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These toothsome treats are a fun and healthy break from Halloween sweets.
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Pretzel spiders are a healthy and fun snack that will tickle your tot's tummy.
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These cheesy monster digits fit the bill for Halloween.
This ghoulish girl is quite a sight, with her shocking orange hair. Her hat's a cone, her mouth an apple, her head is half a pear!
Disguises aren't just for Halloween. Surprise your family with these dressed-up, spooky-looking snacks any time of year.
When made of Jell-O®, this creature isn't such a frightful fellow. He is, however, a wee bit jiggly -- and sure to make your children giggly.
Made from nothing more than a small, round seedless watermelon, this spooky cerebral creation is bound to turn heads.
The scariest holiday of the year calls for chilling fare -- and these frosty pops fit the bill.
These edible peepers may be a frightful sight, but here's the good news: made with three kinds of dried fruit, they're naturally sweet and nutritious.


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Businesses in downtown Boston are working to return to order after tragedy hit Monday morning with explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
"After the first explosion went off, the ground really shook. Everyone was trying to figure out what it was," Maggie Warren said.
Warren is the manager at Stephanie's on Newbury, a cafe in downtown Boston near where the explosions went off.
"The second one went off and we realized it was an attack. Everyone was just screaming and running," Warren recalled.
"People that were coming around the corner were all covered in blood," Warren said.
One of the people injured was a woman whose leg was nearly blown off.
"Her leg was completely mangled. She was covered in blood." Warren said.
Despite all the chaos, Warren and co-workers did everything they could to help that victim.
"One of our servers is a nurse. She ran and got a bunch of towels and started helping her put pressure on and start help [to] stitch her up," Warren said.
That memory is now stuck in Warren's mind.
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No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the act Monday that took the lives of three people and injured 176.
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Did you know nearly three billion people worldwide cook indoors over open fires or mud stoves, leading to more than two million premature deaths from smoke inhalation? Winners of the 2012 Intel Global Challenge are developing biomass-based cooking solutions that are helping thousands of families breathe easier.
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Most of these homes are not well-ventilated, so day after day, families inhale dangerous particles and pollutants arising from the inefficient burning of wood and other solid fuels. The result? An estimated two million premature deaths annually.
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The Intel Global Challenge motivates young entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions that solve real-world challenges in areas such as healthcare, agriculture, and the environment. Each year, the contest attracts teams from around the world, who receive valuable feedback on their business plans, along with publicity and exposure to potential investors. As the 2012 winner, Greenway Grameen Infra earned $50,000, which team members plan to apply toward building a more robust supply chain and developing new products, including a waste heat-to-electricity converter.
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"We were very grateful for the opportunity to meet and discuss our plans with top experts in business and innovation," says Ankit Mathur of the Greenway Grameen Infra team. "It was also energizing to be able to share our ideas and hear those of our peers—seeing what type of progress is being made in various fields at an international level."
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By Kelsea Stahler, Hollywood.com Staff
There's something about Louisiana. It's just a little hard to be down all the time, when you're in the ""Home of the Dawg,"" Randy Jackson's own Baton Rouge, La. Plus, as Keith Urban points out, ""All the good music is from the South."" It's just a good time down in Louisiana, and during American Idol's fourth round of auditions, that much was clear.
There wasn't a moment of unrest nor a single sob story that dipped into the well of melodrama. It was simply an hour of goofy judge antics, good voices, and a few requisite unfortunate souls. (We're not reinventing the wheel, here.) It was just about as sweet as the smell of a crawfish boil on the Bayou.
First up, was Miss Baton Rouge, and the sign that things were going to be nice and easy in Baton Rouge. Megan Miller was in an accident just before her audition, but she doesn't spend much time feeling sorry for herself or milking her situation for sympathy. No sir. She's got surgery scheduled immediately after her audition, but she puts on her favorite heels, struts (as much as one can on crutches) into the judging room and shows off her natural, beautiful voice with a little dose of humor at her own expense (crutches make great fake microphones). She doesn't draw attention to the scrapes on her legs and arms, but instead tries to direct all attention to her voice (you know, that thing she's there to show off). Of course this girl is getting a ticket to Hollywood, but not because she made us get all misty over her hardship. She's going to Hollywood (after a successful surgery, to boot) because she's got the goods. Plain and simple.
But the talented people keep coming and their sad stories, while present, are kept in check. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Askew is socially-awkward. His parents joke that he's got Charlie Askew Syndrome because no doctor would diagnose the shy guy's social awkwardness. But from what we can see, he's just a sweet, shy kid. ""I'm bad at communicating in a firsthand sort of way,"" he says with a laugh as America collectively sighs, ""Aww."" And that's all well and good, but when Charlie finally sings (a little of ""Breakthrough"" by Queen and a lot of ""Nowhere Boy"" by David Bowie), the last thing anyone is thinking about is the kid's social fears. His sweet, androgynous tone is haunting and lovely, especially when he takes on the Bowie song. It's a perfect choice, because as Keith notes, ""The tone, it's not of a gender ... like Bowie or something."" Much like Kez Ban before him, Charlie brings a voice unlike any we've ever seen on the series, and one that could take us to a whole new place if sticks around past group week.
