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914 S GRAMERCY Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90019
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,490,000
1039 Montalban Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,475,000
1135 LEIGHTON Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90037
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,450,000
Los Angeles, CA 90066
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,400,000
208 E LOMITA Avenue
Glendale, CA 91205
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,400,000
Los Angeles, CA 90065
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,400,000
8515 ALCOTT Street
Los Angeles, CA 90035
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,395,000
346 S WILTON Place
Los Angeles, CA 90020
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,390,000
225 Palmetto Dr
Alhambra, CA 91801
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,380,000
208 S Vicentia Avenue
Corona, CA 92882
- Residential Income - Commercial Apartments
- For Sale: $4,375,000
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Property Investments and Commercial Apartments in Southern California
A commercial apartment is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential tenants are contained within one building or there a several buildings within one complex. Sometimes units in multi-family investment property or residential building are condominiums, where typically the units are owned individually rather than leased from a single apartment building owner. There can be multiple apartments on each floor and there are often multiple floors. Apartment buildings can range in many sizes, some with only a few apartments, other with hundreds of apartments on many floors, multiple buildings or any size in between. There are often inside hallways and inside entrances to each apartment, but outside entrances to each apartment are also possible.
Your commercial apartment or multifamily residential income property can serve as a vacation rental in the great climate of Southern California's many destination cities. Coastal cities are especially popular and although you may command higher rents, you may consequently pay a higher purchase price. With many cities allowing vacation rental conversion and the increasing popularity of web sites like VRBO (vacation rental by owner) you can create multiple short term rentals with higher asking rates. Fewer and fewer commercial apartment buildings are being built in California, creating higher demand for a limited supply.
Overall, it's a great time to invest in fourplexes, triplexes, duplexes and commercial apartment buildings, as an improving economy is driving down unemployment rates and driving up rental rates.
Owning a commercial apartment has a number of special advantages.
1. More Income With The Same Money-Saving Strategies As Smaller Properties
Many investors mistakenly think they cannot use fix and flip and no money down strategies used when buying single-family units to purchase commercial apartments. In fact, these same options are available when purchasing multi-family investment properties.
2. Less Competition For Tenants
Although many people still desire the American dream of owning their own home, often market rates greatly supersede income inflation, making it unattainable for many. While an apartment can be appealing to a younger crowd, they are not as appealing to those looking to raise a family, or to start a new married life. This in itself is advantageous to you as well as a buyer because while many people are in the market for single family homes amongst the multitude available, you may have less competition in the commercial apartment market, of which they are building less of them everyday.
3. Easier Management & Potential Lower Cost of Ownership
Hiring a property manager can help you control owner/ landlord expenses, manage tenant issues and if necessary can guide you through the sticky Section 8 and the unavoidable eviction process. With use of property management, you can enjoy all the benefits of ownership, while others put in the effort. Property management can be a time saver and for those with larger portfolios, it can be easier than having multiple multi-unit investment properties spread out in separate locations across town.
You'll save time and money traveling from property to property and take care of everything in one place. Landlord /owner expenses often include taxes, insurance and maintenance and repairs. When a problem occurs, you have to come out of pocket to resolve issues as they arise.
Invest with us and request more information about the historical CAP Rates for your next commercial apartment in cities of your choice and ask about the GRM (Gross Rent Multiplier) for specific listings.
Information gathered from Wikipedia, zillow.com, moneycrashers.com and reiclub.com


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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has talked a lot about breaking the single-season rushing record and he's moved on to ruminating about Emmitt Smith's all-time mark.
Neither record is going to be easy to come by, but if Peterson is able to get there he is going to need a lot of help from his offensive line. It's good news for him, then, that John Sullivan has been a full participant in the team's training camp practices.
Sullivan had microfracture surgery on his left knee in late January in order to make Sullivan less likely to experience problems with damaged cartilage in the future. Sullivan said that the surgery and recovery were not the "horror stories" of the past and that he's not having any difficulties returning to work.
"We didn't talk about it too much, because there were kind of some unknowns," Sullivan said, via Tom Pelissero of USA Today. "But at this point, I'm out on the field, I'm practicing, I'm playing at a hundred percent and I feel great."
Sullivan had an excellent season in 2012 and was a big part of the reason why Peterson nearly toppled Dickerson. The team's counting on more of the same from him this season and his return to health makes it likelier that they'll get it.


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Free Download: ThankYouX and Jam3s K3nn3dy "Gonna Lose My Mind" Ft. Jurassic 5's Chali2na
Photo by G. Art by Thank You X.
One of our favorite street artists, ThankYouX has already made the transition from the streets to galleries. He's made another leap and this time, it's into the music world! Already a quite successful DJ (under the moniker Hi Deaf), he's getting ready to release his debut single with LA Riots titled "Rewind" coming out next month on Dim Mak Records. Prior to the release of "Rewind," ThankYouX and Jam3s K3nn3dy have teamed up with Jurassic 5's Chali2na and you can download their track "Gonna Lose My Mind" on ThankYouX' official Soundcloud page (along with several other mixes… all for a limited time!) ThankYou for the free downloads ThankYouX!
P.S. ThankYouX has not retired from art and in fact, the above mural you see was painted live at a recent event in New York celebrating the new MotoX phone. X Marks the spot!


