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Dawnguard Diaries: Plight of the Lizard Wizard
Lacertus the Argonian mage was a legend, once: Skyrim's greatest dragon slayer, leader of the Dark Brotherhood, arch-mage of Winterhold, and mammoth liberator. That was a long time ago. The great Lizard Wizard had long since gone into retirement, enjoying quiet solitude sorting and resorting his potions into a single (surprisingly spacious) chest at his home in Breezewood.
But recently, I had heard whispers of a new faction. City officers would speak of the Dawnguard gathering its forces again. Clearly, it was time to add a new title to my resume, and to take up the mantle of Lacertus once more.
With my trusty assassin bodyguard in tow, I approached the headquarters of the Dawnguard. A rather unimpressive stone building, it was clearly a matter of form over function. I'm not sure if my reputation preceded me, or if they simply ask any wandering lizard to take on important missions, but I was asked almost immediately if I could check out Dimhollow Crypt for them. Why, that doesn't sound creepy at all! I'd certainly love to do this favor for you, person I just met!
Oh, the plight of the wandering adventurer.
And so, it was off to the crypt, where I was promptly greeted by vampires, all of whom wanted to kill me. They probably should have thought this plan through, though, since they each died by fire. Once I made it to the central chamber, I found a set of glowing pedestals and a structure in the middle. It was all an elaborate puzzle to seal in a stone coffin. This is where I met Serana, who seemed like a nice enough vampire--at least in comparison to the ones who had just been trying to kill me. Sure, she's an evil denizen of the night, but as the leader of an assassin's guild I don't have much moral high-ground when it comes to killing people.
Serana needed help out of Dimhollow Crypt and back to her manor, and I was happy to oblige. That's just what wandering adventurers do. After being stuck in the cave for longer than I care to admit (thanks for pointing me in the precise wrong direction, Clairvoyance spell) I battled my way out. Though, to be perfectly honest, I didn't have to do much of the battling. A bodyguard assassin, a vampire princess, and her conjured warriors tend to make a pretty potent mixture of butt-kickery.
I guided Serana to the opulent Volkihar Keep--how had I not noticed that before?--and she mentioned that I should probably just keep quiet and not cause a fuss. You know, what with my association with a group of famed vampire hunters and all. As far as "guess who's coming to dinner" moments, a Dovahkiin in league with the Dawnguard is probably among the more awkward. Despite her warning, it didn't take long before I was confronted by Harkon, her father and leader of the vampire clan.
Harkon was so appreciative of his daughter's return that he offered me a choice. Join his clan as a Vampire Lord, or refuse the offer and be considered an enemy of the vampires forever. He'd let me walk out with my life this time, but I'd never set foot inside again. This moral dilemma stymied me. On the one hand, these vampires seemed perfectly nice, especially Serana, and having vampire powers sounds appealing. On the other hand, they prey on humans, and I have nothing in particular against humans. I grappled with this for, literally, seconds! Which to choose?
The answer, obviously, was both.
Shacknews' ongoing Dawnguard Diaries follow Steve Watts' journey through Skyrim's "Dawnguard" downloadable content. It was played on a retail Xbox 360 copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, with a DLC code provided by the publisher.
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DUDE, summer is halfway over, but I've kind of been feeling like it couldn't really start until the first No Doubt single dropped. What can I say, I never claimed to be not-obsessed with pop music! It's called "Settle Down" and the video was directed by the incredible (and Shakespeares Sister BFF) Sophie Muller. It's brilliant and in trademark No Doubt fashion smashes styles that you'd never think to pair before.
Now it's been over a decade since we've gotten a new album outta Gwen, Tony, Adrian and Tom – so needless to say Push and Shove's arrival on September 25th can't come fast enough! Also do yourself a favor and watch it full screen. PS #SPIDERWEBS4evs
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CLEVELAND -- The man convicted of imprisoning three women in his Cleveland home for a decade while he repeatedly beat and raped them says he isn't a monster.
Ariel Castro says he's sick and addicted to pornography. He says he didn't even plan the first kidnapping.
He says he knows that he was "100 percent wrong."
He spoke during his sentencing hearing Thursday where a judge could order him to serve life in prison plus 1,000 years.
The 53-year-old Castro pleaded guilty last week to 937 counts including two charges of aggravated murder related to one act of forcing one of his victims to miscarry.
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3/26 UPDATE: Frederick Charles Witt, 57, was arrested at his home in the 1000 block of West Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk on charges of robbery and attempted robbery.
