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Valentine's Day is coming and perhaps you have been planning a special meal for that certain someone. We tend to think of Valentine's meals as an indulgence, perhaps an elaborate recipe, some expensive and rich ingredients, all topped off with a gooey, chocolaty dessert. Caviar, champagne, steak with béarnaise sauce, oof!
Some traditional Valentine's Day fare, such as oysters, has been believed to have aphrodisiacal properties for thousands of years. So why not forgo the wallet-busting, diet-destroying, and libido-dampening meals of the past and try some of the foods that do have the potential to put you in the mood for love.
Since the first century A.D., arugula has been considered an aphrodisiac. Figs, ginger, carrots, honey, vanilla, and avocados get high marks, whereas dill, watercress, and lentils put a damper on amore.
There is a top 10 list of foods reputed to be aphrodisiacs, some merely due to their resemblance to human anatomy (bananas for boys, figs for girls), and some with a bit of science to back them up.
In 19th-century France, asparagus was served in three courses to young bridegrooms on the eve of their nuptials. Asparagus is a great source of potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamins A and C, thiamin, and folic acid. Folic acid is said to boost histamine production, which in turn enhances everyone's sexual satisfaction.
Almonds have been regarded as a symbol of fertility for thousands of years, and the odor was believed to arouse passion in the ladies. The French writer Alexander Dumas dined on almond soup every evening before meeting his mistress.
The Aztecs' name for the avocado tree was "ahuacuatl," or "testicle tree." The Spanish found the fruit so obscenely sexy that Catholic priests attempted to ban its consumption. While avocados are a bit fatty, it's all good for you, full of folic acid, vitamin B6, potassium, omega-3 fatty acids, and oleic acid, which helps fight "bad" cholesterol.
The banana is full of potassium, magnesium, and B vitamins. It also contains chelating minerals and the bromelian enzyme said to enhance male libido. This may be why Central Americans drink the sap of the red banana tree as an aphrodisiac and the Hindus regard it as a symbol of fertility.
Basil is an interesting addition to the top 10 list. How did it get here? As a member of the mint family, it is believed to have headache-curing abilities — all kinds of headaches. In some parts of Italy, basil is presented as a love token.
Chocolate! Why does it make us so happy? The "food of the gods" contains theobromine, a stimulating alkaloid similar to caffeine. Chocolate also helps the brain produce feel-good serotonin. But stick with dark chocolate (like 73-percent cocoa); milk chocolate is just a bunch of fat and sugar.
The egg is one of the most ancient of fertility symbols. High in B6 and B5, it could be part of a perfect, inexpensive, light Valentine's Day meal. Gently scrambled eggs with a few drops of truffle oil and a dollop of caviar? Heaven!
Figs are said to have been Cleopatra's favorite food. These sweet purple fruits are sexy in both appearance and texture and have figured in a great deal of erotic literature. To the ancient Greeks, they were "more precious than gold."
Foie gras is considered an aphrodisiac simply because of its decadent richness, buttery texture, and association with fine living. I'll take a pass on this one.
Last but not least, the beautiful oyster! Casanova ate 50 a day. These mollusks are high in zinc, which raises sperm and testosterone production, and contain omega-3 fatty acids. You could choose Pacific oysters like Kumamoto for their creamy, mineral taste, or Atlantic oysters for their distinctive brininess. Whichever you choose, try them with David Rattray's mignonette recipe below!
When researching foodstuffs for this column, I always turn to my trusted tome, the dense "Oxford Companion to Food." I was deeply distressed that Alan Davidson does not believe that any foods possess aphrodisiacal powers and to believe so "is on a par with believing you'll find a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow." Bah-humbug!
I believe that if you are preparing a special meal for your loved one, and it is healthy and doesn't break the bank and begins with oysters and ends with dark chocolate, chances are you could get lucky this Valentine's Day.
Silver Vodka Mignonette for Oysters
David says, "If this combination doesn't fire up the love engine, I don't know what will." Woo hoo! He also suggests you could boil the alcohol out of the vodka before proceeding with the recipe. Just let it cool down first.
1/2 cup good quality vodka
2 Tbsp. sherry or champagne vinegar
1 medium or 2 small shallots, finely chopped
1 Tbsp. freshly ground black pepper
Quickly mix all ingredients in a small bowl or jelly jar. Allow to chill for an hour in the refrigerator.
Use a small silver spoon to place dabs of the sauce on freshly opened oysters on the half shell. You do not have to use a silver spoon for this step, but it helps. Trust me.


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Buffy continues her nightly patrols while trying to cobble together a sensible life . . . Willow's adopted a new look, while Dawn and Xander celebrate the comforts of a magicless world. The fun and games come to a halt when mysteriously marked bodies start appearing. As Buffy starts to investigate she captures the attention of San Francisco police detectives who have taken notice of the unnaturally gifted Slayer . . .
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Bozeman, Mt — Montana State University recently unveiled its renovated student recreation center. The renovation of the 14,000-square-foot Marga Hosaeus Recreation and Fitness Center was scheduled for completion by last September, but delays caused largely by worker shortages pushed back the completion time, according to the Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle.
In the spring of 2005, Montana State students approved a $55-per-year fee to pay for the $15 million renovation, which included a group fitness room, two indoor tennis courts, and more cardio and strength equipment, according to the newspaper.


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These first two recipes are adapted from one of my favorite vegetable cookbooks, Roger Verge's "Vegetables in the French Style."
Carrots with Chive Cream Sauce
Serves four to six.
8 to 10 medium carrots (13/4 lbs. total)
2 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. sugar
Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
Small bunch of chives, finely minced
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. heavy cream
Peel and julienne carrots. Wash, drain, and dry. Put carrots in saucepan with butter, sugar, pinch of salt, nutmeg, and about two cups of water. Cover and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Uncover and raise the heat, completely reduce the cooking liquid.
Add lemon juice to carrots and bring to boil. Add cream and cook for one to two minutes. Check for seasoning, turn onto a heated vegetable dish, and sprinkle with the chopped chives.
Chayote and Sweet Potatoes Stewed With Coconut and Curry
Serves four.
1 medium onion
2 Tbsp. butter
3/4 cup heavy cream
5 Tbsp. unsweetened shredded coconut
2 firm tomatoes (that won't be a problem this time of year!)
2 chayote (10 oz. total)
3 large sweet potatoes (11/4 lbs. total)
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp. cardamom seeds
2 whole cloves
2 Tbsp. mild curry powder
11/4 cups chicken stock
Peel and chop onion. Sauté in heavy saucepan or casserole over low heat with the butter. When lightly golden, set aside in the saucepan.
In a separate saucepan bring cream and coconut to a boil. Turn off heat and let steep for 10 minutes. Then strain, pushing down on coconut solids to get as much flavor extracted as possible.
Cut tomatoes in half crosswise, squeeze out seeds, then cut into large cubes.
Peel chayote and remove seeds, then cut lengthwise into slices. Do the same with the sweet potatoes. Blanch both for four minutes, then drain, but do not cool.
Peel and crush garlic and add it to the onions in the saucepan. Add tomatoes, cardamom, cloves, and curry powder. Stir well, then add coconut flavored cream.