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This year's Iron Bowl — featuring No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn — is the main attraction. The winner clinches the SEC's Western Division and a trip to Atlanta for the league championship game on Dec. 7.
It's rivalry week for several Southeastern Conference teams and many are playing for more than just bragging rights.
This year's Iron Bowl — featuring No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn — is the main attraction. The winner clinches the SEC's Western Division and a trip to Atlanta for the league championship game on Dec. 7.
It's showdown full of intrigue: Nick Saban's unstoppable Alabama machine against the upstart Tigers, who have had an impressive turnaround under first-year coach Gus Malzahn.
But several other matchups also have postseason implications.
The Missouri-Texas A&M matchup pits the two former Big 12 foes against one another. If the fifth-ranked Tigers win, they'll clinch the SEC's Eastern Division. If they lose, No. 10 South Carolina who goes to Atlanta to play for the SEC crown.
Also on the schedule: No. 2 Florida State at Florida, Georgia Tech at Georgia, Mississippi at Mississippi State, Arkansas at No. 15 LSU, No. 6 Clemson at South Carolina, Wake Forest at Vanderbilt and Tennessee at Kentucky.
Alabama and Auburn never have been ranked this high at the same time for the Iron Bowl. That only adds to the stakes of what is one of college football's most heated rivalries.
"I love these kinds of games," Alabama safety Landon Collins said. "They're going to talk a lot of trash and that's the type of thing I like. I don't like quiet games — it takes that fire out of me."
Collins will get his wish. Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium figures to be the loudest it's been in a long time.
"Everybody's going to be playing their best football," Auburn center Reese Dismukes said. "The guy across from you is going to be playing his best. You're going to be playing your best, and it's going to be a hostile environment that you live for."
The two newest additions to the SEC also will engage in a must-see game when Texas A&M travels to Missouri.
The Tigers have bounced back from last year's 5-7 season, improving to 10-1 overall and 6-1 in league play.
Texas A&M had a disappointing loss to LSU last weekend, but still has defending Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel under center.
Missouri's stadium also is expected to be electric on Saturday.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," Missouri offensive lineman Max Copeland said. "The bigger the stakes, the funner it gets. We're rock and rollers. All our chips are in, man."
When Clemson and South Carolina play on Saturday night it will be the first time both teams are in the top 10 at the same time for the in-state rivalry.
The Gamecocks also are trying to beat Clemson for an unprecedented fifth straight time
But South Carolina will have one eye on the Tigers and the other in Columbia, Mo.
The Gamecocks need Texas A&M to beat Missouri to keep its SEC title hopes alive. If that happens, South Carolina and Missouri would both be 6-2 in the league, but the Gamecocks have the tiebreaker because of their head-to-head win over the Tigers.
The Florida Gators are struggling through a disappointing 4-7 season, capped by an embarrassing 26-20 loss to FCS opponent Georgia Southern last weekend.
The loss secured the program's first losing season since 1979.
The injury-riddled Gators are four-touchdown underdogs this weekend at home against No. 2 Florida State.
There will be no postseason for Florida, so players are hoping to wreck Florida State's dream season as consolation.
"This is the season for us," Florida offensive lineman Kyle Koehne said. "This is our bowl game.
"This is our big game of the year."
Georgia quarterback Hutson Mason will be making his first career start against Georgia Tech, replacing senior Aaron Murray, who is out for the rest of the season after suffering a season-ending knee injury last week against Kentucky.
Georgia is 11-1 against Georgia Tech under coach Mark Richt, who said this year's game will be a good test to find out if Mason "can handle the pressure of the job."
The stakes are also high in tonight's Egg Bowl.
Mississippi State must beat Mississippi to become bowl eligible for a fourth straight season.
Bulldogs' coach Dan Mullen has a 3-1 record against the Rebels.
Associated Press sports writers R.B. Fallstrom, Mark Long, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee, Charles Odum and John Zenor and Associated Press writer Jeffrey Collins contributed to this story.


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Maple Bacon Chocolate Sauce
Maple. Bacon. Chocolate. Form of sauce.
- 5 oz jar of pure, unadulterated joy
- Pour it on everything you want to put in your mouth
- You're going to need to reorder soon
Some of you are already clicking BUY NOW. You're willing to put anything with bacon in your mouth, at least once. But others are thinking... maple, bacon, chocolate... hmmm... is that gonna taste good? The answer is OMGYES. It hits every tastebud on your tongue with its sweet, salty, savory goodness. And it's versatile, like bacon should be.
For example, here are some things we've tried this on and liked:
- Pancakes
- French toast (stuffed French toast!)
- Dip for fruit (especially bananas!)
- Sub for jelly in a PBJ
- Out of the jar with a spoon
Then we ran out of our sample jar of sauce, so you're going to have to do the rest of the experiment and let us know in the comments. But you can't do that without a jar, so go on and order one, will ya?For nutrition information, click here.
Product Specifications
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- Spread it on bread or between slices of French toast
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I'm rather belated in writing about this since it happened a couple of weeks ago now, but I was interviewed by the Herald Sun Home magazine a little while back about my designs & collaboration with The Wall Sticker Company!
Lara's Herald Sun Home magazine article
I must do a shout out to Jhoanna of One Red Robin who's Peg Bear softie appeared in the article but didn't get a credit. I love my peg bear :)
Oh and also, look what I stumbled across when flicking thru the Sunday Life magazine the other day:
Acacia in the Sunday Life magazine - styling by Caroline Velik
The photo shoot was styled by Caroline Vekil who happened to be visiting the photographers in our building one day. She borrowed 6 different fabrics for her shoots, and told us what magazine they'd be in but we promptly forgot. So it was quite a nice surprise.
Acacia in the Sunday Life magazine - styling by Caroline Velik
I'm on my second day home sick with a nasty cold (it feels veeeeeeeery weird to not be in the studio whilst Teegs and Lou are beavering away) so I'm off to go further deplete the earth's supply of tissues.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
8 comments:
- Hollabee said...
Awesome articles!
welcome to the club, i'm home sick too :( hope you feel better soon!
- 9:04 pm
- Danielle said...
Congratulations!! All very exciting and well deserved :)
Hope you feel better soon x
- 9:39 pm
- Stomper Girl said...
Wow, I read those recipes and somehow totally missed your lovely fabrics underneath! Just for small world interest, I'm pretty sure I taught Caroline Velik a term of tap-dancing about 12 years ago.
- 10:30 pm
- Stomper Girl said...
PS I meant to say I hope you feel better soon.
- 10:30 pm
- soulsearcher said...
print media would never die out despite the existence of technologies known as computers
- 9:50 pm
- Jhoanna said...
Fantastic press Lara!! Go you! And thanks for the shout out :-)
- 4:11 pm
- Cherry Rockette said...
and you (and Ink & Spindle) were in Peppermint mag too!
- 9:35 pm
- wall sticker said...
Nice wall sticker, are they removable?
- 4:06 pm
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LL Cool J, N.W.A. Nominated for Induction Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Hip-hop icons LL Cool J and N.W.A. are among the list of artists nominated to be inducted into the 2014 class of the Rock and Roll of Fame.
The hall of fame announced Wednesday (Oct. 16) its annual list of nominees, among them Chic, Hall and Oats, Peter Gabriel, Nirvana, KISS and many others.
This is the second time LL Cool J and N.W.A. have been nominated for inclusion into the Rock Hall after being denied last year.
If they do get selected, they will follow behind previous Rock Hall inductees Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, Run-DMC, Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.
Elsewhere, this is Chic's eighth time to be up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2003, which is ridiculous in our humble opinion.
Hopefully, the iconic disco group will get its just due now that guitarist Nile Rodgers is garnering some attention for his collaboration with Daft Punk on 'Get Lucky.'
The 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held in New York in April 2014 with the show airing on HBO in May.
Fans can cast their vote on who should be inducted via the Rock Hall's website. The voting process runs from Oct. 16 through Dec. 10. The top five artists selected by the public will be chosen to be enshrined in 2014.
Not to sway any votes here, but let's get LL Cool J and N.W.A. into the Rock Hall. Their induction is long over due.


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The Buccaneers finished in the top half of the league in both points and yards from scrimmage in 2012, a big improvement over the 2011 performance in Mike Sullivan's first year as the team's offensive coordinator.
Members of the team's offense are expecting even more improvement this time around. Sullivan has said that quarterback Josh Freeman looks smoother in the offense than he did last year and each of the team's starting wide receivers believe that a second year in the same system has seriously boosted the unit's confidence.
Vincent Jackson says that Freeman looks more comfortable and that the offense will be hard to stop when it gets clicking. Mike Williams stresses the deeper knowledge of the offensive scheme and how that will allow him and his teammates to play more instinctively in 2013.
"We know this offense," Williams said, via Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune. "We know when to break off routes and what zone to read. It's a knowing instead of reacting to something. Josh Freeman's got this offense down pat. The big problem last year was we couldn't get on the same page, knowing when to break our routes off."
The offense was the priority for Tampa last offseason and the moves for Jackson and running back Doug Martin certainly paid off. Now the plan is to use that as a foundation for even greater growth in Year Two under Sullivan, something that will undoubtedly become a referendum on Freeman because of his expiring contract and the strength of his supporting cast.


