced it by building this interactive strip poker game. The campaign message was 'Know Your Opponent". The 800,000 people who played along learned more than they expected in the 'Crying Game' style finale.
Client: SCEE (2009)
One of the best Flash platformers of its time. You get to run, jump and climb. You also get to use superhuman powers including telekinesis and energy bombs.
Just like the AAA title it was promoting, you also get to play as good or evil in order to boost and make decisions that affect your karma.
Client: Playstation (2010)
Modnation racers facebook game. It allowed you to create tracks and challenge your friends. The best laps were saved as ghost racers so that you could race against people asynchronously – but with a real time feel.
Client: SCEE (2010)
A perfect clone of the PSP game built in Flash was just the start. Playing through the game allowed people to unlock elements to create custom Patapon Wallpaper each with a unique link for its creator to share. We harnessed the competitive power of gamers, getting them share the branded content by tying the high score table to the most downloaded wallpaper. Hundreds of thousands of wallpapers were made and the top ones were downloaded by tens of thousands of gamers.
Client: Galleon (2008)
A digital card based MMORPG. Our first attempt at building a freemium game back in 2008.
We learned an important lesson. Always make sure you have enough stuff for the Whales to buy. When one guy dropped £4000 in the first month and complained that he'd done everything we realised we hadn't done enough to cater for the high rollers…
Client: SCEE (2007)
A year after launch the PS3 was re-launched as an affordable, dynamic piece of hardware rather than just a lifestyle product.
We worked alongside TBWA / OMD and were responsible for all of the online creative and production from the PS3 flagship site right though to banners etc.
There is a lot more to it that the piece in this video – but I just like what Dylan did with it.
Client: UCTV (2007)
Client: easyCruise (2005)
Really playable take on the parking game genre.
The client wanted a game like the Zurich Parking Game but with their ship. The problem with ships is that if they have a bump – they often sink.
We did say 'do you really want us to promote your cruises in a game where the ship can sink?'. And they said 'yes'.
Client: Kerb (2000)
Project Rockstar was a free online multiplayer game, based on the music industry.
Featuring a solid community, deep, engaging gameplay that can take anything from 5 minutes to 24 hours per day… build bands, labels, venues, trade and chat with other managers and get your songs to the top of the charts.
It ran for 10 years, spawned an awesome community who were a force for good in the world offline as well as online – before being cruelly shut down by Rockstar Games lawyers.
26 million page views in one month
200,000 thousand replies to one forum post
200,000 thousand registrations
Client: Zurich Insurance (2004)
This viral game was produced for Zurich to promote their car insurance. To increase the viral element, we pitted men against women in a battle to see who was the best at parking. Over 3 levels, players were scored on the speed and accuracy of their parking.
The game had 3 million visits in the first month after it was championed on Jo Whiley's
Radio 1 show.
Unique visits: 6.2 million
Client: Bravo (2001)
Hellz Kitchen. Our Flash animated 10 episode cartoon series created for Bravo TV. Featuring veg gone bad. Full of post-modern racial stereotypes and lewd, crude humour.. the series was apparently a hit in Australia and Finland.
Web Design is the New Rock 'n' Roll - (Kerb website 1996)
Sadly, the menu bar heading wasn't a typo. Kerb are history.
This website now simply stands in recognition of the incredible people who worked at an innovative, creative digital company which spent 17 years developing excellent things.
Over those year we built hundreds and hundreds of digital projects. I know this because I was there from the beginning, plus I just spent far too long looking through old projects deliberating which examples to use on this site. We worked for over a hundred clients and most of them came back for more. We did more than 20 projects each for Playstation, Disney and the BBC alone.
When we were young and beautiful (Jan 2001)
During the time Kerb was alive I had the good fortune to work with some amazing people. The sad thing about digital is that unlike good art, music or literature it gets forgotten. It gets overwritten, replaced or even if it doesn't the tech needed to support it slowly dies away. I've spent a little time trying to video capture some of the best pieces that we did and screen capture images of other stuff that would need a month of development and a bank of servers running something awful like ASP.