For Randy's mission, he's sent a hop, skip, and a jump down to New Orleans to the world famous Cafe Du Monde to pick up Maddie Assell (and hopeful some of those mouth watering beignets), a teenager on vacation with her grandmother, who's just nominated her for an Idol audition (and who happens to be the sauciest grandma ever). When she stops by the next day to sing her lil song, she chooses ""Oh Darling,"" citing Beyonce, Adele, and former Idol contestant Haley Reinhart as her influences. She's certainly got her own sound though, and the raw goods, but her runs are out of control. She's definitely someone who figured out that she could handle some incredible flourishes in her singing, but she overuses her giftand it sounds a bit messy. Still, auditions are about raw talent and Maddie's got it, and a golden ticket. Now, let's just hope she brings her hilariously strange grandmother along for the ride so she can keep telling Ryan Seacrest things like ""I want to kidnap you and take you home with me.""
After a brief trip into the Idol producers' latest parody reel, True Bad (it even adds a sexy, dark filter to the action to give it the real dingy True Blood feel). Hey, at least they're trying to keep the tone deaf stretches of auditions somewhat interesting. Still, I imagine I would have liked to see the girl who made Randy scream (yes, scream) ""NONONONONONO"" and who walked out of her audition yelling ""I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULDN'T CHOOSE ME"" like a murderous Veruca Salt.
Thankfully, that nonsense is followed with an adorable, gorgeous, talented guy: Paul Jolley. Idol attempts to make a background story out of the fact that Paul just lost his grandfather, but this is about as melodramatic as the episode gets. When he gets down to business, singing Rascal Flatts' ""I Won't Let Go,"" it's clear we've just happened upon someone important in this competition. He sounds like a sweet, countrified Josh Groban, and with those eyes (that chin, that smile, those shoulders), he's what music industry experts might call a total jackpot. Here's to more from Paul come Hollywood week.
Next: The best bad singer ever.
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[PAGEBREAK]Even our final true baddie of the night is surprisingly pleasant. Nicki always tells kids they're wonderful after the sing horribly, even if they appear to have an awful personality to go with their awful singing voices, but in the case of Chris Barthel, or ""Mushroom"" if you're Nicki or Randy, he truly is a pretty cool dude, however ridiculous. He waltzes in, boasting about his alter ego before taking on an Adam Lambert song and destroying it in the worst possible way. Still, the guy is such a great sport, Keith tries to find a way to be sweet to him and still entertain us: he settles on ""I like the keys that song is in."" (Changing keys during a song is bad, mmk?) Even after his unanimous ""No"" Chris is having a grand ol' time, letting Nicki touch his hair, and flipping around joyously and he bids farewell to Seacrest with a smile. Of course, not every bad singer could react that way or we'd be bored in half an episode, but wasn't it at least a little refreshing to see a real person in that spot for just a second? At least until Ryan utters the joke, ""The judges couldn't find mushroom for this fungi."" Stick to telling us what show this is, Ryan. Thanks.
The train of great singers gets going with Dr. Calvin Peterson, who's ready to stop treating burn victims and start becoming a famous singer. And the thing is, the guy is adorable and a really good singer. He short of shoots himself in the foot by singing Maxwell, because no one is ever as silky smooth as Maxwell and the comparison isn't helpful. Still, the judges are impressed and he goes through. While I wanted to be happy for the self-professed ""singing doctor,"" my old fuddy duddy of a brain couldn't get past the fact that he saves lives in a manner that can only be accomplished by years of school and he wants to give that up to be a famous singer. I may be a wet blanket about this, but shouldn't you use all that schooling to keep helping people? Isn't that why people become doctors? But by all means, congrats, dude. He is a really good singer.
A quick rush of ladies goes by, including the strong, but overdone vocal stylings of Michelle Montilizzeri; the sweet, but sleepy voice of Breanna Steer; and the perfectly country voice on Miss Brand Hotard as she gave an extra dose of hell to ""Hell on Heels."" With a quick distraction from Alissa Griffin, whose version of ""Natural Woman"" felt like bad sketch comedy aimed at spoofing Rebel Wilson, we were introduced to Nicki's favorite contestant of the night, Dustin Watts, but big, buff fire-fighting machine. (For some reason, him wanting to leave his selfless job didn't bother me nearly as much as Dr. Calvin's desire to defect did.) He sings ""She's Every Woman"" by Garth Brooks practically perfectly. Nicki, who practically hates country music, is in l-o-v-e, practically falling over the desk. But she's joined by Keith, who's so entranced by Dustin it looks as if he's trying to read his soul through the words of the song. The guy is fantastic, and he's not even trying. Just imagine what he'll be able to do in Hollywood.