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One could call this an American tragedy. There have been worse occurrences, but the bankruptcy and eventual closure of Hostess Brands seems monumental in nature. It could mean the death of American bakery icons Twinkies and Wonder Bread. But the real tragedy is the loss of 18,500 jobs associated with the production of the Hostess Brands product.
One could call this an American tragedy. There have been worse occurrences, but the bankruptcy and eventual closure of Hostess Brands seems monumental in nature. It could mean the death of American bakery icons Twinkies and Wonder Bread. But the real tragedy is the loss of 18,500 jobs associated with the production of the Hostess Brands product.
The closure of the company came about after one of the two unions representing associates — Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers — voted to grant no concessions on wages and benefits and elected to withhold their labor and strike the company. The Teamsters, the other union, previously had voted to accept the concessions requested by the company. Two unions, two separate conclusions, two separate results, but both unions lost their jobs and livelihoods. A real American tragedy for both groups.
The bakers' union blames management and management blames the union, the classic response to most situations concerning a company's difficulties. There is enough blame to go around, but the following is a brief analysis of the situation as it presently exists.
Hostess Brands made more than 30 brands in 36 plants in the United States. The company has been in and out of bankruptcy several times since 2004.
At the time of the initial bankruptcy, the company's books should have been opened to the union. Then, in concert with the union, a plan should have been initiated to make the company solvent.
This course would have necessitated the union trusting the company's numbers. Maybe this happened, but I don't know.
A company has two major expenses, material costs and employee wages and benefits. Material costs basically are what the market determines and can only be controlled marginally by the company. Controllable costs are wages and benefits. When a company's finances begin to turn negative, the initial reductions are made in manpower, which in turn reduces wages and benefits. In Hostess Brands' case, with the union accepting no further reductions in wages and benefits, the company asked the bankruptcy judge's permission to close. This request was granted, thus a loss of 18,500 jobs.
Many Hostess Brands workers think the most popular brands will be bought by other bakers. This probably is the case, but the primary purchaser is Flowers Foods, headquartered in Thomasville, Ga. Flowers is a non-union company and will not be interested in re-hiring present Hostess employees as union workers. Flowers has open capacity and could move the most popular Hostess brands into its present manufacturing facilities.
The Hostess Brands management group failed in its responsibility to assure a viable company. The union leadership failed the 18,500 workers of Hostess because they let the company close.
Negotiations are two-way streets. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. There are times to fold up and times to hold up.
The Hostess Brands financial situation was a time for the union to fold up to save the company and the associated jobs. Union leadership failed miserably by holding to the outdated notion of "not giving back what we have fought hard for." Now the union has given back everything it achieved.
A case in point of unions doing what was necessary to survive was the Chrysler and General Motors settlement and ultimate recovery from bankruptcy. The United Auto Workers agreed to wage and benefit reductions in order to save the company, and it worked. Chrysler and GM had help from the government, but the wage and benefit concessions were necessary ingredients of an overall settlement. The UAW acted responsibly and intelligently because it understood the alternatives. The bakers' union leadership is directly responsible, and should be ashamed.
This is the reality of unemployment former Hostess workers are facing. There are 12.3 million unemployed who will be competing for the same jobs as Hostess Brand employees. About 6 million have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer, and 3.4 million have been unemployed 52 weeks or longer. Competition for any jobs will be furious.
Based on the age of Hostess Brands, many of the employees will be in advanced years and unqualified for future employment that would yield past wage and benefit levels.
The former employees will be lucky to get a minimum wage job with no benefits. Even with contract concessions, employment at Hostess Brands would be far more lucrative than the unemployment line or jobs available in today's economic environment.
All unions should make a case study of what happened at Hostess Brands, and vow to never again let stupidity get in the way of common sense.


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The dean's suite for the College of Architecture, Art, and Design is housed in Giles Hall along with the School of Architecture.
Photo Credit: Justin Taylor | Assistant Professor
Through a series of courses, graphic design students become adept at using traditional skills and inventive solutions. Students may expand their studies into typography, illustration, multimedia, and web design.
Students in the College of Architecture, Art, and Design take drawing courses to sharpen their skills, often finding inspiration from Mississippi State University's beautiful campus.
Sculpture students within the Department of Art are introduced to materials and ideas necessary to understand spatial problems. Emphasis is placed on modeling, carving, and construction in a variety of materials.
Thanks to recent updates in Howell Building, students can now fabricate large-scale sculptures. Here, a student works on his Thesis exhibition.
Students studying painting will develop ideation and conceptualization processes through studio practices in acrylic, oil, watercolor, and mixed media painting.
Students in the Building Construction Science Program visit numerous construction sites and plants during their time in the program to get them comfortable with the industry and work environment.
Building construction science students visit numerous construction sites and companies throughout their time at Mississippi State to give them as much experience as possible solving real-world problems.
BCS students go on numerous site visits and field trips throughout their four years of study in the program.
Self-portraits are a favorite project for many art students.
Photo Credit: Self Portrait | Watercolor | Andrea Byers
Students are expected to be able to professionally present their design ideas in front of their peers, professors and guest jurors.
Photo Credit: Russ Houston | University Relations
Ceramics majors within the Department of Art study a full range of ceramic-related processes dealing with forming, glazing, and firing.
Prospective students are encouraged to attend the weeklong Design Discovery Camp. The major goal of the workshop is to simulate the information, skill, and intensity required for an architectural education and to give clear insight into the practice of architecture.
Photo Credit: Matthew Berk
BCS students are challenged to integrate classroom knowledge and skills to solve tough problems on construction projects.
Photo Credit: Russ Houston | University Relations