Police say his arrest came about 10 hours after the Wells Fargo robbery.
VIRGINIA BEACH- A manhunt is underway in Virginia Beach for a man who robbed one bank and tried to rob another just blocks from each other on Shore Drive.
Police say around 10:30 AM Tuesday morning, the suspect entered the Wells Fargo Bank branch at 2821 Shore Drive, demanded money from a teller, and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
40 minutes earlier, dispatchers received a call about the attempted robbery of the BB&T Bank branch at 2993 Shore Drive.
In the BB&T robbery, the suspect is described as a white male, 30-40 years old, 5'9, 175 pounds, dark hair, wearing a pinstripe suit jacket and pants. He is believed to be driving a dark colored Jeep 4-door SUV.
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A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial testing the effects of acupuncture on allergic rhinitis : Acupuncture : Chinese Medicine Times
Active acupuncture showed a significantly greater effect on symptoms of allergic rhinitis than either sham acupuncture or no active treatment. The symptoms of allergic rhinitis decreased significantly after treatment in the both acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups. Acupuncture appears to be an effective and safe treatment for allergic rhinitis."
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Pierre Boulez conducting the final movement of Janáček's Sinfonietta.
One of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century - "teacher" of Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones, Piazzolla, Michel Legrand, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Markevitch, Dinu Lipatti, Ginette Neveu and so many more… - teaching Emile Naoumoff at age 10.
Unbeknownst to many, there is piano literature by Stravinsky other than Petrouchka. And it's fucking good.
Stravinsky and Diaghilev spewing absurdities in the BBC film Riot at the Rite. Almost as hilarious as When Nietzsche Wept.
"I've always had my suspicions about Stravinsky: he makes Proust look like a docker."
Ain't it the truth? (From La Pianiste)
You know Mahler is fucking boss when you see a chunk of wood flying from the impact of one of the hammer strokes during his sixth symphony.
Leonard Bernstein was a great conductor, but he was perhaps more importantly a public intellectual, a master teacher who brought into view for so many the conditions for really listening well in an age when the relevance of art is becoming less and less and in greater need of rescue and reinvention. His genius was in bringing music to others not as mere cultural currency but rather as gift, without condescension but with passion and empathy, all the while staying true to the seriousness of a musician. Three cheers to Leonard Bernstein on his birthday.
String chamber music is a genre entirely of its own and, in my opinion, one of the few genres which came to fruition only with the Romantic composers. I am thinking of Beethoven's late quartets, Mendelssohn's Octet, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet, Dvorak's 2nd piano quintet, and here, Schumann's piano quintet.
What is particular to the string chamber music is its intimacy - the sort of intimacy you get when, say, your piano teacher puts their hand on top of yours and guides you through a phrase. You can actually feel the musicians speaking to each other, gazing into each other - it's something you can't really find in other forms.
The way each player eyes the other, in which a single voice can burst forward and make itself known and then fade back just as quickly - that is the great sensuous beauty of chamber music - to reveal the beauty of each line in resonant counterpoint.
Maria João Pires plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 under Gardiner.
Gardiner has fronted some of the more tolerable period performance interpretations of baroque and classical music - and here he's fronting one of the more tolerable [basically] period performance ensembles, the Vienna Philharmonic. Long strides since, say, Harnoncourt's tedious (but admirable) reproductions of old. And while Pires isn't exactly extroverted here - her playing is definitely pure and touching.
Bach was not a classical composer. He was a baroque composer.I understand the need to use the term "classical music" as a blanket term, but it irks me. It irks me.
Why is this bothersome? Categories are meant only to differentiate - and for some lay listeners, the difference between baroque and classical is not only unintelligible but irrelevant. They don't know or really be interested in homophonic/polyphonic forms, figured bass, ornamentation, etc. Now I don't think there's anything contemptuous about this — it's useful to differentiate, say, between a "classical" and, say, a jazz composer. For some "baroque" vs. "classical" is as pointless as someone insisting that Marilyn Manson is not in fact goth music because it irks them that someone would dare put Manson in the same category with Bauhaus.
Besides, there's a world of difference between Lully and Rameau and Bach and Purcell - does it make sense to group them together? There's also really nothing "baroque" about Karajan performing the Brandenberg Concertos or Horowitz performing the Scarlatti sonatas or Argerich performing the Bach Partitas. But why the fuss?
