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1N dbl
Posted 2012-April-07, 15:59
More Traditional
P-nothing to say, invites partner to bid a 5-cd suit or redouble if advancer passes
suit-5-cd suit
New Approach
P-nothing to say, invites partner to bid a 5-cd suit or redouble if advancer passes
rdbl-asks opener to bid 2C, shows a 5-cd minor or both majors
2C-clubs and a higher (4/4 usually)
2D-diamonds and a higher (4/4 usually)
2M-5-cd suit
I'm still uneasy about
1) not having the redouble alert partner that he can double advancer's runout
2) responder bidding out with a 4/4 ahead of opener. Opener might have a 5-cd suit that would manage opposite a doubleton.
Partner argues that 2-suited hands are very common and that it makes more sense catering to this than trying to catch the opponents.
What do other people think?
Posted 2012-April-07, 16:53
rdbl-asks opener to bid 2C, shows a 5-cd minor or both majors---love it and we do it.
2M-5-cd suit--looks good.
But, our experience is probably different from yours regarding getting busy with 4-4's. Prefer to be 5-5 with our 2-suited scrambles, and run to the 5-bagger with 5-4.
We are content that the NT opener does very little of the doubling for penalty when they run out...leaving that to the other guy.
Posted 2012-April-07, 19:35
1N (dbl)
P-nothing much to say. This hand is content playing 1N doubled if it comes to that, could have some values or not, but has little or no interest in penalizing the opponents. If advancer bids out, this hand may double back in as takeout. If opener redoubles, this hand may sit or cooperate in a scramble. If responder sits for a redouble and the opponents run, no force has been created. Most likely responder has up to 8 points or so...just shy of an invitational hand.
rdbl-business, invitational+ hand, not 1-suited but may be 2-suited. If this hand later bids out, it is forcing and could be on a 4-cd suit.
suits-5-cd suits, to play. A 5/4 hand with less than invitational strength just bids its 5-cd suit.
2N+ transfers with 6-cd suits and invitational+. For example 1N dbl 3H is invitational+ in spades with a 6-cd suit.
Now 1N (dbl) P auctions. I think P here puts advancer under just a bit of pressure. Not if he has a good hand, but sometimes when he has a poor one. He can pass, but he doesn't know whether opener will pass or not. If he is weak, he may have to chance a pass or bid out on a 4-cd suit. Usually if advancer passes, opener will bid something, but if he's a 4333 he'll sit. Perhaps he'll sit with a maximum. Most days, he'll either bid a 5-cd suit or will redouble. The redouble announces a 4432 pattern. After a redouble, responder can decide whether to sit or participate in a scramble.
Posted 2012-April-07, 19:50
works best. Thus a system that mostly transfers seems to keep the
doubler on lead the most.
pass = any 2 suited weak hand ask p to bid lowest ranking 3+ card suit
we are in trouble and trying to play in a non x spot. If rho X p bid
we pass if the suit is acceptable and xx if we are short.
xx at least invitational (this wont always work) and invites p to
x opps if penalty looks good (vulnerability has to be considered)
or pass and let you decide.
2c transfer to d
2d transfer to h
2h transfer to s
2s transfer to c
2n 6 card minor 2 of top 3 and out this includes AK since odds are high
opps have a 1 suited hand.
3 (c/d/h) highly distributional hands (at least 55) in the 4-7 hcp range
promising suit bid plus higher rank. Axxxx x x xxxxxx for ex willing to
risk extra level due to game chance. Opener pass or correct or go to
game in suit.
3s 7/8? card minor headed by A or K and out asking opener to bid 3n 4c/d or 5c/d
3n all suits stopped vulnerability not conducive to low level penalty.
If lho runs from xx opener can
x = penalty
pass = unable to penalty x minimum and no stop.
2n = 1 stop minimum hand
if max bid lowest 4 card major or 5 card minor.
3n = to play
this should solve almost all bidding problems and leaves you with
some extra options.
Posted 2012-April-07, 20:13
Posted 2012-April-07, 20:53
aguahombre, on 2012-April-07, 20:13, said:
No. Not a lot of 1N dbl as penalty auctions either. We're just gearing up for the GNT and trying to nail down loose ends. My impression is that most strong players retain rdbl as penalty and I'd like to follow that unless I can understand a better use for it. I do see the value of transfers, but it means we can't play 2C and we will want to play there a significant percentage of the time after 1N dbl.
Posted 2012-April-07, 21:18
Posted 2012-April-07, 21:31
Posted 2012-April-08, 03:00
I do play pass is forcing playing weak NT so I do something totally different over that fwiw
Posted 2012-April-08, 03:08
gszes, on 2012-April-07, 19:50, said:
we are in trouble and trying to play in a non x spot. If rho X p bid
we pass if the suit is acceptable and xx if we are short.
xx at least invitational (this wont always work) and invites p to
x opps if penalty looks good (vulnerability has to be considered)
or pass and let you decide.
2c transfer to d
2d transfer to h
2h transfer to s
2s transfer to c
You can improve on that by playing pass as either clubs or the weak two-suiter. Opener redoubles with 3+ clubs, or bids 2♣ with two. That gives away more information, but it's probably worth it in order to be able to sign off in clubs.
Posted 2012-April-08, 07:46
I agree that pass NF is superior, and also about 2M to play but why arent you playing like this over a weak NT ? I strongly believe that its the best runout for both range.
It avoid transfers wich is a big plus (rightsiding do not compensate for giving them more chance to penalized you on borderline values) and is quicker to preempt them (its more preemptive to be direct for one-suiter and delayed for 2-suiters than the opposite). Also scrambling with 3 suiters or quasi 3 suiters is often done best by XX rather than by bidding a suit. With a (54)(31) you start by XX allowing you to play in 2m undoubled rather than bidding 2H as H+S.
For instance, he doesn't like being used as a human shield when we're being shot at.
I happen to think it's a very noble way to meet one's maker, especially for a guy like him.
Bottom line is we never let that difference of opinion interfere with anything."
Posted 2012-April-08, 10:31
benlessard, on 2012-April-08, 07:46, said:
It is less likely that playing 1N X is right when they have doubled an 11-13 NT than a 15-17 NT for obvious reasons, and it is also more likely you are in trouble and need more running sequences so you can find your best fit as often as possible. Specifically, the problem mentioned in this thread of running with 4432 and not being forced to show 4-4 in those suits is important. If I'm 4432 with a bad hand over a weak NT, it's gonna be very important I play the 5-2 fit of partners suit rather than a 4-3 fit. 4-3 fits with not many points on trump leads can be really bad. Not to mention I want to always find the 5-3 fit. Compared to when I play 15-17 NT, where I would not run with 4432 unless i had like 0-3 points, I would take my shot passing with 4+ and partner would run to a 5 card suit then if he had one so we'd be alright. Yes, when I have a 4432 yarb over a strong NT I'd wish to play pass as forcing, but it's just frequencies obv.
I do not know what is right, but it makes sense to play NF pass over strong NT and F pass over weak NT for those reasons.