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Favorites and duds from today's commenting:
Hey guys, Plus Juan is on the disabled list today for herpes treatments, so I'm filling in for a day. He'll take my usual Monday slot next week when I have my herpes treatments. We really should have scheduled our herpes treatments better than this.
On to the roundup - early because it's a Friday.
Favorites, in no particular order:
Some guy named BurnerWilliamsJazzFusion dropped a fan-friendly favorite in the Peruvian Skier post. This is broad-appeal humor, but cleverly done, and was rewarded accordingly. Stick around.
Oh, SaveToFavorites, what would we do without you? This shot at REM in the Russian Injury post took me like five read-throughs to understand, which is hard to believe since he's picking on such a current and high-profile musical act with a string of recent hits. Oh well.
FreemanMcNeil with the nice one-liner in the Irish Luger post. Good one.
There were lots of bad, bad comments in the various Jonathan Martin articles, but this, by girlwonder, was not one of them. That's funny.
Your Comment of the Day comes courtesy of idiot savant Universal Enveloping Algebra, for this follow-up to his own groaner in the Don Cherry Hat post. Everything about this is great, and so quintessentially UEA. I laughed so hard I momentarily forgot that Plus Juan recently infected me with herpes.
Total Fucking Duds
I'll level with you. There were a lot of duds today. A LOT. Here's the thing though. I hate doing Duds. I derive no pleasure from it whatsoever. Especially on a day like today, with multiple posts on SERIOUS ISSUES where idiots bring their HOT TAKES to the comments, while other idiots try and fail to make jokes. Calling Richie Incognito a "puss" - not a joke. Saying that Michael Sam's dad must be proud of Darren Sharper - not a joke, and awful on every level, even if you were being "ironic." This was a depressing day; let's just get the duds over with.
Jesus. Why is this whole thread not dismissed as a fucking matter of course?
Well, I guess it's just an important topic of discussion, then. This is abominable.
Let's play "I searched IMdB." Or again here. Seriously, why would anyone recommend this? I hate it. HATE HATE HATE
Yes, I know that Drew posts are breeding grounds for all sorts of garbage, but holy shit, guy, did you even read the article? You are the fucking problem, you moron.
Well, that's it. Have a great weekend and as always, call me out on omissions or ask for validation below.


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Summer and the Brown Menace
OK, so I know that my legions of regular readers have been missing my contributions to this blog, so I wholeheartedly apologise to both of them.
There are a few things that I should probably talk about here, like meeting Geoff Watts and the lovely speech he gave at St Ali recently (it doesn't take a genius to predict that a bunch of people are going to try to pass off crap bought through brokers as "direct trade" over the next six months), the opening of ten million nice cafes around the place, the great performance of the usual suspects (need more links) at this week's Bolivian COE Auction and, let's not forget, the amazing work of Aida Battle's fincas Mauritania and Kilimanjaro being showcased by Square Mile ... but I'm not going to.
We're unfortunately entering that time of year that is traditionally a wasteland for good coffee. The heat just kills coffee so quickly. Some dudes have come up with some really cool ideas - no pun intended - to address the problem. Andrew at the Maling Room came up with a great idea after we got sick and tired of having a window of two days to use our deliveries at Maltitude and Maling Room; wine fridges. Nolan has put some in at Proud Mary and I'm guessing that they will become more popular. Nim came up with the great idea of using a tiny esky at home. Whilst Rio Coffee was supplying Mecca, Tony shipped coffee to them in polystyrene boxes. I have a few at home from orders from Tony and I'm using them to store wine. Surprisingly, when the ambient temperature was about 24.5C, it was about 6C lower inside the box. Not bad for a "cellar" that cost me ... nothing, and therefore possibly a feasible solution for cafe owners whose space and budget won't allow the extravagance of a wine fridge.
The effect of heat is magnified with those unsealed brown paper bags that seem to be really popular now. Sealing coffee in the gases that it gives off after roasting seems to me to make a real difference in preserving flavour and, of course, brown paper bags don't really do a good job of sealing it in ... really, the only thing that's worse is buying coffee from an open basket. Valve bags seem to do a better job, but we need to remember that those valves apparently fail quite a lot. In any case, I wonder if the plastic is permeable - at Coffeelab, the oxygen meter showed that these bags seem to vary. If we're talking about 250g, vacuum packing it in valveless bags after roasting would probably be an affordable and sensible option, but I imagine that you'd feel like a moron selling prepackaged coffee bags that had puffed up like a football. Not to mention that for some reason vacuum packaging seems to have developed a bad reputation, possibly because it is associated with stale coffee in many people's minds.
I have had great success with brown paper bags by adaptin a technique from Mr Wolff; once I buy coffee in a brown paper bag, that brown paper bag lives inside a cheap 750mL takeaway container, which seems to be the ideal size for storing 250g bags of coffee. At $12 for 50 at a restaurant supply store, they won't break the bank and it's surprisingly convenient to have that many containers with lid. Presumably they aren't airtight, but I think they certainly make a difference in the shelf life of the coffee. Now before you go saying that they run contrary to any sort of environmental reason for using paper, these containers are dishwasher safe and recyclable. The only downside is that the edges can crack.
Deadman blend; not dead coffee! Speaking of which, this coffee is absolutely delightful; one of my favourites of the past six months. A shining example of the convergence of clever blending and clever sourcing of truly spectacular green coffee. It also runs contrary to the idea that blends hide the farmer: you can clearly taste the acidity and berry of the kenyan element, the more fermenty berry of the Aricha, the body of the El Sal and the sweetness of the Colombian element. Buy it!
Finally, with filter brewing on the rise, this post seems like a good place to vent my hatred of brown filter paper, too. Most of the brown papers that I have used have been garbage - heaps of rinsing required to get a cup that tastes like coffee and not like paper. If you're opposed to bleached paper for environmental reasons, spare a thought for the litre of water that you might need to throw away in the middle of this drought ... oxygen bleached paper might well be more environmentally friendly. That said, Chemex paper is bleached and seems to be pretty unimpressive - see the Hoff on the subject. Fortunately, the bleached Hario paper and the bleached stuff with MCM's filters seems to be pretty good.
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First in a series of 20 vessels, MSC Oscar will be joined by sister ship MSC Oliver in April 2015 followed by the rest of the family over the coming months. Not only does Diego proudly talk about MSC Oscar as the "most efficient vessel on the planet", able to carry 35% more cargo while reducing CO2 emissions by the same amount, but she is also special because she is named after his son.
Diego spoke passionately about the MSC fleet, the challenges of the volatile container business, the barometer of global trade, and the fact that 65% of global transport is done through containers. Today, without containerization, there would be no globalization.
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Columbia, Md. – The fourth-seeded UMBC women's tennis team pulled out a tough 4-2 victory over fifth-seeded Albany to advance to the semifinals of the America East Championships.
UMBC (8-12) advances to take on top-seeded Stony Brook at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday at the Wilde Lake Community Center courts.
The Retrievers captured the doubles point, as the No. 1 duo of senior Josefin Stange-Jonsson (Vasteras, Sweden) and sophomore Shannon Cleary (Little Bay, NSW, Australia) rallied to defeat Mirelle Hermans and Kirsten Scott, 8-6. The Retriever duo broke at 6-all, and Stange-Jonsson produced three winners in her service game to close out the match.
Albany had defaulted at No. 3 doubles, hence the No. 2 match was halted with UMBC leading, 7-4.
But the Great Danes rallied and captured matches at Nos. 5 and 3 singles to level the match at 2-all.
Senior Kim Berghaus (Offenbach, Germany) captured her first set, 6-1, over Hermans at the No. 1 slot, but the UA sophomore battled back to take a 4-1 second set lead. Berghaus fought back and forced a tie-breaker, which she won, 7-5, to give the Retrievers their third point.
Freshman Madlena Kurasz (Zlotoryja, Poland) competed against Kirsten Scott in a hard-hitting match at the No. 2 singles slot. In a tight affair thoughout, Kurasz prevailed, 7-6, 7-5, breaking Scott in the final game to give UMBC the victory.
Notes: Berghaus has won six straight contests at No. 1 singles and has improved to 7-3 overall… UMBC avenged a loss to Albany in the conference semi-finals from a year ago.