Last, but certainly not least, is 19-year-old Burnell Taylor. He reluctantly speaks about his fate after Hurricane Katrina, confessing that his family lost everything, but despite being the final contestant of the day, and thus the prerequisite tear-jerker, Burnell doesn't appear to be interested in making anyone cry. He moves straight into the important part: his incredible voice. When he gets to the final note in ""I'm Here,"" he hits it so beautifully and effortlessly that Keith's face melts, like actually. The corners of his mouth drooped past his chin he was in such awe. While Keith and Randy give Burnell a standing ovation, Mariah is driven to tears. Nicki says it and it's true: this is why we sit through auditions. We want the chance to feel like we discovered this phenomenal singer early. And while his past certainly helps lend an inspirational light to his accomplishments, when it comes down to it, he's going to Hollywood leaving tears in the judges' eyes because he's amazing all on his own, and no amount of sympathetic stories will alter that. He's simply fantastic, every way you slice it.
And while this episode certainly isn't going to become a pattern, it's relief to know that all antics aside, Idol is still truly searching for someone amazing. We're not through yet, but there was at least one discovery in Baton Rouge whose name we could be hearing all the way into May.
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Rodney was born Feb. 28, 1957 in Minden and entered into rest May 9, 2011 in Shreveport.
He is survived by his wife, Cynthia McDow of Minden; father, Melvin D. McDow of Minden; son, Dustin McDow of Minden; daughter, Jennifer Kearney and husband, Joshua of Minden; and special friend, Eddie Morgan of Malvern, Arkansas.
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AMARILLO - According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, half a million Texans are living with diabetes and don't even know it.
The department says one out of every ten Texans is diagnosed with some type of diabetes.
Northwest Texas Healthcares System Endocrinologist Dr. Cesar Arias says it's only going to get worse.
"It's an epidemic," Arias said.
Arias says he's seen an increase in diabetic patients for the past 11 years and he doesn't see it getting better anytime soon.
"It is anticipated by CDC data, the Centers for Disease Control, that by the year 2050, one of every three Americans will have diabetes," Arias said.
He says the lack of education on prevention and risk factors plus the unhealthy lifestyle of our society contribute to the increase.
The number of Americans diagnosed with pre-diabetes has jumped from 47 million in 2010 to 76 million in 2012.
It doesn't help that less and less medical students are specializing in endocrinology at a time when they're needed most.
"If that keeps going that way, we won't have endocrinologists in this country to take care of the population with diabetes," Arias said. "That's why it's so important that primacare physicians, pa's, nurse practitioners to learn how to treat this disease."
The risk factors for diabetes include are obesity, a family history of the disease, and a Hispanic or African American background.
"Don't wait until you get symptoms if you know that the risk is there," Arias said.
80 percent of diabetics die of heart attack or stroke. Arias says that fact alone should make everyone, especially those with risk factors, lead a healthier life.


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Sarah Stein has just published Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. (Stanford University Press, 2014)This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
Sephardi Lives offer readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era—natural disasters, violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as well as the émigré centers Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the popular press, and scholarship.
Peter Baldwin has just published The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. (Princeton University Press, 2014)Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries—and their history is essential to understanding today's battles. The Copyright Wars—the first major trans-Atlantic history of copyright from its origins to today—tells this important story.
Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? The Copyright Wars describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. The book also tells the widely forgotten story of how America went from being a leading copyright opponent and pirate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become the world's intellectual property policeman in the late twentieth. As it became a net cultural exporter and its content industries saw their advantage in the Continental ideology of strong authors' rights, the United States reversed position on copyright, weakening its commitment to the ideal of universal enlightenment—a history that reveals that today's open-access advocates are heirs of a venerable American tradition.
Robin Derby has just published The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics. (Duke University Press, 2014)Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of the country, from precolonial times into the early twenty-first century. Among the volume's 118 selections are essays, speeches, journalism, songs, poems, legal documents, testimonials, and short stories, as well as several interviews conducted especially for this Reader.
Eric Avila has just published The Folklore of the Freeway - Race and Revolt in the Modernist City. (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating countless communities—many of them minority urban neighborhoods lacking the political and economic power to resist the construction. Within the context of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies devised by urban communities to document and protest the damage that highways wrought.
Valerie Matsumoto has just published City Girls - The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. (Oxford University Press, 2014)Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways from their peers. These young women found rapport in ethnocultural youth organizations, a forgotten world of female friendship and camaraderie that Valerie J. Matsumoto recovers in this book.
Sarah Stein has just published Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria's south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era.
Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for centuries. She paints an intriguing historical picture—of an ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French Saharan one, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations, which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
Mary Terrall has just published Catching Nature in the Act. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been characterized as a science of straightforward description, devoted to amassing observations as the raw material for classification and thus fundamentally distinct from experimental physical science. In Catching Nature in the Act, Mary Terrall revises this picture, revealing how eighteenth-century natural historians incorporated various experimental techniques and strategies into their practice.
Katsuya Hirano has just published The Politics of Dialogic Imagination. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy.
Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo's cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era—the Meiji period—that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan's history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination provides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation—and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it.
Margaret Jacob has just published The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Ever since the Industrial Revolution, debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained Western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of Northern and Western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures, and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of Western Europe.
Margaret Jacob and Catherine Secretan have just edited In Praise of Ordinary People: Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)The discipline of social history has for many decades focused on the lives of so-called "ordinary" people. Less studied, however, has been the ways in which the perceptions and roles of these individuals changed over time - both in historical theory and practice. In particular, in Europe beginning in the sixteenth century, they were no longer simply ignored, feared, or denigrated by elites: they came to be seen, however cautiously, as having value through their skills and crafts, or in their ability to reason, or even in their contributions to anchoring the stability of the state. It is not accidental that these sorts of practices on the part of ordinary people became valorized more visibly in the English and Dutch contexts. After 1550 the Dutch Revolt cast ordinary people, particularly in urban settings, as participants on either the Catholic Spanish side or among the Dutch rebels and their reformed churches. Meanwhile, the English civil wars of the 1640s did something similar, and also produced a body of theoretical literature on the capacities of ordinary men and even women that became central to Western democratic thinking. In the fascinating array of studies gathered here, we see how the study of these participants' social identities imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
Edward Alpers has just published The Indian Ocean in World History. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography.
The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including migrations of traders, indentured laborers, civil servants, sailors, and slaves throughout the entire basin. Persians and Arabs from the Gulf came to eastern Africa and Madagascar as traders and settlers, while Hadramis dispersed from south Yemen as traders and Muslim teachers to the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, South India, and Indonesia. Southeast Asians migrated to Madagascar, and Chinese dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Mascarene Islands to South Africa.
Alpers also explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. For example, architectural and decorative styles in eastern Africa, the Red Sea, the Hadramaut, the Persian Gulf, and western India reflect cultural interchanges in multiple directions. Similarly, the popular musical form of taarab in Zanzibar and coastal East Africa incorporates elements of Arab, Indian, and African musical traditions, while the characteristic frame drum (ravanne) of séga, the widespread Afro-Creole dance of the Mascarene and Seychelles Islands, probably owes its ultimate origins to Arabia by way of Mozambique.
The Indian Ocean in World History also discusses issues of trade and production that show the long history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion and religious conversion, focusing mainly on Islam, but also mentioning Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at issues including the new configuration of colonial territorial boundaries after World War I, and the search for oil reserves.
Joyce Appleby has just published Shores of Knowledge. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.
Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra "Dare to know!"
Noblemen began collecting cabinets of curiosities; soon others went from collecting to examining natural objects with fresh eyes. Observation led to experiments; competing conclusions triggered debates. The foundations for the natural sciences were laid as questions became more multifaceted and answers became more complex. Carl Linneaus developed a classification system and sent students around the globe looking for specimens. Museums, botanical gardens, and philosophical societies turned their attention to nature. National governments undertook explorations of the Pacific.
Historian Joyce Appleby vividly recounts the explorers' triumphs and mishaps, including Magellan's violent death in the Philippines; the miserable trek of the "new Argonauts" across the Andes on their mission to determine the true shape of the earth; and how two brilliant scientists, Alexander Humboldt and Charles Darwin, traveled to the Americas for evidence to confirm their hypotheses about the earth and its inhabitants. Drawing on detailed eyewitness accounts, Appleby also tells of the turmoil created in the all societies touched by the explorations.
This sweeping, global story imbues the Age of Discovery with fresh meaning, elegantly charting its stimulation of the natural sciences, which ultimately propelled Western Europe toward modernity.
J. Arch Getty has just published Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. (Yale University Press, 2013)
In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans ("family circles") after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: Making and Unmaking the City; Politics, Culture, and Life Forms (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The city of modern India is a web of identities, interests, and institutions. Perhaps the city everywhere gives the impression of being unfinished, as people come and go, talking of this and that, but in India the sense of a place on the make is overwhelming. Our colonial cities—Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras—helped redefine our very understanding of Indian culture; the villagers trooping into the city have further reshaped it in their image.