Posted 2012-April-08, 10:53
1) When responder holds a 5/4, does he do better to run to the 5-cd suit thus not risking a 4-3 fit?
2) I assume a runout (DONT or redouble if it asks to run) is then only made with a 4-4-4-1 or a 5-5 pattern. Is that correct?
3) What does redouble by opener show? I'm thinking it shows specifically a 4432. Opener just passes with a 4333 and takes his medicine.
4) If redouble is not business, what does responder do with a good hand that wants to be in game? Does he risk a pass (play 1N doubled?) or use transfers and such at the 3-level? Probably a dumb question...
Posted 2012-April-08, 18:18
Also does opening 1Nt weak with with a 5M change anything ?
For instance, he doesn't like being used as a human shield when we're being shot at.
I happen to think it's a very noble way to meet one's maker, especially for a guy like him.
Bottom line is we never let that difference of opinion interfere with anything."
Posted 2012-April-09, 14:31
gnasher, on 2012-April-08, 03:08, said:
a worthy suggestion indeed. I can't believe I left out xx by opener sigh.
I use the xx to show that opener has a 5/6? card minor. After the
xx responder can
bid 2c to show tolerance for clubs
bid 2d to show singleton or void in clubs and dia tolerance
bid 2h to show a VERY weak major 2 suiter
I tried very hard to make up for not being able to sign off in 2 clubs by
making up tricks in many places elsewhere by allowing opener to play most
of the hands. At IMPS the difference may not be significant enough to
make up for the inability to play 2c. I have to admit I dont know but,
in practice so far, signing off in 2c hasn't been a problem yet.
Posted 2012-April-09, 14:54
straube, on 2012-April-07, 19:35, said:
I am confused. On what basis would opener redouble unless Pass forced him to?
Posted 2012-April-09, 15:33
Posted 2012-April-09, 15:44
straube, on 2012-April-09, 15:33, said:
Then, if I were you, I would play that Pass forces redouble, forces 2♣, forces 4-card suits, forces ANYTHING, so that opener is never tempted to do the above.
Posted 2012-April-09, 16:02
Posted 2012-April-09, 16:40
aguahombre, on 2012-April-09, 16:02, said:
No, in fact I don't really like any schemes that do not allow for playing in 1NTX. But I like opener volunteering action (without a 5-card suit) a whole lot less!


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FALLON, Nev. -- Actor Tom Cruise was in Fallon on Friday during preparations for the up-coming sequel to the 1986 blockbuster movie 'Top Gun.'
People in Fallon say Cruise took the time to talk with them during his tour of Fallon and the nearby Naval Air Station Fallon (NAS).
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The Astros have signed four international free agents on this, the first day of the signing period. Those four players are:
16-year old Dominican SS/OF Osvaldo Duarte
SS/C Jonathan Matute
Matute, from Venezuela, is 16 years old, 5'11" and 180 pounds. Baseball America says he has quick hands and gap power. The Astros signed him for $245,000
16-year old SS Joan Mauricio
Oz Ocampo said that Mauricio was "one of the top 10 players in this year's class – a true shortstop with
projection and offensive upside." He's 6'1" and 140 pounds, so someone get that kid a glass of milk. BA says:
Once he gets bigger and stronger, he has a chance to take a step forward and see his tools improve.
The Astros signed Mauricio for $600,000.
16-year old lefty CF Nestor Tejada
Tejada trained at Carlos Guillen's academy and has "above average" speed. While Oz Ocampo says that his strength is in the batter's box.
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Oz just tweeted out that Mauricio is 160 instead of 140.
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These guys are so so so so far away....but it would be fun to see one of them actually fulfill his projections and become a major league player. It's been a while....
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This is what happens when you mix Stadium Super Trucks with an IndyCar street circuit. You get the most hilarious, most awesome kind of racing I've seen in a long time.
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The front page of the Washington Post on Saturday (5/14/11) offered a pretty typical example. Under the headline "Democrats Consider Political Cost of Taxes," Peter Wallstein explained that since some right-leaning Democrats aren't keen on the idea of raising taxes, the party is at a crossroads:
At issue for Democrats is whether the party risks going overboard in its embrace of tax increases–a perilous proposition for lawmakers from political battlegrounds.
Those tensions erupted at a private meeting this week of a handful of key Democratic members.
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Several centrist Democrats have been voicing concern in private sessions that [Kent] Conrad's draft may be shifting too far to the left in order to placate liberals on the committee whose votes are needed to move the legislation, according to aides.
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It's hard to imagine seeing many pieces that are flipped around, politically speaking–where the People's Budget from the Progressive Caucus would be treated as a politically popular platform that reflected the wishes of the party base (not to mention the general population). Instead these policy ideas are mostly overlooked, while conservative Democrats who worry about what Republicans will say about them are given top billing–and called "centrists" to boot.
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Jai Jai Raam! This was a special weekend for those who joined Krishna Das for his first Kirtan and Workshop, held at the Central Presbyterian Church, here in Austin. For those of you not familiar with Kirtan, by definition, is Indian devotional music, chanting the names of God.
At Friday night's Kirtan, Krishna Das, (KD), was accompanied by Arjun Bruggeman, tabla player, and Mark Gorman, on electric bass guitar. KD who is known as the "Rock Star" of Kirtan, brought us a lively and spiritually intoxicating experience. In the style of music known as "call and response", (used in many cultures), they rocked the house! Many of us in the audience got up to dance.
At Saturday's Workshop, there was more chanting and KD answered questions from the audience, told stories of his life experience, traveling to meet his Guru in India and his path back to the States. In KD's usual style of humor he had us laughing. His love and devotion for his teacher Neem Karoli Baba, lead him to realize he needed to sing, specifically with other people. This evolved into what would become a life's work of devotional singing.
It was 15 years ago in 1997, when I first heard of Krishna Das. At that time I was living in northern California, in a valley below Mount Tamalpais, in a very small, Japanese tea house. It felt like one of the most hidden places on the planet, far away from my native NYC. Strangely, it was there that I felt most connected. It was during a life-changing experience and an adventurous period in my life, a perfect place to reflect. I am sure I was led there for this reason. It was then I made my first connection to KD and a world of experience that would prove to be meaningful in my life.
Just when I thought I was living alone on the edge of the universe, I met my neighbor, (also recently from NY) who was handling Public Relations for KD. She took me to my first Kirtan, gave me his first CD's and that was it! Since then, after moving back to New York City, it became one of the treasures in my life, a ritual I would look forward to. Now living in Austin, I really missed it.
Finally, KD has put Austin on his tour schedule, thanks to his dear friend Amparo Garcia-Crow of "Inspirit Studios" who together with Becky Jordan of "Heart of Texas Yoga" brought us this event. I was honored to be asked to contribute the design of the poster and flyer.
Krishna Das inspires us to remember who we truly are and what we are really looking for is within us. We look forward to having KD back again so that we can continue this uplifting tradition of chanting that brings us all home, here in Austin.