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Cheri Honkala, the Green Party's Vice Presidential candidate, is in the midst of a campaign swing through the heart of America, the "Rust Belt" from Appalachia to stops this week in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Detroit.
From the Stein/Honkala Campaign:
Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Cheri Honkala has begun a tour of the Rust Belt during which she has seen first-hand the effects of the failed economic policies advanced by the two corporately owned parties. This tour has highlighted the plight of impoverished communities in the Upper Great Lakes and Appalachia.
Honkala began the tour in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia and witnessed the horrors of mountaintop removal mining. The environmentally unsound and shortsighted energy policies of both the Republicans and Democrats have left this area dependent on the harvest of coal. The local population now faces abject poverty, contaminated water sources, and the continued degradation of one of the U.S.'s most ecologically significant natural areas.
According to Honkala, "What the Great Lakes and Appalachia need is the Green New Deal. Dr. Jill Stein and I offer commonsense, time-tested solutions to the ongoing cycle of pollution and poverty in the central Appalachian mountains. We would redirect research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal energy. We will invest in research in sustainable, non-toxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry. We offer a transition away from dirty coal and an escape from poisoned air and water as well as the destruction of these mountains."
Honkala then continued to Louisville, Kentucky, Columbus, Ohio, where she witnessed the dismantling of public housing and met with displaced families and community leaders. "People in Kentucky and Ohio are suffering. The austerity programs offered by President Obama and Governor Romney offer no relief. We must end the demolition of public housing which serves to only raise homelessness rates. My number one priority, if elected, is ending homelessness in the U.S. by ending foreclosures, and placing families in abandoned housing units and creating employment by fixing them up. There are more abandoned homes than there are homeless people in this country. We just have to put the two together."
Honkala then traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and met with leaders on the World Court of Women East which will take place in Philadelphia in October of 2013. This Court will address poverty in the U.S. using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "The Republicans and Democrats both violate the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by continuing to allow homelessness and poverty in one of the world's richest nations. A Green presidency will end homelessness, end unemployment, and provide a living wage for all workers, which would bring the U.S. into compliance with international human rights norms."
The Rust Belt tour continues with stops in Milwaukee on October 24, the Twin Cities October 25-27, and Detroit October 28-29. Honkala will continue to advocate for the Green New Deal which will allow these ailing economies an escape from the continued downward trend offered by President Obama and Governor Romney.


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Record Rainfall in Sioux Falls
The all-day soaking rain in Sioux Falls on Monday was a record-breaker. As of 10 pm the National Weather Service had recorded 2.16 inches of rain on October 14. The mark bests the previous record of 1.04 inches which was set on that date in 1966.
The record was broken by 2 pm in an all-day event that started early Monday morning. It's also the rainiest day of 2013 in Sioux Falls. The previous 24 hour high moisture total was 1.97 inches on May 25. Sioux Falls was not the only city racking up the rainfall. Sioux City, Huron and Mitchell all set records with marks over two inches and Yankton had over three inches of rain on Monday according to the National Weather Service.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Michael Wacha said he wasn't ready to pitch on Sunday. He should be ready to go tonight, with a berth in the College World Series on the line between Texas A&M and Florida State. Wacha told me minutes after Sunday night's Game 2 of the NCAA tournament super regional that coach Rob Childress made the right call in resting him one more day.
"I'm appreciative coach gave me that extra day's rest," Wacha said. "(Ross Stripling) pitched a heck of a game (one) to give me that extra day, it's going to help a lot. My arm felt pretty sore on Saturday, but just throwing today it felt pretty good."
Wacha, the Aggies' ace, had started two games over the previous nine days in the regional at College Station. He said tonight's start – a 6 p.m. super regional finale on ESPN2 – "is what you live for."
A&M won the first game 6-2 behind Stripling and FSU countered with a 23-9 victory on Sunday against Derrick Hadley and a host of others.
"They'll punish your mistakes," Wacha said of one of the nation's top offenses. "I just have to work on keeping the ball down and hitting my spots. They have great crowd support here, and this place is pretty lively when it gets going. Hopefully we can keep that down."
The Seminoles counter the 6-foot-6 Wacha (8-3, 2.10 ERA) with Hunter Scantling (3-2, 3.84), who's 6 foot 8 and 270 pounds. Scantling has given up at least four runs in three of his last five outings. He last threw on June 3 against Bethune-Cookman in the Tallahassee regional, allowing three runs over 4 1/3 innings in a 6-5 FSU victory.
The highlight of Scantling's season came on April 12, when he defeated rival Florida 3-1 by allowing three hits and no runs over seven innings, while striking out seven. In any case, the Aggies should be in better shape on the pitching front than the Seminoles, but 23 runs in a game has a way of earning a pitcher's attention.
"They can hit," Wacha said of the free-swinging Seminoles. "If you leave a ball out over the plate, they won't miss it."
Tonight marks the A&M program's biggest game in 12 years, considering that's the last time the Aggies played a contest with a CWS berth in Omaha, Neb., in the balance.
"We're not going to give up," said senior Andrew Collazo, whose lone home run of the season won the Big 12 tournament. "We're just going to keep coming, and I like our chances."


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A 28-year-old Playboy bunny is suing her former employer and a radio host after a charity golf tournament ended with a shocking bruise on her bum.
In 2012, Elizabeth Dickson volunteered her posterior as a golf tee for radio host Kevin Klein. Unfortunately, Klein proved a poor golfer and accidentally smacked Dickson's right cheek with the club.
In her lawsuit, Dickson claims she suffered severe bodily injuries, some of which are permanent. A photo of her bum shows a massive bruise covering her right cheek. She is suing Playboy and Klein for $500,000 in general damages.
But TMZ reports Dickson knew exactly what would happen. An audio recording shows Dickson giving Klein permission to swing the club.
Neither party has commented in regard to the lawsuit.
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DICE's Battlefield 4 Premium Video Showcases Dragon's Teeth and Final Stand
This video showcasing Battlefield 4's Premium content has given us an official first-look at both the Dragon's Teeth expansion and the last major piece of downloadable content, Final Stand.
DICE has presented a new video depicting the services offered by having a Battlefield 4 Premium membership. The video goes into the details of previous downloadable content expansions, such as the China Rising, Second Assault and Naval Strike DLCs. It also gives us some gameplay footage of the upcoming Dragon's Teeth DLC, especially of that sweet Ballistic Shield. More importantly, it unveils the final major expansion coming to Battlefield 4, Final Stand, with its unmanned, MKV flying chaingun.
While no sort of release date has been set for the Dragon's Teeth DLC expansion, we have a feeling it will be dropping sometime within the next two months. For a quick look at what Dragon's Teeth could potentially be offering, check out these leaked details.