For all the beauty a city may hold, its character flows more from its street life and the intricate patterning of social networks. Some people claim the city as their own, and live as if they own it; some disown the city, and yet others are disowned by it. Violence appears to be present at every corner, and yet the city is the nexus of art, culture, and conviviality. The city is always full of surprises, having multiple selves, varying by day and by night. Together with its companion volume, The City in its Plenitude, this anthology— a collection of writings from across the genres of poetry, short stories, essays, and social commentaries drawn from English as well as the rich literature in Indian languages—is a tribute to the modern Indian city.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: The City in its Plenitude (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Banaras, Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow . . . cities all, sharing certain characteristics, and yet so unlike each other. Cities are like the people they hold—loved and unloved, likely to attract some and repel others. Each has a character of its own: some are laidback, others more vibrant; a few have witnessed and endured a lot, others appear to have had a relatively mundane existence.
The city has a long history in India—from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 bce to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. Taking the reader through an alluring maze of streets, lanes, memories, and much more, the writings in this volume allow her to gaze at the mosaic and imaginary of the city, look back at the city in colonial India, and reflect on the city and its streets as a work of architecture. Together with its companion volume, Making and Unmaking the City: Politics, Culture, and Life Forms, this collection pays tribute to the modern Indian city.
Brenda Stevenson has just published The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident.
In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992.
An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.
Published by Oxford University Press: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-contested-murder-of-latasha-harlins-9780199944576
Professor Saul Friedlander's stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Franz Kafka's personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka's life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka's dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author's novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.
Published by Yale University press: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300136616
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has just published Is Indian Civilization a Myth: Fictions and Histories? (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013).
In the title essay of this enthralling collection, Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets a provocative ball rolling: At the heart of the matter , he says, is the notion that at some distant point in the past, say about AD 500, the concept of Indian civilization had already been perfected. Everything of any importance was in place: social structure, philosophy, the major literary works ... The central idea here is of India-as-civilization, and it very soon becomes the same as a notion of closed India. Demolishing some of the myths which sustain the notion of the wonder that was India , he shows us a region that was always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for concepts, cultures, and worldviews. Subrahmanyam s book is itself a meeting point for a dazzling variety of ideas. It provides the cosmopolitan perspective of a multilingual world scholar who, having begun life in New Delhi, has gone on to live in several thought-provoking cities, including Paris, Lisbon, and Oxford. He is witty, debunking, iconoclastic, and polemically entertaining in all that he anatomizes here Indian history and fiction, South Asian cultural forms, imperialism and imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, travel writing, and the central conceits in Hemingway, Rushdie, Naipaul, and Marquez.
William Marotti has just published Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Duke University Press, 2013)
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the 1960s. The Japanese government renewed its Cold War partnership with the United States in 1960, defeating protests against a new security treaty through parliamentary action and the use of riot police. Afterward, the government promoted a depoliticized everyday world of high growth and consumption, creating a sanitized national image to present in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Artists were first to challenge this new political mythology. Marotti examines their political art, and the state's aggressive response to it. He reveals the challenge mounted in projects such as Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-yen prints, a group performance on the busy Yamanote train line, and a plan for a giant guillotine in the Imperial Plaza. Focusing on the annual Yomiuri Indépendant exhibition, he demonstrates how artists came together in a playful but powerful critical art, triggering judicial and police response. Money, Trains, and Guillotines expands our understanding of the role of art in the international 1960s, and of the dynamics of art and policing in Japan.
Ivan Berend has just published An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, 2013)
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic path and outcome. Presenting a clear and cogent explanation of the historical causes of advancement and backwardness, Ivan Berend integrates social, political, institutional and cultural factors as well as engaging in debates about the relative roles of knowledge, the state and institutions. Featuring boxed essays on key personalities including Adam Smith, Friedrich List, Gustave Eiffel and the Krupp family, as well as brief histories of innovations such as the steam engine, vaccinations and the co-operative system, the book helps to explain the theories and macro-economic trends that dominated the century and their impact on the subsequent development of the European economy right up to the present day.
Andrea S. Goldman has just published Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 uses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. The study offers a new approach to Chinese opera history; it contributes to our understanding of Qing urban culture; and it employs gender as a critical category of analysis in examining state-society relations under Qing rule. Commercial opera in the Qing capital from circa 1770 to 1900 was poised at the intersection of state power and commercial interests; it refracted literati discontent and ethnic tensions; it blurred the lines between public and private life; and it offered a stage (literally and figuratively) upon which to act out gender and class transgressions. The urban opera theater thus reveals itself as vitally important to understanding state-society relations and the mechanisms by which ideas and values were shaped, shared, disseminated, and contested. Through an examination of the context and content of opera in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Beijing, Opera and the City illuminates relationships between culture and power in the Qing dynasty capital, offering insight into how the state and various urban constituencies (officials, scholars, merchants, and petty urbanites) partook of opera and the stories played out on stage and manipulated them to their own ends. The opera theater was a key site of public discourse in the Qing metropolis; and in fulfilling that role, Goldman argues, it was also a site of competition, conflict, and controversy.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has published a new book, Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these interactions, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on the worlds of early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.