Put saucepan over medium heat, then add chayote and sweet potatoes. Add chicken stock and simmer about 20 minutes over low heat. Check occasionally to make sure vegetables are not sticking to pan. Serve in warmed vegetable dish.
Celeri Remoulade
This recipe couldn't be easier. It is from my favorite French cookbook, Patricia Wells's "Bistro Cooking." Use the celery root as soon as it is grated, otherwise it will start to turn brown. Use a good, hot Dijon mustard.
Serves four to six.
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard, or to taste
1 cup creme fraiche (to make this lighter, I use low-fat Greek yogurt)
Salt and pepper
1 celery root, about 1 lb.
In large mixing bowl, combine lemon juice, mustard, and creme fraiche or yogurt, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Quarter the celery root and peel it. Grate coarsely, in a food processor or on a Mouli grater. Immediately add it to the mustard sauce and toss to coat. Season to taste, Serve as a first course.


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If you're a fan of the Claire Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mysteries written by friend and literary dynamo Julia Spencer-Fleming (and you should be) she's giving away free books on her website.
If you aren't a fan yet, I'm giving you a chance to become a fan.
Go to www.juliaspencerfleming.com, read the excerpt for her latest novel I SHALL NOT WANT, and answer this question:
"What job does Hadley Knox swear she's going to take?"
Email your answer to Julia at email@example.com. Five lucky folks will get free books. Tell her JA sent you...
I'm always harping about how writers need to improve their public speaking skills, and I just found out another friend of mine has written a book on the subject. USING STORIES AND HUMOR, by Joanna Slan, is all about grabbing your audience (figuratively.)
Post your most embarassing public speech story here, and the winner will get a free copy.
Last, but not least, I found an extra advance reading copy of FUZZY NAVEL hiding under my desk.
Send me a picture of you holding one of my books. The most creative pic gets the copy. Runner ups get something else for free--I have a few dozen magazines with my stories in them.
Now go have at it.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Based on a letter from Professor Ed Sandifer to the mathematics faculty following his visit to Bucknell in March 2007. We are grateful for his permission to reproduce pieces of his letter here.
The Special Collections of the Bucknell University Library have six items of special interest to mathematicians:
Opere di Galilei (2 vols)
Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem (2 vols)
Diderot and d'Alembert – Encyclopédie (35 vols)
1. Mr. Blundevil His Exercises
This is the treasure of the collection. It is a beautifully bound volume of over 700 pages that covers the complete curriculum of mathematics of the time, starting with numeration, addition, subtraction, etc., and ending with the most difficult mathematics taught at the time (note that this was two years before Descartes published his Geométrie, the mathematics of navigation, calculation of dates and astronomical cycles (mostly forgotten things like the epact and the golden year), and the operation of the "Mathematical Ievvell," the Astrolabe.
Note that, at the time, the letters I and J were regarded as the same letter, as were U and V, and that a W was literally a double-u or a double-v. So, "Ievvell" was how Mr. Blundevil spelled "Jewell."
The book is full of fascinating details like this.
This is quite a valuable book because it has three movable "volvelles," kind of circular paper calculators on pages 315, 720 and 744. Many books of the time are supposed to have volvelles in them, but almost always, all of them are missing, as they are very fragile. This book has all of its volvelles, as well as all of its plates, and since it is in such good collection, it is really quite valuable. I would suggest that, if you want to try to understand these volvelles, you ask the folks in Special Collections to help you make a facsimile.
The style of the parts of the book that I read are very much like a Catechism. In one type face, the Tutor asks "What is arithmetic?" Then in Gothic type face, we get the answer. This style was quite popular at the time.
There are several wonderful illustrations and a few fold-out plates, e.g. those on pages 692, 694 and 799.
Inside the back cover, there is an advertisement for a mathematics tutor named Robert Hartwell.
Around page 3, there is a curious white residue near the edge of the pages. I've never seen such before. It might be an interesting project for someone to figure out what it is.
There are also a great number of hand notations made in ink in the margins of the book. Somebody a long time ago read the book carefully. Since then, the book has been trimmed and re-bound.
2. Montucla – Histoire des Mathématiques
This was one of the first modern histories of mathematics and it is very well known. It was published in two volumes in 1758, and republished later in the century in as many as four volumes.
Your copy once belonged to the Author himself, who made corrections and changes for a later edition. See, for example, pages 85 and 88.
The book is in French.
On page 49 we see the story of how the Phoenicians developed the number system used by the Greeks, but based on the Hebrew alphabet instead of the Greek. To represent numbers up to 999, they used the first nine letters of the Hebrew alphabet to represent values 1 to 9, the next nine letters to represent the "decades" 10, 20, ... 90, and the rest of the letters to represent hundreds. With the modern 26-letter English alphabet, we could only represent numbers up to 899 using this system.
There are lots of wonderful plates, especially at the end of Volume 2, Huygens' isochronal pendulum, Roberval's quadrature of they cycloid, Descartes' mechanical constructions of rational functions, Descartes' explanation of the rainbow, and lots of others. The book gets as far as Newton, Gregory, Huygens, Halley, Bernoulli (probably Jakob) and, my favorite, Jakob Hermann, Euler's cousin, 15 years older than Euler.
3. Opere di Galilei 1656 two volumes
I didn't look at this book. The contents were collected after Galileo's death, and I expect that this wasn't published in Italy because Galileo wasn't a hero in Italy; he was almost a heretic.
4. Chronology of Antient Kingdoms – Isaac Newton
Newton died in 1727. His estate was "frozen" for a while as auditors made sure that he had done his job as Warden of the Mint honestly (he had). One of his heirs, John Conduitt, wanted to get some income from Newton's fame, so he gathered together one of Newton's favorite projects, the Chronology, and published it just a year after Newton died. Newton died a hero, and the book was very popular.
You have what seems to be a first edition.
5. Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem
This translates as "The ancient music of seven authors" and describes the music theory of the ancients, including Euclid and Nichomachus, though heavily edited by the man who published these two volumes, Marco Meibomius.
The book is dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, the subject of a classic movie and philosophy student of Descartes.
It is in parallel Greek and Latin.
Page numbers start again at page 1 with every new author, so things are a little hard to find.
I particularly liked the Euclid. We all know of Euclid's Elements. A few other of his works survive, Optics and Data are the best known. The Music is very rare and quite obscure. There are a few theorems around page 25, and some anachronistic music notation around page 65. Meibomius was trying to explain Euclid using a notation that Euclid would not have known.
I have never heard of this book before, and I suspect that it is quite a treasure, though because it doesn't have many illustrations, it is likely that the collectors haven't made it an extremely valuable book.
6. Encyclopédie – 39 volumes, mostly by Diderot and d'Alembert
This was the Great Project of the European Enlightenment. It covered everything that was important, all laid out in a style and philosophy consistent with the Enlightenment. Only now is it being translated into English.
It has wonderful essays on calculus, differentiation, and a number of other mathematical topics. I didn't look at your copy, but I own a couple of the volumes myself.