During the time I spent video capturing the work on the other page, two thoughts kept cropping up:
Firstly how most of this work seems like it was done a lifetime ago – but looking at it takes me right back there in the moment. Each piece is a chunk of my life and brings up memories of each idea, pitch, struggle, victory that goes along with getting something from a blank page to a finished project. Looking at our old Kerb site especially, took me right back to being in our studios at The Metway over a decade ago. Listening to Orbital putting the finishing touches to their last album down the hall whilst nervously watching the team create more and more digital insanity that was about to leak out into the world representing our company.
Secondly, I couldn't believe just how well the work stands up after so long. A lot of the work on this site was done around 10 years ago or more. In people years that is a long time. In digital years it is forever. We were using much simpler tools (AS2 and even earlier than that on occasion) back then and pushing it right to the max.
I'll be updating the site with more bits and pieces, as and when I get time.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you find our journey as interesting as I did.
Client: Pfizer (2011)
Client: Disney (UK) 2010
A Doc McStuffin kids game for Disney. I wish my little'un had been old enough to enjoy the stuff we were working on back when we were building it.
It's a hide and seek game. Simple to play and tightly executed.
Client: easyMoney (2005)
Spy Hunter clone where your wacky cartoon car destroys easyMoney car insurance's competitors.. literally. As soon as it went live we had various insurance companies on the phone demanding we take it down. But the viral genie was out of the bottle….
Got to love Stelios. That man did like to make a stir.
Unique visits: 21.8 million
Client: Channel 4 (2008)
Interactive Fonejacker app where you could upload a pic of your friends and watch an animation of them being mugged off by various characters from Fonejacker.
Client: kerb (2001)
A Bombjack clone that we built using an almost prehistoric version of action script. It was advanced enough for its time that we put it in an arcade cabinet for a trade show in Cannes and people were shocked that it was built in Flash.
Client: BBC (2005)
Our AI based game teaching kids about the harsh realities of life. Dont eat? You die. Can't defend yourself? You die. Get sick and don't get quarantined? You die and so does everyone else.
Despite all these high jinks – it won Best Game at the Flash Film Festival in New York.
Client: CCL (2005)
The viral game we created for online computer store CCL was based on the classic 'incredible machine' and accrued sales of more than 4 times the overall production budget from visitors who arrived on their site via the game which was buried deep inside their e-commerce store.
Due to the google bombing effect that we intentionally created, it appeared in the top 5 results on Google for people searching 'PC Hardware' for years – until someone in the CCL web team decided to remove the page.
Overall visits to client site: 1.2 million
Client: easyWatch (2004)
A rag-doll physics based game that we built (quite a while before rag-doll games became common place). Part of the amusement is the rag-doll physics breaking and turning Stelios into a cripple prone to wild spasms after crashing his bike – or indeed just pulling on the breaks too sharply.
Popular viral games like this largely have the same things in common; they are simple to understand, easy to play, quick to master and have instant gratification of an amusing nature.
Unique visits: 15.7 million


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It was the snow that saved the Loppet.
A 3-inch snowfall on Sunday left enough of a base on city lakes and trails that events during the Feb. 2–3 City of Lakes Loppet festival will go on as planned. Last year, a snow drought limited the weekend's cross-country ski races to the snowmaking loop in Theodore Wirth Park.
This year, skiers will once again race between Wirth Park and Uptown. Loppet Foundation Executive Director John Munger skied the full course Monday morning to make the announcement near the Tin Fish restaurant on Lake Calhoun.
Munger said the above-freezing temperatures forecast for the early part of the week, followed by a dive below zero on Thursday, should help the fresh snow bond to the icy layer beneath, improving the course by the end of the week.
During a dry January, Munger was saying it would take just two inches of snow to run a full Loppet race this year. He got his wish.
Registration is still open for Loppet events, which include cross-country skiing, bicycling, skijoring and more. For more information, got to the festival website.