Both individual agents and objects such as texts and paintings helped mediate encounters between courts, which possessed rules and conventions that required decipherment and translation, whether in words or in pictures. Sanjay Subrahmanyam gives special attention to the depiction of South Asian empires in European visual representations, finding a complex history of cultural exchange: the Mughal paintings that influenced Rembrandt and other seventeenth-century Dutch painters had themselves been earlier influenced by Dutch naturalism. Courtly Encounters provides a rich array of images from Europe, the Islamic world, India, and Southeast Asia as aids for understanding the reciprocal nature of cross-cultural exchanges. It also looks closely at how insults and strategic use of martyrdom figured in courtly encounters.
As he sifts through the historical record, Subrahmanyam finds little evidence for the cultural incommensurability many ethnohistorians have insisted on. Most often, he discovers negotiated ways of understanding one another that led to mutual improvisation, borrowing, and eventually change.
Robin Kelley has published a new book, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012).
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the global map changed dramatically. The old European empires were crumbling and former colonies were becoming new nations. To much of the world, independent Africa held promise for a new future, a democratic, spiritual and decidedly post-Western modernity. An expression of this new modernity was music, notably jazz. Africa Speaks, America Answers examines how African independence shaped jazz and African American identities, how jazz influenced modern African identities, and how various musical convergences and crossings affected the political and cultural landscape on both continents. The story is told through the lives and works of four artists: Ghanaian-born drummer Guy Warren, pianist Randy Weston, bassist/oudist Ahmed Abdul-Malik (both U.S. born), and South African vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Each artist was profoundly shaped by these "revolutionary times"—the moment inspired Weston's powerful musical tributes to the New African nations, Ahmed Abdul-Malik's dream to make sacred Arab music swing, Guy Warren's efforts to meld the hippest African rhythms with modern jazz, and Sathima Bea Benjamin's struggle to give beauty voice amid the ugliness of apartheid and the struggle for human dignity.
Professor Kelley talks about his book in this UCLA Newsroom article.
Review by The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nile Green has published a new book, Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India (Oxford, 2012).
This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in early modern India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. It covers a wide range of topics from Sufism and polity in the Afghan frontier to north Indian context and further to Deccan and the southernmost points of influence of the Mughals. Weaving together investigations of architecture with texts, migration of people, and the ethnographies and local histories, the author investigates community formation and inter-community contact. He reveals the tensions between mobility and locality through the ways Sufi Islam responded to demands of settlement by preserving the migrant bodies of blessed men and the shrines, texts and rituals that surrounded them. The book explores how Afghan, Mughal and Hindustani Muslims constructed new homelands while remembering distant places of origin. Central to this process were migrant Sufis and the hagiographical texts and architectural territories through which they preserved memory over time and anchored it to new spaces of settlement. The book offers bold new insights into Indian, Islamic and comparative early modern history.
This book will be an important reading for scholars, researchers, and students of early modern Indian history, Islamic studies, and religion particularly those interested in Sufism.
Nile Green has published a new book, Sufism: A Global History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi Islam through the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and ultimately into Europe and the United States.


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APNewsBreak: Aerosmith frontman Tyler to attend Hawaii hearing on celebrity photo privacy
HONOLULU (AP) -- Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler plans to attend a legislative hearing in Hawaii on Friday on a bill that bears his name and would limit people's freedom to take photos and video of celebrities.
Hawaii's Senate Judiciary Committee plans to consider the so-called Steven Tyler Act on Friday morning, the first time lawmakers will discuss the bill publicly.
A publicist for the former "American Idol" judge told The Associated Press on Thursday that Tyler submitted written testimony supporting the proposal, which would allow people to collect damages from someone who photographs them in an offensive way during their personal or family time.
More than a dozen celebrities have submitted testimony supporting the bill, including Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Neil Diamond, Tommy Lee and the Osborne family. The letters all included the same text.
The stars say paparazzi have made simple activities like cooking with family and sunbathing elusive luxuries and the bill would give them peace of mind.
Massive manhunt for fired Los Angeles officer accused of killing 3 people centers on mountain
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A fired police officer who threatened to bring "warfare" to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary manhunt Thursday that put Southern California on edge, led hair-trigger officers to mistakenly shoot at innocent citizens and forced police to guard their own.
The search for Christopher Dorner had three states and Mexico on alert before shifting Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where police found his burned-out pickup truck and tracks leading away from the vehicle.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said 125 officers were going door to door and attempting to track the suspect, and that a SWAT team was providing added security to those in the community. Schools were put on lockdown while investigators examined the vehicle and spread out across the area.
"He could be anywhere at this point, and that's why we're searching door to door," McMahon said, adding that the manhunt would continue "as long as we can." A snow storm was expected in the region with temperatures dipping into the teens overnight.