Ed Sandifer
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Lock-up periods prevent company insiders from selling stock following an initial public offering. CEO Dick Costolo and co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams have said that they have no plans to sell their stock when the lock-up expired, 180 days after Twitter's initial public offering.
Still, Twitter's stock fell nearly 18 percent Tuesday, closing at an all-time low of $31.85.
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San Francisco-based Twitter's latest earnings report surpassed expectations, but worries about user growth and engagement weighed on its stock.


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Did The Sarah Palin Emails Kill Trig Trutherism Once And For All?
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The deluge of Sarah Palin emails released by Alaska hasn't been all that interesting overall, but there was one fascinating little nugget that definitively shoots down a left-wing conspiracy theory. Andrew Sullivan, among others, have long been bizarrely asserting, against all available evidence, that Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with Trig.
This is, of course, "the US never went to the moon" level nuts. Yet, there are liberals who believe it. Well, there is a new piece of evidence that has emerged: Sarah Palin writing a touching email about Trig.
To the Sisters, Brother, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Friends of Trig Paxson Van Palin (or whatever you end up naming him!):
I am blessing you with this surprise baby because I only want the best for you. I've heard your prayers that this baby will be happy and healthy, and I've answered them because I only want the best for you!
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…Then, finally, I let Trig's mom and dad find out before he was born that this little boy will truly be a GIFT. They were told in early tests that Trig may provide more challenges, and more joy, than what they ever may have imagined or ever asked for. At first the news seemed unreal and sad and confusing . But I gave Trig' s mom and dad lots of time to think about it because they needed lots of time to understand that everything will be OK, in fact, everything will be great, because I only want the best for you!
…I just need to know you want to receive my offer to be with all of you and help you everyday to make Trig's life a great one.
This new person in your life can help everyone put things in perspective and bind us together and get everyone focused on what really matters . The baby will expand your world and let you see and feel things you haven't experienced yet. He'll show you what "true, brave victory" really means as those who love him will think less about self and focus less on what the world tells you is "normal" or "perfect". You will grow and be blessed with greater understanding that will be born along with Trig.
Trig will be his dad's little buddy and he'll wear Carhartts while he learns to tinker in the garage. He'll love to be read to, he'll want to play goalie, and he'll steal his mom's heart just like Track, Bristol, Willow and Piper did. And Trig will be the cuddly, innocent, mischievous, dependent little brother that his siblings have been waiting for in fact Trig will – in some diagnostic ways – always be a mischievous, dependent little brother, because I created him a bit different than a lot of babies born into this world today.
Every child is created special, with awesome purpose and amazing potential. Children are the most precious and promising ingredient in this mixed up world you live in down there on earth. Trig is no different, except he has one extra chromosome. Doctors call it "Down's Syndrome", and Downs kids have challenges, but can bring you much delight and more love than you can ever imagine! Just wait and see, let me prove this, because I only want the best for you!
Some of the rest of the world may not want him, but take comfort in that because the world will not compete for him. Take care of him and he will always be yours!
Trig's mom and dad don't want people to focus on the baby's extra chromosome. They're human, so they haven't known how to explain this to people who are so caring and are interested in this new little Alaskan. Sarah and Todd want people to share in the joy of this gift I'm giving to the Palin family, and the greater Alaska family. Many people won't understand… and I understand that. Some will think Trig should not be allowed to be born because they fear a Downs child won't be considered "perfect" in your world. (But tell me, what do you earthlings consider "perfect" or even "normal" anyway? Have you peeked down any grocery store isle, or school hallway, or into your office lunchroom lately? Or considered the odd celebrities you celebrate as "perfect" on t.v.? Have you noticed I make `em all shapes and sizes? Believe me ,, there is no "perfect"!)
…I wrote that all down for you in the Good Book ! Look it up! You claim that you believe me – now it's time to live out that belief!
Trig's Creator , Your Heavenly Father"
How do people read a privately written email that's as sensitive and thoughtful as that and still allow themselves to believe a hate-driven, cartoonish version of reality? How do they read that and stomach relentlessly spewing a river of venom at that woman AND her children for purely political purposes? It's amazing that human beings can behave like that and look at themselves in the mirror.
As to the Trig Truthers, it would be nice if this shook them from their delusional state — but as I always say about conspiracy theorists, they didn't come to believe in the conspiracy because of logic, so it's going to be difficult to logic them out of it.
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Quietly released in 2004, then rolled out by a larger label in 2005, Regina Spektor's Soviet Kitsch is the kind of eye-opening album that only comes around once in a while. It's not that it's perfect, or that Spektor attempts something that's never been done before. (Anyone wanting to trace her influences could easily work their way back from the Björk yelps in her upper register to her classical training.) It is, however, one of the rare albums where the talent practically sears the speakers. On Kitsch, Spektor combines cabaret intimacy, deliberately paced circular melodies, and an occasionally spooky emotional conviction as she works through tales of divorce, death, and downtown posers. Maybe only a few heard it, but fewer still walked away unconverted.
The straight-out-of-"Still D.R.E." strings that open Spektor's follow-up Begin To Hope immediately announce an expanded sound, producer David Kahne sprinkles plenty of pop-friendly touches throughout the album. But the focus stays tight on Spektor's voice and songs that never struggle to make an impact, even as they defy easy definition. The hushed "Samson" (reworked from a self-released album) combines biblical imagery and references to Wonder Bread to sketch a relationship that's turned unexpectedly fragile. It's followed by "On The Radio," a catchy, uptempo track that dispenses some common-sense advice between references to Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" and funeral processions.
Elsewhere, Spektor immerses herself in roles, playing a tyrant (petty or elected, it's unclear) on "Apres Moi," and giving voice to a downtown type who's ridden the good times as far as they'll go on "That Time." Spektor remains, for the most part, sympathetic to her subjects, and even in its darkest moments, a humane glow envelops the album, which takes her already-arresting sound and expands it to widescreen.


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I have some problems with seam remoting.
For example, I have method test() in my component "myComponent" that marked @WebRemote and it is work fine. I want to add another one test1(). But I can't access it. After few restarts it is become accessible.
Seam remoting at least for me so conflictive, I use a4j:jsFunction, with that I can even reRender components and execute a server side java method
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Weiners of the Week
People Who Do Theatresports - if you need an explanation of this then you, too, are a weiner. See also: that certain brand of Theatre People who treat every social occasion as an opportunity to talk too loudly and, eventually, do their monologue.
Tourism Auckland, who are trying to shut down John Kairau, a Maori guy who has taken to wearing a cloak, drawing on a 'felt-pen moko' and charging tourists $5 to have their photo taken with a 'real Maori.' I am all for this entrepreneurial spirit, especially as he said, "I am not doing this for financial interests. It is for cultural [reasons]. However, it is rather lucrative." Hahahaha. Tourism Aux are just shitty that they didn't think of it first. The weiners. What happened to Supporting Local Businesses?