"Playing and studying Bach convinces us that we are all numskulls." - Robert Schumann
Lazar Berman - known most widely as a "technician" characteristic of the Russian School - plays the hell out of this Chopin Polonaise.
This spirited performance of Shostakovich's piano quintet belongs in the comedy category of youtube. Argerich is in her own little world; Joshua Bell looks like he's constipated; Maisky like he just came from a Melvins concert. There's this funny moment where Kraggerud comes up a little flat and Bashmet responds with a seemingly confused gaze.
The quintet itself is a masterpiece of Shostakovich's early period. It is simple, clear, balanced and accessible, which perhaps accounts for its enormous popularity after its premiere in 1940. Written in the midst of the Second World War, the quintet may be said to be some expression of the traumatic upheaval of that era. I eschew making such violently contextualizing claims, e.g. that such-and-such "reflected the zeitgeist" of the time, etc." Certainly Shostakovich was one of the most politically attuned composers of all time — but I'll just let Rostislav Dubinsky of the Borodin Quartet speak for me:
"For a time the Quintet overshadowed even such events as the football matches between the main teams. The Quintet was discussed in trams, people tried to sing in the streets the second defiant theme of the finale. War that soon started completely changed the life of the country as well as the consciousness of the people. If previously there was the faint hope of a better life, and the hope that the 'sacrifices' of the revolution were not in vain, this hope was never to return. The Quintet remained in the consciousness of the people as the last ray of light before the future sank into a dark gloom."
Leonard Bernstein conducting the final choral movement of Mahler's 2nd, "Resurrection." Legendary.
"Mr. Gershwin, music is music."
-Alban Berg.
Earl Wild's transcription of Mr. Gershwin's "Embraceable You."


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Add Orb TV to the list of devices that is attempting to bring the web to the TV. The Oakland, Calif.-based company launched the product on Thursday — a hockey puck shaped object (pictured on the left) that promises to deliver all sorts of content available on the Internet straight to your TV.
Orb TV is selling for $99 (purchased only through its website) and can help you find any show regardless of the source including content from Hulu, YouTube and CBS or from your computer like photos, according to Orb TV. Users control the device through a smartphone app and can search simply by typing in a show like "Glee."
"Our belief is that the evolution of digital media has been stymied," said Orb TV CEO Joe Costello. "The whole premise it that it should be enjoyed anywhere, anytime and to make it simple. The last part hasn't happened."
Sound familiar? Of course it does because Orb TV is going up against several other device makers, including Roku, Boxee, Apple TV and Google TV, in a race to dominate the living room in much the same way.
Costello said that Orb has a couple of advantages over the competitors in that the device lets people view anything you can get for free on the Internet on the TV. "We can't be shut down," Costello said. Several broadcasters, including CBS, ABC, NBC and Hulu have blocked their content from appearing on Google TV for example. (Check out NYT tech columnist David Pogue's devastating review of Google TV here.)


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"People call me successful. I'll call myself successful when the business is running without me. I'll be just sitting under a palm tree reading the reports." June certainly fits my definition of a successful entrepreneur, if not her own. She opened her first salon in 1995 and has expanded to three Acapello Salons and the Men's Room, with a total of 40 staff members. Her business has won national and local recognition. Acapello has been one of the Salon Today's (Vance Publishing) Top 200 salons in America for the last two years, and has just won a local "Best of the Best" business award for the fifth consecutive year. June plans to expand to still more locations where the market needs the exceptional quality her salons provide.
She is an industry expert, a technical expert, and a business expert. With the growth of her business, she has realized that she cannot be the only expert. June has hired top quality "partners" with great potential. It made sense to her to mentor her employees to realize their various potentials. She has recently shifted the structure of her business to develop selected staff members to become effective mentors themselves. June says "It motivates me as much as the new coaches to see how quickly they grow."
June is an accomplished mentee, as well as mentor. She uses the Aveda organization to continue her own learning, which she brings back to the staff. She connects with owners of other larger and more successful salons for inspiration and guidance. She still turns to her original mentor, with whom she has worked for years. He has helped her most by asking direct and simplifying questions. She talked about a time when she was waffling about opening a salon in Scarborough, Maine. She approached and walked away from the idea three times, then asked for his help. She says "He asked me if I wanted to grow my business. I said 'yes.' Then he asked me if I could do it in my current space. I said 'no.' Suddenly, the choice was clear. He cut through the complications I'd created, and I knew exactly what to do. I opened the new salon. He never tells me what to do, even though he is an extremely successful expert. He just asks questions."