Said LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore: "This complex and violent investigation has led to this mountain."
CIA nominee Brennan defends drone strikes, says he doesn't know if waterboarding is effective
WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted confirmation hearing. On a second controversial topic, he said that after reading a classified intelligence report on harsh interrogation techniques, he does not know if waterboarding has yielded useful information.
Despite what he called a public misimpression, Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee that drone strikes are used only against targets planning to carry out attacks against the United States, never as retribution for an earlier one. "Nothing could be further from the truth," he declared.
Referring to one American citizen killed by a drone in Yemen in 2011, he said the man, Anwar al-Alawki, had ties to at least three attacks planned or carried out on U.S. soil. They included the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that claimed 13 lives in 2009, a failed attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner the same year and a thwarted plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010.
"He was intimately involved in activities to kill innocent men women and children, mostly Americans," Brennan said.
In a sign that the hearing had focused intense scrutiny on the drone program, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters after the hearing that she thinks it may be time to lift the secrecy off the program so that U.S. officials can acknowledge the strikes and correct what she said were exaggerated reports of civilian casualties.
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"I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own," he says in an online manifesto. "I'm terminating yours."
Blizzard threatens New York City and New England; 1 to 2 feet of snow feared
BOSTON (AP) -- A blizzard of potentially mammoth proportions threatened to strike the Northeast with a vengeance Friday, with up to 2 feet of snow feared along the densely populated Interstate 95 corridor from the New York City area to Boston and beyond.
From Pennsylvania to Maine, people rushed to stock up on food, shovels and other supplies, and road crews readied salt and sand, halfway through what had been a merciful winter.
Before the first snowflake had even fallen, Boston, Providence, R.I., Hartford, Conn., and other New England cities canceled school Friday, and airlines scratched more than 2,600 flights through Saturday, with the disruptions certain to ripple across the U.S.
Forecasters said this could one for the record books.
"This one doesn't come along every day. This is going to be a dangerous winter storm," said Alan Dunham, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass. "Wherever you need to get to, get there by Friday afternoon and don't plan on leaving."
Boy Scouts face 14 weeks of heavy pressure before planned vote on whether to ease ban on gays
It promises to be a campaign as passionate and dramatic as any big election. For the next 14 weeks, the Boy Scouts of America will be the focus of prayers, petitions and pressure tactics aimed at swaying a vote on whether to ease its ban on gays as Scouts or adult leaders.
The decision will be made the week of May 20 by the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council. The policy was supposed to be settled Wednesday by the Scouts' 70-member national executive board, but the board concluded the issue was so complex that the organization needed more time to study it.
At stake is a proposal to ease the ban by allowing sponsors of local Scout units to decide for themselves whether to admit gays. Gay-rights groups say the plan is inadequate, and that no units should be allowed to discriminate. Some conservative religious leaders and advocacy groups want the ban to stay in place nationwide.
Both sides are girding for intensive lobbying between now and late May, hoping to influence the outcome.
"Keep the pressure on," was the message Thursday from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to its supporters.
Islamic summit urges Syria dialogue even as opposition leader's initiative for talks unravels
CAIRO (AP) -- Leaders at an Islamic summit on Thursday urged a dialogue between the Syrian opposition and regime just as a new initiative for talks proposed by an anti-government leader appeared to be unraveling.
Like previous diplomatic initiatives on Syria, opposition chief Mouaz al-Khatib's call for talks made less than a week ago appeared doomed to failure. And with troops and rebels clashing for a second day around Damascus, frustrated Syrians dismissed the calls for dialogue as empty talk.
"All of this does not concern us," said Iyad, a Syrian fighter on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, which has witnessed heavy fighting in the last two days.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose country is Syria's closest ally in the Middle East, attended the summit and said at a news conference Thursday that he supported dialogue. He added that Egypt, Turkey and Iran were moving toward cooperation on Syria. But he also defended Bashar Assad regime, warning against meddling in the domestic affairs of other countries.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also strongly welcomed al-Khatib's proposal for political talks and expressed hope that Syrian authorities would accept it.
150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth next week, no need to duck for incredibly close approach
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.
But don't worry. Scientists promise the megarock will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday.
"No Earth impact is possible," Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Thursday.
Even the chance of an asteroid-satellite run-in is extremely remote, Yeomans and other scientists noted. A few hundred satellites orbit at 22,300 miles, higher than the asteroid's path, although operators are being warned about the incoming object for tracking purposes.
"No one has raised a red flag, nor will they," Yeomans told reporters. "I certainly don't anticipate any problems whatsoever."
Plight of poor living in cages highlights severe housing need in wealthy Hong Kong
HONG KONG (AP) -- For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage.
The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighborhood.
