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Coral Deira - Dubai is strategically located in the commercial hub of Dubai within easy reach of main business establishments and leisure districts. With its impressive facade, this elegant hotel dominates Al Muraqqabat Street and is merely 10 minutes drive from Dubai International Airport, minutes away from the legendary Dubai gold and s...Visit Website
With two banquet halls and two meeting rooms, Coral Deira - Dubai provides exceptional conference and banqueting facilities. All the latest audiovisual conferencing equipment is available to guests as well as a well-equipped business centre. In addition, the hotel offers special packages tailor-made to suit your corporate requirements. The service is enthusiastic and professional. Each member of the team is well trained to anticipate your every need.
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- Al Jalsa (27.3 m2)
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Al Muraqqabat Street, Deira
P.O. Box 82999, Dubai - UAE
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Coral Al Khoory Hotel Apartments boasts an unbeatable location in the hub of 'new Dubai', just 30 minutes from Dubai International Airport, 10 minutes from the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre and walking distance from Metro Station, the famous Mall of the Emirates & Ski Dubai. Featuring a comprehensive ran...Visit Website
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Sheikh Zayed Road - Al Barsha
P.O. Box 6237, Dubai - UAE
Tel + 97145153232
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Whether you seek the tranquility of the sea or the dynamic bustle of a modern city, Coral Beach Resort - Sharjah is ideally located to offer both. Merely 15-minutes from Sharjah International Airport and 45-minutes from Dubai International Airport, the deluxe resort is perfect choice for discerning business and leisure travellers. Ajman P...Visit Website
The Coral Beach Resort - Sharjah is the perfect venue for hi-profile corporate conferences, meetings and business events. The hotel offers fully serviced conference rooms and state-of-the-art technology to make your events successful. Included in the facilities is a range of audio-visual equipment. Our dedicated conference planner will ensure the arrangements are tailored to suit your needs.
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P.O. Box 5524, Sharjah - UAE
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Merely 15-minutes from Sharjah International Airport and 45-minutes from Dubai International Airport, Coral Beach Resort Villas, Sharjah are perfectly located to explore the leisure and commercial hubs of both Sharjah and Ajman. The property offers easy access to heritage delights of the city too including the traditional souks and museum...Visit Website
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P.O. Box 5524, Sharjah - UAE
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Dhahran Street is the main thoroughfare that connects key cities in the Eastern Province and is the gateway for the UAE and Qatar to Saudi Arabia. Al Ahsa is within close proximity of all other GCC countries as well. Strategically located on Dhahran Street in Al Mubarraz City of Al Ahsa, Coral Plaza Al Ahsa is a beautiful hotel decorated ...Visit Website
Coral Plaza Al Ahsa boasts three multifunctional rooms fully equipped with updated A/V equipments and latest technology. Whether you are planning a meeting, conference, wedding or any other special gathering, Coral Plaza Al Ahsa is the perfect venue for a successful event. The meeting rooms can accommodate up to 400 people and are versatile enough to be tailored to any requirements. Our highly trained and professional team is on hand to assist you.
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King Fahd Street
P.O. Box 7080, Al Ahsa - Saudi Arabia
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From being a small port city, Al Khobar has developed into a major commercial hub. Coral International Hotel - Al Khobar is centrally located in Eastern Province on the Arabian Gulf to suit the needs of both business and leisure travellers. Unique and vibrant atmosphere, superior customer service and top-notch facilities make it the perfe...Visit Website
Coral International Hotel - Al Khobar provides exceptional conference and banqueting facilities. Whether you are planning an international conference, a training course or a banquet, we offer the perfect setting to suit your requirements. All rooms are fully-equipped with cutting-edge technology and have been specially designed to cater to a range of styles and expectations.
- Al Diwan I (153.9 m2)
- Al Diwan II (63m2)
- Diwan I & II (153 m2)
- Majles I (134.55 m2)
- Majles II (86.7 m2)
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Coral International Hotel - Al Khobar
Al-Khobar 31952,King Abdullah St. Al-Khobar,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
P.O. Box 4616, Al Khobar - Saudi Arabia
Tel + 966138696666
Fax + 966138990191
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Website: www.coral-intlkhobar.com
We are easy to find and difficult to leave. Situated in Jubail, 70 kilometers from the airport at the entrance of industrial city and the commercial port, Coral Beach Hotel - Jubail is the gateway to the industrial city. Designed to offer the perfect balance between luxury and comfort, each space has been playfully tailored to enhance the...Visit Website
With 4 superb meeting rooms, each having a capacity of up to 25 to 30 people, Coral Beach Hotel Jubail offers outstanding meeting facilities for intimate corporate events. Experience the latest in technology with responsive service. Take advantage of our extraordinary location and conduct your meetings in refined and graceful surroundings. We offer the ideal venue for those seeking a prime address with up-to-date facilities.
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Coral Beach Hotel - Jubail
Al Jubail
P.O. Box 10540, Al Jubail 31961 - Saudi Arabia
Tel + 96633628800
Fax + 96633628788
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.coral-jubail.com
Perfect Location Riyadh is one of the busiest business hubs in KSA and Coral Suliemaniah - Riyadh enjoys a distinctive presence in this key city barely 25 kilometers from King Khalid International Airport. Conveniently located on Mousa bin Nossair Road opposite Al-Jazeera Hyper Market, the hotel offers easy access to Riyadh's most ...Visit Website
Coral Suliemaniah specializes in personalized conference arrangements for small to medium groups. Both our meeting rooms, Diwan I and Diwan II, are beautifully appointed and ideally situated. Each meeting room can accommodate up to 20 delegates in U-shape style, 20 in half moon round table style, 35 in theatre style, 21 in classroom style and 45 in cocktail reception style. The rooms can be joined by simply removing the partition and can accommodate up to 45 people in U-shape style, 40 in half moon round table style, 70 in theatre style, 44 in classroom style and 90 for a cocktail reception.
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Coral Suliemaniah - Riyadh
Riyadh 11493
P.O. Box 13041, Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Tel + 96612885000
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Acoustic Energy has been treading carefully in recent years, taking time to fine tune its range of speakers.
And with success: this system, from AE's newest Radiance range, has been one of its most popular additions, we're told.
It's the floorstanding Radiance 2s that have been attracting the most attention, and they take on the task of the front left and right channels.
They're joined by a pair of Radiance 1 speakers at the rear, the Radiance 7 centre and the closed-box, forward-firing Radiance 8 subwoofer.
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The Ray Charles: Live at Montreux disc comes with a great-sounding DTS-HD 5.1-soundtrack – it's a decent picture too, if you can look past the profuse sweating all round – with plenty for any system to think about.
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The winter storm approaching the Omaha area has left Creighton's weekend baseball schedule up in the air.
The Bluejays were scheduled to play four games at Lamar's YMBL Cardinal Classic in Beaumont, Texas. Creighton coach Ed Servais said Wednesday that the Bluejays' flight on Thursday already has been canceled.