Until recently, each Acapello and Men's Room location had a manager, but the role seemed heavy for people who gravitate towards artistry and guest service. They have been trained in cosmetology, not business management, and the manager structure ceased to make sense. June would have had to hire "managers" from outside her organization. Instead, she transformed the leader role to one of "salon coach." Individuals applied for the coach jobs, and were carefully selected according to their strengths and aspirations. June says "The goal is to get everyone to where they want to be. I partner with people who want to be successful."


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Color Crazy: Ten Vibrant Kitchens to Shake Up Your Style
Tired of white, gray, and steel kitchens? Okay, maybe not — but if you just want to take a visual vacation and walk on the wild side of kitchen design, we've pulled together ten tantalizing kitchens that will brighten your day. From jungle green to burnt orange to piercing teal, these spaces simply resonate with color.
1. Bright green cabinets complement nature's green outside. From Dwell.
2. This coral and seafoam kitchen is airy, vibrant, and relaxed — and right at home in its Florida locale. From This Old House.
3. From bright teal to jungle green, this open kitchen pulls in lots of brave colors for a fun feel. From Better Homes and Gardens.
4. This small kitchen in a sculptor's bungalow is simple and rustic, but exploding with color and personality. From Martha Stewart.
5. Varying shades of turquoise and a punch of green bring some playful warmth to a lot of stainless steel and tall ceilings. From Design*Sponge.
6. Pink, yellow, and blue — and a fish, a star, and lots of colorful mugs — make this kitchen in its "New Orleans" color palette a welcoming place to be. From Apartment Therapy.
7. This little kitchen just exudes warmth; wood and orange and red tones all blend together to balance the stark white of the cabinets. From James Braund via Desire to Inspire.
8. Balancing old and new — a china collection on a daringly colored column — gives this kitchen a modern twist on an old-world feel. From Casa e Jardim.
9. This kitchen resides in a home that's in a remodeled toy factory — hot pink, yellow, and purples enliven a tall, bright space. From Marie Claire Maison.
10. Glistening tiled backsplash? Yellow striped ceiling? Shiny red cabinet? Cute little dog? This kitchen meets all of those expectations! From California Home Design.
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I love color, but yuck. Just, yuck.
Wow! A couple of these are beautiful! The green kitchen is fantastic!!
Oh rats. I wanted to like these -- my favorite kitchen was canary yellow, and my second was a comfortable dark green. And I'm holding off on redecorating my current kitchen until I talk my husband around to brighter colors than its current slate blue & dark oak.
But I don't. The only kitchens pictured that seem really livable are #7 and #10. Possibly #9, but it's hard to tell with the hyper-white lighting. I like the idea of #1 & #2 -- but the specific green (#1) and coral (#2) would be overpowering before coffee. The others are simply such hodge-podges that I don't get it.
Admittedly, I don't get a lot of modern art either -- so if you like it, go for it. But please don't be surprised if you go to sell the house and someone asks you to "fix the kitchen" before buying. Sorry. :(
I'm in love with the second kitchen. Still trying to figure out how to build a plate rack for my kitchen window!
oh, no. i admire the bravery but i dont want to see these at 7 a.m. or 7 p.m.
Bright colors in a kitchen makes a bold intellectual design statement, what what about creating a space that feels welcoming for cooking and chatting over a meal with friends and family. We know that red stimulates our hunger and blue dulls our appetites.Overly stimulating color schemes trigger loud conversation and restlessness. Great for fast food restaurants but not what we want in our homes. Color is about more than look, it creates a feeling in a space.
Some of these are gorgeous. A few look like they were designed by Peewee Herman. The first one turns me off the most. It looks over this beautiful outdoor space but all I see is acid green cabinets. Too much.
I could never do this myself (I doubt I could do a monochrome kitchen, either), but they're interesting to see. I think the bright, blocky colors make many of them look younger, except #2.
I really don't get #1. With all that greenery outside, wouldn't any other color have been a better choice?
Aside from the first one (which I find a bit scary) I'm actually liking the rest. My favorite is no. 4 :)
I also like number 4. Buttery yellow and vintage-looking appliances look so quaint. Love that sink too by the way.
I like color but in small doses. I found most of these to be too kindergartenish. I agree with ALLB -- not at 7 a.m. or 7 p.m.!
Some of these remind me of the commune-style houses of the late hippie era (I suppose it now goes under the moniker Bohemian). I think it's had it's day.