People who send stupid txts to everyone on their contacts list - "*~*~* If u get ths msg it means u r a Fun Fearless Female!!1 *** send 2 all ur gals n dnt 4get 2 snd it bak to me :) *~*~* " ...and that's the first time you've heard from them in months. Also weiners: people who invite everyone on their Facebook friends list to join their Cause of the Week ("SAVE WELLINGTON'S FRUIT!") (although probably without the apostrophe). Along the same lines, my Christchurch-inhabitant friend recently received a sent-to-all fckbk message asking if she knew anyone who wanted a flatmate...in America. Sigh. Weiners.
thescenekidz.webs.com - It's Facebook. But for scene kids. I want to make it not be on the Internet any more. Also, did you guys know there is a wikihow on how to be a scene kid, and it's totally serious? Contains gems like "Find a word that isn't heard often, and then add it to your name, such as Penelope Poetry, Grace Giddy, Lee lightning, Melissa Melancholy, etc." and "When you type on things like AIM or Myspace, add extra letters to your words." Did you know that "Scene hair is just the same as emo hair, but with more color and personality?" WEINERRRRS. Man, they are in for a huge shock when they eventually gets jobs (not at Subway).
The Notebook (movie), anyone involved with - this is going be a bit controversial but fuck, I hated that movie so much.
The NZ blogger who keeps ignoring court name suppression orders and publishing details of the cases, and parties involved, on his website. He is pretending that he really cares about our (admittedly sometimes not great) name suppression laws but a) while he is garnering publicity there is already a review of these in place and b) the way to change laws is not to run around ignoring them and c) the whole thing is blatantly just a huge PR exercise to raise his blog stats, which is why I am not posting a link to it here. When it was pointed out that what he was doing was illegal and he might be prosecuted, he said, "I'm sure the police have better things to do." What a weiner.
Tom Cruise - do we really need a reason? Imagine if he and John Mayer hosted a talkshow together. Speaking of which...
John Mayer, King of the Weiners! Here he is, telling us a bit about himself - "I aggressively try to mastermind the unmastermindable. I apply science to things where there is no science."
Here he is again, talking about why he can never leave Twitter - "When you neuter your own Twitter account, you show fear. I think you show fear when you delete it -- it would show defeat. ... And I have a problem showing defeat." Oh, John Mayer. I wish someone would neuter you.
ps: if you don't like this whole WotW thing I am sorry but I absolutely love it and it is staying.
17 comments:
- chris.dadness said...
Just getting in early to say you got your flaunt and flout mixed up. Fix it and delete my comment, that would be my advice.
Yours, kind of weinerishly
- 11:34 am
- IT IS ALLY said...
ahhh you weiner! Thanks, though :)
- 11:34 am
- Holly said...
I laughed so hard when I read about that Maori guy! I don't think he's doing anything wrong. People are choosing, on their own, to pay to take a photo with him. If they're happy with it and he's profiting from it, good luck to him! Almost as awesome as this guy: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3234508/Fancy-a-hug-Make-your-bids-me-hearties :)
I didn't like The Notebook either. I saw it on TV and it...was boring.
- 12:19 pm
- *uncorked said...
I love you for this post. And I HATED The Notebook as well. They should all go kayaking.
- 12:58 pm
- Brooke said...
I hated The Notebook too! I thought I was the only girl in the world who did! Also weiners:guys who try to get into your good books by saying they loved it.
(I love theatresports, though. Scared Scriptless = awesome)
My weiner of the week = Pat Robertson, the American Evangelist who said that the Haitians deserved the earthquake because the made a pact with the devil 200 years ago (or whatever).
- 4:13 pm
- omchelsea said...
I hate it when people spell wiener weiner.
- 5:32 pm
- chris.dadness said...
Touché. Although apparently weiner is yiddish for "wine merchant".
- 6:42 pm
- a cat of impossible colour said...
I really hated The Notebook as well. Surprised to see how many other people do, too!
- 7:35 pm
- green ink said...
Don't ever get rid of WOTW, I love it :D
- 11:55 pm
- Tooting Squared said...
I LOVE WotW!
But I'm a small bit scared that one day I will fall into one of your wiener categories. That would Not Be Good.
- 7:12 am
- Helga said...
Freakin' fantastic.Love a good rant. Speaking of weinerishness,who makes up these weiner word verification thingys,anyhow??!!
- 7:47 am
- IT IS ALLY said...
I am so glad there are so many secret Notebook-haters. I am also glad there are so many secret WotW lovers, it makes my day (no, actually)
Also: I am going to look into this wiener/weiner thing, but for the time being I am declaring "weiner" the British spelling. If someone British/trained in linguistics would like to back me up that would be great.
Tooting2 - There are always exceptions, like the not inconsiderable number of people who have friends that do theatresports :p
Helga - I know, they are odd. Andrea got herpes last week...as a word verification. Boom boom!
- 8:22 am
- otherworldlyone said...
I always read the last bit about John Mayer first. Heh.
- 8:40 am
- Andy said...
This is important.. maybe brilliant.. maybe stupid.
but definitely Italian Weiner of the Week
- 8:59 am
- Helga said...
Herpes?! WTF??!!What's next?SYPHILIS???
- 7:56 am
- Mrs. L said...
In German, ie is pronounced E and ei is pronounced I. So wiener should sound like WEENER and weiner should sound like WHINER.
I know, counterintuitive.
Of course, people who aren't German don't know this German spelling/pronounciation do-dah. As a matter of fact, even the dictionary has thrown in the towel and decided that "weiner" is an acceptable alternate spelling for "wiener."
Or, as you so aptly put it, weiner is simply the British spelling.
Uh-oh, I think this comment makes me a wiener.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. - Authorities have identified a man suspected of dressing as a female nurse and stealing from elderly residents at Central Florida assisted living facilities.
According to Winter Park police, Meko Jerran Hartfield, 29, is known to dress as a woman, wear medical scrub attire and wigs. (See surveillance photo below.)
Authorities said Hartfield wears the outfits to blend in with staff members and employees, but has not been identified as a health care worker at any of the facilities where a crime has occurred.
Investigators initially believed the suspect was a woman.
Hartfield stole a credit card, Social Security card and driver's license from a 92-year-old resident's purse at the Winter Park Towers on Sept. 11, police said.
The cards were later used in various places in Orlando and Altamonte Springs.
According to police, Hartfield also stole a wallet from an 87-year-old in the Savannah Court assisted living facility in Oviedo.
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Police said he charged $4,000 at an Orlando Target.
Police are also searching for a man (pictured, right) who, they say, was with the Hartfield (pictured, left) as he was using the charge cards.
Hartfield is believed to drive an older model BMW.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call the Winter Park police or Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.
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On Friday, NBC's news show Dateline will air a two-hour special about the weird tale of John McAfee and his links to the murder of Greg Faull.
What more could there be to tell? For a man who went into hiding, McAfee did his darnedest to stay in the media the whole time he was on the run, including a jaunt in the jungle accompanied by two journalists from Vice magazine.
But Dateline says that its report won't simply rehash the stuff we know: a story that involves murder, drugs, sex, escape, lies, a faked capture, a pregnant woman, dead dogs, and all sorts of accusations leveled at the police, the media, and McAfee himself.
Dateline's Keith Morrison is looking into the murder itself and why police wanted to question McAfee about it in the first place. Morrison will share the facts now known about Faull's death, and his parents efforts to pressure the Belize government into solving the case.
That's not to say that there won't be plenty of the other stuff, too.