"And we were told it doesn't look good for getting out of here on Friday," Servais said. "We're working on some things to try to still make the trip doable, but it's a little uncertain at this point."
Creighton was scheduled to play a doubleheader on Friday against Washington and Lamar. A single game was scheduled against Lamar on Saturday, with the finale set for Sunday against Washington.
Servais said he's contacted Lamar officials and inquired about the possibility of playing a doubleheader on Sunday and a single game on Monday. As of late Wednesday afternoon, Servais said he hadn't heard back from Lamar.
Servais also has contacted officials in Minnesota to inquire if it would be possible to play some games at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. The Gophers begin a three-game, Friday-to-Sunday series there against Western Michigan.
"We contacted Minnesota about the possibility of piggy-backing on those games," Servais said. "We haven't heard anything back yet, and I don't know if they would be willing to juggle things around at this late date."
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It's not the brands but the process...
Non Shower area - sheetrock treatment is fine.
Shower - Wet Wall Area - any concrete board of choice , denshield, hardiback
Some caulk between the joints of CBU.
I've always just used a alkai resistent tape and thinset
Don't use drywall mud for the shower area.
Waterproofing - Look at both liquid and sheet membranes. FWIW, I'm doing my next project with liquid and certain area like the niche, I plan to use sheet and liquid. Maybe overkill but I tend to build solid like a rock. (Carpenter was cursing up a storm when I had him change the RO for a interior door recently that I built out years ago) ......
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Grout- you ideally want them of the same batch code
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Hollywood Bowl, Saturday, June 2, 2012
1. Do It Again. 2. Little Honda. 3. Catch a Wave. 4. Hawaii. 5. Don't Back Down. 6. Surfin' Safari. 7. Surfer Girl. 8. Please Let Me Wonder. 9. Marcella. 10. This Whole World. 11. Then I Kissed Her. 12. Disney Girls. 13. In My Room. 14. Kiss Me Baby. 15. Isn't It Time. 16. Why Do Fools Fall in Love. 17. When I Grow Up to Be a Man. 18. Cottonfields. 19. Be True to Your School. 20. Ballad of Ole Betsy. 21. Don't Worry Baby. 22. Little Deuce Coupe. 23. 409. 24. Shut Down. 25. I Get Around. *Intermission* 26. Add Some Music to Your Day. 27. Friends by California Saga. 28. All This is That (with California Saga). 29. California Saga: Californ-i-a. 30. Sloop John B. 31. Wouldn't It Be Nice. 32. I Just Wasn't Made for These Times. 33. Sail on Sailor. 34. Heroes and Villains. 35. That's Why God Made the Radio. 36. Forever. 37. God Only Knows. 38. Good Vibrations. 39. California Girls. 40. Help Me Rhonda. 41. Rock 'n' Roll Music. 42. Do You Wanna Dance. 43. Surfin' USA. *Encore* 44. Kokomo. 45. Barbara Ann. 46. Fun Fun Fun.
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California Saga opening set: 1. Friends. 2. Little Bird. 3. Darlin'. 4. You Still Believe In Me. 5. Anna Lee the Healer. 6. Til I Die. 7. I Can Hear Music.
Beach Boys set: 1. Do It Again. 2. Little Honda. 3. Catch a Wave. 4. Hawaii. 5. Don't Back Down. 6. Surfin' Safari. 7. Surfer Girl. 8. Please Let Me Wonder. 9. Then I Kissed Her. 10. Disney Girls. 11. Kiss Me Baby. 12. Isn't It Time. 13. Why Do Fools Fall in Love. 14. When I Grow Up to Be a Man. 15. Cottonfields. 16. Be True to Your School. 17. Ballad of Ole Betsy. 18. Don't Worry Baby. 19. Little Deuce Coupe. 20. 409. 21. Shut Down. 22. I Get Around. *Intermission* 23. Add Some Music to Your Day. 24. California Saga: Californ-i-a. 25. Sloop John B. 26. Wouldn't It Be Nice. 27. I Just Wasn't Made for These Times. 28. Sail on Sailor. 29. Heroes and Villains. 30. In My Room. 31. All This Is That. 32. That's Why God Made the Radio. 33. Forever. 34. God Only Knows. 35. Good Vibrations. 36. California Girls. 37. Help Me Rhonda. 38. Rock 'n' Roll Music. 39. Do You Wanna Dance. 40. Surfin' USA. *Encore* 41. Kokomo. 42. Barbara Ann. 43. Fun Fun Fun.
The house lights were down but band members' mikes were up as The Beach Boys gathered around leader Brian Wilson's white grand piano on Sunday night at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. As they moved into position for the start of the show's second half, you could hear their voices chatter away in the darkness.
"Does that bother you when I say 'The Great Mike Love!' or is that cool?" Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson asks his cousin, frontman Mike Love. Laughter ensues, Love assures him it's OK and seconds later the band's five surviving members launch into the beautiful "Add Some Music to Your Day."
The song, from the group's 1970 "Sunflower" album, celebrates the healing power of music. And nowhere was that power more evident than on this stage. Until April, when the band launched its 50th anniversary tour, the five men gathered around the piano — Wilson, 69; Love, 71; singer-guitarist Al Jardine, 69; guitarist-singer David Marks, 63; and singer-keyboardist Bruce Johnston, 69 — hadn't toured as a unit since the 1960s. Over the past two decades, Wilson, Love and Jardine spent more time embroiled in lawsuits than they did making music together. But now here they were again — singing together, laughing together, supporting each other and, as their triumphant new single states, "spreading the love and sunshine to a whole new generation."
And the kids are listening. As one 20-something hipster remarked after the show, "Forget the Stones, Ramones and The Beatles — The Beach Boys are the s---."
The group's Irvine appearance marked the end of a triumphant SoCal swing that included dates at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Chula Vista (May 25), the Santa Barbara Bowl (May 28) and a sold-out show at Hollywood Bowl (Saturday).
In Hollywood — in front of longtime supporters like actor-musician Bill Mumy, record producer Michael Lloyd and KROQ tastemaker Rodney Bingenheimer — the band powered through 45 songs in two hours and 40 minutes. That was considerably longer than when they made their Hollywood Bowl debut on Oct. 19, 1963. Back then The Beach Boys were part of a multi-artist bill at Art Linkletter's annual Y-Day event for YMCA members. Even though they were the headliners, the group performed just four songs: "Little Deuce Coupe," "In My Room," "Be True to Your School" and "Surfer Girl."
Each of those was accounted for in Hollywood and Irvine, and all proved to be show-stoppers. While Love and Johnston have been delivering many of these same hits in their version of The Beach Boys, and Wilson and Jardine have offered their solo spins on the catalog with their own bands, it's truly a revelation to have their talents merged again because their vocal blend is unmatched.
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The tour set list is heavy on sunny surf hits ("Catch a Wave," "Surfin' Safari," "Surfing USA") and hot-rod anthems ("Shut Down," "409"), which Love, the consummate showman, knocks out of the park with his still-powerful nasal twang. After Love ripped through a particularly raucous version of "Surfin' Safari" in Irvine, Wilson — who now had his partner's OK — announced to the audience: "The GREAT Michael E. Love!"