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Casper Pedersen
Executive Advisor - Data Strategy & Data Privacy
It has never been easier to create, collect, combine, and share data. But at the same time, these abilities create a new set of risks, including unethical or even illegal use of data, amplification of prejudice, or usage to which the discloser has not given their consent. According to Casper Pedersen, the ability to establish digital trust is key to leveraging the value in data about clients and citizens. This entails being transparent about data practises and diligent about ensuring oversight.
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GO Energy Bar Mini - 30 Pack (Chocolate Fudge)
High-energy flavoured carbohydrate bar to help fuel before or during training and races.
SiS GO Energy Chocolate Fudge mini bars are delicous, easily digested & moist.
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Product Information
Chocolate Fudge flavoured 30 pack of 40g Energy bars for fuelling before and during excercise.
About SiS GO Energy Mini Bars
SiS GO Energy bars are a nutritious, easily digestible and high carbohydrate based snack made from fruits and wholesome ingredients. The reduced size (compared to the larger GO Energy Bars) provides a practical and nutritious approach to provide carbohydrate during exercise. Proven by thousands of athletes in the world's toughest races, it meets their demanding energy needs.
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- Contents: 30 x 40g Bars
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When should I eat these versus any of the SiS gels?
Containing fast absorbing 25g carbohydrate (per 40g bar), these can be used with or between meals to increase carbohydrate intake as well as a pre exercise snack. During a race, a commonly used strategy is to take on solid foods like SiS GO Energy bars during lesser intense parts because bars require more blood flow to absorb them compared to other energy products.
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Will they fit in my cycle jersey pocket?
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Are these bars gluten free?
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Rockies come out slugging, see lead slip away
Three early homers not enough to end trend vs. Giants
DENVER -- It felt like a "throwback Thursday" as the Rockies resembled their clubs from the past while opening a four-game series with San Francisco. After a 2-4 road trip that saw them hit .210 while being blanked twice, the lineup erupted with three home runs through the first three innings at home, staking themselves to a 6-0 lead only to see it fade into an 8-6 defeat.
The disparity between road and home hitting was a Colorado calling card in the club's early days, and as frustrating as the slumbering lumber was on their recent road trip, the Rockies will forgive a boatload of road woes if they can counter with domination in Denver.
But the Rockies did their best Jekyll and Hyde impression, scoring six runs in the first three innings and notching only one hit over the final six. The turnaround stung, leaving the Colorado clubhouse numb as it clings to a winning record (21-20) after peaking at eight games over .500 in April.
"Sometimes six runs is enough, but it was not enough tonight," Carlos Gonzalez said. "[Matt] Cain pitched terrible, but [Jhoulys] Chacin pitched even worse."
Watching big leads disappear is another hallmark the Rockies would like to archive, and blowing a 6-0 advantage against Cain with the Rockies' Opening Day ace on the mound was not the way they envisioned opening a critical seven-game homestand against division rivals.
"When you got a guy that's one of the better pitchers in the league and you get to him early, you've got to be able to put him away," manager Walt Weiss said. "To his credit, he hung in there and ended up pitching into the seventh inning."
After Cain retired the Rockies in order in the first, Colorado came back with a three-run rally in the second. Wilin Rosario drove the first hit to right, then came home on the strength of Todd Helton's two-run round-tripper over the out-of-town scoreboard in right field, fair by a hair. Rookie third baseman Nolan Arenado capped the rally with a solo blast to left-center, giving the Rockies three runs on back-to-back homers hit on successive pitches.
Colorado kept surging in the next inning, as Gonzalez coaxed a leadoff walk out of Cain. Troy Tulowitzki followed with an infield single to short and Rosario launched his eighth home of the season over the right-field scoreboard for a three-run shot and a six-run lead.
Road or home, however, one of the most damning patterns of domination has been the Giants mastery over the Rockies, with San Francisco extending its win streak to 10 straight over Colorado.