When I think bold color for a kitchen, I think of modern...lacquer cabinet doors, strong shapes...clean design.
I had a really guttural reaction to the first one - so much so, that it forced me to take time to figure out why. I love color, and the idea of using that much intensity doesn't bother me. I think the problem is that it's green. It ends up making the view look dull and ugly, instead of complementing it. I'm assuming they wanted to highlight the view judging by all those huge plates of glass looking out...
They should choose a color that allows the hillside to hold its own. Maybe purple or orange?
That first one made me think of the kitchen from this post, which was awesome. Its green is a less intense sea green, and the cabinets were colored with stain instead of laminate, so there's still something very natural about it.
I actually really like #9. I'm probably the only one. I just love the wooden drawers.
I like #9 too...except for the pink curtain and yellow chair. 2, 4 and (sort of) 6 are nice too. I don't know why but I really dig 2 and 4, though if I lived in kitchen 4 the rickety-ness and lack of counter space would make me nuts. 2 I think I could live with. I love that the fridge is up so you don't have to bend so far for the freezer.
@Tiffanyseattle, I think what kills that design is the insipid blue counter and backsplash. If they had gone with an organic, earthy color -- a limestone or slate-gray quartz, for instance -- it would have related the green to the outdoors and would have made the entire room calm down ( and made it more sophisticated, too). As it is, the green reads as acid and is too aggressive for the setting.
I love these! I'm always nervous with color myself but these are really great!
The first one gave me a headache BUT the rest make me so sad and wish I had been a little more risky in color choices!!!
The biggest thing throwing me off more than any color is the two refrigerators in #8.
A colorful kitchen doesn't need to be a hangover inducer (I'm looking at you, #1).
I think 2, 4, and 7 are the ones that work best because there's a good balance of bright colors with other colors that are being used as neutrals (white, wood, blue, buttery yellow). Even in the 2nd photo, there is a lot of blue but the blue is serene rather than bold, and it balances the orange very nicely. And in the 4th photo, there's a lot of bold blue but the yellow brings it back to earth.
The ones that I didn't like all have very bold, jarring colors that just kind of too active. It's not as clear where your eye should be settling.
Glad to see AT is back on track today, articles about design, what a concept!
I have a TINY kitchen. It's always had white walls, because I thought it would make it look bigger and I was afraid of bright colors in such a small space. It had rental-type cheap beige cabinets, which I currently can't afford to replace. But I decided to take a plunge. I painted one of the walls a beautiful salmon (Olympic "Scrumptious"). The ceiling is white, the other walls a very pale yellow. I painted the cabinets white. I have very colorful accents in there (which look beautiful on the salmon) and now the kitchen not only looks a bit bigger, it's such a cheery place! I say you have nothing to lose trying some bright colors to shake things up. It's been over a year and I'm still loving the color.
I love these! Except #1, which actually made me sit back in my chair. But then, by 7 a.m., I've been up for a WHILE, and if I'm not up for color, I just work out in the dark.
I suppose this is my punishment for having complained about the many sterile all-white or all-gray kitchens. OK, AT wins, and I'll say it: Even though I love bright colors, I'd rather have all-white than #1 or #5. I could probably live with most of the rest (and I love the ceiling in #10), but the first one looks like a science fiction mystery where the murder weapon is the color green.
I want to like these b/c I like pops of colour in rooms, but something is missing for me here. Maybe it's just not my taste.
Is that a yellow and white striped ceiling in the last one? Love that idea! There are so many places that could be applied!!
Clearly the Memphis style revival is upon us.
I like #2 and #4, probably because I like (non-neon) color AND vintage. Also a fan of tongue&groove ceilings and painted floors.
I'm surprised at how polarized the responses seem - most people seem to love them or hate them. IMO, some of them are amazing, but I like colour.
Oh, I love these so much! LOVE that green! I get why people would say it's overwhelming, but to me it's just exciting and energizing.
I like a pop of colour but most of these kitchens have too much. There are too many clashes and it would give me a headache clapping my eyes on these first thing in the morning. Everything looks so disjointed and thrown together. Just not restful enough for me. Shudder!
Wow I love color but yuck, just yuck is right. I actually like #1 the most but it would probably work using any color... except purple and possibly that color they actually chose. #3 is so revolting to me I wouldn't know where to start.
I love number 1, and I once had kitchen cabinets that colour (with black formica counters!) I think it that pale counter and backsplash do not complement the vibrant colour well, it would look better with stainless steel or concrete IMO.