The high-energy hits are balanced by Wilson's gift for melody and melancholy on "Please Let Me Wonder," "Kiss Me Baby" and "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." Wilson, whose battles with drugs, alcohol and mental illness are the stuff of legend, presents a far more fragile presence on stage than does Love. The falsetto of his youth may be gone, but Wilson makes up for that by imbuing his vocals with the indomitable spirit of a survivor. On both nights, he delivered the rockin' "Sail on Sailor" with the grit and gusto of a man who had braved stormy emotional seas and managed to make it to the shore alive.
Wilson's brother, Dennis, wasn't so lucky. The band's troubled drummer, and the only surfer in the group, drowned in 1983. Their other brother, guitarist-singer Carl, died in 1998 of cancer. The band pays tribute to both, providing live accompaniment as the fallen siblings are seen singing on a giant video screen. Dennis croons "Forever," one of his finest ballads," and the angel-voiced Carl sings "God Only Knows," a Brian Wilson classic from the "Pet Sounds" album.
Jardine, whose voice sounds as fresh as it did in '60s, shines on "Then He Kissed Her" and "Help Me Rhonda" and leads the band into folk territory with a rollicking cover of "Cottonfields." In the second act, he picks up a banjo for "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)," a song on the band's 1973 "Holland" album.
Johnston, who joined the band in 1965 and lives in Santa Barbara now, gets to sing "Disney Girls," his ode celebrating the simpler times of the 1950s, and he contributes heavily to the band's richly textured harmonic blend. Marks, who played guitar on the first four Beach Boys albums, gets to play the jangly surf-rock leads on the bands early hits and takes over lead vocals on "Hawaii."
Backing them all up in superb fashion is a monster 10-piece backing band. Jeff Foskett (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Darian Sahanaja (keyboards, vibes, vocals), Scott Bennett (keyboards, vibes, percussion, vocals), Nick Walusko (guitar), Paul Von Mertens (tenor and baritone saxophone, flute, harmonica ), Nelson Bragg (percussion, vocals), Probyn Gregory (guitar, French horn, trumpet, tannerin and vocals) and Mike D'Amico (bass) are from Wilson's band and Scott Totten (guitar, ukulele, vocals) and John Cowsill (drums) are from the Love/Johnston version of the Beach Boys. To hear, and see, these guys re-create every little sound and nuance — the cabasa on "Heroes and Villains," the French horn on "God Only Knows," the triangle on "Kokomo" — is astonishing.
Two songs were played off the group's new album, "That's Why God Made the Radio," which is due out Tuesday. "Isn't It Time," co-written by Wilson and Love, is a bouncy, ukulele-driven tune that spells out what could, hopefully, be the band's new mantra: "The good times never have to end." The title song, and the first single off the album, packs a powerful punch live thanks to the band's glorious vocal power and Cowsill's booming drums.
In both Irvine and Hollywood, Love urged fans to buy the new album from Amazon.com. "If everybody here phoned in an order, we'd go to No. 1," he told the Hollywood crowd.
"Yeah," the quick-witted Johnston interjected. "Put it on Mike's Black Card."
Love's hucksterism worked. By the Monday morning, "That's Why God Made the Radio" was at No. 2 on Amazon's Best Sellers list, in between Adele's "21" and John Mayer's "Born and Raised."
The kids are alright
In the second half of the Hollywood show, Love, Jardine and Wilson diverted from their regular set and introduced California Saga, a new vocal group featuring their sons and daughters. The lineup includes Brian Wilson's daughters Carnie and Wendy (both members of the chart-topping pop trio Wilson Phillips); Love's son Christian of Santa Barbara and daughter Ambha; Carl Wilson's son Justyn; Dennis Wilson's son Carl B. Wilson; and Jardine's sons Matt and Adam. They sang one song, "Friends," the title track of a 1968 Beach Boys album, and then joined the group for "All This Is That," a Love-Jardine song inspired by transcendental meditation.
Fans were treated to a longer listen in Irvine, where Cal Saga opened the show with a seven-song set of Beach Boys rarities. The Beach Boys band had backed them up on "Friends" in Hollywood, but for the Irvine set they were accompanied by Carnie's husband Rob Bonfiglio on guitar and longtime Beach Boys sideman Billy Hinsche on keyboards.
The group members were nervous, but their eight-part harmonies were gorgeous. "Friends" was first, then Carl B. soared on his father's "Little Bird." Carnie led the way on a rousing version of "Darlin', " and when it was over grabbed a tambourine and shook it with a flourish. She then immediately apologized. "That was psycho," she said. "I don't know why I just did that."
"You Still Believe In Me" from "Pet Sounds" was next, and it was exquisite. Matt and Justyn started the song, then the girls took over, and then Adam and Justyn came in. All three proud dads, who were watching the set from stage right, broke into applause.
As their 25-minute set progressed, Adam shined on "Anna Lee the Healer," a deep cut from the "Friends" album, and the ensemble ended Brian Wilson's haunting "Til I Die" with an amazing vocal tag.
Before the group wrapped up the set with a shimmering "I Can Hear Music," Justyn acknowledged his late father, repeating the words Carl used at the end of every Beach Boys concert.
"If he were here," Justyn said, "he would want to "thank each and every one of you very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much for coming to see The Beach Boys tonight."
Fun, fun, fun
At the Hollywood Bowl, The Beach Boys were all business. You could tell they wanted to impress their hometown crowd. In Irvine, however, as they cruised through a 43-song set, they were far looser. Even the usually stoic Wilson was smiling more.
Things got downright giddy during the encore when Mike Love introduced Dean Torrence. The Jan & Dean vocalist, who popped into a Beach Boys recording session in September 1965 and wound up sharing the lead vocal on "Barbara Ann" with Brian Wilson, came on stage with a camera in his hand and a microphone in his shirt pocket. Wilson, who had gotten up from behind his white piano and strapped on his white SMiLE bass, gave Torrence a smile and a wave and then the group launched into "Barbara Ann." Torrence sang a little, took lots of pictures and then handed off his camera to both Jardine and Johnston, who each took photos of Torrence clowning around with Love and Wilson.
When the song was over, Torrence tried make his exit but Love commanded him to stop. "Where are you going, you slacker?" he asked.
So Torrence stuck around for the show-closing "Fun, Fun, Fun" as the band rocked on and the Irvine crowd sang and danced along in a fit of pure-pop delirium. By the end of it all, Jardine's left shoe was untied and Torrence had snapped a lot more photos.
Torrence and the five Beach Boys gathered at center stage and attempted a group bow that was heartfelt, but poorly executed.
"We're never gonna learn how to bow," Johnston yelled, "but we love you anyway!"
Once the band had left the stage, and the song "He Ain't Heavy … He's My Brother" began to play through the stadium speakers, one woman began fanning her face with her hand.
"That," she said of the show, "was the best. The best ever."