The cages, stacked on top of each other, measure 1.5 square meters (16 square feet). To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages' wooden planks instead of mattresses.
"I've been bitten so much I'm used to it," said Leung, rolling up the sleeve of his oversized blue fleece jacket to reveal a red mark on his hand. "There's nothing you can do about it. I've got to live here. I've got to survive," he said as he let out a phlegmy cough.
Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks. They're a grim counterpoint to the southern Chinese city's renowned material affluence.
Thigh-high lizard boots and ladylike purple: lots of fall options at start of NY Fashion Week
NEW YORK (AP) -- From delicate purple skirts to thigh-high boots in lizard, New York Fashion Week opened Thursday with an anything goes vibe for fall.
"The trend is freedom," said Max Azria, who sent embroidered tunics, fur outerwear and delicate lingerie-style underpinnings down his runway on the first of eight days of previews.
Richard Chai focused on women's metallic military jackets and slim, ladylike purple skirt suits with man-tailored shirts underneath. Men shared the runway dressed in plaid suits and lean overcoats.
In addition to seasonal greens, berry tones and regal blues popped up on catwalks set up at Lincoln Center and around the city.
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The Sergio Garcia camp obviously has entered full damage control now in light of the perceptively racist comments the Spanish golfer made about serving fried chicken to Tiger Woods should the two dine together during the U.S. Open next month.
A statement previously had been released by Garcia in which he apologized for his fried chicken remarks. Tiger responded on Wednesday morning via Twitter by condemning Garcia's comments, but the firestorm was seemingly set to burn out of control unless Sergio publicly and personally issued a formal apology. So, the decision was made for Garcia to appear at a press conference on Wednesday morning, during which Garcia expressed profound regret for his insensitive and regrettable comments, saying they were "stupid and out of place."
Some highlights from Sergio's statements:
■ On how he felt after making the ill-fated "joke": "As soon as I left the dinner, I started getting a sick feeling in my body. I didn't really sleep at all last night. I felt like my heart was going to come out of my body. I had this sick feeling all day."
■ On how his "fried chicken" commentary was not racially motivated: "It wasn't meant that way. I was caught off-guard by what seemed to be a funny question and tried to give a funny answer that came off totally wrong. I want to make sure that everybody knows that I'm very, very sorry. I can't apologize enough times."
■ On his intent to apologize in person to Tiger Woods: "I'm terribly sorry about what happened, and I'm sure we'll be able to talk soon and I'll apologize to (Woods), face to face."
Garcia certainly sounded sincere during the presser. Hopefully, he meant it and everybody can move on and again focus on what happens on the course instead of the words that are said off of it.
IT'S THE SAME OLD RACIST GARBAGE ALL OVER AGAIN. Obviously Garcia lacks the skill to play the game . But he also lacks class and quality of character. A born loser.
What a joke regarding Sergio. Granted, he is a bit of a hotheaded Spaniard, much like Seve Ballesteros, one of the greatest golfers ever. Sergio will never be another Seve, but to say that he lacks the skill to play the game is LUDICRIOUS!!!
He is another tragic figure whose skill at a sport has given him a stage far greater than his mental capacity.
Sergio's brain can't catch up with his tongue....
Yo! Stop the presses! Since when did food become racist? Or the person saying it. Seriously? We are talking about FOOD. Can we plaaaaleeez stop with all the kneel bending to kiss The Cheetah's ring or would that be his as!@#$%^&s? Sergio was asked a question, he gave a "tongue in cheek" rhetorical reply, for which I see NO problem with. What would have happened if Sergio said, "ham & cabbage" or "eggs & grits"? Saying "fried chicken" doesn't make it a racist statement! Anymore than saying, a "happy meal" from Micky's D's! Oh, I get it....you all think because the Cheetah is 1/2 black, that "fried chicken" is a racist comment! Geez, I'm sure glad Sergio didn't say "rommen noodles" or "shrimp fried rice." Give it a break, the tour, the media, earth's populace need to STOP treating this spoiled, entitled, cheating, Stanford brat like he isn't a mere mortal. Ernest "tiger" Woods has been a pampered prince since his 2yr old debut on the Mike Douglas show. This chump expects people to kneel down & kiss his tour card. For once, it's nice to see someone who would like to smack the spit out of tiger's mouth. Sergio may not be #1 in the world, but,for a brief Sawgrass moment, right up to the 71st hole, Garcia gave all of us a peak into his can of WHOOPAS@#$%^&*S he had with Tiger's name on it! ')
Seriously......Take a f*****g look at McDonalds/Wendy's/Burger King. Every commercial going has a black family in it eating chicken. To be politically correct for the United States you must have black....OOOPS...colored.....OOOPS, African Americans in commercials. Get A grip people, so he said serve chicken big deal, wash it down with some watermelon and Koolaid when your done.
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