Morrison scored an interview with McAfee's young girlfriend, Sam Venegas, who went on the lam with him, as well as an interview with McAfee himself.
This won't even be the last we see of McAfee saga. Warner Bros just bought the movie rights.
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Sheriff's Office: Husband says wife killed their son before turning gun on herself
Steamboat Springs — A Stagecoach mom shot and killed her 9-year-old son early Wednesday morning before turning the gun on herself, according to a preliminary investigation by the Routt County Sheriff's Office.
Lisa Marie Lesyshen, 45, was found by Sheriff's Office deputies in her home in the early hours of Wednesday. She was unconscious with a single gunshot wound and was taken by ambulance to Yampa Valley Medical Center and later flown to another hospital where she is being guarded by Sheriff's Office deputies, according to Undersheriff Ray Birch. Her condition is unknown, but law enforcement officials think she is alive but has not regained consciousness.
Asher Lesyshen-Kirlan was found dead inside the home. He was a third-grader at Soda Creek Elementary School in Steamboat Springs.
According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies were called by Michael Kirlan, Asher's father, to the home near the south shore of Stagecoach Reservoir at 2:55 a.m. for a reported suicide attempt with multiple victims.
The deputies were met by Kirlan, who told them his son was dead inside the home and that his wife, Lesyshen, was upstairs with a gun. Deputies entered the home and found Asher's body, and then discovered Lesyshen.
"A preliminary interview of Michael Kirlan suggests that his wife, Lisa Lesyshen, shot their son Asher and then shot herself," the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
At a news conference Wednesday evening, Sheriff Garrett Wiggins said Kirlan was asleep and heard a loud noise.
"Right after that, he heard what he thought were gunshots," Wiggins said.
Birch and Wiggins refused to discuss possible motives for the shooting.
"I don't want to speculate on those things at this point," Wiggins said.
A post made from Kirlan's Facebook account and timestamped at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday included a photo of a woman and a caption alleging an affair. It is not clear who made the post using his account, and the photo had been removed by midday Wednesday. The Steamboat Pilot & Today was able to identify the woman in the photo, who does not live in Routt County, and reached her by phone Wednesday afternoon. The woman acknowledged being aware of what had happened to Kirlan's family but declined to comment further.
Birch declined to comment about the Facebook post and whether it was part of the investigation. A friend of Kirlan's answered Kirlan's cellphone Wednesday evening and also declined to comment.
The Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate the incident as a homicide. The Routt County Coroner's Office, the 14th Judicial District Attorney's Office and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are helping with the investigation. An autopsy was completed Wednesday afternoon in Kremmling, but the results were not immediately available.
In Steamboat Springs, a crisis management team met with parents at Soda Creek Elementary School on Wednesday morning to inform them of Asher's death and to help prepare them for discussing the incident with their children.
Superintendent Brad Meeks said Soda Creek Principal Michele Miller was contacted by the Sheriff's Office early Wednesday. The crisis management team was in place and at the school by about 9 a.m. Parents of students then were called to the school to meet with the team.
"We want to make sure the parents are prepared to talk to their children when they come home," Meeks said.
Some parents left the downtown school Wednesday morning with their children; other parents were exiting the school without their kids. The school day continued as scheduled Wednesday.
Brad Price, the parent of a third-grader, was one of the parents walking out of the school Wednesday morning. When asked how students were reacting to the news, he said it depended on the child and their relationship with their deceased classmate.
"It's hard in there right now," Price said.
"Shock and just a lot of emotion that goes with it," Meeks said about the response of staff at the school.
"The students, they respond to the adults around them. I think our teachers are going to be as supportive as possible."
Kirlan and Lesyshen formerly owned Steamboat Vino and Vidalia Market in the Sundance at Fish Creek shopping center. They purchased their Stagecoach home in September 1999, and Asher was born less than five years later.
Lesyshen worked at Bud Werner Memorial Library. According to Wiggins, Kirlan was in sales and traveled frequently.
There are no relevant court cases, such as family disputes, involving the couple on record at the Routt County Courthouse.
According to Steamboat Today archives, Asher was a regular participant in local ski jumping events as well as the Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race Series. He was featured in a May 24 Steamboat Today Outdoors story about improvements at the city-owned Bear River Skate Park.
There also are videos of Asher playing the violin, posted several years ago by a YouTube user with an account name of "lisalesyshen."
Denver resident Jamie Adams, Kirlan's friend who answered Kirlan's phone Wednesday, said it was still too early for them to talk about the tragedy.
"He was an amazing person, and we're all shocked by this whole thing," Adams said.
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This is the fourth case involving attempted murder and suicide in Routt County since September 2007.
In July 2012, Larry Appel shot his wife of 42 years before taking his own life at their rural Routt County home southwest of Steamboat Springs. Their bodies were found by family members after Chris Appel did not show up to work. At the time, family members thought the couple's difficult financial times led to their deaths.
In June 2010, Robert Cash shot his then-wife Rhonda Heaton at their west Steamboat Springs home, then shot himself as law enforcement officials arrived. The couple was going through a divorce and was in the process of losing their home to foreclosure. Heaton survived, and in April 2012, Cash was found guilty of domestic violence and crime of violence, and he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
In September 2007, Luz Cisneros killed her 1-year-old daughter with a knife after her longtime boyfriend and the father of her child ended their relationship. Cisneros cut her own throat after killing the infant. In 2008, a jury found Cisneros guilty of first-degree murder. A local judge sentenced her to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
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Chopping Down Trees Is 'Better Than Drinking,' Say Teens
In Oregon, two teen friends alleviated their boredom by grabbing their trusty hatchets, heading to a local city park, and chopping down trees—just like you used to do when you were a bored teen, back in the 1760s.
When a police officer finally caught up to the duo—who possibly belong to the Mark Sanford Appreciation Society—they explained that they hacked the shit out those trees because "there was nothing better to do," and besides, "it's better than drinking." Sadly, they were wrong: in their town, teenage drinking is only a violation, but chopping down city-owned trees can be classified as felony criminal mischief. Silly teens don't know anything.


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While Johnny Depp may or may not be marrying Amber Heard, who had to make it SO OBVIOUS that she didn't want you to see her ring – click here for a refresher -- let's catch up with his exes.
It's Kate Moss's 40th birthday today. She was seen outside her house in London with husband Jamie Hince.
Vanessa Paradis turned 41 years old last month. She was out with a friend in LA yesterday. V has short hair now and, unlike Amber, doesn't hide her finger. How can anyone prefer Heard to Paradis?
Winona Ryder turned 42 in the fall. In case you missed it, I'm reattaching photos of her at Sean Penn's Haiti fundraiser last weekend.
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A native of the Bahamas, Champ Stuart played three sports at Christ School in Asheville, N.C., before heading to Brevard (N.C.) College. Brevard is a Division II school and off the beaten path for scouts, but they took notice of Stuart.
Stuart is a special athlete who is still learning the game and has exciting raw tools. His swing is a work in progress, but he generates good bat speed. His tools profile best as a top-of-the-order hitter, where his speed can play up.