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The Ambition crew has been getting us mad hyped this season and now just took it over the top with their new full length video Safari Time. Trust us, take half an hour and watch the Ambition squad get loosie goosie on some next level shit. So rad!
What's the best way to get back into shape after the long holiday of boozing and keeping earth's turkey population in check? Get DIY in the streets of Omsk, Russia like Taras Ryabokon and Nick Shestak. That's Siberia yo!
Watching this trailer for Ambition Snowskates new video "Safari Time," begs the question – what the fuck is wrong with the snow industry where insanely rad shit like this is kept on the fringe while every major manufacturer pushes video parts of dudes strapped in hitting rails like a wakeboarder while claiming skate style? Just saying. Full length "Safari Time" drops later this month, hit the jump to see their last video "Jam Pack," it's just as cray. Thanks to Terje Haakonsen for the tip.
In case you were wondering what happened to snowskating over the last ten years, they were waiting for people to learn how to do it. But thanks to Ambition's Skrill Clinton you will never think the same thing about it again. This shit is ill.


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National Editor Tom KarstMark Arney let me know in an email that TV chef Art Ginsburg, of Mr. Food fame, has died.
"We lost a true friend today. Mr Food just passed away. He has been a great supporter of watermelons over the years and we will miss him," said Arney, who is executive director of the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
Here is a link to the obit at the Washington Post.
I had a chance to travel to Chile with Art and a handful of other food editors more than ten years ago. His hard work, zest for life and "delightfully dorky" (Washington Post obit) ways made a big impression on me.
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As far as women have come in the produce industry, there is room for considerably more progress.
As you may know, I recently posed a question to the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group on the issue of scantily clad "booth babes" at industry trade shows. I expressed my own views in the "Keeping it classy" Fresh Talk post.
The voting on the poll was "neck and neck" this morning, pardon the pun, with late voting putting those against the ban (but not necessarily "for" booth babes, mind you) holding the upper hand.


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I've been out of college for a few years now, and it amazes me how much things have changed in the short time since I've been gone. A lot of things are much tougher. I don't envy you guys' tuition hikes. See the chart below from CNN Money:
No, I wasn't getting out of college in the mid-80′s, that's just the starting point of the scariest chart I could find. Let's try not to think about what it's going to cost to put our kids through school.
But there's a lot I do envy about current college students. The main thing? You all have options. When I was in college, I bought all my books from the campus bookstore, so I was totally at the mercy of their pricing. I'd buy an $80 history book and sell it back at the end of the term for around $5 or $6. A few times I managed to get a book off somebody who had just finished a class, but that was about as savvy as anyone got. You could buy textbooks online, and a number of people did, but it wasn't nearly as commonplace as it is today.
Nobody rented out textbooks though. That's a new one. I hope current college students know just how lucky they are to have this as an option. (more…)


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764 S Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA | Directions 9202433.042513 -117.293536
Daily, 11am - 10pm
Neighborhoods: Encinitas
I love this place. If you want to feel like you have stepped into the relaxing ristorante of italy, this is a great place. sure, it's not very pretty, but the food is delicious. I will admit that service can be slow, but the food makes up for it. The antipasti salad is divine. they have a large menu to choose from, and its usually hard to pick, but i've never ever had a miss on quality or disappointment with the food. Gnocchi is great, with prosciutto and mushrooms. Seriously a great place
Cute hole in the wall – This is a cute, hole in the wall restaurant that provides large portions and pretty tasty food. I went with a group and we all had different pasta dishes. The bolognese was good and the pesto and veal parmesan dishes were great. This is a good place to come with friends if you want something that feels homey and low-key. We'll probably go back.
Super tasty – I just stopped in last weekend (for old times sake) while driving down PCH and reluctantly shared (I wanted to eat my OWN sandwich) a hot pastrami sandwich with my husband. It was quite large and the meat was super tasty without a lot of fat that pastrami usually has. The bread was perfectly warm and toasty without being too hard to bite into. It was nice to sit outside and people watch while sipping on a Stella waiting for our sandwich.
It brought back memories of the good ol' days when I was younger and life was all about driving to the coast in hopes of scoring some free food, and to hang out my friend Dino who worked in his dad's deli every weekend....those were the days...
Service is great and friendly – I have always loved Spumoni. I didn't know I'd never really had it until we stopped at this gem of a place on the Pacific Coast Highway in Encinitas. While daytrippin' the PCH, we stopped there for a submarine sandwich (very good) and bowl of minestrone soup (excellent and plentiful). My wife reluctantly agreed to share some spumoni with me and we ended up fighting for it!
Their service is great and friendly, it was pleasant to sit outside and watch folks walk by, and I noticed several local people stopping in to pick up pizzas so they must be good as well. Drop by if you are anywhere near.
I live about one hundred miles away but I'll be back!
Massive calzones! – Had the calzone, it was massive, I only finished half of it and got the rest to go. It looked like they had a lunch deli selection available, I might go back for a sandwich sometime.
The wine menu is kinda pricey when compared to the rest of the menu.
Delicious – could the search be over??? ok, that is a bit exaggerated but this is the best attempt at an Italian sub that I have had on the West Coast.
Disclaimer, that is all I have had from Giovanni's so I cant speak for the rest of the food, but this place does feel like a legit back east italian deli/restaurant... also, regarding the prices, people in san diego are cheap and broke... if you want a cheap sandwich go to subway
So the bread is not anywhere near what you get back east but its not terrible, and the sandwich is good quality meats and cheeses so you overlook the bread. Ask for an Italian cold cut combo... and this is important! get the hot peppers on the side, bring them home and chop them up and spread them on the sandwich. Again, I dont understand why they cant get the chopped up hot/sweet peppers you get at every sub shop back east, it doesnt make sense??? Also, no mayo or mustard people, oil & vinegar! Anyway, this is a great place to try if you are craving those delicious back east italian subs... a very good attempt!
Excellent Authentic italian food! – Excellent Authentic Italian food!
Pizza = yummy... perfect crust, seasoning, sauce, toppings, everything. Eggplant Parm = delicious
Last time I went I got the Linguine w/clams in a white wine garlic butter sauce.... the bread is good when drowned in sauce.
The setting is different, after passing the tables outside clad with the old red n white tablecloths, you walk into a deli basically... the seated inside restaurant is just thru a little hole they knocked out when apparently taking over the store next to them. It's cute to sit in the window that was clearly a store front some time ago though. They have live bands some nights which is very nice to enjoy and sitting outside downtown Encinitas is always a winner in my book!
If you like hearty Italian, come here! They book big parties here too! Lot's of seating on the side and back, which I see them setting up for quite often.
Brought a tear to my eyes – Only food that has ever brought a tear to my eyes. I couldn't believe my taste buds. It's my new favorite place. AMAZING. gourmand! Honest to god opinion, those who have spoken negatively are not rating the food. the food is phenomenal. The menu is just a suggestion..you can ask for exactly what you had in Venice last time you were there and their cook will whip it up. neat atmosphere.