For more about Krishna Das, go to www.krishnadas.com
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Ralph Waite of 'The Waltons' Dies at 85
Ralph Waite, a fixture on American TV screens during the 1972-1981 run of 'The Waltons,' died Thursday. He was 85.
Waite had numerous recurring roles on current programs, including 'Bones,' 'NCIS' and 'Days of Our Lives.' He didn't begin acting until age 30, but soon got small parts in highly acclaimed films like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Five Easy Pieces.' He was also an ordained Presbyterian minister, after having graduated from the Yale School of Divinity.
But it was his role as John Walton on 'The Waltons' that bonded him with American families. The show, about a large family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression, had a huge following during its nine seasons, and the cast reunited several times for TV specials and movies.


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The headlines say President Obama has "taken on the gun lobby," but actually, he has taken on our culture of violence, including the violent rhetoric that accompanies any attempt to alter it.
The headlines say President Obama has �taken on the gun lobby,� but actually, he has taken on our culture of violence, including the violent rhetoric that accompanies any attempt to alter it.
�If Americans of every background stand up and say, enough; we�ve suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue � then change will come,� Obama told the nation this week. From what wisdom I�ve acquired in 50 years, he�s right. Change requires both the will and the effort to cause change. Do we have it in us?
According to the UPI, in February the U.S. Senate will take up a bill to deal with gun violence. Finally, we are having a national conversation about how to reduce mass killings and what actions we can take to save lives one at a time.
Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told National Public Radio, �I think it�s great that we�re having this conversation today, and this day is a long time coming.�
For 11,478 Americans in 2012, including 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, it comes too late. It comes too late for Gabby Giffords, whose life was permanently altered by a madman�s bullet. It comes too late for James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was severely handicapped by Ronald Reagan�s would-be assassin.
Giffords and Brady (who turned 72 this year) both lead gun-control organizations. They remind us that it�s not just those the bullets have killed who matter. The wounded matter. The survivors matter. The families matter.
In fact, our national character matters. Our Declaration of Independence states that among our inalienable rights are �life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.� Gun violence � the culture that fosters it and the rhetoric that praises it � deprives us of those rights.
Obama�s press conference struck the right balance between the �individual right� reading of the Second Amendment and the Constitution�s mandate to �provide for the general welfare.� The president acknowledged the controversy and respected the concerns of all parties involved, then, in addition to proposing legislation to reinstate the ban on assault weapons, immediately signed 23 executive orders. Some facilitate background checks of potential gun buyers, making it easier for gun dealers to be part of the solution. Some provide resources to schools, facilitating the hiring of a security guard or mental health counselor.
These mostly administrative directives, well within the president�s power to direct the operation of existing federal programs, were based on common sense and represented consensus. They were the result of broad-based conversations and represent the will of the people.
NBC News said, �In fact, most are administrative � publishing letters, writing memos and appointing administrators.�
But many on the right want to use our national conversation about gun violence as yet another opportunity to demonize Obama. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says Obama has a �king complex,� although he�s issued fewer executive orders than any president in 100 years.
The NRA, in particular, has let the dogs out. It produced an Internet ad that attacked Obama for allowing his daughters to have Secret Service protection, which is federally mandated. Mike Barnicle, appearing on the MSNBC�s �Morning Joe� broadcast, called it �pornographic.� Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of the show, were so stunned and horrified by the ad, they were speechless for several seconds.
Scarborough couldn�t believe the NRA did not understand that any president�s children had, as he put it, �a target on their backs.� Both he and Brzezinski condemned the NRA as �fringe,� �extremist� and not the organization it used to be.
New regulations and laws alone won�t stop all gun violence and protect all our schools and children. And, as Jerry Henry, executive director of GeorgiaCarry.org, said on CNN, we need to enforce the gun laws already on the books.
But clearly, more needs to be done. The president�s proposals include universal background checks, banning assault weapons and capping magazine capacity. But they also include funding for police, for research on gun violence, for school counseling and for security. He wants to both strengthen gun tracking and promote safe gun ownership. Several directives also address the national mental health crisis and its intersection with gun violence.
No program will be 100 percent perfect. Columbine had armed guards in the school. Shooters in Aurora and at Virginia Tech were on mental health officials� radar, but deaths still happened.
But because we can�t do everything doesn�t mean we should do nothing. The �right to bear arms� is not absolute, as even the NRA acknowledges. It is time we stop the personal attacks, stop the paranoia, and work together to protect the rights of our children � beginning with the right to grow into adulthood.
Donna Brazile is a political commentator on CNN, ABC and NPR, and a contributing columnist to Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.


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Twinkies Maker Hostess Going Out of Business, CEO Blames Union Strike — "It's over. This is it," Gregory Rayburn tells "Today." — Hostess, the makers of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business after striking workers failed to heed a Thursday deadline to return to work, the company said.
Abram Brown / Forbes: Next Twinkie Maker: Will A Mexican Billionaire Family Buy Hostess' Orphaned Brands?
IronyCurtain / iOwnTheWorld.com: Parasites Kill Their Own Hostess
Katie Glueck / Politico: Pols, press: End of Twinkie is stinky
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Horror: Hostess Files For Bankruptcy, Shutters Business
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Obama Economy, Idiotic Union Kill the Delicious Twinkie
Tengrain / Mock, Paper, Scissors: When Union Busting Goes Bad
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin: Ding Dong, the Twinkies are dead: 18,500 jobs disappear as Hostess closes down
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner: Hostess union workers have Plan B: 'government-provided unemployment benefits'
Katie Rogers / Guardian: The Hostess Twinkie: 1930-2012?
Hostess Brands closing for good — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hostess Brands — the maker of such iconic baked goods as Twinkies, Devil Dogs and Wonder Bread — announced Friday that it is asking a federal bankruptcy court for permission to close its operations, blaming a strike by bakers protesting a new contract imposed on them.
Emily Jane Fox / Click Orlando l Orlando News …: Wal-Mart workers plan Black Friday walkout
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Hostess Going Out Of Business After Striking Union Workers Refuse To Return To Work...
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Hostess Is Going Out of Business, Will Lay Off Thousands
John Keller / LewRockwell.com Blog: Debunking Pro-Union Spin
Rachel Feintzeig / Wall Street Journal:
Twinkie Maker Hostess to Close — Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of iconic treats such as Twinkies and traditional pantry staple Wonder Bread, said Friday it is shuttering its plants and firing about 18,000 workers as it seeks to liquidate the 82-year-old business.