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As the debate on gun control in Washington — which reached a fever pitch shortly after the mass killings in Newtown, Conn. but has since reduced to a simmer — continues, there are few things Mainers should keep in mind.
The entire delegation is aware Maine has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the country and one of the lowest crime rates. They also know when it comes to state politics, the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine is the lobbying force to be wary of, not so much for the National Rifle Association. And these facts lead to some nuance (nice way of putting it) or thoughtful vagueness (a not so nice way of putting it) when it comes to articulating their positions.
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, representing Maine's 1st Congressional District, has it the easiest. The Democrat has no right flank to worry about as she represents the most liberal and urban part of the state and as such soon after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden outlined their gun reform proposals, she signed on to back the measures, which include stronger background checks, an assault weapons ban and a ban on high capacity ammunition clips.
The rest of the group has to thread more of a political needle — and they are.
Three bills recently won Senate Judiciary Committee approval: One, co-written by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, would make it a felony to purchase a gun for someone else, another aims to expand the kinds of sales that would require background checks and the third would pay for increased school safety. When asked about the measures, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud said it was "difficult to have the congressman comment on the Senate bills."
"Generally speaking, however, the congressman has doubts about the effectiveness of a renewed assault weapons ban on reducing gun violence," said Ed Gilman, a Michaud spokesman. "He is continuing to monitor discussions about ways to improve our background check system and agrees this could be an area for progress, as long as proposals to change NICS respect 2nd Amendment and privacy rights."
Gilman added Michaud is "reviewing" a House bill similar to the measure Collins helped craft in the Senate and supports an Obama proposal to provide schools with increased funding for resource officers and counselors and measures that address "deficiencies in our nation's mental health care system."
Michaud is arguably in the toughest spot when it comes to gun regulation, as he is mulling a gubernatorial bid and would be loathe to alienate Maine gun rights advocates who tend to be more single-issue voters than gun reform proponents.
U.S. Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats showed skepticism about the effectiveness of re-instituting an assault weapons ban early on and has since rejected it as a practical way to cut down on gun violence. Crystal Canney, King's spokeswoman, says he also supports background checks, but "not necessarily" the Senate Judiciary Committee-passed measure. He is a co-sponsor of Collins' straw purchasing measure.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who is up for re-election in 2014, has set herself up to win points with both gun rights proponents and reformers. Collins has sky high approval ratings and it's unlikely there is anyone on the horizon who could credibly challenge her in a Republican primary, but also clearly doesn't want to give either side any ammo with which to attack her.
In addition to joining with U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, to write the measure that cracks down on straw gun purchases, Collins is a co-sponsor of the enhanced school safety measure. But, the same as King, she has so far declined to sign onto the background check bill because of concerns about a national gun registry.
"Sen. Collins has said that she strongly opposes a national registry of gun owners which is not consistent with our Second Amendment rights," said Kevin Kelley, a spokesman for Collins.
When asked about her support for an assault weapons ban, he said she voted in support of the previous 10 year ban that expired in 2004 and left it at that.
With the House controlled by Republicans and a number of red state Democrats up for re-election in the Senate, it's unlikely an assault weapons ban will ever even come up for a vote — so why go on the record about it and risk alienating voters?


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Monday, April 20, 2009
Archaeopteryx (And Arduino) At GoGaRuCo
Greg Borenstein demoed Archaeopteryx playing a snare drum via RAD and an Arduino controlling a human-like wooden hand.
Posted by Giles Bowkett at 11:04 AM
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- AnonymousApril 20, 2009 at 9:49:00 PM PDT
Someone should build something like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q) with RAD/ArxReplyDelete
It's completely doable. Basically just do what Greg did several times and buy a monkey head. Preferably a fake monkey head.
It pains me that you won't be going to GoRuCo this year ;-( I'll catch this online if it's recorded, though!ReplyDelete
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DALLAS — Authorities have identified skeletal remains found in a rural creek near Dallas as those of a 10-year-old boy allegedly starved to death by his father and stepmother, police and a family member said Monday.
Dallas police said they confirmed with the Dallas County medical examiner that DNA tests have linked the remains to Johnathan Ramsey. The boy's remains were found April 21 in rural Ellis County, south of the city.
The medical examiner declined to comment on the case because the remains were found in another county. However, Starla Swanson, stepmother to Johnathan's mother, confirmed that the family had been informed that a positive identification of Johnathan had been made.
The boy's father and stepmother, Aaron and Elizabeth Ramsey, remain jailed on charges of felony injury to a child. Both are being held on $500,000 bail. Attorneys for each did not return phone messages seeking comment.
Aaron Ramsey allegedly told police he limited the boy's meals to bread, water and sometimes milk for several months. According to police records, the boy was confined to his bedroom in the family's Dallas home, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The boy's mother, Judy Williams, and other relatives did not see him for months. Williams lives in New Mexico and has custody of the couple's other son, Swanson said.
Johnathan's grandfather Edward Ramsey had contacted police earlier this year to ask them to search for the child because he had not seen the boy for more than a year.
Aaron and Elizabeth Ramsey initially claimed the boy had gone to live with his mother, but later confessed to starving the boy to death, police said.
According to police, Aaron Ramsey said he put his son on "military rations" because the boy began to misbehave early last year. Ramsey said the boy had punched his stepmother in the stomach when she was pregnant, causing a miscarriage. Ramsey said he hit Johnathan in the chest and then locked him in a bedroom, according to the records.
A spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney did not immediately comment on whether prosecutors would seek additional charges now that the remains had been identified.
The child's remains were to be cremated and his ashes sent to his mother, Swanson said.
VIDEO Remains Found Identified As Starved Boy, Police Confirm