North county's BEST KEPT SECRET.
Terrible food! Bland and disgusting! – We really wanted to like this restaurant. It looks inviting, but we found the food to be bland, lacking in flavor and originality. The sauces were not at all appealing and our fish was basically inedible! The price was totally outrageous for the quality of food and service we received. Pasta sauces should have flavor and should be a pleasure to eat. The sauces served were uninspired and beyond cliche. Don't waste your money, there are several other good restaurants within walking distance. We considered our meals to be a gastric insult!
GIOVANNI'S best authentic Italian food in north county – I have to tell you about this original Italian restaurant in Encinitas CA. When you walk into this place you step into the kitchen to get to the dining room. Owner Vito, a Sicilian chef with 25 years of experience who instantly makes you feel at home, immediately greets you. Besides the traditional dishes that are in every Italian restaurant cooked by who knows who, here you get these fantastic specials that this chef comes up with, some from old family recipes. This is not a fancy place but the quality and freshness of the food far outshines the dishes I have had in other top rated restaurants.
The baked rigatoni with sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms and pesto sauce; you can add chicken if you like is really delicious. The veal and shrimp Napoletana, has linguini pasta sauteed with fresh mushrooms and garlic, it is so good! Actually one of my favorite things that keep me coming back to this restaurant is that you are encouraged to order off the menu. This is probably why so many Hollywood types and Pro athletes go there.
If you are anywhere in the area you have to give this place a try. By the way the Italian wine list is not bad either.
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The lessons that my life and the life of others has taught me....
Finding the Right Man
Growing up my mother always taught me a few things about finding the right man for myself, and few things that would undoubtedly mislead me.
The first thing I remember her ever saying to me was "make sure you marry someone that you can't live without, not someone that you can live with." And to this day she says it over and over again--asking me at every turn if I think this guy or that guy fits that stature.
She also told me that you need to find someone that may have SOME things in common with you, but definitely has differences with you, otherwise there will never be any conversation. She always knew how opinionated and passionate I was about the things that I believed in and knew that I would need to find someone equally as passionate about something.
My mother has only one regret in her life, but she always says that it's one too many. She doesn't want me to regret anything. And so, she wants to make sure that the person that I find doesn't hold me back from doing the things that I love. Because I love to do so many things, and aspire to do so many things in my lifetime...she doesn't want me to settle.
Then as I got older and fell into some hard relationships that left me heartbroken, she had a newsflash for me. That girls tend to pick men similiar to their fathers...in my case that is not a good thing. And so, from then on I decided that I needed to watch out for myself and decide beforehand if someone was too much like my dad or not.
It was clear to me that a better male figure to base my "perfect" guy on would be my older brother. Who is the best guy I have ever known. He is a fantastic husband and father and I couldn't ask for a better brother.
My mother also then told me that you can't choose who you fall for, and this became extremely apparent with my first love, Donovan. In the beginning I was in a blur of the moment, of how we had met so quickly and then how fast I was falling for him. But as my friends questioned his motives and thought he was bad for me, as did my mom, I ignored it. And two years later, after one abortion, him cheating three times and me going back to him, and my grades dropping...he was gone with someone else and I was alone.
The lessons in love are hard. And definitely easier learned through experience. I just wish that I could save my nephew, little brother, and cousins from the heartbreak that lives in their future. But I can't.
Do It Anyway
When I graduated from high school I had many doubts about the things that I was going to be able to achieve and complete. I was unsure if I was going to be able to help all the people that I wanted to help or travel to all the places that I wanted to go.
But the day of my high school graduation ceremony, one of our school board members gave a speech that contained this quote by Mother Teresa:
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
ove them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today, may be forgotten tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable;
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building, may be detroyed overnight;
Build anyway.
People who really want help, may attack you when you help them;
Help them anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, people may become jealous;
Be happy anyway.
Give the world the best you have, though it might never be enough;
Give the world your best anyway.
And I plan to do so.....I plan to do it anyway.
Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last
My mother has always been one to be honest with me. Since I was young she kept me in the loop about everything that was going on with 'us' as a family. She didn't ever want to lie to me. So when the time came to talk about death--she was ready to explain to me that
death was a part of life
Most people say it that way....but she prepared me in a different way. She made me completely independent, because she wanted to know that if anything ever happened to her that I would be okay.
As time has gone on we have ended up talking about death more and more--grandparents getting sick or dying, disease springing up in the family, and other factors led to these conversations. But they always ended the same,
live each day to the fullest; live it as though it were your last.
So I have. Everyday I try to make sure that I do something, anything, a little differently--try something or learn something new--just in case. I try to never go to sleep upset with anyone and try to always be thankful that I have lived one more day.
You never know when your time is--but when my time comes I will accept it because I feel like I have done something with my life.
Every day is different:
Try to make one person smile, if possible try to learn something new, and try to never end a day with regrets.
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Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the question of whether a nation founded in revolt against monarchy will be ruled by laws or by the crude whims of an intemperate sovereign and his out-of-control administration.
Feingold has been fighting for weeks to get the Congress to address the issue of President Bush's illegal approval of warrantless wiretapping of Americans. A small but growing group in Congress, including some prominent Republicans -- most recently, U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., the chair of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, who this week called for a "complete review" of the National Security Agency domestic spying program -- have begun echoing Feingold's demand that the Constitutional crisis created by the president's wrongdoing be taken seriously.
But too many major media outlets continue to treat the eavesdropping scandal as little more than a political game. They chart the progress of the critics and then measure the extent to which the administration's spin has limited the damage to the president's approval ratings.
Frustrated by the game playing, Feingold went to the floor of the Senate last Tuesday in an effort to break through the spin and speak the blunt truths of the moment.
"Last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America's leadership in the world, and called on all of us to 'lead this world toward freedom.' Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world," Feingold told the chamber. "But, almost in the same breath, the President openly acknowledged that he has ordered the government to spy on Americans, on American soil, without the warrants required by law. The President issued a call to spread freedom throughout the world, and then he admitted that he has deprived Americans of one of their most basic freedoms under the Fourth Amendment -- to be free from unjustified government intrusion."
The Wisconsinite who emerged as the Capitol's most diligent defender of the Constitution when he cast the sole vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act in 2001 delivered a blistering indictment not just of the president but of those who are treating the debate over the administration's assault on basic liberties as just another fight between political partisans.
"The President was blunt. He said that he had authorized the NSA's domestic spying program, and he made a number of misleading arguments to defend himself. His words got rousing applause from Republicans, and I think even some Democrats," Feingold continued. "The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program."
Noting that many Republican members of the House and Senate cheered the president's defense of his illegal acts, Feingold asked, "How is that worthy of applause? Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? In that moment at the State of the Union, I felt ashamed."
It is time, Feingold explained, for his colleagues to recognize its shame and begin to act honorably.
"Congress," the senator said, "has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions."
Feingold is right. But it is not only Congress that must act. The American people need to get into this fight.
The defense of the Constitution against executive lawbreaking is not merely the work of elected legislators.