Discussion: Weekly Standard, American Power, Real Time Economics, Deal Journal, Concurring Opinions, Law Blog and Roger Ailes
Geoffrey Norman / Weekly Standard: Taking Ourselves Hostage
Donald Douglas / American Power: Hostess Goes Down: Daily Kos Blames Corporate Greed and Mitt Romney-Style Liquidation
Deven Desai / Concurring Opinions: Bye, Bye Big Brands, Twinkie, Ding Dong: Hostess Brands, Inc. Liquidating
Hostess Brands Inc / PR Newswire:
Hostess Brands to Wind Down Company After BCTGM Union Strike Cripples Operations
Hostess Brands to Wind Down Company After BCTGM Union Strike Cripples Operations
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway, The Hinterland Gazette, Mashable!, Washington Examiner and The Greenroom
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard: Down Twinkies — Yesterday, Hostess announced that it would be forced …
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Hostess Brands To Shut Down
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Hostess Brands, Maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, Going Out of Business, Blames Striking Union Workers
Christine Erickson / Mashable!: 8 Hostess Treats You Can Still Make at Home
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Union: 'Bain-style' killing of Twinkie
Union: 'Bain-style' killing of Twinkie
Discussion: CNBC, Weasel Zippers and The Greenroom
John Carney / CNBC: How Hostess Failed: Hedge Funds vs. Unions
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: AFL-CIO Chief Richard Trumka Blames Bain Capital For Hostess Going Out Of Business After Union …
Duane Patterson / The Greenroom: How Long Can The Left Continue To Defy Economic Gravity?
Alice Wolke / Dallas News:
Hostess going out of business; nearly 18,000 to be laid off
Hostess going out of business; nearly 18,000 to be laid off
Discussion: Hot Air, americanthinker.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Questions and Observations and The Greenroom
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Twinkies - and 18000 jobs - fall victim to union-management dispute; Update: Teamsters throw bakers union under the bus?
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Hostess Brands to close in face of strike
Pastorius / THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: PREDICTION: Obama Will Try To Argentinize Business Within The Next Year
Bruce McQuain / Questions and Observations: 6,000 union members cost 12,000 other workers their jobs
Matt Egan / Fox Business:
Hostess to Liquidate, Lay Off 18,500 After Crushing Union Fight
Hostess to Liquidate, Lay Off 18,500 After Crushing Union Fight
Discussion: protein wisdom
AP Member Choice Limited / Reuters:
No more Twinkies? Hostess plans to shut down
No more Twinkies? Hostess plans to shut down
Discussion: aflcio.org, Washington Post, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post: Spare the Twinkie, Hostess
Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner: Teamsters v. AFL-CIO v. Twinkies
Hostess Brands Moves to Wind Down Operations
Hostess Brands Moves to Wind Down Operations
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Fork in the Road
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: The Demise of the Twinkie-Makers
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Petraeus testifies CIA's Libya talking points were changed, lawmaker says — Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected …
Discussion: Roger L. Simon, Riehl World News, The Right Scoop, Fox News Insider, Power Line, National Review and Jihad Watch
The Right Scoop: Petraeus Hearing: Original Benghazi talking points edited to remove Al-Qaeda involvement
Fox News Insider: BREAKING: Petraeus Testifies on Capitol Hill, Expected to Say He Knew Benghazi Attack Was Terror
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: DNI and Acting DCIA can't answer key Benghazi questions; perhaps Petraeus will
Katrina Trinko / National Review: CIA Benghazi Talking Points Were Changed, Older Version Mentioned Al-Qaeda
Robert / Jihad Watch: Petraeus testifies that CIA reported al-Qaeda involvement in Benghazi attack, but that line was removed
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep Admits CIA Approved U.N. Ambassador's Talking Points On Libya — Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has admitted that the CIA and intelligence community approved U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice's talking points before she made her much-derided Sept. 16 appearance on several Sunday news shows to discuss the attacks in Benghazi.
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, CNN and Wired
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
Dozen House Women Defend Rice Over Libya Comments — A dozen female members of the House have staunchly defended U.N. ambassador Susan Rice against Republican criticism over her remarks on the deadly Sept. 11 Libya attack, suggesting the lawmakers' comments were racist and sexist.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Althouse
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Disgusting... Dozen Liberal House Women Defend Susan Rice - Play Race Card
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Congressional Black Caucus Chair: GOP Criticizing Susan Rice Is Racist And Sexist...
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
In testimony, Petraeus says he always saw Benghazi as terrorism — Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers at a closed-door briefing Friday the agency believed the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack from the beginning. — Petraeus also indicated …
Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS and Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Petraeus 'Knew Almost Immediately' Al Qaeda-Linked Group Responsible for Benghazi — David Petraeus is going to tell members of Congress that he "knew almost immediately after the September 11th attack, that the group Ansar al Sharia, the al Qaeda sympathizing group in Libya was responsible for the attacks," CNN reports.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Report: Petraeus testimony will show that the White House fixed the Benghazi intelligence (updated)
Andy H / The Lonely Conservative: Petraeus Knew Attack Was Terrorism - Rice Got Talking Points From Administration
Washington Free Beacon: Petraeus Knew 'Almost Immediately' Terrorists Responsible for Benghazi Attack
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: CNN Report: Petraeus Knew "Almost Immediately" Terrorists Responsible For Benghazi Attack...
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: CNN: Petraeus To Testify He Knew "Almost Immediately" That Benghazi Attack Was Work Of Terrorists
Kevin Dolak / ABCNEWS:
Ex-CIA Chief Petraeus Testifies for 90 Minutes Before House Panel
Ex-CIA Chief Petraeus Testifies for 90 Minutes Before House Panel
Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Hot Air, The Raw Story, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, Politico and Nice Deb
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM: CNN: PETRAEUS TO TESTIFY HE KNEW LIBYA WAS TERRORISM 'ALMOST IMMEDIATELY'
David Ferguson / The Raw Story: Maddow: McCain 'the engine driving the crazy' on Benghazi conspiracy theories
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Did Gen. Petraeus Change His Story on Libya?
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: CNN wants you to look over there! … BREAKING: McCain's Got a Temper
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Audacity of 51% — Get ready for higher taxes and no spending reform.
The Audacity of 51% — Get ready for higher taxes and no spending reform.