I truly love them all! It's a nice change from the typical kitchen. The color gives the space a happy feeling and uniqueness. Happy to see a "thinking outside the box" kind of space.
Tess3 is pretty much telling my story, too. I love this post. I'm envious of the large windows and high ceilings in most of the kitchens, but the color lessons inspire regardless. Maybe this will be the summer of change for my kitchen walls & cheap cabinets.
That first one has some serious WAPOW! Gorgeous.
I like color, so these don't scare me off at all. Some I like more than others... but thats what makes the world interesting. It's almost the same with automobiles these days...very few people are willing to take a risk on something other than black, white or silver/grey. Shame since there just such common colors any more.
So liking color means you also like really cluttered?
I like the color but its too lighter.Just add something to make it good.
Wow, thanks for making me feel a little more daring in my own quest for a beautiful kitchen. So many possibilities!


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Sometimes, all you can do is wallow in misery. With bright spots hard to detect in the wake of the Ravens' 43-13 loss in Houston on Sunday, the mind instead turned to a grimmer question: Where did the defeat rank among the worst regular-season beatings the team has absorbed in its 17 seasons in Baltimore? So without further ado, here they are -- the 10 most brutal non-playoff losses in Ravens history, with score, season context and opponent all taken into account.
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The Ravens still fancied themselves contenders with a 4-3 record heading into this nationally televised showdown in Pittsburgh. But thoughts of the playoffs evaporated as they managed just 104 yards and turned the ball over four times. This was the second of nine straight losses that ultimately cost coach Brian Billick his job.
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"I oppose the legislation as written. I support a balanced approach that controls spending and increases revenue. This bill is business as usual in Washington and does nothing to deal with the real fiscal cliff, our 16.4 trillion dollar deficit.
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Yields 10 to 12 Servings
1 butternut squash
2 Granny Smith apples
1 small white onion
2 T. butter or canola oil
½ qt. apple cider
1 qt. chicken stock
¼ c. brown sugar
2 T. honey
¼ to ½ t. cinnamon (depends on your love of cinnamon)
¼ c. cream
salt to taste
Peel and de-seed the butternut squash. Cut squash and apples it into ½ inch cubes. Dice the onion. In a 4 qt. sauce pot, heat the oil on medium high heat and sauté the onions until they are translucent. Add the squash and apples and sauté for about 2 minutes. Add the apple cider and chicken stock. Turn the heat up to high and bring to a boil. Once it is boiling, reduce the heat to a simmer and allow the squash to cook until tender. When your squash is tender and will mash with a fork, add in the sugar, honey and cinnamon. Let this cook for another 5 minutes until the sugar has completely dissolved. Remove from the heat and puree the mixture. You can use a hand held blender or a traditional blender. Be careful; this is very hot and you do not want to splash the liquid onto your skin. Once you have pureed the soup, place it back over low heat and add the cream. Stir and adjust the seasonings with a bit of salt. You can add more cinnamon, honey or sugar at this point if you would like.
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Please join ASSE in opposing the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2012 budget elimination of two significant NIOSH activities - the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF) Program and Educational Research Centers (ERCs). ASSE's letter to leaders of Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Committees focused on the importance of these programs to ASSE members, the safety of workers and US competitiveness and the failure of the Administration to make a case for eliminating support for AFF and ERCs in its budget justification. Justification for cutting AFF support was based on a National Academies review of the program was misunderstood, according to the experts who conducted the review in their own letter to Chairman Harkin. Cutting ERC support was based on the conclusion that the "goals of the program have been met," which ASSE refuted in its letter.
Congress needs to hear from safety and health professionals about the importance of NIOSH and these programs. As the only meaningful resource for occupational safety and health research and educational support, NIOSH deserves every ASSE member's support. The need to support the AFF program, which supports research into keeping workers safe in jobs with some of the highest fatality and injury rates, is obvious. While it is well recognized that the ERCs do not do enough safety education and training in some members' view, having no ERCs will not result in more safety professionals, only less.
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Chicago bans texting while bicycling
Luckily a ticket for violating the new law won't affect your car insurance rates.
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The City Council has extended its ban on texting to bicyclists, and it wants them to use hands-free devices as well. The law, adopted today, goes into effect next month.
Alderman Margaret Laurino sponsored the ban and says it "levels the playing field between motorists and bicyclists."