It must be the work of patriots. Feingold is leading the defense of basic liberties, but we all have a place in this struggle to preserve both the Bill of Rights and an American experiment that is now gravely threatened. Only an outcry from the people will assure that Congress -- and America -- does not lose its way.
Following up on Ari's post about the Band of Brothers, those military veterans running for Congress as Democrats.
The theory is that as former soldiers they will be immunized against Republican charges that Dems are unpatriotic girly-men who are "soft on defense." (As "Mask" points out in the comments section of Ari's post, running as a vet worked so well for Max Cleland and John Kerry!)
One thing the Band of Brothers strategy will do if it succeeds is to help keep Congress white and male. Of the 56 candidates currently marching under the brotherly battle flag, only three are women. (One of the three, Mishonda Baldwin, is also the only African-American).
So I guess the Dems are giving up on that whole gender-gap equality thing. Remember when Patty Murray ran for Senate as a "mom in tennis shoes"? A mother had better wear combat boots if she hopes to attract the attention of the DNC today!
Do we really want to promote the idea that military service is some kind of necessary item on apolitical resume? That personal machismo is a qualification for office? The BOB strikes me as a gimmick, if not an outright pander to militarism and sexism--time for the daddies to retake the mommy party! Chaaarge! And yet more proof, ladies, that the Dems are writing you off.
Is the White House coming begging to Senate Minority Leader HarryReid? "Karl Rove's back and there's no doubt about that," Reid remarkedat a one-hour on-the-record breakfast sponsored by The AmericanProspect that I attended today. "He's so desperate he's called methree times in the last few weeks." The White House knows it's going toexceed the government's debt limit, Reid said, and they want his help.But there's little agreement between Rove and Reid on the deficit ormany other issues these days. "I don't think Karl Rove's message, ifhe's still out of jail [in 2006], will have the same sound as it did."
Reid, a pro-life, pro-gun Mormon from Nevada, vacillated betweenthe left and the center before the group of progressive journalists. Herepeatedly praised Russ Feingold as an example of a Democrat who standsup for what he believes in but refused to endorse a timetable for thewithdrawal of troops from Iraq, as Feingold advocates. "I met with theJoints Chiefs of Staff recently and troops are gonna be pulled out ofIraq this year," Reid said, without specifying whether all the troopsshould leave. Feingold was "still really upset" about the compromise reached on the Patriot Act last night, Reid indicated,and will try to slow its passage.
After the unveiling of their anti-corruption "Honest LeadershipAct," Senate Democrats will focus on "real security," including a planby Indiana Senator Evan Bayh to increase the size of the Army by100,000 troops. "On a number of different directions we're going afternational defense," he said. "We'll be more competitive on that issuethan ever before."
Reid dismissed an Associated Press story linking him to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, alleging that"no one that gave me any money did anything wrong," though he jokedthat billionaire financier Howard Hughes did hand him $10,000 in cashat the beginning of his political career. He indicated that hesupported the efforts of Senators Dick Durbin and Chris Dodd to promotepublicly financed elections.
And he seemed downright buoyant about the prospects for Democraticgains in the Senate this year. "If the election were held today theSenate would be tied 50-50," he boasted. "I used to say it would be amiracle to take the Senate. It's not a miracle any more." As to whenthe Democrats would actually unveil a comprehensive agenda, Reid notedthat the GOP's "Contract with America" in 1994 didn't come out untillate September of that year. "We'll roll out one [issue] at a time. BySeptember it will all be out."
Until then, he'll have his hands full stalling the GOP'slegislative priorities and keeping his divided Democratic caucus inline.
For those who had any doubts that the Bush Administration manipulatedintelligence to take us into a disastrous, unprovoked and unnecessarywar, Walter Pincus's front page story in today's WashingtonPost is must reading. Pincus's fine reporting in the monthspreceding the invasion exposed the divisions about the war within theintelligence community and its anger about how information was beingpoliticized. But his stories were almost always buried in the Post'sinside pages.
Today's story, in my view, is the equivalent of America's Downing Street Memo. PaulR. Pillar, the former CIA official who coordinated US intelligence onthe Middle East until last year now publicly accuses the Bush WhiteHouse of "cherrypicking" intelligence on Iraq to justify its decisionto go to war. "Intelligence," Pillar asserts, "was misused publicly tojustify decision already made..." This is an eerie echo of the famouswords from the Downing Street Memo--in which Britain's MI-6 DirectorRichard Dearlove told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that "theintelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. "
As Pincus notes, this is the first time that such a senior intelligenceofficer "has so directly and publicly condemned" Bush & Company'shandling of intelligence. Pillar's critique is also one of "the mostsevere indictments of White House actions by a former Bush officialsince Richard C. Clarke , a former National Security council staffmember, went public with his criticism of the administration's handlingof the September 11, 2001, attacks."
Most comments about the Danish cartoons of Muhammad assert that Muslimsbelieve it is completely taboo to depict him, period. But is the ban ondepicting the prophet really so severe? At Zombietimeyou can view dozens of images of the prophet, including some from theMuslim world: medieval Persian miniatures; a portrait of Muhammad as ayouth by the contemporary Iranian woman painter Oranous (okay byShi'ites because he wasn't the prophet yet); posters being sold in Iraqright now.
From the Middle Ages on, Muhammad has appeared in Western art notinfrequently--in drawings, paintings, book illustrations, comics,advertisements, and on the covers of books and magazines, including arecent issue of Le Nouvel Observateur.
Muhammad has been portrayed by the cartoonist Doug Marlette and hasappeared on South Park. And get this: Muhammad appears on the NorthFrieze in the courtroom of our very own Supreme Court! He's the man withthe scimitar, between Justinian and Charlemagne.
Some of this art is respectful; some fanciful and playful; somesatirical or even crude and vicious. Only once, however, has any of itseemed to bother believers: in 2002 police uncovered a jihadist plan toblow up the church of San Petronio in Bologna, site of a fresco byGiovanni da Modena showing Muhammad being tortured in Hell (this scene,from Dante's Inferno, was also depicted by Gustav Dore, William Blake,Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali).
I don't know where exactly this clarification takes us. Maybe I'm justirked by lazy pundits who talk about the global uproar as if everyoneshould have known this is what happens when you draw Muhammad:Naturally, believers would go round the bend!
But wait, a solution may be at hand to this whole clash of civilizationsthing. Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly which reprinted theMuhammad-mocking Danish cartoons, says it will publish cartoonssatirizing the Holocaust. I guess they didn't want to be upstaged byIran, where President Ahmadinejad an announced a a contest forHolocaust-mocking cartoons. (This is an advance on his previousposition, which was to deny the Holocaust occurred. Now, it happened,but it's funny.). At last Muslim fundamentalists and free-speech-loving Europeans have found common ground: Anti-semitism!
So George doesn't know Jack? How then to explain the emails between Abramoff and Washingtonian editor Kim Eisler, published today by Think Progress?