"Especially here," Brandon Belt said of his team's confidence at Coors Field. "There are a lot of runs to be scored here."
After Chacin sailed through the first three innings, the Giants started rounding up runs, cutting the deficit from six to one by batting around in the fourth. Marco Scutaro singled to right to open the inning, and Pablo Sandoval walked before Chacin retired Buster Posey on a fly to left for the first out.
"I wasn't aggressive that inning," Chacin said. "I wasn't aggressive like the first three innings, throwing aggressive strikes. Those guys, they're always waiting for the opportunity to do damage. It was really tough, especially for the team that lost the game after scoring six runs the first three innings. They came all the way back and beat us."
Hunter Pence singled to right to load the bases, and Chacin walked Belt to bring in the Giants first run. Gregor Blanco then flied out to right, setting up Brandon Crawford's base-clearing double. Cain singled to left to plate the fifth and final run of the inning.
"It looked like he struggled with his command," Weiss said. "He had a hard time throwing strikes that inning. He got in some deep counts, some bad counts. "
Chacin bounced back, retiring Scutaro, Sandoval and Posey in a one-two-three fifth, then came out after facing four batters that resulted in three hits and three runs in the sixth. Chacin left with one in, two on and the game tied 6-6, but Angel Pagan's single through the middle plated two more, giving the Giants a lead that would hold up.
"It was just a bad day for Chacin," Gonzalez said. "Chacin's a pitcher who always gives us a chance to win, but it didn't happen tonight. It was just a bad game. We'll just try to think about tomorrow."
Though the Rockies bats went silent, Arenado provided a late-inning highlight, diving into foul territory to glove a screaming grounder of the bat of Brett Pill, then jumping to his feet to fire a rocket to first and catch Pill to end the inning.
"He's quite a talent," Weiss said of the rookie, playing in his 17th big league game since joining the club near the end of April. "He swings the bat, his average doesn't jump out at you, but it could be 60 or 70 points higher. He's playing Gold Glove defense."
Still, the Rockies could find no defense against the Giants overcoming their biggest deficit since beating the Rockies 7-6 in September 2005 after also trailing 6-0.
"It's kind of weird, because they're a good team," Crawford said of Colorado. "They have good arms and a lot of good bats, obviously. To win 10 straight on them is a pretty good accomplishment for our team."
It's the kind of pattern that can stick in a team's head, looming large as a source of unfathomable futility. It's the longest skid for the Rockies against an opponent since their inaugural season in 1993, when Colorado was 0-13 against the Braves. Knowing how absolutes can mess with the mind, Weiss was determined to end the run and leave their history behind them.
"We got to be tougher than that," Weiss said. "We got to play better. We got to win games."


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Around The Jazz Internet: March 30, 2012
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Next Wednesday: the Craig Taborn Trio live in concert. But first, these news:
- The new record from master drummer Billy Hart, now 71, has proven a popular subject. Jon Garelick writes for the Boston Phoenix; Hank Shteamer writes for Time Out New York.
- April 13 is Jazz Day, as declared by the U.S. Council of Mayors. The Jazz Journalists Association is declaring it "jazz media day" — and encouraging everyone to participate. More details in the link above.
- More full documentaries on YouTube: Django Reinhardt (nearly two hours!) and the worthwhile (if incomplete) story of Blue Note Records.
- Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane are the subjects of this week's American Routes public radio program. Two hours, folks.
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba cover story for Miami's alt-weekly, circa 1997. Talk about a controversial musician: You don't hear much about militant protests against freakishly-good jazz pianists these days. (I stumbled upon this while researching a related topic.)
- Clarinetist Ben Goldberg is the subject of a San Francisco Chronicle profile. The piece focuses on his many different bands, including his first attempt at writing songs with words.
- Brian Ho is a Chinese-American organist who learned his instrument in the way many great jazz keyboard players did — in the black church. The San Jose Mercury News reports.
- Laurence Hobgood, arranger and pianist for Kurt Elling for many years, is finally touring his own band.