Discussion: The Week, Nice Deb, Betsy's Page, NationalJournal.com and Power Line
Nice Deb: Friday Free-For-All: The President's 'Silly Sexist Defense' of Susan Rice Fails To Impress
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web
Chris Frates / NationalJournal.com: Dems to GOP: No Entitlement Reforms
John Hinderaker / Power Line: The Permanent Campaign Hasn't Ended
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Democratic Solution To The Filibuster: Make Them Talk … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Harry Reid , Congress, Democrats, Elections 2012, U.S. Senate, Video, Democrats Filibuster Reform, Politics News, Democratic Filibuster Reform, Democrats Fillibuster Reform, Filibuster, Filibuster Reform, Politics News
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Nathaniel Downes / Addicting Info: Filibuster Reform Now Official - Reid Presents New Filibuster Rule (VIDEO)
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
John Boehner Lengthens The Fuse On The Austerity Bomb
John Boehner Lengthens The Fuse On The Austerity Bomb
Discussion: Eschaton
Atrios / Eschaton: We Can Keep Doing This Forever
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Despite Obstacles, GOP And Dem Leaders Optimistic On Tax And Spending Deal
Despite Obstacles, GOP And Dem Leaders Optimistic On Tax And Spending Deal
Discussion: Firedoglake
Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
Israel's Airstrike Gamble — Hamas supporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah carry obituary posters of Hamas mastermind Ahmed Jabari as they march in support of the people of the Gaza Strip. On the third day of a military operation prompted by a rocket attack just south of Tel Aviv …
Discussion: Haaretz, Washington Monthly, World News and JTA
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Status Quo Minus in Middle East
World News: Gaza cease-fire collapses, Egypt PM backs Palestinians as Israel drafts 16,000 reservists
Gaza rocket fired at Jerusalem
Gaza rocket fired at Jerusalem
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Senate passes resolution condoning Israel's strikes on Hamas
Senate passes resolution condoning Israel's strikes on Hamas
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon: Congress Backs Israel
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters:
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv under rocket fire, Netanyahu warns Gaza
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv under rocket fire, Netanyahu warns Gaza
Discussion: Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Weasel Zippers and Riehl World News
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Chris Christie unwraps Mitt Romney's 'gift' claim — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday joined the chorus of Republican governors and other officials criticizing Mitt Romney's assertion that "gifts" from President Barack Obama helped the Democrat win reelection.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chris Moody / Associated Press:
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: Comments like Romney's set 'us back as a party'
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: Comments like Romney's set 'us back as a party'
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Quote of the Day: the Republicans Try to Rebuild Despite Comments of Mitt Romney
Adrian Carrasquillo / NBC Latino: Marco Rubio, Susana Martinez, distance themselves from Romney's remarks on "gifts" Obama gave
Amanda Sakuma / msnbc.com: GOP pig piles onto Romney's 'gifts'
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: More Republicans Distance Themselves From Romney's "Gift" Remarks
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Republicans Now Find Romney's '47 Percent' Sentiments Offensive
Ginger Gibson / Politico: GOP returns Mitt Romney 'gifts'
Sean Sullivan / Election 2012: Christie, Martinez take issue with Romney's 'gift' remarks
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Views of Obama, Democrats Improve After Election
In U.S., Views of Obama, Democrats Improve After Election
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes on Election Night: 'Rove was wrong. He backed down. Our guys were right.' — On election night, Fox News co-founder and chairman Roger Ailes watched election coverage in the News Corp. Sports Suite, down the hall from his second floor office.
Discussion: Mediaite, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Fox News Chief Roger Ailes: 'I Know No One Believes It,' But 'We Have No Agenda'
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Roger Ailes Can't Imagine Why Anyone Thinks Fox News Has an Agenda
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Most Republican States Won't Build Exchanges and That Is a Good Thing — Map showing party affiliation by Governors, current — Now that we have approached what should have been the deadline for states to say whether or not they plan to build state exchanges to comply with the Affordable Care Act …
Discussion: Politico
Jason Millman / Politico: HHS pushes back health exchange deadline to Dec. 14
Wall Street Journal:
Deadline Delayed For a Month on Health Exchanges
Deadline Delayed For a Month on Health Exchanges
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run: HHS Extends ObamaCare Health Insurance Exchange Deadline For States
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog: The state of health reform in one map
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Obama admin extends states' insurance-exchange deadline, again
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Life, Death and Deficits — America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas — beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
Discussion: msnbc.com and Connecting.the.Dots
Morning Joe / msnbc.com: Must-Read Op-Eds for Nov. 16, 2012
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: Fiscal Cliff Notes
Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
How to sort out Social Security's finances while making it more generous
How to sort out Social Security's finances while making it more generous
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Digby / Hullabaloo: Now this is a useful tax hike
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: Mark Begich's Gigantic Tax Increase on the Rich
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Here on the Fiscal Slopes
Here on the Fiscal Slopes
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
When the Nerds Go Marching In — How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones and The Daily Dish
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones: Under the Hood of Team Obama's Tech Operation
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Obama's Bears — They're fat, bearded and dedicated computer nerds.
Bilbray concedes to Peters in congressional race — GOP incumbent concedes race to Democratic port commissioner — Rep. Brian Bilbray conceded to Scott Peters on Friday, ending one of the most expensive and closely watched congressional races in California.
Aaron Blake / The Fix: California GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray concedes
Mike Zapler / Politico: Rep. Brian Bilbray concedes to Scott Peters
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
GOP Rep. Bilbray concedes his race
GOP Rep. Bilbray concedes his race
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4 critical, 2 missing after fire and explosion on Gulf platform — OFF THE GULF COAST - Four people were in critical condition and two others were missing after a fire and explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico south of Grand Isle Friday morning. — Coast Guard Incident Commander Ed Cubanski …
Discussion: WAFB-TV, Gizmodo and The Raw Story
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: Oil Rig Explodes Off the Coast of Louisiana (Updating)
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico kills two
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Broadwell, Kelley visited White House — Both women at the heart of the Petraeus scandal have visited the White House on multiple occasions, a White House official confirmed to POLITICO. — Petraeus's biographer Paula Broadwell attended an Afghanistan briefing, while Tampa socialite Jill …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Business Insider
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Jill Kelley Last Visited White House on Nov. 4, Two Days Before Election
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Chris Brown Confirms Split From Rihanna
We have some sad news to report. Chris Brown and Rihanna have called it quits -- again. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
The R&B crooner confirmed that his relationship with RiRi is over during an interview with an Australian radio program, the Kyle and Jackie Show. Breezy felt it was the best for them to separate since she is always touring and busy with other things in her life.
"Yeah, I'mma do it solo," he revealed about his birthday plans -- he turned 24 on May 5. "I mean at the end of the day, Shawty [Rihanna] doing her own thing, she on the road...it's always gonna be love... I'm a grown man, just gotta fast forward."
Brown has been partying with his other gal pal Karrueche Tran. The two were spotted together last Friday (May 3) at a Los Angeles theater for the singer's pre-birthday bash.
Nevertheless, Brown says Rihanna will always have his heart.
"I'm always gonna love that person. I cant be focused on wife-ing someone that young. I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be," he said.
Now before you breathe a sigh of relief over their break-up, a source told UsWeekly that their separation could be temporary.
"Of course tomorrow they could be all over each other again, but for now she's done and just living her life and touring. It's how it always is," said the source.
Isn't love grand?
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The 11th National Jewish Health Kunsberg Classic, presented by RE/MAX LLC and sponsored by Shanahan's, raised $210,000 for Kunsberg School at National Jewish Health, a free day school for 90 chronically ill students in kindergarten through eighth grades. The event included a private dinner at Shanahan's, Denver's premier steak and seafood restaurant, on Aug. 5 and continued with golf on Aug. 6 at The Sanctuary, the exclusive, world-recognized course in Sedalia, Colo.
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The State University of New York (SUNY) has formally introduced a new online program that allows students to access courses, degrees, professors and academic resources from any of SUNY's 64 campuses. Open SUNY, as it's called, is a mix-and-match service that offers access to 400 "online-enabled" degrees, 12,000 course sections and eight full degrees. The system's expectation is that people from inside and outside the state will attend courses, including international students.