First, Abramoff explains his decision not to travel to Bush's Crawford ranch after he received an invite in 2003:
Second, Abramoff describes nearly a dozen meetings with Bush:
HE HAS ONE OF THE BEST MEMORIES OF ANY POLITICIAN I HAVE EVER MET. IT WAS ONE IF [sic] HIS TRADEMARKS, THOUGH OF COURSE HE CAN'T RECALL THAT HE HAS A GREAT MEMORY! THE GUY SAW ME IN ALMOST A DOZEN SETTINGS, AND JOKED WITH ME ABOUT A BUNCH OF THINGS, INCLUDING DETAILS OF MY KIDS. PERHAPS HE HAS FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING. WHO KNOWS.
I guess the scandal's moved beyond Chanukah parties. Let's see Scotty spin this.
President Bush can't seem to tell people enough times, in enough ways, about his self-proclaimed determination to "leave no child behind." The most recent occurrence came, predictably, during his State of the Union address, when he offered this bit of faux-wisdom, "If we ensure that America's children succeed in life, they will ensure that America succeeds in the world."
He then promptly cut Department of Education funding by $2.1 billion and shortchanged No Child Left Behind by $15.4 Billion. He froze Pell grants for the fifth straight year, despite the fact that average tuitions and fees at public universities have risen 40 percent since 2001, pricing more and more young people out of college every day. 19,000 children face elimination from the Head Start Program as his funding fails to keep pace with inflation.
Arlen Specter called the cuts "scandalous." One wonders what the President might say if he dropped the platitudes and actually spoke the truth about his values when it comes to young people. How might that read exactly? I welcome submissions.
Those critics who systematically caricature the Democratic Party as "soft on defense" should've headed down to the National Mall in Washington on this brisk Wednesday morning. Against the backdrop of the US Capitol, 40 of the 55 veterans running as Democrats for Congress in 2006 assembled "to take the flag out of the hands of Karl Rove and his political assasins," said Eric Massa, a 24-year Navy Officer vying for a seat in upstate New York.
These "Band of Brothers," including nine Iraq veterans, saluted their country but implored the need for a "change of course" on the war, Congressional corruption, VA health care and basic bread-and-butter issues.
The Fighting Dems include:
** Bill Winter, a 10-year Marine Corps and Navy vet who's running against the vile immigrant-basher Rep. Tom Tancredo in suburban Denver, Colorado.
** Jim Nelson, a self-described "military veteran, Methodist minister and moderate Democrat" who's seeking the Georgia seat of Rep. Jack Kingston, one of Tom DeLay's closest allies in the House.
** Joe Sulzer, a Vietnam vet and mayor of Chillicothe, Ohio, who wants to oust the soon-to-be-indicted Rep. Bob Ney.
** Mishonda Baldwin, a Desert Storm vet who's trying to become the first African-American woman elected to the House from Maryland.
GOP attack dogs may have been able to swift boat the hapless John Kerry. Let them try and do it to over fifty vets. As Tim Dunn, an Iraq war vet from Fayetteville, North Carolina, put it: "It's time to take the Hill."
Despite his best efforts, George Bush's recent budget places his values in plain view for all of America to see. Mr. Bush plans to cut $65 billion from domestic spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid, low-income housing, education, and food stamps, while extending his favorite petproject--tax cuts for the very wealthy. Even worse, in order to make the claim that he will cut the deficit in half before leaving office, Mr. Bush asks that Congress adopt a brand new approach to budgeting. Under this plan, Congress would not treat an extension of Bush's permanent tax cuts as having any cost!
As Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said in the New York Times, "[This] is the most flagrant gimmick in the history of the U.S. budget. It's so flagrant," Greenstein added, " that I don't think even Congress will give it to them." (Here's hoping that we see some spine in these next days and weeks.) But there are some things Mr. Bush just can't hide: like not counting the costs of the war in Iraq; cutting food programs for the elderly; reducing spending in poor schools, job training, and on Pell grants that make college affordable. Even his pledge to end "our addiction to oil" seems to have slipped by the wayside as this budget actually cuts funding for energy efficiency. Let's keep this conversation going… find all the ways Mr. Bush betrays his so-called "values" in this budget, while also trying to slip real costs under the rug.
Los Angeles-based Gay Republican activist and blogger Scott Schmidt worries that his party –-in the run-up to the November elections-- is about to take a suicidal turn toward immigrant bashing. He remembers the Republican electoral disaster that ensued after then-Governor Pete Wilson tried to ride a xenophobic wave: Wilson got re-elected but the state GOP as much as imploded under a Latino backlash.
Currently, the national GOP seems split over what to do about immigration. President Bush and the more corporate wing of the party who have endorsed at least some tepid immigration liberalization, are under attack from their restrictionist right flank. While some analysts believe the Republicans are more interested in winning over the growing Latino vote than they are in pandering to xenophobes, Schmidt fears the opposite. He points to the virulent public comments made by L.A. GOP Chairwoman Linda Boyd to last week's State of the Union response offered in Spanish by Angeleno Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Schmidt writes:
Chairman Boyd's "scorecard" on Villaraigosa's record blamed illegal immigrants for the City's failing healthcare system, astronomical high school drop-out rate and prison overcrowding. As a member of Boyd's Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, I blushed in embarrassment when she compared Villaraigosa to the dictators Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
And if you doubt that immigrant-bashing isn't on the GOP Agenda in 2006, take a look at the agenda for this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference. It's the first, second, third and fourth issue to be discussed.
Let's hope Schmidt is wrong and the temptation to immigrant-bash will be foresworn. More than ever, we need comprehensive immigration reform and for the first time in a long time a lot of Republicans – from John McCain to Jeff Flake are supporting the idea. Let's hope that in the internal Republican debate they prevail over the Minuteman-types.
Also, take a moment to check out my personal blog for a tribute to Neil Postman.


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I regret those time i wasted..so I shall draw and practice and practice till i get better!
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Nice sketch for the first thing you've drawn in four years time. I remember how much I struggled after not drawing only for a couple of months to get something decent on paper.
Looking forward to more.
Since the only thing I know that time is anime style I could not achieved what i planned to make it more human..May 2010
Last edited by Meer; February 10th, 2012 at 12:31 PM.
Seriously I wish *I* was this good and I draw on a daily basis XD. This is great. I like the colouring. I do tend to think the face is A LITTLE bit anime inspired, but not enough to really throw me off. I might suggest rounding her eyes a bit, and I'll bet it'll look a bit less in an anime style, as from what I gathered from yer post, that's what you're looking to do.
Below is another frustrating drawings i made before..
The last painting was just made last year 2011. I used some reference to make it look human. But I still find the face so weird.
Up until now i am still playing with this one on how I can make it better and it is still frustrating..
I noticed some of my drawings have big heads and not proportioned so tried to look some tutorials and I got Andrew Loomis book(really! really! helpful!).
And here are some few sketches I made (still with big heads):
Last edited by Meer; February 10th, 2012 at 08:49 PM.