AlanMiles Brown is a professor of jazz bass — and a member of the acclaimed contemporary classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound. A short Q&A in the Detroit Free Press.
- Jazz musicians respond to the Trayvon Martin story, via Alternate Takes.
- An Oklahoma City police officer started singing jazz after a severe automobile accident and is now playing New York and European gigs. One of his collaborators is the director of programming at "Jazz at the Lincoln Center."
- This etymology of the term "jazz," as originating in baseball slang, has come to the attention of this blog before. Any professional historians care to weigh in?
- Columbia College Chicago addresses proposed cutbacks in jazz programs, including the Center for Black Music Research and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
- Katie Malloch, a dean of Canadian jazz radio, is stepping away from the mic. She gives an exit interview to Peter Hum.
- The Nazis hated jazz. (Yes, I have seen quips that this looks a lot like popular jazz c. 2012.)
- Duke Ellington: the statue. A Blog Supreme approves.
- The movie Anchorman will have a sequel. If you need to ask why this is relevant, you need to watch that clip — and maybe this one too.
- Ted Panken's archives this week: articles about Cecil Taylor and Michael Brecker.
- JazzWax spoke with guitarist John Scofield.
- The Jazz Session spoke with Raya Brass Band and drummer Billy Hart.
- The Checkout hosted Steve Lehman's trio and Noah Preminger's quartet in the studio this week, and spoke with pianist Manuel Valera.
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- Alexis Cuadrado presented his A Lorca Soundscape in concert.
- Manuel Valera presented his New Cuban Express in concert.
- Early Wes Montgomery recordings were recently discovered and released. Here's the scoop.
- The Steve Lehman trio visited WBGO for this in-studio session.
- Jason Moran is the guest on this week's Piano Jazz Rising Stars.
- JazzSet this week features the Benny Green Trio.
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz features the Beegie Adair episode.
- The complete Alan Lomax archive is going online, reports Joel Rose. That's 17,000 recordings.
- Esi Edugyan, author of Half Blood Blues (about black jazz musicians in Germany pre-WWII), speaks with Tell Me More.


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I've been brainstorming on how to get myself back into the swing of blogging, because truthfully, I've missed it.
I thought of a whole lot of nothing, but for the last few weeks I've been thinking about different chains of events. Things that could have gone a million different ways, and only after did I see how God had orchestrated everything just so.
With that, I give you the first in a Series of Fortunate Events. (Not to be confused with another series.)
Fortunate Event #1
When I was growing up, I went on a bike camp. It was a compromise with my dad to avoid the canoe camp fate my sister had already been through. It was a fundraiser-turned-camp. We biked 150 miles or something over...I don't know...some days? It's a little hazy, lo these many years later. We collected pledges and raised money for Operation Classroom, which helped build and support schools in Sierra Leone. I think I was maybe in 8th grade. Biking was not my favorite, but it beat the idea of canoeing in the Boundary Waters. Although, I DID have to have my dad along as one of the camp counselor/chaperones. So I'm not sure between my sister and I who won/lost. All I know is, I got the worst sunburn ever on the tops of my legs because it didn't occur to me how much they'd be in the sun. And I'm a burner.
Hold that thought.
Flash forward five or so years.
Every year my family went to the North Shore on Lake Superior over Labor Day weekend. We usually stayed at a cabin at Cascade Lodge. Cascade is the epitome of family vacation to me. Eating pancakes at the restaurant. Hiking in the woods and eating wild raspberries along the way. Waterfalls. Rock throwing. If I think really hard, I can smell the delicious North Shore smells right now.
The weekend before I started my senior year of high school, we went to Cascade as usual. We were eating in the restaurant, and our waiter looked really familiar to me. He looked familiar to Dad, too. I knew his name was Paul, but I didn't know how I knew that. His nametag confirmed it. Hmmm...
After a few minutes it came to me: Paul had been on the bike camp! We all talked and caught up, and sure enough, he remembered all the biking. Paul was currently a student at University of Minnesota-Duluth, which happened to be where I was planning to go the following year. We exchanged information, and I decided in a year, I'd give him a call.