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If you don't have Colour me Happy as one of your daily reads then I urge you to run over there and catch up! Maria is a design professional from our neighbors up north. She started her career in design as a paint/colour specialist which then lead her to start her own residential design firm. She also shares her vast knowledge of colour by teaching a class on color theory at a local college. Lucky for us she also shares her knowledge on her blog. You start looking at colour a bit differently when you read her words of wisdom. It really helps you see the world through different color glasses. I'm constantly looking through her old posts and seeing what her colour pics are for the perfect shade of white, etc.
I was honored that she took part out of her busy day to share a day in her life. So sit back, relax and enjoy!
It's 6:30 am (I'm a morning person) and I'm having an americano with my laptop (enjoying the amazing view from my house) checking comments from yesterdays post (only 4) and responding to emails.
7:35 am time to go to the gym. This is a local community center that desperately needs an overhaul with the colours. I mean, how inspiring is this to stare at gray/green walls when you are working out? And what is with the fresh blue right next to the serious burgundy?
Here we have 6 colours (if you include the white) that do not relate to each other in the slightest! North Vancouver Rec Center? If you are reading this, call me.
9:30 am – My first appointment of the day. This couple could not agree on what to do with the garage door, but they told me they would go with my opinion. The issue here was that it was trying to be a carriage door but without the windows at the top, so I recommended they paint it out the same colour as the house (but leave the trim around the garage door white).
Usually if a garage door is the first thing you see when you drive up to your house, I like to paint it out because then it stops being the focal point. Here this entry was definitely the focal point but it didn't make sense to leave the 'white' trim on the door painted the trim colour.
10:45 am: A designer working on a huge renovation called me to take a look at the colours she was testing–in her view, every single colour was going orange/peach (and she hates that colour) I confirmed that "Putnum Ivory" was not going to be peach in this house, but the edges were indeed looking peachy; lesson here: don't paint these kinds of samples in your house, a colour requires 2 full coats (not one thick one with the edges all frayed like this one:
11:30 am; Drop in to Benjamin Moore for some colour samples:
To create a colour chart, this way it makes it easier when I'm sourcing fabrics for each client. Sometimes I'll even bring my bigger colour samples into the showroom.
11:50 am Lunch in the car – on my way to Maxwell Fabrics
12:30 pm, I just get to Robert Allen and a client calls, she only has the keys for the afternoon (for her new place) and needs a consultation ASAP. I spend 45 minutes at Maxwell and then drive over to her new place:
1:45 pm The biggest conversation in this call is the kitchen. Do we take out the tile? They are on a budget and will need new furniture as well so what to do? What about the very orange cabinets? She doesn't think she can live with them.
After trying out a few colours (to paint the cabinets) I've determined that the tile also has an orange undertone–see how comparing whites to the whitest white (in this case the existing trim colour)–makes it easy to see what is happening and what works?
We decide the floor definitely has to go. Right now the orangy/peachy tile looks creamy next to the 'very orange' cabinets, but as soon as they are painted white (the floor will look peach) if we paint the cabinets a colour that matches the floor, unless we choose a strong dramatic colour which will effectively create the 'illusion' of creamy cabinets and tile–any other colour will still have the kitchen look peachy.
4:40 pm (It ended up being a long consultation, many other decisions to make) I arrive at Colin Campbell where they are having a designer event: I love this carpet showroom, it's just beautiful.
5:30pm – I have to go as I'm teaching Colour Theory tonight.
6:10 pm– My copying done (for the hand-outs) I pick up a peppermint tea (it's always the same) and go up to class.
6:45: class in progress and they all knew I was taking the picture (how can you tell)
I have all kinds of opinions about the colour of this classroom, *sigh* I'll keep them to myself.
One of my lovely and enthusiastic students Debra Thompson agreed to pose for a photo! Class goes until 9:30 pm, and since this was the first evening where we are painting 6 charts [clean/dirty, light/dark, warm/cool] it's very busy as everyone has a lot of questions.
I was tired tonight when I got home and definitely had to put my feet up! With my fabric sourcing plans thwarted today (by a lovely client I might add) I'll have to schedule it in for another day next week!
This was fun, thanks Camila!
I totally decided I love writing Colour this way and not our normal US way. It just looks fancier! A big thank you to Maria for participating. As always let me know if there is anyone you are dying to see featured on IN HER SHOES. I aim to please.


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The procedures in the Manual make reference to the requirement that each agency review the relationship it has with persons who provide services to the State to determine if the person is an employee or independent contractor. Information on making this determination was covered in Comptroller's Memorandum No. 7 (1988-89). The procedures in the Manual also require that the agency determine if the person providing the services is an alien, and if the person is an alien, whether the alien is a resident alien or nonresident alien. The relationship the agency has with the person and the person's residency status will dictate whether payments to the person are to be processed through the Voucher Audit System or through the Payroll System, including the applicability of Federal employment taxes, foreign country tax treaties and exemptions. The procedures and documentation requirements applicable to making these determinations, processing payments and computing and handling applicable employment taxes are covered in the Manual.
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The Central Connecticut women's soccer team was honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for its outstanding performance in the classroom for the 2011-12 school year. The team was awarded the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 11th consecutive season, the NSCAA announced Thursday.
To be eligible for the award, teams must complete the school year with a grade point average above a 3.0. CCSU earned a 3.28 to join the 497 women's teams and 220 men's teams to earn the award. Central was one of only 148 schools to have both their men's and women's teams make it on the list.
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If you are an international librarian and would like to meet other international librarians attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting, please join us for dinner at a local Philadelphia restaurant (at your own expense) on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 7:00PM. Please email email@example.com, before January 8, to find out more information and reserve a space for dinner (spaces are limited).
Visit our Virtual Visitors Center Website
Please visit our virtual visitors center website at http://alavirtualinternationalvisitor.blogspot.com. It is a forum for you to ask questions and share information about yourself with other international librarians. We'd love to learn more about you and what you hope to gain from your attendance at ALA Midwinter.
Learn more about ALA's International Relations Round Table by visiting http://www.ala.org/ala/irrt/irrt.cfm
Some suggestions for getting the most out of the ALA Midwinter Meeting The link on the main ALA Midwinter wiki page "Tips for a Successful Midwinter Meeting" takes you to an excellent list of suggestions. Here are a few more:
1. If possible, plan to attend 2 or 3 meetings at the same location rather than spending your precious time traveling from hotel to hotel. The convention center hosts many business meetings, discussion groups, the ALA store, and the exhibits, so it can be a good place to spend a lot of your time.
2. Feel free to ask for help from other conference goers if you're having trouble understanding the schedule or finding a meeting room. ALA conferences are large and those of us who are past attendees are happy to help others.
3. Midwinter is primarily a working conference, when ALA committees do their work. If there is a particular committee in whose work you are interested, write the chair in advance for an agenda. If committee work is not of interest, plan to attend one of the many discussion group sessions. These might have speakers to listen to or may be informal discussions of a topic by whoever shows up!


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The McPherson school board voted Monday to convene a committee to evaluate the appropriateness of the book "The Glass Castle."
The McPherson school board voted Monday to convene a committee to evaluate the appropriateness of the book "The Glass Castle."