Students can use the program to start a degree, finish a degree or just take a single course. The Open SUNY Navigator allows a potential student to specify what type of program he or she wants in categories such as entirely online or hybrid, synchronous or asynchronous, experiential, accelerated and so on — and the navigation tool provides potential online offerings to fit the criteria.
"Open SUNY will provide our students with the nation's leading online learning experience, drawing on the power of SUNY to expand access, improve completion, and prepare more students for success," said Chancellor Nancy Zimpher. "In addition to these new, fully-online degree programs, Open SUNY will take every online course we offer at every SUNY campus...and make them easy to find and accessible for every SUNY student and prospective learners around the globe."
Along with providing a central application through which to locate course offerings, SUNY is offering Open SUNY+, which adds additional layers of support for online students and instructors. Specific additions include a 24/7 help desk for technical support, a "concierge" service to act as a single source for getting all program questions answered, and extended hour tutoring services. Faculty will have access to training programs and online forums where they can broaden their knowledge about developing effective online courses or share best practices.
Eight Open SUNY+ degree programs debuting this month were chosen based on a number of factors, including student interest, accreditation, and their capacity to meet current and future workforce demand throughout New York State.
Among the institutions involved are:
"We are proud of our collaboration and success in serving a qualified student population that may not otherwise be able to pursue a degree in electrical engineering," said Stony Brook President Samuel Stanley Jr. "We are joining forces with our colleagues at Binghamton University and the University at Buffalo to make a difference. We look forward to implementation of Open SUNY. This is truly an exciting time to be involved in higher education in New York State."
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Despite L.A.'s healthy leanings, most restaurants still miss the mark when it comes to meat-free menu options. Kitchen Mouse forgoes not only the meat but also gluten and refined sugar — and what it lacks in fat and carbs, it makes up for in creativity and flavor. Inside the adorable, shabby-chic space you'll find crispy gomasio rice cakes with oyster mushrooms, shishito pepper salad and cilantro-ginger chutney, as well as romesco tacos with roasted poblano-potato mash and arugula-corn slaw. Plus, Kitchen Mouse serves these really addictive pine nut cookies that are rich and soft and buttery and just small enough to have you convincing yourself they're calorie-free.
It seems almost sacrilegious to name such a newcomer as Best Restaurant in Los Angeles when there are so many long-standing amazing eateries to choose from. And yet, over the last year, no place has walked the line between thrilling creativity and technical brilliance as well as Curtis Stone's Maude. It seems the chef, who has spent much of the last 20 years dabbling more in reality television and lucrative spokesman deals than in the actual kitchen, was just saving up all his energy and talent to funnel into this tiny labor of love. The menu, built monthly around a seasonal ingredient, exudes playfulness and is perfectly executed. Meals turn into symphonic musings on a season and an ingredient, and it's pure joy to watch Stone's train of thought meander through the courses. Impeccable service and a wonderful wine list only add to the charm, as does the set price (around $100 per person, more for months when luxury ingredients such as truffles take center stage), which would be three times as much in New York or London.
Chefs have long been playing in the fun space between California cooking and the grand French brasserie, but with Terrine it feels as though Kris Morningstar has finally hit on something solid, something more than playtime. His take on the French classics is stunning: The French onion soup is as deep and rich and laden with cheese as any you could find in Paris, and his grand charcuterie plate is a thing of wonder. But he's also inventing classics of his own. The crispy pig ears served in strips with aioli on the side are like frites from piggy heaven. The garbure, a stew of duck confit and white beans, expresses the very quintessence of duck, its deep brawny soul, its particular gamey perfume. The room, with its burnished mirrors and heavy silverware, feels exactly classy enough (without ever veering toward stuffy), and the back patio with its glorious Javanese bishopwood tree is one of L.A.'s loveliest outdoor dining options. The cocktails are great, the wine list is fantastic, and service has just the hint of formality you'd expect from the charming Frenchmen, Stephane Bombet and François Renaud, who oversee it.
Here's the thing about Ludovic Lefebvre: On the one hand, he's capable of turning out some of the city's most impressive avant-garde food at Trois Mec, and on the other, he gives us French food so classic at Petit Trois that it's better than the subject material it draws from. (Seriously — try finding a croque monsieur or a plate of escargot in Paris as good as Ludo's versions. I've tried. They don't exist.) The guy can turn around and teach your 7-year-old how to make clafoutis at one of his kids' classes. And then, he nonchalantly decides to put a burger on the Petit Trois menu, and — voila! — it's the best burger in the city. His fried chicken is great. His cookbooks are great. One of these days the guy will do something that's not 100 percent fantastic, but that day hasn't come yet.
Here's a confession: The last three times I've been to Providence, my credit card has been declined. Once, the card had expired three days earlier; on another occasion, the waiter swept up my husband's card before he had time to furiously transfer funds on his phone's banking app. A third time I just didn't have enough money in the bank. Providence is expensive. I paid in cash. But the point is, despite my faux pas — which have become comical in frequency at this particular establishment — the staff never once made me feel a fool. In fact, they've been just as gracious in dealing with my banking mishaps as they've been when recommending a wine, or preparing Santa Barbara spot prawns tableside, or wheeling out that glorious German-engineered cheese cart and deftly creating the perfect cheese plate. For a restaurant so formal, the service staff at Providence manage the exact right amount of warmth, a welcome that feels so genuine you might return even after embarrassing yourself twice. And then do it again.
When République opened, you could often see Taylor Parsons ducking in and out of the cellar room, tasting and swirling wines, then rushing out to tables to exclaim upon what he had found in the glass. No one was more enthusiastic, more excited to share his love for wine than Parsons. This is still the case, though now that he's taken over duties as general manager as well as being wine director, he's less likely to be tasting wine on the floor and more likely to be in some managerial meeting. If you're lucky enough to catch him, though, he's a font of friendly knowledge and is likely to have some bottle open in back that he just can't wait for you to try. His list is still one of the most approachable and exciting wine documents in town, ranging from bargain bottles he's sought out to true special-occasion treats. And he's done a very good job of hiring wine folks to be on the floor in his stead when he's stuck in those pesky meetings.
There's a lot about Mélisse that's a bit intimidating. The room is quiet and exceedingly luxurious. The service is formal. The menu is littered with ingredients such as truffles and caviar, with prices to match. But one thing about the place that isn't nearly as daunting as you might imagine is the wine list. Sure, it's encyclopedic, the product of years of expert curation and collection by recently departed wine director Brian Kalliel and his successor, Matthew Luczy (who has worked at Mélisse for years). If you want a bottle of $8,000 1988 La Tâche, you can certainly get that here. But the list is also surprisingly approachable and offers plenty for the value-minded. There are some lovely bottles of Premier Cru Chablis for less than $100, plus a large selection of half bottles and plenty of lovely full-bottle picks in the $30 to $50 range, which is a hard thing to find in any decent restaurant these days. Not only that, the staff provides the kind of wine service that feels like an exciting, giddy conversation about joy and pleasure. Which is exactly what learning should feel like.