One year later...
I did call Paul. The first day I was at UMD. He was one of the only people I knew there. He invited me to go to a friend's house for movies. When we got there, I sat in a room full of strangers. 18 years old. First days of college. Somebody next to me offered me some Pepsi...you might know him as Captain America...
But that's for another Series of Fortunate Events.


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Ricotta and Braised Leek Crostini Recipe
Soft braised leeks are accented with basil and rounded out with ricotta cheese for these simple, summery crostini.
Why this recipe works:
- Whole-milk ricotta is an easy and delicious spread with not extra work required.
- Braised leeks offer a depth of flavor and silky texture and are ready in just 20 minutes.
Note: The topping can be made in advance and refrigerated overnight.
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- Yield:Makes 30 crostini
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 30 (1/2-inch thick) slices baguette or other crusty bread
- 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 3 large leeks, roots and dark green parts trimmed off, split lengthwise and soaked in cold water to remove all grit
- 3 cups chicken stock or low-sodium broth
- 3 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, cut into thin ribbons
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound fresh ricotta cheese
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Place baguette slices on a baking sheet and drizzle with 1/4 cup olive oil. Bake until lightly browned and crisp, about 8 minutes. Let cool.
Combine leeks, chicken stock and 1 tablespoon oil in a large, wide-bottomed pot, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower heat to a simmer and cook, partially covered, until leeks are tender, about 20 minutes. Remove leeks from pot and let cool, reserving broth for another use. Slice leeks crosswise into thin ribbons and transfer to a small mixing bowl. Add basil and stir gently to combine. Season with salt and pepper.
Spread toasts with about 1 tablespoon ricotta cheese eac, then top with leek mixture. Transfer crostini to a platter, drizzle with remaining olive oil and serve immediately.
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MOOSIC, Pa. -- One powerful swing of the bat showed that Alex Rodriguez is nearing a return to the Yankees. Rodriguez continued his rehab Thursday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and hit a two-run homer in the third inning.
Rodriguez started at third base and batted second for the RailRiders. He received loud applause upon his first at-bat and a standing ovation following his home run. He nearly had a two-homer night as he scalded a Chad Reineke pitch to deep right field on the first pitch he saw in the first inning, but it fell short and was caught on the warning track.
He slammed a third-inning fastball from Reineke over the right-center field fence to give him his second homer during his rehab assignment.
"That [swing] felt good," Rodriguez said. "Anytime I can get the ball up in the air, especially center to right-center field, that's a good sign."
Rodriguez went 1-for-4, but he went the opposite way all three times he made contact -- an encouraging sign. In addition to his flyout to right field in the first, he hit a hard grounder to first base in the bottom of the sixth.
"I don't want rollers to short or third base, that's a bad sign," said Rodriguez. "Anytime I get the ball in the air, that's what I've worked so hard for over the last five or six years with [Yankees hitting coach] Kevin Long."
Despite his eagerness to help the Yankees, Rodriguez stressed he wasn't quite ready to make his return to New York. He is expected to continue his rehab through the weekend before joining the club Monday in Texas.
"I'm excited, but we can't get ahead of ourselves," said Rodriguez. "We still have another big challenge, which is the last three days, and I just want to make sure I stay focused and continue to take one pitch at a time."
Rodriguez didn't see any significant chances at third base.
Rodriguez sees his improvement at the plate, but recognizes that his body still isn't quite ready for the Major League grind, and perhaps he hasn't seen quite the number of game situations he would like to.
"I haven't played in a long time, and it's a very difficult game," said Rodriguez. "Over the last four or five days, I've showed signs of finding my swing. Overall, I feel better, and I just want to keep getting more athletic every day.
"I'm close to 38 now, I'm just trying to get a little more conservative. I think the 20 days was good for me, because I knew that there was a timetable and I couldn't rush, and I think that's important in a process like this."