The memoir by Jeanette Walls is being taught in Cindy Marion's pre-AP English course taken by freshmen at McPherson High School. It is an account of Walls' years growing up in poverty with a dysfunctional family.
Ninety-five students are in the course.
Parents spoke to the board Monday with concerns the book, which they said has foul language and implicit and explicit sexual references, is inappropriate for 14- and 15-yeard-old students.
"My daughter came to me and said, 'Mom, the language in this book is not the best,'" Lynn Black, parent, said. "She actually described the plot to me, and there were passages that I thought were too mature for her as a student."
Black said she and her husband were forced to have a conversation with her daughter she was hoping not to have for awhile.
"I am trying not to be angry, but what my daughter has been exposed to ... you can't bring her innocence back," Black said.
Parent Emily Kynaston said she did not think the book was appropriate for freshmen.
"There is a lot of bad language and very graphic explanations of the situations she was in," she said.
Kynaston said the damage was done but she asked the board to make assurances something like this would not happen again.
Board member Chris Wiens said she has read the book and did not think it was appropriate for freshmen.
"I think we need to do something," she said.
Superintendent Randy Watson said the district allows all families to opt their children out of any assignment, and the parents on hand could ask for an alternate reading assignment for their children.
The district policy states a book can be reviewed by a committee to be removed from the curriculum. He said the committee would take about 30 days to make its findings. In the meantime, a letter was sent out Monday to all the parents of the children in Marion's course.
Angie McDonald, director of instruction, said Marion had discovered the book after seeing a lecture by Walls in Hutchinson. This is the second year Marion has used the book in her course.
Walls' book was on a recommended reading list for young adults. It received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Books for Better Living Award. It was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 261 weeks.
McDonald said in her research, she has found nowhere where the book has been banned.


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Nothing seems to get U.S. corporations' dander up like a threat to the pay and perks of their chief executives.
That's one explanation for corporate America's superheated, turbocharged, over-the-top reaction to the CEO pay ratio rule recently proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The rule requires most large public companies to calculate the ratio of the pay of their chief executive officer to the median pay of all their employees. Its general terms were mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which imposed numerous regulatory changes on corporate and banking behavior in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Congress, however, asked the SEC to figure out how to put it into practice. The SEC voted in September to open its proposed version to comments from supporters and opponents for 60 days. Whatever it finally approves won't go into effect until 2015.
Wall Street, big banks and corporate lobbying groups have mustered their troops to fight the most important Dodd-Frank provisions. But the opposition to the CEO rule has a different flavor entirely. It's not unusual for the business community to claim that a new regulation will spell the end of industry. In this case, they're arguing that it will threaten the SEC too.
It's not hard to see why. Unlike most SEC regulations, the CEO rule isn't really designed to provide information for investors. Rather, it's designed to provide information for the larger community — for society, if you will. Its aim is to provide ammunition for the argument that the share of corporate profits going to top management, and by extension corporate shareholders, has gotten out of control.
That's a sound argument, shared by many management experts and economists who argue that the diversion of corporate resources from workers to executives and shareholders is a major contributor to rising income inequality in the U.S., as well as to other social and economic ills.
For example, British economist Andrew Smithers observes in his new book, "The Road to Recovery," that stock-related bonuses for executives encourage them to make decisions that boost their share prices in the short term, rather than in the long term. The harvest is that they spend corporate capital less on long-term investments, which will set their companies up for future profit, and more on shoveling dividends to investors, which props up their shares quarter by quarter.
That isn't a novel insight by any means, but Smithers' figures are eye-opening. In the 1970s, he observes, American companies devoted 15 times as much capital to investments as they disbursed to shareholders. Today the ratio is less than 2 to 1.
It's also not a new finding that outsized CEO compensation depresses employee morale, especially among middle managers. The great management guru Peter Drucker advised companies to stick to a ratio of about 20 to 1 between the pay of the CEO and that of the average worker. That's "the limit beyond which they cannot go if they don't want resentment and falling morale to hit their companies," Drucker wrote, according to a comment on the CEO pay rule submitted to the SEC by Rick Wartzman, executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University.
Drucker's standard was in line with the ratios of the 1970s and early '80s, when he wrote those words. Today they seem positively quaint. The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2012 was about 350 to 1. That's down somewhat from where it was before the 2008 recession, but it would have to come down a great deal more to return to the non-obscene range.
It's plain that this ratio typically has little to do with an executive's performance. The CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio of the 250 largest companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index ranges from 1,795 to 1 (J.C. Penney's Ron Johnson) to 173 to 1 (Agilent Technologies' William Sullivan), according to Bloomberg, which ran the data for 2012.
Do those figures reflect the two CEOs' relative value to their companies? Well, no. Agilent shares have risen 49% over the last year, while J.C. Penney's have fallen 73%. Johnson's compensation was the product of his November 2011 recruitment by the Penney board, which expected him to work the same magic on the stumbling department store chain that he had at Apple, where he created the fabulously successful Apple Stores. But he was terrible at Penney, and within 17 months he was gone.
The thrust of the business community's attack on the CEO rule is its supposed complexity and cost. The Center on Executive Compensation, a corporate think tank, groused this summer that it's inflexible and "unjustifiably complex." The rule requires companies to calculate the median pay of all employees — that is, the level at which half are paid more and half less — rather than just a simple mean average, which would be easier. Other critics say it will make companies with lots of overseas workers earning Third World wages look especially bad.
Yet these fears may be unfounded. The rule under consideration by the SEC allows companies lots of flexibility in choosing how to calculate median compensation. And they would have more than a year to do so.
It may be true, as some critics say, that the rule doesn't tell investors anything useful — or more precisely, it doesn't tell them anything they don't already know. The salaries of top executives already must be disclosed annually; it doesn't take an advanced computer algorithm for investors in, say, JPMorgan Chase to know that Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is compensated immensely well ($62.6 million over the last three years).
But it doesn't follow that serving investors should be the limit of the SEC's mandate. Congress thinks that corporate disclosures also can serve a social purpose. Why saddle the SEC with the job of overseeing these rules? It's because the SEC is the only agency with the legal power to mandate corporate disclosures; Congress is simply putting this preexisting authority to use. Nor is this the first time that's happened. As far back as the 1970s, the SEC was ordered to force companies to make environmental disclosures.
But that may be what irks Big Business the most about the CEO pay ratio rule. As Meredith Cross, a corporate lawyer who has walked through the revolving door between the SEC and business world at least four times in her career (two stints at the agency's division of corporate finance, two at the law firm WilmerHale), observed in a recent speech, "requiring companies to post potentially embarrassing information … can be a very powerful motivator to change corporate behavior.... There is a significant risk that people will keep pushing for it."
Mary Jo White, the new SEC chair, is also uneasy about "social" disclosures. In a speech this month, she acknowledged concerns that the SEC's independence could be compromised "by those who seek to effectuate social policy or political change through the SEC's powers of mandatory disclosure." Those concerns about social agendas, she said, "resonate with me."
But she did vote with the 3-2 majority in September to open the CEO pay rule to public comment.