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I write this as the guest of wonderful hosts and writers Jeff Strand and Lynne Hansen, whom you all should be reading. Great authors, and great people.
AFRAID seems to be doing well, and word of mouth continues to spread. If you've read the book but haven't reviewed it somewhere online, I heartily encourage you to do so.
This is also the last two days to get the AFRAID ebook for only $1.99, available everywhere ebooks are sold, in a variety of ebook formats. The sale ends when April does.
If you're one of the several hundred thousand people who own an Amazon Kindle, you might also want to check out the other books I've made available for that particular reading device. Cheap, too.
Joe's Kindle Books
When the tour ends, mid May, I'll devote several blog posts to the ebook phenomenon, and my ebook experiments, including Tequila for Sheila, the Kindle, Afraid, and the free ebooks available on my website. In a nutshell: this is the future, and money can be made.
Current tour stats:
Miles driven: 2865
Bookstores visited: 123
Books signed: 888
States traversed: 7
Days on the road: 13
Nights in hotels: 5
The "nights in hotels" stat would be smaller, but it was easier to stay at the conference hotel during the Romantic Times Convention than shlup back and forth.
RT was impressive. Several thousand readers attended, everyone was friendly, and I gave away and/or sold hundreds of books. I hung out with too many cool people to mention them all by name, but the networking and schmoozing was just as valuable as meeting old and new fans. I'll be back next year.
Joe's Tour Tips:
If you're thinking about doing a Drive By Tour, here are some quick suggestions:
*Get a GPS and a 3G phone with Google Maps. There is limited WiFi on the road, but you should be able to locate most of the bookstores with these two gadgets. Call first to make sure the store still exists, as many have gone the way of the dinosaur.
*If you run out of clothes, it's faster and easier to buy new socks and underwear than it is to take two hours to stop and wash them. Of course, if you're staying with a friend or fan, ask to use their washer and dryer. In a pinch, wearing your socks in the shower and then blow drying them gets them clean enough.
*Giving away free books is a good way to recruit booksellers into your ever-expanding sales force. If your publisher doesn't supply them, buy them yourself to give away. Ask them to post reviews if they like it. Buy books from a bookseller at their discount (many will do this for you if you're friends) because then these go toward your royalties and sales figures.
*Staying with family, friends, and fans, really cuts down on expenses. Not only will they save you the cost of a hotel, but many of them feed you. In fact, Lynne Hansen made what might have been one of the best lasagnas I've ever had. Which brings me to my next valuable tip:
*When you're in Florida, stay with Lynne Hansen and Jeff Strand.
*Having a case of water and a bag of fruit in the car keeps you hydrated, staves off hunger, and requires less frequent (and expensive) stops for food and drink.
*Realize that not all booksellers will be happy to see you. In fact, some may be downright hostile.
Real life example, from yesterday.
Our hero (me), weary from a 13 hour day signing stock along Florida's west coast, comes upon his final stop of the day.
My protocol is always the same:
1. Find books on shelf.
2. Bring them over to a bookseller.
3. Ask to say hello to a manager while signing them.
I won't mention the name of the store, but I have signed at well over 300 stores from this particular chain. The overwhelming majority are happy to see me.
The manager at this store, a scowling woman named Sylvia, was not.
Joe: (smiling) Hi, I'm an author, breezing through town and...
Sylvia: (scowling) You signed those? Are you buying them?
Joe: Excuse me?
Sylvia: You can't just sign books. If you sign them, I can't return them.
Joe: Uh, actually you can.
Sylvia: Now I'm stuck with them. Do you know how many signed books I've gotten stuck with?
Joe: (still smiling) These can be returned. You just strip off the cover if you want to return them. But the point of signing them is because they sell better than unsigned...
Sylvia: You can't just come in here and sign books. Now what am I supposed to do with these?
Joe: Uh, sell them?
(Sylvia frowns even deeper. I look around to the other booksellers for support, and see all of them cowering.)
Sylvia: I've got a whole back room filled with signed books.
Joe: (still smiling, but it's getting tough) You do see the "Autographed Copy" stickers on the cover, right? These are from your chain. In fact, I picked them up at another one of your stores less than an hour ago, because they gave me extras. The fact that your chain has stickers expressly so authors can...
Sylvia: Where did you sign them? (she flips open one of my books, scowling)
Joe: Usually booksellers are happy to see me.
Sylvia: You can't sign anything unless I get approval from the corporate office. What am I supposed to do with these?
Joe: I'm, frankly, flabbergasted. And that's not easy to do to me.
Sylvia: Don't sign anything else. (walks away)
Now, this exchange caught me completely off guard, especially late in the day when I was exhausted. But it is important to point out a few things:
1. Sylvia is lying. Paperbacks are always returnable. You strip off the cover, and send that back for full credit. Signing the book doesn't inhibit returnability.
2. A bookseller doesn't need corporate approval to have an author sign stock already available on the shelves. Ever. That's why they have "Autographed Copy" stickers.
3. If Sylvia has a back room full of signed books (unlikely, because even signed hardcovers and trade paperbacks are returnable, unless they are POD), maybe she'd be able to sell a few if they were ON THE SALES FLOOR AND NOT IN A BACK ROOM.
4. It's a bad policy to be rude to anyone, ever. Especially in retail. Especially to an author who could call up their DM and their corporate office and his publisher and complain like crazy.
Of course, I didn't call up anyone. Unhappy people are their own hell, and I feel no need to add to their misery.
Also, when she said, "Don't sign anything else" I wondered, and still wonder, what she meant by that. Was I going to start grabbing books by other authors and signing them? Or did I somehow tap into the woman's greatest fear, having a bookstore filled with signed books?
So, how did our hero deal with this crazy woman? I thanked her for her time, picked up all of my books, and bought them myself. Because there was no way I was leaving them in this lunatic's store.
I also apologized the employee at the cash register, who looked somewhere between sympathetic and terrified.
Now some may think the moral to this story is to ask permission before you sign anything. I'm of the "it's better to apologize than ask permission" school, especially since I've signed at well over 1500 bookstores and have only encountered loonies like this three or four times.
No, the actual moral to this story is: You can't please everyone.
Get used to it. Some people won't like you, your books, or the fact that you're a successful author and they hate their jobs.
While it isn't pleasant to have a bookseller (99.9% of whom are wonderful people whom I love like family) scowling and berating you, it is a good reminder that there are crazy, hostile people in the world. They make life a little more interesting, and you can't dwell on it for any longer than it takes to blog about it.
Nuff said.
On the other end of the spectrum, I've met dozens of booksellers on this tour who were eager to see me. Some remembered me from my previous tour. Some are fans. A few broke out the cameras and I posed for some pics and signed books for them.
Here's a list of the stores I've been to lately, if you're looking for signed Konrath/Kilborn books. And no, Sylvia's store isn't on here. :)
BN Lakeland FL
Walden Lakeland FL
BN Brandon FL
Borders Brandon FL
BN Sand Lake FL
BN Orange Blossom FL
Walden Orange Blossom FL
Borders Sand Lake FL
BN Colonial FL
Borders Winter Park FL
Borders Almonte FL
Walden Sanford FL
Borders Oviedo FL
Borders Ocoee FL
BN Winter Garden FL
BN Sarasota FL
Borders Sarasota FL
BN Ft. Myers FL
BN Estero FL
BN Naples FL
Walden Ft. Myers FL
Borders Ft. Myers FL
Borders Naples FL
BAM Ft. Myers FL
Today I'm doing stores in Tampa, and then I'm flying back to Chicago because I forgot I was speaking at the Reaching Out library conference. If you're an Illinois Librarian, I hope to see you there on May 1. Then it's back to FL, where I'll work my way up the east coast to Philly, then head westward back home.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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If you have been following the #handhygiene hashtag on Twitter, you've no doubt seen a number of videos that use entertainment to impress the importance of hand hygiene. Most of them are "song and dance" numbers that borrow from a well known song or offer unique compositions with some kind of dance routine. But others, like the Super Bowl #handhygiene ads that were featured here earlier this year, have a different perspective and reach out to a completely different audience.
Well, the team over at Topsani have put together a video that reaches out to the geek or nerd in all of us. Their video, which features a rather interesting villain demonstrates the need to keep germs away lest there be catastrophic consequences.
Here's what they have to say about the video:
Are Germs Strong Enough to Take Over the World?
Some people clearly think so.
OK, we all agree that many germs are the bad guys. They make us sick, they spoil
our food, and they leave us sick and miserable.
But will germs usher in an un-ending era of terror and darkness?
Anything is possible and germs are, if anything, amazingly adaptable little creatures.
Thank goodness for the folks at TopSani, who have a take-no-prisoners, destroy-every-last-germ approach to hand sanitizing.
When I saw this video, I couldn't stop laughing and had to post it. It's just one of those moments where you realize that effective public outreach doesn't always have to be focused on data and statistics. Sometimes all that's needed is a little bit of the absurd.