Sherman Oaks' newly opened Augustine Wine Bar is an incredible evolution in the world of wine bars, an oddity and a gamble. Here's the premise: Owners Dustin Lancaster and Matthew Kaner (who also are responsible for Bar Covell, the wine bar in Los Feliz), along with Dave Gibbs (the singer-songwriter best known for his band Gigolo Aunts), opened a neighborhood wine bar with affordable, quirky wines, a short but ambitious food menu and a specials board with around 16 rotating vintage wines from Gibbs' personal collection, available by the glass and bottle each night. These are wines of stunning rarity and age, bottles that you might possibly stumble upon on one of the country's grandest wine lists in a restaurant that's been collecting for decades. Some of them are too rare or weird even for that. These are not wines that plebeians such as ourselves usually would have access to, and certainly not by the glass. Drinking here is a kind of pinch-yourself treat that leaves you hoping with a passionate fervor that this strange operation manages to find a way to continue doing what it's doing.
Set sail for Melrose, where chef Eric Greenspan has created a garden party–like seafood oasis, Maré, behind Greenspan's Grilled Cheese (you actually have to walk through the grilled cheese shop and into its office to find Maré's unmarked door). The chef isn't known for restraint, and he goes big with his bread course. Greenspan brushes par-baked La Brea Bakery baguettes with egg wash before lining their tops with a "Coastal European everything bagel" spice mix: sesame, poppy, fennel and coriander seeds, plus smoked Maldon sea salt. Seeds from warm loaves soon spill onto butcher paper. Greenspan joked, "I get to walk past and watch people pick at it like pigeons." Bread comes with garlic-and-oregano-infused olive oil and seasonal accompaniments that Greenspan calls "marketplace." That could mean pickled heirloom lipstick peppers, olives, pistachios and spiced kumquats. Request more complimentary bread to soak up seafood broth, possibly black mussels in pistou or shrimp in leek and white wine. Extra marketplace costs $4, which is cheap for such colorful fun.
Who was it that said fine dining was dead? Were we supposed to believe no one wanted to spend tons of money on dinner anymore? If that's the case, then what's up with the return of the old-school steak house? A great steak house is a reason to get dressed up, drink martinis and behave as though the economy never collapsed in the first place. And in the last year, L.A. has gotten a ton of new places to do just that. To name just a few: In Manhattan Beach, David LeFevre has given us the Arthur J; a few miles south in Hermosa, Tin Vuong opened the straightforwardly named Steak and Whisky; and Brentwood has the opulent Baltaire. Hooray for all of these, because if we're going to have a trend it might as well involve old-man cocktails, creamed spinach and big hunks of meat.
Vibiana, the now-deconsecrated cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and one of the city's oldest buildings, has long been used as an events space. Now chef Neal Fraser, his wife and business partner, Amy Knoll Fraser, and restaurateur Bill Chait have built Redbird in what was the rectory, the upstairs quarters of which used to house the cardinal. Get it? As much as the name nods to the building's history, the part of Redbird that best makes use of that history is the main dining room, which is actually a patio (which sometimes is covered with a newfangled retractable ceiling). It's a glorious space, designed by Robert Weimer, all white walls and potted trees and views of the cathedral next door. There's a sense of the past in the architecture and a sense of the future in the design details. It's one of the most dramatic and thrilling rooms to house a new L.A. restaurant since, well, République, which is also a Chait project.
The purest expression of chef Gary Menes' vision comes early in a meal at Le Comptoir, the new, permanent iteration of what had been his transient pop-up restaurant. Following a small amuse, perhaps a blistered shishito pepper over a tablespoon or so of crispy rice, and after a silky soup of early heirloom tomatoes poured over a Japanese sweet-potato velouté with creme fraiche and fried bread, comes the "vegetable and fruit plate," a gorgeous and artful arrangement of the day's bounty. The description of this might read "potato, broccoli, corn, cauliflower marrow, beet, celery, celtuce, calamansi, pickled onion, persimmon, carrot, tangerine, cucumber, peas, broccoli, grape and more." There are quite a few places in town that offer a vegetarian version of their tasting menu, but sitting through those can feel as if you've paid for all the creativity and luxury and yet received dishes that are afterthoughts. At Le Comptoir, the opposite is true: While there are meat dishes you can sub in for certain courses, the base menu is vegetarian, and as a result you can be sure Menes has conceived every dish carefully, with elegance and flavor in mind. When you're looking for vegetables to be the star of the show, this is your place.


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During the Revolutionary War, the Royal Navy maintained a presence on the East End. Cherry Harbor on the west side of Gardiner's Island was a favorite anchorage. Not far away to the west was the Northwest settlement, the heart of East Hampton at the time.
The Brits caused all sorts of trouble, commandeering equipment, cattle, food, whatever they wanted from the locals. But when they raided Isaac Van Scoy's 180-acre farm beside Northwest Harbor to take 50 pounds they heard he'd received in pay for produce, they were met with a two-tined pitchfork that left one of them dead, and two wounded.
Farmer Van Scoy was captured and imprisoned on a ship anchored in Sag Harbor to await trial, but was freed by friends who rowed offshore and helped pull him through a hatch. According to local lore, he spent the rest of the war hiding deep in Northwest Woods, probably within spitting distance of the farmhouse, well, outbuildings, and livestock pen he was forced to abandon until war's end.
The Van Scoy homestead has been brought back to life, literally uncovered by members of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society in cooperation with the East Hampton Town office of land management. It took over 230 hours of work by 35 volunteers to remove deadfall and vines from the foundation stones for the cellar of the Van Scoy house, built in 1771 to replace an older structure made of earth and logs.
On May 28, starting at 10 a.m., the trails society will celebrate the opening of the Van Scoy family site located on the town's Grassy Hollow Nature Preserve off Northwest Road across from the Grace Estate. The Paumanok Path hiking trail runs through the preserve. A guided, three-mile hike led by Lee Dion will follow the ceremony.
Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. will be on hand, as will Richard Poveromo, the trails society's vice president for trails maintenance.
On Friday with sunshine streaming through boughs of dogwood blossoms, Mr. Poveromo offered an advance look at the society's work, starting with a visit to the graves of Isaac Van Scoy and his wife, the former Mercy Edwards, whom he married in 1757. The couple had 15 children; only 8 survived infancy.
Beside Mr. Van Scoy's broken headstone stands a small American flag, a tribute to his service to the revolutionary cause. He died in 1816, but his family stayed on until farming moved south, and commerce moved east.
Isaac Van Scoy is said to be the first farmer to convert open grassland to farmland in Northwest, a section of East Hampton that stretches from Sag Harbor on the west, past Barcelona (Russell's) Neck to Northwest Creek, and east past Cedar Point to Hedges Banks and beyond, all the way to Three Mile Harbor.
Mr. Van Scoy's spread was one of 15 large farms that busied an area already bustling due to the fact that Northwest Harbor was the seat of trade between New England and even the Caribbean until the mid-19th century, when the whaling industry's bigger ships required the deeper waters of Sag Harbor. By 1885, the harbor and its surrounding farms — which suffered from poor soil relative to the more fertile soil in Wainscott, Sagaponack, and Bridgehampton — were virtually abandoned, although a determined man named Josiah Kirk hung on.