Below are my other sketches back in 2010. I tried to make some poses and I copied some of the poses here in an old manga I have before.
Some drawings and paintings I did last year..
Last edited by Meer; February 11th, 2012 at 05:16 AM.
This one's great! I was really surprised when I saw it
Keep up the good work and maybe try sometimes to draw some males
http://www.conceptart.org/showthread.php?t=267414 - c&c welcome
Thanks I am glad you like it! Probably I will sketch male figures next time then.
Anyway, here are my latest paintings and drawings..I kind of really want to make a human-like painting but still could not achieve it even with reference.
Draw what you see, not what you think you see.I kind of really want to make a human-like painting but still could not achieve it even with reference.
http://www.conceptart.org/showthread.php?t=267414 - c&c welcome
It's been a while..been so lazy to put my sketches in the computer since i don't have a scanner..it took me so many days to realize that i can just take a picture of my drawings so i can upload it here..
Also, I just realized that i am afraid to draw a complete figure or something traditionally that is not just a dummy using only just a pencil and paper. Back then, I usually draw dummies on the paper then i will scan it at the computer shop so i can just edit it or paint it.. So I decided to practice myself to draw or doodle something on the paper this time.And before I had no confidence to draw a front view face on paper even with guideline. Because i am again afraid to make mistake or make the eye balance, that is why sometimes i had to cheat hiding half of the face or sometimes i just draw half of the face on the paper then i will just scan it so can just duplicate it then flip it just to accomplish a front view face. So now i tried to and i realized that i can..here is some front view faces, weird poses and other doodles..
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All of my drawings are not proportioned so I decided to read and study Andrew Loomis' figure drawing. I actually had used this book before but just drew some parts that i think are easy for me..and that is the mannequin lesson and I did not go beyond that because i am really frustrated with the 8 heads and i know that anatomy is soo hard. But then again how will i learn? So now i tried to study the 8 heads and the anatomy.
Then..I paint this..not sure if i applied what i learned on this one
Face Practice
Last edited by Meer; October 14th, 2012 at 02:38 PM.
Those Loomis studies are great! Your realistic heads are getting better, but you're still getting a little bit of anime longface. Watch the proportions. In a front view, without the head tilted up or down, you can divide the face into thirds - one from the chin to the bottom of the nose, one from the nose to the eyebrows, and one from the eyebrows to the hairline. (The thirds leave off the top of the head, but if you remember that eyes go halfway down the head, you should be okay on that front. Also, I think you're drawing your eyebrows too close to your eyes in most cases.)
If you come from an anime background, regular human facial proportions can feel weird, well after the style switch. (I speak from experience...) Just keep on the studies, you're showing some real dedication. =)
Edit: I was writing up this reply before you posted the latest two heads; their eyes and lips are a bit wide, but the overall proportion is much better! Good stuff.
I don't think i understand yet how to paint a face..so i worked on painting this image.
Thank you for this advice! Your right it feels weird and i could not yet discipline myself to make and follow guide lines of a proportioned face whenever i create one without reference. But I am trying to study heads now, thanks for reminding me. Oh and btw, I checked your blog, it is super cool! I saw all the faces and characters you created. Their facial expressions blew me away. Those faces are what i wanted to create, it looks so natural and COOLpld:! Your works inspire me to study and practice more so i can improve myself from creating stiff face and weird expressions. Thanks again!


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Back at the Kernel Summit in September Andi Kleen announced that he would no longer be maintaining the i386 and x86_64 branches if they were merged in the new x86 branch. A new patch shows that Kleen has kept his promise.
The patch changes the x86 architecture maintainer, making it obvious that Andi Kleen is no longer in charge.
At the Kernel Summit 2007, Kleen crticized Linus Torvalds who was still officially the maintainer of the i386 branch for not putting enough effort into maintaining the code. Torvalds referred to i386 as obsolete in five years and proposed merging it with the "x86 Architecture" branch. From now on, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar and H. Peter Anvin will be maintaining the code which now includes both the i386 and x86_64 architectures.
The proposal to merge these two kernel branches was made by Thomas Gleixner on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in July. This step is likely to facilitate troubleshooting and debugging in future. At the same time, it will make it easier and faster to implement new features.
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SFAI Visiting Artist Lecture: Brad KahlhamerSan Francisco, CA
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Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Interdisciplinary Painting Practices
Brad Kahlhamer creates exuberant, animated paintings that fuse the visionary tradition of Native American art with an expressionistic painting style. Blending imagery from monumental American landscapes with an interest in downtown New York street culture, Kahlhamer extends a singular vision of realms both real and illusory. Early in his career, Kahlhamer toured with a rock band and designed packaging for Topps Chewing Gum—life experiences that continue to inform his painting practice.
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Doesn't sound like a good idea, 3/4 should be run to the area and 1/2 taken off for each valve, sorry.
I am in the middle of a bath remodel. The original copper lines in the wall for the shower had the 1/2" supply for hot capped, probably due to a leak or low pressure. It was done when the house was built. They put a T on the garden tub stub up which is in the middle of the floor and ran that line under the shower pan to the shower wet wall next to the cold supply. When I tore out the tub and shower I discovered that I have no way to supply the new shower. The water heater is on the other side of the house, and this remodel bath has no attic.
I don't want to tear up the slab if possible.
Can I run 1/2" pex off a 1/2" copper supply under the sink through the wall and still get enough water to supply a 3/4" valve and 3 separate volume controls feeding 3 shower heads? Will I lose volume through the pex connection, or the 15' of pex I need to do the run?
Doesn't sound like a good idea, 3/4 should be run to the area and 1/2 taken off for each valve, sorry.
Unless you're running Upnor, you should be running 1" pex lines to that valve to really take full advantage of the 3/4" copper inlets, otherwise you may as well just use a regular rough valve with 1/2" crimp inlets.
Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me? -Jack Handy
Have you LOOKED at 1/2" PEX? The opening in the pipe is really about 3/8", (and the insert fittings reduce it even more, especially if you use the plastic ones), so you will get minimal flow to your valve. 1/2" copper would probably deliver adequate flow to your 3/4" valves because of the internal opening sizes, but PEX has between a half and two thirds the capacity of copper.
...and that's why I said 1" pex was needed to do it properly.
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I was at The Beacon this evening, Tuesday. I saw TP appear last June at The Albert Hall - I live in London - it was an awesome concert, he played all the songs we wanted to hear, The Hall rocked. So, I didn't hesitate to buy tickets for The Beacon, and I flew over for five days, really just for the concert. Disappointed is an understatement. His opening statement was ominous, and apart from one early memorable song we sat through the first 90 minutes as Tom Petty played Pink Floyd, Tom Petty played Led Zepp, Tom Petty played The Beatles, for goodness sake Tom Petty even played Suzi Quattro. It was almost 10.00 pm before Tom Petty played Tom Petty and the building rocked for those last four songs. And so, I fly home tomorrow, disappointed and less than impressed. Why is Tom Petty playing covers when the audience were denied at least a dozen classics from the Greatest Hits Album?