text: Rumor has it Marc Jacobs may be flying Coach. According to a juicy tidbit published in yesterday's WWD, the one-man empire—who manages the demands of both his eponymous label as well as Louis Vuitton, where he serves as creative director—is reportedly being courted to fill the heritage brand's top spot. Reed Krakoff, its current leader, will step down from his position by June 2014. Initially perplexed, we've since come to appreciate the striking similarities between Jacobs's daring aesthetic and Coach's Connecticut-hewed character. One thing's for sure: if the gossip proves true, your grandmother's patchwork quilt could be next year's hottest accessory.


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Opening Statement by FDIC Director Thomas M. Hoenig to the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
May 9, 2012
Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Corker and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on issues relating to improving the safety and soundness of our nation's banking system. Having joined the Board of the FDIC less than one month ago, it is a privilege to serve and to be part of a Board that can draw from a depth of collective experiences and diverse backgrounds that will inform our discussions and decisions.
The Subcommittee has asked me to discuss a paper, titled "Restructuring the Banking System to Improve Safety and Soundness," that I prepared with my colleague Chuck Morris in May 2011 when I was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. I welcome this opportunity to explain the recommendations in the paper. One note--while I am a board member of the FDIC, I speak only for myself today.
I appreciate the Subcommittee's interest in this paper. I have studied and lived these issues as an economist and as a bank supervisor. As I said at my confirmation hearing last November, I am not against "big," I am against "too big to fail." I am a proponent of free market capitalism. With that in mind we outlined a series of steps that will serve to return our country's financial industry to that system, restoring accountability and reducing the likelihood of future bailouts funded by the American taxpayers.
First, banking organizations should be allowed to conduct the following activities: commercial banking, underwriting securities and advisory services, and asset and wealth management services. Most of these services are primarily fee-based and do not disproportionately place a firm's capital at risk. They are similar to the trust services that have long been a part of banking.
In contrast, dealing and market making, brokerage, and proprietary trading extend the safety net's coverage and yet do not have much in common with core banking services. Under the safety net and the incentives that follow from it, risks are created that are difficult for management and the markets to assess, monitor or control. Thus, under the proposal, banking organizations would not be allowed to do trading, either proprietary or for customers, or make markets which requires the ability to do trading. Allowing customer trading makes it easy to game the system, "concealing" proprietary trading as part customer trading. Also, prime brokerage services require the ability to trade, and essentially allow companies to finance their activities with highly unstable uninsured "deposits." This combination of factors, as we have recently witnessed, leads to unstable markets, financial crisis and government bailouts.
Furthermore, these actions alone would provide limited benefits if the newly restricted activities migrate to shadow banks without that sector also being reformed. We need to change incentives within the shadow banking system through reforms of money market funds and the repo market.
The first change addresses potential disruptions coming from money market funding of shadow banks that fund long term assets. Money market mutual funds and other investments that are allowed to maintain a fixed net asset value of $1 should be required to have floating net asset values. Shadow banks' reliance on this source of short-term funding would be greatly reduced by requiring share values to float with their market values.
The second recommendation is to change the bankruptcy law to eliminate the automatic stay exemption for mortgage-related repurchase agreement collateral. This exemption allowed all of the complicated and often risky mortgage securities to be used as repo collateral just when the securities were growing rapidly and just prior to the bursting of the housing price bubble. One of the sources of instability during the crisis was repo runs, particularly on repo borrowers using subprime mortgage-related assets as collateral. Essentially, these borrowers funded long-term assets of relatively low quality with very short-term liabilities.
The proposal would not eliminate risk in the financial system, it would shift it away from the incentives of the safety net. This plan would return U.S. banks to a position of financial clarity and strength from which the country enjoyed decades of its greatest global economic advantage. It would improve the stability of the financial system by clarifying where risks reside for management and for regulators; improving the pricing of risk; and, thus, enhancing the allocation of resources within our economic system. It would promote a more competitive financial system, as it levels the playing field for all financial institutions in the U.S.
Finally, it will raise the bar of accountability for actions taken and, to an important degree, give further credibility to the supervisory authority's commitment to place these firms into bankruptcy or FDIC receivership when they fail, thus reducing the likelihood of future bailouts.
I would be pleased to answer any questions from the Subcommittee.
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Despite some hints that perhaps the Steelers would bring quarterback Ben Roethlisberger back on Sunday after missing a game with a shoulder/rib injury, Roethlisberger once again has been scratched.
The official injury report lists the team's veteran signal-caller as out for Sunday's game at Cleveland.
Joining Roethlisberger are quarterback Byron Leftwich (ribs), receiver Jerricho Cotchery (ribs), tackle Marcus Gilbert (ankle).
It means that Charlie Batch definitely will get the start, with Brian Hoyer/Brian Hoying/Bobby Hoyer/Bobby Hoying serving as the backup.
Somewhat surprisingly, safety Troy Polamalu is only doubtful with a calf injury. It's the first time he has been anything other than out since aggravating the injury in Week Five.
The best news is that receiver Antonio Brown, the team's MVP in 2011, has been upgraded this week to questionable, after missing two games with a sprained ankle. He was a limited participant in practice all week.


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Rifat Sungkar and Sissy Priscillia Marriage
Exactly at 15.30 pm, the pledge agreement granted out of his mouth racer Rifat Sungkar who married Sissy Priscillia in Plataran, road Durian, Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, Saturday (07/10).
Wearing a white national dress looked elegant as the bride and groom are seated facing the princes of the religion of the South Jakarta District Court. Even before the official final offer came out, in front of their respective guardians, Rifat and Sissy Priscillia smiled at each other.
It seems they do it to relieve nervous. Despite trying to be covered but can not be dammed again as Sissy Priscillia asks permission to marry at once an apology to his parents.
"I apologize for any errors that intentional and not accidental to the father's mother," she said with a tone slightly muffled.
A set of gold weighing 10.7 grams of jewelry and money amounting to 10,710 Rupiah into gold on mating Rifat given Sissy Priscillia in marriage that can not be near the media coverage of this, particularly when granted consent process took place.
The concept of marriage with the open nature is quite unique and romantic moment was late afternoon and the small lights in the garden area of approximately two acres were turned on. Moreover, the color of pond water in front of the house used as a process joglo marriage contract increasingly exposed to blue light mentaram.