Mr. Kirk figures prominently in the centuries-old debate over use of East Hampton's beaches. In 1860, he purchased 391 acres not far from the Van Scoy farm and immediately set about trying to stop his neighbors from "carting," that is, collecting salt hay and eelgrass from the beach as they had done for the previous 200 years.
The seaweed was used for insulation, furniture and mattress stuffing, and bedding for livestock. It took 21 years of litigation for him to finally win his suit (actually, he won by default when the trustees voted not to finance future court battles), but he spent $40,000 dollars in the process, a fortune at the time. He died destitute.
On Friday, Mr. Poveromo pointed out the foundation of the one-room schoolhouse that once stood on Van Scoy land. Once the school's exact location was found, the schoolhouse plaque that has stood beside Northwest Road for years had to be moved about 50 feet to align it with the newly discovered foundation stones.
In 1793, East Hampton Town Trustees hired Henry Dominy to build the school. A flat rock was the first clue to its exact location. "I had noticed the stepping stone at the corner of the schoolhouse behind the Clinton Academy," he said. The stone stoop was placed at the corner of the small building in front of the door. The corner beam was used as half of the doorjamb to make for simple construction.
Using the stepping stone as a reference point, Mr. Poveromo used a stake to prod the ground along straight lines to find the other stones, now under a top layer of soil, that had served as the school's foundation.
Cedar beams were then placed along the foundation to indicate the school's 16-by-22-foot footprint. The school closed in 1885, two years after the Van Scoy family abandoned their homestead and moved to Bridgehampton.
The trails society volunteers removed more than half a century of debris from the cellar and foundation of the Van Scoy family house completed in 1771, and also capped a well that Mr. Poveromo said might have been fed by an underground tributary to nearby ponds. The bricks that remain scattered in the basement area of the house were made of clay from local pits, Mr. Poveromo said, and were perhaps fired at Isaac Barnes's brick kiln near Fresh Pond in Amagansett. Isaac Van Scoy was brought up by Isaac Barnes.
For those who can't make the May 28 ceremony and walk, a booklet directing a three-mile, self-guided walking tour through the history of Northwest can be obtained from the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, P.O. Box 2144, Amagansett 11930.
Oh, the irony of Supervisor Wilkinson piously planning to attend this event! He's the guy who thinks that preserved open public space is bad for the economy, and an evil influence on housing prices. In his mind, as he himself has "explained" it, the bits and pieces of Northwest Woods that have been saved from development (by Peconic Land Trust, etc) must be among the preserved acres of open space that have "driven up housing costs" and hurt low-income families. LOL and LMAO and ROFL! (And I bet the Supe will stand there and smile and applaud -- and take credit? -- without the thought even crossing his mind.)


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It is widely proven that employee engagement is directly linked to the profitability and sustainability of a business. Why is it, then, that, according to the Gallup Organization, only 11 percent of all employees worldwide are engaged in their work? Shouldn't engagement be a higher priority for business leaders?
Engagement means being committed to something or someone in an organization. This commitment can be rational — seeing one's job as serving a financial, developmental, or professional self-interest — or emotional, where one values, enjoys, or believes strongly in what one does. In either instance, however, even engagement is not always enough. According to Dr. Ray Benedetto, a consultant who helps leaders build high-performing, character-based cultures in addition to teaching at the University of Phoenix Chicago Campus MBA program, and Molly Meyer, a marketing professional and independent writer, there needs to be something more.
Going Beyond Engagement
Their research revealed several companies where employees possess strong emotional attachments that have led to remarkable results and exceptional performance. Employees in these companies are more than engaged; they are entangled — where the drive for positive employee-company dedication and commitment run constantly at the deepest levels, resulting in a sustainable competitive advantage for each company.
Although "entangled" sounds negative, it is an extremely strong positive force that draws people together. A key difference between engaged and entangled employees is the tension that arises from the knowledge that things can always be better. Entangled employees are never satisfied with simply being good. They want to be great, and that mentality is what affects profitability and sustainability of their respective businesses.
Entangled employees operate within unique cultures where eight critical elements exist. The synergy and magnetism that arise as each element strengthens become the distinctive competence that competitors cannot imitate, which leads to a unique competitive advantage.
Dr. Ray Benedetto, DM, is a retired USAF Colonel. He founded a consulting firm that helps leaders build high-performing, character-based cultures in addition to his teaching leadership and strategic planning for the University of Phoenix Chicago Campus MBA program. Molly Meyer is marketing professional and independent writer. They are the co-authors of It's My Company Too! How Entangled Companies Move Beyond Employee Engagement For Remarkable Results. For more information, please visit, www.ItsMyCompanyToo.com.
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I've tried installing XFCE on my Kubuntu laptop. However when I boot to XFCE all I get is a blank screen. Alt-F4 will allow me to exit.
It should be obvious I don't know what I'm doing so simple advice would be welcomed.
I've been having the same problem, too. Does the fact that I'm using Edgy make any difference?
Check if you got a .gtkrc or .gtkrc2.0 file among your config files in your home directory. If that's the case remove them and try to start Xfce4 again.
I'm not sure that .gtkrc2.0 conflicts with Xfce4 but .gtkrc surely does.
i use it just fine on edgy, installed from kubuntu DVD
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Jacob van Ossenbrug (Osenbrug, Ossenbroich), not a native of the German town of Osnabrück as has been supposed, but probably originally from the duchy of Jülich. By trade he was a farrier (shoeing smith). He was an Anabaptist leader and confessed (according to the record) that he had been baptized at Münster on 6 January 1534, by Jan van Leyden. But this must be an error; on that date Jan van Leyden was not yet in Münster. Soon after he returned to the territory of Jülich to win recruits for Münster. He promised to show them all the miracles which God had performed in Münster and threatened that God would punish the wicked world about Easter, when only those who were in Münster could be saved, because Münster was the New Jerusalem. He succeeded in rounding up a number of persons, including Gillis (Gys) van Rothem, with whom he marched to Münster. It is very remarkable that they are said to have traveled unarmed. At Neuss they crossed the Rhine; upon arrival at Düsseldorf the whole group was arrested and tried on 28 February 1534. The outcome of this trial is not known and further information about Jacob van Ossenbrug was not available.
Bax, Willem. Het protestantisme in het bisdom Luik en vooral te Maastricht. s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1937-1941: 70-72.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. 4 v. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 314.
Mellink, Albert F. De Wederdopers in de noordelijke Nederlanden 1531-1544. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954: 28 f., 291.
Rembert, Karl. Die "Wiedertäufer" im Herzogtum Jülich. Berlin: R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1899: 372-377.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Jacob van Ossenbrug (16th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 May 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jacob_van_Ossenbrug_(16th_century)&oldid=65638.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1957). Jacob van Ossenbrug (16th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 May 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jacob_van_Ossenbrug_(16th_century)&oldid=65638.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 62. All rights reserved.
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