Proposed fines would start as low as $20 and increase for subsequent tickets. If the rider is involved in an accident, the fine could reach $500. The city said bicyclists were involved in more than 1,600 crashes in 2010, and five were killed. The city issued 19,701 citations to drivers for cellphone violations.
The Chicago law is the first we've seen that specifically addresses the use of cellphones by bicyclists, though California Gov. Jerry Brown last month vetoed a similar measure.
Several states do extend many motor vehicle laws to bicycles. In some cities, it's not uncommon for bicyclists to be ticketed for failure to obey a stop sign, for riding while intoxicated, even for speeding.
While the temptation for most riders would be to frame the citation (we've seen tickets for an impressive 60 mph in a 40 mph zone), it's wiser to pay it. The fines are real, and so are the penalties for nonpayment. Post continues after video.
What the tickets won't do, generally, is affect your car insurance rates.
In most states, tickets that you accrue while riding a bicycle would not be reflected on your state motor vehicle record (though you should check closely to make sure that the ticket acknowledges that you were on a bike, not driving a car). Even if they did appear, few insurers are penalizing drivers for cellphone tickets. Yet. (See "The mixed message on cellphone use.")
Nine states and Washington, D.C., ban use of handheld cellphones by automobile drivers, and 34 states and D.C. currently ban texting from the wheel. Texting tickets for drivers typically start at $100 for a first offense.
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It bloody ought to increase your car insurance! And risk the texter losing the bicycle license that (non-child) riders should be required to have.
Texting while operating any vehicle is evolution (if you're stupid enough to text while riding a bike, you are too stupid to contribute to the gene pool, so get out), and while I see no need to protect texters from themselves, we do need to protect innocent bystanders.
Texting while riding, driving or any other activity which carries risk is laughable and foolish.
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- Wash mint leaves, pat dry and put them in a small mixing bowl. Cover with 3 ounces of Bulleit Bourbon and let soak for 15 minutes.
Remove mint, then place them in a clean cotton cloth and wring over bowl, bruising the leaves. Dip back into bourbon and wring again. Repeat several times to create mint extract. Set extract aside for 1 hour. You can also put the leaves back in the extract for a more concentrated mint flavor.
Combine mint extract (leaves included, if preferred) with simple syrup (1 cup sugar and 1 cup water) in a covered glass container or jar and refrigerate overnight.
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The Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence program provides artists of exceptional talent with uninterrupted time and creative space to research and create new work. Lasting four weeks (or a possible eight weeks for ceramic artists), residencies provide artists with private studio space within a community of peers and the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony. Artists are invited to participate in open studios, work-shares, communal dinners and field trips, or may spend their residency working in the creative solitude of a private studio. Byrdcliffe's residencies are particularly beneficial to those who find it restorative to live in a simple, communal environment in close proximity to natural beauty.
Surrounded by the Catskill Mountains and just west of the Hudson River, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony is home to over 80 artists each year, fifty of whom are hosted by the Artist in Residence Program. Beyond the AIR program, the Colony is comprised of more than a dozen artist cottages, the Byrdcliffe Theater, the Byrdcliffe Barn, a tennis court and the Mt. Guardian hiking trail, as well as the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts which is located in the center of Woodstock. Byrdcliffe hosts a regular schedule of artist talks, exhibitions, concerts, theater productions and guided hikes, most of which are year-round. Public events allow artists the opportunity to connect with the community at large. At Byrdcliffe creative time is sacrosanct, and artists are given free rein to decide what activities will contribute to their residency experience. Byrdcliffe offers a unique experience in simplicity of living amid the natural beauty of a 250 acre campus of protected fields and woodland. At the same time, Byrdcliffe provides the opportunity to live in a community of creative people of all ages and backgrounds who are dedicated to honoring the creative spirit.
The main criterion for acceptance to Byrdcliffe's AIR program is artistic excellence and a demonstrated commitment to one's field of endeavor. Byrdcliffe seeks to pull together artists from varying perspectives and demographics, engaging in a broad range of artistic practices. Emerging as well as established artists are invited to apply.
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Downside is containable
I just don't think investors are willing to see another big slide without jumping in.
By Jim Cramer, TheStreet
You always need to fret when the S&P 500's proprietary oscillator breaches five, and when it soared to six and change after Friday's session I marveled that it could have gotten there so fast. Of course, a couple of weeks when the S&P roars 3% will do it every time, especially when a lot of it came when no one expected it.