What corporate managements may not want to admit is that the CEO pay rule may help investors after all. Just as investors have a legitimate interest in whether their companies are big polluters, there's reason to think the ratio of CEO pay to average compensation really is meaningful, as Drucker perceived.
You get some information from reading that Ron Johnson's 2011 compensation at J.C. Penney was $53 million, and rather more from learning that it was 1,795 times the average Penney worker's pay. For one thing, the second figure should underscore that a board that pays an incoming CEO that much may be out to lunch. Smart investors try to find out everything they can about a company, so what's the argument for leaving this nugget out?
But the value of the ratio does truly lie in what it tells the community. It's typically CEOs and their acolytes who argue that there's nothing wrong with their pay scale. But it is wrong. It underscores the corrosive effect of income and wealth inequality in society at large. And when a trend builds toward a crisis, as this one is doing, the more society knows about it the better.
Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Read his new blog, "The Economy Hub," at latimes.com/business/hiltzik, reach him at email@example.com, check out facebook.com/hiltzik and follow @hiltzikm on Twitter.


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P1005 On Windows 8
Good news / bad news:
They've twice, since I last wrote, updated the announcement regarding a forthcoming driver for the P1005 on Windows 8. In early January, 2013, it was changed to read, "expect this driver in January, 2013." In late January, it was ambigufied to read "...in early 2013." Now it's February. I've been without a proper printer for months.
You know, come to think of it, I guess there isn't any good news. Best technical advice: buy Cannon or Lexmark next time.
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This is completely embarrassing for HP.
Is it not possibly to create a generic device driver that can handle something simple like a P1005 on Windows 8.
Whatever happened to backward compatibility?
What do I do now, uninstall Windows 8 or buy a new Printer?
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Hi Frank,
Maybe the next steps helps
To install on Windows 8 apply the following steps:
1. Download the driver that is available on the HP site:
- Basic Driver Plug and Play for HP LaserJet P1005
- ljP1000_P1500 HB-pnp-win64-en.exe-[1/1, 3.54m]
Note: Download this file to the Windows Desktop.
2. Then select the downloaded file with the mouse right click Properties.
3. Select the tab that says Compatibility.
4. Then check the box that says "Run in compatibility mode for" and select Windows 7
5. Under Privilege Level check the box that says "Run as administrator"
6. Click OK to close the Properties window.
7. Then double-click it on the downloaded file to begin the installation.
Note: Remember that the USB cable must be unplugged before installation.
It should appear as follows:
I hope these steps will be helpful with the Windows 8 installation of the Laserjet P1005 printer.
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03-01-2013 12:58 PM - edited 03-05-2013 10:18 AM
it crashed. But I found a HP directory in program files after than. There were setup.exe here, I tried to run it in compatibility mode. Crashed too with "file not found message". I extracted *.cab files content from this directory into the same directory. And open device manager. There were other device - HP P1005, I tried to install driver manualy from device manager and show him inf file from HP directory in program files. And it works.
Seems to me that it cannot be recommended to common users. But I was desperate, I needed to print.
March 5, today it stopped working.
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@Frank0011 wrote:
What do I do now, uninstall Windows 8 or buy a new Printer?
Not a good idea actually. Who kills your printer ? I've got many postes which shows how software can kill hardware just one shot.
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@nerglex wrote:
where is the driver to install
We're sorry, but it does not exist. Because the inclination to produce and distribute it is inversely proportional to the passage of time and the antiquation of the printer for which it should long ago have been written, it will likely not ever written.
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Hi nergllex,
Try with the steps provided in here >> Laserjet install Windows 8.
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03-17-2013 07:56 AM - last edited on 03-17-2013 10:29 AM by MC_Remington
Dear All,
I use windows 7, and just yesterday buy new windows 8, this great OS just upgrade from W7. But I getting problem when to print wiht HP P1005. It's amazing when I see so many users also like me (I have friends ) Also my webcam can't work.
After 1 days (6 hours) try and error, I already can print using HP PRINTER P1005 NOW!!!
Here my steps to solve :
My Notebook is ASUS K401IJ
a. Turn OFF Printer, unplug the USB Cable
b. On PC with Windows 8, try to uninstall existing (using uninstall from original CD)
or uninstall it from device manager or from control panel> device and printer or else (so many way to remove exisiting printer)
c. Go to Device (windows 8 view) and plug USB cable Printer HP P1005, turn printer ON
d. Windows 8 will automatically detect HP P1005, and status is ready (online) now
e. Test your print - and goal!!!
Note : for webcam that doesn't work, I try go to List Program Installed, and search program that for webcam, I'm doing uninstallation, after that => amazing!!! my webcam can work now!
TIPS : please try to uninstall driver/ software that came with your WIndows7, and plug / connect to windows8 without install any software or driver, and see what's happen will work
Sandy Halim
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Hi KlinikRobott,
Thank you for sharing another solution ;)
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By The Hays Daily News
DERBY -- With a home run each by Zair Koeiman and Taylor Petersen, the Hays Larks pushed past the Derby Twins, 4-2, on Sunday to take the 2-1 win in the three-game weekend series.
Koeiman and Petersen had solo homers in the third and fourth to make up the difference, moving the Larks to 16-3 overall and 12-3 atop the Jayhawk League. Derby dropped to 9-8, 7-8 in a tie for third place.
Koeiman's homer was one of three hits for the future Wichita State University Shocker. He was 3 for 4 and drove in two of the Larks' runs, while Aaron Cornell finished 2 for 5, scoring twice.
Colin Hightower, making his second start for Hays, pitched 6.2 innings and gave up two earned runs on four hits with six strikeouts and a walk to improve to 2-0. DJ Carr and David Owen combined for 2.1 innings of scoreless relief and Owen picked up his team-leading third save of the season after giving up one hit in the ninth. The two combined for five strikeouts.
The Larks scored runs in the first, third, fourth and seventh. Koeiman doubled in a run in the first, and Cornell scored on a wild pitch in the seventh.
Koeiman's bomb was his third of the season, tied for second on the team behind Cornell (4), who had three in the weekend series. Petersen has also homered three times. Koeiman leads the Larks with 22 runs driven in.
Hays returns home Tuesday to face Dodge City (7-11, 4-9) at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Larks Park. Dodge City defeated second-place El Dorado, 15-4, on Sunday. In other action, Wellington topped Liberal, 6-2, to take a 2-1 win in that series.


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Lady Gaga's latest video doesn't have the pop superstar wearing a bizarre outfit, sporting an over-the-top hair style or, for that matter, singing.
The seven-and-a-half-minute clip posted on YouTube and seen below is titled "A message from Lady Gaga to the Senate," and calls for the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military that has been in effect since 1993.
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" asks that serving gay and lesbian soldiers hide and keep private their sexual orientation under the promise and protection that the government will not ask them to tell or disclose their sexuality," Gaga says.
But the law, intitially seen as a compromise, has given rise to profiling and vengeful exposure of soldiers' orientation, she says. Gays are being "refused the right to serve their country," according to Gaga, who is seen wearing a suit and tie before a flag. She brands the policy "inconsistent and unconstitutional" and claims 14,000 gay soldiers have been booted from the military since the law was enacted, including 400 under the Obama Administration.