But how worried should we be? Now that we have seen the fourth quarter of so many companies -- a quarter that got stronger throughout the market -- it's not clear that the worry includes more than a fear that a 15 multiple on future earnings might go to 14, with 13 always a possibility but not a likelihood when you consider that so many estimates are based on the economy continuing to stumble along both here and in Europe, the latter being a source of weakness for just about every company.
What really struck me, though, is how low the multiple is for so much of tech. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) had one of the best quarters out there and it is selling for 11 times earnings, for heaven's sake. What is that all about? With more than $2.5 billion in stock bought back and a positive outlook for so many of the company's businesses, I find that multiple unfathomable. But Intel (INTC) and IBM (IBM) have very similar multiples and these companies are throwing off cash and coming off remarkable quarters too.
Sure, companies such as 3M (MMM) and United Technologies (UTX) at 15 and 14 times earnings perhaps deserve a shade lower, but they are more cyclical and they are more Asian and they are coming back faster.
Whole ends of this market seem out of whack with the improvement in the world's economies and the pumped-up nature of our own nation's financial health. Our banks are trading at the same level they were when they were considered barely able to pass the stress tests, with the best ones actually lower or about the same as where the secondaries were to pay back TARP. Does anyone really think that things are worse than then, especially with the decline in the rate of foreclosures? Of course, the usual caveats: workouts, tax break on purchase, lower rates. But one must ask, OK, are any of these equal to a point tick down in unemployment? I don't think so.
Should we be fretting about the collective 9 multiple in the oils, with Exxon (XOM) being the standout at 11? Isn't Exxon always the standout, beloved despite its slow growth and low dividend? With yield support and actual growth in reserves, the group's not dangerous.
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Natural gas could be dangerous, but the bid underneath that comes from foreign oil companies wanting to drill here and the inevitable huge growth in reserves makes them less dangerous when you consider that natural gas prices are low. What happens if they go to $6? Of course they are kept down by a surfeit of domestic gas and the future ridiculous superfluous imports of liquefied natural gas. Call me less concerned than most.
The consumer product "safety" stocks are hanging at their usual 16 times earnings level. Even in a cyclical boom they aren't going to trade through 14 times earnings if history is the judge. Most of the drug stocks continue to trade in a band of 8 to 12 times earnings, and even though they will be hobbled by a strong dollar they don't seem to have far to fall. Let's see what happens with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) after the Avandia revelations in The New York Times. But do you fear Pfizer (PFE) at 8 times earnings? And yes, I am well aware of the generic threat. You want real low valuations? How about Gilead (GILD) at 13, Cephalon (CEPH) at 11? Sure Celgene's (CELG) at 22 times, which I find overvalued vs. Gilead, but Revlimid's the hottest drug out there.
Retail? The best, like Ross (ROST) and TJX (TJX) -- and by best I mean the most consistent -- are at 13 times earnings. I am not a buyer of Nordstrom (JWN) at 18 times earnings, but is Coach (COH) at 16 times that outrageous, even though my hedge fund friends say it is? They are shorting it. That seems a bit dicey to me.
Yes, Home Depot (HD) and Lowe's (LOW) weighing in at 19 times makes for worry. And I sweat about Kohl's (KSS) at 16 because there isn't all that much there in terms of growth. The sector's not thrilling. But it's not dangerous, either.
Lots of other sectors need a strong worldwide economy, from auto and aerospace to steel and lumber, but I think we'll get it -- and in the meantime, costs have been taken out radically so upside exists.
If you bet against the industrial sector, you end up shorting an Eaton (ETN), a Cooper (CBE) or an Emerson (EMR). Good luck.
So, we are overbought. So, we could get hit on any number of President Obama's lashings. I just question the downside here and question whether people are willing to have another 8% slide without jumping in earlier.
Maybe that's the most wishful of thinking because if you recall there were no bids underneath when the market was cascading, and it stopped only when people recognized that the earnings weren't that bad and that President Obama couldn't roll the Congress anymore with the Massachusetts outcome (although he sure tried with his tempestuous Volcker Rule lash-out on capital).
After all, we were able to withstand the discount-rate increase, which truly signals the beginning of the rate rises, which I think will come in lock step with the employment gains I am expecting.
I just think that the downside from working off the overbought nature is containable barring the usual threats from exogenous events overseas that cannot be gamed or stopped in the usual peril of our times.
At the time of publication, Cramer was long Intel, Gilead, Home Depot and Cooper Industries.
Jim Cramer is co-founder and chairman of TheStreet. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO.
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